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vedaxcool: Oh dear mazaje, ever so ready not to use his small grey matter in getting to the truth, let me expose you and your lying memri tv, which if you had any respect for the truth u would have atleast wondered how truthful the material you putting forward actually is, like I said earlier greedy northerners like you who hide "your" wealth abroad rather than use it to aid your fellow tribes men in getting a better life, something you should have atleast learn from your white overlords, who attimes think of you as zwerte piete but still use their wealth in making the less privilage ones in their society have something to look out for, I reiterate that riots in the north is the hand work of street urchins who use it as a pretext to loot people property that is why even muslims from other part of the country pay dearly during such riots, the op is plainly garbage and nothing more than the pontification of an individual who tries to give something he dearly lacks and hardly understand

Accusations of bias
Brian Whitaker, the Middle East editor
for The Guardian newspaper wrote in a
public email debate with Carmon, that
his problem with MEMRI was that it
"poses as a research institute when it's
basically a propaganda operation." [6]
Earlier, Whitaker had charged that
MEMRI's role was to "further the political
agenda of Israel." and that MEMRI's
website does not mention Carmon's
employment for Israeli intelligence, or
Meyrav Wurmser's political stance, which
he described as an "extreme brand of
Zionism." [4] Carmon responded to this
by stating that his employment history is
not a secret and was not political, as he
served under opposing administrations
of the Israeli government and that
perhaps the issue was that he was
Israeli: "If your complaint is that I am
Israeli, then please say so." Carmon also
questioned Whitaker's own biases,
wondering if Whitaker's is biased in favor
of Arabs -as his website on the middle
east is named "Al-Bab" ("The Gateway"
in Arabic)- stating: "I wonder how you
would judge an editor whose website
was called "Ha-Sha-ar" ("The Gateway"
in Hebrew)?[6]
Selectivity
Several critics have accused MEMRI of
selectivity. They state that MEMRI
consistently picks for translation and
dissemination the most extreme views,
which portray the Arab and Muslim world
in a negative light, while ignoring
moderate views that are often found in
the same media outlets.[4][30][30][31]
[32]Juan Cole, a professor of Modern
Middle East History at the University of
Michigan, argues MEMRI has a tendency
to "cleverly cherry-pick the vast Arabic
press, which serves 300 million people,
for the most extreme and objectionable
articles and editorials...On more than
one occasion I have seen, say, a bigoted
Arabic article translated by MEMRI and
when I went to the source on the web,
found that it was on the same op-ed
page with other, moderate articles
arguing for tolerance. These latter were
not translated."[33] Former head of the
CIA's counterintelligence unit, Vincent
Cannistraro, said that MEMRI "are
selective and act as propagandists for
their political point of view, which is the
extreme-right of Likud. They simply
don't present the whole picture."[34]
[35]Laila Lalami, writing in The Nation,
states that MEMRI "consistently picks the
most violent, hateful rubbish it can find,
translates it and distributes it in e-mail
newsletters to media and members of
Congress in Washington".[30] As a
result, critics such as Ken Livingstone
state, MEMRI's analyses are "distortion".
[36][37] A report by Center for American
Progress, titled "Fear, Inc. The Roots of
the Islamophobia Network in America"
lists MEMRI as promoting Islamophobic
propaganda in the USA through
supplying selective translations that are
relied upon by several organisations "to
make the case that Islam is inherently
violent and promotes extremism."[38]
MEMRI argues that they are quoting the
government-controlled press and not
obscure or extremist publications, a fact
their critics acknowledge, according to
Marc Perelman."When we quote Al-
Ahram in Egypt, it is as if we were
quoting The New York Times. We know
there are people questioning our work,
probably those who have difficulties
seeing the truth. But no one can show
anything wrong about our
translations."[34]
Alleged translation inaccuracy
See also: Tomorrow's Pioneers#
Translation controversy
The accuracy of MEMRI's translations are
considered "usually accurate" though
occasionally disputed and highly
selective in what it chooses to translate
and in which context it puts things,[39]
as in the case of MEMRI's translation of a
2004 Osama bin Laden video, which
MEMRI defended.[6][37][40][41][42]
Norman Finkelstein, in an interview with
the newspaper In Focus compared
MEMRI to the "propaganda techniques"
of the Nazis.[43]
Following the 7 July 2005 London
bombings, Al Jazeera invited Hani al-
Sebai, an Islamist living in Britain, to take
part in a discussion on the event. For
one segment of the discussion in regard
to the victims, MEMRI provided the
following translation of al-Sebai's words:
the term civilians does not exist in
Islamic religious law. Dr Karmi is sitting
here, and I am sitting here, and I’m
familiar with religious law. There is no
such term as civilians in the modern
western sense. People are either at
war or not.[44]
Al-Sebai subsequently claimed that
MEMRI had mistranslated his interview,
and that among other errors, he had
actually said:
there is no term in Islamic
jurisprudence called civilians. Dr Karmi
is here sitting with us, and he's very
familiar with the jurisprudence. There
are fighters and non-fighters. Islam is
against the killing of innocents. The
innocent man cannot be killed
according to Islam.
By leaving out the condemnation of the
"killing of innocents" entirely,
Mohammed El Oifi writing in Le Monde
diplomatique argued that this translation
left the implication that civilians (the
innocent) are considered a legitimate
target.[36] Several British newspapers
subsequently used MEMRI's translation
to run headlines such as "Islamic radical
has praised the suicide bomb attacks on
the capital"[45] prompting al-Sebai to
demand an apology and take legal
action. In his view, MEMRI's translation
was also "an incitement to have me
arrested by the British authorities."[46]

Story, Story, Stooorrryyyy! Why not address the issues raised from the koran? It is not already stating the obvious. I schooled in Maiduguri and I can tell that what I experienced was beyond street urchins, we have educated muslims who will kill non-muslims at any instance. Muslim students will kill at any provocation, are those one street urchins too. If you complain that the North is poor, are they not receiving budgetary allocation from oil revenue that they do not even contribute to the nation? Is the fault of the christians that one man will marry five wives who will give birth to eight children each? When I saw what the citizens of Niger Delta go through in the creeks, their poverty is worse than that in the north. At least in the north, they plant without fear of oil spillages and pollution. They have massive land for agriculture unlike the creeks in the south-south. The war in mali, yemen, egypt, libya, afghanistan are also caused by street urchins I guess. Mr man, I was once a muslim who converted, I know so much about the Koran and the Bible too. It is only in the Koran you will see a verse telling muslims to slash the necks of infidels. Any muslim who doesn't support violence is not a true muslim (and this is one reason why the northern muslims despise the southern muslims who have choosen to live and cohabit with christians). The problem the southern muslims have is that civilization, education and exposure has affected their way of life, they know the truth about the Koran but they always avoid it for the sake of peace.
Islam is the problem of this world. Quote me!

andre99: @vicope u really know the koko for all this agencies as well, pls which federal ministry does your friend works that makes such a huge amount monthly, I will just like to know so we try hard to push our way there, no one wants to suffer. Your friend is a happy fellow for life.

Na pensions o!

In my opinion and based on my experience, I would say it is very difficult to choose a particular group of agencies.
Some agencies like CBN, NNPC, FIRS, NIGCOMSAT, NCC pays entry graduates well above 240k, there are also other allowances and bonuses from seminars, trainings and so on.
However, some agencies do pay average btw 120k-180k like Customs, Immigrations, NSCDC, SEC, NARSDA, but you can be opportuned to make twenty times ur salary monthly if posted to a 'juicy place' e.g ports and borders for customs, airports, passport offices, borders for immigrations, oil installations for civil defence etc.
Another set of agencies like NACA, NOSDRA, NABDA, NASENI, SON, etc pay btw 70-120k monthly. They make extra money from field assesments, trainings and seminars. These sets of agencies gives u all the time in the world. Sometimes some staffs do not show up @ work for 2 consecutive days and there will no problem coz there's virtually no work to do.
However, as long as its govt work, you could get lucky anywhere, I know a friend who works in a federal ministry, his monthly take home is less than 58k but he makes over 800k monthly, thanks to the fact that he is in accounts department and they know how to perfect their runz, some people dey NNPC wey no dey see pass their monthly salary and allowances. So it all depends on ur dept, and opportunities open to u. Gbam!

andre99: From what I do know very well, the top 5 gotta be;

PTDF (Petroleum Technology Development Fund) - I still don't know what they do here but the pay is mad, if u work there and u decide to further ur education you take a leave, they will pay for your masters programme.

NOSDRA (National Oil spill Detection and response Agency) - This is another good place, most people that work here I doubt it if they have ever been on a field before, na to just come office talk talk talk

AGIS (Abuja Geographical Information System) - Na them they in charge of all Lands wey dey FCT, if u be coper sef and u dey work here, u fit buy car after 6months, no way u go dey here wey u no go get land to urself, the runs and pay here is crazy.

The MINT (Nigeria Security Printing and Minting) - For here, when u start working here, u go fresh pass MINT money, the workers here no too much and I don't know why GOVT have left it like that, only few people work here.

NCC (Nigeria Communication Commission)
- they are the ones wey MTN,Glo and so on they always bribe wey everything still cost, na so so seminar, if na international seminar, there is what they call estacode, u are paid in dollars for the trip, and their salary sef crazy.

Let me stop here they still plenty for abuja, but anything wey fit make you dey work for these places above, you are a made man for life, Job security is 100% and tell me what they do 'NOTHING' God dey o.

I swear. U have said it all! I know all these places you have mentioned and you have spoken only the truth.

They av actually finished their recruitment. It started early december and only people who were shortlisted are collecting their appt letters.

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