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tejpot: All of you shouting that you have it in ur villages need to look very closely. You might have had problems with your biology in secondary school days. Well, the animal is refered to as racoon like, it might resemble ur so called 'emo' etc, but it is never what you think it is. The scientists explained that it is found in thick cloud forest habitat. Read and Think !

Read and think? Hmmm! Ok

Reading...Thinking...
I think it looks like 'emo'.

And with all the practicals and applications at Polytechnics, what do we have to show? Absolutely nothing. malaria fever kills everyday in Nigeria than anywhere in the world, yet our medical researchers have no solution (thanks to our herbalists who can cure with very bitter concoctions).
With polytechnics sprawling all over Nigeria, we are yet to produce a torch light. the last ones i saw were imported from china.
- Mention a Nigerian company that produces umbrella.
- mention one that produces tyres or even NYSC boots.
- Mention one construction or engineering company in Nigeria whose staff is 100% Nigerians and 100% locally trained...

moscobabs: and some idiots go dey talk sey oyinbo ladies get brain pass Nija babes ...can dis happen to Nija babes?

For where? I trust Chioma, she smart pass die. She go even die there like say tomorrow nor dey.

gtrust: Instead of Zoologists working in the lab they are in Banks, Senate and Politics. some dey Oil & Gas!

Wallahi, nor be small thing o.

jaeik007: him eye b like beverly osu own

Haba...that super wowo black girl na somebody else's oyooyo sweetus tomatos o Their eyes no resemble o Her own resemble ojuju, this one resemble willi willi

Wow! We are getting there...but wait o, shey na SAKA be the head coach for this club? Abi no be SAKA wey port be this? Abi na my eyes?

boofydon: How does this add to me becoming the Undefeated Champion of Capua

Even Crixus was eventually beheaded by the son of a Roman General...so let us celebrate the discovery of this Alingo (abi na wetin be that thing name self? oh ok, na olinguito)...

Is this not 'emo' as the Ijebus would call it?

Hmm, as forest and bush plenty reach for Nigeria, our own zoologists and scientists never discover anything new since my great grand father discovered bush baby centuries ago . Instead of taking the new discoveries to the zoo or museum, na shoot my people go shoot am...soup don land be that.



_{Our zoologists are hunters}

Yeye girl feeling funky that she banned me from celebrity section. Shouldnt I be happy? At least I am free from those jargons hitting FP from that nonsense flooded section - 'Davido's sister's cousin's best friend's housegirl cried lastnight'. See topic! No comment but it is on FP! Gnam! And they want me to contribute by fire by force...an unserious topic will surely draw unserious comments from unserious members and an unserious ban from an unserious MOD. Sometimes I wonder where the seriousness in Nairaland is. Thanks for banning me...Hope you enjoy it.

[quote author=tpia@]^ i counted three directly unambiguous foreign news threads on his screenshot, out of a total of roughly 17 fp threads.




the rest:

2 foreign news involving nigerians (botwana deports nigerians, obama invites jonathan for talks)

2 general threads (virgin mary, facts of life- dont know if the mary thread should be considered foreign news, the posters seem to be mostly nigerians).

the rest of the threads are nigerian write ups, about nigeria.

however, he should carry on, like i said, no need to derail the topic. I simply asked for clarification about his statement that nairaland is not a nigerian site.[/quote]Oh ok. So i didnt say it is not a Nigerian site but that putting Nairaland nigerian forum on that bar might not be cool enough IMO. After all, everybody knows Nairaland is a Nigerian site. Facbook is US, Twitter is US, same with LinkedIn. Skype is Estonian but we really dont see them writing 'US', France, Estonia, etc on their forums. Anyway, its just my opinion.

passionate88: electrocution and drowning isn't painful to the victim, na d friends nd family nd sympathizers e go pain. Rest In Peace dude

Eeyah! But how you take know self? You don die before before?

I wan meet Ogusbaba. She hid my 80+ likes and I need it back by fire by thunder. It is my property

Saint Chukz: ^ Although basically Science covers a wide range of disciplines. And i don't think it is every one of those disciplines that are progressive in outlook. What i mean here is that some science disciplines will only offer basic principles that were applied in the past. But what in your opinion do you think are those science disciplines that can a solution to future problems? because that's the main need for science- solving problems.

Truly, I havent seen a 'usless' science field. Now, treatments and cure for cancer are being developed by 'physists (physics) and chemists (chemistry) using experiments carried out on animals & plants by biologists, zoologist etc. Mathematicians are even more valuable in this part of the world. It is only when these scientists do no further research to upgrade themselves that they become redundant like most Nigerian lecturers who just sit in and teach students the same thing for over 10years. Those ones are redundant

[quote author=tpia@]i assume the op is not nigerian.[/quote]Full blood. Lagos born. I mean we have news and basically foreign news most of the time on FP and in sections so 'Nigerian' in that bar doesnt seem to catch the full content of the forum. we could simply have 'Forum'.

imperiouxx: Were you among those who pushed it? How did you know the vehicle was full of policemen whereas the main news says the number is yet to be confirmed.


[size=15pt]Nobody pushed the vayincu ooo. Na full reverse the driver take due to protesters' threats come fall from the bridge. [/size]

Courtesy of nairalander Mudley313


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeTQJrFMzns

Thanks for the video clip jare. na so people go dey remix story for us. Oh boy na serious fall off o

On the home page, I honestly would love to see the following changes:

A, we can just have "Nairaland" instead of "Nairaland Forum"

B, The search box is way too big. Reduce it and move it to a strategic angle on the page. Also, if there is a way the search can first be restricted to Nairaland mainstream before going Google, that' ll be cool. For instance, if I typed 'delors' in the search box, it leads me to Google. Why not Nairaland first?

C. We could just have "Forum" on that bar removing both "Nairaland and Nigerian" because the "Nigerian" there serves no purpose. We have topics and sections for international news, sports, etc so this is not about Nigeria alone any longer, we are 'international'.

D, Wouldn't mind having to place my image (maybe not mine sha ) somewhere close to my ID.

E, I think the segment for the topics is too wide. Reduce it to create room for other stuffs.

F, The left side could be for ads arranged in a colum downward or arrange in 2 columns downward while

G, for live feeds of trending topics, something something of the week/month etc...stuffs people could click to see whats up in the section especially those sections people rarely patronise.

H, when you click on a link (not the topic/comment links), music, video or ads for instance, let it open in a new tab otherwise you are forcing people to leave Nairaland page if the clicked link opens in the same tab.

I, Why do we have everything on FP underlined? Just curious
J, and please 'remix' the colours. They are dry and unattractive

7 Comment page numbers - I have a problem with the comment pages. Why do we have page 1, 2 ... 11,499? Why can't we have a page with all the comments like most social media - Facebook, Twitter, breaking news, livescore, and co? Who's gonna read a comment on page 56 of a topic for instance? Not me anyway. The comments can be on just a page or max 2 pages and so users can scroll down to check comments. If my comment is on page 13 of a 27-paged topic, i am pretty sure nobody would read it. That needs checking as well.

8. Ads - what's up with adds? There seem to be no worthwhile ads on the Nairaland's FP and I keep wondering how NL makes money. My suggestion is that your business managers home and abroad should do more. They dont have to be big companies, little ones and start up companies should be patronized as well and as way of doing charity, you could help some with free ad (if possible). Attend shows where all these business socialites go. They have boutiques home and abroad and they need marketing. Reduce the ads fee, more like charity thing but eventually there would be floods of ads and then you can start making big money from it. So many firms (big and small) dying for ads in Lagos, Abuja, PH, etc and Nigerian ones abroad but high fees scare them off. Re-strategize. Ads dont necessarily have to look like posters, make them light, flash ads so as not to slow down loading.

9. Account Closing - How come there is no provision for this? If i want to delete my account, how can I do that please? Anybody?

What would you like to see on Nairaland?
As a good Nigerian who wishes well for his fellow man, I really would love to see enviable changes on Nairaland in terms of appearance, features and services offered. Since there has not been any noticeable changes and upgrade for a long time, I am proposing the following and please, you may add your own suggestion and why you think it should be considered. Please no bad belle o.

We want to catapault Nairaland from the present level to the next level of ‘international’ and money making social platform like its peers - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, My Space, etc

Nairaland has over a million members, yet we remain stucked to a wallpaper homepage that reminds one of NTA 2's 1993 TV card board wallpaper. It’s time to upgrade (make e no be like say na only complain I sabi). I have therefore proposed the following and I enjoin my fellow change-mongers to contribute sincerely so we can be more proud of our very own Nairaland representing WAZOBIA home and abroad.

1. Like, dislike, rating - Almost all online media and social sites use these to show like or dislike for comments. Youtube, cbc.ca, CNN, BBC, disqus, etc I think it will be a welcome development (I'd give more reason soon)

2. Nairaland search tool (using # or ##) - Facebook copied Twitter 2 months ago using '#' to search mainstream on the social media. I once tried to search for my favourite people on Nairaland (names withheld for security reasons ) but it was near impossible; I was referred to Google. With '#' or '##', it might be possible to get exact search items. Please get your developers to work on it.

3. Email - I think Nairaland should have a way to make people open emails instead of sending mail requests to our email boxes. Something like delors@nairaland.com Aint that cool? Memebers should be able to have an account for mail services.

4. Image/profile photo - I know this created a sort of controversy a while back when Nairaland tried to introduce but I tell you it is important as it adds more colour and live to the forums. It is not a must one uses his/her/it's real image but image is cool. Make room for it. Whoever wants to upload can do so. With time, the people will get used to it and it becomes a no-issue. It adds more seriousness to our dear Nairaland.

5. Feeds - whenever I open Nairaland, it is the same dry wall paper of FP topics listing. Nothing is moving! While this is not bad, I think there should be a part of the FP where hot topics that cannot make it to FP can be showing like flash vids on the side like Facebook, notjustok.com, 360nobs, breakingnews.com etc I 'll explain better. For instance, if there are say 10 more topics that are hot but no room on FP, let them slide in a small segment of either the right or left side of the homepage. This might not work for all devices 9especially phones) but for users of laptop, handhelds ipads etc, there is nothing cooler. (I am pretty sure you know the devices that access your site, if not, check woopra.com

6. Side bars - The sides of the wall on homepage dedicated to ads are redundant and wasting away. Fill them up with better things. Live feeds for instance, Nairalander of the month/week, comment of the week, topic/week etc With the 'rating' tool, you can get highest commenter or most viewed topic of the week.

Over to you guys. Apps developers, business developers, creative thinkers, idealists, realists, engineers, computer scientists, bloggers (and aspiriing bloggers), your constructive views are strongly welcome. Let us make our own great!

_{Wanna see Seun rubbing shoulders with the Zuckerbergs and co.}


Thanks.

I don suffer o. This is gross injustice! After several years of hustle, toil and wahala, eventually got '75 likes' on one of my post today, only for Aunty ogugua88 (wether na female or male self who knows) to hide the post say I derail because na Davido's elder sister's wedding the thread dey for. I swear I fit kee myself as I dey now...I lost my hard earned 75 likes just like that? I must sue Nairaland or they return my likes...period

Kudylata: wow, seems u re speaking from expirience.

Yeah My expensive chain and perfume dey always suffer whenever they come visiting ...especially staying overnight

Mr Moderator (CrazyMan), I bow to you o. So none of the topics in your section dey hit front page in spite of the resuorcefulness of the topics abi? When other yeye unimportant uncommentable unbelievable topics dey make front page on a daily basis ? Later una go dey yab our politicians and leaders when na like this dem take start. Even copy-and-paste topics wey people don over-read from yahoo, facebook, give-me-sport, etc dey make FP without a single comment or up to 100 views.
Better wake up bros.

authentic black: Buhari, you are not a man of you word. How can I trust you,is it by force. The words you said after loosing election brought about the BH thing, only God knows what this one will result to if you loose this time

True! That guy started BH ferocity in 2009 in Maiduguri.
But wait o...how come people like Buhari and co no dey get kidney problems, liver cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or all those debilitating old life attacks? Na wah o. Abi stroke and diabetes don go strike as well?