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Your country is at war and you are concerned about what is going on in another country. Oyibo people sha.

I'm not in any business but should I decide to do so then my parents are my greatest motivators.

Why should we compare the two? Because of the insurgency in the north east region, millions of dollars was channelled to that state especially under Shettima.

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Crazeworld:
That sounds like a ready buyer. If you want to take the offer, all you need to is reply in a professional manner without sounding desperate. Here is what I'd reply with.



You can only use either "We" or "I" depending on how your initial pitch sounded.

PS:
Attached below is a swipe of all the responses AwesomeDuru dropped on this thread. I know some of you will still come back to ask how to reply to "how much" outbound responses.

Thanks!

How is it the fault of ASUU? The FG set up a committee led by Prof. Nimi Briggs to negotiate with ASUU. The committee has concluded their negotiation. It's now left for FG to sign the agreement.

Treasure28:
BuySwimSpa .com
Hand reg
Hold Time: was to expire yesterday and got sold same day.
Sale type : Re-outbound to former leads using different email address
Asking price: $1,250
Sale price : $1,250
Sale venue : Epik.

Congratulations!

Wisedove:
No work no pay is the best policy the government can use to curtail the concurrent strikes by ASUU.
They are not the only union in Nigeria for crying out loud, it is not as if they are fighting for the interest of the vercities nor the students instead it is for their selfish interests.
ASUU find it easy to sanctions student or group of students who think they are been deprived of their rights but when the government is doing the same they embark on strikes.

What is it exactly they are fighting for and how is that going to improve the quality of education in Nigeria? There is no point if what they are clamoring for won't improve educational quality

Research institutes have been on strike since last year yet they are still being paid by FG. So, why is FG withholding the salary of university workers when they know they will still get paid later on.

AwesomeDuru:
Hello everyone,

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Purchase Price - $24 + 1 renewal
Price Sold - $4k
Hold Time - 13 months

Buyer first made an initial offer of $400, we negotiated and agreed on $4000.

I'm still hoping for my first 5 figure sale.

More sales everyone!

Good morning bro, congratulations on your sale. Please what inspired to register such a name? Did you pick the name from expireddomains? Thanks!

Truvelisback:
Good day, fellas. If u know that u rocked this game, say hi.

Contra, super Mario, tank, etc

Different varieties of ice cream. Frog cream, snake cream, strawberry cream etc

A woman has gone on Facebook to show the huge frog she found in her bowl of ice cream.

Tracy Wiemelt Holtman said she bought Blue Bunny ice cream and it was sealed. However, when it was opened, a frozen frog was found just under the cover.

She said she believes the store bought it from the factory that way because the seal had not been tampered with.

She added that she will return the ice cream to the store.


https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2022/6/woman-finds-huge-frog-inside-bowl-of-ice-cream-bought-from-a-store-2.html

Quite unfortunate. May his soul rest in peace, Amen

A new front in tensions between Russia and NATO has opened up after one of the Western military alliance’s members, Lithuania, banned the transit of some goods coming from Russia to its exclave Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea.

Russia has vowed to retaliate over what it described as the “hostile actions” of Lithuania, warning of “serious” consequences, while NATO members have reiterated their support for the country.

Here’s a brief guide to what’s going on, and why it matters as the Russia-Ukraine conflict rumbles on in the background.

What’s happened?
Lithuania said last week that it would ban the transit of some EU-sanctioned goods coming from Russia across its territory to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

Lithuania said that its decision was taken after consultation with the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, and that it’s enforcing sanctions on Russia that were imposed following the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Russia responded to Lithuania, a former Soviet republic, by calling the move an “unprecedented” and “hostile” act, with its Foreign Ministry issuing a statement Tuesday in which it said “if in the near future cargo transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the territory of the Russian Federation through Lithuania is not restored in full, then Russia reserves the right to take actions to protect its national interests.”

What is Kaliningrad?
Kaliningrad is a small Russian exclave located on the Baltic Sea and sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland. It is home to around 487,000 people and covers an area of around 86 square miles.

Once part of the German empire, it was seized by Soviet troops from Nazi Germany in 1945 and has remained in Russian hands ever since, becoming an important seaport for Russia allowing it straightforward access to the Baltic Sea. Indeed, the Kaliningrad Oblast (or province) acts as the headquarters of Russia’s Baltic Fleet.

The fleet holds regular military drills in the Baltic Sea, having completed 10 days of exercises on June 19 that involved 60 warships and 10,000 military personnel.

The government said the blockade would apply to all EU-sanctioned goods coming from the mainland via rail, effectively blocking the transit of metals, coal, construction materials and high-technology products to the Russian sea port.

Lithuania’s ban on the transit of some EU-sanctioned goods, announced last Friday and implemented on Saturday, prompted panic buying in Kaliningrad. The region’s governor, Anton Alikhanov, insisted Russia would increase the number of cargo ships transiting goods from St. Petersburg to the exclave over the remainder of the year.

What could happen next?
It’s uncertain how Moscow will react to Lithuania’s move.

On Monday, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, called the move “illegal” and said “this decision is really unprecedented.”

“The situation is more than serious. … We need a serious in-depth analysis in order to work out our response,” he added.

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement Monday saying “the transit of passengers and non-sanctioned goods to and from the Kaliningrad region through Lithuania continues uninterrupted.”

It added that Lithuania “has not imposed any unilateral, individual, or additional restrictions on the transit” and that it is consistently implementing EU sanctions.

Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, also backed Lithuania on Monday, saying he was worried about what form the retaliation might take while he defended Vilnius’ position. “Certainly I am always worried about the Russian retaliations,” Borrell said, but he insisted there was no “blockade.”

“Lithuania has not taken any unilateral national restrictions and only applies the European Union sanctions” he said, saying any reports in Russia that Lithuania was implementing its own sanctions was “pure propaganda.”

Timothy Ash, senior sovereign strategist at BlueBay Asset Management, commented Tuesday that “it’s fair to say that Kaliningrad is a strategic imperative for Russia” noting that defending and sustaining it certainly is.

“Russia will react for sure, the only question is what that will be ... [and] what Russia could do militarily,” he noted.

“A land attack to drive a corridor through Lithuania would be a direct attack on Lithuania triggering NATO Article 5 defence. Putin knows this - that’s war with NATO. Can Putin afford that when he is struggling to deliver on even his now much-reduced strategic objectives in Ukraine? He would also have to launch an assault through Belarus, stretching his supply lines, and splitting his forces,” he noted.

Ash suggested that Russia could seek to use its sizeable naval assets in the Baltic Sea to enforce some kind of tit-for-tat blockade on Lithuanian trade although again that would be seen as a huge escalation by both NATO and the EU. “It would then be a fine dividing line whether that would trigger the NATO Article 5 defence,” however, he noted.

When asked on Wednesday whether Russia’s response would be exclusively diplomatic or would go further, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said “the answer is no. They will not be diplomatic, but practical.”

“As for retaliatory measures, now possible measures are being worked out in an interdepartmental format. It was stated to both Lithuania and the EU through their diplomatic missions in Moscow about the inadmissibility of such actions and the need to change the steps taken and return the situation to a legitimate course,” she said.

“If this is not done, then, of course, and this was emphasized at all levels in Moscow, retaliatory actions will be inevitable.”

Why does it matter?
Tensions between Russia and NATO are already heightened as a result of the war in Ukraine and the move by Lithuania has ratcheted those up further, potentially putting a NATO country (and the entire alliance) in line for a direct confrontation with Russia.

A key pillar of the NATO alliance is the concept of collective defense: Known as Article 5, it means that if one member is attacked, it is considered an attack on the entire group with all members committed to protecting each other.

While NATO has been helping Ukraine to fight Russia’s invasion, with its members sending a wide range of military equipment and weaponry as well as humanitarian aid, NATO has repeatedly said it will not send troops into the country as it does not want a direct confrontation with nuclear power Russia.

Russia will have to calibrate its response to Lithuania carefully, knowing that any direct attack will be seen as an attack on all NATO members by the organization.

For their part, Lithuania’s NATO allies have said they will stand by the country following the Kremlin’s threats.

“Lithuania is a member of the NATO alliance and we stand by the commitments that we have made to the NATO alliance and that includes of course, a commitment to Article 5 that is the bedrock of the NATO alliance,” U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a daily press briefing.

“Lithuania has been a stalwart partner, we stand by NATO, we stand by our NATO allies and we stand by Lithuania,” Price added.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/22/russia-and-nato-member-lithuania-are-clashing-over-kaliningrad.html

HaryaorGirl:
Okay...

ASUU should fight for all of that they find befitting to them.

You mentioned something about sabbatical leave as directed by the NUC. ASUU can fight for that

ASUU can also fight for arrears outside the school calendar, and many more.

All of it is acheivable.

Call me a buffoon, but I really do not support the idea of an employer dictating their method of payments to their employee.

I didn't reply you with the intention to insult you. I replied you so you can understand that we once had two payment platforms created to suit the uniqueness of the university community.

You don't force people to adopt platforms that are inimical to their welfare and productivity. What makes you think other government agencies/ministries are okay with the platform. I know a friend, a prison warder, who has been complaining about the platform.

Before ASUU rejected the IPPIS platforms, they enquired thoroughly about it. For your information, it was actually some of their colleagues in police force that advised the union not to do so. The non teaching staff who enrolled into the platform are already regretting.

The governor of Moscow-controlled Crimea has said three people were injured and seven are missing after Ukraine fired on three oil drilling platforms in the Black Sea off the Russian-annexed peninsula.

“We confirm that there are three injured and seven reported missing. We guarantee that the search will continue,” Governor Sergey Aksyonov said on Telegram on Monday, referring to platforms of the Crimea-based oil and gas company Chernomorneftegaz.
This is the first reported strike against the offshore energy infrastructure in Crimea since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.

Aksyonov, installed by Russia as the peninsula’s governor after the 2014 annexation by Moscow, had previously said five people were injured in the attack before revising the casualty figures.

He said three platforms were targeted, triggering the evacuation of 94 people on the sites, while 15 soldiers remained to guard them.
A search and rescue operation was continuing by air and sea, he said.

Chernomorneftegaz, sanctioned by the United States since 2014, operates several gas and oil fields in the Black Sea and in the Sea of Azov.

Aksyonov said that one platform had been hit, and Olga Kovitidi, a Russian senator for Crimea, told the RIA Novosti agency that there were no victims on the two other platforms that were targeted in the attack.

The Ukrainian military said a food warehouse in the Black Sea port of Odesa was destroyed in a Russian missile attack, but no civilians were killed.

The city has come under sporadic bombardment since the start of the war and is blockaded by the Russian navy, while each side accuses the other of laying mines in the sea.
Ukraine’s Operational Command “South” said Russian forces had fired 14 missiles at southern Ukraine during a three-hour barrage “in impotent anger at the successes of our troops”.

Russia’s military did not immediately comment on the reports.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/20/ukraine-attacks-sea-drilling-platforms-crimea-official-says

Russia’s foreign ministry has demanded the immediate lifting of Lithuania’s “openly hostile” restrictions on the rail transit of EU-sanctioned goods to Moscow’s exclave of Kaliningrad.

Sandwiched between European Union and NATO members Poland and Lithuania, Kaliningrad receives supplies from Russia via rail and gas pipelines through Lithuania.


The Baltic nation of Lithuania announced last week that it was banning the rail transit of goods that are subject to EU sanctions from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad.

The list includes coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology.

“If in the near future cargo transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the territory of the Russian Federation through Lithuania is not restored in full, then Russia reserves the right to take actions to protect its national interests,” the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.

The ministry said it had summoned Lithuania’s charge d’affaires in Moscow to protest against the “provocative” and “openly hostile” measures.

Earlier on Monday, the Kremlin said Lithuania’s decision was “unprecedented” and “in violation of everything there is”.

“The situation is more than serious and it requires a very deep analysis before formulating any measures and decisions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis defended the move and said his country was simply implementing sanctions imposed by the EU, of which it is a member.

He said the measures were taken after “consultation with the European Commission and under its guidelines”.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Vilnius was following EU sanctions.

“Lithuania has not taken any unilateral national restrictions and only applies the European Union sanctions,” Borrell said after a meeting of EU foreign ministers.

Kaliningrad governor Anton Alikhanov said the Russian foreign ministry would also summon the European Union ambassador to Moscow over the ban.

“This is, of course, a situation, that can be resolved by diplomatic means,” Alikhanov said on Russian television on Monday. “As far as I know, tomorrow (Tuesday) Marcus Ederer, the European Union ambassador to Russia, will be summoned to the foreign ministry …. and he will be told of the appropriate conditions involved here.”

There was no immediate confirmation from the Russian foreign ministry.

Alikhanov said the Lithuanian ban would affect about 50 percent of all imports to the territory.

The ban was confirmed on Friday by the cargo arm of Lithuania’s state railway service in a letter to clients following “clarification” from the European Commission on the mechanism for applying the sanctions.

Urging citizens not to resort to panic buying, Alikhanov said two vessels were already ferrying goods between Kaliningrad and Saint Petersburg, and seven more would be in service by the end of the year.

“Our ferries will handle all the cargo”, he said on Saturday.

Lithuania’s foreign ministry stressed that passenger travel and the trade in non-sanctioned goods would not be affected by the ban.

“The transit of passengers and #EU non-sanctioned goods to the #Kaliningrad region through the territory of #Lithuania continues uninterrupted,” the ministry said on Twitter.

Home to the headquarters of Russia’s Baltic sea fleet, the exclave was captured from Nazi Germany by the Red Army in April 1945 and ceded to the Soviet Union after World War II.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/20/russia-demands-lifting-of-lithuanias-kaliningrad-restrictions

HaryaorGirl:
Richiez, Fynestboi, olawalebabs, Lalasticlala, mynd44 seunosewa

First page please

Under President Goodluck administration, there was two platforms for payment- IPPIS and GIFMIS. The later allowed the university to operate without any unnecessary intervention from the government. However, under the President Buhari's administration, the university staff were forced to ditch the GIFMIS and adopt IPPIS. Unfortnately, the IPPIS does not give the university the freedom to operate. Things like sabbatical leave which was recognised by NUC was not recognised by the system.
The university system operates a different calendar system while IPPIS calendar operates from January to December.
For instance, the university usually start their appraisal by May. Appraisal for academics are three or four stages. Departmental, faculty and by the University Vice Chancellor. However, if you are going for professorial cadre your papers need to be sent out for external assessment. By the time these appraisals must have been concluded, the university calendar must have been over. Unfortunately, IPPIS doesn't capture arrears outside this calendar especially if it has exceeded three months.
Also where there's urgent need to engage lecturers especially professors for accreditation, university may need to write IPPIS for approval which sometimes takes long before it happens.
As for the 36 billion, the money was meant to take care of the minimum wage arrears which was approved in 2019. Mind you the money was meant also for polytechnics, colleges of education and not just the university community yet not every university staff has seen theirs.
There are many more but let me stop here for now.

Strike is a universal right of workers. Workers can go on strike and the law is explicitly clear and I would refer to the Nigerian trade dispute act as well as international labor organization code, they allow strike actions even without notice is allowed but we should ask ourselves, does it appeal to common sense that a union should embark on a one year strike or six months strike, well the answer is known to all of us. We would say well since the workers have the right to go on strike, they should try to moderate how to do it so that the lives of the young ones would not be put into jeopardy and that is the way I see all those things.

ASUU and the government are right to some extent, where government is right and where ASUU is right should be the meeting point for the two bodies and I will give you examples. I want to say it without any fear of contradiction from anywhere, the salary of a Nigerian professor is too poor, given the present level of inflation. A situation where a professor has been earning the same salary since 2009 is not acceptable. ASUU 2009 agreement is what the lecturers are still earning, even if it is the civil servants that are still earning the same salary, it is not acceptable. The salary that was calculated in 2009 was based on 2009 situation. We should moderate on the way we do things, that is on the side where ASUU is correct. Another side ASUU is correct is the level of decay in the university system, you go to some laboratories in the federal universities, you will cry that this is where they are teaching students, things are dilapidated. Some of the state universities, including Uniosun are far better than several federal universities. If you go to the laboratories in Uniosun, you will have the wrong impression that Nigerian universities are very standard, if you go to some federal universities you will cry.

One side the government is right but they are not right completely is IPPIS. In universities, you have granted them autonomy, having granted them autonomy allow them to operate. What the government should do to IPPS is to bring the package to the universities and ask the universities to domesticate the IPPIS. When universities domesticate the IPPIS, the government will play monitoring role. Do you get the point I am making? For example in Sun State University here our government is doing something similar to IPPIS but they give our university the autonomy. And the role our government plays is the monitoring role. And that is excellent. Monitoring role in the sense that they monitor how much we pay as salaries, monitor how we operate our salary account, they capture our bio-metric data every two years. But the state government allows us to manage our own finances as well as payment of our salaries. That is what the Federal Government should have done, borrow a leaf from the government of the State of Osun. Take the IPPIS to the universities, get the universities to buy into it, give the entire package to the universities, then set up your monitoring and evaluation team in Abuja, somewhere under the Federal Ministry of Finance or the Nigeria Universities Commission, let them come to the universities every two years to revalidate all the data submitted by the staff. That would have solved the problem. But the government wants to control the salaries of the federal universities from Abuja. The Federal Government has too many problems. I am not saying they should not dictate how to pay, they can dictate how to pay by handing over this IPPIS to the universities, domesticate it in the universities, let the salary units of the universities manage it. Then you play the role of monitoring and evaluation agent, you send your officers to the universities to monitor how it is being operated. That is what we are doing in Osun State and it is working like magic.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/06/fg-should-use-osun-model-to-solve-ippis-crisis-adebooye-uniosun-vc/amp/

Get ready. Jack Dorsey is building a 'web5' powered by bitcoin.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/jack-dorsey-is-building-web5-powered-by-bitcoin/amp

Onariii:
Tell that to most nigerians..... who are always looking down on those who they feel their jobs are way below them, car washer, uber drivers, drivers, security guards, traders, mechanic, waiters etc (girls especially)

The same Nigerians will still travel to Europe and engage in such jobs. What an irony?

1. Today is bright, its bright and fair...
2. HIP for the E for the hippopo...
3. Oh my home oh my home, when shall I see my home...
4. If you do good Kingdom, oh ho kingdom, oh ho Kingdom waiting for you...

AmandaLuv:
PROMIFA:
VC/POs/Deans/Directors/HODs/HOUs, goodafternoon Sirs/Madms, I humbly write to clarify all Staff on the pmt of arrears of National Minimum Wage,as follows;
(1) That,Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike is among the three Agric Universities yet to be paid, due inadvertent omissions from Budget Office of the Federation.
(2) That,The Ag.Bursar has been in Abuja to follow-up this,as well as provide additional relevant information/statistics required by the Budget Office for this purpose.

(3) That, all Staff are pls enjoined to exercise little patience ,as MOUAU have submitted all that are required by Budget Office of the Federation.
Tnk you all and be blessed.
Ugochukwu I Ironkwe (Ag.Bursar)

Thank you!

Ogwo2020:
Please can someone tell us why some of us (Umudike) are yet to receive the NMWA ? It's really disheartening

The funny part is that the school bursar is yet to brief us of the outcome of his travel to Abuja same with union leaders.

China is building a bridge across a lake in Ladakh on China’s Himalayan border with India — a move condemned by the Indian government, which called it an “illegal construction.”

It is the second and sturdier of two Chinese bridges across the Pangong Tso lake.

Speaking to CNBC, a retired general of the Indian Army, who used to be stationed in Ladakh, said the new bridge is capable of supporting tanks and armored personnel carriers and would help China speed up deployment between the river banks.

“What the bridge adds to Chinese capabilities is the ability to speedily move forces between the north and the south banks of Pangong Tso lake, which they were earlier lacking” said General Rohit Gupta, who served with the Fire and Fury Corps of the Northern Command of the Indian Army.

Ladakh is the site of an ongoing confrontation between the two nations.

It was a flashpoint between India and China in mid-2020, when violent clashes killed 20 Indian soldiers and five Chinese soldiers, according to their respective governments. Other reports set the Chinese death toll higher, at between 38 and 45 Chinese soldiers.

Pangong Tso lake is in disputed territory claimed by both countries. China has controlled two-thirds of the lake since the 1960s, and India holds the remaining one-third.
“We have seen reports of a bridge being constructed by China on Pangong Lake alongside its earlier bridge. Both these bridges are in areas that have continued to be under the illegal occupation of China since the 1960s,” India’s external affairs ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi told reporters last week.

“We have never accepted such illegal occupation of our territory, nor have we accepted the unjustified Chinese claim or such construction activities,” he said.

According to Gen. Gupta, the new bridge — which shortens the 130-kilometer distance between the southern and northern banks of the lake — is part of an attempt to negate a tactical Indian advantage in the area.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/25/china-is-building-a-bridge-on-a-disputed-himalayan-border-with-india.html

In the job of boot licking, nobody wants to take chances.

Rahym001:
MWA for FCEs& Polytechnic confirmed this morning first bank

I don't mean to intrude but is the amount close to 50k?

Coming from someone who cannot pay his workers.

Never you underestimate Nigeria domainers.

symbuul:
I want to use epik' for my sales due to their crypto payouts but I don't understand the bolded in the requirements

Shouldn't be under 60 days lock.

emorse:
Not just that. ASUU has ulterior motives. This much is clear. All federal workers are on IPPIS. The police, military, civil service, etal without any complaint. Why has ASUU chosen to be adamant?

It's funny how we react to issues without adequate information. Have you ever made efforts to find out if those staff that work in those ministries are comfortable or happy with the IPPIS platform. My neighbour who happens to be prison warder keeps complaining about IPPIS all the time. For your information, there is no way a lecturer can work as a full time staff in two federal universities except you are on sabbatical leave. NUC only permits one to work as full term in one university and part-time in another institution.