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Shimao: I was faced with a similar problem about 10 years ago and I chose medicine. However, it did not stop me from exploring ICT; I had to find a way to combine the two. But I must say, it wasn't that easy particularly when you're learning by yourself. Got my SCJP mid-way into medical school which was followed by some other certifications. Currently work as a doctor but program in my spare time and have a number of apps to my name. ICT is more like a hobby now but considering making it fulltime. So it all depends on your capacity and how much you're willing to give. If you must choose one, since you'll be studying outside the country, go for MEDICINE, you wont regret it. Medicine is a very long journey of largely no-return and can be frustrating over here. But make no mistakes, ICT is equally as challenging.

Thats the advice I've given the OP as well. Anyone with the brains for medicine can pick IT up in their spare time and have two birds in hand.
However, the OP's choice also depends on how inventive he is; creativity is the only thing that can balance or overcome his lack of mathematical abilities which are essential fot IT. If he is inventive, then he doesn't even need to study IT in school to excell in it.

oyb: all hail the administration of the aso rock dunce

and the SSS first victory in a string of embarrassing failures - entraping corrupt politicians while boko haram is bombing civilians

or is this the latest attempt to divert attention from the already expired boko haram will be done by june vow?

no skin off me or my employers teeth either way

is it not otedola we are talking about - gej and the SSS will soon be thoroughly embarrassed by their brazen connivance with a crooked businessman

beaf can try to spin this any way he wants, but it is nothing more than the dirty bizarre politics gej is known for

Ok now, mad one. We feel your pain so we will help you weep bitterly!!!
'Dem don kash Farouk Lawan! Weennnnnnhhhh! Mama come o! Moooooooooo! Mauuuuuuuuu!!!'

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fstranger6: [size=14pt]^^^ SO kini big deal. Get a life Gbawe. You are too old for this crap. Your mates are busy making money and taking care of their children you are here licking Tinubu's a/r/s/e at the detriment of your children's care. It is time you gave you children and wife your full attention, instead of ululating yourself hoarse on NL for 1 Naira per post.

At some point a grown a/r/s/e/ man must grow up and be his own man. I think it is time you became your own man Gbawe. You cant serve Tinubu and ACN for the rest of your life. . . Posting lies and rumors all over the internet is not what real men do.[/size]

Dayum!

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fstranger6: ^^^ SO kini big deal. Get a life Gbawe. You are too old for this crap. Your mates are busy making money and taking care of their children you are here licking Tinubu's a/r/s/e at the detriment of your children's care. It is time you gave you children and wife your full attention, instead of ululating yourself hoarse on NL for 1 Naira per post.

At some point a grown a/r/s/e/ man must grow up and be his own man. I think it is time you became your own man Gbawe. You cant serve Tinubu and ACN for the rest of your life. . . Posting lies and rumors all over the internet is not what real men do.

Gaddem!

[quote author=ndu_chucks]This bribery saga should not exonerate Femi Otedola and Zenon Oil from any crime they may have committed. Simple as ABC.

When Farouk Lawan, produces his own evidence (manufactured or otherwise) that the EFCC was aware of the money and he gave EFCC the money, as soon as Odetola gave it to him, then una go know say Kaki no be leather

The whole system is corrupt.[/quote]Otedola commited no crime. The SSS got wind of the tactics of Farouk Lawans political, '2015 "North"' probe and the sting operation was set up using Otedola.
It was the SSS that provided the marked money. Now all thats left to do is trace whoever it has been shared to (if what Farouk brought back isn't complete, then some has been spent ).

Na so dem de take catch monkey.

Simples.

Dejiro: I agree with you on how wicked our people can be, the Dana "VIP movement" issue was a wicked political move by whoever started it. Back to the main topic, how do you think Mr President can start an anti-corruption war. He doesn't seem to be doing much in this direction or is Nigeria really ungovernable like I have read of recent?

I don't see what a public asset declaration will do for the anti-corruption battle in Nigeria. Yar Adua declared his assets publicly, but that did not stop Turai from taking a cut from every oil shipment out of the country, neither did it stop the cabal from owning all of us.

The only way to fight corruption is to completely overturn the system. It is the system Nigeria runs that breeds and promotes corruption, not some cheap personal attacks about public asset declaration.
Until we decide to rise up and tear the current system down, we are only expending energy and adding to the chaos that is a ready weapon for the corrupt.

Many of us only seem to think that the President is the only elected official that can serve us. We conveniently forget that our governors and LG bosses actually have functions to provide jobs, wealth, health and development at the grassroots. You will notice instead, that because of the system, your governor and LG boss are accountable to Abuja only and do not give a damn about their electorate. Afterall money flows from Abuja, because the tiers of state and LG govt are mentally and creatively moribund; our abysmally ignorant people accept that as the way of life. Will officials in other tiers of govt publicly declare their assets because the President has done so? Will they suddenly become less corrupt, accountable to the people and develop their areas, because the President has publicly declared his assets? Or do we rather need a system that is accountable to the people?

In the US and UK you can visit your rep and tell them your troubles. In Nigeria, how many of us even know our reps? Even when we know them, can we even risk attempting to go over to see them without ending up victims of stray bullets? The system is the problem with Nigeria and every other thing is a diversion that makes matters worse.

Mesico2: Hmmmm Beaf the don.I keep learning everyday from ur tricks in answering and responding.....am new here so am still taking my time to see how things work with sycophants around.

Permit me to call you a fool. Thanks.

Crownvilla: @ Kobo,

The constitution requires the President to declare his assets and he (GEJ) has complied with this requirement.

What Yar'adua did was to declare his assets publicly which is NOT a requirement of the constitution. In effect, Yardie went over and beyond the constitutional requirement; Jonathan later followed suit after much pressure from the press and civil society groups etc........that was way back in 2007.

Of course, now that he is running the show, GEJ has reverted back to type by completing/submitting his assets declaration form to the relevant bureau and doing no more.

I remember telling my Dad, Uncle and a few others before the election that GEJ would be a complete failure as Nigerian President. My opinion hasn't changed and although I don't support his decison NOT to declare his assets publicly, he hasn't broken any law.

The bit in red says it all.

oyb: only in naija will we find state security used in entrapment ops in which the goal is using a bigger thief to catch a smaller thief

can we even be sure this whole 'sting' was not driven by obj's manic need for revenge over the man who presided over his girlfiend madam patricia 'i can romance anybody' etteh's ouster?

since obj is the one blathering about criminals - why is the SSS even involving a civilian?

then again i forget that the gej administration, for all the noise to the contrary, is still remote controlled from ota farms

Lol! The Farouk Lawan, the thief has been caught smiling at the camera!
Live with it. Or if you wanna hang, we'll buy you a rope.

Please, lets pause for a moment while I cry for you, I really wanna weep bitterly:

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oyb: http://allafrica.com/stories/201204170251.html

the report was out since april

why did the SSS wait all this time since they had hard evidence?

or perhaps in addition to being enforcers for crooked businessmen, thy are now in the business of govt blackmail?

Stop repeating questions with dead simple answers like an impaired imp. Your lover Farouk Lawan was caught and no amount of tears will save him.
Like I told you earlier:

Beaf: This is stup!d.

Anyway, the simple answer to the bolded lies in the fact that they gave the criminal, Farouk Lawan marked notes. The reason security agencies carry out sting operations with marked notes it to be able to trace those notes wherever they go, whatever account(s) they go into, whatever they buy, whoever they are given to etc.

oyb: you are the dunce who sees nothing wrong with parties tasked with national security engaging in sting operations

small wonder the SSS cannot break boko haram - rather than the gej administraion focus on keeping nigerian safe, they are busy playing nursemaid to the likes of otedola

where boko haram is concerned, they tell nigerians you have to live with it, where destroying a report is concerned, they pull out the video pens

goodluck johnathan abacha - al mustapha's trainees must be running things in the SSS now.

gej has confirmed that his administartion is of the moguls, by the moguls and for the moguls

Why don't you weep buckets because Farouk Lawan was caught pants down on video?
You sound really sad about it.

What is the worth of a report written to rope in political opponents of the "Norths" 2015 project and those who wouldn't play ball?
Or was Farouk Lawan going to share the $10milla to you and your fellow winshes in your village?

ping pong: So @Beaf opened another thread on the same subject matter, got whipped by @Oyb and ran to this one. @Oyb I hail. Apparently Beaf could not withstand you.

Dude, you are daft. Anyway, we all know that you are just another desperately red-eyed "born to rule" f[i]a[/i]ggot. I created a thread yesterday and went to sleep; the simple matter is that IBB and Atiku's boys in the house of rep have been given a wicked punch in the left eye.

The country is going to rid itself of jackals, bats, scarabs, vampires and other thieves like Farouk Lawan. And there is NOTHING you can do about it.
Accept your match into insignificance... Boko haram or not.

^
It is obvious that you are a dunce.
It was a sting operation that Otedola merely acted a part in, it is natural that the orders to the SSS came from elsewhere.

She didn't say what airline she ended up using; the quality of our press is too low for anyone to have asked her that useful question.

oyb: the circle is complete

gej has indeed learnt well from abacha

this is the same flavor of the 'phantom coups' of the abacha years

it is also very frightening, because it shows just how deeply gej is in the pockets of the likes of otedola and co,

and that he will go to any means to force this subsidy

i wonder if the SSS also provided oteh with a pen of her own

we all know NASS have always been driven by ghana must go - so has the SSS been tracking down other committess, or is this a one off because of gej's desperation to force
his dubious deregulation by discrediting the subsidy report?

more to the point - a country in which crooked businessmen have this kind of access to the SSS is even more frightening

without a doubt, the real goal was to discredit the report - why else did the SSS wait until now? once they had the evidence, they could have acted immediately.

This is stup!d.

Anyway, the simple answer to the bolded lies in the fact that they gave the criminal, Farouk Lawan marked notes. The reason security agencies carry out sting operations with marked notes it to be able to trace those notes wherever they go, whatever account(s) they go into, whatever they buy, whoever they are given to etc.

[quote author=lanre_front]My take is this: this event, which is sad does not prove that the Subsidy scam report of or subsidy issue shoud be abandoned. It's qiute the opposite; it proves there is even a greater need to focus more energy and further investigation on the subsdiy scam and oil marketers in the country.[/quote]Thank you, bro. Simple and plain.
Those phuckers called Lawan and Tambuwal simply saw the scam probe as a means to play 2015 "rotation" politics. So, they pointed at only a few sods, but it is quite certain that the number of criminals and total amount scammed are several times less than the actual figures.

A fact that really boggles the mind, is that the likes of Rilwan Lukman were never summoned to face the reps. Rilwan Lukman was the:

Petroleum Minister from February 1986 to February 1990;
Secretary General of OPEC from January 1995 to December 2000;
Special Adviser on Petroleum and Energy Matters to the President in June 1999 to 2003;
Petroleum Minister (round two) from December 2008 to March 2010.

WTF where the reps probing if they couldn't summon Rilwan Lukman, even if only for a cup of tea?!

If anything, we must demand an explosion in the number of criminals caught, as well as the jailing of those like Lawan who acted in brazen ways to direct the ship of state to the rocks, while declaring themselves to be saints.

I says, "get all the bastards!" Every last one.

Nigerians are too easily fooled.

In an ideal World, it would be a good thing, but Nigeria is not ideal. With the sort of extreme and dirty politics in Nigeria, the Presidents asset declaration is not for public consumption. As examples; we are only in 2012, yet people are already killing themselves over 2015 and if GEJ will run or not, even more horrifying is the way political opponents where very quick to start off horrible lies and rumours about "VIP movement" when the Dana aircrash occurred.

Nigeria is a primitive place politically, so there is no need for anyone to offer their civility up to be used as a football.

May his soul rest in peace and God give succour to the bereaved.

acidtalk: Just the same way you have been crying about "I am not beaf" is exactly the same way you are shouting "I am not reno omokri".

Even those in the Cemetery know billionyniare is beaf and beaf is reno omokri and you arethe first SON OF LUCIFER

How can I cry that I am not Beaf?
It is now evident that you have deep mental problems.

Your father is Lucifer and your mother is Baphomet. I am still waiting for you to say amen to your prayer. I said amen to it easily, but you have failed when challenged to do the same. I wonder why?

Here is your prayer. Say amen to it, fool:
https://www.nairaland.com/959606/farouk-lawan-subsidy-probe-committee/9#11065431

I posted this, before the interuption by some unbalanced clown:

[size=14pt]Subsidy probe: How SSS burst $3m bribery scandal •Oil chief used pen recorder to nail Rep •We won’t side with corruption - House[/size]
Written by Taiwo Adisa, Abuja Sunday, 10 June 2012

FURTHER details emerged at the weekend on the process through which the State Security Services (SSS) burst the $3 million bribery scandal currently ravaging the House of Representatives adhoc committee which probed the fuel subsidy regime. Investigations by Sunday Tribune confirmed that the Service had been on the trail of all parties involved in the oil subsidy probe from the inception of the high calibre probe embarked on by the Honourable Farouk Lawan-led committee.

The security agency was said to have been alerted by persistent allegations of bribe taking and demand for bribes made against key members of the probe committee.

For instance, it was learnt that some oil marketers were said to have raised the alarm that they were scandalised in the report of the House because they refused to meet some officials of the adhoc committee for closed-door discussions .Sources, however, said the Service was later to approach an oil magnate who was said to have also been asked to pay a certain amount as bribe by some persons fronting for the committee.

But the oil magnate was said to have agreed to help facilitate a proof for the security agency by entering into direct talks with a key member of the adhoc committee.

Sources confirmed that a pen recorder was then made available to the oil chief, who used the same to record his discussions with a top member of the House Committee involved in the bribe scandal.

“The Service got him in audio and in video. He collected the money and they have since invited the leadership of the House of Representatives to watch the film,” a source said, adding, however, that the SSS decided not to dabble into issues that are not strictly linked with security, a development that made it to transfer the tape to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

It was gathered that before handling the investigation of the scam, the Service had shown the video to the leadership of the House, including the speaker, Honourable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.

Besides the $600,000 said to have been collected by the representative, he was also said to be expecting a balance of $2.4 million after doing the job requested of him by the oil magnate.

But sources in the National Assembly said members of the committee were taken aback by the conduct of their member who was said to have consistently denied taking any bribe during the process of compilation of the report.

“We had suspected along the line that money was exchanging hands. Some people claimed that the sum of $3 million was given to a member by an oil concern in Port Harcourt. Others said another set of industry players doled out the sum of $1 million to get protection in the report.

“In all, it was gathered that about $10 million was involved in the bribe saga.

“The EFCC has been alerted on the possibility of the sum rising to $10 million. The total amount involved in the bribe saga is about $10 million (about N1.5 billion). The money was said to have come from different sources,” one of the sources told Sunday Tribune.

It was learnt that some enraged members of the committee have vowed not to protect any individual over this matter.

Sources, however, said on Saturday that moves were afoot by some powerful forces in Abuja to stall the prosecution of the House member.

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives maintained on Saturday that it would not stand with corruption in the face of bribery allegation levelled against the committee.

The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Honourable Zakari Muhammed, in a statement obtained by Sunday Tribune, said “the attention of the House has been drawn to reports alleging that one of its members has, in the course of his committee work as a member of the ad hoc committee which investigated the subsidy regime, allegedly received a gratification from an oil baron to exonerate his companies from complicity in the oil subsidy scam.”

The lawmaker added that, "while we await investigation into these weighty accusations, we wish to state without equivocation that this honourable House will never take side with corruption and we will always stand on the side of the rule of law.”

The statement also said “the reason we inaugurated the adhoc committee to look into the controversial subsidy regime in the first place was to expose corruption in the sector. As such, we cannot, for whatever reason, support any underhand dealing from any quarter.

“However, these accusations, whatever their merits, do not detract from the quality of the work done by the committee. The report of that committee was adopted by the whole House and we stand by the resolutions of the House.

“The present House of Representatives will not relent in it's efforts to render quality legislation and oversight functions to Nigerians. Today, we are gradually beginning to see the end of this monstrosity that has bedeviled our progress as a nation for so long.

"We hope that the executive will not, because of this allegation, abandon it's commitment towards bringing to justice the culprits already identified in the committee's report.”

http://www.tribune.com.ng/sun/front-page-articles/7547-subsidy-probe-how-sss-burst-3m-bribery-scandal-oil-chief-used-pen-recorder-to-nail-rep-we-wont-side-with-corruption-house

bayooooooo: una no dey sleep for naija again? Lawan is somewhere doing Alhaji Alhaji Alhaji!!!!!!

Lol!

acidtalk: Reno Omokri who has mental problem?
Have you forgotten how you are still being treated for your drug addiction? Don't let us make it open to the public okay?

Now I think I have to leave you to keep acting like the imbe*cile circus character that you are.

I am belittling myself by responding to you.

By the way stop typing and quoting yourself at the same time.

Billoynaire + Beaf = RENO OMOKRI

Doesn't the fact that I am not Reno Omokri prove that you have mental problems?
Dude, you are mad and sound mad.

I am still waiting for you to say amen to your own prayer, you creature of the toilet.

You are a "born to rule" thief like your father, Farouk Lawan.

Billyonaire: You are one odd fellow who take glory in stup!d!ty

I believe he actually has mental issues.

acidtalk: if he was my father, I will personally snetence him to life imprisonment.
Don't everyone worships money like you and turn a blind eye on the truth.

I believe in honesty, dignity and above all, the Fear of God.

You bloody cursed Son of Delta.

So why can't you say amen to your own prayer na?
Why not say amen if Farouk Lawan is not your father?

Dude, you are a worthless thief like Farouk Lawan. And of course, you are a worthless "born to rule" savage who thinks someone has taken "your property," Nigeria.

Donkey.

Imagine Farouk Lawan wanting to scam $10milla in bribes!

acidtalk: Carry your smelling body commot for road joh!

Yes Farouk Lawan is a thief and Hipocrite. But GEJ is a bigger Crook, traitor and liar hope you are okay now.

At least for once we have both agreed on one thing.

Now go and wear your diapers before you go to sleep so you don't pee on the bed tonight.

Onyiara like you.
Thunder fire your father.

Lol! I'm sure the thief, Farouk Lawan is your father. Thats why you hopped into this thread like a mentally unbalanced, one-legged bullfrog.
I'm still waiting for you to say amen to your own prayer to prove that you are not a murderer and thief.

@acidTalk

Read how the thief, Farouk Lawan (your relative, fellow gang member or whatever) was caught.

[size=14pt]Subsidy probe: How SSS burst $3m bribery scandal •Oil chief used pen recorder to nail Rep •We won’t side with corruption - House[/size]
Written by Taiwo Adisa, Abuja Sunday, 10 June 2012

FURTHER details emerged at the weekend on the process through which the State Security Services (SSS) burst the $3 million bribery scandal currently ravaging the House of Representatives adhoc committee which probed the fuel subsidy regime. Investigations by Sunday Tribune confirmed that the Service had been on the trail of all parties involved in the oil subsidy probe from the inception of the high calibre probe embarked on by the Honourable Farouk Lawan-led committee.

The security agency was said to have been alerted by persistent allegations of bribe taking and demand for bribes made against key members of the probe committee.

For instance, it was learnt that some oil marketers were said to have raised the alarm that they were scandalised in the report of the House because they refused to meet some officials of the adhoc committee for closed-door discussions .Sources, however, said the Service was later to approach an oil magnate who was said to have also been asked to pay a certain amount as bribe by some persons fronting for the committee.

But the oil magnate was said to have agreed to help facilitate a proof for the security agency by entering into direct talks with a key member of the adhoc committee.

Sources confirmed that a pen recorder was then made available to the oil chief, who used the same to record his discussions with a top member of the House Committee involved in the bribe scandal.

“The Service got him in audio and in video. He collected the money and they have since invited the leadership of the House of Representatives to watch the film,” a source said, adding, however, that the SSS decided not to dabble into issues that are not strictly linked with security, a development that made it to transfer the tape to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

It was gathered that before handling the investigation of the scam, the Service had shown the video to the leadership of the House, including the speaker, Honourable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.

Besides the $600,000 said to have been collected by the representative, he was also said to be expecting a balance of $2.4 million after doing the job requested of him by the oil magnate.

But sources in the National Assembly said members of the committee were taken aback by the conduct of their member who was said to have consistently denied taking any bribe during the process of compilation of the report.

“We had suspected along the line that money was exchanging hands. Some people claimed that the sum of $3 million was given to a member by an oil concern in Port Harcourt. Others said another set of industry players doled out the sum of $1 million to get protection in the report.

“In all, it was gathered that about $10 million was involved in the bribe saga.

“The EFCC has been alerted on the possibility of the sum rising to $10 million. The total amount involved in the bribe saga is about $10 million (about N1.5 billion). The money was said to have come from different sources,” one of the sources told Sunday Tribune.

It was learnt that some enraged members of the committee have vowed not to protect any individual over this matter.

Sources, however, said on Saturday that moves were afoot by some powerful forces in Abuja to stall the prosecution of the House member.

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives maintained on Saturday that it would not stand with corruption in the face of bribery allegation levelled against the committee.

The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Honourable Zakari Muhammed, in a statement obtained by Sunday Tribune, said “the attention of the House has been drawn to reports alleging that one of its members has, in the course of his committee work as a member of the ad hoc committee which investigated the subsidy regime, allegedly received a gratification from an oil baron to exonerate his companies from complicity in the oil subsidy scam.”

The lawmaker added that, "while we await investigation into these weighty accusations, we wish to state without equivocation that this honourable House will never take side with corruption and we will always stand on the side of the rule of law.”

The statement also said “the reason we inaugurated the adhoc committee to look into the controversial subsidy regime in the first place was to expose corruption in the sector. As such, we cannot, for whatever reason, support any underhand dealing from any quarter.

“However, these accusations, whatever their merits, do not detract from the quality of the work done by the committee. The report of that committee was adopted by the whole House and we stand by the resolutions of the House.

“The present House of Representatives will not relent in it's efforts to render quality legislation and oversight functions to Nigerians. Today, we are gradually beginning to see the end of this monstrosity that has bedeviled our progress as a nation for so long.

"We hope that the executive will not, because of this allegation, abandon it's commitment towards bringing to justice the culprits already identified in the committee's report.”

http://www.tribune.com.ng/sun/front-page-articles/7547-subsidy-probe-how-sss-burst-3m-bribery-scandal-oil-chief-used-pen-recorder-to-nail-rep-we-wont-side-with-corruption-house