BBC ta kaddamar da wani shirin fadada aikace-aikacenta a sashenta mai watsa shirye-shirye zuwa kasashen waje mafi girma tun shekarun 1940.
Manufar wannan matakin dai ita ce kai labarai na gaskiya da babu son rai a ciki ga karin miliyoyin mutane a sassa daban-daban na duniya ciki har da kasashen da 'yancin kafafen watsa labarai ke fuskantar barazana.
Haka ma sashen na BBC World Service zai fadada kafofinsa na isar da sakonni ga masu kallo da saurarensa ta shafukkan internet da na sada zumunta.
Sashen dai zai bude wasu sabbin sassa da zu rika watsa shirye-shirye a cikin harsuna 11; abin da zai kai adadin harsunan da yake watsa shirye-shiryensa a ciki zuwa 40.
Sabbin harsunan sune na Afaan Oromo, da Amharic, da Gujarati, da Igbo, da Koriyanci, da Marathi, Turancin fijin, Punjabi, Telugu, Tigrinya, da kuma Yarubanci.

Summary in English

BBC World Service will expand its services to Yoruba and Igbo listeners by introducing additional languages channels.

Jarus or any mod - move this to frontpage pls.

Confirmed already.
Moon sighted in various cities Kano, Sokoto, Katsina and others, tomorrow is 1st Ramadan - Sultan of Sokoto Spokeperson/Chairman Moon Sigthing Comittee Prof. Junaidu Sokoto.Turned to your local station (frcn radio).[/quote]


Opps ...Tomorrow ? I mean today 28th, June, 2014.

Yes it was confirmed already. Front page !!!!!

Moon sighted in various cities Kano, Sokoto, Katsina and others, tomorrow is 1st Ramadan - Sultan of Sokoto Spokeperson/Chairman Moon Sigthing Comittee Prof. Junaidu Sokoto.Turned to your local station

Confirmed already.


Moon sighted in various cities Kano, Sokoto, Katsina and others, tomorrow is 1st Ramadan - Sultan of Sokoto Spokeperson/Chairman Moon Sigthing Comittee Prof. Junaidu Sokoto.Turned to your local station (frcn radio).

Moon sighted in various cities Kano, Sokoto, Katsina and others, tomorrow is 1st Ramadan - Sultan of Sokoto Spokeperson/Chairman Moon Sigthing Comittee Prof. Junaidu Sokoto.Turned to your local station for confirmation or call some one in those cities (frcn radio).

Moon sighted in various cities Kano, Sokoto, Katsina and others, tomorrow is 1st Ramadan - Sultan of Sokoto Spokeperson/Chairman Moon Sigthing Comittee Prof. Junaidu Sokoto.Turned to your local station (frcn radio).

@ 4Bobo, (Poster)

Where do you get this picture ? And what is your intend of posting it on Nairaland, please explain.

Meanwhile, the fact is that, these are Students of Jigawa State Informatics Institute of Technology, Kazaure, during a session of assignments/Projects they have a very short deadline to complete their assignments/projects which will be later mailed to Informatics Singapore (Affiliated, also accredited by NBTE.

The Institute is already wifi enable campus, and has standby-generators, so they are not in Mosques or something else as someone claimed, they all Hausa/Fulani, the Institutes has over 2000 students and all most any student has his own laptop, besides they have the best-equipped Fibre-Optics Design & Assembling Lab in the country (C-TECH) build by C-TECH New Jersey, U.S.A.


They have over 200 students sent to Singapore/Malaysia to further their studies on various IT fields; Cyber Security, Computer Science, Engineering, Computing etc.

They have various courses;


International Diploma in Computing (IDIC)
International Advanced Diploma in Computing (IADIC)
Cable Technology (C-Tech) – A Certified Instructorship
Certified Cable Networking Administrator (CCNA)
Oracle Certificate
International Diploma in Cyber Security
Certificate in Computer Application and
Online Degree. (Portsmouth and Wales Universities)

More on the Institute can found here :http://www.jigawastate.gov.ng/staticpage.php?id=93
Singapore Affliate: http://www.informatics.edu.sg/ocl_international.aspx
http://www.c-techtraining.com/programs-fiber.htm

Anyway you can ask the corper above who served there (onlymase)

Expecting my answers from the original poster.

I learn that it will be difficult if not impossible for somebody outside U.S to obtain .edu domain, it seem they monopolize it to stay within U.S. and only for U.S. accredited Institutes.

Any body in Nairaland registered one ? I would like to know.

.edu Eligibility

Only U.S. postsecondary institutions that are institutionally accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education's list of Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies (see recognized accrediting bodies) may obtain an Internet name in the .edu domain. These include both "Regional Institutional Accrediting Agencies" and "National Institutional and Specialized Accrediting Bodies" recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Note that institutional accreditation is required for .edu eligibility; program accreditation is not sufficient. Not all agencies accredit institutions. Some accredit only institutions, some accredit only programs, and others accredit both institutions and programs.

It is also important to note that, while every effort is made to keep the EDUCAUSE list up-to-date, the U.S. Department of Education's list of Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies and State Agencies are the only official comprehensive lists of agencies.

For postsecondary institutions located outside the U.S.: As specified by the Department of Commerce, only postsecondary "U.S. institutions" that are institutionally accredited by one of the agencies on the U.S. Department of Education’s list of Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies may apply for new names in the .edu domain. We thus require applicants to be located within the United States (including U.S. territories and possessions); or to be licensed, chartered, or incorporated within the United States (including U.S. territories and possessions); or to be otherwise officially recognized by a U.S. state or federal government agency (including U.S. territories and possessions).

Source:http://www.educause.edu/

Juma'at Mubarak,

Yesterday's Khudbat was very interesting and informative, it was all about "Sabr" patience, the imam talked alot on people controlling their temper and restrain from taking law into own their hand, he also talk much on "Qadr" good and the bad.

He also mentioned something little that has to do with politics calling on those who destroys or burns their voting card as agents who also do not contribute in helping the ummah and should better stop that and focus on development of the ummah and its future challenges ahead.

He really emphasized on people to come out and cast their vote in the next election in mass as usual.

He sighted so many examples and scenarios regarding "sabr" and "qadr"

He go further to explain different types of "Qadr", and conclude the Khudba with reminder that the imams of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'a will never support any kind of violent, calling on youth to stop taking law into their own hands.

Ma' Assalam.

@ Very good advice to the poster.

@ jmslimx, so by getting 10k-20k for hosting forum is that's all? I think you have to do more research and study far than even getting somebody to customize it for you.

lactemps:

Spend 2 weeks with SMF or phpbb3 forums and you will have an idea of what you want. Also these are OPEN Source programs thats are completely free and have a very big community that are ready to help in case of any queries.

See, I still wonder no body take time to really explained what difficulties involved in developing and hosting a real forum that will get big hits like nairaland.

Let's start with looking at some claims by http://www.websiteoutlook

nairaland.com has 1970 traffic rank in world by alexa. nairaland.com is getting 558375 pageviews per day and making USD 1677.36 daily. nairaland.com has 596546 (at the time am writing this reply) backlinks according to yahoo and listed in Dmoz directory. nairaland.com is hosted in United States at Limestone Networks data center. nairaland.com is most populer in NIGERIA. Estimated worth of nairaland.com is USD 1.22 Million according to websiteoutlook

What I want to point out here is that Seun is definately spending on bandwidth and hosting to his hosting provider (Limestone), but off course he is making big payback from Google Adsense.

Now, what matters in hosting such a forum is hosting providers and bandwidth capacity, ability to co-ordinate and make good contribution to the forum, finding and outsourcing good and trusted moderators etc.One more way to understand this very well is to understand bandwidth for hosting sites, traffics etc.

BandWidth Explained

Most hosting companies offer a variety of bandwidth options in their plans. So
exactly what is bandwidth as it relates to web hosting? Put simply, bandwidth is
the amount of traffic that is allowed to occur between your web site and the rest
of the internet. The amount of bandwidth a hosting company can provide is
determined by their network connections, both internal to their data center and
external to the public internet.

Network Connectivity

The internet, in the most simplest of terms, is a group of millions of computers
connected by networks. These connections within the internet can be large or
small depending upon the cabling and equipment that is used at a particular
internet location. It is the size of each network connection that determines how
much bandwidth is available. For example, if you use a DSL connection to
connect to the internet, you have 1.54 Mega bits (Mb) of bandwidth. Bandwidth
therefore is measured in bits (a single 0 or 1). Bits are grouped in bytes which
form words, text, and other information that is transferred between your
computer and the internet.

If you have a DSL connection to the internet, you have dedicated bandwidth
between your computer and your internet provider. But your internet provider
may have thousands of DSL connections to their location. All of these
connection aggregate at your internet provider who then has their own dedicated
connection to the internet (or multiple connections) which is much larger than
your single connection. They must have enough bandwidth to serve your
computing needs as well as all of their other customers. So while you have a
1.54Mb connection to your internet provider, your internet provider may have a
255Mb connection to the internet so it can accommodate your needs and up to
166 other users (255/1.54).

Traffic

A very simple analogy to use to understand bandwidth and traffic is to think of
highways and cars. Bandwidth is the number of lanes on the highway and traffic
is the number of cars on the highway. If you are the only car on a highway, you
can travel very quickly. If you are stuck in the middle of rush hour, you may
travel very slowly since all of the lanes are being used up.

Traffic is simply the number of bits that are transferred on network connections.
It is easiest to understand traffic using examples. One Gigabyte is 2 to the 30th
power (1,073,741,824) bytes. One gigabyte is equal to 1,024 megabytes. To put
this in perspective, it takes one byte to store one character. Imagine 100 file
cabinets in a building, each of these cabinets holds 1000 folders. Each folder has
100 papers. Each paper contains 100 characters - A GB is all the characters in the
building. An MP3 song is about 4MB, the same song in wav format is about
40MB, a full length movie can be 800MB to 1000MB (1000MB = 1GB).
If you were to transfer this MP3 song from a web site to your computer, you
would create 4MB of traffic between the web site you are downloading from and
your computer. Depending upon the network connection between the web site
and the internet, the transfer may occur very quickly, or it could take time if
other people are also downloading files at the same time. If, for example, the
web site you download from has a 10MB connection to the internet, and you are
the only person accessing that web site to download your MP3, your 4MB file
will be the only traffic on that web site. However, if three people are all
downloading that same MP at the same time, 12MB (3 x 4MB) of traffic has
been created. Because in this example, the host only has 10MB of bandwidth,
someone will have to wait. The network equipment at the hosting company will
cycle through each person downloading the file and transfer a small portion at a
time so each person's file transfer can take place, but the transfer for everyone
downloading the file will be slower. If 100 people all came to the site and
downloaded the MP3 at the same time, the transfers would be extremely slow. If
the host wanted to decrease the time it took to download files simultaneously, it
could increase the bandwidth of their internet connection (at a cost due to
upgrading equipment).

Hosting Bandwidth

In the example above, we discussed traffic in terms of downloading an MP3 file.
However, each time you visit a web site, you are creating traffic, because in
order to view that web page on your computer, the web page is first downloaded
to your computer (between the web site and you) which is then displayed using
your browser software (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.) . The page itself is
simply a file that creates traffic just like the MP3 file in the example above
(however, a web page is usually much smaller than a music file).
A web page may be very small or large depending upon the amount of text and
the number and quality of images integrated within the web page. For example,
the home page for CNN.com is about 200KB (200 Kilobytes = 200,000 bytes =
1,600,000 bits). This is typically large for a web page. In comparison, Yahoo's
home page is about 70KB.

How Much Bandwidth Is Enough?

It depends (don't you hate that answer). But in truth, it does. Since bandwidth is a
significant determinant of hosting plan prices, you should take time to determine
just how much is right for you. Almost all hosting plans have bandwidth
requirements measured in months, so you need to estimate the amount of
bandwidth that will be required by your site on a monthly basis
If you do not intend to provide file download capability from your site, the
formula for calculating bandwidth is fairly straightforward:
Average Daily Visitors x Average Page Views x Average Page Size x 31 x
Fudge Factor
If you intend to allow people to download files from your site, your bandwidth
calculation should be:
[(Average Daily Visitors x Average Page Views x Average Page Size) +
(Average Daily File Downloads x Average File Size)] x 31 x Fudge Factor
Let us examine each item in the formula:
Average Daily Visitors - The number of people you expect to visit your site, on
average, each day. Depending upon how you market your site, this number could
be from 1 to 1,000,000.
Average Page Views - On average, the number of web pages you expect a person
to view. If you have 50 web pages in your web site, an average person may only
view 5 of those pages each time they visit.
Average Page Size - The average size of your web pages, in Kilobytes (KB). If
you have already designed your site, you can calculate this directly.
Average Daily File Downloads - The number of downloads you expect to occur
on your site. This is a function of the numbers of visitors and how many times a
visitor downloads a file, on average, each day.
Average File Size - Average file size of files that are downloadable from your
site. Similar to your web pages, if you already know which files can be
downloaded, you can calculate this directly.
Fudge Factor - A number greater than 1. Using 1.5 would be safe, which
assumes that your estimate is off by 50%. However, if you were very unsure, you
could use 2 or 3 to ensure that your bandwidth requirements are more than met.
Usually, hosting plans offer bandwidth in terms of Gigabytes (GB) per month.
This is why our formula takes daily averages and multiplies them by 31.

Summary

Most personal or small business sites will not need more than 1GB of bandwidth
per month. If you have a web site that is composed of static web pages and you
expect little traffic to your site on a daily basis, go with a low bandwidth plan. If
you go over the amount of bandwidth allocated in your plan, your hosting
company could charge you over usage fees, so if you think the traffic to your site
will be significant, you may want to go through the calculations above to
estimate the amount of bandwidth required in a hosting plan.

I hope the above on Bandwidth explanation will help not only you, but anybody interested in big time forum business that will attrack big hits from users to general cash for Adsense.

Note: Am not the original author of the bandwidth explanation.

Let me know the budget for this Honda civi 1998 full option.

@ TADEUS, My budget is 650k what can I get with full option.

Hi,

Let me know how much will Honda Civic si 5 (2008) aka fisheye will cost both full option and non full option.

Expecting to hear from you.

Thanks.

Look inside latest Jamb brochure for comprensive list.

1. Uni Ilorin (being top 10)
2. ABU Zaria - Prof. Sahalu; Students learn Vb, .net, java, designing sites
with php, asp etc

That's my opinion, I dnt know d rest of univ.

A gaisheku Hausawa , a lokacin dana duba wannan sakamako "result":

Hausa nada: 76 %

Yoruba: 57 %

Igbo: 35 %

Kanuri 0%

"Himma dai bata ga Raggo ! " , Wai ina Kanuri ne, basa kusa ne, ? ba tsokana nake ba (Kanuri), ya kamata dai, a tashi daga barchi.

Karin Bayani / Reference:

http://www.google.com/transconsole/giyl/check/status

Had_one:

The thread has started with interesting views and morally sounds manners, but it is ending up with stupid talks . I dan dai mutum bahaushen kirkine ko kuma ya girma a kasar hausa to baya jefa mamganganun batsa any how . No wonder good contributors like divanaija, chilla, saha, capone da suka fara bada gudummuwa a thread din suka watsar don sunga yana neman komawa zauren yan iska .
@ Hauwa ba mutumcin ki bane kina mace ki biye ayita batsa dakeba. therefore ki kama kanki.
Hausa speakers & the north in general is known and regarded of mutumchi and tarbiyya.

I am highly impress with your advice, to be sincere, a gaskiya ba mutunchinmu bane, ache rarar lokacin da muke dashi, mun zauna muna zantuka irin wadannan "batsha" a zaurukan yanar gizo (forums), sai dai kuma gaskiya ba ta neman ado, kuma tanada daci,

However, where are those who proud to be native Hausa Speakers, kalubalenmu, zuwa yanzu kunsan Google sun bude, shafin yanarsu na harsunan, yarbanci, hausa da sauransu, sai dai har mun bari yarbawa sun mana zarra wajen kokarin fassara shafukan yanar google zuwa Yarbanci, duk da dai Alhamdulillahi, mun fara samun hausawa masu kishin hausa na kokarin fassara shafukan yanar zuwa Madarar hausa, kuma shafukan fassarar a bude suke ga kowa, duk wanda ya yarda da hausarshi , zai iya fassara shafukan turancin google zuwa hausa, amma ka'ida sai kanada ko kinada adireshin email na google. Wannan kenan.

A bangare daya, wani abu daya burgeni shine, kasancewar Samun wata Jarumar Bahaushiya, kuma Hazika wacce duk da bansan a inda take ba, amma tayi kokari gaya, domin taso ta ba maza kashi wajen kokarin Fassara "Software" dungurungun, daga harshen turanci zuwa hausa, na Sabon Tsarin nan na Computer wato "Ubuntu".

Menene "Ubuntu" kuma ?

Ubuntu sabon tsari ne wato "Operating System" kamar dai yadda kasan kana amfani da "Windows" irinsu "Windows Xp" ko kuma "Windows Vista" da dai sauransu, to shima ubuntu haka yake, sai dai shi kyauta ake badashi, ma'ana zasu iya aiko maka dashi kyauta, sannan basu bukatar lasisi wato "Software Licence" kamar sauran tsarukan Computer irin su "Windows" kuma tuni shima ya fara shahara ko fice kamar sauran.

Bugu da kari, shi sam, kwayar cutar computer wato "Computer Virus" bata kamashi, sakamakon tsarinsa daban da na "Windows".

Saboda haka, Ina Hausawa ? Kalubalenku, wannan wata damace ta kai Harshen Hausa zuwa Gaba,

Karin Bayani:

1. https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+lang/ha

2. https://services.google.com/tc/Welcome.html

3. http://www.google.com/transconsole/giyl/check/status

@ Systems administrators,

Pls anybody willing to assist in recommending the best solutions for the above project ?

Thanks.

@ Systems Administrators,

I really appreciate this thread,

For now am managing around 20 Vsat sites, mainly install Vsat networks both ku and c band, now want to go more into server administration on both windows, linux and Mac Os X platform.

I seriously need your recommendations on the following :

My boss wanted me to come over with proposed solutions and hardware requirements for the following:

1. We are two use to Servers, 1 for VPN Based Intranet Portal and the other for backup purposes, on the main server we will run Linux (Redhat or Federa), we would like to use Intranet based php/mysql Portal, jabber/voip server, and any suitable enterprise management software like egroupware, the portal will be accessed by around 300 -400 clients (pcs) on the network.


2. The second server will be backup purpose.

So now with the above little details what you will suggest for the type of Servers, routers, etc and in what way do you think is the easiest and faster way to implement such a project, with the consideration of security and development based on linux (license free apps).

I will really appreciate your urgent support, thanks once again for this thread.

Besides hoping we pray so ,

Sokoto — Sokoto State Health Commissioner, Dr. Jabbi Kilgore, has disclosed that world leading computer mogul, Mr Bill Gates, would visit Nigeria on February 1, 2009 .

Gates is expected to visit Sokoto State during a two-day personal visit to Nigeria aimed at strengthening ongoing efforts to totally eradicate the wild polio virus from the country .

Kilgori disclosed this in Sokoto at the meeting of the state's taskforce on polio and routine immunisations.

"The visit is part of Gates' sustained multi billion dollar contributions to boost health care delivery across the globe ,"he stated.

According to the commissioner, the itinerary of the visit showed that the multi billionaire businessman and one-time richest man in the world would on the first day, visit Sokoto where he is billed to meet the Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, Sultan of Sokoto, Dr Saád Abubakar III and other prominent northern Emirs.

He will on the same day visit the Arkilla PHC to have a first-hand knowledge of the efforts to eradicate polio and other health related issues .
On the second day, he is expected to meet President Umaru Yar'Adua, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan and the members of the Northern Governors' Forum, all in Abuja .

Kilgori added that the state government had since set up a high powered committee to ensure the success of the visit which is very crucial to the healthcare delivery systems of Nigeria .

It was also reliably gathered that Gates had set aside over $4 billion in aid of polio eradication efforts in four countries where the disease was still prevalent including Nigeria.

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200901261437.html

@ ayobase, @ Deus_Noir, @kcbaba, @nazzyon , the rest,

I am always wondering about Nigerians just commenting on Nigcomsat-1 failure without exactly knowing how complicated the satellite technology is, just recently Iran, Khazastan, Astra A5, Iridium 28, AMC-14, mention just few have failed, not mentioning of U.S. Spy Satellite failure last year.

Please if you don't know how satellite insurance policies are stop criticizing Nigcomsat-1 or China or if you still wondering how can Satellite disappear on orbit or its total loss please read http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Boeing_Patent_Shuts_Down_AMC_14_Lunar_Flyby_Salvage_Attempt_999.html

However, it seems people forgot that Nigeria still having a functional observatory satellite on orbit it was manufactured by the Surrey Satellite Technology Limited of United Kingdom, so I pray when next people will talk about the Satellite failures will know exactly what they are talking about, and for your info not only China involved in Nigcomsat-1 design, building and engineering there are some few British & Russian Space Engineers involved, so is not something that will just disappear like that, Satellite do fails right from launching.

So stop blaming The government or the China, just think on a better way to move Nigeria forward technologically and politically, Meanwhile, we are hoping by by 2013 Nigeria will have the capacity to launch satellite locally  http://www.earsc.eu/news/nigeria-plans-local-satellite-launch-pad-by-2013

The final fact is that we can get satellite replacement at no extra cost through warranty period !

I am equal to the task, can help you with any sort of web development both static and dynamic webpages in php and mysql only.

Hi group,

what's d updates, i just recently came back from travel, I guess I miss alot.

Bashtech.

For good n Prosperity, u shld use d software wisely, such software works behind ananymous proxies, a times, not really hiding !

@ Somze,

Fine a better idea is always welcome, infact anything that will help in making this project a success we need it.

@ Preparation Team

So our Preparation Team where are you ? Wanted to hear a good respond from interested volunteers.

Attn Software Preparation Team:

To: Tracy, Ahmed Guru, AyoTunde, bashtech, Binary, CPrompt, Danex, follasuk, Gozzilla, Kanirip, LordBenax, MikkyTrionze, Olabanji, Gabriel Oluwasegun, OpenSource


I suggest all the members of the Software Preparation team to consider following Software Design Steps, so that we adhere to standard in Software Preparation and Documentation.


Our first task in this project will be the following:

ANALYSIS

* Introduction
* Fact finding
* Description of the current system

Process flow (DFD both logical and physical for the current system)
Problems and limitation of the current system
Scope and constrain of the current system

* Requirement specification for new system

Pls let us know, among the Software preparation team who r ready for d project, so you can reply via the nairaland or through viewpath.net Collaboration website.

And remember we still need to discuss on better online meeting scheduling.

Attn Software Preparation Team:

To: Tracy, Ahmed Guru, AyoTunde, bashtech, Binary, CPrompt, Danex, follasuk, Gozzilla, Kanirip, LordBenax, MikkyTrionze, Olabanji, Gabriel Oluwasegun, OpenSource

I am a member of Pipeline Project Preparation team, I will suggest meeting on Week-end, something like Saturday night or Sunday night(Time from 8:30pm-10:00pm) but let others think over this.

We can communicate through Yahoo Messenger - Conference Chat.

Remember these hints pls:

Be sensitive to cultural differences

It's possible that your virtual team all thinks and acts the same way. However, more and more virtual teams consist of people from multiple countries and cultures. If you are the project manager on this type of team, make sure you have some appreciation for the differences in how people work and how they behave.

Communicate, communicate, communicate

You need to be extra proactive in your communications to make sure everyone understands what is expected. People can start to feel isolated if they do not receive regular communications. It is hard enough to keep everyone informed on a "regular" project. The communication lines on a virtual team must be opened up especially wide. As project manager, you can provide this steady stream of communication.

Adjust and compromise on time differences

Remember that what's convenient for you may not always be convenient to the team members. I was on a project team at a large global company where the manager insisted that team meetings start at 9:00 am. That was convenient for him but resulted in hard feeling from people in other locations who needed to stay very late for these meetings.

Am seriously interested, but any discount pls,

Meanwhile, let me know if there is a discount and how much it will cost to get shipped to DHL Office

Thanks.