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Crime / Re: Missing Person In Portharcourt: Progress Musa Fua by sammyp01: 4:19pm On May 30, 2019 |
olaadesino:You are wrong. you have a wrong perception that's been fueled by media |
Sports / Re: Plays This 8odds Thank Me Later by sammyp01: 9:04am On Apr 05, 2019 |
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Sports / Re: Plays This 8odds Thank Me Later by sammyp01: 8:14am On Apr 02, 2019 |
Guy the game enter.make we dey play |
Politics / Re: Appeal Court Ask INEC To Include Rivers APC On Ballot by sammyp01: 10:01am On Feb 06, 2019 |
crestedaguiyi:No you are wrong INEC did |
Crime / Re: Yahoo Boy With Police Plate Number On His Benz Gets Arrested by sammyp01: 9:59am On Feb 06, 2019 |
It will surprise you to know that this guy went to police training college.I know him personally just after his .early days of picking from Uniport.he is very popular 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Appeal Court Ask INEC To Include Rivers APC On Ballot by sammyp01: 5:10pm On Feb 04, 2019 |
crestedaguiyi:Who was on INEC register before the judgement stopping INEC.? Tonye Cole was and that was the judgement today 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: 2019: Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Urges Members To Vote Out Buhari, Supports Trump by sammyp01: 7:49am On Nov 05, 2018 |
Morbeta11:When grown people are talking shut your mouth |
Politics / Re: 2019: Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Urges Members To Vote Out Buhari, Supports Trump by sammyp01: 11:50pm On Nov 04, 2018 |
TheTrueSeeker2:Can you hear yourself? How those that translate to vote out Buhari 1 Like |
Politics / Re: 2019: Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Urges Members To Vote Out Buhari, Supports Trump by sammyp01: 9:47pm On Nov 04, 2018 |
TheTrueSeeker2:I was in that service. Please stop lying He just spoke in tongue when he talked about who to vote in Nigeria 7 Likes |
Politics / Re: Rivers State Apc Guber Primary Update by sammyp01: 6:21pm On Sep 30, 2018 |
yungdynho:Which Rivers people you know. The real Thing is holding at ibokwu field.no dey deceive yourself 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Before You Kill Buhari And Inec by sammyp01: 7:33pm On Sep 24, 2018 |
Spot on |
Education / Re: Photo Of OAU Students Reading With ATM Light At Night by sammyp01: 12:26am On Aug 29, 2018 |
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Dating And Meet-up Zone / Re: Port Harcourt Personals:date And Romance by sammyp01: 2:02am On Jul 08, 2018 |
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Dating And Meet-up Zone / Re: Last Two Phone Digit Match For Opposite Sex! by sammyp01: 12:40pm On Jun 28, 2018 |
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Politics / Re: Atiku Meets Obasanjo(photos) by sammyp01: 11:35am On Jun 28, 2018 |
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Travel / Re: Night Views Of Woji/Elelenwo Flyovers & Bridges Built By Wike (Photos) by sammyp01: 10:20am On Jun 16, 2018 |
Iamtipsyy: Brother get it right. It is not elelenwo main road. It is the woji link bridge to elenwo, the road is not just good but it's sexy 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Night Views Of Woji/Elelenwo Flyovers & Bridges Built By Wike (Photos) by sammyp01: 10:55pm On Jun 15, 2018 |
NonsoWow:Will you keep quiet. That picture was taken on the day of commissioning of that road thus the road was closed. You will be in your brown roof and be spilling BS. Imagine you saying people go to bed in ph by 7pm. All because of hatred that has engrossed your heart. For your information. Ph is safe and activities happen 24hrs. We move around freely at any time. Travel and see. You will be better off 53 Likes 3 Shares |
Politics / Ajaokuta Steel Comes Back To Life After 40 Years by sammyp01: 9:01pm On May 24, 2018 |
A Steel Factory Gears Up to Start Production. After 40 Years Nigeria’s Ajaokuta complex was built with Soviet aid. Now the government says it’s finally serious about opening it. By David Malingha Doya May 24, 2018, 12:00 AM EDT The dilapidated Ajaokuta Steel complex. Photographer: David Malingha Doya/Bloomberg On a hot April morning, workers are furiously cleaning a decorative fountain in front of the executive office of Nigeria’s largest steel complex. An onsite power plant is being repaired by electricians. Others around the 39-year-old facility are clearing brush. In the middle of it all, administrator Abdul-Akaba Sumaila is meeting in turn with the 20 or so people crowding his waiting room, a mix of union officials, local politicians and job applicants. When one young man pulls a filled-out form from a wrinkled envelope, Sumaila asks him about his background, pats his back and encourages him to stay positive. Soon, he says, Ajaokuta Steel will start hiring. After that, it may actually make some steel. The dilapidated factory complex has never managed to produce a single bar, coil or rod. Built with Soviet assistance, the sprawling facility has sucked up $8 billion in public investment and been hamstrung by repeated stops and starts, ownership changes, poor governance and sheer incompetence. It’s a tortured history that mirrors Nigeria’s broader attempts to develop a sustainable economic base beyond fossil fuels. President Muhammadu Buhari has put a high priority on getting the plant into production, hopefully by selling it to private investors. But the legal, technical and political problems illustrate in microcosm—albeit a three-square-mile microcosm—many of the challenges that bedevil Nigeria’s diversification drive. Sumaila, a mechanical engineer who’s taken a three-year leave of absence from Royal Dutch Shell Plc to try to revive Ajaokuta, is undeterred. “What excites me is the enormous potential of this place,” he said in his office at the plant. “Whatever we need to do, we have to do it.” The economic imperatives are clear. Nigeria depends on crude for 90 percent of its export earnings. With global oil prices significantly below their past highs of more than $100 a barrel, shortages of foreign exchange are a daily reality. And Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, has little domestic capacity to refine gasoline and thus must pay to re-import its own oil. The consequent lack of foreign currency has driven up prices for everything from food to construction materials, further hobbling an economy that shrank by 1.6 percent in 2016. Today much of the facility beyond the central administration block resembles the set for a post-apocalyptic action film The need for diversification, and the employment it could provide, is made more urgent by a surging population. With about 200 million people and growing rapidly, Nigeria is by far the most populous country in Africa. Without durable sources of employment, a nation that’s spent much of the past decade fighting insurgencies in its arid north could descend further into disorder. Yet the record of privatization in Nigeria is decidedly mixed. In the cement industry, it was largely a success: Investors succeeded in reviving production, making the country a net exporter of the material. One of the early buyers, Aliko Dangote, is now Africa’s richest man. By contrast, efforts to sell off power plants have failed to end blackouts, still a daily occurrence in much of Nigeria. Steel has long been an obvious target. Nigeria has vast deposits of iron ore, much of it in Kogi State, the same region where Ajaokuta is located. Transformed into steel, the ore could make other domestic industries, such as construction, far more viable. Those intentions underpinned the construction of Ajaokuta, which when it began in 1979 was envisioned at Pharaonic scale. At full capacity, it was intended to produce as much as 3 million metric tons of steel annually, enough to largely close the gap between Nigeria’s current steel consumption and domestic output. Yet the most critical piece of infrastructure, a rail line that would connect the plant to iron-ore mines and deliver the finished product, was never completed. Today much of the facility beyond the central administration block resembles the set for a post-apocalyptic action film. The blast furnace, conveyor belts and giant cranes to move materials—many inscribed with the words “Made in USSR”—stand idle in scrubby fields. Pipes as wide as manhole covers are coated in creeping grass, and cattle graze in clearings meant to store coal for the furnace. ‘Made in USSR’ adorns a rusty crane at the Ajaokuta Steel complex.Photographer: David Malingha Doya/Bloomberg Of the 10,000 houses envisioned for workers, the 4,000 that were completed are occupied mostly by retirees. The current workforce of about 1,500 civil servants is tasked primarily with keeping parts of the plant in serviceable condition. The combined 120 kilometers (75 miles) of internal roads and railroads, as well as the school, the library, and the hospital for workers and their families, are largely unused. The runway of an airstrip built to serve the area needs to be resurfaced. Nigeria’s government says it’s serious about transforming Ajaokuta from an embarrassment into a viable asset. The plant’s biggest booster is Kayode Fayemi, the mines and steel development minister. While Fayemi concedes, with significant understatement, that the first 30-plus years of Ajaokuta “didn’t quite work out as planned, which is the Nigerian story sometimes,” he said fixing it is now a national priority. “Ajaokuta is central to our diversification strategy,” he said in his office in Abuja. Building up domestic steelmaking, he said, is “the least we could do for ourselves as a country and for our manufacturing sector.” “This is an alternative to oil” Work has begun on the long-awaited rail spur line, which may accept test trains as soon as August. The government also will need to decide who should own and operate the plant. Ajaokuta is currently controlled by the state after a previous private-sector operator, Global Steel Holdings Ltd., had its concession terminated. While the government has said it plans to solicit bids for Ajaokuta from new investors, a group of lawmakers, with some union support, is pushing to keep the plant under public ownership. They argue that only paltry offers are likely for a facility that still requires huge investment. Senate Majority Leader Ahmad Lawan proposed legislation to that effect in the upper house on May 8, against the government’s wishes. Fayemi says he’s convinced that Nigeria can no longer afford not to process its own resources. “The idea that we must be taking our iron ore out, our gold out, every raw material, for others to add value, and then send back to us to pay probably 10 times what it’s worth when we send them out is unthinkable,” he said. He won’t be around to see if that pans out. He said May 14 that he will leave at the end of the month to run for governor in his home state of Ekiti. And Sumaila, the Ajaokuta administrator, said he doesn’t know whether he will return to Shell or not when his term at Ajaokuta ends in October 2020. Wearing moccasins, a black short-sleeved and collarless suit, with a pen in hand, Sumaila says he remains optimistic as he walks around his spacious office. “This is an alternative to oil,” he said. “The complex can be up and running two years after the government makes the strategic decision on the direction it wants to take.” — With assistance by Samuel Dodge https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-05-24/a-steel-factory-gears-up-to-start-production-after-40-years?__twitter_impression=true |
Celebrities / Re: Alex VS Ceec VS Tboss… Who Killed This Look? by sammyp01: 8:44pm On May 24, 2018 |
Tboss should not be in this category She is in a class of her own 1 Like 1 Share |
Webmasters / 7 Gmail Tips Every Emailer Should Know by sammyp01: 8:56am On May 20, 2018 |
7 Gmail tips every emailer should know Want to quietly opt out of an email chain or take back that pathetic note to your ex? Gmail can help. BY MATT ELLIOTT MAY 19, 2018 1:00 PM PDT new-gmail-still Google overhauled Gmail with a new look and a host of new features including Smart Compose, and you can get the new Gmail right now. While the new additions are appreciated, Gmail has a number of oldies but goodies that you may have overlooked. Here are seven such features that make Gmail awesome. Mute annoyingly noisy email threads Muting group texts is probably the single greatest thing about owning an iPhone ($799.99 at Cricket Wireless) (or at least texting on an iPhone), and Gmail offers a similar ability to mute noisy email threads. If you got put on a group email and no longer care to follow the back-and-forth replies, you can opt out. Open the thread, click the triple-dot button at the top and click Mute. The conversation will be moved to your archive, where it will remain even when more replies arrive. If you later get curious about what you missed, you can always find it in the All Mail view of Gmail, which includes your archived messages. You can then unmute the conversation if you so choose by opening the conversation and clicking the Move to Inbox button at the top of the page. Send and archive for the win You can add a second send option for all replies and email forwards that archives the conversation with your reply or forward. It's helpful for keeping your inbox orderly. And don't worry, the conversation will pop back up in your inbox if someone replies to it. To set it up, click the gear icon in the top-right and go to Settings > General > Send & Archive, select Show "Send & Archive" button in reply and then scroll down and hit the Save Changes button. Now, you'll see a blue Send-and-archive chive button next to the regular Send button at the bottom of replies and forwards. gmail-send-and-archive Set undo send to 30 seconds There's an undo option for emails you send and then immediately regret sending, whether it's because of a typo or your current emotional state. Or maybe you just hit send by accident when you were in the middle of composing your missive. Go to Settings > General > Undo, select the maximum time limit of 30 seconds and then scroll down and hit the Save Changes button. (The other options are 5, 10 and 20 seconds). After you hit send, look for the banner that pops up at the bottom of the screen that says "Your message has been sent." Click Undo to bring it back. Hiding in plain sight: Advanced search With Google behind Gmail, it's no surprise that Gmail offers powerful search functionality. You've likely used the search bar above your inbox to dig up an old email based on a keyword or sender, but it can do so much more. Click the little down-arrow button on the right of the search bar to open Gmail's advanced search panel where you can search for date ranges and attachment sizes, by subject line and with other filters. gmail-advanced-search Preview pane for an Outlook-like look If you've got a big display, then I encourage you to make use of your luxurious screen real estate and use Gmail's preview pane. It makes Gmail look and feel more like Outlook, where you can view and respond to messages without leaving the inbox. Head to Settings > Advanced, click Enable for Preview Pane and then scroll down and hit the Save Changes button. You'll see a new button at the top of your inbox that lets you toggle the preview pane on and off and choose to split your inbox horizontally or vertically. Choose your tabs Gmail does an admirable job of filtering your inbox so the messages you care about go to your inbox while the rest get relegated to the Social or Promotional tabs. Go to Settings > Inbox > Categories and you can choose which tabs you want at the top. Or if you simply ignore all tabs other than your Primary inbox, then you can uncheck all but Primary for a streamlined, tab-less Gmail experience. Email large attachments via Google Drive There's a little Drive icon at the bottom of Gmail's compose window. It lets you attach files you have stored in Drive or simply send a link. For Google Drive formats -- Docs, Sheets, Slides and so on -- your only option is to send a link to the file. For other file types -- PDFs, Word docs, images -- you have the option of sending them as an attachment or a Drive link, which lets you share files larger than Gmail's 25MB size limit for attachments. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/7-gmail-tips-every-emailer-should-know/ |
Politics / Re: Who Is Most Fit To Be Our President In 2019 by sammyp01: 3:34pm On Feb 26, 2018 |
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Politics / Re: FG Threatens To Withdraw Funding For Bonny-bodo Road Due To Lack Of Cooperation by sammyp01: 7:41pm On Feb 25, 2018 |
writeprof: Settle which boys. The government should settle community for bringing development to them. Isn't it pathetic. You are not talking about the jobs the project will create for people. Direct and indirect employment 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: FG Threatens To Withdraw Funding For Bonny-bodo Road Due To Lack Of Cooperation by sammyp01: 7:39pm On Feb 25, 2018 |
vicfy: Basically we are our own problem |
Politics / Re: FG Threatens To Withdraw Funding For Bonny-bodo Road Due To Lack Of Cooperation by sammyp01: 11:01am On Feb 23, 2018 |
Can you see where we are getting things wrong in this Niger Delta Selfishness and greed. So because the route is not cutting through andoni it's Now a problem 18 Likes 3 Shares |
Autos / Re: Honda Accord 2005 Port Harcourt @ 600k by sammyp01: 7:18am On Feb 16, 2018 |
Autos / Re: Honda Accord 2005 Port Harcourt @ 600k by sammyp01: 1:34am On Feb 16, 2018 |
produce: Apparently the site will not allow me load heavy pictures. Thanks for the observation though 600k is the price |
Autos / Honda Accord 2005 Port Harcourt @ 600k by sammyp01: 8:06pm On Feb 15, 2018 |
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