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timosky1:
War is brewing and the militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have asked residents around major oil and gas facilities across the region to evacuate with immediate effect in order not to end up as casualties of militancy.



Announcing the order, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM) said all marked facilities in the region have been rigged with explosives at strategic points, waiting to be detonated, adding that the detonation was being held back because of the people in the environment.

Lmao fools. If it's exactly how you claimed, then expect no shiit to happen.
First of all the military should deploy radio signals jammers because according to the post, such explosives are going to be remote controlled. Then the EOD department should carefully sweep the environment.
If we do not have radio jammer lol obviously we do. The Nigerian Military should Cover such area with aluminium. They block radio waves. Just construct something like Faraday's cage. I don't know but i find this topic to be hilarious.

Intelligence community investigating covert Russian influence operations in the United States
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions, intelligence and congressional officials said.

The aim is to understand the scope and intent of the Russian campaign, which incorporates cyber-tools to hack systems used in the political process, enhancing Russia’s ability to spread disinformation.

The effort to better understand Russia’s covert influence operations is being spearheaded by James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence. “This is something of concern for the DNI,” said Charles Allen, a former longtime CIA officer who has been briefed on some of these issues. “It is being addressed.”

A Russian influence operation in the United States “is something we’re looking very closely at,” said one senior intelligence official who, as others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. Officials are also examining potential disruptions to the election process, and the FBI has alerted state and local officials to potential cyberthreats.

The official cautioned that the intelligence community is not saying it has “definitive proof” of such tampering, or any Russian plans to do so. “But even the hint of something impacting the security of our election system would be of significant concern,” the official said. “It’s the key to our democracy, that people have confidence in the election system.”

I find this hard to believe . Soldiers under the amphibious arm of the Nigerian army should definitely be good at swimming and moreover the Nigerian Navy should take over riverine patrol if the army can't keep up with it. The navy is capable of operating both on water and land.

Hmm. Hyped.

Standing5:
Following bumper to bumper.
If I get what you are saying, you are pointing out the need to process relatively raw materials into value added products. Example is crude oil being refined into petrol, diesel and kerosine. The processing of crude can give us more jobs instead of selling it in its raw form of crude for less.
Good thread. I hope those shouting APC 'n PDP learn.
One factor holding us down is the issue of abused subsidy system. In developed countries subsidy is tailored around productivity and not consumption. Take the case of dollar for example. The govt in time past decided to be selling part of excess petrodollar and flooded the fx market with it at a cheap rate. This meant when dollar ought to be exchanging for say, N450 and above it was going for N150 because the govt was in the habit of selling excess petrodollar at around N150. This single act meant the govt started subsidizing anything being imported with dollar. It is common knowlegde that we consume alot of foreign items. This subsidy over time has discouraged export of ideas/services and products. Imagine a farmer that exports honey or moringa, or even programmer/blogger/web developer who exports his or her service in exchange for say $1,000 per annum. Instead of getting $1000 X N450 = N450,000.00 per annum in Naira equivalent he/she gets $1000 X N150 = N150,000.00. This has discouraged productivity while encouraging consumption of foreign goods.

nice analysis. Thanks for the comment.
On the petroleum issue, if our petroleum export contributes up to 90% Of our economy does this mean Nigeria will be competing with Benin republic without oil? We can see how the economy got into crisis with the Niger delta issue.

Henry240:
A UCAV does not provide Close Air Support. What's the payload of a UCAV, how many 30mm's does a UCAV carry?

You don't call in a drone to provide CAS when you're pinned down. UCAV are primarily designed to carry out targeted strikes, this is because of their long endurance capability.


ISTAR and Targeted strikes and that's it.

Am sorry but MQ-9 is designed to provide close air support. MQ-9 has close air support capability.
http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/FactSheets/Display/tabid/224/Article/104470/mq-9-reaper.aspx

Sorry for any Issue in the write up. I am not an Economics student nor art.

FORGET ABOUT PETROLEUM; Diversity Is The Way!
Fasasi Tosin.
This write up is based on the dwindling economy of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria.
The write up will be making use of personal opinions and other reference from speeches and write up from various specialists such as Ricardo Haussmann speech.

What really inspired me with this write up is a post which claimed Nigeria isn’t really affected by the fall of oil price but due to series of attack on oil installations. Many of you may be expecting me to probably write on the solution to the Niger delta crisis but I am so sorry to disappoint I won’t be doing that. My write up will be on bringing Nigeria back and better than it has ever been.

Almost nothing in economics is more important, or mysterious, than productivity. It means the amount of stuff -- goods, services, economic value -- produced for a given amount of input. It is productivity that separates today's rich, modern consumer societies from subsistence farmers living on the edge of starvation. The Industrial Revolution created technologies such as electricity, turbines and internal combustion engines that supercharged productivity, which is why we live incomparably better lives than those of our great-great-grandparents. If productivity slows, we can expect our living standards to stagnate, no matter what other steps we take.
To put Nigeria on a sustainable growth trajectory one needs much more than sound economic policy. Any policy can be reversed; any incentives for growth can be dismantled. Therefore, we need to build a country whose institutional set-up is unparalleled.
Businesses must be agile in order to both respond rapidly to all the forces pressing down on them and find the talent required to drive growth. And becoming agile means embracing a multitude of work models and talent sources (full-time and part-time workers, contractors, virtual employees, talent pools that are under-leveraged and creative crowd sourcing) to tap a wider range of skills.

Now is the time we should get the Nigerian Economy up and not thinking on getting the Nigerian economy
I looked at Singapore, a country of 5,664,332 people with limited non-renewable natural resources. How did a country with such limited natural resource experience huge growth? Singapore even without her port will experience huge growth. I looked at Germany and I found the solution to be diversity. Manufacturing, ICT, Industrialization all contributed to the success of the countries.
On the other hand, Nigeria as a country[b] according to Wikipedia[/b] is a middle income, mixed economy and emerging market, with expanding financial, service, communications, technology and entertainment sectors. It is ranked as the 21st largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP, and the 20th largest in terms of Purchasing Power Parity. It is the largest economy in Africa; its re-emergent, though currently under performing, manufacturing sector is the third-largest on the continent, and produces a large proportion of goods and services for the West African sub region. Like I stated before manifesting seems to be one of the best way to influence a nation’s economy growth.

Now let us take a look a look at Nigeria Export. I will be putting u a data representation picture from 2011 but will be giving out the 2014 statistic.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Nigeria_Export_Treemap_%282011%29.png
In 2014 the top exports of Nigeria are Crude Petroleum ($74B), Petroleum Gas($13.2B), Refined Petroleum ($4.23B), Pyrophoric Alloys ($1.9B) and Special Purpose Ships ($1.25B), using the 1992 revision of the HS (Harmonized System) classification. Its top imports are Refined Petroleum ($7.83B), Cars ($1.75B), Wheat ($1.46B), Motorcycles ($877M) and Iron Structures ($780M). Does this mean Nigeria will be broke without oil? Obviously yes we can all see how the economy went down drastically therefore leading to the current economy recession. Our export in 2014 TOTAL: $99.7B in which total from oil total estimates ($91.43B) Making petroleum 92.2% of our total export. Our dependency on oil leaves Nigeria vulnerable to economic crisis.
Here is Germany and Singapore who diversified their economy.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Germany_Product_Export_Treemap.jpg/770px-Germany_Product_Export_Treemap.jpg
Germany
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Singapore_Export_Treemap.png
Singapore a country with limited Natural resources.

What is the difference? These countries invest in Production and manufacturing.
Manufacturing and Production are the key to diversity.
To diverse the Nigerian economy will be the best option in bringing the nation up back to its best. My opinions will be treated as follow.
Using scrabble as an example I will be explaining how growth can be achieved by diversifying the Nigerian economy using the concept of production space methodology
How much you know is equal to how rich your country will be and how much jobs will be available for your citizens. The greatest asset of emerging markets is their people, so it is essential that the workforce has the right skills. If they do, individuals can access more job opportunities and the wider social development benefits that come from sustainable employment, while businesses have more opportunity to grow, driving wider economic growth in turn.
Let us take a look at Nigeria's manufacturing and production sector.
Looking at Nigeria’s production and manufacturing sector statistics, production in Nigeria decreased 10.10 percent in the first quarter of 2016 over the same quarter in the previous year. Industrial Production in Nigeria averaged 1.79 percent from 2007 until 2016, reaching an all-time high of 20.10 percent in the first quarter of 2011 and a record low of -10.10 percent in the first quarter of 2016.
Source: Industrial Production in Nigeria is reported by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The manufacturing sector accounted for 9% of GDP during 2013 compared to a previously thought 2.5% prior to rebasing. Growth in the sector has been rapid at a pace of almost 18% p.a. during 2011-13, although it is hampered by supply bottlenecks, including disruptions to the electricity supply. The food, beverages and tobacco sub-sector is the most important, accounting for more than half of nominal factory output. The textiles sector is also significant, accounting for about a fifth of production. Automotive manufacturing is becoming a more prominent sub-sector with Nissan delivering its first made-in-Nigeria cars during early 2015. Local company Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing also produced its first passenger vehicles – said to conform to international standards – late in 2014. Elsewhere, pharmaceutical production has received a boost from the World Health Organisation (WHO) with the certification of three local companies in accordance with good manufacturing practice standards, with four companies now able to produce medicines for malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis for the international market. Generally, industrialisation is low outside of the oil and gas sector due to a lack in competitiveness of manufactured goods compared to imported items. The cost of production, packaging options and quality of products are some of the challenges facing Nigerian factories. As a result, manufacturing capacity utilisation has been below 60% over the past five years compared to +80% readings in countries like Ghana and South Africa. Nonetheless, the sector still has a greater potential for job creation than extractive sectors due to the labour-intensive nature of local production. The country’s large population – the biggest in Africa – keeps employment costs low. Now let us look at our raw materials import and export rate
In Nigeria the problem is we think we are good with what we do, we think our manufacturing sector is diverse enough. Yes we do think so because we have oil to keep our economy booming therefore leaving us not to think of other sectors. Nigeria is a country with many natural resources but my question now is do we even know what the natural resources are used for? Do we know what we can produce with them? Nigeria natural resources include Cassiterite, Clay, Dolomite, Gold, Lead/Zinc, Marble & Tantalite, Iron-Ore, Manganese and others. Recently a rare type of Nickel was discovered in Nigeria and I can see some blogs talking about how it will boom the economy by selling. My question remains how do we progress when we keep selling everything we have? What happened to our own productivity knowledge? Nigeria as a country should go deep into deep manufacturing. Nigerians always come out great at the African standard however we never be great until we start welcoming innovative ideas and having the need on why certain things should be done.
We manufacture cars but most of of the parts used are not manufactured in Nigeria. We think we are good at manufacturing but what we produce and manufacture are also being produced by other countries which I may consider poor in comparison to Nigeria. I am not asking us to specialise in any manufacturing aspect I am just saying we should diversify our economy by having different capability

Ricardo Haussmann said in scrabble,if you only have one kind of letter, you're mostly going to make one kind of word. But if I give you more letters, you get an increasing number of words diversification of what you do and longer words, more complex products. For example the most diverse country in the world is Germany, and there are very few other countries that are able to do the things that Germany is able to do. While the poorest countries in the world make few things and they make things that everybody knows how to make. Hence they cannot be productive they make shorter words. So the more letters you have, the more complex words." Nigeria is a country whose economy I will call replicative and not innovative. We need to concentrate more on our product space and also focus on the need for capability in relation to supply of capability. The issue is our existing manufacturing and production sectors are not adding new capabilities.

Using Ghana and Thailand as an example, I will explain how diversity can help in the growth of a country.

Let us take a look at Ghana and Thailand Economy. In the year 1965, Ghana and Thailand had a similar GDP PP with Ghana having $295 and Thailand $363. While Ghana invest in Education Thailand Increased her space production capability.
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Ghana and Thailand have both invested in education over the last four decades, and according to the top graph, Ghana has actually produced more education than Thailand in that period. Thailand has succeeded in developing much wider productive capacity than Ghana, which has seen advances followed by declines. Thailand has greatly increased its GDP per capita while Ghana remained rather static.
The amount of knowledge embedded in a society, however, does not depend mainly on how much knowledge each individual holds. It depends, instead, on the diversity of knowledge across individuals and on their ability to combine this knowledge, and make use of it, through complex webs of interaction.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/2012_Ghana_Products_Export_Treemap.png
Ghana Export.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/2014_Thailand_Products_Export_Treemap.png
Thailand Export.

My opinion.
Cc: TonyeBarcanista

Henry240:
UCAVs are not a force multiplier. You cannot use UCAVs in CAS, only helicopters and fighter jets can do that. As such a UCAV cannot replace an attack helo.


Infact, UCAVs are overrated, what any the air force needs is additional UAVs. Targets coordinates that are acquired are then shared with the fighter aircrafts which then executes.

Sorry but how are UCAV overrated? UCAV will deliver at the same precision a helicopter will without putting human lives at risk. UCAV are taking over from helicopters in combat except during escort with a transport helicopter.
Fighter jets still remain the only platform that cannot be replaced by drones and MQ-1 predator will perform CAS. I see no reason for a UAV when a UCAV will do better? It's Just like an unarmed A-jet flying with ISR.
I will love to know your reasons.

Henry240:
There's Kwara, the logistics home of the NAF. G-222, Donier, basic trainer aircrafts are based there, although people would consider Kwara as North-Central. I also think Ibadan, not sure though.


The Army does not operate any Helos yet, although they are in the process of setting up an Aviation unit. They got pilots in training in Enugu, and mechanics who currently work with the NAF.

Thanks. Not sure there is any NAF asset in Ibadan with what I have seen there. We really need more equipments. Probably UCAVs. UCAV should be able to replace some attack helo at base where we have combat aircrafts on ground.

months:
Those tank are no match 4 militant sophisticated weaponry.

What a dumb post. BHT doesn't even operate ATGM . Militants can't get hold of it.

Henry240:
Assets deployed to the 97 Special Operations Group, Nigerian Air Force Base, Port-Harcourt.

3x MI-35 Helicopter

2x Airbus EC-135 LUH

1 Beechcraft King-air350er ISR aircraft

2x Alpha jet




-Port-Harcourt Air Force Base runway

Is Lagos airport the only one equipped with NAF assets in south west? Does the Nigerian army operate any combat helo?

Nigerians no wonder Kenyans decided to buzz us off on twitter. How's it my business if it's Obasanjo, Jonathan or Buhari that brought it in into the country?
The fact remains our money was used. It was tax payers money. Nigerians with lack of value, Tchewww.

Proudly Nigerian.

CSTR2:
I doubt that Mr femi.
Their economy is more sophisticated, more diversified, though smaller. Their ICT sector is probably the best in Africa.
Their Currency is competing favourably with the dollar right now, and the standard of living is increasing steadily.
Nigeria is the complete opposite.

Don't tell me nonsense. Don't try comparing the Nigerian economy to Kenyan. Even Tanzania that's growing rapidly is still far behind. Haha Nigerians still earn high respect abroad with the economy situation. We are on top of the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWXkepwOD2s

Wingback:
And how exactly has the father of quantum physics affected you positively in your day to day activities?

Nice question you asked him. Your smart phone. Your eyeballs. Digital cameras. Definitely the little Flash cards used to store all your camera's photos and your phone's apps. But seriously, every transistor is a quantum mechanical device. As is any device, your eyeballs included, that can convert a stream of photons into an electrical signal.

Wingback:
What college do you attend?

University. SAU

Bossmd:
Check my Screenshot, You can only use Apple Store in USA but I'm using it in Nigeria....You can only use Spotify in the USA but I'm freaking using it in Nigeria! Dude, Apple users are smart! They are Boss Niggāzz!! There ain't nothing an American iOS user does that I don't fvcking do!!

No biggie. Anyone can do that. Just buy the american Version.

Henry240:
Not true. We have the TRACON system providing 360 all round radar coverage of Nigeria. Before they get into our Air space, the air force would have mobilised intercepts from maiduguri.

We don't yet have the JF-17, however, with the F-7s, it's still the same idea. Also bear in mind our F-7s can be armed with potent PL-9C missiles which we have in service.

Oh good then. Thanks for the reply.

giles14:
dat not withstanding our incoming jf17 blk2 is more advance than d Chadian mig 29 period.

lol. Did you get me at all? The Mig will be out of our territory before the JF-17 arrive.

Odunayaw:
ooto ni
I just typed dat like de will at HQ(At least d former ones I know of)
I mean what is wrong in tossing them in Ogunpa River and buying pantsyr

lol. You must be from Ibadan.

giles14:
chad mig 29 is not a threat.with d arrival of our jf17 blk2/3. dat threat is been taken care of

I don't get you. Scrambling fighter jets that are probably not based somewhere close to the location of incoming Aircraft

Dudeweedlmao:
Lol, i didn't say mathematics "and" Physics. I said the mathematics in quantum physics
Two different things.

When mathematics is being mentioned it doesn't mean a subject on its own. Sir I understand quantum physics V.well Thank You.

Dudeweedlmao:
Why do you love quantum physics? I can bet my ass that you do not understand 95% if not 100% of the mathematics in quantum physics
How can you love something you don't understand?

Mr man not everyone is dumb. You do not know quantum physics doesn't mean I don't. I am an aerospace engineering student and except you don't wanna graduate you can be enemy with mathematics and physics.

andrewza:
Sure but who's Mig-29? No one in your area as a aircraft that is a threat, there are no major air powers close to Nigeria and getting a new SAM system will lead to funds being wasted. Rather get some good Aircraft than a good SAM since the SAM can do one thing and one thing only. I mean by the sounds of things you want one of the High end SAM systems like the patriot. A very costly system, that wont stop low flying targets and are pretty much stationary due to there set up time. You still going to need something along the lines of the Roland.

Chad operates Mig 29. I'll agree with your post. Thanks.

koife:
Einstein is light years ahead of Edison...he is the father of modern [b]quantum physics [/b]and chemistry....his theory of relativity of matter holds sawy till today!

Hahah yes. I love quantum physics. Was forced to when I started learning about waves and particles.

989900:
Well articulated!
You've got to marvel at Einsteins perception, and how he effortlessly breaks things down. He was sure one of a kind; Tesla too.

My fascination is, bending of space/time for travel . . . we will get there, maybe in a million years. #wormholes

I watched one video about the 'Bermuda triangle' and the 'wormhole' angle, have you seen it?

No I haven't seen the video. I'll be glad to know if I can find it on YouTube.

andrewza:
And what advantage does operating more than one system give Nigeria? Nigeria does not need a high cost SAM system. T[b]he Rolland, AA guns and manpads are good enough for any possible threat Nigeria could face. [/b]Though are those Rolland's still useable. Missiles do have a use by date

What I was trying to explain is some countries operate various sophisticated SAM and Nigeria still operates a damn Rolland. We are africans do not mean we should not keep up with others on technology. We do not need to start facing threat before we take actions. The rolland Nigeria operates has a low spec. Short Range,low altitude , doesn't use a sophisticated radar system. I am sorry but our Rolland will go down by just rushing some noise at its radar systems. A Mig-29 will also deliver a missile attack on our territory with the Rolland not bringing it down even at range.

Albert. Even Nikola Tesla was greater than Thomas Edison. Edison tried to discredit Tesla and his inventions , which a true genius would have never done.

It would be not prudent to compare them, but still I'd go with Albert Einstein.
The reason is clear; Einstein's famous 'thought experiment' was something that was never thought of previously (however there are claims that the conclusions drawn by Einstein were already contrived up by someone before, but let's just leave it), and still remains fundamentally correct.

Edison certainly has several patents to his name, more than a thousand, but then one should know the fact that it was not only Edison behind what these patents are. His whole team was behind the curtain, and their credits were credited to Edison. It also is easy to grasp that the inventions he did, like gramophone, voting machines, etc. (mind well light bulb wasn't invented by him, he just perfected it) could be made by other individuals sooner or later, he was just the 'first one'.

On the other hand, the ideas posed by Einstein are revolutionary, out of the box, yet true. Not only did he dare to establish his weird idea, but also proved them, mathematically, stating that he didn't hypothesize things. Until now, nobody and nothing has disproved Einstein's theory of relativity. It has stood shiningly through all the tests scientists have posed.

Edison also was not a better person by nature. He literally harassed Nikola Tesla, an other better genius counterpart of him, because Tesla just said that Edison's direct current system was inefficient; which led to the famous 'war of currents' between them, which was of course won by Tesla.

[b]For those who'll argue that there is no impact of Einstein's ideas on the common man compared to Edison's, here's something to read:
-Einstein's theories of relativity (both, general and special) play an important role in GPS navigation system most of us internet users rely upon.
-Einstein's paper about the photoelectric effect revolutionised the solar panels, which are likely to be one of the primary technology which is needed to be perfected for the future absence of the conventional energy sources. He got the Nobel prize for this.
-Due to his ideas, we've been able to understand the universe in a better way, and hence the astrophysics is flourishing.
-Electromagnets (which inarguably play a substantial role in every person's life) are better understood by Special theory of relativity. (Google 'relativistic electromagnetism')
For physicists, his ideas still serve as the supporting blocks to develop new theories.
-His prediction that gravity 'bends' the space-time and hence light, ruptured Sir Newton's theory about Gravity; now we know Gravity better.
-His concept of bending of space-time helped physicists understand the presence of dark matter.
-His one of the spookiest theory about Quantum Entanglement was later proved to be correct, which might (repeat, might) provide an insight on the development of technology for teleportation.
Yes, he has made certain mistakes, but they still fail Edison to elevate intellectually compared to Einstein, in my opinion.
The bottom line:
Mother earth could have given birth to an other Edison, but Einstein is unique. [/b]
Also I have the graceful Time magazine to back me up:
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Comparison is out of it. If you really enjoy physics, you will know the difference. It's not just about reading about their achievement.