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Harjibode: Did You Just Say Poly UME...
I Guess You Just Came Into The Country From Kuala Lumpur..!!

Nope sir, i am an effing graduate. In my time (8yrs+ ago), we called it PolyJAMB. Dont know what you call it nowadays.

Most sensible way to implement this is to have designated computerised exam centers.

The computers only connect to download the exam to the machine, then they disconnect and run the exam on there.

Also the exams will not be done on a single day and will be done over 2 weeks or 3.

And once the exam is scored, it connects with the central server and reports the result, then prints out your paper results immediately.

each student takes his or her exam in an enclosure and cannot communicate with any one.

Feel free to bring in any books you like, you'll only lose time as the questions will keep coming at you and once your time's over, the computer cant be argued with, TIME UP IS TIME UP.

Great stuff. Hope it works and is not frustrated by the nigerian system. I also hope they implement it for Poly UME too.

Just allow us carry arms in this country. Most of this issues will vanish. You show up with a machete at night, we send you to your maker to discuss your reason for that.

Use a database if possible. You are more likely to need this skill early in your dev career. File I/O can come later.

Leave the center aligning issue for now and get the code working. Go back later and resolve the center alignment issue. Ideally you want to focus on one key problem at a time.

Ever since I saw them speak Yoruba in the Bourne Identity, the thought has been refreshed in my mind that CIA and the others have native Yoruba speakers. Also the fact that there's a brazilian/american interest in yoruba culture ensures they will always have Yoruba speakers at hand.

The strategic interest for Hausa is easier to understand. A solid corp of Hausa speakers can be deployed anywhere in West Africa especially Mali.

Igbo, well I wouldnt want to share my suspicions on that but definitely they have a population higher than the number of people speaking swedish on this planet so it makes sense for a super power to have a corps of people for such.

God help you if you break up and face each other, the americans will find it easy to simply walk in among you and yes they will be americans not igbos or yorubas or hausas and will gladly shoot you in the back especially if you are not from their "former" tribe.

Besides many Igbo/Hausa speakers will also speak other languages especially the widely travelled Igbo so its two for one in many cases.

People forget the sheer number of wives MKO had and also that so many of the wives didnt get that much from the final settlement of the will. I am happy she was able to get good education while he was alive and also able to take care of herself while he's dead.

That takes guts.

alienvirus: I always pity women that put on such high heels. They sincerely suffer in silence. How on earth will someone with right senses put any of these on?

Women! Over to you...

am a guy though but according to a friend of mine who has a few sisters, high heels were originally meant to accentuate your hips. They make you feel sexy because they arch your back a litte and make the...erm....hips... shoot out more.

You are not going to go far in this life with this attitude.

Anyone who read the subject of this thread would think she was a beggar on the street not knowing she was actually speaking with investors for a business idea.

And in fact she was impressive enough that at the end of the day they invested in her and in her business idea.

Stay there in nigeria yapping your mouth about someone who got more than 50000 pounds (N12,500,000) to launch her business idea.

sholasys: @ Akwa Ibom Exxon Mobil QIT Ebeno 2001 -2002. ohhh!!!! I can't forget Chika Eka (take-away chicken for Ekaete's)

My QIT peeps. Served in Mobil QIT too, 2008/2009 batch C. Where were you based? "Lagos" or "Abuja" or "MHE".

Free bus rides to and from home in the morning and afternoon.
Free lunch.( Buffet lunches if you eat at the "abuja" restaurant. Waiters wait on you if you eat in "MHE".)
Hyper-fast internet in the office and in the mobil housing estate (when I go there to resolve IT issues or change UPS batteries or on CDS days).
Monthly groceries.
Christmas and Easter free flights to Lagos (if you are lucky to pick a day when Mobil spouses are not filling up the plane).
Offshore trips at 5am.
Mobil taxis (Cool looking Toyota Corollas) that you can call to come take you to and from Ibeno when you have errands to run in town.
Snooker at MHE restaurant.
Tennis with the bosses at the Tennis Court near the Prison service.
Shopping at the MHE mall.
Tempest club for the adventurous corpers (of which I wasnt one. )

Ibeno beach...........Oh, Ibeno beach........Oh Ibeno beach......................

And Eket was so so so so so peaceful. Cool street names, Grace Bill, Liverpool etc

Real good times.

Not really bothered about the envy but I think it might be related to the age difference and employee status. Cant say too much but sometimes you have companies with two categories of staff with some permanent and some non-permanent. Many of them fall into the latter category and they are quite advanced in years( read significant age difference with me younger and sometimes required to administer group tasks).

As for the former friend, he stayed in my flat and i had to kick him out once I discovered my life and times had become a twitter trend in the office. Plus he had no respect for his host, coming in and out at all hours and bringing home strangers. He had to go. Quite bitter about the quit notice I guess but very skilled at hiding it.

Part of it is blowback for me in the sense that i still havent completely gotten used to ordering/administering older people. I am quite concerned (a bit too much) about how they feel but I must get the job done.

Thanks for all the tips.

As for the reply about objective self assessment, all I can say is life is easy to assess in hindsight. I probably got a bit too close and was a bit less guarded about how ok I was. Not advertising anything or boasting stupidly in the office (actually I dont talk in the office if possible, too busy working to resolve issues/monitor tasks or surfing the web during downtime) but just taking it for granted that people would be ok seeing you living life exactly the way you want it.

But its nice to see that its a very common issue for many people. (not sure if thats a twisted thought).

I am curious about this and would like to learn from the wider mass of people on NL.

How do you handle the envy of your colleagues?

How do you handle the former friend who keeps telling tales to all the other coworkers?

How do you handle the snide remarks targeted at staining your image?

how do you handle the open doubting remarks ?

and finally how do you handle unmerited full blown hostility from your coworkers?

build a small blogging site that allows you to

type in your blog article into a form and view the created blog.
the blog should also have an index page that lists all the blog articles created.
dont bother about logins for now.
the blog articles must have the following: author, date of creation, title , content.

step II:
create a page for viewing only one post.

step III:
make it possible to reply to blog articles by typing into a small content form on the single view page(that you created in step two)

step IV:
make it possible to view by month.

step V:
stop here, review your code and try to reduce the number of lines in the application without introducing new errors.

END


Do this and we can suggest other things later.

why hoard designs for an incendiary device in an age of hunter-killer drones-for-sale? Celebrate past achievements. accepted. But realise that technology has moved far beyond that now.

Nowadays rather than cower from planes or invent an ogbunigwe, we would simply buy a few SAM rockets and a few well trained and well hidden MANPAD units could wipe out a helicopter gunship platoon or two.

If you want to download: Google is your friend https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=membership+script&oq=membership+script&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.462552.467530.0.467806.21.11.1.2.2.0.1640.3038.7-1j1.2.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.EXdzg7NKxOc&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=b2d662643e7043e8&bpcl=35466521&biw=1095&bih=855

else:

create your user structure first. the other parts are modules to build after the main user structure is set up.

Think of unread,draft and sent as 3 subforums with inbox being the main forum. and each mail message is a thread.

photos too but you'll probably need to store images in different sizes.

1. If I can still walk, then its a flight to get to the nearest place where my loved ones can gather. Else. Flight tickets with mandatory acceptance to all my family members to see me one last time.

2. Call to the lawyer for any last minute will alterations.
3. Inform immediate boss of my impending permanent retirement so my company can replace me with another drone(To Fhuck with his/her brain, I'll do this in the calmest manner possible.. "Sir, I will be dead by this time tomorrow, here are my handover documents with key instructions. My annual performance report is in this folder. Please point me in the direction of the HR guy in charge of staff welfare specifically dead staff welfare." ).

4. Call Le Lover and tell her to show up for one last .................................................................................hug/kiss/...

5. Collate all passwords for all my social accounts and forward to next-of-kin to assist in funeral coordination. Leave final status messages on social network. Most likely a haiku...... 140xters........ (Epitaph to also be 140 xters.......)

6. Write my own obituary. (Cant let some half-literate printer spoil my dignified exit.)

7. Get Journey Prayers by phone from the pastor and any other treasured friends.

8. Pray Harder than I have ever done for all I love and for my sins.

9. With keyboard on chest OR voice search using microphone, search for 'heaven' on Google. .

10. Die with one hand on mouse and the other on Le Lover's breast... (of course ).

Link to 500 programming ebooks on this thread. https://www.nairaland.com/1076296/definitive-link-list-more-than

Will this include cyber-terrorism and what will be the definition for that?

I am posting this here because a former classmate wanted to have a link to some free computer science books for her masters project. The link below is a link to a master list of more than 500 free ebooks on a diverse range of subjects. If I have the time, I will progressively migrate this list over to Nairaland but in the meantime, you can have access to the source list which is still being constantly updated as more resources are discovered.

Stackoverflow.com link for the Free Ebook Link: http://stackoverflow.com/a/392926


Enjoy.

The Cup will most likely be won by a West African team. So So many of them.

7 strong footballing nations.

CIV
Ghana
Mali
Nigeria
Niger
Togo
Burkina Faso

Just to congratulate you guys on the awesome job but to also let you know this is not the end of the road. The high fives only go so far.

Do us proud by coming up with a plan for the next stage. Quantify what needs to be done--> story plans, storyboarding, plot writing, concept expansion/improvement etc.

And also be reminded that you dont have to do it all by yourself. Just as we are proud to realise we have such great animators as yourself among us, please know that we also have great writers, artists and other diverse creatives who can help bring this to the desired state. Strive to make this both a company of repute and also a movement of note.

God bless.

In Ara oh.

Where are the Igbara-Odo peeps?

Am curious about the town and also more specifically the history behind the split with Igbara-Oke and of course the Oke-Ode/Odo-Igbara dichotomy within the town.

any developments in the town in recent times? any cool places?

Is there any good reason for an indigene to move back to that town?


Also interested in other towns too including Ilawe, ikogosi, ikere (that tiny town. hope they have stopped using buses that look like mobile bread loaves).

So the dying squeaks of a frustrated old bigot become the embers to set alight years of latent tribalist feeling....

So if you are fighting an enemy, the most sensible thing in your opinion is to leave their borders open so they can bring in arms and friendly combatants freely and to ensure they always have an escape route?

Abobie, You will make a great general someday.

If awolowo hated you so much then why did he ensure that houses of the Igbos in lagos and other realestate were not collected from them. In one case, rent was even collected on behalf of the owners and handed over when the war ended.

If awolowo hated you so much then why did he give the ACB(main bank for Igbo traders in the 70s) 3.5million pounds to restart so that Igbo traders could have access to funds.

If awolowo hated you so much then why did he save all funds that accrued to the South Eastern states during the course of the war and ensured that the cash was handed over to them once the war ended. This subvention was at the rate of 990000pounds per month calculated for every month of the war.

If awolowo hated you so much then why did he fund the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria as a way to help rehabilitate the eastern states.

If awolowo hated you so much then why did he ensure that Igbos with proven accounts got their money back from the different banks. The only losers were the ones who had withdrawn their money and converted them to biafran notes. their cash was essentially worthless.

Awolowo is a much maligned man. Read about the civil war in his own words here

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/newsflash/exclusive-chief-obafemi-awolowo-on-biafra-in-his-own-words.html

SUMMARY
Awolowo ensured that houses of the Igbos in lagos and other realestate were not collected from them. In one case, rent was even collected on behalf of the owners and handed over when the war ended.

Awolowo gave the ACB(main bank for Igbo traders in the 70s) got 3.5million pounds to restart so that Igbo traders could have access to funds.

Awolowo saved all funds that accrued to the South Eastern states during the course of the war and ensured that the cash was handed over to them once the war ended. This subvention was at the rate of 990000pounds per month calculated for every month of the war.

He also funded the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria as a way to help rehabilitate the eastern states.

He also ensured that Igbos with proven accounts got their money back from the different banks. The only losers were the ones who had withdrawn their money and converted them to biafran notes. their cash was essentially worthless.