₦airaland Forum

coolboy100:
please is there any way someone can conduct DNA test on his son without his wife concent? here in europe, a good advice is wellcome thanks

madlady:
PLEASE TRY TO OBTAIN THE PERMISSION OF THE MOTHER

olatufu:
@ al,hop d 2.4m pan comes wit its accessories at alaba cus a friend told me i wud buy d jack seperately.tnx

Radiant:
This was all planned! Why would four men walk up to a married man with his family and want to take his wife for a dance? Never heard of such. Of course a sensible man will say no. Four men  

Simply put, he was assassinated.

obiem:
According to him, all attempts to get the policemen to rush Efenji to hospital failed.

He said, “Instead, they cocked their guns and threatened to label me an armed robber if I failed to get into their vehicle. It was later we heard he had died after losing so much blood.”

obiem:
However, a Deputy Supritendent of Police, Mr. Moshood Jimoh, said the police had made useful arrests.

“We have made some arrests. I would not like to disclose their identity or their number,” he said.

Crazy world ain't it? The Banana republic called Nigeria! Bola Ige, Marshal Harry, Alfred Rewane murders are still unsolved till date so what is Efenji's fate?

loluskysat:
Please has anyboby been able to track the other Beams on ASTRA 2A/2B/2D @ 28.2E?

nne_mak:
Its really sad. people just die for no just cause. The NEPA cable had been over stressed by trees that grew in the ZOO over the years. Branches of the trees where cut down on Sunday , while hungry looking IKE men ( police) prevented buses and people from trading there, As if that would solve that problem when people actually still build their house under such NEPA cable!!!
God help us all

Ganjaseed:
YES, what else would one borrow money for ? its worth doing. Woman is not cheap and should not be treated as such.

ima1:
tell him to move on, cuz he would not be able to satisfy such a woman who wants to be a show off.

chidichris:
there shld be a law banning all these criminals from going abroad for medical reasons.

Ibrahim k.:
classical aristocratic democracy operated in Nigeria.

Maxidoe:
I wonder what has happened to our value system and sense of reasoning.

mirabell:
Abey make una leave the man alone, na where person dey work nai e dey chop that's why oyibo man call am WORKSHOP.

chelseabmw:
as long as amodu is not the chief coach then no problem at all

slap1:
Does this mean a General like Obasanjo cannot meet secretly with someone without the press knowing? Nasty headline.

mbulela:
Obasanjo flew into Abuja in a private jet around 8pm on the day.

trueword:
The state High Court sitting in Ikorodu and presided over by Habeeb Abiru had on Wednesday ordered the House of Assembly to stay action on the probe following an exparte motion brought to it by Richard Akinola, a press freedom fighter and Bamidele Aturu, his lawyer.

rokiatu:
@poster, you could have easily answer your question by asking yourself "why do I love this person?"

Galantry:
Hello Gurus, Pls help me here. I have been trying to set up an FTA system at my work place in Congo (Brazzaville) in the city of Pointe Noire. Will this Dreambox receiver work in Congo? Presently i have a motorised system with TECHNOMATE 3000D receiver and motor, I receive only a few uninteresting channels. Is the problem with the receiver or the location or what? I have links in the UK and can easily get a dreambox receiver sent to me if need be. Thanks guys for your good work at helping one another enjoy the FTA TV world.

pofolo:
@ sathob,
i want to know d best advice on AE to power d following.
3 tvs, 3 decoders (strong), 2 fans.
Taking que from your explanatory note & example.
What shud i go for, and pls wat will d cost range be. Thanks

George_D:
@osef,
The prices of the lower ranges of inverter varies with make. But a good 1kva inverter you can get for around 34k, 1.5kva for about 50k. And like you are trying to build one now on your own, I think it's a good step forward. There are various ways we can achieve the same results. The most important thing is to have the awareness and that is what this forum is all about.
As we speak now, there are many people who have only the mindset of electric generators. They are busy worrying themselves sick on how to raise money to buy heavy duty diesel sets when they could better channel their resources into setting up an inverter system which is more sustainable over time.

And let me add that for those of us who live in areas with fairly stable power supply, you do not really need solar modules to charge up your battery bank. Take myself for example, I was using my inverter with nepa for years before I eventually installed solar modules this year.

George_D:
@all,

I'm reluctant to delve into the issue of solar power here seeing as this thread is all about FTA but since we all need stable power supply to enjoy whatever stations we succeed in tracking, maybe it may not be out of place to give a little info about my installation.

The system comprises basically of a 5kva inverter with a 48v battery bank of four 12v 200AH deepcycle batteries. This feeds the house load while the solar modules feeds the battery bank. All this while I've been recharging via nepa light until recently when I installed those sharp solar modules. The panels are two pieces 200w, 34.8v/4.9A sharp modules connected in series combined to give a total 400w/69.9v/4.9A charging power for the battery bank. The modules supply power through a charge controller which regulates the charge current-as the name implies. As a hybrid system, I can use nepa to charge when public power is available and I can also use the sun to charge when nepa fails. Better still, I can use both at the same time.

As for the cost, I'd say it's not for the faint-hearted. And that to me is what has been discouraging most people from going this road. One 12v/200AH battery alone is about 52k. A good 5kva inverter goes for around N180k. One 200w sharp solar module goes for about N180K. You do the maths and see what I mean.

However, cost aside, for those who can afford it, its still way better than having a heavy duty diesel/petrol guzzling gen set at home. Why? Because besides the batteries which may need change out every 5 to 7 years, the system is virtually maintenance-free. No petrol or diesel, no servicing, no smoke, no noise, no black oil on the floor. Just press the buton and use power from heaven to watch nilesat!

darkman200:
I say give them the Jerry Rawlings treatment! its got to be scary otherwise corruption is so engrained in the subconscious of an average Nigerian that he no longer sees it as something wrong,  he calls it opportunity and not corruption

PapaBrowne:
I call it the mystery of existence!!

While some people are compelled to pay hundreds of thousands to attend school, others are paid monies to compel them to attend school.

Anyways, I don't believe university tuition should ever be free or too cheap, rather scholarships should be given to high performing students who cannot afford to pay.

opokonwa:
Finally! Dem just dey wake up!

Chuckdee:
@Jayron,
While you wait for George_D's response to your Q, may i quickly chip in that If you are really getting a battery that you will use for your Inverter, you should not make the mistake of buying those Big Trailers batteries. Pls go for the Deep cycle batteries because they are better designed for use as power backup due to the continuous Charging/discharging sequence.

[b]Deep cycle batteries [/b]are designed to be discharged down as much as 80% time after time, and have much thicker plates. The major difference between a true deep cycle battery and others is that the plates are SOLID Lead plates - not sponge.

If you can afford the deep cycle batteries, go for them and forget the other cheaper wet-cell batteries that wont last. you can buy according to your budget and increase the quantify gradually cos the more batteries you hv, the longer online time your gadgets get.

Here are a couple of pics for you to hv an idea.
Hope this helps

obijack:
@ George,

I would have taken this to the AE thread but I want to thank you specially for your encouraging  words on the inverter stuff.

After the exhuastive  explanation last  Aug/Sept. on the subject, I  went back to where I kept all my junks and found an old 650va Superb UPS i  got in 1997 which suprisingly was still working.  The special thing about the UPS is that it had a soft touch button which I can press once to stop the beeping sound expecially when there is enough juice left in the battery.

So I dusted it up and got myself a 100AH Deep Cycle battery  for N24,000.00 and used the money meant for the inverter to get myself a 50AMP battery charger that I got for 20K which till date I still use.

Funny enough after a week of acquisition, the transformer in my area in Ogudu Lagos gave up since Oct 28 last year.   The battery and the UPS has been my saving grace as the entire str. is still left in the dark. Every morning I will just disconnet the battery  from the UPS, put it in the trunk of my car and straight to the office where  I have kept the charger since I bought it. I get about 5hrs of  electricity  from 7pm to 12am with a 100watts TV, 25 watts decoder, 50 watts standing fan and a 20 watts energy bulb   b4 the UPS starts to beep and then  I put every thing off except the fan which I control the amount of current that it consumes with the help of a light dimmer.

This sustains cool breeze for me and my family till morning  before leaving for work.

I felt so silly not realising that I had all I needed to prevent  the burning  heat at night.  Like they say bro. "information is knowledge and knowledge is power". I spend about   N500.00 a week to run my big gen by weekends  for ironing  and other heavy power needs including charging my battery and running 2 freezers.

Thank u again and again.

This may look too explanatory but I know that some pple(s) in the house will be motivated to thread the same part as me knowing  that it may not cost an arm and a leg.

Long live  FTA  and AE forever.

Ameboperoo:
@ JMS u said sirius is more entertaining than w3a? How many channel do you get on sirius besides the promo channels? How many of them are English speakin? I'm not challenging your opinion but to me, i prefer w3a even if I don't consider sport.
I use single 90 cm dish/lnb for both birds. I get all channels I used to get when I was using it on w3 alone except go tv and I still get all on sirius except the 2 feed I used 2 get. F2v use to turn red when I tune in but I just leave it 4 few seconds and it comes up. I learn those hooked 2 w3 alone are not even getting gotv anymore. What Im I loosing? God bless FTA!