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You need not advice him, only nonentities will rush to insult others simple because they disagree with certain positions.

What you have on the website has nothing to do with reinventing the wheel and it is not in all cases that feeds or aggregators make sense.

Thanks for the link but it does not make sense in this regard.

The focus is on Nigerians across the world creating the news not just consuming them.

Thanks for all the comments.

After receiving quite a number of interests on this I decided to do some coding last night and came up with www.justwebservices.com/jnews

I had to make use of data from another application to speed up the process but the news application site is self contained right now and is a project on its own.

No doubt a lot needs to be done but once the framework is completed any other thing can be added because as far as I am concerned any business process can be web enabled without wahala and on time too.

Maybe its because I am not working under any pressure but in reality even reproducing from scratch what you have at youtube shouldn't take more than 2 weeks maximum.

The site can be used by everyone, registered users can post comments on news items, reporters (registered users with a higher priviledge to offer control) can post news items and photos, a super reporters can post videos and they will be displayed like what you have on the home page.

I may or may not crawl other websites for news depending on what the users want. I believe Nigerians will appreciate news created by them and for them.

As regards criticisms, please send them but do remember that this is a job of less than 12hrs so make una take am easy.

nkemkelly:
I also want to add this as regards him not giving all the points or giving answers to all the questions thrown to him.it might just be stage fright,it could happen to any person sometimes.

Please, don't mislead us, he could not even understand some of the questions, it is not about giving all the points or giving answers to all the questions. You cannot provide answers when you do not understand the questions.

Without proper communication life will be useless as one person may not understand the other.

There is no excuse for the way he ridiculed himself. As for the presidency, he has no business getting there so naturally I do not even believe he is running for the presidency to begin with.

This is not about being very good at english language, it is about communicating, the man simple had a very though time understanding the questions so what are we talking about.

Do you think those people that speak their native languages on international TVs using interpreters are stupid or do you think they have not heard the word english before.

If you can speak english go ahead, if you can't learn to communicate in a language that you are comfortable with. No one forced him to speak english.

Just try to be as objective as you can, complete condemnation or commendation of anyone, group or nation is usually wrong unless you are 100% certain that not a single issue could be established against a position.

I had thought that by now, the plethora of comments pointing out your total and sometimes wrong support for the US, UK and Israel should have made you to retrace your steps and contribute more meaningfully to issues.

Seems someone is going round the bend here. Abi the spin doctor don run out of ideas?

Thanks for the advice. I am a programmer and setting up the site isn't a problem at all.

It's what people think or how people will like to use such a platform that I need comments on.

Being completely energy independent is not for the faint hearted and is not too attractive an option for many.

In Nigeria today, one can enjoy uninterrupted power supply with inverters, chargers and battery banks even with the present level of power supply.

How can one dismiss the level of understanding of a language he choose to communicate with and yet blame him for not understanding the questions or providing answers for questions that were never asked?

Let his friends advice him to insist on pidgin english or Igbo and pay an interpreter, a lot of people do so.

English is a borrowed language, yes but it is not by force, learn to speak it well or revert to a language you are comfortable with, afterall communication is all about the sender and receiver understanding the message not so?

Some may have raised objections to the focus on his spoken english but the fact remains that the main reason why Orji Kalu could not even understand the questions let alone provide meaningful answers is that he was communicating in a language he does not understand well enough.

Tell me, do you think he would have displayed the same level of incoherence and understanding of the issues if the questions were in pidgin english or if he had used an interpreter?

We should communicate in languages that we are comfortable with and not try to be more oyinboish than the oyinboman.

Communication is said to be meaningful if both the sender and the receiver are home and dry with the content. Simplicity is key. The best communicator will use simple and clearly understandable words to pass across any message.

I want to setup an online news site where ordinary Nigerians will be the reporters, with all the functionalities of a serious news site inculding but not limited to comments on news stories, photo or short clips on stories etc.

Any thoughts on this? I believe we need to get more informed on what is happening in Nigeria, not just politics as that seems to be the main focus for quite a long time now.

Could be ideal for freelance journalists with a high probability of paying the top news posters with ad revenues that may come in if the site becomes hot.

At least, news will be added by the second or by the minute using a very clear user interface without any technical knowledge whatsoever.

naomijt:
I'm going to have a good one with him about this! Actually, I think he simply copied and modified the Terms for DomainStandard.net. Obviously, he skipped a few things.

Thanks for pointing out the errors. I'll forward them to him.

No wahala. I shall signup but the last time I checked there was no link pointing to how one could get the process started. Any pointers?

4 Play:
Using gas powered power plants is value for money

Unless the issue of global warming is not a concern to you.

4 Play:
Wind energy power plants costs far more than most other alternatives.That is part of the reason it is hardly used

Renewable energy may be expensive to setup but pays for itself in a couple of years (in some cases in just 1 year).

Solar energy is the most expensive form of renewable energy unless a lot of progress will be made with organic materials as against silicon based solar cells.

For anyone living in Nigeria, the sorry state of NEPA (PHCN) is still enough to guarantee steady power year in year out.

Of course, utility power is cheap but comes at a great cost to the environment as most power plants either burn coal or fossil fuel.

Further more, the average Nigerian is a power waster, hence may not realize that power is expensive until we begin to see steady power supply.

I keep advicing people to do a small energy efficiency program like changing the regular 60W/100W bulbs to energy saving ones that are rated at just 15W and these are even brighter.

Renewable energy is the key to the future.

@Tornadoz,

You ain't seen anything yet! This man will clutch at anything and he will always end up talking trash.

If you ask him tomorrow to summarize his position(s) on this thread he will certainly be unable to do so because he does not have a mind of his own, he seems as a microphone for the US, UK and Israel.

He is dangerously mis-informed and irredeemably unintelligent, only God knows what someone like him would have been doing in the village if he had not left the village.

I saw the interview on TV and honestlty speaking as a very proud Igbo man I was thoroughly embarassed at the quality of english language he was forcing himself (albeit unsuccessfully) to speak.

Now, this is my problem, what is wrong in Nigerians that cannot express themselves in english language choosing to speak pidgin english or their native languages using interpreters?

A lot of leaders or sportsmen/sportswomen speak their native languages and leave the interpreter to do the job, this is far better than having these Nigerians attempt (in vain) to speak a language they do not understand well.

I am a strong supporter of our local languages or pidgin english as these will enable us communicate better. The idea of someone speaking flawless english may make people like us withdraw or in some very bad scenarios just nod and agree with everything that is being said even if we do not agree but are scared to challenge them with our half baked english.

We cannot build a nation with borrowed language. Mercy Akide was another national embarassment at the last FIFA awards.

Please, speak pidgin english or your native language if english hard, communication will flow better that way.

Wind energy and solar energy make a lot of sense as the resources are enormous.

You cannot use either for reliable backup unless you have a large battery bank that could provide for any autonomy that you require from 1 hr to 3 days.

Hybrid backup makes sense as wind energy complements solar energy as the two cannot be producing energy at the same time.

I have not used a generator in my office for over two years and yet I never run out of power.

A simple inverter (we build them locally and offer 1 year full warranty, we repair or replace at no cost) and a good battery bank is all you need to venture into alternative energy because the average home or office in Nigeria still sees enough utility power to charge your battery bank unless you want to be completely energy independent.

Though expensive to acquire it is far cheaper even when evaluated in just 1 year or 2 years in some cases.

@Tornadoz,

Thanks joo, I wish you good luck as you attempt to educate this man, in all honesty I believe he lacks the ability to comprehend simple issues, he prefers jumping from one vague position to another baseless one.

Information for tayoD that nearly went beserk accusing me of lying about the raid at Iranian Consulate in Iraq.

The statement in bold refers, truth shall always prevail over lies just as light shall always overcome darkness.

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow dismissed as "urban  
legend" the notion that war preparations are underway. But  
he persuaded neither a public turned skeptical by the Iraq  
invasion nor certain congressional Democrats. The Jan. 11  
Special Forces raid on the Iranian Consulate in the Kurdish  
Iraqi city of Irbil, a calculated provocation personally  
authorized by President Bush and evidently representative  
of the more muscular new policy, fueled questions about  
the administration's intentions. Sen. James Webb asked  
Secretary Rice, "Is it the position of this administration  
that it possesses the authority to take unilateral action  
against Iran in the absence of a direct threat without  
congressional approval?" She ducked the question.

Nothing can be hidden for ever under the sun.

Those that stood by the facts, opposed killing of civilians and wastage of innocent lives were called names for being bold enough to call a spade a spade.

Gradually but surely information will ultimately come out in full and I wonder what those that have supported these massacres will do then.

Evil cannot triumph over good and we can never have peace until equity, fairplay and justice are guaranteed the world over.

Enough of the blind and total support based on religious and racial sentiments.

From the inbox.

It is interesting to note that while some Nigerians are busy creating excuses for the many blunders of Bush Americans are asking the hard questions and taking positions based on what makes sense.

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Next Stop: Tehran, by Philip Giraldi

By the time President Bush finally announced it, his surge
strategy was old news. But an unexpected section of the
speech jarred the normally somnolent mainstream media:
"Iran is providing material support for attacks on American
troops. We will disrupt the attacks on our forces. , And
we will seek out and destroy the networks providing
advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq."
Speculation that Bush was already plotting his next war
nearly stole the story of how he plans to salvage the
current one.

Picking up the presidential cue, the administration began
advancing the fiction that Iranian support of America's
"enemies" in Iraq is killing U.S. soldiers-an implausible
assertion since the insurgents and al-Qaeda are Sunnis,
while the Iranians are Shi'ites linked to parties within
the current Iraqi government. The day after the speech,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on her way to the
Middle East to pull together a Sunni coalition against
Iran, asserted willingness to confront Tehran over its
"destabilizing behavior." And by Jan. 15, the
administration's supposed realist, Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates, had jumped on the scrum, declaring that Iran
has been "very negative," while admitting for the first
time that the naval buildup in the Persian Gulf was
designed to threaten Iran and "reassure allies." White
House sources report that the National Security Council
has already considered likely consequences of a war with
Iran, and an assessment of Tehran's ability to retaliate
concluded that the resulting damage to American facilities
and interests worldwide would be "acceptable."

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow dismissed as "urban
legend" the notion that war preparations are underway. But
he persuaded neither a public turned skeptical by the Iraq
invasion nor certain congressional Democrats. The Jan. 11
Special Forces raid on the Iranian Consulate in the Kurdish
Iraqi city of Irbil, a calculated provocation personally
authorized by President Bush and evidently representative
of the more muscular new policy, fueled questions about
the administration's intentions. Sen. James Webb asked
Secretary Rice, "Is it the position of this administration
that it possesses the authority to take unilateral action
against Iran in the absence of a direct threat without
congressional approval?" She ducked the question.
Similarly, on ABC's "This Week," National Security Adviser
Stephen Hadley would not say whether he agrees with
senators who insist that the president needs congressional
approval for an attack. Other administration sources assert
that Bush believes he could strike Iran in his capacity as
commander in chief or under his 2003 Iraq authorization.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. John D.
Rockefeller voiced his alarm: "It's Iraq again. This whole
concept of moving against Iran is bizarre."

In some sense, the war has already begun. For the past two
years, the U.S. has been conducting secret operations
inside Iran, employing Special Forces units operating out
of Afghanistan, while Pentagon-supported dissidents have
been carrying out armed raids into Iran's predominantly
Arab provinces.

A second carrier group, the USS John Stennis, is moving
toward the Persian Gulf to supplement the carrier USS
Dwight D. Eisenhower-the last time two carrier groups were
in the Gulf was during the invasion of Iraq-and a flotilla
of minesweepers accompanied by an Aegis class cruiser was
sent to the region at the end of 2006. The carrier
aircraft, useless against insurgents and terrorists in
Iraq, can only be employed in a war with Iran, while the
minesweepers would be needed to keep clear the Strait of
Hormuz for oil tankers and other shipping.

The naval presence in the region will be directed by Adm.
William Fallon, the recently appointed chief of Central
Command, replacing the uncooperative Gen. John Abizaid,
who had opposed the surge. Fallon knows little of ground
combat but a great deal about naval air operations. The
dearth of "boots on the ground" Army and Marine infantry
would be irrelevant in Iran as an assault would be
conducted from the sea and air, where the U.S. has more
than enough available resources.

Bush has also ordered Patriot missile batteries to the
region, clearly intended to defend against Iranian
ballistic missiles and airstrikes launched in a retaliatory
attack against vulnerable U.S. bases in Iraq and in Kuwait
and against the region's oil fields.

Once the military and naval resources arrive at the end of
February, the precise timing for a strike would depend on
political and economic factors, as well as suitable weather
conditions permitting aerial and satellite reconnaissance.
But maintaining two carrier groups and support vessels in
the Persian Gulf is hugely expensive, so the administration
will be motivated to use them once all the components for
an attack are in place. A Kuwaiti newspaper, relying on
confidential sources in the Emirate's government, predicts
that the attack will take place before the first week of
April, when Tony Blair steps down as British prime
minister, under the assumption that he will provide
political cover as well as material support in the form of
minesweepers. As Kuwait's government, host to the sprawling
U.S. base Camp Doha and a prime target for Iranian
retaliation, has been in the loop for planning vis-à-vis
Iran, the suggested date has a high level of credibility.

As for casus belli, an attack might be preceded by a Gulf
of Tonkin type incident in which Iran fires on or otherwise
interferes with a U.S. warship. As two carrier groups will
basically fill the shallow and narrow waters of the Persian
Gulf, the potential for an incident is obviously very high.

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At least as significant as the military buildup is the
intensifying rhetoric surrounding the Iranian threat.
President Bush has guaranteed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert that the U.S. will defend Israel against Iran and
will not engage Tehran in negotiations. At the 2006 annual
meeting of AIPAC, the principal Israeli lobbying group,
Vice President Dick Cheney stated in his keynote address,
"We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon." There
have been similar, and frequent, iterations of that theme
by Rice, Hadley, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
and, most recently, by the Undersecretary of State Nicholas
Burns addressing an audience in Israel. Those who hope that
Democrats will stop the rush to war need only note the
repeated excoriation of Iran by party leaders like Hillary
Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and Charles Schumer.
Howard Dean has declared that the U.S. attack on Iraq was
directed against the "wrong enemy" while Iran is "the right
enemy." Dean's DNC, which reportedly receives more than
half of its funds from Jewish sources, would be
understandably reluctant to oppose war against Iran.

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Deputy Prime
Minister Avigdor Lieberman urge an expeditious attack to
destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities-arms inspector Scott
Ritter has called the drive to attack Iran a policy "made
in Israel." And outspoken former Israeli Brigadier General
Oded Tira has called on the Israeli lobby to engage
Democratic hawks and exploit media connections to bring
about action against Iran:

President Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran. As
an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence,
we must help him pave the way by lobbying the Democratic
Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and U.S.
newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the
Iranian issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq
failure.

Tira joins other advocates of war with Iran in recognizing
the power of the mainstream media to prime the public for
an attack. Four separate Iran groups working within the
U.S. government-and staffed by many of the same individuals
who brought about the Iraq War-will likely preface military
action against Tehran with a series of leaked stories to
latter-day Judith Millers demonizing the designated enemy.
As with the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, ideologically
driven intelligence centers relying on dubious sources
like the terrorist group Mujahadeen e Khalq have been
established at the Pentagon and elsewhere to offer alarmist
assessments of Iran.

The propagandizing effort has already begun. A late-2006
series of largely fictional Israeli-generated stories in
Rupert Murdoch's Times newspapers of London hyped the
Iranian threat. Most recently, the Times reported that
Israel is preparing for its own attack on three key Iranian
nuclear facilities. The planning reportedly includes use
of nuclear devices to eliminate deeply buried facilities,
a refinement to the story added to encourage the United
States to attack instead, as the U.S. believes it could
take out the targets without using nuclear weapons.

Other indicators suggest that an attack against Iran is
impending, if not imminent. Pentagon planners, conscious
that if attacked Iran would stir up its Shi'ite friends
in neighboring Iraq, anticipate that extra soldiers being
used in the surge might be shifted to the Iran-Iraq border
to seal it off when military operations against Tehran
start. Retired Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner, who taught
strategy and military operations at the National War
College, believes that combat brigades ostensibly being
collected for the surge pacification of Baghdad might
instead be sent directly to the border with Iran. The
Department of Defense is also reported to be hiring more
Farsi speakers to train soldiers in the language-a point-
less exercise unless some level of engagement with Iran
is anticipated-while Washington contractors providing
translation services to the Pentagon are working seven
days a week on Farsi documents, seeking the "silver
bullet" linking Iran to terrorism, thus making some case
for war.

The rejection of the Iraq Study Group's suggestion that
the U.S. work diplomatically and constructively with
all parties in the Persian Gulf region provided further
evidence of the administration's intentions. Likewise,
its refusal to approach the bargaining table until Iran
agrees to abandon its nuclear energy program. That program,
monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, exists
in response to a legitimate need for electrical generating
capacity based on projections that Iran's oil resources
will soon sharply diminish and eventually be depleted. An
as yet unreleased U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on
Iran concludes that the evidence for a weapons program is
largely circumstantial and inconclusive, while the Director
of National Intelligence John Negroponte reported that
Iran is five to ten years away from having a weapon even
if it accelerates the process and no one interferes with
its development. Negroponte was predictably fired for his
unwillingness to alter the intelligence, and the NIE is
unlikely to see the light of day unless it is rewritten
to conclude that Iran is an immediate threat.

Other attempts to build bridges between Washington and
Tehran have also failed. Years of negotiations with Iran
by Britain, France, and Germany went nowhere because of
American refusal to play a part in the process, which came
very close to a comprehensive settlement on a number of
occasions. The U.S. instead chose to block agreements that
did not include complete Iranian surrender on the key issue
of its nuclear program. A series of compromises proposed by
Tehran between March 2005 and October 2006 that would have
banned nuclear-weapon production and permitted round-the-
clock complete-access inspections were rejected due to
American objections.

Iran has also reached out directly to the United States to
establish a basis for negotiations but has been rebuffed
repeatedly by an intransigent White House. In the spring
of 2006, confidential negotiations between Iran and
American Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad to help
stabilize Iraq were suspended under orders from Vice
President Cheney. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's
18-page letter to President Bush in May 2006, widely
interpreted in Iran as an attempt to establish dialogue,
was summarily rejected. Bush did not even bother to read
it. Yet the overtures continued. Former Iranian President
Mohammad Khatami's September visit was a backdoor approach
for opening discussion. But Rice's State Department only
reluctantly permitted the visit, and the White House then
ignored it, failing to grasp the extended olive branch. It
is the ultimate irony that the Iraqi government, which the
U.S. is ostensibly protecting, is regularly meeting Iranian
leaders to establish a modus vivendi, while Washington
refuses to engage.

Iran is not an imminent threat and clearly doesn't want
war, while the United States can ill afford another.
But the Bush administration seems intent on toppling
Ahmadinejad. The overwhelming victory of moderates and
reformers in Iran's December election shows that the
Iranian people are peacefully working toward the same end.
But the White House, showing interest neither in dialogue
nor in letting the democratic process do its work, seems
more inclined to let bombs do the talking.
________________________________________________

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA Officer, is a partner in
Cannistraro Associates, an international security
consultancy.

The funny thing is that the PDP has the best structures on ground and if you offer Buhari, Orji Kalu, Atiku etc the PDP ticket for the presidential elections they will gladly dump their parties and sing the praises of the PDP.

@Buluti,

Thanks too and stay blessed.

I hope we will all be able to agree and disagree on anything without getting personal.

Do have a good weekend ahead.

davidylan:


Same old Uncle Afam abusing those who disagree with his ancient "wisdom".

Lose the uncle, my name is Afam. I do not believe anyone will enjoy exchanging uncomplimentary words with people all the time so even though I hate it the alternative (which is to ignore insults sent my way just for having contrary views) isn't appealing either.

I will never abuse anyone that disagrees with me but I will always return the insults if/when they come.

All we need here is mutual respect for one another regardless of how we see things afterall we all come from different backgrounds, with different experiences and are bound not to agree on everything.

It is very necessary for Putin to attempt to checkmate the over bearing US with a president that commits blunders at will without any end in sight.

Only those that have blind and sometimes very crazy support for the US will tell you that the US has not succeeded in making the world an insecure place.

It is a good thing that Russia is willing to defend Iran otherwise we will witness another invasion by the US and they will later admit mistakes based on faulty intelligence while thousands of innocent souls are sent to their early graves.

Why can't the US impeach Bush and his deputy and bring in people that are sensible?

Thanks for the advice but your diversion will only make you look plain stupid for making a wrong accusation and clutching at anything around instead of hiding your head in shame.

I have seen egg heads like you that are inherently stupid without knowing it. Another slowpoke on rampage, ride on.

Even with a president from the South and commissioners from the South I wonder why all the southerners will allow such manipulations to stand without any complaints whatsoever.

With a Northern president, one could easily assume that he insisted on doctoring the census to favour the North but why would OBJ, a Southern president allow the census to be doctored to favour the North? This defies logic.

Lagos state finally came out with a figure (almost twice the number NPC recorded for Lagos) after saying that releasing its own results would be unconstitutional, a position was shown to be totally ridiculous and crazy since it was already rejecting the results after they were announced.

While I agree that an accurate census figures will help/aid in infrastructural development and planning it is equally important that we seek to better the process involved in the counting and ask for more transparency (whatever that means).

But to dismiss the census results with statements like "Kano is a desert", "who does not know that Lagos has over 15M people" or "that NASA's satellite images are telling a different story" won't help and really, do not make sense.

@buluti,

Unless the word correction has lost its meaning I wonder what you are talking about.

I made statements based on live coverage on CNN minutes if not up to an hour before any online version came up and even when the first reply asked me to point to the link I made it clear this was a breaking news story on CNN.

Later online versions came out that are not exactly as the breaking news story and rather than put the blame on the media that aired the breaking news which was different from what came out later on the web you are accusing me of telling lies.

I stand by my earlier statements that what I put down was based on what CNN said. If CNN decided to tell a different story on the web from what they had earlier aired, the mistake is theirs not mine.

I do not have time to promote any policy or any likeness for any group or country here so I do not have any reason to lie about anything. If I had made a mistake I would have easily and effortlessly apologized and moved on (I have done so before and will do it again if necessary) but no amount of wrong accusations or baseless ones will make my apologize for the sake of it and any insults will always be returned in kind, this is not negotiable.

Put differently, I can relate with anyone regardless of how the person comes along, either as a friend or as a foe, it doesn't matter because my focus will always be on the issues involved.

As to the average IQ level of the discussion on this forum being low, it's your take and you are entitled to it.

Thank God people are begining to ask the right questions and are saying things the way they really are.

Blind and total support for the US and Israel regardless of their actions is wrong and only promotes hatred towards them.

Ndipe:
@Iyke, Murtala Muhammad, though adorned in mufti did not face any controversy over public money, even after his death. I have not read any negative article about him, since I was in Naija. So, I still maintain, there are other incorruptible military officers that can pull the country out of the abyss that it is currently in. Buhari tried, even though some of his policies were indeed controversial, but some of his high handed practises were established to prevent the country from treading towards anarchy that had engulfed it, in the 2nd republic. Like you, I had earlier queried if those two, Buhari and Yaradua were the only candidates that are capable of ruling nigeria.

@Jakumo. If Buhair gets elected and invited you to join his cabinet to serve the public, would you, out of total disdain for him and his policies turn him down?

The statement in bold refers, what is actually wrong with Yar'adua candidacy?

I believe those who think he is not the right candidate or even the best candidate based on the current party flag bearers should tell us why we should not vote for him.

Comparing Yar'adua with Buhari is not fair at all because they are world apart.