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ayodijex:
you should console me with a girl na

Hello. You're still in school?

lusciouslex:
The question is: who are their employers in the Nigerian Economy especially French, Chemistry and the rest of the backward-asss, meaningless but stressful federal university courses? Keep telling yourself about self empolyment. #castles in the air.

hehehe! Calm down, dude. Oh yeah I get they could be stressful but, to say they're MEANINGLESS is way too far. 'Stressful' courses have overall 'stress-ed' effects on their graduates. Some RELEVANT 'stress-ed' qualities 'd have been developed over the years of study.
You seem to have had a clash with Chemistry/Chemists. Tell me about it.

HighIQ:
REASONS-
As for chemistry and chemical Engineering i don't know why first class is getting low nowadays. The students studying those courses often complain that the course is too tough and lucrative.

Students of Chemistry complain that the course is TOO LUCRATIVE Where on the planet?!

By the way, Chemistry majors in my school don't complain of the course as being difficult as portrayed by some, here. I don't just get. Whatever...!

Agric Economics, right away.

Congratulations. More of success stories....

Sambar:
Welcome onboard bro.....what is not chemistry?

The souls of men, bro!

Emodeee:
1+sin x^-n....... Dats d ans... Standing ovation for me.

Really? (smh) Check this out: (1+sin x)^-n

Zedicusdgreat:
sir OAU is the first skul in Nigeria to offer online courses...we av NOUN (national open University, Nigeria) and University Of Ibadan

Thanks for the info.

I know of a person who was admitted to study an Engineering course through UME but saw on JAMB's site that it was a four-year course. No Engineering degree requires less than five years of training, definitely.
Dear friend, so it is. They could make such an error. Instead of creating a topic for this, you could've just called someone you knew in school, and the like.

I'm glad a Nigerian school is going into online education because recently, I was whining about the fact that there were no universities in Nigeria offering online courses.
Only that it wasn't my school that began it, and at this time. I hope they take up the initiative too.
Anyway, good one for OAU!

yhusiee:
Akuko n'egwu!!! I will sooo follow up this development and c where it will take them. Our regular university students will go 2 skul in some cases n not c any lecturers 2 lecture dem, not 2 talk of wn dey dnt go 2 skul @ all, and did I hear dem mention "costomised study tablet"? LOL, its nt a study tablet, it is a cotomised social network tablet jooor, plus free internet join. Dem go hear am

Medieval. I could have overlooked but, it's just too medieval to pass by. It's the 21st century, man!

laidyy:
sai buhari means to us is only buhari

Oh. Many thanks.
By the way, I presume you are a Northerner. Is that correct?

Hkm....
Three years is kinda serious. There's definitely more to this than you have said. I'd ask that you either seek counselling or pray. It shouldn't be difficult to get someone who is in the right shoes to counsel you.
All the best.

No Source?!!!

Safari29:
nah. Sai mean it is
sai buhari = it is Buhari

Alright. Gomapseumnida.

Safari29:
It's a blessing bro. rail is always a blessing. ask those in sahara desert.

beside it just stopped abstruptly now. sunlight coming. change is coming
sai baba
sai buhari
sai nigeria
we can't wait

I used to think 'SAI' means 'vote'. What does it mean?

naturalwaves:
This ranking was not done by NUC. It is the same ranking by 4icu.org and it is not authentic. Paste a link to the NUC website where the ranking was done. The funny thing is that this useless ranking has been tagged as NUC 2015 ranking in most blogs. Useless bloggers everywhere.

I was about to say the same thing. What's really with them?! Spreading false information here and there. Smh! I don't just get. *sighs*

searay:
Tell them
What's the Criteria?

When I checked their website, they said it's based on web popularity. If you read through their website well you'll see a statement from them (4icu) that theirs isn't based on any other criteria than web popularity; how they check the Net during a specific period of time in order to rank them and all that.

This paragraph got at me the most:
"How would you develop any country when the dream of the majority of its youth and elite is not entrepreneurship, innovation, education and self-sufficiency, but the dream to have a job with a humanitarian organization or to get their project financed by some International aid Agency or proxy."

8. Lack of Science & Engineering Education
A study done few years ago at the Stanford University (I’m struggling to find my source) demonstrated howcolonial powers tend to drastically reduce the study of science and engineering in the countries they have occupied.They would favor literature and subaltern studies that would make the graduates just good enough to assist them in running the colonies or the occupied countries.
BinaryCode
Results, Africa has a lot of “talkers”, people with oratory prowess. Now,We don’t need more of those lawyers, sociologists, philosophers, but more scientists and engineers.
9. Lack of International Intelligence network
Africa knowledge of the world is very limited. I’d agree that most of my fellow Africans have very little idea of the world they are living in, specially the forces and trends that are shaping it.
This lack of intelligence is bad, because it leaves the continent unaware of events and shifts that could affect it.
10. The Crab Mentality
If you put several crabs into a bucket, and if one of them begins to crawl out, one or more of the other crabs will put it back down and prevent its escape. It’s called Crab Mentality.
This is a good metaphor for us as Africans to Unite and create strong networks that support each other, while avoiding the Judas goats.

Source: siliconafrica.com


P. S.: The purpose of this article is not to spur needless arguments or any form of hatred but to inspire the African for a better continent. And,... don't mind whatever errors and inconveniences you come across. It was copied and pasted, remember.

4. The Colonial Borders
The current African countries borders are nonsenses. A study done in the years 70s showed that African nations had less trade between themselves than before colonization ( How Europe Underdeveloped Africa). The situation has not change much since then.
There is no immediate solution, but initiative like the African passport or Visa would greatly improve the movement of people and increase the potential of intellectual and commercial exchanges.
5. Ignorance of the Books of Machiavelli, Hegel & Darwinism
The western elite that currently rules the world has 3 majors intellectuals influences: Machiavelli (How to rule over people with cynicism and deception), Hegel (using the Hegelian dialectic of history they consider the western civilization as the end of history) and Darwin (the Survival belongs to the fittest, therefore the white race should stay at the top and rule over other races).
Anyone who wants to understand the intellectual principles that are shaping our current world, should deeply understand the above 3 authors and their influence on the western elite.
Maya Angeloualways advise the African-American elite to read The princeof Machiavelli, because, she said, without a proper understanding of this book, you won’t understand the western elite. The Prince is their bedside book. it contains the main principle all imperialist applies:“If you want to control the people, separate the people and you can rule them. Divide them and you can conquer them.”
Posted @ QUOTEZ.CO
The ignorance by the African elite of the principles by which the western Elite think and act is a major cause of their permanent naivete and incompetency.
6. The Rich Subaltern Mentality
There are two kinds of people in Africa, those who can’t make a living regardless of how much they put in, and those with lavish lifestyle and privileges regardless of how little they contribute.
The first group is made of those who has not contact with “white” people, and the second is made of people who has contact with “white” people.
If you live in Africa or know some African people, make a list of 10 people you know or have heard about who have a “good life” and social privileges. You’ll quickly find out that 90% those who have a good life are people who work for the “white” or with the “white”. They serve foreign-owned or controlled companies, organizations or foreign NGOs in Africa. They have big houses, nice cars, home servants, and enjoy high social status and privileges.
I call those the “Rich subalterns” or the “Selected subalterns”. (“White” in Africa is used for “European”, “Chinese”, “Lebanese”, “American”, etc. In the context of this article it could be easily replaced by “foreigners”.)
What is the problem?
The problem is that you can’t develop a country or continent where the majority of people who have the potential to become leaders are raised to be “good subalterns” to be successful.
Rich-subalterns
Young people aspire to emulate the most successful models in their society, and now the only visible and tangible model available is the rich subaltern model.
There will be no problem with the rich subaltern modelif this group of population was not made mainly with “non-productive” people working in middle management position. Middle managers in office don’t create companies, they don’t create value, they don’t create jobs, they don’t invent, innovate or act in leadership position with the power to change things.
7. Lack of Domestic Leadership Education
Africa is not poor, Africa has a leadership problem. For any society to prosper it should have a endogenous system of identifying, training and coaching its future leaders. Some countries do it through their military services, some do it through elite schools, and some others do it through informal coaching and assistance organizations or secret societies.
The main issue about Africa leadership is not the quality of its individuals, but the quality of the group of individuals. Individually there are lot of brilliant people, but collectively they fail to work together harmoniously on long term vision, and commit with integrity and loyalty to their country or long term vision.
The reason behind this failure is that most the so called leaders are trained outside their country and context, by people who has no knowledge of the context in which their leadership skills would apply. Additionally, the heterogeneity of the systems in which they have trained make it difficult to make them work well together.
Ennemi-within
Domestic leadership education systems and programs that raises in the same place and contextfor a long period of timea whole generation of new leaders is the way to go.

Hello. I saw this over the net and decided to share it here. Africa's Top 10 Problems...

1. The Poverty Porn
Humanitarian organization like UNICEF, Doctors without Borders, and alike have done more damage to Africa than the marginal positive impact they supposedly have had.
In order to raise money for their operations, they have engaged into a “poverty porn” depicting Africa with the most degrading, and humiliating images. African people dignity is not something they cared about. The huge billboard and magazines photos showing Africa at its worst now fill the mind of billions of people around the world, and unfortunately those people can’t help but think about Africa only trough those images. (In the same time, those medias won’t show the photo of a dead American or English soldier, because it’s shocking and doesn’t respect human dignity)
Underwear-for-africa
The worst consequence of this “free publicity” is the way it has deeply impacted Africans self-perception and self-image.
For example, It’s common in France for African immigrants who are having problems with their teenagers to threat them “If you’ll continue to behave that way, you’ll be sent back to Africa”, meaning “We will send you to the hell you have seen on TV or in the Newspaper”.
The “Poverty porn” of the NGOs, the humanitarian organizations, and Western medias is the problem number one because it sabotages Africans self-image, weakens their sell-confidence and resolve, andcontributed hugely to the hate and racism Africans face all over the world.
Swedish minister in ‘racist cake’
2. International Aid
If foreign aid would develop any place, Africa will be the most developed continent in the world.
International AID is now doing more harm to Africathan good. It became the main tool used by foreign governments and organizations to corrupt the African elite, and get them to behave so irrationally toward their own populations and the basic interest of their countries.
Aside corruption and the criminality, International Aid is the root of the 5 Stars colonization disease that cripple the African elite which dislike the responsibility and the self sacrifice that comes with being in control of a nation destiny. As far as they enjoyed the status offered by their positions, they never liked theresponsibilities demanded by the jobs, therefore they use international aid programs as substitute to their responsibilities.
If Africa needs any aid, the most urgent one is to get rid of the 40 billions corruption industry (called International Aid) that shackles its youth and elite, cultivates and maintains the beggar mentality.
How would you develop any country when the dream of the majority of its youth and elite is not entrepreneurship, innovation, education and self-sufficiency, but the dream to have a job with a humanitarian organization or to get their project financed by some International aid Agency or proxy.
3. International Medias
A friend of mine recently told me that the“Global Lying System”(referring to the western medias covering African news) is one of the biggest threat to peace and development in Africa.African tribes are created in London, Brussels and Paris by journalists.
BBC-Lies-hour
The colonial heritage of those journalists (unless they are instructed to do so) makes them to see Africa only as a collection of tribes and focus their coverage on what they call as tribal issues. They create new realities like “People from the North” compared to “people from the South” or “people from the West”. They invent new divisions with creative imagination, like the Belgians falsely created the “Tutsi” and “Hutu” tribes in Rwanda which ultimately lead to the genocide in 1994.
The western medias seems to follow an agenda of further dividing African nations and populations with their constant framing of Africa through fight between tribes, religions, geography, etc. This must stop before African could unite to fight their way out.
The influence of western medias in Africa is very negative, and could be considered as part of Africa problems.
The second most negative effect of the western medias in Africa is that they tend to focus their attention on what the Europeans or the White people are doing in Africa or for Africa, and how they are saving Africa, therefore continuing to create the false impression that Africa is a hopeless place with lazy people that could be saved only by the white man.
Madonna in Malawi
What you often see is a white man helping African or an outsider making change in Africa. That’s bad, and perpetuate the feeling that Africans are incapable to solve their problem by themselves, and reinforce in the mind of the young people and generation “the white man as a savior” mentality. Very Bad!...

csandy:
yea... Am a 200 level chemistry student, still on d basics of chemistry n i was actually hoping to get somtin here.....BTW it seems all chemistry thread on Nl are closed

It seemed.... Fortunately, they aren't, really.

Hello Chemists. I almost got confused over this so I went online for answers. It could be of help to some persons.
Question: Which of the three types of radiations is the most dangerous?
Ans:"The degree to which each different type of radiation is most dangerous to the body depends on whether the source is outside or inside the body.
If the radioactive source is inside the body, perhaps after being swallowed or breathed in:
Alpha radiation is themost dangerousbecause it is easily absorbed by cells.
Beta and gamma radiation are not as dangerous because they are less likely to be absorbed by a cell and will usually just pass right through it.
If the radioactive source is outside the body:
Alpha radiation is not as dangerous because it is unlikely to reach living cells inside the body.
Beta and gamma radiation are themost dangerous sourcesbecause they can penetrate the skin and damage the cells inside.
Notice that these effects are opposites and make sure you get them the right way around." (from bbc.co.uk)

I don't accept any rankings if it's not from Webometrics or NUC!!!

drnairalov:
seen 44 is dabid oyedepo..so many negative prophecies can som1 take me 2 his 2014 prophecies leme se if dey came 2 pass

Look at the op well. He said 'third letter,' not 'fourth.' 'D' is the fourth.
Aish.

drnairalov:
seen 44 is dabid oyedepo..so many negative prophecies can som1 take me 2 his 2014 prophecies leme se if dey came 2 pass

Look at the op well. He said 'third letter,' not 'fourth.' 'D' is the fourth.
Aish.

csandy:
Is this thread closed?? Was so happy to have found a chemistry thread on NL

Hello. That's one thing I find quite disturbing about Chemistry, specifically on Nairaland.
Just check out Physics thread and see.
The thread is not closed. You and I could re-vitalize it, and then others could join too. Don't you think so?

jayriginal:
For Mr Ehimenboy

A woman killed her child because she believed the child was a witch. See comments


https://www.nairaland.com/2050131/horror-ekiti-mum-murders-own/1#28984076


https://www.nairaland.com/2050131/horror-ekiti-mum-murders-own/1#28984289


https://www.nairaland.com/2050131/horror-ekiti-mum-murders-own/1#28983742


https://www.nairaland.com/2050131/horror-ekiti-mum-murders-own/2#28986996

Mr Ehimen, do you see the dangers in holding such beliefs? Do you see how a woman took her own daughters life? Do you see how human beings I quoted, most of them females, support murder on the basis of their religion (suffer not a witch to live). Do you remember the Oyedepo slap? Do you know that this is not an isolated incident and that there are several others with the same attitude? In fact one person is quoted as saying that she will murder her own child in the same circumstances.

If someone will murder her own child, what will she do to people who are not her own blood relatives? Do you see the danger Mr Ehimen? Do you know that Boko Haram, Isis, Al Qaeda etc operate on the same basis? Do you see the danger Mr Ehimen?

Yesterday, I was reading an article in Vanguard and they stated that there was a community in Amichi, in Anambra State where some Christians had a 3 day program after which they went to destroy a shrine in the community. When irate muslim youths go about burning churches in the North, you shout to the high heavens. You call them terrorists and barbarians. But when Christians go about destroying shrines, you are carrying out the work of God. The hypocrisy stinks!

It is here that we hear about demons who have mastered GSM technology and can send text messages even when there is no credit in the phone (they presumably can send emails and even log on to Nairaland even when there is no data in the phone). So much crap and people believe such nonsense.

It is here that we hear that wearing weave ons, lipstick, eye liners etc will take one straight to hell. Going late to church also takes you to hell. Not dotting your I's or crossing your T's will take you straight to hell.

I get your point, Mr. Jayriginal.

jayriginal:
https://www.nairaland.com/2104615/killed-people-baga-lord-instructed
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/killed-people-baga-lord-instructed-us-book-shekau/
"We killed the people of Baga as our Lord instructed" - Shekau
I hope you get the point now.

The op is not Shekau.
What devastating effects does the op's message, sex only within marriage, have? That's my question.

robedu:
Thank you, we just need to help each other, so God can also help us, i am happy that her marriage is working now - and Yes i know God will secure my marriage when im married too - God bless you

Amen.

plaetton:
Natural man?
Lol.
Yeah.
But I have not had the good/bad fortune of meeting an unnatural man. Lol.

Perhaps there are plenty of them in your neck of the woods?

You see...those God's children around you are the very unnatural men. Christians are meant to be God's children. They aren't too far!