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Wait a sec, I've not paid any attention to biotech news lately, but I'm sure that if the tech existed to create new organs/body parts, I'd have heard of it.

Or am I missing something? Maybe he means that in the future, it may be possible. But to my knowledge it isn't possible yet.

Ethnic homogeneity isn't the issue, so much as spending money on the right things. At least, imo

Interesting.

I only see a mention of houston honoring him, not any varsity, though.

Not a bad lookin chick.

Well said.

Ngodigha/Andre Uweh/abadaba: why exactly are you offering me advice? Kindly keep it to yourself.

texazzpete:
There is nothing barring Christians from using any of the conventional banks. I am yet to hear of any one of the approximately 200000* Christian Gospel preachers in Nigeria railing about the evils of conventional banking. So any Christian not using the conventional banks is doing it for his own reasons.
This is in sharp contrast to the condemnation of interest based banking in the Islamic teaching that likely prevents some devout muslims from using conventional banking services.

This is a very interesting hypothesis of yours. But what evidence do we have of it being true? What fraction of the 28 million unbanked are unbanked for religious reasons, for example? This is the sort of basic question one should ask, rather than giving statistics that may or may not be relevant. If it turns out that 99% of these 28 million say that they are unbanked for religious reasons, then that would be something perhaps worth dealing with. If 1%, then probably not worth the effort.

The objective is to provide a widely practised non-interest banking model which is compliant with the sensibilities of muslims, bringing a compliant version of banking to the 'unbanked'. Please do not concern yourself with the 'helping the poor' part

OK, so I'm making an assumption here that most of these 28 million are lower income individuals. This could be wrong.

Can you at least TRY and read the CBN guidelines? Islamic banking is specified as a model of NIB, not the only NIB type. CBN also states that guidelines for other models of NIB will be issued shortly. What's the problem?

Why not have a single non-interest banking framework rather than N different ones? What advantage does Islamic banking specifically have over a secular one?

I think he meant to compare his own Anambra to Somalia. Or is this not the state where a catholic priest was kidnapped and used for rituals recently?

It doesn't work like that. I'm under no obligation to do anything for you. If you have a position, you are the one required to provide evidence to back up your idea. Not me.

Do you get this, heebo?

Btw, I thought you've acknowledged that you don't speak english so well. How about you speak eboe and we'll have someone translate.

Hehe.

Maybe it is better that you stick to that. No point in trying things beyond your skills.

chino11:
^^^^^ Ezi okwu?? Or your short of words or confusion or both.   

What is this? I guess the first sentence is Ebo, but what on earth is the second? Can someone please translate from whatever dialect this creature speaks into proper English?

Very interesting to me that all the usual Ebo trolls came out. No surprise, I guess.

Probably shouldn't be surprised that they cannot understand the difference between aggregate federal allocations and poverty.

Reading comprehension has never been the strong point of many of you.

I thought we have already established that the article says 2nd smallest federal allocations?

Not 2nd poorest by the other usual metrics (gdp/capita, poverty rates, etc).

I don't understand the point of most of the comments in this thread.

Now, if it turns out that Ekiti is indeed second poorest by those two metrics I mentioned above (or another such), continue chatting. But somehow I highly doubt this to be true

Odunnu:
Y'all should atleast know me to an extent by now. I said that because I sensed thats what the typical antiFashola guys would say when they come on board.

My bad. Detecting sarcasm isn't my strong point.

na wa o, odunnu passing the blame for her oga's failures

^-- I thought it was a federal road?

In retrospect, Buhari may have not been much different from a Sanusi. . . just another fulani feudalist.

I don't like GEJ much, but perhaps he was the lesser of two evils.

You raise some good points.

However, I disagree with your premise that their leaders are foolish. In fact, their leaders are very intelligent. They are not-so-subtly monopolizing Nigeria's resources for a small clique of people (namely, themselves).

From what I've been reading, for some of these states to implement the minimum wage, their entire allocation from the FG would not be enough to cover worker salaries. In other words, 100% recurrent expenditure. Can you imagine a situation in which this small clique (in most cases, under 50k people in each state) manage to monopolize for themselves 100% of the state's resources? Wonderful for this clique, terrible for each state and Nigeria as a whole.

I don't like unions, and have never liked this concept of a minimum wage. Especially in a country where unemployment and underemployment are rampant. I think that they are doing more harm than good.

What happened to Fundah? Who are their descendants today? I'd never heard of them before you mentioned them.

Interesting.

A bit unfortunate that he is talking now about not running. Why not face the job you still have nearly 4 years to do?

ezeagu:
How is it that you've figured out that the people were sneaking in goods, while the paper claims they were customers and that the customs officers were seen as heavy handed to the point that several newspapers reported that they were acting like they were out to sabotage? Even if they were sneaking in goods, in
what kind of society do customs officials intimidate traders and customers and destroy peoples property without trial?

I don't know, all I know is that the whole thing was a weird situation likened by newspapers to sabotage.

Ehh, I've provided proof that Tinapa failed because the guidelines weren't agreed on, which led to heavy handedness by Customs officials which led to no trade or investment.

Ezeagu. . . this isn't even amusing anymore. Anyway, you don't have a case. If you eventually get one, feel free to share.

Where did he get the # from?

What is the # for christians and other religions? By zone?

Why is Islamic banking the solution? I think Katsumoto showed here earlier how in practice this banking system doesn't help the poor very much

It pisses me off how they are trying to equate non-interest banking and islamic, btw

I think you can send an email to my YIM username (on my profile) @ yahoo.com

You should probably post here when you do send that email, otherwise I won't see it (I don't check that email account very often)

I think by "2nd poorest", they mean 2nd smallest federal allocations. Not poverty rates, gdp/capita, etc, etc

Lol. I have some JW relatives. It seems like a decent religion. A bit strict, like you say. They don't believe in the holy trinity though, only in God the father, iirc.

SEFAGO:
I actually participated in qualifications for the national olympiad thingy (Mathematics) eons ago (Man I don old).

But shocked gotta confirm, I thought no AFrican country will be capable of winning this award.

IMO (international mathematics olympiad)? What is the process like in Nigeria? How do they select the team?

Also, have you ever heard of this Nigeria –Turkish International College? I guess it must be pretty damn good if half the team came from there.

This is really cool to me. I've met and currently work with some gold and silver medalists in math and physics, and they are some of the smartest people I know.

This type of thing is typically dominated by academic powerhouse countries like China, Korea, India and Iran.

Congratulations to all of the Nigerians who participated, but a big congratulations to Ademehin especially. God bless him for bringing this medal to Africa.

May Nigeria get many more.

I'll be watching this guy closely, I am sure he is on the cusp of excellence. No doubt we'll be hearing about him again over the next few decades.

A FORMER student of Oyemekun Grammar School, Akure, Ondo State, Jesuoluwajoba Ebenezer Ademehin, made history in far away Bangkok, Thailand last week, when he clinched one of the  bronze medals at the 42nd  International Physics Olympiad (IPhO).

Ademehin’s feat makes it the first time ever that an African country would win a medal in any category in the Physics Olympiad, since it was first organized in Warsaw, Poland, in 1967.

About 390 students from 84 countries participated in the yearly event, held between July 10 and 18. A total of 54 gold, 68 silver and 93 bronze medals were distributed among the respective winners. Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya were the only African countries at the event, but the last two left, leaving Nigeria’s five contestants as the continent’s only representatives. Three of the five contestants: Ayodeji Bode-Oke, Musa Damina and Ayomide Bamidele are students of the Nigeria-Turkish International College, Abuja.

In this year’s contest, the best nine countries were from the Asian continent. They include Taiwan, China, Korea and Singapore, which clinched five gold medals each. Others were India, Kazakhstan, Japan, Thailand and Hong Kong. Each of them won three gold medals.

It was hardly surprising that the best countries were from the same region, Asia, because their respective governments are known to pay serious attention to all Olympiads, especially those related to the sciences. Malaysia, another Asian country, is also popularly known for Mental Arithmetic, which Dr Haroun Adamu, the founder of Zaria Academy, Kaduna has now introduced in the country.

The contestants collaborated with and used the facilities of the Nigeria –Turkish International College (NTIC), Abuja under the supervsion of Mr Ayhan Yaman, the college’s Head of Physics Department.

Ademehin told The Guardian that God made it possible for him to achieve his feat. His words: “For this achievement, I thank my God and Father ultimately. I appreciate the support I received from my family: nuclear, extended, and spiritual. I appreciate the Ministry of Education in Nigeria and the National Mathematical Centre (NMC). I appreciate the support I received from the Nigerian Turkish International College (NTIC), and Yamanlar Koleji in Izmir, Turkey for housing, feeding and their interest in me and the science olympiads.

“Specifically, I appreciate the support I received from Mr. Yaman Ayhan of NTIC and my Mr. Omer of Yamanlar Koleji. Lastly, I appreciate the support I received from my friends, other members of the 2011 IPhO physics team for Nigeria, and everyone else.

“I believe Nigeria can do better in the IPhO if sufficient support is given to the Olympiads and the students. I advise that the Olympiads (in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Informatics) be taken more seriously and given a high priority.”

Bamidele said: “The competition lasted for 10 days, with two days in-between several outings, dedicated for the theoretical and experimental examinations.

“The first examination was the theoretical, which consisted of three questions that was to be written for five hours and the second was the experimental part, with two experiments which equally lasted for five hours. The questions in each exam had their difficulties and proved to be hard for some contestants.

“The last day of the event was the closing ceremony where the contestants were awarded gold, silver and bronze medals. Below bronze was the honorable mention certificate, which was also awarded to some contestants. It was also during this event that the first medal (bronze) for Africa at IPhO was awarded to a Nigerian contestant- Jesuoluwajoba Ebenezer Ademehin.”

Another contestant, Folami Samson Oluwaseun said: “This year’s competition commenced with the opening ceremony, although the Nigerian Team missed the ceremony because one of our flights was cancelled. The competition had two parts; the theoretical and experimental competition which were held on separate days. Many students had a tough time with the theoretical competition because it had more of calculus than the physics problems itself, while the experimental competition was a bit easier for me.

“We all tried our best to get the ultimate goal, which is to win a gold medal, but it was only a member of the team that was able to get a bronze medal which is one of its kind in Africa.

“Glory be to Almighty God for crowning our efforts this year by raising the flag of Nigeria through Jesuoluwajoba Ademehin. I also thank God for granting us safe trips to and from the venue, even though we encountered a lot of difficulties during the journey.

“My sincere appreciation goes to the National Mathematical Centre, Abuja for their support, the Nigerian Turkish International College, Abuja for training and accomodating me, my school, Agbonran School of Science, Ede for their contribution and above all, my parents and siblings for their support.

The last contestant, Musa Damina could not be reached for comments at press time.

After first competition, the second IPhO was organised by Prof. Rudolf Kunfalvi in Budapest, Hungary, in 1968. The third was arranged by Prof. Rostislav Kostial in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1969, while the fourth took place in Moscow, the former Soviet Union, in 1970.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55862:team-nigeria-makes-history-wins-bronze-in-international-physics-olympiad&catid=80:education&Itemid=610

ezeagu:
I do not agree that the customs officials are reasonable in impounding people's cars because of apparent finished goods in them. Impounding a persons care because of fabric? If they weren't trying to sabotage Tinapa, then there are some even worse of block heads in Nigeria than I thought.

So what should the customs officials have done? Goods imported into the country, no duties paid on them. Just smile and let them carry on? This to you is the way to treat lawbreaking? Anyway, if so, then let the rules be uniform across the country. Let me import from Benin Republic or directly into Lagos w/o paying any duties.

By the way the guidelines weren't set because of some sense the Minister of Finance and the Comptroller General of Customs were playing when they decided they didn't agree on anything. The whole situation was a blatant sabotage by ministers from the north (Hamman Bello Ahmed and Shamsuddeen Usman) and the same thing wouldn't have happened in their enclave.

What incentive do the northerners have to sabatoge Tinapa? What do they gain out of it?

Anyway, back to the point, Tinapa didn't fail because of Donal Duke's incompetence, whether it was by Northerners or not, the Federal Government failed Tinapa.

Err, you haven't argued your point at all. Again, show us how the FG failed Tinapa. You may even be right, but I want to see a precise argument about what exactly they should have done, which they did not.

Strangely enough, I agree with the evil dictator.

ezeagu:
If you read the stories you will see that Tinapa was killed because the Free Trade Zone, it was supposedly signed off as, wasn't even defined. And 90% of the stories on nairaland are found by Googling.

FTZ != import goods w/o paying tax, man. That is the whole point. That is why customs agents went to seize goods. If I bring goods across the border from Benin Republic or into Lagos port, won't I have to pay import duties? If so, then why should Tinapa be exempt?

Idea of a FTZ is to import raw goods and export finished ones. Instead they were importing finished goods and selling them into naija (at least, this is what I gather from what I've read.)

And my criticism is not that you are googling, but that you seem to be using the articles as a substitute for your argument. You've claimed that Northerners killed Tinapa, but not offered any evidence for this.

BTW, I am no fan of the north. But imo it seems very lazy to blame every bad thing that happens in Nigeria on them.