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People just Dey change mouth anyhow for this place inside one single match

I saw this news about a political group calling on Tinubu and the AGF to stop LG chairmen from contesting for 3rd term.

I know it’s a matter of law and it is not something Tinubu and the AGF can stop or allow to continue , but it got me thinking .

It got me thinking that since the 3 levels of government are the federal , state and LGA ; why is it that the law limits the president and governors to two terms while the LGA chairmen are allowed to rule as long as they can continue to win the sham of LGA elections ?

Why can’t we have laws in place limiting LGA chairmen time in office to two terms like it’s done at the federal and state government ?

Shegzdave:
He might have his bagages but like raum said the people trust him to help them and not chasing clout like you said

You think if he was a chronic clout chaser, he’ll have that following that believes once he steps in, he’ll be the ladder through which justice can be served by him calling out the necessary people involved?

I no really send am cause of how he pry in some personal matter but truth be told, that guy is trying

He is actually a chronic clout chaser.

Nigerians generally like the thought of having a Messiah-like figure whom they can lay at his feet all their supplications.

There’s a law saying that says he who comes to equity must come with clean hands . The person u think is fighting for justice literally defames others with reckless abandon. He says a whole lot of things he has no proof of and thinks the world works like that .

He may have helped some people to recover funds here and there , but that doesn’t make him Gani Fawehinmi of this generation all of a sudden .

raumdeuter:
He is the Gani in the sense that the masses trust him. I saw one video of people in Kwara whose transformer was stolen or damaged and the people were saying "Pls tag VDM to come to our aid" Most of the youth see him as a honest broker to get justice for them

He has his problems in putting his mouth in private issues and chase clout but he is the closest to the voice of the masses now

Which masses trust him ? 😂

That video u see is just video of people calling the the name they’ve been hearing due to the clout he chases online .

Lmao @ honest broker 😂.

He will be fine .

GloriousGbola:
destroying your atm card means absolutely nothing, especially for GTB. you can walk into any branch and have a new card in a minute. cost was 1k last time i did it.

unfortunately we are in a post truth age, where people like share and swallow and do not ask questions, now or later. as a parent you have a duty to teach your kids critical thinking and not to lionize anyone and to be very wary of 'news' from Instagram, twitter etal, especially once the algo has hooked you

the bigger question for me - is if those free VDM demonstrations were real - who is actually funding them? and what is the end game? these days i am suspicious of 'internet personalities'

This is very important

iamoyindamola:
Then they said they can't mention the people involved 🤣🤣

My own concern is ; the people who destroyed their ATM card and threatened GTB after his arrest , what will they do now that GTB has not been indicted in being responsible for his arrest ?

In fact , he was staked out at 3 different GTB branch because he announced online he was going to GTB , not because GTB called for his arrest

raumdeuter:
Summary A.K A Bullshiitt

Well VDM knows the stuff he is doing will be stepping on toes of many big men and corporation and these type of illegal detention wont be far from him
He is lowkey the Gani Fawehinmi of these generation and the people especially the masses trust him despite some of his choo choo choo shenanigans into some peoples personal lives

I hope in the future he doesnt soil himself by getting involved in politics

I think calling him again Fawehinmi of this generation is a bit of a stretch .

Personally I think he has a hero complex which makes him always want to “chook mouth” in almost everything ; both the things he’s knowledgeable about and the ones he’s not.

He has a whole lot of characteristics that makes it unsuitable for him to be referred to as a freedom fighter . His bias and self serving agenda is a turnoff for people who really want to take him serious .

He will be fine sha

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick
It was efcc after all, they finally cook up stories they have been inviting him for questioning and he didn't show up🤣
You see this country, have money and power you are well sorted

https://www.nairaland.com/8417936/efcc-grants-verydarkman-bail-reveals

Well, according to EFCC they said the petitions against him pertain to grave allegations of financial malfeasance which cannot be ignored by the Commission.

Let’s wait and see what the charges against him will be .

On this one, I am for nobody and I am for everybody. Let’s wait and see where it will all end.

Nehruvia:
Creative courses will demand you to be imaginative, expressive and original. Applied fields will demand you to implement practical problem-solving. Subjects from the humanities place emphasis on interpretive and analytical thinking, rather than rote memorization or regurgitation. Different types of intelligence and/or skills are required, depending on which field you wish to delve into, so your suggestion that one field is inherently superior is fundamentally spurious and factually inaccurate.

And FYI, students flocking to a course or programme is not indicative of the course being easy. It's a common habit among the younguns to look at STEM subjects on surface level and assume that they are mentally tasking, which explains why they quickly flock to social sciences, that is until they actually dive deep into courses in social sciences and discover exactly how much critical thinking, research and ingenuity is actually required. It's like that cute hot teacher in your school who you think doesn't know how to whoop ass, until you become a defaulter on the receiving end.

Thank you telling him.

iamoyindamola:
I don’t like vdm and whatever he stands for but the misuse of power in this country is getting out of hand.
Efcc can’t claim responsibility for his arrest because they know the reason is stupid or they don’t have the right, all these government officials are just doing what they like.

But I thought they said he was arrested by a combined team of EFCC and DSS officials. And I heard they've gotten court order to remand him pending when they will file charges against him.

It looks as if the guy has stepped on a lot of toes and now they want to deal with him. E be like say he Don annoy some powerful people in the course of his crusade online

afrodoc2:
I dey ask because back then if you ask widely enough in different schools and tutorial centers you go find out say their purported JAMB marking schemes no align together. Maybe it changed later sha.

I think overtime some of them got it right, maybe that's one of the reasons why students' performance has improved over time

afrodoc2:
You are not beefing Mass Comm actually. You are beefing your unserious Mass Comm student cousin.
Mass Comm na just collateral damage.

Exactly!

afrodoc2:
In the 90s people were not scoring up to 300. Highest scores were 256, 267, 277.

Does anybody know the marking scheme of JAMB now?

The tutorial I attended back then, they used to have JAMB marking scheme. We would write mock JAMB every month and they will give us our results.

People dey score 150 steady 😂. The director of that tutorial center would tell us that is how brutal JAMB marking scheme can be ; so u are expected to study harder

liveLongNprospa:
You see that human kinetics education, who study am don hammer like this coz Canada dey find am gaaan.
But people go dey laugh courses like am

Canada no be naija baba mi.

If u do Human Kinetics for Naija, the only option u have is to finish with first or 2.1 make u get automatic job from Ur department or make u follow thousands of 2.1 graduates dey drag graduate trainee of KPMG, Access bank, BUA group

User09:
The easiest way to prove Ibime wrong would be to see if any of the 12k students who scored the 300 above put in Mass comm as their potential course of study.

God help him if a large % happen to fall in that bracket.

Is there a breakdown of the intended courses by the Jamb candidates BluerayDick?

There's no such breakdown. JAMB's statistics usually focus majorly on the gender of the students and their state of origin (for reasons best known to them). They usually don't indicate what course those highest pergromong students intend to study

Ibeme:
I like am like that. Before I employ you with art degree I need to see a prestigious uni on your CV so I can differentiate between those who studied arts by choice and those who studied arts because of laziness or lack of aptitude

There was one guy I did both primary and secondary school with. I have known him all my life and he never crossed class C or D to enter class B talkless of A, from primary to secondary. Today he is a high flying lawyer having knuckled down in his SS3 and University years. Another of my nigga who was near the bottom of the class (placed between 20th and 30th but never demoted to class B) is now an Anaesthesiologist in USA collecting good pepper. That shows that belief, determination and ambition are the most vital ingredients even in a "dull" student. There is no excuse for anyone with aptitude to be studying Masscomm except in abroad setting in a prestigious uni, then we will know it's by choice.

Do you know that even in England, the worst, most dull and most unambitious students in my time would scrape together one E at A Levels and go to Uni to study "Media studies" which is our version of MassCom here. We just saw them as time wasters who just want to enjoy student loan for 3 more years before facing the real world.

I agree with u that with determination and hard work, even a below average student can move up to become an above average student over time.

There was this guy we met in class in JSS2 because he repeated JSS2 while his mates were promoted to JSS3 . For U to repeat at the level u are considered a very poor student. Due to football matters, we became friends; he would play on my team most times during lunch break.

We both passed to JSS3, albeit his result wasn't as good as that of my other friends. When we did our JSCE (Junior Waec) and this guy saw my result, he just told me he will go to whatever department I chose and that was exactly what he did. We were in the same class till SS3. Somehow I had a very huge impact on his life and didn't even know.

The guy just imitated me by putting efforts to read as much as he played and discovered he wasn't as dull as he had thought. He just wanted his results to be half as good as mine usually was.

Last I heard from him, he was a full time lecturer in a polytechnic and an adjunct lecturer in another polytechnic. Even me I shock say the guy can ever learn to the extent of imparting knowledge in others.

KingTom:
My brother I say that year you go see Fishery niggas dissing say dem go get oil company work when dem graduate say Shell and Chevron go dey rush them even ExxonMobil

😂

Ibime:
All those Peller, content creators and OAPs, how many of them get MassCom?

There are 720 radio stations in Nigeria who employ mostly people who didn't study MassCom, but there are half a million Directors that need PAs. I know you don't need Secretarial degree to do Secretary work but last last there are still more jobs for them. Even at that, you can't be a PA to a high flying Corporate Director without a degree. PAs for corporates these days are expected to have strategic knowledge to step in and communicate on behalf of their boss to the point that even lawyers are serving as PAs in some of the most blue chip companies today.

Nobody was doing MassCom like that 20 years ago, na useless indomie generation start this MassCom trend

How I knew MassCom was a useless course was even 10 years ago. My first cousin born to my uncle wey no hold was adopted by one of my aunty wey get pepper. She trained this girl in one private school in AkwaIbom paying N300k per term which was $2k dollars then. I heard the girl was doing well such that when I visited PH in 2014, I insisted I take a road trip to Uyo to visit her in her boarding house. The next year which was her SS3 year na him matter cast, I heard she's started playing and becoming unserious. My Aunty who is a PHD holder, alumni and board member at Abu Zaria had set it up for her to go study law at Zaria. She said no, that she wants to do Masscomm at Uniport. She finally flopped her final exams scoring 180 and my aunty disowned her. That's when she said she wants to use that 180 to go to Polytechnic, I said last last you must sit at home for one year and write JAMB again. She finally passed the JAMB to get to Uniport but to study journalism which is not far from Masscomm. At this point I've almost washed my hands off her but still giving her small benefit of the doubt. Her first year of uni, she called me one day. Before even greeting and talking as adults, she started fake crying "Uncle, I need money". That's when I shouted at her that is that how you talk to adults with childish voice? From then I washed hands off her, she can't squeeze N1k out of my hand today. She is the one that educated me on the unambitious nature and general uselessness of MASSCOMM people.

The problem is u are an old man who was trained to believe STEM courses or the age long trio of Accountancy, Economics and Law are the only way to show one is serious with his or her life.

The fact the people whom u know that studied MASSCOM did so out of fear for those aforementioned STEM courses, Law and the likes has made u greatly prejudiced.

You need to be really really open minded in this age ; time has changed! Serous students dey study MASSCOM and dem dey do well for themselves. The world did not start and end with those relatives of urs who didn't cover themselves in glory after studying MASSCOM. People dey wey study Accountancy wey no gree write ICAN or ACCA but joyfully writing CIPM( HR professional exam) because dem no fit kill themselves

raumdeuter:
Most of the secretary jobs don lost to owning a laptop

Exactly. Almost every company expects u to know Ur way around Microsoft office before they will employ u.

No company will pay for secretary that will help u prepare PowerPoint which u need to present to a client. U are expected to prepare slides for presentation to clients, write reports urself and do everything urself.

KingTom:
'You can work anywhere, companies will be begging you to work for them' Lori iro walahi you go cry. Human Kinetics

😂😂😂

Ọmọ! That thing make some egbon study rubbish course that year. U go just see say those egbon finish school dem no see work for years

Ibime:
You no get point, last last there are half a million secretaries/PAs in Naija, whether overqualified or not. The job to student ratio is much healthier than MassCom.

How many jobs dey MassCom for Naija vs how many students?

Some years ago, I spoke to a young man who was having issues getting to uni for many years. He said I should help him to write JAMB. By this time he was already mid twenties, had been at Uni studying accounting but found out his matriculation (which he worked) was fake in the final year and the uni didn't recognise him as a student. So he's spent many years in the wilderness at this stage after that crushing disappointment. He was in such a dark place, I asked him what he wants to do in Uni, he said "las las, lemme just go and get a MassCom degree". He was a very intelligent lad but in a sunken place and saw MassCom as the easy path to say he's doing something. I said no, let's do Accounting Chartership and close off your earlier disappointment in the proper way that is more befitting of your brains. Today he is a chartered accountant earning close to 7 figures, when he could have been the average MassCom failure if I listened to him and allowed him to settle for the path of least resistance.

See u are an old man who is speaking off Ur knowledge of things over 20 years ago. If not u will not be talking about secretariat job that has almost been pahsed off the Nigerian work space.

PA/EA which replaced secretary jobs doesn't even require you to have a degree in secretariat studies for u to excel at it. Anybody going to study such course in this age and time is just wasting his or her time cos he or she will still need to look for daily bread in another field.

There are 720 functional radio stations in nigeria, I don't know the exact number of TV stations in Nigeria but I know it should be in hundreds. There are different career paths in that MASSCOM u despise so much; career paths like Journalist,Reporter,Public,Relations,Specialist,Advertising,Copywriter,MarketingCommunication,Specialist,Broadcast Producer,Videographer, etc

Na u just know the bad dream u Don get about the course.

raumdeuter:
Shey people dey employ Secretaries these days abi na job description wey dem afrodoc TrebleChamp and GloriousGbola dey give their mentees

To put mentees on company payroll instead of paying them from Ogas pocket

Is it that mentees tend to become Secretaries or Ogas just dey mentor Secretaries

Nowadays na executive assistants people employ and na the ogas at the top dey get Executive assistant; not the old practiser of secretary for everybody on senior management.

KingTom:
I don even forget Library science one werey Johnny use him 4 years dey do Egede 🪓 activities say na Library science e dey study

Omo ! Courses Dey

That year if Unilag don release merit list finish , dem go come advertise courses wey Dey available wey people wey get good grades fit change their course to for them to be considered admission .

You will see them Listing courses like Education Admin, Guidance and counseling , Adult Education, Human Kinetics Education, Christian religious study , fisheries , social work , etc.

You go come begin ask people “ where can I work if I study social work “? 😂

raumdeuter:
You know say normal na Art class students dey do Mass communication

Also once you don go Art class, you probably are scared of anything numbers. the number of serious courses available to you are limited. Minus Law, what other courses Art students fit chook head

Na wetin dey carry them go Mass communication be that

MASSCOM is popular because once u don’t get into Law , the next lucrative course that comes to mind is MASSCOM. It’s just like commercial/social science students thinking of Accountancy/ Economics and the first choice and Banking & Finance as next best choice .

Na nowadays when people eyes don open dem Dey see say there are other good courses in those fields they can still thrive if they study them.

Ibime:
Secretary has real life application wey boku

Wetin you want do with MassCom

10m people rushing a handful of OAP roles

U no get point .

Any SSCE holder or OND holder can be trained to be a secretary in no time . The same cannot be said of MASSCOM application . Who told u MASSCOM’s application is only for the role of OAP ?

U should be angry someone is going to school to waste time on “secretariat studies “ , instead na MASSCOM wey broad well and get room for specialization u Dey vex for

iamoyindamola:
Or political science what is the science to study in politics 🤣🤣

There’s even political science education as a course sef

KingTom:
I no even understand Ibime, MassCom wey people dey rush to study back then in school, what will he now say about Guidance & Counseling

No mind him , Na people Dey study Secretariat studies in school for 2025 o

bolu96:
You're right though.
At the bolded, it's the same way we have more first class graduates than in the past. Can we say students are getting smarter or it's due to improvement in technology?

Serious Students are utilizing improvement in technology to study smarter and get good grades .Study materials are easily accessible unlike in the past

Ibime:
I said I don't mind. Las las you fit be all those Shakespeare and Macbeth people wey dey follow passion but get brain like Soyinka dem. But that Masscomm is for the mentally lazy

One day somebody who studied MASSCOM will see this ur post and challenge it

Ibime:
We like Law and Languages. We don't mind English, Literature, History, Classics, Philosophy if that's your interest

But you see that MASSCOMM? Once any relative inform me say him dey go read Masscomm, I done write am off for life. Not somebody worth investing a penny or a Joule of energy in.

U like philosophy and literature but u don’t like MASSCOM? 😂😂😂

Ibime:
E be like you read this MASSCOMM, the way you dey Voltron for them

Wetin concern me and MASSCOM? 🤷‍♂️

I just don’t share ur believe that any course not STEM based is useless ni

bolu96:
It's actually less than 1% of the population.

During the time of Prof. Bello Ahmad Salim , people wey Dey score 300 no Dey pass 2 in the whole Nigeria . The first person may score 320 , second person 307 and third person 297 in the whole of Nigeria .

I know this because I saw two of such brochure where they will have pictures of the best 3 candidates in the previous year’s examinations

I’m shocked over 12k are scoring above 300 nowadays .