360command: that is becos your country jagajaga.. Have you traveled before? Have you been to haiti and Dominica republic? They are both on an island.. Dominican republic is a paradise but Haiti is hell.. Haitians travel to dominican rep alot and then come back to talk about how peaceful it is in Dominican... But how many Dominicans goes to haiti? A few.. And what is there to talk about haiti, none. Because haiti is scattered! That's how nigeria and ghana is... It is when you travel and see places then your mind becomes open.. You start to compare and contrast.
Thank you. Tell 'em the nuanced difference that sets up one country better than another for sustained development. Blinkered view of patriotism continues to wreck Nigerians
achieverme: And one of the gospels of righteousness being preached by Mr Chris oyakhilome involves telling you that masturbation is not a sin? Any, for how long do you want to cover up the lies and errors in your church?
What permissive drivel/hairsplitting is this despite Romans 12:2? We humans and our capacity for sleight. SMH.
Beating the meat no longer explicitly a sin despite the Bible characterizng lust (in the heart) from the base level of intent a.k.a. brainwave?
Must have spilled this heresy at the climax of the the Chris hubris. Even the smut connoisseurs and xhamster Wankmaster-Generals are contrite enough to know better.
Too little sleep probably. Hope he eventually succeeds jerking off out of his spiritual doze.
achieverme: And one of the gospels of righteousness being preached by Mr Chris oyakhilome involves telling you that masturbation is not a sin? Any, for how long do you want to cover up the lies and errors in your church?
greenmonk: so there is no content of human capital and training associated with the hunter. You are also ditorting the import of the analogy. The hunter would have made a better economic sense to make his wife prepare the pepper soup. When are we really going to face reality and build our econemy instead of looking finished products from other lands?
DGD1: op is just advertising innoson cars, but the way he is doing it is very wrong, all he said are baseless.... common, cars from early 90's upward could be used in any part of the world(though some vehicles have issues due to technical know how). Better let us not start with innoson cars, I can start analysis of that product that are not performing to expectations.... this is not politics that you gain sympathy vote by propaganda, rather than coming so low, you guys should focus more on developing your products to compete globally. take KIA and Hyundai for example I can remember how their early productions were, but now a kia/Hyundai product can be compared along with Toyota, Nissan and Honda.
I think Obama made d right call here and Putin's d guy acting the petulant child No Jupiter let alone a Maidan madness or Nato could've contrived taking over Crimea notwithstanding Nikita Krushchev's 'historic error' (with 20/20 hindsight of course) of ceding it to Ukr This is post globalisation 21st century Enough of unnecessary belligerence and work on Russia's huge potential like China has continued to do Nothin can dim Russia WW2 huge sacrifice Not even some purported Obama 'petulance'
Pacy racy hilarious script. But education and white-collar crimes aren't necessarily equivalent These things eventually come out in the wash wit credible law enforcement Funny plot though @ provocative lady and focus
We humans and our inscrutably flawed ideas of 'prosperity' and 'progress'. Too bad these Hobbesian events still find clear expressions in an iPhone-themed 21st century But then aren't they fleeing from homes where million-dolllar fortune in common wealth vanish mindlessly into thin air existing in only the pockets of those presiding over them? So baffling. Somehow this ugliness must be wiped out. From within.
Caveats. Escape clauses. Red flags. Sadly a waste, a costly exercise with zilch to show for it and a lot of dough down the drain into the bargain There is yet hope
Williamso: This is the bitter truth that my fellow Niger Deltans have been too blind to see. What people don't know is that if the civil war was successful, a certain Biafra would have been like Equatorial Guinea - one leader for many decades, invariably becoming a tyrant! #TeamOneNigeria
The mind boggles over the wickedness of the Government, the full report would have been swept under the carpet if the current incumbent won. Largest oil revenues on record doesn't tally with infrastructures, standard of living on ground. To think, they proudly came out to declare only $1.4 billion was unremited.
Aunt Ngozi I have the most pity for...
Yes this would've been swept under without as much as a whimper.
In praise of god of digital technology which had precluded outrageous 'moonslide' numbers, PVC totally wrongfooted PDP initial rigging plans. At least long enough before manual switch from card readers.
Just imagining an eventual PDP 'slim' victory that would've been ascribed to the 'will of God' in typical NIG fashion, still gives me 'daymares'. The country barely dodged a bullet. Per the future outcome of these emerging revelations, the street's watching, courtesy mobile phones unlike before. What's currently good for Brazillians/Petrobras must be good for Nigerians/NNPC
Here's to yet undiscovered underground raw talents out there. NIG music scene wont do worse with the entry of a deep-pocketed svengali hungry for success in the newfangled streaming biz frontline The country's demographics & energy are a big plus more so that the polity has just worn a more stable long term outlook. Good bet
Now it's Apple's world. Once it seemed eternally IBM's. Hand it to the disruptive character of innovation & competition Google seems the new ascendant disrupter this time. Interesting.
Too bad Nigeria now have to bid a certain farewell to $100-barrel just after recent spree of waste. Buhari surely has his work cut out. Let's brace up. Hope springs eternal
7footre: And there is no correlation between the huge debts and infrastructure/development in most of these states....
Word! One wonders @ the complacency over LSG's earning power despite such current minuscule output to show for it, with cripplingly snowballing debt into the bargain. And to think they are heaped with praise for frustrating infrastructure & mortgaging the future? Now Nigeria has been relieved of the GEJ millstone, pray Buhari handles the low hanging fruits of corruption(nnpc, civil service et al) fast enough to deal with less obvious but no less egregious symbols of rot as the Lagos & Akwa ibom overrated 'performers'.
On an inscrutable Jonathan, low bars yet abysmal results and destructive indifference. No small relief flipping past this avoidably gory chapter @ last.
I am a very proud Igbo man. I am also a Christian. But not for one minute did I buy the argument that because of ethnic or religious consideration, it was my duty to support a leadership that is not committed to any of the values that I hold.
The Igbo man is known for his inventiveness. We are incredibly hard working and can compete with anyone from anywhere as long as there is a level playing field. Our quarrel with the rest of Nigeria has been that now and again, we have been visited with hatred because of our inventiveness and hard work.
I am therefore pained that by the actions of some election contractors of Igbo extraction, every person from the South East of Nigeria may now be a suspect in the hideous enterprise of “vote swinging” and the repulsive attempt to manipulate the outcome of the current elections.
For the Igbos to have been seen as the main backers of government that has continuously stood good sense on its head and shown very little strategic intellect is a historic mistake. The destructive alliance that may have suggested that my people have willy-nilly supported the unsustainable financial corruption and value corruption that has recently gone on in Nigeria, has done the Igbo man a lot of harm.
The only thing we have achieved is to make ourselves irrelevant in the Nigerian political process. Can you imagine the Igbos, a critical part of the tripod on which Nigeria has stood, becoming a minority in Nigeria’s political market place?
Let it be known that the biggest loser in the current elections is not Goodluck Jonathan. It is the Igbo man. How could we not have seen that Nigerians have been desperately yearning for change and tap into that burning desire? 2.50% in Enugu; 2.64% in Anambra; 3.60% in Abia; 5.97% in Ebonyi! Apart from Imo, no state in the South East is recorded as having given up to 6% of its vote to the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Who set up this stupid rigging machine that has rigged the Igbos out of Nigerian politics? How did we become mere spectators in a game in which we have the ability to produce the center forward? What exactly did we get from the PDP to mortgage the future of our children? While the rest of the country was running away from the odium of that political party, we were kissing the PDP, cuddling the PDP and making love like crazy with the PDP. Can you imagine that we are now the owners of a terribly afflicted PDP? We even killed APGA to get what? What a tragedy!
It must be said that there are many Igbos who did not buy into this abysmal gamble of our so called leaders. I want my grandchildren to know that I was not part of this madness. Let them be told that, like many Igbos, I stood firm with the time honoured values of the Igbo man and refused to sell my conscience for a mess of porridge. History must record it that whatever shenanigan has taken place has happened despite our protest.
We, the Igbos have brilliant men and women across the world. It is time for a new crop of leaders to emerge from Igboland, a leadership that has a good strategic understanding of the Nigerian political environment. We need a leadership that understands that having a lot of money does not necessarily mean having a lot of good sense. Every serious minded Igbo man and woman must seek this. It is very urgent!
There! As bull-eyed as it gets. Packs so much heat i was compelled to quote. Pardon me..
siraj1402: NO Pastor, Imam, Babalawo, Oba, Obi, Emir, Obong, Chief, Militant etc can tell me who to vote for, NEVER!....
I bear the brunt of unemployment, not the Pastor....
I suffer epileptic power supply, not the Imams.....
When my landlord increases house rent, the Oba will not send me money to augment it..... When medical bills needs to be paid, I won't see the Obi....
When armed robbers show up in my neighborhood, the Emir won't be there to rescue me...
When time comes to pay exorbitant private school fees for my children because public schools that produced the likes of Soyinka, Chinua Achebe are derelict, no Militant will come to my rescue...
The roads leading to Obong's palace are bad, he has not done anything about it, how can he help me?
Exchange rate has plumeted while the economy worsened yet the Babalawo suffers in silence with me ad he is unable to use his juju to make our economic problems disappear...
My siblings and the children of the Chief who are graduates for the past 8 years have remained unemployed while he is powerless to help them...
So I alone will decide WHO IS MAKING ME GO THROUGH ALL THESE HARDSHIP, AND USING MY PVC TO TERMINATE HIS TENURE, IF I DON'T LIKE HIS POOR HANDLING OF GOVERNANCE!
Spot on. Lucid and piercing through all the smoke and mirrors.
Just when you think things couldn't get any better, so much the future holds.
NEW MOBILE networks come along once every decade or so. Starting around 1980, the first generation of cellular phones relied on analogue technology. When the second-generation arrived in 1991, the networks began to go digital. By 2001, the third-generation swapped clunky old circuit-switching for efficient packet-switching. Around 2010, fourth-generation networks adopted IP (internet protocol) technology in a big way, providing mobile devices with broadband access to the internet. Each generational change brought new frequency bands, higher speeds and greater emphasis on streaming data rather than simply transmitting voice.
Lately, wireless operators have begun wondering what to include in fifth-generation (5G) networks. There is a feeling of urgency as outside heavyweights like Google and Facebook threaten to upset their cosy business. If the mobile carriers can agree among themselves, they hope to have their fifth-generation networks in place by 2020.
That may be a bit ambitious. Years of haggling lie ahead while policy-makers and standards bearers lobby for technologies their national carriers and telecoms firms deem vital for their own wellbeing. However, the hope burns bright that, unlike previous generations of mobile technology, 5G will be a true global standard—allowing travellers to use their personal phones anywhere in the world, without the hassle of having to swap their SIM cards for local ones bought on arrival.
What to expect from 5G? At this stage, one of the few things that can be said about 5G with certainity is that—if it is to meet society’s growing demands for ubiquitous and instantaneous connectivity—such networks will need to have a “latency” (ie, response time) of about one millisecond. The speed at which two devices can begin to communicate with one another over today’s 4G networks is about 50 milliseconds, and around 500 milliseconds for the still widely used 3G services.
Even 4G is nowhere near fast enough for, say, cloud-based systems to transmit emergency instructions to driverless cars threading their way through traffic. Nor is it good enough to provide seamless language translation between participants sharing a teleconference, let alone to guide a scalpel while a surgeon is performing a life-saving operation remotely. Many real-time wireless applications will need latencies of a millisecond at most.
Another cornerstone requirement is going to be a data rate of at least one gigabit per second (1Gbps) to start with, and multiple gigabits per second thereafter. Mobile users will need such speeds if they are to stream ultra-high-definition (ie, 4k and soon 8k) video formats to their phones and tablets.
Today, 4G networks based on LTE (long-term evolution) technology can manage between 10 and 100 megabits per second (Mbps), depending on the setup and amount of traffic. Most mobile carriers are still rolling out their LTE services, while a few have started to install the latest LTE-Advanced equipment (ie, true 4G as opposed to the half-baked versions carriers have been pretending are the real thing). The peak bit rate of LTE-A is claimed to be 1Gbps. In the real world, however, it is more like 250Mbps.
So, how much of an improvement will 5G offer over the best of 4G? Difficult to say. But given the ten-fold improvement seen over previous generations, an average 5G download speed of 1Gbps seems realistic—with the possibility of up to 10Gbps as the technology ripens with age. Such wireless bit rates are beyond even the scope of the optical-fibre currently used to deliver internet access and high-definition television to the home.
Two technical features—carrier aggregation and MIMO antennas—are responsible for giving LTE-A its big boost over earlier iterations. Neither technique is particularly new, but both are expected to play a big role in helping 5G fulfill its promise.
For its part, carrier aggregation is a way of boosting download speeds by plucking signals from a number of local base stations, instead of simply the most powerful one in the vicinity. These different channels—often with different frequencies from different bands in the spectrum—are combined into what is effectively a single fat pipe capable of delivering data at a far higher rate than would otherwise be possible. In LTE-A, up to five component carriers, each offering up to 20 megahertz of bandwidth, can be aggregated into a single carrier 100MHz wide.
Given the global shortage of spectrum, most mobile telecoms firms have snapped up frequencies wherever they can. As a result, few of their chunks of spectrum are contiguous. Fortunately, carrier aggregation not only allows mobile operators to boost their data rates, but it also permits them to patch together their disparate blocks of spectrum. This is going to be even more important when 5G enters service in the more crowded wireless world of five or more years hence.
Much the same goes for MIMO (multiple input/multiple output). This works by transmitting two or more data streams via two or more antennas, and having the receiving antennas process all the incoming signals instead of just the strongest one. It has been likened to replacing a country road with a single lane for traffic with a multi-lane highway. Today’s MIMO implementations tend to have three or four antennas on both the transmitting and the receiving ends. But what if each end had tens of antennas or even hundreds? That would translate into a significant increase in download speed, and a far more efficient use of the available spectrum.
Which spectrum that will be, though, has still to be decided. Today’s wireless devices operate in the crowded 700MHz to 2.6GHz part of the radio-frequency compass. It is not as though once 5G hits the airwaves, chunks of spectrum used today by 4G and even 3G networks will suddenly become vacant. Mobile carriers will still have to continue their legacy services for the millions of subscribers who do not immediately upgrade to the latest devices—and may not do so for years to come.
The obvious answer for 5G is to migrate from today’s UHF frequencies to either the SHF (super high frequency) band between 3Ghz and 30GHz, or even to the EHF (extremely high frequency) band from 30GHz to 300GHz. Current occupants of these rarefied frequencies (also known as "millimetre waves" because of their wavelength) include satellite television, microwave relay links, air-traffic radar, radio astronomy and amateur radio.
In most regions of the world, a chunk of spectrum around 60GHz has been designated for public use. With their new 802.11ad standard, the WiFi community plans to exploit the unlicensed 60GHz band for streaming ultra-high-definition video around the home. In typical configurations, 802.11ad can beam more than 6Gbps over modest distances.
As always, there are drawbacks. One is that such extreme frequencies are easily blocked by walls and even people moving around. They also get absorbed by the atmosphere, by causing oxygen molecules in the air to resonate—though the absorption effect only becomes significant at distances greater than 100 metres or so. However, by going to 70GHz and above, atmospheric absorption disappears altogether. Nokia, a Finnish network-infrastructure firm, is said to have achieved speeds in 70GHz trials of 115Gbps over short distances in the laboratory.
All of which suggests that 5G will need base stations closer to users than current cellular towers. As it so happens, that is already a trend. So far, microcells—no bigger than a WiFi modem—have been used mainly inside buildings, to overcome poor mobile reception. To handle 5G’s needs, hundreds of microcellular access points will be required to fill the gaps between existing cellular base stations. With the tiny antenna boxes attached to lamp-posts and the sides of buildings, few people will ever notice them, let alone object to their presence—as is so often the case when new cellular towers are erected these days.
It is tempting to think that, even when the “internet of things” adds billions of more digital devices chatting over the airwaves, the technology underpinnings of 5G will offer so much potential bandwidth as to render future generations of mobile networking unnecessary. Indeed, some network architects expect 5G to be the end of the line; everything thereafter, they suggest, will be merely some evolutionary improvement. A nice thought. But the past teaches otherwise, and the future always finds ways to thwart even the smartest of prognosticators.
almondjoy: No it is not wickedness. It is obvious that the man will not survive the mayhem that awaits him. Surrounded by area fathers, sons and daughters of Nigeria? I am not wishing him death, do not get me wrong. My prediction is that he will not survive the next 71/2 months of his tenure. The dude is such a weakling. I think someone might just poison him--get rid of him the good old Nigerian mafia war. Then my real fear will consume me. The fear of Jonathan Goodluck ruling Nigeria in Ibori's style---area father style! Nigeria will totally die as a country never to be revived. Mark my words!
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