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Lagos Autobay is very impressive, but incomplete.

KANO, 26 Jul 2005 (IRIN) - Women in Kano State have been banned from riding in the same buses as men and from riding behind men on motorcycles as the state government extends its application of Islamic Shari’ah law.

The separation of the sexes in this state in northern Nigeria will be enforced by a 9,000-strong religious police force with the power to fine people who ignore the new rules.

State governor Ibrahim Shekarau launched the implementation of the new law on Tuesday at a ceremony at Kano city stadium attended by 10,000 chanting supporters.

He told them that the new road traffic law promulgated by the state government earlier this year would stop “the mixture of men and women in commercial vehicles and the carrying of women on motorcycles.”

“Our aim is to be at the forefront of conducting our activities decently and to protect Allah’s Sharia,” Shekarau added to chants of “Allah is great!”

At the ceremony, the state governor formally presented new 100 mini-buses, 100 motor cycles and 300 motor tricycles which have been bought to ease the implementation of the new law.

Motorcycles as well as cars are widely used as taxis in Kano city.

Shekaru said his government had recruited 9,000 Hisbah or Islamic law enforcers to help with the implementation of the law.

Transport operators who mix men and women in their vehicles risk a fine of 5,000 naira (US $38) or a six-month suspension of their license.

However, some exceptions will still be allowed. A man will still be able to ride in the same car or taxi as his wife and children, for example.

Kano is one of 12 states in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north that adopted the strict Shari’ah code in 2000, but it is the first to introduce segregated public transport.

The introduction of Shari’ah deepened mutual suspicions between Nigeria’s Muslim north and the mainly Christian south, erupting in periodic bouts of sectarian violence in which thousands of people have died.

Punishments under the legal code include amputation of limbs for stealing, stoning to death for adultery and homosexual activity and public flogging for premarital sex and drinking alcohol.

Kano’s Muslims majority, for the most part, welcomed the new law.

“It is against the injunctions of Allah for a man to sit close to a woman who is not his wife, and this is what happens in public vehicles,” Suleiman Musa, a Muslim cleric, told IRIN. “That is why we want this law.”

But the large Christian community in Kano, which will have to abide by the new rules too, was less happy.

“In the first place the buses are not enough to serve the millions of people in this city. But then I hope they limit the application to Muslims only, because we Christians won’t accept it,” said Michael Akpabio, a Christian Pentecostal preacher in the city.

Kano, with a population of four million, is the biggest city in northern Nigeria and has long been a hotbed of sectarian violence.

More than 200 people died in the last outburst of Muslim-Christian clashes in Kano in May 2004.

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'kpali' (paper degree) certifies that you are able to work under harsh and unfair conditions for years on end. Your ability to get a degree in a Nigerian university, whether you actually learnt anything of value or not, is a good measure of your ability to tolerate employment in a Nigerian workplace!

As I read this thread, I can't help thinking "these are the kind of people we need in this country". People who are looking for ways forward instead of sitting down and yabbing President Obasanjo!

Cost of bandwidth is just too high.

Accepted. I didn't think that statement through before publishing it.

Linux viruses could easily be written, it's just not worth it for most hackers. Chances are that the kind of people who use Linux don't have much money for a hacker to steal.

hot-angel said, "if love is what love is, then I don't think you can love two people at same time." What is love? Are you sure you know the meaning of love?

If I love two women equally I would choose the one whose values are most similar to mine. The one who sees the world the same way as I do. The one whose dreams and ambitions are compatible with and complementary to mine. Love is an emotion that comes and goes with the passing of time; one needs to have a sound practical foundation to build a relationship that will last a lifetime.

"Philippe Troussier has told BBC Sport that he will not be returning to Nigeria to manage the country's national team."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/4718225.stm

That's right, boys, Trousier isn't going to be the Super Eagles Coach afterall!

Two ways I can think of:

- Check the drivers that come with the digital camera. If there's a Linux driver then your camera has Linux support.
- Ask your computer hardware retailer for a list of available camera models, then use google to search for Linux compatibility of each one. The google search 'your_camera_model + linux' will do the trick.

Imnakoya, I was simply trying to differentiate between self-employed persons and entrepreneurs.  Kazey was the one who mixed everything up by bringing in the concept of "businessman" which is a word I didn't use even once. 

It's too bad you people didn't understand me at all. This thread has been spoiled.

A self-employed person is primarily concerned with doing the job he has been trained to do (maybe website development, law, writing, or something else). The self-employed person is just like an employee, but answers only to himself (and clients) and may employ others to assist him.

But the entrepreneur is primarily concerned with his business; i.e. how to make money using the resources at his disposal. An entrepreneur in web design does not think of herself as 'head designer'; she thinks of herself as someone who combines human resources and capital to make money! She may do part of the work but that's not her primary concern. Her primary concern, typically, is how to make profits in order to expand the business!

The main difference, I believe, is that the entrepreneur is willing to to delegate the [color=#000077]actual work to others[/b]. But the self-employed person sees himself as the main person doing the work while the employees, if any, are just there to assist him!

The self-employed person's goal is to create a source of income for himself (and family), so the business is likely to stop growing at a point. The entrepreneur's goal is to build a system that generates money to expand so it can generate more money and keep expanding until it takes over the world!

Kazey, I think you're mixing everything up!

Kazey, how can she deny her voice? Come on!

what do you think of your son sleeping with his step-mother

Are you praying for his future wife to kick the bucket so his children can have a step-mother? Come on, we shouldn't take it there at all.

What he needs to do is to tape record the conversation with her and show it to his dad so he can know what his new wife is up to. This is a simple solution to a complex problem; just tape the conversation and play it to your dad and your problems will be over.

My belief that to be a successful entrepreneur one needs to take calculated risks, not just blind risks.  A blind risk might put you in debt, but a well-calculated risk will be such that even if you fail you will still be financially buoyant enough to try again and again and again until you finally succeed.

I don't believe that someone who is afraid to leave his job is likely to make it as an entrepreneur.  Such a person may be successful as a consultant or even manager, though. Entrepreneurship and self-employment are not the same thing. If a man works for himself he's self-employed; if a woman has other people working for her she's an entrepreneur!

My lips are sealed. I did not say anything. Forgive us our trespasses!

Hello,

This thread is for chatting:
- Discussing less important or transient issues.
- Greeting each other; soializing.
- Et cetera

Hope you find it useful,
Seun.

Are you sure you will get married to any woman if you use that type of test?

Do you know that the Google Toolbar now has a version for Mozilla Firefox?  It's called the Google Toolbar BETA for Firefox; screenshot below:
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I agree with you. I actually made a mistake by introducing many boards all at once on the forum; I should have created the categories in response to observed traffic and user demand.

There is something we call 'power law' or 'long tail' distribution that will always apply when people are making choices - some choices (forum section in this case) will be exponentially more popular than others and there's nothing we can do about that. We can only attempt to make this long tail longer by <sorry, trade secret>

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Nairaland, the Nigerian Forum on Opera[/center]
I don't like Opera browser as much as Firefox. It's pretty good, pretty fast, but not the fastest by any means. It used to be lightweight compared to Firefox but now they're basically the same.

I dislike the fact that the Opera browser works so differently from Internet Explorer, and the free version uses some of your valuable screen estate to display ads. But as the screenshot above shows, you have the option of displaying lightweight text ads instead of images.

Well, I find it difficult to call myself an entrepreneur because I have hardly any possessions that are not work-related, the place from which I work is not even mine, et cetera. I'm still a struggle-preneur!

I believe that the web is the best and most cost-effective platform for a technology-based business, and for some time I've been in a personal race to try to really understand and start exploiting this platform (the Internet) before others people wake up to its potential!

My cause is helped by the fact that my current 'competitors' are not as aggressive as I am: the Nigerians that actually have the resources to make a difference do not see much value in the web, and the solopreneurs with website development skills are relatively inexperienced in business. This gives me a little more time to get my act together, which I'm grateful for.

But the lack of any reasonable 'working capital' or 'budget' does not help me at all, and I have certain 'principles' that tend to deny me of opportunities. But at the end it would be worth it by the time I'm running a billion-dollar business and I own 75%-100% of the company instead of the 5%-15% that I would own if I had been able to get people to invest big in my vision!

Seun, ... do you want your company to grow big and have more shareholders?

I'll be quite happy to have my company grow very big, but preferably without the burden of shareholders who don't have a genuine interest in my business but really just want to profit from my labor or fund their retirement!

I've just finished watching this week's episode of the show. The presenter of the show is Ashionye Michelle Ugboh and the winning numbers were ... well I forgot, but I know there was a 9, a 29, a 30, and I think a 32!

Mozilla Firefox is the browser I admire the most; I can't do without tabbed browsing and there are so many extensions available to customize your experience.  [I imagine that] Firefox extensions are easier to write than Internet Explorer toolbars/plugins and more likely to be free and open sourced.  What made it possible for me to switch to Firefox in the first place what's its improved speed and compatibility with Internet Explorer (using the same shortcuts, etc).

Unfortunately, I'm back to using Internet Explorer because I discovered that the new MSN Toolbar also offers tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer!  (If you want us to discuss this, let me know and I'll open a new thread).

So I'm a fan of the Mozilla Firefox browser but I'd like to beg the developers to provide more compatibility with Internet Explorer out of the box.  Certain commercial/webmaster features just don't work well in Firefox yet. For example, until recently there was no official google toolbar for Firefox.  No Alexa toolbar either.  Webmasters will know what I'm talking about!

70%, Jogego, and this is based on the dubious assumption that the cost of importation is negligible.

Please feel free to post about other PC resellers with better prices that CeBroker; I like their prices, but I would be happy to find something cheaper.