₦airaland Forum

melanch:
lol I won't be raped neither my children. You talked about Fela, he was one out the millions that spoke out. You too can speak out, you don't need 80 percent of the coward population. I just gave you guys my perspective. Since Nigeria began, people has fought against the government but what were the outcomes. There's a difference between a social critic like you and a humanitarian, one just talks while the other improves lives. A better way to live a better life is to invest in yourself and improve other people's lives. Look for projects to do (no matter how little). The time you would use to criticise govt, you look for what you can do to help others you are better than. But if you think criticising on deaf ears will make the difference. All the best!

If we all act like you, I am sure we will likely be all eaten up by the elites by now.

We can only do little but governmental interventions are pivotal to our monumental leaps and strides as a huge leverage.

Imagine if we force the government to provide constant power supply for us and fix ajaokuta steel complex while they leave us alone. Nigeria will over take South Africa before 5 years.

At Silver Bird's anniversary in 2014, even Sanusi said it that the elites had better do the masses a great favour, otherwise they will wake up one day to see their belongsn including family, destroyed, which isn't far fetched with the way things are already going in this country if care is not taken. There is just so far you can push a man to the wall, even a new born baby will fight when pushed to the wall.

I have never seen any man push to the wall without fighting back, NEVER!

As kid growing up, I used to be bullied by a guy, always intimidated. One day, much to the surprise of everyone, he tried it once again and I fought back. I beat the hell out of him that day as in serious beating that he couldn't throw a punch cos mine blinded him. he ran to his house and never came out for over 2 weeks.

Oche211:
u self dey book space too?

was busy lol

This is the height of confusion, foolishness and damn-right incompetence and unprofessional approach to dealing with students. They were too busy to diplomatically address student arrest on campus, but not too busy to read the FACEBOOK post of a student who doesnt even represent students at any level.................................

After the mumu's will come and say "change begins with you". The thunder whey wan fire this people ehnnnnn.......................wait sef!! Shebi them dey read facebook posts ba Whey dat mumu dean of student facebook page, as I no be UNILAG student, whether e wan rusticate me from Nigeria go ghana make I know........................

ANNOY:
sorry but who the Bleep has time to read all this bullshit.#ftc

Just tell yourself you are reading about omotola. I promise you'll find it more interesting.

I pity dis guy Sha, Nigerians hate d truth and d gut was right abt his opinion

The revolution of Nigerian University System Begins here.........GREATEST NIGERIAN STUDENTS

holluphemydavid:
I pity dis guy Sha, Nigerians hate d truth and d gut was right abt his opinion

Dnt mix things up o.. The guy was foolish

you dnt talk anyhow to pple you hope to gain knowledge from.. it doesn't work that way..
There are ways you can write with psyches even if you're not so pleased not with insults and expect everyone to overlook

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2sexynet:
Your mindset is the very destruction of this country because you do nothing while being raaped!

When Rotimi Ameachi said" we steal because you do not stone us" he was referring you people like you which unfortunately makes up over 90% of the population in this country. How can we progress when cowards outnumber warriors in great proportion?

If anything good will happen in this country, If the government will take us serious, we need people with voice like the student described in that report, men who Stand for justice. Sadly, they gagged when it appeared that status quo is being threatened.

When Fela sang his song "we fear to fight for freedom, we fear to fight for justice, we no wan die, papa dey for house, mama dey for house,everyday na the same thing (suffering and smiling) every day na the same thing (suffering and smiling) suffer suffer for world..." he was forking referring to cowards, unfortunately these cowards make up over 80% of the population in this country.

He who run away from a fight will live to fight another day. You will be rapeed and so will your children because you refused to fight for justice!

One billion likes

Our schools are now turning to another thing.

I also got a letter resently from the management for Gross misconduct. Which was a reaction to my Facebook page which i posted when there was a slow motion in the school activities.

I see no reason why students should be served Letters for making good points just to SHUT them up .

I salute your courage Comrade .....

melanch:
It is a good thing to remain calm in some situations. In Nigeria, we shouldn't take things seriously. As a youth, it's high time we stopped talking or writing against the government and start developing ourselves to touch lives. Writing heavy essays, protesting (putting our lives in jeopardy) and arguing about how government is bad didn't and won't solve any problem. We can only solve the problem by investing in ourselves, empowering our fellow youths and be the best we can be. Let's be our government.

Where is this one from?
If our ancestors allowed their govt of those days be,would u b here today?
Yes bettering ourselves and other youths,how can that be done when the men in authority are exercising their powers frustrating ur good plans .guess u havent been in d shoe,reason I said all those.
My dear whoever can speak up,let him or her do.
Those guys feel they are demigods and can't be talked back at.

AnalyticEngine:
Although the guy is very foolish, I admire and covet his boldness and command of english

Guy,he is not foolish but an achiever with spirit of activism. Person that stands for justice and call a spade a spade without the fear of any consequences is a real man.I applaud his courage, reason with Yer IQ and relate it to what is going on in our society today.

Sincerely,the guy is not foolish.

Nice writeup. very good to stand for what's right.

I just think he shouldn't have criticized the quality and soundness of the VC's education along with other members of staff. that's a bit wrong SBD worth some level of punishment.

sinaj:
If it were to be in a sane country, the president would have called him and made sure the matter is looked into objectively.


But no, they will all play deaf till this case get international recognition

With or without school, this dude is already successful.
Schooling isn't education, that's why we have successful people that never went to school.

I admire his courage and anyone that passed through the system will understand that Education in Nigeria is rotten and is only living on past glory.

Like Unilag VC like Buhari, so don't expect anything positive from the dumb president..

I don't see anything wrong in wat dis guy has done

May u be justified and I pray its not too late b4 senate members of d university realise dey nid to be considerate and understand d truth wen it comes to matters like dis

It is well

The current Unilag VC hasn't been up to par at all, thankfully his tenure will soon be over. We don't need people like him in charge of affairs at all.

Nairaland proves the old saying to hide something from africans put it in a book.

How can people find reading the post stressful? Like seriously?

AnalyticEngine:
Although the guy is very foolish, I admire and covet his boldness and command of english

Great achievers are usually the bold and brave ones. I'd rather cheer the dude on, knowing that I don't have the means to do what he did, rather than castigate him for standing up for his right. You might wanna check up the meaning of foolish in a good dictionary and this time, read the definition slowly..

Tolupage:
Nice writeup. very good to stand for what's right.

I just think he shouldn't have criticized the quality and soundness of the VC's education along with other members of staff. that's a bit wrong SBD worth some level of punishment.

Yea but not two semesters infact rustication wasn't necessary

Simple 'probation' would have sufficed instead

Also the boy spoke the truth, go and check out foreign countries even RSA schools have R& labs

Here ASUU will strike for senseless reasons

I lyk him for his audacity to fight for a change but d truth is, writing or addressing d school authority in such a manner on social platform is absolutely an exhibition of unruly behavior. He shld ve been systematic about it.

this is the first post i will read from A-Z on NL, u have really uplifted my spirit. how i wish real activist ( if we still have one) in the country can support ur course. take it or leave it, You are Future Leader.

I just love this guy, for me he has proper "education ",he stands in the face of lies upholding the flag of truth. Can't you see his choice of words? If I am the president of Nigeria, I will give this guy a good post... He is a technocrat.

Funny how those encouraging the RUSTICATED YOUNG MAN have;
Graduated
Undergoing the NYSC program
Undergoing their M.sc/P.hd program
Or even working.

#OnYourOwnSha

martinz1:
Go to school peacefully then come out and look for job, Simple, dont go there to cause problems to your parents

you are dumb, maybe cos you re not in school almost same thing happened in funaab where I school

hardeyincah:
this is the first post i will read from A-Z on NL, u have really uplifted my spirit. how i wish real activist ( if we still have one) in the country can support ur course. take it or leave it, You are Future Leader.

U nailed it.....

Like my late lecturer would say (Dr. S Y OMOIYA) of the department of History and International Studies... University of Ilorin.... He said and I quote "fools multiplies when the wise keep silent"...."When you failed to stand up and defend your right, the world will trampled upon you" I am shocked to see that the so called authority of the school are bunch of cowards who finds it hard to face the truth.... So as students, it is wrong for us to express ourselves again? What is wrong in giving one's opinion on an issue? This is the problem we are facing in this country where our opinions doesn't matter to our leaders.... Are we fools? Indeed, what we need is revolution to get rid of all this pot bellied and corrupt leaders..... God bless Nigerian students.

All this bunch of commercial academics we have in this country, who are ignorant of the fact that their stupidity brought this nation where it is today.
Aluta contnua my bro.

The young man actually wrote well, but calling the regime of Jonathan and his person a mistake killed his sense of reasoning and whatever moral he has left in him! From his write up its obvious his likes in the intellectual corrosion are the ones that put us in this terrible situation we've found ourselves in this country! If Jonathan is a mistake what are you going to call buhari If Jonathan is a mistake maybe in his intellectual capacity as someone who had passed through school would have rescued you from this plight of yours. Now in your own wisdom you've decided to put up your pen in writing without sampling the terrain of this tyrant in government, your mental imbalance couldn't tell you that you're writing a sensible missive to senseless leaders from top to the senate of your school! Now the only sensible mistake that could have rescued you has now become the past administration!
So you're on your own as you're now living in the midst of the greatest mistakes of your life!!!!

sinaj:
If it were to be in a sane country, the president would have called him and made sure the matter is looked into objectively.


But no, they will all play deaf till this case get international recognition

With or without school, this dude is already successful.
Schooling isn't education, that's why we have successful people that never went to school.

I admire his courage and anyone that passed through the system will understand that Education in Nigeria is rotten and is only living on past glory.

Word.
That guy is one very intelligent person. I'd swear many lecturers can't write an article as deep as his' . Even without the overrated certificate, that guy is on his way to the top

iamphotoshoot:
Very far

Very very FAR

martinz1:
Go to school peacefully then come out and look for job, Simple, dont go there to cause problems to your parents

You are a disgrace to your generation

Taeewo:
A 400-level student of the University of Lagos, Olorunfemi Adeyeye, talks about the Facebook post that led to his rustication with GBENGA ADENIJI

Were you part of the University of Lagos Students’ Union executives recently suspended by the school management for their roles in a protest in the university?

No, I am neither a member of the University of Lagos Students’ Union nor a member of the Students’ Representatives Council. I am only a concerned student. I also made it known to members of a panel inaugurated by the university management when I was invited that I was not a member of ULSU or SRC but only a concerned student.

What department and level are you?

I am a 400 level student of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Building.

Your Facebook post titled, ‘The Senate of UNILAG: A conglomeration of academic ignorami was believed to have earned you rustication for four semesters; approximately two academic sessions. Did you bargain for what happened after the post?

I was prepared for it. The whole thing started after the resolution of the Senate of the University of Lagos. Some of us saw this coming. The resolution was anti-student. You do not make a resolution without the consent of the people it will affect.

The resolution of the Senate came after the peaceful protests we had on campus on April 6, 7 and 8, 2016. On April 6, it was the union executives who went to the office of the Division of Students’ Affairs to ask that the students should be addressed. But no one came to talk to them. On the second day, it was agreed by the student leaders, the faculty and hall executives that a protest be staged. The protest was about poor welfare. At the time, there was a fuel scarcity in the country and the union executives were using the union’s bus to convey students from Yaba to Akoka. This happened for weeks. The protest was peaceful. I think the problem was ego. No member of the management came to address the students for two days.

On the third day, it was a siren of police cars and an armoured personnel carrier that woke us at 6am. We were also sent text messages to vacate the halls of residence by 10am as academic activities had been suspended. The student leaders saw the directive as draconian. We all insisted that we would not leave the campus. A student mounted the armoured personnel carrier playfully and the police officer in it drove head on until it hit the school gate and its roof opened. The student was not injured and after sometime, we decided to go home. We were at home for three weeks. Later, the management asked us to resume for examination and that there would be rationing of electricity from 7am to 7pm. All students were also told to sign an indemnity form with our parents and take an oath before we could be reabsorbed into the university. The union and its constitution were also suspended. This is a union that was just reinstated after 10 years of proscription. I saw all these as failure on the part of the Senate and an attempt to curb and crush the union. All these made me to pick my pen and write about the Senate of the University of Lagos. I later posted it on my Facebook page.

In the post, you specifically mentioned some lecturers and the vice-chancellor of the institution who you accused of certain failings in the discharge of their academic and leadership duties respectively. What was your motivation?

I was not pushed by any allure of social media. I did it because I was convinced that there was administrative failure. I am of the opinion that a citadel of learning should provide solutions. It should be a place where policy-makers should run to for ideas and a place of solution for the society. But what we have in the university today is far from that.

What happened after the post?

We were allowed to sit for examination and after it ended, those targeted were called to appear before a panel one after the other. It was done that way so that it would not appear as ‘scapegoatism.’ I was sent a letter to appear before a panel on allegation of social misconduct. The panel was called ‘Special Senate disciplinary panel on the recent students’ protest.’ I explained what I meant in the article to members of the panel. It was later that I got a letter rusticating me from the university for four semesters.

What was your first reaction when you got the letter of rustication from the university?

I did not feel any way. I read it and saw that I had been rusticated.

What are you doing to appeal the management’s decision?

On ethical grounds, I would say the reversal of the rustication should be at the discretion of the university management. But on legal grounds, I pray that the reversal comes soon. We are in court already. The case will come up on October 10. Besides, I wrote a letter of appeal to the pro-chancellor and chancellor of the university. I explained all that happened. Others executives of the union also did the same.

Do you regret your action?

I cannot regret doing what is right. Some people told me that it is proper to be anonymous when posting such an article. They also urged me to deny the post and say that my account was hacked. I see that as ‘quackery of activism.’ The decay in our society has got to a level that if one is addressing issues, it is also important to face personalities. If I had been anonymous, none of the issues I addressed in the article would be taken seriously. I want them to understand that the rot in the society starts from the education sector.

Did you receive telephone calls and text messages from friends and colleagues that you should delete it after the post generated reactions?

Nobody did that. After the post, I sent a friend request to the Acting Dean of the Students’ Affairs who accepted my request. He saw the post and shared it. I later sent him a message saying, ‘thank you for sharing the truth.’ At the panel, the members said they got it from the DSA and I think he showed it to them.

Did you envisage how long the battle for your reinstatement would last?

I did not really. But I know that it is a struggle that I am in for as long as it lasts.

Is this post about the university the first you posted on your Facebook page?

I have not directed any post to the university. I always write on general issues. There was one titled, ‘What is great about great Nigerian students?’ It was about academic docility though I mentioned the university there. I think this post generated reactions because it was directed at the university.

How are your parents reacting to the development?

Initially, I could not tell them but when I told my sister’s husband, they got to know. They said I had ‘killed’ them. But now they are calm about the whole matter.

Are they urging you to sort things out quickly?

As good parents, they are seeking ways to apologise to the university authorities. But if they do that, I will be unhappy. At this stage, the university management will use it against me. They used the apology tendered by one of the rusticated union leaders against him. When I was leaving the panel, they said I was not remorseful and that other rusticated students had written letters of apology. But none of them was pardoned.

I know that pleading guilty in court will not make the judge to set free the accused. If anything, it will only make his or her conviction easy.

I am a writer of conscience and did not post the article because I want popularity or anything. Even in the appeal I wrote, I did stylistic and semantic analyses of what I meant in the article. It is really appalling that in this clime we see it as disrespectful when a young person tries to plead with an adult to do some things in certain ways. It has got to a situation in Nigeria where university management sees itself as demigod. The philosophy now is that every protest must be met with a punishment. It is wrong.

What are you doing now pending the resolution of the matter?

I am sensitising people on the environment. It is about humanitarian work. I am also starting a project on the environment as an environmental scientist. It is not part of what I learnt in school, it came as a result of self-education. We mistake schooling for education. We go to school in order to know how to read and write. But getting education is about the norms, ethos, ethics and values that an individual is able to imbibe through schooling to develop himself first before transferring them to the society for development.

Adeyeye’s controversial Facebook post

The Senate of the University of Lagos; a Conglomeration of Academic Ignorami

The University of Lagos prides itself as a cosmopolitan university and over the years has maintained the status quo of excellence among her peers in Nigeria and the world at large. I promise not to make this BOMB as lengthy and circuitous as my last post on this medium. I will also make it as lucid as possible.

I mentioned in my last article WHAT IS GREAT ABOUT THE GREAT NIGERIAN STUDENTS the jejunity of the mission statement of the UNILAG, hardly had I finished the article when the whole statement of mine started receiving fulfillment. One would call me a prophet!.

I now see the reason for the backwardness of my nation, we blame those at the corridor of “power” forgetting those at the corridor of “education;” the corridor of “common sense.” I am a discussant of history and it has made me realise that from time immemorial, whenever there is problem in the society, tertiary institutions are places of solace, they are citadels of solutions. Government would go to schools to consult undergraduates, lecturers; professors as they posed to be the backbone of the society. Now, Nigeria is in shambles, the economy is crumbling, where is Dr. Nduibisi Nwokoma of the Economics department? Buhari is still waiting for your economic model computation and those econometrics rubbish theories you teach your students. Prof. G.L Oyekan!.., there is infrastructural decay! Prof. Idoro Godwin, buildings are collapsing and projects are poorly handled! This is not project planning class where you come to disturb students with your unending battery of questions e.g What is Objective?..answer – Objective is ….Question 2 – What is “is”? What a comedian!

Vice Chancellor sir, you remain a first class Chemical engineering graduate from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife. What has happened to the Great Ife in you? Our power generation is deteriorating and you are alive. The nation’s investment of knowledge on you to make you a scholar is a WASTE. Your first class honours degree is the true definition of a FIASCO.

That’s by the way, the protest that led to Senate’s resolution to dissolve the student union and the forceful blood covenant oath-taking was a peaceful one. One that started on a calm note with the intention to end in a day only if the DSA or VC came to talk to the students during the act. The egocentricity of an African man would not just allow them to come. They are PhD holders. I call them ACADEMIC IGNORAMUSES!

The irresponsibility, insensitivity and irresponsiveness to the welfare of the students of the VC and his misMANAGEMENT have shown that they are all misfits when it comes to parenthood.

They all stood up when the former mistake we had as president tried to rename Unilag to Maulag because the brand UNILAG gives them the pride they need to sleep with any girl-student and admission-seekers effortlessly. These are the goings-on in Unilag, let the world know! The likes of Ogbinaka Karo were ready to tear down the nation if the renaming was not revoked. Now, this is our own issue; welfarism, we can’t find them. Are they telling me that the name issue is greater than welfarism. Is the aesthetics of a building more important than the structural stability? If you don’t know, go ask the MD, Lekki Gardens.

My secondary school teacher once told me that during his days at the University of Ibadan, they protested when the chicken on their breakfast meal was reduced to 1 instead of the usual 2. For Christ’s sake, was it this same Nigeria? We never asked for all these things Bello and his cohorts enjoyed, all we asked for was water/light and all we could get from a sensible Senate is the threat of expulsion. Are there no “common sense” persons in the management anymore? We mourn the late Prof. Ayodele Awojobi freshly.

I promised not to make this too lengthy but I stand in this era for change as I don’t want to be too much of a
victim of circumstance because I have never gained anything from this system of education. I learn everything myself, just like most of us. My lecturers are too busy to teach but are very ready to threaten you with failure. Where is Julius Faremi? .

I am ready not as Adekunle Gold but as an active citizen for any step they might want to take against me. E e ba mi ni’be.

I remain Adeyeye Olorunfemi.

#IwontSign.

#RescueULSU.

University of Lagos

April, 2016

Editor’s note: The university, through its Deputy Registrar (Information), Mr. Toyin Adebule, insisted that he would not grant an interview. He referred our correspondent to the press statement by the university.

http://punchng.com/dont-regret-action-student-rusticated-unilag-facebook-post/

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