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just a luxury, he might be able to write it off as a company expense though

I personally think the only real problem comes when they are at the same workplace, if i'm around someone that long I get sick of them so that would probably hurt the relationship somewhat...

bah I like star better anyways (actually now I think about it, they all kinda taste the same after you've had a few )

Nope, not at the moment (just got back home). I was there for about 3 weeks.

That's always a bit risky though, I'll get him to ask around at work and see if any of the Nigerians that don't live in the company housing estate (and hence don't have Internet provided) use it.

out in Eket there isn't very mich to do tourist wise but it's just interesting seeing how different everything is.

I hear that there is a few good nature parks near lagos though

yeah i took a look at them (shame ISDN isn't an option, i have a cisco 2611 router that has a nice ISDN card in it )

Internet is very expensive in nigeria it seems I presume Residential - Infinitaz is the 8kb's a second plan?

Unfortantly you cannot do that for two reasons first being that you have to take them several days before arriving and secondly in Australia we have very strict medicine control to ensure that it is of the highest grade only and i don't think that a product sourced locally would of been tested. (if they think you have a disease they put you in quarantene (basically isolation))

They are expensive because they are non subsidised and not needed for general use (very few countries still require it for travelling now)

Here is our millionaire.

http://millionaire.ninemsn.com.au/default.aspx

(personally I hate our version, the original UK version is much much better)

I shall keep my eyes peeled next time I am over for the Nigerian who wants to be a millionaire (The questions they choose for local knoweledge are usually interesting here).

It is quite difficult to get visa's to enter Nigeria (and quite expensive ($160 Australian, N16000)) and a lot of vaccinations are required so that you don't catch things that have been eliminated in Australia (small pox etc)

um Medication is expensive (Normally our government pays for most of our medicine if it is required (most medicines cost less than N1000 or $10 AUD)) but for malaria prevention tablets there not covered (we do not have malaria anymore) and we have to pay about $500 AUD N50000 for enough tablets for a 2 week stay.

Once in Nigeria, main problems are had at the airport in Lagos and the amount of people that need to "inspect" my passport. It would even be somewhat more reassuring if they made customs officers where a uniform or similar because I don't really like handing my passport out to someone in normal clothes saying they are an "official"

I have spent very little time in Lagos but from what time I have spent it seems ok and once at the domestic airport for the short hop over to Eket (customs there is strange, I do not understand why a local airport needs to stamp my passport and check I am not importing anything when I have just been inspected in Lagos)

All of this is a bit daunting first time around but by the second time your used to it so it's not a problem

(One guy in Lagos customs last time I was on the way out was a jerk, he read my passport out wrong and kept saying my middle name and then was abusive to me when he figured out he had been calling out my middle name (after I had tried to say it was my passport))

Anyways, thats most of the difficulties faced that I can think of, but I do enjoy my visits

I'll take a look at that option thanks for the idea

[me=Hidden_Hunter]notices he's downloading at 800KB/s a second teehee [/me]

(I'm spoiled in australia :S )

I must have missed it when I was in Nigeria last time (I usually try and watch local programs for comparison to ours). Our version of the show is not very good but you can win the equivillent of 100 million naira

he works for exonn mobile oil exploration (probably not the most liked people in nigeria) :/

I am always interested in what people in other countries think of other countries (so it's unbiased) so I was wondering what people think of Australia?

I can say that I like Nigeria because it's a very pretty place and most people are friendly enough (most people are very nice but a few people sometime ruin it for the rest). I say it often to my friends back here at home that I enjoy my trips to Nigeria because of how diverse it is

Potentially Nigeria could make alot of money off tourists if they wanted to but at the moment it's too hard and extremely costly.

That is a shame, though if you can put up with poor latency I beleive it's possible to use a router or pc running a distro of linux to share an internet connection to the xbox so it thinks it has broadband and lets you play (this would probably be suitable for the slower paced games)

even that would be a big improvement over the current setup
Wether it is available is probably a big issue though...

His budget would budget would stretch up to about $150 (Australian dollars) or about $130 US (not sure how much niara that is, i think its 15000) a month for a good broadband connection and probably about $30 (Australian dollars) or about $25 US (I think around N3000)

Thanks

hi, it's me again

Just wondering if there are any links to newspaper sites etc that can confirm these bannings, as they include many products i would bring from australia for things like maleria prevention and head ache treatment etc.

Though they didn't even look in my bag that had my medicines in it at lagos when i was there 3 weeks ago

System Shock 2
Battlefield 1942
Civilization 3
Doom 1 and 2 (3 was a let down, I have it on both PC and Xbox)
Commander Keen 4
Half-Life 2
Call of duty
No-one lives forever 2

And some more I can't remember

If anyone is interested in playing some xbox live with me, let me know

Hi,

I am an Australian whose father currently lives in Nigeria and is forever complaining about his slow internet connection and asked me to look into it and what possible options can be done.

Currently he rely's on a connection set up by work in his house (56k dialup which then goes to be queued at the satalite before it finally reaches to the internet in the US) which as you can imagine is quite slow (not uncommon for pages to simply stop loading and timing out)

Anyways my question is what is available for broadband in Eket in Akwa Ibom, I presume satellite is the only real technology available as the phone lines seem too unreliable for xDSL technologys?

Thanks