Adams Balade

Civil Engineer | PhD Candidate @ University of Ottawa 🇨🇦

[Mufti Menk @muftimenk]

Almighty. Grant us Your Mercy, relieve our fears & anxieties, remove our distress & let peace reign in our hearts. Bestow upon those suffering, patience & wisdom. May You always be our guiding light and the beacon of hope in our lives. Aameen.

[Adams Balade @Scholar270]

@Etioba_ Congratulations brother 🙌🏽

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@oil_shaeikh 😀😀😀

[Adams Balade @Scholar270]

Listing flood risk in an EIA does not mean the project will definitely cause flooding; it is standard practice to identify possible adverse impacts. The real issue is whether that risk was properly assessed or merely mentioned to tick a box.

An EIA that names flood risk without clear hydraulic/flood-risk assessment, mitigation measures, or evidence of serious review is not due diligence; it is closer to a disclaimer. And if the report was completed just one month before commissioning, that raises serious questions about the depth of the review.

[Adams Balade @Scholar270]

Dear @DrJoeAbah , and other stakeholders

I commend the intention behind this reform. Digital mobilisation, safer deployment, better PPA matching, and improved accountability are welcome steps.

However, extending orientation camp from three weeks to six weeks is, in my view, the wrong solution. Many camps already struggle with accommodation, feeding, water, sanitation, and general welfare. A longer camp may only increase costs, logistics, and procurement burdens without guaranteeing durable skills for graduates.

In fact, if the reform is moving away from military style training and replacing it with skills training, then the justification for a compulsory residential camp becomes even weaker.

Documentation, civic lectures, sensitisation, and deployment briefing can be delivered through a structured online platform. Kits and uniforms can be collected through NYSC state secretariats, while deployment and PPA processes can be handled digitally.

The proposed skills training should not be moved into NYSC camp. It should be built properly into the university system, where students already spend four to five years and where practical learning can be sustained.

Most universities already teach entrepreneurship, but it is largely theory without tools. Government should fund universities and mandate practical skill acquisition through faculty level makerspaces, functional computer labs, tailoring and fashion equipment, media studios, fabrication tools, agro processing facilities, and other practical training centres.

University curricula should also be reviewed to merge or remove redundant courses and create room for practical training within the existing degree duration, without extra years or extra cost to students.

These centres should be open to all students, including those in professional courses. Where students complete practical training and pass proper assessment, they should graduate with their degree and a recognised skill certification, possibly through an accredited body such as NBTE.

My position is simple: do not expand NYSC camp. Scrap the residential camp structure, digitise lectures and documentation, distribute kits through NYSC secretariats, and invest the real money in universities.

Real skills require time, tools, practice, mentorship, assessment, and certification, not a rushed six week camp programme.

[Adams Balade @Scholar270]

Some players have great games.

Messi has games that remind you why football exists.
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The reasoning behind this argument is fundamentally flawed and warrants careful scrutiny.

Innocent citizens are being abducted and lives are being lost at an alarming rate. When a public figure of considerable influence chooses to leverage his platform to draw global attention to a pressing national security crisis, the appropriate response should be engagement with the substance of his message, not resentment toward the messenger.

Furthermore, the notion that Davido is obligated to explain himself after making his position is intellectually untenable. His message was neither ambiguous nor complex. If anyone genuinely sought to understand his intentions, the constructive and respectful course of action would have been to ask him directly and civilly, not to resort to unsolicited criticism masquerading as patriotic concern. Davido owes no one that explanation.

The characterisation of international awareness-raising as a “national disgrace” is not only logically inverted but deeply troubling. The disgrace lies unequivocally in the kidnappings themselves, not in the individual who dares to speak about them. Silence in the face of systemic insecurity does not constitute dignity. It constitutes complicity.

Insecurity is neither a Northern affliction nor a Southern grievance. It is a Nigerian failure that demands a Nigerian solution. Every citizen, irrespective of ethnicity, region, or social standing, possesses not merely the right but the moral obligation to speak truth to this reality.

One can only hope that we collectively rise above ethnic colouration in matters of this gravity. The victims of insecurity bear no tribal identity. Neither should our response to it.

[Mike Tyson @MikeTyson]

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[Jack @jackcoder0]

I watched a PhD student use NotebookLM to do in 3 hours what took me 3 months.

I asked him how. He showed me his setup. I have not studied the same way since.

Here is exactly what he did.

He did not use NotebookLM as a search engine.

He did not type questions like "explain this concept."

He uploaded an entire field.

12 textbooks. 40 research papers. Every review article published in the last 5 years on his
topic. All uploaded at once. Into a single notebook.

Then he asked one question that changed how I think about learning:

"If you could only teach this subject using 7 sentences — one for each core idea — what
would they be?"

Not a summary. Not an overview.
Seven sentences. For the entire field.
NotebookLM produced them. He read them.

He asked a follow-up:

"For each sentence, what is the single experiment or paper that proved it was true?"
Now he had the skeleton of an entire field — and the exact evidence underneath each bone.
Then he did something nobody told me about.
He uploaded his own notes alongside the source material.

Then asked:
"Where am I wrong? What have I misunderstood compared to what the literature actually says?"

The system found three misconceptions he had carried for two years. Two of them would
have cost him his PhD defense if they had gone uncorrected.

He called this the Misconception Audit. He runs it on every subject before any exam, any
paper submission, any conference presentation.
Then the final step.

"Generate 10 questions a hostile expert would ask someone who claims to understand this
field. Then answer each one using only the sources I uploaded."

He was not studying to pass.

He was studying to survive interrogation by the smartest people in the room.

He passed his qualifying exam on a subject he had started studying 11 days before.
I have been studying the wrong way my entire life.

Here is his exact setup if you want to replicate it:

1. Upload the entire field — not one source
2. Ask for the 7 core sentences
3. Find the evidence under each one
4. Run the Misconception Audit on your own notes

Survive the hostile expert interrogation
The information was always available.

The framing was the unlock.
He passed his qualifying exam on a subject he had started studying 11 days before.
I have been studying the wrong way my entire life.

Here is his exact setup if you want to replicate it:

1.Upload the entire field — not one source
2. Ask for the 7 core sentences
3. Find the evidence under each one
4. Run the Misconception Audit on your own notes

Survive the hostile expert interrogation
The information was always available.

The framing was the unlock.

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894 GOALS
400 ASSIST
The Most Goal Contribution in the history of football

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Lionel Messi wins the MLS Golden Boot after scoring 29 regular season goals in 28 games ⚽

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39-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo consoling 41-year-old Pepe after Portugal's eliminated from Euro 2024 in penalties to France ❤️

Two absolute legends 🐐🐐