Descartes: Kam gwagi nke bu ya

All these for "in fact"? Wow!

How would you say the word "in fact" in the this quote -- "...In fact, I won't give it to you." -- in your own language? Forget about the other words; just translate the "in fact".

Given the recent large-scale advancement in technology, experts have listed jobs that are at the risk of extinction and those that are not.

Safe Jobs: Those of Priests, Sports Trainers, Social Workers, Actors, Fire Fighters, athletes and teachers.

At-Risk Jobs: Those of Typists, Estate Agents and Retail Workers are among occupations that are highly likely to be automated.

So, according to the words of a BBC presenter, "take your child off the computer and put him/her on the pitch."

Source:
http:/www.bbc.com/news/technology-27995372

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donifez: You are very correct, even in my sparetime i have a rethink is education really about the teacher- student relationship,NO! there is need to widen the horizon...am an information technology student and was thought c-programming in school but thats not enough i spend time reading ebooks and watching videos on youtube and still even willing to learn more because am not yet a professional in it. Self-education is the key to unlocking the future,lets embrace it now to enjoy it later, Thanks.

This is nice. Nigerians should hear this.

aaronson: irrelevant

To you.

aaronson: speed and slow doesn't matter in language joooor,the only phenomenon in which the speed of verbal speech is appreciated and important is rap song.

It does matter; atleast, it's easier to learn the slow-paced ones. Wonder why it's easier for someone who's only learned english and Russian for a month to understand native russian speakers better their english counterparts? The speed at which english is spoken is 4x that of russian. This research was done on international languages, so I thought we could replicate it on our own languages.

aaronson: Objection my lord,no where in this country Yoruba language isn't spoken and understood prior to some other ethnic group of people who have been to lagos to hustle and relocated back to their village,after english(pidgin) comes yoruba.

Maybe you didn't me, I was refering to the speech rate: how fast or how slow speakers of each sound.

By "fast", I'm referring to the speech rate or speed, as would be judged by a non-speaker of such language.
Sometimes you wonder if they are really talking or merely rolling their tongues a thousand times. To me, I think they come in this order:

(4) Igbo
(3) Hausa
(2)Yoruba
(1) Efik/Ibibio

What do you think?

Have you ever wondered how people like Bill gate and the likes who dropped out of school made it this big? The answer is, SELF EDUCATION or AUTODIDACTISM. It is the act of learning things without the help of a teacher, schools, etc. This act, though rewarding, requires self discipline. I let out guffaws when I see an average university student killing himself for grades. I mean, that desire to be innovative, to read and research wider, outside the school-lecturer-student thing, is totally lacking. University Education is good (in fact, in all modesty, I am a recent graduate of a professional (medical) course), but the future of Nigeria greatly depends on autodidacts -- those who take the pains to teach themselves some useful skills. Teaching yourself a particular skill helps you have a solid, unshakable grip on it; and it's necessary for any innovation. For the records, by the grace of God, these are the things I have taught myself:
--Python programming
--Boxing
--Touch-typing (typing without looking at the keyboard)
--Russian Language and
--Chess.
And most of them I did during my spare moments while still a student.

The world is now a global village; the internet is there; make use of it to the fullest. Stop wasting your precious time on frivolities; take a cue from Seun, whom I'm sure is an autodidact. There are some questions you do not have to ask people: a simple entering of the keywords into google search engine generates a googol of results to choose from. Know this: without ever attending University, you can be an expert in physics, chemistry, some engineering and computing courses, musical instruments, foreign languages and so on. The internet is there; youtube is always there for you. The truth is; once you've suceeded in teaching yourself a skill, you'd suddenly realize how easy it is to teach yourself new things.

What do you think?

Mod, this is an important topic, so front page pls!

We have probably, at one point or the other, been engaged in debates and arguments about what Nigeria should do or undo to be great. Sometimes we feel good that we have won the debate and silenced our opponents, but soon forget about the details of -- or our position during -- the debate. In essence, we do not even believe what we said. Now, as a Nigerian, keeping ethnic and political affiliations aside, what do you sincerely think we should do or undo to move our country forward?

Someone exclaimed, "I'm I still living in Nigeria?! Never have I, in terms power outage and restoration, had it this good." Since last week, Akwa Ibom has been enjoying a consistent 20 to 22hr power supply per day. It is indeed record breaking, and I want to know if it's the same in your area. We are hoping that before the year runs out, the rate of power outage would have decreased to, say, < 3hrs/week. So go on, let's know how it goes there.

Front page pls

phantomm: @ the bolded. i hope you know that radiographers are the ones who 'photograph' the patients.the radiologists who are the doctors in that department interprete the results..
in the labs ,the lab technologists do the bench work or test the samples.the onus still lies on the pathologist who is a doctor to ratify the results.
my brother these allied professionals are attaching undue importance to themselves.they are not that important.

If the pathologists and radiologist are that all-rounded, they should obtain the samples and analyse same, strictly adhering to standard procedures, and I bet they'd start crying. Look here, we the masses have tolerated these doctors enough.

I still do not understand where Nigerian doctors got this mentality from. They are totally not in tune with international best practices in healthcare. They are yet to see that healthcare delivery is a team work and the patient the focus of the team, hence, their constant resistance to the progress of members of the team, which is to the detriment of the patient.

Let me ask you: can you mention just one treatment or preventive procedure in the hospital that does not utilize a product of a pharmacueutical company before, during or after such procedure? Who the hell are you to say that the role of experts in such products, i.e, pharmacists, is unimportant, when you and I know that everything in the hospital, at the end of the day, boils down to drips, disinfectants, medications, etc? Why do you say that nurses are not an integral part of the healthcare delivery and that their role is equally unimportant? I feel the doctors are afraid that with recent developments in the healthcare sector, which they have, till now, been running as their personal property, some of their fraudulent activities would not easily be covered up. So pls, next time, think with your cerebral cortex and not limbic system (At least I know some elementary medical terminologies, Lol).

This is getting too much. These
doctors have turned our hospitals
into death traps by their refusal to
humble themselves and recognize
and appreciate the expertise of
other healthcare professionals and the roles they play in healthcare delivery. One of their grouses, I've learnt, is about the recent go ahead the FG and National Assembly have given, which allows Pharmacists, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Medical Laboratory Scientists, and Radiographers who have reached a certain professional level in their respective fields to be appointed consultants in those fields.
This is so selfish of the doctors and
born out of envy. The doctors cannot bring themselves to see someone else being called Consultant. This is similar to professors of Engineering
proceeding on Strike because a
Senior Lecturer of Law is to be
appointed as professor of Law, NOT ENGINEERING. Imagine the
disconnect! Doctors should put aside this arrogance of theirs and emulate their peers in civilized climes who see healthcare delivery as teamwork,
not a one-man show to the
detriment of the patient. Without
proper care by way of nursing,
perform all the surgery you can conceive of, the patient will still die. Need I say that medicine is like a container and drugs the content? Pour out the
content and the container is useless! Perform all the surgery and reach every diagnoses, but withhold the drugs or administer them inappropriately, and the patient will still die or be permanently handicapped. No wonder we have so many drug related deaths (courtesy doctors who refuse to see and appreciate the importance of other healthcare professionals). In fact, in some states in the US, the doctor is not allowed to unanimously write prescriptions; either a clinical pharmacist or clinical pharmacologist must be there to guide the physician. This guys use complex pharmacokinetic equations to predict blood levels of potentially toxic drugs; thereby, avoiding medication-related problems and ensuring safety and efficacy, for the overall good of the patient. This is a sane society where human lives a placed above narrow ambitions and envy.
Need I also say that for confirmatory diagnosis to be made, Laboratory or Radiographic results are needed, which falls into the jurisdiction of Med. Lab. Scientists and Radiographers. Many deaths would have been avoided if some of this doctors ever bothered to confirm their preliminary or tentative diagnosis by ordering for laboratory tests. Yet you see them covering up
these avoidable deaths with medical jargons. Some of these doctors are very corrupt, but it is we the masses that suffer at the end of the day.
Doctors are truly a blessing to
humanity, but, like everything in
Nigeria, it is being taken over by
some charlatans. No one forced
anyone to study any course,
including medicine; so they should
not bother us with all these
shenanigans of theirs. In fact, they
are currently among the highest
earning government workers.

The attention of Joint Health
Sector Unions (JOHESU) has been drawn to the publication (Advertorial) by the Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in various newspapers including social media from the 9th of April to 30th of May, 2014.

Whereas the Publications would have been ignored for obvious lack of credence and immaturity aptly demonstrated by the NMA
and its appendages, on a second thought, the leadership of JOHESU, considered the inherent danger such malice, misinformation, such publications if not corrected, could impact on the uninformed public and resolved to respond, if only to
refute the unguarded and unprofessional utterances of the groups, not to mention the level of absurdity the issues raised epitomize, which further stretched the incredibility to an agonizing crescendo. The issues taken point to point with rebuttal, are as follows:

1. Threat of Nation-wide Strike and the Chibok Girls

NMA and its groups would be shocked to hear that JOHESU shelved its strike slated for Monday 19th May 2014 because of its sympathy with the Government and the people of this great country over the tragedy that befell the Nation. Again, the leadership of JOHESU offered special prayers at various times and in particular at its
meeting with the Government on the 13th May, 2014 over Nyanya Bomb blast and the abducted Chibok girls. That would not be said of NMA and its affiliates. In spite of the fact that the Nation
was thrown into mourning and sadness, the NARD (at that student doctors) in full blast embarked on a 3 day Nation-wide warning
strike, a situation widely reported on the electronic and print media with such condemnation. The strike was yet another opportunity for striking doctors to divert patients in public facilities to their private facilities. What could be so callous and insensitive than this!

2. Attack on NLC & TUC

NMA attacked the NLC and TUC for
supporting JOHESU in its endeavour to improve on the poor state of the Nation’s health sector being mismanaged by the
Medical doctors, is baseless and a clear demonstration of NMA’s attempt to cover up the rot in the sector which is the result of years of mis-management of the health
sector by Nigerian doctors who were in charge. Both Labour Centres, NLC and TUC, have as affiliates all the five member-unions of JOHESU, all of them registered by the Trade union Acts and the extant laws. NMA and its
groups are not registered trade unions, yet are known to engage in trade union activities, by negotiating conditions of service and most often incite the government against the rest of the other health practitioners given their privileged leadership position in the sector. This is
contrary to the NIC judgment of 20th June, 2011, in a case of Hon. Attorney General of Enugu State VS National Association of
Medical & Dental Practitioners (NAGGMAP), in which NICN ruled “that the right to strike is
a right that belongs to a trade union” meaning that NMA and its group, legally lack this right, to embark on or negotiate conditions of service and even enter into collective bargaining with its employers. In other words, NMA has used blackmail to
coerce and intimidate the government to enter into agreement, all of which ordinarily
are illegal. As the saying goes, two wrongs cannot make a right, therefore we say enough is enough. Most JOHESU cases went through NIC and were favourably disposed in the JOHESU favour. NMA cases should equally be
subjected to judicial process as in that of Enugu NIC in 2011. The Federal Ministry of Health is enjoined to stop playing double
standards with personnel issues in the health sector.

3. Crisis in the Health Sector - is it Political?
Perhaps, NMA and its appendages need to inform the ordinary citizen of this country properly on this issue. Since the days of Professor Olikoye Ransome Kuti, a onetime Minister of Health, who awarded the Medical Doctors Super Salary of MSS/MSSS and the
others in the health sector, HSS in 1991, thereby removing the single spine salary structure, undermining the issue of salary
relativity/parity, thus creating a huge gap differential that has remained unjustifiable till date, crisis has become an integral part of the health sector. Again, in 2009, CONMESS was given doctors, which further expanded
the salary band from 1 – 7 at entry point of GL.13 for a newly qualified doctor! Besides
this, the entire health structure came under the headship of the Medical Doctors, thereby
giving them privileged positions that the Job Evaluation conducted and supervised by the office of the Secretary to the Government of
the...continue reading on http://www.medicalworldnigeria.com/2014/07/johesu-press-release-on-the-nma-strike-and-the-imminent-crisis-in-the-health-sector

Emzybrown: My cousin suffered from partial stroke in 2008, then he was diagnose of hypertension with BP of 180/100,he is on anti-hypertensive therapy, but he complains to me that when ever he is tensed up,angry, talking in-front of large crowd, his pulse rate increases and he feels uncomfortable. Is this normal or what do you guys think, presently his BP is 130/80

Yeah, it's normal, those activities trigger the release of some "chemicals" that shoot the BP. The BP is ok for your dad, but if he's diabetic, it isn't Ok, it has to be lower than that. Tell your dad to take it easy on himself.

To answer this question, you need to find out why the president of a country is always to blame for the failure of his country, even when the country had since failed before his ascent and people are out there hell-bent on sabotaging his every move, his good intentions for that country notwithstanding.

L u c i d:
Dude!!! how did you pass WAEC spelling 'professional' with double F's? eeish

Thanks for the correction, I scored a C6 in english.

It's really been tough with me. Ever since i secured admission into the university to study a medical course ( i don't want to mention it here for the sake of those who miit know my real ID), i have been through hell. You know, whenever i have a little misunderstanding with people, they tend to exhibit attidudes which suggests to me that they feel i'm behaving like that because i'm studying a professional course. I try to be as simple as possible, and to mix up with people, but people still don't get it. Any little mistake, it is "... Because he's doing a professional course...". For you reading this thread who never read, or isn't reading, a professional course, pls know that we are people like you and our course is in no way better than yours. Granted, i may have behaved rude to you whether by words of mouth or character, but do not always take it to mean that it's because i'm studying medicine, pharmacy, law, etc. I am a human like you and react same like you not because i am studying professional course. I know the sacrifices i have had to make in order not to be labelled such, even when i have been genuinely offended. Pls , spread the info.

Nice app.
Pls can someone tell me how to run scripts on python. I'm a new in programming and i'm having a big time challenge running scripts after having them typed on on wordpad processor.

APO: it is easy to learn programming language with two weeks. But if just starting, it might be difficult yo learn within two weeks. but lets say 2 months. but you would need a little guidance for starters.

I've started learning python, but i'm having difficulty running my scripts. Pls can youassist me in this? Thanks

I know nothing about programming, but wud want to creat ae robot system or any other application that will bear in a community pharmacy( yeah, i'm a pharmacy student). Which language should i learn? I've heard alot about python. Also, is it possible to learn programming from reading texts books alone without tutorials? Can i be able to write programs after 2wks of serious studies? Thank u.

[color=#006600][/color]I'm grateful to u all for your wonderful contributions, it's been helpful.

I don't know if any other guy has observed this, but i just do observe that ladies are now in the habit of adressing 'guys' as "dear", even the ones they barely know. Phrases like 'thanks dear', 'ok dear', 'sleeping dear', aren't uncommon these days whenever i chat with my female colleagues, even the ones i know do not any hidden motive(s). I really need an urgent explanation, as i feel the word "dear" suggests something close to intimacy and much more acceptable when used in that context. This could be between family members, male friends, partners. What makes it so confusing is that you do not know the context she's using the word. It might cause you to think she's developing softspot for you when that isn't the case, especially in ladies you know are very principled. On the other hand, she may actually be developing soft spot without you knowing.

I'm 21, my wrists and finger joints crack; i find it difficult to gain weight; got no family history of diabetes an arthritis, HIV negative; gyming with dumbells relieves symptoms; had frequent occurences of peptic ulcer, and hv been on a triple therapy; a tap onthe nerve on my back palm produces a electric shock sensation on my index finger. For this, i've been on dolometa B, which still hasn't help. I've been taking ciprofloxacin for typhoid ever since i was 18. Could it hv caused tendinitis?

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Gooooooooooonooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!

This marks the beginning of the series of threads i'll be posting on Nigerian politicians, both past and present. I have decided to concentrate on the positives -- since i would have simply replaced the ''like' above with 'dislike' -- given that no man is an island, and also,having heard so much about their negatives. Ok, let's get started with GEJ, being the president. What do you like about him and his government?

My heart bleeds whenever i have the priviledge of travelling from my tiny south south abode to other parts of Nigeria.I had since come to the conclusion that we have a common problem in this country, which is, widespread poverty, poor to no infrastructure,and to mention a but a few. I have always asked myself, ''when will our tiny villages be half as develop as our state capitals, which themselves are still a far cry?". It is on this note that i'm moved to ask,"will Nigeria ever become a developed country, say like US, UK, etc?"

Exponental: @op,........edit ur topic before we change our minds.

pls,help me edit it.I'm new here.