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oyb:
mr man, stop trying to be smart - are sng government employees?

what official business were they in abuja for?

i wonder what sort of organization you work in, in which people are given cash / not cheques without tendering expense/travel reports

you do sound like you're in the fg though - sounds like something our lawmakers would do

do you realize how ridiculous your claims are?

My guy, It looks like you cant read.

Whenever a person is summoned, officially, by a government department,

Haven't you heard of invitation announced on the media and the would say "accommodation reserved in Nicon Hotel" so if the government invites you, you are to pay for your fares abi? Why ont you check up the meaning of 'per diem' and get educated. Even the UN pays that.

My point is that we should educate ourselves as to how things are run before jumping to criticize for its sake. I feel the frustration we all feel about Naija, but we need to understand things before screaming on others like Mr oyb just did. It doesnt help, one bit.

for the uninitiated.

Whenever a person is summoned, officially, by a government department, there is an official offer of reimbursement for transport fare and accommodation. If its by flight its usually around N50,000 per person (flights to and fro and local transport). For overnight stay, if not quartered in government guest houses there is a payment called per diem depending on the status of the person and length of stay. For  VIP its much cos you don't expect him/her to stay in "nightlife hotel" of N1,000/per night.

Usually the beneficiary signs  a "collected by me" forms or the officer making the requests signs on behalf of the visiting quests. Though in most cases, the visitor is made to sign the forms so that all parties are in the clear that the  money is legitimate and the auditors dont go berserk with their green biro.

This is what happens in the office where I earn my daily bread. And its no big deal.

and some people say OBJ did nothing in the 8 years he was in office! Una go talk true, Mmcheeeew! Oya next person,

and some people say OBJ did nothing in the 8 years he was in office! Una go talk true, Mmcheeeew! Oya next person,

the man of god goofed. So ibori, dariye, alams etc are moslems ko? He should start by askin his church members to be true to their faiths. Does he querry from where his church members get their tithes from?

it looks like etisalat is going to face some tough choices in the coming months and years ahead. Or can they carve a nitch as a superior voice only network? (with slower data connection of all networks). There are a lot of people who use phones for voice only or with very little data usage.

[quote author=Brando! link=topic=224341.msg7120436#msg7120436 date=1289469683]glo just keeps falling my hand, was at their office yesterday, after about a week of my modem dropping connection like a kid wif epilepsy playing wif wet soap. and do you know their solution? to move from WCDMA to GSM only, can you imagine!
omo that their new tariff for 7500 go tey der o, especially in Abuja.
mtn rules never thot I'd say that, but its the truth.[/quote]I have found out that moving from 3g to GSM on the modem helps wit dropped connections. The trade off is the speed. Normally when connections begin to drop, i reach for mtn. Switching connections only makes sense for phone browsing and its just bearable. In abuja city center, had to switch to gsm to make this post. Wish my mtn modem were here.

goggs:
main one has connected a major ISP in ghana. Will post the source link later. (Posting via mobile hence copy and paste is not as easy).

Its here.

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/ecoband-first-isp-in-ghana-to-connect-to-main-one

Djcn:
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As a matter of fact, MTN offers the best data services in the country. Occasionally i use glo only when having issues on the MTN link.
Glo doesn't seem to be serious with the average subscriber, but they have a large no of corporate clients on their fibre link, i should not be listing names but a i know of three banks on the their fibre links using it currently. Oil companies in the Niger Delta and others firms.

The BB service on the MTN platform is just a promo.

You dont have to name names cause Glo is featuring them in their adverts for months now. Its UBA, ETB, Dangote, Shell, Nigerian Breweries and a couple of others

main one has connected a major ISP in ghana. Will post the source link later. (Posting via mobile hence copy and paste is not as easy).

i use glo infinito, its crap! Mtn is much much better. Did 2 pings of glo and and got over a thousand millisecs. Its obvious they are still using satellite. That glo 1 launch was PR stunt no doubt. Mtn pings about 180 millisecs. No doubt its main one at work. My hunch is that the low keyed glo 1 launch and lack of a revised tarif since the 'launch' is cos glo 1 is still not fully operational.

why not?

IF P square bought this house for N500m I will advise them to engage Farida Waziri to take care of their estate agent or contractor who ripped them to their under wears. N500m indeed! They better not take it too far oh!

Someone better tell them to invest their money, and invest wisely cos stardom is a curve. They should ask Mike Okri, Onyeka Owenu, Christinia Ibokwe and co for advise. When they come back down to earth, it may be a nasty fall.

yes oh, tory don change, Since na ogas dem fight (Okah, MEND and co are small boys compared to Iran, Isreal, HAMAS ans Hezbollah them) may we kukuma change topic. life continues

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j53mVHMYsQgTICYl4Em_noPrPXhg?docId=ef717520b6554fa9a442c8fcb9e1abf6

Israel: Nigeria weapons heading for Gaza Strip
(AP) – 10 hours ago
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Israeli officials said Thursday that the military-grade armaments seized at a shipping terminal in Nigeria came from Iran and were bound for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
The military officials would not provide evidence to support their claims, citing "security concerns." However, the information initially appeared to conflict with claims by Nigerian customs officials that the weaponry, which included 107 mm artillery rockets, were to be brought into the oil-rich West African nation.
The Israeli officials spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity as they were not allowed to speak with journalists.
Iran remains a bitter enemy of Israel and supports Islamic militant groups in Lebanon and Gaza that are in a state of war with the Jewish state. In the winter of 2008, Israel launched a military campaign against Iran-backed militants in Gaza in an attempt to stop years of almost daily rocket attacks on southern Israel.
Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader in Gaza, denied the weapons were headed to Gaza.
Agents with Nigeria's secretive State Security Service discovered the weapons Tuesday hidden inside of 13 shipping containers dropped off at Lagos' busy Apapa Port. Journalists allowed to see the weapons Wednesday saw 107 mm rockets, rifle rounds and other items labeled in English. Authorities said the shipment also contained grenades, explosives and possibly rocket launchers, but journalists did not see them.
Wale Adeniyi, a spokesman for Nigeria's Customs Service, said Thursday that the MV CMA-CGM Everest dropped the weapons off in July. Adeniyi said the ship last stopped at Mumbai's Jawaharlal Nehru Port before coming to Nigeria.
The spokesman said security officials became suspicious of the containers as the shipment did not have proper documentation. However, it initially appeared that the cargo was to have remained in Nigeria, he said.
The containers have "been on ground since July. There have been some attempts to clear them" for importation into Nigeria, Adeniyi said. "We understand later that there was an application to re-export them."
The Everest, a cargo ship registered in the Marshall Islands, is chartered by CMA-CGM, a shipping company based in France. In a statement released Thursday, CMA-CGM said the containers holding the weapons were owned by the firm that shipped them. The shipping company said the manifest for the weapons described the shipment as "packages of glasswool and pallets of stone."
The containers "were supplied, loaded and sealed by the shipper, delivered to the port of loading for transportation and remained sealed during the whole transportation process," CMA-CGM's statement read. "The seals were fully intact upon discharge in Nigeria."
The company declined to comment further, other than to say it has cooperated with Nigerian security services.
In the hands of highly trained troops, the 107 mm artillery rockets can accurately hit targets as far as eight and a half kilometers away, killing everything within about 40 feet. Fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq have used similar rockets against U.S. troops.
China, the United States, and Russia manufacture versions of the rocket, as does Iran — which calls the weapon a Katyusha rocket. In 2006, the Islamic militant group Hezbollah fired nearly 4,000 Katyusha rockets across Israel's northern border, some of which fell as far as 55 miles (90 kilometers) inside Israel.
The weapons seizure comes as Nigeria, an OPEC-member nation that is one of the top crude oil suppliers to the U.S., approaches what could be a highly contested presidential election next year. Security remains a concern in Nigeria as it continues to see targeted killings allegedly committed by a radical Islamic sect in the north and the threat of new violence in its oil-rich southern delta.
Associated Press Writer Ian Deitch reported from Jerusalem.

Is it just me? This claim of GLOBACOM of connecting 13 countries in Africa, how true is it? I only know of Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria. Where are the 13 countries coming from? I have never heard of a list in existence. Yet this information is on almost all Glo press releases. www.balancingact-africa.com once debunked that assertion.

Anyway, I will believe glo when my modem gives me reasonable and consistent speeds (no less than than 1Mbps for now. MTN is 1.8Mbps).

In Abuja MTN rules my world. Its miles away from Glo. Glo is all talk (adverts) no show.

Glo sucks BIG time. The speeds i get from MTN are unbelievable sometimes. Just a couple of months back MTN was crap. I guess main one did the trick.

Ok, the article says 'Glo u[b]nveils[/b] submarine fiber cable' I didn't read anywhere in the article about commercial launch. Remember they said the cable landed and two years down the line, no show. A year ago they said the cable has been launched, one year later no show. Today the  cable has been unveiled. I hope it would be a year before it will be inaugurated, a year after lit, another year activated and a year after that,   

Honestly, I'm sick and tired of this waiting for Godot bullshiat. One full year they've been jerking us around. I'm throwing away my Glo line.

They can stick their cable up Mike Adenuga's you know where

Nonsense.

Thank God somebody spoke what I was reluctant to say since March this year.

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For a Clean 2004 Toyota Corolla LE I would sell for 1.6m

2005 Toyoya Corolla LE is 1.7m

The Cars would be Clean, No Salvaged, No Accidented, No issues and comes with 6 months Warranty + low Mileage.

Interested ? call 08023050886 or email via enquiries@BLOCKED

Thank for the prompt response. Do you have the 2005 LE on ground? I want to buy, I have traded the car I last owned and having to be a regular on Okadas for 21 days is definitely not going to be pleasant. Thanks

Like I once said on this thread, dont hold your breath on Glo.

Meanwhile MTN has slashed internet prices, increase bandwidth allowance, broadened their package offers.

Oga Inspired,

I have following your progress on Nairaland. One striking feature about you is that you seem to really love your business; always so jovial and self confident. Its as contagious as cholera! (Forgive the comparision).

How much can I get toyota corolla LE 2004/2005 pre-order? do you have any on ground one could buy straight? if yes how much?

I am attracted to your (i) very clean looking rides (ii) clean carfax report  (iii) prompt response.

Please keep it up! 

ok, so the site has CHEATS, and i should INVEST my money to get thousands in a day?

Dude u've got some nerve posting this scam

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11477652

5 October 2010

France arrests 12 in anti-terror raids

Police in France have arrested 12 people and seized guns and ammunition in anti-terrorism raids in the south of the country, officials say.

Nine arrests were made in Marseille and the nearby town of Avignon, with three others held in a separate case.

The raids come as security sources in some Western countries warn of a plot to attack public targets in Europe.

However, police have not said if there is a link between the latest arrests and the warnings.

A French official told AFP that police had seized weapons "including a Kalashnikov (rifle) and a pump-action shotgun, as well as ammunition" in Tuesday's raids.

[size=15pt]In the separate operation, French police also arrested three men after finding their numbers in the mobile phone of a man arrested in Italy at the weekend, the agency said. The man arrested in Naples was allegedly carrying a bomb-making kit.[/size]

Two of those suspects were arrested in Marseille and the third in the south-western city of Bordeaux, reports added.

Officials said that the two sets of arrests were not linked.

Details of an alleged al-Qaeda plot against European targets first emerged in the US media and were later confirmed by European security sources.

The US, UK, Sweden and Japan have since updated advice to their citizens travelling in Europe, to warn of possible attacks.

OK so  SSS did wrong arresting Dokepsi shei? If the man or anybody is linked no matter how remotely, let him or her be interrogated and let the facts and his answers absolve him.

common PEOPLE DIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HTC is one of the best phone manufacturers out there. The used to make phones for other companies.

Today HTC is one of the hotest phone manufacturers in the market having flirted with windows and are also with android. their coolest phones are the desire (i desire that one no be small) , Hero and google's nexus one.

here is an excerpt from wikipedia

[b]HTC was founded in 1997 by Cher Wang and Peter Chou.[5] Although initially the company made notebook computers, HTC decided to make a strong push toward hand-held devices instead.[6] In 1998, they started designing some of the world's first touch and wireless handheld devices. The company has a rich heritage of many "firsts", including creating the first Microsoft-powered smartphone (2002) and the first Microsoft 3G phone (2005).[5] Their first major product was made in 2000 and was one of the world's first touch screen smartphones. The Palm Treo 650 and the iPaq were created by HTC[7]. They started producing 3G-capable phones in early 2005 and made the world's first Android phone in 2008, the HTC Dream (also marketed as the T-Mobile G1). It was first released in the United States for pre-order through T-Mobile USA on September 23, 2008, and became available in U.S. T-Mobile stores on October 22, 2008.[8] The G1 was available in the UK several days after its USA launch, and has since been introduced in many countries including Australia and Singapore. In 2009, the company launched the HTC Sense interface for the platform with the HTC Hero.[9][/b]

When HTC was founded it was strictly an original design manufacturer,[20] selling devices such as the HTC Wizard as the T-Mobile MDA and the Cingular 8125. The company focused on telecom operators who were willing to pay a contract manufacturer for customized products.[25] Today, many HTC devices (e.g., Incredible, Evo 4G) are marketed and sold under the HTC brand, though its main focus is still smartphones.[18][25]

On February 17, 2010, Fast Company ranked HTC as the 31st most innovative company in the world.[26] Bloomberg reports that HTC is studying whether to create its own mobile operating system to compete with Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.[27]

I have use the HTC mogul since 2008 and its still going strong. You cant go wrong with HTC lai lai

manual windows? In this day and age? For that model? At that price?

Bomb disposal squads only put on their thick armour suits when diffusing a device. Once the device has gone off, its obvious that kind of thick outfit will impede subsequent forensic work. I thought common sense was common.

Dont forget the british have offered help. The police need to do the preliminary work by the book so the british can contribute.

picking holes, plucking pigeons

Dusting for prints? to compare against which database? forensics in this country is bullshet. . .

Dont know about you but I had to give my finger print for a national ID card (scrapped scheme), 2007 voters registration, drivers licence and national health insurance. And there is an agency called National Identity Management Commission (or something like that) that has taken ownership of this information.

For your information, some time ago some police recruits were sacked after finger printing them and matching some database (I was shocked to hear that this was done in Naija) and exposed them to some unwholesome stuff (the police would not say what)

In as much as we want to be cynical, the truth is our policemen are just plain lazy and corrupt too but this case is big and am sure they have no choice but to throw everything at it. The british government are offering assistance already and to save face, the government will bring forward their best foot.

If ordinary me were kidnapped, they will just wait for my family to pay the ransom and then when am released parade me with a smiling commissioner of police talking tough. They are just mentally lazy to pursue ordinary cases.

What ever.

Security Officers moved in soon after to blast to collect forensic evidence.

Are you guys happy now?

@marvix

I have not commented on this madness since it broke. I now don't need to cos u spoke well.

U have said it all for me. Thanks