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As an introvert, the book ' QUIET' by Susan Cain is a must read for you

OP, the first picture you put up there is of the Three Gorges dam in China. Pls learn to verify information before posting.

Video below:

https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/11/70-soldiers-killed-as-boko-haram-attacks-militarily-base-in-borno.html

Following...May God bless our hustles.

It is hard to decipher how some people think over here. You clearly read that a training camp was discovered, you are busy shouting Fulani upandan, are you sure your head is correct? If you have evidence of any Fulani training camp, nobody is hindering you from tabling it. We need to be cautious on such issues, lets not stoking the embers of hatred bigotry while faraway from the crisis(it may reach you one day if it is not contained).

Futminnites starting what they can't finish.Lol

There are many Hauwa Limans around, just like Olufemi Olakunle or Chukwuma Okafor. A Hauwa Liman, an ICRC aid worker, was killed hours ago by her BH abductors. Unfortunately, some bloggers and self appiointed journalists were peddling a picture different from that of the deceased. That's what necessitated the disclaimer.

Wow. Please keep us posted OP. I haven't been quite happy with FG's infrastructural commitment until I saw this.

Does this mean that PTDF will no longer sponsor scholars to the UK and US?

Likimo ake, Tsome ake , aiki ake

Please help me with past questions on renewable energy engineering. Please send to najeeb4ril@gmail.com. Thanks

Her proud husband had this to say also.

Na'ima, overwhelmed by the sheer show of love from, specially thanked her parents, lecturer, husband

In this short piece culled from Facebook, Professor Adamu Kyuka Usman relates a story of one of his female students by name Na'ima. More than 10 years after her graduation, Prof Usman tells this inspirational anecdote which portrays how honest exceptional Nigerians are. Let me not bore with the background information. Please enjoy the story, and share if you find it interesting.

"Na’ima was my student at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. She did not write my paper on Equity and Trust. By error, a B score was posted for her. When result of the paper was released, she came to me saying the result was not hers; that she did not sit for the paper because she was sick. Though I was shocked by the error of posting a score for a student that did not write the paper, I was more shocked by her integrity. I verified the error and rebuked myself for it. I then turned to her honesty. In all my years of teaching in the university, I had never come across this breed of honesty that borders on the strange and the bizarre. Instead what I had come cross time and time again is one criminal behavior by students after the other. There was, for instance, this student in Business Administration who did not write my test on company law. When the test scripts were distributed, she came to me to ask for her result. I went through the score sheet and couldn’t see either her name or her score. I asked her if she wrote the test. She said she did. I asked her to show me her script. She said she was not with it, but would bring it. I said fine. A day after, she came with a script with a 27% over 40 score on it. One look at the script told me I didn’t mark it. I marked at a particular edge and the marks on her script where not on that edge. I told her the marking was not mine. The straight away manner I disclaimed authorship of the marking made her confessed she wrote and marked her script. I handed her over to my Head of Department and to the Head of Department of Business School. Now here was a student before me who had the rare fortune of a 2.1 score posted for her in an examination she did not write telling me the score was not hers. I was touched beyond measure. Should I take the score from her or should I allow it pass? Equity and Trust is a core course. She needed to pass it to be awarded a law degree. Well, to every rule there should be an exception. Shouldn’t this exceptional case of shocking honesty generate an exception, particularly in an equity and trust course? I argued in the council of my mind. She might not have written equity and trust and passed academically, but she had written equity and trust and passed morally and character wise. This moral and character equity and trust I personally found more important. But all my personal sentiments and bias on the matter may not cut meat with the university. Having no assurance the university would see things the way I saw them, I decided to play safe by doing what was within my control. I organized a special exams for Na’ima. By her score in the special exams, she proved possessed of intellect as character. Since then I have always marveled at her honesty. She had the Gages ring but did not steal. This honesty is rare. It is over a decade now since I last saw or heard from Na’ima. Please those who know where Na’ima is should tell her her former teacher confronted by anomie is asking after her for her peerless integrity."

Culled From Kyuka Lilymjok's Facebook page
Kyuka is Senior Special Assistant to the President on Legal Matters, Research and Documentation.

He ought to be prosecuted.

The apex Southern Kaduna Socio-cultural organisation, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union(SOKAPU) Youth Wing has called on the Federal Government to rescind her decision to establish two army battalions in the region.
Although,the Chief of Army Staff,Lt-Gen. Yusuf Buratai, had laid a military battalion foundation stone near Kafanchan out of the two formations approved by the Federal government to enhance security of life and property in the zone but was destroyed by unknown person.
But, national leader of SOKAPU Youth Wing, Comrade Nasiru Jagaba, who signed the union’s communique after its annual youth Congress held at St. John’s Multipurpose Hall held in Kachia, described the siting of the military facilities in the region as counterproductive.
According to the communique:” In appraisal of the Southern Kaduna security breach we understand that our challenge is in inadequate structure of formations and command of the Nigerian Police Force in effective of the Southern Kaduna communities”
“To this end we call on the Federal Government to face this matter head on and rescind her decision to establishing two army battalions which we find counterproductive with the current military facilities in Southern Kaduna and environs is adequate with only a command structure of the NPF amiss to deal effectively with crime and security in the area” the communique maintained.

The communique also resolved to engage and monitor the budget process and programme implementation in Kaduna State, Nigeria:” And to commence the preparation of the scorecard of budget performance”

The communique further resolved to encourage and promote increase participation of Southern Kaduna youths in the economy, governance and politics of Nigeria.

“In pursuance of economic growth we call on all Southern Kaduna people to invest in their land in agriculture, media, industries, security and other entrepreneurial pursuits” the communique said.

If they were of another ethnic origin, will there tribe be called out like this? I am not defending the act, but we have to tread with caution. When armed robbers of southern origin waylay northerners on the highways, do we call it out their tribal affiliation? The current trend of the criminalisation of anything Fulani is very dangerous. I just hope we are able to contain it before it escalates to something else.

Onegai:
If they had built pretty classrooms, they would stand empty because hungry kids won't stay in them. It's not the pretty of the classroom Nigeria needs, it's the quality of education that needs to improve. Feed first, then retrain teachers and upgrade State ministry of Education. Encourage new topics and methods for teaching (our Nigerian teachers are beyond lousy in imparting knowledge). Even developed countries offer a schoolfeeding program (e.g. U.K.).

I partly concur to your submission. Get me right pls, I am not being pessimistic, but am just looking at the sustainability of the program. If it was during oil glut days, when we had lots of money, it would have worked. But with the current economic quagmire, where govts struggle hard to even pay salaries, it will be difficult nay mispriority to continue the plan in the long run.

Timijo:
The part that says more classroom blocks are been built and renovation is taken place is a lie.
You need to visit these schools in kaduna and see their bad conditions. Schools without Windows, doors, and desks. There are no teaching materials including chalks.
In fact, I can't advise my enemy to take his children to government schools in kaduna.

Mr man, why are you denying reality na? I've seen schools being renovated in Zaria. Have you cared to check schools around you, or you just decided to generalise? Dearth of infrastructure doesn't mean we shouldn't appreciate what's on ground.

I supported the school feeding program right from the outstart. I believed it'll boost enrollment and will lure those defiant parents to start sending their kids to school. But, when I now dissect it from an expenditure point of view, I now see it as a non-priority. It is said that 50 Naira is spent for 1.5 million, this amounts to about 70 million daily. What Kaduna has as primary schools, are mostly derelict and ramshackle structures not fit for taking lessons. I am aware that the Gov has awarded renovation contracts for schools that are in need of serious intervention. But just imagine if this 70 million spent daily is channelled towards building new classrooms/schools, I believe it would have been more worthwhile.
BTW, Elrufai is still my best governor, across board. He's someone who sticks to his principles and implements his policies not caring whose ox is gored. I am optimistic that Kaduna(and Nigeria at large) will be great once again and forever.

It's high time that the activities of these marauding cattle rustlers are checkmated. Security agents have to penetrate these guys secretly, or else it snowballs into another monster.

BornSad:
Where did you see fun-guy in that your post?

The two transcriptions you saw there only suggest that the "g" in the word in question could be pronounced like the "g" in "giant" or the "g" in "gate". None of them says fun-gay (/f^ngai/) is acceptable.

Obviously, you're taking phonemic transcriptions to be same as the letters of the alphabet.

This is what the post said:

Informative post. But fungi can also be pronounced as 'fun-guy'

Remove Emeagwali and Oyibo from that list pls. They are just intellectual fraudsters. Please read the article below:



Intellectual 419: Philip Emeagwali and
Gabriel Oyibo Compared
By Farooq A. Kperogi
Ask an average Nigerian to name the country’s most
famous scientists. In all likelihood, they would mention
“Dr.” (or “Professor”) Philip Emeagwali and Dr. Gabriel
Oyibo. This, in a way, is excusable ignorance.
After all, the great President Bill Clinton has been scammed
into undeservedly calling Emeagwali “one of the great minds
of the information age ” and the “Bill Gates of Africa.” And
such prestigious Western news organizations as TIME , CNN
and BBC fell for Emeagwali’s smartly orchestrated
intellectual fraud.
As for Dr. Gabriel Oyibo, he was for many years touted in
the Nigerian media as the great successor to Albert Einstein,
as a four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physics, and
as the inventor of the "almighty" GAGUT (God Almighty
Grand Unified Theorem), which he farcically calls “the
theory of everything.” On the basis of his comically
delusional intellectual fraud, Oyibo has been celebrated in
Nigeria as one of the greatest scientists that ever lived.
However, the elaborate intellectual fraud of Emeagwali and
Oyibo are now unraveling rapidly. SaharaReporters, the
enormously popular, muckraking diasporan citizen media
site, has done a series of exposés on the intellectual fraud
of Philip Emeagwali . At least two mainstream Nigerian
newspaper columnists have done the same in the last few
weeks. I'd had cause to call attention to the intellectual
chicanery of these characters in my July 15, 2006 Weekly
Trust column, then called “Notes from Louisiana,” which
can be found on this blog.
Oyibo and Emeagwali are certainly different in many
respects. But they are also similar in more ways than one.
First, Oyibo started out as a productive scholar who actually
published a number of peer-reviewed, scientific articles
before he degenerated into his current patently
psychoneurotic state (I will give evidence for my conclusion
shortly); Emeagwali, on the other hand, never had a Ph.D.,
is/was never a professor by any understanding of the
term, has never published in any peer-reviewed journal, nor
owned any patent—all contrary to his claims. However,
Emeagwali did win an actual award—the Gordon Bell Prize
— whose significance he has exaggerated beyond the
bounds of reason and decency.
Note, though, that Oyibo also claims to be a perennial
nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physics. This is pretty much
like Emeagwali 's fraudulent claims to being "a" or "the"
father of the Internet. The Guardian 's U.S. correspondent, a
certain Laolu Akande, is the biggest accomplice in Oyibo's
fraud. Until the last few years, the Guardian often reported
that Oyibo was among the top three candidates being
considered for the Nobel Prize in Physics. This intentionally
deceitful newspaper speculation was/is the basis for his
unearned popularity in Nigerian elite circles. I don't know if
this has changed, but when I was in Nigeria it was
customary to identify Oyibo in Nigerian newspaper
narratives as a "three-time Nobel Prize nominee in Physics."
In the Afro-romantic digital black diaspora, in fact, it is
usual to identify him as a four-time Nobel Prize nominee !
Now, the Nobel Committee does NOT disclose the identities
of the nominees for any of its prizes until at least 50 years
after the prize has been announced . How in the world
did Oyibo and the Guardian 's Laolu Akande know that Oyibo
was a nominee for the Physics Prize? In fact, Omoyele
Sowore, publisher of SaharaReporters.com and former
citizen reporter for the now tame and compromised
ElenduReports.com , unmasked this fraud years ago.
He sent emails to the Nobel Committee asking to know
if Oyibo had ever been a nominee for their Physics Prize. Of
course, they flatly disclaimed it. They said it was impossible
for anybody to know if he was a nominee for any Prize until
several decades after the fact.
So, in more ways than one, Oyibo is guilty of the same
intentionally fraudulent self-promotion that Emeagwali has
a dubious honor for. Like Emeagwali , he currently feeds on
this fraud since he, like Emeagwali, is effectively jobless
now. Plus, Oyibo stakes his claims to unparalleled scientific
genius on the basis of his ludicrously incoherent and insane
GAGUT theory, which hasn't been published in any peer-
reviewed scientific journal or book, although he has a
vanity, self-published book that he flaunts every time—
much like Emeagwali 's claims to having 41 patents, which
have turned out to be patents in sophisticated, intricately
multi-layered intellectual frauds.
But any one who has followed Oyibo 's life closely will agree
that the man needs help—seriously. The brother has lost it.
He has no job as I write now. He left the university system
as an untenured associate professor years ago. (Hmm....
Can you imagine a four-time Nobel Prize nominee in
Physics who no U.S. university or research institution
wants to touch with a barge pole?) If you need evidence of
Oyibo’s undisguised psychic imbalance, read his deleted
profile on Wikipedia , which he wrote of himself.
Here is a sample from the profile for your amusement:
“Honors and Awards: Professor G. Oyibo has been
recognized as being closer to GOD (intellectually and in
other ways), than any other human being because of the
GAGUT discovery. He has also been recognized by the
Nigerian Federal Government as Mathematical Genius
which was inscribed on a Nigerian Postage Stamp that was
issued in 2005. Professor G. Oyibo has also been
recognized as the Greatest Genius and the Most Intelligent
Human Being ever created by GOD. He has also been
recognized as the Greatest Mathematical Genius of all time.
Professor G. Oyibo has been recognized by the Nigerian
Senate, representing the entire population of Nigeria of over
200 million people, through a Senate Motion No. 151 page
320 presented in the Federal Republic of Nigeria Order
Paper on Tuesday, 15th March, 2005."
If the above is not proof of a man who is truly in need of
psychiatric help, I don't know what is.
But the greater concern for me, however, is that our hunger
for heroes has predisposed us to be easily susceptible to all
kinds of cheap intellectual frauds. By officially celebrating
Emeagwali and Oyibo, the Nigerian state has inadvertently
become an accomplice in intellectual 419. And by engraving
their images on our postage stamps, the Nigerian state has
unwittingly and permanently stamped deceit and false
pretenses (otherwise known as 419) on our national
consciousness—and on our international image. That’s a
shame.

Keneking:
Nonsense..how much was spent on this project

- a piece of land
- less than 50,000 blocks, roof and windows and other fittings
- open plan design
- partition
- fountain plant
- gateman house
- fence
- 2 gensets X 250 KVA each
- hospital equipment from Republic of China

Total costs not exceeding N100mil., sure that the amount would hit N100bn in the books of the State. Nonsense i repeat nonsense

Find attached a world-class hospital in Cape Town, it was built with almost N100mil.....Akpabio sef

Check your facts well Man. Do you mean the hospital you captioned in Cape Town was built at 100 million Naira, Dollars or even Rands?
Benchmarking Akpabio with the Nigerian 'standard' of overinflating contracts, we can give him a commendation here. Remember, there are many other oil-rich states that can't boast of anything close to this edifice since 1999.

Where is Yuguda in the plane pls? Hope the present gov't sells it off cos its just another way of wasting citizen's money.

Wizeboy, please can you add me to the WhatsApp group. I haven't been active for the past few months. Jazakallahu khayran. 08038008404

Teryfik:
Chai hw can pple b dis stupid,WAILING dat we all knw was derived 4rm the word WAIL which means "crying or complaining'' about something..as 4 WAILERS is a word used 4 pple who wail.......ehen op wen last did u read your book

Pls reread through man.

President Buhari’s political brand is going from being the most linguistically innovative in the run-up to the last general election to being lackluster and plagued by grammatical and creativity deficits.

In my April 26, 2015 article titled “From Febuhari to General March for Buhari: Buhari’s Linguistic March to Aso Rock,” I observed that “In the battle for the hearts and minds of voters, enthusiasts of President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari on cyber space were incredibly linguistically creative. They came up with original, persuasive, catchy, memorable, and thought-provoking puns, which helped construct a rhetoric of inevitability of Buhari’s victory. President Jonathan’s supporters were caught flat-footed by the unassailable rhetorical ingenuity of Buhari’s supporters; they came up with no original puns of their own, and merely reacted with thoughtless and rhetorically impoverished comebacks to the rhetorical demolition of their candidate.”

President Buhari’s media team is reversing this gain. See below my itemization of the ways in which the president’s spokesmen are soiling his linguistic brand.

1. “Wailing Wailers”: There is probably no clearer evidence of the creativity deficit of the president’s media men than that they've deployed the term “wailing wailers” to describe critics of President Buhari.

There are two things wrong with that expression. One, “Wailing Wailers” is a historically positive term. It betrays spectacular creativity deficit to insult your opponent with a term of esteem. Anyone who knows a little bit about music history knows that “Wailing Wailers” is one of the earliest names of the reggae band formed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in Jamaica.


When the band was formed in the early 1960s, it was called “The Teenagers.” A few years later, the band’s name changed to “The Wailing Rudeboys.” The group again changed its name to the “Wailing Wailers.” This change of name coincided with the time it was discovered by an influential Jamaican producer, who gave it national and international prominence. After some more years, the group changed its name to simply “The Wailers.” When Peter Tosh pulled out of the band, it came to be known as “Bob Marley and the Wailers.”

I grew up on Bob Marley’s music, and one of my trivial bragging rights is that I know every single song Bob Marley sang from the late 1960s till his death in 1981. To use the name of a progressive, emancipatory, anti-imperialist, pan-Africanist musical group as a term of insult is the height of ignorance!

Let’s even assume that Adesina didn’t know of the “Wailing Wailers” (which is unlikely, given his age and the fact that Bob Marley was a sensation in Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s when he came of age), as a grammatical category, shorn of any association with Bob Marley and his band members, “wailing wailers” is an idiotic turn of phrase. What else should wailers do but wail? Laugh? Smile? Well, they are wailers because they wail, which makes “wailing wailers” pointless and, frankly, unimaginative phraseology. It’s like saying “writing writers,” “singing singers,” “lying liars,” “fighting fighters,” etc. That’s meaningless and unintelligent waste of words.


This, of course, does not indict the original “Wailing Wailers.” It was a trademark name, and trademark names enjoy the license to break grammatical conventions in the service of creativity. Just a few examples will suffice. A well-known India-based Coca Cola company called “Thums UP” (with a thumps-up emblem) was probably so named in error, but when Coca Cola bought the company, the “error” in its name was left untouched. “Dunkin' Donuts,” a popular American brand, misspells “doughnut” deliberately.

Brand names are also notorious for leaving out apostrophes in their names. Prominent examples are Starbucks Coffee, Barclays, Michaels, etc. Two prominent Nigerian examples are Peoples Daily, which should properly be “People’s Daily,” and All Progressives Congress, which should properly be “All Progressives’ Congress.”

So brand names intentionally contort the conventions of grammar for creativity, humor, marketing, etc. Adesina’s “wailing wailers” isn’t a brand name; it’s just illiteracy. And the illiteracy he started is spreading and percolating in Nigerian cyberspace every day. Now Buhari’s army of self-appointed social media defenders habitually tag critics of the government as “wailing wailers” and imagine themselves to be saying something meaningful. No, “wailing wailers,” as a historical term, is a badge of honor. As a turn of phrase to insult an opponent, it’s imbecilic.

2[b]. “Military Industrial Complex.”[/b] In an August 7, 2015 presidential news release, President Buhari was quoted to have said, “The Ministry of Defence is being tasked to draw up clear and measurable outlines for development of a modest military industrial complex for Nigeria.” “Military industrial complex”? I cringed in embarrassment when I read this. Buhari most certainly didn’t say this. It was his media aides who put those words into his mouth. As a military general who went to school in the United States, he would never knowingly say he wants a military-industrial complex for Nigeria.

“Military-industrial complex” (note the hyphen between “military” and “industrial”) is a pejorative term that was first used by US president Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961 in his exit speech. It refers to the evil, war-mongering, profit-inspired conspiracy between arms manufacturers, certain elements in the US military, and some members of the US Congress. This conspiracy ensures that the US Congress budgets huge sums of money to the military to fight often needless and unjust wars with countries around the world. The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere are the consequence of the influence of the US military-industrial complex. Wars cause arms to be manufactured and sold, which brings money to the pockets of arms manufacturers, the legislators who support war, and the generals who execute it.

President Eisenhower was worried about this triangular conspiracy of war-mongers. That was why he said, “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence… by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.” Now, the presidential media team quoted our president as advocating the development of what an American president warned against more than 40 years ago. That isn’t right. There is a (disapproving) semantic fixity to the phrase “military-industrial complex” that no Nigerian presidential media team can undo. Many Western journalists actually sniggered when they read the press release.

A graphic representation of the military-industrial complex

“Military-industrial complex” has inspired many spin-offs, such as “prison industrial-complex,” which describes the conspiracy of private prison companies, lawmakers, lobbyists, vendors of surveillance equipment, etc. that has led to the explosion of prison populations in the United States and elsewhere. My friend, Professor Pius Adesanmi, also coined the term “mercy industrial-complex” to describe the complicated concatenation of emotional and financial motivations for perpetually calling attention to the dire poverty in Africa by wily Western do-gooders. Also called poverty porn, mercy industrial-complex both plays on the philanthropic heartstrings of western donors and provides “balm for uneasy consciences,” to quote Adesanmi.

So Nigeria should not develop a “military-industrial complex,” however “modest,” except the president’s media team has a meaning of “military-industrial complex” that is exclusive to them, which would mean they aren’t communicating since communication depends on shared codes and symbols to be effective and meaningful.

3. “Honorary doctorate degree.” In the presidential news release announcing the appointment of Mr. William Babatunde Fowler as the new boss of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Femi Adesina wrote: “Fowler, who holds an Honorary Doctorate Degree [sic] of the Irish International University is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria and the Business Management Association of the United Kingdom."

Well, “doctorate” is a noun, and it can’t qualify another noun. Only adjectives (and attributive nouns, which “doctorate” isn’t) can modify a noun. The adjective that Adesina was looking for is “doctoral.” You can say someone has “an honorary doctorate,” “an honorary doctoral degree” or, rarely, “an honorary doctor’s degree,” but not “an honorary doctorate degree.”

4. “Rake up murk.” In an August 5, 2015 news release, the president’s media team wrote: “Only those rabidly determined to find faults unnecessarily will cook up falsehood in a futile effort to rake up murk where none exists.”


Murk means fog, or anything that impairs visibility in the atmosphere. You can’t rake murk, however hard you try. But you can rake “muck,” that is, dirt. The conventional expression is “rake muck,” which was popularized by American president Theodore Roosevelt, who derisively described hard-hitting investigative American journalists as “muckrakers.” Although it was intended to be an insult, American journalists wore it as a badge of honor, and today “muckraker” is synonymous with a fearless investigative journalist.



SOURCE: http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2015/09/from-febuhari-to-wailing-wailers.html?m=1