Godman_n:

Niaja

Is it about copying the latest technology or about getting the work done.

If manually generating their content saves them cost so be it.

I have seen UK banks that still uses excel sheets in most of their processing. In Nigeria it is all about buying costing softwares that they do not even know how to use.

Fake people; fake culture.

Be real for once.

omo_to_dun:

If it works for them, why not? It is not anyone's place to tell others how to run their business. If I'll complain about a site, it will be about the content and/or look and feel, not about the way the site was generated.

Big Meat:

Copy and paster mentality in our culture won't get us anywhere.
I guess it's all about saving costs or just been plain lazy to do proper job.

@muskeeto: sir, not every nigerian nationality in UK or US wash plates and work with fake papers. You will be suprised to know the number of well qualified nigerians in good positions of influence across diverse fields making positive impact to the economy of these countries.

musKeeto:

Idiot, na our fault say your hustle no work for Nigeria? Come on, go wash plates with your fake papers,

Ymodulus:

i was playing around the website piontblanknews and i found out the website is based on html. All news are not dynamic generated. Whats your say on this take a look at the link  http://www.pointblanknews.com/News/ and see the index of news for yourself

Godman_n:

You can call me whatever you like, but face the fact. Technology is meant to simplify task and not for its sake.

For your information I am right here in niaja. I am just telling you what I noticed years ago (may be even before you learnt how to use a computer) having worked in Banks here and in UK.

In UK, Excel sheets was put to it fullest use; all their banking applications are developed inhouse. In naija, they compete over each other in who can buy the latest foreign developed application with zero local content. I can name all the banks and their applications. A case in point was Savannah Bank that paid N800million in 2001 to buy a banking application. Find out how much UBA, Oceanic and First Bank paid for Finacle which is just a Web server running Oracle.

Since you seem to know more about web, if you can be encouraged to develop a banking application and save us the scarce foreign exchange, is it bad? If we can fully use the excel sheets and save the millions wasted on the purchase of technology for its sake, is it not better for us as a nation?

I bet you, most of us do not even know half of the functionalities in simply excel, yet we can claim to know the latest technologies around. Technologies are means to an end and not end on it own.

Have we as a nation not had enough of elephants projects and ego runs?

If pointblanks news fells it is cheaper and more manageable to manage their site in any way, that is their business. Let judge them on the security of the site and the news contents. Let not just drop names of technologies that we have heard.

Let for once be original in our thinking. Let us drop a fake culture.

If for making these points you call me idoit so be it; it is for your like that we live in this shame called Nigeria(Africa). If only and my likes can have our own country, we could have proved to you that we are a better people.

We are not mentally enslaved copy-carts like you. Period.

Akanbi_edu:

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Ymodulus: