Vacancies for immediate employment

University of Swaziland Vacancies June 2012
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the following vacant position at the University of Swaziland

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW/ RESEARCH FELLOW IN PHYTOCHEMISTRY IN THE SWAZILAND INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE, MEDICINAL AND INDIGENOUS FOOD PLANTS
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience
. A Ph.D. or M.Sc. in Phytochemistry, Natural Product Chemistry or Medical Plant Chemistry.
. The relevant candidate should be a versatile researcher with substantial output in the field with at least three (3) years postgraduate experience.

Duties
1. Phytochemical screening of medicinal and food plants.
2. Participate in ethnobotanical surveys of medicinal and indigenous food plants.
3. Design and evaluate Research proposals.
4. To develop proposals for funding.
5. To perform any other duties assigned by the Director of the Institute and relevant Senior Authorities of the University.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT IN PHYTOCHEMISTRY IN THE SWAZILAND INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE, MEDICINAL AND INDIGENOUS FOOD PLANTS
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience
A BSc. Degree with major in Chemistry and biological Science with at least Second Class Upper Division.

Duties
1. To assist in the ethnobotanical surveys of food and medicinal plants.
2. To assist in the collection of plant material for analysis.
3. To assist in the phytochemical analysis of plant material
4. To assist in the literature survey.
5. To assist in the in organizing seminars and workshops.
6. To assist in making orders and keeping custody of equipment
7. To service meetings of the Institute
8. Design and evaluate Research proposals.
9. To perform any other duties of the Institute assigned by the Director.

PROFESSOR/ ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ SENIOR LECTURER/ LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience

Dutie
. A Ph.D./ Masters in: 1) Applied Linguistics or
2) Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) or
3) English Language and Linguistics.
. Experience in teaching EAP and ESP in the health Sciences.
. Authoring Computer assisted language learning materials.

1. Teach English for Academic purposes (EAP) and English for specific purposes (ESP).
2. Design and Develop materials for EAP and ESP
3. Research and community Service

PROFESSOR/ ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ SENIOR LECTURER/ LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience
. A Ph.D. In Chemistry, majoring in either Organic, Natural Products or Medicinal Chemistry. Evidence of research in Synthetic Organic/Medicinal/Nano materials
. Chemistry would be an added advantage.

Duties
1. To teach Organic Chemistry B.Sc. and M.Sc. students.
2. Conduct research and supervise student's research projects and research work.
3. Help diversify research in Organic/Nano Materials Chemistry as applied in Environmental Science/Medicinal Chemistry
4. Carry out community Service Projects in-line with UNISWA objectives.

PROFESSOR/ ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ SENIOR LECTURER/ LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING SCIENCE
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience
. A Ph.D. In Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Science/Psychotherapy or Counseling/Psychopathology (Psychiatry).
. Specialization in Psychotherapy/Counseling will be an added advantage.

Duties
1. To teach Psychiatric Nursing courses, to certificate, and undergraduate students and Master's candidates in the near future.
2. Provide Clinical supervision to Psychiatric Nursing students.
3. Conduct research, initiate community projects and participate in community service.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ SENIOR LECTURER/ LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience
. At least a Master's Degree in Journalism, (PhD required for SL and above), Media Studies or Mass Communication.
. University teaching experience will be an added advantage.

Duties
1. To teach Print Journalism.
2. To conduct research and supervise research projects for Undergraduate students.
3. To carry out Community Service.

LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience
. At least a Master's Degree in Journalism, Media Studies or Mass Communication.
. Industry experience will be an added advantage.

Duties
1. To teach Advertising and Public Relations.
2. To conduct research and carry out Community Service.

SENIOR LECTURER/ LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CROP PRODUCTION
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience
. A PhD in Agronomy.
. University teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Duties
1. To teach Agronomy courses including both to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
2. To supervise research projects for undergraduate students.
3. To supervise thesis/dissertation for postgraduate students.
4. To conduct research in Agronomy and related areas.
5. To perform community services in Agronomy related areas.

SENIOR LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OFCROP PRODUCTION
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience
. A PhD in Agricultural Entomology.
. University teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Duties
1. To teach Agricultural Entomology including Systematic, Toxicology, Physiology, Crop Pests and Pest Control of cultivated crops and storage pests.
2. To teach Agricultural Entomology including IPM and Insect Taxonomy at postgraduate level.
3. To supervise research projects for under graduate students.
4. To supervise thesis/dissertation for postgraduate students
5. To conduct research in Agricultural Entomology and related areas.
6. To perform community services in Agricultural Entomology and related areas.

PROFESSOR/ ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ SENIOR LECTURER/ LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS & MANAGEMENT
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience
. A PhD. In Educational Management
. A PhD. In Sociology of Education would be an added advantage.

Duties
1. To teach Sociology of Education courses at undergraduate level.
2. To conduct research and do community services.

LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Closing Date 6th July, 2012

Qualification and Experience
. LLB, LLM
. Teaching experience an advantage.

Duties
1. To teach introduction to Law, Criminal Law and Mercantile Law.
2. To supervise students research.
3. To assist in Clinical Legal Education.
4. To preside over Moot courts.

LOCAL CANDIDATES
Permanent and Pensionable service after successful completion of two years on probation; Recruitment and Retention Allowance, Housing Allowance and a Medical Aid.

EXPATRIATE CANDIDATES
A two-year contract which will attract Gratuity, recruitment Allowance a Medical Aid contribution and relocation expenses

APPLICATIONS AND CLOSING DATE
Applications with detailed CV, certified copies of academic and professional qualifications and names of three referees should be sent to:

The Registrar
University of Swaziland
Private Bag 4
Kwaluseni
Email: sar-hr@uniswa.sz
Closing date: 6th July, 2012

AFN drug courier: Can these be the whole truths?



Nigerian athletes at an event

The man who was alleged to have been arrested about 6pm last week Wednesday in one of the offices at the U. J. Esuene stadium in Calabar during Nigeria’s athletics Olympics trials is touted according to the AFN: “Most of the Nigerian athletes who have tested positive have always mentioned his name and we have been searching for him for years,” Dr Ken Anugweje said.
Anugweje, the current NUGA Chairman is also of the Medical Committee of AFN.
The suspect’s name was given as simply Chimezie by one of the athletes who just tested positive to steroid in AFN’s Golden League in Warri three weeks ago.
Dr. Anugweje has recalled that many of Nigerian athletes who tested positive to doping fingered him and said he always told them he was administering vitamins and that they would never be caught.
“This man is like spirit. Anytime we close up on him he disappears. He comes for almost all athletics events but he ran out of luck this time around. IAAF will be happy that we have made this catch,” AFN President Solomon Ogba said.
”What I saw in the man’s bag was unbelievable. I found drugs I have never seen in my life, the types I only read about in books and on internet,” Dr. Anugweje said, adding “he is well equipped with laptop which contains a lot of information. I’m happy the police took the laptop and his phone because particulars of his clients will be there.”
The man is said to own a chemist shop in Mushin, Lagos.
Certain questions remains to be asked. What has been the link of this man to athletics? Does he not have his hands inside the sport? Dr. Ken Anugweje should go back to some of the official reports he had written the federation some years back, what name is known popularly with the athletes caught in the drug web who presently is one of their coaches?
A small criminal is being made into a giant to probably close their own favourite who is globally known amongst the Nigerian community of athletes and officials as the major drug courier. Is this chemist now caught the same one who goes abroad to administer the same drugs to our athletes? Many more questions. This is not the man we are waiting for surely. The truth is still being hidden.

Drug dealer dad, thieving mum, successful sports leader

 *Whither Nigerian kids of such background, Abdullahi?

Sports Miinister, Bolaji Abdullahi, 'na so we go dey?'

Every follower of football in the world loves the sterling qualities of John Terry of Chelsea who broke into his celebrated team as a 14 year old and has today made name, fame and money. He is the son of a drug dealer dad and a well known thieving mother. Were it not for the deliberate efforts of a system to have introduced him to football at such an early age, you can imagine what John Terry would have been today, an amalgam of a drug dealer and thief.

Please ask, were John Terry to have been a Nigerian child growing up in Wudil, Yola, Benin or Ilorin would he have been able to achieve the qualities of these successes? Would he have been what the John Terry we all know have been at his age? Yet, we have better boys and girls who with a similar deliberate structure to introduce them to sports would have been better than John Terry at the same age.

This reporter was the son of a fitter machinist and a petty trader mother in the Kantoma market in Jos. At six years, I had been introduced to sprinting, jumping and basketball. I did not pick up playing handball which I played for Nigeria for 20 years until I entered secondary school. Football was like one of my worst games yet I played to club level. There was a deliberate introduction to sport so early.

Oluseyi Ojo earned 2m Pounds to play for Chelsea.

Can he earn such if he had grown in Nigeria?

 

 

My story is not different from that of Innocent Egbunike who hawked bread and was seen by the coach who recruited him how he masterly sold his bread, removed change and maintained speed. Today, he remains Nigeria’s most successful athlete in terms of medals and honours. The story of Clement Temile of Super Eagles and Leventis United of Ibadan is similar.

Can someone tell me what befalls the Nigerian kid of today who is wrongly introduced into sports picking his skills by himself from the streets by observation? He grows old before coming into sports. It takes him time to become adept and has to cut down his age to play in the national team or break into the clubs.

Now, as former athletes, it hurts and heart rending to see the system that produced us cannot produce better environment for the children coming behind us. That is why we get so agitated and angry at how the current charlatans who manage our sports are killing it. They see competitions as the growth and development.

The only three sports that seems to be alive in the country today are Basketball, Scrabble and Chess. Why is this so? The main stakeholders – the athletes – are involved in the management of what is theirs. Ironically, no sports council in the country including that of the FCT can perform their statutory function of sourcing, finding, honing, growing and developing athletes.

The National Sports Commission (NSC) which is to stimulate policies and direction for the nation’s sports is like groping in the dark. They produce poicy somersaults and flip-flops. Sometimes, the bright ideas that are brought to stimulate these functions which they would have propelled and helped are stolen, badly delivered and stuck.

Terry, could not have been his if he were Nigerian

This was the case with the Nigeria Athlete Insurance scheme. This was the case with the Volleyball Players Foundation. This was the case with the national Sports Lottery. This was the case with the National Sports Development Fund. This was the case with the Team Nigeria concept.

Today, there is certainly a disconnect between society and the sports sector. The football industry alone is estimated to be worth over N2.85b per annum is nowhere near its potential. The NFF (with its illegalities) does not know what is its immediate responsibility, which is to develop the game.

Have you noticed that nations where the FA is performing its roles well have a developed league that is thriving as the centre of attraction. The ones who are not doing too well make their national teams and competitions their centre of attraction?

Now, let me re-state it. The very essence of sports is the community. Which community in Nigeria is involved as a joint venture in a sports development function. This is and should be the focus.

BOLAJI ABDULLAHI: It is always good when a person arrives at a destination in the right time and in a right environment. Given those who have occupied the office of sports minister since 1999 when the PDP took over the reins of governance in this country, after Ishaya Mark Aku and Abdulrahman Gimba, I think I should add Isa Bio Ibrahim to the list, the current occupier is one who is well schooled to appreciate what is his role.

Apart from working in a PDP environment which has no room for sports and youth development, this is a government which has proven over and again not to be people-oriented. Now, the minister is working in an internal environment of a department that is enmeshed in its own limited knowledge which is not good to sell what it has in its hand because they don’t know how its managed outside and are not peeping to see what can be done.

Within these confines, the minister is trying to swim afloat despite these albatrosses. I quickly presage again that the absolute failure in the London 2012 Olympics will be recorded against him. One salient question is, what are their plans after the London disaster? No one is seeing the disaster as rain that has beclouded the firmament.

Can we begin a new community-based orientation that can generate 2million jobs in another two years at no serious cost to the Federal, state or local government? Coming from the Youth ministry, he should have been well grounded in these schemes. He was Commissioner for Education for eight years. He was a Development Editor in ThisDay. We are speaking the same language but his environment is too noisy to allow him concentrate.

Why can’t the NSC key into the joint project involving Professor Wole Soyinka’s Chess for School initiative and Innocent Egbunike (incidentally their staff) Athletics Development function that has the likes of Bose Kaffo (table tennis), Sadiq Abdullahi (tennis), and a plot for handball, basketball, volleyball etc for primary and secondary schools in six states?

In all, it is the kid that wouold have benefitted from these projects and become a greater person than John Terry as a Nigerian, that would have ruled the tartan tracks better than Jamaica’s Usain Bolt who was produced in Calabar College (established by Nigerians in Kingston)! It is that kid whose future is not guaranteed and the youths of today who would have gotten some of the 2million jobs not available that is stunning me to ask what a waste is my nation?

Missing $80,000: Garlands for headmaster Musa Amadu

NFF's headmaster, Musa Amadu

 A French proverb says: "there is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience". That is where I draw my strength in the matter of the $80,000 in the NFF. I insist and assert that money is missing. Musa Amadu says no money is missing. There is a conflict.
Musa Amadu should explain to Nigerians why the support staffers of the national team were so humiliated by being searched and falsely accused of stealing money. A public apology is therefore due and necessary. Otherwise, the God of justice and fairplay will visit the same humiliation on those who made those staffers into objects of ridicule because they are helpless and defenceless.
If $80,000 can be carelessly pulled out of the vaults of the NFF without trace and accounting principles, which this act amounts to, then, only God knows how much such monies have been disappearing from the back.
Assuming therefore like Amadu said no money is missing, the God of money (in Africa, every item has a god) will in truth starve those who mismanage what belongs to the commonwealth of good things of life except it does not happen.
Why did Musa Amadu had to call staffers of the Account department to a meeting to threaten them with dismissal if further information leaks since according to him they are the source of the current leakage?
Musa Amadu will easily flaunt he is a liar (is a lawyer not a liar?) and he attended FIFA University. He is the worst manager of Nigerian football. Those who never attended a University nor even neared FIFA primary schools have done better jobs than his.

…Hold him responsible for Eagles’ draw
As it is usual, if things work straight and well, they at the secretariat won't get pecuniary benefits. Part of such means is when teams have to go late for matches and planes have to be hired. Costs are easily inflated and inputed into the books. See how Eagles' trip to Malawi was organised. They make the coaches look like they are the problem. Uhm! Shame!

Amadu heads the secretariat. Since he assumed office, it has been from one disaster to another. Many people wrongly look to the board. It is the Chief Executive Officer we should look. He heads a team that has consistently failed so woefully.

For the first time since 1945, Nigeria was absent at international championships for all the national teams. He has not been able to marshal football development. The man has presided over the aiding and abetting of fraud in the $80,000 that got missing trying to cover same. This is a ground for the board to call for investigation and ask him to step aside otherwise it means the board, led by Alhaji Aminu Maigari, is aiding and abetting the commission of the same crime.

$80,000: Penchance for lying and deception

Sports minister, Bolaji Abdullahi...please investigate

I read with glee the untoward public deception and outright lying of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to the issue of the loss of $80,000. I stand by my story. It is true. The money was missing.

If it is not true that money was missing, is the NFF claiming that they did not make provision ab initio for the team to be paid? Musa Amadu, the acting Secretary General of the NFF is lying here.

The alarm that the money got missing was raised while the team was transiting in Ghana. To cover up, Bola Oyeyode, the interpreter in the International Department of the NFF, was hurriedly given a new cache of cash to follow the team to Kinshasha. His international travel details had been checked and confirmed before I went to press initially. So who is lying? Or did he followed the team as a tourist or spectator?

Was it not true that the NFF officials that went to the Kinshasha trip suspected a particular staff? Sadly enough, there was a decision to quietly ease off the staff in question. As the team returned to Nigeria, the staff in question lost his child. Did the senior members of staff of the NFF not claimed that because they subjected the staff that went on the trip to curse that’s why this particular staff’s child died? Did they kill his child?

If it is true that money was not missing why were the members of the NFF secretarial team thoroughly checked like common criminals in a manner that made them look like petty thieves? Or would anyone deny that these staffers were not so searched? Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme supervised the search.

If like the ugly liars of the Glass House claimed that I have a penchance for lying, they should come up with any of my reports about their activities or and otherwise where they found any iota of my reports that is not true. Was this not the unpopular line they towed when I came up with the fact that the Obama Cup they lied to Nigerians about two years ago was a ruse? I came out justified. They were worsted.

I have always come out justified and made to look like a saint each time I expose the NFF and their lisps and lips which is branded in lying. I will come up with further facts and evidences in this case this time I will mention more names and roles of each person to show who is lying again. At least, I have mentioned a first round now.

With the available facts I have, I may have no option than to officially lodge a complaint with the appropriate authorities of the land demanding a thorough investigation of this missing money saga, including the invasion of the rights of the staff that were embarrassed with checks in Kinshasha for allegation of stealing. Or ask, why they were so searched if truly money was not missing.

However, he who must come to equity must come with a clean hand. These hands from the NFF are sincerely speaking not clean. All facts will enter the public domain surely. All linens must be washed publicly. Some people must be prosecuted for this high grade fraud. If it is found out that I lied I want to stand prosecution

Barayi banza!

NFF Scandal unlimited: The $80,000 conspiracy of silence

NFF President, Maigari...where is the missing money?

Recently, yes, not too long ago, the sum of $238,000 developed wings and flew away from the coffers of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). People were arrested, police did what Fela Anikulapo Kuti calls ‘shakara oloje’ and some few were taken to court. The court did not find them guilty. The money became what the Hausas call “asara”.

This year, yes, this year, monies severally developed wings in millions and flew away from the coffers of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL). We were promised that the matter will go the way of the $238,000. From the initial Police ‘gra gra’ the monies (N92m) have gone the NFF way.

Again. Yes, again. $80,000 grew wings again and has disappeared from the NFF. When? There are two theories. Theory one is that the money developed wings right there in Abuja. Theory two is that the money disappeared in Kinshasha.

The U-20 Women’s national team, known as the Falconets, went to Kinshasha, Congo Democratic Republic for FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifying match. The match was the second leg, final round of the African qualifying series. Nigeria won the first leg 4-0. The $80,000 was the match bonus of the team.

There was a report that the money was missing. Report was lodged with Abuja. Another cache was hurried to Kinshasha. There was a decision that the missing money was to be handled quietly in-house. Media coordinator of the team, Andrew Abbah was said to have been made to swear to an oath of secrecy and was rewarded for the pledge.

All administrative staffers on the trip were said to have been stripped naked and their luggage searched but nothing was found on them. Yet, no report was made to the local police if it was true that the money was missing in Kinshasha. Afterall, the suspects were searched thoroughly by Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme. This makes the theory that the money was missing in Abuja strong. Otherwise, how did they raise another $80,000 in a jiffy?

Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Sports, Honourable Ayo Omidiran, led the delegation that included Director, Technical of the Nigeria Football Federation, Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme and NFF technical committee member, Mr Paul Bassey.