Velocitron:
But I think you can always use inline styling if you think an external stylesheet is too inconvenient.

Which is still CSS.. Inline or external. But if you want to make life easier, external is just the way to go. Certain elements of your site share the same styling, less ton of codes to deal with, easier style editing and code reuse etc

I thought they said Nigerian IT Professionals are not skilled, I'm impressed that people are showing up in tech forums these days

Built2last:
What da heck is CSS...cherubim and Seraphim School?...why can't someone say tge full meaning and explain its function on web design...

Una won confuse me with IT jaggons...God pass una.

If i use the jargons in my field will you understand.

Ok is it better to invoke HDDMI on finacle in Draft manipulatios on Finacle?

CSS means cascading style sheets. Its a coding style that makes your website look attractive and presentable. It helps you to change style for your fonts, arrange and position certain parts of your website to confirm with standards, enable your website have a uniform look uniform across browsers etc. It does a lot of magic on the presentation and appearance of your website.

Without it, what you would have is a clunky looking, uninteresting and unresponsive website that just displays text and images in a non-uniform manner.

Have you seen a car just manufactured straight from the assembly plant with all th welding and look of roughness without spray painting?

Will the Help come without any condition attached? Or.......?

In My Opinion, Rule of Law in Nigeria since 2007 has so far been misrepresented to mean Lack of Enforcement of Law. The process of recovery of recovery of these looted funds have been shrouded in secrecy and I believe lack of accountability and transparency have not been applied.

I believe with technology an proper audit, there will be better implementation of due process.

#TeamGreggles ready to deliver!

Dear Nairalanders,

It is out of concern and patriotism that I write. I have become very disappointed in the way many of us relate with one another on this forum. Against laid down rules on Nairaland, many of us have chosen to display a very low psychological and mental level of development. Some of us who claim to better or more civilised than others have chosen the path of intimidation, abuse and complete lack of respect for rules of engagement provided by this forum for our social discourse and engagement.

The following Rules in Nairaland are stated very clearly for everyone:

Rule 2. Don't abuse, bully, deliberately insult/provoke, fight, or wish harm to Nairaland members OR THEIR TRIBES.

Rule 3. Don't THREATEN, advocate, or encourage violent acts against any person, tribe, race, animals, or group.

Nairalanders, this is very simple! If anyone disobeys any of these rules, PLEASE DO NOT REPLY THAT PERSON, simply REPORT THE POST OR TOPIC with the click of the button immediately and the post will be hidden, and subsequently if reviewed by moderators, the poster will be possibly banned for a certain period of time

As Rule 13 further states, Please report any post or topic that violates the rules of Nairaland using the (Report) button.

I do sincerely wish that we thread on the side of caution, peace, oneness and respect for one another, and do not further promote any form of hate, threat, violent ethnic jingoism, and other tribal insightments that violate clearly stated rules and encourage disintegration of our country Nigeria.

If we must engage in politics and political discourse and arguments, we must do so in a manner which focuses on the topic or issue, not inciting hate or violence against one another or one another's tribe.

Thank you very much and God Bless us all. Happy new week ahead!

These are some of the reasons why Nigerians elected them so its something that must be resolved, not just talked about

Wishing Mr President a good outing in SA.

BTW I think he needs a Technology Crew out there to get things digitally organized for presentation, I wouldn't mind being his IT coordinator though

#TeamGreggles Yeah

Consider the bandwidth issues of most users in your niche. For instance, if your target niche is Nigerians then Videos may not get the traffic you desire due to bandwidth problems

Consider your own bandwidth issues too, if you want to comment on videos or write about movies, music etc, you need to watch or listen to them yourself, you might also have to upload from your system sometimes which takes as much bandwidth

Consider copyright issues too especially if you want people to download content from your site

Finally, consider making your site interactive and free from too much distracting ads if you want people to enjoy visiting the site

Finally, I think it is saturated though creativity and a careful research to make something different would put you ahead especially with good marketing strategy and unique content

Cheers!

$74 million? Em... That can build a really standard health center and reduce foreign trips abroad for health checkups!

And I can design the website and setup the IT infrastructure fo that project... Job creation

Born2eatPussy:
I need a professional who can create a website for me.
I will give you the sample of what i need the website to look like, & you think you can do it. Just contact me

My contact details are on my profile. I am a professional website developer and certified database admin and I develop various kinds of sites including ecommerce, ERP, business process and networking applications for companies etc. Kindly contact me using the details on my profile. Thanks

I think they got Independence earlier than they should have. The economy has the highest inflation in the world. Mugabe forced the whites out without some kind of backup plan for self sufficiency and it resulted in economic sanctions that they're not able to deal with. He needs to explore more opportunites within Africa or open up the country to investors, implement more business friendly policies and fight injustice and corruption, but would he listen to reason?

Edited.

This is serious! Didn't they do a background check on him? I'll wait to learn more on this because its an allegation for now

If this is true, its wonderful, though expensive, but they will live to tell new stories and probably even go back someday to educate and mentally develop the younger ones who know nothing about the world out there. This is good for development!

This is no baby, its a doll. It was created as a mockery for africans calling for "Black Dolls" instead of white dolls. I don't have a source so Believe me or the OP at your own risk

Vicotex:
Op your biggest mistake is that you never knew that Oyigbo, Obio/akpor are both igbo towns. Base on biafra war, the ekwerre renamed those towns from Umuokoro, Umuodara to Rumuodara , rumuokoro etc. And OBIGBO to OYIGBO

Are you serious the renaming happened after the war? I've always thought that as a myth or unverified claim

RevDesmondJuju:



Dey there dey wait on campaign promise.

By the way, which time una come like gbesse like this for Southwest?

What has south west got to do with this? Have you travelled abroad before to observe that business loans and credit is a standard? Why shouldn't it happen here in Nigeria? Ngozi Okonjo Iweala did it with Youwin and other programmes and Buhari's government can do same and make it reach more people

90% of startups close down in Nigeria and adequate startup credit, electricity and other factors are responsible

You sound like a tribal bigot please don't insult peoples' tribes and don't insinuate that everyone who believes in the govertnment of the present is from a certain part of the country.

By the way, loan is not "gbese" (if that word means "freebies"

I really think our President needs to hit the ground running, there seems to be too much planning going on underground which has no time limit, I think we should have started seeing policy adjustments by now.

My own concern is business loans and funding for IT startups o, that's where it is paining me, Mr President needs to do something asap

Skywalker5:


But what if the government intervened and fund startups for IT,how will it get better? At the moment, the mentality of most SME is not positive when we talk about IT infrastructure. How many companies are interested in e-marketing? how many companies believe in digital data in Nigeria? How many companies are interested in digital branding? I spoke about one insurance company before that had their staff using paper and biro because their server was faulty for over 3 months. Personally, that shows that they don't care about their IT infrastructure. I have hardly heard of a company whose server infrastructure is down for 48 hours in UK without someone being fired or someone's contract dropped.

I feel the solution is education and law. There has to be a policy about company data in Nigeria.Without that, i don't see much progress in terms of IT infrastructure. Only the big companies can afford to spend money on infrastructure like banks. Speaking of banks,after EOL for windows XP, i saw a few banks in Nigeria using Win-Xp (ATM machine and office PC). That was scary considering the fact that Microsoft stopped supporting and updating Windows XP.

The problem is not that companies are not ready to patronize and promote IT, the problem is the cost of delivery of the service, its quite expensive for them, and most people offering IT services hardly are equipped themselves. We'll not really understand these simple problems and solutions if we keep looking at the "big unatainable" picture of this problem. You blame IT service providers, have you looked at the cost of getting properly trained and equipped after training? How many people can afford that? Just few, and these are the people who have all the monopoly while the rest struggle with setting up themselves till funding comes by luck, We have to focus on simple solutions

I keep giving instance with the agric sector but people don't seem to corelate these 2 fields. Before when there was no funding for agric, youths were never interested in going into the sector because when you mention agric, people think about "farming", now there is awareness and funding, people now understand that agric also includes automated poulty systems which are no longer manual etc and they all want to participate.

Fristly, we need to provide funding to core IT professionals, not just people who learnt to use joomla and wordpress to infiltrate the system. Every IT service provider needs a business that can stay on 24hrs, that means, it needs solar panels and inverters, which can be setup with about 1million or more or less depending on the equipment you're running in the office. IT Pros, depending on their nature of businesses, need data centers and backup systems, stable and unlimited internet service, standard equipment etc depending on your business. This is the major condition for them to provide standard competitive services. There should also be some sort of internet policy in Nigeria such as reduced tax rates when shopping online as compared to offline, cheaper internet bundles etc, but first things first. Funding is needed, I have not seen any country in the world with high success rates without funding.

I believe we should stop this attitude of blaming Nigerians for the shortcomings of our government systems to provide services. I have travelled abroad and seen how people are succeeding based on conducive environment which includes startup loans and capital. Google would have been history if they were not funded because Larry Page and Sergey Brin became frustrated with lack of funding after being rejected by many investors, and decided to sell or drop the project until one particular investor decided to take the risk

I think it makes more economic sense if government rather provides credit and loans for post service graduates who want to go into business to do so and also create jobs for others who are not confident enough to be entrepreneurs.

Having passed through NYSC and learnt a skill, government can at least support such endeavours by providing the intending enterpreneurs with various loan schemes and support programmes in different categories between N3 million and N10 million naira. Before this happens, everyone to benefit from such should be issued with a National ID card attached to your BVN so that there won't be much security concerns that will warrant requesting for collateral. This would also help the banks in case you need more credit facility, and with time in the nearest future our national ID will become a requirement to rent a house, apply for a job, apply for a loan, open a bank account etc which will ultimately end the era of collaterals for loan.

This is my take

DropShot:

If we're not politicians, our concern should only be about good governance and not who holds what position.

Yes, my concern is my business and prosperity in Nigeria generally. We need dividends of democracy badly. Can't wait to see the day Nigerians will be able to obtain business loans, study loans etc like it is done in other countries, without being asked to bring collateral. Our social security services should be working, this country badly needs restoration so internal politics is not my concern as long as it brings development

Masculity:
EFCC take note he dey for London.

Hilarious!

DropShot:
I can't be too concerned about the,politics of APC/PDP as long as PMB delivers on his change promise.

You just said my mind

JustCalMeDBoss:
The president only trying to get rid of jagaban influence on the party. because he schedule the meeting. And was not der.

That would really sound like a war is about to take place, hope this does not delay or stall governance for a while. The way I see it, there was no need for the meeting if it was meant to lure them away, it would have been better he never intervened and allowed Lawan and Saraki play a level ground politics and at least be satisfied with a democratic win or defeat. I wanted to see the more popular candidate elected on level play ground, so we won't have claims of manipulation to favor anyone

Skywalker5:


I'm a bit confused but can you explain the bold part? It's my assumption that most companies in Nigeria dont want to spend money on backend infrastructure as they dont value IT. They dont see the value of investing in IT Infrastructure and they complain that servers or deployments are expensive. How will a RHCSA and RHCE Certified professional change this? Are IT Professional going to start doing deployments and MSP cheaply?
How will they be able to educate companies on the value of having digital data? With electricity problems in Nigeria,how will IT infrastructure will be managed for SME?

Other developed and developing governments are providing enabling environment and also startup loans and funds to SMEs but here we expect everyone to succeed out of nothing, no enabling environment, no funding, then we blame them when they can't succeed, are Nigerians magicians?

With the high cost of startup, running, market penetration, maintaining international standards, getting trained further and all, you can only get few successes in the industry without intervention funds.

Compare this to agriculture, if government didn't intervene and fund the sector, we would never be where we are today, and we would've kept blaming people in that sector.

We must identify the role technology plays in developing our country, and then pay attention to supporting it to grow, else we will never experience the expected growth and encourage new entrants, 10 years from now, we may still be battling on the same level

Cc: lalasticlala

tswitch:



Let me break it down:

My opinion is the first sentence.

My point is the answer to the second sentence which happens to be a question. What of the APC senators we all saw voting for Saraki, are they PDP members too?

Do you understand now? The theory is full of loopholes that shows it's birth from unsubstantiated facts,propanganda and personal opinion and choice typically meaning you expected a Lawan victory and a Gbajamiala entry.

I still don't get your point. Read the question again. Your replies are prejudiced and didn't answer the question. Do you think that Buhari actually scheduled that meeting or someone else did so to lure away the APC members? I'm not keen at who wins the presidency, I didn't even want the president intervening, I expected both candidates contesting and bringing out the most popular candidate, but then, looking closely, it looks like someone lured the party leaders and house members to the ICC, and the fact that President Buhari was absent at the meeting shows something fishy may have happened

Twy:
Frankly, we as Nigerians are the architects of our own predicament, these politicians deep down are just massaging their ego and pulling different stunts just to improve their social and political standing. it has nothing to do with improving the economic or well being of the general masses but like are I said, it is what I term a typical Nigerian move, massage ego, promote personal interest and find beaten down minds to support you. The question? Saraki's move with PDP says little about policy or legislative direction, will he partner with PDP senators or partner with the president? What is the end game here in terms of my wife and children? I just hate selfish pricks in my face all the time, a sentiment most Nigerians refuce to share.

For me I don't really have keen interest on who becomes elected as long as it will bring the promised change and affect our lives positively, but I care about what went down because it will give us an idea of what might likely happen in the coming months and years. For instance, if the president himself pulled this off, then will expect more crisis rocking the party in the near future and do you think that will be good for us? If he did not have a hand in this, then it would be easier to resolve internally, but then Bukola Saraki would not have anyone to run to when EFCC comes knocking at his door, there are certain things we should prepare our minds for

tswitch:
Your conspiracy theory stinks and it is not fish we smell!

So other APC senators in the NA today were what? Signboards?

Keep on deluding yourselves with illusions of a grand scheme while the whole world watches.

I don't even get your point here, all I needed was your opinion

UnknownT:
I wonder how someone in Saraki's camp would have pulled such stunt that had Tinubu, Akume, APC governors and APC NWC members waiting for the president. The op is trying to absolve Buhari of calling for the meeting and looking for a fall guy to blame. Saraki would have won, 57>51

Far from my intention, don't forget Saraki was Amaechi's candidate, there are so many possibilities here but I am being cautious at mentioning any suspect in the brouhaha. Judging from Buhari's record, do you really think he would intentionally play this game with his party members and leadership and put himself at odds with them? The way I see it, Buhari has nothing to lose whether Saraki or Lawan wins, think about it

9jatriot:

Who then communicated the meeting? I feel Saraki would have still won if APC did not go with a united front since he was always going to have his PDP friends back him up, but why play the treachery card, it simply reduces his person and credibility?

Well, I cannot blame Saraki or anyone if this suspicion is true, we just have to wait and confirm more details, its really getting dramatic but hope it doesn't delay or stall the house from getting down with business, I expect the APC to issue a statement and hold a peace meeting if neccessary.