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siddiq202: Jarus,

You forgot to mention that the owner also have a private radio station (Okin fm)....I attended fedpoffa

He is not the owner of Okin FM. Okin FM is owned by Dr Tunji Olagunju,(former minister, ambassador etc) current SA to GEJ on NEPAD.

I used to grind my own into powdery form and eat it in that form.

The owner of the company producing it, Chief Adesoye (also the proprietor of Adesoye College), is now old and the company has been struggling in the last 10 years.

I grew up in Offa - home of Okin biscuits. I knew the factory and the owner.

From primary 2-5 or so we were always receiving Okin Biscuit before breaktime.

It was cancelled, I think, in primary 5.

November debate thread already opened: https://www.nairaland.com/1108351/nairaland-political-debate-november-2012

All those who have expressed interest in this topic should confirm:

1, their intention again and the side they would be arguing
2, that they will be available 6-9pm Nigeria time on Saturday
3, that they have the intellectual capacity to add value and flair to the exercise. We can't afford to have a dull exercise.

Deadline is 5pm Wednesday.

4 debaters, 2 arguing for, 2 arguing against.

Thank you

Preparation and all that is currently going on here. You may wish to contribute
https://www.nairaland.com/1068413/nairaland-monthly-political-debate-planning/24

JUDGING CRITERIA(4 marks each)
1,Presentation(opening, flow, closing, response to questions)

2, Logic of arguments

3, Strenght of facts, examples, cases

4, Persuasiveness

5N Demonstration of knowledge and understanding of the subject

DIALOGUE PROCEDURE
17:30 – Chairman, Seun(or his rep), gives opening remarks; thread hits front page

17:45 – Discussant, moderator and judges take seats, register presence

17:50 – Coordinators, OAM4J & Jarus, declare the event open

18:00 - 16:05: Moderator gives a brief background into the topic and asks the discussants to post their presentations. He calls them in alphabetical order: CHEDDARKING first, followed by DEEPSIGHT and then HNOSEGBE

18:05 – 18:30 - Discussants post their presentation. Within 25 minutes. Better if less than 750 words to make it easier for judges to read all, but no harm making it longer. The arguments will be veiled (hidden) until after all the 4 discussants have posted theirs, so there wont be after-thoughts and modifications.

18:25 – 18:40 – The presentation-posts shall be unhidden for all, especially dicussants, moderators and judges to read and study

18:40 – 19:00 - The moderator asks the discussants to comment on the presentation of the other party, especially where he/she disagrees with. The discussants do in 15 minutes.

19:00 – 19:20 – Discussants respond to punctured areas in his earlier arguments or shed more light. He may buttress further.

19:20 – 19:40 – Judges post questions to discussants either based on what the discussants have posted or just reasonable question within the theme. Judges should be specific as to who they are posting the questions to. E.g “Mr Deepsight, could you expatiate what you meant by so so so? or Hnosegbe, pls give examples of your claim that xxxx”. This is not compulsory. A judge that doesn’t have question to post to the debaters need not do so.

19:40 – 20:00 – Debaters respond to questions raised by judges.

20:00 – 20: 20 – 3 Questions will be entertained from the audience i.e viewers. This will be based on ‘fastest hand’. The moderator will announce ‘audience, you may now ask your questions’. After the 3 questions have been posted, any other viewer-post will be hidden.

20:20 – 20:40 – Discussants respond to audience questions.

20:40 - 20:45 - Moderator asks the discussants to give a final shot i.e parting words. Ite may or may not be on this topic. It may be something like 'Thank you gentlemen for your insightful presentations, just a quick one before we round up, what advice will you like to give the current admistration on security?'

20:45 – 21:00 - Discussants give their parting shots.

While that is going on, judges compile the scores and mail to coordinators: oam4J@yahoo.com and jarusnairaland@yahoo.com

21:00 – 21: 20 Coordinators announce results. Thread thrown open for regular Nairaland discussion.

Respected Nairalanders and guests here reading,

As you are aware, as part of our efforts to raise the intellectual bar of of political discussions on Nairaland - Nigeria's largest and most successful online forum - we decided to introduce monthly political platform to discuss topical political issue.

The maiden edition, which attracted positive feedbacks, held in October and it took the form of a debate. The topic was, '1914 Amalgamation: A historical mistake?', where Katsumoto took on Obinoscopy. See thread here: https://www.nairaland.com/1081002/1914-amalgamation-historical-mistake-nairaland

November edition is not going to be a debate per se, but a dialogue.

We hereby present the procedure:

TOPIC: STATE POLICE - IS NIGERIA READY FOR IT?

DISCUSSANTS

1, DEEPSIGHT: Deepsight is a well known Nairalander who dwells more in the religion section. But he is willing to demonstrate that, though some of Nairalanders hardly frequent politics section, they are no less cerebral and knowledgeable in political matters than the regular politics section contributors. He brings flair and suspense to the 'talkshow'. He will be convincing us that Nigeria is indeed ripe for state police

2,HNOSEGBE: Hnosegbe is not a dark horse. He is a veteran in political discussions on Nairaland. But how will he fare in a moderated discussion? We can't wait.

3, CHEDDARKING: Cheddarking pulled out of last month's debate at the last minute. We hope that wont happen again this month. He is also not an unknown quantity here. We expect him to bring candour to the show.
4, JAAIZTECH Jaaiz joined in the last minute and has shown willingness to give a good showing. He is a regualr member of this section. He is arguing against state police


MODERATOR
This month edition being a discussion, a dialogue, rather than a debate, we have created the role of a moderator, and it has been thrown at Katsumoto. Katsumoto, for those who are not aware, won the last edition of the debate, He has also been a well respected voice on Nairaland Politics section for many years now. The role of a moderator is to call attention to points/issues raised by the discussants,emphasize where necessary, ask neutral questions. We all know what a moderator does in a talk.

CHAIRMAN
Seun
CEO of Nairaland

COORDINATORS
OAM4J, Jarus

JUDGES
Subject to availability at debate time, any 5 of:
1, Cooger
2, Sisiskill
3, Ajanlekoko
4, Eziachi
5, PhysicsQed
6, E-guerilla
7, Ibime
8, Ogugua88
9, Londoner
10,Edogirl

Discussions on planning go on here: https://www.nairaland.com/1068413/nairaland-monthly-political-debate-planning/24

For a glimpse of October edition: https://www.nairaland.com/1081002/1914-amalgamation-historical-mistake-nairaland#12722959

@ Cheddarking,
My apologies. You gave excuse. It was Afam that didn't. You are qualified.

HBD sir

shyna501: Ä♌ð if Arsenal play against Barca?

When it happened, I supported Arsenal.

CLUB

Die-hard fan of: Arsenal
Actively support: Barcelona
Sympathy for: Bayern, Inter
Indifferent to: Chelsea (although I tease their fans )
Passionately dislike: Man U, Real Madrid

NATIONAL TEAM
Die-hard fan of: Nigeria's Super Eagles
Also support: CIV, Brazil, Holland, France
Dislike: Ghana, England

It doesn't matter.

cheddarking: State Police

And I want to argue against

For failing to show up without any excuse after expressing interest in October edition, you're disqualified from thsi month's edition.

HNosegbe: State police... And I want to argue for the motion.

Shortlisted

Elebiju: Against state police

KingMEXX: Please Am interested in this debate and the topic state police even though its not been long i joined NL, but i've started donating my contributions to this politics section...Hope that validates me ...

Not being regular posters here and us knowing practically nothing about you, can you (two of you)demonstrate to us that you have the intellectual depth to add value to the debate? No offence meant, we just want to live to the purpose of the exercise which is to raise intellectual bar of Nairaland Politics Section.

And can you spare 3 hours to take part? We can't afford to be disappointed again with knee-jerk expression of interest again.

OAM4J: Jarus and I will conclude on the choice topic and the list of debaters hopefully before the end of tomorrow.

Please Judges, indicate your availability for Saturday and Sunday please.

Thanks.

See my mail.

Omho, people get money o.

This 2.5b that Dangote is dashing as charity is what another person has and he is nationally known as a multi-millionaire.

I don't delete until the phone gets lost or damaged and I lose all the contacts, in which case it won't make sense to save anew.

Lies and deceit. I don't believe it.

Other than the fact that as first born, there may be expectations on you to as heir apparent. There is nothing metaphysical in it.

Scantee, are you a contract staff at SPDC? You don't 'sound' like a full SPDC staff. No offence meant.

I wonder why people didn't know the OP is Becomrich.

oyb: bros, oyibos call that stalking

Abi o. I'm quite good at 'researching'. I just deploy my network to get the info. With the simplest of info about her, I can dig out others. The only info I had then was her name and the school she attended. I dug up every other info, justcalled a friend that attended that school who in turn introduced me to someone that was in that set who in turn introduced me to her classmates who in turn introdced me to her roommates etc. I got all the info I wanted in 2 days. She was surprised.

DailyNews: that's the bitter truth; majority of the successful men u see today either in d entertainment, oil n gas, investment, banking, politics, etc sectors never had a date while in school...they are always ignored by women wen it comes to romance but as years rolled by, they became d apple of every womans eyes n every Nigerian womans heartthrob!

True for me, but I don't agree it's the rule.

A lady that turned me down in my final year(she was 2 years my junior) was practically begging me couple of years later when I started working(and she was still in school).

[quote author=Ricky_Ross]Confused Mallam, always quoting figures like an iddiiot. How did he count the exact amount of money that has passed through the airports this year? How did he get to that figure?
Is it not the same mallam that claimed Nigerian students spend over 1billion Dollars in Ghana yearly? How many Nigerians are studying in Ghana? How did he arrive at that figure?

This man is confused, he is CBN governor but he cannot do his job. All he does it quote figures. Can you tell me 5 things he has achieved since he became CBN governor apart from his bad policies which has crippled our banking industry.[/quote]Have you ever travelled out of this conutry before? I guess you've not, that's why you don't know you declare money you have on you at the airport if above a limit(USD10k, I think). And records are kept for all the declarations.

The USD11bn is declared amount actually. Some of us that hold less than the limit and don't need to declare may not even make the figure double sef, when aggregated.

chronique: Simple. Wave her once or twice & say hi... Pick a day to confidently walk up to her,complement her & tell her you'd like to know her better & probably become friends with her. Dont ask her out from the onset cos it might spoil ur chances... Be urself & dont attempt rehearsed lines cos it could mess u up if u forget ur lines. Take it nice & slow & you'll be home in no time.

Try this. Plus study/research her. It should work. It may not guarantee her acceptance, but will surely guarantee familiarity.

During my searching, I once researched a lady to the extent that when we got talking later, she was surprised I knew so much about her in such short time.

coogar: mr jarus, you too?
no wonder 95% nigerians don't pass their driving tests in the uk - nearly all of them were poorly tutored in driving....drive with one hand? phewwwww!

Tutor? Wetin be that?

I drive with one hand. It started as a style as a teenager showing off in secondary school, but later became part of me. I'm more comfortable driving with one hand except when I'm on expressways and above 100km/hr.

dayokanu: Na wa ooo

Bros, na you first come to my mind when I see this thread

With all your flirting on NL and those 'give us a room' comments, I always wonder whether your gf know you're here. Moreso when your NL makes it possible for anyone that knows you before to know you're behind the ID

Does she know?

What a funny thread

NNPC is your surest banker. Followed by Oando, Total and Mobil, especially in branches that are in town and cities, not those along the expressway.

I don't buy from independents. Almost 100% of them do it.

Yomieluv: The best way is to kneel down for the petrol attendant to be fair with you,cos in my area,no matter how sharp you are,those attendant are sharper than you. So beg them to be fair with you at least.

When the meter/machine has been adjusted.

Kx: I don't ever recall seeing messi score a goal dats half as crazy as ibras 4th goal.but they keep saying he is planet soccer,he is d gods of soccer etc.
Am not surprised d press aint even giving ibra enough credit for what is unarguably d best goal ever scored in d history of football.

Ibra gets his due credit. He is one of the most, if not the most skilful striker in the last 7 years.

However, scoring one wonder goal doesnt make it better than Messi.

And Ibra has also not been so consistent. He wasn't a top performer in his stint at Barca.