fiercehillz:
Am in a similar situation, though am passing out next year, graduated with a 2.1 (4.26) n was d best graduating student in my department. I had a chat with a professor who told me 2 apply for masters immediately after service. He said during my masters I can now send my application via the department to the registrar's office. He said I shouldn't apply elsewhere because most federal and state owned universities prefer 2 absorb young graduates who were under their tutelage.
WISH U d BEST BRO

It's same here bro. I made 2:1 (4.23), also the best graduating student of my department. Was told to come and apply when I pass out next year.

ebamma:



At least, I now sleep and wake with nepa light, if that is not an improvement, what is?

Oga, GEJ is still the reason why you now sleep and wake up with light. GEJ fixed the power sector so don't give the credits to GMB because he is yet to do nothing in the power sector.

I have to leave Abuja for cross-river on monday morning.....hope the camp will be opened onto corp members to spend the night (monday night) upon arrival.

I am posted to cross-river o!. Hop d camp it ok ?

JECBOSS:

YES!
GEJ remains a better candidate than Buhari.

na so o! Am sure d south west will not vote for buhari....in their hearts, they still knw GEJ is better than Buhari. or will APC produce a better candidate than Buhari ?

No matter how sweet a CV may look, It still takes the grace of God to get the job

how many days do your senators sit per week? & how much do they get? Some people are so 'wise' they'll fight against people stealing hundreds from them & defend people stealing billions.[/quote]. ASUU shuld quite d lecturing job & go contest 4 senators since dey want 2 b treated as senators....rubbish

eagle,eye:

actually it can be paid in a day if it concerns our Senators and House Reps. welfare.

. ASUU should quit d lecturin job & go contest for senators & house of reps.

Mylove55: Apc is always right,what is d outcome of state of emergency,what is d outcome of previous national dialogue in obj era,all commitee set up by Gej enter dust bin in aso rock.dis national dialogue wil end 2017,by then Gej wil divert our mind,corruption wil continue,wasting d little resources left to do little work b4 being kick out,election rigger wil be planning 4 2015,while we wil be debating rubbish,wise up nigerian

go and sleep. Ds is Gej era & nt Obj

Handsomeemmy: According to Apostle peter in his second letter as recorded in the book of 2 Peter 3:16

2 Peter 3:16
English Standard Version (ESV)
16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters.There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction,as they do the other Scriptures.

So the question is what part do you think has been twisted by individuals, pastors etc for their own gains?

. The day of worship; the sabbath. It has been moved from saturday to sunday.

Promhize: It would be a shame if ASUU strike enters october 1st

do you think they care?

Fhemmmy: Page and Brin started it all in 1996 . . . Enjoy the information and see where they are NOW.

. 10ks to google o!! As a student I wonder what would have become of me if not for d researches I do on google.

Silva79: Dis law should take effect after my NECO/GCE.

. So u plan to cheat abi??

steg0miah: Imagine the world without doctors, who will be there to save lives, imagine the world without engineers and architects, imagine the world without lawyers, imagine the world without accountants.... Guess that will answer your question

. Visit physicsworld.com or better still google "CERN". The world would have been in darkness if not for discoveries made by physicists. Engineering is simply the application of this discoveries. A doctor is helpless without his devices invented based on the discoveries made by physicists. Proudly a PHYSICIST

ASUU Strike:
Questioning The Sincerity of ASUU
[ Masterweb Reports: Felix Festus reports ]
– The threat to academic stability in the nation’s
ivory towers because of the current strike by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has
attracted headlines in the dailies. The media has
also been awashed by many criticisms, most of
which have been directed at the Federal
Government in which President Jonathan is the
representational character. However, it appears
many of the critics have failed to consider the
other side of the coin, which is one of the
essentials in a debate on such a controversial
issue.
Therefore, the focus of this piece is to examine
the purpose of the present ASUU’s strike and
their sympathizers’ rage against the FG. Firstly,
ASUU came up with the issue of autonomy for
universities. The FG approved the idea of
autonomy so long as the universities would
generate internal revenue to offset their
expenditure, including salaries and allowances.
This government’s position provoked ASUU
members. They poured venom on the
government for merely supporting the idea of
autonomy - existence as an independent body!
Having realized the illusion surrounding university
autonomy, members of the academic union
played down their demand. This raises a question
on the sincerity of ASUU’S demands.
On the issue of Federal Government’s assistance
to state universities, this writer supports the idea
of assisting the state universities. But must the
Federal Government be compelled to render
support to universities established and owned by
state governments? Methink helping state
universities should be as necessary as the state
governments are required to support the federal
institution located in their domain. Needless to
say that state governments collect tenement tax
from federal institutions sited in their states.
The idea of compelling the federal government to
offer help to state-owned universities is borne out
of the fact that academic staff from state
universities are also part of ASUU. The truth must,
however, be told. The Visitors to state universities
are the state governors. Academic and non-
academic staff of state-owned universities are
employees of the state governments. Compelling
the FG to assist state universities no doubt
negates the principle of federalism. It only brings
to fore the overdependence of constituents on
the government at the centre.
The progressive increase of education budget to
26% between 2009 and 2020 is another
contentious issue in the 2009 FG/ASUU
agreement. The agitation for increase to 26% in
budgetary allocation, as recommended by
UNESCO for developing nations, is a legitimate
one. So tere is need to improve the current 8%
total budget to education by the FG.
However, while the FG should be chastised for its
current 8% budget to education, one needs to
remind discerning readers that in nations where
huge budgetary allocations are committed to
education, members of the academia engage in
scholarly research that help to solve societal
needs. Only a few of our academics engage in
fruitful research capable of solving the needs of
our society. Most of the university teachers set
their target in journal publication that would help
them gain promotion in their academic career
even when such is far from rendering solution to
our societal needs.
Akin to increase in budgetary allocation is the
issue of earned academic allowances for
university teachers. Allowances are stimulants
that reinforce positive inclination towards work.
While government is working out modalities to
pay earned academic allowances to deserving
university teachers, the Dr. Fagie led ASUU is
kicking against such, insisting that allowances
should be paid across board, even when not all
lecturers merit such allowances.
My experience as an undergraduate and post-
graduate student in one of the first generation
universities showed that not all university
lecturers deserve mention in the earned
allowance, particularly the absentees. It is an
open secret that some of the lecturers who are
fulltime employees in the federal universities
abandon their duty posts to shuttle between
federal and private universities. They stagger
their responsibilities in multiple roles as lecturers–
in-charge in both public and private universities
sacrificing quality of delivery in the process, at
the expense of unsuspecting students in public
universities.
These ‘abroad’ lecturers hardly attend classes to
teach in the public universities. When they
return, mostly towards the end of the semester,
they engage the students in lengthy, patchy
lecture hours in a bid to cover a course work that
ought to have been concluded before the time of
exams. Any student who dare challenges
lecturer’s absenteeism in public universities are
often victimized with a threat of carry-over of the
course handled by the lecturer or delay in
graduation.
At the post-graduate level, the situation is even
more unpalatable. Many post-graduate students
fail to complete their programmes in line with the
academic calendar due to lecturers’ negligence.
They hardly spend quality time to guide and
mentor their students in their long essays. With
this domineering posture, a percentage of the
students either incur extra year(s) or abandon
their programmes out of frustration. If you would
not grow grey hair while undertaking a Ph.D
degree as a student, you have to not only be hard
working in your research pursuit, but also be
willing to worship the deified characters in
lecturer’s garb! Let me add here that a
considerable number of the lecturers have
passion for their calling. Those ones always act
right by performing their duties without
compromising standard; they deserve their
earned allowances and should be rightly
rewarded.
The influx of private universities became more
pronounced during the regime of ex-president
Olusegun Obasanjo. Yet, thousands of university
applicants seeking admission could not either
gain admission into the universities or afford the
luxury of high fee demands of the private
universities. In fulfilling his campaign promises in
2011, President Jonathan established nine federal
universities and further established three to make
it twelve. The establishment of federal universities
provided succour to admission seeking
candidates. Besides providing admission to
deserving applicants, it also signaled a massive
employment into the education sector. Jonathan
will go into the history books as one whose regime
established most federal universities in a single
tenure.
The prolonged quagmire and the sit tight
approach of ASUU members are having
devastating effects on Nigerian students,
undergraduates and post-graduates. The rot in
the education sector as claimed by ASUU should
not be further fertilized by ASUU’s hard-line
posture. The standstill caused by ASUU/FG
impasse could have been resolved if only ASUU
and FG would shift ground and make concession,
at least for the sake of the students who bear the
brunt of the face-off.
Already, the Federal Government has made a
spirited effort to get the striking lecturers back to
work. The government recently released a
whopping 130billion naira in response to ASUU’s
demand for infrastructural development in public
universities. According to the Secretary to the
Federal Government, Anyim Pius Anyim,
100billion naira is for infrastructural development,
while the remaining 30billion naira has also been
disbursed as part of FG’s attempt to defray the
backlog of the earned allowances.
That means the federal government has shifted
ground in this regard, so what is ASUU waiting
for?

why SUN-DAY? WHO CHANGED THE
SABBATH FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY?
The following are quotes, not mine, but the
people who know and are well aware.
"You may read the Bible from Genesis to
Revelation, and you will not find a single line
authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The
scriptures enforce the religious observance of
Saturday, a day which we never sanctify."-
The Catholic Cardinal Gibbons, in Faith of our
Fathers,pg. 111.
"...the Redeemer, during His mortal life,
never kept any other day than Saturday."-
The Catholic Mirror(published by Cardinal
Gibbons) Sept. 2, 1893.
"1)Question: Which is the sabbath day?
"Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day. 2)
"Question: Why do we observe Sunday
instead of Saturday?" Answer: We observe
Sunday instead of Saturday because the
Catholic Church in the Council of Laodicea,
transferred the solemnity from Saturday to
Sunday."- Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R, The
Converts Catechism of Catholic Doctrine
Third Edition.
"And where are we told in the Scriptures we
are to keep the first day at all? We are
commanded to keep the seventh; but we are
nowhere commanded to keep the first
day...The reason why we keep the first day of
the week instead of the seventh is for the
same reason we observe many other things,
not because the Bible, but because the
church has enjoined it."-Anglican -Isaac
Williams- Plain Sermons on the Catechism.
"The Bible commandment says on the
seventh day thou shalt rest. That is
Saturday. Nowhere in the Bible it is laid down
that worship should be done on Sunday."-
Episcopal-Philip Carrington, Toronto Daily
Star, October 26, 1949.
"There was and is a commandment to keep
holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day
was not Sunday. It will be said, however. and
with some show of triumph, that the
Sabbath was transferred from seventh to the
first day of the week...where can the record
of such a transaction be found? Not in the
New Testament absolutely not...of course, I
quite well know that Sunday did come into
use in early Christian history...But what a
pity it comes branded with the mark of the
sun god, ADOPTED AND SANCTIONED BY THE
PAPAL APOSTASY, and bequeathed as secret
legacy to Protestantism."- Baptist Dr. Edward
T. Hiscox,-a paper read before a New York
ministers' conference, Nov. 13, 1893,
reported in New York Examiner, Nov. 16,
1893.
And the early church with the apostles
observed the sabbath, no wonder Paul says,
"For he spake in a certain place of the
seventh day on this wise, And God did rest
the seventh day from all his works...There
remaineth therefore a rest to the people of
God. For he that is entered into his rest, he
also ceased from his own works, as God did
from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into
that rest, lest any man fall after the same
example of unbelief." - Hebrews 4:4,9,10,11.
And by the way the sabbath start from
evening to evening, that is from Friday
evening to Saturday evening. WHY? Because
a day in the Bible start from evening to
evening, that is why in Genesis 1 after each
day of creation it say "...and the evening and
the morning..."... this day and that
day...who are we going to follow? God or
man's commands? Think about this.

nne3870: Gullible africans!
Raising money to build 'another' auditorium whereas more than 14million graduates are unemployed.
Why not organise a seminar to raise 1billion naira to empower the youths in his church?
May be after building the billion naira auditorium God himself will be so sad about the kind of money used to build it and God may never visit or recognise the road to the church.

Christians be wise and don't allow yourselves to be victims of this madness. If you want to sow seed, look for someone who really needs it and bless the soul, don't give it to ya pastor to build 'ANOTHER' auditorium.

. Nice one

Nice one

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Nice 1

Hmmm mm