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Mr Adeniyi sadly sold himself for a bowl of porridge.

The minister ought to be sacked for gross incompetence.Period.
Ordinary 6,000mw!!! What a shame.

I am not holding brief for anyone. A lot of the so called billionaires were exposed with their bankers last year.
Their actions bordered heavily on economic saboteurism.
Mine is that their so called wealth including that of the" Newspaper billionaire" came as a result of
cronyism,nepotism and chicanery.Plain and simple.
My reference to lamido is that he exposed the upper crust of the business elite for what they are-brigands.

Came across this
http://odili.net/news/source/2010/jan/31/203.html

Jarus, i applaud your satirical take on the so called billionaire.It's only in Nigeria that people
pay for adverts to do these silly things.But alas,it's a way of employment because at
least the newspaper derived some revenue from the bombastic adverts.
Our billionaire is a poseur, a parvenu,an arriviste.Period.
Who cares?? The man is a debtor, a borrower of money and a reluctant one at retiring
his debts.Lamido made all of us aware of this much.
He is just an insecure fellow from the backwoods,who made it albeit dubiously in the
big city.
What is his legacy? What has he given back to society?In civilized places,billionaires
create endowments,they give to hospitals,universities,charities etc
What has he done"Newspaper" billionaire sorry oh

Common sense prevailed.Tinubu's claim to state manhood is BRF!!AC needs to showcase the good works
of Fashola constantly to drive home a point that AC is a better alternative to that nest of vipers.
With Fashola out of the way,Tinubu's life long dream of conquering S/W Nigeria is as good as dead.
This is so because the whole world would see that he was maneuvered out because of the selfish self serving
interests of Tinubu and his minions.With that in mind do you think that cosmopolitan Lagosians would
vote AC??Never.OBJ would seize the opportunity to try and capture Lagos because the very opportunity
that presents Fashola not been on the ballot box would be too good to ignore or pass on.
Tinubu and his sycophantic jobbers have been put to shame.Oba of Lagos told them this much.
Remove Fashola kiss your dreams of been the foremost S/W party good bye.
Or what did Tinubu do for eight years?We all know the mess he left Lagos in.
So he should stop fooling himself.BRF is a better administrator,not a political jobber.
2 years have told us this much.
For Ikuforiji,Banire et al,go join the queue.We don't need any distractions,let the man do his job.
If you gys are man enough,challenge him openly,go do a rally calling for BRF's head and detailing his so
called transgressions.
For once,one man is capable of saying it can be done,Order,civility,good governance,social welfarism
is not a tall dream.BRF IS SAYING IT EVERY DAY IN LAGOS.
EKO O NI BAJE O

There are no serious journalists in Nigeria.Only jeunjeun(hungry)ones.With people
like Dele Momodu,how can you have serious,fair and balanced reporters?
They are all flunkies and minions of the thieving elite.
Do you know any? When their bosses are in fact part of the establishment

I read some quite disparaging comments which are too harsh.
I did same growing up in Naija almost 2-2 1/2 decades ago.
My parents were not rich.My guys and i just sneaked out with cars and
went speeding and screeching all over town "burning rubber".
We were teenagers with plenty of time on our hands,period.
However for these guys safety precautions for the bystanders must be a must.
RIP Gboyega Okubanjo, Bobo Eluwa-you guys rocked,
Those were the good days, no worries,no stress,no Yar'adua
when middle class was middle class.

Dele Momodu belongs to that milieu of self absorbed,petty,narrow minded class of Nigerians who have a delusional sense of self importance.
He is a pseudo-journalist, and his ramblings and pervasive name dropping only cements a diagnosis of defective personality,consistent
with inadequacy.
A poseur and an arriviste.
He could jump into the Atlantic for all i care, and besides let him wake up from his foolish slumber.He is a bloody nobody and those
who he shamelessly sings their praises are parasites fattened by the sweat and patrimony of Nigerians.

Let us thank God that he did not succeed with his evil and cowardly act.The chap is a product of being spoiled rotten
It's not only rich kids that spoil kids, i know kids from dirt poor homes that parents can't control.
His parents also failed in their duties.I think some complacent nature on their part led to this disgrace to the
family and embarrassment to the Nation. I put this poser to you if he was not Mutallab's son, or just some
poor family the father would have been arrested and locked up,
But i can imagine the pain,regret that his family are going through now.
Thank God Bush is no longer in power, Nigeria would have been overrun by now

@poster,
you are foaming at the mouth,like a rabid dog.go get a life.i know you do have some deep insecurities,some low feelings of no
self worth.it's understandable,however your therapist should bear the horror of listening to your frustrations,not us.
go take your meds,your poor mind is tired, pele.

Adcoline,
My most heartfelt gratitude,i was told by some unscrupulous fellow that it was up to 1mill Naira.
Thanks a billion.

Any good leads would be very appreciated

Please does anyone know the cost of clearing a new tow truck in lagos.
Thanks.

Dele Momodu is a nuisance, we all know that, his column is at best mediocre,asinine and just a forum to exhibit unrealistic delusional sense of worth, he should go and suck his thumb somewhere and stop assailing our good sense with poorly written columns.
That's the sad state of journalism now,

The AG ought to be censured by his peers in the NBA and his fellow colleagues in the inner Bar.
In any rational society that would have happened.However i have nothing to say because
the AG would leave office one day and derision and scorn would be his fate.
I am not worried about him Where is Abacha? Where is IBB? Where is Aikhomu?
The man has depleted any sense of goodwill this country has left.
The NBA has a toothless Society ditto CIBN,NMA,ICAN.Its a relic that has
outlived its usefulness. That is why the AG can do as he likes

The Governor of Lagos is an exceptional human being,light years ahead of his mostly asinine  and greedy colleagues.
I know for fact that this site is frequented by family members and aides of other S/W Governors.
Its a big shame and embarrassment to see the level of filth,decay and underdevelopment in Oyo,Osun and Ekiti States.
Mimiko is setting himself to fail, watch out.
Alas,not to digress the Governor is a unique individual.As a student of history,BRF knows surely that History would
surely judge our actions and Posterity would determine our place in the annals yet to come.
Salut
.

GUYs why dont you send your complaints to NOKIA EUROPE via email or you can call them
report how the nigerian centre is dragging their name in the mud!!!!

Bros exactly!!!!! I think that the era of companies providing mediocre services belongs in the Byzantine era.
The world has changed,Nigeria should not be any different.
Companies providing sub par products and services must be called out!!!! They should be shamed,
think we ought to do this on Nairaland,have a section solely for that.
Mr Admin, over

I understand how hurt you feel but you've got to let the court pass judgement.

PS: your NL post history don't add up dude Grin Grin Grin

Come to think of it

let him rot

If the narrative is true, then let me rot there, the ingrate had already drawn the battle line.

Charles Chukwuma Soludo should be in prison.In any society, a sane one that is, his arse ought to be thrown into a pit.
See the mess in the Financial Sector.The 'Prof' told us we were immune from the global economic meltdown.
Then went on later to say that the banks were well capitalized enough to withstand any duress.
The man is a fraud, Dubai ko Saudi ni, what a slowpoke.
In any decent country he should have been a subject of interest for financial regulators.
He was a mistake in the financial sector,what would he be to the good people of Anambra?
Where is the money he is spending coming from?
The Code of Conduct Bureau should investigate his finances, pre his public service and post that.

I can never join issues with fellow Nigerians who have the right to hate and attack people they disagree with it

WHO HATES HIM? His brand of sycophantic amateurish journalism disgusts.
I don't hate him!!!! I pity him.

hope you'll kindly check out the OVATION INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE(LOUD FOR A PURPOSE) on Facebook and join the great things that God is doing in our lives, Just as there are a few people on Nairaland who wish Ovation dead, let's consider the over 7,000 fans of Ovation on Facebook, Their opinion counts as well. If 20 out of 100 disagree with our huge success in African journalism, that's a fair deal.

Good for you.No one wishes Ovation dead.Its just that the celebration and praise singing of those that have contributed to the decay this great nation is is just sickening.
Your infantile,disjointed column on Thisday too does not help matters.
Ovation is your life work good for you and your ilk.

To borrow MKO abiola's favourite saying, EGAN KO PE KOYIN MADUN, NO AMOUNT OF HATRED CAN CHANGE THE TASTE OF HONEY, Rather destroy my work, why don't you just do yours, and make it better than mine. The same energy being dissipated at killing Ovation can only produce a better magazine that can showcase the lifestyle of poor Nigerians. There is room for more magazines considering our huge population.

Again as delusional and insecure as ever.
Just because of a few criticisms here and there means people want to kill your magazine or they envy you and want to open shop.
Paranoia at its best.
Bros your insult and poor taste stating that people should have a magazine for poor Nigerians has just shown how low you have sunk.
You Sir are a publisher of a glorified tabloid!!!! Pure and simple.
In serious publishing houses you would not even cut grade for a copy writer,not even a fact checker.
But alas,its Nigeria,so you can shout over the roof tops.
Learn how to write properly and since you live in 'London' i am sure you are 'exposed' to first rate social commentors and the like.
Borrow a leaf from them and enough of your duplicious asinine cat scratchings on the pages of Thisaday.

Wait! Are all roads in the state motorable? Is Ekiti schools schoolable? Is electric light in Ekiti now steady? How many productive industries are in the state? Is shelter problem especially in the state capital solved? Are Ekiti youths now have places to earned befitting income? Hope Ekitiketes no longer worry about what to eat? I guess Ekiti hospitals and health facilities must be accessible, functional and of international standard? But well treated pipe borne water now run in every house in Ekiti? Above all, property and lives are secured in fountain of knowledge. If answers to all these posers is YES coming from the agrarian, petty traders, unemployed youth, students or civil servants that constitute more than 90% of the state’s population and not the politicians and few bourgeoisies that constitute less than 10% of the state’s population, then the project is justifiable. However, if it is NO from the common man, then let a responsible government a bow and embark on a meaningful projects that will be beneficial for all

.
Thanks bros!!!
Segun Oni is a trip.Airport? For what exactly? Airports are just not built.Ekiti has one of the lowest Allocation from source.
Virtually no industry or economy whatsoever to sustain its populace.
This Oni guy needs to be confined to a sanitorium,They are going to impoverish millions of Ekitis yet unborn because they would have to source this money one way or the other.
Money that ought to be spent on infrastructure,education,healthcare,job creation is being frittered away.
God.Oni is a failure.History would judge him. God sef would.Him and his advisers

I have no doubt in my mind that the leadership of Nigerian politics in all parts of the country today, is in the main, reactionary, greedy, corrupt and bankrupt. Brought up in the era of tribal warlords, most political leaders are unable to think first and foremost like Nigerians. To this extent, any conference held today may be a waste of time.

But the audience may ask “Is there any hope for this Country”? My answer is yes! I rest my hope partly on personal experience. In every part of the country, I come across young Nigerians who do not agree with their elders. In the North, there is a new northerner, throwing off the yoke of irredentism, the toga of nepotism and the image of being a beneficiary of quota system. In the South-West, I find many young Yoruba citizens who frown at the rabid tribalism and provincialism of their leaders. In Igboland, we see young Igbos who regret the past and look forward to a brighter future. I have indeed received several letters from Nigerians, northerners and southerners, christians and muslims, encouraging me in the fight against the twin vices of religious intolerance and ethnic chauvinism.

But I rest my hope on a much deeper and profound base than these fleeting impressions. The hope for this Country is founded on the existence of the very problems we have just examined. The people of this Country have a long history of being together. Yet each group jealously guards its own identity, be it ethnic or religious. This is so only because our cultures, our religions, teach us core values within which we find full expression of our humanity. If only we would look, we would find that the values that make a good Fulani, Yoruba, Kanuri or Bini man; the values that make a good Christian and a good Muslim; are the same. If only we had in each part of this country, a leadership with the vision to recognize this, to harness this, to bring together good Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Ogoni and Angas men and women; good Christians and Muslims; to run the affairs of this country, we would find peace.

I rest my hope, finally on my generation. A generation of young, educated Nigerians, brought up in luxury, weaned by the traumatic experiences of the last two decades, and ready to take up the gauntlet, and ignite the hopes, for a renewed Nigeria. This is the generation much maligned by the present administration of septuagenarians. The generation discarded and treated like a pack of potential thieves. The only truly marginalized generation. This is the generation that will pick up the pieces and by the grace of Allah, leave those coming behind with a legacy far more progressive than the one we
inherited.

This surmises it all.
He has started well.His colleagues that because of wanton avarice wanted to drag the economy into a tailspin deserve what they got.

@all the people complaing.

all what the governor has done is to follow due process, all retired governors are entitled to those benefits, he had the right to withdraw the cars given by the formal governor because the governor was illegal so also were the cars illegal, so why the RANTS?
if you don't agree with me,, then obvioulsy you are DUMB! nuff said done.

You are a mindless troll, and asinine.Is that what any sane rational Chief Executive should be doing, publicly returning "official vehicles"?
Are the hospitals well staffed?Is the electorate hsppy? What is his electoral score sheet?
The culture of giving vehicles is unwarranted,unfair and it insults.
As a labor man,this idiot should know better.Let him spend productive time undoing the malady of mismanagement and corruption wrought in Edo over the years.
What a fool

Oshiomole,
Is a clown.Pure and simple.Have hospitals being built? Teachers well remunerated? Youths gainfully employed?
Giving jeeps to an Ex-MILAD? What ahs he given pensioners? The guy is a slowpoke.A former labor unionist.
This beggars belief.The guy has lost some goodwill from me here,

without being immodest, I have been a proud ambassador of Nigeria everywhere I have been. But I\'m not proud of the Nigeria I see today. I wish I could partake in the looting of Nigeria like these felons but I just can\'t because we don\'t have a history of such misbehaviour in our family. Most of those attacking my person would not be able to write the way I do if they were ever exposed to the kind of privileges available to me. I\'m happy to have that contentment in my soul.

Self absorbed narcissist!!!! What Ambassador? Who made him one? God knows countless Nigerian youths i have met,read about,that are blazing trails all over by dint of fortitude,diligence and genius.The same looters he claims were featured in his magazine,some of them as far as recently in the CBN List of debtors.so called "untouchables".
What privilege? That you worked for MKO? Or that through him you met "important " people?This chap is nuts.
His writing here is disjointed,hollow and vacuous.
You see,he still thinks many in Nigeria dont know what the time is.
Bros,weren't you the one relentlessly and shamefully promoting T.W.!Who later was convicted of fraud in the UK?
Show me your friends,i will definitely tell you that you are not different from them.
Pathetic little man, histrionic clown, slowpoke

Dele Momodu is an unrepentant and unabashed sycophant.Effusive in his praise for those who he thinks are the "owners of Nigeria".
He is what a respectable uncle of mine,aptly describes as a shameless praise singer,of no personal self worth at all.
Need we say more, his whole life's work -'OVATION' is a testament of that.
As a sibling and friends of those in the Medical Sciences,i think he suffers from an unhealthy dose of inferiority complex.
A mindless jobber, what is he doing on the pages of any serious newspaper?
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The UI Lecturers' Response
UI at 60: Dons tackle Yar’Adua
By SEGUN OLUGBILE
Published: Tuesday, 9 Dec 2008
Professors at the premier university blame government for most of the institution’s woes as they react to President Umaru Yar’Adua’s suggestion that the university should shed the toga of being a local champion for a global garb, SEGUN OLUGBILE reports.

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Alhaji Umar Musa Yar’Adua

It was President Umaru Yar‘Adua that stirred the hornet‘s nest at the University of Ibadan when he declared that the nation‘s premier institution was just a local champion that refused to play the research game at the global level. The President, who spoke through the Minister of State for Education, Hajia Aishatu Dukku-Jibril, during the convocation of the university penultimate week, expressed regret that in spite of its age, the nation‘s premier university was not rated as one of the best 200 universities in the world. He, therefore, challenged the dons at the institution to wake up from their research and academic slumber and put the name of the university on the world educational map.

But dons and students of the university are not taking the President’s criticism lightly. They believe the President has not only lost touch with reality but oblivious of happenings at the institution which started with 104 students in 1948.

The dons and students, who spoke with our correspondent at the university on Friday, said the institution apart from contributing over 75 per cent of human resources to the nation’s workforce since independence, it has also contributed to the educational, socio-economic, political, scientific, technological development and the health sector of the nation.

”The President‘s comment is unfortunate, I think it came as a result of ignorance. However, I find it easy to forgive him because I‘m sure someone wrote that speech for him. But on a second thought, I think it is not right for leaders not to cross-check facts in speeches written for them before they go to town with such,” one of the dons, a professor of veterinary medicine, Bankole Oke, said.

Oke, who spoke with our correspondent after the closing ceremony of the exhibition organised to celebrate UI at 60 on Friday, said it was not easy to exonerate the President because his comments were unfair, not just on UI, but on the nation‘s university system.

He alleged that government, which owns the university, had not been fair to the institution in terms of funding and provision of facilities that could enhance teaching, learning and research.

”Look, there has never been a year that government releases the exact amount presented to it in our annual budget. The funds often released are never enough for overhead cost, let alone capital projects. Electricity supply is epileptic and in fact some of us (dons, researchers and scientists) have to go abroad to conduct research,” he said.

Oke, who is also the coordinator of the exhibition, said university rankings were now being done based on the web presence of universities.

”Ranking is no longer done based on publications in journals. It is only people in the same area of specialisation that read the publications in specialised journals; those who rank universities now go to the Internet to assess the richness of a university site based on research breakthroughs and publications uploaded on such a site.

”If you are not there, you will be poorly ranked. But unfortunately for Nigerian universities, the epileptic power generation in the country and inadequate funds have limited their capacities to enjoy visible and robust presence on the Internet,” he said.

So, rather than blaming the university for the lull in research activities, he said, the government should carry the blame.

Corroborating his colleague, a professor of soil science, John Ajayi, disclosed that inadequate power supply was the bane of the nation‘s academic development.

Ajayi, who has been in the university for 32 years, said decaying infrastructure, obsolete equipment, inadequate funding, ill-motivated staff, increased population and lack of political will on the part of government to introduce tuition were responsible for the trend.

He said, ”I‘ve been in this university for 32 years. I can say that this is the worst year I have experienced in terms of power generation. For instance, the Faculty of Science did not have electricity supply for close to three months this year. Even for this three-day programme, we have to use generator all through and we all know that without energy supply, little or nothing can be done scientifically. So, government should live up to its responsibility.”

But in spite of this, the former chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, UI Chapter, Dr. Ademola Da Sylva, said the university had not been folding its arms doing nothing. Da Sylva observed that the inability of the university to publicise most of its research findings was responsible for the president‘s position.

”This, in fact, informed the decision of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olufemi Bamiro, to put this exhibition together,” he said.

At the exhibition, over 70 works, including inventions, innovations, useful information in terms of reports, monographs, patents and machineries, were showcased by all the seven faculties in the university.

Part of the breakthroughs exhibited by the Faculty of Technology, which came first in the exhibition, included fabricated technology for the processing and utilisation of agro-industrial waste and crop residues for wildlife husbandry, autoclave, juice extractor, fabricated waste paper processing machinery, fabricated maize sheller, waste paper recycling machine and an electric-powered water fountain cum-aquarium invented by a 400 Level student of Electrical Electronics, Mr. Yusuf Ibrahim.

Also, a bio-gas renewable energy machine designed by Dr. Godson Anan of the Department of Environmental Health Science was exhibited.

According to Anan, the machine will help in reducing the nuisance of waste. Other machines displayed included rice dehauler, cabinet dryer, cassava grater, chipping machine and wood and agricultural sawdust briquetting machines.

Also old works and scripts of some prominent alumni of the university including Prof. Chinua Achebe, Prof. Wole Soyinka, sculptor Badaru Gbadamosi, late writer Amos Tutuola and Kola Ogunmola were displayed.

But of all the works on display, some of the students, including the President, Food Technology Students‘ Association, Mr. Fadeyi Ezekiel, said the artifacts displayed by the Department of Archeology and Anthropology impressed them the most. ”They exposed me to our past. I‘m really impressed with the old pictures that tell the story of the university,” Ezekiel said.

Also, the Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and former Chairman of Unilever PLC, Dr. Michael Omolayole, said they were impressed with the level of creativity displayed by the dons. They advised the university authorities to publish the institution‘s research findings for the benefit of the nation.

According to them, doing so will stimulate the interest of private investors and multinational firms to collaborate with the university to generate additional income for the university.

Daniel noted that science and technology remained the pillars of civilisation hence the need for all nations to pursue policies and programmes that would boost it.

Omolayole, who was chairman at the opening ceremony, had lamented that many intellectual properties that could be adapted for commercial purposes by investors were wasting away in many universities across the country.

He said as a result of this, the general public was completely unaware of the great discoveries and creativity which were products of painstaking researches carried out by the dons.

”I also appreciate the link between universities ad industries. It is not by chance that intellectual property especially technology, is being exported from one country to another,” he said.

He, therefore, appealed to the authorities of the university to take a step further by making public some of the major scientific breakthroughs which could be marketed to local and foreign investors.

The Director-General, National Office for Technological Acquisition, Mr. Obioma Adiukwu-Brown, who expressed happiness at the high level of research works at UI said that his agency had been working to stimulate linkage between universities, research institutions and private entrepreneurs.

He also said NOTA was developing a robust intellectual property rights portfolio and was carrying out technical assistance and royalty negotiation between researchers and interesting firms.

In response, Bamiro, who said it was unfortunate that the president could not honour the invitation extended to him for the exhibition, said the institution would continue to explore ways of attracting development and commercialisation of the various research efforts of the institution. He added that some of the works had been patented.

He noted that the Faculty of Pharmacy had developed an Assay Reagent kit for drug analysis based on chemical derivatisation methodology.

The faculty had also discovered synthesis of potential non-toxic azo-dyes for textiles, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries.

Apart from this, Bamiro added that the faculty had formulated quinine suppositories for treatment of malaria and pharmacokinetic drug and drug interaction profiling to active optimal pharmacotherapy.

Some of the major breakthroughs recorded in the Faculty of Sciences included the fabrication of a digital EMF/PH metre, colorimeter, uninterrupted power supply and production of test tube rack, specimen tubes, cell culture and cooling base top, among others. To make the university more visible on the Internet. Bamiro said that the senate had ordered all cadres of lecturers from assistant lecturership to professorship level to ensure that all their works were uploaded into the site of the institution while it had also secured a grant from MacArthur Foundation to expand academic and research programmes in the institution.

Some of the dons, including Oke and the local chairman of ASUU, Dr. Ademola Aremu, expressed unhappiness at the absence of President Yar‘ Adua at the exhibition.

According to them, all the inventions and fabrication on display would have been enough to convince the president about the good works being done at the university in spite of all the challenges.

Aremu said that apart from thousands of its products working in various sectors of the national economy, over 26 UI academics were currently serving as Vice-Chancellors in universities within and outside the country.

The lecturers, however, admitted that neither UI nor any university in the country could grow beyond the level of governance in the country.

One of them, who teaches in the Faculty of Education, Dr. Kehinde Kester, said, ”If they had ranked presidents or governments in the world, which position will he (Yar‘ Adua) or the Nigerian government be? I don‘t need to answer that question, all of us know.

”But singling out the university system for non-performance is an admission of failure on the part of the government, because a university system cannot be greater than the quality of funding it receives and the quality of leadership in a country.

”But with what you have seen here, you too can see that we are not just here doing nothing like those who seek power to enrich themselves.”
From www.punchontheweb.com

The nonsense said at UI
Ibadan — President Umaru Yar Adua has challenged the University of Ibadan to brace up for greater challenges ahead despite her claim to great contributions to educational growth in the country.

He made this remark on Monday while visiting the University on the occasion of the 2008 Graduation and 60th Foundation Day ceremonies of the institution,

The President was represented by Hajiat Aishat Jibril Dunku, Minister for Education.

The President said: "The University's academic status in terms of global ranking is still not encouraging, though it is still the best in Nigeria based on the recent rankings carried out by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

"It is disheartening to note that the premier universities is not ranked among the first 20 universities in the world," the President noted.

He added that the University has been challenged and encouraged to "shake off the toga of local champion and put on the toga of continental and global champion".

The Chancellor of the University, Alhaji Ado Bayero, expressed happiness that relative peace now reigned at the ivory tower which enabled her to have a normal academic calendar last session after several years of disrupted academic calendar.

He pleaded with the students and management of the school to sustain the peaceful environment.

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The Chancellor noted that education "is key to the realization of our development goals. We have no alternative but to pay due attention to education at all levels."

The Vice Chancellor of the University ,Prof. Olufemi Bamiro, commended members of the Interim Students' Union Government for their maturity and assured them that full democratic government would soon be put in place.

Some prominent Nigerians including Chief Gamaliel Onosode,and Prof. Iya Abubakar, among others, were conferred with honorary doctorate degree in science and literature.
From allafrica.com

What a lame speech!Youths have no jobs,public infrastructure derelict and moribound,crime rate soaring,the naira plunging and yet he says all this hogwash.His handlers and speech writers are all STUPID.How much did he budget for education for 2009?How much is Aso Rock going to sppend on fod and drinks?Mad man, Th same nonsense he said at the 60th Convocation of the Nation's first University.Calling lecturers lazy and indolent.What of him?What and where has be done to improve the common lot of our people.Hypomanic entity,