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Dirkcoyt:
You're not serious ! Graduate should turn apprentice?
After reading all through? i ts simply a waste of time to go to the university to become an apprentice of a road side.


What have always propose is, vocational skill acquisition at the roadside while in secondary for good 3 yrs of senior school ss1-3 . after gained skill they will decide to further based on area of skill they have acquire. during their university days the government post them to companies every holiday to learn the professional side. Now they have both skill and field experience. by the time of graduation what you have is a full scale graduate. Then we sponsor the extremely brilliant mind on research works based on scholarship. I mean the first class. Pay them well as researchers in that way we have brilliant minds in out research sector.

not go turn apprentice after years of tiling in university. nonsense!

I don’t think you had time to read what the OP wrote. From your comment, it will be difficult for you to stay afloat in this emerging economic situation. The OP is simple telling wise graduate( not you obviously) the way to attain success with the present condition. Posts like this should make front page because so many graduates are still in the fairy tale stages of graduate with good grades, get a job, marry and live happily ever after. WAKE UP!!!
By the way, being a graduate is not a waste of time, it will only make you better in whatever vocational skill you chose to learn if you ever learn one.

vaxx:
why do you think my contribution is important here, hope you are not doing the common mistake, people do. when they assume babalawo is the same thing as an herbalist..... Herbalism or phytotherapy is for everybody regardless of their faith or ideology. be it Christian, Muslim or even atheist....An herbalist uses plants and other natural substances to improve health, promote healing, and prevent and treat illness, i do not see how it eventually turn to balalawo. babalawo do not worship idol, i will have dive more into this statement but that is not the main bone of discussion... many people are ignorance of their own culture due to brainwashing...

But let me tell you who is a babalawo, a babalawo is a sage or a priest of an ifa oracle , who is well versed in the rituals, the lore and the history of the Yoruba Tradition/ Religion called IFA. He has become a master in the Cabalistic and ritualistic aspects of IFA. Babalawo (Baba-ni-Awo) means "Father in the knowledge of things material and spiritual." or father of mysteries while the female version is called iyanifa. the herbalist mention in the op did not state if he is a babalawo...

Besides, in critical thinking, making a choice means to know two things in depth and prefer one. And in this particular case, the herbalist only know one which the op did not mention , In other words, Christianity was not a choice for him that was the only one he knew and he took it.. Anybody who is to make a choice today must know the two and say I prefer this

Let me give you an example, when Christianity came to Africa, they were preaching in the market and in all open places, the people listing to these Christians did not even have in depth knowledge of their own culture and religion.and with a every new idea, people are less to think critical about it . they know little of their culture and religion. But these people who did not understand their own religion have learn a lot from Christianity , so they choose it in preference to their own religion . without making a choice ,They just follow blindly. In fact what is currently going on now is worst, people already have this idea that traditional ideology is evil practice. and they are unwilling to unlearn this idea due to constant chorus in the church or mosque , pagan practice is evil....

You are right.

[I hardly comment on nairaland but when I read intelligent posts am compelled. What you said is absolutely true. The world is being controlled by American because of the world dependency on the dollar. The standards for foreign exchange was GOLD until it was manipulated to the US dollar. Unfortunately Nigeria is caught up in the middle of the manipulations, that’s why a few elites(politicians) have mortgaged our futures and we seem to be non charlant. The youths who are supposed to read history books and known better and busy being distracted by BBnaija and Davido n Celebrity news. So sad!! ]

History is written by victors and victors that write that history would cast the losers in as bad a light as they possibly can. this achieves 2 things

1. Makes the victors to appear like noble and good people who are trying to rid of bad things

2. Make the losers appear to be bad people who deserved the loss

This is also happening right under our nose as people who want this nation to prosper are thrown in jail on trumped up charges and have their name soiled so by the time they're out of jail, the people they were fighting for would've turned on them

Look what happened when Saddam Hussein said he'll stop selling oil for dollars and accept Euros instead, the powers that be in America quickly accused him of having Weapons of mass destruction and used the press and the media to clamour for war so American people agreed with the war and after capturing the country and taking over their oil fields they couldn't get evidence of the so-called WMDs they claimed Saddam had so they turned around and claimed he "Destroyed" the WMD along with the evidence

Look what happened to Libya too when Muammar Qaddafi said he'll get Africa out of its dependence on Europeans and Americans by introducing a new gold backed currency which would be the only acceptable currency to buy oil from Africans. He was branded as evil by the powers that be and made to look worse than he was (he wasn't a saint but not as bad as he was painted), they manipulated the Libyans to revolt against his regime and he was killed. Libya has only gotten worse and worse since then

This is what happens when victors write history and these days they write it even before becoming victors as they're assured of victory[/quote]

[Better don't judge her cause you don't know her story.

People should learn how to bear the consequences of their actions. Poverty is no excuse for engaging in prostitution. And that’s attitude of making excuses for deliberate wrongdoing won’t help us as humans. Live right, it’s very important

Why are we so gullible. Because a celebrity says something, then he is definitely right. Let’s put on our thinking caps most of the time. Internet is not only for Snapchat and instagram, you can access information too. What type and make of wristwatch will cost as much as a Ferrari..

]I am not understanding BIKO!

Your grown ass husband cheated with your grown ass female friend and your husband shares no responsibility for this action in your eyes abi!

Was your husband raped?

She brought her into the house you remember? Am probably thinking her husband would have advised her against it but you know how you women can be stupidity adamant when you want to do your rubbish.

Look we like gra gra too much for these country. First nobody will call a woman a bitch if she hasn’t exhibited a bitchy character. There are descent girls but we all know there are more bitchy girls around these days. You even put it in our face and then u turn around and claim victim?
Second, if your parents are still alive and you have the mind at 17 to be saying you had sex and spend your pocket money on a boy, my sister, you know there is a big problem.

[quote author=SarcasticMe post=65227731]I entered the thread thinking you were referring to man in the general sense. In my own opinion, however, both sexes are equally disposed to evil as they're to doing good. It can be argued on the one hand that women are even more likely to do wrong but on the other hand, they are also better placed to do right. It all depends on so many factors: upbringing, psychological... and an important one which is company. A woman can change her mind hundred times a day about the same issue, as long as she gives her ears to arguments and counter arguments.
Men are harder to convince of anything; either good or bad. But once they take up a behavior, it continues to live with them. It would take a great deal of expertise and luck to change a man.
The bottom line is: man, right from his childhood, must be thought values and morals and he'll most likely never depart from it. But, when he sets out on the wrong foot, it's even harder for him to retrace his steps.
Women, however, need to be in good hands till the very end. They're very emotional and easier to convince

This is the best comment I have read on nairaland on any topic. Am glad we still have wise people out there. Most comments are biased and I wonder what kind of “court judges our generation will produce.

These are the kind of stories that should make headlines and awards given out by prominent bodies in recognition of pure hardwork and eventual success. These will go a long way in convincing our “people” that one can still make it without ritual or yahoo yahoo.

SA, the SETI (Search for Extra terrestrial Intelligence) project and many other entities are searching for life beyond Planet Earth. Life outside earth could exist in two forms – non-intelligent life such as microbes and intelligent life such as the animals we see on Earth. Indeed, the former variety could exist in our own solar system, but we will necessarily have to look beyond it to find the latter variety.
Scientists have discovered hundreds of Exoplanets – or planets outside our solar system from near and afar, in cosmic terms. With millions of stars in our, and nearby galaxies alone, there could be billions of planets out there. (There are more than two trillion galaxies in the entire universe). And some of the planets could be in the so-called Goldilocks Zone – neither too near nor too far from their star to host liquid water and hence, life as we know it. (There are “Tatooine” planetary systems which have two suns).
It beggars belief that life could have evolved only on Earth, given that only a few simple ingredients are needed to create life. And most of these substances including carbon, are abundant throughout the universe. As the saying goes, we are all made up of stardust. Thus the chances are that life thrives elsewhere in this vast universe.
Have you heard the term UFO ? It means “Unidentified Flying Object” which in other words refers to an alien spacecraft. Many sane, mentally alert and totally reliable witnesses have reported UFO sightings and some even claim to have been abducted by alien beings. Many people believe that UFOs regularly visit Earth.
But are there aliens among us ? This is a more controversial subject. This was the premise of the Men In Black movies – that aliens disguised as humans are among us and that the Governments know all about it.
There are many other books and movies which explore this intriguing concept. Among them are John Carpenter’s Star Man and They Live and the recent Under the Skin. A lot of other movies prefer to have aliens who invade or want to destroy the Earth, from ID4 to District 9.
Many believe that Governments know about aliens on Earth, but prefer to cover it up. One of the most well-known stories supportive of this theory originates from Area 51 in the USA, where an alien spaceship is supposed to have crashed. The authorities apparently have taken away the aliens’ bodies and covered up the incident. One TV series titled Roswell (where the spacecraft is said to have crashed) is based on the likelihood of spacecraft survivors living disguised among humans.
Take the tale of an ex-CIA operative suffering from a terminal illness who claims to have seen “live extraterrestrials” inside a top-secret facility at Area 51 in Nevada. In a recent video, the man is interviewed by UFO hunter and author Richard Dolan.
The man tells Dolan that President Dwight Eisenhower had warned of a threat of Earth being invaded, so he and his superior at the CIA were allowed inside Area 51 to report back to the President. He also claims to have seen many recovered flying saucers some of which were being tested by Air Force engineers.
The interview was filmed in 2013, but only released on the Open Minds UFO website and is being discussed widely after being shared on other UFO forums.
The idea that aliens could be living among us has gained so much traction that many well known people are openly saying so. In an eye-opening interview on 6-0 minutes last week, aerospace mogul and entrepreneur Robert Bigelow said he was ‘absolutely convinced’ there were alien visitors to Earth.
When the Interviewer asked him : “Do you believe in aliens?”, Bigelow said: “I’m absolutely convinced. That’s all there is to it. There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions ― I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.”
A similar viewpoint was recently expressed in a film about the late US President John F Kennedy, who it said had a vast knowledge of UFOs. Top astrobiologist Caleb Scharf of the Astrobiology Center at Columbia University and author of The Copernicus Complex believes that “hyper-advanced aliens” are already among us.
Astronauts are also joining in the debate. Former International Space Station Commander Dr Leroy Chiao has said, recent discoveries of water on one of Saturn’s moons, and amino acids on comets, left him in no doubt about extra-terrestrial life existing. He added: “To find this kind of evidence of life in our own backyard means to me the idea there’s other life in the universe is pretty much a given.”
Fife Symington, 71, who was governor of Arizona from 1990 to 1998, has revealed that he was a witness to one of the world’s biggest ever mass UFO sightings, and he believes it was extraterrestrial. On March 13, 1997 thousands of people reported seeing huge triangular UFOs drifting over Arizona and the city of Phoenix.
The sizes varied from a Boeing 747 to multiple football fields. (Such an incident is the basis of the 1977 Steven Spielberg movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind – a Third Kind encounter refers to meeting intelligent alien beings).
There are also those who say that massive ancient structures such as the Pyramids could not have been built without some kind of alien help. Indeed, some of these structures will take years to build even with our current technologies, so it is unfathomable that the ancients managed such feats on their own.
This is only a hypothesis, but an intriguing one nevertheless. Some also say that giant crop circles (as alluded in the famous alien film Signs) and markings visible only from above could also be the work of aliens who have visited Earth.
Thus, there is widespread concurrence about life outside Earth and many scientists believe that we will come into contact with intelligent aliens within the next 40-50 years or even earlier. However, rudimentary forms of life could be found much earlier in our own solar system by our robotic proves.
The universe is so vast, there is simply no way that we could be alone in a little corner.
The discovery of any form of life outside the Earth will be the biggest announcement ever in our history and will fundamentally alter the way we think about not only life on earth, but also about life itself. It will really be a life-changing experience.

Guys listen carefully, women will always defend the evils they do no matter what( that's the way they are wired). If after all the stories you read on nairaland and the comments made by most ladies in the romance section, you still fell victim to this kind of scam, its your fault guy. Its time for guys to have sense. You are suppose to be smarter than these ladies since you call them fish brain. Just thinking out loud.

Guys check out all the feminine replies to this post. See them trying to justify what the lady said which shows how morally decayed most of these our ladies. The fact is the level of parental guidance( upbringing) these days is almost non existent. No wonder we have nudes everywhere instead of career driven achievements.

SA, the SETI (Search for Extra terrestrial Intelligence) project and many other entities are searching for life beyond Planet Earth. Life outside earth could exist in two forms – non-intelligent life such as microbes and intelligent life such as the animals we see on Earth. Indeed, the former variety could exist in our own solar system, but we will necessarily have to look beyond it to find the latter variety.
Scientists have discovered hundreds of Exoplanets – or planets outside our solar system from near and afar, in cosmic terms. With millions of stars in our, and nearby galaxies alone, there could be billions of planets out there. (There are more than two trillion galaxies in the entire universe). And some of the planets could be in the so-called Goldilocks Zone – neither too near nor too far from their star to host liquid water and hence, life as we know it. (There are “Tatooine” planetary systems which have two suns).
It beggars belief that life could have evolved only on Earth, given that only a few simple ingredients are needed to create life. And most of these substances including carbon, are abundant throughout the universe. As the saying goes, we are all made up of stardust. Thus the chances are that life thrives elsewhere in this vast universe.
Have you heard the term UFO ? It means “Unidentified Flying Object” which in other words refers to an alien spacecraft. Many sane, mentally alert and totally reliable witnesses have reported UFO sightings and some even claim to have been abducted by alien beings. Many people believe that UFOs regularly visit Earth.
But are there aliens among us ? This is a more controversial subject. This was the premise of the Men In Black movies – that aliens disguised as humans are among us and that the Governments know all about it.
There are many other books and movies which explore this intriguing concept. Among them are John Carpenter’s Star Man and They Live and the recent Under the Skin. A lot of other movies prefer to have aliens who invade or want to destroy the Earth, from ID4 to District 9.
Many believe that Governments know about aliens on Earth, but prefer to cover it up. One of the most well-known stories supportive of this theory originates from Area 51 in the USA, where an alien spaceship is supposed to have crashed. The authorities apparently have taken away the aliens’ bodies and covered up the incident. One TV series titled Roswell (where the spacecraft is said to have crashed) is based on the likelihood of spacecraft survivors living disguised among humans.
Take the tale of an ex-CIA operative suffering from a terminal illness who claims to have seen “live extraterrestrials” inside a top-secret facility at Area 51 in Nevada. In a recent video, the man is interviewed by UFO hunter and author Richard Dolan.
The man tells Dolan that President Dwight Eisenhower had warned of a threat of Earth being invaded, so he and his superior at the CIA were allowed inside Area 51 to report back to the President. He also claims to have seen many recovered flying saucers some of which were being tested by Air Force engineers.
The interview was filmed in 2013, but only released on the Open Minds UFO website and is being discussed widely after being shared on other UFO forums.
The idea that aliens could be living among us has gained so much traction that many well known people are openly saying so. In an eye-opening interview on 6-0 minutes last week, aerospace mogul and entrepreneur Robert Bigelow said he was ‘absolutely convinced’ there were alien visitors to Earth.
When the Interviewer asked him : “Do you believe in aliens?”, Bigelow said: “I’m absolutely convinced. That’s all there is to it. There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions ― I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.”
A similar viewpoint was recently expressed in a film about the late US President John F Kennedy, who it said had a vast knowledge of UFOs. Top astrobiologist Caleb Scharf of the Astrobiology Center at Columbia University and author of The Copernicus Complex believes that “hyper-advanced aliens” are already among us.
Astronauts are also joining in the debate. Former International Space Station Commander Dr Leroy Chiao has said, recent discoveries of water on one of Saturn’s moons, and amino acids on comets, left him in no doubt about extra-terrestrial life existing. He added: “To find this kind of evidence of life in our own backyard means to me the idea there’s other life in the universe is pretty much a given.”
Fife Symington, 71, who was governor of Arizona from 1990 to 1998, has revealed that he was a witness to one of the world’s biggest ever mass UFO sightings, and he believes it was extraterrestrial. On March 13, 1997 thousands of people reported seeing huge triangular UFOs drifting over Arizona and the city of Phoenix.
The sizes varied from a Boeing 747 to multiple football fields. (Such an incident is the basis of the 1977 Steven Spielberg movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind – a Third Kind encounter refers to meeting intelligent alien beings).
There are also those who say that massive ancient structures such as the Pyramids could not have been built without some kind of alien help. Indeed, some of these structures will take years to build even with our current technologies, so it is unfathomable that the ancients managed such feats on their own.
This is only a hypothesis, but an intriguing one nevertheless. Some also say that giant crop circles (as alluded in the famous alien film Signs) and markings visible only from above could also be the work of aliens who have visited Earth.
Thus, there is widespread concurrence about life outside Earth and many scientists believe that we will come into contact with intelligent aliens within the next 40-50 years or even earlier. However, rudimentary forms of life could be found much earlier in our own solar system by our robotic proves.
The universe is so vast, there is simply no way that we could be alone in a little corner.
The discovery of any form of life outside the Earth will be the biggest announcement ever in our history and will fundamentally alter the way we think about not only life on earth, but also about life itself. It will really be a life-changing experience.

I want to use this opportunity to advise all nairaland OPs and commentators to always make comments in a sensible and educated fashion. I read most comments by nairalanders and i shed tears of pity for the nigerian youths. We often say that the current leaders have relegated the youths of this country to the bottom of the society but the honest truth is that we brought this one ourselves. Imagine youths castigating the buhari led government for going after looters. Looters who have by their lootings have taken away our future and the future of our unborn kids. People(looters) who have made all your sacrifices of being educated under rigorous conditions all gone down the drain. People who provide the best of everything for their unborn children and provided a hopeless future for you and your generations to come. Please until we wake up and put on our thinking caps, we will keep roaming around aimlessly till we no longer have strength to walk. Food for thought!! Don't let it go to waste.

To be honest I have patronised these guys when I was young and they didn't just sell me a cream like they did to your friend. I was taken to one of their shops and they used this tattoo equipment to clean my lips and applied some other ointments, my lips become pink for about a few days but when back to what it was before.

Please guys the reason the nigerian football is in shambles in the first place is indiscipline. Do not blame oliseh for the actions he took, it must have been an issue that has been brewing for sometime now. He wouldn't just do that to enyeama if this is his first time for him coming late to camp. As a captain, u should lead by example.