opeaceo:
IT isn't compulsory for all courses.

please can you give me some examples
To the best of my knowledge, you either gor fot IT or TP or clinicals or intern.

PresVA:
So what's the difference between what you just described here and graduate trainee programmes organised by companies? ?

Simply say companies should be encouraged to organise more trainee programmes. .

Yes or should be made compulsery for graduates. You know the one organised by companies is one hell of a stress and takes the mercy of God or the big man at the top to be enrolled in.

opeaceo:

IMO, The industrial training program should be compulsory and our Tertiary institutions should be fixed, residency isn't a way to go...

Industrial Training and Teaching practice is already compulsery but, the duration is insufficient. The OND and HND holders stand a better chance with the benefit of their longer industrial training duration.

opeaceo:

And you think companies would gladly pay you for 6 years in the name of "gathering experience"?

BTW, where are the companies would be willing to do that? Something I think resemble such is the graduate trainee program that lasts a year, max 2 years, how much are they being paid? What experience (s) do they gather?? Most times they do the job of technicians (no insult intended).

Atleast you can attest that after the graduate trainee program they become more useful to the company and someother companies too.

It is not petinent for it to be for 6 years, denpending on your area of study, it may vary.

opeaceo:

I asked and it is generally 3 - 6 years depending in the course.
Now you're suggesting a 3 - 6 years "training" for all graduates??
What happened to Industrial training? Field work? Teaching practice?

so now compare the experience you will have in 6 years of a well paid traning where your employers will be very serious with you due to the money involved to the experience you will have from a 6months IT or 3months teaching practice where you are mostly not paid and your employer gives little to no seriousness to the course.

Tell me who will be able to stand before you and open his or her dirty mouth to say you are incompetent after such gargantuan experience.

opeaceo:
And residency is for how many years??

How about 5 years? Ask your doctor friend.

heykims:
Op, residency is even not compulsory for doctors but a very large percentage of them enrol to remain relevant in the medical world.
However, I think it won't still be fair if u use doctors as ur benchmark reference because even during residency, doctors earn relatively big!
I don't also see residency apply to all disciplines, postgraduate studies is an equivalent.

The money doctors earn is not the issue for now. You agree with me, the doctors that did residency are mostly better than those that did not.

How many years of experience will postgraduate studies give you

I guess you have not seen someone with PHD but cannot be employ because he/she lacks years of experience in the field or you think the people with PHD that applied to be dangote drivers did not merit their degrees.

Pomzy:
I think industrial training, field work, teaching practice etc is relatively synonymous to residency in this context

How many years experience that qualifies you for a job did you get when you did your industrial training

commitcrime:
Go back and think of a better idea
Cos this one is crappy!

Tell me wat a Yoruba language graduate is doing residency for?

I guess u don't know the meaning of residency in medicine training.
It means specialization
Some courses re not meant for that

Best bet is. Every nigerian graduate learn a trade or skill with their various degrees

Atleast there are other professional courses that are qualified for residency. The 'yoruba degree' has a target market right? Its' residency can as well be done in it.

Skills only suport in keeping food on your table, it doesn't make you a professional in your discipline.

Am considering the problem of 'half-baked graduates' here and not 'surviving in Nigeria'.

I was just pondering while on bed this morning. How do we solve this problem of 'half baked Nigerian graduates'? Along side the issue of years of experience which cannot be bought in the market nor acquired in school.

I then came up with an idea that what if it is made compulsery for every graduate to do residency just like the doctors do? I feel within the five years duration, they should be able to become professionals in their respective feilds and as well acquire a reasonable experience that qualifies them for a better job placement.
At least but for greed, I hardly see or hear of incompitent doctors.

Guys I don't know your take on this. Please share your opinions, perhaps one day our makers will be proud of us.

Thanks.

Editor1:
Nigeria is arguably endowed with the most beautiful chicks in africa.
Within Nigeria itself, there are awesomely beautiful damsels. But some states can pride to have them in higher concentration than others.
Now, Let's hit the market with my well-researched list...


1. IMO:
Arguably this state possesses the prettiest damsels in the country. Well-endowed in all ramifications. Little wonder the state has the highest number of Peagents and Models in Nigeria. IMSU alone houses 60% of these beauties.


2. LAGOS:
Lagos per-say boasts of awesome and classy beauties owing to its cosmopolitan nature. the state is a confluence of most beautiful girls from different background and entities. A visit to Akoka will attest.


3. CROSS RIVER:
Calabar girls are not only beautiful but "bediful". The concentration of naturally beautiful girls in C/River pays advantage to The serene and ambient nature of the state.


4. ENUGU:
The state of the 'desperate chicks' will wow you with its array of beauties. You can never walk 5m in Enugu without having to turn to admire an Enugu gal walking on the other side of the road. Night life here is very much alive.


5. DELTA:
The city of Warri wasn't taken into recognition when Delta is mentioned. However, the concentration of sweet apples in Asaba, agbor and Auchi alone is strong enough to place Delta on the list.


6. RIVERS:
The black beauties of Kalabari and the excesses from IMO State gives Rivers a capable mention. Mind you, aside Lagos and Abuja, PH prides the most expensive and classy chicks. Don't approach a UNIPORT babe without your car keys.


7. ANAMBRA:
Anambra Chicks my not be as classy as their Imo neighbours. But they pride an array of natural beauties. They are wife materials any day. UNIZIK guys can testify.


8. OGUN:
Ogun gals are the most beautiful when it comes to core Yoruba chicks. They are an all-in-one package of beauty and brains.


9. KANO:
Having the highest concentration of beautiful Fulani girls. Kano state possesses pretty girls beyond the veils.


10. EDO:
Like C/River, Edo girls are amicably beautiful both in theory and practice. If you visit Benin and cone back empty-handed, then you are blind and sterile at once.


Who thinks otherwise?


NB: I deliberately omitted Abuja to be in a different league of its own.



EDITOR-in-CHIEF!!

big fat lie. How can this list be correct when the great Akwa Ibom State who is to top the list is not even there. Ops, abeg go chop anapuna salt make you the see fine.

Abeg make una reason matters na. You think say if pdp been roja me 60k I for even get INEC time?

Man sef the regret working for INEC.

Some of you guys don't get the point. Cross River is different from Rivers.

After all that stress, after all those sleepless nights, after putting our lives on the line going into villages we've never heard of talkless of visiting, all to help INEC conduct elections, now they have refused to pay us, not even feeding allowance. I dont know if this is happening in other states but you people should help me beg the INEC Commissioner Cross River State and Jega to pay us oooo.
is it a crime to be an ad-hoc staff??

pendicle:
A things to do list(REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde)

No one is sure what the outcome of the Nigerian elections will be. In recent days the state-by-state projections have multiplied, occupying the front pages of major Nigerian newspapers. The opposition believes that had the elections held as originally scheduled, in February, before a controversial postponement, General Muhammadu Buhari would have won comfortably over president Goodluck Jonathan.

But six weeks, in politics, is an eternity. Since the postponement the momentum has swung away from Buhari’s All Progressives Congress, towards the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. What is unclear is the extent to which the gap between the two parties – if indeed there was any – has narrowed.

There is understandable nervousness regarding these elections, never before now, it seems, have the stakes been this high. If the election takes place as planned (there are a number of court cases that appear aimed at scuttling it) and is not attended by a stalemate, and Buhari is declared winner by the electoral commission, here are five things the new President should – or will have to – do:

1. Apologize

Thirty years ago Buhari and his deputy, the late Tunde Idiagbon, ran the country as stern, unsmiling, bordering-on-ruthless military generals. They jailed hundreds of politicians (a good number of them unfairly; such was the blanket nature of the clampdown), muzzled the press, retroactively instituted the death sentence for drug trafficking (resulting in the execution of three convicted persons), and generally presided over an increasingly stifling atmosphere. While they may have had good intentions – cleaning up in the wake of a corrupt and inept set of politicians – and while it is important to understand that a dictatorship, by its very nature, requires dictatorial action, I still think that Buhari owes some people, or groups of persons, an apology; a symbolic action to turn the page on a past that was as marked by error as it was by its idealism. People like Adeyemi Adefulu and Tinuoye Shoneyin, who insist the Buhari regime unjustly treated him – even while taking their place on a growing list of Buhari victims who have since forgiven him and are now championing his candidacy. Shoneyin’s daughter Lola, a writer, is even on Buhari’s campaign team and has written on this.


Adefulu says: “I [would] still like Buhari to vocalize an apology and offer some succour to people like me whom his government brutalized in the past. It is the least he can do. To do so is not weakness. Indeed, it is strength to admit the mistakes of the past and to promote national reconciliation.”

Assert

There will be hundreds of appointments to be made, starting May 29 – ministers, special advisers, senior special assistants, special assistants, ambassadors, members of governing boards for tens of federal government bodies, possibly even new leadership for the military and police. Much of the attention will be on his choice of chief of staff, finance and petroleum ministers, and his economic management team.

In his book, The Sixteen ‘Sins’ of General Muhammadu Buhari, Tam David-West, Buhari’s minister of petroleum during his days as military head of state, and an enduring supporter, says his appointment as a minister came as a surprise; based purely on his resume and his reputation. While Buhari’s pedigree suggests that in making his key appointments merit will stubbornly trump political pressure, it is important to note that he is also now, in his most recent incarnation as presidential candidate of a motley coalition of politicians, a much more pragmatic player than ever before.

Nigerians will also be expecting him to provide moral authority and hands-on leadership to the team. He has himself hinted, in a recent letter to Nigerians, of his desire to ensure “the Federal Executive Council, which has been turned to a weekly session of contract bazaar, will concentrate on its principal function of policy making.”

Assess

Four years of $100 plus per oil barrel prices have come to an end, and Nigeria hasn’t got very much to show for it; understandable when you consider that the last four years have been awash with stories of dodgy oil deals and large-scale oil bunkering. Buhari’s first task will be to assess just how bad things are. (We already have an idea, Nigeria is expected to earn, this year, only two thirds of what it earned in oil revenues last year). In recent speeches Buhari has repeatedly hinted at drawing a line between past and present, by which he means restricting his anti-corruption clampdown to infractions that occur on his watch as president, and not those that preceded him. This seemingly mollifying stance is likely to have arisen on account of the frenzy with which the ruling party has sought to portray him as being still as obsessed with sending perceived opponents to jail as he was three decades ago. As a civilian President he will probably realize that he has to decide, on a case-by-case basis, where that line-drawing will apply, and where it will not.

Finally, Nigerians deserve, within Buhari’s first hundred days in office, a State of the Nation Address, in which he will provide an honest and detailed view of the country’s financial situation. Which leads to the next point:

Articulate

The entire system of government communication requires overhauling. Currently it’s divided among several officials, including a minister of information, a special adviser to the president on media, and any number of presidential assistants and special assistants assigned to specific functions like “social media”, “new media” and “public affairs. The result is an alarming incoherence, visible every time you open a newspaper, or your Twitter feed. As president Buhari should immediately take steps to streamline government communications, and create a unified, hierarchical structure in which all roles and responsibilities are clarified. He may also want to consider creating a central management team for government communications, similar in intent and style to the one former president Obasanjo created for the economy.

Attack

Boko Haram has in the last few years proven to be the ultimate disciplinarian of the Nigerian state. If elected, Buhari should take immediate steps to shore up the confidence and capacity of the Nigerian military. His opponents have worked hard at labeling him an Islamic fundamentalist, an apologist for Sharia Islamic law, and even a Boko Haram sympathiser. On the strength of available evidence – including testimonials, and his record as Head of State – the allegations are implausible. In his book Honour For Sale, Debo Bashorun, one-time Nigerian presidential spokesperson (during the regime of military dictator Ibrahim Babangida, who overthrew Buhari in August 1985) suggests that Babangida, not Buhari, was the one who tolerated religious fundamentalism. Bashorun writes of the “sudden re-emergence” during Babangida’s time, of “self-proclaimed clerics and Islamic fundamentalists whose nocturnal and divisive activities had earlier been effectively curtailed during the Buhari/Idiagbon administration.” As head of state Buhari showed little mercy or tolerance towards religious extremists or militant challengers of the Nigerian state whether they were Chadian bandits laying siege to the northeast at that time Boko Haram, or the rump of the Maitatsine sect, a 1980s precursor of Boko Haram. A similar approach to Boko Haram will be required



http://qz.com/369673/the-five-things-buhari-should-do-if-nigeria-elects-him-president-this-weekend/

Ops. Please don't be angry with me for calling your post arrant rubish. Let me explain why.

To me, he owes nobody any appology. Who will appologise to him for all the blackmails, abuses and trumas he has been put through for trying to serve Nigeria? besides, the people he jailed, what were their crimes? I think he has payed enough for that. Here you go in the second point asking him not to deal with all those criminals who have kept what is meant for the entire country in their puckets. (what rubish) after all the evil and suferings they have cost to millions of Nigerians? I might sound bad here but, am sorry, let them all pay for their sins including my parents if they are guilty.

If they go unpunished, where will others learn their lessons from?

For me, I call him 'the purnisher'. If you have watched that movie, you will understand me better.

Not every mother did these. besides, please is it every month we celebrate mothers day?

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I beg no vex. for calabar where i dey, this people no the carry the pvc come my pooling butt. na how i go take get my pvc na.

Naijasinglegirl:
ugghhhh. You are beginning to sound like an ex boyfriend. Anyway, sorry to disappoint you. In as much as I am not perfect, everyone who knows me in reality will contradict you on those virtues you've listed. Cheers.

please ma, read the first line of my post again. I did not say that is what you are.

We are not fighting for any trophy. I wish you could understand me.

Originalsly:
To make this kind assessment I want to believe you didn't read the entire thread. If you did...then indeed... proof that all fingers are not equal...this thread is way above your head. Not that you may be wrong..you are wrong and need to either have your vision fixed or crystal ball cleaned before commenting on what you 'see'. This may come over as harsh..but not meant to be...just my style of writing.

Thank you very much.
But, please read her post carefully again then read mine carefully too. After that come and repeat yourself again.

doublezero7:


Errm...for a couple of hours now, I've been contemplating whether to respond to your comment or not! Unfortunately for you, I will! And unlike the last poster, I want to deliberately insult you! My reasons are; 1. You're stupid enough to take the post seriously, when you could just have had a good laugh! 2. You came to the wrong thread to talk shii! 3. You took a dig at my girl? WTF!!!

First things first, who made you a judge to come here and 'access and observe' other people's post? I guess you just wanted to feel relevant, bah? You indeed came to the wrong thread! Whenever you want to show your stupidity, move somewhere else! You sef dey observe person? Really, go observe your head first! If the story aint good enough for you, go write yours!

Secondly, you in your uncommon stupidity said "Thank God you did not succeed in stealing that 1k back, because the beating you would have received from those buddies ehn!!! God would have blessed me if you come back alive." Does that even make sense to you at all! What's your connection to NSG that God would have blessed you if she came back alive? Are you her father? I'm sure you meant God would have punished you though!

Finally, go make yourself a better person and stop being a jerk! Peeps here are here to have fun! So STFU and go to the 'Religion' section if you want to give moral advice!

One advice for you sir/ma, never talk back at my girl! I'll be right behind you!

Thank you for letting me know how stupid I am.
Wish you goodluck with your girl.

I pray in your next world, you will understand english better.

Naijasinglegirl:
In my course of 'blogwhoring' some entertainment and fashions blogs, the images I see from bridal shower events aroused my curiosity.
Photos of happy ladies holding pink balloons, wearing crowns, blushes, cakes etc.

It seems this western trend has become an important segment in the series of Nigerian pre-wedding events.

Last year, my colleague that was about to tie the knot kept pestering one of her 'daddies' for money to host her bridal shower party.
I thought this was the responsibility of the groom-to-be? Or maybe the groom-to-be is not into western culture? Or the bride didn't want to feel left out?
She made it look like a do or die event.

I had questions to ask but I didn't want to come across as jealous so I had to keep my mouth shut.

A few weeks ago, a friend told me to accompany her to the market to buy items she needed for her bridal shower party. When we got there, I was surprised to see her buying egusi, vegetable leaves, palm oil, goat meat etc. Why would she be buying stuffs like that when this was more of a western thing? I needed to be at the party to see things for myself but alas, I wasn't invited.

The only solution to satisfy this curiosity was to gate crash a random bridal shower since NSG friends/colleagues didn't deem her worthy enough to send an IV.

Finally, I had the opportunity last weekend. I went for a book launch in a hotel and on getting inside, some ladies dressed in skimpy clothes walked past me with balloons to the left wing of the hotel.

I didn't know when I aborted my initial mission and followed them.

''You are here for Esther's bridal shower right?'' one of them asked me.
'
'Yes'' I replied

I couldn't believe my luck.

I was led to one of the mini-suites where I met about 18 other unfamiliar faces including the bride. I had to act cool to avoid suspicion.

The bride-to-be was looking more like a widow than a bride and she wore her crown like it was a crown of thorns.
It was more like she was forced to host the party.

Other females were dressed in bum shorts with the exception of me, the uninvited guest.
I sat at the far end of the king-sized bed looking like an election observer.

The party better be worth it, I prayed silently.

Forty minutes gone and the party was yet to start. I was getting impatient! Were these people awaiting the arrival of Toke Makinwa or what?

Every time I made a decision to leave, the party inviting cake seemed to tell me 'loser, don't you want a bite of me? and then I'd find myself replying ''ok, ten more minutes."

Finally, the MC, one slim girl with the driest sense of humour arrived.

The first thing she said was ''Because your name is Esther and you are bleached does not make you established.''

All the bush girls were laughing hysterically at this 1967 joke except me. (These girls need to read my blog. Lol)

She continued cracking more dry jokes.

The only thing that made me laugh with them was the MC's face. Her hideous makeup was funnier than her jokes.

Afterwards, we were called out one after the other to give a one minute speech about the bride. I was the first and the MC refused to take no for an answer.

''Esther is a good and nice girl, she's getting married and I'm so happy for her'' I blurted out ignorantly.

At least I got her name right, thanks to the girls I followed in.
Afterwards, we were called out for truth&dare game. Me, being the first once again.

I was dared to call my boyfriend on speaker to tell him I miss kissing him.

I just stood in front of all them scrolling my contacts. I saw my daddy's number, I saw my friends boyfriends numbers, I saw my brothers number. I got to letter Z and no boyfriend number.

Then it hit me! I am Naija Single Girl without a boyfriend. I didn't have the strength to explain that to these daughters of Eve so I hurriedly dropped my N1000 fine. Literally, society charged me for being single. *sobs*

After the other girls had played the game, it was time for refreshment.

One of the girls started sharing hot coke and cabin biscuit of all things.

See, I don't know about you reading this but the amount of cabin biscuits I ate while in primary and secondary school are not less than 3781 pieces (yup! I kept count).

''Is this all you have?'' I asked the girl that handed me the biscuits with boiled coke.

''Ehen'' she rudely replied

''What of that cake over there?''

''We are not cutting it! Its for the wedding!!'' I was pissing her off already.

Huh? What were these yahoo girls telling me? So the cake was a scam too? It was just a decoration in the room??

You broke Nigerian girls need to chill!

Bridal shower is not by force!

The pain I felt was so painful. Lol

The hot coke was beginning to burn my throat. Before I could think of a way to 'steal' my N1000 back from the truth & dare container, the sad looking bride-to-be had already pocketed it.

Literally, I was the chief sponsor of the cabin biscuit and these minions won't even give me my change which amounted up to N590.

They were no male strippers like it happens abroad, just some a-cups girls on low cut dancing azonto while we cracked our cabin biscuit.

I regretted not going for the book launch.

Is this what happens in a Nigerian bridal shower or did I miss my way?

http://www.naijasinglegirl.net

If am to access you based on your write-up. I see a woman who is likely going to end up single or a married trouble maker.

I guess nobody have told you that all fingers are not equal.

And from your write-up if am not wrong, I observe pride, troublesome and an insulting virtue in you which is very bad.

Thank God you did not succeed in stealing that 1k back, because the beating you would have received from those buddies ehn!!! God would have blessed me if you come back alive.

Finally, I mean no disrespect to you so please don't feel bad at my post, just get the little lessons from it and make yourself a better person.

Thank you.

freeman191:


Source: http://top10ng.com/10-expensive-cultures-marry-nigeria/

bros, you have tried very well but, am afraid this write-up is misleading. You need to do more research and tell people the truth rather than promote false stories.

I have lived with the efik people of Cross River State for more than 25 years and I have never seen where a canival is organised as a fulfilment for a traditional marriage. (perhaps, there is another set of efik people am yet to know)

Ogoja you mentioned above is not as expensive as you exaggerated above.

I don't know of other tribes you mentioned too but please correct the information you provided and save the thousands of relationships you have started destroying with your false information.

Thank you.

They are millions of such snails in southern Nigeria (Cross River). So don't panic, you will enjoy it.

Mikel3oputa:
see this mugu? U dont even know common egrisjh

It's not your fault. Mr. English scholar who cannot read and understand english. My friend read the topic again then post another fool of yourself.

Beat this.

Johnnoo:
@Feraz; Nice and challenging write you got, but let me ask you a simple question; will prefer made in Nigeria product to that of foreign product for your personal use (Pls be honest)

yes. With all my heart. You fail to understand one thing. If Nigerians are given correct facilities and materials, the made in Nigeria product will be far better than the imported products. Try a local shoe maker to produce one for you then do the comparism for yourself.

The question is "did you apply for a job there?"

There are fake to the best of my knowledge, they just need the little money you have to survive on.

I had an encounter with such some years ago.

Wait o, Jonathan wey I see this afternoon for pdp campaign for Ibadan, na person the tell my say him go Germany since yesterday for treatment. Abeg na which one wey I go believe na, my eyes of news?

Hello

Am trying to install primavera P6 on my laptop but am having a serious challenge i need assistance on.

The application is installed but, it requires a database connection to run with. I have tried using MYSQL Server but it is not working, perhaps I don't know how to configure it well.

Please I seriously will appreciate any assistance to establish the database connection.

Thank you.

Nice one

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