The Question is what do we need ah F-16 for?? It's not bout acquiring Aircrafts cuz you want to feel sophisticated. what threats are we being faced or will face in the future to acquire an F-16? how bout the weekly & monthly cost of maintaining something you don't really use
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We need F16 and more so d country's arsenal needs to b upgraded to atleast global average standard as to enable her tackle any external aggression, surprise attack or serve as deterrence.
rinzaugustine: If you are talking about Nigerians know that their is a big stark difference between the brains of right thinking Nigerians and brainwashed Agbadorians
Cutezt: A few months ago, a friend told me about an exciting alternative to the ever-increasing DSTV prices - SLTV. Intrigued, I decided to give it a try.
One evening, I rushed home all hyped to catch the UCL action, only to find my subscription expired. Ready to cough up some cash, I recalled the SLTV chat with my friend and thought, "Why not?" So, I decided to explore SLTV
After some digging, I found a bunch of SLTV sites, many of which I realized were incomplete, without much information about the company. but I settled on one that had dealer info and locations at https://metrodigital.tv/find-a-dealer/.
I reached out to a nearby dealer, who initially quoted me 27,500 Naira. Cool, right? Determined to make the switch, I decided to wait until the following week to subscribe as it was the weekend. So next week rolls around, and bam! Dollar rates soar, and suddenly it's N37,500! (This was just a flimsy excuse by the dealer to extort me tho, the price still remains the same according to the company, but I let it slide when I calculated installation fees and all) Still, compared to DSTV's wallet-draining ways, it seemed reasonable. So, I bit the bullet and called the guy over.
The next day, the dealer arrived promptly and had the SLTV decoder and dish set up in less than 10 minutes. I was thrilled to discover that I could now access all the Supersport channels and more. Eager to learn about the subscription options, I found that the Diamond package was priced at 2,500 Naira, while the Gold package was 5,000 Naira per month. I also learned that SLTV offered a variety of free-to-air channels, but I didn't bother to have the installer set those up for me.
My SLTV Experience
After using SLTV for nearly two months, here is my review.
1. Broadcast Rights:
While I was able to access all Supersport channels without restrictions, I've noticed that SLTV streams a majority of their channels from DSTV and YouTube.
Occasionally, you encounter the DSTV interface and error code on your screen, and also the YouTube auto caption (mostly on CNN) which writes rubbish. This can be discouraging and unprofessional.
I thought about how TSTV vanished into thin air, but I made peace with myself when I decided to view the SLTV installation fee as paying for a DSTV subscription, just in case SLTV later shuts down. After all, I still watch my matches at the end of the day.
The streaming experience can be inconsistent, with lags ranging from a few seconds to up to 2 minutes behind the live action. Intermittent signal cuts during matches, though not frequent, can disrupt the viewing experience.
The handling of SLTV's social media presence and branding suggests a need for improvement in terms of professionalism, including the employment of a dedicated social media manager and a graphic design team. An instance where SLTV openly called out MultiChoice and included names in a post, I perceived as unprofessional.
As far as customer support is concerned, it is nonexistent! A call to the number listed for support on their website and you will be greeted with 'switched off', I wonder how customer care will be switched off. Their social media support is no different. When you encounter a challenge, your best bet is to get an agent/dealer. That is why it is good to keep subscribing with a particular dealer so as to build a relationship in case you need any help someday.
I was however comforted when I learned of the presence of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, at SLTV's launch. It was an encouraging sign that the platform had the backing of the federal government. This government support has provided a sense of reassurance that SLTV won't leave its viewers "hanging" (at least for the time being).
2. Picture Quality
When tuning in to SLTV for your favorite matches, it's important to consider the picture quality. If you own a large screen TV, especially 50 inches or larger, you might notice that the claimed full HD stations are not actually full HD, possibly around 480p or 720p resolution at best. However, it's worth mentioning that SLTV does offer approximately 2 Supersport channels in full HD. There is room for improvement in enhancing the overall picture quality across their channels.
3. Subscription System.
The affordability of their subscription service is overshadowed by the lack of a functional public subscription system. Despite promoting both an Android app and a website for subscriptions, using these platforms often results in your money vanishing into thin air.
Personal experience attempting to subscribe through the app revealed a disconcerting outcome - while the payment was processed successfully, the subscription failed to activate. Even after contacting an agent who checked my profile for me, no record of the subscription or money could be found. A frustrating situation where payment was made for a subscription that was never received, necessitating an additional payment from me for another subscription.
For a company serious about its operations in 2024, the absence of a reliable subscription system is a significant drawback. Relying on agents for subscription management is an outdated practice that does not align with modern consumer expectations. It is misleading to advertise apps and websites for subscriptions that are not fully operational. Even after subscribing sometime, you will need to call and disturb an agent to refresh your profile for it to start displaying. Further investigation revealed that this subscription issue is widespread among users, not just me, indicating a systemic problem that requires urgent attention.
4. Available Content
While the platform offers a respectable selection of channels, the content is not tailored specifically for the Nigerian audience. For instance, the music stations predominantly feature tunes from across Africa, rather than catering to local Nigerian Audiences as the company claims to focus on providing affordable local content.
Switching to channels like Trace or MTV, you often times encounter unfamiliar songs from East Africa or outdated hip-hop tracks. The movie selection, although more recent than the outdated offerings on DSTV, still falls short of providing the latest releases. Similarly, the National Geographic and wildlife-focused channels, while present, do not offer the same level of entertainment value and content as the Nat Geo on DSTV. Even tho they are both Nat Geo/Nat Geo Wild, they show different content.
On a positive note, the platform does provide a selection of cartoon channels, such as Nickelodeon, to cater to the entertainment needs of children, as well as Nigerian Movies from Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Epic, and Urban movie channels.
In summary, SLTV may be a suitable option for football lovers with screen sizes of 40 inches or less, who are not overly concerned with picture quality. However, for those seeking a more tailored content experience and crisp visual quality, DSTV may remain the preferred choice.
I hope to provide a more detailed video review of SLTV before the end of the week. Please feel free to drop comments if you have any further questions.
MadamExcellency: Palestine – The myth we are now stuck with. In May of 1964, the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) was created as a new means of fighting Israel. It is the Palestine Liberation Organization, meaning ‘from the River to the Sea’, not the ‘Palestinian’ Liberation Organization. There were no Palestinians, yet.
Suddenly, three years before the 1967 Six Day War, and for the first time in history, instead of Israel only fighting Arab regular armies, such as those of Jordan (which in 1948 occupied East Jerusalem, Samaria, and Judea, later known as Cisjordan, and even later as the West Bank) and Egypt (which occupied Gaza), Israel also had to fight a terrorist group calling itself the PLO.
The PLO was entirely the brainchild of the notorious Soviet spy agency, the KGB. It concocted the PLO the same way it did other national liberation movements, such as the Bolivian National Liberation Army, to create instability and expand the Soviet sphere of influence. It was the KGB, not self-professed Palestinian Arabs, which drafted the original Palestine National Charter. The KGB handpicked 422 Arabs who would be members of the PLO Council to rubber stamp the KGB’s Charter and adopt it as the PLO’s mission statement. Similarly, the KGB drafted both the Palestine National Covenant and Palestine Constitution. The PLO adopted the KBG-drafted charter in 1964. Under Article 24, the PLO Charter dictates that the PLO is to control ALL LANDS UNDER ISRAELI AUTHORITY. It specifically excludes those lands already under Arab control, like that infamous ‘West Bank’ and Gaza, which were already occupied by Arab nations. Article 24 states: “This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political, and financial fields.”
Even though the Arabs have been saying that the ‘occupation’ began in 1948, ‘the West’ continues to assert that ‘the Palestinians only want the West Bank and Gaza and that those are the only two areas to which they’ve ever referred when referring to ‘occupation’. There is a HUGE disconnect between reality and make-believe.
The Chairman of the KGB at the time, Vladimir Semichastny (1961-67), stated about the PLO’s formation: “We need to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel.” The goal was to use the Islamic world as the KGB’s puppets by instilling this Nazi-style hatred for Jews into their culture to then use the weapon of emotions that would result to turn them into terrorist groups working to destabilize and ultimately doom both Israel and the U.S.
Seven months later, in December 1964, the KGB hand-picked Yasser Arafat to be the first ‘Palestinian Arab’, in charge of the KGB’s campaign of dezinformatsiya (disinformation, in Russian) in the Islamic world. The KGB personally trained Arafat in the Soviet Union at its Balashikha special-ops school east of Moscow and groomed him as the future PLO leader. By the way, also Mahmoud Abbas was groomed there, wrote his ‘Holocaust denial’ thesis, and later became a KGB-agent under the pseudonym Krotov in Damascus in 1985. To make Arafat credible as a leader of the PLO, the KGB concocted a background story that would show that Arafat was born in Jerusalem. The KGB even created false documents, such as a fake birth certificate for Arafat ‘proving’ he was born in Jerusalem. In reality, Arafat was both born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, as his real birth certificate was later revealed to show unequivocally.
As part of Arafat’s training, the KGB also selected a personal hero for him: the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who closely collaborated with Adolf Hitler before and during WW2. Via the KGB, the PLO appointed two former Nazi instructors, Erich Altern, a leader of the Gestapo’s Jewish affairs section, and Willy Berner, an SS officer who worked in the Mauthausen Extermination Camp. Another former Nazi, Johann Schuller, also supplied arms to the related terrorist organization that ultimately merged with the PLO, Fatah. When the Soviets lost influence and their reputation after the defeat by Israel in the 5-10 June 1967 Six-Day War of Soviet-armed and trained Arab Armies, the new KGB Chairman, Yuri Andropov, drove the Palestinian myth to a height, and turned-up the pressure on the Jewish State via more dezinformatsiya campaigns and more guerrilla/terrorist tactics using KGB-created and trained ‘Palestinian freedom fighters’, instead of relying solely on regular Arab armies to destroy Israel.
On 11 December 1967, the KBG founded another terror group: the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which was guided by Marxism and Leninism. The PFLP’s first leaders were Wadi Haddad and George Habash. Habash openly and repeatedly stated he viewed the ‘liberation of Palestine’ as an integral part of the world Communist Revolution.
The PFLP used more violent methods to try and achieve its goals: carry-out armed insurrection, perpetrate media-oriented attacks against Israel, and use airplane hijackings as a means of achieving international attention for the Communist and ‘Palestinian cause’. In 1969 alone, the PLO and PFLP hijacked 82 planes. The battle cry became ‘fighting Imperial Zionism’, a modern adaptation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and long a favorite tool of Russian intelligence to foment antisemitism.
At the same time, the KGB launched Operation SIG (Sionistskiye Gosudarstva), which was a disinformation campaign designed to sow worldwide enmity of Israel and the USA, labeling them racist, imperialist, and colonialist entities. Operation SIG eventually included a global clandestine dezinformatsiya campaign against Israel that involved a combination of both propaganda and direct military support to any terrorist group that would declare itself the enemy of Israel. The number of terrorist groups has in the meantime increased to more than 25.
Part of Operation SIG included the KGB’s recruiting of thousands of doctors, engineers, technicians, professors and even dance instructors, who were all told to portray the USA as an arrogant and haughty Jewish fiefdom that was being financed by Jewish money, run by Jewish politicians, and whose goal was to subordinate the Islamic world.
Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, a Romanian Two-Star General in the DIE (Directia Informatii Externe, the secret police of the socialist republic of Romania) defected to the USA in July 1978, revealed that the Romanians were tasked with infiltrating Libya, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria with agents who were trained in antisemitic dezinformatsiya and terrorism. The DIE made use of an Arabic-language translation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (till today one of the most popular books in the Arab world), along with ‘documentary’ material ‘proving that the United States was a Zionist country whose aim was to transform the Islamic world into a Jewish fiefdom.’ Operation SIG’s dezinformatsiya campaign ran from 1967 to 1988, and it built and weaponized narratives based on made-up or twisted facts. It distorted history, employed classic propaganda tools such as deception, guilt by association, and repetition to inculcate the key messages. It also shamelessly played on people’s sentiments, and it used both Soviet Jews and Muslims as instruments of its propaganda. It attempted to, and too-often succeeded in inflaming and spreading anti-Israeli sentiments by relying on old antisemitic tropes and inventing new ones.
The overall goal of the dezinformatsiya campaign of Operation SIG was to reframe the modern miracle of Israel, the first successful decolonization campaign in history, as actually being the prime example in the world of an oppressive, imperialist state that was built unjustly and at the expense of the ‘native population’. Operation SIG created an alliance that included Pan-Arabists, Pan-Islamists, and Nazism by focusing on what they all had in common: their hatred for Jews, for Israel, and for democracy.
The KGB’s tactics against Israel and the USA, which included carefully planted false stories about prominent leaders while seeking to convince the public at large that their reported falsehoods were true. By 1972, Andropov’s disinformation machinery was working around the clock to persuade the Islamic world that Israel and the USA intended to transform the rest of the world into a ‘Zionist fiefdom’. Andropov’s goal was to whip up illiterate, oppressed mobs in the Arab world to a fever pitch. In addition, he surmised that terrorism and violence against Israel and the USA would flow naturally from the Muslims’ antisemitic fervor. Besides making use of the Islamic world, he targeted his campaigns on the gullible leftist cabals: Communists, Marxists, Maoists, Trotskyists, Socialists, and the likes, such as fans of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Pol Pot and Mao Zedong.
Then in 1991, when the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the KGB was dismantled, and its functions were dispersed among various other parts of the new government, like spies often do, the KGB resurfaced with a different name, FSB, whose letters stand in Russian for Federal Security Service. Today, with a former KGB agent and FSB head named Vladimir Putin as the head of state, the organization once known as the KGB has regained much of its old reach and power. Nothing gained, nothing lost. Except that Russia now found a new ally, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Both Russia and Iran are dictatorships with the same goal: to undermine the international system, one on a political basis, communism, and territorial expansion, the other on a theocratic basis, the World Caliphate.
The Moscow-Tehran alliance’s mutual goal is to dominate the Middle East. It didn’t work out so perfectly for the USSR, but with this new alliance, it may now. Both support the Bashar al-Assad government of Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, PFLP in ‘the West Bank’, Houthis in Yemen, Al Qaeda in the Sinai, Boko Haram in Nigeria, ISIS in the sub-Saharan countries, and Al Shabab in Somalia. Both Russia and Iran also support CAIR (the US arm of the Muslim Brotherhood) and the dictatorships in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia. Iran’s IRGC controls the Tri-Border Area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, where they are active in terrorism training (Hamas, Hezbollah) and foremost in money laundering, sales of arms, human and drugs trafficking.
The ‘old’ KGB dezinformatsiya campaign was revived and given a new life. On one hand, Russia continued its activities and expanded their collaborators to the far-right groups in Europe and North America, like the KKK, QAnon, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, National Action (UK), Nordic Resistance Movement (Scandinavia), Serbian Action (Serbia), Casa Pound (Italy), Golden Dawn (Greece), and Skydas (Lithuania). On the other hand, Russia increased its manipulation of Europe’s leftist and green parties in the UK (Labour), throughout Europe and in North America, mainly the ‘progressives’ of the Democratic party. Last, but not least, Russia and Iran increased their influences using the KGB’s concocted ‘Palestinian cause’ as a vehicle to foment and increase antisemitism, dressed up as anti-Zionism, on a global scale.
With the emergence of social media, Russia, together with the Islamic Republic of Iran, control more than 100 so-called NGOs of which Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Al-Haq, Hurryyat, Defence for Children, PCHR and ICHR are the most active. In addition, they operate at least 100 AI bots and have well over 50 notorious antisemites on their payroll who feed social media 24/7 with their fabrications and falsehoods.
Last but not least, the control of Russia, Iran, China, Cuba, Venezuela, South Africa, the Arab League nations and dozens of corruptible countries, not surprisingly the world’s major human rights abusers, over the UN, UNRWA, UNICEF, UNESCO, ICC, WHO, UNHRC, UNDP, UN WOMEN, ICJ, ILO evidences that these organizations are an absolute farce, obsessed with Israel whilst the world is on fire with hundreds of thousands are killed and starving to death year after year.
‘Free Palestine from the River to the Sea’ has become the war cry to replace free, democratic, multi-ethnic, multi-religious, successful Israel with another corrupt, Judenfrei, Islamic tyranny, to be named ‘Palestine’.
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Times of Israel, Tablet Magazine, National Review, News & Politics, Jewish Policy Center.
tommy589: It is like an auction where they bid for dollars. Unlike before when government fixed the rate and supported it by way of subsidy. So no more round tripping
Reminderz: I think this generation ladies have exaggerated the issue of "cravings" when it comes to pregnancy... it now seems like they are the first set of women to get pregnant... the men are now even the promoters of these stupid trends all in the name of stupid love... these low IQ lots using "pregnancy" as a means to ask for crazy stuff and do stupid things... if she asks for stupid stuff at 1am, she will be the one to get it herself... nonsense... women have been getting pregnant and giving birth since centuries, I don't even know what started this shit... and I guess social media is also one of the factors leading to the continuation of this "trend".
these generation females is nothing to write home about...
Crysallis: Ensure you watch this video till the end guys as there is a lot going on.
Portable in his usual way has started ranting and this time no be money issue cause am. Na woman matter o. Portable has called out his baby mama, calling her unprinted names as he has levelled a new accusation against her.
Apparently, she joined Kokozaria in celebrating the Oshodi day some days ago and Portable was not pleased. He was lambasting his baby mama for purchasing Ankara wears for the event and even took their son along.
Reacting to the video which she posted on her tiktok page, portable labelled her as a woman for 36 men. A video even captured Kokozaria and the baby mama in a loved up moment, which highly displeased Portable.
Being that he (portable) is capable of having other women, he asked Kokozaria to return his child as he can let him have the woman. Please watch full video and give your thoughts below.
And we shouldn't blame politicians for that because that is who we have always been. 2023 election just amplified it because we have candidate from two major tribes that have full access to the internet.
Bigkoko: Do you mean HoR members that depends on wrong judicial system led by CJN Arioowola kayode or those elected by popular votes?
Those who depends on CJN Arioowola kayode are in the National Assembly while 80% of those elected by popular votes are outside the national assembly, or are you suggesting we set up a parallel national assembly, the People's Assembly!
Be careful what you suggest in ignorance because all it takes to get it done is just the Critical Mass, those DSS, police no go do anything, just like the KGB during the separation of the Soviet union.
I'm sure you ain't following the news. But if you do and insist that Nigeria is not already experiencing chaos, then I stand on my covenant with G-d and pray that the chaos that visited the people of Plateau State also visit you, let's check something. And if you be an elite, I pray also, the Chaos that comes through unknown gun men visit you too!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Displayed Captured Western Hardware From Ukraine by PaZwoD: 5:42am On May 02