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Amen . There are things that can be done to redce the editing load that I haven't done yet.

What does it mean to 'love for love' and how is it different from loving for money, looks, good behaviour, and so on?

You ladies are of the opinion that men fall into beauty. As far as I know, most men don't fall into beauty; they just want to "get laid with the hot girl" and that is all there is to it.

The editor makes every effort not to alter the meaning of a post. Sometimes a thesaurus is used!

What stops the 950th member from registering 50 times to get the free registration?

A story needs to have some direction.

Welcome to Nairaland!

Parole officer? What does this have to do with the Visa Lottery?

("In criminal justice systems, parole is the supervised release of a prisoner before the completion of their sentence. Wikipedia"

Someone was kind enough to give me the following information a minute ago:
"When I contacted Nitel a few months back for the service, the minimum bandwidth on sale was 1 megabit bit full duplex i.e. 1mbit/1mbit which came to about roughly $7,500 monthly. In the first year of operations, payment is same as VSAT, on a quaterly basis."

For those of us in the ISP business, how does this compare with VSAT?

Why don't you give me 2 million and see what I would do with it?

Originally: Gulder Ultimate Search: What's the big deal?

Someone I know very well reports,
"My dad is a busy executive, so he only has time to watch the news and important soccer matches. But yesterday he was watching Gulder Ultimate Search with a smile on his face and discussing about the contestants. Since he does not even drink Gulder, I do not understand his interest in the programme!"

Someone else reports,
"My mum doesn't drink Gulder either. Despite being a trader and she doesn't believe in selling alcoholic drinks. eithe. She doesn't watch football or any foreign movies or soaps. She watches programmes like 'Super Story' and 'NTA Newsline'. But now she's watching Gulder Ultimate Search and I don't know what she sees in the show."

I have a similar story to share, but I'll keep it for later. What is it that [I]you[/I] enjoy about Gulder Ultimate Search?
- Is it the money that the contestants are going to win?
- Is it the fact that they are sleeping in the jungle?
- Is it because of the puzzles they are asked to solve?
- is it the fictional story of 'General Maximilian' that draws you in?

Other Gulder Threads:
Gulder Ultimate Search 2: Introduction & registration.
Gulder Ultimate Search 2: Meet the contestants.!

Someone told me that what she likes about Gulder Ultimate Search is "Suspense Seun, suspense! The sheer thrill of the unknown ..."

What about [I]you[/I]? Now that you know you are not one of those who will win millions for the show, what is it that keeps you glued to your TV set when the show is running? What do you love about Gulder Ultimate Search?

The Satellite Doom article tells us that Globacom was able to offer a consortium of banks a price that is 20% of what they are paying to VSAT providers currently charge them to link their branches. Globacom is using its fiber optic backbone to provide this service.

I hope to be able to tell you how much NITEL is charging ISPs to use its IP Wholesale service.

In an Interview, the Daily Sun asked Engineer Joseph Makoju, "what does it really cost to build a power station?" His response follows:

[I]"A standard project showed that on the average, for every megawatt, every new capacity, you are talking about half a million dollar per megawatt. So, if you want to put in 10 megawatts, that is $5 million. If you want to put in 100 megawatts, that’s $50 million.

"Now, if I am telling you as we are sitting down here that our supply, everything is about 3,000; our installed capacity, let's say 4,000 installed. And I am saying the demand is about 6,000; if we say we want to close the gap between demand and supply, it means you need 2,000 more megawatts at half a million dollar per megawatt. That would be $1,000 million.

"Convert to naira and everybody will collapse. But that is the truth of the matter."[/I]

Source: I almost kill myself on this job, says NEPA boss, Eng Joseph Makoju

So it will cost 140 trillion billion naira to build enough power stations meet up with our country's current demand for electricity.

Chief Cornelius Adebayo, Minister of Communications:
[I]"With the introduction of this product [NITEL IP Wholesale] using optical fibre, gone are those days of VSAT as a means of providing Internet services in Nigeria with limitation in speed and reliability."[/I]
Source: Satellite Doom - Sun News Online

I think it's time for companies that provide Internet Gateways based on VSAT technology to jump on the NITEL IP Wholesale bandwagon before it's too late. Nigerians are simply not going to buy your less reliable, high latency, Internet service at a higher price!

For more Information: What would you need to create broadband Internet access in Nigeria?

Seven New Varsities Approved
Jun 1, 2005, 23:17

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by Vice President Atiku Abubakar on 1 June approved the licensing of seven new private universities in the country after receiving report of the stringent and rigorous screening exercise conducted by the National Universities Commission (NUC) through which they emerged.

The New Institutions are:

. Bells University of Technology, Badagry, Lagos state,

. Crawford University, Ogun State,

. Wukari University, Taraba State,

. Crescent University Abeokuta, Ogun State,

. Novena University, Delta State,

. Renaissance University, Enugu state and

. University of Mkar, Benue State

Education minister, Mr Liyel Imoke who gave the briefing on the outcome of the day's council meeting said that the seven scaled through the screening out of a total of 145 applications received between 1996 and 2002.

The screening included, among others, security reports on the trustees, their integrity, the quality of the academic programmes and the source of funding.

He disclosed that the institutions are expected to provide entrepreneurial and technical studies to complement those provided by existing tertiary educational institutions and noted that the approval brings to 23 the total number of private universities in the country.

The Minister also said that the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) was processing applications for private polytechnics and that those that will be recommended would also be brought to FEC.

Source: http://www.nigeriafirst.org/article_3231.shtml

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My reaction:
[list][li]This is good news! We desperately need more Universities in Nigeria because the demand for University education for exceeds the supply. In addition to this, most of the federal and state universities are overcrowded.[/li]
[li]Federal Government, please, give us more Universities. What about the other 146 that applied?[/li][li]In view of the widespread discrimination againsy HNd. holders, why is the Government encouraging the creation of private Polytechnics?[/li][/list]

Hotpikin: How Much To Charge Nairaland Users? (we're going commercial)

In that case, what makes the honeymoon different from, say, the Christmas Holidays or your normal weekend break?

So what's the point of the honeymoon when you've done it before?

- 'Registered Guests' (via free registration) will be able to read and post at will. But they will only be able to send PMs to paying members who can also send them PMs.

- Registered Members (via paid membership) will be able to display their contact information (e-mail address, website, signature, etc) to the public, send PMs to anybody and recieve PMs from anybody.

- There may be several higher membership levels with more features at a higher price, though one could argue that the best thing to do with extra money is to use it to pay for someone else's membership!

- Demmy: With Flash me cash, there is a transaction fee of 300 naira. If you're paying for a year's membership this would be insignificant, but otherwise it is. We'll support it anyway.

- I'll be reading the contributions in this thread over and over again and taking them into consideration. It will take 2-4 weeks to set up and properly test the system once the decision has been made.

- As a paying customer, you will now be able to 'vote with your money' and help to make the site a place that you and all the people you know will like to visit any time you're online.

I don't think they swindled Benny Hinn. The organizers simply didn't live up to expectations.

The story has given birth to some ideas about what we can do to enrich this forum. Watch out!

Demmy, Nairaland is promoted as 'the Nigerian Forum'. It will always remain a forum first and foremost, regardless of the features we add to it. I don't believe in portals.

Delarontus, posting and reading will always be free. I believe that information wants to be free so I cannot charge for it. In addition, it would be absurd to charge people for sharing information!

I agree that there should be various levels of membership.

A number of people have volunteered to take part in moderation. This has been noted and after we go commercial we will move into that and make sure we give out little tokens to say 'thank you' to these people.

Legry is assuming that the slap was delivered by a girl/woman. I have it on good authority that women of all ages are lovers of drama.

Rita Dominic,

Please pay up, I have just made you a convert! (ashley, welcome to the family).

Seun.