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I've read it cover to cover, more than once but most people don't waste time lookng for the centre and I've never heard of anyone counting words whilst reading.

What really stands out are the number of foolish stories contained in that one book.

Billyonaire:
My house is big. Its 3 storeys. And apart from that, I have club setting within my compound and lots of floor lighting systems with outdoor music systems, it requires much more than your CEOs/Ogas needs. I do not own one company, I own more, so I am probably worth more than your Ogas (no boasting, just truth). I have a room that houses my battery bank and inverter systems, the control switches and the automatic change-over. My system is based on the IGBT system. Sorry, I talk too much.

No.

People like you should talk more.

Too many of the idiots burdened with a low self-esteem like to spout their negativity on this forum, all the time.

This is how people learn, this is real education - by sharing ideas, solutions and positive experiences.

Billyonaire:
Sometimes I wonder why people do not key into it. I grew up with determination that I must produce energy enough to stay off National Grid. At this moment, I am working on how to get rid of the generator. Sometimes I do not turn it on for 2 weeks, because electricity is better within my estate. Apart from that, we have lots of apartments estates now that generate electricity and sell to tenants using their customized meters. If I was not using my solar system, I would have simply connected to these larger estates to supply my electricity needs while I simply put money into the meters. The options are enormous for me. I will never live without electricity for a day. It is my determination and I am succeeding.

From what I've seen they'd rather give their money to the church than use it for something worthwhile.

It's a question of priorities - whenever I hear people claim that there is no money in Nigeria I always shake my head.

Billyonaire:
Its hard to believe but true. 30KVA inverter/solar turnkey system +60KVA Generator+Public Power supply does it. Its determination my brother. I did not have to wait for government to create a paradise for me.

Thank you for making this point.

Solar panels plus batteries to store the power will save you money, in the long run.

I'm lost as to how this technology has escaped many people - including the so-called 'educated'.

All great points.

But one thing that will shock you is how asleep many Africans are to how fortunate they are - so many of them think that it is an achievement to (permanently) emigrate to north America or Europe.

Everything you need to build a wonderful society is in Nigeria, if only the people had more regard for their own environment .

henribj:
how many phone thieves know how to format a phone, talk more of installing a custom OS.

A lot of them - if they don't then someone they know will.

If that is what sustains them then they will figure out everything there is to know about the technology.

I notice that it's the women in this thread most eager to side with the ignorant recruiter.

I wonder how many of the women in this thread do not wear a weave or cover their natural hair with a wig?

There is nothing 'natural' about self-hatred.

If you do not first love and respect yourself then you will struggle to find others that will love or respect you

What about the bad mothers?

The many that have abused, neglected or abandoned their children.

Let's not act as though they do not exist.

Whether they received money or not, what is it that all these traditional rulers do?

suxex4ever:
Off course the golden rule + the love of GOD, which is the summary in the new testament covers all.

It should be noted that 1-4 should not be joked with as it signifies the love and respect of GOD in that summary. However, one needs to be very careful with no5 and never place it above the love of GOD.

It's possible to follow the golden rule without so much as acknowledging any 'god' - societies with minimal religious interaction fare better than their religious counterparts in that regard.

1 - 5 are about cementing the power structure - establishing the supremacy of the religious authorities, to be followed by the family.


P.S.
Why was protecting people from rape not considered a priority in the old testament?

suxex4ever:
The new testament summarized it as Love your neighbour as yourself and love God. I believe that covers rape, abuse of power...

The golden rule covers all worthwhile laws of social conduct and is why 1- 5 look particularly silly - how can anyone be so misguided to believe that 1- 5 are so important? Those are not laws for the benefit and safe-keeping of the individual, they are there to keep the power structure in place. Why be explicit about those 10 in the old testament whilst ignoring more serious transgressions?

How do you legislate or even prove 5 and 10?

1 - 4 are stupid.

5 is subjective.

10 is advisable.

6 - 9 are good solid laws.

But why are there no commandments against rape?
About abuse of power?
About having children that you cannot cater for?

Those are far more damaging than 1 - 5 and 10.

It's his house, let the man be comfortable...

In all seriousness, that is odd. Tell him to put some clothes before presenting himself to guests.

Is there a practical reason as to why many cannot keep a civil volume when 'talking'?

I know that it isn't all Nigerians as I did not come across this problem when I was in Calabar but the people that I am around now seem particularly prone to this habit, unfortunately.

I am a full 30 meters away, yet can hear every word clearly, even though I don't understand the language.

What is that about?

From 24-hour cable news to YouTube and Twitter, today’s mass media can turn local disasters into international events within minutes, transmitting the impact of a disaster far beyond those who are directly exposed.

Indeed, while tens of thousands of people directly experienced the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, millions more viewed the attacks and their aftermath via the media, turning the attacks into what researchers call a collective trauma.

Many have wondered about the relationship between this kind of media exposure and viewers’ mental and physical health, but researchers can only really understand the effects of trauma-related media exposure if they begin following people before a traumatic event ever occurs and continue to follow them over time.

A new article forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, presents the first research study that has been able to do just that.

Psychological scientist Roxane Cohen Silver of the University of California, Irvine and colleagues hypothesized that repeated exposure to vivid traumatic images from the media could lead to long-lasting negative consequences, not just for mental health but also for physical health. They speculated that such media exposure could result in a stress response that triggers various physiologic processes associated with increased health problems over time.

To test this hypothesis, Silver and colleagues embarked on a three-year study examining the relationship between trauma-related media exposure and mental and physical health outcomes in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults.

Collecting data from an Internet-based survey of 1322 participants, the researchers were able to obtain assessments of participants’ mental and physical health before the 9/11 attacks, collect information about their media exposure and acute stress responses immediately after the attacks and after the initiation of the Iraq War, and conduct annual follow-up assessments in the three years after 9/11.

The results were striking.

Almost 12% of the participants reported high levels of acute stress related to 9/11 and about 7% reported high levels of acute stress related to the Iraq War.

After taking pre-9/11 mental health, demographic characteristics, and lifetime trauma exposure into account, people who watched four or more hours of 9/11- or Iraq War-related television per day following each event were more likely to experience symptoms of acute stress.

Furthermore, the effects of trauma-related media exposure lasted over time – frequent early exposure to 9/11-related television predicted posttraumatic stress symptoms and physical health problems two to three years later.

Taken together, these findings provide persuasive evidence that widespread media coverage of terrorism and war may have harmful effects on mental and physical health over time. The results suggest that exposure to graphic media images may be an important mechanism through which the impact of collective trauma is dispersed widely.

Because Silver and her colleagues were able to track people before exposure to either traumatic event and follow them for several years afterward, they were able to rule out a number of alternative hypotheses, such as the possibility that simply unhealthy or unemployed individuals were watching a lot of television and that accounted for the effects that were obtained.

As vivid images reach larger audiences than ever before through YouTube, social media, and smartphones, these findings are both relevant and timely.

“When we consider that graphic images of individuals being overcome by the 2011 tsunami in Japan were shown repeatedly, that a vigorous debate occurred last year regarding the release of the gruesome death photos of Osama bin Laden, and that vivid and disturbing images of 9/11 will likely appear on our television screens marking the anniversary of the attacks, we believe that our paper has something important to say regarding the impact of repeated exposure to graphic traumatic images.”

Silver argues that all the stakeholders – including media outlets, policymakers, parents, psychologists, and healthcare professionals – must be made aware of the fact that a steady diet of graphic media images is likely to have serious and long-lasting consequences.

Silver conducted the research with E. Alison Holman of the University of California, Irvine; Judith Pizarro Andersen of the University of Toronto-Mississauga; Michael Poulin of the University at Buffalo; Daniel McIntosh of the University of Denver; and Virginia Gil-Rivas of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Their article, “Mental and physical health effects of acute exposure to media images of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War,” will appear in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science.

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/repeated-exposure-to-media-images-of-traumatic-events-may-be-harmful-to-mental-and-physical-health.html

East is more accurate geographically than "south-south" which is a nonsensical term in the first place, a true indication of the level of English proficiency at a governmental level.

I get that they wish to differentiate themselves from Igboland but something that sounds less ignorant would be better.

Hollywood is not realistic.

Likewise all those childish romance novels that girls enjoy reading.

Such lives are not replicated anywhere.

Only a grossly immature person would fail to see this.

An addictive substance that has no nutritional benefit.

Part of the reason why American kids are so grotesquely fat.

Nothing wrong with all these private universities.

However, that so many of them are operated by religious organizations should be recognized as a problem.

We already have enough religious conflict in this country - we should be trying to do away with the barriers in our society (by way of increased knowledge, as opposed to indoctrination), not fortify them.

If religion truly is a question of personal conscience then we should remove religious references and demands from our institutions - both public and private.


P.S.
If Awolowo was left to do on a national level what he had done on a regional level (free education, despite a false warning from the World Bank that it would prove too costly) just imagine what the country would be like today. It's never too late to do the right thing.

The OP's 'explanation' is farcical to anyone with even a basic semblance of knowledge regarding the migration of peoples, or biology.

Why would people who descend from southern or central Africa have 'white skin'?

Pale skin is a genetically useless trait - hence why it is a recessive trait.

Besides that there have been other stupids claims made in this thread that made me laugh.

Stay out of churches and visit the library - you might learn something.

engrkenny:
She from Ireland or something, because even her face is artificial.

She's half Jamaican and half Irish.

Apparently weave is natural where braiding your own hair is not.

For the record this happened in UK where the people are very easily intimidated by anything considered 'ethnic'.

Hello Friends,

Could I please implore all of you to check that the information pertaining to your nation, national icons, cities and states are accurate.

As we know there are malicious agents who enjoy using Wikipedia to spread misinformation.

I've just been on the Katsina page on the Wikipedia site and found that the external links take readers to a Japanese porn site.

Please be vigilant.

Thanks.

haibe:
that's what I was trying to tell him, that you can't be so sure the person who took it uploaded it but I guess he has a problem with taking the picture too

Actually, I was pretty clear. You were not.


"Upload a picture of 'gore' (a dead person would be the worst example) to a US based mainstream website and see what happens to your post."

How would anyone know that such a picture was taken if they did not share it?

It's yot another example of hhe uncouth and barbaric practices that some Nigerians try to justify - if people in Nigeria are serious about wanting 'change' then they should look to improve their own mental standing and emotional well-being first. Only then will their lot improve. So long as they continue to behave like animals, they will be treated as such - both home and abroad.

iukpe:
I think he (mmsen) meant "uploading" not "taking" the picture. I don't think the "xswitch guy" took the pictures himself anyway. Its how he used it that's drawing all the controversy.

Thanks for clarifying.

If you don't upload a picture how would I know that you took it?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2010/aug/10/news-photography-nigeria

Mckennedy:
At the concluded confab which regions opposed the regional system? That why Africans will ever remain slaves,, there's no crime in freedom agitation even Nigeria was a signatory .do a research

I am no privy to what was concluded at the confab.

What was concluded and which regions opposed the 'regional system'?

Thanks.

Prostitutes get their money up front.

'Runs girl' wait until afterwards.

I'm curious to know what is meant by "shortchange the North".

What concessions are they looking for?

An Indian bride has walked out of her wedding after her bridegroom-to-be failed to solve a simple maths problem, according to police in Uttar Pradesh.
The bride asked the groom to add 15 and six. When he replied 17, she called off the marriage.
Reports say the groom's family tried to convince the bride to return, but she refused saying the man was illiterate.
Local police said they mediated between the families, and both sides returned all the gifts given before the wedding.
Most marriages in India are arranged by the families, and it is common for a bride and groom to get married without spending time in each other's company.
A police official of Rasoolabad village where the incident happened told BBC Hindi that local resident Mohar Singh had fixed his daughter Lovely's wedding to a man called Ram Baran.
"But just before the marriage ceremony Lovely came to know that Ram Baran is illiterate and she refused to marry," he said.
Mohar Singh told the Associated Press news agency that the "groom's family had kept us in the dark about his poor education".
"Even a first grader can answer this [the maths test]," he said.
Last month, another bride in Uttar Pradesh married a guest at her wedding after her groom-to-be had a seizure and collapsed.
Reports said the groom was epileptic and he had kept the information from the bride and her family.