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Hilcrown, don't undervalue your car o!This is a 2001 Subaru Outback AWD with a 4 cylinder 2.5litre H4 engine capable of churning out all of 165hp and is obviously mated to a 4 speed automatic tranny.

This is a really nice-looking car (to me o), not so attractive to thieves and the AWD is a really good plus when it comes to tackling Nigerian roads. And well priced too....hoping it has a clean title tho.

Happy sales bro.

ekolina: Tiwa so al d yrs u spent in d US u couldnt save 2m naira 2 shot a video, u must b a foolish gal

Lwkmd.
That Tiwa Savage couldn't save 2 million naira is not an excuse for you to 'shot' this missile that got me laughing so hard.

Yvete: Yea, I'm aiight. Your success story is NEXT!

AAAAMEN. Thanks

Yvete: If you expect everyone to "do their own research", it's hypocritical to ask questions relating to your degree on the same thread! ---Yea!

Thank you o!

by the way, long time, hope you r doing good

imperiouxx: This is the uncountable times I'm telling you that that school isn't nice at all. S-H-I-K-E-N-A!

[quote author=Find Out!]*WITHOUT PREJUDICE*


To each his own. Keep it up. I just hope you won't discover something about your school at a time when you will wish you had learned about it earlier.[/quote]

flynbird: That's the major reason I didn't disclose the schools name on this thread. Anyone who is really willing to school wld google schools and do his/her own research instead of asking for schools on here. Not everyone who reads this thread really wants to go schooling. Some just see it as a means to get into the US. They ruin others chances of getting admitted. Lots of travel agents could also be visiting this thread to get new updates and they often process visas for people who do not have the intention of schooling. God help us!

*WITHOUT PREJUDICE*

WRONG! Yes, people need to do their own research but disclosing your intended or even current school's name on this thread can do no harm whatsoever and may benefit others. Those who disclosed mushroom schools like Virginia International Uni on this thread have saved several others from falling into the trap of getting admitted there. And we have seen cases where forumites over there will tell you much more about your school than you'll ever see on the internet. You are very free to keep your school name to yourself but I'm very sure that if other people had hidden harmless info from this thread under the guise of being careful, YOU wouldn't have benefitted as much as you have from this thread and even the internet if you had cause to read reviews from current students attending your school. Its the school's business who they choose to give admission and its between fraudsters/scammers and DHS/Police/FBI/etc if they choose to arrive at the US and constitute a nuisance to themselves. The American government is stil very familiar with the words "prison" and "deportation".


To each his own. Keep it up. I just hope you won't discover something about your school at a time when you will wish you had learned about it earlier.

naijababe: Morning boys and girls (if any will be joining us apart from Isale). Thanks for the comments, I guess it is kinda interesting because it is a true story.

@ mac, I owe to my brother my love of literature. He once took me to Henry Carr Library at Oniwaya Rd Agege (I hope they it has not become a church ) when I was in primary school. The children's section was full of all those European fairy tales which I devoured to no end. Been hooked on books ever since.

@ Find out! Didn't know you followed the reality show, you have Tgirl to thank for that, she kinda forced my hand

Y'all should continue praying jare, my father would die a very a happy man if I 'revert' . Never say never, I have grown so much to know that with humans, nothing is absolute and everything is possible

Lol. I do a lot of silent followership of threads and in a few cases, people on NL. Make i read your next post ma

Tolexander: Nice interview, nice work from Suraj!

Seems am seeing some of the problems with modern nigerian youths and students, ability to endure and read a mind shapening interview and words from the nonpartisan intellects and activists that will go a very long way to transform our mentality and approach towards building a new, solid and vibrant nigeria which every forward loving nigerian has been craving for.

Very saddening to realise that this type of thread won't generate traffic from many nairalanders and guests when compared to tonto dickeh and co thread.

Very correct. Mental laziness. Most of us are lazy and that is why we continue to justify and even demand mediocrity in governance. it's the reason why we don't know our rights anymore as a people. It's the explanation for your last sentence. And it's also the reason why these days, from online forums like nairaland to our very own homes where we raise our kids (for those who are married), we value and worship money and materialism very much above intellect and moral values.

Explosive. Educative. Very Commendable effort. Intelligent questions posed by Jarus and excellent replies by Professor Pius. Several parts of the interview caught my attention positively seeing as I share some of the same sentiments as well. I have highlighted some of these parts below especially for some people to skim through and be encouraged to scroll back up and read up the entire interview. I also included some parts that I find very educative as well.

My father brought home from Scotland a ‘bad’ habit I will call bibliophilia. My father read extremely widely. He was trained in history. In fact, when he returned home from Europe, he went on to do his Masters in History at the Ahmadu Bello University, where he was a student of the great Professor Abdullahi Smith. My formative years meant monthly trips with my father to University bookshops in Ilorin, Ife, and Ibadan to buy books for the family library. Can you imagine that? The man would earn his pay, jump into his car with his son, and take off to buy books. He collected books in every imaginable discipline: History, literature, geography, sociology, archeology, etc. He would tell me that he could tolerate anything but a mind that has not read books. He made me read. He made me acquire an unquenchable thirst for erudition.


First, as a public intellectual, I am a product of all the great “isms” of the global radical left – which you can already delineate from my description of my reading diet, starting from my father’s library when I was a kid. That training ingrained a keen appetite for fairness and justice in my psyche at a very early age. Wide reading and my subsequent ideological development only sharpened that incipient sense of radical social commitment.


When your mind has been shaped by this kind of radical interventionist tradition at the level of ideas, a society like Nigeria becomes increasingly offensive. Nigeria offends me profoundly and fundamentally in terms of our sorry postcolonial history and trajectory. Nigeria offends me because she is unfair and unjust. Nigeria offends me because she offers the bizarre situation in which less than 200, 000 buffoons in the political élite have ensured that about 160 million people may never arrive in the 21st century in my lifetime. Travel sharpens the pain and the awareness. Forget about Europe. Forget about North America. The tragedy, the disappointment that is Nigeria is flung in your face when you travel as extensively in Africa as I do.


Let me tell you, as an undergraduate student of French, I spent a year abroad in Togo. Togo was my first ever experience of spending a whole year on earth without electricity blinking even for one second. And to think that more than 20 years after this experience in Togo, some pro-establishment idiots still go about on social media asking Nigerians to be thankful whenever they enjoy maybe one week of uninterrupted electricity! We are being asked to be grateful for less than what the Togolese enjoyed 20 years ago! This sort of unacceptable situation nourishes my career as a public intellectual and a radical columnist.

Living in the diaspora should make any Nigerian of good conscience as restless as I am. It should instill the desire in us not to cut Nigeria any slack, not to tolerate the merchants of mischief and illusion who sell mediocrity to our people, claiming that Rome was not built in a day. Like my friend, Yomi Okusanya, always says, [size=16pt]it is criminal to live abroad and justify or rationalize the tragedy that is Nigeria[/size]


My responsibility is to refuse to accept any excuses for why Nigerians cannot ride in the kinds of trains that Canadians use today. I cannot ride in jet-age trains here and be happy and content that my people in Nigeria are riding in poorly refurbished World War locomotives doing Lagos to Kano in 36 hours and are being asked to be grateful for that privilege in the 21st century. To reject this sort of insult on behalf of the Nigerian people is what motivates my public intellectual work.


Reuben Abati’s tragic choice has been elevated into something of a national injury in the Nigerian psyche. Nigerians have taken his treachery personal and he may never recover from this disaster. His degrees, his brilliance, didn’t prevent him from underestimating the credibility and symbolic capital he had built with the Nigerian people and everything has come crashing.


For my father’s generation, “service to Nigeria”, was whatever you were called upon to do in your station in life. My father was a college principal his entire life. For him, he was serving and that opportunity to serve Nigeria by moulding her children meant “he had arrived”. He had “made it”. Somewhere along the line, our values were perverted. To serve, to make it, became synonymous with “eating” after a political appointment. So, when people ask me if I would be willing to serve Nigeria if called upon, I retort: but I have been called into the service of Nigeria by my intellectual gifts and talent.

I am already serving. I have spent several years now in public pedagogy and conscientization. That is service to Nigeria. There is of course also the tragic sense in that question about whether I would accept to “join the government”. There is the pre-supposition that I am somehow yet to make it and I am only waiting for my turn. This is a reflection of the psychological damage that has been done to our people.

At the risk of being immodest, I am on top of my game in the world of scholarship and ideas. I have won the ANA Poetry Prize and the Penguin Prize for African Writing. I am a sought-after speaker by Universities across the world. Yet, somehow, within our modes of valuation in Nigeria, I am yet to “make it”. Somebody even advised me once to try and be like Reno Omokri, a young man who has “made it”, instead of making noise all the time. In his estimation, a University don in Canada who has won an international literary prize can’t be deemed to have “made it” unless he becomes a political jobber in Nigeria. Suraj, I am not just a political crusader. I am a social crusader and part of my brief is the struggle to repair the psychological damage to our people.


We need to teach our people what that line, “the labour of our heroes past”, means. The “labour” referenced in our national anthem is not political prostitution in the corridors of power. That “labour” was carried out in every sphere of life by dedicated Nigerians – farmers, teachers, traders, market women, mechanics, vulcanizers, etc.

That labour gave us the groundnut pyramids of Kano, the cocoa plantations of the west, the food basket that are Benue state and the Middle Belt. That labour gave us the industrial resourcefulness of the east whose products we ignorantly looked down upon as “Ibo Made”. That labour gave us the civil service of my father’s generation, not the irredeemably corrupt and comatose thing we call civil service today. That was how to serve Nigeria in those days. That was how to “make it.”


[b]This disempowerment starts with zero representation of the masses in all the processes leading to the selection and election of their political representatives. What we have is a top-down democracy of scurrilous party leaders, chieftains, stakeholders, and elder statesmen. It’s a very rude and arrogant process. These characters, at Federal, state, and ward levels, just do their thing and pass down instructions to the people. When they have made their decisions and anointed their candidates, they bus our people down to go and “vote”. They give them okada motorcycles, ankara, and bags of rice. They give them money to sew the ankara.

At the end of the process, people who have had no hand whatsoever in choosing their political representatives will go about dancing and singing “winner ooo winner” all the way to the home of one useless party chieftain or godfather who will make a speech and serve them rice and amala and ewedu. Nothing illustrates the arrogance of the ruling elite and the disempowerment of our people than the recent chest-beating confession of political rigging by the Godswill Apkabio, the drunken fisherman sailor spendthrift who is ruining the treasury of Akwa Ibom state. The people voted for someone and you go on live TV to brag that you erased the winner’s name with your own hand. It is this attitude, this acceptance and normalization of political disempowerment by our people, that we seek to erase in KickOut Siddon Look, starting with the 2015 elections, but we are also looking far beyond 2015.
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My brother, why waste time talking about Goodluck Jonathan and his role model, Mr. Alamieyeseigha? The least said about these two terrible examples for our youth, the better. I’ll pass.



JARUSHUB: Our blog, Jarushub, recently did an article listing natural brilliance, dream, competition, calculation, optimism, environment, course, taking off early, knowing one’s and one’s teacher’s style, as the key to academic success, at least at undergraduate level . As a First Class graduate yourself, do you agree with our list?



There are two things missing from your list: hard work and good role models. Nigeria was awash with credible role models when I was an undergraduate. Yes, I worked hard to make a First Class Honours but wanting to grow up to be like the role models I looked up to was also a key ingredient of my success at the time.

That is why we cannot be talking too much and too loudly about Goodluck Jonathan and his own role model, lest our youth begin to believe that finding a way to loot, and becoming influential enough to be pardoned if you are caught, are worthier goals in life than aspiring to make a First Class Honours in a society where there aren’t even jobs for them.

*sits down on mat beside my fellow brothers waiting for the next Naijababe post*

Naijababe is a very good writer no doubt, I reaized that from her NL family reality stuff write-ups & some of her other posts as well.

The story so far contains some VERY IMPORTANT lessons to be learnt especially by we brothers who are yet to be or already husbands and fathers. Here we have seen gthe importance of good character as well as religion and the effect it can have on our kids...and even grandkids and all that is in between from family members to neighbours and evn someone who just hears about you and the kind of life you live!

I've always been fascinated with knowing why fairly or quite devout musims leave the religion and in most cases I've listened to / read about so far, while those reason(s) may seem to sound convincing or sufficient, on closer look, by going back to the Qur'an & hadeeth, and even studying our very own environment i.e. the present world around us, those reasons that made them to leave Islam shoud actually have made those people to be more fulfiled with Islam and immerse themselves even more into the religion. Thankfully, some converts realise this later as well and find their way back to Islam (especially when they realise that the salvation they sought elsewhere was either non-existent or just a facade) Some reasons are just downright silly though even to an objective non-muslim.

However, I try not to judge the people, just as I won't judge Naijababe whatever her reasons may turn out to be coz while those who are outside Islam have a chance to come in due to Allah's favour, we that are in the religion are the ones who really need to be careful not to stray from the path. It's no wonder that both home and abroad, many muslims who came to know Islam later in life are usually better than many who were born into it.

Naijababe, may Allah guide you back to Islam and somehow, right from one of your posts I read months ago in which I got to know you were once a muslim, I've had this feeling that "awww....this one is still coming back" ....& this thread (even before your last 2 long posts) has fuelled my belief. Please do not try to prove me wrong

I didnt intend for this to be a long post o so make I shut up now and wait for the next post

ochukoccna: A coup MAY come but not by this senior generals who are part of the present rot
Yet Nigeria needs poltical restructuring not military coups seeing the military bastardised the country and brought her into the current sorry pass to which polticians have added fuel and fire

Frankly speaking, did the millitary really totally bastardize the country?? (excuse babangida's regime).

Compare the pace of governance and discipline under the millitary regimes with the democratic regimes from Shagari to Obasanjo.

Look at all our national monuments from the 3rd mainland bridge to the National Stadium Surulere to the National Arts theatre etc and tell me how many of them were built by democrats.....despite the fact that Nigeria has been splendidly wealthy in recent times.

Look at all the major roads and bridges in Nigeria today (especially the interstate roads) and tell me how many of them were built by democratic goverments. May i remind you that since 1999, we have still been struggling to maintain these roads, not much plans and even fewer realities on ground point to the opening up and construction of new major roads in the likes of Ore-Benin, Lagos-Ibadan expressways etc.

Let the people well versed in political history and economics identify the best 10 years since 1960 in which Nigeria and Nigerians have prospered; I wont be surprised in most of those years fall under millitary years.

If 1999 - 2013 Nigerian leaders were the same as 1969-1983 leaders, i assure you one of two things would have happened today in real 2013

- This country would have been poorer and much less developed than Niger republic
or
- We would have had a bloody revolution...with its attendant consequences (positive or negative)


Yes the millitary did wreak some havoc on this country no doubt, but its very crystal clear that the civilian regimes especially since 1999 have outshone and outdone the military when it comes to corruption, inefficiency and worst of all, indiscipline.

I do not entirely support a millitary coup, but I guarantee you I will not be unhappy if it happens especially if it turns out to be bloodless but heavily laced with detentions, property & assets confiscations and heavy prison sentences for 'well deserving' members of the current and recent past political terrain.

In a millitary regime, only the Oga at the top and a few select others chop money ILLEGALLY but in a NIGERIAN civillian regime, almost everybody that sorrounds the centre chops money LEGALLY

Wonderful.

bukahands: Find out how far you and ur applications

Brooo.... Been on an unintended break from d internet for 8 days now. Just got back online this afternoon/morning. Checked my inbox, nothing new from both schools i'm concentrating on. Kent state Ohio & Indiana Uni Bloomingtn. Will be mailing IUB tonight to ask them wassup coz they've received all my docs like a month ago! Got one left to send to Kent state.

Howfa with your end?

Congratulations Virgin ice. Splendid interview. Enjoy US

@the house, please keep up d good work guys. Just went through about 13 pages 'backlog' since d last time I visited the thread. Best wishes to the prospective & successful applicants.

More success stories coming soon by God's grace. Amen.

Cuteguy12: f. Lol I am so tired it was 1am when. I posted that I was thinking.forgive me beautiful.!

ermmm.....just for the record, I'm a guy.

Cuteguy12: lol everyone thanks for the rates um this site in Nigeria or something lol I live in the states

Your ratings just came down further (in my eyes o) with this. & you look old o...if it was one small boy now, we for try understand!

Anyway, after zero, there's always -1, -2, -3......

TalkingToYaSelf:
Apparently not the sharpest knife in the drawer

I think the ladies need to deduct 8 points from his rating just for writing that.

Clearly His Intelligence is no Longer in It's Prime

Supported. That 3rd picture lends a lot of credence to your last sentence. Those who know him should advise him to remve that particular picture. May i also add that the OP's post reeks of low self esteem.

OP, some girls will find you attractive, some will find you un-appealing. If any of my female friends wanted to date you and asked me to rate your looks, seriously...well, lemme not talk.
But I'll say you are good looking enough to actually have no problems respecting yourself and not posting your pictures online to hear what people think about you. You might say you r joking but we all know there's a huge element of seriousness here. So if you end up scoring an average of 4 / 10, I guess you'll feel bad and not try to chat up that pretty girl you've been eyeing right?

Dude, in two words, GROW UP.

Cheers

Sam Omatseye is a classic example of people who write long essays with many paragraphs almost entirely filled with cráp. I used to read his articles back when he was with The Sun but since his move to The Nation, I've been quite unimpressed by most of his articles I've come across to the point that I sometimes don't even bother reading them at all. This is absolute rubbish. Same way he wrote nonsense criticizing Mama HID & Tribune last year or so. insulting people isn't always a sign of fearlessness, it's sometimes a sign of stu.pi.dity, ENVY, absolute disregard for elders, and i dare say, want for attention as well. Guess its been a while since he had any of his articles 'trending' on cyberspace.


His own day too is coming. People will sit down, analyse his own articles and arrive at the probably truthful conclusion that he is/was just a mediocre journalist who was just lucky enough to be bought over by a rogue politician to head his newspaper.

Hi,

Sorry i won't be taking any more orders as I'll be out of the country for a few weeks. However, I shall definitely have access to the internet and will still be fairly active on nairaland. Anyone needing advice is also free to PM me. I shall post links to more free resources online as I come across them. Old customers, thanks for your patronage, potential new customers, thanks for your understanding

Cheers.

[quote author=inspired_m]As a Dealer, I dont have to Be Biased towards any Brand. Anyone You want to Buy Rocks My Boat. [/quote]LOL!

[quote author=inspired_m]We are On the Same Page, The Rear End of the 2012 Honda CR-V looked more like the Volvo XC90, Poor Design in my Opinion.[/quote]Very poor design....like they just had to change the rear end form of the previous generation by force without aligning the design to the rest of the vehicle.

Thanks boss for the prompt response.

Hello bro. Please help me with these VINs. Thanks.

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Snazzygirl: Hello House, I would like to know how many months a person who works and only has time to read once a week needs to fully prepare for GRE. Estimates will be just fine. Thnks guys.

Depends on how well grounded you are in maths & English & standardized testing generally. Some people prepare fro GRE on their own within 3 months and score over 300 while some people attend tutorials and prepare for 6 months and stil score less than 300. I suggest you assess yourself personally (maybe by taking a sample practice test) and determine how much time and effort you'll need to put in. For an average to fairly brilliant student, I'd say 3 months intense preparation ( whether you are working or not) is good enough to get a good score. if you've had prior experience with standardized tests like the SAT, you may need less than that coz really, the GRE like all standardized tests involves speed and skill in answering the questions and not just knowledge alone. All the best.

Emperoh: When will Toyota learn how to design cars?

Despite all the luxury, the CR-V stil thumps it; my opinion though

NOOOOOOOO. Yes,the previous genrations of the CRV effectively trounced the RAV4 in terms of beauty but i think in this cae, the Rav4 has finally defeated the CRV. The CRV is not so bad, is actually beautiful but the rear end of that vehicle is just annoyingly silly. This RAV4 however is just very much on point in and out & wil definitely outsell the CRV unless Honda does a quick mid cycle update. Seems they concentrated all their efforts on making the 2013 Honda Accord the masterpiece it turned out to be while forgetting the other brands

Oga Inspired, you are three much sir. This is a beauty.I wont bother asking how much since I know i can't afford it yet

So i assume a guy who does the opposite of all the OP listed means that the guy is really into the girl then. Right? No wonder some people will fo.o.lishly get themselves into so- called 'relationships' after falling for 'caring' (but deceitful & dangerous) guys, then stubbornly refuse to leave despite the handwritings on the wall (which will only be visible when the girl cleans the dust on her eyes & looks properly).

That said, some of OP's points are valid, some are very far from it. Besides, its not clear what OP really means coz ''not into you'' can mean 1) I sort of like you but i dont want to/cannot date you 2) I just don't feel you at all. Both 'conditions' have different 'symptoms' & in some cases, may be 'asymptomatic'.

Link to free powerprep II GRE software download directly from ETS

http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/powerprep2

Gruber's Complete GRE Guide (very good book)- Large file, about 35MB

http://www.4shared.com/get/uz6K4IAz/Grubers_Complete_GRE_Guide_201.html

Siena: Sounds like you've got either a broken forward and reverse clutch drum, or the ATF could be low, or even dirty. Have the drivetrain scanned, it's fully OBDII compliant.

Do you know when last the ATF and filter were replaced? On your gear position indicator (PRNDS /PRND4321 etc) can you still see which gear is engaged, or is the display all lit up, like all gears are engaged at the same time?

where is vehicle located in lagos??

Sienna. The Oddysey gear box issues are legendary...some of those you see plying interstate routes have been converted to manual tranny...I know coz I've ridden in one before. However, if the Sienna is not well taken care of, it could also bring up its own issues as well.

Michaeljones36: Governor admits to rigging elections and is defended by the President's party.
Governor robs his state blind, is convicted by two countries, and then is pardoned by the President.

Yet some want to believe that GEJ is the best thing to ever happen to Nigeria.
What small criminal in the Civil Service will hide now that the oga's at the top have declared open season on corruption.

That's why I keep saying that it's only those who don't have the interest of the nation at heart or do not know what exactly they should be getting from a country's leader that will vote in PDP/GEJ in 2015.

Lets even assume all the 'politrickal' parties are the same, i think we need to start looking at the CHARACTER (not just sheepish meek looking faces) of individuals before voting them in. Infact, age shouldnt be a factor coz even the so -called 'younger generation' (which i belong to) are steadily proving to even be more corrupt than the older guys. Corruption no send age.

If the Gowon regime was as profligate and dishonest and corrupt as the OBJ & especially Jona governments, i wonder if we would have all the national monuments and roads that were built during that time.

Over the last 14 years, the government has proven to be inept at MAINTAINING existing structures talkless of building new ones, yet some people are saying they are the best thing to happen to the country & will vote them again 2015!! What reasoning!

Things must change!

teskyg: How many Mosques have they Bomb?Ibrahim Shekarau is a Christain?why have they not name any christain as member in dere failed negiotiation with Government?Who where responsible for the war in Mali recently and what was their threat to Nigeria?Who told us the will make Nigeria Ungovernable?@ you the poster,why are you supporting Boko Haram behind the scene?Who said they want to Islamitse Nigeria?Is Mohammed Yusuf a Christain?Is Jamb a CAN subsidiary?

Has it not occured to you that maybe mosques were not bombed just so that they can promote the division (muslim versus xtian 'war') in the north? these terrorists are being funded by some mischief makers, and i sincerely doubt there are no christians among them. Forget the BS about islamising the north. How can you be wishing to islamise & rule a region you've alomost finished bombing to smithereens and keep sending back to the stone age with each successive bombing??

If BH really had issues with the govt, I believe they'll be raining bombs in the south south and not the north.

Like someone said on another thread, very soon, those faces behind MEND's Oct 1st bombs and succesive BH's bombs after that will soon be unmasked and made to pay for their crimes against humanity and the people they are supposed to be looking after. Okah has been convicted, but obviously, someone sent him. And obviously, the Oga at the top who asked him via one of his aides to blame it on IBB, Atiku and co, very likely knew/knows who the true sponsor was. Time will tell. Some important people, intelligent or daft, fierce looking or meek looking, northerners or southerners, will go to prison in the nextcouple of years. I forsee that very much.

ikeyman00: @@@

rubbish!

i dnt expect any better from a son of vampire

Can you point out one lie/ piece of misinformation in the article?