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I can't stop laughing at Oboma1's claims. Naivety. You are being caught by spambot and it usually catches 'copy and paste' posters. No Mod or admin is deleting your post/topic, they are being auto-deleted by spambot. If you continue trying it for a number of times, you will temporarily banned. All these are automated process. No Mod or admin is behind your problem. Even as a Mod, I experienced same sometime ago when I tried to 'copy and paste' an article from Businessday newspaper site. Spambot did not allow me to do that and after some attempts, I was temporarily auto-banned. The same thing has happened to posters under my section, who ignorantly accused me of deleting their/topics, before I explained to them that they were being caught by spambot. No human is behind their predicament. So to say your post is being deleted because it has something to do with Christ Embassy, is most laughable. Wetin concern Seun, an atheist, with Christ embasy.

But I thought somebody said he had edited that Wiki goof after I brought this issue up some 8 months ago?

Insha Allah, I will leave Lagos for my hometown in Offa, Kwara state on Thursday morning. The whole family from different parts of the country, full house, will be bubbling Thursday evening, so we'll have enough gists and gists, jokes, family re-union, etc.

Friday, sallah proper, the whole family go to eid(praying ground)  in a convoy of at least four cars. After eid, then the rams killing and other related activities. Then Jum'at prayer. Sallah day evening, to go out and see old friends that also came home for sallah. More and more gists till late in the night when I'll retire home.
Saturday, to go and see my 'Hajia-in-process' in Ilorin
Sunday, back in Lagos insha Allah.

Assalaamu alaikum waramatullahi wabarakatuhu,
Here comes another Eid-ul-adha.
On behalf of the entire Muslim ummah of Nairaland, I say eid mubarak to everybody.
Let us use this period to reflect on our past and think of ways of improving our deen.
Let's not forget to fast on Arafah day as the best of mankind, Prophet Muhammad(SAW) advised us.


I appreciate the support of everybody even as I have been very busy these days. The section has been less violent compared to some years and even months back, thanks to your cooperation.

We pray almighty Allah make us witness many more eids on earth, in good health and improved deen.

Jarus,
Moderator

df2006:
"The dilemma for the students’ leadership was this: northern universities had a predominantly northern student body practically all of whom were on state government scholarships and would not be in any way affected by the policy. Southern universities, on the other hand were predominantly populated by students from the South who were paying their own bills and this increase would stretch parents' resources and force some of them out of the universities. The National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) led then by Segun Okeowo had the task of carrying ABU Students’ Union on a national protest over an issue that was of little direct consequence to the majority of its members. "




The second and final component of the experience happened one year later, during the JAMB crisis. The genesis was the publication on the front page of the New Nigerian Newspaper of a histogram showing the distribution of the students admitted into Nigerian Universities for the first time by JAMB. There were 19 States in the Federation then, 9 of them in the South. Eight of the Southern States took the top eight positions in the ranking followed by Kwara and then Cross River, the final southern state. The States of the north other than Kwara took the last nine positions. Bendel State alone had more students admitted than the ten northern states combined. Northern students were alarmed.

The understanding was that part of JAMB’s mandate was to help bridge the educational gap in the country and promote national integration. [b]It was clear that the skewed admission would only widen the gap. [/b]Moreover, northern students were not taken into southern universities who refused to recognise the IJMB, while southern students filled northern universities. We tried to have a national protest.

mediocrity at it,s highest, in the form of national integration

I honestly agree he was off-point in that article.

The toughest group is the Ghana-CIV-Togo-B/Faso group, and our group the second toughest.

I can't wait to watch Ghana-CIV play. CIV have whipped our asses twice in the last two editions, and Ghanaians have not stopped making jest of us, I want the Elephants to whip Ghana's ass too. But pls remind me o, didn't Ghana beat CIV in third place of last edition?


As regards our group, see Eagles hardly lose to minnows in ANC. We may have played draw or lost to Sierra Leone, Equiatorial Guinea, Niger, Angola etc in ANC/WC qualifying series, the men are always separated from the boys in ANC. We have only lost to Cameroun(2000,penalty), Senegal(2002), Morocco(2004), Tunisia,(2004,penalty), Ghana(2006) in recent editions of ANC and these are big teams in African football. So it's a big joke to say Benin or Moz, no matter their form, will beat the Super Eagles in Angola.

I personally like this group. At least we can test our strenght against Egypt, which has been dominating African football in recent time. Also, we'll be able to test our strenght against Mozambique on a neutral ground. We struggled to beat them in Abuja and had to rely on referee's error to play draw with them in Maputo. Now, it's a neutral ground.

VERDICT: Barring meeting CIV before final, SE to get to final.

Make I talk?

Hmmmmnnn, at this juncture, let me dig into my SLS archive and dig out this article written by Sanusi over a decade ago. Sanusi just restated his opinion in that book launch.

Enjoy:

THE “NORTHERN” CROSS IN NIGERIAN POLITICS: Ethnic bigotry and the subversion of democracy
By

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

sanusis@ubaplc.com

Two experiences in my life, or rather, one experience gleaned from two incidents a year apart , made a profound impact on my mind and altered drastically my perception of Nigerian politics. Both incidents occurred about two decades ago in my early years at Ahmadu Bello University and my first real contact with national politics.

The first was in the 1977/78 session during the “Ali must go” riots. The Obasanjo government had announced its intention to partially withdraw subsidies from higher education, which would increase the cost to students of feeding and accommodation. Feeding cost in the dining halls would increase from 50k per day (for three square meals) to N1.50k per day. I do not recall the figures for hostel accommodation.

Southern universities led the call for resignation of Colonel Ali, the Education Minister. Northern universities were still looking up to A.B.U for leadership as all others were young and some had just metamorphosed from A.B.U Satellite Campuses to separate universities. Thus the Universities of Maiduguri, Sokoto, Jos and B.U.K were waiting for us to take the lead.

The dilemma for the students’ leadership was this: northern universities had a predominantly northern student body practically all of whom were on state government scholarships and would not be in any way affected by the policy. Southern universities, on the other hand were predominantly populated by students from the South who were paying their own bills and this increase would stretch parents' resources and force some of them out of the universities. The National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) led then by Segun Okeowo had the task of carrying ABU Students’ Union on a national protest over an issue that was of little direct consequence to the majority of its members.

I was then the youngest member of the Students’ Representative Assembly (SRA) or students’ parliament. The debate went on and on into the morning hours with the parliament divided. Okeowo and his PRO, Nick Fadugba, had come to Zaria to lobby. I strongly endorsed the boycott of the lectures and forcefully spoke on the need for ABU to rise above ethnic sentiments and fight the cause of Nigerian Students. Fresh from the nation’s premier Unity School (King’s College) I was convinced that one Nigerian was not different from the other and that ethnic considerations were backward and reactionary.

We won the debate, northern students joined the boycott, a number of A.B.U. students were shot, wounded and killed, and the rest is now history. But we were up to that point proud of ourselves and what we had done, even though it was condemned by Northern elders.

The second and final component of the experience happened one year later, during the JAMB crisis. The genesis was the publication on the front page of the New Nigerian Newspaper of a histogram showing the distribution of the students admitted into Nigerian Universities for the first time by JAMB. There were 19 States in the Federation then, 9 of them in the South. Eight of the Southern States took the top eight positions in the ranking followed by Kwara and then Cross River, the final southern state. The States of the north other than Kwara took the last nine positions. Bendel State alone had more students admitted than the ten northern states combined. Northern students were alarmed.

The understanding was that part of JAMB’s mandate was to help bridge the educational gap in the country and promote national integration. It was clear that the skewed admission would only widen the gap. Moreover, northern students were not taken into southern universities who refused to recognise the IJMB, while southern students filled northern universities. We tried to have a national protest.

Delegates sent from A B U to the universities in the South were evaded and the only courteous response came from the University of Calabar. The problem divided the students’ body and southern universities made it clear it was a northern problem. The boycotts took on a regional character as northern universities ended up closed. To add insult to injury, the Students’ Unions at UNILAG and UNIFE actually issued statements supporting the military junta and condemning the protests. The exercise was to be seen as the enthronement of merit over mediocrity and the government was urged to make sure that half-baked school-leavers should not fill our universities.

For many of us who just one year earlier had championed a southern cause, the experience was traumatic. It confirmed the warnings of all those who considered us naïve in our struggle for national unity. But worse, this experience has not remained on isolated item but an example of incidents and attitudes with which our political history is replete.

It seems that the failure of the Nigeria opposition can in the main be traced to this inordinate fear, contempt and resentment for the ‘north’, feelings that are borne primarily out of ignorance and misunderstanding. An issue that concerns the north is seen as purely parochial while one that affects the south is a national question. The Nigerian opposition, by failing to rise beyond their desire for an ethnocracy has denied the people of this country of an opportunity to forge a truly democratic opposition.

When in 1992 the electoral process seemed certain to produce two northern presidential candidates, the opposition press raised alarm at what it called northern designs to present the country with a faits accomplis. Politicians snowballed the process and played straight into the hands of Babangida. The illegal cancellation of the primaries and the banning of the politicians in violation of existing electoral law were not condemned by most of those now calling themselves democrats. It was only the annulment of June 12, 1993 which involved a southern politician that was viewed as a travesty of democracy.

Let me state for the avoidance of doubt that I condemn the annulment of the June 12 election. But I also condemn the annulment of the primaries in 1992. And I also condemn the coups d’etat which overthrew Shagari’s democratically elected government. The difference between the democrats and the ethnocrats does not lie in whether or not June 12 should have been anulled, but in whether June 12 was an issue at par with all travesties of democracy, or a special case because of the ethnic pedigrees of the victim.

M.K.O. Abiola was elected by all Nigerians. He won the election in Kano and Jigawa, defeating Tofa, the so–called son of the soil. The dissolution of that election was a violation of the rights of all Nigerians who voted to freely choose their leader. The action was that of an individual who wanted to remain in power at all cost.

Why did Abiola accuse the “ north” of stopping him? Why does the opposition attack the same “north” that voted for Abiola? Why has Abiola, a man seen by all Nigerians as one of them, suddenly been transformed into a “southerner” on the landscape of political action? How much justice do we do ourselves if we expect the north to lead the fight for June 12 in the face of what it sees as a betrayal?

The result of defining June 12 in tribal terms was the transformation of previous allies of Abiola into allies of the military or at best, passive by-standers. Key supporters joined the Military Junta. Many of these could claim, in good conscience, that hey did not betray MKO or democracy. They had simply abandoned a cause which had been hijacked and derailed. Abiola before and up to June 12 was the leader of a broad-based nationalistic front about to take over from a military dictatorship. After June 12, the cause had been hijacked by “ethnocrats” who had always seen Abiola not in terms of what he may have had to offer the nation but in terms of where he was from and what he, in their view, represented: A chance to get rid of northern leaders. In this, Abiola’s greatest enemies are those who claim to be his friends, people who contributed nothing to his campaign and had always mistrusted him because of his detribalised outlook.

Sadly, the lesson has not been learnt. Tunji Braithwaite recently joined the race for the nation’s presidency and lost the election on the first day by defining his agenda in anti-northern terms. It was a sad day for us, northerners who welcomed his declaration for politics and hoped to rally behind him or M D Yusuf or any other serious candidate with the capacity to make self-succession for the military a difficult, if not impossible task. A few days after Braithwaite’s press conference, Arthur Nwankwo, a prolific writer, dismissed M D Yusuf’s candidacy on the pages of This Day Newspaper. Nwankwo was not the first to do this but his primary reason seems to be that M. D. Yusuf is from the North, and that a northern candidate is unacceptable to Nigerians.

The likes of Braithwaite and Nwankwo will again play directly into the hands of Abacha. The opposition will always fail unless it transcends the fight for ethnic ascendancy and fights for enthronement of the people’s rights and defence of their liberties. The greatest shortcoming of the political philosophy of the opposition lies in the redefinition of democracy to mean the emergence of a southern president. In this, the philosophy is no different from that of the northern bigots who believe only northerners should rule the country.

For northerners who want democracy, the fight is a two–pronged one: Against so-called elders who out of selfish interests subvert the will of the people and falsely claim to speak for us, and against those who would make all northerners carry a cross that is not their own and answer for the deeds which they condemn and leaders whom they reject.

Ethnocracy as an ideology pitches the northerner against the southerner

Democracy pitches us all against dictatorship and violation of human rights.

[quote author=becomrich, link=topic=353686.msg4967710#msg4967710 date=1258759107]jarus, you never gave up.

transform[/quote]Yes sir. Mo ti gbo sir. I want to transform so that 'I can also talk to God'

adigun101:
My guy you no dey tire with this Sanusi guy?

OK @Jarus, we now know how lucky we are to have Sanusi.
All hail Sanusi the messiah !
All our problems will be over.
Amen

Adigun ore mi atata. O ti fe su emi gan

Having read over 30 of SLS's articles, I'm not surprised. This is vintage Sanusi. This is all he has lived for, and he hasn't dropped it, even now that he's part of government. One thing I infer from his write-ups is that he doesn't care whose ox is gored, he says his mind.

Imagine criticizing an author right there in his presence, openly stating his opinion at an avenue where many people 'lick ass'(to use nairalanders' favourite word), openly disgreeing with other panelists.

I also share the view that it is wrong to blame Hausa/Fulani for all the woes of this country. Nigeria's problem knows no tribe.

[quote author=becomrich, link=topic=353686.msg4960837#msg4960837 date=1258669924]Now , even before i start , i am 100% sure in kwara state alone. I would have nearly over 10,000 from the unilorin. while 65% of graduate from kogi state went to the unilorin. two state land slide.[/quote]Oya, greatest Unilorites, let's sing Unilorin electricity engineering anthem

If all naija varsities were like Great Ife. . . . .

I'm surprised I've not seen my 'friends' in Muslims section(noetic and co) here to come and name me the worst moderator.

Best: To throw a coin between Cristalz and Lawyer

[quote author=tpia. link=topic=354639.msg4961710#msg4961710 date=1258687904]mercy Johnson is Egbira with an Igbo mother.

Egbiraland isnt in the north though many Egbiras are there.[/quote]Egbiraland is in Kogi state and Kogi state is classified as north-central. Okene, in Kogi state,  is the headquarter of Egbiraland.

I'm not so much of a home video lover, except some extremely funny comedies, but  mixing with Hausa/Fulani folk in my one year stay in the north, and now back in Lagos, being close to my estate's Hausa security guys(they are actually from Borno and not real Hausa, neither are they Kanuri, but we call all of them Hausa), I can shed some light on the Hausa film industry.

-They call it Kannywood and style it after Bollywood(or is that not what Indian film industry is called?)
-It is strictly cultural- no touching of opposite sex, immorality at barest minimum
-Their biggest star is Ali Nuhu, a 1997 geography graduate of Unijos from Gombe state but grew up in Maiduguri and Kano. It seems he's the most educated of all Hausa actors, speaks English fluently, won Nigerian actor of the year(I think) in 2007, featured in some Nollywood movies. Sings as well. Quite handsome. Highly reverred in the north. He is a friend. We met on facebook a couple of months ago.
-Sani Danja is their second biggest star. He sings as well. Learnt his mother is Yoruba. Like someone mentioned up there, he's a local champion and highly reverred up there too.
-Other big names in Kannywood are Maryam Hiyana, Qubrah Dacko, Sadiya Gyale, Ibrahim Babale, Hafsah Sheu, Ahmed S. Nuhu(died in auto crash 3 years ago), and Ibroo(a comedian)
-Virtually all of them sing
-They are highly respected and sought-after among the youths, but equally loathed by many adults and religious scholars who believe they are agents of erosion to Hausa/Fulani culture
-Save Ali Nuhu, they don't feature in Nollywood, due, probably, to sharp difference in culture and communication barrier(ba Turenchi).


I hope this helps.

Barka Jum'ah

An interesting piece from one of the writers I respect so much.


[b]A 'dangerous' man in the Central Bank[/b]By Adebayo Lamikanra

MANY times I am grateful that I went to school when education was taken far more seriously in this country than now and furthermore had the fortune of attending a school where all-round scholarship was taken to be so important that all students were introduced to Shakespeare right from the beginning of their secondary school career. Since I left school many years ago, I have had constant need to dip into the works of Shakespeare because there is no other author in whom any writer would find help, material and even succour than this man who died nearly four centuries ago.

For all this introduction however, this piece is only remotely connected to the immortal bard as it has been provoked by the very modern affliction of a Central Bank, specifically the one that is reputed to oversee the operation of banks in Nigeria

I have never met the incumbent governor of the Central Bank in the flesh but having seen him on television, I have a pretty good idea of what he is in the flesh. My immediate impression of him was that he is a spare man, one who does not carry an extra ounce of flesh on his frame and one who would have been described in the same way as Julius Caesar is reported by Shakespeare to have described his would-be assassin, Cassius. Casting a jaundiced eye on Cassius, he informed his great admirer, the loquacious Mark Antony that 'Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: Such men are dangerous.' Subsequent events proved just how dangerous Cassius was but he could not have been dangerous only because he was lean although the great General went on to qualify who Cassius was by telling Anthony that Cassius read too much, loved no plays, heard no music and seldom smiled. In other words, the man was given to a great deal of passion, at least in his mind which was closed to persuasion and relaxation.

Given this description, the only points of convergence with the Governor of the Central Bank may be the sparseness of their frame and penchant for reading as it is clear that Malam Sanusi is a voracious reader of books. Knowing nothing about how often he permits the indulgence of a smile to play on his face, his love for music and other forms of entertainment, I cannot know how close his resemblance with the fictional Casssius is but on one point where there can be no doubt that there is a convergence with Cassius is that he is a dangerous and passionate man.

There is a Nigerian way of doing things and anyone who tries to do anything outside the Nigerian framework is regarded as being dangerous and it is in this context that Sanusi must be regarded as dangerous. The first point that has to be made about the Nigerian method is that truth must never be allowed to intrude into our public space. Under no circumstances must a spade be called a spade and although any unbiased observer must recognise that this is the nation's Achilles heel, the Nigerian system must prevail even though this is in spite of the egregious failure of both that system and the Nigerian state which it regulates. We feel that Nigeria is unique in many ways even though all the characteristics that are supposed to make us unique are found in equal measure in many other countries which today are making giant strides in building a modern and successful state.

We are multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic and yet, China and India which are even more so on each account than we are, are making genuine efforts to build modern state structures and are reporting significant progress on many fronts in the same way that we are falling down again and again. The Nigerian system is strongly built on the big man concept in which there are so many sacred cows that it is a wonder that our Judiciary can be regarded as functional. Many of those who watched Sanusi's Senate confirmation hearing should have seen immediately that the man is a danger to the Nigerian system but I doubt that many were able to read the warning signs with any degree of accuracy. The man was not only supremely confident, articulate and knowledgeable but also showed that he operated on an intellectual level that was far superior to that of his interrogators.

It was clear that the man was a thinker and had read far many more books than perhaps he should have read and was therefore very dangerous but those points could not be taken into account by the Senators who were indeed dared not to confirm him but were cowed into not taking up this dare. The man promptly repaid them by tearing up the rule books of the Nigerian system and goring hitherto sacred cows by sacking the 'all powerful' CEOs of five of Nigeria's biggest Banks and unmasking some of Nigeria's biggest masquerades who had been exploiting the established big man network by taking bank loans which they were not even expected to pay back.

Not unexpectedly, the 'system' struck back and accused the Cassius in the Central Bank of all sorts of crimes against (big) humanity. The sacking of those sacred cows, it was alleged, was putting the Nigerian economy into great danger of collapse as if what can be regarded as the Nigerian economy did not collapse ages ago. What now passes for the Nigerian economy is the ritual of sharing money among the rich and powerful and has little or nothing to do with the man in the street. Whilst it is true that banks have a role to play in the circulation of what passes for money in this country, were they to collapse, life for most of us would hardly change; we would still be poor, many of us desperately so. The managers of Nigeria, not just the banks have been criminally negligent over the years and they have never been called to account. Now that a few of them have been censored, their apologists are denying us the opportunity of sound sleep.

According to them, the Central Bank governor is a Muslim and in the myopic interpretation of such matters, the action of the governor in relieving the five Christian CEOs of their jobs can only be put in proper perspective if it is taken to be a whirlwind jihad. The man is from the North and so he must be carrying out a 'Northern agenda' designed to right the perceived wrongs of bank consolidation, put in place by a Christian and in which Northern Muslims came out badly. It is only in Nigeria that such spurious insights are spewed on the pages of newspapers, some of which it has to be said are little better than rag sheets but which nevertheless are relied upon by many for the formation of their opinions, half baked as these opinions turn out to be in the end.

Many of those who took the Central Bank governor to task did not even attempt to deny that the banks in question had been raped by their respective CEOs but what they were concerned about was that all the actors in this sordid drama had been 'disgraced'. Many expressed the concern that the banking system had, by the actions of the CBN governor, the so-called banking system had been put under threat, conveniently forgetting that under the old regime, the total and ruinous collapse of banking system as we know it was dangerously close to being inevitable. Yes, some egos have been battered by what has happened but what are a few egos compared with what must be seen as a massive attack on the Nigerian system and one which may even be seen in years to come as revolutionary.

In spite of current setbacks the 'Nigerian system' is still as solid as it ever was and is likely to remain so for a long time to come but even the directors of that system as well as their lackeys and attack dogs must know that the storms which blow away everything in their path usually begin as a cloud which proverbially are no bigger than a man's hand and if ever there was such a cloud, it is one that started in the Central Bank. Nigeria is in a parlous state and quite a few people some of them those that have been long-term rulers of the nation are talking about a revolution as the only way out of the mess in which the nation is mired. There are many unlikely revolutionaries out there and one of them is a scion of one of the truly ancient and powerful ruling houses anywhere in the country. Ironically, it is only in Nigeria that such a contradiction can exist in comfort.

By the way, the 'revolution' engineered by Cassius failed in its intent and the successors of the murdered Julius Caesar were crowned emperors. The solid, some say stolid Roman Republic became an empire which ruled supreme over the ancient world. In the end however, the great empire was brought down by the seeds sowed by the corruption of the rule of the very many by the very few. Cassius was right in the end!


Professor Lamikanra teaches pharmacy at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial_opinion/article04//indexn2_html?pdate=171109&ptitle=A%20'dangerous'%20man%20in%20the%20Central%20Bank

Even if Ameobi had associated with Nigeria from beginning, he would not have made our team. The same Amoebi that Martins benched in Newscastle, less prolific than Yakubu in EPL. He definitely cannot bench them in the SE. And where do we put IK Uche and Nsofor? Unless we want to go to WC with ten strikers, Amoebi has no shirt in SE.

Sagamite:
ABU might have unfair advantage based on the criteria I used though, as it is a university based in the North and hence most of the Hausas would go there. Since the North take a large quota (not based on merit) of public sector roles and a lot of connections is required for some private ones, there products are more likely to be very prominent in top roles.

That said, some ABU products are quality, advantage or no advantage.

What a brilliant analysis!!!!

I have also observed this. Anytime, governorship or ministerial office holders/nominees are analysed by university they finished from, ABU usually takes 50%, if not more. There was a time(1999-2003), 17 out of the 36 governors in Nigeria were ABU products. The reason, as you pointed out, is simple: Virtually all educated northerners(and specifically here, nothern state governors) went to ABU. While in the South, it is spread between OAU, Unilag, and UNN. That is for those that schooled in Nigeria.
More than 50% of the current ministers are also from ABU, which is a mere reflection of the fact that virtually all northern states representatives(don't forget ministerial appointment is allocated by state) in the cabinet are from ABU. Of course, north has 19(more than 50%) of the 36 states.

This why ABU appears to be dominating with the Umaru Yar'aduas, Nuhu Ribadus, Nasir El-Rufais, Lamido Sanusis,  Shamsudeen Usmans, Mansur Mukhtar(the last 3 are products of same dept-Economics-in ABU). Deputy Governor of CBN(Monetary policy) Sarah is an Ife Economics product(but had Phd in Ilorin), Tunde Lemo(Surveillance) is a UNN Accounting product.

But as you concluded,I totally agree with you that ABU products are quality.

I attended a private primary school, public secondary school and university.Each of them has a lasting impact on me,positive of course. No regrets till now.

For primary school, I don't think it's advisable to send your kids to public primary school in Nigeria. The primary education system in Nigeria is far gone. Foundation is very important.

For secondary school, I will not totally write off all Nigerian public secondary schools. There are still a few standard ones. I attended a community Grammar school in a semi-urban area and we competed well with those that attended high-paying, highly-rated private secondary schools in the university. My own secondary school, though public, still has the standard till today, and I won't discourage anybody from sending their wards there, especially middle to low income earning parents rather than inconvenience themselves spending a large portion of their meagre income on those private secondary schools. There are a number of public secondary schools in Nigeria that still have the standard. They may not be more than three or four in a state though.

For university education, totally count me out of Nigerian private universities. Nigerian public universities will do for me. Of course, I mean Ife, UI, UNN, Unilag, ABU, Uniben, not all the SU universities. Polytechnic, public or private, is a no-no, no offence intended to our friends.

For Masters, please carry your bags and go abroad, of course to a standard school abroad.

Gone thru all d descriptions so far. Found 'entertaining' and 'confluence' most appropriate.

Wish Maryam speedy recovery.

@topic,
Okoro as 'little Messi' or Messi as 'little Okoro'. Are you sure this Okoro is not older than Lionel o?

The Azeez guy plays like Oliseh. He is trying. But I will still pick class of 2007(Tella boys) over this team. They are not as entertaining and skilful as the class of 2007.
No striker like Chrisantus. No skilful wingers in the mould of Ganiyu Oseni and Kabiru Akinsola(that very old man), but what they have over the 2007 class is focus. No playing to gallery. It's strictly business and they are getting the results.

Bode, am not surprised at your present predicament. You and I know you are a thief

You went to the prestigeous Command and Staff College in Jaji and you cheated during examination and you are caught but used your high powered connection to escape the[b] henious [/b] crime.

By the time they come back to the campus they were ready to slap their provost, because they have tasted of your 'wealth and power'

As an activist Femi could have written something like this, but I strongly doubt if this came from Femi Falana. Link pls? Ok, maybe it's it's another F. Falana, not Femi Falana.

BTW how manage Becomerish never sign any of the posts. and satellite map is conspicuously missing in the cover design. That mistake should not occur in the new release. Haba! how can I read 3 page thread on Becomerich and I see no single map. It's unfair guys.

. . .and now you've seen maps. You asked for it and BCr supplied you, more than you needed

MrCrackles:
Interesting. . .

That, actually, is the intention.

I just imagined what could have happened if I met another very active Nairalander.
Chose airport as scene because it's one of the places you can easily jam a Nairalander.
Imagined I wore a jersey with the inscription Jarus to make the identification scenario sensible
Selected a number of recent and past issues on NL as subject of discussion.
Ended it as a dream, to make it dramatic, and also make less discerning understand that it's just an imagination.