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fitzmayowa: Eko o ni baje o...Bros no vex o, sorry to ask o your english teacher just die

Bros how far, you don write this one before the guy write. How you take do am? na Jazz? You know the guy mind before the guy write ni?

foreign coach ko, foreign coach ni.

when keshi won the african cup, nobody complained. Now hypocrites are coming out asking questions if Nigeria needs a foreign coach.

he meant the video is tight. you bloggers self

lol. pretty sure no one will click

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dem never catch this guys?

na wa o. but this were the drugs i was using when i had malaria in Nigeria and it was very good.

i hope by the time we have datacenters in Nigeria, there should be regulations from the government to stop using foreign datacenters. Thats how its done.Data from Uk would never go outside EU and i think data from USA stays in USA.

i think datacenter business will be a big thing in Naija but will be expensive due to electricity issue in Nigeria.Multinationals will embrace it but SMB companies might not be able to afford it. i feel they will be better off buying NAS devices and setting up private cloud. i do pray Nigeria gets to the point where we have constant electricity and fast broadband services.

I will checkout flagfox. that sound like a very cool tool.

i think you guys should report this to the Sun newspaper UK. i am sure they will work investigate and shame this guys.

i dont want to derail this thread but there is a certified scammer here and he is also calling the op a scammer.

You know who you are

mmark12: Thanks for your observation, I do appreciate it


3. Education: IT skills, technology skills that you will pay for int he civilian world

IT skills wont pay out in the civilian world. its best you verify this. You wont be allowed near their server or datacenter. You might be doing something similar to customer services. You are not security cleared. Please check that out before going in. The fact that you have masters in IT does not guarantee that you will work with computers

mmark12: I am planning to join the British Army, I have been invited for an interview in August after passing the Barb Test. I am applying to Information Technology career with Royal Signals.

I want to be join because of
(1) Pay
(2) Travel
(3) Education ( I have masters but want to learn IT skills that will be useful after service)

I am a believer that they is more to life than sittng behind a computer (WORK FOR AN OIL COMPANY BUT NOT HAPPY), while life and events shapes the world.

i belive your reasons are wrong. I will suggest you verify what you saying in regards to IT
1)Pay: they dont pay well. i think its around £18,000 to about £22000.I might be wrong but the last time it was on the news that they were not being look after properly. do you really want to risk your life for that?

2)Travel: can you explain travel? i thought anyone could travel anywhere in the world. Even odinary British citizen can go anywhere

3)Education: Lets the honest, you wont be given access to secured data and their infrastructure. You will be screened and since you have ties with Nigeria and your parents are not British citizens,you cant be security cleared and so you will just be doing basic stuffs. Even after military life, your chances of getting an IT job is slim because you will be working with different devices which business don't use and you know the issue most soiders face when they come back from war. people think there are not psycologically good enough to work in a business environment due to what they have gone through during their jobs as soldiers. You have read how some pubs and bars are refusing to even allow solders in

4) you said "I am a believer that they is more to life than sitting behind a computer" . What do you belive in? You believe that life is about kill or be killed?

There are reason why people are going into the military and i dont think your reasons are good enough. its just my thought

kokoye: Yea ...they need them to be in the frontline of the battle.

i swear you no well at all

Maybe its me but i find his statement very rude. I mean the guys who paid the money obviously wanted him to come to their show but why try and belittle them because they paid 500,000

i really dislike bloggers. always carrying fake news to advertise their website

coming from a fake bloggers site with no detailed information

samir101ng: @routik,



Nice one !!!

@Sky-walker,

Nigeria has come far in terms of Information Technology and broadband penetration. However, we still have a long way to go. I still remember the old days of Nitel Dial-Up internet when we paid as high as N50 per min to browse the internet. We now have 4 submarine cables routing bandwidth to the country. However, the death of the national operator with its extensive equipment and reach has made mobile broadband more attractive to the GSM operators rather than deploying Fixed-Line infrastructure like ADSL, FTTH, etc Secondly, all the bandwidth is located at Lagos. Evacuating such bandwidth to the nooks and crannies of the country will require a national fiber optic broadband super highway connecting all the 36 capitals of the federation. Such a national fiber connection should be on an open access model whereby any ISP or communication provider can have access to it via the local internet exchange point and move its bandwidth. But the reverse is the case, all the major players in the sector are building their own exclusive cables and refusing to do business with the other. Why i am mention this is cause for a data center to thrive it needs multiple redundancy to fall over on in case of downtime.

the highlighted part is what i feel is going to be a major problem in the future. You cant blame this companies, its the govt (i thought we had minister of Information technology). There are no laws,restrictions and no standard operating procedures setup for this companies. Now that Nitel has been crippled, this ISP companies now have the magic wand with them and can do what they like.


In my own view, i don't think Nigeria is ready for a datacenter. There are too many requirements that most be met and most companies in Nigeria are not data driven. I think what most companies in Nigeria need is a private cloud which allows them to store data offsite to a device they own which is secured somewhere only know to them. I know people who have data stored in their house here in UK.

Another idea for anybody in Nigeria who is to maybe buy online storage from reputable companies and then resell the storage to business.

You guys can look at this website. http://www.cloudelephant.com/ . i was going to buy something similar earlier this year and try and brand it for Nigeria use. thats saves a lot of headache but you have to pay subscription to which the total cost runs to roughly about £2000 a year. i changed my mind when i went to a university in Nigeria and they were storing data to skydrive and dropbox. who uses free and public online storage to store data? Most companies in Nigeria dont really care about security and auditing. i could not convince anyone on the reason why they need to stop putting confidential data on free cloud services.

i understand you said datacenter needs redundancy but have you thought about clients? how many people are willing to stop using free cloud services and use your datacenter?How many people are willing to leave thier paper and biro and store documents in electronic format? who wants to pay when he can get it free? that's the mind of an average Nigerian. I might be wrong though but this is what i encountered when i was in Nigeria during the Easter.

i thought with thuraya phones, your location can easily be detected or am i missing something?

olasquare: for the record...i think this thread is already started as requested by@foto_lord... guyz i think u shld just keep it coming and make it more formal and well formatted/ we need this breeze of information sharing in naija among tech guyz to truly grow in knowledge...so i look forward to this thread growing with more knowledge, and synergy of minds. thanks

i will love this thread to keep going also but a lot of people don't discuss IT issues here and there are lots of experienced IT guys here which i feel we all can benefit from shared knowledge and resources.

I love what routik is doing which is sharing knowledge and asking questions. i dont know it all but i feel if we all contribute to the thread like ask question and gives answers, we should be able to expand our knowledge a lot

most blogger's websites

Tonto and others. Really??

symbianDON: Yesterday i posted reports that Ikonic Records which Durella is
under claimed that Durella Sold ”Blame It On The Money” To D’banj . After the news goes viral since yesterday night, Durella at the moment is claiming the song is his and that D’Banj jacked it from him. This is the second time D’banj will received scandal from
Durella.
Story has it that Durella recorded “Blame It On The Money” but his
previous label Ikonic Music didn’t release it. Then when they were ready to release it, Ikonic records claimed
Durella sold “Blame It On The Money” to D’banj.
Durella, according to tooxclusive.com, has denied selling his song
to D’Banj. He says: “I didnt sell my song to Dbanj. I only played the
song to his hearing once and the next thing I saw
was Dbanj ft Snoop Lion, Big Sean; he didnt even change the title of the song maybe cuz i told him
i dont know if I should release the song or not no wonder he told me I should not release it”
www.gistyinka.com/durella-accuses-dbanj-of-jacking-his-song-blame-it-on-the-money/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=durella-accuses-dbanj-of-jacking-his-song-blame-it-on-the-money

fake gist

routik: An average hotel in Abuja have good security more than some shopping malls in Nigeria. Especially in this era of BH.
I may not be right as well, I am just talking from the perspective of an entrepreneur who is operating in a survival mode.

Thats cool.have you seen the link samir kept on his comment? it has valuable information i think you will be interested in

routik: Some hotels have office space for annual rent, if you're getting 70%-90% power from PHCN, the hotel have their own personal Generator, you have a backup inverter and your own personal generator, what else do you need to convince a Nigerian client that you have 99.9% power supply?

security is another issue

will you tell clients that their data is stored in an hotel?

I am just thinking of the issues that could surround it. it does not mean i am right

routik: Here in Abuja, I don't have Electricity problem in my office. i can boast of 70% to 90% of power on daily basis, sometimes 100%. to make you understand better, i use N1000 in a week and sometimes it last for two weeks. If i can afford to get an Inverter with two batteries that can power my server,router, and AP for 24/48 hours, then i can boast of 24/7 power supply.
let me give you guys one secret: as an IT person try an get an office inside an average hotel. no matter how small the space is. in my own case, the hotel put on their generator from 6PM to 7AM daily. that's if there is no PHCN.

datacenters needs to be 100% online. if your clients cant access data while you are offline,you are ruining business for them. Having inverter is not bad. That link samir kept in hos post is very good and has lots of information.

using an Hotels' generator is bad for business.what if the generator spoil? do you know how much you will be paying for Hotel bills? If you going to do this and have many clients, you will still need to be validated. Clients will want to see where you are storing their data.

[quote author=mr.official]Ikonic records claims Durella sold it to D'banj so they released this.[/quote]why will they release a similar song when they know it has been sold to Dbanj? I feel they are up to something.trying to mess with Dbanj

Thats all i see as it does not make sense.
After all the hard work of making beat for Dbanj's song,with colabo with great artist and the song is making waves, another guy comes out with an identical song. Is there no honor among artists again?

Na wa oo. why will he bring this song out same time Dbanj brought his own out?

this thread should be deleted. the poster is high. you conspiracy theorist are now getting really annoying

Nigerians i hail ooo. Even after beating a team 6-1, you still rate them average.

routik: @Sky-walker
Thanks for your information, i'll check them out. For me, i want to run my IT firm like Coca Cola. coke is not for the rich alone. everyone can afford a bottle of coke. And Coke is not competing with Star, Gulder, Harp, and expensive wines out there.
my target is consumers (end users).
what do you guys think?

no bad though having your own firm.i was thinking about that when i came to Naija but electricity and slow internet is my own major issue especially when it comes to cloud services in naija.also i am not sure if Naija companies do outsource their IT dept as most companies does even rely on electronic data in Nigeria. Its just my own thought.i could be wrong though

i really had to look hard into the third picture before getting it