Does anybody have the link to the Abuja WhatsApp group for visa dates?

It worked. Apparently, Nairaland messes with the link. Type chat(dot) whatsapp(dot) com(slash) LJlrPrHdtsaFjCfDWvvxZR

Radarada08:
Hi, to use the link: quote the post like you want to respond to it, then copy the link and paste it on a new tab.

It'll show you the WhatsApp group, click on "join".

Sunkanmi64:
People saw June and July regular dates for Lagos today, so I'd advise you to join date search groups if you haven't yet.

A few of us here on Nairaland have been asking to be added to the group for a while now, still not been added. Could you share a link or add my number is +2348115718699?

It's crazy tbh. I hope we see closer dates soon. And EA expires within 4 days. So much pressure.

Uriel12:
I really hope something is done about the unavailability of dates very soon.

To think it's the same in Lagos and Abuja, and even EA dates are farther than resumption dates.
Mehn.

Is it always like this?

Hi,

Does anyone have the link to the group chat or could you add my number?

abubaka101:
Hi guys,

Could you add me to the WhatsApp groups for Abuja and Lagos interview dates? My number is +2348115718699. Thanks.

Hi,

Could you add me to the WhatsApp groups for Abuja and Lagos interview dates? My number is +2348115718699. I just got my EA approved but the dates are still too far from my school's resumption date. Thanks.

Youngadvocate:
Please, this post is targeted at spurring our reasoning in something that has become somewhat of a social stereotype.

Let us contribute in that sense; reassuring our convictions of belief in moral values and ensuring we score and take some point from the discourse....not calling my girl a slot or calling the narration fake.

Thanks all.

Frankly, I think your girl is just overreacting.

A lot of sensitive girls seem to take things like this too personal.
Perhaps she felt she had been cheated; dat amongst ur frds all you guys do is believe dat virgins are d true wife materials, while non-virgins are (how u say) whores.

Of course this itself is a myth, but girls can't help to feel this way especially in a society that claims to be morally inclined and religiously intense.

Frankly, I feel like you and her have not discussed issues such as these maturely until now. And am sure she's now probably reassessing the whole relationship and wondering if sex was all dat it was based on (would he ever marry me? Is sex all that he wants? Why hasn't he discussed marriage with me?)

I advice that you meet up with her face to face and discuss this issue with her. Give her confidence in u and downplay the importance of virginity as morality.

romme2u:
The Americans love coming late to such party so as to take the glory after the contestants must have exhausted their strength.

American loss in the pacific was terrific because of direct confrontation in a conventional setting that their veterans who survived like JFK had to brag about their near-death-experience (NDE) during election campaign.

Despite Churchill and de Gaulle's plea for America to land troops on European soil to enable them confront Hitler's army, the later hesitated because of their severe loss in the pacific theater instead decided to send weapons, food and other war materials to the French who had deserted their country to the invaders and UK who was just hanging by a thread until the Germans started suffering heavy defeat to the Russians in more or less a fist fight.

The pacific theater was bloody as the Japanese imperial army was so brutal that they pursue Americans down to pearl harbour. If not the dispirited Chinese, weary from their fierce civil war joined ranks to pushed the advancing Japanese, liberating Korea in the process.

The Americans reasoned among themselves that if the Japanese who were not as advanced in direct confrontations as the German's blitzkrieg (can't remember the spelling of their lightening attack method that subdue Poland in seven days) could deal with them then there is no need to tackle the Germans directly to avoid holocaust .

The Americans decided to avoid direct confrontation with a strong enemy banking on weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a strategy they are still using till today and probably into the future as they are building robotic soldiers for rugged direct confrontation in a conventional setting.

The American troops landed at western France in the spring of 1945 when the Russians had pursued the Germans close to Berlin. Cleaning up what had remained of the German Army.

Deploying the Atomic bomb (which was started by the Germans) was a game-changer (actually in favour of the Japanese) as the Japanese weary from the Chinese onslaught decided to call it a day seeing what the Russians who were their bitter enemy had done to the Germans their strongest ally and their hope.

The Japs made a wise decision because with the fall of Nazi Germany, the Russians would have taken their pound of flesh for the atrocities of the 1812 Russo-Japanese war.

If not for the atomic bomb, the combined forces of the rugged Soviet Union, the willy Americans and the determined Chinese would have annihilated Japan from the surface of the earth. In fact what happened to Germany would have been a child's play as Japan would have ceased to be a nation.

Your analysis is confusing (no disrespect).

You do realise dat that d Americans practiced/kept demselves isolated from global politics and so could not have ever bothered about joining d to war when it started in 1939.

Plus you do realise dat d US did not join d war, and had no real interest, until d Japanese dropped bombs at pearl harbour, and dat was the closet attack on us soil.

Plus I can't remember there ever being a Russo-Japanese war in 1812, I'm only familiar with the one of 1904-05.

Cynate:
Having be to German museums
Most German hate Russia(USSR) for what, USSR did during the war.
US and allied only showed up when the war was moving against the German military.
USSR won the WW2
More than 20 millions of their citizens where killed.

Italian supported Nazi during the war
Italian government blamed Hitler for attacking USSR.
Nazi would have won the war, if not for Nazi attacked on USSR cos Stalin was only preparing to fight Japan not Nazi

Joseph Stalin never expected the Germans to attack at all. Himself and Hitler had signed a treaty that ought o have kept Germany out of Russia and vice versa. But Hitler threw away dat agreement and attacked Russia instead. A truly big mistake.

This outcome was never in doubt. The decision of the US is far too risky to be allowed.
But it wouldn't make any difference however, because it's not enforceable.
No country or institution has the balls to take on the US, neither is there any that has any diplomatic entreaties to make that can cajole the US. Even terror plots which would want to use Jerusalem as ransom would fail, as the US does not negotiate with terrorists (so they claim).

Yet the US should be ready for whatever impact its Jerusalem declaration brings.

Well dat depends on whether the country would still be united till 2030.

This outcome was never in doubt. The decision of the US is far too risky to be allowed.
But it wouldn't make any difference however, because it's not enforceable.
No country or institution has the balls to take on the US, neither is there any that has any diplomatic entreaties to make that can cajole the US. Even terror plots which would want to use Jerusalem as ransom would fail, as the US does not negotiate with terrorists (so they claim).

Yet the US should be ready for whatever impact its Jerusalem declaration brings.

I wrote an article about this same topic nearly 2 months ago here on Nairaland. www.nairaland.com/3705051/public-secondary-school-students-producing

Meanwhile during his campaign he promised to pay the debt. Useless politicians...

Whenever I have a feeling that something good is being underutilised, I always like to raise the question and then introduce some hypothesis. The Android and Apple app stores have been around for years. A lot of developers have built apps for either or both platforms and have reaped bountiful benefits for their endeavours. And this has caused the number of apps on these stores to balloon into millions, which is good and bad, especially when you consider discoverability issues.

But that concern is not the issue here. The concern of this article is to probe why not many Nigerian made apps exist on the Android and Apple app stores. This is a problem, and it's even more noticeable with the fact that these app stores now localise contents. And this has revealed that in some locations, developers have created a lot of apps (USA, UK, India). While in other locations, developers haven't done much. Nigeria belongs to the latter group. I attempt to explain why this is so.

The first reason, I think, is because most Nigerian developers are web developers and sometimes the stress of learning a new technology can be discouraging. This is a true statement. Merely looking at the trend in the Nigerian developer space, you'll discover that everybody is busy pursuing AngularJS, React, PHP, Python, MEAN stack, JavaScript frameworks, etc. Excluding Python, a lot of these other technologies are fully reliant on the web irrespective of what adherents say.

So if everybody is doing web development, who's going to learn Java and Objective-C for Android and iOS development respectively? Because of this, a lot of Nigerian developers lack the technical know-how to build native apps for these platforms.


Yes, some developers have tried to build WebView apps to respond or offset this problem, but they build these apps still relying completely on the web. And hardly would you see these apps use even a single native functionality, as basic as even a camera function!



Nigerian developers should leverage tools like Cordova and React Native and frameworks like Ionic to get their disruptive ideas out there. We seriously need you to do this.




A second problem, and people would want my head for this, is that most Nigerian developers who are highly skilled, are not creative enough. Every Java expert I've heard of or met, hardly makes an Android app for the general public. A lot of them would rather argue about abstract topics than release a feature they think would be helpful to people (I don't mean GitHub projects), even if it is as basic as an "Alarm clock".
Or, most likely, they work in companies where they don't just have the time to design non-proprietary stuffs. If you don't know, Java is a pretty important technology among Nigerian companies, so having good knowledge of Java kinda makes you a hot cake. So I don't blame these developers too much.



But trends reveal that the the future is mobile , so expect platforms like Android, Windows Phone and IPhone to remain trendy for a long time. Yet as a developer, you need to learn to keep up changes in technology and tooling. Since most Nigerian developers are web developers,I recommend jumping into the cross-platform boat either through Xamarin (if you know ASP.NET), React Native (if you know React) or through Cordova (since you know HTML, CSS & JS) .

source: https://abubaka./2017/03/26/why-are-there-no-much-nigerian-apps-on-the-apple-and-android-app-stores/

aaronson:
Yes sir, we might not know the future for sure but we can predict it in the context of history.
Your opinion remains valid as it has to do with the acceleration of advancement. True but the brain gets lazy when too many automated machinery replaces manual process assisted by the brain.

I am inclined to agree. I had been working on an algorithm for personalization and recommendation, but I got worried by the fact that it had the possibility of re-enforcing the bias and perception of people; not because it should, but because that's the data it gets from the user.
The same dilemma worries Google whenever it hears people talk about its personalization algorithms.
Meanwhile most people won't even realise it. To them everything is normal. They'll be like "Facebook/Google is reading my mind oooo. How do they know know that i hate Buhari that they are giving me Naij articles about how to kill him?"; It's actually because their last five or more posts or likes/searches have been on the same issues. Kinda like the reason why Facebook is finding it difficult with Fake News!
Now Google and Uber are working driverless cars, believing it would help reduce accidents. Meanwhile there are multiple causes if accidents beyond human error. And the economic impact of driverless cars would be extremely higher unemployment rates.
I believe tech should be beneficial to humanity, not destructive. And while some trends seem to be destructive, tech as a force for good will surely triumph.

Whenever I have a feeling that something good is being underutilised, I always like to raise the question and then introduce some hypothesis. The Android and Apple app stores have been around for years. A lot of developers have built apps for either or both platforms and have reaped bountiful benefits for their endeavours. And this has caused the number of apps on these stores to balloon into millions, which is good and bad, especially when you consider discoverability issues.

But that concern is not the issue here. The concern of this article is to probe why not many Nigerian made apps exist on the Android and Apple app stores. This is a problem, and it's even more noticeable with the fact that these app stores now localise contents. And this has revealed that in some locations, developers have created a lot of apps (USA, UK, India). While in other locations, developers haven't done much. Nigeria belongs to the latter group. I attempt to explain why this is so.

The first reason, I think, is because most Nigerian developers are web developers and sometimes the stress of learning a new technology can be discouraging. This is a true statement. Merely looking at the trend in the Nigerian developer space, you'll discover that everybody is busy pursuing AngularJS, React, PHP, Python, MEAN stack, JavaScript frameworks, etc. Excluding Python, a lot of these other technologies are fully reliant on the web irrespective of what adherents say.

So if everybody is doing web development, who's going to learn Java and Objective-C for Android and iOS development respectively? Because of this, a lot of Nigerian developers lack the technical know-how to build native apps for these platforms.


Yes, some developers have tried to build WebView apps to respond or offset this problem, but they build these apps still relying completely on the web. And hardly would you see these apps use even a single native functionality, as basic as even a camera function!



Nigerian developers should leverage tools like Cordova and React Native and frameworks like Ionic to get their disruptive ideas out there. We seriously need you to do this.




A second problem, and people would want my head for this, is that most Nigerian developers who are highly skilled, are not creative enough. Every Java expert I've heard of or met, hardly makes an Android app for the general public. A lot of them would rather argue about abstract topics than release a feature they think would be helpful to people (I don't mean GitHub projects), even if it is as basic as an "Alarm clock".
Or, most likely, they work in companies where they don't just have the time to design non-proprietary stuffs. If you don't know, Java is a pretty important technology among Nigerian companies, so having good knowledge of Java kinda makes you a hot cake. So I don't blame these developers too much.



But trends reveal that the the future is mobile , so expect platforms like Android, Windows Phone and IPhone to remain trendy for a long time. Yet as a developer, you need to learn to keep up changes in technology and tooling. Since most Nigerian developers are web developers,I recommend jumping into the cross-platform boat either through Xamarin (if you know ASP.NET), React Native (if you know React) or through Cordova (since you know HTML, CSS & JS) .

source: https://abubaka./2017/03/26/why-are-there-no-much-nigerian-apps-on-the-apple-and-android-app-stores/

aaronson:
op, Honestly speaking, Naijatechguy's article is so true as even Albert Einstein some thing similar in that regard, More of technology cripples intellectualism. Akin to what Naijatechguy asserted, Technology induces mental laziness and likely to bring about a future generation of low IQ which we already experiencing in this 21st century.

You are right. But the the future is incremental and sometimes unassuming. The trends we seem to believe will take over may never materialise.
But let me clarify my own post. I did not claim technology will make people dumber or smarter. In fact, I leave that argument to every other person.
My own opinion centred around the technical aspect of his post.

NaijaTechGuy:
I must applaud you for dedicating a thread to me. Gracias. You could have simply dropped a comment on the post rather than wasting time to create this thread. Now I want you to understand something. I never said they'll say pictures taken in 2017 were taken in the 70's. All I said was that it'll be quite difficult explaining to them.

A point I noticed about people that claim to know much about tech without really knowing the basics is that they tend to use unrelated words in a case study.

I never said data machines don't exist. Now Mr Historian, I want to make this clear the current historians don't have to analyze a useless amount of information to get what they want. The sheer amount of useless data on Facebook is too much. You are entitled to your opinion as much as I am to mine.


In situations like this, we both could be right and wrong at the same time, it all depends on the perspective. Now you can delete the thread. Thank you very much.

Quite frankly, I appreciate you coming all the way here to state your point, and in a somewhat civil manner.
I felt it would be better calling you out than to all my comment to get lost in the flood of other comments on that thread. My apologies if the title seems a bit harsh.
But I am not tackling your post on only what you said, and if you check my own post, you'll see that it is the things that you did not state that is also truly a problem.
You never made any mentioning about data science and how it is helping to crunch and analyse seemingly "useless data". Even a lot of facebook data that you are considering "useless" can and are proving valuable in some aspects. It's just like how some persons think of archaeological artifacts, but yet they're useful. Mind you, social media data is not restricted to the number of likes, followers, or views on images or videos. The data is quite complex, sometimes they just gathered unstructured data for unrelated analytical purposes.
(By the way, what's a data machine? Because data is now more efficiently computed in a platform/hardware independent environment. So what you did you mean by that? )

And your point about filtered images and how difficult it would be trying to explain it to the next generation is actually misunderstood. And you know it. Technology is more forward compatible than it is backward compatible. The younger generations and the generations to come will be more sophisticated than our present one. So it won't be difficult explaining anything to them.

And this is not an attempt to bash you, as you actually do know a lot. But we all need to be told when we're wrong in some times.

That's my take.
Chikena.
Oh, and the thread stays open until the mods take it out.

This thread was created in response to NaijaTechGuy's thread that social media is silently ruining our lives: www.nairaland.com/3795920/how-social-media-silently-ruining

I have to say that that was the dumbest thread I have ever seen about technology, especially when it's from an individual claiming to know much about technology.
How myopic can one be to assume that future generations would see our past, filtered, pictures from Instagram and Snapchat and believe it was taken in the 70s?! Isn't the present generation more technologically advanced than the past ones?

And to claim that future historians would have a hard time sifting that from Facebook and the likes because of the volume is data is not completely exponentially stupid, but is thoroughly ignorant!
Obviously NaijaTechGuy has not heard of data science specialisations like Big data and Machine learning algorithms.
FYI, I am a trained historian and also a programmer.
How do you think that linkedin, Facebook and google are able to give you relevant information despite the voluminous amount if data in their warehouses? They use big data analytics tools and algorithms to do that.
And right now these ideas are being borrowed into other disciplines. Historians now use sophisticated tools to analyze data dating back centuries.
So please NaijaTechGuy do your research before you post your articles. And if you can't/don't understand the field enough, outsource the writings to others abeg.
That's all!
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Is this what Lai Muhammad meant by Buhari working from home?

Is this what Lai Muhammad meant by Buhari working from home?

goingape1:
nok is located in kaduna (kafacha precisely) not Jos.


put that into consideration

Nok as it is used here does not mean the geographical location known as Nok. It is actually called Nok Cultural Site, and it stretches from Jos to Kaduna. They are grouped together because when excavations were done in some of these areas, the artifacts recovered were all very similar.

Ontarget:

The Romans and Chinese already had more sophisticated tools and artworks by then. So Nok art were simply basic then.

Have you ever patronised an artist to draw a portrait of you? I doubt it (but could be wrong).
The Romans where nowhere in History during the time the Nok artifacts were being made. We're talking about something that dates as far back as 900 B.C., meanwhile the Romans date back to around 700 B.C., and even at that time they weren't known for much.
The Chinese weren't really doing much in terms of iron working at the time, and even at that, the Nok artifacts are some of the most advanced works of the ancient era. And do keep in mind that they originated during the early years of iron-working. So calling them "basic" simply misses the point...

Ontarget:

Sculpture follow for innovation?

Imagine you developed the IPhone when everybody else was using Nokia 3310. Wouldn't you have been the most innovative person of your time?
The Nok artifacts are not recent. Radiocarbon dating trace their origin to years before Christ was born.
How many iron tools do you own that are older than 50 years that haven't worn out?
But the Nok artifacts have been around for millennia! And it was artistically created to depict something a people considered important!!
If it were European now it would have been more popular than the works of Leonardo Da Vinci which is still less than 800 years old!!!
So read more.

eyinjuege:


I'm always so humbled about our rich heritage in Nigeria. So many wonderful discoveries, andbits unfortunate we're not interested. Wetin concern us with archeological discoveries. Its still the same white man that will bother to help us discover ourselves.
God save us truly....

That's the problem in this part of the world. And because of this ignorance reigns supreme. If you know the number of times I've seen posts talk about certain discoveries and people are like, wow, unbelievable, etc. Meanwhile I'm like, I already knew this thing for years.
If you try to educate them, they'll read through your articles and scream for summaries. Pesin settle down write article about something wey u no knw, u still dey ask 4 Summary like say na their papa pay 4 d article on Fiverr!
The Black man/woman can never make progress if he/she doesn't take his/her time to understand how things truly work. Expecting things to always be easy and short is a sign of laziness. And that's why the Western society always outsmarts us.
For instance, we farm cocoa, own the mines, possess assorted animals and have the arable farm lands. But the prices for cocoa is set at exchanges in Chicago and elsewhere, the largest mining companies are all foreign, the meat we consume in Nigeria are sometimes imported, and the agro-products we consume are largely imported from foreign countries as those countries continue to reach astonishing industrial efficiency that have enough to even send to us as food aids!
The Black man needs to situp, or he won't have a seat to sit!

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A lot of persons don't understand this today. But in the past, say 100 years ago, the White Man saw Africans as barbaric people that had made no innovations whatsoever. Discoveries like the Nok cultural artifacts helped to clear their subjective and racist views.
But sadly Africans still don't realise the worth of any of their heritage, neither is the contemporary generation of Africans ready to leave any legacy for the future.
God save the Black man!

egopersonified:
If you must take loans from lapo and you know you have to start payments the next week, then common sense should Tell you to invest in a business with daily or weekly returns. I know people who take loans from lapo and I have come to the conclusion that most of them take loans that their businesses do not have the capacity to pay back from its profits. Why should you take a loan of N700k when you can't use your own N200k wisely? Some use their businesses as a front and take such loans to buy cars or lands or build houses, when the money is not invested in your business, how do you plan to meet up with the weekly payments from a business that could previously not buy you that car.

FYI, there are so many other micro finance banks that give interests of 3% to 5%. Do your research, ask questions, there is so much going on under our noses that we are not aware of.

Valid points. But I didn't say that there weren't other microfinance banks that offered lower interest rates, I only focused on this one because of the unprofessional way their staff treat defaulters. And also to beam the light at the problems people are facing because of lack of grace periods for debt payment.