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Africans for you, so blinded are they by the illusion of white saviour they never want to stay in Africa to build things that they may not live to see but that their children may grow up to see and enjoy some day.


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Boat migrant: The black man is lost in his gratefulness at reaching heaven and being embraced by whites that he no doubt sees as Gods and angels. But aware white woman can’t bring herself to touch his head that she worries is diseased.

Just when Nigerians are becoming recognised worldwide as excellent programmers and a computing tech and fintech hub is beginning to take root and bloom in Nigeria, some want to sabotage all that.

Good, we need to honour our deserving Citizens but I at first thought they were honouring Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh. Yes, yes, i know, I’m no better than anyone else since I forgot Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh's name, which was why I at first glance thought it was her being honoured. When I read the article, I saw I was mistaken and had to go google, “Nigerian doctor dies saving Nigeria from ibola” in order to fined the right doctor's name.

BTW this was the first article google loaded: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/oct/20/dr-stella-ameyo-adadevoh-ebola-doctor-nigeria-hero

naijadrivablog:
Have you seen a flying elephant

So, you're one of those doubting, crowing crows, huh?

Evergreen4:
Fighting for Nigeria is a waste of time. Imaging sentencing soldiers only because they demanded for better arms, not even better welfare . And they were ready to fight.

Nigeria to dogs....

I bet you believe that, as one group, they matched to the nearest general’s office, and in one voice cried out, "our weapons are not as good as those of the terrorists, we need better weapons if we are to defeat them". And the military general shouted, "Oya, you men are herby relieved of duty and under arrest for complaining about your riffles. Wait here and be prepared to be carted off to the brig, by the military police".

In your mind they broke no military terms, such as deserting posts, grievous insubordination, going AWOL, or any of the others for which Armies world wide make very clear to recruits, in words, sermons and literature, that prosecution and jail terms may follow.

An experiment conducted earlier this month saw a small pellet of hydrogen isotopes heated to produce "more than 10 quadrillion watts of fusion power for 100 trillionths of a second", according to the US National Ignition Facility.

A laboratory in the US is on the cusp of a breakthrough in nuclear fusion research which would see the fuel it generates release more energy than is needed to ignite it.

The US National Ignition Facility (NIF) confirmed that a successful experiment on 8 August "made a significant step" toward this goal, which is known as ignition

It saw light focused from the facility's enormous laser systems - the size of three American football fields - on to a target smaller than a BB pellet made of deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen with different numbers of neutrons.

This laser beam produced a hot spot on the pellet the diameter of a human hair, which generated "more than 10 quadrillion watts of fusion power for 100 trillionths of a second".

As the pellet heated, it yielded 1.35 megajoules (MJ) of energy, approximately 70% of the laser energy beamed at it, and closer than ever before to the ignition point of an energy yield exceeding the 1.9 MJ from the laser.

Nuclear fusion - the same process that occurs inside the hearts of stars - is a potentially completely green source of energy.

Unlike nuclear fission, the only type of nuclear power currently in use, which splits apart atoms such as uranium to capture the energy released, fusion merges two nuclei together to form a heavier element.

As the heavier element has less mass than the two nuclei which formed it, the excess mass is turned into energy, as explained by Einstein's

famous formula E = mc².

E = mc²

This formula means energy (E) equals mass (m) times the speed of light (c) squared (²).

It shows that energy and mass are equivalent, and allows scientists to calculate the energy produced by the loss of mass in nuclear experiments such as fusion reactions.

The speed of light is a universal constant and is the speed at which energy, such as electromagnetic radiation, always moves.

It is squared to reconcile the different measurements we use for space and time, although these are part of the same continuum in physics.

The enormous amounts of energy thus contained in even the smallest amounts of matter are key to why nuclear fusion is such a potentially powerful energy source.

Although the full scientific results of the research will be published in a peer-reviewed journal, the NIF's initial analysis shows an eightfold improvement over experiments conducted in spring of this year, and a increase 25 times over the NIF's record yield in 2018.

This result is a historic step forward for inertial confinement fusion research, opening a fundamentally new regime for exploration and the advancement of our critical national security missions," said Kim Budil, the director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory which houses the NIF.

"It is also a testament to the innovation, ingenuity, commitment and grit of this team and the many researchers in this field over the decades who have steadfastly pursued this goal."

Ms Budil added: "For me it demonstrates one of the most important roles of the national labs - our relentless commitment to tackling the biggest and most important scientific grand challenges and finding solutions where others might be dissuaded by the obstacles."

https://news.sky.com/story/us-lab-reports-it-is-on-the-cusp-of-major-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-12384370

A way will soon be found to disqualify or deprive them of the win, trust the World Doping investigating set-up at your peril.

Nigeria is full of the type of men some abroad would term effeminate, Nigeria is full of albinos, Nigerian youths at one point used to put on lipsticks and eye make-up and walk quite happily about unharassed.

InTheCloudySky:
No surprise there. Nigeria is a lawless country with significant human rights abuses.

Are you a Nigerian? Have you been to Nigeria? If you say yes, especially to the second question, and still stand by your views, then you're most likely a liar or you've been very unfortunate.

If Nigeria was even a smidgen of the way social media attempts to paint Nigeria, ask yourself why any effeminate man would walk out on the streets of Nigeria in the first place.

The so-called effeminate man of this thread may have in someway, besides his sexuality or style, provoked those that attacked him or it may have been caused by a dispute of some other type or publicity act, I just doubt he was set upon just because he looked, dressed or acted effeminately.

I’m ashamed to admit that among my top ten questions while looking at unfolding events in Afghanistan on TV is, "who the hell fixes Afghan roads, they look so nice, and how is it that after 20 years of conflict, Afghan streets and towns still looks cleaner, tidier and more liveable than our Nigerian rubbish and trampish structures festooned ones?’

psychologist:
I thought they made us to understand that it was Twitter begging Nigeria

And Jack was on his knees ready to fly into Nigeria to resolve the Twitter ban .

VPN is enough for us abeg

So in you head, you take from this that Nigeria is crawling to America to beg Twitter? If so, then perhaps your wishes are clouding your better reasoning faculties

gambia:
Where there's no justice and fairness, how can there be peace?

I guess that would depend on what you mean by justice, fairness and peace. What does peace look like, what percent ? Is there peace in Russia, North Korea, China, America, Australia, and Spain? If so, are these dependent on justice? If so, justice for what part of society? When we say justice, what type?

In politics, the idea/concept of justice is hugely complex....

Some may be astonished to learn that minority rights, opinions and views form the major social aspect of neoliberal philosophical concern

Ignition is a key process that amplifies the energy output from nuclear fusion and could provide clean energy and answer some huge physics questions.

A new experiment appears to have triggered ignition for the first time, at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US, recreating the extreme temperatures and pressures found at the heart of the Sun.

This has produced more energy than any previous inertial confinement fusion experiment, and proves ignition is possible, paving the way for reactions that produce more energy than they need to get started.

Imperial College London physicists are already helping to analyze the data from the successful experiment, which was conducted on 8 August 2021. Imperial has also produced more than 30 Ph.D. students that have gone on to work at the NIF. The College retains strong links with the facility, and others throughout the world, through the Center for Inertial Fusion Studies (CIFS).

Momentous step forward

Co-director of the Center for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial, Professor Jeremy Chittenden, said that "demonstration of ignition has been a major scientific grand challenge since the idea was first published almost 50 years ago. It was the principal reason for the construction of NIF and has been its primary objective for over a decade."

"After ten years of steady progress towards demonstrating ignition, the results of experiments over the last year have been more spectacular, as small improvements in the fusion energy output are strongly amplified by the ignition process. The pace of improvement in energy output has been rapid, suggesting we may soon reach more energy milestones, such as exceeding the energy input from the lasers used to kick-start the process."

"This is crucial for opening up the promise of fusion energy and allowing physicists to probe the conditions in some of the most extreme states in the Universe, including those just minutes after the Big Bang. Controlled fusion in the laboratory is one of the defining scientific grand challenges of this era and this is a momentous step forward."
Co-director of the Center for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial, Professor Steven Rose, said that "the NIF team have done an extraordinary job. This is the most significant advance in inertial fusion since its beginning in 1972."

"What has been achieved has completely altered the fusion landscape and we can now look forward to using ignited plasmas for both scientific discovery and energy production."

Reaching ignition

The type of nuclear reaction that fuels current power stations is fission—the splitting of atoms to release energy. Fusion instead forces atoms of hydrogen together to gain energy, producing a large amount of energy, and, crucially, limited radioactive waste.

For this reason, a way to create efficient fusion reactions has been sought for decades to produce clean energy using few resources. However, fusion reactions have proven difficult to control and to date, no fusion experiment has produced more energy than has been put in to get the reaction going.

While the latest experiment still required more energy in than it got out, it is the first to reach the crucial stage of 'ignition', which allowed considerably more energy to be produced than ever before, and paves the way for 'break even', where the energy in is matched by the energy out.

There are two main ways researchers worldwide are currently trying to produce fusion energy. The NIF focuses on inertial confinement fusion, which uses a system of lasers to heat up fuel pellets producing a plasma—a cloud of charged ions.

The fuel pellets contain 'heavy' versions of hydrogen—deuterium and tritium—that are easier to fuse and produce more energy. However, the fuel pellets need to be heated and pressurized to conditions found at the center of the Sun, which is a natural fusion reactor.

Once these conditions are achieved, fusion reactions release several particles, including 'alpha' particles, which interact with the surrounding plasma and heat it up further. The heated plasma then releases more alpha particles and so on, in a self-sustaining reaction—a process referred to as ignition.

However, this process has never been fully realized before—until now. The results from the experiment on 8 August indicate an energy output of over one mega-joule, which marks the threshold agreed for the onset of 'ignition' and is six times the previous highest energy achieved.

Arthur Turrell, from the Department of Physics at Imperial, and author of the newly published book The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet, said that "This phenomenal breakthrough brings us tantalizingly close to a demonstration of 'net energy gain' from fusion reactions—just when the planet needs it."

"The team at the National Ignition Facility, and their partners around the world, deserve every plaudit for overcoming some of the most fearsome scientific and engineering challenges that humanity has ever taken on. The extraordinary energy release achieved will embolden nuclear fusion efforts the world over, lending momentum to a trend that was already well underway."

Uncharted territory

Professor Chittenden said that "while the NIF is primarily a physics experiment, and does not have the main goal of creating fusion energy, this incredible result means that this dream is closer to being a reality. We have now proven it is possible to reach ignition, giving inspiration to other laboratories and start-ups around the world working on fusion energy production to try to realize the same conditions using a simpler, more robust and above all cheaper method."

The Imperial team are now analyzing the outputs of the experiment, using diagnostic methods they have created to understand what is happening in such extreme conditions. Dr. Brian Appelbe, Research Associate in the Center for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial, said that "the NIF lasers already created the most extreme conditions on Earth, but the new experiment appears to have doubled the previous temperature achieved. We have entered a regime we've previously never been in—this is uncharted territory in our understanding of plasma."

Dr. Aidan Crilly, Research Associate in the Center for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial, added that "reproducing the conditions at the center of the Sun will allow us to study states of matter we've never been able to create in the lab before, including those found in stars and supernovae."

"We could also gain insights into quantum states of matter and even conditions closer and closer to the beginning of the Big Bang—the hotter we get, the closer we get to the very first state of the Universe

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-major-nuclear-fusion-milestone-ignition.html

These reconciliations and rehabilitation of mass murderers into African communities is an abhorrent one championed by the West and is useful only to the West as validation of their derogatory opinions of us.

Bahamas95:
I still don't understand why he came to Nigeria .



Nigerian league is nothing to write home about..... Assuming na any of the north African countries he go I for understand.

Maybe the lesson here is that nothing remains unchanging and so don’t destroy your country because electricity ,as a metaphor ,didn’t work yesterday and today. Talking of yesterday and today, Nigeria’s sports industry is unrealised but the future offers opportunity for improvements that may result in thriving, sophisticated ,football teams, clubs and stadiums throughout Nigeria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmMxH8j_oKw

@Ole, implications are startling, with implications for not only automotive but building, advertisement and Gameing industries. It’s worth considering Tesla shares, currently $686.17 for one; however, with apps such as Freetrade or 212, anyone can own fractional shares in the company.

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

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

143WaZoBia:
You are all insulting this woman now. Someone that can afford to jakpa with all her family.
Even the so cold Afghans that are supportive of talibans are clinging to a moving plane. Make una continue.

Most of them won’t heed you, they have big gobs because they are in Europe, America or Troll House in Ghana. It’s up to Nigerians to look out for themselves and not be goaded into anarchy by these people abroad many of then even married to white people.

duro4chang:
Crocodile tear.

Which one is crocodile tears? Did he ask for your sympathy and if he had laughed uproariously what difference would your ire have made to his position? What difference has all the condemnations made to this conflict in the face of all the indifferent or caring officials of state?

Sinicism has its use but here it seems obviously misplaced, the man seems genuinely shattered.

Coolliot:
This is what happens when you fighting technique is based on airpower alone, the moment you can't always call air power, the fighting becomes bloody, and it's something training doesn't prepare you for.
I bet you, remove air power and let the USA face the Taliban squarely they would flee too.

Lol, try and resist inserting Nigeria into this; see ugo4u for the definitive explanation.

maxito28:
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If IPOB like, let the sit at home continue , it's there brothers, sisters,father's and mother dat will suffer 4 it.

The entire country suffers one way or another from whatever significant stuff takes place anywhere in the country. People all over Nigeria bare the consequences of insecurity and violence in the NE same will happen due to what takes place here. For instance, Igbo people are in part known for thrift and hard work, the reputation is self perpetuating also in facilitating the culture of hard work and thrift that benefits all of Nigeria - even at the very least - in a trickle-down way. Whether anyone wants to accept the following or not: these sit-ins, should they become the norm, will negatively impact this culture. Some of our Nigeria renowned drive was influenced by Western materialism; again many would want to deny this but primordial Africans had differing modes of behaviour and ways of living possibly suited to quality of life informed by natural wealth more than Western manufactured wealth with all its associated class stratifications and status. Although among the Igbo status was endemic and as traditional totem fetishes found expression in western religion this swaggering status found a ready home in Western materialism and sundry associations. At any case, in short, it is within Africans to live comfortably with relative little. Sit-in long enough and we may start enjoying it.

Best laid plans of Mice and Men.

Wouldn’t it be poetic if some Afghani women began sneaking out of their home and societal bondages, and board boats as migrants, precipitating the beginning of mass exodus of women from the country?

Incidentally, aren’t Asians positively charmed? Africans, for the most part, stoically suffer Africa nations difficulties, even when not responsible, yet are universally reviled, finger pointed at, to take responsibility for our local difficulties and not blaming the West. Asia and Middle East, on the other hand, not only blame the west for all past and contemporaneous difficulties but they physically attack the West, see terrorist acts (and the unleashing of tsunami migrants ).

The world would never almost entirely blame America for the shortcomings of any African nation in place of the cowardly Afghans. Only cowardly mind, if majority are not secretly in support of the Talibanic status quo. Ultimately, Women seem to be the key to revolutionising Islam for islam increasingly seems as if all about Women as social, physical and philosophic resource.

Coffins full of weapons would make amazing photos and videos.

hurryup123:
Six of us in a family all graduates no job@ll
please who get any link in any federal parastatal/ Multinational companies please help any of us

B.SC Computer sc (2:1) male UNN

B.SC computer sc (2:2) female UNN

B.sc Accountancy (2:1) M.sc statistics PhD statistics. female UNN

B.sc Accountancy (2:2) Female UNN

B.SC Hospitality/tourism mgmt (2:1) Female and best graduant M.sc inview IMSU

B.sc soil science tech (2:2) male Futo

THANKS AND GOD BLESS

You know, there are hundreds of relatively financially secure Nigerians in the Diaspora with and without significant extended families that are amenable to investing in business in Nigeria but not starting those business. Very many are willing to buy into a start-up – no matter how basic those start-ups are – rather than starting their own business in Nigeria from abroad. For instance, some you listed above have degrees in computing, if they studied software engineering and are able to somehow scrap enough to register a software company and then source for collaboration with investors abroad …etc etc

In short, I’m trying to say that Nigerians abroad willing to invest in those willing to start business in Nigeria can be a form or resources for people in Nigeria.

Perhaps a sort of Mentor/ Networking platform, Nigeria specific, that brings people together is needed, I don’t know….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGr4XAKhJj4

adebayo987:
The southerners are so good at helping strangers while their homeland suffers. Goodluck and Amaechi including others yet to be known are the true colours of the south. They live to please the north.

So, which model do you endorse for Nigeria the Nation? The Southern or Northern model?

If, for instance, you would like Southerners to behave like Northerners, why would Northerners want to change? And why condemn North?

CJ Ujah: British sprinter 'shocked and devastated' after positive drugs test


Olympic silver medallist CJ Ujah has denied wrongdoing and said he is "shocked and devastated" after a positive drugs test.

Ujah, 27, ran the first leg as Great Britain's 4x100m men's relay team narrowly missed out on gold in Tokyo.

He has been provisionally suspended after a test showed the "presence/use" of two prohibited substances.

"To be absolutely clear, I am not a cheat," said Ujah in a statement to the PA news agency on Saturday.

"I have never and would never knowingly take a banned substance."

CJ Ujah suspended after positive test for banned substances
Ujah was informed on Thursday of an "adverse analytical finding" - the presence/use of prohibited substances ostarine and S-23, which are selective androgen receptor modulators and help with building muscle.

If the case against him is proved, the British relay quartet - also including Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake - are likely to be stripped of their silver medals.

In his statement, Ujah said: "It's taken me a few days to process the information I received on Thursday, shortly before it was made public.

"I am completely shocked and devastated by this news.

"I love my sport and I know my responsibilities both as an athlete and as a team-mate.

"I am respecting the formal processes and will not be making any further comment until it is appropriate to do so."

The British sprinters lost out by just one hundredth of a second as they were beaten by the Italian team.

Ujah can request analysis of his B sample. Should that confirm the adverse analytical finding, the case will be referred to the Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/58216873