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What are the chances of finding a decent working class lady in the fct? With the plethora of "slay" queens hustling and putting up appearances....any chance of finding one...slim/average..dark..INTELLIGENT...and maybe yoruba lady? ..i know a serious-minded and ready friend....07058891222.

Yes yes...medicals ongoing. ..pls drop ur line sir...so I can do the "thank you" recharge. Many thanks man.

Many thanks brother.

@Correctyourself....pls could you help me with more info from ur relative who works with d system.

Hahahhahaha...brother you aren't just vast but also full of humor and witty repartee..you really made my day and I must say I feel very much lighter now. Am naturally not into alcohol as such....I haven't had anything alcoholic in about two months now...so am clean. As for women. ..em...em..am a gentleman sir. As soon as I get final clearance. ..I promise to do a little "thank you"......for your time, and for being so generous with your knowledge. Am having a feeling you are in the system and also my boss....so am kida scared of revealing the position just yet...so I wont be charged for breaching any procedure. May God bless you brother....and refill your repository of knowledge and humor @Correctyourself

Thanks a lot brother @Correctyourself....I have also checked their HR page for the recruitment stages....my major fear however is what happens at the "convening the appointment and promotion panel" stage? I am thinking the panel makes final decision from a pool of applicants which is still dicey. Pls share your knowledge/opinion on this particular stage. And regarding alcohol. ..it's been a while since I knocked bottles. ..so am fiddle fit...thanks again my brother....as I await your opinion.

Pls I would like some help - from anyone familiar with the UN Nigeria hiring/recruitment process - regarding my application for a position .So I have gone through the technical assessment stage and also did my interview. Pls can anyone familiar with the process educate me on the possible status of my application and chances? Thanks everyone...

Pls I would like some help - from anyone familiar with the UN Nigeria hiring/recruitment process - regarding my application for a position .So I have gone through the technical assessment stage and also did my interview. Few days after the interview my referees got mails on referral checks. That's about a week now and I havent gotten any update. Pls can anyone familiar with the process educate me on the possible status of my application and chances? Thanks everyone.

Hello bro...please I was trying to clean d white keys of my laptop some days back with methylated spirit and cotton wool and I somehow spilled d bottle over the keyboards. Since then the buttons have been malfunctioning. Every time I punch a key, another character is displayed on the screen...pls what can I do? This happened 5 days ago...could it have damaged the board or something? Thanks

Thanks pathardy for the update....that was rather fast though...just over three weeks that the application closed and they had shortlisted and conducted interviews. ..and successful candidates already resumed...really fast. Thanks.

Hello everyone, I am checking to know if anyone has been shortlisted or contacted by the US embassy for the Mandela Washington Fellowship coordinator job opening. Please let's open discussion on updates about the job. Thank you.

Hello guys, pls I need urgent help with genuine price of toyota camry 99 steering rack. I reside in lagos and I desperately need to get it fixed but mechanics have been Incoherent with the price. Some say 45k....some 30k...and am so confused and skeptical to trust them. Pls anyone with idea on real price and how to get it....much appreciated.

2015 Presidential Election: The Ballot or the Bullet Affair
“I am not here to argue or discuss anything that we differ about, because it is time to submerge our differences and realize that we have the same problem, a common problem, a problem that will make you catch hell whether you are a Baptist, or a Methodist or a Muslim (or Efik, Ijebu, Kanuri, Idoma or Ndigbo), whether you are educated or illiterate.”

These lines, delivered by Malcolm X to his African-American compatriots on the eve of the 1964 American presidential election, provide a perfect platform for this piece as Nigerians, more than ever before, appear to be inching towards the all-important Feb 14 presidential election with rife primordial/xenophobic and religious sentiments.

Every time I reflect on the 2011 presidential election (in which I participated as a Presiding Officer), especially on how majority of Nigerians set aside their religious, ethnic and social cleavages to unanimously identify with the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan, I wonder what this government has done (or refused to do) to return us to the era of strong ethno-religious sentiments. My Polling Unit, with about 970 registered voters, was unusually calm and organized on the day of the presidential election, and I still vividly remember their (voters’) smiling faces and comments: “this man is a fresh choice”, “we trust him to usher in a new Nigeria because of his humble background”, “he has no godfather.”

Things, however, have “fallen apart” almost “ungatherably” as the ubiquitous failure, clannishness, ravaging corruption and crass ineptitude of the Jonathan administration have “put a knife on the things that held us (Nigerians) as one” in 2011 (apologies to Chinua Achebe). He (Jonathan) has bungled the golden moment to permanently cement the bond and close up the gulf among Nigerian ethnic groups, and the “to your tents, O Israel” tune being chimed by these ethnicities more than confirms this.
The Yoruba group (through Afenifere and co) has been screaming marginalization and exclusion from the priority list of the Jonathan government; the Hausa-Fulani of the north is saying the same thing (as recently reiterated by Gov Sule Lamido of Jigawa); Muslim groups (prominent among which is Sultan Abubakar Sa’ad’s Jamatu Nasril Islam – JNI) have berated the weakness of the government (especially for its obvious inability to curb insurgency in the North). Even the support Jonathan enjoys from his Niger-Delta kinsmen is not based on sterling achievements, but rather on the idea that their son must remain in aso rock (regardless of his performance) to maintain the region’s grip on power. He is, after all, their son, and the oil that sustains the economy is theirs so he should stay on.

This, undoubtedly, is the reason why prominent Niger-Deltans (Edwin Clark, Asari Dokubo and co) have made it unambiguously clear that the only condition for Nigeria’s continued existence beyond Feb 14, 2015, is for Jonathan to be returned as president by any means possible. Even the North, in spite of its volatile political history (and accusations of the “born to rule” mentality), has never been this treasonous, mutinous and felonious in identifying with a northern politician.

Prominent among Mr. Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda manifesto in 2011 were security and power supply. He made it precisely clear (during his campaign) that without security and reliable power supply, no nation can record meaningful development, and this exactly has been our lot in the last four years. In the North, children, numbering over 200, have been taken hostage by terrorists for many months without any hope of regaining freedom; explosive devices have ripped through motor parks, schools, markets, churches and mosques claiming lives and property, and the constant response of the ever-smiling “nothing spoil” president is to “condemn the dastardly acts” promising to “bring the perpetrators to book” through tea-drinking committees of investigation. In the south, kidnappers have been smiling to the banks with huge ransoms extorted from victims, but rather than taking a firm action to stem the tide of criminality and terrorism, the president is busy concessioning the security of the nation to “former” militants (remember Tompolo?) and taking celebrity photo shots with alleged sponsors of terrorism (remember the Niger picture he took with Ali Modu Sheriff?).

Every time my neighbor’s 3-year-old son (born during Jonathan’s transformation administration) screams “up NEPA” when PHCN restores power, I cringe and wonder if such legacies of monumental failure should be transferred to such infant generation. On the one hand, the government is celebrating an unprecedented increment in the megawatts being generated, and the same government, on the other hand, has increased the budget for (aso rock) generator diesel from 34 million naira in 2014 to 36 million naira in 2015. What other proof do we need to be certain that electricity supply will not be stable in 2015?

The undeniable truth, if we are frank enough to set aside our ethnic and religious sentiments, is that we are all victims of this incorrigibly corrupt system which enriches few cronies/associates and impoverishes the poor. How can a sincere president (who truly knows and feels the pains of the hapless masses) watch and cheer governors who are owing civil servants 3-6 months salaries as they donate billions to his reelection campaign? How can anyone in his right senses expect a civil servant who has not been paid for six months to refrain from cheating, stealing (which Jonathan doesn’t consider as corruption anyway) and cutting corners?

As if to confirm that Jonathan has little (or nothing) to show for the overwhelming support Nigerians gave him in 2011, his party, the PDP, has shifted focus from enumerating his achievements to outright blackmail, denigration and disparagement of Muhammadu Buhari, the APC candidate who happens to be the major threat to Jonathan’s reelection. For Wale Oladipo (PDP National Secretary), Buhari is a “72 year-old semi-literate military jackboot” as if Jonathan’s speeches (especially when delivered without a written text or teleprompter) don’t make one wonder if his much-vaunted PhD degree is a honoris causa. He certainly doesn’t come across as someone who has weathered the rigor of a PhD degree, and perhaps Wole Oladipo is yet to be informed that Tunisians (who inaugurated the famous Arab Spring) just elected 88-year-old Beji Caid Essebsi as president; so what is the fuss about Buhari’s age? The declaration of Ahmadu Ali (a PDP top shot) that Buhari is “an old plane parked for too long” is as funny as that of the PDP National Chairman, Adamu Muazu, that “Buhari cannot operate in a democratic setting” (perhaps for sacking the Shehu Shagari government 1983).

The attempt of the political piranhas that surround Jonathan to induce a historical amnesia on Nigerians by describing him (Jonathan) as the best president Nigeria has ever produced (and even comparing him to Jesus Christ) reminds one of Fela Kuti’s description of the sycophantic praise-singers that propped the grossly corrupt and inept administration of Shagari. In Fela’s words, “Shagari is dangerous. He is not as dynamic to be as dangerous, but his set-up is dangerous. As a person, he is weak; he doesn’t make any impressive or intelligent statement as such but his surrounding (goon squad) is dangerous, because they praise him as the greatest African president, but underneath he is spoiling the whole continent.” Indeed, there cannot be a better way to describe the mass hypnosis and deception currently playing out in Nigeria as figures and statistics – local and international – are being bandied to prove that Jonathan has surpassed all his predecessors while the realities on ground reveal that Nigeria has never been this rudderless, imperiled and pummeled.

When the gluttons gather in Abuja to butcher our commonwealth, they do not bicker on their respective religions, ethnicities and even educational qualifications; when the government callously hiked fuel pump price, no specially reduced price was fixed Abians, Ekitis or Kwarans; when boko haram and kidnappers attack and kidnap people, they do not distinguish between Christians or Muslims; now that PHCN has increased electricity tariff (without stable power supply), there are no facts anywhere that suggest Catholic, NASFAT, Amadioha or Ogboni faithful will pay specially reduced rates; when the PhD president (and former lecturer) shut his eyes as universities and polytechnics shut down for nearly a year, Nigerian youth regardless of religion or ethnicity bore the brunt; and when the NIS (Nigerian Immigration Service) conducted a funeral exercise in the guise of recruitment, unemployed graduates from all religions and ethnicities lost their money and/or lives.

We have all sacrificed and lost; we put Jonathan first (above our religious and ethnic affiliations in 2011) but he put us last on his priority list, and we are all catching the same hell from Edo to Ede, Bauchi to Benue and Lokoja to Lagos.

Muhammadu Buhari, in my estimation, only happens to be in the right place at the right time (and is surely emboldened by his anti-corruption record) as the reality on ground suggests that even Dame Patience will defeat Goodluck Jonathan in a credible poll. Going by what he has made of Nigeria and Nigerians in the last five years, I certainly do not think he should stay one day beyond May 29, 2014 (which even appears too far for me).

The Feb 14 presidential poll is certainly a ballot or bullet affair with the heightening ethno-religious tension enveloping the nation. The only thing necessary for a civil war (which we may never survive) is for us to vote along ethno-religious lines, and for the loser (backed by his ethnic and religious group) to reject the result, alleging irregularities.

Let us (again) set aside the crushing weight of the things that divide us – religion and ethnicity – and think of the things that have united us in the last 4-5 years of Jonathan presidency – poverty, unemployment, exploitation (from PHCN, NIS, NNPC/FG), insecurity (in the north and south) and austerity, and then use the ballot to settle our scores or show appreciation. This way, the election would be a simple matter of either endorsing or condemning the things that unite us, and we shall (or should) happily embrace the outcome.
Banire Abiodun (abiodunbanire@gmail.com)

aribitoye:
how was the test today?

Boss airbitoye....hope you are good? Pls as soon as you have info on AL shortlists. ...pls do avail us of such....many thanks.

aribitoye:
Objectives. Brush up ur engineering maths,thermodynamics,fluid, mechanics, and basic mechanical engineering principles. Dats d best info I can give. Regards and best of luck

many thanks aribitoye...for your wealth of information on this thread. Pls I would love to know if you have any idea if AL applicants have been contacted. What time frame should we project? I applied to the dept of English. ..AL....pls help with any info. Thank bro...and success to the GAs writing test tomorrow.

So we are waiting for rescueteam to let us know what his contact at Fuoye said.....let's know if anyone else has got any information. .....

naijamark:
@Ilorinboy why are you following me to every thread?
Anyway guys, I just got a test invite for Weds 10th Dec. Anyone with same?

Did u apply for a non-teaching position? I applied for a teaching position (assistant lecturer) but didnt get any mail or text from them...congrats though. ..best of luck with the test.

Did u apply for a non-teaching position? I applied for a teaching position (assistant lecturer) but didnt get any mail or text from them...congrats though. ..best of luck with the test.

No one seems to have the latest information on this stuff....rescueteam...ilorinboy...olamibobo...where are u guys?

naijamark:
Did anyone receive confirmation email after submission? I didn't get any and I'm worried that my application might have not been considered. Although I received the online prompt that says my application has been successfully completed.

perhaps u shuld explain further. ...after submission, I got a mail saying my application was successfully submitted. ..it is an auto generated mail everyone should get after submitting online. I dont know if anyone got another mail apart from this....but that's what I think u shuld get....

Hello guys...any update?

I just got an info from very reliable source that the whole process has been done and concluded underground. ..naija factor...

mobolaji28:
I just confirmed the list is out,anyone interested can go check.

Hi mobolaji...how does one go about checking the list? Have they started reaching out to shortlisted candidates? What's the time frame ? Pls enlighten us...thanks

Hi mobolaji...how does one go about checking the list? Have they started reaching out to shortlisted candidates? What's the time frame ? Pls enlighten us...thanks