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Judith is my junior in office, I assisted her to secure the job in 2012 by pleading severally with our Chief Executive to retain her after her NYSC assignment with us. She worked directly me during her NYSC. She is a very hardworking, serious minded, down to earth and brilliant young girl. After her employment, I housed her for 5 months after leaving Corpers Lodge before she secured an accommodation at the staff quarters. She is very close to my family, we are like family members even though she's from Imo while I'm from Ondo. Her parent have been to my place several times since 2011, very loving family. After she got her accommodation, a particular guy started visiting her which l think is normal for a 23 year old lady then, she always smile each time I teased her with the guy, saying she should do something on time. She bought a Toyota Corolla in 2014, l saw her as a hhappy upwardly mobile girl. But on May 20 this year, the President of our cooperative society invited me to his office to report Judith to me, according to him, Judith is owing the society close to N2 million and it has been difficult getting her monthly deductions from her account since she would have cleared every dime immediately salaries are paid through REMITTA. I was so disturbed because Judith is owing me N22000 and I know she's owing my wife N50000 or more. I haven't been asking her questions as l used to do in the past in recent times. I invited Judith and told her my findings from the CTS president, she broke down in tears saying it was Iyke, the guy l saw with her who have constituted himself into the parasite that have been sucking her finances. She has even taken a loan of N1million for Iyke in First Bank, her car has been collected by Iyke and she now hops around on Okada. What type of thing is this? Iyke is an Ibo like her, l discovered that this lyke is just one unserious and dubious Playboy who have nothing serious to do with Judith than use her as his source of income. This girl is in a mess financially, her take home will be less than 10k if First bank and CTS deducts their loans regularly and Iyke is always around to clear her account at the end of each month. She is now asking me to help her retrieve her car and other belongings from lyke, the guy disappeared immediately she told him their relationship has ended, I still see Iyke driving Judith's car around. Judith's dad is ready to pay off all her indebtedness but he also begged me to help take care of Iyke first, Judith is ready to do away with the crook but how will l handle this serious assignment? I have asked the CSO of our institution to help in retrieving the car but he is suggesting we involve the police, an option which l don't like, the police will get things complicated. How can l help Judith, the whole thing is affecting her and her work.

KnightMare7:
why not, where is the love? where I come from if the woman's mother comes visiting, she washes her clothes, that of her daughter and her grand children, that's love, why should mother in law be different? If she cares for me, she would assist me not give me more work.

what if your own mother comes visiting? she washes hers too?

chudionu58:
Why did GEJ flag it off?

why did GEJ recommissioned the Papalanto Power Plant commissioned by OBJ in 2006? GEJ and fraud are Siamese twins na.

GEJ was/is a disaster

My kid sister Tola is a very pretty girl, very brilliant too, she just completed her Master's degree at 24. There's this guy who have been coming to our house (family house) since 2014. l once asked my immediate younger brother about him, he said this young guy actually befriended him and have been coming around because of Tola and that Tola have not given him a chance for just one day. l see the guy as coolheaded, straightforward and simple in my few chats with him, he got my number and have been calling me occasionally to say hi. I tried to investigate him a bit and discovered that he's a pharmacist from an average background in Ilesha, Osun State, he works with a Federal Government health facility in Ondo State. I'm fascinated by his simple nature and neatness each time l see him. l would want my sister to give him a trial but she doesn't seem to be interested in him. She's talking about scholarship for her PhD at the moment. I asked her about marital relationship but was shocked when she opened her mouth to tell me that the person she really loved isn't showing seriousness and that that guy coming to our house is damned too serious for her. Can you see the contradiction? One isn't serious while another is too serious. I am confused, l don't even know how to advise her to get serious even if she won't marry that young man. To me, SHE IS NOT SERIOUS!

Iku Akpolokpolo, Oba gbatho okpere

pdppower:
Oga Tinubu, Buhari is won't steal true true, but his subordinates might- the same way Jonathan did not steal, but his subordinates did.

who told you Jonathan didn't steal? The man who said stealing isn't corruption?

good.

1.850m? check this and adjust bros www.nairaland.com/3049451/clean-sharp-naija-used-volvo#44712858

If there are vacancies in any FG establishment, e.g. the Police force that have advertised, universities, agencies of FG etc, those vacancies would have been budgeted for, now that the budget have been signed, its time to fill those vacancies. So if you're unemployed, you can begin to apply, lobby your godfathers, pastors, Imams, relation, big men in your town etc to link you with those establishments, OK!

A former Lagos State Sports Commissioner, Ademola Adeniji-Adele,
has died, family sources told PREMIUM TIMES early Thursday.
Mr. Adeniji-Adele passed away in India where he had gone for a
medical check-up after developing some complications, sources
said. He was 60.
An official of Lagos State government confirmed the development
to PREMIUM TIMES and said the state governor, Akinwunmi
Ambode, was preparing to announce it to the people of the state.
Mr. Adeniji-Adele served as commissioner between 2007 and 2011
during the first tenure of former Governor Tunde Fashola.
A pro-democracy campaigner, Mr. Adeniji-Adele’s struggle during
the military regime of late dictator, Sani Abacha, saw Mr. Adeniji-
Adele’s incarceration for months.

www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/202922-former-lagos-commissioner-adeniji-adele-dies-60.html

BabaO2:
This man is always an ediot, very arrogant and complex, some poor thinkers will say he's humble but not knowing it is because he's always devoid of ideas that always makes him forlorn. Why is so difficult for him to accept the late president as his former boss in the trash he just posted?

GEJ is indeed an ineffectual buffoon

focus7:
Ode, he was there for five years and did not remember Yaradua for a year but was busy looting our treasury and romancing Madueke. It is now he want to remember him to score some sympathy and relevance before his mumu followers, corrupt man, this won't stop your probe and you will definitely end up in jail.

you think say they called him ineffectual buffoon for fun?

AgroPro:
I am in Canada. I can help you push this through and give you all relevant information you may require about the school.

Whilst studying your PhD you could also enroll in master program on a part time basis.

Canada is beautiful but cold as Bleep..get ready for -30 in winter bro. Good luck

I'm currently looking for PhD scholarship in Canada Bros, how do I go about it? My spec is Animal Production/Management

Take it if you aren't coming back to take lecturing job in Nigeria

gen2briz:
I'll work for you.

that was then, it's now "I will deal with you".

no source, hope its not fake news?

v

snailspeed:
Is this what you now celebrate as achievement? All through GEJ's tenure, salaries were paid on or before the 25th. In fact, in December 2014 when the salaries were delayed till after Christmas because of a problem with the payment software,, GEJ personally apologised to workers. This is just too low for you guys!

Go and say that to Osun or Ondo State workers, then you'll know it's worth celebrating.

barcaboi:
but when GEJ was contesting, this sentiments didn’t aride

you dey mind the idiot?

Ryabcool:
[b] These people have just given APC the rocket launcher to blow them out of existence come 2019. How foolish can these people get? The SW PDP they just discarded now are those that managed to almost tie the votes GEJ got in 2015 with Buhari. Now that there won't be anybody to campaign for them here in the SW, what then is the point?

In 2019 when the election comes, let's break down how the public voting based on the mindset of each zone will be when a Northern Presidential aspirant comes forth from the PDP:

North; It is well known that no northern politician alive today can match the popularity of Buhari. So please tell me who in the pdp will have the liver and power to confront him in the North when votes and public charisma is involved? Buhari at worst will definitely score 75% of all the votes in the north. Meaning APC wins, PDP loses

South East; They have been clamoring for an Igbo presidency, and they heavily campaigned against the North during the last election. Will they suddenly turn around and start singing praises of another Northern candidate just because he's from the PDP? Bear in mind that the actions of the Fulani herds men of late does not favour anybody from the north in the SE. Though I predict a narrow win for the PDP, expect a very low turn out of voters because nobody would care about any of the APC and PDP candidates. While this is a win for the PDP, it might not be a win on the long run because overall numbers will matter.

South South; the general mindset is also going to go almost the same way of the South East, though there might be more voters turn out in favour of the PDP here. Overall, numbers will still not be enough to guarantee anything.

South West; Now this is going to be the funniest of all. PDP having just lost their political structure in the Southwest, who will campaign for them when the elections come? The public perception of PDP in the SW is at an all time low, and tonight has just made it even lower. Does anybody think Yoruba people will stand and watch some people from other zones come to tell them to vote for people who couldn't carry their indigent important politicians along when they were working the shenanigans of their political structure? Very laughable. With nobody of value to campaign for them, even KOWA will win more votes than PDP. APC will sweep almost all the votes here.


So in summary, I don't see how PDP hopes to make any serious impact in the next election. They have shot themselves in the foot and it will not heal in another 7 years to come. CONGRATS APC FOR WINNING THE NEXT ELECTION!

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you forgot to state that the total number of registered voters in Kano is more than those in the entire SE combined, and in Kano, Buhari is king!

Igbos and fraud are like Siamese twins

faithugo64:
we cried for CHANGE but got CHAINED instead


chai which way Nigeria??

may you remain in that chain forever, Amen.

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opsynea2j:
I year used

for 600k? That's the price of toks bro!

Cutehector:
Mind ur business op. Yemi is an adult and if she can't make up her own decisions by herself, den dats her own cup of tea. I am so tired of people askin for what to do when it's very much obvious the solution to their problem is just not far fetched.

its not just about talking without giving an advise or a suggestion, Yemi is here with me and my wife reading your comments.

Yemi is my adopted sister, she lives in my house, coolheaded, hardworking, neat, honest and godly, I and my wife decided to house her when she had accommodation problem 15 months ago. Before then she lived with her aunty and the hubby of the aunty wasn't well disposed to her staying with them because she avoided his advances and would not want to cause problem in her Aunty's home. She introduced her fiance yo me when she moved into our house. Fast forward 13 months later, she started complaining to me that her boyfriend/fiance has been showing lackadaisical attitude to their relationship, she claimed the guy takes decision only after taking approval from his mum. I tried yo intervene, called the guy, discussed as man to man with him, he uttered no word but thanked me for my advises. The mother of the boy called Yemi to warn her never to report her child to anyone again, Yemi seemed to be tired of the whole thing, l would have asked her to call of the relationship but l restrained myself, I wouldn't like to be quoted, Yemi is 29 while the guy is 32, she is no longer willing to continue with the affair, what's your advise?

The quintessential Awo; always on point! A very deep thinker, he interacted with egg-heads, attended
academic inaugural lectures (most of the present crop of leaders are too busy for that), embraced
intellectualism; no wonder he had answer to almost all questions. His place has not been filled yet. This is a 1987 interview, yet its as if he is addressing the Nigeria of 2016.
Rest on Pa Obafemi Awolowo.
From the Archives:
A PROFESSOR'S LAST CONVERSATION WITH AWO
Thirty-five days before the death of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, a professor of philosophy and
member of The Nation Editorial Board, Dr. Moses Akin Makinde, spoke with the sage. The
conversation is part of Prof. Makinde’s book: "Awo as a philosopher".
Oh my God, these are profound statements, sir.
Profound you may say, but what I am trying to say is that we are not educated. And once we are
not educated we cannot acquire technology. Tell me, by what means can we acquire technology like
the highly industrialized nations? A nation that does not educate its citizens cannot complain of
technological backwardness. Why do you think I have spent a great part of my life talking about
free education at all levels? Of course, for the development of the human mind leading to the
development of middle and high level manpower and subsequently to economic, political, scientific
and technological growths, a leader who does not put premium on education of his citizens is
either an educated fool or not educated at all. Such a leader lacks foresight completely and must
be incapable of leading a nation to greatness. If you studied history of the world you would have
read about how great nations had been ruled by great leaders. I have just told you about India, not
to talk about the advanced countries which look down upon us as if we are not created by the same
God. Perhaps the fault is in our attitudes and ways of life, but definitely not in our colour or stars.
Our stars have been dimmed by incompetent rulers. That’s all.
There is this Energy Centre which is the baby of the University of Ife. Now people have said it many
times that many of our problems in this country are caused by these things called federal character
and quota system . Originally, the Department of Physics under the leadership of Professor Abiodun
Francis Oluwole at the University of Ife wrote a proposal for the establishment of energy centre in
the university. Prof. Oluwole succeeded in getting five million naira, during the Obasanjo’s military
administration, from Shehu Musa Yar‘Adua, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Committee on
October 7, 1976. However, for the purpose of federal character, Ahmadu Bello University was
brought into participate in the programme for which it was not prepared. Thus, on October 14, 1976
the money was shared between the University of Ife and ABU at N2.5 million each. Because ABU
could not start the programme on time and Ife had gone far by buying equipment, the military
government gave Ife an additional N3 million on September 29, 1979. By that time ABU had not
spent its N2.5 million. The Federal Government ought to have concentrated its efforts on developing
Ife as the Centre for Energy instead of duplicating it in the North i.e at ABU which lacked the will
and manpower to sustain such a gigantic programme as it obtains in developing countries,
especially in the USA and Europe.
There is a place in California, Stanford University, called the Silicon Valey. It is the heartbeat of
technology in the USA. Talk of electronics/electrical, computers and other technological gadgets,
the Valey will readily come to mind. Now, because that university has the resources and manpower,
a lot of money was sunk there and today it has developed to something very significant. Many
industries patronize the place and it has become one great industrial complex and centre for
technological researches and technological innovations. Right now, the University of Ife seems to
be the heartbeat of technology in this country, but the Federal Government seems to be
uninterested. There is also this discovery of Fagara which can be used to manage sickle cell
anemia. You did attend Professor Sofowora’s inaugural lecture at Ife. I saw you there.
Sofowora, yes.
Now, the government of this country has shown little interest in Professor Sofowora’s discovery,
not to talk of any attempt to patent it. The only interest the Federal Government showed was
to set up a committee to look into the management of sickle cell in the Ministry of Science and
Technology. Out of the N200,000 needed by Prof. Sofowora only N30,000 was sent. Of course,
he returned it to the Ministry.
There is also the case of Prof. Makanjuola of the Department of Agricultural Engineering, also
at Ife. He was the first to discover and build a machine for pounding yam in 1972. Again, his
discovery was begging for government assistance. The Engineering Company in Lagos
approached the University for manufacturing right. The right was granted and the manufacture
of pounded yam machine attracted a lot of attention at a subsequent trade fair. There was no
encouragement from the government. Eventually UACN enlisted a Japanese firm which bought
one of the machines, went away with it, copied it and began to produce in larger quantity than
Addis. For one reason or the other, the University did not take UACN to court for infringement
of copy right by giving the patent to a Japanese firm. Thus, Professor Makanjuola’s invention,
like many others, suffered from lack of government and public support.
It is a pity. I think our government, individuals and big corporations should support research in
this country, as it is done in industrialised countries.
Now back to the Energy Centre at the University of Ife. I think the University of Ife is really
suffering. As I said, the idea of an Energy Centre was a baby of the university. They wrote good
papers to justify the establishment of the centre. Because of this, the university undertook a
staff development programme abroad. Many graduate students, especially those with first class
and second class honours degree in physics, went abroad for training in nuclear physics. Now,
instead of allowing Ife which initiated the idea of the centre to remain the nation’s centre for
energy, a situation that would have led to our own Silicon Valey, the Federal Government, I
repeat, introduce federal character by splitting the Centre into two, with one centre at Ife and
another at the Ahmadu Bellow University (ABU), irrespective of whether or not there was the
staff or whether or not some people knew what the centre was all about or how it should be
run. Eventually the money needed to develop an Energy Centre at Ife had to be shared by the
Universities of Ife and ABU thus rendering neither of the centres effective as it should be. This
leads one to think that we do not have a coherent science and technology policy in
this country.
That is true
It also shows that we have a lopsided educational policy in this country.
That is also true. That is why, for instance, our government does not believe in free education.
You mean education for the generality of the people.
Yes, they don’t believe in it. Even in higher education, how much does the government spend on
research and development (R & D) annually?
What about this question that there is no money so that the universities cannot perform as they
should, and they do perform in the advance countries and even in some African countries.
They know they make the money and they are spending the money. See how they steal it. Let
me tell you the story about the Director of the Youth Corps which I have been reading in the
newspapers.
You mean the NYSC.
Yes, NYSC. Who will ever think that the officials of the NYSC would ask that they should be
provided money to buy generators and air-conditioners when they have no houses built for NYSC
students. At one times some of them lived in this compound of mine. Why do they buy
generators? The generators which they were purported to have bought and paid for could serve
many universities in this country rather than the NYSC alone.
So the kind of free money they give to the NYSC is not given to the Universities.
You see that! Somebody told me that the NYSC has a group of people, a committee called Club
3.30. The meet at 3.30 p.m every Wednesday and just share the money. Yes, they share the
money! I think the whole lot of them should be lined up and shot. Imagine, they just share our
money! The money which belongs to you and I, to your family and my family, to every family
and to everybody, rich and poor. They just share the money which belongs to all of us! This is
criminal and wicked, to say the least. And I must say that this is just one good reason why this
country can never develop. This is not a curse, it is a fact. The future will bear me out on this
very serious matter. Honestly, I weep for Nigeria my country, your country, our land of birth.
Sometime next week the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will declare a lecture free
day because of the poor funding of university education. What happens now in the universities
is very serious. The universities just try to pay salaries, and in some universities salaries are not
paid for two months. Right now we can only teach students but in many cases the laboratories
are empty and classrooms inadequate. But in spite of all this, we do teach but facilities for
research like funding and equipment are just not there. What many people, including the
government, do not know is that universities are established for teaching and research.
Teaching takes only eight to nine months of the year while research goes on for twelve months
of the year. Because of the importance attached to research, lecturers’ work seven days in a
week, including Saturdays and Sundays and hardly go on vocation. This is the case because the
rule of the game of academic promotion is publish or perish! If you don’t do research, you may
not be able to publish, and if you don’t publish, especially in international journals, you don’t get
promoted. Therefore, the more important part, as it is known throughout the world, is research.
Research, that is it. Without research you cannot teach. In order to teach you have to get
relevant text books and journal articles, and all this is a product of research. Research, first,
then teaching second. So, without research and products of research like text books etc., you
will only teach nonsense which is the same as just teaching any thing from your head, and that
is not good for the university system. I agree with you.
The situation is even more serious than that. Now, you are invited to present an academic paper
in Europe or America. You apply for conference funds and you don’t get it because there is no
money. And it is extremely important that lecturers attend conferences both locally and abroad.
A conference abroad enables a lecturer to present his research findings, compare them with
those of his colleagues abroad in terms of academic standard and value of the research, share
your knowledge with others, get your paper criticized while you also obtain academic papers of
your colleagues from other universities. This situation makes a lecturer current in his field of
knowledge, and the students are the beneficiaries.
If you don’t do research and you don’t have avenues of presenting your research findings for
objective criticism as it will happen if you go to conferences abroad, I will say categorically that
your knowledge will be stale. Whatever knowledge you may possess at home will be stale
because it is not up to date. A lecturer has to frequently update his knowledge otherwise what
he teaches his students will be stale knowledge, and this is not good for education and
progress. Don’t forget that the word university means universal institution. As it is in Nigeria, so
it is in Britain and America. You cannot pretend to be imparting knowledge at the University of
Ife or University of Ibadan when all you can impart is stale or local knowledge, owing to lack of
current text books and journals in your discipline and exposure to the product of your
colleagues abroad, especially through academic conferences.
Sir, I am glad you know all this. Only god knows what our leader in this country think about
education in general, and higher education in particular.
No, they think nothing, they think nothing about education.
I think so much money is wasted on other things in this country. I personally think that two vital
sectors i.e. health and education should be accorded the highest priority in the nation’s
budgetary allocations. You have demonstrated the importance of these two sectors in your
regime of Mental Magnitude and your position on man as an instrument of change. It is for this
reason that you accord great priority to education and health (free Education and free
Medicare) which are crucial to the development of man whom you also see as a potential
genius. If man is educated but not healthy or healthy but not educated, he cannot perform his
functions as the instrument of change in economic, scientific technological social and political
matters. Is when a man is educated and healthy that he can work and be productive, participate
meaningfully in politics and governance, contribute his own quota to the economic scientific,
technological, social and political developments of the nation. In other words, the wealth of a
nation depends on the education and health of its citizens.
You are perfectly correct. You got me right. I am happy that some academics like you can
understand and interprets my work correctly. You know I have always maintained that Nigeria
has the money to pursue free education and free health to a reasonable level. I did it
successfully when I was the Premier of Western Region. What you may not know is that
government makes money everyday, probably more than it can spend on each day. In this
sense, government is never broke unless some funny things happen. What a good government
like that of the Western Region under my leadership should do is to keep an eagle’s eye on the
nation’ treasury, its incomes and expenditures. You must see government as big business where
the shareholders are happy at the end of the year when good profit is declared and good
dividends are paid. A business that indulges in frivolous and unproductive spending is not likely
to satisfy its shareholders at the end of the year. In fact, the shareholders may be so angry as
to ask for the heads of the management crew. I think government should not be run as if it is
nobody’s business, where everybody will like to steal and steal public money to no end. It is
abominable, it is wicked!
Are you saying that this government has money but that people just waste this money because
they are not concerned about public good.
Yes, the government has sufficient money to make education and health free, and this is for the
greatest good of the greatest number.
www.thenationonlineng.net/archive2/tblnews_Detail.php?id=47058

Mynd44:
Ondo state an oil producing state owes 3 months salary.

Bayelsa, another oil producing state just got bailed out

Kogi is a mess

Imo is *sighs*

Yet Osun which collects "6 million" in federal allocation started paying salaries for January on monday meaning they owe just 2 months unlike 7-8 months some months ago and yet their federal allocation has not been increased.

I think we need to look at Osun beyong its allocation and ask how the government there has cut down the salary owed workers in yhe face of dwindling finances because in that amswer we will find out how Osun intends to finance a budget of 150 billion

Of course this message will be lost

Ondo State is owing teachers 5 months salary, civil servants 4 months please.

SURElee:
Oct 18

Me I'm October 18 too

German, this one baad!