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switch off the phone, take out the battery, leave for a few minutes and switch back on. it was advised by their cc and it worked for me. My phone started showing 3.5g after that

We think too short term in this country, rather than LONG term!! Look at the link below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15984493

Somewhere in there, it says that with solar and wind power becoming ever cheaper, it could be at par with fossil fuel power between 2020 and 2030. What happens then? Oil prices fall and Nigeria's revenue crashes and then govt cannot even afford to subsidise if it wanted to.

We had better develop a more robust economy before then!! Removal of many subsidies, including petrol, will help us to get there. Though reduced government wastages, corruption, incompetence etc will also help, but we must attack our developmental issues from all fronts. The extra GDP that telecoms provides Nigeria post deregulation is like 50times what pre-deregulation provided us, likewise jobs. Power and petroleum can have the same effect also.

It is the price we unfortunately have to pay for decades of mismanagement. if our railways had been privatised since the early 80's, many of the live's lost to tanker accidents on our raods may not have happened, not to talk of damage to our roads and a more efficient goods haulage system, which would have made for cheaper products and a more efficient economy.

The medicine is bitter, but we always take it to get better don't we??

Seems oyinbo's value our Obudu more than we do ourselves, !!

Who said anything about LASG managing it?? I would expect it to be managed and operated by a private firm!!

What Lagos needs is a monorail system or some sort of elevated system that is not impeded by vehicular traffic. I have seen the plan for the various blue, red,green, yellow lines etc, which are good, but if they are going to intersect roads then their impact may cause more harm than good.

No offense, but what did the guy really do? his actions led to a civil war where hundred of thousands lost their lives. And since his return in the early eighties, what value has he really added to Nigeria?

@nCPAT, which download accelerator are you using? Is it IDM? If it is where can I get a completely free version, not a 30day trial version) just in case you know.

kulutempa:
There will be no progress in Nigeria until the citizens take their destiny in their hands.   Instead of fighting against the removal of the subsidy, why couldn't Nigerians insist that the goverment reduce the subsidy by say 20% every year, with the money saved going into a special infrastructure fund for the repair of the existing refineries, the construction of new ones,  as well as roads, schools and hospitals.  They could also insist that the fund be transparent with specific timelines on when the projects will be completed and quarterly independent audits by multinational accounting firms, on the progress of the infrastructure projects and the fund expenditure.  They could also warn the government that if this agreement is not adhered to there will be nationwide protests and strikes, against any further subsidy reductions.  This is how serious and sensible people hold their government to account and if we cannot do such things in Nigeria, we deserve the government that we have and  worse.   It is really down to us at the end of the day, and expecting evil and corrupt leaders to change their ways voluntarily without being forced to do so is nothing but a pipe dream.    If we can force Babangida to "step down" we can force changes in our country and all it takes is the will to do it.

very well said, another intelligent respondent. He's not intelligent cos he agrees with me, but because the use of logic and sound economics is apparent. One can have an opposing view, but let the arguement for the opposing view be based on logic, fact and economics. That way it can be studied and the negative impact ameliorated.

By the way, one reason why what you suggest is far from happening is that we have an NLC that have people that are not very sound in economic matters and who don't employ high levels of logic and general competence. If they were, they'd see that overall, privatisation is the best thing for this economy and that privatisation would better serve the people they claim to represent more than public ownership.

http://wayforwardnaija..com/2010/07/nlc-and-labour-unions-always-in-our.html

Mr kalokalo

very well though out response. It is obvious that you possess sound logical and intellect and that you are very economically sound. I am in support of deregulation also for the LONG term survival of this country. No doubt withough corruption, we'd be better placed to administer subsidy properly, but those arguing that way are only wishful thinkers. A concise analysis of the Nigeria situation suggests that corruption is not going anywhere anytime soon. Therefore we must take on board the policy that serves us best with public sector corruption in mind and that is to bring about private sector transparency, initiative, proactives, investment, technological know how etc. There are lots of things that the private sector gives an economy like ours that the public sector can't do in 2-30 years, transparency, accountability, proactiveness, efficiency, access to modern technology etc are some of them

That is not to say that the private sector is perfect or is free from corruption, but i can safely say the private sector is 100 times better than govt. NITEL provided us with 500,000 lines in about 40 years, GSM provided 100mln in 10! NITEL consumed govt funds, GSM has contributed massively to govt funds, I only knew old people who worked in NITEl but GSM has employed thousands of young graduates, I have never seen our refineries advertise for vacancies, but Shell, Total, NLNG etc regulalry advertise in the papers! And so many more similar stories exist.

The most pertinent of kalokalos questions is question 4. How are we really sure that Nigerian refined petrol will be cheaper than imported petrol? We simply assume that it would be because in the past govt simply allocated crude to NNPC. but in a dregulated system, refiners would have to pay about the same international price for crude. And with the multiple pipline breakages, hostage taking and bunkering we have here in Nigeria, the costs may indeed be more expensive than imported crude, where there are no logistical nightmares in the transportation of crude to and from refineries.

This fuel subsidy issue need to be debated at the highest level and by the sharpest minds so that all the issues, even the minutest ones, can be identified and analysed and solutions proferred. Nairaland is not really the place for such debate because to be honest most people on the forum are not specialised and logical enough to debate properly.

Like I have always said there will be some short term pain, but Nigeria will benefit in the long run. Some people may loose their jobs and never find new ones, but other younger ones will get jobs and it's better to provide a 28 year old man with a job, than keep a 62 year old on the job. What matters is the macro economics and not necessarily the micro (at every individual level).

I don tire to type, nuff said,

The National Electricity Regulation boss said the removal of the service charge would be removed from the october billing cycle.i.e it would reflect in November bills.

It remains to be seen if it will happen though!! We have a habit of saying things in Abuja and it never getting implemented where it really matters.

Etisalat has also slightly reduced the data plans for their Easyblaze service. it is now more in line with the networks and I must admit (though it's still early days yet) that it appears to be on average 2-4 times faster than MTN, which is the best where I am.

@dozie, if you staill have just EDGE on your device even after you subscribe to a bundle, just take out your battery, leave it for a few minutes and put it back on and you'll see constant 3.5G.

Opt-in for any of our prepaid data plans (etisalat) listed below depending on your need. If you are not sure what your data requirement is, you can find out using our data calculator. Click here for data calculator.

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Our new pay as you use rate is now 5 kobo/per kb
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By the way Etisalat Easyblaze have made some slight reductions on their bundle prices. I subscribed to easyblaze for the first time about 2 weeks ago and it is definately faster than all the others, no question about it (in PH anyway). On the average I'd say it was about 2-4 times faster than MTN. You appreciate the speed more when downloading heavy stuff, watching video clips etc or uploading. Uploading 6 pictures of about 4Mb each to Flickr took about 2hours with MTN but about 20mins with Etisalat.

Ordinarily i'd say go for the 3G version. However, if you have a compatible nokia phone, you can turn your phone into a mobile hotspot (mifi) and then use the wifi on the ipad. Check out www.joiku.com

Good riddiance to bad rubbish!! He should go and rot in hell!!

As alooter, why would I be bothered when the likelihood of EFCC catching up with me is relatively small. EFCC is just parading Governors and one or two ministers, but consider how many Presidents, Vice Presidents, members of the NASS, Governors and deputies, Commissioners and LG Chairmen, heads of parastatal, special advisers etc we have had since 1999 and 99% of them were corrupt and how many have been arrested so far? So you'd agree with me that there are still too many people out there who have stolen govt money that are not even close to being on the radar of EFCC, so why would they come out to take the amnesty, which automatically proves them guilty??

unfortunately x2 isn't listed on their website. X5, X6 and X7 are though.

Guys, just discoverd this and thought to share.

If you have a compatible nokia phone (one of the newer smartphones from E71 era) you can download the app from www.joiku.com and it turns your phone into a hotspot. There is the free version and the paid version which enables you to block people and know eho else is connecting to you signal. For the free version, you can't stop others from connecting to your signal. The only disadvantage is that your phone will get hot with continous use and the battery will die pretty fast, so it's a good idea to have it plugged into the mains, otherwise, I haven't had any issues with it. It works as fast as the modem itself would.

The advantage if this is that you can then have only one data plan on your phone and use it on your laptop and tablet wirelessly. Also you don't need to buy a Mifi device, which saves you about N25k if you were thinking of buying one.

I get the impression that most people don't know about this and I thought to share.

Ciao!

FB can be dangerous if ur married or have asteady GF and ur still aplayer. Like someone said, forgetting to log out can put you in a fix, I know lots of guys who have slept with chicks they met on FB though, you just need to know what to look for on some chicks profiles, lol!!

NRC should focus more on haulage. I would imagine that haulage would be more profitable than passenger. Which lunatic would go from lagos to Ilorin on a train that would probably take like 10hours, when you can go by road (however bad) in about 3 hours

I know this property. Its not in a particularly nice area of Anthony. Not much of Anthony is nice anyway cos it's too busy and the roads are too narrow. I think N55mln for this is way too expensive. N40mln is more like it.

This is a ctually a subject for a very good debate. I think it is actually getting out of hand. The poster makes apoint, why should anyone stop you from driving ona government road when you have paid taxes already. No doubt, communal living is good and small fees for things like grass maintenance etc is ok. But how much can grass cutting cost and payment of security man that people must pay so much? Besides Magodo has lots of residents so the money should be spread around pretty thinly.

No one is talking about a channel on Mnet for them. How about just a local cartoon programme on NTA?

Ijogz K:
Why is your ballz itching you this much, Seems like the more it itches the more you yarn Ballzzzzz, They are kinda connected

See what I mean!! Apalling!!

So much for the idiots on this thread that were busy castigating Glo and/or didn't believe a few posters who said that the problem was Global.

The links included clearly indicate that the problem is beyond Glo, MTN or even Nigeria.

in fact the amount of insulting and cursing that goes on in NL shows how poor our educational system is, because a properly educated mind should know better than to immediately rubbish peoples comments and rain abuses and curses without first making an effort to find out the reality. After all, if you have internet access to send silly comment, you could as well take the time out to google if indeed RIM are having problems.

I have used 4 GT radial tyres on my car for about 4 years with no issues.

Gosh, we've had these subsidy arguements on NL a million times.

In the LONG TERM and speaking from an ECONOMIC (not socialist) point of view subsidies should be removed. I know it will make things difficult in the SHORT TERM, but that will just have to be the collective pain we'll all have to bear for mismanaging this country. While the leaders have the most responsibility for mismanagement, we the followers are not much better. As they say, people get the types of leaders that they deserve.

There is no petrol or electricity subsidy in Ghana, but they are all still alive aren't they?? And in my opinion they are not necessarily worse off as a country than we are. Besides if kerosene and diesel are already deregulated then we shopuld have nothing to fear, cos the so called masses who insist on kerosene at N150 per litre (when gas at N3500 per cylinder is probably cheaper) are buying it at whatever price and they are not dying. Likewise most of the heavy haulage of food, cement etc already factors in deregulated diesel, so why should foodstuffs and cement etc rise astronomically? Afterall, tankers and trailers use diesel and not petrol.

I think we might just all be overstating the impact of removal of subsidy on petrol on our economy, when kerosene and diesel are already deregulated. No doubt it will make things more difficult in the SHORT TERM, but in the LONG TERM Nigeria will be much better for it.

I have been having apps (MTN, Google news, Opera mobile store) takeover my speed dial buttons on opera mini also, but all one needs to do is just to clear them and put the ones you want back.

[quote author=Da_b¤§§. link=topic=768083.msg9274995#msg9274995 date=1317742989]We dont need more speed we need unlimited data allowance like does does outside
9ja. I hear even those in ghana get unlimited downloads[/quote]Dude, even in the states and in uk, operators are beginning to get rid of unlimited plans cos they can barely cope.

11Mb/s!!! I dey suspect that story o!!