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Recently a family of mine moved into a remove area where they are experience an acute poor network. Please fellow NL I need ur help on this, what can i do to improve their network. All suggestions will be highly appreciated.

all positive contributions will be highly appreciated,

Am about to start a business that i find most the things required at very good price on ebay. Can someone help on any info that can help me buy from ebay from naija.

If raised in naija the child can easily adapt to anywhere including US. But wen raised in US, he can never spend more than one week in his fathers land,

If nigeria was as bad as these people are painting it to be. Do you think you would be using 3g network browse, To the last poster think before u post,

What could be their interest,

They will never talk about the lunch of main one cable owned by a nigeria nor the glo optical cable. They only see the bad news. Infact, of all the african countries, nigeria is the most negatively reported by the western media, why? Or the better question - why do they hate us so much?

Welcome to Gitata, a small village in Nassarwara state in northern Nigeria. It is about two hours' drive from the shiny capital Abuja and is not remote in terms of physical accessibilty. But, in many other respects, Gitata is disconnected. It's not connected to the national electricity grid and has no running water or even a single tarred road. The people are mainly traders and farmers. Strolling through the village's small market, I spoke to people - young and old. I asked them whether they knew what the internet was. "I hear it's something people use to talk to each other," one shopkeeper told me. An elderly man described it as "something that young people play with." One woman saw it as something that "connects people with wires." But when I asked people whether they had access to the internet, the answer was almost always no. I later discovered that the nearest internet-connected computer was 35km away in the town of Keffi. My mission in Gitata was to observe and learn. I wanted to find out what impact internet connection would have on the lives of people here. What would they do with it, for example, and would it change people's understanding of themselves and the rest of the world. Enter Nicholas Madaki, a farmer, and Moses Maisauri, a teacher. These two young men were chosen after a meeting of the village elders to represent Gitata in our social experiment. In January, I handed over two internet-enabled mobile phones to them. I returned a few weeks later to find out how they had progressed. The results have been an eye- opener. Both Nicholas and Moses had to overcome the challenge of getting used to the technology: setting up a mobile e-mail account, establishing the basic connections to the service provider etc - challenges that mobile users everywhere experience. But the barriers to information access are higher in Gitata. With no connection to the power grid, Nicholas and Moses had to pay a local barber who owned a generator a small fee to charge the phone. The fully charged phone would work for a day or so until it needed recharging. The next barrier was getting a signal. The connection to the mobile service provider was irregular weak. It was no surprise then that access to the web required hours of patience. Then there was the issue of cost. Our post-paid mobile phone needed regular recharging. The basic daily recharge required was about 500 naira, or just over US$3 a day. But, with patience and determination Moses and Nicholas were online. So what was the browsing experience like? Problems of access Nicholas complained about the frustration of getting access to the internet, but having done that, he said the experience was fascinating. "I am seeing so many things I didn't know about. I have seen pictures from other countries," he said. "I saw the White House internet site and I was able to send an e- mail for the first time. I was even able to read news about things happening in Nigeria and other parts of the world." An enthusiastic Moses told me about visiting a number of health websites and learning about disease prevention. With a smile on his face he said: "In fact I feel like I am part of the rest of the world when I am on the internet." But the joys of the internet age are clearly overshadowed by the problems of access. "How can a poor man like me pay three dollars every day for recharge?" he asked. "I have to buy basic things for my family. Even though I like the internet, the government must find a way to make it affordable for people like me." It's a thought that was echoed by Moses as we listened to the family in South Korea speak of how disconnected they felt when their internet connection was switched off. As part of the SuperPower season, the BBC asked two families in central Seoul to live without the web for one week. "They are very lucky. I feel so sad that we cannot have internet all the time. We want to be part of the world but the gap between us and the rest of the world is very big," he said. The gap Moses speaks of is not just the connection gap - which divides the world into internet haves and have nots - but the economic gaps which raises the barriers in developing countries.

Its a very sad story because each time they took up arms to defend themselves, the military will arrest them. But now the army are coming out in their full uniforms to attack these innocent villagers. Who ll now defend them, jonathan must do something now concerning this

8 killed in Jos, 7 burnt to death in Benin
City luxury bus fire
January 25, 2011
News
By Taye Obateru &Austin Ogwuda
Jos — Several families in Jos, the Plateau
State capital and Benin City in Edo State
were thrown into mourning on Sunday as
15 people were killed in separate incidents.
In Jos, eight people were killed and many
others injured at two villages some 25
kilometres from Jos, when armed men,
some of them allegedly in military uniform,
attacked them.
The incident in Benin City involved an
accident which claimed seven lives when a
luxury bus went up in flames on Asaba/
Benin highway.
A nursing mother and her three-month-old
daughter were among those killed during
the attack on Farin Lamba in Jos South
Local Government Area and Haman in
Barakin-Ladi Local Government Area when
they came under attack by gunmen who
struck almost simultaneously.
The attackers were said to have struck in
each of the villages at about 9 p.m. on
Sunday, gunning down three members of
the vigilante group at Farin Lamba village
before unleashing terror on residents,
shooting, cutting and torching their houses
and food barns.
One of the vigilante members who escaped
with injuries said some of the attackers
wore bullet proof vests similar to those
used by members of the Special Task Force,
adding that they saw a Hilux van similar to
the ones used by the task force some
distance away.
Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr.
Abdulrahman Akano, who confirmed the
attack and the killings in a statement said
the allegation that those who carried out
the attacks were in military uniform was
yet to be ascertained.
The killings sparked off demonstration by
hundreds of women in Jos South Local
Government Area, denouncing the alleged
involvement of military men in the attack.
The women rained abuses on men of the
special task force and dismantled some of
their tents with some of them getting shot
in the ensuing commotion.
Reacting to the allegation against his men,
Commander of the Special Task Force,
Brigadier General Hassan Umoru, doubted if
any of his men would participate in any
attack against the people they were out to
secure and urged the people to look out for
identification and other particulars to
substantiate any such allegation.
7 roasted in Benin
The auto accident that occurred by Ubulu-
Okiti junction at about 5 p.m. on Sunday
involved a luxury bus conveying 77
passengers. Unfortunately, seven of the
passengers were burnt to death while
others were rushed to the hospital.
Our reporter gathered that an explosion
occurred when a jerry can containing fuel
kept beside the engine of the bus got
overheated.
The bus with number plate CG 280 BEN was
said to have been hired from a church
based in Benin City in Edo and took off to
Onitsha in Anambra State where the
occupants of the bus attended a burial
ceremony of their friend.
Men of the Federal Road Safety
Commission carried out the rescue
operation and dumped the remains of the
burnt victims at an hospital at Ubulu- Okiti
including the injured ones.
Similar accidents had taken place on the
same highway Umuhu town near Umunede
and Asaba burning several persons to
death.

Personally i think there has been an improvement in my own area. But i know when ever the issues of power is raised, there is high emotional sentiments attachen to it. Nairalanders i want you to be objective in your reactions. Is there any improvement in power supply in Nigeria within the last 6 months.

Oya atiku apologists start posting.
The last time i checked, Atiku is a failure

Goodluck Jonathan
I was loyal to my leader, the late great
President Umaru Yar'adua. I am loyal to
Nigeria, I don't claim to represent North, South
or a Committee-I represent Nigeria. I am loyal
to Nigeria's economy, I don't have accounts or
property abroad, ALL my children live and
school in Nigeria. I am loyal to my wife and
friends. Can those who accuse me say the
same? GEJ

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I ll only be interested if u also ve a database that ve email add of nigerians.

Who has correct info on glo infinito. Is it still working. Is lagos still part of the enabled states. Cos my brother in lagos wasnt able to register since the plan came up. Or is this another scam by glo.

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Its quite obvious that naira land and google are topping the list. Lets keep posting naira landers,

Dont let me believe naira landers dont really know what they gain from naira land, or is it a bad idea to share it. Ppl lets share because there is love in sharing. As for me most of the things i know today internet is mostly from naira land. Pls share yours.

Nairalanders we are all here to help ourselves lets give brief description of what we do wit these sites.
as for me google.com is my best search engine. nairaland.com is my resource centre. As an info marketer, most of my quality info, i got it on nairaland. Then finally i cant do much wit out my peeps on facebook.com

As for me, first on my list is google search engine. Then comes my belovet naira land forum. Then finally my lovely facebook.
post yours

Three sites i cant do without

As for me i have gained immensely from the day i first joined nairaland. As an information marketer, i get most of my info from nairaland. I am happy to be a nairalander. Please post yours

Why cant we give goodluck jonathan a chance to prove himself. You dont want goodluck, them tell me who u like- ibb(independent bomb blast) or Atiku (articulate prostitute). Lets not miss sentiments wit trut sometimes. As far as concerned jonathan is doing well.