Good morning all.

I noticed an error with my date of birth on my application. I guess the only solution is to cancel. Please how soon can I get a refund if I cancel.

Is there an alternative to cancelling the application?

Good afternoon. Can I buy pounds at the Lagos Airport?

rusher14:
You lecturers are greedy.

If you think you deserve more, port to the many private universities that dot the Nation.

I know you can't.

Where else would you get cheap accommodation often in a place with 24/7 electricity?

Where else would you be bullying undergraduate and postgraduate students without repercussion?

Where else would you be pinching and harassing female students without restraint?

You down tools for months knowing you can't be fired and all emoluments for the period would eventually be paid.

Nonsense.

You don't correct a thing from it's abuse. Education, healthcare and security should be the bedrock of our society. How much attention have these sectors received from the government?

I felt sad when I heard what the Hon Minister of Education said yesterday. I have experienced strike for more than 30 years since I joined the system as an Assistant Lecturer in February 1989, but I have never seen a situation like this before. Even during the military regimes, ASUU was treated with some level of respect and honour.

We had hope after the 1992 strike that things would be better for the Nigerian academics and the universities. That is why some of us, out of patriotism and the willingness to contribute our quota to the development of Nigeria at least at the level of Education stayed put in Nigeria.

We refused to join the brain drain wagon. But look at where we are now. Suffering because we insist that things should be done right.

I remember my former Msc Supervisor who left the country in annoyance in August 1989 for America following the devaluation of naira ocassioned by the structural adjustment program (SAP) of IBB. He has been living comfortably, smiling in the US ever since, having experienced a fulfilled academic life. We have since collaborated and published articles jointly, using facilities and funds from his research grant.
Similarly, many of such people that were brain drained to other suitable lands are happy, smiling where they are doing their academic works. I remember our former UI ASUU Chairmen Prof Agbon and Prof Jimi Adesina. Now abroad (USA and South Africa respectively). They have been excused of the incessant strikes that refuse to be a thing of the past. Uncountable number of them that should be helping us in Nigeria are out there in the foreign lands where conditions are right and attractive.

My worry now is how do we retain the young productive colleagues that are still around in this system and how do we recruit and retain the talented ones we have trained, in this country, in the next few years if the refusal of government to do the right things to support academics still stands. These young ones are expected to take over from us when those of us the elderly ones exit the system. This is the tradition we inherited from our former teachers and mentors, encouraged by the system at that time.

My worry stems from the fact that at least we need to convince the young ones that making sacrifices for this nation would pay eventually. But can we do that in the present circumstances that we have found ourselves ?

How on earth should the negative consequences of this strike be laid on us, ASUU members, for asking government to do her work effectively on time, and for asking government to provide enabling academic environment including competitive pay that are taken for granted elsewhere abroad and even in some African countries?

Asking Students to take ASUU to court for wasting their time looks to me unreasonable.

Who should be accused of wasting Students’ time?. ASUU or Govt that refuses to do the right thing at the right time. Govt that could not prevent the strike? I know it is not in the character of ASUU to wake up one morning to declare a strike arbitrarily without exhausting all the necessary avenues including lobbying. With strike experienced in the universities since 1980, why can’t the government utilize that experience to do the needful without the union going on a full blown strike any longer. If we have a problem that persists for that long, why does the government fail to listen to volumes of suggestions and writeups on the issue?. I know a lot of studies and research had been done on ways to prevent strikes in our universities. The reports are there in the libraries gathering dust. The research and development ment units of government ministries ( if any) and the Nigerian Presidency should wake up to their responsibilities. I know in the US seat of government, the White House, there is a Research and Development unit that helps the American Presidency with appropriate research based recommendations for the right policies and decisions on matters of national importance.

In this dispensation, why did the present PMB administration fail to continue the good work that her predecessor President Jonathan started on the Revitalization program otherwise called the NEEDS Assessment program while in office?. Why must the past labour on the NEEDs assessment thrown to the dustbins? What has happened to the principle of continuity in government? Its clear beyond any doubt that we have a government consisting of many people that think lowly of academics and their welfare.

A responsive government will listen to the persistent cries for the development of academic environment to the level where we can make huge national revenues through the instrumentality of the knowledge economy as in the contemporary progressive nations of the world.

For example, why is it difficult for us to have students from all over Africa, Europe, Asia, the Commonwealth trooping to Nigeria to receive education if our universities are right,? Instead of the other way round in the world of today. And this had happened in Nigeria before.

Why are our leaders competing among themselves to send their children and relations to top universities abroad?

For example, University of Ibadan was rated as one of the best ten universities in the commonwealth in the 1970s. And the university trained many people from America, Europe, Africa and the rest of the commonwealth at that time. And many top experts from foreign countries worked in the university at that time. Why can we not manage success in this country? What are the factors responsible for our present predicaments. These facts should occupy the inquisitive mind of any government eager to develop the country and leave a legacy that will be difficult to rubbush.

Again, why can’t we have well known foreign experts accross disciplines making Nigeria their destination for sabbaticals and tenure appointments at this time ?

Its obvious that this nation can never develop if the present attitude of government to the issue of top level educational insitutions and academic welfare persists.

Already, progressive nations around the world continue to shop for people in all areas of endeavours from all over the world, that can contribute meaningfully to their quest for developing knowledge economy. It is known in the academic circles that the existence of top rated academics in any discipline is not location bound. We shop also shop for such people by making our environment conducive and making academic salaries comparable to the world or African standard. This should attract and retain such world class experts in our universities.

It us doubtful that our government knows that there are developed countries of the world where there are no appreciable deposits of physical minerals like petroleum products and other solid minerals like ours but they only develop knowledge infrastructure that launches them to first class nation and earns them appreciable incomes.
Wisdom suggests that we should aspire to do similarly. Relyingon petroleum and other minerals to drive our economy is archaic. We should move the way if progressive nations of the world.

For example, National incomes of nations like Japan and China depend largely on education, through knowledge based economy. Could they have developed to that level by treating their scholars with disdain and contempt like we usually experience here in Nigeria ?.

Does our present government know that knowledge economy will largely determine the developed nations of the world in the 21st century?

We already know that the third world of the 21st century would be those countries that will be left behind in the development of the knowledge based economy.

Again, is it reasonable for any government Minister to ask students to take their lecturers to court for wasting their time? Where in the whole world had that happened? Does ASUU have direct contract with students?

I know that Universities admit students based on the fact that facilities, manpower and other resources are available to teach what the universities are accredited to advertise and teach.

When a university fails to make such conditions available, who is then to be blamed?. Lecturers or the proprietors of the institutions. Lecturers and Professors are just important components of manpower needed to achieve the aims and objectives of universities. They are living components capable of reasoning and advise proprietors on the best way to go through negotiation and dialogues.

Apart from default in teaching, who would the students take to court when electricity, water, reasonable and respectable accommodation, Library facilities, standard laboratory, sufficient lecturers in quality and quantity, that are inadvertently promised to students are not available.?

Should they take their lecturers to court for defaults on those matters?

Talking about payment of outstanding salaries. Lecturers’ letters of appointment include the three tiers of responsibilities especially at the professorial level. Teaching, research and community services.

In the last six months, only the teaching component had been affected by strike. We still carry on our research. Some new top level research outcome have been published by many ASUU members especially in disciplines where you don’t need laboratory facilities and assistants. And our colleagues in laboratory based disciplines engage in collaborative works with colleagues especially in foreign universities that are not on strike. I know many people have published top rated articles in the last six months. May be ASUU should list our research papers published in the last six months for govt and the public to see. In my own part, I have published some recent papers, some have been accepted for publication while a number of my articles are undergoing peer review prior to publication. This is the story for many of us.

Also I know that in spite of the strike, many of us have been mentoring our post graduate students, and have been reading and correcting their draft thesis albeit unofficially.

Also, we have been writing letters of recommendation for our former students who are looking for jobs and academic placements both in Nigeria and abroad. I know of some of our undergraduate students who have relocated abroad in the last six months to continue their studies. Such students had received recommendation from us that facilitated their admission. ASUU members stand in loco parentis for all levels of students, strike or no strike. Its part of our community service.

Many of us have been attending vitual and physical conferences abroad on our expenses. All these are geared towards the continuous marketing of our academic institutions, we continue to register our presence and that of our universities in the global academic community. This also enhances the quality of certificates issued to our students. Our refusal to be isolated from participation in the world class professional meetings ensure our university and our nation’s continued relevance in the world academic market since we know that the strike will one day ends. These are some of our research and community services. We cannot afford to be left out in the development of our various disciplines just because we are on strike.

I have attended many virtual meetings in my discipline discussing recent developments at the frontiers of knowledge. I know that’s what many of us have been doing apart from teaching.

In spite of the strike we still have our letters that hired us to do those assignments. And students need not to be on ground for the two out of the three components to be done.

I believe reason will prevail and our negotiating team should not be tired of emphasis on these points. They should argue and present these justifications for the release of our seized salaries in addition to the need for government to respect the principle of collective bargaining. We have moved far beyond a unilateral award of salaries that can be withdrawn by fiat. One wonders why it took another round of strike with its pain and inconveniences for such salary award to come.

It is important for the present government to know that uncensored discussions, dialogues, negotiations and lobbying, consistent with the rules of law should be undeniable benefits of democracy. All of us fought for and suffered for this democratic dispensation. The dispensation came with pain and blood. We did not earn it freely. Many patroits passed away in the struggle for democracy. And we should all be allowed to reap the fruits thereof. We should not resist the benefits to a few politicians who are currently smiling to the banks at the expense of the majority.

Ezekiel O. Ayoola, PhD.
Professor of Mathematics &
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration)
University of Ibadan
Nigeria.

https://newsbreakng.com/my-worry-on-the-ongoing-ASUU-strike-by-prof-ayoola-dep-vc-ui/

Good afternoon all.

Please is it possible to change the school I want to pay to after initiating form A for initial deposit?

Hello my fellow nairalanders.

Yesterday I had a discussion with some folks about oppression in marriage. Most of them were of the view that a person who can tell his spouse that he is being oppressed by that same spouse is not really being oppressed. In order words, the fact that you can tell your spouse that you are being oppressed by him/her is an obvious pointer to the fact that you are not being oppressed...

I am of the view that persons who are being oppressed decline gradually from talking to their oppressors about it to not talking all.

What do you think?

What is your definition of oppression in marriages and relationships?

Are there different degrees of oppression in marriages and relationships?

Are you in or have you been a relationship or a marriage where you feel oppressed by your partner?

If yes, what is the nature of the abuse, were you able to address it or are you still enduring it?

GraciousWords:


Words On Marble.

Those who are scared of their dom account being expropriated by the "authorities" may invest in USD funds. The top asset/fund managers offer these.

Please could you throw more light on USD funds

What if the frequency of declining is high?

Romanoff:


As long as there's love between you two, if the party that wants it initiates it, it should be given.

If the other party declines, you should be sensitive enough to lovingly find out why.

amrichy:

Hi. Assuming the marriage is IDEAL and everything is fine with the couple, how frequently should they have sex?
Also, in a situation where one party has urge for sex and the other doesn't, what should they do?

no body has answered this question.

Most times wives make their husbands feel guilty for wanting sex. Whereas that's a core need of the husband which only his wife can fill.

Oshokalo:
To chook dey hungry me,but I no get wife,hw he go be na

hold yourself till the appointed time.

ECHICHE:
One of the prevailing challenges in marriage is SEX.
Most of the time, it is the wife that denies the husband of legitimate sex. Where this happened on regular basis, men tend to look elsewhere to satisfy themselves.

Research has it that regular sex between couple heals marital wound & increases love among couples.

What's the definition of regular? Once a week, twice a week, once a month, etc?

witworth:
My question is...
Is any other sex position or sex style a sin apart from the most common one called missionary style?

no position is a sin as long as you are married to each other.

MEGA4BILLION:
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink water from your own cistern
And fresh water from your own well.
Should your springs be dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?
Let them be yours alone
And not for strangers with you.
Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.


There is no timetable, whenever you are thirsty

Na true o. No timetable for thirst.

tomilayomi:
Give freely whenever your spouse needs it. E get why
I come in peace

yes o

This post is strictly for married Christians.

How frequently should you engage is sex as a Christian spouse? Is there any Biblical basis to deny your spouse sex anytime he or she needs you?

Presently, how frequently do you engage in sex in your marriage?

1 Corinthians 7: 1- 6.
Now for my response concerning the issues you’ve asked me to address. You wrote saying, “It is proper for a man to live in celibacy.”

2 Perhaps. But because of the danger of immorality, each husband should have sexual intimacy with his wife and each wife should have sexual intimacy with her husband.

3 A husband has the responsibility of meeting the sexual needs of his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

4 Neither the husband nor the wife have exclusive rights to their own bodies, but those rights are to be surrendered to the other.

5 So don’t continue to refuse your spouse those rights, except perhaps by mutual agreement for a specified time so that you can both be devoted to prayer. And then you should resume your physical pleasure so that the Adversary cannot take advantage of you because of the desires of your body.

I believe the above scripture is self explanatory.

Let's have your views. Feel free to say it as is in a godly way...

How can I save my POF outside Nigeria? What feasible options are available?

bekayy:
To everyone in one stage or the other. I pray that GOD gives you the strength and courage to pull through till the very end.

My honest advice, please don't save your POF in Naira. I still dey cry.

Remember: The journey is different for everyone. Some, easy....Others, hard but we shall all overcome as long as there is life.

GOD bless you all.

SamgoldBaba:
All I have to say is Thank You Lord

If I have to share my healing story here it will be an epistle nevertheless I give glory to the Almighty God. it's been God alone 2012 was very challenging (health wise)

Go ahead and share

It's a beautiful Sunday morning and our God remains the Waymaker, Miracle Worker, Promise Keeper and Light in the darkness.

Lots of persons are going through a lot and your testimony might be boost to someone's faith.

I remember when I was a little boy we had a gardener called Tony. Tony liked going to evangelize but I disliked him because he hardly too his bath and was always smelling. So Tony would be the last person on earth I would allow to lay hands on me, lol.

It happened that on a certain day and was so ill and medications were not working. My mum mentioned it to Tony and he asked to pray for me. I humbly submitted myself for prayers. As soon as he laid his hands on me, I became started sweeting and became fine instantly. All the unease I felt just vanished and I was shocked. I did not mention it to anyone and allowed him to continue praying. After he left the house I asked my mum for food.

This is one of my many miraculous encounters. God is real and he is a miracle worker.

Please share your testimonies of miracles below.

Hello married folks.

How do you handle offences in your marriage? Who usually apologises first, do you apologise only when you know you are wrong?

How do you handle a spouse who refuses to apologise?

Also how do you respond to a spouse who feels that your apology is not enough and possibly wants to to also add a walk of shame each time you apologise?

Please share your thoughts and experiences.

Please I need help with UI WES verification. Please share any contacts your have. It is very urgent as all non academic staff unions plan to start their strike from Monday

Please I need help with UI WES verification. Please share any contacts your have. It is very urgent as all non academic staff unions plan to start their strike next week

Toludebs:


Thank you. So it is advisable not to update my profile

You can update your profile since TRF number will not change. The only change will be the date the new TRF was signed

Tamad101:
I don't think you can apply for EOR without TRF. You need both the TRF & EOR filled form

You can apply for EOR without TRF.

Toludebs:
Please how will I get a new TRF if a module’s mark changed?

Will it change if I check online?

You will be asked to send the old TRF after which a new TRF will be sent to you. Eventually it will also change online.

My passport expires June this year and it's very likely I get ITA January next year. Should I renew my passport early January or should I wait till it expires in June?

Thanks in anticipation of your wise counsels

Loverquin:


Hi lateralmaths,

Please at what point where u asked to return the old TRF? Was it immediately after u applied for EOR or after the EOR result came out?

After the EOR result came out

Onebase79:

If it is MOD, the TRF doesn't change. I don't know about BC though.

I used BC

I applied for EOR and my writing changed from 6.5 to 7. Entering the pool with 7 in writing is sufficient to get me ITA in the next draw. The problem is that I don't have the new TRF yet. I was asked to return the old TRF after which a new TRF will be sent to me. The challenge is that I am presently out of town and won't be back till January.

Please I want to know if its ok to fill in 7 in my writing score using the old TRF number and then updating my records when I get the new TRF number.

Please was it paper based or computer based?

kelEmi:


Hello, sorry for the late response.

Yes, I wrote in Warri on the 7th of March, had my Speaking on Thursday 5th.
We were not much, I didn't particularly count the number of persons that sat for the exam that day, but if I'm to roughly estimate I'd say between 90-130 candidates.

It was well organised, with the standard BC headset, well cooled and every other amenities or treatment you'd expect from a standard venue was obtainable there.

The centre was BON Hotels (Formerly called Protea Hotels) along Ekpan-NPA Expressway, quite easy to locate.
My result was online 13 days after, on a Friday, and it was posted to the address I entered the Monday after.

I hope this was helpful. All the best in your exams.

Monopoly1:
Hello, has anyone written IELTS in warri centre since it was created. How was it like in terms of how organised and coordinated. Sincere opinions please. Please can anyone reply.Thanks alot

Hello all. Please I am also interested in this. Has anyone written IELTS in Warri, is there a centre in Warri?

Good evening all. Please is it possible to use pension fund as Proof of funds

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