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This poster, , why does he endlessly post topics he knows will lead to attacks on so-called Igbo Nigerians and yet he wants people to believe he is himself Igbo?

Strange though that any artist would encourage Nigeria's disintegration when many currently gain their dominance in Africa because of Nigeria's large population and unbiased support of the great Nigerian peoples.

Seems to me that the issue of division of Nigeria is too much of a cold hearted position for anyone in the entertainment industry (celebrities ) to adopt given how much love and support they get from majority of Nigerians. It's like the worst type of betrayal.

The entrepreneur hopes the Starship will help take humans to Mars. Rivals fear it will dominate US deep space exploration

At the southernmost tip of Texas, alongside the Gulf of Mexico, a gleaming stainless steel rocket has been rising from the salt marshes.

At nearly 400ft, the new SpaceX rocket will eventually be taller than the Saturn V that carried Nasa’s Apollo missions to the moon, and its 33 engines will deliver twice the thrust. For Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder, it is meant to play a key role in one day establishing a human colony on Mars.

But the rocket, dubbed the Starship, could have a far more immediate impact on a space industry that has already been shaken by Musk’s ambitions. With the power to carry as much as 100 tons into low orbit around the Earth, his admirers claim Musk is about to transform the economics of the launch business.

“It’s game over for the existing launch companies,” says Peter Diamandis, a US space entrepreneur. “There’s no vehicle out there on the drawing board that could compete.”

Musk’s space company still has some way to go to live up to the promise, including winning regulatory clearance to launch Starship from its Texas site and showing that it can reliably reach space while returning both the rocket’s stages for reuse — an essential step in reducing launch costs.

Also, many experts question whether a large rocket designed to colonise another planet can double up as an all-purpose transport for more varied and mundane tasks closer to Earth. But SpaceX’s success in turning its current rocket, the Falcon 9, into the main workhorse for reaching space has made others in the commercial space industry nervous.

“If you’re not careful, SpaceX will be the only game in town,” says Fatih Ozmen, co-founder of Sierra Nevada Corp, a private US company that has been contracted by Nasa to fly cargo to the International Space Station. Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ private space company, makes a blunter claim: SpaceX could end up with “monopolistic control” of US deep space exploration.

Musk’s venture has put itself in a commanding position in the new commercial space industry with surprising speed. It is only 13 years since it became the first private company to launch its own rocket into orbit, breaking into an industry previously dominated by nation states. It has also leapt ahead of contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, whose joint venture, United Launch Alliance, had carried the flag for US space launch — though using Russian engines.

SpaceX’s ascendancy has been underlined over the past six months by a striking series of wins.

They include a $2.9bn contract awarded by Nasa to use the Starship to land its astronauts on the moon as early as 2024. It was the space agency’s decision to pick only one supplier for this programme, after earlier indicating it would select two, that brought the warning from Blue Origin. Nasa officials point out that they have only awarded SpaceX a single mission, leaving them open to choose other suppliers for future landings. But Blue Origin claims that adapting its systems to work with the Starship will force design changes that will lock the agency into a dependence on SpaceX in the long term.

Musk went on to upstage Bezos a second time late last month. Just weeks before, the Amazon founder and Sir Richard Branson had each made personal trips to the edge of space on their company’s respective rockets. The brief moments they enjoyed in microgravity were eclipsed when SpaceX carried four passengers more than five times higher for a three-day joyride around the Earth, making them the first all-civilian crew to reach space.

SpaceX also announced the first 500,000 orders for its Starlink broadband network, making it the first in a new generation of broadband communications companies operating from a constellation of satellites in low orbit, around 500km above the earth.

And last week, Nasa said two astronauts who had been scheduled to fly on a Boeing spacecraft would be switched to SpaceX’s spaceship instead. The company that defined an earlier era of aerospace has hit too many technical obstacles to carry astronauts on its first commercially developed spaceship, putting it well behind what until recently was just a scrappy start-up.

Rocket science
At the heart of SpaceX’s spate of successes is the Falcon 9, which has brought down the cost of reaching space and become a springboard both for the company’s wider business and Musk’s ultimate goal of reaching Mars.

“In terms of performance, cost and reliability, it really is the most successful rocket ever built,” says Diamandis.

SpaceX’s share of the global launch market, excluding China, climbed above 50 per cent for the first time in the first half of 2021, according to BryceTech, a space research and consultancy firm. And while China launched nearly as many rockets as SpaceX in that period, the US company lifted nearly three times as much weight into space.

The tactics that turned the Falcon 9 into the era’s most widely used rocket are now being applied to the Starship. They echo many of the things that also account for the breakout success of Musk’s electric car company, Tesla.

Foremost has been the success of Musk and SpaceX’s chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell, at pushing disruptive technologies into mainstream production. In the case of the Falcon 9, that meant using 3D-printing for its engines, the most complex part of the rocket, and reusing the main booster, for future launches.

To master new techniques like these, SpaceX worked on almost every detail of designing and creating its own rockets rather than relying on suppliers, with Musk himself acting as a chief engineer in the early days to goad his team on. SpaceX also took on the full development risk itself, rather than being able to fall back on guaranteed payments from Nasa, forcing much greater financial discipline. As a result, the space agency estimates that the $400m SpaceX spent to develop the Falcon 9 rocket was 10 times lower than the likely cost of a rocket built under traditional government contracting.

Another advantage that SpaceX has shared with Tesla has been its ready access to cheap capital, thanks to the high valuation investors have been prepared to put on its business. Musk has raised more than $6.5bn for the company in the private market, lifting its valuation to $74bn earlier this year. Share sales by some of its investors have since valued it at more than $100bn, according to CNBC.

Most rivals have to generate cash from their existing businesses to fund new ventures, says Steve Collar, chief executive of satellite company SES. The ease with which SpaceX has been able to tap investors has opened the way for it to take much bigger risks, he adds.

One result of the ample cash, along with the company’s access to its own launch service, has been Starlink, which has beaten would-be rivals like OneWeb and Amazon’s Kuiper to launch its broadband service.

Racing to be first has involved technical gambles with its satellite designs, and Starlink is already on its third generation of technology. But even if it ends up writing off billions of dollars’ worth of satellites on the way to perfecting its constellation, the setback would not hurt the company the way it would a rival without access to such cheap capital, says Collar.

Rivals complain that as a result, SpaceX risks squeezing out other companies that haven’t yet achieved its scale and don’t enjoy its funding advantages. Blue Origin, which has lodged a formal complaint over Nasa’s moon landing award, said losing the contract would rob it of one important market for its New Glenn rocket, which has already cost $2.5bn to develop and has yet to leave the launch pad.

SpaceX’s vertically integrated manufacturing approach will also deprive other US suppliers of business, weakening the wider industrial base the country had built up to support its long-term ambitions in space, Amazon and others warn.

However, SpaceX’s customers — including those in government — do not seem to share the misgivings.

“Before SpaceX we only really had the ULA, so we’re in a better position than we were,” says Phil McAlister, director of Nasa’s commercial space flight division.

Diamandis goes further: “The US government is lucky to have a company like SpaceX based here,” he says, since its efficiencies feed through directly into the US space programme. And companies that compete with SpaceX in some markets seem more than happy to use its launch services, despite supporting a rival.

“When they came into the [satellite] industry, that freaked people out a bit — but I don’t think it needs to,” says Collar of SES, which is still happy to rely heavily on SpaceX rockets.

https://www.ft.com/content/25e2292b-a910-41c8-9c55-09096895f673

I ask myself, would Wilder defeat Tyson, Ali, Frasier, Lennox, or even Evander at their peak, and I couldn't envisage him being able to do so.

A similar exercise should help clear the thinking of those lost in the euphoria of Fury's victory over Wilder.

Reference:
Funny.... cos once upon a time in heavyweight land the tale of the elders was that the white man just couldn't box....

Blacks are just growing up soft.

In the West, all black boys do is hang around estates, street corners, sit on stairways gossiping and hating one another like women do. And like women, they’re vicious. Difference is, women will hate and leave it at talking. Boys with female characteristics but plus male hormones, leads to killers. Thus you get young blacks, either gossiping or killing one another in petty drug, gang feuds. Whites are on the other hand, growing their kids more healthily. At very young ages, white boys would be going rock climbing, surfing, skate-boarding, kayaking, playing football, cricket and rugby, going swimming, traveling throughout Europe etc. In addition, whites are adopting some of the foods – dubbed "ethnic foods"– from which blacks are turning away as too starchy,spicy or unable to afford.

In Nigeria where boys are still active in the outdoor pursuits mothers are turning their noses up at African foods such as yams, plantain, beams and feeding their children stuff like noodles, Spaghetti, and potatoes, consequently their children are growing up knock-kneed, weedy and short.

Bonus point:

On top of all that, the white establishment has probably been experimenting with black genes in secrete and injecting pregnant white mothers….

Buckeyemedia1:
He is not in any South East, he is in Ojora Lagos State. Internet ipobians.

He's in Ghana

Numerouno94:
Swears bro, i remember how nairalanders bn they over hype Wilder 2to3 yrs ago. Lol. Well i no too blame them cos if ur not an ardent supporter of boxing u won't know that Wilder is a scam.

They're now over hyping Tyson Fury.

Rumundele:
Knockout stage is now my problem. By the time they pair Nigeria with the likes of Senegal or CIV.
Every Nigerian fans will sweat that day.

Why are Nigerians so intent on hyping every Tom, Dick and Harry African nation?

The other day, so my Jamo girlfriend that is into Nigeria wedding vid, and all things Nigeria, rushed to show me one Nigerian comedian, hyping Ghana airport. ‘Ho, Heyyy, OH, AH Ghana airport, so good, oh Ghana air port, Ghana airport!’ I was so embarrassed for him.

My girlfriend asked me if that Nigerian Comedian has never travelled abroad before? And I couldn’t answer. I always thought that he had (that Comedian with the big eyes) My girl was going, ‘has he not seen South African, Kenya, London, Singapore, US airports, why was he going ga-ga- over Ghana airport and not the others?’

I told her he was probably trying to make a political point.

helinues:
CAR is still fighting senseless war within themselves hence playing their home match at neutral ground

What has sense got to do with African wars, oil or Timber?

Top ten African resources (see what position War occupies)

1 Oil& Gas
2 War
3 Diamonds
4 Gold
5 Coltan
6 Uranium
7 Copper
8 Coal
9 Platinum
10 Bauxite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbg0I498oEQ

UK used car values soar as demand grows in post-pandemic Britain
https://uk.motor1.com/news/522288/used-car-values-soar-uk/

By: James Fossdyke

UK second-hand car values are growing at record rates in 2021, according to data from online used car marketplace Auto Trader. Using the roughly 400,000 vehicles advertised on the site as a guide, the company estimates average prices were up 12.6 percent year-on-year during the week commencing July 12.

According to Auto Trader, that means prices have risen for 63 consecutive weeks, and price rises are accelerating. During the week commencing April 12, prices rose by what Auto Trader called “a comparatively conservative” 5.7 percent.

The company claims this is due to an increase in demand among consumers following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Auto Trader says it saw 14.7 million customers visit the site during the second full week of this month, up by almost a quarter (24 percent) compared with the same week in 2019, the summer before the pandemic arrived.

Why the used-car market is sending American inflation soaring

Why the used-car market is sending American inflation soaring
Blame stimulus cheques, a shortage of new vehicles and rising demand for rental cars
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/06/15/why-the-used-car-market-is-sending-american-inflation-soaring

Why Used Car Prices Went Absolutely Insane Last Month

You thought the price of wood was nuts? Just check out what’s going on at car dealerships. After cooling off a bit from a surge last year, the cost of used vehicles suddenly shot up 10 percent in April alone, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ official inflation report on Wednesday. The sudden acceleration was the largest one-month increase in the category since the government began tracking the Consumer Price Index in 1953.
https://slate.com/business/2021/05/used-car-prices-shortage-supply-chain-semiconductors.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTaTo4R5mvs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKI7r9ATaCQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPvNYjJmxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T92e0aaizaI

Apologies in advance for posting this off theme but intriguing vid

greenie77:
Do Nigeria look like a Country that will exist in the next 50 years?

Unfortunately, No, but not for reasons you hope or maybe you do hope if you’re not Nigerian. Nigeria is one of the very few African nations capable of surviving in the next 50 but Cameroon, Niger, Benin republic, Chad, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Gambia and perhaps Liberia and Sierra Leon are more like to not survive. They’re not sustainable. Many of these nations will merge. Nigeria is more likely to become another country by virtue of being forced, persuaded or tricked, long term, into absorbing one or two of the neighbouring nations than suffering unsustainable short term splitting.

I say unfortunately because Nigerians would be stupid allowing Nigeria to merge with other West African nations by any means such as economic corporations, Pan-Africanism, trade blocks etc, ete. Nigeria can go it alone and would be the better for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErlS9x_EsbQ

ibtommy:
How will Igbos kill their fellow Igbos? There's more to this.

Same way thieves, armed robbers, drug dealers and outright psychopaths, local to the region, killed and maimed victims local to the region, before now, now and will continue in the future. If the Igbo population numbers say, 40 million, you could safely bet that one million of those fit the Psychopath profile. Such people would nuke the entire East, without an hours thought, if doing so serves them in some personal capacity. I’m being conservative; truth is, come societal break down, there are individuals of same tongue and ethnicity in your area that would quite happily rape and butcher others in your area.

It’s the same the world over.

Loverofpeace:
A sensible person should ask what will IPOB gain from killing these people are they anti-biafran? Are they police or army ? This one doesn't add up whoever is doing this is trying to frame IPOB, meanwhile where is ebube-agu? Are they not active in Ebonyi anymore?

An even more sensible person should ask is IPOB really about Biafra ?

YorubaKinging:
the end is near

while you're all being distracted by the Pandora scandal which is of no consequence to the corrupt individuals involved

the new world order us taking shape

vaccines is gradually becoming a norm

certificate of vaccination is being linked to your NIN

and the king of the north is positioning himself to take over many countries

and he's coming to the holy Land

he took a picture with your Lagos danfo to show you he loves you

he's controlling your richest men like Messengers

he's meeting with obasanjo today, and the youths of Africa on Friday

he will call himself your Savior

the end is near

You understand.



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Patrioticbreed9:
Every country can literaly see every thing about us just by entering nairaland .


our country is exposed.

Something I’ve preached tire. Anyone can become a Nigerian easily by learning on Niaraland and if you're perceptive enough you’ll notice that many stoking tribalism aren’t even Nigerians.

Migrants’ trafficker for the migration to North America from South America lurking on this thread, can you spot him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0_eKr8jnNo

Flyingngel:
All these show how how backward Africans rulers has subjected the masses to.

This type of argument could be more effective if proponents are able to show how African nations whose leaders are without presidential aircrafts compare in all developmental indexes with those nations that do.

fombi:
This is what happens when you provide an environment for foreign investors, they will invest and help you develop. Lagos is the only state developing, it isn't perfect but they are trying. If other states were applying 10% of the effort Lagos leaders does they had quickly support VAT. Lagos carry on your good work, make sure to kick out lunatics and lazy people from other states, mostly the North.

Indeed. Nigeria needs Lagos and any State that is as able as Lagos setting examples for all of Nigeria.

Eggs In UK Have Expiry Dates Stamped On Each,Can't This Happen In Nigeria?

Nigerians generally have access to fresh organic eggs not the, irradiated carcinogenic eggs served to the British and US public in the West. In Nigeria, undated eggs generally hatch into chicks in time not turn into, black, putrefying goo. So, I guess, in a Nation like Nigeria where your organic eggs might reward you by turning into breakfast or transforming inot chickens, Expiry Dates might not seem as urgent as in Nations like Britain where your industrial eggs might kill you by transforming into poison if you don’t consume them on time.

RichDad1:
No sacrifice is too much for the restoration of Biafra.

I guess what you say make sense in the context of sacrificing others to achieve the goal. Especially if the individual or group who’s wants are achieved by scarifying others are without conscience. Sort of like I don’t care how many soldiers or citizens die to keep me and my family in the opulence to which we are accustomed or aspire

or, "no sacrifice is too much for YOU to make in the restoration of MY Biafra."

me in the UK, Norway, USA or Finland with my white wife and soft haird kids, that suffer nightmares just from watching violent Cartoons on plasma TVs. Meanwhile Nigeria children are expected to man-up though subjected regularly to gun battles between police and gunmen, or jumping over gutters blocked by the festering, decaying bodies of dead people scarified for charms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW9p7RVJq1M

If Nigeria were a boxer, Igbo would be the heart, Yoruba the head, Hausas the fist, minorities the legs, middle-belt the guts. The Boxer cannot function without any of these parts. Eh, delta is the blood too

Coldie:
Nothing like that Nigeria is a disgrace to the black race.

Coon, keep waiting for your White masters to reward you.

vanbonattel:
Nigeria is no longer a recognised country and has become a pariah among the committee of nations. The world has now come to see that a bunch of terrorists are in charge of Nigeria, hence they are being snubbed by all world bodies.

If that is happening, it’s not because of Nigeria nathing; not because of Buhari, not IBOP, not police, not corruption, not military, it’s because of people like You! The world is only too happy to prejudice black nations and if black people give them the chance to gang up on one black group, individual, movement or black Nation like Nigeria by for instance continually bad mouthing her –mostly because of jealousy – then the world will grab the chance.

Individuals like you can fool ignorant Nigerians in Nigeria or some of them abroad, even, but i've been in the equality fight a long time and not deceived. I understand the West thoroughly and I understand the nature of coons and their cowardly, treacherous crab mentality nature.

Don’t blame Buhari, IPOB or Oduduwa. Since those of you that claim you are “Nigerians” are happiest when others join you in cussing Nigeria, UK and Majority Western Nations are very happy to join you in prejudicing your black assed Nation, don’t you worry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygyFO_JMtc0