₦airaland Forum

ispeaktrut:
I am amazed at the ignorance displayed on the internet every time and mainly by my dear Nigerians! Why are you guys so quick to write off this claim? Consider these facts
1. The university is the ONLY university in Nigeria that has wireless internet EVERYWHERE on campus.
2. Aside from school work, the students use the internet for various sorts of entertainment such as Facebook, Twitter and the rest.
3. Not only does every student and teacher have a laptop, they have phones and gadgets that allow them to surf whenever, wherever.
4. Exams in the school are sometimes conducted online.
5. Students check their grades and coursework progress using an online website called Banner, created and maintained by some of the students themselves!
6. Ever heard of "Turn It In"? It's a program the lecturers use to check students' essays to ensure they do not plagiarize (cheat).
7. Some classes require you to turn in your papers in both hard copy and soft copy (lecturer's email)
8. The internet in this school is 24/7.
9. Yola is a rather boring town and it is easy for students to spend all their recreational time ONLINE!!! I did it in my time.
10. The school's email facility is Google-based and Google has actually visited to discuss a partnership with the university!

Now, do you guys still think this claim is far-fetched? And I am a graduate of the university so I know what I'm talking about!

Have a blessed day.

I think this in addition to the post below justifies the claim.

Akainzo:
Well, I would approach this in another manner. I have reservations about this statement, but my open mind tells me it is possible.

Let's take a moment to consider the below:

1. 98% of multinationals in Nigeria are actually connected through their home networks and are therefore not counted as Nigeria's traffic.
2. Almost all the cyber cafe's to work around the limitations posed on Nigeria, uses an external Proxy Server
3. The Mobile Internet providers also have some of their services running out of their home countries.
4.  As of now, to the best of my personal knowledge, ONLY IPNX, DOPC and SWIFT are registered as ISPs domiciled in Nigeria, thus any other traffic would not register as coming from Nigeria.


If you look at the scenarios posted above, it is very much possible that they would account for a large chunk of traffic if they are correctly identified as originating from Nigeria.

victorazy:
gibberish