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Education / Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by Vcojuro: 8:56pm On May 25, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: Buhari’s Speech That Changed The North by Vcojuro: 9:55am On May 23, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: Buhari’s Speech That Changed The North by Vcojuro: 9:43am On May 23, 2015 |
It took me a long time to realize it but the only way to preserve our society, our cherished history and heritage is to secure an educated and informed citizenry. Those who are not hooked to the tap of knowledge find themselves deep in the valley of ignorance. I ask that you trust me on this mission. By lifting your children, our children, we will lift up our society. By giving them education, we will be making them competitive. They will go to the moon and back, exploring and tolerating of the different world out there. But most importantly, by pulling them up, we will maximize the potentials that I know are in them. To this end, I have secured a northern rehabilitation fund approved by the National Assembly. It is part of our effort to rebuild the North after the devastation of Boko Haram insurgency. I have also consulted our partners in the private sector to team up with us in putting the necessary resources needed for this mission to be a success. They have signed on to this mission and have donated their time and billions of naira to make this happen. They are here with me in a show of commitment to you. So, please, join me as we unleash the promises currently locked up in all of our children. There is no injustice worse than wasting the God given potentials of our children. Join me, my brothers and sisters and let us finish the work or forefather, Ahmadu Bello started. Hana wani, hana kai.(If one refuses another, one refuses oneself.) Thank you for listening and may Allah bless us all. saharareporters.com/2015/05/21/buharis-speech-changed-north-rudolf-ogoo-okonkwo |
Politics / Re: Buhari’s Speech That Changed The North by Vcojuro: 9:42am On May 23, 2015 |
To all the parents out here and those watching at
home, I want you to bring your children to me. I want
you to get them off the farm, off the streets, off the
business of life and bring them to me. Leave them
with me for twelve years. Just twelve years. From the
time they are six to the time they are eighteen and I
will turn them into what my children have become,
what Atiku’s children have become, what Dantata’s
children have become, what Shagari’s children have
become.
I’m proposing a paradigm shift for us all. For a
democratic society to sincerely demand personal
responsibility, it must first deliver to the people the
minimal educational development. It is a
fundamental exchange needed for the creation of an
egregious society.
I want your children to be educated like my children,
like Atiku’s children, like Shagari’s children, like
Sanusi’s children. I want your children to stop coming
to the table of the Dantatas, the Shagaris, and the
Umars, the Buharis to be given food to eat. I want
your children to sit on the same boardroom with our
children; be in the same university campus with our
children; to work in the same laboratory; to manage
the same hospitals as doctors; to design the same
roads as engineers; and fly the same airplanes as
pilots.
I want them to go as far as their brains can take
them. I want them to go to the best schools all over
the world, from Zaria to Zambia, from London to
Moscow, from New Delhi to New York. In 30 years, I
want to have equal number of children from
Northern Nigeria competing on equal footing in
JAMB and WAEC and Cambridge examinations and in
entrance examinations to Federal Government
schools across Nigeria.
This is why it is important: the best investment we
can make in the North is not in finding oil in the Chad
basin. It is in investing in the potentials of our
children. And so it is that the greatest security we can
provide for our society is equality of opportunity. It
starts with equality of education. Equality of
education guarantees equal access to knowledge.
Knowledge, you know, is not just power, knowledge
is also health; it is also wealth and it is also an
antidote to ignorance.
I charge you to join me as we build a new Northern
Nigeria in a generation. We will start with one local
government in each state until we get to every school
in all of Northern Nigeria. Our goal is that in three
years from today, there will be a free and
compulsory primary and secondary school education
for all children across Northern Nigeria from the
ages of six to eighteen.
We will feed your children. We will provide them
books and pencils and desks and dresses and
anything they need to go to school. We will find new
teachers to teach them and retrain and retain the
ones we have now. We will build the new schools
where they will learn and repair the ones we have
now. All that we want you to do as parents is to free
your children. Free them and watch them fly. Free
them for six hours of every weekday and we will do
the rest.
While we adore the ways of the past, tomorrow runs
on new tools. We need to acquire these new tools to
be able to propel tomorrow. The empires of today
are not the type our forefathers built with arrows,
guns and enslavement – empires that need to be
protected with high walls. The empires of today are
the type Aliko Dangote builds with knowledge and
information from the mountains of Tanzania to the
Sahel of Senegal. If such ventures have been good to
Dangote, they will also be good to your own children.
Amfanin hankali aiki da shi. (The value of good sense
is making use of it.)
For long, we, your leaders, have pointed at some
other places and some other people as those
responsible for your challenging lives. We did it to
cover up our own failures to lift you up the way we
lifted our own children. We did it to protect ourselves
from being at the receiving end of your wrath. But we
should have known that our long-term fate depends
on you, the people, and not just in giving our children
the best that the world has. Now, we are ready to
make amends. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Buhari’s Speech That Changed The North by Vcojuro: 9:40am On May 23, 2015 |
I have asked parents, old and young, men and
women, young children, boys and girls, everyone of
you who shared the hope for change that we
promised, to come out here today. I chose this
backdrop, the Queen Amina Hall, inside of Ahmadu
Bello University, to illustrate the point I want to make.
I want those of you who have never been inside the
four walls of a university to come in here. I want you
to come in front of this hall named after an
extraordinary woman who was a trailblazer in our
history, a woman who defied all the odds and wrote
her name in marble. I want to invoke Queen Amina
who was not just a leader by accident, but one who
was also schooled. She fought her way to the top. She
was the epitome of the ideal that I envision.
I want to make things better for you, for us. But I also
realize that the greatest change there is, is the one
that we all, each of us, can make in ourselves.
In the 2014- 2015 WAEC statistics, South-West had a
total of 400, 445 students who registered for the
examination. Out of that number, 130, 365 passed
while 270, 080 failed. That is 33% pass versus 67%
fail. In the South-East a total of 184, 970 registered
for the examination. Out of that, 118, 985 passed
while 65 985 failed. That is 64% versus 36%. In the
South-South a total of 305,183 students registered
with 13, 072 passing while 174, 111 failed which is
43% vs 57%. In the North West, 309, 139 took the
examination, 66, 295 passed while 242, 844 failed,
that is 22% vs 78%. In the North Central minus F.C.T,
279, 558 students took the examination, 62, 499
passed while 217, 059 failed, that is 22% vs 78%. In
the North East, 150, 951 students took the
examination, 14, 772 passed while 136, 179 failed,
which is 10% vs 90%. In the F.C.T, a total of 18,153
took the examination, 5,568 passed while 12 , 585
failed, which is 31% vs 69%. Looking at the
population of young people in these regions, these
figures for the North are unacceptable. Mind you
those were our best outing in years. We need to
change that. And we need to change that together. |
Politics / Buhari’s Speech That Changed The North by Vcojuro: 9:38am On May 23, 2015 |
An English translation of a speech delivered in Hausa by President Muhammadu Buhari on in front of Queen Amina Hall at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State. The speech was made in the presence of Aliko Dangote, Gov. El-Rufai, Senator Shehu Musa, Emir of Kano Lamido Sanusi, Sultan of Sokoto, Islamic Cleric Abubakar Gumi, Former Vice President Atiku Abubarkar, Former Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar, Dr. Aliyu Umar, Engineer Sani Bako, amongst others. It was broadcast live on BBC Hausa Service, VOA Hausa Service, NTA Hausa Service with livestream on Gamji.com and other online forums.) On one bright day like today, our campaign plane landed at Bauchi airport. I looked through the window and saw a sea of people at the tarmac. It was the same panoramic view that I see in front of this Queen Amina Hall today. It was a common sight in those days but this one was different. As the plane taxied to a stop, the crowd surged towards it. They got right onto the runway. Security men and women tried to stop the crowd but gave up at one point. The security personnel, too, ran towards our plane. From the window of the aircraft, I took a deep look at the crowd; some barefooted, some well dressed as if it was Salah; some young, some old, some rich, some poor. A look at many in the crowd showed people who have had a tough life. Yet, the enthusiasm on their faces, the passion in their steps, the gusto of their chant, Sai Buhari, touched my heart. I said right there, before I got off the plane, that if I win the election, I would come back to those people that I saw, I would find them across Northern Nigeria and I would make a deal with them. 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Do Churches Fail The Poor? by Vcojuro: 12:35pm On May 17, 2015 |
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TOPIC: Do churches fail the poor Link: https://www.nairaland.com/2319348/churches-fail-poor |
Religion / Re: Do Churches Fail The Poor? by Vcojuro: 12:11pm On May 17, 2015 |
Mere religious affiliation has weakened for the poor and working class as well. The much-discussed rise of the “nones” — Americans with no religious affiliation — has been happening in blue -collar America as well as among the hyper- educated. From a religious perspective, this a signal failure: A church that pays out to help the poor, but doesn’t pray with them, looks less like a church than what Pope Francis has described, unfavorably, as merely another N.G.O. But even from a secular perspective it’s a problem, because (as Putnam’s work stresses) the social benefits of religion are stronger further down the socioeconomic ladder, and these benefits are delivered through community, practice, and belonging. So churches that spend or lobby effectively for the poor but are stratified come Sunday morning offer less to the common good than if they won a more diverse array of souls. This critique actually lays a heavier burden on believers than the one Obama and Putnam offered. Their unjust accusation is easily answered by citing what religious Americans do already. The just one, though, requires doing something new. Cull from: mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/opinion/sunday/ross-douthat-do-churches-fail-the-poor.html |
Religion / Re: Do Churches Fail The Poor? by Vcojuro: 12:09pm On May 17, 2015 |
It also conveniently absolves liberalism of any responsibility
for pushing churchgoing Americans toward the small-
government G.O.P. That’s an absolution that the Obama White
House, with its pro-choice maximalism and attempts to strong-
arm religious nonprofits, particularly needs.
No, to actually save the critique, you have to transform it
completely. There is a case that churches are failing poorer
Americans. But the problem isn’t how they spend money or
play politics. It’s a more basic failure to reach out, integrate,
and keep them in the pews.
This is the striking story of the last 30 years: Despite the
stereotype of religion as something that people “cling to” (to
quote a different moment of condescension from this
president) in desperate circumstances, actual religious practice
has collapsed more quickly among Americans with weaker
economic prospects than it has among the college-educated
upper class. |
Religion / Re: Do Churches Fail The Poor? by Vcojuro: 12:08pm On May 17, 2015 |
This reality is reflected in the atmosphere of most churches
and the public statements of their leaders. Anyone who tells
you that America’s pastors are obsessed with homosexuality or
abortion only hears them through a media filter. You can
attend Masses or megachurches for months without having
those issues intrude; you can bore yourself to tears reading
denominational statements and bishops’ documents (true long
before Pope Francis) with a similar result. The belief that
organized religion is organized around culture war is largely a
conceit of the irreligious.
Is there a version of the Obama-Putnam critique that makes
any sense? Maybe they just meant to criticize religious leaders
who make opposition to abortion more of a political priority
than publicly-funded antipoverty efforts. But even this critique
essentially erases black and Latino churches (who reliably
support social programs), ignores decades worth of pro-
welfare-state talk from Catholic bishops, and treats the liberal
Protestant mainline as dead already. |
Religion / Do Churches Fail The Poor? by Vcojuro: 12:07pm On May 17, 2015 |
LAST week two prominent Americans — an eminent social scientist and the president of the United States — decided to answer the question: How have America’s churches failed the poor? Their answer was one deeply congenial to the progressive mind: They’ve been too obsessed with the culture war. “Over the last 30 years,” Harvard’s Robert Putnam told The Washington Post, “most organized religion has focused on issues regarding sexual morality, such as abortion, gay marriage, all of those. I’m not saying if that’s good or bad, but that’s what they’ve been using all their resources for ... It’s been entirely focused on issues of homosexuality and contraception and not at all focused on issues of poverty.” President Obama’s version, delivered when he shared a stage with Putnam at Georgetown University, was nuanced but similar in thrust: “Despite great caring and concern,” the president remarked, when churches pick “the defining issue” that’s “really going to capture the essence of who we are as Christians,” fighting poverty is often seen as merely “nice to have” compared to “an issue like abortion.” It would be too kind to call these comments wrong; they were ridiculous. Not only because (as Putnam acknowledged) believers personally give abundantly to charity, but because institutionally the churches of America use “all their resources” in ways that completely belie the idea that they’re obsessed with culture war. As Mark Hemingway of The Weekly Standard pointed out, “Even the most generous estimates of the resources devoted to pro-life causes and organizations defending traditional marriage are just a few hundred million dollars.” Whereas the budgets of American religious charities and schools and hospitals and other nonprofits are tabulated in the tens of billions. (Indeed, as Bloomberg View’s Megan McArdle noted, some of that money — from Catholic sources — paid Obama’s first community-organizer salary.) |
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Politics / Re: Jonathan Supporters Planned To Kidnap Jega - Reuters by Vcojuro: 7:19pm On Apr 16, 2015 |
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