₦airaland Forum

Lamasta: What am trying to say is that if our Government invest in Science and Technology we will have individuas or Engineers that will build equipments for our security and not necessarily sending troops to other countries so that you can be secure in uour own country.

Lamasta: It takes only one USA scientist to build an ATOMIC BOMB that destroys and kill a lot of people in Hiroshima Japan, all Nigeria knows is to assist but not to lead, our engineers both in military and Civilian are either doing other things or still looking for jobs.
Boko Haram only need 1 atomic bomb that will destroy not only them but also the Malian Jihadists.

shut up my friend! you know next to nothing on what u r talking about. did i hear u mention earlier that a single American scientist developed atomic bomb for USA? ...my friend, go do ur research well. start with the world's biggest project/ weapon programme known as Project Manhattan. hope u now know y i asked u to shut up?...

hugafella: You obviously come from a long line of bas.t.ards. Because of terrorist apologists like you, the world is a more dangerous place. You and your fellow islamists will be defeated, since you have all decided to be useless, you will all amount to nothing. You will fail in Mali, and fail in Nigeria. It is only when your god is dead that you should fight for him. There will be bomb blasts in all your worth.less, empty heads.

Dede1,

may u live long. but i implore you to learn how to present ur opinion without offending others. afterall everybody is entitled to his opinion.

...btw, i disagree totally with your argument here...

anybody who knows Gombe-Yola road very well will know it is a death trap. The FG road is a long windy pot-holes ridden single lane road through some of the most hostile terrains of Tangale mountains the country geography can describe. Well, I know Shongom very well, in fact, i was posted to serve at the LG secretariat there originally.

RIP to the dead. Soonest recovery to the wounded. Thank God for the survivors

@OP,

if the maritime boundary extends beyond continental shelf in a section, does it make d resources therein open for exploitation to other countries?

i saw a news item about 2-3 years ago about FGN making application to a certain body so that the maritime boundary can be extended beyond the usual 200 nautical miles. i think US and some other countries have dt in practice already, but i dont know if the FG's application has been granted, turned down or in process.

[quote author=Kay-Dee]US struck Afghanistan less than a month after 9-11 .[/quote]you are right sir. my error, sorry abt dt.

onatisi: but the questions remains why did it take ecowas so long to respond ?
secondly ,is there a possiblity of this crisis spilling over into other ecowas countries?

first question: answer is called LOGISTICS. u may want to find out why it took US almost a year to attack Afghanistan when it was a given right from Sept 11, 2011.

second question: YES. that's y they took the initiative and proceeded to secure UN mandate on it.

bookface: This sounds very nice, your "military speak" adds to the flavour.

So, "Nigerian operatives have been crawling around the terrains of Mali"...and meanwhile, somewhere else, Islamist rebels kept advancing and gaining territory up to a point where the Malian government yelled for help and it took the french more than 3000 km away and a single night of airstrikes to halt the advancement? So what's the point to all the extensive "recce"?

simple. u have ur orders, and you simply follow. your orders r not to engage, it is strictly "recce". imagine the HQ denying your presence only ds morning, so what do u think wld happen if you entered action? ...absolute denial of your presence! the mission is strictly covert recce, under such situation, ur rule of engagement is stricter.

Example for u is the storming of ECOMOG HQ and abduction of Samuel Doe therein by Yommie Johnson and his group right in d palm of ECOMOG led by Nig and Ghana. It wa a major disgrace, but alongside the leadership change that came with it was a new ORBAT and Rule of Engagement. Thats because initial Rule of Engagement was lax, so the soldiers couldn't engage when they could have repelled the attack.

Idriswhite: I publicly apologise for the post that rile up many viewers.It's a debate a friend brought up for deliberation.Am very sorry for whatever thing this post might have caused.Pls accept my sincere apology.I love you all

it's ok Idris. Go and sin no more

but beyond d sentimental side of it, i think u need to read broad in order to see things from their broader view, and not those twisted and nincompoopish way of average Naija undergraduate that sees nothing good in what he/she is learning, not to mention others'. i have been there, so i know

majority of respondents to this thread have spoken from the sadly narrow and confused view that's popular with Nigerians youth nowadays. For anybody that knows better, it's quite easy to believe that Nigerians are actually circa 68 points on IQ rating, just from opinion on this thread. More painful and worrisome is that most are supposed to be in or have passed through one university/higher institution of learning or another.

For those who are teachable, the problem with those courses is not themselves, but the national plan(lessness) in place. they are all vital ingredients in national development programmes, both on micro and macro scale. i know this view is still foreign to many of you, bout for a start, i will refer you to major national development projects like Project Paper Clip and Project Manhattan amongst many others for and from other nations, then you will see how these knowledges fit together to solve the very giant puzzle of projects/programmes. It is just like calling the salt or maggi cube in your kitchen a waste when it is solitary, but when you bring it together with other ingredients they make a very great meal. Even the supposedly choice courses are only part of the big circle that is ever dependent on those "smaller" ones.

I cant type for long on this. To educate undergraduates/graduates on importance of other courses is a big re-education task that shouldn't come free of charge on blogspots, if the so called graduates/undergraduate is not intelligent enough to have deciphered this in course of his/her study.

Bottom line is that it is a big circle of life there, there's a place for everybody to fit in and play his/her role. If some people are not fitting in, the the circle of life will start dying gradually because it becomes deficient from their needed contributions.

ocelot2006: 'ever heard of the term "OPSEC"? Btw, the Nigerian Airforce is already on ground, 'though sorties flown are reconnaissance only, for now.

spot on!

it would be naive to claim that Nigeria has not been present there, yet wrong to claim that Nig troops hav been there. Knw that before the technical plan was drafted and submitted to UN Security Council, extensive "recce" was done alongside on d spot covert assessments. beyond then, i readiness for subsequent deployment, more tedious recce is embarked upon; it is the basis for drawing up the finel Order of Battle, "ORBAT". so in essence, Nigerian military and intelligence operatives have been crawling around the terrains of Mali since long before today, but no combat group is on site yet, hence the denial.

majority of respondents to this thread have spoken from the sadly narrow and confused view that's popular with Nigerians youth nowadays. For anybody that knows better, it's quite easy to believe that Nigerians are actually circa 68 points on IQ rating, just from opinion on this thread. More painful and worrisome is that most are supposed to be in or have passed through one university/higher institution of learning or another.

For those who are teachable, the problem with those courses is not themselves, but the national plan(lessness) in place. they are all vital ingredients in national development programmes, both on micro and macro scale. i know this view is still foreign to many of you, bout for a start, i will refer you to major national development projects like Project Paper Clip and Project Manhattan amongst many others for and from other nations, then you will see how these knowledges fit together to solve the very giant puzzle of projects/programmes. It is just like calling the salt or maggi cube in your kitchen a waste when it is solitary, but when you bring it together with other ingredients they make a very great meal. Even the supposedly choice courses are only part of the big circle that is ever dependent on those "smaller" ones.

I cant type for long on this. To educate undergraduates/graduates on importance of other courses is a big re-education task that shouldn't come free of charge on blogspots, if the so called graduates/undergraduate is not intelligent enough to have deciphered this in course of his/her study.

Bottom line is that it is a big circle of life there, there's a place for everybody to fit in and play his/her role. If some people are not fitting in, the the circle of life will start dying gradually because it becomes deficient from their needed contributions.

[quote author=tem_tem]its either u dont know how to communicate ur point or u dont have one! After spewing ur rubbish and condeming others u still admitted there is a problem with those courses.....come who dash u visa to Uganda wey dey feel like......[/quote]i almost fell for your idiocy, but i realized that you happen to be another sub 68 IQ piont cretin strutting Nairaland and flying around a useless certificate from a university. I have seen many of your types and i can easily recognize one. abeg pass joor!

majority of respondents to this thread have spoken from the sadly narrow and confused view that's popular with Nigerians youth nowadays. For anybody that knows better, it's quite easy to believe that Nigerians are actually circa 68 points on IQ rating, just from opinion on this thread. More painful and worrisome is that most are supposed to be in or have passed through one university/higher institution of learning or another.

For those who are teachable, the problem with those courses is not themselves, but the national plan(lessness) in place. they are all vital ingredients in national development programmes, both on micro and macro scale. i know this view is still foreign to many of you, bout for a start, i will refer you to major national development projects like Project Paper Clip and Project Manhattan amongst many others for and from other nations, then you will see how these knowledges fit together to solve the very giant puzzle of projects/programmes. It is just like calling the salt or maggi cube in your kitchen a waste when it is solitary, but when you bring it together with other ingredients they make a very great meal. Even the supposedly choice courses are only part of the big circle that is ever dependent on those "smaller" ones.

I cant type for long on this. To educate undergraduates/graduates on importance of other courses is a big re-education task that shouldn't come free of charge on blogspots, if the so called graduates/undergraduate is not intelligent enough to have deciphered this in course of his/her study.

Bottom line is that it is a big circle of life there, there's a place for everybody to fit in and play his/her role. If some people are not fitting in, the the circle of life will start dying gradually because it becomes deficient from their needed contributions.

its a shame what we have become as a people and a nation. more fearful is the fast erosion of concept of government and power here because of pecuniary political gains. if we continue like ds, in just some years to come, Somalians will look at us and thank their God.

seunfly: well that is what was witten in the article i read then, i watch the interview on TV also but i can't realy get the link. So all this you are saying about my ignorance huuum!!! are parsonal O!

Seun,

it's a pity u had to bear dt attack, but i wont apologize because it is also ur responsibility to separate facts from fictions when u repeat what u hav heard or seen to other people.

a lot of article writers are dumb themselves and thus write on things they know so little about without doing research. i'm sure u hav seen several threads on Nairaland of Nigerian students "inventing" this and that. whereas in reality, they are no inventions! but as stupid as the whole twist looks, they make news headlines. hope u get my logic here?...

seunfly: @op that law has been broken some years back by group of scientist in United state a Nigerian is among them. They broke the law by creating a new energy from the earth magnetic feild, the magnetic feild was used to create mechanical enery. But they were denied patent right till this day.

u r obviously mistaking/misinterpreting science for juju or voodoo. u not knowing dt magnetic field itself is a form of energy shows how ignorant you r about what u r talking.

Hyundai paid Nigeria kidnap ransom, police say


An arrested gang leader told Nigerian authorities that South Korean firm Hyundai Heavy Industries paid a 30 million naira ($192,100) ransom to release six workers kidnapped in Nigeria's oil region last month, police said on Friday.

Gunmen kidnapped four South Korean and two Nigerian men at a Hyundai Heavy building on December 17, in southern oil-producing Bayelsa state. They were released five days later.

Hyundai Heavy Industries was not immediately available for comment.

Kidnapping is rife in Africa's top energy producer, making millions of dollars a year for criminal gangs, especially in the heart of the oil industry, in the swampy Niger Delta.

Bayelsa state police commissioner Kingsley Omire confirmed the ransom figure paid and said they had caught most of the suspected kidnappers. But the leader of the criminal gang had escaped after being arrested, he said.

"He told us that they received a ransom of 30 million naira and his own share was 3 million naira, which he used in buying electronic devices, DVD players etc", Omire said by telephone.

"Following his confession that he has some arms in his house, he was followed to his house, but his men opened fire on our men in the waterways ... during the gun battle he escaped."

It is unusual for authorities to admit a ransom has been paid because they say it encourages abductions.

The 83-year-old mother of Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was abducted on December 9 in Delta state but was freed five days later, a high profile target that showed few are safe from the clutches of kidnappers in Nigeria.

Three Italians and five Indians kidnapped during two separate pirate attacks last month off Nigeria are still missing..

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/04/us-nigeria-kidnap-idUSBRE9030KL20130104

babyosisi: Ms Traumatology,

You admit that you don't know Mr Suntai
You have never met him prior or post his chopper accident talk less of examining him even by Skype of facetime
The most you saw of him were pictures on a website but yet you took pains to educate us on his condition pouring your academic tautology on him.what a nerve!!
If the whole essence of your write up was to wow us with your knowledge of traumatic brain injury then just write on that topic.
If it was to tell us that Suntai ought to hand over officially to his deputy,I agree with you on that.Same goes for Governors Chime and Liyel Imoke.
What I see here is a mischievous attempt by an over-bloated half baked academic to kick a man in the groins while he is down.
Even in the game of boxing,that may earn you a lifetime ban.
Some people may be in awe of you and your knowledge of Glasgow scale
Go ahead and also tell us his ASA category
Give us a prognosis,how much longer does he have to live?
I am not impressed one bit
Rubbish!

Nne oma, biko jiri nwayo.

you have condemned the messanger, but now pls re-read d message and refute her logic or illigicalities. pls,...biko...

Governor Suntai And Traumatic Brain Injury By Stella Oritsejemite
Posted: January 3, 2013 - 03:05

Danbaba Suntai
By Stella Oritsejemite

I do not know Governor Suntai I ,do not know Taraba state, and have no stake in Taraba state. However, am fiercely Nigerian.. I also recognize trauma and TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY when I see one.. I saw the photograph of the governor and his family last night: The first since his air crash and I just felt, and to my horror too that we are going down the same irresponsible path which we walked during the Yar’adua saga. Just as I did then, I am going to write my medical opinion on this man and I hope those who want to kill the messenger will be more responsible.

We woke up to the news of this man's survival from a helicopter crash sometime late last year. Reports had it that he was initially thought to have died, but some pastoralists saw him at the scene of the accident and alerted the authorities that he still had some life in him. Whatever the truth may be, one thing is constant, the man was in AN AIR ACCIDENT.

Of course, he no doubt suffered TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY SECONDARY TO BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA as a result of the chopper accident. Please note that I did not say anyone hit him on the head. The brain weighs about 3-4 pounds under normal circumstance. It is encased in the cranium aka skull and floats in fluids. It comprises extremely delicate tissues and neurons. It has 3 layers of membrane which covers and protect the brain. Because the brain tissue is soft, it is therefore SUSCEPTIBLE TO PULLING, STRETCHING AND COMPRESSION in TBI. Thus, in the event of an accident such as air crash, the brain will JERK AROUND VIOLENTLY INSIDE THE SKULL resulting in injury.

Governor Suntai may have suffered a CLOSED HEAD INJURY since there was no report of any open gash on his head nor a penetrating injury to the head. CLOSED HEAD INJURY occurs as a result of sudden stop following a high speed movement as in an air craft or chopper crash. In the instance when that chopper crashed, the BRAIN WILL MOVE BACK AND FORTH, LEFT AND RIGHT, COLLIDING WITH THE BONY CRANIUM, Of course, the result will be BRUISING OF THE BRAIN TISSUES, DAMAGE TO THE NEURONS IN THE BRAIN, AND OR TORN BLOOD VESSELS. Injury may be SPECIFIC AND LOCALIZED or DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY. I suspect the governor suffered DAI looking at the pictures posted on Sahara Reporters.

My conclusion is that he suffered TBI based on the news report of :

1. DOCUMENTED LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AT THE CRASH SITE.

2. AMNESIA POST TRAUMA on account of his inability to recognize visitors.

3. SECONDARY INJURY AS A RESULT OF ANOXIA.

4. CONSISTENT LOW BLOOD PRESSURE.

5 INTRA CRANIAL PRESSURE SECONDARY TO BRAIN TISSUE SWELLING..

Since this man did not receive immediate medical help from any first res-ponders and was also air lifted to an ill prepared hospital in Yola I believe, that he lost too much time and must have also suffered many tissue and neuron deaths in the brain. In that case, GLASGOW SCORE may not be reliable if it was taken at all. We are not sure if he was able to spontaneously open his eyes at the scene of the accident ( reported to be unresponsive several days post accident) reported to be in coma even at the National Hospital in Abuja which means only one thing, HE WAS UNABLE TO COORDINATE HIS FINE MOTOR AND VERBAL SKILLS.It is not impossible for the verbal assessment to be impossible, because I expect that he must have been intubated for perfusion and in that case verbalizing anything will be next to impossible. Buy he should have been able to spontaneously been able to open his eyes, and follow simple commands. reports in the news papers indicated he was not able to do any of those. Then he had severe TBI. . His GLASGOW SCORE was definitely not 15, whichis the highest score a human being can have.

To estimate the severity of his brain injury, we want to rely on his reported POST TRAUMATIC AMNESIA. He was reportedly unable to recognize his visitors. Whao!. That is a red flag there no doubt. Any time there is a major blow to the head such as in an air crash, the following will happen almost all of the time:

1. PATIENT WILL NOT REMEMBER THE INCIDENT.

2. PATIENT WILL NOT REMEMBER THE INJURY AND RELATED EVENTS FOR SOMETIME ( read Suntai)

3. SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS IS A MAJOR ISSUE. For example, they tend to repeat what was already said over and over again.

This is a period of POST TRAUMATIC AMNESIA. The danger in this period is that the longer the duration of the amnesia, the more severe the brain injury.

Because of the delicate chemistry of the brain, neuro malfunction takes place. This affects the THINKING AND BEHAVIORAL PROCESS OF THE PATIENTS. Therefore, it is nothing strange that Mr. Suntai was seen starring into space in the picture posted on SR, and no one should be perplexed that he was reported to be staring at his visitors without showing any sign of recognition..

It may take weeks, months years even for this man to come back to his pre accident state. It may take quite long for the brain to resolve its chemical imbalance as a result of the TBI The good news however, is that as the chemistry of the brain improves, so can the ability of the patient to function independently. Because the brain is a dynamic organ with incredible ability to adapt and change with time, the brain is able to set up new connections between the nerves. Plasticity of the brain occurs all through a life cycle. Therefore, it is still possible for to have an occurrence a neural system stimulation. Such can and should be encouraged in an atmosphere, which the man is familiar with and with family. Long term rehabilitation will be better in a home environment and not in the cold walls of a hospital.

It may take months and or even years for full recovery to take place. Therefore, we should avoid this silliness of DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY ( whatever that means) and all the voodoo interpretation of the Constitution by the political elites. I am not advocating for the man to be removed from office since am not a Taraba person, but I do know he is not going to be able to function effectively as a governor anytime soon as a result of his TBI.

Stella is a USA based CERTIFIED ADVANCE TRAUMA SPECIALIST


http://saharareporters.com/report/governor-suntai-and-traumatic-brain-injury-stella-oritsejemite

check those technicians in Oshodi or Alaba elctronics components sections. they r good and can deliver as long as you can explain what you want to achieve to them clearly.

ijaw citizen: ONLY GOD ALMIGHTY WILL PUNISH THOSE PEOPLE SPREADING LIES ABOUT OUR GREAT HERO.

NORTHERNERS, IGBOS AND ESPECIALLY THE YORUBAS, BE WARNED!

GOD BLESS IJAWLAND

c'mmon shurrup and stop that little dog rants here! who r u speaking for? hero ko!...aero ni!

Azazi was implicated in the weapons loss from Kaduna ammo dump. This is no more news at all. it happened right under his watch. All those crying "northern conspiracy" should do a google search and read d news on that event. he was "retired" because of his complicity by late president Yar'Adua.

Desola: but you really didn't see Jarus working alongside that bigot, do you?

come on, Jarus is bigger than that.

Seun wanted to prove to people like me that this as opposed to being a free forum to air your views is actually his property and he can chose how to run it without caring whose ox is gored. He has succeeded.

It is a new dawn. The ibo bigots have a free hand now.

For me, I cannot accept it and i'm sure that it would please him to know that my contribution would be limited to non-existent from now on.

Like Jarus said, "soldier go, soldier come, na barrack go remain".

rubbish!...u r not different from the person(s) you are accusing. we know you too here very well. you can as well relocate to Siberia, we won't miss you.

@ Jarus...

salute!

^

thx for preaching some moral to that olodo boy. i hav given him more attention than he deserves, so i saw it and ignored him with his folly. i hav better things to do than feeding a troll.

google is ur friend.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]You know, this db and dj business is getting downright boring and dry.


It's an ethnic issue.[/quote]Ileke, this is stupiid. you need to grow above ethnic jaundice. we at home are not so biased, so i don't knw why you that's far from home carries it on your head. c'mon girl, you are better than this!

vizboy: well it seem you didnt do the assignment i gave to you grammer boy. So talking to you is like talking to a dum.b go.a.t go do some digging about HYIP and please try posting your findings. If you cant do this simple assignment then you are an idi.ot and you should be ashame. I wonder how you passed class 1 if you cant do these simple assignment

*yawns*

u r sounding boring n not making sense (not as though u ever did). go look for someone else to scam, mr olodo-rabata.

vizboy: imagine your stupidity do you think every online earner is a yahoo boy, idiot go to google and try searching what HYIP means idiot. Am an online investor i dont do yahoo because it dosnt pay idiot. You should try elaborate your mentality about the internet if you think the internet is just for fun then you are an idiot.

lolzzz....

mr Scammer, abegi no woundu me withi lafta hia. so tey u invent new name for yahoo-yahoo, ehmm...wetin u call am sef?...online earner...hohohohoooo...so apt. big name for small dog. u knw i knw u knw i knw u r a bloody scammer, dont u? muheheheheeeee...

by d way, so much for ya ogbonge giramma in d second bolded words.

adios monsieur scammer! muheheheheheheee

^^^

i wish you same my persin. abeg no mind dat olodo scammerboy jare

vizboy: be proud of urself thinking foolishly and saying you are wise. With such high mentality and wisdom name 1 thing that you have done for this country that made your kinsmen proud of you not to talk of your country. It people like you that is making this country not to move forward,na wa oh wetin i no go see for naija look at a dog saying he is a lion

[size=32pt]Mr scammer[/size], i just went through your profile to see your history and it's obvious enough why you remain so foolishly obstinate. unfortunately for you, engineering is a practical science/art that does not have room for yahoo-yahoo magical money-doubler styles. 1+1 = 2 in engineering and we dont scam people by promising them 120% return on their resources input. so please stay away from engineering which of course is alien and incompatible with scamming. we know ourselves and we are proud of it; we build and run this nation. not scammers rats like you who ruin this nation and her identity. olodo!

ehm...oga scammer vizboy, hibegi, i geti N1000 nayira wey i wan confat to N1000000 within tiri minis, dem say na only yu fiti duwam. pilisi helepu me asi u taki helepu dati manu wey yu canfat himu penshion to coins. even sefu, i hia say yu dey confat stonu to buredi...

vizboy: yeah if it isnt them what is it

u continue to give urself away as having next to nothing idea about concept of engineering, but rather u keep quiet and learn, u exhibit ur ignominy wt so much foolish vigour. even a fool is considered wise when he is quiet.

u r looking at nothn less dn 10KVA capacity assuming all d loads come on at same time; which is where d trick is. u can as well use a 6 KVA to serve same purpose if u can manage ur loading. afterall, ur iron and water heater wont b on at all times. even d fridge and d freezer can b switched off or alternated as required.

alstacs: I'm not an engineer but I know the world of engineering designs has moved far. IF you are building or creating or inventing, you need to build on basic principles and measure against what is known and acceptable presently.
In late primary and early secondary school when our knowledge was still very limited and our views narrow, we conceived lots of unimaginable things like this contraption. A classmate was even going to build a camera that would use a regular photographic film- laughable!
Unfortunately, after almost 30 years that we left that stage, an adult goes back to that level and people think he is to be celebrated.
I see a lot of people we should look up to disrespecting their seniors in experience and knowledge. Children think of outcome without consequences; they think of events in isolation without due consideration for external influence.
What a young man doesn't see standing up, an adult see even while siting down.

good one bro. my heart quivers at level of stupidity being spewed around by these ignoramus and i can't (and don't want to) imagine that they are "engineering" students for real as they claim, otherwise they failed right before starting out. i hope and pray they are not real.

even right from the pictures, i can identify the materials and do calculations to show that the toy can't work. many people don't know the difference between a tinker and engineer. worse are the dunces who claim to be engineering students...GOD FORBID!!! ...otherwise me might need to pack them in that "submarine" contraption and set them sailing into Atlantic ocean before they grow enough to become quacks and charlatans that will end up killing many thousands in their incompetency.

vizboy: You call yourselve a senior engineer and yet you dont see the beauty in these creation them i would actually say --> YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

and another cretin creeps out from d sewer.