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Politics / Re: Igbo Governors And Politicians Must Rise Up And Face Ghana by Rossinkup: 8:00pm On May 05, 2021
plaindealer:



No, you unintelligent low self-esteem and inferiority complex people put Ghana on the pedestal, you rejoice and celebrate with Ghana at the expense of Nigeria just because you hate Nigeria, you put Nigerian beneath your own country, even when Twitter opened empty office in Ghana, you celebrated Ghana, you abused Ghana, you screamed and yelled than Ghana is better than Nigeria while same Ghana is rubbishing and dehumanizing your people, making their existence in Ghana miserable, destroying your businesses and preventing you from conducting business activities.

You people are self-destructive everywhere you go, shebi Ghana is better than Nigeria according to you anti-Nigerian haters, now, reap what you sow.


VERY WELL SAID.

Na their constant, non stop bad mouth about Nigeria dey cause all these foreigners to treat Nigerians bad. Then what that happens, they blame Nigerian govt. Idiots.

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Webmasters / Re: Forum Or Blog, Which One Is Better In Terms Of Revenue? by Rossinkup: 7:54pm On May 05, 2021
Depends on so many factors. You can't say which is better than the other.

Factors that come into play are subject-matter (and public interest level), your SEO strategy, your advertising budget (if any), and your online marketing strategy.
Politics / Re: Life In Ghana Compare To Nigeria by Rossinkup: 7:37pm On May 05, 2021
helinues:


Abegii not like the case of Nigeria.. Even their epileptic electricity situation still fair better than Nigeria's own.. If they take light in Nigeria , one can't really say when they would bring it back , the areas affected in Ghana are on rotation... They have hope when it would be back

Once had same experience in Ghana, Dumso or so

Nigeria has 210 million people compared to Ghana's 30 million, so as both are developing nations, whatever problems you see in Ghana will be multiplied 7 times in Nigeria, by sheer virtue of population.

On the flip side, Nigeria has 7 times more avenues to enjoy your life than Ghana.

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Politics / Re: Life In Ghana Compare To Nigeria by Rossinkup: 7:33pm On May 05, 2021
Hashabiah:
Are you saying that out experience or are you just saying that because of the rubbish you read in newspapers...? undecided

Every honest Nigerian who has visited Ghana says things are very expensive there.

Ghana people are the masters of shuffering and shmiling (apologies Fela Kuti).

I think they place more importance on 'peace' and appearing ''calm'' and ''stable'' to the outside world, than on actually fighting for better conditions in the country.
Politics / Re: Life In Ghana Compare To Nigeria by Rossinkup: 7:30pm On May 05, 2021
helinues:
But they are not having boko haram and herdsmen issue.

Still fair better

Every West African country has herdsmen issues because the drying Sahara desert is driving them southwards for grazing land.

Just yesterday in Ghana thee was a tragic incident involving Fulani herdsmen.

https://allafrica.com/stories/202105040634.html

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Politics / Re: Prosecuting Kidnappers, Bandits Not Fg's Job- Lai Mohammed. by Rossinkup: 2:15am On May 05, 2021
LikeAking:
Lai M this ur talk no balance.

He is saying THE TRUTH.

The federal govt has no authority to prosecute robbers, kidnappers, and bandits.

It is the job of the victims' families, police, and state/local govt authorities.
Politics / Re: What Happens When The Federal Government Declares A State Of Emergency? by Rossinkup: 2:13am On May 05, 2021
ygowon:
Joining the Nigerian military right now is suicidal especially if you're from the south.

If more Nigerians soldiers are killed by IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu will be hunted down and executed.

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Politics / Re: What Happens When The Federal Government Declares A State Of Emergency? by Rossinkup: 2:02am On May 05, 2021
Blue3k:


Interesting, can it be inferred the President can't add these unspecified number of troops on the streets without a state of emergency declared? What law in particular does this if you know? I really don't see what prevents him from doing so right now especially after calls for this state of emergency.

When they declare a state of emergency, it allows them to suspend certain civil rights provisions of the constitution, such as freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech (to prevent incitement to violence etc), rights preventing detention without trial, etc, and they are also have greater authority to impose curfews and lockdowns, stop and search operations etc.

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Politics / Re: What Happens When The Federal Government Declares A State Of Emergency? by Rossinkup: 1:55am On May 05, 2021
optionalY09:
People of South West will not obey such order because we are no longer under the 1999 constitution we are on the road to self determination, the government of Nigeria is operating under the 1999 constitution

If only fantasies were actualised by internet comments.

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Politics / Re: What Happens When The Federal Government Declares A State Of Emergency? by Rossinkup: 1:54am On May 05, 2021
Nonybb:



Ndiara... I rather join the Togolese arm forces

We have a large population. You won't be missed.

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Politics / Re: What Happens When The Federal Government Declares A State Of Emergency? by Rossinkup: 1:28am On May 05, 2021
It will lead to greater military presence on the streets.

I also have it on good authority that the military is in a big recruitment drive right now, to significantly boost its numbers in the face of current security challenges.

So if you're looking for work, this is probably a good time to hand in your application to join the military.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Liberia Blocks Internet Over Protests Against President Weah by Rossinkup: 1:07am On May 05, 2021
Princedapace:


Forget Ethiopia pics and yeye data. That country is messed up. Take away that their capital, it is nothing to write home about.

All these u wrote, I read them before. The fact that they discovered it before others is a plus for them.

Also, decades after all these, why haven't we sat down to to refix things? We know our problems but looting has not allowed us to do so.

Take a loot at Tinubu now. He was talking of regional govt before but becus he wants presidency, he has changed his mouth. So why can't we have blacks who will stand on what they believe in?

Playing to the gallery for political expediency is not the preserve of black politicians. Get rid of your racial self-loathing.

Plus your mind works in a far too simplistic way.

''After decades of all these, why haven't we sat down to refix things?''

You think it takes mere decades to undo the damage done, but it doesn't.

It takes a CENTURY OR MORE.

And it is not something that will be noticeable to you as it happens.

But development IS happening.

A Lagosian from the 1980s will not recognise the Lagos of today, with things like the BRT system and its air-conditioned public buses with USB connectivity, ambulances you can call on your phone, flyovers everywhere, the transformation of Lekki and the island, the ferry system. New roads being built with sidewalks and covered drains. Shopping malls everywhere, high speed rail service to Ibadan, Abeokuta etc, with city-wide rail services about to be commissioned. A LOT has changed in Lagos.

Is it cities like Uyo, Ikot Ekpene, Abakaliki, Nnewi, and Awka?

These places were VILLAGES with mud huts in the 1980s. I used to pass through them.

Go there today. Shopping malls, banks, stadiums, conference centres, flyovers, expressways, universities, major hospitals. A total transformation.

There was nothing like Abuja in the 80s. It was just a bush with some few buildings. Today it is one of Africa's most beautiful cities.

So Nigeria is developing.

America has been independent for 300+ years. UK 600 years. Nigeria merely 60. Give them time.
Politics / Re: Nigeria Have Collapsed And We Won't Be Part Of Biafra - Gov Wike by Rossinkup: 11:04pm On May 04, 2021
Admissionclass:

You fulanis have no land when you mates where busy occupying land you were busy chasing cows round africa,no inch of igboland would be seded to niger delta ijaws,ibibios,and non igbo speakers are free to go just like croatia made sure non of its territory was ceded to serbia we will secure our land intact.

You will only lose millions of Igbos in another war.

But of course, you greedy things leading the rebellion are only after free Niger Delta oil and gas to loot, so the number of Igbos who are killed in your madness doesn't matter to you, just as it didn't matter to Ojukwu.

If only the Igbo majority were smart enough to see through your greed for oil, and realise their lives mean nothing to you, and that they are only cannon fodder for your desperate greed.

Hopefully they are.

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Politics / Re: Nigeria’s President Buhari Should Resign by Rossinkup: 10:58pm On May 04, 2021
GodHatesBigots:
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OP, you forgot to mention the southern Nigerian PDP writer's name, hence her clear BIAS.

https://psmag.com/author/kovie-biakolo
Politics / Re: Nigeria Have Collapsed And We Won't Be Part Of Biafra - Gov Wike by Rossinkup: 10:46pm On May 04, 2021
Admissionclass:
Story for the gods. when Nigeria breaks igbos will reclaim their land no inch will be left from udi hills up north down to opobo and bonny binni migrants are free to leave igboland and go back to benin.

This just shows that your imagined Biafra will just be a replica of what you shout against Nigeria, with IGBOS the new ''born to rule'' ethnic group.

You are already claiming the entire land of the new country as yours.

Who did that recently in a country we know?

Miyetti Allah.

Expect conflict and resistance from the south-south if forced or manipulated into a 'Biafra' contraption.

I guess an Igbo dictator will be needed at the helm to keep them in check?

The Niger Delta people are too smart to let Kanu and his thugs annex their territory.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Liberia Blocks Internet Over Protests Against President Weah by Rossinkup: 9:29pm On May 04, 2021
Princedapace:


The question is why did we have all that and still got defeated by the same whites? We overrated the so called development we had. If the development was that sophisticated, we would have been able to defend the aggressors.

The whites defeated EVERYONE THEY FACED. Indians, Arabs, Native Americans, Chinese, Africans, you name it.

The game-changer was GUNPOWDER, plus European moral emptiness and greed.

They learnt from the Chinese how to mix natural ingredients to make gunpowder.

The Chinese had been using the substance for religious ceremonies.

The noise of explosions sounded like a return of the gods.

There was limited military use in 'primitive' firelances.

At this time, Europe was the poorest region on Earth.

They must have felt the only way to change that, was to go on a killing and looting spree of the world.

But how could they? Every nation used bows and arrows and shields and swords, and had done so for THOUSANDS of years.

The discovery of gunpowder was manna from heaven for the Europeans.

For them, it was their route out of poverty.

They used it to make guns and bombs that could kill masses of people in no time.

This weapon changed EVERYTHING.

They suddenly had the power over every other race and people, which they never had prior.

The rest is history.

Also, Ethiopia wasn't colonized like we were. So, why aren't they different?

Ethiopia was invaded and occupied by Italy for decades. The Italians massacred thousands and even used chemical weapons against them in several conflicts. They later imposed European administrative systems, disrupting the original systems. That is why the Ethiopian parliamentary session looks like the ones in Rome.

Nevertheless, Ethiopia's socio-cultural systems have not been as severely eroded as Nigeria's, and you can see it when you visit.

Their life expectancy is 67 compared to Nigeria's 54.

They are also the 2nd or 3rd fastest growing economy in the world.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Foreign Affairs / Re: Liberia Blocks Internet Over Protests Against President Weah by Rossinkup: 9:01pm On May 04, 2021
Princedapace:



I said, engage me in a dabate. Since u are intelligent, u may win me over, right? I can assure that I will give you proper account.

Never ever blame colonialism.

But THIS was the situation BEFORE colonialism:

''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’.'' The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

Benin City was also one of the first cities [on Earth] to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

So if the ABOVE described PRECOLONIAL Africa, then, if you had a thinking logical head, you would link the current decline in standards to the entry of external powerful forces that disrupted a working system, by forcing the populations to abandon those systems and embrace those practised in Europe.

We have all we need to develop but we are dam greedy. We steal and loot away our own resources to buy properties in Dubai, London, Paris, while our people lack health care.

So when things go wrong in the new imported systems, you don't go calling the people 'inferior' or blaming their skin colour, because they are not expert at 'copy and paste'.

Everything changed with colonialism. The way we hold our leaders accountable changed.

In the Oyo empire, if a king was found to be corrupt, he was ORDERED by his council (the Oyo Mesi) to commit suicide or go on exile.

We had real checks and balances that worked for thousands of years.

Today, what system do we practice? One that simply holds you to harmless bible oaths.

Imported, harmless rubbish.

Why would corruption not thrive?

Answer me that question.

So what YOU should be doing, if you were a real African intellectual as opposed to a self-hating coon who thinks he is 'inferior', is calling for political and social re-engineering of the people, to draw on our ancient strengths, and abandon foreign solutions.

You would not see it as ''blaming whites for our problems'', but as extricating blacks from theirs.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Liberia Blocks Internet Over Protests Against President Weah by Rossinkup: 8:31pm On May 04, 2021
Princedapace:


hahahahahaa, black Africans are so good yet, black Africans are running to the same whites who colonized them for greener pasture. Blacks are even ready to die inside dangerous sea to escape the continent.

There are even more Asians than blacks in those western countries, so does that also prove to your dumb head that Asians are 'inferior' to whites?

Couldn't it be for the obvious reason that being that Europeans raided the entire world and looted/enslaved/colonised its people, that they would be the richest region on Earth today where people from all over the world flock to?

See, you have a low IQ, so you cannot reason beyond a 4 year old's intellect.

''Oh mummy. Those people are yellow and they are poor. Those other ones are white and they are rich. Therefore the white colour is better than the yellow colour! Oh look! The black people are so poor. Is that why they are black, mummy? Can you please change me to colour white mummy!''

That's it. toddler logic. It's ingrained in your head. How does one debate a person like you? It's impossible.


As usual, blacks will always allow sentiments to govern them. No wonder we will always sing black lives matter. Hahahaha, we sing it becus as a race, we have not been able to build our race. All we do is loot, loot, loot loot away our resources to white man's land. Up till today, blacks struggle to even solve electricity problem all becus they love to loot away their countries

How many black nations have you visited out of the 60 or so in existence?

My guess is LESS THAN 3.

Beyond the fact that they are developing nations, you haven't the slightest clue about their current state, their rate of progress and development, their economic growth rates, their history, their leadership, and whatever has led them to their current situation. All you see is ''black = bad'' and ''white = good''.

So how does one debate a toddler like you?

It is impossible.

I studied Development Economics at university level.

We actually have identified explanations for every economic circumstance in Africa and beyond, and none of them involve racial explanations, which are universally regarded in academia as quack, unserious, discredited garbage.
Politics / Re: Residents Flee Villages, Communities In South-east As Killings, Unrest Rise by Rossinkup: 7:56pm On May 04, 2021
athaboi:
Says who kwanu?? Journalism in Nigeria is a charade...it was a great time on 1st May for my friends wedding in Enugwu ukwu in the same Njikoka local govt area they are reporting that people are moving away in their numbers.. there was so many people in that wedding that rice no reach everybody and here you are writing what you feel like. You will sit in washington in far away america and make a phone call to one or two persons and draw a conclusion then boooom...it has become a news

So because YOU attended a wedding it means everywhere else there was ok?

You people just reason like donkeys.

Tufia.

OK. I drank pepper soup at a joint in Kano, and also in Maiduguri, recently, so all reports of insurgency in the north are false.

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Health / Re: 8 Lions In Indian Zoo Test Positive For COVID-19 by Rossinkup: 7:51pm On May 04, 2021
bluefilm:
Wahala.

They should provide all those lions with hand sanitizers, soap and water with immediate effect.

It will also be nice to tell those lions to wear their face masks.

And last but not the least, those lions should start maintaining Social Distancing to prevent a further spread of the SCAMdemic virus.

I'm glad you can see that this 'positive test' of LIONS for ''covid 19'' is just another proof that the entire 'covid' thing is a SCAM.

I read somewhere that a paw paw fruit tested positive for 'covid' in some African nation recently.

Bill Gates tried to put a mask on the paw paw, and sent funds for its vaccination.
Health / Re: 8 Lions In Indian Zoo Test Positive For COVID-19 by Rossinkup: 7:48pm On May 04, 2021
SefunmiHookups:

You know.....Evil cannot be divided against itself and stand (flourish). This is why those demons and demi-gods of India and the Krishnas and the rest cannot intervene or help. Evil forces always like only when evil is being done. Even the one that claims to protect politicians,is because it's still taking the place of the politician's God, so it is glad to pretend to be helping him to avoid evil, when it itself is the evil on a higher level. But to solve issues and heal people, no o....They won't show up to the scenes to help. Wicked Spirits!

Ignorant, colonised dunce and brainwashed air head. Same way you scorn your own African religion for the white man's BULLSHHITT christianity, whose adherents have killed and enslaved more people than all religions on earth combined.

You wouldn't know this because you are a brainwashed dunce who reads nothing but her imported bible.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Liberia Blocks Internet Over Protests Against President Weah by Rossinkup: 3:09pm On May 04, 2021
zedman1:
Honestly, I personally don't believe the problem with this entire continent has to do with leadership. It's something bigger. Both the leaders and citizens are bad. Please don't mention any African country which you think is doing well with a 'good leader' , until you show me just one, I repeat, just one that is nearly as developed as say, America. I think there's something not good in the black man's head or skin - something somewhere. Else even the few African countries that are a bit developed are either occupied by light skinned Africans, e.g Northern Africa, or have a large presence or influence of white skinned people, e.g South Africa.

Your problem is that you are a dunce.

You see problems as explainable by magic.

Africa has problems, so it must be something about their skin colour.

How does one assess such low IQ, stupid, and dumb reasoning?

Do you even know what accounts for dark skin?

Ever heard of the word, MELANIN?

It is a chemical and a blessing from your Maker to protect you from the sun rays on the world's hottest continent.

Without that dark skin, you could not be alive today, as your ancestors would have perished thousands of years ago.

Europeans did not settle in West Africa for a reason. They develop terrible skin diseases from long term exposure to sunlight.

YOU are immune from that, being blessed with Melanin.

The whites who deceived you that your black skin is 'evil' or 'inferior', you should let go of their brainwashing now that you're an adult (presumably).


Oh, and America is developed, with an annual budget of 7.6 trillion dollars because her leaders genocided the native population, and brought in slaves at gunpoint to engage in forced free labour, for centuries. She maintains those riches today by invading other nations like Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Congo, Afghanistan etc, and killing millions of innocent people in order to corner their resources.

So it really makes no sense blindly adoring these 'developed' nations like a slave, without considering what they did to acquire their wealth.

Do you have a suggestion whom Africans should raid, loot, mass murder, and genocide to enrich ourselves overnight like America and Britain?

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Liberia Blocks Internet Over Protests Against President Weah by Rossinkup: 2:58pm On May 04, 2021
Princedapace:
I told u people that blacks cant rule them selves and some people dey form motivational speech.

Tell me one black leader has been able to rule well. All of them have same thing: oppress their citizens, steal and loot endlessly, carry women and men and flex.

I am black but not a fan of blacks

Ignorant, empty headed dunce.

I bet you can't even name 15 black countries without Google, never mind 15 ''black leaders''.

Or know the first thing about African history.

Just an empty headed dunce walking around and considering himself inferior.

Wasted education.
Politics / Re: See 22 Storey Building Nigeria House In New York by Rossinkup: 2:42pm On May 04, 2021
owobokiri:
Instead of building in your country, you wasted billions building this economically nonsense structure in another man's land and you say your brain is still working correctly...

The ones that have been built in Nigeria, how many have you stepped foot in or acknowledged they exist?

Or we don't have highrises even taller than 22 storeys in Nigeria?

Mr complainant night and day.

Just shut up your stinking trap. Nasty idiot.

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Politics / Re: See 22 Storey Building Nigeria House In New York by Rossinkup: 2:36pm On May 04, 2021
funkekemi:
Nigeria can not build this

Mumu.

''NOW that the Government of Nigeria has moved its New York offices to a $32 million tower it built at 828 Second Avenue, at the northeast corner of 44th Street, it is looking for tenants to fill 3 of 22 floors.''

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/11/business/real-estate-nigeria-is-seeking-tenants-for-its-new-32-million-tower.html

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Politics / Re: I will Act Like My Father If Elected Anambra Governor, Says Ekwueme's Daughter by Rossinkup: 4:33am On May 04, 2021
Ezemust:
shey ekwueme don rule anambra before,abi u just wan de yan Dust?

Must it be Anambra he has ruled? He has been VP.

All na born to rule mentality.

If na Buhari pikin now, or one Alhaji pikin, we no go hear word for una.
Politics / Re: I will Act Like My Father If Elected Anambra Governor, Says Ekwueme's Daughter by Rossinkup: 2:36am On May 04, 2021
Born to rule (Igbo style)

Make una no clear road for other people to govern, you hear?

Tomorrow, Shagari and Yar'adua pikin too go commot.

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Politics / Re: Welcome To Banana Island, Lagos by Rossinkup: 1:44am On May 04, 2021
MrFlavvor:
You're wrong. It would suffice to explore various ways to diversify internally generated revenue options were it not for mismanagement and the average Nigerian's greed

I disagree.

Our entire annual budget of $35 billion is LESS THAN HALF of the US state of California's $77 billion High Speed Rail Construction Project.

Even if you DOUBLED our annual budget, it still wouldn't reach the cost of this single project.

https://constructionreviewonline.com/biggest-projects/top-5-ongoing-mega-projects-in-usa/

There is simply no way Nigeria can be a developed, advanced nation with that kind of low income, even if she was ruled by saints.

YOU need to contribute, if you are a Nigerian, by starting a business that will add to our GDP and build a diversified economy.

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Politics / FG Partners Microsoft To Train 5 Million Nigerians In IT by Rossinkup: 1:15am On May 04, 2021
Nigeria partners Microsoft to drive digital economy, train five million citizens on IT

THE Nigerian government is partnering with Microsoft Corporation to upskill five million citizens over the next three years, as part of initiatives to accelerate the country’s digital economy push.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo announced on Twitter on Monday that the partnership was the outcome of discussions held in January 2021 with Microsoft Corporation President, Brad Smith.

After extensive consultations with the government, Microsoft identified connectivity, skilling and digital transformation as three key pillars that would help to build strong foundations for a digital economy in Nigeria.



“Our government is committed to leveraging innovation and technology to bring better outcomes across a wide area of governance concerns,” Osinbajo said.

The vice president explained that Microsoft’s extensive experience in the utilisation of technology as an enabler for the delivery of public and social good made them an ideal partner.

On his part, Smith said the company believed in the future of Nigeria, noting that the partnership provided an enormous opportunity to put technology to work, create jobs and foster the technology ecosystem across Nigeria,

“Research points to internet penetration in Nigeria of around 50 percent and while [we have seen an] increased the pace of digitisation, much needs to be done to empower all citizens to take advantage of the opportunities of a digital economy,” the Microsoft president said.

The six regions of the country have been earmarked for the development of Microsoft’s Airband Initiative, which is a high-speed internet infrastructure that is cheaper and faster to deploy than fibre and has the added advantage of being able to travel long distances and through forested terrain.

Microsoft’s Airband team are expected to work closely with local partners to improve broadband connectivity in these communities while also assisting with the design and implementation of hyper-scale cloud services.

Smith said to help reach the goal of upskilling five million Nigerians, 1,700 trainers would provide blended online and in-person training courses to the country’s youth as well as government workers.

“Government will also be given the tools to digitally transform skilling, education, and employment methods to match job seekers with the right employers. In doing so, we hope to create over 27,000 new digital jobs in the next three years,” he said.

The final pillar, digital transformation, would initially be made up of two initiatives. The first would address corruption, a major global challenge with economic losses totalling $3.6 trillion each year, while the second would help protect Nigeria’s rich cultural heritage, the company said.

By collaborating with local partners like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Microsoft will support the design and implementation of cloud-based tools like artificial intelligence and machine learning to help identify potential risk, highlight them, and reduce corruption.

Microsoft will also support government’s efforts to preserve and revive Nigeria’s three major indigenous languages: Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo.
https://www.icirnigeria.org/nigeria-partners-microsoft-to-drive-digital-economy-train-five-million-citizens-on-it/

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Politics / Re: Welcome To Banana Island, Lagos by Rossinkup: 1:00am On May 04, 2021
Ckonnet:


These are housing projects where middle classes hide, just like in newyork city. It's not a place to contest relevance with banana island. There is difference between luxury and projects.

Don't mind that guy.

These people, they type as if they think nobody else on Nairaland goes abroad or knows what's happening overseas, except them.

This is a highly international forum.

They paint this glorious picture of perfection in these places, and when you face them with the truth, they can't handle it.

One even said I'd posted 'old' pictures of Guangzhou.

Talk about being in denial. They reach these countries and live a cocooned life that prevents them from visiting, or knowing about much poorer neighbourhoods around them.

Then they come on Nairaland to tell you they live in paradise.

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Politics / Re: Welcome To Banana Island, Lagos by Rossinkup: 12:48am On May 04, 2021
FiverrTutor:


You're mad!!! U act as if you're the only one who went to London. Look, London is blad, boring and shit!!!!... Go to Singapore and see stuff for yourself. Stop hyping shit london!!!

Don't mind the guy.

He no even mention betta place, na London e dey yarn.

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Politics / Re: Nigeria Break-up Could Lead To The Extinction Of The Igbo Race! by Rossinkup: 11:54pm On May 03, 2021
EMMY76:



Nigeria is just 106yrs old but the igbos have been existing thausands of years ago before the arrival of the british to their land and forced to join the rest of nigeria so tell me how will they go extint if they returned back to their former independent state. You and ur kinds are just suffering from british colonial brainwashed mentality the day u all begin to believe in urselves that's the day u truly becomes free and independent.

Ok, here's the difference between pre-colonial Igboland and modern Igboland.

Pre-colonial Igboland was an agragrian society that ran an economy based on subsistence agriculture, ironworking, and artisanship.

Emphasis was placed on communalism, equality, and sharing, with no man seen to be overly wealthier, or poorer than his peers.

Today's Igboland is fundamentally different, philosophically. The orientation is towards private accumulation of wealth.

A race for private wealth in a brazenly capitalist world, defines the average Igbo person's current orientation and proclivity.

The FORMER, pre-colonial orientation was nurtured by relatively closed societies with only limited trade and interaction with other regions.

THE PRESENT orientation is nurtured by open, free access to external markets in ever expanding numbers, to grow internal capital that generates private wealth.

So, retreating to the former orientation represents a backward and retrogressive step in today's world.

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