₦airaland Forum

Cosmopolice: Ive used mtn and etisalat, now glo. I prefare the glo cos it harldly goes out from 3G in my area. And moreover 7500 for 8gb is the best ive seen in nigeria so far, airtel is 5gb for 8k .i think the network varies from area to area. My advice is to try all of thwm and see which one suits where u live mostly. Guys please state why you like the network your using.

Anything related to 2baba is the best huh!!

The foray of the Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM) operators into the
Nigerian telecommunications space in
2001, has transformed the hitherto
unexciting industry into a highly
competitive tuft where the major players
constantly strive against each other for
market dominance.
It therefore comes as no surprise that
these GSM service providers, including
their CDMA (Code Division Multiple
Access) counterparts, periodically dangle
juicy offers in form of promotions and
lotteries to reward customers’ loyalty and
extend their market share.
As at the last count, virtually all the GSM
companies in the country including MTN,
Airtel, Etisalat and Globacom are engaged
in one form of promotion or the other,
while CDMA service providers like
Visafone and Multilinks are not left out of
the trend.
Recently these offers have been
questioned by the consuming public who
doubt the credibility of the promotions,
especially in comparison to the epileptic
network services rendered by the telcos.
The network providers on the other hand
have denied irregularities in their
promotions and lotteries, adding that they
have been thorough in their selection
processes.
The alleged fraudulent activities and poor
service delivery by these major players in
the telcos have not gone unnoticed by
the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) – the regulatory board
saddled with the responsibility of
enforcing qualitative and efficient
telecommunication services across the
nation. On November 12, 2012, the NCC
summarily banned all promotions and
lotteries currently run by the telcos, as
well as those proposed and already
approved by the commission. The
commission also directed the telcos to
improve on their services.
However, since last Monday when the
NCC announced its decision, the reactions
of the public has been diverse. While
some members of the public salute NCC’s
clampdown on the promos run by these
network service providers, others queried
the telecommunications regulatory body
stance against them.
At this junction, it is quintessential to
state that NCC’s ban on promos and
lotteries could not have come more
timely, this considering the fact that most
of the GSM and CDMA companies seem
to have deviate from their principal
responsibility of ensuring effective
network service delivery, to becoming
fortune changers.
While it is understandable that customer
loyalty needs to be sustained and
rewarded, the telcos should understand
that the brand promise, which is the
delivery of quality network service rather
than rewards, is nonnegotiable and should
remain their focus.
By engaging in promotions and lotteries
that are simply too good to be true,
especially those involving cases where
subscribers could win an airplane or fleet
of vehicles, these telecommunication
companies are unconsciously eroding the
values of hard work and perseverance
which the Nigerian society is acculturated
to. Layabouts in the society can now
count on the telcos to turn them into
overnight millionaires rather than
embrace hard work.
Conclusively, the Nigerian
Communications Commission has done
well for itself and Nigerians by halting all
outrageous promos and lotteries run by
the telecommunication companies. Now
is the time for the telcos to reward
subscribers genuinely with efficient and
quality service at the lowest possible
costs.

Up
Chelsea
Hehe..

No one ever lacks a good reason for
suicide. – Cesare Paverse
Until June 16, 2011 suicide bombing
was a distant phenomena few ever
thought could occur in this realm. The
harsh economic climate and heated
geo-political space notwithstanding, it
is very rare to see Nigerians, a people
widely adjudged as the happiest on the
face of the earth, take their own lives.
It was even more unimaginable that
someday, a Nigerian irrespective of
whatever influence, will devise violent
and extreme actions capable of
brutally terminating his life, and
extending the same deadly gestures to
those around him.
So when Umaru Abdulmutallab, a 22-
year-old Nigerian from an affluent
background attempted to become the
country’s first suicide bomber on a US-
bound flight on Christmas Day 2009,
many among his compatriots
questioned his nationality, others his
sanity.
Nigerians can’t be suicide bombers, it
was reiterated.
Then the dreaded happened.
Mohammed Manga, a 35-year-old
Nigerian male, signed his name in the
most gory of inks as the first suicide
bomber ever to strike in the country. A
recruit of extremist Islamic sect Boko
Haram, Manga blew himself up in
front of Nigeria’s police headquarters
in Abuja, two and half years after
Mutallab’s first unsuccessful attempt
to set the record aboard the American
airliner.
Here comes the multimillion dollar
question, what could make a Nigerian
volunteer to be a suicide bomber?
Could it be the prevailing
unemployment situation in the country
which has made the teeming able-
bodied youths roaming the northern
part of the country a potential breed
for terror recruiters? Maybe it is the
lure of a few thousand dollars that
make potential volunteers throw
reasons to the winds and get blown
up. Perhaps it is in the hatred
indoctrinated into these would-be
suicide bombers by extremist Islamic
preachers at an early age.
Like his counterparts in Arabia or
elsewhere around the world, research
has proven that money, education or
the lack of both, is not a determinant
factor that would either motivate or
hinder a would be Nigerian suicide
bomber. If it will be recalled,
Abdulmutallab was from an illustrious
home and had the best education
money could offer. Mohammed Manga
on the other hand was described as a
fairly successful businessman.
In Robert Lamb’s How Suicide Bombers
Work, b oth the glamorization of
martyrdom and its establishment as a
gateway to rewards in the afterlife are
central, yet universal factors in the
suicide bomber equation.
The glamorization of matyrdom is
appealing to the often young and naive
Nigerian suicide bomber, whose
average age bracket is put between 18
– 24. For this set of people, the
thoughts that h is name becomes
immortal is overwhelming. T he pride,
prospect and glamour at the ‘sense of a
holy mission’ is appealing, and this
sadly, is a bait their manipulative
handlers exploit to the fullest.
‘A gateway to rewards in the afterlife’
should not be ruled out as a motivating
factor for the Nigerian suicide
bomber. The thoughts of seventy-two
virgins for martyrs who paid the
supreme price for fighting Allah’s
cause is too strong to be relegated to
the background. Likewise are the
quests to avenge perceived political
tyranny and economic imbalances.
So how does the Nigerian suicide
bomber justify the killings of innocent
souls? Israeli psychologists eager to
understand the mindset of militant
Islamic extremists postulate that at
this point in the mindset of the suicide
bomber, no one perhaps except for
members of his sect is innocent. He is
not about killing the innocent, he is
killing the enemy.