₦airaland Forum

Who are all those women shouting "heeeeeeeey" ?

We can't see a house fall in peace again? It's erosion, and I'm assuming people have packed out of that house since. It's unfortunate but the gully has been getting worse for years.

Greenback:
This issue has been on for years in the south east,an ecological problem just like desertification in the north.
But instead,the fed govt spends and wastes billions looking for oil in the millions north,spends millions fighting desertification in the north and has endorsed 5% of the national cake to develop Boko Haram ravaged NE and has totally abadoned the SE.
Buharis hatred for the SE is legendary.

But this is not a federal issue. City, LGA, State governments have mandate to solve issues at local level, why are you not blaming them?

Instead of Nnewi residents to get together and stop the menace, they will be spraying money on nonsense. If the millionaires of Nnewi gather mind and put small change together, they can stop this from happening.

If you don't want to be snitched on, don't do the crime.

I like her hustle, but have to agree she needs to hang up. She dey try but she's not a music maker. Mixing and creating are two different things, and it's rare to be good at both. I listened to a small clip of that new song, and all I could do was cringe... the same with her other songs.

Please, I'm not condoning fraud, but I just want a more balanced reaction.

StrikeBack:
I wish I was never a Nigerian. How can you carry " defrauding" to. Developed society.
These guys are plain stupid

Man please. USA and its citizens are the overlords and originators of fraud of all kinds:

Insurance fraud: $80 billion a year across all lines of insurance.
https://www.insurancefraud.org/statistics.htm

Fraud as a result of data breaches - Equifax, Target, and a few others come to mind.

Medical Fraud: $1.24Billion
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/711688988/feds-charge-24-in-alleged-1-2-billion-medicare-fraud-scheme

Recent corporate frauds:
https://www.forbes.com/pictures/efik45ekdjl/our-take-on-the-10-biggest-frauds-in-recent-u-s-history-2/#69f48367775a

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-identity-theft-and-cybercrime

sreamsense:
this is one of the reasons PayPal and many other online businesses don't want to include Nigeria in any financial dealing which is affecting many legitimate users from Nigeria.

USA and Europe are the source of much more fraud. However, the profits from those places far outweighs the fraud. Conversely, Nigeria is not that valuable a market for them so they can afford to lose our business.

This, er, public service announcement is most welcome.
Huncle, abeg please goan face your life... is it your twerk?

Now where did I put that jar...? (._. ) ( ._.)

No wahala. Just don't complain to us that you have to provide for three men and their upkeep. Na you decide to marry them.

Nicely done, by the President of Northern Nigeria.

Area4Area:
The constitution says before you can become the president, you must be a Nigerian by birth, question you should be asking is, is Atiku a Nigerian by birth?
Read up the constitution to know who qualifies as a Nigerian by birth.

Mynd44:
If you are not born a Nigerian, you cannot contest to be president.
Reason for the Obama birth certificate scandal

First, Nigeria is not America. Every country has its own methods/laws for eligibility, so we can't really use one as any basis to determine the other. Second, there was no "scandal", just propaganda from misinformed/disingenuous opponents (scandal implies covering up a misdeed, which was not the case). President Obama was born in 1961, in Hawaii which became a state in 1959. Also, one of his parents was a US citizen - hence he was American by birth to American, as well as born in the USA.

But on to the statement "not born a Nigerian"...

The part of the Constitution relevant to Atiku says of birthright citizenship: "every person born in Nigeria before the date of independence, either of whose parents or any of whose grandparents belongs or belonged to a community indigenous to Nigeria."

Atiku's parents and grandparents belong to a community retroactively indigenous to Nigeria as of 1961, per the referendum. It's the same logic that allows us to accept that if somebody's parents were born in Lagos Colony, they belong to a community indigenous to Nigeria - even though not technically born in Nigeria since the Colony was not part of Southern Nigeria till 1906, nor in Nigeria till 1914.

Finally, let's not forget that the sole arbiter of who is eligible or not - INEC - did not disqualify him.

AnanseK:
PDP fielded a Cameroonian and a Biafran and they expected us to vote for them.

1. Atiku is a Nigerian. He became a Nigerian when his region (Northern Cameroon) became part of Nigeria on 1 June, 1961, through a referendum. People are trying to muddy the waters but whether a person became Nigerian via territorial change, naturalization, or whatever, they are Nigerian and thus eligible for elections, subject to the other requirements in the Constitution. I'm not debating whether he is a worthy candidate or whatever, just that he has been Nigerian since 1961.

2. There is currently no sovereign country called Biafra, thus this second point is not even valid for argument.

Masionreay:
Gandollar wants to use this medium to steal again.

You sabi am!!! Gandollar has been wondering what new scam to create...

Before?

Graze and settle in Kano. Don't forget to buy grass from Southern states though

Alwaysking:
Click like if you believe Davido is better than wizkid

Anekeu:
Go hustle oo. Make u no dey put eye for another man's business

Abi oh... they are both enjoying life, doing what they love. Na the same Benjamins dem dey spray.

Actually, the news has changed:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49410268

Sierra Leone forward Musa Noah Kamara has explained that the climate in Sweden was not the reason his contract with Trelleborgs was cancelled after just one week.

On Monday the club said the 19-year-old's three-and-a-half year deal was ended for "personal reasons".

At the time Kamara himself said he wanted to return to Freetown as he could not cope with the cold weather in Sweden.

After returning home he insisted the real reason he left was that he does not "want to miss the opportunity to play for his country against Liberia next month in the World Cup preliminary round matches".

Jayslicky:
Buhari a man above the law, a tyrant and unquestionable leader.

Who, sadly, was duly re-elected. We can't keep blaming Buhari for what he is... after a while we need to question the people who put him there...

Budex40:
Na lie...!!! D university is closing its portal for uploading of all results, both for UTME and DE. They waited for 1 month for everybody to upload their results so that they can capture their data and conclude admissions. By next month d admission list will come out. By october dem go resume. Pls dont believe everything these bloggers tell u.

Since when does any portal have to close to upload results? Does Youtube close when new videos are uploaded?
Simple matter: new data goes into a folder/database entry, and once it's up, you add a link to the indexing/parent page. This should be a non-issue, but there's always something funny in Nigeria (or is it just incompetence?)

Natoski5:
this is how it should be, firstly know the motive behind.....

Buh police in my state ehnn, baba na sorry be ur name

If dem no first chop inside the stolen plantain (aka. exhibit A), dem go ask owner to pay bail for the plantains. My Delta police I dey greet oh.

Nice one by this DCO, sha.

Why are things not just easy in this country? ehn?

Just post result, and let people see. Why does everything need k-leg?

thesicilian:
People should be allowed to live the kind of life they want to live, the fact that you're born one way does not mean you should remain like that for life.

For example I am poor but I see myself as wealthy, therefore I identify as a transwealthy person.

I will start using this one: "transwealthy person" ki ki ki

Devgod:
Tasha the dumb fool talking about Smartness.. like dafuq?

TechCapon:
The word Tacha and 'smart' should not be in the same sentence

I don't know about you guys, but when somebody is able to use her "gifts and talents" to earn endorsements, adverts, and sponsorship on multiple platforms including Instagram... I can't but admire that business sense.

I'm no fan of Tacha, but she's hustling legit, just like me and many other people. She no kill or kidnap person, she no wire wire, she no sell fake food or medicine, she no rob, yet she is bringing enough money to feed and pay rent. That is smart in my opinion.

helinues:
Just because your ancestors was forced to be kicking their elders instead of waking them properly from bed doesn't mean this current generation of unfruitful land should continuing slapping your fathers..

No wonder Ekweremadu's disgraced means nothing to you people . Putting tradition into practice

Sigh... everybody has their own traditions, and as long as leaders and the population behave themselves, all is well. About Ekweremadu's beating, in past times in Europe, leaders were killed if they went too far, traditions and bowing aside. In many places, including Yoruba, English, or Igbo land, there is a healthy respect for authority, and there is also space for dressing-down or removing somebody who exceeds or abuses their authority.

Even Igbos (I'm Anioma BTW), with all the pride of being republican/egalitarian/decentralized (as in no paramount chief) had/have hierarchies based on age, family, personal achievements, gender - though it must be agreed that social mobility in Igbo land is the highest in any culture I'm aware of, which makes it hard for hierarchies to become tyrannical.

Nonetheless every society (Igbo included) has its social system of complex interactions and a system of checks and balances, including respect of constituted authority (until that authority exceeded its bounds). You see a different set of checks and balances and ways to remove tyrants in Yoruba (Oba, Bashorun, Oyo Mesi), in America (president, senate & reps, judiciary), in the UK (mnarch, Lords & Commons, and Judiciary), and among the Igbo (lineage headships, influential age groups, titled people, first daughters, and secret societies)

So seeing an octogenarian two-time president and former General of a country's army (ironically relatively modern imports to Nigeria by the British Empire), bowing before constituted authority (vested in a person 30 years younger) illustrates how strongly we hold our own traditions, in spite of the modern influences.

This is not to say we should blindly do whatever we are told, but to understand the reasons for certain traditions, appreciate and accept different people's traditions, and review/edit them as appropriate.

tetralogyfallot:
Baba is prostrating for his son

No, Baba is prostrating for the Oba and his authority, in honor of our ancestors and traditions.

BroadStreetBull:
All these backward backward tradition sef.
Who tradition help? Better countries are researching per second per second and excelling and breaking through in medicine, technology, philosophy, etc.
People here are still promoting nonsense telling us they value tradition.
Nonsense!

When Queen Eliza was still a small lady, grand dukes, ministers and heads of states old enough to be her grandfathers bowed and knelt before her, so what is anybody talking. You're conflating respect for traditions and authority with lack of development, which are not necessarily related.

The reason European leaders know how to respect themselves is because of the several hundred years of revolution and turmoil that saw leaders being beheaded, quartered, defenestrated (thrown out of windows), hung, killed in prison, etc. Africans have never really had this period where the people dealt with their own leaders, so African leaders don't understand the need to be wise and govern well.

Just because you visit Germany now and see relative peace does not mean it didn't have centuries of unrest.

Nnoo oh. How far... I hear say you go chop yam, but yam no dey... only beating remain. You need aboliki? Where? Your shoulder? Ndoo oh... no cry

All these numbers with so many commas... please tell us how much you people are eating make we hear word. No light, no water, bad roads and horrid schools, and people are there flaming each other to distract us. Abeg.

Iamgrey5:
You want government to subsidize SUVs worth 26m

Bro when majority of Nigerians live on less than 2 dollars a day

How many senators, and house of rep members? Then multiply by 37 to get all the national and state level representatives. What about all the federal and state parastatals, plus state government cars? FG subsidizes Toyota and other foreign brands by buying their products... I'm sure they can subsidize a few thousand Innoson SUVs by patronizing him.

Before Nko?

Innoson "manufactures" knock down parts. Actual research, design, manufacturing, fabricating is done in China, and Innoson's people weld and screw the pieces together. Not to detract from Innoson's accomplishment, because:
- I would love to have even 1/1000 of his factory
- he is adding value to the product chain and employing people
- if you can assemble, you can repair, and hopefully, eventually manufacture.

If I could afford IVM cars, I would proudly. I'm just waiting for when I start seeing used Ivm cars to buy.

Because not all neighborhoods in Lagos pay the same level of tax

So you want rich people's money/tax to subsidize poor people's roads? In this Nigeria?

***runs out of thread ***

... and that friends is how a man loses half his wealth.

When it works, marriage is a blessing, but most times in the abroad, the man ends up working for her until she decides to break up for "irreconcilable differences", so she can get that fortune.

Na dis kind lepa I suppose take gather body this night...

So If I understand this correctly, rather than use the energy from the battery directly, it's used to
1. boil water
2. turn a turbine
3. finally use electromagnetism to generate electricity.

Incurring losses in each stage? Why not just use the batteries directly or even an inverter to minimize loss?

At the risk of sounding like a hater, it's a cool exercise (university experiment), but not really practical or inventive...

Correct me if I'm wrong, pls.

valenu:
The small battery only produces the first energy which is used to power a heater. The heater heats up the water and the steam from the water turns the coil in the magnetic field of the magnets all inside that cylinder. The turning coil in the magnetic field produces the electricity which powers the appliances and also charge the battery if need be. The heater will continue to be powered by the generated power until the water is exhausted

All but the last part is true. Heat is produced from the battery. That heat does useful work in turning the turbine, and that's it - the energy has been transferred. You need to put more heat (from the battery), to continue. The generated power can power the device for a short time, but at diminishing returns.

Think of bouncing a ball: if you smack the ball down each time it rises (supply energy with your hand), the ball will bounce back to a certain height. If you stop adding energy, the ball will bounce with smaller and smaller height until it dwindles and stops, because energy is lost in each bounce - some is lost to the ground, some is used to push the ball back, some is lost to compression of the ball when it hits the ground, some is lost in the sound that you hear. It's in the same way energy is lost in each turn of the turbine and cannot self sustain.

Ask people to donate funds to improve facilities in a school or hospital, they will complain.
Yet they will buy banner and fuel for motorcade, spend money to vote, then also buy iPhone or car for some nobody on TV.

Yes, Steve was a tough boss, but who in Silicon Valley isn't? Though I will admit he needed to grow up a bit, being that he became so successful so young. He resigned as a result of a power struggle (not fired... Steve Wozniak makes this distinction again and again).

Then he took his skills and talents to found another innovative company, which ironically became the savior for Apple: NeXT, which created NeXTSTEP, which with BSD became the basis for OS X and IOS. 20 years later you can still see these influences in names like NSTextfield, NSApplication in the API). The company did not survive as an independent entity, but I won't call it a failure, since it succeeded in being bought - a goal of many many startups (though perhaps not Steve's goal with NeXT).

However, the real failure in this story was Apple. Without Steve they coasted on the success of the Mac for 10 years but were dwindling every year to the point that they came close to bankruptcy. Bad idea after bad idea, though some of the ideas were simply ahead of their time - like the Newton - which has been reincarnated (without a pen) as the iPhone.

Who knows how much more successful Apple would have been if the board didn't oust Steve? In a remarkable repeat of the mid 1990's, the company is losing its ability to really innovate, and may sadly dwindle away inspite of its current success.