₦airaland Forum

I dont understand...how do national teams field players that are not eligible? Do FIFA not clear them before matches?

ZombieDredd:
Try to chat intelligently.
E say na lobby trump as if US doesn't have ears and eyes on ground and sky

the US knows the true position but when has the US ever acted based on the truth? They were kicked off their military base in Niger last year, Africom is currently based in germany, they are desperate for an american base in West Africa. Nigeria has persistently refused to allow them to establish a military base ion our soil. Economically, theyve seen China gain a foothold in Africa......they wanted a way in and you handed it to them. The truth has always been irrelevant to the USA. All they need is a narrative they can sell to their domestic audience.

so maybe you need to respond intelligently and not be so naive.

"The most prominent US military presence in West Africa was its bases in Niger, particularly the large Air Base 201 in Agadez, which was a key counterterrorism hub. However, following a military coup in 2023, the US has been asked to withdraw all forces from Niger, with the main base closing in August 2024 and most troops departing by September 15, 2024. The US is currently seeking new locations for counterterrorism operations in the region, with discussions reportedly underway with countries like Benin, Ivory Coast, and Chad.
Former and current US military presence

Niger:
Air Base 201 in Agadez: This was a major drone and counterterrorism base built at a cost of approximately $110 million and operated until August 2024.

Air Base 101 in Niamey: This was another key base, where a smaller number of troops remained after the closure of Base 201.

Other West African countries:

The US is reportedly in discussions with countries like Benin, Ivory Coast, and Chad to find alternative locations for future operations.
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OgbeniOja1:
Your school of thought is very flawed

you are entitled to your opinion but it makes sense to me that with the prospect of an impending attack (however unlikely it may be) that they are suddenly kidnapping school girls.

having said that, the sign of an intelligent person when he disagrees is to offer his reason why. but hey this is nairaland.

Ofunaofu:
Tinubu has failed irreparably

You are the ones who lobbied Trump to invade Nigeria. As someone suggested it seems terrorists are kidnapping school students as human shields in preparation for your invasion.

richiemcgold:
There is this circulating report on social media since last week that terrorists and kidnappers are planning to abduct more people in the coming days with a plan of using them as shield in case US military eventually strikes.

.. and now there has been heavy surge in attacks across the country in the last 48 hours

always starting something without deep thought and blaming others for the consequences.

richiemcgold:
The motive behind these recent attacks is not farfetched. Check what I posted here last week: 👇

Makes a lot of sense.

Mrexcell:
Total gibberish always calling people u haven't met before ipob and Igbos just to deflect arguments. The US is founded on a Christian foundation they are a million times far better than nigeria in all areas of human endeavour. Even when they go astray they are still very wise to return back to their original foundation unlike nigeria that's founded on deceit and igbo hate, the US will continue to dominate the world wether haters like u like it or not. Saying igboland doesn't have any resources is quite very laughable if it were to be true am sure the nigerian state won't have wasted any effort in going to the extremes to keep Igbos in nigeria at all cost. Imo State alone is richly blessed with huge deposits of natural gas plus oil same with anambra, abia and enugu states then when u add igbo speaking communities in the so called south south that are also oil and gas producing areas u will see u are one of the most dumbest people to waste my time arguing with here.

A picture says a thousand words. This is the man that was parroting IPOB propaganda at the hearing yeaterday.

These US politicians will advance any cause if you pay them. That’s how they find elections.

VOsimhen144:
And what sentence do the politicians get for ordering the massacre of innocent people exercising their right to a peaceful protest in 2020?

Also at this point the yorubas are truly scared of the incitement of the northern people.

One thing is for sure, y'all will eat from the food you feed others, sooner or later.

The law is very clear. The death penalty is the only sentence allowed for the offense he was convicted of. If anything the judge erred by not prescribing the death sentence. It is the only sentence allowed or possible under the law. There is no wiggle room or discretion.

He should have sentenced him to death because in reality, no one has been executed since the return of democracy. The judge does not have the power of discretion the death penalty is mandatory if an act of terrorism causes death!

As for your other drivel, if you cannot do the time dont do the crime. Kanu and IPOB are the one’s eating the food they prepared.

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Blankstare:
The negroid hasn't grown up, we are still adult babies without capacity to build a system since the white men left, the fulanis knows this too because they aren't black skin like us too. In their attempt to continue to dominate and subjugate us mass extermination is required of them.

History has shown that the domination agenda of the Ibos and the Fulanis is not conducive to peace in this country. They are both a bunch of people that must have their way or they set the country on fire.

Crocodile tears.

I have concluded that Africans deserve what they get….we never learn.

Their forefathers came with bibles, we ended as colonies
They are coming now as saviors of Christianity, they want out resources.

Every time there has always been locals who invited them and struck deals with them.

Remember we started as being protectorates (I.e our kings signed protection agreements) and before we knew what was happening we were colonies.

We never learn.

Mrexcell:
Americans are not like the two faced british people they are very straightforward and ever ready to stand for what they truly believed in that's why God in heaven continues to bless them

America is the most corrupt country in the world but believe what you want. Experi nice has shown it’s a waste of time trying to get an Obidient or IPOb member to see common sense.


For others, They are not interested in Christian’s or IPOB. They want presence in Nigeria which they had lost and you gave them an excuse to get in since Tinubu had deliberately ignored them since he became president.

Even Riley could not help let it slip that they want a partnership with a Nigerian and this was an opportunity for anigeria to rebuild relationship with US.

They don’t care about IPOb or Christians.

In case you don’t know, America is in deep trouble. So much so they are considering introducing 50yr mortgages as that’s the o pay way people can afford homes.

Just so you know the resources they care about are not in the SE. so if they have to sacrifice the ibos, they will, after all who is the American backedpresident of Syria today? Same with Afghanistan. . The resources of value are in the North and the SS. You hold no value to Americans except as a door into Nigeria, which you have now opened and you will regret because the rest of Nigeria will forever remember and Americans being Americans will sell you out.

its not only in Nigeria that corrupt politicians exist. We can see US politicians who have collected money from IPOB. his statements were word for word IPOB propaganda.

He said Kanu was ill. He said Kanu was denied counsel. he said his case was dismissed by the appeal court. Clearly he is IPOB sponsored. If he actually knew what is happenning, he would know kanu was the one who dismissed his lawyers, he would know Kanu was examined by the Nigerian medical association who certified him as healthy and I am almost certain the president of the NMA is an ibo man.

I will give IPOB credit, they pumped serious money into lobbying American politicians.

3Ceagle:
Every man has fate with God.
Chief Obafemi Owolowo was charged for treason and imprisonment in Calabar.
But the one who has power over the destiny of men created a way to free him.
Let be still and watch how things play out. God is not done with MNK as he was never done with Chief Awolowo.

The biggest mistake supporters of IPOB made was to lobby Trump to invade Nigeria. With that singular action, there is no way any president going forward will release Nnamdi Kanu.

NgeneUkwenu:
The terrorism and Prevention Act 2013 as amended in 2022, of which Kanu was convicted of, made no provision for life sentence.... The offence carries the maximum punishment which is DEATH no addiction or minus. The judge should not because, he wanted to temper justice with mercy, import or lessen the punishment in variance with the act.

The Federal Govt. should as a matter of urgent national importance approach the Appeal court for the reinstatement of the correct punishment..

I arise!

i agree. the reality is no prisoner has been executed since the return of democracy so it makes no difference in actual implementation but I agree it should have been death sentence even if it would never materialize.

DMerciful:
President pulling the string is Yoruba. Attorney General pushing the trial is Yoruba . Prosecuting lawyer is Yoruba. Judge is Yoruba.

There's no way an igbo man can get justice in a Yoruba govt. It was always a fait accompli

even the prison is yoruba prison, we don hear...he go still spend life for prison. Ekpa dey prison, Kanu dey prison, who's next?

I also understand it means he has lost his British citizenship. In the Uk if a naturalized citizen is convicted of terrorism he loses his citizenship.

we've seen the last of Fendi. As a convict, he will now appear in court in prison uniform.

The fendi try sha. Always buy quality clothes.

HeavenlyBang:
His solution to everything is to just overhaul the entire system. People keep falling for the BS because he has a decently large YT channel and positions himself as an expert for high-end clients.

exactly! because he doesnt have the fundamental knowledge to diagnose.

in the said video, some charge controllers would stop charging at a certain time of day even though the battery is not full. He never even bothered to check what parameters were set for the charge controllers. Instead he came up with some cock and bull story that high frequency inverters and low voltage charge controllers cant work together....can you believe that? A few people challenged him to explain why, he couldn't instead was spewing gibberish trying to confuse the uninformed with technical jargon as is the way of those trying to hide lack of knowledge. What does battery voltage (which is what determines the flow of current between devices) have to do with frequency of inverters or PV voltage of charge controllers? A battery does not know or care about the frequency or voltage of its charge source to the extent that the voltage in question simply refers to the voltages of the PV input of those devices. All a battery sees is voltage of the output of the Inverter or the CC. the output of a CC and the input of a battery only care about voltage and current will flow if there is a difference in voltage between them. If the source is outputing a higher voltage than the battery voltage it will charge...this is basic physics. I am not a professional, i am just an enthusiast. I was disgusted watching an educated man claiming this is his professional occupation spewing the kind of nonsense I expect from Jelili the roadside mechanic.

The client gave him all the clues to suggest what the problem likely was. He said the CCs work EVERY DAY (negating his story that they cant work together), only they seemed to stop at a certain time of the day. Again, common sense would suggest okay at a certain time of the day the Bat voltage has risen to a certain level but battery is not fully charged, therefore lets check what charge voltage is configured in the CC maybe at that time the battery has sufficiently charged to the configured level in the CC. Afterall its not like the CCs dont work, they just seem to stop at a certain time of the day even though the battery isnt full which will suggest that when they see a certain voltage at the battery terminal they stop charging. So again common sense would suggest check the CC settings for the voltages set but Mr Cowboy without fundamental understanding of the basics never bothered to check the settings on the CC and instead ripped into the installer and wasted his clients money on new charge controllers.

I had been putting up with his channel and his BS because initially there werent many Nigerian channels and most of the channels were foreign. That was when i stopped watching his channel. thankfully there are now many more Nigerian channels.

helinues:
Enough of suspense. Deliver the judgement and let everyone move on. Those who want to be stuck by the judgement are free to do so

Should Kanu be convicted, his likely pardon will come after the 2027 election

I suspect there was a lobby by Ibo elders and politicians and probably (speculation) Tinubu may have commuted his sentence to a reduced term.

However events have overtaken that possibility.

1) the outcry with forced Tinubu to reverse pardons for terrorists, drug dealers and murderers
2) the lobby by IPOB causing Trump to threaten the invasion of Nigeria.

It is not good optics in light of the attention IPOB lobbyists have brought to terrorism in Nigeria to release or commute or pardon Kanu at this time and if he doesn’t do so now, he won’t after the election.

AndroBlaze:
Yes chief, I remember this your last quote then, you did say so and called it right.

PS: I studied History and Economics , abeg take it easy on us in future, our book no "plenty" so we haven't lost the ability to develop new interests , joorr ooo

Lol apologies. I studied Economics as well, though I had a science background.


That was a faulty submission on my part. What I was trying to say but did not express properly with my unwarranted assault on those who studied arts was that he clearly doesn’t understand some fundamental principles of physics and did not take time to learn. There was a video where he displayed a fundamental lack of understanding of how a battery gets charged I.e what causes current to flow and the voltage of a battery to rise which led me to conclude he probably never studied/understood basic physics. I’d you don’t know why current flows, He will misdiagnose the problem, blame the installer and condemn perfectly good equipment advise his client to buy equipment he does not need which is what happened in the said video.

Sentence und the act is death, no option available to the judge.

AndroBlaze:

Lol, can you imagine.

A Solar "guru" with over 23k subscribers uploaded a video at 1am and before 5am he has rushed to take it down after standing on principle that what was witnessed was impossible....lol lol.



Chief to put some context I have posted the link for the original video he reacted too.

Apparently DIY with Ray had long ago (over 2 months now) posted a video of a capacity test for a 10kwh (51.2v 200ah, 10.23kwh) lvtopsun battery where he got pretty impressive results of 10.53kwh discharging over 206ah in roughly over 2hrs.

Smilinsun Solar Energies claimed that people had inundated him with requests asking if he recommends the battery and if that capacity test was possible.

He basically tore into Ray, claiming the test was too suspicious and the results absolutely impossible, without him doing unhealthy things like bypassing the BMS and pretty much faking it.

His argument was centered around DOD. He claimed you are not suppose to discharge a LIFEPO battery to more than 90% DOD and even went ahead posting another video with LVTOPSUN representatives in Nigeria where they also said their battery won't do more than 90% DOD and they guaranteed 6000 cycles.

Now you may ask, that all this seems sound so far..... well it is. But then with all the English he speaks and wonderful carriage he has (compared to Ray oo, at least from the outside), he now came in with his claim that 90% DOD on a 10kwh battery cannot be more than 9kwh!!

He claimed that since LVTOPSUN stated the battery was a 10.23kwh battery, there should be no way it could be discharged healthily to 10.5kwh. He repeated this over and over again insisting the BMS should have shut it down and no 10kwh battery can do 9kwh (awon Felicity brainwashed people), all this on the DC side ooo.

At the end of the video he claimed he'd rerun his capacity test on the battery, making sure he buys a retail unit in case LVTOPSUN had fixed it themselves.

Now, my shock was that this man with over 300 videos and 23k subscribers coud make such an elementary mistake when calculating DOD....as even in the days of lead acid, you cannot calculate DOD based on the metric he used.

Basically DOD (with all the chemistries I am aware of) should be calculated with VOLTAGE and not based on POWER, let alone amperage.

Most agree that 90% DOD on a lithium cell hits @ 3v a cell (12v for 12v batt, 48v for 48v batt) and practically every BMS will cut off way before 2.65v a cell. So LVTOPSUN did not mislead nor lie with their claim.

If he understood this, he would have focused on other things he could have used justifiably question Ray's results in my opinion, like how the battery got such great results being discharged in only 2hrs at such a high C rate (though Damreey has just done the something similar above from what I can see) and if LVTOPSUN sent Ray an overspeced battery knowing he'd do a capacity test.

Anyway, this is why I laud this thread, it's contributors and community as a whole for being a reservoir of great knowledge (both practical and theory), as even though one can be away for months or years, the discussions we've had here ( usually from proper life experiences) would have enriched you with so much knowledge that it honestly feels like you have earned a proper degree in this area.

Enjoy Ray's video, and I actually like the guy a lot as he's pretty practical and just goes straight to the point.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMH3GJGwgND35-jYGN4/

I don’t have to watch the video to know. He’s had it coming. I’ve never seen such arrogant quackery in the Solar world.

Smilinsun is a cowboy a quack, I’ve said it long time ago. The annoying thing about him is there is nothing worse than someone with half knowledge who refuses to learn or be corrected and Carries on as if he knows it all. Worse still is he insults or questions anyone who questions him or if he cannot explain a situation because of his limited understanding or knowledge he attacks the installer or the product.

I only pity those who patronize him or watch his videos.

I said it long time ago:

casualobserver:
i have seen a lot of his videos. the guy is learning on the job. some of the things he says are correct but he makes out like he is more knowledgeable than he really is. There are many things I have seen him say in his videos that are outrightly false.

to me he is a cowboy. I see him as someone who could have studied a non technical subject like history or economics but developed an interest in Solar and turned it into a business but lacks basic technical knowledge.

verify anything you hear from his videos. personally i dont watch his videos anymore.

seunmsg:
That dude is done. Theatrics didn’t save him at the end of the day. His lawyers should start looking for grounds of appeal.

Now that he has been legally convicted, south east leaders can start pushing for clemency on his behalf from Mr. President. I still believe a political solution can be negotiated to end this matter.

He will struggle to find grounds for appeal. To start with by electing to submit a no case submition and not defend the charges, he cannot introduce anything at the appeal court he did not introduce in the high court.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Tinubu told us that the bulk stops at the president's table.
PB AT should take responsibility and stop
Boko Haram
Iswap
Bandits
Murderous & criminal herdsmen sacking villagers and farmers.

buck not bulk

b0rn2fuck:
Any reserve that doesn't have impact on masses is nonsense

it impacts on the masses, you are just knowledgeable to know how it does.

mascot87:
First time we had a Southerner and the North dey vex and they want to remove him. That's not even bad, the worst thing is that some irresponsible Southerners are also pushing this agenda because they hate Wike for supporting Tinubu. Terrible people

actually the first minister of the FCt was a southerner. Ajose Adeogun. Although at that time, the FCT only existed in concept and planning stages.

Whatever issues anyone may have with Fayose, OBJ is not the person to pontificate and deliver moral judgements. Obasanjo is a morally bankrupt man.

i really dont understand what makinde is playing at, what his strategic plan is.

Somebody cursed these people.

Sheuns:
What does he mean by “Subsidy has been virtually removed”?

Does this mean the govt still pays subsidies?

We are still paying subsidies on electricity.

Ibos like nonsense titles and fake awards sha!