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olaboy001:
They should ban all these extra parties abeg. They’re the reason this whole process is slow like this
Just announce APC and PDP, other parties can check their result on Linda Ikeji

I love ur sense of humour. Many people need it at this time.

Exercise patience, says the President.

This level-headed speech is capable of winning more votes for Jonathan than all the mumble-jumble of his incompetent campaign managers.

Sai Nigeria.

You come to a bank where there are about six ATMs and only two are working; the queue will b extending to the gate at one end, and to the plant house at the other. Even d banking halls will be filled with frustrated customers because, just like at the ATM, only two out of six attendants are paying.

Bro, all the ATMs are good; it is all a ploy to restrict withdrawals. Money don dey finish. I just pity some banks in the coming months.

May God heal our land.

I was in the so-called enlightenment meeting called by the Distribution companies in February after the tarriff increment had already taken off. The January increment was just over 100% (from about N22 per kWh to around N46). Everyone kicked against it as unrealistic.

The funny thing was that there was no public enlightenment before a 100% increase in tarriff; but a 50% reduction (in sharp response to the unrealistic increment) was widely circulated.

Citizens are just being scammed, left, right & centre.

kennygee:
Law?

With the unemployed barristers clogging CAC offices looking for ways to make ends meet?

As prestigious as Law is, There are too many Lawyers being dolled out every year these days making the Labour market highly competitive.

Some lawyers attached to chambers earn between 30-80k per month.

Go to the banks, many of them are becoming Corporate Lawyers.

Some are paid below 30k as a matter of fact.

CreativeWeb:
There is a case on my table right now. The only son of a member of our church. The woman is a farmer and industrious. The husband is old and blind. She managed to raise some money through farming to start a cement business for her son. She is under burden of taking care of her blind husband and farming to get what they will eat. And so, she raised some money to start this cement business for the son so that he can help to cushion the financial difficulties of the family.

However, the son is a wayward son. He squandered the money with his girl friend. A lady that is even older than him. In the course of their friendship, the lady got pregnant and the boy having finished the cement business money and the business having collapsed, he ran away and switched off his phone. The lady traced his house in the village through his friends and came to report to whomever that cares to listen that she is pregnant for their son. And so, she met the boy's mother. After explaining that she was looking for her son who is responsible for her pregnancy, the mother advised her to go and start looking for her son who is responsible so that they will discuss what to do next. In other words, she advised her to go and finish what they started. The lady told the boy's mother that she is a graduate and that she will make a good wife. The boy's mother who is not educated, but has common sense, told the lady that she is an educated illiterate. She asked her, "How can an educated lady like you open her laps for a man to impregnate her? Have you not acted like a secondary school girl?"

The lady left in anger and disgrace. She carried the baby for nine months and was put to bed. He later got the information of the whereabouts of her former boy friend and the father of her baby. She invited him with assurance that all is well.

He came and was arrested by the police with a strong allegation that he raped the niece of his former girl friend who is 4 years old. They backed the allegation with a doctor's report that the young girl was indeed raped and she sustained some injuries in the process.
The boy was charged to court and is now an inmate at Nigerian Prison, Enugu. His file could not be found. Nobody is aware of how he was tried and sentenced.

The lady called the boy's mother few weeks ago telling her that her son will die and rot in the prison. The boy has been there since last year.

Last week, the woman carried a bag of garri and 10 litres of palm oil with 5000 Naira to go and beg the lady. The lady accepted the gifts and asked her to go that she will try to help. But the lady called her few hours after leaving her place never to come to her house again.

This woman has no connection. No money. She doesn't even know how to go about the case.
All she does is coming to the church every day lying in front of the altar praying and crying.

I approached her last week to really know what the burden of her heart is? And she told me this story.
I prayed for her and asked God to help her.

However, I am thinking that I should do more than that. I want to call few lawyer friends for advice.

Dear friends, what should I do in this situation to help this woman?

So sad.

This is a case of Defilement not Rape. In fact, it is "worse" than rape.

I guess the guy has not yet been "tried and sentenced". He has only been remanded in prison custody pending conclusion of Preliminary Enquiry so that he can properly be charged before a High Court, due to the nature of d case.

Brief a lawyer who wil visit him in prison and hear his own version of the incident; to also kno whether he confessed to the crime. Then the lawyer can now apply for his bail either in the magistrate court that remanded him (it will be very difficult if not impossible) or at the high court.

I am sceptical about the part of the story that says the case file is lost, but if it happens to be true, that wil make the boy's case easier.

However, after the boy has been granted bail, you can (if practicable) use your position to call the parties together for some form of reconciliation. If this succeeds, u can inform the court on the next date parties hav settled; she will confirm it and the case will be struck out. Alternatively, u can also settle them first before approaching the court for his bail.

These long (tall) Senegalese players sef

See goal. Benard!

Joeself1:
help me ask them

I couldn't believe after killing that exams ,jamb ended up giving me low mark ,whereas I have a friend that did not even complete his exams and was given 287 despite the guy saying he didn't prepare well and he was not expecting a good result, he was shocked after seeing his result....

jamb just dey bleep up !!!

On a different note, do u kno u can prepare and write "very well" but score much less dan the one who never prepared "very well"?. The negative marking thing is real and works like magic. I'm talking from my own personal experience.

Dnarvaez:
Ok. She can check it manually from the Jamb result portal(site) with just her registration number, but make sure you pray well before doing that

Ok, thanks. Bt she shud be d one praying; I wil be joining her in the "Amen!!" Lolz

Dnarvaez:
You know that Naija cant do without African-time
So which day did she attempt her exam? Probably March 12th i guess becoz folks dat wrote their exam on March 12th have not gotten their result till now.

Yepp. 12th.

Dnarvaez:
Bro urs is good na
compared to mine
I did only English and Chemistry; was at no. 17 in maths when the system submit my exam without my approval. I didn't touch physics at all

Very unfair. Someone's future being toyed with!

Dnarvaez:
Thank u for ur sincere contribution. To tell you if you were in our hall that day when we were writing the exam; you would have seen the great suffering 'son of man' passed through, just in the struggle for securing certificates

My younger sister was to sit hers by 10am; I called her by 5pm to say, hey hw did it go? She said dey were just about to enter d hall. I was like, hell, hadn't she better abandon d sh+t. She has yet to get her result though.

For me, taking an exam wit shattered psychology is 40% of the mark lost. JAMB still missing Bello Salim.

Dnarvaez:
The one written on Thursday, March 12th is a big Flop
Saying that dis years Jamb exam is a failure, is an understatement.
Infact am deeply pained after spending sleepless night to read and prepare for jamb, then at the end i will be rewarded with a Devastating result...This is so heart breaking;-(
The JAMB officials should in their right mind and conscience re-schedule the exam for March 12, to be re-sitted for to curb this nuisance
This is my Ordeal : https://www.nairaland.com/2200549/thread-jambites-wrote-exam-march

So painful.

I think the problem with JAMB as with other facets of our societal life is that the administrators are more interested in the huge offcuts they get from awarding collateral contracts than in the efficiency of the system and service delivery. That's wy dey keep churning out policies without regard to stark realities. It's quite unfortunate.

THE inept Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board is at it again. And its Registrar, Dibu Ojerinde, has brought impunity to a spectacular climax by turning technology on its head. It is a nightmare for thousands of candidates taking this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination across the country, using the newly- introduced Computer-Based Test format. Reports of a dearth of computers, failure of internet servers, power failure, slow booting of computers, loss of time in the process, and offering
candidates’ subjects they never registered for are widespread. Worse still, JAMB exposed the candidates to extreme danger and unnecessary stress by fixing some of the tests at 6.00am. Ojerinde and his team should go back to the drawing board.

It is acknowledged that all tests will one day be delivered on a computer of some sorts because of its many benefits. Experts say, among other advantages, computer testing is more efficient than paper-based tests. It also offers year-round testing, flexibility in scheduling and faster score reporting. But JAMB is definitely not ready for the programme. Many candidates who have already taken the test left the exam halls crest- fallen as a result, unsure of recording scores high enough to secure them admissions. This prospect hurts, more so when many have made countless attempts in the past. Undoubtedly, candidates yet to sit the exam will face similar challenges. A total of 1,475,477 candidates registered for the CBT at 400 centres, scheduled to end on March 21.

Why did JAMB opt for this format? Ojerinde rhapsodised about its flexibility, swiftness in processing results, reduction of cheating and conformity with global trends. He said, “We have gone digital in JAMB. What we are going to do now is to make use of computers and, within a week, the results will be on the internet. Unlike before when we were using the analogue style, the new scheme will stop malpractices.” We agree.

But as innovative and modern as this arrangement is, it nevertheless bears testimony to our national predilection for replicating policies that have succeeded elsewhere, even when our country is not ready for them or when officials are not up to the task. The key issue in the CBT format is whether JAMB or the country has the capacity to embark on this information technology cruise.

Did JAMB think of the technical challenge of
setting up enough computers, probably moving
many of them from their usual positions,
checking their discs, software and networking
connections, and supervising them? In 2001, the
University of Cambridge Local Examinations
Syndicate suggested a trial over three or more
years in which Information Communications
Technology-based teaching and testing ran
parallel with traditional GCSE/A-Levels in the
United Kingdom. The report said, “Clearly a great
deal of detail needs to be worked out.”
Evidently, the safety and convenience of the
young candidates did not matter to an
insensitive JAMB. In Lagos, Nigeria’s industrial
haven, where the difficulties were expected to be
minimal, the shortage of CBT centres were well
pronounced to the point that JAMB had to
register some candidates in neigbouring states of
Ogun, Osun and Kwara. Others from the city
travelled to the border town of Badagry, a
journey of about four hours with the usual Lagos
traffic snarl. Candidates billed to sit the test on
March 12 at Command Secondary School, Ipaja,
Lagos, learnt of the change of venue to the
WAEC Agidingbi office, Ikeja, only when they had
reported at the former.

At the Certified Institute of Shipping, Magbon,
one of the centres at Badagry, a candidate’s
parent, identified simply as Mrs. Adeola, testified
that “when the candidates arrived at the exam
centre… they were told that JAMB provided the
centre with just 250 laptops. Of these, only 150
were confirmed to be functioning that morning.
Following this development, the candidates were
divided into two batches.

“While the first batch was to begin its exams by
7 am, the second batch was billed to commence
by 10 am … the first batch and second batch
neither took the exams, as the JAMB officials at
the centre complained that the centre’s server
had been down since morning.” Pathetic!
Indeed, countries that have advanced in ICT
never did so through wishful thinking, but
through rigorous planning and execution driven
by well funded educational road maps. But where
is Nigeria? How many schools boast computers
and teachers for the candidates to have
mastered the rudiments of computer operation?
Worse, our embarrassing electricity supply level
does not support this examination mode.
It is obvious that a majority of the candidates for
this year’s UTME learnt how to fiddle with
computer keyboards on their own. No formal
training. This was not how other countries made
it. “The major problem is that some of the
candidates do not know how to operate the
system,” Abdulmajid Yusuf, an ICT manager at
the Federal University of Technology, Akure, one
of the exam centres, attested.

Candidly, JAMB, a creation of military decree in
1978, has done violence to our federal system,
and to the 1999 Constitution, which places
education on the Concurrent List. Besides, the
post-UTME test which candidates are subjected
to by universities, which suggests a vote of no
confidence in its continued existence, has
rendered it otiose. Therefore, it should be
scrapped.

If this is done, it will help the universities to
rediscover themselves. The prerogative to admit
students is one of the irreducible elements of
university autonomy known globally. Restoring
this identity to our ivory towers will help uproot
one of the roots of the rot bedevilling them –
poor quality of input and its corollary of
worthless degrees. We see no reason why our
own universities cannot insist on this.
The Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, has
a responsibility to intervene: his silence so far
suggests complicity and the usual indifference of
Nigeria’s officials to the plight of the citizens
they are supposed to serve.

Unfortunately, Nigerians have become accustomed to official impunity. Fixing an examination at 6.00am in a place like Lagos with the usual traffic gridlock is inhuman and thoughtless. Parents who strongly feel that JAMB has unduly exposed their children to danger should seek judicial redress. We enjoin governors to empower their state universities to pull out of JAMB’s clumsy hegemony. When candidates fail woefully this year, it would not be because they were ill-prepared for the test, but because of the
inadequacies of the CBT platforms and the misplaced national obsession with attempting to run before crawling.

Nigeria has no shortage of grim examples of corruption-driven and carelessly handled programmes. This is just one of them. This year’s UTME was a charade that shares the same umbilical cord with Abba Moro’s bloody recruitment to the Nigeria Immigration Service last year. It stands denounced.

www.punchng.com/editorials/jambs-muddled-up-computer-based-tests/

wendycindy:
I don't know them

UNEC.

wendycindy:
I remember my stay in nkrumah and akintola/akpabio hostel... Great lions and lionessess.

Mbonu Ojike and Kenneth Dike. Hw time flies! Dis world is just vanity.

Queen1:
Op biko, are you in anyway related to Amos Tutuola? Because as I read through your post the only thing that came to my mind was 'Forest of a thousand demons'.

Exactly my thought. I already told d person next to me to com and read another Palmwine Drinkard!

Sory for d digression Op. We tank God for ur wife's life. Truth be told, there ar real quacks everywhere.

Dear God, after all said and done, let the fighting elephants be the ones to suffer, and let the grass and the birds of the air be nourished by your unfading Love;

Amen.

This simply shows that the Nigerian practice of clothing our leaders with an array of security officers is a white elephant venture. What has the man Tambuwal really lost these 5months he lived without them? So many opulence and wastages in this country!!!

uboma:
@ op, do you have pictures of the construction he made? Share with us if you have...

I think I should hav taken d pix b4 he closed up the muffler. As I earlier explained, he cut the pot open and closed it up neatly after d work; as such I can't snap the construction now.

But its just a thick hollow pipe he used heat run holes all over and then weld to the middle of the pot, connecting to the outer channels of the exhaust pipe.

lonelydora:
As long as there's no check engine light, drive on my brother.

Ok bro. Stil monitoring that. Thanks

Good mornin house. Can gurus in the house help me out.

A panel beater opened my rear exhaust pot/muffler and we saw that greater part of the perforated tube inside was in shreds.

He now cleared d mess and used an ordinary iron pipe to construct another tube inside the pot; he made holes all over the pipe to look like the damaged one. He welded it back again and neatly patched up the broken exhaust pot.

The car went firing perfectly, with lesser noise (no much noise before the work anyway) and great fuel efficiency.

But my worry is whether there could be some mechanical issues or dangers to this reconstructed internal tube. Should I go for a "new" rear exhaust pot/muffler?

1stola:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534&v=619ia_Xe-TA&feature=player_embedded

What a country, what a personality!!!

Dramadiddy:
download framaroot or iroot

Tanx so much bro.

Dramadiddy:
First make sure your phone is rooted, download blackmart and search for root Explorer, there are a lot of root explorers so what you do is search for the one that has an image of a blue drawer with a yellow "R" sign at the top right... Once you've downloaded the root Explorer, you can know search for the particular app causing the problem. Let's say "BBM".

1) open root Explorer

2) look for a folder "data" open it

3) locate another folder "data" open it

4) once you've opened the second data folder you will see all the apps on your phone, only delete the one you're sure is causing the problem

5) now once you have deleted the app/apps causing problem, go back to play store and download and voila!

Below is an image of root Explorer

My phone is having the same installation error problem. Please how do I root my phone first of all? It's android (Techno M7)

delishpot:
My bad. I am sorry. Nor vex. Your eyes were not decieving you. Mine were

No hard feelings. Gud monin & have a great day.

delishpot:
Maybe she is a nurse? she did not say "most of the time" She just said she goes for night duty.
.

Hello Friend, could you help me read out the first to second line of the Original Post Maybe my eyes are deceiving me.

[quote author= post=30099761]assistant error is an sd card thing. Down to fixing. is the phone rooted?[/quote]Not rooted bro.

vkoni:
hello all.
i am a career woman doing night duty most of the time,i presently do not have an househelp/nanny for fear of wat might be going on wen im not around.Going for night duty leaving my kids, with my hubby and housemaid brings so much tots to my mind.wat do i do?Not even this era of hubby and househelp digging it while u er not there.Really so afraid

Get someone closely related to your husband. Even at that, find sufficient time for ur hubby. Taking of being on nite duty "most of the time", I'm afraid you may hav to change your job. In any case, discuss it extensively within him, feel his pulse and also giv him an opportunity to appreciate how much you care.