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The two most boko haram infested states, Borno and Yobe are ANPP states, so God alone knows who you are trying to decieve.
Everybody knows that Maiduguri (the capital of Borno) is boko harams capital, so please weave another long tale.

zameen: I've read quiet a number of comments here refering to Nigeria programmers as 'not-up-standard'. My concern now is, as an average Engineering student and a prospective programmer, are online tutorials enough for me to become a qualified programmer?

No, they are not. Knowledge is all they would give you, but you need an intense level of discipline and adherence to methodology to start you on the right track.
By all means, get your online tutorials. But as soon as you've learnt to walk, get involved in an open source programme (preferrably based in the developed World); the bigger, the better. It will expose you to a lot of standards, approaches and procedures.
That way, you can begin to develop a feel for what proper software development is all about.

Good luck, bro.

There is no need for us to pine and wonder about our tomorrow.
Our LG bosses live right next door to us. We know their kids and where they live.

Are they accountable to you?
Do they fulfill the purpose for which they were voted in?
Can they account for every last kobo spent in your community?
Have they built firms that will industrialise your LG and make it pay its way in Nigeria, rather than exist with the ignominy of a perpetual awuf collector thats in worse shape than a truly wrecked invalid?

Today, the guy is an unaccountable LG boss, tomorrow they will become and unaccountable rep, then and unaccountable governor, senator or president.
Who will we blame, but ourselves for not demanding accountability, delivery and development when we had the opportunity at local level, before the beast grew into a monster? No one, but ourselves.

Burn their phucking houses down today.

Those talking about boko haram being a PDP thing are either being a bit foolish, naive or mischievious.
Boko haram started with ANPP and was embraced across all political parties in the core-North as a political weapon to install a core-Northern elite friendly govt, after GEJ broke the back of PDP's rotation. Buhari, Ribadu etc all bought into the wider "North" politics of 2011 even though they are not PDP members.

As Naptu has said, lets stop giving quinine to a typhoid patient. Nuff said.

naptu2: I've said this before and I'll say it again, we need to be wary of wrong diagnosis. If a man has typhoid and you administer malaria treatment on him, he could die before you know what's going on.


Boko Haram has splintered into many factions. You have the political element (thugs used by politicians to carry out their dirty deeds), you have the common criminals, you have the Yusuf faction and you have the Al-Qaeda faction.

To be fair, Shehu Sanni may mean well, but his claims are exaggerated. He may be in touch with one faction, but it is certainly not the Al-Qaeda faction, which is the most dangerous faction.

The Al-Qaeda faction is not interested in negotiation. They did not spring up because of President Jonathan, neither are they interested in petty politics. They have just one aim, which is to spread their brand of Islam across Nigeria.

Let me make this clear, they are not just interested in taking over Northern Nigeria, they want to take over the whole country and then spread across West Africa and they will kill anyone who opposes them, including Buhari, the Sultan, Babangida or whoever.

The sooner we put aside our differences and realise that Boko Haram is a threat to all Nigerians, the better for us.

We need to reactivate Ecomog and incorporate Cameroun into the group. We need to have troops in Niger, Chad and northern Cameroun, to prevent those places being used as safe havens by Al-Qaeda affiliated groups. The NIA must be more active. Why haven't they arrested the former Mauritanian president that is backing Boko Haram? We need NIA agents across West Africa to monitor and deal with Boko Haram sympathisers.

If we keep going on about our domestic problems and are not united in confronting this problem, then we might just be administering quinine to a typhoid patient and you know what the result will be.

Earlier today, I was thinking the exact same thing as the second bolded. We need to expand our military and its capabilities very quickly; we should be capable of carrying out bombing runs in places like Mali, Mauritania, throughout W.Africa and Central Africa. We should be capable of projecting force into N.Africa and taking on any recalcitrant enemies of Nigeria in those states.

It is all well and good that we now build our own armoured personel carriers, bullet proof vests, rifles, patrol boats etc... The real koko is in electronics, IT, satellites and drones. Lets not forget internation hit squads.

I know that under Azazi Nigeria set up some military outposts in Northern W.Africa; but these are not fighting or strike units. It is in Nigeria's interest to use the current ECOWAS interest in Mali to set up a well resourced military base there.
Boko haram should open our eyes to fact that we cannot keep on slacking and rapid development is now a priority.

ogugua88: Why not a fellow amphibian? Like a salamander.

So you are an ethnic bigot too?
What a let down.

torkaka: pretty soon you will also classify the following as northern elites;
diezani
gej
ibori
sylva
alaibe
alamasiagha
odili!

And to you, those people are marginalising the North?

Comedy!

Those interested in this field should read up on energy scavenging. Its a highly intriguing area of research.
The pic below speaks for itself.

Wither 9ja?

https://spie.org/Images/Graphics/Newsroom/Imported-2011/003749/003749_10_fig1.jpg

http://spie.org/x48868.xml

holymike47: The casings could also be designed to utilise solar energy

There are a thousand and one better ways to achieve it, eg Electroactive Dielectric Elastomers (EAPs). These magic materials can generate electric currents when stretched or flexed (they can also be stretched or flexed by electric current).
The great thing is that they are dead cheap as well.

Nigeria should be very interested in such future tech. I can think of a thousand and one uses without even blinking.

Nice article by the way.

nateevs: Really disappointing.
However, with more rain predicted in the UK tomorrow, naturally, we expect a lot of twists and turns.
I still expect Lewis to do well.

Looks like its going to start wet and end dry. This is the BBC weather forecast for Silverstone. I highlighted the likely time block the race and its intro would occupy even if the race is extended.

[quote author=Ejiné]Say no to tribalism [/quote]For real.

brownlord: This is the only reason i always insult our president, he is just too weak, so a man made this statement and he is still alive and walking, what for, i have often said that northern elders are the boko haram, and president know this but does not want to act, how can he be firing IG of police NSA or whoever because we want to resolve boko haram, when we have the solution, what else does jonathan want to solve this problem, arrest this man, let him bring out the name, arrest those once, let him tell us thier hideout, go with helicopter and wipe them off, OBG abeg i respect you, what a weakly, Commander in chief fire, nonsense president

This is bloody primitive.

What shocks me most is the attitude of high calibre hypocrites like Gbawe, the moral urchin.
When there was militancy in the ND, these were the folk who railed and raged at the "thieves and terrorists." Today, the ex-militants have become Gbawe's hero and wind vane for good leadership.

Dogs will be dogs.

Abeg, make we lef winsh, jare!
Winsh na winsh and winsh must fly!... Until e get accident!

Kpuho! Kpuho!!

https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2356/2265660680_9375d2988f.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UPBvj.gif

karl max: pls the ECA account is shared by the federal and state government go and ask ur governor and LG chairman what they did with theirs more over here is the new figure of the ECA

Nigeria: FG Increases Excess Crude Account to N1.6 Trillion
BY ELIZABETH ARCHIBONG, 26 JUNE 2012
Comment
THE Federal Government has as part of an immediate plan to provide a buffer for the economy increased the Excess Crude Account (ECA) from N848 billioin ($5.3 billion) to N1.6 trillion ($10 billion).

This was part of the high points of the decision taken Monday by the National Economic Council (NEC) to protect the economy for at least three months from a possible global recession.

While expressing confidence in the economy, the National Economic Council stated, 'the economy is in good standing but pointed out the need for more judicious borrowing and application of funds by different levels of government.'

Other measures taken to protect the economy, according to Amaechi, include support for the President in his plans to appoint members of the Sovereign Wealth Funds Board of Directors including the Managing director, CEO as well as the executive and non- executive directors which is expected to come 'after a painstaking and credible recruitment process.'

The council's decision came following a presentation made by the Finance Minister and Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy (CME), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on the Implementation Update on the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Athority (NSIA) as well as the need to protect Nigeria's economy from the persisting global economic crisis.

Council also considered the report of the Inter-Ministerial Teams on the recent Nation-wide inspection of 111 Federal Ministry of Water Resources Projects across the country by the Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Ochekpe.

The report noted that the projects, which are at various stages of completion, require about N191.7 billion for completion, following which the Council recommended that all on-going projects should be completed to achieve meaningful development and avail Nigerians the opportunity of benefiting from the intended gains of the projects.

Both the Federal and State Governments will also partner to ensure that the various water, irrigation and dam projects are completed in a more beneficial and sustainable manner.

It directed Directorates of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources in the states and the state governments to jointly review the details of the projects to enable the government work out the funding arrangements and prepare a framework for completion of the projects.

Federal and the states are also to collaborate in the budgetary processes of some strategic ministries including Water Resources, Health, Education and works going forward, to promote synergy in projects implementation

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs Dr (Mrs) Precious Gbeneol, also briefed the Council on the N20.5 billion and N15 billion MDGs Fund for 2012 available to the States and LGAs respectively to fund development projects upon fulfillment of specified conditions including providing matching funds and bank guarantee bond.

The council advised the States to take advantage of the programme by meeting the required conditions which would enable them to access as much as N550 million per state.

It also mandated the MDGs office to provide a quarterly report on the progress made by the States as a means of gauging the overall progress made towards 2015.

Also speaking on Child Trafficking, the National Agency for the Prohibition of traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) also made a presentation to the Council on the growing incidence of trafficking and child labour and the danger they pose to the country's growth and development.

NEC said it noted the worsening development and backed the range of measures recommended by NAPTIP to check trafficking including deepening public enlightenment, rehabilitation and reintegrating of victims, establishing vocational centres for youths training, effective prosecution of traffickers and functional policing of our borders.

The council therefore recommended greater collaboration with the State and LGAs to address the push factors of trafficking and child labour.f

The guy you responded to is a bit retar'ded, but we are managing him sha. Lol!
We hear about the alarming sums that states like Lagos, Osun, Edo, Rivers etc are borrowing, many never ever question whose account the money their LG's and states borrowing comes out of, yet they claim to be a educated. A shame really.

Because our states and LG's are 100% reliant on awuf and generate absolutely zero, no sane foreign bank would lend them money. All borrowings by LG's and states are carried out on their behalf by the FG. The repayment money comes out of the state or LG's allocation.
Lagos state alone, accounts for 9.4% of Nigeria's external debt.

It is a pity that amongst supposedly educated people, some do not take the time to find out how things works and scream debt from the rooftops, whereas those debts belong to their states and LG's who have no means to repay, except out of the handouts the same FG gives to them. A pathetic state of existence indeed.

People, I'll keep screaming from the rooftops; hold your awuf luv'n lazy phuck LG boss and governor to account. If you cannot do this or preach it, then you are a gargantuan failure who represents all that must be rejected for Nigeria to develop; a failure.
LG bosses and state governors are elected to deliver services, not borrow money and shovel awuf oil money into their personal accounts.

uzomagic: It is rather sad that this is the only valid deduction you have been able to make from this post yet it is people like you that refer to someone as clueless. Even when the clue is put forward to you, you'll not be able to take it.

Okon!

blessedghost: Drug? if i may ask how is drug use responsible for what is going on? let me ask again! when the Niger Delta ( Millitants ) were fighting! of course everybody knows why, the question is was it Drug use also?

Soldiers too, use drugs.

TroGunn: So you are saying they are not suicide bombers because of the drugs. They only take the drugs to help them stay the course after deciding to kill. I can accept that. Armed robbers do that too, I hear.

Their Islamism ideology makes them suicide bombers, the drugs just help them not to chicken out. It means if they were not such cowards, these people would still be suicide bombers without need for the drugs. The root problem is the ideology.

Many suicide bombers are condemned to death by their masters and simply do not know what they are doing. They are pumped up with drugs, hyped up and sent on a one way journey. Others are half willing, and are pumped up with drugs to bolster them.

Dudes, there is nothing like a drug crazed fool who has been deprived all through life thinking they are stepping right off the cliff into a splendid land of unending puzzy.

People like Mutallab are different (perhaps, he failed because he wasn't on drugs).
Drugs and the altered state of mind they induce, are a terrorists number one weapon. With drugs, you can calmly slash the heads of "enemy" new born babies open (like in Jos) and set their innocent little corpses ablaze; with drugs, you can dull the event from your mind.

@OAM4J

I can see you are viewing this thread. I'm waiting patiently for you to ban bluetooth.

From his experience, Cosmas advises: “You can start any mean job as a stepping stone to where you want to be. The best skill you need is simply the ability to manage money properly and rely on God for grace. Blackberry is somebody’s brain child; same with Nokia. Unfortunately, many of us do not want to have brain children. Truly, many young people need to be completely reoriented because they have wrong conceptions of what it takes to be wealthy.

“They hit the wall because they search for success in wrong places like Yahoo Yahoo. Why not be practical about life if white collar jobs are not coming to you as a graduate? Learn to set goals for yourself! There are millions of jobs you could train yourself to do! If it takes serving as an apprentice, do it. Many of us die of frustration because we do not want to pay the price.

“I have five children and I ensure they go to school in Nigeria despite that some of them are American citizens, because I believe they need to learn street smartness! My oldest son graduated from the University of Lagos, and till age 25, he didn’t have a car because I didn’t give him any! He has done his MBA abroad, and now works with one of the banks in Nigeria. He now earns his own money and can buy himself whatever car he desires!”

True.

The article is very inspiring and eye-opening. I'm short of words.

ubandire: Are they tired of lying?they are now suing for truce?it will only come when u start preaching the truth,when u start saying things the way they are,when u stop collecting money in order to trend falsehood,when you start believing in the unity of Nigeria,when u start collaborating with govt in it's effort to battle the enemies of state,when u stop celebrating terrorists just to score cheap political points,when u say enough is enough to those who have placed their personal and selfish interests above the welfare of the entire country,when quit stopping at nothing to achieve political relevance,when u stop overheating the polity with ur fake and malicious rumours,until then no peace to the enemies of Nigeria!!!

Mandelaguy: @op,if there is going to be a truce,it has to be on certain terms. this is just part of it,when the terms are completely set and included in your lists,then there will be peace,but the truth is that till people stop fighting growth and developmental strides,then we have no common grounds for truce.

Exactly guys!
Imagine a truce with folk who have taken lying, hatred and subhuman behaviour to frightening levels!
It would be like a truce with Lucifer.

Most anti-GEJ people come across as sectional, bigoted, unintelligent, ill brought up and incredibly hateful.
However, there are a few genuinely sceptical guys who are above board in every way, these are guys that come across as impeccable in character, level headed, intelligent people whose love of Nigeria cannot be faulted. They have my full respect anyday; I'm talking about people like:

Haka nai (can't really call this guy anything, but neutral)
Ejine
HNosegbe
Bayoooooooooo
Worm
DivideUs

etc etc

jmaine: No matter how long, how much and how hard you convulse . . .GEJ is still the King,President and the Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria . . . . .

Must be so frustrating accepting this simple plain fact on a daily basis

You have 3 more solid years to keep ranting

Preach, bro! Preach!

Yes, the talakawa (peasants), ordinary Northerners and almajiri's are marginalised, but they are marginalised (like the rest of Nigeria) by the core-Northern elite who illegally acquired 85% of our indigenious oil blocks and own everything that moves.

Kobojunkie is seeking notice as usual.
Please lets not derail this topic with crap.

Dissapointing. Lewis is 8th.

jmaine: Hmmm ! Dude is so confident . . . .

He sounds like he is the MD of boko haram. Make we de look.

Quali redflaged!!!
If the rain doesn't stop, then positions are frozen. Could be really interesting!

Button is already out.
Starting 18th.

Lol! Imagine looking for a truce after so much mudslinging, telling so many lies and spraying so many insults?
You guys are already looking like real id!ots on the streets and on NL.

Winshes, please remain winshes. Very soon the jackals will have your souls.

No begging on the sly.
Keep your phucking truce.

Everyday, we see new proof that good will always trump evil.
The mad ones on NL continue to publicly lose the battle with sanity; they are beginning to realise that stup!dity, lies and immoral behaviour are not substitutes for observable truth, reality and uprightness.

What truce? Stick it somewhere an[i]a[/i]l.

In the meantime, go tell people on threads like this one that their observations on the ground and in their houses are fake:
https://www.nairaland.com/983176/how-phcn-doing-area

Keep your bloody truce to yourselves, keep loving Farouks and El Rufai's.
The light never ever compromises itself with darkness.

All terrorists use drugs (especially al qaeda). Almost all suicide bombers the World over have drugs in their system.
Since boko haram is affilaiated with alqaeda in the Maghreb (aqim), it is no surprise to find them employing the same methods.

ypzilanti: Im still waiting for the substance of Melaye's argument to be countered.

...waiting....waiting.... waiting...

Oh...I forgot...you are a paid commentator, and where there is no redeeming argument, you must resort to name calling and denigrating the messenger.

You guys are addressing the unemployment issues by engaging the youth on cyber warfare sha.

If I was unemployed and GEJ offered me a job praising him on the internet, I might just take the job too...who knows...I have never been poor and desperate, so I won't judge.

[size=23pt]Lol! The pathetic sound of a defeated winsh![/size]
[size=23pt]How much will you tell your kids that your conscience cost?[/size]

Here is what I said again. Think hard about it:

Beaf: Lol! I see the pathetic winshes are still flying around, lamenting their failed and disgraceful mission. They have even forgotten about their corrupt hero, Dino Melaye! Wonders!
Poor things are attacking those who defeated them and have since forgotten about the foolish Farouk luv'n thread.
Thread fail, winsh fail!

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