₦airaland Forum

Ezegozie: is like dis is your first time? Don't count your chicks before the egg is hatched. I gues it should be better to say this when the result is out

be optimistic for once

SamConquer: . . .Maths For Medicine??. . .There Is Something Wrong Somewhere. . .

lol...wetin person no go read 4 nairaland

me_for_you: Jamb exams are not difficult. Just the bunch of secondary sch pupils we have now are a bunch of party-going, gangsteric, never-reading bafoons. There was a time the average jamb score was 300. Now it's like 70 or so

and who said there are difficult, when u have use of english, chemistry, maths n physics to answer for just 3hrs...are u sure you wrote jamb?, or maybe u wrote english, literature, govt n c.r.k

NnamdiN: I don't see any thing wrong with this statement o. Y'all attacking him as if all you "need" to do to gain admission in naija is to "study" hard. I know many people with very high jamb and post utme scores yet they couldn't gain admission. These f u c k e r s keep increasing the jamb fee every year as if these candidates are cash cows. Truth is, if they had succeeded, I wouldn't be sorry for him. B4 una even talk rubbish come my side, me don grad o

tanx bro For the enlightenment, why can't he make JAMB be like waec, must one write jamb every year?

tpapi: because u cud not pass ur jamb for d past few yrs, u av now decide to send thugs to asassinate d registrar,u a big disgrace to dis kontri, common go n study harder so dat u can pass next yrs jamb

how many time did you write JAMB...be sincere please

ujchief: Yet, other thousands keep getting admitted into the university yearly. Go and study, don't be on the other side of the divide.

if you don't understand my statement, why not ask for clarity

hmm...

why won't they look for him when he keeps on frustrating thousands of students yearly

This is to wish all my fellow Nairalanders writing JAMB success in today's exam, go with the peace of the lord, do not be afraid the lord is your muscle.

ABUJA— Northern youths,
yesterday, spurned the
Federal Government’s offer
of N5.8 billion
compensation to the
families of the victims of the 2011 post-election
violence that rocked most
parts of the North and a
few southern states. The youths, who
denounced the offer
through the National
President of the Arewa
Youths Consultative Forum,
Alhaji Yerima Shettima, noted that the offer was a
Greek gift from the
Presidency to the affected
states so as to win their
support for President
Jonathan’s re-election in 2015. Yerima, who queried the
sincerity of the
government in the offer,
wondered why it had
taken President Jonathan
more than two years to remember the families of
the victims while the
issues that gave rise to the
violence were yet to be
addressed. The youth leader noted, “to
us, we see this as medicine
after death and a
desperate attempt to woo
the North once again to
support Jonathan’s re- election in 2015. ” But, we are not fools and
can no longer be taken for
granted by those who
think that they can always
deceive us and get away
with it. “Why has the government
suddenly remembered that
so many families lost their
loved ones and property
since April 2011? This
government is not sincere to us and they have
continued to make a
mockery of the people of
the north, thinking that we
are fools. “It is unfortunate that the
Federal Government is just
realising that it should
release the money for the
compensation of the
families of the victims, some of who have since
died out of frustration and
hardship. Why have they
released the money with
just a few months to the
beginning of electioneering for the 2015
Presidency? “We want right-thinking
Nigerians to read between
the lines and know that
this government has never
been sincere with the
people and that it is not responsive enough to the
yearning and aspirations of
the people of Nigeria,
particularly, the north that
has been afflicted by series
of violence in recent years. “The Presidency should
stop playing politics with
everything in Nigeria. It
should be able to
differentiate between
providing service to humanity and playing to
the gallery for political
gains,” the ACF leader
warned. The Federal Government,
yesterday, announced the
approval for the release of
N5,747,694,780.00 to nine
states of the federation for
direct disbursement to those who suffered losses
of property, means of
livelihood and places of
worship in the post-
election violence of 2011. Special Adviser to the
President on Media and
Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati,
who announced this, said
government’s decision was
to assist those who suffered losses during the
crisis as recommended by
the Sheikh Ahmed Lemu
panel that was set up after
the crisis. The states to benefit from
the money, according to
Abati, are, Bauchi, Sokoto,
Zamfara, Niger, Jigawa,
Katsina, Kano, Adamawa
and Akwa-Ibom. Abati explained that the
interest of those who died
in the course of the crisis
would be accommodated
by the Federal
Government. It would be recalled that
following the post-election
violence and civil
disturbances in some
states after the April 2011
elections, President Jonathan set up a panel of
enquiry headed by Sheik
Ahmed Lemu, to among
other things, identified the
spread and extent of losses
suffered across the country. The committee
recommendation was
adopted by the Federal
Executive Council which
directed the Federal
Ministry of Lands and Housing to assess the
reported losses and
damage to property in all
affected states. The Special Adviser to the
president noted that based
on the Ministry’s report,
“President Jonathan has
approved the release of
funds to nine of the 14 affected states as follows:
Bauchi; N1,574,879,000.00;
Sokoto, N55,888,506.00;
Zamfara, N93,253,485.00;
Niger, N433,375,875.00;
and Jigawa, N208,667,634.00. Others include: Katsina,
N1,973,209,440.00; Kano,
N944,827,000.00;
Adamawa,
N420,089,840.00 and
Akwa Ibom N43,504,000.00. The presidential
spokesman explained that”
Inspection and assessment
of damages and losses
suffered are yet to be
carried out in Borno, Yobe, Gombe, Kaduna and
Nasarawa states as
modalities and further
instructions for the ex
ercise are still being
expected from the state governments. “Funds to cover the losses
sustained by victims of the
post election violence in
these five states will be
approved and released at
the conclusion of the assessment exercise” he
said.http://vanguardngr.com

smh for our parliamentarians, i think someone needs to be recall from the house

Nigeria my country i hail thee....we'll get there one day.

April 14, 2013 | 12:08 am

Nigeria Today By Tonnie Iredia

One question which a
committee I once belonged
to could not find an answer
for was why every
Chairman of our electoral
bodies of old was always booted out of office. For
example, Professor Eme
Awa who was appointed to
Chair the Commission in
1987 was holding a crucial
meeting with electoral commissioners when a
radio announcement
removed him from office
barely a year later. His successor, Professor
Humphrey Nwosu
organized the world
acclaimed best election in
Nigeria in 1993 but he was
not allowed to release the results. Other Chairmen
before them like E. E. Esua
and Victor Ovie-Whiskey
were not better handled.
Incidentally, they had all
distinguished themselves in other assignments
before being saddled with
managing elections. So,
why were such outstanding
personalities rubbished? The question re-echoed in
my sub-consciousness, a
few days ago when my
friend, Yemi, informed me,
that a premature end to
the tenure of Dr Bamanga Tukur, the current
chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP)
appears imminent. Yemi imagined that the
recent adverse criticism by
the Independent Electoral
Commission (INEC) of the
party’s convention which
brought Tukur to office would instigate some
members of the PDP to
increase the tempo of their
bashing of their chairman.
How come it took INEC
about one year to make public its reported negative
observation of the
convention? This is a poser for another
day. For today, it is
instructive that it was
reportedly made at the
height of anti-Tukur
campaigns within the PDP. Oh yes, no other executive
officer of the party has
been subjected to the type
of sustained attacks which
Tukur has faced since the
last one year that he took office. Interestingly, it is not quite
easy for any political
analyst to comprehend the
issues at stake. For
instance, what type of
chairman do PDP members want? Would they prefer a
robot, that is, a person who
lacks discretion and
initiative? I ask this
because the first complaint
against Bamanga was that he was doing things
differently from how others
did it befo
re. For this reason, the
party’s National Working
Committee (NWC) rejected a memorandum from the
chairman to reform the
party. In fact, despite the widely
held belief that corruption
in the party secretariat was
being perpetrated by some
directors who had spent
over eight years in office, a proposal by the chairman
to move such directors
around was rejected by the
NWC. Again, a purely advisory
body led by a distinguished
second republic Vice
President, Dr. Alex
Ekwueme to help the
chairman generate ideas and strategies on how to
move the party forward
was similarly opposed by
the members. The
argument of the latter was
that such a committee was unknown to their party’s
constitution. At another
point in time, the party’s
national secretary allegedly
sent a memo to all
chairmen of state branches of the party not to relate
directly with the national
chairman without passing
through the national
secretary. One analyst attributes the
rumpus to what he
described as how Tukur
was elected. Whatever is
the case, the reality is that
PDP members usually treat the chairmanship of their
party as if it is a part time
or temporary position. In
fact, the case of Bamanga
Tukur looks like that of a
new appointee on probation, but for how long
it is to last may be hard to
know. This is because it is not
about Tukur; rather, it is in
the character of PDP to put
its chairman in the position
of a refuse bin before he is
booted out. And it has been so since 1999. As in the
case of our electoral
commission of old which
always brutalized its
successive chairmen, PDP
without being uncharitable, appears to
relish being a headless
body. With what then does
it think? Some say the founding
chairman-Chief Solomon
Lar was not disgraced out
of office but not many
agree with the assertion.
What about his successors? Barnabas Gemade, Audu
Ogbeh, Okwesilieze
Nwodo, Vincent Ogbulafor,
together with the
indomitable Ahmadu Ali
who was nicknamed the Garrison Commander were
all virtually rubbished. Our democracy cannot take
root, if party management
is weak. There is indeed
danger when the chairman
of the ruling party in a
state finds his way to the position of Deputy Governor
of that state as PDP did in
Kaduna the other day. Also,
party activities ought to be
chaired by the chairman
and they ought to hold in party offices and not at the
Presidential Villa or
Government Houses in the
States. In other words, party
leaders should not be
subordinated to their
members who are elevated
to the executive arm of
government. PDP should borrow a leaf from the
posture of older politicians.
During the second republic
for instance, Alhaji Shehu
Shagari won election as
President under the banner of the National Party of
Nigeria (NPN). Thereafter, he faced the
task of governance while
Chief Adisa Akinloye,
National Chairman of the
party continued to call the
shots on party matters. In addition, Shagari deferred
to him at all times and
refused to be interviewed
by journalists on an issue
upon which, in the words of
Shagari, ‘the boss’ had spoken. It is a posture which puts a
political party over its
members –a stance which
is no doubt more
significant today because
unlike the past when we had independent
candidates, the law now
provides that elections can
only be won by political
parties and not by
individuals. This creates party supremacy. This legal environment of
party supremacy is
therefore not the time to
place party members who
win elections over the legal
platform which enabled their victory. Elected party
members like Governors
should not be the only
group to nominate
members to the different
party committees; otherwise they will hold
the party to ransom as it
frequently happens now in
the PDP. In the last few months for
example, PDP Governors
have been calling for a
meeting of their party’s
National Executive
Committee simply because they want to use their
cronies there to dislodge
the national chairman. But
when will any of such
Governors allow a meeting
of his own State Executive Committee?http://vanguardngr.com

eeemm...<hope am not thinking it>...but why does no. 2 look like a tadpole

she looks like Jay-z

Weselion: on a serious note, psquare own don too much, after this usher own they still went ahead to transform soledad by westlife to I dey miss you die. Then azonto dance to alingo, they should have found anoda name na.

it's another version of creativity, transforming what is, to what ought to be

PORT HARCOURT—
MOVEMENT for the Survival
of Ogoni People, MOSOP,
has called for the creation
of an Ogoni state as a
condition for oil exploration to resume in
Ogoni land. In a statement, yesterday,
Chairman, MOSOP
Coordinators Forum, Mr.
Frank Jonah, said Ogoni
will not tolerate a situation
where states that contribute nothing to the
economy fed fat on the oil
resource in the area, while
Ogoni communities thrive
in suffer poverty. Describing the poverty
situation in Ogoni as sad
and painful, Jonah said
they had continued to
suffer from oil pollution
and environmental degradation. He said: “The health
situation in Ogoni is
terrible with increasing
death rate. While the
resources of the Ogoni
people are taken and shared by the major ethnic
groups, Ogoni people are
left to die in Shell
Petroleum Development
Company polluted land. “If they want us to
negotiate, let them create
a state for Ogoni as a
matter of urgency and
necessity, then we can
talk. “And even if we have to
agree on resumption of oil
exploration after our
demands are met, we will
not accept Shell back to
Ogoniland.”http://vanguardngr.com

Auditions will begin this
weekend in Port Harcourt
in the world’s number one
music singing talent reality
TV show, “The X Factor”,
brought to Africa for the first time by leading
telecommunications
company, Globacom. Head of Reality Shows of
Globacom, Sulyman Bello,
said in a statement issued
in Lagos that auditions to
select those who would
participate in the show would be held at the
Presidential Hotel, Aba
Road, Port Harcourt, from
April 13, to Sunday, April
14, 2013. The X-Factor crew will
move to the Federal Capital
City the following week
for the Abuja auditions
which will take place at
Ladi Kwali Hall of Sheraton Hotel, on Saturday and
Sunday, April 20 and 21. Bello stated that the Lagos
auditions would come up
on the weekend of May 25
and 26. It will be held at
Dream Studio, No.1
Bamako Street, Omole Estate, Ojodu. All the
auditions will be held from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the
stated days. X-Factor is a Reality TV
singing competition
designed to find new
talents. It is contested by
aspiring singers, drawn
from public auditions and is open to all ages, sex,
styles, solo acts or groups. The other stages of the
competition include the
auditions, in front of an
audience; the evictions; the
judge’s day and the grand
finale. It has been successfully launched in
major countries including
UK, the United States,
Albania, Argentina,
Australia, Belgium,
Denmark, France, Germany and Spain. Glo is making history as the
first company to bring the
show to Africa. The
ultimate winner of the
show will cart home a
princely sum of $150,000 (N24million), the biggest
purse among current music
reality TV shows. The winner will also get a
recording contract with the
internationally acclaimed
Sony Music for the
recording of an album and
professional management of the winning individual
or group. A major difference
between the show and
others is that the judges
also double as coaches for
the various groups. It is
peculiarly split in stages, following the contestants
from auditions through to
the boot camp, the judges’
homes; to the grand finale. According to Bello, “This
year marks the 10th
anniversary of our
operations and this
programme is, in part, our
modest way of thanking our subscribers for their
loyalty and patronage”. Accra and Kumasi in Ghana
are also scheduled to host
the auditions. The X Factor,
a Syco-owned format, is
produced and distributed
worldwide by FremantleMedia.http://vanguardngr.com

FG To Replace Voters Card With National ID Card

Plans are on the way for a gradual phasing out of the voters card to be replaced by the National Identity Cards in future elections in the country.

Minister of Information, Labaran Maku who disclosed this after the Federal Executive Council meeting yesterday revealed that the council also approved the sum of N2.1billion for the printing of 33.5 million Permanent Voters Card by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The minister said the permanent Voter’s card which will have a life span of ten years will contain unique biometric features that will identify the voter.

According to the Minister, “following the successful conduct of the Nationwide Voters registration in 2011, the commission proposed to print 73,500,000 permanent ?oters cards to replace the temporary voters cards issued during the voters registration.

The commission printed 40,000,000 permanent cards in 2011 for the first phase of the project which is in progress. There is the need to print and issue the remaining 35.000,000 permanent Voters card.

“After deliberations, Council approved the contract for the second phase of the printing of Permanent Voters’s Cards at the rate of N65.00 per card in the sum of N2,117,500,000 with a completion period of 6 months” he said.

The minister explained that INEC estimates that the permanent Voters Cards will be used for elections in 2015 and 2019 after which the National Identity Cards would be the instrument for use in elections in the country.

Also yesterday, the Federal Executive approved the institutionalisation of a six level national vocational qualifications framework in Nigeria and the placement of the national vocational qualifications in the scheme of service.

Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa’I who disclosed this emphasised that the scheme is to down play over reliance on paper qualification and integrate skilled professionals into the scheme of service both in the public and Private sector.

According to her, “as Nigeria aspires to become a major player in the world economy, the place of skilled and competent workforce cannot be under played.

“A competent workforce necessary for higher productivity and effective implementation of development projects are building blocks for the economy

“The phenomenon of vocational skills framework as been embraced by many countries as a vital scheme to enhance development of competent workforce and ensure that qualifications to occupations are flexible, transparent and accountable.

“As Nigeria transforms to one of the world’s major economies, the greatest asset needed is a competent workforce, which the council believes could be best realized under the National Vocational Qualifications Framework (NVQF)” she said.

Also presenting her progress report to the council yesterday, the Minister of Woman Affairs, Zainab Maina said through the activities of the Ministry, women were able to attain 36% of cabinet positions while 26% of federal Permanent secretaries are women.

She said her ministry is working with the national Assembly to strengthen the laws again rape, adding that more stringent measures would be recommended as punishment for those convicted of rape.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/fg-to-replace-voters-card-national-identity-cards/

PweetiQueensy: Nuting wey photoshop no go do o

may not be photoshop dear, av seen women with worst

aminho: How I wish they are all Nigerians

can anything gud come outta nigeria?

bcomputer101: A Russian billionaire has unveiled plans to make
humans immortal by converting them into
“Terminator-style” cyborgs – a creature that’s
part human and part machine – within the next
three decades.

Thirty two-year-old
mogul, Dmitry Itskov
has been pushing the
project forward since
2011 when he founded
the 2045 Initiative.

His ultimate goal is to transfer a person’s mind or
consciousness from a living brain into a machine
with that its personality and memories intact.
The so called “Cyborg” will have no physical form,
and exist in a network similar to the Internet and be
able to travel at the speed of light all over the Earth,
or even into the space.

Itskov’s first highly ambitious goal, called Avatar A,
involves a person controlling a robotic human
replica through a brain-machine interface (BMI), a
technology that already exists.

The deadline for this first stage is set for 2020. The
Avatar B, due in 2025, would involve transplanting a
human brain into an artificial body “at the end of
one’s life.”

Next in line is the Avatar C, that rolls around in
2035, that would also involve a human-machine
brain transplant, but with all personality intact.
Itskov hopes the Initiative will have learned enough
about the human mind to free it completely from
physical form finally, by 2045.

According to the report, from the Internet-like hive
mind, individual personalities could manifest
themselves as holograms when they need to interact
with their environment.
“We believe that it is possible and necessary to
eliminate ageing and even death, and to overcome
the fundamental limits of the physical and mental
capabilities currently set by the restrictions of the
physical body,” the project website says.

Itskov is recruiting scientists and authoring an open
letter to the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon,
asking him to support to push society’s transition to
“neo-humanity.”

Source: http:///LQaJ2

www.informationng.com/2013/04/russian-billionaire-plans-to-make-humans-immortal-by-2045.html

...and this is the result of watching too much hollywood sci-fi movies

I am 60 years old but have
never ever bought a car for
myself. It was not for lack
of money. Before God
made me close down all my businesses in one day in
2005, I made a lot of
money. However, the Lord
controlled the purse-strings
and spent all the money for
me. I did not get any permission to buy a car or
even build a house for
myself. Nevertheless, I was
allowed to buy cars for
others no less than six
times. This January 2013, I went
on bended knee to the
Lord. “Daddy, you know I
don’t ask you for carnal
things as a rule, but I need
a car. I know the exercise is good for me, but I am
tired of walking to work.” Our Father The Lord answered my
prayer in a most amazing
manner. Within three days,
my in-law went to Cotonou,
bought a Toyota Highlander
Jeep, and gave it to me. I pleaded with her that I
could not receive the gift. I
don’t like Jeeps. They are
just way too big for me. I
also did not want to
increase my financial burden by having to pay too
much for petrol. So I
respectfully declined her
offer. I thought that was the end
of the matter until I got a
phone-call from a long-lost
friend in Port Harcourt
some eight days later. He
left Lagos for Port Harcourt exactly six years ago. He
said the Lord told him:
“Femi Aribisala needs your
car in Lagos. I want you to
send it to him.” He told me
he resisted the directive for eight days, until the Lord
reminded him of it again
during the Sunday service
in church. “Sir,” he said, “I
have no choice in the
matter. I will get a driver to bring the car to you by
the week-end.” The next day, I got a
phone-call from his wife.
“Did my husband tell you
God said he should give you
his car?” she asked. “Yes,”
I replied, sensing some trouble in the air. “Well,”
she said, “it serves him
right. He must give you
that car.” “What is going
on?” I asked the Lord. The
woman continued: “My husband likes that car too
much. Do you know that
since he bought it, he has
never allowed me to drive
it? When he is travelling
out of the country, he parks the car in his office, so I
will not be able to reach it.
Doctor, he must give that
his car to you. It is the will
of God.” Imagine my surprise when
I discovered the car in
question is also a Toyota
Jeep. But significantly, this
one is a Toyota RAV4; a
much smaller Jeep than the Toyota Highlander my in-
law offered me. In short,
when I rejected the bigger
Jeep, God sent me a smaller
one. He then reminded me
that the RAV4 was the same size as the Land
Rover Freelander I had
wanted to buy several years
earlier, which he had then
vetoed. The next Sunday, by 4 p.m.,
my new car arrived with a
note from the sender which
reads as follows: “Dear
Pastor, On Sunday, January
13, 2013, God spoke to me clearly. Pastor Femi
Aribisala has need for your
one and only vehicle (2007
RAV4, Toyota SUV.) In
obedience to God’s word
after eight days of struggle, I hereby deliver this car to
you for the use and to the
Glory of God. To God be the
Glory.” Hearing ears I am the confirmation that
God indeed spoke to this
man because I told no one
but God that I wanted a car
this year. How was this
man able to hear God speak? Why is it that so
many Christians cannot
hear God? Those who
cannot hear God often
persecute those who can
and try to make us believe it is the devil speaking to
us. That is kingdom
dynamics. The Ishmaels
persecute the Isaacs. Jesus
says: “He who is of God
hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear,
because you are not of
God.” (John 8:47). A dubious Christian
gentleman berated me
because I don’t believe in
Paul. He reminded me that
I don’t believe Jesus is a
sacrifice for sins. He highlighted the fact that I
maintain the bible is not
the word of God. Then he
reached this wonderful
conclusion: “How can you
be a Christian if you don’t believe the fundamentals
of Christianity?” If those are the
fundamentals of
Christianity, then
Christianity is a dead
religion. I am not trying to
be a Christian. I claim to be a son of God. The
fundamentals of my faith
lie in my daily relationship
with God. It is not in
reading the bible or in
going to church, or in fooling myself that Jesus
has taken away my sins. It
is in walking before God,
hearing his voice and
obeying him. It is in doing
the will of God and not in reading Paul and quoting
him. It is in knowing God
and in God knowing me by
name. It is in loving God
and in trusting him. To those Christians who
continue to berate those of
us grounded enough to
know that Jesus and not
the bible is the word of
God, Jesus says: “You search the Scriptures, for
you believe they give you
eternal life. And the
Scriptures point to me! Yet
you won’t come to me so
that I can give you this life eternal! Your approval or
disapproval means nothing
to me, for as I know so
well, you don’t have God’s
love within you.” (John
5:39-41). Friends of God True Christianity is not a
religion. True Christianity
is a relationship. It is a
relationship with God. The
bible is important because
it details some relationships that God had
with men of old. But we
are not meant to live
vicariously by their
experience. The bible
confirms it is possible to walk with God, talk with
God and obey his voice. It
is then up to us to insist on
establishing similar
relationships with God. There is little point in
spending a lifetime
boasting about what God
said in private to
Abraham. The question is
what is God saying to you? Eternal life is the
knowledge of God. The
fundamental question,
therefore, is not whether
Jesus was born of a virgin
or not. The fundamental question is does God know
you by name? Does he talk
to you? Is he your friend?
Is Jesus your Good
Shepherd? Do you hear his
voice and follow him? Jesus says: “My sheep hear
my voice, and I know them,
and they follow me.” (John
10:27). On Sunday, 31st March,
2013, I got a phone-call
from the man who sent me
his Jeep. “I am in Lagos,”
he declared. “I have a
testimony to give you.” He drove to my house in a
virtually brand-new Toyota
4Runner, a much bigger
Jeep than the one he had
given me. “My former boss
in Lagos sent for me. He got a better job in Canada
and is leaving the country.
Look! He gave me his new
Jeep. Can you see how God
works?”...culled from vanguardngr

hmm...okies

i had the tree to this fruit at my backyard sometimes before, just set it on fire n killed it for building purpose...n have a dozen at my street

dominique: Picture looks fake. Why are the guts looking shiny and rubbery? Doesn't he have blood?

exactly what i was about to say, instead of treatment, there were busy taking pics for NL. And some one whose belle is cut open won't sit upright like that

so wotz d big deal?

@kenyattaMoore:
Wasn't she a Jehovah witness like her mother?

i thought it was deeper life

r.i.p ma