₦airaland Forum

san316: Ok. The one i notice is how we interchange it's and its. The first means 'it is' while the other is a possessive pronoun. Some people instead of saying 'married woman' they say 'marriage woman'. And for me, i have issues spelling words having vowels 'I' and 'E' together. Eg, deceive, recieve, concieve. *i'm not sure if i spelt them correctly.

You can avoid misspelling words that contain the -ie or -ei vowel combination by memorizing the following:
Write 'I' before 'e'
Except after 'c'
Or when it sounds like 'a'
As in neighbour and weigh.
Exceptions to this rule include: caffeine, either, foreign, height, leisure, neither, protein, their and weird.
There are also words in which the combination follows the letter 'c' and should be spelled 'ei' but is actually spelled 'ie'. In all of these words, the letter 'c' is pronounced like 'sh' e.g. Ancient, conscience, deficient, efficient, proficient and sufficient.

Monero001: If you want to commit genocide here, just carry one stupid fake news and tell people that Samantha called and mailed you did morning notifying you of your success. Hmmm...fidet, ulotade, amyGod, dmilanista and extrasmooth will destroy their laptops.
We will all be successful...Amen.

plus monero001

fidet: I visit this thread more than 10times daily.

lol at least urs is countable, I can't count mine.

Ulotade: why cant I just get my fingers and eyes off this page? whew!!!

'cos u have data on ur phone @fidet, I see u spying!

XtraSmooth404: Nothing o! Am I the only one who hasn't gone for second interview?

Chill bro, though i understand that is not easy. I think some people are yet to go for 2nd interview.

GenerousLord: Sir, I still haven't heard from them after the second test. I even went as far as sending them mails, yet they failed to send me a reply. That's so unprofessional for a great firm like Deloitte. I have taken my mind off it long time ago.
Wishing you and other prospective employees a swell time in Deloitte.
Cheers.

Aww! Eyah! Better things ahead bro. We shall meet at d top.

XtraSmooth404: Bro what's up? Have you gone for your second interview?

yeah, dat was on thursday. U? Any news yet?

AmyGod:
Lwkmd ooo, haba dmilanista u see hw God dey take catch people, hw u take knw say I dey always dey online every 5minutes, if u sef no dey check every 2mins.
@elohorm, indeed dis week is our week.

spirit of discernment at work.

By d way, @GenerousLord, it's bn a long time, what's happening?

elohorm: *****Silence in court....I see people secretly spying on Nairaland every five minutes, I see some refreshing their mails a million times.....chai there is God ooo. Don't worry this week is our week.

lool e.g AmyGod. I just can't wait to hear Samantha's voice again. Abasi mbok!

Success to y'all #TeamHopeful&Prayerful

XtraSmooth404: Any news yet?

None. Fidet said he has gotten, so let's watch out.

AmyGod: Hello Dmilanista,
Have u been contacted for the 2nd interview?

No, not yet.

Swizdoe: Sometimes I just wonder if you are paid for this propaganda..... If we ask you to show us the developments, all you end up show us are roads, bridges and flyovers and the pedestrian bridge at totoro (with full AC) has been useless since he built, is that not wasting of money when common citizens can barely feed themselves . You think the flyovers at sagamu and ijebu-ode are enough to lure the ijebus and also the one at Ilaro is enough to trick the Yewas.......... Abt D civil servants, don't forget his habitual locking the state secretariat gates in the name of catching latecomers, because of this, the civil servants now has jungle like public secondary School students........ Didn't he sacked the permanent secretaries whom he felt looted the state treasury with OGD, why then did he continued to oppress them

well, I also stay in Abeokuta and if u think the transformation is all about roads, I say NO sir. I can start mentioning and I won't be able to exhaust it bt let me jst mention jst 2 within my vicinity; d health center and d school close to my side were renovated and equipped. They were under sorry states in the previous tenures. My area also received transformer from d govt which saved us from darkness of about 2 years. All these are things within my area, not far fetched, infact I v seen such replicated in many parts of d state which I know u must v also seen, except u want to deviate from d truth.
To d other parts of ur comment, kindly go thru over and re-read to urself. Why should gov't ensuring punctuality within d civil service be an offence? Why should civil service be business as usual? Why should he keep d people who looted d state in d past administration? Infact, all these have even backed my justification of why u guys hate him.
I don't intend to come back here to continue juxtaposing words with u if u can't bring valid reasons and arguments. God bless Ogun state. Omo Ogun, ise ya! Cheers!

@ fidet, saw ur mail. I ve replied, have u seen it?

seguno2: Atouke even forgot to include the local debts.

BTW, did Fashola also inherit Lagos huge debt from past PDP governor, which keeps growing despite transformed IGR of N20 billion monthly?

Lagos ain't my business man. I'm not here for some hate wars. Party ain't my biz. That's one of d things drawing us back in dis country. Our sense of thinking has been configured into a PDP/APC schism that we tend to lack a sense of sound judgement.

Atouke: Why do APC governors like loans so much? cant they build a common gutter without borrowing from all the banks in europe? Its sad when you see governors who call themselves progressive travel abroad just to secure loand to build gutters in their state, worst off the contract for the gutters is seven times the actual amount of the project.
You should be saddened by this fraud.

U v bh hammering on d party APC. As I have said, I'm no party person. If Amosun moves to any party 2mao, whether PDP, UPN, SDP, I'll vote for him come 2015. And those things u have said above are very false, maybe u don't know that Ogun states IGR has risen in recent time. More industries have come in and more are still coming in.

Swizdoe: All this apc goons believes is called infrastructural developments are roads...... If that is to be the case, them GEJ is the most performing office holder in Nigeria ( if you think I am lying, go and check the road networks in abuja, then you will know that SW govs are learners)

forget! Transformation in Ogun state is more than roads, it's quite diff from other SW states.

Atouke: The debt has ballooned to $116million under Amosun, which means Amosun is a worse borrower than Gbenga Daniels! when compared to Amosun Gbengas's debt was childs play.

Give us OGD's debt profile whe he left office and his achievements, let's take it from there. Thank God I was anti-Amosun during OGD's tenure always believing d guys propaganda. So anything u call achievement of Daniel's administration, I can talk about it.

Atouke: stop living in denial, Under the tenure of Amosun the ogun state ecternal debt profile has ballooned to $116 million. not counting the domestic debt. Its this huge legacy of debt that Amosun administration will be remembered for. and not the few gutters he is borrowing to construct.

like I have pointed out, get us d amount of debt Amosun inherited first. Then we can start analysis from there.

Atouke: Why do APC governors like debt so much? why are they always borrowing? did you know that five SW states are responsible for 45% of the the external debt stock of the 36 states in Nigeria? read this for your self: https://www.nairaland.com/1869441/five-south-west-sates-owes

Did u read my comment well? In case u didn't, d immediate past Governor, Gbenga Daniel that incurred d bulk of d debt was in PDP, now in Labour Party. For other states, I don't know. I'm not a politician. I don't belong to any party. All I want to see is development in my state which dis guy is doing, not propaganda. I shuttle between Oyo state and Ogun state and I can really tell of a big difference within the last 3yrs. Those are the things we want to see.

Oh, because he blocked chop-chop in civil service, he is an enemy to the civil service. Because he decided to reduce the school fees of tertiary institutions that were raised in d last administration, he's now an enemy of students. What again? Give me more.
I'm not really surprised. I realised his haters are basically d pro-Gbenga Daniels who looted d state dry and sank it to d debt it is now in, d pro-Osobas, who found it hard to godfather him and the Ogas in d civil service who are finding it hard to get their normal kickbacks.
Throughout my stay in Ogun, this is d only Governor that I v seen that really worked. If the past governors really worked in place of propaganda, Ogun state would have been way ahead in terms of development.
Long live Ogun state!

Atouke: Amosun has borrowed $116 million dollars in his first term if given a second term the debt profile of ogun state will be at over $400 million. You should ask your self is what is on ground in ogun state worth all these loans that Amosun has borrowed?

He an his family will run to london after his tenure expires and the good people of Ogun state will be stuck with the debts which their kids and future generations will have to work pay taxes to pay for amosun loans.

Say no to debts, say no to Amosun Second term agenda

Dat's a big fat lie. A larger chunk of d debt was inherited from OGD administration. I remember then when Amosun came in, Daniel claimed he left a debt of about N50bn which Amosun countered, that d debt was like close to N90bn. So get ur facts right Mr!

1. Frank Edwards _ getting hotter day by day. Got to hear more of his songs while serving in Cross River. Since then I v always gone on-line to download his latest tracks. My best tracks are: Omenma, Ogene Doh, Mma mma, Rocktown Anthem, Rain ft GIL, Away amongst a whole lot of others.

2. Sinach: got to hear her songs also while in Cross river but back then I used to think that she's an American singer until recently when I wanted to download one of her songs and had to read her profile. Tracks include: Awesome God, More of u, Great are u Lord and I know who I am.

3. Nikki Laoye: Redefined Gospel music kinda with her styles. Nice voice, Lyrics and beats. Tracks: Only You, 1,2,3 and No n beans ft Base one.

4. Lara George: Used to be my number one but I ve not heard more from her for a while now. Tracks: Ijoba Orun rmx, Halleluyah and Ko le baje

5. Kenny K'ore: Since breaking out from Infinity, d guy has been d limit for this guy. He has also redefined gospel music to a more appealing one. Tracks: Abeemo, Halleluyah mo ko, so m'ore amongst others.

6. Tope Alabi/ Agatha Moses: these two are kinda classical. I don't know who to really pick. I enjoyed their songs back in those days though I personally think Aunty Tope's standards are now dropping. I've not listened to Agatha Moses in a while. Tracks: Agatha Moses- African praise, Tope Alabi- Oore ti o common, Certificate Mor'iyanu and Egbega egbega to mention a few.

7. Yetunde Are: The daughter of the gospel music Ace, Bola Are, has been doing fine. I don't know d title of her tracks sha.

There are a whole lot of them out there most especially from Christ Embassy's Loveworld Records, same records that brought out Frank Edwards and Sinach, d likes of Victor Ike (Kingsley Ike's brother), GIL Joe, ADA e.t.c I think I have tried.

In line with The Mission to Rebuild Ogun State as
contained in the Five- Cardinal Programme of Senator Ibikunle Amosun Administration,education
sector has continued to enjoy topmost priority. It is
in the light of this that we are constrained to issue
this public statement with regards to certain developments at the Olabisi Onabanjo University
(OOU).

Situation at Inception:
At the inception of this Administration on 29 May,
2011, we were confronted with a rather grim state in our Education Sector, with most of the State's Tertiary Institutions being bad shadows of a once glorious past. Indeed, they had become embarrassment to the fond memories of those illustrious sons after whom some of them have been named.
Academic activities had been grounded to a halt in
most of the institutions as some of them were closed as a result of strikes and other prevalent
inclement environment. There were backlogs of subventions, running into an average of eleven (11)
months, owed the schools by the previous Administration, resulting in unpaid staff salaries. To
say the staff were demoralised was to state the obvious.
Academic traditions and ethos had been jettisoned,
academic calendars were in abeyance and even
students were ostensibly progressing from one level to the other without completing the requirements of previous levels, including payment of school fees.
The decay in our tertiary institutions was exemplified by the failure of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) to hold convocation ceremonies for eight (8.) straight years our predecessors were in the office. It was also disheartening that rather than serve as purveyors of knowledge and enlightenment, our tertiary institutions had become dens of cultism.

Our Interventions:
It was obvious that some urgent and far-reaching
interventions were required. Consequently, after wide consultations with stakeholders, the government set up Visitation Panels for our two Universities (Olabisi Onabanjo University and Tai Solarin University of Education) and Fact-Finding Panels for the other eight tertiary institutions.
The panels, after painstaking and diligent engagement of stakeholders and deliberations, submitted their reports that confirmed the ugly state of affairs - that was already in the public domain - in the respective institution and unearthed even deeper rot in the system. The Government subsequently set up another committee to study all the reports of the panels in order to have an all- encompassing appreciation of the issues and provide a holistic solution to what were certainly systemic problems.
Among others, the Committee identified paucity of
funding in the face of dwindling government revenue and competing needs, proliferation of schools and programmes with attendant duplication of overheads, deviation from the core objectives for the establishment of some of the schools, and leadership challenges.
In the main, the Committee recommended streamlining of programmes and courses, mergers of some of the institutions, and strengthening of the management.
The government subjected the Consolidated Report
to wider and intense consultation and the feedbacks received from critical stakeholders indicated a preference for the retention of the institutions. The preference, propelled more by emotive rather than rational reasons, run counter to the grains of the reality on ground. Nonetheless, in
deference to this position, the government accepted to keep all the schools and remained committed to confront the challenge of rejuvenating them, the financial constraint notwithstanding.
In furtherance of this commitment, the government
commenced immediate payment of the outstanding
backlog of subventions, appointed new management teams, constituted the Councils, and increased the subventions to the schools. This Administration currently pays over Six Hundred (N600M) monthly as subventions to the State's tertiary institutions.
Indeed, our commitment to the Education sector is
manifest in the over N160B we have invested in the
last three years. Yet, in fulfillment of our electoral promise and to ensure that our tertiary students further benefit directly from our interventions in the education sector, we implemented additional 10% reduction in tuitions and fees payable in all our schools.
This first reduction, which was done at the inception
of our Administration in 2011, was in addition to the 50% reduction announced in the twilight of
the previous Administration, to pre-empt our electoral promise to reduce fees.

Government's Gesture, Agitation by a Few and Our
Response:
The current agitation for reduction in school fees by
students of Ogun State tertiary schools has been
ostensibly fuelled by the recent reduction in the fees payable at Lagos State University (LASU) by the Lagos State Government.
Despite the marked differences between the
situation in Lagos and Ogun States, the government further demonstrated its commitment to the wellbeing of our students by proactively reducing the fees payable in Ogun State schools, starting from 2014 / 2015 session. The reductions varied with the highest being 61%. These gestures were greeted with applause and appreciation by the generality of the students in all the ten (10) State's tertiary institutions, except the Olabisi Onabanjo University where a section of the students, clearly in minority, raised two issues.
These were the commencement session and the cap on the amount these dissenting minority would
rather like to dictate to the government. It was curious that it was only after the government's gestures that the few OOU students devised these two issues as red herring to perpetrate what is increasingly becoming clearer as a well-choreograp hed and externally influenced agitation by the few.
The few OOU students wanted the commencement
to be backdated to 2013 / 2014 session with N50,000 as the maximum amount for all courses andall students. To provide an underpinning for their argument, they cited Lagos State as a reference. In order to clothe their agitation with some toga of credibility, the few OOU students embarked on a futile mission to coopt the generality of the OOU students, students of the other nine (9) tertiary institutions and some officers of Non-Governmental Organisations to join their politically - motivated agenda.
These efforts have been rebuffed by the students of
the other institutions and other stakeholders.
Nonetheless, the Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun FCA, met a week ago with the representatives of the OOU students in his office and later addressed them and their other colleagues. He thereafter set up a committee (comprising government representatives and representatives of the Students' Unions of the ten institutions) to determine what was peculiar (if any) about OOU with regards to the government's gesture and recommend how best to address it.
In the course of the committee's deliberations, the
OOU Students representatives could not make a convincing argument while the commencement of the new fees should be backdated to 2013 / 2014, their only premise being that, due to the long ASUU strike, the 2013 / 2014 academic session is still on till October and therefore should qualify them for a refund of the fees already paid.
As absurd as this request is, disruption of academic
calendar is not peculiar to only OOU. Indeed, there are other institutions (within and outside Ogun State) whose 2013 / 2014 academic sessions still have a few more weeks to go, also due to the general academic staff strikes in the country. OOU can, therefore, not be treated in isolation. Obviously following a script, the OOU representatives brought up yet another tenuous request: if other schools in the same circumstance were to enjoy backdating of the reduction in fees to 2013 / 2014, then OOU students, regardless of the course of study, would not be prepared to pay any fee higher than the lowest of fees payable in any of the other nine (9) tertiary schools in the state. It is no longer about the commencement session (if other schools will enjoy it) nor about N50,000 highest fees payable. It is now that students of OOU, a university, will want to pay the least of fees payable by students of, for example, College of Health Technology or Tai
Solarin College of Education - a preposterous demand.
It was clear to the student representatives of the
other nine (9) schools and government representatives on the committee, that the OOU students were looking for every reason, no matter how tenuous, to contrive a crisis.
As mentioned earlier, the situation differs from State to State. For example, Lagos State that these misguided few have continued to cite has five (5) tertiary institutions compared to ten (10) that we have in Ogun State. The same scenario is applicable in both primary and secondary schools sub sector - we have more primary and secondary schools in Ogun State than Lagos State. While we are proud of this - because this is in line with our heritage as the cradle of education in Nigeria - but we are modest enough to acknowledge that we do not have access to the same resources as Lagos.
Indeed, the internally generated revenue of Lagos,
the nation's economic hub, is 400% more than our own. It will therefore be ridiculous for anyone to demand for parity in school fees with Lagos just as it will be unrealistic for a resident of Lagos to demand that the government should bring down the average cost of living in Lagos to be in parity to what is obtainable in Ogun State.

OOU is Closed:
While the discussion were still on in the committee,
security reports have confirmed that the few students who are bent on fomenting trouble have started mobilising to disrupt the peace and security
of the state and unleash mayhem. The vast majority of OOU students are opposed to this plan and have also vowed to resist these few "professional" students, being motivated from without, to portray them as being unreasonable and unappreciative.
Besides, the students from the other nine (9)
students were also preparing to demonstrate their
acceptance of the new fees and express opposition to any preferential treatment for OOU.
There is certainly an imminent and ominous threat to the peace and security of the state and lives of our students will be endangered in any ensuing conflicts between opposing groups.
In the circumstance, the government has no
alternative but to take a firm decision in the overall interest of all.
Consequently, the government has directed the Council of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) to immediately close down the institution till further notice.
Parents are hereby advised to make immediate
arrangements for their wards to vacate the school
premises and stay away henceforth from the
institution.
This is a painful but an inevitable decision and the government solicits for the understanding and cooperation of all in this regard. It is painful because this forced closure is a temporary pause in
our determined march to reposition our tertiary institutions and OOU in particular. OOU had a backlog of convocation for eight academic sessions
which our Administration cleared in 2012 and we
have continued to ensure that the convocation is
held regularly and annually, as scheduled. It is
further painful that the new Council and Management Team, who have demonstrated uncommon zeal and dedication since their inauguration, will have their repositioning programme slowed down. But this is temporary.
The Council has been directed to review the situation from time to time and advise the government accordingly. When the government is satisfied that the atmosphere is conducive for teaching, learning and research, the school will be re-opened.
In the meantime and for the avoidance of doubt, all
students should vacate and stay away from all the
campuses of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) till further notice.

Barrister Taiwo Oluwasegun Adeoluwa
Secretary to State Government
Monday, 25 August, 2014.

Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=920662251295267&id=599388750089287&refid=17

booqee: pls I need dat Nigeria '99 world cup theme song! I've searched and searched no result.
Pls if u got it abeg post a link!!!! I really loved dat song.

It went like :
"welcome to Africa
welcome to Nigeria '99, welcome to the land dat flows with milk blah blah blah"
It was also sang in Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.

I remember that song. Yoruba: a kiyin kaabo s'orile ede wa, ekaabo s'orile olora, e ma gba dun ara yin adun ni y'ogbeyin o. Igbo: d stuff sounded like; ibata gode god'oma... I wish I cld get d song. The theme song for France '98 both Fifa and Team Nigeria's.

The Commandant-General, C-G, of the Nigeria
Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Dr Ade
Abolurin, Friday, escaped an attempt on his life as a
police Inspector opened fire on his team at Ikorodu,
Lagos.
Dr. Abolurin’s team comprising officers of the
Nigerian Army, EFCC, ICPC, office of the Attorney
General of the Federation among others, came under siege during an inspection and assessment tour of disposable forfeited items seized from suspected oil thieves.
NSCDC’s spokesman, Mr. Emmanuel Okeh, said in a
statement in Abuja, Friday, “the attack was orchestrated by the arrest of some suspected vandals and oil thieves on the waters in possession of petroleum products in several jerry cans, including two big Cotonou boats.
The suspected police team who came in an unmarked danfo bus carrying AK47 riffles challenged the CG that they are in charge, so, he has no right to visit the area because it belongs to the police.
“The committee which the CG, NSCDC is the
chairman was constituted by the office of the
Attorney General of the Federation and have for
some time now been on assessment tour of the
country for disposable forfeited items used for
vandalism of critical infrastructure.
However, attempt by members of the committee to
caution the officer was rebuffed by him and members of his team claiming that they are on a mission here so everyone should steer clear.
“Further investigation reveals that a distress call was put across to the suspected police team by the
arrested vandals and upon arrival, their aim was to
set them off the hook of NSCDC by threatening to
shoot the CG who masterminded the arrest of their
partners in this illicit business and secondly to prevent the committee from confiscating the recovered items which has become exhibits in event of prosecution”.
He added that it was however unclear if the
suspected officer was working on a written script by
a superior authority or just acting in his own capacity as one of the arrested vandals was in police uniform.
“What is however clear is that, this is the umpteenth time that officers and men of the corps has been brazenly harassed, molested, assassinated or maimed by officers of the Nigeria police in recent time in the cause of carrying out their legitimate assignments. Still fresh in our memory is the killing of two men of the anti vandal squad of the Lagos state command of NSCDC namely AIC Gabriel Adaji and IC Innocent Akegbe by the police in 2013”, the spokesman said.
He clarified that the Act establishing the NSCDC was unequivocal in its assignment of the duty of
protection of critical infrastructure of government
and national assets to the corps with tremendous
record of achievement by the organization as evident in the various arrest of vandals in different parts of the country and prosecution of same to serve as deterrent to others .
Mr. Okey said that the corps was determined to
ensure that President Goodluck Jonathan’s efforts in
ensuring constant supply of petroleum products,
uninterrupted power supply among others was
actualized.

Source: https://vanguardngr.com/2014/08/civil-defence-boss-escapes-assassination/

The University of Ibadan has offered
scholarship to the six candidates that scored 88 per
cent and above in its Post-UME test.
The vice-chancellor of the university, Prof. Isaac
Adewole, stated this at a news conference
held on Friday in Ibadan to announce the result of the examination which was conducted on Saturday.
“The best candidate, Animashaun Oluwakayode
Daniel, scored 90 per cent, while five candidates –
Ajari Esther, Oteri Efeturi, Ojo Oluwadamilare,
Omitoyin Oluwafemi and Aremu Oluwadamilola –
scored 88 per cent.
“The scholarship will cover their accommodation.
These are bright candidates so we do not expect
them to fail.
“We want to assure these students that UI will offer
them the best facilities that can be found in Nigeria.
He said that of the 8,844 candidates who registered
for the Post-UME test, 6,257 scored 50 and above
while 236 did not turn up for the examination.
“If a candidate fails to score 50, he or she is not going to be considered for admission. So, 2,351 candidates failed the examination.’’
The vice-chancellor stressed that the university is
concerned about the integrity of its Post-UME test.
“The male to female ratio is 45 to 55; UI admitted
more females than males in recent time.’’
The vice-chancellor urged the Federal Government to introduce strategies that would encourage students to study agriculture.
“Government at all levels as well as parents and
guardians must encourage students to study
agriculture and education courses in the overall
interest of the nation,’’ he said.
“You see the majority of parents come to say their
sons and daughters want to read medicine, law and
all that.’’
According to him, hardly do parents say their sons
and daughters want to study agriculture or
education.
Adewole explained that the trend could be
counterproductive, saying all sectors should be given equal attention.
Source: https://vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ui-releases-post-ume-result-offers-scholarship-best-6-candidates/#sthash.a7x6Pdfp.dpuf

Make una stop to dey flood dis thread with past question requests. It has bn said several times on d thread dat there r no PQs, just get to familiarize urself with GRE and GMAT test formats. My humble submission though, no offenses meant.

dontjealousme: Why should the rascal Aregbesola announce himself winner in an on going election? Causing voters to either vote for him or give up and return home. APC is a sick party. The election will be settled in court.



pdp was leading then APC started announcing themselves as winner of the election still in process. Can u imagine.


That is fraud.

if d election was still in progress when APC started announcing themselves as winner, then how did u know PDP were leading?

Laide de de o, ti wa ni!

Tucees: shaky shaky daddy! I think it was shan george that palyed the mum and the drug Medic-55?

dundee, ur daddy's not back!