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U guys should not stand apart and throw words, sit down and reason things out. Your approach is damaging!

3a) son's age 12, father 60.
7a) n =0 or n=1
7b) x=1 or 4
9a) two digit number is 94

Wealthgang:
Check Out The Recent NECO Math Questions Some School Teachers Couldn't Solve


Same order they appeared in d question paper.

Q3) A man is 5 times older than his son. Four yrs ago, d product of their ages was 448. Find their present ages.

Q7a) Find d value of n if
3²ⁿ⁺¹ - 4(3ⁿ⁺¹) + 9 = 0

7b) Solve d eqn:
log(x²+4) = 2 + logx - log20

Q9a) A two-digit number is such that its tens digit is greater than its unit digit by 5. If d number is 14 less than 3 times d product of its digits, find d number.

Let's see how many Nairalanders can give it a shot. Anyone who answers correctly will get a reward.

Cc: Xflint, Boyoski09, truth12, themall, Danosaur007, Jerrypolo, 8BitGee, integritylady, Laive, lilmonarch

Olalan:
I really hope they can control their activites, but again looking at the activites of area boys in the state even under the watchful eyes of security men I doubt if the government can stop them.

. If the government cannot stop area boys they see everyday and everywhere, how wud they stop those that operate in d bushes

prof1990:
I support the fight against corruption no matter the party. They can't use the money meant for economic development and the betterment of nigerians for their own personal enrichment. we the masses have to let them know. Politics and Politician's have to lose for us to better as a country.

baffled! APC is holy party, no one is corrupt

8BitGee:
St. Charles or not, it is a government school and only government can decide what goes on in there. If in doubt, approach a court of law! Silly bigots.

. Yes, government school, you are right. Not Muslim Cleric School

Masses plus APC versus PDP in 2012 but now masses plus PDP versus APC. What a reversible reaction with masses being constant! Labour is undefined

More than a conqueror. A conqueror won d battle but someone that is more than conqueror, though not suffered any injury or hurt enjoys the dividend of victory. He was bruised for our iniquities.... CAC Rock of Salvation Eleko. ibeju lekki

Show us her pix in jersey b4 I'll bliv she was d former footballer

When Jesus says YES

Don't u think we need Jesus in this country?

Den force u buy am. Wetin!

Mopolchi:
Wow I vividly remember the state during my Nysc. The oga above me when did you serve, I served at Hadejia.

I also served in Dutse (Rafinsanyin)

zeedof:
FTC first time since I joined Nairaland. Well thanks op

. What an achievement!

The truth will be BH will stop but Boko Haram-kind of attack will continue under another name!

My colleagues were more surprised than myself

obiremy:
When the term 'billionaire' pops up in Nigeria, it is easy to refer to the likes of Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga or Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija. However there are some Nigerian billionaires you might not know that keep things on a low key.

See the list below of some silent Nigerians you just might not have heard of in no particular order.

1. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Fleet:

The story of Jimoh Ibrahim cannot fail to inspire anyone treading the path to become successful in life. Born to poor parents with about 17 siblings on 24 February 1967, he became a millionaire when he was still studying law at the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) running seminars for local governments on Taxation. In 2002/2003 he contested for the governorship position of Ondo State but lost and he went on to start Global Fleet – a petroleum marketing company. Today he has grown to become one of Nigeria's billionaires and his investments include the following sectors, among others: oil and gas distribution, hotels, resorts, airlines, banking, real estate, insurance, publishing and investments. He delivers free lectures once a month at Excellence Hotel in Ogba, Lagos through City People on how Nigerians can make millions from any business they venture into.

2. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars:

Chief Michael Ade Ojo was born on June 14, 1938 and was one of the pioneer students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he graduated from with a degree in Business Administration in 1965. In 1975, he cofounded Elizade Independent Agencies, with his late wife, Chief (Mrs.) Elizabeth Wuraola Ojo. The name originated from the first four letters of his wife's name "Eliz" as well as the first three letters of his own name "Ade." Today, the company has grown into ELIZADE Group of Company with as much as seven subsidiaries. He is also solely involved in the construction of a polytechnic; Elizade Polytechnic, Ilara Mokin which is aimed at giving the average Nigerian child quality education.

3. Jim Ovia – Banking and Communications:

Mr. Jim Ovia was a co-founder of Zenith Bank Plc and he served as its Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for 10 years. In July this year he returned as chairman of Zenith Bank Group and he remains the bank's largest individual shareholder with a 9.3% stake. He is also the founder of Visafone Communications Limited and in August 2014, he started construction on a $1.5 billion petrochemical complex in Akwa-Ibom in Nigeria. He is a holder the Member of the Order of Federal Republic (MFR).

4. Chief Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT:

Born in Ibadan, Oyo state on the 25th of October 1951, Chief Raymond Dokpesi is the founder and chairman of DAAR Communications Limited. He launched Nigeria's first independent radio station, Raypower, in 1994 and two years later he also launched the first Afrocentric Global Television Station, Africa Independent Television (AIT).  AIT is Africa's first broadcast station to transmit from and into the United States of America.

5. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank:

Pascal Dozie was born to a country court interpreter in Owerri Imo state on April 9, 1939. He established Diamond Bank which commenced operations in 1991 and the multi-billionaire has once revealed in an interview that the first customer was his wife. He pioneered electronic transfers in Nigeria to enable traders transfer their cash easily without having to carry it around. The real source of his wealth came when a South African cellphone company, MTN partnered with him to setup a cellphone network in the Nigerian market. Taking the huge risk at the time, he raised the necessary funds with MTN completing the rest and today Nigerians can attest to the success of MTN Nigeria. He is currently Chairman of MTN Nigeria and is a founding partner of Africa Capital Alliance, the first Nigerian private equity fund manager.

6. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox Computer:

The chairperson of Zinox Technologies Limited, Leonard Stanley Nnamdi Ekeh was born on February 22, 1956 in Ubomiri Mbaitoli of Imo State. He is fondly referred to as Bill Gates of Nigeria because of his exploits in the field of information technology. The astute business man used his school fees to start his business several years ago, a decision which made him miss sitting for his LLM in Business Law which he spent more than a year to prepare for.  He started Task Systems Ltd, which is now one of the companies under the Zinox Group. In addition to Zinox, he has been involved with companies like ICT Brokers, TD Plus, ICT Connect and Buyright AFRICA Dotcom.

7. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group:

Samuel Adedoyin is a Kwara born businessman and the founder of Doyin Group of Companies. The Doyin Group of companies is a conglomerate that is wholly indigenous comprising of 15 subsidiaries. He started out as a small trading business before growing into a conglomerate. The group's business interests spans manufacturing, real estate, banking, hospitality and energy.

8. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria:

Oba Otudeko is the founder and chairman of Honeywell Group as well as the chairman of Airtel Nigeria, and Fan Milk of Nigeria. He was born on the 18th of August, 1943 and he is one of Nigeria's most successful investor and entrepreneur. He retired as the Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria Plc after 12 years on the Board of the Bank. Between September 2006 and August 2009, he was the 16th President and Chairman of Council of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. His conglomerate's operations stretch across oil and gas, flour milling, real estate and marine transportation.

9. Fola Adeola – GTBank:

Tajudeen Afolabi Adeola is a businessman and politician and he alongside Tayo Aderinokun established Guaranty Trust Bank in 1990 which he managed as director/CEO up till July 2002. The bank became listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in 1996. He retired from the bank in 2002 after twelve years. He is a member of the Commission for Africa, the founder and chairman of the FATE Foundation a non-governmental organisation which aims to encourage entrepreneurship through trainings, mentoring, loan support and consulting to support young Nigerians. 

Source: http://trezzy2..com/2015/11/9-silent-nigerian-billionaires-who-keep.html

no longer silent, about 3M nairalanders are already aware of it

Demmocrats:
All i see is the list of knights of Camelot and my sai Buhari king Arthur, he picked the right individuals with the right qualifications at the right portfolios.


I see this man transforming (oh sorry transforming is for the old administration) CHANGING this nation for good. The same way the knights of the round table achieved so much success that's the same way my sai Buhari's ministers will achieve success.

Men like Fashola is like Messi in your team, he will change the power sector for good. Time is coming when power failures will be a thing of the past.

Sai Buhari

. Who represents MERLIN?

JanethEze:
If my child does something bad, let the teacher tell me; the parent, and i will deal with him/her myself. Do you know how many children have died in the hands of teachers in Nigeria? Corporate punishment needs to end, many lives have been lost because of that

can u support ur point with facts and figures. Teachers beating children to death? Chai!

Lasgidy1:
I'm a confucianist. How can I contribute pls?

keep lOoking and watching

Midehi:
he has done well.

yeah that might be d reason why ministerial list is pending

imsuboi:
Arthritis has damaged every joint in this thing's body. Even his brain


**Yes. I'm a GEJ supporter.
**Yes. I'm insulting your dull president.

Deal with it

Leaders are of God. Support any leader God place over you for your own benefit

MEGGATRON:
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learn from d choirmaster!

PDPmamapiss:
this is not news. No choirmaster can swear that he has not fvck more than 10 members of choir or the church.

. I can

wachakuta:
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/buhari-osinbajo-declare-assets/

. What's d use? Will he declare when leaving d office? I didn't hear it GEJ declare his assets while leaving

[quote author=quicyvictor post=32375013]Petrichor - You know that smell after the first rains (especially after a long day summer)? That smell is called petrichor. Petri means relating to rocks and chor means the blood of the Gods

Schadenfreude - It’s the pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. No matter how pure-hearted you are you know you have had the feeling of schadenfreude.

Dysania – Dysania is state of having a hard time waking up and getting out of bed in the morning. So the feeling you have every single morning.

Numinous - An adjective which means filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence. Anything you think is possessed or even blessed by God is numinous.

Palindrome – A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward. Like Lion oil or the word poop. Though it isn’t an official word Aibohphobia is the fear of palindromes which is itself a palindrome.

Semordnilap – Semordnilaps (also called Heteropalindromes or Anadromes) are words which, when reversed, are still valid words but not the same as the original word. Examples you ask?
Diaper-Repaid
Live – Evil
Desserts – stressed
Palindromes – Semordnilap (That really ingenious if you ask me.

Mamihlapinatapai – This word has actually won a world record for “most succinct word”. It is also one of the hardest words to translate. It allegedly refers to “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will offer something that they both desire but are unwilling to suggest or offer themselves.” I guess an example will be two kids who have a crush on each other and want to be in a relationship but doesn’t know the other person likes him/her

Aglet – I learned this word from a fantastic show called Phineas and Ferb(excellent cartoon) They had a song about it. Aglet refers to that plastic thing at the end of your shoe lace. Phineas and Ferb song

Acatalepsy – It means “incomprehensibility of things”. The Pyrrhonians(group of skeptic philosophers) who attempted to show that humans can never know anything for a fact. But really, can you know something as a fact without actually assuming anything?

Zugzwang – It’s a situation where you have to do something but it would be better for you if you didn’t do anything. It is generally associated with chess where you would rather pass than play a move.(You can’t pass in chess.)

Barm – It’s the foam or froth you see on beer or wine. Next time someone says “Don’t give me any froth,” while he pours you a cold one tell him what it’s really called

Floccinaucinihilipilification – The action or habit of estimating something as worthless. This word is the longest unchallenged nontechnical word. The chemical word for titin is longest word (debated) , it is 189,819 letters long.

Contronym – A contronym is a when a word has two meanings and they are opposites of each other. Ofcourse, you want examples.

Left- remaining, departed.
How may cookies do you have left?
None,he left with the cookies.

Rent – buy use of, sell use of
He was looking to rent he room out for some extra cash.
She got wanted to rent a room for a few days.

Variety – one type, many types
Alphonso is a variety of mangoes.
The store has a variety of mangoes

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia – The fear of long words. Yeah, I know. English is a cruel language.

Phobophobia – The fear of developing a fear. Probably the most ironic word in English language.


Hierophilia – Hierophilia refers to sexual urges, preferences or fantasies involving sacred or religious objects. I swear some people act like they have this.



Emetophilia – Emetophilia is deriving sexual pleasure from vomit. There are different instances, several of which are:
1) Hearing someone vomit
2) Seeing someone vomit
3) Being vomited on
4) Vomiting on someone else
5) Vomiting alone
Emetophilia is not only about being vomited on. It can also just be sights and sounds


Some of d words soUnds like 'speaking in tongues'

Buhari will die before the Election
- Ayo Fayose
Buhari is brain dead - Mama
Peace
If APC survives till October 2014,
call me a
bastard.- Doyin Okupe
Mark my words, It will not
happen for
Buhari to rule Nigeria. - Doyin
Okupe.
If APC wins, I will go on exile. -
Bode George.
Buhari can never win in
Yorubaland. - Gani
Adams.
Jonathan will shock APC with
defeat. - FFK
If Jonathan loses, we would set
Nigeria on fire. -
Asari Dokubo.
We instigated the 6 weeks
postponement so that
Jonathan can win. - Fasehun
I will deliver 1 million votes to
Jonathan in Ondo
state. - Mimiko
We shall deliver the South West
votes to
Jonathan. - Afenifere
Tinubu is no longer a force in the
South
West. -Yinka Odumakin.
Buhari at 70 wears diapers like
my mother. -
Fayose
Jonathan already has Lagos
votes.- Obanikoro...

Khai..... e pain me for them o

eleojo23:
So OBJ now wants to sing the change mantra?
Change in itself is not the issue, rather it is the manner of change that is the cause for concern.
When the merger opposition party was formed, I looked forward to seeing something good coming out of it. I thought I would see a new set of people who really want to do things differently and bring true change but alas, it turned out to be a very big disappointment.

From all indications so far, there is nothing new in this merger, in fact, it has the potential of even being more lethal to our nation than the preexisting party.
A look at the kind of people who now make up this party will tell you so.

And the funny (and at same time annoying) thing is that they keep chanting the word 'change'. The question is, what manner of change?

When a group of people use the word 'change' and try to explain it as a good deviation from the norm but their actions fail to correspond with what they say, the whole thing becomes a mockery of the word itself.

. Different parties, d same people

Olayemie:
This is a Mathematics brain
test...

A girl went to school and the
teacher asked how old are you?

She replied I don't know bt I
know that I'm half my mother's age.

The teacher asked OK how
old is your mother?

She said
I don't know but I know that my
dad is 5 Years older than my mother.

The teacher, then ask how
old is your dad?

She said I don't know but I know that if we add
our ages the answer is 100 yrs...

Now how old is the girl, her mum,
& her dad?

Stress ur brain a little. If u fail u
make me ur profile pix 4 2days. Your time starts now... happy
sunday everyone...

. Girl 19, Mother 38 and father 43

nedu2000:
I'm only voting for APC because of my friends in Borno state,maybe Buhari as an ex-soldier will help them from the clutches of boko haram but as for infrastructure and electricity I don't expect any change,so let them stop lying they won't deliver

bunch of fail promises! Those before him av said many things.....no fulfilment!

sassysatino:
Beautiful Actress, Toyin Aimaku wants us to forget and yes we have looking at how stunning she looks in these new photos..

I am particularly happy she has reconciled with her hubby..

http://www.blacksatino.com/2015/01/toyin-aimakhu-releases-new-breath.html

. Fully pan-caked!

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Tyro

Adubiaran:
this man is just too good... simple but powerful manifesto. I pray he wins.

words and actions are dissimilar things. I pray he does what he promises, I av heard d manifesto of 'I had no shoe' which his administration is now even causing some people to 'lose their foot'. I wonder how u will weear shoe without legs!