THIS ASUU/FG SAGA THO.... SEE WHAT'S GOING ON NOW

So, for about four months now, we've sat on our asses and watched ourselves just get fatter by the day. Its a sad situation, but more than that, its just plain annoying, and even if at some point I applauded ASUU's courage in demanding what they think is their right.
Recently however, I'm not very big fans of them. Take a look at what The Nation has to say... be sure to drop your own opinions on the recent back and forth between these two bodies.

"Following threats from the Federal Government, leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday relocated from Abuja to their various campuses in readiness for expected crackdown.

It was gathered that President Goodluck Jonathan might no longer be directly involved in negotiation with the lecturers because he is angry with ASUU leaders for three reasons, namely their contempt for the office of the President, their decision to issue new conditions and their alleged backing by some external forces.

Investigation revealed that after spending almost a week in Abuja for the resumption of talks, the ASUU leaders were left with no option but to go back to their various campuses.

It was learnt that the leaders felt disappointed that in spite of the fact that they had avoided making the negotiation talks a media affair, the Federal Government bungled the opportunity to wrap it up.

A top leader of ASUU, who spoke in confidence, said: “Our leaders have returned to their campuses. They were disappointed with the Area Boy or Agbero method adopted by the Minister.

“The military style of the Minister of State for Education will only compound the situation.

“So, we are back to our trenches as it was the situation during the military era. We are ready for the worst now.

“If the situation becomes uncontrollable, we will also go underground and resort to guerilla tactics.”

There were indications yesterday that the Federal Government might level sabotage allegation against the lecturers if they remain unyielding and the strike paralyses universities.

A senior government official, who confided in THE NATION, said: “We hope that they will not overreach their bounds, because what they have done in the last four months amounted to economic sabotage.

“If they continue to take the law into their hands by paralysing activities in the universities, we may try them for economic sabotage. This is also the extreme end the government may go too.

“Let them study the enabling laws to see what they have been violating. We are not yet disposed to wielding the big stick, but if the government is pushed to the wall, it will invoke relevant laws to manage the situation. We are waiting for what they will do.”

Top ASUU leaders were said to have been placed under security watch at the time of filing this report.

A different source said: “All the security agencies have been directed to protect lives and property on all the campuses nationwide, especially in the universities that have reopened.

“Union leaders are also under watch to prevent recourse to self-help, which may lead to wanton destruction of property.

“The government will not tolerate any intimidation or harassment, and any violent union leader risks being arrested. But those who restrict themselves to the confines of the law have nothing to fear.”

A government source yesterday said that President Goodluck Jonathan might no longer be directly involved in negotiation with ASUU to preserve the Office of the President.

A government source said: “We are trying to insulate the Office of the President from further negotiation with ASUU if at all the union will allow such or there will be room for such.

“We think relevant ministers and the Committee of Pro-Chancellors/Vice-Chancellors should be able to handle the rest of the talks/negotiation.”

According to investigation, the December 4, 2013 ultimatum given by the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, followed the directive of the Presidency.

The government source added: “The President is angry because he over-indulged ASUU leaders. It is only in Nigeria you see the President sitting for 13 hours with union leaders on any issue and at the end of the day, there will be no courtesy from the union.

“While the President was expecting feedback from ASUU leaders within 72 hours, they kept him in suspense for two weeks or more.

“And instead of feedback on where the talks stopped, ASUU leaders came up with fresh conditions when even during the negotiation, they admitted that some of the clauses in 2009 agreement cannot be implemented.

“The President is human. He now has every cause to believe that the strike action seems to have the backing of external forces seeking to bring his administration down. That was why he decided to come down hard on ASUU too.”

Now that the federal government has deployed police officers to all federal campuses (according to punch) what's the next step please?

Olamide's #GunManPose gone VIRAL!!... CATCH THE CRAZE! (Crazy pics!!)

Unless you live way under a rock that probably has a whole country sitting on it, you’ve come across #thegunmanpose in some way or the other. Its the new craze taking over our pictures. It started with Olamide and his #baddestguyeverliveth album’s artwork, now its a movement people!

Everyone is getting involved in this somehow... kids, grown men, grown women, young lads, even outside the shores of our arguably clean Naija waters!!! Its a pretty easy pose to make. Take a look at the photos, and if you haven’t gotten involved, well... GET TO WORK!

 And if you have, (you no dey carry last), please copy the link and share with your friends!!

you can rock ds pose in ur undies!

d kids r doing it!

so many different styles!

oga police follow rock am!

you can do ds at the office... tell ur boss to join u

its even a family affair

our fav cartoon xters hv caught the virus

even in London, #gunmanpose tohh badtt!!

hmmmn

 

do ds before you go in to operate!! (keeps u in d spirit!)

on the assembly ground sef...

try it wif ur illuminati powers!

go crazy in your father's parlor!

even the stars hv got this virus

hmmmn!

 

my fav photo tho...

ur mom can rock ds pose!

perfect for a halloween party too

RELATIONSHIPREALTALK: When You Can't Get Over Him

Dear Girls,

I remember when my mom lost her purse a few years back. She kept obsessing, lamenting and indulging in self pity. I angrily told her the purse was gone and it wasn’t coming back, so all she had to do was get a new one to compensate, and just simply put her loss out of her mind.

I’m sure that couldn’t have been easy. She had not just money in there, but her different licences and passport. Going about getting  new ones had to have been tough business.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m in no way attributing a ripped heart to a lost purse. I’m just saying, that the ‘intro. to tough love lesson 101’ I gave my mom doesnt apply here. Don’t listen to people who say it does as far as moving on is concerned. You just can’t simply and promptly forget memories and love shared and get “a new one”, and yet, indulging in these memories is as hard as ripping your heart out all over again because they constantly remind you of all you were and all that could have been.

I understand moving on from a relationship could be hard, whether you pulled the plug or not. It could be you can’t let go cos you never consciously made the choice to let go, maybe circumstances played a hand, or maybe its because you believe you’ll never be able to have the relationship you truly want with anyone else.

Its one of the toughest things most people have to go through, especially if you’re still in love with an ex. You feel like you’d never move on, and no one in the world understands that.

I understand. I’ve been there a few times myself, so, I know the drill. You act all tough at first, and then as the days go by, it hits you hard, ‘ít’s really over’.  You cry cos you’re hurting, and all you wanna do is hole up somewhere. You eventually talk to a friend and they tell you he was an asshole not worthy of you, “Just forget him sweetie, you’d find someone else. Don’t cry anymore”.

For some of us, we take this advise and just flat out stop ourselves from thinking about him.  Then a few months down the road, you see him with some girl, and you’re wrestling with your emotions, and just like that, you’re back to square one.

So whats the use anyway?

Thing is, we all must face our own demons ourselves. My advise? Have a good cry if you feel like it. Listen to the most heartbreaking songs and cry some more if you will. When you think about him and you wanna cry, cry. You see someone or something that reminds you of him, and all you want is his arms around you... cry. When the tears are all dried up, don’t bother tryna seek closure or moving on. Wanting closure basically creates avenues for ‘if onlies’. If onlies invariably means we are comparing our future to the past, and yet, we delude ourselves into thinking it’d ease the hurt somehow.

That will never happen!

Lady, ‘take him with you!’ that’s the simple God’s truth. Don’t try to ‘move on’ or ‘let go’. Ignore how many times your friends tell you they are tired of talking about him. Just move froward with your life, go out with friends, go on simple dates, don’t hole yourself up anymore and forget to live. You’ve done that already! Do what you gotta do – and Lady, take the nigger with you. Put him somewhere at the back of your mind – or in that imaginary ‘moving on car’... let him take the back seat. When you look in the rear view, you’re bound to see him, his presence alone would pull you, distract you from your journey, but DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO HIM!

As you’re cruising, stopping along to chat up men and pick up those you wanna get to know better. As you’re stopping to go dancing with your friends. As you learn about the you you’ve become by simply just being, you’d get excited about your possibilities! Every once in a while, maybe you’d chat him up cos you’re still keeping him there, but soon, you’d tire of the man in the backseat who you have to tend to every once in a while, feed him by indulging in memories of the past and wonderings of a future without him.

You’re going to get simply irritated with all the energy  it takes to keep him alive. You’d lean towards the positive energy, and for that, you’d want him gone, you’d want him out of your car, you’d want to really be free to do everything you wanna.

Then one day, when you check out the car honking you in your rearview, you’d realize somewhere along the way he went away – and you didn’t even notice.

You’d be stronger, smarter, more confident to tell people to come on in.

Being yourself, giving you time to heal is the only antidote, but that can’t be gotten by putting your life on hold. And even if you decide to keep him in the backseat, other men would stop paling in comparison. You’d probably even ask yourself why you ever compared.

So my dear ladies, if you can’t get over him now, don’t try to. Just let it happen, let it run its course. Pushing it into the deep recesses of your mind and never bothering to bring it up won’t work. It’d surface again when the timing is wrong. Deal with it now.

Bad things happen, we choose to live not because of it, but despite it. Its how we all survive. Don’t be the exception to the rule!

COLORADO WOMAN CLAIMS TO GET A CALL FROM THE DEVIL!!!

Wonders keep right on piling in! I used to feel as if I've seen and heard it all, now i'm certain I ain't seen nothing yet.

Here in Nigeria, we hear things like Women giving birth to goats, people picking money from the ground and turning into cocoyam, last year in Ogun state a child was said to be born with a Rosary in hand. I thought Nigeria was the land of possibilities now it seems anything is possible in Colorado, U.S.A.

Jenn Vest who lives in Colorado was half asleep, breast feeding her baby, when Mr. Lucifer decided to drop a missed call on her phone, using his main line it seems, 1-666-666-666.

The Colorado mother spent the night terrified and ‘praying nothing would happen’ after she got the call from the devil.

I wonder what Satan wanted to tell this beautiful mum, maybe he had been admiring the woman for a while and wanted to profess his feelings, then at the last minute he cut the call... awwwwn, satan is the shy type it seems... just thinking though.

It was gathered that after the call, she received 48 text messages from different numbers, all of them with just a single word ‘Satan’.

"It really freaked me out because I was half asleep feeding my son and it woke me up" the woman said, 'then I stayed up the rest of the night praying and hoping nothing would happen,’ Jenn Vest told KUSA TV.

She confessed that what really terrified her was the fact that after she tried calling the number, she got a voice mail saying the number was no longer in use. Call ke?  The woman get mind sha.

Apparently Jenn Vest is not the only one who has been flashed by the devil in recent times. After she aired her grievances, others came forward to relay their own experiences.

A man who introduce himself as Ian Folk said his phone rang and his mum picked his call and was told he (Ian Folk) had three days to live-.

Another said wrote in an email: "I just got a call from 666-666-6666 (which was creepy enough). An automated voice that sounded like the old Apple text to speech guy stammered sputnik at me for a bit then called me a fuckstick and told me to press 3 to remove myself from the calling list."

You'll have to forgive me but I personally didn't understand what the hell the last guy said.

Anyway it would appear that people use the 666 number to play pranks on others, in one comment someone said the number was an automated service gotten from this website :

http://www.ospenterprises.com/phone/

Anyone who wanted to play pranks with their friends and family can go to the site and do so, the man revealed.

The most creepy part of this story however is that a source said and presented evidence that the site was not in operation at the time Jenn Vest got her own call.

I am glad this particular event hasn't occurred in Nigeria yet, no doubt rumours fly about a certain number calling and killing their audience on the other side of the line, if I recall correctly the number was em....uh...can't really recall.

All said and done, satan hasn't called any Nigerian so far. I guess the devil you don't know is better than the devil you know...LOL.

Whether Jenn Vest earnestly received a call from the devil or not remains a mystery.

For me, all I can say is, ETT. (END TIME THINGS !)

TATTOOS... ALL ABOUT THE INK!

 So I've been lifting weights and developing my chest and packs, I don't look like Iyanya, but I look good anyway. One day I was indulging in a little self admiration, studying my form in the mirror and I realised something was missing on my body... Tattoos!

If you've been wanting to get a tattoo but not comfortable with the available tattoo parlour, maybe your afraid of how people might perceive you, or maybe your parents strictly prohibit such act, then we are in the same boat, welcome to my Dilemma.

Anyway, i first fell in love with the art, early this year when I watched a reality show on Mtv Base, The Ink Master. Since then my vindictive perception of tattoos was replaced by pure admiration. Apart from the biblical injunction on tattoos in Leveticus 19:28 and its few other demerits, I believe tattoo is an art form, perpetrated by only the most creative minds. It is a means of expression just like literature or music, it is no different from applying make up, dressing up for a carnival or attaching a Brazilian hair do.

But whats up with this tattoo anyway, how come most people in the world have one form of skin inscription or the other.

Did you know that  U.S.A spends 1.65 billion dollars on tattoos, shocking yeah?

Well, let me tell you about the ink.

A tattoo is a form of body modification, done by inserting indelible ink into the dermis of the skin, thereby changing the colour of its pigment.

You see, the art of tattooing has been present since the pre-historic times. It originated predominantly from Asia, then spread to the rest of the world. You will be surprised to note that Great britain got its name from the art form, Britons translates to 'People of the designs' and Picts -the first people who originally inhabited the northern part of Britains-, Literally means 'The Painted people'.

In some medieval cultures, tattoos were said to posses healing powers. Julius Caesar described these tattoos in Book V of his Gallic Wars (54BC).

Various other cultures have had their own form of tattoos ranging from rubbing wounds and cuts with ashes to puncturing the skin to insert dyes, OUCH !.

Tattoo's of those days were mainly used for identification rather than decoration.

Whew ! Done with the boring history, let's look at modern tattoos.

Now in the 21st century, tattoos have transcended beyond its hitherto brutish and arcane form to a purely cosmetic and aesthetic dimension.

Now you see people, celebrities especially inscribe their bodies with coloured inks and pictures. Telling stories and emblazoning memorials. Some tattoo artist have topped the notch by creating hyper realistic tattoos and face tattoos or what some describe as permanent make up.

Have a look at some of these:

I bet the Hyper-realistic tattoos got you staring and wondering, well it had that same effect on me too. Although I wouldn't go for the realistic ones, I would love a simple drawing or writing and maybe my girl-friend might get one on her bum, just kidding...Lol.

Tattoo is a great art form and every adult should get one, depending on your person and be certain you want it because the cost of removing a tatt is 100 times costlier than putting it in.

NEW ASUU STRIKE UPDATE; ASUU, F.G. MEETING TOMORROW, 25TH NOVEMBER 2013

So, according to AIT, and most Nigerian newspapers, apparently, the ASUU body is meeting again tomorrow with the Federal Government to further deliberate on the ongoing strike action and the terms of agreement presented by President Goodluck Jonathan in his last meeting with them.

ASUU had cancelled its earlier scheduled NEC meeting in Kano due to the death of its former president, Prof. Festus Iyayi.

Iyayi died when the vehicle he was travelling with other national officers from Benin to Kano got involved in a crash with the convoy of Kogi Governor, Idris Wada.

Earlier, President Goodluck Jonathan, at a meeting with ASUU leadership, had offered to inject N220bn into the universities yearly for the next five years.

ASUU officials at the meeting promised to take the message to its members across the country.

The meeting was to collate feedback from its various chapters on the fresh offer by the Federal Government.

"Meanwhile, the Federal Government on Saturday, again, appealed to ASUU to call off the strike it embarked upon over four months ago in the interest the students.

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, made this appeal while speaking with journalists after she was conferred with an honourary Doctorate Degree in Accounting by the Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu.

The university also conferred the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, with an honourary Doctorate Degree in Economics at a ceremony attended by dignitaries, including the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade and former Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Bashir Awotorebo.

Okonjo-Iweala said, “I am appealing to ASUU to call off the strike in the interest of the students. The government, on its part, is committed to tackling the rot in the education sector. The Federal Government has acceded to most of the demands made by ASUU.

“Federal Government has set aside N220bn yearly for the development of tertiary institutions in the country. This is part of measures by the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration to develop the education sector.”

The minister also called on well-meaning Nigerians to invest in the education sector, saying investment in the sector would have a huge impact on the economy."

  

This fresh meeting is coming after they had conferred last week Friday to decide on the future of the on going academic strike, taking into consideration the new terms of agreement proposed by the FG.

We can only hope that the meeting sees an end to this strike action.

#PRAYNIGERIA!