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And this guy wanted to be Nigeria's president?

I saw this post which led me to this here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CctA5IiDZrB/

I can only imagine what moms of special needs kids go through. I'm motivated to give 10k to 5 moms who have kids with special needs. Of course, just moms who need it. Send me a PM and we'll take it from there. Proofs and all.

You may interest here so I'll be able to tie your PM to your interest in this.
I will not be posting your monikers here after or during this giveaway, if you don't want that

Completed.

List of those who have received

1. Anonymous-1
2. Anonymous-2
3. MARYIAN
4. ovalrose
5. Ebonygeek

Lindajames1010:
Thank you very much...

Here are what I will be focusing on
1. Excel knowledge
2. SQL
3. Tableau
4. Python
4. Microsoft Power BI.

That's a good start

Klass99:
I have heard this from 3 different Nigerians overseas, who were candid about life in their respective countries.

If you hear my neighbour's narrative you will laugh, he is a biggie (big boy) by all standards, yet, he says life there is really tough and most people shy away from saying the truth because of shame or personal feelings of inadequacy and embarrassment.

I realized from each person's narrative that to japa is not the koko, but to japa well, with enough money or a job waiting for you, is the main koko and should be an essential ingredient of the plan. Otherwise you may be japa-ing, from frying pan to fire.

There are multiple sides to this. I don't think it's entirely true you need to japa with a job waiting for you. If that's the case, most people won't even make the decision because there's hardly any job waiting for anyone. Just as I can count a few people struggling in their japa experiences, I can also count a few who are doing incredibly well. Frankly, I don't think one is necessarily more than the other.

toobusy:
When your husband told you that abroad isn't as easy as people think,he was right,have you tried to find out why your husband stopped communicating with you for a while?,for all I know,the man might be facing some real difficulties there ranging from immigration problem,work permit issues,and many others.....few years ago, someone close to me travelled abroad, communication with the mother and siblings was constant and good,till around 3 weeks after he travelled and he got into trouble,he spent around 9 months in jail and throughout all those period he was in jail,there was no communication with the mother who was almost dieing gradually thinking that his son has abandoned her not knowing what the guy was going through all those period, it's not easy out there my dear,be strong for your kids,seek help from your relatives if you have the option and most importantly,pray fervently for your husband.

This story is more common than you think.

Na wa o. We can arrange something for you. I'm quite worried about this your case.

Newfoundlove:
I joined NL on January 6, can I participate?

Yes, you can.
"The sole requirement is that you must be a student in a Nigerian University"

Lindajames1010:
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Wow.... thank you very much...

I want to focus on data analysis only.
Can I build a career with that only?
I mean earning well

Most definitely. Some data analysts earn up to $100k per annum. You should focus on the tools of data analysis such as Tableau, SQL and Power BI. With just those three, you can get a decent remote job from anywhere in the world.

Lindajames1010:
What's the difference between Data science and data analysis?

Data science is a lot more rounded in terms of working with data. It looks at critical aspects of the data and conducts analysis from multiple angles. It's more of a science than an art, leveraging all kinds of tools from deep learning to bayesian analysis in its work with data. Data science isn't just about the data itself, but about the scientific tools with which to work with the data. Here , you would use mathematics, statistics, mathematical statistics, and all kinds of integrated approach in your analysis of the data.

Data analysis on the other hand is more about the data than it is about the tools. You often just work with the data across ETL pipelines, transform it, summarize it, visualize it, etc. Oftentimes, even if the analysis is complex, you may not need rigorous mathematical tools to work in your analysis. Software such as Tableau, Power BI, etc. come in handy here. In contrast to data science which is more of a science than an art, data analysis is more of an art than a science. Both however still have components of science and art in them.

Both approaches want to derive insight from the data and to inform decision using the data.

This is just my opinion

justAman:
Good evening everyone. I just got a laptop after several months of saving. I'd like to learn data science and software development vigorously. Is it feasible to learn both? If yes, which should I start with?. I learn one has to start with learning python if one chooses to embark on the path of data science

Just start with python first and keep learning. It's not enough to "want to". Doing it is much better.
Post here if you need help with understanding

lightskinnigga:
And the VP of the country still wants to become president?

Even the minister of transport, under whose watch this heinous crime was committed wants to become president?

In sane climes, these folks mentioned would hide their faces in shame.

They’re guilty by association

Makes me wonder too. Not only that. They would have also resigned. It's sad Nigerian leaders never hold themselves responsible when incidents like these happen. It's mostly sorry for a day.

MrHistorian:
Cochtrane

The "2+2" essay part. Is our submission expected to be typed and forwarded to your mail or should rather be in a document file that can be easily sent?

And the summary part, should the summary be posted after or before the essay submission?

Give a step-by-step guide sir. Don't wanna miss this opportunity.

Just follow the instructions in the post. Send me your submission and put a summary on the thread,

jesse8048:
Boss, we will really appreciate.
Please do you know much about DataMites?

Nope, I know nothing about them

Austema:
boss man, I have to quote you here on your old post,
My dad is sick, and the sickness has to do with the inability
to urinate
In fact for the past 3weeks he has been urinating only
through the aid of what is fixed to his organ, the doctor
proscribed drugs for us worth about 15k
and the money is not yet complete, please kindly help me
with any amount, please a beg you.
2263648432 Zenith bank

I can send you the evidence if need be

apply for the scholarship, if you have the capacity

seankafor:
are we going to submit here on this thread or on DM?

DM. Then post a summary of your submission here.

KAM3KAZI:
Do I post it here?

No. Follow the instructions. Send me a PM.

ImoleNaija:
My problem is bigger than the whole #30k, not to mention airtime. Who I wan call?

If you are a student and you have the capacity, apply to the scholarship I have open and you can win 100k. It's linked above.

KAM3KAZI:
I don't have my students ID,can I use something else?

Yes, something that shows you are a student

yungevvy:
Interested

Follow the instructions

Hello everyone,

I'm giving away 30k in airtime to students. That's 1k airtime for the first 30 students. I would have made this cash, but for some reasons I can't at the moment. If you need this in cash, you may just want to sell the airtime to those who need it in exchange for cash. If you are interested, just follow this procedure:

- You may indicate interest here. Please do not drop your phone number here.
- Send a PM
- I'll ask for a snapshot of your student ID and your phone number in response to your PM. I may interrogate you if I find insufficient evidence.
- Once your details are confirmed okay, you should get the airtime in a few mins.
- I will check your account before replying your message. If your account is created after Jan 1, 2022, I'm sorry I won't be replying your email
- Please understand that I will be sharing the handles of those who receive airtime here for record purposes

That's all folks. Money don finish

List of those who've received so far:

1. WhrightJr
2. yungevvy
3. Wanbissaka
4. Herbephe1
5. Anjop
6. Olowomi11
7. Kreddy
8. adeoyekay
9. Godsownfc
10. seankafor
11. Nathp9
12. Yemluvkid
13. Benblaq
14. Vikkoh
15. DrPurple
16. VillageBus
17. Duchessree
18. Gracia12
19. Lastbornbuns
20. MrHistorian
21. LilleG
22. Sodik4real
23. Abihan1
24. AyobamiIsaac12
25. shegzy0514
26. remi1444
27. Frenzy01
28. Supremedrizzy
29. Maryjane001
30. sammieking2017
31. Yohans

Meanwhile, I have a scholarship for students running here. Check if you want to apply
https://www.nairaland.com/7063934/announcing-scholarship-students

The prize money is 100k for the winner and 40k for two honourable mentions (20k each). This scholarship is open for 4 weeks from 5th April 2022. That's until 7th of May, 2022.

You have one of two options:

Option 1:
-write a creative essay on the subject "2 plus 2..."

Your writing should show creativity and depth of thought. It should be no less than 1000 words. You can write more if you want, but it's preferable to keep it below 2000 words. Write in a clear and concise way and let your mind wander. The topic is "2 plus 2...". So, you are free to come up with whatever theme you find suitable. But stay on the subject. If your writing doesn't stay on the subject, you won't win.

Option 2:
-original elaboration on a mathematical topic.

Choose a topic in maths and extend it with your own ideas, showing what your thought process is. Of course, I'm not requiring that you invent a new mathematical process. That's not warranted. But I want you to find a maths topic that interests you and to attempt to extend it in a way that you think is original or fresh or intuitive. For example, you could take the binomial theorem and, say, extend it by arguing for a trinomial theorem, showing the formulas and all. Be inventive and creative.
There is no limit to what you can write here.

peacefull:
Sorry, What is meaning akudaya?
Please I wanna know what is akudaya?

It looks like you are the only Japanese person on Nairaland
I got a job offer in Japan. What do you think about working on Japan? Yokohama to be precise. I'm still thinking about the offer and I'm asking around what it's like over there.

Lima98:
unbelievable sir I wish to be among your scholarship I stop my education at secondary school immediately after my dad death and I have been look for a way to continued my education but there is no helper so I went into a season business with my twins sister in order to help and support our mummy with our younger sibling since our mom can't do anything till last months which I lost my twins sister to a bowel blockage in her stomach and we were ask to provide 500,000 for an immediate operation but it was too late by then before i could look for the money i lost her hmmm sir I don't even have a waec result but I have passion for school of nursing i want to become a nurse I want to become something better in the future sir I hope you look forward to me and I wish you understand my write up the way it's in my mind tnkz mayGod bless you and reward you may you never lack anything in your life your way shall be open more widely sir.

Apply with your maths formulation or essay and you could win

Updated!

I’d like to thank everyone for taking out time to participate in this competition. Though it was not as intense as I expected it to be, there were still good submissions which showed sufficient creativity. My only grouse is that I couldn’t find an essay without extremely poor punctuation and/or very poor grammatical structure. There was ample time to get things right (more than 4 weeks), but it appears most people just made half-hearted attempts to turn in something. This is not impressive and frankly should not be rewarded. Naturally, it would mean there are no winners since none of the entries meet the required bar. However, not rewarding you guys for some of your work would perhaps be even worse.

This means I’m introducing a new twist. I’m cutting all prize money by half. I hope this will serve as motivation for you guys to take the next competition more seriously and try your best to turn in excellent work.

The winners this time are:
1st place ==> Olowomi11 ==> Prize money : 50k
1st runner-up ==> MrHistorian ==> Prize money: 10k
2nd runners-up ==> JasperjNr, Tekahashi, VillageBus ==> Prize money: 3.333k (split three ways)

Winners will receive a mail from me shortly requesting their details for transfer of the prize money.
Good luck!

Okay, please submit your interest this way:


You have one of two options:

Option 1:
-write a creative essay on the subject "2 plus 2..."

Your writing should show creativity and depth of thought. It should be no less than 1000 words. You can write more if you want, but it's preferable to keep it below 2000 words. Write in a clear and concise way and let your mind wander. The topic is "2 plus 2...". So, you are free to come up with whatever theme you find suitable. But stay on the subject. If your writing doesn't stay on the subject, you won't win.

Option 2:
-original elaboration on a mathematical topic.

Choose a topic in maths and extend it with your own ideas, showing what your thought process is. Of course, I'm not requiring that you invent a new mathematical process. That's not warranted. But I want you to find a maths topic that interests you and to attempt to extend it in a way that you think is original or fresh or intuitive. For example, you could take the binomial theorem and, say, extend it by arguing for a trinomial theorem, showing the formulas and all. Be inventive and creative.
There is no limit to what you can write here.


You will make two submissions.
-a summary of your ideas which you will post here on nairaland
-your main submission/entry (essay or maths topic) which you will email to me. To establish communication with me, just send a PM.

All work must be your own. I will run submissions through plagiarism checkers to make sure. The sole requirement is that you must be a student in a Nigerian University

The prize money is 100k for the winner and 40k for two honourable mentions (20k each). This scholarship is open for 4 weeks from today. That's until 7th of May.

This has officially ended now. Results will be published between 15th and 17th of May. Goodluck

Small update: new dates should now be 17th to 19th May

Results are out!

I have posted my assessments below of each person's contribution. Sadly, I could not find one essay without significant grammatical errors. You guys should have done better with QC'ing your entry before submission. Anyways, results of the winners will be posted later in the day. Watch this thread.

If you submitted an essay and your name is not here, then you very likely did not follow instructions by posting a summary of your essay on this thread.

Feedback

Addme ==> Poor grammatical structure. Sometimes off point
Alexaonfleek ==> Largely off point. Some grammatical errors
Benblaq ==> Not original
changein2020 ==> Mostly off point. Many grammatical errors
Duchessree ==> Mostly unrelated to the two propositions. Not original
EmkayOfficial ==> Method is known https://www.cuemath.com/numbers/fraction-to-decimal/. No expansion of known method.
Godownfc ==> Mostly off point. Some grammatical errors and inadequate grammatical structures
JasperjNr ==> Not bad. Some grammatical errors.
Johnchrix ==> Not original
Kingkyle1 ==> Not nearly on point. Some grammatical errors
Kreddy ==> not substantive. A lot of grammatical errors
Lastbornbuns ==> Nearly off point. Some spelling errors. Some grammatical errors.
Lima98 ==>Not original
Maryjane001 ==> Started well, but soon went off point. Some grammatical errors.
MrHistorian ==> Nearly always on point. Lack good transitions. No conclusion. Some grammatical errors.
Olowomi11 ==> Very good. A lot of potential for better development. Could make stronger impact. Poor punctuation. Some grammatical errors.
seankafor ==> Good premise, but not well constructed. Poor structure. Some grammatical errors
Tekahashi ==> Very imaginative. Good idea. But poor grammatical structure for the most part. Poor punctuation.
VillageBus ==> Introduction not well developed. Sometimes off point. Some grammatical errors.
yungevvy ==> Mostly off point. Poor punctuation. Some grammatical errors.

1. If your name is not listed below, you have not been entered in this competition.
2. If you haven't sent ID, please do. I may be reaching out between now and 15th to reconfirm each person's ID.

Submissions:

Lima98
Olowomi11
EmkayOfficial
seankafor
Addme
Kingkyle1
Lastbornbuns
Duchessree
Kreddy
Tekahashi
Benblaq
yungevvy
MrHistorian
JasperjNr

Alexaonfleek
Godsownfc
changein2020
VillageBus
Maryjane001
Johnchrix

I'm announcing a small scholarship for University students in the country. Watch out for this space in a few days where I'll make the announcement and state the requirements to qualify. Submissions will involve a creative essay or original mathematical thinking. Prize money for now is 100k for the winning entry and 20k for two honourable mentions. I'm hoping to increase this prize money next year significantly to possibly 1 million, but with stricter requirements.

If this interests you, follow this space We must do all we can to encourage independent thought and research among Nigerian students.

Glad to see this thread still making progress. If you are interested in data science tutorials and/or lectures at beginner to intermediate level, watch out for this space . I'll be offering a series of lectures in the coming months for those interested who want to transition or stay motivated. Lectures may be paid though, cos my observation from giving free lectures is that they hardly make any significant impact.

Duchessree:
Shout out to cochtrane for putting a smile on my face this year . God bless you and reward you . you shall never lack in the year 2022 , and i pray the Lord grant your heart desires. Amen

You welcome!

In data mining, most times we talk about the good news and very few times we talk about some bad news. Today, I'm making a small exception and working on information which brings some bad news. When we work on information like this, the idea is to prepare the concerned authorities to take actions which should maximize safety. So, this kind of work has its own objectives.

Though this year witnessed a crash of a military jet in the Northern part of the country, there hasn't been a crash of a commercial airliner in Nigeria for quite a while. Nevertheless, Nigeria appears a little notorious for some of its lax aviation safety procedures. Just today, there was a close shave with a Max Airline craft as reported in the news. But how likely is it that we could see another crash soon in Nigeria?

I looked at the data and tried to answer this. The time between events is sometimes modeled using an exponential distribution. I collected data from past airline crashes in Nigeria and was able to confirm this (Image 1). The curve is not so steep, but is exponential and confirms that property of duration between successive events. Using likelihood theory, one can arrive at a mean estimate for the parameter of the exponential distribution and then go from there. Here, the mean estimate is 782 days. This means, on average, the time between two crashes in Nigeria is a little over two years. Next, we arrive at a cumulative distribution using this parameter and then try to calculate the probability that there could be a plane crash after 1500 days from the last one which was on 21st May 2021 when a military jet crashed in Kaduna. The probability turns out to be quite high, about 0.85, i.e. 85% chance we will see another plane crash inside 1500 days or in 4 years (Image 2). How about in 500 days? A little less than a year and half? That turns out to be about 50/50. So, at least, given the data, the chances are quite high that we may see a plane crash in Nigeria before September next year.

Anyways, these are just random musings which have not taken into consideration external factors such as the improvement of aviation safety in the country since 2012 when we had the Dana crash, nor have I taken into consideration other factors such as the volume of flights in the country since airplanes started taking off. Still, it does look like reasonable analysis which authorities may want to pay attention to to help plan for eventualities.

Source of data is planecrashinfo

There isn't a lot of hope for this currency. I'd bet against it if I can. Maybe short it or something

Why does this read like they wanted to initially hang the guy on a cross?

[quote author=BabyGhoul post=106137183][/quote]I really like your outlook of life. It's admirable.

MMotimo:
The OP is doing well.
She knows the first rule - do not do anything for the sake of impressing the Joneses. If more Nigerians reason like she does and just exercised some financial discipline, they would have more money.

A car is a depreciating asset that would just gobble up her money. She would have to pay for regular maintenance and gas at the minimum. If she buys brand new, the dealerships will strangle her with their charges. If she buys a used vehicle, the roadside Kazeems won’t be any kinder. Some people, if they really thought about it, can trace their money struggles to the first vehicle they bought in their life - wiped out their savings and the recurring expenses just impoverished them. Never buy a car unless you really need one and make sure your income can accommodate the future expenses for it. Transportation is a means to an end, only buy what you can afford.

Good words! Couldn't have said it any better.
For most people in Nigeria, the desire to own a car centers chiefly around impressing people. If the need doesn't call for it, there's no reason to own one. But many will manufacture this need nevertheless.