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Here are a few comments I got off the page

la-di-da 20:35
Well that article was interesting to be sure, though as many pointed out, it was a small sample size. I am loathe to say it but based on my experience, I can say that I am considered a very attractive woman judging by extensive male response over the years, and I have been consistently treated pretty shabbily by mainly women, and rarely, if ever, by a man. Let me clarify that I have a successful career and am no ones fool and do have many friendships with women for decades. It doesn't matter how intelligent, personable, kind, hardworking, focused or fair, or even how new a work relationship is, I have always had to deal with petty bitchy jealous women. The idea that women won't interview other women who are attractive sounds pretty accurate to me.

Another said

Seems the only time hotness and intellegence aren't mutually exclusive is on TV/in movies. In real life they usually are. Would you trust a CEO who constantly flips her hair, shows excessive cleavage and wears 4" heels? Only in movies! In real life the hot ones are better off met in bars, not at the work place. That way you don't have to be all awkward when running into them the day after. There's that old saying, "Don't sh*t where you eat".

Ouch!

Saw this interesting piece and I thot to share. I know the practice of attaching pictures to a CV is alien in these parts but I'm curious as to the disposition of our local HR staff. Does a guys chances of scaling an interview improve simply cos he's a "hunk" and should an attractive girl be afraid (as in VERY AFRAID) simply cos she's prettier than most? Do you female interviewers sometimes feel threatened by the looks of a potential employee? (honesty would be appreciated). Do looks matter at all or is it always about what's upstairs - Assuming it's not a banks marketing job sha, uhm well.

AT WORK, as in life, attractive women get a lot of the breaks. Studies have shown that they are more likely to be promoted than their plain-Jane colleagues. Because people tend to project positive traits onto them, such as sensitivity and poise, they may also be at an advantage in job interviews. The only downside to hotness is having to fend off ghastly male colleagues; or so many people think. But research by two Israelis suggests otherwise. Bradley Ruffle at Ben-Gurion University and Ze'ev Shtudiner at Ariel University Centre looked at what happens when job hunters include photos with their curricula vitae, as is the norm in much of Europe and Asia. The pair sent fictional applications to over 2,500 real-life vacancies. For each job, they sent two very similar résumés, one with a photo, one without. Subjects had previously been graded for their attractiveness.

For men, the results were as expected. Hunks were more likely to be called for an interview if they included a photo. Ugly men were better off not including one. However, for women this was reversed. Attractive females were less likely to be offered an interview if they included a mugshot. When applying directly to a company (rather than through an agency) an attractive woman would need to send out 11 CVs on average before getting an interview; an equally qualified plain one just seven. At first, Mr Ruffle considered what he calls the “dumb-blonde hypothesis”—that people assume beautiful women to be stupid. However, the photos had also been rated on how intelligent people thought each subject looked; there was no correlation between perceived intellect and pulchritude. So the cause of the discrimination must lie elsewhere. Human resources departments tend to be staffed mostly by women. Indeed, in the Israeli study, 93% of those tasked with selecting whom to invite for an interview were female. The researchers' unavoidable—and unpalatable— conclusion is that old-fashioned jealousy led the women to discriminate against pretty candidates. So should attractive women simply attach photos that make them look dowdy? No. Better, says Mr Ruffle, to discourage the practice of including a photo altogether. Companies might even consider the anonymous model used in the Belgian public sector, where CVs do not even include the candidate's name.

economist.com/node/21551535

Anyone with some reasonable comment out there? This one is about boring me to sleep!

^Oba o, mó ki yi oooooo......

seanet01: Hypocritical Lapdog that was not where we were,
We were on "Fashola's bulldozer run over Pregnant woman"
So carry your stvpidity back to your village.

You said that not me.

^ What happens first? Eko Ole finally developing functional brain cells or chickens growing teeth? My money is on the latter!
After Lagos State builds its own 100% owned airport and sea port I guess it's also going to establish its Ports Authority, Customs and LAAN - not to be mistaken with FAAN - abi? Answer o, Oba Ewure Olodomare the II of Nairaland.

The demolition exercise at Epe, Odo- Iragunshin was carried out despite the ‘Stay Action’ pronouncement by the State House of Assembly pending investigation into the matter before it.

This was where we were before a buncha fools decided to join us.

seanet01: When you want to buy a land you are suppose to do proper check up at the real lands ministry or urban Planning office.
This is a direct consequence of stvpidity.
You cretin

I repeat this for the upteenth time, These people had legitimate goverment issued papers obtained from government planning office and those that issued them are still under the employ of same state government! Quit being an airhead, this could have happened to anybody.

The demolition exercise at Epe, Odo- Iragunshin was carried out despite the ‘Stay Action’ pronouncement by the State House of Assembly pending investigation into the matter before it.

That remains the fact!

^ Ok I've heard you, oya please carry your mumu and get lost.

coogar: i reiterate, you are a consummate rëtard.....
they had been told to evacuate their building since january.......they paid crooks who probably conned them to bring some money and avoid the eviction notice! read the article again and tell me how any sane human being shouldn't have planned ahead.....



you are a cretinous vermin!
they had been on this recurring issue since last year - they should have smelled the coffee that it's only a matter of time before the bulldozers came. it's their fault, you don't stay in illegal structures and this practise and demolition such as this happens everywhere in the world! take your media sensationalism and shove it up your arsë!

Ok, I give up. You really are an irredemable foool, forgive me for trying!

coogar: this is a needless sensationalism....
were this people not served quit notice long before the bulldozers? were they deaf when the bulldozers came? how can you say fashola's bulldozers killed a woman and her child? jonathan's government killed dana passengers too, i guess. if his minister of aviation did not grant dana airlines to operate, maybe the passengers would have survived - according to your neanthertal logic!

how some of you graduated from school is a mystery......

If you were not home-schooled you'd know to read and comprehend before replying. Now mumu, read the opening pieces again and try to understand those bulldozers showed up out of the blue flouting an order from the State House of Assembly and a Court of Law! Children had gone to school and parents were at wor when the bulldozers rolled in.

ilugunboy: Even Seun dare not warn people not to post in "his thread"

I see you have a problem with the English language.

Our Yansh: Another PDP lizard trying hard to rubbish Nigeria's best governor....

Tell ur senseless story to the maggots... They'll believe you!!!

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I find it embarassing that you posted on a thread I opened, you mind getting lost?

seanet01: With due respect, this people did not die fighting for a property they legally owned. They died because they built house on an illegal land.
You are not the owner of your house if you built it on a land that does not belong to you.

Did you read the victims accoun in my opening post? Did you read where the writer made it clear the Lagos state house of Assembly had ordered a "stay of proceedings" concerning the matter? Did you read how much a victim paid to get his entire paper work done by the State's minisrtry of urban planning, heck he even identified the person he paid to and where he's currently working in the States ministry so what da hell are you talking of Mr man?

seanet01: Are you saying GEJ was responsible for the death of the people killed during the subsidy protest by security forces?
If GEJ did not increase the pump price of petroleum products would those people have been killed?

With due respect, those people didnt die in their homes, they died on the streets CONFRONTING security agents. Do you know what it means to watch your HOME being demolished? Have you ever been without a home? Do you even have any idea what we r talking about?

^ If Fashola's bulldozer had'nt showed up would either of those lives have been lost?

^ What killed them?

And people to be chosen for conversion would be selected through a TV show called; Who wants to be a dickless cyborg?

^ Dont bet on that vote, Tinubu and the ACN are the Masters of the Game when it comes to subverting the will of the people.

^ What kind of half ( I mean the opposite which sounds like Fo*l) takes a story that sensitive to the homepage without verification?

Maxymilliano: With due respect to the President, there is no evil force anywhere, what I see is the usual challenge(s) encountered by anybody in leadership position, the dimension is what differ sometimes.

There's nothing "usual" about the challenges being faced by Jonathan. Axis Forces of evil exist. With due respect, You're wrong!

There's a growing feeling among Lagosians that Fashola is waging a war against the poor in Lagos and that growing feeling cuts across all ethnicities. It is becoming cliched that Fashola pulls down poor peoples homes to replace them with 10m naira P/A mansions. The resentment with Fashola and the ACN is growing.
The only people happy with Fasola and his godfather are the aesthetic-loving-V.I-living minority Lagosians that are glad to see Makoko gone without giving a hoot about the whereabout of its inhabitants. Most of the other 95% Lagosians who sweat to eke out a living have been affected by these insane demolitions either directly through friends and family members or indirectly as their situation potentially mirrors their predicament - no poor man is safe!
Fashola is destroying, Nigerians are watching!

More;

“In fact, the incident had caused loss of affection and many families have been thrown into state of disarray. I couldn’t see my family until two days after the incident. Since this ugly scenario, I have been sleeping inside the car without bathing or brushing my teeth”. Explaining the controversy surrounding the land, he said, “I bought my land from an indigenous land owner (omo onile) with back-up documents and lawyer’s agreement at that time. And while I was about building my house, I did all the necessary processes including land survey which was taken to Epe Local Planning Authority for charting. The officer- in-charge charted it and I was told that the land was free from government acquisition. “Then, I continued the processes of getting building approval and on that basis, I paid N52,000. And I was given approval by Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development. “I submitted my building approval which was recommended and it was approved. An officer from Lagos State Government, Alausa (Enforcement Unit) came twice to ascertain my compliance on the approved building plan. The unit was led by one Mr. Lawal who I learnt had been transferred to Agege division now. And the same process was taken by others who had their documents too. “But, the tune of the music changed last year when officials of Ministry of Physical Planning came to the village, threatening that the land had been acquired by government. But, instead of listening to us, they told us to go to Alausa to register our complaints and also make necessary inquiries which we did. “I went to the office of the Survey-Auditor General whom I believed had the final authority on land issue in Lagos State. He advised all of us to apply for land information which would make us know the status of the land and we did. “On August 8, 2012, I paid the statutory amount required. My survey was recorded at the Surveyor-General’s office. The information I gathered revealed that the land was free from government’s acquisition and it is meant for residential purposes. “We wrote to the Ministry of Justice, State House of Assembly, and Governor of Lagos State who minuted on it and forwarded same to the Attorney-General of the State. Then, I wrote the approved plan number on my building. On January 31,2013, one, Bode Agoro, Director of Land regularisation visited the village again but this time around, he claimed the Odo-Iragunshin land belongs to government and that we should report to Alausa with all the necessary documents. Some representatives from the community including Alhaja Bature, Tunde Awonaike and I were there. Then, Mr. Bode Agoro advised us to obtain some other title documents including Certificate of Occupancy, C of O, Governor’s consent, adding that, we will be alerted whenever State government want to come to the place.

It was a day of agony, pain and frustration for residents of Odo-Iragunshin, a suburb of Epe area of Lagos state, when the officials of Lagos State Government paid an unannounced visit to the place and demolished not less than 200 houses. The demolition exercise which rendered over 150 people including men, pregnant women and school children homeless was carried out by the officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, precisely on March 5, 2013. Saturday Vanguard gathered that an aged woman met her untimely death while Mrs. Adeniyi Ishola, lost her six-month-old pregnancy as a result of the exercise. Worst still, many families are yet to recover from the shock. Till date, the family of Ishola is yet to come to terms with the fact that their wife’s six months pregnancy is terminated in the process. Adeniyi, was said to have lost her pregnancy on the spot while watching helplessly as their house was being crushed to rubble by the State Government’s bulldozers. Further investigations by Saturday Vanguard also revealed that the yet to be identified old woman died three days after her house was demolished. In the same vein, more than 50 school children have been thrown out of school as a result of the demolition exercise that took place in the area. The demolition exercise at Epe, Odo-Iragunshin was carried out despite the ‘Stay Action’ pronouncement by the State House of Assembly pending investigation into the matter before it. Saturday Vanguard spoke to many of the residents and their responses were revealing. Adebowale Omoseike who was living in the village since 2008 lamented that the incident had since left those affected helpless, adding that he only escaped insanity through the intervention of God. According to him, “I was told that one of the affected landlords gave up the ghost three days after the incident while a woman lost her six-month pregnancy on the spot. All of us have been thrown into some kind of confusion and psychological trauma, not to mention the -several children and students who are also contending with the situation. “It was a devastating situation to hear that the same houses our children ate in before they left for schools had been pulled down by the State government bulldozers. They couldn’t give us affordable accommodation, yet they are demolishing the houses we built through pains and sweat.

vanguardngr.com/2013/04/how-bulldozers-killed-woman-six-month-old-unborn-baby/

bodejohn: There was once a terrible flood in a country far away...
A man who managed to get to the top of his roof sat and pray for several hours till he was swept away by the gushing torrents.
On reaching the pearly gates, he was furious with the holy one, why didn't you come down to help me, he asked the one seated on the thrown. I am surprised to see you here was the response of the holy one.
I sent you two boats and an helicopter to carry you to safety as soon as you closed your eyes to pray yet you refused to be rescued.

Pray till his kingdom come and remain lazy in your wayward ways...expect no miracle....dats all.

The first rule in prayer is to pray like EVERYTHING depends on God and play your part like EVERYTHING depends on you. Jonathan has done his bit and is still doing so within the limits of the Presidential powers bestowed on him so what's wrong with him also seeking the face of God? Why are you uncomfortable with a President that acnowledges the role of a Supreme Being in the affairs of a State, are you a demon?

I agree. God's face must be sought if Nigeria's problems especially the Boko Haram issue must be resolved. There's a national precedence, It happened in Warri, the peace being enjoyed in Warri today was brought about by "Men on their knees". Prayers were made without ceasing city wide in organized monthly and weekly fasting and prayer sessions organized by CAN and PFN and when it looked like Warri was irredemable, there was a breakthrough. The JTF and your local intelligence can only do so much but the real causes behind the crisis are "Spiritual" and can only be battled likewise.
I dont expect anyone to agree, but that's your problem. Jonathan is wise to seek the face of God even when he know's ignoramuses will think he's being stupid and that's exactly why he's going to succeed and be a succesful President mistakes or no mistakes - I have no single doubt! The good book says:


But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty
1 Corinth 1:27

Jonathan is wise and is going to succed because he's gonna have the backing of the Oga at the top! You heard it here first.

I nicked 118 Likes on this thread alone, my highest ever likes for a single comment wow, wow, wow! Thanks yall for showing me luv and Thanx Playmode for giving me ammunition to fire you lol.

Ewu, the thread is already on the frontpage and doesnt have to be in the Politics section. You can excuse OMAJE, sources from the grapevine say his cousin is one of them boys now made famous.