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Wait o, So you really do not know what that sentence means? Ok here goes . . . The satellite prevent deaths due to flooding and natural disasters by sending pre-warning signals before these disasters occur and NEMA can then evacuate the people in the area.

I do not know how else to explain simple English to you. I am still absolutely shocked that you do not get it.

kokogee:
Mr sombie; u'r really living up to your name. Does it mean that u could not explain how satellite controls flood as u claim?

somze :
So we should wait until every mouth has been fed before we launch a satellite that can prevent deaths due to flooding and natural disaster?

Are you just this silly or are you trying to make me angry? Please re-read my quote again and read your question. Where did I say Satellite control flooding?

Are we talking about NNPC or about power? Regarding NNPC though the PIB bill includes privatization of NNPC by dividing it into 5 different companies.

Regarding power, generation (and supply I think) is to be privatized. States can generate their own power too. Barring any issues from PHCN workers, NLC and Trade Union (who all oppose privatization) PHCN is to be sold in chunks and changed to fully merge with NERC as a regulatory body.

Another example of the useless Journalism we have in Nigeria. Note the following

GAR3TH:
Blackout Looms as Power Supply Drops by1,000mw

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/blackout-looms-as-power-supply-drops-by-1-000mw/97093/

The development has thrown Lagos State into almost complete darkness as electricity supply to the state, which hovers around 700 megawatts under normal situation, dropped drastically last night, while Abeokuta was also adversely affected.

This is just silly. Where did Thisday and Linka Ikeji get the 1000MW loss from? Does the distribution channel only supply power to the Lagos and Abeokuta? Is Lagos in complete darkness? Anyone here lives in Lagos?

It was learnt that Shell discovered “leaks caused by saboteurs stealing condensates from the Utorogun gas plant”, a development which affected gas supply from the plant. Shell has not officially reacted to the development, but unofficial source at the company confirmed the incident, saying the shutdown would last for only 48 hours for repairs to be carried out on the damaged gas pipeline.

If the above is the problem why is Jonathan being insulted? It seems CPC supporters just need an excuse to lash out. 

Gbawe:
Tell your hero (GEJ) to back the full deregulation of the power sector and I will "stop the hate".

Dude, if you have been sincerely following issues instead of seeking for an excuse to lambast Jonathan you would have notice He is doing just that.

kokogee:
Drop dry comments and jump offline as usual I wonder why your parent sent u to sch in the 1st instance. U cannot back up your statement with a reasonable argument?

I can't spend my whole day here. Anyway here's my summary of the wasted time spent interacting with you -

1. You spelled my name wrongly and sombeism isn't even a word.
2. I never said Satellites control flood. How you arrived at that is beyond me.
3. After I gave a link that explains what the satellites were for, what they will achieve and even included general criticism, you still needed further explanations on how satellite controls flood. I am absolutely shocked at your comprehension skills, reasoning and manner of approach.

In conclusion, I find that discussing with you is unhelpful and idiotic. You have no intelligence to offer and I tire easily. Now do not bother me any further. I will ignore you.

Great!!!

The Jihadist Dictator again Make we hear word jare.

kokogee:
Mr sombie; u'r really living up to your name. Does it mean that u could not explain how satellite controls flood as u claim? All u could do is copy and paste without even adding a sentense? What kind of ppl (that walk with their heads but think using their legs) do we have in our generation.

May God heal u (and others like u) of your 'sombieism'

Go back to whatever school you finished from and get a refund . . .

Nigeria recently launched two new observation satellites designed to assist farmers and help with disaster management, among other tasks. Experts say the new satellites mark a major leap forward for the Nigerian space program.

At the top of the sky, where space begins, two satellites are gliding into position, oriented by the glow of the galaxy and the uplink command from Abuja. This is Nigeria's space program.

This week, a team of rocket scientists in Africa's most populous country are guiding into place Nigeria's third and fourth satellites, fired into orbit last week.

The two satellites include the first built by Africans, but they are not for mapping the cosmos. They are for mapping Lagos, a megacity that seems as vast as the Milky Way.

As many as 17 million people live in Lagos State alone, a crowded constellation of humanity that has hardly been mapped.

Cameras perched on Nigeria's two newest satellites will allow municipal leaders to chart the city they preside over, says Steve Young, who is head of business development for the company that built one of the two satellites, Surrey Satellite Technology.

Lagos residents will directly benefit from their country's space program, he says, and governments presiding over Africa's other megacities may soon follow.

"We often take it for granted in industrialized nations that we have all this information, we have accurate maps, we have land registries, we have planning systems, we have precision agriculture systems. We have all this stuff in place, but for a lot of countries, they don't," Young noted.

But the new satellites, Nigeria Sat-2 and Nigeria Sat-X, will do more than photograph sub-Saharan Africa's largest city. They will take infrared readings of Nigeria's farms, and beam down data estimating next season's crop forecast. They will also offer farmers satellite data on where to apply fertilizer, and keep tabs on how Nigeria's desert areas are spreading.

When disaster strikes, aid agencies will rely on the photographs the satellites provide.

Up to now when confronted by disasters Nigeria has often relied on purchased photos from other satellites, says Umar Isah of Nigerian Communications Satellites. He says the two new satellites will boost Nigeria's space capabilities.

"So if we can have our own satellite? And apart from that the four satellites that Nigeria has built, Nigerian engineers work on that, and if we're able to be launching this, we're able to build another one side by side with the Surrey engineers. So at least in terms of human development it's something," said Isah.

That, Young agrees, is Nigeria's real space dividend. More than 40 Nigerian space engineers are studying for PhD or Master's degrees in computer science worldwide, he says. He says when they come home, they will be like rocket fuel for the country's fledgling high-tech industry.

"You are now beginning to train a corps of very experienced engineers, high-technology technicians, and people who are going to benefit the wider economy," said Young. "That also is a very good effect that the Nigerians get in investing in high-tech programs. They've got to develop their economy and that's one of the ways they do that is by doing this."

Critics say the space program is a prestige mission by Nigeria's rich elite. Four-fifths of the country lives on less than $2 a day, despite an unending flow of oil money.

Isah says Nigerians cannot let their problems on Earth stop them from exploring the promise of the stars.

kokogee:
The same story all the time. I now realise why GEJ called IBB his mentor; is like GEJ is about to take over the position of the most deceitful leader Nigeria ever had from IBB. Just that GEJ tell silly lies but more often than any other leader we ever had.

He made promises and never put strategies in place on how to implement the promises, all he does is make thousands of promises and business continues as usual.

May be I'm wrong, can sm1 tell me how launching of satellite stops flood when our drainage system and roads are terrible? How do Nigerian youths lives be improved in terms of education and jobs by GEJ's satellite nonsense? How do our electricity and water supply improve with satellite?

I only pity Nigerians/Nigeria, bcs it seems the situation will never change since Nigerians are so comfortable with the current situation.

GOD HELP NIGERIA ONLY IF NIGERIANS ARE READY TO HELP THEMSELVES!!!

So the Floods in Niger and Bauchi (not to mention neighboring countries like Senegal) were due to drainage Keep talking.

Get an understanding of Satellite systems before commenting on a public forum

bejeria101:
pple are hungry,unemployed you are launching satelite how does that put food on my table.nigeria and unfocused so-called leaders

So we should wait until every mouth has been fed before we launch a satellite that can prevent deaths due to flooding and natural disaster?

I am guessing no hungry or unemployed people existed when US, Russia, China, France, Japan, UK, India, Israel, Iran, Ukraine etc launched theirs.

Keep talking!!!

"Following the floods of last year, this administration in fulfillment of my statement that your lives have value in my eyes, developed and launched the NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X Satellites. These satellites were designed and built by Nigerian Engineers/Scientist in conjunction with British Scientist and will help, expand Internet Bandwidth, monitor the weather and provide early warning to prevent natural disasters like floods, crop monitoring and urban planning." GEJ

From President Goodluck's Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=701810990&sk=wall&ref=notif&notif_t=wall#!/jonathangoodluck

I don't think its a good move by Google. Handset manufacturing isn't their core business. Again it means they are now in competition with their partners on Android. . . This is a huge risk to take.

I'm amazed at the display of complete ignorance.

During Kerosene scarcity you all said Jonathan was clueless. Now he solves the problem by bypassing the distribution channel causing the scarcity and he still gets insulted.

To keep on top

namfav:
i tell you the comments by people from can and such organisations has p*ssed off alot of people, but the title of the thread is misleading

This is by far the most insane idiotic comments I have ever read. You have made the people on this thread an inch dumber by reading your comments. God forgive you.
Did CAN threaten muslims or call for war as this terrrorist Sharia council is doing? Does CAN not have freedom of speech to voice concerns about an issue?

dayokanu:
I love this kind of Fresh Air

afam4eva:
This one na fresh breeze.

It is time for Buhari apologists to grow up.

Ghanians need only identification to live and work in Nigeria. This totally contravenes agreements in ECOWAS. This is wrong.

texazzpete:
If GEJ has surpassed your expectations, then you have to question yourself.
His handling of the minimum wage issue was abysmal! Did it escape your attention that he finally bowed to reason just 4 hours to a major strike?

Boko Haram, 'neither here nor there'?! I don't blame you sha, you sit down in Lagos and so all the reports of death and destruction you read in the papers are just statistics.

Did it escape your attention that state government were the ones dragging the minimum wage payment not FG? Keep talking . . .

Nairaland could be an online political voice if we had more logical, constructive and respectful comments. However, as you can clearly see on this thread this is not the case.

Three main groups should shoulder the blame for this -

[list]
[li] Buhari supporters have no sense of dignity or respect whatsoever. They are lazy, frustrated, angry, vile, deluded, abusive, irresponsible and violent. These people blame Goodluck for everything, expecting that Buhari (if he were the president) would have waved a magic wand to solve the issues we have. Their only language is insults towards GEJ and his supporters. [/li]
[li] Then there's the tribal sect where one tribe derides the other. You hear more silly arguments about how one ethnic group is far superior to the other. Comments display hate, incitement and intolerance. There is no sense of nationalism at all with these people.[/li]
[li] Then we have the know-it-alls. People that are just too wise to consider or much less accept any other point of view on a matter[/li]
[li][/li]
[/list]

Politics section is dominated by people in these groups. As long as this continues I expect we would achieve little or nothing in contrubution to nation building.

Poor poor display by Chelsea

See how easy it is to split our defense?

Lucky one but good to see Drogba still hitting those.

Did that go in?

Sturridge just missed a good chance. We certainly need new players.

coogar:
so pedro and david villa played as what? defenders? nateevs keeps yapping like a wet puppy these days - it must be the excitement of the appointment of andrea villash-boash

Interesting perspective though think I understand what he meant. Villa isn't a natural winger but was used as such. Pedro is a winger.

dyabman:
juventus is after vidal and i think they are in talks already, how about lucho gonzalez?

@nateev

we need a winger as par we are playing in the EPL, are they players like Robben again in this world? just one sharp winger not a blunt one like Maluu-da : Maluu-ree

Dude get real. The guy is old jare.

dyabman:
lukaku bid official around 20 million source sky sport,

winger we need (2x)
winger we want (1x)
sing after me

More of a future than present player.

nateevs:
This wingers thing has been discussed extensively on here. It's a myth. What you need is intelligent play. A tactician who can work out how to play, wing play or not. With all the talk of Wingers stretching the game, ManU could not even light a candle next to Barca. They had four wingers in the team, Barca had none.

Wingers are great but I do not believe they are priority and I am very sure AVB shares the same opinion.

Shame I missed the discussion. Must have been stuck up in Politics.

I agree with you but remember the integral elements in Barca (manager inclusive) have been in the club for the last 10 years . . . just saying. The shortcut is to use wingers effectively. Anyway old gist.

We do not need Aguero, we need cheap players. We have got to watch our spending. Besides we have Drogba, Torres and Sturrigde. Vidal would be a good addition to the squad.

Meanwhile don't we need a defensive midfielder? Mikel and Ramirez weren't exactly comfortable in that position last season.

US, France and NATO should hold their heads in shame. This is an illegal war. AU has to stand up against these imperialist. No more foreign forces or fleets on African soil.

Hasn't Rajkovic been our player for a while now? Why does he need work permit?

I don't know who is in charge of our transfers but priorities aren't right. I feel we need wingers.

Malouda is spent and neither Kalou nor Anelka adequately covers the right wing. The trio should be allowed to leave in my opinion.

Remii:
as for those doubting Islamic Scholars contributions to the world, I do not intent to derail the trend by expantiting on that.

They contributed right. They invented/originated wrong.
Spot the difference. Now back to Islamic Banking shall we?

violent:
Oh shut your mouth gutter!

Oil companies should pay taxes and other duties to the government.  As part of a corporate social responsibility, they might pursue initiatives targeted at developing individuals.  Those initiatives could be provision of scholarships for orphans, support for people with terminal disease. . . .etc etc.

Oil companies shouldn't be building bridges or supplying you with electricity, you ídiot, that is the responsibility of your government!!!! 

That asides, if the structures you mentioned were by the federal government and not LGAs, since when did shell became the federal government?, . . .i think you should be the one doing your brain a favour!

So you define what sort of projects Oil companies are to embark on in an underdeveloped country? How dull are you? Support for people with terminal diseases I'm LMAO. When their business in these communities destroys livelihood, pollutes water and farmland, and is a health risk. You're truly a doofus that is alienated from actual ground experience in the Delta. Please lets discuss something else. I'm done with discussing ND related issue with people that rely on google for source of information.

Meanwhile if you had gone through the comments before hitting your keys, you would have seen that my response was to a Niger Delta brother misrepresenting a complex issue by throwing the blame on LGAs. If blames were to be apportioned LGAs would appear at the lower end of the list. Once again go to bed and save the rest of your brain.