₦airaland Forum

coolguyz:
u may hv a point bt wen game ends 3 goals in their favour after all the noise of valencis pulling surprise and the rest wt Messi the dictator of the bame, your point is lost!

i love this club sha

tanimz:

deluxecad:
What are people advocating here? Wearing an explosive belt and walking into an in-session FEC meeting and blowing yourself up? Hurling explosives at our damned rulers and stuff? That'd be terrorist, crude and untaught. There must be a language we should've known that they understand well, we'll employ it. When Obasanjo sold our two refineries to himself and his cohorts, raised the VAT to 10% and hiked the gas price, what brought about the revocations? Comprehensive strikes! Workers' salaries can only be raised in Nigeria only when they down tools, doctors and lecturers can only have their hospitals and laboratories equipped when they strike. What other thing works for our sick rulers?

Krayola:
For the first time in my life I want Real madrid to win

goodluck. See u at the finals in Madrid

SOME applicants seeking employment into the National Examinations Council have insisted that they were duped by the organisation of about N29m.

Saturday Punch had reported in its March 6, 2010 edition that over 50,000 job seekers had alleged that they were duped by NECO.

The N29m quoted by the applicants, some of whom besieged Punch office in Minna to lodge their complaints, was the amount paid by the 57, 193 candidates that were not shortlisted for the employment aptitude test into NECO.

This amount was part of the over N41m expected as proceeds to NECO from the sale of scratch cards at N500 per candidate to all the 83,990 candidates that applied for jobs in the council. This was a condition the applicants had to meet to log on to NECO’s website to check whether they were shortlisted for the test.

Investigations by our correspondent had earlier revealed that 83, 990 unemployed graduates applied for employment, out of which 57,193 were not registered for the aptitude test slated for this week. Only 26, 797 were registered for the examination.

But following the Saturday Punch story, the management of the organisation put up advertisements in some newspapers to defend its decision.

One of the applicants, Mr. Dotun Philip, who came with a copy of the earlier advertisement on staff vacancies published in some newspapers on September 16, 2009, said on Monday, “The normal practice when such vacancies are published is for the condition for recruitment to be well spelt out.

“If the organisation had stated all these conditions when the job vacancies were published, I believe the 57, 193 candidates that were not shortlisted would have read the condition and would not have bothered to apply in the first instance, talk less of paying N500 each to NECO to know whether they were shortlisted or not.

“In my own case, I graduated over five years ago with a very good result. If that condition had been put when the vacancies were published, I would not have applied; and I believe the same thing goes with some of the applicants.”

Another candidate, Mr. Aliyu Muhamed, also faulted NECO’s defence.

According to him, “If the organisation is sincere as it claims that the money collected was to offset the cost of advertisements, are they trying to say that over N42m collected was invested in the two or three papers used for the advert?

He added, “I am surprised why it is now NECO is discovering that distance is a barrier in asking us to buy scratch cards for N500 to check whether we are short listed for interview or not.

“Why didn’t they ask us to register for employment online before asking us to submit 10 copies of applications to letters from our referees and applications at their zonal offices and other offices? Most of us travelled long distances to bring our applications to their offices.”

NECO’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ibrahim Aliyu, told our correspondent that on Monday the body never set out to dupe the applicants.

According to him, “Organisations atimes, in handling recruitment, try to balance federal character, national planning and so on. Candidates have no right to determine what the condition for employment should be.

“The right is that of the organisation and you keep eliminating till you get the best hands.”

He insisted that the applicants were not ripped off, adding that most of them had already been working before applying for jobs in NECO.

'Matthew 24'
7, For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8, All these are the beginning of sorrows.

D1KeleVra:
If u look closely at the gen set pic. . . u'd see Benjamin-10 sitting against the steps like say life don tire am

marvix:
Pls can aisha just tell me wat dis enuf is enuf campaign out to achieve, what are they protestin wat fight is she talkin abt, is dis fight more important dan d fight for independence or the Civil war is it diff frm d protests of June 12 and all other protests dat arose frm it. Where hav al d past protests and fights achieved for us and wat wil this protest achieve

Shoot2Kill:
This article shows how brave Nigerians used to be in the past.Like Eyodad said we need to mobilize and fight again but this time our enemies are the political parties and politicians.We do not need to fight a full scale war ,we just need to fight a covert war like the Mossad of Isreal.

Assasinations is the ANSWER.

mikeansy:
I honestly think he should run and run vigorously

If he fails so be it.

The man was up for it in 2007, Nigerians simply refused to hope.
Maybe we may hope better this time, he should throw himself in the ring for one last time and give it a full go. Regardless of what PDP thinks.

All he needs is a Nupe or Tiv Muslim VP.

I personally believe that a Presidential candidate can win elections in Nigeria by being strong in the South and winning the rest of Taraba, Adamawa, Benue, Plateau, Niger and Abuja.

You must not win in Kano and Sokoto or Katsina to win elections.