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i'm unbelievably tired right now, haven't done a single sensible thing all day. . .at this point in time i'm soooo not enjoying the scam called paid employment

threats like this shouldn't be taken lightly. . .

Being abroad gives you an easy excuse to maneouvre.
I was just thinking that if completing your masters program puts your age beyond the maximum allowable age, you can always request an exemption from NYSC.

Hence, your profile might look like this: foreign bachelor's degree + foreign master's degree + (possibly foreign work experience) + NYSC exempt certificate = High employability in Nigeria !! Wink

as long as you were under 30 after your undergraduate you'll have to do NYSC.

I'm not a foreign trained grad but i'll add my 2 cents.

I chose where i wanted to carry out my NYSC(right down to the place i was posted) and for me what determined that choice was my career path, i have my NYSC as part of my work experience, i'm not the patient type so i knew i wasn't going to teach anybody's child. . .lol

I had fun, i was in the north and despite the fact that i live in abj, it still took some getting used to, yes there were times i felt like all northerners should be gathered in a room and shot, but in the end, i came out with a better understanding of the average northerner than i had before.

The average nigerian is ignorant but will never admit it(heck he's ignorant of his ignorance, a double whammy right?) ,most nigerians have never lived outside the states where they grew up and so are steeped in stereotypes. NYSC is a chance to learn something different, i grew up in lagos and only moved to abuja in the not too distant past so my perception of northerners was restricted to the talk i heard around me, (even abj isn't exactly a northern town as areas have their caucauses) spending time in Niger state changed the way i think about them in general, yep i had a lot of bad experiences but i came out better for it all.

Would i advise anyone to do NYSC? definitely, but you need to know exactly why you're going in, most of the retards that come telling you horror stories had unreal expectations going in and most of the people that come back telling you how horrible other tribes are probably forgot that they were strangers in another man's land and needed to respect their hosts. It's not rocket science, it's human nature(far more complex )

[quote author=Xavier. link=topic=558745.msg7234003#msg7234003 date=1290967722]People

This is an issue that has been bothering my mind for long. I need your thoughts on it.

As much as I do not like criticizing men of God or condemning their actions, the issue is one I think should be brought up with these men of God.

Why should a university set-up by a church or an islamic group charge fees that majority of its congregation can hardly afford to pay, especially given the fact the capital used in the setting up of these schools were contributed by members of the church?

I am aware of the fact that what you don't pay for, you don't value and that it cost a lot to run the schools and maintain the right standards.

But I am also aware that most of these men of God (and a lot of politicians also) were beneficiaries of the free education schemes ran by different missionary groups in the 60s, 70s and 80s. My own dad, being an indigent student, enjoyed free education from the primary level to masters level courtesy of these missionaries and some foreign government agencies. If these schools back then could run free educational schemes and still maintain good standards, why can't our new generation religious schools do the same?

I could recall that my mum contributed some token when one of these schools was to be established. She contributed as a member of the school. However, none of us, her children, could benefit from the school as the fees were just too high for a widowed civil servant such as my mum.

I have seen and interacted with many product of these schools. They are bright, smart and full of potentials. But one thing is obviously missing in them, the sense of duty to give back to the society. The kind of zeal you see in my dad's generation to give back to their alma mata, to help educate the less privileged, is obviously missing in these new breed of university graduates. This is the real danger.

Is anything wrong in having the schools run on a 50% profit and 50% non-profit basis so that indigent but brilliant students can enjoy some of the great works being done by these institutions?

People what are your opinions?[/quote]it's not just the private unis that suffer from that lack of zeal

Hey pple,

i was invited to an interview at lakatabu training centre on the 1st of December, i got the text yesterday evening. . .

aletheia:
What Nuhu Ribadu said about Patience Jonathan:

Source: Read Here

word on the street is that patience was actually up to no good but this guy tukur(not bamanga, cant rem his name, he worked with NIA back then, he's now in presidency) got ribadu to handle it before things got to a head. That's what some malo boys told me sha. . .and these boys know what's happening in abj, i can vouch for that. . .

@kobo
i'm surprised you didn't get tkb's statement, if you're familiar with the way naija ppl speak it shouldn't have been an issue, his asking 'are you the one that pays their school fees?'  would have read 'so the reason you're so sure that he has a child schooling in spain is because you pay the child's school fees abi?' to anyone that thinks in naija  

it's the same principle involved in me replying a girl that asks me to buy something for her with: na your papa dey pay my salary?

@thread
apparently it's public knowledge that jonathan has two young kids by a second wife, they live somewhere in maitama. . .

@odunnu
lol. . .i'm so feeling you on that one

@OP
take your time to articulate your points clearly.

you say you have your discharge certificate? so it's left to your organisation to verify that, it's not your headache. Ignore anyone posting numbers on this thread.

worst comes to worst, you'll have to visit NYSC HQ yourself or the state office where you served.

sebi he wrote to the labour party to show interest in contesting as their presidential candidate now. . .

na beg i dey beg una, take this indian love offline now. . .there's no way i can get this thread of my 'updated topics' list.

krazynaija:
Pls how do i get zain gprs settings on my sony ericsson w595 , mtn settings hav been installed but it doesnt browse sites oda dan mtnonline.com. I manually configured d zain but didnt surf n i tried dmc but it doesnt send settings to sony ericsson w595

call customer care and have them provision your line so the manual settings'll work

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-554265.0.html

how on earth did this link get to the front page? and at the very least couldn't seun have come up with something that makes more sense than 'students make generator that runs on power'? that sounds like something directly out of the stables of becomerich or the mamagee of old. . .next someone'll come and be making noise about how intellectual NL is abegi. . .!!!

this shouldn't even be an issue but for some people that are choosing to advertise their ignorance. . .

@jamace
been busy for a while, but i still have you in my sights. . .be scared!

spent some time talking to an aunt that's a doctor last week, got a lot of perspective on their strikes and all, i must say nigeria is a very poor country

(working on the premise that you can measure the wealth of a country by how it treats it's people). She also explained how the power problem

affects the hospitals and meeennnnnn more than ever i feel we need to get this thing right once and for all.


we've been offered a really big project, the FEC is s'posed to discuss it tomo(my boss doesn't know i know. . .lol). i've made up my mind i dont want to be here for the darn thing sef, i doubt the experience would be worth the headache.

it has to be a fresh install, and it's have to be the exact same flavour of windows that your computer came with so the key on the sticker under your computer will work(i.e. if it's vista basic on the sticker then you have to install vista basic)

windows is taking things really serious with windows 7 as far as piracy is concerned.

it depends on the signal strength in your area, i'm using mtn now and it's ok. . .

[quote author=D-sense link=topic=555336.msg7197025#msg7197025 date=1290460924]wetin . . . , I have two brand new softwares here ready to give them out free of charge
There re some stuffs we don't need to charge ppl for it but to give them out for free.[/quote]abi o. . .

^^^ignore my question on the other thread

is windows 7 that much of a must for you? why dont you install the same OS that your computer came with and use the key under your computer, that way you have an original OS and dont need to worry about all the validation wahala.

there should be a sticker under your computer, what OS is displayed there?

that'd be junior engineer(electrical)

na wa o. . .it seems this lafarge thing has plenty k-leg.

i wrote a test for lafarge at chams on 18th november, i got a text saying i was successful but it didn't contain my score or anything just a message saying i will be contacted shortly

Chapi:
@ netotse thanks, i ve gotten their site. Just that no job advert there.

hey. . .

you could write up a nice cover letter for your CV and mail it to them, there's nothing to be lost in doing that, or is there?

abeg make una let this thread die now. . .the show don finish, i'm tired of seeing it on my updated topics list

[quote author=Omo_Tier1 link=topic=554265.msg7183758#msg7183758 date=1290282883]Are you trying to be clever or you'r suffering from a daft a la daftism illness? Since you claimed to be a professional Mechanical engineer, and if true, what on earth about power generation through magnetic flux don't you understand? Where in that article did the kids claim there was no "input" into the system? So funny that with all your education, you could not fathom that the headline was written in the contex of the present predicament of Nigeria as par electricity generation using Fuel (aka PETROL)? Funny how you fail to understand what the whole article was trying to point out! I.e. these kids (albeit mere Junior students as you stupidly claimed) were able to grasp the fundamentals of such a core technology and took a step further to put their understanding to work. Hence if given the need impetus, these kids nd their likes all over Nigeria will form the back bone of the Industrailized Nigeria in 2050 and beyond.
I  am lost as to how you came to your obnoxious conclusions that these kids were being misled, deceived and misinformed! I think I could summarize your post thus: senseless rants! Take the article for what it is and stop insinuating! The part of your comment in bold leaves me wondering if you truly know so much about heat transfer and power generation![/quote]of recent, there have been quite a number of people advertising 'fuel-less' generators which they say are not inverters and dont need any form of input, in addition to not having any moving part, one even came to constitute a nuisance in the electrical engineers thread. That's the proper context of the story. . .the reporter is a quack who didn't feel the need to verify the idea he was praising before going to the press.

blacksta:
@netnose


please make available the roadmap as mentioned

netnose ke? here it is. . .

@kobojunkie
there's a load survey that was carried out by the systems planning dept of PHCN(actually, it was contracted to a company called tractabel, austrian i think). there was a low growth, medium growth and high growth scenario the high growth scenario for 2011 is 7353MW(dont crucify me o, no be me write the report)

however, since we've never been able to fully satisfy the demand we cant be certain their figure is correct, but they used a variety of methods and came up with similar figures.

personally, i think that figure is wrong cos if power supply improves then all the industries that hitherto chose to generate their own power will opt to tie-in to the national grid and this could spark an exponential increase, dont know if they considered this when they were making their forecasts.

and BTW, the reforms have started, (if you have read the roadmap you'd know that,)the shutdown of utorogu gas plant was indicated in the roadmap, the incorporation of the nigeria bulk electricity trading company(NBET), the gas masterplan etc, they are all part of the plans outlined in the roadmap.

the area where jonathan is ignoring whether on purpose or due to ignorance, is the price inflation that takes place during tendering et al, i'd never had known how large scale it is if i wasn't in the private sector.

asha 80:
guy you seem to be an expert on power.i want to ask what is wrong with using coal to generate power?

lmao. . .i'm not an expert, i just have access to information that's all.

there's nothing wrong with coal per se, it's just the economics of the matter, govt seems to think that it would make more sense to exploit the natural gas(that's as far as govt money is concerned).

for private money, i hear politics has something to do with it, i remember reading a paper on some stuff govt planned to do with coal back in 2007, it seemed pretty cool/impressive, fastfoward to 2010, i was discussing with some of my past lecturers(who have strong ties to industry) and i brought it up only for them to tell me that most of the processes that were mentioned in that report were unnecessary for nigerian coal. In nigeria, since the power sector is run by mostly politicians/ political appointees, decisions are not taken for technical reasons, i've heard of one or two companies that signified interest in building coal powered stations but were frustrated out of the country maybe because someone  closer to the powers that be was trying to work a deal out with another coal company.

the nigerian power sector is at the mercy of people who know squat about it, can you imagine we've never had an engineer as minister of power? how would you expect a non technical person to know when he's being sold a pup then?

P.S. i think coal comes under ministry of mines not power, that means there'll be extra hands to grease and all, making the process more convoluted for investors.

@kobojunkie
you're spot on, i refered to highest ever generation output, not average. I was just trying to point out that with jonathan things aren't necessarily business as usual. _{spent a year in shiroro dam sef, that article gave me goosebumps, there's a turbine that's been bad for a couple of years because a minister of power(who wasn't an engineer) ordered the engineers to run it even though they advised against it.<----this is just gist o, i'm yet to confirm the minister part, but yes, shiroro has had a faulty turbine for a while, it's installed capacity is 600MW}

blacksta:
The only way Mumu Nigerians will ever get electricity if they come out of their perpetual accommodation in suffering and smiling and rise up and murder all these wicked leaders until then darkness remains -it is impossible to go from 3000 mw to 20000 MW in just under four years in Nigeria - who is going to pay for it - even if you allow private companies - legislation and planning alone can last the entire 4 years - Abi Jonathan thinks power plant is like a mud house that you can build in a day.

e sure me die say you never read the roadmap. . .when you read it we can discuss maturely, without your having to throw conjectures left right and centre. Heck the roadmap even lists how govt expects to achieve said 20,000MW, or are you saying you've read the roadmap and discovered that the plan isn't viable?

@all
jonathan's plan is heavily dependent on foreign investment on the power sector which in turn is heavily dependent on the reforms being successful.

by the way,

there's no legislation needed for the reforms(but then again, if y'all read the roadmap you'll know this)

we have 4000MW now, the NIPP is to provide circa 5000 out of the 20,000MW so what we need in four years is around 9000MW, it takes around 30months to complete a steam station(in sane times) i dont know how long you need for the EIA sha. Who's to say if 10 companies are willing to commit the necessary funds to construct a 1100MW station each it cant happen? when we say it's impossible, what are we basing that claim on? are we speaking from fact or we're speaking emotionally?

@kobojunkie
under jonathan, PHCN was able to best the record of highest actual power generation, it was 35XXMW set during OBJs time, but earlier this year they were able to achieve 37XXMW, what did he do differently? he made the gas available. Utorogu gas plant has been shut down for upgrading so it's expected that gas availabilty would be improved when it comes back on, but of course, if you had read the roadmap you'd know this.

It isn't magic, the roadmap is available, heck there's even a 56page summary for people that'd the whole document too large to read. It really doesn't speak well of individuals when they dont read the roadmap and proceed to mouth off at any given opportunity.

case in point: http://digitalizednigeria.com/directory/2010/11/09/tuc-seeks-core-investor-option-for-phcn/
in the link above the president of the TUC is quoted(on the 9th november) as saying that govt should not privatize the companies, that what government should do is get core investors and sell 51% of the companies, not a bad idea right?

but that's what exactly the government is planning to do , it's in the roadmap for crissakes(which came out august 28th or something), it means the nuisance didn't read the roadmap before he came to play to the gallery, and of course some mumu nigerians will be nodding their head and remarking on how the TUC president hit the nail on the head but govt never seems to listen to good suggestions.

i blame the government though, their PR is terrible, they're letting all sorts of quacks parade themselves as experts and feed the people all sorts of lies.

imagine the president of the 2nd most important workers union in nigeria being recorded making a fool out of himself in the media and they didn't take him up on it. . .smh. Make them just set me on all these quacks first. . .shior!

natural gas is for power generation, bio-fuels is for vehicular consumption etc. . .why cant they be developed side by side?

@aloy-emeka
how does bio-fuels tie in with natural gas?