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All these Tecno paid marketers commenting... hmmm

silverkings:
Thank you very much for the explanation. I am grateful

What he explained is wrong. GDP and Local government have nothing to do with the Electoral College.

If popular votes were used to decide the US election, then politicians would only focus on states with large populations during their campaigns, and therefore, policies would favour those large states. So, the founding fathers of the US went with a voting pattern whereby smaller states would have a say in the election.

They did this by giving the smallest US state 1 house seat and distributed it across all 50 states according to population. Then each state must have 2 senate seat irrespective of population. So the senate seat + house seat = The Votes for that state.

So votes in each states are given based on popular votes in that state. So if a candidate wins majority of votes in a state, he gets all the electoral votes of that state. So it's winner takes all.

The smallest state in US has 3 electoral votes, while the largest state which is California has 54. If you do the calculation very well, you'll know that a vote of a citizen of the smallest state is approximately 3 times more powerful than that of a vote of a citizen of California. So Presidential candidates will focus on all states. No state is unimportant.

Peaceyart:
I am currently going through this. I know it's an old post but let me know if you eventually found any solution

Stay away from screen for some time; 2 weeks, a month, 3 months, depending on how serious it is. I stopped for 3-4 months actually, because mine was severe. You can make calls sha, and send voice notes, but limit texting or chatting.

Increase the font size for all your devices. I put mine close to the highest.

Make sure the brightness of your devices matches that of your surroundings. If you are outside during the day, increase the brightness to match. If you are in a dark room make sure you have an external light on, no matter how dim it is, then reduce the brightest to match that of the room. Limit operating your device in a dark room.

You can use dark mode but avoid black mode. Light mode is far better than black mode. Dark mode has grey background with light ash texts, black mode has a very dark grey or very dark blue or black background with usually white text. That combination can destroy your eyes.

Don't overfocus on your screen. After some minutes, focus your eyes on other things in your surroundings. That's what they call the 20-20-20 rule.

If you notice that a particular device is making your eye strain worse, change it. Mine was caused by my phone (One Redmi phone at the time). I had to change it.

I did a blue-cut lens with Astigmatism correction. I didn't think it did anything substantial, but I helped and I still use it only for screens. At least it made my vision sharper.

FashionCookie:
Exactly what I told a friend. He just dey follow me argue as if na him follow me go MTN office.
I just saved my breath. SIM that I linked, they blocked it.
As if everyone is that jobless to sit in their yeye office. Make them block am. My Glo sim is there.

I visited their office two weeks ago to link my NIN, and they confirmed the linkage was successful via message. However, later that same day, they unlinked the SIM, instructing me to return to their office to repeat the process. What do you expect from a company always having software issues.

godofuck231:
not even that , they had no counter snippers in place , it seems a clear case of planned assassination , very on point

They actually had a sniper locked on to the guy before he took the shot. I saw online that he asked for permission to shoot, he was ordered not to take the shot by the head of the secret service. He took the shot immediately after the assassin fired, disobeying the order. He got fired after, I think because he disobeyed. The blame should be on the Head of the SS.

pweetyoge:
Using pure water constantly for cooking, traffic, overtly expensive, stress, etc

That's unfortunate. We use the water here for cooking and washing. While it appears clear, it's evident it contains impurities due to its metallic taste, feel and occasional odour. Clean water is non-negotiable to me, and I would have also left. I plan to leave this island too. Also, the mosquitoes and overall conditions are not ideal.

pweetyoge:
Apologies for the late response, I often don't come on naira land as before. Original Dettol will work or izzal inside your bathing water.

Then find someone to wash the tank clean. Island water is actually very bad, it dealt with me and we had to move out.

Okay thanks a lot. If Dettol and Izzal worked for you, then why did you move out?

pweetyoge:
i think the water thing is a general phenomenon on the island because during my stay at yaba, i had very clean water. i am experiencing the same thing as the OP currently and i am fed up honestly. i have to use pure water to cook plenty times, i have to pour dettol in my bathing water because of my skin reacting to it, and for washing i can not escape it lai lai, my husband even paid for the tank to be rewashed but nothing changed. i am guessing it is only the water Filtration thing that can be done to curb the situation.

Greetings.
I've just moved to the island and started experiencing this skin reaction. My upper arm is pealing and has inflammation in some parts, and my face is bringing out Eczema. This is something I've never experienced before. Does Dettol work?
The house I live in has a filtration system and the water is transparent; Just that it's not that clean, because if you leave it for some days in a white bucket, the body starts turning brown. Also, the water has this metallic feel, That's the best I can describe it.

gift2xl:
All this trying to inform the US that him Putin knows the game.

Let me digress.

I pity the civilians that Nigeria want to send to SPACE, just know that you guys are not coming back.

That's if the rocket does not explode on launch

Dialpad:
I am not a woman so I am not sure of what usually happens to them.

Run away from married women it is not worth it.

The married woman is as complicit as the man and should bear the same punishment. If you tell guys to run away from married women, you should also tell the women the same thing. Also, Karma is only real if you believe it.

Dialpad:
I am 100% sure of one thing, if you sleep with a married woman, you WILL experience some setbacks in life.

financially things will just go wrong

No jokes ....

What about the married woman?

daniellzz:
Pls any advice is welcome. Did u find any solution? I've similar issue for more than a year, can't look at my phone for a min

What phone are you using? I stopped using my phone or laptop for 4 straight months. Neither eye drops nor glasses worked for me. Then, around February 2022, I resumed. I started using dark mode and Night mode filters on my laptop and started following the 20-20-20 rule strictly.

I later discovered that my phone was responsible for the whole thing. Once I started using my phone for some minutes, my eyes would start misbehaving, and then when I looked at my laptop, it would continue. So, it seemed as if my eyes were reacting to the screen, but it was actually my phone screen that started the reaction. I used a Redmi 9. I don't know if my eyes are reacting to the screen of that particular phone. I can't explain it. It doesn't affect me that much when I use other phones, but when I look at my Redmi 9, the pain resumes.

I installed all my main apps on my PC and only used my phone for bank transfers and making calls. Then, around July or August (I think) 2022, I used my phone to watch Stranger Things and House of Dragon (I mean all the episodes). That was one of the biggest mistakes I made in my life. The eye strain came back. I didn't use my phone and laptop for four straight months again.

To cut everything short, I got glasses with blue cut lenses in a hospital, then resumed my stuff. Well, I'm just using the glasses for fashion, not because they do anything special, and I only use them when operating my laptop and phone. I stopped using that Redmi 9, and I only use phones for bank transfers and calls (Just to be on the safe side). My eyes are not as strong as before. That phone really did a lot of damage.

Well, I'll say, stop looking at screens for at least four months, then change your phone or the device that triggered the whole thing, and use dark mode on your laptop. You can also use a blue light filter. Well, sometimes dark mode (black mode) can make the eye strain worse for some people. I think black mode is dangerous, but dark mode is okay. Don't use a program with a black or almost black background and white or bright text. The background should be grey, then the text should be light ash. Just know what works for you. For me, light mode is far better than black mode. Dark mode (grey mode) is the best for me.

Also, at night, don't look at the screen if there is no external light source. Your room brightness should match the brightness of your screen. Also, while outdoors, increase the brightness of your screen to match that of your environment.

You might go to a good eye clinic to get a lens. I think astigmatism increases your chances of experiencing eye strain. The one I use is a blue-cut lens with astigmatism correction. Your eye clinic can provide one that also has an anti-reflective property for you.

CharleyBright:
YoungMan, I am almost old enough to be your father, so I don't fancy your insults.

To start with, go back and read the story and tell me where in the story did they say it was off campus hostel?

The story says and I quote:

The disagreement between both students was said to have started over sanitation on school hostel where both of them habited, where Mark was said to be the hostel president.



Did the story say off campus or school hostel

Some of you young generation are blockheads with absolutely nothing upstairs and will be insulting your elders while forming you know something.
When I was in university, you probably haven't been conceived by your parents or at best you were playing with sand.
Because we are all on a faceless platform, you think you can be insulting your elders anyhow.
I am your mate?
If you see me physically, you will bow your head in respect and be calling me sir.
How dare you insult me.
Your parents didn't train you well.
MOronic pea-brained scallywag.

No need for insults. Maybe he meant student hostel

Offpoint1:
Bullcrap skit.... With that distance your phone cam can't pick voice that loud. That's sound coming from external mics.



When I become the president I'm banning skits, churches and mosque.

If you're making a skit you most identify it in your intro scene. when everything becomes skit it becomes very difficult for people to tackle a real life situation and that's disastrous for our society,

List of things I will do as a president:

*I'm banning religion (All religous house will be converted to technical and researcher centers)

*All land will be forfeited, there will be no buying and selling of lands. If you want to build, land will be giving to you for FREE and you're entitled to just 1 plot or max of 2 plots, unless you're building a factory you'll have more plots (Land is a free gift from God, selling and buying is a crime against humanity and God.)

*I'm banning bride price, that shxt is a crime. If you love each and ready to settle down, let the both family come together and bless the union. I don't care if the price is N5, there's psychological effects to things tagged with price. Human is not for sales.

*No prison for criminals, like rapist, kidnappers, murderers, human traffickers, robbers and corrupt individuals. Public execution by hot boiling oil and it'll be televised.

*No individual will be allow to have more than 100m in his/her account. Once you have 100m, whatever you made will be invested into building the country.

*I'm scrapping NYSC, turn the scheme to a compulsory 1 year skill acquisition program for all graduates and once you're done you're entitled to FREE 1m and 5m loan if you wish to take it...and established yourself. You're to start paying back the loan after 5 years and you have 10 years to complete it.

*Agro and Tech will be the new oil

*until the country is stable, no one will be allow to have more than 2 kids. Children might be blessings from God and the same time a threat to the society if you breed them like rats without the capacity to train them.

I have too many things to I will change.

Meaning you want to be a socialist dictator because that's the only way you can accomplish this. You'll probably stay in power till you die or till you're forcefully removed from power like other power-hungry dictators

I am looking to register for the GRE and TOEFL exams, and I believe the cost for each exam is approximately 200 dollars. My relative from Europe, has offered to send me the funds for the registration. However, I am unsure about the method I should use to receive the money and make the payment for the exams.

I am considering using Geegpay or Grey to receive the funds and pay with their dollar card, but I have not used either platform before. Alternatively, should I open a domiciliary account and pay with the bank's dollar debit card? I am also curious if ETS accepts payments through these cards.

For those who have paid for these exams in Nigeria, could you share your experience and the method you used?

Additionally, I am contemplating whether the Normal CBT edition or the home edition is better. Your insights on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Kajaard:
Yes you can use your national id card

Thanks a lot

Kajaard:
It's not difficult. Get your documents ready: means of identification e.g driver's license, one month utility bill showing your valid home address, 2 reference forms filled by people that have a current account( not savings account), BVN and NIN and submit at the customer care section of any branch. It takes 5 working days to be ready.

I don't have Driver's license. Can I use NIN or National ID card instead.

Kajaard:
You can buy crypto with a dollar or euro card linked to your dom account. You need your card for this.

Okay thanks. Hope government won't ban my account, since crypto transactions are banned in Nigeria

Kajaard:
No. You can only fund it with dollars.

Here is how you go about it: you purchase the dollars from the black market at what ever rate they are selling it and deposit it into your dom account. Whatever balance you have in your dom account is whatever purchasing power you have with your USD debit card linked to that account.

Can I buy crypto directly with a dom account or is there any other way I can convert it and then buy a stable coin, so I can sell through p2p and get naira instead of withdrawing dollar and exchanging through aboki

celestialAgent:
Buy tears natural eye drop; It helped me. Also, always go with dark screen mode and ensure true tone is always on.
Lastly, invest on screen/monitor with eye treatment.

Sorry for the late reply. Is the name of the eye drop 'Tears', or just the type. The one I've been using is Thea Efemoline. It worked a little sha, but it's finished.

I'm not used to dark mode, so I use blue light filter app and dim my screen to near low.

EzegeNdiigbo:
Dey use uri

What is uri?

Thmaartentrends:
Get anti UV Ray glasses..

That's photochromic glass. Didn't work.

I later found out that phone does not emit uv light, so it's really useless in this case. Except the fact that it has a green tint, that helps reduce blue light, but twilight and other blue light filter apps can do the job also.

I overused my phone and computer 2 months ago, so I developed eye stain. This has happened to me b4 like 4 times, but it wore off after 1 to 2 weeks of not operating my phone.
This one is worse. I can't look at my phone or laptop for more than 5 minutes without feeling pains at the back of my eyes.
I've gone to 2 eye clinics. The first one gave me a glass that magnifies text a little, didn't work. The other gave me a photochromic glass, didn't work.
I've tried blinking multiple times, worked a little. 20/20/20 is not possible, because I can't even look at my screen continuously for up to 3 minutes not to talk about 20 minutes. Eye exercise didn't work either. I stopped looking at screen for one week, then 3 weeks, didn't work.
Twilight app helped reduced my previous eye strain, but not this one.
I don't know if reading glasses or computer glasses will work. Some people told me to stop looking at screen for the next 3 months so my eyes can heal, but I'm a programmer so that's not an option. I don't have any other eye issue apart from this one. No photophobia or myopia.
Pls any advice is welcome.

McStoic:
You are a very funny and strange fellow. You spoiled your good deed by blaming the church and religion too? You deserve some systematic desensitization cos you must have been watching a lot of Daddy Freezesque videos and stuff..

So, it's the church and religion's fault for every poverty stricken fellow's predicament? What if he is not a Christian? When did the church become the government? When did the church become the ones that collects citizens' taxes? Do you understand that churches owe their first responsibility to those who are brethren indeed and not just any member?

Quit this your mentality cos it doesn't look good on you. Just imagine such sorry mentality??

Actually religion encourages its followers to grow and multiply, because children are a gift from God and God will take control of everything. So lots of parents use this as a reason to bring children into the world they can't take care of.

Kazim88:
The bolded is the secret weapon of every politicians globally and they would always be different cultures and ideology merge together. the only way out is for African masses to evolve but like you also said, Africans are not ready to evolve as a society that can look beyond tribal and religious sentiment.
The number of the very few that have evolved are too small to make any change.

My question to you is what is the way forward?

This is what I think. The problem is complicated, but the solution might not be. Old people don't really want change and they're not ready to learn. They grew up with the tribalistic, self-absorbed mentality, and young people copy from their elders. This process repeats generation by generation till we're doomed.
The thing is our elderly never laid any foundation for us, In fact they added more problems. During slavery era, kings failed to work together or merge their kingdom to regain control of shipping routes, rather they betrayed one another thinking the westerners are their allies until they invaded.
Before the scramble for Africa, signs were there of possible Western invasion of Africa, but due to selfish reasons and disunity, our traditional leaders failed.
During decolonisation, even the founding fathers we praised for independence failed to drop their tribal way of thinking. I don't know what they learnt abroad or maybe they were deceived that their culture is very beautiful. They would've known that a cultural revolution was important for Nigeria to work, else they would've opposed the conditions for independence in the first place. In fact they agreed to the division of Nigeria into three regions with different language and 3 major identities and built 3 political parties along the 3 tribal lines. What were they expecting, happy ever after! They even joined in rigging of the first Nigerian election. Founding fathers indeed.
Nigeria was failed from the very start. This is what caused the civil war.
Ironsi not jailing the coup plotters - The other group saw it as an attack on their own group, because the military leader didn't jail the coup plotters from his own group (tribe).

Massacre of igbos in the North - Because Northerners saw them as different.

Gowon giving more power to the federal government and failing to stop the slaughter. Ojukwu's jealousy for not being installed as the military general.

Nigerian military role in the civil war - This is were the military got it's present bad reputation from.

All because one group feel superior to another group and one group feel threatened by another group. It's identity politics.

Religious leaders encouraging people to bear the hardship, because they have sky mansions when they die. Mostly in the south, when thing go wrong, people just act as if it's not their business (And some people are shouting for united southern Nigeria Republic). Religion especially Christianity encourages greed and fear indirectly, but gives their members hope of a better tomorrow. You can't separate religion and politics. Political leaders oppress us and religious leaders encourages us to bear the oppression. They're doing the same thing differently - Keeping the system running.

The youth should know that they have no role model from the previous generations.

Democracy is good when majority of the citizens are well educated, informed and can think for themselves. African societies don't have these qualities. We celebrate people that can shout very well. People that think logically and behave civilized are classified as weak, people that jump queue and cut corners are classified as smart. We only complain when we're at a disadvantage, and that's only what we do "Complain" . People that speak dictionary grammars are hailed in universities. Our educational system is built in a way that people who can cram very well and answer past questions, have A's and are called scholars. People are not dedicated to their work, maybe because they're encouraged from a young age to pursue the money rather than the field they're interested in. This is why we have queues in ATM stands, poor security, poor electricity, poor maintenance culture, bad roads and massive corruption.
The few people that have evolved or want to be enlightened should form a group or an organisation (especially targeting very young people). They should start lecturing others on history, logic, discipline, how to be civilized, problem solving, personal independence (Don't accept free things, work for you own money), self respect, self dignity, respect for rights of other people (Stop playing loud music, don't disturb your neighbours, bad languages, lying and insults should be shunned from a young age, humility encouraged) maybe through social media or physical programs. The goal is to get as much people civilized as possible.
Then a political and cultural revolution can kick off (Can also be done by winning the election and starting the actual revolution). The thing is that most post independence leaders that had good intentions, were killed and their ideology dead because they didn't have strong backing or they wanted to be seen as heroes. This time there has to be strong backing (Something like an Epistocracy), people that can carry on an ideology regardless of whether their leader is gone and can't be influenced by mere emotional manipulation. Many people will die, political, religious and tribal leaders that feel their power is threatened will do everything possible to stop it. These are the sacrifices we have to make for greatness.

OChimex:
It is a almost a yearly thing. Have you forgotten just last year when they were killing fellows blacks, Nigerians too and burning down their cities?

It is a yearly thing almost. When someone continues to make the same mistakes often, the person is termed stupid and foolish.

These people do these out of fun, they love seeing their beautiful cuties destroyed. They hate progress and envy people progessing.
Just mark my words, they will repeat this carnage in a no distant time. Its not done out frustration, its done out of fun, wickedness and envy. They are just waiting for any slight opportunity to start the destructions.

South African government is at fault here. I don't know if they're forming democracy or the government is just plain weak, but even US government won't allow this. In US and most developed countries during protests, there are always riot police available, with tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets. That BLM riot was plain politics, if they were really serious they would've stopped it on the first day. Nigerian government would've followed the undemocratic method by using soldiers with live bullets.
The thing is whites see themselves as one, since they've a shared culture, religion, same dressing, though different languages but they chose English as their shared language. Blacks don't see themselves as one. We're suffering from identity crisis - No shared language, religion, dressing, culture, etc, and since our culture is still Primitive and we don't want to develop it, we're copying white culture. This leads to many things - Inferiority complex, internalized racism, identity politics. We attribute certain characteristics to certain Tribal or religious groups because of stereotypes and hate. The goal of a civilized nation is to have a shared identity and for citizens to judge themselves based on their individual identity and not based on group identity. In Nigeria we're proud of 400 tribes and languages, Afrcans are proud of 2000 tribes and languages. We're not ready for development yet.
People in a particular ethnic group see themselves as indigenes and others as foreigners and demand specific privileges regardless of if everyone in that community are citizens of the country. If someone in that ethnic group commit a crime, the person is bad. If someone of another ethnic group commit a crime, then that's how the entire ethnic group behave, they're Igbos - Robbers, drug dealers, Yorubas - betrayer, thugs, etc, Northerners - Terrorists, kidnappers.
Those uncivilised people that started the riot thought the former president was arrested because he's zulu, so zulus are under threat.
The only solution is for us to completely abandon our tribal and religious identity and pickup a common one - I mean a Cultural Revolution. The sooner it happens the better for the black race.

OChimex:
Just listen to yourself, do you have a working brain? You ended up doing what you accused others of doing...

You ended up correcting me using the same language... you accused one of....

Read the write-up I have again, take away sentiments, and see why no sensible human will do what those south Africans are doing to the country they live in and claim they love. Total destruction. ....

Only animals will cause such destruction to their country....

To be honest, your reasoning is so poor if you don't see anything bad and condemable with this destruction, instead you saw bad in my choice of words, leaving off the egregious acts of the foolish South Africans.

A poor population with very high unemployment rate and strong resentment for the government, that's a bubble already. All it takes is for a small group of thieves to start the looting and then it will generate into mass looting and destruction. It's called mob mentality and can happen anywhere in the world.

Volkswagen90:
the guy is saying the truth,south Africa is beautiful,our ancestors chase those oyinbo because what they will gain now look us,me i like beautiful environment o,las las na uk i go go settle.

Our ancestors didn't chase anybody away. UK granted us fake independence. No country will grant it's colony independence, you have to fight for it. That's why UK still controls Nigerian government indirectly, same everywhere in Africa.
Africa's problem is cultural. Every informed person knows that a nation can only flourish if it has a major common identity. As long as there are multiple identities, politicians will always look for a way to exploit it for their selfish gain.
Nigeria is weak because we have 400 tribes with 3 majority tribes, 2 major religions. That is nothing to be proud of. Almost all prosperous nations have 1 major ethnic group and 1 major religion. This minimises identity politics. Politicians will always look for a way to manipulate the system.
Our problem is not our leaders, because all governments are the same. Exchange Nigerian leaders with US leaders and vice versa, US will still remain the same, but Nigeria won't change because we have a docile, uninformed population, where most people care only about their personal interest.
I don't think breaking Nigeria will solve anything, or do you want to break it into 400 nations. Even inside a tribe, people still hate one another. Most races have gone through all these before. Europe had hundreds /thousands of tribes before they started merging to form States. It's just that Africans haven't evolved or aren't planning to evolve anytime soon. Only a cultural revolution can solve our problems (If handled by the right people). Well I don't see that happening anytime soon, but the sooner it happens the better for the black race.

OChimex:
I wonder why those fools chased oyinbo out of nigeria in 1960 in the name of independent? Imagine if oyinbos had rulled nigeria until 90's with the kind of money made from oil, omo nigeria for beautiful pass Qatar

Just look at how planned and beautiful South Africa is just because they allowed the oyinbos colonised them longer.... now the stupid black idiots are he'll bent on destroying these beautiful cities.

Remember that you're black too. If you call blacks fools, then you're also referring to yourself as a fool. Most Nigerians condemn other people apart from themselves, and they feel they know more than others and are quick to condemn other people, but they know almost nothing. Only idiots behave this way, that's why Nigeria is one of the biggest idiocracy in the world.

Zooposki:
That is why we have a brain drain. They should remain in Nigeria and develop their motherland. Hopefully they deport them back to Nigeria.

You want the little number of sane people to live with the crazy, corrupt, tribalistic, hyper religious majority. Nigeria is a democracy, which means majority rule.
Majority of Nigerians are not normal. The normal people want to leave because they're not recognised and can't function in a toxic environment.

DONFASZY:
Any instruction by Muhammadu Buhari’s Attorney General of the Federation to arrest and prosecute Nigerians still using Twitter is null and void and ultra vires. There is no law criminalising the use of Twitter, and Buhari cannot make laws. He can only implement them. The policy of the Buhari administration to suspend Twitter’s operations in Nigeria is not a law. It is a policy. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria guarantees all Nigerians the right free speech and freedom of association. Thus, ignore any such unlawful threats by Buhari’s Attorney General of the Federation

Does the Nigerian constitution guarantee that soldiers can shoot on unarmed civilians during a protest. Does the Nigerian constitution guarantee that soldiers can whoop people on the street like animals. But these things occur in Nigeria.

Open your eyes. You live in a lawless country and therefore you have no right.

DONFASZY:
Never [ever] underestimate the predictability of stupidity no matter how hard you try

Your levels of senselessness and insensitivity knows is beyond compare. Nobody will try hard to convince a rètard into believing anything because he is always neck-deep in ignorance and stupidity or foolishness .

Can u just admit to a wrong maturely