NewStats: 3,259,435 , 8,170,098 topics. Date: Sunday, 25 May 2025 at 12:23 AM p396x

Theflint1:
There's nothing that proves that Tinubu is a lesser evil than Atiku sha. They're both desperate for power, and both very corrupt.

In of istration and outlook to governance, I'd say they're pretty much same, and maybe Atiku edges him a bit on transparency the guy seems to have some modicum of dignity or pride, while BAT is completely shameless and brazen.

Of Lagos governors since 1999 you can even argue that BAT has been the worst of the lot.

Baba, make we just agree to disagree because opinions on this will always differ and be subjective.

At the end of the day, it's my belief PBAT is a lesser evil than Atiku. Yours dey contrary, no shaking.

Tomorrow carry belle, and 2027 just dey round the corner so make we siddon dey look.

Nothing wey go fall from up nack ground wey ground no go fit contain, and if I survived 8 years of a catastrophic Buhari istraration, nothing fit shake me again.

Fadedvoiced:


We always knew right from day 1 that y'all Peter Obi ers are pseudo Tinubu ers. You guys gifted Tinubu the presidency in 2023, you guys want to do the same thing again in 2027 abi? I just wonder why you guys always complain about Tinubu when lowkey your hearts are with him.
Nigeria is finished.

Call it whatever you like and continue gaslighting, na you get your mouth and your fingers.

For me, Tinubu vs Atiku is a choice of the lesser evil........and the clear choice is Tinubu.

If Obi is not the principal on the ballot, then I'll be voting PBAT.

Better Tinubu than Atiku for me.

Wetin dey sup in Ivory Coast?

digz:
My Oga how many NL links I fit share inside a single post. Abeg dey catch me to chop ban

Why you dey fear the known especially when the olokpa go release you after 30 minutes.?

If na the blocked post matter, tag me and I go unblock am.

These Chiropractors wey we dey see dey crank people's necks and spines on social media, are they medical doctors?

And does that thing work?

BlueRayDick:


Most young people will not vote Atiku as president in 2027.

Most Southerners will not vote for Atiku in 2027.

Most PDP will.not Atiku presidency in 2027..

If Obi or any southerner decides to be Atiku's running mate, that person would just be wasting his time and resources.

I agree with this. The strongest ticket for me is Obi/Kwankwaso but I know it ain't gonna happen with the way Kwankwaso is romancing APC

Na wa o. I thought the Bot had eased off today. Anyways, @BRD, your post has been unblocked.

Diggz na the definition of no put body cos if you put body you go collect.

raumdeuter:


Not that section Egbon diggz sent one guy out of the forum permanently when he brought out a bundle of $120,000 and the guy funlord fainted

Since then, If egbon diggz talk we dey hold biro write am down

Hian

No wonder you dey hail am even after you cop your range last year.

Truly, there are levels to this shiii

Kaycee54321:
Everybody don "mature".

Someone should roll back the good old d.ick measuring days where men dey pictures of bundles and doings - with the proof of nairaland moniker and timestamp written on a piece of paper as evidence say you no thief the picture as borrow pose...

Those "show me your environment" days...

Wow, there was such a time on Nairaland? Chai, I missed o.

Edit: It was in the XRay section which I sparingly visited

I am overwhelmed by the bot. It's blocking posts faster than I can unblock them, and I can't keep up anymore

Please keep your posts squeaky clean to avoid being banned.

If person post vex you, try not to respond with insults. Good night Nairalanders.

I dey go TT to ease off....,

MrJaay:


Hi Semid4lyfe.

Is it possible for you to restore any of my last 4 posts of the PhD thread? Have been trying to share a resource with a requester, and I keep getting banned each time.

Thank you.

Congratulations on the completion of your PhD.

No be na wa, na real wa. I don talk am before, the only way to squash this beef is for Disstroy and Diggz to get in the ring.

joseph1832:
How does it work? Seems one can't even post a comment without getting banned.

Only the Boss knows. Maybe I should even stop unblocking hidden posts cos people innocently quote them and get banned.

Theflint1:
Are posts being hidden automatically, or on purpose?

Spambot aggressively at work.

DissTroy:
Someone who stole pictures of Ogbono to proof he has food and was crying to Ishilove on the phone to beg a woman on the internet to give him attention should be scurrying into a digital orifice but apparently shame is dead.


You are trying to buy your way back into the comity of men. Here's how you tried to do so:

1. Returned to antagonize. You were exposed. You left then returned months later.

2. You became an APC critic. Of course you knew most of us as sympathetic to such posts so you kept warming your way.

3. Weeks later you declare you need an alternative form of money to do a giveaway on Nairaland anonymously. Ibime, Sean and others advised you, and you mentioned you'd do so soon. People were beginning to warm up to you.

4. Weeks later you made claim you turned down a political appointment out of the blues. The confidence trick was working.

5. In a few weeks, you asked Semid4lyfe to act as an es-crow on Nairaland for a transaction. You studied him well to know he would get involved in such a deal which has ruined reputations on Nairaland, especially as a . You didn't ask anyone else.

6. You continued with your government criticism.

7. Having thought you've warmed your way back in, you got confident to a regular.

TemporaryHansel aka Elder0001, we see you for what you are.

I had to unblock the quoted post just to respond because the emboldened is false and defamatory. He asked for me to act as an escrow for a deal, and I turned it down. (Screenshot attached).

Pls don't involve me in your fight with others, ese gan.

GloriousGbola:


Alex onyia is the ceo of educare, the root cause of this mess. He should have put all this concern into ensuring patches for educares software were rolled out as at when due. Ironic that a company run by an ibo man chose not to deploy patches to ibo dominated areas in a timely fashion.

This amala you're turning never done. How can Alex Onyia the CEO of Educare who put out this tweet criticizing JAMB be the one responsible for the technical glitch?

We didn’t engage JAMB simply out of emotion.

As soon as the results were announced, my phone blew up with calls from principals of schools using our Educare platform.

Their students had drilled for months on our CBT system—taking tests, viewing scores, grading schemes, and explanations—then iterating.

These principals had tracked the metrics we use to predict student performance.
Over the years, those metrics had accurately modelled outcomes.

But this time, the deviation was so extreme that they had questions.

We ed the most affected students. The stories were consistent: technical challenges and certainty that the results didn’t reflect their performance.

A core concern stood out—JAMB’s current technology was not as transparent as our CBT platform, so the failure couldn’t be reconciled.

The principals asked if our metrics could’ve been wrong. We showed them our track record.

I assured them that something clearly went wrong with JAMB.

Still, to avoid personal bias, I broadened my outreach to 15,000 plus candidates to gauge sentiment, and the rest is history.
As revealed, our call-out was justified.

To those thanking me, thank the students who practiced relentlessly. They gave me the conviction that the issue lay with JAMB. I also thank JAMB for being open, transparent and very swift to take action.

This also shows the importance of transparency.

If Educare’s CBT platform can run a nationwide test, open to all, and release full results and marksheets in under 3 seconds, there’s no reason JAMB should withhold results for weeks — never showing marksheets.

Instead, you get a black-box score and must live with it.

Technology has evolved. JAMB must catch up.

You may not always get everything right, but you must try.

Transparency builds trust, and trust drives progress.

Roland17:


Our public officials are really arrogant. The sort of explanation they go public with is disgraceful.

Considering the incident, one would expect them to be calculated with their responses pending investigations but they are always quick to defend and now look stupid.

The most annoying were the backbenchers who were clapping for the Registrar.

What were they clapping for exactly? That he was shedding tears?

Make Oloyede resign abeg.

If Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has any integrity left, he should just resign. Not this silly crocodile tears he’s shedding.

He"s done well as Registar and taken JAMB to its current height but I think it’s time for someone else to take over.

At this stage, what JAMB needs is fresh ideas and innovation. which I think a young, vibrant professor, maybe from a university like Covenant could bring. Wishful thinking I know......

Also, the once a year exam model doesn’t make sense. Students take WAEC and NECO in a year, which is effectively two opportunities to sort out their O’Levels , so why is JAMB, which is 1/3 of the ission requirement limited to once a year? That’s unfair and puts too much pressure on students.

JAMB needs a serious overhaul in leadership and its exam model to improve access to tertiary education for our teeming youths.

Mass Failure: JAMB its Error, Says Five South-East States, Lagos Affected

https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/8425295/mass-failure-jamb-its-error

Corroborated by Punch

https://punchng.com/breaking-jamb-reschedules-utme-for-affected-379997-seast-lagos-candidates/

BREAKING: JAMB reschedules UTME for affected 379,997 S’East, Lagos candidates

The 379,997 candidates in the five states of the South East and Lagos will be rescheduled for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination.

The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.

“206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos and 92 centres in Owerri zone comprising of 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East were affected,” he said.

Oloyede, who took responsibility for what he described as a “sabotage” of the 2025 UTME, said the affected candidates will start getting text messages from the Board starting Thursday.

“The affected candidates will start getting text messages for reschedule starting from tomorrow.

“I apologise, I take full responsibility

Of the 1.9 million candidates who sat the UTME, over 1.5 million reportedly scored below 200 out of the maximum 400 marks, raising concerns across the education sector.

According to the examination agency, a total of 1,955,069 results were processed, out of which only 4,756 candidates (0.24 per cent) scored 320 and above, considered top-tier performance, while 7,658 candidates (0.39 per cent) scored between 300 and 319, bringing the total for those who scored 300 and above to 12,414 candidates (0.63 per cent).

Also, 73,441 candidates (3.76 per cent) scored between 250 and 299 while 334,560 candidates (17.11 per cent) scored between 200 and 249.

A total of 983,187 candidates (50.29 per cent) scored between 160 and 199, which is widely regarded as the minimum threshold for issions in many institutions.

In the same vein, 488,197 candidates (24.97 per cent) scored between 140 and 159, 57,419 candidates (2.94 per cent) scored between 120 and 139, 3,820 candidates (0.20 per cent) scored between 100 and 119, and 2,031 candidates (0.10 per cent) scored below 100.

Over 75 per cent of all candidates (1.5 million) scored below 200, average score seeing as the examination is graded over 400.

Those who said there was a glitch and doubted the validity of the results were right after all.

Fake news.

They co-produced a movie together and Basket Mouth is just catching cruise with that caption.

TemporaryHansel:
@semid4lyf can you act as escrow for a deal here on nl?

No sir.

My daughter can recite 2 to 12 times table. But if you ask her randomly, say 9 x 7, she goes mute for seconds and one can literally hear her reciting the times-table in her head before answering.

I don't like it. How can the timetable be locked into her memory so she can answer instantaneously when asked?

Akinlot:


My son is the exact opposite of yours and I was recently having this conversation with a friend.

He is extremely good with numbers, spatial reasoning and numeracy.

Many times when he does his home work, we will be looking at those diagrams together and before me who is an adult figures it out, my 6 year old son knows what to do. He has never scored below 100 in any numercy exam. Whether it is maths or quantitative reasoning.

When it comes to verbal, he just leaves it and waits for me to tell him what to do.

I wonder why he can't just transfer the math skills to verbal.

It's actually my daughter & first born.

Not that she's bad in maths, her position in it last term was 5th with 93%. I just want her dislike for the subject to be nipped in the bud and for her to develop genuine interest in it. Not grumbling and telling me, "daddy I'm tired", when we never even do half of the maths & quantitative assignments.

On the other hand, she's very good in English, Verbal aptitude, Reading, Comprehension and other subjects.

I will do as suggested here, and binge episodes of Numberblocks from YouTube for her to be watching. Hopefully, that will pique her interest and make her like maths.

09:


Thanks.

Out of curiosity, what part of my post triggered the sp*mbot?

Na only the bossman go fit answer rhat question

Question - How do we raise our kids to have aptitude for mathematics?

I believe it's the bedrock and foundation for STEM courses and would want my kids to do STEMs.

Me, I was average in it and wifey though a first class & distinction graduate read sociology.

Though its early days, my 6-year old in Basic 2 is already showing a dislike for it and grumbles whenever its time to do Maths home work.

09:
Semid4lyfe, abeg help unban me and my post(s)

Post unblocked.

BlueRayDiick:
Semid4lyfe epp me check o, dem don knack me apako

Post unblocked.

CrystalTiger:


Over the past few weeks I've honestly been trying to read about the wrong things Traore has been doing in his country just to see if it's all a smokescreen..

Every time, it's people saying he's paying for PR without actually pointing to his misdeeds.. I'll still keep on searching..

There's definitely some PR and image laundering. The football match with African legends and the fake viral story about how he ordered the arrest of a French company CEO co-enger are clear examples

GloriousGbola:


russia is expanding in west africa. no one is pivoting towards them - they are backed by russia from the start. and if russia gets it way, we will be next.

Semantics! Whether na you toast your wife or na madam toast you, the koko be say una dey in agreement, and in bed together.

The demonization of Russia and the narrative that African countries going into alliance with it does not bode well for them is simply scare tactics propagated by the west to maintain their grip and hold on to their sphere of control and influence. Same thing the west is saying about China and its investments in the continent.

Moreover, as an independent country, Burkina Faso has the right to decide its alliances.

Ibime:

There is no video of Traore that is not a lie. Egbon like you done fall for that guy propaganda. The guy dey dey dish propaganda steady and sensible people will call it out. Nobody know Niger and Guinea President name so no, there is no propaganda against Traore, just a reaction to his constant lies and brainwashing of Africans

Na you dey swallow western propaganda hook, line and sinker. The AFRICOM commander appeared before a US senate committee and accused Traore and his junta of taking all the gold for themselves. At least, they are Burkinabes right? When was siphoning Burkina Faso's gold, milking and exploiting the country, why hin no talk? Whether you accept it or not, the truth is the west has launched a coordinated counter propaganda against Traore because the milk is no more flowing their way. Simple!

As for the presidents of Niger and Guinea not being known or popular, it's because they lack charisma and do not espouse the bold, fiery rhetoric that threatens the west like Ibrahim Traore.

obainojazz:
The guy learning from his mentor - Putin

No doubt there’s some PR involved but I think his popularity is organic. I watched the inauguration of Ghana’s president, John Mahama, and Traore received the loudest cheers and ovation.

As for Burkina Faso being a glorified dustbin, that’s due to decades of exploitation by and the West which Traore is now trying to reverse.

Traore has pivoted towards Russia, and this has infuriated the West which has launched their own counter PR using the normal playbook of accusations such as corrupt enrichment, human rights violations, suppression of civil liberties etc.

In all these, it's important to be able to sift through the sponsored propaganda to discern the truth.

American media slandered the leading Italian papal candidate so much in the days leading up to the conclave and effectively killed his candidacy.

Nothing wey I no read online. Still, I wasn't expecting Prevost to emerge.

I fear who no fear America.