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Only a dunce will believe you.

No subsidy allocation in the budget.

PDP has a way of throwing up nonsensical buffoons and idiots as political representatives sha.

PussyKrook:
Haha. That Moniker is for suckers like you, who judge people base on looks. Keyboard warrior. You sir have a shallow mentality; she also dint look cheerful. Cheap shot, you can't blame SR. Maybe you work for them. FOH

you are most likely a bloody teenager, a deliquent one.

Take these lessons for free, someones well being is initially assessed from looks, when you assess someone's intelligence or wealth primarily on looks then that is superficial. Most of you are not capable of any critical analysis, always blown by winds like a chaff.

This news appears to me like a projection. Which could be wrong

Loka0512:
hello guys,

Thanks so much for the help you guys are rendering here. Pls I wanted to find out if its only IELTS written in the British council that is accepted for canada immigation. I would like to write the test this month but there is no availability at the British council until july.
Can anyone also give other agencies I can use in writing this test as soon as possible

Your response will be appreciated. Many thanks

Abuja currently has June 4 GT exam open with just 1% availability, if you dont mind to sit for the exam in Abj, you can apply now, it wont be available in the next few hours. If not, keep watch for the other centres.

SlowlybtSurely:
WES accepts email verification from some Naija schools and not others. If your status has changed, it means your school is amongst those they accept.

Ok, thanks.

Loka0512:
hello guys,

Thanks so much for the help you guys are rendering here. Pls I wanted to find out if its only IELTS written in the British council that is accepted for canada immigation. I would like to write the test this month but there is no availability at the British council until july.
Can anyone also give other agencies I can use in writing this test as soon as possible

Your response will be appreciated. Many thanks

Ibadan & Portharcourt still has open slots for June 25, 2016. IELTS (General). I have a feeling between Today and Tomorrow, there might be a recap for June 4 date @ Ibadan centre if some of those who applied as at last week fail to pay within 5 working days. Note: Ibadan had 12% availability for june 4 as at last week monday morning.

beyunce:
Don't worry you are good, Since evaluation is in process. One of my school verified via email, seven days later my evaluation was ready.

ok, i am observing o

bicmitchum:
I guess mine was a peculiar case. Trust me, my school sent several electronic mail verifications which were never acknowledged. Only the paper mail put an end to this.

ok, you mean after the e-mail verifications, your onlie status did not change ? or it changed, but the evaluation was not concluded?

Na the same tompolo dey bomb the pipeline, but he is playing the good man in his hiding spot. He is a bloody rat.

PussyKrook:
She looked unkempt? Really? This mama has always been like this, even when her son was alive. To insinuate or allude or even presume that her looks should be the basis for judging her is to suggest that she needs to be, look a certain way. When the story was posted on nairaland yesterday, Someone from their village who knows the family very well posted here that the story is false. He confirmed that mama has always sold stuff right in front of the house.

You sir, have a shallow mentality. SR should confirm the story first. It looks like someone just took that photo and sent it to them.

Do not judge people by their looks. Cheap shot

You are a dunce. I am certain of that.
The first level of assessment of anyones well being starts from the looks. My last post clearly stated that " pictures speak a thousand words, even though it is not always right". The rejoinder i quoted which was at variance to the lawyers claims means someone is not painting the truth. I didnt claim there was anything wrong with her selling stuffs in front of her house. So, what nonsense is you a "pusssy crook" trying to tell me ?

AmenhotepZuid:
This one needs SERIOUS EDUCATION. I dont blame but blame your inferior education system. SOUTH AFRICA IS STILL THE MOST ADVANCE ECONOMY IN AFRICA AND DIFFICULT TO MEASURE BECAUSE OF THE WAY OUR ECONOMY IS DESIGNED. Very different to the rest of AFRICA.

Let me give hints on S.A.s 3 LEGGED POT STYLE economy. Where the government, private sector and banking sector work together to achieve one goal serving the people of S.A.


THE JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGE MARKET CAP IS OVER $1 TRILLION AND THATS DOUBLE nigerias REBASED GDP (False legs/high heels ).

THE BANKING SECTOR
SA's richest banks dominate the top 10 in AFRICA.
1. Standard Bank-$ 165 billion
2. ABSA Bank-$ 97 billion
3. First National Bank-$ 85 billion
4. Ned Bank-$ 80 billion
5. Bidvest Bank-$ 7 billion
6. Capitec Bank-$ 7 billion
7. Investec Bank-$ 6 billion
8. African Bank-$ 165 billion
9. Standard Bank-$ 5 billion
10. Imperial Bank-$ 3 billion
11. Sasfin Bank-$ 2 billion
12. Standard Bank-$ 150 million
TOTAL Roughly $388 billion

S.A. RICHEST COMPANIES EXCLUDING MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND FISHING, MANUFACTURING.
1. SANLAM-$ 53 billion
2. MMI Holdings- $ 37 Billion
3. SASOL-$ 26 billion
4. MTN-$ 22 billion
5. Steinhoff-$ 18 billion
6. Naspers/Multi choice-$ 14 billion
7. Shoprite-$ 12 Billion
8. Remgro-$ 7 billion
9. Aspen-$ 7 Billion
10. RMB Holidings- $3 Billion

TOTAL Roughly $200 Billion
OVERALL=Over $588 Billion thats bigger than your economy note we have not counted The MINING, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURING AND FISHING COMPANIES.

I cant remember denigrating your country with my earlier post, but like a rabid dog you jumped at me, this news was as at yesterday, it is best you focus on that.

As at now, Nigeria is still the largest economy in Africa, despite lots of unaccounted informal sector.

https://www.enca.com/south-africa/sas-economic-outlook-revised-from-stable-to-negative

[size=15pt]SA's economic outlook revised from stable to negative
Saturday 7 May 2016 - 10:27am[/size]

File: This picture taken on January 17, 2012 in Paris shows a close-up of the opening page of the ratings agency Moody's website. South Africa's economic outlook has been revised from stable to negative. Video: eNCA

Gudman1:
Good day good people in the house, may the Lord bless you all as we give help to one another.
Please i won't to apply for Express Entry and need to write test of English (IELTS) to be able to apply.
Please i will appreciate people in the house to give hint on how to be success in the test.
Thank you in anticipation for your help.
God bless

These two pages should guide you


https://www.nairaland.com/1866942/ielts-share-experience-ask-questions/38#45392823

https://www.nairaland.com/2426588/preparing-ielts-get-here/31#44913940

bicmitchum:
Guys,

Just to provide a feedback on this. I got in touch with my contact at my school's records office, paid another round of money for sending the paper verification to WES via courier. They did the same, And after some few days, WES got back and confirmed "Accepted" on my documents, moving away from the initial "Received Documents Awaiting Verification".

huh!
Are you implying electronic verification doesnt work? After a long back and forth, my school finally sent an electronic mail verification last week wednesday or thursday. I noticed my online status changed on thursday from "awaiting verification from institution" to " evaluation in progress". I hope i am not tucked on a spot for long again, since I am expecting ielts result this friday.

cardoctor:
Lagos no send. The value of life here is so cheap that nobody gives a shait. If u make it to see another dawn, u r lucky.

It is in Ogun state, the area is located at the fringes of ogun state border with Lagos. Those areas were long abandoned by past admins, the current state govt is working on it, albeit at a slow pace.

Ibime:
Rejoinder to the lawyers statement ripped from a friend's FB Wall:


RASHIDI WAS NOT THE PROBLEM, IT IS THE PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND, INCLUDING THE LAWYER: A REJOINDER TO THE ARTICLE ON MAMA YEKINI

I read this article yesterday and planned not to respond until we complete our Project Mama Yekini (PMY) here so it doesn't distract us. However, I made a rethink as it may be too late.

The article was published on SR yesterday and written by Yekini's lawyer, Rashidi Mohammed. While I would have preferred not getting drawn into their family affairs and focus entirely on justifying the obvious fact that the woman needs help, it has become imperative to also set some records straight based on information available to me too.

As someone experienced in projects of coordinating fund raising for like 5 years now, I knew that the first action expected of me was to VERIFY the case beyond reports in the media.

Thankfully, this was easy as I'm from that part of the country and I have trusted friends here who can help us with verification. So two of our friends here, one a medical doctor, the other the Registrar of a College of Education, volunteered to do all they can to access the woman and assess the situation.

They swung into action, sought approval of DPO of the area, saw a local traditional chief and uncle of Yekini. Although, a couple of people mounted resistance thinking they were men of the press, our verification team finally accessed the woman after telling them their mission, which additional promise by the medical doctor to return later to do health check to her.

They came back and reported what they saw and heard.

1, The woman is obviously not in good financial state. Apart from 3 loaves of bread and few N20 biscuits that were her stock, there was nothing in that shop. There was an old, rusting, empty probably non-functional fridge.

2, The woman has an account in a local microfinance bank, but she was duped of N100k, about her last savings, by a very close person recently. I'm not mentioning names because we don't want to be drawn into their family affairs.

4, We heard about what the wives and the lawyer (the writer of that SR article) did in sharing Rashidi's inheritance, but we would prefer not to publicize it, because we don't want to be drawn into their family affairs.

5, We have information about the habit of a close person that is meant to be taking care of her. Unfortunately, it's not a character of responsibility.

5, Looking for answer to the lawyer's question on how the woman spends the rent, look no further than the above.

6, Yes, the woman is herself generous as we heard story of how she relinquished some of her meagre share in Yekini's inheritance to another family member (estranged wife, we heard) just for peace to reign.

In conclusion, I agree with the lawyer that it is unfair to castigate Rashidi as he was not the problem. He took care of her when alive. As someone from that part too, I know old, unlettered women, no matter how successful their offspring are, still like petty home trading, selling soft drinks, biscuits etc. In fact, some men see that as a way to keep them active rather than staying indoor all day (when their children are in Kaduna, Ibadan, Lagos even London) and aging easily. I confirm that it's a common thing in ilu oke. I also made that shop provision for my mum when I completed my countryhome in 2013. But that Yekini's case is extreme. While it was true that she had been using that shop even when Yekini was alive and successful, the state of that shop now (3 loaves of bread, 5 biscuits and old damaged fridge) shows someone living below the basic standard of life.

So the problem is not Rashidi Yekini, it is the people left behind that should have taken responsibility of the care of that woman, including the lawyer-writer, that are the problem

The woman looked unkempt from the pix SR posted fuelling the high possibility she is not properly taken care of, she also didnt look cheerful . Even if she has 10 million in her account, someone younger close to her should monitor her to ensure she is well fed, wears neat clothes, takes drugs if necessary and takes her bath regularly.

It is quite unfair to heap blames on SR, they did a good job by reporting the story accompanied with pix. A pictures speaks a 1000 words, even though i must confess it is not always right.

It is a perception issue, Sahara reporters did not report the woman to be hawking bread, selling bread at a designated spot is different from hawking bread, a picture of the mother was also shown, the woman looked somewhat shrivelled and unkempt, and one might be force to make a quick assumption she is neglected. It is the good the lawyer has come out to set the records straight.

OLADD:
Sentiment aside, has anybody noticed that Fashola hasn't introduced any initiative on power improvement apart from recycling existing roadmap which he and other APC leaders (including Buhari) roundly condemned in the past? Having accused the last govt of awarding power projects to its cronies, one would have expected this govt to embark on massive review of the power contracts toward fast tracking electricity improvement but alas, it's déjà vu. Well, we know Buhari can't touch the owners of the GENCOs and DISCOs. Na only Dasuki, Deziani, Obanikoro FFK etc dem fit probe.

One is in the pipeline, follow this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/3091968/fg-decentralise-concession-transmission-grid#45407866

subterfuge:
DULLARDD BABALEGBA, YOU CERTAINLY HAVE BRAIN CHALLENGES. PLEASE GO AND CONTINUE YOUR PALM WINE TAPPING JOB OR MOTOR PARK TOUTISM.
YOU HAVE A BRICK HEAD

stop exposing ignorance, discos have been privatised. Fashola did not increase tarriff. You are brandishing dumbness with so much confidence.... Haba, i bow for you oooo. Discos were sold by the last administration, they also entered a MYTO (multi year tarriff order) with then govt, as the NERC stands as the govt. agency in charge of regulation. Shoud Fashola make attempts to force the hand s of discos regarding the tarriffs, they would be in court and have the upper hand.

okosodo:
The last 2 ministers did not fail, they madw steady progress until politicians bought over transmission and distribution

steady progress indeed, maybe you meant merry go round. Obj achieved 4000MW before he left in 2007.

By the way, the transmission arm of the power sector was not privatised, only the generation and distribution arm of the sector was privatised.

Right step in the right direction. The beginning is important, but seeing it through to the end is more important

Amelian:
U guyz are jobless.. I get. And totally understand you all pains and problems.
But hey! Hate the game and not the player.

Curse all you want ... But everycurse back to babyface africa, clit rider, chinchum and any one that wishes to join their group...

I have a date to keep in an hour's time.. Need to look sweet .
.. Keep on cursing yourselves, all through the night, all through the week and al through the year 2016... Its on you, guyz..

Bye jobless guyz

go on your LovePeddler date

Keep on the good work my man, your enemies will confess by 2017.

Amelian:
Just shut the fuvk up!
Who is playing with you?
Who called you ontop this matter?
Fish brain...keep shut full....!...ode

Oh gosh, you have got no iota of shame.
Can't you mor0n go and kill yourself?

Amelian:
If u expect me to stoop to your level and start exchanging words with you ! on yoruba and other tribes?
Then you are on a long thing.. Brainless ful...
I dont have your time.

you are a classless bigot, stay in your dungeon of bigotry, you have no level to stoop down to. Level 0 is where you are. keep shut now.

Amelian:
Who tell u say thats what nigerian women do daily? Smhhhh
Go and see top executives in banks, industries and companies ..or shud i mention female lecturers, biochemist, doctors and etc... U r there saying nigerian women sell pure water.
Sorry to say , its only with a yoruba man they subject their wives to such undignified labour... Only few enlightened yoruba men will search for a meaningful biz for his wife, the rest are zero.
All i see on this oyinbo, na pure jazz at its peak...smmhhh.

you are a classless bigot, an unintelligent one at that. The second line even stated that the lady is doing this to raise awareness, your eye of bigotry skipped that but jumped to the third line, where it is stated she is married to a yoruba man.

I think the op commited fallacy of hasty generalisation. The title reads appaling state of schools in Osun , but only pixes of a school was shown.

The Next Governor after Aregbesola will now have to put less focus on buildings, but recruitment of teachers, training and motivation of the current ones. Aregbesola has done well on the volume of schools renovated and new ones built in the last 5 years. Offcourse, there would still be some bad ones, but he has reduced the bad ones drastically.

This is one of the problems of modern day marriages. Compatibility of two adults is adjudged by how good they look together in pictures, and you wonder why divorce rate is high.

Teebilz nd Tiwa >>>> Oh wow !, they look so good together , Marriage lasts for 2 years


Tunde nd Wunmi Obe >>> Why did this man marry this woman, they are not compatible , Marriage over 20 years and still standing.

1 week old sour Gbegiri soup

trillville:
My issue with civil servants is that they are being paid to do nothing. If the civil servants chose to become productive bricklayers, why should any lose his or her job? We have too many white collar workers that's why graduate level unemployment is so high.

In the UK, less than 30 percent of jobs require university degrees, hence many British finish education at the ordinary diploma level, yet they live well and render quality services.

We all complain about how subsidies lead to corruption. Is it not corruption to take what belongs to everybody and give it to a few people for free without any benefit to the everybody like?

The fact that my views are different doesn't make them unrealistic. Both US and UK governments subsidise housing for their poor.

The idea of building mass housing is not just altruistic but also economically wise. If nigeria were to set up mass building projects, individuals such as cement producers, building material producers, architects, builders, labourers,cooks, etc, will all benefit directly at the same time will promote healthier standards on living reducing nigerias overall medical cost.

Mass building is not the only form on infrastructure nigeria needs. Our schools, hospitals, power plants, irrigation systems, roads, etc need to be built or rebuilt. I am advocating for a shift from paying ineffectual civil/public servants money from oil revenues to spending on infrastructure.

The South Korean government created daewoo to spur economic development. We don't produce steel yet and also have insufficient amounts of electricity. Luckily, we kickstart our economy through infrastructural projects.

As I said yesterday, considering the lack of benefits nigerians derive from oil revenues, it would be morally wrong for us to pay taxes to the Federal government only for such monies to be spent on civil/public workers who contribute little or nothing to our lives.

Finally, there is also a price to pay for whatever situation we find ourselves. Today we have poor electricity, water, health care,roads, etc. Tomorrow we may have a few hungry civil servants. Someone has to pay the price. What matters most are our long term goals of being a great nation.

Built by csar Peter the Great, St. Petersburg one of europes most beautiful cities, was built on marshy land, which was fortified with the bones of Russian brick layers and masons who built it. Same story has been said about the great Wall of China.

While I am not advocating for such events to happen in today's world, I am only trying to illustrate that for progress to be made a price may have to be paid.

Mass housing is not a bad idea, as long it comes with a fair mortgage facility. People can pay for houses for as long as 20 years. Many of the Okada riders learnt a trade, and are artisans who abandoned their trade for commercial bike operations, that is a symptom. The rootcause is not far fetched. Unemployment of graduates is not necessarily high because we have too many white collar workers, it is high because the basics that will spur creation of productive and creative jobs are missing. The unemployment rate is high, because few jobs are created compared to the teeming millions of youths that need employment. Nigeria has a median age of 18 or thereabout, meaning close to 100 million of Nigeria's 200 million are 18 years and below.

Not all civil servants are being paid for doing nothing, i think we must make fair assessment, some are actually overworked, nevertheless there can be gradual disengagement of those found to be surplus to requirement, and some parastatals or ministries can be commercialised, meaning they must make what they spend on wages and running cost.

Not even a brief note of what pinkies is aimed to achieve OR the success so far, but pixes of some bimbos in pink.