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enitan and tox,

How i hope these exchanges wont get out of control, again.

Busy schedules always has their expiry days. This holiday is the temporary end to mine.

It is as a result of them that I have become a dormant follower of this thread.

The same busy schedule is the reason why I have not in the past months attempted any new installations.

It is all going to end this 2 weeks of holiday for me. I will add sirius, w3a, IS 902 c, and NSS 7 to my installations in my hometown.

that means three 90cm dishes and one 1.8m summing up to nearly 18k here (sound like madness to my friend). I think thats the only way I can enjoy this holiday.

During all my absence on this thread, I have come to realise how popular nilesat was here in the east.

Many installers who have never visited this forum has been installing nilesat in the east here with 2.4 m and 3m dishes even before this thread was created.
That really taught me that we can never know it all.

There are many professional 'sat trackers' out there who do not even know the name of the satellite they are tracking and cannot even use the internet.

So people, lets welcome any new ideas or member on this thread with open arms. That person might just be the person to make our day some day. Remember Adewest.

I returned to this thread some days ago and I don't even know where to start! I have a lot of catching up to do here and that is what I have been doing. I have been going through some of the posts I have missed so far and I must admit, you guys are so wonderful.

The number of pages we have on this season 2 which is just a few months(?) old, is already over half of season 1 which lasted for about a year and half. It all shows that people are contributing immensely.

As for me, like I said before, I have a lot of catching up to do. with all the sirius and  hotbird  craze that is going on right now, I do have a lot to learn from you guys.

Let me add here too that  2 days ago, I saw a dish pointing in the direction that Obnelly observed recently. The dish is inside a bank. In my own case it was a 1.8m dish with a c-band lnb. If it is pointing to the same bird as the one obnelly observed,  it means that the bird transmits in both c and ku frequencies. The dish was also inclined at an elevation similar to that of w3a but facing west.
I couldnt gather enough courage to go and ask the bank people (who should I even ask?) the information on that dish. It could prove a big mistake because these bank people can take little things too serious.

I really have to commend all your efforts, its a great team we have here and I am sure that even without knowing it, we have made enough impact in the satellite TV industry in the country that any serious pay TV in Nigeria will be so stupid not to have noticed us.

Keep it up guys, let me go back to reading the posts I have missed.

Okotie's wife abandoned him and he has a right to remarry on the grounds of abandonment. How did Okotie come into this conversation anyways?
i am not a great fan of Oyakhilome because of the way he spots the suit and walks around like a mack daddy. something may be fishy there but not this tsunami and eritrea spirit.

So Christians are authorised to remarry on any ground at all?

I thought the Bible only authorized separation (not divorce) on the accounts infidelity. Please, correct me people if I am wrong.

@logica,
why not help with the implementation of that procedure.

For the past 2 weeks or so that i have been toying with image upload, this debate has left me more confused than any other webdesign decision I had to make.

I fancy saving to file and writing details to database but please people,

When I update a file from a form, will the new file DELETE the old one in the process or will it just add one more file in the directory?

@brein,
If you have a good location and a reliable and fast ISP, I can assure you that the time that the yahoo guys spend in your cafe is not 'their precious time' rather its your own precious time.

Think about this.
You sell 30 mins ticket at N100 for e.g, 1 hour for N150 and 6 hours for N600.

A yahoo guy will NOT buy 1 hour or 30 mins. They usually go for the bulk time, 6 hours @ N600 in this case.

He will use that 6 hours ticket till he exhausts it without leaving the system. Now a legit student for example will come in buy 30 minutes @ N100 and use 20 minutes from it and leave the system for another person. By the end of the day 10 different people buying and using 1 hour ticket will have given you nothing less than 900 naira for the 6 hours the yahoo guy paid 600 naira for.

Do you get it now.

You are only at the mercy of these yahoo guys if you have poor patronage. Thats when people see them as the people who make your cafe. They are not!
While they are doing their thing, they use bandwidth consuming programs like email extractors and email spyder which kills your bandwidth.

If you have poor patronage, figure if it is due to some difficult reason like bad location and just quit the bizness in time. However if you have a good location but unreliable and slow ISP, you can still change your fate by changing ISP. Even though it is usually not a cheap thing to do at all.
But there are very fast ISPs out there outside the shores of this countruy. Though they charge more.

@pex4me

the guy who said Cafe bizness is no more,
I cant just say you do not know what you are saying because I dont know how rich people are where you reside.
However, the fact remains that internet service is still not free and many people still cant afford those things you call cheap things.

I own a cafe myself and all that I can tell anyone is this:

1. You have to be really experienced in computer hardware and software maintenance (I mean YOU and not your manager or your 'engineer'),
2.You have to know how to handle multiple tasks at the same time,
3.You have to be strong willed and ready to attend to difficult customers (there are usually many of them),
4. I don't need to remind you that you have to have a big capital,
5. Should I also tell you that location is everything?
6. If number 5 above is ok it means good patronage and therefore you can take care of fueling, however, if 5. is not okay, just close down in time while you can still sell your equipments at good price.

as for yahoo yahoo guys, that is very very easy. You don't need police or EFCC.

I discourage them with some really sneaky software that monitors their 'work'

I dig what they do realtime and can even interfere with their 'work' causing them real loss thereby scaring them away.

don't believe that they are the ones who make cybercafes because they are NOT. They will only kill your cafe and look for a new one.
If you want me to tell you how they are not the ones making cybercafe, I will do that in my next post.

The summary of all this is that you have to be very hard working and you will be fully present to gain anything out of your cybercafe investment.

@justx24,

This thread has forum capabilities too. when everyone has agreed and it comes to voting, I can easily add poll for any issue decided.

again, did you say one week?!

I will love to hear from adewest too.

enitan2002,
so na now u de see my profile?
Fine boy ke.

enitan2002,
Na waaooo, where was I?

dont mind the looser, I wonder if anyone (apart from oyibo) ever responds to this guys.

now you are even very easily apprehensible.

I just noticed that the Moderator, have deleted his posts on this thread.

Does that Mean that he has realized that he has been erring? If so I will ask him that it is ok to realize that he made a big mistake by labelling Fr. Achebe a lying priest because of some article he read on the internet.

However, I don't think that deleting the posts are enough.
He said that he is a catholic as well and if that is true, I will recommend a confession as well for him because for we catholics, its very uncool to say bad things about your priests especially when you cannot prove the offence.

@Shortster50,
I am trying as much as I can not to argue senselessly with anyone on these issues because people are working on assumptions and press reports which are both far from the truth.

Whatever I have posted so far on this thread is simply trying to follow people's assumptions to a logical reasoning not to prove what happened. The vital part of that case which was not reported accurately by the press because they are only reporting the officials' version of the matter when they cannot get any interview from my brother after days of trying desperately.

With siena I just tried to prove to him that even if He told the officials that he is the 'brother' to the host, it doesnt necessarily mean that he did it as a lie. It might just be a case of not being able to find the right words for the relationship with the host.
So my point on that one is that even if he told them that out of not being able to define the relationship with the host, it should not necessarily be enough reason why anyone should call him 'a lying priest' priest because, a lie is meant to deceive.

However, I can assure anyone here that the issue of 'brother' did not arise at all on that fateful day. It was their only way out of their mess up. Which they have been doing without questions for long.

They did not tell the press that they as well detained a couple in their '70s along with my brother. Did the old man and his wife also tell them that some is his brother? People I wan make una know say no be only Nigerians sabi lie, Oyibo wicked too. Even though siena said that 'they mean business'

If you read a follow up to that case you might want to ask yourself why the Irish immigration will not only decide not to deport him on that day but as well cancel the 'refusal to land' stamp on his passport and also stamped an extension for him to stay up till the end of the year.

Do you think that they will just do all of that simply because they have realized that he is a priest.

I want you to know that that single case have opened a can of worm of many human right abuse that has been going on there.

Many Nigerians and other foreigners will regain their freedom as a result of that single incident that happened to Rev. Fr. John Achebe, who, some nairaland members here have chosen to label a lying priest.

Nothing happens for nothing.

May i help? Where do u actually stay?i am a TRACKER even with 1.8m dish at ikeja Lag nilesat works ok only cnn transponder is weak during sunligh even some transponder on HOTbird respond unbelivable.Though i reside in bauchi

Can u hear that people? Nilesat adewest tracks nilesat ok with 1.8m dish at Lagos.
Has it been proved?

Mr. Gem,

What will eventually count is if you will be the last person to post here or if you will be the second to post
here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-182209.0.html#msg2929342

I am waiting there, may be i will end being the last to post here too.

@enitan2002,

Keep counting, until you get to page 85.

ANNOUNCEMENT

New FTA Thread Created

This is to inform all FTA enthusiast that a new FTA thread has been created with directives from our humble moderator.

The new thread is currently locked but will be opened as soon as this thread gets to page 85.

This is necessary as the current thread is over 2 years old and is growing rather too long.


Let us continue our good works there.

Now whos going to be the last to post here and who is going to be the first (after me of course) to post there.

Below is the Link to the new thread.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-182209.0.html#msg2929342

currently locked.

This is the continuing thread for Free to Air Satellite TV. Let us continue our Free to Air Satellite adventure here.

It is important that we continue with the good spirit that has carried us through the first thread and maintain the open source spirit that made that thread one of the most popular on nairaland and indeed, Africa.

Nothing has changed, everything remains the same.


for references, the link below takes you to the last page of Season 1

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=7715.msg2936594#msg2936594

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See also: Frequently Asked Questions On FTA

Oga Moderator,
Many happy returns.

thats if theres any chief at all,

idupaul:
whats d diff , ibo/igbo

ibo/igbo is like yoruba/ofe mmanu

my point?

it is insulting for someone who doesnt like to be addressed that way.

shotster50:
He got stripped because he did not have that time. Am not saying  he deserved it but because of whats been happening lately, Nigerian travellers need to be very careful. I think its because of the discrepancy between what he said and what the host said that caused him to be so treated.

Please, shotster50,
Can you tell me what you mean by 'he did not have that time'?

what discrepancy are you referring to.
Did you know anything about what the host said or you have just assumed again like you have been doing in your previous posts.

@ Jajuk,
Did you say 6m? As in six metres?

That must be one heck of a dish. NTA will surely envy you guys.

Since you asked that question, theres no point in asking whether you are a Nigerian.

When you tell me sorry, you are only affirming your position that the reason why im defending him is because he is my brother.

Since that event, many people who are not his brothers have defended him.

Im only taking you up because you called him a lying priest. That is very misleading. Thats all.
I dont have to tell you how the whole conversation with him and the officer went but I think its very wrong for anyone to make strong statements on things they hadnt proved.

If your point had been that its his fault because he should have said so so and so things, I should not have replied you.

Its important to point out here that apart from 'meaning business', those guys are racist and more. To the extent that even after confirming that he is a priest and not an outlaw, they still said nasty things to him.

The problem we have here in Nigeria is that many people leaving our shores are doing so under false pretence and people find it hard to that people with genuine reasons have problems with immigrations.

You know all that and you still think he lied.

See, a lie can only be a lie. Theres nothing like a deliberate lie.

A lie is meant to deceive. Thats just the difference between a lie and an incorrect statement. A deliberate misrepresenation like you also mentioned constitutes a lie.

But I wish to make it clear that what he told the officer is none of that.

Do you believe that if he wanted to lie about his relationship with his host that he couldnt have come up with a very good lie well planned with the host?

The fact is that he isnt lying and believe me, if you are an Igbo man, there are some relationships that neither, brother, cousin or even friend can describe.

If what you were suggesting was that he should have told them that the host is a friend, then what you are saying is that he should lie because the relationship with the host is not friendship.

May be its a mistake somewhere but the power supply to my street has lasted over 72 hours and it has not even blinked.

I have not experienced it anywhere here in Naija before.

Is it just here? Whats happening in your area.

LondonCool wrote:

, I think he was trying to be smart, nothing cultural there.

, Whereas the Igbo person could fall into the same trap, the same can not be generalised for Nigerians from other ethnic groupings


You have not tried to find out the relationship he has with the person he is visiting before making your comments and besides, He is an Igbo man. A priest Igbo man who can easily call anyone a 'brother' let alone a person who is related to him.

@Siena,
can you tell me at what point does an incorrect statement constitute a lie?

When u said 'deliberate lie', it appears to me that you are suggesting that some lies are not deliberate.

And remember, you didnt call him 'an unconscious lying priest'. You called him a lying priest.

Let me add that I support the Live forum. Any day, any time.

I never knew that this story has come to nairaland too.

@ Seina,
Your response to this topic really opened my eyes on how people treat issues raised on nairaland.

Fr. John Achebe is my elder brother  yes, my elder brother, same mother same father and the press didt not report the story accurately.

But even if the press version is accurate your response really is pointless.

Lying priest you called him, but have you asked yourself why he would lie about his distant cousin being his brother?  People lie because they expect the lie to help them with something.

Lie So that he will enter Ireland for a 3 weeks leave? Come on!

Let me make it clear to you right now that entering Ireland cannot mean the world to him. Hes way bigger than that. I cannot start giving you details here. Google his name and you will understand what I'm saying.    I suspect that your reason for calling him a lying priest is not because of the press report but because he is  just a priest. 

If he is a lying priest, the ambassador shouldnt have gotten involved and they wouldnt have allowed him in at last and the country's immigration chief wouldnt have done things that I cannot tell you here just to make him not take things up.


People (non catholics mainly) hate priests these days and thats probably why the immigration officer did what he did.
Today he is paying dearly for it.

Sometimes when you are replying to a post in nairaland, get your facts together.