₦airaland Forum

So under Goodluck Jonathan's government, this case just died?

Judges have been bribed?

Ajuran: Well considering nigeria's national language is a white mans, i guess you would know the white mans language better than me.
Considering the history of west africans as working for whites on plantations, i will leave it up to you with your ancestral expertise
on ways english is used.

Your national language is illiteracy, hunger, AK47 and general misery.

The world has left you behind. You are still in the 18th century while others have reached 21st.

Ajuran: your saying that to the guy who speaks 3 languages.

So can many sewage cleaners, security guards and beggars on the streets in Nigeria.

Sorry, negro, that is not evidence of good education.

Ajuran: You must understand, my black child, english is not my native language. Please forgive me fagamite.

Yeah, I know.

English and education is Boko Haram to illiterates like you.

Cajetan speaks: Abuja highbrow areas have CSS

So not the whole of Abuja, talkless of Nigeria, just the highbrow area?

person leaders running a shithole!

I watched the match and honestly he was the star of the game.

This is not confirmed only by the performance but by the amount of different times the commentators were referring to him and the way the camera was always on him and his reaction, even when his team was attacking and the ball was nowhere near him. It was like the broadcasting company was focusing on Messi.

- After every goal or goal attempt, show the striker of the ball and then show how Enyeama reacted.
- Someone is injured on the pitch and is being attended to, show Enyeama on TV.
- Commentators are talking about Enyeama not conceding a goal in 9 games, show Enyeama saving a short from Monaco, then show his reaction to what is happening on the pitch now.

The whole focus of the match broadcast was on him.

Theben: I believe he's a strong contender for the African Footballer of the year award. He might be the first Goal keeper to win the award.

Mugu, you didn't have the intelligence to check and realise at least 2 goalkeepers have won it before?

A sane, intelligent and strong leader would not set up a committee to investigate how or if his minister spent $1.6m to buy 2 cars.

A sane, intelligent and strong leader would call the minister to a meeting and ask them face-to-face to provide details of their knowledge and involvement in the purchase.

Dem no born a minister well to lie on such issues in the face of a sane, intelligent and strong leader.

Within 2 hours, you will have a case of resignation or no resignation.

Then you follow it up with further investigation to verify what is said and/or what laws are broken and what charges should be brought.

Ajuran: My black child, where have you gone?

My uneducated Negro, the correct grammar is "where have you been"?

Olugbenger: You forgot chairman of the commitee to prosecute fucktards.

That is Head of National Planning Commission na.

I will build a giant chamber (10x bigger than Winners Expressway Camp) to:

- Examine the brain.
- If it is mild fucktardism, send on scholarship to a new good standard school I would have commissioned.
- If it is serious fucktardism but still redeemable, carry out a lobotomy.
- If it is severe fucktardism that has reached untreatable levels, get them down on their knees and then one bullet.

AjanleKoko: Why bother?
He's just one of most who are far worse. We should be asking those who voted for him, what the heck they were thinking. But hey, like calls to like, I guess

And the rest of us suffer for their choices.

That is why I have always been belligerent on NL. I see fucktards as really dangerous to society. Both as leaders and as followers.

Jarus, I have told you before, when you become Presido, my post na any of the following:

- EFCC Chairman.
- Chief of Staff.
- Minister of Interior Affairs.
- Head of National Planning Commission.
- Head of Civil Service.
- Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

Ify, which one you think go suit me pass?

I am currently watching an Al-Jazeera interview with one of the 2 female candidates that are favourite for the Chilean Presidency in the upcoming elections.

She is speaking so intelligently in English (a second language) and I am sitting here wondering "And Nigerians voted for this person baboon called Jonathan? ".

When you hear him talk, you will have no doubt he is just immensely intellectually bereft.

Napoleondegreat: Look for a nearby nursery/primary school and ask them to teach u how u can understand simple sentence such as 'obi is a boy'. When u are through then come and read my post again because any human being who knows what 'obi is a boy' means MUST also understand that i did'nt in any way suggest that one has to contest an election before he can question a legislator. Kindly follow my advice, it will help u. I swear e no go better for u if u don't do what i have asked u to do. And this generation and the entire humanity will never forgive your mother for not aborting that ill-conceived pregnancy that produced u and your father for daring to even talk to ur mother that day he impregnanted her to produce u.

You are a person!

What is "impregnanted"?

That is what your school taught you?

And you don't want to suicide bomb the murrafuckers as I told you to do?

person, what did'nt (sic) mean he had to contest for elections before he is knowledgeable and qualified to question a legislators performance when you said this?

Napoleondegreat: Question the op should answer first: 1. why did'nt the op contest for national assembly election since he claim to know more about law making than the person representing him? 2. Since the op has this 'wealth' of knowledge, why did'nt he approach the person representing him to table his recommended questions for oduah and others?

person!

[size=18pt]University rankings: which world university rankings should we trust?[/size]

Things looked rosy for Cambridge last month. Yes, the university may have lost pole position in the world university rankings to nerd’s paradise MIT. But in taking second place, three slots clear of its great rival Oxford and two ahead of UCL, it reaffirmed its status as the UK’s leading light in higher education.

Or did it? Today’s world rankings paint a different picture. Cambridge only manages seventh place, while Oxford clambers up to joint-second. UCL is a mere 17th. And what of MIT? Much lauded for its apparently peerless technological research last month, it now gazes up longingly at first-placed California Institute of Technology.

The obvious reason for these discrepancies is the use of different ranking systems. Today’s Times Higher Education tables are a different beast to last month’s QS World University Rankings. Although nominally answering the same question, they don’t share a methodology, a data set or indeed a winner.

Rather than argue over which is right, UK universities should perhaps just be glad that the widely respected Shanghai Ranking is less well-known on these shores – none of our universities come close to ending Harvard’s 10 years at the top of that list.

So, where can prospective students turn for answers? The simple truth is that there is no such thing as a definitive table. But in fact the wildly differing outcomes of these tables make them more, not less, useful. The key is in knowing how to interpret them.

The ‘Shanghai Ranking’, for example, originated in 2003 with Chinese government backing. It was designed to provide a global benchmark against which Chinese universities – enjoying billions in state and private investment – could assess their progress. It is a remarkably stable list, relying on long-term factors such as the number of Nobel Prize-winners a university has produced, and number of articles published in Nature and Science journals.

But with this narrow focus comes drawbacks. China's priority was for its universities to “catch up” on hard scientific research. So if you’re looking for raw research power, it’s the list for you. If you’re a humanities student, or more interested in teaching quality? Not so much.

Likewise the THE and QS rankings have their idiosyncrasies. Between 2004 and 2008 they were one and the same, before THE broke away to form its own tables. For THE, the need for more reliable world rankings that could be used for everything from government policy to shaping institutions’ reputations made the previous QS methodology – largely based on surveys – seemingly too volatile.

“Our rankings stand up to more academic scrutiny,” says THE rankings editor Phil Baty. “We produce high-end rankings which are used by governments around the world. And we’re the only global rankings that take teaching seriously.”

Predictably, QS says good riddance. “We’ve always been clear we’re aimed at prospective international students,” says Danny Byrne of QS. “Our rankings are easy to understand and of direct relevance to students – we’re unique in asking potential employers what they think of the universities, for example.

“THE cater for their audience – they’re a trade publication, and have an academic readership.”

The rankings differ in how they collect data too. QS’s rankings are reputation-driven, with 50 per cent of an institution’s score derived from surveys. And while THE does some reputation surveying, sending invitation-only questionnaires to a limited number of institutions around the world, QS opts for quantity to achieve reliability, mass-mailing some 46,000 academics before weighting the results to preclude regional bias.

Similarly, while QS canvasses academics' opinions on research but not teaching quality – reasoning that academics aren’t qualified to comment on the level of the latter at rival institutions – THE has five different measures of teaching quality. Indeed, teaching quality makes up a third of an institution’s THE score.

“Rankings are a useful source of information that wouldn’t otherwise be available – but they don’t make your decision for you,” says QS’s Byrne. “It’s about knowing what they do, and applying them intelligently. More is more.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/9584155/University-rankings-which-world-university-rankings-should-we-trust.html

To summarise:

ARWU - Focused on long-term, hard science research qualifiers. So a useful table for those interested in postgraduate research in STEM fields, especially those who want to work with or be taught by internationally elite STEM academics.

UK Top 10 (Global rank)
1. Cambridge (5)
2. Oxford (10)
3. UCL (21)
4. Imperial (24)
5. Manchester (41)
6. Edinburgh (50)
7. Bristol (64)
8. KCL (67)
9. Nottingham (83)
10. LSE (101)


THE - Focused on medium-term overall (teaching & research) reputation and performance across most academic subject fields. So it is a useful table for policy-makers and stakeholders to understand the overall relative reputation and performance of their relevant local institutions.

UK Top 10 (Global rank)
1. Oxford (2)
2. Cambridge (7)
3. Imperial (10)
4. UCL (21)
5. LSE (32)
6. KCL (38)
7. Edinburgh (39)
8. Manchester (58)
9. Bristol (79)
10. Durham (80)


QS - Focused on short-term subjective reputation of institutions. Hence a useful table for local and international students interested in institutions that would maximise their perceptive value in the global and local job market.

UK Top 10 (Global rank)
1. Cambridge (3)
2. UCL (4)
3. Imperial (5)
4. Oxford (6)
5. Edinburgh (17)
6. KCL (19)
7. Bristol (30)
8. Manchester (33)
9. Glasgow (51)
10. Birmingham (62)

Clerverly: As the only president who dated three members of his cabinet and refused to do the needful when it mattered.

What evidence do you have he dated members of his cabinet?

Sysy: Botswana and Ethiopia
https://content.missuniverse.com/media/photos/galleries/pu_1_2013_chihairshowatatryummall_uni20131494_197.jpg

I would have said Miss Azerbaijan was hot but those thighs are too skinny for me.

emmysenior: Even when their rights are been trampled upon? Haba! Stop inducing fear into people all in the name of God.

The man is a professional person.

Who dashed the person a PhD?

Cajetan speaks: Why are those places referred to as highbrow areas when they do not have a central sewage system?

Central sewage system is for sane environments and countries.

In shitholes like Nigeria, you have DIY-distributed sewage system.

Government no get time to dey build public amenities.

kehinde1588: you can insult or call me all sort of names i dnt care cos that shows your level of maturity on a controversy.mine is try and get my point.i dnt think governing a state requires ones educational knowledge.all dat is needed is hard work and integrity.so dont use his response on a question to discredit his ambition doe am nt his advocate.

You mean the hardwork that he demonstrated by not understanding a trivial issue that is pertinent to the post he wants to go for?

I will not go into his integrity. I have not checked but I am pretty confident it is unlikely to be great.

Prof Corruption: What a joke!

And if person call them product of a failed education system based on the lack of a solid reasoning faculty, dem go dey vex gan.

Prof Corruption: Simple as abc.

To ediots that is rocket science and a sign of know-it-all.

When one criticised their moronic leaders, they don't understand why. Despite the incompetence of their leaders repeatedly destroying their lives and future.

kehinde1588: mr knowall..mr product of a succeeded education system..dnt tell me u kwn evrytin..and if u knw everytin dnt tell me u av never come across dis kind of situation in one way or d oda.

Fortunately, because of a mix of my education, fine brain and dogged determination for self-development, there has never been a situation, and there will never be a situation, where a trivial question in my field of interest or on an issue requiring common knowledge would trip me.

obadiah777: oh ok lol. whats good bruv ? been a hot minute. trust all is copacetic

I dey o, bruv.

Today na football engrossing day.

Truckpusher: Saga you've no idea what you're talking about......there are good-looking good girls out there and they know it ,so they go for the best of the best guys........it takes a jerk with guts to approach her because her ways are properly defined in a well refined manner, no mixed signal to any guy always walking tall....i've seen them before and i gave them my blessings.

And if by chance they fancy any jerk ,the jerk begins to make changes because they are just like potty in the hand of these amazing daughters of eve....smh

Good-looking good girls look for bad boys as a challenge project.

They fall in the same mapping group as most good-looking girls: Find danger!

juman: That's the only field marshal in nigeria.

Dem go soon give am amnesty ............................and N300m a month living allowance.

obadiah777: you are back in naija Sagamite ?

No, I meant where I grew up.