ratcock: The conception of the airport came as a result of inferiority complex and misplaced priority. Inferiority complex in the sense that the then governor Umahi wanted to rub shoulders with other states with existing airports without factoring the viability. Misplaced priority in a situation where the state had more pressing problems like human capital development but chose to embark on a white elephant project.
They care for their own families while putting other families into mourning.
Just as the homes of kidnappers are demolished, there should be a standard policy of arresting the families of terrorists and making them experience the same loss they inflict on others.
School gets us to memorise things that are disconnected from reality. Things that are useless and that most can't benefit from in the game of life.
And the majority are not equipped to memorise properly in a way they can then turn around and use that same skill to memorise things they really want. I get you.
What I am saying is that memorisation, separated from the thing you are memorising, is an important skill. Once sufficiently developed, even "rubbish" can be memorised easily without much effort.
I'm not saying people should memorise rubbish. I'm only saying that, at a sufficiently advanced level, randomness can be memorised with very little effort. The effort part is what you're kicking against. What I'm saying is that if you know the proper training for memorising, the effort largely disappears.
Irrespective of what you're memorising, irrespective of its usefulness to the memorising mind, the properly trained human memory has no known practical limit to what it can memorise.
No known practical limit.
That's the point I don't want you to lose sight of.
Reverseng: I'm glad I could express myself in a way that you could understand.
To me, memorisation can be mental chatter. If one decides to learn the contents of 30,000 cards, that information should better be worth it to such a person. Investing that amount of time and brain power all for what? To become Chief Crammer of the Federation?
Look around you. Economics teachers are heavily in debts. Agriculture teachers are starving. People with political science degrees aren't becoming exemplary leaders. But they sure have nice paper degrees that they've spend a whole lot of time to get. Some even have first class degrees. But what did they achieve that they can actually apply in their life to grow them from point A to B
Chemistry graduates can't formulate liquid soap or perfume oil. What's the point of memorising all those IUPAC yada yada yada??
There's nothing like dirty water. Water is called water because it characteristically appears clean. If water is 'stained', it's no longer water, because the constituents of that stain like sand is SiO2. Combine that with H2O, and other background atmospheric conditions or reactions that science don't have the machine to measure yet, and you cannot still have H20 (water). What do you call water then? Wati or Wato. Remember the name has to change to suit its compositional change Have you seen a 'dirty antiseptic soap' before
Same way memorisation isn't called memorisation when it's strongly in line with your passion. You'll seek to know it by heart instead of by your logical brain
I hope you do find the time to go through the complementary links. It'll offer great insights that supports the idea of this post
I've addressed your concerns in the post and my comments here—probably that's why it has those many branches
"Now, someone who has memorised more words is able to think more precisely and reach for more complex ideas than someone with a smaller vocabulary"
"Memorisation" doesn't feel like the right word to use. I recommend you go through my post again and the corresponding links I dropped. Writing a sensitive topic like this must have many 'wordy' branches, all necessary to add flesh to the bone of contention. There's no two ways about it
Regarding what I quoted from your comment, the surprising fact is that it's when your head is clear that insights flow. You can't pour into a filled cup. 'Memorisation' doesn't give that much room for innovation because you're most times learning as it is—as you were taught to see it to be.
Truth doesn't come from books alone. Some, if not alI insights, are divine. You see a child already speaking its native language like Yoruba, and you begin to wonder— that child didn't go to a Yoruba class or nothing. And I know you might say "the parents brought up the child in Yoruba language" But if that was the case, why aren't all children brought up in their various native languages speaking it, even at basic level. Something's up.
What about igbo girls that speak Yoruba fluently that are in Lagos? Memories when it's in line with a field you have a passion for isn't memorisation anymore. Now you know it by heart, not by memory or logic. (I'm limited by words now)
There are some things you don't just learn in books- empathy, patience and so on. Memorising the meaning of these words won't help. Who invented English as a language and structure it so well that people, even non-natives are able to learn and speak it? Where did the 'original thought' to create English, even before the fact, come from? You think it's by cramming or memorising the alphabets alone? Hey, how did the alphabets even come to be inn the first place? How do you know A is pronounced as A and not as B? You're soo sure we're pronouncing it correctly, right? Look at how you're violently defending that right now in your mind You studied English in school, correct?
It's a lot to type out at once and I don't know how to put into words the thoughts in my head at the moment
I have a feeling we are both on the same side, just with slightly different perspectives. I haven't read through all the links yet. I'll find time and do that.
You did say no to rote memorisation of things you're not interested in. I agree with that. Memorise what you enjoy learning and you might not even consider it stressful.
On languages... children learn languages by absorption. The vocabulary and fluency levels they achieve reflect the environment they absorb the language from.
To build up a vocabulary beyond what is obtainable in that environment requires either exposure to an environment with higher vocabulary levels, or deliberate study AND memorisation.
Memorisation can be pleasurable once you get the hang of it.
I understand that for many it is unpleasant, but once it is mastered, it becomes pleasurable in and of itself.
That's why so many people do it for fun. Techniques like the memory palace make memorisation pleasurable. That's how people can memorise 30,000 cards after seeing them just once and never forget them.
Think about that. A skill, like driving, that gives you superhuman memory. I hope you also know that mental exercises like these help reduce Alzheimer's and other memory diseases. Use it or lose it.
On clear thinking: memorising doesn't mean keeping crap in your head. It means you systematically move information from short-term memory to long-term memory. It doesn't stay on your mind 24/7 if properly done. Instead, it becomes instantly retrievable.
On clear thinking, I think we're saying different things. A quiet mind comes from not being trapped by mental chatter. Meditation helps with that. I don't see memorisation as an obstacle.
See, sometimes you see something within and you don't fully understand it because you don't yet have the concepts for it.
Most times those ideas are not new. Someone else, somewhere, has already expressed them on paper. Reading them, understanding them and memorising them helps you put words and concepts to what you already saw.
Your post is long and has many branches, many of which I won't touch.
I'll touch on memory however.
It's a human faculty that has to be developed. If you don't use it, it weakens.
Aside that, memorisation is simply the storing and retrieval of important symbols.
For example, the very words you're using to convey your message were all memorised.
Now, someone who has memorised more words is able to think more precisely and reach for more complex ideas than someone with a smaller vocabulary.
Likewise, mathematics and the sciences are, at their root, systems of symbols used to represent ideas. The more of these symbols a person internalises, the more complex thoughts they can hold in their mind at once, making it possible to create and invent better things.
So without memorisation up to a certain level, the very technology you're asking people to rely on would never have come to be.
Now that technology is here, the focus shouldn't be on abandoning memorisation. It should be on internalising and memorising higher symbols and ideas that enable us to reach the next level of human development.
Reverseng: The goal of being a human is not to be intelligent, brain-wise. If it were, our brain and memory functions would remain perfectly effective even into old age. But that’s not what happens, is it?
In our old age, brain diseases like Alzheimer's or dementia kick in. And let us not forget good old-fashioned memory loss—that classic scenario where you walk into a room to do something, only to forget exactly what it was the moment you're in that room.
How deep does this worship of memory go?
Society now celebrates a culture where someone who can cram strings of information is viewed as "intelligent," while someone who can't is labeled "dull."
We’ve also come to celebrate suffering. We think a person who suffers is hardworking, while a person who doesn't is lazy. My grandfather chopped wood to make a fire—surely that axe swinging and the bodily sweat it generated made him appear hardworking. Now, I use a gas cylinder to cook my food. I surely must be lazy because I'm not in the forest with a locally sharpened machete hunting for dry firewood.
If the goal of humanity isn't intelligence—especially given the cognitive decline that begins childhood and matures fully in old age—then why are your children/students in school, particularly in advanced classes, still forced to cram the first 20 elements of the periodic table in chemistry?
If that suffer-head kind of learning is necessary, why then do you use autocorrect while typing? Aren't you afraid that you'll eventually forget how to spell with continued use?
Why do you use Google Search? By that logic, you should conveniently walk into a library to look for the information you seek, or ask a friend of a friend via word of mouth or a letter.
Knowledge isn't truth, because knowledge can be lies, carefully hidden between two truths. The best place to hide a tree is in a forest. This is why I believe it will take a whole lot of unlearning to get rid of the false teachings we were brought up on. Lies have been normalized as truth.
Why cram my to-do or shopping list when I can just walk around with a piece of paper containing the information? Who or what am I trying to prove my "gigachad" brain to? Oh, you think walking with a shopping list makes you appear less of a man or a woman? You think this simple act of helping yourself robs you of your humanity? Even thieves, kidnappers, and rapists are still human regardless of their terrible acts—let alone you, whose only crime is walking around the market with a shopping list.
Have you seen people perfecting the art of memorizing phone numbers on the spot just to look like the perfect pickup artist? But I ask: to what end? Is it necessary to stress your brain that much? Don't they realize there's a fine line between exercising the brain and stressing it to the point of fatigue?
Using your brain means remembering to reach for your phone or a writing instrument to collect a phone number. Stressing your brain means cramming an 11-digit string of numbers just to convince yourself that you're intelligent.
Sadly enough, you might not be. Intelligence is broadly defined as the mental capacity to learn, understand, reason, solve problems, and adapt to new situations.
Intelligence is logic plus creativity. If you're only logical without being creative, you're not fully intelligent. Is that the end of the world for you? No. Should the tag of being referred to as "intelligent" be that important? No, because you're still human without it, and you're still human with lots of it.
This is why most of the truly intelligent people I've met are the "lazy" ones. They are the people who understand the irrelevance of manually doing tasks that can be automated, and the needlessness of proving how retentive their unreliable brains are to anyone—including themselves.
Why take the time to learn how to prepare sophisticated meals—a task I have no passion for—when I can find a partner who takes pleasure in cooking, or ask a trustworthy friend who already loves it?
Why own a car when I know I'm not good at navigating roads? "Go left and make a bend to cut into the parallel street by the northwest corner!" That's Chinese to me. I would rather employ a driver or migrate to a country with an efficient and safe public transport system. There is no pride in telling myself that I know my street very well. Who that one epp? Unless I have a passion for logistics and travel, I won't force it. If I don't, there's no need for unnecessary suffering. At this point in my life, after spending over two decades in Lagos, I can boldly tell you that you can easily get me lost in Lagos. But will I expose myself enough for that to happen? No.
Pain is only necessary because it sensitizes us not to want to suffer again. Those who lose money to gambling or bad deals are sensitized by the pain to avoid losing money next time (if that bad deal counted as a terrible loss to them enough to cause them pain).
While foundational memory-building exercises should be taught to growing children, they shouldn't be dwelt on by aging adults who mistake the ability to cram irrelevancies for actual intelligence. You crammed the shopping list, and now you've bought the items—what’s next? Your next shopping list is likely to be different. So you'll take your precious time to cram that again, and again, and again. Until you're told by a medical practitioner that you're depressed, only to be sold drugs to.
While the logical aspects of our lives should drive us to create innovations that reduce our dependence on manual logic, they should also serve to grow our "illogical" aspects—like empathy, understanding, and compassion. We shouldn't live our beautiful lives as calculators hinged only on cold logic. Employers celebrate the growth of their companies by punching numbers into programmed growth-tracking algorithms, but they neglect to include the actual living conditions of the workers who strongly contributed to that success as a metric of their company growth.
We build a bridge to cross to the other side, not to sleep on it or get so addicted to building bridges that we forget to cross.
Give your brain the minimal tasks it can handle, and confidently rely on technology or external tools for the tasks that will only stress you out.
"Jesus" or "Christ" in this case, is not a physical body.
It's a Spirit, a consciousness or an operating system anyone can install, such that it becomes you, and you become it.
Gal 4:19 My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you!
Gospel of Thomas 108: Jesus said, ”Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to him.
I'm referring to the concept of "being Jesus".
SirCloudControl: Thank you for revealing yourself. please sir, I would like to reconfirm
1. why the Roman soldiers killed you.
2. Please, if it's true the Roman soldiers killed you, Why are some charlatans telling our parents that our sins in Africa, particularly Nigeria killed you....when we are not by any means related to either the Romans or the jews.
3. Now that you are here, please kindly tell God to send me 37 million naira. I could have asked for 37 million dollars but I don't want to be too be seen as greedy
Typing: BMW and Peugeot are good Cars. Come and see them in action in Kaduna. Both older , semi old and new models.
I've been driving a BMW e46 since 2012. A Car I bought for 230k then. As Nigerian used. I drive that car from Kaduna to Benin 3 to 4 times every year. Apart from daily City drive.
I am thinking of buying a Peugeot 206 Nigerian used. This Car cosume fuel like Keke. Very rugged and strong Car.
The short answer is yes, but it is extremely difficult. Once a Nigerian court issues a final forfeiture order, the property permanently transfers to the Federal Government. The owner loses all legal rights to it.
However, the law provides a narrow window for the original owner to challenge the order, mainly through an appeal or an application to "set aside" the judgment. Success is rare and hinges on proving a fundamental flaw in the legal process.
⚖️ Grounds for a Challenge
· Lack of Fair Hearing: If the owner can prove they were not properly notified, they may have grounds to challenge the forfeiture. In one case, a former CBN Governor argued the forfeiture notice was "obscure," but the court rejected this, noting a half-page ad in a national newspaper was sufficient. · Procedural Violations: The order may be challenged if the prosecution failed to meet strict statutory deadlines, such as applying for final forfeiture within 60 days of an interim order. · Lack of Evidence: The owner can argue the prosecution failed to prove the assets were proceeds of crime. However, courts often find that mere claims of ownership are insufficient to overturn a final order.
⏳ The Critical Factor: Timing
Time is of the essence. In one high-profile case, an applicant’s motion was dismissed because the court ruled he had ample opportunity—over 14 days—to contest the forfeiture but failed to act. This emphasizes that once a final order is granted, the window for legal action is very short and closes quickly.
🏛️ Who Can Challenge?
Only an individual who can demonstrate a "recognizable interest" in the forfeited property is entitled to challenge the order. You cannot challenge a forfeiture on behalf of someone else; you must prove a direct, personal stake in the assets.
Mtmike: I will not let my child take an haircut that doesnt conform with the school rules. But if peradventure out of oversight my child goes to school with an hairstyle that the school does not approve, the school will have to notify me and i will correct that immediately. However, if they want to be unfortunate and they take things into their hand to cut my child's hair they will see war. Physical, legal and even spiritual if need be. things like this are too sensitive
Aside from the glaring inconsistencies between the video itself and the minister's narrative, just look at the quality of the supposed security camera footage from the FCT airport.
Corruption has blinded them, they can't even recognise what quality looks like anymore.
PETER OBI MUST APOLOGISE TO AIRPORT STAFF AND PAY THE FINE FOR WRONG PARKING
As the Minister of Aviation, I felt a moral duty to investigate and authenticate the claim made by opposition candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, a few days ago that the tyres of his car were ‘unjustly’ clamped… pic.twitter.com/Nh4f5HWGSl
Now that the CCTV footage of the airport incident has been released, it’s time to compare the facts with Peter Obi’s earlier claims.
The footage vindicates the airport authority, Peter Obi should pay the 50k fine and apologize for trying to win public sympathy with allegations… pic.twitter.com/0iiHKMMJB1
The first thing you should get into your thick skull, Festus "Shrek" Keyamo (I'm sure that's what they called you when you were a child, because you are clearly a big-for-nothing dummy), is that when you are a Politically Exposed Person like Peter Obi, you get EXTRA protection,… https://t.co/yvM1Nn4djfpic.twitter.com/nmO9GtRQtc
The collective mind is remarkably suggestible. Almost zombie-like at times.
It shapes the reality we experience together.
Those who understand how narratives spread can influence events from a distance.
Iamblessed8888: PlasmaTV they deleted your post but you are Very correct. Unfortunately our media houses donot have sense and terrorists and kidnappers have been 100% successful in the media war. Terrorists are like IG baddies, they thrive on attention.
Kidnapping was not popular until it became a block buster headline news.
For example, ever noticed how after a plane crash becomes the trending news on CNN, soon after another/multiple crashes follow in different parts of the world? It’s a spiritual concept called Egregore
GOFRONT: Rescued by which of Security agencies exactly??
Shame on that security agency for sleeping on duty making the defence porous for the abductors to have a filled day in the first place!!!
Shame on DSS and Nig police
Meanwhile, these kids and teachers here looked Healthy and untraumatized to me........It looked like a staged kidnap to me where they were taken to a well arranged Hostel where there is adequate food supply, clean drinking water, they bathe well, Good Toilet for convenience,
Infact, I dont know how to trust Nigerian govt leadership!!!
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You are weak if what other people say changes how you feel about yourself. Even if what they say is true, what matters most is what you know about yourself and where you are in your journey.
Call me whatever you want. It doesn't make it true. And if it is true, I already know it. I'm working on it. I'm not going to waste my energy trying to prove anything to you. My job is to keep growing, not to manage your opinion of me.
iLegendd: Are These The 8 Most Hurtful Words Toward a Woman and a Man?
I came up with the list below and I feel they're the 8 most hurtful words for men and for women.
Which do you think should be removed and which should be added?
SixSeven: Maybe we should use this as a classroom case study at Lagos Business School or our higher education schools. Professors, lecturers and researchers, take note.
If they had secured a repayment extension or raised fresh capital, they might have avoided the situation.
SixSeven: Exactly what came to my mind. I am just surprised by the OP saying the 1993 person is that old
Nigergrob Ceramics Limited was a notable ceramic manufacturing industry located in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. Established in the 1980s, the company became the subject of major Nigerian corporate and legal cases, including a landmark receivership case (U.B.A. Trustees Ltd v. Nigergrob Ceramics Ltd) regarding the extent of receiver and director powers. Financial distress and that litigation eventually led to its closure, turning it into a textbook legal authority for Nigerian corporate insolvency frameworks under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA).
Story of their death: In the early 1980s, Nigeria was trying hard to build up its local industries. A company called Nigergrob Ceramics built a big factory in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Their plan was to make floor tiles, wall tiles, and bathroom sinks locally because the construction business was booming. To buy all their heavy machinery and set up the factory, they borrowed a huge amount of money from United Bank for Africa. The bank managed this loan through U.B.A. Trustees Limited. As security for the loan, Nigergrob signed a contract that gave the bank the right to seize the factory and all its equipment if they failed to pay the money back.
Everything started well, but the late 1980s and 1990s brought tough economic times. The national power grid became very unreliable. Ceramic factories need their ovens to run constantly, so Nigergrob had to spend a lot of money on diesel generators. At the same time, the cost of raw materials went up, and they could not find local technicians to fix their complex machines. Production stopped, and the company completely ran out of money. Since Nigergrob could not pay back its debt, U.B.A. Trustees stepped in, locked the factory gates, and hired a legal manager called a receiver to take over everything and sell it off to get the bank's money back.
The original owners and directors of Nigergrob refused to leave quietly. They took the bank to court, arguing that the bank had no right to strip them of their authority. This became a famous legal battle called U.B.A. Trustees Ltd v. Nigergrob Ceramics Ltd. The case went all the way to the Court of Appeal. The judges finally ruled that when a bank takes over a broke company, the bank's manager gets full control of the business and the assets, but the original directors still keep a few basic rights, like the power to fight the takeover in court. Sadly, while the lawyers argued for years, the expensive factory equipment just sat there and rusted. Nigergrob never reopened, and the factory in Abeokuta remains abandoned to this day. Nigergrob Ceramics died because the bank seized their factory over unpaid debts, while severe power outages and a crashing Naira made manufacturing too expensive to survive.
Search online for her. I bet she'll be tickled to no end, seeing this. I know I would.
Raydos: Out of everything, the biggest surprise was finding a sticker celebrating a baby born in 1993 (33 years ago) It was a bit of a shock realizing she’s significantly older than I am!
Looking at it made me wonder where she is today. It really puts life into perspective—nothing is permanent, and the kids of yesterday are the adults of today. It's a powerful reminder to make every moment count. Nobody lives forever
Wealthoptulent: EHN but who RECORDED or UPLOADED at VULNARABLE MOMENTS? hav u gone there as reporter/blogger orto COMMISERATE with the bereaved? ?
whoever did this, o ti gba Ofa oo. even tho they WALE and sam are reaping from past, but its GOD to JUDGE and not us.. MORALTY apart, e get werin i for wish them, but i left it to GOD and now we dey see RESULTS
He could be a wife-beater and still give great advice in other areas of life.
Freshtruth: Just In: I Don’t Take Advice From My Father. He Was a Drunkard Who Beat My Mom When I Was Young. His Treatment of My Mother Made Me Decide Never to Take Advice From Him — “Soludo’s Son” Speaks Out
In his story, Governor Soludo’s son claims he never took life advice from his father, alleging that painful childhood experiences shaped his decision.
He said, his father’s treatment of his mother left a lasting emotional impact, causing him to reject his father’s guidance as he grew older.
Install the new lintel at the required height, ensuring it extends beyond the width of the existing door opening to provide adequate bearing on both sides.
Leave the existing lintel in place while cutting out the space needed for the new one. Depending on how the wall has been built, you may only need to remove a section of the wall above the existing lintel. If you're unlucky, however, you may have to break out the entire section of wall above it.
Once the new lintel has been installed and has fully cured, remove the existing lintel. At that point, the new lintel will be carrying the load across the opening.
Finally, make good the surrounding masonry.
Tesclaros: Hello everyone, i just noticed my engineer made a huge mistake of not making the door height to align with the window height. But now I am considering increasing the door height to 8ft and this would also make it stand same height with the window but the issue is that there is a concrete slab above it. What is the safest way to go about this? How do i save cost and Is it safe to avoid structural issues?
Important things are typically invisible, like quality education in a conducive learning environment.
ryloy: Peter Obi and Akpabio were both Governors the same time. One built a national treasure, the other one said you can’t build a state with infrastructure.
Politics › Re: N40b Ex-gov Dave Umahi Ebonyi Airport Unusable by GodHimself(m): 6:23pm On Jul 18
