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Hey Keep the old site. its clean lines, soft colours and basic arrangement is ideal. The less the clutter the better. By the way is that why Nairaland site loads the fastest on my system after Google? Just asking.

@ Seun, pls dont change it.

been getting the texts and calls, some from the number 0555 and others from +27*********. All the calls ask for your 100 bucks in a questionable lottery like game.

Maybe glo needs money to pay Alcatel Lucent for the recent fiber optic cable brought to Nigeria.

Do the math. if subscribers text 4 million times (some dudes may text more than once) then its 400million naira to be raked in based on  the cost of N100 per text message. if they give out 50 million in prices and another 50 million on adverts, the cost of texting, hiring the halls, getting journalist to cover the event, posters etc. The 'return' on 'investment' may be N300 million or more. Of course the return can be more than this. At least u get the idea.

Now assume that 2 million people text five times each, thats a billion bucks. To throw caution into the wind and speculate wildly; if half of glo's 20 million subscribers fall for the gimick,    (i shudder).

To say that nigerians behave like the proverbial Ostrich is like saying the Ocean is made up of water.

this clip has shown one of the fundamental problems of the Niger Delta; Its own leaders! With all the oil money Bayela is getting one would think that the Governor is more interested in fundamental infrastructure to touch the lives of the people. Water, Sanition, Schools, rural clinic, AGRICULTURE. But no, the guy is showing off his mansion! TOURISM my BIG foot. Who goes to see badly designed structures on an empty stomach, thats if he/she overcomes the security scare. Col Gadafi mostly in a tent for years and vowed that some of his own family will have to wait for mass housing schemes for libiyans to get theirs (sorry this took place long ago, so no links). Forget that he is a dictator or maybe just playing to the gallery, He made an impression with that statement.

Please, please Niger Deltans, how can one trust your leaders to increased share of derivations when they are reaping you so and the most painful side of it is that you are too blinded, blaming everyone else but yourselves! My heart goes out to the average Niger Deltan gang raped by the Nigerian State and their own leaders!

What the region and indeed the whole of nigeria needs is a change in leadership at all levels. Niger deltans must do more to demand accountability from their Leaders otherwise not even $200 billion per month will change but a few boreholes!

Resource Management first then Resource Control. If not the fight will be on behalf of the elites

l respect Sanusi for speaking his mind. his position is clear, anyone who doesn't agree should counter in like manner not tear at his person.  its the twenty first century people! how we gonna have sovereign national conference if we are this intolerant?

@Jarus and the topic poster

Thank you so much for this. I thinks its a good thing that Nigerians get to know how the mind of people occupying sensitive posts work. I have been a critic of Sanusi's actions in the last two months. Believe me that has not changed but reading through his articles has made me respect his person and his intellect.

I am a minority from the North, a non Moslem and I understand and appreciate his view point. It is in tandem with major grass root progressives from the North. What is shocking to me is many people here and elsewhere in Nigeria have this intense dislike for other sections of the country and have been blinded so much that nothing good can come from elsewhere. Interestingly, Sanusi's articles tells us where this is coming from. For some the blunt style of delivering the truth hurts. Well, the more it hurts maybe the closer to the truth Sanusi is.

To me, the most positive thing is that we now know Sanusi; Where he is coming from and his thinking about Nigeria. How many of our leaders have bared their mind thus? Most are middle of the road people bereft of ideology or stand on anything. Which is better?

I still have some issues with the way some aspects of this bailout was carried out sha. But I agree to most of his position on Nigeria

To say that Adenuga should take over electricity in Nigeria is just ignoring the facts.

Everytime you load that N500 recharge card or which ever, Oga Adenuga makes cheese. Its with that he hired Alcatel Lucent to build the cable. Now any one with enough cheese, a license and a nose to smell the next wave of money spinning ventures can get a cable from here to the moon. The last time I checked the cable has not even been featured in main stream western media like BBC/CNN. The seacom cable was given better coverage. Laying cables is really nothing spectacular, though due to bandwidth starvation in this country, its a major achievement to us.

Our power problems are more complex than just throwing money at it. the network, the people, the institutions, the politics, the passion, integrity of leaders and other interrelated  issues are the issues. it must be built ground up.

By the way, glo has not yet crashed bandwidth cost yet as being alluded to by some posters. We need to wait until after the commercial launch before such sweeping statements can be made. Besides the guy says he spent $800 million to build the cable, he is not father Christmas. He will recoup his money when you load that N500 or whatever recharge card again.

well I hear glo says commercial launch in 6 weeks. that'll be sometime in october 2009. I can only hope 6 weeks will be 6 weeks. meanwhile looking for my mtn 3g(?) line to manage the awful speed they spew out.

The Nigerian Maritime Safety Organization yesterday published a notice to all seafearers around the Lagos area about the cable laying ship for Main One. Now that's definite information. The coordinates are as follows:

05 19.04N
02 51.30E

06 13.27N
03 35.47E

06 25.47N
03 36.00E

To see where the cable is actually landing, copy the first set of coordinates and paste on the 'find' window of Google earth. It will zoom to somewhere in the beaches at Lekki, Lagos. i dont know Lagos that well, and the maps on Google Earth are a couple of years old especially for nigeria. But Eko ni baje citizens should be able to identify the place and let us know if any activity is on.

I dont know if any such notices were put out for Glo 1.

I sincerely hope that Glo 1 will bring true broadband speeds. I envision Glo keeping prices slightly higher than they should ideally be before main one comes on stream in 2010 to introduce some competition.

ok oh! well knowing glo I expect another round of media razzle dazzle about this. if we see none within seven days, then its another empty talk. that jamel guy?! till I see real solid change on our handsets, our bills and our speeds.

@ kusehin

you sound as though you work at multilinks. got their 1x table top some 10 weeks back, all was fine till three weeks ago. I know about the sat 3 stuff but in the past one week including yesterday, i would load up with credit, multilinks will deduct their data charges and yet i wouldnt be able to browse. Its so frustrating. Calling 111 is useless as its always busy. Managed to get a number to Abuja Customer care. An obviously tired lady made it sound as if it was my fault to loose money on their network. 'Oh God why did you load now? there is a problem with the dial up!' she told me, as if i work there and should know better. She had no idea when it will be up and running and asked me to keep calling back. I was pissed.

Its just that my choices in Gwagwalada, Abuja are so limited. No starcomms, no MTN 3G (infact GPRS sef hasnt worked in two weeks), No Glo 3G, even multilinks runs just 1x, No EVDO. And to think this town hosts a University! No wonder the free campus wireless and wired networks are always choked. On a good day its 3Mbps download and 1Mbps Upload. However, the operators (SSANU) are on strike. i am forced to use zoom, its sooooooooo slow. Its faster to jump on a plane and fetch the page yourself (ok, just kidding).

I am doomed.

I have been folowing the glo 1 fiber cable for the past one year. It hurts me that after being so patriotically euphoric about this 'accomplishment' some one year ago, Glo appears to be not so striaght foward about this cable. Has anyone followed the deployment of SEACOM in east africa? their website contain up to date information and pictures for all to track the progress. Even main one has more information, pricing details and deployment dates on their sites.

Forward to Glo. their website has very little useful informaton. Infact its more than a big boast than anything else. Then what of the information that Glo and co have been dishing out? for one the capacity of the cable is not clear. Second, the landing date is is anyones guess. Its like predicting the appearance of a shooting star:

Check out this time line;

October 2007 ( http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-7184532/Glo-1-nearing-completion.html ) Glo announced way back in October 2007 that their cable was nearing completion

Since that time to date several news sources have continued to cite the completion dates for the project as soon, guess the lack of information is not only within Nigeria e.g. ( http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-171402100.html )

March 2009 ( http://www.telecomsinsight.com/file/71432/glo-1-submarine-cable-to-be-launched-in-march-2009.html http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/our-work/blogs/glo-1-added-undersea-cables )

April 2009? - In this one its said the cable has been launched! ( http://www.sturvs.com/Business/Glo-1_Undersea_Cable_Has_Finally_Launched_in_Nigeria/ )


June 2009 - this time the cable is one and a half months from Ghana ( http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/compulife/article03//indexn3_html?pdate=030609&ptitle=Glo%201%20submarine%20cable%20heads%20for%20Ghana,%20Nigeria&cpdate=040609 )

November 2009 ( http://www.chairmanking.com/glo-1-cable-launch-moved-november-20090821/ ) don't hold your breath on this one oh, u may suffocate


This article raises important posers for globacom in this business of shifting goal post http://www.234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/Business/5445342-146/story.csp

I hate to say this but Glo is not so reliable when it comes to stuff like this. I wonder how they attract funding from seroius organisatins with this kinds of unrelible information. Even their promise of rolling out fixed wireless way back in 2006 never materialized, yet

@ init4moni - Hope its not the Glo type of Story

@ poster:

the new C OF O fee on land in abuja has gone up by 900% from N2000/m2 to N18,000/m2

Are you sure of your facts? a regular plot in Abuja is 1,000m². If you are correct, then the average cost of C of O per plot will be N18,000,000 (Eighteen million naira). How realistic is that? Yaradua chop craze? Another fact is that there is difference in the cost of C of O in Abuja City and the Area Councils.

So verify and let us know before we run amuck

@Moderator or who dunit?

why you remove ma post? Was it too critical of glo? I had chronicled their ever shifting goal post for the fiber cable since March 2007 to September 2009.

Nigerians deserve better information.

@ sissy - thank you o jare

If the husband cant carry the entire responsibility of the home why not help out? would you rather he steals? After all what a man can do, Seriously, if the woman earns some dough there should be no qualms helping out.

Things are difficult now more than ever and helping is it. Unless the man spends his money on useless things (aka other women or booze) there is no need to complain. Next time marry Dangote

tough luck dear.

Come to think of it you have not been fair to both men. something tells me you married your husband just because the time was 'right' for you. On the other hand you might have wanted to spite your boyfriend cause he wasnt ready and was honest enough to tell you. I may be wrong. You have two options, one is to divorce your current husband and be off with your boyfriend (assuming he will still want you), the second is you nurse your wounds in private (it was your choice).

The former is strongly advised. Get rid of anything that reminds you of him, stop calling him, concentrate on your husband and plan on getting kids ASAP. Kids have a way of arresting a woman's attention. The mistake has been made you take steps to correct it or you will soon find yourself in hot water

wirinet:
Sanusi is the defacto CBN governor, the buck stops at his table. If any deputy disagrees with his course of action, honour demands they resign, at least that is how it is done in other climes. It would be difficult for someone to implement a policy you disagree with. You do not wait to be sacked. Anyway this is Nigeria.

@ wirinet you are one correct guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sanusi will carry the can should things go wrong. the buck stops at his table period!

I have been folowing the glo 1 fiber cable for the past one year. It hurts me that after being so patriotically euphoric about this 'accomplishment' some one year ago, Glo appears to be not so striaght foward about this cable. Has anyone followed the deployment of SEACOM in east africa? their website contain up to date information and pictures for all to track the progress. Even main one has more information, pricing details and deployment dates on their sites.

Forward to Glo. their website has very little useful informaton. Infact its more than a big boast than anything else. Then what of the information that Glo and co have been dishing out? for one the capacity of the cable is not clear. Second, the landing date is is anyones guess. Its like predicting the appearance of a shooting star:

Check out this time line;

October 2007 ( http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-7184532/Glo-1-nearing-completion.html ) Glo announced way back in October 2007 that their cable was nearing completion

Since that time to date several news sources have continued to cite the completion dates for the project as soon, guess the lack of information is not only within Nigeria e.g. ( http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-171402100.html )

March 2009 ( http://www.telecomsinsight.com/file/71432/glo-1-submarine-cable-to-be-launched-in-march-2009.html http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/our-work/blogs/glo-1-added-undersea-cables )

April 2009? - In this one its said the cable has been launched! ( http://www.sturvs.com/Business/Glo-1_Undersea_Cable_Has_Finally_Launched_in_Nigeria/ )


June 2009 - this time the cable is one and a half months from Ghana ( http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/compulife/article03//indexn3_html?pdate=030609&ptitle=Glo%201%20submarine%20cable%20heads%20for%20Ghana,%20Nigeria&cpdate=040609 )

November 2009 ( http://www.chairmanking.com/glo-1-cable-launch-moved-november-20090821/ ) don't hold your breath on this one oh, u may suffocate


This article raises important posers for globacom in this business of shifting goal post http://www.234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/Business/5445342-146/story.csp

I hate to say this but Glo is not so reliable when it comes to stuff like this. I wonder how they attract funding from seroius organisatins with this kinds of unrelible information. Even their promise of rolling out fixed wireless way back in 2006 never materialized, yet

this Nwodo guy is a typical Nigerian Politician, when things dont go their way, they invite the military. Yes things are bad, so Nwodo does not believe in the same democracy he professes, he cant mobilize his people like Mahatma Ghandi, cant sacrifice his life like Mandela, cant engage the government in legal tussles like Gani. he seeks the easy way; MILITARY intervention. He doesnt care about the consequences; the lives that may be lost and the years it will take to recover. Oh yes, as long as i cant have it, or things are not good, let every thing spoil. Yes damage it all, after all he may be made a minister when they take over. Nwodo needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Its for the likes of him that we are in this mess.

@mikeansy
Another take on Nwodo's story on Buhari
The Military has no right givin ultimatum to their commander in chief more so giving him the story of not being able to guarantee security or stability because of whatever. They follow orders pure and simple. Anything other than that is mutiny or insurbodination. it is a seroius crime. implying that or refering to such in the speech for justification of influencing politics was definitely out of order.

i think Nigerians are missing an important point here. the guy was KIDNAPPED and then released most they did was a reception, jokes about 'lubricating' Edochie's system and giving thanks to God! Yes give thanks BUT a serious crime was committed and nothing concrete was said about bringing the perpetrators to justice or more importantly how to deal with the the root cause of the problem in pragmatic manner.  How about the people reportedly killed in the process of the kidnapping? Where is justice for them? Did any government official visit them to assure them that justice will be done? Only the living celebrate abi? Then, of course, the next big man is kidnapped and the story goes again. Kai Naija!

my three favorites are in the following order

(i) Riola: she is good but she needs to be careful about getting worked up towards the end. Probably carried away by the crowd. She is distinct with her moves and voice and doesnt mimic like Ovie did the last time

(ii) Ovie; she is super but seems a little lifeless. Her voice is good, if not the best. Her lack of stage persona makes Roila tops

(iii) Tamara; Her 'violent' performance in the last show was an overkill. She probably wanted to repeat her superb performance in the first show where she was strong and forceful in the rendition of Beyonce's Listen. Infact more forceful than Beyonce in the original song. A piece of advice; Keep that up and you will be out of the show in no time. By the way as a professional singer (backups for Lagbaja and co) I dont think she should be in the show. Well s**t happens

Others

(iv) Tarila: The only guy really grooving along.

(v) Angelic voices: They were a little off in several places. Good luck

Well thats ma round up

my three favorites are in the following order

(i) Riola: she is good but she needs to be careful about getting worked up towards the end. Probably carried away by the crowd. She is distinct with her moves and voice and doesnt mimic like Ovie did the last time

(ii) Ovie; she is super but seems a little lifeless. Her voice is good, if not the best. Her lack of stage persona makes Roila tops

(iii) Tamara; Her 'violent' perfomance in the last show was an overkill. She probably wanted to repeat her superb performance in the first show where she was strong and forceful in the rendition of beyonce's Listen. Infact more forceful than the original song. A piece of advice; Keep that up and you will out of the show in no time. By the way as a professional singer (backups for Lagbaja and co) I dont think she should be in the show. Well s**t happens

Others

(iv) Tarila: The only guy really grooving along.

(v) Angelic voices: They were a little off in several places. Good luck

Well thats ma round up

The ASUU president also alleged that the government had already stopped their salaries, contrary to the claim by the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), that their July salaries had been paid.

Kai Prof (ASUU President), this propaganda has moved a notch higher. Academic Staffs received their July salaries in full! Okojie (NUC Ex Sec) was right! August salaries are being prepared as normal (Preparations start by the 10th of every month). i know this cos i work in one of the Federal Universities. I think its time to call off the strike dudes; everybody is battle weary. ASUU's argument is now sounding so hollow, their reaction looks like a computer iteration that may ultimately lead to a "blue screen of death" for the university system.