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Crime / Re: Katsina Community Watch Corps Kill 200 Bandits In Two Weeks by Nwakannaya1: 10:36am On Mar 18 |
Civilians >>>>> Military |
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Nwakannaya1: 2:17pm On Aug 30, 2023 |
Given the economic realities presently, please, what is the estimated cost of setting up a 5kva solar system including cost of installation. Variation is 24hrs option and 12 hrs option which can be charged with generator on cloudy days. Price for top-notch materials Price for normal ones Price for "economy" materials |
Romance / Re: "Single Mom" Epidemic: Who Is To Blame- Men Or Ladies..? by Nwakannaya1: 4:43pm On May 18, 2023 |
blacksam01: Are you talking about divorcees or single mothers? Aren't both supposed to be different? |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Ugandan Minister, Charles Okello Engola Killed By His Bodyguard Over Non-Payment by Nwakannaya1: 5:44pm On May 02, 2023 |
Pushing one to the wall has consequences 2 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Ugandan Minister, Charles Okello Engola Killed By His Bodyguard Over Non-Payment by Nwakannaya1: 5:44pm On May 02, 2023 |
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Business / Re: Tribapay Is Consistently The Best Dollar Card With Great Customer Care, by Nwakannaya1: 3:20pm On Apr 06, 2023 |
I'm looking for something cheaper than payday. 8 Likes |
Politics / Re: Presidential Poll: Atiku Files Petition, Insists Tinubu Not Qualified To Contest by Nwakannaya1: 3:45pm On Mar 22, 2023 |
aieromon: Thank you sir 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Presidential Poll: Atiku Files Petition, Insists Tinubu Not Qualified To Contest by Nwakannaya1: 3:44pm On Mar 22, 2023 |
Politics / Re: Presidential Poll: Atiku Files Petition, Insists Tinubu Not Qualified To Contest by Nwakannaya1: 3:18pm On Mar 22, 2023 |
engineerboat: Can you share a link to full copy of the petition? |
Politics / Re: Presidential Poll: Atiku Files Petition, Insists Tinubu Not Qualified To Contest by Nwakannaya1: 3:16pm On Mar 22, 2023 |
Can you share link to a copy of this petition? |
Business / Re: He Kept So Many Secrets And Lies, Marriage Is Crazy. by Nwakannaya1: 11:08am On Jan 21, 2023 |
So because we are married, i should let you into every secret of mine if they exist? Just dey play. Na d secret wey i create with u, u go know, i no fit tell you others, if you no wan stay, farewell. 41 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: 2023 Presidential Election: Rivers State Street Poll (Video) by Nwakannaya1: 9:20am On Jan 18, 2023 |
Mikanites and jagabandits would avoid this thread. But then, it is only wickedness against this polity that would make someone pick any presidential candidate over Obi. Even ignorance won't let you pick agbado. 2 Likes |
Education / Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nwakannaya1: 1:36am On Dec 06, 2022 |
Napata77: Less than 50 percent of Nigerians can afford to visit the hospital when ill. The others resort to traditional treatment and/or God. I have seen traditional birth attendants helpless in the face of complications, the patient was delivered of her baby safely when they were rushed to the hospital. Till date, over 20 per cent of births in Nigeria are carried out by traditional midwives. You must have been one of them, but thank God there was no complication that affected your physical composition, unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the mental. |
Education / Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nwakannaya1: 9:06pm On Dec 05, 2022 |
musicwriter: We are living in an increasingly globalised world, there is no culture immune to changes neither is any culture foolproof. While language is an important and indispensable aspect of any culture, such culture would not go into extinction just because the language is not used for formal instruction. Furthermore, I have seen traditional doctors treat someone for months without any improvement but when the person went to the hospital and received treatment for one week, his health was restored. You can't name every animal, plant or organism in a local language without first seeing them, many living things are "geolocational", you can only have a name for a thing that exists within the location. If you don't manufacture car, you cannot have a local name for it because it is not original to such group, the best that can happen is to translate to possible meaning. These are realities |
Education / Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nwakannaya1: 3:08pm On Dec 05, 2022 |
musicwriter: You are very optimistic rather than realistic. Would there be an Idoma school in the remoter villages of Zuru LGA of Kebbi State? Would there also be an Ebira school in the riverine Ijaw area of Sagbama LGA. By implication, you are saying there is a possibility of having over 450 schools in every single community? Quite unrealistic. Assuming you are running a federal system which could accommodate the constituents of the country better, along which lines are the federating units going to exist? Traditional ethnic groups? Or the artificial States and regions which are notorious for their intradifferences? If the federating units are the original ethnic groups, that is over 200 federating units, if this can be achieved which is very unlikely, then your proposition can fly, otherwise, it is not feasible. |
Education / Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nwakannaya1: 9:40am On Dec 03, 2022 |
musicwriter: You missed one thing, you are making reference to nations, not artificial countries that are products of colonial decisions. I'm being realistic, those things that worked in those countries cannot work here. Nigeria is made up of many nations, over 200 of them, this makes it difficult to implement that policy, it is unrealistic having 270 official languages or languages of instruction. If the old Oyo empire were to be a country in the 21st century, Yoruba would be a language of instruction in it, if kanem bornu empire were to be a country in the 21st century, kanuri would be an official language there, this applies to nupe kingdom, Benin empire, and every other single nation lumped up in the country called Nigeria. This is the situation under consideration, it is not about choosing to use a foreign language or not. The countries you cited have something in common, they have a dominant language which over 70 percent speak. It is not the same in Nigeria. If it would work, then the country need to divide itself into nation's first. In Nigeria, about 450 languages are spoken and this is more than twice the number of languages spoken in the entire Europe. When comparative study is being done, one should not discard peculiarities. Let me leave this here, how would you feel if your child is instructed with a local language different from yours just because you live outside the area where your language is dominant? Nigerian languages are too many, they should rather be studied as subjects not serve as language of instruction. |
Education / Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nwakannaya1: 11:53pm On Dec 01, 2022 |
Sagamite: It is either you lack the capacity to comprehend the discourse or you have consciously chosen to argue blindly. I believe the former is more likely to be the case. Language of instruction is different from languages being taught. You can be taught many languages but the language of instruction for all non-language subjects is always one. In all the places you cited, there is consistency in the language of instruction throughout different levels of education. Anyone can go and earn other degrees in any language of instruction they choose. Nigerians are even earning PhD using different foreign languages. Your statement with regard to national cohesion is borne out of sheer ignorance. Nation building in a country with little or no language difference is not the same as a country where you have over 200 languages. If you like continue basking in undue ignorance |
Education / Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nwakannaya1: 6:12pm On Dec 01, 2022 |
Sagamite: Primary school is not same as secondary, the foundation you need to excel in studies is laid in primary school. If you instruct in local language in primary school and start instructing in English in secondary school, there would be a knowledge and comprehension lacuna in that child's life, this would be a result of the change in the pedagogy. I was once a teacher in the north and I had to teach kids in secondary school in English, these were people who were taught in Hausa during their primary school. There was hardly communication, and when there's no communication learning hardly comes in. People who understood basic science taught in Hausa while in primary school can hardly understand basic science taught in English in secondary school. This is where I have my reservation for not reading the policy document, this is because there might be an arrangement to continue instructing in local languages beyond primary school which this news is not telling us. However, from what is available in this piece of news, the policy is poorly thought out, continuity and sustainability were binned. On the other hand, you suggested that pupils be tested for local language proficiency through an exam. This has its loophole because for instance people who speak English every day still fail English exam, people who speak Igbo still fail Igbo exam. Somehow, the policy would be denying secondary education to many people who could speak local language. Then, on a general note, when national cohesion and nation building is being pursued, there is usually serious need for language uniformity in the instruction of children, it is what they head as kids that they hold on to most. Even though they must have been taught the same thing in different languages, whenever there is need for them to meet, the difference would be conspicuous and competition for language supremacy would start creeping in. If these do not still make sense to you, I'm afraid, no objective explanation would. |
Education / Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nwakannaya1: 2:20pm On Dec 01, 2022 |
Sagamite: These things aren't as simple as they appear. We have over two hundred languages in Nigeria and about 1000 dialects, but this isn't the issue as concerns manpower to teach them, the issue is, you can speak a language fluently and still fail it in exam and you and speak a language badly and still pass it in exam. Teaching a local language is good, but making it a language for instruction is where the problem lies. It means that when you are teaching English, Maths, Science and others to these pupils, you'd use ibibio to teach them English if you're in Akwa ibom. What then happens if they go to secondary school? If I'm a Yoruba and find myself in ibibio land, my kids would be forced to learn ibibio so as to understand the subjects being taught. You see, these things aren't as simple as they seem. My baby schools here in the north, she's taught Hausa as a subject, I don't know how she passes it because she doesn't understand zo, imagine that Hausa language is the language of instruction, she won't understand dot. I do not know the details of the new policy but it doesn't appear well thought out. |
Politics / Re: Fuel Scarcity: We Have 2 Billion Litres Available – NNPC by Nwakannaya1: 11:16am On Dec 01, 2022 |
All year round, there's been petrol scarcity in Abuja. I do not have problem with price increase but what would happen to the subsidy balance since less would be paid for subsidy when the consumers pay higher. That's the issue. 250-300 naira is the new normal, hopefully we'd adjust to it, NNPC must have simply hoarded petrol to cause price increase. 7 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: FG Blames State Governments For Rising Poverty by Nwakannaya1: 3:17am On Dec 01, 2022 |
APC has blamed everything there is to blame in the world except itself. What APC cannot blame does not exist. Most of the governor's are in APC, invariably..... 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Oshiomole: Atiku Can’t Manage His Household; Preach Unity In Nigeria by Nwakannaya1: 3:13am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Nothing concern me and their fight. Na to sit down dey drink my nunu dey enjoy animal farm fight ���� Where is Osho's wife sef? 2 Likes |
Education / Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nwakannaya1: 3:04am On Dec 01, 2022 |
When you instruct them with the mother tongue which isn't bad in itself, I hope they would be able to communicate with others from other geolocations in their own mother's tongue. We already have Nigerian languages in schools but making them compulsory languages of instruction has the capacity of limiting the pupils in less developed country like ours. Since he removed sex education from curriculum, I no longer take him serious. Self-confessed failure of a minister. 9 Likes |
Politics / Re: APC Holds Solidarity Rally In Bama LGA, Borno State (Pictures) by Nwakannaya1: 2:59am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Agbado APC lule. Comparatively, Zulum is doing a good work though but not on behalf of Agbado. |
Politics / Re: Reno Omokri: Only Atiku Is Prepared, With Lucid Mind To Lead Nigerians by Nwakannaya1: 2:52am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Las Las Na people wey dey attend debate we go vote for. Lucid mind wey dey run from live interview/debate na lame mind. Na Atiku and Bat go dey compete who go dey distant third. The winner is no longer a secret. Vote wisely. 11 Likes |
Politics / Re: Governor Umahi Bans Use Of Public Schools For Political Rallies by Nwakannaya1: 1:51am On Nov 01, 2022 |
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Politics / Re: Governor Umahi Bans Use Of Public Schools For Political Rallies by Nwakannaya1: 1:51am On Nov 01, 2022 |
If dem ban campaign for public schools and public places, Obidients to rent private spaces. At worst Obidients go beg Catholic churches for the use of their fields. Either way, opposition campaign must go on. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Obi Not Different From Tinubu, Atiku – Kachikwu, ADC Presidential Candidate by Nwakannaya1: 10:01pm On Sep 27, 2022 |
Obi lived through the old order but not of the old order. Vote wisely. 38 Likes 2 Shares |
Education / Re: Please Help With This Quantitative Reasoning. by Nwakannaya1: 2:48pm On Jul 18, 2022 |
Fixed. Thanks The first one is multiples of a number, then pick the odd one. The second is multiplication of the numbers in the first and last box to get the middle numbers. |
Education / Please Help With This Quantitative Reasoning. by Nwakannaya1: 12:51pm On Jul 18, 2022 |
Abe make una help me, e no gree me fix. Thanks.
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Car Talk / Re: Antics Of Local Mechanics by Nwakannaya1: 4:53pm On May 20, 2022 |
I left car for Oga to run a few things, shouldn't take him more than 2hours at most. He didn't call back till night, he said that the master brake developed issue. Oga carry car go flex, I was just watching his movement and listening the banging music in d car through the tracker. Him just go burn my petrol. The guy come tomorrow dey say him park car for workshop go house. I just dey laugh. Nigerian mechanics be like women, dem must frustrate u, just find d one wey u fit overlook. 46 Likes 1 Share |
Travel / Re: Pictures Of The Ongoing Ikeja Along Bridge Construction by Nwakannaya1: 8:11pm On May 19, 2022 |
mapet: Umahi took over on 29th May 2015, he didn't start the flyover immediately, by April 2016, the level of construction had passed this one. Note, I didn't say he completed the flyover in less than 12 months. |
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