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Do you know that the usual market women contribution (aka Adashe in Hausa) has a few things in common with the Blockchain, the technology that powers cryptocurrencies. Made an attempt to explain and relate both in this 5minutes video, in the most simplest way possible using Pidgin. What is Blockchain, Explained in Pidgin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cKOrWyOBUQ |
No social media can ever destroy Nigeria, only the average Nigerian whose right and existence has been trampled upon can implode this nation. How they managed to convince so many that Twitter and not looting, not curruption, not oppression and the likes would implode Nigeria baffles me. What sort of mind control is this. They are pointing you at the least threat, they are pointing you to the symptoms instead of the disease. Everything that is happening on twitter is a symptom of the disease called curruption, tribalism, inequality, insecurities and the likes that has become an integral part of our daily lives. But somehow it's twitter that they made you would implode Nigeria. Twitter can never take a scratch off Nigeria, talk more of destroying it. If Nigeria ever implode it would be by the strike of the average Nigerians who has been short change by currupt politician, whose business has been killed by short sighted policies of the government, whose lives has been left at the mercy of kidnappers/Bandits/Bokoharam, whose loved ones lost their lives due to bad roads and poor medical care, average Nigerian who lost life changing opportunity due to nepotism etc. They gaslighted you, sold your a dummy and scare you with "the twitter would implode Nigeria" horse crap. And just like that you forget the real factors imploding Nigeria. --- #UnbrokenOptimist |
Please, Regardless of how you feel about the ban on twitter in Nigeria don't amplifie Indian nationalist voices on social media to equally ban Twitter in India. In India and Kashmir, Twitter platform is the voice of the voiceless Muslims living under Modi's repressive Hindus nationalist party. I notice a trend of Nigerian fratinizing with India BJP supporters over this twitter ban. Even some Muslims posting solidarity screen shots on Facebook and WhatsApp. What many aren't aware of is that India is a country where Twitter has been the most useful platform for oppressed Muslims , Kashmires and Dalits( minority communities at the bottom of India's strict caste system, more like Nigeria's version of OSU in Igbo communities). Until recently, Muslims in Kashmir where locked out from the internet just so they can't organise or share their condition with the rest of the world. And even now, internet is very slow in Kashmir just so they keep them shut while the oppression thrives. And same India, Indian Muslims where blamed for the spread of covid19 and prosecuted for called " love jihad" ( criminalized marriage of Hindus who marry Muslim and then convert to Islam). Kashmiris are losing their lands, Muslim get lynched for eating cow, mosque are been destroyed to make way for Hindu shrines and so many more oppressive policies channel at undermining it's over 150million Muslims citizens. The country is ruled by an extremist Hindu party bent on pushing India into a purely Hindi state instead of a secular as it was designed by its founding fathers. So if you are out there amplifying India's hindu nationalist voices on social media to also ban Twitter in India, also know that your are doing that at the expense of your fellow oppressed Muslim brothers in India and the Dalit community. Twitter is the number one platform in India where Muslims organise, plead their case and share their plight with the rest of the world. Do not help them by amplifying their voices to take this voice away from Muslims in India just because you support the Twitter ban in Nigeria. #UnbrokenOptimist |
Some find it convenient to compare the march on Capital Hill to the Endsars protest and not the Black lives matter (BLM) protest. Even though both Endsars and BLM were about police excesses and high handedness. The liberal world rightly tagged the march on the capital hill as an insurrection. It was an insurrection, some of the protester had gun, club and other weapons. They invaded the seat of power and drove out congress men who were supposed to be validating the election results on that day. During the BLM protest, the then president (Trump) and his conservative supporters tagged them as rioters due to some incedence of arson and looting by some of the protesters. But the liberal world were of the views that despite arsonist using the protest to loot and riot, the BLM protest was a legitimate protest fighting a genuine course(racism, police brutality etc). The march on capital hill fits into the agenda some people are trying to push, which explains there continuous comparism of the capital hill march with the Endsars protest and not the BLM protest. --- #UnbrokenOpimist |
On the much tauted comparison that Nnamdi Kanu is allowed to preach hate, bigotry and death while the same twitter is currently moderating and even deleting some of PMB's post, here is likely what is happening. There is an ongoing scuffle to control narratives on social media and the current administration, as with most other things is failing at controling the narrative, despite all the resources available to them. If they want to make it difficult for Lamidi kunu and his minions, If they want to make it difficult for hate preachers on twitter or any other social, there are routes to do it through the same platform but it seems they are either just indifferent or lazy, I personally don't believe they don't know how. In line with their habits of trading blame when failing, they find it convenient to blame twitter for been biased. To start with, Twitter's or any other social media algorithm usually can't tell when a post contains hate, racism, death threat or the like but the algorithm depends largely on it users to guide twitter to fish out this sort of tweet/post. If twitter recieves alot of report on a particular post, they take action either by deleting, hiding or even suspending. Depending on how bad the violations could have been. A simple analogy is like a situation where a person A threatened to kill person B and then the audience/on lookers watching the brawl call the police on person A to report his threat. The police wasn't at the scene, they got to know because the audience called and directed them there. They would most likely arrest person A because that was the information the audience gave them. It may be that it was person B that initially threatened to kill person A but a part of the on lookers out of prejudice decided to only report person A. So long as nobody is calling to report person B, he would most likely escape getting arrested too. This is how most social media algorithm for moderation work. What this means is, Lamidi kunu and his minions would keep spreading hate and bigotry on the platform so long as other users aren't reporting him. Twitter's algorithm was able to fish out PMB because other users help the algorithm to detect that something was off with the post and the moderators took over from there. Personally, I usually take out time to report inappropriate post when I see them. But it's almost impossible to do this to every inappropriate post I see because there is just so many of them. As a community, we should be collectively moderating our social media feeds by reporting inappropriate post when you see them, regardless of how insignificant you might think your efforts would. Collectively it counts for alot. Twitter and the likes largely depend on its algorithm for moderation and the algorithm depends on twitter users to guide them to identify what should be and what shouldn't be on the platform. ------- Anivassa #UnbrokenOptimist |
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Hi, I have seen numerous video online that attempts to explain the concept of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology to people but all of these videos are in conventional English. So, I decided to make a 7 parts video in pigin explaining the concept to people who aren't so savy in conventional spoken English or tech related stuffs. The intention isn't to woo listeners into or not to investing in cryptocurrencies, the intention is to educate and appreciate this beautiful technology. Don't forget to subscribe because this is the 1st part of a 7 parts series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrYkoTY69As Twitter handle: https://mobile.twitter.com/CitizenAct1 #UnbrokenOptimist.
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As Israel pounds the Gaza Strip in its fourth major military offensive against its mostly refugee inhabitants in the past dozen years, it is claiming a superior moral code of conduct. As Israeli leaders would have it, the world should not be distracted by the images of death and destruction, for which Hamas should be held responsible, as it hides among the civilian population. In fact, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Joe Biden, “Israel is doing everything possible to avoid harming innocent civilians.” Indeed, Israel sends warning shots to Gaza residents so they can narrowly escape with their lives just before it destroys their livelihoods with bombs. The Palestinians should be thankful. Israel also claims that it targets specific terrorist installations, anything else is an unintended consequence. But what Israel calls “collateral damage”, the Palestinians call loved ones: the women, men, and children they mourn every day. Netanyahu says that Israel targets Hamas for targeting Israeli population centres. But while that should not be condoned or excused, the reality once again tells a different story: there is a significant disparity between the death and destruction the Palestinians and the Israelis face. Israel and its enablers also insist on its right of self-defence, when, in fact, Israel had forfeited that right by becoming an expanding occupying power. They say Israel only aims to defend its citizens, when in fact it is defending the occupation and the subjugation of the Palestinians. Israel insists it does not start wars. This is generally false, considering it started most of its past wars. It provoked war through assassinations, bombings, closures, evictions, land grabs, attacks on holy sites, and unrelenting illegal settlements, etc. The decades-long military and civilian occupation in and of itself is a continued state of war and violence. Israel could stop the madness of war by simply ending the occupation and dispossession of the Palestinians. Israel claims it does not seek conflict, that it seeks peace. But throughout much of the quarter of a century “peace process”, successive Israeli governments have insisted on maintaining total domination over all of historic Palestine and expanded the illegal settlements for that purpose. At any rate, these well-rehearsed, often repeated, “talking points” are nothing new. They have gone a long way in justifying Israeli aggression throughout its history, even though the tragedy of war transcends all spin. But for a long time, they also reflected a deeper contradiction in the Israeli mindset. Indeed, since its inception, Israel has projected a conflicting image of being powerful but insecure, superior but needy, bloody but humane, violent but vulnerable, and ultimately a merciful warrior and a vicious peacemaker. Israel has been a formidable military and nuclear power, superior to all its neighbours combined, and yet it is the only country that consistently obsesses about its survival. It is because this type of insecurity is rooted not in the lack of strength but its lack of acceptability or fitting in as a settler colonial project in a predominantly Arab region, whose people overwhelmingly reject it. Israel’s insecurity was born in sin – the sin of a state founded on the ruin of another people, the catastrophic takeover of Palestine and the dispossession of its inhabitants by malign violence in 1948. Although the Zionist leaders at the time lied about the causes and the management of the war, they could not escape the truth of their doing. As Israel’s “new historians” have documented, Palestinians did not flee their towns voluntarily, nor were they heeding some Arab calls to evacuate their homes. Israel carried out a well-planned, wide-ranging ethnic cleansing offensive to ensure the Jewishness of the new state. That made many Israelis uncomfortable and conflicted. After all, many of its early Jewish immigrants were themselves victims of horrible atrocities in Europe and elsewhere. But while many Israelis felt justified, others expressed sorrow for the horrible things they “had to do”, although no one forced their hand to occupy Palestine or maintain their control for decades. Indeed, more than a few early Zionists understood the horrific consequence of war and advocated peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians in one state for much of the first half of the 20th century. The conflicted mindset was best understood in the old Israeli expression, yorim ve bochim, literally “shooting and crying”. It is as old and complex an expression as the state itself. In his 1949 novel, Khirbet Khizeh, Yizhar Smilansky, an army officer and renowned author, depicted with shocking prose the preplanned and unprovoked destruction of a Palestinian village and the expulsion of its inhabitants across the border carried out by his military unit during the 1948 war. As an intelligence officer, Smilansky knew all too well that this was only one of several hundreds of villages and towns destroyed by the Israeli forces. But like Micha, his novel’s protagonist, he joined his comrades in “finishing the job”, despite his guilty conscience. The revisionist novel was made into a movie and a TV series, while Smilansky became a Knesset member from the ruling Mapai party in the 1950s, as it continued to dispossess the Palestinians of their basic human rights. It is this type of confliction between Smilansky, the writer, and Smilansky, the politician, that shaped the writings of more than a few leading Zionist writers, notably Amos Oz, who influenced the views of millions, especially the “diaspora Jews”. I took the time during the pandemic to finish two of Oz’s novels, Judas and Scenes From Village Life, and found them literarily interesting but politically hypocritical. However, it was the late Israeli prime minister, Golda Meir, who took the hypocrisy of “shooting and crying” to a whole new level of bulls***. In one of her infamous racist zingers, she told the Palestinians, “We can forgive you for killing our sons, but we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.” That is chutzpah par excellance. It follows, rather obscenely, that today, the Palestinians owe Israel a huge apology for its army killing so many of them. The hypocrisy goes well beyond fighting war into waging of peace. In 1993, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin boasted of Israel’s generosity and its willingness to share a rather tiny part of “the Land of Israel” with the Palestinians for the sake of peace. Never mind, that it was the Palestinians who were making a historic compromise by recognising Israel stretching over four-fifths of their homeland. But all that is now in the past. It is indeed, passé. After years of acting with impunity, today’s Israelis, certainly most Israeli leaders, do not shoot and cry. They do not want to share the land or make real peace with the Palestinians. Most are more likely to shoot and laugh. One of the most disturbing images I have ever seen in my lifetime was during the Gaza war in 2014. It was devoid of drama or tragedy, showing only a bunch of Israelis picnicking on the hills overseeing Gaza, eating popcorn and enjoying themselves, as they watched the Israeli bombardment of the densely populated, overly impoverished strip. Why let the death of Palestinians ruin a great firework display? In the past, certain Israeli leaders may have been disturbed by all that they have done, by the crimes they have committed, but they reckoned the ends justified the means. Hypocritical? Perhaps. But unlike the new generation of fanatic leaders and their followers, they were at least conflicted and some even remorseful. By contrast, today, Netanyahu’s minions and partners use words like regret and peace as props. Worse, they have an entire guidebook prepared after the first Israel-Gaza War in 2009, guiding officials on how to portray Israel as a peace-loving, well-intentioned victim of Palestinians’ aggression. One could only roll one’s eyes watching Netanyahu warning Palestinians in Israel against using violence, when they are the victims of organised violence, when they are merely trying to defend themselves against overwhelming police brutality and lynching by mobs of Jewish fanatics. I wrote about this hasbara deception masquerading as confliction, in a number of articles during the 2014 Gaza war here, here and here, for example. What I found to be most instructive throughout my study of Israel’s war and propaganda is that Israel has brought nothing new to the art of deception, except, perhaps, a slicker delivery. Most other previous colonial powers called their enemies terrorists, accused them of cowardice, and of using civilians as human shields, blah blah blah. But what became of these colonialists and their propaganda? It may be hard if not impossible to be optimistic about the short-term prospects of a solution. But when the dust settles on another sadistic Israeli war, Israelis will once again find themselves stuck with millions of Palestinians ever more determined to regain their liberty. Like the dozen colonial states that preceded them, notably the white settler regimes in South Africa and Algeria, the Israelis will sooner or later have to make a choice: to live in peace or leave in humiliation. There is no point in postponing the inevitable and suffering in the process. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/16/israels-doctrine-humane-bombing-and-benevolent-occupation
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Prominent US progressive Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has called Israel an “apartheid state” amid the ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the US House of Representatives, is part of a cadre of progressive legislators who have been increasingly critical of US support for Israel and have called for the administration of President Joe Biden to take a harder line amid the most recent escalation. “I don’t care how any spokesperson tries to spin this,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Saturday along with a video of an Israeli air strike demolishing a building that had house media offices, including those of Al Jazeera and the Associated Press. “If the Biden admin can’t stand up to an ally, who can it stand up to?” she wrote. In a following tweet, she added: “Apartheid states aren’t democracies.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/16/in-tweet-us-legislator-aoc-calls-israel-apartheid-state
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Tehran, Iran – Iran has unveiled a supercomputer – its strongest till date – developed domestically by Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), according to the state-run news website IRNA. The supercomputer – named Simorgh after a mythical Persian bird – has a performance capacity of 0.56 petaflops at the moment and will reach one petaflops in two months. “At the moment, knowledge-based companies have offered good platforms but they don’t have good infrastructures inside the country, which leads them to use infrastructures outside the country,” he said during a press conference in the capital Tehran on Sunday. The Simorgh has a capacity of 0.56 petaflops [Courtesy: Mehr news agency] The supercomputer is said to comprise 42 racks in an area of approximately 250sq metres (2,690 sq feet) based on the TIA-942 standard and is projected to be upgraded to 84 racks laid out in an area of 400sq metres (4,305 square feet). According to the IRNA, the infrastructure put in place at Tehran’s AUT will allow the supercomputer to reach a capacity of 10 petaflops in its next stages of development, which will put it in the ranks of some of the strongest international peers. The university worked in cooperation with the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), which provided half of its 1 trillion rial ($4.5m) budget, and the scientific division of the presidential office and the ministry of science bore the rest of the cost. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/16/iran-unveils-supercomputer-starts-development-on-a-stronger-one
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What happens if Nigeria's Government keeps printing more money? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc47RZe6uUc Here is d Link don't forget to subscribe: |
Is the Central Bank really printing more money to shore up revenue ? In what looked like a tips from Idi Amin and Mugabe's Play book. The governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki claimed that CBN printed more money to patch up revenue in the month of March. The Minister of finance, Haj. Zainab Ahmed has since refuted the claim and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Emiefele, has also waded into the controversies. The video dives deeper to find the truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRUsMKTHXe0 #Financefriday #Nigeria #CBN #Obaseki #StimulusPackage #Covid19 #Covid19relief Follow us on; Twitter: twitter.com/CitizenAct1 --- |
Is Covax a smokescreen to cover up vaccine Nationalism? Just as every nation of the world is struggling to deal with the pandemic, some nation have decided to nationilize the solution. #Covax #VaccineNationalism #CitizenAct #WHO #Covid19 #Africa #Equity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7bpmCkh7kA |
Check your history book, read up about Christianity in early Europe. Xtianity was so intolerant that they even killed and prosecute scientists for even d most tiny research dat contradict their believes. Galileo had to escape death in hands of the church for daring to contradict the Bible with his research about the moon and the star's. Friendlyjoe: |
It's in naira not dollar, d ops definitely made a mistake. Openbusiness4: |
What is the difference between the 6month long dispatcher course offered by NCAT from the same dispatcher course that only takes 2months in most private aviation schools? |
What is the difference between the 6month long dispatcher course offered by NCAT from the same dispatcher course that only takes 2months in most private aviation schools? |
Nigeria public debt is in billion dollars not trillion dollars. That quotation has to b a mistake from the ops fergie001: |
How is it going four years later |
U mean d this country https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2020/02/taliban-negotiate-7-day-reduction-violence-pentagon-200213153223932.html September13:
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Shekau is not a Fulani man, he is a Kanuri man just like most BH member. seunlayi: |
Live NEWS/CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Egypt confirms coronavirus case, the first in Africa The country's health ministry says the affected person is a 'foreigner' who is hospitalised and in isolation. 10 hours ago The virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year [File: Yuan Zheng/EPA-EFE] The virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year [File: Yuan Zheng/EPA-EFE] Egypt has confirmed its first case of a deadly coronavirus that emerged in central China at the end of last year and has since spread to more than two dozen countries around the world. Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Mugahed said in a statement on Friday that the affected person was a "foreigner" who did not show any serious symptoms. Officials were able to confirm the case through a follow-up programme implemented by the government for travellers arriving from countries where the virus has spread. The ministry statement said the person was hospitalised and in isolation. It did not specify the person's nationality or their point of entry. The development made Egypt the first country in the African continent to report a confirmed case, and the second in the Middle East region, after the United Arab Emirates late last month diagnosed its first cases. 'Grave threat' Officially known as COVID-19, the virus was first detected in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province in central China, in December last year. It has so far killed almost 1,400 people and infected nearly 65,000 others globally. Three deaths have been recorded outside mainland China - one in Hong Kong, one in the Philippines and the most recent in Japan. More than two dozen countries have confirmed cases and several nations have evacuated their citizens from Hubei. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned the virus poses a "grave threat" to the world. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/egypt-confirms-coronavirus-case-africa-200214190840134.html
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Akpan107:In d early days of Islam, Muslim were permitted to do contract marriage but later on a more verse was released to the prophet it was banned. Muslims are not allowed to contract a marriage |
Allah created everything so Allah can swear by any of his creation. But we as Muslims are only allowed to swear by Allah. D prophet never swore by anything except by Allah's name TheOutlaw: |
Allah created everything and can swear with any of his creation. But Muslims are not allowed to swear with anything other than Allah. ContractKiller: |
Nbote:U seem not to understand d post b4 even commenting Isn't matching SIM cards with id card d same thing as creating a data base. It's like a bvn version for simcards |
Oga chill, capt osa okumbo never reach that level, go check d value d worth of his four companies oceanmarine nd rest. Don't over hype dat man, d man is rich tho.Arthur eze is rich too but them no reach. NwaAmaikpe: |