₦airaland Forum

Bishops10:
I have a lot of things I've been thinking of,one of them is why the university certificate is called a bachelors degree?
If you say its assumed(Back in the days)that only bachelors go to university what about the married ones? Or the spinsters




Cc. Fynestboi

A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline). In some institutions and educational systems, some bachelor's degrees can only be taken as graduate or postgraduate degrees after a first degree has been completed. In countries with qualifications frameworks, bachelor's degrees are normally one of the major levels in the framework (sometimes two levels where non-honours and honours bachelor's degrees are considered separately), although some qualifications titled bachelor's degrees may be at other levels (e.g. MBBS) and some qualifications with non-bachelor's titles may be classified as bachelor's degrees (e.g. the Scottish MA and Canadian MD).

The term bachelor in the 12th century referred to a knight bachelor, who was too young or poor to gather vassals under his own banner. By the end of the 13th century, it was also used by junior members of guilds or universities. By folk etymology or wordplay, the word baccalaureus came to be associated with bacca lauri ("laurel berry" in reference to laurels being awarded for academic success or honours.[1]

Under the British system, and those influenced by it, undergraduate academic degrees are differentiated as either non-honours degrees (known variously as pass degrees, ordinary degrees or general degrees) or honours degrees, the latter sometimes denoted by the addition of "(Hons)" after the degree abbreviation.[2] An honours degree generally requires a higher academic standard than a pass degree, and in some systems an additional year of study beyond the non-honours bachelor's. In some countries, e.g. Australia, there is a "postgraduate" bachelor's honours degree, which may be taken as a consecutive academic degree, continuing on from the completion of a bachelor's degree program in the same field, or (in a similar manner to the UK system) as part of an integrated honours program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree

[quote author=UndisputedBosom post=49052079]Let me hear it from my brothers and sisters from the Southeast...


The Brown Roof Republic will be very very disappointed here


More figures in your bank account Jidenna and Nneka....keep givin us

Are u Mad? is this d first thought dat pop into your mind and your fingers couldn't resist typing it....... instead of commending what this people have done u find a way to tribalized it.

UndisputedBosom:
Let me hear it from my brothers and sisters from the Southeast...


The Brown Roof Republic will be very very disappointed here


More figures in your bank account Jidenna and Nneka....keep givin us good music (Mr Classic Man)

Are u Mad? is this d first thought dat pop into your mind and your fingers couldn't resist typing it....... instead of commending what this people have done u find a way to tribalized it.

I see weed at work here..... hope no b Osogbo own ooo

Are this people mad? please stop insulting South Africa, can genius student cheat on duller in examination? Those people most be mocking us rite now with this story, these people want us to die of embarrassment from other sensible countries in Africa.

Splashme:
[size=13pt]1) Pat Utomi was handed the popular Volkswagen Nigeria and he run it aground

2) Same Pat Utomi managed Platinum bank. The bank was weak and forced to merge with Habib to become Bank PHB. Even the Bank PHB, where is it now? We are now hearing of Keystone bank owned by new owners because Patitos gang could not manage it properly.

3) My point is, 'talk is cheap'. Nigerians love to criticise alot especially while outside of government. Pat himself could not manage very minute aspects of the economy to profitability. If Okonjo, Reuben Abati etc where not in govt there would probably be criticising too[/size]

Why do you thrives so much in propaganda so much to the point that ur sense of reasoning has completely been left in the most remote part of ur brain. So we should not criticized a failing system because we've developed like US and UK abi, the same Okonjo that was so successful under Obasanjo now find it hard under Jonathan, sorry to disappoint you we will continue to criticize, demand for improvement and we shall refuse to celebrate mediocrity.

If this doesn't get on front page then something is wrong wit NL.

agoadiv:
so dis gurl na Muslim
..chai

Yes a very proud too. ... If u don't like it, then its ur business.

My advice for everyone of you here is to becareful what you consume all in the name of politics because by the time its all blows out in our face neither Jonathan or Buhari will be here to help us. A WAEC/Cambridge of 1961 in 2015 of no significant now be came an issue all because of politic, so what the significant of the Phd of mr Jonathan in Zoology in relevant to Nigerians situation. While we are here discussing this no brain of an issue there are people who are about to sleep wit an empty stomach, there are people out there who are not sure of their life making it to the next morning. As for those of you who are been used by this politicians to spread their message of division, of hate and of misinform my question for you is what happens to you after the election would they still be paying you to spread their deceit and falsehood? In case you don't know, the same people who are paying you are also buying arm and ammunitions all in name of power, I wonder where you will belong when that time comes, when bullets will be used to convey their message, where will you be I guess running for ur dear lifes and the money will not be able to help. One thing though, I hope you'll be able to live with the fact that you've helped this politicians in no small way to start a war, and all of you will wonder why you having problems, why God is not answering ur prayers.

Redoil:
there is no website that cannot be hacked. APC shildren of collective anger was hacked and delete a lot of data in nairaland due to the defeat and disgrace of fayemi recieved hence "you can erase our data but you can not earase our memory"

Olodo ni e... Even if you are not an IT person you should understand simple computers terms and terminologies like ONLINE and OFFLINE google the two words in upper-caps then you will understand better.

As an I.T person, I never ready it or saw it anywhere where you can hacking into an offline server...... Seems laughable and very unprofessional job by DSS.

In what seem to rubbish the claims by the
Department of State Security Service (DSS),
that the All Progressives Congress (APC),
planned to hack into the database of the
Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), with the intent of cloning the Permanent Voters Card for use in the 2015 general election, the commission has said it is impossible for the database of the commission to be hacked.

The DSS had following the raid on the
party’s data office in Lagos last year said, its investigations indicated that the All
Progressives Congress had plans to hack
into the database of the Independent
National Electoral Commission.
The service explained that the confessions
from the staff arrested at the APC office at
10,Bola Ajibola Street, Ikeja, and the items
retrieved from the building showed that the party had an elaborate plan to hack into the commission’s database and inflate the number of its membership.
But appearing on a breakfast TV show,
Kakaaki on Africa Independent Television
(AIT), on Friday, Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of the Commission, Kayode
Idowu said the database of the commiision
canot be hacked because it is not online.
He was responding to inquiries about the
commissions preparedness for the
forthcoming 2015 general election.
“Nobody can hack into INEC’s database
because it is not online. You cannot hack a
database that is not available online Idowu
said.

He added that “the Permanent Voters Card
produced by the commission cannot be
cloned.” Idowu was however quick to point that his position is not in to say whether attempts were made or not. He said the it is not the duty of the commission to determine whether attempts were made to hack into the database of the commission or not.

The APC had earlier dismissed the claims of the DSS that it planned to hack into the
database of the commission.

abusidiqu.com/it-is-impossible-to-hack-into-inec-database-electoral-umpires-position-punctures-sss-claims-on-apcs-hacking-plan/

sanerugwei:
By their words we shall know them. A true Christian will never fight talk less of killing people because of some inconsequential cartoon or writeup about Jesus. Even bhuddist...Hindus or even sang worshipper won't kill for their gods...why do mohammedans always take the law into their hands. Are practitioners of other faiths not being killed and persecuted in Saudi and other pariah islamists countries? Very sad that people will take lives because of cartoons drawn with paper and ink. What are you worshipping...A bloodsucking god..or the Almighty God for God is love and will never justify murder in His name.

What were the crusaders doing? Fighting for what they believe was right. All am saying is that we should be very careful how will deal wit things that are sensitive to other people. Christians take pride in their so called slap the left chick then turn the right which is good and teaches us restrain, all am saying is nobody has the monopoly of anything. I don't support violence and I don't thick is the solution to every problem.

Are Nigerian really this dump? Yes I know our educational system is pretty bad bt never imagine to this point when people can't read simple meaning to a very simple sentence. Having said that, its also very unbelievable that some people here are saying the Pope is no more a christian, am a muslim and I can very well relate wit what the Pope is saying, can u imagine if someone start drawing the pictures of Jesus naked standing next to a prostitutes or say thing that are contrary to the teaching of Jesus. All am saying is there are thing that should be separated from religion such Politics,blasphemy against other peoples religion as so on. May souls of those killed in Paris attack rest in peace and our brothers and sisters who lost their soul Baga rest in as well.

Abeg my head wan burst wit laughter..... Best trend ever on NL.

If u like call him the devil sef, me and my household are voting for Buhari, it only shows that our so call men of God are the main problem because often time they refuse to tell the truth. Jonathan is the most church going president Nigeria has ever had and also goes down as the most corrupt, most divisive and most incompetent president ever.

DaGC:
Bros, forgive me if I'm wrong, but are you saying its "impossible" to hack some networks?
I don't think that there's a guaranteed 100% security solution in the ICT world.

Its definitely possible bt in this case INEC server is offline which means that you have to be in INEC server room to copy the data and moreover if DSS arrested people in APC office in Lagos does that mean APC does not have data centre in Osun, Oyo and other states of the federation.

TheGrandMaster:
I wonder how an offline server is hacked into remotely.

I thought I was the only one who knew about this, an offline remote server is practically impossible to hack and even if INEC server is online it will be a VPN( virtual private network) one will go through hell to hack it depending on the security in short it also practically impossible. I thought DSS being a reputable organization and a security outfit should be able to understand this technicalities, if not APC will make them really look stupid in court.

This is a serious situation and a dangerous trend in this country, if Buhari is not welcome in the South-east and they can even display it for everyone to see, they should also think about what will happened to Jonathan when he goes to the North, given him a chieftancy title does not mean he will win the election and even if they don't give him he can still win anyways. Even though there is tendency to hate due to events of the past, even though we see other people as strangers in our land and we want to kick them out, even though we despise certain tribe so much, my point is unity and peace must be our guiding principle, it must be our larger purpose. One day an igbo would properly wants to be president too and in the course he might have to go to the north too for support, the traditional rulers should write today's date down because kamar never disappoint.

They should hurry up and shot it down now, enough of this threats.

What do this people take Nigerians for, so they are telling me that Buhari went to an Igbo pastor that controls over 30thansand congregation to speak against a popular candidate in the region and the father is so stupid to do so even when the wife of the sitting president was in the same church some few weeks earlier. They should try harder, but I believe if the father says what God told he then he will be vindicated very soon.

Are you for real, still on this issue.... Even the white people that invented all this certificate knew they are not the ultimate thing as they do not guarantee success. Education is not determined by your certificate but by ur ability to use what you've acquire interms of knowledge to better ur life and ur environment, who cares which certificate dangote acquired not to talk of Adenuga and Otedola and the rest and yet we claim to have a PHD holder at the helms of affair and things are falling apart. I've seen an HND holder who is better than many B.SC holders likewise B.SC who are brilliant at what they do, what I think we should be more concern about is the quality of education our tertiary institution offer to our students and government should try as mush as possible to create more opportunities for our timid youths.

WhiteTechnology:
The way Afonja Awo and MKO were so right that they ended up in disaster .


Clap for your f oolishness

Afonja and MKO made their choices, and to think you want me to decide my future based on issues of 100 and 20 years ago, you must be joking. We the new generation of yorubas are making our choices, believe me you don't want to take me on, am an emerging new yoruba generation and believe me am darm too intelligent for ur propaganda..... Save them for illiterates in village.

WhiteTechnology:
This is the man SW are rooting for


How as the most sophisticated tribe fallen



Only God can prevent violence in 2015

If the election were to be held 1000times yorubas will still vote for Buhari, for the fact that you admit that we yorubas are the most sophisticated tribe in Nigeria should tell you something about us. If American say something they must have a reason and believe me they are always right. Yorubas are always right.

Gudluck want to be president of London abi, make London people vote am now. This man is not serious @all, despite of this there is no money and crying of austerity measures, he still has money to do all this. Whereas some state civil servants are yet to receive their salary.... Mr. Jonathan God is watching in 3D ooo. Chai.

Some of you xtians should be ashamed of statements made by some of ur leaders atime, I can't believe someone somewhere will still think that someone will have power to islamised or christianized Nigeria in this 21st century. Do they think Nigeria exit in isolation nee? Mr. Bishop, am a Muslims and am telling you that no one can rule Nigeria based on the principle of one religion. Buhari will win the 2015 election base his integrity and principle and life's will be changed for the better so have no fear bruv. Sai BUHARI.

Firefire:
Maybe in 2019 or in Northern States of Nigeria or better still President of Online Polling Units, www.

Wake up mr. Man, u've been sleeping for so long. U deny reality wen its staring u in the face. Come May, 29 2015, General Muhammadu Buhari will be the elected president of Nigerian, if u don't like it go hug transformer or better still 3rd mainland bridge is all urs do the needful....

What problem do you people have with Yoruba self, writing this meaningless, nonsense and endless article all in the name of getting us to vote for Jonathan. Sorry to inform you, it won't work..... What kindof people do you think we are self? Do you bother to examine our culture and history @all? My advise for you is this, try and understand the ideology of the yorubas then you will understand what made us thick.
We are sophisticated to understand cheap blackmail and whitemail if there anything like that, we know how to play self politically, we see people for who they are, or you think we don't know that Tinubu is a thief? But his also a safer option compared to Obasanjo and believe me, we know Buhari is no saint either but he's still mines better than Jonathan. My advice for you is vote for who you want and we will vote for who we desire.

You are mad, take ur cock and bull story somewhere else, we are done with this Jonathan. You are such a hypocrite, even when this man is about to throw the entire nation into war zone and you are still here asking useless question.

naija2dabone:
The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot.

On Friday, 23rd August, 1985, the military government of Major-General Mohammadu Buhari decided to place me under arrest. My crime was that I wrote, among others, an article entitled: “Counter-trading Nigeria’s Future” in the National Concord, exposing the government’s scam of diverting public funds into private coffers through barter-trade with Brazil. A man by the name of Benson Norman was sent from the State Security Services (SSS) to my office to get me. Not finding me, he left a note that I must present myself unfailingly at the SSS office at 15 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos the next Monday morning.

However, on Sunday, 25th August, 1985, Lateef Aminu came first thing in the morning to my house to inform me that the government of Buhari/Idiagbon had been overthrown. For this reason, I am fond of telling people that God brought about a change of government in Nigeria just because of me.

Coup-plotter

Under the Buhari/Idiagbon regime, once you ended up at 15 Awolowo Road, you may never be heard of again. Decree Number 2 of 1984 empowered Tunde Idiagbon to arrest and detain anybody indefinitely without trial and without legal reprieve. After Buhari was overthrown, Mohammadu Gambo opened the prison doors of 15 Awolowo Road on public television, revealing people in various stages of UnCloth and malnutrition that had been kept in the dungeons without trial by Buhari’s hound-dogs.

As self-imposed Head of State, Buhari had no regard for human rights. Immediately he seized power, he announced that he would “tamper with” the press. Soon, the infamous Decree Number 4 was promulgated which made even the publication of the truth a punishable offence. Under this cover, Buhari jailed innocent journalists, including Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabo. He abolished civil liberties, promulgated retroactive decrees enabling him to kill Nigerians through jungle justice, proscribed civil society organizations and professional groups and exercised “absolute” power.

This same Buhari would now have us believe that he has gone through some metamorphosis and has become a democrat. I am sure you will forgive me if people like me don’t believe him. Buhari is not, has never been, and will never be, a democrat. Only in Nigeria would a man with his track record, who came to power through a military coup that illegally overthrew a democratic government, now be acclaimed as a democrat. It is on record that Buhari’s military regime is the only one in Nigeria’s history that failed to promulgate a program for return to civilian rule.

Facts and fiction

So what exactly qualifies Bihari as a democrat today? Precious little! There is nothing democratic about forming and joining political parties just in order to be the presidential candidate. Little wonder then that Buhari’s parties have a short shelf-life. Buhari would like to be Nigeria’s head of state once again. He can no longer achieve this through the barrel of a gun. The only route now open to him is through the democratic process. That is the reason why he now conveniently fashions himself as a democrat. It is merely a means to an end; no more, no less.

Buhari’s reputation as an anti-corruption crusader is also a myth. As head of state, he did not make any dent in Nigerian corruption. All we got was a cosmetic “war against indiscipline.” The counter-trade scam happened under his watch. Rather than deal with it, he sent his hound-dogs after nonentities like me who dared to expose it. That scam was no different, in scope and scale, from the petroleum subsidy and other corruption scandals that have since plagued Nigeria. The Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) that Buhari headed under Abacha was also a citadel of corruption. While Buhari himself might not have enriched himself, his cronies and those who worked under him did so handsomely.

On three different occasions, Buhari has run for the presidency. On three different occasions he has failed. That should really be enough. If, as seems likely, he were to run for the presidency a fourth time in 2015, there is no question that he would fail yet again. Try as he might again and again, Mohammadu Buhari can never be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Buhari’s sectarianism

There is a fundamental reason behind this. Buhari is a lousy politician. He is an unbending former military dictator and not a democratic consensus-builder. Like his new ally, Bola Tinubu, Buhari is a regional, sectional politician. Such politicians are practically impossible to package and market nationally in the ethnically-delicate Nigeria of today.

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El’Rufai, one of those Northerners who deserve to be serious contenders for the presidency of Nigeria, observed that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” as a result of his “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus.” This is an elegant way of saying that politically, Buhari has an uncanny tendency to put his foot in his mouth. He talks before thinking of the political implications of his words. He shoots from the hip.

The strength of Obasanjo, which enabled him to capture the presidency on two different occasions, was that he was perceived as a broadminded politician, not overly partial to his people in the South-West. As a matter of fact, in his first election, his people did not want him. The strength of Goodluck Jonathan, which propelled him to win the presidency, was that he was able to string together a coalition that stretched both north and south of the Niger. The weakness of Buhari is that he is totally unacceptable to people outside his region.

Buhari is a Northern regional champion. As head of state in the 1980’s, his government was unapologetically Northern. No attempt was made to balance the ticket at the top. It was the only regime in Nigeria’s history headed by two Northerners. When he seized power, Buhari put Shagari, the Northern head of state he overthrew, under house arrest. But then he jailed Alex Ekwueme, the Southern vice-president. You may well ask what makes Shagari less culpable for the misdeeds of the Second Republic than his number-two man. The simple fact was that Buhari was Fulani as was Shagari; but Ekwueme was Igbo.

Impolitic words

At the height of the Sharia debate during the Obasanjo administration, Buhari declared that Muslims should vote only for fellow Muslims. This was politically suicidal for a man seeking national office. He became an advocate for implementation of Sharia all over Nigeria. He protested to the Oyo State governor, in the context of a dispute between Fulani herdsmen and indigenous farmers in the state, that “your people are killing my people.” This turned out to be unfounded and perhaps the reverse.

His threats during the campaign for the 2011 elections incited widespread violence in the North after he lost. His supporters went on a rampage; looting and killing; in spite of the fact that, by all accounts, the elections were adjudged the most free and fair in the history of Nigeria’s current democratic experiment. By the time the mayhem had subsided, over 1000 people had been slaughtered in cold blood and some 65,000 displaced.

Forgetting that a statement made in Hausa would readily be translated into English, Buhari later declared unapologetically in a BBC interview: “If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.” These are the tokens of an irresponsible politician, whose ambitions for power supersede the national interest. Who then are the dogs and baboons that Buhari has in mind to soak in blood if and when he loses yet again come 2015? Are they his children or are they those of others?

With the Boko Haram insurgency in the north, Buhari played to the Northern gallery yet again, calling the Jonathan government “the biggest Boko Haram.” Wole Olaniyi was a fly in the wall at a meeting in Kano Government House designed to persuade PDP rebel governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to decamp to the APC. Assuming that only Northerners were present, Buhari declared the Boko Haram was a “strategic plan” by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to “destroy the North.” When Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states, Buhari still saw this with Northern goggles, insinuating that the President is waging war on the North.

President of the North

Without a doubt, Buhari has massive support in the North. Indeed, he is the most popular Northern politician in the North today. But that precisely remains his undoing at the centre. The more he has been identified as a Northern champion, the less attractive he has become as a national choice. Even in the North, his support base is limited to the Muslim population. He does not appeal to Northern Christians. Then there is the added factor of the opposition of his implacable opponents among the Northern elite. Men like Babangida and Atiku would rather die than allow Buhari get to Aso Rock.

One thing is certain, the South-South and the South-East will not vote for Buhari in 2015. Not only that; there are no buyers for Buhari’s sectarian politics in the South-West. No matter what Tinubu might be telling him, the people of the South-West will not vote for Buhari in 2015. We already had the template in 2011, when Buhari tried to sell himself, first by balancing his ticket with a Yoruba man; and then by making sure the Yoruba man is a Christian; a pastor no less. But it just did not wash. It will not work in 2015.

The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot. That is a sure guarantee that the North will not be providing the next president. Buhari would be a shoo-in in an election for president of Northern Nigeria. But in an election encompassing the entire country, the best he can envisage is to be a kingmaker. He cannot be king. The nearest Buhari will get to Aso Rock in 2015 is by attending the Council of State meetings.

story..... story....story.... say what you want Buhari is winning this one.

Donmarrius:
Coward,go ahead and chase Igbos out!. Lizard.

U seems angry, u can't handle the truth. That's not even my point, forgive me if I make reference to my Igbos brothers but my point is we need to join hands together and elect a leader that would move this country forward, fighting btw tribes will not get us there, division btw regions will not help us....

Sometimes am so ashamed to be a Nigerian going by the comments I read on posted topics on Nairaland, when does endorsing a candidate has to with been slave to somebody, honestly I doubt is these comment were been made by Nigerian or some internet scamers employed by our politicians to cause trouble and to shape our opinions. Since 1999, Nigeria has been governed by 3 presidents 2 from south and 1 from North, now tell me what's the difference among the 3 of them, whose impact have we felt most among them. Now the point of yoruba been slave to anyone, as a yoruba myself I honestly personally don't know what my Igbo brothers are talking about, u called someone coward and reside in her land, you do ur business safely, no security challenges or maybe the mistake the yorubas maybe was not to have chased you out of their land maybe then you will realized how strong they are. Please don't let this politicians divide us for their own benefit.