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cococandy:
Health workers for example.

Are you about to say he's not owing any workers?
I hope that's not your aim. Because there seems to be no lie impossible for political psychophants to tell in defense of their lord.

Explorers:
10. Singapore Airlines spends about $700 million on food every year and $16 million on wine alone. First class passengers consume 20,000 bottles of alcohol every month and Singapore Airlines is the second largest buyer of Dom Perignon champagne in the world.

johnydon22:
That's one of my questions

johnydon22:
It made front page here https://www.nairaland.com/2770555/boko-haram-abducts-teenage-girls

Jameselias:
Yet at quantum level all this things exist too.

johnydon22:
Recently it has been reported that up to 170 girls were also abducted from a village in Borno known as Bam. http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2015/12/boko-haram-in-fresh-abduction-of-nigerian-teenage-girls/

Zoharariel:
I like that Mynd4.4 I swear. Before you type Bia, you don chop ban. He must be related to fashola
Now, I can concentrate on my beautiful igbo ladies hunting without any idiot trying to come in between us with the laws of Nnamdi kanu & their useless ideology.
Where do I even start self? Where is that lady called tohpahz? Bia - abeg let us talk
Johnny Atheist, make you no talk say I dey derail your thread. The BBOG campaign is still very much in full swing [so to speak ] but you should know that out of the over 200girls commandeered by the BH-Boyz, only 3-5 of them are still alive, as most of them have been raped, traumatized and used as bomb-carrying robots to wreck havoc in different communities in the North, hence the reason each of their families were paid off with 5Million Naira.
This ofcourse is a very classified intel and you didn't hear it from me.
Lastly, the enlightened among us know that the finger of the CIA through their secret military base in Chad [where all the BH logistics are being coordinated] was & is responsible for the carnage that is still currently ravaging the North, which ofcourse is the reason for PMB's dead silence on the Boko-Haram sponsors since he assumed power, but what I will not tell you is the content of the secret meeting PMB had with Vladimirovich Putin at the Gas Summit in Iran 2weeks ago - Nagode!

johnydon22:


Yes mostly the misty harmattan fog reveals the sun to be white and it even appears larger from here the earth's surface..mostly in the mornings

johnydon22:
[size=20]2.[/size]The sun rotates
No No not like an average planet out there, but yes the Sun rotates too..
The sun is a ball of Gas and so is not expected to rotate like most planets that are most times solid.
It rotates at different intervals on distinct latitudinal lines across it... Faster on the equator and slower at the poles..

johnydon22:
[b]As Earth based life forms we all open our eyes to get familiar with the G-type star that hosts our planet which we know as the Sun.
It provides an enormous amount of energy and support that it is not a joke that we would not be here without it..
Let us quickly run through 10 basic facts about our dear giant ball of Gas and perhaps get to know it a little bit better.
[size=20]1.[/size]THE SUN IS WHITE..
What Yeah some of you might find this unusual judging with the fact that we all see this Star and we know the color it shows us right?
Seriously, it is even referred to as a yellow dwarf sometimes by the Astronomical body..
But in actuality Our sun is not yellow but white, its an average star that appear white in color ..
Light travels in a spectrum of distinct colors (All colors actually).. White is not a color but the combination of all colors or put it in a more correct way.. WHITE is the source of all other colors..
so when this light from our sun hits the earth the earth's atmosphere scatter the light from the sun. The blue wavelength of light is scattered in the atmosphere giving our sky a blue color But the sky is actually colorless except for clouds
The yellow wavelength are longer light wavelengths and so are more visible from the earth's surface giving the Sun a yellowish color from the surface.
The atmosphere is also the reason why the stars far from us appear to be twinkling when we see then at night..
Picture: An Astronaut on a space walk selfie with the white sun and earth in the back ground.. [/b]

hahn:
Interesting. Lalasticlala do the needful

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johnydon22:
[size=20]9.[/size] Size
Well you can guess this one, the sun is huge!!!!!!!!! The earth is almost like a dot compare the the size of this star.
Its 1.3million km in diameter.. if you could fit the earth into the sun you can fit 1,300,000 earths into the sun..
https://theplanets.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sun-size.jpg
But wait up with that size the sun can easily pass to be one of the biggest object you may know but just hold up a bit
the sun turns into a dot compared to some other stars ..
When you compare the sun to the largest star in the universe CANIS MAJORIS.. The sun turns into a dot..
Canis majoris compared to the sun..

johnydon22:
[size=20]4.[/size] ENERGY
The sun is the primary source of energy on earth, influences the change in the earth's climate, temperature, hydrogen circle, oxygen production (photosynthesis)
Without the sun one can assert that life could never have emerged on earth..
Amount of energy that hits the earth from the sun is 1.336 kw per square meter.. the energy the sun gives out mostly is luminous that is 3.8 × 10²⁶ joules per second.
We are only using 1 out of 10,000 energy provided by the sun for us. . . Such enormous energy..
The solar panels we have now on earth can only convert 16% of the energy it gets into electricity, imagine what 50% could do for us..
https://jeffrey.darofamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/iStock_000016988110WEB.jpg

Sheikwonder:
Cc: Feraz
Good work there...you just brought up some fond memories. I argued the crocodile paradox with colleagues in my days at UNIBEN...
In a moment,I shall discuss another paradox,please stay in touch.

Onegai:
I can't believe P. N. Okeke is an actual person, I thought he was a combo of different angry JAMB lecturers using a pseudonym. I think. everyone hated those. Physics textbooks. I'm glad he's still alive.

mrphysics, we do. have scattered areas of Astronomy in Nigeria but they are scattered. And your telescope is nice, but does. everyone have access to it? No. Which defeats the purpose. We are looking at a place where every Nigerian can access and explore Science for free or. for. cheap.

We should organise a National Science fair, let every university and technical college and secondary school showcase.

jnichole:
this is my first topic as a nairalander i wanted to do something worthwhile while i wait for admission i want to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone that contributed to this post watch out for more of my posts peace am out this is my first topic as a nairalander i wanted to do something worthwhile while i wait for admission i want to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone that contributed to this post watch out for more of my posts peace am out

naptu2:
It's on Catholic Mission Street, opposite City Hall and not far from Campos Square. Feraz should know it very well, since he attended St Mary's. Feraz, did you go to Holy Cross every Friday in lent for stations of the cross?

Nochi247:
Do you think we've come to that stage yet? even Abuja has nothing like this yet.

5minsmadness:
U guys grossly underestimate the "negativity" factor. The negativity factor along with the discouraging environment we find ourselves in as Nigerians makes it very difficult for any budding scientist to thrive.

A scientist/inventor comes up with a novel idea and manages to build a prototype and present it to the media. The first thing everybody sees is - - it was invented by a nigerian in Nigeria- - therefore it will not work.

Now this may appear like a simple case of "believe in yourself" but by the time u take into consideration the crowd mentality and the sheer force of thier "negativity pressure" of it won't work, you can't do it, your american mates are making better, you are a fool, etc. The inventor is almost literally beaten to the ground. The invention never sees the light of day and is thrown in the rubbish heap.

I'm not even going to talk about the authenticity of the inventions cos most of them are copies of foreign products. But even that if done properly would be something to boast about.

Another thing is access to the manufacture of customised parts. We have no industry for that (or maybe we do but I am not aware as in the case of the ministry of science and technology)
I doubt nigeria manufactures common cylinder head gaskets talk less of more complicated parts. We need industries that manufacture the small parts that bring an invention/machine together.

Dr Samuel achilefu, a nigerian born scientist, is currently being awarded the St Louis award for inventing Cancer Visualizing glasses. He might have thought of the concept here in Nigeria but where on earth would he have gotten the basic parts needed to produce the prototype? Is it from that ministry of science and tekenologi you guys are advertising here? Pfft.

mrphysics:
well I dnt knw how much u guys think abt astronomy in Nigeria, bt I can assure u dat in UNN under d department of Physics and Astronomy, we hav similar things. though nt big ones bt d ones dat can help u view outside world, Prof. P.N Okeke is seriously working on establishing a RADIO Telescope. u guys shud stop underestimating Nigeria, I think UNN z d only university offering astronomy. I hav viewed d outside world, listened to d movement of sun live, so dis things r nt new to us in UNN.

Hero10001:
Alatojubo.
If you've been to the wild, you'll know nature wants you dead.

donnffd:
The reason Mars doesn't have a magnetosphere is because of its frozen core, earth's core is molten liquid

hahn:
This is not necessarily about what they are doing wrong but the simple fact that the Nigerian society doesn't support such achievements as long as it doesn't involve ghana-must-goes and a long convoy well equipped with a polithiefian and mobile police officers.
Don't forget, this is a country where engineers end up working as marketers for banks. They only do it for the certificate so that they can have a better chance at getting a better job. That's it
You can't compare these guys with us. How many average Nigerian parents buy their kids chemistry or biology toy sets or even toys? I used to live in Ilupeju and the Indian international school is there. These guys come from as far as Epe every morning and ALWAYS once it's 8:00am you will not see a single car on the street as opposed to Nigerian kids that aren't in school by 10:00am. You should also see projects that their primary school kids come to school with. I sometimes see these kids coming to school with the solar system made out of cardboards and whatever and I'm like, Nigerian kids dey suffer.
Don't forget that there are science agencies, constant electric power supply, access to latest journals, science fairs and those things feraz listed. Why science no go hungry you? Do you even know if Nigerian kids have eaten breakfast?
These are not excuses for failure but they add up.
Not at all. Blame the guy who said knowledge and intelligence are of the devil and will lead you to hell.
For this to work, adequate funding is required. Participants have to live, eat and breathe science to be able to come up with any tangible idea or else it will be another wild goose chase.

5minsmadness:
There's a ministry of science and technology?

hahn:
Lol.
Feraz, come and answer this question

hahn:
Lol! Damn! Now, that was eye opening. Did Buhari just create that ministry or has that ministry always existed? The best I can recall regarding a ministry of science and tech is in dejava

And they put an Ebonyi man in charge. That's evidence of Ebonyi's political clout on the Nigerian political scene

naptu2:
That's very close. Do you know Campos Mini Stadium?

Campos Square is named after G. Hilario Campos.

naptu2:
This answer can ignite a civil war.


Lagos was divided into 4 in the 1800s.

1) The Europeans (especially the British) who lived on the Marina. They were mainly protestants (primarily Anglicans and Methodists).

2) The Saros (slaves freed by the British. These former slaves had adopted a british lifestyle) who lived in the Olowogbowo area. They were mainly Protestants (predominantly Anglicans). Many of them returned from Sierra Leone.

3) Popos/Aguda. These are former slaves who were taken to Latin America (mainly Brazil and Cuba). The Popo Aguda were mainly catholics. Most of them had been builders and masons in Brazil and Cuba and they built most of the gothic and latin style houses in Lagos. They lived mainly in the Campos area.


4) The indigenes who adhered to African traditional religion and where mainly farmers and fishermen. They lived on the rest of the Island, particularly to the north and west of the others.

Holy Cross Cathedral

Holy Cross Cathedral was built by the Popo Agudas in the 1800s.


The first priest came to Lagos (and said mass) in 1863 and this inspired the Popo Agudas to want to build their own cathedral.

The Agudas began negotiations with the Colonial Government to acquire the land in 1864.

Father Bouche became the first resident priest at Holy Cross in 1868 (though he actually lived behind the house of the famous Candido Da Rocha, one of the wealthiest of the Popo Aguda).


The foundation stone was laid in 1878.


The building was completed in 1881 (with just one tower). Other towers were added in 1883 and 1934.

The building was substantially renovated in 1969.

CSTR2:
The leadership in the SE is a byproduct of the Nigerian system.
Every single inch of that country is governed by terrible leaders.