My younger sister applied to study English Language in one of Nigeria's first generation University, but she was admitted to study European Studies and German Language owing to her wrong Jamb subject combination.

She has always wanted to learn a foreign language, but she doesn't want to study it at undergraduate level because she knows nothing about the language and it might drastically affect her CGPA..

My question: is learning a foreign language in Nigerian Universities a good idea ? ....and does foreign language graduates/professional have a good employment prospect in the labour market ?

Thanks.

My younger sister applied to study English Language in one of Nigeria's first generation University, but she was admitted to study European Studies and German Language owing to her wrong Jamb subject combination.

She has always wanted to learn a foreign language, but she doesn't want to study it at undergraduate level because she knows nothing about the language and it might drastically affect her CGPA..

My question: is learning a foreign language in Nigerian Universities a good idea ? ....and does foreign language graduates/professional have a good employment prospect in the labour market ?

Thanks.

Abeg provide another link where I can download it. My play store is not functioning properly

Really? Terry g don pack comot for Fagba?

Pheals:
Weere le le yi o @yourAncestor

Lolzzz...No be me coin the word nah

A man has been recorded spending more than three hours to pronounce what is supposedly the longest word in the English language.


Can't post it here. Its just too long..


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/fun/news/a444700/longest-word-has-189819-letters-takes-three-hours-to-pronounce.html




‘God is not a Christian’
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By Our Reporter on June 20, 2015
(Mike Awoyinfa)



I am reading this provocative book which I brought from Cape Town titled God is Not a Christian by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. You know him, the outspoken Nobel Peace laureate and the first black Archbishop of Cape Town. I have nothing to say than to invite you to join me as I bring you excerpts from this thought-provoking book about God, Christian faith and other religions. Your comments are wel­come:

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Most Christians believe that they get their mandate for exclusivist claims from the Bible. Jesus does say that no one can come to the Father except through Him, and in Acts we hear it proclaimed that there is no other name under Heaven that is given for salvation (John 14:6; Acts 4:12). Those passages seem to be categorical enough to make all debates superfluous. But is this all that the Bible says, with nothing, as it were, on the side of inclusiveness and universality, and does the exclusivist case seem rea­sonable in the light of human history and development?

Fortunately for those who contend that Christianity does not have an exclusive and proprietary claim on God, as if God were indeed a Christian, there is ample biblical evidence to support their case. John’s Gospel, in which Jesus claims to be the exclusive means of access to the Father, right at the beginning makes an even more cosmic and startling claim for Jesus, as the Light who enlightens everyone, not just Christians. (John 1:19) In Romans, St. Paul points out that everyone stands condemned as under sin before God—both Jew and Gentile (Romans 3:9). This, which is central to the teaching he intends to convey, is found in an Epistle focused on the wonder of God’s free acquittal of all. God’s grace, bestowed freely through Jesus Christ, would be untenable if there were no universality about God’s law… An important hermeneu­tical principle calls us not to take the Bible texts in isola­tion and out of context, but to use the Bible to interpret the Bible, thus helping to ensure that our interpretation is read out of the Bible in exegesis and read into the Bible with our peculiar biases.

To claim God exclusively for Christians is to make God too small and in a real sense is blasphemous. God is bigger than Christianity and cares for more than Chris­tians only. He has to, if only for the simple reason that Christians are quite late arrivals on the world scene. God has been around since even before creation, and that is a very long time.

If God’s love is limited to Christians, what must the fate be of all who existed before Christ? Are they con­demned to eternal perdition for no fault of their own, as they must be if the exclusivist position is to be pushed to its logical conclusion? If that were the case, we would be left with a totally untenable situation of a God who could be guilty of such bizarre justice. It is surely more accept­able and consistent with what God has revealed of his nature in Jesus Christ, and it does not violate our moral sensibilities, to say that God accepts as pleasing to Him those who live by the best lights available to them, who are guided by the most sublime ideals that claim that all truth, all sense of beauty, all awareness of and desire after goodness has one source, and that source is God, who is not confined to one place, time, and people.

My God and, I hope, your God is not sitting around apprehensive that a profound religious truth or a major scientific discovery is going to be made by a non-Chris­tian. God rejoices that His human creatures, irrespective of race, culture, gender, or religious faith, are making ex­hilarating advances in science, art, music, ethics, philoso­phy, and law, apprehending with increasing ability the truth, the beauty, the goodness that emanate from Him. And we should also join in the divine exultation, rejoicing that there have been wonderful people such as Socrates, Aristotle, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Confucius, and others. Isn’t it obvious that Christians do not have a monopoly on virtue, on intellectual capacity, on aesthetic knowledge? And wonderfully, it does not matter. Is God dishonoured that Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu? Shouldn’t we be glad that there was a great soul who inspired others with his teachings of satyagraha, who inspired the Christian Martin Luther King Jr. in his civil rights campaign? Do we really have to be so ridiculous as to assert that what Mahatma Gandhi did was good, but it would have been better had he been a Christian? What evidence do we have that Christians are better? Isn’t the evidence often overwhelming in the opposite direction?

Don’t we have to be reminded too that the faith to which we belong is far more often a matter of the acci­dents of history and geography than personal choice? If we had been born in Egypt before the Christian era, we would have been perhaps worshippers of Isis, and had we been born in India rather than in South Africa, the chanc­es are very, very considerable that we would have ended up being Hindu rather than Christian. It is worrisome that so much should be made to depend on the whims of fate, unless it is to make us more modest and less dogmatic in our claims. God can’t want people to be Christians and then seem to stack the odds so very considerably against them and then proceed to punish them for their failure. Such a God is too perverse for us to want to worship Him. I am glad that the God I worship is other than this…

Many Christians would be amazed to learn of the sublime levels of spirituality that are attained in other religions, as in the best examples of Sufism and its mys­ticism, or the profound knowledge of meditation and still­ness found in Buddhism. It is to do God scant honor to dismiss these and other religious insights as delusions, which they patently are not. We make ourselves look quite ridiculous, and our faith and the God we claim to be proclaiming are brought into disrepute. I have met great exponents and adherents of other faiths, and I stand in awe of them and want to take my shoes off as I stand on their holy ground. I have no doubt that the Dalai Lama is one such, and you can’t but be impressed by his deep serenity, and the profound reverence that Buddhists have for life which makes them vegetarian, refraining from all killing, and constrains them to greet you with a profound bow as they say, “The God in me greets the God in you,” a greeting which we Christians could make our own more truly since we believe that every Christian is a tabernacle of the Holy Spirit, a God-carrier.

To acknowledge that other faiths must be respected and that they obviously proclaim profound religious truths is not the same thing as saying that all faiths are the same, however. They are patently not the same. We who are Christians must proclaim the truths of our faith hon­estly, truthfully, and without compromise, and we must assert courteously but unequivocal that we believe that all religious truth and all religious aspirations find their final fulfillment in Jesus Christ. But we must grant to others the same right to commend their faith, hoping that the in­trinsic attractiveness and ultimate truthfulness of Christi­anity will be what commends it to others. That as they see the impact Christianity has on the character and the life of its adherents, non-Christians would want to become Christians in their turn, just as in earlier days pagans were drawn to the church not so much by its preaching as by what they saw of the life of Christians, which made them exclaim in wonder, “How these Christians love one an­other!”

I am not aware of any major faith that says human be­ings are made for a destiny other than the high destiny of being in uninterrupted communion with the divine, how­ever this may be defined, whether the summum bonum, the greatest good, is to be absorbed into the divine, or to exist as distinct for all eternity in nirvana, or paradise, or heaven. I am not aware that any faith has declared that it is acceptable that human beings should be victims of injustice and oppression. On the contrary, we have been able to walk arm in arm with adherents of other faiths in the cause of justice and freedom, even as fellow Chris­tians have vilified and opposed our witness.

I hope I have done enough to convince diehard exclu­sivists that the Christian cause is served better by a joyful acknowledgment that God is not the special preserve of Christians and is the God of all human beings, to whom He has vouchsafed a revelation of His nature and with whom it is possible for all to have a real encounter and relationship.


http://sunnewsonline.com/new/god-is-not-a-christian/

Astronomers name newly discovered galaxy after Cristiano Ronaldo

BY EXTRA MUSTARD
Posted: Wed Jun. 17, 2015 4:00PM

Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images



Cristiano Ronaldo (aka CR7) is a star player for Real Madrid. The CR7 galaxy is a collection of millions of stars.

Astronomers recently discovered the galaxy and named it Cosmos Redshift 7 after the method used to date distant objects of the universe. But the name is also a nod to Ronaldo, because the lead astronomer is from the University of Lisbon in Ronaldo's native Portugal.

Just as Ronaldo stands out on the field, the galaxy is also pretty impressive. CR7 was formed just 800 million years after the Big Bang, meaning its light has been traveling to Earth for 12.9 billion years. It is “an exceptionally rare object, by far the brightest galaxy ever observed at this stage in the Universe,” the brightest galaxy ever observed at this stage in the Universe,” the European Southern Observatory said in a press release.

Cosmos Redshift 7 isn't the first CR7 galaxy, though. Nike released soccer cleats with that same name in 2013.


Source : http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/06/17/cristiano-ronaldo-real-madrid-galaxy-name

I need to say this quickly.
Naturally, the craving for bad new in Nigeria is unprecedented. It makes people happy. That explains why the social media went agog when news broke out that a popular blogger's website had been taken down. That bad news signals someone's downfall, and calls for 'widespread celebration'. Bad news are always anticipated, albeit, subconsciously and inadvertently.
That again explains why it's easy to believe a false,negative rumour about another person, even the subject of the rumour is within our reach and the means of independent verification is available to us. Apart from mental laziness that is so pervasive, people fear that verifying the bad news may disapprove or dispel the negativity which give them so much joy. So believing false rumours about people, hateful propaganda and bad news without interrogating them, and ask basic questions about the "what, how, when, and why's" form part of the strategy for sustaining the "feel good" effects of bad news. Mindsets like this explain why wickedness and xenophobia thrive in Africa.

Fani Kayode be like: PDP will win 50 states..

How market Agbaje Amadi Chinaso
PDP is a gooner!!

delightful1:

Aggregate so far:
APC = 8,522,434
PDP = 6,491,244

Oh! Thanks. Very grateful.

Plz waz the score difference?

Hmm..seems Obama will win dis election oo..

Chai! Those riggest don rig the election oo

This one na Labe' Orun oo

mystiqueDZ:
lmaoo dude you are crazy!

I'm not a 'dude'. Kindly refer to my moniker..

The kids will be named George 'Bush'

Why do I have this feeling that whenever I type cluelessness on google, GEJ's name will follow?

openmine:

selfishness...wat if one of d policemen dat was killed by d buhari-led robbers was ur brother or uncle or even ur own father ?
wud u still vote for him?? Oya answer

Yes, I will still vote for him. Any other thing you have to say ?

Terry G being taking hard drugs since God said "let there be light"

If you like tell me Buhari was among those robbers that robbed a bank in Lekki. I will still vote for him. Any other article?

I will forever respect the nairalander guy that view dis thread without checking if she has a profile pix..

Why do I have the feeling that if I type cluelessness on google, Jonathan's name will follow..

Obama and Vladmir Putin is to be blamed for the violence happening at Oshodi..lol

I studied European Studies and Foreign Language. I'm currently undergoing my masters degree in International relations and Diplomacy. Can I apply for it?

GEJ wants to christainise Nigeria..

O boy! Na true oo..The girl wey dey reply me with 'k' don dey reply me with her dad PhD thesis..

hardbody:



Does she carry a certificate? Simple question. Answer yes or no. If yes, is it genuine or fraudulent? Comparing her.with Peace is a misnomer. None of the two women is being elected by Nigerians and tbe constitution is quiet about their qualifications as tbey have no office. However can it be said that both husband and wife are certificateless.....birds of a feather?

Such a shame.

Lol..weere leleyi oo..you allowed your hate for GMB eat down deep into your bone marrow..shame on you sir. You're trying to sound like you have a valid point, but you ended up sounding stupid and clueless.. She didn't school at Ambrose Alli, she schooled at Amadu Bello Uni. Kindly verify by consulting ifa google..Odabo baba weere!

Does it really comes from his mind?