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MadCow1:
politics..

If you can't stand people trying to politicise everything and clamour for positions and titles then please avoid Family house. I say so because the politics involved to become President and other positions brings out the true demons hiding behind those fake born again persona. I remember how the NCCF bus caused wahala because two guys (Papa and one senior Brother) were driving the thing like it was their personal car.

Control...

If you hate being bossed around by your fellow corper under the name of Papa or Mama backed by the Holy Ghost, then please avoid Family house as some of those people with titles tend to start thinking they are your father's and mothers for real.

Cluster phobia..

If you enjoy your space and don't like being inside a confined space with overly righteous Christians then avoid Family house like a plague. Because you would find yourself inside a small confined space with some really annoying born again self made pastor wannabes and prayer warriors who would be all up in your business, using your items like it was their constitutional right and expecting you to put up with their bullshit because you are also a christian living in thier community.

Hypocrisy...


If ever there was a place where the highest concentration of hypocrites could be found all together in one place, go to NCCF family house..

Too many rules and regulations..

If you are a free spirit who hates living under so many tight rules and regulations, then when you see NCCF family house, was a cross road go the other side.. The rules in some family houses would make you pray to live in Kirikiri maximum. Curfews, dress codes, relationship caveats, prayer time, food time, etc..

Still surprised that many of us still commit the crime of baseless generalisation, pls no harm intended. You stated all these from very likely just one or two family houses to describe all the family houses in Nigeria. Haba! Its like using ur own church to describe all the churches in the world. Like someone already stated, not all family houses are the same. The one I stayed was near perfect, trust me. We really ate fat. Infact, the variety of food was more than I have at home, we never did night vigil, it was personal and you are not allowed to disturb others with it. Yes, two husbands visited their wives at different occasions and one stayed for two days. Family house was so fun that some corpers would occasionally spend more than 200 naira just to visit and spend time. My family house was really a family house, we discussed everything good from football to PES, relationship, politics, name it. We didn't address anybody as brother this or sister that, neither was Papa seen like a demi-God or reverenced like we do to pastors.

For those complaining of hypocrites in the family house, what do you expect? Or don't you have hypocrites in every church? Family house is not for perfect people, and Papa and Mama are not better than you in anyway. Family house is a place for you to get better, no matter the title you carry. And mind you, in any gathering there is always a mixed multitude, and that includes thee family house.
Oooo hw I miss my family! Ijebu-jesa, Osun state. 2013-2014 was really great.

For those complaining of bad experiences in the family house, know that it is relative and not the same every where. So stop generalizing and discouraging others. For leaders in fellowship, know that u are not greater than anybody because of your office. Know how to address everyone with respect and humility. You were not chosen because you are the best. And know that GENCO is not a battle ground.
To everyone, kw that people like you that make things work. Ensure you do your part to make things easier for posterity.

Phils:
If you don't stay in Family House, participate in the activities. It makes the service year eventful.

Family House activities may be the only stuffs you will earnestly miss after the service year. It is the only chance you have to service the Almighty as a Corp member, and they are priceless moments. You can't have it again.

Who no know, no go know.

I can't image NYSC without NCCF. I really miss my Family house. No pretending, it was d ideal family. Really wish for reunion one day.

evisexxy:
Family house ke? Hahahaahhahaah,please if your ppa doesn't have corpers lodge I will advice you to go rent a house.christianity is a way of life and not what you are forced into with ty rules to follow,whatd the essence of avoiding to do something in the house yet you do them out side? Its your choice as a corper either to follow christ or multitudes with pseudo life styles

Sist those rules are not meant just for u but for others also. Yes its better you don't bring in some of the hidden things u do outside to the family house, so as not to negatively influence some innocent minds that may be present. Trust me, u don't want to be the one to lead others to temptation.

How much?

oduastates:
That oil should just disappear.. The people in the ND are suffering ,the people in the other parts of the country are suffering too. 2 years ago .Someone posted a picture of the Niger delta in the 30's .
That picturesque scene of a village was beautiful.

Funny thing is more oil wells are being discovered everyday.

5naira:
copy n paste witho attempting to edit

Tenim47:
GMB ready to make tinz beta,
vote APC

Boss, I believe this is more than just voting a particular party. Truth is, we have been treated less than slaves by our own people. Do you know that oil exploration has been taking place in Nigeria even before 1914?

Chief Sunday Inengite remembers the day the foreigners who had come to his village in Nigeria's Niger Delta struck oil.

"They made us be happy and clap like fools, dance as if we were trained monkeys," he says.

Years later, the 74-year-old now looks back on his youthful enthusiasm with sour regret.

Nigeria has become Africa's biggest oil producer, but the people of Oloibiri complain they have not seen much of the money made in the 52 years of oil production.

"It smacks of wickedness, hard- heartedness," he says.

INQUISITIVE

Mr Inengite was 19 years old when the foreign engineers came looking for oil in 1953.

An inquisitive young man, he made friends with the British, German and Dutch engineers during the years they were exploring the area around Oloibiri, now in Bayelsa State.

"I was trying to know why they were all here, going into the forests and into the swamps."

The village elders thought they were looking for palm oil - a valuable edible oil that had been exported from West Africa since the first European traders arrived hundreds of years before.

"It wasn't until we saw what they called the oil - the black stuff - that we knew they were after something different," Mr Inengite said.

The explorers threw a party at their house-boat and invited everyone from the village to see samples of the oil they had been looking for.

"You can imagine the jubilation, after all they had been looking for oil in commercial quantities for years."

But now he says the environment has been damaged, affecting fish catches, and the small plots of land where people had grown crops are polluted by oil spills and gas flares.

"You see fish floating on the surface of the water, something we didn't know before." "It may be difficult to make a catch that will be enough for your family for one day."

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

But the problem is not caused just by the oil companies.

The government gets tax and royalties on the oil the companies produce.

The government is also a majority shareholder in Nigeria's oil industry and has made over $1.6trillion in revenue over the last 50 years, according to analysts at Standard Bank.

"I don't only blame the whites that came here, what about the government?" Mr Ingenite says.

"People in the government get nearly all the money from the economy."

When the BBC visited the first oil well a few kilometres down the road, we were approached by men working as commercial motorcycle taxis.

They all insisted oil companies, especially Royal Dutch Shell, should give them money as compensation for taking the oil.

But as we spoke, a local government official drove up in his brand new luxury four- wheel-drive car, an expensive gold watch dangling on his wrist.

Why don't people ask their leaders where their money is?

"They have hearts as black as coal, they are evil people - what would be the point?" said Julius Esam, 27.

A nearby mosquito infested swamp was being cleared to build a 300-bed hotel and conference centre with an oil "museum".

The contractor told the BBC the project was costing the state government 90billion naira ($592million, £298million.)

Dimeari Von Kemedi, in charge of scrutinising contracts made by the Bayelsa state government said he would stop the project.

"But it's very difficult to prevent every badly conceived or corrupt contract going through," he said.

The access to corrupt money allowed by political office in the Niger Delta is also responsible for the emergence of violent groups in the area.

Groups of "boys" were armed by government during the 2003 elections.

Their job was to ensure the ruling People's Democratic Party held onto power and therefore the oil money.

These groups later got involved in oil theft, stealing tens of thousands of barrels a day for powerful syndicates, kidnapping and extortion.

Although groups like the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) use their contacts with journalists to promote a political agenda, most armed groups are criminal gangs who want their own share of the money being divided among the powerful.

Mr Ingenite says in his old age, he now understands what the militancy wants.

"We frowned at violence because we are very hospitable to those that come," he said.

"But it can't be so today, and if they act the way they do, you can't blame them, because their blood is hot, not like old men's that is cool."

Source: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7840310.stm

funkyjms:
So indirectly, what you're saying is that where I got this 2- [1-+3], the minus sign should have disappear with the zero?
Clear my doubt on this




It is because of this thought that I left out the zero but left behind the negative sign

Yes boss,take this example
5+0-2=5-2=3
We take out the +0. It is impossible to take out a number without taking its sign along with it. A number and its sign are inseperable. Trying to take out a number without its sign is like taking out Abuja from Nigeria.

We should all know dat every number has a sign,either negative or positive. When we rearrange numbers,we move d numbers with their signs along with them. For example,

5-2+8-9=5+8-2-9=13-11=2

1-0+3 is nt equal to 1-3. There is no way (-) dat belongs to 0,can b given to +3.
For those that says 1-0+3=1-+3,when u take out d zero,u take out d sign along with it. Therefore, 1-0+3=1+3=4 (when we take out d zero,we take out d minus sign along with it)

funkyjms:
For those that got -2 and 4, the difference in answer stems from the bolded.
Should the bracket be expanded with minus or should the (2-2) be simplified to the to lowest form before opening the bracket like this

2- [1 - (1 - [2 - 3] - 2) + 3]
2- [1- (1- [-1] -2) +3]
2- [1- (1--1-2) +3]
2- [1- (1+1-2) +3]
2- [1- (2-2) +3]
2- [1- (0) +3]
2- [1-0 +3]
2- [1-+3]
2- [1-3]
2- [-2]
2--2
2+2
4

My verdict: First, I feel it's always advisable to simplify whatever inside a bracket to the simplest form before opening the bracket to make it easy. Second, I feel (2-2) should be simplified to the lowest form before opening the bracket. Why?
Even the OP, in the first/second step simplified the [2-3] to the lowest form before opening the bracket.

Now i c whr d confusion is coming frm.
1-0+3=4. How?
This is because 0 is nothing. There is nothing like +ve or -ve zero. Zero is nothing and can b seen as none existed.

Or to make it clearer,lets rearrange d numbers. For example, 2+6=6+2=8
-2+9=9-2=7
0-3=-3+0=-3(take note)
Therefore,
1-0+3=1+3-0=4-0=4
Hope its clear nw. Thanks

MrCGPA:
As a 1st Class Electrical Electronic Engr from a federal University, the answer is +4. Applying the fundamental mathematics BODMAS and get it. One 500Levels mathematician fall hand big time.

Hmm! No need for d 1st class ish. But if its true dat u got a 1st class in Electrical Electronic Engineering,then what pple have been saying about the Nigerian 1st class students is most likely true. And u are even accussing some1 of falling hand! Boss na u fall our hand and d hands of 1st class brethren. No malice intended bro. D answer is definitely -2.

aishatab:
pls i need help, anytime i download movie through opera mini i dont see d movie on my vidoe list or gallary. it only appare on the opere mini downloading page and dat is the only place i can goto to view the movie. pls how can i move it to my memory card.

Next time,follow these steps when downloading via opera mini. When you are asked location to store the item you intend to download,don't select phone memory or sd card. Instead select 'others', before selecting either phone/sd card. I repeat,select 'others' ist, before selecting phone or sd card,depending on where you decide to store your download.

MadCow1:
Well... You would be surprised at how intelligent many Nigerians are.

I for one studied foundation engineering and have seen a lot of videos showing controlled demolition and those caused by failure and the synagogue building didn't show any signs of explosion (neither did anyone hear explosions) before nor during the collapse.

This is Nigeria where cover ups are not new.

I don't think explosions are necessary for all controlled demolition. Unless am wrong,there are many ways of controlling demolition. Unless want to say such technology can't be employed here in Nigeria yet.

Suddenly,everybody becomes engineer on NL! Pple typing based on sentiment. Even if the truth be told,their sentiment is always there to blind them from seeing it. They want to hear only what they want. Smh for them. No matter what,the truth will come out. Nigeria with so many surprises! What should be surprising here is if the collapse was not truely due to controlled demolition!

Drama! Drama!! Drama!!!
That's what Nigeria has always been. Drama! They, GEJ+ the politicians+some of the international communities+many media houses+ Boko haram + MEND are all playing the scripts of this drama. What ever happens have been written. They even know the next batch of leaders come 2015. Its a pity that the lives of innocent Nigerians have been taken in the course of the Drama. God help and preserve us until this Drama some how is brought to an end,because they are already rehearsing the next scene!

I hate to solve this mathematics. If you attempted suicide because you went through difficult times at this tender age, what would you do when you face very difficult times at the latter part of your life?
Life never even start,some pple don dey 1 escape!

Uganda plans to introduce a
new anti-gay law that will
withstand any legal
challenge, a government
minister has told the BBC.
It will not explicitly refer to
homosexuality, but will rely on
the penal code which prescribes
a life sentence for "unnatural
acts", he said.
Activists say the plan is more
draconian than anti-gay
legislation annulled by the
courts in August.
The US and other donors cut
funding to Uganda in protest
against the law.
Uganda is a deeply conservative
society where homosexual acts
are already illegal.
New legislation against gay
people will increase the
government's popularity, says
the BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga
in the capital, Kampala
However, many political
observers wonder whether the
bill, known as The Prohibition of
Promotion of Unnatural Sexual
Practices Bill, will see the light of
day because of the huge
pressure the government is
facing from Western
governments not to further
criminalise gay people, she says.
'Language twisted'
The minister, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said the
proposed legislation will be a
streamlined version of the
annulled Anti-Homosexuality
Act.
It will clarify what constitutes the
promotion and funding of
"unnatural" acts, he said.
This could affect the financial
support gay rights groups
receive from donors, our
correspondent says.
Gay-rights activist Frank Mugisha
said a leaked copy of the bill
suggested that it would be
harsher than the previous
legislation.
"They have just twisted the
language but it is the same
thing. It's actually worse because
the 'promotion' part is harsher
and it will punish the funding of
LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender] and human rights
groups," Mr Mugisha was
quoted by the UK's Guardian
newspaper as saying
Ugandan human rights lawyer
Nicholas Opiyo told the BBC he
was confident the proposed law
would be defeated in court.
The Anti-Homosexuality Act was
annulled by the Constitutional
Court, which ruled that
parliament lacked a quorum
when it was passed.
US President Barack Obama
denounced the legislation as
odious, and the US cut aid to
Uganda - a key ally in its
campaign against militant
Islamists in the region.
The US did not reinstate the aid,
even after the Constitutional
Court annulled the legislation,
our reporter says.
Foreign donors are watching to
see what happens next, she
adds.
The new bill has been drawn up
by MPs from the governing
National Resistance Movement,
and had not yet been approved
by the cabinet, the minister said.
The scrapped legislation allowed
for life imprisonment for
"aggravated homosexuality" and
for entering into a same-sex
marriage.
It also proposed a prison
sentence of up to seven years or
a fine or both for the promotion
of homosexuality.
The original draft of the bill
called for the death penalty for
"aggravated homosexuality".
Source:m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29994678

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i nor go surprise if them finally discover say na Nigeria be the breeding site of the virus.

Wait sef! Na which people be this FG? Na only them dey lose money abi? Ok,what of how much consumers dey lose from the fraudulent activities MTN,GLO,AIRTEL and ETISALAT?

PrinceAkbabio:
OPs so u expected hm 2 evacuate evrybody in d town?

Hmm! So this is one of the leaders of tomorrow! You just revealed to a deeper extent, how unprepared Nigeria is for the future! Shm.

johndwayy:
such a foolish and unreasonable comment...you should have kept quiet if you don't have anything to say.

Abeg leave dat guy o. He has jst spoken out his true persn. Now you know many Nigerians abuse the 'human brain'. No wonder they call us the giant of Africa! Africa meaning the land of apes.

PassingShot:
Did you guys read the post at all? I don't think if you did you would make these comments.

It's a pity politics has blinded a lot of Nigerians to the extent that to commend a laudable cause as this one is now a problem.

Boss,just as a blind man does not need his eyes to know if water is hot,I don't need to read a post before recognizing a Nigerian politician,who is naturally worse than a hypocrite.

Worse than hypocrites!

The satirical news website
Huzler has been spreading a
rumor over the Internet that
solar storms will cause the
Earth to become cloaked in
total darkness sometime in
December. They took the
rumor one step further and
said that NASA had confirmed
the report.
Huzler set up an official-
looking website emblazoned
with the headline "NASA
Confirms Earth Will Experience
6 Days of Total Darkness in
December 2014!" According to
the story, solar storms will
cause "dust and space debris
to become plentiful and thus
block 90% sunlight".
However, there's an issue with
this, solar storms don't work
that way. While they are real
phenomena, they don't work
like terrestrial storms and stir
up a lot of dust or dirt.
Solar storms are caused by
fluctuations in the sun's
magnetic field. They generally
cause very minor disturbances
in the Earth's magnetosphere.
A powerful solar storm can
knock out electrical
equipment, but a typical solar
storm won't do worse than
knock a homing pigeon
slightly off course.
It's important to realize that
solar storms certainly don't
blot out the sun.
The hoax used such credible-
sounding sources such as
NASA chief Charles Bolden,
who was seen in a video
advising people about
emergency preparedness. That
video was actually about
Bolden advising people about
real natural disasters like
earthquakes and hurricanes.
While the article may have
tricked someone into believing
it to be true, the fact that the
artcle had some pretty sloppy
math should have given it
away.
It spells out the expected
dates of the disaster:
December 16 to December 22,
and then immediately adds,
"The world will remain, during
these three days, without
sunlight." Evidently, the
website fudged the numbers a
little bit, which doesn't matter
much, considering it's all one
big hoax.

Source: http://www.breathecast.com/articles/six-days-of-darkness-in-december-hoax-website-claims-solar-storms-will-blot-out-the-sun-21239/