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ice234:
no oh

ak47mann:
nice one educate him a couldn't be ask

ice234:
as otondo as pinkrex

ice234:
as it has caught up with yours

ice234:
middle finger up

emmke:
hmmmmmm. i personal cant understand why they southerners, especially igbos, cant go back home. in fact we still see them trooping into north in their thousands. what exactly is wrong with your region that makes a crisis prone north more attractive than your SE for the record, am not hausa-fulani ooo.

emmke:
north dont need your pity . if anything they need u to to come take your brothers home. haha . despite your so-called development your brothers are always reluctant to go back home. in fact they prefer to stay in the crisis prone north. why is that? well thats because south sux, kidnapping, armed robbery, ritual killings, i wonder how they do not make the news , seems your precious south is not safe either. i rather stick around up north. though unsafe (just like the south) but at least the cost of living is much lower there.  

nateevs:
There is nothing to state that Glo cannot "combine the two" - if that means anything at all. Bottom line is Glo will become "The National Carrier" . . A national carrier is simply an establishment who has the physical infrastructure to route network traffic to every corner of the nation. There is, as far as I know, nothing to show that "National Carrier status" is reserved for a few. It's a colossal amount of investment, especially for a country as big as Nigeria. Any company can attain this status if there is the will to invest. MTN makes shed loads of revenue and can invest in this if they want to. There's no monopoly as far as I am concerned.



Till date, it is a rumour. A rumour that has no bearing on the workability of the project.



Do you think it's that simple to lay cables across the country. It has got to be a gazillion times more expensive and more complicated to deploy than it is to deploy a wireless network. Note all things they need to take into consideration, many of which would have been much easier in advanced countries.

Glo has to consider Urban and National Planning - present and future. . . . . . Glo has to make sure Julius Berger will not be laying a road few years from now across a Fibre route. Glo has to make sure Omo onile will not sell land reserved for future network expansion. Glo has to make sure that road network cabinets will not be destroyed. . . and several other things I cannot make up in my head now. Taking Nigeria into consideration, there are no laws protecting Glo from vandalism. Anyone can pick up a digger and make a tunnel anywhere they desire. How has the Government helped to forestall this? Can Government guarantee anything?  And we haven't even started speaking of the sheer amount of work to deploy the network assuming all external conditions are favourable. It's not child's play man.



This talk of monopoly is over-played. Listing Nitel on the NSE will do nothing to the operations of Glo. Glo will charge a base rate for bandwidth leasing. Glo will also charge a base rate for leasing a fixed-line. For data over fixed-lines, you don't have to be with Glo. MTN, Etisalat, Starcomms et al, can all route traffic over Glo's internal National network as long as the Government through NCC goes a step further in establishing and enforcing a Local Loop Unbundling process. Those who have deep pockets (Dangote, MTN) and don't want to use the LLU can go ahead and apply for a National carrier license and build their own local loop in phases.




From a technical stand-point, my opinion is that it is the best thing to happen to Nigeria in recent years. Nitel already have the last mile infrastructure. Network road cabinets, telephone exchanges etc, Glo will not have to replicate. There's ahrdly any neighbourhood in Nigeria that doesn't have Nitel wires with Kites hanging off of them. Glo only has to revive this infrastructure, a far less expensive venture than replicating theirs - a cost they would have passed on to we potential customers.

From an economic stand point, it makes the overall start-up cost for Glo a lot cheaper than anticipated. The cost which will inevitably have been passed on to us is suddenly reduced. And many homes will be able to ask for and have installed high speed internet before long.


Win win scenario for every one.

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I so respect your issue on this matter, you have shown greatness in thinking. You had the time and brain work properly utilised.

I don't see no reason why we can't have the most powerful man in Nigeria controlling our economy instead of this pot bellied politicians.

and besides people like Bill gates never had limits; hence regulatory agencies are they to check his excesses.

Because we have being strucked by unfortunate dramas in the past doesn't mean we should totally blind fold ourselves from a way out of trouble,



More jobs, no capital flight, easy to be regulated by Nigerian agencies, more economic opportunities and prowess to compete with international companies. The positives are so enormous!!!

PointB:
lol. I am not pessimistic either. They are discussing with other interested party, but keeping glo on their radar.

My suggestions have been made earlier, but let me reiterate.

1. They should consider the other firmsThere is no guarantee that glo will deliver. They have not delivered in Ghana after 5 years of incursion.

2. If they finally, sell Nitel to Glo, then they need to correct the imbalance (monopoly) by awarding the Second National Carrier license to another operator.

That's what I said.

goggs:
Giving NITEL to Globacom is wrong on the following reasons;

(i) Glo is the 2nd National Carrier and therefore cannot combine the two. Even if Glo were a public company its not right in the spirit of competition. The way Adenuga runs glo (his children barely out of their teens as directors) cannot be acceptable in running Nitel. The whole of Nigeria's national carrier infrastructure in the hands of one man? Where in the world is this done.

(ii) With the rumours of IBB having a piece of the glo pie, is this political settlement? The political backlash is too distracting

(iii) Glo as 2nd National carrier has NOT rolled out its fixed and Terrestrial network 6 years after getting licence to do so. The terms of 2nd National carrier licence is very clear on the establishment of fixed and terrestrial network, special call services (emergencies etc), provision of national telecommunication backbone infrastructure, ASDL lines, FWA etc. There are also penalties for non compliance but the  NCC has kept mum, yet this guy wants to grab this.

(iv) the argument that a Nigerian should run the network is ok. But I think service delivery and competition should be the watch word. If we want Nigerians involved then part of the condition for the sale of NITEL should be that it must be listed in NSE and not less than 60% of the company must be public. Its quite easy to set the rules and monitor them for good results, but in Nigeria simple things can be made extremely complex. that doesn't mean we shouldn't try

PointB:
The crux of my point is that, the advantages of being designated as National Carriers should not be left in the hands of same man, same management, in the name of different company. It is called monopoly.

Monopolies do not favour consumers!

PointB:
The term - National Carrier is pregnant with a lot of meaning. And that is where the monopoly lies. If Glo were to buy Nitel, then another company - Airtel or MTN should be given National Carrier (whatever that entails) status. Otherwise, Government will be creating unneeded monopoly.

PointB:
Why does Government need to intervene to curtail the excesses of a monopoly, when it shldn't be creating any at all. The reason Glo was given a Second National Carrier status was to break Nitel's monopoly., hence there is no need creating another. Between government intervention and market forces, I choose market forces.

From the news
Now if these other companies show evidence of technical competence why not concentrate on them rather than glo. By the way, Glo has been in Ghana for over 5 years without rolling out a single line. Are they not overrated, even though that is beside the point?

LeoMax:
The Feds is finding justifiable reason to "make us believe" that Mike Adenuga is the better option. Feds, you dont need all that grammer and excuses, you dont even need to speak grammer. All you have to say is, we prefer giving it to the son of the soil with Jonathan taking backdoor 10% of the company . We will understand. Afterall, na we we. Glo is our glory, Mike Adenuga is our hero !!!

fork adict:
Nice observation guy. Like i earlier mentioned, many GEJ supporters on here do not fend for themselves.

Now, if you work in a sound, goal driven and focused company, ( i am not referring to the civil service please), there is something called Employee Performance appraisal. What happens is each employee's performance for the previous year is reviewed with respect to preset objectives by both the employee and his boss. Immediately after this, objectives are set for the next year.In doing this, objectives are set by the boss and such objectives are cascaded from the boss downwards to the least employee in the organisation. So for a boss that has vision for his company, his objectives will encompass goals for each arm of  his company. This is the best practise.

On the other hand, if we have a situation where the boss asks for objectives from his subordinates (which in is what obtains in Jonathan's case cited above), it only reveals that the boss (Jonathan) has no vision on how to lead the organisation. Simple.

I am not the president but if i were in Jonathan's shoes, simple plans for some ministers for the next year might be:

ENERGY: Improve power generation by 10%  by May 2012. Other simple objectives may also be set for the oil and gas sector

Health: Maternal and infant mortality rate should drop by 15% by May 2012. Malaria and HIV occurrence rates should drop by 15% by May 2012. One teaching hospital (perhaps the first teaching hospital in naija) should be upgraded to world class status by May 2012. Other objectives bordering on primary health care availability, fake and adulterated drugs, etc etc may also be set.

EDUCATION: Increase the retention rate of first class graduates from our universities in the academia by 25% by may 2012/13 by making the serving conditions more conducive.Ensure that at least one nigerian university makes the top 100 list of standard universities in africa/world as the case may be. Reduce disruptions to the academic calendar in all universities by 5% etc etc

AGRICULTURE: Drive mechanised farming down to the grassrooots. For how long are we going to continue farming with hoes and cutlasses? Ensure that fertilizers get to the hands of the rightful recipients and not into the hands of some corrupt LG officials. Provision of soft loans to farmers etc etc.

WORKS & HOUSING: Rehabilitation of the whole stretch of  the busiest 10 or 20 federal roads across the country. Provision of at least 1000 or 6000 or 8000 lowcost in all state capitals across the country etc etc

JUSTICE: Reduce the cases of detention with trial nationwide by 20% by May 2012. Ensure the full enforcement of and compliance with  court judgements. Increase the access to justice of the lowly and oppressed members of the society etc etc.

LABOUR AND PRODUCTIVITY: Ensure the full compliance of employers with existing labour laws. Prosecute erring companies no matter how big. Reduce the expartriate phenomenon by companies. etc etc.

FINANCE: reduce inflation rate by 2% within the year. recommend economic policies that will further strengthen the naira etc etc

WOMEN AFFAIRS: This is the juiciest of all ministries. The misniter is to ensure that a beauty paegent of nigerian ladies between the ages of 21 and 35 is organised monthly and the top 30 ladies shoulld be made available exclusively for the personal and emotional services of Mr President for the month after which they will be discharged with national honors and the next batch signed on.

Abeg, wetin hard for here?

PointB:
This is not a good idea.

Glo is and Nitel and both National Carriers.

Selling Nitel to Globacom will create and another unneeded monopoly.

ManXTreme:
Monopoly. Have you ever heard of the term monopoly, this is not to say, that is entirely a bad thing, but when NITEL (first national carrier) and GLO (second national carrier) are placed in one individual hands, what now is the reason for calling it national carrier?
Yes NITEL has become a liability, but for the sake of Nigerians,make NCC stronger otherwise, i can beg that within 2 years of operation, we would be paying the highest telecoms bill in the continent (check out Cement prices under the national carrier - Dangote)

emmatok:
Procreation is important in marriage.

Can a woman live with an infertile man= NO

Some people marry because they don't want children out of wedlock.

I think man is suspecting his wife did an abortion that affected her womb.

The couple should  go for comprehensive medical checkup.

hercules07:
The reason power has improved is because of the rains, let the rains go and we will see how far, Jonathan's reduction of inflation is dubious as prices of stuff are going up, but if we give him that, Buhari reduced inflation by double digits and as a petroleum minister built refineries and is also not corrupt, built the PTF roads, PTF buses in school, ask Emzor and all those Pharmaceutical industries what PTF did for them.

I have been to Yenagoa, it is smaller than Maryland in lagos and has about 3 major roads, what did Jonathan do with the state money when he was in power.