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Poccoapocco:
The place is dead..plus the current management nor follow...I know alot of people there that have found their ways to other agencies via secondment,TOS, fresh appointment or japa...please if you have OTHER OPTIONS dont got there....

Wow, that's so sad... And I think I understand why. Thank you for the info

Poccoapocco:
That NABDA wey you wan go, comot there o!...the people there are looking for how to leave to other places...na just big name the place dey answer...

Eiii…. Why did you say so?

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Poccoapocco:
That NABDA wey you wan go, comot there o!...the people there are looking for how to leave to other places...na just big name the place dey answer...

Eiii…. Why did you say so?

Good day everyone. Please does anyone have a blueprint or tips for getting into federal parastatals and agencies in Nigeria? I have a relative who's on a hunt for their first job and they're particularly interested in agencies like Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NDLEA, NAFDAC, NABDA, etc.

Going to these agencies' websites has not been helpful; it's either the link to their recruitment page is broken, or it doesn't even exist.

Jaycobbs:


I found a couple of short articles I'd written in English and translated them to German. Those are the items I submitted as proof. Easy peasy.

That's smart. Thank you very much 🙏🏾

Jaycobbs:


Another win.

See me collecting money for writing German content when I can't speak a lick of German.

If your niche is saturated, try searching for Spanish, German, and French jobs. Less competition that way. Just Google Translate your way to college your dollars

Please, how were you able to convince the client you speak German if you didn't submit work samples? Thank you very much for your help.

My brain was actually expecting an ad for "Tecno Powerbank"

I can perceive the foul odor in that environment through my phone.

Mabuggi88:
What effects? They are trying to safeguard the region and the world at large. Iran can't have Nuclear weapons, they are too dangerous, u don't even understand

What makes a country not dangerous? Why then do the US, UK, Israel, France, and others have hundreds of nuclear weapons in their backyards?

This is not looking good. Do these people even care about the effects of their actions on the masses?

We'll, that's one hell of an argument. Her body, her choice.

Who knows how to deactivate SMS alerts for GTB please? Their email said I should download and fill an e-form but I don't know which one.

Nazgul:
What exactly was his offence?

This is the only logical question everyone should be asking

ikutikut:
harmonweb

I see they are a Nigerian hosting company. I haven't used them before and they don't have offer a free tier option that one could have used to try things out on their platform. I'll suggest you check out the corresponding documentation for the VPS or, better still, reach out to their support. I hope you find your answers!

GOFRONT:
U.S has stopped providing us with USAID. Now they are to deport us back to our Nativeland...

NIG 0 Vs USA 2

Well, since there is no more USAID to Cushion the effect of AIDS, the best thing is to think twice before I use my device because the quickest way to contract the HIV na through the Device.......

What the hell has USAID got to do with AIDS?

ikutikut:
Hello everyone,

I’ve already hosted my chatroom application on a VPS server, but I’m having trouble figuring out the correct IP address and port number to connect the chat to the server.

Could anyone help with:
1. How to find the right IP address to use?
2. How to choose or check the correct port for the connection?
3. Any firewall or networking settings I should configure?

I’d really appreciate any guidance. Thanks in advance!

You need to specify where your VPS is located or hosted at so we can provide useful feedback for your use case-is it Google Cloud, Azure or Digital Ocean?

MindHacker9009:
From a blog post: A little over a year ago, a friend of mine hired an agency to build a web application for his business. The application is basically a simple online platform for medical appointments and consultations via video calls using Twilio. Since my friend doesn’t have that much technical knowledge, he asked me to help him validate what the agency was proposing. When I read the proposal, I was shocked. Not only because of the value they were asking but even more so due to the technological choices. It was clear to me right away that they were the typical agency where no one knew anything other than Javascript and MongoDB (thanks, Freecodecamp! 😠) - in other words, they know very little about proper software engineering.

They mentioned React, Strapi, MongoDB and GraphQL as the foundational technologies for the application. This made absolutely no sense:

Strapi is a framework to build CMS, not a framework or library to build a full-fledged web application.
MongoDB is a document store but this type of application will obviously be based on relational data and thus, it needs a relational database.
GraphQL is meant for scenarios where you have a lot of scattered data and you need to easily be able to fetch random pieces of data from random places.
React might be a good fit for large teams building very large and very complex frontends but this is a fairly simple application and the agency building it is very small. [Would suggest jQuery still for any size project]

In summary, none of the tools they chose were meant to solve the problem at hand, which was building a very specific and very well-defined type of web application. Sure, any of those tools could be used to build the application, just as you can also use a spoon to cut your potatoes and a fork to eat your soup - but does it make sense? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

All of those choices added unnecessary complexity, which meant unnecessary time spent building the application, unnecessary electricity spent and the accompanying carbon footprint, unnecessary money spent by my friend, and ultimately even unnecessary frustration for the developers who are working on it. Yes, “working”, not “worked”, because they still haven’t finished it and are way beyond their original estimation of three to four months.

I’m not sure exactly how we got here but I think it’s a combination of at least three things:

The “anyone can code” culture, which led to too many pseudo-programmers contributing negatively to the ecosystems.
Marketing folks pushing buzzwords to everyone’s mind.
Script kiddies wanting to use the cool tools from the big guys because they all want to be the next Zuckerberg, without understanding the problems these tools were designed to solve.

The vast majority of companies are small. Your company is most likely a small company. What huge companies like Google and Facebook do does not apply to you. Not only does it not apply, trying to replicate what they do on your smaller company is actually detrimental. You do not have the same problems they do, and certainly not at the same scale. And even if you did, you don’t have the amount of money or people to absorb the complexity of the systems and tools they use. It’s incredibly counter-productive to adopt, for example, micro-services and Kubernetes in a company that has 6 or 7 engineers. Such a company does not have the type of problem these tools solve, nor do they have the capacity to absorb the complexity that comes with said tools. And yet, this is exactly what many small companies do.

Returning to my friend’s project: over a year later, what started as a simple medical appointments platform has become a cautionary tale of modern software development gone wrong. The unnecessary complexity introduced by poor technological choices has led to delays, increased costs, and frustrated developers - exactly the problems I’ve outlined above. Through this series of posts, I hope to show that there’s a better way: one that focuses on choosing the right tools for the job, embracing simplicity where possible, and remembering that our goal is to solve real problems, not to chase the latest trends. Perhaps by examining these issues one at a time, we can start shifting our industry back towards more sensible, maintainable, and enjoyable software engineering.

https://www.borfast.com/blog/2023/06/19/software-engineering-is-broken/

You're against companies using microservices or ochestration tools like Kubernetes just because the dev team consists of 6-7 engineers? Is it the team size alone that determines whether to use these tools or not, or the complexity of the product the company is building and other data points such as the number of users the company is serving?

Only God can purge the evil going on in that Ogun State. The state is cursed for real

The fact that it's able to understand what "Body dey inside cloth" means amazes me

Mariangeles:
At least, AI believe in prayers.😀

Who started this stupid idea of push gifts sef

She's so damn right. The last time I was there I couldn't help but complain to my guest about the foul stench present almost everywhere. The reply I got was "Who has the time to care about sanitation in Lagos"?

I'm also ending the year with Jesus.

I have come to realize that everything one can hope or pray for can only be gotten through God's generosity.

In 2025, I'll be living every second of my life with a deeper reverence for God. So help me God.

Amen.

Apple 🍎

Wordson:
Which kain rubbish play be this one na?!
1-1 half time?!
I refuse to watch the match until I see 2-1 or 3-1 in second half.

You can resume watching now

Obinnau:
To simplify your question:

Should you save your money in dollars at about 10% interest or should you save in naira at about 20% interest...

I am saving in naira, sometimes I feel I am mad, but I think all things being equal I get better returns in the naira investment than hedging against inflation using dollar instruments.

Another point to note is that I blend my investments over the months, so I exchange my usd to ngn in varying rates which smoothes out some of the dollar appreciation over time.

Thank you for this. I have analyzed both investments and I think it'd be wise to do 70-80% MMF and 20-30% Risevest.

Neurotika:
It’s unclear how investing in a portfolio yielding 8% less than MMF qualifies as a better inflation hedge. Unless there are additional factors not disclosed, such as historically stable returns or other undisclosed advantages. The argument is unclear.

Risevest's real estate plan has been yielding a consistent 11-12% annual return since 2021. Since both investments are low-risks, I don't think the real estate plan has any better advantage against the MMF. The only advantage might be the hedge against inflation but I think an 8% difference will make up for that and more.

enque:
I don't know much about risevest, but I know that the stanbic MMF rates is not fixed at 20-21% per annum as it is subject to going higher or lower depending on variable factors.
Meaning that at the end of the year, you may end up with 2M, less than 2M or more than 2M as the case may be.

Oh, interesting. I actually thought the interest for MMF is guaranteed to increase. What are some factors that could influence the rates, if I may ask?

emmasoft:
@Babtunz Kindly note that everything is in order.

By SEC rule, all MMF should have the following parties involved:

1. The Fund manager registered with SEC. In your case, it's Stanbic asset management
2. Custodian bank- a bank not affiliated to the fund manager, in your case, the custodian bank is UBA which is not affiliated to Stanbic, others like FBNQuest uses Citibank, Norrenberger uses UBA, Ucap uses Stanbic and so on
3. Trustees which ensure the MOU of the fund and the underlying asset is adhare to, this is always the second Account name seen on the collection account
4. SEC - This is the government representative and incharge of all investment matters in Nigeria. Any investment product or fund manager not approved by SEC is illegal no matter who is involved.

Reason for the above arrangement is to have checks and balances (Good corporate governance). It's one of the reasons we say MMF is a low risk investement, everything likely to be of risk is mitigated against.

Hence when anyone introduce a fund manger to you, check out for all the parties mentioned above. If any or all is missing please keep your money to yourself irrespective of the returns that is promised

let's be well guided.

Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate it!

Hello all,

Please I need your inputs on this. Say you have #10m to invest, how would you go about it? Would you rather:

1. Invest all in Risevest real estate plan for a 11-12% annual return. Using the exchange rate of 1650, that's about $6060. 12% of that is $727 which is about #1.2 return in a year.

2. Invest all in Stanbic MMF for a 20-21% annual return, which is about #2m.

3. Putting inflation into consideration, I'd go for number 1 but leaving out a potential 800k in option 2 doesn't sound very wise to me.

If you have any other way you'd go about this please kindly share 🙏🏾