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Phones / Re: Phone Engineers On Nairaland Willing To Assist You - Part II by columbus71(m): 4:52am On Jul 12, 2012
Please i need urgent help.... My htc s-620 just stop loading.... when i switch on the phone after showing htc, then it stoped at Windows Mobile... it keep showing that windows mobile till you remove the battery because no botton is working nor the keypad light... only the screen light. Please what do i do?

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Education / Re: JAMB UTME Result 2010 WHAT NEXT? by columbus71(m): 12:31pm On Jul 13, 2010
I have checked my result, but in place of mathematics it's showing NIL & Scores 0, But the rest are okay, what can i do to get my scores for Mathematics, Please i Need your help, 08066643653. My name is Aregbe Fidelis Dele, with Exam registration number as 05295833DH and examination number 05718418.
Education / Re: JAMB (UTME) 2010 Result Problems: Canceled/No Record/Registration Error Etc by columbus71(m): 12:29pm On Jul 13, 2010
I have checked my result, but in place of mathematics it's showing NIL & Scores 0, But the rest are okay, what can i do to get my scores for Mathematics, Please i Need your help, 08066643653. My name is Aregbe Fidelis Dele, with Exam registration number as 05295833DH and examination number 05718418.
Travel / Re: Is This Benin City? by columbus71(m): 6:18pm On Jul 02, 2010
Those Pictures are real, The guy is trying, but the problem is with the contractors.











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Culture / Re: Nairaland Official Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba Dictionary by columbus71(m): 7:17pm On Mar 24, 2010
Igbo guys check this out UIPO http://uipo.webs.com
Politics / Re: President Can Rule Nigeria From Saudi Arabia —aondoakaa by columbus71(m): 2:28pm On Dec 18, 2009
cry Nigeria should be sold and the money shared among its citizens, befor these fools turn nigeria to their property
Business / Re: CBN To Issue N5, N10, And N50 Notes In Polymer Substrate Like The N20 Note by columbus71(m): 2:53pm On Sep 18, 2009
What a waste of public funds, this is the new style to steal money, ASSU are on strike nobody talk about them, in short NIGERIA is dome for LIFE with these so-called confused and domed leaders we have, Graduated fools thats behave and acts as KG2 pupil. they want to introduce the Arabic writing again and input sanu isi name and hell signature, EVERY BODY WANT MAKE NAME, STUDENTS DEY HOUSE, lectures dey house, lite no dey, water no dey, common education for even primary and secondary school no dey, work no dey, road no dey,
Make them go kill their selves, the 1st tin when dower be wan do na make them give am 2million abi na even 2billion make he take buy more generator to power abuja, that wan na from uni-ver-sity graduate,


Nigeria children they watch una ooohhh,
Business / Re: CBN To Issue N5, N10, And N50 Notes In Polymer Substrate Like The N20 Note by columbus71(m): 2:52pm On Sep 18, 2009
What a waste of public funds, this is the new style to steal money, ASSU are on strike nobody talk about them, in short NIGERIA is dome for LIFE with these so-called confused and domed leaders we have, Graduated fools thats behave and acts as KG2 pupil. they want to introduce the Arabic writing again and input sanu isi name and hell signature, EVERY BODY WANT MAKE NAME, STUDENTS DEY HOUSE, lectures dey house, lite no dey, water no dey, common education for even primary and secondary school no dey, work no dey, road no dey,
Make them go kill their selves, the 1st tin when dower be wan do na make them give am 2million abi na even 2billion make he take buy more generator to power abuja, that wan na from uni-ver-sity graduate,


Nigeria children they watch una ooohhh,
Education / Re: Date 4 Jamb Exams Dis Year by columbus71(m): 7:43pm On Mar 13, 2009
but the site says 4TH OF APRIL!!! WHERE DID YOU PEOPLE SEE 4TH OF MAY? ABEG OOOOO
Investment / Re: Share Certificates by columbus71(m): 5:50pm On Feb 04, 2009
sunnyman. Have you recieve your Access Bank Shares certificate?

I went to access bank branch in benin and i sworn an affidavit last yr. i think on the 3rd of feb 2009 i collected it. but great mistake. my address was wroung.
Nairaland / General / Re: Zain Free Browsing by columbus71(m): 6:51am On Oct 18, 2008
wealth2al:

just call their customer care center, the solution is with them.
Thanks. Its done
Nairaland / General / Re: Zain Free Browsing by columbus71(m): 4:46am On Oct 16, 2008
i activated my zain line online and they sent me an sms requesting for settings pin. how do i get this pin and what is that pin for, Please i need reply urgently
Investment / Re: Share Certificates by columbus71(m): 6:13am On Oct 12, 2008
Access gave 65k per share as dividend, and first bank gave 1.20k per share.

as for the internet stuffs i have MTN and Zain configuration
Education / Re: Candidates Spend Over N10bn On Post-ume by columbus71(m): 3:27am On Oct 10, 2008
yes its true! even some people pay more, lipsrsealed
Education / Re: Rep Ur Secondary School by columbus71(m): 7:23am On Oct 09, 2008
ICC (Immaculate Conception College), MM Way, Benin City
Army Day Secondary School, Ikpoba Hill, Benin City
Ogbe Secondary school Airport Road Benin city
Investment / Re: Share Certificates by columbus71(m): 7:19am On Oct 09, 2008
Uptill now i havent recieve my access bank certificate! What should i do? i went to Access Bank that i bought the shares from but they said no return monies and my certificate is not yet out and my brother had recieve his own from more than 4months now. although he was ask to come collect it from the post office in Benin.
Phones / Re: How To Connect Zain Mms Wit Pc by columbus71(m): 8:32am On Oct 08, 2008
are u asking us question or u want to tell us?

You can use this to configure you fone
http://dmc.ng.zain.com/frontoffice/Login.action
Phones / Re: Phone Users May Pay Less For Sms! by columbus71(m): 7:38am On Oct 07, 2008
Any body using Glo should tell us how much they now charge for their SMS. But i know say them still they rob us with their 15naira per SMS. lipsrsealed
Phones / Re: Phone Users May Pay Less For Sms! by columbus71(m): 7:34am On Oct 07, 2008
Zain has started it with their thru package. for 3 naira per SMS. While MTN came with send one and get one free Which now translate to #2.50 per SMS
Phones / Re: What Do U Think About Visafone by columbus71(m): 6:43am On Oct 07, 2008
Only wat i know is that they can flash they phone to allow GSM SimCards But for their ruim to work in a GSM phone. that i dont know.
chrisemi:

them nor get free kal?

if u dey wait for network wen go give u free call all day and nite wit free sms then go open ur own network
Phones / Re: The Easiest Way To Load Mtn Recharge Card? by columbus71(m): 6:38am On Oct 07, 2008
Just use ur debit card. enter any ATM Meachine and buy MTN recharge card there. Instantly the recharge they enter your Phone. it wont take more than a min. But to me its like only UBA that support that service. i dont know of the rest, All these MTN problem no affect me one day. becos i dey buy from my bank direct.
Education / Candidates Spend Over N10bn On Post-ume by columbus71(m): 5:55am On Oct 07, 2008
Candidates spend over N10bn on post-UME
By Segun Olugbile
Published: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2008
By the time Nigerian universities complete admission processes for the 2008/2009 session, candidates may have spent over N10bn in addition to the N2,826,204,900 that the 911,679 candidates that applied for the UME expended on the purchase of registration forms from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.

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Performance by state – males and females who scored above 200 are listed below

JAMB sold each form for N3,000 while banks charged N100 on each of the forms sold. This excludes money spent by the candidates on exigencies such as transport to and from examination centres, passport photographs and payment made to operators of cybercafés for online registration.

Candidates who wrote the examination in Cameroun, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Benin Republic and Ghana also expended additional cost on transport and logistics.

Close to N10bn was raked in by universities from candidates that scored 200 and above in the UME. Some universities even allowed candidates that scored below 170 to write the post-UME.

While the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, has consistently called for the scrapping of the post-UME, the former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Prof. Peter Okebukola, has insisted that the test must be strengthened and consolidated.

The NUC and the Committee of Vice-Chancellors had, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education under the leadership of the former Minister of Education, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili, in 2006, introduced post-UME. It was meant to serve as a filtering process to separate academically suitable candidates from pretenders.

The ministry of education had warned the universities not to charge anything above N1,000 for the post-UME. But investigations conducted by our correspondent during the post-UME test in universities across the country revealed that most of them charged between N2,000 and N8,000.

Only the University of Ibadan conducted the exam free of charge. Some universities including the Lagos State University, Ojo, charged N2,000 per candidate, while Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, levied each of the over 23,000 candidates that sat for its post-UME test N3,000. The University of Ilorin, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, University of Lagos, University of Benin and Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye charged N2,000 per candidate.

Similarly, universities in Port Harcourt, Calabar, Zaria, Kano, Owerri and Minna levied candidates between N2,000 and N3,000. Private universities charge more. Before a candidate was allowed to participate in the post-UME test in most private universities, he or she must have purchased an admission form for between N5,000 and N6,000.

At the Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, candidates were charged N2,000 each for the test and another N6,000 for the application form. Findings at the Redeemer University, Mowe, Ogun State, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun-Ijebu-Ode, Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State and Madonna University, Okija, Anambra State, revealed that a maximum of N2,000 was charged for the test while candidates bought a fresh application form for N5,000.

In all, the universities are likely to have raked in almost N10bn from the candidates given the fact that some candidates that scored less than 200 participated in the examination in some cases. For instance, some universities such as LASU did another round of post-UME for thousands of candidates to fill what the institution’s management called vacancies for indigenes and non-indigenes in some of its departments.

Unfortunately, in spite of the multiple fees that candidates pay to secure university admission, less than 200,000 out of the nearly one million candidates that obtained JAMB forms are sure of securing university placement.

JAMB’s registrar and others calling for the scrapping of post-UME test argue that most universities have turned the exercise into an avenue to shore up their internally generated revenue.

A parent, Mr. Ladanu Sangodeji, whose son wrote the post-UME at LASU, said the test should be scrapped, because the universities were only interested in money.

“Have you ever heard it before that a university will be declaring vacancies when it has not offered admission to candidates that had been tested? It is to make money, let them stop it,” he said.

His position was reechoed by Ojerinde, who said that the exercise was unnecessary as it was just an avenue to exploit the candidates.

Ojerinde said that since the board had proved its effectiveness in the conduct of the UME, universities should stop dissipating energy on the post-UME.

“Let me say that JAMB doesn’t have any problem. Whatever post-UME they want to do, let them do it. However, they must do it right. What we notice is that some of them are not doing it right. For example, all the universities are supposed to be at this meeting today. But some are just conducting their post-UME today and tomorrow and they are expecting JAMB to be there. It’s not possible. For the post-UME, the regulation is that JAMB must be present. There is a law guiding this thing; you must abide by it. When I say that it’s (post-UME) not necessary, I assume that we’ve all seen that JAMB is on track,’’ Ojerinde told our correspondent.

The former Vice- Chancellor, UNILAG, Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe, admitted that some universities were not doing it right, but said this was not enough to call for the scrapping of the test.

“Post-UME should not be scrapped. What is necessary is to design uniform and consistent methodology for the screening exercise. Remember that the post-UME exercise was introduced to correct the lapses from JAMB/UME, especially impersonation,” he said.

Okebukola said scrapping post-UME because of its cost implication on candidates would rubbish the gains already made in the university system since it was introduced.

He said the exercise had among others, helped in filtering out candidates with dubious UME scores; reduced the prevalence rate of social vices such as cultism and examination malpractice on campuses; enhanced job satisfaction for lecturers as they encounter more intelligent and better motivated students in class; and increased the efficiency of the system. “I have personally benefited from this dividend as I find the 200- and 300-level students that I taught last session in LASU to be among the best group of undergraduates I have encountered in my 35-year teaching career.”

In addition, Okebukola said the post-UME had improved respectability of the Nigerian university system as a result of better public perception of Nigerian undergraduates.

Rather than scrap the exercise, he said the problem of financial exploitation by some universities should be resolved.

“We should encourage the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and the NUC to develop guidelines for financing post-UME. The guidelines, he said, should factor in cost of examination materials mainly printing; photocopying; and stationery; token honorarium for invigilation, supervision and grading; security expenses and other expenses.

Candidates who spoke with our correspondent expressed worry over the limited university space in Nigerian universities. One of them, Seyi Alaga, who applied to study Economics at the OAU, said the only thing that was paramount on his mind was to gain admission and not the cost of post-UME. “Let the government license more public and private universities, let them encourage the poor to go to university,” he said.

Another lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNILAG, Prof. Funso Falade, said the cost would not be a problem if the options open to the candidates in terms of accessibility were many. “I think what we should be craving for is how to open access to university education. To address the problem of poverty, our governments should emulate their counterparts abroad by providing scholarships and loans for the indigent. Education at whatever level is not cheap, let our leaders stop playing politics with it,” he said.


From: http://punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200810071640864
Travel / Re: How to Apply for Free Education In Sweden by columbus71(m): 5:09am On Oct 07, 2008
Thanks for this info, 
But its like this one you just drop is for Masters or what?
Can WAEC fresher do it this way with out transcript?

Guys this free University study is not only in sweden oooooo. The countries bwlow also offer free study too,

Norway
Germany
Demark
Iceland
Finland
and most of the european countries.
Education / Re: ****outstandings In My 2008 Waec Results by columbus71(m): 4:52am On Oct 07, 2008
freezze:


I tried to check for my younger one and I got a response that there is no result for the registration number do you have any meaning to this.

The registration you entered was incorrect. This means that you either enter 9 digits number instead of 10 digits.
Normal WAEC exam number is 7 digits, Plus the candidate 3 digit exam numbers will increase it to 10 digits.
May be your sister seat number is 18! You have to write it as 018. at the back of the 7 digite exam centre number.
Investment / Market‘ll Begin Recovery This Week – DG, NSE by columbus71(m): 4:26am On Oct 07, 2008
The decline, which the Nigerian capital market had been witnessing in the past seven months may come to an end this week, according to the Director-General, Nigerian Stock Exchange, Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke.

The DG, who said this during the 14th Annual General Meeting of the Central Securities Clearing System Limited in Lagos, on Monday, said that investors would start to experience a significant improvement in the market.

She stated that wide ranging measures that were expected to shore up the major market indicators had been put in place by the NSE.

This, she noted, would be announced after the NSE’s council meeting on Tuesday.

She pointed out that fresh funds would be injected into the market to ensure stability.

On whether the Federal Government had failed in its effort to revive the market and ensure stability, she said, “We knew from the outset that the government would not be able to solve the problem in the market, we only went to them because one of the agencies (Central Bank of Nigeria) that could help us is a government agency. What we wanted them to do was to assist us through moral suasion.”

She added, “The problem in the market was not caused by us but we are the ones that will solve the problem. As I speak to you now, the problem is almost over. I assure you that after tomorrow’s meeting, we will make some announcements after which you will start to see improvements in the market, starting from this week”

Meanwhile, CSCS Limited has recorded an increase of 381 per cent in profit after tax for its 2007 financial year.

According to the company’s audited result for the year ended December 31, 2007, profit after tax stood at N3.58bn as against N745m in 2006.

Turnover also grew by 269 per cent, up from N2.24bn in 2006 to N8.27bn in the year under review.

The company’s shareholders, at the AGM, approved N400m dividend, translating into 40 kobo per share and a bonus of four shares for every one held as at December 31, 2007.

However, the market capitalisation of the 310 listed equities closed lower, depreciating by N45bn or 0.5 per cent to close at N9.684tn.

Similarly, the All-Share-Index of the NSE dropped by 0.5 per cent to close at 45,504.69.



source: http://punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2008100713463721
TV/Movies / Updated: Channels Tv Still Under Siege: Sss Release Detained Channels Tv Staff: by columbus71(m): 4:50am On Sep 26, 2008
Detained staff of Channels Television have been released by the State Security Service (SSS), after Tuesday's invasion of the station's offices, and the arrest of five senior officials both in Lagos, Nigeria's south west region and in Abuja, the nation's capital.

The General Manager, Mr. Steve Judo and the Controller News, Mr. Ambrose Okoh, arrested at the station’s headquarters in Lagos, were released on the evening of Friday after being detained for about 78 hours.

The Abuja station manager, Mr. Sola Olaiya and news editor Bashir Adigun, were released on Thursday evening, while our Channels Television correspondent at the Presidential Villa, Chukwuma Onuekusi, had been let off earlier on Wednesday.


Though the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) this evening, announced the lifting of the ban slammed on the station, a day after the SSS shut down operations both in Lagos and Abuja, the office premises are yet to be vacated by the security operatives, who have so far prevented members of staff from going into the buildings, though permiting other companies at the Kresta Laurel Complex in Lagos, access after thorough security checks.

Tuesday’s clamp down on Channels Television by men of the State Security Service, is the first occurrence in the station’s 15 years of existence, following a news flash on a controversial story on the President’s purported resignation on health grounds.

The news was sourced and attributed to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), a government owned media agency, to which the station subscribes, and was also received from a French international wire service, the Agency France Press (AFP).

About 10 minutes later, while monitoring the Reuters News Agency, Channels Television saw a refutal of the resignation story by the President’s spokesman, Mr. Segun Adeniyi, and had immediately broadcast this.

NAN, notified the station about the false claim soon after, explaining that hackers might have broken into their e-mail account to send the erroneous report to targeted news organizations, which the station reported in its subsequent news bulletins until the time of closure.


Press Statement: For Immediate ReleaseIAP: Lift Suspension of Channels TVLagos, Monday, 22 September, 2008: Independent Advocacy Project, IAP,Nigeria’s leading governance group has called on the federal government toimmediately direct operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) tovacate the premises of the independent Channels TV and make a publiccommitment to restrain its agents from further clamping down on the media.Security agents closed the Lagos and Abuja offices of Channels last weekafter the station aired a hoax report that President Umaru Yar'Adua mightresign for health reasons. Security agents detained General Manager SteveJudo, News ControllerAmbrose Okoh, Abuja Bureau Chief Bashiru Adigun and Abuja Station ManagerShola Olaiya, according to Channels Chairman John Momoh, who apologised toYar'Adua the day after the report was aired. Momoh expressed ‘deep regret’for broadcasting the phoney report.The hoax story which was sent electronically to some media houses wascredited to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the nation’s official agency.NAN swiftly denied the story, saying: ‘We believe that it is a mischiefmaker at work.’Equally swiftly however, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)suspended Channels’ license, accusing the station of violating theNational Broadcasting Commission Act. ‘While NBC has released Channels’licence, the decision to suspend the licence of Channels in the firstplace is in itself a violation of the Broadcasting Code as the Codespecifies that broadcasting stations must be given prior notice and ahearing prior to such suspensions,’ says IAP spokesperson Gbenga Ogundare.IAP is particularly concerned about the Yar’adua regime’s clampdown onjournalists. Apart from the Channels incident, there have been recentcases involving the National Standard magazine and reporters AbimbolaOgunnaike and Wale Ajayi of the Nigerian Compass and Nigerian Tribunerespectively.

=ends=Media Enquiries:

Gbenga Ogundaregogundare@ind-advocacy-project.org
234- (0)8036697277
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Independent Advocacy Project (IAP)Tel: 234-1-4977101, 2341 7915198, 08036697277
Fax: 2341 7915198
Office address: 2nd Floor, 17/19, Allen Avenue, Oshopey Plaza, Ikeja, Lagos
Email:info@ind-advocacy-project.org
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News Sources: http://www.saharareporters.com/www/news/detail/?id=730
Phones / Re: What Do U Think About Visafone by columbus71(m): 11:32am On Sep 09, 2008
From what i know, they dont sell only the sim card. But i dont know about lagos, But in Benin they give you the phone and the line for arround #1500- #1700. but they have different phones with different price.


flyuche:

they claim they have EVDO everywhere they have launched. one big fat lie. now they say they have over one million subscribers. another fat lie.

How do u know if what they say is lie? the patronage visafone do receive alone is enough for them to attain such a height. Within few months of their presence in Nigeria.
Computers / Re: Pc-satelite Connection by columbus71(m): 7:07am On Sep 08, 2008
am Intrested. col71@live.com
Politics / Delta State Can Become Nigeria’s Singapore – Report by columbus71(m): 11:21pm On Sep 06, 2008
By Emeka Madunagu
Published: Saturday, 6 Sep 2008

The Delta State Government has been urged to adopt the Singaporean model in developing the state.

A communique issued at the end of the first Delta State Information Summit and made available to Saturday Punch by email on Friday said that if developed along the lines adopted by the leaders of the Asian nation, the state would become a model for the entire nation and West Africa.

The 22-point recommendation urged the state government to make its development goals sustainable and to anchor it on the three niche areas of agriculture, medical care and environmental protection. The state government was advised to develop a network of Delta State citizens abroad through the Delta Diaspora Direct initiative to enable the state attract the huge financial and technical expertise available to it.

Also, the summit advised the state government to “develop a creative and sustainable format to finance the huge infrastructural needs of the state without building a debt portfolio.”

The document was jointly signed by Chief Clement Ofuani, representing the Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan; the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information, Mr. Gift Nikoro; Editor Online, Punch Newspapers, Mr. Dafe Onojovwo, representing the media; Dr. Francis Akenami, representing international partners; and Mr. Tive Denedo, representing civil society organisations.

The summit also advised the Federal Government to practice true fiscal federalism and urged the National Assembly to “emulate the Delta State example by passing a bill to raise derivation revenue to 50 per cent since 13 per cent is merely the minimum formula recommended in the constitution.”

It also called for a working partnership between government and the media through the peace media strategy as one way of resolving the crisis in the Niger Delta, noting that government should “intensify the development drive and provide necessary funds for all efforts at bringing infrastructure and human capital development to states of the Niger Delta; dialogue and democratic engagement remain the most workable and reasonable approach to resolving the Niger Delta problem as against the use of force; the Federal Government should therefore discourage and de-emphasise the military option in conflict resolution in the region and elsewhere; government should establish a sustainable and effective platform of dialogue and engagement with the people, the media, development agencies, and corporations on the Niger Delta issue.”

Organised under the theme, “Media, Peace and Development as Building Blocks of Democracy,” the August 27 summit also featured the formal unveiling of the True Face of Delta Initiative. Various speeches were also delivered by Uduaghan and the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Oma Djebah.


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