This is sad news. I had so much respect for him and his craft. May God grant his soul eternal peace.

Lemos14:


if you make comments to be ranked by likes or shares how will you be able to follow a thread accurately and in context?

I'm assuming the most liked or shared comments will be relevant to the thread, and the likes indicate engagement, suggesting that users found the comment useful or entertaining.

With the current system I find that the top comments, those on page 1, are not always relevant, informative, or well thought out, possibly due to the pressure to post a comment before space runs out on page 1. You'll find that there are a lot of meaningful comments on a thread but they're lost on page 4 or something. The system I'm proposing may help remedy this.

Seun:
Fellow Nairalanders,

I'm pleased to wish you a Happy New Year!!

2024 will be the year of Nairaland's resurgence. I will face Nairaland squarely like I used to before the discouraging Data Loss Incident of 2014. I will hire more hands to help us to improve Nairaland.

The problems of Nairaland that we should have solved years ago will be solved.

* We will defeat tribalists, trolls, & spammers.
* We will complete our advertising platform.
* We will improve the UI and UX.
* Home page topics will be educative & fresh.
* We will reverse the anti-women trends.

However, I must warn you that things will get worse before they get better. Please stand with us and fight for u as Nairaland faces the tough challenges of 2024, which have already started.

Happy New Year and thanks for using Nairaland!

Seun Osewa,
Nairaland's Founder.

Happy New Year, Seun. I share your excitement. With the UI/UX changes, please can you make it so that comments in a thread are ranked by likes or shares, rather than by time?

The fee assessment breakdown shows that the oath and CTC fees for Atiku's petition are higher. Other fees are identical for both petitions.

The oath fee is charged per oath, and oath refers to a witness statement on oath. So more witness statements mean a higher oath fee. It also means more witnesses are listed for the trial.

The CTC (certified true copy) fee is charged per page, with each page of the copy being certified as true to the original, so more pages in the petition means a higher CTC fee.

Higher oath and CTC fees for Atiku's petition mean that his petition has more witness statements on oath and more pages. Of course, you would expect a petition with more witness statements to have more pages than the reverse, which explains the higher CTC fee.

I don't know yet how much exactly is charged per oath or per CTC page but if you know the amount then you can figure out how many witnesses each Petitioner intends to call, and the number of pages contained in their respective petitions.

So, the filing fee paid is not particularly useful information to anybody except they person paying.

Modified.

jaephoenix:

Guess youre being sarcastic

Yes I am. Its surprising that the OP can't see how ironic the situation is, to be grateful to God for severe memory loss because at least you didn't forget God. I thought maybe writing it that way would help him wonder whether there is actually any praise to squeeze for God out of that situation, but I'm probably wrong.

Oh wow.

So this Christian woman is suffering from a devastating mental illness that has tanked her quality of life, but the silver lining is that she can remember to praise a God who permitted the loss of most of her cherished memories.

I imagine God is proud that her memory of him is preserved, even as other memories are lost.

What a joyful story. Let's celebrate more

Thanks for all input so far. Can anyone advise on the parts availability and cost for these cars?

I want to get an SUV and I'm considering one of these two. Comrades, please guide me.

PNomsule:
It appears the responders I'm getting on this issue are plain textbook analysis and not even addressing the issues from the points I posited, especially that the fears you raised, my post envisaged it already?

I think if you fully consider the implications of the textbook analysis you'll find your answer right there.

Can prices be controlled, if not what then is the usefulness of the Pricing Regulatory & Control bodies we have in the country?

Prices can only be controlled to a certain extent, and usually for staple commodities like food, rent, or energy, not for every commodity. The forces of demand and supply still determine a range for your price ceiling, so naturally any price ceiling set will reflect the inflation, and will always be adjusted to reflect it. If you set the ceiling too low then business becomes unprofitable and therefore pointless. Price regulation always contends with demand and supply and usually loses.

Price control agencies can only do so much about runaway inflation.

What happens to the urgency of Capitalists to get more people employed as to meet rising demands associated naturally from too much money chasing fewer goods?

Well, thanks to the inflation brought about by printing so much money, the costs of running the business are also inflated, so the capitalists' capacity to expand their business does not improve just because there is more money in circulation. It is in fact likely worse than it worse pre - inflation.

GraciousGod190

Free legal advice: Spouses are entitled to inherit each other. Consult a lawyer in your state for advice specific to your situation.

I wonder if what killed him was watching her sex another man, or realizing how much she was enjoying it.

I'm an atheist so I would.

I definitely prefer not to date a very religious person. I'm not saying that atheists are better partners or anything, since at the end of the day a person is more than just their religious beliefs and "mundane" things like cultural or social values, personality and financial sense are very important too. An atheist can be as much of blessing or a curse as a religious person.

I'm attracted to open-minded and tolerant people. A very religious person may have those qualities but I'm not going to wait to find out lol. In my experience they rarely do. If I meet two people with everything, I'm going with the less religious one. And more points if she's an atheist too. I mean, it would be nice to have someone I can sit around with and speculate about how the origin of existence is God coming from his penis. (abeg make una no vex )

LordReed:
1. If a god exists, belief or lack thereof does nothing to change the situation.

2. If a god exists and is the source of all morality but yet you can adhere to the morality without belief then belief adds nothing to the equation.

Going by these to points above I am inclined to say belief in god is useless.

I could add more to this as time goes on but I'd be happy to hear your view.

I think for a lot of people believing in god helps them act more ethically and if their more ethical behaviour benefits the rest of us then believing in god is not useless.

Also if god punishes people who don't believe in it then believe in god would be useful - for avoiding punishment.

They just want to pass the go slow and they don't care if what they're doing makes it worse for almost every other person in the traffic.

The one that really gets me is those drivers that use the lane for oncoming cars. I'm sitting there forming reasonable and watching them pass by on their way to block the road. Before you know it they've found a way through and I'm still there, reasonable and stuck in even more traffic.

dfos2k:
There are so many car pros here oo! From the perspective of a car owner I'll tell you to stick to what the manufacturer of the engine says.These arguments and counter-arguments is the reason my people carried abro ATF to pour inside Murano transmission!
Many of you arguing up and down have not seen the sludge 20w50 forms in many engines. (Especially Toyotas and Hondas) if you say oil na oil abeg just shun all these oil grade arguments go buy retail oil dey flex your car.

I don't think there is any connection between sludge and 20w50. Sludge build up is mainly caused by using the oil waaaay past the recommended service interval.

Based on the car colour, 4 then 8.

Can we vote against 9? Just because of the AMG badge on it.

I foolishly went to use one Tecno W2 years back. The first sign that something was wrong with the phone was the unending subscriptions to meaningless services on MTN. I kept calling their customer care to complain about my airtime being deducted for the sub that I didn't know about and they kept insisting that I'm the one who did all the subs, that maybe I mistakenly clicked yes on a pop up. Lol.

Next the phone started running hot even when I wasn't using it and the battery didn't last as long. Then I noticed enigmatic notifications on the notification bar, like your regular app notification icon but these ones were just pure white squares. They didn't expand when I pulled down the notification bar. I became curious and went to settings > apps where I noticed strange apps.

There was a "facebook" app with a semblance of Facebook's logo, a "Google chrome" app with a semblance of Chrome's logo sitting next to the actual Chrome, and others like that. Either apps pretending to be popular apps or apps that I didn't download. None of them could be opened. I uninstalled them but every single one of them just reinstalled after a while. It's like me and somebody else somewhere were both using the phone.

That's when I suspected malware so I installed an anti malware app and scanned the phone with it. It now found the triada trojan. I googled the name and learnt it's common with Tecno phones especially the W2, that it's installed in the firmware from the factory so the anti malware app can't simply remove it and that flashing the phone won't solve the problem unless I have a different version of the firmware to reinstall after flashing.

Na so I jejely pack the phone back inside the box come go buy another phone o. Somebody persuaded me to dash them the phone and I did but I warned them first, incase person use keystroke logger pack all their pin and password or something. Now I run from all those "China" phones I don't have power again biko.

adanny01:


You will be surprised that as FRSC boss, you will not bee able to get your own FRSC driver to obey the laws once you turn your back.

The FRSC officers will close from work and drive worst than keke Napep drivers.

I seriously don't blame Buhari for all the silence and acting dumb, that's just the way to make meaningful progress in Nigeria.

I'm going to try at least o. We have to start from somewhere. The FRSC officers will enforce the laws if their jobs depend on it. I've seen how aggressive they are about enforcing fines when they're given targets to meet. I know people that they forced to go for psychiatric evaluation because of traffic violations. Them go work if person sidon on top their head.

A big part of the problem will go once they focus on real driver education too. Not this jankara thing they're doing in the name of driver certification. If people have to actually pass their driving test, both practical and theoretical, and they risked losing the licence for traffic violations, they won't drive so wildly.

EgunMogaji2:


I’m just done with the lack of respect for the rule of law as regards to driving.

Once Covid travel restrictions are over then I’ll go tour Rwanda and Ghana for a potential relocation. Nigerians are ungovernable.

Boss I feel your pain. Driving here has given me this fantasy about becoming the FRSC boss. If I get that job Nigerians go just kill me last last cos they no go fit understand me. I will enforce even lane departure and lack of turn signal with hefty fine and imprisonment. Lack of road worthiness = firing squad. People here drive like everyone else is their enemy from village smh. I've given up on driving with righteousness cos people, commercial bus, keke and bike in particular, go bash you out of spite come begin beg. Now I just consider my time plus panel beater and painter expenses.

Honda is very not scarce in Kaduna and Abuja, especially the Accord. From hala to the latest accord all of them full road. I drive a grey DC and people are always claiming to have "seen" my car in places I didn't go to. Na DC, EOD and evil spirit plenty pass. Pilot, Ridgeline, CRV, HRV, Civic including that sweet 2011 Euro Civic hatchback, all manner of Acura, even Passport I dey see them here steady. Honda is definitely not fading here.

Have you even seen the latest Accord (2018 - date)? Company wey dey make fine car like that no go fade. The car plenty pass the latest Camry here for now.

Why not?

it is true that higher rpm uses more fuel. the engine speed, which is what is represented by rpm, changes according to how much fuel you're feeding the engine through your throttle input. more fuel = more engine speed and less fuel = less engine speed. so a higher rpm will require more fuel than a lower one.

if your car is not moving, the most fuel efficient rpm is 0rpm. however once you engage the gearbox and start to move it's a whole other ball game.

the best mileage you want now is a combination of lower rpm and higher speed. e.g. 60km/h at 2000rpm is less efficient than 100km/h at the same 2000rpm. however this is only up to a certain point beyond which the higher speed doesn't come with additional fuel efficiency. so even though 100km/h at 2000rpm is more efficient than 60km/h at the same rpm, 200km/h at 4000rpm is less efficient than 100km/h at 2000rpm. there is plenty mathematics involved in calculating the most fuel efficient rpm/car speed combination but for most cars i've heard that it's around 100km/h at 2000rpm.

the engine size determines the exact rpm/car speed combination for ideal fuel efficiency for each car. as others have said, the more powerful the engine is, the faster it can go at any given rpm compared to a less powerful car, assuming both are in the same gear. so in gear 5 at 2000rpm, an i4 might be at 100km/h while a v6 will be at 110km/h. but this doesn't mean the v6 is a more fuel efficient engine o. all other things being equal, the v6 will use more fuel at that rpm. same goes for a v8 and the rest.

so it's true that fuel consumption is related to driving habit. it also depends on if you're driving in the city or highway. for city, if you tend to drive at higher rpms in lower gears or you just generally drive at lower speed like <50km/h you'll end up using more fuel than someone who does the opposite. the same is true for highway except that going too fast around >130km/h will also cost you more fuel.

What surprises me the most about claims like these is how people who function at a normal level of intelligence in their everyday life end up seriously believing something so outlandish. It's almost like magic. One minute you're homo sapiens, the next you're a baby goat.

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I'm tall so my number 1 annoyance is buses that don't have any leg room where I have to sit awkwardly like those cows they transport in trucks from Kano to Lagos. If I cannot swap seats with someone small I'm prepared to leave the bus and sell my ticket.

I hate it when the driver overtakes recklessly, uses the horn to shout at other road users or just generally drives aggressively. I've quarreled with many drivers because of this thing. For 2 years now I've been traveling almost exclusively with GIGM cos their drivers are calmer but I'll still leave foul reviews for the ones I didn't like.

I like to travel very light and I hate it when other people pack their entire house into the car and use it to cramp my already cramped space.

Lastly I don't like those people that want to pray loudly in the bus for journey mercies. These days I put my headphones on and turn the volume all the way up but what I really want to do is ask them to stfu.

Go and brief a lawyer asap.

Clickbaitland. You people should stop this kind of rubbish.

The death penalty is too much. In practical terms a death sentence usually becomes life imprisonment anyway because the state hardly executes people anymore. The current punishment for rape is life imprisonment and it's severe enough.

Murder/homicide and armed robbery, two offences which carry the death sentence, are still endemic in our society despite the gravity of their punishment. Let me assure you that the State does not hesitate to prosecute these offences. The issue is with the assumption that the death penalty is as effective a deterrent as law makers think it is.

The case of armed robbery in particular which didn't carry the death sentence until 29th March 1984 when the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Edict was passed introducing the death sentence due to the menace of armed robbery at the time provides evidence on the deterrence value of the death penalty. We can see that the offence has remained a menace till date despite the introduction of the death penalty.

The death penalty is usually reserved for offences that involve the taking of human lives. Suggesting the death penalty for rape, which is a terrible offence but rarely results in loss of life, is simply another instance of our lawmakers coming up with unimaginative and ineffective solutions to problems. They are using the gravity and wow factor of the death penalty to give weight to what would've otherwise been an empty deliberation. It is just pandering to public sentiment on rape and not an attempt to actually curb the menace.

Actual solutions should involve public sensitization, establishment of trauma centres to obtain the evidence of rape and treat the victims, creation of sexual offender registries and introduction of measures like chemical castration particularly for the paedophiles and repeat offenders.

Rape is already a capital offence. Changing the punishment from life imprisonment to death in an environment where convicts on death row are hardly executed and other offences which carry the death penalty are still rampant despite it is not the way forward.

. If it's a human detainee now they won't feed him.

Speak for yourself only. Other people's young children have gone to the abroad to study and completed their studies successfully without any drama.

Nairaland has gone down the drain