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Hello Tolulope,

Welcome to our 'small' but active forum. And I want to say "thank you" to goodguy for inviting you.

Seun.

abacus, thanks for providing that information.

One interesting angle to this issue is that our Attorney General travelled to the UK to testify that if they grant him bail he is likely to look for a way to escape. And this is exactly what he has done!

Without knowing the exact name of the system you have in mind, we cannot verify whether or not our suggested solutions will work on it. Can you give us a link to the manufacturer's website? You are not paying us to help you, so the lest you can do is give us all the information we need to be able to help you. I will show no further interest in this thread if you do not provide this information; I am sure that others wil be able to help you!

NITELNET, the Internet arm of the National Carrier has concluded plans to launch its wholesale internet service next week. Nitelnet wholesale internet service would sell bandwidth on wholesale basis to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Private Telecom Operators (PTOs) and Application Service providers at discounted rates designed for volume customers.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/features/technology/tec512042005.html (April 13, 2005)

The Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) on 28 April in Lagos launched its Wholesale Internet Services (WIS).

WIS is a set of Internet connectivity services that will enable Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Application Service Providers (ASPs) and Carriers with an Internet Protocol (IP) carriage capacity throughout Nigeria to provide IP-based services.

The standard delivery point of the services is at NITEL’s IP Gateways in Lagos and Abuja. Both Gateways are connected to the SAT-3 IP connection to the World Wide Internet.
http://www.nigeriafirst.org/article_3910.shtml (April 29, 2005)

[s]The official name of the service is 'IP Wholesale' and you can read about it on Thisday Online:

"The IP Wholesale service provides bandwidth to the worldwide internet using the NITEL IP Gateway in Lagos. The Gateway is connected via the SAT-3 cable to the worldwide internet and will provide access to a broad range of clientele who are increasingly deploying as the platform for their businesses in the networked global information economy."
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=15076
(login with username nairaland, password nairaland)[/s]

I'm going straight for the pictures!

If I didn't think he was wonderful, I will not have conducted the interview.

I'll use it to rent my own flat and install adequate security to continue running my online business. I'll use some of it to open an account and go into the website hosting business.

Doesn't this device have a name? 

Anyway, since your application is a client-server system, what you need on your micro-controller system is a web browser. If the system supports Linux, then you can set up a minimal Linux configuration with X-windows and Mozilla Firefox or another lightweight Linux browser. But you will need to connect each e-voting client to a standard server than runes Apache, PHP and MySQL.

Jacqie: I hope he is back to resign?

Resign?  Apparently, you don't understand Nigerian politicians.  The man is here to secure his position as Governor of Bayelsa State!

Here is what we know about his escape:  His travel documents were seized, and he was granted bail under the condition that he must not leave London.  The case was adjourned till Friday, but he dressed up as a woman (aparently with false documents) and arrived in Nigeria this morning to a thunderous welcome by hundreds of supporters.

So he did not swim to Nigeria! (I am beginning to see the humor in this case )

Too bad. And I was thinking of opening a smal account with them.

dbanj is understand upset about the post that said he "wowoo with confidence". An apology is required.

On AIT I saw a footage of the grand welcome he recieved from his supporters. I saw many young men, young women, older women and older men in the crowd. Such a shameful display! It's obvious that the problem of Nigeria is not the leaders alone.

Obviously, these people who are welcoming Governor Alamieyisiegha without asking questions about the money found on him would do the same if they were in his position. Shame on Nigeria - thieving leaders, thieving followers, thieving children, thieving adults. It seems that everybody is corrupt and democracy alone cannot solve corruption because it is normal for corrupt people to vote in corrput leaders. Shame on the [supporters], the man is stealing from them and they are hailing him!

"The governor of an oil-rich Nigerian state has fled the UK, where he was charged with laundering £1.8m ($3.2m) found in cash and bank accounts."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4456300.stm

Kuli-kuli - Biscuitos Delicious

Nigerian parents can be very petty, so if your boyfriend is worth the effort then follow WesleyanA's advice. When you are around them, do what you can to impress them and when you are away, be yourself. Better safe than sorry.

alheri: WOW, am glad he's back in Nigeria. How did he do it? I hope they wont try to sanction Nigeria because of that. Ive always like that Gov

So now that he's back, his money laundering activities have become a non-issue?

https://www.nairaland.com/img/sirleaf.jpg
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (born October 29, 1938) is the[b] President-elect of Liberia[/b] following the 2005 election. Barring any exigencies, she will become the first elected female president of an African country.

Educated at Harvard, Johnson-Sirleaf became involved in government when she became Finance Minister in President William Tolbert's administration in 1970. While running for Senate in 1985, she spoke out against the military regime, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Released after a short period, she left in exile and returned in 1997 in the capacity of an economist, working for the World Bank, and Citibank in Africa.

Initially supporting Charles Taylor's rebellion against General Samuel Doe, she later went on to oppose him, and ran against him in the 1997 presidential elections. She managed only 10% of the votes, as opposed to Taylor's 75%. Taylor charged her with treason. She campaigned for the removal of President Taylor from office, playing an active and supportive role in the transitional government, as the country prepared itself for the 2005 elections. With Taylor's departure, she returned to take over the leadership of the Unity Party.

In the first round of 2005 voting, she came second with 175,520 votes, putting her through to the runoff vote on November 8 against former footballer George Weah. On November 11th, the National Electoral Commission of Liberia declared Johnson-Sirleaf to be President-elect of Liberia, while her opponent, George Weah, refused to concede and filed a writ of prohibition with the Liberian Supreme Court to halt the ballot counting.

[img]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/media/images/41007000/jpg/_41007324_ellenfist416afp.jpg[/img]

About her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson-Sirleaf
See Also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4395978.stm
Her campaign website: http://www.ellenforpresident.org/

I have two things to say to this:
1) Wow!
2) Women in the house, what were you doing when all this was going on?

Hello Brittney,

I am also a supporter of home schooling. Welcome to Nairaland; I'm sure you're going to enjoy the ride

Seun.

Queen2, where did you get these interesting (but deformed) pictures?

This Christmas Party is probably not going to happen. I hereby apologize in advance!

Apparently, I am the only honest Nigerian who cares about doing something to improve the Nation's image. I would have been better off not reading what all of you had to say on this thread. Shame on you, Nigeria!

First of all, it's not a big deal that the bible didn't get bunt. Many bible have hard covers unlike most books which do not. In addition, the bible may have been placed in a different part of the house than other books.

However, I am sure that you are exaggerating in this case. I am sure that there were other things which didn't get burnt like metals, ceramic cups, etc. Did you see the burnt house with your own eyes, or is it just another story?

I have decided to learn C, C++

And while you're at it, why don't you learn assembly language too?

And by the way, the person that said Java is 20 times slower than C++ was lying. Java is as fast as C++ or 50% of the speed depending on what you're doing with it.

Hmmm. Let me elaborate on how I report scam e-mails I recieve.

Most scam emails come from one email address and direct you to reply to another email address. So what you do is send a report to the abuse@addresses of both of them including the headers of the email I recieve. For example, if I receive an email from President_Idi_Amin@yahoo.co.uk asking me to reply to Idi_Amin_dada@excite.com, I will forward the body of the email including the headers to abuse@yahoo.co.uk and abuse@excite.com. often, I will recieve a message back from Yahoo saying that the account has been investigated and action has been taken against the scammer. I find that satisfying!

Another idea is to report known scammers to the EFCC.

Many of us, especially those who run cyber-cafes, live in Festac area, or in a University, are aware of some people who deal in Internet scams and fraud by night and during the day they drive around in their expensive cars, showing off their ill-gotten wealth. Do you know that we can report them to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) via their website, and the EFCC would actually respond? Visit www.efccnigeria.org!

I think with these two steps a lot of progress will be made. Meanwhile, like schngrg has suggested, those of us who are honest should persevere, succeed, and draw attention away from the scammers.

We want to make the scams stop so we can be trusted again. We don't want to be left out of the Internet revolution taking place all over the world. So what other things can we do?

Hello,

As a honest Nigerian webmaster and techie, global e-commerce remains a dream to me. Thanks to the negative exploits of the large number of advanced fee fraudsters (419ers) who are Nigerians. Phrases like "Nigerian scam" and "Nigerian e-mail" have become so common that the word "Nigerian" is synonymous with "scammer" on the Internet.

If you are based in Nigeria, you cannot easily earn money (with a merchant account) or spend it (with a legally owned credit card) online without the issue of "scam"coming up. Paypal, the most popular and conveninent payments processor, will simply c[b]lose your account and sieze your funds[/b] when they discover that you are a Nigerian. When you mention that you're a Nigerian on forums or chat rooms, the issue of 'Nigerian' scams will be raised. For each item you try to buy online, a scam alert is triggered.

One myth has been spreading online is that the 419 scam is our major foreign exchange earner. This of course is wrong, because 95% of our foreign exchange comes from crude oil (Nigeria is a member of the OPEC oil cartel). But it shows that the extent of the damage that has been done to our country's image is enormous! Thanks to reports about corruption in the police, they don't believe in the Government's sincere desire to create to enforce new laws against cybercrime.

As long as this distrustful attitude towards Nigerians remains, honest Nigerian entrepreneurs on the Internet will be at a great disadvantage. So they (we) need to do what they (we) can to stop these scams!

I am in the habit of reporting all scam e-mails I receive to the abuse@ email addresses, but I don't think that this will be enough. But what else can I do, as a honest Nigerian not in government, to stop Nigerian scams? Your suggestions are welcome.

Seun.
Site Admin

However, if their love is geniune and reciprocal, moves like this can make it stronger. The more dependent you are in a family, the more you are forced to resolve your differences instead of running away.

SO Fabian is also anti-feminist!

Today's Google is just like GBay:
"Google achieves platform-style success, spawning a new industry where [b]millions of bloggers depend on its ad placement servic[/b]e as their primary source of income. Google becomes the second most recognizable brand after Coke. "I'm feeling lucky" becomes a national catchphrase. Rivals complain that Google squeezes out competition, but no one seems to care. The courts begin to hold the company liable for all sorts of wayward transactions."

Yes, indeed Java is a little bit slower than C++, but it's much faster to code in. Think of it this way: if you have to choose between using 10% of your computer's capacity and 2 weeks of your time or 20% of your computer's capacity and 1 week of your time, which would you choose? The second one is what I'll chose, because my time is more valuable than the computer's time!

So if my computer has 90% of it's capacity unused, why not use some of this extra capacity and save myself some time? And for web applications, PHP is much faster to code in than Java, and the speed is not an issue. I mean, do you think nairaland will be faster if it was coded in C++? If that were so, why not go a step further and use assembly language?