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beloveeed:
hmmmm!!!

quite an interesting piece of advice dashed out by those that have tasted nigerian system and gone abroad. i must say thanks to all asundry.
my questions are

Currently ETF are about to sponsor a few of my colleagues to do thier masters (1 year), will 3 million naira be really convenient for this folks or must they combine with work?

i have not seen any thread yet that is dedicated to OPEN university (NOUN) where the merits/demerits of attending such cos i intend to pursue my pgd in the NOUN.
question
If u have or currently are studying in NOUN PGD, how efficient is the programme?

thanks to all

if the 3m is for their allowance after the tuition's been paid then they are fine
3million naira will only cover the tuition

How do you relax generally?


Listening to music and daydreaming.

lol ^

However, the Commissioner of Police, Anti-Bomb Squad, Mr. Ambrose Aisabor, on Saturday told journalists in a telephone interview that the business was legal as it was authorised by the police anti-bomb unit.

He said that STF was being mischievous by going on the air even when one of his officers had intervened to tell them the true position.

According to him, the company that owned the consignment is licensed by the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development to deal in explosives for commercial purposes.

He said that the explosives were being moved from the company’s magazine (a place where explosives are escorted like armoury for arms) in Kaduna to its Jos office before the truck was intercepted.

Aisabor added that the constable, who was escorting the explosives was properly authorised by his superiors in Kaduna, adding that the fact that he was not wearing his uniform as at the time the truck was intercepted, was an issue that could be dealt with departmentally.

He said, “Explosives are used in aviation, road construction, oil companies to blast stones and the company has the proper licence to do the business. This is a cheap propaganda and they have succeeded in just deceiving themselves. They want people to know that they are working.

“The movement was a legal one and the law allows only men of the anti-bomb squad (Explosives Ordinance Depot) to escort such consignment to its final destination. Indeed, the truck was only 200 metres to its destination, AT Mister Ali, before it was intercepted. I was made to understand that one of my officers asked the driver to give the phone to the soldiers to speak to them but they refused.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2011031311163048

Jonathan and his boy boy security chief whipping up fake alarms, very incompetent bunch from head to toe!

na so me sef see am o!

according to one headline some years ago, I[b]beto to storms NSE[/b],
plans mega ipo, road show, massive recruitment drive; international this and that

Ibeto should be encouraged to list on the NSE, that way many people will scrutinise their account and rate their management team, not only that he will gain more government patronage as well as international funding

Ibeto has been threatening to list on the NSE since 2006

Where's Donzman?

Now, i'd calculation of empirical and molecular formulae in those books and they'd presented it in a very easy to understand and apply system so i started using it to solve problems on that topic. Now our first assesment test for chemistry was entirely on empirical and molecular formulae. I used the method i learnt from the books to solve the questions and got each of them right so imagine my surprise when our test scripts were returned and i got a big, fat zero. The woman then wrote at the bottom; "is this what i taught you?"

Lmao, and i can bet if you try to challenge her, you will be in her bad book forever!

Why are teachers/lecturers so dictatorial ?

EMANY 01:
I have been  preparing  to take   my  masters  in  the UK but  I  wonder  that  it  would   be   odd being  in  a class with   people looking  , Well   much younger   than you am pretty much hugging thirty. For those already there what's   the age distribution of   an average   masters   class in   say   the engineering   field.
@ topic/poster
Never  having  schooled   abroad  I   could   never  tell which  is    harder    though I  would  imagine  that   regardless  of   the  "stress' that  we  passed  through   here it   could  never   be   as   hard  as  it  is   there. I mean I’m   preparing  to   take   a  top up    year in  a   university  in  the UK and the reading   materials/list   they    have   sent   me    is  absolutely  massive (control  engineering , digital   signal  processing, advanced   engineering  mathematics  and  microelectronics). I  covered   these   areas   broadly   in  my  undergraduate  studies (the  Nigerian  way)    but  the  reading  materials/list  sent   states  objectives  that  mean  I  have  to   cover about  three years   work again(self  study by  the  way) This  time   in much more  detail as  i  have  to have   much  more  than a  passing   familiarity   with  the  concepts    otherwise   I am  toast   as   soon  as  I  get  there.
The  fact  that  i  have   to  take   a   top up  year  tells   a story about  the state of the facilities for training the future technical resource people of this country.Oh  by  the   way   i  went    through n an   FUT: go  figure.

You have absolutely nothing to worry about there are over 30s in undergraduate engineering course, and the don't feel out of place if anything the younger students acknowledge their real life work experience. Age is nothing when it comes to education in the UK, as long as you are not expecting anyone to call you 'uncle' 'bros' instead of your first name, even the professors are address usually by their first name- the only person that knows your age is you!

Dont Give/offer your boss Hi 5

Seems some people are saying one of the reason quality is better is because of the fees?

do students have to pay higher fees in nigerian universities before Lecturers start respecting their students or changing their dictatorial style of teaching?

What does higher fees have to do with cleaning the university environment, some schools in Nigeria have dirty dustbin like environment! What does it take the VC/Lecturers etc to actually put a system in place? they all keep shouting 'underfunding'

When will professors start actually contributing to the economy? all the prof dr engineers in the universities should develop something!

What does it take for the VC/Lecturers etc to have a meeting with companies so they can update the curriculum to have real life impact when student leave uni


You don't really need money for these!!! its common sense.

Nsiman:
Meine, haven't u heard that contracts for power projects have been awarded by gej? So why your questn?

we've also heard of the contracts awarded before gej, ?

What is the pedigree of the Labour party candidate? who is he what has he done before

It's not enough to just list many allegation, this isn't the first time EFCC is interrogating someone

and how exactly can we conclude the Shonga Farms project is a failed project it's only been five years

If a bank especially a state bank cant gather the 25b required by the CBN does that mean the MD/CEO collaborated to kill the bank

^^ it's 3,800MW actually not 4000 like the bomb GEJ dropped via facebook

effizy

What up with their website it's empty, so much for a next generation news station

do a google of 3i nigeria aviation and what do you find absolutely nothing!


so easy to make money of the govt, visit some phoney states and they'll dash you land and give you money as support
Voila

martinosi:
Hmm that soo true.

Do you have any Do's and Donts for working in a Nigerian Office,

Dont not call anyone especially those above/or older than you by name even the receptionist or gate-man

You have to put a Mr, Sir, shareman Chairman or a combination of the above Mr Chairman Sir!

Do attend all ceremonies especially those by senior colleagues, house warming, cousins cousins wedding, 40 year remembrance etc etc jks

We now have a lying President 

a bare faced incompetent liar !!

gbengress1:
They organised scholarship exam, promised 2 give 500 students scholarship result with their names in d newspaper and on d website.No result of successful candidates was released, only 2be told dat 238 students(of unknown identity) have been arbitrarily selected in d sub-news of d national dalies.
What a shame with their huge revenue

Tell you reps to sign the freedom of Information bill so you can get access to the names and method of choosing the winners


Why are Nigerian telcos not listed on the NSE so nigerians can benefit?

How much is Glo making in Ghana/Benin? are they investing their profits back in Ghana or cashing it in naija?

When MTN was investing and doing the hard work, nigeria companies were probably doing the only marketing strategy they know best- PROMOOOOOO you don win ooo

with the the PhD, MBA carriers in our overeducated society SA companies come dey hammer us with our 'real giant of african slogan'

hey atleast there is Ghana we can bully the little countries  

Why y'all complaining like you dont have OPTIONS?

Zamfara 0-1 Sunshine

Rangers 1- 0 Heartland


Sunshine 4 points behind Dolphins

Wetin do Enyimba, they are not even going to the continent at this pace

[quote author=U de vex? link=topic=620385.msg7881201#msg7881201 date=1299712586]The bolded is all that counts, anything else is supposition and blind guesswork. The fact that many Nigerians have dual nationality simply kills any counter-arguments,[/quote]sorry what percentage qualifies for 'many' abegi

she tabooooooooooon kpa kpa!!

she is a master shooter!!

10/03/2011

The Minister of Finance, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, on Tuesday, said that the country was now generating 3,800 megawatts of electricity.

Aganga, while speaking to journalists shortly after the meeting of the Presidential Action Committee on Power, said that the 3,800MW, which was the highest the country had generated in recent years, was achieved on Monday.

He said that; currently, the country did not have the capacity to generate 4,000MW, adding that within the next few months, Nigerians would see a tremendous improvement in the nation’s power sector.

Aganga briefed journalists in company with the Special Adviser to the President on Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji; the Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, Ms. Bolanle Onagoruwa; and representatives of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

The minister admitted that funding was a critical factor hampering progress in the power sector, but added that the Federal Government was seriously searching for private investors, who would revive the sector.

He said, “The 3,800MW has been the highest peak for years and that was achieved on Monday. So, we are making progress. One of the areas, which the committee has recommended, is that we want to start getting feedback from the distribution agency.”

Jonathan said 4000, Finance minister in presence of presidential adviser says 3800mw

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201103093494646


e don happen! 

i hope bumbling johnny will not sack mr goldman

NYSC is not recognised outside nigeria!! though some countries have similar programs

perhaps they have zero work experience

Pharoh:
In life brother you pick the battles you can to win and which you know that you have the strongest advantage, it is called strategy. Winning an election involves many strategic moves and if going to a debate does not serve you well then avoid it and find better alternatives to win the election. The president is a person that is reasonable enough to make choices which he deems fit are beneficial to him and it is not by force to reinforce your popularity by going into a debate.  There are countless ways to kill a rat and it is your choice to pick what kind of trap or tools you need to do that and so to you it is only in debate that you can show your leadership credentials?.

About bias well it  might exist but i have not investigated it alot right now to make a conclusion but one thing i know is that. The opposition candidates has heated up the polity and shifted the advantage towards their division by shifting the direction of the questions towards their main arguments. In a very reasonable debate i don't think those questions are needed in a debate and that is one of the reason goodluck is not interested in participating in the debate.

No a debate is certainly not the only way to exhibit your leadership credentials but it will certainly help most especially if you have in your one year of leadership avoided by hook or crook any national interview to defend or promote your policies if at all you have any. I mean in moving with the times, open a facebook account and encourage 'followers' to only 'like' your comments, is it really out of place to encourage him to agree to a debate so his views can have a wider audience and actually get robust assessment of his policies?


What questions? has the questions been set already? were they set in collaboration with the opposition parties?
I really wonder why you think 'those' questions are not unnecessary in a debate, if questions about security and the economy are not needed then pray tell what sort of questions would he prefer? How many kilometres they each walked to school whilst growing up?

So the reason why Johnny is not interested in a debate is to avoid answering questions about boko haram, incessant killings in Jos even with JTF deployed and the rapid depletion of the kitty in less than 4 years?

Pharoh:
My point is in those countries you do not normally have more than four parties that presents a candidate for the presidential election. What makes you  to think that the other candidate are not better than those invited?. Do you think that if you were in ACN and you want to  contest for the presidency that you would be given the chance?. Those other parties are the best way for you to contest and in the spirit of fair play why should the invitation not be extended to you?. How would the Nigerian people know that you have a better offer or in your conclusion the invited candidates are the best among the contestants.

Let me ask you, what do you think is the criteria they used in sidelining the other candidates? are we looking for those that has a chance of winning the election or those who has better programs to fix the country?.

About your comment concerning me sounding reasonable, trust me i have called names and abused a lot and it does not do anything to me one bit. I don't care what the other person thinks about me, i am here to give my own perspective to issues and everyone is entitled to their own opinion that should be respected. If having a divergent opinion means i am not reasonable then it is the problem of the person thinking so and not me because what i care is my own argument which has been well thought out by me.

Trust me if someone like pat utomi, donald duke or fashola is running, i will be not be here talking about goodluck so i have my own reason why i fall in line with him most times because of the other candidates.

Actually there were more than five candidate of different parties in the last in election in US, more than 12 in France's last election, more than Six parties with good representation in the UK. again it is the prerogative of the organisers to invite who they want or perhaps who their viewers/sponsors want, maybe the conducted a poll and choose accordingly. Why is the person invited worried about those that are not invited most especially when they are not in alliance with the other parties, why will the republican party worry about the non invitation of the green party?

I don't know the criteria but geopolitical representation and past election results wont be a bad guess, do you in anyway think the organisers are against Jonathan?

so what is GEJ excuse, the militants have been relocated to Abuja, sponsored to Malaysia, SA and Ghana
meaning no more gas pipeline sabotage. . .

now we have a bumbling shon of the soil who do know jack even with all the professors surrounding him!

what's the latest?


Do you really trust a man that can commit to a target so you dont hold him accountable? At least Yaradua set 6000mw by 2009 and he failed but GEJ is not setting any target meaning there's nothing to hold his fish brain to!

tell your company to put it in writing and get it signed by the md/ceo etc etc and if possible get their tax papers

Pharoh:
So what is the fuse if he decides to exclude himself from the debate or is the right to exclude someone from a debate vested only on the organizers?.

He is does not want to be a part of a debate that deselects candidates without any clear mechanism for doing that which is even not democratic.

I am with goodluck on this one and trust me i would love to see a debate but not with this bias and sentiments flying all around the place.

the fuss is that he is in a stronger position as the current president, he is being challenged isnt this his opportunity to reinforce his popularity and show his leadership credential?

Are Nairalanders organising the debate or are you accusing the organisers of bias?

Pharoh:
God bless you and hope goodluck haters will reason for the first time and leave sentiments aside, this is a valid objection to this debate and it should be enough reason not to participate.


Please brother sorry to bother you but how many presidential candidates do they have in civilized countries?

I[b]s it possible to sideline any presidential candidate in those civilized country no matter how small their party is?[/b]

I don't know why you are dragging yourself in the mud over this GEJ issue, you sound like a fairly reasonable dude but defending johnny with all your might is make that assessment void!

Erm the last PM debate in UK, only three candidate took part, and i dont remember seeing more than three or four candidate in the American presidential debate, so to your answer yes it is possible, it is the right of the organisers not to extend an invitation to everyone

martinosi:
Bro, i just saying that the poster should "think deeply" about this move
before they make it.

I just like to know why people who are born and raised abroad would do it.

manny4life:
If I might ask though, why do people have to do NYSC?

could be

Boredom
Change of lifestyle,
testing the grounds for future relocation
Gap year option
Older member of the family will tell you 'in case you get government job bla', I always wonder why they think everyone wants a government appointment in the future

Cheap Labour
Delay tactics by the inefficient govt
Work experience
it had a specific purpose when it was established