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Blackfyre:
Nonsense.....see what someone posted on twitter.....its called oral rape and it can stand in court....


It could be Oral rape. We have victim of oral rape everywhere.

You can be touched in a very intimate way, and by lying there, does NOT mean somehow been complicit in the act. You had not consented, nor had you even been given a chance to consent, which is what defines rape.

How do you think she can win this case in court?

By Ibitoye Philip Eniola

Prof. Chris Imafidon, University of Ilorin’s 2017 convocation lecturer, gave an enterprising lecture on Thursday, October 19th, that cuts across important facets of life and smacks of all goodness. I was “very unlucky” not to be on campus that day but I was not to miss much of the lecture as I got real time updates of the lecture on Twitter and I also got to watch it live on YouTube for a while until I got a distress notification from Airtel my data was running into trouble. You can still join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag, #thegeniusinyou.

Prof. Chris Imafidon started his lecture by reading out Nelson Mandela’s quote on education: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” You can’t but agree with Nelson Mandela. Education is the background of development anywhere in the world.

A nation who does not build herself on education builds herself on the sand and is doomed to collapse. A nation who does build herself on education builds herself on the rock and is bound to stand for as long as the ritual is maintained. A nation like Nigeria who undermines the importance of the education sector to her development plunges herself into a largesse of backwardness.

The Nigerian state has shown countless times she does not attach any much importance to the education sector. Like Prof. Imafidon sited during the lecture, the budget for defence in the national budget for 2017 is higher than that of Education. I find it hard to understand what you are ‘defending’ when your education sector is in shambles; a perfect example of ‘misplaced priority’. Kofi Annan quipped, “Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.”

Kofi Annan, described knowledge as power, information as liberating and education as the premise of progress, in every society and every family. The Nigerian government in its 2017 budget allocated N448.01billion to education, representing about a meagre 6 percent of the N7.30 trillion budget, maligning the recommendation of the United Nations that recommends a country’s education budget constitute 26% of the national budget.

Earlier in the year, a state governor asked protesting students an infamous rhetorical question when addressing them: “Is this the first time a university will be closed down?” The governor’s tone depicts that of a man who attaches no importance to the education sector. You expect an intelligent governor to find a lasting solution so a University that has been closed down for more than 8months (a strike that continued for the next 6months) can be reopened for normal academic activities. Let me echo the ace broadcaster, Edmund Obilo, a state like Nigeria that makes her Universities irrelevant is guilty of foisting underdevelopment on itself.

We sadly don’t realize the power of education in our country and that has made the important sector to take the backseat. The world powers never got to that level of relevance because of the measure of oil they can export, they got there because they gave room to education which is the bedrock of all innovations and inventions. The Nigerian government should make education their priority same way the Cuban government has done which have done them lots of good since the country’s revolution.

If you give more priority to ‘defence', the 15-year-old Rasaki Adisa that has failed to get a basic education and has become a bus conductor at Beere, Ibadan will make your ‘defence' crumble when the shameless Senator Ajanlekoko needs touts to mobilize in his campaigns for the forthcoming elections. It is the sorry situation some uneducated youths have found themselves that has made them vulnerable as easy tools for selfish politicians to employ as threat to lives and property.

Equip the minds and the state will develop. Fail to equip the minds and you’ll find the state sinking. Invest more in brain wells and not oil wells. Brain wells are far more productive than oil wells in a nation’s development. Until Nigeria makes education a priority, we had still keep on moving in circles with no destination in sight and we had still continue wallowing in underdevelopment, having ourselves only to blame for the virus we created with our own hands.

Ibitoye Philip Eniola is a writer, a budding social commentator. He can be reached on ibitoye.philipo@gmail.com

Cc: Fynestboi , olawalebabs , Richiez

9jayes:
At the bolded, Op dem don born Adam Oshiomole in 300BC ?

That is not Oshiomole, it is a yoruba word, Oshìnmolè

The 'brilliant' ones that have so much 'intellect' embedded in them come on social media and national dallies to write nice articles and show their writing prowess.

The 'crooks' with no iota of 'sense' in their head take up the challenge, step on toes, dare the devil, make compromises.

The 'brilliant' one says to himself, "I don't want to get into politics, it is a dirty game, I don't want to get my hands dirty". He is not ready to make sacrifices. All he knows is to criticize and show his command of the Queen's language on national television. His views are always insightful but he does not ever want to go into politics.

The 'brilliant' one wants to remain a saint forever in the eyes of his lovers so they can continue to hail him, "Nice one, prof", "You are too good, prof", "You write so well sir, will you take this knowledge to heaven?".

The 'crook' doesn't care to get his hands dirty, he makes compromises nonchalantly, he makes difficult decisions in a split second. He doesn't care about what they say about him. He tells them to rant on, it doesn't do him one thing.

Then on it goes, the clueless 'crook' with no sense of reasoning continues to rule the 'brilliant' one who only sit at the comfort of his keyboard criticizing policies and actions of the government. On it goes, same process every election year. The cycle goes on sadly.

Are you still confused on how we are here as a nation?

By: Ibitoye Philip Eniola
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Last week, someone asked me some funny questions. He asked if I drink, I answered in the negative. He asked a second question and asked if I smoke, I answered 'no'. He asked the third question and asked if I womanize, I answered 'no'. All those questions sounded funny to me, they are not 'too normal' for me, I don't know why he asked at that time. He then told me there is no way I won't be doing one of those three meaning I wasn't saying the truth, I was shocked. I tried to know from him who postulated that warped theory but as expected, I didn't get a logical answer. I've heard glimpses of that crazy theory before but it was the first time I was faced with it hence my surprise.

I don't like talking 'relationship' but I will talk about this. There is this wrong notion among ladies especially, that 'good' guys are the 'fake' guys, the 'bad' guys are the 'real' guys. When a 'bad' guy makes you know he smokes, he drinks, and he womanize, he is real. When you don't see those things in a 'good' guy, he is fake, he is hiding it, he is too good to be true. That is a crazy theory. I won't use myself as a case study here maybe I'm a 'good' guy or a 'bad' guy (I will leave that to the gods to decide) but I know a lot of 'good' guys out there who don't drink, smoke or womanize and are very lively (there is a wrong notion too good guys are boring, crazy one!).

The spotlight here is on that warped theory (of a guy must drink, smoke or womanize). There are other shortcomings too but I understand those three are more synonymous and more common with men. Many ladies prefer to go for a bad guy and leave the good guy out 'cos he is not 'real'. Very true there are pretenders, hypocrites (it makes it a hard choice) but then, there are ways you know when someone is for real and when the person is faking it. This theory is just like an unfouded theory that says 'all' ladies love for money (I partly agree with it too) but that doesn't mean it is 'all' that does that. It's just about following your instincts and trying to make a good decision and not working on a general rule (those are only probability, they are not necessarily true).

Ògún láákayé oshìnmolè postulated in 300BC, he said and I quote, "you are wholly responsible for your actions and inactions, both the right ones and the wrong ones, so don't start crying and blaming the 'gods' when the dire consequences comes (some doubting Thomases will doubt that theory given Easter was just few days ago but I don't care since I was with him during his thesis) or else, the gods will show you more pepper". So, aunty, if that 'real' guy 'do that thing' to you, don't start blaming your village witches or start saying "all men are the same" (it is a lie!). Don't judge based on unfounded theories.

By: Ibitoye Philip Eniola
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Pls, UNIIBEN post utme screening form is out, is it the same for direct entry students?
Can a direct entry student register now too