I'm really dissapointed in Sen. Bruce. Unfortunately he is not THE GUY.

LRNZH:
I am yet to be convinced by this common-sense Senator. We never heard from him until 2015. Did he just develop interest in Nigeria's affairs after PDP lost?

Sorry oh student. Nigerian politicians are like that.

He has been speaking as far back as 2011. Check youtube!

CyberWolf:
This ewedu eaters from brown roof republic sucks.. You think your malicious propaganda works on people like Bruce? You guys might be lucky with GEJ but Nigerians are wiser now..

Don't mind them, they are all children of hate.

demo4ril97:
If Ben Murray Bruce was a genuine human right activist and he knows that this student will succeed this era then he should have gave all attentions needed to them (the students), if he wanted us to believe in who he proclaims to be he shouldn't have done this in a hall but rather in open so that we Nigerians will know he his worthy of his praise.

If really he wants to team a better interaction between our ethnicity and etcetera he shouldn't have allowed such a number of dignity in the launching.

Please tell Ben Murray Bruce that we are now aware of his misconception partaining the so called "COMMON-SENSE", and with this I will urge Nigerians to hence use their natural "SCARCE-SENSE" because I can see he (Ben Murray Bruce), got the generally known political-sense.

well it too obvious some people lost their common sense to an advocate of non-sense.

I am Ademola Afeez

just want you to use ur #Scarcesense!.

your sense is really scarce indeed, so he should not mingle with dignitaries,the party should have been b/w him and the students alone. How was he even suppose to be everywhere, have you ever tried organising a party self.
He should have done d party in d open, what do you think with?
You really do have a big misconception of d whole commonsense tin

It's just the mentality, its very difficult to fight, even the guy complaining has become a part of that culture...a culture that believes that because you're not rich or because you're young and unconnected somehow makes you less than human

Do we think any of our politician have a different attitudes?? It's only b4 election u see them rock the same outfit with u, enter same bus with u, eat with u in the same restaurant, my dear, as soon as they win, they relegate you to the background, they are never to be trusted....

hm

benson81:
e give u food plus dinner for dinner u complain.if to say e no giv u at all na em be say na cry u 4 cry.let me ask how many of una change politicians dey do dinner even invite students sef?.nothing u dey do 4 naija ppl wey dey do dem.always complaining.

Na yourba people dem be na...very treacherous set of people filled with hate and envy..

You see nothing wrong but he the Common sense Senator. Have this for you

iwuemma:








were you guys tagged special guest of honor?

i dont get the rant!

you want Ben Bruce to serve you personally? spoon feed you guys and hand you guys his book because you guys are guest and from Unilag?

will you say you havent been to a party and service was not carried out properly?
say you havent and you clean your mouth for lying.

event management is one problem , no matter the organizer.
those that managed the events mismanaged it , so holding it against Ben is crass stupidity.

must he be everywhere?

and you using this to cast aspersion on him because he didnt spoon feed you guys? very laughable..

and imagine the hate, you are taking pictures and snapped the food he served you guys?
his own money?

aint you an ingrates..
quite pathetic.

and if he didnt invite you, you would say he despise the student.

they sent you guys up for you to see all that happened.

instead to aspire to do greater things as a masscomm student you are casting aspersion and painting him on the bad light..


knowing fully well that your rant will dent his image as an opposition ..

you also forgot it was live program, so am yet to hear people confirm the humiliation at his birthday..

how many boook lunch have you attended and you got the book free , even to the point it reached everyone!?

probably they ran out of copies!
SO DOES THAT make him bad?


how much do people pay to attend shows by your favorite musicians?
you saw them free of charge and you dey complain?

are you okay?

I used common sense to derive the question i asked you.
not everyone will agree with me but you know they are true.

enjoy your teem drink man....

https://www.nairaland.com/2946435/ben-bruce-apologizes-unilag-students

ufinity:
your sense is really scarce indeed, so he should not mingle with dignitaries,the party should have been b/w him and the students alone. How was he even suppose to be everywhere, have you ever tried organising a party self.
He should have done d party in d open, what do you think with?
You really do have a big misconception of d whole commonsense tin

that was just an opinion not your business and if he affect you report to Ben Murray Bruce.

Never knew some are still with a rampant-sense.

Been invited to the Party is even something to be proud of! Which rich man does that? invite students to his party? Do lecturers even do it? Mtcheew.

Chai!!!



Lot of dummies on NL like the Ben Bruce Murray man isn't human,he shouldn't be treated like a king despite what happened.

Such rubbish. Anyways he has apologized,those licking his feet how much were you paid??

Idrismusty97:
****read the post. Don't you even feel a little shame when you just read the topic and jump into conclusions?

shame 4 wat,was he invited 2 dy event dat u re quarelling with bruce guy to hell with u cs na ur type dy go round 2 find free fud 4 event

homesteady:
Been invited to the Party is even something to be proud of! Which rich man does that? invite students to his party? Do lecturers even do it? Mtcheew.

What is so special about the party.

The man is using the students for publicly.

But op u still drank the teem now. U 4 get honour small vex nor drink nah. Nonsense. Why blame the man? Be satisdfied with what u got. Everybody nor fit be VIP. I bet say not evryone downstairs got food sef. Abeg go siddon! Ben Bruce is humble to the core.

WE CAN ALL SEE NOW THAT COMMON SENSE MAY NOT BE HAS COMMOM EVEN TO THE APOSTLE OF COMMON SENSE. BEN BRUCE CAN NOW SEE THAT TALK IS CHEAP, ACTION IS EXPENSIVE. HBD TO THE APOSTLE OF COMMON BUT UNCOMMON SENSE OF NIGERIA

[quote author=homesteady post=43105838]Been invited to the Party is even something to be proud of! Which rich man does that? invite students to his party? Do lecturers even do it? Mtcheew.quote::: ASK YOUR PRINCIPAL IF HE INVITED THEM TO BE HIS GUEST OR FOR CROWD PURPOSE. IF THEY ARE HIS GUEST COMING ON HIS INVITATION THEN HE HAS TO TREAT THEM WITH GREAT RESPECT BUT IF THEY ARE FOR CROWD PURPOSE THEN THEY GOT ALL THEY DESRVE FROM SENATOR BEN BRUCE ON HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY. WHAT A MEMORY!!!

nijar students

if them treated and served you like the other members, you won't complain but now wey dem give you chikini something


you are lamenting


be contented

Dear Abidemi Adesokan,

Sorry about the "perceived discriminating" treatment you got at the #BenBruceAt60 party. Unfortunately the party is meant for people with commonsense and you just proved to the whole world that you're are the wrong guest at the event.

Waitaminute, na only u waka go the party from Unilag? How come only you out of 54 Unilag students in attendance decided to publicly display your folly? I feel sorry for your parents whom you've practically embarrassed, by giving the impression that you are poorly fed.

Lesson: You cannot become great by disparaging a great man. Uncle Ben celebrated his 60 and am sure yours ain't half his - You have a long way to go, humble yourself and learn!

My advice: Tender in person, an apology to Uncle Ben Bruce for this foolish act and pray he pardons you.
You're still a student, strive for excellence and when you do, your accomplishments would naturally announce your presence at any event.

Finally, Receive sense!

I am also disappointed in you. Unfortunately you lack commonsense

Kestolovee95:
I'm really dissapointed in Sen. Bruce. Unfortunately he is not THE GUY.

GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU B'COS U JUST SUMMARIZED EXACTLY WHAT I HAD IN MIND.....SOME KIDS OF NOWADAYS CAN BE ANNOYING

WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL IF MY DEPARTMENT WERE INVITED FOR EITHER A WORKSHOP OR WHATEVER ONLY THE JOY OF MEETING ELITES I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD EVER MET IN LIFE WAS ENOUGH

BUT HERE THIS KID IS NOT EVEN THANKFUL RATHER HE IS WHINING ABOUT A FREE COPY AND FOOD!!!

BECAUSE YOU HAVE NAIRALAND WHERE YOU CAN TYPE AND POST ANY RUBBISH

IF YOU ARE MAN ENOUGH YOU SHOULD HAVE MET THE CELEBRANT HIMSELF AND LODGE YOUR COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCES

iwuemma:








were you guys tagged special guest of honor?

i dont get the rant!

you want Ben Bruce to serve you personally? spoon feed you guys and hand you guys his book because you guys are guest and from Unilag?

will you say you havent been to a party and service was not carried out properly?
say you havent and you clean your mouth for lying.

event management is one problem , no matter the organizer.
those that managed the events mismanaged it , so holding it against Ben is crass stupidity.

must he be everywhere?

and you using this to cast aspersion on him because he didnt spoon feed you guys? very laughable..

and imagine the hate, you are taking pictures and snapped the food he served you guys?
his own money?

aint you an ingrates..
quite pathetic.

and if he didnt invite you, you would say he despise the student.

they sent you guys up for you to see all that happened.

instead to aspire to do greater things as a masscomm student you are casting aspersion and painting him on the bad light..


knowing fully well that your rant will dent his image as an opposition ..

you also forgot it was live program, so am yet to hear people confirm the humiliation at his birthday..

how many boook lunch have you attended and you got the book free , even to the point it reached everyone!?

probably they ran out of copies!
SO DOES THAT make him bad?


how much do people pay to attend shows by your favorite musicians?
you saw them free of charge and you dey complain?

are you okay?

I used common sense to derive the question i asked you.
not everyone will agree with me but you know they are true.

enjoy your teem drink man....

Dear Femi
I understand your pain but am sure you just wasted an opportunity to learn something great by this act of public display of folly. Yes you're a student, you not the first neither will you be the last. Casting aspersion on someone who has accomplished so much won't add a point to your GP.
If i were you, I'd be inspired by the event to strive for excellence, so when next i attend events such #BenBruceAt60, my achievements will announce my presence.

Your act here neither portray commonsense

rhymesmith:

Why do we people usually fail to practice what we preach? A person who claims to be an advocate of equality and general COMMON SENSE approach happened to have been the same person who treated the students of the departments of Mass communication and political science, University of Lagos, with so much segregation and disregard. So much for COMMON SENSE. At the 60th birthday and book launch of the Chairman, Silverbird group, Sen. Ben Murray Bruce, this was exactly the case. Besides the fact that our presence was hardly notice and not recognised, we were fed like we came to beg for food, The book, which was promised to the guests didn't even get to us(I'm guessing we weren't categorised as guests), and also, even after the President of the Mass communication department sent a letter to senator Ben to call his attention to the situation, he turned a blind eye. #NotSoCommonSense. The major reason why I attended was that I thought that it will provide me with the opportunity to meet the key players in Nigerian politics, entertainment, business and other fields. How wrong was I? I, Akinseye Oluwafemi of the department of Mass Communication, happened to have been present to witness the appalling and below human treatment given to us students. But we were invited here, I thought. Or did we gate crash? I refuse to be silent on this and I appeal to you also to forward this message until it gets to Sen. Ben, so that he can understand that his actions were #NotSoCommonSense after all.

'Femi Akinseye
Mass Communication
UNILAG.
Nigerian Youth.

Hmmmmm, dearest just see it as one of those things...its a way they have used to remind God of our plight. Must so called elites in this country are too forgetful of the fact that we are all like birds in this world... Sooner or later, we will fly back! He is 60 right, I pray for him that he will leave more years and witness the success of the he underrated. I'm not usually concerned or moved with their attitudes!!! The more they aged, the more fool they become!

Mtcheww!

Your obtuseness is overwhelming.
If you subject his comment to your bias views then you're no different from him who refused to gather knowledge you're meant to gather- that's if you attended any school at all.

Btw stop wasting your creativity disparaging people on public platforms such as this.

rhymesmith:


Sigh!

Lack of intelligence tells on you sir.
If you do not understand the reason why the students see this as a despicable act, then I guess you never went through the University (and even if you did, you refused to gather the knowledge you were meant gather).

And btw, for your information, you have successfully painted Sen. Ben Murray Bruce in a worse light than these poor students have.

Go and learn how to be more creative instead of just looking for cheap publicity with your #NotSoCommonSense post.

iwuemma:








were you guys tagged special guest of honor?

i dont get the rant!

you want Ben Bruce to serve you personally? spoon feed you guys and hand you guys his book because you guys are guest and from Unilag?

will you say you havent been to a party and service was not carried out properly?
say you havent and you clean your mouth for lying.

event management is one problem , no matter the organizer.
those that managed the events mismanaged it , so holding it against Ben is crass stupidity.

must he be everywhere?

and you using this to cast aspersion on him because he didnt spoon feed you guys? very laughable..

and imagine the hate, you are taking pictures and snapped the food he served you guys?
his own money?

aint you an ingrates..
quite pathetic.

and if he didnt invite you, you would say he despise the student.

they sent you guys up for you to see all that happened.

instead to aspire to do greater things as a masscomm student you are casting aspersion and painting him on the bad light..


knowing fully well that your rant will dent his image as an opposition ..

you also forgot it was live program, so am yet to hear people confirm the humiliation at his birthday..

how many boook lunch have you attended and you got the book free , even to the point it reached everyone!?

probably they ran out of copies!
SO DOES THAT make him bad?


how much do people pay to attend shows by your favorite musicians?
you saw them free of charge and you dey complain?

are you okay?

I used common sense to derive the question i asked you.
not everyone will agree with me but you know they are true.

enjoy your teem drink man....

It is you who is not making any sense here man, cos you do no it not right but you don't just want to accept that!!!! what he as too the student is very wrong of him and I believe your views and scope are not of this world. U should be on run way alien for mars I guess

U were treated like soft targets

a4hafoe:
Who is Genuine in Nigeria?

Senator Ben Murray Bruce turned 60 yesterday, he took the opportunity to launch his book "The Common Sense Revolution" but it's sad to see that the event in its totality portrays the average Nigerian Politician.

Usually, I hate to attend these so called "Big" events but it was Ben Bruce, the common sense guy, I jumped at the Opportunity to go with my department, department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos as we were invited with a letter and we were feeling all important. We didn't know it was an invitation to humiliation.

At the venue, we were told to go upstairs, we didn't mind, as they said that area was reserved for students. Getting there, I realized it was a perfect view to watch the "Elites" wine and dine. Still, we didn't care. We only began to care when the ceremony kept going on and all tables kept getting additional contents and we were just there, like Observers. Don't forget that we were invited, as I said earlier.

While all of that kept happening, I still didn't care because they said every guest will get a free copy of the book. I wanted the book so, I waited on. At the end, only the guests got the Book. I had to look at our invitation to be sure we were guests. Yes, we were guests but the stiff class stratification that Senator Bruce Criticizes came to play.

It's so sad to see that the actions of the Common Sense Guy justifies the "Common Sense is not so common" statement.

Since I know it's all fake, I'd like to give a professional PR advice. It's so bad, if you invite Nigerian Students, who will, to a large extent, determine your political success, to an event only for them to watch you and your rich friends dine. Their votes aren't even enough.

Writing a book about Common Sense doesn't actually make you have Common Sense. We aren't hungry people. We are Unilag Students and we are contented with what we have, we wouldn't go to shop 10 to sweet-talk anyone about common sense, just to get rice.

Happy Birthday, Senator Ben! Thanks for the deceit, segregation and above all, thanks so much for the Palm oil made Jollof Rice with a meat-like object.

I am Abidemi Adesokan, A concerned Nigerian Student who believes there is hope for Nigeria, but Bruce isn't just that guy.

Ben Bruce took you people up there so you can watch SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE WINE AND DINE AND GET PROVOKED TO WORK HARD IN ORDER TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL TOO!

#NowThat'sCommonSense #StopWhining

The funny thing about this whole case is that in student-world, Unilag folks see themselves as over and above students from most other institutions in Nigeria. Their arrogance oozes in any social setting involving those other 'lower' species.... So it's a bit amusing to see them handed their asses on a plate by those likewise 'above' them on the social ladder, in the Eko Hotel banquet hall. Now they can see what LASU students have been experiencing from them all these years.

But i stand to be corrected @ Poster, if there were no enough provision to go round every one, why serve some on a round table and some in a

take away pack.

These student were invited, its not as if they gatecrashed the event

Please inform your boss to define next who he wants in his party and not to invite some set of people(not only student) just to be humiliated.

i hope you can hear yourself, the bolded part.

Tori torokobo wey Mr Senator dey drop for you,you call this a rant?

sycophant oshi, hiss and walk away.

iwuemma:








were you guys tagged special guest of honor?

i dont get the rant!

you want Ben Bruce to serve you personally? spoon feed you guys and hand you guys his book because you guys are guest and from Unilag?

will you say you havent been to a party and service was not carried out properly?
say you havent and you clean your mouth for lying.

event management is one problem , no matter the organizer.
those that managed the events mismanaged it , so holding it against Ben is crass stupidity.

must he be everywhere?

and you using this to cast aspersion on him because he didnt spoon feed you guys? very laughable..

and imagine the hate, you are taking pictures and snapped the food he served you guys?
his own money?

aint you an ingrates..
quite pathetic.

and if he didnt invite you, you would say he despise the student.

they sent you guys up for you to see all that happened.

instead to aspire to do greater things as a masscomm student you are casting aspersion and painting him on the bad light..


knowing fully well that your rant will dent his image as an opposition ..

you also forgot it was live program, so am yet to hear people confirm the humiliation at his birthday..

how many boook lunch have you attended and you got the book free , even to the point it reached everyone!?

probably they ran out of copies!
SO DOES THAT make him bad?


how much do people pay to attend shows by your favorite musicians?
you saw them free of charge and you dey complain?

are you okay?

I used common sense to derive the question i asked you.
not everyone will agree with me but you know they are true.

enjoy your teem drink man....

I am Abidemi Adesokan, A concerned Nigerian Student who believes there is hope for Nigeria, but Bruce isn't just that guy.

Wahala deh o. Anyway Bruce have put himself out there as a target. If you can dish out then get ready to accept dishing.

It's politics.

And these world class students were proud enough to put their names on the Internet because of the type of rice they were served at an event.

smh

smh

smh

So when anyone Googles their names now this thread will pop up.

smh

smh

smh

...all because of a false sense of entitlement. If I created a thread for every event I went and wasn't well attended to, NLs bot would have given me a 3 year ban for spamming.

See the pride in the OP and his class mates like they of Harvard and Cambridge.

Now that Ben Bruce has apologized I guess you can add it to your gps and list of accomplishments.

Funny guys.

Stop with all the lies please! I was at this event and those that sat upstairs got to the event late. They were asked to go upstairs cos the hall was totally full to capacity. The fact that the organisers went the extra mile to share food and drinks to guests upstairs should not be used against them. Nothing was charged to gain entry to this event. I saw students from other universities seated at tables downstairs amongst dignitaries. Dear Unilag students, you need to understand what the term "adherence to schedule " means if you hope to make it in life. There was no discrimination at this event and people (students inclusive) were allowed to mingle and network with the who is who present at the event. You guys got to the event late and got seats upstairs. Would you have had Mr. Bruce ask some guests that got to the event early to vacate their seats for you cos you are Unilag students and you have access to the Internet and know how to use Nairaland? You guys need to tell yourselves the truth about the event you attended. You were late for the event. For an event that is not out to make profit, I would say it was well organised! Better than most events people paid N1m for a table.