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Any country that continues to export her First Class brains to other countries is at the risk of not realizing its developmental goals. This was the view of the former Director General of National Office for Technology Acquisition (NOTAP), Engr. Umar Bindir at the formal launching and presentation of NOTAP Industrial Technology Transfer Fellowship (NITTF) in Abuja last week.
On First Class brains: Young developers
Engr. Bindir, who delivered a keynote on the concept and content of NITTF, said for Nigeria to develop infrastructure for technology advancement and realise its developmental objectives it must retain its first class graduates and challenge them locally, rather than exporting them to foreign countries.
For him, the trend poses great danger to Nigeria’s aspiration to attain her Vision 2020 goals if government fails to halt the trend and change the mentality of the prospective aspirants.
He argued that there is no way the country can develop its potentials in research results on technology innovations and inventions without engaging its best brains in the local fabrication and development. He noted that the First class brains are usually exploited by their countries of residence for their technology prowess.
“If you don’t put your first class to be challenged in Nigerian soil, you will not develop infrastructure. You will not develop the local taste in terms of research and development and the capacity of even the supervisors cannot be enhanced dynamically. These young people are the highest energy in terms of research. So, we need to keep them through. That is why we made them local.”
The NIITF is an attempt by NOTAP to link the academia to the local industries. The idea is that the industry must learn to contribute in the generation of relevant knowledge for the development of the country.
According to NOTAP, Nigerian industry is very good on the platform of supplying products, goods and services to Nigerians. But to bridge the gap, there I need to have a local content in that bracket.
For the former DG, Nigerians too must stop intellectual property theft and protect it, so that it can actually become asset for them.
“Nigerians too must evolve products made in Nigeria to be of globally acceptable standard, quality and sold at the right price. Is all about knowledge. Nigerians also must learn how to design, establish, operate and manage solid physical infrastructure systems, which is for now supplied totally by foreign technological companies.”
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/stop-exporting-first-class-brains-task-them-on-local-tech-growth-bindir-urges-fg/

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Aitee1:

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EMMYB0Y:
after marriage ..... the. moment she woke up In the morning. ... u will be like. ...ha ogbanje

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wakacome:
HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!that is what you are,as if we don't know who you are,fools using new monikers to continue weeping as usual............

Hmmmmm. SHM. I'm afraid u've just portrayed what most have bin claiming APC stands for. U've just displayed it. So case closed.
Njoy!

Op abeg wen be the deadline.

Dannyset:
Chief of Wailing Wailers Association of Nigeria!!!
This man is just trying all his possible best to bench Metuh of the "Award of the Chief Wailer".

Mr Femi Adesina is a Prophet. He's seen the future of these cry cry babies(despite the fact that they are adults).
One of Baba promises is to fight corruption. He hasn't started, you people have started crying of witch hunting, some of u have started lying with one illness or the other, and their shameless disgusting family has been shouting that they should leave their corrupt Child, children, wives, husbands etc. alone. Yet, the same lots of u people are begging for 5000Naira he promised to save u from wretchedness. Tell me, with which money?

And as for the Boko Haram and The Gurls, tell ur PDP cronies to release those gurls and end their contract with BH(I don't want to remind u of the former(RIP) NSA that said PDP is the owner of BH.

Meanwhile, don't kill ursef on Buhari's case unless somebody is paying u to really kill ursef which in turn doesn't differentiate u from those clueless suicide bombers.

Notification:
Let me congratulate all the wailers dangling in my mentions. You all know I don't reply wailings, and I won't start today. Thanks!

He has said the basic facts based on d lofty campaign promises made n promised by dis administration. Including osibanjo postulating and permuting with figures wen we question how achievable their promises are. All u can come up with is to rehearse the phony lexicon Lai mohammed keeps throwing around in the bid to decieve the gullibles.
Now I'm beginning to believe the claims that APC is just all about noise n no substance.
With the way tins are going, APC will expire in 2019. I don't c dem going beyond that.
Unless they start making good their campaign promises. The clock is ticking.

stellytwinkle:
lagos is only for "crazy" people- a common fact.

hahahahaha. Na true o. Guy me self I fear dat city. No civility at all. Dem d struggle for everytin dere. Infact anytin wey dem no struggle for lagos no say na fake tin. Then Agbero d claim n form well well pass u wey d do legit work.
Agbero get office and recognition no be small for lagos o.
They r proud to be agbero. I sure say dem even get association of agberos.

For me I'll choose neither. Apart frm the port and industries in lagos, nothing I admire about lagos. That city no get civility at all. Everyone the behave like thug. Everytin na struggle. Na for lagos I discover say people d proud to be agbero. Agbero get office n recognition.
I rep Cross River d people's paradise and Canaan city Calabar! Anytime anyday where civility is our norm.

I'm feeling the nigga, The way he roll it Me we dey norr Mak we dey maya maya koko garri The rock am rock am koko garri. Gud one Mr banj. Budding entrepreneurs like us will soon follow suit. Like u rightly said, its a billion dollar industry.

Zenrise integrated services, Betfil global services. Infact any phony name of a company inviting u for interview at herbert macaulay way yaba. Run for ur life o.

IPPIS is here to stay. Say "NO" to ghost workers robbing us of our gainful employment.
Thumbs up Mr president for sustaining the program.
Nigeria can only move forward when there is continuity in credible programs of governance.

IPPIS is here to stay. Say "NO" to ghost workers robbing us of our gainful employment.

NIGERIA President, Muhammadu Buhari surely meant well for the Nigerian people. His integrity, discipline and avowed commitment to fight, name and shame corruption had never been in doubt since Nigerians have high hopes in his administration to 'fight corruption among the elites', in a bid to free Nigeria's economy from Kleptomaniac. As it is a fad that “when you fight corruption, surely corruption will fight back,” aptly captures the trending conspiracy of few Nigerian Army Generals (retired) and former Heads-of-State who allegedly prompts Buhari to 'let-off' his earlier, intentional investigation of $182million Halliburton bribe scandal, so he may continually 'govern Nigeria in peace'.

Conspiracy of Retired Army Generals prompt Aso Rock back down
CNN iReport gathered that few weeks before Buhari made his maiden visit to United States, words reached him that few retired Army Generals who were erstwhile Heads-of-State were allegedly not happy with the planned moves by the no-nonsense disciplinarian to re-open the Halliburton scandal, with the sole intention to expose, disgrace and prosecute some of culpable generals and other highly-placed Nigerians whose hands may have been 'soiled' by the cookie-jar of corruption in Bonny Island Liquefied Natural Gas Project.
IBB, OBJ, Abdusalami Connection
As such, after General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), a former Nigeria's Head of State received a phone call from from General Olusegun Obasanjo, also a former Nigeria's president where he brought the attention of IBB to the fact that they way Buhari was going about corruption-fight, he would eventually probe the majority of past administration, including IBB era. This position was echoed by another Nigerian Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar; which prompted a conspiracy theory to 'place Buhari in order'. Abdusalami had visited IBB in his Minna Castle in Niger State, there it was concluded that IBB should stylishly pass-on their position to Buhari to halt his earlier, intentioned probe of his predecessors.

In a press statement issued by IBB through his media adviser, Prince Kassim Afegbua, it reportedly reads: “On General Buhari, it is not in IBB's tradition to take up issues with his colleague former president. But, for the purpose of the record, we are conversant with General Buhari's so-called holier-than-thou-attitude. He is a one-time minister of petroleum and we have good records of his tenure. Secondly, he also presided over Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) which records we also have. We challenge him to come out in clean hands in those two portfolios he headed. Or, we will help him to expose his records of performance during those periods. Those who live in glass houses do not throw stones. General Buhari should be properly guided.”

CNN iReport gathered when intelligence report reached Buhari on the position of these retired Army Generals and former Heads of State, and bearing in mind how mean they can fully engage him in 'dirty-fight' which may ridicule him in the eyes of Nigerians and expose his stewardship then as Minister of Petroleum in 1976 that led to the mysterious disappearance of a whooping US $2.8 Billion from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC account in Midlands Bank, United Kingdom allegedly under his watchful-eyes, Buhari quickly made a detour and issued a press statement through Femi Adesina, his Special Adviser, Media & Publicity claiming the investigation of Buhari administration would only be limited to his predecessor, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GEJ, the man who honorably handed peacefully to Buhari on May 28, 2015 at Eagle Square so Nigeria may remain united as an indivisible nation.

For the records, Buhari was appointed Minister of Petroleum in 1976 under the Murtala/Obasanjo administration. Not much is known about any scandals that occured during his tenure as Minister, but there are rumors of the mysterious disappearance of US$2.8 Billion from the NNPC account in Midlands Bank in the United Kingdom, during Buhari’s stewardship. Now that IBB has threatened to expose him, it lends a certain credibility to the rumors indicting Buhari of grand graft.

'Probe of my administration is a witch-hunt'-GEJ
As if Jonathan knew that this would happen. In the last days of his administration as president in Aso Rock villa on May 27, 2015 during Federal Executive Council valedictory session witnessed by big-wigs of Peoples Democratic Party, he said "Some people are even calling for the probe of the government, but I think in Nigeria, there are a lot of many things that will be probed, very many things, even debts owed by states and debts owed by this country from 1960 up to this time. They say it is Jonathan's administration that owes these debts,” Jonathan said.
"I believe that anybody that is coming for probe must also ensure that this probe is extended beyond the Jonathan administration. Otherwise, to me, it will be witch-hunt. If we are very sincere, it is not only the Jonathan administration that should be probed."
CNNiReport investigation showed that Jonathan administration may have been singled-out as 'corrupt government' due to the fact that he was a minority-leader from Niger-Delta and obviously not a military, but a civilian leader. There are feelers from some Nigerians that this probe may not have happened if Jonathan had been a retired Army General.
For Folu Adewope, an undergraduate of University of Texas Arlington, UTA, her words: “This is obviously a witch-hunt, charade and selective humiliation with ethnic coloration under corruption-guise. I strongly believe this investigation would not have happened if Jonathan had hailed from the North and had been a retired Army General. Why can't Buhari open the Halliburton scandal, and openly prosecute Obasanjo, Abdusalami, Atiku Abubakar, a former Nigeria's Vice president and every other corrupt Nigerians named in the scandal. As Nigerians, we are interested in this case.”

'We are interested in probing Jonathan's Govt'-Presidency
Barely 10 hours ago, on his Facebook wall-page, Femi said: “It would be a distraction for the President to begin digging into all former administrations , but for a proper take -off of the President Muhammadu Buhari's government, there is need to look into the immediate past government (GEJ). We are interested in investigating Jonathan's government to recover stolen funds”.

International Community watch in Disbelief
As at the time of going to the press, members of International Community, particularly the United States government is shocked that Buhari ought not to leave any stone unturned in fighting corruption no matter whose ox is gored. The Halliburton bribery scandal is seen by members of international community as a litmus test for Buhari to prove his desire effectively to combat corruption among the elites in Nigeria.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1259469

Trailblazer1:
[b] some are saying it is too early to criticise the buhari administration

and i say - it is too early to start badly - it is too early for naira to drop against the dollar - it is too early for fuel queues to resurface - it is too early to be fighting in nass over positions and not service - it is too early for all this in party feud that is causing distractions from real governance-it is too early for all this contradictory press releases-it is too early for all this excuses like age will limit my ability- it is too early to have appointed 14 northerners out of 15 appointments-it is too early to be a sole administrator-it is too early to remove military checkpoints-it is too early to have released over 180 bokoharam members-it is too early to be talking about negotiating with bokoharam- it is too early for almost a daily bombing of innocent nigerians - it is too early for about 600 people to have died of bomb blast within a month - it is too early to lie about an empty treasury - it is too early to give billions to those who used state funds to sponsor your campaign -it is too early to have spent over a trillion from an empty treasury without appropriation- it is too early for the price of food stuff that were ever stable even during festive season under the past administratn to just escalate in price -
Some people say Rome was not built in a day.but building rome started in a day.or can rome be built if building rome was never started.[/b]

Trailblazer1

i hope the blind APC supporters can read this. Their excuse no hold water again. Make lie mohammed release statements naw. or has he suddenly gone dump.

Superman11:
When you stand somewhere and talk about the average Nigerian youth having no dreams! i will simply ask you a question!!
what is the head count you made ?
Which statistical data or survey did you carryout to ascertain this authority?
More So, If the youths in your village join cults and have a lot of sex and forget that they should make something of their lives , it doesn't correlate to the 150 Million Nigerians. That tiny population you might have seen in your village square or on TV does not represent hundreds of millions of people. Don't wake up in the morning and post Rubbish without proper authority.
Are you a researcher , teacher or journalist??
If you had said this is a list of activities that can lead a youth in Nigeria to distraction from his/her dreams that is different.
Watch your words right before you post them. When you wake up in your sleep and vote for someone, it cannot be counted in reality.

SMH. whats ur beef with the op. He has stated the obvious which i concur that it is true based on the trend of things in our society today. he is simply sounding a clarion call to challenge the present crop of youths to wake up from their slumber and push for their dreams whose multiplier effects will generally improve the country as a whole. and all you can do is condem him for that. seriously, i mean no disrepect but i think u've just unwittingly confirm what the op has complained about what is wrong with this nation. my advice to you is always defend the truth no matter who is speaking it as long as it is the truth. Don't condem the truth simply because you don't like who speaking it.

me, i'm interested in the Ram, Rom, S-pen, Camera with LED flash, Battery and durability. thats the specs i look out for. just hoping samsung with produce a galaxy S note 9.7 with such specs soon.

ogb5:
It is good that Jonathan handed over to their son. At least Jonathan can now travel in peace round the world on vacation and watch them kill themselves. Either Boko Haram kill them or they kill Boko Haram.

Instead of speaking against Boko Haram at the unset of the madness, buhari said a fight against Boko Haram is a fight against the north, why is he asking for us weapons now?

U'r right. they even accused Gej of genocide and they kept pressurizing him to grant amnesty to the sect wen he insisted that they act as a gurantor for the sect then he will accede to their demands. They declined knowing the implications.
infact Gej was really passionate about helping and developing the north hence policies were targeting the north even at the detriment of his own region. Dare i say that what Gej did for the north no president has ever done such for them in the history of nigeria. by kicking him out they've done themselves more harm thinking they are spiteing the south.
now i'm happy that he handed over to them. make them handle their wahala.

Firefire:
Buhari and APC eyes don dey clear small small


Buhari and APC go soon know sey garri don pass water with all their malicious and baseless accusation.

Terrorism is a matter of national security that should never be politicized.

Lie Mohammed, ACN & APC did.

RIP to the dead.

exactly, they are reaping the evil the sowed. now they'ved realized that governance is not ewedu and amala or kwunu. It is really getting hot for them. It is very easy to criticize wen u're not the one wearing the crown. Their undoing was riduculing n making public spectacle of the last administration. now i understand why Gej was in a hurry to concede defeat and hand over power to them.

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ice25:
why dem no go celebrate with him, atleast anyhow anyhow odourless fufu fit show.

Hahahahaha. Na just wetin dem dey afta. Very gullible set of people.

Orijin101:
R.I.P English

May your soul rest in perfect pieces

hahahahaaha. I no fit laugh. Orijin101 u bad! Chai! Still laughing... Hehehe...

An2elect2:
Am waiting for the day an african leader will turn down a western invitation.

God bless u. I'm also looking forward to that day too. Its appalling the way our leaders lick their feet thereby portraying us as inferior to them. That's why they'll always treat us in a condescending manner with condescending policies. Imagine obama a guy bellow 50yrs inviting our 73yrs president for dinner n we as a nation are celebrating. Chai inferiority has eaten deep into us. Can't obama come to nigeria. China became grt simply because they learnt how not to rely on America.

tosyne2much:
Wooooow !!!


God bless you bro

Tanks. But baba u too much o. Ur write ups are always indigenous n enlightening laced with a high sense of humor which makes for a fun filled reading irrespective of the length.
I envy ur writing style n I'm hoping to incorporate it to my style as well.
Keep it up bro I d feel u wella.

niceguy7:
Pls nairalanders make una help me in this matter.......

I am currently dating a girl....buh she told me she has bn in a relationship with a guy for six years....buh the time i wooed her she assured me she truely like me...buh my question is will it be easy for her to break up her six yrs relationship with her former guy? Abi she jst wan deceive me?

guy I'll tell u to ignore or forget the girl. U'll always be second fiddle to the boyfrnd. I'm talking frm experience. U won't have much say in that relationship cos she will be feeling dat she did u a favor by accepting to date u afta all she had already told u she has somebody and u still insisted. My broda its not worth the stress cos the experience can be very frustrating, knowing that dere is somebody she luvs n gives priority to more dan u.
Where u'll feel d pain more is wen u crave her attention and she tells u d boyfrnd is around so she can't give u her attention until he leaves.
My assumption is that, she just want u to occupy the temporary vacuum dat her bf leaves frm tym to tym so dat she won't feel lonely since she considers u to be a nice guy n u won't tak advantage of her.
Finally I'd advice that even if u want to date her, don't tak her serious n don't give her ur whole heart. Just be indifferent to her n exhibit an I don't care lifestyle towards her to avoid heart break.
Keep her as a side chick just as she is trying to mak u her side bf n look for anoda girlfrnd.

teeowl:
You are the reserve bench boyfriend... be careful.

hahahahahahaha. Gud response. Na deputy the guy go be. Anytime the main bf show town, she no go get tym for am. Afta all, she don tell u say she get bf wey dem don dey 6yr relationship. She go just d carry d dude wile away tym so as not to feel lonely wen d main gee dey out of town.

buchilino:
greed n lack of hard work has lead 2dis situation. instead of living like dis, i rather farming in my village n manage wateva i get

ur correct bro. I keep telling people that there r some conditions I will not go tru simply because I want dey big cities. Most villagers are far better n living comfortably dan dis people.
As long as I can get access to water, light, GSM network. I don't mind staying in a rural area. Afta all some of our rural dwellers are living a betta life than the so called city dwellers. Of which some sleep under bridges n constitute nuisance n miscreant to d city dwellers.

daimsy:
congrats.

Tnks. U're still studying there?

babajero:
GEJ really worked, propaganda killed him, and the coincidence is that the people who killed him are dying by the day, funny right?

dat is God dealing with them gradually.