₦airaland Forum

Qrous: 1.here is Sokoto state: corpers paid #1,000 to open an NYSC account wit UBA...UBA/NYSC later cancelled the partnership n returned [b]#460 [/b]back 2corpers with advise to re-open a new one with First bank(though,all av bin rcivin alerts since Monday) except oda banks' corpers

2.jus 2 LGs av bin paid Federal allawee in Sokoto nd no state yet...doz of us using ETB are likely nt 2receive alerts/payment until afta d completion of the merging with Sterling bank.

So, where is the remaining balance?

DrugDoc: I thank the NERC Chairman and Prof. Nnaji and GEJ for hammering on the power issue. I hope Nigerians have learned their lesson from the fuel subsidy saga to support the privatization of PHCN. It may be expensive, but it will be available once the private sector takes over.

How do you mean by we have learnt our lesson from the fuel subsidy, and what in what way do you want us to support the PHCN sale? My friend, you got it wrong! Ok, my question is, since the fuel subsidy has been removed, have we started the journey to the 'paradise on earth' promised us, not to talk of being there?

My point is this Govt. and the ones before it have never lived their promise. So your assertion or seemingly lesson is wrong. Please don't stampede us

leomaxx: CAN YOU CHANNEL YOUR ENERGIES INTO EDUCATING YOUR STATE GOVERNOR TO LOOK INWARD FOR INTERNALLY GENERATED REVENUE INSTEAD OF DEPENDING ON ABUJA FOR FREE OIL MONEY ?

Yes, true federalism would be more of it. Then, we can all actually look up to our Governors, Local Gorvernment Chairmen and Councillors.

Every one will careless about what happens in Abuja or inside Aso Rock. If Paypay and Jona like, let them stay there for the rest of their life. Na me and my local rep get talk.

Mynd_44: Can you also channel your energy into telling that good for noting shoeless ret-tardy who lives in Aso-Rock to wake up from hibernation as the country is burning?

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This is what happen in a country that pretends to be practicing (true) federalism when we all know the truth.
Part of solving the problem of this country is through true federalism, meaning, I don't need "shoeless re-tardy who lives in Aso Rock to wake up" to my needs. All I need is the state Gorvernor and my Local Government Chairman and the councillors who I voted for to represent my interest locally.

I wonder what sort of people live on this nairaland. Instead of you guys to discuss objectively about issues, trying to make concrete and reasonable suggestions, all you do is trivialise every issue and attack one another.

This is not how facebook and twitter is used in advanced countries. If you care to know, people and Government in foreign countries monitors these social platforms in order to have a pulse of the nation on issues.

I'm sure GEJ and co would have been fed up with our nonesense here because they would not have learnt anything serious here other than seeign us poopooing one another over what is not. A word is enough ...

AjanleKoko: It's a bit complicated. Technically, the church isn't liable, [b]since the parents did not sign any agreement to keep their kids there.
[/b]But they can be held liable if negligence can be proven. It's a big church, with massive crowds, and they need to take more care with security. I'd say the parents should take them to court, if they can find a good lawyer. I'm sure there must be other cases similar to this.

That bolded part is not true from a risk management perspective. It becomes the church's (implied) responsibility to keep every one on its premises safe the moment they enter into the church's premises because they are business invitee to the church.

Business invitee in the sense that the church is a registered business under the CAC.

Don's feed us what is not here.

cyril83: "no money to transport ourselves to work"...dats vry funny,ao abt ones dey av paid dem,av dey squanderd it all?....u guyz had beta serve wit humility.

12 inches!:
Ode!!! It sure say u neva serve b4...Under the sun ko inside the snow ni.... Me I'm not a slave so I shud get paid for my work... Bleep the NYSC sef....It shud be scrapped. Why does Nigerian govt enjoy acquiring liabilities sef...

That Cyril of a person (weather na guy abi na gal, who knows) na mumu. him/she no get sense at all.

treasure_mi: as bad as our govt be,u guys sef no dey try.ur ppa shld provide accomodatn & transportatn.ur allawie is for feedin.u shld stil av som money in d acct na,abi u jus lavish d money on frivolities?d money will b paid. Abeg make we hear word jare.

E be like say you never serve for your life before. The previous allawee was paid in early march, and in camp for that matter, when we don take am chop for mammy finish becos of the mumu food wey dem dey serve us.

u carry dat ur big mouth dey talk nonsense. oloshi. weyrey!

I can't stop laughing.

Me, I don run commot for Kogi tay-tay! Olohun maje, emi ke?

yOu better pack your load and run back to your father's house.

service ko, service ni!

Weather Buhari or Jonathan o, all of them na the same thing.

True Federalism to the rescue ... that's what I stand for.

Let every state develop at their own pace ... Let them contribute to Abuja. Then the presidency and the craze for Abuja will be reduced.

Secondly, If I'm from Osun State, and Aregbesola messes up, I know his family compound ... do I need to spell it out?

Even some hospitals signpost says "God heals, we cares" .

Our problem is that we have allowed religious belief to take the better partbof our life. You'll see a Nigerian prayig over what he's suppose to take care of. When you call his attention to it, you'll hear him say: God forbid.

We turn God into everything; God is NEPA; "God, please let there be light o."

God is traffic warden; "God, please let there not be traffic o"

God is water corporation: "God please let there be water in the tap o". Whereas, God has given us everything for us to survive. Na wa o!
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Honestly, I don't know what to say. But really, that woman should just go to where ever she wants to go. She surely has not done this country any good since her foray into our economic lexicon.

Her supporters would like to flaunt the debt repayment as a record, but let me tell you in economic terms, there is no where in the world has any country pay her debt in one full swoop , cross check it , that is a fact. Besides, after the payment, what did she get in return , demoted to a lower ministry. Which signifies that that act was not appreciated by her masters because it was eventually found to be shoddy, thus the demotion.

Come to think about the fuel subsidy imbroglio. She never showed class. Her supposedly economic explanation can not hold waters. For anyone that can decipher a lire, you will be able to tell one time that this woman is being economical with the truth. Just recently, a journalist asked her a question based on what she has just said. My finance minister denied ever saying that, at best, saying that was not what she meant. The foreign journalist said to the minster of finance, federal republic of Nigeria, that she doesn't know what she is doing. Is that the type of person that will manage the financial affairs of the world? Do you think this people are daft. Please excuse me

I was posted to Kogi and my fiancee also presently serves in Kogi. But no no no no, I aint going now. I will wait till June/July. I'm damn busy with ma own thing.I kuku no wan serve before, na them mobilise me.

I have read all this tread about Ojukwu this, Ojukwu that, and honestly it is funny.

Well, in my place, no matter what, you dont talk bad about the dead. We all have our highs and lows.

About Ojukwu: I read the book written by Alexander Madibo; anybody (including any Igbo person) that reads that book will never pray for riot, not to talk of war. In addition, you will have a second though about the subject here. I shed tears on reading that book. And I hated the part where Alexander could not disband his men at the war front, because he was told, inside the plane by Ojukwu, that they were actually running away from the war. Madibo fainted; his men were left without a commander.

Ojukwu must have had his own faire share of contributing to the project called Nigeria. Please, let the man rest in peace.

Wale Balogun K

As beautiful a place to share intelligent and scholastic ideas as nairaland would have been, some idiots would not allow intellectuals like us to appreciate the platform. They will always show the stuff they are made of by cursing and abusing one anothe.

What has Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba has got to do with the list. Does it mean because someone's name is not there makes him innocent? Or does it also mean that because somebody's name is there makes him guilty? How do we judge?

I like tge person that said everybody that sold their vote for whatever should be listed among those that looted this country.

Wale Balogun K!

I don't see any reason for this comparison. I think we should rather be ashamed of ourselves, wether public or private school graduates, that none of our so called ivory towers was amongst the top 1800 in the world ranking, that's one.

secondly, it is also a shame if after four, five years in the university the world bank is now training our graduates on employability skills, because a study's findings showed that Nigerian graduates are not employable.

fellow Nigerians, it is not a matter of how many first class, but what is the worth of the first class. I made a third class from the university of Lagos in maths/statistics, right now I'm on contract teaching statistics with spss at the Nigerian army school of finance. i did not know anyone there before you'll say it was arranged. besides, i was not engaged based on my degree but because of the other trainings i have gone through. my class includes a capt, three PhD and others. there are some of my colleagues with 2.1 that are still looking for work while i run my own thing.

I'm not saying we should not eulogise those with first class, but the number of first class grad a school churn out every year may not be the parameter for measuring the quality of a school. the wole soyinkas, gani fawehinmi and kiyamos of this world didn't make first class, but their impact can be felt.

Someone narrated the sophistication of which these guys carried out the kano attacks and i wonder if an Iman, his deciples or any other Aboki i know and interacted with is capable of doing such without a training synonimous to that of Nigerian army.

These guy dared the security men including the almighty army and until now there is no any single image of a captured, wounded or even dead boko haram member shown to us during the friday face off in Kano. It was clean operation!

If there is no Boko haram or any bombings in Nigeria US will not have any excuse to come into Nigeria and i tell they very eager to come. This is more than GEJ, army or the police. This US playing there script and i tell you it is working.

Somebody asked up there why is China, UK (our colonial masters), Russia, etc not saying anything about boko haram and terrorism? Or dont they have interests in Nigeria?


[color=#006600][/color] Honestly, this person makes the most sense. Wait a minute, have you people forgotten that it is this same US that predicted that Nigeria will disintegrate in 2015? Now, if someone predicts that you will fail, will that person wish you well?

Honestly speaking, if only we could open our sense and leave the religious and bigotry nonsense behind us and face the issue: the US can not help us in this matter. Take a look at the countries they have assisted in this regard, what is the end of them. They will just make a sensation of us, and we'll be the worst for it.

What can be done, at worst, is for Nigeria to send our own people with our own money to go and train on counter terrorism. Or are we saying our own people are so dumb they cant be trained to fight terrorism. They are even the best for the job, because they knows the terrain and culture more than the US. I have said mine o

Honestly, the truth be said, yorubas are more accomodating than any other tribe in this country. ask any non-yoruba person that either schooled or served in yorubaland they will tell you more.

the yoruba parents sees other people's children, irrespective of their tribe, as theirs and treat them well with the believe that since they dont know where their own children will end up one day, they have the assurance that he/she will receive the same treatment they meet out to others.

I have seen a couple of ibos too who are nice, or let me say a handful of other tribes i have been fortunate to meet and they are nice. which ever way you look at it, Yorubas are accomodating.

by the way, should there be any reason why we should not be tolerant of ourselves? Walahi, i dont deal with people based on their religious belief or tribe. I have met muslim brothers who duped me, who were not sincere with me in our dealings. likewise i have met non muslims and non yorubas who are my brothers till date. Honestly, i dont see any reason for this discussion given our present circumstances

Wale Balogun K

The truth said: anybody that advices you to stay back in Nigeria to study a course like pharmacy does not like you at aaaaaallllllllll. No matter what the point of arguiment, this is not a place for you to study any course. Ghana will even be better. Not even the private universities in Nigeria. I wonder whether they are actually a university or an extension of their churches/mosques. They deprived their students of the whole essense of a university live. I wonder why a university will ban students from using GSM phone in this tiime and clime for what ever reason. Its an absurdity of the highest order.

Wale Balogun K

Well said my brother. I share that line of thinking too but we missed that opportunity the time we were only and adamantly pressing for reverting to status quo, ie N65 through a NLC/TUC that later betrayed us.

The strike and subsidy thing was an opportunity for us to call govt at all levels to accounting for thieir actions or inactions. But we missed the opportunity. And I think we have missed. May be GEJ wanted us to make us of that opportunity but we failed to see it as a chance

My brothers in the south-east did not join the protest because , accoding to them, they have been buying fuel for more than N100. But now that it is N97, how much would they now buy it.

The struggle is not about subsidy, it is about fighting corruption. The whole thing about subsidy from inception to where it is today is a fraud. We don't need it in the first place talkless of removing it.

obowunmi:
my friend, you are on point! you are on point.

You see, the truth in this country is that we can not move forward with the type of attitude some commentators show on this platform. people do not take issues objectively; they always attack personality. Your pieceis the only one that catch my fancy. *sigh*. honestly, i'm confused.

Well said my brother, particualrly on the boko haram issue. As you may have seen, the special Jumat service that was held at the Freedom PArk Rally was to actually denounce boko haram and their activities by the conference of islamic organisations.

All muslims were represented at that garthering, and majority of the muslim leaders in lagos in particular came out to speak against boko haram. they stated it unequivocally that boko haram is unislamic and that we dont have any problem against christains.

Wale Balogun K

The President's speech does not sound convincing at all. They are still continuing in their bad way of marketing themselves. The speech has no reconcilliatory tone, it sounds very undemocratic given the situation that brought us to this situation in the first place. I personally expected a speech that will speak to the psyche of the people; making them understand that the government feels their pain and that the government hears and understanads their plight.

Whoever is writing the president's speech is not doing a good job. Even the president's posture during the televised speech does not look like that of a person who really understands what his people are going through. I don't think his body language will even assuage the supporters on this matter except that they will not just see it because of their support for him.

I would like you to compare this morning's telecast of the president's address with when Gov. Fashola of Lagos is talkiing or giving speeches; he talks to the mind of the people. But this president has not shown that attitude.

I'm a student of risk management, and my study includes so many areas, which includes crisis management. And I'm looking at this whole issue from the risk perspective as it affects every facets of our national life.



Wale Balogun K

I could not but cry ( ) after reading through every one's post on this tread.

It is now I know that we are not one.

One day, this country will collapse like a pack of cards. I shake my head in sorrow.

i dont believe it either. an average nigerian will never resign from such a position. if there is anybody that ought to resign, it is sanusi lamido sanusi.

Thank you for the Busy Brain for the observation. You may as well pass on the message so that it gets to the right place and people. It is very important that we keep our schools safe for our children if we have to meet the primary objective of a school as a place of working and learning for staff and students respectively.

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Education is central to development and it is a fundamental building block for poverty reduction and human development which is essential for inclusive economic growth. However, if the primary objective of education is to be met, it is very important that students stay in school and remain safe to complete their educations. This requires that classrooms must be a safe place for learning and should not entertain the problem of school-related violence against students. It requires that everyone in the educational system must do what is sensible to keep pupils and teachers safe and healthy as practically as possible.

The Safe School Initiative is geared towards developing a framework that will reawaken the awareness and enthusiasm of every stakeholder within the educational sector towards taking proactive steps that will mitigate every risk exposure and crisis situations that comes with unsafe and unhealthy conditions and environment in our schools. The practical utility and benefit of this initiative is that it will make all concerned stakeholders to realise the risks that are unique to our educational institutions at the primary and secondary levels some of which are dependent on developments in the society (microcosm of society) and the risks faced by an educational establishment that are not different from those facing any other organization in the Nigerian society (educational institutions as an organization) so as to address the problem in line with global best practice.


The aim is to bring to proffer the means of dealing with the burning issue of how to manage the health and safety issues as regards schools in accordance to global best practice, with the objective of rekindling the awareness and interest of all stakeholders within the educational system in creating a safe and healthy school environment so as to maintain a positive and welcoming school climate that is free of accidents, crisis, hazards, violence, intimidation, and fear; an environment in which teachers can teach and students can learn.

You are therefore urged as a stakeholder: either as a member of a school management board; a school administrator; a teacher; a parent/guardian; a student; a school clinical officer; school psychologist; social worker; guidance counsellor; program officer; or even a family or friend outside the school community, to lend your voice and support to this initiative in order to encourage the safety and welfare of students and school staff, protect school property, and regulate the operation of the schools during a crisis, critical incident or medical emergency; prepare students and school staff to take appropriate actions in response to a natural, technological, or school specific hazards; and provide parents and community stakeholders with the policies, guidelines and procedures that schools will be utilizing during an emergency.

Your valuable post in terms of suggestions, constructive criticism and their like are welcomes on the post. Lend your Voice, Support a healthy and safer school