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First, they got to the Semi Final, and so they deserve some commendation.

Anyone who watched the game would know that Columbia was the far far better team.

“The players tried” against Columbia, yes, they tried woefully.

Not necessarily their fault, the manager should be responsible for getting the team to perform.

The manager appeared to instruct the team, not to make any serious ambition at scoring or holding the ball… they should all just be chaotic and interestingly that earned the team a draw at final time.

For the penalty shootout, the manager again failed the team woefully. He had no plan for who should take the penalty after the first five had been taken. Doing such, it appeared outright, those girls were too young, to be given such a senseless and enormous responsibility and I hope it doesn’t crush their heart.

The flamingoes keeper for the penalty shootout could also have done far better. It appeared the coach believed that in the tournament, that was her only purpose. The manager should have ensured she was at least average. She had two outstanding penalty saves in the tournament, but then, the ones she didn’t even try for yesterday, appeared easier to keep out.

If we commend the performance, without a bit of being critical, we would keep getting terrible results from our football teams.

Congratulations to the girls, I hope they keep training to get better and hope they can good football teams to help improve their abilities.

The manager, who I hold as the culprit for yesterday eyesore performance; I hope he realizes his errors too, get back to the drawing board, and begin to initiate plans to get us the cup in the next tournament.

If you don’t know, as a man, you can write a letter to several organizations in the US stating that inside of you, you feel like a woman. some organizations will sponsor your trip and pay for a correction surgery to get you female organs.

If you want to win an international literature or photography price or grant, let your theme be on the positive depiction of same sex or transgender or maybe climate change.

It’s genuine to ask how Obi can navigate the nation without a structure. It’s also genuine to feel that Obi is part of the lot. He was only selling us an Atiku and PDP less than a year ago. Now, Endsars appears political, when the core of the issue has gone beyond what motivated it, but that the government response was wicked and callous.

That should be the priority in any discussion of that terrible episode, to guarantee Nigerians an unrepentant pursuit of Justice for those killed on that day, not the promotion of characters like John Enenche.


To be clear, Atiku would never earn my vote; the decision is a function of his antecedents. Tinubu would also not earn my vote; he has channeled Lagos wealth to his own private coffers, but much worse is his health status, his age -all of which indicate he would likely only be a liability to the nation and perhaps intensify the nations descent into dreadful.

While, the above is my direction; it does not indicate my destination as I am yet to make a decision; however, it does not help my making a decision, the irritating buzz that comes from wanting to know more about Obi or know more about his acclaimed antecedents. What I know about him, which is true, does not support the premise upon which he aspires or is not sufficient for any right minded individual to pronounce him as some messiah of sort.

I know he is a remarkable story teller; and that being a remarkable story teller can gain you recognition or awards; but being a remarkable story teller can in itself, for a right minded person - be a red flag, especially when there are conscious effort such as bullying towards those hoping for some substantiation. To hope that his many claims are collaborated and substantiated is ‘just’ rather than the callous calumny campaign towards those hoping to collaborate or substantiate his candidacy in proper context. Such campaign is intended to detract our reason from more important questions about him and while it may propel him to many more than it diminishes him with fewer more; it hurts to see us all foolishly led and manipulatively mishandled.

The justification for such a callous act has been that the other two foremost candidates are in whatever disguise a much more worse lot for us as a country. I think one of the two candidates already have a political base that is impervious to reason; and even a powerful base at that, which is more attuned to ethnic and religious affiliations than to rescue themselves from poverty and insecurity afflictions they are so sustained. The candidate that now has this advantage with such a base had Obi as a deputy in the last election. The other candidate is not so fortunate with such a base, but the character of his perspective is equally gloomy. This has been the justification, that however the inadequacies in Obi, it’s a raindrop to the other candidate oceans of inadequacies. However how quickly can many raindrop turn to a flood, an hurricane, a ruin.

Are there other candidates more deserving of our propelling than an Obi without any luggage indicating their journey is further down? I believe, we should consider or else Obi repent of his current outlook and take on in many debates of genuine question about his aspiration to show truly why he is not the least worse of the lots, but actually good for Nigeria as a country and engage in this conversations, not politically but genuinely. His visitation and pursuit of endorsements by those who have ruined the nation only indicate that his direction might not be so much different.

Are there other candidates to examine?? Perhaps. However, they don’t have the momentum, Obi could sustain by being forthcoming and clear about his condemnations of the sources of the troubles of our country. It’s no longer, unmistakable, that Obi feeds into our emotional senses, and we applaud him, where we should question him and his nonexistent plan for the redemption of our country.

Okay, while this don’t seem true, there’s some misconceptions we may have.

It’s the owners of the bank that are often disappointed by social media appraisals, because it reduces their wealth.

Staffs such as HR, IT may be otherwise indifferent.

For instance, HR probably understands that the reason why you experienced a poor service from the bank was either because the branch was understaffed.

The branches are understaffed because employees are leaving in droves. Employees are leaving in droves because of the ridiculous contract of service.

HR is also appalled, but then management want HR to impossibly be a profit center and deny employees their necessary rights and benefits. HR has to be the one renewing such evil contract of services when they Will otherwise desire not to, but management has demanded it. So, when people bash the banks, any sane HR mgt team member is hoping management can see the signal and understand the need for a certain quality of workforce.

It appears the employer is justifying the maltreatment and exploitation of employees by proclaiming that the farm establishment is his charity to the society.

He has not concretely denied any of the allegations, but rather, his posture has substantiated that he may need to improve as an employer.

One fellow keep acting as the police, labour report what Inspection officer?? 1 chance people.

This is not the only disaster for the medical sector.

People die daily for want of infrastructures in our national hospitals. And doctors association are not ASUU to insist that government funds hospitals to be able to help them care better for the citizenry. When they have made those requests, we the public have crucified them.

For any medics that care about saving lives, this itself is a disincentive. To have to see patients die because of lack of electricity during surgery or because of lack of ventilators or lack of manpower. It’s stressful already for the doctors.
aside the financial incentive that is also lacking.

To cater over 200 million people can be overwhelming. It’s difficult not to accept the offer to work in any other clime.

There is a disincentive to remain in Nigeria. And I am sure that more than half of the remaining doctors are evaluating their options. Several countries want their services, and would compensate them for migrating.

Be grateful for the ones left here.

That said, me think , many of those who studied biochemistry and other related courses are capable of being medical doctors. but understandably, the resources in terms of capacity of medical schools are not just there to help train them. It’s like you have to be an extraordinary genius to get into medical schools in Nigeria public universities. Yet I have seen those who cannot beat 180 in jamb, travel abroad and are now medical doctors.

I have seen parents that believed in their children’s capacity and the result is that they are practicing doctors today. Now, many of those that should be medical doctors because of lack of infrastructures have had to study interesting courses, that is little relevant to what we need in the country.

Again, the point is that the FG subsidised education is very competitive & limited that it shuts out thousands of good enough candidates that could easily endure the rigor of getting MBBS.

And as a nation, as earlier said, we are headed for disaster. The few healthcare personnels trained by the subsidised FG education are been enticed by opportunities abroad and they are moving out in thousands.

It is important that the FG provides incentives to curb this and also increase our capacity to produce more medics.

Our universities have to be empowered to take in as many medical students; this way, folks may at least be guaranteed access to basic healthcare & will improve the scary ratio of doctor / patients currently prevailing.

No reason, why the FG shouldn’t make provision for graduates of related disciplines to do a 3 or 4 yrs course in a specialised medical school for the award of MBBS.

Each candidate is plotting the others fall.
Obi would be dumb not to be doing so too.

The things that matter,

that the strike was called off and not merely suspended.

that the dispute was resolved.

the source of the dispute is reneging on earlier agreements, the solution was immediate implementation and not another set of promises that the next government has a precedent to desire a renegotiation.

It’s as though the problem is suspended to the future however you think it.

FG has not withdrawn its suit in court, ASUU has not withdrawn their demands either.

Has students gained a better motivated workforce and would they return to well equipped laboratories or good infrastructured universities? No!! Not yet!!! The best of their lecturers are only waiting for the arrears to be paid before they resign and take on better opportunities abroad. The best of their lecturers would not abandon the means or businesses that have sustained them through the strike. The full attention of their lecturers is probably forever lost.

And shouldn’t it with their lived experiences of government utter disregard and contempt for the academia. Who would remain at the discretion of any employer willing to sentence the employee to an 8month without a means for their living or those of their dependents? Just because the employer is admonished on its failure to implement agreements he is a party to.

Perhaps then, the students would return to living on promises waiting for the implementation of the next budget, where such fund will be channeled to building additional universities in some senators village and not put to it’s right purposes.

Has ASUU members done a bit for themselves here? Yh. Not accomplished their desires, forced to compromise their approach, but not their convictions.

In the end, the suspended strike will resume. The next government will follow through and remove the educational subsidy that ASUU defends as the right of every Nigerian.

Then, you can pray you don’t become a drop out or pray you don’t have families in Nigeria that won’t be able to afford education by then or pray you have the university, when the students revolts at government withdrawal of the subsidy. Probably shutting down the universities themselves.

During, the strike, one of the insight I got was, why can’t NANS mobilize and shut down private universities; so that everyone can feel some loss as result of the strike. The elite parents in such private universities would desire to see the dispute resolved sooner and would know, that private universities are not absorbed from crisis ongoing in public universities.

It’s all suspended now. ASUU has further compromised its position, accepted an offer definitely beyond its desire, just for the save of face and the avoidance of utter chaos in the educational sector; that a Buhari don’t appear bothered about.

Perhaps, as the government always do, a reneging occurs on this new agreement, and we are back to our annual strike actions.

I am sure most students categorically disagree with the manner you intend to protest the failure of your government.

Shutting down schools again, Would only sustain the suffering that are the repercussions of the strike on students.

Sexual crimes damages the victim and the victims family. The victims are sentenced to a life sentence of such an horrible memory.

In some cultures, the victim family feel so damaged that they kill the victim and call it honor killing.

These culprits deserve even more stiffer punishments.

Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha sentence seem more recent than these. He was accused of child defilement and sexual assault. To a child, the sentence should be stiffer. He got a pat on the back.

Okay
Congratulations to UNILAG

UI is actually the first based on the times higher rankings.

Why can’t Nigeria news media just verify information that is easily obtainable and verifiable.

They are both in the same category of 400-500 but UI name appeared on this list earlier than UNILAG.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2023/world-ranking#!/page/4/length/100/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats


https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/best-universities-nigeria

No reason why this shouldn’t have occurred decades ago. I hope other first generation universities catch up.

Lots should reflect really.

A professor at bar earns #416,000. It’s likely in her lifetime as a professor, she won’t earn the grand price of some of these reality shows. Yet you think it is a foolish parent who takes his daughter to a school where she could learn to twerk and tease sexual in order to build following, influence and wealth… while you put your own child in some library and be glad after graduating with a first class, that he can be employed to do the work than any SSCE holder will do. Or to become a personal assistant to some Tacha or if not so fortunate, join the significant % of unemployed lots or the lots employed but doing the most precarious jobs.

These people are mostly doing well in their endeavors while jumping on the train of BBnaija to fast track their heart desires. Yet we think them less intelligent? and very quick to ridicule and dismiss the show, yet the first to jump on any thread to display our frustrating and ‘ignorancing’ as though the show elected Buhari.

Some horrible ‘thoughting’.

This don’t even happen in a zoo.

Hopefully, the Nigeria government notifies the Guinness world record, so that all of those caught up in the traffic would at least see a silv lining in this terrible experience.

This is an ad.

Asake is doing very well for himself. In his business, self promotion is key. It appears it is his dream to become a �.

This stage performance or snippet or portion uploaded however appears very mediocre. It could be the recording that is mediocre and not the performance.

Congratulations on your options.

In the bank, working as a marketer gives you the opportunity to build your own social contact and it is one of those job roles that provides opportunity for career growth; though there can be pressure, in so far, you can meet the deposit threshold or target set, you should be up there.

I don’t know the details of the government job. If it’s in the ministry or in a parastatal- consideration would vary. It’s also likely to be less demanding in terms of effort.

Insofar, no alternative till January, you can take the bank job, attend the training and get more insight about your potential job description. By January, you can resign if dissatisfied and go for the other government option.

The registration is unconstitutional.

Section 3(2) of the trade union act provides that no union shall be registered to represent workers in a place where there already exists a trade union.

Ngige would orchestrate the withdrawal of ASUU’s certificate, once the Union(ASUU) is deregistered (the issue of not submitting financial statements, contempt of the court could serve as the basis) , this registration of this illegal congress body would then be used as encumbrance to forbid a re-registration of the union (ASUU).

To Ngige, this is all a power game. He doesn’t care about the lives involved.

There are certain companies that can get one talking and with the aid of alcohol, the barriers of reason can be too upended.

Also, some feel that a burden shared, relieves a little.

You can feel terrible about it all. But you have to begin to recover.

I think you should feel more terrible that you have lost a confidant, than you should feel terrible about how you will be perceived when you return home later.

Now, the fellow your dad was speaking too, probably also tells your Dad about his private. The boy eavesdropping is however a case.

Discuss with Dad, let him know how dissatisfied you are, that he cannot keep your conversation with him in confidence. Tell him about your experience. Hopefully, he can apologize and you both will be good again.

Messi and Ronaldo have nothing to prove.

This was norm for them.

Now is the time to derive joy in Haaland and hope Mbappe can stay close.

They are the stars of today and perhaps will be at the end of the season.

But we should hope too that like Ronaldo and Messi were, they will be here in more seasons to come.

Happy birthday to Bishop

May God help him to follow the teachings of Jesus. May God help the rest of us too.

You may need to give him notice so that he can get a replacement. You might indicate to him your willingness to train and supervise the replacement pending your total exit.

You can also refer, that now and then, you will be reachable whenever available to assist the new employee .

If your employer is fair or level minded, you don’t have to part ways in other relationships aside work relationship with each-other.

Data analysis is great too.

The decision before the NIC today was simple. Would the court allow itself to be used as an instrument of futility for the struggle so far? & only postpone for students, even longer strikes or would they check the FG as they are bound to & facilitate an end to incessant strikes?

It allowed itself to be used for the former.
ASUU is compelled to call off the strike. Disgruntled and disoriented academic staff are forced back to work pending the determination of the suit which the FG is willing to drag on till the end of its administration.

The reality is FG intended to use the court as an instrument to frustrate ASUU’s ambition and if the court had a bit of an hint of discernment; they’d know than to ask Academic staff to resume however disoriented they are, back into the situations they sought an end.

Yh, a futile strike. Students time wasted.

And not very far from now, another strike will begin anew. Might be longer than this 6 month. FG has no incentive then to address issue in so far NIC has offered itself as an instrument to nullify such strike actions and so the universities will continue to deteriorate, unmotivated staffs will be the universities lots, but then now and then we would rejoice at the convocation of our political elites children in universities abroad.

That said, Channels reported this news over 1hr ago. Users have posted the news immediately on this platform too. Yet it won’t make FP until the news is stale.

How will it get to FP when the owner of the platform prefers interacting on Twitter, preferring to court the attention or be noticed by Hundeyin to using his own platform?

There was a time nairaland was the go-to place for breaking news.
It’s sad that the founder can no longer endure his platform. But rather than let the platform be destroyed as its reputation has been, why not put it up for sale? or get it listed.

The handling of Justice Onnoghen and the appointment of Justice Tanko have all impaired the position of the head of the judiciary.
It’s my prayer that Justice Olukayode can restore it.

Who said this is a zoo?

Why not say Peter Obi favored?

This is no news. This information was available the day Adamu mentioned that the only issue left is disagreement over backlog of salary. He lied that day but the media could only be fixated on his falsehood; detracting and distracting falsehood.

If the news media had any diligence; they’d known what the committee set up recommendations were and juxtapose it with what the FG is now arbitrary offering.

Now this news would be more reasonable if it mentions how much the 23.5% equals to for a lecturer with a PHD and if it’s a fair offer based on what is obtainable anywhere else. A lecturer II with a PhD would still be earning about #170,000 after the increase.

To be clear, the committee set up by the government already reviewed the average across universities in Africa and on the basis of the average after reducing it significantly recommended about 400% increase—- the FG threw the report into the dustbin and constituted another Munzali led committee that recommended a 200% increase which is far and beyond less than obtainable in other Africa countries. All of these is verifiable.

These committees are set up by the FG too.

ASUU is not so much fixated on the reports and understands getting the African average might be gradual. ASUU just wants fair wages for its members too. I am pretty sure if the FG posits a 100% increase immediately and make arrangements to review it annually- members would reconsider the strike.

Mikhail Gorbachev took away from the US what the UK is
and took away from Russia what the US and China is.

What ASUU struggle for is that you or yours or majority of Nigerians get a worthy education. The FG rather is willing to invest Nigeria resource in ranches. In Katsina alone #6.2 billion has been released by FG to establish cattle ranches. This is what the federal government is passionate about, not the universities or the state of the universities.

Some say ASUU’s demand is purely self interest. That is purely a misleading assertion.

It’s part of ASUU's demand, a better welfare for its members; but you should know that you'd get better value from a lecturer who can meet his daily needs.

Granting the request to ASUU’s welfare demand will not afford its members a luxury life. Rather, the new demand of ASUU that relates to welfare will still put a professor’s salary in Nigeria federal university at about the same amount of a graduate assistant in any top or middle tier university abroad. Glassdoor put the average salary of graduate assistants in the US at $33,230 which is with the current exchange rate at around #690:$1 over #20.7M annually. Nigeria professors at bar earn about #416,000 monthly which is in the bracket of #4.5M annually. ASUU has suggested to be paid in the bracket of the average salary paid to university lecturers across Africa countries and this new amount for a professor is not even up to 55% of what a graduate assistant earns in the US. Know that a general in Nigeria earn about #3.5M monthly while a major general is #1.5M . Yet ASUU is not demanding for up to these amounts for professors at bar.

All is for the students- to have good facilities & dedicated lecturers & reduce the insane brain drain we are suffered.

ASUU could have an agreement with the government, and request that federal universities become autonomous and so the Federal government don’t have to fund the universities; the running cost of the universities, the salaries of its members will be generated from the school fees of the students. Then in that case, most students would have to pay what is equivalent in private universities. ASUU understands that education still needs to be subsidized, because the masses may not be able to afford it and yet the people will take in hook, line and sinker the narrative that the union is a bunch of unpatriotic lots.

Some argue that the government have shown good faith and committed to some of ASUU’s demand. Again, this is a purely technical lie intended to detract and distract and we have a shameful media willing to peddle and drive the propaganda home so that the derision of ASUU can increase, so that they can be perceived as unpatriotic; when in reality, the whole struggle is to help the nation better equipped with its human resource. The media will do well to be critical about what the posture of FG concerning the issue is. FG hard stance has shown it has no integrity, their refusal to implement past agreements or to comply with collective agreement born as a result of renegotiation with different parties they did set up- such as the FG Briggs led renegotiation committee or before then the FG Munzali led renegotiation committee… all of which further shows their lack of integrity and the news media in Nigeria is mostly complicit in this muddling and putting an axe when the issue should have long be done and resolved. Rather, they would find in the character of this government a bunch of people who align with the dangerous ideology that western education is Haram except for their children. The media rather would perpetuate the lies when they truly know that the strike is not conditioned on payment of withheld salaries. Why are their children studying abroad? Of coz, ours are in shambolic state and can continue to be.

The media has access to what ASUU’s demand actually entails. The FG claims to have met 80% of the demands. ASUU says the FG claim is blatant falsehood. The media then should demand for FG resolutions or actions and compare with what ASUU’s demand are to know who is perpetuating or perpetrating falsehood.

Let the men rejoice, sex is not just for procreation.

However what is the cost intimacy gadgets?

In the end, what men would offer would primarily be in protection and companionship.