ACADEMIC BLOG

OMULA EMMANUEL When your take home cannot take you home it becomes a problem, it becomes a bigger problem when the take home is not coming when it ought to. This is the plight of primary school teachers in the 23 local government areas of Benue State.  ​ Primary school teachers in Benue State as at November 2017 are being owed eleventh month salary. A teacher Mr. Bernard said the previous administration owes teachers six months and the current administration owes them 5 months, put together, it will amount to eleven months. Some of these teachers go to school every day, the pay transport fare and eat while in school, besides these they have other needs to attend to yet they are being owed eleven months.  ​ A primary school teacher who does not want his name mentioned said, he survive from  the proceed  from his wife’s little business. According to him sometimes they eat just once in a day and sometimes they would just “drink  garri ” and go to bed. Acco...

OMULA EMMANUEL It is totally wrong to preach unity with our mouths and then make “laws” and policies that foster disunity amongst us as a country; the two cannot go together.  ​ In Nigeria we seem to preach unity with our mouths, on television and on the pages of news papers but make laws and policies that perpetrate disunity amongst us. For instance, of what use is certificate of state of origin, if we say we are one. What do we need federal character and quota system for if we claim to be one  Nigeria.  How can we ever live together in peace and unity when an Igbo man schooling in Benue is made to pay higher fee than a Benue man studying in the same institution. How can we live together in peace and unity when a mediocre is made to head an organization on the ground of federal character when there are more qualified and competent  hands.   We preach one Nigerian but would hardly allow a “non indigene” head a federal agency in our state. We preach o...

OMULA EMMANUEL     Computer operators at Benue State University have complained of low patronage from students. One of the operators  Sani  Ibrahim said students now type their assignments using their laptop, or their friends’ laptop. This was not the case before. He said is only few students that now type and print assignments with them. “It is worse now because students even type their project and dissertations themselves”, said  Otakanchi  Boniface a computer operator. ​ A student who spoke on the ground of anonymity says students type their assignments and projects because most of the students are Benue  indigenes,  and most of their parents are civil servants whose salaries don’t come regularly.  ​ According to him allowances from parents have reduced greatly. To cope with the economic realities students have to type their assignments and even projects.