₦airaland Forum

sage it's nice that you have experience the USA. But i want to remind you that things did not work out for the US citizens in a single day.

The US has had her own share of bandits/outlaws in the west (or why do you think they call it wild wild west). Those that travelled the trails from the east to the west will marvel if they are able to see all the Interstates in place now.

Like i have said earlier, a guest will (most likely) never bother to find out what the host went through to give him/her a delicious meal.

Nigeria will get there, am sure about this. It maybe by a revolution or any means but i know that day will come. There's always an elastic limit to everything.

wesleyanA God bless you, you have never failed to be the only most intelligent girl on Nairaland.com, (i mean it).

Even the ones who think they have good jobs and drive company car and live in company house and earn 80k per month, some factory workers earn that in 3 days or less.

IF you have 40k/month you can get a decent and spacious apartment to live in Lagos, here in Ondo state the highest you are most likely to get is 20k/month. But in the US you will need about $1600/month, so guys how will a factory worker going to make up for the difference; It's either he/she live in the projects or tenements.  Am not even talking about power, gas for cars, phone bills, ISP bills, medical bills, and other misc expenses.

When you all talk about insecurity of lifes and properties here, i tell you today it's on record that the US has the biggest number of incarserated felons in the world. Drug dealers will flaunt their 'wares' on the road as if they are selling recarge cards in Lagos hold-ups. The US has the highest number of street gangs in the world today. If life overhere is as sweet for everybody as you are pressing i wonder why some Akatas still have to go through the hardships that some beggars can't even pray for here. Most of our people here also live on more than a dollar (140 Naira) a day, one of the lies some of those foreign medias used to peddle around.

Refering to Gates and Google just show how some people don't even know the current situation around here. How do you tell someone that has never seen a car to go to the dealership and buy a car a drive.

Take it or leave it Microsoft of 1975 is not the Microsoft of 2005, am so confident that Nigeria of now will not be NIgeria of about the next 50 years.

Some of you sluring here are just guest in another man's land. A guest never care about what the host went through to give him a delicious meal.

Am yet to see area boys going about with AKs and M-16s here.

Although life is hard here, but people still push and pull through instead of retorting to drugs.

Donnie and Goodguy must both be tithe collectors or they it could be that they are "eating from the altar".

Omon you talk well. One of the major problem with Nigeria is that 90% of people here don't pay their tax (am a tax protester).

If our people are paying tax we will have the gut to demand more from the government, but since we don't know how they get the money they are stealing we are less concerned about what happen to our national account.

For the past 4 months or so i have got a meter that i use in my office but i have never pay kobo 'officially' to NEPA/PHCN for the power supply from them (it's not my fault they did not bring any bill, a priviledge to all new meter owner, ther say) . Most of us are only blaming all these public utilities here, most of us are only getting the equivalent of what we are paying.

In the US people pay through their nose for all the things we take for granted here hence they get quality service from their utilities.

Untill all Nigerians are responsible for the national purse we may never get the quick fix we want.

When some people talk about the world ending with a big calamity and stuff i can only but wonder how they manage to get their fact. Am a Catholic and the Catholic church does not lay much enversy on the possibility of the world ending in a day. What we are told is to do good so that when we die we will make heaven, that makes alot of sense.

For centuries people have been speculating the end of the world in a day as a result of natural hazards and stuffs that have scientific explanations.

My own believe is that the world is ending on a daily basis, so live well, life good.

LadyC your points that those documents signify the mark of the beast is false, those documents are numbered from 1 so what number will they give to document 666? Check here to see the whole index.

Goodguy if you are a man you need to have your own views on issues, i have been seeing some of your posts here. You are easily swayed by Bible passages even if the person quoting the Bible is deceiving you.

As far as i'm concerned if NASA announces an Asteroid will hit the planet then i'll believe the world will end.

It seems the world is really about to end, here is an excerpt from my blog.

The End is Nigh. (9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014)

According to this report by Yahoo, the much-anticipated end of the world may finally happen on 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014.

Mind you am not a prophet of doom, and don’t stop working because of this report.

Below is the report.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth! Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014. "The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge ideas in theoretical physics," announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based astrophysicist with close ties to NASA. "The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is imminent." Experts believe the chaos cloud is composed of particles spawned near the event horizon of a black hole (a form of what's called Hawking Radiation) that have been distorted by mangled information spewed from the hole. "A super-massive black hole lies about 28,000 light-years from Earth at the center of our galaxy," explained Dr. Sherwinski. "Last year the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking revised his theory of black holes -- which previously held that nothing could escape the hole's powerful gravitational field. He demonstrated that information about objects that have been sucked in can be emitted in mangled form. "It now appears that mangled information can distort matter. "Just imagine our galaxy the Milky Way as a beautiful, handwritten letter. "Now imagine pouring a glass of water on the paper and watching the words dissolve as the stain spreads. That's what the chaos cloud does to every star or planet it encounters." To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming discovery public. But Dr. Sherwinski's contacts at the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory leaked to him striking images of the newly discovered chaos cloud obliterating a large asteroid. "It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid," one NASA scientist told Dr. Sherwinski. Ordinarily, Hawkings Radiation is harmless. "It's produced when an electron- positron pair are at the event horizon of a black hole," Dr. Sherwinski explained. "The intense curvature of space-time of the hole can cause the positron to fall in, while the electron escapes." But when "infected" by mangled information from the black hole, the particles become a chaos cloud, which in turn mangles everything it touches. "If it continues unchecked, the chaos cloud will eventually reduce our galaxy to the state of absolute chaos that existed before the birth of the universe," the astrophysicist warned. Some scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space ark" and hightail it to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light-years away. "We wouldn't be able to save the entire human population, but perhaps the best and the brightest," observed British rocket scientist Dr. David Hall, when asked about the feasibility of such a project. But even if such a craft could be built in time, evacuating Earth might prove fruitless if theories about the origin of the chaos cloud are correct. "A black hole at the center of Andromeda is about 15 times the size of the one in our own galaxy," Dr. Sherwinski noted. "It might be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire." Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior White House official said the president's top science advisors are taking the findings in stride. "This is a lot like global warming, where the jury is still out on whether it's real or not," said the official. "The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory. Americans shouldn't panic until all the facts are in."

Kokscity, i wonder what you were doing before leaving Nigeria (you must have had it raw). Maybe you are from Bayelsa. Your sorts are not uncommon to find on Eleke Crescent, one of your type was even in my office this morning.

Am sorry to say, it seems you never try any opportunity in Nigeria before leaving, sorry about that. Your slurs are just too nauseating, you have brainwashed yourself into writing off Nigeria, even some smart Americans will never do that.

We are just growing, so comparing us with the US is a misplacement of agravation of what went wrong during your last trip here. You are shouting no water no road, no this no that but am drinking, eating and in good health and millions canr enjoy all these things you are shouting about right here in Nigeria.

You know what i don't have anything against the US, it remain my favourite country on planet earth, i like the vision of the founding fathers and all that make her strong. But your sorts are the fellows that i hate to encounter in my daily life. When someone can rise up to condem his country of birth simply because he has been priviledge to leave and settle in another country shows how stupid and foolish some people can be.

Assuming you were born in the US during their declaration of independence you would have sided the Britsh and absconded to Canada or Europe. Your sort are the most disgrace a country can ever have as a citizen. All these stupid slurs of yours are nothing but a childish habit, when some kids lay their hands on honey they will hastily throw away the salt.

Mr. Americana i hope you will move all your mama, papa, broda, sista, and just about everything you must have had any link to here in Nigeria to your abode overthere.

Nobody is denying the fact that our leaders are corrupt, we know this your lecture on how corrupt our leaders are is not selling here. I know the history of the US if not better than you do and so you can't come here to tell me what it's not tenable.

When Nigeria finally arrive i pray that we will all be around to see the glory our my beloved Nigeria.

Borrowing from Joseph Sugarman's word "EACH PROBLEM HAS HIDDEN IN IT AN OPPORTUNITY SO POWERFUL THAT IT LITERALLY DWARFS THE PROBLEM", "The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."

Sage despite all the present up and downs, still am not a second [url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/chi-0511260109nov27,1,6688123.story?coll=chi-leisurebooks-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true]class citizen[/url] here. Do you know it's possible for you to become the president of this country, the chances are there. But how about a country where people are not paid on the same scale simply because their color is different, of where you can't get the same level of medical attention with somebody whose color is different from yours.

We are going through our own turbulent time right now it shall and will pass. The US witnessed the same during the great depression of the 1920s. Am only waiting for our own version of the New Deal.

Since we have set the US as our paradigm of goodness, i will like you all to read some of the things they have gone through and presently experiencing here.

We are all lucky that we are not witnessing [url=http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/framingthepoor.html]second class treatments [/url]in a country our forebears fought to unite.

If you have your money here in Nigeria today you can have whatever anybody here is/are entitled to, but in some part of the world that's not the case.

People massacre themselves because it seems there's no future. And people are so concerned about themselves because that seems to be the most obvious choice but wih time all these will change, the changes we are all expecting with democracy are dramatic but this is not be the reality. We have to go through our wilderness to get to the promise land.

Please ask Kanye west how much he is worth and if he has a college degree. Them ask him which country gave him the mantel to say those words against the president on National TV.

In a country that prided herself with unsurpassed freedom of speech why was his (Kanye West) comment edited when it was broadcasted to people on the west coast.

Folks like you are what we call "omo oju o rola ri". It's guys like you that after working off their ass on some graveyard shifts for months come back[i] flossing[/i] around. If not for the exchange rate most of you guys would have been begging to comeback home.

Bro stop deluding yourself. I know what i mean by second class citizen OK.

What happened to those folks in New Orleans, are they not all in America, why did Kanye West lambast Mr. President on national TV over the whole issue.

I have family members that are born citizens of the US so i know what am talking about here. US is just like Nigeria, you have the rich, the OK and the homeless.

Am no raising any damn white flag on this issue. Let me tell you unless our leaders are ready to stop dancing to the whim and caprises of the western nations we will never progress as a nation, those western countries are ridding on the backs of developing countries using IMF and World bank as a cover.

China, Malaysia and all other countries have done that and they are reaping the benefits.

As for me there's hope in Nigeria. And am grateful that am not a second class citizen here.

I know that life here in Nigeria is very very hard but i have hope for a better future here. I used to have the mentality of running out of the country before until i discovered the beauty of this country (there's always opportunity in every situation).

As of today i can never abscond to any western country in order to avoid the realities around here, never. The black people in the US suffered before the Civil Rights Movememt, and still till today they don't have the full rights that whites overthere have.

When our people continue to suffer a time will surely come when they will get to the elastic limit of their suffering and hopefulness then the much expected revolution will come. The American civil war and Civil rights movement did not start in a day, it takes time for people to come out of their shells.

Today you may think the US is the paradigm of everything you ever wish for in a country but bro i tell you they did not get there on a day journey. And when you all compare us with Malaysia and Singapore you all failed to realise the fact that we all did not have the same cultural diversity so comparing all these countries with Nigeria is just a stupid comparison.

And if you all are able to even know the conspiracy agaisnst developing countries you will all never be talking like this.

Kokscity it seems you are lost in all the razzmatazz of the US. The US is not a bed of roses as you are portraying here.

When people fail to see beyond their nose they will forever be bound into the conclusion that there's no better tomorrow.

Our GDP is on the same level with the level of our economy, things are also affordable with the little people are earning here. I don't think you can compare the amount people earn in NY to what's obtainable in UT.

As long as am concerned Nigeria will once day become great, it's not necessarily during our own time. I wonder what those negroes that were lynched in the US south would be thinking in their graves when they see blacks coming on NBC and MTV to entertain Americans.

A question for you all; Did Martin Luther Kind Jr. realise is his dream during his lifetime?

Most of you are only eating done soups overthere.

oftech

There are about 3million Millionaires in the US, please forget racism there is more Xenophobia between the 220+ Tribes than racism here. There are more telephone lines in New York city population 9million than in the whole sub saharan Africa. Life expectancy is @ 75 and growing in this country. I am not sure why you would equate theives like Dangote that have ripped off Nigeria's wealth thanks to Abacha, and a country with a population of 300million and a workforce of nearly 160million and has an unemployment rate of less than 5%.Haba!Listen my friend the Nigerian government is reponsible for the welfare of it's citizenry, with Oil resrves to the tune of 40billion barrels and Natural Gas reserves up the wazu, you would think that some basic human needs i.e water, light and shelter will be atleast affordable. Listen in Ghana today they give you a weeks notice before taking power and you are wondering why Nigerian men are leaving. If i had the choice and i was holed up in Nigeria, it is a no brainer.........Look for a place where you can expand your mind and get the hell out that death trap.

(A sad Nigerian in an adopted country)

Thanks for seeing the bad side of Nigeria, but i hope you are able to see the good side of Nigeria too. Am not saying Nigeria is the heaven on earth and USA is not either.

If you can endeavor to read about the history of the US you will at least be able to see that US @ 45 years old was not as developed as Nigeria @ 45.

Some former US administration (Grant) were as corrupt as we have right now in Nigeria. If we all abscond to the US in order to escape the realities here it shows that we are all cowards.

Know one thing, America did not become America in a day, so Nigeria can't become Nigeria in a day. In 60 years Nigeria will still remain Nigeria take that from me. Why has Texas not broken away from the USA after all the agitation for a separate republic since the first break away?

Life is hard but good in Nigeria.

Hosting websites overseas does not make a country to be backward ITwise. What's important is the level of IT awareness in a country. If the market and resources are here am sure people will try to setup data centers here. Let me ask you do you know how much it will cost to get a 1MB full duplex bandwidth on SAT-3 & VSAT here? Do you also know how much it will cost to get people to man these centers 24/7. Man if after putting all these in place and what you get is like 100 clients, i think you should be able to deduce the end of that venture.

The best link for hooking up a data center to the Internet is fibre optics, but how many of us have access to it. We can't even host our TLD talkless of running DNS servers, these oyinbo people will never allow people to hook up flapping routers to their networks. Right now i doubt if we have competent hands that can setup a data center with 99.999% uptime in this country.

What comes first is IT awareness, next we can start talking about data centers.

They are both from the same settings/background (hustlers).

50 Cent is even worst than Eedris when it comes to picking up fights with people, he and Kanye West are presntly at a logerhead.

Well all said and submitted so far, I think we need to give this initiative a chance. What I think the initiators of this great idea are yet to do is to give this initiative the much needed publicity it requires. Most people havent even heard abot Transcorp. Imagine , I intended picking up a conversation on this with a suppossedly enlightened coleague of mine and the only answer i could get was ''What The Hell is Transcorp? Is it ann Insurance Company?''. Please I think the initiators have to do the needful -create awareness on Transcoro. Let the information not be the sole reserve of a few elite.
By the way how do we get to be part of this Dream?
Or is it all the sole reserve of a few prevliedged class of elites. Do I have to be blue blooded with foreign credentials. Do I have to be bretton Woods or Harvard. I need an answer.

Transcorp belongs to the rich, so they target and direct their adverts to them. You can be a Transcorper as long as you can part with 1.2 Million Naira (that's the minimum you can invest).

Check their website for more information about them.

I wonder what gave you the impression that Transcorp have something good in stock for you, if you think they are going into IT forget it.

Do you know what it takes to own and run a data center with 99.999% uptime? You are more or less talking like a novice bro.

Those that you said are here to librate the Nigerian web hosting scene website are not even working as at December 21, 2005.

With the latest near crash that another Bellview plane expereinced in Ghana, i think it's high time the 'failed' Minister of Aviation tender his resignation.

layi, prices are different because when i went to Gboko in Benue state to use the internet, the charges there are unbelieveablel;

1hr = 150 naira which is = $1 and some cents
30 mins=100 naira
15 mins= 50 naira

scaning = 100 naira a page
printing = 20 naira a page

thats so costly!

after all this charges, you still pay 50 naira if u want to use a webcam,
too bad

On the average

surfing - 100naira per hr

scanning - 20naira / pg

Some charge u extra to use the webcam.


its expensive owning to the fact that u can stay online for a whol;e month (24hrs daily) in the USA 4 just $20 - 2800naira

Compared to USA, Canada, and other developed countries Internet Cafe prices here are the cheapest. I think the most common tarrif for cafes in the US is around $5 per hour (www.igames.org).

When you consider the amount operators are paying for access (about $800) per month for 128/64 kbps you will know that cybercafes are not ripping anybody off.

I used to think Frontpage is no a good development tool until i saw some nice works that were done with it. I think a tool is only as good as the user. Frontpage 2003 is a good development tool.

But as for me i use Dreamweaver since it's more easier for me to use.

If Obasanjo want, let him stay till 2014. All am concerned about is my daily bread.

But it's total madness for someone to think he is the most qualify for a job out of 120 million people.

I can rule this country better than Obasanjo.

Talk is cheap.

I wonder why so much importance is placed on the oil sector. The text on their power sector page was lifted directly from the oil sector page.

The industry is capital intensive. For instance bids for year 2000 licensing rounds varied from $30m; the 1000 kilometre West African Gas Pipeline to Ghana is estimated at $500m while an oil refinery of 100,000-bpd capacity could cost upwards of $1.0 billion. The industry is also a technology intensive as a significant proportion of the operating equipment and components is imported. High risk-high

On the power sector page i was expecting to see how they hope to revivew the brain dead power 'electricity' sector of the economy, but all am seeing is upstream/downstream.

And if i may ask why is Obasanjo's picture a 'background' on that site.

So it is but only hearsay after all! And this ground more than any most persons have kicked against Chris Okotie. Can anyone in this forum be patriotic, kind enough to honestly, sincerely, reliably help us verify this?

It's a fact.

Politics is not for the so called Revs, that Taraba man (Rev. Jolly Nyame) has dashed the chances of Revs in Nigeria.

What can anyone do within 6 months of assuming office? The present Aviation Minister was appointed in May 2005 or there about. The way Nigerian bureaucracy is and organized, you can't do much with this time period, that is what all of people don't realize.

Besides, the aviation sector has suffered decades of neglect and disinvestment that can't be turned around in just 6 months!

So what has he done since assuming office.

Babalola Borisade is never an aviation expert, i wonder how he will be able to cope in that capacity (as minister of aviation). When people place political affiliation above qualifications we are bound to end p putting squre pegs in round holes.

TRANSCORP OFFER:

Unite of Sale: A minimum of 200,000 ordinary shares and multiples of
100,000 thereafter.

Offer price: =N=6.00 per share

Application: Application must be for a minimum of 200,000 ordinary
shares and in multiples of 100,000 shares thereon.

If the above stated figures are anything to go by, i wonder how many civil servant will be able to honestly afford a share in that company. Abeg Transcorp is for the super-rich.

As a victim of a 419 Fraud scam (online romance) I would like to know what we victims can do to help the honest Nigerians help stop this activity. I have done extensive research on this matter and am well acquainted with the corruption by local officials that support this activity. I truly believe that it will take a joint effort by Nigerians and other countries to get this activity stopped. Tis sad that people think this is the way to make a living. And, it is sadder to see the mental, physical and financial damage they do to their victims. Any thoughts and suggestion are greatly appreciated.

freimont

I think you can help Nigerians by spreading the word about these scammers and their tricks. By reducing the number of victims we can launder our image real quick.

See guyz alot of ideas come like to me.. and money to excute such things woun't come.. i could vividly remember a day i taugh of an idea, and i spoke with Kayzee About it...Yeah V-mobile wanted to sponsor.. but don't know what happend Now Another idea.. Well what i want actually is.. A system where by u get to stage in a website Where you want to buy a particular Product, And you puch in all your Credit Card Information.. Then the system.. process the stuff and if it's valid it direct the stuff to you.. the seller.. Then You can now take the information to any bank that uses.. ATM I guess you guyz grab my point. But looking at it from another aspect.. is a big project..

I don't think any right thinking person on planet earth will readily give out their credit card details to a Nigerian in Nigeria at this present moment.

I think your idea will be better if it will be able for that person to peg the amount you can deduct from his/her card for that transaction.

I wouldn’t like to dampen your aspiration(s), but I don't think Nigeria is ready for credit card payments yet. I too have been looking forward to a solution like this for long but I think it’s only banks that can pull off something like this. Abroad is banks that are backing such ventures.

Have you considered the new First Bank’s card, I think they can incorporate paying to a those cards directly (since it carries customers account balance, I think) from there they can make deducting payments from those cards possible, but card owners must be able to issue a sort of PIN that will be valid for a particular transaction which must become invalid after a sucessful transaction.

There are possibilities and innovations but who is going to bell the mad bull.

It is very sad that poor souls have to die in very horrible circumstance, but one thing we should appreciate is the maintenance culture in Nigeria is very poor as long as it makes money nobody really cares if it is safe, this aspect also goes to both private and commercial vehicles in Nigeria, they are mostly in very poor state, but nobody complains about it, but YOU CANNOT cut corners with airplanes, the result is always very catastrophic. For once we need to address this bad culture of ours.

We must stop the attitude of thinking that we can avert incidents like this by our own will power. Just about 4 days ago a plane did crash into an adjourning street of a Chicago airport. Report did confirmed that the plane underwent maintenaince not more than 4 days to the crash day. Does that mean that they don't maintain their stuffs.

Things like this are beyond human comprehension, we can only pray to God to save us from situations like this.

Safety is only in God's hand.