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Elliotwiz1: what do you think You're saying??the value of the dollars has changed..... Haven't you heard about the millions of dollars stolen by our part military leader which he could not account for? What do you think He's doing with that money? Sponsoring Boko-haram, i think...... The military does not bring development except it favours them. If they were so good, then why wasn't everywhere in Nigeria fully developed during their rule??

The Media actually Brain washed us on this ( IBB & OBJ ) Planned it all ... Abacha was one of the Best he wanted what was in Libya for Nigeria - People whom killed abacha are same people who killed Gaddafi

sweet oldies men!!!!

The major reason is no fear of God , if you have the fear of God then you would be able to stay away from the evil things of this world not totally 100% but key to no cheating both male and female is strongly bent on the fear of God . Because if you have the fear of God in you both wife and husband you would respect your union.

All the way Green white Green - I greet all my country people - from the north , east , west south and central - we still green passport we still one all the jagjag - all the nairaland tribal talks we still one - One Nation - God Bless you all , me already in the 53rd day - Stead fast to the Allegiance still Green white Green

lol this alajah lol

Men this niggas are old and still looking at ruling nigeria - its just damn sick society

me don promise my self say i no go buy any honda again my crv gave me hell of a balljoint problem - but the benz never did soo

well Sell it and buy toyota for all i care big error for honda on legs

its not a bad idea , thats what made south korea what it is today , india with tata and suzuki , i have being in this countries when you encourage your own product , it forces this car companies to come have there production centers in your country .. like in india because of the policies to encourage local made cars like tata - honda hard no choice than to put up their production factory in that region - if they cars will be cheap its better way to move the local cars to their prime , Nigerians buy Hyundai , Kia and tata's - check the history of this companies in their various countries and you would understand why we need such policies to make things work for locally made cars.

But charity begins at home , So the government has to start using them first to show an exemplary life style then followers wont have a choice than to follow ( But a ban right now is not a way forward ) - Nigeria just needs good policies that's what can take us to join countries like UAE - before the Libya crisis - Libya got most the policies they use from UAE - from Labor to transportation sectors

God bless Nigeria

kettykin: If only Abacha had not died before finishing the unfinished revolution, Nigeria wouldn't have produced these jokers and their principalities

GUY NA YOU MAKE SENSE PASS FOR THE WHOLE COMMENT I DON READ FOR NL toDAY

i need to tap just five million with my new mobile app damn!!! N10 per download

Dude stop giving false news , in this video the speak french ?? how is this related

ebamma 3: gej released a very dangerous man from prison, al mustapha may gang up with ibb, abdusalami and other ex soldiers to plan a coup against him,

SAME man and obj put in the dude in prison - Nigerian politics is really deep , Most of this propaganda we ready on the news papers are just stories to keep the country moving , there are people who control this politicians - We the Youths have the power to put things in shape if we can be one by putting our difference away ( tribe and Money )

ITbomb: Malawi just could not afford to keep the jets but Nigeria could
What is the essence of the African brotherhood if not to help one another .
That the government is spending excessively and the citizens lack to will to question or stop it should not be the fault of Jonathan.
The logic is this , if Nigerians cannot question their LGA Chairmen about the over N50m coming to council every months , why should they bother about how FG in far away Abuja is spending the free , unaccounted money

People like you need some Broom in your Guy under your pants because you type with your ass

WHEN Nigeria dispatched a jet from its Presidential Air Fleet late last month to fetch Malawi’s President, Joyce Banda, to Abuja, it unwittingly drew attention to our government’s fiscal recklessness. It was lost on President Goodluck Jonathan that while Banda had sold her cash-strapped country’s only presidential jet to save costs, he has, in three years in office, expanded Nigeria’s executive fleet to 10 aircraft.

Neither the reality of over 60 per cent of the population living in poverty, nor the recent alarming revelation by the Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that government’s revenue inflow had dwindled to a dangerous level, has persuaded Jonathan to pare down the size of the Presidential Air Fleet. Instead, it is projected to rise as provision has reportedly been made to purchase two additional helicopters to ensure the President, Vice-President, their families, and other top functionaries travel in luxury at public expense.

Banda was in Nigeria to deliver the keynote address at the Global Power Women Network Africa summit in Abuja at the invitation of Nigeria’s First Lady. To ease her trip to Nigeria’s capital, our generous government dispatched a jet to pick her from Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, and return her home after the event. That is to be expected since Malawi lacks a presidential aircraft.

Shortly after assuming the presidency in 2012, Banda had taken a critical look at her country’s economy. Almost 40 per cent of the national budget came from aid donors, while revenues from its major exports – tobacco, tea, coffee and sugar – were falling due to lower global demand and prices. Moreover, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank had withdrawn most aid in response to the purchase in 2009 of a presidential jet by Banda’s predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, and his abandonment of an IMF-dictated adjustment programme. Other donors followed the World Bank/IMF lead.

Besides selling the presidential plane for $15 million, Banda also sold off a fleet of 35 Mercedes Benz limousines reserved for the president and the cabinet. She cut her own salary by 30 per cent, among other austerity measures. Her actions won praise around the world and convinced the IMF and other aid donors to return with credit and handouts to back the government’s ongoing painful structural adjustment programme.

But Nigerian leaders will not sacrifice their own comfort for anything. Even in a rich country like Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron and cabinet members took pay cuts in response to the global recession and the spending cuts that the government introduced. Here, our leaders are obsessed with living in luxury, regardless of the mass of people who are poor, the lack of infrastructure, mass unemployment and dwindling revenues. Okonjo-Iweala’s warning that the government may run out of money to pay salaries by October in the face of massive oil theft and vandalism of pipelines that have sharply reduced oil production and revenues has not jolted officials. Neither the wasteful Executive nor the overpaid legislators are ready to give up their luxurious lifestyles.

But British leaders often take commercial flights and, occasionally, trains when travelling for state functions. Japan, with its Gross Domestic Product of $4.52 trillion and per capita income of $36,200, (at Purchasing Power Parity), has only two aircraft – Boeing 747 – 400 – for use of the prime minister and the emperor; the Netherlands, with GDP of $770.2 billion and PCI of $42,300, has two; the British Queen, Elizabeth II, and Cameron travel on chartered British Airways flights, despite their country’s $2.32 trillion GDP and PCI of $38,700; South Africa has just one presidential aircraft with its GDP of $678.6 billion and PCI of $11,300, though it expects another soon, while Malaysia has one, but has also ordered a second; but with its GDP of $492 billion and PCI of $16,900, like others cited, Malaysia is ahead of Nigeria with a GDP of $450.5 billion and PCI of $2,700.

Given these scenarios, it is high time we ended this absurdity. Today, the aviation sector is in dire straits. How does one explain that only two domestic airlines – Arik, with 23 planes, and Aero Contractors with 14 – have larger fleets than this one kept for a few at public expense? Over N9 billion is believed to be spent on the maintenance of the presidential fleet each year, while the PAF required 47 Nigerian Air Force officers, 173 airmen/airwomen and 96 civilian employees on full time call in 2012.

Nigerians, however, desperately need a government that exists to serve the people, not a few. Successive governments have demonstrated incompetence and abused and misused public funds. There should be minimum ethical standards and decorum in public office. Other developing nations like Ghana where a former president, John Kufuor, once disposed of a spare presidential aircraft, retaining only one, should shame us into prudent conduct.

Jonathan has no excuse to continue keeping 10 aircraft and our under-performing legislators have no reason to keep approving new purchases or the billions of naira they appropriate for their maintenance each year. But, ultimately, it is only when the electorate shakes off its lethargy and demands accountability and responsibility from public officials that things will change for the better.

Source
http://www.punchng.com/editorial/nigerian-jet-for-malawian-president/

Serious if we the youths don't take matters into our hands we will keep complaining and dying as usual

some crazy cluster servers

Dangote or Bill gate no get six pack ...so anybody wey no like this belle Pack make e hug transformer

attacking each other is reason why this country is still like this yes major part of our problem is the leader but as a citizen what have we done right to correct 1 thing we feel is not right..inclusive Me self dey F up .. So lets stop attacking our selves and move forward

iPhone cant be compared yet with android -

The west is the Boko Haram it self.. they are the sponsor , want Nigeria to be like Sudan and Somalia , Thats if our leaders havent soled us out to the west whom want a new world order by all means , AFP could get the videos means they are fully involved one way or the other, I am not GEJ supporter but i believe Nigeria army is capable of handling the situation.

this guy is a mofohomo... make them pay me money make i hack the facebook sharp sharp

Google Earth time-lapse video of Dubai's transformation from 1984 until 2012
By

Staff

Published Sunday, May 12, 2013

Google’s made time travel possible.

Before you get your hopes too high on that meeting with your great, great grandmother, it’s only in images, and dates back only to 1984.

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“Today, we’re making it possible for you to go back in time and get a stunning historical perspective on the changes to the Earth’s surface over time,” Google wrote in a recent official blog post.

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“Working with the US Geological Survey (USGS), Nasa and Time [magazine], we’re releasing more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space, compiled for the first time into an interactive time-lapse experience. We believe this is the most comprehensive picture of our changing planet ever made available to the public,” the post reads.

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Of course, when it comes to reliving the changing face of earth over almost three decades, nothing beats Dubai, which has transformed itself from a pearl-diving harbour into the mega metropolis that it is today.

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“Built from millions of satellite images and trillions of pixels, you can explore this global, zoomable time-lapse map as part of Time’s new Timelapse project. View stunning phenomena such as the sprouting of Dubai’s artificial Palm Islands, the retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon and urban growth in Las Vegas from 1984 to 2012,” Google says.

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The images were collected as part of an ongoing joint mission between the USGS and Nasa called Landsat. Their satellites have been observing earth from space since the 1970s – with all of the images sent back to Earth and archived on USGS tape drives that look something like this example (courtesy of the USGS).

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“We started working with the USGS in 2009 to make this historic archive of earth imagery available online. Using Google Earth Engine technology, we sifted through 2,068,467 images – a total of 909 terabytes of data – to find the highest-quality pixels (e.g., those without clouds), for every year since 1984 and for every spot on Earth. We then compiled these into enormous planetary images, 1.78 terapixels each, one for each year,” the post reads.

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“As the final step, we worked with the Create Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, recipients of a Google Focused Research Award, to convert these annual Earth images into a seamless, browsable HTML5 animation. Check it out on Google’s Timelapse website,” it adds.

“Much like the iconic image of Earth from the Apollo 17 mission – which had a profound effect on many of us – this time-lapse map is not only fascinating to explore, but we also hope it can inform the global community’s thinking about how we live on our planet and the policies that will guide us in the future. A special thanks to all our partners who helped us to make this happen.

Source http://www.emirates247.com/news/google-earth-time-lapse-video-of-dubai-s-transformation-from-1984-until-2012-2013-05-12-1.506125

Good idea but totally wrongly incorporating payment into it.. what happen to us having a uniq Number .. imagine people hacking into this database and your funds get compromised its totally a good idea used wrongly , all countries i have gone around the world and stayed have there own uniq ID but not as a payment system .. technically it is poor to use same database for payment and ID systems .. noting is secured but how hard you make it for an intruder to get into it.

It could have being a base for all ID's and a platform to connect major institutions like TAX , DL , PHCN and others - Just like the American Social Security System , UAE EmirateID . i wound why this whole MasterCard National ID wasn't debated? the Problem with Nigerian Government is the feel the banks grow the society while forgetting the primary tool which most top countries use , which are agriculture , Research , Technology , Human empowerment .. this is not the way forward.

its not a hack...its a spoofed message... any of this SMS Bulkseller could do it..sent ID's name as governor ... and then with some little social engineering the VC ...felt for it..

Their are lot of flex guys ... I use to program with flex..my first video and mobile apps ..i coded it on it... my flat mate still programs in flex

one of this legs looks like baybez leggg....hmmm!!!!

Nigerian would be a better place if we stop the greed

I cant say for now it is real or not , Because i have seen scenarios where people loosed there money bigtime, also seen an NSE official lavishing money in the Casino in VI with peoples money based on whats on ground that's was some years back , But i cant say for sure i trust the capital market at such that ... with what we see from other capital market in the world .. in my own opinion i feel some of the stocks are fixtures .. the government is corrupt and there is not 100% guarantee that some of this listings are 100% sure .. I did rather advice if you could invest in Nigerian Breweries or GTB Stocks on FSTE 100 which is stable it would pay off more..the guy i referenced above is a top NSE official then .. he played tape to us whats happening in there and i think those fixtures are still in play..its not stable so use your tongue to count your teeth

I am Igbo , I grew up in the North and i also went through Nigeria and live in Lagos .. But you see in my own opinion .. The Igbos and Yoruba will keep rifting this head to head battle in this forum .. Because most of us have failed to do our research before commenting . Nigerian Youths I urge you to do research , read a lot of books to really know what to say , you live on media which filter most of there content .

For this Topic i dont know need to say anything for i know Achebe has done a lot literally to lecture but we still need to understand why he has written a lot of books , we wouldn't appreciate him that much but he is a hero.

Stop the insult , stop the names calling , stop this ethicist and work on how to contribute to Nigeria , because even the oyibo we look upto dont look at us being yoruba , hausa , igbo , fulani , tiv , angas or what ever tribe they look at us as BLACKS -

Happy Palm Sunday and Happy Sunday to Known Christian Brothers

Unknown Member: You are a lazy child that is still waiting on someone to invest in you..




Go out and start something from scratch.

when people like you comment i shake my head because you are stupid , you just go through lines .. i hope you understand what capitalism means .. fool.. Move over when you dont know what to comment just read.. if you read my lines properly you would understand what i mean .. as you are lazy to understand the words typed in here

These Leaders always forget that MUSIC , MOVIES do not build the society , For America , South Korea , Japan to be what it is today is the development of man power , Technology , Scientist , why cant they invest money on young Nigerians to go learn some special skills with 3billion..We the youth need to stand upto these leaders .. without it i dont think we would go anyway forward