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Why can't AU have a common currency? This would have been a rare opportunity to position and streghten such currency through bilaterally multinational trade agreements. WHEN WILL THE SLEEPING GIANT AWAKE? In Nigeria, all they do from year to year is senseless politics that's not about ideas/intellectualism, but stone age religious and ethnic bigotry and barbarism. Sudan is busy butchering themselves. AFRICA ENJOYS BEING INFERIOR AND BEGERLY IN THE COMMITTEE OF NATIONS. INSTEAD OF PUTTING THEIR HOUSE IN ORDER AND ASSERTING HERSELF TO THE NATIONS.

The rumors are finally validated. Those Buhari took loans from are seizing our banks and renaming them tactically without causing uproar. No wonder the cash scarcity and all the bruhaha. Interesting days ahead. Bubu and APC have sold the country.

I thought that EyeNeck should be discussing how they arrived at the figures and not taking sides with any candidate. They have just validated the rumor that dollar exchanged hands, by siding with their so called winner. Referees don't go to VAR to defend a goal given, but to review it from many angles and listen to other views before validating or jettisoning their earlier decisions. EyeNeck is threatening our democracy!

kelvine:
The post doesn't add up.
CAN should focus on more important issues.
Imagine doing a threat to sue a company for an innocent advert and also trying to get christians to boycott taking the product.
Please peak milk is not a Muslim company.

You have a problem. You need to take care of it before it gets out of hand.

Zeal0000007:
I and my gal are planning settling down despite genotype not matching , she's AS same with me, but because of medical technological advancements, we visited a specialist who told us that we can still marry if we so desired to be together.

Just that If we can afford the cost of going for foetus testing whenever she's pregnant so as to ascertain the genotype of the child. According to him if the test is conducted and it turns out to be AA or AS, we can keep it, but if it's SS we determate, I have spoken to my gal and we are yet a decide despite this seeming goodnews that we can still be together if we choose to, she really wanted us together same with me.
On my part, I have been in terrible and toxic relationship for the past 4years that almost claimed my life but God served from her. And this my current gal came along and she's exactly what I prayed God for, she's really like a gift to me, since she came I have had peace of mind I don't want to loose her because of genotype but thank God for this technically medical advancement , please I want to know if anyone have undergone this treatment before , what's your experience or experiences

If you love ur life or ur girl as you said, you won't dare marry her. My cousin tried that in spite of similar warning like this, now they have buried his daughter after 2 years of labouring in vain. Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage. People that are both AA don't even feel the love after 2 years of marriage often because of other issues of life, how worse if you add taking care of or eventually loosing SS child/children to those other issues common in many marriages? If you don't listen to reason, life will teach you in due season! Nigerians prefer the latter, though, so I won't be surprised if you go ahead.

Stone age tribal bigotry is keeping some Yorubas from advancing beyond Lagos IGR that doesn't translate into visible infrastructure.

INEC is a political party, yet an umpire

Quest7777:
Same Festus that vowed INEC would immediately transmit election results from Polling Units.
I don't take him serious again...

He is not he INEC chairman. People should hold the right persons accountable. Rigmood Yakubu is a failure and has a decayed conscience.

John the beloved

You can trust me to be there for you and your family e.g Virgin Mary, when you need me the most, even at the foot of the cross.

The woman was a place holder

Dey no dey telli person. Finally first to comment after 10yrs in Nairaland. New Nigeria is POssible!

Am I first to comment after 10yrs of using being a Nairalander?

You can keep waiting for som1 that is part of Naija's problem. Govt gives him forex at 200 Naira or less for a dollar, he sells it at 700 or more and comes back again. Forex roundtripping gives him more money than hé would ever make in refinery that will never be completed unless hé is bursted!

9japride:
I thought that road was being used by APC agents here to shut down the south easterners who were complaining that the government has neglected the road. They said the road was almost completed. Why is it not included in the second Niger bridge for propaganda purposes? Don't those in that region pay their tax?

Election Don reach, they suddenly remember the road.

Army just destroyed evidence. Ship might have contained inbuilt system that has the history of its activities in the waters, which could have been used to nail the big guys in this government and armed forces responsible for this humongous and heartless thefts.

Caucasian/mixed breed

What is this? Russia is devilish.This is unfair, inhuman, totally insane!

That all is vanity except knowing God and loving him faithfully.

Nigerian politicians think every Nigerian is a fool. So if he's not running for election he wouldnt remember this kind of thing. It shows he is just acting. We want real people who have been doing these kinds of things, election or no election. PETER OBI easily comes to mind.

TheNiceGuy:
ASUU/NASU Leaders should be Happy.

They should feast on his flesh.

Union that need to be proscribed. Nonsensical

The way you and people like you think is the reason Nigeria is this horrible! Sometimes you should lock yourself in ur room, off ur phone, think for 30 minutes on why you are this pathetic.

She is not the first to report similar night gangsteric and beastly criminality by EFCC in Enugu. But the thing is, life is beautiful, what you sow u reap!!! Firearms can't defend one against ordinary common cold, not to mention other things these beasts can die of.

Viz007:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/09/04/fg-agrees-to-pay-496m-settlement-claims-on-ajaokuta-steel/

They have money to settle every frivolity that would see them pocket billions of naira, but when it concerns the common man e.g ASUU, they won't have money again. Come 2023, we will collect moni, but our votes will be Obidient to candidates with human conscience, not these beasts in APC.

stevnwigw1:
LECTURERS WILL NEVER TELL YOU THIS IN THE UNIVERSITY ����

If you are invited for a job interview, at the entrance of the gate or within the Organization's premises:

1. Politely greet everybody. I have seen MDs and Managers disguised and standing at the gate to observe interviewees.

2. Do not go inside and start charging your phone or begin to look for where to charge your phone.

3. Do not go inside and begin to chat with your phone or make unnecessary calls. Put the phone inside your bag. They could be monitoring you through the camera.

4. Avoid too much talk with fellow interviewees. Don't go there and begin to argue about the government of the day, escalated food prices, and even lack of employment opportunities. Just be calm and positive.

5. Don't start praying and speaking in tongues to demonstrate your religiosity and closeness to God. Pray at home before going.

6. If they offer you Tea or food, Please reject it politely and thank them. You can take it after the interview. If you take that Tea or food, you are out.

7. Don't chew gum, biscuit, or anything. Go with a book and be reading it.

8. Never criticize your previous employer.

9. If you see somebody you know in the Organization, either as a staff or a fellow interviewee, greet him officially. Avoid creating an impression that you know him.

10. Do not appear too Poor, helpless, and inferior before the interviewer. Forget about Nigeria's problems, your personal and family problems. Focus on the job.

11. After the interview, put up a smiling face, thank them and leave.

In most cases, interviewers assess and score interviewees by the factors above and not necessarily by the answers they provide on paper. They'll train you eventually to do the job if they employ you.

All these for a job of how much?

ozil123:
If you have heard the ASUU president speak, you will agree that he always sounds angry, embittered and not willing to embrace peace.

ASUU and their cohorts should meet FG halfway. This strike is becoming needless. There is no way the FG will address all their grievances.

No salary for six (6) months in this extremely hard Buhari's time. Lecturers lives matter

Yesterday, August 20, 2022, Prof Lanre Olaniyan captured in his write up below, entitled, "My Thoughts On ASUU Strike: Before We Start Experiencing Mass Suicide" Patiently read and understand what is going on so you can judge for yourself whether this government is tactically destroying the university education, which has been the formation ground of millions of youths and a great leveraging sector for the middle and lower classes of the society, or not.


My thinking is that everyone must be ready to shift. Apparently government has not shifted. Let’s look at the issues for strike.

ASUU said there is corruption in universities, and ask government to send visitation panel to investigate them all including corrupt activities in Universities in line with University Act that this must be done every 5 years. It took the 2020 strike before government set up the Committee. Till date government is yet to release its findings on the visits (Note that govt is in charge of funds through Governing Council and contracts). Government should release the report so that there must be consequences for actions. Government’s position is that they are still working on it and will release the report later. Minister Adamu asked what universities are doing with IGR. But the IGR are within purview of government appointed Council which is supposed to be scrutinised by visitation panel. Government should perform its function and not buckpass.

ASUU said, IPPIS is flawed and not adequate for universities. Government eventually agreed to test IPPIS. According to Minister Pantami, IPPIS is filled with huge errors and technical inefficiencies and failed integrity test. He further insinuated that funds were being siphoned from government through IPPIS. Minister Adamu said UTAS performed better than IPPIS. Minister Pantami also said that IPPIS was introduced against the prescriptions of the laws of the land. Resolution. Govt insisted that it will continue to use IPPIS despite these shortcomings. Even with the shortcomings, nobody should dictate to government. PRIDE.

ASUU complained about revitalisation funds for the University system. Government said they would put it in 2023 budget. Although govt is preparing supplementary budget for 2022, University revitalisation funds are not found worthy to be included.

Staff are owed Earned Academic Allowances for 8 years now. I am not sure any sector of public service was owed for that long. Government said that they will put it in 2023 budget and start disbursement by June (when they must have left).

ASUU said salaries should be increased. Despite the fact that there was an agreement between ASUU and government committee last June, Government said it can only increase salaries of a fresh PhD by 30,000 to about 149,000 naira monthly and the highest paid Professor by 60,000 naira to 476,000 naira only. A new professor will still earn below 400,000 naira monthly. In fact the issue that University lecturers earn less than Polytechnic and Colleges of Education lecturers were not addressed. Results indicate that University lecturers will continue to earn less than Poly and COE lecturers.

Hence, none of the request for going on strike had been met. Government came to last Tuesday’s meeting with its decision and said that it was not open for discussion. ASUU should “take it or leave it”.

It should be noted that COE lecturers received their salaries when they went on strike. Staff of Research institutes had been on strike for close to one year, their salaries have not been stopped. Even with the university system, only lecturers salaries were initially stopped.


My position

ASUU should purge itself of looking for other people’s welfare and focus only on its salaries.
ASUU, understand what the laws, policies and conditions of service said you should do and do it. You dont have to go beyond them.
ASUU members should behave like some other professionals such as Petroleum refineries and even doctors and focus on their own welfare. Petroleum refineries have not worked in years but their staff still collect salaries. Don’t force the system to work well if there is nothing to work with. No doctor will go to the theatre for operation if there is no light. If there is no light, and no alternative, do only what can be done. You don’t have to go the extra mile. Stay in your office and enjoy your salary. If there is nothing to work with, go to office and take tea and talk. If the office is too hot, stay in the corridor or go and sit under a tree. Universities such as UI is blessed with many trees. Leave the system to collapse if it should. Nothing concerns you there
As a Lecturer, I have turned to janitor because university gates and classroom doors were locked and my HOD believes exam must continue. I have carried desktop on my head to the car and home since laptops were not provided by the university for my use. ASUU members have turned to messengers dispatching memos when other unions are on strike. They have turned to clerical officers, maintenance officers etc to ensure things must work. I am not sure other professions go on strike for the working facilities to be in shape. ASUU should follow this. If classroom doors are locked. Go back home. If Exam department does not work stay in your office, grade your scripts and pass it forward etc.

ASUU members should not struggle for their universities to get accreditation. If accreditation is withdrawn, go to your office and sit down. Government should do the needful. It does not concern you. Many are not aware that lecturers sometimes contribute money to buy equipment for their dept to pass accreditation. This should stop.
Nobody in the university get a single promotion for teaching. Good teachers do not get promoted, only good researchers do. You dont have to teach well since your progression does not depend on it.
Focus on your research as this is what your condition of service says. ASUU members, please develop your grantseeking and Research delivery capacity and skills. If government belives that students should be taught well, let them change the conditions of service so that only teaching is used for promotion. Register an NGO to achieve your research objective and obtain your grants. In many instances, research grants that go through the university system goes through TSA (another illegally deployed platform for the University system which Minister Pantami also said failed technical efficiency and integrity tests). Direct your research grants to your NGO if you don’t want to have mental issues and hypertension.
Each lecturer is expected to teach not more than 6 courses, ASUU should insist on this. If there are no lecturers to teach other courses, stay within what the law says you should teach. If nobody graduates, its none of your business. Stay within what the policy says.
The life of every lecturer matters. Do not work yourself to death. Be mindful of your health. The system does not warrant you destroying your mental and physical health.
Nobody is talking about children of lecturers who are students, spouses of lecturers who are students or lecturers who are themselves PhD students. Do we really believe that lecturers’ lives matter? Do the lives of lecturers dependants matter?


ASUU members, please focus on your research and remove your emotions from the work. Do only what the law and policy states since this is the perception of everyone.
If you are not happy with the university system find a job in an international agency or private sector. Determine your happiness and progression. Don’t let government destroy your happiness. Refuse to continue to be a slave
Finally, if you have the wherewithal, send your child to a private universities, we are already singing “nunc dimitis” for govt owned universities. We will get there with the present attitudes of everyone
We can agree to quote Trade Dispute Act not to pay outstanding salary of March to date, but IPPIS was deployed breaking the Communications and ICT Act of 2005. Govt insists that it will not respect the details of the Act. ASUU can go to hell.
Govt can also break the University Miscelaneous Act of 2003 where conditions of service are explicitly stated.
Govt can further break other University Acts and laws of the land on Visitation panel institution and reporting.
As for me, I am wondering if I should continue to believe in this system. Can I ask my children to trust the system. Can u trust a govt who believes that some laws are sacrosanct and some should be broken with impunity.
Do I really want to go on strike. If i am emotional about university system, maybe my answer will be YES. If i remove the emotions and focus on my welfare only, maybe my answer will be NO. Let ASUU remove emotions from our duties and I believe things will be better. ASUU members, pls make sure you sustain your physical, emotional amd mental health. Your life matters for your loved ones. It does not matter to Nigerian government Should ASUU continue to fight for the University system? Maybe yes. Maybe no, depending on your belief.
Anyway, what do I know?
At least I know what I want… The story continues


*Lanre Olaniyan*

4gunners:
Guy, a prof doesn't earn 350K. You don't need to lie to prove your point. If everyone should go by your argument, the total workforce will be on strike. Yes, the country is bad but you don't make it worse with your incessant strike.

I have 11 years experience, working in a Fed University. How dare you claim to know more than I do. mtcheeew!

9jii:
Useless certificate.
All these profs that can't be productive and keep producing unproductive graduates that are only good at looking for salary jobs.

Be smart and be productive in way possible. Be free from the system.

If you are unproductive as a graduate, you are lazy and don't ve to generalize ur laziness by saying are grraduates are unproductive. Yes, many may be looking for salary jobs, but it doesn't mean they are not doing something decent already. Many of our graduates got scholarships overseas, many got jobs overseas even from Nigeria. A friend just won MBA scholarship to Netherland, becos products from her spices farm came first in a business competition here in Nigeria. The list is endless. Do u know how many graduates earn in USD from 9ja with the education they got here? O boi go and improve urself and figure out what to do with ur life instead of coming here to insult the exhalted office of a professor.

opera1:
I always said it; No government can please ASUU. Selfish and inconsiderate Union.

Your type is the reason why Nigeria is like this. How much does Bashir Lawal earn? A tout that was ordinary keyboard warrior for Buhari. He takes home almost N900k, while a professor earns N350k and you call them greedy for asking for a raise after 20years. You should examine ur conscience!

See small boy earning x2 the salary of a professor with 20 years experience. This country was structured to favour lunatics and punish sane people. I hope we all get tired and change this narrative soonest!!!

First, it was mocking and ridiculing sacred ministry of Bishops. Now they are dragging the pope. APC has no respect for anything sacred; be it human lives (God's property) or Christian institutions (God's name). BUT OUR GOD CANNOT BE MOCKED. Whatever a man SOWS, that he must REAP!