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diluminati:
Get lost punk! Jealous of mediocre achievements? funny skunk

eewule:
It is too soon to praise anyone (Nigerians are always too quick to sing blessings) should rather give it a month to 2 months before concluding. Also these improvements are not across the country. Why haven't these improvements reached Rivers and Bayelsa. Never-the-less the govt is doing well, but still a long way to go.

Blackteeth:
@Beaf. You are silly indeed. If you think you are making sense you are better off jumping into the lagoon.
Every human on earth are gifted in one form or the other. How could you say Bill Gates is more brilliant than I am simply because he programs a computer while I can't. Am a fulltime structural engineer, can Bill Gates analyze structures better than me? Probably not. I ask again, is that how to measure brilliance? Besides kindly attach the source that says Bill Gates has an IQ of 140. Am waiting.

“Our network and generation points are standing alone, so we need to have a backbone to supply sub-stations. With what we are doing, we are trying to create a harmonious system to improve power supply. It is better for residents to face the current power outage for a few days and enjoy improved electricity supply for many years to come. We have been collaborating with PHCN on this, but basically, there are communication issues. I promise that the on-going work on Afam substation will soon be completed and electricity supply would be restored,” he said.

toba:
smdh at dayokanu. the guy sits in texas and choose to talk Lagos politics that he doesnt know about. when i have the time, i would break down for u the man called bola Tinubu

Blackout in Rivers as govt, PHCN disagree
Written by Bashiru Abdullahi, Port Harcourt Monday, 26 September 2011 00:00

Disagreement between the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and the Rivers State government has thrown the state into darkness.

The PHCN is accusing the Rivers State Ministry of Power of being responsible for power failure in the state by obstructing its reconstruction   work at the 132KV Afam-Port Harcourt line.

A PHCN official, who pleaded anonymity, said the state’s power plant situated close to Oyigbo area of the state has been interfering with their network, thereby obstructing the restoration of power.

The Rivers State Commissioner for Power, Mr. Augustine Wokocha, in an interview with Daily Trust also confirmed that the power failure in the state was as a result of the state government’s work on its Afam transmission lines. Wokocha however added that the government is engaging in a turn-in turn-out process to synchronize its networks   and generation points to ensure steady and sustainable electricity supply in the state.

“Our network and generation points are standing alone, so we need to have a backbone to supply sub-stations. With what we are doing, we are trying to create a harmonious system to improve power supply. It is better for residents to face the current power outage for a few days and enjoy improved electricity supply for many years to come. We have been collaborating with PHCN on this, but basically, there are communication issues. I promise that the on-going work on Afam substation will soon be completed and electricity supply would be restored,” he said.

The commissioner further said that he has the mandate of the  state government to provide  sustainable electricity  and that N25billion has been granted to the ministry   to stabilize 28 sub stations out of the N70 billion required to have sustainable electricity before the end  of next year. He said the state spent about N100 billion in the past eight years on electricity.

BASIC

After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800, Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the creators of the new microcomputer, to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform.[30] In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration, held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque, was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC. Paul Allen was hired into MITS,[31] and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque.[31] Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.[31] Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies.

Microsoft's BASIC was popular with computer hobbyists, but Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had leaked into the community and was being widely copied and distributed. In February 1976, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter saying that MITS could not continue to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software without payment.[32] This letter was unpopular with many computer hobbyists, but Gates persisted in his belief that software developers should be able to demand payment. Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems.[31] The company moved from Albuquerque to its new home in Bellevue, Washington on January 1, 1979.[30]

During Microsoft's early years, all employees had broad responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write code as well. In the first five years, Gates personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit.[33]

IBM partnership

In 1980, IBM approached Microsoft to write the BASIC interpreter for its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC. When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system, Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI), makers of the widely used CP/M operating system.[34] IBM's discussions with Digital Research went poorly, and they did not reach a licensing agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the licensing difficulties during a subsequent meeting with Gates and told him to get an acceptable operating system. A few weeks later Gates proposed using 86-DOS (QDOS), an operating system similar to CP/M that Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) had made for hardware similar to the PC. Microsoft made a deal with SCP to become the exclusive licensing agent, and later the full owner, of 86-DOS. After adapting the operating system for the PC, Microsoft delivered it to IBM as PC-DOS in exchange for a one-time fee of $50,000. Gates did not offer to transfer the copyright on the operating system, because he believed that other hardware vendors would clone IBM's system.[35] They did, and the sales of MS-DOS made Microsoft a major player in the industry.[36]

Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington state and made Gates President of Microsoft and the Chairman of the Board.[30]

Windows

Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, mounting creative differences undermined the partnership. Gates distributed an internal memo on May 16, 1991, announcing that the OS/2 partnership was over and Microsoft would shift its efforts to the Windows NT kernel development.[37]

Blackteeth:
Am in full support of what Abujabir24 said. Honestly you guys castigating him are BIG FOOLS like he mentioned.
The brilliance of Bill Gates is greatly overestimated simply because he is wealthy and can program a computer. WHAT DA FURCK?! Are you guys saying that is the criteria to measure extreme brilliance? In your lame definition a man is VERY BRILLIANT if he can program a computer and become wealthy. Thats nonsense.
Bill Gates would have been nothing without the engineers at Microsoft. Thats a fact!!!

1025:
in which part of lagos is this increase in power supply has been noticed? even okada men in nigeria are discussing megawatts and kilowats. our interest is steady power supply to justify the billions of dollars already spent in the sector and the ones yet to be spent.
let us stop decieving ourselves here. jonathan declared a state of emergency soon as he became the president last year and it will be mad to praise that state of emergency on the increase which only the poster knows about.
we do not have steady power supply and that is just it.

Maximip:
You are the one who doesn't have his facts right. Failing in school doesn't mean you are dull. and besides, he was busy working on bigger things so he couldn't focus on school. Gerrit?

[size=14pt]Power supply improves on 4300mw generation[/size] .
Friday, 30 September 2011 00:00 BusinessDay Staff

The sudden improvement in public power supply to Lagos on the back of unmatched gas supply to the thermal stations, could be one of the green shoots of the aggressive push by the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to address the perennial rot in the power sector, according to a BusinessDay investigation.

Those knowledgeable, trace the improvement to the rise in nationally generated power to 4,300MW.

The improvement in power generation at some of the power plants, has translated into significant relief for consumers across the country.

Some of the government’s power plants have been undergoing rehabilitation and this has significantly improved their generating capacity and it is expected that by the time these rehabilitation projects are completed, the country would witness further improvement in power supply.

The generation at Egbin power station has now stabilised and is consistently hovering between 987megawatts and 1,100megawatts (mw) as against between 500mw and 600mw, some months back .

Generation at Kainji hydro power plant, has also improved from 70 mw to 268 mw, while the plant at Jebba is running at full blast, supplying about 433 mw to the national grid.
Shiroro produces about 413 mw, AES 101 mw and Sapele 78 mw.

The others are Agip’s Okpai 400 mw, Afam6  270 mw, Delta 218 mw, Geregu 210 mw, Omotosho 46 mw, Olorunsogo phase one 38 mw, Olorunsogo phase two 120mw and Trans Amadi 22.5mw.

In addition to these, another 260 mw spinning reserve has been put in place. This is used for system stability.

Again, the stability in the system has improved considerably, said engineers at several of the power installation in the country, cutting the number of annual incidents of system collapse from the old level of 52.

The injection of funds into the distribution network has led to the replacement of old transformers, and cables are helping to ensure smooth supply of electricity.

C-don Adinuba, special adviser on media to the Minister of Power, says the current  achievement   as regards the stepping up of power supply supply, is the result of  improvement  in generation, transmission and distribution, through doing a quick fix on transmission infrastructure. He said: “The transmission infrastructures that have been problematic are currently being upgraded and modernised. We have also moved into distribution network and created a department of fuel -to –power that ensures prompt payment for gas supplied, which serves as feedstock to power plants.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/typography/the-news/27985-power-supply-improves-on-4300mw-generation

omosexy1:
I agree with Mr. Globe. We are still witnessing increase rain fall which results to increase water level in the dams. Lets wait till December to actually ascertain the change. Though kudos must go to Prof. Nnaji regardless of the saboteurs he faces on a regular basis. He hasn't even started working, just a little pressure on corrupt PHCN workers who have been putting the country in darkness and embezzling so much money.

Abujabir24:
U guys are fools. Do u think bil gate is brilliant? He only has d dough. Its his engineers dat re doing all the jobs. These re d his words. "i failed all my subjects in skul and my friend passed all his subjects in skul. My friend is now an engineer in microsoft and i am the owner of microsoft". So get it u fools.

*Dr. Abiye Sekibo- An acolyte of Peter Odili known to be involved in arming cult gangs in the Niger delta region. [size=14pt]Through him, Babangida allegedly passed N600 million to dreaded cult gangs in Port Harcourt to help in assassination of opponents and intimidation of voters in the Niger Delta region.[/size]

Meanwhile, all may not be well on the home front of President Jonathan, as he gets set to declare his intention for the 2011 presidential race this weekend.

Apart from the rumoured division among the South-South governors over his ambition, Nigerian Tribune learnt from authoritative sources that top militant groups in the region may have joined forces with his rivals.

It was gathered that groups such as Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), are currently divided over Jonathan’s candidacy and the option of former military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida (IBB).

It was learnt on Tuesday that some IBB allies had made contact with some former senior commanders of the MEND, who despite repenting from their former ways, still have a formidable voice in the politics of the Niger Delta.

The IBB associates were said to have made overtures to the ex-militants for their support.

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greateros:
Beaf u mean Buhari is nmo longer the man recruiting bombrs??

Are you saying your oga's father is now the bomber?? Now am sure you are about to be sacked!

[size=14pt]2011: Militants hold secret meetings with IBB, Buhari •Ex-military president given conditions [/size]
Written by Idowu Samuel and Emmanuel Adeniyi
Monday, 06 September 2010

THERE are indications that President Goodluck Jonathan is yet to strike a deal with leaders of key militant groups in the Niger Delta to strengthen his chances of winning the South-South zone if he decides to run in the 2011 presidential election.

Indications to this effect emerged in the light of efforts by leaders of the militants, who had given up on the government amnesty initiative  to engage presidential aspirants from the North in exploratory talks on how to fit into their presidential programmes.

Two leaders of militant groups which surrendered arms in the wake of the Federal Government’s amnesty had arrived in Abuja last week to hold talks with northern presidential aspirants, including General Ibrahim Babangida and General Muhammadu Buhari.

Nigerian Tribune learnt through aides of the aspirants that the militants complained that they were not being consulted by President Jonathan.

The militant heads were said to have canvassed a view that their full participation in the ongoing political process would enhance their resolve to finally discard the toga of militancy, just as they reportedly expressed dismay that their efforts to dissolve into the campaign programme of President Jonathan were not being appreciated.

It is not certain which specific roles the militants desired to play in the presidential campaigns of the aspirants, whom they reportedly met. However, it was disclosed that tentative agreements were reached by the campaign team of General Buhari that they should make a bold appearance during his inaugural campaign summit scheduled to take place in Abuja any moment from now.

Checks within the IBB campaign organisation revealed that none of the militant leaders was able to meet the Minna general in person, but reportedly met his aides in Abuja and told them about their desire to feature in his campaign programmes.

When the militants met with the representatives of the ex-president recently, Nigerian Tribune gathered that they vowed to support him if he agreed to a one-term tenure and hand over power to a candidate from the South-South geopolitical zone in 2015.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that Babangida was told to rescind his decision of handing over to a candidate from the South-East, choose a vice-president from South-South, implement the white paper of the Ledun Mittee committee and create additional states in the South-South geopolitical zone.

Investigations by the Nigerian Tribune revealed that the militants were working with notable South-South governors, who were said to be working underground for different northern presidential aspirants following their irreconcilable differences with President Jonathan.

BetaThings:
Ex-MEND Militants Disrupt Traffic & Commercial Activities Over Unpaid Allowances
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-770096.0.html

Are we saying that these people are really dead?
BTW who has been threatening to retaliate against with Boko Haram?
http://www.talkofnaija.com/News/newsdetailsone.aspx?NewsId=16004E9E-8BFC-45D5-9A8F-A64590E832A0
Niger Delta Militants give Boko Haram 14 days to stop killing or face war

But they went to Abuja last year even after the amnesty programme to deny
Can they not do the same again?

http://questionmarkmag.com/2010/10/mend-denies-october-1st-bomb-blast/
MEND Denies October 1st Bomb Blast.

Ex-militant leaders under the auspices of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), excluding detained Mr. Henry Okah held a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan where they denied MEND’s involvement in Friday bomb attacks, saying that “with a password anybody can operate MEND’s email account.

Desola:
Na yam?

I've seen what you look like and heard you speak. You look too pretty and more like a lady boy and your affinity with Abuja and jonasatan suggests to me that you are probably in a relationship one or some of the bigwigs hence your die hard support for everything bad.

I like my man dark, tall, handsome, very well spoken, thoroughly intelligent and YORUBA.

YOu don't fit that bill pretty boy.

For Lydia David, executive director at the Oregun based Edelyn Nigeria Limited, makers of Edelyn Shirts, power supply has also improved, forcing down their monthly diesel expense from N52, 000 to just over N13, 000.