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debosky: Anyways, at all at all na im bad pass.

Dog the bounty hunter is now in UK

hmmm. 14, 15 years old developed this?

Its about time

Bryan12: Isreal has no business with biafra

https://www.nairaland.com/653574/igbo-people-lost-tribe-israel

I guess thats why Isreal is being mentioned

What has isreal got to do with Biafra?

Republic of Biafra would establish and maintain a
very pro-Israel International Relations. Biafra would consider an
attack on Israel and the Jewish people as an attack on Biafra and we would respondwith an appropriate
measure to counter such a hostile
move from any quarter in the world. Biafra would consider Israel
both as a friendly and a brotherly
State. Biafra would provide Israel with all available resources from our
land to keep the state of Israel

The op is making correct sense. Everyone wants the title of their profession attached to their name (Same Bigman syndrome). Its funny as i saw one guys contact card and i was shocked. The titles the guy kept before his name and he advertised all his education and certificates in just one complimentary card. I was shocked.

mikkybrick: Yes O! Nigeria has bandwidth. Our problem is with the "Last Mile" to the consumer. Only big companies for now can pay for fibre optic last-miles, but depending on the service being rendered, low bandwidth and less "chatty" services would be made available. I believe all these will be catered for with time. Micro-finance banks could be considered Medium scale enterprises right? If i'm right, then i'll say MTN is already catering for SMEs.

This is seriously new to me. glad to know as i had a chat with a guy who as looking for a cloud backup for his organization only for him to tell me he receives 1mbps for upload speed.i told him to forget it. Like you said Big companies are the ones that can afford it.Yea Micro finance can be classed as that.Since you are in the field and you know more into microsoft and Vmware, how is the IT situation in Nigeria? Are there lots of companies using servers,exchange,Vmware, backup, Vpn and stuff like that or is it still restricted to the big boys? Are there any IT support companies in Naija that provide support to companies for the IT projects and stuff. I have been trying to find this information a while.Do IT guys get paid well in this fields? excluding the Cisco CCIE guys.

@ poster

Dont you have better things to do rather than starting another hate story about Dbanj



You are so old school you had to recycle this post that has been online since May 2012
http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/17265/3/exposed-many-lies-of-dbanj.html

Daimler Ben: What he's saying is that u don't know that developed countries also do the same.

Well, most developed countries have left the bottles drinks (igo) and they use cans which can be recycled long time ago. Any bottled drink is crush when it has been used.

mikkybrick: Yes and Nope. Yes on a minuscule scale, But mostly for their internal use. E.g MTN,Airtel n co building DR sites around lagos and planning on implementing BYOD for employees(utilizing Virtual Desktop). Certain companies (referred to as System integrators e.g PPC, Weco,Resourcery)are certified partners with Microsoft,VMWare,Cisco,NetApp etc. These companies purchase,execute, deploy adn sometimes manage these technologies on a large scale in Enterprises and Government agencies. These kinda companies are in my LOS too!

I don't know if you've heard that MTN has just lunched an Application in the cloud (XaaS) - software for Microfinance banks. There are much more coming. I'm privy to information that another Nigerian Telco is seriously seeking to enter the cloud services space in Nigeria. These guys already have the financial muscle, communication infrastructure(fibre connectivity et al) and Data center to install.

Other multinationals(I wont name the companies) are thinking of building Cloud services data centers in Nigeria or partnering with Telcos, with DR sites in other parts of the world. The world around us is changing, how we conduct business is also changing, Nigeria isn't going to be left out!

Cloud services in Naija? how do they cope with bandwidth? I am really enjoying having this conversation as i have tried trying to understand technology in Nigeria and talk to IT pros in Naija but everyone is all about Cisco. Are this technologies available to Small to medium enterprise companies? or its just the big companies still running it?

Are ISP AND Telecoms providing Vmware and citrix services in Nigeria?

ochallo: Don't say what you don't know Mister.

what are you saying? that i dont know that traders return bottles to coca-cola and its being re-used?

to be honest, we dey try for Nigeria. I mean refill bottles of coke and sell it again.Men this guys wont try this in developed countries

I think i understand your career path. You are more interested in telecommunications companies or ISP companies. Then i think you fine with Cisco and Linux.

I dont know how it works in Nigeria but telecomms and ISP companies dont provide services related to citrix and vmware or even Microsoft. its most IT support companies that do that mostly here in UK that do the setup for SME companies. They might use it inhouse but not to providing services customers.

I dont work for ISP or telecoms as i know their stuffs are heavily on Cisco. I work for a SME company providing service inhouse for thier servers

In regards to what i said about cisco. what i meant is only one cisco router, and the switches are other cheaper vendors.I have hardly seen companies that stack up their network devices with just Cisco products apart from multinationals that have big budget for their IT department. In my Organization, we use just 1 Cisco router and the remaining switches are netgear.

mikkybrick: @sky-walker
I already made up my mind since not to write the VMWare exam, but to get the knowledge. Usually, it's the individual's company that arranges and pays d fees for the qualifying VMware authorized course in order for their staff to be VMWare certified.

As per the others, i'll work on consolidating and solidifying my skills. It's just painful that there's a limit to what one can do with GNS3 for cisco labs e.g for Emulating Cisco IOS-XR and IOS-XE, Multilayer switching et al. I'll stick to my plan for cisco - (1)written (2)design.

I guess less socializing and more Labbing is way to go

You right about Simulations. I started with simulators for cisco and when i got to the real world, its different and i was able to develop myself in Vmware and microsoft because i have servers at home i can configure for lab. I left cisco due to not having enough device to play with although the knowledge of networking helped me in others. Seriously, i will advice if you can get equipments, that will be nice.

Lastly, i think its Nigeria that is more into Cisco a lot. Lots of companies just use Cisco router for thier gateway and use cheapers vendors like netgear which are easy to configure and easily replacable. Unless you want to be a cisco architect, going as far as CCIE is way to over in my own opinion. Most companies now are moving into Microsoft, Vmware, Citrix which is not yet common in Naija. I feel if you go into Vmware and Citrix, you will have better chance because last i heard, almost everybody is cisco certified in Nigeria. You got to find what make you different and since you can do lab work at home with Vmware ,citrix and microsoft, i will suggest you go more into that but also still expand more on Cisco.especially troubleshooting cuz that where IT staffs are needed, For Cisco Designs, people go for IT pro with vast knowledge and experience in the field and its all this big multinationals that can afford all cisco devices.

take dat: keep on exploring your ignorance by posting disinformation. There are many reputable medium in the UK that would have disseminated this news if it was credible. Since you are accustomed to[b] beer parlour gist and Abe-Igi rumours [/b]I will leave you to wallow in your ignorance

It depends on you.i would say you dont need to do the exam if you dont have the funds now. You can play with it and create a lab and understand it. Once you go for your interview, you can defend it. I work with Vsphere 5,Server and exchange and i only have CCNA,CWNA and active directory.I learnt everything myself.CWNA is not even being used at all. The truth is,you have the tutorials. have a general knowledge of all of them, when you move to another company and see other technologies,you can build on your basic knowledge. There is no point in you specializing in different technologies when you not going to use them

@Mikkybrick

I feel you but the truth is, you cant learn everything. If you want to learn all this. You'll have to move from one company to another that uses different technology. As for Vmware. if you could explain what u meant by u need to pay $5000 for instruction led course as i know someone who did the exam and i don't think he spent that much.

I dont know if you have small budget to buy server. That's what i did. Bought a server and install Vsphere the free version on it and i could run virtualization and at the same time learn server and exchange on it.once you want to go into stuff like DRS and Vmotion,change your license to 60 day evaluation and play with it. Why i say this is to improve your troubleshooting skill in your lab environment as thing are bound to screw up when setting them up.

As for certifications, I wont advice you to do certifications up to the final stage till you are sure you will use it at work. If you dont use them after a while, you will forget.The basics of each of them is fine so its shows you are exposed to this technology.ts Nigeria that is so obsessed with Certifications. In most countries, its your experience that matters a lot and your exposure.i use to read some job opening in Naija and i will see about 15 certifications.




In General, i love your zeal men and i know its difficult in Nigeria but just keep pushing.If you feel you good enough start your own company. You could just master one aspect of technology that is not that rampart in Nigeria and you can make a living of it if you can proove its worth to an organization

lol I guess Stella Dimoko-Korkus is furious wherever she is right now.

David mark.. you fall my hand. Is this what we really need? More states and more embezzlement

So inappropriate language is now Racial slur?

namski: Exhibition of ignorance part 1. A girl that has gone to seek investors for her business has turned a beggar. Any wonder why we are refered to as third world - it's very much deep rooted going by comments here. Talk is cheap afterall!

You cant blame most of them complaining. In the future when Dupsy become successful in the business, they will say she is illuminati

occam: You're quite correct; it's all entertainment.

Personally, I find it condescending and patronizing. Couple of rich white folks helping a talented, young, black lady grow her business. Gimme a break! Life just not like that for black folks in any white dominated country. And telling her personal story seems so fake and scripted.

Why should any smart business person invest without getting answers to critical questions about revenue generation, plans on getting customers, overhead costs, potential profit etc. Instead the focus is on her personal story.

Sourcing for INTERNS through a website? Really! How many businesses will fork out 100 pounds per month just to get access to interns? Even if she gets 100 customers (a highly optimistic number), that's only 10,000 pounds a month. How is this biz going to pay for itself? Clever girl. I think she'll just take the 50k and invest in some other biz.

Hopefully, the publicity generated on dragons den may help attract visitors to the site in the short term only. Generating and sustaining traffic to a online business is very EXPENSIVE. Building the web tools and platforms is only the beginning.

The whole things looks like a sham designed to attract young black audience for Dragon's den. Period.

Yea yea, what has race got do with it? Have you heard of levi roots? mayb you read about him and how the show has been successful with entrepreneurs before complaining that the show is a sham to attract black audience. What has black got to do with it?

You asked how will the biz pay for itself? Have you heard of websites like Linkedin, reeds,Jobsite, milkround? These are similar websites and Linkedin charges some companies in order to get access to people's resume.Lots of companies use Linkedin to find candidates. Dupsy own is different as it targets mostly Fresh Graduates

Its funny when people just put race into something that its got nothing to do with it

solomon111: But you just said that you are not yoruba.
This goes to show the low level of 'class' that yoruba women are known for.
Shame on you.
PS:You definitely do not want to enter a competition with me on which ethnic group is more academically sound.
Maybe you should ask your fellow tribalistic superiors.

CuntDestroyer: OP got it right. With her education she shuld pitch her portfolio to investors or a loan manager at least. Yes she is begging

How did the op get it? You think she went there to get £50,000 or to make contact. Did you not see she picked who she wanted at the end?

You think every successful business is all about money? or you were hoping for her to start the website in Naija?

The poster na real Ode. Your mates are starting business and going into entrepreneurship, you are here on Nairaland beefing,saying she is begging for money.

I dont understand how this genotype works. In Uk,people don't even know about it

Stupid man talking. Are Nigerians not one of the most hard working people around.WTF is wrong with this bastards who steal money and believe everybody is below them?

A little girl at the centre of a 'bizarre' tug of love baby scam will finally today be returned to the London couple who believed she was their miracle baby.
High Court Family Division judge Mr Justice Coleridge said the 21-month-old little girl should live with the couple who were the victims of greedy international child traffickers who charged them £6,000 for fertility treatment.
The 'God-fearing couple' identified only as Mr.S, 51 and Mr. S, a 50-year-old teacher, had been duped by Nigerian conmen into believing the child - 'O' - was the result of a miraculous conception.

They were a couple of the highest calibre and complete integrity who unwittingly had become 'victims of the most appalling scam,' said the judge.
After a long legal battle, the judge has given his approval to O going back to the couple as special guardians and they may be allowed to adopt her later.

He said the couple had conducted themselves with complete dignity and although victims of a scam it had achieved what they wanted most of all 'to have a child to look after.'
He went on: 'It is perfectly plain the mother now fully appreciates what was going on and what she has been involved in.'
'On the face of it, the mother from what I know seems a good and experienced mother.'
The judge said the 'unfortunate' childless parents were 'happy' to be appointed special guardian for the moment and to be able to raise the little girl as their own . It was also important for her to be in a settled home.
The couple's ordeal began in 2010 when Mrs S travelled to Nigeria to the God's Gift Maternity Clinic in Port Harcourt, to undergo fertility treatment after failing to conceive in the UK.

The Nigerian couple came to live in England in 1987, and after spending nine years as a couple married in 2002.
After fertility treatment had a severely disabled daughter in 1994 who died in 2009.
So desperate, 'to the point of obsession', to have another baby it is claimed Mrs S was drugged and led to believe the new born baby she was handed was hers.

But after returning to the UK and following a visit to her GP the doctor alerted the authorities of his suspicions that things were not all they seemed.
The local authority became involved and following DNA tests it was clear that Mr and Mrs. S were not O's biological parents. 'The mother was apparently stunned when she was told the results,' said the judge.
It was confirmed that the 'birth' had been 'staged' in Nigeria and that the child had been stolen or bought from unknown parents in Nigeria. The local social services then took O into care.
In a statement Mrs S told the court: 'In January 2011 during what I perceived to be the birth of O, I recall a doctor inducing labour through intravenous drip and I experienced what was labour, a very traumatic delivery and a baby was presented to me covered in blood as would have been normal in a delivery room.
'I felt all the natural manifestations of labour and delivery and my baby, O, was presented to me in the manner described.'
She added that after fully cooperating with the DNA test and learning the results and when O was taken from her 'my whole life has been shattered.'
She felt as if she had suffered the bereavement of her first daughter all over again.
'In short, I have been depressed and traumatised.
'We have struggled to maintain any level of sanity as I am now convinced that I have been a victim of a very serious fraud by those who have exploited my vulnerability and infertility for their own financial gain.'
The judge said the question for him to decide had been whether Mrs S took part in the charade or if she was an innocent victim.
The judge said Mrs S 'also described to me how she had been given tablets by the clinic to help with the production of milk for breast feeding and that she had in fact breastfed within hours of the child's birth.
'She ended by emphasising that she had been duped and that at no point did she believe at the time she was involved in a massive con.'
Mr S had also given evidence that he thought his wife was pregnant as she had put on weight, and was suffering from fatigue and other symptoms associated with pregnancy. The couple had a strong faith and believed in the power of prayer.
The local authority's approach has always been that the mother was a knowing participant.
But it was argued that they ignored the fact that Mrs S was a parent who had suffered a tragic loss of one child and had been desperate for a second child for a number of years.
The judge said Mr and Mrs S were honest witness: 'Both she and her husband were hoodwinked and are innocent victims so far as their involvement in these matters is concerned.
'They neither knowingly participated in the wrongful removal of the child from her natural mother nor in the wrongful importation of her into this country.
'The highest it can be put, as I find it, is that the mother unwittingly took part in an unorthodox adoption process surrounded by an elaborate piece of play acting.'
O is currently a stateless child but it was hoped her immigration status would be resolved shortly.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2222943/Couple-win-right-adopt-toddler-Nigerian-fraudsters-convinced-miraculously-conceived.html#ixzz2AJLRaBus

this woman sound like a gbeborun woman.