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RIP Pete,but y is the date contradicting?he died Nov 2012 and they did this June 2012?

na wa o,some people said they would have fixed a date for the wedding before they wear engagement ring,engagement ring is given on the day u ask her if she wil marry you,so how can u fix a date before u ask her?how abot if she says no and u have fixed the wedding date?

[quote author=OC cool]@daguru pls elaborate. Hw's camp lyk? Are d soldiers very strict cos dats wat I heard. Pls more info cos I wud also lyk 2 serve Enugu too[ the soldiers aint strict at all,we just lived under a disciplined environmet,we av a female camp director who tries to instill values.

dem use air-plane crash,dem use road-motor get accident,oya make una switch to sea-no worry boat no go sink.....trust me

I wash with Alum

am currently serving in Enugu state and ma ppa is at a school,Enugu is cool and very conducive for corpers,camp too is very okay too,u wil like it dere

Used to save 60% comfortably.. but recently embarked on a project that involved renting and furnishing an apartment so i can move out of my parents house. This project has almost wiped out my 1 year 6months savings. My bank balance is presently very lean and i cant stop dreaming of making it as fat as it used to be.

E no easy men

Meanwhile medical school suffered greatly. In order to adapt to the demands of combining medical school with selling computers, i gradually became very very good at CRASH JACKING, ramming hundreds of pages of imformation into my brains in less than 3 days to a major test and passing averagely.

Also, the fact that i was a medical student helped my business a great deal. Most people didnt find it diffcult to trust a medical doctor to be combining the rigours of medical school with thr wahala of shuttling lagos and ibadan every now and then to supply comuters

This way of life continued until my mb part 1 exam (written at the end of 1st seamester 300level). I had to reduce my travel to once a week (saturdays mostly) in order to be able to prepare for the exams.

I wrote it and passed. WHICH MEANS ILL HAVE TO LEAVE UI FOR UCH TO BEGIN MY CLINICAL

On resuming at UCH, i realized i could not just run off to lagos anytime i liked because they had very very very strict attendance requirement with stiff penalties for defaulters.

I HAD NO CHOICE BUT END MY LUCRATIVE BUSINESS. WHICH I DID BT WITH well over 700k in my savings account.

Juggling medical school with business had the following effects on my life.

1) I was bound to be a quack, half baked doctor who obtained his medical degree by cramming, passing and forgetting.
2) I had also become a hyper active person with the ability to juggle many tasks simultanously
3) I was so used to being busy that i no longer know what it is like to be idle even to date, i am always busy always looking for something to do and never idle.
4) Starting a business helped me discover things, skills, abilities and competencies about y=myself that i never knew i had. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT OF THEM IS MY ABILITY TO SELL. I am what you can call a NATURAL SALES MAN. Reselling computers in UI helped hone this skill to a very very fine art.
5) Achiieve complete financial independence from my dad.


NOW THE STAGE WAS SET AND I WAS READY TO QUIT MEDICAL SCHOOL

So i decided to start a business of my own selling desktop computers, laptops and computer accesories to members of the university community.

This was back in the days (2003 / 2004) when very dew students owned a desktop pc let alone a computer.
I started with very very little capital, just enough to design a flyer on MS-WORD, print on a laser printer and make hundereds of photocopies on A4 paper to be pasted round the whole campus in the middle of the night with starch.

Soon i started receiving phone calls, mostly from Post Graduate students intested in owning a Pentium 3 desktop computer. Thus my fisrt goldmine was unlocked. Most PG Students,(UI has alot of PG students) badlty needed computing power at affordable prices, so i focoused all my marketing energy and attention on them.

Soon i was shuttling Computer village and Ibadan on a daily basis selling cheap otigbe desktops to pg students and making over 20% profit per sale.

Gradually, over a period of 6 months, i was able to gain complete control of my finances. The business flourished and soon, most lectuers knew my to be the guy to talk to about getting very good laptops and desktops.

I made up my mind to change for the better and take my life and future seriously as i used to. I also decided to accept my fate about medical school. Afterall i might just be wrong and i might just fall in love with the profession (my uncles advice).

So i started taking medical school seriously with the determination to make up for all the missed CA's and Test. But the more i immersed myself into the training, the more convinced i was that i was in the wrong place and living another mans dream while my own dream rots away.

I guess you all are wondering why i couldnt just buy another jamb form and start over again. That option would have worked if i werent COMPLETELY dependent on my Father for my Upkeep (as most students are). If i stopped medical school and took jamb, it was more than certain that all my finances would freeze up.

NOt long after that, i stumbled upon an article on Mellamby Halls Press Board. The articule was culled from a book written by Jim Rohn and it was about TAKING 100% RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONES LIFE. (TRUE CONFESSION: I couldnt help but steal the article from the press board.). Thats how i discovered Jim Rohn and his teachings. Through his articles i read on the internet, i came to the following realizations

a) I am 100% responsible for every of my experiences in life both good and bad.
b) What right have i to determine what course to study in the university when i dont even have complete freedom over my life. For instance, if my dad freezes my income for whatever reasons, then i would starve
c) If i really wanted to leave medical school, then i have to completely break loose from the clucthes and control of my father, become totally financially indepennt and completely determine the tune the piper plays.

There and then, a new MISSION and VISION was born. My desire and goal shifted from Trying to leave medical school to achieving total financial freedom from my dad.

BACK TO MY STORY

After my failed attempt at changing my course of study from MBBS to Elect/Elect, i went on a psychological nose dive until i hit rock bottom. 200 LEVEL

I stopped going to church and all religious activity i used to attend.

Stopped talking to my dad, and stopped going home (used to go to lagos (home) every 3 weeks to pickup food stuffs etc)

Became friends with VEGINUS, a boichemistry student also living in KUTI Hall. He introduced me to a whole new life on campus. Soon i started hanging out with some very wild guys.

I barely went for lectures, and never went for practicals. Went for Cadaver dissection pratical only once. In short i was a very deliquent medical student. sson Agbowo, opposite UI became my second home.

Not long after, cultism and yahoo yahoo all joined together entered my life.

IT ALL CONTINUED THIS WAY UNTIL I ALMOST LOST MY LIFE. I was actualy lucky not be have died after the whole fracas. That experience marked a new begining for me because it helped me realize the end result of my present lifestyle

koastar:
With those two alighted parts I doubt the authenticity of this story by daguru. 1st of all, the maximum CGPA in Nigerian university is 5.0 how come he got 6.8?
2ndly, Before a student can be signed in into another dept & faculty he MUST be signed out of his present dept & faculty, because one can not belong to two depts/faculties at the same time that's why signing out must take place 1st before signing in

@koastar, any Alumni or Present student of the University of Ibadan knows that the grading system is a 7.0 CGPA system and not a 5.0 GPA or CGPA system as is the case in other Nigerian Universities. Just ask around ok. Also, every student at any point in time belongs to a department. In order to switch departments, the student has to be ACCEPTED FIRST by the new department before being signed out by the old department. This prevents a students from signing out of thier present departments BEFORE being accepted by the new department and the possibility of BEING LEFT HANGING if the new department does not for any reason accept the student.  This is the system that operates in the University of Ibadan. GO FIND OUT.


ALSO, the university processes your request to change departments after you submit the CHANGE OF COURSE form duely signed by both HOD's (moving from one department to another within the same faculty) and by both Faculty Sub-Deans (moving from one faculty to another). and then SUBMITTED AT THE REGISTRARS OFFICE

Merely carrying around a change of course form signed by the Dean and HOD but has not been submitted for processing does not make one a student of a new department. Moreover the new department only recorgnises you as thier student after they have RECIEVED NOTIFICATION FROM THE REGISTRAR THAT YOUR APPLICATION FOR A CHANGE HAS BEEN APPROVED

Good Morning Folks.

Wallie:
@daguru either watches too much TV or he's a script writer for the sitcoms and soap operas! Why leave off the story when you're getting to the good part? He wants you all to tune in tomorrow at the same time! 

@willie, wish i could remeber the last time i watched a tv programme except channels news. Sorry for the break, it was getting too late and so i had to leave the office to join the chronic lekki-ajah traffic. By the way the demands of my job gives me very little time to sit down and type out details of a particular phase of my life that lasted for over 5years.

tpia@:
i'm also starting to think daguru's story is embellished if not totally imaginary, though.

the breaks in between the tale are a clue.

@tpia. This is a true story about a particular phaser of my life. If you think its madeup then the easiiest way to find that out is to find a doctor on this thread to question my medical knowledge (physiology, Biochemistry, Anatomy, Pharmacology, Pathology etc. BUT NOT Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pedeatrics cuz i left medical school after my part 11 (path and pharm) exams) Also any present or Ex- UIite on this thread can ask me questions to verify my affiliations with UI and UCH.

I understand that my narrative sounds fictional, but that does not in anyway discredit the fact that its true. By the way, i am just another passive nairalander who enjoys reading throgh the threads but barely comments or posts. It was hard for me to withold my story because the subject of this thread directly relates to my life.

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Apologies for the break. I was held up in a meeting that lasted longer than it should.

I returned back later to see him.

T

Letme

Will it go for 40k?

I hope its DVD-RW?

Awiating your response

I am a sales man (Business Development Manager) in the Oil and Gas Industry. I sell very very expensive equipment and services to both the Oil Majors (Shell, Chevron, Total, Agip) and the smaller independent crude oil producers (PANOCEOAN, AFREN, MUNI PULO etc).

I am directly responsible for meeting a minimum yearly turnover of $3,000,000 for my company.

My pay is really cool and i really really love my job. Though sometimes it involves too much domestic and international travel.

AGAINST the backdrop of grinding poverty and allied economic hardship caused by under-employment, job loss and unemployment across the country, former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday warned that popular revolt as recently witnessed in the Arab World might occur in Nigeria if the precarious socio-economic conditions of the citizenry were not urgently addressed.

Obasanjo, who spoke at a workshop on “Economic diversification and revenue generation,” in Abeokuta, Ogun State, stressed that there was discontentment in the land.

He added: “There is the possibility of having the Arab Spring in Nigeria if similar conditions, hardships and un-employment which gave birth to it are not addressed.”    ,  source http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69901:mass-revolt-looms-in-nigeria-obasanjo-warns&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

So he has the guts to talk this way after laying the very bad bed we are all about to lie on. I wish God would punish him and his generation. But our God is too merciful for that

Beaf:
I'm more than willing to give them a chance.

Whose next line of action?

Of course!

BEAF = forking HIPOCRITE. (i must commend the ignoble job you are doing for your boss. Nothig do you at all)

Beaf:
You talk as if you expect the FG to be your all. Do you think your governor is a mere decoration with no function? Why can't your governor feed you? That is something worthy of a revolution, instead of desperately trying to preserve a beggar mentality.

@BEAF, I am shocked at your boldness at excusing the inefficiency of the Federal Government and Its MDA's. We all know they have an unbeatable track record of failing in their promises. How can you excuse thier consistent inability to perform and deliver all the time. ONLY A FOOL LIKE YOU WOULD TRUST GEJ  AND HIS MDA'S TO CORRECTLY IMPLEMENT HIS SO CALLED PALLIATIVE MEASURES to cushion the undisputable disastrous effects of subsidy removal.

PALLIATIVES = ANOTHER AVENUE FOR THE BOYS TO CHOP. simple

Beaf:
^
It is left for you to trust or not, sir. Wiser souls will wait and see.

@bEAF (Mr WISE MAN) do you know that over the years, budget implementation/performance by the MDA's has been nothing to write home about (see this link as a reference http://allafrica.com/stories/201109211119.html).

Going by this level of ineptitude in goverment, you want me to accept that the best solution to the fuel subsidy issue is to do the following
a) Completely Remove the subsidy so that everyone buys petrol at international market price, (a death blow to our already devastated economy)
b) Sit back and pray that our inefficient and corrupt MDA's efficiently implement the palliatives to CUSHION THE OTHERWISE DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF THE SUBSIDY REMOVAL.

I look forward to your WISE and INFORMED comment

Its strange how you don't have the slightest idea of what the palliative measures are, but you claim to know what will result. Are you a voodoo priest? Lol!

OOh so you believe in that half promise called PALLIATIVE measures. Tell me, isnt it the same curruption crippled MDA's going to be responsible for implementing them? We all know how inefficient and clueless this government is?

DO YOU EXPECT ME TO TRUST THE GOVERMNET TO CORRECLT ADMINISTER 'palliative measures' to alleviate the sufferings of 160million Nigerians when it did a very very shoddy job at something as simple as organising an event to HONOUR UNDERSERVING NIGERIANS with National Awards.

'@Beaf, please respond

^ YEAH LIKE THIS ONE BELOW

I always laugh when people talk of the 'fuel cabal' as being the victim of fuel subsidy removal. No it will make no dent on Otedolas, oando tinubus, offors and so on. It is business as usual so long as we continue to import fuel. Infact it is better for them, instead of having to wait and bribe PPPRA to collect the subsidised portion of the full price which they have been charging and will continue to charge, public pays the full price at the fuel stations. Full cash quickly come in  and they pay less interest to banks unlike before when the subsidised portion is tied down in pppra.

What dent has full deregulation of diesel and aviation fuel made on oil importers? Infact they prefer importing those ones.

It is the public that will now have to pay the full price that will notice the difference.[/color][/b]

Beaf:
^
Thanks bro. You've got to wonder about peoples real motives when they haven't even heard the govts plans.

If you don't even have a clue about how the so called subsidy works, how do you know it would bring "unbearable hardship?" See rumour mongering levels! Una go make mama Bintu shame o!
Anyway, since you guys say you want clueless revolution, why ain't you happy at the opportunity?

@ Beaf please ramble about something else other than saying EVERYONE IS CLUELESS ABOUT HOW FUEL SUBSIDY WORKS. I can see you are very far from the realities of the commmon man on the street. I cant help but laugh in pain at what awaits Nigeria if this subsidy is removed.

klas:
@ beaf, regarding the bolded, No, GEJ is not going to stop nnpc from paying demurrage, he is going to stop government from being responsible for reimbursing the nnpc for the demurrage while you and I bear the full cost and pay.

[b]I always laugh when people talk of the 'fuel cabal' as being the victim of fuel subsidy removal. No it will make no dent on Otedolas, oando tinubus, offors and so on. It is business as usual so long as we continue to import fuel. Infact it is better for them, instead of having to wait and bribe PPPRA to collect the subsidised portion of the full price which they have been charging and will continue to charge, public pays the full price at the fuel stations. Full cash quickly come in  and they pay less interest to banks unlike before when the subsidised portion is tied down in pppra.

What dent has full deregulation of diesel and aviation fuel made on oil importers? Infact they prefer importing those ones.

It is the public that will now have to pay the full price that will notice the difference.[/b]

@beaf, Kindly respond to the bolded paragraph

sweet9ja:
When I read that those goons at NAS rejected the proposed removal of subsidy on petrol without even bothering to debate the isue, I said if I was in the shoes of mr. President, I'd introduce it by executive fiat or even go further by declaring a state of economic emergency. I'm really glad that GEJ seem to be thinking thesame.
Folks, I've always maintained that the subsidy on petrol has long outlived it's usefulness. Those who are against deregulation are either ignorant or just selfish 'cos the truth is that the benefit will outweigh the initial pain that it may cause.
Those calling for revolution must remenber that; revolution is like entering a dark tunnel, you don't know what awaits you at the other end.

Its the unbearable hardship that would result from the removal of subsidy thats gonna lead to a revolution, NOT THE CLAMOUR FOR IT