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I must partake in this

Hey peeps. U guys have dragged this thing for too long.

Hmmmm I can't help been mute on the incessant
hullabaloo on this thread subjected to some few pple countering n re-countering themselves.
Thought by now someone would have apologized 2 the other even if his right, just to make peace reign and making all activities of the thread back on bloomerage.

Instead of making fight virile on this thread we can
let peace reign and go back to the ab initio objective of this thread...

Please my colleagues let's put an End to the strive... There is this way we end e fight on our own Uniben Direct Entry thread, the two parties apologizes to each other.. Can u guys do that...let the apologies start rolling in pls... Appologies isn't a sign of weakness but of maturity!!!

Sir_Tunec -
Mickeyso
Odizee
Romantic boi
Drogra dray
Ogho1
I_am_sylva
And _______________(fill in the Gap is ur name is mission)


**Kudos 2 u guys. Let Make Peace bro!**

odizeey: i greet una o,uzor i dey c ur hand work

Nor mind me jare bros. was just catching fun yesteday nite while I was waiting for the keyboard tutoria I promised u to get uploaded on u tube. After a long wait I saw this message... "Video u are uploading is too long" I wan cry!..

It just wasted ma tyme for nuffing.
And I was using ma fone Mb for the Upload even, the thing just chop ma Mb for noting.. And u know say B.i.s this day na management boiz they do for am . But will try n c if I can find an alternative

Adex097: @Plantain, I sEe your handiwork sir.

Nice one

Hw vah laaah. e-nockles 4 u jare!

***Walks into the Thread to observe what's happening**** then realized. "My Battle is being Fought for Me". .... "Thanks Guys"

#Leaves Immediately Dancing Alingo......

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Before I leave I gat hail some Usernames Here:

Sir-Tunechi(m), "Resect for u"
odizeey(m), "Respect for u
japhsiano(m),
Droga dray(m),
Romanticboy1(m),
Sir Chides(m),
Mehlena
sigidporte(m),
Ghyft(f),

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Nobody shld quote me o.. Ehen,

***Leaving d thread for Peace not for pieces!*****.

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Though i walk through the vally of NL Uniben newly Admitted I fear no evil...

Asakel: Did u jez say we shld RT?
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:-/
Didn't know NAIRALAND dey RT o
9'ce.

Yes u can "Reply Thread" on NL. . Smarter than u anyday

Droga dray: MR MAN, Ar u a learner?

hahaha, bros how u take knw. am still in training na..

Sorry ooh, everyother person< I just want make this guy read news small::

WARNING: What you are about to read is thought provoking on ASUU UPDATES..

PROF. FESTUS IYAYI is a former National President of
the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In
this interview, he explains why university teachers
nationwide are on strike; saying the action is to
compel the Federal Government to implement the
agreement it reached with ASUU on funding of
universities. Iyayi, currently Head of Dept, Business
Administration, University of Benin, insists that the
union members are prepared to stay at home for the
next three to five years until the right thing is done.
Excerpts:
BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE, BENIN
ASUU has gone back to the trenches with the
Federal Government. Why are you on strike?
The short answer is this: Government believes that
Nigeria should continue to be not just a second rate
country but a third rate country because the quality
of development, the kind of society you have
depend on the kind of education that the people
have and the quality of education that exists in the
country. In 2009, ASUU reached an agreement with
government on how to rehabilitate and revitalize the
universities. That agreement was a product of three
years of negotiation, from 2006 to 2009, and
government agreed that it will provide funding for
universities to bring them to a level that we can
begin to produce graduates that will be recognized
worldwide, and our universities can also be
classified and rated among the best in the world.
People keep talking about universities rating, but no
Nigerian university features among the first 1,000 in
the world because of the issue of lack of facilities.
So, from 2009 to 2012, ASUU waited for the Federal
Government to implement that agreement and what
government did was to believe and present the
argument that what ASUU was looking for was
money, and so, they implemented part of the salary
component; they did not implement the agreement
on funding. As academics, if you pay us N10million
a month and we do not have the tools to work with,
that money is worthless because we want to be able
to conduct research, teach students the latest that
is available in the world of knowledge. Those tools
were not available and are still not available. So, in
2011, precisely in December, ASUU went on strike to
force government to implement the funding part of
that agreement. What did the government do? They
apprehended the strike in January 2012 and the
Secretary to the Federal Government invited the
leadership of ASUU for a meeting in his office. We
went there, discussed with them on the basis of
which on 24 January, 2012, we signed a
Memorandum of Understanding with the
government under the title, “MEETING OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE GOVERNEMNT OF THE
FEDERATION WITH THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF
UNIVERSITIES “and signed by Prof. Nicholas A.
Damachi, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of
Education on behalf of the Federal Government. The
most important of the items signed was 3.0, that is,
“FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR UNIVERSITIES”. And
this is what the Federal Government said it would
do: “Government reaffirms its commitment to the
revitalization of Nigerian universities through
budgetary and non- budgetary sources of funds;
government will immediately stimulate the process
with the sum of N100billion and will beef it up to a
yearly sum of N400billion in the next three years”.
As we speak now, not a Kobo, not an iota of
intervention has taken place in the universities. Yet,
government itself, in the various studies it has done,
said it recognizes the pathetic state of the
universities. In order to implement this agreement,
government first gave a reason saying, ‘oh, for us to
apply the funds, let us first of all identify the areas
of priorities to which the funds will be applied’.
Government also said, ‘we are not going to give the
money to the universities, what we are going to do
is to identify the projects, we will them call on
government agencies such as the CBN, PTDF, ETF to
deliver the projects to the universities that would
then be estimated’. So the money is not coming to
the universities, government will do the costing and
get people to come and do all those things such as
the rehabilitation of the laboratories, classrooms
and a variety of other things.
Needs assessment committee
Now what should be those things:
Government set up a committee called the
NEEDS ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE and it went
round the universities and what it found was
shocking. First, it found that the students –
teachers ratio was 1-400 on the average
instead of being 1-40. It found out that the
classrooms were grossly inadequate and
could accommodate only about 30 percent of
the number of students that needed to enter
those classrooms; they went round and found
students standing in their lecture theatres
with other students writing on their backs;
they found lectures going on under trees in
some of the universities; they went to
laboratories where they found people using
kerosene stoves instead of bushing burners to
conduct experiments; they found specimens
being kept in pure water bottles instead of
the appropriate places where such specimens
should be kept. They found chemistry labs
without water; they found people doing
examinations called theory of practicals and
not the practicals and you will imagine what
the practical ought to be. And when the
report was eventually presented to President
Goodluck Jonathan at the Federal Executive
Council, we understand that Jonathan said
that he was embarrassed and did not know
that things were all that bad.
No intervention
It was on that basis that they said that this money
should be spent. As we speak, the money has not
been provided, no intervention has taken place and
the academics are tired. We negotiated for three
years, 2006-2009, we went on strike in December,
2011 and government apprehended that strike; we
signed an MoU in January 2012, between then and
now, nothing happened. That is why we are on
strike. We are saying, ‘look, rehabilitate the
universities’. As a reporter, you can go round our
classrooms and you will see what our classrooms are
like. In this era, it is the quality of knowledge that
you acquire that will determine the position you
occupy in any part of the world. We did this and
government did not do anything. A professor came
from Bayelsa State recently to the University of
Benin, looking for journals. We went to the library
because we have an e-library and he could not do
anything there because there was no light for two
days in the library. If you go round here now,
lecturers have generators in their offices to be able
to work, every department has two or three
generators to be able to do their work. Is that what a
university should be like? If you go to the students’
hostels, they in a sorry state, they live 12 in a room;
they are like piggery; they now have what they
called short puts, they excrete in polythene bags
and throw them through the windows into the fields
because there are no toilets. If you come into this
building (faculty building), there are no toilets and,
if walk round, you will find faeces sometimes in the
classrooms because students have no place to use.
And it is like that in all other universities.
Enough is enough
Academic staff has said enough is enough, we
cannot continue to work under these
conditions, especially when government gave
commitment in 2012 that this matter would
be addressed but up till now nothing had
happened. We had several meetings between
2012 and now and they will say ‘next week
this one will happen; in two weeks time that
one will happen, give us one month, this one
will happen’, nothing has happened. And
when students leave here, they apply for
progammes in the United Kingdom, United
States and other countries for their master
degrees, PhD or other postgraduate
programmes and they are told that they
cannot be admitted because their degrees are
suspect. Shell here in Nigeria spent millions
of dollars re-training graduates, people who
made First Class and, when they test them,
they found out that they have problems. How
can you take an engineer who has not
conducted an experiment, all he did is the
theory of practical? He does not know how
the equipment works? If you want a properly
educated student population, you have to
provide the facilities. That is what ASUU is on
strike. What government has done in the past
is to say that we are on strike because of
money, now they don’t have that excuse. It is
true that part of the agreement we have with
the government also talked about academic
allowances, but academics are saying that we
are not interested in that; we are saying that
government should rehabilitate facilities and
once they are rehabilitated and they are up to
standard, we will come back to work. If you go
to our classrooms, we use chalk boards, the
situation of the 1960s but people are using
multi-media facilities, mark boards where you
can download information. That is not
available here and government is not
interested in that. No country developed
without a sound educational system and the
foundation is not the primary school
incidentally, it is at the university level
because it is the university that trains other
levels. For instance, if you want to teach in
primary school, you need people who
attended the Colleges of Education; if you
want to be teacher at the Colleges of
Education, you must have a degree from the
university; so, the university provides the
manpower for other levels of education and
that is why you must concentrate efforts on
the university education. If you don’t do that,
other levels of education will suffer and that
is what has been happening in Nigeria.
Against this backdrop, of your complaints more
private universities are being approved by
government. Will this help to solve the problem?
Even the National Universities Commission (NUC),
which is licensing private universities, has now
drawn attention to the crisis of quality in many of
these private universities. You know what
government does: We have refineries in Port-
Harcourt and Warri; I was just talking with some
people recently and they said, oh, Port-Harcourt
refinery is in a state where it can refine whatever
amount of crude oil sent to it; its plants are all now
working,’ but, as at today, government has not send
crude oil to it and they cannot process anything
because they want to import. Nigeria is the only
OPEC member country that sells crude oil to its
refineries at the international price? Does that work?
It doesn’t work, but they use international price to
sell crude oil to refineries, to make it impossible for
the refineries to process crude and then they go to
Spain and other countries to import refined
products.
So, what is happening is that government wants to
kill the public universities just as it has killed its
own enterprises so that it can invite people to come
and buy over the public universities? Unfortunately,
it will not work because universities are not like
enterprises. In the UK, most of the universities there
are public owned; in the US, most of the universities
are state owned; the one you hear about, HARVARD,
is a private one, but most of the universities in the
world are owned by government because education
is a social service; the revenue and tax collected by
government comes from the people, the
commonwealth, that is the fund that is used in
funding education. And what the government is
doing is to under-fund public universities, give them
a bad name and provide an excuse to license private
universities many of which borrow lecturers from
public sector universities, many of which do not
have the equipment which public universities ought
to have. And many of the private universities focus
on the social sciences, law and arts; they do not go
into engineering, medicine or sciences because you
need a lot of capital outlay, you need to spend a lot
of money building laboratories. I went to Oxford
University last year and they showed me a
laboratory that was built last year, a huge building
where people from different parts of the world went
there to conduct experiments. It cost billions of
pounds and no private sector person will like to
invest such money because the returns on
investment cannot be recouped. So, private sector
universities are gimmicks by government to say
that they are better than the public sector
universities, but then, how many people are there
how much fees do they pay and how many people in
Nigeria can pay the sum of N350,000 and above
paid in private universities? Those universities are
not meant for the children of ordinary Nigerians and
development has to be about the ordinary people, it
cannot be about the rich. So, there is no way, not in
this century, not the next or in a life time that
private universities will become more important
than public universities.
So what is The Way Forward?
The way forward is that the ruling elite in
Nigeria must be sure of what that want. We
have an example; many years ago, Ghanaians
were here; they flooded our universities;
when the Ghanaians rulers saw what was
happening, they took a step back and said,
lets us change direction’. They closed down
the universities for three years or so,
rehabilitated all the facilities in the
universities and brought the students and the
lecturers back. Now, the CBN Governor
Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi disclosed that
Nigerians spent about N62billion paying
school fees for 75,000 Nigerian students in
Ghanaian universities. Our people are in
South Africa paying fees there, but who those
going there; they are the children of the rich.
Ghanaians are in Ghana universities but they
are not paying what Nigerians are paying
there. So, the way forward is that government
makes up its mind that Nigerians must have a
place under the sun and that place under the
sun can only be guaranteed with a sound
university system. It must make up its mind;
is it to close down the university system for
three years or so, do what should be done and
then invite students and lecturers back? For
instance, in the University of Benin, you don’t
have a foreign student and if you go to other
universities in Nigeria, I don’t think there are
foreign students. When I came to the
University of Benin, I was interviewed by Prof.
Smith, a Briton who was the Dean at the time
and many people from different parts of the
world were here as teachers and students.
But, right now, they are not in Nigeria;
instead, Nigerians are everywhere. That
shows that the system has collapsed. When
we went to the National Assembly, Sen. Uche
Chukwumerije and his colleagues told us that
they were on the knees begging us to recall
the students because they are on the streets
posing dangers and problems, and we said, it
is better for them to be on the streets than on
the campus of universities learning ignorance.
You cannot teach ignorance to people or half
knowledge to the people because they will be
more dangerous to the society.
‘Not asking for money for ourselves’
If you have a doctor that is not well trained, and you
say ‘go and remove an appendix’, and he goes to
remove your heart because he doesn’t know where
the appendix is; it is better not to have doctors than
the one who will go and remove your heart than the
appendix. That is what the Nigerian government
wants us to do and the academics in universities are
saying no, for once, let us do the right thing; we are
prepared to stay at home for between three and five
years until these problems are resolved. We are not
asking for money, facilities must be provided to
make the universities truly what they ought to be. In
terms of how to solve the problems in the
universities, when the financial crisis broke out
in 2007 and banks declared that they were in
trouble, government brought out N3trillion to
bail out the banks. First, they gave the banks
N239billion, another N620billion and
N1.725trillion making a total of N3trillion.
Then the aviation sector said that it was in
distress, they gave the sector, N500billion
and they gave even NOLLYWOOD billions of
Naira. These sectors are important, but they
are not as important as the fundamental
which is the education sector. If you can give
the banks N3trillion and all the universities
are asking for is about N1.5trillion, the same
way in which they sourced the money which
they gave to the banks which they are now
saying that they should not pay back, they
should be able to do more for education. So,
nobody should come to us and say that
government has no money.
If they can bail the banks with N3trillion,
banks owned by the private sector, they
cannot tell us they cannot fund the education
sector because the World Bank told them that
Africans do not need higher education, that
what Africans need is middle-level technical
education; that is what the Okonjo-Iwealas
and Goodluck Jonathan are for. So, let them
do what they did in the case of the banks to
education and if they do that, the problems
will be solved.
- See more at: http://
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/ASUU-strike-
nigerian-varsities-may-remain-shut-for-a-long-time-
to-come-prof-iyayi/#

BROS,nor vex say the ARTICLE LONG OO: Specially written for only Drogra dra.. Appologies to Everyother monikers here... Am here for Peace not for pieces oooo... Na Joke I dey oo.....



# REPing DE thread!!! Catwalks and leaves the thread.

REMEMBER THIS!!! WHICH DID YOU DO?
Which of the following did you do, giving example? When I was Younger:-

• I'd put my arms in my shirt and told people I lost my arms

• Would restart the video game whenever I knew I was going to lose.

• Had that one pen with four colors, and triedto push all the buttons
at once.

• Waited behind a door to scare someone, then leaving because they're
taking too long to come out.

• Faked being asleep, so I could be carried to bed.

• Tried to balance the switch between On/Off.

• Watching two drops of rain roll down window and pretending it was a race

• The only thing i had to take care of was a school bag.

• Swallowed a fruit seed I was scared to death that a tree was going to
grow in my tummy

• Wuld hit cherry ¤agbalumo¤ on d wall 2 make it swita!

• Closed the fridge extremely slowly to see when the lights off.

• Used to think the moon followed us wherever we went.
Click like and share if you did any of this. Remember when we were kids and
couldn't wait to grow up? Add yours Childhood Was The Best Part Of Our Life.



SEND IN YOURS: CANT HELP BUT LAUGH FLASHING BACK MEMORY LANE

MokuMogbeModaranMoment: Is When you've been dubbing someone in an exam then suddenly, the person cancels the whole page!!!





Who knows what am saying here!!! lamuel, Jennie, Storm and co

******Wash uniform in the morning, squeeze with a towel, iron it and then wear it 2 school. . RT if you did this then*****



if u did this click like.. nor lie ooooo

The thread is somehow dry. lets light it up AGAIN*****************************

lest i forget, just incase some people come to these thread in revenge 4 whatever, its not my fault, I only did to them what they did 2 us here.......

1 spelling mistake can destroy your life. A Husband sent this to his wife, "I'm having a wonderful time, wish you were "her".







instead of "here"

Oghos1:

Some people are just naturally stubborn by nature, I just noticed some1 interrupted me, I thought I begged u not to interrupt me? why na - I have to stop na. too bad.

"You ask a girl for what she wants, she tells you money and you are angry .










.................................................Were you expecting her to say wisdom and understanding??"

this strategy is fir the guys in the building......



"If you call a girl and she is not picking... send her a credit voucher... take one digit out and wait"







*****ko sormo nor, she will call back**

"Some guys hold their girlfriend's hand at the mall because if they leave her hand she will start shopping..












.............................it looks ROMANTIC but it's ECONOMIC"

"U are wearing Brazilian hair of 300k & complaining of headache,












*************************************do u need a prophet to tell u dat U are wearing a PLOT of Land @ mowe"

When a girl suddenly becomes nice on your bbm,uses your pic as her Dp then writes her your name on her pm











************************************,Bros,her BIS is about to finish!!

The only person whom a woman listens to carefully & follows sincerely & even does exactly as he says is a PHOTOGRAPHER!

Oversabi is when you Laminate your ATM Card**********

It is with Shock that I announce to you that some
enemies of progress have reduced the normal 3 fishes
inside "TITUS" sardine to 2Fishes.
NAFDAC has to act now or we will protest. If this
situation is not addressed, u will open "TITUS" Sardine
one day and find only the oil.

APPLICATION FORM TO MARRY A Nairalander's
DAUGHTER.
FILL THE FORM IN OWN HAND WRITTING AND
IN BLOCK LETTERS.
I, _______________ , hereby apply to marry your
daughter Sir.
I am _____ years old.
Please answer the following questions
honestly.
1. Do you go to church/mosque? Yes/No
2. Do you have a degree or diploma? Yes/No.
3. Are you still a virgin? Yes/No.
4. Are you working? Yes/No.
5. Do you have a car? Yes/No.
If your answer to any of the above questions
was NO, do not continue. Leave my house
and don't look back. If all your answers were
YES, then continue.
1. In 50 words or more, describe the
disadvantages of cheating in marriage.
_______________ _____ _______________ _____
2. With the aid of a diagram, explain how you
can give respect to your father in-law or
mother in-law.
3. Suppose your wife says, "honey, I need
money for my hair-style at the saloon", what
would you answer? _______________ _____
_______________ _____
4. Explain any TEN causes of divorce.
_______________ _____ _______________ _____
5. What does the term 'good husband' mean
to you? _______________ _____ ______________

I came in here for Peace and Not for Pieces!!!
A little teaser abt an experience of a boy I saw somewhr online then decided to share it here!!! Read below.. If u like it say Hi if you dont say nah

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I_am_Sylva: *staggers in and sees everybody battling with government questions*

*yawns sleepily*

i'm going back to sleep.. When y'all are thru, pls wake me

*yawns again*


*staggers out of thread*

@I_Am_sylva( or Whatever ur username is): God catch u, ur post has been hidden, u came all the way frm ur thread for revenge of what u guys started ryt? Thank God anti spam bot caught u redhanded. U see u are not smart enough... try again next tyme. Watch carefully how i did mine then copy suite....


#he doesnt know we have a MOD participating on our thread< them go Ban u for nothing!!!

@I_Am_sylva( or Whatever ur username is): God catch u, ur post has been hidden, u came all the way frm ur thread to come payback the small trouble I caused ryt? Thank God anti spam bot caught u redhanded. U see u are not smart enough... try again next tyme. Watch carefully how i did mine then copy suite....








#Thanks to anti-spam bot for not allowing this guy constitute nuisance here. The post has been hidden!!!!

At the age of 25,you cannot cook,sweep,wash clothes
and you want men to love you for who you are..
SISTER,pls who are you ?"

odizeey: if nor b say u tlk no vex I for no knw say u dey yab me.
I no go vex o

Hahahaha, see scope don expand!!!



Yes bro, jst be a little patient with me, my modem subscription jst expired and u know its like a 44mb video and I need to upload it on a video sharing website for u to download.

Nony1: Wat u say has no effect on me becos dat part of me has died long ago...romans6vs6

Bros, I never knew this wld get to u. Jst wanted to crack up the thread... Its all joke brother.. Sincere apologies....na joke I still dey o... #Peace_Maker_Anytime

TIMIJAT: .....oga.....it seems u just finally got a fone that has the requirement for registering whatsapp......well don't worry we'll Add u....ok?

Hahaha, mayb because of all the seemingly unconfirmed info he dropped no one asked him for a personal contact. Then he decided to preempt us to ask..... well that's jst my thought.. "Nor vex oo. Na joke I dea oo".

#this particular sentence has been shielding me frm people's anger on the thread ##say ur mind then put na joke I de things....














Nor mind me o, na joke I still dey o!!!