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oluwaseyi1759:
This post is centered on why most Mechanical engineering graduates don't go into private practice after school... So what's your take on this?

I believe you are inly trying to reframe or rephrase the post. But the answer is 'it is because they are not trained to do so'.
And it is not only in Nigeria, you need to know that it is the same all over the world. For a mechanical engineer to venture into private practice after school, he/she has to be technically and practically trained to do so.
The car repaires you see on the road in UK, US, Canada, Australia are not Mechanical Engineers. They are either those who passed through apprenticeship in the workshop, those who went for automobile technician training or those who maintain their family business. But the fact is they cannot exist if there are no mechanical engineers who design, construct and test the auto parts. It is still the work of mechanical engineers they rely on and it is the same practice all over the world.

The point is that the OP and others like him and many Nigerians are ignorant and poorly educated about who Mechanical Engineers are. There is no where in the world where mechanical engineers does the job of an automobile technician. The automobile aspect is just a fragmental part of what mechanical engineers are taught in school. Nevertheless, a mechanical engineer who desire to be an auto repairer will have to go and be trained to do so. They are two different disciplines.
Have the op wondered why a Medical doctor cannot open a psychiatric clinic? Is a medical doctor a psychiatrist? Your answer will tell you why a mechanical engineer cannot open an automobile workshop.
The Mechanical Engineers are behind the design of those automobiles, they are behind the design of the moving parts, they are behind the design of the mechanism and the fluid flow in a car BUT not behind repairs of any broken down autos, thats another field entirely which is Automobile and there are institutions in Nigeria who offers the course.

I have suffered in the hands of ibadan property agents in the past o. Let me give you 3 of my experiences
1. Taken me to a property, after payment and cleaning up the property, got there the third day to fix the electricity and met another tenant already packed in.
2. I got a building on lease for business and after spending time, energy and money in ensuring the place looks fine before i moved in, while repainting the structure one day another man who just relocated from Lagos came with his properties in a lorry. I ended up paying more after the normal payment because we had to involve the landlord to settle the rift and the solution was i had to add more money because the agent did not tell him i was gonna use the place for office beside the fact that he only paid the landlord one quarter of the money i paid him telling him i only paid him deposit, as for the lagos man's money, the landlord did not know about it. I ended up allowing lagos man to live in the BQ until he got part of his money back and find another place.
3. The first house i rented in my life after starting work, i lived in it for 2 months and i was asked to pack out by the lawyer who is the authentic person in charge of the house. The agent who collected money from me did not even inform the lawyer about me, not to talk of paying him. I ended up squatting with a friend before i saved another money to rent another place because i never set my eyes on him again till now, this is now over 20 years ago.
Ibadan agents are nothing but extortioners, exploiters, rogues and most of them are 'never do well'.
The good ones among them are very very few.

It seems like a senseless thing, but i think if all naija pastors, imam and religious leaders organise the same prayer the same week in all churches, mosques and spiritual homes, who knows the prayer might be answered.
But am sure they can't do that because they are part of the problem.

Wait i dey come

michoim:
PDP agents massively into raising false alarms because of 2023...God curse all looters(PDP)

Thats exactly what you did against Jonathan in 2014, you showed them the way.

They are smart people and they know the game they are playing with us. Na we masses wey dey follow them no get sense.

Kastonkastroll:
Talibans might be some radical islamic group but these latest propaganda by U.S media is becoming boring. America, you lost the war. I know is shameful but you guys should move on jare.

Which war? Which news did you read?

indadi:
My Dad called me this evening to tell me the essence of praying. The thing is that I don't believe praying solves anything Atleast to me. the day I stopped believing and started working more on myself, I found out that things started getting better for me than those who goes to the Church and Mosques.

When I think about a lot of things I have read and what I have experienced I feel like I have always been deceived all my life.

The Pastors and Prophets with their fake miracles or the Boko Haram and their suicide with the reasons of going to heaven to get virgins.

I currently live with them though I plan on moving to my own place by the end of this year or early next year.

I really want to tell them in a polite way so they can accept my way.

My Dad won't accept this, as he believes that it is God or nothing.

Your Dad is very correct. It is Jehovah God or nothing. Talk to Jehovah's witnesses arond you, you will learn better why you need to worship the ONLY true God.

indadi:
My Dad called me this evening to tell me the essence of praying. The thing is that I don't believe praying solves anything Atleast to me. the day I stopped believing and started working more on myself, I found out that things started getting better for me than those who goes to the Church and Mosques.

When I think about a lot of things I have read and what I have experienced I feel like I have always been deceived all my life.

The Pastors and Prophets with their fake miracles or the Boko Haram and their suicide with the reasons of going to heaven to get virgins.

I currently live with them though I plan on moving to my own place by the end of this year or early next year.

I really want to tell them in a polite way so they can accept my way.

My Dad won't accept this, as he believes that it is God or nothing.

Your Dad is very correct. It is Jehovah God or nothing. Talk to Jehovah's witnesses arond you, you will learn better why you need to worship God in spirit.

Who is fooling who?

SavageResponse:
I hope you plan to run this business yourself especially at the early stages...if not better just leave your money in the bank!

You have raised a very good point which i really understand, i have done some businesses with naija before which all led to loss. Thanks.

Daniiel:
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Thanks for this info sir

viralmaged:
Are you looking to be a private security contractor? If yes you will need to register With the Nigerian Ministry Of Defence since it involved carrying Arms.
Another thing you will be looking into cyber warfare which Nigerian security outfits lack, you have to put up a team of proficient cyber security experts to use modern technologies to track down and invade bandits/terrorist hideouts.

The most difficult phase is getting Licensed.. you may want us to take the discussion further.

A security guard company i meant

Daniiel:
Ur security outfit wud be registered by civil defense .... And if you can have phone tracking devices that will help... Just equipment and logistics too are also needed

Thanks for the info. Can you recommend any specificdevices and equipment?

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gbolah1:
Senator Ajimobi’s government is suffering from information dissemination malady. Please overlook my Zebrudaya grammar, it’s only because I am angry with the Oyo state government media team, seriously angry.

Whatever the governor does, good or bad, he is left alone in the cold to defend himself to the extent that one is tempted to think they are planted there by opposition to work at cross roads with their boss.

 

Otherwise, while would a very laudable move like the Ibadan chieftaincy commission that should earn the governor accolades  across the city turn round to be an albatross hanging precariously on his neck, if the government has a capable media team.


Ibadan

With all the plethora of media personnel, from the commissioner to senior sepecial assist, special assistant, senior media adviser, media adviser, media consultants and officers, the government media presence is almost nonexistent.

Yet, it didn’t start today. At times, I wonder whether the governor does not know his media team is so alarmingly weak or he simply let them be.

Ibadans are really angry on this chieftaincy matter and the anger is deep, no thanks to lack of information by the government. The people see it as an affront to their culture and Oba not an elevation and modernisation as the government intended.

Had this been properly explained to the people, what should normally have engraved Ajimobi’s name in Gold would not have turned out to be a huge liability on his political balance sheet. Indeed, the media team has successfully tuned a gold medal to an also ran.

Like I said, it didn’t start today.

First, the 5billion naira his wife was allegedly caught with in London during his first term. I took it as what it was a palm wine bar gossip in Oje or Beere but was shocked when a level 12 officer in the ministry was asserting it with all vehemence in my office.

Won ti ko owo wa lo tan, won mu iyawo re pelu 5 billion. They have stolen all our money. They caught his wife with 5Billion. I said 5 billion? Yes 5 billion cash with all emphasis she relied.

Then I said, which Airport, Heathrow or Gatwick? Won sa mu. They caught her.  Why was the woman not taken to court because in England nobody gets away with an offence like that-money laundering. Won ti fowo pari e. They settled them with money.

I ignored her but she went ranting and when she was getting too much on my nerves I decided to pick her up.

Madam, you said 5 billion? Yes 5 billion cash. I said I am sure you know what a billion is? Before it came out of my mouth, she said yes, 5 atofo mesan. 5 and nine zeros. I said yes .

Madam as a level 12 officer, you sure know what 100 thousand is, to which she replied a pack of 1000 notes and quickly added that 10 of which make a bundle of 1million.


Ajimobi

Then I said a billion will be a thousand of that and that 5 billion will be 5 thousand of it. She nodded her head. It was then I went for her jugular.

Madam, how many trunks would contain that amount of money, 10 at least? Even n dollars it would be some boxes.  And you think Ajimobi will risk ferrying 10 trunks of cash though Murtala airport under a PDP government and went ahead to rail them through Heathrow airport. I don’t think the Senator would be so daft.

She went cold having realised the foolishness of her assertion? The lady did not alter any more word and was gentle like water in a bowl till she left my office.

Now, did I have to do that when there is a media team for the governor? They left him alone struggling to defend what ordinary should have been waived off by a media officer with sound logic, yet it was in the air for months.

Now the guy is making roads which are not costing peanuts.

From Gate to Adegbayi, from Oke- Adu to Gate, from Idi Ape to Barracks gate along Olonda road and one other.

People are grumbling everywhere. Who sent him to build roads, after all people are still using the existing ones?

There is communication hiatus. Nobody is telling them that people spend as much as 3 hours on busy days on the stretch from Idi-Ape to Ojunrin.

Nobody is educating them to the effect that vehicle staying on the road without moving end up damage the road. They are not being informed that vehicles do not like idling. Nobody tells them that traffic grid lock means more fuel consumption. In all, nobody is tells them the cost implications of all these.  Is it my job to do this. You know the answer.

Fayose’s all boys children are out there spending money like water but somehow he gets the press silent about it. The news you hear about them is the one who graduated from Covenant University which his media team turned into Michel Jackson best hit-bluer than blue.

You see, Fayoses children are schooling in Nigeria unlike APC kids. Of course, some of us rubbished that. If Fayose wants to be a role model he should have sent the boy to the University at Ado-Ekiti. In any case, Covenant University is as expensive as a low-fee- University in London. Perhaps the guy could not even meet the admission requirements.

 

In Ibadan, Ajimobi’s daughter’s attempt to defend his father when some nincompoops were abusing him was turned against the governor and went viral like a flash. The man was left alone to wriggle out with no noticeable support from his media team or did I miss something.

Back to this Ibadan chieftaincy declaration brouhaha. I have tried to engage some Ibadan indigenes on this twice and I am convinced that if this had been explained to them, it would have turned out a success and Ajimobi would be smelling of roses.

Our discussion went something like this.

Why would Ibadan be different I asked them. See, in Ijebu, Awujale is sitting there in all his majesty, while Ijebu-Igbo, Ago- Iwoye, Odogbolu, Ikenne and many big towns with paramount rulers are each a maximum of 20 minutes away from Ijebu-Ode and all Ijebus know their number one king. Oh, No. that is their culture, Ours is different, they answered.

Ok, what of Egba? Abeokuta is not half of Ibadan yet they have 5 paramount rulers in the same town. Osile of Oke-Ona, Olowu of Owu, Onigbagura of Gbagura andOlu of Ibara with Alake of Egbaland as the first among equals. No that is Egba not Ibadan, they chorused.

I am proudly Ekiti and feel so good as an Ibadan boy, my sate does not have as many vehicles as Egbeda and Lagelu combined yet we have a king almost every 10 kilometre, I preferred.

For effect I added. Guru Mahraji to Moniya will take you about 60 minutes drive by which period a crazy driver would have gotten to  Osu or Ilesha in Osun state. Yes that is their own, Ibadan is different, it is our culture. They cannot do this with the emirs.

I reminded them that in recent History Abacha dethroned a reigning Sultan. Babangida banned the emir of Kano and Ooni of Ife from travelling out for 6 months, we still drank our Akamu the following day, I replied. They accepted.

What do you call culture? It evolves and never static I said. At a time if you had twins you better let nobody know. Now, people have quadruplets and even ask the government to take then over their feeding.

At a time in Yoruba land, when an Oba died, you had to burry some people with him but today nobody dares. Before, the king would just take anybody’s wife and add to the harem in his yard without anybody as much as lifting a finger. If a king does that today, he will stand in the box with his crown and beads. They listened and I went for the icing on the cake.


ooni Ogunwusi

Ok gentlemen you want Ibadan state? Yes why not. Ok, if the government approves it for you tomorrow you will accept? Yes of course they chorused giving a look like what is this fool asking us. Who will refuse a state?

Now, by next week the president says he wants all first class Obas from the South West in Abuja. EKiti goes with 20, Osun has 20, Ogun goes with19. Eko has 15, Ondo flies in with 21 and the new Ibadan state goes with 1, does it not seem like something is wrong somewhere ? Silence. End of argument.

This is what the media team should have done. A one hour questions and answers time with a top Ibadan man or woman in government on the radio and TV with all stations anchoring would have done the job.

Before we are through with this, there is one very important aspect of the declaration which many people missed out because nobody told them- the average age at which the Olubadan ascends the throne.

They all get there aged because of the many rungs on the ladder they have to climb. At that age they have lost the vigour and strength to be effective.

Government says the ladder will be shortened so that an Olubadan will ascend the throne younger with more strength to do the job. The Ifes went for the younger Ogunwusi instead of his father because he is still young. If his father had been chosen, it is doubtful if he would have been as active as the younger one.

The way out is to explain this issue to the Ibadan people and let them know they have much to gain in this declaration. You cannot force it down their throat.


Oloye Lekan Alabi

There is no way they will get a state with one King and it pays them to have a young Olubadan as against the octogenarians they end with all the time.

If the media team cannot do this, let the Governor flush them out and bring fresh hand. Or, they go to Lagos government and study how they do it there.  Alternatively, the governor should organise a seminar for them on ‘ how a governor enjoys a good press’.

My friend, you need to realize that every town has its own culture and government should not be the one to dictate how ibadan obas should be crowned. are the obas politicians? i think every governors always say that obas should not meddle into politics, then how will they not meddle into it when they are appointed and crowned by the governor? You have not really addressed the main issue here, ibadan people are not fools and they are aware of his tricks and thats why they are angry, one million media aids will not change their minds. if ibadan is given a state, will it be only Ibadan in that state? The job is not the governors own, it is the responsibility of the traditional rulers in ibadan to see to that if they realise there is need for more obas. He has only politicised everything against 2019 for his benefit and thats what an average ibadan person knows. Why does he tamper with a system that is working when there are towns in the state that has not got obas for many years due to one crises or the other and he does not deem it fit to resolve those ones? Why did he go ahead to crown the obas when there is a court case against the action while you he has refused to conduct local government because he claims the matter is in court? so many questions begging for answer here.

So sad we have this man as governor of oyo state.

A former Governor of Oyo State and the Osi Olubadan of Ibadanland, Senator Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja has ridiculed the 21 newly coronated Obas in Ibadan, describing the coronation as a “theatre”.

Ladoja who warned members of the State House of Assembly against being compromised when the issue is being taking to the house declared that “I saw what happened on Sunday in Mapo as a theatre, it is a stage play”.

The former governor while addressing journalists at his Ondo Street Bodija Ibadan residence shortly after observing the Eld-Kabir prayers on Friday, disclosed that the so called “Obas are being appointed by the government and not the Ibadan traditional institution”.

Ladoja however said that the new Obas can be removed from the office even if they spent 15 years on the “government assigned positions.”

He insisted that the government does not have any power in dabbling into the traditional institution.

“That is not the duty of the government to tamper with the 1959 declaration. The 1957 law was Chiefs laws. And we told them that it was Ibadan Chieftaincy Declaration of 1959. So we told them that it is not their responsibility. We are not having Olubadan of Oyo State but Olubadan of Ibadanland. Why are they bringing people from Ibarapa, Oyo and Ogbomoso to review Ibadan declaration.
“That is why we are in court that it is not the responsobility of the government to review the Ibadan Chieftaincy declaration.

“As you can see, the government is not interested in anything apart from the Ibadan traditional institution now.

“What happened at Mapo is a theatre. It is a stage play, I saw it as a theatre as far as I am concerned. It is not important to me, I don’t attach any importance to it. He said he will bribe the House of Assembly to have his way when it gets to them.

“Have you ever seen a situation where an Oba will be coronated on Sunday, they said they have gone to Ipebi within three days they issue letters and coronated them on Sunday. Ibadan Obas are coronated on Friday.

“I am only want to warn the legistlature that they should go to back to their constituencies to know what the people that elected them want.

“This is not only Ibadan matter now, it is Oyo State matter, after Ibadan, he will go to Ogbomoso, Ibarapa and Oyo. It is an issue that is not limited to Ibadan alone because he said Ago-Are is having 3 Obas, why not in Saki?

The former governor while dispelling the rumor that he also set up a commission called Adio commission of inquiry however asked the present state government to tell him when the commission was set up and where they had their sittings.

He said “It is not true, I did not set up any commission called Adio commission, I did not see it as important because I was more concerned about Oyo State. I took decision and Oyo State improved in education, Oyo State came 5th during my own time in WAEC. Saki, even Fiditi has not got Oba, why do you want to change thing that is working? I want to tell you that I did not set up Adio commission, if Adio is alive, tell me which day he was inuagurated and where they sat.

“You don’t get it now, the Local Government election is not conducted because there is a court case, the house of chiefs has been suspended because there is a court case, are you saying that there is no court case on this issue, we have went to the court, if you take advantage of the court, you should also take the disandvantage of the court.

“Let us wait, if they influence the local court, they cannot influence the upper court. Even an Oba that has spent 15 years can be removed, so they can be removed.

“Nobody is talking about how LAUTECH will get its shape, how many people are choosing LAUTECH in JAMB?, they are going to UNILORIN that is about 30 kilometres from Ogbomoso.

Speaking on why he is the only one among members of the Olubadan-In-Council against the review set up by the Governor Abiola Ajimobi led administration, Ladoja posited that most of the people supporting the review including the new Obas could not differenciate between the governor and the holder of the office.

“I don’t know because I am not one of those who opted out, what faces somebody is backing another person. Some people could not differenciate between the governor and the holder of the office. Maybe they are doing solidarity for Ibadan boy. When Akala said he want to make some Baales as Obas, the whole Ibadan rose against it”.

Ladoja speaking further, remarked that the whole exercise was a fraudulent activity.

“They said reccomendation 4, where is 1 and 3. There is also reccomendation 12, where is 13 to 98. This government, you can see that the government report is fraudulent. When they started they said it was 1957 and I told them the 1957 was Chiefs Laws, and now they are saying 1959, you can see that the government is inconsistent

“I told you that the government is fraudulent, I see this as illegal, there is no time that I tell them that what they are doing is right. Not a member of the commission has a copy, they signed two and the government took them away. Nobody has a copy of the white paper.

“Let me tell you that I don’t have any issue with Ajimobi as a person, I have issue with the government. Ajimobi is my younger brother but I have issue with the government. When I started, I said I want to become Olubadan and not Oba Otun Olubadan or Oba Osi Olubadan”.

http://dailypost.ng/2017/09/01/ibadan-ladoja-ridicules-21-new-obas-says-happened-mapo-sunday-theatre/

moneylords:
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still expecting

moneylords:
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Still expecting

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ochobaba:
For short rest or over night?

hmmn! Olosho Specialist.

What about those that are already working?

halimi26:

That is why they have decided to give all Nigerians the image of being scammers because they hate it when blacks outsmart whites.
It doesnt tally with their commentary of how blacks are mentally inferior to whites.
When we do it,we are criminals when they do it and succeed,they are smart.
Who are the greatest scammers in the world if not whites?
From their financial markets to their shady business dealings everywhere in the world
Even the Present U.S President is a full-fledged scammer who brags about his past scams

Even the Whites scammed us by amalgamating Nigeria.

But why!? If to say na for Naija, dem go talk say na money ritual the girl wan do.