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pcicero:
Excuse me

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loma:
Great writeup. Similar to the style Abati uses at times

Yeah, I like Abati's style. Very interesting. This is the second time I'm using this style. I used similar style on my piece on Sanusi published in Sun and Daily Trust last year: http://weekly.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1544:an-engagement-with-two-sanusis-critics&catid=1:comments&Itemid=109

PapaBrowne:
And I knew this article wouldn't be complete if Jarus didn't reference Lamidi in it!

LOL. . don't mind me jare. But hope you know it's not a complementary reference here sha.

[quote author=Tudór link=topic=391681.msg5435972#msg5435972 date=1265150185]So why can't suraj just move on and stop crying over spilt milk?

They didn't employ you, fine, move on! No be by force. Haba[/quote]Me, work for him. I have never applied for job in his company even as a fresh graduate, and I will never do. I have never been his fan right from my University days.
I don't have any problem with him(and who am I to have, anyway!), but as a public commentator, I am free to comment on anything.

Dimka 76:
Jarus, have u tot of going into scriptwriting?

Writes a lot, but just for fun, as a hobby, not as a profession. Got over 50 articles to my credit in virtually all Naija dailies.
But can't take a career in writing. Not that financially rewarding.
Thanks

tundewoods:
Please i am kind of lost ? How is Obasanjo's twin and who's this recharge card guy

Actually written for the consumption of newspaper readers in Nigeria, most of whom are familiar with these people.
If you know Nigerian politics/economy enough, I don't think that should be difficult to discern. Very simple. So keep guessing who they are:
-Mr. James Abrahamovic
-Obasanjo twins
-the 'recharge card' man
-Lamidi
-the Cement Mallam
-the Diesel Sheikh

ilugunboy:
Nice one Jarus.

Please keep the conversation flowing.

My latest piece prompted by something I saw in The Nation newspaper yesterday. Already sent to papers and online sites for publication.

My Kwara in the news again. . . and for the wrong reason again.

Anyway, no good news from anywhere in Naija.

“Yeah, your mention of Lamidi reminds me of the infamous Onigbese list. You remember your friend once mentioned, like a couple of years ago, that all of them billionaires were onigbeses. Lamidi’s list proves him right”

“And so therefore? Who doesn’t know most billionaires have debts they are settling. Isn’t it almost inevitable in business?”

“Anyway, the ‘recharge card’ man’s name was not on that list”

“Not unexpected. He is one businessman I have always respected.”

“But Mr James also paid his debt almost immediately”

“Chei, after the initial denial.”

“Na you sabi. All I know is that he paid . . . and also published his accounts in the papers”

“Too much money”

“Na you sabi, bad belle.”

“Remember, all of us have different personalities”

“I agree. But have you ever heard ‘the guru’, the cement Mallam or even the Diesel Sheikh talk about the depth of their pockets? They leave trivialities like that to celebrity magazines to speculate. They don’t care. It’s just unAfrican”

“Hmmmnnn, but maybe he learnt that from Harvard”

“Kakakaka, is he the first Nigerian to have a Harvard degree? Every small issue, he reminds us that he is Harvard-trained”

“Ol’ boy, Harvard no be moin moin o. It’s worth bragging about o”

“Okay, where they taught him printing money as a way of bailing out the economy?”

“I don’t know. But I know the guy is brilliant sha”

“No denying his smartness. He only needs to talk less. The Obasanjo twins and the ‘recharge card’ man employ people on daily basis, open fresh companies or acquire old ones where they create more than 500 jobs at once without any hoopla. When you talk too much, you commit many gaffes. Lamidi is another victim of ‘runny mouth’, only that his own is not about bragging.”

“What about mass acquisition of stations? Are you telling me it did not happen?”

“It definitely happened, only that I have waited forever and I have not been seeing the stations dotting our highways as he boasted. Maybe the stations are in the Mars”

“What has this man done for you? Are you not proud of him as a product of your university?”

“Yes, I am a ‘Great Ife’ too, but I’m afraid I prefer to have a role model in the ‘recharge card’ man or even Obasanjo’s twins”

“ Na wa o. Wetin this man do for you now?”

“It’s unAfrican to be proud”

“Ever heard of the saying: if you have it, flaunt it”

“Let’s hear word jare. Have wetin? I’m yet to see his name in the list of Top 10 billionaires in Nigeria”

“But he has refuted all those rankings and once said all those rated billionaires know him”

“So he even has time to comment on soft selling magazines’ billionaire ratings. The real billionaire entrepreneurs, ‘the bull’ and co, never have time for such frivolities”

“You think advertising job vacancy with your picture, and taking the whole first five full pages of a national daily, including the front page, is necessary?”

“We are talking about employing 500 people here and reviving a moribund national newspaper.”

“Na today? Ever heard of ‘paper employment’”

“Which one be ‘paper employment’ again?”

“Sit down there. Another publicity stunt from the Ondo man, if you ask me. What are the results of previous similar exercises?”

“Which similar exercises?”

“The automatic absorption of First Class graduates by his company, the hype on acquisition of filling stations across the country, and other lousy job adverts in the past”

“Are you saying there was no absorption of First Class graduates by his company. In fact they were given cars.”

“Point to one beneficiary of the scheme and still using the car”

“Just sit down there. It wasn’t sustained”

[center]A BILLIONAIRE AND HIS UNUSUAL WAYS
Jarus, January 2010[/center]


“Your billionaire friend is at it again”

“Who’s that?”

“How many billionaire friends do you have?”

“I don’t have any”

“Okay, that braggadocio from your alma mater”

“Okay. You mean Mr James Abrahamovic. So what has he done again o?”

“Didn’t you see The Nation newspaper of yesterday?”

“Yes, I did. You’ve started again. So what is wrong in a man putting his picture in a job advert?”

“Let’s hear word my brother. It’s jejune and absolutely profligate”

“Haba, that’s rather harsh. Hope that’s not bad belle”

May Allah heal Muhsin's Dad and other ailing people across the world

[quote author=A-40 link=topic=390717.msg5429799#msg5429799 date=1265070001]What is Osazee's name doing on the list? These guys are jokers! I like Osazee he's my fave player in that team but out of 6 matches he played just three and had one good game
The Angolan names there where just to pacify the hosts[/quote]Even more surprising is the inclusion of Obasi name. He had just two moments of brilliance in his entire 6 games and that was against Egypt.
Methink Osaze deserves mention though, but should be as a reserve.
Alex Song should also not be on that list. He was below par in virtually all the games he played.
I don't think Angola's Flavio's name's inclusion is to pacify the host. He had a good tournament, scoring three goals.
And why is there no Algerian in the list, even as a reserve?

biina:
I have met products from UI and OAU Ife, and the few first class among them that I know can hold their own againts the best of them.

With all these bashing, is there no product of Unilag who can defend their honor?

I am an Ife grad, and I am more than ready to take on anybody questioning its standard.

1stknight:
Only in Lagos dat a madman wil kom 2 d window of your car/bus and slap u.

U don chop one before?

hollandis:
I would have commented but after Adeboye Onigbinde's name in your write up,I hereby withdraw my comments

LOL

Abu Zola:
Jarus, this thread is an insult to Islam, it is meant to mock Islam,

Much as the whole exercise smacks of frivolity, I think it is better we leave the thread and explain to him that Allah is the most merciful, and He is the creator of Jesus.

samir101ng:
I am sorry to say this but a 1st class in Nigeria is not worth the paper its written upon. Everybody knows that its your background and family connections that get you places. However, there are a few people blessed enough to forge ahead in life without this handicapp. Therefore, whether you have a 1st class from Unilag, ABU, UNN, UI or anywhere, if you dont have the brains to back it up or know the right people to open the doors for you, you are out of luck. Let me give you a typical scenario, you are a brilliant , hardworking person from a humble family. You bust your backside off reading through school while a lazy, rich man's son bribes his way through the school (the lecturers are already hungry with ASUU strike). At the end of the day, you both graduate with a 1st class. Who deserves it more Again, you graduate and start looking for jobs, holding your credentials and posting several CV's on the internet while rich man pikin already has a job waiting for him. I knew a guy who studied Hausa Language at ABU Zaria and graduated with a 3rd class degree. Trust connections now, he;s now working with BBC Hausa in London. I heard he just started doing his M.sc there. His mates who had 1st class and 2:1 are still marching on the road looking for how to survive. The Nigerian University system has decayed in such a way that i really dont trust people who have 1st class or even some people with 2:1. I take it with a big pinch of salt. Its when the chips are down and you have to defend your degree, thats when you know whether a person is 1st class material or not. God Help Us.

While you are free to say anything you like, I think your opening statement is contemptuous, even as the whole post is defeatist. Granted that our educational system has been bastardized, I think the few that struggle through the system to get the best of it deserve some respect.

I make bold to say that you can bribe your way to getting any grade, but not First Class. Having First class requires you to have A in more than 70% of your courses, from year 1 to year 4/5. Are you saying you can bribe all your lecturers, in every course, from year 1 to 4? I'm sure Nigerian system is not bad to the extent that 70% of the lecturers take bribe. Even with bribe, only few lecturers will give you A. People bribe not to fail, maybe to have a C, rather than failing and repeating a class or overstaying in school.

As regards First Class struggling outside, that is arrant balderdash. A First Class graduate that is worth his certificate will not struggle(baring any spiritual angle, like trial from God) and I'm sure more than 90% of them are worth their certificates.

I know tens of First Class graduates and have them as friends, and I'm not aware of anyone of them that couldn't find job. One of them has contributed to this thread and he is a big boy in one of the leading oil MNCs in US.

It's a 'gbagbe e' for Ghana. Egypt has it.

Peter Obi

tkb417:
Jarus
wassup, abeg come give me update on the right issue goin on with your coy

the cowboiz are at it again

Yeah, we want to shore up our capital as we prepare to consolidate our downstream market leadership and make further foray into upstream sector with bold acquisition of upstream assets.

Given the market outlook we prefer to go by way of right issue, 1 for 3, specifically. So if you hold our share already, this is an opportunity to grab more. Vetiva is our issuing house, jointly assisted by FCMB and IBTC.

Take it or trade it. Stand up for your right!!!

Barka Jumuah

manie:
is there a spiritual angle to this,l learnt 8 of thr first class graduant are members of mountain of fire while at unilag. The General overseer DR.D.K. Olukoya equally made a first class in micro biology from Unilag in 1981

84 students made First in OAU 2005/2006 section. 2 of them were my room mates, 10 from my clique, 2 same set, same secondary school with me, 5 same tutorial class with me in year one.

These are just few of the interesting relationships I know.

Another one, as a final year student, I mentally and academically tutored some fresh Economics students. Three years later, 5 of them graduated with First Class. I can as well go around and say that 'I made a First Class, and mentored 5 other First Class Students, in a single set'. But the truth is they all had the potential before.


I don't think there is any spiritual angle to anything.

Nairaland
Driving with one hand
Sleeping with pillow or cloth on my face

illusion2:
I wonder what olabowale & Jarus have to say to this :

In the case of Kwara:

Would you rather identify with Yoruba as per ethnic identity or

Fulani as per Islamic (RELIGIOUS) identity.

I await your response.

Cheers,

I am a Yoruba, a Muslim and a Kwaran without apology. I don't play identity card. I am proud of my ethnic group as I am of my religion. I have criticized the zealots from my religion, and the tribal chauvinists from my tribe. That is well known.

Wrex:
[b]So what you are implying is that for a school to be termed great,the amount of first class students should be very low?[/b]Grow up my friend.Your lecturers are just sadists.So many nigerians thrive in foreign universities with very good grades.which of those schools can delsu match?

Says who? Do you know anything at all? Check out great, as in great schools in Europe and US and see the number of First Class they produce.

Fun, fun, rivalry as Eagles face historical rival:

A funny thread on Ghanaweb: http://discussions.ghanaweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=116267&start=15

ochukoccna:
[size=28pt]If Ghana beat us with U20 boys, it means we are finished as a football nation .[/size]

I hate to hear this. Who asked them not to bring their main team? A team that has Asamoah Gyan(played and scored in WC 2006), Annan(played in ANC 2008), Mattew Amoah(a top rate striker in Germany and has ANC experience) is not senior enough? No excuse abeg.

FBS:
Dr Kit is the Chief Nigerian Soccer Analyst. He was here even before this forum was created.

Boss I hail oo.

You know see how I just siddon dey watch. . . na just this u dey see. U neva see Kit and co analyse the Shooting stars, Stationery stores, Abiola babes matches etc of the 80's?

Those of us wey make our Soccer-following debut with USA 94 don go siddon 

SEFAGO:
Interesting, but as people previously mentioned- the number of first class holders in the UK and its equivalent in America are way higher than this. And as someone mentioned if its a top school, the proportion becomes ridiculously high. In the UK first class is for the tpo 10-15% of the class which would be 200 students in a class set of 2000 people. The US, summa c.u.m laude and magna c.u.m laude (Both equivalent to a first class) are typically given to the top 25-30% of the class, probably higher for top schools.

This is unfair- incase these students try and seek studying opportunities of the shore of Nigeria, they would be at a disadvantage

Exactly my point. So what's the big deal? The fact that a Unilag churns out a 87 First Class doesn't mean it's a 'miracle centre'. If anything, it's a plus for teh school's standard.

I also chop ile kewu beating. . . but being somehow spoilt, I stabbed madrasa at will, without any serious complaint at home. I regretted it when I became a little matured and I voluntarily offered myself for ile-kewu when I finished secondary school, but at that age, no ustaz fit be beat me again. But I witnessed the beatings and I pity the students.

A friend of mine, while narrating his own, said sometimes he would leave home for ile kewu but will dodge beside the bush for the two hours the ile kewu will last and returned home after the studenst ahd closed, all in order to avoid the beatings.

NB: Ile Kewu means Arabic school

Davidylan, Ibime, Richyblack and other First Class Nairalanders bare their mind here:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-163757.0.html

Remii:
Yeah, this is much better that OAU that produced only 2 last convocation. (one in Microbiology and one in Law).

Are you sure of this?