₦airaland Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-L-WZrnpBA?si=9F_bQCwuEzumbIWE

murphyjoe:
It is disgusting that alot of Nairalanders are only out to condemn anything about government no constructive criticism but only waiting to comment if anything bad is being put out here. It is highly unfortunate that some Nigerians are only happy if they hear bad news about their country. We need to desist from this and always pray and postulate a better ideas for the country to work. When the country fails it is the people at the lowest rank that we suffer most which include most of us all. Let start supporting the country and be hopeful we turn tge edge and see a better country for all of us to be happy.
It starts with sincere constructive criticism and not jaundice and tribal sentinents all the time.
Nigeria will succeed and we all shall part of the success story.

You have no evidence they are Nigerians. There are Troll Houses that interested parties pay to inundate targets with messages, opinions and so on.

There are nations in Africa whose nationals are so wretchedly poor, it makes more financial sense to employ them than to employ BOT developers.

There is one African nation in particular that does this. That nation is extremely bad for the progress of Africa and yet ironically that Nation is the darling of Pan Africanists.

Crimecity:
The same NIGERIA set to import Rice, Garri, Maize?

Are you implying wealthy Nations do not import ?

Have you heard of Trade Politics ?

IronGalaxy:
True, soweto below

We prefer the places in Port Harcourt OP posted. And when Nigerians are ready to improve thire villages, towns and cities to higher standards no villages, towns or Cities on the Africa continent will be our yardstick.

Funny how in time (for whatever reasons) things considered cheap and looked down upon gradually attain a level beyond casual reach. For instance, before the advent of synthetic fabrics, people looked down on 100% cotton. Now 100 % cotton is respectable. One day the Jappanese will beg to return to Nigeria.

Lol, social media people, clenching fists, cussing and swelling with vexation, encouraging this Ayisha of a girl to do whatever she does, which for them is against Nigeria and yet, in reality, she is the one physically on the line while they are safely behind VPNs. Reminds me of the very brief period in my youth when I was Rebel-Without-a-Cause in chief. For riotus reasons that are irrelevant now, I ended up missing WAEC and all my contemporaries that were encouraging me from behind all progressed ahead of me. It's one of several reasons I ended up in the UK battling to recover lost education and progress time.

It is actually a wonderful phenomenon; I mean, how noisy instigators sort of disappear and fade into the ether, when shit hit the fans, leaving the individual at the forefront covered in splatter.

Poor OP was forced to point to other nations abroad that have changed thire national anthems in order to appease Africans that are of the mindset that no policy is good unless White, Asian or Arabic nations first pioneer it.

Does this mean Africa is doomed to be copycats?

Well thank god for Nigeria's president Tinubu who seem to uphold the spirit of Nigerians as renown innovators, people that love to think for themselves. This is why Nigerians are often said to be somewhat different from other Africans. Fela would be pleased.

If grave news also has a baring on the economy of a nation then the way Nigerians respond to every news in Nigeria, turning them into grave ones bordering on National survival, isn't going to help the Nigeria economy and Niara's strength.

Someone breaks Guinness world record, Nigerians turn it into grave opinions about the values of the Nation.

Someone is kidnapped and killed, same thing.

In modern human societies, organised News, is the noun for the reporting of extraordinary events - more or less. Regardless, why must every news be used by Nigerians as weapon to task the very foundation of the Nation?

It has gotten so bad that, regardless of the gravity of the News, Nigerians react similarly, leading to the News reporting industry exploiting the situation by flooding every form of news outlet with relatively unworthy news in the full knowledge that Nigerians will react equally breathlessly to it and call for Nigeria's end.

Inevitably, a side effect of this will lead to lazy journalism. In the West, media houses work hard to find newsworthy events. Their Nigeria counterpart aren't made to work that hard by a Nigeria population with low sensational news threshold.

Why is it that whatever happens in Nigeria, and is reported in media such as Niraland, regardless of its magnitude, "Nigerians" respond to it in ways that pose existential threat to the nation?

Regionalism is a terrible and backward idea. Nigeria needs more states and local governments ( working local governments). Nigeria needs to devolve as much power to the people as possible.

The people that keep harping on about Regionalism are essentially people lobbying for Ghana. The thing about Ghana is that they are jealousy of Nigeria. Jealous individuals never want you to be different from them. No matter how good the thing they have, they always fear the difference of another man, fearing that in this difference will grow something exceptional.

Just watched a video of this incident and my first and last impression was just how ugly, spoilt and disrespectful she looked. Adding "Attention Seeking", is unnecessary since that's obvious.

How did she arrive at the state of mind whereby she believed that she is more important than all the other people present including dignitaries, impressionable children and elders ?


I reckon her most important achievement for me was in making of herself the perfect meme illustrative of the extraordinary entitlement I see increasingly among the Nigeria so-called politically poor masses.

Crypto chickens. Therefore a thing only as expensive as the store of value arbitrarily placed on it by people. It has no intrinsic value beyond this than your every day mobile city chickens of Nigeria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG4H1oB0y-g?si=CXaOuCdF8T4TTi59

What's the difference between Bokoharam , WAECOHARAM or Workoharam ?


This is a more worrying question than you may at first suppose...

How ‘world-changing’ solar tech could mean the death of batteries
Harvesting energy from any light source – even a candle – a new generation of ultra-durable and flexible solar cells means devices never need charging. ‘Our grandchildren will laugh that we had cables,’ one industry pioneer tells Anthony Cuthbertson


Every six seconds, in a factory on the northern fringes of Stockholm, a top secret printer is spewing out sheets worth thousands of euros apiece. Each one contains 108 miniature solar cells that will soon find their way into everyday gadgets – from keyboards to headphones – that will fundamentally change how we interact with technology. According to their creator, they will even force us to rethink our relationship with light.

Sweden may seem an unlikely location for a solar revolution, but the lack of light during the winter months was one of the reasons for Exeger co-founder Giovanni Fili to look beyond the Sun as the sole source of power for a photovoltaic cell. His company’s breakthrough tech can harvest electricity from virtually any light source, from direct sunlight to candlelight. It can even generate a charge from moonlight, though it would take a while for it to be of much use.

“Like the algae on the bottom of the ocean where it’s almost pitch black, we can make efficient use of very few photons,” Fili tells The Independent. The t-shirt he wears describes his company’s technology as “world-changing”, capable of simultaneously addressing the global need for energy and some of our planet’s greatest environmental challenges.

Indoor solar panels have been around for decades. Solar-powered calculators were first introduced in the 1970s, but the limitations of the amorphous silicon cells they rely upon mean they are too low power, too fragile and too rigid to be integrated into other products.

The latest innovation stems from a discovery made in 1988 relating to dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSC). A pair of scientists from UC Berkeley in California invented a low-cost, high-efficiency cell that was both semi-flexible and semi-transparent, which offered a pathway for commercial development of the technology.


Just over 20 years later, Fili and fellow Exeger co-founder Henrik Lindström came up with a new electrode material that offered 1,000 times better conductivity. The breakthrough formed the basis of their Powerfoyle cells that are now being produced at a commercial scale.


Exeger’s Powerfoyle solar cells offer a radical departure from the traditional glass-covered panels, eliminating the need for the silver lines you see on them that serve as conductors. They are also not sensitive to partial shading, which drastically reduces the efficiency of photovoltaic panels.

The patented skin-like material can even morph into almost any material to allow for seamless integration into a huge range of products, while remaining waterproof, dustproof and shockproof.


“It works in any light condition, it’s more durable than any other solar cell in the world, it’s easy to manufacture, and it can imitate any surface – leather, carbon fibre, wood, brushed steel. It’s also beautiful,” Fili says. “So we can integrate into products that are already selling in the billions of units per year.”

Exeger’s Stockholm facility has the capacity to produce 2.5 million square metres of solar cells each year, making it the largest factory of its kind in Europe. Speaking at the factory’s opening in 2021, Fili predicted that Exeger’s technology will “touch the lives of a billion people by 2030”.

The Powerfoyle solar cells have already found their way into seven on-the-shelf products – including headphones, wireless speakers and a bike helmet – while a further six have been announced. Customers include Adidas, Phillips and 3M, while they are also rumoured to be in talks with LogiTech and Apple.

A battery-free future
Exeger is one of several startups pioneering the commercialisation of indoor solar panels, with the promise of clean, endless power attracting both researchers and entrepreneurs.

US-based Ambient Photonics was drawn into the space by the “magic” potential of the smart home, as well as the hope that it would be possible to eliminate the need for disposable batteries.

“The scale at which smart electronics are able to be deployed has been limited by battery life and the use of traditional batteries, which require continuous charging, stagnate product design, and have negative environmental consequences,” Bates Marshall, co-founder and CEO of Ambient Photonics, told The Independent.

Read the rest here: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-panels-battery-exeger-powerfoyle-b2554294.html

Believing easily without investigation informed evidence is in the nature of Nigerians. This is why the belief in witchcraft thrives - better still, the belief in sorcery is evidence for this.

For Nigeria to survive, it is vital Nigerians develop evidence seeking mindsets.

OGwales:
If Tinubu like he should transform naija to heaven, some people will still condemn him because they lost election painfully.

Which is only right since there can always be a greater heaven. What isn't right would be people believing the opposition can deliver them the final heaven.

And authorities in Nigeria really need to do something about that aspect of the Ghana media professionally dedicated to targeting Nigeria negatively. They exist and Nigeria needs to act, I don't know how, but I'm sure there are Nigerians in positions and ability to do something proactive, even if it is to merely monitor or investigate.....

Nigeria is vulnerable to the childlike attitude of her people believing whatever is told them.

Negative and misleading posts on Nigeria mostly have a Ghana origin not Igbo people origin. A few years ago CNN or some other Western media outlet did a feature on what it termed Ghana Troll houses. Ostensibly, the feature was on how Russia was funding or using organised Trolls in Ghana to target elections in United States of America. I saw the article and argued at the time that Nigerians would be stupid believing that Ghana troll house was set up to target America and not Nigeria or would fucus solely on America even if those Troll houses were set up as claimed to target U.S.A elections at the time.

Well, since then, there's a new and unrelated article sourcing words from some french Ambassador positing how they use Ghana bloggers to alter opinions and narratives against targeted groups, nations etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGTM3BO-HfQ?si=ludgT4oPHoVTuA9I

In the US, for some weird reason, they mock GM's EV transition. It may be to do with the fact GM once produced an EV called the EV One. The vehicle was popular. However, GM, it was felt, sabotaged this vehicle (it's own vehicle) because GM did not really want Electrification of cars to succeed. You see, GM had been compelled by the US clean air act of that era, to produce that EV One. GM was reluctant and wanted to continue to manufacture its fuel cars and trucks.

Anyway, that was then. Today, GM and other manufacturers are attempting to transition into EVs. Tesla leads the revolution in addition to a slew of Chinese vehicles manufactures such as BYD, NEO, Geely etc. GM was a laughing stock but now thire portfolio is rapidly increasing. The vehicle featured in the video above is called the Opiq and marks a return to the European market by GM.

Botragelad:
In a world where eloquence often masks cluelessness, he stands as a prime example. His words, abundant yet devoid of substance, cascade like a river that flows vigorously yet reaches no sea. He indulges in discourse with the zest of an infant at its mother's embrace, blissfully unaware of the depths he has yet to explore.

Consider the duality of his stance, a pendulum swinging with the winds of convenience. In the face of terror within Nigeria's borders, he calls for the shield of governance, denouncing the violence with fervor. Yet, when the script is flipped and Israel's hand is forced against Hamas, he cries out, painting a narrative of genocide. The same scenes, yet his lens shifts, colored by his disdain for one and sympathy for the other, a chameleon basking in the sun of public opinion.

He is the architect of his own facade, constructing realities that suit the moment, never planting his feet firmly on any ground. They are the dancers in the masquerade of truth, swaying to the tunes that resonate with the crowd, much like Jackson Hinkle, unbothered by the absence of logic in their symphony of words.

Your writing is so good AI is claiming credit.

https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector

shaybebaby:
England is such a green country..but it has to be. With all the rain we get.

In spring, early ☀️ summer, it is truly a beautiful place.

Nigeria is greener or used to be but Nigerians just seem to like to chamber everywhere, debasing the land, erecting crud structures up and down, without permission... or with permission granted by bogus realtors. No green space is safe.

People may not realise that the second half of the world's lungs takes in Nigeria, Cameroon and Congo combined forests. Brazil rainforest is the other half. Nigeria has almost destroyed its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXzyniIs42I?si=52Jyn8rjLZjLbvbS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mwx1ySO-Yk?si=GzAb1vqaCfxbfB26

Litmus:
What are the national security implications of coastal highways?


ChatGPT:
Coastal highways can provide several national security benefits:

Rapid Military Mobility:
Coastal highways facilitate the quick movement of military personnel and equipment between bases, ports, and other strategic locations. This ensures rapid deployment in response to threats or emergencies.

Disaster Response:
In the event of natural disasters like hurricanes, coastal highways are crucial for evacuation efforts and for delivering aid and relief supplies. They enable the quick mobilization of resources to affected areas, which is essential for maintaining public safety and security.

Surveillance and Patrol:
Coastal highways allow for easier patrolling and monitoring of the coastline, which is vital for detecting and responding to potential threats, such as smuggling, illegal immigration, or terrorist activities.

Logistical Support:
These highways support the logistical needs of naval and coast guard operations. They provide essential ground transportation links to ports and naval bases, ensuring that supplies, maintenance, and reinforcements can be efficiently managed.

Economic Security:
Coastal highways support the economy by facilitating trade and commerce. A strong economy is a pillar of national security, as it ensures the country has the resources to fund defense and security measures.

Strategic Redundancy:
In case of attacks on other transportation infrastructure, such as bridges or tunnels, coastal highways offer alternative routes that help maintain connectivity and mobility, thereby enhancing resilience against disruptions.

Coordination with Allies:
Coastal highways often form part of international trade routes and are critical for maintaining logistical links with allied nations. This helps in the coordination and support of joint military operations and humanitarian missions.

These benefits underscore the importance of maintaining and protecting coastal highway infrastructure as a key component of national security strategy.

Jokerman:
First give us dividends of democracy before all these flowery werds

Word.

treatise:
Indian handlers would have been better; Chinese are like Russians-horrible humans.

Indians are way worse for black people than Chinese are. You may liken Chinese to , clumsy, drunken racists and Indians to building top racists peering through high calibre crosseye at your back.

They have black folks squarely in white people's sights. I didn't misswrite, think about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqf7iEX9jnI?si=16URAM0o1qIOD6He


Dangote putting up with rubbish from Africa.

There are effectively 36 nations within Nigeria. Dangote does not require visa for these. He should invest thoroughly within Nigeria. Nigeria does not need Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIdK84Tpy_g?si=NIsqXs6pJ3HWr0x9