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Ok. Shame on the state government for letting this denigrate in the manner. The National Mosque in Abuja operates on government money, is that a reason for me to go there without scarve or with rosary?

Rather, than teaching tolerance. The Baptist school have been tolerant enough to admit students without regards to faith. You should take a look at University of Ilorin, the Human Resources (staff and students) has a significantly high concentrate of Muslims, you may even be charged for blasphemy if you attempt a morning cry evangelism, or if as an atheist or whatever you are, you are not Modestly dressed to their suiting.

Traditional worshippers should be allowed to also attend schools in their religious fits. Again, shame on the state governments. Very soon, the next violent protest will be to call the school, ‘Baptist Ansarudeen High School’ -

When a bank staff does an erroneous transfer, it’s often the case, that even such staff cannot do the reversal, such reversal is usually authorized by a superior.

So if I am a teller, and I posted the wrong amount to your account, I can’t just get an additional deposit slip and post the rest. There has to be a system reversal of the earlier posting.

One time, there was such error, this time, the amount posted was more than the amount deposited by the customer, on realizing the error, the teller quickly filled a withdrawal form to rectify the erroneous deposit. Eventually the staff was fired. The account was a savings account, and when the customer didn’t receive the expected benefit, she contacted her account office, who stated that she withdrew more than she needed to, in order to be a beneficiary of the interest payment, the customer objected to this, denied so , and made the account officer probe further. The account officer eventually saw the unauthorized withdrawal.

Even a staff cannot tamper with the customers instructions or account. The whole reversal has to be recorded in the Bank’s system.

Also, imagine, this customer who has a lien on his account, has a dependent involved in an accident, and needed to access the fund in his account to get medical help but couldn’t..,because of no fault of his, then the dependent died due to inaccessible fund, don’t you think he should sue the bank for murder? These are the types of cases that informs the banks disposition towards a customer’s fund or account. I am pretty sure, in placing such lien, the history of the recipient account was examined, and such informed their action.

I do understand why several people are castigating the employee. A professional advice would have been, to get a court order. But then, the employee should also be commended for giving a realistic advice, even the cost of obtaining such order may exceed the amount you want reversed. And so, the alternative, does require prayer. The bank cannot disclose the recipient contact information to you, that will be a breach of confidentiality. At the best, they will reach out on your behalf, but if the customer is dead or inaccessible, you ultimately will need a court order, and so, to not encumber the troubles in getting your issue solved, prayer has been advised. For a surgery, we pray, for an exam, we pray, for traveling, we pray, The blacks in America are praying, that their youths not end up like Floyd or get shot by a cop … so each nation, its issue…and it is so in many places across the world.

When is Atiku going?

I am so much glad at the courage (not exactly, selective) of the students union despite continuous assault on its mandate and burden. It would seem the authorities in charge just wants to breed complacent folks, but their is no greater threat to our society than the lack of courage in our intellectuals, in our youths.

I commend the union, the letter does not pander and it shouldn’t pander when their have been loss of lives or ability.

Sadly, the school authorities don’t care much, they wouldn’t even use their offices to employ the government to its primary responsibility. In their ordinary , they have expelled students activists asking questions.

I think the wording of the letter is great. It would have been greater, if the inclination of the school authority to cowardice and breeding cowardice is mentioned or the school's futile effort to reach the government to act …

Don't feel it should be more polite, think of the grievances and the loss of parents due to lack of action on the government part for years, despite beseeching or appealing, think of those students without a limb now. If we confront our representatives and governments with their responsibilities, perhaps they would act.

We shouldn't just pray for them, we should remind them, and also notify them that the consequences of their inaction or irresponsibilities is very handy and ready to be served.

Just adverts. Just tell people to walk into any access bank , and know a staff, and deposit their CV with the staff. The staff that is probably seconded.

Ah, well you do need to sacrifice your senses because of friendship or love. The frontal cortex as it relates to the beloved is on suspension when in love. We slacken our judgment or suspend our judgments standards, says neuroscience.

So love takes from us, our shield; we become vulnerable and perhaps our happiness becomes contingent on another, but what love gives us is even greater. we may find in it, our own revelation or a reason to continue, and through the vulnerability, the light may get in, to us.

But in the end, it is a bargain that requires our full senses.

Those soldiers should be prosecuted.

They are not just attacking the individuals, but the institution.

However decayed, the Police serves the civil space and should have authority over the civil space.

If the police erred, inform his/her superior. They will be the one to do the discipline.

As at now, many of what we have are pigeons, not eagles.

Scientific results can be very prone to manipulation, not only because they require human interpretations, but even more so, because they are based on it.

There are certain procedures and results that are not so much prone, where such inclination is addressed by existing standards, validity and reliability.

But it is not an evidence of naivety if you think that interpretations of such can be very skewed towards the intended purpose of the examiner or the researcher.

It is so as to reduce such skewed interpretations, that seven pathologists with perhaps different or two interests had to probe into his body.

Again, most scientific procedures defers to authority. The ones that didn't, are the remarkable findings, that goes through rigorous and frustrating peer reviews that may sometimes demand decades or 'half of' to become established by the scientific community.

The scientific community has their norms, values and even a collective conscience, that sometimes a deviant finds that the structures can overwhelm if you attempt to dissuade it or persuade its established findings.

Imagine for the purpose of relation or appreciation: that our leading scientists and even the greatest scientists of different ages have built their findings on a certain proposition or assumption, which an emerging scientist have now found as flawed, because of the threat such finding may have to their reputations and life-time work, there might be some hesitancy to the truth; some rigour that will or may truly overwhelm the emerging scientist to lose bearing may even be orchestrated.

Although I have used the word orchestrated, such orchestration that overwhelms, may not be the intent or may be the intent of the agitated.

The medical field have an interest in being perceived as dependable and well-grounded. Cases of false diagnosis, clinical errors, medical negligences are not so much in the interest and so not so much investigated, unless by a resourceful relative or friend to the dead or misdiagnosed... because the effect of such false diagnosis may in addition to death of the victim, lead to withdrawal of such health-care provider license and to the perception of the discipline...so there are often little questions allowed to be asked.

In tertiary hospitals even foremost in the country, you can make a call through to anyone who has lost someone there, they probably weren't even met with sympathy in the relation of their loss, the fellow may not even see anyone to interrogate, and though a report is issued, the reports are so worded that reading it in your state of internal disarray, gives little meaning to settling such disarray. If it gives meaning, it would be to the extent of their callous dismissal, which is intently defensive and strikingly intended to absorb from any suggestion of culpability. And so, many have died, who shouldn't have, but we may not know.

The system however, is not built and made in such a way, that we can probe adequately to understand not just how this is so but if this is so, but it is an hypothesis you can test. In probing, it is the same medical field that is accused that we defer to and the medical field aside its interest in being perceived as dependable and well-grounded, is also skewed by interpretations in relating its suggestion as to the causes of its finding.

Imagine for purpose of relation or appreciation: that I have worked with KPMM for a better part of my life, but my work has affected my health, in such that, my fixation on the computer screen and the lighting of my work station, have now damaged my eyesight.

''My doctor said this may be so. I relate to KPMM my condition and beseech its assistance in redeeming my eyesight which was damaged in its service. KPMM responds and knows such assistance would only lead to endless law suits by its former employees who may cite whatever current health predicament they have as a failure of KPMM to provide a safe work environment.

Aware of such tendency to weaponisation, KPMM does not decline my solicitation for help right away, they invite me to meet with their own doctors for an examination or confirmation. Their doctors, who are much more renowned than mine in the field then establish that my eye condition or predicament cannot be linked to KPMM, that although it is as a result of exposure to light or non exposure to adequate lightning, but the light from my computer screen in KPMM is standard and adequate and not hazardous to the eyes. Their examination report is worded with the support of KPMM lawyers.

Now, it is the aspiration of any doctor to work with the KPMM medical consultants and he defers to them in the end. The consultants are the foremost in the country, they have among their directors, the leading professors in optometry and ophthalmology. No bank will give a loan that would help afford a medical report, so superior. The government hospitals do not even have the facilities for such examination. ''

Such relation above is the reality of many and may be the reality of Oromoni, science would not come to their aid unless afforded. Financial resources would; such financial resource has perhaps aided the college, but if the family spend more, the result can also be skewed to their intent.

It all underscores the necessity of financial resource to medical justice.

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He is just been exploited as we all are, whether this is scripted or not.

If it is not, it will seem he is just more courageous than most of us, to confront the exploiters who are not done bleed drying him.

If drugs will deliver us from being a zombie where we do most of the work and get used completely, but get only the crumbs while others enjoy the benefit of our effort greedily;

maybe we all are better off with such drugs.

It cost so little to get a crowd.

May God give Seyi Makinde the wisdom to navigate this. It seem Senator (Oba) (Chief) Lekan Balogun wants to eat his cake and have it. Such wouldn’t so much hurt the parties, than it hurts and damages the institution.

You are still in school and you can still make a 2.1, yet you are looking for justification not to push or exert yourself.

Not pushing or exerting yourself is often what brings about frustration as regards career. You should work on this outlook.

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If Buhari has this zeal for his country, the nation would not be so defeated.

It’s like a cemetery for dead animals. Stuffed.

This is an insult to Nigeria.

There are mansions in Ogbomoso that has even more.

The same army that killed folks for demanding a better Nigeria.

The same army that denied.

The money meant for the development of Rivers State would be disbursed to these ones.

They play for money and influence, not Wike.

Wike just happen to be in a position that commands their needs.

First time I saw Fubara, he did much remind of Chadwick Boseman. He seemed assured in the role with a massive aura, talent and potential.

I wish the family and loved ones strength and fortitude to bear the loss. It’s also our loss.

The debt is fulfilled.

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There is a bill to remove the dichotomy or discrimination between HND and first degree but it has not been signed.

You can see the bill here https://placbillstrack.org/8th/upload/HB798.pdf

This would have been a good report if it provided us with government position on hijab use in schools and also the objection of the principal involved, as to why the students weren’t allowed.

So no one has unlimited rights; the school principal has serious obligations and I think if the individual can justifiably show how the students right to Hijab impedes on whatever obligation she has, there can be a negotiation of thoughts to determine which is superior.

It would seem such negotiation of thoughts have existed over the years and the Lagos government directive is a deferential to the supreme court, that the student religious liberty to appearance be upheld in public schools in Lagos state.

I will try to talk to the position of the government as available, far back 2018. Since the year, it is possible the position has changed, however, I could not get hold of any such change in position. The instruction then which is perhaps still valid was fluid and left to the discretion of the Supreme Court.

The instruction reads

“Since the case of the use of Hijab in Lagos State is still pending in the Supreme court of Nigeria, status quo be maintained, to avoid contempt of the court, that is students be allowed to wear Hijabs on school uniforms but same must be short, smart, neat and in the same colour of the uniform (skirt),”

I think folks should be allowed to exercise what their faith dictates without discrimination from others or bullying and I believe as a layman in the subject of Law, the Supreme Court dictum would be based on the individuals right, part of which is religious liberty.

However for it to go up to the supreme court, the issue is not so layman, but that there are consequences or conflicts of rights that allowing Hijab use, forces.

What has been the status quo in the school? What has been the norm? Have they allowed the use of Hijab in the past? How have the students attended classes then? Was it with the Hijab? Are the parents of the girls all of a sudden insisting on their child’s rights to Hijab in the school, despite the leaning of the school to not permit it in the past? These and more are questions that if answered would aid understanding the scenario better, but while they are important questions, there can be no justification for flouting the government directive to recognise the students right to Hijab in such schools and I believe the Principal has no ulterior motive to do this as she risks if not her life, then her livelihood and her reputation to be fair and not be a bigot.

Overtime, I think fear is been incorporated into our institutions, but for years, Muslims have lived, submissive to the society at the cost of their belief or the instruction of their belief, yet overtime, fear is been incorporated into our institutions. By who? By folks tired of the oppressions Muslims may face, but Islam itself is oppressive compared to other religions, it has clear instructions of how to fulfil its mandate which is not consistent with peace or with the existence of a secular state, but increasingly, there is a rise in Muslims, protesting their abilities to exhale, a rise in Muslims seeking to fulfil some of the harmless instructions of their Quran, even here in the south.

Education should be a facility to liberate, and when our educational institutions becomes beholden to religious sentiments and rule, I fear the worse, but our educational institutions as well must teach tolerance and be the template for our society in the recognition of individuals personal liberty but damning the reason why Hijab may be objected to, can be a reckless course; to merely reduce those objecting, to Islamophobic is also a reckless course and it becomes dangerous in its proclivity for violence, that is why in some places, those who may objects get killed, while in the south here, it's increasingly becoming, that taking one's livelihood is the punishment or sentence for such objection.

If one is in a position to obey the state, to ensure the rights of others and one does not do that or betrays that duty, then it is right that such responsibility is withdrawn from them. The Principal is a case study, however the Principal may not so much be disobeying the state or disregarding or discriminating unlawfully anothers religious liberty, and that is why before asking for her head, we should give the head a chance to speak as to the reason. Somehow, that has or may not have occurred, but what I know is that what underlies her position is absent, and such absence raises my suspicion and even about the NewsMedia in its laziness, and in its inclination to divide people further and arouse dangerous sentiments across religious lines.

THE BEST PEOPLE TO ASK = HR MANAGERS

WHERE CAN YOU GET HR MANAGERS = Go on LinkedIn, search for top organisations or the organisation you intend working, check profiles of people that work in HR there, look at their qualifications. Let this inform your decision.


My Cent = It is important that you gauge the individuals advising you, on this platform, common sense or certification or qualification or certain experiences are not a requirement for being a member of Nairaland or for contributing. Linkedin is a better place to ask such question.

MBA is the most popular professional degree in the world, it gives you an overall knowledge of business (Marketing, Economics, Finance and other courses you will be introduced) with concentration on Human resource and you getting MBA HR is good for your career anytime, status wise.

SHRM, CIPM, HRCI are great professional qualifications in HR, but especially with CIPM, I may not see you as having an overall knowledge of the business as someone with MBA, but I will see you as very focused professionally and more HR oriented.

I think to be outstanding, the best path is to do both.

If one must do just one, based on my experience in HR, then I will say, go for SHRM, CIPM or HRCI, if you are solely HR oriented, the certifications requires a much more elaborate and detailed syllabus than you would get in an MBA. Also, when you ask in most organizations, you will find out that certifications such as ACCA, ICAN, HRCI, CIPM would likely aid your promotion quickly than an MBA. but there are some business schools that, the MBA there is highly valued even beyond the professional qualifications, but can you afford such??

I did a brief check for you to look at some organisations management team...you can check others as well

In UBA - Patricia Aderibigbe, is the Group Head, Human Resources. She does not have any MBA, but she is a fellow of CIPD. (CIPD is just like CIPM) https://www.ubagroup.com/leadership/

In FBN holding - Oyinade Kuku, is the Head, Human Resources. She is an associate member of CIPM and CIPD. https://www.fbnholdings.com/oyinade-kuku/

In KPMG - Gloria Ibeziako, is the Head, People, Performance and Culture (PPC). No MBA, but a member of CIPM (UK).https://home.kpmg/ng/en/home/contacts/i/gloria-ibeziako.html

In OANDO Plc - Ima Ofulue, is the Chief, Human Resource. She has an MBA, but she is also a Certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR) https://www.oandoplc.com/staff-member/ima-ofulue/.

In British American Tobacco, Nigeria- Temitope Akinsanya, is the former Area Head, Human Resource, she has now moved to East African Breweries. She holds an MBA with specialisation in Personnel Management. No known professional certification.

Nigeria LNG- Terhemba Emmanuel Makeri, is the GM, Human Resource. He has no MBA, but he is a member of CIPM. https://www.nigerialng.com/the-company/Pages/Management-Team.aspx?exec=11

there are several others, the above are just random. You can check three or four organisations too or check Linkedin as earlier suggested, with your findings, you can decide for yourself.

Why can’t Fashola be president?

Femi Adesina again shows his immense talent in this remarkable piece; singing praises for the president for travelling abroad, singing praises for the president for disparaging Nigeria'ns' on the global stage for years and not losing an opportunity to show utter derision for the Nigeria people by blatantly assaulting their intelligence as he has always.

The true measure of the success of the president trips would have been who the president was able to convince to come invest in Nigeria or how many jobs for Nigerians such event has led to or is sure to lead to, the true measure of success would be how those trips have translated to an iota of alleviation of the issues confronting the people... The truth is, there are no such true successes, because if there is one, Femi Adesina would not stop suffocating our faces with it.

Femi Adesina however sings praises for the successes of Buhari's merry go rounding all over the world, trips with hundreds of unnecessary protocols, reveling in luxury, expanding the nation's debt. And by singing his praise, much disservice is done to the nation because Buhari thinks by such a trip he has accomplished so much for us to rest and it is such praises and such praise singers that have singularly perhaps become the most prominent clog in the wheel of the progress for this nation under a rather clueless administration.

By surrounding yourself by those quick to praise you for snoring or for farting and are so agreeable that they do not provide counsel or bother to convey reality to the presidency... the president lives in a blunder, a dire misapprehension, hence his cluelessness and hence our suffering.

Congratulations to the ones mentioned. We are a remarkable people and would do even more if the necessary infrastructure and support exists.

The criteria for this recognition is publishing in top journals, but many of the top journals requires not just an evidence of competence or relevance in your work or study or research, they also want money… so you pay to get published in many of the remarkable journals.

In the most cited universities in the Stanford study, or generally top universities worldwide, the university has a fund set aside for helping researchers publish in the high end journals, all the researchers has to bother on really is the actual study—/ , this is not so in Nigeria federal universities, some of the Nigeria based scholars you see, listed, paid the money out of their very limited resources to sponsor the research in the absence of a grant, they paid out of their meagre resources to publish the paper in an high end journal.

And this speaks to the passion of our academia in the country. There could be a lot more, if universities provide the necessary resources or were provided the necessary resources. And so if a private university, say covenant university recognizes rightly that publication in high end journals, relevant researches is the way to becoming an Ivy League contender, they put the resources to it, attract the best minds from our public universities, giving them the right incentives and they are up there. This is already ongoing, and it has been at the cost of quality to our federal universities.

ASUU is hoping to address it, but while they can get the government to commit, they can’t force the hand of the government to act beyond such commitment.

Again, we have to put our academics in a decent pedal, and pay them not necessarily what is obtainable everywhere better than our universities, but create a system that aids the visibility of their research outputs.

So I know we could do much more, I think we are not doing close to our capability in our universities or research institutions, I think the reason is because survival is the foremost need of most of the employees in such institutions; you cannot afford a decent neighbourhood, you cannot afford a creche for your child based on your salary, you have a non existent laboratory and yet they do remarkable studies, with the facilities they have...but between survival and the cost of publishing in high end journals, Maslow says rightly that survival is foremost.


You can access the study here: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3

However, I did a break down…

So there is the list that is based on authors career and about 186, 178 names are listed

Using Excel, I probed the data a little further. 162 countries are listed.

While the USA has 75,899 individuals listed, the UK has 17, 237 listed, Australia has 6369, Canada has 8127, China has 6943, Germany has 9986, France has 5912 listed, India has 2042, Japan has 7362,

In Africa, South Africa has 669 names listed, Egypt has 327 names, Nigeria has only 73 names listed which represents less than 0.04% globally.

In Nigeria, 12 are from UI, 8 from UNN, 6 from Covenant, 5 from FUTA, IITA has 4, ABU has 3 names respectively…no other university in Nigeria has above 3 names. Harvard University alone has about 1717 researchers listed.


while there is another list based on authors output just for the year 2020 and about 190, 064 names are listed. Again, using excel, I probed the data a little further.

About 165 countries were listed.

Australia has 7140 names, China has 16,604 names, Canada has 7478 names, Germany has 9434 names, France has 5272 names, UK has 15,843 names, Italy has 6126 names, Japan has 5416 names, the USA has 66,233 names listed, South Africa has 752 names listed, while Nigeria has 121 names listed which is about 0.064% globally.

In Nigeria, 17 are from UI, 8 from Covenant university, also 8 from UNN, 6 from FUTA, 5 from OAU, 4 from Landmark University, 4 from Unilag…no other university in Nigeria has up to 4 names listed. Harvard University has about 1763 names listed.

N.B for the purpose of this, Harvard university included Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School and other Harvard affiliates. While UI includes researchers from UCH and College of Medicine, Ibadan.

Hehehe, released by who?

I saw this information on Dowen’s college website about two weeks ago.

I am not sure why it is not there today, Perhaps to protect the staffs from social media lynching.

I hope you also release to us, those who inspired the culture of bullying in the school.

The boys were bullied, so they bully. Bullying is the norm, had the boy survived, he would perhaps also be a bully in his senior class.

The bullies actually just did, what passes in most schools, but unfortunately for them, a boy is dead.

No one would have known to trace, if the boy didn’t mention names.

This is an interesting thread and quite funny.

I think what most reasonable ladies look out for is your competence and your drive and most especially your understanding and affection. They know that most well driven persons can attain even more than they have. So, an education or English student that is perhaps religiously driven and could turn out to become a prominent GO will be rated highly as a potential mate. Also, an individual who is business driven or politically driven, some could just even settle for your talents or appearance or effort.


Generally, their male colleagues are perhaps more interested in appearance and because of their status, May desire a partner that defers to them. So the male doctors or medical students may prefer a nursing student or a nurse to a medical doctor.

The female medical student that is so status inclined may sometimes lose out, her male colleagues have gone for younger beautiful ladies that will be available and controllable… and they lose out because with age, the older she gets, the less attractive they become, and so their status becomes the basis of their attractiveness which is not a great basis because at this later point, they just settle with whosoever that is available.

Be confident to approach, I assure you they may be very busy as students but they are waiting for you, and whosoever that looks down on you, without giving you a chance is really not worth it.

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