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ujuvals:
......I was delighted,we talked at length and I was told my work days were Mondays to saturday,with 8-7pm work time for a salary if 25,000naira.I am a graduate,I don't seem to understand why the pay has to be so poor,thereby making the job seem like slavery.I want to give my best,I want to add value,I want to be supportive to this firm but I am not motivated by the pay.I can't be working yet be hungry,worse still as head of admin for 25,000......

If the salary is less than than your expense, then you shouldn't take it.

If it is more you could suggest to the company that considering that you would be investing your whole life into the company, you are interested in profit sharing after your basic has been paid.

solidhomes:
I did a job for someone in the US and gave a friend's US account to receive the money with the plan of opening a domiciliary account here and asking him to transfer the money to it. Over time, the money got to some thousands of dollars with him. I eventually opened the account and sent the details to him so he could help me transfer it. He didn't respond and when I called him he didn't answer the call. I called him several times after that, no response. I sent mails to him, no response. I tried to contact him on Facebook and found out he had deactivated his account. It's been like 6 weeks now and the only response to all the messages I sent to him is that even if I report the matter to the police, there is nothing they can do because it is a civil case and he will go ahead to declare bankruptcy and all he owns in the US is a TV which costs about $300.

I have all necessary details about him but I need to know the right way to go about this. I can push it to a level where he will face some charges due to his travel and work history in the US and may even lose so much but that may not eventually bring back my money.

Please, dear people, what do you suggest I do?

he didnt pay you for services (probably IT related) you rendered to him
this is technically different from him collecting hard cash from you and refusing to pay back.

There is really nothing much you can legally do to him if he his bankrupt
Cut your losses

This is normal in the business world and should teach you some fine lessons

1, the young man made a public defense of his mum to counter the public attack of the dad
2, the young man although 'rightly' angry ought not to have used words such as mad and bastard. it doesnt tell well of his upbringing

3, the young man informed his dad alright, but offering tickets to his dad (although gracious) for burial almost like a visitor in such a strained relationship with complexities was punching too far above his weight. His elders from both side of the families should be the ones leading burial arrangements, while he supports from the side.

4, Legal laws trump customary laws. Did the boy being of legal age have a will that states he be buried in his mums land? if yes, and the mothers land accepts it, then case closed. The law has no time for emotions.

5, If there are no overriding legal laws for or against, then customary laws come into play

6, Whose customary law? Do the customary laws of both families agree on this issue? If yes, then they follow its laid down procedure, whatever it may be.

7, If the customary laws do not agree, then both families will need to come to an amicable compromise.

8, I think that is what the father referred to when he talked of returning bride price. In his culture it symbolises the severance of a relationship from its root.

9, As part of the possible resolution, just as someone suggested, Stella can also claim that the child does not belong to the man. The man can also disown his dead and living sons from Stella, and completely cut of any blood links.

Exposing kids to diseases ....bad

castel428:
Injustice To The Best Graduating Student Of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto.

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Unfortunately the reverse was the case for the 2012/2013 academic set first class graduate of Applied Chemistry of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto in the person of Miss Stella Chinelo Emelife who turned out to be the overall best in not only her faculty but in all the faculties of that academic year,..

Op, obviously, you're close to the girl in question.
Let her know that she has nothing to fear or worry about. All she needs is to hook up with a good mentor that will show her how to maximize what she has achieved

Rizin:
please can someone help me out.

I have Excel sheet from headquarters with 10 columns ( heading: car no, date of service, km, part no, fuel level, etc) with up to 3000 rows. I do receive this report with the same no of columns from different regions. I need to collate these reports into the main sheet. is there a way I can add the columns from the regional sheet to the main sheet. I know vlookup but it only adds one column at a time.

Thank you.

as far as the columns are in the same order, the best approach is to copy and paste into the master

Next time when carrying out such polls, premium times should try and establish the 'ethnical' demographics of its respondents.
Nigeria is not the folks that are most vocal in social media

Hardmirror

Kudos on your post. I think you actually concluded your conversion story in your 1st thread. I suspect this thread only gives meat to your arguments.

You were once a christian, so I am sure you'd understand the feeling of those of us that will try to shut you up, insult you, and condemn you to hell.

Interestingly, even some of the apostles if they were around, might do the same. Its human nature and hardly peculiar to christians.

However, lets assume that Jesus actually was what he was made out to be (I believe he was, and let's not bother about the concept of God at this point).. I am convinced that he would not have condemned you, then and even now. In fact, I suspect that he would have rebuked the christian hawks circling you right now

..he probably would have with a smile told you "come"

You have experienced the fire of logic, which as burnt and is still burning away illogicals from where they were enthroned in your innermost recess. If for any reason you get into the faith again, it would be as a finer you without the frivolity of absurdities.

Till then, stay blessed beloved of Christ

tayebest:
C'mon grow up! Akpabio is a thief

To the best of my knowledge, he has not been convicted. Except of course, you also consider Tinubu a thief

bicmitchum:
This is a point in my life where I really need other opinions about my pending decision.
Here are the points:

-I graduated first class some years ago after completing studies at the University of Lagos
.....
Any inputs, please.

You have nothing to fear. You can always fall back as a lecturer overseas. Why not go directly for a phd instead of masters.

The only reason schools might not be interested in your application is because they keep seeing it every year, otherwise experience that you have is a big plus in admission

Hardmirror. Twas a great post.
I also had burning and disturbing desire to save people from hell. It started with if I dont preach, I'm guilty if they go to hell.

I soon overcame that after overcoming fear of God and me burning in hell.
Next, I overcame the fear of people going to hell in th r first place. This came about by meditating on the life of Jesus. As powerful as he was he didnt levitate to the hinderlands of africa to preach the gospel with urgency.

I'm still very much a jesus beliver with a desire to spread the gospel. However, I realise that my initial belifs were built on extremely faulty and illogical foundations. I continue my walk with God, peeling off lots of error that were thaught to me by christian tradition, some of which are as old as christianity itself.

I feel you brother

THEWRITERSMIND:
Salary is a wage given to a worker in form of money for services rendered. The word salary comes from a Latin word salsalis literary meaning sword. It came about from the practice of ancient Roman soldiers paying with sword because it is the most valuable item in that era. That was replaced wit......./

Thumbs up for the write up.
The root word for salary is actually salt, not sword. Tnx

Yes, "protestants" generally disagree that man cannot forgive sins. However, I disagree. Like you rightly pointed out, Christ himself gave us the ability to do so.

I guess the challenge is when a few christians try to corner this privilege. If you've got Christ, then even you can forgive the sins of others. Its not a complex religious process. Say you go preaching to someone, and the person wants to receive Christ but is not sure. You simple forgive his sins and welcome him to Christ by his confession.

Even Trump will chuckle at our gullibility after reading this

Now that I have explained above, please read the verse again

OLAADEGBU:
What does the Bible mean when it says "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God'"? Is atheism foolish? Are all atheists fools?

It wasn't talking about aetheists. I doubt if there were significant number of atheist in biblical days.
David was talking about a ruling elite who very likely, professed God with their mouths but in their hearts had contemplated that either God does not exist, or if gods do exist, then they did not interfere to bring judgement on man if they act wickedly.

This mindset emboldened these elites to act wickedly in their rulership, and even infect the people with such wicked behaviour, hence God could not find anyone who was a seeker.

Despite that both big man and small man were acting corruptly, God took side with the small men, and accused the big men of being the one causing the problems.

Its very much like Nigeria. The masses became corrupt because the elites devoured them in wickedness

mideactive:
I don't think I understand wat u'r sayin,come out clearer

NOI is a money manager, not a freedom fighter. She will only make the best out of a bad decision. Under GEJ, who had no balls, the best she could do was to ensure that the right boxes were ticked while sharks both in party and in opposition swarmed around her with no one to fend them off.

Don't be surprised if she actually has a well articulated financial plan than cancels out the effect of the depletion of our foreign reserves during her time

dyn1800:
WAS THE MONIES SHARED?

nope. Thank God for that

femmycares:
Get ur facts before displaying ur ignorance in public.No country shares foreign reserve and those u mentioned did not request for that.They requested sovereign wealth fund be shared.U may need to educate urself on what SWF connotes under GEJ

my apologies if I got it wrong. I wasn't so sure of the exact foreign financial portfolio hence I qualified it as "things".
However, this doesn't remove from the fact that a number of governors had no thoughts for the future and were only interested in the NOW. These set governors still persist in our polity either as apc or pdp.

By the way, you will be no less a man if you start your explanations without an aggressive display of uncouthness.

mideactive:
Wat actually happened 2 her under gej,dis woman was d reason y we had our debt 4given,n had a Robust foreign reserve under obj,even wen our income was quiet low.wat is she not tellin,is she part of d conspiracy,y dint she resign?wit her pedigree n income boom wen gej was president,we'r suppose 2 av hit $100b reserve.how come all dis happened right under .....

U aware that folks like amaechi, fashola and oshiomole fought against all of these foreign reserve things, and requested that the money be shared?

anonimi:
Why not develop your artistic talent by studying under a renowned master of tie & dye batik to be a textile designer etc

he probably could also develop this skill informally.

I remember when i tried hard to learn tailoring during my university days (not hard enough sha)
but the tailors dey do me somehow

Its a skill I would now have found useful for assembling clothes that fit my body shape perfectly instead of all these mass produced clothes
and maybe even sell some to guys as big as I am.

Economics will be perfect.
While at it, do some banking and and financial related certifications such as CFA, CIMA, ACCA
Ensure you graduate with a good gpa

top it with some statistics IT packages

OLAADEGBU:
Deal with the issue at hand without attacking my person. You don't have to attack me before you make your point.

Lol
Of course olaa, I wasn't attacking you. I cant stoop to such level.
I was only showing you how texts can be lifted out of context, and misused.
I'm actually surprised that you could not notice my play with words.

This is what I did. I made a full statement, then demonstrated how some folks pick out the sensational bits out of context.

Uhmmm. Come to think of it, if you couldn't notice something so obvious, how can I trust your assessment of more weighty stuff.

donnie:
When satan wants to finish you, he first gives you blindness (spiritual) or madness. Then you speak anyhow and do anyhow and get anyhow result.

You've spoken so aptly
I wonder if you know this
You sound like David when Nathan told him the story of a man who stole another,s sheep.

And wait a minute! Isn't it strange that a "help meet" does not know that her exemplary helpee in a modern christian marriage has no personal assets. Habaaaa

Sebi Jesus said that SERVANTS have no knowledge of their masters business, however friends do, and he called his disciples FRIENDS

Ok, ooo, contunouuu

if all a man does is eat and sleep. He will still run into issues. How much less when you're ambitious.
Oyaks is divorced....so what?
Christiandom will even forgive him if he screws a woman or two. It will be considered as the failing of a human. Na only if he is exposd as a reckless philanderer... Na there problem dey.

The challenge is when you espouse some models and philosophies, and when they produce bad fruits, you blame everyone but yourself instead of going back to the drawing board to correct the model

Joagbaje:
So is taking another man's life a sin? Taking another man's life. Is different from murder. You may take life. In battle or in execution or by accident.

Evey know sin is clearly spelt out in the Bible

I'm not really concerned about the sin vs no-sin part

the point that i tried to make was that this your logic is shaky: if masturbation for health aint sin, then masturbation for recreation aint sin either.
Perhaps, you could use some other logic to buttress your point, but definitely not that one. Anyone with a little intellect will tear it down easily

I'll tell you a true story. A building collapsed and mum and baby daughter were trapped for days and thirsty. The mum slit her wrist and gave her blood to the child to drink.
If this is to be argued in a theological court, won't it be absurd to build logic around the act rather than the intent?

Still on that. I think intent is the key.

^^ not joining in the debate, but I,m not sure of this logic.
Its like saying that if executing a man or man slaughtervis not a sin, then murdering is no sin.
In all cases, one takes another's life.

Don't be quick to say that the bible refers to murder. Although translators try to distinguish this and it can actually be inferred from reading the bible, however, from my studies, the actual original word used doesnt have that much of a distinction

Bolaadu:
Tinbu is a politician with wisdom foreknowledge and experience, Ribadu can not win d election dat year.

and so, it was right that Ribadu be sold for money instead of being built for the next election abi?
Money that came from where? ...probably same FG security votes that is now upsetting everyone

And now, Tinibu is a saint and has wisdom abi? ....lol in order words the end justifies the means

And some pro APC tribal zombies mock Ribadu who was disgraced and betrayed by Tinibu for moving to the PDP abi?


...we can't continue supporting and encouraging the same actions that brought us to were we are and expect a different and glorious result in the future

@OP

There is a man called VP Osibanjo that is presently only a heartbeat from the presidency
Much like Jonathan, Osibanjo has not been tested in the crucible of leadership.
He is a lackey of the man that sold Ribadu for a princely sum ...the man Tinubu

God forbids anything happens to PMB
Our finances will be plundered

Apart from safety reasons, such an infrastructure can actually be tied to direct job creation. So it is not necessarily a waste of money, especially if all materials are manufactured in Nigeria.

However, with regards to vandalism, the government could probably be more innovative. For example, creating a mini moat that separates the train tracks from pedestrians, or maybe laying sharp edged stones on each side of the track to discourage pedestrians from crossing.

All they need do is contact me for ideas