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Obama is probably gonna lose his reelection bid

FG is pretty damn useless

Hand over the roads to the states, let them erect tolls to raise money to fix them

barnabasj:
Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the State Security Services, SSS said this morning that it has arrested an Igbo Boko Haram member in Suleja, a suburb of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

The 31-year old indigene of Imo State, according to the SSS, converted to Islam in 2003.

Hmm

I was joking earlier when I said Igbo Haram. Maybe I shouldn't have. . . .

What must I do to get my own government-backed monopoly?

Perhaps we should hand over PHCN to me so I can become Dangote 2.0.

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/07/2015
SUBJECT: ALIKO DANGOTE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HIM

Classified By: Consul General Brian Browne for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

¶1. (C) Summary. Alhaji Aliko Dangote (Dangote) is Nigeria's
most well known businessperson and may be its wealthiest
citizen. He has taken on the aura of an economic folk hero
for some, villain for others. To supporters, he symbolizes
that Nigeria can do more than barter and trade. It can
succeed in manufacturing. To detractors, he is a predator
using connections in a corrupt political economy to tilt the
playing field in his favor and sideline potential competition.
The truth resides somewhere between these caricatures.
Dangote is counted among President Obasanjo's inner circle of
business advisors. It is no coincidence that many products
on
Nigeria's import ban lists are items in which Dangote has
major interests.

¶2. (C) Summary Cont'd: Although an undiluted success in terms
of wealth accumulation, Dangote personifies the duality in
Nigeria's economy. This duality presents a dilemma for US
economic policy. On one hand, Dangote imports significant
amounts of US produce and equipment for his manufacturing
ventures. On the other, he has had success blocking trade
and investment that might compete with his enterprises.
Weighing everything in the balance, we believe the Dangote
model is harmful to Nigerian and American interests in the
long run. Unfortunately, the Dangote model will likely be
the one most emulated until its beggar-thy-countrymen
contradictions become more apparent. End summary.


See the rest here: http://thestreetjournal.org/2011/09/wikileaks-cable-obasanjo%E2%80%99s-unfair-advantage-to-dangote-harmed-nigerian-american-markets/

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=752044.msg9087914#msg9087914 date=1315274454][/quote]Better to suffer in Libya than to return to naija, I guess?

Smh.

Also, I'm not looking for a "code" answer so much (it isn't hard to too hard to code once you figure out the idea behind it), so much as an explanation of how to do it.

This problem is kind of visual. . . you can draw a picture that illustrates how to solve it. Or explain in words, etc, etc.

Can you remove the code and answer? Or provide the link only? This is one of those things it is better to think about for a while before just looking at the answer.

lmao @ Jakumo

Guardian:
What are you all so optimistic about ? 80% of interconnecting roads in South -South are bad and definitely would take more than 5 years to fix.

Rail is the future.

@Topic: I hope the governors in the SW are not sleeping at the wheel in this. They had better put together a plan as well.

You can assume that n is a power of 2, just to keep things simple.

You can google the answer, but try not to; think about it first.

An evil king has n bottles of wine, and a spy has just poisoned one of them. Unfortunately, they don't know which one it is. The poison is very deadly; just one drop diluted even a billion to one will still kill. Even so, it takes a full month for the poison to take effect. Design a scheme for determining exactly which one of the wine bottles was poisoned in just one month's time while expending less than C log2(n) taste testers (for some constant C.)


(Mods, this puzzle is a programming/algorithms/math puzzle in disguise, so please don't delete or move to jokes section)

Nice move!

Nothing good can come from an aboki. This is the man that was NSA of Nigeria?

I want this country split apart, post haste. Too much bullsh1t determines who gets political power.

naijaking1:
^^^
Now, you see the wisdom of bringing in the MOSSAD

MOSSAD and the Israelis are great at kicking Islamic fundamentalist @ss. Definitely a good move by GEJ

Well done, Aregbe!

World-class toll highway to Lagos would be a wonderful thing. Ogun should collaborate with Osun to get this done.

[quote author=Omo_Tier1 link=topic=751603.msg9081727#msg9081727 date=1315216135]The idea od SWF itself is a good one but hey! Why think of eating a good omolette when your egg smells? [/quote]Hehe

I hope you don't mind if I borrow bolded?

interesting

^-- It is the FG where 70%+ of the budget goes to recurrent expenditure. I doubt that even the most mis-managed state in Nigeria is at a # like that (correct me if I am wrong!)

I hope it is not this same FG that you want to entrust with more funds?

Dude could have been killed in a coup by Dambazau and the rest of those northerners.

Why on earth would anyone expect him to be buddy-buddy with them?

I'd have held them off at arm's length too. Cannot work with those you do not trust.

At those who doubt Lagos's potential independent of Nigeria. . . honestly, it means that some of ya'll are overrating the hell out of Nigeria.

This isn't a country like the US which is more than the sum of its parts.

As I said earlier, electricity >>>> Nigeria.

Nigeria isn't really needed for Lagos's purposes. . . electricity is more important. The world is a big-@ss place, far bigger than Nigeria. And when you live by the sea, it isn't by force to interact with the interior.

[quote author=phuck_NL link=topic=751182.msg9080050#msg9080050 date=1315188717]hmm at 4.35 per mmbtu. i dont think so. maybe in 500 years[/quote]Hehe

I just chuckled when I read that post. You won't get rich off of NG, let's put it that way. Great for electricity, fertilizer, etc. But by no means super-lucrative like petroleum.

If OBJ was more corrupt than Abacha, then how come the country prospered under his rule (especially the non-oil sector, so you cannot just point to high oil prices or something) and floundered for the 20 years prior to that?

I'm not necessarily trying to defend OBJ here, just genuinely curious.

[quote author=South-East link=topic=751776.msg9078502#msg9078502 date=1315167846]Who eats Ofada rice except poor Yorubas? Ofada rice is nothing but stone-filled, badly processed, cheap rice. Even Abakaliki rice is far better. 90% of the rice consumed in Nigeria are imported.[/quote]Ofada is pretty delicious, imo. I enjoyed eating it this past Christmas break.

It doesn't have to have stones, just pay a bit more money.

Doesn't matter. Isn't like she is 20 years older than you, just a month.

^-- Two different guys. Both first black presidents at their respective universities.

Very interesting

I don't see the point of naming something after someone and then letting it fall apart/deteriorate. Better not to name it after Awo at all.

By Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji
August 30, 2011 12:05AM

The Ogun State government yesterday frowned at the current state of the Obafemi Awolowo College Of Health Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University [OOU], Sagamu, describing the state of deterioration in the college as “unimaginable”.

The executive secretary of the Bureau of Tertiary Institutions in the state, Kayode Oyesiku, made this declaration while speaking with journalists when he accompanied the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Segun Odubela to the college on a familiarisation visit.

“The visit of the Commissioner to the College of Medicine is a landmark, because its coming at a time when the college needs the attention of the state government,” said Mr Oyesiku. “The extent of deterioration is unimaginable and one begins to see the quality of medical students that are likely to be produced.”

He, however, expressed hope of the college gaining back its lost glory given the assurances of the state government’s direct intervention in the area of assisting the college in upgrading of its facilities.

However, in his remaks Mr Odubela, said the state government, as a matter of priority, would look into how it would assist the college, adding that his visit to the college was borne out of the government’s desire to asses the situations of things in the state-owned tertiary institutions and immediately find solutions to their problems.

Welcoming the Commissioner and his team, the Vice Chancellor, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Wale Are Olaitan, described the state of the college of medicine as an “emergency” which needed to be addressed, pointing out that the college, before now, ranked amongst the best medical schools in the country.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5740307-146/story.csp