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dapzyadix:
I have $145 currently for sale

Is this still available?

dapzyadix:
I have $145 currently for sale

Sadly, it won't do. I need that exact amount for either checkout or to send to someone. Thanks though.

tollyboy5:
Nice one from reekado Was it after the backlash

Neh, before.

Mekurexx:
interested. whats your contact

I need about $165-$168, please. PayPal.

silibaba:
No go there bro.

Their rate be like trading forex. This minute is 418, next min is 440, just like that. sometime, they charge 480/$

Bless you. Thank you for this.

schukwuma:
Still needed bring all paypal @ 360
Contact is in siggy. Escrow is necessary if we haven't dealt before. @Mafortune. @Funlord.

If you have, bia sell o. I need $160-$165

Please anyone have an idea on UBA's $ exchange rate.

$168 PayPal checkout needed

Artiiclebeast:
Forget those idiotic analog rogues. The only thing they know is the "off button" on light switch.

LMAO! Recall they deactivated an account via the CBN recently and the only crime was that the account was bring used to receive funding for the protest? Let's all cross our fingers to see what will happen. They might be willing to cripple the national financially just to get what they want, we can't tell just yet.

Artiiclebeast:
Dem know where the internet switch dey?

Why una dey over-rate these morons na?

They might know ooo. Don't underrate them o

Is there a revolution in the history of revolutions that didn't start with a protest?

portplus:
I can't log-on to twitter.....
Is anyone else experiencing the same thing?

I believe it is a network thing. If it has been long you have been experiencing this, restart your device.

I read with dismay the publication by Guardian on how the Federal Government might move to 'shut down' the internet in a bid to halt the growing #EndSARS protest. As someone who worked in the telecommunication industry for a few years, I can tell authoritatively that the publication is no different from what one would hear at newspaper stands or something that could pass as a worthy beer palour gist. Simply put, the piece is only a figment of the writer's imagination.

There is no denying that the FG is control-crazy and has, often times than not, sought to silence and restrict the masses from either critising or airing their opinions. This can be seen in its desperate push for the social media bill, the controversial hate speech bill and the heavy monitoring of media programmes on both radios and tvs. I read the piece and found out that the move is only a speculation and it was only mentioned twice in the lengthy article published by Guardian.

Most people probably don't understand how the telecommunication industry work deeply and I would love shed some light on this and why the government does not have the power to 'shut down the internet', as a once insider:

1. The 'internet' is not social media

To most people, mentioning the word 'internet' means social media platforms that we use on a daily basis but this is very far from the truth. The piece painted this picture as well simply because the protest is largely fuelled and coordinated mostly on Twitter. The article implied 'shutting down the internet' as shutting down social media platforms such that Nigerians will no longer be able to access them. The internet, in this age and time is more than that. The internet has now become the very life that we live, breathe and about 85%-90% of our lives revolves around it without knowing it. I'll explain why later.

However, does the Nigerian government have the power to even shut down social media access in Nigeria? The simple answer is no! Why?

2. ISPs in Nigeria are private entities though government regulated (not controlled)

All internet service providers in Nigerians are private entities even though they are all regulated by one and the same body - the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) (note the word 'regulate'). The primary function of the NCC is to set performance standards, regulate supplies of telco services and promote a healthy competition among all ISPs. The presence of the NCC is why networks or ISPs cannot offer unlimited internet bundles or data plans. While some have the financial muscle to see it work, others don't, thus the NCC forbids it in order to promote a healthy competition and not allow indecent monopoly as against what applies in the manufacturing sector.

With the above in mind, the government only makes sure the players are fair and not dictate how the game is played. While these ISPs are not the government's, they cannot shut down their internet services as it is their largest revenue source. Voice comes second but falls far behind, no thanks to WhatsApp calls and other platforms that allow for communication using internet access. The government can not tell these ISPs to shut down and they will. Their revenues will nosedive instantly.

3. 'Shutting down the internet' will cripple all spheres of the economy

I don't want to talk about the complicated flow of base stations but your ability to browse the internet is because your ISP's base station closest to you allows it. You won't be able to access 4G internet even though your phone and SIM supports 4G if the only base station closest to you is not equipped for 4G. That means the base station that serves your immediate environment will need to be shut down if you are to be prevented from browsing the internet and this will impact both shared and dedicated bandwidth

Another thing to note about data connectivity is that internet bandwidths are of two types;

A. Shared bandwidth: The bandwidth every SIM subscriber is placed on. This type of bandwidth is what you use on your phone, Wi-Fi and because it is shared, it is unstable and fluctuates, depending on some factors. This is why you might get up to 2-4Mbps download speed sometimes while at other times you might get 80kb download speed. All SIM-based data are placed on the shared bandwidth.
B. Dedicated bandwidth: Also called dedicated internet service. As the name implies, it is dedicated in that you buy a particular bandwidth capacity (upload and download) depending on your company's strength, operations and budget. Say you purchase 2Mbps, you get that exactly and it is deployed from the closest base station to you and dropped in your server room to be distributed withing your organization via LAN. This type of bandwidth requires a mast, an air-conditioned room where your server will sit and is mostly used by huge companies or corporations, HQ churches, banks or financial institutions, government houses, media houses, the aviation sector, telecom themselves, payment processors, government institutions, etc. You must have at least seen a mast in a bank, a company, a headquarter church, a government house you visited and so on

The presence of the dedicated bandwidth is why the government can not cut access to the internet (say it can) because the moment that happens, all sectors, industries and organizations that are dependent on the internet to run their everyday activities will all be grounded. Broadcasts on TV will be difficult and live reporting like we have in modern time won't happen. Will the government record any loss at all? The answer is 'yes, the loss will be HUGE'. Imagine all sectors of the economy being paralysed just for a single day. The loss in one day can't be recouped if the system works round-the clock the a week and this is no exaggeration. Here:

1. Banking activities will be crippled. You will neither be able to withdraw or send money. ATMs will go offline and a whole new level of chaos will emerge. At this point, your debit or credit card becomes useless.
2. Commercials planes will not be able to fly in our airspace because travellers will neither be able to book their flight nor get checked at the airport, except they do BRT style at the airport.
3. Payment processors will go out instantly, crippling millions of businesses across Nigeria.
4. Schools, particularly their ICT units will go out immediately.
5. Government agencies and parastatals will go blind as well.
6. Communications will be overwhelmed and calls won't go through (case study: Every new year, around 12:00 AM - 3:00 AM.
7. Electricity will shut down and those on prepaid will be the worst hit because their meters have data SIM cards in them that communicate with DISCOs they are mapped to. Even if you have 1 billion Naira cash at hand, you will not be able to recharge your account.
8. The list is endless.

Simply put, we will all moonwalk to the stone age.

NB: Although dedicated bandwidths users can be cut off without affecting other users within a given environment, the same does not apply if shared bandwidth users are cut off.

But can the government jam or restrict access to social media platforms?

Yes and no. Yes, in the that they can armtwist all ISPs to ban certain social media networks for the time being else their licences will be revoked but it is dicey; the government do not control these organisations so bossing them around will not be effective, particularly in a democratic setting. There will be a lot of legal battles concerning this and there is a huge chance that the government won't win. EVEN IF IT DOES, IT WILL BE EMPOWERING EVERY ONE WHOSE DAILY BREAD HAS BEEN AFFECTED INTO JOINING THE ONGOING PROTEST. That, I am sure is a path they would not want to tread.

Can I use a VPN if the internet is shut down?

The possibility of 'shutting down the internet' is almost 0% but assuming it happens, can one use a VPN to remain online as claimed by many? The simple answer is no. VPNs need an active internet service to work and what they do is only to reroute your home network through a private server in order to access some country-restricted domains, links or websites by masking your native IP and location.

So how do I stay or remain online should the internet gets 'shut down'?

You can't, except you have your own ISP the government does not know about. MainOne and GloOne are the primary data sources that feed almost other ISP in the country. At best, you can call friends and family abroad to tell them of the development so that an emerging story can begin but this isn't a likely scenario to happen.

Wrapping up

A whole lot is dependent on the internet. Its absence will cascade into an unimaginable chaos and will empower the already growing protest in the country. The government will lose out heavily as all powerful sectors of the country will be crippled instantly. The Guardian's piece over the speculation is worthy of a beer palour or a bus stop newspaper gist. The government does not have the power to shut down the internet.


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Charmingrascal:
He used that opportunity to perform the ritual baba asked him to perform.


He is a Yahoo boy!

Idiot. The guy in question is a first class graduate from covenant university.

Charmingrascal:
He used that opportunity to perform the ritual baba asked him to perform.


He is a Yahoo boy!

Idiot. The guy in question is a first class graduate of covenant university.

[quote author=pmadise post=94903358][/quote]You people should be calming down. The newer version of that generator set (FA3000P) sells for about 200k+ and the brand new of your model should be close to that in any way.

The generator set is old, tired-looking and almost worn. And worse, you slapped such outrageous amount on it and posted it on a supposed garage sale thread.

We are all looking for money but this isn't the way to go.

dominique:
Kindly shed more light on what happened between you

I needed to pay someone $160 on Fiverr for a task he did. He started the task before I ever attempted to send the money based on trust as he has worked with me severally before. Razzby has been taking care of most of my transactions, nearly 5 months now as a matter of fact so I contact him ahead and told him he would need to help me make a $160 PayPal checkout and I would send the equivalence to his bank account. I sent him the equivalence late, about a day or two late, owing to some uncleared transactions on my table. He acknowledged the transaction but said he had withdrawn the PayPal funds he had and that he would do the transaction at 1:00AM on Saturday which was fine by me. I communicated the same to the person expecting the money as he had completed the task and just waiting to get paid.

By 10:00 AM on Saturday, I didn't hear from razzby and had to message. He brought up stories of how he claimed he said the funds he is expecting might take a while and that I should exercise patience till 4:00 PM. Time came, stories followed and continued.

Being the weekend, I told him I'd pretend but hope that the whole issue is rested before Monday. He claimed PayPal had issues and that he couldn't do the checkout despite the fact the money was in his account (sic). When I noticed his excuses was becoming unbearable, I asked him to refund since he said he the money was still in his bank account. Then he said he couldn't refund and that I should wait till Monday or that I get the person's direct PayPal address so that he would send the money. I reached out to the person same day but he didn't respond until very early Monday morning and I pushed the email address to razz.by to send the fund to.

From that Monday morning, at about past 7 I sent the PayPal email address to him up to this moment, he hasn't been online. Messages sent to him get delivered but doesn't seem to either read them or have his delivery status removed. It only shows all messages sent are delivered but no response ever since.

$160 PayPal urgently needed.

I need $160 Paypal, please. Either via checkout or send to someone on my behalf.

For now, everyone should avoid dealing with razzby. This fellow has stressed my life so much that my integrity is being questioned. If you know him or have his alternate line, kindly share, please.

Transactions between us have been smooth for months now but his lackadaisical attitude sometimes is a huge turn off and today's is something else.

cc

Dominique.

AntiChristian:
Please give the Bible verses where Jesus organised a protest with the 12 disciples or with the thousands he fed against the rulers then?

Did Paul organise protests? Verses please.

Oh! So it is convenient now to ask for Bible verses where Jesus did this and that but you won't apply the same when these General Overseers buy private jets like it's airtime at the detriment of their sheep's welfare? Why didn't you ask the same when David Ibiyeomie cursed and cussed Freeze just because his 'father in the Lord' was insulted?

Was Jesus subject to the authority of the Land, yes. And so was Elijah but guess what? Elijah, as a servant greater than what today's General Overseers carry combined confronted the authority of Ahab, became a rebel and defended the worship of God. Today's pastors run multiple schools, act as the sole signatory, preach divine protection but walk around with well armed security details. Meanwhile, they can't talk because the Aso Rock is like a home.

I digress a bit; perhaps you cite new Testament references where Jesus encouraged or paid tithe. It is always convenient when you all want to Jesus to suit your narrative.

The fanaticism of you lots will push many into becoming atheists. Not even one but I have an idea why they are always angry.

Anyways, they will soon call for the peace of our Jerusalem during service. So let's go and pray and wish it all away since developed nations all prayed when they should be working.

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CoderX:
All of you will just open your mouths waaa and criticize Pastors at the slightest opportunity. In your mind now, you have attacked the root cause of Police brutality and all of Nigeria's problem!

Most of you calling out Pastors won't call out Imams! Did you vote for a Pastor into government office? If you can't fight for your right, stay in your house instead of looking for who to blame. If not for illiteracy, you would know that what you wrote is total nonsense. The church doesn't need your N20 offering. Stay at home, don't go to Church! Go to the mosque and call out your Alfas, Sheiks and Imams.

The devil has started using this movement to attack men of God who have no business with the present predicaments, but none of you will know this.
When they spoke about CAMA, did you join them to protest? NO! They did it themselves without calling on the general public. Church affairs are church affairs, secular affairs are secular affairs, never to be mistaken for each other.

When you successfully gather IMAMS and BABALAWO, Pastors will join you! Keep your yeye N20 offering in your pocket, the church doesn't need it.

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The current uprising will address SARS issues but the shame in all of these is that high profile agencies, bodies, individuals and celebrities from across the world are speaking up against these while services will run the way it should with some of them not saying a thing. Some might say out of pressure today but it doesn't change the fact that it is day 4 since the protest started.

I do not concern myself with Imams or alfas here. Most notable ones are in the North and I believe they would have spoken up if this same SARS madness was happening there.

Two things; it is either you are 25 or younger, still loving with your parents or that you are a mild fanatic.

Right from Bible days, the church meddled with politics and did in the old England with the Catholic Church until pentecostalism became a norm. The pope today influential because he is the first point of contact for the Catholic Church, just as General Overseers are for their churches.

Of course, it is always the devil that will find a way to attack.

I attend one of the largest pentecostal churches in the world and the country and it is surprising that the General Overseer, one of the world's most influential persons in the world, Africa and Nigeria have chosen to remain quiet over the call to end police brutality that has led to so many loss of lives and have thrown even parents who attend these churches in perpetual anguish.

The average religious head in Nigeria today is influential and to an extent wields some extent of power. Most have police details, special squads and well armed security folks who guard them and their families but the hums in some quarters suggest the #EndSARS protest is a protest by Yahoo! boys.

Nigerian religious leaders only speak up when they are directly affected, with CAMA being the most recent example to back this up. Most of them never stopped tweeting about the adverse effects of controlling "the body of Christ" and how the gates of hell will never prevail over the church.

For the first time in the history of Nigeria, a genuine protest, not one that is politically motivated, is growing in leaps and bounds and most church leaders have chosen to remain quiet when youths who make up parts of the church's workforce experience harassment from those that are sworn to protect them.

There is no wisdom in silence here because neutrality helps the oppressor and never the oppressed; silence reinforces the tormentor and never the tormented. Remember, you won't be able to give tithes and offering if you have been plucked like a bird by SARS operatives.

I have had my fair share of SARS operatives, five different encounters since '06 as a matter of fact and I have never worn dreads before, I do not have tattoos, I neither drink nor smoke, don't sag, never engaged in cyber crime before and mostly walk around in corporate wears but I was targeted on five different occasions.

Please, drop an #EndSARS protest note in the offering/tithe basket. It is the best thing you can offer the future and the present at this time, even if you can't join in the physical protests emerging from different parts of the country.

braindee:
Not at the moment,Boss. Later in the day, maybe.

Noted, thank you.

braindee:
You're welcome, Boss

Bro, do you still have $165? Need to check out on Fiverr ASAP.

$165 PayPal checkout needed tomorrow at N400/$.

Edakun.

PayPal checkout of about $165 needed ASAP. Kindly quote your rate.

PROPHETmichael:
May God upgrade you from economy (where they tell people to off their phone) to first class where your phone can be on throughout the duration of the flight IJN

Now, repeat after me, God punish poverty.

LMAO

Well, even in economy, I have never had to switch off my phone for once. There is a reason why "airplane mode" is on all smartphones.