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you sha want make dem declare fatwa on my head abi?

hausa girls are reserved, you are not. . .someone on NL that has hausa influences is ibkaye. . .

you see. . .i didn't even know debosky wasn't a supermod anymore. . .


@mamagee
what colour are debosky's fav pair of boxers?

@v.persie
dont worry jo. . .we wont allow the mods to ban you. . .

or per adventure you get banned you could take to opening up threads in the nairaland section begging muki and debosky to unban you. . .lol

then start sucking up to them up and down the place. . .since you're male i'd say muki would be your best bet!

oyb:
1st question - what are the pipes and tank for?

is it fuel?

is the tank above or below ground?

what volume are you looking at

any particular shape/config you guys are looking at

horizontal, vertical, cuboid, sphere etc?

i'm assuming its a tank for a generator, but don't let me get ahead of myself

well, some will pipes carry nitrogen, some oil, some will carry a mixture of oil and explosive gases(dont know what they're called: the gases formed when transformer oil is vaporized)

the tank could either be a cuboid or it could be cylindrical(we haven't decided yet) the constant is it's volume(0.5m³), also the siting will depend on our customers' stations, but it could be either wall mounted(cubiod) or above ground(normal cylindrical tank) we need them for a new type of protective equipment that we're going to install soon. . .

we have the option of buying them(tanks plus pipes) from the device manufacturers but the tank alone costs 5-figures in euros so i'm thinking if we can get someone to manufacture it locally it'll definitely be cheaper. . .but the device carries 7-figure euro insurance so if we're sourcing the pipes locally it would be wise to get the highest quality possible.(i'm not looking to get sued. . .lol). My boss muttered something about us not being able to get stainless steel piping or something, but since i might be the one doing the actual installing i wanted to cover all the bases.

i'm looking to get the unit prices so i can draw up a BOQ, i could mail you the specs for the pipe if it'd make things any easier?

thanks

OMG. . .who is this? you deserve to be popular . . .lol

Odunnu:
What does Odunnu mean in yoruba language?
Wht do u also mean by 'odunnu is too soji?'

dunno i was just guessing t'was yoruba

as per the soji thing, the way you choose your words and phrases. . .if i read enough of what someone writes i have an idea of the way a person's mind works, you cant be hausa. . .if you are, you didn't grow up with hausa people, you dont reason like them.

odunnu def isn't hausa. . .she's too soji. . .isn't 'odunnu' a yoruba name?

@oyb et al
do you know anyone that can supply/manufacture pipes (and a tank)? preferably stainless steel, the quantity isn't that high but the person needs to be able to provide the pipes exactly according to the specifications given. . .i'd rather deal directly with the manufacturer though. . .i'm talking some really high quality sturvs o. . .

Ifenkem:
Hello sir,

It's interesting to have us ask questions on electrical matters, for some time now I've heard so much talked about fuelless generator, especially as some people has claimed to have fund a way to make generation run without using fuel, I've even bought a promo pack teaching and demonstrating how to couple it, i made efforts to get some certain things cleared before i go into coupling and maybe marketing it from the inventor but he seems not to be forth coming.

I ask, is fuelless generator working, does it really work, i mean the alternative power storage system is it possible to run as long as one desires, do you know of any one using or marketing it so i can make better inquiry.

I think as an electrical engineer you may know more about this.

Thanks.

ever heard of the phrase 'a perpetual motion machine of the first kind is impossible' ? look it up on the internet

this should be under culture. . .

the language is hausa. . .

mata na is 'your wife' mata is wife. . .i'm not sure about the spellings, and i cant speak hausa, i just know the common words

i like/love you is ina so' n'ki not nnasoki(it's not ibo. . .lol) literally it translates to i am have like for you. . .if it's a girl telling a guy it's ina'so'n'ka

in hause ki is you(female) ka is the male

if the topic is moved to culture it'd be easier for you to get replies. . .

i'll check back in a couple of hrs, if no one's answered you by then, i'll try and help

[quote author=Aloy+Emeka link=topic=475305.msg6360697#msg6360697 date=1278741886]Are you saying that Nigerian children have a tendency to behave like animals and are less intelligent than children from other continent unless they are checked with whips and blows from their parents and guardians?. So the Nigerian gene is a very stubborn and idiotic one , abi?[/quote][quote author=Aloy+Emeka link=topic=475305.msg6360699#msg6360699 date=1278742007]Define light beating please.


Can you choose an example of light beating  from these popular Nigerian methods of disciplining children:

Knocking children on the head
flogging them with cane
putting pepper on their private parts and eyes
spanking their behind
slapping them on the face[b]
flogging them with koboko or cow's tail.
Abusing them verbally in the name of orisa
Rubbing and blistering their back with izal or hydrogen peroxide.[/b][/quote]what's popular about all those ones? stop behaving like a r[i]e[/i]tard, we know you're against beating but you dont need to dredge up stupid lies to butress that fact. . .

an important factor in discipline is why? the main reason a lot of us (and i'm suspecting most of the anti-beating ppl that grew up in naija) are vehemently against beaten is because the why? wasn't clearly established, without an appropriate why? it's not beating it's abuse. . .and i agree that goes on a great deal i naija, beating children cause you're angry with them, not because they did something wrong. . .it's important for the child to understand why? he's being disciplined, if he doesn't all he comes away from the experience with is resentment.

if any of the anti-beating folks here had been on the parental guide:bringing up a child you'd understand. . .

a lot of us nigerians dont really know how to raise children and so we hide behind various things. . .beating a child or not beating a child by itself does not make you a good parent, judging a persons parental competency(i invented that. . .) is an effort in futility (personally i'd call it an ode to stupidity)

that said for the umpteenth time, why is it mostly y'all in the 'spora that are soooo interested in this issue? lemme break it down for y'all(cos i'm a nice person and thats what nice people do. . . )

AC is in power in lagos right? what is ACs political base? the market women, illiterates et al. . .if AC stupidly makes noise about this bill, i would expect lagos PDP to capitalize on it and start a 'save our culture'  campaign. . .

BTW, it's a member sponsored bill not an executive bill, so chances are it wont even see the light of day. . .

the newspapers just wanted to raise dust, it's soooo not going anywhere.

oyb:
the horrors of naija and copy and paste engineering. . .

those fellows are copying outmoded obsolete designs

the station diagrams they want are for a station built in the early 1980s(heck i wasn't even born then)

although it functions better than some newer stations though. . .prolly cos it was built by siemens

@thread
men. . .i'm feeling the heat o. . .i never realised how tasking multi-tasking could be.

i need help on an issue. . .
when the tender documents contain a sample contract under 'bid submittals' you dont need to submit that along with the bid abi? seeing as all you're doing is tendering. . .? these bid documents are confusing o. . .

of which, i gather we're now in bed with a turkish company that wants us to do primary installation for their bid, i wonder if it is the one i was hearing about. . .

in a country where govt asks us to use pedestrian bridges and we dont, where police beat people up, who will enforce such a law if it happens 'by mistake'. . .it will shock them that they will be recalled if they try themselves. . .lol

nigerians in naija are not worried about this, i dont know why y'all are. . .

tell me which yoruba market woman will let a legislator tell her how to raise her child. . .

maybe the A.C. was too high the day someone mooted the idea, so they forgot they were in naija for a second. . .shior!

Dual Core:
hmmm 'assuage'. 4ller no be you again? which time u start to knack grammar?

na just now you dey sabi im logo?. . .we don sabi tay tay. . .lol

bolseas:
despite the docs at his dipossal, he still went ahead talking nonsense. i think i should tell u abt the Transmission Substation being constructed in Ganmo in Kwara State (my mum's home town). dis project was awarded to Matelec, a Libyan Coy. whn the FG failed to release funds for this project, the kwara state govt took it upon itself to complete it after getting facts from the Consultants and NDPHC hoping dat d fed govt will refund, right now kwara state has abt 100mw of electricity supply.

perhaps, if other governors completed these projects in their deifferent states, the power situation in nigeria would ve improved.

i knew there was something about this guy, with the way he was calling the lot numbers up and down the place. . .lol

actually GJ isn't the main problem. . .the problem is the people that benefit from the sector remaining as it is. . .the unions, contractors and senior civil servants. Paying the union off is a good idea but for someone that didn't have the balls to tell FIFA to go **** themselves, taming the power sector'll be an uphill task.

truly:
NCC requires SIM card registration to "frustrate and capture criminals"
Amongs the details required is the subscriber's fingerprints

Does it not compromise national security to have private companies (especially foreign companies) capture fingerprints of Nigerians
We remember how Israel forged passports for its recent Dubai operations

And besides, why should a criminal use his own registered SIM to call relatives of his victims

Look at the article below
A kidnapper uses SIM card of their victims
An armed robber can steal SIM cards at gun point

Against SIM card registration
http://ww2.guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16206:-against-sim-card-registration&catid=38:columnists&Itemid=615

We need to think harder in this country

if any of the bolded happens, what stops you from reporting your sim as stolen?

YOU, my dear friend need to start thinking

at least some people can tell the difference between a transmission station and a distribution station. . .

from what i hear sef, ganmo was started by PHCN but completed by Kwara state govt. . .

why are we bothering ourselves? seun isn't going to give is one, he stickied the thread 'topics to move nigeria forward' so that people new to NL can look at it and go 'WOW they're interest in nigeria's future and well-being'. . .

Kobojunkie:
Considering all he is doing is putting in place policies to aid Private companies to take over control(he does not have to actually build power plants and the lot that past governments have tried), and his party remains a majority in the house and senate, I believe we need to hold him to the June 2011 deadline this time around.

what new thing has he done? apart from gas, jonathan hasn't done anything new in the power sector. . .or are there policies you've heard about that i missed?

To my father, i've never lacked anything i truly needed. . .
To my mum, i know you're constantly burning up the line to heaven on my behalf. . .
To my siblings, cousin k and B, without you guys constantly picking on me i would never have developed into the man i am. . .
To all the PHCN engineers in the abuja sub-zone, y'all have shown me what competence means, in the midst of all the rot and decay. . .
To Engr A. and Oga salami, heck i didn't even like both of y'all but y'all opened a door i never imagined. . .i'm mad grateful
To the NL 'welcome to my office' crew and Electrical engineering thread, you guys show me what being good at what you do entails, it motivates me. . .thanks
To Engr M. my present Boss, even though you're a slave driver, i can see you truly want to bring out the best in me. . .i appreciate that.

To C. . .you taught me how to let go. . .

@4ller
no glitch ke? wetin you dey use stream them vids?

@ujujoan
i almost started on your case till i saw the OPs post about the specifics of knacking the different bootay sizes. . .i woulda felt soooo stupid in the end. . .

naijaking1:
The article clearly indicts the self-appointed defenders of "northern interest" on N/L, and they know themselves.

Dahiru Yusuf Yabo, a former commissioner in Sokoto? How could anybody who could barely write English become a commissioner in Sokoto of a places? The home of othman dan Fodio, of the Sarduana, and of our beloved Shehu Shagari?
Next, he will come to Abuja seeking to become a minister, or some other federal appointment all in the name of northern interest, when he could barely write a grammatically correct piece of article to express his opinion.

I picked on the quality of his writting, because he epitomizes mediocrity, and subversion of merit, otherwise, he could never have either passed a GCE or WEAC exam. Despite his convoluted views about Nigeria, he represents the opinion of many uneducated, half-educated, or down right retrogressive people in his so-called "northern Nigeria".

WORD!!!!

were it not for the fact that i live in the north and have met quite a number of extremely intelligent northerners it would have been all too easy to believe that majority of them are as simple-minded as the commissioner-fellow

in the article the writer claims jonathan stopped the dredging of the niger. . .what kind of silly ass lie is this?

Once again one of the idiots up north wants us to believe that by virtue of where they were born they have a right to rule nigeria. . .shior!

Beaf:
It happens the World over and it surely doesn't need separate distribution networks. All power suppliers will rent the alluminum and copper lines that bring power to the home, all they have to do for customers is supply power.

that's an idea, i'mma think on it and do some research. . .thanks

Tmoni:
@ netose, during the initial stages that might not be possible but going on long term it should be possible

i recently switched from EDF to npower and it all still runs on the same network, infact the only difference is the Letter Head on the bill and the price

We will expect each region to be awarded at least 2 companies for competition, better customer service and to stiffle monopoly

having just one Distribution company will not be the best but its a start, Government should only regulate the industry and stay the hell outta it

i wiil try and investigate how this is viable (switching suppliers) and report back

thanks. . .

Tmoni:
I totally support this move if I have to pay more money or even the same amount for running a generator to get 24/7 electricity then so be it

@ least, the fuel and diesel will be enough for cars and people do not have to risk storing highly flammable liquids at home

If this process is executed properly, it will be the best thing Democracy has done to the nation, by far outweighing GSM

Then hopefully, people now have the chance to switch suppliers i.e if i do no like the customer service of Zenon (I presume he will buy), I can easily sign up with Oando (will expect them there)

Theres job opportunities and loads of genuine wealth creation for all of us

Heck, they can even build the nuclear power plant I was talking about earlier,

that wont be possible in nigeria, dont know if it's possible outside nigeria sef, it'll require running seperate distribution networks. . .financially that doesn't make sense!

Tmoni:
@Oyb and Netose

I honestly refuse to believe that HAZ9 (all of them) is not undertaken during design and construction stages especially in the Power sector

God knows how many hazards people are in daily contact with on those sites which could have been eliminated at design stage, lemme wait for netose to answer, heck, its ABB who are the subcontractors doing our Haz9 procedures and they also work in naija,

Best Practices implememted worldwide anybody??

@Hbabe, wish you all the best but what makes you feel you will not like the new department
Sometimes we never know until we do it and your boss 'might' gear up wiv this new responsibilities

seeing as most of the large substations are built by foreign companies it probably is included, the contracts leave all of the safety stuff to the contractors but the bid documents and contract papers dont mention HAZOP and HAZID i'm a 100% sure(i don read those things tire).


@thread
speaking of which, now that i've been initiated i can truly see the rot in the power sector. I visited my old station and i was hearing 'gist' apparently there are soem turks(yep. . .literal turks) that are trying to get the diagrams for the station because they are confident that they will be awarded a contract to build a station just like that. Now, the thing is we're bidding(my company) in the same bidding session and the bids are due july 20th and the winners will be announced circa 180days after so how do they know they'll win the contract?(thankfully it's not the same station we're bidding for sha. . .i think)

here's the clincher. . .when the person (PHCN staff they tried to bribe to get the station diagrams for them) declined, they then asked him if he would be able to help them get engineers when they win the contract since they aren't engineers

i was dazed o. . .but apparently the engineers were used to it, they were even taccing the turks that they could simply have gone to HQ to bribe an ED and he would have given them a note, that's how it's usually done. . .

and now onto the indians. . .

there's a substation in kubwa being built by an indian company, the work there is terrible, even i can see that. . .i asked one of the indians a simple question and he couldn't answer it, the poor fellow thought i was going to start grilling him so he nicely excused himself. . .lol

another indian company is supposed to have commissioned another station in nassarawa but of course, they are having problems. . .

the engineers remarked that there isn't anything the indians are doing that they cant do, but of course no one in HQ will listen to them seeing as that would mean less hard currency bribes.

_{P.S. i'm not saying PHCN engineers are all super-competent o. . .i can only speak for the abuja-subregion, they tend to populate that place with the best.}


even though a team of PHCN engineers were able to rehabilitate unit 3(a 150MW generator at shiroro) something that used to be the preserve of only expatriates. . .

naija dey tire person o. . .i dont know who to blame anymore. . .lol

few people notice the caveat at the end. . .

the article says and i quote

The full privatisation of the sector will also be based on working out a new Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO), said the Presidency source, suggesting that the current MYTO would be reviewed. "The current MYTO is not reflective of cost of production. The new MYTO will reflect this to attract investors"

this suggests they are planning to increase prices higher than the current MYTO plans to. . .

it's likely the transmission company will not be privatized along with the others.

that said, i'm not against it, if it happens it's people like me that'll become the new biggs boys. . .lol

coincidentally, my parents were discussing this on saturday morning, hopefully, abuja'll be next!