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chartreuse:
I recently discovered that Microsoft registered "bi.ng", I looked in further, and discovered that companies registered in Nigeria are permitted the TLD, but those without have to have a ccTLD (i.e., com.ng) -- How do I go about getting a ".ng", I have a registered company, etc.

Thanks.

Hi, I don't know if the previous responders understood your question correctly.

If your question is whether you can register a second level domain such as yourname.ng just like Microsoft has done with bi.ng, then the answer is yes.
If your question (or assumption) is that it costs the same as registering on the third level, such as yourname.com.ng, then the answer is NO!

To register on the 2nd level, you have to pay Six million naira (N6,000,000) if you register before the end of February 2011.  If you register after Feb 2011, you will have to pay Seven and a half million naira (N7,500,000).  This amount gives you the domain for a first period of 5 years, after which you renew at the same rate as any other .ng domain, depending on the registrar you choose. 

Anybody, in or outside the country can register any of the "open" domains (.com.ng .org.ng .name.ng .mobi.ng) and also on the 2nd level, as long as there are not copyright restrictions on your chosen domain name.

This is a list of the accredited NiRA registrars. They can help you register the domains: either the 'normal' ones on the 3nd level or the premium ones on the 2nd level: http://nira.org.ng/index.php/registrars

For more information, send an email to the Chief Executive Office of NiRA, Mr. Sola Bickersteth at coo AT nira dot org dot ng

Hope this helps.

larablog:
The issue of losing weight has being a big problem for me. I recently decided to take it seriously but the weight refused to fall off.
I tried everything: starvation, rigorous exercises, cardio, drinking lots of water, strength training, eating right in short everything .
Guess what? I gained 3 kg I couldn't believe the scale but there it was. I don't know what to do, I can't remember the last time I had junk food or even drank a bottle of coke or juice. I am at loss of what to do but I have to try something because this weight gain is getting out of control.
I don't believe in pills and want to lose weight the natural way but nothing seems to work. Help

Hello @larablog Don't worry and don't give up. Hey, have you heard the expression "Portions is everything"?
That's the simple trick to losing weight. Portions - the amount of food you eat must be reduced for any meaningful weight loss.
But remember, it took you a long time to put on the weight, and so it WILL take you a long time to lose it. So the worst thing you can do is to become discouraged and think that it is not working.

One question: have you ever tried the methods you use for 12 months without break or fail? There, you see,

Lastly remember, dieting must go hand-in-hand with some form of exercising (small thrice weekly amounts). Neither will work alone.

Keep at it and good luck.

Thank you for replying.

I will pass your contact to the friend who needs them.

Question: Can you deliver to Victoria Island or where are you?

I need to buy CF Memory cards to be used in a digital camera.

Capacity should be 1GB and above.

Any sellers?

Thank you.

I need replacement batteries for Canon EOS 400D.

The battery code is NB-2LH
7.4V Li-on

Any sellers?

Thank you.

How much is your Canon 7d?
Is it new?

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The forum dedicated to a wide range of topics is based in Nigeria.
To date there are over 1,000 members.

Job specs:
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Put aside skepticism and you stand a chance at a first-mover advantage.
So far .ng domains have been quite good.

While the offer lasts, Registrars would register domains at no cost to Registrants for a period of one year.  The offer of free domains is restricted to the following Second Level:

-          .com.ng

-          .org.ng

-          .name.ng

-          .mobi.ng, and

-     .sch.ng (This would be part of it with the proviso that a process of verification should be adhered to).

See full details here: http://nira.org.ng/index.php/nigeriaat50

For a list of .ng domain registrars see here:  http://nira.org.ng/index.php/registrars

See www.nira.org.ng

IBB - you have admitted culpability for the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election. Thank you for accepting responsibility for it. As you know responsibility also implies that you should be prepared to bear the consequences. One consequence is that you do not deserve to come to power through the electoral process having shown that you hold no respect for it. Therefore sir, please stay in your house and give us the chance to forget you, because to remember you is to remember that we ought to punish you, so long and so harshly that you will not be able to remain sane.

We are doing what is Christian and charitable, which is to try to give you a second chance. Not a second chance to rule, but a second chance to live a peaceful life. So please go home and stop insulting our collective intelligence.

You hear?

It's called commitment.

rex23:
@OP, read very well the comments made by Romeo4real. That's the key, believe me.

Seconded.

Begging your pardon because this is a long post.  It is an article written three weeks ago by former Italian Senate president.  He sees beyond the attacks against the Pope, warning Christians to "open their eyes" because there is more to it.

Marcello Pera is an Italian philosopher and politician. He was the President of the Italian Senate from 2001 to 2006.  In the wake of the allegations of priestly sexual abuse and the accusations of inaction on the part of Catholic Church authorities, he sent this article to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.  In the article published on 19 March 2010, he argues that beneath the façade lies an ongoing battle between secularism and Christianity.  The abuses are only an excuse for this war.

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The recent breaking news in Germany of paedophile or homosexual priests is a direct attack against the Pope.  It will be a serious mistake to think that the blame will not stick given the graveness of the matter.  It would be an even greater mistake if one thinks that the matter will blow over for good as happened in similar situations in the past.  This is different.

There is a war going on.  And this war is targeted not against the Pope himself per se, because that is impossible on this matter. This is because Benedict XVI has made himself impregnable thanks to his image, serenity, clarity and to his doctrine.  His gentle smile is enough to defeat an entire army of opponents.  No, the war is between secularism and Christianity.  The secularists know that if mud were splashed on the white robe, it would stain the church, and if the church is stained, so would the Christian religion.  That is why the secularists accompany their campaign with questions like, “Who will continue to bring children to the Church?” or “who will continue to send boys to Catholic schools?” or even, “who will cure our little children in a Catholic hospital or clinic?”

A few days ago, one such secularist completely missed the point by writing that “the extent of the spread of sexual abuse of children by priests undermines the very legitimacy of the Catholic Church as the guarantor of the education of minors”.  To this writer, it does not seem to matter that this is a judgement that has no foundation in reality, because the so-called “extent of the spread” is a vague term.  What percentage of priests are paedophiles?  One, Ten percent?  All of them?  It does not also seem to matter that the statement is devoid of logic. One only need to replace the word “priest” with “teacher”, “politicians”, or “journalists” in order to undermine the legitimacy of public schools, the senate or of the newspaper.  What matters to such persons is to make insinuations even at the cost of using coarse arguments.  Priests are paedophiles therefore the Church has no moral authority… therefore Catholic education is dangerous… therefore Christianity is a fraud and a danger!

The battle is pitched between secularism and Christianity.  To find a simile, one must cast his mind back to Nazism and communism. The medium has changed but the end remains the same.  Today, just like yesterday, they ardently desire the destruction of religion.  The price Europe paid for this destructive fury was its own freedom.  And it is incredible that Germany while still beating its bosom in remembrance of the price it inflicted on all of Europe (which today has become democratic) seem today to have forgotten so soon.  Germany now does not seem to understand that democracy itself will be lost if Christianity is erased. The destruction of religion leads to the destruction of reason.  Nowadays it will not be triumph of secular reason but the introduction of a new barbarism.

On the ethical plane, it is the barbarism of those who kill the foetus because its life will be detrimental to the “mental health” of the mother.  They are the ones who say that an embryo is a “blob of cells” suitable for experiments.  They are those who kill an old person because he no longer has a family to care for him.  They are the ones who hasten the death of the child because it is no longer conscious and is incurable; who believe that “parent A” and “parent B” is equivalent to “father” and “mother”; who think that faith is like the tail bone, a body organ that is no longer participating in the evolutionary process because Erect and Independently standing man no longer needs a tail.  And so on.
On the other hand, considering the political angle of this secularist war against Christianity, barbarism will lead to the destruction of Europe.  This is because once you destroy Christianity, the end result is multi-culturalism, which believes that each group has a right to its own cultures; Relativism, which says that one culture is as good as the other; Pacifism, which denies the existence of evil or maintains that rhetorical and irresponsible Europe does not need to have its own identity, but should rather be a container of all identifies.  After all these claim, they go into Strasbourg Cathedral to exclaim: “Now we need the Christian soul of Europe”.

This war against Christianity would not be so dangerous if Christians understood what was going on.  Instead a great majority of them live in incomprehension.  Theologians are frustrated by the intellectual supremacy of Benedict XVI.  There are unsure bishops who believe that compromising with modernity is the best way to update the Christian message.  There are cardinals suffering a crisis of faith who are beginning to suggest that priestly celibacy is not a dogma and that it would perhaps be better to reconsider it.  There are plush Catholic intellectuals who think that there is a feminine question within the Church and an unresolved problem between Christianity and sexuality.  There are Episcopal conferences that being out of touch with daily realities, adopt an “open door” policy with everyone, and yet lack the courage to denounce the aggressions and humiliations which Christians suffer by being continually brought to the dock and forced to defend their cause.  Or those senators who show off a beautiful homosexual foreign affairs minister, while at the same time attacking the Pope on every ethical issue; or those born in the west who think that the west must be secular i.e. anti-Christian.

The secularist war will continue.  If for nothing else, because a Pope like Benedict XVI who smiles but does not shrink an iota feeds it.  If however one understands why he does not yield, one would then take up the battle without sitting back to await the next shot. Whoever limits himself only to showing solidarity with the Pope, is either someone who enters the Garden of Olives at night and secretly or is yet to understand what is going on.

--Marcello Pera

I can reply to the first part of your question by saying that the Executive MBA is equal (quality-wise) to the full-time one. It's just that instead of going to school Monday to Friday, the Exec ones do it Friday and Saturday all day, and then regularly have what they call the "Intensive Week" when they have to be in school all day.

I want to know too, thanks.

To be fair to the OP, Canon 5D is a very good camera, though five years old now. It has been been replaced by the 5D Mark II.
200k is high. Used ones on auction sites cost from $1,500 and when you include shipping cost back to Nigeria, you may then be approaching that same 200k.

Other factors have to come in here. What is the condition of the camera? Sure, OP says "like new" but that is not saying much actually. Photos will help.
Again, consider the local buying pattern. Not many Nigerians (not many professional photographers) will pay 200k for a used camera - even though it's a 5D.

In my opinion, try asking for 100k - 150k and you're likely to get buyers. And showing the photos of course!

And a very unscrupulous joke at that.