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tomakint: Just like his Ekiti counterpart, I don't see this clown retaining that seat or delivering the State to his foolish party APC come 2015

i just hope you won't " go and die " after INEC would have declare them WINNER while your loving GEJ continue enjoying himself.
Ok sha lets wait till 2014 for Ekiti, then You and I will see who WINS.
@topic, if dat can be done from federal to state, i believe Nigeria will be at the top.

[quote author=I-pledge]There is clear difference between minister and house of rep member.she was. Appointed as a minister but her husband was elected.she knows she ll be sack immediately she leaves pdp.come 2015 if she will not decamp,if apc win the presidential election[/quote]+1000000000likes

Patience Jonathan
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/i-was-dead-for-7-days-patience-jonathan/

Afam4eva: The husband is just an inconsiderate person. How do you defect to another party when your wife got her appointed by the government of another party.

y do u have to blame d husband ? I can as well blame d wife for not following the husband. This is purely just show that politics is about personal interest not public interest. So now where will the children now belong ?

The Minister of State for the Federal Capital
Territory, FCT , Olajumoke Akinjide, has vowed to
stick with the Peoples Democratic Party , PDP, and
President Goodluck Jonathan, despite her
husband’s defection to the All Progressives
Congress, APC.
Mrs. Akinjide’s husband, Ahman Pategi, was one of
the 37 ex-PDP members of the House of
Representatives who defected to the APC on
Wednesday.
Mr. Pategi, who was elected to the lower legislative
chamber on the platform of the PDP, represents
Edu/Moro/Pategi federal constituency of Kwara
State . He is the Chairman of the House Committee
on Water Resources.
Mrs. Akinjide, who hails from Ibadan in Oyo State,
responded to a PREMIUM TIMES enquiry via a text
message. She dismissed speculations that she was
going to join her husband in the APC. She vowed to
remain in the PDP to work for the success of the
president, the Transformation Agenda, and the
party at future polls.
The minister, who is the daughter of the Second
Republic Attorney General of the Federation and
Minister of Justice, Richard Akinjide, added that her
entire family dynasty remained loyal to the ruling
party and the president.
“I’ll never ever leave the PDP,” she said. “The
Akinjide family is loyal to the PDP and loyal to
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. My father,
Richard Akinjide is a founding member of the PDP
and a member of the PDP Board of Trustees.”
“I am the arrowhead of the PDP in Oyo State as the
minister in an opposition state. I will continue to
work hard to ensure the success of Mr. President,
the Transformation Agenda, and the success of the
PDP at the polls in the 2015 elections.”
While presenting items to some PDP members in
Ibadan earlier in the year, Mrs. Akinjide had asked
the president to contest the 2015 presidential
election.
The minister belongs to one of the several factions
of the party in Oyo state. Reports say she and a
former deputy governor of Oyo State, Taofeek
Arapaja are leading one camp, while a former
governor, Adebayo Alao- Akala, and former Senate
Leader, Teslim Folarin, lead two other camps.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/151794-husband-defects-apc-abuja-minister-akinjide-vows-remain-pdp.html

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[quote author=adeola_drg]Space booked.[/quote]y u dy book space ? Cant u comment ?

Am recommending ds for FP
https://www.nairaland.com/1562144/ugandan-ban-miniskirt

dridowu: https://www.nairaland.com/1555869/blows-head-could-affect-brain Am recommending this for FP

also recommending this https://www.nairaland.com/1561805/brain-damaging-habit#20331181

Simply Called "INNOVATION OF THE ART "

There are a few habits that one has which damages
the brain tissue or cells. Obviously everything we do
has an impact on our bodies. Yet, some specific
habits have a direct negative impact on our brains.
Obviously this isn’t a healthy matter and one must
learn to recognize these habits so that he may get
rid of them. We are aware of a few of them like
stress, sleeplessness and malnutrition, yet, a few
prominent and dominating habits seem to cause
harm to our brain tissue. Here is a list of the ten
most damaging habits present in our daily routine
that may prove to be injurious to health.
1. Leaving breakfast: now a day’s students as
well as adults have a very bad habit of not
taking breakfast in the morning. This leads to
low sugar level all day. It has been proven
through research that the carbohydrates that
one takes in the morning are the real food of
the brain. So by not taking breakfast, our
brain gets an insufficient supply of nutrients
and this becomes a cause of brain
degeneration.
2. Over reacting at matters: for many it might be
a habit now to over react at pity issues, but
the reality lies in the fact that over reacting at
matter imposes a negative influence on your
brain. For example; the brain arteries become
hard and this leads to a decrease of mental
power or what we call spontaneous work of
the brain. So it enforces pressure over the
arteries causing them to stiffen.
3. Smoking: everyone is aware of the negative
effects of smoking and of course it has either
direct or indirect effects on smoking as well.
Moreover, even second hand smokers suffer
because of cigarette smoke around them.
Basically smoking damages cognitive
abilities, memory, leaning skills and thinking
powers. It has also been proved to be a
cause of the renowned diseases like
Alzheimer and dementia.
4. High sugar level or consumption: many
people have a sweet tooth and devote
themselves to eating sweets and less spicy
food. This is good in many cases but then
again, too much of sugar in your blood will
interrupt in the efficient absorption of proteins
and nutrients in our body. They may also
interfere in process of healing of tissue
damage and brain development. So too much
of sugary products in your diet aren’t good
for the brain.
5. Air pollution: this is one of the biggest factors
for the brain damage and is more of a habit
that we have adapted to. The main reason
being that our brains consumes the most
oxygen in our body. This means that the
consumption of oxygen is most by our brain.
Because of air pollution, the supply of oxygen
to the brain gets decreased and it also
decreases the efficiency of the brain. It is
now no lesser than a habit to consume
polluted air.
6. Insomnia or sleep deprivation: many people
take it as a disease if they don’t get good
sleep at night. Mostly teenagers stay up late
purposely just to party. This of course has a
negative effect on the brain since we laser
the time of rest required by the brain and the
body and causes long term damages. This
habit of sleeping late at night or no sleep at all
accelerates the death of the brain cells.
7. Covered heads while sleeping: this may be
interesting and new to you. It is about pure
logic. If one sleeps with his head covered
with a pillow or something, then it obviously
does not allow the carbon dioxide to move
away. The concentration of carbon dioxide
hence increases and that of oxygen
increases. This is very harmful for the brain.
One must go over their sleeping habits or tell
someone to keep a check on them.
8. Working when you are ill: many people show
much devotion to work. This is true for those
who strive all day and night without taking
rest. They ruin their health and end up being
sick. More torturous, they work when they
are sick and damage the effectiveness of the
brain. Even if you’re just studying when
you’re sick, your pressurizing your brain to
work when it honestly can’t function right.
9. Low water consumption: the importance of
water is well known to all. 70% of our body is
made up of water. So when we lower our
intake of water, we basically compromise of a
crucial need of our brain. Water is linked to
many functions and the brain readily needs it.
So you need to increase the intake of water
as soon as possible for proper body
functioning.
10. Lack of interaction: for many people it might
be normal for not to speak much. But then
again there are those people who rarely ever
talk. This is really wrong. You must speak up
so that your brain cells are exercised and you
don’t damage your brain cells by not using
them at all in this aspect.
http://humannhealth.com/brain-damaging-habits/1315/

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Rikidony: Pls can someone summarise this thing for me

take ur time to read it. make reading part of or culture

cancel koko concert cos of madiba ? everybody just day use madiba name. OK sha i too won't talk to ladies for d remaining days of d year cos of madiba also

I am proud to be called mr ebony. black and proud

welcome to Nigeria
Land that is filled of honey

Nigeria’s loss, Ghana’s gain
Although privately-funded universities such as the
Wisconsin International University College, Accra;
and All Nations University College, Koforidua in the
Eastern Region have huge Nigerian student
population, the Ghana campuses of Sikkim Manipal
University based in India appears to have profited
the most from the five-month ASUU strike.
The ease of securing admission into SMU, which is
run by KnowledgeWorkz Limited, a learning centre,
coupled with the three-year duration for all its first
degree programmes, has attracted Nigerians to the
institution.
Many Nigerian students in SMU who spoke with this
correspondent said they were happy studying in the
school. Twenty-six-year-old Haruna Umar was,
until November 11, a first-year student of the
Department of Statistics, Uthman Danfodio
University, Sokoto.
When ASUU’s strike seemed to go on without any
end in sight, Umar shifted base to Ghana and
enrolled in SMU where, alongside several hundreds
of other Nigerians, he is pursuing an undergraduate
degree. Since his new institution does not offer
Statistics, however, Umar said he had gladly settled
for Information Technology.
“I finished senior secondary school in 2011 and I
had to wait till 2013 before securing admission into
Uthman Danfodio University. After wasting two
years of my life, ASUU again embarked on strike. It
is so pathetic. I had no other choice than to seek
university education elsewhere and that was what
brought me here,” Umar, whose elder sister pays
his tuition, declares.
Umar, like his colleagues, have had to choose
between the morning, afternoon and evening
sessions to pursue his degree programme in the
institution due to space constraints occasioned by
the student population. Each of the session takes
two hours and Umar, a fresh student, says he has
settled for the morning session.
Enrolment before basic qualification
Apart from the undergraduate programmes that
these universities offer, the majority of them also
run certificate and diploma programmes for foreign
students.
Findings by this correspondent reveal that a good
number of these private institutions also admit
Nigerian students with deficiencies in their SSCE for
undergraduate programmes. However, such
students are expected to make up for the
deficiencies within a stipulated time, such that their
credentials will then be attached to their files at the
later date.
The implication of this is that in real terms, students
jump academic procedures by commencing degree
programmes when they have yet to fulfil basic
requirements. Experts say this is never the case in
the stiffly competitive Nigerian university system.
The schools’ authorities say the admissions of
those who fail to make up for such Ordinary Levels
deficiencies within the stipulated period are
terminated.
Curious diploma award
As for those who fail to meet academic standards
as undergraduates, they still go home with
something — the institutions award them diplomas
stating the number of courses they had passed.
It is doubtful, though, that they can use these
diploma certificates to secure admission or jobs in
real world.
Indeed, a woman who works with the Ghana
Christian University College’s Institutional
Advancement Office sheds more light on this
curious diploma award. Speaking on the condition of
anonymity, she said, “All hope is not lost for
candidates who have one or two deficiencies in
their Senior School Certificate Examination, as they
have the opportunity of being admitted.”
The GCUC has 62 foreign students, 52 out of which
are Nigerians. The arrangements are in place for all
categories of students, irrespective of nationality.
Obviously, the GCUC doubles as a pre-varsity
centre — the type that litters many Nigerian cities,
preparing students for university admission by
helping them to beef up their ‘O’ Levels results prior
to admission into universities. The Nigerian outlets
don’t award diplomas, as all they do is to teach the
students so that when next they write the SSCE,
they can secure enough credits for varsity
admission.
The official adds anonymously, “While they get
admitted and take courses to pursue a degree of
their choice, they are also given special coaching
on the (‘O’ Levels) subjects they have deficiencies
in to enable them to do well during the next
examination. More often than not, the majority of
such students pass those subjects due to the
quality of learning they are exposed to.
“But in the event that such students do not pass the
SSCE subjects at the stipulated time, they will cease
to be students of the school, while a certificate will
be issued to them based on their area of
specialisation.”
Exporting cultism from Nigeria to Ghana
Some Ghanaians hold the opinion that the influx of
Nigerians in the country had shot up the increasing
cases of cultism in their tertiary institutions. This
notion was given weight as the Nigerian High
Commissioner, Amb. Onafowokan, explains that it is
true that some Nigerian students “are trying to
introduce cultism” to Ghanaian universities.
He, however, says although there are some bad
eggs, Ghanaians should not generalise and brand
Nigerian students as either cultists or criminals. He
warns that the Nigerian mission to Ghana will not
hesitate to expose anyone convicted of engaging in
cultism.
“When I was at the Kwame Nkrumah University of
Technology, the vice-chancellor spoke highly of
Nigerian students there in terms of their academic
performance and behaviour. They are doing very
well. However, they are trying to bring some cultism
into some universities and we at the High
Commission have sounded a note of warning.
“I am watching out for them. If I see any traces of
that, I will write to the Ghanaian government. This is
because such an activity will tarnish the image of
Nigeria. In fact, the universities here are also very
careful. If they get you (cultist), you are sent away,”
he says.

Sequel to the irregular academic calendar and
alleged inadequate facilities, Nigerian parents send
their children overseas for tertiary education. The
idea is that these schools have state-of-the-art
amenities and their graduates are world-class.
However, after a 10-day tour of some Ghanaian
universities, TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI reports the
conditions under which Nigerian students study in
this West African country
Welcome to Accra Institute of Technology, a one-
block Ghanaian tertiary institution offering first
degrees as well as post-graduate degrees up to the
doctoral level.
AIT, which prides itself as being modelled after
internationally-recognised institutes of technology
such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and California Institute of Technology, both in the
United States of America, occupies an uncompleted,
rented one-block building on the premises of the
Civil Service Training Centre of the Ghanaian
government.
The institute, with a university status as certified by
the National Accreditation Board, which is an
agency of Ghanaian Ministry of Education, is boxed
in the far end of the compound which also houses
Ghana’s Government Secretarial School, as well as
a Learning and Development Centre. AIT pays its
rent to the Ghanaian government.
Interestingly, over 60 per cent of the students in
this institution are Nigerians. Out of an estimated
2,000 students pursuing various degree
programmes, the institution’s registrar, Mr. Dominic
Osei-Boakye, who spoke with our correspondent in
his three-by-four-feet cubicle office, says over
1,200 of its student population are Nigerians. He
adds that 15 per cent of the students are from
Francophone African countries, while the remaining
25 per cent are Ghanaians.
Shameful facilities
To accommodate students for the purpose of
lectures and other academic activities, the AIT
authorities have had to construct fabricated metal
containers instead of properly built lecture rooms. In
fact, when our correspondent visited the school,
some students were seen studying on the deck of
the structure housing the institution.
Investigation shows that most of these foreign
students have either been denied admission into the
universities back at home or — in the case of
Nigerians — the majority are those that have been
frustrated by the incessant strikes usually
embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff
of Union of Universities. And, as usual with foreign
students in overseas institutions, they pay in
American dollars.
At the AIT, the school fees range between $1,300
and $1,510 per semester, excluding feeding,
accommodation and procurement of academic
materials.
Sources at the Nigerian High Commission in Ghana
told our correspondent that the Nigerian High
Commissioner to the country, Amb. Ademola
Onafowokan, was utterly disappointed during his
visit to AIT when he had to address Nigerian
students in their hundreds under a tree.
One of the sources who confided in this
correspondent said Onafowokan had chosen the
school for the visitation owing to the sheer number
of Nigerian students reported to be studying there.
“The situation whereby Nigerians flood universities
that can best be described as mushroom
institutions of learning is very pathetic and
worrisome. His Excellency, the Nigerian High
Commissioner to Ghana, Amb. Ademola
Onafowokan, had his fair share of this experience
during his tour of universities with significant
number of Nigerian population.
“At AIT, which is a one-block institution, he
(Onafowokan) addressed the students under a tree.
You can go there and see things for yourself and
witness, first-hand, the environment and the
condition in which our compatriots learn,” a top
diplomat in the High Commission who craved
anonymity laments.
Study centres, shallow standards
Duly registered tertiary institutions of learning in the
standing of AIT, with no clear-cut standard
infrastructure and basic facilities, are scattered
across the length and breadth of Ghana. Apart from
AIT, other institutions operating from a one-block
structure includes the Sikkim Manipal University,
Accra campus; Radford University College, Accra;
and Mahatma Gandhi University, Accra campus.
While Sikkim Manipal University is operated by
KnowledgeWorkz Limited, the supposed “authorised
learning centre” for the Accra and Kumsai
campuses, Paramount Academy for Career
Excellence boasts being the “authorised study
centre” for the Mahatma Gandhi University in
Ghana.
The rigorous procedure of gaining admission into
Nigerian universities, especially the publicly-owned
ivory towers, hardly applies here; and this has
made these so-called affiliate institutions attractive
to many Nigerian students and their parents.
Investigations reveal that the processes involved in
securing admission into these quasi universities are
rather too easy for comfort, because they only
require the candidate to have a good Senior School
Certificate Examination result. This is in sharp
contrast to Nigeria where, in addition to scoring at
least six credits in the SSCE, candidates are also
required to write and pass the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination as well as the Post-
UTME of their individual institutions of choice.
Ghana’s public varsities
As for public universities in Ghana, they are widely
acclaimed as great citadels of learning, with stable
academic calendars, unlike their Nigerian
counterparts where lecturers sometimes go on
strikes for months at a stretch, disrupting academic
calendars and making higher education a bore to
most students. Anyway, the lecturers in Nigeria
usually do so on principles and with the intention to
get the system standardised.
Investigations show that securing admission into
any of the nine universities is highly competitive, as
a prospective candidate must present his academic
transcripts from his home university, the original
WASSCE result, while he also has to sit for an
internal examination relevant to the intended
course, the overall result of which will determine
whether or not he will be offered admission.
The institutions are the University of Ghana, Legon;
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology, Kumasi; University of Cape Coast;
University of Education, Winnieba; University for
Development Studies, Tamale.
Others are the University of Energy and Natural
Resources, Ahafo; University of Mines and
Technology, Tarkwa; University of Professional
Studies, Legon; and the more recently established
University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, in the
Volta Region. All of these tertiary institutions have
standard facilities and structures.
High varsity fees
As stated earlier, Nigerian candidates seeking a
spot in Ghanaian government-owned universities
are not only required to have very good grades in
their Senior School Certificate Examinations, as
international students, they also pay very high
tuition fees, compared to domestic students.
The university fees are higher than those charged
by the study centres, and they include fees for
accommodation (excluding feeding) which range
between $6,000 and $8,000 per session.
Foreign students studying medicine pay more, as
their tuition is sometimes as much as $18,000 per
academic session. Again, excluding feeding and
other incidentals.
Lone private varsity
Nigeria currently has 34 private universities, many
of which have graduated several thousands of
students; and there are plans to found more; while
the Federal Government also established six more
universities, scattered across the country a few
years ago. This is unlike what obtains in Ghana
which has a lone private varsity with the power of
full autonomy.
Indeed, out of the over 50 private universities
certified by the Ghanaian government, only one of
them is a full-fledged institution chartered to award
degrees — the Valley View University, belonging to
the Seventh Day Adventist. Situated on Accra-
Dodowa Road, near Oyibi in the Greater Accra
Region, VVU awards degrees on its own, without
recourse to any government-owned or foreign
university.
This is contrary to what obtains in the so-called
affiliate Ghanaian universities that issue certificates
in the name of their mentor universities. The same
thing applies to the study centres and satellite
campuses, which also depend on the foreign
institutions they are affiliated to for all their
academic needs.
While statistics from the Nigerian High Commission
puts the number of Nigerians studying in Ghanaian
universities at over 110,000, local media report that
Nigerians in Ghana’s public universities are a little
above 2,000. This probably means that the majority
of Nigerian students are spread across various
Ghanaian institutions that are affiliates, study/
learning centres or satellite campuses, with the
exception of VVU.
While various countries have had cause to confront
the menace of unapproved or unlicensed
universities, the state of affairs in many accredited
tertiary institutions in Ghana leave much to be
desired.
Scandalous structures
From uncompleted buildings, one-block apartments
to two-storey structures, many of the accredited
private universities in Ghana appear to be mere
money-making ventures for their owners. More
worrisome is the fact that in many of the
universities visited by our correspondent, Nigerians
form the bulk of their student population, while they
also top the nationality of guests at their admissions
offices.
Sikkim Manipal University, Ghana, a licensed
university operating as a “learning centre” under the
auspices of Sikkim Manipal University, India, is
sited in the seven-storey Abena Ateaa Towers in
the Ghanaian capital’s Ring Road Central.
The Abena Ateaa Towers also houses the Nigerian-
owned Access Bank, as well as the NIIT.
This single-structure institution can be likened to a
Nigerian university away from home, considering
the huge number of Nigerians there.
And though the university authorities kept sealed
lips on the exact number of Nigerian students in the
school, independent investigations by our
correspondent revealed that over 90 per cent of its
students are Nigerians.
In one of the offices, assorted statements of result
of the final examination of the National Board of
Technical Education, as well as those of the National
Examinations Council, littered the table of the
admissions counsellors as well as that of the
institution’s assistant registrar in charge of
admissions.
As nationalistic as they can be, when the news of
President Goodluck Jonathan’s illness during his
recent London visit filtered in, all the 13 Nigerian
students seated on one of the corridors of the
school engaged in heated conversation that later
digressed into a PDP/APC argument.
‘All the tribes are here’
When our correspondent sought to confirm their
nationalities, one of them replies, “ Guy, you dey
funny oh . Seems you are new here. Na we full here.
There is no tribe you are looking for that you won’t
find here.”
The young man who hails from Imo State adds, “The
population of Nigerians here is over 90 per cent of
the entire student number.”
They revealed that their school operates what they
describe as “a very flexible schedule,” such that
admission is on a continuous basis, and the
exercise goes on until one month to the examination
period.
Three years for B.A, B.Sc
One of them said, “For first degree programmes, we
spend only six academic semesters which add up to
three years. Chop-chop, you are done with school,
rather than putting your academic life in the hands
of some lecturers and greedy politicians who care
less about your future.”
Again, this is different from what obtains in Nigeria
where an undergraduate who is admitted straight
from the secondary school spends four years for a
Bachelor’s degree; while those who secure direct
entry spend three years. For this latter category of
candidates, they have passed through a
polytechnic, monotechnic or college of education;
and they are usually holders of the National Diploma
or the National Certificate of Education.

who do we blame now ?

Chamackh: Amaechi must have being a Nairalander to have known about this rumour.

amaechi does not mid to b a nairalander sm pple are employed 4 such tins

I love Unibadan

I love my etibabaaaaaa

The constant thing in life is change.
The change can be positive or negative

All Is Well In Nigeria

jeamie: wat a culture..mitcheew

y do u hv to qoute all dat , just for 4 words, u deserve slap guy

Rawdeal: ewwww. Such culture must be abolished.

Dammit, i'm sleeping alone this night

u are not sleeping alone tonight, u will sleep with me tonight , so dnt b scared. I care

imsalus: ARADARADA ...... IS THIS ISLAM OR CHRISTANITY? PLS ABOLISH SUCH THINGS.

i think ds is tradition way of doing lying in state............simply called "SITTING IN STATE"..................LOL