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lecturerdabo:
Rogers, Reeves, Don Williams etc cant do without them!!!

Those are country music genre; not classicals

My dear corper, just stop complaining and do something to improve the situuation. The irony is that if you're serving like I am in a village in (don't want to mention it) state, you will be thankful you're in civilization.
Even at that, NYSC allowee is never enough. Don't mind all these people telling you to minimize your costs and save. Except you're buying suya and coke everyday, the reality of living in Abuja is what you're experiencing in 3D.
My humble advise, please paste adverts for home tutors at strategic locations. Tell parents in Churches. Get another job if you can, and liase with your boss, explaining your living condition to him. You now have to be hardworking and sleep less if you want to make ends meet in the city. That's why it's very good to have learnt a money-making skill while in school. Most students will be going about with big gadgets, spending money on girls and all, while in school, thinking life will sort itself out when they reach that bridge. (I am not abusing you...)
That being said, please open keep your eyes open. They say when life gives you stone, you're either building a wall or a platform. Best regards!

Every rational Nigerian is supposed to back this pastor and bask in the truth of what he said, rather than castigate him. I personally beleive that Buhari will be humiliated again come 2015. Something about his intentions just doesn't feel right. Not all (retired Military General) that glitters is gold!

Orikinla:
[size=18pt]Ignorant fools don't understand why Ndigbo want GMB to win.
Igbos have lost billions of dollars to insurgency ravaging the north since 1999 to date and only a true Commander-in- Chief with proven military experience can guaranty the safe return and security of Igbo business men and women to the northern states. And not a weakling and woman wrapper like GEJ. The man cannot even find ordinary missing school girls and scared to visit the troops at the war front. [/size]

Speak for yourself, Mr. I am not Igbo, but everyone knows that Igbos are spread across every corners of this country and beyond. Hence, Northern investments are just not enough to bring them to their knees. As a matter of fact, I think your people would have preferred to settle more in yorubaland who are more hospitable and prosperous. Besides, would you really bet that Buhari has the midas touch to insurgency? Not all (ex-military generals) that glitter is gold!

My dear op, life must be hard enough for this young man, and I think you should not make it harder. As long as the guy has not turned up at your doorstep with a gun, you should cut him some slack. If you really wanted to help him, get him a job and fix him up to a responsible lifestyle, rather than thinking of getting him arrested for begging. Haba!!!

I was very vexed when I saw the live transmission of the programme on Tv yesternight. Anyway shaa, I take comfort in the fact that come January 2015, it shall be the centenary (100 years) celebrations of Mary Slessor stopping the killing of twins in Nigeria. Let's see maybe the 'giant strides' of PDP or ACN as the case may be, will ring a bell in another 100 years if this world is still on.There is providence oooo!

This very one tastes like horse shit. I wonder if the company knows they have a better tasting competitor with a very delicious product. I forgot their name self... But I think those ones should also launch the bigger sized pack. BTW, na you sabi. They didn't write "to be eaten by only children" in the pack...

Alot of informed Nigerians just wake up and start saying alot of funny things about the Nigerian armed forces. We may have a weak government; but never a weak Navy; Army and perhaps airforce. The type of advanced armor tanks I saw in the convoy of the Army; on the way to Ikot Abasi yesterday made me repent about my beliefs about the military. I pray I never get to see those ones in action. And I am not talking of the baby armor tanks they mount on carriers like you often see. I wonder what more lies in their weaponry!

APC snail sent to wipe out your PDP snail farm... lol. Quite interesting. Make it a pet by keelping in a lidless glasd jar with sand and green plants.

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rufdyamond:
Bro I disagree with u cos take for example crossing between a black and a white which produces(halfcaste/black ameerican) dat has been proved to be the bast human specie...some factors are dorminat for example the color and hair from the white parent and stuffs like nose shape and physical strenght from the black parent....my brother nt all dem writers re better dan u, so I think ur own personal research via experience matters most...

how can you as an enlightened individual bring a beer palour opinion to the internet? Saying that half caste is a better human species in the 21st century is so..... By the way, I did not share a speculation. Chrichton always mixes facts with fantasy. I could email you the novel if you wish!

Genes are not entities that can be picked up from independent sources. As a matter of fact, there are no genes for this or that! It is a capitalistic ploy to keep us spending our money for what we would never have; or worst still, give us a false hope against the reality of our lives! Imagine how a surgical implant for genes for beauty, youthfulness or brilliance like you claim would sell .... Go and read Next by Michael Chrichton to clarify your doubts. If you think its fictional, then does Dangote and Bill Gates or say Osama and Mutallab share the same DNA? since they all have things in common ...

You actually took hard drugs out of the shores of this nation, then you were caught and you now expect that the government shows you some sympathy? How do you think the fairness of justice would prevail in this our delicate world? Perhaps I could come rape your first daughter tomorrow, then send flowers to show how deeply sorry I am... We have enough problems back home, particularly the state of the naira, boko haram, our missing 20billion dollars and so on! We cant afford to import more. Sorry "brothers". Pray to God. Only him can help!

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Ahmeduana:
NOT UNTIL YOU SHOW ME AJEGUNLE, MAKOKO, EBUTE META AND OTHER SLUMS IN LAGOS FOR EVERY BEAUTIFUL CITY THERE IS ALWAY AN HIDDEN foko, bere, itamaya, fagge sabongari and dala!

You obviously don't know what Makoko, the floating slum is inspiring for Lagos. That community is a big share of the future of Lagos. If you know the plans the architect that built the floating school made up from the slum, it would kill you. Google more on the African Water Cities Project (http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/a-vision-of-floating-cities/)
Also, every city on earth has its fair share of slums. Even the best of them, so what is the big deal?
And to those of you shouting that the city is no man's land, or that it is the Igbo's that brought civilization to Lagos, you're so wrong. Lagos is a modernist Yoruba city where lots of her Yoruba owners have worked progressively overtime to contribute to its present status.
You need to know that it's a big priviledge to have early contact with civilization, and to hold on to knowledge. That is the strenght of the yoruba tribe and indeed, Lagos.

Olumikedos:
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google it, brother! find it out yourself! who knows, people could be paying you to do it for them someday.

for goodness sake, why are intellgent topics like these, that could benefit alot f people not in the front page?

kozaic:
EARLY CHILDHOOD...
I don't really know what this course entails I really saw how angry people who were admitted to study the course were.

PRIMARY EDUCATION
Guess a person would spend four years studying how to teach primary schOol students.lol

DRAMA
Why introduce this course when theirs THEATRE ARTS in existence?

FISHERY.
*exhales*

ADULT EDUCATION
Some one applied medicine and was given adult education...

HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES EDU.
Some universities eh...

MUSIC
* I comment my reserve*

But all the same no knowledge is a waste!

please just stop advertising your 'moroness' on the internet. So you want every Nigerian student to study engineering, medicine and law right? because I guess those are the choices your mum gave you, leading to success. Universities in the west now offers single courses about popular people. Education is about mental cognition and alertness, not actually centered about the target of study. Please be advised!

You probably never heard of them. They both are one of Nigeria's brightest minds in Technology. Since people in the tech industry are not rock stars, mainstream media may not feature their stories as much. One is Igbo, while the other is Yoruba.
Here is their Wikipedia profiles:
Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali (born in 1954) is a Nigerian -born engineer, mathematician ,
computer scientist and geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989
Gordon Bell Prize , a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection Machine
supercomputer to help analyze petroleum fields.
Biography
Emeagwali was born in Akure , Nigeria on 23 August 1954. [1] His early schooling
was suspended in 1967 as a result of the Nigerian Civil War. At 14 years, he
served in the Biafran army. After the war he completed high-school equivalency
through self-study. He travelled to the United States to study under a
scholarship following completion of a correspondence course at the University
of London [citation needed ]. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics
from Oregon State University in 1977. During this time, he worked as a civil
engineer at the Bureau of Land Reclamation in Wyoming. He later moved to
Washington DC, receiving in 1986 a master's degree from George Washington
University in ocean and marine engineering, and a second master's in applied
mathematics from the University of Maryland .[2] [dead link][ citation needed ]
He is married to Dale Brown Emeagwali, a noted African-American
microbiologist .[3]
Award
Emeagwali received a $1,000 [4] [dead link][ citation needed ] 1989 Gordon Bell
Prize , based on an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer for
computational fluid dynamics (oil-reservoir modeling). He won in the "price/
performance" category, with a performance figure of 400 Mflops /$1M,
corresponding to an absolute performance of 3.1 Gflops. The other recipient of
the award, who won in the "peak performance" category for a similar
application of the CM-2 to oil-related seismic data processing, actually had a
price-performance figure of 500 Mflops/$1M (superior to what Emeagwali had
achieved) and an absolute performance of 6.0 Gflops, but the judges decided
not to award both prizes to the same team. [5][6] Emeagwali's simulation was
the first program to apply a pseudo-time approach to reservoir modeling. [7]
Emeagwali was voted the "35th-greatest African (and greatest African scientist)
of all time" in a survey by New African magazine. [8] [ dead link][citation needed ]
His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clinton as an example of
what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity. [9] [dead link]
[ citation needed ] He is also a frequent feature of Black History Month articles in
the popular press .[10][11] [dead link]
Court case and the denial of degree
Emeagwali studied for a Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan from
1987 through 1991. His thesis was not accepted by a committee of internal and
external examiners and thus he was not awarded the degree. Emeagwali filed a
court challenge, stating that the decision was a violation of his civil rights and
that the university had discriminated against him in several ways because of his
race. The court challenge was dismissed, as was an appeal to the Michigan
state Court of Appeals. [12]....
read more at: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali
Likewise Olukotun
Olukotun
Oyekunle Ayinde (Kunle) Olukotun is a
pioneer of multi-core processors , a professor
of electrical engineering and computer
science at Stanford University and director of
the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory at
Stanford. [1]
Olukotun did his undergraduate studies at
Calvin College, [2] and his doctoral studies in
computer engineering at the University of
Michigan , under the supervision of Trevor N.
Mudge. [3]
In the mid-1990s, Olukotun and his co-
authors argued that multi-core computer
processors were likely to make better use of
hardware than existing superscalar designs.
[4] In 2000, while a professor at Stanford,
Olukotun founded Afara Websystems , a
company that designed and manufactured
multi-core SPARC-based computer processors
for data centers. Afara was purchased by Sun
Microsystems in 2002; [5] at Sun, Olukotun
was one of the architects of the 2005
UltraSPARC T1 processor.[6] In 2008,
Olukotun returned to Stanford, and founded
the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory at
Stanford after gathering US$6M in funding
from several computer-industry corporations.
[7] His recent work focuses on domain-
specific programming languages that can
allow algorithms to be easily adapted to
multiple different types of parallel hardware
including multi-core systems, graphics
processing units , and field-programmable
gate arrays. [8]
Olukotun is also a member of the board of
advisors of UDC, a Nigerian venture capital
firm .[2] He was elected as a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery in 2006
for his "contributions to multiprocessors on a
chip and multi threaded processor design".[9]
He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2008. [10]
Olukotun has used several words from his
African heritage in his research. Afara, the
name of the company he founded, means
"bridge" in the Yoruba language , [5] and he
has named his server at Stanford Ogun after
the Yoruba god of iron and steel, a play on
words since large computers are frequently ......
read more at http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunle_Olukotun
So who does it better between the two?

I wonder why topics like these don't make the front page, where we could talk about the implication such news has on Africa and all, yet such poo news about Ara's search for younger boys and so on, gets a bigger vote. This site is not a democracy.

An absolutely great idea that would be, till youth corpers starts absconding in their PPA's in Great Britain, India and other great places. Also, the yiibos would find a way to post all their children to the choice places on the globe, while yorubas and other tribes would be shipped to Syria, Bosnia and other less desirable places. I think I'll pass on that.. we've not had corpers all over the federation yet....

I think I like Mike Bamiloye better when he was Ishawuruu.. lool. Great family though, I think it's their humility that stands them out. We've had too many private jet riding christian rock stars in Nigeria lately...

though it's coming late, but I think you should know how common engineers are in Nigeria, with no impact whatsoever. Even your Mech. Engineering professors in school probably can't replace a spark plug in their generators, yet they churn you out like pop-corn to glorify your chosen profession when you are all a bunch of quacks. I have seen Elect/Elect students that can't replace a switch. Yet you want to recieve 500k in our PPA's. You reap what you sow, they always say.

[quote author=kay29000 post=26786812]I am also interested o! I was doing MSc in Agric Geography for a while, but couldn't complete it. I love Agric. I think I read somewhere that you must have started your little farm to an extent to qualify for the loan. Not so sure sha, but I know I read something like that earlier this year.[/ quote]
is that course studied in any Nigeria University pls? It sounds like an interesting prospect to me...

Goldenboy007: I hate it when people speak like local champions ! We won't have a black American president now if Obama or his parents had confined him in Kenya or if he had decided to relocate to Kenya. We Africans live and die in a small locality ! We never see beyond our nose that's why the continent is still backward ! We don't explore beyond our territory! The greatest discoveries were made by travelers ! Elon Musk left South Africa for the US and today he is one of the youngest Billionaires - Tesla cars and SpaceX, the guys that sold WhatsApp were immigrants and so much more! You claim to be a professional but you are just one bloody local champion - a one-eye king in the land of the blind ! I won't mince or mise words when I say Nigeria is light years behind their western counterpart in everything ! Should we promote mediocrity in the name of patriotism ? Your educational system is backward, your financial system is backward, your governing system is backward and corrupt ! So what the heck are you talking about? Your definition of progress is when a whole state voted in a criminal as state governor, influenced by bags of rice? Its only lower animals that thrive on survival instinct ! A Nigeria is now the VC of University of Illinois, I wonder if he had been in Nigeria he would be an HOD in one unknown university because VC position is a political appointment in his fatherland ! Break free of this your fatherland mentality because the world is bigger than Nigeria ! When you die and meet God, let's be able to tell Him " I lived in the "WORLD" as He had destined you and not as a local champion in your little village !

funny how everyone that leaves the shores of Africa goes on to become presidents in their chosen country, while the rest of us that chooses to stay behind, becomes HOD in one "unknown" university, or jostle for other menial jobs. If you obviously believed in destiny, you would know that you don't have to be in the U.K to be O.K (as they always say). These kinds of views are unpatriotic. You are the actual slaves, who jumps on planes to go to white man's land in search of greener pastures. Afterall, every sheep in the west is relishing the green, nutritious grasses!

well, let them all run away. It only gives more space for the rest of us that are dogged and intuitive to share the competition with foreigners who are trooping in daily to invest. The good news is that the foreigners will not be able to match our local knowledge. I'm sure that Dangote guy will be thanking his star that he did not remain outside the walls of Nigeria doing one stupid thing or another, early in his life. Today, he sits in the same table with Bill Gates. I am currently observing my youth service in Akwa Ibom state, where I see opportunities as plentiful as sand. Yet, alot of the people here, according to statistics, have migrated to greener pastures. There is a reflection being shared on Whatsapp recently, which read:
Funny Nigerians
1) When they loot money, they keep it in Switzerland.
2) When sick, they go to Germany.
3) When investing, they go to America.
4) When buying Mansions, they visit London.
5) When shopping they go to Dubai.
6)When on holidays, they visit paris or Bahamas.
7) When educating their children, they select Europe.
When praying, they go to Saudi Arabia or Jerusalem.
9) BUT,when they DIE, they all want to be BURIED in NIGERIA.
Abeg help me ask them, NIGERIA NA CEMETERY?

you better sit tight and finish your final exams strong? Why the hurry?? Batch C 14 is still on gound, ou know..

tilapia bone? be thankful. Many have died in such situation

I keep getting this strange call from an Hausa man, who keeps saying Al'salaam malequn (or however it is pronounced). I have tried my possible best to explain to the heediot that he has been calling a wrong number ever since, yet he keeps calling, sometimes daily, sometimes once in two days, saying the same thing in Hausa repeatedly. He has used about two different numbers now, I blocked both, now he is currently using a private number to chant his alsalaam.
I would like to ask how best to treat the animal, because I don't expect any rational individual to keep wasting his time, money and initiative, hoping that I would convert to his religion. Why do these Hausa Muslims think they can ram their religion down other people's throat? It's the hardened ones like this that blow themselves up in the north. I really don't understand all these things!

Mahatma Ghandi said something very touching! "You Christians are so unlike your Jesus!..." How rightly said, concerning the state of the Nigerian Church in 2014!

I've never addressed him directly, but Mr Seun, these are serious issues worth considering! I earlier complained about the shitty nature of front page topics lately. At least, yours is not the only user generated forum on the internet. Please get to know how Reddit functions and see what you could borrow (steal). The internet is a very competitive platform and I hate to see Nairaland go the dinosaur way, like Yahoo. Best wishes. (Who knows? I could have ideas for improvement myself)