Architect firm
1.You always be no 1 lead other consultant (structure engineer, Q.S, M&E engineer) at the site unless the project is turnkey or got another consultant called project management.
2.Busy/working until late same with Q.S but i think more than QS.
3.Deal with project (for architectural finishes mostly) and liase a lot with authority.
4.Working directly with client (you are client representative for the project)
5.p/o % always high..probably more than QS
6.Usually work with architectural firm.
7.Do alot of designing and sometimes presentation to client
8.Highly respectable because of the power you have at the site. You are the S.O.
9.Autocad is always your friend
QS firm
1.Do alot of calculation and negotiation with client/contractor.
2.Also busy/working till late night (depend on the company culture)
3.You are the one who preparing the 1000 page of Contract Document (tender,b.q,contract,specs,preambles, etc).
4.You have the power on valuation of the work execute at the site.
5.Your tender report that help client to choose which contractor they should appoint.
6.you friend is excel and other measurement software.
7. usually you don't involve more on site except for VO and
valuation and contract matters.
8. you also have opportunities to work with contractor as QS with different jobscope.
9.QSCad is always your friend.
The website of the Federal Ministry of Education, www.fme.gov.ng, is down. Although it could not be ascertained how long it has been down, newsmen, who visited the website on Monday, had stumbled on the message, “This account has been suspended.
No information was placed on the site to tell visitors that it has moved to another domain and no link was provided to redirect those in search of information about the educational system to a new one.
Besides, another website attributed to the ministry online, fmegovng.org, is also “ailing’’ as the message on the site read, “This domain name will be on Godaddy Auctions soon.”
Visitors to any of the two portals in search of reports related to the ongoing industrial action by university teachers may be disappointed as the ministry literally has no official website to inform interested members of the public.
A check on some education parastatals in the country shows that some of them are fast taking a cue from the supervisory ministry that is saddled with the responsibility for defining and shaping the structure of the education system in Nigeria.
For instance, a visit to the website of the National Commission for Colleges of Education, www.ncceonline.org, showed that the information on the site was far from being rich. The “About Us’’ is the only section that the website has, while the welcome page contains two articles which only informed visitors on how to go about securing loan to study in higher institutions of learning abroad.
No mention was made of its activities, pertaining to the regulation of colleges of education in the country, as well as the issuance of the National Certificate of Education – the minimum certificate that qualifies one to teach in the country.
The National Educational Research and Development Council’s website, www.nerdc.gov.ng, which prides itself as the “think-tank of Nigerian education’’ is only a little better than that of the NCCE.
The first information that caught the attention of newsmen on the welcome page of the website on Monday was the date on it. The date on the site simply read Thursday, September 05, 2013.
A click on the “Achievement’’ section of the site, which was expected to give the track record of the council from 2005 to 2012, showed it was empty. The message on it read, “This page is awaiting update.” A similarly information was posted on the “Press Release” section.
Besides, the website managers did not deem it fit to input the contact person and phone number of the designatedofficial at its area office on 8, Orlu Street, Garki, Abuja as they simply left the spaces meant for it blank.
Following threat by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to shut private universities if the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), persists, the Alumni Association of Madonna University, Okija, has appealed to the students association to shelve the idea of clamping down on private universities in the country in order to force the federal government to respond to the demands of the striking university lecturers.
Making this appeal at a press briefing, weekend, in Abuja, National President of the association, Mr. Chima Achu said, the move would not only complicate the ASUU-FG crisis but also degenerate to a state of anarchy and lawlessness.
“In a state of anarchy, little can be achieved, that is why it is imperative that they rescind their decision.I strongly believe dialogue is a better option,” he said.
Achu, who is also a member of the university’s governing council, appealed to the federal government to allow private universities benefit from the Education Trust Fund (ETF), saying several private universities applied for fund from ETF but were denied.
“I also call on the federal government to include private universities as beneficiaries of ETF. The current restriction is an unfair treatment that is inimical to the growth of education in Nigeria. The ETF established in 1993 provides that all private companies remit two per cent tax on declared profits to give extra-budgetary support to public higher education,” he said.
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Achu also urged ASUU to end the strike since the Federal Government had made some concession by releasing funds for infrastructural development of the universities and also for accrued allowances. “On the current ASUU strike, I call on ASUU to sheathe their swords and call off the strike as the federal government has made some concessions by releasing funds both for infrastructural development in the universities and also for their accrued allowances,” he said. NANS decision to shut private universities was premised on the belief that children of political office holders in the country either school abroad or in private universities in Nigeria. But Achu said NANS was wrong in its assumption, stating that less than two per cent population of students in private varsities can be traced to those in government. “On the recent call by NANS to clamp down on private universities, that is not necessary as the assumption by NANS that children of political office holders attend private universities in Nigeria is not completely true. Less than two per cent are in private universities and as such, the clamp down will worsen the educational system in Nigeria,” he stated.
whitetip shark is notorious for targeting shipwreck survivors
As the shark swam closer to the boat, seasoned skipper David Bond noticed the beast was about 14ft long and probably weighed more than 1,000lb.Then, just as silently as it had appeared, the giant predator sank slowly back into the deep.
The close encounter happened on Wednesday near Looe, off the southern coast of Cornwall. It was just one of a number of sightings last week that has prompted fears a great white shark may be lurking off the south-west tip of Britain.
While one maneater is enough to chill the bones of even the saltiest seadog, on Monday the respected Angling Times reported that a 10ft oceanic whitetip is also patrolling our waters.
The whitetip is notorious for targeting shipwreck survivors, most notably the unfortunate sailors who clung to wreckage of the USS Indianapolis after it was torpedoed during the Second World War in the Pacific Ocean.
In the hit 1975 film Jaws, Robert Shaw’s character Quint famously reveals he survived the USS Indianapolis frenzy and had hated sharks ever since.
Terrorising the shores of Cornwall, fishermen say this is the largest they’ve seen
Angling Times said scientists in the UK and US had studied a photograph of bite marks on a blue shark caught off Falmouth and concluded a whitetip was the culprit.Shark expert David Turner believes the warm summer has attracted sharks not normally seen in British seas. He said: “The water temperature is higher than it normally is on account of the decent weather we have had this year. That could have attracted large predatory sharks that are not usually found off our coast.
“This summer has definitely seen more shark sightings than previous years but we are not quite sure why.”
The first of the latest sightings this summer of a suspected great white came on Tuesday when a giant shark swam alongside a lobster boat for a few seconds.
It was the briefest of glimpses but the fisherman on board said he had never seen a shark that size before.
A day later, Mr Bond and Ian Harbage aboard the shark fishing boat Mystique were scanning the sea when the giant fin broke the water. An ominous dark shape appeared twice, about 75 yards from the boat, before slipping away. By the time Mr Harbage had gone to fetch a camera, it was too late.
Later that afternoon a third fishing crew were stunned to see a huge fish breach the water and as they got closer they estimated the fin to be easily six or seven feet away from the tip of the tail.
In all three cases, the skippers discounted a harmless plankton-eating basking shark, regular giants off Cornwall in summer. They all believe a great white is a possibility yet, perhaps worried about being teased back in the pub, will not say so.
The only other explanation is that it could be a big porbeagle or a mako, relatives of the great white, but they very rarely exceed 10ft on this side of the Atlantic.
Mr Turner, 66, said: “A great white has to be a serious contender. David and Ian said they got the impression from the fin that what they saw could have been an enormous porbeagle but they didn’t see the fin in profile only at an angle and, to me, it sounds far too big to be a porgie or a mako shark.
doomed USS Indianapolis, pictured in 1942 [GETTY]
Fishermen say they have never seen any shark nearly as big before
David Turner
“Another skipper who saw both fin and tip of the tail said the two were at least six or seven foot apart, meaning the total length of the shark must have been 13 to 14ft. He said it probably weighed about 1,000lb.“All the reports last week were from around Looe and within a couple of days. In one case it came alongside one of the boats but the skipper couldn’t identify it.
“Shark fishermen are very wary of reporting great whites, as they are concerned they won’t be taken seriously. Yet all who have seen this monster, and they have been fishing these waters for years, say they have never seen any shark nearly as big before.”
As the Sunday Express revealed last week a number of blue sharks have been caught over the past couple of weeks with strange bite marks. Cornish fisherman, Nigel Hodge, caught a 60lb blue but watched in horror as another shark, described as being about 10ft in length attacked it off the coast of Falmouth.
The attack was initially thought to have been by a great white or a larger blue shark but photos of the bite marks were shown to UK and US experts, who believe it to be an oceanic whitetip.
They were branded “the most dangerous of all sharks” by famed oceanograper Jacques Cousteau and although normally found in warmer waters, but one was caught in 2004 off the western coast of Sweden.
Recalling his battle with the shark, Mr Hodge told Angling Times: “I played it for a while before pulling it alongside my boat where I got a good look at it before it broke free. I pulled the smaller fish aboard and took photos so we could find out what attacked it. If you were a carp angler it would be like reeling in a specimen fish and it getting snatched by a crocodile.”
The Aviation Security (AVSEC) directorate of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has exposed the pilfering of passengers’ luggage, a scandal that has lasted for years, after several months of investigation by the agency, using close circuit television (CCTV). The syndicate behind the protracted theft at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos has now been unraveled.
FAAN identified the suspect behind the syndicate as a 38-year-old Chinwendu Okereobode, an employee of Check Port Security (a private aviation handling company that works for Emirates Airlines), who in connivance of another suspect, Mr. Oriola Afeez, a member staff of the Nigeria Aviation Handling Company Plc (Nacho Aviance) who is still on the run, and others who were yet to be identified ran the illicit baggage pilfering ring at the airport.
General Manager, Corporate Communications of FAAN, Yakubu Dati said Okereobode was caught on September 2, by the CCTV after it was reviewed by AVSEC.
According to Dati, the pilfering at the nation’s main airport, which had generated a lot of controversies, had continued unabated for some time and led to the Crime and Investigation (CIB) unit of FAAN’s Aviation Security Service to be put on the alert and directed to investigate the issue.
“The investigation got a major lead when AVSEC officials received a report of pilferage from Emirate Airlines on its flight of July 19, 2013 and CIB officials embarked on an inspection of the photo footage from the aircraft’s bulk hold’s CCTV showing the reported pilfering in progress,” he said.
Dati explained that, Okereobode was identified in the footage and was apprehended, where he later confessed to giving Afeez, a Nacho Aviance staff, the permission to go ahead with pilfering on the parked aircraft, while he gave him protection inside the aircraft bulk hold.
“The culprit confessed to aiding and abetting the Nacho Aviance member of staff in removing an I-Pad computer and other valuable items belonging to passengers, which were sold and proceeds from the sale, in the sum of N8,000 was given to him.
“This discovery has confirmed that pilfering gangs are mainly cargo handling agents and airline security officials, who have been operating from inside parked aircraft, contrary to the wrong assumption that pilfering was done inside terminal,” Dati alleged.
FAAN also disclosed that Okereobode, who was charged for conspiracy and stealing, was on Friday last week sentenced to six month imprisonment concurrently, while police officers were kept on the trail of Afeez.
Reacting to the incident, Nahco Aviance’s Head of Corporate Communications, Adesanya Onayoade, said investigations were still ongoing on the incident but acknowledged that it was confirmed that a member staff of the handling company was involved along with workers of other agencies at the airport which complete investigation would expose.
Onayoade said it was important that FAAN should install CCTV at all the areas not accessible to staff of handling companies and others who could inspect what activities were going on during offload of luggage.
“We are waiting for the full investigation. Two years ago, we sacked about 200 workers due to fraudulent activities, including theft. We are waiting for the outcome of the present investigation,” he said.
