NewDelhi:

Young man keep quiet. You're not still getting my point. It's self explanatory to most of us but some average people will find it difficult to understand. This forum ain't a virtual PhD lecture room. Make yourself as simple as possible.

So its now clear to you now?

Why the initial rant?

NewDelhi:
How do you expect an average man to understand the nonsense map you posted above.. instead of you to make yourself as clear and understandable as possible.

That data is clear to anyone who actually sat for his WAEC himself and passed.

Internet connection is relatively cheap in Nigeria.

Nico4luv:
Get a prepaid card (preferably UBA prepaid card), fund it with the amount you want and use.

You can't spend more than $100, using a regular Nigerian bank card. $100

I have tried UBA Card( verve), funded it, then try it on AliExpress but didn't work.
So, what would possibly be the problem?

Your comprehension skills ehn…. E get as e be

Is UBA verve card the same as UBA prepaid?

tensazangetsu20:

Amazing advice unfortunately his price won't get him something in this list. Laptops have become so expensive over the past one year, it's just insane.

i bought a laptop in Dubai just before Covid for 650AED (N65,000 then). i sold same laptop last month for N130,000...

Good deals however are still on JiJi from people willing to dispose 'old stock'. I got my 2012 MacBook Pro on JiJi.

PS: Avoid 2011 MacBook Pro if you don't know your way around the GPU issue. Most sellers are even selling 2011 and 2012 at similar prices anyway, so just get the 2012 non retina. 2012 retina has almost similar specs to the non retina and costs almost twice as much. If you have the money, get the 2015 retina. You can ignore the 2016+ due to keyboard issues.

NickyNickel:
I'm a newly deployed corp member and I want to you this one year to some Tech Skills.

First is to get a second hand system. But I don't really know the specifications I should look out for. Like ram/rom size etc
My budget is 65k.

Advice please!!

Your budget might actually limit the kind of tech skills you might learn from the potential laptop. RAM alone goes for around 8k for 8gb. So a 16gb upgrade is around 16k. Some people claim to be able to work with a 4gb RAM laptop. Maybe for web development but this is 2021. Some tools even peg minimum requirements to 8gb these days.

Secondly, you need a computer with multicore processors. All those old single core intels might be good for watching YouTube but wont be able to load any major IDE and run simulators. Minimum you should consider is a core i5.

HDDs are still passable if you are a learner and dont mind spending time waiting for it to spool data but the optimum is an SSD.

Upgradability. Buy a laptop that has upgradable internal components. The RAM and storage must not be soldered in. This way, you can buy a cheap laptop with 4gb ram and then upgrade later to 8 or 16. The storage too must be removable allowing HDD to SDD swap. You will definitely thank me later for this tip.

Battery. Your laptop must have an appreciable power supply. Tech softwares dey chop battery. Watching tutorials for hours on end consumes power too. If you have uninterrupted power supply, then you can get away with a sub par battery, but if not, your laptop must have a good battery.

Screen size. Except you have an external monitor, dont do less than 14 inches. You might need split screens between your tutorials and work sheet.

Dedicated graphics. Determine if the laptop has a dedicated graphics or only relies on integrated. Some tech skills depend on dedicated graphics chips…

Backlit keyboard. Not necessary but if you work through the night (most techies do), you would find it to be an advantage. You wont need to put on your room lights thereby reducing the strain on your eyes. As i said, not a deal breaker if other specs are good but an additional advantage.

If you notice, i did not ask what tech skills you might want to acquire. My opinion is to browse through a few of them first before you settle down on the ones that you really do have a passion for. Dont do XYZ because you heard someone is making money out of it. At the end of the day, it is passion that will keep you awake at night to spend the hours on learning and becoming a pro.

In summary;
8gb to 16gb RAM
Minimum of core i5
SSD preferred but HDD can do temporarily.
Upgradable internals
Good battery
Dedicated graphics
14 inches display minimum
Optional backlit keyboard

Cheers

2012 MacBook Pro
Core i7 2.3ghz
15 inch
16gb RAM
NVDIA Geoforce GT 650M and Intel HD graphics 4000 dual graphics
500gb HDD with plans to swap to a 1TB SSD soon
Running Big Sur 11.5.2, Xcode12.5.1, VS, Android Studio, Flutter, Pycharm and every other stuff i need to upload into my old head.

PS: just started to learn.

Latest XCode (12.5.1) requires big sur even on proper macs

Wont run on catalina.

How did you install XCode and which version?

clarocuzioo:


The post lacks indebt analysis on the events that took place.

No.offense meant please, just he the truth.

In-depth you meant.

Thanks for your observation though.

clarocuzioo:



Please Kindly tell the.super fraud to go America and defend his involvement in the scam.

You people are yet to.understand the FBI. They have a lot.of incriminating evidence on Kyari based on his involvement with Hushpuppi, they are only releasing it bit by bit. The more reason Abba Kyari after his response on the initial release, kept mute all along.

He is scared what.more they.know. Don't be surprised FBI may have hacked into Abba Kyari's phone line and heard his conversation for quite sometime.

Stop the.lame analysis, FBI is just starting.

Wait till they get Abba Kyari.

The post is for people with the ability to reason on events as they are...Not everyone is for you or against you.

Counter the arguments, support it or just make your own observations...Everything is not a battle

donbachi:
He should prove dat in america

Of course, he will have to, if it gets to that point.

But how about if he is right and didnt collect N8m?

Is Abba Kyari Right?

Amid many accounts and opinions making rounds on the sudden fallout of Abba Kyari with the laws of the United States, it becomes very easy to throw the proverbial baby away with the bathwater. However, an unbiased analysis could show us some light into this complex mess the super cop has thrown himself into and the possible truths he so desperately wants the public to know.

It should be noted that this article is not to support the character of Abba Kyari nor his alleged actions in his unexpected marriage with Hushpuppi. It is to beam a searchlight on the events that led to his FBI indictment and immediate Facebook storyline and numerous edits which he finally deleted. 

Kyari’s initial response on social media was very fast. It came just moments after the news broke. It was not news to him. He was expecting it to come up one day. He had an answer ready-made to counter the reports. Few weeks before the news broke, Kyari was in his comfort zone. He went to Oba to celebrate with Obi Cubana. He made posts to justify the association, claiming Obi Cubana is a 'brother and good friend' when concerns were raised by the public. His love for the good life was also on display on posts made on Facebook. He posted lovely holiday resorts around the world. He would love to be there. It never crossed his mind that the FBI could declare him wanted. He was lucky not to have been in Sicily or any other FBI-tolerant location when he was declared wanted. 

He became flustered after the unsealed court documents implied he received 8 million Naira from Hushpuppi. He immediately dropped a rebuttal on the same Facebook post, explaining that it was a request to help recover debts. He tried to explain that he didn't receive the alleged funds but the people on social media were not ready to listen. To them, the attempt at changing the storyline alone implies fraudulent intentions. Is it possible that he did not receive a payment of 8 million Naira from Hush? This article tries to review events based on available information.

Kyari met Hush physically in September 2019 when he went to Dubai. FBI court documents indicate that Hush provided a car and driver for Kyari’s use during the trip. Hush possibly didn’t know how powerful Kyari was and in further communications, Kyari detailed his prowess by sending to Hush pictures and links to articles discussing the super cop arresting kidnappers. Hush was sold and promised allegiance to Kyari. 
A few months later, In January 2020, one of Hushpuppi’s associates in this fraud, Vincent was acting rouge. His job was to provide documents, web pages, and a telephone banking system to be used by 'Hush Enterprises' in their ongoing scam of the Qatari. Vincent was contacting the Qatari and trying to divert the balance of the proceeds. Hush was enraged. He allegedly contacted Kyari and requested an arrest plus detention of the erring Vincent. Kyari asked for Vincent’s phone number. Every user of any telephone service in Nigeria is required to register his biometrics during SIM activation. This information throve which is confidential should normally be accessible to enforcement agencies only after following due process. However, Kyari’s access is unlimited and as evidenced with this case, can and has been used to settle personal and non-state-related cases. On January 20, Kyari sent personal and confidential details of Vincent to Hushpuppi, which he possibly retrieved from the SIM registration database. He detailed the full name, age, place of birth, and even Vincent’s address in Abuja. The same day, Kyari, using tracking and surveillance systems of the Federal Republic of Nigeria arrested Vincent. It is of importance to note that these systems were provided to Kyari to be used in tracking kidnappers and terrorists. It was on this same day that Kyari asked Hush what Vincent did, a question which Hush did not hesitate to answer as truthfully as possible, and which Kyari had no problem with. Hush requested that Vincent be detained for a long time and requested account details. Kyari sent details to him and Hush promised to pay the next day. This possibly is the alleged tailor’s bank details where Hush wired the N300,000. 

Vincent having spent a month in detention, his people became nervous and decided to raise N1m indirectly demanded by the police to bail him. Vincent’s girlfriend contacted Hushpuppi and he agreed to donate N100,000 to the cause. This detail was communicated between Hush and Kyari. The Police eventually agreed to release Vincent on 25th February 2020 after spending one month and five days in detention. Vincent’s family would have secured his release possibly after settling with the additional N1m.
Kyari assumed that the only link the FBI would be able to trace to him was the N300,000 payment to the alleged tailor. He assumed he was thus protected with this alibi. This was why he was quick to respond with that ready-made story. Total funds would therefore be around N1,300,000.

The Hushpuppi/Vincent scam on the Qatari ended on 12th March 2020 when the Qatari fully realized that he was being scammed all along by Hushpuppi et al. The last inflow on the transaction occurred, ten days before on March 2, 2020. By this time, Hushpuppi was already in financial constraints and had used the Richard Mille watch to take a loan from a watch company in Dubai. After a series of attempts to repay the watch company, Hushpuppi finally instructed them to sell the watch on 26th April 2020. During this period, the COVID lockdown had started and Hushpuppi was already onto another scam.
The 8 million Naira transaction happened in May 2020 and in all fairness could be a debt recovery job. Debt recovery is a normal ‘extra job’ that policemen do in Nigeria. Many police staff have been involved in debt recovery one way or another. If someone is in debt to you, you call a policeman or woman whom you are close to and they get the debtor's details, invite him to the station and intimate the debtor to pay up. Of course, the Police authorities have repeatedly told everyone to stop using the police to recover civil debts. This is possibly why Abba Kyari was quick to deny ever receiving the N8,000,000 being touted in the FBI court documents. Without further evidence, it is possible he was telling the truth here.

It is possible the only money Kyari and his boys have to explain is just the N1,300,000. Why do I have this notion? There are two reasons. First, Kyari did not want to be fully involved in the scam beyond what was legally defensible. The transcripts of his conversation with Hushpuppi show that he was not ‘pushy’ enough to seize the opportunity. He was just saying ‘I understand’ and agreeing to Hushpuppi without diplomatic negotiations which any smart but corrupt police officer would have done. Even when he asked and He saw an advantage, he did not fully fleece it. 
His path of self-vindication is only taken by not-so-smart people. He is more concerned about his public perception. His office space is littered with his past awards. He took his time to ensure his personal opinion of himself is evident to everyone. This is why he was so quick to make rebuttals to the public when that was not the legal option available to him. When Kyari saw that the FBI claimed that he received N8m based on screenshots sent to him and despite being on an investigation by the police already, he was quick to point out on Facebook that the 8m was just a recovery request.

My second reason is Hushpuppi. That clown is extremely greedy and records already show him trying to dupe even his crime associates. He gave the fund picker only 8,000 USD out of over 500,000 USD. He played the Kenyan who brought the fraud deal. If that guy was not fast enough to divert around 300,000 USD to his Kenyan account directly, that guy would not have gotten anything. Finally, the Vincent guy who did all the fraudulent website work and back-end business was not paid adequately despite his complaints. This is why Kyari was brought into the picture in the first instance. 
Can fraudulent Hushpuppi who is greedy, lives an expensive life, and was financially broke pay a mere policeman a whole 8 million Naira just for locking up Vincent? I doubt. 

If Abba Kyari and his lawyers can prove without reasonable doubt that the N8m was not collected by him and perchance also prove that the N300,000 was actually paid to a Tailor, who is ready to testify to this as fact, it gives them a chance to technically discount some parts of the FBI investigation. This could help him with the Police Disciplinary committee and can limit his maximum punishment to say a dismissal due to unprofessional conduct and not extradition. This however does not absolve him of the charges in the United States. The FBI documents show quite clearly that Kyari's actions, by knowingly detaining Vincent, enabled Hushpuppi to further fleece the Qatari of an additional $180,000. This makes him an accessory and the fact that he received adequate payment or not will not absolve him.

In condemning or defending Abba Kyari, judging by the two camps of public opinion on this matter, I hope these matters would be put into consideration. Opinions made here are in reference to the court documents recently unsealed in the united states and the social media posts of Abba Kyari himself, which he also recently deleted.

mocey:


i already presented proof,didnt you see the screenshot below

Your post is not proof enough. A wikipedia screenshot and a punch headline?

BiafraAburi:

Facts are already presented above. Make use of your brain. That's what God made it for. Isaac Boro was a scam used by the fulanis to hold nigeria together for a while. Finally, their trick is coming to an end. Soon, Biafra will emerge.

I didnt direct my post to you. Evidently, you are bitter with your life. Dont bring the bitterness online. I am not responsible for your life problems.

following.

Please present the facts and allow the reader to come to appropriate conclusions.

Emmanuel909090:
Your papa no get car, nobody for your family get car, your boyfriend no get car, but you will order a bolt and sit behind and be acting all rude.

But when a girl from a rich background request for a ride, you can tell, very humble and cordinated.

If aunty been sit down for front, come dey humble i believe the driver will let it slide.

#brokeproudslayer

There is no reward for marrying a poor girl, they are mostly rude, entitled and unappreciative.
Girls from rich homes have better attutide and can appreciate a bottle of coke like a ticket to Miami, while poor girls can appreciate a trip to Miami like a sachet of pure water.

you are wise.

Educationalserv:
cheif ipob bigot .when did JOB now turn to fraud. He said one JOB.please get a dictionary and look up what the defination of JOB .husppy said He is a Instagram cerebrity with 4m follower paid by top firm to market their product on his profile .so Kyari will ordinary think he has a legimate job (proposals ) to the Qatari man while the Nigerian guy ask to produce some document is the one trying to scam the Man ....when did job turn to mean fraud in English..i am looking for job now mean looking for fraud in Nigeria .

Following your very flawed logic, a citizen cannot call the police and influence them with money to detain another citizen for one month under dehumanising conditions without trial, based on the sole statement of the reporting citizen.

In addition, a citizen cannot order the police to beat another citizen based on a disagreement.

finally, a citizen cannot instruct the police to seize the legal assets of another citizen in perpetuity.

It is a shame that some people in this country have assumed extra-judicial is normal while normal seems strange.

Monogamy:


Is the $550k deal that Hush asked Kyari to arrest his friend for part of the $1.1m deal?

Go and read the 69 page document and stop embarrassing your kids when they come here in future to read what daddy wrote.

Monogamy:


But some services was provided now, don't you think?

If you are being threatened by someone, won't you report to police? Are you going to make the request of the arrest for free? Nigeria police?

Haba, we all sabi the magic behind the disappearance of meat in the mouth

i would really like to study you under a microscope.

Perkins2018:


How does what I wrote relate to your question?

A seller is different from someone that was paid 8m naira in installments for helping hushpuppy "keeping" a fellow fraudster in custody until a Qatari is duped.

Dont play dumb whth me.

He is not playing dumb. He is

Ipob is all about making lives harder for people in the south east.

If Kanu is not released, they will restrict the businesses of igbos and residents in SE every Monday.

By default, anyone who doesn’t abide would be victimized.

The funny thing is that, this doesn’t affect the country as a whole. It only affects the igbos and residents of the south eastern region.

Wrong strategy

Monogamy:
Is the $550k deal part of $1.1 m deal?

If Kyari received paltry $20k out of $1.1m, why should he be person of interest to FBI?

Is FBI going to prosecute Kyari for bribery case in Nigeria or that's the duty of NPF?

If this are the documents some people are relying on to nail Kyari, then I might have to tell them they could probably being wasting their time except if there are more solid documents

Unfortunately, the law doesn't look at it from the perspective of whether he received big or small.

The fact that he received payment for criminal services is all that is needed to put him in the basket with them.

If he didn't even receive a cent, he is still culpable by the fact that he used his position to kidnap Chibuzor for a whole month in order to prevent the the latter from exposing Hushpuppi's crime. He is an accessory.

favor914:
He is 100% correct the Biafrans are the people @ the shores the Bight of Benin (Bonny) The Ndiigbos are the hinterland people. The shore people sold the hinterland people as slaves to the white man. The history is there in black & white.

Bight of Biafra (not benin) is bight of bonny

You statements are not far from the truth.

However, he is wrong to say the ijaws named the region in 1967. The name had been there all along hundreds of years before any of the people in that meeting was born

Dokubo is wrong

The region (which also includes present day parts of Cameroon) was names by the early Portuguese explorers

It was initially called Biafara, Biafra or Biafres, depending on the map of reference

Nobody owns a monopoly to its use.

Coldie:
Originally it's true, the original bight of Biafra is the coastal areas of the southsouth, since southsouth and south east used to be one in the past, they gave the defunct country a name from the southsouth to show solidarity apart from that the name was brought about by an ijaw man.

They did this to ensure togetherness.

Many people don't know that the original name of Bight of Benin was bight of Biafra, but it was changed by the Nigerian government to erase any traces of the Biafra

You are mixing it up. Bight of Biafra was changed to bight of bonny

Dokubo is wrong.

The ijaws did not name the region Biafra. Explorers did and is evidenced in their maps.

In addition, the igbos have a right to claim the name Biafra.

First to claim and establish is what is important.

There are so many holes in this story.

How did the police know they were bandits?

Why was the surprise attack by the police launched?

How did the DPO die? From being hit with a car or gunshot wounds or even from falling down from their pick up?

Did the alleged bandits even have weapons?

Are the alleged bandits not igbo youths on solidarity convoy drive on Nnamdi Kanu’s trial who were attacked by the police who possibly tried to escape and in the possible chase, the FPO fell from their pick up truck?

What really happened?

Ariani:


You are not okay upstairs.

Bini was overrun by Biafra in days too.

Your fat old Oba was a sitting duck and ran away to the bush like a coward without putting up a fight when the British rolled in the Maxim guns at Bini.
The war lasted for just a day.
The fat unfit old man ran into the bush, instead of him to reorganize his people and fight back, he came back from the bush to hand himself to the British.
Even offering to give his silver and gold to the British to buy his own freedom and become British stooge.
What a disgrace and shame.

In contrast, Aros defended Arochukwu for full 4 days under same British Maxim guns, because they were more organized and sophisticated, they had men of skills who fashioned local guns, something Bini lack. All they know to do was fall down on the floor like men without brains shouting "Oba gha tokpe" to their old fat king. Mtchew.

And when Arochukwu town fell, the people regrouped and continued fighting.

And mind you, Aros have a king, he is called Eze Aro, but in real time, he was just a priest king and not a dictator who dictated to anyone.

Let me tell you, you lots were primitive and cannot measure to Igbos weather in the ancient or present.

That we normally mind our business about your ancient fables and let you lie to yourselves about imaginary glory, doesn't mean we don't Know the truth.
Ask around, in my part of Igboland, "Akuko Idu n'Oba" is an ancient way of saying "fairy tales and fables". Ancient Igbos are aware of Oba people penchant for fairy tales, concocted stories and fables, we make jest of it within our homes, but we are repectable and decent enough not to come out in public to make jest of you guys about your fat Obas worship and all that we find retarded and foolish.

We are only doing so now because you have refused to mind your business.
You are pokenosing into our own business.

If igbos told tales of the Oba of Benin’s exploits, is it not possible that some of it is true?

Remember these tales were brought by igbos who escaped from the raids or who have seen the different culture first hand.

It is very easy for the hinterland igbos to discredit the tales since they have not stepped out of their communes.

If you have not had exposure to the europeans till today, if someone came and told you the europeans have cars and aero planes and mobile phones, wont you say its still same akuko idu na oba tales?

Denn:


Me i will ask questions o.

Which decades did the British sweat to get past the Enuani and eastern Igbos?

Thanks

Ariani

You are yet to answer this question.

Ariani:


Yet the stupid Reno opened his mouth to tell us how not having useless fat lazy kings meant that Igboland was disorganized and open for any stupid group to plunder.
What a stupid sentence.

When the British with Maxim guns sweated for decades to get past Enuani and the Eastern Igbos, what chance did useless village Monarchical minority societies around Igbos stand?

Normally we should be humiliating these people for being stupid enough to allow a fat slow man rule over them, like they don't have brains to decide their own dates, but we don't, because naturally we mind our own business.

But apparently, these people are now drunk in their own foolishness that they think our silence on exposing and deriding their stupid monarchies was an invitation for them to start attacking our superior democratic society.

I swear, we have to start putting these people where they all belong. We have been on the defense for so long. It's about time we go in attack full speed.

Ndi Mgbu!

Me i will ask questions o.

Which decades did the British sweat to get past the Enuani and eastern Igbos?

Thanks

Boudiccao:


There are no answers to supremacist claims pulled out of your ass to berate others.
Discrediting Igbos with your fictitious remarks is all you have done on this thread. That's a dubious way of way of engaging others.

OK