SAHEED VS FAITHIA FACEOFF .

After Fathia openly called him a liar and said they are in court, Saheed has also accepted they are in court. He released a press statement few hours ago, where he made it clear to the public that he has two kids together with Fathia and not three. We all believed they have three kids together, but Saheed is saying, the first child isn’t his but from Fathia’s previous marriage.Read the press statement below.

Read press statement released by Saidi Balogun, a few hours ago, about the brouhaha going on between himself and his ex-wife, Fathia Balogun - Yesterday I was accused of lying to the press on a recent rumor that has been circulating. I separated from my ex-wife Fathia Balogun in 2006, over 7 years ago. Since we were LEGALLY MARRIED IN COURT, we had to LEGALLY DIVORCE IN COURT to finalize the issue. The public is welcome to go to the Lagos High Court to verify these records. This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY NAME! I AM NOT ASKING OR FORCING FATHIA TO STOP USING THE NAME BALOGUN, as it is one of the most common Yoruba names.

Furthermore, to set the record straight, Fathia and I had TWO children together NOT THREE. Fathia's first child is from a different husband that she later divorced before we were married.

I never lied to anyone. Journalists presented me with a rumor that had no basis in fact, so I simply stated that I DO NOT WANT MY PRIVATE LIFE MADE PUBLIC. IT IS MY PRIVACY AND CONCERNS NOBODY. I decided to stay quiet as the two parties involved in this issue are over 40 years old, and I think we are old enough to handle this issue MATURELY instead of turning our private matters into a public gossip debate.

I hope this issue is now clarified for the public, as I SAIDI BALOGUN am divulging the true facts myself instead of using a MISINFORMED publicist to do so for me. There are so many positive aspects of Nigeria's entertainment industry, we would rather focus on negative meaningless noise instead of these positive components.

PLEASE GIVE ME THE RESPECT OF KEEPING MY PERSONAL LIFE PRIVATE AND OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE. I AM FOCUSING ON MY WORK. 

THANK YOU!

APC Picks Tambuwal As Presidential Candidate

Though the speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal denied attending any meeting with members of the All Progressive Union, DAILYTIMES has authoritatively gathered he was invited to be wooed for presidency in 2015.
Our correspondent authoritatively gathered that Tambuwal had been invited to the meeting but through one of the defecting governors.
A source at the meeting revealed that because he was not confident enough to attend the meeting, APC decided to communicate to him through his (Sokoto) state governor, Aliyu Wamakko.
Those who attended Monday’s meeting included two leaders of the APC: former Head of state and 2011 Presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Muhammadu Buhari, and former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu. Others are Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti; Babatunde Fashola of Lagos; Bola Ajimobi of Oyo, Musa Kwakwanso of Kano; Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers; Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun; Murtala Nyako of Adamawa and Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto.
This is just in-line with a statement released by the spokesperson of the speaker, Imam Imam, which claimed that Tambuwal went to see the Sokoto governor.
 “The speaker went to see his governor who sought to see him and he went there before the meeting commenced and it did not commence before he left the lodge,” he said.
In our investigation, it was gathered that APC governors have decided to find all means to flag Tambuwal as the party’s presidential candidate in 2015.
The source said, “This is a big drama in the political of this country. Whether they want it or not, we have massively suggested that Tambuwal is the best person for our presidential candidate and we will ensure it happens by all means. We brought him to a venue where we are all present so that he would know that we are serious.
“We have invited him for a meeting and sent his state governor to him.
So, he is aware of our intention to get him into the party. He is a neutral person who still maintains high sense of integrity among Nigerians so if we use him, we can easily achieve our goal of bring the dividends of democracy to Nigerians.”
However, attempt to speak with Tambuwal proved abortive.  A close source to the speaker told our correspondent that Tambuwal was aware of APC’s moves to have him with them.
He said, “Though the speaker is not also happy with what is happening in PDP, he has not declared his intention. But it is not impossible for him to join APC if he is offered to contest for president in 2015.”
However, it should be recalled that Tambuwal has recently attended some events organised by APC governors and members.
Part of which is the launching of ‘Opon Imo’ (Tablet of knowledge) in Osun State.
For the first time, Tambuwal, a PDP member, also sent one Femi Gbajabiamila, an APC member to represent him at a leadership summit organised for Ambasador  Kolade.

I am the author of that letter ooo, "Iyabo Obj"

n a bid to rubbish the person of President Olusegun Obasanjo, agents of the Presidency have been sponsoring several damaging adverts on the social media against him and OluFamous.Com observed that they took it a step further by writing a sarcastic letter and fraudulently attributed it to his daughter, Iyabo Obasanjo.

When Obasanjo wrote President Gooodluck Jonathan he came out open and did the right thing, he did not hide under a mask to insult anyone, but simply state the sacred FACTS for all Nigerians to see.
Why is this government resorting to blackmail rather than address Obasanjo’s damning revelations?

IYABO OBASANJO (On Rainbow FM): > I have never seen or heard this sort of fabrication in my entire life! I, IYABO OBASANJO never contemplate writing a letter to my Loving Father. I speak with him almost on daily bases.

Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo is the best father in the world. He gave birth to me, he raise me up and gave me the best of Education. I wouldn't have achieve whatever I did without my father. IN FACT, WHO AM I WITHOUT MY FATHER? "As a father he never disappoint his children in any way, he is a father anybody wish to have. "If President Jonathan want to reply the letter my father wrote him, he should be man enough to reply direct. Why are they trying to make me a scape goat? I know my father very well and I don't question his judgement, I believe my father wrote his letter in the best interest of the nation. If Mr. President disagrees with some of the allegations in the letter, let
him be man enough to talk directly to my father, he should stop involving me in an issue I know nothing about.

How can you write a letter to insult my father and claim I, the daughter is the source. If that is how Ijaw people insult their father, I am a Yoruba Woman, we respect our parent in all circumstances. I IYABO OBASANJO did not write any letter. Nigerians should please take note. The purported letter is a malicious lies intended to rubish the good name of my family,
when I get to the source of the letter, I will waste no time to take the necessary legal actions.

I love my father and I never disrespect him.

Saraki, New PDP merge with APC

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has announced a merger with the Abubakar Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, tagged 'New PDP'
The merger was announced at the end of a meeting at the Kano Governors Lodge in Abuja on Tuesday.
Mr. Baraje read the terse communique to journalists at about 11.46 a.m.
The merger means the APC now has its 11 governors and the seven governors who are members of the New PDP; making a total of 18 state governors.
The seven New PDP governors were expected to have a last meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan before taking a decision. The meeting is yet to be held.
Among those at Tuesday's merger meeting were APC leader and former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu; APC National Chairman, Bisi Akande; Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso: former Kwara governor and serving senator, Bukola Saraki; former Nasarawa governor and serving senator, Abdullahi Adamu; former Bayelsa governor, Timipre Sylva; and Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako.
Others were former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Masari; Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi; National Secretary of the PDP, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; former Abia governor, Ogbonnaya Onu; former PDP vice chairman, Sam Jaja; Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed; and Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu.
Mr. Baraje said Messrs Ahmed and Aliyu left the meeting before it ended; but that everybody agreed the two groups should merge.
He said the two parties agreed "to work together in order to rescue the fledgling democracy of the nation."
The meeting, where the merger was consummated,  lasted about three hours.
Several meetings had been held between the APC leaders and the leaders of the New PDP.  The APC had visited each of the seven New PDP governors in their states to convince them to join its fold. Some of the governors, like Mr. Aliyu of Niger, had said they would not leave the PDP unless they were chased out.
While being courted by the APC, the New PDP leaders were also meeting with Mr. Jonathan with a view to resolving the crisis in their party.
The meetings were unsuccessful with a final one, initially scheduled to hold before the Muslim Hajj rites, postponed.
Mr. Jonathan announced on Sunday when he arrived from the U.K. that he would meet the aggrieved governors (Kwara, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa, Niger, Adamawa, and Rivers) this week. It is not clear if the meeting would still hold.
The new merger effectively changes the political landscape of Nigeria.
The ruling PDP had 23 governors; but with the exit of seven, now has 16 governors.
The new merger party has 18 governors; while the remaining two states, Ondo and Anambra, are led by the Labour Party and the All Progressives Grand Alliance respectively, although both governors are allies of Mr. Jonathan.
A similar permutation exists in the National Assembly.
The communique reads; "A meeting of the leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, and the new PDP met this morning at the residence of the Kano State Governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, in Abuja.
"After exhaustive deliberations the two parties agreed to merge in order to rescue our fledgling democracy and the nation."
It was signed by Bisi Akande and Kawu Abubakar Baraje.

Minister for Sport and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), Says:"I want to be a ........ after public service

Alhaji Bolaji Abdullahi, Minister for Sport and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), doesn't do things by half measures. This is evident from the reforms carried out under his tenure as Education Commissioner in his home state, Kwara. With his performances at the youth development ministry and currently at the sport ministry, it is safe to conclude that the future holds so much promise for him. Speaking exclusively with The Nation Sport & Style at the InterContinental Hotel in Dubai, a very relaxed Abdullahi revealed his best-kept secret after he might have been done with public service. "I would like to preach after I'm through with public service and I've started preparing myself for that dream," stated the 44-year-old erstwhile editor of Sunday ThisDay Newspaper, who is already working on a book titled Derailment. "I want to share some of the knowledge that God bequeathed on me especially with the youths because I have seen that so many people failed to realise their potentialities in life as a result of so many factors. "Of course, people often write on why people succeed but I have studied so many people and situations with the conclusion that many factors equally lead to derailment and I'm really enthusiastic about writing on derailment. "I'm not going to disclose much on the book but I have started putting my thoughts together and I hope very soon, the book will be ready," said Abdullahi who is a mentor to many youths. Of course, writing comes naturally to Abdullahi with his background in journalism before entering public service, but he took it to another level when he wrote a 14-page letter to his daughter who is currently studying at Hull University in the UK. He noted that his idea about motivational speaking and preaching would be devoid of materialism with the sole objective of inculcating the right values into the coming generation of Nigerian youths and beyond. "Though I have gone to Umrah (lesser Hajj) before, I recently went to Makkah and it was a new experience for me and it reinforced my belief in God, as such I want to rededicate myself in the service of God and humanity," said Abdullahi who is a bookworm. "Yes, I love reading books and I have read so much despite my tight schedule as a minister. "I've read lots of Islamic, Christian and Buddhist books and with the benefit of education, I know the best way to serve God. For instance, there is a marked difference between Islam and Christianity but the basis of religion is love towards God and your fellow human beings. "I have read so many Christian books, particularly that of C.S Lewis and I was fascinated about some of the things he wrote in Mere Christianity. I'm equally thrilled by Francis Collins' books, especially The Language of God. Collins is an American physician-geneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and Human Genome Project (HGP) and I love his symmetry between science and religion and perspective that belief in Christianity can be reconciled with acceptance of evolution and science. "So, I'm more of a library person and I can be alone but not lonely because I always want to engage my thought-process thinking about complex situations. "You can call me a solar-powered person because I work at best during the day and I hate to work at night. Besides the exigencies of work at my previous duty post, as a newspaper editor where you needed to stay up for production, I don't like working or waking up at night to do anything. I just love to sleep at night. God has given us the day to work and night to sleep; so I make sure I enjoy both worlds – work in the day and sleep at night." Yet Abdullahi would be the first to admit that being a thorough-bred journalist and an erstwhile columnist to boot at ThisDay really prepared him well for the nitty-gritty of public life. Journalists are trained to ask questions and proffer solutions that could well help in the uplift of the society and he had to do some soul searching upon leaving the newsroom for the misty world of politics. "Of course, being a journalist before joining public service has really helped me in settling down to the tedious work as an administrator because both are two different worlds," he declared. "As a journalist, I wrote probing articles; asking questions just to arrive at a point where we can make the society a better place, but I found out it was not as easy as that because here you are with the hard fact staring you in the face. "You are transposed from the world of idealism to reality and it challenges you to do your best and that has really become part of me. I strive to do my best in any circumstance knowing well that posterity would judge me for good or bad." Yet Abdullahi has earned plaudits for the manner he has dealt with some thorny issues in sports administration. Prior to his tenure, there were a thousand and one cases against the legality of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) so much so that the beautiful game of soccer was being played in the courtrooms than on the turfs of football pitches. Nigerian football suffered opprobrium and Abdullahi was one of the unseen hands as the Super Eagles broke their duck by winning the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) after a19-year hiatus. He ‘roughshod' the NFF to ensure that the right players were picked for age-grade competitions and he could rightly claim a slice of the glory following the Golden Eaglets' record-breaking fourth title at the 2013 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in the UAE last month. It was not only in football that Abdullahi's impact had been felt; for the records, Nigeria is the continental champions in both the Under-18 and senior athletics championships in Africa. Under his watch, President Goodluck Jonathan launched Rhythm N' Play – a grassroots programme aimed at bringing two million additional kids into sports – football, volleyball, basketball, netball, judo, karate, and athletics – over the next two years. Said he: "The truth is that I love complex situations because it keeps my adrenalin pumping and I like to resolve problem which is one of the gifts that God gave to me. "Of course, I'm not a hyper-active person because one other thing I enjoy doing is to have a good sleep. I really thank God for this inner peace because I can still have my good 7-8 hours of good sleep daily and there is nothing as life's elixir as a good sleep. "I like to be trim and fit and one of the things I don't like to see is a protruding belly and that is why I love keeping fit. I love to look trim and fit though I was never a library person, sport-inclined during my days in school. I did some handball and some kick about in football too but I was more of a library person while growing up." As a grown up, Abdullahi noted that he is now good at wearing the traditional agbada and it is most plausible that you would catch him in this traditional gear at the weekly Federal Executive meetings more often than not ‘because I'm very comfortable in it." Though it's been years now that he left journalism, he is still very much at home with his disarming tactics as the discourse almost ran its full course when pressed on his private life. "Asking why I'm a polygamist is like asking why you choose to be a monogamist," he said with a measured voice. "But there is nothing wrong in being a polygamist judging by my own experience and I'm frank with whatever I'm saying about this. " I have a very good and wonderful family and my children don't speak about their mothers but our mothers because everyone in the family has a sense of belonging to the family. It goes without saying that being a polygamist gives you a great sense of fairness, justice and equity and I think a leader needs all of these to succeed. We are a closely-knit family and I really thank God for having such a wonderful family," he stated.

Minister for Sport and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), Says:"I want to be a ........ after public service

Alhaji Bolaji Abdullahi, Minister for Sport and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), doesn't do things by half measures. This is evident from the reforms carried out under his tenure as Education Commissioner in his home state, Kwara. With his performances at the youth development ministry and currently at the sport ministry, it is safe to conclude that the future holds so much promise for him. Speaking exclusively with The Nation Sport & Style at the InterContinental Hotel in Dubai, a very relaxed Abdullahi revealed his best-kept secret after he might have been done with public service. "I would like to preach after I'm through with public service and I've started preparing myself for that dream," stated the 44-year-old erstwhile editor of Sunday ThisDay Newspaper, who is already working on a book titled Derailment. "I want to share some of the knowledge that God bequeathed on me especially with the youths because I have seen that so many people failed to realise their potentialities in life as a result of so many factors. "Of course, people often write on why people succeed but I have studied so many people and situations with the conclusion that many factors equally lead to derailment and I'm really enthusiastic about writing on derailment. "I'm not going to disclose much on the book but I have started putting my thoughts together and I hope very soon, the book will be ready," said Abdullahi who is a mentor to many youths. Of course, writing comes naturally to Abdullahi with his background in journalism before entering public service, but he took it to another level when he wrote a 14-page letter to his daughter who is currently studying at Hull University in the UK. He noted that his idea about motivational speaking and preaching would be devoid of materialism with the sole objective of inculcating the right values into the coming generation of Nigerian youths and beyond. "Though I have gone to Umrah (lesser Hajj) before, I recently went to Makkah and it was a new experience for me and it reinforced my belief in God, as such I want to rededicate myself in the service of God and humanity," said Abdullahi who is a bookworm. "Yes, I love reading books and I have read so much despite my tight schedule as a minister. "I've read lots of Islamic, Christian and Buddhist books and with the benefit of education, I know the best way to serve God. For instance, there is a marked difference between Islam and Christianity but the basis of religion is love towards God and your fellow human beings. "I have read so many Christian books, particularly that of C.S Lewis and I was fascinated about some of the things he wrote in Mere Christianity. I'm equally thrilled by Francis Collins' books, especially The Language of God. Collins is an American physician-geneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and Human Genome Project (HGP) and I love his symmetry between science and religion and perspective that belief in Christianity can be reconciled with acceptance of evolution and science. "So, I'm more of a library person and I can be alone but not lonely because I always want to engage my thought-process thinking about complex situations. "You can call me a solar-powered person because I work at best during the day and I hate to work at night. Besides the exigencies of work at my previous duty post, as a newspaper editor where you needed to stay up for production, I don't like working or waking up at night to do anything. I just love to sleep at night. God has given us the day to work and night to sleep; so I make sure I enjoy both worlds – work in the day and sleep at night." Yet Abdullahi would be the first to admit that being a thorough-bred journalist and an erstwhile columnist to boot at ThisDay really prepared him well for the nitty-gritty of public life. Journalists are trained to ask questions and proffer solutions that could well help in the uplift of the society and he had to do some soul searching upon leaving the newsroom for the misty world of politics. "Of course, being a journalist before joining public service has really helped me in settling down to the tedious work as an administrator because both are two different worlds," he declared. "As a journalist, I wrote probing articles; asking questions just to arrive at a point where we can make the society a better place, but I found out it was not as easy as that because here you are with the hard fact staring you in the face. "You are transposed from the world of idealism to reality and it challenges you to do your best and that has really become part of me. I strive to do my best in any circumstance knowing well that posterity would judge me for good or bad." Yet Abdullahi has earned plaudits for the manner he has dealt with some thorny issues in sports administration. Prior to his tenure, there were a thousand and one cases against the legality of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) so much so that the beautiful game of soccer was being played in the courtrooms than on the turfs of football pitches. Nigerian football suffered opprobrium and Abdullahi was one of the unseen hands as the Super Eagles broke their duck by winning the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) after a19-year hiatus. He ‘roughshod' the NFF to ensure that the right players were picked for age-grade competitions and he could rightly claim a slice of the glory following the Golden Eaglets' record-breaking fourth title at the 2013 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in the UAE last month. It was not only in football that Abdullahi's impact had been felt; for the records, Nigeria is the continental champions in both the Under-18 and senior athletics championships in Africa. Under his watch, President Goodluck Jonathan launched Rhythm N' Play – a grassroots programme aimed at bringing two million additional kids into sports – football, volleyball, basketball, netball, judo, karate, and athletics – over the next two years. Said he: "The truth is that I love complex situations because it keeps my adrenalin pumping and I like to resolve problem which is one of the gifts that God gave to me. "Of course, I'm not a hyper-active person because one other thing I enjoy doing is to have a good sleep. I really thank God for this inner peace because I can still have my good 7-8 hours of good sleep daily and there is nothing as life's elixir as a good sleep. "I like to be trim and fit and one of the things I don't like to see is a protruding belly and that is why I love keeping fit. I love to look trim and fit though I was never a library person, sport-inclined during my days in school. I did some handball and some kick about in football too but I was more of a library person while growing up." As a grown up, Abdullahi noted that he is now good at wearing the traditional agbada and it is most plausible that you would catch him in this traditional gear at the weekly Federal Executive meetings more often than not ‘because I'm very comfortable in it." Though it's been years now that he left journalism, he is still very much at home with his disarming tactics as the discourse almost ran its full course when pressed on his private life. "Asking why I'm a polygamist is like asking why you choose to be a monogamist," he said with a measured voice. "But there is nothing wrong in being a polygamist judging by my own experience and I'm frank with whatever I'm saying about this. " I have a very good and wonderful family and my children don't speak about their mothers but our mothers because everyone in the family has a sense of belonging to the family. It goes without saying that being a polygamist gives you a great sense of fairness, justice and equity and I think a leader needs all of these to succeed. We are a closely-knit family and I really thank God for having such a wonderful family," he stated.

Unilorin VC Messeges to ASUU

ASUU should make sacrifices - Unilorin VC The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali, in this interview with SUCCESS NWOGU, bares his mind on the ongoing ASUU strike, saying it is time to take decisions and not to apportion blames What is your position on the current face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities? I think a decision has to be taken. They have dialogued for so long and people have intervened. I am sure that the current position taken by the FG was not an easy decision taken. I think probably that as the last option opened to them. I learnt that the Federal Government had instructed various councils of universities to open the campuses for students to resume their studies. But do you think that will resolve the issues at stake? I think if the promises made by FG to the universities in terms of the offers that have made, it will go a long way in ameliorating the challenges faced by the federal universities across the country. But it appears that the major contention now is that ASUU is asking that the four months arrears of their salaries during the strike be paid to them and FG in reaction, FG took its current stand. Is the demand by ASUU for salary arrears is not justifiable? These days when you go for dialogue, there usually should be sacrifices on both sides. People have to concede one thing or the other but I think this little difference is something that could be ironed out behind closed doors. Before the current FG stand, ASUU had insisted that government should implement the agreement it reached with them in 2009. Do you think that the content of that agreement can revamp public universities? I have a strong feeling that it will because if you have increased funding, more autonomy, all those things will go a long way to improve the atmosphere of the universities for proper teaching and learning, as well as community services. With the state of the nation's universities, do you think there is the need to spend more than what FG is proposing? No amount of money given to anybody is enough but I think that what has been offered will go a long way in solving some of the immediate problems in our universities. Considering that nine more universities were created in 2011, ASUU thinks the N1.2trn in three years agreed in 2009 should have been reviewed upwards. What do you think? I think that what was agreed upon in 2009 should be fully implemented first, then we can assess how far we are able to achieve, then we then can talk of the differences that need further attention. What do you think of FG's threat to sack lecturers now if they do not resume on Monday when all they are asking for now is their four months salaries arrears? I feel that there should be listening ears on both sides, especially on the side of the more power one. What everybody is clamouring for is better education, more access to better education, and better quality of education in our universities. I think everybody should understand each other and know that we are all working towards improving education in this country. ASUU has accused FG of being insensitive and attempting to rubbish their agreement of 2009. What's do you think of it? As I said, review, monitoring and implementation of agreement should be a continuous process. Once agreement is signed, the implementation should be monitored. It should not be left for so long without anybody raising alarm and without anybody intervening because education is a collective responsibility of all Nigerians irrespective of where we are. We are either fathers, grand fathers or guardians, so education is important so things should be done at the appropriate time before institutions begin to deteriorate to the level we are experiencing now. Even though UNILORIN is not affected by the strike, how do you feel about the prolonged ASUU strike? I feel sad and I feel concerned. I hope that the matter will be amicably resolved and our campuses will be open so that people can have access to education. We are very concerned here in Ilorin because no matter how well safe you are and no matter the availability of food you have in your house, if your neighbours are hungry, as a caring and responsible human being with conscience, you will not feel happy. So UNILORIN is concerned about other universities that are on strike and we hope that they will open very soon so that campuses will come alive once again. Is prolonged strike not inimical to educational development? Without strike, Nigeria could enjoy better education. Are you satisfied with the quality of infrastructure in Nigerian federal universities? I am concerned about the constant strike and closure of universities I am also concerned about infrastructure in universities. I think we can have better quality of education if we have uninterrupted academic calender, better funding, peace on our campuses. Are there other measures that can be adopted to advance education in Nigeria to be in tandem with global best practices? Yes! If collectively we convince ourselves that education is a collective responsibility of all of us, we will be able to have better education in future. When you go to other developed countries, the funding of education and the activities going on in all our education institutions are not left solely for the government. You find other interested parties showing greater concern. For instance, the alumni of each universities do look back and inject a lot of funds into their universities. By so doing, the universities can augment whatever is given to them. If you look at this country, you will find out that a lot of parents are investing so much on the education of their children at the lower level. At the kindergarten, primary school and secondary school, a lot of people are spending quite a lot of money to fund education of their children. They are concerned about the quality of education at that level, which means that when they come to the tertiary level, they should identify areas where they can help the university so that their wards can get better education. Since FG and ASUU appeared to have agreed on the resolution of the crisis before the latest development, what is your advice to the two parties on how to resolve the imbroglio? I know that both parties know what they are doing and they have come all this way since they have been dialoguing and trying to find solution. They have come a long way and this is just the last bit that will cap their efforts, I urge them to please end it amicably. There is the clamour that Nigerian universities or tertiary institutions should tailor their researches to societal needs. What is you take? I think they are right but the society should also be ready to implement and practicalise our research findings. People should not expect universities to go to the lab, bring out innovations and still be the ones to source for funding to go into commercial production or inventions of whatever they have come up with. There should be division of labour. Each party should be able to shoulder its own responsibility. The researchers, our universities should use their brain to bring up innovations and better ways of achieving what is going on in the industries. The industries should also be ready to fund such researchers, go into commercial production of their research findings where we expect researchers or scientists in the university to be the practical person to bring up the prototype and still the business man to go into commercial production, the marketing man to market the produce, we are asking for too much from the researchers. They should be left to bring up innovations and products that they think will better the lives of the Nigerian people. The businessmen in the country should be ready to partner with such researcher and commercialise whatever inventions the researchers are able to come up with.