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Hmm. There are more differences than that, lol. Also, what has Japan invented lately. . .? Genuinely curious and asking out of ignorance, not a leading question.

So having skimmed through this thread, in summary none of this actually happened?

^-- Honestly, I don't know where most of this naija economic data is. There is some stuff on the CBN website. But there isn't a central repository. There are some private research companies you can pay for data though.

Guys, please don't derail this thread.

Anyway it doesn't matter how one calculates it, is it a pretty easy calc.

"The Art of Computer Programming" and "Introduction to Algorithms" are supposed to both be good books.

But the one I suggested is far more basic and introductory. It focuses more on describing the algorithms and the reasoning behind them and less on actual algorithm analysis. So for you to start with AOCP and CLRS and really get value from it, your math skills should be good and ideally you already have had some experience with algorithms (so in other words, you've already used and mastered the material in a book like the one I mentioned.)

I guess it depends on what your goals are. For me, I wanted to really master the basics (I.e., on the level of, "I want to do fast sorting with a constraint on memory. Which sorting algorithm should i use?", and really understand at an intuitive level what each algorithm is doing. Like, to the point where all these techniques are not just buzzwords or names, but i really understand what is going on.

Now in my opinion, this is the type of knowledge you'd get out of the book I mentioned.

Another thing too. . . the book i mentioned is superb for self-study. From what I know of CLRS, it is not a particularly good book for this purpose. Good if you are using it in conjunction with lecture note materials that an instructor is providing and great as a reference once you already know the material, but not a good choice for teaching the material to yourself.
It depends on what you are trying to achieve, I guess. But I don't think you can go wrong starting with an easy book, fully mastering it and then finding a harder one later.

So actually quite a cheaper to go to Osun via train. Hrm, but isn't the commute too long? Though I guess the savings (from N2500 to N500) are substantial enough for people not to mind the additional time.

Mind boggling to me that 20% of China's GDP can come from its FTZs.

Will be good to see this Lekki FTZ take off.

November 10, 2011


Nigeria and China are set to form stronger ties as both countries, on Wednesday, agreed to explore making Nigeria a major manufacturing zone for China's key industrial enterprises, according to reports from the Vanguard.

Mr. Weng Jieming, the director of Chongqing Liangjing New Area, a multifaceted manufacturing industry, said apart from encouraging Chongqing to export their goods to Nigeria, the government also has plans to “support the companies, especially in the motorcycle and automobiles industry, to make direct investments in Nigeria for local production."

Chongqing has five key industries, including automobiles and motorcycles, petroleum and natural gas, equipment manufacture, new materials and high-tech industry, which have key investments in many countries in the world, according to the Vanguard.

Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, paid a visit to Chongqing, one of the major industrial cities in Southwest China and the site of China’s major Free Trade Zones, which contributes about 20 per cent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product.

In a meeting with his counterpart at the Ministry of Commerce, China, Mr. Fu Ziying, Aganga encouraged the collaboration between the two countries, saying it will correct the trading imbalance and create more job opportunities for Nigerians.

Aganga said that Nigeria provided both raw materials and a ready consumer base for Chinese goods, adding that the move was in line with President Jonathan's economic transformation plans for the country.

“It makes economic sense for Chinese companies to come and manufacture in Nigeria because Nigeria is strategic, it has the market and raw materials. We would also focus on backward integration so that other industries can spring up and the value chain strengthened,” Aganga told Jieming on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Federal Government and the Chinese government have agreed to ensure that the Lekki Free Trade Zone commences full operation in 18 months, the Vanguard reported.

Mr. Zhao Guangfa, the president of China Railway Construction Corporation Limited, during a meeting with Aganga on Tuesday night, also asked that the FG remove hindrances to the progress of the Lekki Free Trade Zone project, adding that other countries had successfully completed similar projects.

A committee, made up of representatives of the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment, the Lagos State Ministry of Commerce and CRCC, has been asked to review the underlying project in order to see it completed between 12 and 18 months.

“The LFTZ is a project that will attract significant Foreign Direct Investment into Nigeria and plug the unemployment gap considerably,” Guangfa said.

http://www.channelstv.com/global/news_details.php?nid=30101&cat=Business

[quote author=Jenifa_ link=topic=799934.msg9527424#msg9527424 date=1320979906]you're calling for drama[/quote]Drama = money

Hehe

Alas, I lack the time at the moment to execute this idea.

No problem.

Yeah, I felt those too. Still not used to this stuff, lol. Natives treat it as no big deal, but I was to be honest a bit scared.

2020 is less than 9 years away. I don't think that this is possible.

Nigeria Targets $900b Gdp By 2020, Says Minister

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Shamsudden Usman
• Country better than BRIC-Dangote
NIGERIA intends to achieve a Gross Domestic Product of $900 billion by 2020, the minister/deputy chairman, National Planning Commission (NPC), Shamsudden Usman said yesterday.
This projection came hours before the president of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote said Nigeria was a much better than the BRIC countries in terms of doing business.
The BRIC countries are Brazil, India, China and South Africa.
Speaking at the 17th Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) in Abuja, Usman said foreigners are more optimistic and concerned about the positive projection and plans of Nigeria’s Vision 20:2020.
Earlier, Usman said that the Vision 20:2020 target is to attain a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of not less than 900 billion and per capital income of not less than $4,000 by 2020. “It is not Shamsudeen’s vision; it is not even President Goodluck Jonathan’s vision. It is a Nigerian vision crafted by over 5, 000 of most articulate and influential Nigerians.
“We are almost working from the answer to the question. We have already claimed three steps almost without doing anything. When we started in 1999 we were in number 44. Now we are in number 41 so we are making progress because while we are growing rapidly other countries are not growing as fast as.”
At a dialogue with President Goodluck Jonathan alongside Chief Executive Officers of companies at the Summit, Dangote insisted that the international communities believe that Nigeria is “the safest country to do business without fear despite the security challenges.”
He said there must be that political will to develop the economy, adding: “The perception has not really been fair to Nigeria because the benefits of investing in the country is there. This is because sometimes people are just a bit too lazy to go out and find out the real situation of the issue.
“Are you saying that Brazil is safer than Nigeria? Definitely no. Sometimes I drive myself around in Lagos. We are all global investors and we know that somebody who just shares my name cannot drive in a car in Brazil. He has to do that in an helicopter. I mean with due respect I am just comparing. Even Iraq, which has not been stable for some years now just had an investment forum in London, it was over booked. We are even lucky. We were eight in number that went but they could only accommodate four of us.
“People forget that whoever captures Nigerian market actually capturers the entire ECOWAS region’s market. It means you are producing for over 300  millions of people. I keep on telling people that if I have $20 billion I will invest everything in Nigeria because there are so many sectors one can invest in.”

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/business/25951-nigeria-targets-900b-gdp-by-2020-says-minister.html

Man you are killing me with these GIFs

Pifa, if you don't mind me asking, what is your background? At first I thought civil engineer, but you seem to know a lot about what I thought is more materials science.

Feel free to ignore this question if it is too prying, by the way

Your posts are interesting, so I was just curious.

I'm starting to think a version of NL with real-time online chat would be a smashing success.

Hrm

For me, it isn't purely about religion. It is about culture. As someone already mentioned, most other West Africa Muslims are pretty easy to get along with. Senegalese, Liberian Muslims are fine and dandy, for the most part. And outside of Africa, Turks, Lebanese and Iranians tend to be decent folk.

So it isn't even the religion that I have a problem with, just the way that certain groups (Northern Nigerians, Somalis, Afghans, Saudis, Pakistanis, and other such backwards people) chose to practice it.

you cannot build a functional country if you share territory with people with their worldview.

fergie321:
You can see the difference between light and darkness. Indians full of prosperity and wealth creation, Pakistan full of Terrorist and backwardness. That will happen to you when Christians up north are asked to come down to the south so the country can be broken up

The interesting thing about this is that supposedly there was a time when Pakistan was wealthier (per capita) and better off than India. I remember reading this on the WSJ with surprise.

Yet now Pakistan has a dismal future, while India's prospects are relatively good.

Lmao

Some NL girls look even better in RL. I guess it depends on who you run into.

These guys have more in common with Afghanistan and Somalia than someone like me.

I really think that Nigeria should be split apart. We just don't all see the world in the same way. This thing is not going to work out.

hmm

igbo2011:
Don't the Nigerians returning home come back to family and old friends?

Family and friends you've not really lived around say for 15 years? It can be difficult, I would imagine.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=800499.msg9527040#msg9527040 date=1320970307]Sincerely, as much as I dislike GEJ, OBJ is the worst to me.

If you have another opinion, your problem.

My God will never forgive what he did to Ekiti and the SW.[/quote]OBJ was a great president for Nigeria, the best Nigeria has had so far. But he was very bad for Yorubaland, in my opinion. If his anointed governors in the SW had performed, I'd have absolutely minimal beef with him, to be quite honest.

This article makes a good point, about how it can be difficult for those who go abroad intending to stay only a short period of time to return.

Both for financial/career reasons (can be challenging to leave a great job abroad and return to Nigeria), and for social ones (the loneliness she alluded to.)

Lol I dunno about your first sentence. Latter is true though. There is opportunity everywhere in the world if you are willing to work at it.

It depends on what you value, right? If for you material things (money, cars, etc) are what matter, then definitely this statement cannot hold true.

For me it is mostly spending time with people I love and care about. Well, that and watching sports But both of these things are cheap (not quite free, but very affordable.)

All about your priorities and what makes you happy.

The lack of a certain type of comment on this thread cracks me up

The founding fathers didn't have one dream/vision, did they? So I'm not sure that this question is well posed.

interesting

In 1985, I came to the US to study architecture with plans to leave and return to Nigeria. I am still here. Since 2001, I have periodically reconsidered why I am still here and the last three years even more so. Between terrorism and the financial crisis, most Africans, even from war-ridden countries are reconsidering. One friend, a Guinea trader, Bashiru keeps talking my ear off on how bad things are in the US as he travels to sell his merchandise in the south, west and eastern portions of the country. Last week, he updated me on how things were in Washington D.C. and proclaimed: "it is time to leave, no money is here".

African immigration to America after the the trans-Atlantic slave trade was about 35,355 in 1960 and has gone to almost 1.5 million in 2009. The top countries of origin for African immigrants are Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya; and one-third of all African immigrants reside in New York, California, Texas, and Maryland. These statistics are in sharp contrast to the mood and tone of some Africans in the U.S.

Are African leaving the U.S.? Yes, some are but not that many. How do I know this? I can look at the numbers from Nigeria. According to the Millennium Information Source, Nigerians in the diaspora are responsible for the largest remittance inflows into sub-Saharan Africa -- close to $10 billion in 2008. This amount is up from $1.5 billion in 1998, according to the World Bank. Nigeria's share of all remittances rose from 1.3 percent in 1998 to 2.4 percent in 2008. This tells me if Nigerians are still here sending money home and the amounts have increased, then they are not leaving to return home.

In 1980, 37% of all Africans coming to the U.S. were Nigeria and by 2009, this number dropped to 19%. Yet, the overall African population has not dropped, it is still rising. In 2010, Nigeria lost its lead to Ethopia, and there are now the leader in legal immigrants. In a new report by the Migration Policy Organization despite the 2008 economic downturn, African migration has not subsided noticeably.

The recent BBC article entitled African migrants abandon the American dream is telling some truths on why some Africans are leaving the US. An article in Time Magazine is probably more inline with hat is happening to Africans - The Repatriate Generation signals the groups of Africans returning home -- African Executives. The reasons are obvious -- the economic downturn in the US and the economic opportunity in Africa is making them return home.

In the last five years, a range of my friends, who ran companies and were in the executive positions have been leaving. A good number of them have returned to Nigeria to earn exactly what they did here and almost twice as much in Nigeria. Earlier this year, I sat with a group of them to talk about what they were experiencing. The words and expressions: This is my country, I am not working as hard as the U.S., and Life is good here kept coming up.

Africans are leaving the U.S., not in waves, but strategically to return to create their own opportunities in Africa. Africa is not easy and it is not every African who returns home that finds things work out. Another Nigerian group I sat with in April could list a range of issues: no electricity, safety issues and something even more surprising, loneliness and difference. As one Nigerian said, "I am American and Nigerian because I spent 15 years away from home, I am not Nigerian as I used to be, it's a lonely path, so I try to find others who have lived overseas like I have. We understand each other better."

Africans are homeward bound because the west has changed. The grind to work too hard and ridiculous hours has made Africans rethink staying stateside. The need for more opportunity is also key to the shift. There can be more opportunity and a better quality of life for the educated Africans in Africa. Returning home is a choice, as is living in the US. Each has its issues.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/atim-oton/african-migration_b_1067426.html?ref=world&ir=World

Desola has made some damn fine contributions, especially on Ogun State. I think some of ya'll are a bit too obsessed with posts you find tribal or whatever. Just ignore the posts you don't like and keep it moving.

Edo.girl is a poster I am kind of a fan of.

There was also this Missy85 chick who seems to have disappeared.

Anyway, just a few of the less common names that have made interesting posts.

alj harem:
that is a small issue, Once arewa seperate, education can easly be subsidised

then Importation of workers from other countires can be done as well. No problem

Why is it not being subsidized now? Easier to do that before the split than after. Gov't budgets would be tighter after a split.