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“Pricing is very competitive; but the start-ups would have a free plan that allocates free monthly data to users on a monthly basis, and this data would be capped, and allows upgrade for paid plans, while affordable paid plans will provide unlimited data to users for between N1,500 and N2,000 monthly.”

Afolabi added that the service could be used by anyone with any Wi-Fi-enabled device.

One has to twist the original title of any news before it can make front page. People have been commenting on this same topic I created since yesterday, but someone who created the same thread today by twisting the title had it moved to the front page.

Bombing and massive kidnapping still continue and some are still living in denial. PDPppppppp. Power to the corruption.

You guys just wanted to make sure that you silence the remaining voice of #bringbackourgirls campaign. Chai! Dia ris godu oooo.

I believe that Metuh has realized his mistake of constantly referring to APC as Islamic Party. A mistake that can affect PDP in 2015 presidential election because it is a statement that insults the sensibility of Muslims. Now, he has to start praising Islam.

The Peoples Democratic Party has denied linking the All Progressives Congress to any Islamic agenda.The ruling party, in a statement byits National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in Abuja on Monday, was reacting to a statement credited to a former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in which he asked the ruling party to stop linking the opposition party with Islamic agenda.Apart from this, Atiku, who was one of the founding fathers of the PDP but now a chief of the APC, said the ruling party was using thetactics to divert attention of Nigerians from the Federal Government ineptitude and apathetic posture to corruption and insecurity.Apart from this, he also said no responsible government should seek to create division, suspicion and animosity among its citizens by linking the opposition leaders with terrorist activities or accusing them of harbouring extremists.Metuh, in his reply, said though the party would not want to take on the former Vice President, and warned that he (Atiku) should not allow his media team to destroy him, said there was the need to put the record straight.While acknowledging that Atiku was among the founding fathers of the ruling party, Metuh said the former Vice President should “caution his media managers to desist from associating him with propaganda, political mudslinging and character assassination that the APC has become notorious for.”He said it was wrong for anyone to say the PDP had accused the APC of having an Islamic agenda, saying its past reference on the issue was as a result of an allegation made by an individual against the opposition party.Metuh said, “On the issue of APC having an Islamic agenda, it is known to all and sundry that the the PDP never labelled it as such. We merely, in our statement of January 7, 2014, drew the attention of Nigerians to the revelation by an Islamic cleric, Ambassador Yusuf Garba and the Religious Equity Promotion Council that the APC was seeking to impose on Nigeria, an agenda akin to that of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.“In any case, we insist that it is completely out of place for anybody to associate APC with Islam which is a religion of peace and does not preach violence, greed, destruction and lust for power which are the trademarks of the APC.“We restate that some of these APC leaders, by their utterances and conducts, are not good Muslims. Besides, we cannot associate a party, made up of anarchists bound together by the lust for power and desperation to rule by any means including promoting violence and division inNigeria, with Islam.”More Stories in News
Link: http://www.punchng.com/news/we-didnt-say-apc-has-islamic-agenda-pdp/

Link: http://www.punchng.com/business/technology/it-start-ups-move-to-address-poor-internet-access/

Start-up firms in the Nigerian Information Technology space have moved to address challenges impeding ubiquitous access to the Internet.

The firms, which have developed some wireless services, said the solution would address quality of service issues as well as high data tariffs, findings by our correspondent have shown.

It was also learnt that the start-ups were seeking to make it easier for Nigerians to connect to the Internet by offering ‘truly’ wireless service.

They intend to give true value for money while keeping low pricing and increased flexibility having realised that connection to the Internet via mobile platforms was huge.

Some of the start-ups, especially those on the DEMO Africa 2014 list, noted that diverse access plans with competitive prices were seriously being considered in the scheme.

For WhiteSpaces, which is another platform, users are being offered unlimited data.

The Founder, WhiteSpaces, Mr. Mark Afolabi, explained that, “The project is being piloted in a community in Ekiti State and will offer users unlimited data for about N1, 500 ($9) monthly.

“Pricing is very competitive; but the start-ups would have a free plan that allocates free monthly data to users on a monthly basis, and this data would be capped, and allows upgrade for paid plans, while affordable paid plans will provide unlimited data to users for between N1,500 and N2,000 monthly.”

Afolabi added that the service could be used by anyone with any Wi-Fi-enabled device.

“Every user with a smartphone, laptop, table Personal Computer or any Wi-Fi enabled device can use our service. We are also looking at partnering with some organisations to provide community centres where users who don’t have device can come and access Internet,” he explained.

Another startup, Citinet, said it had successfully conquered communities in the South-East zone, “as data consumers are daily doing away with the challenges of accessing the Internet in the midst of poor quality of service, high tariffs and other data cap challenges.”

Mr. Paul Uche of Citinet said, “We decided to focus on the communities because we realised that they are more faced with challenges of quality of service since the telcos may sometimes not consider the villages and interiors as economically viable.”

He added, “More so, the telecoms companies sometimes perceive these areas as hard to reach, so they tend to focus on the urban areas where they have still not provided strong service and where we are also providing wireless service to data consumers.”

However, telecommunications companies in Nigeria have blamed excessive rainfall in some parts of the country for poor quality of service on various networks.

bibinwaka: please has alert started rolling in for June.

Not yet, you know that they changed their timesheet palava from print out to automation and below are there messages to employers on the July 5th and July 14th:
"(JUNE 2014 TIMESHEET) Login to your GIS PROFILE ; Accept intern(s) attached to your firm and insert hired dates. Go to timekeeping/feedback to complete timesheet for all interns. Submit on or before Mon 7th JUL. For enquiries, send mail to: support@gisurep.gov.ng".
"Dear Partner, this is a reminder to fill the automated timesheet(s) for your intern(s) for JUNE 2014 on or before 15th July 2014, to avoid delay in stipend payment".
So, June stipend may be delayed longer than usual.

I do read a lot. I have close to 400 ebooks on my phone, that's apart from subject-based books. I could read 17/7 as against 24/7 non stop.

So, he killed the prime minister and was still being protected by Ironsi's regime. And the civil war turned them against one another. And Abuja stadium should be named after him, for killing prime minister? That's a good suggestion.

kross101: Hello guyz, pls. I wanna inquire bout dis SURE P program, I registered like 2 mnths ago on d website but I avnt Bn invited by them dat dey av gotten an employer 4 me or a test or sumtyn. Wanna no if it takes dis much tym or I need 2 do sumtyn...thankz 4 ur reply

Well, everything is with luck. Some registered as early as their website was created, but they haven't been matched with employers till today. Some helped themselves by looking for people (family members, friends, etc) who have a registered business names that are real and genuine. They encouraged (and guide) them to register with GIS SUREP and when such employers are given interns, they (such graduates) too benefit from it.

Youget: even if i want to scam, its people like u dats managing 20k abi.....sure u need capital
however, dere are 2 sides to a coin n u r looking from 1 side
pls read books esp frm Robert Kiyosaki....
where theres a will, theres a way
u dont av to result to insulting, i want to believe u r an adult
do note that u dont need huge capital to start a business, what u need 1st is a plan...
id implore u to change u thinking....it just painful that u r a graduate n u r talking like dis
pls pls read books not books on how to get and retain a JOB o business books frm successful people n understand i mean well

Have you asked anybody on this thread, and they told you that they didn't have business idea/plan before talking down on everyone here? I know your type, once you read one or two motivational books, then you start seeing yourself as better than the rest. I still maintained that you goofed with the way you constructed your first post. And you started the insults, not me. There's no evidence that you are better than the rest of us including me because this is a faceless forum, nobody like you can claim to be somebody. There is nothing wrong with my thinking paddy, you just need to go back and read my post where I quoted a guy and encouraged him to save part of his stipend as much as he can. That was even before you surfaced on this thread to address @posters on this thread as if our lives depended on this scheme. So, what do you think I was doing when I addressed the guy to save money during his 12 months Internship? My advice for you: go back and read more books and when you read them, don't overlook basics, don't rush to forum like this to test your newly acquired knowledge, be fair in your criticisms, views and opinions, check your use of words because that was the basis of my annoyance with you. In case you didn't get this from the books that you have read, let me repeat it: many people need to work for others before they can work for themselves, for one reason or the other. While some will never work for themselves, (truth and reality).

Youget: Yeah, someone like you

You clearly don't have an idea about me. It is a pity that a thread I once created in the Business section of nairaland was among the topics that were wiped out last month. May be, I will find time to re-create the thread. You are too proud for my liking. It is only empty people, people who lack basic understanding of what is happening in their environment, people who are not in syc with reality that would give a simplistic advice. Even if you are going to do business, won't you work to raise capital if there is no one or bank to assist you. You are ignorance of this, yet you lashed out at everyone on this thread. What are you even looking for on this thread to begin with? May be you want to scam, and that was why you had to drop your email address for "criticisms, views and opinions.

If you are a member of this forum, then you can afford N1,000. My opinion.

Youget: Authority2006, cry nomore....u r blind n im just making u see things differently...its well with u n ur sure-p....lol

You are the blind one here. Anybody can give advice here, but just go back and read your wordings, your style of language, it is full of scathing remarks. You urged us join business, how do we join business without capital, even if it is small amount. You criticised here for everyone to see and read but dropped your email address for counter criticisms, views and opinions.
In case of another time, you just need to urge participants to save money so that they can stand on their own and work for themselves in future. And again, not everyone, not every graduate can be a successful entrepreneur, from here to USA.

The battle has been postponed until tomorrow.

As the ongoing National Conference glides to a close, it is gradually taking the same controversial pattern it began with. Now, there is palpable fear that the whole thing may come to naught after all. Last week, just like the second week of the gathering, one of its worst moments as mutual suspicion, accusations and counteraccusations took the centre stage.Recall the conference began on thissame note. The disagreement that voting pattern generated was finallydoused by the Conference secretariat’s ingenious selection of a 50-man committee which resolved the ¾ or 2/3 palaver in favour of 70 per cent. In between these periods, there was some sort of stability and camaraderie. The scenario can be likened to a plane which takes off on a stormy and turbulent note and stabilizes when it is fully airborne; fear and uncertainty return when that same plane is about making its descent and landing. But by the time it touches the ground, passengers heave a sigh of relief. Will the conferees and doubting Nigerians have a cause to celebrate at the end?The events that led to last week’s disagreement were weighty indeed.It started with a pre-determined andso-called ‘terms of agreement’ in which a consensus was purportedly reached by a group led by Raymond Dokpesi, a delegate and chairman of Daar Communication. In the said ‘terms of agreement’, a new constitution and 50 per cent derivation as demanded by the Niger Deltans among others were smuggled into the final report to which Professor Yadudu, Is’haq Modibbo Kawu and others representing the Northern Delegates Forum vehemently opposed.Surprisingly, most of these recommendations—18 new states with their names (as against the group’s plan of not making public names yet) and scrapping of the third tier of government, were passed by delegates last Thursday.The Northern group which saw this as a continued ploy in the marginalization pattern that started the conference, is kicking. For example, the scrapping of local governments was said to be aimed at cutting the North, which has more councils to size. The high point of this anomaly was the involvement of the Deputy Chairman, Bolaji Akinyemi, in the set-up.How then can the North trust the decision of the conference if its leadership as represented by the Deputy Chairman is ensnared in theplot, when it should remain neutral effectively galvanize the conference? I also do not think that the Northern delegates’ muscle-flexing at this stage could save them or their region, if the presidentwho constituted the Conference had a different agenda.Apart from the matters that arose from the so-called ‘terms of agreement’, and the leadership’s meddling, there is a pending issue of numerical advantage in favour of the South which, Northern delegates had in May complained and written to the chairman about. There are said to be 300 delegates from the South and 192 from the North, but Justice Kutigi never addressed the issue. The fear that this numerical strength would be turned into a voting advantage is now real, as much of the resolutions reached at the committee level in the spirit of give and take, is now being turned upside down.In the same vein, neither President Goodluck Jonathan nor the Conference secretariat ever addressed the complaints of SultanSaad Abubakar, who led a delegation to the president to complain about the small number of Muslims compared with their Christian counterparts at the conference. Not to talk of the Niger Delta activists, led by Ms Ankio Briggs who was refused a minority report and also refused to sign her committee’s report because the co-chairmen—ex IGP Ibrahim Commassie and ex-Governor VictorAttah settled for the status quo ante(existing 13 per cent derivation) after an excruciating debate on the matter.As at yesterday, the conference hadto adjourn abruptly for representatives of the six geopolitical zones to come up with solution to the thorny issues of resource control, fiscal federalism, derivation and onshore/offshore dichotomy.Despite the complaints and controversies that have continued to dog the Conference, they will pave into insignificance if you tarry awhile to think of the fate and destination of the Conference report, for a gathering that neither had constitutional backing nor werethe members legitimately elected todo what they are doing. Above, whattime does the secretariat have to put their report together, and for it to go through the rigours of referendum in the 36 states of the federation or through the National Assembly as the case may be. For all the hues and cries, all the jaw-jaw and bad-blood generated at the conference, its report may end up in the waste-bin of history; very much like the third term and allother committee reports in this country. I really hope not.
Link: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/national-conference/conference-controversies-zainab-suleiman-okino/

Youget: I couldnt help but shake my head
this is why they will continue to play with your intelligence cos y'all act like you dont have one

Get something doing for urself and you hear a graduate o dat spent millions in school saying 20k is better than nothing
who told u so, u r simply afraid to take risk
Chai!
Pity is what i feel for you
there is no such thing as job security
which job security

so u want to tell me now that you cant think of ideas abi
the company u r posted to simply used u or still is using u
shey u dont knw that whatever y r been paid is simply 10% of what u r worth
pls read books
join a business, ud say NO dat dey r exploiting u
but dese corporate firms r using ur head n worst of all ur precious time n still not paying u....
abeg isnt that being a slave?
na so u wan continue


suffering n smiling
It must not be that way

why are you going about another man's business
i weep wen i hear n read all dese

God help you all
You can mail me ur views, criticisms and insults cos i knw that truth doesnt go down well with most people

Cheers

Are you afraid of criticism? I thought you started it?
Your criticism is a positive one except that you didn't look at the issue critically before making your scathing remarks. Let me begin by asking you, in today's world, how many people work for themselves and how many people work for others, at least in terms of percentage? Even at that, majority of those who are working for themselves today had (one time or the other) worked for others. I guess it had never crossed your mind? Some graduates need as low as N250,000 to kick start their own business and it has never occurred to you that this scheme could be their passports.
BTW, I don't understand why you are posting your email address here. Nobody asked for it. I hope you are not trying to sell e-book or multi level marketing, or just trying to get your own cut?

Realdon1: Pls authority i wrk in jabi abj. Surep owes me 3months stipends. Frm april til date. My oga sends my tme sheets. Though he sent april own late. He has calld, they promisd. Bt no implementation. Pls wen wl they pay me. I dnt hv even trans. Fare nw to d ofice

If the timesheet and survey sheet (though it is now online filing and combined) were sent as you claim, then only contacting them regularly will solve the issue. If your employer can give you permission to contact them on his behalf assuming he doesn't have time to be reminding them every now and then.

joshdgr8: hello friends am in Abuja and I studied electrical engineering.about this surep program can one go to a company and talk to them that I want to do a graduate intern in their company and ask them to search for me on the surep website and send a request. does it work that way. or how can I go about it. ideas pls asap. I have not received any request mail since I registered. thank u

But it becomes interesting here. There guys who are still able to find their ways around the problem. The one I knew in City charges N15,000 per applicants, that's, if an employer wants to pick you but your is not among the displayed names. I remember their DG when I went to their office for documents submission asking me that "who helped me?". He too was aware of the trick but didn't know how to do it. He said a guy's address was given to him (not the one I knew), and he went there to invite the guy to his office and asked him. He said that the guy didn't confess even though he told guy he only needed his assistance (to be partners in crime). He even accused me that even if I was helped, I wouldn't tell him truth.

joshdgr8: hello friends am in Abuja and I studied electrical engineering.about this surep program can one go to a company and talk to them that I want to do a graduate intern in their company and ask them to search for me on the surep website and send a request. does it work that way. or how can I go about it. ideas pls asap. I have not received any request mail since I registered. thank u

Hahahaha, well, let's see if this will help. Firstly, that company will register online with GIS SURE-P and the official will call the company 2-4 weeks after registration for "phone interview" and verification.
They will visit the company after few months (could be 4 or more months) for assessment and interaction with the employer, and to determine the number of interns to attach to the company.
Now, about looking for you on GIS SURE-P database. There is a section on their website called "filter" which I believe was meant for that purpose, it is still there but it has been deactivated, may be due to "abuse". It is now first registered first picked. For example: If a company is given permission to accept 3 interns, only fifteen applicants will be brought to you to pick among them (remember that you will search by faculty and course/field of study). Assuming you search under Engineering /Electrical entering 3 as your number of slots, fifteen applicants who registered as early as possible under Engineering/Electrical in the employer's preferred environment will be brought up for the employer to pick three among them. If your name is not among those names and you try to re-enter the parameters, that same set of names will be displayed again!
For 1 slot, only 5 early registered applicants will be displayed for employer to pick one. For 2 slots, only 10 early registered applicants will be displayed and so on.

quicksilver1979: pls guys i was sent a mail by sure p and instructed to accept the offer within 5 working days which lapses today, but i couldn't accept becos the offer has been cancelled earlier today, pls what can i do

Well, there is little you can do. Once you didn't accept the offer from the employer within 5 working days, GIS SURE-P would cancel the offer as you have witnessed. They would notify the employer that you didn't accept the offer and that he should look for another applicant and send the offer to him. The only thing you can do is to contact that employer (if his contact is in the message sent to you) if he can resend the offer to you if he hasn't sent it to another applicant. The remaining option is to wait for another offer from another employer. Remember, you have grace of rejecting three offers, I don't know about missing offers. Good luck.
BTW, I made a post on this thread where I implored you guys to always check your email inbox at least twice a week, say Tuesday and Thursday. The reason for this is that a text message to your phone from GIS SURE-P that is supposed to alert you to check your inbox about the offer on time may come late or never deliver. To check our inbox twice a week shouldn't be a problem.

Mogidi: Talk is cheap otherwise how come the US, China, UK, France can't find the girls? Is it because no girl is missing?

Because your president was too egotistical to accept the offers to help from the counties you mentioned until it was too late to salvage the situation.

ITbomb: When those girls were suffering in harsh learning environment, US didn't care to know them, why all these sudden show of affection.

This whole show is staged by the US, Jonathan should stop making any attempt to be using US media to do his PR, as they are all in a grand conspiracy to rubbish him.

CCN is working for the same people that is sponsoring conflicts around the Africa

So, US should come earlier to build standard classrooms for them so that they wouldn't be learning in a "harsh environment"?

DONMAYOR19: Soynka self...educated man they said, but I reason pass am they never said.

You that couldn't express yourself in simple short sentence.

The question is why were soldiers beating and dragging a journalist who wanted to take pictures of vandals and burning vehicles. Why were they equally smashing the phones collected from the residents and passers-by who tried to snap and video the incident on the ground knowing fully well that such recorded images could help police in arresting the so-called "area boys"? And was the same moment of madness not witnessed by thousands of people live? From the Ngozi Braid to Omokri to Labaran Maku to Ruben Abati to Doyin Okupe to Uduaghan to Fasola to army spokesman in Lagos state to Jonathan to that roadside mechanic, we're not only liars in Nigeria but brazen ones.

Chelsea player, Oscar has come to the rescue.

Humiliation of the century!

6-0

lilmax: Later one id.iot will come here and say tecno phones are for the masses if i hear,this is just the beginning i pity those who will buy this nonsense for this amount

But you are the idiott here. Tecno still have many phones for the masses unlike Samsung and LG.