₦airaland Forum

Beaf:
Good things will continue to pour out of GEJ's govt. All thats left is for the senate to ok it, just last week GEJ promised open govt and now we've got the first leg of a beautiful thing.
Next is the PIB.

Dont count on it. The PIB is a whole different ballgame.

uplawal:
OMG,i almost fell off from sofa,you kind of funny lol,Nigerians are fearful of death not to revolt,prefaring the corrupt leadership no matter how it deals with them.

we have revolted before with people dying especially in the southwest. June 12 elections occured because we also wanted to remove someone who had been ruling us for 9 years(Babangida, besides 9 years is long in Nigeria). People fought hard and faced tanks and police too. SO nigerians can do it.

While in Babangida's case, we could point at someone, nowadays we realize its a systemic issue so it is relatively much harder to do that.

besides june 12 was also about racial pride being hurt. the people of the southwest felt aggrieved and hence the fighting.

I am adding this for Dormitila. Make your first class in your first two years if possible. It gets harder the longer you spend in the school.

As for the ones that seem to have it easy, there are two reasons.

They live their courses e.g me. I have been playing with, reading about and studying computers since age 11(when I visited my first computer camp and saw Windows 3.1, Wordperfect and BASIC for the first time).

the second reason is that they are pretty good at hiding their hardwork. I used to do that too. I would be smiling sheepishly and strolling around school while my mates were killing themselves with final revision , secure in the knowledge that I had already massacred all the questions I could lay my hands on with respect to that course.


Everybody wants to get to heaven, nobody wants to die.

I had a first class and contrary to what they tell you (that first class is a waste of time), I am still walking on its red carpet. Got a really cushy job because of it.

Let me give you the steps. Will take a lot of discipline though and some money too.

1. Have all the textbooks for each of the courses. and get the best possible. {I was trusted by my classmates for that. }

the next rule is possibly one of the most important ever.

2. SUBMIT ALL ASSIGNMENTS AND DO THEM YOURSELF AHEAD OF TIME. if possible start them immediately after class so you can have time to watch Premier league.

the next rule is related.

3. Revise and Rework all exercises and assignments before entering the exam hall.

the next rule is about gaining needed intelligence before invading the exam hall. Lecturers are not wizards, and rumour suggests the inexhaustible source of exam questions have finally run dry.

4. Get your past questions printed out/ photocopied within the first 2 weeks of landing in school. and make sure you attempt at least 90% of them before you enter the hall. Save a few for timed mock exams.

Get the curriculum or course descriptions for next semester and next session. Read during the holidays.

Finally a secret for which the Guild of First Class Students might expel me.

PASS ALL GNS COURSES WITH A's no exception. GNS courses are actually easy to pass. you dont have to devote time to them. just read them each day on your bed before sleeping. and make sure before you read the current note, that you skim through the previous notes. even if you dont have the lecture that day, just skim through the note. routinely. They will save your GP when you least expect it.

Ask questions in class, however stupid they may seem and write down the lecturers answer. why? because it will clear the areas of your knowledge.

All favourite courses (and you must have some) must be finished at least 6 weeks before the exam so you can have time to deal with the rest of the C.R.U.D.

A day before your exam (this is a personal practice). sleep well, stroll around and have fun and get all your pencils(To prevent Mr Murphy's attack, I buy 5 biros and pencils and erasers before entering the hall. Rambo's preparation is child's play compared to how I take exams) and materials ready.

Be Strategic. In OAU, 1st class students are called GP Merchants and something similar in my school too. Why? because we read the course manual as if we are stockbrokers. we know what the A courses are and the B courses where we can afford to get less than A. We know the ones that need extra effort and the ones we can master and kill off.

get trained outside school. I studied computer science but learnt all my programming before I set foot in school. The programming courses were guaranteed A courses for me.

Finally the dumb secrets:

Read EVERYDAY. its so simple yet so hard.

Sleep with sense. what do I mean? I used to come back to the hostel around 2pm to sleep for an hour or two before going back to class. I also slept immediately I came back for an hour more or two before waking up to READ THE BOOKS TO BLAZES.

Sit In front. Not because you want to impress the lecturer but I hate copying notes from people who dont even understand the course talkless copying the right thing. I want to hear exactly what the lecturer said. Besides you are automatically screened from the idle chatter at the back. The semester my GP nosedived before coming back up was the one when I sat with the really interesting and funny guys at the back. if you dont want to be directly in front, stay to the side of the class.

be nice to other people. you cannot be graded for exams you dont attend or tests you dont know about. Sometimes other people will be the ones to save you and in some cases fight for you (especially when I had envious guys secretly lobbying for my failure in strategic courses).

Finally have intelligent friends and know when to walk away from them. why? there is no other period in your life when the GIST will be as sweet. If you dont know how to escape the girl/sex gists, premier league arguments and political arguments to go and read, you cant become a first class.

Lord Babs:
The die is cast! After several attempts of ruse to decoy,debilitate,demoralise and browbeat the freshmen and particularly the SUG, i gravely commend the school administrators' shenanigans coupled with their puerile craftiness and pompousity as inflagrantedelicto of this honourable institution. However, conducting the matriculation service under this background of palpable poignancy is not only unacademical,but also impure and sardonic! This is just one of the subjective price one pays for combating corruption. Let's grasp the lesson in this 'unrelenting' struggle; "do not grow in the ways your fathers grew!" our intellectuality should not be aimed at 'possessive oppression' of the masses, rather 'possessive protection' of the masses! GREAT IFE!!! Signed: LORD BABS
FACULTY OF LAW

Obahiagbon must have been an OAU dropout.

ACN

seanet02:
You sure? Search the whole East and North and bring out a man that can Match the C.V. of the man below

@seanet02 mutual deterrence means that we keep our W.M.Ds in check. thats so unfair.

chaircover:
You also need the following;
Cough Mixture - N5000 - Because you will shout tire
Paracetamol - N5000 - To sooth Headache & relieve tension
Your own personal Calculators - Because their own tends to overcalculate

tools of the trade. lol

Jenwitemi:
I gave you a link once to an Irish catholic reverend called, Micael Ledwith. Utube him to get more insights. He has books out and also DVDs on this very topic. He is definitely not your average clergy because he concentrates mainly on apocryphals.

The journey of salvation is inwards, innerly, and not outwards. I thought you would have realized that by now because you seem to be a christian that is seeking for the truth.

Aha, the game is afoot.

Now we know the source of all the problems. You would rather we believe that jesus dying on the cross WAS JUST A POINTER and he wasnt meant to be the saviour but we ourselves,

You would rather we discard the bible and search for some extra-canon because some irish priest fell in love with the Gnostics and decided to pen a diary. Heretics have been writing their own books for centuries, Ledwith will not be different.

maclatunji:
Did Jesus ever build a church or worship in a church? Where is it written in the Bible that the name of the religion of Jesus is Christianity. The truth of the matter is that Christianity is an invention or innovation if you like, it is not a religion. That is the truth but people who have been brainwashed from infancy will come here and argue with these points.

whatever the name we call it, a dog will still be a dog. the important thing is that you believe that christ is the way,truth and the life and that he died for you and that no one comes to the father except through HIM (not even Michael Ledwith or even through looking into your own innards, Jenwitemi take note) that there is a God in heaven.

clearly the name "christian" was originally an insult but has been taken as an emblem nowadays. I call myself a christ-follower but I fill in christianity on forms because thats how the govt understands it.

The question is "Do you believe in Christ and God?"

my central theme is that you cant save yourself.

Prov 20:24: A man’s steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way?

So how do you think you can save yourself by looking within. its not within you

@Great Noob Rossike, please be informed that we live in nigeria where we know how elections can be rigged and manipulated. We have all heard of violence anytime ZANU-PF is campaigning or going for elections. They attack opposing voters and at the end of the day Mugabe is still returned to power.


Abacha nearly did that and in fact 1 million people marched for him (remember!!!). I guess i.d.i.o.t.s in the outside world would have made the same argument about him too.

mystikal:
What exactly is a change in regime going to do for Libya?

Free them from one man's rule for Libya? divert money from one family to all?

Of course You can do your own rigging. he he

Finally ROSSIKE gets called to order. Told u , u are stuck in the 70s. Dont worry, you are forgiven but please catch up with your reading, the world has moved on since then. We dont think in terms of BLACK AFRICANS anylonger. you are an isolated racist at the moment.

However I commend your stand on this topic (aside the BLACK AFRICAN ish which you still have to get rid of).

I grew up in Osun state and I can tell you that the Lagos Pull is real. It even seems unthinkable that you would have a "Head office" in osogbo when Lagos is right there.

My entire class graduated from university and Headed straight for lagos. Those without homes there shacked up with family & friends.

Yours truly was saved by providence from doing that (though a cushy job was also waiting there but a cushier one saved my butt).

It is the truth.

@fstranger3 @seanet mo n gbadun ija ti e n ba ara yin ja kaa kiri. oko ati iyawo ni yin ni abi bawo.

He has already lost the eastern part of the country. Benghazi is lost to him. An army unit(the thunderbolt unit) revolted and took the fight to the presidential guards unit that was fighting for Ghadaffi. they successfully defeated them and took over their barracks. Its going to happen somehow.

ROSSIKE is pathetically stuck in the 70s. I guess we have to wait some decades for him to catch up with his reading. In the meantime, those of us that dont think in terms of BLACK AFRICANS and such whatnot can focus on Leapfrogging the West.

wedapeople:
Africa is sad to have persons like you. With you innovation is obsolete. Sit back and watch. Don't get in the way.

@wedapeople Ignore him. he's here criticising african leaders and he's elsewhere supporting mugabe. he's confused.

We have evolved past that phase. We are waiting for the rest of you Nigerian p**s*nts to catch up.

Jenwitemi:
The core teaching is very simple, yet extremely difficult to comprehend by many; become your own saviour by taking the inner journey back to your true self, and hence, to the kingdom of heaven, for God lies within us all. That is the only way to salvation and not all the personality worship you christians waste all your life doing. That is the core teaching of Jesus. Take the inner journey within you to find the christ within, your true self. You won't get that in the canons because all the canons tell you is to look outward at the church(and it's structures) for your salvation(outward journey which is futile). There is nothing there except cash thieving tithe collecting pastors.

we are not to look within ourselves for some christ within. we are to look ONTO jesus christ. its just neo-buddhist new age teaching that you are camouflaging as christianity.

Special Agent Yamtas335 knows best

You still have not tackled the central issue==> Mugabe needs to go.

We are much safer knowing about it than otherwise. The public would be on the lookout for it.

Thats not even likely.

the simple fact is that he's a tyrant and he has to go.

There are no white worshippers here.

This is not animal farm where we have to be scared of the humans (whites in this case) that we would allow Napoleon (Mugabe) to rule forever.

He is a tyrant.

@ROSSIKE, You are simply going through a phase. When you get tired of spouting neo-nationalist comments with little basis in reality you will assess the situation.

No one should raise himself above the interests of his country. I am not just talking about his land reform or other things. I am talking about the whole regime itself.

Any regime that maintains its rule through terror cannot lay any claim to being legitimate.

He needs to go. The white farmers can go to china for all I care but Mugabe still needs to go.

It will be his turn soon once this overwhelmingly young world gets a taste for removing old tyrants.




Africans are still following the S.T.U.P.I.D notion that the West is the sole cause of their problems. If mugabe was so interested in his country's progress then let him leave and allow peace and justice to prevail.

shotster50:
I wish people would stop criticizing Robert Mugabe.

How many other presidents can you name who have managed to make everyone in their country billionaires?

ZIM DRILL:
its so cool to see nigerians debating about zimbabwe, some know more about zimbabwe some dont they still talk of the dead zim dollar

everyone in zim is using the US$

I cant add or subtract from what is being said becoz i once has debate with some people they had the understanding of zimbabwe from general speeches of mugabe and than the situation on the ground i.e land distribution it was hurried to him to win back votes from fellow war vets

everything was never planned hence it killed commercial farming and the banking sector

sanctions are excuse the man before him smith was under sanctions and but zimbabwe was 10 times better than the way it is now, they should go and ask smith from the grave how he managed when he has the same sanctions

right now he is forcing existing companies to sell part of their shares to local people, yes it is good to impose it on new companies coming to invest to zimbabwe but we should leave the already existing companies. Aslo if the local people can have money to buy those share from the already existing companies why cant they use those monies to start there own companies therefore creating needed jobs since unemployemnt is 80%

the whaole land distribution was rushed for the reason i mentioned mugabe is very educated and wise he has almost 7 degrees, he could have made easy 3 five year plans to distribute land gradually over a period but he has not time for that war vets were up in arms

and you are proud of using the american dollar!!! you dont have to say more. you are already sold down the river anyway. You tell us your family has been involved in politics since forever which means your family has been part of the problem too.

you support the forced selling of shares because your family will be the ones corraling it too.

Lwandle:
What is a failed state?
If taking control of your resources and empowering your own people, if trying to build an economy in such a way as to benefit the country and its citizens first and foremost before MYSTIC foreigners qualifies you to be labelled a failed state so be it!
Mugabes vision will bear fruit and in 20 years time some of you sitting here denegrating him will be calling him one of the greatest africans to have ever lived.

We as africans lack clarity of vision lack the fortitude and will power to forgo todays comforts in order to gain our economic freedom! How long shall we remain subservant to the west and its machinations? Well Zimbabwe is breaking free and soon other african countries will follow suit, because what they dont realise now they will realise later, that our destiny is in our own hands.

Zimbabwe is not a failed state its a country that aspires to be trully free politically and economically from any and all hegemonic forces!

Please be informed that we will not praise old tyrants who refuse to let their people taste freedom. You are probably a child of one of the ministers or ZANU-PF party functionaries thats why you could afford to school in the UK. you are all thieves for keeping the zimbabwean people down.


Ghaddafi, Mugabe, that sit-tight idiot in Ivory coast and his brother in Uganda all deserve a silver bullet each for holding this continent back.

I dont care what arguments you want to put forward, you cant justify one man holding on to power for so long. Is he the only one in a country filled with millions of intelligent men who can be trusted with power?

We as africans lack clarity of vision lack the fortitude and will power to forgo todays comforts in order to gain our economic freedom

so we are to take it from this that mugabe is allowed to starve his citizens so they can gain some nebulous advantage in the future. See how sycophants kill african freedom. how did you even come up with this?

Zimbabwe is not a failed state its a country that aspires to be trully free politically and economically from any and all hegemonic forces!

this is just an animal farm argument. the greatest enemy of any african state is within not without. The west is not doing anything to us more than we do to ourselves. Mugabe is your greatest problem not some foreign enemy. As long as one man is allowed to rule everyone else unjustly, as long as the mob is being used by the state to further its aims, as long as mugabe allows his fellow zimbabweans to suffer to satisfy his pride YOU WILL DESERVE TO BE CALLED A FAILED STATE

no need for that. we will ALL go to war over dwindling oil, food , water and fertile land very soon. that should reduce the population if AIDS doesnt kill us off first.

I pray for a successful completion of this project. thanks for the blow-by-blow. I see this post becoming a popular one for so many of us interested in planning our own buildings. take care.

Because its a faith dependent on freewill. the free will gets exercised too frequently independent of inspiration or biblical grounding hence the tendency for people to keep creating their own philosophies.

besides if you look closely, they only have different names, but they are not so different in their teaching. different preachers just stress different parts but they all have common ideas and beliefs. thats why its so easy to attend redeemed in one city and join loveworld in the next and winner's chapel somewhere else. the farther you get away from lagos or the main church, the more they all seem the same.

@pcguru Zend's not bad. am actually planning on importing Zend Lucene into Codeigniter to handle the search part and maybe a Zend_Flickr component too. I view it as a supermarket nowadays. Go there for shopping but dont live there .