₦airaland Forum

[center]Kindly send in your campaign banner, manifestoes, jingle etc for the 2007 Presidential Election,
who knows, you could be the budding Nairaland candidate for the number one job in Naija.[/center]

You must outline what difference(good or bad(maybe you are worst than Abacha)) you will make in the life of the massess and the downtroden.

There is still an imbroglio today over the constitution of Iraq thanks to religion.

There’s no threat, am treating you to a big treat in Tripoli.

The base station i very expensive (in the $Bleep,Bleep range for now), i think this has to do with the fact that the technology is still very much in the beta stage. Am interested in that stuff too only that the cost implication is just a no go area for now.

I hope the price will crash once it become widely available.

i wouldn't want to go over this again, am pasting an excerpt from my blog (joftech..com):

Petrol Again!
And finally finally petrol now retails (officially) for N70 per litre across the nation (Nigeria).

Who are we to blame, Obasanjo, NNPC, Hugo Chavez, OPEC.

Since Obasanjo has vowed to privatize everything, alas this is one of the dividend of privaization, LOL.

Since we now buy fuel based on world market indices, we should now be able to stomach the resultant effect of what is probably going on in Venezuela, at least this should show us that the problem going on around the world is of utmost significance to us now.

For so long we have been able to take for granted the subsidy on fuel prices; now that Obasanjo is running a proper capitalism, we now see that nothing come for free.

I used to think that it’s bullshit for OBJ to be increasing fuel prices anyhow, but now I think they have a “genuine” reason. According to Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mr. Frank Nweke Jnr., he said 19 new power stations are now in the pipeline;( e be like say Nigeria go get some Nuke reactor sef, courtesy of N Korea).
The current increase won’t kill us at least, it will only make us “stronger” we have been groaning under this administration and am sure this is not going to be the last straw!

Nigerians, world market now determine our local market this is a true reflection of globalization. OBJ need to educate Nigerians on global economy and world matters.

I hope OBJ and his cronies will stop deceiving us about some “phantom” palliatives and safety, oh sorry un-safety net.

For information technolgy to get anywhere in this country, we need constant and reliable power supply. I thank God they said 19 new power stations are in the pipeline. One of them is in Ondo State.

Next is affordable and reliable Internet connectivity.

With all these in place, Nigerians ingenuity will come on board full time.

this was due to the fact that GMAIL was an invite based service (at least until now). with time it will have users and chat rooms, but i don't see it's usage as big as in the magnitude of AIM and Yahoo messenger.

am not totally against the increase. i will say more later.

MY dream vehicles are: Corvette, Mustang (all flavors) and International CXT

Obviously you have not been browsing regularly in cafes in nigeria otherwise you would have met many clueless people

it would have been a good thingy if search result pages are in Yoruba as well, then maybe i will be able to take that home to my grandma.

KDE rules anytime, anyday. One reason why i hate Ubuntu is that it did not support KDE.

If anyone know about any hack to get KDE on Ubuntu share that on this board.

Jackie and with this

how else should i thank you guys for making me look like some evil devlish antichrist.

you believe "she" is now an Evangelist.

It's not by force to believe in God.

I have tried Google Talk it fall short of what i expected, and others( http://news.com.com/Google+unveils+instant-messaging+entry/2100-1032_3-5842254.html?tag=nefd.top) have been complaining too.

I hope Google will work some magic soon to convince people why they will have to switch from the current IM clients they are using.

This is a welcome development as it shows that Google recognize Yoruba language, but i don't really know it's usefulness since about 95% of Yoruba people that have access to the WWW can read and write English.

Anyway, thumb-up for those great guys at Googleplex.

Google has been working on an IM client for sometime now. There people who reported seeing traces of a chat protocol in their desktop search tool.

Since their acquisition of Picasa in Jul 2004, there has been strong speculations that Google will make Hello(www.hello.com),which is a Picasa product.

I hope the product will have a good reception, but i don't see it displacing yahoo and other well established IM services.

Praise God (if and when you eventually turn to God). Nobody is trying to make u believe in what you don't believe in, am just telling you that there is God, i as a person am liberal, i get on well with people with diverse mindset.

I hope one of this days you will discover Him. All great scientist eventually did.

Well this thread has been interesting for sometime now. What WesleyanA is struggling with is a natural phenomenon which we all struggled with. One thing we need to know is that not all people believe in the Bible and it’s does not make sense to be quoting the Bible is a situation like that.

Scientist know that there is a perfect creator of the whole universe, they only want to prove it.

WesleyanA am not forcing you to think about believing in God or not, but I have been in your position before thinking if there is God or not. Thinking that you achieve something as a result of your hardwork is false, there are people that are working harder than you but still they have nothing to show for it.

Scientist will tell you there was a Big Bang (http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/b_bang.html), this I believe. And it was as a result of God’s command. It took the earth billions of years to be were it’s today. We mostly fail to grab the concept of God’s time. The Bible said it took God seven days to create the universe, these could have been these billions of years scientist are now discovering. The world was without form according to Bible’s explanation, same for the first billions of years according to scientist.

This world is filled with mysteries that are just too numerous to mention. Scientist don’t know why there are black holes, quasars and tons of other things that are being discovered in space on a daily basis.       

My idea about God is a little bit different.  God has created us, he has giving us everything (He gave us His breath) we need to be what we may want to be. He has made us gods. The problem with the world is how we are running the world.

As a person I follow the Biblical and scientific evidence of creation because they compliment each other.

The problem with the Bible is not that it’s not perfect, it’s because some people have doctored it to suit their own purpose.

Allover the world, there are about a million religions still they all points towards the same direction of a common God. Even when you look at the Yoruba myth on creation, you will know that it clearly resemble what’s written in the Bible.

There’s God, the problem is that we fail to know that He is nowhere, but in our Heart.

Govt okays N80 per litre for Petrol
Posted to the Web: Monday, August 22, 2005
culled fromhttp://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/headline/f122082005.html


LAGOS — THERE are indications that government may have given the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) the go-ahead to increase its ex-depot price of petroleum products which will lead to petrol being retailed at an unprecedented pump price of N80 per litre this week.

The Federal Government through the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC) has ordered an increase in the price of Low Pour Fuel Oil (LPFO) by about 249 per cent from 12 to N30.40 per litre, amounting to about 249 per cent increase.

The international community and energy agencies, last week also revised upward their prediction of oil prices, stating that prices may rise further with an average of $67 per barrel for the rest of the year and beyond. This means that Nigeria will earn more revenue in crude oil export which will further boost its external reserves going by the decision of government not to spend excess crude earning.

Vanguard gathered that the Presidency may have given the nod for the price increase after it dawned on it that the corporation might not be able to pay salaries at the end of the month should the current level of subsidy burden borne by the corporation persist.

Specifically, it was gathered that owing to the experience of the past, government has given the go-ahead for the pump prices of petroleum products to be placed well above cost reflective prices to make room for bargaining with labour during negotiations that will ensue.

The increase in pump prices which has been a subject of public speculation for sometime now is expected to come after a board meeting of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) tomorrow.

Contacted, Dr. Oluwole Oluleye, Executive Secretary of the Agency said he did not expect any upward review in pump prices to occur before the board meeting tomorrow.

Responding to a question on NNPC’s possible unilateral move to change its ex-depot price, he admitted that it was within the corporation’s right to do so, adding, however, that this could only be done up to a point, and not beyond that reflecting cost.

It was gathered that the increase will see the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) pegged at N71 per litre, Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) pegged at N76 per litre and Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK) left largely unchanged.

A Presidency official who pleaded anonymity explained that the only change in DPK price would be the incorporation of expenses incurred during local shipment and trans-shipment of cargo, adding that this is yet to be worked out.

Currently, the corporation’s ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) is N43:50 per litre, Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) is put at N53:00 per litre and Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK) is put at N43:50 per litre.

The market fundamentals as at last Friday showed that given an exchange rate of N132:88K to the dollar, the landed cost of PMS is N65:61K per litre, with an open market or pump price of N72:11K per litre, while the landed cost of AGO is put at N70:66K, with a pump price of N77:16K per litre.

The market fundamentals also indicated that the landed cost of DPK is N72:85k per litre with a likely pump price of N79:35K per litre.

Increase in LPFO price

Responding to the increase in the price of LPFO, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) urged the Federal Government to immediately reverse the price hike. In a letter dated August 17, 2005 and addressed to the marketers, the PPMC management said: "Please be informed that effective from today (August 17), the new ex-depot price of LPFO is now N30.30 per litre. Please be guided accordingly."

Prior to this latest increase, marketers were loading black oil which now costs N1.003 million ex-depot at N402,930. Manufacturing industries, including textile, breweries and cement factories use black oil to generate steam that drives their operational plants. Chairman of the textiles sector of MAN, Senator Walid Jibrin however, warned in an interview in Kaduna that the latest hike in the price of black oil would eventually lead to a total collapse of the textile industry in the country which he described as the second largest employer of labour aside fromgovernment.

"This price hike is the final straw that will break the camel’s back, given the textile industry’s accumulated problems of high production cost, smuggling and poor marketing situation.

The textile industries all over the country have been struggling to survive in the face of high cost ofproduction, high water rates, increasing power bills, poor power supply and dwindling share of the domestic market, due to smuggling and dumping of foreign textile products.

The United Nigeria Textiles Limited (UNTL) which has 10,000 workers is the only survivingtextile firm in Kaduna, out of the previous nine."Also reacting to the price hike, the NUTGTWN warned in a statement that the hike in the price of black oil would spell doom not only for the textile industry but also the nation’s economy as a whole.
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Nairalanders what does this portend for the future of this country? Share your views and opinions.

the language translation is a service from www.worldlingo.com and i think the language options that were available are predefined by worldlingo.

as per nigerian language, i think it will be a good option if someone can volunteer to translate the site. the site i think was meant to showcase nigeria to the outside world.

did IBB and his MILAds publicly bought a mansion for a 12 year old kid and telling the public that a bank gave a loan to the kid?

is that guy gunning for the mr prez sit or as a grassroot man when youy started comparing him with IBB.

anyway IBB regime was'nt that bad, i tell you thousands of people flouting their wealth now are forever grateful to him, if he has none of them then, we would have been praising him today. What difference does present-day politicians make compared to IBB and other military leaders, the present democrazy is even worst than past military rules.

What happens to God's work if he becomes the President.

At least that will take a back seat, for just 4 years .

if he is so worldly to riding a N30million-worth hummer jeep when a  Landcruiser jeep of 6million can serve thesame  purpose

Won't a N500,000 vehicle do the same thing that a Hummer jeep is doing? A classical case of tithe and offering misuse. Same will happen to the country revenue WHEN AND IF he becomes Mr. Prez.

@niggy my squid and iptables are doing great, but i want to know the innre workings of iptables. am good with squid.

here is my own squid.conf:

shutdown_lifetime 5 seconds
icp_port 0

http_port 192.168.0.1:800

acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
no_cache deny QUERY

cache_effective_user squid
cache_effective_group squid

pid_filename /var/run/squid.pid

cache_access_log /dev/null
cache_log /dev/null
cache_store_log none

cache_mgr cyberwayi@gmail.com

log_mime_hdrs off
forwarded_for off

acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
acl SSL_ports port 443 563
acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
acl Safe_ports port 800 # Squids port (for icons)

acl IPCop_http port 81
acl IPCop_https port 445
acl IPCop_ip dst 192.168.0.1
acl IPCop_blue_ip dst 127.0.0.1
acl CONNECT method CONNECT

acl bad url_regex -i "/etc/squid/bad"

acl badfiles urlpath_regex -i \.exe
acl badfiles urlpath_regex -i \.lq
acl badfiles urlpath_regex -i \.cab
acl badfiles urlpath_regex -i \.zip
acl badfiles urlpath_regex -i \.ico


http_access deny bad
http_access deny badfiles
http_access allow localhost
http_access allow IPCop_ip IPCop_blue_ip localnet IPCop_http
http_access allow CONNECT IPCop_ip IPCop_blue_ip localnet IPCop_https
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access allow localnet
http_access deny all

maximum_object_size 10000 KB
minimum_object_size 0 KB


cache_mem 6264 KB
cache_dir aufs /var/log/cache 2000 16 256

request_body_max_size 0 KB
reply_body_max_size 0 allow all

visible_hostname nova.cyberway

httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on

















@johnbosco, don't worry about these conf files. you will only need to touch what u need.


@niggy, i will really like to learn iptables, how can u help me.

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i changed my stance on it since i discovered it was a mixtape. anyway stop yabbing ppl.

there can always be an ammendment in the law that governs a marriage, i just don't buy the idea of "for better for worse" if the worse is something that can be corrected.

one must not subject himself to a nagging wife in the name of for better or worse. if anyone want to marry he should take time to sutdy if the girl or her mother is chronic "naggers".

i hate women that nag with a passion. nagging has more effect on the children than divorce, if you have seen children of nagging women u will know what am talking about.

well i don't see anything bad in making your whatever to go through the final test, if he/she flunk you may decide to either jetision him/her or countinue if you can "stomach" the outcome of your test. anyway as for me she will have to go through all of the above and many more, only that my approach will be quite different.

afterall the bible which we are all quick to "hire" said ("When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold" (Job 23:10) and ("each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire; and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward" (1 Cor. 3:13-14)

why can't she remain steadfast. the test also shows that she can show armed robbers the way to his hideout since she is not steadfast.

well is this a change of heart or what, anyway i have listened to some of the stuffs on his site they seems nice, only that his accent need real beating except he want to be a naija rapper in america. hope alaba boyz will give him some elbow rooml.

this is a piece of shit, if he want to rule naija hip-hop scene he should come home and dig with these guys, staying thousand's of miles away is just a shoutmatch.

anyway all the hip-hop artist here are wack, and that's why i will never buy any of their cd's with my money.

bad lyrics, bad concept, bad rhymes.