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Jarus has said it all. In fact, a friend served with shell, even though his uncle was one of the top guys in shell he was not retained. Rather he was taken as a contract staff. CBN, on the other hand, does not even retain. My uncle advised me against serving with them during my time.

Op, i will advise you go for shell, at least that will help you a lot during job hunt. Serving with shell means a lot, even as a corper.

Whenever the names of Gaddaffi and co are mentioned i feel like joining the rebels

Maybe the SSS just want to calm Nigerians down with two imbeciles from minna and bauchi. They just want to appear serious and committed. Or is it by mere coincidence that the both of them have no limbs?

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Owing to various speculations and misrepresentations in the media arising from the bomb attack on the United Nations (UN) building on 26th August, 2011 in Abuja. The Department of State Services (DSS) on behalf of other security agencies wishes to state as follows:
a. On 18th August, 2011, precise intelligence was obtained by this Service that some Boko Haram elements were on a mission to attack unspecified targets in Abuja in an ash-coloured Toyota Camry vehicle with registration number AA539GBL
b. On 21st August, 2011 about 1300 hours a joint operations by all security services led to the arrest of two (2) notorious leaders of the Boko Haram extremists sect, namely,
i. Babagana Ismail KWALJIMA (a.k.a Abu SUMMAYA);
ii. Babagana MALI (a.k.a Bulama).
2.​Following their arrests, security was further beefed up in Abuja and its environs. Meanwhile the suspects have made valuable statements and are being held at a military facility.
3.​Investigation has revealed that one Mamman NUR, a notorious Boko Haram element with Al-Qaeda links who returned recently from Somalia, working in concert with the two (2) suspects masterminded the attack on the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja.
4.​Further investigation has also revealed that the car used for the attack was a Honda car with Kano State registration number AV38NSR. It was purchased on 3rd September, 2002 and registered on 3rd December, 2002. The vehicle identification number is 1HGCBA7400A100748, Engine number, F22A72000540.
5.​The security services wish to reiterate their commitments to ensuring that we have a safe, peaceful and secure environment. We want to reassure Nigerians that we have no other country and we must all strive to maintain its unity which is currently being threatened.
6.​We implore all Nigerians to be more security conscious and vigilant, while urging the general public to cooperate with security agencies by providing useful information that could lead to the arrest of Mamman NUR who is hereby declared WANTED. Any person with useful information which could lead to the arrest of the suspect and other accomplices should report to the nearest Police station, military formations or any other security agency.

http://newafricanpress.com/2011/08/31/sss-unveils-suspects-behind-un-building-blast/

I am currently in LDR

I left my babe since December last year, so far it's been wonderful. My babe understands that i am making a sacrifice that will help secure our future, so she tries to hold her self tight.

My key strategies are;

1. do not bother about what she does in your absence

2.call as often as you can and explain plainly should you fail to call at any time

3.in all you do try to avoid quarrels.Do not nag or quarrel with her. Rather be polite even when she acts  childlike

4. send her money if you have and try to explain in case you don't have

5. always reassure her of your love and tell her how she will make a good wife when u finally marry her.Women like being flattered

6.ask of her family and friends.

7. make sure she is engaged with something. An idle mind is a devil's workshop so to say.

8. let her be the first to hear of any good news and inform her of the progress you are making so far.

9.also, do tell her that s3x is nothing and she will have enough of it when u return.This is just to play on her mind, even though her punny maybe scratching her right there.

10. pray and commit all in the hands of God.

If your intention is to work in a corporate establishment, then i will advise against studying development economics because it will have little or no direct application in most organisations. Unless you want to teach or work for the govt, international development agencies etc after your studies.

I would rather suggest you study something related to finance, International Economics,Industrial Organization, Financial economics etc if your intention is to work in a corporate organisation thereafter.

Which ever area you choose depends on your interest and career goals.Remember, Economics is not a subject you study while in a moving vehicle, especially at OAU. So, you need to take your time and choose a topic area you will find comfortable studying.

Human Capital Theory

Poverty Motives for Child Labor and Schooling Termination

Economics of Consumer Actions Against Child Labor

There are tons of researchable topics in development economics. But you can pick from any of these;

Trade liberalisation and poverty in Nigeria

Economic impact of population ageing

income inequality

monetary policy in transition economies;

international integration of developing stock markets;

regional growth disparities in Africa;

sustainability of fiscal policy in developing economies;

the link between financial liberalisation and economic growth,

the role of micro-credit institutions;

exchange rate volatility in developing economies

Go and get a job

@chamber, hi! pls can you post me any inputs on the assignment? I mean M.O. The Arnold Palmer case. Thanx 4 sharing.

Most things are better not shared in a social forum like this. Drop your email i will add you on yahoo messenger.

BS: If the reason why you wanto have a one night stand with that guy is b'cos you dont have money to sustain yourself at the moment, then dont worry yourself . I can send you $50usd for you to use in taking care of yourself at the moment. then when you'r ready for a boyfriend, u take your time, be careful and choose a good, lovin and caring guy of YOUR choice. END OFF !!!

@eniola

Why don't u get this money first? At least it will help you at the moment. $50=N7,500

This will help you move around in search of jobs. Nobody gets job while sitting at home. Move around, make friends and apply for jobs anywhere.

I wish u all d best.

^^Now why would I want to ridicule you? To what purpose?I don't even know you.What you just exhibited is a common trait with Nigerians.When you try to correct them they simply fly into a fit; 'do you think you're better than me?' 'look at this small boy,you want to teach me my job?' 'you have no respect for your elders abi'. Reh,reh,reh,bla,bla,bla.So no surprises there

So, what were you correcting? You only wanted to use my sentence as a ''case in hand'' to further prove your points. As i said before, i am not above making mistakes (not silly ones though), and would always welcome well intended corrections.

If you checkout my comments here on NL, you would observe that I am one of the few guys who don't resort to insults and name calling as a way to drive home their points. Even while making corrections i try as much as possible not to sound offensive.I think that is a good attribute we should all try to exhibit, not the showmanship that is evident here.

Cold

You never intended to correct me, you only wanted to ridicule me. In fact, there was nothing to correct.

I accept well intended corrections, after all, no one is above making mistakes.

Beaf

I won't join words with you because you are one of the few guys i regard in the forum.

Please tell me, how is this a wrong expression;

to yourself : …be able to use, occupy, or enjoy something without having to share it with anyone else…

I think that goes well, taking into consideration the context in which the word was used.

You weren't the best for that job shekina! Maybe you had a strong connection in that company or your father owns it

Na you talk am.

okada_man

You seem to be the ONLY sensible person here. One nihilist was even busy correcting my sentence without looking up the meaning of the word in his dictionary, that's if he has one.

See for yourself.Now I understand

You are an Id.ot

Are you saying there are no exceptions? Thats why its called the 'best',  Some people in 4 or 3oo level in some uni's can perform more than managers. Forget that thing jare, you are just making excuses for yourself and that guy cos uv been a victim of such circumstance before

If you read my initial comment very well you would observe that i only tried to ''look at'' the issue from various perspectives. I just imagined what could have possibly led a 2.1 English language graduate to make such unpardonable grammatical error. In order not to jump into conclusion like most people here did, i shared personal experience.Even in my own case i still got the job because the interviewer was convinced that i was suitable for the position. So, she invited me for another chat where i performed beyond her expectations.

You can as well check out this thread to see more of what people experience during interviews, especially freshers;

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-129847.0.html

Quite agreed, there are horrible Nigerian graduates, irrespective of the grade they graduated with. But that is not enough reason to disparage those who worked hard and merited whatever grade they were awarded.

Abeg leave mata.What kind of interview fright would affect you so much,you can't even express yourself properly?

Check out this thread and see to yourself people's interview experiences, especially the freshers;

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-129847.0.html

What now makes you the 'BEST' for the job

Yeah, i lacked the confidence but NOT the knowledge. Even the interviewer observed i was only nervous. That was immediately after graduation.Subsequently, i gained confidence and the result was awesome

My point is, the guy may have been nervous and that contributed to his inability to speak coherently.

Nigerians are always quick to jump into conclusion. This is supposed to be an interview where even a well trained 1st class material is likely to fumble. I could remember my first interview experience. If the interviewer had asked me my name on that day i would have fumbled not to talk of spelling ENCOUNTER.

So, it could probably be interview tension. But, one cannot conclude until further investigation or insight is provided

Gov Rochas Okorocha of Imo State donated N1million to the family of late legendary actor Sam Loco Efe through the Actor's Guild of Nigeria (AGN). The money was used for the actor's autopsy (which was done over the weekend) and other sundry expenses.

Na waho, why dem come waste the money like dis na? the money did not even get to the family

It's odd, but not necessarily surprising, that critics of the Libya intervention were calling it any number of things: mistake, quagmire, dangerous, an Iraq repeat, and so on. It is odd because the ultimate outcome -- the rebels winning and Qaddafi falling -- never seemed much in doubt. It was a matter of when, not if. For both better and worse, Libya confirms the reality that the role of external actors (in this case, the United States and Europe) can still be decisive in the Arab struggle for freedom.

We should always tread carefully with counterfactuals. But it is difficult to deny that the alternative to doing something -- doing nothing -- would almost certainly have led to a bloody, tragic massacre in Benghazi and other pockets of rebel resistance. Libya would have likely been held up as one of the great tragedies of Western neglect or outright subversion, on par with Iran in 1953 or Algeria and Iraq in the early 1990s. When you have the ability to act, doing nothing is no longer a neutral position.

To be sure, this is not a time for settling scores. But it is a time for arguing for the utility, necessity, and morality of a doctrine -- the Responsibility to Protect -- that seemed, to its opponents, increasingly discredited. Another reality -- again, for both better and worse -- is that the United States remains something of an "indispensable nation," a notion increasingly in disrepute. Without American support, however belated, the responsibility to protect would have remained mere rhetoric and posturing. The NATO intervention would not have happened.

That said, we should be careful not to overstate the strategic benefits of President Obama's chosen course of action the past six months. Foreign Policy's Blake Hounshell argues that the administration's strategy of "leading from behind" now "seems utterly vindicated." It is unclear why this would be so. If anything, it could be argued, as I did in March, that Obama's excessive caution made a bad situation even worse. If the U.S. and the international community had intervened sooner -- rather than at the very last moment when rebels were making their final stand -- Qaddafi would have fallen sooner and without such loss of life and destruction.

This, lest we forget, is how the rebels themselves saw the situation in March. They were literally begging the United States to take action. When their calls were met with silence, Iman Bughaigis, spokeswoman for the rebels, fumed that "[The West] has lost any credibility." In a veiled but obvious reference to the fence-sitters, she continued, "I am not crying out of weakness , But we will never forget the people who stood with us and the people who betrayed us."

With the Obama administration dragging its feet, French foreign minister Alain Juppe conceded that it was perhaps too late for military intervention. In other words, what seems like such a success now was then very much in doubt. Even after NATO stepped in, the complaints continued; NATO could do more but wasn't, rebel officials argued, in part due to U.S. insistence on "letting others lead." There was also an (understandable) reticence on the part of the Obama administration and its allies to more pro-actively arm and train Libyan rebel forces. But such hesitation, however prudent, came at a cost.

Finally, it is worth nothing that one of the rationales for the Libya intervention -- that it would have a powerful demonstration effect across the Arab world -- is being vindicated (after being much maligned by Daniel Larison and others critics of the war). In the face of overwhelming repression in Syria and Bahrain and setbacks in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, Arabs needed a victory. There was a growing sense that the euphoria on February 11 -- the day Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down -- was rather premature. It was. But, now, all across the region, protesters and revolutionaries are once again emboldened, reminded that the unlikely is still possible. They are warning their own stubborn leaders -- Assad in Syria and Saleh in Yemen -- that they are next. Today, then, the region's revolutionaries face their own daunting struggles with more momentum and more hope. That is no small thing. Neither is the newfound freedom of millions of Libyans, who will now have the opportunity, for the first time, to rebuild their shattered nation on their own terms.

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0822_libya_hamid.aspx

this is absolute bollocks. you have drank the western kool-aid and you are now drunk. first of all FREEDOM IS MONEY. without money you are in chains, but i digress, western democracy is nothing but a concocted piece of crap. in other for a country to prosper there has to be CONTINUITY. america is crumbling because of this silly 4 year democracy. every 4 years one  comes in and undoes all the good done in the previous 4 years. its a totally insane and inane concept. clinton comes in and there is surplus and then bush comes in and cuts taxes for all his rich cronies and speeds up globalization and the outsourcing of american jobs and then indulges in wars that bankrupts the nation. MY POINT BEING, stop rehashing american rhetoric. democracy is insane. continuity is needed for ideas to be immersed and enmeshed and to take effect. personally i think every leader should be given at least 10 years in power. the libyan people did not do this for FREEDOM. they are already free. they have money and can travel where they like. the people who done this are just pawns used by the west but they themselves are in this because they want to take away the freedom of libya. they want to enact draconian islamic laws. so lets kill all the FREEDOM rhetoric. MONEY IS FREEDOM. with money you have CHOICES.

whatever may be your understanding of American democracy and its defects is not the issue here. No system is without defect. The fact remains that no body feels comfortable with despotic regimes, except those who benefit from it. It's like saying Abacha's regime was the best for Nigeria just because of constant flow of free money and with it's unrestrained denial of people's right. Money does not equal freedom.No doubt the current events will bring a lot of instability in Libya, but i would rather blame Gaddaffi for all this. Gaddaffi eliminated any opposition and severely restricted lives of ordinary Libyans and his family took over much of the economy and in return the Libyan people were offered $500 in lure of their freedom and yet you consider this as being free.

If Gaddaffi was such a wonderful leader as most of you posit, then i wonder why Libyans are keeping mute to his current predicament.

hmmn, very amusing. are we now having a propaganda campaign for muammar?

look, all theze fantabulous tales are simply rubbish. if the picture you painted above were really to be true then libya is practically the best nation in the entire planet.

for one, i fail to see why and how receiving money for doing nothing is a briliant idea, but then as nigerians i can see why the thought appeals to you lot.

then again, if all this were true, the thousands of people celebrating are brain dead? im sure u prolly think babangoda was nigeria best leader.


now this mythical free 500 dollar, what is its real market value? in nigeria once the word dollar is mentioned all reason flies out the window.
what can a libyan purchase with 500 dollars, which i suspect is not even rated as  american dollars?


in the west they practice free support and welfare payments too. its so novel to a nigerian. THE WORD FREE HAS TO BE THE BEST WORD IN NIGERIA, FREE MONEY.


now i cannoy fathom how a very useless bigot dictator has morphed overnite into tbe second coming of saviour. are u saying everyone is wrong about him?

let me remind u this is a man who thought nothing of KILLING, NOT ARREST/INCARCERATION, KILLING his subjects for dissent.

this is also a man who back every useless vermin called dictators and sit tight rulers in africa with that same wealth from libyan oil. abacha's ardent supporter.
THIS IS A MAN WHO STAUNCHLY SUPPORTED CHARLES TAYLOR AND HIS GENOCIDE.
the above are not hearsay, they are documented facts with gaddafi expressing them

that is the man u will have us believe is the second coming.  thank God not everyone thinks like you else we would already be subjects of overlord gaddafi in his united nations of africa hare brained scheme with him naturally as leader for life.



africans should quit looking for someone to apportion blames for their uselessness. the white men, americans etc do not have a mandate from anywhere to loom after you like helpless pets.

gadaffi is now a good dictator. the rebels now a Small gang of thieves. hmmnn na wah.can dollars?


in the west they practice free support and welfare payments too. its so novel to a nigerian. THE WORD FREE HAS TO BE THE BEST WORD IN NIGERIA, FREE MONEY.


now i cannoy fathom how a very useless bigot dictator has morphed overnite into tbe second coming of saviour. are u saying everyone is wrong about him?

let me remind u this is a man who thought nothing of KILLING, NOT ARREST/INCARCERATION, KILLING his subjects for dissent.

this is also a man who back every useless vermin called dictators and sit tight rulers in africa with that same wealth from libyan oil. abacha's ardent supporter.
THIS IS A MAN WHO STAUNCHLY SUPPORTED CHARLES TAYLOR AND HIS GENOCIDE.
the above are not hearsay, they are documented facts with gaddafi expressing them

that is the man u will have us believe is the second coming.  thank God not everyone thinks like you else we would already be subjects of overlord gaddafi in his united nations of africa hare brained scheme with him naturally as leader for life.



africans should quit looking for someone to apportion blames for their uselessness. the white men, americans etc do not have a mandate from anywhere to loom after you like helpless pets.

gadaffi is now a good dictator. the rebels now a Small gang of thieves. hmmnn na wah.

Agreeable