₦airaland Forum

Noted!

reminds me of this! Lols!!

uncle lalasticlala pls help move to d permanent site so that men and women with history background educate us more! thanks

could this be the real truth about Shakespearean novels?

Chioma Chimah Nwabuko

Open letter to the man in charge at NUC .

Dear sir,

It has come to our notice that you intend to reform the
current medical training duration in Nigeria, making it at
least 11yrs to complete the first stage of medical training. A
good number of my colleagues have complained bitterly
about this development highlighting the sentiments we all
share.

I simply want to point out rather objectively why such a new
law would not only be unfair but highly detrimental to the
Nigerian health sector.

1. Every year... My school churns out an average of 60
graduate doctors ready for their internship. I cannot claim
to know how many students other schools graduate, but
using my school as an average and postulating that every
state in Nigeria has a medical school, I would infer that we
churn out at least 2220 fresh doctors every year. This
should be a source of joy to the nation in view of the sheer
manpower expected at NYSC. However some states get
roughly 20doctors per batch or less.. Funny enough a good
number of doctors are already above 30 at graduation(this
is in a 6yrs duration system), I cringe to think of how old
our doctors would be if this new system is adopted.

2. In this age of globalization... Scholarships abound and a
good number of Nigerians can afford to study in foreign
countries ( Ukraine, Hungary etc), this new system will
simply put our undergraduates at a very serious
disadvantage when compared with their foreign trained
counterparts. I need not emphasize that this will worsen the brain drain of our darling country.

3. Innovation actually comes easier with youth. A system
that churns our graduates who are in their middle thirties
will only breed a generation of doctors whose only interest
would be attempting to meet up with their secondary school mates.

4. I would like to point out that the vigorous training meted
out on medical students 'retards them socially', we are
unfortunately not in western countries where students have
jobs, earn money.... Here most of our students(myself
included) under the umbrella of school depend solely on
parental allowances.. Have little value for money and think
budgeting is a French word for our parents alone to
understand. Imagine a crop of medical students in their 30s
with such attitude... And a few years away from mid-life
crises.

Sir/MA I understand that your policies have the well being of every nigerian patient at heart, I however implore you to
remember that in the hospital... Physicians are simply
patients that have not been diagnosed, our health and
wellness matter too.

I apologize if this post is too long.

cc: lalasticlala, mynd44, Seun

Lmao! Cool dudes? From 1 - 5 maybe, bt d rest, Nay nada. . . D ladies know best. My opinion tho!

visita:
The most sensible response I've read here this morning. Don't understand why people can't just drop their comments without calling other people all sorts of names. And we all claim to be educated, morally upright, God fearing, e.t.c.

Common sense ain't common u know. . .

daretodiffer:
What If the practice is the norm and there are no reasonable way of finding out that the defendant knew what he did was illegal?

Ignorantia et jure fiat excusiat! Ignorance of the law is no excuse

fiizznation:
Look young man, I don't like folks who throw insults at any random cognomen on faceless fora. You would have still pass your own opinion without name callings.

That been said. No court of any jurisdiction have found yunusa guilty of the baseless accusations he was been accused of. What I and everybody have been reading online and offline is how yunusa the Muslim boy from the north "kidnapped/abducted" the innocent young christian bayelsa girl called ese from the south. Then I asked you, if this is not disrespect to yunusa's person then what is it? Yunusa has outrightly said he never abducted ESE rather she was the one that willingly followed him to kano. The girl is 14 as you all want everybody to believe. Then why are you not calling for the heads of ese's parents who failed to tell their 14yrs old child that it is very wrong to elope with boys to wherever?

Look young man, nobody is a fool and nobody believed the facade that ese's mother told journalists. Like I outrightly said. If you guys think nobody will stand up and speak/fight for yunusa, then you guys must be joking

I understand ur stand point bro bt d law is d law and it seeks to protect minors who are deemed to have no decision of their own, that's why a child below 18 can never b tried in an open court unless he's been tried in together with adults. The child equally cannot b given a jail term nor imprisoned. Our laws were borrowed from England and once u hv carnal knowledge with a minor whether by consent or not, it is regarded as child molestation and seen as a serious crime which can fetch one 5yrs jail term. I guess u must hv heard abt d recent case involving Adam Johnson (a professional footballer playing for sunderland fc). His club president had to resign just because of dt case even though d young lady in question consented to everything they did. Yunusa's case is quite petty because not only did he elope with d Ese bt also because he refused to release her to her parents when initial contact was made and ended up getting her pregnant. So by law my brother, he is guity as charged though it's left for the court to so decide. Moreover, consent of parents is a key factor in marriage both in our statutes and traditional jurisprudence.

And some zombies will end up insulting u @ Barcanista for stating d obvious.

Anyways, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If na lie ask Prof. Osunbade (In Bubu's voice)

Karma is a B... And to cap it all, he returns from his globetrotting with fanfare, pump and pageantry baring all shame. . . Our lean resources can go to blazes

phemmyutd:
are these new built roads or repaired road? go back to the question and answer properly

I'm very sure of the Von Machok road which was awarded by Obasanjo bt work never commenced till GEJ came in and ordered work to start. It was started and finished by GEJ

elego1:
You are wrong. The pig does not weigh 99kg. The weight of the pig minus the weight of the bird is 99kg i.e the pig weighs 100kg.......100-1 =99kg.

Ok sir. noted! so d answer is 105kg then?

103 kg

Solution: from d 3rd diagram, divide 12kg of d rabbits by 3 and u'll get to know dt each rabbit weighs 4kg.

Go back to d first diagram which total is 5kg and minus 4kg dt d rabbit weighs and u'll know dt d bird weighs 1kg.

Over to d 2nd diagram, minus 1kg which is d actual weight of d bird from 99kg and u'll get 98kg which is what d pig weighs.

Total kg of all animals in d 4th diagram will b
Bird - 1kg
Pig - 98kg
Rabbit - 4kg

Total - 103kg

So any gift for me?

I thought one integrity self righteous fellow said this or was it a premeditated scam?

d blood on d wall only points to d fact dt she was shot from d front and d bullet exited through d back of her head. people who commit suicide by shooting themselves point d gun by d side of their head close to their ears. she was murdered and d murderer places d gun and cigarette in her hands. it's not easy to commit suicide as people who do are known to fidget a lot so d cigarette can't be in her hands. and d way she's lying on d ground, only points to d fact that d murderer arranged her thus. having established dt she was shot through d forehead, d impact of d bullet must have thrown her backwards.

Lol! Funny dude!! Spoke my mind though. PDP lost it d day they conceded to select or impose dt beast of a man as their Nat. Chairman. I'll gladly support their total annihilation as a party if this anomaly isn't ameliorated.

excellencyabia1:
did the early apostles observered it if it is so essential. And why does it has to stay up to so many years before coming in. Please let me state that i am just inquisitive.

ur question should b if it's biblical. I guess u already know that answer. and for d second part of ur question, it didn't just come in, the catholic church have been observing it even before Emperor Constantine legalised the christian religion

Receiving ashes on the head as a reminder of mortality and
a sign of sorrow for sin was a practice of the Anglo-Saxon
church in the 10th century. It was made universal
throughout the Western church at the Synod of Benevento in
1091.
Originally the use of ashes to betoken penance was a
matter of private devotion. Later it became part of the
official rite for reconciling public penitents. In this context,
ashes on the penitent served as a motive for fellow
Christians to pray for the returning sinner and to feel
sympathy for him. Still later, the use of ashes passed into
its present rite of beginning the penitential season of Lent
on Ash Wednesday.
There can be no doubt that the custom of distributing the
ashes to all the faithful arose from a devotional imitation of
the practice observed in the case of public penitents. But
this devotional usage, the reception of a sacramental which
is full of the symbolism of penance (cf. the cor contritum
quasi cinis of the "Dies Irae" is of earlier date than was
formerly supposed. It is mentioned as of general
observance for both clerics and faithful in the Synod of
Beneventum, 1091 (Mansi, XX, 739), but nearly a hundred
years earlier than this the Anglo-Saxon homilist Ælfric
assumes that it applies to all classes of men.
Putting a 'cross' mark on the forehead was in imitation of
the spiritual mark or seal that is put on a Christian in
baptism. This is when the newly born Christian is delivered
from slavery to sin and the devil, and made a slave of
righteousness and Christ (Rom. 6:3-18).
This can also be held as an adoption of the way
'righteousness' are described in the book of Revelation,
where we come to know about the servants of God.The
reference to the sealing of the servants of God for their
protection in Revelation is an allusion to a parallel passage
in Ezekiel, where Ezekiel also sees a sealing of the servants
of God for their protection:
"And the LORD said to him [one of the four cherubim], 'Go
through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark
[literally, "a tav"] upon the foreheads of the men who sigh
and groan over all the abominations that are committed in
it.' And to the others he said in my hearing, 'Pass through
the city after him, and smite; your eye shall not spare, and
you shall show no pity; slay old men outright, young men
and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one
upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.' So
they began with the elders who were before the
house." (Ezekiel 9:4-6)
Unfortunately, like most modern translations, the one
quoted above (the Revised Standard Version, which we have been quoting thus far), is not sufficiently literal. What it actually says is to place a tav on the foreheads of the
righteous inhabitants of Jerusalem. Tav is one of the letters
of the Hebrew alphabet, and in ancient script it looked like
the Greek letter chi, which happens to be two crossed lines
(like an "x" and which happens to be the first letter in the
word "Christ" in Greek Christos). The Jewish rabbis
commented on the connection between tav and chi and this is undoubtedly the mark Revelation has in mind when the servants of God are sealed in it.

The early Church Fathers seized on this tav-chi-cross-
christos connection and expounded it in their homilies,
seeing in Ezekiel a prophetic foreshadowing of the sealing
of Christians as servants of Christ. It is also part of the
background to the Catholic practice of making the sign of
the cross, which in the early centuries (as can be
documented from the second century on) was practiced by
using one's thumb to furrow one's brow with a small sign of
the cross, like Catholics do today at the reading of the
Gospel during Mass.

excellencyabia1:
did the early apostles like peter and paul observed it?

In the Old Testament ashes were found to have used for two purposes: as a sign of humility and mortality; and as a sign of sorrow and repentance for sin. The Christian connotation for ashes in the liturgy of Ash Wednesday has also been taken from this Old Testament
biblical custom.

ur question should have been if d using of ash as a mark of humility or repentance was biblical since that's d only way u guys attack catholics

excellencyabia1:
Ash wednesday does it has any pagan adoption?

No not at all! I'm yet to come across any research work that suggests thus

HOMILY FOR ASH WEDNESDAY
TEXTS : JOEL 2: 12-18; II COR 5: 20- 6:2; MATT 6:1-6, 16-18

Ash Wednesday (dies cinerum) marks a period of forty days (excluding Sunday) resonating with the forty days Jesus spent in the desert. It is the Church’s “Day of Atonement.” Its very name comes from the Jewish practice of doing penance wearing “sackcloth and ashes.” The Old Testament tells us how the people of Nineveh, King Ben Hadad of Syria, and Queen Esther fasted wearing sackcloth and ashes.In the early Church, Christians who had committed serious sins were instructed to do public penance wearing sackcloth and ashes. The Church instructs us to observe Ash Wednesday and Good Friday as days of full fast and abstinence. Fasting is prescribed to reinforce our penitential prayer during the Lenten season. The prophet Joel in the first reading insists that we should experience a complete conversion of heart, and not simply regret for our sins.

The ash we receive today reminds us of our nothingness! During the imposition of ash on our foreheads one of the forms used is: “Remember dust thou art and to dust thou shall return” (Gen 3:19).
The Lenten period generally calls for repentance. St. Paul calls for our reconciliation with God as we have been ushered into a favourable time of salvation.

In today’s gospel Jesus speaks about three religious practices found in all religions, namely, almsgiving, prayer and fasting. He approves these practices, but with a difference. He criticizes the manner in which they are practiced by pious Jews and points out their wrong motives. He attaches three prescriptions to be followed by his disciples while practicing these deeds of piety: (1) the type of behaviour they should avoid; (2) the proper motive or attitude they should observe; and (3) the type of reward they should look for.

Jesus emphasizes three times the need to avoid hypocrisy and showiness while practicing each of these pious deeds (6:2,5,16). Instead of practicing these deeds like actors in a pious drama, these deeds are not to be practiced to attract people’s attention (6:1,3,6,17) or to get a merit certificate from God. Jesus’ instruction to shut the door of one’s room and pray privately does not mean we should not pray in common or publicly. What it means is that prayer should not be done with other ulterior motives than for glorifying God and entering into a deeper communion with him. Here Jesus points out how self-centeredness can be the motive for even the best of religious practices. If they are done for personal glory rather than for God’s, they lose their real meaning or purpose.

PASTORAL APPLICATIONS
1. The first Lenten observance of almsgiving must be broadly understood to include all charitable deeds and sharing of our goods with the needy as well as solidarity with those whom we have excluded from our schemes. It is an expression of our gratitude to what God has given us out of his bounty and our responsibility to share something of that with the have-nots.

2. Prayer should proceed from our genuine love of God, and lead to a deeper communion with him flowing into more committed service to our neighbours.

3.Fasting includes all acts of penance and abstinence. Lenten abstinence from meat, alcohol, smoking, sex, etc., is to be practiced for spiritual benefits and not purely for health reasons like lowering one’s cholesterol or weight control. Nor penance should be done for its own sake, or just for experiencing a good deal of pain by giving up something dear to us without using it as a means to change of hearts. Fasting and acts of penance need to be signs of our genuine repentance - a turning away from evil and turning back to God. When done with pure motive, they can lead us to an inner disposition for repentance and sorrows for our sins.

These are aids for “dying to sin and rising with new life” when we shall celebrate EASTER.

Finally, in this Year of Mercy, Pope Francis invites the whole Church to practice in a visible manner the traditional works of mercy divided into two categories:

(1) The Corporal Works of Mercy – to feed the hungry; to give drink to the thirsty; to clothe the naked; to shelter the homeless; to visit the sick; to visit the prisoners; to bury the dead; and

(2) The Spiritual Works of Mercy – to instruct the ignorant; to counsel the doubtful; to admonish sinners; to bear wrongs patiently; to forgive offences willingly; to comfort the afflicted; to pray for the living and the dead.

In order to do Lenten penance in this Year of Mercy, all of us could try to choose any one of the corporal works of mercy and put them into practice in the following manner: by not wasting food; sending a portion of one’s food (not left over food) to an orphanage; making drinking water available to passers-by; saving water or resisting its wastage; sharing our space with others for rest between work or for studies of children; donating blood to the sick; visiting a home for the aged with small gifts; visiting the sick in homes or in hospitals; giving material help to the family of prisoners, internally displaced persons; visiting bereaved families and visiting the cemetery to pray for the repose of those who are not related to us.

In a similar way we could choose any one of the spiritual works of mercy and put them into practice in the following manner: by sharing our faith with those who have doubts of faith; accompanying a relative or neighbour undergoing mental or physical pain to a retreat/ healing/ prayer/ counseling centre; explaining to others the truth of our faith as much as we know; inviting neighbours to attend Mass; volunteering to teach catechism in the parish; admonishing somebody who has gone astray from Christian path and showing the way to turn back to God; forgiving; doing a charitable deed; praying to be patient with those who are unbearable; praying for the persons against whom we have grudges; etc.

May God’s grace give us the consistency and resolve we need to pass through this Lenten period and come out better Christians who will rise with Christ with renewed and regenerated hearts.

Have a wonderful Lenten period!

cc. lalasticlala, Seun, mynd44, ishilove

grabs my pop corn n juice, awaiting d remaining 8! op no waste my time here oo!! lol

Today's kids are so spoilt that they don't know that in our days you could be beaten for any of the following reasons:

1. Crying after being beaten.
2. Not crying after being beaten
3. Crying without being beaten
4. Standing while the elders are seated
5. Sitting while the elders stand
6. Walking around aimlessly where the elders are seated.
7. Replying back to an elder
8. Not replying back to an elder
9. Spending too much time without being beaten.
10. Singing after being admonished
11. Not greeting visitors
12. Eating food prepared for the visitors.
13. Crying to go with the visitors when the visitors are leaving.
14. Refusing to eat.
15. Coming back home after sunset
16. Eating at the neighbour's home
17. Generally being moody.
18. Generally being too excited.
19. Fighting with your age mate and losing.
20. Fighting with your age mate and winning.
21. Eating too slowly
22. Eating too quickly
23. Eating too much
24. Sleeping while the elders had already woken up
25. Looking at the visitors while they are eating
26.Stumbling and falling when walking...

Do well to add urs ;DToday's kids are so spoilt that they don't know that in our days you could be beaten for any of the following reasons:

1. Crying after being beaten.
2. Not crying after being beaten
3. Crying without being beaten
4. Standing while the elders are seated
5. Sitting while the elders stand
6. Walking around aimlessly where the elders are seated.
7. Replying back to an elder
8. Not replying back to an elder
9. Spending too much time without being beaten.
10. Singing after being admonished
11. Not greeting visitors
12. Eating food prepared for the visitors.
13. Crying to go with the visitors when the visitors are leaving.
14. Refusing to eat.
15. Coming back home after sunset
16. Eating at the neighbour's home
17. Generally being moody.
18. Generally being too excited.
19. Fighting with your age mate and losing.
20. Fighting with your age mate and winning.
21. Eating too slowly
22. Eating too quickly
23. Eating too much
24. Sleeping while the elders had already woken up
25. Looking at the visitors while they are eating
26.Stumbling and falling when walking...

Do well to add urs

customised87:
I believe this means the charges wont be deducted from savings accounts.

time will tell

I just received this msg. Pls who else did?
cc: lalasticlala, mynd44, ishilove

Lasisi: Endtime chicken

jimmy1boy:
FELLOW NAIRALANDERS..... LET'S START SAVING LIKE IN THE OLD..... GET A BIG POT BURY AND SAVE....... END TIME STAMP.

I de tells u! me sef don reason am

blessingee:
The chronicles of Baby Mamas

Oil de ur head my dear

Sp what's d title of this movie? "Last of the baby mamas" or "Desperate baby mama"?

TonyeBarcanista:
@OP:

You are wrong! The bail money money is to be paid to the court and will be kept in the court's custody until after the trial. Should the accused jump bail, he forfeits the money. If he doesn't, he's refunded the money after the trial is concluded.

now I'm certain u're not a lawyer cos this shows that u ain't conversant with the adjudication of criminal justice in Nigeria with regards to bail. Our court's seldom ask for money to b deposited, they always order for bail bonds.

Epic response! lol