₦airaland Forum

KnowAll:
b]Yeah, I got the Lagos figure wrong, but I knew it was above 100 billion Naira, I just use that figure figuratively, it makes no difference thus, it is still a huge sum[/b].

Eko Ile:
This is really pathetic, I can't believe many people are so mentally challenged and philosophically warped and backward.


God please help Nigeria if this is all we have left as leaders of tomorrow because these lousy thinking people can even lead a dog house with their silly mentality,

KADUNA, Nigeria — The veiled woman at a camp housing thousands of displaced on the dusty outskirts of this northern Nigerian city tries to explain how her husband was killed, but becomes faint and backs away.

"He said whatever happened we should not go out, that we should just be patient," 67-year-old Talle Musa said as she described taking refuge in a neighbour's house when riots broke out last month in her town of Zonkwa.

"We didn't know it was like his farewell to us."

It has been more than a month since deadly riots spread across the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria following the country's presidential election, leaving some 800 people hacked, burnt or shot to death over the course of three days.

Piles of unidentified bodies have been cleared off the floor of a morgue in Kaduna and buried in mass graves, the displaced have been steadily leaving camps, and President Goodluck Jonathan is due to be sworn in on Sunday.

But deep anger and hurt remain in the north, poorer and less educated than the oil-producing south, and Jonathan, a southern Christian, faces a daunting task in healing divisions in Africa's most populous nation.

In some parts of the north's countryside, dams along rivers provide irrigation that feeds burgeoning farms of tomatoes, onion and maize, baobab trees standing tall in the breeze.

But in other areas of this region on the edge of the Sahara, dust rises like steam, rubbish piles up along the roadsides and young people say they cannot find a proper job.

US to expand business interest in Nigeria
FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011 17:05 JOSHUA BASSEY   

United States of America (USA) ambassador to Nigeria Terence McCulley says the success recorded in Nigeria’s general elections has boosted her international rating and the US business community looks towards expanding its business interest in the country. He also mentioned the readiness of the US to partner with the Lagos State government in the area of job creation, improved security and the fight against the HIV/AIDS scourge.

McCulley, who spoke with journalists shortly after a closed-door meeting with Governor Babatunde Fashola at the State House, Ikeja, said the US’ decision to partner Lagos is informed by the strategic position of the state in sub-Saharan Africa.

He said the United States is encouraged by the fact that democracy is taking its root in Nigeria as evidenced by the recent elections which he described as “one of the freest in Nigeria’s history.”

phreakabit:
I am the speaker of for Hausa people mans. We are all say:

1, Western Education?  Boko Haram!!!

2, Western Civilization?  Boko Haram!!!!

3, Western Sex education and Awareness? Boko Boko Haram!!!!!!!!!!

4, Western looting and Corruption? Silence. . . . . . . . . .

BizBooks:
I used an example whereby VB produces a message box that says "Hello World" when you click a button. I guess what I'm trying to find out is: how many lines of code it will require for Python to produce a message box that says "Hello World" when a button is clicked. I know in Javascript, a message box is called an Alert. I don't know what it is called in Python.

dollypi:
I don't understand what the upwards review of the prices have got to do with privatization. The investors into the telecommunications sector didn't have to be wooed by how profitable NITEL was. The need was there, and that IMHO is what is most important.

For crying out loud, if the amount every Nigerian pays to fuel generator sets is not enough indication of how profitable it can be for investors, I don't know what else will convince them.

manny4life:
@ekt-bear

IMO I am not disputing privatization, in fact I'm all for privatizing the industry but keep in mind that without a better reform such as delegating the power to regulate power to states will cause a lot of confusion. Even with privatization, it will cost tens of billions of dollars of private money just to bring certain states like Lagos up to per. Also, states do not have power to regulate commerce which might prompt certain states to roll solo like Lagos is doing regardless of private or not. Just because Lagos needs 20k MW to be power stable does not mean that a state with 30% population of Lagos need 20k MW.  Now if you have states making that decision, states have the prerogative to determine if they want the power sector in their states privatized or not. States can determines how they wish to centralize their service, et al.