ujchief: We already know; we also know he's incapable of fighting corruption which is the canker worm that is eating up this country. This is why we're searching for a better alternative come 2015. The mistake has already been made, we will undo it come 2015.

#Team ctrl + Z; time to undo the mistake of 2011#

Can Nigeria see 2015 in one piece with this massive corruption and financial hemorrhaging

Hmmn!
So Ijaw criminals or is it militants i.e. hired thugs are now the mouthpiece of a sitting President
When Soyinka was marching on the streets for Ebele's elevation to President after Yaradua's demise as was Falana demanding same,where were they
Now he is their 'son' who can do no wrong
Wole who was imprisoned for speaking out for the Igbo's during Biafra is now suddenly a noisemaker
Jonathan's ambition will ruin this nation
If he was performing, 1 would even understand why he's seeking to return
Truly Achebe was right because they truly was a country

We want him to establish a South-East office in
his office and review weekly the fulfillment of
his promises to Ndigbo

Hmmn!

Justiyke4u: another person with tell u dat in his area glo is nothing to write home about so u choose a network based on the strength of their signal in ur locality

caesaraba:

We're I am, Airtel is the best thing after condensed milk! Very fast on my iPad. So it's all about location. Find whichever network is fast in ur area and switch.

Their network where I'm at is HSPDA yet Glo's network speed dusts it
Fastest my Airtel has gone is 170/180 kbps unlike Glo which goes over 320 at times
I hear Etisalat is a speed demon ,but don't have their SIM to confirm apart from their Internet offerings been the most expensive
I can still work with Airtel despite their HSPDA+ claim yet my issue with them is their frequent Internet timeouts
What's the joy in subscription if your link does not connect when you want to go online?
It might be cheap,but its sure not STEADY
Ce finis

@ op, add the below to your list

Goddex
Deshclones
Gregg2
PapaBrowne
Ckkris

^^^^^^^Who told you Bakare was silent
Didn't you read what he said on Sunday about this issue?
Get yo facts right before denigrating the man

dear op,
It is true many churches are growing branches in Nigeria
But is righteousness increasing or lawlessness
Hope you do know that cancer too is growth
May you keep growing too

kel4soft:

Did he form ally with Yerima or Buhari? If you look at that vote, most of the senators that voted are mostly in PDP. Meanwhile, Buhari has said he is against it and our brother in south-south Asari said, it is in their religion and sees nothing wrong with it.

Thank you for straightening out the facts to this Buhari bashers

iyatrustee: Its a boy!

And who gives a friggin phuck
Like PAC said,they don't give a phuck about us
Why should I about them

Borwe: Gsm arena only has popular phones used in the US. Thats why something like Micromax and xolo are listed

So Indian made Micromax and xolo are now marketed in the States?
What an Einstein

@ thread, I still don't get the obsession of some NLer's and by extension Nigerians with TECNO been a top end device to rub shoulders with the likes of Jiayu,iOcean, Micromax, Oppo talk less of LG , HTC or their favorite benchmarking against Samsung
Face it, a phone not talked about on xDA is a non starter IMHO
Tecno is even a non starter in China (their supposed home base)
I used the tecno T8 but have since moved on to greater and better things
Yet not once have I ever thought of comparing Jiayu's Mediatek quad core 68** Andriod 4.2 offerings to top Qualcomm/Tegra/Exynos SOC based handsets let alone a Tecno Driod to them even though I'm looking toward the Jiayu S1 due to launch soon
Guaranteed the HTC's and Samsung's flagships are priced higher than they should IMHO but African sales are crumbs to them seeing North America,Europe,the Gulf states and some parts of Asia are their main catchment market
If what you can afford at this point in time is a Tecno,fine, buy it
After all its your money
But if you want to buy a better made made product when your cash flow can afford it,all well and good
But to now compare a Tecno and Sammy and say the Tecno wins because of your financial insecurity is been outright fraudulent

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11827/8831918/la-liga-tito-vilanova-steps-down-as-barcelona-coach-due-to-ill-health

Its been confirmed he's stepping down due to ill health

P.U.S.H:
I just paid 5k for glo 4Gb. It is so annoying how slow it is.

GLO is slow ke
Glo is the fastest network I've used and still use
Hardly has downtimes unlike Airtel
Airtel gasps for breath near it while MTN is so so snail like
Haven't tried Etisalat though
Believe its due to your location

Wish him well
Hope the new coach will sanction the sale of Cesc Fabregas so Arsenal can trigger the right of first refusal clause and bring him back to the Emirates

Adufaye: Weitin dem dy wait 4 na,make dem begin employ amodu,keshi or siasia,or even M.Gambo

Why is NL overflowing with clowns and imbecilic thought patterns this days?

Fayemi said they ought to be in Abuja for the NEC meeting but due to their deep concern for the security of the citizens of Rivers State, they decided to go to Port Harcourt to “meet with our brother and Chairman of our Governors’ Forum, Governor Amaechi”. Fayemi said they advised Amaechi to “brief President Goodluck Jonathan, who is actually our leader and Chief Security Officer of the country on the very, very challenging security situation here in Rivers State”.

He added: “We thought it will be important for the hierarchy of our Police authority, the Inspector General of Police, to help in restoring the confidence of the people of Rivers State that has really been greatly diminished in the Police service and the command here in Rivers State.
“We believe that the Inspector General of Police is very well placed to help take the necessary step to restore the confidence of the government, the governor and the
people in the police in Rivers State.
“And every step that is critical to making that possible we believe that the Inspector General of Police should take. For us, we believe that these remarks really
require the moral authority of Mr President as well.”
“He is our leader and we feel that he actually occupies a very critical position that necessitates his wielding his moral authority in ensuring that peace reigns here and
that nobody uses a subterfuge to create situations that are entirely avoidable.

Where in the above was Amaechi told to go beg/reconcile with Jonathan
Some people just have comprehension problems
The APC governors where simply telling Amaechi to tell Good luck how to do his job
That he should bring it to the president's attention the havoc some folks are using his office to do
That he should stop them as the chief security officer of Nigeria except they his tacit approval
Does it not bog the mind that the best the presidency has done on the Rivers issues is issue a statement distancing the office from it
Haba
Yet he could host Wike's faction who came to 'beg on behalf of Amaechi'
Yet Amaechi no send any errand boy to Abuja on his behalf

Why can't I use the rent to 'call any network' as Saka would say
This one get shipinshipin condition jo!

No wonder Nigeria currently is such a mess
Even though some degrees might need to be reviewed by adding to/removing from, no body of knowledge is in itself useless nor without merit
It depends on personal self development ,self discovery and other inputs not primarily education
Soyinka read Literature, Greek and Western history;Achebe Chinua of blessed memory switched to English,theology and history from medicine, the indefatigable iconoclast called Fela rebelled from his father's preference of medicine to study music and we can all see the result
However too many of young people play it safe looking for meal tickets
Not discovering self nor improving their being
No wonder Nigeria is currently such a mess

And we needed Blomberg to let us in on that
Like seriously
We might not be the most stressed out cos what would you say about the Pakistan,Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Greece's of this world
Yet Nigeria especially big cities like Lasgidi is sure a stressful place to habitate

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Word up Dre
You are right on your above notion seeing even the Xiaomi is been propped for a September launch
Just be patient
Even at that a story broke today on GSMArena about the upcoming Meizu 5.1 inch MX3

http://www.gsmarena.com/meizu_mx3_photos_of_its_front_and_back_appear-news-6401.php

^^^^^^^^^
Great to see your endorsement Flash on balogunsam seeing your comments about getting a Pipo Max M9 first made me aware of the quad core beauty



Apologies to those in tune with this thread
My time with the Max M9 so far has been a lot of highs with some lows
Hope to have time to update better in the days ahead
However,I stumbled upon news today that made me wonder,Pipo why now?
The news is none other than there is another make of the M9 called the Pipo M9 Pro 3G
Same specs as the M9 Max which I own but this dude ships with 1920x1200 FHD display
Read the rest here
http://www.gizchina.com/2013/07/14/pipo-m9-pro-launched-with-fhd-display-and-built-in-3g/
Aaaaarghh,why didn't Pipo drop this before I made a purchase
So Jealous

what a classic punchline
and yet all he was telling PEJ was that she lacks class and refinement
Damn, see blood
ABSOLUT murder

To think some dumb twats will come here and say it is the opposition party this and that
Question-Is it the opposition party members who pushed her off the plane to jump protocol
Yeye dey smell

For those still interested in the Jiayu S1
Check this out
http://www.gizchina.com/2013/06/18/jiayu-s1-specifications-listed/
Its been speculated for a September launch

Lord_Reed:
Given that I paid under 40k for a quad core 4.7in superamoled gorilla glass 2 phone, I don't expect I will pay more than 60k for an octa core phone seeing as prices for these Chinese OEMs vary widely one of them must build a device and price it at that range. As for utility fact is software always catches up to hardware. Octa core will probably be basic in 2years.

True that about Octa been basic in 2 years
But I believe that will be for the high end flagships or do you disagree on that?
60k for a new Octa come November?
Hmmn!
I doubt it'll be that cheap that early despite it been Chinese esp if one is leaning towards the top end Chinese OEMs
Yet I still can't get the mad rush towards Octa by OEMs seeing current software can't make the most of today's hardware
Except the software to come will have holographic abilities and all sorts of science fiction abilities, I really don't see the need
Yet trust technology to come up with something extremely cutting edge
BTW,would you be kind enough to supply the quad Super AMOLED gorilla glass 2 phone you got for under 40k

Lord_Reed: Image of Xiaomi Mi3 leaks, 5.5-inch 1080p display in tow
We've been seeing rumors about the third-generation Xiaomi smartphone for some time now and we
even got a glimpse of it thanks to a few leaked images. Now, another image of the Xiaomi Mi3 has been leaked. The source that leaked the images of the Xiaomi Mi3 prototype suggests a 5.5-inch display with a
resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, which is a nice upgrade over the previous edition of the Xiaomi that sported a 4.3-inch 720p display. If the rumors are to be trusted, the Xiaomi Mi3 will feature 3 GB of RAM, which will put in on par with
upcoming flagship from top-tier manufacturers. Furthermore, the upcoming smartphone is said to come
out with a 13 megapixel camera at the back, 5 megapixel front facing camera, built-in NFC, HIFI quality
stereo and a 3,600mAh battery. The Xiaomi Mi3 is rumored to be launched on 16 August, but there is no official confirmation of an event
for now.
Omo see wahala o!

Sorry I came late to the party
Finally a Chinese NFC full HD phone to purr over
Rumored impressive specs which very slightly edge (memory,battery and front camera) the beloved LG Optimus G Pro which I currently lust for
Though no word on the processor its launching with
Hope they work on the screen which already is screaming fingerprint magnet
And the most impt thing is price seeing flagship Huawei,Xiaomi,Oppo,Meizu and ZTE phones don't come that cheap and seem to be elite Chinese brands

Lord_Reed:

Serious wahala o! I have postponed my new phone hunt to next year January, I want octacore now!

Are you ready to pay top dollar for it?
Even at that most (if not all) quad core phones are underutilized with all that power sitting on an handset

deejay_harry1: where can i get dis jiayu g4 or s1 in nigeria
or should i get a phantom A1 tecno??
confused...
i swear if i fit see dis phone for niger... i no go look tecno two times

Even though all are Chinese made phones,it is insulting comparing a Techno to Jiayu
Such phones as you 'be been informed can only be gotten off Chinese eCommerce sites like Aliexpress or DHLgate
However proceed cautiously as there are people who complain about been scammed despite the best efforts of the site operators
Another way to go is through pre-ordering
Some people on NL advertise such
One person I've had biz dealings on NL with is balogunsam I.e. https://www.nairaland.com/993722/android-tablets-enquiriestips-purchase-please/28
I purchased a my Pipo Max M9 tablet through him
https://www.nairaland.com/1327441/pipo-max-m9-3g-tablet
Read through his profile and posts and if convinced,put your money where your mouth is

op,do please post the news source of this hot gist of yours
So Bipi has eventually gone to see his 'Jesus'

To think that the best Ebele Goodluck has done since he came back is release a statement dissociating the Presidency from the brouhaha in Rivers
Does he understand what it means to be C-in-C
His tepid and egoistic handling of this crisis may eventually blow up in our faces
He's shown no willingness nor desire to quell the fires lit indirectly by him in Rivers regardless of what madam President has been saying
If he or any of his perceived backers get stoned up north as 2015, remember where it started

One can see the tribal calvary shorn of intellectual comprehension are invading
But their ethnic bayonets is only pouring out increasing torrents of truth from many a commentator
This silly ethnic trolls who shout our oyel,our son have forgotten how their son was ONLY reading newspapers before fate intervened
Even at that it took those they now tag parasites to take to the streets in protest before the constitutional elevation due him was enacted
We now are the parasites ,hypocrites and criminals because of a demand for accountability, equity and probity
Regardless of the ethno induced delusions of WilyWily and adino,we WILL NOT stop speaking and demanding for what is right especially on the loud and embarrassing silence of the FG aka Ebele Jonathan on the brigandage of his 'brothers'.

miketonic: Can someone please summarize it, it is too long to read and digest

A man who DOES NOT read has no advantange over a man who CANNOT read.

Insanity is said to be doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result
The above is really an insight into the farce called amnesty
The loss of crude oil has one MAJOR source and no prophet is needed to point it out.

Oil Theft: So Why was Tompolo Paid N15 Billion?
June 29, 2013

When the crisis in the Niger Delta reached a head around 2008, the name of Mr Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo had become a reference item. By early 2009, the platform for the agitation of the Niger Delta militants called Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) had become as fiercely violent as danger can be. And when the group allegedly killed eleven soldiers, in the creeks of the Niger Delta, it was the crowning of the villainous profile of Tompolo. He was declared wanted by Brig Gen Yaki Bello. With smoking guns and crushing arsenal, the Nigerian army swooped on Camp 5, the Okerenkoko base of the Tompolo-led militants. Tompolo was nowhere to be found. But his camp was leveled and armoury ravaged and seized. That was during the war. Peace has since followed, after the late President Umaru Yar’Adua granted the militants amnesty.
Today, the erstwhile villain called Tompolo, has transformed to a loyal ally of the same government that wanted him dead. He is now a valued patriot. In fact, they have long become business partners, with both parties providing complimentary services to boot.
Sometime in 2011, the Federal government awarded a pipeline surveillance contract worth $103.4m (about N15 billion) to Tompolo’s company—Global West Vessel Specialist Limited (GWVSL). It was essentially to protect the nation’s water ways so the theft of crude which was going on at the time would be curbed. The underlying argument was that since the militants are from the creeks, they know the in-and-out of the crannies of the creek, therefore, they are in a better position to provide security to the pipelines, repel pirates and oil thieves who usually sail into the Nigerian waters at night to steal oil. The Federal Government, it seemed, was persuaded by the argument, especially with its determination to court the militants so there would be peace. Sale of crude oil had dropped to all time 700,000 bpd because of the unrest. The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), a government agency, awarded the contract packaged like a concessionaire agreement with the private sector. It practically ceded the security and protection of the nation’s maritime to an individual, thus making the Nigerian Navy (NN) somewhat irrelevant in the business of securing our territorial waters. [b]Beside Tompolo, other militant leaders like Asari Dokubo, Dagogo, Egberi Papa, got N2billion contract to also secure the oil pipelines in Bayelsa and Rivers States. N580m contract was awarded Boyloaf’s (another militant)’s company.
But two years down the line, the volume of oil theft is unprecedented and unimaginable.[\b] All the oil companies are wailing. Even the federal government is perplexed, wringing its hands in near helplessness. From Shell to Chevron, down to Agip, Total, etc, it is the same story: brazen and unbridled theft of crude. Indeed, many of the oil companies have had several shut-ins because of the oil theft. Once, it used to be done cautiously. Not anymore. Production and sales has dropped to somewhere around 1.3m bpd now, down from 2.7m bpd. The manner of the theft now is such that seems to ask: “Yes, I am stealing, what can you do?” It is more than ever before, an organized cartel. The arising national loss is humongous. The wisdom in giving fish to the rat to keep is so there would be no guessing who ate the fish, if and when it is tampered with. The attendant verbiage is that it must be the rat who ate the fish kept in its custody.
So in this case, Tompolo and co were given the lucrative contract of securing the pipelines, and everyday, not only are raw crude being stolen by armed local and foreign crooks, even pipelines are being vandalized across the country. The present drop in electricity generation in the country has been blamed on disrupted gas pipelines which have disrupted supplies to gas stations. So there is no gas to power the gas stations. And everybody is in darkness. On every front, the nation is losing egregiously. Yet, the nation pays some people for the same job of protecting and securing the pipelines.
You get a picture of how badly the nation’s economy has been bled from all its pores, on account of the oil theft, when you listen to the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She said the nation was losing about 300,000 barrels of crude per day which translates to the loss of $1 billion in revenue per month. So on the average, the nation loses $12 billion per annum to oil thieves, yet, it pays billions of Naira for the protection of the same vandalised pipelines. Little wonder we have a plethora of private jets in the country. It does not make sense!
It is not enough for government to say the 10-year Tompolo contract will not be renewed, it should indeed demand an explanation for the sharp rise in oil theft. Otherwise, the impression will be created that government is treating this economic sabotage with kids glove because it is either a conniver or that it is helpless. None will be appeasing. Only in such a government will a security man be so serviced with huge salary and reward when his master’s prized properties and treasures are being stolen with vexatious efficiency.
All kinds of economic malfeasance now take place in the Niger Delta. With illegal refineries in almost everywhere in the creeks, booming illegal bunkering , naked theft of crude oil and routine pipeline vandalism, the nation’s economy is indeed hemorrhaging and unless some caution is urgently applied, a collapse is imminent, no matter what government propagandists want us to believe.
The final and last issue on this matter is the subtext: what has been the lot of the people of the Niger Delta four years after the so-called amnesty programme was granted? What is the fortune line of the region? Yes, former insurgents are being trained in local and foreign institutions and centres, what has happened to the vast majority of the people of the zone? Where are the promised roads, hospitals, schools, bridges, and all the accoutrements of better life, whose absence, ab initio, powered the protests in the region?
Pray, was the entire amnesty programme meant to just “settle” the “troublemakers” of the region and forget the rest of the peaceful people of the region in their aged misery and fury? Was that the intent of Yar’ Ádua? I scarcely think so!

Polscope with Eddy Odivwri
Eddy.odivwri@thisdaylive.com, 08053069356 THIS DAY

Seun: I'm now considering the Dell XPS One 27 Inch All-In-One Desktop.

Advantages:
1) It's a desktop PC. Desktop computers are more comfortable to code on for long periods of time.
2) It so big. This gives it a certain "presence" that even 18 inch gaming laptops cannot hope to match.
3) The screen has a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels, which is higher than what you can get on any laptop.
4) The screen is big enough at 27-inches to make the high resolution usable. No DPI scaling is required.

Disadvantages:
1) It's really heavy. You can't easily move it to a colleague's desk to do some pair programming.
2) Unlike laptops, it comes with no built-in UPS, so we may not be able to use it with PHCN.

I go with you on this one Seun
Durability should trump movability even at that small form factor system units exists
The energy costs is something to look out for though
Yet I expect you to have implemented alternate energy supply in the likes of wind power or solar
Dell Precision workstations would have been the way to go but though they are well built,their pricing is pretty steep

I was at this conundrum last year and elected to clone an HDMI capable system unit (3TB,8GB RAM, AMD 3.1 GHz 8 Core black edition) over shipping in a laptop with similar power for insane money
I don't regret my decision even though PHCN's reliability is like a yoyo
My main need for the system is virtualization, however it can be deployed as a mini server,media entertainment center,gaming PC etc in future
Also its upgradeable i.e. processor ,additional disks and memory
Let future needs factor in your decision too
You can get competent system engineers to clone your system
Quality structured cabling will give you a neat work environment and mini chassis casings a less bulky appearance
As long as you purchase boxed high end components, you are in for a treat
Wish you the best in your final decision

coolestboy:
Do u need a herbalist to tell u d cause of d recent chaos in rivers state? Nigeria is facing diz hard time just because of a widow whose childrenses are passing.
She should go and sit down let a peaceful breeze take over d space.

No mind them
let Ebele keep fooling himself in his half hearted denials

biafran soul:
Sorry Wole Soyinka, you self stop taking sides without facts Abi insenility don dey set in or you just want to play to the gallery?

Una 1 billion naira go soon finish O!
Hope say you chop enof of the remaining before Aso Rock is disinfected from its fishy smell come May 2015