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Federal appointment letters can be backdated by a year or two. But 2018 is too far for backdating. Even replacement employment doesn't necessarily need to be backdated. A replacement employment can still carry current date because your brother will not be paid unless he is freshly captured to IPPIS platform.

If it is any of those self funding agencies eg FIRS, custom, NNPC. Maybe the backdating may be useful but it's not useful for a treasury funded agency of govt because even if na ghost worker you want to replace or worker wey die or travel before 2018, you won't get salary until computer capture you in 2025. Try to ask people who work in that agency to find out what if it's genuine

Angelfrost:
Op, the least you could have done was explain the meaning of "COS".

You can't just assume every reader knows what that means.

This is a very shitty and drab reporting.

Certificate of Sponsorship is COS
It's a work visa scam. Employers in UK are required to issue certificates of sponsorship to employees coming from overseas or even based in UK on a study visa and wants to convert to work visa. So COS scam involves asking people to pay let's say N8m to N10m inorder to buy them a job slot through which they can get their certificate of sponsorship. They need this certificate before applying for visa.

RandDigital:
SA has the biggest population in that top5 and twice the size of Morocco. So, basically it's the best governed country in Africa if you use Nigerian logic of size 😏🇿🇦😎

lol. SA should stop hating on Africans. We want the best for other Africans and we appreciate other African countries that are doing better. We are equally ashamed of our country Nigeria. Especially the politicians who have dragged us down and looted everything. SA complain of criminals from Nigeria still boils down to ineptitude and corruption of Nigerian politicians who control everything. Like soldiers here arrest criminals, judges sentence them to death. But governors who are required by law to sign before execution refuse to sign. These criminal are later released back to society through state pardon, jail break and so called amnesty. This is why Nigeria is full of criminals . Politicians make the laws to protect themselves and at the end, it has led to a total state where law is not executed anymore. Police, Soldiers and judges just waste their time fighting criminals who get released by politicians. Some of these criminals remain in Nigeria to torture us while some find their way out to destroy what is left of our image as Nigerians. The politicians don't care about Nigerian image abroad because they travel with diplomatic passport and equally are dual nationals of western countries like the UK, US, Germany, etc. politicians here ensure their women give birth overseas to secure foreign citizenships for their kids and they buy properties abroad to get citizenship by investment. We are helpless about the state of Nigeria.

tollyboy5:
It's not computer engineering.
It's embedded software

Thanks. Though in my university studies, I realised that computer engineering students focused on hardwares and embedded softwares while we in computer science focused more on other aspects of programming (web apps, mobile apps and DevOps). Our project topics at undergraduate level showed this differences.

donsheddy1:
Although you were not specific but if you know what you want, then start here: https://github.com/shuvangkardas/pure-sine-wave-inverter

Thumbs up 👍

tollyboy5:
I want understand the way microcontrollers are used to generate pure sine wave for power inverter.

Maybe I can modify the code to suit my need

Do you know how to program controllers? This seems to be more of a computer engineering task than just a software task

WizardOfNG:
If true, his action is madness not pragmatism. Guns in all hands is a recipe for disaster. That is what is destroying the SE and the North today with those provided with gun now using it to rob, extort, kidnap, rape, settle scores, target opponents etc.

What Nigerians should do is lobby the government more aggressively for State/regional policing etc.

The way to go is the British model where policing is so effective that policemen do not carry guns. Unlike USA that arms all citizens leading to multiple psycho school shootings yearly, domestic violence deaths and gang wars with countless homicides etal.

Israel and south Africa have their citizens armed but witness less internal murders than Nigeria where citizens are not armed. In the past when everyone had a cultlass, no one robbed using cultlass because it was something your potential target has and any attempt to attack will be at 50/50 chance - you die or dey die. Bandits are successful 100% because the masses are not armed. Beside, every outlaw, cultist, armed robber, political thug, strret fighter in Nigeria already has a gun. Nigeria cannot have british policing because there is no border security. It is only the mentality hale /normal/ patriotic/ law keeping people in Nigeria right now that do not already have guns. So the worse has already happened. Beside, the kind of abuse of guns which you fear cannot be stopped by absence of guns. Anybody can kill over trivial issues by using knives, battle ass, cultlass, poison, etc. infact, many already kill using such. So let the gun be shared

The Itsekiris are using tinubu wife whose mother is itsekiri to interfer with inec delineation

If you are a billionaire who didn't steal or use arbitrage, you didn't steal through govt contracts but built your billion naira enterprise from scratch and you had the wisdom to incorporate it and set up an efficient management structure that can outlive you, then starting new business in other areas should not be hard for you. Dangote has learnt a lot from personal experience

Pls explain what you want to do. Maybe it can help us understand what you need even better

America is not biggest market but biggest economy, followed by China which has biggest population

If you talk about world biggest market that should be the most populated country in the world backed by strong purchasing power

It is a curse to be a big market when your economy is import driven. For example, Nigeria is Africa biggest market actually means Nigeria is a dumping ground for foreign made goods because Nigeria lacks ability to produce goods. China on the other hand is an export based manufacturing driven economy. It's large population are a big market for locally made goods. Most Chinese firms can survive and make it big within china alone even without exporting. That's when it pays to be a big market

Nigeria benefits from it's Africa largest market status only for the creative sector. The large population translate into large numbers of views for nollywood, music and skit making. For those who venture into manufacturing it pays them only if this large population equally has the purchasing power. American and Chinese consumers have the purchasing power because their economy is great. Indian and Nigerian consumers do not have the purchasing power because both economies are the world's poorest. Note: India is the second largest country in the world. So if you produce electric cars in India and Nigeria, the large market they have will be useless to your business growth because 99% of the population lacks the purchasing power to afford your goods. This is what is happening to innoson motor. Innoson depends on orders from the government of other west African countries. The poor economy is something that puts off foreign investors because purchasing power is important if not you will export everything you are producing before you can make money

An economically vibrant South East could bring along worse fightings, kidnappings and killings than what the itsekiris did in warri which destroyed the booming warri economy of the 90s. Only states like Lagos that don't have don't care governor can sustain development

All Nigerians suffer from both. The wealthy ones hoard money because of poverty mentality that refused to go

Dronedude:
If this is true, he should be arrested for supporting crime and terrorism. Imagine sharing guns in this tough economy.

He should be immortalised instead by having the road leading to buhari Katsina home named after him for being more pragmatic than buhari

LagosOrigin:
It has become necessary at this time. Same thing should be done in benue state .

This is one thing I love about fulani.leaders. if Fulani lives are under threat, Fulani leaders at all level don't don't care about breaking Nigerian laws to protect Fulani interest. Unlike Igbo, Yoruba and other minority group leaders. Imagine the man sharing gun without caring if tinubu could send DSS after him

WhizdomXX:
Your last paragraph has also been my solution. Itsekiris (Yoruba migrants) are so small, I wonder how they control all the 3 Warri lgas before. However, Urhobo and Ijaw have quarreled over ogbe-ijah and aladja areas.

Ogbe ijaw and aladja issues has to do with boundaries demarcation. Aladja do not claim to own ogbe ijaw town, neither does ogbe ijaw claim to own aladja community. It's unlike the itsekiris situation. The itsekiris are trying to assert that ijaw and urhobos kings are under the Olu of warri and that ijaws and urhobos have no right, no ownership of lands within these three local governments. But the reality on ground is different as most itsekiris don't have their grandfather graves in urban warri. Even their Olu/nana of itsekiri are buried in their original community which is ode-itsekiri not in Agbassa, igbudu, okere, agbara or okurede which are urban warri towns owned by urhobos. They know that they dare not bury their king in urban warri as it's not their homeland. But they leased a rented land in urban warri to operate a liaison office / palace while their ancestral palace is in ode itsekiri creek where they originally come from. The mistakes of the urhobos was not giving the Olu quit notice from the rented palace land in urban warri after defeating him in the supreme court

Morenikeji090:
You are not serious for saying oluremi is an itsekiri woman..

She is itsekiri from Edo state. You obviously need to do your findings

Toruibestate:
THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE WARRI CRISIS.

When we come here to make posts about Warri city, people think that we want to stir up crisis again... But it is not Facebook posts that stir up crisis in Warri.... When Warri city crisis started the inventors of Facebook, had not yet been born,even their Parents had not be born....I will not tell you who is responsible for the Warri crisis.. .But I want you to read the following facts, and from there you can draw your conclusions on who are the Brains behind the Warri Crisis.

1) Before 1952, Warri city had no history of any crisis, this was because, it was a heterogeneous city built by the British with no Overlord....3 tribes were living together Peacefully, each of them knew their defined borders and territory.... There was no Olu, no Orosuen, no Pere and no Ovie.

2) The Original Place called Warri by the Europeans was Ode itsekiri, ..The itsekiris never called it Warri,....it was the Europeans that gave it that name,....Just like the Yorubas called their city Eko,but the Europeans called it Lagos.

3) Now these European established a Govt, in Ode itsekiri in 1891, and called it Warri Govt, and from there they started their Colony,.... So why Lagos became a British Govt in 1861, Warri ( Ode itsekiri) became a British Colony in 1891.

4) But by 1905, the British realized that Ode itsekiri ( Warri was too small a town to be the Capital of the area they intend to Govern, so they needed to move that capital to the hinterland.

5) So by 1908, they engaged Chief Dore to go to Agbassa Urhobo lands in the Present GRA of Warri city to Lease lands to built a New Warri city as a Capital city for this new Govt.

6) So they moved the Warri Govt from Ode itsekiri to Agbassa and environs, now instead of naming the New Capital Agbassa, they retained their name for Ode itsekiri ( Warri ) for Agbassa lands....This was because their Chief Political agent Chief Dore Numa had told them that Agbassa, Igbudu, Okere, Sapele, Oghara, were all Olu land before the interregnum of the Ode itsekiri dynasty of 1848.

7) But by 1936, the British had understood the terrain very well,so when they crowned the Only again after 88 years, they refused to crown him as Olu of Warri, but they crowned him as Olu of Itsekiri and in Ode itsekiri.
😎 But the Olu wants to move his capital to the new Warri city, then change his title to the Olu of Warri and so be the Overlord of this new heterogeneous City.

9)The British who clearly understood the complexity of the situation refused this his incessant requests.

10) But following the Richards Constitution, in the Mid 40's Power was handed over to the regional Government and the Warri Province fell under the Western region

11) The itsekiris voted Massively for the Action group of Awolowo which headed the Govt of Western region.... The urhobos voted against.

15) And with our kind of vengeance Politics which Persist till today, the Itsekiris were handsomely rewarded, by moving the Olu from Ode itsekiri to the New Warri city.

16) This sparked off the first Warri Crisis that affected many parts of the Warri Province and many itsekiris were expelled from Urhobo lands.

17) From then on the Olu and the Itsekiris have been trying hard to assert their Authority and Overlordship over Warri city, while the Urhobos and the Ijaws have been fighting hard to resist it.

18) The itsekiris made a strategic move by defining the term Warri to be synonymous with their own tribe itsekiri.... So them the word Warri means Iwere or Itsekiri..... Yet they do not even want to hear the Title "Olu of Iwere or Olu of Itsekiri"..... They Prefer the Foreign based one Olu of Warri.

19) But this calculated move is destroying the identities of the other 2 tribes the Urhobos and Ijaws also found in Warri.

20) The Ijaws, fought hard and got approval to set up their own kings in their areas, that were added to the name Warri....These kings are known as Pere. E.g The Pere of Gbaramatu Warri kingdom.

21) The Ijaws wanted to prove to the world that they also have a stake in Warri, fought hard for and by 1996, Succeeded in having a local government council created called Warri South west local Government, with the headquarters in an Ijaw enclave called Ogbe-Ijoh

22) This angered the Itsekiris, because they felt such a move was a stint on their Overlordship over the name and area called Warri.

23) So once again, they manipulated the Govt, and within 2 weeks the Govt, relocated the new headquarters from Ogbe-Ijoh to Ogidigben an itsekiri enclave

24) This move angered the Ijaws to their soul and declared War on the Itsekiri people,.... They killed, burnt and annihilated many itsekiri villages using Guerrilla tactics ....This was the origin of the Second Warri Crisis

25) Not being able to wreak a recompense vengeance on the Ijaws, because they were a Guerrilla warriors, the Itsekiris directed their frustrations on the Okere Urhobos, who had earlier defeated the itsekiris in court and removed their lands from the Overlord of the Olu.....Many Okere Urhobo Houses were destroyed.

26) The Ijaws continued to attack the Itsekiris until 1999, when James Ibori from Urhobo father and itsekiri mother, became Governor and fearing that more will be killed moved the capital of that Local council back to Ogbe-ijoh.....And once that Injustice became corrected, Peace was restored.

27) And now an Urhobo son from the Okumagba family of Warri city has Been appointed MD of the NDDC, the Itsekiris once again have been crying foul threatening War, because once the name Warri was mentioned, the appointment ought to be for the itsekiri.

28) So we now understand that the tendency for a particular tribe to Lord it over others in a Particular territory in an attempt to take all over Government allocation and resources is the root cause of the Warri crisis.... So what is the way forward ?

@General Ditari

As an ethnic urhobo, I can confirm that this is the most detailed and most objective picture of the true story. You can obviously see even in this writeup that no ijaw man lays claim to owning urhobo communities. The communities he called urhobo communities here are rightly urhobo and no urhobo man lays claim to ijaw communities even though they both share boundaries and inter marry too. Ijaws and urhobos share border with Igbos, benins, isokos, yorubas, ogonis, Ibibios, etc. There is no record of an ijaw or urhobo claiming to own communities belonging to these several tribes. But itsekiris are tiny and share border with Benin, ijaw and urhobos and have gone to war with all three ethnic neighbours trying claim their communities . Ologbo community in Edo state was once fought for by the itsekiris. You can see their history of chaos.

Renaming "nana" of itsekiri to "olu" was to earn political support of the Yoruba government that we were under in the western government. And awolowo being a typical tribalistic ethnic Yoruba man did not disappoint by dancing to the tune of bad fate politics and tribalism by trying to lord the tiny itsekiri tribe over the far larger urhobos and ijaws. I thank God for the courage of the Ijaws and their unrelenting pursuit for justice.

The itsekiris were banking on the support of tinubu wife being itsekiri to kick start the new warri war. They drafted a proposed warri state to steal ogbe ijaw, Ekpan, okere, ologbo and add these to itsekiri towns to form a new warri state owned by itsekiris. They even tried to add the part of sapele hosting seplat into the plan. But became disappointed that tinubu was not consenting to the woman power they were banking on. I pray for the success of the toru Ibe state and it's smart sponsors, I pray for Ethiope state as well to scale through so that these madness of the itsekiris can end for good.

Also, there is no town called warri so the government should rename those three local government bearing warri to ogbe-ijaw LG, Agbassa LG and leave Koko own as warri LG. He can then retain his Olu of warri there. In addition, split the itsekiri kingdom by creating 5 equal monarchy out of it. State governors have constitutional power to do this and I am wondering why urhobo governors have not done this. No be only awolowo sabi madness. Give them madness. This is the way to end their madness

99% of Nigerians including politicians and salary earners have 0% financial literacy. This is why they don't know what to do with a windfall and resort to borrowing immediately after a windfall. The desire to live larger than life is one resounding reason for their financial recklessness. The 1% that have financial literacy can be found amongst the illiterate market traders

This doctor is mad. He can go ahead to train other people children born by his wife if he wants to. But shouldn't make it a standard for everyone. He must have been conquered and de-emasculated by his cheating wife to have resigned to such fate

aribisala0:
Black does not have to mean our kind of black

There are indigenous black people in Australia Papua New Guinea India etc

Jarawa people in India are very dark but Genetically unrelated to Africans
Genetically they are more related to Asians than to us often they are very dark but have different hair
Some Arabs and Jews used to be very dark
Even in Africa there are some differences

These one in Taiwan may have had those Chinese eyes

Dark people would disappear from a population if no agrees to marry them

You are right on the Australian blacks who are not genetically related to Africa. But in the case of Asia, blacks migrated there especially from places like Ethiopia. Ethiopia is an ancient civilization and mingled with the European and Asians. They were a powerful empire too. Ethiopians shares border with Saudi. Saudi has border with Iraq, Iraq has border with Iran, Iran has border with Afghanistan, Afghanistan had border with India and India has border with china. Thesame way ancient Jews during wars were captured and sent to Iran and later some migrated to form communities in India, that's how north African blacks spread to Europe and Asia. So the ancient blacks of India and china are genetically connected to Africa. Also, you see some ancient Indian speakers in north America, the blacks of guinea paupa are actually genetically a mix of Africa and Asian by DNA. There are ancient histories of Indian male sailors who sailed to Africa, picked up women from Africa and in their sail got lost and settled in guinea paupau. So the DNA there is a mix of India and east Africa. But Australian blacks are not connected to Africa. Australian blacks apart from skin colour, have long hairs like the Europeans. Early Indians and the orientals were great sailors as they left footmarks everywhere. They are even linked to the aboriginal people of new Zealand by DNA as well beside some of north American aboriginals. There were massive migration and displacement of black people from north Africa to Europe and Asia following the activities of Mohammad and his men who killed and established islamic Emirates from Africa, Europe to Asia - as far as china, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia. Black people who accepted Islam were also involved in the global terrorism/ jihad started by Mohammad which continued for thousands of years. They established Emirates even in Europe until the European industrial revolution helped to curtail viral and cancerous killings by islam. Iless than 1000 years, 800 million Hindus were killed by Muslims

ibabz:
I saw this coming and I have written something about it before. Because Obi seems not to go along with their negotiations and they believe Jonathan can do the dirty job for them. Both PDP and Jonathan know clearly that they can never win the election, but they have agreed to split the votes for Atiku.

Jonathan is not a fool. His past gentle behaviour doesn't mean he is a fool. He won't contest. I think the north is desperately trying to replace tinubu with another Southerner for fear that if tinubu finish second term, the north will not find it easy to come to power after or he will give power to a weak northerner. Buhari first do tinubu by refusing to support him and pretending to be neutral. Now the north is afraid of their own shadows. They fear tinubu may pretend to be neutral like buhari while working against northern Interest. North dey craze o

airsaylongcome:
Do you use local developers for your spreadsheet software? For your chosen programming language? For your operating System?

It's about how much are you willing to pay? Meta is offering at least 10 top AI developers who they poached from open AI $1 billion salary offer right now. You cannot ask a Nigerian with that level of knowledge to build you an OS software and you want to pay $20. With the right pay, there are local developers. If you offer $1 billion today for an AI project you will be shocked there are local developers. Most knowledgeable local developers prefer working remotely with foreign companies, they don't accept local projects because the pay is often ridiculous. Ordinary N500,000 most Nigerian businesses cannot pay for a software and if they pay they expect to get a fraction of it through back hand. So that's why we mostly ignore local projects. When you simplify the payment structure to let's say N200 charges per user, they will still owe you six to eight months arrears until you start threatening to discontinue services. Nigeria is a peculiar place defined by lawlessness, negligence and incompetence and so is already cursed so that it will never get the best values from it's best knowledgeable and pragmatic citizens.

Have you downloaded visual studio enterprise version of recent? You can make all those spreadsheets app. However, you need to understand the difference between Nigeria and the developed world. Android studio files alone is over 40GB that one is billions of lines of code. Before the recent age of AI, they are handwritten and manually tested codes. If you give one individual 15 years just to type and test such codes he may even not get it right. Companies abroad believe in team spirit and division of labour. Microsoft for example employs more than 3000 software engineers USA alone and more in other countries such as India and UK. That makes it easy to have division of labour. You build only modules assigned to you and some other persons integrate all the different modules into one system. It is not one or even 2 engineers that build OS applications from scratch. But one engineer can modify one or two aspects of already existing OS such as Linux to form his own. The day a Nigerian company can employ 100 to 5000 local software developers, pay them standard developer rate of 100,000 to 200,000 USD per annum and leave them to work for 3 to 5 years, you will see that local OS can be built from scratch. But it takes group of people working together over a number of years to produce those billions of lines of code. Harmony OS built by Chinese company didn't start from scratch, they first modified readily available android OS and after about 5 years before they could complete their own OS built from scratch. And that's a well established Chinese company with thousands of engineers employed. It still took years. The problem with Nigeria and Africa is impatience and greed. We don't want to invest billions in our Tech industry and we don't have patience to build from scratch or assemble say 50 developers, pay them over the course of 5 years while waiting for them to complete the development of a product. Africa will remain market to whites for as long blacks lack patience, foresight and long term planning

Before I forget, that your OS project I am interested because I don't know if na dangote even they speak with me.

This is one aspect of Nigerian culture that can only continue to be exported overseas unless it is abolished locally. As long politicians make no laws against nepotism, favouritism, incompetence, contract inflation, tribalism and these vices continue to fester, Nigerians will never understand the value of competence, skill, hardwork and integrity.

What is the name of the free software you are talking about and how much are you willing to pay me to have it set up for you because this your question seems twisted in a way to make it look you want to pay something meagre since it's just setup. Any software you download on the internet may need customization to fit local use, may even have errors. So be free to use local developers than going to seek free online softwares that hardly meet local requirements without further coding

I have always supported Jonathan idea

Nepotism (ie favouritism/cronyism), loss of values (no ethics/morals), bigotry (including religious extremism), and tribalism are the big 4 aspects of corruption destroying Nigeria

Looting (ie outright stealing), misappropriation, contract inflation are off shoot of those four. Through nepotism, you appoint/elect incompetent persons who go there to steal. And through tribalism and bigotry, they get re-elected inspire of their obvious failure.

In a non corrupt society, antecedents and competence is the basis for appointments. Misappropriation is a product of incompetence and incompetent persons get appointment through nepotism or tribalism. A competent person will not involve in the kind of blind stealing our politicians involve in. Rather than focus on stealing, we should fight those 4 big vices that produce the thieves and help them stay in office. Nepotism is the reason contracts are given to contractors who lacks experience. Nepotism is the reason contracts are inflated but contractors are not blacklisted

tommy589:
Very interesting. Where is SW own or intervention is not needed

Peter Obi has done well. Like they say charity begins at home. He has to begin by doing more of his charitable activities at home. This cannot be compared to non-charitable activities such as political appointments of tinubu where south west has more ministers than SE, SS and non-yoruba parts of North central combined. Tinubu case is not charity begins at home but a case of classic corruption and nepotism