₦airaland Forum

Bontee and others,

The foundation of Unity Schools was based on the assumption of locality and geographical spread. There is no longer the need for the assumption that a child of Southern parents who schooled in the North should have a cut-off different from the rest of his/her schoolmates, when the same environmental factors or lack of teachers affected them both equally. The child should no longer be assessed based on State of Origin.
Nigeria is now more cosmopolitan than that assumption.

It does appear that there was an earlier topic, which was poorly admitted. It was reviewed to the current original post, making some comments irrelevant or poorly construed.
Mod, that action deliberately misaligned the thread, derailing it and inserting tribalism.

Thank you. Will search for an encryption software.

Hello,

I left my HP 630, Windows 7 laptop on the floor of the front passenger seat of my car, which was broken into and the laptop taken. I was its only User and Admin. I also used a password.
I'm a little knowledgeable, so had installed "Prey".
Thing is, it has to boot fully before "Prey" 'rocks'. What are the perp's alternatives? Can start-up passwords be bypassed?
I'd hoped to be able to recover it by now, almost three months later...

@Lawyer: Why does the government advertise this GIS-satellite mapping thing for renewal each year? Isn't a copy to be deposited at the Local Govt Hqrtrs for determination of C of Os?

I don't speak Yoruba. I try to make use of church connections in representing me and bargaining for accommodation. I can see I now need a lawyer, a policeman and probably a soldier. Is there a one-stop shop for this?

May I see the trousers, please?

Nice thread!
@Nri Priest: "Onitsha-Ado" did borrow words&aspects of culture from Benin,IMO.D difference of d Onicha dialect - d deep 'v' over a light 'f', 'l' over 'r',etc.D Bini "Igue" &burial words especially hav valid interpretations in Bini,rather than the present Onicha variants(eg. d "iyasele" example given)
My views from my understanding of literature written by one of d Obis.

P.S. Noticed that present day Obis/Igwes are very exposed?Foreign-schooled professionals and such?Onisha,Obosi,Asaba,etc.
D Ozo title looking more attractive to a better calibre of ppl,

Hmmm,

Some walked miles to school barefoot!
The fuel subsidy is time for those who have shoes to sell them!

(If he could do it, so should they, )

I dont think Nigerians are ready for the inevitable inflation.I dont think State Governments would then be able2 afford the new minimum wage,while the FG steps-up Capital prjcts at the same time.Whither savings from de-subsidised diesel?
I hurt to see all those bespectacled "Engineers" at Oando and MRS,whose earnings have not been from any innovation or industrial manufacture.
I submit that the Economic Team recover the funds from Oando,Capital,MRS et al and utilise it in the first 6mnths of 2012 to convince Nigerians of a 50% subsidy removal effective in the 2nd half of 2012.
The burden of proof rests on them,

Uploading more pics soon,

Lincoln V8

Loading as fast as I can reduce the file sizes,

Sorry, dude.
Have modified my post.

Mods, the file size for pics is TINY!!!

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I think Islamic Banking should be allowed, but with the following conditions:

1. Every customer and transaction above the sum of one million naira should be copied to both the CIA and Mossad.
This information is to be updated daily. This is to forestall the lack of responsibility of initiators of a social concept (eg. Sharia and Islamic Banking) from accepting excesses and abuse of their concept. This way, "fanatical" funding is globally checked by those who are better adept.

2. Policy checking the abuse and excesses of donations to Islamic fundamental schools/groups with clear anti-nationalistic aims should be in the purview of whosoever heads the Islamic Banking of that Bank. Such a person therefore becomes culpable for such illegal transfers.

3. For groups with unclear objectives, fines and penalties are to be applied to coerce such groups to better identify themselves and define their objectives. These fines will be applied across board and will include the individual Bank and any national Islamic Banking Council.

4. Any body or bodies not registered with the National Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (presently headed by Alhaji Lateef Adegbite) will not be recognised as a legitimate Islamic body. Such a body will not be permitted to make non-individual donations to any cause in the polity. Registration of bodies is to be verified in aims and objectives by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation.

5. The CAN* has the unalienable right to appeal against the registration of any body or bodies provided clear legal action(s) can be taken against such a body (or bodies). Such an Islamic body (or bodies) will remain unregistered pending the resolution of the case in the appropriate Court of English Law.

, (there are 12 such reasons I would like to forward to the National Assembly, CAN*, NSCIA, CBN and the media)

Looks good! Looking for the MS OneNote add-on now,
Cool!
Now, where are those enemies who were 'diss-ing' IE?

Sorry to hear. I do ot know whom to direct my questions to, but will the Mod please help out?

1. Will it be a violation of privacy to attach a face to the name? (In time, it will be in the news; but you might need his familiy's permission)
2. Can the username "bawomolo" not be given to any other Nairalander in any form (i.e. the inclusion of numbers or letters or plain phonetic/pronunciation)
3. Does Nairaland have a face - a face that can (and just might) be visible to his family?
4. I am not in the US, but will like to find out if it was a case of mistaken identity, as I cannot bear the thought of a scandal a revelation of a duplicitous life could bring.

R.I.P.

I write this because I am hurt and want to cry out. I also feel brutalised by an older generation. Unfortunately, so much evil happens in Nigeria without much notice by those whose duty it is to oversee such. I have never understood why a Public Relations Officer for a uniformed law enforcement agency comes on air to state that his men are “on top of a situation” or that an “investigation is being carried out” or that members of the public should “simply report to the police or show that they know their rights”. It’s all very good coming on the T.V., but in reality there appears to be no one around when you need them.

I was able to buy a car after three hard years. I have barely used it for two months. I was driving along East-West road in Port Harcourt, towards Choba when I was stopped by ‘fellow Nigerians’ – a Mr. John Chuku and an “Honourable” Obi. I was stopped because the car I was in looked decent; older cars passed me by. I was told by a group of Obio-Akpor Council operatives that I lacked a radio license (for a car which came pre-installed with a radio set). I was told that this license costs N12, 000 (twelve thousand naira) and shown rather flimsy documentation to that effect. It will do the reader good to note that the license for the vehicle cost N1, 875(one thousand, eight hundred and seventy five naira).

I went as far as walking to the Mobile Court that sits at Rumuokoro round-about and spoke with a lady behind a desk there at the round-about, who confirmed that there was no sticker of the sort. Like the policemen and TIMA-RIV (the Port Harcourt version of LASTMA) officers, they were unable to leave the very vital duty they had to bother with the illegality along Choba Road, just before the Redeemed Christian Church of God Campground. Every policeman on duty was otherwise engaged. I got back to my car and after the usual “settle here so you are not taken to the station”, I parted with all I had on me.

I would like others to know why doctors no longer care for patients; why the diligence of a paid service is lacking in many spheres in our country. It is because the consciences of those who still have them have been eaten-up by incidents such as this. I am not a politician and I am not rich. Heaven forbid that a Governor’s wife be kidnapped, but I fear it will be the only solution to kidnapping in any State. I have lost all hope in the police as my friend. I realise I am on my own. The police can keep their proclamation of friendship.

It becomes easy to figure out the muslims and christians on this forum although most of both want the girl expelled and otherwise punished.
What the girl did is not wise. Agreed.
, but by what law is she to be expelled?
What law up North differentiates proponents of a religious riot? They are simply referred to as "fanatics" and forced into an unclaimed subset of a strange, undefined religious belief.
Provocation in such times has at best been hazy. There has been the Miss World, the Danish cartoon, the female corper who did nothing, another who was alleged to have torn pages off,
Now there is physical, deliberate provocation - not the 'usual' sudden, violent eruption; but corollary.
Now there is even talk of an apology - not by her fellowship (if she is traced to any), but by the Christian body. Just? Yes. Fair? NO!
Has there been any apology for slain corpers from any religious body? Has there been any apology for Jos?
All that comes of it is political - calls to live peaceably and denials of any link religious.
My point: Northern Nigeria is rather religiously homogeneous. So is the South. The West has not been. The law will have to be formed and applied diligently. Standards that will be demanded within an academic community and out of it will have to be melded from this event.
I think this case is pregnant.
Although peace can be sought out within the academic community, something new has been formed - a new vice, rather like kidnapping. It will now have to be addressed in its entirety and specificity.

Debosky,
I don't have as much experience as this requires. Thanks for putting this up. Perhaps we can network better?

I look to take advantage of the construction of three new refineries, the PI Bill and Nigeria as a whole currently.
In the UK now, not gaining professional experience at the moment. Hope to visit Nigeria soon too,

OnlyTruth,

I have read your input here. I do not agree with you completely. There is a reason why BAKASSI failed and I think the remedy lies more in following the legality of a Constitution keenly. Think of your State as a smaller Nigeria. Think of 36 sub-States within (officially call them L.G.A.s). Do you begin to see the problem? 200policemen paid that much might work for Nnewi ALONE. 500 paid that much might work for Onitsha North, but that is AT THE BEGINNING.
Midway, we learn who makes top-level appointments and why. Midway, a politician scores points because he makes the discovery that what qualifies for top-level appointment can be found in his own backyard as well. Midway, we discover that security contracts ought to go to each "big" family in the L.G.A. Midway, loyalties change and ideologies begin to differ. HOW HAVE WE SHOWN WE CAN STICK TO AN AGREEMENT AT SUCH TIMES? {This, in my view, ought to be hammered out before State Policing is allowed.}
At the end, the question is, "What manner of checks and balances can be used to make sure State Policing does not go overboard?"

KennyG,

For the percentage not caused by vandalism, how responsible in Globally Sustainable terms have the multinationals been? Spills, flares and ecological damage seem to be compensated for by cash, scholarships and some bungalows called "schools". How responsible (in the light of the aftermath of the GOM incident) has every multinational company in Nigeria been?

Sorry I am cutting in so sharply,

I do not know much about NAL. I wanted to make a comment on the Deepwater Horizon/ Gulf of Mexico incident.
I made a comment to friends last week that process pipeline spills in Nigeria do not receive as much attention as this fissure leak by the blowout preventer loss. I know of an entire community that was relocated in the Nigerian Niger Delta. If you have any experience in similar neglect or professional handling of an oil spill by same/ similar company, could you please state why you think it was well-handled or not?

Please what kind of Child Care and Handling education is passed? Is it traditional or general, hospital-like knowledge? Is there some specific, peculiar practice?

@Ohsisi
You enjoy AN ASPECT of Omugwo men enjoy as well. What other aspect do you enjoy?

Hello Chemical Engineers!

Something big is supposed to be happening in Bayelsa State. Please keep your applications ready, if you are interested.
Attached is a newspaper link: http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=173475
Please, House, inform and help others keep track of opportunities like this.

Eeee!

Ifyalways, i si ebee?

Hapu ndi Labour, hapu ndi LibDem.
Ha pu nu ha aka, ka ha tinye ndi Conservative ka-anyi na-anu ihe ozo.
Mgbe obula ugbu a, ha na-asi ndi obia emebili ha obodo.
Hapu ha ka ha mee ihe ha choro.

Yes! Done!

Nice!
I spent time wondering how my childhood seemed devoid of memorable escapades, then I recalled a few,

I was to be flogged by my Pry.4 teacher. He was livid I failed a question he had warned me repeatedly about. Although it was the only one I got wrong (and was still the best in the class), he decided to cane me. (By the way, I have a Dad who thanks teachers personally for flogging his children, so it was going to be hot). As I approached his desk, he raised the cane and I moved. He grabbed me, but my waist refused to keep still. I was horrified, he was so mad! Till today, I only recall realising I was near the class door,  my knickers had become a skirt, held in place by the elastic waistband. He had to help me to the P.E. room to change my maroon shorts, !

My Mum once locked us out. As my Dad had travelled, she had to do something drastic. Well, the idea was for me to crawl into the house through one of the metal-protectors. I wasn't in the mood at first because my elder brother wanted to do it. My Mum chose me. Mid-way, obeying all their instructions, I got stuck! I no even shake until my Mum started screaming. I was suspended between heaven and hell until a neighbour sawed me free.

I once had a friend I trusted. When my entire J.S.3 class was to be flogged for not bringing fungus to class (as was the assignment the previous week), my friend stood and told the teacher that the mouldy garri he brought had been stolen. I believed him, even though I never saw it. I wanted to stand and tell the teacher that I knew he was a truthful boy and all, but I lost courage. Upon investigation, he was vindicated and I was flogged with the rest. I still wish I stood up that day, it may have been my salvation.

I have never written a letter to a girl, believing that the girl should write me. Really. Had a letter written to me in JS and situations I didn't understand as an undergrad. I kind of grew up slowly, so I'm still learning in some areas.

On a lighter note,

I just imagined today getting my own back. I've made quite a number of applications, have been trying to change jobs.
The rejection letter is almost from a template, across various establishments.
I caught myself praying that someday, I'd be able to turn down employment offers in such a stylish way!
I'd start by telling them how the offer is SO good and how impressed I am by it.
Then I'd continue in a later paragraph with "Unfortunately" and put in the word 'experience'.
Before I sign off, I'd then warn them (politely, of course) not to bother sending any other mails to my box!

If he will not be appointed Minister of Finance or something as relevant, should he be appointed at all?
Isn't that as important?
Legally, where is his father from? Ties to Edo State remain ancillary.