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27naira:
It appears you just love to talk without facts. Sometimes, i wonder if you just love to coin words to sound intelligible without recourse to a little research.

FRIGATES

Absalon (Denmark)-$269 million

Bertholf National Security Cutter-$641 million

F100 Bazan (Spain)-$600 million

F105 Cristobal Colon (Spain)-$954 million

De Zeven Provincien (Netherlands)-$532 million

FREMM (Franco/Italian)-$745 million

LCS Freedom-$637 million

Holland (Netherlands)-$169 million

LCS Independence-$704 million

Iver Huitfeldt (Denmark)-$332 millon

Nansen (Norway)-$557 million

Sachsen Type 124 (Germany)-$1.06 billion

Valour MEKO A200 (South Africa)-$327 million

F-22P Zulfiquar (China/Pakistan)-$200 million

thats the cost of new frigates. Nigeria can afford them

Nigeria's 2010 budget was $31billion, of that amount, 70% (about $22billion) was recurrent expenditure (salaries etc) leaving roughly $9billion to sort out the states, LG's and capital expenditure. Where is the money to afford a new ship? Nigeria is not only poor, but our people are also too phucking lazy and low self-esteemed to make anything. Better accept what you've been given with thanks and rejoicing; if you don't want to do that, then roll up your sleeves and actually start making your own stuff and make it good enough for export.

No be just to de mek maut.

sebastinta:
Its obvious we cnt make it, we can aswell buy it, is anythn wrong wiv dat, istead of keepin junk in d country

We can make it, but we are too phucking lazy and burdened with low self esteem. Is it not humans that made as long ago as 1968?
If for sad reasons, we are incapable, then none of us has the right to condemn the old boat we've bought, because we don't have the money to buy a brand new one.

ojubi:
Mr Beaf, with due respect sir i beg you to please tell president Jonathan to remove corruption subsidy, and the high cost of runing government subsidy. He should also be man enough, and develope the balls to remove the cartel subsidy . And PLEASE leave the fuel subsidy to the ordinary man. Dear mr. Beaf, noticed the very youths that faught tooth and nail to make sure GEJ as you call him become president have turned agaist him? Example is YOURS SINCERELY AND MR. JAMES OLAWOLE AJANI. WHO HE ARRESTED YESTEDAY. PLEASE MR. BEAF, TELL GEJ THIS IS THE BEGINING OF THE NIGERIA SPRING. AJANI CAMPAIGNED FOR JONATHAN USING ALL THE RESOURCES HE HAD JUST LIKE ME. I AM FROM THE SOUTH SOUTH, AND I AM WRITTING FROM A VILLAGE KNOWN AS OBGEINBIRI IN BAYELSA STATE NOT TOO FAR TO OTUAKE THE PRESIDENT VILLAGE. BEAF, TELL HIM TO STOP TESTING THE PATIENCE OF THE ORDINARY NIGERIAN.

Why do you need an ordinary NLer like yourself to go talk to GEJ? Why can't you do it yourself if you think Beaf can do it?
I don't want to call you stup!d, so please don't act that way.

sebastinta:
c`mon 1968 dats too old, almost as old as d country, not even 1990`s, abeg we dnt want, na wa oo, wat do dey take us for monkeys??

I guess you basically want others to give you stuff and you still get to choose?
Why not make your own stuff, afterall those who invent, design and build things are human like us, they aren't spirits.

Maximip:
I thought this was impressive even before seeing the n-gram post.

Thanks, bruv. You know how to make a black brother blush.

Maximip:
The bulk of the work would be in creating a system that'll generate those rules (model) on it's own after recieving a bunch of words (training text) from a particular language. Advanced AI!

Yes, you are right indeed. The system could generate its own rules.

executinal:
Is better than non. Lets commend U.S for once. They only dash us. We no get choice, some of you pock-nosing there, can't you guys design one for your country if you know better than those that accepted the gift. They said pride Goethe before a failure. Thank you U.S we no get choice, even if is older than this, we will still accept.

Exactly! That ship is basically better than anything we have anyway.

son5070:
You have said it all !I weep for the youth of this country as they seem to have sold their rights to stand for what is theirs and generations to come.
Their Kids will grow to ask what they did for this country nigeria.
As important as this thread is,how many replies have you seen.They really can't be bothered as long as they can afford little money to show off.

These same corrupt leaders will pay them peanut to silence and use them to mortgage the future of their kids and younger generation.This will never happen in any country in the world as far as i know.

SHAME ON YOU NIGERIA YOUTHS,
BIG SHAME ON YOU THAT YOU CAN'T STAND FOR WHAT IS YOURS.
EVEN OUR FATHERS DID,THEY FOUGHT WARS,SOME SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES SO YOU CAN HAVE A BETTER TOMORROW,INSTEAD YOUR HAVE DECIDED TO PARTY WITH THE EVIL LEADERS AND SELL YOUR CONSCIENCE!

GO SEE THEM WONDERING FROM MINISTRY TO MINISTRY IN ABUJA LOOKING FOR CONTRACTS,EASY MONEY,SHAME ON YOU

Please tell them. A lot of people don't even know who the enemy is or how the country functions, all they want to do is watch big brother africa and talk crap about manchester united and chelsea.

The article is thought provoking, but very want in its discussion of how the country is scammed off about N2.4billion daily in the name of the oil subsidy. I expect the OP to make those corrections. Just last week, a tanker was arrested for basically going in circles between Port Harcourt and Lagos and redeclaring the same fuel; the cabal is deep and everywhere, they are also highly monied and powerful.

[size=33pt]Chineke!!!!! [/size]

[quote author=Rhino.5dm link=topic=799736.msg9518974#msg9518974 date=1320899486][size=14pt]You keep on displaying your low IQ[/size], with any slight opportunity. I have been to alot of northern states to tell you this, most state roads were built by the governors under OBJ

In Plataeu, Micheal Botmang was the governor that did many of the road projects(even with his brief stay in office), Jashua Dariye messed up. Big time.

In Bauchi, Adamu Muazu, housed Julius Berger for 8 years, within that period there was a revolution in the whole state. ALL roads became new.

In Gombe, Danjuma Goje , brought the chinese construction giants as far back as 2004, they handle roads. The annual fatal accident used to be recorded around tashan mass stopped. Go and see wonders. Everywhere tiled to the teeth.

In Kaduna, Ahmed Makarfi was the one that consolidated the existing roads and build a fly over worth 5 billion naira.

In kano, Rabiu Kwankwaso was the man that did wonders within his first four years before Shekarau took over.

In Yobe, Bukar Abba and Gaidam were those that built this road the liar is displaying as FG projects.

In Jigawa state, Sule Lamido stood exceptionally tall after Saminu Turaki messed up the whole state.

In Borno, Ali Modu Sherrif did wonders, even though i see him as a lunatic for supporting Boko Haram. From railway, Ulari, Bulunkutu to low-cost, everthing road was mapped in. I can go and on with this. . .but am using my mobile phone to type.

[size=14pt]. . .and the so much touted road projects in Akwa Ibom is my credit. As i was the one that sold the idea to Akpabio victor to invite Julius Berger, based on what i saw Ma'azu achieved with them in Bauchi.
In 2007 before flagging off his campaign, i advised him. You know what, Ikot Ekpene-Abak road was the first road they built in Akwa Ibom and i was the one that said so, cos that road leads to the governor's house. I told them to dualized it. [/size]

I know where to go and make blood money, but my consicience wont allow me to do that. I work and earned my money unlike YOU.
Dont be a fooool, brother. Go ask![/quote]https://i.imgur.com/UPBvj.gif

[size=21pt]Stop smoking dat tin![/size]

[quote author=Rhino.5dm link=topic=807882.msg9599727#msg9599727 date=1321865369]Go ahead and build a university for Almajiri or organize another reality scam in the form of YouWin. Thief!!![/quote]You are so daft and stup!d, it impossible to comprehend. Maybe you should stick to your lies about how you were the one that advised Akpabio to use Julius Berger and create dual carriage ways in Akwa Ibom; that where your real talent is, lying.

For the record, I do not work for govt, I'm an ordinary NLer like you. However, I must point out yet another lie that your low life mind has sprung on NL, which is that YouWin is a scam. Maybe in the bush you rush out of every morning, scams get sponsored by the World Bank, the UK's Department for International Development and Julius Berger (which your lies claim to know so well with the Akpabio angle).
If you were not a fool, you would simply have checked the YouWin website thoroughly. Its at the foot of all pages.

Now, run along.

ACN is a regional party with fascist idea's. It is a party that peddles ethnic bigotry as a campaign tool.

Gbawe:
You dare to comment? A hack like you I mop the floor with daily ? Abeg go siddon somewhere and let bright folks talk. Olodo jati-jati.

Debacle can only translate to "lies" in the fried brain of an olodo who makes things up as he goes along like yourself.

http://www.answers.com/topic/debacle

You sound more like an area boy with each passing day. Your words are uncouth and your imagery is violent.
My mental picture of you is of a hot tempered loon with red eyes and spit dribbling as you punch your keyboard in rage and beat up any nearby kids. Na wa!

The World has concluded that Aregbesola is a damn liar, so explode if you like. It won't change a darn thing, the man lies like there is no tomorrow; thats why he is suffering the train debacle, it was the lie that broke the camels back.

You must have a headache from throwing tantrums and talking rubbish, please take two tablets with food and a glass of water.

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[quote author=Rhino.5dm link=topic=807882.msg9599148#msg9599148 date=1321857294]sharrap!
Which law permit begging? Are you insane or what??
There is no law in Nigeria that permit begging/Almajiri. You are a foooooool for spewing this trash.[/quote]Why do you always approach matters like you are a wild animal in the zoo?

^
Lol! You don't know the meaning of the word, debacle? In the current context, its a kind way of calling Aregbesola a liar thats ram packed with high stories.

[quote author=Akanbi_edu link=topic=806839.msg9599354#msg9599354 date=1321860343]He is not. If he was, he would know the reason many of you became PDP apologists is tribalism/sectionalism. PDP became your darling when Jonathan came into power. If we pull out your comments in Yar'adua's presidency, we surely will get a different view of PDP.[/quote]Hilarious! I noticed that Rickystorm had only 3 posts, checked his profile and found that he only registered today!
So, bruv, how are you going to pull out his posts from Yar Adua's time na?

NL doesn't cease to amaze. You see why it isn't very clever to offer scripted answers when both you and NL would be better off if you remained silent?

Of course, Gbawe had his episodic fit of crap mindedness and embellished the tomfoolery.

It just struck me that google and bing do language recognition, so I googled around and came up with this. The bolded part is basically the same solution I thought up:

Statistical Approaches

This can be done by comparing the compressibility of the text to the compressibility of texts in the known languages. This approach is known as mutual information based distance measure [1]. The same techniques can also be used to empirically construct family trees of languages which closely correspond to the trees constructed using historical methods.

Another technique, as described by Dunning (1994) is to create a language n-gram model from a "training text" for each of the languages. Then, for any piece of text needing to be identified, a similar model is made, and that model is compared to each stored language model. The language model which is most similar to the model from the piece of text is the most likely language. This approach is problematic when the input text is in a language there is no model for. In this case, the method returns a random, "most similar" language as its result. Another problem are pieces of input text that are composed of several languages, as is common on the Web. For a more recent method, see Řehůřek and Kolkus (2009).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_identification

More detail about n-grams here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram

I'm bloody good!

[quote author=Akanbi_edu link=topic=807882.msg9598989#msg9598989 date=1321854919]Do you need a NASS vote to ban almajiri system?[/quote]Yes, because it will be argued that it is customary law which sharia falls under, and therefore, a change of of the constitution.

Maximip:
Yeah, I think it'll be a complex set of rules because the combination of 2 or 3 letters could be common between both regions

A combination of 2 or 3 letters is much more uncommon than you think. Take a simple name like Emeka, if you had never heard it before, you would intuitively know that it sounds Igbo. Why? It is because of the combination of vowels and consonants in a way that is peculiar to Igbo language.

If you had to draw up a simple programme to classify the single, Emeka word into either Igbo or Yoruba; you would be best with a programme that applies similar logic to the following oversimplified example:

Alot the accompanying score if true.
Score = 0

Igbo words frequently start with the letter, e. Score += 1
Yoruba words infrequently start with the letter, e. Score -= 1

Igbo words frequently have the consonant-vowel combination, ka. Score += 1
Yoruba words infrequently have the consonant-vowel combination, ka. Score -= 1

Igbo words frequently have the consonant-vowel combination, *ka (where * is any letter). Score += 3
Yoruba words very rarely have the consonant-vowel combination, *ka (where * is any letter). Score -= 3

Igbo words frequently have the consonant-vowel combination, eme. Score += 5
Yoruba words do not have the consonant-vowel combination, eme. Score -= 5

The more positive the score, the more likely it is Igbo. The same could be done for all Nigerian languages.
About where to get the data? All languages have dictionaries, all we need do is run statistics for frequently used combinations through them and the job is 90% done.

[quote author=Akanbi_edu link=topic=807882.msg9598952#msg9598952 date=1321854093]Beaf Beaf.

Always looking for excuse to exonerate your incompetent master. Are those emirs not from the north? Now that you have their support, you still want to blame the ACN? You don't need block vote of ACN in this case.

Even if you need ACN's support, how are you sure you can't get it. Abi no be here we dey wey GEJ win SW votes?[/quote]Of course, Emirs vote in the Senate and House of Rep! How clever of you!
SW votes are not ACN votes, SW people ain't silly please. It isn't SW people who will be needed in the NASS, but those in ACN, people would knowingly vote in scoundrels for the right price.

Allow me join ACN to shed useless tears.

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Yes, by South I mean SW + SS + SE. Without the SW, there is no block vote.
After Tambuwal, you can be sure nobody will go to ACN for support in a block vote against the core-Northern elite. It will only lead to embarrassment.
We have a situation where several progressive issues that would benefit the South are dead in the water, because of ACN's zero sum, pocket first attitude.

ACN's support of Tambuwal, who would have been arrested for fraud like Bankole, was the earliest and surest signal of a party without principles. Nobody will trust ACN to hold the line after that.

Any vote against anything to do with sharia would have to rely on block votes from the South and Middle Belt. Right now, the South has no block vote as ACN would rather go with the North West, even to the extent of bringing in Tambuwal, because they want to keep the country from progressing for their selfish reasons.

Its simple, the ghost workers are the ones who aren't coming forward. Govt should trace the receivers of the ghost worker salaries.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=807855.msg9598839#msg9598839 date=1321850670]Not as violent as they are now. And their target was not as specific.
Killing the man who had a peace "conference" with OBJ was warning enough to Northern leaders. Why do you suppose normal citizens who can identify boko haram members kept shut?[/quote]That people have been quiet is quite different from the SSS questioning Sheriff. However, there have been a few voices, notably that of Jeremiah Useni who also blamed Modu Sheriff.

Boko haram will not flourish in a place where the people do not want it or support it. There was news just last week of people cheering on the streets as boko haram carried out their last attack. Nigeria is really fighting a slow burning civil war between the core-North and the rest of us, their tactic of using pseudo-religion and spilling insane levels of innocent blood are time tested.

The wider question is, if we are at war, what are our best tactics, who are our allies, were are our weapons and what are our resources? The answer to that compound question will fill pages, but ultimately, it will make it evident that victory, while certain, will not be quick.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=807882.msg9598830#msg9598830 date=1321850283]If this report is true, then the ball is in the ruling party's court. They have the support they need.

With a majority in the senate and in the north, I see no reason why the PDP House of Assembly can't aggressively fight to implement this.

Except they are praying for Boko Haram to repent and start preaching peace  [/quote]There aren't many core-Northern NASS members of any party that will vote against anything to do with sharia (twisted or not) and ACN is sure to vote with them (as in the case of Tambuwal); also core-Northern NASS members are the vast majority, so it is far from straightforward.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=807855.msg9598827#msg9598827 date=1321850229]Yea, in July. Before everything escalated to a much much more violence.[/quote]Boko haram was violent well before July. The Xmas bombings of last year that killed 80 people occurred long before July.

This is just rubbish journalism and troublemakers trying to spread their usual rumours.
Ex-governor Modu Ali Sheriff was questioned by the SSS in July: http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/12154-sss-grills-ex-governor-sheriff-in-abuja-over-boko-haram.html

That aspect will come later, when the group is enlarged to bring in “probably some ethnic nationalities, some opinion leaders, some cultural groups to represent their interests”.

Did you notice the inclusion of “ethnic nationalities”?. That was the first time a Nigerian president or head of state would use the term: “ethnic nationalities” as part of groups that would discuss Nigeria’s constitutional issues since the military intervened in our politics in 1966.

Nice! GEJ plays a good hand of cards, the country will progress into a National Conference without any obvious moves.

DEEHASAL:
You've not been reading dailies.Or you are probably too busy spreading propaganda for your confused and indolent GEJ
Tinubu recently(last week) delivered papers in two different institutes where he openly castigated the "turn by Turn" style of Govt and the need for the nation to decide how fuel subsidy issues will be handled.
You'll be better off spinning news on GEJ

Wonders!

I don't know if you are offering some sort of joke with the above, but its a huge fail. You are actually attempting to promote a drug pushing thief, while putting down your President? Lol! You are the one thats confused and your thought processes are obviously indolent.
Nigeria will never be rid of corruption until the day each and every one of us stops praising those who mock us with their filthy lucre and our stolen sweat.

Just a couple of months ago, Tinubu was as chirpy as a drugged up canary; but he has realised that in its grinding slowness, his day is coming, that is why he has fallen silent.

^
The boat is a high endurance cutter according to US designation, but would be classed a frigate like Aradu by other navies. Aradu is bigger, but I strongly doubt it has the capabilities of our new NNS Thunder. The US has done very well for us.

[size=14pt]Constitution: GEJ’s opening gambit[/size]
On November 21, 2011 · In People & Politics
By Ochereome  Nnanna

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan seems dead serious about reforming our body politic. Less than six months after he was sworn in as elected president, he has made a second attempt to show this.

The first time was in July 2011, barely two months in the saddle. He flew his kite about a pending proposal for a six-year single tenure for presidents and governors (which he later adjusted to seven years). Many people were outraged that with daunting economic problems and a resurgent Boko Haram terrorism staring him and the nation in the face, he was floating an idea that some suspected was a tenure elongation bid.

Last week Thursday, November 20, 2011, he named a 21-member Presidential Committee on the Review of Outstanding Constitutional Issues (PCRCOCI), with retired Chief Justice of Nigeria, Salihu Alfa Belgore as the Chairman.

I can comfortably describe this assortment of individuals as “moderates”, as I could not see anyone from the extreme right (or conservative wing in the mould of Professor Jibril Aminu or Alhaji Mahmood Attah) or extreme left (or radical reminiscent of Asari Dokubo or Ralph Uwazuruike). Suffice it to say that most of them (except, perhaps, Ledum Mitee) have either been in government or are “highly exposed persons” (apologies Farida Waziri) to the workings of government, especially at the federal level.

[b]The President charged them to look into the areas where consensus had been reached in the past through constitutional conferences and the various panels and come up with draft constitutional bills that the Executive will submit to the National Assembly for deliberation. They are not to dabble into areas that have not been agreed. That aspect will come later, when the group is enlarged to bring in “[size=14pt]probably some ethnic nationalities[/size], some opinion leaders, some cultural groups to represent their interests”.

Did you notice the inclusion of “ethnic nationalities”?. That was the first time a Nigerian president or head of state would use the term: “ethnic nationalities” as part of groups that would discuss Nigeria’s constitutional issues since the military intervened in our politics in 1966.

That has been an agitation of the Awoists or the “True Federalists”, from which federal governments (including those led by General Olusegun Obasanjo) had distanced themselves as if the idea is poisonous. To them, true federalism is a euphemism for national disintegration! Does it mean that GEJ is actually promising Nigerians that representatives of ethnic nationalities will be part of the delegates to a future constitutional talks which he will empanel to discuss the yet-to-be-settled issues of our nationhood? Or did he use the term glibly or loosely? Time will tell.[/b]

But one thing we can go home with from GEJ is that there will be a conference that will discuss issues which, under the rule of the military and their sectional sponsors and supporters were regarded as taboo.

I agree with GEJ that empanelling a constitutional conference at this time will be foolish. Thank God for kites. The kite he flew earlier and received a scorching has taught him a lesson that it is foolhardy to dabble into major political reforms when the nation is plagued with Boko Haram terror and is poised on knife edge over plans to remove petroleum subsidy.

Islamic terrorism

These two problems have to be resolved first before a political conference that could determine the new shape of our body politic can safely take place. Right now, the growing threat of foreign-induced Islamic terrorism in the north with tacit support or toleration by the section of the northern political establishment disgruntled by their loss of power is stoking the embers of sectional suspicion and uncertainty as to what might happen next. One hopes and prays that the Justice Belgore Committee will be able to achieve much under the prevailing circumstances.

Left to me, the Committee does not need to go back to proceeds of the conferences that produced the 1979 Constitution, the 1989 aborted Constitution and the 1995 Abacha draft Constitution. It has been drummed on the rooftops that after twelve years of the end of military rule Nigeria is ripe for a constitution democratically drawn by the people reflecting the true wishes and aspirations of the nation.

In this regard, the recommendations of the National Political Reform Conference set up by former President Olusegun Obasanjo (minus the tenure elongation clause) should form the major focus of Belgore Committee’s work. It was the closest we went to agreeing as a nation on a firm set of issues to correct the many anomalies in the system.

It will be interesting to see in which direction GEJ wants to take Nigeria through constitutional reforms. We have not seen any ideological or philosophical compass. We are only seeing a yearning, though we are left to guess at the motive behind it.

I wish us all good luck.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/constitution-gej%E2%80%99s-opening-gambit/

Tinubu and clan had been thinking that Sylva was too much of a heavyweight to be dislodged, they had bet that with the power of incumbency, Sylva would be an unstoppable asset.
. . .But after seeing the deft and clinical way in which the strongman was swept away, wisdom has prevailed. We won't be seeing those shameless and highly id!otic songs of praise to Sylva in Tinubu's paper the Nation anymore.

Tinubu too would have shuddered at what he witnessed, cos his own day is coming too. The dude has been much less noisy in recent times, I wonder why?

This ship seems to be more capable than NNS Aradu.

[size=14pt]US warship leaves for Nigeria today[/size]
Monday, 21 November 2011

The United States (US) Coast Guard Warship donated to the Nigeria Navy will leave the US for Nigeria today.

The warship will set from Alameda, California, to Nigeria, the North America correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  has reported.

The vessel, designed as a “high endurance” cutter, with a crossing range of 9,600 miles at 20 knots, was donated to Nigeria by the US on May 13.

The ship also has an 80-foot flight deck, capable of handling navy helicopters and can undertake extended patrol missions.

Its capabilities are enhanced by advanced air search and surface search radars, including the AN/SPS-73 digital surface radar system that incorporates a state-of-the-art computerised collision avoidance system.

A ceremony for the departure has been scheduled to take place at  the Coast Guard Island, in Alameda, where it was docked.

The warship is expected to enhance the seaworthiness of the Nigerian Navy and make it well prepared to effectively police, not only the Nigerian territorial waters, but the entire West African coast.

The warship was commissioned to the US Navy in 1968, but was later de-commissioned on March 29, after it had participated in some UN missions in enforcing maritime treaties.

NAN learnt that the ship had not left for Nigeria because the Nigerian crew was  undertaking training on it, while rehabilitation work was being carried out, though it had been renamed Nigeria Navy Thurder F90.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/31540-us-warship-leaves-for-nigeria-today