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I am so much interested if the distance is not the barrier, because I am currently in Ile-Ife, Osun State.
Here are my STATISTICS!!!

Name: Layade Jeremiah Omotoso
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First of all, I must appreciate the effort of my dear friend U1 for his comments. You see, the Nigerian situation, most especially Educationally is a critical problem that must be takkled NOW or leave it in order to suffer for its consquences in future.

The only way forward is to fight to finish, let all Nigerian youth get up and fight! Why would the strike not waxing strong for months even years when majority of these politicians' children are not here schooling in this country or studying in so-called government insitutions. So, how did you think they would feel the pains we are passing through.
I will also advice some of us that knew these politicians' children, that is schooling abroad, to relay their names, their institutions and their contact address to Nigerian.

You are asking, what would this amount to? Ha,   It will surely work out I promised. We will try as much as possible to kidnap these people, not to harm them anyway, but for them too to miss 1 or 2 semesters and see how painful it is to stay at home wasting precious time as well as been an undergraduate for 2 or 3 extra years instead of normal years meant for each field.

Other way of accomplishing result is to engage in peaceful rally as mentioned earlier but in my own opinion with little adjustment or upgradement. About 5,000 students or youths from each state will match to each state secretariat and letting them know that, we are here to be sleeping and eating and toileting and bathing,  here, as from now on -  if there is no hope for us (youth), then there should be no office for you rulers. Let convert their offices to residential apartment!

Other thing for the ASUU is to declare a mass retirement for themselves. You are confused? Let ALL of them say this sentence(s) after me, WE ARE NOT READY TO WORK ANYMORE IF THERE IS NO PRACTICAL SOLUTION TO THESE PROBLEMS ON GROUND, GIVE US OUR PENSION and GRATUITY AND LET US LEAVE the UNIVERSITIES FOR YOU! as simple as that,

My advice might look a bit funny, but if you can digest it with a concentrated mind, it would do us good in this country.
Thanks

Still on the ASUU strike
By Muyiwa Awodiya

THE people who are prolonging the current strike of all the three staff unions of Nigerian Universities (ASUU, SSANU and NASU) are Gamaliel Onosode, Sam Egwu, Julius Okojie and Adetokunbo Kayode. They are the ones who are misinforming the Vice-President and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; they are the ones manipulating the government negotiating team and rebranding falsehood as truth for the consumption of the Nigerian public! They are the ones who are directly responsible for unnecessarily elongating the current crisis and thereby keeping the innocent Nigerian students at home. They are the ones who Reuben Abati referred to in his brilliant write-up as "The enemies of Nigerian Universities" in The Guardian of August 28 (P.51).

They are the ones who are unilaterally changing the framework of negotiations after negotiations had ended and now ordering that "negotiations were to be concluded by individual University Councils". They all know too well that there is no University Governing Council in Nigeria that either has the wherewithal or is capable of generating the funds needed to pay workers, finance teaching, quality research and infrastructural development. They are the people who mischievously introduced "percentages" into the lexicography of the negotiating team that ASUU demanded 109 per cent salary increment. They are the people who illegitimately repudiated the mandate to sign an Agreement after over two years of negotiation!

These same enemies of Nigerian Universities are the ones misleading the Federal Government to take ASUU for a ride for over two years of futile negotiation and later made an arbitrary award of 40 per cent salary increment. They are the evil agents hell bent on sabotaging the government in signing the Agreement. But in the end these agents of evil and enemies of the Nigerian Universities who had worsened the crisis will definitely fail woefully again. Similar evils were plotted against the Universities during the Abacha regime; they did not work. The plotters failed awfully. These current plotters of evil against the Universities in Nigeria shall fail wretchedly; indeed, the harder they plot, the harder they will fall shamefully.

There is no doubt that Nigerian leaders are averse to proper funding of education as they are afraid of its intrinsic qualities of civilisation, development, utilitarian relevance in nation building and human capital development. For this reason, the desire of Nigerian leaders is to perpetually suppress enlightenment of the people by forsaking them as dunces, fools, ignoramuses, know-nothings and holding them down forever in ignorance, poverty and disease. This is why they are planning to destroy the universities as they see them as baston of knowledge, repository of progress and development and citadel of civilisation.

As a result of deliberate gross underfunding, Nigerian Universities are bereft of good lecture theatres, libraries equipped with latest books and current journals, modern laboratory equipment, good arts theatres for humanity students, adequate classrooms and sufficient hostels for teeming students' population. No more excellent facilities for teaching, research, learning and development.

There is also the problem of decaying infrastructures, brain drain to greener pastures and lack of the establishment of internationally competitive academic standards in a conducive university environment. Yet our leaders trudge on in absolute deception, hypocrisy, fraud with inefficiency in governance and in public offices and government-owned establishments as if nothing is amiss and everything is going on well when students are idling away at home now for almost three months! There is lack of concern for the people as Nigerian leaders are very far and distant from the people they rule.

It is not democratic or honourable for a government not to sign on agreement in which its negotiators actively participated for well over two years! This is the snobbery and contempt that makes every ASUU member livid with anger. In addition, ASUU believes that Nigerian leaders do not have regard for university lecturers because of government's apparent low rating of the functions and relevance of the lecturers in the country. This is glaringly reflected by the abysmally low payment of the lecturers vis-ˆ-vis other public service workers like in the Civil Service where a permanent secretary now earns N1,885,742.81k per month and a University Professor earns about N320,000.00 per month. Whereas as a Senior Lecturer in 1987, my monthly Salary was higher than that of a Permanent Secretary, my monthly salary as an Associate Professor for eight years now is under N300,000.00. Similarly in 1987, a Professor was earning the same salary as Justice of the Court of Appeal and Chief Judge of a state.

Both of them have since left a University Professor behind now in terms of their monthly salary which stands at N2,743,716.50k! Thus in the current Agreement which the government is hesitant to sign, ASUU is erroneously demanding the sum of N525,010.00 as monthly salary for a Professor instead of them to rightfully claim N2,743,716.50 from the Federal Government as a monthly salary for its Professor! The half a million naira monthly salary mistakenly being demanded by ASUU has now been overtaken by event of government's refusal to sign the Agreement. Consequently, ASUU ought to be claiming as a right the sum of N2,743,716.50k as monthly salary for a University Professor.

In a country of lopsided societal values, inefficient and ineffective leadership, and a topsy-turvy, harp hazard and arbitrary system of remuneration in which the talented, gifted, qualified and most highly trained brains are callously rewarded with penurious salaries, much is left to be desired in regard to university workers and their starvation wages. Meanwhile, a Senator gets N3,066,666.67 a month and each House of Assembly member receives N2,991,666.67 a month outside their fat allowances. Local Government Councillor gets N1,129,647.92 a month while Local Government chairman receives N1,154,324.60 a month! Every time government surreptitiously increases the salary and emoluments of the civil service, it would exclude the university workers from the largesse. For example, the Civil Service and other Public Service workers had been enjoying monetisation since 2003. It took the university workers six years later to get paid, not without protesting and embarking on industrial strike before they were paid in July, 2009! Even now, not every one has been paid!

Our political leaders and pseudo-technocrats who call themselves government negotiators should be ashamed and cover their faces in disgrace as there is no Nigerian University among the best 6000 universities in the world! In the latest Webometrics World University Ranking released in July 2009, other African Universities are clearly far ahead of Nigeria's. They include universities from smaller countries like Kenya (No 6 in Africa and 2,795 in the world), Uganda (No 20 in Africa and 3,653 in the world), Ethiopia (No 22 in Africa and 4,055 in the world), Namibia (No 26 in Africa and 4,467 in the world), Ghana (30 in Africa and 4,479 in the world), Mauritius (32 in Africa and 4,559 in the world), Botswana (34 in Africa and 4,633 in the world), Zimbabwe (30 in Africa and 4,754 in the world), Zambia (51 in Africa and 5,875 in the world), Rwanda (52 in Africa and 5,888 in the world), Sudan (59 in Africa and 6,556 in the world). In Nigeria, University of Benin comes first with (61 in Africa and 6,602 in the world), University of Ilorin (77 in Africa and 7,902 in the world), Obafemi Awolowo University (78 in Africa and 8,034 in the world), University of Lagos (95 in Africa and 8,871 in the world). In Africa, South African Universities comfortably occupy the first 15 positions while the top 10 best Universities in the world come from America, according to the ranking.

Indeed, ASUU should continue its fight against the forces of retrogression, darkness and the anti-people policies of the Federal Government of Nigeria as education remains one of the strongest pillars of democracy as it touches almost every home in the country. According to Abati, "ASUU should mobilise civil society groups to support its strike action and compel the Federal Government to return to the negotiating table". In the same way, Sunny Awhefeada urges the "Nigerian people to stand up strongly on the side of ASUU or forever remain eternally marginalised by the neo-colonialists in native garbs (The Guardian, September 2 2009, P. 51).

ASUU will continue to fight for increased funding of the universities and better conditions of service for all categories of workers in the university system. They have been marginalised and systematically neglected by a government that spends 80 per cent of its revenue on politics and political office holders at the expense of important democratic institutions that would deepen and strengthen democracy like power, roads, healthcare, education, agriculture, pipe-borne water, transportation. ASUU and all Nigerians should rise up against Nigerian government's position of spending all revenues on politics and nothing remains for developmental purposes as in when the elephant eats, no food is left for the antelope; or when the buffalo drinks, no water remains for the tad-pole.

copied from: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial_opinion/article02//indexn3_html?pdate=210909&ptitle=Still%20on%20the%20ASUU%20strike&cpdate=210909

Still on the ASUU strike
By Muyiwa Awodiya

THE people who are prolonging the current strike of all the three staff unions of Nigerian Universities (ASUU, SSANU and NASU) are Gamaliel Onosode, Sam Egwu, Julius Okojie and Adetokunbo Kayode. They are the ones who are misinforming the Vice-President and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; they are the ones manipulating the government negotiating team and rebranding falsehood as truth for the consumption of the Nigerian public! They are the ones who are directly responsible for unnecessarily elongating the current crisis and thereby keeping the innocent Nigerian students at home. They are the ones who Reuben Abati referred to in his brilliant write-up as "The enemies of Nigerian Universities" in The Guardian of August 28 (P.51).

They are the ones who are unilaterally changing the framework of negotiations after negotiations had ended and now ordering that "negotiations were to be concluded by individual University Councils". They all know too well that there is no University Governing Council in Nigeria that either has the wherewithal or is capable of generating the funds needed to pay workers, finance teaching, quality research and infrastructural development. They are the people who mischievously introduced "percentages" into the lexicography of the negotiating team that ASUU demanded 109 per cent salary increment. They are the people who illegitimately repudiated the mandate to sign an Agreement after over two years of negotiation!

These same enemies of Nigerian Universities are the ones misleading the Federal Government to take ASUU for a ride for over two years of futile negotiation and later made an arbitrary award of 40 per cent salary increment. They are the evil agents hell bent on sabotaging the government in signing the Agreement. But in the end these agents of evil and enemies of the Nigerian Universities who had worsened the crisis will definitely fail woefully again. Similar evils were plotted against the Universities during the Abacha regime; they did not work. The plotters failed awfully. These current plotters of evil against the Universities in Nigeria shall fail wretchedly; indeed, the harder they plot, the harder they will fall shamefully.

There is no doubt that Nigerian leaders are averse to proper funding of education as they are afraid of its intrinsic qualities of civilisation, development, utilitarian relevance in nation building and human capital development. For this reason, the desire of Nigerian leaders is to perpetually suppress enlightenment of the people by forsaking them as dunces, fools, ignoramuses, know-nothings and holding them down forever in ignorance, poverty and disease. This is why they are planning to destroy the universities as they see them as baston of knowledge, repository of progress and development and citadel of civilisation.

As a result of deliberate gross underfunding, Nigerian Universities are bereft of good lecture theatres, libraries equipped with latest books and current journals, modern laboratory equipment, good arts theatres for humanity students, adequate classrooms and sufficient hostels for teeming students' population. No more excellent facilities for teaching, research, learning and development.

There is also the problem of decaying infrastructures, brain drain to greener pastures and lack of the establishment of internationally competitive academic standards in a conducive university environment. Yet our leaders trudge on in absolute deception, hypocrisy, fraud with inefficiency in governance and in public offices and government-owned establishments as if nothing is amiss and everything is going on well when students are idling away at home now for almost three months! There is lack of concern for the people as Nigerian leaders are very far and distant from the people they rule.

It is not democratic or honourable for a government not to sign on agreement in which its negotiators actively participated for well over two years! This is the snobbery and contempt that makes every ASUU member livid with anger. In addition, ASUU believes that Nigerian leaders do not have regard for university lecturers because of government's apparent low rating of the functions and relevance of the lecturers in the country. This is glaringly reflected by the abysmally low payment of the lecturers vis-ˆ-vis other public service workers like in the Civil Service where a permanent secretary now earns N1,885,742.81k per month and a University Professor earns about N320,000.00 per month. Whereas as a Senior Lecturer in 1987, my monthly Salary was higher than that of a Permanent Secretary, my monthly salary as an Associate Professor for eight years now is under N300,000.00. Similarly in 1987, a Professor was earning the same salary as Justice of the Court of Appeal and Chief Judge of a state.

Both of them have since left a University Professor behind now in terms of their monthly salary which stands at N2,743,716.50k! Thus in the current Agreement which the government is hesitant to sign, ASUU is erroneously demanding the sum of N525,010.00 as monthly salary for a Professor instead of them to rightfully claim N2,743,716.50 from the Federal Government as a monthly salary for its Professor! The half a million naira monthly salary mistakenly being demanded by ASUU has now been overtaken by event of government's refusal to sign the Agreement. Consequently, ASUU ought to be claiming as a right the sum of N2,743,716.50k as monthly salary for a University Professor.

In a country of lopsided societal values, inefficient and ineffective leadership, and a topsy-turvy, harp hazard and arbitrary system of remuneration in which the talented, gifted, qualified and most highly trained brains are callously rewarded with penurious salaries, much is left to be desired in regard to university workers and their starvation wages. Meanwhile, a Senator gets N3,066,666.67 a month and each House of Assembly member receives N2,991,666.67 a month outside their fat allowances. Local Government Councillor gets N1,129,647.92 a month while Local Government chairman receives N1,154,324.60 a month! Every time government surreptitiously increases the salary and emoluments of the civil service, it would exclude the university workers from the largesse. For example, the Civil Service and other Public Service workers had been enjoying monetisation since 2003. It took the university workers six years later to get paid, not without protesting and embarking on industrial strike before they were paid in July, 2009! Even now, not every one has been paid!

Our political leaders and pseudo-technocrats who call themselves government negotiators should be ashamed and cover their faces in disgrace as there is no Nigerian University among the best 6000 universities in the world! In the latest Webometrics World University Ranking released in July 2009, other African Universities are clearly far ahead of Nigeria's. They include universities from smaller countries like Kenya (No 6 in Africa and 2,795 in the world), Uganda (No 20 in Africa and 3,653 in the world), Ethiopia (No 22 in Africa and 4,055 in the world), Namibia (No 26 in Africa and 4,467 in the world), Ghana (30 in Africa and 4,479 in the world), Mauritius (32 in Africa and 4,559 in the world), Botswana (34 in Africa and 4,633 in the world), Zimbabwe (30 in Africa and 4,754 in the world), Zambia (51 in Africa and 5,875 in the world), Rwanda (52 in Africa and 5,888 in the world), Sudan (59 in Africa and 6,556 in the world). In Nigeria, University of Benin comes first with (61 in Africa and 6,602 in the world), University of Ilorin (77 in Africa and 7,902 in the world), Obafemi Awolowo University (78 in Africa and 8,034 in the world), University of Lagos (95 in Africa and 8,871 in the world). In Africa, South African Universities comfortably occupy the first 15 positions while the top 10 best Universities in the world come from America, according to the ranking.

Indeed, ASUU should continue its fight against the forces of retrogression, darkness and the anti-people policies of the Federal Government of Nigeria as education remains one of the strongest pillars of democracy as it touches almost every home in the country. According to Abati, "ASUU should mobilise civil society groups to support its strike action and compel the Federal Government to return to the negotiating table". In the same way, Sunny Awhefeada urges the "Nigerian people to stand up strongly on the side of ASUU or forever remain eternally marginalised by the neo-colonialists in native garbs (The Guardian, September 2 2009, P. 51).

ASUU will continue to fight for increased funding of the universities and better conditions of service for all categories of workers in the university system. They have been marginalised and systematically neglected by a government that spends 80 per cent of its revenue on politics and political office holders at the expense of important democratic institutions that would deepen and strengthen democracy like power, roads, healthcare, education, agriculture, pipe-borne water, transportation. ASUU and all Nigerians should rise up against Nigerian government's position of spending all revenues on politics and nothing remains for developmental purposes as in when the elephant eats, no food is left for the antelope; or when the buffalo drinks, no water remains for the tad-pole.

copied from: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial_opinion/article02//indexn3_html?pdate=210909&ptitle=Still%20on%20the%20ASUU%20strike&cpdate=210909

Well, if what you are looking for is physical beautiful and the attractivness of the campus in quote; you will need to visit Covenant University to get the fact that this university still hold the record of most beautiful campus here in Nigeria.
Though I thought my school (OAU) is the most beautiful campus in this country until I went there to verify by myself. Please you too can go there and confirm,

My Dear friend,
     You see, spiritual world is more frightening than physical world, that is why God hide our inner eyes from perceiving evil and holy spirit always. The point I'm trying to make here is you fear what your mind is in doubt of. For you to have control over this, try to divert your attention to other thing immediately when you are onboard. Try these:

- Listen to music with earpiece attached and picture your aircraft like an hotel rather than flying machine.
- Focus your mind on interior not exterior. Because once you are looking through the   window, you may be a bit scare with respect to the height and size of your cargo
- You can also try gamming, thank God there are alot of portable types all around you.
- Finally always have somebody to chat with, this will surely conquer your fear.

    A word of warning here, first-time traveller may need additional counselling and; I think this should not make you to commit your ways into God's hand. Even there abound accident is just trecking.

Hi everybody,  I am Omotoso, a Nigerian to be precise. I am currently working on inventing an aircraft capable of carrying up to 5 people at the cruising speed of 180-220km/hr.
   This is a research work anyway, and it would take about 2 years to finalize. Anybody in the house that really have thesame dream as I do should contact me on "care4jerry@yahoo.com" or through my phone number "08066398166".
    Note that this project is to show the world that something good can come from Nigeria in term of technology and I think we can make NIGERIA proud through this.
WE CAN TOGETHER DO IT.

My fellow Niger, The truth is, you cannot judge any banks based on their operation in your local area. For you to know the real fact about these banks, you have to carry out a thorough research on them in general and compile the whole result in order to get the highest average scorer.
As you may know banks comprises of human beings not an angels, and all human beings can change at any given moment. But the question is "is your own action deserve a smile or fran?" Don't misqoute me, If you smile at ordinary domestic dog, you can be assured of see the friendly reaction from it (that dog).
I think, for the bank to be ranked according to their respective position, there must have been a thorough research by this media group before they can say this bank is most friendly bank.
STOP WORRYING YOURSELF ABOUT UNNECESSARY ARGUMENT, THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO THIS.

Either it is FAITH or by PROPHECY or REALITY, all I have to say is "CONGRAULATION, " Keep it up, may God be with you.

Kinnni? Second hand cloth is good in such a way that it save you money which can be diverted to Gari, Sugar and Kulikuli,  .
Who say infection dey for cloth? Even if it is there, just rely on DETOL to bath and wash; infections go run

Anyway, the best answer you can ever get has been supplied by Koseepaaro, I am an engineer too, and I really (100%) support what he has said. If that could not solve the problem, it probably means your whole system is faulty not operating system. But try and apply the instruction been given to you; you will surely see the result!!!