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Opoki:
I had a discussion with one of the Muslim cleric about "Islamic Banking" shortly before the Ramadan prayer yesterday and to my dismay he said he may not be ok with the said Islamic banking because "it MAY champion the course of Jihad" except if what CBN is proposing is not the REAL Islamic banking.
@house and scholars,what are the differences between Sharia banking and Islamic banking?

What way? Ask the ignorant cleric.

REP S NIG:
Everything Islamic is evil.

Another fool.

It is not that a certain part of the country felt that it is their turn, there is the unwritten constitution in Nigeria that supports rotation of public offices. From Ahmed AbdulQadri(a northerner) to Paul Ogwuma, Joseph Sanusi, Chukwuma Soludo(all southerners), it is not debatable that a northerner should be the next. So it is not the northerners that 'felt' it is their turn, it is what your convention(actually written, as Federal Character) supports. And Sanusi is one of the best from the North.

So go blame your constitution, written and unwritten, first!!!

Well, SLS never lobbied for it. He was invited to come and serve, and like you said, he had ambition to become emir, so did he have to reach the peak of his banking career. After all, foremost banker, Oladele Olasore, ex-FBN CEO like Sanusi and Nigeria's Banker of the Year 1988, is also now an Oba in Osun state. So what's wrong in having ambition to become a king? How has that meant you cannot reach the peak of your professional career?

And it's only a plus -not a must- that he should have written articles for journal. If he's good enough to become FBN CEO, beating southerners in the board to it, he is good enough for CBN.

Mugu and Maga don enter wikipedia.

Being oblivious of politics doesnt make one sillly. Everybody has areas of interest. Some, it's sports, some it's technology i.e a 30 year old may not be able to engage teenagers in sports history and knowledge, or latest inventions in the world of technology. It is when a teenager is totally oblivious of all these or more that you can draw conclusion, although versatility requires knowing something about everything.

Lanre,
Well, I never said the North is more educated than the south, what I always have issue with is this belief by some even below average southerners that the mere fact that they are southerners automatically confers knowedge superiority on them above a northerner.

As for the conspiracy theory, well, God help you if you believe it. But I dont believe it and the Sanusi I know I'm sure can never be a party to it. Period!

3 CONFIRMED ATTENDEES TO DATE
1, Jarus
2 Majoroller
3, Ifyalways

We had not less than 20 attendees in each of the last 3 we had in 2009 and 2010, what's happening this time year?

2pm abi 2 am?

violent:
You two should slow your roll, the topic is actually a valid one for argument, like it or not. . .

Keywords; "Most" , "nearly"

Is it safe to then infer that it is actually possible, but we can't really ascertain or measure to what extent?

The logic here is; if a 2:1 is available for sale, why not first class?. . .are there not cases, where an average student who should normally graduate with a 2:1, ended up with a first class degree due to questionable relationships he or she had with some key members of faculty?

Technically possibile due to the fact that the variables involved(lecturers, faculty) can be manipulated to achieve the result, but practically almost impossible due to these factors:
1, It involves cooperation of at least 70% of your lecturers from year 1 to final, some outside your dept, Nigerian universities have not become that bad. Principled lecturers still exist in good percentage who will not be party to such.
2, For one to stand a chance of being 'lifted' he should be a 2-1 material by self-efforts at least. A strong 2-1 material should not have much problem defending 1-1.
3, Sleeping for marks and sorting are usually almost the exclusive preserve of those that struggle not to fail or not to have caary over or spill over or 'let me just graduate'. Most 1-1 and strong 2-1 people have some decency and will hardly fall low to sleep with lecturers for marks. A sane lecturer will not give a 'runz' person A, can only push from fail to maybe E or C.

So it is hardly possible, practically, but these factors can be beaten though. But in my own school I knew, you can NEVER make it by runz, because apart from the many principledl lecturers who are ready to even expose colleagues, everybody in class nay school knows your capacity, so most 1-1 grads are well known and progress followed right from year 1. Everybody in class knows the usual A-getters and no lecturer dare give A to ano undeserving unkown quatity by sorting or sleeping.

Nonsense.

Most people that 'sor't do so just to graduate, not to have First Class. First Class goes with a lot of societal expectations that no sane lecturer or department will dash it by runz.

I put forward this rejoinder when someone rubbished First Class degree in a newspaper article last year: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/in-defence-of-first-class-degree/76521/

By God's special grace of God, I am a First Class Grad and an ICAN award winner. I couldnt have 'sorted' my way out in both. Ditto for the tens of First Class grads I know.

Exactly my thought.
Interesting. Na wa o.

Ajk, abeg clear the spam above me.

Ify na confirmed igbo o. But alhamdulilah guided to Islam by Allah.

I also saw this Frontbot when i, inexplicably, found myself on the shoutbox archive yesterday.

So who be frontbox? A humanbeing or a bot worked out to auto-send topics to frontpage? Pardon my naivete o

Ify, you dey Naija?

Interesting.

I dont have the soft copy.

df2006:
my friend, you keep trying to show that you, are clever, but am afraid, you are far from that, of all this names you have mention, how many of this people started any bank from scratch? none of them, the mutallab, and abba kyari you mentioned, where mds of the banks when the federal govt owned substantial shares of the banks, they owe their elevation not to any brilliance, but rather to the fact that they were the only few northerners that had vague ideas of banking and economics at the time, so stop shouting at the top of your lungs about failures. their money bags not interested in the financial sector? oh pls! try again!
the op's theory is spot on, and as usual they will fail again and again and again

Isn't it funny that when a southerner rises to top position, it is because of his brilliance, but when a northerner rises to same position, it is because of govt connection?

Some people are still living in incurable delusion, where, deceived by their la cram la pour degree, they think they are the only ones that are educated.

Anyway, being someone that selects whom I engage or which posts I respond to, I'm sorry I responded to your post(even though it was directed at me), for, aside the grammar somersaults, it's doesnt meet the basic standard of reason I look for in posts worthy of my response.

emmke:
we all know those going for ronaldo are either man u or real madrid fans. Any neutral fan knows MESSI IS THE BEST

I thought I was the one that observed this. Or some people who believe watching EPL on DSTV is where football ends.

don401:
Messi is a good barca player dat has nava shine 4 barca wit xavi on d bench. He is short cnt hit a free kick or corner kick and has proven dat he cnt play 4 any oda team execpt barca. Ronaldo and portugal were very unfortunate nt 2 have won trophies. Evry one knw hw ronaldo hv played 4 portugal during his youth (20-23yrs) nd wat he can do wit d ball. He got speed,dribble,nice headin,good cornner kick. Jst knw wen eva u hear d name ronaldo dat means a complete player which messi isnt. Messi is jst lucky (he shud test Epl tackles)

Now, the debate is getting ridiculous.

Remii:
^^^ LOL, he has done his own on fb. I think its even better for him that another person is as ardent supporter, so he is not a lone voice.

You can leave the transformer alone now.

Thanks egbon, we don celebrate am for FB b4

semid4lyfe:
Damn! So someone beat Jarus to starting this thread?

Na wetin oyinbo dey call ''abdication of duty'' be this

Anyway, HBD to him

Abi jare. To think I may not have even seen it if not sent to hp

Happy Birthday, one of my 3 mentors in Corporate Nigeria.

Short of points, haters are even questionging your age. Out of their ignorance, they dont know that you're from a well-to-do family, that you attended St Anne School Kaduna, a Christian school and one of the elitist in Kaduna then, then proceeded from Kano to Lagos as an 11 years old to compete with the best from the South at the prestigious Kings College, Lagos, one of the best in the country then before finishing from ABU at 20 years in 1981. They didnt know that banking gurus like Atedo Peterside had been your friend from KC. They keep calling you aboki, not knowing that you're more Lagosian than many of them and had been a Lagos boy from 11 years of age.

Happy Birthday, Sanusi.

This conspiracy theory is just nauseating to me.

Did they tell you they are interested in banking sector? If they are, isn't Dangote moneyed enough to raise 25B to float a bank? The North has never been dominant in the Financial services sector from time immemorial, even when we had 89 banks, only 2 or 3 can be called a northern bank. Their primary area is commodity trading/manufacturing. The whole issue of northerners wanting to destroy South's banking system is mythical to me.

Stop your paranoia about this North wanting to create alternative banking system for themselves. What many of you don't know is even that many of these northern businessmen will even prefer to borrow from interest-dealing institutions.

Other sponsors, joint or lone, will be welcomed for other dates, preferably Saturday or Sunday.

THANKS. 13TH FIXED

HERE IS ANNOUNCING THE FIRST EDITION OF 2011 NAIRALANDERS' IFTAR:

DATE: SATURDAY, RAMADAN/AUGUST 13, 2011
VENUE: LEKKI PHASE 1, IKATE ROUNDABOUT, LEKKI-AJAH EXPRESSWAY, LAGOS(exact house no to be communicated later)
TIME: 6.00 - 7.30 PM

Register your intention to attend by copying and updating the list below:

1, Majoroller
2, Jarus

Balanced view from SK there. Being one of the first people I discuss latest political developments with, I remember BBMing SK that day Abati released the tenure statement and from his response, I knew he would not join the crowd of blanket critics. I must say after reading this SK's article later(Sunday) he at least convinced me that we should subject it to robust debate(and I'm sure it wont scale that), rather than first shout it down.

Jazakumullahu khaeran majorolla for racing to the reward again.

If we want to do a Saturday, then we have these options:

Saturday August 6/Ramadan 6
Saturday August 13/Ramadan 13
Saturday August 20/Ramadan 20
Saturday August 27/Ramadan 27

Conspiracy theorists on the prowl. If you think the North needs to destroy the 'Southern-dominated banking system before it establishes itself in the sector, then you don't know anything.

With moneybags like Dangote, Dantatas, Isiyaku Rabius, Chachangis to fund it, experienced banking veterans like Umaru Muttallab(ex-UBA MD, FBN Chair), Aliyu Abba Kyari(ex-UBA CEO), Mohammed Yahaya(ex-Union Bank CEO), Ibrahim Ayagi to supervise it, and young turks like Hassan Usman(CEO, Aso Group), Mansur Mukhtar, Shamsudeen Usman(former CBN DG), Obadiah Mailafiah(former CBN DG), and others that spread across these so-called southern banks' boards to manage it, you think the northerners cannot have at least 5 banks?

The fact, they -especially their moneybags- are not just interested in that sector, and indeed not cut out for services sector generally.

So keep crying hidden agenda that only exists in your imagination and those of co-travellers in that warped reasoning.

Amin