₦airaland Forum

There is a clique of people that are out to completely destroy this country irreparably. And they will not stop until they accomplish it, or until well-meaning Nigerians people rise up to stop them.

First they came up with linking the NIN with everyone's phone number. Now, they want everyone to register the IMEI number of their phones. What is next? Require Nigerians to deposit the spare keys of their houses at the nearest nearest police station? Whatever happened to the right of privacy of the citizens as enshrined and guaranteed in the Nigerian constitution?

When you connect the dots between what Pantami has been doing, what the NCC has been doing, what the Attorney General of Nigeria has been doing and saying about the Southern Governors' position on open cattle grazing, it leads every discerning and right-thinking Nigerian to conclude that there is a sinister agenda to all of these maneuvers: they are building brick by brick, cement block by cement block, the structures of a repressive, dictatorial, and totalitarian state that they will be able to control and subjugate forever.

Make no mistake about it, the current linking of the phone numbers with NIN, and the coming proposal to also require people to register the IMEI of their phones is a roundabout way of this government to control social media, control freedom of the Press, and control freedom of expression in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This is the backdoor way of implementing the social media control proposal that was rejected by the National Assembly.

Nigerians need to wake up and smell the coffee and oppose this madness.The Nigerian Bar Association, Civil Societies, the Press, the Telcos, and every Nigerian needs to oppose this proposal vigorously. Eternal vigilance is the prices we must pay to protect this democracy in Nigeria, as Wendell Phillips, the American Abolitionist, said.

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Following an 18-month investigation, a man said to have served as the go-between for an international team of scammers running an elaborate “Nigerian prince” email scheme has been arrested in Slidell, La.

Michael Neu, 67—who, as WGNO-TV puts it, “is neither Nigerian nor a prince”—was charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
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Read/See him for yourself:
https://www.theroot.com/white-nigerian-prince-email-scammer-arrested-in-louis-1821658205

Please why do you say MTN? Based on what? I need to be able to explain why to my friend.

Thank you.

Hello Friends,

Based on your experience, which network has better customer service of all the mobile network carriers in Nigeria? A friend of mine is about to ditch her network carrier and get another one because of their lousy customer service.

It seems all they care about is your money and how to strip you of it caring nothing about good customer service and customer satisfaction, which is near-universal business principles. It's like they are doing you a favor when you subscribe to their network, instead of the other way around (you are doing them a favor by patronizing their business). What is it with Nigerian businesses and good customer service?!

Please let me hear your experiences and opinions. I wonder if they read this forum...

Thanks a lot.

Scapelli

Hey Friends,

Often times you hear people here say they bought x Gigs data plan from one of the GSM networks and next thing they know, the data is almost gone without them doing downloads. They seem to imply that some networks chew up your data plan faster than the others. Or maybe the networks really don't give you the "x" Gigs of data you purchased from them (maybe they give you a fraction of the data plan
that you paid them for, you can't tell). One thing is for sure, you can't really trust what the networks here tell you.

So what can you do to protect yourself and the MB's or GB's of data you bought from them with your hard-earned money since the networks won't help you? Start by doing the following regularly:

1. Switch off your mobile data connection when you are not actively using it. This is very important. Most people don't know this, but majority of the apps installed on your phone are quietly sending information to/fro the Internet and chewing up your data plan balance when you leave your mobile data connection open and you are not actively using it. Once you learn this habit, you will see your data plan start to last longer.

2. Ensure that you don't leave mobile hotspot or tethering of your phone turned on all the time and unprotected with a password. Sure, it's nice to hotspot/tether your phone and share mobile data connection with friends and family so they can browse but remember to turn it off afterwards. If you forget to turn it off you are inviting strangers nearby to connect to it and deplete your data plan. You have no idea how often this happens, but it does happen a lot.

3. Set Mobile data limit on your phone to a certain maximum MB or GB size. That means that your phone will warn you when that limit is reached so you know. For example, if you bought data plan of 1GB, you could set the limit to 500MB so that when that limit is reached, your phone will warn you or disable further usage until you allow it further. This is one nice feature on Android phones.

4. Disable apps from doing automatic updates from Google Play Store (for Android phones) when a newer version is released. That will stop unnecessary downloading in the background while you are not paying attention.

There are more things you can do, but the above-mentioned ones are the basic ones. I can answer more questions on them if you ask here.

And don't forget... can't trust what the networks tell you... :-).

Cheers,

Scapelli

A few days ago as reported in many national daily newspapers, the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police,
Ibrahim Idris, once again ordered immediate removal of all roadblocks/checkpoints on our roads nationwide.

Whether it is violent crime, or corruption, or good governance, things will change for good in Nigeria
ONLY when together we all do something to make the change that we want to see happen.

If you travel or drive on Nigerian roads, you've seen what happens at those roadblocks/checkpoints set
up by all sorts of government agencies in uniform. You know they have insignificantly little to do with your
safety on the road. It's all about extortion, blackmail, intimidation, corruption, exploitation,...you
name it.

Having been victims of those roadblocks/checkpoints in the past, some friends finally decided to do something
about it for public good: they hacked up a way fight back with a mobile app for the public. Now they have made
it easy for you to get involved and fight back against extortion checkpoints on our roads.

NOW DO YOUR PART

If you have Android phone, go to Google Play store, download and install StopPoint mobile app. It is
absolutely free. Then next time you see a roadblock/checkpoint on a road anywhere you are in Nigeria, take
out your phone, launch StopPoint and report the roadblock/checkpoint immediately with a simple button click.

If you want to go any place and you want to see where the roadblocks/checkpoints are, pull out your phone, launch
StopPoint to see on google map all reported roadblocks/checkpoints in the area of your interest or travel.

If you are a senior official of a uniformed government agency and you want to see where your "boys" are
setting up roadblocks/checkpoints that the people are complaining so much about, do the same: take out your
Android phone, launch StopPoint and view them as reported on google map. You can even take a drive there to
see what they are doing in the name of your government agency.

TELL EVERYONE

This app is given freely to the public for use in the on-going anti-corruption campaign. It is going to be
effective only when lots of people use it constantly to report and see checkpoints throughout the country.
They've done our part by building the app, now is your turn to do your part by actively using it in numbers
every day. And tell friends too about StopPoint.

It may just be that when those people that set up checkpoints to extort money on roads realize that now the
public is watching and reporting easily on them, they will have a re-think. And no "Oga at the top" will any
longer claim they have no way to know.

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