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SMH. tears dropping.

I adore the comparison. However, I reject the idea of writing so much without putting forth a specific solution. It's easy complain about our negativities but solutions are very difficult.

Recently, the aviation minister embarked upon cleansing of her ministry. For many years we have heard about how our aviation has gone beyond deplorable conditions, the ministry was filled with incompetency. She sack unproductive staff and promoted productive ones; next thing we are hearing is ethnic recruitment. Even though I find it had to believe the ministry is now filled Igbo people, I think Nigerians should rise above medicority and embrace excellence.

Waiting 4 Eko ocean, dudu montenegro, eko ile-ife & other ACN apologists

Yea. Anambra Governer Dr Mbadinuju

People of Garri Republic. I must say congratulations to all of you.

However, Seun and his moderators should allow us to express our true feelings about the ever increasing need for Garri.

Recently, some peeps where discussing a topic about sex phenomenon (spiritual or physical - check front page topics) at this critical point in our nation, I took the opportunity to appeal to the sex starved individuals to abandon sex and send some relief materials to the flood victims especially GARRI since it is one of our staple foods. To much utter amazement, my post was deleted after more than 15likes.

Nevertheless, I appreciate that Seun and his MODS didn't use their banning whip on my butt. However, this is an opportunity for NL folks to extend a caring hand to the people that are affect by the flood.

Protest to NCC. When you call mtn CC record your conversation. Send mails to head NCC, with photo evidence and voice

What is the motive? Go ask the fulanis.
Nothing was stolen according to you. But the original post states that his motorbike is missing, the Biker's money taken . . [size=28pt]please read before commenting[/size][quote author=ndu_chucks]Nigerians remain gullible and continue to allow their prejudices becloud their better judgments. This story does not add up. What is the motive for this senseless attack on this Okada worker? It does not appear to be robbery because we have not been told that anything was stolen. Herdsmen do not run around killing people unless in self defense.

I am more inclined to believe that the victim here was not attacked by Fulani herdsmen, but impostors.[/quote]

This sounds like building the great wall. How about we encourage the dredging of the Niger.

Abeg forgive spelling. Phone typos.

see picture.

bittyend: “I will be the first to concede that the Igbo as a group is not without its flaws. Its success can and did carry deadly penalties: the dangers of hubris, overweening pride, and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or, even worse, than can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness. There is no doubt at all that there is a strand in contemporary Igbo behavior that can offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness.” - Chinua Achebe

As an Igbo dude, I approve of this quote by Chinua Achebe.

Many Igbo people might be against this, but a candid look at our noisy brothers will tell a different story. Once I was in a birthday party organised for an Igbo priest in Notts. There were people of different races, tribes, colours, heights, sizes and many other description. Usual, party styles, people taking the microphone to express their wishes for the birthday dude. One typical-egoistic-slowpoke from the my beloved tribe Igbo took the microphone to start blabbing about the success of Igbos, how we survived the Biafran war by fight Nigeria, GB and USSR combined, how we are Israelites of Africa, how we are the most intelligent of the entire Nigeria, Africa and the entire Universe. I was so ashamed of being an Igbo, a Nigerian, an African, a Christian and most of all a human being. Even, a Rwandan friend and his family came to me to express their disgust in the steeeewpid utterances of this fellow; I wondered what would be going through the minds of the Yorubas in the party, even the white folks as well(I pray they never understood his words because of his deep Igbo accent).

Nevertheless, this problem is not particular with Igbo people; it is in Yoruba, it is in Hausa, it is in every tribe, group, race, etc. It is high time we encourage tolerance and humility amongst ourselves.

@Nuzo' you provided the answers.
1. Was it because the Abuja 3 was seen to be ugly boys while those of Aluu4 were handsome? Yes, girls were interested in the case.
2. Was it because the Abuja3 couldn't afford go to school hence illiterate, while the Aluu4 were students? Yes, students are more valued than non-students
3. Was it because the Abuja3 were children of the poor while Aluu4 has well to do parents? Yes, they are reach and only poor people should be eliminated.


I am against any form of Jungle Justice. It should not be served any living thing.
Nuzo, this topic is very good. It is time we really take on the jungle justice from all angles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYWJxHqs
I will sing the song [size=18pt]grenade[/size]

Electric iron consumes 99% real power(resistive elements inside with some little inductance), thus if the iron is rated 1200watts or 1.2kW then it is okay to approximate the apparent power to be 1.2kVA. However, the problem lies with your generator. Some generators are rated at 5kVA (apparent power), however, this does not imply that it can supply 5kW(real power). What you need to do is to find out the actual power factor of the your generator or the maximum real power your generator can supply. With is you can estimate the possibility of using your electric iron on your generator.
NB: If a generator supplies real power for a long time without some compensation on the reactive power, there is tendency for the generator to ware down. Consequently, I suggest running an inductive appliance(electric fan) for compensation while using your electric iron.

A set of modified wheatstone bridge could do the trick. Replacing the measurement resistor with a thermistor(temperature dependent resistor) that is inserted inside the pipe at different points along the pipe line will provide you with temperature differences along the pipe line. With the temperature differences you can compute heat loss.

In Nigeria, we have approximately even shares of hours between day-light and night-time all through the year. Moving up North or down South of our planet Earth, we experience periods of more day-light during the summer and more night-time during the winter. Some places in Canada observe 8 days of darkness during the winter. This is completely amazing given the orbits of our planet round own Sun.

But what is your imagination about a planet with four stars(Suns)? I understand the planet with two suns - circumbinary planets; however, less than a day ago an Exoplanet PH1 was discovered with four different stars.

BBC: Planet with four suns discovered by volunteers
By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website

The new planet - a gas giant - is about six times the size of Earth
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Astronomers have found a planet whose skies are illuminated by four different suns - the first known of its type.

The distant world orbits one pair of stars and has a second stellar pair revolving around it.

The discovery was made by volunteers using the Planethunters.org website along with a team from UK and US institutes; follow-up observations were made with the Keck Observatory.

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Computerised attempts to find things [in the data] missed this system entirely. That tells you there are probably more of these that are slipping through our fingers”

Dr Chris Lintott
Oxford University
A scientific paper has been posted on the Arxiv pre-print server.

The planet, located just under 5,000 light-years away, has been named PH1 after the Planet Hunters site.

It is thought to be a "gas giant" slightly larger than Neptune but more than six times the size of the Earth.

"You don't have to go back too far before you would have got really good odds against one of these systems existing," Dr Chris Lintott, from the University of Oxford, told BBC News.

"All four stars pulling on it creates a very complicated environment. Yet there it sits in an apparently stable orbit.

"That's really confusing, which is one of the things which makes this discovery so fun. It's absolutely not what we would have expected."

Binary stars - systems with pairs of stars - are not uncommon. But only a handful of known exoplanets (planets that circle other stars) have been found to orbit such binaries. And none of these are known to have another pair of stars circling them.


Follow-up observations were made with the Keck facility on Mauna Kea
Asked how this planet remained in a stable orbit whilst being pulled on by the gravity of four stars, Dr Lintott said: "There are six other well-established planets around double stars, and they're all pretty close to those stars.

"So I think what this is telling us is planets can form in the inner parts of protoplanetary discs (the torus of dense gas that gives rise to planetary systems).

"The planets are forming close in and are able to cling to a stable orbit there. That probably has implications for how planets form elsewhere."

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Kepler Space Telescope


Stares fixedly at a patch corresponding to 1/400th of the sky
Looks at more than 155,000 stars
Has so far found 2,321 candidate planets
Among them are 207 Earth-sized planets, 10 of which are in the "habitable zone" where liquid water can exist
Kepler candidate list
William Borucki talks about Kepler
PH1 was discovered by two US volunteers using the Planethunters.org website: Kian Jek of San Francisco and Robert Gagliano from Cottonwood, Arizona.

They spotted faint dips in light caused by the planet passing in front of its parent stars. The team of professional astronomers then confirmed the discovery using the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Founded in 2010, Planethunters.org aims to harness human pattern recognition to identify transits in publicly available data gathered by Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope.

Kepler was launched in March 2009 to search for Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.

Visitors to the Planet Hunters website have access to randomly selected data from one of Kepler's target stars.

Volunteers are asked to draw boxes to mark the locations of visible transits - when a planet passes in front of its parent star.

Dr Lintott points out: "Computerised attempts to find things [in the data] missed this system entirely. That tells you there are probably more of these that are slipping through our fingers. We've just stuck a load of new data up on Planethunters.org to help people find the next one."

Searching for such systems, he said, was "a complicated test to hand a computer", adding: "We're using human pattern recognition, which can disentangle that reasonably well to see the important stuff."

Since December 2010, more than 170,000 members of the public have participated in the project.

Paul.Rincon-INTERNET@bbc.

A Planet with Four(4) Suns

Multiple star system

let me see who will ban because of a simple question...#how will this affect the cost of garri#...now you see the effect of steep differential change in the price of the commodity. Also with the recent declaration by PDP on the potential increase in the cost of living, what will we expect in future.

All these lies. First, we were told that the Moon is made of diamonds, and that is why it shines at night. How come no one has being to the moon and picked those rocks for us to see.

kaorama: Such things cannot happen in South Africa, Kenya or even Southern Nigeria. It is a natural thing when u hear it is happening in Senegal Sudan, Egypt or any of those violent countries. Shame to trouble makers who want to turn the world upside down.

Is there a country called Southern Nigeria, did they qualify in for CAF2013?

some tribalists are more equal than others

Hmmmm

It's good that Ohaneze response was postponed. We need solution to all our crsis. The EU has won nobel peace price after two great wars on their continent. Look at the way the Germans are hadling things in EU. Solution is all we need

Ayoobscom: You are a Yoruba if you are accommodating
You are Yoruba if you are compassionate
you are Yoruba if you won't commit suicide

then Awo is not Yoruba.

Peeps: Did you school @ King College Lagos?
Me: 4cuk no I grew up Onitsha/Enugu.
Peeps: The guy works somewhere in Ikoyi & he is Yoruba.
Me: definetly not me.

Hope to see this dude some.

afam4eva: lol @Chief Alhaji Hassan Walewa

This name sounds fishy. Aluu is an Igbo/Ikwere village. Thus, the surname should be Igbo/Ikwere at least.

Compelete rubbish I must say. Call your in-laws by their first name with the exveption of father & mother in-laws.
Such respect is nowhere in Igboland.
Whatever your husband calls his people call them by the same name. Simples!

Roland17: Please, Mind the kind/ type of friends you keep while in school, it keeps you 10 steps away from unseen circumstances that are imminent and inevitable in tertiary institutions, many have been slained by perceived friends.

Roland17, your are the best!

Atimes in life, we find it very difficult to stand out from the crowd. We see the crowd as the 'happening', we see the crowd as the model. We never establish our own standards. Based on the quote above, I recall my undergraduate days in UNIPORT. Hanging out with the wrong crowd really affected my results in the first two years. I could not have recovered from these bad results if I did not change friends.

It is not easy but I think every young man and woman should aspire to be DIFFERENT. Being different is the most reliable way to survive.