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Wjames440:
Sorry what year is it ma'am?

2007

If you go to different markets in Nigeria today, you would see bags of milk like Dano, Lactorish and the likes being sold with measuring plates and cups from their bags and into smaller nylon bags to the buyers.

Also different types of cereals and sugar are also seen to be measured and sold that way to customers who prefer to buy such because according to them they are more in quantity and cheaper than the already packaged ones whose price have sky rocketed because of the prevailing inflation in the land.

It is the buyers and of course sellers opinion that those ones sold openly are the same as the already packaged ones which they claim are also gotten from the companies that sell the packaged ones, only that they are cheaper because they didn't undergo the long expensive processes of repackaging into shelve sizes.

I am really more particular about the milk, because on few occasions I have had to buy the milk especially the Lactorish milk albeit reluctantly though.
But the milk tastes nice and rich as the name implies. I have had to argue with some people that those particular milk are not for direct consumption because I feel they don't contain the required nutrients, but I allowed myself to be convinced into buying it few times.

Now the questions are: Are they safe and nutritious?

Are they also good enough as the ones packaged and sold on the counter or shelves?

Are they for direct consumption or for baking and cooking ( my opinion though)?

Oya let's do justice to the topic
Happy Sunday to you all?
Who cook rice today ?, Send my own abeg

transient123:
Imagine the stress. Why is everything stressful in Nigeria, seems we have been configured to undergo stress in every facet of our polity....haba!

I dey tell you o

sanniabiola:
If only you know your powers, a simple notice on placard would sack the registrar yesterday, or even serve him query, to respond to the HOR latest Tuesday. But you don't understand your powers as citizens.

Nigerians are very docile.

I got together some parents yesterday, who not only agreed to call into a radio program today, but also agreed to take it further.

But unfortunately, the people that made the loudest noise decided to turn away when I suggested that we should take it further and farther.

Why are we like this in this country.
What you said is absolutely correct about us having the powers in our hands, but Nigerians too dey fear.

They will tell you to leave everything in the hands of God.

God sef go don tire to dey hold some things for Nigeria and Nigerians

seaenergy:
Go to court if it pain you

wow!! Really.
I just want to take this your comment as the trending joke.
Otherwise.....
Hmmmmm

rickleye:
We have been too silent in the country for too long. So Mediocre people are steeped in all our institutions from top to bottom.
Its like hardship and Africa are mutually inclusive.
Hence all these Issues you have raised will just get swept under the rug and unto the next crisis. It will not be featured in any local newspaper or report.
No accountability culture, no feedback. No root cause analysis on what went wrong and how to prevent and fix the Issues from reoccurring. Before computers this was easy breezy , using an HB pencil and eraser, you checked your answer and submitted.
With computers, you are dealing with network - I doubt it was tested prior to make sure it could handle the load.
I am sure they knew all along they were thinking African time, all along

I made my voice to be heard on the issue today on a humanitarian program on radio I co- anchor.

Some parents that were affected especially the ones that were manhandled called into the program today to join voices with me. Infact one suggested we should take our grievances to the ministry of education that jamb is under.

I would never have allowed it go whether my profession as a journalist demanded it or not.

It's really appalling when in a country of over 200 million people we have someone like the Registrar and his cohorts that would treat people like animals.
No apologies, nothing.
Instead they resorted to attacking parents.
We as Nigerians are too docile and I hate this docility like crazy.

I shout out when I have to and I stand up for what is right.
I make my voice heard Even in places where people ordinarily would think a woman should shut up

I looked him in the eyes and told him, we should revert to HB pencil and the man just looked at me like some one would look at a fly that flew into his kunu , because he knows that if they try it,no more huge funds for jamb all in the name of CBT exams

People still do.

Just like people still foolishly call out their ATM numbers, pin, and infact every important details to scammers.
Then when they are scammed, their eyes go come clear.

They would now be feeling like they should turn back the hand of the clock

transient123:
I knew it will get messy when I was told I had to go to Abeokuta for my son to do mock exam, MOCK in Abeokuta from Lagos, who does that. I didn't even blink, outright cancellation.....he will prepare himself and will pass his exams by His grace. 6.30am and 9am batches kawai.

I just dodged a bomb of ineptitude, it shall be well with us as a people.

you really dodge the bomb o

My daughter refused to go home when I saw that it wasn't going to end well. She said "mummy we have come all these far, we spent money for the mock, you had to queue for fuel before today,so we could get here, and besides since we have waited this long don't worry about me, I will be fine, I will wait"

I just dey look her.

As she later finished and came out, the next thing she was shouting was "mummy food, I am hungry, this is not buns or puff puff hunger o, but food hunger"
Every one around us that heard her burst into laughter.
It was a sort of comic relief.

One man just pointed one "food is ready" canteen to me out of sympathy for her, and another man asked me if I had cash to pay for the food that he would assist us. I told them thanks and gave my daughter the correct beans and bread i went back home to arrange for her, shortly after they began to write the exams and since my house was like 30-40 minutes away from the center

But those people that tried to come to my aid in getting her food,made me know we still have good Nigerians out there

Mercury12:
nothing change. The new generation kids just got smarter. That is how it works

we never had this kind of issue year in year out when we were writing jamb.


How are other children that are smarter in other saner climes treated? In other saner climes,they up their games. They upgrade.

Besides it is not about smart children, it is about a total system failure, from top to bottom
We no dey upgrade, we dey downgrade in everything.
Instead of wasting so much money in what is nit working, ket us go back to HB pencil shading

bonnyhope:
Your story sweet eh..h

As per the topic, Only God knows when we will get it correctly in this our dear nation

you like the story pass the context abi?

shobam1410:
Purely utter mockery.

My son was billed to take the 7am exams.
It was story story till nearly 7 pm when they were all asked to go home without writing the exam. About 450 students in all. They told them a rescheduled date would be communicated.
It was a show of shame in Abuja

7pm?.
This is really sad.

Ordinary mock jamb o.

ibawon:
Only 1 of my wards could write. Left home at about 5:30am and couldn't write till about 3:15pm. I hope and pray this won't be what they face come the real exam day.

this is my fear exactly.
Just hoping this would not be the case with the main jamb o

PROPEACE:
This is 2023 not 1918, you dumbos should stop excusing Ill performance. Create a server with that capacity and it will work. GRE and SAT carry out similar exams for applicants across the world and they do so with no glitches!

Exactly what I was telling someone yesterday. Why can't we just get it right. It is not rocket science na, haba!!

Angelfrost:
Trace the appointment of that Registrar, and you will understand why religion and ethnicity have ruined this nation irreparably!

We don't even appoint people based on merit and efficiency anymore.

I was disappointed in that man yesterday. A man that ought to be a father.
Infact when some parents were being manhandled, especially the ones that were making a video of the whole scenerio, he turned his eyes away and pretended he wasn't seeing it.

Even when parents were yelling at the security personnel to stop, he never gave the orders to his bull dogs to sheath their guns

This is what you get when you carry ignorant square pegs and put in round holes.

This is what you get when people that are given leadership positions in Nigeria use it to trample on others.

NAC1666:
"African Time" comes to mind

No! This wasn't the case of African Time. The children were basically used as guinea pigs to test their softwares.


African time of from 7am to 3:40pm?.

The Jamb PRO that called into a radio station where I work to analyze this issue, practically made us know that our children were used to test run the jamb.
And we paid for our children to be used and also maltreated?.
What sort of country is this?

Angelfrost:
Mummyfour... Let me not say wetin dey my mind!

Just wait... One idiot on this forum is coming to defend them out of what he thinks is Patriotism... He will be looking for how to draw comparisons to other nations!

Most of them are still defending INEC till tomorrow regarding that sham of an election!


This is exactly what you get when leadership failure and mediocrity is tolerated and accepted out of religious and tribal sentiments.

These people at the top will never improve because they believe or know the system has no control or disciplinary checks.

Corruption and Incompetence are now being accepted as normal by most Nigerians... Instead of addressing such issues, we start fighting over tribe and religion.

And the annoying thing is that those children were so disappointed in our systems. They watched their parents being talked down at. Infact some of the children witnessed their parents being manhandled by security operatives that came with the high and mighty jamb Registrar.

Just to write mock jamb that we paid for o.
Jamb Registrar came in with 3 or more Hilux trucks filled with security personnel , all in the name of trying to address a tense situation on ground.

There is really nothing to defend here.
We got a call in from the PRO from jamb to a radio station, talking all manner of rubbish lies in defense of their failure.

Some children were even heard saying " if this is ordinary mock jamb, how will the main jamb be like?"

The PRO, made us know in not his direct words, that our children were used as guinea pigs to test run their ineffiency.
And the jamb Registrar was aware, but was instead flexing muscles with parents.

This country is a joke

Students from far and near went to their different jamb exam centers to write the mock exams today.

The exam was supposed to be in two batches.
There was a batch A that was slated for7 am and candidates were expected to have been seated by 6:30 am, then there was the 9 am batch and the candidates were also expected to have been in their centers by 8:30 am.
I actually took my daughter to the CBT professional test centre at bwari FCT not few metres away from the JAMB head office here In Abuja, that was her center.
It was an annoying situation when even as at 12:30 pm the candidates that were billed for the 7am exams had not started.

Parents that were waiting for their children became apprehensive and couldn't just understand what the delay was about.
Most of the children had not eaten and some parents had actually done drop off with the mind of coming later for their ward.

Most of the children that had been dropped off, had no money, phones or even food because they felt they could endure whatever hunger until after the exams.

At about 12:40pm, 3 coaster buses drove into the centre and the staff and security personnel at the centre began to direct some of the children to get on the buses.
In the process, some parents raised alarm and began to shout even as they wondered at the rationale behind such action.
At a point some of the children that had seen parents yelling at them to get off the buses, quickly did.

Meanwhile before then, no body not a even staff came out to address the waiting parents as to what was really going on, and when parents asked them, all they were told was that network was slow thereby affecting "thumb printing", for 6 hours?

It was at the point when parents were yelling at the gate that the Registrar of Jamb drove in with 3 Hilux trucks of security men armed to the teeth.

He grudgingly stepped out to address the parents because they compelled him to.
Before then, parents had begun to look for snacks and drinks for their children who had started complaining of hunger. They kept on coming to the gate to talk and complain to their parents, because they were not in the exam hall, but under a makeshift tent.
Some were even feeling sleepy and tired after staying up late to read at night.

The Registrar with every sense of pomposity told us that we were breaking the law because we came close to the gate to give our hungry children food and drinks.
It's not as if they made any provisions for the children o.

We were even expecting him as a father to sympathize with the children and beg them for understanding being their fault that their systems were not working.

When he said that, all hell let loose.
Parents began to scream at him out of anger, because we were expecting some kind of explanation or even apologies. Instead he told us that we should not have come close to the gate.

I asked him how we would have been able to pass on the food items to our children, and that if they had done the right thing, there would not have been any reason for parents to come close to the gate.
At that question, he began to ramble and tell us stories of network failure and all those annoying lies.

He subsequently told us that the second batch were to get on the buses and go and write the exam in jamb office.

A parent asked how the children will come back to the original center they were posted and he swore that the buses will bring them back

To cut the story short, the exams actually started at 3:45pm and ended at 5:30pm.

And the shocker we received was that those children that were taken to the jamb office had to trek all the way back to their former center, except for those that their parents took them their with either bikes or vehicles.

I don't know when we will get it right in this country.
Ordinary mock jamb in FCT..
So how would it be in other states and local government areas?.

It keeps getting worse every year.
And those children came out of the center broken, dissolutioned, and frustrated. You could see the children that were all fired up in the morning, and ready to do justice to the Mock exam, coming out very cold and troubled.

I have said it, let us go back to the days of shading with HB pencil abeg
It's not worth it.
We can't seem to get any thing right in this country.
Ordinary computer based test?

Mods please push to front page

JasonScoolari:
Lol, you go like Vawulence sha.... Bad girl 😄

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JasonScoolari:
Hope you're enjoying the show... 🙂

just looking for where to buy popcorn and zobo with a slice of cucumber and ice cubes., With that the show go sweet

JasonScoolari:
Mummyfour, Good evening from Lagos.

Good morning from FCT

JasonScoolari:
I have to leave now before one MC Oluomo moderator trace my lineage to Mogadishu.


See you when other taxes are increased and extortion carried out.

Eko oni bajé

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Okay now!!!
See you in supreme court

JasonScoolari:
Lol, was our comments that bad that the moderators had to take it down?

of course not. What is we with what we are saying. People are saying more serious things here on this thread .

Chai na waooo. This our discussion should ordinarily be a comic relief, but I understand that Nigerians are angry

JasonScoolari:
More to come in the following weeks....

Fasten your seat belt and don't interfere.

me interfere?.

Lai lai! I'd rather interfere in a fight between 2 wall geckos

JasonScoolari:
I know how to resolve issues like this, but as an Igbo man that I am, this matter doesn’t concern me. I don't want to cause fight between two Yoruba brothers before they trace my generation to Mogadishu.

God bless Lagos State.

infact let me be observing too, before they will trace my fore fathers history to the old Roman Empire , because my father get pointed nose.

Chai !! I don laugh tire

JasonScoolari:
I know how to resolve issues like this, but as an Igbo man that I am, this matter doesn’t concern me. I don't want to cause fight between two Yoruba brothers before they trace my generation to Mogadishu.

God bless Lagos State.

you are not just a table shaker, but a trouble maker . Make we dey watch them

Them go get sense by force.

Election that is not even up to 2 weeks oooo

wildikeman:
Sorry i mistook you for a guy. I used to pride myself with saying that Yorubas are the most civilized tribe that all and everyone in Nigeria should learn from. Lagos a land owned by the Yorubas would soon be a New York in Africa. For it being a melting pot and a binder for all tribes in Nigeria because of the civilized nature of the Yorubas.

I wonder who said Lagos was a no mans land for that's what they accused the igbos of saying. Yet they are the ones who owns the land and no igbo man has ever claimed or bought a land without permission of the Yoruba man. Infact, that statement..no mans land was coined by Lateef Jakande in 1975. He was the one that made that statement.
Its not really because of the vote for peter obi per say. The hatred has been lingering since in the minds of the Yorubas and Hausa and Fulani. The reason you don't see the Yorubas attacking the northerners is because they are scared of them.
We live in a nation that has attacked and keep attacking and marginalizing one tribe since inception of the nation. Not one Eastern land has a railway system. But they are planning a railway system to Republic of Niger. The ports in the south central and eastern regions has been abandoned and they wonder why igbos are here in Lagos doing business. 98 percent of Nigeria revenue has been taken away from the oil rich Niger Delta..(Where i hail from actually) to other regions and only two percent given to the South Central and Eastern region.


The truth is was Jimi Agbaje an igbo man that made the oba of lagos threaten death upon the igbos if they voted for Jimi a lagosian

There is a deep seating hatred of the Yorubas against the igbos and Tinubu and APC knows this. thats why they inflamed it by just saying this few words..."Yoruba lo kan"... then "Emilokan " and the rest is history.

Just be careful. Anything can happen if you are staying in Lagos.

you have said it all.
And it is well understood.

I was born and brought up in Lagos, had all my education in Lagos before relocating to Abuja. But my friends and almost all I hold dear are still in Lagos..so it is really painful to see what is happening with Lagos.

Like you said the marginalisation and discrimination against the Igbos have been on for a very long time.

They area very resilient and extremely hard-working people. You will hardly see an igbo begged except if he is blind, even when he is blind he would use his disability for good.

If like you said if the government had ever created ports in the east and south south, I don't think the Igbos that are predominantly importers and manufacturers would want to stay put in Lagos.

But we'll, let's see how it all play out

wildikeman:
My brother...they love it when they are tribalist. They are right now hoping that it Spirals out of control so that they would issue a second pogrom against the igbos and kill as many so that they can take over their businesses.
Its never going to end. Be careful wherever you are. This Yoruba people are out to start a genocide. And they want it.

I am your sister...
As in mummy four..

But my bro, i still don't understand why the target is just Igbos.
As it concerns the election that just passed, Edolites voted massively for obi, nasarrawa, plateau, FCT and other tribes.

I really don't know why Igbos are more of the target.
They say it is because Igbos are chest beaters...

We have chest beaters in every tribe.

Honestly I have always been a detribalised person because of my relationship with almost every tribe in Nigeria, but this recent election and what our fellow Nigerians are saying and doing is giving me sleepless nights and making me look at people differently.

My old school mates and friends that are yorubas that we all grew up in Lagos, ate together, played together and are still friends 40 years later have been apologising to us their igbo friends on behalf of the yorubas that did what they did in Lagos.

I still love them and funny enough it was this election that opened my eyes to the fact that we are even from different tribes.

Our parents became friends because of us their children.
We have been like one extended family.
We assist ourselves, do get togethers with our children and just enjoy our company, and that is what it ought to be.

It's well with you all my tribalistic brothers and sisters here.
But let me remind you all that the politicians you follow because of tribe no send Una o.

So Tinubu is 71 years and T-mac his nephew in law is 76 and also calls tinubu uncle?.

Wetin dey happen for this country.

A lot of laws of nature do somersault in this country o.

He is 71 and his daughter is 65.
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Nigeria is a joke.
Even people congratulating him on his 71st birthday would be doing so and laughing o.
Chai!!.

franchasofficia:
My brother listen, whether Tinubu or Obi or Atiku becomes the President doesn't affect me directly at all cos by the grace of God, I have passed the level that Nigerians choice of President affects my life negatively.


As bad as Buhari's regime was, it was my most prosperous years on earth; I got married to one of the finest classy ladies you can think of, had kids that I never had, started a small business that grew to a small company and now a big player, acquired properties with ease, bought over 8 luxury cars with ease, didn't travel much cos I have phobia for flying/traveling, helped a lot of people, witness my siblings became richer and better, saw closest friends join millionaire and billionaire list and finally living a life free of financial worries.



So my only concern with Tinubu's presidency is the dent on Nigeria's image and black people as a whole and the issue of insecurity in Southeast which I fear may escalate more.


And the legacy that a criminal godfather can become anything in Nigeria despite their criminal history.



Those are my only worries honestly, aside that, I don't care

you are right my brother. Our image as a country with all these electoral fraud should be considered.

But meanwhile, still stretch out your hands of giving to people like us that are still struggling o.
As this Buhari's government favoured you ( thank God) there are people that it shattered their dreams too.

That's why I keep praying for a better country because our children deserve to live well

Kabirudeen25:
I just want to know, is the hike applicable to all lagosians, or is it for only Igbo people in Lagos?

very good question

Wjames440:
Ma'am, please anytime you ready to sell, I get interest. Will pay well, trust me

yes, I would soon sell it.
It's a Volkswagen Passat 2.0.
Bought it brand new.
I have never worked on the engine or gear box and the thing dey fly like jet.