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seanet02:
@JARUS
Why did you closed the thread i started on Tafawa Balewa?
so it makes sense to you for someone to JAIL SOMEONE WITHOUT PROVEN ALLEGATIONS EXCEPT "MY HANDS ARE TIED" JARUS, YOUR UNFAIRNESS AND PARTIALITY IS UNRIVALED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-540990.0.html

Thread locked for the following reasons:
Abusive: Calling TB insane. Highly disrespectful to Nigerian nationalists
Meaningless: Other than to stir tribal war

But I have deleted some posts, removed the insulting part of the title, and re-opened it.

Thread still under close watch, if it degenerates into throwing of insults and cursing, I'll send to the recycle bin, permanently.

These 'agbari oku' pics got me ROTFLMAO in office

Fogman:
His posts and argument are not coherent. I think something is wrong somewhere!

My take too. Especially, having interacted with him via mail off-NL.

But there is definitely no denying the fact that he knows politics, especially of the 80s to 90s.

ola olabiy:
Abeg, Jarus, forgive me.

Na my quirky side took over.

Farooq Kperoqi na Baba for this field. He 'owns' Sahara Reporters with Pius Adesanmi, Okey Ndibe and Solana Olumhese ( another Baba).

I am not in their league, rara.

Trust me, I no be like that.

It (what i said) was uncalled for, at all.

Sorry!

No wahala. Only that it is an unappreciative student that will not defend his teacher
But for sure, I don't take anything totally based on who the person saying/making it is. Farooq may be wrong and you may be right. I ahve actually avoided using 'unseriosu' since that day. I always like to avoid ambiguities.

To fellow accountants,
as a fresh graduate of accounting with no accounting work experience. Cos am presntly doing my NYSC in a sec. sch. I want 2knw d challenges of accounting in a work place?

Challenges?
Well, Accountants are known to be ones that close latest. During audit period, like year end, you spend hours preparing and reconciling schedules as well as meeting auditors' request. and It could be rigorous, especially in an organization that the processes are not so computerized.
But if one has the passion, it's a very interesting job. And more than 90% of Accountants enjoy it despite the rigour, because they have passion for it.

Hussain555:
@jarus,
thanks for your comment. Do u know if there is any registration centre in Ilorin and also, i'll like to know where I can get past questions and other study materials.

I'm not sure they decentralized their registration. You may read up their registration process on their website but I know you will pay an amount into bank and submit forms in their office in Lagos. . Your best bet is coming to their students office in Lagos(Association way, Ilupeju) for full details.

nitrogen:
ACCOUNTING is a great course with integrity and faithfulness, but one have to be careful because when you get to the corporate world,it may not be easy to maintain your integrity.i am sharing this from experience(little mind you).

I fully agree with this. Integrity here is not just about stealing and what not, but integrity with the figures. Manipulations etc.

Thread duplication.

Thread multiplication.

source pls?

ola olabiy:
I agree. The tone seems TOO strong.

I want you to know that I respect him a lot and I can only aspire to be as successful. He is one of the people I call 'mentor'. I sabi the man wel wel.

I am sorry.

There is ordinarily nothing wrong in disagreeing with somebody. I myself dont just take anybody's opinion as absolutely correct, no matter the status or qualification, but I will not pick on his qualification or status. I have no doubts that he may be wrong as you pointed out, but I felt you needed not mention things like 'but he's a lecturer in US, he's a Professor etc'.

No problems sha

spikedcylinder:
Lol. Thanks y'all. I appreciate.

Jarus, I read your article on Sunday. Well done bro.

The Punch one abi?

A colleague that knows the family told me thsi afternoon that he died of 'spiritual cause' and that he had been in and out of hospital for some time. I didnt believe the spiritual aspect sha.

ola olabiy:
Thanks, Jarus. I will send him a mail. And, I will let you know.

But, he's a lecturer in a US university. It is little wonder he has this bias towards American English.

I have read many of his articles on 'Shahara Reporters'. He is a brilliant man.

But, he surprised me.

First, he quoted 'Wikitionary'. Hey, OMG, a lecturer in English?! When did Wiki become an authority that eggheads consult?

No.2. He also mentioned 'Dictionary.com. My bad! Hey hey! Dictionary.com? Mentioned by a man who teaches the Queen's language?
He will soon quote Encarta dictionary by the likes of Bill Gates. LOL.

You would expect a lecturer, who hails from Nigeria (a former British colony) to consult the BEST source/material. And, that is OXFORD ADVANCED LEARNER'S DICTIONARY. This dictionary is known as 'THE WORLD'S MOST TRUSTED DICTIONARY' (There is a reason for this rider ).

Trust me, bro, they have been doing it for about 200 years!

I'm not sure this is called for.

Hapi Baiday, my aburo.
Igba odun odun kan.

From Ife Economics Alumni Association, NL Branch(TKB, Jarus, Spikey)

To think the man was also preparing for Fed House of Rep in 2011, posters and other things out already.

I pity his nephew, a neighbour to my colleague, who had seen the man as his last hope.

Thanks, Jarus.

But, I disagree. I would like to have the contact number of the said professor.

Every word that can be used as 'un' is listed in dictionaries. His description of some dictionaries as 'prestigious' is a bit patronising as he should know better (being a prof).

He's not a Prof. He just finished his PhD. He is a lecturer in a US university.
You can reach him on farooqkperogi@gmail.com

Sorry jare. It was an error.

When I read this news, the first thing that came to my mind was 'like Jonathan, like Sambo'.

It has now become a norm that every statement made by this administration is now subject to interpretation and re-interpretation. Why are they always subject of misinterpretation? The other day, GEJ said he was misinterpreted about the MEND defence statement. Now Sambo is saying he was misinterpreted about his C-in-C dropping statement.

A season of confusion indeed.

VP Sambo clarifies comments on C-In-C .

Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo yesterday denied saying that President Goodluck Jonathan has dropped the title of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces from his official title lists.


Sambo was recently reported in the media as saying that the President has directed that he should only be referred to as Mr. President.  He was said to have made the comment in London while responding to a question on long list of titles from the audience at the Oxford University where he delivered a lecture to the Oxford International Relations Society.


The Vice President, in a statement yesterday by his spokesman Umar Sani, said he was misinterpreted and that what he meant was that  the President has, as a matter of reducing protocol, decided that he be addressed as Mr. President.  He said the comments, does not in any way suggest that the President is no more the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria but prefers to only be addressed as Mr. President in the spirit of reducing long list of protocol.
The statement said, “Given the widespread misinterpretation and or misrepresentation of Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo’s comments in the UK over the incessant abuse of protocol and why President Goodluck Jonathan (GCFR) prefers to be addressed simply as Mr. President, it has become imperative to shed light on the matter.

“While responding to a question on the usually long list of protocol at functions by Nigerian public office holders, the Vice President Arc. Mohammed Namadi Sambo at Oxford University, International Relations Society lecture held on Friday 22nd October 2010, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan, as a matter of reducing protocol, has decided that he be addressed as Mr. President, since it goes without saying that he is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

http://www.dailytrust.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5445:vp-sambo-clarifies-comments-on-c-in-c&catid=1:news&Itemid=2

When asked when Nigeria will be better, the Octopus slumped at what it saw and never recovered . . . uncountable zeros after 1

Our enemies(Germans) have done their worst. With great sadness and gratitude to God for a life sportingly spent, our family home and abroad, on land and in the oceans, wishes to announce the untimely death of Our grandfather,father, uncle,, husband, brother, son, and friend, the undoubtedly King of octopuses, Octopus Paul Ejiogbe GCON at the shocking age of 2 years. Due to logistics for people who will be unable to join us at our German family home, burial service will hold simultaneously at our family in Eti-Osa, Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday, October 30 and also all over Spain. Reception party thereafter at Eagle Square Abuja.

In accordance with our unique tradition, Aso-ebi is fifty thousand dollars. See Aisha for account details. Please make payments promptly and avoid the mad rush .

He is survived by several wives and multiple children(DNA tests will be conducted to verify claims) including

Octopus BecomeRich Canada
Octopus MamaGee  UK
Octopus Jarus (still in Nigeria but working furiously on his visa)

A colleague just drew my attention to this post in office this afternoon . . . .

maddock:
Thanks Jarus. But how i resend that post that started this whole thing. The positions are still very relevant and urgent,how do i go about reposting it so that i wont be banned again, as my ebube 2 has already been banned because of this same vacancy.

Don't worry, you dont need to repost. The one you posted will be made visible as soon as the Supermod restores it.

ebube 2:
Please can you assist in restoring my posting priviledge, i placed an advert for a job based on the information given to me by a friend,the post was not displayed and i was banned. Username is maddock and the post is still very useful if you can restore it. Thank you.

Next time, when Spambot is not allowing you to post a topic( by making your thread/post invisible) just report straight rather than keep trying. If you continue posting it, you will be banned like this.

I have messaged the Supermod to restore your thread and unban you.

Dear Oga netotse,
Sequel to your correcting me on the use of 'unserious' the other time -the genesis of this thread in the first place- I told you I will put it to my English language coach.

Here is the answer: @nd Question:
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/farooq-a-kperogi/q-and-a-on-nigerian-english-usage.html

Thanks

I like the author's creativity.

OMG! why , o! Why?

These ABOKIS dey disgrace this country anyhow

Last year Dec na Farook Abdulmutallab!

Now Amos Adam!

, 9ja BRAND worth is almost zero

Amos Adamu is Yoruba. His full name is AMOS BABATUNDE ADAMU. He is from Osun state but claims north, having been born there.

A copy of the latest piece from yours sincerely for Naija papers:

RENAISSANCE PROFESSIONALS: A POST-MORTEM
I do not envy the campaign team of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. One of the hardest things to do is to sell a person or an idea widely seen as evil, even if wrongly. When everybody sees something as white, and some people’s job is to call it black and make people believe it, you will agree with me that such a job, for all its millions, is not an enviable one. But a group paid to do similar job were almost able to pull through.

Renaissance professionals. Does the name ring bell? That is the self-styled, combative group paid to see white and call it black for us. Until the recent disappearance of the group, they remained the most vocal defenders of the sacked chief executive officers of the five, later eight, banks in Nigeria in August 2009, rationalizing the ridiculous and justifying the unjustifiable.

But for the group now, this is definitely not the best of times. Or who else will consider this a good time, when, against all the millions spent in digging out ‘facts’ and propagandizing same, it became glaring that you had been defending the indefensible? Going into hiding, like our friends did since Mrs Cecilia Ibru, one of the deposed Bank chiefs they have been defending, owned up to the allegations against her, is therefore the only option left.

No one conversant with the whole failing banks episode needed Mallam Lamido Sanusi’s statement months ago that he knew those behind the group and their budget for the ‘project’, to know the source of the Renaissance professionals’ firepower. Their claim that three people from three different tribes(hey, akika!) just came together by chance, discussed Sanusi’s sacking of bank chiefs and agreed to form a group to expose Sanusi’s agenda, was as laughable as it came. With claims like this, who needs an Ali Baba or Basketmouth.

Renaissance professionals spent no less than N200 million to prosecute their anti-Sanusi media war, and it paid off to a great extent, as a time came when many of the analysts that had earlier given the CBN governor’s reforms a nod suddenly made a detour, joining the critics. With his supportive boss, President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, also battling for his life, the CBN governor had a tempestuous time. Word on the street, then, was that the CBN governor would be cut to size by the then acting President Goodluck Jonathan. Minister of state for Finance Remi Babalola’s and Security adviser Aliyu Gusau’s statements at the time, which appeared not nice to the CBN governor’s sanitization programme, were all one needed to believe the word from the rumours mill.

With the recent conviction of Mrs Ibru on the plea bargain that she would forfeit assets worth 191 billion Naira, conspiracy theorists, led by Renaissance professionals, seem to have been dealt a fatal punch.

It is very disturbing that in this part of the world, every attempt, even if genuine, to put things in order, is first viewed through sectional prism. Rather than render a holistic assessment of issue, parochial consideration takes precedence and the whole debate is reduced to ethnic and religious bashing.  Even more worrying is the fact that supposed intellectuals and highly rated analysts are not left out in this shameful approach to issues. This played out during the ‘Hurricane Sanusi’ debate, when, rather than look at the effects of the reforms on various economic variables like unemployment, inflation, GDP, foreign exchange, investors confidence etc, many otherwise respected economic analysts compete with  charlatans and beer parlour commentators in conspiracy theorizing, and words like ‘Kamikaze’, ‘bull/elephant in a China shop’, ‘Sharia’, ‘Northern/Islamic agenda’, suddenly replaced terms like multiplier effect, short term price, long run etc in our economic lexicon. Nigeria I hail thee.

One can easily agree that the CBN governor needed restraint in his remarks, especially with that unguarded statement that the sacked banking lords were good for the gallows, but to doubt the necessity of his actions, even after their offences have been laid bare, is to endorse corruption in high places.

With Sanusi’s intervention, apart from the over 100 billion Naira recovered from the debtors, 191 billion Naira is to be coughed out by Mrs Ibru alone. And much more is expected to be recovered in the days ahead. If 191 billion Naira had grown wings from the books of a bank, I wonder how strong such a bank would have been to still be in good health. No one needs further proof from the apex bank boss that the bank, like other rescued banks in similar situation, was a moving corpse.  Herein lies the locus of our arguments that the CBN intervention was timely, and whatever could have been the short term price, it is a decisive action worth taking.

While they lasted, Renaissance professionals, almost on daily basis and in many print media, regaled the public with different ‘revelations’ on the CBN governor’s ‘hidden agenda’, quoting every Joe that made a negative statement about the reforms as competent authority. 

But like the spin doctors that they are, the last may not have been heard from Renaissance professionals. They may have only beaten a retreat to come back with more tales. Our professionals may have been busy thinking ‘outside the box’ to concoct more propaganda. At least, we have not heard of accusation that the Judges that passed the unanimous judgment on Cecilia Ibru were bribed. We have not heard that Ibru admitted guilty under duress. We have yet to hear that the 191 billion Naira worth of assets were genuine fortune of the sacked ‘amazon’ of Nigeria’s banking system and not money channeled into private coffers from depositors’ funds.

Criticism is in itself not a bad thing. At least we had a genuine critic in somebody like Gani Fawehinmi who never gave the successive thieving governments a space and, from time to time, exposed their ill-deeds, even if he cannot do more than shouting to the top of the roof and instituting court cases to save, not himself, but the generality of hapless Nigerians. But when a group of people take as forte crying wolf where there is none and distracting somebody that appears to break the status quo, one wonders what kind of country ours is.

I have no doubts in my mind that Lamido Sanusi, and indeed any holder of public office whose decision can make or mar the nation’s economy or polity, needs to be put at check to prevent totalitarian tendency. But like Sanusi himself said at his Kano University convocation presentation early this year, this should be done by informed minds, not some sponsored charlatans that parade themselves as professionals.  But in a nation where university faculties have abandoned robust economic debates and analyses for other things, we can pardon the vulnerable, uninformed watchers of events who rely on analyses from the likes of Renaissance professionals to form opinion.

Renaissance professionals, while they bestrode this space, really gave a good account of themselves as a fighter, a master propagandist, and showed that with money, you can distort facts or embellish peccadilloes and make millions of people believe you. But with the result of Cecilia Ibru’s case, one can only pity them that despite the efforts and millions, they have finally taken their place in the bin of history. Our Victor Shodipo-led friends indeed deserve our pity.

http://jarus.blog.com/2010/10/24/renaissance-professionals-a-post-mortem/

[quote author=kay_pumpin link=topic=539089.msg7015619#msg7015619 date=1288081216]Semantics![/quote]abi o

chyz:
The OP of the thread below is posting facebook pages and information of people that have no knowledge of this.It is an invasion of their privacy and unfair. Can the facebook pages be taken down,moderator?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-537422.0.html

Thanks for calling my attention to it. Attended to.

Pooliticians! Was this not the same man praising Saraki to high heavens last week or so?
Politics of tongue-in-cheek has been taken to a new dimension these days, reminiscent of 'Demo ni month digbo fun, b'oroju mi, oorinu mi' of western region in the first republic.

With what I have seen, I believe this story. It is now commonplace to see even an ordinary Captain that has retired 30 years ago to put 'Military Zone: Keep off' in front of his house, not to talk of Generals. While I respect the demand of their profession to provide security for their topshots, even after retirement, this has been abused so many times by the overzealous security guys that terrorize innocent citizens.

netotse:
based on the interview i cant disagree with you, but i know people that wont touch anything that has to do with this man with a 10-foot pole.

I agree. Saraki is a hard-sell, no matter how good he is. Your GEJ still remains PDP's best bet, but we Ribadu(or Buhari) dey wait for you at the general elections