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guys! abeg hang on... am really confused about something... do WordPress offer a hosting service.. if no then the plans listed there are for what. is it for using the wp or wat exactly... ama newbie... thanks

is the server already installed wp a .com or .org

[quote author=Farmercist post=52774193]The Nigerian Army has released the List of Zonal Screening Centres for Nigerian Army 76 RRI as well as the examination date. The 76 Regular Recruits Intake (RRI) for tradesmen/women and non-tradesmen/women Zonal Screening exercise would take place on 22nd January, 2017 at the designated Zonal exam centres.

The Zonal Screening Exercise will hold at the designated Zonal Centres for the respective states. Successful candidates from the Pre-Screening Examination are to attend at the Zonal Screening Centres for their respective states of origin.

Here is a List of Zonal Screening Centres for Nigerian Army 76 RRI for each state of origin.

List of Zonal Screening Centres for Nigerian Army 76 RRI



1 North Central Zone 1
a. Benue
b. Nasarawa
c. Plateau
d. FCT, Abuja

Venue: Nigerian Army School of Military Engineering, Makurdi

2 North Central Zone 2
a. Kwara
b. Niger
c. Kogi

Venue: Headquarters, 31 Artillery Brigade Minna

3 North East Zone 1
a. Adamawa
b. Taraba
c. Borno

Venue: Headquarters 23 Brigade Nigerian Army, Yola

4 North East Zone 2
a. Bauchi
b. Yobe
c. Gombe

Venue: Headquarters 33 Brigade Nigerian Army, Bauchi

5 North West Zone 1
a. Kano
b. Kebbi
c. Sokoto
d. Zamfara

Venue: Headquarters 1 Brigade, Sokoto

6 North West Zone 2
a. Jigawa
b. Kaduna
c. Katsina

Venue: Headquarters 1 Division Kaduna

7 South East 1
a. Abia
b. Imo

Venue: Headquarters 34 Brigade Nigerian Army, Obinze Barracks Owerri

8 South East 2
a. Anambra
b. Ebonyi
c. Enugu

Venue: Headquarters 82 Division Garrison, Enugu

9 South South 1
a. Akwa-Ibom
b. Cross River
c. Rivers

Venue: Headquarters, 2 Brigade Port Harcourt

10 South South 2
a. Bayelsa
b. Delta
c. Edo

Venue: Headquarters 4 Brigade Nigerian Army, Benin

11 South West 1
a. Lagos
b. Ogun
c. Ondo

Venue: Headquarters 32 Artillery Brigade, Akure

12 South West 2
a. Ekiti
b. Osun
c. Oyo

Venue: Headquarters 2 Division Adekunle Fajuyi Cantonment Ibadan

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please whats the date for zonal screening... i learnt its 5th feb.. but rumors have it that the date have been changed....

Afam4eva:
In the .org, the wordpress software is free but you still have to host it with a hosting company. That is what you pay for. Wordpress does not give free domains.

sorry for bugging ya with questions but i still dont get it...
now lets say i subscribe for a wordpress plan; do i still need to get a hosting plan somwhere to use the wordpress in the cpanel?

mokoshalb:
maybe u should take a glance at this http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/844/~/whats-the-difference-between-zip-code-and-postal-code. we are only borrowing the term ZIP code, its postal not zip...

so what brings about the "Invalid code" when ur buying from any UK based site.

Afam4eva:
There are two kinds of wordpress.

One is the one where wordpress hsts your blog for free and can be found at www.. With this one, your blog address can look something like yourname. or it can be customized to be yourname.com if you upgrade. But there are many downsides of using hosted wordpress.

The second wordpress, is the one where you use their software on a hosting platform. The software is totally free and can be gotten at www.wordpress.org. All you have to do is download the software and use or use it directly in your hosting cpanel.

If you have further questions, don't hesitate to ask.

I still don't get it... in the .org, do u pay for the hosting and they give u the free WordPress and a free domain?

please spare my ignorance....
am a bit confused about this; do wordpress offer hosting service or u pay only to use their cms

Jose213:
any non EIG hosting...siteground,stablehost etc etc

aiit.. but whats ur opinion on nigerian based. can i trust'em?

daamazing:
techredirector..com
Your site no reach lol

bros ur site na killer..... i give it to u

mokoshalb:
postal code..? nigeria dnt have..?
maybe it requires a postal code while filling address..

Why won't nigeria has postal code, all countries have it in diff format.. nigeria's own is a 6 digit number, u can get ur location postal code from google..

Nigeria uses zip code not postal.... if u input anything apart from postal it rejects it; if u've ever tried buying things from most of this foreign sites like ebay or amazon.. u would understand me berra

Jose213:
Avoid godaddy like a plague and run away from hostgator like you would when the police are after you.

Godaddy hosting is a joke and hostgator is a nightmare.
Hostgator used to be good at one time but after EIG purchasing them,they are terribble like corruption in africa.
Those reviews you see online people recommending hostgator,Bluehost,Dreamhost etc are not legit...those are God *** affiliates just after your money....Ruuuun my friend ruuun from those two hosts!!!

so what do u recommend..

Dear web Gurus.. my uncle's friend who owns an upcomming private school talked to me about taking his school to another level. my having a website just to join the queue..

the problem is; he wants me to use hostgator or goddady cos a programmer friend of his once told him they are the most reliable on planet Earth
and the tougher problem is.. i've neva used any of'em before so today i did a little walk around in hostgator and realised that to pay for a plan ur gonno need a postal code.. which our blessed 9ja dont use. so please if ur reading this and and ur can help me out; i would appreciate it...

any suggestions; recommendations or advice is highly most welcome... thanks

AliciaALI:
Hi, to free up computer space, why not have a try on AOMEI partition assistant? You can resize, expand, delete, create partition.

it doesnt shrink

dear naira gurus, pls helep I own a HP 15 with 500hdd, 2gb ram with Intel processor...

my HDD has 200gb free space on ma drive c: I decided to partition my drive for another OS. when I created the partition. it had only 10gb space... I then deleted it, went back, defragmented the disk, shrunk the present partition but its still freeing only 10gb for me.... please help I really need to do this. (I use command prompt for all this). thanks

please as an experienced computer user; which antivirus do you recomend for me.. i do much of browsing.

thanks

ModestGal:
I knw somone dat can help but he may nt do it for free

aiit.. how do i reach him

Good morning great naira gurus.

Each time i have a problem i remember i have the all knowing nairabrothers to help me deal with it. and thanks to seun and all my naira brothers.
Going straight to the point... i work as an IT technician in a friends cyber cafe doing the installations; troubleshooting; and stuffs like that..now my friend is planning on elevating the statue of his cafe by adopting networking.. he has the money and everything ready and has talked to me about it.. but the problem is am not a guru in networking just know the basics in networking.. anyone who can help me with detailed info?. am a fast learner and am ready to undergo any kinda reading or studying even a thousand pages just to do this..i choose to do it so as to learn.

here is the setting..

there are ten computers in the cafe; with two running windows 8 and others 7. there is also a student area where i teach student and also need the network there. the student area is about 30 meters from the cafe and has about 30 computers all running windows 7..
now how do i start this...


would appreciate a detailed response .....thanks


i now call an lala; seun; maleeq and skydancer to please help this thread to fp. really need help urgently

dude.. thisis a fucking wrong place to post shit like this

what OS do u use

it wont be right to keep that kinda secret from ur friend if he really is..
so i think u should go ahead and let him know the truth and understand the situation and consequence. do ur job as a friend.. the young man has the decision. but what if he chooses to quit the relationship.

the rest will be history..

abeg one word for them

op more jare.. u too much

meanwhile i just chill here dey wait for ur update

this sounds so weird

can i trust windows defender...?

Craigston:
Well, you can find good bookstores in your state. Check around the universities in your states, there could be good bookshops there. Move around a little. I think there must be one. If there's none, you may have to use the e-books. An alternative is to look for e-books with open licences and find a way to print them at low cost. Doing so will give you a hard copy material to use for a while, and you can keep the e-book for reference when you're done with the hard copy.
You should get used to soft copy too: the ecosystem evolves quickly and you may find it hard to keep up if you depend on hard copy a lot. Best of luck and success.

thanks bro. think i'll take the printing; its a good idea

[quote author=arterxerxes post=52566581]So what is the source of this info? I know a Nigerian will not write this.[/quot

yeA thats right.. he is oliver emberton who owns silktide..... if u wana know more about him click here..http://oliveremberton.com/about/


after reading this his article and some coment there.. beggining to get discouraged in the web designing rout am taking

you can check out the blog post here..https://silktide.com/why-we-gave-up-web-design-after-10-successful-years/

Why we gave up web design after 10 successful years

A decade ago I started a web design company. We grew and grew, and after ten years of hard work, I’ve finally been able to get rid of it.

Don’t get me wrong – we were successful, had fun and did good work. At our peak we had over 200 clients and 15 fulltime staff, making us the largest such company in our city. We’ve worked on great projects for some big name clients and we even made some money too.

Little by little however, the years ate away at my soul. This year we finally left it all behind and moved onto our own products, and I’ve never been happier.

So this is why.

Web design isn’t all bad

Web design is not without its benefits. Client work is endlessly varied, and you’re always learning new things.

It’s a ludicrously easy industry to enter too – all you need is a computer, Internet access and time. There’s plenty of demand for cheap work to get you started, and fair rates for good work if you can do it.

I started Silktide fresh out of University with no computer and £14,000 (about $22,000) of debt. And though it was hard from the start, we were able to double in size every year, and all our work led to better work. Our efforts were continually rewarded as we grew.

Unfortunately, not forever.

Your fate is sealed

When you take on creative work for a client, they own a share of your time.

I used to think I was an entrepreneur running a web design company, but the reality was far from entrepreneurial. Clients were my bosses, and we were at the mercy of their whim.

We worked with some amazing and wonderful clients, but we had our share of the misguided, tyrannical and flat-out bonkers too. It’s not like you can always see them coming.

Most web designers work constantly just to keep their clients happy, because unhappy clients don’t pay their bills. Regardless of how good their legal contracts are, a web design company that pisses off their clients won’t stay in business for long, and to keep clients happy sometimes means compromising your work to do what you’re told.

I fired a number of clients in our time, but you can’t fire everyone you disagree with. At times, to pay the bills, you’ll probably take on work you suspect you shouldn’t, and deal with people you wish you wouldn’t. Bit by bit, you sacrifice your ideals for expediency, because the alternative is worse.

But eventually, your conscience grows thin.

Not a great business

It’s not easy to make a lot of money in web design. It’s decent sustenance, but a poor investment.

You can’t really differentiate yourself for starters – I mean, you’ll think you can – but in reality you’ll always be one of a gazillion companies in a global marketplace. It’s not like software, where one company can literally own a market; no one web design company owns 0.01% of their market.

Like everyone else, we charged clients fixed rates. If our projects were a storming success, our reward remained the same. At best, you’ll earn yourself more work. Well done! You just won yourself more work.

Understand how this is different from many other businesses. If you make a best-selling solar powered torch your reward is your own, and so is your destiny. You can choose to change your product, your brand, your strategy as you see fit. If you’re the best, the rewards are immense. But with web design, you essentially earned yourself more, slightly better work.

There’s a reason most web designers never have time to work on their own websites, nevermind their own businesses.

The limits of size and location

Companies in all industries have natural sizes that have evolved to be stable and successful. For example, there aren’t that many car companies worldwide, and they typically have to make billions of dollars just to exist. Yet most plumbers and electricians are one-man bands.

Web design companies tend to range from 1 to 10 people, with the vast majority having a couple of staff and a handful exceeding 100 or more. Like plumbers, they tend to focus on one geographic area: as far out as they can comfortably meet people face to face.

The most successful companies tend to be in the biggest cities. If you’re a magnificent designer but you’re based in a remote mountain cabin, you’ll have a harder time than a mediocre designer in NYC.

After about 7 years our location began to limit us – although we had customers from Cornwall to Cumbria, it became progressively harder to service them all. More distant customers are more expensive to tend to, so your returns diminish. You’re paying a premium to compete against the local companies who already work there.

We could have moved or expanded, but this didn’t make economic sense for us. We’d spend a fortune to lose all the advantages we’d worked to earn: our staff, our network of referrers, our name. It can be done, but like plumbers there are few web design companies that can scale and prosper.

Sacrifice your own destiny

For me, the greatest cost was what we could be doing instead. The opportunity cost.

The thing I love most about businesses is their ability to transform the world for the better. We live in a world where two guys can found Google in a garage, creating an incalculable benefit to the world, and profit for their efforts. That – to me – is one of the greatest wonders of civilisation.

I’ve always wanted to make the biggest difference I can with my life, and I couldn’t see me achieving this with a web design company. For no matter how much great work you do, it’s not the work you choose to do. You’re always working for someone else.

And if you feel like I do, that’s the kind of passion you can’t surrender quietly.

So what did we do?

For at least 5 years I knew I’d need to leave web design behind eventually. 4 years ago we started to split Silktide into a web design division and a software division – and gave them separate brands. We had our first product – originally called SiteScore – and our first clients.

The mistake I made was continuing to feed the web design monster, whilst trying to get our product side up and running in my spare time. In reality, despite ultimately delegating command of the agency to others, the web design business always consumed 90% of my attention.

When the 2008 recession came our web design sales were severely hit, and it took all our efforts just to dig ourselves out of the financial hole that put us in. Ironically our products were keeping us afloat, but our web design was consuming all of our time.

A year ago I set a 12 month deadline to get us out of web design; in the end it took us 9 months. It cost us a fair slice of income, but we gained a monstrous amount of our time. And finally our products are starting to get the attention they deserve.

It’s too early yet to know if this decision will pay off – right now, we feel like a startup all over again. But whatever happens, we only have ourselves to answer for. And that feels pretty damn great.

Craigston:
Where do you stay? If you're in Port Harcourt, initiate a PM so we can hookup via mail.
I'm curious about how you learn. I found it easier to learn HTML/CSS via ebooks but I preferred hard copy for C++. It helps me focus and think about the whole stuff before pressing a key.

i reside in cross river state... so messed up

i dont mean e-books o

philipschike22@yahoo.com

my brother looks like we are on same boat.. am taking the html/css route for now O and na so the tin the hook me. cos no live tutor