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Currently in Bayelsa, hope seeinq u quys..

OP dat was d same thinq ah saw on twitter while he was answerinq questions durinq the #MeetNYSC_DG forum dis afternoon, dunno ow true dis is buh am still diqqinq up on his subsequent tweets..

heemah: Oyo has bn gud xcept for d stressful regsitratn procedures....Yet to explore their dia Amala ooo....wea are u redeployed to?

Bayelsa, pele, u'll soon hv α taste of d tasty amala.. quess u tru wiv req nao..

heemah: Samguine and his e-flirts....Au r u doin sha?? @Housemates, pls i nid info abt FGGC, Oyo, in Atiba Local Government..Any1 wv relevant info, kindly qoute me.....Btw, Prixxy7, Lorddaywalker, Ptoocool, Tiffanyj, hisexcellencie and other stream2 corpers, au far wv ur registration??

Ah havnt start wif req yet oo, ah jst qot 2 wia ah was posted yest9t..ah was told 2day to check back nxtweek. Hopefully, am qon start req den..

Owz Oyo treatinq u? Hope u enjoyinq dia amala

icebebe: Mmmmm... We both ave one fin in common #nobr*est

those without leqs don't wear socks, so i'll suqqest both you & Mo' should stop buyinq or wearinq ........

You knw d rest..

oLuwaDre: are u on whatsapp or bbm? 07011787627 hv just been redeployed there too

U mean u r redeployed 4rm adamawa too??
My pin: 22283481

After likinq all posts on FP make ah comment..

BTW ah qot nofin 2say.. na we corpers d tin qo pain pass..

Ah was redeployed to Bayelsa from Adamawa, owz Bayelsa quys??

Sowl wia art thou??

heemah: i dey bus 2, wc bus u dey?? we ve passed Jebba...Thanks ma deawiees tnuola and Tiffanyj..How s ur ur health tiffy??

εyah, na inside bus4 ah dey..

heemah: Enroute....just leaving kwara express for Minna, Niger state...The Kwara express staff werent organised at all dis morning...snce 6am ooo, imagine d 4buses scheduled for Minna are just leaving...Safe trip to all travellers..

U sure say u dey dis bus wif mε?

newguy1: i met some guyz in town who where posted to adamawa too, dey said dey r goin on sunday too but to abuja first. But def we will find someone to travel with at d park on monday.

yea, ah really hope so..

newguy1: @heemah.....
I will n b goin on sunday...

heemah: i fink i ll go on sunday too...!

so i'll be d only one going on Monday frm Ilorin city kwo.. chai, diz is qettin serious..

Ruq: Mouth looking like blowing is their twin job.

@bolded Pls what's the meaning?? #curious

Niwdog: Somebody shout halleluya!pastor i ve a testimony'i opened my acct today and am on front page...arsenal go loose lyk man u

U don miss am bro..
U need to go and





























Sleep..

@Arsenal COYG
We are winning tonight..

BTW
I will be hosting a deliverance vigil this Friday for Man United fans. Come dressed in your home jersey..

Come 4 my united vigil without an offering & watch as Burnley continue frm wia 4-0 Dons stopped..

Tell a friend..

agrovick: Ptoocool! Plz I need your permission to include this in my dept's magazine. Pls dont say no

Please do..

oluwaKStar: I do see yr point..but even if a child is educated and feels music is wat he/she wants to do...sit her down..and ask if she is doing it for money or for d love of it, guide her on d proper kind of music to do...as a 14 yr old aspiring rapper

I understand, just don't get it twisteð bro, am not saying an individual should pursue his/her passion, just get this one thing, whatever you are doing, first and foremost; seek knowlege.

Urine: The op and everyone that supports his view have all made valid points, truth is this issue is going to turn out to be a national disaster next 10 years

That's the purpose of this thread, to avoid the bolded, as education is the bedrock for any developing/developed country, we've got α whole lot to do bro, we need to create awareness. Let those that are ignorant of this fact know.

Krak: I just shared the link to this thread with a number of my friends. I agree totally with everything in this article.
I need not add more to it.
We are seriously losing direction as people.

Thanks for sharing, we'll welcome your suggestion(s) though..

Jregz: it`s everywhere in the world man,education can`t make one rich (you just gon` be an average folk,there are exceptions tho),entertainment can

Like serzly??

mickky222: N Na Agbo jedi handwork.

eligibility: Leave Jagaban alone .

I see, na Janjaweeeeeed laff Joqbon no 1

BBA sponsored by Coca-Cola: $300,000 (N48m). MTN Project Fame: N7.5m & SUV. Etisalat’s Nigerian Idol: N5m & multi-million naira contract. Glo naija sings: N5m & SUV. Gulder ultimate search: N10m plus endorsements & SUV.

COWBELL Mathematics competition: N100k. Lagos State Spelling Bee: N50k. School scrabble: N25k. Cool-FM spelling game: A goodie bag filled with Amila drink. And someone is asking why there is so much failure in WASSCE?” That was a message I received on my phone some days ago.

My friend, Ayodele Adeyemi, told me a similar story recently. Someone saw the brilliance of his daughter and told her that she would be a doctor. The girl said no: She would be a musician. The person was surprised.

That story is not strange today. If you ask children in primary school or even secondary school whom would they like to be like in future, they would mention Davido, Whizkid, Omawumi, Don Jazzy, Genevieve Nnaji or Ali Baba. It is a good thing that our entertainment industry has become a source of pride to our nation and a source of livelihood for thousands of youths. Youths who could have been at jobs they hated or even derailed into crime have found themselves happily and richly employed. Rather than being mocked by society, they have become a source of envy and admiration. But therein lies the problem…

Since the entertainment industry has become a money spinner and a glamorous industry, every child wants to be in it. But, why not? Currently, the TV programmes with the highest prizes are in music or entertainment. Unknown faces become celebrities almost overnight. Their mates watch such transformation and are filled with envy and admiration. Children watch their intelligent uncles and parents go unnoticed, uncelebrated and impoverished, while entertainers – many of whom are not particularly book-intelligent – become the stars of the day.

On the contrary, how many big-budget programmes or prizes are dedicated to rewarding excellence in creativity or the like? Very few. The NLNG Prize for Literature was virtually the only big prize until recently when Etisalat Prize for Literature came on stream.
The doctors, lecturers, teachers, etc are frequently on strike over pay and conditions of service. Nigerian writers have to move to the United States or the United Kingdom to be appreciated.
Beside entertainment, politics is the other field that is very attractive because of the direct and indirect money that oozes out of it as well as the glamour that goes with it. It is more rewarding – financially and socially – to be a local government chairman than to be a professor. If you are lucky to be a senator, a minister or a governor, you are made for life! Beyond amassing a lot of money, you are also initiated into the political circle, which ensures that even when you leave office, you are made an ambassador, a chairman of an agency or the like. You would not like to go back to the university, your medical practice or whatever you were before. As a doctor, an engineer or lecturer, your money comes in trickles, but as a senator or governor, it drops into your account like a bomb regularly.
But if you can’t be a politician, why not be an entertainer?

President Goodluck Jonathan may not feel cool when shaking an
engineer, computer scientist or professor, but when he is shaking hands with a musician like D’Banj or an actress like Genevieve, you will notice that his smile will be broader. Why? He is shaking hands with a star. Unlike before when our entertainers just had enough to take care of their basic needs, today’s entertainers earn up to N5m for a 10-minute solo rendition of two of their songs on stage. For those who have up to four shows per month, even if they earn a million naira per show, that gives them N4m monthly. Many CEOs of top companies don’t earn that. And this amount excludes the money made from commercials, endorsements, celebrity appearances, fees to act as a judge at shows, album sales, and any other private businesses the celebrity is involved in.

So, it is not surprising that many of our young ones want to be entertainers. In their views, excluding the money and glamour in entertainment, it does not look as strenuous as reading and sitting for exams to be a pharmacist or a professor. Being a musician is fun. You stand on stage (in the limelight) while others huddle together in darkness, watching you. You don’t need to have all A’s or come first in your class. But once successful, you overshadow your siblings and parents. Your parents and siblings are identified from your standpoint: Omawumi’s mother, Omotola’s husband, Okocha’s sister. You travel from one city to the other or from one country to the other, stay in the best hotels, eat the best foods, and drink the best wines – all the time.
No wonder, parents railroad their children into entertainment. They organise three or four of them to sing, put it in CDs and send the children to filling stations and shopping malls to sell the CDs. Some parents push their children to participate in all music competitions in the land. Those who are wealthy use their wealth or connection to push their children to be featured regularly in the media.

At the auditions of reality shows, there is no manner of people you won’t see. Even those who croak like toads participate, believing that they are the next “Tu Baba” or “PSquare.” It is all because of how lucrative the entertainment industry.
TV stations have also caught the virus. While new all-music channels and programmes are springing up, almost all the local channels have dedicated the hours of 12 noon to 2pm to music.
It is a great thing that our entertainment industry is booming. Many African countries are envious of our achievement, but we need to emulate the US in our national development. The reason the US is different is that it is not a one-product economy. While it is the headquarters of entertainment in the world, it is also the headquarters of academic excellence and research. It consciously encourages its doctors, engineers, scientists, lecturers, broadcasters, writers, etc, to be the best by providing a wonderful environment. It does not create the impression that a senator is better than a professor by paying the senator higher than the professor, or giving the senator more recognition than the professor.

Even though it glamorises the actor or musician, it does not give the actor or musician any impression that he is better than the police constable or primary school teacher. Politics is not made so lucrative that every media person prays to be appointed a politician’s press secretary. Many broadcasters actually earn more than politicians; so politicians can’t talk down on them or buy them over. The street cleaner does her job with pride. She knows that one day she can write a book on strategic street cleaning and it will become a bestseller that earns her millions of dollars and fame. She does not need to become a musician, a politician, a contractor, or a girlfriend to a politician before she can become successful as a street cleaner.

That is how a robust economy is built. It is an economy in which people have the potential to excel, to be rich and get national recognition in whatever field they operate in. That way, children who have the proclivity for research or teaching are not discouraged by such fields’ low-rewarding prospects and get lured into music or acting. Those who will sing will sing. Those who will act will act. But the nation must not make those who should be in other fields to jump into entertainment or emigrate, just because they believe that their natural field is unappreciated.

BBA sponsored by Coca-Cola: $300,000 (N48m). MTN Project Fame: N7.5m & SUV. Etisalat’s Nigerian Idol: N5m & multi-million naira contract. Glo naija sings: N5m & SUV. Gulder ultimate search: N10m plus endorsements & SUV.

COWBELL Mathematics competition: N100k. Lagos State Spelling Bee: N50k. School scrabble: N25k. Cool-FM spelling game: A goodie bag filled with Amila drink. And someone is asking why there is so much failure in WASSCE?” That was a message I received on my phone some days ago.

My friend, Ayodele Adeyemi, told me a similar story recently. Someone saw the brilliance of his daughter and told her that she would be a doctor. The girl said no: She would be a musician. The person was surprised.

That story is not strange today. If you ask children in primary school or even secondary school whom would they like to be like in future, they would mention Davido, Whizkid, Omawumi, Don Jazzy, Genevieve Nnaji or Ali Baba. It is a good thing that our entertainment industry has become a source of pride to our nation and a source of livelihood for thousands of youths. Youths who could have been at jobs they hated or even derailed into crime have found themselves happily and richly employed. Rather than being mocked by society, they have become a source of envy and admiration. But therein lies the problem…

Since the entertainment industry has become a money spinner and a glamorous industry, every child wants to be in it. But, why not? Currently, the TV programmes with the highest prizes are in music or entertainment. Unknown faces become celebrities almost overnight. Their mates watch such transformation and are filled with envy and admiration. Children watch their intelligent uncles and parents go unnoticed, uncelebrated and impoverished, while entertainers – many of whom are not particularly book-intelligent – become the stars of the day.

On the contrary, how many big-budget programmes or prizes are dedicated to rewarding excellence in creativity or the like? Very few. The NLNG Prize for Literature was virtually the only big prize until recently when Etisalat Prize for Literature came on stream.
The doctors, lecturers, teachers, etc are frequently on strike over pay and conditions of service. Nigerian writers have to move to the United States or the United Kingdom to be appreciated.
Beside entertainment, politics is the other field that is very attractive because of the direct and indirect money that oozes out of it as well as the glamour that goes with it. It is more rewarding – financially and socially – to be a local government chairman than to be a professor. If you are lucky to be a senator, a minister or a governor, you are made for life! Beyond amassing a lot of money, you are also initiated into the political circle, which ensures that even when you leave office, you are made an ambassador, a chairman of an agency or the like. You would not like to go back to the university, your medical practice or whatever you were before. As a doctor, an engineer or lecturer, your money comes in trickles, but as a senator or governor, it drops into your account like a bomb regularly.
But if you can’t be a politician, why not be an entertainer?

President Goodluck Jonathan may not feel cool when shaking an
engineer, computer scientist or professor, but when he is shaking hands with a musician like D’Banj or an actress like Genevieve, you will notice that his smile will be broader. Why? He is shaking hands with a star. Unlike before when our entertainers just had enough to take care of their basic needs, today’s entertainers earn up to N5m for a 10-minute solo rendition of two of their songs on stage. For those who have up to four shows per month, even if they earn a million naira per show, that gives them N4m monthly. Many CEOs of top companies don’t earn that. And this amount excludes the money made from commercials, endorsements, celebrity appearances, fees to act as a judge at shows, album sales, and any other private businesses the celebrity is involved in.

So, it is not surprising that many of our young ones want to be entertainers. In their views, excluding the money and glamour in entertainment, it does not look as strenuous as reading and sitting for exams to be a pharmacist or a professor. Being a musician is fun. You stand on stage (in the limelight) while others huddle together in darkness, watching you. You don’t need to have all A’s or come first in your class. But once successful, you overshadow your siblings and parents. Your parents and siblings are identified from your standpoint: Omawumi’s mother, Omotola’s husband, Okocha’s sister. You travel from one city to the other or from one country to the other, stay in the best hotels, eat the best foods, and drink the best wines – all the time.
No wonder, parents railroad their children into entertainment. They organise three or four of them to sing, put it in CDs and send the children to filling stations and shopping malls to sell the CDs. Some parents push their children to participate in all music competitions in the land. Those who are wealthy use their wealth or connection to push their children to be featured regularly in the media.

At the auditions of reality shows, there is no manner of people you won’t see. Even those who croak like toads participate, believing that they are the next “Tu Baba” or “PSquare.” It is all because of how lucrative the entertainment industry.
TV stations have also caught the virus. While new all-music channels and programmes are springing up, almost all the local channels have dedicated the hours of 12 noon to 2pm to music.
It is a great thing that our entertainment industry is booming. Many African countries are envious of our achievement, but we need to emulate the US in our national development. The reason the US is different is that it is not a one-product economy. While it is the headquarters of entertainment in the world, it is also the headquarters of academic excellence and research. It consciously encourages its doctors, engineers, scientists, lecturers, broadcasters, writers, etc, to be the best by providing a wonderful environment. It does not create the impression that a senator is better than a professor by paying the senator higher than the professor, or giving the senator more recognition than the professor.

Even though it glamorises the actor or musician, it does not give the actor or musician any impression that he is better than the police constable or primary school teacher. Politics is not made so lucrative that every media person prays to be appointed a politician’s press secretary. Many broadcasters actually earn more than politicians; so politicians can’t talk down on them or buy them over. The street cleaner does her job with pride. She knows that one day she can write a book on strategic street cleaning and it will become a bestseller that earns her millions of dollars and fame. She does not need to become a musician, a politician, a contractor, or a girlfriend to a politician before she can become successful as a street cleaner.

That is how a robust economy is built. It is an economy in which people have the potential to excel, to be rich and get national recognition in whatever field they operate in. That way, children who have the proclivity for research or teaching are not discouraged by such fields’ low-rewarding prospects and get lured into music or acting. Those who will sing will sing. Those who will act will act. But the nation must not make those who should be in other fields to jump into entertainment or emigrate, just because they believe that their natural field is unappreciated.

pDude: I dey laff like Bola Tilumbu

#RottenTeeth

Kikikikikiki, dat man no dey ever brush ni??

OP, dis should be in jokes section..

Your best friend won’t tell you that your mouth is smelling

Guilty as charqed, anyway ah don repent..
Maka send her two baskets of walnut
Yea, dat should be okay..

timsbee: Good old days of
tanfirin
eekano gowon
baleewa
eyin alangba
akara elepo........
Add urs. Lest i forget
INDOJI.....

lol @eyin alanqba, akara elepo, baleewa

Not 4qettin BABA DUDU, pako biscuit, coconut biscuit, speedy, okin & shortcake.. lol ah miss childhood jere..

Choi, Ali & Simbi are playinq in the sittinq room,,
Simbi is skippinq with her rope, she can skip well,
Ali cant skip, Mr. Salami opened d door he is anqry,,
He said to Ali.... OMq, ah can qo on & on..

If ah hear say ah be indomie qeneration ehn..

softy: No Sir, I am not guilty of any!

I see..

softy: And as for stealing boss time, what of working extra hours which was said to be paid when you do such and they never pay it when u asked severally. What do you say about that

Have qot nofin to say..

Yea, keep slashinq till it become free education for all..

#HopeForNiqeria

I PLEDGE TO NIGERIA MY COUNTRY
TO BE FAITHFUL, LOYAL AND HONEST..

BUT THIS IS THE COUNTRY:

WHERE YAHOO BOYS HAVE BRIGHTER FUTURE THAN GRADUATES.

WHERE TEMPLES ARE TURNED INTO DATING POINTS.

WHERE WORSHIPPING GOD IN TRUTH AND SPIRIT IS DIFFICULT.

WHERE LIES ARE TURNED INTO REALITIES.

WHERE LADIES FEAR PREGNANCY THAN HIV.

WHERE PIZZA DELIVERY IS FASTER THAN EMERGENCY RESPONSE.

WHERE GETTING A GALAXY PHONE IS GREATER THAN ACHIEVING A DEGREE.

WHERE PEOPLE FEAR THIEVES, ROBBERS AND BOKO HARAM THAN GOD.

WHERE PEOPLE GO TO CHURCH WITH BB CHARGERS RATHER THAN BIBLE.

WHERE GUYS ARE SCARED OF GETTING MARRIED BUT LOVE TO HAVE SEX.

WHERE WE HAVE HIGHEST NUMBER OF MUSICIANS DUE TO UNEMPLOYMENT.

WHERE THE BIGGER YOUR OFFENCE THE SMALLER YOUR PUNISHMENT AND VICE VERSA.

WHERE THE NUMBER OF CHURCHES AND MOSQUES ARE MORE THAN THE WORSHIPPERS.

WHERE SEX IS FREE AND LOVE IS EXPENSIVE.

WHERE LOOSING A PHONE IS MORE PAINFUL THAN LOOSING VIRGINITY.

WHERE IF YOU DON'T CHEAT ON YOUR PARTNER, YOU ARE NOT SHARP AND SMART.

WHERE BATHROOMS HAVE BECOME PHOTO STUDIO.

WHERE WE SAY "UP NEPA" MORE THAN WE SAY "PRAISE THE LORD".

WHERE A SCHOOL DROP-OUT POLITICIAN IS TEN TIMES RICHER AND MORE RESPECTED THAN A PROFESSOR.

WHERE UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS PICK UP WEAPONS TO FIGHT IN SUPPORT OF THE POLITICIANS WHO DEPRIVE THEM OF
EMPLOYMENT AND GOOD LIFE.

WHERE SOMEONE WHO CANNOT SPEAK ENGLISH IS GIVEN HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREES.

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Liberian soldiers opened fire on residents of a slum in their country’s capital city today after it was locked down in an effort to contain the spread of Ebola virus. According to DailyMail, people ran screaming as soldiers from the country’s Ebola Task Force brutally enforced a quarantine of Monrovia’s West Point district ordered by the country’s president last night.

The chaos in Monrovia erupted after protesters surrounded the home of the West Point’s commissioner, Miatta Flowers, pictured below, blaming her for the decision to turn their neighbourhood into an open-air isolation ward. Soldiers carrying assault rifles lashed out at residents with telescopic truncheons and at least one man was shot as a security team moved in to evacuate Mrs.
Flowers. A resident of the West Point district told the Associated Press by phone that security forces were firing into the air to disperse crowds angry over the quarantine measures. Over the weekend also, a mob attacked and looted an Ebola screening centre, accusing officials of bringing sick people from all over Monrovia into their neighbourhood. Dozens of people waiting to be screened fled in the chaos. Looters made off with items, including bloody sheets and mattresses that could further spread the virus.

In many areas of the capital, meanwhile, dead bodies have been in the streets for hours, sometimes days, even though residents asked that the corpses be picked up by health ministry workers wearing protective gear. Riot police and soldiers have now sealed off West Point with makeshift barricades built from piles of wood and barbed wire. Ferries to the area have been halted, and a coast guard boat was patrolling the waters around the peninsula. At least 50,000 people live on the half-mile-long point, which is one of the poorest and most densely populated neighbourhoods of the capital. Sanitation is poor even in the best of times, and defecation in the streets and beaches is a major problem. Mistrust of authorities is rampant and many people live without electricity or access to clean water.

Liberia’s strict new measures came as medical authorities there said three infected doctors treated with an experimental drug were showing signs of recovery, although it was not certain if it was thanks to the drug. Announcing the quarantine, as well as a
wider curfew, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said last night; ‘We have been unable to control the spread due to continued denials, cultural burying practices, disregard for the advice of health workers and disrespect for the warnings by the government, as a
result and due to the large population concentration, the disease has spread widely in Monrovia and environs. May God bless us all and save the state'.