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Ugandans have reacted to the announcement that government has allocated land for Senegalese-American singer Akon to build a city that will operate on his Akoin cryptocurrency. Akon said he had identified the preferable piece of land after being given various options by the government. He said the city will borrow a lot from a similar project planned in Senegal but didn't disclose how much it will cost to set up and who will finance it. Ugandans online questioned why the government was giving land to Akon when local investors were also in need. "Don't we have Ugandans with money that can build a wondrous investment in 1square mile land. It's all about having reasonable leadership, everything is possible. Akon will not steadline Uganda's weak economy on collapse because of being given free land," Rodgers Ishimwe tweeted . "Akon to be given 1Square Mileofland for free. It would make more sense if the govt gave this same land to 640 youths to do farming with each youth getting an Acre," Kawalya tweeted . Ref: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-47639452 |
sanctity454:Facebook policy against foreign interference: Tech giant Facebook says that it has removed more than a dozen accounts and pages on Facebook and Instagram "from Egypt that targeted Ethiopia, Sudan and Turkey. "We removed 17 Facebook accounts, six Pages, and three Instagram accounts from Egypt that targeted Ethiopia, Sudan, and Turkey. We found this network as part of our internal investigation and linked it to Bee Interactive, a marketing firm in Egypt," the social media company said. It said the pages had violated Facebook policy against foreign interference and had been involved in "coordinated inauthentic behaviour". The accounts have shared stories in the Amharic language which is widely spoken in Ethiopia. The content includes criticism of the massive dam that Ethiopia has built on a tributary of the River Nile as well as Turkey's foreign policy while sharing "positive commentary about Egypt," Facebook's said. Ethiopia is in a standoff with Egypt and Sudan over the dam that is being built on the world's longest river. The pages have combined followers of more than 300,000 and appear to have some engagement from Ethiopia. ''The people behind this network relied on a combination of authentic, duplicate and fake accounts, some of which used stock photos and went through significant name changes,'' the company says. |
Gunmen Attack Mbieri Police Station In Imo, Kidnap Policeman, Free SuspectsNigeria isn’t a helpless Nation, why there never seem to be lessons learned and measures adopted by authorities to mitigate situations like this in Nigeria that are easy to resolve, no less because they are repetitive , is mostly beyond me . I can only assume that the reasons authorities in Nigeria don’t seem to prepare for next time, is because Authorities actually want there to be insecurity. So, far from miscreants online bragging about wanting brainless street youth in the East taking up arms to cause disruptions in their area Authorities in Nigeria may actually want there to be disruptions in the area for whatever reasons best known to them.. These violent activities are not difficult to prevent, the perpetrators of violence in Nigeria currently are not intelligent, why-o-why- are Authorities struggling ? |
Newton85:Good observation actually. But I guess the mentality of the minority of people you’re referring to will say they rather be butchered by their own. |
superjab247:So this is the excuse some of you will use if all the jubilation, celebrating and encouraging of unknown gunmen to kill police officers and go to war with the State fails, resulting in deaths of the masses and destruction of businesses and social life? You’ll not regret, man-up, and accept responsibility for encouraging the unknown gunmen, and escaped murderous and rapists that join them to attack the State, instead you’ll blame the state? Did you school in Ghana? |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMdW5zNFTYA New experiment hints that a particle breaks the known laws of physics A heavier sibling of an electron, known as a muon, is challenging the "Standard Model" of all the particles in the universe. In a landmark experiment, scientists have found fresh evidence that a subatomic particle is disobeying one of science’s most watertight theories, the Standard Model of particle physics. The gap between the model’s predictions and the particle’s newly measured behavior hints that the universe may contain unseen particles and forces beyond our current grasp. In a seminar on Wednesday, researchers with Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, announced the first results of the Muon g-2 experiment, which since 2018 has measured a particle called the muon, a heavier sibling of the electron that was discovered in the 1930s. Like electrons, muons have a negative electric charge and a quantum property called spin, which causes the particles to act like tiny, wobbling tops when placed in a magnetic field. The stronger the magnetic field, the faster a muon wobbles. The Standard Model, developed in the 1970s, is humankind’s best mathematical explanation for how all the particles in the universe behave and predicts the frequency of a muon’s wobbling with extreme precision. But in 2001, the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, found that muons seem to wobble slightly faster than the Standard Model predicts. Now, two decades later, Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment has done its own version of the Brookhaven experiment—and it has seen the same anomaly. When researchers combined the two experiments’ data, they found that the odds of this discrepancy simply being a fluke are roughly 1 in 40,000, a sign that extra particles and forces could be affecting the muon’s behavior. “This has been a long time coming,” says University of Manchester physicist Mark Lancaster, a member of the Muon g-2 collaboration, a team of more than 200 scientists from seven countries. “Many of us have been working on it for decades.” By the strict standards of particle physics, the results aren’t a “discovery” just yet. That threshold won’t be reached until the results achieve a statistical certainty of five sigma, or a 1-in-3.5 million chance that a random fluctuation caused the gap between theory and observation, rather than a true difference. The new results—which will be published in the scientific journals Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A&B, Physical Review A, and Physical Review D—are based on just 6 percent of the total data the experiment is expected to collect. If Fermilab’s results stay consistent, reaching five sigma could take a couple of years. “The attitude to take is sort of cautious optimism,” says Nima Arkani-Hamed, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who wasn’t involved with the research. Already, Fermilab’s results amount to the biggest clue in decades that physical particles or properties exist beyond the Standard Model. If this disagreement with the Standard Model persists, then the work “is Nobel Prize-worthy, without question,” says Free University of Brussels physicist Freya Blekman, who wasn’t involved with the research. A model of everything The Standard Model is arguably the most successful scientific theory, capable of stunningly accurate predictions of how the universe’s fundamental particles behave. But scientists have long known that the model is incomplete. It’s missing a description of gravity, for one, and it says nothing about the mysterious dark matter that seems to be strewn throughout the cosmos. To figure out what lies beyond the Standard Model, physicists have long tried to push it to its breaking point in lab experiments. However, the theory has stubbornly passed test after test, including years of high-energy measurements at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which in 2012 found a particle that had been predicted by the Standard Model: the Higgs boson, which plays a key role in giving mass to some other particles. Unlike the LHC, which smashes particles together to make new kinds of particles, Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment measures known particles to extreme precision, searching for subtle deviations from Standard Model theory. “The LHC, if you like, is almost like smashing two Swiss watches into each other at high speed. The debris comes out, and you try to piece together what’s inside,” Lancaster says. “We’ve got a Swiss watch, and we watch it tick very, very, very, very painstakingly and precisely, to see whether it’s doing what we expect it to do.” The muon is just about the perfect particle to monitor for signs of new physics. It survives long enough to be studied closely in the lab—though still only millionths of a second—and while the muon is expected to behave a lot like the electron, it’s 207 times more massive, which provides an important point of comparison. For decades, researchers have taken a close look at how muons’ magnetic wobbles are affected by the influence of other known particles. On the quantum scale—the scale of individual particles—slight energy fluctuations manifest as pairs of particles that pop in and out of existence, like suds in a vast bubble bath. According to the Standard Model, as muons mingle with this foamy background of “virtual” particles, they wobble roughly 0.1 percent faster than you’d expect. This extra boost to the muon’s wobble is known as the anomalous magnetic moment. The Standard Model’s prediction is only as good as its inventory of the universe’s particles, however. If the universe contains additional heavy particles, for example, they would tweak the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon—possibly even enough to measure in the lab. Studying the muon is “almost the most inclusive probe of new physics,” says Muon g-2 team member Dominik Stöckinger, a theorist at Germany’s Dresden University of Technology. Muon beams and magnetic fields The Muon g-2 experiment starts with a beam of muons, which scientists make by smashing pairs of protons together and then carefully filtering through the subatomic debris. This muon beam then enters a 14-ton magnetic ring that originally was used in the Brookhaven experiment, shipped by barge and truck from Long Island to Illinois in 2013. As the muons go round and round this storage ring, which has a uniform magnetic field, the wobbling muons decay into particles that smack into a set of 24 detectors along the track’s inner wall. By tracking how often these decay particles hit the detectors, researchers can figure out how quickly their parent muons were wobbling—a bit like figuring out a distant lighthouse’s rotation speed by watching it dim and brighten. Muon g-2 is trying to measure the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment to an accuracy of 140 parts per billion, four times better than the Brookhaven experiment. At the same time, scientists had to make the best Standard Model prediction possible. From 2017 to 2020, 132 theorists led by the University of Illinois’s Aida El-Khadra worked out the theory’s prediction of muon wobble with unprecedented accuracy—and it was still lower than the measured values. Because the experiment’s stakes are so high, Fermilab also took steps to eliminate bias. The experiment’s key measurements rely on the precise time that its detectors pick up signals, so to keep the scientists honest, Fermilab shifted the experiment’s clock by a random number. This change tweaked the data by an unknown amount that would be corrected for only after the analysis was complete. The only records of this clock-shifting random number were on two handwritten pieces of paper that were kept in locked cabinets at Fermilab and the University of Washington in Seattle. In late February, these envelopes were opened and revealed to the team, which let them figure out the experiment’s true results on a live Zoom call. “We were all really ecstatic, excited, but also shocked—because deep down, I think we’re all a little bit pessimistic,” says Muon g-2 team member Jessica Esquivel, a postdoctoral researcher at Fermilab. New physics? The new Fermilab results provide an important clue to what might lie beyond the Standard Model—but theorists trying to find new physics don’t have endless space to explore. Any theory that tries to explain Muon g-2’s results must also account for the lack of new particles discovered by the LHC. In some of the proposed theories that thread this needle, the universe contains several types of Higgs bosons, not just the one included in the Standard Model. Other theories invoke exotic “leptoquarks” that would cause new kinds of interactions between muons and other particles. But because many of these theories’ simplest versions have been ruled out already, physicists “have to kind of think in unconventional ways,” Stöckinger says. Coincidentally, news of the Fermilab results comes two weeks after another lab—CERN’s LHCb experiment—found independent evidence of misbehaving muons. The experiment monitors short-lived particles called B mesons and tracks how they decay. The Standard Model predicts that some of these decaying particles spit out pairs of muons. But LHCb has found evidence that these muon-spawning decays occur less often than predicted, with odds of a fluke in the experiment at roughly one in a thousand. Like Fermilab, LHCb needs more data before claiming a new discovery. But even now, the combination of the two results has physicists “jumping up and down,” El-Khadra says. The next step is to replicate the results. Fermilab’s findings are based on the experiment’s first run, which ended in mid-2018. The team is currently analyzing two additional runs’ worth of data. If these data resemble the first run, they could be enough to make the anomaly a full-blown discovery by the end of 2023. Theorists also are beginning to poke and prod at the Standard Model’s prediction, especially the parts that are notoriously tricky to calculate. New supercomputer methods called lattice simulations should help, but early results disagree slightly with some of the values that El-Khadra’s team included in its theoretical calculation. It will take years to sift through these subtle differences and see how they affect the hunt for new physics. For Lancaster and his colleagues, the years of work ahead are well worth it—especially given how far they’ve come. “When you go and tell people, I’m going to try to measure something to better than one part per million, they sometimes look at you a little bit odd … and then when you say, it’s gonna take 10 years, they go, You must be mad,” he says. “I think the message is: persevere.” Ref: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ultra-precise-experiment-finds-hints-of-unseen-particles-in-the-universe |
A Nigeria army at internal war shouldn't fight with the aim of keeping Nigeria one. Doing so will loose them the war. Talk peace and unity befor hostilities but once hostilities are official, leave all that behind. They should be of the mindset to shoot dead all armed hostiles before them. Put down anyone armed and not in service of the state. Their aim should be to silence all arms noise, I.e silence the battle fields. |
Not if they, police, don't recruit more men, build square shaped, flat roof police stations surrounded by high walls, increase police pay, train police on how to stand their ground and shoot calmly. Discourage belief in charms. This is just the basic stuff and even this small important steps takes time they don't have. In terms of Army, a Nation like Nigeria requires a million man military or investment in high tech military. |
Who was it that said recently that Youths will save Nigeria? |
Some foreigners from Chad, Cameroon, and Niger republic are reportedly being enrolled for the NIN in Nigeria, raising concerns over security implications. Enrolment centres for National Identity Number (NIN) registration in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, are enrolling foreigners from Chad, Cameroon, and the Niger Republic trapped in the city as a result of the insurgency, HumAngle can report. An official who has followed this development in the past months informed HumAngle that hundreds of foreigners had been enrolled without immigration screening, which violates the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Act mandating immigration pass for non-Nigerians. According to the official who did not want his name mentioned, many of the enrolment centres across Maiduguri have no immigration official on sight, allowing foreigners to register at will. “Registration centres only focus on extorting N2,000 from applicants regardless of their nationality,” he revealed. Borno State shares a border with three nations: Cameroon, Chad and the Republic of Niger. Inhabitants of the border communities on both sides share the same ethnicity, further complicating national identity differentiation. Nigerian Government in Dec. 2020 asked citizens to link their sim cards with their NIN as part of measures to tackle insecurity challenges confronting the country. The registration has since been extended several times, as many Nigerians complain about overcrowding, slow response and nepotism at enrolment centres. Ref: https://humangle.ng/foreigners-acquiring-national-id-number-in-northeast-nigeria/ |
rowland545:Nairaland possibly did more to facilitate hate among Nigerians than Buhari did. Political leadership in Nigeria has always been riven by nepotism, tribal affiliations etc. The main divergence between the past, even under the military, and now is the advent of social media. Nigerians never hated one another on the ground. Social media gave those that eye Nigeria with envy opportunity to manipulate Nigerians, using tools that have always worked to break black people and make then useless and ready for exploitation by the rest of the world. This time black people helped whites to attack Nigeria and Nigerians in the age-old ways. |
Nothing will fuel break-up faster than important national figures continually reiterating, "don’t break up Nigeria”. They are making the stupid idea relevant and making those that want this to happen feel important and that what they are doing is working. That which humans continually discuss takes on life and gradually becomes self-fulfilling. The sooner Nairaland stops placing importance to break up discussions the better.Relegate the nonsense to obscure corners of Niraland let us all here word, please. |
Use the opportunity to build better police stations, preferably ones with parameter walls. We need prisons with triple parameter walls to create maze like effect difficult for escaping or broken out prisoners to navigate their way to freedom. Crying and wailing after the effect solves nothing, meeting challenges does. Current Nigerian polices stations are obviously unfit for the times. |
Lush100:Yes you can. When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better. By Xan RiceOn a Thursday morning in April 1990, in the suburb of Stechford in Birmingham, a strange grocery chain started trading in the UK. It only stocked 600 basic items – fewer than you might find in your local corner shop today – all at very low prices. For many products, including butter, tea and ketchup, only a single, usually unfamiliar brand was offered. To shoppers accustomed to the abundance of Tesco and Sainsbury’s, which dominated the British grocery sector with thousands of products and brands, delicatessens, vast fridges and aisles piled high with fresh fruit and vegetables, the range would have seemed dismal. The managers of this new shop, which was called Aldi, had not bothered to place a single advert announcing its arrival – not even an “Opening soon” sign outside the store. Strip lights illuminated the 185 sq metre store, and from the ceiling hung banners listing prices for the goods stacked on wooden pallets or displayed in torn-open cardboard boxes on metal shelves. A £1 deposit allowed you to borrow a trolley but there were no baskets. The checkout assistants, who had been trained to memorise the price of every item in the store, were so fast that shoppers experienced what some would come to call “Aldi panic” – the fear that you cannot pack your goods quickly enough. The store accepted cash but not cheques or cards. Customers seeking itemised receipts left disappointed. Information on Aldi’s owners was as limited as the decor. Most news reports noted merely that the company belonged to a frugal and spectacularly rich pair of German brothers, Karl and Theo Albrecht, who had both fought in the second world war and whose desire for privacy had reached extremes after Theo’s high-profile kidnapping for ransom in 1970s. The Albrechts had an extremely popular chain of bleak discount stories in Germany: the brothers had divided the country into separate fiefs, with each controlling the market in one half of the territory. But most people were confident they would fail in Britain, where there was a discernible snobbery about discount stores. When a reporter from the Times visited an Aldi store in Birmingham the following year, he thought it represented the “anonymous, slightly alarming face of 1990s grocery shopping”, without any pretence of sophistication. “One looks in vain for avocados or kiwi fruit.” The British supermarket giants, whose 7% profit margins were the world’s highest, were even more dismissive. Sainsbury’s remarked on the absence of service, which was important to British customers. “We welcome the advent of Aldi and others to come,” said Tesco managing director David Malpas. “We can live quite happily in our part of the market and they can live in theirs.” For a long time it looked like he was correct. In 1999, when Walmart bought Asda, the UK’s third biggest grocery chain, the Financial Times noted that Aldi had made “little impact in Britain” because customers were not as price-sensitive as Americans or continental Europeans. German shoppers, notoriously, took this to extremes: one of the country’s biggest electronics retailers, Saturn, even adopted “Thriftiness is sexy” as a marketing slogan. By 2009 – after nearly two decades – Aldi’s market share was just 2%, similar to that of Lidl, its German rival and imitator, which had launched in Britain soon after Aldi. Read: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/05/long-read-aldi-discount-supermarket-changed-britain-shopping |
Commotfornigeri:How old are you? |
Commotfornigeri:Why would igbo people prefer a Biafra worst than Syria to a Nigeria glossy as Japan? |
Abagworo:True but unfortunately there’s not much you can do about it. You could try to be clever but in all societies the sum of the stupid, ignorant, uneducated and unexposed outnumber the brightest. And nations progress only as far as the dumb majority allow not how hard the brightest push. Those that specialise on destabilising promising African nations have well worn methods to draw upon. They study the target Nation over a number of years and know what triggers to pull. Even without spending long studying Nigeria, they can pass for Nigerians because Nigerians are plain open people, we give away our cultural norms and values, our foods, our humour, politics etc online for all to appropriate imitate and exploit. Foreigners can easily pass for Nigerians because we Nigerians share information about ourselves freely. We do so in easily understood pigeon English and standard English. If we had a Nigerian language all of us understand and could communicate with online to the exclusion of None Nigerians, we would be safer as a Nation. That Wazobia thing needs revisiting. |
Ehm, for those of you hypocritically and sanctimoniously now arguing on how everyone jumped to blame IPOB and, 'how poor you innocent Igbo are quick to be blamed by horrible every other tribe" don’t forget how many of you were quick to also claim it was IPOB, ESN, Kanu etc but this time you were arguing on the side of your prowess, i.e. how powerful IPOB is and how the Military are incapable of defeating IPOB and how you support the freeing of prisoners, burning of things and killing of police officers etc.. The only guiltless people were those condemning killing and calling for dialogue and investigation. Besides, investigation is yet to vindicate anyone so no side is free of responsibility yet. No evidence in support of IPOB’S guilt or innocence, no evidence in support of Government conspiracy or not. |
When you argue on Niaraland we must always look for evidence, some want to rubbish the idea. Sure, we are all dying to blame one party or another but We all need to be patient. I have my suspicion like everyone does and mine is that i IPOB was responsible but what I believe is not same as The fact Eventually truth will out and then you can make a case for your war or peace. Wars and the repercussion of war lasts decades, you have time enough to enjoy that if such is your pleasure. |
In a metaphorical and literal sense, the role of the police is to arrest the failures of the State. So it’s kind of misleading for anyone to claim that Nigeria is a failing state and the Police powerless in the face of this or that a failing police force is symptomatic. Fix the police! Build secure police stations, recruit, more police, and pay police better. Train police in forensics. Increase the size of the police. Build more Prisons. Train police in techniques of modern investigations. Create DNA Data Bank for the police. Create Special Police Branches. These are just the basic stuff. We still have the army and Immigration services to fix. |
Evidence please. Why not first apprehend those responsible, preferably alive. After apprehending those you believe are responsible, prosecute them. Their motivations and who they are will become clear during all of these events. I know many are going to be mad at my suggestions but let us not forget that in the type of country we say we all want, whether Biafra or One Nigeria, even an individual that kills someone in public view is not automatically found guilty and sent to jail. There still needs to be a court case and the prosecution still needs to collect and present Evidence. |
I don’t believe Nigerians have the right to view insecurity in Nigeria as an intractable problem without having first invested in the Security industry i.e. Judiciary, Police and Prison services. |
Crimrburster:No thanks, I doubt any amount of shouting will get through your thick skull. |
Crimrburster:Really, ok I’m not going to mention hotel rapists and murderers, what about the Nigerian soldiers and police those like you claim you hate? What about Buhari, governors and politicians? What was all the Toll gate stuff about reporting police/army to Human rights, CNN and Trump? You were so focused on one point of view you forgot the other perspective You see, people in the East, you need to think really hard about the type of intelligence leading you on to destroying lives and livelihood, are these the type of people with the capacity to bring about utopia? |
Kriss216:You're crowing as if they will run forever. BTY I've noticed that there is something like up to 333 Likers of posts encouraging war in Nigeria (maximum) . . Perhaps a littl more.... I guess more will be employed now that I’ve mentioned this |
chrisxxx:Thank you. Evidence is everything; times like these show why. However man dey fear to remind everyone the importance of Evidence. It’s not enough to say ESN are responsible for police deaths, or that agitators killed Hausa traders. We are all lost when society and people act and react on hearsay, which is what news without evidence amounts. |
Bitcoin’s value is set to rise tenfold and will overtake that of gold, a leading New York investment manager has predicted. Ark Invest, the vehicle of Cathie Wood, the veteran stockpicker, expects the world’s largest cryptocurrency to “comfortably” eclipse gold’s $10 trillion market capitalisation. The value of bitcoin has more than doubled this year, hitting a record high of $61,606 last month, amid sustained interest in its potential and signs of a shift from the fringes of global finance towards the mainstream. Yassine Elmandjra, a cryptoasset analyst at Ark, criticised policymakers including Janet Yellen, the US Treasury secretary, who have warned that bitcoin is inefficient, unstable and often used for illicit finance. “I really think that it’s just outdated arguments as a function of their..... https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bitcoin-will-defy-regulators-with-tenfold-rise-in-value-to-overtake-gold-qrffx8wd7 |
Jlow2:Actually this is what happens when you don’t suppress the will of the masses. Nigeria is the very definition of Free State. In America where the will of the masses is suppressed by a functioning security industry, something like this would be met with deadly force by the police or national guards. For me, Nigeria dose not suppress the people enoug!! |
ayenale1:Burna Boy is a good musician; he is not a philosopher, definitely not an intellectual. Burna will tell you what you want to hear so you'll buy his music, he'll make money and live internationally. |
m140:People like him live abroad. |
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. I can only assume that the reasons authorities in Nigeria don’t seem to prepare for next time, is because Authorities actually want there to be insecurity. So, far from miscreants online bragging about wanting brainless street youth in the East taking up arms to cause disruptions in their area Authorities in Nigeria may actually want there to be disruptions in the area for whatever reasons best known to them..
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