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[quote author=Mr, Cork link=topic=775241.msg9287380#msg9287380 date=1317907533]are they goin to monitor phones with juju? [/quote]lmao

on OCTOBER 6, 2011 · in NEWS

By VICTORIA OJEME
ABUJA—The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Wednesday announced a reward of $500,000 for states that can eradicate polio in Nigeria in 2012.

A statement released by the Foundation said the award was announced during a meeting last week between Bill and Melinda Gates and the Governors’ Forum, represented by Rivers State governor, Mr Rotimi Amaechi.

According to the statement by the Foundation’s Senior Communication Officer (External Communication), Michal Fishman, the initiative, titled “ Governors immunization leadership challenge”, initiated together with Nigeria Governors’ Forum, will recognize governors whose states passed a pre-defined threshold to improve routine immunization coverage and end polio.

The states that meet the threshold criteria will be awarded a $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support their top health priorities.

He said: “ Nigeria ‘s leaders are critical to making Nigeria polio free and their renewed confirmation last week of the Abuja Commitments will make an important difference. “As Nigeria ’s partner, the Gates Foundation is committed to doing what we can support their efforts to end this terrible, but preventable, disease.

“The award will support winning governors’ priority initiatives in public health, such as malaria and tuberculosis, improving immunization, HIV prevention and treatment, or safe drinking water and hygiene promotion.

“In addition to the grant, those governors who achieve the goals will receive special recognition from Mr. Gates for their contribution to the elimination of polio. Winning governors will be highlighted in foundation communications, such as Mr. Gates’ annual letter or the foundation’s annual report, social media materials and Mr. Gates’ public engagements globally.

“As governors push hard over the next year to achieve the 2012 deadline to end polio, I want to ensure their efforts are acknowledged and that the governors are simultaneously supported to tackle other key health problems they face in their states.

“If Governors choose, they also may contribute $250,000 to their chosen health project and the foundation will match that contribution, meaning a potential total $1 million towards improving health in their state.

“The Nigeria Governors’ Forum will provide the secretariat for the challenge program, and will actively engage the governors throughout the 12-month period to encourage them to stay on track in the fight against polio and achieve the qualifying threshold for the award

“The Immunization Leadership Challenge will be open to all 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory . Any interested governor will need to officially enter his state in the award program through the Nigeria Governors’ Forum by October 31, 2011.

“ To receive the grant, the state will need to pass a rigorous set of criteria based on outcomes in their polio program and routine immunization services.

“Data to assess performance will be collected and managed by a Monitoring and Evaluation team led by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and supported by polio eradication partners.

“A panel of independent national and international public health experts selected by the foundation will assess the data and declare the winners at the end of 12 months.

The statement further affirmed the commitment of the Governors’ Forum to eradicate polio in Nigeria , quoting Governor Ameachi as having assured the Foundation that Nigeria ’s governors wanted to stop polio and improve routine immunization to protect Nigeria ’s children against preventable diseases.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/polio-eradication-bill-gates-to-give-states-500000-award/

Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s naira gained the most in two years against the dollar in interbank trading after the central bank stopped foreign-currency purchases by oil-exporting companies at its twice-weekly auctions.

The currency of Africa’s biggest oil producer strengthened by 2.44 percent to 160.15 per dollar at 4 p.m. in Lagos, the biggest intraday appreciation since Oct. 2, 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The central bank yesterday banned companies that export crude oil from the auctions, directing them to use their export proceeds to meet their dollar needs.

“Traders speculate that dollar demand will fall next week due to the new rule,” Babatunde Obaniyi, an analyst at Greenwich Trust Ltd., a Lagos-based investment company, said today by phone.

The central bank has been using foreign-currency reserves to keep the naira within a 3 percentage-point band above or below 150 per dollar at its twice-weekly auctions. It broke that band the second time on Oct. 5, after it failed to meet mounting dollar demand for the 24th straight auction.

Before the new rule was announced yesterday, the naira depreciated by 1.7 percent to 164.15 per dollar, the weakest since at least 1994, when Bloomberg started compiling the data.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-07/nigeria-s-naira-gains-most-in-2-years-on-foreign-currency-rule.html

Comparing India and China
Chasing the dragon
Oct 3rd 2011, 15:26 by The Economist online

How the Asian superpowers compare on various measures of development

IN THE recent Singapore Grand Prix, a car belonging to the Force India team reached the finish line just 111 seconds after the leader. Today’s chart uses a stopwatch to compare India’s progress in development against another pace-setter, China. The chart shows the number of years that have elapsed since China passed the development milestones that India has now reached. India’s income per head, for example, was about $3,200 in 2009 (holding purchasing power constant across time and between countries). China reached that level of development nine years ago. The lag in social progress is much longer. A child’s odds of surviving past their fifth birthday are as bad in India today as they were in China in the 1970s. Moreover, the chart does not necessarily imply that India in nine years’ time will be as rich as China is today. That is because China grew faster in the last nine years than India is likely to grow over the next nine. We stopped the clock at $3200 per head. But China did not stop racing ahead.

https://i53.tinypic.com/a44zkp.gif

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/10/comparing-india-and-china

such a cool company.

ACN is the best

Relax101:
Thats a capital for Christ sake.
Those rooftops need change, they are too rusty for Allah's sake.

When did you become a practitioner of Christlam? I've never heard anyone swear by both Jesus and Allah, lol

Unless the rust constitutes some sort of hazard, I don't see the problem. Maybe they should be repainted or something. But those pictures look fine by to me. It isn't a brand new, fresh city built in the 1990s. It is a town from the 1800s.

[quote author=aloy/emeka link=topic=777264.msg9296905#msg9296905 date=1318033199]If the picture above is that of a male, will you accuse him of being a LovePeddler?. Why must women be subjected to total disrespect whenever issues like this come up?. There are many reasons the man made such move.

Reasons like:
1. She refused to listen to him and married who she wants
2. She refused to attend his church
3. She refused to hate those he hates
4. She refused to sleep with him
5. She refused to give him money
6. She converted to Islam and he hates muslims
etc etc etc

Please learn to treat women with respect because I am sure you wouldn't have called her the town bicycle if she is male.[/quote]I'm not anti-women. I'm just guessing what the most probable reason is.

It could be a bad guess, maybe there are more likely reasons. I don't know. But this is my best guess. Doesn't mean I'm calling her a wh0re.

Haha

I didn't realize you were batsh1t insane dude.

Hard to speak in generalities about all ACN governors, but Fashola is probably amongst the best governors naija has right now. Oshiomhole is supposed to be very good. And I know that my own governor (Fayemi) is way better than his predecessor.

This is 50% of the current ACN governors. So at least 50% of the ACN governors are performing.

How many parties have 50%+ of their governors widely liked and viewed as performers?

PDP does not.

If you think about it, it makes sense.

What is the population of the earth now, 7 billionish?

Yet looks like in 1600, population was under 600 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates).

So tons of us will have common ancestors. Sort of a mathematical inevitability.

Sentient:
Why would anyone want a Nobel Peace Prize?

Because it is crazy prestigious?

I wouldn't turn down any Nobel prize, let's put it that way, lol.

Wow.

lmao

Count on the resident NL stalker, clown and idjit (Fstranger) to do his thang again

Heh.

@isale_gan2 is actually royalty herself, iirc.

She isn't a commoner like you and I.

If these ACN governors can focus on basic infrastructure and the power situation sorts itself out, Yorubaland will be great once again.

If I had believed the words of certain posters here, I'd have thought it a dead or dying city.

Hrmmm

Hmm.

Ibadan:
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m69/topstar_01/Ibadan.jpg
http://nwosusocceracademy.com/jpg/ibadan.jpg
http://nwosusocceracademy.com/jpg/ibadan3.jpg
http://nwosusocceracademy.com/jpg/ibadan4.jpg

What is the origin of a name like "'AKISANYA"? Especially the "'" at the beginning?

Seems like a Portuguese-style (or some other romance language) version of a Yoruba name. Anyone know the story behind it?

If the FG were at 30% recurrent and spent the other 70% building roads, bridges, power plants, etc, I don't think anyone would complain about more taxes. At least then you know you are getting value for your money.

But who wants to pay more taxes if the money will be stolen by some politicians?

GEJ is Robin Hood in reverse. . . steal from the poor, give to the rich.

beejaei:
@ekt_bear


Thanks for the advice. I was really clownish. Like they were all just giggling at me, and I was feeling funky, not knowing I was being mocked.

NP man.

Moreover, even in Java one cannot do pointer arithmetic. Yet is an industrial-strength language. I don't know whether C# has pointers, though.

If you are doing low-level systems programming in C, then I guess you need this feature. But given that the thread title is about Java vs. PHP, most in this thread probably don't care about it.

Lmao

So you still don't get it? Same color of sh1t? And me closer to him rather than one group being closer to another?

Perhaps I overestimated you and your capabilities.

Anyway, let me not derail my own thread.

Back to the topic.

The statement is a commentary on access to the functionality of the libraries of those languages, not on the functionality of the languages.

So no, you cannot do pointer arithmetic in PHP (to my knowledge.) But you can write and control a Swing (Java) or QT (C++) GUI app from PHP.

Or any other libraries that Java has but PHP doesn't have, you can grab and use.

I made a statement about Aregbe's origins and their relationship to a certain part of the neighboring state. You made a comment on it, which exposed your ignorance about the topic.

So how exactly were you commenting on something that you were "sure of?"

You've presented yourself on this forum before as an Ife boy, and someone who grew up there. At least, this is the impression I had.

So if your connection to Osun is not significant, then why did you bother commenting on stuff you didn't know about (Aregbe's origins)?

nejifresh:
I'VE HAD IT with all these fake a$$>!@ php wannabee coders, how dare u compare php with java or the almighty .NET. I've used all three, but when push comes to shove, there's no comparing with the power of .NET. Take that from an experienced hand.

What can do you with Java or .NET that you cannot do with PHP?

I was under the impression that PHP can interact with C/C++/Java libraries. So anything those languages can do, you can do in PHP.

You can probably write GUI apps in PHP even.

arsenefc:
Anyway, since my ideas are unoriginal, I admit you are closer to Argebe than I am since you both have red blood flowing through your veins. 

Hehe. So no name-dropping, I guess? Have you finally chosen to learn more about your neighbors to the east?

If so, good. It is a bit odd for someone who grew up in Osun State to know absolutely nothing about Ijesha people.

You seem to have this issue of focusing on the minor rather than the major. I chose 50% as a #. But if their share is even 5%, does anything change? Would you even abandon a 1% share in a valuable asset you have a claim on?

I would not. You wouldn't. Why should Osun State? What sense does that make? That is the main point of what you quoted, not whether their stake is 50% or 48.557%. Again, focus on the big picture rather than the little picture. You'll go further in life that way.

arsenefc:
Again Oyo was just being nice to Osun when they signed the MOU to jointly own it.

Who told you that? Old Oyo no longer exists. Old Oyo gave birth to two children, Oyo and Osun. Assets were split, but it certainly wasn't "New Oyo" doing anyone a favor.

Oyo has more stake in Lautech than Osun. They put in more money than Osun, and he who pays the piper should dictate and control the tune.

And what evidence do you have of any of this? Kindly show us.

OSun State now has a State University, in adddition to other academic instititutions like Iree Poly, College of education and a vastly underfunded, outdated and inefficient secondary school system. I have no problem  losing  Lautech, and besides Oyo is offering to surrender the COM in Osogbo to Osun State University, since they now have a new COM in Oyo, built by Akala. Again, I reiterate, Aregbe should focus on Osun State University and let Oyo take care of business in Lautech

Right, so I'd favor a split myself. Perhaps with Osun keeping the assets within the state, perhaps with some sort of financial payment from Oyo to Osun to make up the difference in value (if necessary).

But that doesn't mean Osun should just walk away empty-handed, as you seemed to be suggesting earlier.

Na wa o

So Igbos are not even natives of Onitsha?

Interesting