₦airaland Forum

TayserMahiri:
In many ways. First, the country was responsible for the break up of the first EAC where it made arguments about kenya dominating others. Over the last few years, the country deliberately derails the process of integration including not attending meetings and not being active. Generally, there is a contest between kenya and Tz, where Tz feels her socialist system of govt is better and the kenyan capitalist system is worse. In simpler terms, Tanzania does not want an integration in which capitalism will be the way for fears that kenya will dominate everything. Rwanda and Uganda have no such fears and have even signed free movement accords. Citizens of kenya, Rwanda, Uganda can travel to any of them with their national I.D only and nothing else. Meanwhile, kenyans are being chased from tanzania of late and many more things that would take me a whole day to write about.

I did not mention Ethiopia, but should probably have because of a language barrier that exists. Ethiopians don't speak Swahili, they speak Amharic. However, Ethiopia is probably Kenya's friendliest neighbor and is very keen on Joining all aspects of the EAC integration process, which in my opinion will never work as long as Tanzania is in it. In fact, the EAC is referred as a coalition of the willing lately, in reference to Tz not willing to join in. And their socialist system is crap anyway, it would never help a 21st century economy that needs to grow.

Wow, this is very contrary to what i used to think. My parents are very "Pan African" so as a child i grew up in Nigeria watching "EATV,ITV...e.t.c"
And from what i saw on Tv, Tz looked like the warmest East African nation.Its kinda hard to think they are the least cooperative, oh well never believe everything you see on Tv .

On a lighter note,
why aren't Kenyan men marrying all those pretty Habesha women in Ethopia and Erithrea?. Also which East African Country do you think is best for a Nigerian to invest in property?. Like what are the average Land and House prices in most East African states?

TayserMahiri:
East Africa would be miles ahead were it not for one country called Tanzania. Trust me if it was left for Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, East Africa would be electing a single president by now.

.
Really?, how is Tanzania holding you guys back and why exactly did you not mention Ethopia?

romme2u:
My brother everything is wrong in this country. We don't seem to be progressing in all front.

Are our governments at all levels taking responsibilities or throwing same to the masses?

A country where the President and top government officials travel abroad for their medicals, is that one a country?

Am reposting this!!.Read and be insspired. They don't have two heads :

Yes sir, you have to understand that there are young people without any political connections that are making it big time in Nigeria.I even heard of some folks that make close to $1million in revenue very "MONTH" here is a link:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/16/buypower-aims-to-ease-the-pain-of-utility-payments-in-nigeria/

I know others like that too. Most of them are very quiet about how much money they make because its unreal!!.

The truth is:
"Its not Nigeria that is not good,Its us that is not good enough for Nigeria."

There are sooooo many opportunities in this country!.

Believe me. And a positive outlook can help you and me spot and take advantage of some of them.

Before i forget here is a youth that made N216 million from a company he created just 10 months ago.

https://radar.techcabal.com/t/ecommerce-in-nigeria-my-experience-so-far-with-pod-should-i-quit/11435


Cheers

donniemc:
Yes sir, you have to understand that there are young people without any political connections that are making it big time in Nigeria.I even heard of some folks that make close to $1million in revenue very "MONTH" here is a link:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/16/buypower-aims-to-ease-the-pain-of-utility-payments-in-nigeria/

I know others like that too. Most of them are very quiet about how much money they make because its unreal!!.

The truth is:
"Its not Nigeria that is not good,Its us that is not good enough for Nigeria."

There are sooooo many opportunities in this country!.

Believe me. And a positive outlook can help you and me spot and take advantage of some of them.

Before i forget here is a youth that made N216 million from a company he created just 10 months ago.

https://radar.techcabal.com/t/ecommerce-in-nigeria-my-experience-so-far-with-pod-should-i-quit/11435


Cheers

What am trrying to say is that we have no excuse to not make it in Nigeria

BUTCHCASSIDY:
They way you learnt skills shey
What did they teach you at the skills acquisition centre
How to polish shoes eh
And they fed you a shitload of baloney that you were an entepreneur
and that you are strengthening the naira eh

Yes sir, you have to understand that there are young people without any political connections that are making it big time in Nigeria.I even heard of some folks that make close to $1million in revenue very "MONTH" here is a link:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/16/buypower-aims-to-ease-the-pain-of-utility-payments-in-nigeria/

I know others like that too. Most of them are very quiet about how much money they make because its unreal!!.

The truth is:
"Its not Nigeria that is not good,Its us that is not good enough for Nigeria."

There are sooooo many opportunities in this country!.

Believe me. And a positive outlook can help you and me spot and take advantage of some of them.

Before i forget here is a youth that made N216 million from a company he created just 10 months ago.

https://radar.techcabal.com/t/ecommerce-in-nigeria-my-experience-so-far-with-pod-should-i-quit/11435


Cheers

redsun:
But we have to admit that we are not doing something sincerely tangible move forward at the moment.Still don't have a game plan and just riding on the wings of faith.

We have no reason to be the civilization that hasn't evolved yet in the 21st century.

True, very true. But like i said its very normal. Rome, Egypt,Sumeria,Persia,America,Indus Valley e.t.c all those civilizations didn't have a game plan too. Oops they only do in Hollywood movies

romme2u:
Even though i love and enjoy what you doing on this thread, it is a hard job defending this entity especially if you have ever traveled outside before.

Nigeria is like a jungle, one large village without basic amenities compared to second world country not to talk of first world. We are progressing but it is painfully slow compared to the pace of growth in other part of the world especially in areas of social services and infrastructure.

i cannot blame those guys losing hope because it seems we take two step forward five step backward. When one sector seems to get better, other sector crumbles woefully.

There comes a time in life where all you have is hope and dream.

People don't know it!. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with Nigeria. If you take your time to study both recent and ancient civilizations you will quickly discover that Nigeria is 100% on the path to greatness. All these thing the average Nigerian complains about today is perfectly normal for a budding civilization.

At the end of the day, There is nothing new under the Sun, what was done before would be done again.!

Rosskii:
Why does it ''crack you up'', white boy? It's a very lovely photo of African dancers in traditional garb. I mean, just because YOU have no culture apart from sniffing acid and gobbling down cheeseburgers in a trailer park, it doesn't mean others don't.

Bros,
Do yourself a favor. Ignore him, enjoy and learn from the other knowledgeable things others are posting. I know folks like him. They have achieved nothing for themselves in life. So they hold on to their whiteness because its all they have to be proud of.

Thanks for the thread though. i learnt a lot of cool stuff

LordAdam16:
Shut up and stop derailing the thread.

Greeks conquered Egypt in 332 BC. There is no amount of story that would change that.

Nigeria gained independence in 1960 AD. There is no amount of story that would change that.

So carry you ignorant self away, you've been dismissed.

-Lord

LordAdam16:
Get to the point.

And answer the damn question.

Did Alexander the Great conquer Egypt? Yes or no.

I said the Greeks conquered Egypt, you said it's not true.

Oya is Alexander a black man too? Abi is he not Greek.

Now you are telling me to learn programming. Is that the answer to the simple question I asked you?

-Lord

Sorry,
Thats the point!!. "I can't just get to the point"..Again thats what ignorant people do!. What part of that are you finding hard to comprehend.

Am really sorry am derailing the thread. You are trying to drag me into your ignorant abyss.

Yes sir,
Thats the answer to your simple question. If you learn't how to write just 10 lines of code. you will appreciate the importance of structure.
and why you can't just skip to the point. Nothing complex works like that. Your mind sir is too simple.

LordAdam16:
Oga shut up and get to the point. Did Alexander the Great conquer Egypt in 332 and was proclaimed Pharaoh of Egypt? Yes or No. Don't start typing long nonsense.

-Lord

You see,
Your problem is your IQ might be very low. That "Long nonsense" is called historically fact. Am not like you. Am a critical thinker. I've been programming since i was just 8 years old.

So i can't "just get to the point". Thats was dimwits do. they skip all the facts and just jump to the part that suits them.

Honestly,
Forget about this thread. You really need to work on the way you think. You need to pick up a skill like programming.
It would at the very least help you think in a more structured manner.

LordAdam16:
Sure. Pyramids just like those of the Egyptians.



It is these Kushite kingdoms with heavy influence from Egyptians often overran by the Egyptians that built the Nubian Pyramids.

Ancient Egyptians had already developed and extensively used pyramid technology before Nubia used it.

So when I say Nubia was primitive I know what I'm talking about. They were increasingly dominated by Egyptians throughout antiquity until 751 BC. And so can never rival the Ancient Egyptian Empire.

-Lord

Nubia was "Primitive"?!!!!.

Nubia ruled Egypt for 75 years Straight. The same way The United kingdom colonised/ruled Nigeria.


So now i think i made a mistake by joining this thread.

You are not serious, you are just trolling. I have apps to code.

Thanks for the entertainment.

Bye

LordAdam16:
I will not explain in detail when you can do a Google search.

Greeks sacked the Egyptians.

Then Romans sacked the Greeks in Egypt and also sacked Carthage in Tunisia.

Then Arabs sacked the Romans.

Then Moors with Arabic imprint sacked Spain and Portugal.

Do a Google search and prove me wrong.

-Lord

Yay!!,
you finally replied. oh wait a minute...."Do a Google search and prove me wrong". Oh!!, so you have been pulling all your facts from random websites on Google?. No wonder. . And here was i thinking you were actually the ignorant one. My bad.

Ok,
Lets get started.

First of all,
The Greeks did not sack the Egyptians. Egypt fell by herself. Thats what all great civilizations do."They RISE and Fall".

So lets start with Egypt:

The History of Ancient Egypt is divided into three period namely:

1 The Old Kingdom (about 2,700-2,200 B.C.E.)

2. The Middle Kingdom (2,050-1,800 B.C.E.)

3. New Kingdom (about 1,550-1,100 B.C.E.).

Also, Egypt had a bonus kingdom after the "New kingdom usually referred to as the " Late New Kingdom" it lasted about 343 B.C.E.

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The first period known as the old kingdom was dominated by dark skinned Africans the most notable of which was a king called Khufu.( i attached is photo below. He was also known to have built the largest Pyramid in Ancient Egypt (I also attached a photo of the Pyramid).

Also its important to note that there is no debate about Khufu's skin hue. He was a "Black pharaoh".

.............................................obviously i can't write the whole history of Egypt in one post. So am going to break it into bits.

See you on the next one.

Rosskii:
How can anyone debate this madman?

Please don't call him "Mad" he his just "ignorant" there is a huge difference .

I already quoted him severally and asked him to supply dates to all the "Proofs" he has been posting. Suprisingly he has been ignoring me. .


He just came on the thread and started spitting incoherent lies. Pulling events from random times in history and stringing them together.
You don't have to waste your time on people like that.

LordAdam16:
They said so. What exactly does black supremacy mean? Can you hear yourself. It means blacks are superior to other races. It has no other meaning. You should read intently because you pick sides.

And all I've been saying is that blacks are not superior.

And as I have said repeatedly here, I go against any form of supremacy belief, whether it is White Supremacy or Black Supremacy. And point out that White Supremacy is a relatively new phenomenon.

White supremacists in the 18th, 19th, and 20th century said nothing can be credit to Blacks. That is changing by the day. We're still a long way away from the exotic lifestyles of pre-17th century Europe or ancient civilizations, but White Supremacists are pretty much in the shadows. KKK is a criminal organization.

If these images are shown as simply evidence of black rule in Spain and Portugal as well as blacks living as free men in Europe prior to the 17th century; you'll learn. They don't have to lie that blacks ruled the entire Europe or that blacks brought civilization to Europe. Those are lies.

And they're lying because they are trying to pass on a Black Supremacy Agenda like the Aryan Agenda of Hitler.

Several people on this thread have seen my point. Read back and you'll see posts openly canvassing for Black or African Supremacy.

If you notice, I've never discredited any of the paintings or sculptures they've posted, because those are facts. What I am discrediting is the narrative.

I can bring a bread to you and say it is a tasty bread. That's fact. You wouldn't disagree. It's different from me bringing the same bread and saying it is the tastiest bread in the whole of Nigeria. Note the change in narrative. It has nothing to do with the bread, but everything to do with the person describing the bread.

-Lord

Yes sir,

you don't start any conversation with "Your head dey pain you". Its very barbaric and uncultured. Kindly take note for next time.

Yes you are right!, very right they are all "scampering for safety". Like i said earlier most Nigerian don't know History. Not our fault though.You can easily blame that on the government or Waec.

No Sir,
Lets no start with the Moors. Lets start from earlier Civilizations. Indus valley civilization --> Sumeria --> Egypt e.t.c Lets be intellectually orderly about this. Am an android programmer by profession so obviously i loathe disorderliness.

Also,
for the sake of orderliness kindly attach historical dates.For instance i can't understand anything you wrote here

"showed that the Greeks, Romans, and Arabs conquered the dominant North African kingdoms hundreds of years before the Moors marched on Spain and Portugal"

The facts are skewed and the historical timeline again is not coherent. Kindly spare my ignorance and explain in "detail" again.

Thanks

Also, please stop avoiding me! its killing me . Answer my question..............am so waiting for you.

Nowenuse:
Europeans personalized christianity as their religion and heritage and with Christianity and a new christian identity, they conquered many parts of the world. Now, tell me, did Christianity originate on European soil? Is it not a religion that originated from the middle-east?

Why are Europeans not blamed or castigated for adopting and promoting an identity from a religion which originated in the middle east but when it comes to black africans like the moorish for example, you castigate the Africans for fluorishing with a religion from the middle east?

Peter, John, Stephen , Elizabeth, Mary and all these christian name adopted and propagated by the Europeans, are they names with European origin? Hell no they aren't.

Like i said earlier, the boy is very confused and ignorant. Am just chilling for him.

LordAdam16:
Your head dey pain you.

If you can't point out the incoherent facts, better remain in your cocoon.

Can't you see all them scampering for safety now that their lies have been exposed. Or is Spain and Portugal the only countries in Europe.

They said Black Africans brought development to Europe. Then I showed that Europeans already conquered the so-called Moors before the Moors were again conquered by the Arabs before the Moors marched on Spain and Portugal with the help of Arabs.

So how can you bring development to people who conquered you first?.



Even TheStrongHold could not lie anymore and showed that the Greeks, Romans, and Arabs conquered the dominant North African kingdoms hundreds of years before the Moors marched on Spain and Portugal.

If you are daft, don't try to pass it off as intelligence. History is available for everyone to read.


-Lord

Yes sir,

you don't start any conversation with "Your head dey pain you". Its very barbaric and uncultured. Kindly take note for next time.

Yes you are right!, very right they are all "scampering for safety". Like i said earlier most Nigerian don't know History. Not our fault though.You can easily blame that on the government or Waec.

No Sir,
Lets no start with the Moors. Lets start from earlier Civilizations. Indus valley civilization --> Sumeria --> Egypt e.t.c Lets be intellectually orderly about this. Am an android programmer by profession so obviously i loathe disorderliness.

Also,
for the sake of orderliness kindly attach historical dates.For instance i can't understand anything you wrote here

"showed that the Greeks, Romans, and Arabs conquered the dominant North African kingdoms hundreds of years before the Moors marched on Spain and Portugal"

The facts are skewed and the historical timeline again is not coherent. Kindly spare my ignorance and explain in "detail" again.

Thanks

slurryeye:
I never said the Khoisan are white people, all I said was there were indigenous African people like the Khoisans that have lighter skin complexion
The argument started when you said ancient Egyptian are mixed race and not real Africans because of their skin tone, then I showed you indigenous Africans with light skin tone. Nobody is telling you they want something close to white

The guy is confused.

LordAdam16:
And what did White supremacy achieve in the end? A world where we are all trying to get back to the liberal non-racial societies of pre-17th century human civilization.

Did Europe not still fight two far deadlier world wars at the height of White Supremacy?

Racism is a scourge. Black racism is exactly the same as White racism.

-Lord

Yes sir, stop trying to sound utopian!, stop trying to derail the thread.Maintain your stance, maintain the initial high level ignorance you started the thread with.

There is nothing worst than a man that is double minded. All that inconsistent trash you were spilling at the genesis of this thread. Kindly maintain it.

Most of the folks on this thread have no knowledge of history. So you banked on that and started mumbling up incoherent facts.

Like i said stick to your "own version of history".

Thanks

JeffreyJamez:
If you want it badly,you can always order from eBay and Amazon

Time!, am an Android programmer i need the laptop for Android Studio and co. Can't wait for 9 -12 days to get it shipped to Nigeria. It would be better if i found a seller in Nigeria

JeffreyJamez:
Use Jumia or konga ,or get someone trusted to buy it and send it to you...Besides hope you know a laptop with that spec is not 5naira

You bet i must have tried those options.No i dont know i was thinking a laptop wit those specs would sell for N5.

JeffreyJamez:
Oga go to the market na haba

I would have loved that myself. But am not in Lagos

Hello,
please i need a brand new Asus K501UX Laptop urgently!!.

The laptop has the following specs:

Nvidia GTX 950M, 16GB RAM, 4K Display, 256GB SSD, 6th Generation Intel Core i7-6500u 2.5GHz(3.1Ghz), 15.6" 16:9 UHD (3820 x 2160) matte Display, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 950M with 2GB DDR3 VRAM, Card Reader, Webcam, Integrated 802.11 ac, Built-in Bluetooth™ V4.0, 1 x COMBO audio jack, 2 x USB 3.0 port(s), 2 x USB 2.0 port(s), 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert, 1 x HDMI, 1 x SD card reader, windows 10

IF anyone can help me get the Laptop please let me know

THANKS!!

Hello all, am in current need of a car to commute between home and work. My current budget is N650k but i can increase it to N700k if the car is in excellent condition.

If you have any fairly used cars you wont mind selling, kindly post pictures below

Thanks a bunch

N600k? if you are willing to sell for N600k lets talk

N550k?

Hello Nairalanders,
Please checkout our new app company website (Mekunu): http://mekunu.com

This is our tagline:
At Mekunu, we can help your business grow by simply making custom android & iPhone apps for it


We would love to know what you think about the site and how we can improve it.

Here is a screenshot of the site taken from my windows 10 build 10074 computer

Also, If you want to make Android and iPhone apps for your company please don't hesitate to send an email to
mekunuafrica@gmail.com

Thanks

CashdownNG:
This attitude of yours isn't progressive that's all.. as for me, I work on building solutions with companies via tech so you can see where my advice comes from.

just be humble enough to take crtisism on the chin.

later mate.

If the crtisism is sensible i'll be very stupid not to take it. Like i said earlier the ones here are simply dumb.

CashdownNG:
op... learn and grow.. likes no dey improve person.. learn.

Dude i was not born with this knowledge. Obviously i learnt it. Can i see the apps you've made?.

JackOfAllTrades:
@ op you need to take what ballantyne said into consideration , I just downloaded your app and I think you show look into these issues:

Your main activity (the home page) the root layout should be inside the scrollView because on a 480x320 when the device is horizontal the little scroll is cut off even the banner

Your status bar says click here to show progress, when downloading music but couldn't fond any progress, you status remains

Your webview activity when it is recreated due to orientation change the page loads all over again(quick fix add this setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) to webView activity oncreate method

That is because its in a Fragment. You should code some more. Besides nobody uses 480x320 screens anymore. If you are still using such screens kindly throw away the phone. I do recognise that the app is far from perfect and just like every other app it need to improve. But the quality of suggestions here have been inspired by undilluted ignorance.

Besides,
If you had any expericence developing Android apps you would know that it impossible to use a Scrollview and a Listview in the same Layout.
(Try it if you don't believe me). Its as dumb as trying to fit your two legs into one shoe.

Again.
Thanks for the suggestions

ballantyne:
Nice effort but you really should read up on Material design rules and guidelines.
Your color palette broke some of those rules like your primary status bar color and the action bar color (or did you use a toolbar?), I don't think you used the right color variation. The tint on your status bar is too much. more than the one prescribed by the material design guidelines. it made the feel of the app a little bit off.

when I launch your app, I am shown an activity with a banner that takes up a quarter of the screen. This does draw the attention of the user to the artist shown there but why is it not scrollable?.
it has to be scrollable because The image forces users to use only a small percentage of their screen. This makes for bad user experience. Also, once a user starts scrolling, the user no longer has any interest in the image displayed, so, it makes sense to hide the image whenever the user starts scrolling. maybe gradually with an animation.

You should consider moving your app label, icon to the actionbar at the top of the screen, it makes sense there, I don't see any problem that it solves at the center of the activity.

your menu being at the center of the page is good for making users access app content easily but do you really want the first thing a user sees when he launches your app be a menu? The best thing to show here will be the juicy stuff. Top Music, new music, any category that will draw your user in. You should use the navigation drawer provided by android for displaying menus. Implementing this will also eliminate the need for your user going back to the homescreen every time he wants to move to another section of your app. This will help big screen device users.

icons, text sizes. those should get adjusted as well.

Material design guidelines: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html#
Material design inspirations: http://www.materialup.com/

Good Luck.

Thanks.
Clearly you do not have much experience in building apps. Am guessing you are one of these designers that have never written a line of code. And if you have, certainly you have not made anything serious.


90% of the suggestions you made are pure crap. They do make Ui sense but they are seriously lacking any user experince(UX) wisdom or coding sense.

I would have loved to counter all your suggestions one by one. But am afraid time won't permit. My only advice to you is to engage in making more apps. Clearly you have not being doing that.

Thanks anyways for the feedback.

JackOfAllTrades:
Your interface is cool, did you use the support library for backward compatibility for api 7?

Yes i did. its called "appcompat" v7.23