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chrisagyei:
I thought you guys said Benin Republic,Togo and Ghana will collapse when you close your borders and now you're screaming hunger and open border whilst these countries are doing very well and last week Ghana got the largest foreign direct investment in West Africa and economies of Ghana and Benin Republic growing positive in the midst of the pandemic whilst your economy in Nigeria is growing negative 6%.Lol look at how your people were causing stampede over expired foreign rice locked up by your fulani warlords whilst the population remained hungry,lol.

You lock yourself in the room starving without food thinking the neighbouring woman operating a restaurant will collapse out of existence thinking you're the only person buying her food.You will die of hunger whilst her business will still be growing lol.

Typical Nigerian mentality thinking Vietnam,Thailand and Ghana will collapse because they have locked themselves inside and starving themselves so no one will buy their products,lol

Eh, to help Ghana and the rest grow even more Nigeria need to keep the borders closed. We need to tighten it even more so that you in Ghana can become like Singapore.

Gods why wasn’t I made president of Nigeria.

He stressed that bandits feel, “everybody is against them,” hence they are vicious and aggressively fighting for survival.

Sheikh Gumi is definitely Nigerian'. I’ve always thought that Nigerians are natural comedians. And while this joke wouldn’t be in my top ten funniest jokes in the world list, I can see it making someone else’s top twenty funniest jokes list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhEIBx9COM

Send them back, they’re Cameroonians.

If Goodluck Jonathan didn’t plan for tomorrow, Nigeria would not now be on the verge of enjoying nationwide train lines and stations

Mercenaries are a very bad idea but what do you expect from Short-term thinking, the bane of the black man and his thick scull! Instead of putting into place mechanisms that will result finally in enduring security from Tomorrow - when the government that instituted these changes may not be in power - governments want to plaster over insecurity Today while still in power in order to impress upon the people that it, the government, is Working. The ruling government always seem to fear working on long-term projects for fear that the next government will be credited with any successful outcomes.

This same short-term thinking for instant gratification is what drives some to talk of braking up a fantastic nation like Nigeria !

America, Dow Jones; Japan, Nicki dow; I go soon create my own Nigeria list called the Kampe...

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Hope the greenery I see in the background are integrated with the flyover, not cut down and cemented over.



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Mary Beth Leonard is the current U.S. ambassador to Nigeria assuming office on December 24th, 2019. She has been 33 years in the U.S. State Department. She served as economic and consular officer in Yaounde, Cameroon, when Namibia and Togo. She's also served as deputy chief mission in Bamako, Mali, and ambassador to the Republic of Mali. She served as a director for West African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, was appointed representative of the United States of America to the African Union by former Presidents Barack Obama and was appointed U.S. ambassador to Nigeria on August 1st, 2013, presented her credentials to President Muhammadu Buhari on December 24th, 2019.

And in my interview with her, she talks about her perception of the country and her work in the country during the covid-19 pandemic Nigeria, US relations and immigration under the new U.S. administration of President Joe Biden.

Ambassador, thank you for joining us. My pleasure. It's a pleasure having you here. And I know you I understand you've been in the country for more than six months now, even though many Nigerians haven't seen you really out there. But you have been around you have gone around the country as much as you can now, despite the restrictions and so on. How are you finding your stay so far? I love Nigeria. I think it's a fabulous place.

If you're Marybeth Leonard and you've done your entire diplomatic career in Africa, the idea that by the third time you get to be an ambassador, you get to come to Nigeria, the the really the really big giant on the continent, it's just so exciting. You just can't overstate how important Nigeria is in terms of the size of its economy and its population and its dynamism and its regional role. I wish by now I had seen more of Nigeria instead of the walls inside my house, however charming those walls might be.

So I think in the in the coming months, we'll be able to do I'm looking forward to being able to travel more across the country. So far, I've been to Lagos a few times and before the pandemic really broke out, I was in Kaduna. I think if it had not been pandemic times, I probably would have been to 10 states in Nigeria by now. So I'm really looking forward to getting out and and meeting people, seeing seeing different places.

But interestingly enough, your appointment, as you said, came during the time of the pandemic. So how would you then describe, you know, the information sharing between Nigeria and the US knowing how rapidly this coronavirus is changing and you have different mutations of the virus now in various variants of the virus? How how do you see Niger and the US working side by side trying to help people understand what's going on?

Well, you use the right words. The Nigerian the United States have been working side by side on covid-19 from the very early part, very early days of this pandemic. And that was actually based on an incredibly long and robust cooperation in health between the United States and Nigeria. We are the leading provider of medical care for HIV AIDS patients. Under the program, we were really stuck into the polio vaccinations. We had long been a force for health in Nigeria and many of those same investments we were able to help Nigeria build on in terms of the logistics of moving samples from place to place, building on the backbone of the laboratories that we had helped establish with with the president's program for AIDS Relief.

PETTYFER In fact, there were probably sixty two or sixty three people from my embassy, people who work for USAID, for the Centers for Disease Control and for the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research, who are working alongside their colleagues in the Ministry of Health with the presidential task force and in in in various laboratories to think about how to address the testing aspect of the pandemic as we were in that phase. And now that we're moving towards the vaccination phase with the happy arrival of vaccines into Nigeria for the first time, we'll be looking at the logistics and constraints and opportunities and how it is that you make the vaccine available.

So we've spent so far some seventy two million dollars on that effort. I would say that the biggest news on US efforts against covid-19 is the new Biden administration's emphasis on reentering the multilateral arena to be really a leader and a catalyst in global and global health. Certainly we were very active through all the activities that I described to you over the first 14 months. The difference now, as I think the the renewed commitment to multilateralism, you saw that on the first or the second day of his administration, President Biden had the United States rejoin the World Health Organization.

And we have committed not only to the logistics of the response to that, to contributing quite a large sum of money, to making sure that vaccines can make it to every corner of the world.

And speaking of vaccines, we put some of the world leaders talk about developed countries contributing to vaccines in poorer countries, and they're saying that many developed countries acquired more vaccines that they needed and the rest of it should be given to poorer countries. Does the US think so? Yeah.

So I think the question the question is, while there may be individual countries that have gotten more vaccine than they currently need, the larger story is of the need for the vaccine outstripping the supply that is coming online. Certainly there are new vaccines being discovered and that is increasing the availability. The question is, as I said before, for the Biden administration is how do you get that vaccine to every corner of the earth that needs it? One of the answers to that is the United States is four billion dollar contribution to Kovács, the global the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiatives, mechanism for distributing vaccine around the world.

So what we've done with that four billion dollars that was appropriate or what we are doing with that. Four billion dollars that was appropriated by the US Congress in December is to decide to give two billion dollars of that immediately and then hold off additional tranches of it until we see other partners step up with more financial resources to support the amount of money that it's going to take to get vaccine everywhere. What can you expect under the Bush administration?

So I hope that you notice that one of the first speeches that President Biden made it early in his administration was to the African Union summit in February, where he talked about a renewed spirit of partnership and engagement. And I think the idea is looking towards the strengths and the opportunities and the optimism in order to engage in really robust partnerships. You've seen a very early recommitment to multilateralism, not only through rejoining the show, but through US support for the Nigerian candidate for the for the World Trade Organization.

And I think that this is an administration that doesn't necessarily think that multilateral institutions are perfect, but believe and indeed some of them are not, but believes that it's important to be a part of that conversation and a part of those institutions in order to bring about those reforms to the goals that we all have, which is for a safe, secure, prosperous, healthy world. So I think that's a lot of what you can expect to see in the in the in the in the coming weeks and months.

And I think that makes for a really good moment for Nigeria, too. When you look at you think about how many prominent Nigerians are in important positions in international organizations. Right. The deputy secretary general of the United Nations, the head of the the World Trade Organization, the EU's permanent representative in New York, who sort of works to Marshal Africa voices. There is also a Nigerian, as is the president of the African Development Bank. And who am I missing?

I am missing.

There have also been some people of Nigerian descent in the Biden administration and in the deputy secretary for the Treasury there everywhere. So I think at a moment where the United States is really looking towards a renewed multilateralism, the fact that there are so many prominent Nigerians in these roles is is really important. I know. I cannot believe that the one I forgot. Oh, my goodness. I was the ambassador to the African Union. This man was my neighbor in Addis Ababa is the new political and peace and security affairs commissioner at the African Union.

So you've got a really formidable array of talent in key security and economic international institutions to help be a partner with the United States as it goes towards that new spirit of multilateralism. What about from the coronaviruses? So we have seen the president, Joe Biden, talk a lot about immigration. He signed a few executive orders on the first day of his administration. And immigration is really important to Nigeria, considering the Trump administration also focused on immigration. We know how important that is to America.

Where is Nigeria then in America's foreign policy? On immigration? On immigration, what?

You're correct that the new president made a couple of decisions on immigration in the very first days, notably to reverse bans on certain kinds of immigration, among which Nigeria had had had fallen on the immigrant visa fund. So that has been reversed. And Nigerians are again eligible for all categories of immigrant visas that it's very important for Nigeria. The most significant Nigerian diaspora population in the world is in the United States. They are also among the best educated immigrants in the United States.

It's a really powerful and significant community. So we're very glad to see that that reversal, as I suppose I really hope that Nigeria is to the premise of the visa bans or that that whole exercise in the beginning was about asking Nigeria to make certain reforms and information sharing and identity and.


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RisenPhoenix1:
Not relevant. The optimal situation is to work there, but live here; which is exactly what the op is pointing out. Otherwise, the standard of life in both countries is not that different.

Taking into consideration all that you've stated, I believe that quality of life in Nigeria is better.

daddymummy:
I watched a documentary on the life in the US.

So many people are homeless.

They sleep in their cars or some of them use clothes and tarpuline to build a small structure on the road side where they sleep at night.

They cannot afford house rent which is very high.

There are millions of white American citizens who are suffering like this.

Some are jobless and depend on charity.

I was surprised when I saw that documentary.

This sort of thing needs showing regularly on Nigerian TV in order to better inform Nigerians on world realities. And, actually, the West needs to highlight more of these negative aspects of life in the West to help deter migration.

It’s interesting that in spite of the fact that the West would greatly stem the tide of immigration to their shores, by highlighting the negative aspect of life in the West, they never want such portrayals. Narcissism defines white people.

What Is Causing The Too Much Heat In Nigeria?

Ask people like these below

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Ondo Loggers Block Benin-Lagos Highway

Stop cutting down trees unless trees planted specifically for felling in Sustainable Trees projects

States are better than regions; however the problem is that Liberal Democratic model adopted by much of the third world from the West is unsuitable for third worlds’ relatively unsophisticated masses preoccupied by Tribe. We need to tinker with the democratic precepts in order to arrive at a workable hybrid. Nigeria needs a central government run by a board of presidents not president. A board of presidents would enable wider tribal representation at the centre of government. I propose a new philosophy called Liberal Democratic Co operations or Democrat LTD - in any case - a sort of democracy along the lines of a business company. We keep the current states but we’ll no longer have an overriding National presidential election. We vote for our president locally i.e. the presidential candidate will be a local man or woman. We still keep the political parties. These political parties will compete for votes at the state level. Each party will field two candidates, Central and State presidential candidates. The candidate who runs on Central presidential ticket will – if he wins – represent the state at the federal level as one of the presidents on the Board of Presidents. The candidate that runs on the state ticket if he wins represents the party as a state governor.

In such a dispensation, majority of tribes will be satisfied that they have a president and we can all rest. There’ll be no more of these primitive wailing and gnashing of teeth about what tribe did this and what tribe didn’t do that. At least, the chances of such would be greatly diminished.


Problem with democracy in Africa or any current form of government has always been to do with tribalism. Tribal outlook. We all need to accept this shameful fact and stop deceiving ourselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UynhUVEkpg0

Nigerians in position of power overseeing institutions and organisations need to do just that, Organise. A major problem in Nigeria is inability to organise. A part of organisation is maintenance and continuity. I like using the term industry in reference to parts of the Super structure such as church, religion, education; civil works such as roads, water etc because using the term Industry helps to establish in the minds of people that every institution in society cannot survive or stand alone, they require other sustaining, facilitating or supporting sub-institutions.

RIP

The problem is not Nigerians wishing for war, the problem is outsiders wishing for Nigeria to go to war with self. Nigerians have nothing to gain from war; at least not as much as none Nigerians gain from Nigeria going to war.

(CNN)In the heart of Cape Town, a control room buzzes with activity. Technicians monitor a grid of screens, scanning data that will soon make its way to astronomers working to deepen our understanding of the universe.

Operated by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), the data is coming from the MeerKAT array -- one of the most advanced radio telescopes in the world. Comprised of 64 connected satellite dishes in a remote part of the Northern Cape, the $330 million telescope has put South Africa on the astronomy map. It's also a key component of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), an international effort that will see thousands of dishes built in remote regions of South Africa and Australia.

South Africa's MeerKAT array is one of the most advanced radio telescopes in the world.
South Africa's MeerKAT array is one of the most advanced radio telescopes in the world.
"This is probably the biggest science project on the whole continent," says Pontsho Maruping, SARAO deputy managing director. "We've already started training astronomers in other African countries."

"What excites me is the fact that it allows people on the African continent to really contribute to one of the most technologically advanced industries in the world," she adds.

While an African-born astronaut has yet to launch to space, programs across the continent are on the rise, especially in the fields of satellites and telescopes. Consulting group Space in Africa values space programs on the continent in excess of $7 billion, while countries including Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Angola, Kenya, Ethiopia and Rwanda have established or expanded their space agencies in the last 20 years.

Several of those programs include women in leadership roles. In celebration of International Women's Day, meet three inspiring female pioneers shaping the future of space exploration across Africa and beyond.

Jessie Ndaba, space engineer
Jessie Ndaba is the co-founder of Astrofica, a satellite tech company in South Africa.
Jessie Ndaba is the co-founder of Astrofica, a satellite tech company in South Africa.
When South African space engineer Jessie Ndaba and company co-founder Khalid Manjoo named their satellite startup, the choice was easy: Astrofica -- a hybrid of "astronomy" and "Africa" -- seemed like the perfect fit.

The fully Black-owned satellite tech company, based in Cape Town, specializes in assembling, manufacturing and testing satellite systems -- a lucrative focus of the African space industry. According to Space in Africa, 41 satellites had been launched from the continent by August 2020, and that number is likely to triple by 2024. More than $4 billion has been invested in satellite development across Africa so far.

Space "was and is a calling," Ndaba says, noting that her fascination began with a photo of a rocket engine in a textbook gifted by her grandmother, who raised her in Johannesburg.

The pyramids at Giza can be seen in the center of this image taken from the International Space Station in 2012, with the modern Cairo metropolitan area to the left and the Sahara desert on the right. Scroll through the gallery for more photos of the continent taken from space

Having experienced the industry's evolution over the last 15 years, she says the key to success in the sector is collaboration -- and helping people on Earth. "We are all for partnering with other countries in Africa or outside Africa," Ndaba says, "as long as we are working toward improving people's lives."

But she says sometimes that message gets lost, pointing to the common criticism that space endeavors are expensive and that governments like South Africa's should be investing in improving the lives of its citizens.

"There's a number of benefits that we get from what we do, but we fail to communicate it to people," Ndaba says, adding that satellite imagery can be used to assess land quality for farming or housing construction.

"We're always looking at the challenges that people are facing, and we look for the solution."

Adriana Marais, physicist and explorer
South African physicist Adriana Marais is the founder of Proudly Human.
South African physicist Adriana Marais is the founder of Proudly Human.

Adriana Marais has set her sights on Mars -- and it's a mission she's been planning for as long as she can remember.

"If I had to choose a particular outcome for my life, spending my last days on Mars would be it," Marais says.

In 2015, the South African physicist came a step closer to realizing her dream when she was shortlisted as one of 100 astronaut candidates for the Mars One Project, a private venture to build a permanent settlement on the red planet.

Read more: Perseverance will search for ancient life on Mars. These places are next

But there's still much to learn about Mars before humans can survive on its surface -- or even successfully make the trip. After a nine-month journey just to get there, astronauts will encounter extreme conditions on arrival.

On Earth, Marais is preparing to simulate that harsh environment. In 2019, she founded research organization Proudly Human, which plans to run a series of settlement experiments in extreme environments as part of its Off-World project.

Nuclear-powered rocket could get astronauts to Mars faster
Nuclear-powered rocket could get astronauts to Mars faster
"We will have teams arriving, setting up infrastructure from scratch, and living and doing research in those extreme locations for duration of the experiment," says Marais.

In December 2019, she traveled to Antarctica to begin setting up a community where selected participants will spend nine months in complete isolation. The project is now on hold because of the pandemic but Marais says Antarctica will be an ideal testing ground.

"Temperatures in the winter in Antarctica range between -60 and -70 degrees Fahrenheit in the interior, and this is the average temperature on Mars in terms of testing infrastructure like water systems," she says.

According to Proudly Human, the research and technology developed to support life in environmental extremes can also help inform solutions on Earth, where billions of people worldwide lack access to clean water and air, reliable power sources, and a secure food supply.

"I feel we have a duty living in this challenging era," says Marais, "creating a future that we can be proud of, whatever planet we're on."

Ruvimbo Samanga, space law adviser
Zimbabwean Ruvimbo Samanga is a space law adviser for her home country, which began its own space program in 2018.
Zimbabwean Ruvimbo Samanga is a space law adviser for her home country, which began its own space program in 2018.
Growing up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Ruvimbo Samanga first became interested in space as a young girl. But she never thought her love of "all things extra-terrestrial and extra-planetary" could become a viable career, and pursued law instead.

In 2018, she coached a team of law students that made history by becoming the first African entrants to win the prestigious, international Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court competition. That's when Samanga realized she could combine her two passions into one career -- and became a space law and policy adviser.

From there, "the opportunities were boundless," she says. "I think (space law and policy) just give me the most effective way of bringing about change in the industry. It's so exciting to see the field developing right before your eyes."

Nigeria's 'techpreneurs' are using technology to provide life-changing solutions to everyday problems
Nigeria's 'techpreneurs' are using technology to provide life-changing solutions to everyday problems
Space law governs space-related activities, including the use of space technology, damage created by space objects, and the preservation of space and Earth environments -- and it has to constantly evolve to keep up with developments in technology.

Samanga represents Zimbabwe on the Space Generation Advisory Council, supporting the UN Programme on Space Applications -- which facilitates the sharing of space technology benefits with developing countries that don't yet have the resources to do it themselves.

"There are a lot of challenges in Zimbabwe and an urgent need for socioeconomic development all around," she says, pointing to the recent food security crisis brought on by severe droughts.

In 2019, Samanga started AgriSpace, which uses satellite technology to help farmers maximize crop yield.
In 2019, Samanga started AgriSpace, which uses satellite technology to help farmers maximize crop yield.
Samanga built on her expertise to launch AgriSpace in 2019, a company which helps Zimbabwean farmers optimize crop yields. "I realized there was a technological gap -- farmers are using archaic and traditional methods," she says. "To bridge that gap, we use satellite imagery and data to give farmers the necessary information they need to know when to plant, how to plant, what to plant, and where to plant."

For Samanga, all her work -- from law and policy to satellite tech -- stems back to her childhood fascination with space. She's now sharing that dream with students in Zimbabwe, inspiring the next generation of space explorers from the African continent.

"I dream for a world where girls do not have to question themselves and are not questioned," she says. "My dream is to see more African youth, especially young girls, in the African space industry."

CNN's John Lewis and Ian Hooper contributed to this report.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/07/africa/south-africa-zimbabwe-women-space-science-spc-intl/index.html

Nigerians are very loving, forgiving and straight talking people. Don’t judge Nigerians by what you read on niaralend. Many of those talking up killing and trying to pit Nigerians against each other are not even Nigerians. Some are Nigerians practicing a primitive form of politics.

Why Is The Average Nigerian Always Angry?

Not my experience. Majority of Nigerians that I know are full of life, smart, intelligent, sophisticated, always keen on self improvement, always keen to advice even when not needed and always extremely humorous.

A series of explosions have been heard in Equatorial Guinea's commercial hub, Bata, leaving a huge plume of smoke hanging over the city, images on social media show.

State TV is reporting that there have been fatalities and significant damage, and health workers have been asked to report to the city's hospitals, the Spanish news agency EFE says.

The cause of the explosions is unclear.

But there are reports that they came from an area near a military base.

Video posted on social media of the aftermath show a chaotic scene of distressed people feeling from the site of the explosions.

In a tweet, France's ambassador Brochenin Olivier sent his condolences to the victims, describing the event as a "catastrophe".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56311677

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


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Hi, when Apapa to see how the recent traffic, the congestion by the government is walking, we are currently driving along off road. This road leads straight to a paper port thanks to the government for waking up to their responsibilities. As you can see here, is devoid of traffic. Yes, free flow of traffic is unimaginable. A few days ago, here was completely gridlocked. You know, the Nigerian Ports Authority recently launched the electronic tropical system and in collaboration with the Lagos State Government, the congestion seems to be working.

As you can see, the road is, of course, no heavy container trucks can be seen here. Used to be impassable. He was a traffic nightmare. Many businesses suffered as a result of that, a lot of landlords lost many of their tenants because. People couldn't get into their offices if it takes hours for a business owner to get to his office. It becomes very difficult to it becomes a difficult task to maintain or retain the business around the area.

Simple commutes that should normally take 10 minutes took hours to complete the entire Apapa local economy suffered as a result of that, suffered because of the gridlock.

That's the spot ahead of us. Yes, by the left, that's the entrance trucks will be taking rides to see how Cricklewood looks like this is Cricklewood. Ruby, as you can see, it's amazing how he is very free, you know, like what he used to be.

This is what you get. These are the result of when people do their jobs, not sleeping on their jobs. And at the end of the day, they get paid, you know, so guys people in authority should wake up and do their jobs. And at a minimum, it's life for others. The question on everybody's lips is, why did it take so long to implement such a simple traffic management system, the entire Apapa local economy suffered because of this and a lot of talk about Lagos state economy at large, you know.

We know that the ultimate solution to this traffic gridlock in Apapa is common. Yes, that's the standard rail line which they've already linked up to Apapa Ports. When it becomes fully operational, most containers will be moved to inland terminals by rail. It's amazing to see how everywhere is free of heavy container trucks. Let's hope that businesses will return in this area. This is one part of the gridlock. Apapa gridlock, though, as you can see, it's working.

But what about Lincoln Island? We all know that from my two begger, Triniti and the hull of Lincoln is impassable. We'll try to find our way to Tinkham Island to see how the place looks like, if it is devoid of traffic or if it's the same thing. I'm getting to think and we'll be taking this route straight to the bridge. Yes, the Creek Road Bridge will now lead us to Tinker. Just hoping we can be able to pass there, as you can see by the left here, there are tankers, these tankers, they are not actually they don't actually cause more problems than the problem.

The traffic problems we experienced, people experienced around here, they were mainly caused by container trucks. These guys come here, lift all you they get some of them come here for petrol, gas, whatever it is that they are lifting, they lift them and find out where to leave. So. One more thing the government should be doing is to make sure that enforcing the law, if there isn't enforcement, strict enforcement people will always think that they can get away with a traffic offence.

Wow. This place. Are you sure this place is free?

Before Gillis Roy. Not sure if this bridge is free of traffic, because the way the. My son, I saw this is there are already trucks that are parked, are they just part or is it a gridlock? I don't think there's anything need this guy that that he's already trying to make it on wall. Let's go and find another way to link up to Tinkham. Look, let's try under the bridge, we already know that Liverpool Road is blocked off completely if you're coming from anywhere from the other side of Liverpool to this area, you cannot access under this bridge.

Let's try C, we can get an access.

And unfortunately, it is blocked off, too. Wow, this place looks like a war zone every everybody's blocking the streets of, you see a lot of places there's overhead poles that cannot allow big trucks to enter. These are the result of traffic congestion. Wow. Which other side can we take now? OK, let's try my ring road, my ring road also boasts on the junction. It connects to the under the bridge. So if we're going to take my ring route, you have to drive around on top of perjury.

Let's try that and see. It's unfortunate Marion Road is blocked. Wow. So the only way to link up, if you're not Papale, you want to go to Tinka, which is just a stone's throw from Apapa here. You want to go there, you have to go all the way through boundry.

Who won't want to miss? I have to go through Ajegunle in order to come out to the Apapa. Oh, that is so. It means the government should still come over here and make the same decision. Magic or what? What else should we call it that they found along the Apapa axis all the way to Lagos? Mean land, you know, whatever they did, even if it's the electronic system that they implemented here, let them do the same implementation and enforcement so that my team, the whole of that area team can Triniti and the whole area should be free of traffic so that businesses can get on with their lives.

People that are commuting commuters, we can get on with their lives.

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The first hotel in space could be open for business sooner than you think
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Shannon McDonagh
• 03/03/2021

The first hotel in space could be open for business sooner than you think
The station will provide up to 400 hotel rooms - Copyright via The Gateway Foundation/Orbital Assembly
An American tech company hope to deliver a cruise-like space experience well before the end of this decade.


The Gateway Foundation’s ‘Voyager’ station is currently in development, with the goal being to provide rooms for up to 400 people. Its circular spinning frame should allow the structure to emulate an artificial gravity level similar to Mars - 40 per cent of the Earth’s own. The project is expected to be the first to create a more liveable, long term environment for humans in this way.


Voyager station will provide an assortment of cruise ship-like opportunities to eat, relax and work, including a health spa, cinemas, and bars. The hotel will have the capacity to surround the planet in just 90 minutes.

via Orbital Assembly/The Gateway Foundation. The station will host a variety of restaurants and bars via Orbital Assembly/The Gateway Foundation
Its frame will also be large enough to fit twenty 65x40 foot pods which will act as marketable ‘villas’, as well as rented space for companies like NASA to work and live.

This logistics will be made possible by Orbital Assembly, a space construction company. They have developed the Structure Trust Assembly Robot (STAR), which will build the hotel in-orbit upon completion of successful gravity testing. A date is set to begin construction in 2025, with the expectation that the hotel will be fully operational by 2027.

The works are modelled from ideas first created by groundbreaking rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who was a key figure in NASA’s Apollo space programme.

Concept art for the project depicts everyday images of the final design, featuring rounded bevelled windows, as well as a plethora of minimalist architecture.

“This will be the next industrial revolution" says Gateway Foundation founder John Blincow.

A rendering of what the Voyager's luxury suites could look like
via Orbital Assembly/The Gateway Foundation A rendering of what the Voyager's luxury suites could look like
How are they able to complete the project so quickly?
The Voyager Station could serve as a lengthier competitor to Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic experience, but it’s Tesla’s SpaceX that has paved the way in lowering costs and reducing barriers to space.

Elon Musk has professed his ultimate goal is to "make life multi-planetary".

For decades the cost of operating a space shuttle per kilogram was steady but eye-wateringly expensive, says space policy analyst Wendy Whitman Cobb.

“When the space shuttle was in operation, it could launch a payload of 27,500 kilograms for $1.5 billion, or $54,500 per kilogram. For a SpaceX Falcon 9, the rocket used to access the ISS, the cost is just $2,720 per kilogram.”

There is the expectation that this could decrease to just a few hundred dollars this decade.

Just because we can, does it mean we should?
Cambridge University cosmologist Martin Rees argues we should not lean on the growing viability of living in space to solve the earth’s problems. He also says the reality is a lot further away than these companies are aspiring to.

“By 2100 thrill seekers [...] may have established ‘bases’ independent from the Earth on Mars, or maybe on asteroids. Elon Musk of SpaceX says he wants to die on Mars but not on impact. But don’t ever expect mass emigration from Earth. And here I disagree strongly with Musk and with my late Cambridge colleague Stephen Hawking, who enthuse about rapid build-up of large-scale Martian communities.

“It’s a dangerous delusion to think that space offers an escape from Earth’s problems. We’ve got to solve these problems here. There’s no ‘Planet B’ for ordinary risk-averse people”.

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Na Madnit not Bandit go attack place like this in order to cart off people that live in such condition hoping for riches in the form of ransom.

Aviation quarters knii, Aviation three-fourths ko

Nations like Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, etc are the future of Africa, they need to be allowed to grow and prosper because their prosperity will drive African development. Nigeria is not ready for open borders especially now that migration has become militarised by extreme poverty, sponsors of Islamic terrorism, and all sorts of exploitative foreign and regional interests.

AsomughaChuks02:
The rate of northern migration to the South is worrisome. They have destroyed their own region with intolerance, nepotism, Islamic extremism and illiteracy and want to do same in the south. They have brought their herdsmen to come and be eating up our farm produce, what kind of wickedness is in these people?

This is why borders need to be taken seriously and why borderless Africa is not a good idea at least for now. If poverty and desertification drive people from Sahelian nations into relatively wealthier nations like Nigeria and since religion (the Muslim ones) and lack of jobs in Nigeria drive them into becoming like scourges, like locusts they will keep moving on to new pastures. They will create chronic poverty wherever they settle and this will swell their ranks with new chronically impoverished people. No relatively better off Nation, be it Oduduwa, Biafra or Cameroon, will be safe as long as their borders are open. Nothing would stop the hordes until the sea at the other side of South Africa.

It's gonna be difficult if we are unable to control the influx of people coming into and out of Nigeria along the borders. If Nigeria army were able to regularly inflict heavy casualty on the terrorists at least this may act as deterrent to the wrong types coming in.

Even if overall military strategy is confused the military need to adopt the determination that terrorists encore more losses than they bargained for whenever they attack military.

babatope0000:
Many people mistake democracy for some wonder weapon that makes a country better all by itself.

Well with what I’ve seen so far in Nigeria, and some other African countries, I knew democracy is a joke.

Furthermore, many people think that elections are the litmus test for democracy, the ultimate decider whether the country functions as one would expect when you hear out the term.

Because many Africans are very ethnocentric. And this is coming from an African.

Elections are really important. But unfortunately, the truth is a tad more complex.

Democracy is not a tool that makes a country livable, something else does that, such as accountability.

Decision-makers (politicians and their henchmen) must be held accountable for their decisions.

If they do well they’re rewarded by another stint with a well-paid job with cushiony seats and a fancy palace to call your home, if not they need to be held accountable and replaced with someone who would hopefully do better.

Democracy is a tool by which all eligible voters (all citizens/inhabitants over the age of 18, hopefully) can hold decision-makers accountable for their actions.

If you don’t have democracy and elections they don’t... join the discussion here ooo>>>https://buggingquestions.com/question/why-is-democracy-not-really-good-for-africans/#comment-221

What if I said to you that the reason African nations struggle with democracy is that they are - in an extraordinary and ironic sense – trying to implement Democracy. In other words, African nations are trying to implement the principles of liberal democratic philosophy established in Literature. Democracy without conflict is almost impossible given the nature of humans and human level of progress. For instance UK does not practice liberal Democracy as you and the world may assume. What if I told you that the general British public are not the ones that directly chose who govern them through the ballot box?

Repentant Terrorists And Bandits Become Spies because they are alive.

He looked like a responsible gentleman in Nigeria and abroad like an irresponsible wanabe akarta gangster.

Since I joined Niaraland many years ago I’ve continually cried Border, Border Border! Also that Nigeria needs to take nationhood seriously. A good deal of taking nationhood seriously is taking borders seriously and doing something about it. Instead Nigerians will be telling you how they want to get to Cotonu, Ghana and whatnot. Nigerians seem reluctant to define Nigeria and are forever thinking of the rest of Africa or how they are related to neighbouring nations. Nigerians need to think of Nigeria, define your Nigerian borders and shut others out! You need to know who Nigerians are, register citizens, keep records, be serious about immigration, etc. Instead Nigeria is an undefined landscape stretching into Benin republic, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. It’s not as if Nigeria has a functioning police force and prisons able to at least capture and luck away criminals and deviants.

All Muslim in West and Central Africa seem to believe that Nigeria belongs to them, people troop into Nigeria from as far a Burkina Faso and Sudan. People from all over West Africa also are employed to work on farms in the North.