Please where is Osinbajo? Is it that he has nothing to contribute in a meeting between the 1st, 3rd and 4th person's in the Nigeria's hierarchy of protocol?

Daevid:
I have a two months old y9 for sale.. With box no scratch android 9.1....

Come to think of it, why are you selling just after 2 months?

Thanks for your responses, guys.

Good morning all,

Please I want to get the Huawei Y9 phone, is there anything I should know about the phone before going for it?

Thanks.

N-Tax-2017-00000991084-73

GAZZUZZ:

The only thing to worry about is oil shortage.
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As a result of what please?

GAZZUZZ:

No figures, no vehicle type/model. Quite disheartening.

My Oga no vex o,
VIN report :177k
Actual on dashboard: 28k
08' Camry

Hello house,

I ran a VIN Check on a car, and I observed that the odometer reading from the check was different from what I physically saw on the car, meaning that it was rolled back greatly. Please, is it anything I should worry about, as I'm about to pay for the car.

Thanks.

Sidac05:
same is applicable to my daughter WAEC center's result. They have submitted receipt of payment to WAEC last Friday because the school registered less than 50 students as against the approved number. We have been looking forward to the result since friday to no avail.

Bros, any outcome? I've equally checked the withhold list, but her details wasn't there.

Sidac05:
Which error?

See screenshot.

Hello House,

My niece checked her WAEC result, and the following error message appeared 'Result not available for this candidate in the specified year'. See attached screenshot.

Please how do we go about it?

I wished somebody made a recording of the incident, so that by now, Seyi Law would be begging to settle with all the money he made from 'kissing' Kate.

How would this nation ever progress, with the budget of the National Assembly being higher than the capital budgets of Health, Education and Agriculture combined.

Please how much will a 2005/06 RAV 4 cost?

Good day people,

Please I need the advice/services of an experienced clearing agent, as regards the car i'm about shipping. The car is a 2012 RAV4, coming in from Germany. Kindly help with the likely costs, best means of shipping, etc.

GAZZUZZ:

What do you want to scan? Entire car (abs,airbags,cluster engine transmission......)
Or just basic engine and transmission?

Hi Gazzuzz, mine would be basic engine and transmission.

abatically:

U should only be using Honda dw1 atf. Honda recommended atf z1 but they have replaced it with dw1.

Please in which service station can one get this oil?

A friend of mine got an invite for an online skills Assessment Test from a Multinational, can anyone help with information on what he is likely to expect. His background is Finance.

Thanks as you help out.

Pls at what price can i get a Hyundai IX35?

Kike decided to walk back home after a 10 kilometer commute to her Uncle’s house. She felt she needed to ponder over the advice her uncle just gave her. A few days earlier she had received a call from him raising her hopes that he could use his position as a major stakeholder in a bank to help get a job. Kike read architecture in school but had no plans of practicing as an architect.

She just wanted to start earning cool cash just like some of her friends currently do. After all, her brother is a chemical engineer but is currently a senior manager in a bank. The advice from her uncle dented her ego immensely; she still doesn’t know how to react. Why should her uncle give her the following reasons not to be a banker?

You work an average 10 hours

Banks typically open to customers by 8am and close to customers between 4pm to 5pm. However, the same does not apply to employees of these banks who work for almost 12 hours. An average banker works between 7.30am to 6pm and for employees on essential services it can last for as much as 12 hours (8am-8pm). If you are not up for working long hours for someone else then you probably should not consider being a banker.

You have no time for friends and family

Banking services require a lot of attention, dedication and concentration. When you work for about 10 hours daily there is hardly time to attend to some of the most important things in life such as spending time with family. Most young couples who are bankers often find little time to play with their kids or help then with school work or attend school activities. The negative consequences of this cannot be over emphasized.

You leave home early and get home late

We talked about having to work 10 hours daily however, that is not all, if works starts for you by 7.30 then you probably need to be at work one hour earlier. To beat the traffic and get to work earlier means leaving your house as early as 6 am. An average banker wakes up 5 am just to get to work before 7.30am. They also leave much later than most other professions. Most banks hardly keep to the nine to five rule and despite that, they do hardly pay overtime allowances for the extra time you put in.

You get fired very easily

The banking sector is quite exposed to a lot of regulatory and cyclical risk. When the economy is bad like it currently is, they are quick to run up cost as revenues declines. They also face increase in bad loans as most companies groaning under the risk of economic crunch struggle to pay back loans. When this happens, banks are forced to cut down cost hence the need to ‘downsize’ employees. Typically, decisions like this affect even the hardest working staff. It doesn’t matter if you work 24 hours or sleep over during the weekend. Most times when you get fired, you have no place to go because you are brain-drained. Imagine if Kike gets fired after working for five years. Surely she will find it difficult going back to architecture. In addition, a little mistake can get you fired regardless of your past record.

The most hardworking doesn’t mean the most rewarded

Banking is a service oriented job where money is made by earning high returns from customer deposits. Therefore, even if an operation staff works from 7am to 9pm every day, he will likely get less reward from a marketer who works 8am to 5pm every day but brings in the cash. The marketer only just needs to meet his or her targets in terms of deposits. Though an equally difficult task considering the apparent hazards, the difference however is that a marketer’s achievement is quickly noticeable hence likely to be rewarded more often.

Promotions take too long to come by

These days banking is a bit more like the civil service. In the nineties, a ten year working experience can fetch you a senior managerial position. Career development was fast tracked at the time as the new generation banks at the time sought new talents. It is not that way these days as you probably need to work twice as long to attain the same position as you would back them. It could take you as long as ten years to become an assistant manager. Promotions in banks probably come every other two years and it is not certain that you will get it.

Risk using your salary to pay for lost money

There are numerous risks associated with working in a bank and the major one is losing money. It is likely, that you might come across a transaction that might warrant you losing the bank’s money. Typically when that happens you might be asked to refund the money from your salary. The bank will just debit your salary for the whole amount or deduct it over time. The alternative to this might be losing your job.

These are just examples that you need to consider and talking to a banker may even reveal more things to you. Banking is a noble profession and can be very rewarding if you work hard, add more academic qualifications and have some luck. However, it is not a bed of roses.

http://www.punchng.com/business/am-business/why-you-should-not-be-a-banker/

Thank God I did not grow up in this type of caged and dull life that my children are growing up in. When I compare my childhood with that of my children, I am certain that they are not having half as much fun as I had as a child. Why do I say this?

Anytime we travel to our hometown to spend some time, our children just don’t want to come back to Lagos. The reason is simple. Unlike in Lagos where they live a caged life, they live a free life in Nnewi. They also have many children to play with.

Today’s children from the middle class and upper class (who live in Nigerian cities) live a life that is the same as being under house arrest. Children live in homes from which they cannot step out of. If they live in a flat, they are not allowed out of their apartment to play with other children. If it is a single family house, they are allowed to play within the compound, but they are not allowed to step out of the compound. To get to school, which may be on the same street, they are driven in a car or a school bus. When they close from school, they are driven back.

But when does the school even close? That’s around 2.30pm. And that includes toddlers who are in the kindergarten. But it does not end there. After school, lessons start. That will last till 4 or 5pm. The child then returns home fagged out. The implication is that most children stay in school longer than some adults, especially adults who work in government offices and close by 4pm.

Because the schools most of our children attend are privately owned, they operate on plots of land that are about 120 feet by 60 feet (about 668 square metres). The school may be a three-storey building. There is no space for the children to play during break, let alone a field for football as well as march past, field and track sporting events, a volleyball court or even a table tennis board.

When the children return from school, they have homework to do. When they are done, they may be allowed to watch TV or play some video games or phone games before bedtime. By 5 or 6am, they wake up again and prepare for school.

What type of food do these children eat? They take all kinds of cereals in the morning. In addition to the lunch packs they take to school, they take snacks everyday as well as carbonated drinks. To show them more love, parents regularly buy them ice cream, popcorn, meat pie, hamburger, shawarma, chocolate, candy, pizza, and the like.

If the children have to attend any event in the church, the parents drive them. If daddy or mummy needs to buy a recharge card across the street, they send the house help but not their children. At 15, many children have never crossed a road on their own. When they get admission into a boarding school, parents drive them to the school. If they don’t send the children to universities overseas, when they gain admission to a university in Nigeria, the parents drive them to the university, if it is in Lagos or the South-West. If it is outside the South-West, a flight is taken.

Now, compare that to my childhood. My primary school and secondary school had fields for different sports. Sports was not optional. In secondary school, marathon or cross country held every Monday for all boarders. During sports, the hostels were locked so everyone would participate. There were two sports prefects and a football captain who were recognised as prefects of the school. There were competitions called inter-house games as well as inter-house match (football). In the same vein, there were inter-school sports and inter-school match (football). And the grass in all the fields in school was cut by us, either as our duty or as punishment.

As a child, once I came back from school and did my house chores, I had the freedom to go out to play. Football could be played anywhere (field, someone’s compound or on the street) and with anything (football, bad orange, bad tennis ball, a ball of cloth, etc).

For the sake of swimming, we went to the stream regularly to fetch water, even if the tap water in the home ran. And we could swim from morning to evening. We went to fetch firewood or fodder for the goats or sheep. We went to search for wild fruits. We played under the udara tree for hours, waiting for the sweet fruit to fall, as it was a taboo to pluck the fruit. We climbed trees to pluck fruits or to play. I doubt if my nine-year-old son can climb any tree.

We tilled the soil to plant crops. And for me, it was fun. We tended the crops and harvested them. And our meals were mainly from fresh crops and fruits and vegetables.

When I took my common entrance examination, it was in a secondary school far from home, and I went to the school myself with other classmates. As a 15-year-old Class 4 student of Okongwu Memorial Grammar School, Nnewi, I received a letter from the West African Examinations Council that something was missing in my GCE form. I got my exeat card signed by the school, and for the first time in my life, I travelled to Enugu (and alone) to WAEC office, changing buses about five times. When I got to WAEC office, I was given my form to append my signature to a page. I travelled back again to my school. Also, when my UME result came out, I travelled to Nsukka for the first time to check the result and do my registration.

Because of the type of food we ate and the amount of walking, working, playing, and sports we did, it was rare to see an obese child. Today, seeing an obese child is easier than seeing a slim child. Today, it is not unusual to see eight-year-old girls menstruating. With the health challenges and sudden death facing our generation and those before us, one wonders what will be the fate of our children when they become adults in the next 20 to 40 years from now.

There is no gainsaying that my children know more things than I knew at their age, because of the access they have to books, cable TV and video games. They are more tech-savvy than I was at their age. They show me features on my phone or video player that I never knew existed. But I was stronger and fitter than they at their age. I was more street-wise and more daring. I was more independent-minded. I confronted bullies and tough situations.

No doubt, things have changed. Rural areas have become towns, and towns have become cities. Crimes of kidnapping and ritual killing are high. Nobody can be trusted anymore. But do we really have an excuse for turning our children into unhealthy, obese, clumsy, dependent, jelly-like people, ill-equipped to survive in a hard world?

It is not late to change the negative lifestyles we have forced upon our children in the name of showing them love and protecting them.


http://www.punchng.com/opinion/saving-our-children-from-house-arrest/

UBA, must you always be in the news for the very wrong reasons?

There was even one on the cartoon section of The Nation Newspaper of today, where Moyes was quoted as saying that Man U could still win the premiership. The cartoon character (Ripples) responded thus, 'it's like asking FIFA to give Serena Williams the best footballer of the year award'.

This is how bad it had gotten.

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Nigerians have bee so abused and demoralized that they take abuse itself as a form of right belonging to their abusers!
I pity this generation.


Very much on point bro.

Dahomey Amazon: What happened to putting up a sign that says do not use your phone at check points. Imagine Nigerians giving these fools an excuse to threat them like animals. Is that how other militaries behave?

Thanks dear, don't know for how long they'd shove all these rubbish down our throats. If it's this way, then i had to believe that nobody living in Nigerian barracks own a phone.

Dear Nairalanders,

We've been held up for some minutes now, in a military checkpoint, reason being that a soldier confiscated the phone of a co-passenger cos she was answering a call.
Pls when did it become an offence for someone to answer a call at a military checkpoint?

Hi All,

Didn't know if anybody had done this before, just remembered that today's date is 11-12-13. What a very unique date.

" Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action" - Nelson Mandela.

I saw this, and kept on wondering why someone could tell us that he acts slowly because he doesn't want to make mistakes.

Repeating that Picture No. 9 with Naija Police, na rough play o.

'Let my enemies live long and see what i will be in the future'. This was very popular with the Okada of those days.

damola1: For the amount of money paid by parents in these schools. It'll be a crime not to pay their staff well

Seriously, most of these schools commit this crime of not paying well.

ChrisGnarly: and where is d mony?

Definitely re-looted since.