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kemkem30:
I got my own tetfund sponsorship as a University lecturer under the Academic staff training and development fund category.

Sator:
And how exactly have I been uncivil towards the OP? Can you show where I have been discourteous?

I was Replying AreaFada2 and talking about landlords in general based on my own experience house-hunting, that's all. SUCH a statement as the one I referred to, is indeed inane and that cannot be downplayed in any way as an uncivil statement.

Meanwhile the fact that you faced challenges due to racism and/or xenophobia in a foreign country does not in any way mean that the same nonsense should not be criticised in Nigeria! And at least in a civilised nation you can report such landlords to the appropriate authorities whereas all we can do in Nigeria is rant. So please you should let us rant freely about where the shoes hurt.

Your points about Nigerian tenants sound valid but last I checked, it's not the landlords duty to do law enforcement, although I partly agree that it is the landlord's prerogative to do background checks if he so desires. Making choices based on perception of who is a trouble-free tenant based on work hours - especially in Nigeria where anyone can "form activity" and step out all day - is a joke. The world is way flatter than that today, what with virtual offices and all.

I have a friend who's a freelance programmer and as such works at home, and he has problems with his landlord cos "he's always at home pressing computer like a yahoo boy" and he's been given a quit notice. If that isn't folly spewed by a self-acclaimed educated landlord, then I'll like to know what it is.

mayorcastle78:
Decent & big Mini Flat @ oyewole str, palmgrove, beside ilupeju, lagos [rent:- #300k p.a - a year rent only]. *Call:- Mr Emmanuel 08022784180 & 07057696150.

dreamcometrue:
so far, 6 people have called. I need 40 more people!

Sator:
You are spot on!

I tire for Nigerian Landlords. Always discriminating without thinking out of the box about other use cases.

In a civilised country, once you get rent, even if you like sit at home and loaf, as long as you're paying rent on time and you're not a problem to the neighbourhood/society or in trouble with the law/police, who gives a damn what you do with your time or whether you have a child or you're married?

Is the landlord your parent or are we back in a boarding school or secondary school hostel again? Some will even add tribal discrimination.

E.g. "I want only working class Igbo or Delta single woman without children. Preferably a banker who leaves home early and comes home late".

That is utter nonsense. Property searches are difficult enough in Lagos without people complicating things with inanity.

Missyrety:
Glory to God I just received my approval mail from Abuja.i applied at teleperformance Abuja.my latest start date is 13th of October.i hope to be able to get my passport on Friday.please how long does it take them to return passport to tp in Abuja?

hydrazone:
It's at the University of Liverpool. Sponsor is Tetfund and it's full sponsorship. My starting date is January so it's 3 months already. . I've applied for ATAS but yet to get a response from them

alizenbohr:
@ meiloya,
Have u collected your visa from the VAC?

perfect08: Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!!

I connect to this testimony IJN.

alizenbohr: Bro, I tap into your testimony o.
I applied & submitted yesterday and hoping (by faith) for collection mid-next week.

Pls, did you receive any mail earlier that your documents have been forwarded to or are in transit to British High Commission?

chimkaire: Parking space's bigger than the apartment

bookface:
^^

I suppose this question is a bit too difficult for you to answer, no?

especially given that the OP's original post was

and the same Tanimola, whom you found his post very inspiring, would like to know which specific "kind" of mathematics he's good at.

"I deal with well educated people, bla bla bla and the world revolves around my ego bloated, empty headed, face "

Most people i know don't go about asserting how smart they are, people who do are more likely than not, suffering self esteem issues, usually from their own deficiencies in the field they claim to be "experts" in.

I suggest you be the one to bury your head in shame, not unless you could provide examples of people who are only experts at one field of mathematics and suck badly at others.

bookface:
I'm starting to have the feeling that I'm merely wasting time discussing with a dun[i]c[/i]e , whose IQ probably bears the same digit with his age.  First and foremost, i never mentioned that I'm a Reading graduate, or do you suffer from dyslexia too?

Second, if you read from the very beginning, in this case, I'm assuming you have any smartness in you to understand the simplest bits, I have clearly mentioned who i believe an expert in a certain subject should be.

bookface:
^^

I suppose this question is a bit too difficult for you to answer, no?

especially given that the OP's original post was

and the same Tanimola, whom you found his post very inspiring, would like to know which specific "kind" of mathematics he's good at.

"I deal with well educated people, bla bla bla and the world revolves around my ego bloated, empty headed, face "

Most people i know don't go about asserting how smart they are, people who do are more likely than not, suffering self esteem issues, usually from their own deficiencies in the field they claim to be "experts" in.

I suggest you be the one to bury your head in shame, not unless you could provide examples of people who are only experts at one field of mathematics and suck badly at others. 



House, see this one is asking me questions with questions. Can you just see the naija mentality clearly being displayed here- Gush. I asked, T22 or yamazu moderator, a simple question and the so called learned graduate responded with another question.

It is obviously that you have lost it. Pride will never make you see road. I will give you time to google and come up with good and well articulated answers.

You are intellectually pathetic. I know some non-hard science grads on nairaland that would argue more sensibly. You are clearly and definitely not one of them. You are no more coherent.

I am beginning to sense that I am wasting my time. Imagine asking questions when asked a question.

Poor logic!

bookface:
^^

don't be stuppyd, whatever is wrong with goggled names?

Mathematics is a broad discipline, YES!. .but it's also a discipline that cuts across each other. Defining expertise come with objectivity. In my view, you're an expert in a field as long as you can apply existing knowledge or abstract thoughts to solve practical problems in such fields.   There's no rocket science involved;

If you aren't good at Calculus and Algebra, there's no way you can claim to be an expert in Differential Equations----if you aren't smart at differential equations, there's no way you can work on complex variables----if you aren't smart at complex variables, there's no way you can be an expert in group/number/knot theory.

Many of the individual names i listed up there have special interests in specific fields or another, but more likely than not, they do have expertise in unrelated mathematical disciplines.  

Saying[i] "I'm a mathematician who likes statistics but hate algebra"[/i] is pathetic and laughable.

I don't see how it will add value to what is being discussed.  Much of what was in the initial post had an insulting tone to it and on second thoughts, i feel it's best if i don't tow that line.



So, tell us, Mr Solid Maths Graduate, which "specific field"  of maths graduate are you? I'd assume by the rubbish you've successfully posted up there and also given the broad nature of mathematics, no individual can simply lay claim to being a maths graduate, No?

bookface:
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
János Bolyai
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Karl Weierstrass
Bernhard Riemann
Carol Alexander
Paul Wilmott
Damiano Brigo
Phelim Boyle
Gunduz Caginalp
Louis Bachelier
Peter Jaeckel
R. Scott Morris

------- are all called mathematicians, because they've embraced mathematics as a way of life.  The fact that some of them have chosen to specialize in a specific field does not necessarily mean they aren't hot shots at the rest. 

Case in View: Carol Alexander.

Carol Alexander studied something in the line of algebraic number theory; she taught advanced econometrics  at Oxford; taught calculus at an advanced level at Reading/supervised phd students working on game theory; worked as an Algorithmic director; wrote books on Market risk analysis; has written dozens of journals on topics in advanced mathematical theory and computer programming.

If you've found a student who's only good at statistics but sucks badily at calculus, then you have simply found yourself a book worm and i suspect that you, my friend, are a book worm, not a mathematician. That you come on a public forum to announce your knowledge of ODEs and PDEs plus how you've spent donkey years studying the history of mathematics, plus how you've dined and wined with Alan who? all the more proves you are just a normal everyday guy who happened to stumble on a few maths textbook here and there.