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CoCoLav:
My cousin who was an engineering student told his dad he needed money to buy engine block for a project. His dad had to call mine to borrow money and that's where he got exposed.

Another cousin who was an anatomy student said he needed money for cadavar. They called my dad to borrow money again and that's where sh it hit the roof.

My sister lied that she was going for a tutorial meanwhile she was going to the beach. While at the beach she took pictures which she posted on Facebook. My dad's employee saw the pictures and took it to show him and was praising him for having such a beautiful daughter, my dad just smiled. My sister later came home not knowing she had been exposed. It was a really bad day for her.

I'm sorry but I don't like your dad. Can't he just look the other way for once? Always pouring sand in hustlers garri.

wirinet:
Meanwhile please help clarify these discrepancies in Jonathan's academic records;



He obtained his M.sc at the University of Port Harcourt in 1985 and he was a Lecturer at the Dept. Of Biology, Rivers State College of Education, Port Harcourt from 1983 – 1993. How did that work? he was lecturing at one university while studying to obtain an M.sc in another university.

It is very possible.

chaircover:
no

What about me? Can I send you a pm?

On a more serious note, you and ifyalways are blessed.
Thanks for all you've done.

CoCoLav:
Lol. Will update tonight then.

As a show of appreciation for...

Thanks ma'am, you far too kind!!

CoCoLav:
Lol. Its gonna be rated 18+

Now i can't wait.!!!!

CoCoLav:
Lol. That post was skipped intentionally.

I promised to update later though but been so lazy.

** Off to build a tent waiting for the update.**

CoCoLav:
What post?

Of course you are allowed to read my diary...its on a public forum

What happened after you took "Orijin"?

CoCoLav:
You too.

So i read your diary (sorry if i wasn't supposed to) but you missed a post!!

CoCoLav:
Yes!!!



Thank you

You welcome ma'am
Have a blessed xmas

ChristyG:
whoop whoop,i got both d etisalat and airtel card.and i just found out dis thread today.thanks o,if i was fast enough i would ave gotten d glo own too..once again thanks

You should have left one for someone else.

Have a blessed xmas

CoCoLav:
You just sounded like my boss

Tell me you got the one on this thread?

KissQ:
Chei I finally got d glo! Fankz azed

You welcome ma'am.
Have a blessed xmas

CoCoLav:
You just sounded like my boss

Lol

You should be on the card thread

CoCoLav:
you o

Ok.
Take
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Please if you've gotten one before, let others have.
Thanks

CoCoLav:
Till I'm too busy with my family....and even then I might still take certificate courses

You too like book

CoCoLav:
Adez1 oya come and balance the equation

Erm are you referring to me or someone else?

chaircover:
Thanks for the support guys. God bless you and enrich your pocket

Those collecting airtime I hope you are using it to call grandma and grandpa in the village o!
. . . .and that friend who is going through hard times and just needs a word of encouragement
This is what this season is for
God bless us all.
Amen

God bless you too ma'am

CoCoLav:
I think a PhD is really stressful. I have helped many PhD students with their thesis and research and I just feel its too stressful, though I might be wrong it could just be a Nigerian factor.

I am not studying to keep busy. When I see a course that interests me I make plans to get a degree in that course. For example, I saw a programme for a PGdip in Advocacy which made me open this thread.

Alright.

How long are you going to keep on studying formally?

Urine:
You're welcome. Yes it is, PhD is after masters.

Not necessarily, you can do as many masters as you like if you don't want to do a PhD.

By the way, why do you want to keep studying if you don't want to do a PhD? Are you studying to keep busy?

Please if you've already gotten one recharge card, allow others to win.

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Classicalmusic:
Basically, I don't have much advice to give. From your profile, I think you're somewhat stubborn and a bit straight-forward. However, you should be happy washing his clothes and cooking for him because it signifies love. You just need to be romantic so that he will keep loving you. If not, he might drop you for another woman.

Let me give you an insight. I cannot allow a woman whom I do not trust to cook for me and also wash my clothes because some women are really messed up and later they claim that they're capable of making us happy.

Please be caring today so that he will propose to you tomorrow.

Washing and cooking signifies love? Really?
Any guy who expects his girl to wash his clothes for him just because they are dating is an a**

Do you know what plagiarism is?

Op is there anything wrong in LASG buying a power plant?

ojuetti:
@mutter, when he was with us, he worked full time and paid his own part of the bills like rent, council tax and all that, however apart from that, nothing else for me and the kids. he would have abandoned us without looking back if i had not contacted CSA to track him down and make him pay child maintenance, that's how bad he can be.
@edwife, My current partner is divorced, so he was like my comforter while I was going through all these, and as a woman, these things affected me a lot, else I would have suffered depression from deep thinking. I was weak and vulnerable. While not justifying seeing another man while married, i had no choice at the time. But a man who leaves his own woman to chase other women has created the opportunity for other men to chase his own.
Like I mentioned, my pastor is an elderly man that knows most of my travails. He had intervened on many occasions but things did not improve. My current partner is kind and caring.

for the bold part.

Your current partner is kind and caring yet he divorced someone or someone found a reason to divorce him. If i were to guess his story, it will be the wife was "useless" and busy chasing other men around.

I don't have any advice for you. Make your bed and lie on it.

anonimi:
That is a good WISH.
However our reality is that we cannot "get rid of federal character and everything that doesn't scream meritocracy from the Nigerian civil service" and government parastatals as well as government-owned companies.

And I do not think this phenomenon is limited to our country or African countries only i.e. COMPARATIVE better efficiency & effectiveness of the private sector/company vis-a-vis the public service/government-owned company.

Its not limited to African countries alone as most government jobs are unionized.

anonimi:
Thanks for bringing this up with very solid examples.
However do you think there is a general, overwhelming consensus of opinion that private investors are MORE effective in running a company

Yes and that's because of bureaucracy.
My argument is the same set of people who run private enterprises are no different from those in government. You just need to set the right policies.
E.g, We should get rid of federal character and everything that doesn't scream meritocracy from the Nigerian civil service.

anonimi:
Thanks for pointing out my over-generalisation with examples of businesses that still remain in the hands of government in the listed countries.
However, you will note that these enterprises have state investments just enough to have effective control while allowing profit-driven private investors to do the day-to-day operations for greater efficiency based on meritocracy.

Moreover you may wish to take note of this news item:



I believe Britain did similar privatisation starting in the 80s under Margaret Thatcher.

Britain along with other western nations privatized most of the states owned companies. I have no problem with that. I only brought it because Nigerians have been told that the government is not effective in running a company.

anonimi:
Government has no business DOING business.

Its role should be to facilitate and regulate the private sector participants to ensure the consumers/citizens are not taken undue advantage of while ensuring prompt receipt of taxes and excise duties etc due from the investors.
Do you know of any developed or seriously developing country whose companies/industries are OWNED/RUN by the government

I hope I have responded adequately to your post.

Norway -> Statoil 67% owned by the government.
Brazil -> Petrobras 64% owned by the government
China -> Economy is dominated by state run enterprises
South Korea -> Kepco 51% owned by the government
France -> EDF 80% owned by the government.

Its a big lie that government shouldn't do business.

The largest 13 oil companies in the world, are state owned.

BornSad:
Hehe... You quickly ran to fetch some stuffs online. I doubt if you actually read that stuff cause you shut yourself there; even the link you gave suggests that they considering changing the system. Lol

You just mentioned one example of system that has lasted for long. That is a huge software that would take years to re-write and will surely be re-written one day. Moreover, let's not forget that most legacy systems actually replaced some systems prior to them and that is how it goes. Even the one you mentioned might not have been the first system in the organisation, what happened to the one before it? Fact is, no matter how long a legacy system lasts, it will surely be over-written sometime, somewhere. Even the life cycle of software systems include the part where it gets outdated.

Note that the term, "legacy" in computing means "old or outdated or no longer satisfactory". So if a system still serves its purpose so well and no new challenge has rendered inefficient, then it is not yet legacy. That a system has lasted for long does not automatically make it legacy. For a system to be called "legacy", it must be in need of replacement. And once a system is termed legacy, its replacement is near. If a legacy system is in Java (or any language), it will eventually get replaced. And God bless Java if it remains the language of the new system.

Codes outlive developers but the only reason why you and I still have works to do today is because legacy systems get outdated and we get to program some new stuffs. I am an enterprise programmer, I do not need the Internet to tell me what is obtainable in my own market.

NEPA used FORTRAN based legacy system for years as if its whole existent relied on it. But today, PHCN is migrating Microsoft Axapta. That it has not happened does not mean it will not happen, bros mi.

We get jobs every now and then, you know why? Cause some legacy systems somewhere is getting replaced somehow.

That is what I was saying about legacy systems, they can't leave forever, sadly.

Nothing lives forever, and not all systems need rewrite, the need addition. I'm currently working on a 10 year old code base, i'd love to rewrite but the business can't wait for a rewrite so i have to keep modifying(add new features)while planning a rewrite.
That's the reason why C# is not a threat to java for now... Lots of enterprise applications need modification/ addition written and they'll keep the java language up there for a long time.

BornSad:
How long do legacy systems last? Aren't you in the IT world? Don't you see how new systems are taking over every now and then?

Anyway, we were having a technical comparison here. Calling Java names and such things are for the lay community.

Are you seriously asking how long do legacy systems last?
The bank of new york still has a lot of its critical business systems in cobol.
Windows OS has to be backward compatible because of legacy systems.

There is a saying "code outlives the developer"

Here's something for you to read and understand http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2502420/data-center/brain-drain-where-cobol-systems-go-from-here.html
The bank of new york has 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations... What were you saying about legacy systems again?

GozieDiora:
The future of Java is not dependent on the existing programmers. The question is not about who will port but what is the best choice for incoming programmers. They are the dictators not you and I.

Good morning.

Dude i'm sorry but incoming programmers don't have a say. Lots of enterprises have there systems built in java and the incoming programmers would either have to learn Java or find a new place to work.

Nobody would port "battle tested code" because of incoming programmers.