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Garmin, Tom Tom and co are in more trouble

Hey Nairalanders, This guy unlocked my modem for free!!!!!!!!!!! And even spent his hard earned N5 to text the code to me. Thanks man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@monoxide
its as simple as pulling it out. Its located  at the base of the USB connector (the part that slides into ur PC). Its the same way a sim is located in many nokia phones

@regiblinkz

Are you sure you are in the right tread?

@ blaze
You are welcome. Anything to help a brother. Etisalat or glo? hhhmmm, I will go for glo. Why? 6,000 bucks for 100 hours of 3g is the most sensible bargain amongst all networks in Gwags. Glo's 3g is faster than etisalat's EDGE. Be ready to endure some network outages (like flipping from 3g to GPRS) though it lasts for a couple of minutes and is not that frequent.

@ dual core
May be your babe was not the technologically adventurous type. I dont blame her. It can be a pain in the neck trying several options, but it worth it and where in Nigeria this doesnt happen. University of Abuja used to have campus wide (academic area and hostels) wireless internet and all classrooms and offices are wired with access speed of 3mbps. Trust Nigerians to abuse previledges. I used to hook to the wired LAN and browse, sometimes oh, during lectures (to look up things and challenge some mentally lazy lectures with whacky questions. It was fun!)

CIA, FBI ''storm'' Nigeria

What does ''storm'' mean? According to the dictionary it means ''A violent commotion or disturbance'' ''Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger'' ''A direct and violent assault on a stronghold''

Nigerian journalist and their tabloid mentality. Is this the best way to discribe FBI's involvement in the questioning of Mutallab snr? No wonder when you read our papers u would think that the whole of Nigeria is on fire! what more of foreigners and analyst from other countries?

Half baked journalist. NUJ better go through their ranks with a tooth comb and weed out such 'journalists'

Starcoms? there is no starcomms coverage in gwagwalada. The fastest connection is glo. Have raced up to 1.6Mbps sometimes but 600- 900kbps is often more like it.

Zain is whacked here. the Edge speeds are like70kbps

reltel abi zoom is more than whacked. its like 20 - 40kbps. I have since dashed out my modem, and i had problem getting people to even accept it for free

Etisalat is decent. Get 200 -250kbps. Its the most stable. more stable than glo sef.

No MTN 3g. its a dubious Edge. its like 100 -150kbps that is very unstable

University of Abuja (within the campus and environs) wireless is free and initially fast at 1 - 1.5 mbps. Its now less than 40kbps if it works at all. I hear it was downgraded on purpose.

believe me i have tried them all in Gwagwalada

we now radioed the PH Control Tower not to allow the plane to land and even if it lands, it should be seized

he immediately ordered that the aircraft be grounded on arrival in Lagos for proper investigation

I didnt know that Nigeria's governor have the power to order aircrafts around , order aircrafts not to land and generally direct air traffic. This Governor allowed his fright to take the better part of him. He is issuing insane orders like Nigerian Airspace Management Authority is a parastatal in Akwa Ibom State

One will expect him to make a formal report to the relevant agency, ask his senators, house of representative members look into it and make laws to ensure anti collision devices are installed in all aircrafts. That way his experience would not have been in vain; it may save lives. Maybe the Honourables will even not listen to him. They are busy negotiating their allowances in the budget.

Haba Glo, Why announce a service when it is not ready. Glo broadband is not yet ready. Read the report, they say it will be launched soon. its the same thing with Glo 1. It was not ready when they announced it. do a speedtest and no matter where you are in Nigeria you will see that their access is through Intelsat in Lagos. It simply means that Glo 1 is yet to be up and running since the media hoopla. Now its Glo broadband, and they say they are now SET to launch the service. Why not delay the announcement till they are really ready.

And our lazy Journalist will not ask tough questions, just repeat what the Glo people spew out. Check out, virtually all newspapers are saying the same thing copying verbatim what Glo says. Nobody is holding them to account for their word, and they are good at using superlative terms in describing their capabilities (world class, state of the art, the best, magical digital(whatever that means)).  What we want is service, good service and not these empty talk!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ jdoss

i feel u man. i have given up on glo for the glo1 cable. On this one its seeing is believing. Main One is less secretive

men! i never knew all these about 'the father of the internet' though i had my reservations on that title years ago having known of Sir Barnard Lee.

And i thought the guy was a role model for my kids damn!

around Abuja 'pure water' is toyota corolla.

i am yet to hear one of us say she lied against nigeria.

OK, Who in the Big Brother House is saying anything about their country? the nasty parts? Who is saying that the crime rate in south africa is through the roof? What of the demostrations, recession and poverty? Whos is saying that Mozambique is still in the aftermath of the most senseless war in world history, who in the House is talking about the worst recession about to hit Namibia and how it is affecting the citizens, crime rate and political dissaffection. Who goes out of his or her house to cry about the families troubles. NO ONE wants to hear that. Big Brother is not about "telling me your country's problems and i will tell you mine". Who else is doing that? She should control her tongue. PERIOD. Her personality sucks.

What has this got to do with lying about Nigeria?

1. Nkenna had once told us that her elder sister is still unmarried and giving the family some concern as they pray and fast day and night for suitors to come knocking,  

2. Nkenna told House Mates how she cheated at IMSU  (Basic Electricity), mentioned the invigilator' name, names of her coursemates that were rusticated due to same offence. And despite the cheating, she failed the course and her family went to the school to find out why their daughter should fail.

4. That its a taboo for a man to kiss a woman in Nigeria

5. She has nothing to do with guys. Admitted to have dated at least five (5) ladies - Is she telling Africa that she' bisexual?

Ikenna is one reason i stopped watching Big Brother. DAMN! That girl is whacked. How on earth did she get there in the first place?

Gwagwalada, Abuja

Glo - 3G
Zain - 3G
MTN - EDGE
Etisalat - EDGE

others

Zoom - 1x
Multilink - 1x

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@ Sagamite

Quote from: goggs on Yesterday at 08:24:10 PM
Ha ha see kettle calling the pot black. You guys have not even taken time to read the judgment that sent Bode George to the land of Micheal Scoffield. Bode George was not convicted for stealing. He was convicted for contract splitting, disobeying a lawful order amongst others. In as much as i would have wanted more years for the man, we need to understand issues well before speaking our minds. You might wrongly influence others.

Only if Farida Waziri had asked the court to convict him for stealing, the judge would have so stated and he (Bode) would have been most likely be asked to refund the loot or had his assets confiscated. We in naija sometimes dey too emotive

My friend, a paper reported that they "inflated contracts".

(4th paragragh please)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/27/n84bn-npa-contracts-scam-bode-george-5-others-jailed-28-years/

It would be reasonable to assume inflation of contracts would be for personal gain, wouldn't it?

Mr Sagamite, dont believe everything you read in the papers and most importantly NEVER ASSUME even if it appears 'reasonable' as you put it. Read the judgment for your self man and stop quoting from political stories where issues are most likely distorted. The prosecution could not prove it was for personal gain. Why/ i don't know. I wish they could. So since that didnt come up, the long sentences for Bode and his co travelers didnt happen. The judge passed sentences on the prosecution prayers.

please has anybody tried the prepaid in abuja

look before you post leap

This journalist lacks an analytical brain to, even for one second, consider questioning his praise of a judge he (The journalist) is reporting jailed 4 people for 120 years each for an offence of less than N20m, but the same judge only deems it fit to jail those with a N84 BILLION scam for 28 years each.

120years for stealing 20million. VS 2.5years for stealing 84billion.

Ha ha see kettle calling the pot black. You guys have not even taken time to read the judgment that sent Bode George to the land of Micheal Scoffield. Bode George was not convicted for stealing. He was convicted for contract splitting, disobeying a lawful order amongst others. In as much as i would have wanted more years for the man, we need to understand issues well before speaking our minds. You might wrongly influence others.

Only if Farida Waziri had asked the court to convict him for stealing, the judge would have so stated and he (Bode) would have been most likely be asked to refund the loot or had his assets confiscated. We in naija sometimes dey too emotive

Glo advertised their prepaid 3g data service in the punch of 19th October, 2009. its similar to MTN. it has a day pack of 24hrs (N500), month packs qualified as min and max for around N10K or so, and data charged as per volume. i couldnt get to bring the paper home so cant remember the precise names and cost. A quick check on their site revealed nothing. So i decided to try the day pack. i sent 'activate' to 127 and got the options. N500 was deducted and acknowledged but i subsequently was billed on PAYG and i lost my remaining credit. i was not put on the day pack even though i was charged for it. it was really fast i must say. i managed to get through to customer care. they couldnt help. they refered me to a number Glo itself says it doesnt exists. 10 hrs in to my 24hrs i still cant browse. on the plan. i cant bear another 30 mins on the phone waiting my turn for customer care. Does anybody have any info on this latest glo offering, any experience? i thought with glo 1 all fired up data will be cheaper. whats your take? [color=][/color][color=][/color]

i dont think that report is 100 percent accurate. dont get me wrong lake nyos exists, it did kill people in the 80's. i have been following the story on the net and even on national geographic. 1st the lake is as a result of water in a volcanic caldera not exactly a 'dam' in the true sense. itss being fed underground by volcanic gasses. most danger is from the cabon monoxide that will be release evenn b.y the caldera wall falling into the lake stirring the water. more people are likely to die from that as the gas is very dense and will hug the ground for miles. if the wall collapses totally more will die. if the lake contains 5million liters its just 5,000 m2. thats not much. its equivillent to a large city water works (adiyan water works may be) definitely not enough to submerge all these states mentioned and to think it will submmerge Markurdi forever!!? that incredulous! dunno kno it seems someoone wants to stampede the government into releasing huge sums for , well u can guess. Lake Nyoos is a threat but not t o this level. take a look at thhe lake t hrough google earth or search wikipedia. if it were that much of a threat plenty world scientist would have decended here making once in a life time study. if its that bad how come the camerounians are silient. shei the lake is in their country. i hope it will not be billions galore. seroiusly though it is dangerous for many nigerians living near the lake around taraba, benue, and cross river[color=][/color]

mr MD why did you conviniently refuse to adress the bribery allegation against the CBN/Mint? The Aussies said sucurrency bribed the CBN to get contracts, soludo said the CBN doesnt award minting contracts. they asked the mint to produce the polymer and not the Aussy company. it suggests that the mint awarded the contract. the questions are who influenced the CBN/Mint to utilize polymer in place of paper. were bribes involved? (This is a major allegation from the Aussies). who gave out the contracts? were bribes involved? was it fair? did the nation get value for money? these are questions begging for Farida's (EFCC Czar) new found energy to get solved. the MD's talk of running down the mint is diversionary, he want to place sentiments above common sense and analytical thinking. incidentally thats what our leaders do when faced with such situation, its either they hate me cos i am so so religion, tribe, or region. for this case its because 'they dont want the mint to succeed'. Bullsh*t! its the business world man, who wants everyone else to succeed. na them born you? face the allegations, clear the air as transparently as you can. want we Nigerians want is accountability; some one too hold accountable when things go wrong. No side stepping issues pls.[color=][/color][color=][/color]

dear Lord, may this glo tin come sooner than later, u know how hard it is to get on line in this country. just yesterday Lord, i could get no MTN service so wanted to check my mail, hooked up my mobile to my laptop and dialed direct through glo. Lord, after 4 web pages and using speedtest,N500 naira, yes N500 Lord was taken frm me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ah, thats what i earned that day! Lord. may you give the strength to Glo to start this fiber thing and help them to tell more truths about this cable. Thank you Lord Amen.

Gusau, Zamfara. Sin free city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i own a toyota carina ii I call melinda. she is more like 'kick and go' in terms of reliability. bought her toks in March 2004. she is cool. great fuel economy (710km on 65 liters), just routine service (oil and filter change) every 3000 km. ditched the A/C cos i got decieved by mechanics one too many times. changed the radiator soon after purchase. I have travelled to many parts of naija with her clocking over 150,000 on the odometer. the only major problem i had was in late 2007. made a silly mistake of filling up the radiator overflow plastic bottle. barely 100km into a journey the engine overheated. burnt the gasket and broke a piston. mechanics in a roadside village were able to fix her with less than 7k. no problems since then. have occasional shocks and shaft problems. i think its cos i get sold fakes. other than that, its the usual; brake pads, hand brake cable cuts, changed the injector nozzles, fuel pump (did majic to my accelaration) and regular maintenance. she will have to go later this year cos i need to upgrade my status. i will miss her. i can only hope her replacement, a toyota camry 2004 i plan to call 'Hugo', will be as kind to me.[color=][/color][color=][/color]

@ Myjoe: since this sanusi/bank wahala started, among most posters you appear to me to be among the very very few who are objective and want facts to lead their conclusions on the matter. For we need to remember, no matter how tempting it is to be emotive, it is facts that will lead to rational thinking and problem solving else you stand to give urself unnecessary high BP. Even if its an agenda, at least nobody is denying that wrongs have been commited in the banks or that SLS has acted illegally. if we continue to be emotive i doubt if very tough action needed to correct Nigeria's ills will ever get off the ground.[color=][/color]

@ Myjoe: since this sanusi/bank wahala started, among most posters you appear to me to be among the very very few who are objective and want facts to lead their conclusions on the matter. For we need to remember, no matter how tempting it is to be emotive, it is facts that will lead to rational thinking and problem solving else you stand to give urself unnecessary high BP. Even if its an agenda, at least nobody is denying that wrongs have been commited in the banks or that SLS has acted illegally. if we continue to be emotive i doubt if very tough action needed to correct Nigeria's ills will ever get off the ground.[color=][/color][color=][/color]

hey people, put ur emotions in check and consider the issues on their merit. the ssg was sent on official assignment the day he was kidnapped. the government rightly said they will not declare him missing until after 24 hrs. which is standard police procedure. forget that media spokespersson for kaduna didnt handle the info well. he was kidnapped and taken to warri (i wonder at this towns newest export) and returned some days later. u guys expected him to say 'l paid x million naira' common guys! it doesnt work that way. if he did, he would have confirmed that kidnapping brings in the highest return on investment after politics. the result is putting more people in danger, many more innocent ones like u and i. to expect him (ssg) to say he or the government paid ransome to the kidnappers is being naive plain and simple![color=][/color]