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Immafrank:
you don't need any advice, cancel the appointment before they give you 6 months suspension.. guys stay woke ppl without admission have started cancelling... if you know you need appointment date

CassieV:
What advice are you looking for? You're one of the people who's making it difficult for people who have gotten their admission letter to book visa appointment. You'll have to cancel it because you can't go for an interview with your admission letter.

BonaVIta:
This reminds me of my secondary school days. My nick name was Mark Don, and more than half of my classmates also had one since it was a boys' school, infact we crested it on our lockers for easy popularity of "our new names".

It was really fun till the day a wicked and unsocial senior student entered the class told everyone with nick name to come out, if u fail to come out yourself and be fished out by what you crested on your locker, your name would be sorry.

After I was given the beatings of my life, along with my colleagues, we all realized how sweet and decent our formal names were, and the nick name died.

bulalakoboko:
please is Rheinwaal University of Apllied Science on Uniasist? I tried to pick it on the dropdown but it wasn't there.I need help please.

chaiks:
hello house. I have assembled all documents for my masters application to Tampere and about akademi. I noticed Tampere application is through uaf. I have also seen iekts result online but they have not sent me the official copy.what olctle I do now that application kill end by Jan 17?

sarrki:
I am a patriot

dailydolar:
what is the price sir so we can know cos dhl is 11,980

Abimbola2018:
Thanks how much

Abimbola2018:
Also which is the cheapest and most reliable courier to send my documents. I am applying for the summer semester in 2018

musicwriter:
Not just because of problem of education in Nigeria, but because of the system of education handed down to Africa by white people, which doesn't allow us think outside the box.

We're trained to vilify anything we create, to consider our creation as inferior, to exalt white people. That's what the colonial masters told us to do. We were trained to believe the only thing we should consider valuable is what white people consider valuable.

Unfortunately, we're going to continue that way until we discard the colonial education handed down to us and create our own version of what education should be.

njideoby:
So you will stop whatever because the British has stopped. Then stop our men from marrying women because some British men no longer marry women but their fellow men and other inanimate objects.
While at it, stop believing in God because some of the British that brought churches to Nigeria no longer believe in God.

njideoby:
Some times, it's not just about borrowed culture. There are distinguished symbols and significant attributes of certain professions that you can never do away with. The wig is one of such.

donkafor:
Please, kindly post link to the information you provided.

Balkan:
Useless thread. May be we should stop
Army from wearimg uniform
Nurses from wearing white and uniform
Engeneers from wearing hard hat and overall
Or Doctors from wearing gloves in theatre
Because they were introduce by colonial masters.

Guy pack for one corner
I dont know why you Afonjas keep chassing frivolity.

The British gave up their last colonies in Africa half a century ago. But they left their wigs behind.

Not just any wigs. They are the long, white, horsehair locks worn by high court judges (and King George III). They are so old-fashioned and so uncomfortable, that even British barristers have stopped wearing them.

But in former British colonies — Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Malawi and others — they live on, worn by judges and lawyers. Now, a new generation of African jurists is asking: Why are the continent’s most prominent legal minds still wearing the trappings of the colonizers?

It’s not just a question of aesthetics. The wigs and robes are perhaps the most glaring symbol of colonial inheritance at a time when that history is being dredged up in all sorts of ways. This year, Tanzanian President John Magufuli described a proposed free-trade agreement with Europe as a “form of colonialism.” In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe still refers to the British as “thieving colonialists.”

The relics of colonialism are scattered across the continent. There are the queen’s namesakes: Victoria Falls north of Zimbabwe; Lake Victoria, bordering three countries in eastern Africa; Victoria Island in Nigeria. There is the left-lane driving, the cricket, the way public education is organised (not organized).

Most cities and streets have received new names since European rule ended. In 2013, Mugabe officially rebaptized Victoria Falls “Mosi Oa Tunya,” or “the smoke that thunders” in the Kololo language.

Yet the wig survives, along with other relics of the colonial courtroom: red robes, white bows, references to judges as “my lord” and “my lady.”

In nearly every former British colony, op-eds have been written and speeches made about why the wig ought to be removed. In Uganda, the New Vision newspaper conducted an investigation into the cost of the wigs, reporting that each one cost $6,500. In Ghana, a prominent lawyer, Augustine Niber, argued that removing wigs would reduce the “intimidation and fear that often characterize our courtrooms.”

One of the editors of the Nigerian Lawyer blog wrote that wigs weren’t made for the sweltering Lagos heat, where lawyers wilted under their garb. “The culture that invented wig and gown is different from our own and the weather is different,” Unini Chioma wrote.

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Increasingly, though, opponents of the colonial outfit aren’t just arguing against inconvenience but against a tradition that African judiciaries appear to be embracing. Britain’s “colonial courts,” which preceded independence, were sometimes brutal. In response to Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s, for example, the wigged white judges sentenced more than 1,000 people to death for conspiring against colonial rule.

“The colonial system used law as [an] instrument of repression, and we’re still maintaining this tradition without questioning it,” said Arnold Tsunga, director of the Africa program at the International Commission of Jurists. “It’s a disgrace to the modern courts of Africa.”

In Kenya, former chief justice Willy Mutunga appealed to remove the wigs from the courtroom, arguing that they were a foreign imposition, not a Kenyan tradition. He swapped the traditional British red robes for ­“Kenyanized” green and yellow ones. He called the wigs “dreadful.”

But that outlook wasn’t shared by many Kenyan judges and lawyers, who saw the wigs and robes as their own uniforms, items that elevate a courtroom, despite — or because of — their colonial links.

“It was met with consternation from within the bench and the bar,” said Isaac Okero, president of the Law Society of Kenya.

Okero is a defender of the wig and the robe, and argues that they represent more than a British tradition, but something that distinguishes the country’s judges.

“I don’t feel at all that it has any negative connotation of colonialism. It has risen beyond that. It is a tradition of the Kenyan bar,” he said.

This year, Kenya’s new chief justice, David Maraga, has indicated that he wants to revert to the colonial traditions. During his swearing-in ceremony, he wore a long white wig and the British-style red robe. Many Kenyans were perplexed.

“It was his rather peculiar outfit that would send a resounding message to Kenyans,” said a broadcaster on KTN, one of the country’s most popular news channels. “It’s back to the old days.”

In Zimbabwe, still ruled by vehement anti-colonialist Mugabe, the wigs are perhaps most mystifying. Why would a man who stripped white farmers of their land, who railed against the name of Victoria Falls, allow an archaic judicial tradition to remain in place?

dejol88:
my brother , na wa u dey hash ooo. At least u go go ask which course I wan study before u thinking say na part of failure I dey .

Well if u care to know I bin don get electrical electronics for bachelors and currently running NAPTIN so I no dey dat dull na.Just advise me on steps and no wish me failure

Thanks

auduodalo:
has anyone received mail from UBA becos I just did, plz any who has shud plz signify

Maamin:
There is nothing wrong with present wordings in the Slootha'd Maaran Eashoa mishkah (Prayer of our Lord Jesus the Messiah)

It all depends in our various level of understanding who God the father is.

Here is the Aramaic prayer and it direct english similitude.

Mattai qeepaleeyun Waw 9-13

"Avvon d-bish-maiya, nith-qaddash shim-mukh.
Tih-teh mal-chootukh. Nih-weh çiw-yanukh:
ei-chana d'bish-maiya: ap b'ar-ah.
Haw lan lakh-ma d'soonqa-nan yoo-mana.
O'shwooq lan kho-bein:
ei-chana d'ap kh'nan shwiq-qan l'khaya-ween.
Oo'la te-ellan l'niss-yoona:
il-la paç-çan min beesha.
Mid-til de-di-lukh hai mal-choota
oo khai-la oo Behind-bookh-ta
l'alam al-mein." Aa-meen.

Matthew chapter 6:9-13

"... Our heavenly Father, hallowed is your name.
Your Kingdom is come. Your will is done,
As in heaven so also on earth.
Give us the bread for our daily need.
And leave us serene,
just as we also allowed others serenity.
And do not pass us through trial,
except separate us from the evil one.
For yours is the Kingdom,
the Power and the Glory
To the end of the universe, of all the universes." Amen!

The phrase "Lead us not into temptation" does not contradict God a bit. For it is in line with 1 Cor. 10:13

"13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."

"Lead us not into temptation" is a request and whatever we diligently seek in truth shall be given to us.

More over God tormented Saul with an Evil spirit from him. Does that need to be altered as well? No! Because it does not reduce him from being "Our Father" And God Almighty.

Finally like I said earlier, it's all boils down to how we understand God Our father. He wills everything in the universe.

iPrevail:
I never implied so. Stop reading my text with a closed mind.

Ayoemrys:
We Are Sayhng Samething Bro,, Lost Its Way And They Replace It With Suggesting Clause Or Phrase,

iPrevail:
Through centuries of the existence of Christianity, the Bible has been open to all sorts of modification. Little wonder while there's so many translations for the same book/script/text. (Is Aramaic that difficult to translate? )
A Pope or preacher comes along, reads something he doesn't like, modifies it to suit his "purpose". And for future generations, they'll tell em it was written through the inspiration of the Holy spirit. The Holy Spirit has spoken to/through Pope Francis... again.

Ayoemrys:
So Are You Trying To Say That Most Of The Words In The Bible Are Not Even Correct