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2 hours left!

Instead of taking her to a hospital, they took her to a police station. Who knows what will happen there?

What's the price like?

Source?

Today is the final day of the media rental library business strategy essay contest. 9 hours left!

@nateevs 6 or 7. I also got about 5 or 6 that have nothing to do with media rental.

It ends tomorrow at midnight. You still have 25 hours and 12 minutes.

Ok, you can raise the limit to N2m. Since this is the last day. But it will count against you.

On Tuesday, I was really discouraged because I thought this contest was going to fail!

However, since then, I've gotten 3 entries, which means if I get no other submissions, the 3
of them are going to in the prizes. One of the contestants actually wrote a full business plan,
which initially seemed to be a bit much, but on my second reading, I noticed that she was
the only one who took the N1m budget limit serious and tried to find a way to make it work.

I want to urge the current contestants to keep improving their entries because other contestants
might submit much better entries on the last day (tomorrow) and rob you of your deserved prize.

The contest closes at 12 midnight tomorrow (Friday), so you have just 37 hours 30 minutes to go!

Can you explain how you get the dollars at CBN rates?

kcjazz:
@Seun did you get my MSN email?

Yes, just replied. If you can find a way to work with the N1m budget in the rules, that will really help a lot.

It's better to live and be a part of Nigeria's prosperity. Death is always a tragedy. Wisdom is profitable.

I wish we had copied a screenshot. It was probably a programming bug.

LOL.

How is it now?

He copied articles from the Internet and pasted them together. I could tell.

It's Tuesday. I've received only one submission so far, which will probably be disqualified for plagiarism.

Get more ram. At least 3GB. You'll be shocked by the performance. Also, uninstall unnecessary programs.

Fuel importation business. Diesel-powered vehicles.  Small diesel generators.  Telecommuting.

Can someone post a picture of the actual bridge the OP is talking about?

Hello,

I'd like to inform everyone that the submission window of the media lending business strategy essay contest is now open. It ends on Friday this week.

The contest involves writing an original essay about how you would set up a profitable media lending business with just 1 million naira. For the sake of this contest, 'media' means: books, DVDs, CDs, e-books, music/video streams, or any subset of the above.

The first prize is N60k, second prize N30k, and third prize N15k. I think the primary benefit of this contest will be the discovery of sharp, creative minds worth doing business with.

Good luck!

Seun Osewa.

Hello,

I'd like to inform every Nairaland member that the submission window of the media lending business strategy essay contest is now open. It ends on Friday this week.

The contest involves writing an original essay about how you would set up a profitable media lending business with just 1 million naira. For the sake of this contest, 'media' means: books, DVDs, CDs, e-books, music/video streams, or any subset of the above.

The first prize is N60k, second prize N30k, and third prize N15k. I think the primary benefit of this contest will be the discovery of sharp, creative minds worth doing business with.

Good luck!

I believe in freedom of speech. If you feel I'm dumb, you're free to criticize me. If you feel you know something I don't know, you're free to share your precious wisdom with me.

So yesterday, a childhood acquaintance decided to slam me publicly for not changing the "software" of Nairaland (meaning the look). She went further to call me an old man in a young man's body, suggesting that I'm not open to change, and to say that "charity begins at home", meaning I should not invest in other things until I change the look of Nairaland, because in her opinion, that's the issue that needs the most urgent attention on Nairaland.

I beg to differ. I don't believe in change for the sake of change. Never have, never will.

I remember when I used to look up to the webmaster behind Face Of Festac. He installed a gallery script that allowed people to post pictures and comment on those pictures, and it was a hit! It had over 1000 visits per day. But then, the webmaster decided to "upgrade" the site by turning it into some sort of weird private social network, and his visitors left.

I remember when I used to visit the MySQL Performance Blog almost every day. It had simple theme with a nice, legible font. Then they changed it, and now I really hate going there.

So I don't believe in changing the elements of sucessful website for no reason, because you could end driving away people who like your site just as it is. I will never change the look of Nairaland just to satisfy people who want change for it's own sake. I don't take unecessary risks.

But apart from that, changing Nairaland's look is not as trivial as an uninformed person would think. The theme has evolved a lot over time, with lots of little changes every month to accomodate the genuine needs of Nairaland members. If we move to another theme, all those changes will have to be ported to the new theme. Mistakes will inevitably be made, costing us to lose traffic as we struggle to fix those mistakes. We have much to lose and nothing to gain.

Naijahotjobs used to be Nairaland's number 1 competitor. Some months ago, they changed their look and migrated to Vbulletin. How is that working out for them?

She's making impact as a blogger.

The initial decision to freeze was for a specific purpose, but the purpose didn't really materialize.

Dealfish/Naspers has never ever offered me any money for Nairalist. Loy Okezie is just a chronic liar.

Yes. 60,000 naira for the winner, 30,000 naira for the runner up, and 15,000 naira for the 3rd best.

@nateevs:The scope of the contest has been broadened to include e-books, and video/audio streaming, so the e-book vs book debate is probably mute as far as this thread is concerned.

Secondly, as long as no one puts a gun to your head, you cant claim to have been forced to consent.

According to the law on rape, "Any person who has unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman or girl, without her consent,
or with her consent, if the consent is obtained by force or by means of threats or intimidation of any kind, or by fear of harm,
or by means of false and fraudulent representation as to the nature of the act,
or in the case of a married woman, by personating her husband,
is guilty of an offence which is called violation."

Even if the consent was obtained by mere threats, it is still a rape. A gun is not required. If a woman decides to 'cooperate' in order to avoid being beaten to a pulp or killed by a gang of human dogs, it's still clearly rape in Nigerian law.

Acording to the law of Nigeria, even if she "consented", if the consent was obtained by force, threats, etc,then it's still rape. These idiots dont read the laws they enforce.