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1stola: I guess it 2010

i doubt it...it looks much older...like it was shot in the 80's....

1stola: LAGOS ISLAND

what year was this photo taken?

igbonerd: ETS doesn't accept Master card for Nigerian test takers; you'd need a Visa card. I got mine from First Bank and it cost me #2,000 and less than a week to do so.

I should alert you that because there are only three centers in Lagos, and we're just entering a fresh admission window, seats for the GRE are filling up really fast. As I type this, the earliest date you available is October 26. Or maybe even later. Another alternative is registering to take the exam in another state: Port Harcourt or Abuja.

I'm forewarning you because I'm presuming you're working with the December 15 deadline, else there's no rush. Lemme know if you need any clarification.

Not entirely true, You can pay with Mastercard via Paypal. ETS accepts paypal.

tolutweety: Good day to everyone,
i will be scheduling my GRE test for next month or early september. I need someone to help with a material to help prepare for the test(whether hard or soft copy).
Any possible tips and advice on how to get a very high score would also be appreciated.

my email : tolutweety@ymail.com

Thanks.

will send you Grubber's Gre 2014 as soon as my connection picks up....

francisabuah: Gud morin house,plz I need info on how to register for TOEFL and GRE on my own.plz I need the information as soon as possible,pplease.thanks and God bless

GRE AND TOEFL REGISTRATION FOR THOSE WHO DONT HAVE VISA CARDS BUT HAVE GTBANK MASTERCARD[/size][size=8pt][/font]

Simple. Here's how i did mine.

1. Required Items
a. Visa Atm Card or GTBank MasterCard + Paypal Account
b. For GRE =$200.00 or its Naira Equivalent @$1=165
c. For TOEFL =$180.00 OR its Naira Equivalent @$1=165

2. Create an Account

a. For TOEFL, Create an Account @ http://www.ets.org/toefl?WT.ac=toeflhome_why_121127
b. For GRE, Create an Account @ http://www.ets.org/gre

3. After Creating accounts, register for Test and select your prefered date and test location. OR Skip this section[size=8pt][/size][font=Lucida Sans Unicode] to (5) if u already have a paypal account.

4. Pay for Test
a. Payment with Visa Cards is easy and straight forward. Just ensure you have the said amounts listed above and your good to go.

However there's an alternative means of payment: PAYPAL. I recommend this method for those who dont have VISA cards but have functioning Mastercards - in my case: Gtbank Mastercard. This method was previously unavailable to Nigerians but with the commencement of Paypal operations in Nigeria, its works full time. Its also highly secure since payments are made with your email address and not your atm card number.

Since i didn't have a VISA card and i didn't want the stress and hassle of setting up a new account, I made all payments for GRE and TOEFL via Paypal.

Here's how i did it:

4. Create a Paypal account @ https://www.paypal.com/ng/webapps/mpp/home . Its free and easy.
After setting up your paypal account, connect your GTbank Mastercard to your paypal account. Its the same as verifying your paypal account.

IMPORTANT: Ensure you have at least $200 or the nairala Equivalent (for GRE) OR $180 or the Naira Equivalent for TOEFL, in your Gtbank Account. NOTE: You dont need a dormicilliary account, a Gtbank savings or current account works just fine. Transferring funds from your gtbank account to paypal is not neccessary either.

5. Log into your GRE or TOEFL account, register for the test, select your preferred test location and date, Proceed to checkout with "Paypal" and type in your paypal account details. Paypal makes an automated call/query to your gtbank to ascertain if you have sufficient funds. If funds are sufficient, paypal submits your payment to ETS. Thats all.

Here's a snapshot of my TOEFL payment on Paypal. If you have any questions, send a pm or mention me. I'd be glad to help.

@bigfrancis21 Where u @ Boss, need ur help.

@slimmy05 u got mail. Need ur help biko

scholag: I had issues with questions 10-20, there were no comprehension passages or whatsoever to answer the questions. I practically chose 'cannot say' in almost all of them....

@ charlyBoy1 thats the glitch i was referring to.

Datanonymous: Hello house, All Glory and honour to God in the highest. Him and only Him deserves all praise. VISA was approved on Monday 7th July, Got it today. Umh... Sorry I'm just pasting my transcript, I just needed to complete it right so I wouldn't miss any detail out.
Now, my transcript is going to be a little explicative and detailed than the usual, pardon me for the space.

Pre-Interview Day
Pre-Interview day was Sunday, I took a ride to the embassy in the evening around 5 pm to get a feel of the place and familiarize myself with the surroundings, when I got there, I met with the security men, told them I had an appointment for 6:30 am the next day and they told me I had to be around like day 5:30 – 6 am. I took a stroll around the building while claiming my ground there then went home to sleep.



Interview Day:
Woke up 3:30am I barely slept though, had my bath, dressed up clean in a black suit, white shirt and red tie to match, literally bathed myself in my 1million cologne and set off at 4:20am. The drive was smooth, no hold up n shi. I was the first to arrive the embassy around 5am sharp! I actually got there too early, took my sit down and waited, then people started coming one after the other, and within say 15-30 mins after, the place was getting filled.
As I said before, as much as possible, I'm not missing out any detail here for those that would be going, I need you to have an idea of where you are going before you get there.

6:00am: We all got lined up, normal search went on at the check point and then we were asked to line up in front of the walkway that leads to the pavilion. (Put ur i20, sevis fee receipt, application confirmation page, ds190 confirmation page, 1passport photograph inside ur passport at this point).

6:20 am: Walkway was opened, we were checked inside the pavilion, our docs were checked again followed by another body check then we crossed the embassy road into the embassy building.
OK... I actually stopped checking my time at this point, was getting a little anxious.


INTERVIEW HALL
Inside the Embassy:
Was asked to drop belt, wrist watch, wallet, and everything metallic in a bowl, walk past a scanner, my stuffs passed through a scanner too after which I got my belt and stuffs back.
Then took a walk into the main interview building, picked a number A015 and moved into the interview hall.

Inside the Interview Hall:
The number I picked came up... I moved to the counter number on which it came up, my passport containing the earlier documents was collected (please sign your i20 before this stage or you might be sent out to sign it, this could kick you off balance, don't get disorganized), my appointment confirmation page and sevis receipt were handed back to me after which I took my sit waiting for thumb printing.
After a while my number came up again on another window, (be alert and attentive), walked towards the window, four left fingers first, followed by right four fingers and then the two thumbs simultaneously.
After this, was the Ghenghen stage... The interview

Within the next few mins, the interview started and numbers started popping up...
I was sitting few seats away from the chinko guy's window and Mehn that guy is crazy. He approved the visa of the first lady he interviewed and denied every other person he interviewed till I left.... I was literally feeling my heart in my mouth and seriously praying my number doesn't pop up on his window, the rest were issuing and denying but that guy prolly made up his mind to give the first and deny the rest... After a while, my number popped up and it wasn't the chinko guy but a gentle looking young dude.... Here is my interview transcript

Me: Good Morning sir!

VO: Morning *looking into his computer screen*

Me: Umh... How was ur Independence Day celebration. (US independence was Friday, 4th July, My interview was Monday).

VO: looks up, shrugs, blushes, gave a big grin and said... It was OK... Thanks

Me: I smiled too *in my mind I said I Don get u today* (Confidence was beaming in me at this point)

VO: So why do u want to go to Oklahoma State University?

Me: Well, I graduated from Physiology from *school name* medical school with a second class upper degree, umh...

VO: *cuts in* u went to medical school?

Me: Yes, the medical school encompasses several courses as medicine, Physiology, biochemistry, anatomy, pharmacology... Blablabla...

VO: *nods head*

Me: *continued* so during my final year thesis, I did a research on cardiovascular physiology which is a branch of physiology I have developed great passion for and wish to specialize in. however, I was limited in this research because my school and faculty lacked the necessary equipments to conduct a standard research and this made me determine to want to become a lecturer and a researcher so I can get an opportunity to conduct researches of my own which require me having a masters degree and I feel the best place to get that degree is the USA.

VO: *was looking at me concentrated all the while, me sef no blink, I Dey stare am for eyes* ok... OK... What branch did u say u want to specialize in?

Me: Cardiovascular Physiology

VO: can u tell me what that means?

Me: *for my mind, I Don finish you here today, nah my field* :p Well cardiovascular Physiology basically is the study of the heart and blood vessels and how they work, when I say blood vessels I mean, arteries, veins, arterioles, venules... *vo cuts in*

VO: ok... Ok... So what have u been doing since u graduated?

Me: I just graduated few months back

VO: so what did u do to get this admission?

Me: Well I did some standardized tests, I did the GRE and TOEFL, I have my scorecards here, do I bring them?

VO: Yes please, let me see your GRE

Me: *passes scorecard* *he was checking through and typing simultaneously* had 149 verbal, 156 quantitative, 4.5 analytical writing, TOEFL... 109, he didn't check TOEFL*

VO: What courses will u do in ur first semester?

Me: fundamentals in medical Physiology, fundamentals in medical pharmacology and biochemistry, 3 courses, 3 credit hours each... Making 9 credit hours per semester.

VO: *nods* *hands back my gre scorecard* so who is going to pay?

Me: My mum would be sponsoring me, she is a commissioner in my state, I have her bank statement, payslips and statement of support here, do I bring them?

VO: no don't worry... * types for a few seconds* Then said... YOUR VISA HAS BEEN APPROVED!!! pick it up on Thursday, * hands me my i20 and the white form*

Me: Thanks with a big grin! I pack my stuffs and literally run out... Immediately I got out I comot tie, unbutton that tight neck button, con walk comot.

Met a cool guy there whose visa also got approved, going to Indiana. As I was walking towards the car park... The security guys just Dey talk congratulations congratulations... Lol I noh sabi ao Dem take know... Prolly cos of the way I was walking tho... Like Denzel Washington!

Anyways... Umh.... Imma drop a few personal hints here...
1) Fast and Pray
2) Fast and Pray
3) Fast and Pray (3 days dey enough, you won’t die trust me, u go chop all u want when u get to the USA… lol)
4) Be confident
Confidence is key Mehn it can't be overemphasized... U have to know what u going to the US to do, be emphatic and articulate with ur responses.
5) Practice.... I practiced with my mum, my brother and my mirror... Looking straight into their eyes and mine in the mirror.
6) Read this thread... Basically the transcripts are enormously helpful there is nothing they gon ask u that’s not on this thread already.
7) Get there early *nurtures ur confidence*
Have all documents ready and follow all instructions strictly.
9) Anticipate the questions, you know what they gon ask u already, give them what they want before they ask, eg: I told him my mum was gon sponsor, I didn’t wait for him to ask what she does before I told him, also I already told him my undergrad course, what I wanted to do after my masters program and established little bit of home ties from just one question. This should go a long way to reduce the questions asked. *MY OPINION*
9) Thank God... And believe they have no reason to deny you... They want u to go, they need ur money, they need to fill up spaces and u already have a space with ur admission. Your visas would be issued by God's grace!!! Amen!!!

Image 1 is a sketch of the Embassy building.
Image 2 is a sketch of the interview hall.

Thanks to everyone on this thread!!! Everyone has been awesome!!! Wish everyone ALL of the best!!!
These VISAs are there to be given to us, they are ours, Lets get’em all!!! NL will dominate!!!
#PeaceOut!!!

Omo this ur sketch accurate die o!!!!!!!!!.....lol......

charlyBoy1: finished mine exactly 9am with 5mins to spare & it went well smoothly. There was no technical glitch or something of a sort like most folks complained in previous comments...
For those of you yet to write, it's 30 questions with 40 mins to answer them. 1-20 are Data Interpretation questions(1-10 Bar charts related while 11-20 information/table diagram) 21-30 are verbal reasoning(comprehension with a "true, false or cannot say" option...tricky but easy)

Take your time. The questions are not difficult..You need to use more of your thinking faculty. That's all... Good luck Ya'll

Did u encounter issues with Questions 11-20?

nonso84: Hello Workforce, please if you guys are on this thread, do something on server, i completed my questions before time and clicked finish test, i had a pop up to close , i clicked on it, was logout out. when i logged in again i noticed my questions started again from the beginning with 4mins.
Please you guys need to do something on this ASAP.
Hope i did not waste my time in preparing and writing your test.

same thing happened to me, Luckily i had most of the solutions to my questions written on a paper by my side.

sobsidy: most of the comprehension were nt showing, I wonder how the expect pple to answer questions without comprehension to read from. na wa

You mean ur comprehension passages were not visible?......How about Quest 10-19?, did u find any chart or table or you were presented with the questions directly?

avuekwe: My daer, I was just picking any answer cos at first , I thought the questions were not complete on my screen. Please what how did u answe them?

U had the same problem!!!, then i guess its a system-network error of some sort. If thats the case, i proceeded just like u did - Random selection aka #tubu-tubu-things. Just incase sha, most of my selections were "Cannot tell" due to insufficient information.

hotice1954: At the end of the test does it notify You if you are successful Or not?? Please sm1 dat has done the test should pls Reply me. Tanx

There are no Notifications, just a confirmation that you took the test.

by the way, the test was cheap.

Dfavouredone: just keep trying it, it will open. Pple that wrote this morning had similar problem but the site still went thru later.

When you finish, pls gist us let see if those that wrote in the morning and those of u writing now have thesame/similar questions.

Just finisihed writing, however i think my test questions had errors. I couldn't access the site normally so i tried to open a google cache of the website and it worked. One problem with this method: there was no chart for questions 10-19 - the questions on programming,database and web developement packages. Please, if you have written the test, i would like to know if is this was a general problem or was it cos i used the google cache version of the test site?

Shortlisted for 12-3pm....its 12.19pm and the site is not opening...Naija i hail....

unnamdi79: my passport is also gonna expire next year during my period of study,I advice you leave it that way and then get a replacement when it expires from the Nigerian immigration in the US(my cousin did his own same way)..my own opinion

Thanks for your speedy response. Can u please provide more details for acquiring a replacement while in the U.S?

Please House, Advise Needed.

Am preparing to apply for an Msc in Computer science - Spring 2015. Its no news that American Msc's usually run for 2years, Thing is, my Nigerian Passport expires in 2016. That would mean my passport would expire during my period of study.

My Question: should i proceed with my current passport which would expire in 2016 or go get a replacement with a much longer lifespan?

mikolo80: The only mistake we need not make is to NOT DO SOMETHING about our problems. We need to organise/nobilise and challenge our elders for the title.even if its just in one productive industry e.g. Fish,solid minerals,palm oil,industrial parks, total recall politics, just lets do something

Spot on Bro....Evil thrives when good men do nothing.

#LetsDoSomething

olumide098: Do not worry urself....U can book hotel for 5k for bariga and take just 1200 naira cab to water carrington around 5.15 am in the morning....under 10 minutes u will be there....pm me for better explanation

Can u Pls share more details on this....I need this info....Thx alot....

Deadly Mistake #1: BELIEVING IN VISIONS First we were told it would be vision 2000, the millennium vision. This was when Nigerian would reach its greatness…then that got postponed to 2010 and now we have the optometrically cute vision 2020! Our generation has to realize the urgency of the situation. People are not looking for vision 2020…they are looking for vision now-now. What can we get done now…immediately…not in 10 years time or 5 years time or whenever another cute year comes along. The visions have to stop in our time. There is just too much to be done for people to be talking about visions or the future. We have to talk about what we can do now and then how it influences the future. Not the reverse, because the reverse has made us lazy.

So when we talk about fixing things like NEPA it should be with a sense of urgency, when we talk about fixing roads it should be with urgency. People want to know see what you can do now and not what you can do in the future…

Deadly Mistake #2: BELIEVING THAT PRAYER IS THE KEY I know I am going to get in trouble with this one, but prayer is not the key. I mean if the amount of times a nation prays was directly proportional to its success and prosperity, then Nigeria will be #1 in africa the world. But sadly we are not, because prayer is not the key, it is actually an excuse that conditions us to wait around for someone else to solve our problems. It has made us lazy as a nation. American probably has fewer churches per square meter that Nigeria, but yet is more progressive than us. And it is simply because they pray but with action. I don’t believe God’s vision when he said pray without ceasing was for people to pray 23 hours a day and then spend 1 hour waiting around for a miracle to happen. It does not work that way…it reminds me of an excerpt from the classic Things Fall Apart, when Okonkwo’s father went to complain to the priestess Agbala about his poor harvest:

“Every year,” he said sadly, “before I put any crop in the earth, I sacrifice a cock to Ani, the owner of all land. It is the law of our fathers. I also kill a cock at the shrine of Ifejioku, the god of yams. I clear the bush and set fire to it when it is dry. I sow the yams when the first rain has fallen, and stake them when the young tendrils appear. I weed-”

“Hold your peace!” screamed the priestess, her voice terrible as it echoed through the dark void. “You have offended neither the gods nor your fathers. And when a man is at peace with his gods and his ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm…Go home and work like a man.”

If God could talk to Nigerians today, he would probably say the same thing as the priestess and that is for us to go home, go to our communities, go to school and work! Not sleep in church all day wondering why things are not getting better. Because the fact is that God has heard Nigeria’s prayers, we don’t need to repeat it 7 times or sleep in the church. What we need to do is get out and make a difference in our community. Because prayer is not the key…prayer with LOTS (intentionally capitalized) of action is the key!


Deadly Mistake #3: ASSUMING PATRIOTISM IS GUARANTEED

Because a person is born in Nigeria, has a green passport and bears Chukwu or Olu or Mohammed in his name….does not automatically mean he owes his country anything. A country has to earn its citizens respect and patriotism. I repeat that…a country has to earn its citizens respect and patriotism.

It does not earn its citizens respect, by frustrating them with needless bureaucracy, by pilfering tax payers money, by setting up road blocks upon road blocks for them. No! it does so by doing the reverse, by showing its citizens it cares for them, about their image and about their well-being. By fighting for them when they are persecuted in other countries, but most importantly when they are persecuted in their own country!

Do not make this deadly mistake to assume patriotism should be given simply because one was born in a certain country. People are not patriotic to America simply because they were born in America, but rather because of what America has done for them.

Sadly, this is something that Nigeria has not gotten right, just take a look at our NYSC program! We have a national service program being mandated by a government that is not in the position to mandate it. When you provide mandatory free health care for your citizens, free Education for your citizens, Scholarship and interest free loans for your citizens, then you can mandate their service. But we don’t do any of the above and worst still we mandate their service rather arrogantly. One day in an NYSC office and you will understand what I mean by arrogantly, you will see how the officials talk down to students as if they are mosquitos that need to be swatted away…all you need is one day, or even one hour.

When a student comes to you to serve your nation, you should ensure that you treat that person with respect. You do so by extending proper customer service to them. But NYSC does the reverse. The customer service is terrible. Little wonder, why majority of NYSCers are relishing the moment that the program is over, because it has shown them in the 1 year or so they served…that they are serving a country that does not care about them. And they carry that feeling of resent with them after the service.

Our generation has to change this…we need to look to earn our citizens patriotism and respect. Our citizens are immigrating out of Nigeria in large volumes. Not because they don’t love their country but rather because they don’t feel the country is looking out for them. We have to create a country where Nigerians have a reason multiple reasons to be patriotic.

Deadly Mistake #4: MISCONSTRUING PAPER INTELLIGENCE FOR PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE How many degrees we have, the number of distinctions we got in school or how young we were when we graduated is absolutely meaningless in the grand scheme of things. What matters instead is how we are able to transform our intelligence and our degrees into practical solutions for our nation. I mean we all know that Nigerians are the smartest people in Africa and the World sef, we have broken all the global university records that are there to break from youngest graduate to valedictorian and more. But yet, the degrees do not correlate to any form of improvement in our nation.

I think it is because we are focused on the wrong intelligence, the paper intelligence. What we need is to get off our addiction to paper intelligence and instead focus on real tangible intelligence. When William Kamkwamba designed a wind mill in his village in Malawi he did it without a high-school diploma but yet his impact was much more than thousands with PhD’s. Not to say that we don’t have Nigerians making that type of difference, but with our degrees and potential we should be doing way more. But I really don’t blame the students, our Universities do not help either. I’ll explain with one of many examples…

We all know that mobile devices are the future, more people are using mobile devices more than any time in the world. They are using it to access the internet, read books and even make mobile transactions. All of these are powered by Mobile apps, which are becoming the future. You would think that our universities would have made mobile app programming a core part of our national curriculum, but they haven’t and some Universities for example Covenant University even take it a step further and ban mobile devices on campus! So at the end of the day we have a first class upper computer engineer, with all the honors in the world draped around his poor neck, but yet he is not able to design a simple mobile app, that a 13 year old, high-school kid in Ukraine can design! That is sad….we need to avoid making this deadly mistake of paper intelligence and focus on practical intelligence that can help our nation!

Deadly Mistake #5: OVER RESPECTING ELDERS Nigeria is an egotistic country….if you don’t believe me, then just open your local newspaper on the birthday of a famous politician. You will see that all your pages would be filled with praises from adoring sycophants. I have never seen anything like that, from the gateman opening your gate to the security guard guarding your house…everyone wants to be addressed as “Oga”or “Chief Something.” After some time it becomes quite comical. But, beyond the comedy is a very dangerous aspect. When a nation over respects its elders to the point that when they (the elders) are messing up, nobody below them can speak up…it leads to idea regression. So we end up accumulating a glut of inept older people, with smarter younger (might I mention respectful people around them), that are too afraid to speak up because of the thing we call respect. This over-respect is killing us.

If we are to avoid this mistake in our time, we would have to swallow a truck load of humility and accept criticism and ideas from anyone no matter who they are or how young they are. The phrase “do you know who I am” would have to disappear from our vocabulary, because to be honest nobody should care who you are, but rather what you can do to make their lives better…

PS: If I had my way, a bunch of the civil servants and university professors would be fired, not just because they are old, but because they have blocked their minds from receiving criticisms from subordinates and from getting new ideas. This is why our politics is run by older people repeating the same mistakes, because there is no fresh influx of ideas. Let us get rid of this shenanigans called respect! Nigeria is more important than a persons ego!

Deadly Mistake #6: FOCUSING ON INDIVIDUAL WEALTH Banana Island and Parkview estate are one of the richest pieces of real estate in West Africa. But yet when it rains…both Banana Island and Parkview estate turn into rivers! These estates with their collection of multi-millionaires (in dollars not naira) living in the fanciest houses have not been able to bring their individual wealth together to address their estates flooding problem. This is the irony of Nigeria! And it stems from the misunderstanding that individual wealth in the midst of communal poverty is somehow still wealth. Sadly it is not…it is poverty and mass stupidity.

But people fail to realize that and are instead interested in filling their pockets and leaving nothing for their communities. So they buy the flashiest cars, but neglect to fix the roads they will drive it on…build the largest houses in their villages so that people can gawk and adore them, but yet the community is in shambles. Some even go aboard to spend this individual wealth…and that is where it gets ironic.

I attended the University of Houston (main campus), which was located smack dab in the middle of 3rd ward. Now 3rd ward is not the greatest neighborhood out there…it is technically considered a ghetto in Houston. But the irony is that the roads in 3rd ward are as good as the roads on the famed bourdillon boulevard. As a community 3rd ward is way richer than Bourdillon and that is a lesson. Because as rich as Nigeria claims to be, we are simply living on individualistic wealth. Until the community, the village, the facilities the roads start reflecting that wealth we would be poor. So we need to ensure the focus is not on individual wealth but rather on the wealth of our community. Only then would we acquire true national wealth.

Deadly Mistake #7: CONTRACT IS NOT A LOTTERY When I was growing up I used to think that contract was cash given to Nigerian citizens lucky enough to get it…but who could blame me for my stupidity, the average Nigerian that I meet was always talking about the greatest and latest contract that was available and how one uncle or sister had hit the contract jack pot. So it is no surprise that when I attend speeches of successful Nigerian businessmen and women. The average Nigerian businessman vagues you out about the origins of of his wealth. He or she does not give you details or specifics about their wealth. Because if they did, it would sound like this..

“I got a contract, I chopped the money and I started my own business and I became rich. The End.”

That is why we rarely have well-written Steve Jobs like biographies of our wealthy, there is just not enough honest detail to create those sorts of books. Our generation needs to change that…our stories should be like the Linda Ikeji’s (lindaikeji..com) and Jason Njoku’s (iroko.tv) of Nigeria…stories that are transparent and reflect hard work and determination. But more importantly stories that contain the details: how, when, where and what!

But before I get carried away with the story aspect of contract, let our generation not forget that contracts are created to be executed. The execution of contracts is what builds a generation’s legacy.

Imagine if the individuals contracted to build the Taj Mahal in India or the 7-star Palm Hotel in Dubai (the Burj Al Arab) pilfered the funds and created a substandard version of both properties or nothing at all…imagine what would happen? Let me tell you what would happen, they would probably become very rich, probably build a huge house somewhere, but that home they build will never be as magnificent as the Taj Mahal and it would not create a legacy and it will not make a country better or add to its economy.

This has been the issue with Nigeria for years, contracts that are meant to make the nation greater are instead pilfered to make an individual richer. If our generation is to make a difference, we would have to execute contracts, honestly and diligently. We would also have to execute grand contracts not so that we can steal more money, but so that we can make our country more greater[sic]…by so doing our legacy will survive for years.

Bonus Deadly Mistake: Asking What Village Are You From: Whenever I introduce my friends to my mum, male or female and especially female. She asks me this question “where are they from?” I normally stare with a blank look, not because I don’t have an idea what the answer but because my mum wants to know the exact village they are from. Growing up, I never thought about anything like that, to me everybody that was black was Nigerian. But as I grew older I started learning that there were “ndi Yoruba,” “omo igbo” and “awon hausa dem.” And even within each of the major three divisions, there were subsets…the subsets and divisions where meaningless to me, but as I began growing up and experiencing the real world I started noticing them in companies, in ministries and everywhere. People making decisions based on ethnicity…decisions to hire and decisions to get married. The truth of the matter, is that we would need to see ourselves firstly as Nigerians before any other ethnic group break down we have fabricated. Until we do this, Nigeria, will just be a fragmentized shell of its true self….and yes this applies to the whole North-South power rotation BS going on…that has to go!

CONCLUSION: LEAVE IT BETTER THAN YOU SAW IT

All in all, if we are to make a difference, we would have to stop over praying, stop over respecting, stop focusing on good grades, stop focusing on being individually wealthy and stop fighting for contracts. We would simply in summation have to strive to do things differently by doing them better. Which brings me to my final point: Let’s leave things better than we met it.

That is the basic motto our generation needs to adhere to…Like seriously, leave things better…no matter how small. When you go to a toilet and you see it dirty, wipe it down and leave it better than you saw it. If you go to work and it is disorganized, seek for ways to improve it.

That simple statement is the key to growth, not just for us to push ourselves, but for us to push others around us to leave things better than we met it! When we instill this philosophy of making things better, we will progress. At the end of the day, when our generation retires (and we would) Nigeria can say it was truly better…that is our hope…that is our goal because it’s time to turn off the generators!

Source: http://ofilispeaks.com/generation/

Mukina2, Biko move to front page....We all need to read this.

Amefrica: Hackers are liable to die young!

Brotherly, i tire o....Nairaland's home to many - A digital Nigerian community...You can find info on virtually any topic....Many have made friends,made e-enemies, found love and made the right choices all based on information available on nairaland. Why would someone or a group of persons want to destroy all that value?

Lets observe one minute of silence for all the lost interview transcripts and valuable information.


In other news, make una drop una interview Transcripts....Life must go......No hacker fashioned against this community of ours shall prosper.

Mehn!....This is bad!...Nairaland Just lost a massive portion of Part 5 and all of Part 6!..."Daris God o!"....