Romance › Re: Lagos Fire Service Saves Man Who Used Sex Enhancement Device From Death by Motolank: 9:42pm On Jul 25, 2015 |
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Celebrities › Re: Timaya Refutes Rape Allegation by Motolank: 1:19pm On Jul 25, 2015 |
She s ugly |
Sports › Re: Obafemi Martins Flaunts His Kids In New Photos by Motolank: 1:46pm On Jul 24, 2015 |
Tolexander: Hope say no be David Luiz give birth to that youngest son wey Obafemi Martins dey claim! I have a colleague who was grandma at age 30. It's not Nigerian oo... She had her daughter at age 14 and she too had child at age 16? Forget naija late marriages I beg ! |
Politics › Re: My Ministers And I Will Be Prosecuted - Jonathan by Motolank(op): 11:25pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
angelberton: You mean pork was so sweet to them they looted billions of dollars to overseas?
They will never run out of pork again if kirikiri doesn't welcome them first. Lol |
Politics › Re: Buhari, John Kerry Hold Joint Press Conference (Photos) by Motolank: 7:51pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
PassingShot: I no like the pose of our president here o.  Yea...looks timid and unpresidential(allowed) |
Politics › Re: 5 Questions Nigerians Want Amanpour To Ask Buhari by Motolank: 7:45pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
Cutehector: Ask him weda his daughter is ripe for marriage She is ripe |
Christianity Etc › Re: Lagos Pastor, Okafor Donates N500,000 To A Boy With Lump In The Head by Motolank: 8:17pm On Jul 17, 2015 |
Taylor86: great
God bless
and the dude below hv been roaming the streets
pray one day u will find help Why not open a topic on this guy for help.... He looks bad |
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Politics › Re: Pictures Of Gombe Boko Haram Bomb Victims ( Graphic Images) by Motolank: 9:47pm On Jul 16, 2015 |
May GOD not forgive BH their sins |
Celebrities › Re: Wizkid (starboy) Celebrates Is 25th Birthday. by Motolank: 7:49am On Jul 16, 2015 |
25th? |
Romance › Re: Must See Things girls Hide From guys (VERY IMPORTANT) by Motolank: 7:49am On Jul 16, 2015 |
Guys deceiving themselves |
Agriculture › Re: Giant Fish Caught In Lake At IITA Ibadan. by Motolank: 10:34pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
Jagoon: Wetin you wan do with hin peniz Ashewo  Issokay |
Agriculture › Re: Giant Fish Caught In Lake At IITA Ibadan. by Motolank: 7:33pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
PastorKun: In response to the claim of a "monster" fish thread claim on this thread https://www.nairaland.com/2448843/monster-fish-killed-two-nairaland/3#up i decided to post the pictures of the fish my friend caught in a lake inside IITA ibadan which is by far bigger than the 'fingerling' being called a monster fish in the other thread.
lalasticlala dis fish is bigger oh  Is the guy whose peniz is showing your friend? |
Crime › Re: Man Arrested After Beating 2 Policemen In Abuja by Motolank: 8:55pm On Jul 09, 2015 |
bettercreature: The man should get an award its not easy to beat two men He is a Hero He should be upgraded to policeman...it will be difficult resisting his arrest |
Travel › Re: Help! Friends, Family & Former School Mates From Nig Are Killing Me With Demands by Motolank: 11:14am On Jul 09, 2015 |
astrodome: I pity your life Bro, if you think everyone is a loser, like you? 
Owning 2 cars is not a luxury in America for a family. And even with my 6 figure pay, you see that I am still complaining. What do you mean 'loser'? Olodo Six figure...  and sha happy for you that your topic made front page which was why you fabricated the story story. |
Travel › Re: Help! Friends, Family & Former School Mates From Nig Are Killing Me With Demands by Motolank: 2:00am On Jul 09, 2015 |
Goldenboy007: I am telling you, I was flabergasted too when i saw that ! For a research scientist ? That's a storm in a teacup !!! 3k monthly ? And has mortgage, probably car loan payment , utility bills and living expenses. What won't you see on Nairaland ! I know, telling us lie in broad day light  |
Travel › Re: Help! Friends, Family & Former School Mates From Nig Are Killing Me With Demands by Motolank: 1:49am On Jul 09, 2015 |
Sunofgod: Yeah - only associate with rich people - poor people are trouble!
(Bros - Can you lend me like $2000 until payday? Abeg!) When is your next 'pay day' bros |
Politics › Re: How America Gets It Right By Catching Them Young And Lessons For Nigeria by Motolank: 1:40am On Jul 09, 2015 |
astrodome: How America gets it right by catching them young
Many people have often wondered how America is such a great country. There are many things that America does ‘‘righter’’ than other countries in the world. One of them is the phenomenon of assimilating the best brains from all over the world (if you have a good education, a good work experience, and has something to offer, America would be interested in keeping you- folks call it brain drain) and the other is catching them young. These two phenomena have made America both the source and sink for brain power that would take years and years of hard work to match. In this presentation, I will dwell on the concept of catching them young, using an example from my own past work at University of Utah (UT).
If you are a university professor of any ranking (assistant, associate, or full), in the United States, I am sure you would have received letters from persons, requesting to intern or work in your lab, often without pay. ‘‘We just need that lab work experience’’ such letter would often end up with. Well, while serving as a Research Assistant Professor at UT, a position I held until last March, I had the opportunity to receive many of such letters. Two of them came from two very interesting sources: Tommy Fang and Jean-Luc Watson. These two names you will find in the accompanying photos. Tommy is an American of Chinese origin and Jean-Luc is an American of French descent. So, what made Tommy and Jean-Luc interesting for me? They were just high school (secondary school equivalent) students.
When I received their letters I thought to myself ‘‘what would these young kids do in my research? They will just be a drag on me’’. So I consulted a senior colleague, a full professor, Anne Anderson (also named in the photos) and she told me ‘‘duh!! We get these letters from high schoolers nearly every day. Just decide whether you want to have them or not’’. At that time I already had two university undergraduate students working in the lab, so I was not really ready to have the place clogged up with extras. But I thought, well, let me give them a try, it’s pay-free, after all. So I invited them over and when they came, I informed them that before having them in the lab, I would test them by giving them scientific papers to take home with, read and come discuss their understanding of the paper, next time. In addition to that test, they would, of course, undergo the mandatory laboratory training session which every new worker in American university labs undergo. Within two days, they came back and were ready to discuss. I was expecting some oral discussions, but they both had prepared PowerPoint slides from their papers. I was awed by their understanding of the subjects that I had no reason not to accept them - without pay, of course.
Cutting a long story short, Tommy and Jean-Luc worked with me and other colleagues for nearly a year. They would come in after their classes and work through the early evenings. Sometimes in the weekends they would come in to take data and do other measurements. Remember they did all this without pay. The product of their work are the two peer reviewed scientific publications exhibited in the photos. As teenagers, they already have scientific publications to their names, more so as first authors. Wow!!. Both of these guys have since graduated from high school, and on the strength of their individual brilliance, and supported by the recommendation letters we wrote for them as research mentors, they are now in top-short universities with scholarships, studying different scientific courses. You can only imagine what these kids would become in future. They got their scientific groove early. During the duration of their stay, we received another student, a Native American high school student, who came all the way from New York to work with us for 6 months.
These examples are snippets of how America gets its greatness going. It is traditional for young high school students to want to conduct actual research work in the area of scientific interest to their future. It was only strange to me because I had not had that experience (with high school students, I mean) before then. Before coming to America, I had been in laboratory settings for a considerable number of years in Nigeria, Belgium and Germany, and never, ever did I experience such zeal to engage at that early stage in life. This is a good lesson for developing countries such as Nigeria to learn from. The pool of brain power would always come from the young, not the aging or aged. Nigeria needs to start getting it right by creating the environment and culture where young students would become interested and motivated to pursue scientific and technological skills acquisition at the stage of their lives where they are most impressionable.
Nigeria needs to get her educational laboratories up and running again, and there should be schemes that connect basic academic pursuits to practical orientations, even from the secondary education level. Nigeria needs to start catching them young. While this may already be happening in elite private schools attended by the kids of the rich, high and mighty, it should be a routine for every kid. Brilliance and intelligence often come from economically emasculated minds. Issokey, pls send a friend in america too...some dollar, I will personally go back to nl and open a topic on how a nlader helped another in america...lol |
Travel › Re: Help! Friends, Family & Former School Mates From Nig Are Killing Me With Demands by Motolank: 1:37am On Jul 09, 2015 |
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Travel › Re: Help! Friends, Family & Former School Mates From Nig Are Killing Me With Demands by Motolank: 1:34am On Jul 09, 2015 |
Reddit: I sensed pride Yes bro.. he s not even in america! Where will he get 3k from every month? He's just building his castle in the air  |
Family › Re: Look What He Found Under His Bed (pic)! by Motolank: 12:51am On Jul 07, 2015 |
shikshark: i hope its not a developing sperm? Hun |
Romance › Re: Which Jollof Are You? by Motolank: 12:50am On Jul 07, 2015 |
Ghana jollo with tribal marks? |
Jokes Etc › Re: Hilarious Photo: Two Heads Are Better Than One. by Motolank: 12:47am On Jul 07, 2015 |
Stay there and deceive yourself? |
Celebrities › Re: One Of My Friends Chiling With Olumaitain On Her Birthday by Motolank: 12:46am On Jul 07, 2015 |
It's actually an hotel room. What the hell is olumaitain? Olodo  |
Politics › Re: The Bureaucrats Running Buhari’s Government by Motolank: 6:51pm On Jul 06, 2015 |
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NYSC › Re: Corps Member Doing Wonders In Benue State by Motolank: 4:04pm On Jul 03, 2015 |
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NYSC › Re: Fct Corp Member’s Take Change To The Street by Motolank: 5:56pm On Jul 02, 2015 |
From the last pic upwards the guys Johnthomas is obviously not changing |
Politics › Re: Heads To Roll As President's Anti-Corruption War Kicks Off by Motolank: 7:57am On Jun 29, 2015 |
lolaxavier: Baba, you don't need private investigator to catch perpetrators on nairaland. We know them already - barcanista, temitemi, oressmussomething something wey I no fit pronounce.  Please don't expose fellow nairalanders....  |
Romance › Re: A Short Story Of A Promiscuous Guy. (with Photos) by Motolank: 2:32pm On Jun 28, 2015 |
Ojestas: Don't be surprised at the next picture u ll see. .@last, the guy accomplished all his missions o. .bleeped two blood sisters at the nose of their mother. As they were having sex, the guy said "i never really loved your sister, its u i love. and all sorts of talk like that. They had sex outside there and the girl said to him; touching his lips. ."Never tell my sister something happened between us, she d eat me raw. As a sharp guy nah; The guy replied, i no be small pikin, biko. They had more sex.
Did u guys notice a wolf - like dog
Ok! The guy is a Nigerian? Right? |
Celebrities › Re: Toke And Maje: Celebrity Tales Of A Trophy Husband And His Trophy Wife by Motolank: 1:13pm On Jun 28, 2015 |
They are confused |
Politics › Re: Female Suicide Bombers Attack Hospital In Borno, Kill 3 by Motolank: 1:00pm On Jun 28, 2015 |
Hun, it's no longer shocking in Nigeria that someone died Rip to the dead  hoping it will end soonest |
Romance › Re: A Short Story Of A Promiscuous Guy. (with Photos) by Motolank: 12:31pm On Jun 28, 2015 |
Ojestas: They took their intimacy to another level. **Sorry for the censored picture, our Muslim brothers and sisters are in the Holy month.**. . .
They kissed and had fun. . They were lost in the lust that they forgot themselves at the river side. . Mother expected her daughter to come home. . She didn't see her, so she decided to trace them down. Am not a muslim...just put sign that muslim bro can't read this part so they will jump it...  |