₦airaland Forum

“May I borrow your card number? I'll give it back, I promise”
~ Dr Dolubasao Jabangway
“Oh look, it says here this guy from Nigeria will give me $5,000,000 if I give him $5,000”
~ Oscar Wilde
“Why won't anyone help me transfer my money to their bank account? I got the $5,000,000 right here, and you can keep 20%, just please, help me transfer it, no really, I'm serious, ”
~ Prince Olajuwon II on Email offers
“All customers not flying first class; please leave the plane momentarily and help give it a push start. Thank you for flying Nigeria airways.”
~ Nigeria Airways

jmaine:

Whether Buhari is indicted or not in the future am not bothered . . .But that does not change my stance that his unguided and reckless conducts before the polls led to the targeting of the NYSC corp members and his refusal to appeal for calm when the mayhem started (only doing that after 2 days of mass wastage of lives) makes him also culpable to the loss of lives at the post election violence . . .I don't need the SSS or anyone to come to that logical conclusion  . . . let's leave this aside . .

heynew:
I hope this one will not just fade away like oct. 1st bombing where gej said he knew who did it, after a year and months we have not heard anything, and we have enter another dilemma of we now know thier sponsors without names

afam4eva:
Stale news.

NEXT?

Obiakara:
of course these companies where registered 75 & 76 respectively, in the lawsuit between Gates and Jobs over DOS, u should also not that Gates claims where "Jobs refused to patent the OS developed by gates, reason being Apple was more interested in selling hardwares". we talking about patent here, not when the companies where registered!

Obiakara:
whoever posted this, as well as those who commented on this are so ignorant, if you don't know much about the history between Steve Jobs RIP and Bill Gates, you dont need to post a blind comment. Bill Gates was a employed by Steve Jobs as a programme for the Mac, before Bill Gates left Mac to start Microsoft. Yes, he did help steve Jobs Create the Mac, and yes most of the concepts on Mac where imported to Windows because Jobs never registered a Patent for the OS Bill Gates created for Mac.

passyjango:
What impact are you talking about? Maybe in the western world where people get cheap credit to finance the purchase of his overpriced products. But in the Nigeria and the rest of the world Apple and Jobs are insignificant and have had little impact on technology.

How many people are using Apple products in Nigeria and the rest of the world? Apple produce premium products for the rich and people with easy access to credit. To have an impact in technology in my books, you need to equip people with technologies that empowers them to live more fruitful lives irrespective of their economic situation. Apple has failed to do that and hence cannot be said to have a significant global impact on technology as compared to companies like Google, Nokia, Acer, HP, Microsoft, etc.

Take Android for example, a couple of weeks ago we heard of how an Indian company with the help of the Indian government will offer a $35 computer running Android that will be available to tens of millions of Indians. Even if Google achieves nothing else as a tech company, offering a technology that enables computers to sell in double digits of a dollar makes Google even a more valuable global tech company than Apple will ever be.

With such a cheap computer millions and possibly billions will be equipped with computing technology that enables them empower themselves.

Or should I talk about Nokia, another global tech company that is empowering people with technology at affordable prices. How many Nigerians will be using Facebook today if not for affordable internet enabled mobile phones built by companies like Nokia?

You do not need to be rich to have access to technology. So, yes Apple has had a lot of impact in technology in the Western world, but in the rest of the world Apple is an insignificant company. To those people Apple is better known as fruit than a tech company.

auwal87:
@ GenBuhari

I respect Buhari anytime, He is my 1st choice when it comes to voting, but hey, you are all waisting your time. The forces you are fighting in Nigeria are greater and mightier, and one way to defeat them is to rock their brain with an unusual, and faceless radical move by Buhari. When Buhari was asked by journalist about his desire or aim to Islamize Nigeria, he couldn't give an answer. What is wrong with Islamizing Nigeria? He would have won the election, if he gave the true answer. I can't for one second deny, as a Muslim, that I will not work or promote my religion peacefully in whatever position I find myself. This is a duty, by denying the claim, he act hypocritical about it.

Don't misunderstand my point though, I have respect for Buhari anytime anyday, but he just got it wrong, and I must admit it. Next time someone ask him about Islamizing Nigeria let him answer truthfully and honestly, and ask that questioner if anything is wrong with Islamizing Nigeria.

The country as it is is already Christianized.

rebranded:
‎​Just read this about Muammar Gaddafi's Leadership in Libya.
1.There was no electricity bill in Libya; electricity was free for all its citizens
2. There was no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law
3. Home considered a human right in Libya –Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent
4. All newly weds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family
[/b]5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%
6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms –all for free
7.[b] If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US$2,300/mth accommodation and car allowance
8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price
9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 (N22) per litre
10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally
[b]11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
[/b]12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens
[b]13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US$5,000
[/b]14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15
15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree
16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country
So What's d Problem? The long rule?