₦airaland Forum

it is plenty o. . .there are even international standards for data centre construction o. . . if u want to read u can start here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center

a brand new yaris is 2.9mil

Dual Core:
its possible to start at a small scale. but lotsa things are involved in getting a datacenter. I dont even know all of them

thanks sha. . .i googled it and saw it's not beans, it's on a scale entirely diff from what i had in mind

Dual Core:
"good" internet connection is not enough brotha.

Leave this calling for Dangote please

I will love to see this happen though. I dunno which person will want to invest billions (yes! billions not millions) into a country in its present state of affairs as Nigeria.

an internet connection like the one you use for your servers would be good enough right? then it should be possible to startup a small one now?

iseg007:
It is a good business idea but trust me not one man can do this as u need to work with nitel or Glo and u need at least N40 million, so it sounds good by make sure u work on your business case properly. and remember Nigeria does have an internet exchange center.

Please Reply if you have any ideas

why do you need to work with glo and mtn? the most important rqrment would be constant electricity abi? followed by a good internet connection

that'd be a nice business idea. . .thanks

it's like i'll soon join the ppl on the 3G wagon o. . .starcomms and visafone are not doing me well at all

jay bee:
chei na so dey capture jenny . c nice ideas for awon boiz.
ingenuity is surely the order of da day.
look at me boring self thinking abt eiffel tower, dubai, maldives et al

o ti d'agba now. . .the time is coming soon

ohisng:
SNOWDROPS- Always check your info first!! Are u aware that igbinedions TV fence was among those recently demolished for being in the right of way? Do u dare do that to your mentor?
Take your anger on the "wise" judge who "freed" lucky. The governor has NO right whatsoever to intimidate or accuse a man that the law court has discharged!
Oshiomhole also used to visit anenih until anenih wanted to act like god. How much less the igbinedions!!!

the fact that the governors fence was demolished does not tell us anything, compared to the other crimes the crook committed having fence demolished doesn't cut it!

i'm begining to see snowdrops reasoning, adams is silent on the igbinedions, and i also think it's because he's power hungry and knows they are probably the only people that can provide some form of support in his battle against anenih. . .

i agree with the writer and think david mark is a brainless twit for his remarks, the driver should sue him jo(who knows he might win 50million)

got this from another site!

The Spirit Of Naija By Dike Merije

There was a horror story in the Leadership last week. The first I heard about it was in church. My pastor could not believe that such terrible things could happen in Nigeria. There had been a robbery on Lagos-Benin Road. That’s no news; another robbery. It was the manner of the robbery. Those who had money were robbed. Women were raped. All this happened at 4 o’clock in the afternoon on one of Nigeria’s busiest highways. But that was not all. Those who did not have money were made to lie down on the naked road. You can only imagine the terror of pressing your cheeks against the steaming asphalt in those conditions. Women, children, young boys. Then a gun was put to the driver’s head and he was asked to run those people over. He did- several times. Human beings, mangled to death in the most horrible manner.

This robbery made it unto the Senate floor this week where it was raised in a motion sponsored by Senator Ayogu Eze. Everyone was outraged. Condemnations flowed freely, most especially for the Nigerian Police. But there was also very strong condemnation for the driver of the ill-fated bus. The Senate President referred to him as the greatest criminal of all for choosing to save his life rather than those of all those people lying in the path of his bus. How could he perpetrate such a selfish act? He should have chosen to die a hero rather than do what he did.

But I have a different view. Here was a man, a Nigerian, faced with a brutal choice- your life or that of your fellow Nigerians. He chose his life. Is that so surprising? I dare to say that selfishness is a typically Nigerian trait. From the way we drive, to the way we jump queues, to the way we use public resources; this country is full of people who, daily, choose to put their own individual and personal good above that of the public. We are in self-denial when we talk about the bus driver as if he has done something quintessentially “un-Nigerian”. Just like we all denied Abdul Farouk Mutallab in December. Perhaps, as a society, we need to take another look in the mirror. These people are not aberrations. They are manifestations of the spirit of naija. Extremism is extremism. From Boko Haram to blowing up a plane there is not such a big jump. Selfishness is selfishness. From stealing people’s salaries to driving a bus over them, there is not such a big jump.

Look at what is happening with Yar’Adua’s health. How many of our political elites are taking positions that are in the public interest? Is the move to close ranks around Yar’Adua motivated by the desire to protect the interests of the millions of Nigerians lying prostrate before the bus of this Nigerian state? No. Instead, people are thinking of themselves and their political careers. The Governors’ Forum has suddenly come out in support of maintaining the status quo of an acting Presidency indefinitely. Most likely, they are thinking of themselves and their own Deputies. Not surprisingly, the first Governor to speak in support of this position was Timipre Sylva, the Vice-President’s political rival from Bayelsa. Rumors have started circulating of a South-South agenda to deprive the North of power, scheming to transform a constitutional matter into a sectarian war. Moves to bring up the issue at all have been killed in both the House and the Senate. It is like a grand conspiracy by the political class to protect one of its own.

Of course, it’s not because there is wide spread love for the man, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Like I said, people are thinking of their own political careers. Northern politicians want to make sure that the seat remains open for one of them in 2011. An acting President can never be as powerful as a President. The Governors’ Forum is already openly grumbling about Jonathan’s decision to inaugurate several committees without “consulting” with them. Since when did an Executive Presidency become a Collegiate Presidency?

But that’s one of the reasons why contending politicians want to ensure that the acting President remains as acting President; there is a greater chance of exerting under hand influence in the Presidency. Looking at the way things are going, the acting Presidency of Jonathan would be one of “consensus”. In the bid to court the support of everybody the Presidency would be effectively incapacitated as an Executive President cannot please everyone. Others are willing to fan the dangerous fires of sectarian conflict just to protect a narrow political interest.

So, who is thinking of our own interests? A quarter in the year has almost passed and all the energy of our government has been absorbed by the intrigues surrounding Yar’Adua’s health. Is it in the public interest? Is it in the public interest to prop up an incapacitated President in office and, essentially, spend the rest of the time till the next general elections “marking time”? Will our constitutional democracy be in any way enhanced by this “political solution”? This culture of horse trading, rather than rule keeping, permeates our whole society; so does this culture of putting self-interest above public interest. It is easy enough to condemn the bus driver and demand that he should have chosen to die a hero rather than take the lives of others; it is infinitely more difficult to “die a hero” politically and stand up for the right thing even when it could hurt your interests.

And what about the victims of that terrible robbery; those people who lay down and watched a bus bearing down on them? I cannot imagine what their last thoughts would have been. I keep thinking; would it not have been better to have been shot than to have been trampled upon several times by a bus. How many times did they have to be run over before they died? What levels of pain and horror did they suffer? Maybe, up till the end, they hoped the bus would stop, or swerve out of the way, or the robbers would change their minds, or some kind of miracle would occur. But nothing happened. The bus came, climbed over them; backed up and climbed over them again; and again, and again- till their lives were crushed out of them. The thought squeezes one’s heart.

But we are all victims in Nigeria. Maybe, Wole Soyinka will organize another march to National Assembly. Maybe, they will have a change of heart and do the right thing. Maybe, God will intervene like he did in Abacha’s case and help us resolve the crisis. So, we just lie down watching death and catastrophe heading towards us; hoping till the last second that somebody else will do something. That’s how our society keeps sliding deeper into anarchy. In 1978, Phillip Asiodu remarked that given the small size of the population of the Niger Delta, no matter how long their resentment lasts, it would never threaten the stability of the country or affect its continued development. Today, the Niger Delta, if not for the amnesty program, would have bankrupted Nigeria by now. For years, we used to say that Nigerians could never be suicide bombers. Today, courtesy of Mutallab, we are bed fellows with Pakistan and Algeria in the eyes of the world. Wishing away the madness will not turn the bus away. We have to get up and get out of the way if we want to live.

That terrible robbery on Lagos-Benin road was caused by the failure of the Nigerian system. It is a failure that put the pot-holes in that highway that made that robbery easier. It is a failure that ensured that the Police did not show up at any time during such a drawn out robbery. It is a failure that kept those poor people glued to the ground hoping for a Divine intervention. It is a failure that guaranteed that there was no accurate manifest to even correctly identify the dead. It is a failure that chased possible on-lookers away. It is also a failure that encouraged that driver to close his eyes and kill other people in the hope of walking away with his own life.

It was a tragic error of judgement on the driver’s part. The robbers shot him after he had done their terrible bidding. It is the reality; you cannot escape the fate of the society you find yourself in. When “kata-kata” comes it will not discriminate. No matter how high the walls you’ve built with the money that should have gone into better roads, a better Police Force and a better society, someday, somebody will come by angry, hungry or frustrated enough to scale it. Others will not drown without taking you with them. Individual brilliance will not save us from what is coming. We need to pull together. More of us need to defend the public good and build a system that caters for all.

On September 11, 2000, there were four planes that were supposed to crash into strategic targets in the U.S. Three of them did so, two into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon but the fourth plane did not arrive at its destination. When the passengers on that plane heard what was happening, they decided to take their lives into their own hands and tackle the hijackers. The plane crashed in the woods, killing all those heroic passengers. When push comes to shove, that’s what it takes to make a difference. As long as we all keep docking for cover that bus bringing death and calamity will not stop until we are all dead.

It is time for our leaders to stop thinking they can advance individual political careers at the expense of the greater good, indefinitely. It is also time for each of us as individuals to start realizing that things cannot go well with us when the rest of the country is deteriorating, indefinitely. Someday, the chickens will come home to roost.

i think we need people like snowdrops to keep things even, we cant all be singing adam's praise. . .snowdrops has a valid point and i think if you can you should answer his points instead of insulting him, why would we be fighting ourselves when the politicians we're insulting ourselves over will be eating suya together?. . .just doesnt make sense!

that said, i haven't been to Edo state in a while so i cant talk on what is happening there, but oshiomole's statements so far as concerns the yar'a adua issue show's he can actually sell out, this is someone that claims to speak/fight for the masses.

so even with the cost of diesel being what it is, in terms of fuel consumption, diesel cars are better?

_{*initializing tatafo mode*}

na this kain thread i dey like

iceblue:
over productivity na im dey worry me this week. as though some angel of work was ready to punish me for all my joblessness in the few weeks b4 this one. been stretching my neck and brain to meet some darn impossible deadlines. looking good so far sha  

lol. . .eya, pele. . .so i guess you wont have time for mangas for a while then

@thread
went to see a family friend to discuss possible career steps and it was a serriiioouuussss mind screw man, we're in the same field but he was talking global while i'd been thinking interms of only nigeria all the while, i felt like i'd been playing all the while, Good thing is i'm back to my first love, renewable energy and energy efficiency. . .but i still came away confuzzled o.

was supposed to go and see another person today i bailed, i'm not yet ready to be further 'humbled'

if anyone thinks getting a job is hard, or keeping one for that matter, the person should try planning a career!

how that one take concern you?

biina:
I know about the reservoir and it only eliminates the short term variations and not the long term seasonal ones. You cannot hold the reservoir above the dam water  (unless you are willing to waste power in pumping the water above river level which essentially proves my point of waste) and since your water source level varies more consistently on the long term, you capacity would vary accordingly as long as you have finite dam height+ bed depth. It similar to the variable input rate, constant output buffer problem, no matter the size of your buffer, your output rate will always have to be between your maximum and minimum rate. You cannot maximize your output.

o ok. . .i get your point. . .you're right, but we''ve got ourselves into this situation, even though CBN's solution is not the most efficient on the long run, taking the situation on ground into consideration, i still think the CBN's plan is a darn good option(in terms of the economy alone). . .have you ever visited geometric power's webpage? you should visit it sometime. . .it's here

I thot the power stations were sited by PHCN and CBN is just helping with the financing. Still the average Nigeria wont be so patient if he is not getting light when some other areas seem to have an abundance, particularly when the president is likely from the region of abundance. If Nigerians were objective, we wouldnt be is such a bad situation.

nigeria isn't that organised, the businesses will draw up their plans and stuff, PHCN will be ignored as much as possible(wot purpose are they serving? the execs will jst be trying to see what they can gain from the whole thing) it's the NERC that they'll deal majorly with.


for the people asking for a source, y'all coulda tried google now, but here's one sha. . .http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=167704&printer_friendly=1

biina:
The point was that your water levels will vary with the seasons (unless you have no concern for those downstream of the dam) which means you are capable of generating much more in the rainy season than in the dry season. In the case of an isolated region with sole dependence on hydro, (assuming a fairly constant load for the year), your capacity in the dry season should be able to meet your load, else you will be underfed, which in turn implies that your rainy season output will exceed your load i.e. wasted capacity. On a grid, the thermal stations would have helped pick up the slack or be able to transmit the excess to another region.

oh. . .i finally get your point, dams are built with reservoirs, so the excess water is stored for use during the dry season, and the resevoir is re-filled during the rainy season, that's how it works. . .it's plausible, trust me. . .i just spent one year at a dam the danger is in over-generating, but a private company is less likely to do that. . .

But is Afam not capable of meeting the demand in that region? why there may technical and practical reasons for siting in PHC, my point was that from a political stand point, the choice of sites (if coupled with isolation) may result in some regions/states genuinely feeling marginalized.

but to do that will require toying with the load allocation from PHCN and trust me. . .PHCN will not listen to CBN on that issue, the next best thing will be to build. . .and since it'll be cheaper to site the station near the industries. . .voila. . .PH

if the states dont like it, they can go and jump. . .it'll be private companies now, you cant complain where a private company decides to spend it's money, like oyb said somewhere, part of the prob in naija is that when it's time to build stuff, er'one wants it to be built in their village, instead of considering more important(mostly economic though)factors

FL Gators:
Thatz basically the only Nigerian rapper I listen to, good music

isn't he the one that sang 'put it in her mouth?' one very filthy song like this. . .

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=405288.msg5623696#msg5623696 date=1267661342]yea the glamor models look healthier and are very attractive. the fashion models are overly skinny. but something abt them just fascinates me.
u are right in all of these. i'm just weird.


haha edo boy. so u r tall n skinny heh?  


yea i mean to say curvy olomi lara [/quote]we prefer to call it, talk dark and ____ go on, say it, dont be shy. . .

olomi lara ke?. . .if i understand that well thats not the kind of body that men like o(at least not the connoissuers). . .you want something you can put your arms around, something that's firm, but not to too hard. . .something soft. . .(all the pervs should get their minds out of the gutter )

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=405288.msg5623545#msg5623545 date=1267658053]I love how you have your own "perfect" explanation for why people are skinny.   thank God your not a health professional. haha
anyways, just say that u like fat women n stop misyarning about skinny women in the process  
i personally like slim/tall men but i won't diss fat, overly muscular men in the process.[/quote]we love you too

didnt see this post intime

biina:
I think since the distribution network more easily defined geographically, it shoudnt be too difficult to isolate the distribution network for the industrial areas/parks. Irrespective of power plant siting, the local distribution network for this target areas will have to be reviewed. The transmission network is what I am more concerned with. I feel We should upgrade the transmission network to ensure cost effectiveness in generation and delivery,while keeping in mind future plans. We should noyt build expensive ad hoc networks that would increase short term cost, and then be abandoned on the long run.

i agree with you there, i think that's what they'll do, make use of the existing distribution network, they'll just need to find a way to section it off, the new stations built need not be abandoned, the can always be added to the grid now. . .

Hope you are not going just to ask four your share of the new CBN disbursements?  
Tommorow now, we go hear say u don get  GenCo  

ah ah now. . .at least if i get one, when i'm like 60, i will come and start a foundation and say i dont know what to do with the money anymore.

If you capacitive is not excessive in the raining season, it will be short in the dry season. the seasonality of the water levels as opposed to tyhe more consistent power demands makes it that you cannot eat your cake and have it.

nope. . .the problem in naija is that the gas stations are forever messing up, thats why the hydro stations are usually over depleted. . .in a private setting, where there wont be an economist or lawyer minister to order you to bring units into service anyhow, you would be more likely to stick to best practices in managing your water level, how it's done is all fuzzy but i know there's a way they compare rainfall, expected rainfall and all that and use it to forecast how much they can generate with the water levels remaining safe!

Such considerations are required to avoid unnecessary political tension. Surprisingly, PHC (already with AFAM) is the only south-south location. I would have expected something around delta/baylesa areas and something in the midwest also. Without a capable transmission network to spread the power around, you might indeed endup with the grumblings that easily follow such projects in Nigeria.

where else can they site it? they need already established industries now. . .

THE AMAKA:
[color=#ff00cc][size=25pt]I SWEAR TO BLEEPING GOD THAT B**** BETTER NOT SAY ANOTHER WORD TO ME. HIM OR HER. OR I WILL BLEEPING LOSE IT.
IM TICKING TIME BOMB ABOUT TO GO OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN, I'M THROUGH THE ROOF RIGHT NOW.
PIECE OF S**** THEY ARE!!![/size][/color]

@chamo
i think you should speed things up, set a wedding date or something. . .she's a keeper!

platinumnk:
I ain't never been no silly b!!tch
Waiting to get rich
From a nigga bank account
I have always had my own things
Bought my own rings
Not goin' let you catch me out
You should take a lesson from me

I ain't the one to be
Depending on someone else
I can run a scam before he can
Better than a man
I always keep my game on deck

If you really wanna find
Someone to get some behind
I ain't the one for you
If you really wanna know
Boy you need a silly ho
To do whatever you wanna do
If you really wanna find
Someone to get some behind
I ain't the one for you
If you really wanna know
Boy you need a silly ho
To do whatever you wanna do

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odikwa serious. . .nice lines though

ravenzord:
Wonder where Chiogo is .

i see. . .

chamotex:
Just shine your eyes

i've got them shined so bright the glare gets to me. . .thanks tho!

THE AMAKA:
[color=#ff00cc]i want to marry chamotex.[/color]

awww thats soooo sweet, i'll help u tie kunbee up so you can kill her. . .deal?

netsurf:
HELLO @ ALL,

pls I need help concerning a mac computer a customer brought to my office for repairs, it powers off when it has worked for about 2hrs, she said an engineer told her is has power pack problem and she has bought it and brought it to my office, my challenge, I have never opened a mac before now and I thought it might be voltage problem since[b] it's made for American power ratings[/b], I may be wrong, that's why I'm here, and in case I have to re-install the OS, how do I get the drivers?

pls helpppp

are you sure about that? most power packs are made for 110-240v, and it's the DC output that concerns the computer not the A.C. input

chamotex:


Are you refering to yourself?

yes o. . .na one of my[i] smallies[/i] wan make i finish all my airtime. . .na wife material sha

[size=5pt]not to worry i'm in firm control of my 'mugu switch'. . .them no fit catch me![/size]

ok. . .this guy u want to go broke because of woman abi. . .behave yourself!