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I believe I can use it to subtly communicate certain social values I believe in.

Does anyone here know how much[b] capital [/b]one needs to have to start a small TV station in Nigeria?

Rich people who would have bribed their way into public universities will now have private universities to go to. THis will free up space for poorer students. It is in the interests of every student for there to be as many universities as possible in the country. All intelligent people are in agreement on this.

"Overprivatization" is responsible for the acceptable level of secondary education in Nigeria. We want more.

My child would start driving when she:
- Buys her first car, and
- Is old enough to get a driving license!

Yes, there are mosquitos in the air at this time of the year. Make sure you're prepared. Cheers.

Wait until it becomes impossible for you and me to get NBC licences for direct-to-home TV. You people don't understand politicians. They are experts at robbing Peter to pay Paul and keeping a fat commission.

in fact, the worst part of the arrangement is that africa has no control over the prices of her goods

We are free to double the price of Nigerian crude oil if we want to. It's just that no-one would buy it. And do you blame them? Why should someone buy Nigerian oil for $110 when he'she can buy it at Saudi Arabia for much less?

If you want to blame someone for the "low" price of oil, blame the Saudis and Russians for having "too much" oil. Wait a minute, we are guilty of the same crime! Somewhere out there there are oil-producing countries complaining that oil prices will be higher if AMericans buy oil from them at $11o instead of buying it from us at $55.

Do you get what I'm trying to say? No one sets the price of oil. You can set any price you like, but if you don't set a price that is right, no one is going to buy it. If Americans demand a price that's too low, we'l sell to someone else.

and those she imports.

We have 100% control over the prices of the goods we import. Let me explain:

Don't forget, first of all, that importation is a private sector business. Traders (human beings like you and I) are the ones who convert their naira to dollars to try to import various items to satisfy local demand and make profit so they can import more tommorrow. They are free to demand lower prices, but if the prices they demand are too low, they will not be able to import anything. If the prices the sellers demand are too high, they won't buy anything either.

So you see, no one "sets" prices in the real world. If we were to "set" the price of oil, it will be maybe $1 billion per barrel and cocoa will be $1000 per bean. But if we "set" such prices, no one will buy from us. On the other hand, the people buying our exports will like to have it for free, but for the price of $0.00 we will definitely refuse to sell anything. In the proces of negotiation, a price somewhere between what the buyer wants ($0) and what the seller wants ($9999999999999999.99) is agreed upon eventually through bidding and negotiation.

No one can control a market, not even the super-powers of the world. If they could not prevent CHina from thriving, they cannot prevent us from thriving specially when international trade happens to be a win win proposition for both the developing nations and Africans.

The are only two major problems in Africa right now: war and politicians.

read the Book of revelation in the Bible where it talks about the ends time, women will go to church just to seduce men and go to bed with them all in the name of money making.

What chapter and what verse?

So why haven't you returned to the squalor you say you miss?

Somewhere in South Africa, a Multichoice executive is saying, "you see, we should have settled those boys. Next time, we won't make that mistake. We will appoint our own stooges in the NBC to regulate in our favor."

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/sports/september06/01092006/sp501092006.html

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2006/aug/21/editorial-21-08-2006-001.htm

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=57612 <<shows what the market can do>>

Buy it here:
http://shopforless.com/Nigeria/shop/categories.asp?cat=48

Yes. I bought it at chuks-pee - www.chuks-pee.com (opposite the popular Gennuss Systems)

Now why on earth would I want to say something that didn't happen happened to me?? What do you guys think I am

I wouldn't know. Could it be that you are an attention seeker?

You can auto-debit someone's account monthly true, but one thing you need to know is that, nobody would agree especially in a country like Nigeria for a third party to have rights to auto-debit his account monthly.

How would you know? Do you live in Nigeria? We can speak for ourselves, thank you!

I think proper financial knowledge and background is needed to pull this off, not just the desire to run the business.

"Proper" knowledge is easily obtained by someone with the desire to make money from a business.

Another thing is in developing countries that have credit facilities, there are {{blah blah blah blah}}

Whatever they have, we can easily get in Nigeria if we see the need. If Roscodaddy talks to potential customers and they express interest, then he can go ahead and do whatever needs to be done.

We intend to collect 30% as down payment and we will stretch out the remaining balance over a period between 5 and 7 months for every item.

How much will be the interest on the item? I just need an approximate figure, thanks.

You cannot trace scammers via their IP address because most ISPs use dynamic IP addresses. Each time you connect, you get a different IP address. Ironically, The only ISPs that use fixed IP addresses are those that serve cyber-cafes.

So you need extra software to link the ip address to a phone number. Even then, can someone trace you with your phone number?

We never had competition in that industry.

To a businessman, this is fallacious. DSTV competes with local TV stations. For example, we activated our DSTV subscription this month, and yet yesterday evening we were all watching Gulder Ultimate Search. That shows that local content can rival foreign content in popularity if properly created and promoted!

If DSTV has exclusivity rights for broadcasting of most foreign programmes, I would get exclusivity rights for broadcasting of local programmes, and then promote those programmes until they are more popular than the foreign ones.

Sooner or later, DSTV will want to show those local programmes I have exclusivity rights to, and I will tell them that I can let them broadcast the local programmes I have rights to if they let me broadcast their foreign ones.

The local cable operators just want to copy DSTV's programmes instead of thinking of their own. Shame.

What right does DSTV, a South African company have to obtain rights for independent countries such as Nigeria?

What right does Nairaland, a Nigerian site, have to obtain website hosting space in independent countries like USA? What right do computer village vendors, Nigerians, have to purchase rights to computers from independent Asian countries like Taiwan and China? Can you see the problem with that line of thinking?

When you buy something, it becomes yours regardless of which country you comes from. When Multichoice bought exclusive broadcasting rights to certain programme, they got the right to own those rights.

Every religion is a way of life for its most faithful adherents. Christianity and Islam are not exceptions.

That's a great idea. People with stable salaries would not need hire purchase for inexpensive items like phones, but for laptops and more expensive gadgets I guess they would find that useful.

So, let's say I want to buy a 240k laptop. How much will I pay per month and for how long?

Yes, I share the dream because TV is the best way to reach the masses with any message one has.

If her life is in danger, you should help.

If a woman came to Jesus for healing after committing abortion, would he turn her back? No!

So please help your sister-in-law because that's what Jesus would do.

Your sister-in-law committed abortion. That's past. Presently she needs help. Help her.

Compassion is part of the divine love, isn't it? Now rush out and help, please, before something bad happens.

I have to admit your material is dead on the money.

How would you know? Are you a woman? Why not let the women speak for themselves?

1) Download and run Lavasoft ad-aware to remove the spyware on your computer:
- http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html

2) Download and use Mozilla FIrefox as your primary browser insead of IE:
- http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

3) Download and install AVG free edition antivirus to protect your computer:
- http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5

Those are the three steps to salvation for your PC. Good luck!

Who determines whether an advantage is "undue" or not? Let's call a thief a thief.

This is like saying someone took "undue advantage" of low prices in the market to buy enough foodstuff to last for a month. I'll be like, "isn't that what people are supposed to do?"

This is like saying an inventor "took undue advantage" of his brain to obtain a patent to the detriment of others who were not sharp enough to come up with the same idea before it was patented.

What people don't understand is that once you invite the government to deal with your competitor today, tommorrow the government will be dealing with you. Politics will win and business will lose.

DSTV's competitors should have used their funds to take their own "undue advantage" of made in Nigeria sports programmes, reality shows, Nigerian movies, etc and show them to subscribers.

Business is a game that's best played without the government's "assistance". When you win it with your own intelligence, you feel more fulfilled and you get to keep your profits instead of using them to settle politicians.

I think we should try our best to vote and encourage others to vote.

But before that, we should be active in promoting the candidates that seem to have good intentions.

Debt collection will make your lives hell if you don't know something I don't know!

Nigerian debtors are more unreliable than NEPA. They can be relied upon to default.

The government stole those rights from DStV. It's an abuse of government.

Is it ok to rob the rich to give to the poor? What if you are the one who is rich through hard work? Can I rob you of the money you want to use to send your children to private universities and use it to pay federal lecturers?

Based on what goodguy posted, the ban on night browsing is not permanent. I'm a little bit relieved. It seems as if the ban on night browsing is being used to compel the cyber-cafes to get registered. Seems reasonable.

"That there is no more privacy for any internet user in the cybercafé." is a problem, but a much smaller one.

Only when I touch it. I'm hoping it's just a power supply problem. Now I'm printerless.

@otoks:

In other words, you support the law because it doesn't seem to affect you. What if in the future NEPA becomes more stable in your area? What if you learn how to install and properly configure anti-spyware and anti-virus programs? What if you decide to use the night for LAN gaming since browsing goes on during the day?

If a law is bad, it is bad. You shouldn't keep quiet because it doesn't affect you personally. Or else tommorrow, a new law will be created that affects you and others won't care because it doesn't affect them. It does not affect me, but I am concerned about it because it affects others in whose shoes I was in the past. Thanks.

Seun, I believe you own a cyber café that is why you are bitter.

It's because I spent two years doing day-and-night browsing in a cyber-cafe before I got Internet access at home. If I didn't spend all that time doing research, I won't know many things I know today.

90% of those who stay out all night to perform the so-called NIGHT BROWSING are not doing it for educational purposes. It is mainly for pornography and 419!

At least 80-90% of night browsers are legitimate. Probably more. Why harm them with such a law? Look, all that will happen is that many policemen will use it to make money from cybercafes that can't afford the law.

Tell me, what would somebody, a student or worker, be doing all night in an internet room?

Have you ever done night browsing? I have. So maybe you should listen to me (and others).

During the two years I was in and out of cyber-cafes, I saw people using night browsing for academic projects, search for educational opportunities, personal research, entertainment, genuine business, et cetera. If a cyber-cafe isn't friendly to scammers, they won't use it. The methods they use are so crude that they can be easily caught. Students love to use night browsing for their projects because it's cheaper. This law is robbery to them.

Isn't the person going to work or school in the morning?

A lot of people who do night browsing are self-employed. Others are students on holidays, or victims of ASUU strike. Still others might have work to do in the morning but they stress themselves to do their research or even letters at night in order to save money. Night browsing, as I said earlier, is cheaper [/b]than browsing in the day.

Cyber Cafés will not close down, though there will be a reduction in income.

Have you ever tried to run a business? Do you know that so many businessmen are in debt, and barely making enough profit to keep their business running? Any [b]unexpected loss of revenue can cause a small business to capsize. In areas where there's a lot of cyber-cafe competition, many will definitely close down.

The genuine ones will continue to patronise

The scammers will also continue to patronise the cyber-cafes they were patronising before. Why not? Do you think a corrupt cyber-cafe owner care about the law? Only the genuine ones will be hurt because they'll stop night browsing. The corrupt cyber-cafes will just bribe the police to look the other way. Apart from that, the scammers will just start to do more scamming during the day. This measure unjustly harms many people.

If you have a telephone line with internet connection, your ISP would ask for a copy of your drivers licence or you international passport.

Don't make me laugh. Scammers are experts at forging documents. Don't forget Oluwole.

Addendum:
All over the world, governments are using "security" as an excuse to curtail peoples' freedoms. Yet even if such laws do not work, it becomes impossible to remove them. It's our social duty to oppose harmful/useless laws. Such laws are approved to the detriment of the common man because our politicians are richer than us.

As KAG has emphasized it's all hearsay.

If someone can come to the forum to lie about her own death, why won't people start rumors about ghosts just for fun? All it takes is for someone to tell a lie along the lines of "did you hear that so and so happened at so and so place" and because you all believe in ghosts you'll be passing it around until everyone believes it's true. Some rumors are based on true stories twisted by mischievous elements to make them seem fantastic.

Under close examination, supernatural claims tend to crumble into nothingness. They can never be proven.