₦airaland Forum

mu2sa2:
Lawal is right. Selective restructuring doesn't make sense. The way forward is to carry out restructuring at lg, state and federal levels simultaneously. There's cry of marginalisation in almost all the states, let restructuring start from there. May God continue to bless our dear native land of Nigeria and decimate her detractors.

Some northern states in exercise of their rights as federating units started sharia and setup Hisbah police for enforcement. Since that time millions of bottles of beer have been destroyed even when the federal laws aren't against alcohol trading. Is it not idiotic for Lawan to overlook Hisbah and their activities while condemning the actions of Governors of other states for attempting to exercise their own democratic rights.

FarahAideed:
I know this will be a hard pill for us to swallow but It's time we place a ban on ransom payment in this country and place death sentence on any one found guilty of paying Ransom or asking for it ....Brutal but it's the only thing that works against kidnapping..the more you pay the more the kidnap ...

This is so true.

This is the kind of oppression that should bring out all the masses to the street for demonstration.

Who is Danladi Umar that he is feeling fly? I blame the people who allow themselves to be divided along ethnic and religious lines.

And the CCT Chairman is not behaving like this just because he is a northerner. He is behaving like any other power drunk Nigerian would behave whether he is a northerner or southerner.

The CCT chairman's stupid action reminds me of when Olisa Metuh went to slap his son's teacher in Ibadan. I wonder how these people forget that power is transient.

adanny01:
How do you apply commutative law of multiplication in real life?

Of course, 0x2 is 2x0.

Both 0 and 2 are factors of the multiplication but the first number is the constant and the second is the multiplier.

In division, same applies, the first number is the numerator and the second the divisor or denominator.

2x3 | 2+2+2
4÷2 | 4/2

Which of these do you think a child will grasp easier?

2x3 = 0+3+3 = 6

Or

2x3 = 2+2+2 = 6

There are no constants in multiplication, hence the position of the factors of multiplication cannot affect the product of the numbers (commutative law of multiplication)

The division of numbers does not obey the commutative law, hence the position of the numerator and denominator affects the final answer, hence 3/5 is not equal to 5/3.

Which of these do you think a child will grasp easier?

2x3 = 0+3+3 = 6

Or

2x3 = 2+2+2 = 6

A child will grab whichever you present to him or her. But the most important thing is to present the concept that can answer most questions that may arise (the original post refers.)

I have had some excellent results mentoring some young mathematicians who hated mathematics prior to my intervention.

adanny01:
Sure

If I must reply,

3 x 7 means 3 times 7 or 3 by 7

This means we add 3 up to 7times

3+3+3+3+3+3+3=21

This is why the primary school multiplication table is arranged separately for each number

2x1=2 | 2
2x2=4 | 2+2
2x3=6 | 2+2+2
2x4=8 | 2+2+2+2

The question is how will you write

2x0 | ?

You can write

0x2 | 0+0

It is easier to explain 0x2 than 2x0

0x2 is twice of nothing
2x0 is nothing of two things

Take 2 real oranges in your hands for instance, in what scenario will you multiply them so that they turn to zero or nothing? I guess you can't except by magic.

That means the concept of zero or nothing is purely a figment of imagination and purely abstract.

Going by the commutative law of multiplication, 2x0 = 0x2

Therefore, you can read 0x2 to mean 2 times we add 0. Rearranging numbers to solve or explain mathematical concepts is an agelong and acceptable practice amongst mathematicians.

Alternatively, if you don't want to rearrange you can read 0x2 as:

0 times we add 2 to zero (using zero as the starting point of your number). Which would still give you 0.

By the same token;
2x0 can be read as 2 times we add 0 to zero:

Zero + 0 + 0 = 0

1 x 3 reads 1 time we add 3 to 0
0 + 3 = 3

2 x 3 reads 2 times we add 3 to 0:
0 + 3 + 3 = 6

0 x 3 reads 0 times we add 3 to 0:
0 = 0 (because we didn't add any 3 to 0)

Basically, multiplication means to add a number of times.

For instance, 3x7 means 3 times 7. The 3 times 7 actually means 3 times (we add) 7.

Hence, 7x3 = 7 + 7 + 7 = 21.

In the same vein, 5 x 0, means 5 times we add 0 or add 0 in 5 places.

Hence, 5 x 0 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0

Because of the commutative law of multiplication, which states that the order in which a set of numbers are multiplied does not affect their product,

5 x 0 = 0 x 5

Therefore, regardless of the order you will have zero as your answer if you multiplied any number by zero.

CC: TheGoodJoe, mu2sa2, adanny02

Racoon:
Trump have lost it.

Trump never had it bro! The guy is a manipulator.

grandlexuz:
Righteousness89 are you still in the mountain? Becareful lest you be bitten by a snake.

Whenever you decide to return from the mountains, get a hold of a mirror and tell yourself I am a fake pastor.

Lots like you have rubbished Christianity with Prophetlying. You made somuch noise on being able to see what others couldn't. You staked your spiritual reputation on Donald Trump. Prophetlying he must and will become the next president.

You endorsed NewsMax as the most legitimate news source because the do your bidding. You are just a fanatical conspiracy theorist with a low IQ parading with a cloak of false spiriruality.

Get a complete dose of Artemether and Lumefantrine or better still Dihydroartemisin and Piperaquin tretraphosphate to stop the malaria. Severe malaria has put you in a state of hallucination.

Deuteronomy 18: 22
when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him

There are many of them online and offline; they claim that God saith when He hath not said. The Bible refers to them as foolish prophets.

But let me add this scripture to the one you already quoted.

Ezekiel 13:3
"Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!”

King James Version

StagethemTVee:
Trump lost to Covid and Black lives matter movement..that was the game changer for Biden and democrats

And more particularly, he lost to his uncouth manners. Quite a number of Republicans voted against him. In Arizona for instance, the last time Democrats won there was during Bill Clinton's time. Reason he lost was because he messed up with Senator McCain and the McCain's supporters decided to mess him up. He messed up General Collin Powell too and some others too numerous to mention. He didn't show any emotional intelligence at all.

No matter how long you have travelled once you discover that you are headed in the wrong direction, the right thing to do is to disembark and join a bus that is heading towards your destination. If you can't condone her excesses, let her go and do not think too much about whatever you have invested in her. See it as your contribution to humanity. Thank your stars that she hasn't infected you with HIV.

TyrellObi:
I just downloaded Colt Steele's [the new version for 2020] and Angela Yu's web development courses from udemy.com... Very soon, I'll be a professional web developer... I'm still learning frontend (I'm learning Bootstrap now)...

I wish I could get a mentor that I'll learn from and be accountable to... Anyone?..

What areas do you need mentoring for? I need the clarity to know if I can provide the mentorship you need.

9jahotblog:
until you see court rulings favoring him and his litigations that you will know that trump meant what he says and the America people loves him with their blood. Besides he has been winning his litigation concerning the electoral frauds perpetrated by the leftists democrat party.

Please post the links of electoral cases that Trump has won since the elections
were conducted

LegendHero:
I pick Fashola, can you mention a youth in government that have Fash record of achievement?

Yahyah Bello is also a youth right? How exactly has be bettered the life of Kogi people?

See in politics, there will always be recycling and even if you will put new people, they most often always turn out to be the same ruling class, either their friends, brothers or son and etc.

See USA for instance:
—You have George H.W Bush, George W. Bush and Jeb Bush.
—You have Biden, who was senator before, a VP, now a president elect.
—You have Hilary Clinton, wife of former president and a democrat presidential candidate.
—In New York, you have Andrew Cuomo the Governor, his father Mario Cuomo was former governor of New York too.

USA elected a president who is 78 years old and yet you think the problem of Nigeria is because we don’t have youths in government?

I just hate that statement that “Youth Youth”, when exactly did leadership has anything to do with age?

Beautiful response. I tell people that there was never a time that all the the presently "old" people held a meeting and decided that all of them would be bad leaders. Some of the old people today actually started politics as young men, Tinubu, Orji Uzor Kalu, Saraki and a lot of other politicians started as young men in their thirties.

There are bad old men as well terrible young men who shouldn't be anywhere near leadership. Electing a young person does not guarantee that he or she would perform well.

My parents and a lot of our parents weren't part of the old people who destroyed Nigeria, therefore it would be wrong for us to classify all old people as bad or being responsible for the mess find ourselves in. Some of these old people have been fighting for a better Nigeria since God knows when and some.of them that are still alive are still in the trenches.

jaxxy:
Bt never been this massive. There will be major irregularities definitely that need to be looked into.

It was never this massive because those other times there wasn't any outbreaks that warranted lockdown occasioned by covid-i9.

Trump discouraged his followers from using mail-ins while Biden encouraged his own followers, so the result shouldn't surprise him.

Trump's handling of the Corona virus and his constant attacks on some war veterans such as Senator McCain of blessed memory, Collin Powell (both respected Republicans) contributed to Trump's defeat. Trump's loss in Arizona is partly because of his lack of tact in dealing with the McCains.

Obierika:
What you have written here appears to have been done out of mischief and an intention to cause unnecessary panic among the customers of the bank!

Fine the bank had a network challenge that lasted for days. Now let me ask you these questions:

Was it only your account that was affected by the outage which happened bankwide?

If there is a general network problem which affects all account holders how then would it be possible for Yahoo-Yahoo boys to access your account and steal money?

How does being able to log into your account prevent your money from being stolen?

The best way to keep your account safe is by ensuring that your account details do not fall into the wrong hands!

Keystone Bank is a business which employs and puts food on people's table, therefore I do not understand what you hope to gain my maligning the bank in a public forum with falsehood.

If this rubbish you have written creates a run on the bank and people loose their jobs will you give them new jobs in this post Covid-19 era where jobs are very difficult to come by.

I am not in any way supporting poor service but I can tell you that if a bank had a system failure for two whole days then the cause is something very serious and someone in the bank likely will loose his job or promotion as a result.

Social media is a good invention but as times go on it becomes obvious that a lot of people lack the temperament to use it in a responsible way!

You don't understand the pains that the depositors of this stupid keystone bank are going through right now.

The bank claims to be upgrading it's IT infrastructures leading to the customers' inability to withdraw their funds for about 6 days now.

I know of someone whose wife is critically ill and the doctors handling her have insisted on "no money no surgery". Sadly, this guy banks with keystone and hasn't had access to his own money! He is now running around for financial support.

If the bank runs down and people lose their job, it would be sad but it won't be as a result of what the guy you quoted said. It would be due to the irresponsibility of the bank called keystone.

Their actions are already crippling some other businesses whose funds are trapped with them. What would you say about those businesses closing shops and laying off their employees!?

anonimi:
Is it the 30k BMC wage that is making all these APC e-rats spring up all over the place?
Finesse like this ejika-ni-shop, Obioma the tailor coNrade Oshi-omo-Ole shouting upandan?


www.nairaland.com/attachments/2773141_osioinlove_jpeg19f5c22a1acf79a34119ea684a80d78f

I have no problem when you deride politicians, Oshiomole inclusive.

However, I will implore you find a way to call out Oshiomole without it appearing as if you are deriding "ejika ni shops" and tailors/ fashion designers.

Let us promote industriousness of people who deserve our support and respect for towing the path of earning a honest living.

Thanks.

Xisnin:
That is the best agreement Nigeria could have get.
The deal put the unthinking leaders in a precarious position.

The days of free meal from IMF's loans and World bank are over.

China doesn't give out direct money to be stolen, it uses the debt to directly construct
needed infrastructures without the money getting to politicians pocket.

Your statement in emphasis (emphasis mine) is the real deal.

Nigeria as a sovereign nation has over time shown to be an irresponsible debtor (begging for debt forgiveness comes to mind).

When a debtor has a bad credit rating, he has to abide by terms that are more stringent than that of others with good credit rating!

Our leaders and people should learn to be responsible, don't go aborrowing for looting and non-revenue generating ventures.

fairfora:
Akpabio in jail by now, or ought to have been executed long before now you meant? Not even only him. Amaechi, Garba Shehu, etc are supposed to have been long forgotten by now in a sane country. In case many have forgotten the atrocities perpetrated by akpabio when in office including the killing of an innocent man who was supposed to succeed him as governor because the man said he would expose him if elected? Or the massive fraud he perpetrated as governor with the huge sum allocated to his state as one of the oil-rich states? Or the glaring money laundering case hanging in his neck? Or my relation's girl friend he took while the lady was still an undergraduate at the university of abuja by force, threatening to deal with the bf should he protest? The moment Garba Shehu, Amaechi and akpabio were accepted into the apc, I concluded in my mind the party would be worse than the PDP and deviate from their change mantra because the trio contributed to the massive corruption when in the pdp, same party they're now calling all manners of name. Jonathan, instead of being harsh on them, he was pampering akpabio and amaechi all because they hail from same region and same people dug his pit of defeat for him and contributed to the fall of the party.

I can remember, if many have forgotten the pressure mounted by amaechi as chairman of the then governors' forum on madam iweala to allow givernors share the excess crude money when the woman advised they save the money for the raining day. This man threatened the woman with everything and she had to succumb to them and allowed them embezzle the money but warned jonathan of grave consequences before he approved it.

APC with the recent glaring heart breaking revelations and unprecedented insecurity in our land coupled with massive resignation of our gallant soldiers and death of several of them are a proof that apc is now worse than the PDP in all aspects. Recently, nigeria was rated lower by a few digits on the global corruption index.

It still amazes me how some youths still praise this party, fighting themselves on social media despite the obvious graft and ineptitude in this party. Smh!.

Your submissions are very interesting. I must say that APC and PDP are just political vehicles through which these criminals access political offices as it pleases them.

Today, they are PDP; tomorrow you will find them in APC. I, therefore urge all sensible youths to desist from this APC versus PDP nonsense.

That said, the reason I am hoping that a third force can emerge to displace this PDP and APC is that APC has failed Nigerians but at least discoveries are being made, however with PDP you won't hear about these looting because they tend to treat every criminal infarction as a family affair. I prefer when there is in-fighting among the politicians - that way they can keep exposing themselves.

The rot in NDDC didn't start today; it has been there since the inception of the organization.

TGM2015:
That was actually the reality on ground. Ministry of Labour is supervising the recruitment process making sure NDE set a fair level playing field for all prospective applicants who are majorly uneducated and highly illiterate. The current process/guideline was agreed upon by the Management of NDE and Keyamo as the representative of the supervising Ministry. NDE is the one carrying out the recruitment process, will be the one to issue contract letters and pay salaries, hence, the cost was inputed into their budget. Ministry of Labour is exercising his constitutional roles through Keyamo but the National Assembly members are not happy that by the standard of current approved recruitment process, they cannot influence the employment in their constituencies/senatorial districts. They are actually looking for a way to manipulate the management of NDE to do "the normal normal".

Your argument makes a lot of sense. Departments and agencies have always operated under the guidance and supervision of the supervising ministries. One wonders what has changed to warrant the ignoble path that the lawmakers (or law breakers) are towing.

I feel that, the lawmakers think that they would find it easier to manipulate the NDE to do their bidding since the ministry of labour is not showing the readiness to play ball.

harmless011:
The problem of the country right now is buhari, during his first tenure he keeps on blaming saraki and the 8th assembly for his incompetence. Now he was able to get a rubber stamp senate, he can't even get them to do his bidding. A man that cannot control his family, his employees, his party men. Nonsense and buhari.

The problem of this country, since our 4th republic has always been the national assembly. OBJ had problem with them until he devised some undemocratic means of dealing with them via 'ghana must go' and 'banana peel' methods.

Under GEJ, the lawmakers had some clashes with the executive to the extent that they accused some ministers for refusing to appear whenever they were invited. Allison Maduekwe was one of the ministers so accused.

Under Buhari, the problem has persisted. Now the question is, why should lawmakers seek to be contractors either by themselves or through proxies. The doctrine of conflict of interests come into mind when people who ought to supervise processes are engaged in the process implementation.

The day our national assembly members shed their primitive inclination to use their positions to amass wealth, that day will sign post the development of this country.

The lawmakers have a great role to play in making sure that the executive arm does the right thing at all times; and to play this role effectively, the lawmakers have to be above board at all times so that they can always go to equity with clean hands.

Apination:
All I can see from your write-up is someone who has chosen to take the middle seat but in this game, there's no middle seat. The system and the products are one and the same infact, the system is as a result of the decisions taken by the product. The system I believe represents our values and it's time we start pulling down the rotten fruits from the tree, so that whoever sees the tree would not judge it based on the few decayed fruits.

May your wisdom never run dry. Anyone trying to sugar coat this criminality is only trying to be clever by half.

Anyone making excuses for fraudsters in the cloak of yahoo boys or yahoo men can as well make excuses for murderers, thieving politicians, armed robbers and all manners of criminals.

olisaEze:
I find it disturbing that dis young man has lost hope in himself that he’s boldly suggesting that he be executed as he does not expect any good to come from him!
He has totally given up on himself and doesn’t expect forgiveness.
I wonder if his life would have gone down this path if he was born in a country with a sane political system?

There are criminals even in those countries with supposed sane political system and I want to believe that you aren't a criminal even as insane as the Nigerian political system is. It is all about choices brother.

RedPhoenix:
The more reason a MEMO on the exercise will provide directives and sensitive the public about everything


Keyamo is a lawyer and beyond his rants there's nothing. Since Keyamo came to limelight he has and always remain an alarmist without anything cogent to offer. There's no proof and as a lawyer he knows better. He could have gone for the meeting wore surveillance device and would have exposed the rotten essential if this were true


Or. Should he not know about surveillance wrist watches.

Keyamo remains a fraud
In our society of today, it's facts that sell. Tell it to him. In spite of his public rants, did he even in the media intelligently put forward explanations that will. Govern the entire exercise. Every federally constituted authority should have a MEMO, set of rules.


Keyamo is a fraud and his delinquent understanding of how systemics work continues to expose him as an educated illiterate

I find it difficult to understand why you are against the insistence of Keyamo that the national assembly shouldn't ask their questions behind closed doors.

If the legislators had anything negative on Keyamo, it would have been a good time to ask him embarrassing questions to expose him public rather than requesting for a parley behind closed doors.

Choose another time and another place to expose the supposed shenanigans of Festus Keyamo but not when he is right on point to demand for the right thing.

And for your information, he does not need to play the detective by wearing surveillance camera to the national assembly; insisting on having a public session is good enough and I dare the national Assembly members to accept the challenge! Bunch of criminals masquerading as lawmakers.

RedPhoenix:
Quote your source

And then respond of there has ever been any federal implementation in a democracy without senatorial approval

The problem wasn't with national assembly approval but the insistence of the national assembly committee to go into a private session.

The question is, what was the oversight function that they couldn't exercise publicly if they didn't have something up their sleeves?

Kokaine:
We support crimes and yet we are the greatest victims of criminal mindsets

This is the plain truth. Nigerian youths have to understand that they are the greatest victims of criminals mindsets. Consequences such as dwindling opportunities for telecommuting and remote employments, reduced travel opportunities, high rates of visa refusal for educational advancement, health tourism are as a result of the mindless criminal mindsets displayed by the rapacious few amongst us.

freshkpomo:
You just mentioned America where things work, unlike here were they would rather die in power.. If Buhari was an American president he would have long resigned from office.. Buhari and OBJ ruled twice, what have we really gotten from these recycled set of people?? Let's try something new ( by this I don't meant tinubu or atiku cos they still belong to this category).

Say no to old leaders.

Together we can make Nigeria better.

God bless Nigeria

Thanks for your response.

Note that America did not just start working because Americans voted young or old leaders.

Americans, regardless of age, continually work towards making America great. America is far from being a perfect country but the citizens see their country as a work-in-progress and therefore continually engage the authorities on areas at variance with the perfect country they seek to build.

Regardless of the age grade of our leaders, the country may not move forward until we start challenging obnoxious policies. What stops from occupying the streets of Nigeria with the irresponsible budgeting for the refurbishment of the national assembly building at a time when the economy is suffering as a result of covid-19?

With respect to the death of George Floyd see the way Americans demonstrated their non-acceptance of police brutality. But for the intervention of the American masses, the policeman responsible for Floyd's death would never have been charged at all.

Police brutality has always occurred in Nigeria and it isn't gonna stop until we all say NO.

The key is that, regardless of the ages of our leaders - we must continually request from them to do the right thing and when they fail to listen we should the instrument of demonstration to force them to do the right thing.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely!

freshkpomo:
You are right bro, our youths are their own problems. But we can't keep mute we need to keep awakening them.


Say no to old leaders.

Together we can make Nigeria better.


God bless Nigeria.

There is nothing like saying no to old leaders.

Senator McCain contested for the post of the President of the United States even though he lost against Barack Obama.

Old people and young people should be allowed to contest as it is their inalienable right; competence, track record, integrity and other important factors should guide our choices.

The few young people that have found their ways to government haven't shown any radical departure from status quo, in terms of performance.

Resorting to age differences, tribal or ethnic affiliations and religious sentiments actually poisons our democratic processes.

WINDSOW:
If the institutions here are built and defined, I tell many blacks ll trace back the origin.

This caught my attention and I am just thinking "hey! Who would build the institutions? Why wait for some other people to build the institutions before the blacks you referred to trace back their origins?"

Blacks in the diaspora should fight for their rights in the countries they have helped to develop. Having contributed to the development of U.S, they have a stake and are justified to demand for equality.

Alternatively, blacks in diaspora may go back to their roots with the flawed arrangements in those countries (especially African countries) and help to redefine those countries based on their knowledge and expertise. That is what the Chinese do!

Throwback:
You are a confused self hating African.

If only you knew that Trump's paternal grandfather and grandmother were immigrants from Germany.

His Mother was an immigrant from Scotland.

His current wife, Melania is an immigrant from Slovenia who was working illegally with her visit visa before applying for a work visa she was barely entitled to since she was merely a nude model but obtained since she was then dating an influential and rich Trump.

His same wife used the opportunity of her marriage to Trump an American, to bring her parents over from Slovenia to have permanent residency in USA.

She is not more righteous or holy than the Mexicans and Africans who also visit America and abuse the immigration laws of that country, so they can have the life that Melania Trump exploited the system to achieve for herself and her parents.

Face your heavenly race and stop hating on your own self. The angels in heaven are not White Americans, so no need for an overkill of ass-licking.

It is unfortunate that I couldn't like your post more than once.

Austineolisa:
Truely, politics is a game of power..osho baba just humilated this guy for no reason

In fairness to both sides, there is saying that goes this: "all is fair in war".

The moment moment Obaseki and some other power brokers failed to remove Oshiomole as APC chairman, I knew that Oshiomole would seek payback.

Racoon:
Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! So the management of the airline wants to tell reasonable people they cant physically differentiate between both of them?

So they want to tell us they're so foolish to compromise aviation safety by bringing a terrorist on board & after then start saying this shitcrap? Useless damage control. Only in Nigeria.

The MD of the airline is just trying to defend the indefensible. Absolute balderdash!

mfm04622:
Dre11. Stop lying! Malami did not shield them from prosecution. The Nigerian Army has not released the soldiers to the Nigerian Police for prosecution. Since all the criminals (Soldiers, Policemen and civilians) were initially charged together, the whole trial was being delayed. In this case, the normal thing is to drop the charges against criminals that are not available for prosecution while prosecuting those available. It is the normal practice all over the world. When the Nigerian Army releases them, they will be prosecuted. The Attorney General took over the case to fast track it. The fiat to prosecute the soldiers have not been withdrawn from the Police, so the Nigerian Police on their own can prosecute then when they are available. Do you really think the Nigerian Police will leave those soldiers unpunished? Kill a policeman and Policemen will never forgive nor forget

I do hope this your narrative reflects the true position of things.

But as an aside, what stops the Commander in Chief of Armed Forces to direct the military authorities to fast track the release of those accused military men for court trial?