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Sloan: @OP, but WHY are ibos always trying to TAG along with the SS? Why the attache by force? What is SS? Is SS = Ijaw?? NO! Are you ibo or ijaw??

because southern and eastern Nigeria has always been together an Ijaw man will prefer to stay with an Igbo man than a Yoruba or Hausa man.
check the biafran map and you will see that Biafra includes most of the southern states.
just you should know a large population of Igbo people are in rivers state (Ikwerre)
there are also igbos in Delta State.
That is why if Nigeria separate today South south and eastern Nigeria will unite to form their own country.

OlayinkaKazeem: That is probably why Rivers people are useless. They have all that igbo blood in them. The most useless and dislike-able tribe in Nigeria.

I am not an Igbo person but just you should know the Igbos are the most important and the most beautiful people in Nigeria you cannot compare a Yoruba or an Hausa man to an Igbo man.
The Igbos are very industrious and creative Nigeria knows this that is why they fought day and Night in the Biafra war to keep the Igbos in Nigeria.
believe me if Biafra had exist Nigerians would have been fighting for Biafran visa.
THE YORUBAS AND THEIR ABOKI BROTHERS ARE THE ONES DESTROYING NIGERIA.
you de talk about rivers state Yoruba people get oil ?
EVEN WITH YOUR DRY AND DUSTY LAND YOU STILL DE TALK RUBBISH JUST KNOW NIGERIA GO SOON DIVIDE AND WE GO SEE HOW HAUSA AND YORUBA PEOPLE GO TAKE SURVIVE


RUBBISH........

don't know ask Google

Okay, I just saw this video on youtube and I think I should share it with you guys it actually happened September last year (2013) when Gej when to Kenya to discuss investment opportunities.
Do you guys know that president Jonathan already have 10 private jets?
and he is making plans to get an additional one this year to make it 11 private jet, and the funny thing is that this new private jet he is about to purchase will cost eight billion that is EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION NAIRA HABA Oga Jona take am easy.
Is he going to fly in the 11 jets at once?
God is watching all these politicians in Nigeria



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olOrbYqIJyY

she looks good . oma baby 3 shots for u jare

Yes, you can sue the bank because, they are suppose to be responsible for the security of the people inside the bank.

if na abroad the robbery no go take place and even if e take place 15people no go die because the police go fight them wela and even if them succeed the go catch them in at most 48 hours.

THERE IS NO TWO WAYS ABOUT IT HUMAN LIFE IS NOT VALUED IN NIGERIA I REPEAT HUMAN LIFE IS NOT VALUED IN NIGERIA.

No fine place for Yoruba land?
No fine place for Boko haram land?

Yoruba and Hausa land na dry land nothing to offer Nigeria no fine place no oil no fine people believe it or not the Igbos are the most beautiful people in Nigeria and someday I believe their Biafra dream will come true and people will be jostling to get a visa to Biafra because its gono be one of the world's power.
I am from south south by the way.

I am not an Igbo person.

GAT NOFIN TO SAY, I DONT EVEN KNOW HIM.


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many Nigerians de really ignorant
in fact I am speechless.

I believe I was taught by the best lecturers,
most of whom were first class graduates, and I
studied in a university that focused on
excellence. But despite the best efforts of my
university, I was not well-equipped for life
after school. I was taught to look for a job,
not to create jobs. The society then taught me
that if I wanted to move ahead in life, I needed
degrees and more degrees.
I lived with my friend, Nonso Onuba, in Lagos
during my one-year National Youth Service
Corps scheme. I started searching for a job
during my NYSC. As the one-year programme
drew to an end, my fear about getting a job
heightened. Graduating and still begging for
money from parents and friends is not good
for anybody with a sense of worth.
If a job did not come fast, I had no Plan B.
The only plan was to get a job and earn a
salary to take care of my needs. I desperately
searched for vacancies in the newspapers. My
university result was good, and at 24-25
years, my age was still within what many
companies required for their management
trainees. I photocopied my credentials, wrote
many applications, both solicited and
unsolicited, and went from office to office and
from post office to post office posting them.
As the months rolled by, I began to despair.
Finally, I received a letter from a company
that had tested and interviewed me. When I
opened the envelope and saw that it was an
employment letter, I danced and sang in
jubilation, kneeling down and raising my
hands skywards in thanksgiving.
But I was luckier than many of my classmates,
for I got the job six months after my NYSC,
when many of my colleagues were still writing
application letters. I went to work in a suit
and a tie. I am sure some neighbours who saw
me go out in the morning and return in the
evening envied me. To top it up, once in a
while, the company’s branded car brought me
home to take something, or I just took the
driver home on our way from a client’s office
just for the neighbours to see that life was
rosy for me. But was it? Not really. My salary
just kept me away from hunger from month to
month. It could not solve any other problem
except feeding and clothing me. By the
goodwill of my friend, I did not pay rent in
Lagos until two years after I began to work.
Meanwhile, there was a young man in the
neighbourhood that had searched for a job
but could not get any. So, he started teaching
young boys and girls who were preparing for
the University Matriculation Examination and
General Certificate of Education. I am sure
many of us laughed at him when he started.
But soon after, the joke was on us, for some
years later, the young man founded a
secondary school in the neighbourhood.
Maybe, some became his employees. A few
years later, he established a primary school. I
saw him some months ago in that same
neighbourhood inspecting a plot of land that
was being fenced and he told me that he just
acquired the property.
I have seen fellow graduates who have
degrees in mechanical engineering but have to
depend on a mechanic that did not complete
his primary school education to repair minor
things in their cars. I have seen graduates of
electrical and electronics engineering who
have to depend on some guy with only a
secondary school education to repair their TV
or solve some electrical problems in their
home.
Ours has been a warped type of education that
teaches you the theory of everything but little
or no practicals, with the ultimate aim of
getting you a job. And when the job does not
come, we stay at home for five years
lamenting that there are no jobs. Even when
we get that job and work at it with pride or
dissatisfaction, if we suddenly lose that job,
we find ourselves in a hole. If we are lucky to
retire rather than being fired, we soon discover
that we have no skills to do any other thing
except that job we worked at for 35 years,
which is no longer available. Soon, we start
another round of whining about the nation
using us and dumping us.
It was therefore heart-warming when I visited
the American University of Nigeria, Yola,
recently and saw the development-driven-
university model in practice: an educational
system developed to make students creators of
jobs, rather than job seekers, as well as make
the students imbibe the spirit of community
service. Every student, irrespective of course of
study, must create a business, run it and give
a clearly defined plan of succession, in case
they travel back to their country or go for
further studies. Community service is also
compulsory. I was amazed to see young men
and women teaching members of the illiterate
Yola community how to read and write, as
well teaching others computer science,
mathematics, chemistry, economics, and so
on. Students painted buildings, kept the
streets clean, etc.
Interestingly, the students are not given such
laws as: Don’t use a mobile phone; don’t wear
trousers; don’t braid your hair, etc. On the
contrary, they are allowed to live like normal
human beings cognisant of acceptable
behaviour. And they are kept so busy with
activities that they have little or no time to be
involved in negative acts. They all know that
even within that freedom, anyone who crosses
the line of acceptable behaviour faces stiff
penalty, including rustication, no matter the
status of the student’s parents.
With students and lecturers from over 25
nations of the world, the AUN is like a mini
United Nations. Interestingly, the lecturers and
students all eat in the university’s refectory. It
was humbling to see the President of the
University – the equivalent of a vice-
chancellor – Dr. Margee Ensign, driving
herself, walking around the campus, and
mingling with students, lecturers and the
locals like colleagues.
When I got to the library, I thought I would
see books, but what I saw were e-books.
Searching for some books for research, I got
access to some books that will be published in
2014 in the hard copy form. So, one is always
ahead of others in terms of access to
information.
Then, the university’s green policy tripped me.
All trash is recycled and re-used. Plastics,
especially, is recycled: while PET bottles are
used to build houses, the cellophane bags are
processed and used to make handbags by
Yola women, who sell these bags and use the
proceeds to support their families.
Then, there is the peace initiative. Contrary to
stories about tensed situation in Yola and
Adamawa State in general, I saw a city that
was living a normal life, with a bubbling night
life. Even though the university has good
security led by a former member of the US
Marines, it has started a proactive policy to
ensure peace in the community by setting up
the Adamawa Peace Council, made up of
members of the university and different
categories of the community: Yola locals,
Igbo, Yoruba, Muslims, Christians, etc. In
addition to meetings and other plans to
ensure peace, a Peace Day is held in the
university annually. This year, the
ambassadors of Ireland and Columbia – two
countries that have experienced conflicts –
were invited to speak and share experiences
from their countries.
One of the selling points of Mr. Barack Obama
between 2007 and 2008, when he campaigned
for the US presidency, was the community
service he rendered to his Chicago community
after graduation. Service to the people is one
thing that has made the US what it is. It is
that spirit of service that makes an American
think first about the US rather than asking:
What is in it for me? That spirit needs to be
inculcated in our people if indeed we want a
great nation.

Interesting Africa Facts - People of
Africa
1) The African continent has the second largest
population in the world, at about one
billion people.

2) over one thousand languages are
spoken by the people of Africa. Some
estimates put this number closer to two
thousand.

3) The largest religion in Africa is Islam,
followed by Christianity.

4) The African population is approximately
14.72% of the world's population (as of
2009).

5)The oldest human remains ever discovered
were found in Ethiopia. They are
approximately 200,000 years old.

Interesting Africa Facts - Africa
Landforms


1)The longest river in the world, the Nile
(4,132 miles), is located in Africa.

2) Africa has the world's largest desert, the
Sahara, which is almost the size of the
United States.

3) Victoria Falls is the largest waterfall in
Africa; it is 355 feet high and one mile
wide.

4)Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain
on the continent. It towers over 19,300 feet,
which is so tall that glaciers can be found at
its summit even though the mountain is
near the equator.

5) Madagascar is the largest island in Africa
and the fourth largest island in the world.
It is in the Indian Ocean off the East coast
of Africa.

Interesting Africa Facts - The
continent


1) Africa is the second largest continent on
earth, approximately 11.7 million square
miles.

2) Africa straddles the equator and is the only
continent to extend from the northern
temperate zone to the southern temperate
zone.

3) Africa is the hottest continent on earth.
Sudan is Africa's largest country (968,000
square miles).

4) Africa covers 6 percent of the earth's total
surface and 20.4 percent of the total land
area.

5)Cairo is the continents largest city.
Long before humans were around (the early
Mesozoic Era) Africa was joined to the
other continents in a massive continent
called Pangaea. Over millions of years this
huge continent broke apart shaping the
world landscape as we know it today.

Interesting Africa Facts - Animals


1) The worlds largest land animal is the
African elephant.

2) The worlds tallest animal, the giraffe, lives
in Africa.

3) The fastest land animal in the world, the
cheetah, lives in Africa.

4) Africa is home to the worlds largest reptile,
the Nile crocodile.

5) The gorilla, which can be found in the
continents jungles, is the worlds largest
primate.

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Iran, Nigeria and Argentina.
at least we are sure of 3 point

The Committee of Provost and Deans has
announced
the amended academic calendar for 2nd
Semester,
2012/2013 Session. Below is the amended
timetable:
Monday, 15th April, 2013
Resumption
Monday, 1st April – Sunday, 28th April, 2013
Registration of students (4 weeks)
Monday, 29th April – Sunday 12th May, 2013
Late Registration/Editing of Registration(2
weeks)
Monday, 22nd April 2013
Lectures Begin
========================
Monday, 2nd Dec. 2013 – Sunday 15th Dec.
2013
Completion of Registration for old and new
students (2weeks)
Monday, 16th Dec. – Sat. 21st Dec. 2013
Printing/ Issuance of Dockets for Examination
(1 week)
Monday, 23rd Dec. 2013 – Sunday 5th Jan.
2014
Christmas/New Year Break (2 weeks)
Monday, 6th January – Friday 24th Jan. 2014
Conclusion of Lectures/Revision (3 weeks)
Monday 27th Jan. – Sat. 8th Feb. 2014
Examination in all Faculties (2 weeks)
Monday 10th Feb. – Sat. 15th Feb. 2014
Examination in all core courses in Faculty of
Education (1 week)
Saturday, 15th Feb. 2014
Students Depart/End of Session
Monday, 6th Jan. 2014 – Sat. 15th Feb. 2014
DLI Residential programme commences (to
run
concurrently with regular programme: 6
weeks)
Saturday, 15th Feb. 2014
DLI students depart
Thursday, 13th March 2014
Consideration of Results by because commences
(4 weeks)
Wednesday, 26th March 2014
Senate meeting for consideration of Results
Monday, 3rd March 2014
Proposed date of resumption, 2013/2014
session (2 weeks holiday)
STATUTORY PROGRAMMES
2nd Wednesday of every month
Faculty Board of Studies/Examiners
3rd Wednesday of every month
Inaugural Lecture
Last Wednesday of every month
Senate meeting
Two weeks after Examinations
Uploading of Results.
Unilag Students are expected to use the
academic calendar to better plan themselves...
Share this with your friends...

Student lets be truthful with ourselves, what do
you think of Nigeria educational system today?
Why is it that the private schools are doing
better than federal schools in Nigeria today?
Did you agree with this? lets hear your
comment today. Good afternoon all.

Make una talk true o... LOL
1 - Open maggi cube with your teeth
2 - Hold pot or remove pot from fire with your
wrapper
3 - Dust your hand in the food when putting
salt or maggi
4 - Using your hand to see if your rice or beans
is cooked
5 - Take the big cooking spoon, to take a little
soup and place in your hand then tasting it for
salt??hahaha
6 - Use your bare hands to smooth paste,
semovita, akamu (pap) etc
7 - Eat directly from the pot
8 - Use your wrapper to clean sweat from your
face
9 - Using your wrapper to clean plate
10 - Using your mouth to put off the cooking
fire
11 - Frying dodo(Plantain) and eating almost
everything before it's ready
12 - Using bare hands to open the hot pot
forming superman
Say d truth abeg and shame the devil... hahaha

Just saw this post,
Doh it an old post but I would really like it to make front page this time.




It really baffles me when I go through the
CV's of job applicants here at home since I
came back from the UK. I have noticed that
the average age of most applicants without
any job experience is 27-30 (ie fresh
graduates). Within that age bracket in the
UK, one should have had at least 6-7 years
job experience because at 16 you are legally
free to leave school and start work and if
you decide to acquire a university degree
you must have completed it before you are
21. I had a manager back then who joined
the company when he was 17 and acquired
his university degree on ''2 days release per
week''. He became a manager at 33. Having
spent 13years with the company, he fully
understands the job role. I do not believe
that one can acquire all the skills you need
in a job by spending so much time in school
because when you leave school as a fresh
graduate you'll still need on the job training
to function effectively in your chosen role. I
understand that our educational system
does not help matters at all (ie incessant
industrial actions and NYSC thing too which
has lost it's purpose). What should be done
to correct this abnormally in the future?

Just saw this post,
Doh it an old post but I would really like it to make front page this time.




It really baffles me when I go through the
CV's of job applicants here at home since I
came back from the UK. I have noticed that
the average age of most applicants without
any job experience is 27-30 (ie fresh
graduates). Within that age bracket in the
UK, one should have had at least 6-7 years
job experience because at 16 you are legally
free to leave school and start work and if
you decide to acquire a university degree
you must have completed it before you are
21. I had a manager back then who joined
the company when he was 17 and acquired
his university degree on ''2 days release per
week''. He became a manager at 33. Having
spent 13years with the company, he fully
understands the job role. I do not believe
that one can acquire all the skills you need
in a job by spending so much time in school
because when you leave school as a fresh
graduate you'll still need on the job training
to function effectively in your chosen role. I
understand that our educational system
does not help matters at all (ie incessant
industrial actions and NYSC thing too which
has lost it's purpose). What should be done
to correct this abnormally in the future?

The Ahmadu Bello University chapter of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities has
embarked on the distribution of relief
materials to its members to cushion the effect
of lack of payment of salary in the ongoing
five-month-old strike.
The chapter Chairman, Dr. Mohammed Kabir-
Aliyu, who confirmed this to our
correspondent in Zaria, Kaduna State, on
Wednesday, said his colleagues had resolved
to treat the Federal Government’s threat with
levity.
He said relief materials such as rice,
semovita, vegetable oil with cash backing,
ranging from N20,000 to N50,000, were being
given to members.
Kabir-Aliyu, however, acknowledged there
was pressurefrom family members for the
university lecturers to accede to the
government’s threat and call off the strike.
“We are aware of that. But I can assure you
that the number is negligible and not enough
to have any impact on us,” he said.



http://www.punchng.com/news/abu-ASUU-distributes-relief-materials-to-members/

The Ahmadu Bello University chapter of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities has
embarked on the distribution of relief
materials to its members to cushion the effect
of lack of payment of salary in the ongoing
five-month-old strike.
The chapter Chairman, Dr. Mohammed Kabir-
Aliyu, who confirmed this to our
correspondent in Zaria, Kaduna State, on
Wednesday, said his colleagues had resolved
to treat the Federal Government’s threat with
levity.
He said relief materials such as rice,
semovita, vegetable oil with cash backing,
ranging from N20,000 to N50,000, were being
given to members.
Kabir-Aliyu, however, acknowledged there
was pressurefrom family members for the
university lecturers to accede to the
government’s threat and call off the strike.
“We are aware of that. But I can assure you
that the number is negligible and not enough
to have any impact on us,” he said.


http://www.punchng.com/news/abu-ASUU-distributes-relief-materials-to-members/

Enyeama has kept 14 clean sheets in French
League.
Super Eagles and Lille of France goalkeeper,
Vincent Enyeama, has continued to garner
praise from within and outside Nigeria for his
spectacular performances in the French Ligue
1 that has seen him kept 14 clean-sheets
(includes 11 on the bounce) in his last 16
games, the second longest streak in the
history of the French championship.
The latest person to sing Enyeama’s praise is
the President of French Club, Olympique
Marseille, Vincent Labrune, who simply
described the Eagles stand-in captain as
outstanding.
French tabloid, L’Equipe, quoted Labrune as
saying: “Vincent Enyeama’s performance? At
this level, he’s a running gag. He has had an
outstanding game.” Lille had defeated
Marseille 1-0 in a Ligue 1 encounter.
Formerly seen as surplus to requirement,
Enyeama has become the mainstay in Lille as
his performance this season is giving his club
a fighting chance for the French League title.
They are currently just one point adrift of table
topping huge spenders, PSG.
For many, 31-year old Enyeama seems to be
getting better with every passing day and his
loud ambition of becoming the world’s best
has received the blessings of the likes of
Atlanta 1996 Olympic Gold medallist, Dosu
Joseph (MON), who in a recent interview said
Enyeama has what it takes to be amongst the
world’s best shot stoppers.
Enyeama on his part remains calm about his
performances as he has attributed his good
form to his coaches as well as great team
work from his colleagues.
“What can I say! I am just enjoying the
moment,” Enyeama told Bein Sport. “It’s not
just me, though, it is the whole group. We stay
strong like a team. We have the spirit and the
strength. I don’t know what is possible now.
All I can say is that I have a great team round
me and a great set of coaches.”
Now at 1035 minutes without conceding a
goal, Enyeama is closing in on breaking
the20-year old record of 1176 minutes set by
then Bordeaux goalkeeper, Gaetan Huard.



http://premiumtimesng.com/sports/150853-enyeama-verge-history-gets-praises.html

uncle "pill back" from ADSS Warri.

Oxygen collector: he was called that because of his big nose.

When some corps members serving in
Nasarawa state turned up for a meeting at the
Lafia local government secretariat on
Wednesday, June 19, most of them were
prepared for a showdown with authorities of
the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.
Shortly after they gathered outside the NYSC
zonal office, they had received an annoying
notice of yet another mandatory levy which
would be deducted from that month’s
allowances.
The NYSC coordinator in the council area had
told the furious corps members that they were
required, mandatorily, to contribute yet
another part of their allowance to fund the
building of an office for the NYSC in the area.
The corps members in Nasarawa were enraged
by the notice because earlier in the year, in
February, they had been extorted of N500 each
for the same project.
They are among the over one hundred
thousand graduates that struggle through the
NYSC scheme annually, with parts of their
meagre allowances pilfered by officials of the
NYSC, a government body established in
1973, to inculcate the culture of service,
volunteerism and national unity into young
graduates.
Although the corps was established to
manage the welfare of graduates serving the
scheme, it has ironically developed micro
strategies to plunder corps members or aid
other individuals and corporate bodies do
same.
Usually, most of the pilfering schemes are
designed as voluntary contribution, but the
actual implementation does not allow free will
to choose not to donate.
Corps members are threatened and cajoled to
pay up. Defaulting corps members are
sometimes punished with denial/delay of
monthly allowance or extension of service
year.
NYSC Foundation Slush fund
The National Youth Service Corps Foundation
(NYSC Foundation), a non-governmental
organization (NGO) established by ex-corps
members in 1998, is one of the most
sophisticated schemes used to plunder corps
members.
The NYSC Foundation said it exists to reduce
unemployment by empowering ex-corps
members. It has ex-director generals and staff
of the NYSC as its board members and
directors.
The Industrial Energy Company Ltd in
association with Industrial and General
Insurance Plc, IGI, initiated the formation of
the NYSC Foundation.
Since 1998, the foundation has collected
hundreds of millions in Naira from corps
members, with the help of the NYSC; in a
scheme both institutions are not willing to
share records with the public.
At the end of every service-year cycle,
graduating NYSC members are forced to pay a
membership fee of at least N500 to join NYSC
Foundation. In return, they get a paper ID and
a promise to receive a loan for a small or
medium enterprise. Defaulters are punished
with denial of allowance, and in some cases,
extension of service year.
But only few members get the loan. The bulk
of the money is never accounted for.
On the IDs issued the graduating corps
members, the foundation admits that over
100,000 Nigerian graduates pass through the
NYSC scheme annually. The foundation
virtually extorts at least N50 million annually
from its forced new members but has neither a
public record of contributors nor annual
statement of accounts to members.
After more than a decade of existence, the
foundation announced its first soft loans to 43
ex-corps members in 2010. The members
received amounts up to N250, 000 (total of
less than N11 million) to establish personal
business like hair salons and recharge card
kiosks.
The foundation gave out the loans after
receiving at least N600 million from
graduating corps members in its first 12 years.
Three years later, in 2013, they announced
secret loan amounts to 93 members of the
foundation.
The foundation also claimed it renovates
NYSC camps, but refused PREMIUM TIMES’
investigators access to its account records.
“I cannot give you a detailed amount of corps
members that have contributed to the NYSC
Foundation because it’s a voluntary donation
and not a compulsory one,” the spokesperson
of the Foundation, Aliyushlate Ise, told
PREMIUM TIMES at the foundation’s Abuja
office.
Did you see me there?
When confronted with evidence the payments
are usually made compulsory, he asked: “Was
I the one that collected money from you? Did
you see me there?”
Actually, the NYSC Foundation does not go to
the field to collect money. NYSC Foundation is
run by top Nigerian business moguls and civil
servants. Remi Olowude, the Executive Vice
Chairman of multimillion Naira insurance
company, IGI, is the founding Chairman of
NYSC Foundation. The Foundation maintains
a small office at the IGI house in Abuja.
The NYSC does the actual money collection
on behalf of the foundation. Corps members
are made to pay the money during their final
clearance before passing out. The payment is
part of the criteria that must be met by corps
members before they are cleared to conclude
their service year. Remittances are then made
to the foundation by the NYSC.
The NYSC also refused to disclose its
monetary transactions with the foundation to
PREMIUM TIMES. The corps rebuffed months
of repeated enquiries and disregarded our FOI
request for information. Critics believe that
top officials of the NYSC are among
beneficiaries of the loot the foundation earns
annually from graduation corps members.
Denials
The NYSC denies it does compel corp
members to make mandatory payments to the
NYSC foundation. The NYSC foundation also
denies forcing members to pay. But accounts
from past members of the service indicate the
NYSC facilitates the payment of dues to NYSC
foundations through coercive measures.
“During my time, I was forced to pay N500 in
return for an NYSC Foundation membership
card,” Isa Yakubu, who served in Abia state in
2007 said. “We were threatened that our last
allowee (allowance) would be seized if we did
not comply.”
“I paid during my time,” Idowu Johnson, who
served in Bauchi in 2005, said. “It is a small
money. When you consider the consequences
of not paying, you will just pay and let it go.”
Just like Messrs Yakubu and Johnson, many
other exiting corps members, eager to
conclude their service year and collect their
discharge certificates, promptly obey the
directive and make the N500 payment.
Almost all are not bordered about how the
money is spent. “Nobody wants to know what
they do with the money. All of us just paid so
as not to have any trouble,” said Olaitan Abeni
who completed her youth service in Abuja in
2013.
The big question
In addition to the grand NYSC Foundation
fraud, there are other micro-pilfering schemes
developed by officials of the NYSC at the
grassroots to extort members of the corps.
Despite their meagre income, corps members
are forced by NYSC officials to pay for various
sundry charges purportedly meant for funding
projects ranging from buying magazines to
running local offices, and like in Nasarawa,
building offices.
The NYSC is fully funded by the government,
and corps members in Nasarawa are not
letting the extortions pass. They have
petitioned the National Human Rights
Commission seeking to stop the NYSC
officials.
“The big question is; is it corps members’
responsibility to build NYSC offices in Nigeria?
Are corps members supposed to use their
monthly stipend to execute NYSC owned
project? …who is responsible for building local
government NYSC offices in Nigeria?” the
protesting corps members asked in their
petition to the human rights commission.
Many of the petitioners have, however,
concluded their service year while others wait
on the human rights commission to treat the
petition.
Nathaniel Ibwari, one of the corps members
said that at least 10 percent of his total
earning from the NYSC scheme was extorted
by officials of the corps before he concluded
his service in October.
“I am calling on the authorities concerned to
look into this matter and act fast in order to
stop this blatant extortion or corruption,” he
said.

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Donalð Genes: Nigerians have made me comment-less, am tired of hearing bad things in this country? nothing everly works to its finality,gosh! ah don tire my brother

My guy I tire for Nigeria too oh everything nor de work.
people are not properly informed , I honestly think Nigerians only hear 5% percent of what is going on that is why some ignorant people keep supporting Nigerian politicians.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has
said it will not suspend its ongoing strike
until the four months salaries owed its
members are paid.
The union also wants the immediate
implementation of the N1.2tn offer by the
Federal Government to public universities,
starting with the release of N100bn this year.
The balance of N1.1tn is to be spread over
five years from 2014.
These were some of the resolutions reached
by members of the National Executive Council
of the union who converged on Kano on
Friday to deliberate on whether to call off the
over four- month-old industrial action or not.
A source, who was privy to the resolutions
reached during the President Goodluck
Jonathan – ASUU leadership meeting three
weeks ago, told The PUNCH on Sunday, that
the fresh demands were some of the issues to
be tabled before Jonathan by the leadership
during their next meeting. A date for the
meeting is yet to be fixed.
According to the source, a strong
commitment to two demands, among other
pending issues, must be obtained from the
President before the industrial action will be
called off by the union.
He said, “The issue now is on trust and we
do not want a situation where promises will
not be kept. The authorities have failed us in
the past and we do not want a repeat of that.
”That was why we decided at the NEC
meeting that the government should pay us
the arrears of salaries being owed us since we
started the strike on July1 before the strike
can be called off. The salaries should not be
paid piecemeal.
“We also insist that the Federal Government
should start the implementation of the offer
made to us when we met the President some
weeks ago.
“For instance, the N100bn he (Jonathan)
agreed to inject into the university system in
2013 should be released to the universities
immediately. So, we decided that before
the strike could be called off, these two
conditions and others must be met not by
promises but by real action.”
The NEC members, who met behind closed
doors at the Bayero University, Kano, were
said to have reviewed the reports of the
various university congresses on the strike.
Our source, who did not want his name in
print, added that the death of a former
National President of ASUU, Prof. Festus
Iyayi, was discussed at the NEC meeting.
Iyayi, a University of Benin lecturer, died in an
auto accident involving the convoy of the
Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada and an ASUU
vehicle, on his way to Kano for the
meeting.The union’s National Welfare Officer,
Dr. Ngozi Ilo, was injured.
Our source said the accident “almost led to
the discontinuation of the ongoing
negotiation with the Federal Government.
He added, “Some members expressed the
belief that he (Iyayi) was killed by the
government and therefore argued that the
ongoing negotiation should be called off.
Tempers rose but some members argued that
the President should be respected because he
had created the record of being the first
Nigerian leader to meet with the leadership
of ASUU on the issue of making the nation’s
university system better. They also argued
that students and parents should be
considered.”
It was also learnt that after arguments for
and against, about 60 per cent of the
members of the NEC voted in favour of the
discontinuation of the strike while the
remaining 40 per cent voted no.
But it was gathered that the NEC members
unanimously agreed that before the strike
could be called off, the leadership should ask
the government to pay the four-month salary
arrears being owed university teachers while
the offer made by the government should be
implemented immediately.
A key component of the agreement reached
by both ASUU and the Federal Government
when the President led the government team
was that government would inject N1.2tn
into public universities.
The government also agreed that the N1.2tn
would be domiciled at the Central Bank of
Nigeria to show its commitment to the
agreement.
The money is expected to be released on
quarterly basis to the universities so that
there won’t be any problem about
implementing the deal.
The National Universities Commission and
the Trade Union Congress will be the joint
guarantors of the agreement while the
Minister of Education will be the
implementing officer. The government also
agreed to revamp public universities by
ensuring that all the issues that always lead
to strike were dealt with once and for all.
A majority of the chapters of the union had
agreed to the suspension of the strike
following the fresh commitment the
leadership of ASUU obtained from the
government.
ASUU National President, Dr. Nassir Fagge,
did not pick the several calls made to his
telephone line by one of our correspondents
on Sunday to confirm the fresh demands.
The University of Lagos chapter ASUU
Chairman, Dr. Karo Ogbinaka, and his
counterpart in the Lagos State University, Dr.
Adekunle Idris, also refused to divulge
information on the outcome of the NEC
meeting.
ASUU had embarked on the strike to protest
against the failure of the government to
implement the agreement they signed in
2009.
The pact largely centered on better funding
of the universities, a declaration of a state of
emergency in tertiary education, better wages
and payment of earned allowances to
lecturers.
It had suspended the NEC meeting
penultimate week following Iyayi’s death.
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All they do is make Nigeria harder and harder

Now anytime you hear ASUU you must hear FG

She should go to his office when school resumes and set her phone on audio record and try to talk about the sex stuff with the lecturer key points she should make sure she put words in his mouth so he can mention his intention of sleeping with her and also his intention of failing her and any other key information that you can use to nail him take the record to a top Senate female lecturer or a female guidance and councillor in your school then you can prove your point and nail him.
If you can sneakingly video and record him at the same time better but however if you can't just put the phone in your pocket and set it on audio record I believe this will work.

It seems like women suffer from depression more than men please don't get me wrong I am just surprise.
@depression kills I see no reason why you are depressed because from what I've seen you are a very very intelligent writer that give me a good feeling about you.
Secondly, I think you are very emotional you should try to control your feelings and look on the bright side of life cause life is not a bed of roses there are sometimes when you feel down and sometimes you feel up but you just have to keep putting one foot in front of another and keep moving.
If only you can keep telling yourself that you are not depress you will see a positive change in your thoughts.
What ever you think you are is exactly what you are try to control your mind and accept Jesus he is all you need every answer you are looking for is found in the Bible just try to read it.
The Bible is like a manual given to you by God who created your exactly the way you are.
Please accept Jesus he is the answer to all your problems and also try to control your mind cause all battles are won on the inside.

The presidency has denied the president was
afraid of the lawmakers.
President Goodluck Jonathan surprised federal
lawmakers Tuesday with a last minute
decision to suspend an appearance at a
rescheduled joint Senate and House of
Representatives session where he was to
present the 2014 budget.
The session was earlier scheduled to hold last
week Tuesday. The president said at the time
he needed a reschedule due to exigencies. This
time, the president said he was suspending
the presentation to allow the two chambers
adopt a common price benchmark in dollars
for oil in 2014-a compulsory and key element
of annual budget planning.
But the reason for the president’s absence
was much complex, lawmakers and other
sources confirmed Tuesday. The president
acted in the final minutes to side-step a
planned protest by lawmakers loyal to the
Abubakar Baraje faction of the crisis-ridden
ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The aggrieved lawmakers planned to heckle
Mr. Jonathan as he spoke and to disrupt
proceedings, a move likely to have drawn a
response from the president’s supporters with
the likelihood of an attendant security
implication for the president.
The plot by members of the Baraje faction of
the PDP, had the support of most lawmakers
of the All Progressive Congress, APC. After the
suspension of the joint session Tuesday, with
reports the president may choose to only
transmit budget copies without appearing,
some APC members said they will file a
motion before the House to insist the
presentation be done only by the president.
The halt with the budget presentation came as
the clearest indication yet how much the crisis
in the PDP has affected governance.
The plan by the aggrieved lawmakers
heightened Monday evening as the legislators
met for hours to strategize on an action,
which they characterized as retaliation to an
embarrassing treatment meted out to their
leader, Mr. Baraje, by lawmakers loyal to the
president and the Bamanga Tukur leadership
of the troubled party, when Mr. Baraje visited
the assembly earlier.
At that meeting, members of the House of
Representatives loyal to Mr. Tukur, heckled
and jeered at Mr. Baraje as he stood to speak.
The opposing lawmakers have since vowed to
reply. The lawmakers have also been irked by
some of the president’s policies and the recent
suspension of some members of the party.
As the plot thickened Monday, our sources
said Speaker of the House, Aminu Tambuwal,
was drafted to rein in his colleagues, to no
avail.
Lawmakers who spoke informally said the
president possibly acted after becoming
convinced the lawmakers were resolved to act.
But in the president’s letter dated Monday,
November 18-likely written late Monday in
view of the unfolding events- and received by
the National Assembly on Tuesday just before
sitting, Mr. Jonathan said he decided not to
attend the session any longer as the two
chambers had yet to harmonize their position
oil price benchmark.
“Whereas the distinguished Senate has
approved the Medium Term Expenditure
Framework (MTEF) based on a benchmark of
$76.5 per barrel, the Honourable House of
Representatives has used a benchmark of $79
per barrel, it is infeasible for me to present the
budget in the absence of a harmonized
position on the MTEF,” the president said.
While the House denied any plan to
“embarrass” the president, it rejected Mr.
Jonathan’s argument about the disparity on
benchmark as a veritable reason for
rescheduling the budget session.
“To start with, in 2011, the two chambers did
not pass the same benchmark and we still had
budget presentation. In 2012, the House
passed the MTEF and the Senate did not, yet
we still had budget presentation. So it is left
for you to read between the lines,” said House
spokesperson, Zakary Mohammed.
On plans to heckle the president, Mr.
Mohammed said “The House is made of
responsible people and cannot descend that
low to do that.”
He said the president’s only presidential
aides, Reuben Abati, and Ahmed Gulak, can
provide answers to the president’s real reason
for calling off the session.
Lawmakers who spoke questioned why it
turned out that the president only realized the
benchmarks had not been harmonized
by Tuesday morning-if that indeed was the
reason.
Speaking at the presidential villa, Mr. Abati
told reporters on Tuesday that the president
acted to ensure what he called “inter-
governmental harmony”.
“Previous acrimonies were blamed on failure of
inter- governmental relationship,” Mr. Abati
said.
Also speaking, Mr. Gulak, the Chief Political
Adviser to Mr. Jonathan, also denied that the
president was avoiding the National Assembly
over the threats by the lawmakers.
Still, reflective of the intrigues the presidency
refused to admit, Mr. Gulak advised aggrieved
members of the party to seek redress through
appropriate channels or leave the party
honourably.
“This is not true. First, the President is not
scared of any body and secondly, the PDP is
one strong united party and as such no one
can embarrass the President in the National
Assembly,” he said.
He added: “These people are not on ground.
They do not even know how to do political
calculation properly. They should stay in their
states and develop it and make impact in their
respective states instead of doing things that
will not profit them.”


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