8. Colonel Gaddafi (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011) Libyan Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al- Gaddafi became interested in politics while still at school before attending a military academy and then joining the military itself – and once there he formed a revolutionary cell and, in September 1969, took over the country from then-king Idris in a bloodless coup at just 27 years of age! He immediately dissolved the monarchy, declared a republic and began ruling by decree, with the intent of making his country an Islamic socialist one. Both in 1973’s ‘Popular Revolution’, which included the start of the General People’s Committees (GPCs), and in 1977, when he dissolved the Republic in favour of Jamahiriya (a ‘state of the masses’, part- governed by the GPCs), he retained personal control of the major decisions. He claimed to rule by his ‘Third International Theory’, as detailed in his publication ‘The Green Book’. His hostile attitude to other countries (and alleged blame for the Lockerbie bombing) got Libya labelled an ‘international pariah’, and his relations with the UK and US eventually caused economic sanctions to be imposed. Then, when civil war broke out, NATO gave military support to Gaddafi’s opponents, finally bringing down Gaddafi’s rule in August 2011. He retreated to Sirte where he was captured and killed by some of the anti-Gaddafi rebels that had just defeated him. He ruled Libya, mostly as “Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya”, for 42 years. 9. General Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) Born in Nigeria, Sani Abacha was destined for a military life; he attended a Military Training College (in Nigeria) and the Mons Officer Cadet School (in England) before getting his commission as a 2nd lieutenant in 1963. He helped plan the July 1967 countercoup (and possibly the 1966 phases too) and over the next three decades he was a prominent figure in most of the major coups in his country (of which there were several), in the process becoming Chief of Army Staff in 1983 and in 1990, Minister of Defence. Finally , in November 1993, after General Ibrahim Babangida annulled the June 1993 elections (because he didn’t win), Abacha took over the interim government – then the following year gave his regime absolute power and effectively became the country’s dictator. However, Nigeria didn’t stand for the human rights abuses and corruption that came with his government for as long as some had – and when it became obvious that although he’d announced elections would be held in August 1998 he had no intention of letting the votes be counted honestly, unrest started to build up. Then things got weird – a paster asked the people not to demonstrate over the elections, saying that Abacha would not benefit from them – and a few weeks before the elections Abacha died mysteriously, out of the limelight, and was buried immediately, without autopsy, per Muslim tradition. So the pastor was right, but exactly how Abacha died will never be known. Best guess is thought to be that he was poisoned by political rivals via the prostitutes with whom he was keeping company; but officially it was merely a sudden heart attack. After his death it came to light that he had embezzled some USD 3-4 billion during his short rule – most of which the family eventually agreed to return … but not all! 10. Charles Taylor (28 January 1948 – ) Liberian politician Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor was a slightly more civilised dictator than some – rather than simply killing loads of people as and when he felt like it, he merely committed ‘war crimes’ and embezzlement … He started out working for the Liberian government straight from college, but was chucked out for embezzlement; he subsequently went to Libya, trained as a guerilla soldier and returned to Liberia at the head of a Libyan resistance group to start the First Liberian Civil War. He overthrew the current administration headed by Samuel Doe and executed him (it was the same administration that had fired him years earlier) then ruled large chunks of the country as a warlord until a peace deal ended the war and he coerced the country into electing him president in the 1997 general election. Then accusations of war and humanitarian crimes began to surface while he was in office, eventually causing the start of the Second Liberian Civil War and finally forcing his resignation in 2003. He went into exile in Nigeria, but in 2006 was extradited back to Liberia and held in the Hague until 2012, when he was tried for various charges, including terror, murder and rape, and sentenced to 50 years in prison, where he remains to this day. Maybe crime doesn’t pay, after all. In the end, anyway.

6. Mobutu Sese Seko (14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga was born as Joseph-Desiré Mobutu in the Republic of the Congo, which he renamed Zaire in 1971. He was installed and supported by the West, mostly Belgium and the US, because of his strong stance against communism, but once in, the power apparently went to his head and his regime became notorious for the usual corruption, human rights abuse and nepotism – and also, in his case, amassing an enormous personal fortune, partly through embezzlement of US funds, that led some to nickname his rule a ‘kleptocracy’. Eventually in 1997, after six years of promising to help stop economic deterioration and unrest by sharing power with opposition leaders while at the same time using the army to prevent anything changing, Laurent Kabila and a rebel army forced him out of the country and took power, leaving him in exile in Morocco, where he died three months later from prostate cancer. 7. Laurent Kabila (27 November 1939 – 18 January 2001) Having studied political philosophy in France and Yugoslavia, Laurent Kabila no doubt seemed a much more likely prospect to lead Zaire, now newly renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo, out of the dark days of Mobutu’s reign of terror and into the light of the modern world in, but unfortunately things didn’t work out quite that way. When the Congo gained independence in June 1960,Kabila was an officer in the youth wing of the Balubakat (the General Association of the Baluba People of Katanga) , aligned with the first democratically elected President, Patrice Lumumba, and continued to support that side of the political forum even after Lumumba was assassinated in Mobutu’s coup mere months later. He helped to organise a revolutionary army in eastern Congo, but despite some support from Che Guevara the rebellion failed. Kabila then turned to running a bar in Tanzania, with the occasional bit of smuggling on the side. In 1967 he and his supporters founded the People’s Revolutionary Party (PRP) and formed a secessionist Marxist state west of Lake Tanganyika in South Kivu province. Over the next twenty years he amassed considerable wealth through extortion and robbery, then suddenly disappeared in 1988, believed to be dead – and reappeared in 1996, no longer a Marxist, to begin the First Congo War. This culminated a year later in his taking over the country, but unfortunately he behaved just as badly as Mobutu had, and within months he was being denounced as “another Mobutu”. Not surprisingly, therefore, he was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards just four years later, and succeeded by his son, Joseph, who is still president of the DRC at the time of writing (2013).

4. Robert Mugabe (21 February 1924 –present); Good things came to Mugabe late in life, but
he seems to taking full advantage despite his advanced age – he became Prime
Minister of Zimbabwe at 56, President at 63
and is still going strong in office in 2013, having been re-elected six times, at the age
of 89! His political career first came to the
world’s notice when he became Secretary
General of the Zimbabwe African National
Union during its conflict with Ian Smith’s
white minority conservative government in
the 1960s; and he became a political
prisoner in Rhodesia 1964-1974. Once
released he, with Edgar Tekere, fought in
the Rhodesian Bush War until it ended in
1979, becoming a hero to many Africans –
and stood in the 1980 general elections, to
become the first Prime Minister of the newly
independent Zimbabwe.
He has generally been a force for peace, intervening in various local wars to help settle them (although some have called this
a tactic to control the areas’ natural resources and thereby bolster Zimbabwe’s economy), but since the turn of the 21st
century his government has been forcefully correcting the inequitable distribution of
land between the white minority and black majority that was a legacy of the years of
colonial rule. This program was enforced more and more firmly, including economic
sanctions, and the policies have (predictably) been condemned both nationally and internationally by those on the losing side, whilst being praised by other African nations with similar inequities …
5. Idi Amin Dada (c. 1925 – 16 August 2003); Another notorious but famous African dictator was Idi Amin Dada.Amin served in
the British Colonial army in Kenya and Somalia from 1946, rising to be a Major General in Uganda’s army, and then its Commander, after Uganda gained its
independence. In January 1971 he deposed then President Milton Obote and seized
power in a military coup (promoting himself
to Field Marshal a while later). Amin was very much a tyrant, with estimates of people
killed during his regime ranging between 100,000 and 500,000, and nepotism, corruption, economic mismanagement,
ethnic persecution and human rights abuse being rife throughout. He finally ‘shot
himself in the foot’ when he tried to annex a province of Tanzania in 1978 and this, along
with growing dissent within Uganda, led to the Uganda-Tanzania War and caused the
downfall of his regime the following year. He was forced to go into exile, first to Libya,
then to Saudi Arabia where he died.

Like most other countries in the world, Africa has had its fair share of leaders that seem to go a little mad with the power and turn into tyrants of the worst sort – not to
mention a handful that were like that from the start!
1. Hastings Kamuzu Banda (c. March/April 1898 – 25 November 1997); Banda became prime minister of then Nyasaland, a British colony, in 1963 and
took it to independence as Malawi a year later. Two years after that he declared himself president of the new Republic of Malawi and then made it a one-party state
under the Malawi Congress Party. He was made President for Life of the MCP in 1970 and President for Life of Malawi itself in 1971. He was something of a split personality, however – some hailed him as a hero for improving his state’s education system and infrastructure dramatically and
supporting women’s rights, while others called him a corrupt tyrant for the 6,000 (at least) people that were jailed without trial,
tortured and even killed during his regime (some put the figure nearer 18,000) and for
supporting apartheid in South Africa. In 1993 his one-party state was ended when international protest prompted a referendum, and he was stripped of all
positions and most powers by a special assembly immediately afterwards. To give him his due, he did run for president in the
following democratic elections – aged ~96 years! – but did not win. He died in South
Africa three years later, in 1997.
2. Jean-Bedel Bokassa (22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996); Bokassa was born in French Equatorial Africa and served in the French colonial army for 21 years, but when David Dacko, a
distant cousin, became president of the country as the newly independent Central African Republic (CAR) in 1960 he was
invited to head their armed forces – and six years later ousted his cousin and declared
himself president, then President for Life in 1972, and finally emperor (of the “Central
African Empire”) from 1976 to 1979. His ceremony investing himself as emperor cost
$20 million and nearly bankrupted the country! His rule was a reign of terror, with
him taking all important government posts
for himself and instituting judicial beatings and punishments such as the loss of body
parts for minor convictions.
He had hundreds of school children arrested
for refusing to wear uniforms he had made, and is reported to have had 100 of them
massacred – while he watched. He was deposed by French paratroopers in 1979,
reinstating his cousin as president and the country as the CAR again, and he went into exile in France with a fortune he had embezzled. He was tried for treason and
murder, convicted and sentenced to death in absentia and when he returned in 1986 this was put into effect, although the death
sentence was commuted to life
imprisonment – then in 1993 he was freed, to live as a private citizen in the CAR until he
died.
3. Ahmed Sekou Touré (9 January 1922 – 26 March 1984); Touré, born in the French colony of French Guinea, started in politics where he was working when in 1945 he joined the Postal
Workers Union (PTT), and he worked his way up to become the leader of the Guinean
Democratic Party in 1952. He was
instrumental in Guinea becoming the first of the African colonies to gain its independence from France in 1958 (the rest joined it in 1960), but the French were quite
nasty about it when they left Guinea. In 1961 Touré was elected president for a seven-year term; having declared his party
the only legal one and as its leader, he was of course unopposed; he then repeated this
at the next three elections. His policy was based on Marxism and maintained by arresting and jailing or exiling any opposition – somehow this won him the
Lenin Peace Prize in 1961! His tyranny developed slowly; by the end of the 1960’s people in opposition were taken by secret
police to detention camps.
His relations with France were sour from the start, but gradually those with the Soviet Union, United States and most other
countries began to follow; he even blamed Washington and the CIA when a Guinean delegation was imprisoned in Ghana.
Eventually his paranoia made life so unbearable for the Guineans (around 50,000 are believed to have been executed)
that they began leaving the country in tens of thousands. Despite this, he was re-elected
unopposed for a fourth term in 1982 and then things began to improve, probably because Guinea needed Western investment
to develop its resources! Touré collapsed in Saudi Arabia in 1984 and was rushed to
America for cardiac treatment, but died there anyway, on 26 March.

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10. Charles Taylor (28 January 1948 – ); Liberian politician Charles McArthur Ghankay
Taylor was a slightly more civilised dictator than some – rather than simply killing loads
of people as and when he felt like it, he merely committed ‘war crimes’ and embezzlement … He started out working for the Liberian government straight from college, but was chucked out for embezzlement; he subsequently went to Libya, trained as a guerilla soldier and
returned to Liberia at the head of a Libyan resistance group to start the First Liberian Civil War. He overthrew the current administration headed by Samuel Doe and executed him (it was the same administration that had fired him years earlier) then ruled large chunks of the country as a warlord until a peace deal
ended the war and he coerced the country into electing him president in the 1997 general election.
Then accusations of war and humanitarian crimes began to surface while he was in office, eventually causing the start of the
Second Liberian Civil War and finally forcing his resignation in 2003. He went into exile in Nigeria, but in 2006 was extradited back to Liberia and held in the Hague until 2012,
when he was tried for various charges, including terror, murder and rape, and sentenced to 50 years in prison, where he remains to this day.
Maybe crime doesn’t pay, after all. In the end, anyway.

9. General Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998); Born in Nigeria, Sani Abacha was destined for a military life; he attended a Military Training College (in Nigeria) and the Mons Officer Cadet School (in England) before getting his commission as a 2nd lieutenant
in 1963. He helped plan the July 1967 countercoup (and possibly the 1966 phases too) and over the next three decades he was a prominent figure in most of the major coups in his country (of which there were several), in the process becoming Chief of Army Staff in 1983 and in 1990, Minister of Defence. Finally , in November 1993, after General Ibrahim Babangida annulled the June 1993 elections (because he didn’t win),
Abacha took over the interim government – then the following year gave his regime absolute power and effectively became the
country’s dictator.
However, Nigeria didn’t stand for the human rights abuses and corruption that came with his government for as long as some
had – and when it became obvious that although he’d announced elections would
be held in August 1998 he had no intention of letting the votes be counted honestly, unrest started to build up. Then things got
weird – a paster asked the people not to demonstrate over the elections, saying that Abacha would not benefit from them – and a few weeks before the elections Abacha died mysteriously, out of the limelight, and was buried immediately, without autopsy, per Muslim tradition. So the pastor was
right, but exactly how Abacha died will never be known. Best guess is thought to be that he was poisoned by political rivals via
the prostitutes with whom he was keeping company; but officially it was merely a sudden heart attack. After his death it came to light that he had embezzled some USD 3-4 billion during his short rule – most of which the family eventually agreed to return … but
not all!

8. Colonel Gaddafi (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011); Libyan Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al- Gaddafi became interested in politics while still at school before attending a military academy and then joining the military itself
– and once there he formed a revolutionary cell and, in September 1969, took over the
country from then-king Idris in a bloodless coup at just 27 years of age! He immediately dissolved the monarchy, declared a republic
and began ruling by decree, with the intent of making his country an Islamic socialist one. Both in 1973’s ‘Popular Revolution’,
which included the start of the General People’s Committees (GPCs), and in 1977, when he dissolved the Republic in favour of
Jamahiriya (a ‘state of the masses’, part-governed by the GPCs), he retained personal control of the major decisions.
He claimed to rule by his ‘Third International Theory’, as detailed in his publication ‘The Green Book’. His hostile attitude to other
countries (and alleged blame for the Lockerbie bombing) got Libya labelled an ‘international pariah’, and his relations with the UK and US eventually caused economic
sanctions to be imposed. Then, when civil war broke out, NATO gave military support to Gaddafi’s opponents, finally bringing down Gaddafi’s rule in August 2011. He
retreated to Sirte where he was captured and killed by some of the anti-Gaddafi rebels that had just defeated him. He ruled Libya,
mostly as “Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya”, for 42 years.

7. Laurent Kabila (27 November 1939 – 18 January 2001); Having studied political philosophy in France and Yugoslavia, Laurent Kabila no doubt seemed a much more likely prospect to lead Zaire, now newly renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo, out of the dark days
of Mobutu’s reign of terror and into the light of the modern world in, but unfortunately things didn’t work out quite that way. When
the Congo gained independence in June 1960,Kabila was an officer in the youth wing of the Balubakat (the General Association of the Baluba People of Katanga), aligned with the first democratically elected President, Patrice Lumumba, and continued
to support that side of the political forum even after Lumumba was assassinated in
Mobutu’s coup mere months later. He helped to organise a revolutionary army in eastern
Congo, but despite some support from Che Guevara the rebellion failed.
Kabila then turned to running a bar in Tanzania, with the occasional bit of smuggling on the side. In 1967 he and his supporters founded the People’s
Revolutionary Party (PRP) and formed a secessionist Marxist state west of Lake Tanganyika in South Kivu province. Over the next twenty years he amassed considerable wealth through extortion and robbery, then
suddenly disappeared in 1988, believed to be dead – and reappeared in 1996, no longer a Marxist, to begin the First Congo
War. This culminated a year later in his taking over the country, but unfortunately he behaved just as badly as Mobutu had, and within months he was being denounced as “another Mobutu”. Not surprisingly, therefore, he was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards just four years later, and succeeded by his son, Joseph, who is still president of the DRC at
the time of writing (2013).

6. Mobutu Sese Seko (14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997); Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga was born as Joseph-Desiré Mobutu in
the Republic of the Congo, which he renamed Zaire in 1971. He was installed and supported by the West, mostly Belgium and
the US, because of his strong stance against communism, but once in, the power apparently went to his head and his regime
became notorious for the usual corruption, human rights abuse and nepotism – and also, in his case, amassing an enormous
personal fortune, partly through
embezzlement of US funds, that led some to nickname his rule a ‘kleptocracy’. Eventually in 1997, after six years of promising to help stop economic deterioration and unrest by sharing power with opposition leaders while at the same time using the army to
prevent anything changing, Laurent Kabila and a rebel army forced him out of the country and took power, leaving him in exile
in Morocco, where he died three months later from prostate cancer.

5. Idi Amin Dada (c. 1925 – 16 August 2003); Another notorious but famous African
dictator was Idi Amin Dada. Amin served in the British Colonial army in Kenya and Somalia from 1946, rising to be a Major General in Uganda’s army, and then its
Commander, after Uganda gained its independence. In January 1971 he deposed then President Milton Obote and seized power in a military coup (promoting himself
to Field Marshal a while later). Amin was very much a tyrant, with estimates of people killed during his regime ranging between 100,000 and 500,000, and nepotism, corruption, economic mismanagement,
ethnic persecution and human rights abuse being rife throughout. He finally ‘shot
himself in the foot’ when he tried to annex a province of Tanzania in 1978 and this, along with growing dissent within Uganda, led to the Uganda-Tanzania War and caused the downfall of his regime the following year. He
was forced to go into exile, first to Libya, then to Saudi Arabia where he died.

4. Robert Mugabe (21 February 1924 – present); Good things came to Mugabe late in life, but
he seems to taking full advantage despite his advanced age – he became Prime Minister of Zimbabwe at 56, President at 63
and is still going strong in office in 2013, having been re-elected six times, at the age of 89! His political career first came to the
world’s notice when he became Secretary General of the Zimbabwe African National
Union during its conflict with Ian Smith’s white minority conservative government in
the 1960s; and he became a political prisoner in Rhodesia 1964-1974. Once released he, with Edgar Tekere, fought in
the Rhodesian Bush War until it ended in 1979, becoming a hero to many Africans – and stood in the 1980 general elections, to
become the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Zimbabwe.
He has generally been a force for peace, intervening in various local wars to help settle them (although some have called this
a tactic to control the areas’ natural resources and thereby bolster Zimbabwe’s economy), but since the turn of the 21st
century his government has been forcefully correcting the inequitable distribution of
land between the white minority and black majority that was a legacy of the years of colonial rule. This program was enforced
more and more firmly, including economic sanctions, and the policies have (predictably)
been condemned both nationally and internationally by those on the losing side, whilst being praised by other African
nations with similar inequities …

3. Ahmed Sekou Touré (9 January 1922 – 26 March 1984)
; Touré, born in the French colony of French Guinea, started in politics where he was working when in 1945 he joined the Postal
Workers Union (PTT), and he worked his way up to become the leader of the Guinean Democratic Party in 1952. He was instrumental in Guinea becoming the first of the African colonies to gain its independence from France in 1958 (the rest joined it in 1960), but the French were quite
nasty about it when they left Guinea. In 1961 Touré was elected president for a seven-year term; having declared his party the only legal one and as its leader, he was
of course unopposed; he then repeated this at the next three elections. His policy was based on Marxism and maintained by
arresting and jailing or exiling any
opposition – somehow this won him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1961! His tyranny developed slowly; by the end of the 1960’s people in opposition were taken by secret
police to detention camps.
His relations with France were sour from the start, but gradually those with the Soviet Union, United States and most other
countries began to follow; he even blamed Washington and the CIA when a Guinean delegation was imprisoned in Ghana.
Eventually his paranoia made life so unbearable for the Guineans (around 50,000 are believed to have been executed) that they began leaving the country in tens
of thousands. Despite this, he was re-elected unopposed for a fourth term in 1982 and then things began to improve, probably
because Guinea needed Western investment to develop its resources! Touré collapsed in
Saudi Arabia in 1984 and was rushed to America for cardiac treatment, but died there anyway, on 26 March.

2. Jean-Bedel Bokassa (22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996); Bokassa was born in French Equatorial Africa and served in the French colonial army for 21 years, but when David Dacko, a distant cousin, became president of the country as the newly independent Central African Republic (CAR) in 1960 he was invited to head their armed forces – and six years later ousted his cousin and declared himself president, then President for Life in 1972, and finally emperor (of the “Central African Empire”) from 1976 to 1979. His ceremony investing himself as emperor cost
$20 million and nearly bankrupted the country! His rule was a reign of terror, with him taking all important government posts
for himself and instituting judicial beatings and punishments such as the loss of body parts for minor convictions.
He had hundreds of school children arrested for refusing to wear uniforms he had made, and is reported to have had 100 of them massacred – while he watched. He was deposed by French paratroopers in 1979,
reinstating his cousin as president and the country as the CAR again, and he went into exile in France with a fortune he had embezzled. He was tried for treason and
murder, convicted and sentenced to death in absentia and when he returned in 1986 this was put into effect, although the death sentence was commuted to life
imprisonment – then in 1993 he was freed, to live as a private citizen in the CAR until he died.

Like most other countries in the world, Africa has had its fair share of leaders that seem to go a little mad with the power and turn into tyrants of the worst sort – not to
mention a handful that were like that from the start!
1. Hastings Kamuzu Banda (c. March/April 1898 – 25 November 1997); Banda became prime minister of then Nyasaland, a British colony, in 1963 and
took it to independence as Malawi a year later. Two years after that he declared himself president of the new Republic of Malawi and then made it a one-party state
under the Malawi Congress Party. He was made President for Life of the MCP in 1970 and President for Life of Malawi itself in 1971. He was something of a split personality, however – some hailed him as a hero for improving his state’s education system and infrastructure dramatically and
supporting women’s rights, while others called him a corrupt tyrant for the 6,000 (at least) people that were jailed without trial, tortured and even killed during his regime
(some put the figure nearer 18,000) and for supporting apartheid in South Africa. In 1993 his one-party state was ended when international protest prompted a referendum, and he was stripped of all positions and most powers by a special assembly immediately afterwards. To give him his due, he did run for president in the following democratic elections – aged ~96
years! – but did not win. He died in South Africa three years later, in 1997.

FrancisTony:
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2013/2014 thread was the best.
Oneness and fight for FTC.

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8. Poor Understanding Of the World; For Africans to achieve anything meaningful, they need to understand what is going on
elsewhere in the world as these serve to shape their lives. The problem is that most African communities only know too much to enable them live in their immediate environment. This occurs because of lack of an international intelligence network
capable of promoting their understanding of distant lands.
9. The So-Called Crab Mentality; Have you put several live crabs in one bowl?
If so, you know you do not have to worry about one of the crabs getting out because the rest will make sure it does not happen.
Some African leaders have the tendency of leading others into a ditch while they get a reprieve. If Africa has to succeed, she has to
develop the crab mentality ensuring unity of power and purpose.
10. Media Injustice; If you have been watching international
media, you will realise that they can never depict Africa positively. Should an African do a great thing, they may run the story but will
give credit to another “white man” they claim to have made it possible for the African to achieve his goal. The negative portrayal international media gives to Africa
makes the foreigners think of this great continent as the darkest part of the world.

4. The Rich Subaltern Mindset; If you take a good look at the African society, you will realize there are two sets of people: Those known to work their hearts
out and still not make a living and those that do very little or nothing and live lavishly. The
difference between the two is that the former set does not have contact with the elites while the other does. Those in contact
with the elites work either for or with the whites. Their service is to foreign masters through their companies, NGOs or other
organizations. One major problem of Africa is that this latter group is admired by the young Africans growing, making them believe that you have to serve a ‘white man’ to achieve anything meaningful in life.
5. Endless Conflicts; Africa is known to be a place where a
brother kills a brother and a son a father.
You would wonder why people who have lived alongside each other for generations suddenly decide to attack their neighbours.
While the elites tell the world that these conflicts are fueled by ethnic intolerance, they create the ethnic groups themselves.
Look at the unstable African countries where rebels attack the government. Who funds them? Where do they get those sophisticated weapons? Your guess is a good as mine.
6. Ignorance Of The Intellectual Principles; As already been mentioned, lack of knowledge is a recipe for failure and one
of the major problem of Africa . African leaders seem not to understand the principles or rules that govern the destination of a people. The elites have understood these principles namely, the Darwin, Machiavelli and Hegel. These people
understood the mindset of the elites and put it in books for everyone, including African leaders to read, understand and
apply. The elites understood principles and they are applying them to achieve imperialism.
7. Inadequate Science And Engineering Education; When colonialists invaded Africa, they
claimed to bring the good news of
education, religion and trade. Well, they delivered on their promise but not in a manner that could help the indigenous Africans be self-sufficient. Instead of educating the African child on science and technology, they favored literature and
subaltern mindset that would equip graduates with knowledge only good enough to enable them assist these people in running their colonial governments.

Read for today.
What goes through your mind when you hear the word Africa? I’m sure that for most people, including fellow Africans, they think of it as a place where nothing good can come from. Foreigners have often referred
to Africa as a black continent, not because the inhabitants are black but because of the persistent problems emanating from the
continent. However, the problems facing Africa do not arise from nature. The problems are man-made but not by Africans
themselves. Furthermore, the so-called African problems are more of perceptions than the reality on the ground. Until and unless the Africans themselves understand
that their problems are created by those they trust to offer help, not much will change for this great continent. In this article, I’ll be looking at some of these difficult problems facing Africa today.
1. Endless Poverty; It is widely believed that Africa is a poor
continent even by the Africans themselves. If that were true, why then did the colonists come? African countries have some of the
most valuable natural resources that form raw materials for the industries responsible for the growth of the developed world yet the people living in Africa are poor.
Humanitarian organization such as UNICEF, WHO and Doctors without Boarders among others survive on portraying Africa as a dark poor continent to get funding for their quire operations in the continent.
2. Over-dependence on International Aid; It is hard to find an African country that is debt free and the creditors are the so-called
‘Elite Continents’. The introduction of the International Aid was originally welcomed to get Africa on her feet. Soon the lenders
started controlling African leadership through these Aids. The leaders on the other hand relinquish responsibility to their
subjects and country. They peg the running and growth of their states to International Aid instead of ensuring they use the Aid to
spark their own development that would bring about self-sustainability and independence.
3. Lack Of True Leadership; The wisest man ever to walk this earth, King Solomon, said that where knowledge lacks,
people perish. It is obvious that Africans are perishing not for anything but because they
lack knowledge. Africa is unique with unique problems and so the knowledge of the west is incompatible with the needs of
the continent. In as much as Africa has brilliant people, they are unable to identify an indigenous system, coach, educate their
future leaders to offer the leadership that the continent needs for prosperity.

thelma76:

lol been good,how re you? Noticed the other topic got deleted lmao

I will finally have the opportunity to tender my apology next year. Good luck in your exam.

horlanchilae:

Sta 111, csc 101
Mat 111, 121 & 141
Ges 101 & 107
Phy 112, 113, 114, 115 & 118. Otan...


#sips_orijin_and_whistles_away

I need to do this, I wish you success in your forth coming examination. Now a math student.

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5. Mapouka; Mapouka dance originated from Cote d’Ivoire, another French-speaking West
African country. In the late 1990s, a dance called mapouka was banned by governments of several west- African countries for its excessive sexual contents.
4. Alanta; Just about when you think the world is out of dance craze, Atalanta breezed in. Alanta
dance was popular that it managed to find its way into most west African social functions. Churches, amusement spots, work
places, and dance shows were all victims of the Atalanta fever. The hand and leg movements and the grotesque facie produce a crazy spectacle. The Alanta dance
craze was helped popularized by Nigerian musicians like Artquake, Terry G, Timaya, TuFace Idibia.
3. Makossa Dance/Rhumba/ Soukous Dance; African Rumba, more popularly known as
Makossa or Soukous, is another dance that almost literally took over the entire African continent. The makossa dance step conquered virtually every African nation. The dance originated from the French-speaking West African country of Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in late 1990s. The
makossa dance became so trendy that it eliminated other trendy African dance steps at that time. Names like Koffi Olomide and
Awilo Longomba are almost synonymous with the dance. Makossa involves a lot of wining and thrusting hip movement.
2. Azonto; Azonto is one of the most recent dance craze that has taken the world by storm since the latter end of 2011. From night
clubs and the streets of Ghana where it originated to churches and schools, the Azonto dance got a strong grip on the average African who loves to dance.
Azonto dance has its origin from some of the less affluent parts of Accra and achieved a global reach. It is an expressive and communicative dance that lets you communicate what you may have in mind while the music is going on. Azonto can be seen in songs like “Kukere” – Iyanya,
“Dance”–R2bees feat. Wizkid; “You Go Kill Me” – Sarkodie feat. E.L. and “Shashe Wowo”– Stay Jay feat.
1. Alingo; The Alingo dance is one of the most recent dance moves in Africa popularized by the twin duo: P- Square in their song titled
“Alingo” it is a bit more fast paced and requires a bit more energy than the Azonto dance. With the way things are going, it won’t be long before we witness another
wave of African dance moves.

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African dance has transformed over the years with African music. The traditional African dance is gradually making way for more modern dance moves. Dance in
general is the art of expression with coordinated body movement which aim to serve the purpose of communication. In various parts of the globe, such transformation seems to be the order of the
day with some simple and funny dance moves sweeping across the globe like wild- fire as seen in the Gangnam Style dance steps. In Africa, the African dance
transformation seem to be spearheaded by the West African countries.
10. Galala Dance; The Galala dance was highly associated with ghetto to the point that it became the
official dance in every Nigerian ghetto community. This African dance style was highly promoted by prominent Nigerian acts
who happen to be an offspring of the ghetto community. Some of the most popular musicians that are associated with Galala dance include notable acts like Daddy
Showkey, African China and Baba Fryo.
9. Suo Dance; The suo dance was another African dance that made waves across Africa especially the
west. The Suo gradually substituted the makossa dance which paved way for its
entrance into the Nigerian entertainment scenario. The suo dance was largely ignited by African musicians like Danfo Drivers (mad melon and mountain black), Marvelous Benjy among others. The moves involved in a
typical Suo dance involves the lowering of the waist and the pulling and stretching hand movement as may be likened to
someone about to start a generator set.
8. Bobaraba Dance; Bobaraba Dance originated from Ivory Coast.
It is otherwise regarded as “big bottom” dance that was popularized by DJ Mix and DJ
Eloh’s hit song Bobaraba
7. Hlokoloza Dance; Hlokoloza dance originated from South
Africa. Kwaito artist Arthur Mafokate, introduced ‘Hlokoloza’ to Africa and the world. Put in his words, “Hlokoloza is a variation on several township dances put
together with a bit of the ‘Hlokoloza’ swag.”
Hlokoloza in its current form debuted in 2011 but has taken South Africa by storm with its patrons characteristically South
African chant of ‘Ayo-yo!!’.
6. Yahoozee; Yahooze dance moves hit the stage and made its waves however, Yahoozee dance
style had some negative attachments since it was alleged to be a dance style founded by
the yahoo boys (internet scammers and fraudsters). The African dance style was quite popular after the release of the song that introduced it. Nigerian singer, Olu Maintain adopted this dance style as a trade mark for his hit song and re-packaged yahoozee into a brand name. The dance virtually contains a lot of hand movements (pointing up with style) while the feet
remain rather stationary or is just merely tapping on the floor.

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Sahara desert is among the world’s most expansive deserts and located in northern Africa. Between Mediterranean to the north and the red sea to the east, a huge chunk of the area has been swallowed by the Sahara desert. One interesting thing is that Sahara is an Arabic word that means a desert.
There are lots of misconceptions about Sahara desert that needs to be clarified to so many people. Here are 10 lesser known
Sahara desert facts.
1. It is not always hot; Most people consider Sahara to be a hot
oven, but between December and February, temperatures plunge due to lack of humidity. Some sand dunes in the Sahara
desert may even be covered with snow, but there is no skating. However, Sahara is in
history for generating the highest
temperature in the world of 136 degrees in 1993.
2. Sahara is not the world’s biggest desert; What most people learn in elementary school is that Sahara is indeed the world’s
biggest desert. However, this is not the case.
Antarctica remains the biggest desert in the world. However, by all standards, it still remains one of the biggest deserts the world has and it’s growing bigger everyday.
It now covers about 3.8 million square-miles. The area covered by Sahara is 8% the total surface area covered by the world and
eleven countries which are part of it include: Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Chad, Niger, Eritrea, Mali, Mauritania, Sudan and Mali.
3. Sahara has a small population; The number of people who call the Sahara home is just 2 million people, regardless of the fact that it is spread across eleven countries.
4. It used to be a very fertile farmland; Many years ago, Sahara was a fertile farmland with reasonable population. It
wasn’t also as big as it is today. At around 6000 BC, millet and grains were grown in most parts of the desert. In some parts of Sahara, prehistoric paintings have been
discovered which shows that green flora was thriving in the area.
5. Even now, some parts of Sahara desert are very fertile; There are several oases that are available in
many parts of the Sahara and which the area residents use for irrigation. About 80,000 square miles are available in the
entire Sahara. There are several spots that are pretty fertile and productive, thanks to irrigation. In Egypt, places that border the
Sahara desert have been transformed into green havens, thanks to irrigation.
6. Sahara desert is home to many tree species; What comes to the minds of many people when the name Sahara is mentioned is a
completely dry patch of land that cannot support any vegetation. However, this is far from the truth as more than a thousand tree
species are available there. But very few of these plant species are found in the driest parts of the country. Many of the plant
species are located in places that have oasis.
7. Only 30% of its soil is sandy;
Although quite a huge chunk of the desert is composed of sand, the truth is that the amount of sand there is less than 50
percent. But in most of the places, sand just comprise the thin outer layer of the soil surface because it’s mainly carried away by
the whirl winds which are mostly seen there. But as a matter of fact, the composition is 30% sand and 70% gravel.
8. Dung beetles are a common occurrence; The Sahara has enough of dung beetles
who get attracted by the smell of dung and who make rolls out of any cow dung they
come across. However, it is said that most of the beetles that are located in the Sahara
lack the power of smell.
9. Its home to the toughest marathon ever; Most people don’t imagine running a
marathon in a desert, but the truth is that a marathon by the name Marathon Des Sables
is run in the southern parts of morocco every year. It’s a race for the most courageous as well as for the masochistic.
This race is run on several stages and runners are supposed to carry all the supplies that they need for the race.
10. Sahara has various climatic conditions; There are various climatic conditions which
are experienced in various parts of the Sahara. The Northern part has subtropical climate while the southern area has a
complete tropical climate. However, over the
years, the desert has undergone
tremendous changes.
Conclusion;
For those who didn’t know much about Sahara, the above 10 lesser known Sahara
desert facts can help provide some
information about the vast desert that spreads across eleven countries in northern
Africa.

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Nigeria is a country in West Africa having boundaries with Niger and Chad Republic in the north, Cameroon on the eastern part,
Benin Republic on the western border and the Atlantic ocean at the southern end.
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with more than 160 million people living there. What this means is that one in every 7 Africans is a Nigerian. Geographically, Nigerian terrain changes from the high savanna-covered plateaus in the north to
the oil-rich Niger Delta in the southern part down to the rain forest belt region towards
the coast. Despite the insecurity and some slight political instabilities facing the country, there are some interesting facts
about Nigeria that are worth noting.
10. Most Populous Country in Africa; Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the 8th most populous in the world with a population of more than 160 million people. The next African country to come close is Ethiopia with a population
count of 84 million. That is just about half of Nigerian population.
9. More Than 250 Ethnic Groups;
Nigeria has more than 250 ethnic groups however, there are 3 dominant tribes: the Ibo (Igbo), Hausa- Fulani and Yoruba
which make up 18%, 29% and 21% respectively.
8. Christianity and Islam Are The 2 Major Religions; The major religion in Nigeria are Christianity
and Islam. About half of the Yorubas are Christians and half Muslim, though many maintain traditional beliefs. The Igbos in the southeast are mostly Christian; The Hausa/Fulani in the northern Nigeria are mostly Islamic and dominated by the Hausa-Fulani
ethnic group. Southern Nigeria is more westernized and urbanized than the north, with the Yoruba in the southwest and the Igbo in the southeast.
7. Niger River is West Africa’s Largest River; The longest and largest river in West Africa
is the river Niger from where Nigeria derives her name. River Niger spans about 4,180 km
(2,600 mi) from its source in the
Highlands of Guinea in southeastern Guinea. It courses in a crescent through Mali, Niger,
on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, and eventually emptying into the
Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean after passing through a massive delta, known as
the Niger Delta or the Oil Rivers.
6. One of the Oldest Locations of Human Existence; Evidence from archaeological discoveries
have shown that there was a history of human existence in Nigeria which has been dated to as far back as 9000 BC. The Nok
civilization (around 500 BC-200 AD) is the earliest known civilization here.
5. Home Of Nollywood; Nollywood is the name given to the Nigerian
movie industry and it has recently been ranked the second largest producers of movies in the world; just trailing behind Bollywood; the Indian film industry and
ahead of America’s Hollywood. Nollywood produces up to 200 movies every single week and her movies has won half of the
yearly awards for best picture since 2005.
4. Largest Diversity of Butterfly;
Nigeria boasts in being the most suitable habitat for the worlds largest diversity of the most colorful creatures – the butterflies. It is widely believed that the areas surrounding Calabar, Cross River State in the southern part of the country harbors the world’s
largest diversity of butterflies.
3. Ogun State Has The Highest Number of Universities in Nigeria; Ogun State is one of the states in the western part of the country and it has a total of nine registered universities, making
it the state with the highest number of Universities in Nigeria
2. The Longest Bridge in Africa; The Third Mainland Bridge (in Lagos State) connecting Lagos Island to the mainland is
the longest bridge in Africa—it measures about 11.8km. The bridge starts from Oworonshoki which is linked to the Apapa-
Oshodi express way and Lagos-Ibadan express way, and ends at the Adeniji Adele Interchange on Lagos Island. There is also a
link midway through the bridge that leads to the Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba. The bridge was built by Julius Berger Nigeria PLC
and opened by President Ibrahim
Babangida in 1990
1. Largest Producers of Crude Oil;
Nigeria is the 12th largest producer of crude oil in the world (averaging 2,525,000 barrels
per day) and the 8th largest exporter.
Nigeria has the 10th largest proven reserves of petroleum worldwide. Petroleum plays an
important role in the country’s economy and contributes to more than 85% of the total government’s revenue.

amazing space facts instead? 1. There are thousands of other planets out there. We have eight planets in our Solar System. However, outside of our Solar System there are thousands of other planets. The extra- solar planets or exo-planets are in orbit around another star. So far we have almost 1800 confirmed new worlds, with another 3000 awaiting confirmation. Astronomers are looking to a star’s goldilocks zone for planets that may be habitable, just like the Earth. The majority of planets discovered so far are hot gas giant planets. There are thousands of planets out there! This artist’s impression shows what those multiple Solar Systems might look like. (Image Credit: NASA/ESA/ESO) 2. In space the skin on your feet peels off! This is a pretty gross fact but in the micro- gravity environment, astronauts are not using their feet to walk. Therefore the skin on their feet starts to soften and flakes off. As laundry facilities do not exist in space, astronauts will wear the same underwear and socks for a few days. Those socks then need to be taken off very gently. If not those dead skin cells will float around in the weightless environment. 3. On Venus a day is longer than a year. This is tricky one to get your head around but a year on Venus (that is the length of time it takes to complete one whole orbit around the Sun) is 224.7 Earth days. However it takes 243 Earth days to rotate on its axis just once. 4.The astronauts were placed in quarantine after returning from the moon. There is a famous image of President Nixon talking to the Apollo 11 crew consisting of Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. This continued until after the Apollo 14 crew returned safely. After this it was decided that the Moon did not contain any deadly diseases. The Apollo 13 crew, who had a malfunction and had to return to Earth, did not have to be quarantined after their re-entry as they didn’t actually walk on the moon. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin meeting President Nixon after their safe return to Earth. (Image credit: NASA) 5. One million Earths can fit inside the Sun. Ancient astronomers once believed the Earth was at the centre of the Universe but now we know that the Sun is at the centre of our Solar System and our planets orbit the Sun. The Sun makes up 99.8% of the entire mass of the whole Solar System. One million Earths would be needed to be the same size as the Sun. Image: You can fit one million of our home planet inside the Sun. (Image Credit: NASA/ SDO/Steele Hill) 6.You become taller in Space. Another change to the human body in micro-gravity is that spine straightens out, as gravity is not pushing you down. In fact you can be up to as much as 5cm taller in the Space Station. 7. Extreme weather warning! Some times on the Earth, especially here in Northern Ireland the weather can be a bit rubbish! However our weather is awesome compared to some of the other planets. Jupiter has fast winds and the Great Red spot, a massive hurricane style storm, has raged there for the last 300 years. Mercury and Mars have extreme temperature changes in the same day. Venus is a scorching five times hotter than boiling water. Saturn and Uranus also have extremely fast winds. However Neptune has the fastest ever wind speeds reaching a staggering 1600mph! Neptune the windiest planet as captured by Voyager 2 in 1989. (image Credit: Voyager 2, NASA) 8. Space is not that far away. Space officially begins at the universal marker of the Karman Line. This invisible boundary is 100km above the Earth. In theory if you could drive your car upwards, you could be in space in less than hour. 9. The hottest planet is not the closest planet to the Sun. Even though Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, it is not actually the hottest. Mercury does not have any atmosphere meaning that this planet is only hot in the daytime when it is directly facing the Sun. At this stage temperatures can rise to 425°C but at night the planet’s temperature can drop down to a freezing -180°C. Venus is the hottest planet. Its thick clouds trap the Sun’s heat causing Venus to be a sizzling 500°C all of the time! A surface probe would not exist on the surface of Venus for very long. This is an reconstruction of the surface of Venus as captured by Radar by the space craft Magellan in the 1990s. (image credit: E. De Jong et al. (JPL), MIPL, Magellan Team, NASA) 10. The moon looks bigger on the horizon There is an optical illusion which makes the moon appear to be larger the lower it is in the sky. The apparent magnification is not caused by our atmosphere. It is more of a mind trick. When the moon is closer to the horizon, it is closer to objects like buildings and trees which therefore in comparison makes the moon look bigger. However there are times when the moon really is bigger. During its elliptical orbit the moon has times when it is actually slightly closer to the Earth (Perigee) or further from the Earth (apogee). This happens about once a month, due the moon’s orbit around the Earth. Usually is not noticeable to the eye. However when a full moon occurs at the same time of the moon’s perigee it can be called a Super moon and appears 12-14% bigger than normal! 11. There’s a moose loose Eccentric Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) believed that the Moon and Sun orbited the Earth but the other planets orbited the Sun. He catalogued many stars and objects, and has a crater on the moon, and supernova remnant named after him. However his wild antics are perhaps just as interesting. He wore a fake silver nose after losing his real one in a sword fight and he also had a pet moose which died falling down the stairs after one to many drinks. When his body was exhumed and examined in 2010, it is thought that a burst bladder was the cause of his death not mercury poisoning by a jealous colleague which was considered a cause of death.Astronauts are literally star sailors 12. The word astronaut comes from the Greek word “Astron” which means star and “nautes” which means sailor. The Russian cosmonaut has a similar meaning from ‘kosmos’ meaning universe and again “nautes” sailor. Astronaut Mark Lee, a real star sailor. (Image Credit: NASA) 13. You can cry in space but your tears don’t fall On-board the International Space Station, water floats like bubbles or spheres. However the water will cling to a surface until it is dislodged. This means that tears start to form bubbles around your eyes as the weightless environment is not causing your tears to fall. This sounds really cool but it can be dangerous. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano suffered a space suit leak whilst on a spacewalk. The water leaked into his helmet covered his eyes and ears, but thankfully he made it back into the Space Station unharmed, but if not he could have drowned in space. 14. Dirty underwear and toilet paper has helped grown plants on the ISS American astronaut Don Pettit discovered that by folding a pair of underpants into a sphere shape and stitching in some Russian toilet paper (which is thick, wool like gauze), this created a warmer environment for some tomato and basil seeds to start to sprout. Like their socks, underwear is only changed every 3-4 days so he figured the pants might provide some extra nutrients for the plants! 15. There is a dwarf planet named after an Easter island legend Dwarf planet Makemake was discovered at Easter 2005. The Easter Island Moai figures were the inspiration for its name. Makemake in Rapa Nui mythology was the creator of humanity and the god of fertility. He is also a feature in many rock and cave drawings on the island. 16. Nebulae come in all shapes and sizes Nebula means cloud in Latin. These are areas in which stars are being created or where a star has died. The cosmic clouds come in all shapes and sizes and are made out of interstellar dust and gases. There is a Christmas tree nebula, a horsehead, a unicorn, a hand, fried egg and lots more. These beautiful clouds which are not visible to the naked eye really highlight the fact there is a lot more happening in the night sky than you can see. Unicorn in space. Otherwise known as the Trifid nebula, this stallar cloud is a pillar of gas and dust. (Image Credit: NASA, HST, WFPC2, J. Hester (Arizona St. U) et al.) 17. The North Star will change…eventually The North Star used for navigation, a steady point in the night sky will change, however not in our lifetime. The Earth is rotating like a spinning top and therefore the pole of our planet wobbles. Currently it points to Polaris but in the year 13727 our Pole Star will be the star Vega, in the constellation of Lyra. Vega was the also North Star in 12000BCE. 18. The Apollo crews did not have any life insurance. On the chance that the 3 man crew of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins did not return safely from the moon, they were not covered by any life insurance policy. So before their trip all 3 men signed photographs that could be sold in the event of their death. These Insurance covers were also stamped and posted on the start date of the mission, July 16th 1969 by a friend. Before their mission to the moon. The Apollo 11 crew were in quarantine to make sure they didn’t get sick. During this time they signed lots of photos and cards to act as life insurance for family. Credit: NASA. 19. In space metal sticks together In a vacuum like space, when two pieces of metal touch each other they bond together. This is a process called cold welding. On the Earth because of the oxygen in our environment this does not happen naturally but it is used during some manufacturing processes. It is something to take into account but it is not usually a problem as the astronaut’s tools maintain an oxide layer even when leaving Earth. 20. The furthest manmade object is Voyager 1. It has messages for aliens on-board. In 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 were launched. Their primary mission was to visit Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 continued onto Uranus and Neptune; Voyager 1 has now made its way into interstellar space. Voyager 1 is further away from Earth than the distance between the Sun and Pluto. Both craft carry a golden record on board, which will act like a time-capsule of Earth. It has greetings from Earth as well as different kinds of music. It also has noises of rocket engines, the sea, people talking, animal’s sounds and lots of images. All of which sum up the Earth. United States President Jimmy Carter said at the time “This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.” These messages have been recorded as electronic impulses which can be translated into written words. If any aliens find it then can enjoy some Louis Armstrong as well some Peruvian panpipes!

Sirneij:
Divide ( y^a/y^b )^a+b by ( y^a+b/y^{a-b)[sup]a^2/b} or solve it using this image

use laws of indices. House, apart from NMC, Abuja competition, is there any other math competition(s) for undergraduate student?

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Glory be to Almighty... God Win, I finally got a job after 3 and a half years as a customer service representative with .......

I'm not really the type that like blowing my horn but I guess I will be an ingrate if I don't share this testimony with Nairalanders to encourage others not to give up hope. Weeping may endureth through the night but definitely joy cometh in the morning. I pray that Almighty God will answer all the prayer request of all job seekers on here like he answered mine. Just be patient, His forever faithful.

I resumed yesterday and I think I enjoyed my first day at work, I promise to give out recharge cards at the end of the month when i get paid my first salary as an appreciation to all that I learnt here on Nairaland during the trial period and my job search quest that prepared/assisted me in getting this job.

Don't forget to send a token into my account (3056716895, First Bank, Ayadi David) as a seed into my education. Congratulation on your job, you will move/excel from yor current job description to a better one again.