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Monday, 16 September 2013
Angelo Collins coming to Nigeria to see his boo, Beverly Osu
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Emma Nyra shows off her parent…kissing.
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PHOTOS: 95 Year Old Gay Man Marries His 65-Year Old Gay Partner
Supreme Court decision to legally tie the knot. The wedding held on Saturday at their home with few friends in attendance. They sealed it with a kiss after exchanging vows. Those who kicked against their marriage simply did not attend.
‘It was something we wanted to do for a long time’, Mr Banvard said. Their ceremony, however, wasn’t completely welcomed by the rest of the home’s residents as some of them protested, but the Facility director insisted they had a right to get married just like others do. Another photo after the cut.
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The Painful Consequences Of ASUU Strike
Like professor and Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Yomi Akinyeye, noted, ‘one cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.’
In other words, one cannot achieve something without causing a few inconveniences.
According to Akinyeye, the strike will not only affect the students and the lecturers, but also the country’s economy, in the long run.
“Most of the problems that Nigeria is currently facing would have been better solved if the issues are properly addressed and the priorities set right. The academic calendar of the students has already been disrupted. This would mean the adjustment of their time table and a delay in their year of graduation. The man hours lost over this period would have to be paid for,” Akinyeye noted.
Considering the duration of the strike, which has lingered since July 1, the total sum in salary for the lecturers may run into billions of naira.
The strike also has a spiral effect on the nation’s education and economic sector, noted professor of Science and Technology Education, University of Lagos, Duro Ajeyalemi.
He stated that while the dreams of many students in their final year have invariably been put on hold, the delay in the university academic calendar will also increase the competition among candidates willing to gain admission into the universities.
These factors will also cause an increase in the number of fresh graduates in the labour market at the end of the academic year, he said.
“Because the devil also finds work for ideal hands, these students may be getting involved in other things that may not be good for the economy; those who are just idling about at home could cause security problems,” Ajeyalemi said.
The earlier the Federal Government resolved the matter, the better for the economy, Ajeyalemi advised.
“It was the government that promised N400bn over a couple of years, starting with the release of N100bn as at that time (2009). But they have not done that. Also, the allowances were part of the agreement signed. So what ASUU is simply asking for is the implementation of the agreement. It is a matter of give and take,” he said.
Even students that believe in ASUU’s struggle are tired of sitting at home. An undergraduate student of the University of Lagos, Joshua Oyeniyi, wrote: “I write on behalf of the millions of dreams that are getting squashed by the day as the total shut-down of our universities persists. I write on behalf of the future of the several hundreds of thousands who have been privileged, amidst the stiff competition for admission, to grasp tertiary education but may end up worse than their disadvantaged counterparts, since they may never finish, much less finish on schedule their educational pursuits.”
He pleaded with the Federal Government to honour the 2009 agreement with ASUU so that students could return to the lecture rooms and pick up the pieces of their “scattered semesters.”
An undergraduate of the Lagos State University, Joshua Oyero, agreed that students bear the brunt of the strike more because the lecturers would still receive their salaries during the period the action lasted.
“We suffer more intellectually. For instance, many schools would release their examination time-tables a week after the strike is called off. They wouldn’t care to know whether the school was three weeks into lectures when the strike had commenced. They are only concerned with how to start another academic calendar,” he said, adding that the Federal Government should not kill the “education economy by their tight-fisted economic policies”
For Head, Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Dr. Ayobami Ojebode, the impact of the regular strike actions embarked upon by ASUU would be most felt, not only in the quality of graduates being churned out by the country’s public universities, but also by the labour market and employers of labour. Like he put it, the country has a “greedy and rabidly impatient employment system.”
“Graduates, everywhere, are like computers. You don’t buy a laptop today and expect that right now, it must run your salary system for you, and compute your departmental results and do everything you want. No computer is configured to do all of that. You must sit down and programme it; install the right software and input data. Employers in Nigeria have to understand that.
“When you employ a graduate, and you expect him to speak the language of your organisation, write your memos in your house style, or operate your fabrication machine as if that is the only one known in the wide world, you are being unrealistic in your expectations, impatient and greedy. Fresh graduates have to be trained – that is, you must install your software in them and input data into them. This is investment, also known as sowing – and the Nigerian entrepreneur wants to reap, he or she doesn’t want to sow. Reaping where you hadn’t sown is a major Nigerian problem,” he said.
Many analysts have argued that considering the issues involved, the fruits of this strike would certainly not taste sweet for any of the parties involved.
By Punch's Arukaino Umukoro
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El-Rufai needs prayers –Presidency
A statement by the Special Assistant (New Media) to the President, Mr. Reno Omokri, in Abuja, described as unfortunate, el-Rufai’s comments contained in the interview published in a national daily, not The Punch, on Saturday.
Omokri said El-Rufai had also said in the interview that “nothing can make Jonathan succeed and that the President is grossly incompetent, because he doesn’t listen, and doesn’t even understand the issues.”
But the Presidential aide urged the public “not to be misled by the machinations of el-Rufai, a man who is in dire need of prayers and perhaps psychological assistance.”
Omokri alleged that “Nasir el-Rufai wanted something from the President which was why he visited him at the Presidential Villa to heap unsolicited praise on the President in 2010.”
He added, “When he did not get what he wanted, he became bitter and since the days of yore when the fox that could not get the grapes tagged them ‘sour grapes’ to mask its frustration, it has always been the habit of persons who cannot compete on the basis of ideas to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it.”
“Thus, El-Rufai, having run out of ideas, has tagged this administration as ‘incompetent,” Omokri stated.
But El-Rufai through his media advisor, Mr. Muyiwa Adekeye, challenged the Presidency to make public the request he made which was turned down by Jonathan.
He noted that el- Rufai had anticipated the discomfort which his latest newspaper interview would cause the Presidency, and he was not surprised by the resort to innuendos in the statement the Presidency released.
He said, “The personal attacks on me cannot redress the competence deficit that afflicts this government or make the poor performance go away.
“I have never asked anything from the Jonathan government, and I challenge them to make public any such request. The history of my meetings with Jonathan upon my return from exile in 2010 is detailed in my book.
“Jonathan is the one who requested my support for his presidential ambition, a request I declined. After the three meetings in 2010, they have sent a variety of people to solicit cooperation and make offers which I have rejected.
“Regarding my relationship with General Muhammad Buhari, there is no doubt that we have had our differences. But we have put those behind us in our quest to help this country achieve the quality of leadership that can pull it from potential to greatness.
“Some of us speak candidly, but we are also educated enough to act on new information and reflections,” he added.
Omokri nevertheless recalled that contrary to his position in the interview, El-Rufai had at a meeting with Ambassador John Campbell in April of 2007 described Jonathan, the then Vice Presidential nominee of the People’s Democratic Party, as a clean and honest leader”.
He also added that El Rufai had told the ambassador that “Jonathan was the only candidate that met Obasanjo’s guidelines, which was honesty and being an Ijaw.”
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Nigeria, 18 others barred from US visa lottery
Information from the United States Department of State sighted on Sunday said Nigerians and citizens from few other countries were not eligible for DV-2015
The department said Nigeria was excluded since over 50,000 Nigerians had immigrated into the United States in the last five years.
The department listed other countries not eligible as Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador and Haiti.
Others are India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam
However, many African countries would continue to enjoy the programme.
Some of them are Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia and Ghana.
Others are Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles and Sierra Leone.
Diversity visas are said to be distributed among six geographic regions, while no single country could receive more than seven per cent of the available space in any year.
Already, advertsiements for the 2015 US DV lottery have started with several businesses inviting Nigerians to apply for the program.
Applications for the 2015 US DV lottery is expected to take off from October 1, 2013.
In 2012, 14,769, 658 persons were said to have qualified worldwide for the US DV lottery among the 19, 672, 269 which applied.
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Photos: Lawyer Turns Vampire Woman
Life is short and sometimes we waste it on many things, so I've chosen beauty. And for me it's beautiful to be this way, so that's why I do it'. So sad. More pics below.
*cute, isn't she *scarcism face*
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