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Stephanenaira12: Last price?

3ace: Would it prevent further bombings in Abuja or external invasion? People are concerned about the cost especially at a time when so many things are begging for financial attention.

richy1473: 500billion-Naira SURE-P missing,now 64billion-Naira for Abuja-gate.....I'm dumbfunded!!!.....let me try to mutter some words...EVERYTHING HAS EXPIRY DATE.!!!

fingard02k: May God bless the dead

Elliotwiz1: Just passing, whetin consine me??

Tolexander: Former Super Eagles captain, Sunday Oliseh proved yet again why he was regarded as a born leader when he strolled into the Golden Eaglets locker room to counsel and pray for the budding youngsters after their 2-0 win over Uruguay on Saturday in Sharjah.

Speaking on the team’s impressive performance at the FIFA U-17 World Cup UAE 2013, Oliseh who is on the Technical Study Group (TSG) said the players deserve commendation but warned them against complacency.

“Working with FIFA, you have made me very proud because of your playing style and overall conduct in this competition,” began Oliseh who cried like a baby when Super Eagles finished runners-up when Ghana-Nigeria co-hosted the 2000 African cup of Nations.”But be that as it may, I don’t want you to start counting because nobody remembers the team that comes second next day except the champions.”
Golden Eaglets in jubilant mood

Golden Eaglets in jubilant mood

Oliseh said the Golden Eaglets should not regard themselves as favourites yet to lift the trophy despite playing some of the best matches at this championship.

The former Ajax and Juventus midfielder said:” You don’t start counting until the battle is won and I want you to learn from a team like Brazil who are already out of the competition because they started counting before the job was done.”
The two-time World Cup star further warned the players against complacency even as he charged them to pay attention to instruction from ‘the most competent Under-17 coaching crew.’

”In my village, we were told that you cannot be dancing and be looking at your buttocks,” Oliseh said philosophically.” What that means is that you need to listen to your coaches because they are the ones that can look at your back while you are on the pitch playing.”

He later offered prayers asking God to bless their careers as well as all efforts towards the team’s success at the FIFA U-17 World Cup UAE 2013.

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lharstborn: You didn't do the "needful"... hehehehehe!!!

idrezee: no romance without finance? C'mon don't b so pessimistic dearie, I v been in a realtionship with d most beautiful gurl I v ever seen( in reality and in movies) yet m a broke-a.s.s, we v celebrated anniversaries, etc and she has done more 4 me dan I could ever re-pay. Yes naija gurls r money-mongers but 2 every rule de's always an exception. Trust me. I'll post her pix so u'll affirm her beauty and I tell u she's much more beatiful inside. M not judging d op's gurl but 30k's 2 small an amount 2 start ridiculing ur bf coz of.

Magic Bishop: When she came over to meet you during your service in the North, did you send her money?

When she came to Lagos to meet you did you send her money for trans?

Also, during the time you were supposedly dating did she have a job or any meaningful source of income?

I bet you never bothered to notice or care to ask if she was not employed how she got her hair done if she ever did.

You see dating is not for kids. You need a real man in a relationship .

No romance without finance.

Work on yourself and do what you have to do now. Having emotional breakdowns because of you lack of money to take care of a girl is not the issue you should bother with in this stage of your life.

The truth be said I see and hear alot of these moanings of how my girl left me for lack of money when the real reason is you guys sucked big time on every level and will quickly use money as an excuse.

I bet sex was lousy

jay3012: redcliff u didnt answer my question

jay3012: redcliff d admission didnt work out as planned...can i travel to neigbouring countries like france germany..austria nd italy wit visit/tourist/business visa? maybe by train

jay3012: gooday everyone...pls i want to know if i can get menial jobs in switzerland without residence nd work permit....dats wit a visit visa..

jaw jaw: For me I was amazed by the how organized things are.
Everything to the tiniest detail is planned and executed.
For example, if there is a scheduled maintenance for the train system, the public is informed weeks before it happens.
On the day the maintenance starts buses are stationed to move people around the point where the work is being done. And it is done seamlessly.
Not even the harsh weather during winter (can get to about -45C) can stop the organized movement of people by car, bus or train across the city.
It is just amazing when you consider that I moved from a chaotic city like lagos (love the place though).

josh4ever: The British COLD!

Na that day wey I know say my Naija AC na pupil

ogugua88: I actually went to Nigeria for the first time in 2010 and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Lagos, Onitsha, the village... the entire experience. When one has everything in terms of basic amenities, it's easy to take little facets of life for granted. My parents and siblings were always complaining when NEPA took light. Instead I saved all my work, and would go outside for a stroll with my cousins, or find other ways to keep me busy. Funnily enough, bathing with dettol in my bath water and using bottled water to brush my teeth never fazed me. If other people can survive in that country, then so should I lol.

What SHOCKED me, however, were the lack of public toilets, the amount of trash in alleyways and gutters. The lack of public toilets didn't really hit me until we took a bus from Lagos to Onitsha lol. I drank no water and ate no food to survive that trip lol.

An estimated 800,000 adults in Switzerland have problems with reading and writing, yet the taboo surrounding the issue means many suffer in silence.
The recent admission by the new Mr Switzerland, André Reithebuch, that he is one of that number has drawn attention to the hidden problem of illiteracy in Switzerland. It has also earned him both praise and criticism.
The Swiss Reading and Writing Federation is responsible for raising awareness of illiteracy in Switzerland. Partly funded by the Federal Culture Office, it is attempting to address the problem on a nationwide level. But it is still the case that the country's 26 cantons respond to literacy needs in different ways.

A study presented in April 2007 found that illiteracy not only carries a social stigma but also a high economic price. The greater incidence of unemployment among those affected costs the Swiss economy SFr1.1 billion ($1.02 billion) a year.

Reithebuch, a 22-year-old from the eastern canton of Glarus, is hardly a prime candidate for joining the ranks of the jobless. With his title come modeling contracts that should net him around SFr500,000 during his year in office. And even when his youthful good looks have faded he can always fall back on his original training as a carpenter.
Open book

While some newspaper commentators have called the male model "brainless" and mocked him for openly admitting to having read just one book in his life, support has come from a surprising source. Communications Minister Moritz Leuenberger, considered the most eloquent member of the cabinet, has expressed solidarity.

Although his fame and success make him atypical, Reithebuch nevertheless highlights an important fact: that it is not just immigrants who have problems expressing themselves or understanding one of Switzerland's national languages – in this case German. He also shows that it is possible to complete a school education and professional training without adequate competency in reading and writing.

Brigitte Aschwanden, head of the Reading and Writing Federation of German-speaking Switzerland, says around 435,000 of those with low literacy skills are from immigrant families. The other 365,000 are Swiss.

"Among those from an immigrant background there are some who are completely illiterate, who have never learned to read and write because they didn't go to school. But the Swiss have all gone to school and none of them are completely illiterate," she told swissinfo.ch.

Of the latter group many will never have learned to read and write properly, whereas others will have lost the ability through lack of practice. In adulthood this can make it harder to integrate into social or professional life.
Strategies

"Children develop strategies to hide their weakness, and it is not possible to spot all the ones with difficulties when they are at school," Aschwanden explained.

Ursula Bänninger, an illiteracy course leader at Adult Education Zurich, echoes this. "It does not mean they are unintelligent," she told swissinfo.ch. Problems in childhood or at school can explain some children's failure to attain a good level of literacy, she says.

"For some people I teach it is psychological: they are blocked by experiences they have had and difficulties with teachers. Another group have, for example, dyslexia or other learning problems which still affect them in adulthood."

Bänninger's students were all educated in Switzerland or in German-speaking countries. Immigrants are often faced with additional problems, as Noémi Maibach, a teacher of literacy at the Volkshochschule in Solothurn attests.
Challenges

"They are all foreigners and very often did not go to school at all, or just for one or two years. Sometimes they have knowledge in writing their own language but struggle with our writing," said Maibach.

"One of my students signed a contract for an apartment not knowing what was written, and suddenly they have to pay more than they were told. Another participant does not know how to use the washing machine because he cannot read the instructions."

Just getting to their language course for the first time can be a major challenge in itself, Maibach explains, if the participant cannot read the address. Most literate people are unaware of these problems and are sometimes unsympathetic or unhelpful.

For the Reading and Writing Federation, it is clear that much work needs to be done to educate the population about illiteracy and its effects.

"We have to keep repeating that it's not about people who have never gone to school or who cannot read and write at all but about people who have problems reading and writing, and that these problems need to be addressed," said Aschwanden.

She hopes that Reithebuch, with his high profile and public support, could become an ambassador for her literacy organisation.

"That's quite possible and we hope he will. At the moment there are discussions about that taking place," she said.

Morven McLean, swissinfo.ch
Literacy - Switzerland

800,000 Swiss adults (aged 16-65) cannot read well enough to understand a simple text.

Around 400,000 adults cannot express themselves in the language of the area they live in. (Federal Statistics Office, 2006)

The Reading and Writing Federation operates a hotline for enquiries within Switzerland: 0840 47 47 47.

It runs literacy courses at 20 localities in German-speaking Switzerland, at 32 localities in French-speaking Switzerland and at three in Italian-speaking Switzerland.

Additionally, the Federation backs a new course for literacy teachers – the only one in Switzerland – at Adult Education Zurich.
Literacy - worldwide (Unesco)

One in five adults is not literate. Two-thirds of those unable to read and write are women.

The United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD) runs from 2003-2012 under the slogan of "Literacy as Freedom".

Coordinated by Unesco, the aim is to increase literacy levels and to empower all people everywhere.

The overall target of the UNLD is to increase literacy rates by 50% by 2015.

UN literacy day is marked on September 8 each year.

webdezzi: doing his famous dance moves... talk of doin the needful