NewStats: 3,265,547 , 8,187,166 topics. Date: Sunday, 15 June 2025 at 05:16 PM 6s4741

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pCEBHgxesA?si=ivwWFLm6btJpHNas

I think that Nigerians have abused this POP thing. Too many quacks now parade themselves as POP finisher.

This is an interesting thread. Two days ago I felt the urge to google NITEL and I was read somethings about them on Wikipedia.

Beremx:
Our Festac land line then was 01-880729. Yes! Festac code was 88. I the old phones my dad had. Both analog and digital land phones. I also using the post office at Festac to write letters to my Pen Pals outside Nigeria.
Good old memories
I can't forget using Mtel cards to make calls at NITEL office at Owerri back then during my university days

The post office is still functioning, in fact I opened a PO Box two years ago and I post letters once in a while. Although now they do more of parcels than letters/printed matter. I have never met anybody at the box area when I go there to pick my mails; except for an old man I saw the days I opened it who was there to post a letter, two young men who came to clear the mails for their organisation (mostly letters from Stanbic IBTC) , and an elderly woman I met at the counter who also came to renew her subscription last year.

The problems of Ogun state are many.
Road network is number one. Not having enough revenue is number two. Corruption is number three. It goes on and on. They should open up to southeastern people like Lagos, Oyo and Ondo did, and let developers perform their magic. Only that fake drugs and fake products will increase.

Meanwhile the war continues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cHDGjcY6WU?si=WeCuUHtVTLB_n9W2

Iran has raised a red flag of revenge. The same red flag they raised last year after Israel took out their air defence system.

BlocksNG:
Isreal intercepted all 200 ballistic missiles fired at her, where is the bitter response Iran promised?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cHDGjcY6WU?si=95-oMVTIOx05gBuc


Iran have also launched its own retaliatory strikes

We are in the age whe analogue technology is fast fading out and people are almost always on their phones.

Her Bluetooth successfully connected to the marine kingdom.

Celestial and white garment churches are congregations with strange spirits.

Those places are the headquarters of side chicks, aṣẹwo, runs girls, baby mamas and gold digging single mothers.

Many of their ministers, workers and choristers are known to have sex before climbing the alter to minister.

Sadly, many Pentecostal, penterascal and pentedidirin pastors now go there for powers.

If Tinubu know what is good for Nigeria, he should release Nnamdi Kanu and let his people hold the referendum, which must be in favour of them leaving this British contraption called Nigeria. By so doing, the remaining parts of the country will be free of fake drugs and fake products.

Where is your conscience?
The regime of a tyrant was sanctioned due to the struggles of pro-democracy activists. But your messiah chose to side with the tyrant by helping him sell oil to make money to continue funding his tyranny. And you are here applauding him? You don't have ẹ̀rí ọkàn.

Eriokanmi:
See this one.Obi had done what most of the so-called politicians of today couldn't do in sacrificing for the country. During the military rule when the whole world sanctioned Nigeria and shunned our oil, it was Obi led those wbo rescued Nigeria,else hunger would have killed many. Tinubu ran away during this time. He was the negotiator for crude between Nigeria and Asian countries, through which we were able to sell our crude and live.

Without his efforts, there might have been no Nigeria anymore.

I hope you have seen the full list which shows that these people you mentioned are also honoured. Go and find it if you haven't before you die of hypertension.

Ebeano49:
Another giveaway to his Yoruba kinsmen and women. Anthony Enahoro, Dan Suleiman, Balarabe Musa, Bagauda Kaltho, Ndubuisi Kanu, Margaret Ekpo, Frank Kokori, Alfred Rewane, and many others fought hard for this democracy but he chose to reward only his kinsmen, and Sani who recently declared for his 2027 ambition.

BAT is bad for Nigeria!

Where was SSANU, NASU and NAAT when ASUU went on strikes without pay to fight for revitalisation and their earned academic allowance?

The average Nigerian hates lecturer, they hate education and they hate history.

jmoore:

A military regime needs a court order?
Chai!!!

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Go back to your history class o bingo

This is embarrassing.
Imagine such a comment coming from someone who bankrolled the 2 million man march in of Abacha. This is the same Peter Obi who was a protégé of Arthur Nzeribe, whose ABN group got the court order that annuled the June 12 election.

Shame on all of those who keep ing him because he is from their region.

This con man said he will remove the subsidy immediately. So tell me what is the difference between this promise and how Tinubu announced and implemented it immediately he was sworn in.

I know that those who call themselves obidents cannot see anything wrong in this man's hypocrisy.

Some women believe that faithfulness in men is due to the absence of finance. They have a mindset that once a man has money he will start to womanise, get a side chick, worse still a second wife.

I analysed women with this orientation and discovered that 86% are either side chicks to married men or are doing hookup.
I also observed that the majority of non-muslim among such women attend white garment churches which is known to be the headquarters of runs girls, baby mamas and single mothers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWEKFTlktFY?si=dq7Th05RQMN8-UL6

Eventually they resorted to negotiating with the occupant of the vehicle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgSa-BSYTBo?si=e1SywZ8LOaLu0mjZ

Fulani bandits boasts about occupying all the forests in the east. Soldiers from Enugu or Port Harcourt has never been mobilised to kill bandits in order to make Fulani people happy.

Love800:
I appreciate.

But what is transistor radio? Is it different from our normal Bluetooth speaker radio?

Yes and no. Some transistor radios now come with Bluetooth functionality and memory card slots. But typically, they FM, MW and SW bands. In fact some have LW and SS band where you can listen to aviation communication and police walkie talkie. The common Bluetooth radios don't have these bands

The picture below is a transistor radio. I still own this type (now broken) and it is very powerful.

SmartPolician:
There's a trending video of one Hausa guy who was raised in the US saying that if Nigeria genuinely wants to make progress, we have to cut off the north. These northerners keep proving him right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXdqUmXRhGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXqqX5dRXxU?si=EdEcqevmpk3GiZ0w

A Fulani named Ameerah released a viral video where she could seen lamenting the current policies of educational establishments under the government of Tinubu, whom some people believe is a drug lord. She said the north will be hit very hard, that unfortunately they are not prepared for what is coming.

Love800:
Really!
How please?

Beremx:
oh I never knew that.

If it is the the telescopic type (see pictures), you can get it online, or from those aboki who sell transistor radios.

Beremx:
I stopped listening to radio since my son broke the antenna. I can't afford to go buy another one. I rather stick to my phone

The antenna can easily be replaced.

Sunnyadius:
CURBING GRADING BIAS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

~By Okunlegbe John T

Indices have shown in recent years,how the credibility of examinations in Nigeria's higher institutions has come under increasing scrutiny and doubts. To a great extent, the skepticism is as a result of allegations of grading bias, and manipulations by lecturers.
Before now, all eyebrows seemed to be against students. They are perceived to be the only culprits in examination malfeasances, seeing they assume a role of the subordinates,and are mostly involved in cheating during exams,buying grades and other related malpractices.
However, as technology advances, particularly with the invention of computer-based tests (CBT) that allow for studends, to write examination online and have their results ed via the same means, it is increasingly becoming necessary, to shift the searchlight against examination malpractices to the lecturers.
I speak today as a lecturers, who was once a student, but victimized through grading bias.
Years ago, I had reasons to a host of others, to our grievances about how our department handled the collation of our final result— the collations were taking longer than necessary, and many of my course mates were eager to go for NYSC deployment.
Long story made short, some of us who made that journey to school were victimized. Our grades were reduced, and as such we have continued to live with this trauma.
It is important I tell you that, there is an opportunity to 'call for one's papers' in most Nigerian universities, however, such avenues are nothing but means for further frustration and victimisation of students. If anyone has ever scaled such rigour, then, the percentage of those who have come out triumphant must be very infinitesimal.
In most of the cases, students who disatisfactions about their results or grades are humiliated and marked down during the remarking process.
Because of naivity that comes with adolescence, most students who have such issues prefer to be quite about it. They are spiraled into silence, knowing doing otherwise could spell doom.

It is not out of place, to say most of the lecturers in our tertiary institution have assumed the position of the biblical principalities and powers. Many wield so much powers that, they can do and undo just anything, especially as it concerns students' academic performances.

It is unfortunate that,an issue as mundane and irrelevant to academics as sex, is used against some unwilling students— a lecturer wants to take an undue advantage of a female student, before such student es her course at all, or with good grade. What a sacrilege!

To address these challenges and enhance transparency and fairness,there is need for shifting from traditional pen-on-paper examinations to Computer-Based Testing (CBT) across Nigerian universities and colleges:

Curtailing lecturers' manipulations, is paramount in the quest for academic transparency and integrity in Nigeria. The world had since moved from where most of our institutions now dwell. The days of submitting your examination scripts to a drug or alcohol-influnced lecturer are over. We must embrace the ease, speed and accuracy that technology accords.

With manual grading, the risk of biased marking, grade alterations, and even solicitation of favors (monetary or otherwise) is significantly higher. CBTs remove this vulnerability by automating the marking process for objective questions, reducing human interference, and ensuring that results are based purely on student performance.
The detection of the hitches in 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organized recently by t issions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is a testament to the fact that, our old grading patterns are indeed archaic and suppressive. Aside the technical glitches, which are easily detectable and amendable, JAMB deploying CBT method remains the best.

Furthermore,for our institutions to score high in objectivity and fairness, candidates must be scored based on definitive algorithms, leaving little to no room for subjectivity– this can only be made possible by CBT. Here,all students are assessed under the same conditions, and the same grading standards are uniformly applied. This gives equal opportunity, or a level playing field, where students' efforts are the sole determinants of their grades, thereby restoring faith in the integrity of academic assessments.

While computers may not necessarily be able to take over all human activities, we must accept the fact that,they enhance productivity and the management of time. No matter how smart and proficient a lecturer could be, the sight of over a hundred booklets of students during examination sends a wave across his/her spine. It is certain s/he wouldn't be able to mark all scripts with the same zest, objectivity and speed.
Traditional examinations require a long marking period, during which scripts are often lost, misgraded, or intentionally manipulated. In contrast, CBTs offer instant or much faster results, giving no room for tampering after submission. This rapid turnaround not only benefits students but also reduces the istrative workload on academic departments.

Nigerian institutions must embrace a paradigm shift, if they hope to remain competitive and prepare students for the demands of the modern workforce
Moving fully to CBT is not without its challenges. Infrastructure deficits, erratic power supply, and digital divide are real issues in many Nigerian institutions. However, these challenges are surmountable. Government investment, public-private partnerships, and phased implementation can bridge the gap.

Moreso, while objective questions are easier to grade via CBT, strategies must be developed to accommodate essay-type assessments and practicals. Hybrid models that incorporate both automated testing and supervised evaluations could serve as a balanced approach during the transition phase.

Let me close by emphasising that, transitioning from pen-on-paper examinations to CBT in Nigerian higher institutions, is not just a technological upgrade — it's a fundamental reform to restore integrity,fairness and transparency in the academic system. It is an easy avenue for the elimination of opportunities for lecturers' manipulations.

CBT stands as a crucial tool in transforming Nigeria's education sector into one that truly rewards merit and prepares students for a digital future.

What stops institutions, including JAMB from conducting CBTs where students' results are displayed immediately the SUBMIT button is clicked?

Okunlegbe John is a lecturer and a pastor. He writes from Ilorin.

1. You should have posted this in education section to get a wider audience.

2. Examination in tertiary institution cannot be reduced to objective or multiple choice questions alone.

3. How are you going to grade essay questions on the spot and have the students get their results immediately after they click submit?