₦airaland Forum

Ezira: My dear Jenti, talk is cheap. The best way to change a system in rot is to lead the change yourself. From your propositions, I understand you are a stake-holder. To criticize is so easy in this part of the world. You keep calling Prof. Okojie when you know accreditation is done by professors like you who are not NUC staff based on BMAS (benchmark minimum academic standard). Their technical report can't be changed because it is always an open document. All NUC does is to release the result submitted by these experts from various universities.
Also note that there are two types of accreditation, full and interim. If a programme is fully accredited, it would be revalidated every five years. This is why some accredited courses may be denied accreditation after sometime if the quality had reduced over time. When interim accreditation is granted, this means that about 60 per cent of all the requirements are met, the panel will point out areas not met to the university who would be given 3 years to put everything in order or be denied accreditation.
You talked about satellite campuses. Let me tell you that what is seen in these satellites can make someone cry. No facilities, no qualified teaching staff, they use secondary school teachers who just give areas of concentration and conduct exams based on that. You goofed when you mentioned America as having satellite campuses. What you have is open and distance learning which most Nigerian VCs have refused to embrace because they are not interested in long term plans. That said, there are six recognized dual mode universities in Nigeria (MAULAG,OAU,UNIBADAN,UNIABUJA,UNIMAID and Modibbu Adama UT Yola). These universities established Distance Learning Centres and use the ODL mode. There is also a unimode ODL university (the NOUN) whose 30 programmes have just been accredited. You can see there is no need having satellite campuses more 20km from main campus who use phones and other gadget as you mentioned to communicate with their students. Satellite campuses are no longer in vogue as it is very expensive to get academics to travel for six hours just 2 deliver a lecture, hence the prevalent use of non-qualified tutors for these satellite campuses. This is in no way ambiguous save that some people enjoy cutting corners, replace satellite campus system with the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode. By this more people will be admitted and quality will be maintained. NOUN is set to admit 500,000 students which is more than ten times the figure a conventional university can admit. Their certificate is at par with the conventional face-to-face mode. You can see the problem is not NUC but VCs who mostly seem to be interested in quick profit. Access and quality remain a major task to behold. Reduce Jamb cut off mark and admit more people, you will be accused of reducing quality. Suspend program mes on account of quality, you will be accused of denying Nigerians access to education. Me thinks, quality should supersede access when there is controversy if we must get it right.

Dear Ezira
Thanks for your report. I do not own shares in any of the private universities that were closed down but I have children in who attend private universities not because I have alot of money to throw around but because of my personal experience. For instance, I did an 18-month MBA for 4-years in Unilag btw 1992 and 1996 not because i failed but because of Aluta . I also studied abroad - University of Surrey, UK and I know the schools are stable. As a parent, I look at University rankings to judge the academic stability of institutions. If a University like Joseph Ayo Babalola ranked 21st out of 107 and far ahead of many public University is suspended for not meeting NUC criteria , it surely raise some dusts about NUC standard and criteria. If a university has one or two issues with NUC, must we suspend the License of the institution .

Have you considered the Plights and the trauma NUC is giving to their parents and the students?

When a University like LEADs ranked 56th says they have FULL accreditation for all their courses and NUC did not dispute it, Will it be fair to suspend their License without fully disclosing what else they have done wrong?
IS IT TRUE THAT LEADS UNIVERSITY HAS FULL ACCREDITATION FOR ALL THEIR COURSES.?[/size][size=8pt][/size]. PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION

Has NUC realised that by suspending the License of this Universities you are crippling the huge investments of the proprietors of these institutions. You are also stopping them from admitting new students for the next academic session. These private institutions are not receiving subventions from Abuja and their staff are not on Federal Govt Payroll as Mr Ezira and other NUC staff. What you get is a gradual resignation of the Academic and non academic staff of the private universities and tomorrow the same NUC will blame them for poor staff. This is unfair.

How can NUC wake up and suspend Part-time studies overnight without any notice to the students and the universities?. This is similar to what GEJ did for Unilag in the name change. This steps are anti-democracy. Democracy is about constructive engagement. I have a right to be heard. My opinions must count when you take a decision about me. Your actions are against the cardinal principles of justice : No man has aright to be a judge in his own case and the need to hear the other side in your decisions.

REGRETTABLY, NUC DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE JUDICIARY AND FAIR HEARING .The affected private Universities, cannot go to court to enforce their rights or challenge the decisions of NUC because NUC management is too big to obey the judgements of Nigerian courts. Rather than obey the court order and then Appeal if they have reasons to disagree, NUC will not obey. They will appeal and keep the Appeal dragging.

Whatsoever a man soweth, he will reap. Although you feel comfortable now because you are staff of NUC and you have the Federal might, remember there is A God in heaven that watches over the affairs of men. When you leave that comfortable zone, become an ordinary citizen and put your hard earned resources on a project only for one government to threaten or demolish it overnight without given you an opportunity to say something , you will feel what the private university Proprietors are feeling

I do not have any personal animosity with your boss - Prof Okogie. I am very familiar with UNAAB where he left before he took the position of Executive secretary in NUC. I know that he made little or no impact throughout his tenure as VC. Visit UNNAb now and compare it with when he left.Go to the university and ask about his tenure as VC and his impact. Ask the staff on the ground how many new facilities and infrastructures he created during his tenure and how many were created when Prof Balogun left.Both of them had a 5-yr term as VC. You will then feel how i felt. You can will then know if the NUC Prof has any moral justification to mark the scripts of other VCs or condemn and suspend the Licenses of these institutions.

Were there no private universities during Prof Okebukolas tenure as NUC Exec Secretary, how many of them had their Licences suspended or threatened with withdrawal. What is going on now will not do the nation any good. The credibility of NUC is already being questioned and the reputation of Nigerian Universities is daily dragged into the mud. The present situation will further discourage investment in Education. NUC ought to parley with the all VCs on how University education can get better rather than be at press war with private university proprietors

Finally, it is disappointing to see that you addressed UNILAG as MAULAG when the matter is still in court and the National Assembly had not ammended the act of the University. This again is what I said earlier of the present NUC management. They are too big to obey Court orders[i][/i]. Your boss at the heat of the renaming of Unilag rather than wait to see the direction of events went to the Press and said NUC is willing to effect the change of name. Is that his job?

Once again, thanks for your writeup. I hope you will see reasons in my points

The best way to know the hypocrisy of NUC is to look at the ranking of Nigerian universities.There are 107 Licenced Universities in Nigeria. Universities are ranked on the basis of facilities, staff per student ratio, administration etc. Joseph Ayo Babalola University is ranked 21st , Leads is ranked 51st while Bells is ranked 56th .
Poorer universities accredited by NUC
http://www.4icu.org/ng/

When Okojie crumbles the University system, we shall all be alive
Here was a man who as the VC of UNAAB has nothing to show as achievement. Whatever UNAAB can boast of today as structures is credited to Prof. Balogun. When Balogun was VC of Unaab and everyone saw the development of the University, we were wondering whether Okojie was ever giving subventions. He is riding on his godfathers. I have seen the facilities at Leads and that University has all it takes to run Law or any other course for that matter.
Anyone who cares should visit the Law Library of this University. Most people talking on Nairaalnd had not been to that University. The owner of Leads , I dont know him from Adam, invested heavily on facilities and infrastructures. for instance, in Leads faculty of Law, the classes are A/C.I did three degrees in Unilag, one in Enginnering and two others at Masters degree, there is none of our classes with A/C. In Leads, there are Private rooms for those who can afford it while all other rooms are double rooms allow them to be there with no squaters. In Unilag as far back as 1979 we were 5-8 in a room. I understand the owner of LCU is Professor and a friend of Okojie. I salute a man who can achieve all that without the tithe and offerings of church members.OKOJIE IS ENVIOUS AND I GUESS HE WANTS TO DESTROY ALL THAT MAN LABOURED TO ACHIEVE WITH HIS 10-YR TENURE AS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY. I know that if the Council of Legal Education vists Leads University today, they will accredit it without delay but Okojie will not allow them to. He will continue to blackmail the schhool

How will expers - Professors accredit ALL the courses of a University just last year and less than a year you are suspending the Licence of the University saying their standard is poor. Is it that the accreditation team are silly.? NIGERIANS LET US WISE UP . OKOJIE IS ONLY BLACKMAILING LEADS UNIVERSITY and perhaps the others.If Okojie is sure of himself, let him publish his findings about this school and allow the universities to publish their response

Those advising Leads University are not fair to the institution. The university went to court last year on their Law Program and won.The University was accredited for Law by the NUC. Three month after, the NUC underthe leadership of Okojie withdrew the Licence without any cogent reason.The university went to court to enforce their competence to run the course. The court ruled that NUC was wrong and asked their accreditation restore while their students be allowed to proceed to Law school. NUC under the Leadership of Okojie failed to comply and went on appeal to footdrag the future of Nigerians . If Laeds win the Appeal Okojie and NUC will go to Supreme Court without complying with the court ruling, while the future of the graduates AND UNDERGRU are wasted
LET US BE FAIR, THERE IS NOTHING LEADS UNIVERSITY CAN DO THAT WILL EVER SATISFY THE PRESENT MANAGEMENT LED BY PROFESSOR OKOJIE. tHE MAN HAD ALREADY MADE UP HIS MIND TO ENSURE THAT LEADS UNIVERSITY CLOSE DOWN B4 HIS TENURE COMES TO AN END BUT GOD WILL DISLLOW HIM

As a parent,iam fed up with Nigerian Universities . If they attend Public Universities , you arenot sure they will graduate at the stipulated time because of incesant strikes by university staff and government inconsistent poicies. If you take them to private university, the ALMIGHTY POWER DRUNk NUC Executive Secretary and his men can revoke the University Licence at a will. Only in Nigeria can this happen
All over the world, Private and Public universities run Part Time Program not only to aurgment their income but also give those who cannot afford full time school the opportunity to improve themselves but Okojie scrapped it overnight to cripple some private universities that depends on it. It is unfortunate. When Prof Okebukonla was the NUC executive Secretary, our Universities were stable but Prof Okojie will crumble all in a short time. What a pity
Why the Poytechnics are stable , our universities are being crumbled. Why were Parttime not scrapped or suspended as Okojie had done for the Universities
. Everone is thinking of taking their wards to Ghana because there is stability in their system. Universities in Ghana are collaborating with foreign Universities to improve theie academic standards foe instance Kwame Nkrumah University - a public university collaborated with University of Ohio to run a 6-yr Doctor of Pharmacy while University of Ghana - the oldest Public Universty in Ghana still runs 4-yr Bachelor of Pharmacy. That is the level of academic freedom stiin Ghana. Such will never happen in Nigeria under the leadership of a man like Okojie. SOMEBODY HAD BETTER CALL THIS MAN TO ORDER B4 HE DROWNS ALL OF US. God bless Nigeria

donigspain: My bro, if u see the school u go cry a lagoon. Inside one dilapidated public secondary school. As devil wan punish, rain dey fall when NUC arrived. Kai, dem dey conduct lecture under an algae infested building with leaking roof, no doors and windows. To get a better picture of the institutions, one just have to imagine an ideal NIGERIAN government secondary school and you will understand the condition under which people were recieving lectures.

You are a liar. Where is this school.Describe how to get there.
This guy is a staff/ surrogate of NUC

Inspite of all the shutdowns and crackdowns, no Nigerian University is among the first 500 ranked university in the world. The best we have is 33 in Africa. Shame

There is nothing wrong with Satellite campuses . Most American Universities operate Sattelite campuses. What we should be concerned with is the facilities and the staff strength at the satellite campus. It is wrong to concentrate everything about a University in one single area. Sometimes a University running Medicine may not have an upgradable Hospital in the vicinity of Main campus. Also there are quite a number of Arts ,Social Sciences and mnagement courses that can be run in Satellite campuses if the facilities are there.

Satellite Campuses provide even development .In a country like ours where every community wants to have a sense of belonging before they can supportt the institution, satellite campuses are inevitable
Sattelite campus create employment for University staff and reduce administrative pressures on Main campuses
Sattelite campuses enable more students to be admitted as the student population can be managed better

With over 20m candidates writing Jamb and less than 2m admitted annually, it is unreasonable to close down the existing ones simply because they are more than 20km from the Main Campus. Okojie and his men are still in the past. NUC is not foward looking. With GSM and Internet, there is nothing those at Satellite campuses need intellectually from the Main campus that cannot be assesed online in a foward looking University

Those institutions being closed down are often those who are not playing ball othewise let NUC publish the decisions of the accreditation panels that visited these universities and campuses. Were these Satellite campuses not accredited b4 Okogie came on-board. This man is only witch-hunting someinstitutions in his Black book. Have you ever heard any contrary report about BELL UNVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYin Ota. And You will neva hear one as long as Okogie is in charge. Bell University of Technology is rated 56th in University rankings in Nigeria. Joseph Ayo babalola is rated 21st, yet according to Okogie and his men in NUC, Bells meets the standard and Joseph Ayo Babalola did not meet the standard. See http://www.4icu.org/ng/ for University rankings and judge if NUC had been fair
Okogie is working to destroy some private universities and God will expose him very soon

When Okojie crumbles the University system, we shall all be alive
Here was a man who as the VC of UNAAB has nothing to show as achievement. Whatever UNAAB can boast of today as structures is credited to Prof. Balogun. When Balogun was VC of Unaab and everyone saw the development of the University, we were wondering whether Okojie was ever giving subventions. He is riding on his godfathers. I have seen the facilities at Leads and that University has all it takes to run Law or any other course for that matter.
Anyone who cares should visit the Law Library of this University. Most people talking on Nairaalnd had not been to that University. The owner of Leads , I dont know him from Adam, invested heavily on facilities and infrastructures. for instance, in Leads faculty of Law, the classes are A/C.I did three degrees in Unilag, one in Enginnering and two others at Masters degree, there is none of our classes with A/C. In Leads, there are Private rooms for those who can afford it while all other rooms are double rooms allow them to be there with no squaters. In Unilag as far back as 1979 we were 5-8 in a room. I understand the owner of LCU is Professor and a friend of Okojie. I salute a man who can achieve all that without the tithe and offerings of church members.OKOJIE IS ENVIOUS AND I GUESS HE WANTS TO DESTROY ALL THAT MAN LABOURED TO ACHIEVE WITH HIS 10-YR TENURE AS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY. I know that if the Council of Legal Education vists Leads University today, they will accredit it without delay but Okojie will not allow them to. He will continue to blackmail the schhool

How will expers - Professors accredit ALL the courses of a University just last year and less than a year you are suspending the Licence of the University saying their standard is poor. Is it that the accreditation team are stupid.? NIGERIANS LET US WISE UP . OKOJIE IS ONLY BLACKMAILING LEADS UNIVERSITY and perhaps the others.If Okojie is sure of himself, let him publish his findings about this school and allow the universities to publish their response

Those advising Leads University are not fair to the institution. The university went to court last year on their Law Program and won.The University was accredited for Law by the NUC. Three month after, the NUC underthe leadership of Okojie withdrew the Licence without any cogent reason.The university went to court to enforce their competence to run the course. The court ruled that NUC was wrong and asked their accreditation restore while their students be allowed to proceed to Law school. NUC under the Leadership of Okojie failed to comply and went on appeal to footdrag the future of Nigerians . If Laeds win the Appeal Okojie and NUC will go to Supreme Court without complying with the court ruling, while the future of the graduates AND UNDERGRU are wasted
LET US BE FAIR, THERE IS NOTHING LEADS UNIVERSITY CAN DO THAT WILL EVER SATISFY THE PRESENT MANAGEMENT LED BY PROFESSOR OKOJIE. tHE MAN HAD ALREADY MADE UP HIS MIND TO ENSURE THAT LEADS UNIVERSITY CLOSE DOWN B4 HIS TENURE COMES TO AN END BUT GOD WILL DISLLOW HIM

As a parent,iam fed up with Nigerian Universities . If they attend Public Universities , you arenot sure they will graduate at the stipulated time because of incesant strikes by university staff and government inconsistent poicies. If you take them to private university, the ALMIGHTY POWER DRUNk NUC Executive Secretary and his men can revoke the University Licence at a will. Only in Nigeria can this happen
All over the world, Private and Public universities run Part Time Program not only to aurgment their income but also give those who cannot afford full time school the opportunity to improve themselves but Okojie scrapped it overnight to cripple some private universities that depends on it. It is unfortunate. When Prof Okebukonla was the NUC executive Secretary, our Universities were stable but Prof Okojie will crumble all in a short time. What a pity
Why the Poytechnics are stable , our universities are being crumbled. Why were Parttime not scrapped or suspended as Okojie had done for the Universities
. Everone is thinking of taking their wards to Ghana because there is stability in their system. Universities in Ghana are collaborating with foreign Universities to improve theie academic standards foe instance Kwame Nkrumah University - a public university collaborated with University of Ohio to run a 6-yr Doctor of Pharmacy while University of Ghana - the oldest Public Universty in Ghana still runs 4-yr Bachelor of Pharmacy. That is the level of academic freedom stiin Ghana. Such will never happen in Nigeria under the leadership of a man like Okojie. SOMEBODY HAD BETTER CALL THIS MAN TO ORDER B4 HE DROWNS ALL OF US. God bless Nigeria

May the Lord bless all of u who had made contributions here

Iam 50+ studying Law in one of the Private Universities in Nigeria
My goal is to make a first class. The contributions of the First Class students here is a great motivation
Thanks to the guy who originated this topic. May you never run out of ideas Amen

PortHarcourtBoy: Me I can never step out of this our country again oh... lai lai! whether for school or holiday... Oyibo yeye!

Oyibo go carry one 17 year old wey no even pass GCSE, make ur boss for their eateries and restaurants... dem no wan even know whether you get or dey study for some degree...

Na so dat wan go dey sharp mouth on you (with impunity)... "Hello mate, Can you PlEaSe go and wipe the tables...ThAnK yOu"

Kai, I go siddon look myself, ask myself whether na me be this? Some times to slap their mandibles and maxillae go hungry me...but I know sey if I try am, na Scotland yard

This na true talk oh. Na so e be for Burger King, Royal Mail, factories, Superdrugsetc. Suffer de Oyinbo land plenty

It is better to divide in peace than in pieces - Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe
This country is too big and complexto be governed from Abuja
Lets go back to the 3 regions or at worst, 6 regions .
We have deceived ourselves enof. Nigeria was created to fail
Those who make peaceful change impossible will find violent change inevitable
To those who lost their lives, May d Lord confort you

I wish Fela is alive. His song "U BE THIEF" eadily comes to mind

"U be thief, I no be thief
U be robber, I no be robber
U be armed robber, I no be armed robber
Argument, Argument argue"

What a shame and what a country
Week before, it was Unilag
Last week, it was plane crash
This week, its LAWANOTEDOLA GATE
And so time ticks on, JONAH KEEPS SLEEPING
Ang Nigerians keeps suffering
By next next year, Jonah will be approaching us for re-election
Lord have mercy. I weep for this country

Kudos for our dear Prof.
We salute yout courage to speak up
You are different and sure of your reputation
SHAME TO PROF OKOJIE, NUC SECRETARY.
WHEN YOU LEAVE THAT COMFORTABLE POSITION, WE
SHALL SEE WHAT WILL BECOME OF YOU

Beaf: I posted this on an earlier thread:

This writer must be very ignorant as far as law is concered. The learned SAN did not say the name cannot change. He is saying the change cannot be effected by the President-in- council but by the act of the NASS through a bill from the National Assembly . The question is where was Adokie, the AGF when the President-in-council was effecting this illegality?
In civilised countries all over, the AGF would have resigned honourably for misleading the President or be fired by Mr President but in Nigeria this will be a strange thing. GOD BLESS NIGERIA.
I URGE ALL UNILAG STUDENTS TO REMAIN PEACEFUL. REGISTER THEIR PETITION ON THE WEB. This act of illegality on our beloved institution will not stand . As I said in another post, the President-in-council is using this ploy to detract the vocal South West from his economic woes and high level corruption levied against this administration by the recent American Human Right & Corruption report

LET ALL OF US WHO WANT THIS GLORIOUS NAME "UNILAG" TO STAY SIGN THE PETITION AND TAKE ALL LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL MEANS TO PURSUE OUR GOAL. OUR COURTS ARE ALIVE

If this story is true as related here, then it is very unfortunate coming from a highly respected institution. This is against the spirit of the constitution and it bothers on the fundamental right of this candidate.No Nigerian should be discrinated against on the basis of religion,belief, sex etc. My advice is that the family should lodge a formal complaint to the university Vice Chancellor and copy the Pro Chancellor- Bishop Oyedepo. I believe the niversity Admission office goofed but are not willing to accept their errors. They possibly did not know the legal implications of their actionIf they did not state in their forms that non Christians should not apply, then they hsve no reason to reject him if thee candidate meets all admission requirements . Let the parents take this formal steps and if nothing positive comes out, the should proceed to court to enforce thecfundamental rights of their ward . THIS IS ANOTHER EXTREMITY IN RELIGION AND MUST NOT BE ALLOWED IN A SECULAR NATION

Iam a product of Unilag. This autocratic change must be contested in our courts . :-XThere is nowhere in our constitution that permits an institution established by law to have its name changed by the president in the way this president has done. If changing the name of a limited liability company demands going to CAC, then this change from University of Lagos to Moshood Abiola University without any legal backing is unconstitutional and ultra vires. What happens to Unilag Ventures and othe legally established ventures and institutions associated with University of Lagos. At a time that Unilag is mourning , see what this wicked man has done to compound the sadness in the name of cheap publicity.
Here is an attempt to divert the attention of well meaning Nigerians from the looming corruption trailing this administration - The #155b corruption diversion of money, the Oil subsidy scandal, the Police Pension scandal, insecurity at home, the latest American Human Rights report etc. What a shamt

This thread may b belated now with the unveiling of HP Slate 2. I have gone thru its preview . Thank God i have not paid for the slate 500. I want to go for the Hp Slate 2. Does anyone know if the Slate 2 is in nigeria now

Noted. Will get across to you for details later

Thanks.
Ive reviwed d specs as well as d comments
I still prefer d hp slate 500. The size , cost & my specific use makes hp slate a preffered choice
Thanks for d suggestions. Whoeva has d hp slate should get across

Thanks
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By d way, do you have these products and how much do they go for. Text me d details & ur contact
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:oThanks my beloveth Pastor, U have spoken well. Its up to Nigerians to rise up and defend their vote. Remember, REGISTER, VOTE and BE COUNTED. Above all Vote for Honest and Credible Leaders

great 107
The question is have you used it before and what is the performance

great 107
The question is have you used it before and what is the performance

guys,
A friend told me many cafes in Lagos now use 3g gsm Router for cybercafe as a way of reducing the high cost of bandwidth . Anyone with an experience in this area

ok thanks

Kkikeja,
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