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Armstrong34:
would say it again....being educated isn't a guarantee dat yhu wuld b successful n well to do in life...if he has diverted d money he has spent so far to professorship into a business.........he should b smilin now.....

Que sera sera

youngpol:
Deal with it! One would rightly think its karma coming into play here. You know hw many students' lives you single handedly frustrated? All ye VCs be forming god! Renovate hostels you won't, Put ACs in classrooms, you will not. All you can do is sit there in your fat flabby asss and determine who graduates with first class and who doesn't. Which isn't even part of your duties in office!

It's nothing personal bro, am speaking for each and every ya'll VCs out there. We students are not some animals you could leave in one poorly maintaned hostel, where even the toilets don't function! We are humans too! I bet it's the thousand and one curses you accumulated during your tenure as VC that's working against you now.

you can't say

https://leadership.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Prof-Theo-300x188.jpg

Retirement is supposed to be a time of rest amid pleasure but seems to be a curse for Prof Theo Vincent, a former Vice Chancellor, University of Port Harcourt and lecturer for 37 years who is now dwelling in a Lagos slum. ANAYO ONUKWUGHA, Port Harcourt, AGBO-PAUL AUGUSTINE, Abuja and George Okojie, Lagos report on the sad journey of the Rivers State-born Professor of English Language. 

Not a few Nigerians will find it amusing knowing that a respected professor and administrator who served Nigeria for 37 years as a university lecturer and briefly as Vice Chancellor of University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, is wallowing in abject poverty.

The misery of Prof Theo Vincent, a professor of English language, is made worse with his current blind status and lack of cash which has forced the former English lecturer of the University of Lagos to have his abode in a ghetto, notorious for vices, after he was allegedly ejected from his comfortable accommodation for inability to pay his rent. He lives in a dilapidated structure in Illaje, Bariga, Lagos.

How did he get to that miserable point that is not only embarrassing to the academic world but the whole country, considering the fact that the erudite professor was once the chief executive of the same university that produced Nigeria’s former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan?

Prof Vincent is said to be living with his wife and a few belongings including his books. The professor is also said to be arguably one of Nigeria’s finest in poetry tutoring hundreds of students who some are well established in the educational sector today.

Vincent, an indigene of Gokana local government area of Rivers State held sway as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt between 1997 and 2000.

He was drafted from the Department of English, the University of Lagos, by the then Head of State, the late General Sani Abacha to head the institution, after the expiration of the tenure of the then acting vice chancellor, Prof Nimi Dimkpa Briggs.

Visits to the Delta (Choba/Aluu) and Abuja (Alakahia) campuses of the University of Port Harcourt, showed evidences of the legacies left behind by Prof Vincent in all nooks and crannies of the school.

A senior non-academic staff of the university, who spoke with LEADERSHIP Weekend on the condition of anonymity, said over 75 per cent of the development of the Abuja campus was achieved during the tenure of Prof Vincent.

The campus Abuja boasts of the Senate building, the libraries and convocation arena, lecture halls as well as the state-of-the-art mini stadium, where most of the sporting events for the 2004 NUGA Games took place.

The non-academic staff said, Prof Vincent, who retired from the University of Lagos in 2004, was appointed as the vice-chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, at a time the institution was struggling to overcome a severe leadership crisis and other challenges that threatened its existence.

While he was on the driver’s seat in the University, he distinguished himself as a scholar and administrator whose penchant for excellence and abhorrence for indiscipline helped to restore sanity to the institution.

Recently, there were reports in the media that the once celebrated scholar and writer is now facing hard times and abandonment. It was reported that the Ogoni-born professor of English is now living on the ground floor of a dilapidated two-storey residential building in Ilaje quarters in the Bariga area of Lagos.

A lecturer in the university, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the authorities of the institution cannot do anything for Prof Vincent even if they had known about his present predicament considering the fact that he retired as an academic staff of the University of Lagos.

The lecturer said, “I don’t think UniPort would have done anything to help Professor Vincent. Although, he served as the vice chancellor here some years ago, the federal government brought him from the University of Lagos. If you ask me, I think it is the Federal Ministry of Education, and the University of Lagos that should help him out.”

When contacted, the public relations officer of the University of Port Harcourt, Dr Williams Wodi, said Vincent was not a staff of the University and therefore, the institution should not be expected to assist him.

Wodi said, “You called me asking if we have plans to assist Professor Vincent; I have not seen Professor Vincent in recent times. Have you called the University of Lagos? He retired from the University of Lagos; so, you should call them, please.”

After leaving the service of the University of Port Harcourt, reports have it Prof Vincent played a critical role in the founding of Nigeria’s most prestigious literary award, the Nigeria Prize for Literature — sponsored by the Nigeria Liquefied and Natural Gas Company.

His pathetic state has marvelled many in the academic sector who expressed worries that the situation is most embarrassing for the country.

“Something is wrong somewhere. As a former VC and senior lecturer for 37 years, there should something for him as emolument or pension for him – a whole professor and a senior person in that state?” Prof Bassey Ubom, who chaired the Welfare and Commitment Committee of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for 11 years, lamented.

Others were surprised to know when LEADERSHIP Weekend contacted them for reaction. Dr Theophilus Lagi, ASUU chairman, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, expressed shock at the news of the state of the respected academician in dire need of help.

“I am totally surprised at this news but I need to do some findings to ascertain the true position of his state,” he told LEADERSHIP Weekend.

Similarly, some officials at ASUU, Abuja Zone who also claimed ignorance of the condition of their former colleague told LEADERSHIP Weekend that they need time to investigate the matter.

Reacting to the matter, a gerontologist and behaviour specialist, Dr Ottih Nwaka, said Prof Theo Vincent’s situation is the reason why social workers in Nigeria have been advocating for the establishment of the department of social services and a division of home and community services in the country.

He said, it will provide assistance and support to the aged, the blind or the disabled (ABD), children with mental of physical disabilities and highly vulnerable persons in the country.

“In Nebraska where I practiced, assistance to the aged, the blind or the disabled (AABD) was established by the Nebraska Legislature in 1965. The AABD programme was established to provide financial aid and medical assistance to persons in need from 65 years and above, or who are aged 64 or younger and blind or disabled according to social security programme definitions.

“Prof Vincent is too qualified for any kind of services because to be eligible for a cash payment, an individual or married couple must have monthly income and countable resources less than the programme’s need and payment standards. If determined eligible for a cash payment, the individual is also eligible for medical coverage,” he said.

Nwaka urged the federal government and the academia not to neglect Prof Vincent whose condition is fast gaining attention in the media. He added that social services help to reduce dependency, neglect and abuse. “This is exactly what we are asking our government to do for our people,” he added.

Efforts by LEADERSHIP Weekend to get reaction from the country representative of the International Federation on Ageing Nigerians (IFAN) was not successful as our correspondent was told that he was engaged in a meeting as at press time.

IFAN is said to be a strong advocate for the rights and privileges of older persons in Nigeria.

http://leadership.ng/features/460535/ex-university-vc-blind-poor-lives-in-lagos-slum

Lalasticlala

Easy starter!

My people, beware of anyone putting on anything carrying etisalat "easy starter"..they can start any car in the world without its key

doublewisdom:
Hope he has finished paying for the car this one he's hiding his face.

This source isn't reliable

joseph1832:
He's the best thing that ever happened to me in university. He's a marxist scholar who opened my eyes to things.

"Religion is the Opiate of the masses".

hmmmm..

Aminat508:


Midolian come and see

lol..I ve already seen him. I am sure he wld laugh everytime he looks at this pix

joseph1832:
If you've met Dr Marx Wagbafor you would change.

what about him?

joseph1832:
So Don Jazzy is an Army of Salvation/Army of Christ! Wow!. Its nice to know we share the same childhood religious up bringing.

The Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim really have lost talents. Even I too was once a chorester, I remember those singing competitions like yesterday.

Mount Moriah house of prayer Ikeja and Saint Gabriel house of Prayer Illupeju was were I horned my talent.

Allnaijablogger, llaykorn, midolian you guys won't believe once upon a time I blew the trumpet! . Gosh! Such memories....

hun? ..what happened? Why did you change?

The way u emphasized on "Hausa", "northerner" on this your thread makes me doubt it to be true. He must have been stabbed but might not be by a northerner.

Plus if you can give the name of the stabbed boy, why can't you give the name of the northerner? Or even the picture

I hope this is not true.

I think I have seen uglier women..she can't be the world's ugliest woman..but mehn, these teeth are massive

Babangida70:
Official use??
So hilux patrol van don turn official vehicle for transportation of Building blocks for dia eye abi

It's just not right.... they should have hired a truck instead of reducing the life span of that hilux.

Tomorrow now they will complain that they don't have hilux for operation.

@ the emboldened. I agree with you

omenka:
They aren't meant for such purpose bros- this is supposed to be a patrol vehicle. I'm sure one "big man" or even the driver himself owns those blocks. I've even seen them conveying firewood with such sometime back. It is just shameful such things still happen in the 21st century.

Hmm.. What came to mind immediately I saw this was "what if they need those blocks to fix/renovate their station?"

But well, I think its indeed wrong.

It could be for their(official) use

For the third day in a row, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday, September 11, 2015 failed to proceed with their defense at the Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, despite the assurances that the Tribunal the previous day by their legal counsel Mr. Tayo Oyetibo, that they will close their case on Friday.


It emerged at the beginning of the Tribunal that the PDP could not continue with their defense because staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was unable to bring the remaining bag of Incident Forms to the tribunal as promised yesterday.

Mr. Adekunle Oyesanya, the council to the PDP, then pleaded with the unimpressed Tribunal to adjourn hearing in the case to Monday, September 14, 2015 to enable them to put their house in order. Mr. Paul Usoro, the counsel to the 1st Respondent of the petition, informed the Tribunal that he has no objection to the application and assured the Tribunal that the Respondents will not exceed the 14 days period allotted to them for defense.

On his part, Mr. Tobechukwu Nweke, the counsel to the 3rd and 4th Respondents, INEC and the Resident Electoral Commissioner Akwa Ibom State, apologized to the Tribunal for the inability of the INEC representative to be in court with the remaining one bag of the Incident Forms. He told the Tribunal that the bag, which was kept at the INEC warehouse, is yet to be located and that a search for it was ongoing.

Responding, the counsel to the Petitioners, Mr. Solomon Umoh, expressed his disappointment with the way the time of the Tribunal was being wasted. He wondered why the 2nd Respondent should even ask for an adjournment because a subpoenaed witness has not been able to produce a document when they still have 19 remaining witnesses. He however said that it was not his business if they have decided to abandon their remaining witnesses, as it is their case.

Mr. Umoh finally submitted that though he was not opposing the application for adjournment, INEC should be ready to open their defense on Monday by bringing their witnesses to court should the 2nd Respondent fail to continue with their defense. In his reply, the counsel to INEC told the Tribunal that he could not guarantee that they will open their case on Monday.

Meanwhile, the Respondents have so far spent 7 out of the 14 days period allotted to them for defense. Ruling on the application for adjournment, the Chairman of the Tribunal stated that there would be no extension of time for defense. He then adjourned the matter to Monday, September 14, 2015 for definite hearing.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/11/akwa-ibom-tribunal-pdp-disarray-partys-defense-falters

Gombs:
[size=18pt].. Proudly 5%[/size]

...And on another thread, you cry about being marginalized. What do you really want?

DrMuzungu:
Spare tyre and kerosene. Case closed. Eediot.

..that she was tried and found guilty

how? By spiritual means? This is a case only God can judge.. all these step mothers can't be trusted though

I repeat, some people don't deserve to have anything between their legs. This is inhuman

A 60-year-old retired police officer, ASP Yusuf Ibrahim was yesterday charged before a Bauchi State High Court for allegedly defiling two girls aged five and six.

Ibrahim, who resides at Bakin Kura in Bauchi was alleged to have lured the two children into his shop where he committed the act.

The prosecution witness, Mohammad Adamu told the court that the accused on May 25 lured the girls, using chew gum to his room where he took advantage of them.

According to Adamu, the offence violated Section 28‎2 (1e) and was punishable under section 283 of Bauchi penal code.

Ibrahim however pleaded not guilty while filing an application for bail.

While ruling on the matter, the presiding judge, Muazu Abubakar adjourned the case till September 16.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/11/60-year-old-retired-police-officer-in-court-for-raping-two-girls-in-bauchi/

Rivers guber election has to be cancelled.

The startling revelations at the Rivers State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja took a new turn today (September 11) when Charles Okoye, a staff the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC described the April 11governorship election as a charade.


Okoye, who works in the Department of Elections and Party Monitoring at Rivers State INEC, told the tribunal that the governorship election that he monitored was a mockery.
 
According to him, “the election we observed was warfare. It is also militant terrorism and a sham. It was a kangaroo election and a mockery of democracy.
 
“The election was characterised by large-scale violence and disruption of polls in many places. There were snatching of materials, nonstop shooting, allocation of figures and all kinds of impunity. 
 
“All these happened on April 11. What happened on that day could not have passed as an election and my observations are in that report that I signed with members of my monitoring team.
 
“By virtue of my position at INEC, I am eminently qualified to speak on the things that happened during the election. My duty, among other things, is monitoring of election with a view to assisting the Commission improve the electoral process.
 
“Over 80 observer groups reported to me, and I briefed them concerning the elections and debriefed them at the end of the elections.
 
“I also set up monitoring teams that went to various parts of the state on monitoring. They reported to me at the end of the day, and I was the person in the commission who dealt with all the political parties before, during and after the elections”.
 
Okoye also said that INEC ad-hoc staff were not properly recruited, a revelation that confirmed the position of the All Progressives Congress, APC members who had claimed that the ad-hoc staff were card-carrying members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
 
Earlier, lawyers to INEC and the PDP had raised objections on the legality of an INEC staff serving as a witness relying on Section 51(1) of the Electoral Act. However, Chief Akin Olujimi SAN in response to their objections informed the tribunal that that portion of the Electoral Act has been removed, and therefore not binding.    

http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/11/rivers-governorship-election-%E2%80%9C-sham-mockery-democracy%E2%80%9D-says-inec-staff

ERODEDEAST:
Niqqa your tribe can't measure with the Yorubas It's a known fact so STFU[s][/s]

so you are not igbo?

PassingShot:
[b]This thread is of course a response to this https://www.nairaland.com/2590889/see-what-happening-nigerias-economy

For us to understand and appreciate what the new government has done or not done for the country, it’s very important to revisit the type of economy it inherited from the last regime as enumerated below:

1. The Nigerian economy operates a budget which is heavily skewed in favour of recurrent expenditure (about 90%) against capital expenses (about 10%) as represented by 2015 budget here http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-signs-n4-425tn-2015-budget/

Implication of this is that there will be no real development in the core areas that sustain and improve economic development.

2. Nigerian economy is largely dependent on crude export. Even the crude price has fallen below the benchmark price ($53 per barrel) on which the 2015 budget was based. Crude now sells at around $47 per barrel.

3. As at April 2015, the Federal Government of Nigeria had borrowed $4.4bn to pay salaries of its workers for March and April 2015. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3070070/Nigeria-borrows-pay-salaries-cash-crunch-worsening.html

4. GEJ met the reserve at $47.7bn in 2010 but still managed to reduce it to $29.6bn despite that crude sold for an average of $100 per barrel (peaked at about $140/barrel). The country’s FR plays a huge role in giving confidence to foreign investors in Nigeria’s economy. The higher the value the higher the confidence in the economy and vice versa.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3070070/Nigeria-borrows-pay-salaries-cash-crunch-worsening.html[/b]

I could go on and on but these will suffice for now.
Now, let’s see OcheJoseph ‘s points one after the other:


Yes, Nigeria will be delisted from Bond Index of JP Morgan. However, it amounts to crass ignorance for any sane analyst to want to blame the government of the day. JP Morgan started the process of reviewing Nigeria’s continued participation in its bond index in January of this year given the fact that we had depleted our FR to an abysmal level while our currency continued to lose values.

For Nigeria to continue to participate in the BI, the conditions given by JP Morgan are very detrimental to our economy. Nigeria will have to devalue the Naira and possibly will exchange for about N350 to a dollar. This will drive up inflation which means cost of imports and even local goods will go up. Cost of doing business will shoot up and productivity will expectedly drop which will eventually lead to massive retrenchment by the companies.

So, should Nigeria have chosen to remain or accepted to be delisted? I wait for your answer.



What do we expect when the FG as at May 29 had not released a kobo towards capital development? The capital expenditure in the 2015 budget is paltry 10% of about N4.5tn and NOTHING had been released as at the exit of the last govt. So what miracle do we expect?




This is too cheap and very misleading. Job losses are a constant part of any economy and if it’s not as a result of a government’s policy or not on an industry-wide scale, you cannot put the blame on the government. Even in the link you provided, it was clearly stated that the layoff was not for any reason of threat or loss as quoted

“One thing that is clear is that Zenith Bank is not under any threat,” the source, who spoke with our reporter on condition of anonymity. “With the current crisis in the banking industry in the country, it is incumbent on any bank that wants to growth to bend backwards to re-strategize and restructure its operations to expand and grow.

Is the OP insinuating that there were no job losses during Jonathan’s regime? Or that every job loss was due to his mismanagement of the economy?




At some point during GEJ’s era, the naira exchanged at above N235 to a dollar. That it trades at N220 currently represents an overall gain from N235/N240. The CBN is on a mission to make it difficult if not impossible, for stolen dollars from our reserves to be easily exchanged or transferred abroad. Besides, the fact is that crude price has dropped and our over dependence on imported goods among others have naturally put pressure on the naira.


The headline reads “Nigerian economy slows in Q2” and not “Nigerian Economy Slumps”, Both are not same and don’t mean same thing.

The quarter 2 referred to represents April, May and June of 2015 and GEJ was in charge in April and May. Does it then make any sense to blame a presidency which was in charge of one month out of three months for the slow down in the growth?

Again, the fact is that the economy would have collapsed completely had GEJ managed to win the last election. The economy was already on a downward slide by the time we voted him out. So, for anyone to attempt to put economic woes that we may currently be experiencing on PMB/VPYO smacks of irresponsible partisanship.



What is the news here? Must Nigeria do business with China or any other country for that matter?
Nigeria will do business with anyone whose policy and business terms and conditions favour her. This is no rocket science.





The loss is as a result of JP Morgan’s delisting and it was definitely expected following the announcement. The loss is not Nigeria’s loss but investors. When investors have gained in the past, was the gain given or shared with the country?

As I said earlier, CBN/DMO/MOF and Nigeria as a whole has taken the right decision to stand up to JP Morgan’s manipulative tendencies. We cannot because of foreign or even local investors accept conditions that could bring the country to its knees.


If anyone needs to use their brain, it’s you and your co-travellers.

You lots preferred we continue with a failed president/government. You wanted us to continue with a regime that could not manage surplus and bounty harvest in times of scarcity. You wanted us to continue with a government which recognized stealing as the norm. You wanted us to continue with a government of wastes; a government that placed militants above law abiding citizens; a government that couldn’t guarantee security such that a portion of the country was in control of some rag tag terrorists.

Buhari ison a mission to stop the bleeding the economy was going through. He is on a mission to prevent a very bad situation from getting worse. He is on a mission to restore our lost glory, sanity, accountability and pride where STEALING WILL BE SEEN AS CORRUPTION.

May God continue to guide President Buhari & VP Osinbajo aright
May Nigerians prosper better under his selfless leadership

CC: Lalasti-clala Se-un Obi-noscopy

Great job man. Always loving your analysis.

After 5months

aim5:
It irks me that Nigeria isn't in FIFA but useless sides like India are in. Abeg NFF should just take whatever money and allow Nigeria in the game.

India?

Snake like a skipping rope! Gawd!

The game changer!

MikelEleta:
Whose Muazu? if he leaves PDP I have two advice for him, join Apc OR resign totally from politics. If not for pdp that ressurected your career who would have heard of you after you left government. Ungrateful people

you are taking it too personal, bro. This is not a "for better or worse thing". Muazu isn't married to the party. He can choose to leave anytime. I wish him well in his future endeavours

agarawu23:
I knew that sleeping man will not last

More film to come