nwadiuko1:
how do i get 1 bro, how much?

you can get it on okadabooks

You can buy the book legally on okadabooks here http://okadabooks.com/store or http://okadabooks.com/book/about/against_the_run_of_play/13895 let's support authors and say no piracy.

The man will soon run for political office.

Guyman02: I didnt see any AK 47 guns and bullet proof vests with those guys. Probably they are ushers in the church which you find in virtually every church to maintain orderliness. Even the pope uses security to protect himself and I dont see nothing wrong with having security afterall most churches in Northern Nigeria have Soldiers and Police gurading them. next topic please.

o boy you are suffering from spiritual blindness. Shine ya eye!

"She also said she is not ready to be used as a pawn by the PDP on the chessboard of politics"

This woman that was scattering English a few weeks ago is now blowing grammar with analogy sef...lol...politics shall never change.... APC same shit different toilet.

I saw the covers on your Instagram page. Who ever you picked must have done a heck of a job!

tomzman: Thrash!

You must be a learner.

icebebe: dis was wat she wore to tiwa's bachelorette party
hot or trash?

haba...you never go bachelorette party or baby shower. There is a game they play with tissue paper, where you make dresses with the tissue paper at the event. Clearly she is partaking in the game. Don't be a learner =D

In US I pay N15,000 ($100) for 4GB of Data. But this includes free phone call sha. Seems like the Nigeria prices are similar to the rest of the world, but it should be cheaper because our economy is not as strong. And I need people to be downloading my http://okadabooks.com app =D #okbye

Genius100: Does anyone here have any proof that she really is a widow? Nigerians are infamous for telling all kinds of lies to get out of trouble after disobeying the law

Whether she is a widow or not, she is a Nigeria. If your governor tells you go and die, then what stops foreigners from treating us like shit in their embassy and our own country.

pmc01: I know many will disagree with my stand, but I still make bold to state my view to the matter.

While the Governor be scolded for letting his emotions get the better of him, it is really provoking that someone comes up with the cheap excuse of 'being a poor widow' to do what is wrong. It is obvious the woman was fully aware of the wrong she was engaged in, hence the struggle to bail herself out with an emotional excuse of being a struggling widow.

The woman was not willing to accept responsibility for her actions, and that might have really gotten on the nerves of the Governor (he is human too). From comments read, some people have attested to the man's humility and all that, so it is only fair to give him the excuse that he was really provoked. Of course, it is obvious he meant the statement figuratively (even though it seems he went too far than expected of him).

I also wish to state here that we should put a hold on our emotions and judge this matter rationally. It is normal that anyone guilty of a crime would seek to exonerate himself/herself, but does that justify the crime? There are many poor widows all over (assuming she is truly a widow) that do not stay on the wrong side of the law and give room to this kind of embarrassing scenario, so what is the fuss about? Every offender could claim to be a widow, widower, orphan, e.t.c., should they all then be pitied and the society allowed to become chaotic?

Fact is the Governor was harsh, but the woman gave room for that. She was simply trying to blackmail the Governor into setting a bad precedence and the man had to take a firm and resolute decision, having in mind that the people he employed to enforce the law were watching to see whether he will compromise or not. She should just have admitted her fault and plead for mercy, rather than play the emotional card. The truth is everyone in that state will now be on their toes and be more inclined to obey the law strictly, to avoid been a 'scape-goat'. We know how Nigerians have to be 'forced' to do what's right.

It is sad that indiscipline has become a way of life for us here and so many supposedly enlightened ones here have decided to approach this matter with emotional sentiments, rather than an objective outlook.

What is wrong is wrong, widow or no widow!

N.B.: Whoever thinks I am here to defend my 'principal' is on his or her own. I am not responsible for your wrong perception of me. Thank you!

Like Oshimole said...go and die with you long explanation. As a governor you don't talk to your people like that. Period. All this wan is long story.

payless: That is very bad of the Governor. He needs to apologise.

This is what you get after 14 year rule of PDP.


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I haven't cried in a long time, I had tears in my eyes this morning. I was pained seeing that lady. If anyone can find me the crying widow, I have a $500 for her to launch her business again.

Is he not APC?

We marshal our top graduates from all across the nation and then we put them in a camp where things barely work and call it a national orientation. I take that back...mandatory national orientation - where our graduates are mandated to live in substandard conditions, get yelled at and shouted at by soldiers, and are made to put up with all sorts of deplorable conditions in hot over-crowded rooms, with toilets that barely work...that is, if there are toilets at all, in which case our top graduates are probably slinging shiitt over the wall. And we call in national orientation - orientation to what? shiitt?

Some time ago, in 1999, when CD players had just come out, very few people had them. Thus it was a cool thing to be seen holding a music CD instead of the soon-to-be-obsolete cassette tapes. I remember the story of a boy in secondary school who, after listening to a CD disc, tried to turn it over so he could listen to the other side. When he did that, everybody in the room laughed and called him “razz” – how could anyone possibly think of turning over a CD to listen to the other side? Everybody knew that only one side of the CD could be played. After all that was what we were taught, and that was what the cool kids knew.

But in March 2004, a group of record companies, including industry giants like MJJ Productions Inc. and EMI Music, developed a dual CD disc that could be played on…guess what…both sides. What was laughed at in 1999 in a small room in Lagos was heralded as a ground-breaking discovery in March of 2004 in America! Irony?

NOTE: This is a Chapter Excerpt from How Intelligence Kills get the book here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1296689049/how-intelligence-kills-the-inappropriate-truth

I would say so…because the uncool razz boy, as we would have called him…had actually thought of something revolutionary, but instead of being congratulated or encouraged, he was mocked. How many times does this happen across our nation? In my opinion, I would say far too many times. We have to put a stop to that; instead of laughing, we should say, “Hmmm, that is an interesting idea…why can’t the other side of a CD be played?” But we are too cool for that, so we laugh…repeating the same old mistake of not looking past the current reality or pushing the barriers.

Another obvious truth: “You can’t fit a square peg into a round hole.” Or can you? Again, this statement is flawed…yet we repeat it every single day…”you can’t fit a square peg into a round hole,” “you can’t fit a square peg into a round hole,” “you can’t fit a square peg into a round hole.”

But the truth is you can fit a square peg (and even an octagonal peg) into a round hole; all you have to do is make the hole bigger or the peg smaller…regardless of the shape, it will eventually fit.

NOTE: This is a Chapter Excerpt from How Intelligence Kills get the book here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1296689049/how-intelligence-kills-the-inappropriate-truth

And the truth is that our children’s minds are like the square pegs that are constantly being forced into the rigid round hole of our educational system. But it can and should be the other way round; our educational system needs to expand its round hole to accommodate our kids’ square-pegged imaginations. Sadly this is not the case, as our kids are the ones who have to limit their imaginations to fit our rigid educational system of memorization.

This has to change…because our most intelligent and creative minds are going through school believing they are stupid, when in fact they are brilliant. As Albert Einstein says “Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid!” And thus like fishes climbing trees, only a few of our children are able to make it through our educational system. This is doubly unfortunate, because it is not just the individuals that suffer, but society as well. The reason is that when memorization is the core determining factor of success in school…it ends up defining the society.

Just ask any Nigerian to give you road directions and you will be given a series of names back-to-back: go down this road, then turn at this corner, and then go here, and if you get lost just stop and ask for directions. The fact is that our road networks, like our educational systems are built on a system of memorization; you either know the directions or you don’t. There is no logic to navigating the roads…if you get lost…ask for directions or ask jeeves Jesus.

But in the western world, if you ask for directions, you are told to head north or south and then to take exit number X or Y. Even the exits are numbered according to the number of miles between exits. It is a very logical system; if you are on I-35S (interstate 35 south) you know that you are on an interstate road heading south. If you get lost, you can figure out how to get back on track. That is not to say that logic will get you out every time and that you will never have to ask for directions. But you do not need to fully memorize a road network before you can navigate it independently. Their roads were probably built by people who sucked at memorizing. So instead of giving the roads names, they give them directions and numbers. If you are headed to the southwest part of a city, you probably can take almost any road that is labelled south or west and figure out your way. This is how our educational system should be developed – aiming at the end goal. Students should be able to figure out things logically for themselves. If they learn to do so early on, as they mature and when they become leaders, they will be able to create systems that are flexible yet functional.

So what do we do? How can we reform our system? Let’s start by addressing the way we react to students’ “crazy” answers.

Remember the saying…there is no such thing as a stupid question. Well let’s extend that into our classrooms and let our students know that there is no such thing as a stupid answer. Because by so doing, we create a conducive environment where students are free to think and speak without being afraid of being wrong. When this happens, students will be able to take risks and think beyond the textbooks. This is how innovation is born; innovation comes from people who question the norm…people who say: Why can’t we make internet wireless? Why can’t CDs play on both sides? Why can’t a helicopter be used to cut trees? At first their ideas might seem ridiculous, but over time they just might evolve into reality and even become the status quo.

We need to ensure we are teaching students that it’s okay to come up with crazy ideas. And we need to let students and teachers know that it is absolutely not okay to laugh at others’ answers.

As well, we need to train teachers to not search simply for the right answers. Anyone can do that; what they need to do is analyze the wrong answers students give…even the ridiculous ones. Take this physics question for example:

Steve is driving his car. He is travelling at 60 feet per second and the speed limit is 40 miles per hour. Is Steve speeding?

Now this question requires the student to convert both speeds to the same unit so that a simple comparison can be made as to whether Steve was travelling above 40 mph or not. But in the national bestselling book F in Exams, the student simply writes: He could find out by checking his speedometer.

Now imagine this happening in a typical school setting. The student would not only get the answer marked wrong; he would also be reprimanded either with yelling or severe flogging for his audacity to write such an answer. But his answer, albeit it in a weird way, is correct. He has thought beyond the question. Because in reality if Steve wants to know if he is speeding or not he can simply check his speedometer…after all most speedometers have dual units on them!

NOTE: This is a Chapter Excerpt from How Intelligence Kills get the book here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1296689049/how-intelligence-kills-the-inappropriate-truth

This takes me back to a classic Akpos tale:

TEACHER: If I give you four balls of puff-puff in your hand, and I collect all of them back from you, what will be left in your hand?

AKPOS: Na oil naa

In truth, Akpos shows an ability to think beyond the obvious question, to not only focus on the mathematics but on the reality of the situation. And that is that if you have 10 puff puffs in your hand and all are taken back, then you would not only have zero puff-puffs left; but you would also have lots of oil on your hands. And Akpos, as silly as we may think he is, showcases a type of special intelligence that we can should embrace.

A teacher that is not focused only on right or wrong will see beyond the rote answer and realize that the student has a unique way of thinking. But even more importantly, the teacher may figure out that he needs to write his questions more clearly

All in all, if a nation Nigeria is to grow intellectually and start creating, it will need students that can think for themselves, students that can challenge teachers, and students that exhibit flexibility of thought.

Data from the World Bank shows that the last time a patent was registered from Nigeria was in 1990. That was a long time ago. We need to change that by giving students the power to think outside the box. Because the real world is not a perfect question, and as such has no perfect answers. As long as a person’s mind is flexible enough to try out multiple answers/solutions, they will always be able to answer the world’s toughest questions. Let’s gut the memorization and inspire creationization [sic] (just invented that word, but hey….flexibility).

This is a Chapter Excerpt from How Intelligence Kills get the book here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1296689049/how-intelligence-kills-the-inappropriate-truth

Written By Okechukwu Ofili.

On October 2012, I had the privilege to meet with Jane Toku-Mike the mother of Lloyd…just several days after her son had been fatally beaten and torched for a crime that he did not commit. I was nervous about the meeting, I mean what do you tell a mother after losing her son in such a brutal manner? But we spoke and there was one thing she kept saying. And that was that she and all the other parents wanted people to know who their children were, that they were innocent, that they had dreams, that they had aspirations, that they were just like us…you and me.

So last month roughly a year after our first meeting, I asked Jane Toku-Mike if she had pictures of her son that I could use for a project I was working on … you can imagine my surprise when I received not just one but several dozen pictures of Lloyd and the other 3 children. Pictures scanned from a brochure titled Four Friends that was made in honor and remembrance of the aluu4. A brochure filled with never before seen pictures of the children, as babies, in church, in school on visiting day. Just normal everyday pictures with words from family describing their sons.

And I just had to share it, not to stoke another endless debate about the hopelessness of Nigeria or whose fault it was that aluu4 happened. But rather to do something to ensure that the aluu4 victims get justice and to remind the parents that we the people of Nigeria have not forgotten. But more importantly that we will not forget. We will keep fighting for their sons, until they get justice.

And we can fight this fight. All they need from us is to keep their children in the news cycle so that the courts know that we are watching and that we will not be silent if justice is stolen from them.

So feel free to share these pictures, this article, these words, even steal from the article, but get the word out. You can start with publicizing their November 14th court case at High Court 21 in Port Harcourt. If you stay in Port Harcourt, go out there and support, take pictures. Report the news, post it on your blog, ping it, whatsapp it, instagram it, let it spread. Its the little we can do.

Enjoy the below pictures...I was moved and I am sure you will too...

source: http://ofilispeaks.com

Why is this on the front page? I confuse sha.

Thanks @Infomizer trying to create a more permanent home on nairaland.

We marshal our top graduates from all across the nation and then we put them in a camp where things barely work and call it a national orientation. I take that back...mandatory national orientation - where our graduates are mandated to live in substandard conditions, get yelled at and shouted at by soldiers, and are made to put up with all sorts of deplorable conditions in hot over-crowded rooms, with toilets that barely work...that is, if there are toilets at all, in which case our top graduates are probably slinging shit over the wall. And we call in national orientation - orientation to what? SHIT?

Keneking: ok- but why did he run back? Was it for him to finish his piece of weed or something? Why is he bearing Vongatu? Is he a child from asian parentage?How is he a Nigerian? Just black skin and big lips I suppose.

You are not an intellect and neither are you funny, you are just an iidiottt with internet access!

Iheanacho! What are you looking for? Goals!

mko abiola: Dino againb
Wants to b like Gani fawehinmi,no b small tin Gani eyes see b4 he got d title senior advocate of d masses.

And your point exactly is what?

thrashed Honduras? 2-1? huh