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FarahAideed:
So Boko Haram drove into town like kings ...SMH only northerners know whatvthis Boko Haram thing is all about because it's clear the rest of is are being taken on some sort of ride

So you don't know what negotiating hostage release is all about, or you're just feigning ignorance?

The girl may be injured.

What's the colour code for cabs in Osun State?

A Corona Secondary School student scored 344.

Cheap PR stunt.

I got a WAEC website today (waeconline.org.ng/e-learning) where I could get Examiner's report on May/June and Oct/Nov Maths past questions. What I saw there was, to say the least, discouraging. I wonder why WAEC - a regional exam - still struggles with having a great online resource for students and teachers and releasing past question papers to all like IGCSE and other international exam bodies.

You see why it's good for us to fight injustice with one voice? Reduction they say... Let's keep our fingers crossed.

This is the best I've seen.

Xiadnat:
Actually, I have great respect for this guy- despite his non-faith in God per se. He has- had- an emblem of the resilience of human spirit w/ or w/o God factor.

He defied the odds of surviving past 2 years (per his disease) to 76 y/o confined to wheel chair by a neuro-degenerative diseases since age of 21 AND still he has gone on to contribute enormously in the field of science- theoretical/quantum physics.

I read his God delusion and Grand design books and he was often quoted in debates around college campuses. Great and fascinating theories of the origin of the universe. Very brilliant, inquisitive and creative mind.

I wonder if his ALS paralyzing disease led him to atheism. In any case, Great mind anyway and great example that physical limitations cannot cripple your mind too. Mind over matter, he certainly lived it.

RIP- I suppose now you can find out if you were correct in your theories of God and origin and design.

I like your last sentence. The issue is this: no matter how much 'contribution' a man makes to human civilization, what he makes of himself is still what matters the most.

In as much as he did those good things you mentioned above, his turning many minds away from belief in God is his greatest mistake. I know God exists. I know also he knows that right now. This man has done great harm to religion, exhalting science. What a wasted life!

The great atheist is dead. Now he knows if God truly exists or not.

STEPHEN HAWKING DIES AT 76

The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: ‘We will miss him for ever’

Stephen Hawking, the brightest star in the firmament of science, whose insights shaped modern cosmology and inspired global audiences in the millions, has died aged 76.


His family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning confirming his death at his home in Cambridge.

Hawking’s children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, said in a statement: “We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humour inspired people across the world.

“He once said: ‘It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.’ We will miss him for ever.”

For fellow scientists and loved ones, it was Hawking’s intuition and wicked sense of humour that marked him out as much as the fierce intellect that, coupled with his illness, came to symbolise the unbounded possibilities of the human mind.

Hawking was driven to Wagner, but not the bottle, when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 at the age of 21. Doctors expected him to live for only two more years. But Hawking had a form of the disease that progressed more slowly than usual. He survived for more than half a century.

Hawking once estimated he worked only 1,000 hours during his three undergraduate years at Oxford. In his finals, he came borderline between a first- and second-class degree. Convinced that he was seen as a difficult student, he told his viva examiners that if they gave him a first he would move to Cambridge to pursue his PhD. Award a second and he threatened to stay. They opted for a first.

Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most. For Hawking, the early diagnosis of his terminal disease, and witnessing the death from leukaemia of a boy he knew in hospital, ignited a fresh sense of purpose. “Although there was a cloud hanging over my future, I found, to my surprise, that I was enjoying life in the present more than before. I began to make progress with my research,” he once said. Embarking on his career in earnest, he declared: “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

He began to use crutches in the 1960s, but long fought the use of a wheelchair. When he finally relented, he became notorious for his wild driving along the streets of Cambridge, not to mention the intentional running over of students’ toes and the occasional spin on the dance floor at college parties.


Hawking’s first major breakthrough came in 1970, when he and Roger Penrose applied the mathematics of black holes to the universe and showed that a singularity, a region of infinite curvature in spacetime, lay in our distant past: the point from which came the big bang.

Penrose found he was able to talk with Hawking even as the latter’s speech failed. Hawking, he said, had an absolute determination not to let anything get in his way. “He thought he didn’t have long to live, and he really wanted to get as much as he could done at that time.”

In 1974 Hawking drew on quantum theory to declare that black holes should emit heat and eventually pop out of existence. For normal-sized black holes, the process is extremely slow, but miniature black holes would release heat at a spectacular rate, eventually exploding with the energy of a million one-megaton hydrogen bombs.

His proposal that black holes radiate heat stirred up one of the most passionate debates in modern cosmology. Hawking argued that if a black hole could evaporate, all the information that fell inside over its lifetime would be lost forever. It contradicted one of the most basic laws of quantum mechanics, and plenty of physicists disagreed. Hawking came round to believing the more common, if no less baffling, explanation that information is stored at a black hole’s event horizon, and encoded back into radiation as the black hole radiates.

Marika Taylor, a former student of Hawking’s and now professor of theoretical physics at Southampton University, remembers how Hawking announced his U-turn on the information paradox to his students. He was discussing their work with them in the pub when Taylor noticed he was turning his speech synthesiser up to the max. “I’m coming out!” he bellowed. The whole pub turned around and looked at the group before Hawking turned the volume down and clarified the statement: “I’m coming out and admitting that maybe information loss doesn’t occur.” He had, Taylor said, “a wicked sense of humour.”

Hawking’s run of radical discoveries led to his election in 1974 to the Royal Society at the young age of 32. Five years later, he became the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, arguably Britain’s most distinguished chair, and a post formerly held by Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Paul Dirac, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics.

Hawking’s seminal contributions continued through the 1980s. The theory of cosmic inflation holds that the fledgling universe went through a period of terrific expansion. In 1982, Hawking was among the first to show how quantum fluctuations – tiny variations in the distribution of matter – might give rise through inflation to the spread of galaxies in the universe. In these tiny ripples lay the seeds of stars, planets and life as we know it.

But it was A Brief History of Time that rocketed Hawking to stardom. Published for the first time in 1988, the title made the Guinness Book of Records after it stayed on the Sunday Times bestsellers list for an unprecedented 237 weeks. It sold 10m copies and was translated into 40 different languages. Nevertheless, wags called it the greatest unread book in history.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76

CNN Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8GdJJqz_s

Baruwaaaaa:
Please I need information on IGCSE certification(biology).someone wants to help me through a school,but demands that I pay 50k,the problem is I have not meet the person one on one.He said I should send money online that he will give me login details.

You want to pay someone you don't know and haven't met at all?

The president almost always does the sensible thing. This is why he is better than your average politician out there.

Skepticus:
W. F Kumuyi has always stood out in not joining the overall bandwagon of prosperity scammers called pastors.

However, he like the rest, have ended up altering certain doctrines of the gospel for control and administration.

I admire the fact that he considers retracting some of them for religious sanity.

They just succeeded in deceiving you. One, the message is old. Two, he's talking about church administration and not doctrine. Administration is the peculiar way we do things. As regards doctrine, the man has never shifted one bit.

fabre4:
Well this was said long ago... I respect this man so much for all he has done and I also speak out in parts where I disagree but anyone who thinks freeze is a Christian is definitely not a Christian. I stand to be corrected

You are absolutely correct about him not being a Christian. He has been raised up by Satan to question those things millions hold dear and have practised for centuries. Christianity is under attack, which shows to prove we are truly in the last days.

You people are so silly and uneducated in the things of God. The man is talking about removing administrative processes he set up and not doctrines.

Good post.

What missing girls? Anyway, for those who still doubt the rescue story, eat this!

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/21/africa/boko-haram-schoolgirls-missing-raid/index.html

Brookinfo:
Kelvin Nwaka, a Facebook user took to his timeline some statistical figures on the 2015 election & factual reasons why President Buhari remains in the position to win in 2019 if he seeks reelection.

He wrote?

-2015 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS BY GEOPOLITICAL ZONEZ

South East
Buhari 198,248
Jonathan 2,464,906

South South
Buhari 418,590 Jonathan 4,714,725

South West
Buhari 2,433,193
Jonathan 1,821,416

North Central
Buhari 2,411,013
Jonathan 1,715,818

North East
Buhari 2,848,678
Jonathan 796,580

North West
Buhari 7,115,199
Jonathan 1,339,709

EXISTED FACTS IN 2015 BUT NOW ABSENT.

(1) Jonathan was the incumbent President, with plenty of funds from the Central Bank to share. This is no longer available to the next PDP candidate.

(2) PDP had above twenty Governors in 2015 and now they have just eleven, thereby reducing their areas of influence.

(3) PDP had Ministers from all the States in 2015 and now has none.

(4) Ondo and Ekiti States from the South West, were under the PDP, Ondo is gone and Ekiti will hold elections in July, 2018 and may be lost to APC.

(5) Anambra Governor worked for Jonathan in 2015, but will not work for PDP in 2019, because of the crisis between Obiano and Obi.

(6) Agricultural revolution, especially that of rice had not taken place in Kebbi and so many other states in 2015 as it is now.

(7) Boko haram has not been decimated in 2015 as it is now. More votes will certainly come to Buhari, from the North East because of this.

( The recent PDP Convention ostracized the South West, with a lot of PDP Yoruba Chieftains like Obanikoro, Folarin, Doyin Okukpe and a host of others leaving the party.

(9) The protracted PDP crisis between Modu Sheriff and Markafi, also led to the exodus of some key members of the party.

(10) No more religious and tribal cards in 2019, as was played by Jonathan and PDP in the entire Southern part of the country in 2015.

(11) Above all, Buhari is the working and workaholic incumbent. Patriotic and sensible Nigerians are beginning to see the positive side of him.

– Is his ascertions right? Please let’s have your thoughts about this.

https://brookinfo.com/facts-why-buhari-will-win-2019-election-kelvin-nwaka/

Very true jare. Thank you for being sensible.

thunder74:
I was at their office at GRA Ikeja to ask the same question, they are still testing. Bringing and removing Channels. I guessed something is going on behind the scenes.
The delay only humbled me to go back to DSTV.

I actually paid one of their dealers N5k hoping to lay hands on the incredible offers from TStv. I kept on waiting for the dealer to get his stock but nothing happened for 3 months. All the while I was without anything - not DSTS, GoTV...

When I got tired of waiting, I went back to GoTV,

I just thank God for this Buhari administration.

A highly reputable secondary school needs a corper. If you studied Mathematics (BSc./BEd.), send me a mail: bademola2@gmail.com or call 08056446828.

Triump. I still miss that phone.

Michelle55:
no, I haven't...

You need to. You should be able to glean something from the conversation.

Michelle55:
good day everyone, how true is this invite
Dear Applicant,
Following your application, you are hereby invited for an interview on the 15th February 2018 at 138 Okeira Street Nigeria Railway Compound,Ebute Metta by 10:00am prompt. You can call this number 080******** for any enquiry.
Please come with photocopies of your credentials.
Kindly confirm your availability for the interview.
Warm Regards

It looks authentic enough. Have you called?

lameda07:
Couldn't have been anyone other than Oranmiyan!

I'm proud to be associated with The state of Osun.

We gladly understood what the economic downturn caused more especially on over capitalization.

Thank you for opening up Osun.

We are proud to having you as our Governor.

Also, I urge the incoming administration to maintain these monumental infrastructural revolution.

As an Osun-ite, I vote Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as the BEST GOVERNOR OSUN HAS EVER HAD.

sarrki:
With Dangote refinery lagosand southwest will have light

With sun in the north solar will be powered

With Gas in the south south light will be constant

With coal in the east light will be stable

We can make it happen with good leaders

Another positive post! God bless you jare.

Wealthandjobs:
This is huge!
God bless President Muhammadu Buhari.
May God bless all the patriots making Nigeria work again.
God bless the Federal republic of Nigeria,my fatherland.
God bless all the evil naysayers with long life to see but not enter the new Nigeria of our dreams.

Thank you jare for this positive post.

"Severally" and "several times" mean different things.

RedDistrict:
Actually, its 3rice a week as I confirmed from the person not everyday. Already got good inputs tho but you could share also.
Thanks sir

Let the following be your rule of thumb when it comes to private lesson.

1. Conduct a pretest for the child(ren). That way you get to know more about the parents as some can afford far more than you think. I"ve been to a house before where the owner had more than 10 cars in his compound!
2. If possible, deal with Daddy and not Mummy. Mummies are generally miserly.
3. Dress well and look very presentable.
4. Try and infuse technology in your teaching.

With all these, you can charge as much as you want and they won't blink.
So the amount you charge depends on how well off the family is, your person and location.

RedDistrict:
Good evening brethren of the house

Pls i would like to make an enquiry, pls how much is fair/reasonable to charge a family for home tutoring of their ss2 kid. 2-3 hrs daily, mon to friday also.

pls i need inputs frm professionals on the matter, just to know a range at least.

Thanks in advance

2 to 3 hours daily, Mon to Fri?

So?