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Unongo is not being entirely honest. Awolowo and Azikiwe were both members of the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM), the first genuinely nationalist organization in Nigeria. However, in 1941 Azikiwe backed Samuel Akinsanya to be NYM candidate for a vacant seat in the Legislative Council, but the executive selected Ernest Ikoli instead. Azikiwe resigned from the NYM accusing the majority Yoruba leadership of discrimination against the Ijebu-Yoruba members, Ibos and some Ijebu members with him, thus splitting the NYM along ethnic lines.
The same Azikiwe, would in May 1964 after being selected as the first President of Nigeria, give a public lecture on the benefits of tribalism in forging national unity  at the Princess Alexandra Auditorium of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
What I can see from all these is that Zik himself considered ethnicity and tribalism as political tools and only hated it whenever he was at the receiving end. And I guess Awolowo also knew that.

African leaders need to understand this Yoruba prover translated: "When you stay too much on shit or feaces, all kinds of flies get to touch you!". It doesn't matter your intention, whether they are noble or not. It is just reality. Do your best a leave the rest. I learnt that from primary school! Ghadafi alas learnt that too late regardless of his goodies, intentions and plans for the Libyan people.

In these days of BJs and what-have-you, this report might be interesting reading for us all. Though the report is not 100% conclusive, we might just be aware of the dangers involved. Hope the lack of BJ would not end up breaking some relationships and marriages founded on it. 
This is the gist:
Mouth and throat cancer, called oropharynx cancer, used to be a disease seen most commonly in elderly persons. Tobacco smoking  and alcohol use were known to be the leading causes of oropharyngeal cancer. Today, BJ (sorry, NL always filters out the oral s*x word and substitutes it with mouth action) is listed as the leading cause of cancer of the mouth and throat.
New research, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, demonstrates that human papillomavirus, HPV, is the leading cause of cancer of the oropharnyx in the U.S. The number of people diagnosed with HPV-related oral cancers in the U.S. tripled from 1998 to 2004.

You can read it all through the link below:
http://news.yahoo.com/research-reveals-oral-sex-may-leading-cause-mouth-195800608.html

The topic header should actually read 2012 Jamb/Utme and not 2011 because the 2011 edition has already be done the usual paper-based way with the Biometric capture and verification as the major difference from previous exams. In addition, from interviews granted by the JAMB Registrar, the Online or Internet-Based conduct of the examination is a long-term goal. In the short-term, from next year the exam would be Computer-Based, with computerized halls and infrastructure provided through Public-Private Partnership.
Is every student computer-literate? Mind you, the NERDC Revised Curriculum for Senior Secondary Schools effective from this month mandates Computer-Studies for all students in the likeness of English Language and Mathematics! So the JAMB action is not out-of-line with the overall goals and direction of education in the country. In fact it would hasten adherence to the implementation of the Revised Curriculum in my opinion.
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It is better to be informed than to make assumptions and throw up petty excuses.

Teslim's idea is good. One could redefine the business model in the face of the challenges from telcos and cheap mobile internet access.

Even if we are not told, we all know the reason for the low-keyed celebration. Thank you FG for thinking we are fools!!!

It is better for students to simply burn the midnight oil in preparation for their UTME examination instead of having someone with undefined assistance messing them up! It is really sad what this country is turning to.
My advice to students:
1. Buy past question papers and do a lot of practice with trusted tutors because there are lots of charlatan teachers around. Buying past question papers only is not enough because some of them are also produced by charlatans with incorrrect and misleading answers. That is why you need a good teacher to work with.
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3. Pray and pray and pray. Everything in Nigeria requires prayers even after you have followed all necessary steps and fulfilled all righteousness.

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"Fortune favours the prepared mind" Louis Pasteur. Over 1 million students sit every year for JAMB and SSCE and the average success rate is below 20%! There is much more reason to see you are in the top 10% now that their is only one JAMB (UTME). No more attempts until a full 12 months!!!

The software developer appellation is more encompassing, implying involvement with all facets of development from requirements analysis to design, actual coding and testing. A programmer is more restricted to coding. Except in small companies or individual projects, some programmers don't even do GUI and general macro software design and so they might not even know the whole picture of projects they work on.

soladnet, please check your facts before you post. "TOKUNS International Ltd. is a Nigeria company marketing Data Access Corporation products" and that comes from their website. That leaves much to be desired in the picture you wish to paint of them.

You could start by getting a good antivirus program like Kaspersky or Eset NOD32. A good numbers of worms and spyware imitate the names of standard Windows processes like LSASS.EXE and SVCHOST.EXE and your Avast may not be able to detect them.

An advise for you: it is easier to make a name in the IT sector in Nigeria by vendoring IT products than starting a software development firm. Software firms require a lot of skill, the insight to developing products that meet market requirements in good time and a lo of marketing. Getting VC funding reduces cash flow problems (because it takes time for software products to get to the market) and allows you to hire good programmers but you also have to be one yourself I don't want to discourage you, but it is better you really sit down to know the full requirements except you just want a "subsistence" operation while holding a side job!

Kpac, did you start this thread to advertise yourself for jobs or to massage your ego? If you want to advertise yourself, a better way is to get a site (even if it is a free one) and post your projects and maybe articles on it, then refer people to the site! So simple. When you start VB, you have option for 12 types of projects from Standard EXE to IIS Applications. How many types of projects have you had experience with? My guess would be only Standard EXE from experience with most naija "VB gurus". Right? And you even find out that some so called gurus don't know how to access a database except they use a dbgrid, find their projects of 1000s of lines of code consisting solely of forms without a single class or standard module, don't know jack about coding conventions or proper error handling, download and integrate code from the internet that they cannot explain out and some don't even know how to successfully package a project for independent deployment! Sometimes it is just like a big joke; blindmen holding the elephants tail and not even grabbing that properly and declaring themselves authorities on elephants . Do you know what a guru means? Please let someone check a dictionary on it. Now, don't think I'm trying to make you feel bad, but just to let you cut yourself to a size that does not impair your learning,
And I'm not just some newbie trying to pull down a "master". You're not there until you've been there and don't that. I've been a VB Topic expert on ExpertsExchange (experts-exchange.com) since 2002, been making posts since 2001 and have experience with practically all types of VB projects. And I'm not just stuck to VB; I wrote a mini-DNS Server with VC++6 a couple of years ago to run as a service when VB couldn't handle it and the project is in commercial use.
My advice: Continue learning and don't let your ego in the way so that when you get a chance to attend a programmers convention outside the country, you wouldn't be hiding with your tail between your legs after a few minutes of interaction.