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A comfortable match turned into a battle all because Disaster struck

If Poch no comot Sterling at halftime, I go swear for am

Sterling should GTFO my club

Poor attitude, poor work rate, poor everything. He can't even respect the 1st choice penalty taker

Why Sterling dey grab ball. Mumu, respect the penalty taker

Penarity

This Sanchez is just so slow and dull

Great hold up play from Jackson to create the goal

afrodoc2:
Chukwudi na Otunba Lamba 😄

Chukwudi is back. And the outage is from the red sea according to reports

Ibime:
Main one Cable sent a notice to their customers this morning that the internet outage being experienced all over Nigeria is being fixed, but it will take at least 5 weeks for the repair of the subsea cable known as Fibre optic at the Red Sea to be done and for normalcy to be restored.

5 weeks is a month from now and a week.

But I’m curious: how will the repair be done at the Red Sea?

For proper context, the Red Sea is a vast sea.

The Red Sea has a surface area of roughly 438,000 km2 (169,000 sq mi).

This is akin to putting the whole of Lagos and Anambra inside one sea with extra capacity remaining.

I want to learn.

Will Main One sub sea Engineers dive into the Red Sea to fix the faulty cable and then stay inside the Red Sea for 5 weeks while the repair of the faulty cable is done, or will they stay inside a ship, floating on the Red Sea, and evacuate the cable buried inside the deep sea as the fixing will now happen inside the ship?

How does it work?

I want to learn.

BlueRayDick:
Omo!

It may be difficult to find an adult male in this community in the next coming days if Nigerian army lives up to its reputation on matters like this. Dead body go surplus

Odi town in Bayelsa comes to mind.

Unless they bomb with planes and helicopter which will be visible to Amnesty International, they will not have it easy in the creeks. Their best bet is to arm the Urhobos to work for them, cos soldiers will lose lives on any approach by water

Ballzproblemm:
houthis not that sophisticated to damage under water cable that is deep you will need unmanned underwater submarine a capability they don't have.

e get why I dey call you fraudibeme.

Dey play, e be like dem cut some line there recently

OasisX:


.....Chief ibime apparently goofed on this one. Baba didn't verify well before sharing. WhatsApp BC is written all over the post.

I knew it's unlikely before sharing, but it's still a possibility

At least our Kenyan, SAFA and Somalian brothers on the east side could be affected

afrodoc2:
Chukwudi na Otunba Lamba 😄

Agenda must agend

afrodoc2:
Fibre optic cables routed from Europe to the Atlantic Ocean through the Red Sea?

Hmmmm 🤔

Forwarded as received

Say no to all forms of terrorism and disruption of civilized society


[quote author= ]Dear Nigerians, do you know Houthi rebels are the reason you had a poor internet network today?

Walk with me as I explain.

Before now, a lot of Nigerians probably might not have heard about the Houthi rebels, a ragtag militia, and a religious terrorist group from Yemen.

Even though the majority of Nigerians have not heard of these guys before, this ragtag militia is the reason why poor internet connection crippled the whole country today, which also affected the banking network as well.

Houthi is an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Yemen.

They are in the same WhatsApp group with Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen.

Even though they are fighting in the name of Islam, the global headquarters of Islam, Saudi Arabia, hates them with passion because they are Shia by faith, which is from Iran.

Iran practices what is known as the Shia brand of Islam.

Saudi Arabia's brand of Islam is Sunni.

This is akin to Christianity, where you have Anglicans, Catholics, and Pentecostals, even though we worship the same God.

The only difference between Houthi, Boko Haram, and ISIS is that while Boko Haram and ISIS practice the Wahhabi movement of Sunni Islam, Houthi are Shia, but their ideologies are the same.

These Houthi guys once fought a guerrilla war with Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia received significant support from the US, but they were unable to defeat this Rag militia team from Yemen.

This time around, Houthi rebels are on the Red Sea, waging war against global commerce by attacking ships and vessels carrying containers and goods from the far east, disrupting the global supply chain.

But they are not satisfied with attacking commercial ships alone; they have graduated to attacking underground cables under the Red Sea that came all the way from Europe.

I know you will be wondering what the underground cable in the Red Sea has to do with your internet.

It is simple.

For MTN or Airtel to provide internet connections to their customers in Nigeria, this has to happen.

Internet infrastructure companies had to run submarine cable, known as fibre optic cable, all the way from Europe to Nigeria.

These fibre optic cables are routed through the sea all the way from Europe through the Red Sea down to the Atlantic Ocean in Lagos or Akwa Ibom, which serves as the landing point.

At the moment, we have 7 submarines with cable internet in Nigeria, and they are

Submarine cables owned by Natcom Development and Investment Limited, trading as ntel (former NITEL), have a capacity of 800 gigabits.

MainOne cable, with a capacity of 10 terabits, and Glo-1 or Globacom-1 cable, owned by Globacom Limited, with a capacity of 2.5 terabits.

Others are the African Coast to Europe submarine cable by the Dolphin consortium, which includes Dolphin Telecom, Orange, MTN, and others, with a total capacity of 12.8 terabits;

West African Cable System by MTN, with a capacity of 14.5 terabits;

Nigeria-Cameroon Submarine Cable System, owned by Cameroon Telecommunications (CAMTEL), in partnership with MainOne, with a capacity of 12.8 terabits, and Equiano, owned by Google LLC and the West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC), with a capacity of 100 terabits.

The latest is Meta’s 2Africa subsea cable, which is expected to land in the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Akwa Ibom. At 45,000 kilometres long, the 2Africa submarine cable will be one of the world’s largest subsea cable projects and will interconnect Europe (eastward via Egypt), Asia (via Saudi Arabia), and Africa. It is expected to go live before the end of 2023, delivering more than the total combined capacity of all subsea cables currently serving Africa, with a design capacity of up to 180 terabytes per second (Tbps).

2Africa owned by MTN is said to be the longest underwater cable in the world, passing through three continents and 33 countries, several of which are in Africa.

What these submarine cables do is power the internet we use in Nigeria.

Let me break it down.

Funks Opeke is the founder of Main One Cable, and this internet infrastructure company that Funke founded ran their submarine cable through the same Red Sea from Europe.

So the business they do with the internet they generate is sell it to offtakers and customers like banks, big businesses in Lagos that consume internet data on a large scale, and then telecom companies.

MTN used to buy bulk data from Main-One, which they sold to their customers before they ran their own submarine cable.

Seeing how vital these submarine cables are to our civilization, Houthi rebels have been attacking these submarine cables that passed through the Red Sea,close to Yemen, where they are in charge.

Unfortunately, these guys attacked the submarine cable that powers the internet in Nigeria, which crashed the internet gateway not only in Nigeria but also throughout all of West Africa.

And these Houthi terrorists have vowed they will not stop the sabotage until Israel declares a ceasefire in Gaza.

Now ask me: What is my business with Gaza and Israel?

The answer is globalisation.

This is a stark reminder of how globalisation affects all of us.

Our world is too large and vast, and at the same time,

We are too interconnected and interdependent.

This is why what happened in faraway Yemen today had a ripple effect on Nigerians, even though Yemen is thousands of kilometres away from Nigeria.

The other side of globalisation, which we don’t discuss well enough,.

(In the picture, you can see what a submarine cable looks like under the sea.)

Chukwudi Iwuchukwu[/quote]

GloriousGbola:
If you can settle for lapsed muslim...

One lady bought erisco tomato paste, was not happy with it and did social media post criticising the product. Should not be a big deal. But the owner of erisco foods maybe frustrated by different business challenges took it personally and did a Nigerian big man thing. Got her arrested.


The lady ran to the courts of social media to plead her case. One would have thought oga erisco would have died the matter as it is now in SM and putting him in a bad light, but he is going through with the prosecution.

As a naija matter twitter has raised money for her defense and the case is in court. That is a very very rough summary.

I believe BlueRayDick really followed the story when it first broke.

The erisco guy no try sha.should probably have made a show of inviting her to their factory or something and make his product go viral. But I guess he is not that media savvy.

If Erisco batch from the same batch she bought does not contain unhealthy levels of sugar, she should be thrown in sanko for spoiling market.

Competitors are now often using fake news and WhatsApp to demarket competitors. Erisco should teach her a lesson if he knows his product meets NAFDAC standards

BlueRayDick:
Another angu!

Make e no be like all this Yoruba radio programme wey dem dey share stories of their listeners.

There was one like that, the man sent in his story and asked for advice. The man travelled abroad but had issues with his papers so he was deported back to naija tho with some cash. Before he arrived , he asked his wife to look for a more conducive apartment they can stay as a family for which he provided cash after which they moved in.

Years down the line, baba was doing well in his business and one thing led to the other , he wanted to meet the landlord to discuss renovations of the building , but his wife only provided the agent number which she claims is the one she pays to yearly. The man met the agent and after probing and probing, the agent gave him phone number of the landlord who turned out to be his father-in-law. The man now met the father-in-law to confront him man-to-man say wetin dey sup?

The father-in-law had no choice but to open up that the wife actually owns the building but cos she knows her husband may not want to live in the house built by her out of pride, she had to use the agent as decoy and the agent deals with the father-in-law who didn't disclose his relationship with his daughter to the agent.

The man is angry with the fact that he has been paying rent to his wife for years . He dey ask for advice for radio programme.

This made me spontaneously burst out laughing

FA Cup want use draws finish me

5 draws so far. Who I offend?

raumdeuter:
Same way a boy sees music videos of people sagging thinks it's cool by the time he is 26yrs and look at his teenage pictures he will shake his head that men I was foolish. Many youths get damaged permanently or even lose their lives before they realize and correct their ways

Indeed, I've lost count of the numerous young lives wasted just from following influences in music. Thank God some of us survived it cos we fell into some of those vices too.

afrodoc2:
Why do Nigerians like saying the bulk stops ……
It is buck. B-U-C-K.

P. S Not directed at you.

I stuff cash in drawers. . . . cos the buck stops at my desk

larride:
The entire season 8 was rushed in my opinion.

Jon Snow is meant to be the one to kill the night king and not Arya, what they did in that season 8 was pure fan service.

With all of Jamie Lannister redemption arc that we saw, how did he take Brienne virginity only to go back to Cersei? Makes no sense with the character development.

How tf did Bronn gets to be Lord of the Reach?

Lastly they just threw away Daenerys character arc out the window and made her mad for what purpose exactly?

Terrible ending.

It was going fine till the last 2 episodes jare

They over spoiled us to expect perfection. The other stuffs were fine until they threw Danaerys out the window

Anyone who thinks music does not affect the youth should explain the drill movement

Music done kill more black men and open gateway to mental illness than anything else.

Not everybody has sense. The same way you listen to music and know its entertainment is the same way a low IQ kid will listen to music and start taking perps, weed, molly and carrying gun.

I enjoy violent music but it must be witty. I use it to laugh

larride:
I tell you man.

7 was still manageable. They totally botched the last season. Rushed everything and turn most of the characters arc development into nothingness.

The Dark night was still spellbinding

The only disappointment was the very last 2 episodes IMO

raumdeuter:
Hey Bros
Do you buy cars or lease?
Does leasing make any sense?

Leasing has tax advantages if you are a contractor and the car meets certain environmental conditions

So if you run it through company it makes sense. Also some companies may offer car schemes with tax advantages that may make it worthwhile to indulge your fetish If you fancy a Tesla for example.

Other than that it makes financial sense to buy outright without these tax advantages. It depends on the emotional value you place on cars. Some guys like to drive the latest year plate and some guys like to get value. Either way is understandable and you make your choice to suit your preference

My preference is not to eat more than £1.5k depreciation per year so I make my choice based on that metric

Emaprince:
Example of some wild imaginations here...

....With cannons that shoot...
..at a range so long, that if we do a 21 barrel salute
..atleast, 10 bullets would land on the moon

----- too wild!!!

Haha, I recognise this one

What of this one

Emaprince:
I need help from the church/ to rid myself of the dirt/
last time . . I pointed my gun up and shoot . . an alien body fell on the earth/

Griffon:
Seeing the Caicedo improvement?

I no dey watch Chelsea match again. Na radio I hear match, Beihly and Eghbali done kill my joy for football.

Eunoiaa:
Omoooooo. 😭😭😭


I've never reacted to an halo effect like this guy's in my life.

Damn.

May his soul rest in peace.

Don't waste your tears. Poverty killed him. He did not have the resources for the game he wants to play.

3 men went with one gun to shoot opps. The other 2 have left him and run with no gun on him to save himself

You want form sicario with 3 men to one gun.

These guys expect to mostly shoot and miss with their local guns, until the day someone gets hit for real. The game just got real for him.

nateevs:
The former cannot be taught. The latter can be improved. This is why I have a lot of faith in him.

Not sure about that. That guy leg no straight at all. He cannot hit a ball clean. Even he doesn't know where ball will go after he shoot

Jackson hold up.play is A+ but his finishing is F-.

His leg no straight at all

seankafor:
Absu and cultism eeh

https://twitter.com/jessotu/status/1767146598583136355?t=PpBsuneemuRvxnr_QVqQtg&s=19

Cultism na one thing wey I never see any logical reason to enter, especially those school or local cultism aka aye, bager, eiye , etc..

He went for drill and got drilled. Effervescence of youth makes young men do things they may not survive. Charge it to the game.

raumdeuter:
Prosecutor - Mrs F was killed by Fulani Herdsmen
Judge: How did you know they are Fulani herdsmen

Prosecutor: See their pictures. Are these not Fulani herdsmen?
Judge: from pictures can you determine who are Fulani herdsman is? if I provide you 10 pictures of Nigerians, can you identify the ones who are Fulani herdsmen and those not.

Prosecutor: But their names are Mohammed, Usman, Lawal
Judge: Are these names peculiar to Fulani herdsmen alone? If I provide you with people not Fulani herdsmen with these names?

Prosecutor: The eye witness claimed they were Fulani herdsmen
Judge: And the eyewitness account of identity are dependable how? If I show you 4 people can you as an eyewitness tell their identity?

See how the arguments have been rubbished easily

.
I'm disappointed, the amala never smooth

Closing argument - even if they are proven to be Fulani, how can you prove they are herdsmen?

BlueRayDick:
U may be right that the data is inaccurate, but u are wrong for pinning the inaccuracy of the data on Obi and his supporters.

Say less

I am 100% right that the data is inaccurate and 100% right for pinning his supporters for using bullshit data they know is inaccurate to run propaganda

BlueRayDick:
I don't think I follow ur line of argument at all. U were initially disputing a figure published by NBS in 2008 or thereabouts; now u are saying GDP was restated in 2014 with everything from 2012-2014 recalculated.

So was the 2008 figures too recalculated?

Let's even agree for argument sake that the figures were wrong initially; did Obidients publish the data in the first place? Why did u just wake early in the morning to Blame Obidients for simply quoting a data that was published by a federal government agency?

And if u are talking about propaganda and false claims, Obidients dey learn where APC dey. Shettimma the VP claimed Lagos had only one Ambulance in its service in 1999 when Tinubu became the governor and that Lagos was a super slum. The same lagos wey we gather dey?

Once a GDP is materially restated, you can't refer to previous iterations as basis for growth since they were incorrect

Nothing concern me with your Shettima talks. You always reference things I've got no clue about. I don't know who appointed you Captain defender to be bringing up counterexamples from the other side that have nothing to do with me.

How many times has OasisX brought büllshit stats here, but when I point it out, he doesn't go bringing counterexample from PDP or LP. Learn to handle issues maturely please. I am only interested in getting facts right.