ZombieTERROR:
Useless Africans...


Killing wildlife

FrankNetter:


This post made me remember something I experienced one day in class.


One major thing lacking in the educational system back home is a checks and balance system for lecturers. Most Nigerian universities have a “senate” charged with dishing out disciplinary actions to erring lecturers and funny enough, it is made up of fellow lecturers who would never see anything wrong in what their colleague did.

In my school here, towards the end of each semester, each student has the chance to review the lecturer and how they taught the class in general. For my biology class, the instructor came in one day with a sealed envelope and informed us that today we would be conducting a survey on her and her class. She called one person and said they should share these forms (attached below) after which another person would collect the forms, seal the envelope and submit to the administrative office for the school and then she left the class. This happened for all my classes. The good thing is it’s anonymous so the lecturer wouldn’t know who wrote what.

Honestly, I feel this is a great and foolproof way to check the rot in our educational system.

Beautyaddy:


lol!...Is there any human rights as part of Nigeria's written Constitution? Let us start with this question.

alfonso36:
in my department, A lecturer came in to the lecture hall, went straight to a student on first class, pointed a finger at him and said " your GP is shaking" and I'll make sure it goes down... everybody was shock...i feel this lectures are sometimes even jealous of the students....We reported our HOD to Vc cause he was giving us applied question at 100level ....when the man came back to the lecture hall the next day, he told us that, for having the guts to report him to the VC that he's going to punish all of us. our educational system is gone and rotten, if you try to protest or make changes, they see you as trouble maker and may likely push you out of the school.

Originalsly:


Elderly folks are running the country.... the youths voted them in... the youths have to make a change by voting them out. The aged lecturers are in the universities... stuck in their old ways.... stuck in the mindset of what was current when they graduated in ehmmmm....1901....looking and treating you guys as if you are their grand children.... do you protest?...do you make demands?... and if they are not met take action? ..have you ever given him a veiled treat?...let him think about what is left of his career?...and about his life coming to an abrupt end? Were you paying attention to the changes in Sudan?...how a brutal regime is pressured to make changes? Follow and learn how changes come about.... by actions... not hoping and praying and doing nothing to effect the change.

Beautyaddy:


Hmmmm...this is very sad and embarrassing

Originalsly:


This even adds more weight to my point..... home trained/default behavioral setting... same end result..... do not challenge authority..... and this is being passed on from generation to generation. The system has failed us all.... so how would the system be fixed if we do nothing about it? We need to start from somewhere.... and worldwide... university students are usually the ones to first challenge and bring about changes. Ours are afraid to fight for their own rights let alone for others....too home trained!

Originalsly:


This is an example of you the students being home trained. What did you as a group of university students do about it?...absolutely nothing.... because you are trained not to question authority.... he is the sub dean.... so it's useless challenging him...... you can't win. Frank is in a university of his choice.... and we hail the system in the US... but do you know that was a right that had to be fought for?...by the Akatas? If they were home trained Frank would not be sharing this with us.
Sub dean or not... he made that statement... as university students... you should be the frontrunners of change.... pressure should be put to get him removed.... ... even if he is not.... a message would be sent to lecturers.... e careful of what you say... and what you do.... or we'll be coming for you. Only then you will see a change to lecturers being professional.

Beautyaddy:


And the sad thing is that with that threat that the lecturer made even when he gets reported to the head of his department nothing will be done to hold him accountable.

FrankNetter:
On the first day of the philosophy class, he informed us that this class was not going to be an easy one. He told us that for this course, his teaching method had to be entirely different from other instructors. He pointed out that over the course of our journey into the world of having an education, when we walk into a classroom, we are given knowledge by the instructors or teachers and told to memorize it, but in this class, there would be no such process. That he was only here to guide us to knowledge and not hand it to us like a cookie. I was like "what's wrong this man"?

This is what I c

On the first day of class, we were close to 24 persons, on the second day, two or three persons had run away already and this would be the case for the duration of the semester.

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**At this point, I should add that the educational system here is very different. Before each semester starts, you have to manually register for the courses you want to take, you have to go to the school, fill out a form, pick the courses you want and then register for them. Some classes fill up faster than others because the instructor might be a good one, or the class might be in high demand.
As the semester goes on, if you decide you don't want the class again or you don't like the teacher or the class is too hard for you, you have to go and fill out a couple of forms again and DROP the classes, if you do not complete this process and you stop coming to class, when the semester ends, the school would charge money you for the class and still give you a FAIL grade..

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Back to MR Hammond and his philosophy class. One on occassion, when we walked into class, he asked us to define what philosophy was. Me, bubbling with excitement at having done this course in university in Nigeria, shot my hand up and waited to be called on to answer the question. He glanced in my direction and nodded, giving me the go ahead to answer the question. I stood up and gave the same definiton I was taught during my 100 Level in naija. I told the class that philosophy was coined from two words (bla bla bla). After my definition, he pointed out that I had defined what the word "philosophy" was but I failed to define what philosophy is. Thus began my journey into questioning all I had been taught.

Over the course of the class, we read different works by different popular authors, Plato's Theatetus, Descartes' - discourse on method and works of that nature. Before each class, he would tell us to read a chapter or two of a certain book and when we come to class, we would have an all open discussion about the text we just read. One thing he never did was just spout off definitions straight up, he did what he said he would do, which was guide us to the knowledge so we could find it ourselves.

On one occassion, he asked us an interesting question What does it mean to be human? . He then procceeded to point out the similarities between human beings and robots today. He highlighted the fact that for humans, we had what we called a soul and for robots., they had an operating system which makes them run and function they way they do. That day in class, we talked about how Artificial intelligence (AI) was catching up with humanity faster than we cared to admit and left us to ponder that question What does it mean to be human?

We kept up with the conversation and the class got a little bit heated up when we threw in animals to the conversation. Someone brought up a point that animals don't have a soul and the only reason we feel attached to pets is because of habit. One hispanic girl took it personal, pointing out that animals have a soul. She pointed out numerous instances when her dog displayed emotion (crying when she hurt herself etc etc) and that her dog did have a soul, some asked her if she could say the same about cows and other lower farm animals being butchered everyday; the girl vex o. She said if any of us feels dogs don't have a soul, we, along with the instructor had to be "stupid or something", after she said it, she packed her books and walked out the class leaving everybody dumb founded.

I work night shift at my UPS job. My shift typically starts from 10:00 pm to like 3:30 am. i get home by 4 am and sleep till like 9-10 am and then prepare for school. Sometimes, my drive to school is longer than normal and I end up going late for this philosophy class which starts at 11:00 am. This happened throughout the whole semester and towards the end of the semester, someone told me they actually relished me being in class because I always had something to say about each topic brought up in class. The class started with 24 people, but in the end, we were only around 15 or so because the others had dropped it. This class taught me to believe that which I can ascertain by myself to be true, it taught me to question everything and I believe this is what being educated entails.

At the end of my first semester, I was adviced by two of my instructors to join the honor society called Phi Theta Kappa - an honor society for those whose CGPAs were in the range of 3.5/4.0 to 4.0/4.0. I finished this semester with As in all my courses and a 4/4 CGPA

Curvybaby:

If she is okay with your okay you wouldn't have posted this

AutoReportNG2:
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Controller of Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Owerri, Comptroller Kayode Olusemire, who spoke in Benin on Wednesday while conducting newsmen round the latest seizures of men of the unit, said that the auction, which will be done through the internet, will be conducted every Mondays and Wednesdays for one month.

According to him, interested members of the public can log into the NCS E-Auction portal to select any of the items listed on the purchase list. The controller said that among items to be auctioned electronically were Rolls Royce cars, Mercedes, Toyota and other vehicles of different makes as well as other intercepted goods.

Well, the application is now open to the public using these following methods...

You can start your bid and your registration here NCS E-Portal (https://app1.trade.gov.ng/eauction/auction/list/all/82?sortby=endDate&sortorder=asc)

Requirements:

• Applicant must have a valid TIN issued by the FIRS with an active e-mail account.

• An applicant shall pay a non-refundable fee of One Thousand Naira (N1,000.00) as administrative charge.

• An Item is auctioned “as is” as such request for replacement or refund shall not be entertained.

• The successful bidder shall make payment within five (5) working days.

• Failure to pay within five (5) working days the item reverts to the second (2nd) highest bidder.

• The successful bidder has two (2) weeks from the date of payment to remove the item bidded for or forfeit same at the expiration of the two (2) weeks.

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• The dwell time for this Online Auction Sale shall be Twenty-Eight (28) days.

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• Conditions and terms of this auction are to be carefully considered by an interested person before acceptance.

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BuhariAdvocate:
She is an idiot, bastard ashewo.

babyfaceafrica:
I hope people learn from this..don't be too carefree and say na lie!!!..we are not All humans!!..some are animal in human skin

ShyWhale:


This life ehn. We've got Nigerian students from Canada come to Germany because of lack of skilled opportunities. They say there is discrimination on lack of Canadian degrees and Canadian experience. Also, honest reviews from Quora don't help. It seems many skilled migrants in Canada are also trapped in these same unskilled jobs.

I would have gone to Canada long ago if not for that. I felt the money to be wasted on the processing of the Canadian PR to go get unskilled jobs could be better channelled to my business projects in Nigeria.

sweetrace:


I tried going through all my mentions on this thread to apologize to everyone. Oh! Except a guy that was being so rude. I was only saying what I was told or my interpretation. Thanks for your being nice about it especially as I was being so emphatic.

sweetrace:


Okay, I come bearing apologies!!! I went back to Pal pensions for clarification. Their staff who gave me the previous information was wrong. The beneficiary can access the rest of the pension funds.

sweetrace:


Please go to their office and get the facts.

Pinkybush:
Please I need urgent help! My dad used to be working in a company and had been contributing pension money during his service years thro' IBTC.

Unfortunately, he's late, but before he died he had been making withdrawals of the said pension after his service with the company. I approached the bank, but it appears the guy I met want to stop us from getting the money and corner to theirs. Please now that my dad is dead, are his children not entitle to this money since it was a contributory pension?

sweetrace:


This is how it works. You and your employer contribute certain amount every month. If you retire before you’re 50, you can take 25% of the contribution plus acrued interest. If you don’t take it and you retired by 50, you’ll be paid the 25% in bulk. The rest will be paid every month or quarterly based on your instruction for next maybe 18years. This is your pension. It is not paid in bulk and it is not transferable.

sweetrace:


It is not just your dad’s contribution. It is the contribution of your dad and his employer. You are not entitled to your dads pension.

ikanason:
LETS CREATE WHATSAPP GROUP FOR THIS CUSTOM RECRUITMENT. IF U ARE INTERESTED DROP UR NUMBER
07032902102

ClixMaster:
Dating is not meant for everybody, you know.

Gaspardd:

It wasnt about the mentality that women are after my pocket, its d fact that i have a spending cap and i do not exceed it. And like i said in the OP i am a cheap guy, i live well below my means hence d reason for the 2k.
And again it was supposed to be a date, meetup to share moments together and not a food party.

kunleweb:



At the expense of reputation. If I tear you slap

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
Person account no be my account to there's no complete joy. If na my account dey gigantic, eheeen. Person property no b my own unless na my oga.

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
Naaa. Only fake pink lip and silly torn jeans.

Guy's who wear boxers to play football eh!