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ekt_bear: To be quite honest, I'm not convinced that having a PhD is necessary for being a good lecturer.

Nor does a university need to be research-oriented to be a good one.

However, I don't really have good evidence to support my position, since the most highly-ranked universities have both of these characteristics

Well, this is your opinion and you have every right to express it
Just a quick thought here......having a Phd is necessary for being a good lecturer simply because you have been tested and you have also gained a deep knowledge in your field of study such that you can teach whoever is interested in what you have to say. Simply put, you are some sort of authority in your chosen field. You have done some scientific research that has been tested by anonymous scholars who happen to be higher than yourself in the chosen field!

With regards to a University being research-oriented before it can be classified as GOOD.. well, "apple does not fall far from the tree" If a university is sound in research findings...their ratings tend to be high, hence people look forward or up to them for their next new knowledge/invention
There are few Universities in the US or Britain that are known to be leaders in certain field of study.

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Guy, wake up, a university is meant to be research driven, full of scholars who know what education is all about , not half baked fellows passing on the culture of mediocrity.

Nice talk up there.

I really don't know what the new committee will achieve. Is PTDF (petroleum development fund)still on in that country? what is the criteria for giving out scholarship to above average students to study abroad? and upon return, can the government please tell us how these returnee have contributed to the higher education sector? Also, how has the federal government been able to ensure that these returnees have desirable atmosphere to work? I think there should be a published list of who gets the funding and where they end up working upon return and allow the citizens to judge if the process is fair at all

Why can't Jonathan along with her education minister answer certain questions rather than set up committee on every minor issue

Before we know it now, this new committee must have an Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba as members and that my friend, is where the problem will start due to conflict of interest and federal character

Life is all about choice and only responsible people accept the fall outs of the choices they make...especially when it does not go well as planned. Think it through and ask good questions. That will guide your decision. Pray too.

Well said.

Cap28,
what do you really want
You are here and you are saying all these.....why don't you go to Nigeria and help make the changes you desire to see
From your posts, all i see is issues with Obasanjo, Ngozi etc etc.
I am assuming you live outside Nigeria
If you live outside Nigeria you are a second class citizen ok.

@ola one,
You have said it all and i hope people understand at least.
The last i checked i think minimum wage in Nigeria is about 25000 naira right? $200 at the most per month o and it is not even regular.
So tell me, if walmart is paying even $5 in Nigeria.....college graduates/okada riders/mama Uche, mama Risi, Abdulahi, Ekaete, boyloaf will all line up to work there because they will make $5 multiply by 40hrs in a week!
People should do the math please

Cap28,
walmart is facing lawsuit the same way Mobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch SHELL, Halliburton, ENI etc etc are all facing lawsuit even in Nigeria and all over the world!
Should we now say that because of all these walmart should not come to Nigeria
All the oil companies highlighted above are still doing business in Nigeria regardless of oil spill in the Delta and they will continue to do so.

Ladybfashion, you really don't know how much Nigerians living outside love Nigeria.
I really don't know for how long you have been in the states...but if you think i don't like Nigeria, then i really don't know why i am on the thread
After all, some people made their point and left right?
I just want you to look at things from a positive perspective thats all. I'm not saying it is entirely right or good for walmart to come to naija....just look the good side at least.
just as Ola one mentioned earlier on..... i think what he was trying to say is half bread is better than none especially for the undergraduates and even the graduates roaming the streets without any hope!
I'm sure people must have called you up at one point to send them some money right? Think about it, if these people have a job atleast, do you think they will bother you at all

cap28: Oh portage did I mention that wen they set up businesse abroad they get massive tax rebates and they r allowed to repartriate all their wealth back to america wth no obligation to investc in the cntry they r ra.png? Cn u now see they r interested in nigeria?

Ok now so Cap28,
Please tell me the way forward in other to improve competition among businesses in Nigeria
Nigeria is not helping anyone and yet someone is trying to reach out and the only thing you see is negative I bow o!
Do you expect them not to make money while they invest in Nigeria? I think it all depends on the deal between them and FG.

splendidb20: maybe okonjo is hear. i cant concur
www.nairaland.com/944529/who-who-nairaland

Who knows

Ladybfashion, i give up. There is really no point explaining things to you. By the way, i do not work in walmart as a graduate. I used to work is different from i still work. I only said, if people choose to, they can still move up the ladder while working at walmart.
Ladybfashion, i lived a considerable number of years in Nigeria and i know almost everything about working, owning businesses in cities like Lagos, ibadan etc etc.
Thank you for your time.

Cap28
You said, most people that work in walmart are forced to be there because of the economy right? I have had a similar job before while trying to get through college hence my saying that it is not supposed to be a destination. If you have a college degree, trust me, you will move higher up in this same walmart. Now, i'm not sure about the walmart you've been to o because i was once in Birmingham, Al. walmart......boy i couldn't believe it is the same walmart!!! You should see the ones in mid-west.

@ladybfasshion,
Please kindly read through my earlier post on this same page 3. Walmart presence will no doubt bring a lot of changes. But i see it as a situation for ordinary Nigerian to be able to think outside his immediate environment. Sometimes as human beings, we don't move until we have a situation that is beyond us. I love the analogy you gave about the electronic shop. However, this is an opportunity for him to reach out to banks and make them have interest in his business. Who knows, if our banks are responsible they can see a future in his business thereby investing and making his business BIG eventually. But if he continues to sit without any challenge and can not think.....he will loose out and hate Walmart with every drop of blood in his veins.

God bless you there ola one
Sometimes, it is difficult to understand what Nigerians want There is no free meal anywhere. As human being you need to be able to think and be diligent.
Let these people come o people.Tell me, is it not better to be able to take care of oneself with money to get by the day or months than asking distant relation for help!! Or better still, being a prostitute (ashewo)?
And by ashewo, I mean, all these girls asking for recharge cards/top up credits or even a trip to go see movie or buy BASIC NEED at shoprite. And yahoo-yahoo for the young boys.
See, naija government is not creating any job for anybody and if these people are coming to Nigeria, let them come. If we are not lazy people, we should be able to take advantage.

cap28 and Ladiesfashion
Nobody will want to make walmart his/her final destination if you ever want to make it real BIG in life. Working at walmart/Tescos/ASDA/Sainsbury is just earnings to help you get by the day. Very few youn men/women will want to build a career in all these places hence the job is more like a temporal job.
I think i heard somebody mentioned that the Ngozi woman will rather shop at Macys and not walmart. Please and please, Macy's do not carry everyday groceries do they??
There are few things i buy at walmart and there are other stuff i buy at Rulli bros and there are stuff i buy at the meat market or Halal meat if i can say that.
By the way Cap28, who does business without the sole aim of making profit in this world

Ileke I still think this move will help our ladies in higher institution to go out there and work decent job to see themselves through higher education rather than waiting for one Bank boy or Alhaji/Chief to be giving them money after sleeping with them or what do you think?

*Ileke-IdI:
I feel sorry for the people who think they'll find job at walmart and be able to live "well off" with that money.
Like someone said, in the USA where the union is strong, a measly $7.25/hr is the salary. What do you think will happen in Nigeria where strike is held and shut down without meeting a common ground?

Let us stop being negative here. Even if walmart pay $5 as wages in Nigeria....a lot of people will be better off. You will be surprised that the likes of okada riders will gladly go there to work as Butcher or even cleaners.
By the way, walmart did not just get to where they are right now...they started somewhere and people must have criticized them at the initial stage. I am sure they must have had serious issues in the past that necessitated the union/wages/life insurance situation. We will get there as a country only if we also try. We can not continue to do the same thing over and over again and still expect a different result. If there is no competition among our wholesale retail industry, we the consumers will continue to complain about our poor standard of living.
The important thing is to get people back to work and earn a decent/honest living. With this settled, nobody really cares about whatever Jonathan and is cronies are doing in Abuja. If you ask me, very few people care less about what is happening in Washington.

Already, a lot of people are talking and singing high praises with regards to the super mall being erected at different places all over Nigeria....whether we like it or not the jobs being created at these malls will be small compared to what a giant retailer will bring. There's a lot of job associated with food or basic retailers.
When shoprite came to Nigeria some years back, people said all sort....but you know what? we still have Yaba market, Isale eko market etc etc in business.
Again, look at the positives for now and act on the negatives along the line.

Aigbofa,^^

You are correct. Only big businesses that can handle big businesses will benefit from having dealings with walmart.
But is this not a good news to our useless Banks that daily send our ladies to go and sleep around for a mere deposit
Why is it so difficult for all these banks to diversify and invest in other businesses rather than promoting immorality through deposits?
If these banks diversify, they will create even more jobs to countless university and polytechnic graduates. We do not all have to work in a banking hall doing some profit and loss, trial balance rubbish from 7am to whenever your boss leaves for the day
We are talking about job creation that will discourage the menace (BH, armed robbery, petty thief, aristo-prostituition) that is facing us as a country today.

cap28: More neo liberal economic policies from the world bank lackey! I have said it and will continue to say tht this woman will not rest until she brings nigerians collectively to our knees. It is becoming clearer evry day as to why the americns imposed this accursed woman on us, as u cn see she is doing evry thing to favour foreign multinatnls whilst simultaneously damaging domestic businesses. Walmart r a monopoly they r responsibl for decimating the livelihood of thousands of small scale busineseses in america in addition they regularly break or circumvent labour laws , they r hated in america for their unscrupulous business practices we r talkng abt a corporation tht takes out life insurance covr on their employees whch is paid to the company on the employees death- not to the employees dependants imagine that! The insurance cover is evn calld dead peasants insurance covr!! This is how they repay their employees who ve put in years of back breakng labour!

If they cn xploit their workrs in america wth all the safety nets of social security and health insurance imagine wht they will get away wth in nigeria where its evry man for himself! They will use nigerian workrs as slave labour knwg tht there r no laws to protect them. Okonjo iweala is the ultimate traitor and sell out .how much more pain will nigerians be prepared to tolerate frm this woman?

With all respect, I think your argument is flawed. i do not agree with the statements in bold.
First you said......the Ngozi woman is trying to bring Nigerians to their knees Common maaaaan , what i see here is that she is trying to make you and I think outside the box. Simple. I really dont know if you are employed at the moment. If you are, then good for you. However, there's more money you can make while still holding on to your daily job if for example you along with friends own a company on the side that handles logistics or supply for Walmart in Nigeria.
Secondly, If the multinationals do not come down, we will continue to shout corruption of our government until thy kingdom come and they will continue to loot our treasury while there is nothing we can do. If these multinationals come down, they will help/empower us indirectly.
Thirdly, you mentioned something about Walmart is responsible for decimating thousands of small businesses in the US. Wow and wow In as much as i rarely shop in Walmart, i can see through their business practices and how they have been able to improve the lives of middle class Americans. You will be surprised that most of the above middle class American businesses have a dealing with Walmart one way or the other.Go out there and hang out with regular people you see in the US, have a genuine discussion with them and you will be surprised that most of them own businesses that is associated with Walmart or any of the BIG chain retailers.

In as much as I will not try to hold any brief for Walmart here, I guess we, as a developing Nation should look at the good side of this giant retailers interest in Nigeria. Of course, we can always find one thousand reasons for not wanting something if we so choose. Likewise, we can always find ten thousand reasons to like something if it pleases our present situation or long term goal.
That said, I think Walmart coming to Nigeria is a good thing because of the jobs that will be created and likewise the competition among players that will improve. Not everything will be imported from China just as some people have insinuated. For example, if we look at fresh produce e.g. meat, poultry, vegetables, household wash up liquids and chemicals just to name a few can be sourced in Nigeria. There quite a number of Nigerian businesses that are going bankrupt or jobless every day. Nigeria has a huge talent of jobless graduates who can easily put into use what they have learnt in the University by putting up a proposal forward to Walmart. People, don’t let us be mentally lazy to reason now.
Again, if we look at the fact that our iya olojas that have been exploiting us for a while, they will be forced to compete reasonably with Walmart coming in to the same game with them. The good thing again is that Walmart is a big corporation, and the fear of juju will not work on them, so all these iya olojas and baba elerans will be forced to do a decent hard work and they will surely have profits that they will be proud of.
Again, there is nothing stoping the likes of broda Waheed the seamstress/ tailor from upgrading his skills if he wants to compete with those people supplying Walmart with school uniforms, window blinds etc etc and there is nothing stopping Nureni, the carpenter from upgrading himself from making his wood works to a nice and presentable standard that will rather make Walmart buy from him rather than placing order to one useless Chinese dealer. While nothing stops you that is reading this (as a sharp man) to invest in broda waheed or Nurenis business because you know that these guys are good at what they do, the only problem is they do not have enough capital to promote their business.!!!! Meanwhile, these people will tend to employ more people as demand for their product improves.
Please people, let us look at the good side and not the bad side always and let’s stop being negative if we want to progress as individuals and as a country.

Sisi_Kill,
e be like say you be the park ranger true true
Ever consider being a comedian ? You got the skills man!
No allow the guy with Anatummy catch you sha

Beaf: The man says the grenades belong to his mopol brother. I think its safe to say that its teargas.

Ok now, the man has been talking
Who send am go bomb nah
Dem no get name??

GEJ's security people dey try o
At last, dey caught one man at least
Who say's our security people no dey work?
I expect a FULL statement from Reuben Abati Phd very soon
Nigeria and jokes !!!
Bunch of useless Okobo.....
I bet, the guy man dey smile go bank now

Dotman01: To add to that Roberto di Matteo was losing to Scunthorpe in the
League One play-offs three years ago.
Quite a rise.

Really?? even Scunthorpe?? na wah ooo. Na Scunthorpe, Barnsley, Sheffield Wednesday be class now!!!
Anyway, DESTINY...........

End of season and some players don get report card most of these Chelsea players no dey get promotion o.....See the eediot called Trumbull dem even give am chance to launch himself....na lie

Ghana straight.......Essien don pkeme

At least we now know who dey follow go Germany for 19th

Who be thid goalkeeper sef No wonder he has been on the bench this long

SuyaEater: Abeg chelsea no care about this match....they already beat liverpool when it mattered ....we have bigger fish to fry

Agreed, but no be say make dem con disgrace themselves now 3 goals for first half!!!!

Essien is responsible for two goals the guy don too age for this kain game nah and Terry, good he's not playing finals

Some boys just gladly put themselves up for sale

Can anybody advise on the new GRE scale?? What do you think is the minimum score to get admission/assistantship in the US? I think GRE scale has changed from what i am used to!!
Any response will be appreciated.

At least, this man or his Church is re-investing in the Land. After all, the politicians are taking all the money out of the country. Here is a Church or man giving back. Good job.
The likes of David Mark, Babangida, Bankole, Abacha, Obasanjo, Oyinlola, Alao-Akala, Ibori, Dariye, Alams, Peter Odili etc etc did not better the world around them with the money stolen now Even our Banks are not helping the masses!! Instead of them to build low cost housing....the likes of Erastus Akingbola, Cecilia Ibru would rather stomach the money and buy houses in Maryland US!
And to all those saying the world will perish....YES, it will one day . But why not enjoy your God given life in comfort? why do you have to suffer and live in penury all your life ? Why are we always negative in Nigeria?