Buhari’s two years in office: ASUU scores President low in education, economy

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday rated the two years administration of President Mohammadu Buhari poorly in public funded education.

ASUU noted that it will be difficult for any Nigeria university to effectively compete globally with the attitude of Buhari not to allocate enough funds as prescribed by UNESCO to support education.

Chairman, ASUU, University of Ibadan chapter, Dr. Deji Omole who stated this in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan, lashed out at the Buhari administration for defrauding the people during 2015 campaign where he was alleged to have promised to fund public education with a minimum of 15 percent but noted that budgetary allocation to education nosedived further under Buhari two years of governance.

Omole said that the federal government must be held responsible for the growing rate of crime for failing to arrest youth through meaningful education and non-challant attitude to the problems facing the poor majority in Nigeria.

Omole who said the APC government has made Nigerians poorer, added that public education is poorly funded because the rich do not have their children schooling in Nigeria.

While accusing the president also of poorly equipping Health Institutions in Nigeria, the ASUU boss stated that many poor Nigerians have died of the same disease that has made the president to run to the United Kingdom.

He wondered why it has been difficult to build a world class Health facility in Nigeria for all Nigerians to have access to, recalling that the National Leader of APC, Bola Tinubu also ran out of Nigeria when he fell ill to be treated despite being in government for eight years in Lagos and controlling more states in South West.

Omole further stated that university workers have expressed terrible moments under Buhari with payment of fractional and amputated salaries, non-release of revitilisation grants in line with FGN/ASUU agreements and 2013 Memorandum of Understanding, and non-payment of academic earned allowances.

“On education; the govt has performed poorly as the budgetary allocation to education suffered a serious decline as against what the APC government promised. The government promised minimum of 15% but instead of moving towards that we are actually moving backward.

“Fractional salaries are paid to workers even though the cost of living is now more than triple. Non release of revitalization grant in line with ASUU/FGN agreement and MOUs , non payment of earned academic allowances . in fact no Nigerian university will be able to compete effectively with other universities abroad with the attitude of this government towards public funded education.”

Buhari’s two years in office: ASUU scores President low in education, economy

In a statement released on Thursday by the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU ) – the University of Ibadan chapter, Dr . Deji Omole , no fewer than 38 universities across Nigeria have increased their school fees .
According to reports , the latest increment might be attributed to poor funding by the federal and state governments as ASUU poorly rated the President Muhammadu Buhari in the area of funding of university education .

ASUU also noted that it will be difficult for any Nigeria university to effectively compete globally with the attitude of Buhari not to allocate enough budgetary allocation as prescribed by UNESCO to fund education .

The statement which assessed the two years of Buhari in office , lamented that the current government had made Nigerians poorer , adding that public education was not taken seriously because most children of the rich and those in high offices do not school in Nigeria .

Below is a list of tuition increment in some universities as collated by Vanguard , in the order of institution, old fees , new fees …

1 . UNILAG N14 , 500 – N63 ,500

2 . ABU N27 ,000 – N41 , 000

3 . UNN N60 , 450 – N66 ,950

4 . OAU N19 , 700 – N57 ,700

5 . UNIZIK N20 ,100 – N65 ,920

6 . BUK N26 ,000 – N40 , 000

7 . UNIABUJA N39 , 300 – N42 ,300

8 . UDU N32 ,000 – N43 , 000

9 . NOUN N36 , 000 – N41 ,000

10 . UNIBEN N12 ,000 – N49 , 500

11 . UNILORIN N16 , 000 – N75 ,500

12 . FUTA N13 ,560 – N83 ,940

13 . FUTMINNA N20 , 000 – N37 ,000

14 . FUNAAB N18 ,250 – N33 ,000

15 . UNICAL N30 ,500 – N42 , 750

16 . UNIUYO N71 , 000 – N84 ,250

17 . FCET Akoka N16 ,000 – N40 , 000

18 . Osun Varsity N95 , 000 – N135 , 500

19 . ANSU N76 ,000 – N139 ,000

20 . LASU N96 ,750 – N158 ,250

21 . IBBU N25000 – N52 ,000

22 . IMSU N120 , 000 – N150 , 000

23 . PLASU N50 ,000 – N100 ,000

24 . MAPOLY N57 ,000 – N75 , 000

25 . Ibadan Poly N30 ,000 – N50 ,000

26 . Abia Poly N56 , 550 – N61 ,000

27 . Auchi Poly N14 ,800 – N28 , 000

28 . Osustech N70 , 000 – N80 ,000

29 . ESUT N104 , 900 – N124 ,900

30 . KWARAPOLY N28 ,000 – N44 ,000

31 . LAUTECH N65 , 000 – N72 ,500

32 . TASUED N66 ,500 – N76 ,500

33 . Afe Babalola N675 ,000 – N1 ,075 , 000

34 . Igbinedion N540 ,000 – N820 ,000

35 . Crawford N400 ,000 – N600 ,000

36 . Redeemers N545 ,000 – N605 , 000

37 . Covenant N774 ,500 – N814 ,500

38 . Benson Idahosa N284 , 300 – N1 ,150 ,000 . 00

Features of African Music

ed and unaccompanied solos, duets and choruses. Unaccompanied choruses are an example of a cappella singing. Songs are usually either strophic (split up into verses) or are in call-and-response form.

In call-and-response form the leader sings a line (the call) and is answered by a chorus (the response). The chorus usually stays the same while the soloist improvises. There is often overlapping between the leader and the chorus. The chorus part is usually homophonic (in block chords).

African singing often includes glissandos (slides which are sometimes known as portamento) and slurs, whistles, yodels and swoops and types of sound such as a raspy or buzzy quality.

Melodies are usually organised within a scale of four, five, six, or seven notes. They tend to use small melodic intervals (lots of 2nds and 3rds) and often use recurring patterns and descending phrases.

Common Features of African Songs
Basic form of all songs is ‘call and response’.
Melodies are usually short and simple and repeated over and over. This is known as an ostinato.
Melodies can be changed at will by other singers so that we end up with a theme and then variations on that theme.
Performers often improvise new melodies while others continue the original melody creating a polyphonic texture.
Instruments of Africa
There are many different instruments in African music and they vary from region to region. The many different types of drum are called membranophones (because they have a skin). The other main types of instruments can be categorises as shown below:

Idiophones (resonant/solid)
Rattlers (shakers)
Bells
Mbira (thumb piano)
Xylophones or balaphones.
Clap sticks
Slit gongs
Stamping tubes
Aerophones (wind)
Flutes (bamboo, horn)
Ocarinas
Panpipes
Horns from animal tusks
Trumpets wood or metal
Pipes being single or double reeds
Whistle
Chordophones (strings)
Zithers
Lutes (kora)
Lyres
Musical bows
In Yiri, the instruments used are the balaphone which is similar to a xylophone and is made up of wooden bars, the djembe which is a drum shaped like a goblet and played with the hands and the talking drum that is played with a hooked stick and can be used to imitate speech by creating different pitches and slides.

Make a list of characteristics of African music.

African music occurs primarily in passage rites, worship, spirit possession, rites, divinity and therapy
It is a product of associations (hunters, warriors and secret societies)
It also can serve as an aid to work.
Some types of the music exist largely for purpose of amusement.
The Vimbuza dace serves as functional music and as entertainment. It is a spirit possession dance.
In African music there is a wide spectrum of musical instruments and all of the four main acoustic classes are all richly represented.
Idiophones – rattles, bells, concussed shells, xylophones and hand pianos are widely used within African styles.
Membranophones which are of African origin are also used. *get a description of these*
However, a lot of the drums used aren’t membranophones.
Chordohphones – board, trough, raft and tube zithers, lyres, harps, tube and shell bowed fiddles of various sizes.
Aerophones – instruments from which sound is produced initially by encased vibrating columns.
Ensembles.

Feature homogeneous and mixed instrumental groupings
Homogeneous: drum ensembles, one stringed violin ensembles, ensemble of bells trumpets and flutes.
Mixed: One instrument may predominate with one of more instruments of different types added for specific colouring.
Ensembles range from two to an entire orchestra, sometimes with over fifty people.
Musical instruments are often used to accompany voices rather than be played on their own.

Rhythm.

African musical instruments and vocal resources are organized in some time patterns that distinguish ther idioms from those of other world regions. Rhythm is generally regarded as the basis of the musical idiom.
Rhythm and pule interplay is a frequent device.
Some are based on recurrent beats, others cannot be described in terms of beats and eat divisions and ordinary metrical divisions
Rhythm units often occur in exact repetition, though these can be elaborate and varied.
Clash of Rhythms.

Simultaneous combination of different rhythm patterns has been the most striking aspect of sub-saharan African music.
The concurrent rhythm lines result in a recurring beat on which all the principal beats in the separate rhythm lines coincide.
The individual rhythm lines lea to retain their independence and the effect of multiple rhythm ins stressed.
Polymeter is an important aspect of African rhythms.
Rhythm in African music may be described as patterns in time defined by lines or band if differentiated pitched and timbral durational values, perceived against a background of regular pulsation that may be inwardly or acoustically expressed.
Timbre.

Tonal colouring, interplay of pitches lines and exploration of sheer melodic beauty may be the main point of emphasis.
Vocal Styles.

The importance of sound quality is often demonstrated by the human voice when it changes from natural singing to an imitation of musical instruments.
The human voice is used in its own right in the exploitation of tone colour.
Voice masking is used a lot. – High pitching and nasalizing represents royalty or the supernatural.
Practice of wordless singing is also used a lot – very diversified, embracing the use of vocables, yodel, and the more sustained voiced singing featured among the Bambuti and other groups.

Pitch combination.

It does not feature harmony like we know it.
African music has been credited with an original conception of harmony, but only as a manifestation of some early stage of human civilization long outmoded in Western Europe.
Looking at sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, parts may range from two to as many as six voices, according to the musical tradition and the resourcefulness of the performers, and in many instances, stylistic procedures of chording and progressive pitch combinations are well defined.
Melody.

Primary instrument of pitch combination in African music is melody.
Shape – generally follows a downward trend.
Movement patterns – combine conjunct and disjunct movement. The latter is more interesting as it has more character.
They make use of upward and downward slides which provides emphasis or a sense of finality.
They also use a variety of different scales, depending on different groups within Africa.
Some groups use blues notes, such as the Luvale of Angolia and the Faoule of Ivory Coast.

Significance of music.

Africa musicians bear props and costumes and dance within specific settings, to bring parts of the story of life home to everyone around

Unilag Law Student Makes ties with Ankara

Buraimoh Kikiope, a 200l Law student, University of Lagos , UNILAG has said that the current economic situation drove him into making corporate ties with Ankara fabrics for clients both home and abroad.

Speaking to Quadlife, Kikiope said it was high time Nigerian youths became creative rather than continuously languish in despair and alter helplessness.

His words, “I am known as EkAfricanclassic. What inspired me into creating ties with Ankara is the present situation of joblessness among the youths of Nigeria.

I feel it is time we the youths become creative and come up with ideas. “Okikiope said the success story of business mogul, Aliko Dangote made him to task himself with business ideas.

In the process, he found love in the use of fabrics to make fancy ties. “ I had started reading of Dangote and this spurned me to believe that I can make a difference with my ideas; “I could make 50 ties in the middle of the night.

I am aiming to be the number one distributor of Ankara ties in the continent,”

The young undergraduate said since October he started showcasing his products, he has garnered patronage inside and outside the shores of Nigeria through his use of the social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram etc.

Unilag Admission list | Admissions

After so many speculations, the University of Lagos has finally released its supplementary and direct entry admission list.

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