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Bibi is a very funny man. Nowhere in the Middle East is Israel liked by anyone, let alone the Iranians. The West must have itself to blame for everything that happens in that region. Is there a reason why Palestinians can't have a state? Is there any sense in the endless land grabbing the Palestinians are facing in their ancestral homes? No.

Before the Second World War, the people of Palestine have been living in peace with their Jewish neighbors. Nobody harmed them. Event changed after the war. The idea of Zionism was born, and many of them started trooping back to Palestinian land and forcing them out of their homes, killing hundreds of thousands of them.

Israel is a strong country in the Middle East today only because of the aid America has been giving them for long. With their F-35 Adir, they have air superiority against any country in the region. America has been arming them with their most advanced weapons. So, no country is a military match for them. No Muslim country in the world operates the F-35, not even Turkey, an important NATO member country. Not one.

Many Palestinians have die, and will continue dying in the hands of Israel. No doubt. But the Israelis will always have a war to fight. And its no peace for anyone.


Resistance against oppressors don't die. Look at how ISIS, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban. It goes on for as long as men draw breath. Many people join the resistance because they've lost loved ones.

The aid money Israel has received from its supporters since October 7th is enough to turn the economy of Nigeria for the better. The money they spend on a daily basis is just too much.

Humans are very dynamic. You can't force yourself on them.

Islie:
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The earlier we Nigerians let the pricing of things to be determined solely by market forces the better. God knows I'm tired of this petrol price news everyday. We should all learn to adjust our ways and do better things with our lives. The lives of more than 200 million people shouldn't be controlled by the price of fuel abeg. Like tomatoes, the price of everything should be left to be. We buy when we can, we stay away when we can't.

Who decides what year a student sits for WAEC, or even start attending university in Nigeria?

Obviously, it is the government. There are many ups and downs to starting tertiary education at 18 years or above. I have seen how mental maturity helps a lot of secondary school students to be composed and focused on their studies, with the serenity and calmness of adults. They learn more easily, understand more broadly, and even have a wider perspective of life. To sum it up, I would say these young adults already have a purpose of being in secondary school - to learn as much as they could, sufficient enough to earn them a place in the course they wish to study in the university, and above all, the career path they will want to pursue.


As it is well known, many other students still do well in secondary school even before their 18th birthday. A simple example is the overall best student of JAMB in 2022 who couldn't secure admission to study chemcal engineering in UNILAG because of their age restriction. One must be 18years or older before studying in UNILAG.

I am not the government, I do not think its my place to question why they made it 18years as the minimum age required to sit for WASSCE or university admission. In the little corner I have been working in a secondary school for more then five years now, I have learned alot about the ambition many students have for themselves and their relative performance in JAMB as regards to their age. The best six students of our that scored 240 and above in JAMB got those marks at their second or third attempts at the exam, which corresponds to one or two years from the time of their graduation. At best, they got less than 220 while in SS 3 - their first attempt. Though,l we even had one that scored 310 whilst she was in SS 2.

I hope there are other angles to my point of view. Thw school I work is good. I would rate it 5 on a 0 to 10 scale. It's a relatively cheap private school with students paying less than ₦60,000 per annum.

We also have a lot of parents wanting their kids to skip classes. Some would want their kids to write WAEC, NECO and JAMB while in SS 2. Worst case scenario, we have had some students spending only four years in the secondary school - JSS 1 and 3, and SS 1 and 2 only. Yet, they get less than 150 in JAMB, and the local universities here will give them admission.

I think the examination bodies should come up with clear guidelines as to how old a student must be before sitting for WAEC.
Must a secondary school student be 18years before sitting for WAEC and NECO, or must the student be not less than 18 before finishing said exam?

I believe the minister's announcement was incomplete and not detailed enough to capture the main points of the message. WAEC registration is usually done offline using a software that requires NIN, but no NIN online validation to harmonise between the information provided by applicants and the one on their NIN database. JAMB does better at this. They only use an applicant's NIN and all their information will automatically come up. If WAEC and NECO could upgrade their systems and emulate this, there will be harmony in the database of not only Nigerian students, but all other citizens as well. It raises suspicion as to why will NIN be a requirement for WAEC and NECO registration, yet it is not in any way used in the process.


The minister should clarify on the matter, and give schools enough guidelines to ensure proper compliance.

Kindly share your opinions on the initial write up.

These people and I finished secondary the same year.

Many of us never had a decent secondary school education. Thank God 2e did well in the university.

How I wish no Nigerian will ever cheat in their WAEC exam. We would seen a lot of educated people manning our various aspects of life.

Only God knows how many Nigerians of under 40 alive today sat and passed their WAEC fair and square. God forgive us!

Leemzyy:
Nigeria is totally becoming something else

Is that Halima Gazul?

To be honest, if this woman is one of my acquaintances, we'd get along like a house on fire.

I like it when people type correctly, both in grammar and punctuation. Even better when they speak correctly.

The woman had a fair share of good education. Not this generation of Nigerians that wrote WAEC with their smartphones. Nigeria used to be sweet when many people were sane.

Nwaotu10:
"Check up on" is indeed a phrasal verb, and using it in a sentence is grammatically sound. In this case, your grammarian mom is incorrect on that point.

To check on someone is to make sure there's nothing wrong with them.

To check up on someone is to make sure they're doing what they're suppose to do.

The mother is correct, only wrong to say that 'up and on don't go together.

liminna:
This author selected facts to support his pre made conclusion. Education and economic status are better than tribe for predicting behavior of Nigerians.

Rich folks and traders stayed home, the opposition politicians and the hungry came out to protest.

You said everything man! Everything is stated in black and white.

Nigeria my country

Nigerian education has been reduced to its lowest. So one can get admission into this private, and many other public universities with a JAMB score of 150.

We are not helping the young people of this country at all. Even person wey no fit read go fit get 150 for JAMB aswear.

Like the way you named the sponsors of terrorism and banditry in the north during Buhari's rule.

We don see shege for this country. No body sabi use future tense pass these security operatives.

Protesters aren't really your problem here. You fail to secure the north properly. Bandits are now the government of many villages. They kill, rape, maim, tax, and everything. Many farmers can no longer plough their fields. People have never been this hungry for the past 30 years of my life, and you expect them to do nothing. Starve and die.


Nothing concern northerners with una thief-thief habit before. Na now wey hunger dey hammer even farmers una wan talk nonsense.

I live in this country and also go through the Nigerian thing daily.

Just yesterday, a student of mine called and told me that his dad has been kidnapped and they are demanding 10m as ransom. The father is a rural Fulani man who resides in a remote village. Two years ago, he brought this boy to us and told me he wanted his child to be educated and live a different life. The boy finished his JSS 3 yesterday and travelled back home to his remote village. That same night, the boy phoned and informed me that his old man has been kidnapped the night before his return home.

The police will never intervene in such cases, and worst of it is that, cases of this nature are seldom reported by the news.

Nigerians have every right to demand change, and better lives. Nobody in the city I live trust the police, people are even afraid of them because extortion always follow.

At least the ENDSARS protest succded in disbandind the SARS unit of the police.

Demonstrations are part and parcel of every successful democracy.

To deny, or discourage people from venting out their anger at those who made them angry is tantamount to letting the oppressors continue with their oppression, knowing fully well that there are always a group of Nigerians that will prevent the masses from demanding change and accountability on the people they elected with their votes.

I will not participate in the protest, though the harsh economic situation has also impoverished me. But I won't deter other people from exercising their constitutional right.

Does anyone have brand new Redmi note 12 pro 4g? 8/256gb.

LifestyleTonite:
Everyone wants to put on suit and tie even when their brain is not fit for western education. More than half of those in school really have no business being there. But since society has programmed us all to think you cannot make with without a paper called certificate, many now hope on education.

A girl who has acumen for business will abandon that to go study accounting in school so that she can graduate and start helping business people account for their money. This she does for a "take home pay" that can't take her home. After a while, she starts selling hair on Whatsapp status. If she had used the money spent on school fees and the four years spent on university education to focus 9n her hair business, she won't be relying on take home pay.

Go round and ask youths if they dream of becoming a farmer. Almost all them will say no; some might even curse you for wishing such on them. Yet we wonder why food is scarce. All these have to be considered to make things right. Sadly, some dumb people see this food scarcity as an opportunity to promote Peter Obi as saviour. How a people chose to package a fraud they know too well is baffling to me.

I truly blame Tinubu for being a gentleman. Man doesn't want to expose Buhari, that's why kids think Tinubu is the total cause of the hardship. They never knew that Buhari was patching things up with borrowed funds so that Nigerians won't say things got bad under him. If Tinubu wanted to be bad as well, he would have continued to patch things up and then dump it all on his successor. However, he chose to face reality, same reality many Nigerians don't want to accept. If Tinubu fails to steady the ship, he should know that a new captain will take over .

On this tomato scarcity, I heard it is caused by tomato Ebola. Ok, we agree. But how come pepper is also scarce? Does pepper suffer from the same disease? I think this is economic sabotage by the north. The region wants to do everything possible to frustrate the southern presidency. Food is 9ne of their weapons.

I'm glad Southwest governors have ordered the commissioners of agriculture of each state to meet and discuss how the region can grow its own food. I ask, why do most southern states have agriculture commissioners when the region can't grow its own food? Any state with such officers should sack them because they are blockheads. Look at the vast lands we have in our region. We also have rivers and the sea. Why is fish expensive? Can government investment in fishing and farming? I understand Lagos doesn't have enough land, but how about Ogun, Oyo, Kwara, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti? Even the Lagos that doesn't have land is investing in rice production in collaboration with a northern state.

Nigeria is dying and our leaders are not the only ones to blame.

There is wisdom in the first three paragraphs you wrote. Sane thinking Nigerians are very hard to come by these days. I hope we start setting our priorities straight.

Dysfunctional, cheap and low quality education has made many Nigerians aquire useless certificates that have no skill set attached to it. The government has been wrongly subsidising almost everything in the country for long, as against quality, honesty and ethical hardwork.

olaboy33:
Many might not know, current minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy was a co-founder of IBTC.

Spot him in the picture below.

Good job man! You've got eyes for details.

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Don't ever sit down and do nothing. There's a price we pay for inaction. That price could be wealth we failee to pursue because of our fear of taking risks.

Get a skill.

Even in my place in Kebbi we are facing a drought of magnitude never seen before. Many irrigation wells used for watering rice fields are drying up, the water table has gone down significantly. Even the well in construction site has dried up completely.

labake1:
You will say that you are looking for a man that don't smoke, drink and womanized. I was told that it is hard to get all in one person.
If he doesn't smoke, he will be a drunkard.
If he doesn't drinks, he will be into hard drugs.
If he doesn't drinks and smoke, he will be a womanizer.
If he doesn't drinks, smoke and womanized, he will be into gambling.

I actually don't do any. 30 years of age. I've never done any of these things.

People are still out there

noobody:
No one uses mi browser again,

It is now chrome by default.

So you are the only one ooo

Thanks man!

noobody:
You are on global rom,them wan byforce you switch to chrome so Switch to chrome or a better browser,

Another option,download mi browser APK,sideload and install.

Before that go to the content center you said you have,clear cache,data,force stop and uninstall updates

I already did all these, yet still the same problem. But, am I the only person experiencing it?

Luu40:
Hey guys. The Mi Browser in my Redmi Note 10 Pro has been converted to Content Center. This happened after I received an update from Google Playstore. Even if I uninstall and reinstall it at again, a few minutes in using the Mi browser, it kicks me out and convert it to Content Center. And the Content Centre only shows Youtube video feeds, no browser at all.

I hope someone can help me out.

Device is Redmi Note 10 pro MIUI14.0.8, Android 13.

Anybody with solution to this problem?

Hey guys. The Mi Browser in my Redmi Note 10 Pro has been converted to Content Center. This happened after I received an update from Google Playstore. Even if I uninstall and reinstall it at again, a few minutes in using the Mi browser, it kicks me out and convert it to Content Center. And the Content Centre only shows Youtube video feeds, no browser at all.

I hope someone can help me out.

Device is Redmi Note 10 pro MIUI14.0.8, Android 13.

Trex4:
Good day fam.

i have a kind of issue right now. My mi 9t pro since 2019 decided to give up unexpectedly. The screen is no longer reponsive, but it lights up and shows the wallpaper. But the phone doesnt respond to touch.

Went to slot and they billed me 134k for the screen. Is the price okay? im even thinking of just buying a new phone, but i need to move my files like Google authen from the old phone.

Is there a way i can access my old mi 9t pro and get the files out? maybe an app that lets me control the phone from a PC. What do you guys think? Need suggestions please.
Thanks

cc Noobody Genius43 Grandmufti

If you're only worried about Google authenticator, then you can use an OTG cable to connect an external mouse to your device. This should work and allow you clear up the things you want to since the phone is still alive.

State police is the way forward. Probably this is the beginning of decentralisation in Nigeria.

We use to be very good farmers in the north. With this, probably, we are going to start something for ourselves.

University education in Nigeria is just too cheap. There are still universities especially in the north where school registration is not up to ₦100,000.

JAMB cut off mark is also too low to, so virtually everyone who sits for JAMB scores 140, and will be in the university.

Two things: low tuition fees and high student enrolment. These two things can cripple any institution, and the quality of education they offer is very very poor.

It's time Nigerians pay well for the services they want.

Government cannot be shouldering the responsibility for every everything in this country.

My opinion.

FTC

successmatters:
This government is idiotic. Seyi Makinde has now become the police and army, civil defence, immigration and customs at the same time. He might even chase the suspects to Mali if not advised.

When brainless people are in government, you will know.

Nigeria has not had any institutions in the past and that's why thw governor has to do it himself. Sometimes it is the presidency that gives a directive to the police to do their jobs. I think we are lacking in almost everything in this country.

Two days ago, I had a conversation with a businessman in my area. He deals in many things; building materials, cement, and other smaller things.
A day before we had the conversation, one of his boys told me he took delivery of a cement-filled trailer from BUA Cement, Sokoto. The boy told me the cement-laden trailer was not offloaded because his boss planned to send it to Niger Republic via the Argungu-Bachaka road. The boss had even sent one of his boys to "gyara hanya" meaning 'to settle all security agencies on the route so that his trailer will just pass and go when it sets out for the journey' . And so it did - the security agencies on all the checkpoints we paid and the trailer made it there. The goods we sold to buyers in Niger Republic.
Back to my conversation with the boss. He told me whenever his goods make it into Niger Republic, he's paid in Franc CFA currency. After his drivers return hone with the CFA, he will send the money via other drivers to Abuja and have it exchanged for US dollars. He didn't tell me what he does with the dollars afterwards.
End of conversation with Alhaji.
Secondly, after the initial removal of subsidy, prices of almost all commodities went up, but stablised. Fast forward, it was in January, 2024 that things went from bad to initial worse around here. People realised that they could export even our most basic items in huge numbers (causing scarcity and rise in demand here, making the items more costly) to Niger Republic as we are not up to 100km away from the border. They are currently making alot of money as their number is always growing.
The evening of the day I had the conversation with Alhaji, an associate of the local chief - Emir of Argungu told us that the emirate council has made moves mo prevent people from uncontrollably exporting our food items to Niger Republic having liased with the security agencies. As this practice have almost made rice and building materials unaffordable to most people. This move by the Emir caused the price of some things to start reducing little by little, and we later learnt that new security agents have been brought in from Abuja and the have prevented all trailers and small vehicles from exporting anything. But the locals around here, though happy with the move, don't trust the security agencies as they believe they will allow them to move midnight.

In my opinion, I think we are making life more difficult for ourselves, though the shape of the economy is also bad. Security agencies are also accomplices in creating these problems. Any truck or trailer that brought food or other essentials to our towns must have paid alot of money to those people manning checkpoints on the roads. And some rich and powerful businessmen have hoarded many goods in their stores, not selling, but waiting for the price to rise as high as possible, kicking many small business owners out of stock of many essentials.

STEWpid:
Chai..


Time for other cement companies like Sokoto cement to start selling and gain prominence!!

Many people are already buying the cement as if nothing happened.


Even when it gets to N20,000, some people will still buy.


The effects are only dawning on Mekunus.

Its now BUA Sokoto Cement.
Sokoto Cement is now in the hands of BUA