Iyaebe: I used to spill truth to my parents plus the ones that does not even concerns me and they won't beat me.Back then,the only way my dad will know all that happened when he was away was just to get me a lot of goodies when coming back,as soon as I follow him to his room,just know that I'll spill everything before coming out even when my brothers have already begged and bribed me not say anything. Well,they started hiding everything from me but I was a pain in their neck.
Even up till now that you're grown,, you still spill things a lot,, even when e no concern you
yinkaOdutuyo: Her parent can't just do anything, but just at least to help her.
Stop calling her parents. You're the cause of your problems.. .. .. If you think you need more explanations from me.. Then, tell me whether it was her parents that yoked you into that relationship with their daughter. What exactly is their fault other than living their normal life which doesn't yield enough money.? But it is their life. You're always free to leave their daughter alone for them.
daben1: It happened in 2012 when I went to Kogi state university to write post UTME, after the exam and some days in Anyigba, I was on my way to Abia state, but before the journey, I went to an eatery with my friend to eat, after the food, I paid, and the guy that was selling the food gave me change that was more than my change, I told my friend the guy made a mistake that my change is more, I told him that I want to return the excess, he jokingly said if I try it that he'll slap me that instead of me returning the excess "change" that I should give it to him, I told him I won't return it again. After I bid my guy goodbye, he went his way, then I went back to the food seller and gave him the excess change...
I left Anyigba, when I got to Enugu that was where I met those guys, I got to peace park, as I was about going inside to take a car to Umuahia, one guy stopped me, he greeted me and I responded, I thought he was selling something, I told him I was in a haste, as I was about going, he stopped me again and pleaded for my audience, he said he came to Enugu from Cotonou with 50 laptops and 30 blackberry (blackberry then na hot cake na) that he kept very close to Fr. Mbaka's church that I should PLEASE follow him to the place so that he'll bring it from there to the park to sale, I told him I don't know the place o, then I left him.
As I was going another guy came, he asked me what we were discussing, I told him, then the first guy came again and said if WE can help him locate where he kept those laptops and blackberry, that he'll give us one laptop each, the second guy said "let's give it a try" and as me mumu na, I was happy I was about owing a laptop, took a car, I paid for three of us (the "Cotonou" guy said he doesn't have naira note with him and that they'll cheat him if he pays with DOLLAR).
Got to old market, they already kept one keke there with a rider inside, when we got there, the first guy entered, I told the second guy to enter so that I'll not be in their middle, the guy said, I shouldn't worry that I should enter, I overheard the first guy telling the keke rider; "start a nu keke a na", meaning, start this keke na, as I was about entering the keke, my elder brother's call came in, after I finished answering the call, till today I didn't even know what happened, I just told them I was not interested again, that they should be going. I took another car back to peace park, as I was discussing it with some people in the car, they said, those guys could be ritualist, and i started pondering, what if i had not returned that food seller's excess change? I can't forget that day, since then, I don get sense.
Have you had similar experience?
This question you asked here,, how did it concern the 419 experience?? You returned the change in Anyigba.. You met those guys in Enugu. .. Even if you didn't return the change, fate could still have delayed you enough to still meet them again.
obiekunie01: if they are very sure of their work, WILL THEY STILL NEED TO CARRY OUT THIS KIND OF TEST??
Chinese bridge!
You are part of the main reason Nigeria is a failed country. So, if you finished building something that is very new, you would just take it out to the market to sell to people, even without test-running and putting down your recorded observations of the performance, and be sure that what you expected of it before your built it is actually what it is giving after you built it..?? So you mean that you would now be telling the people what the thing you built should be doing without telling them how best to use it, and you would be expecting them to be the ones to first use the thing and start telling you how it really works?? Yet you were the one that built it?? .. Mista-man,, they are test-running their work, which is still part of the construction process. It's not their fault that they made the test-running public.
Truvelisback: In Abroad, things like this appreciated but in Nigeria, reverse is always the case.
The Nigeria we know won't allow such.. The reason is obvious. The Military already have enough skeletons in their closet. So, such publicity may expose them sooner or later even when they might not be expecting it
.. .. So, 9mins-12secs, just to let us know that the reason why Tems doesn't like showing her massive gigantic backside is just because she's a Big-Time Church-Girl?? .. .. Na Waa Ooo.
Only my facial squeeze sef go reset them two brain
Some kids are not trained with facial expressions ooo.. If you like, squeeze put fire and acid from your face, they would just be looking blankly at you.
tk4rd: I think I understand your point. .. But deploying such accreditation systems across the whole wards in all the LGAs (especially for presidential primaries) would be so costly and cumbersome for the primaries,, being that the open-ballot method would still be used at the end of the day. Manual accreditation using the Hard-copy registers would have solved the problem too
.. .. This accreditation system that I am talking about could even be an easy-to-use data-collection app that can be installed inside the smartphones of those that would handle the accreditation process. All that is needed for the user to do before the primaries begin is for him to login into the app with his unique login details, and then key-in the codes for the exact ward that he would be working at and that's all. The encrypted register for that ward (including all the necessary information for the purpose of the primaries) would be fetched from the party’s central server and be downloaded into the cache of the app for the purpose of immediate recall by the app. The only thing that is now left is for the app to perform frequent synchronisation of data between the app and central server, and also make provisions for several data backups too. .. I don't think that this thing that I just explained here is costly, neither is it a cumbersome process. It just requires the users to be very good with the use of gadgets.
tk4rd: The Primaries are mainly done using the open-ballot methods, where people stand in the lines corresponding to who they want to vote for. This method you're describing can only work for open-secret-ballot or secret-ballot methods.
You mean, the persons that conducted the open-ballot primaries do not care whether members of other parties participated and voted in the primaries? The open-ballot method can be conducted in an enclosed area, where the only-accredited members can stay-in and vote. .. The reason I even suggested the use of “voting-codes” is for the primaries to be able to be digitally monitored, so that the number of the participants in the primaries would not be determined manually. Thus, only those whom the “voting-codes” system captured, are the only ones that can enter the venue of the primaries.
fergie001: One, my position has always been to let political parties decide their mode of primaries.
However, direct primary is healthy but all States and politics have their own peculiarities.
Some of these issues have legal implications because INEC won't participate but only supervise.
If Parties generate codes to stop over-voting and so on... what is the difference with Indirect Primaries where someone who has access to your voting-codes information could manipulate the codes?
In Summary, there are no "best" methods you implement that politicians won't find a way to circumvent.
My problem is not the system, but the players.
What's the gain in anyone trying to manipulate the codes??
The major aim of the codes is just to control the excesses, and not to individualise the voters (at least for the meantime). By this, I mean, a person can get the codes (or the INEC’s Voters Cards) of the other members from these members and go and vote for them on their behalf. .. That's the only worst thing that could ever happen. .. Since there are no ways to make sure that the person who presented the codes for accreditation are the real owners of the original “identity” to whom the codes were sent, some desperate politicians would definitely start harvesting these voting-codes from the various party-members by any means possible; unless of course the party decided to make use of the newly introduced INEC’s BVAS Device for reading the voter's biometrics and confirming the identity of the individual.. But that would mean that the party is now no more fully dependent on their own systems, but heavily dependent on the INEC’s database system. .. Nevertheless, as time goes on, with some early failures and further trials, the best options would definitely be achieved on the long run.
The major real problem that can be associated with the direct primaries, is the very high possibility of “Uncontrolled Malpractices”, and not actually the popular “High Cost Implications” that are being carried around and being forced upon us to believe. No Primaries is Cheap to even start with. .. But if I am to choose between Direct and Indirect Primaries, I would choose the Direct Primaries, even though it has a high possibility of “Uncontrolled Malpractices”, but nevertheless, those malpractices can be controlled to the barest minimum. My main reason for choosing the direct primaries is that it gives the whole party members the opportunity to participate in the selection of their candidates. .. The very first step to curbing the Malpractices would be to have a valid Party Register, with all the information about the members including their INEC’s Voters Card Information, properly documented in the Register. But then, even if the party has a functional register of ALL the Party-Members, that alone cannot stop the menace of over-voting, the importation of voters, and the writing of results.. .. THE PARTY WOULD HAVE TO EITHER USE THE INEC’S VOTERS CARD-NUMBER TO ACCREDIT THE VOTERS, OR TO GENERATE INDIVIDUAL TEMPORARY “VOTING CODES” AND SEND TO ALL THE REGISTERED MEMBERS OF THE PARTY WITHIN THE DESIRED GEOPOLITICAL BOUNDARIES (AS APPROPRIATE) AHEAD OF THE PRIMARIES, FOR THEM TO BE USED ONLY FOR THE ACCREDITATION PURPOSES.. .. On the day of the Primaries, only the number of VOTING-CODES which the voting-system decrypted and accepted as authentic, would definitely become the actual number of people who participated in the primaries, since they were the only ones that were assumed to be accreditated. .. But then, there might be another problem to that.. If the “VOTING CODES” were generated by a Human-Being, then the process can be compromised.. A desperate person can still go and pay the persons who generated and sent-out the VOTING-CODES, so as to have possession of the codes and still use them to commit the crime of Multiple-Voting... .. Well, unless the VOTING CODES were automatically generated and sent anonymously to the registered members by a computer (and the messages encrypted by the same computer after being sent to the members), so that the codes cannot be physically retrieved by anybody, no matter what methods they tried to use.. .. This one however cannot prevent impersonation-voting, where someone gets the VOTING-CODES of other members from them and then go ahead to vote on their behalf, but it would definitely stop Multiple-Voting and Result-Writing. .. It will also prevent imported voters, since the Machine-Generated VOTING-CODES were only sent to the members within the appropriate geopolitcal boundary, and thus, imported members are automatically disqualified and disenfranchised.
Frenzy01: I'm at a crossroad. I feel like I should start taking responsibilities by paying my tithes from the little I have now but the problem is I'm not a church type. It's been over 2 years that I last went to a church cos of some personal reasons and convictions.
Now, how do I take care of my responsibilities as a Christian(I still see myself as a Christian, just that some of the things been done in the church today doesn't sit well with me). How do I pay my tithe without going to church
What makes you a Christian?? Christ? Or Tithes?? .. You're more interested in paying your tithes than in finding a way to know Christ better.
JimmySwaggart: no no no!!! let's leave snake alone. It's mosquito that should be man's greatest enemy. I hate that thing. God knows I have always wished for a malaria vaccine to be found soonest.
Even with malaria vaccine,, do you like the sound of the flying mosquito near your ears?? Or do you love its bite??
Snakes can't live inside soakaway. The gas alone in your soakaway will kill them. Just incase you don't know, the gas inside your soakaway can generate electricity.
Again I ask, does the Snake live inside your poo Or they float ontop of poo?
Do you know your bathing soap water also goes into that soakaway, both the waste water from your kitchen? Do you know soaps carry chemicals that are harmful?
Again an average building has over 6 Chambers, think of it, for a snake to live inside soakaway and still find it way to a w.c, it means it must past many Chambers,so tell me. How possible is that?
Also it is completely madness living a storey building yet you are afraid that Snake will crawl out from your W.C, how? it can never happen, thats because the 4inch pipe that carry your poo from the w.c to the soakaway has a smooth surface, Snake can not comfortable crawl on it. It not possible.
Now is it possible for Snake to crawl out from your W.C? yes it is. But that can only happen if you stay in a bungalow, ground floor and you have a breakage in the service chamber that has direct link to your w.c, I mean direct link to the toilet.
So please those of you that are busy Flushing fuel and salt inside ur soakaway, sorry you are just wasting your money.
So hear it now, Snake can only come out from your W.C if you have a broken Chamber that is directly linked to you toilet.
Snakes don't live inside your soakaway because snakes too need oxygen. Thanks!!!
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Had anyone tried to ascertain how exactly the snake entered into that woman's toilet?? Or are we here forming theories and waiting for researchers from abroad to come down to Nigeria and unravel the puzzle??
ThinkSmarter: Good step Direct primary is #bae. Whoever that is against direct primary have ulterior motive.
Indirect primary Comes with high desperation among the contestants that makes them to bribe the delegates with huge amounts of money. Direct primary discourages desperation and encourages competence. In indirect primary, a single person offered a token bribe will compromise the will of his people for his personal gain.
Note that Direct primary is conducted across the political wards, all the votes counted, recorded and duly signed by the INEC staff(s) on duty in the presence of the people. People are allowed to snap the result sheet in order to make sure the figures are not altered at the local government and state level collation.
With Direct Primaries,, three things can easily be done by the desperate politicians..
1). Voters are imported from other places to come and stand in the line.. (that is, where open ballot is used)
2). Multiple Voting In places where secret ballot were used..
3). Writing of The Results By the Organisers of the Primaries, and paying the INEC Staff to endorse and Stamp their fraudulent Results as the Authentic Results. .. .. So,, are there ways you can avoid these three scenarios??