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I studied Maths/computer Sci. Edu. sha

I'm presently a corp member. There are many certification courses going on especially for corper such as National Institute of Management (NIM), Project Management (PMP), Oil and Gas HSI and a host of others. Fellow Nlanders please enlighten me on how relevant these certifications are...are they recognised in the labour market. If you think they are, between NIM and PMP, which do you suggest i go for?
Thanks for your help

ooman: You think that moral code is ingrained on faith, what about david sleeping with a married women and killing her husband, uriah? When God heard about it, instead of punishing David, the sinner, he killed the baby instead. Is God moral in that judgment? I think God is the most immoral, evil being that needs to be eradicated from the human community.

Moral code is ingrained on seeking the survival of your group and therefore not hurting any member of your species, when you go against that, you get locked up.

Atheist rule the science world, google that.

Brother, may God have mercy on you. I pray he opens your eyes. Na wa o

I don't have much to say but to pray for all ye atheist...you're just too canal to see

Re: The Hypocrisy Of Yesterday’s Men–By Chinedu Ekeke

February 3rd, 2013 by Chinedu Ekeke



If you want to know why President Goodluck Jonathan is such a woeful performer, read the men around him. They collectively approach public discourses with a signature demeanour: unstately utterances. They have made a religion of banality, and to it they have remained faithful.

Reuben Abati is one of these men. He is the President’s official spokesperson. Yesterday, he published an article laced with innuendos and thrown at former government officials who he accused of cant in their criticisms of his boss.

The entire piece smacked of pettiness, throwing up his apparent inability to bottle up his frustrations. He touched on an area that has since become a pastime for the entire publicity team of the Jonathan administration. They seek to hush critics up by accusing them of envy. Once you point out an ill of the government – and there are countless of them – you are immediately accused of being envious of, or angry with, the government because you weren’t invited to ‘chop’. This was what Abati meant when he said, “ And so they will stop at nothing to discredit those they think are not deserving as they imagine themselves to be.”

But this is a cheap blackmail, because the same author of that piece knows that, from the inception of his administration, even as an acting president, Goodluck Jonathan pleaded with many of these his latter day enemies to take up appointments with his government, a request to which they turned down. The line of blackmail, apart from being erroneous, raises a more critical question about the Jonathan presidency in particular, and the entire government in general. If this government isn’t just about all money and no work, why should people be envious of those in it? And then, who says everyone of Jonathan’s critics is interested in a government job?

Here’s the genesis. Obiageli Ezekwesili, former World Bank Vice President, was University of Nigeria Nsukka’s 42nd Convocation lecturer. There she observed that the two administrations that succeeded Olusegun Obasanjo had squandered $67bn – a combined sum from our foreign reserve and Excess Crude Account. Deeply troubled, she complained that six years after the administration she “served handed over such humongous national wealth to another one, most Nigerians but especially the poor continue to suffer the effects of failing public health and education systems, as well as decrepit infrastructure and battered institutions.”

The government got jolted by that revelation. They were more troubled by the image of the messenger and the damaging impact it will have on their already grossly despised administration.

The conservative nature of Ezekwesili also added to their trouble. And her past in public service defined by a consensus on the strength of her character gave them the cold. She wasn’t known for criticizing their government publicly. Ezekwesili challenged them to a public debate on public spending. They are yet to take up that gauntlet. We know they won’t because they can’t. But their trademark template for responding to critics didn’t need editing. They pulled it out from where they’d dumped it in wait for a victim. They questioned Ezekwesili’s 10 month stint in The Education Ministry and sought to dangle figures before the uninitiated. For many Nigerians, it is a sin to hear “billions were allocated to” anybody or any agency. They cringe at the money for the mere mention of its size, not the necessity – or otherwise – of the appropriation. For such minds, merely hearing that ‘billions’ were allocated to a ministry Ezekwesili headed has reduced her to ‘one of them’ who wasn’t also accountable while in public office. It doesn’t matter that the entire money wasn’t allocated to her person, or even her office; that all the agencies, about 22 of them, under the ministry were joint beneficiaries of the allocation and theirs were going straight to them directly.

But that was the original plan: vilify the saint and canonize the sinner. Rubbish the longstanding credibility of the messenger so as to render his/her messages undesirable. Labaran Maku did just that a fortnight ago. Abati jumped into the boxing ring yesterday to land his boss’s political foes a group punch. In doing that, he went pedestrian, too much of it, unable to rise above criticism of belly-saving, hardly able to elevate his thoughts beyond the jejune.
In an odd paradox, he scribbled those vile lines that underscored his expertise in intellectual dishonesty. “It is in the larger interest of our country that the government of the day welcomes criticism and political activism”. Really? But he had wished his enemies would stop talking, stop watching the government, and stop asking questions. Alluding to how it is done in other climes, Abati enjoined the quantity surveyor to return to his quantity surveying, the lawyer to return to his wig, and the teacher to return to the classroom – and, remain eternally silent about what happens in government, except, when (as I should think), there’s a need to rain praises on the government of the day. Mr Abati’s defence of his multi-million naira presidential-shit-cleaning job blinded his eyes to the one truth in participatory democracy: that even the best of leaders are criticized.

There is nothing unusual about Abati’s yesterday’s men claiming to “be better than everybody in the current government”. It is expected in a democracy. Daily, we hear Donald Trump dismiss an intellectual like President Barack Obama as lacking in ability. We see Republicans present the President of the world’s greatest country as a weakling. If a proven smart man like Obama can be dismissed as lacking in intelligence, what should be expected to be said of a man who has yet to prove, in words and in deeds, that he had a good high school certificate? What one proof does this current government have to show that they are better than any before them?

As his unbridled bile flowed out of his typing fingers, Abati sought to reduce an ordinarily commendable intellectual exercise – writing of memoirs – to an ignoble self-seeking adventure of those he railed on. While he accused them of jealousy, he unwittingly let out his, making it clear that any venture not undertaken by Abati himself doesn’t measure up to the sublime. Hear him, “They even write books (I, me and myself books packaged as cerebral stuff.)”. One is then forced to wonder what a memoir ought to be about. By definition, memoirs cannot be about they, they and they. Mr Abati should know this, except he has swapped bitterness with his hyped intellect. By the way, his predecessor in office, Segun Adeniyi, (by miles a more civil and sensible presidential media aide) published his own book when he left office, setting the precedence from which, we all know, Abati will copy. When he becomes a yesterday’s man himself– and that will happen as early as 2015 – and seeks to publish his, we will want to find out if his own memoir will be about a research on the big bang theory or the beauty of Disneyland.

But he left the real issues untouched, the real questions unanswered. Oby Ezekwsili asked that we be told what happened to our foreign reserve and excess crude account. That question hasn’t been answered. It should. The British Prime Minister Daved Cameron recently stated that about $100 billion dollars accrued to this government from oil last year. How many poor Nigerians have been lifted out of poverty? How many jobs (in considerable millions) have been created? How many roads have been paved? How many housing units have been erected? Has our life expectancy improved in any way? What is Nigeria’s security situation as at today? Answers to these questions are needed, not name-calling and subliminal essays.

In a bid to do a lasting damage to his targets, Reuben Abati equally unwittingly highlighted his government’s culpability in the rapid growth of corruption under their watch. They know so much about how wasteful the former ministers, ex General this, Dr that, ex Honourable this and that were, yet their sleaze-hugging regime has refused to prosecute them and get our money from them. Isn’t it curious that a high profile presidential aide is aware that a former Aviation minister shut down Port Harcourt airport for two years with so much money flushed down the drain, yet there hasn’t been any visible effort by the government in the last three years to ask him questions about how the funds were used?

He said they left the country in darkness with less than “2,000MW electricity generation, abandoned independent power projects, mismanaged power stations, and uncompleted power stations”. I don’t know the wattage the Obasanjo regime – which cabinet members were largely targeted in the scathing commentary – left Nigeria with, but I do agree that we didn’t get results commensurate with the investments made in electricity generation and distribution. That raises a poser: what has the Jonathan presidency done to obtain explanations from that regime? Why has nobody been probed? Why haven’t Obasanjo, his energy minister and other key actors in that mess been prosecuted?
Abati was not done with his official indictment of the government he was out to defend. He said, “They complain about the state of roads. Most of the contracts were actually awarded under their watch to the tune of billions!”. Oh, so they know? And what has Jonathan done about the contracts and the bad state of roads? Nothing! The only reasonable answer is Jonathan’s legendary it-could-be-me syndrome, the real reason behind his public romance with the corrupt. His modus operandi isn’t difficult to figure: You steal, he keeps quiet, hoping that you reciprocate with your silence as his government meanders sluggishly through the track of cluelessness to the trail of sleaze, making him complicit in the bumblings of past years and the organized corruption of the moment.

On the roads Abati unashamedly mentioned, maybe I should quickly remind him that two of the key actors in the events that sustained Nigeria’s present state of roads are his boss’ closest and open consiglieres as we speak. One of them, Tony Anenih, served as Works minister in Obasanjo’s first term in office and ensured that neither new roads were built nor old ones repaired despite having received as much as N300b appropriation from the federal budget. And to reward him for his legendary impunity, Jonathan recently appointed him board chair of the very juicy Nigerian Ports Authority from where the flamboyant criminal Bode George, another of Jonathan’s consiglieres and hero, raised his hobby of stealing to a profession.

The other key actor in the current Nigerian state of roads is Diezani Allison-Madueke, the government’s Petroleum minister. She once served as minister of Works under Yar’Adua during which she wept publicly on sighting the mess Anenih and others left of the Lagos-Benin expressway. But her penchant for non-performance was stronger than her emotional outburst. Contracts were equally awarded to the tune of billions, yet roads in deplorable conditions persist. Of course old habits hardly die. Under her watch as Jonathan’s petroleum minister, Nigeria has witnessed the grandest scam known to man, and for all intents and purposes, it does seem as though she is just starting. With a boss who urges her on with a presidential stamp of approval, we might still witness more earth-shattering scams under her watch.

So rather than show leadership, the Jonathan government is only out to arm-twist critics with allegations of sleaze which hardly come up until questions are asked about how they run Nigeria’s affairs. It is therefore the fault of Jonathan that yesterday’s men – especially the ones with unmitigated chutzpah in spite of being grossly unworthy – still are free to cast aspersions on him. Abati thinks they have cases to answer? It isn’t my grandmother’s duty to make them answer. If Jonathan isn’t protecting and growing corruption, let him prosecute whoever those unworthy ones are.

Abati’s tirade comes across as the real frustrations of a tomorrow’s yesterday’s man, the lamentations of a troubled former beloved who is trapped in the abyss of an unpopular regime in a maze.

Some of us understand his worries, and have since advised those who care to listen: don’t take him seriously.
Source: http://www.ekekeee.com/?p=4971&wpmp_tp=2

The Delusions of Today’s Men: Femi Fani Kayode replies Reuben Abati




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I read Dr. Reuben Abati's article titled 'The Hypocrisy Of Yesterday's Men'' (3rd Feb.2013) which was published in virtually every newspaper in the country with amusement. He sought to ridicule and demean those of us that served President Olusegun Obasanjo's government and that are not very impressed with the performance of his boss. The fact that we asked President Goodluck Jonathan to account for the 67 billion USD that he squandered from our foreign reserves has clearly upset him. We dared to ask about the money and so we were singled out and targetted for a tongue-lashing and a long lecture from the Presidency. Yet we remain undeterred. This is how weak governments that have nothing to offer and something to hide always behave. They come after their perceived enemies with full force and they are petty and oversensitive. This is all the more so when they lack experienced hands and when they do not have anyone with deep insight or wisdom about the art of governance or politics within their ranks. In his response instead of answering our questions, addressing the issues or making any pertinent and sensible points about the numerous allegations against his principal, Abati chose to go on a delusional and self-serving joy ride. He simply refused to address any of our numerous concerns but instead indulged vainly in what can only be described as an utterly vulgar and distasteful form of intellectual, spiritual and psychological masturbation by telling us that he and his master were ''today's men'' who needed no lessons from the ''men of yesterday''. The essay was nothing but the usual smear campaign and a crude attempt to intimidate which has been the hallmark of this Government whenever they are faced with even the mildest form of criticism. I will not dignify most of the insulting and childish submissions that Abati indulged in with a response other than to say that he told a shameless and pernicious lie when he wrote that as Minister of Aviation I ''shut down Port Harcourt Airport for two years'' and ''allowed grass to grow all over it''. This is false. It is a classic case of disinformation coming from a man that is obviously suffering from a very low self-esteem. It is clear that Abati, who is a journalist, has forgotten the most important tenet of his profession which is that ''facts are sacred and opinion is cheap''. Ordinarily one would have ignored his bitter rant but it is important that I set the record straight for the sake of posterity. The facts are as follows.


Port Harcourt International Airport was closed on Dec.10 2005 after the Sossolisso Air crash in which 100 people were killed. The crash affected the runway of the airport very badly and consequently the then Minister of Aviation, Professor Babalola Borishade closed it. I was redeployed from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the Ministry of Aviation in November 2006. This was 11 months after the Sossolisso crash took place and that Port Harcourt Airport had been closed. It is clear from the foregoing that I was not the one that shut down Port Harcourt Airport. When I took over at Aviation my priority was to carry out all the necessary repairs at Port Harcourt Airport and to open it as quickly as possible. I was saddened to discover that in the previous 11 months before I got there nothing had been done and the contract to repair the runway had not even been awarded. Consequently within a month of my being appointed Minister of Aviation we set to work and awarded the contract to Julius Berger at the cost of 3 billion naira. 50 per cent of the money was paid up front and Julius Berger set to work immediately. The runway was fully completed and the airport in pristine condition before I left office on May 29th 2007 just 6 months after I awarded the contract. However despite this the airport could not be opened before we left because the runway lighting system was still in the process of being installed. The Yar'adua government went ahead and opened the airport a few months after we left office even though the runway lights had still not been installed. The record shows that from the day that I was appointed Minister of Aviation and the time that our mandate ran out 7 months later my staff at the Ministry and Julius Berger worked night and day on the runway project at Port Harcourt International Airport in order to ensure that we finished it in record time. And this we managed to do. It was my project. I sourced the money for it, I paid for it, I forced the contractor to move fast on it and I finished it. The fact that the Yar'adua administration did not complete the lighting system and open the airport for another few months after we left office, even though the runway was ready, is for them to explain and not for me. Even though nothing was done at that airport for 11 months before I got to Aviation, once I was appointed we swung into action immediately. I repeat that it was under my watch that work commenced, that it was rebuilt, that it was completed and that it was fully restored and after that the airport was ready to be fully utilised. Given these facts how Abati can peddle the lie that I was the one that not only closed the airport but that I also kept it shut for two years, did nothing there, caused it to remain idle and allowed ''grass to grow all over it'' honestly baffles me. I was Minister of Aviation for only 7 months and not 2 years and within those seven months, from scratch, I did all the work that needed to be done in order to make the airport functional again. I am proud of the fact that we succeeded in meeting our target and completing the job.


Abati also so asserted that I closed down ''other major airports'' whilst I was Minister of Aviation ''for the purposes of renovation''. Again this is not true. Not one of the four major airports in the country were closed down for renovation works or any other reason whilst I was Minister of Aviation. And neither, to the best of my recollection, did I close or suspend the operations of any of the smaller airports except perhaps for safety reasons. As a matter of fact the opposite was the case. I actually installed and completed the sophisticated Safe Tower Project in three of the four major airports in the country, resurrected and funded the Tracon Radar System which is operational in our country today and which gives us full radar coverage in our airspace, upgraded the facilities in many of the old smaller airports and granted permission for the establishment of new airports in places like Gombe. Quite apart from that we not only stopped the terrible cycle of plane crashes that was prevalent at that time but there was not one aircraft that crashed under my watch and no loss of life from the air under my tenure. I am the only Minister of Aviation in the last 10 years of our country that can boast of that and yet Abati seeks to tarnish my name, stain my record and rubbish my efforts with his lies. All this and far more and Abati accuses me of ''running the aviation sector down to a state of near collapse''. For that I commit him to God's judgement. It is obvious that he is just being malicious and dishonest. I take strong objection to his specious lies, his brazen falsehood and his distortions of fact. The suggestion that I closed Port Harcourt Airport and neglected it for two years, that I closed other airports for renovations and that I ran the aviation sector down to the ground is what I would refer to as a figment of his malicious, overactive and fertile imagination. It is a glaring mendacity, a brutal assault on truth and an affront to my sensiblities. I find it utterly reprehensible and repugnant that a man that is entrusted to speak for the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria can indulge in such petty lies.


Let me end this contribution by pointing out the fact that being ''yesterday's men'' does not mean that some of us cannot be ''tomorrows men'' as well. Only God knows what lies ahead for each and everyone of us. So when Abati glibly writes people off as if they will never be in power again it is a sad reflection of his lack of experience and naivety. It is God that determines our tomorrow. It is He that lifts men up, that pulls them down and, sometimes if it be His will, lifts them up again. There are countless examples of that in our history. Finally I have a few questions for President Jonathan and his ''todays men''. When will they take President Obasanjo's advice and finally do something concrete about Boko Haram and our security situation? Does the fact that at least 4000 Nigerians have been killed by these terrorists in the last two years under their watch not bother them? How can they sleep well at night with all that innocent blood that has flowed and precious lives cut short whilst they were at the helm of affairs of our nation? More innocent souls have been killed in the last 2 years by terrorists than at any time in the history of Nigeria outside the civil war. How does President Jonathan and his ''today's men'' feel about winning such a dubious and dishonorable title? Does he still regard Boko Haram as ''his siblings'' who he ''cannot hurt''? Why has the President refused to visit the good people of the north east despite the fact that dozens of people are still being slaughtered there by Boko Haram every day? Moving to the issue of corruption and the economy when will our President and ''today's men'' answer the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron's question and tell him what they did with the 100 billion USD that they made from oil sales in the last two years? When will they answer Obi Ezekwsile's question about how they squandered 67 billion USD of our foreign reserves? When will they answer the question that Nasir El Rufai asked sometime back about how they spent over 350 billion naira on security vote in one year alone? When will they answer the many questions that Dr. Pat Utomi and many other distinguished and courageous leaders and ''yesterday's men'' have raised about the trillions of naira that have been supposedly spent on oil subsidy payments in the last two years? When will they implement the findings and recommendations of the Nuhu Ribadu report on the thivery that has gone on in the oil sector? When will they cultivate the guts and find the courage to respond to a call for a public debate to defend their abysmal record? When will these ''today's men'' stop being so reckless with our money? Why would our ''today's man'' FCT Minister budget 5 billion for the ''rehabilitatioin of prostitues in the Abuja''? Why would he budget 7.5 billion naira for a new ''FCT city gate''? Why would he budget 4 billion naira for a house for the First Lady? Why would the Federal Government of ''todays men'' budget 1 billion naira for food in the Villa? Are these the priorities of ''today's men and women''? And all this when Nigeria is back in foreign debt to the tune of 9 billion USD and is still borrowing, when local debt has hit almost 50 billion USD, when graduate unemployment has hit 80 per cent, when 40 per cent of Nigerians do not have access to good food and ''are hungry'' and when 70 per cent of Nigerians are living below the poverty line? Is this the vision of ''today's men and women''? If so may God deliver Nigeria. Femi Fani Kayode.
Source: http://kayodeogundamisi..co.uk/2013/02/the-delusions-of-todays-men-femi-fani.html?spref=tw

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From all your responses, I can tell that utorrent and notepad has more functions than I thought...I think utorrent is for large downloads and notepad for small notes...good people of NL, please deliver me from my ignorance...what's making these applications so special...thanks

architecture has always been my dream course...some how i could not do it...i have no regrets though

start drinking heineken...

Love, se.x and food

Bolom-bolo

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a + b + c = 8
(a+b+c) ^2 = 64
====> a2 + b2 + c2 + 2(ab+ac+bc) = 64
====> hence ab+ac+bc = 48/2 = 24 ------------(1)


(a+b+c)^3 = 512
a3+b3+c3+ 3a(b2+c2+ + 3b(a2+c2) + 3c(a2+b2) + 6abc = 512

I only need one more equation
product of abc

I don tire

(a+b+c) ^2 = 64 this move has made your effort futile
a^2 + b^2 + c^2 = 64 is not equal to (a+b+c) ^2 = 64

olasesi: find the SUM of the nth term of the sequence.........4+44+444+4444+44444+444444+......

it was given as an assignment for us back then in pre-degree........
.......only me got the answer to it .......i felt fulfilled then.........
........I HOPE THERE ARE OTHER PERSONS WHO CAN SOLVE IT.......

Summation of (4*10^(n-1) + 4)
Abi?

Serendipity: Nairalanders with their superciliousness and megalomania. Didn't you catch the guy's drift.
It's indubitable that the word graduate is used in the popular sense to mean 'one who has a varsity degree'
So why being pernickety overmuch.

you should stop trying to be grandiloquent. thanks.

i am unemployed!!!

Also from university of agriculture, makurdi
ZAMFARA: block D hostel for engineering students...just for guys sha
NOVEMBER RUSH: period when fresh yr1 students resume and old students go after the new babes

Also from university of agriculture, makurdi
ZAMFARA: block D hostel for engineering students...just for guys sha

University of agriculture, makurdi
JAMO: babe or girls hostel
PAMELA: microchips
LEANBACK: carryover

University of agriculture, makurdi
GAMO: babe or girls hostel
PAMELA: microchips
LEANBACK: carryover

I don't even know to motivate myself to study...I'm naturally motivated only when I find what I'm study interesting

fraud alert!!!

I wanna be a programmer

kelechi513: Mehn I rily misd out oo Is dat last pic dat of Mr Raw? Help me confirm. Iyanya kip doin ur thing. Thumbs up

yes thats nigga raw dressed like one mazi businessman

from imo stae
born and breed in benue state
visited enugu and abuja

To everybody seeking a job and taking e-mails, please be mindful of fraudsters. Be wise!!!

its quite a shameful thing that Nigerian citizens are deported from a fellow African country

I need a twitter primer...because I don't really understand that...but I believe its fun...I really wish I knew how to use twitter that well
I need a twitter primer...because I don't really understand that...but I believe its fun...I really wish I knew how to use twitter that well