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Hundreds of civilians in the oil-rich Niger Delta are dead following an offensive by the Nigerian military. Though the military denies responsibility for any civilian casualties, human rights group Amnesty International says it has received eyewitness accounts of military helicopters attacking a festival.

http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.rnw.nl/internationaljustice/specials/HumanRights/090522-niger-delta-redirected

. . .The helicopters, of course had "corrupt ND leaders" piloting them.

The President in a discussion with the militants as reported on front page of newspaper of Wednesday, October 21, 2009, had shown how much the main States in the region (Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, and Bayelsa) received in the last three years,

The report revealed that each of the above named States received from the federal allocations, within the period under reference, more than all the States put together in the North-West or North-West or North-Central or South-East. The revelation was thought provoking.

The story is so stupid. For one Akwa Ibom and Rivers are in the South-East; secondly, what has the FG done with its own share (apart make our politicians the highest paid in the World)? Is the FG any less corrupt than ND governors. Whilst no excuses can be made; some ND governor's are actually not corrupt (eg Sylva, who is the first and only state governor to open his finances to foreign auditors), there are other examples.

Why does Nigeria only have oil money to share among states? What if there was no oil, would states be approaching Abuja with begging bowls, or would we all have found more productive ways to make money and develop? If the ND was not populated by minorities, would the current situation have arisen?

Nigeria's "annual per capita income of $1,400 is less than that of Senegal, which exports mainly fish and nuts."
http://www.sistersofstjosephorange.org/images/resources/The%20Extracting%20Industry%20of%20the%20Niger%20Delta%20Region.pdf

It is better to resolve issues than pump out propaganda against minorities. Already, both the ICJ (International Court of Justice) and  ICC (International Criminal Court)have been pertitioned this year about certain events in the ND. This thing can become an international disgrace.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200906160391.html
http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5419852-146/story.csp

Word from the big man. . .

spikedcylinder:
Lol. Oh ok, I await.

I've put the dogs away. Don't find my trouble.

However, I will encourage anybody who has something to say about Nigeria (or whatever) to come forward and say it, instead of holding back and condemning those who manage to speak up.
Nobody dey bite anybody and if dem bite you, bite dem back!

Why would you want to log into a web application by fingerprint?
Except you're talking of an intranet where everyone has a fingerprint scanner hooked up to the network, your project is a non-starter.

Who wants to send something as personal as their fingerprint over HTTP (any protocol for that matter)?

Can you be tempted with life on the beach? No?

Another for you, our dear walakolobo. Just buy a crane. . .

walakolobo:
Beaf

Honestly speaking, you may think these moves me, but, no, they dont, but you will be surprising yourself when you sit down and think of the uselessness of what you are posting. It makes me think you have totally lost your mind.

So, you don't like dem bitches? Do you want fatter ones with pimples? The "diasporic" Nigerians are kind people, no brothel will remain unturned, just to help you.

banku:
Beaf,

Please, for God's sake this is enough.

I do not feel sorry for wako but there are many suffering who may take it personally. Abeg he don do.

Thank you banku. That is far from the case. walakolobo and a few like him have been trying to create a new "diasporic" sub-Nigerian class; that is the evil we should be concerned about.

[size=14pt]We are all Nigerians who love our home the same, regardless of where we find ourselves (home or abroad).[/size]

walakolobo:
is someone realy saying anything? too many psychos amongst the diasporians!

We even found the sort of ugly "bitches" that you prefer for the "diasporic" sub-Nigerians. We know you will just loooooooooooooooove them . Yawo Sikira will be very sad about this, but hey! That's how you roll! You won't say much for the passport to roll too!

Check out the first one, she's already in the right colours, just a lil "tickle" and you can go to [size=14pt]Tesco[/size] (because you think that is why "diasporic" sub-Nigerians are abroad ).

sjeezy8:
WTH is the beaf ode talkin about?

I just clicked on the damn video and he had a fake jamo accent and i didnt hear any african language in it.

Dbanj and mohits is what africa/naija needs some african language, and a naija feeling

You've been in the states too long to recognise an Igbo accent. Very very sad.

naijababe:
Seems like Santa came early for you this year o Beaf

naijababe, I can see you're "diasporic". Anytin at all for walakolobo? We really need to help him!

Jaybee2412:
Another gift forWalakolobo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvJm7qGg0aQ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvJm7qGg0aQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1[/flash]

Unu go kill person one day o!

@Jaybee2412

You are bang on the money! It couldn't be better illustrated.

You want to measure trauma? Talk to the average Nigerian and witness the staggerring amounts of violence and aggression that issue from his / her lips!
While the weaker ones have sought soccour in religion, the criminally minded have congregated in Abuja.

lordsloo:
beef as your name implies u need to be ashamed that the ijaws were weaklings and were sold out for slavery, can the slave trade be compared to the ijaw brutal killings and even of thier own too,

Stop being funny. There is no justification for selling your own kind to white people, there is no justification for evil. Own up to what is glaring, that your ancestors were slave raiders!

Having said that, there were many other individuals / ethnicities involved in slavery. It was not just the Itsekiri. Join us here to talk about slavery https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-350999.0.html

webdezzi:
heavy work you were referring to is mainly processor dependent.
while the language may contribute to how fast or slow it solves,
the laguage's contribution to such task it very very minute to what the processor will contribute.
in large computation like u mentioned,same with what i talked about as per image rendering, these rely on the processor performance.

let me use this instance.
a computer with 3ghz running an intensive calculation in written in C
may not meet up with a 3.2ghz computer running the same program written in some other languages. when it comes to real calculations, its up to the processor. not your language. though a language may contribute, maybe because of the way thing implemented on a lower level. but take it that, the processor should be the focus in such calculations

what language did i end up using when i write a wrapper for a particular C function, then call the python function, at least it's now a python method?

Over the years, processor speed has taken as a proxy for Moores Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
The importance of the above is, while CPU speeds have roughly doubled every two years, an application in C# (.NET) is usually 1000's of times faster than one written in PHP (not even double). A C# (.NET) programme running on a 3ghz will blast a PHP one running on a 3.2ghz right out of the water. The same goes for Java.

When will PHP ever catch up if we are depending on CPU speed? Damn!
This is not to say PHP is useless, far from it! The fact is, PHP is more than adequate to handle your everyday website. Problems arise when code must deliver results at high performance app levels (motion detection, video, audio, games, parallel, cloud, Enterprise Ecommerce etc) . . . And these problems are serious ones.

These are measurements for a few single functions, http://www.misfitgeek.com/pages/Perf_Stat_0809.htm. The speed differential goes past a 100 for ASP.NET in at least one instance. Add up a few functions to build an application and things really begin to look very very bleak.

If you write a wrapper for a C function, you are using C through the calling language. It doesn't make the calling language any faster, instead it proves that C is much faster, hence the need to wrap a C function.

Assembler - you can't get any faster (except by writing directly in binary, largely impossible)
C, C++, D, Delphi - blazingly fast
C# (.NET), Java - very fast
Python, Ruby, PHP - slow

webdezzi:
heavy work you were referring to is mainly processor dependent.
while the language may contribute to how fast or slow it solves,
the laguage's contribution to such task it very very minute to what the processor will contribute.
in large computation like u mentioned,same with what i talked about as per image rendering, these rely on the processor performance.

let me use this instance.
a computer with 3ghz running an intensive calculation in written in C
may not meet up with a 3.2ghz computer running the same program written in some other languages. when it comes to real calculations, its up to the processor. not your language. though a language may contribute, maybe because of the way thing implemented on a lower level. but take it that, the processor should be the focus in such calculations

what language did i end up using when i write a wrapper for a particular C function, then call the python function, at least it's now a python method?

Over the years, processor speed has taken as a proxy for Moores Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
The importance of the above is, while CPU speeds have roughly doubled every two years, an application in C# (.NET) is usually 1000's of times faster than one written in PHP (not even double). A C# (.NET) programme running on a 3ghz will blast a PHP one running on a 3.2ghz right out of the water. The same goes for Java.

When will PHP ever catch up if we are depending on CPU speed? Damn!
This is not to say PHP is useless, far from it! The fact is, PHP is more than adequate to handle your everyday website. Problems arise when code must deliver results at high performance app levels (motion detection, video, audio, games, parallel, cloud, Enterprise Ecommerce etc) . . . And these problems are serious ones.

These are measurements for a few single functions, http://www.misfitgeek.com/pages/Perf_Stat_0809.htm. The speed differential goes past a 100 for ASP.NET in at least one instance. Add up a few functions to build an application and things really begin to look very very bleak.

If you write a wrapper for a C function, you are using C through the calling language. It doesn't make the calling language any faster, instead it proves that C is much faster, hence the need to wrap a C function.

Assembler - you can't get any faster (except by writing directly in binary, largely impossible)
C, C++, D, Delphi - blazingly fast
C# (.NET), Java - very fast
Python, Ruby, PHP - slow

We have recieved more good news from very kind "diasporic" Nigerians!! They have heard your prayers.
They have now added a picture of Aldi for the benefit of you and your loved ones, yawo Sikira and little Okpuhohi. Enjoy!

We are keeping in touch with "diasporic" Nigerians to see what else they can do for you.

9jaganja:
Guess who's coming to dinner Carolina!!!!! Hahahahahaha

mess outta here tribalist craps. That's how music business goes. You have to talk to the artist's manager not the artist. If he goes ahead to make a song with Dr Alban his manager have the right to sue. Why are you folks acting like some primitive morons? It's not music, it's music business. Dr Alban should have picked independent Nigerian artists like Seun kuti or Femi Kuti. Now those are true talents,

Why is this here and not Music section? And we wondered why a farmer was our former president?

Speak less.

@Sefago

This is an Delta / Edo point of view of Nigerian politics in her formative years http://www.dawodu.net/igho.htm

It contains a lot of good stuff that is neither Igbo nor Yoruba oriented, regardless, Awo is not portrayed in good light.

We can never forgive him for both the blood lost and the ethnic rivalry in Warri.

Nchara:
It is good that Nigerians of all hue can work together, especially the Igbo and Yoruba, the two tribes I consider most important in Nigeria. However, we should not defend what is wrong. On the bolded part, who is federal govt that made the federal law? Was Awo not the defacto VP and finance minister who hatched the idea to decimate Igbo finances? Yoruba should learn to look beyond Awo and work with others. The tribalism that Awo introduced into the system has remained the root cause of Nigeria's problems till date. No hard feelings, though

This is the absolute truth. Awo is seen almost like a god in the West, but elswhere, he is seen as the devil incarnate. Eg. how much blood has been spilt in Warri, due to Awo's influence? The Midwest was very quick to turn its back on Awo as soon as it was created.

There has been no individual more tribalistic than Awo, there are other political heroes from the West, pick another one and half of Nigeria's problems will be solved.

ochukoccna:
Undisguised tribalism baring it's fangs! Just what I pointed out in my post seeing many think once U fix the 9ja delta, 9ja will be Nirvana. Keep deluding yourselves.

I'm sure U R a militant. I can just picture you holding your AK47 with your right hand and a blunt in your left [seeing any militant with a brain cant do what was done yesterday against their own people if not under the influence], smoke coming out your nostrils with a UNIPORT chick under you screaming for mercy. What a gory sick scene!
I never heard Mandela's ANC members accused of raping  fellow blacks they were fighting to liberate. Such a dirty shame your heroes no get moral restrain not to go against their own. Hiding under the guise of having been a victim of oppression to mete it back upon those whom  you claim to fight for don't make you strong, it makes you a monster. Am not appalled seeing you just like your Taliban brethren in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Iraq.

ndu_chuks a militant from the Niger Delta? Boy, you are very dense!
www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

What ndu_chuks said was very sensible, go and read it again.

walakolobo:
oops- who are these praise singers? no more lolies pls, i passed them to my cats and dogs to play with, maybe you want to share? Ask your moderator to tell you my IP address and see where I am sweetly perched-.

So you like the gifts? Niiiiiice!
I hope they stop you from convulsing and foaming at "diasporans" (as if na your family hold copyright of 9ja). I mean, you can actually look at those pictures and masturb*te.

3 passports! One each for you, Sikira and little Okpuhohi! Wow!

@Afam

It isn't about the processor. There are several tasks in todays World that will freeze your modern desktop if not approached right.
I threw webdezzi a challenge to illustrate the point a few others and I are making. The challenge is here https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-149355.96.html#msg4938062
Funny thing is, in that processor intensive challenge, I "forgot" to mention that all work should be done in a single thread, but he didn't pick up on that. Both he and PHP failed woefully there.

logica gave a very good explanation of our point here https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-149355.128.html#msg4942297.
Each language has a route to the processor. It is in meandering a command to the processor that a language can fail to complete a task in time. For languages like JavaScript and PHP, the route is very very very long. For languages like C# and Java, the route is thousands of times shorter. For C and C++, it is incredibly short; with Assembler, you're right there, bang on the metal.

PHP will fail woefully at DSP too.

redsun:
He will still be stupid,even if he lives in buckingham palace.

He will be like prince philip (a truely foolish man). After accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman, his thank you message was, "you are a woman, aren't you?"

walakolobo, where you na? Come and collect from charity.

fegflu:
how - wat has wat the poster said got to do with my question.

this is my question

Hi there,
Would anyone have an idea of this car. Please let me know cause thinking to have one. It's second hand. Still smell and look new but never know anyone who have/had VW Bora in the past. My knowledge in this car is limited and i want critics of the car so i dont regret buyin it.
Appreciate your recommendation and criticism.

Damn! We really have a problem

What state is this car from? What is the owners "tribe"? Can it drill oil? Is it good at kidnapping or yahoo yahoo? What will it do in 2011?

Questions, question, questions. . .

Remii:
Yet, Lagos has two Igbo commissioners in choice cabinets, yet, 99% spare part dealers in Lagos are Igbos, yet, Electronic stores at Alaba are run by Igbos, most film producers are Igbo and are patroniced by Yorubas, Generator sellers at Oyingbo are Igbos.

Do you remember, that after the civil war, it was only in Lagos, Yorubaland, that Ibo properties were returned to them with help of the likes of Adeniran Ogunsanya, even in Port Harcourt , that is supposed to be closer to Ibo all their houses in area called "town" were declared abandoned properties till today.

We need to promote what unites us and forget all this tribalistic divisive comments. If 19 would not work with 1 there would be no 20.

I see your point, but change those numbers, because someone else might add 4. . .

fegflu:
i need information on how easy the car is to maintain- cus i want to buy it.

What state is this car from? What is the owners "tribe"? Can it drill oil? Is it good at kidnapping or yahoo yahoo? What will it do in 2011?

Questions, question, questions. . .

naijababe:

Beaf you can't be this bored na

But philantropy no be boredom na.
Can't you see that one of our brothers is almost blowing his top because he can't go to Tesco, Sainsbury, McDonalds etc (he said it with his own mouth ). So I'm just doing my best to help him by showing him the pictures.