₦airaland Forum

demelza: The word "handsome" has been bastardised.

sammsimm: Hmmm! How time flies

Abu Mikey:

Vice President Namadi Sambo
led a group of Muslim faithfuls
to the villa yesterday morning
to celebrate the Sallah festival
with the President of Nigeria,
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

A championship expected to foster the intellectual capacity of students and prepare grounds for budding student politicians in Nigerian universities will be hosted by the University of Calabar (UNICAL), an official said.

The Dean of Students Affair of UNICAL, Prof. Eyong Ubana Eyong, made the plan known during an interactive session with newsmen in Calabar on Tuesday.

The First All Nigeria Universities Debating Championship billed for Oct 20 through Oct. 26 will precede the Sixth Pan-African Universities Debate championship which the university will also host from Nov. 29 to Dec. 8, Eyong said.

He said the debate was an all students affair to promote the culture of debate in tertiary institutions, where the culture of listening, dialogue and acceptance of superior argument to change the course of action were encouraged.

He said that the theme of the debate would be “Corruption, Insecurity and National Development’’, to reflect Nigeria’s current challenges.

Also, Mr David Ejim, a student debater, said the debate would be recorded and streamed on the social media for students at home due to the current strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

Ejim, who will feature in the tournament for UNICAL Debating Club, said the institution was hoping to host to win.

He said that the debate was part of the development of young people in Nigeria.

He said that 11 universities out of the 102 universities in Nigeria had registered for the tournament, which would use the British Parliamentary Debate format to encourage critical thinking and discourse.

In his speech, Mr Franklin David, the Chief Adjudicator for the debate, said each of the participating institutions would present two debating teams and one adjudicator at the championship.

He said the idea was to help the students in critical thinking and tolerance of opinion.

“In Nigeria we are used to criticising policies of government and politicians, but in this debate we will also not only criticise but proffer solutions. (NAN)
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/unical-hosts-nigeria-universities-debating-championship/#sthash.xYqMmpfv.dpuf

Nonso23: Wonderful! It shows perfect distribution of power!
Can this happen in Nigeria?

Zuriel was presented with an
intricate 3 foot statue of
unity, the same type
presented to the US
president, to symbolize the
effect of Zuriel's in the lives of
Africa's young women.

xynerise: Dont you have another girl?

Vivly: Charles efo, thanks for sharing your experience. Hope you'll put the advice to good use. Next story please

She also said they are in
silicon valley to know what
they can take back home to
help Nigerians create
worldwide used websites and
application....

homesteady: I can't see anybody that looks like beyonce there oh! Ok maybe the OP has not uploaded the picture

Vivly: I nominate onila and obinoscopy

Vivly: Goodluck to you and your crush. I don't want to derail the thread

braine: So they decided to slaughter humans instead

braine: Aren't they supposed to be preparing for Sahallah•

nerodenero: She is wore it better