₦airaland Forum

Only in Nigeria would people carry what has not been done or even officially promised as a news headline.
A 'highly placed source' cannot be used to justify front page headlines, sorry. Until it's officially done, it's a brainless thing to do to start singing someone's praises.

buzugee:
this is insane. whats going on in that country are you guys that rich ? in the western world they pay the equivalent of N1000 per month.

Don't be silly. $160 isn't N16000. Since when was $1 = 100 Naira?

Also, it's patently false to say the 'western world' pays the equivalent of N1000 a month. Which carrier in the UK and US will give you broadband HSDPA for $7? Name them.

While our internet costs ARE high in Nigeria, you're being unneccesarily alarmist. MTN's 5GB 3G data plan is 8K a month, Glo is 7K for 6GB. You can even get somewhat cheaper tranches for less cash.

Also, this quote exists in the Guardian link

Coming under CBN’s 2011 capital projects

So my question is, what exactly is 'CBN's capital projects'? Are 'Capital projects' something new under Sanusi and what is the scope of the 'capital projects'? What other capital projects are there in the 2011 portfolio?

These are the questions that need to be asked. I'd appreciate answers.

Abeg let someone provide a link from any paper other than the Ibru owned Guardian newspapers. Please forgive me for taking any Sanusi related news from the Guardian with a pinch of salt.
Thank you.

Johndoe100:
All the Muslims seem to have gone. Can't be a coincidence. Says something about leaving your biz in the hands of Muslims.

So anyone named aisha must be Muslim abi? Dunce!

This was written by a good friend and I think it should stimulate our leaders into serious thought about the future of this country and the future of our youth.

We have been a reactive country for far too long. We need pro-active solutions!

http://dailytimes.com.ng/blog/coming-storm


The coming storm

BLOG | MAY 17, 2011 - 1:32AM | BY CHXTA

On Wednesday, May 11, the News Agency of Nigeria ran a story about the numbers of students registered for this year's National Common Entrance Examination. The NCEE, for those who may not know, is the examination into Federal Government Colleges (Unity Schools) across Nigeria.

According to the news agency, a total of 62,682 pupils had registered to sit for the examination. Considering the fact that this examination is meant for pupils in the 9-11 age bracket, the first question that came to my mind was whether we have just 62, 682 children of that age in Nigeria.

When you think of the fact that 70% of our 150 million-population is under the age of 30, then that figure of 62, 682 becomes utterly ridiculous. Assume that there is an equal distribution of citizens in each year of life, then we should be expecting to see upwards of 10 million souls registering for the NCEE; not a paltry 0.6% of that figure.

As is usual with these little dramas, the devil is in the detail. According to the CEO of the National Examination Council, Prof. Promise Okpala, 16050 of the 62682 registrants are in Lagos State, Kebbi has 83 registrants, and Yobe has 74!

So where are all the 9-11 year olds in both Kebbi and Yobe states? And how come Lagos alone has 26% of all the registrants? The last time I checked, our own official figures give Lagos 6% of our total population.

What this tells me is that education all over the rest of Nigeria, not just in the North, is shutting down. The potential impact of this is incredibly horrifying.

Consider that the post-election violence in Northern Nigeria was orchestrated by a small, but influential, and educated elite who use the large numbers of uneducated boys milling aimlessly around as a weapon, then you realise just how bad things will become if we continue at this rate.

The signs are already there: Northern Nigeria is shutting down, and a lot of its citizens are voting with their feet and moving down South in search of greener pastures. This movement will lead to more communal conflicts, of the kind we have seen with increasing frequency in the Middle Belt.

The scariest part of the whole drama being played out is what will happen if, as these indicators point to, Southern Nigeria decides to go the way of the North and stops educating its young, or worse, gives them poor education. The potential (and catastrophic) effects are better imagined.

chibest5:
Investigation Experts, what will the owner of that Car do with it after 36 years? very irrelevant discovery.

Haba, must you expose your ignorance in public like this? Do you have any idea how much well preserved classics like this can fetch?

Ijogz K:
I swear i don tire, Ever since my bold 1 got broken, i chilled for a while and got a bold 3 only to be told later that a bold 2 is berra, As i was trying to sell my Bold3 to get a bold2, Bold4 pooped in, I was like thank God i would go for bold4 instead only to get a message that torch2 is out. I started having headache immediately and went to visit my uncle in other to tip me with a little money so that i would join them together to get the torch2, Only for me to hear about Bold touch also known as Bold Dakota, Now 2day i discovered thet they even a a tab called blackberry playbook. I love the blackberry family because am a Nigerian norrin more, Every naija person has the blackberry craze including our old 1s. NOTE: HTC is still releasing theirs everyday, Sony Erickson is still saying dem no go gree with their releases, while samsung dey shout we started this before you, Nokia is also fighting hard to remain the market leader,, While motorola, sagem, trium, and its like's have decided to lie under the shadows of this strange Giants,
Now i have hypertension because each time i go to the market i come back with norrin because i feel like having all,

Lemme give you this simple question which of this Giants latest releases would you refuse?
And which would be your 1st choice, I can't list dem cuz they are too much, Am even at the hospital now because of this

1. Torch 2 and Bold 9900 are not out
2. Save the money instead and buy a copy of Brighter Grammar.

belushi7:
@ Ziccoit , you beat me to it, well, the part where i am most concerned you didn't highlight. the fact that nigerian android users can now purchased priced apps on the market. So also our developers can show case their apps on the market for sale and earn something for their hard work. Android is definitely on the way to emerging taking over the mobile scene completely. I dont think apple will be going this way though as they still believe in making their commodity scare for premium value. But hey, i aint mad at apple (iphone) as android has just blown me away with this support for nigeria. i am sold completely.

No Nigerian carrier carries the iPhone officially. The moment MTN et al start offering the iPhone, the AppStore will become available.
But that's a strange idea though cos the iPod touch and iPad can run all those apps and they aren't tied to contracts.

ADEBOSUN:
@texazzpete. I dont mind fairly used at all. Where can i get one. Please needed on this one.

try affordables. Call bayo on 08023458077

So nobody here's excited about the Google reveals at the I/O keynote?

And you call yourselves Android fans. *smh*

Is this apart from the supposed life insurance scheme from INEC?

You worthless imbecilic toad!
To kill a few Americans, Bin Laden killed over 300 Kenyans and Ugandans in the 1998 embassy bombings. Your fellow black people! Any black african who does not hate Bin laden is a dolt!

naijaking1:
He should have the gut and manpower for example to come to my village to see that out of 2700 votes for president, 2650 went to GEJ, 10 to Buhari, 20 to Ribadu, and the rest were voided. Oh, and there no underage voters, and no violence!

That's exactly what this suit wants to do.

The voter turnout in my PU in Rivers state was 45%. I've seen similar figures from at least 4 other PUs in Rivers state. Any final result with a 70+% turnout has to be heavily cooked up.

More recently, in Imo state where the Governorship election was keenly contested, the turnout hovered around 50%. Yet the turnout in the Presidential elections miraculously came to 83%. Rigging par excellence!

I still think GEJ would have won even without all the SS and SE rigfest. If there's a rerun election, Buhari will even fare far worse thanks to his reputation taking a hit after the post-election violence. I see no reason for the court case at all. But still, it is self deceit to claim that the votes from the SS and SE were not massively inflated.

As the topic says.
I just got a 16Gb PlayBook and it's a wonderful gadget, but i'm more inclined to the Apple side.
I'll swap this with an iPad 2 so if anyone is game, i'm ready.
Please mail me on priyeandroid@googlemail.com

otumfour:
The future looking bright for Android

quit being a fanboy. The best OS is the one with the best features and UI, not the one with the larger marketshare.
The future has been bright for Android since late 2009 , further cemented when the Nexus One/Desire came out. Android is here to stay and that's a darn good thing.

opribo:
Prophet Bakare, he predicted that OBJ was the Ahab of our time and that he wont smell Aso rock. Obj smelt Aso and had a second term, his prediction did not work. He attacked Adeboye, Oyedepo and criticises all the pastors only him is good haba. Upon all he has only one branch. Now he goes again to contest a presidential elction with non other than Buhari of all people haba pastor. Now after the election result and the aftermath mayhem which was linked to CPC supporters this man did not even deem it fit to condemn this heinous crime openly. If the truth must be told this Bakare is a typical case of a 419 pastor, he should be stoned publicly for deceiving the public and blindfolding his flock. Galatian 6:6 says be ye not deceived God cannot be mocked, whatever a man soweth that he must reap.
There is no way you can be a true man of God and venture into politics. The bible made it clear that through we are in this world but we are not of this world. His venturing into politics make no mistake was because of his lust for worldly riches and not for the betterment of humanity. if he was a true man of God he would have declined the offer or better still recommend someone with impeccable character. Now see how he disgraced himself after all the shenanigan in the campaign and how he was jumping like an deranged lion. I can make bold to say he contributed to Buhari's failure. Buhari/Ribadu Buhari/Fola Adeolu, Buhari/Pat Utomi would have made a better impact than this masquerade. Whatever informed Buhari chosing Bakare it was the beginning of Buhari's failure, anyway those whom the gods want to destroy they first make them mad, little wonder then that he chose Bakare, that unintelligent choice made me know from the onset that this Buhari wont listen to anyone even if he wins because i am aware severally people warned him of this choice but he was stubborn which is typical of him. They know it all. Mscheeew rubbish lot.

I stopped reading when you said 'he has only one branch'.
Is that how ministers are ranked these days?

Is hypocrisy now part of modern day Christianity? The same people that are unhappy that these illiterate Almajiris dismiss them as 'infidels' are now the ones using words like 'heathen' and 'unbeliever'.

BP:
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(4)TEXAZPETTE: Texaz is a very very smart dude but he is too opinionated and sometimes takes things too personal,  He tends to see everything from one angle and I've NEVER  seen him change his mind on anything on NL. Even Beaf who is opinionated has been known to change his mind a few times in the face of superior logic.

Then you haven't been following my posts on Nairaland.
I always concede to Logic that i see as superior to mine. Changing my opinion and stance on things is not a problem for me. For example

I castigated Bakare for Joining politics. Now I defend him
I used to be pro-GEJ up until late last year then his poor displays turned me off
I once used to post in support of Dora Akunyili. Now I despise this greedy, scheming, two-faced woman.
In January I was fervently in support of Jega. After his inconsistent and wasteful display, i'm merely lukewarm on this fellow (Still an improvement over Iwu that I hated!)

There are lots more cases too.

The fact that you're lionizing people like Beaf and Odunnu tells me this is mainly about the recent Presidential elections. If so, my stance still remains that with the exception of a few isolated cases, the PDP is a scourge on Nigeria

I have a rewarding family and work life outside Nairaland so I NEVER take anything personal.

alex101:
Ha ha ha! Yoruba bros, how oily was the soup? I hope it's oily enough to give you high cholesterol

I'm not Yoruba, you half-wit!

Konjour:
You would really do great to give me a quote in the Bible where it has been written in equivocal terms that a ''pastor'' should proclaim false

messages, lie, cheat, instigate violence, give/take bribes, scheme the downfall of his ''opponents'', and if required send assassins after the trail of his

opponents.

My Bible did not explicitly state that Pastors in political office par say, but according to my post, i purposefully placed the Nigerian terrain in quotes cuz

all the barbaric acts i'v listed above is what obtains in the Nigerian political minefield. There's no one with clean hands involved in them politics' lot.

Catch my drift?

This is why we were pushing for CHANGE in the way things are done at the Federal level. That was the CHANGE Bakare represented.
The terrain of modern day Christianity is even as challenging as all that you described here. Yet you freely admit that there are 'Men of God' in Nigeria.

Unless the good men become involved in politics and bring their goodness to bear on the darkness, we will see no progress.

Are you on crack?
The HD2 is 2 years old and runs the ancient Windows Mobile OS. It has since been replaced by better Android phones. Nobody will buy it for even 70k sef.

Pataki:
It strikes me as if there is a competition for the most silly person on this thread.

Why are Nigerians this silly when it comes to religion?

Imagine an astonishing dolt here stating he would curse his fellow brother because of a mere mortal being like himself?

The dolt has not dared show face here again. I wish fervently that I could fasten my hands around his throat and change his destiny for him

Dellmor:
The truth is dat Bakare's alliance with Buhari has begun to yield consequences. 1st his house got burnt then take a look at d topic of dis discussion. These ar all happening bcoz he was "unequally yoked"(dat does not mean dat christians should not relate with unbelievers but it just simply means dey shudn't create strong bonds with unbelievers dat can cause dem 2 b influenced negatively), & going by his past utterances concerning Buhari not being meant 2 b d president of Nigeria, he CONTRADICTED himself. D good ting is dat now we all know dat pastor Tunde Bakare is not as holy as we thought & it wud b very sensible 2 start accessing his preachings & prophecies thoroughly b4 accepting dem 4rm now on. I'm not saying he is bad & should b condemned but if one is wise, one will no dat dis thing he did is a reflection of part of his tru character.

So by your logic, GEJ was unequally yoked with Yar'Adua and is now unequally yoked with Sambo.

Also, I consider someone like Tony Anenih to be more of an 'unbeliever' than Buhari. So how do you feel about GEJ now considering the influence the likes of Anenih had on him?

alex101:
I'm smoking them out one by one.

Two are out from their cave(s) like osama bin laden, more terrorists tribalists to follow

I beg come out from your caves, I've a flight to catch to the Bahama- 1st class style

Well, since you people  keep telling us on Nairaland that your tribe makes up 60% of lagosians, guess which tribe is statistically more likely to have done the horrible deed (according to your logic)?

Anyway, I agree with SEFAGO.  A 9 year old is dead and people are here using it to score cheap points. That's distasteful.

juliebest:
All in all Bakare is directly or indirectly involved in the deaths of those inocent corpers and others.

The troubling thing is that this one will have children and spread the stoopid gene to a whole new generation of Nigerians. We're finished.

[quote author=na2day! link=topic=548998.msg8278197#msg8278197 date=1304828127]@ ADEBOSUN and others
HTC WILDFIRE is your best bet for dat budget, its d mini of HTC DESIRE, it has everything u can found in desire but d speed and d screen resolution, its a nice gadget to have and amply supported wit custom roms.
My wife has one and she has abandoned her laptop![/quote]good recommendation. if he doesn't mind a used phone, he can probably snag a clean nexus one/desire for 40k. much better than the wildfire.

bossinie:
@Rhino.5dm Ignorance is no excuse that you have the privilege to open your God given mouth to insult openly chosen & proven servants of God for flimsy reasons,i advice you as a matter of urgency to retract that statement of yours with immediate effect tendering an unreserved open apology for your unguarded utterances on this same platform within the next 24hours.Otherwise i will speak into your destiny and i assure you that no 'devil' will be able to reverse it,i know you will be stubborn and still rant but you will only get a 24hours grace and nothing more.U have 4hrs 30mins remaining!

May God punish you and your like minded cohorts!
'Speak into his destiny' my foot. You sound like one of these Native doctors. Are you God?

Please show me where you came on Nairaland to comment when 'Men of God' were inciting their followers to kill and maim children in Akwa Ibom all in the name of witchcraft before I take you seriously as a Christian.

jaephoenix:
@drlumi
So '', bb had 2 do what he did''?he had 2 follow 'the old'?he had 2 run with a known islamic fundamentalist who said muslims should vote for muslims, ?he had 2 keep quiet while innocent people r slaughtered? And 2 add 2 that a self acclaimed 'man of God'?
I now believe Nigerians r truly daft.Am ashamed 2 b one

What was he supposed to say? Is he the President of Nigeria?

You say Nigerians are daft. Yet you voted for a President who kept quiet when 300 people were killed in Jos in january this year, who said nothing when even more were butchered in late 2010. You voted for a man who was quick to exonerate his tribe from the October 1st bombing even when all preliminary evidence pointed to MEND.

Even when several Governments confirmed that the Nigerian govt had been pre-warned about the Oct 1st bombing, you still voted for your man even when he failed to prevent it or act decisively on the information.
yes, millions of Nigerians are daft and you are a shining example of the worst of them all.

otumfour:
dude! Wtf! Calm your furkin' nerves mahn, u loosing your cool u furk btw, ain' u supposed to be on your iphone thread u stfu let the Android users share their ideas and stop picking up on dudes on here "Mr texazz knowall" muthafurka

The thread topic is 'Android, anyone' and not 'Android owners club'.
Hope that helps you put things in perspective.
It would also help if you were actually sharing ideas here in this topic instead of spamming with youtube vids and bragging about your near-obsolete Galaxy S.

I ain't mad at ya though

ceejayclas:
Official from INEC

19 GUBERNITORIAL CANDIDATE
INEC DECLARATION OF RESULT OF IMO STATE

I PROF. HILLARY OGBO EDOGA THE VICE CHANCELLOR UMUDIKE HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I WAS THE RETURNING OFFICER. FURTHER STATE THAT ELECTION WAS CONTESTED
AND CANDIDATE RECIEVE THE FOLLOWING VOTES
ACN 107068
ALP 1070
ANPP 3313
APGA 336,859
APN 1336
ENPP 234
CDC 447
CPC 3053
DPP 563
FPN 101
FRESH 122
LP 1449
PDP 290,496
LPLP 1103

THAT OKOROCHA ROCHAS OF APGA IS HEREBY DECLARED THE WINNER AND IS HEREBY RETURNED ELECTED.

Those figures above show an apprx. 50% turnout of registered voters in this election. meanwhile in the presidential elections, they told us that 83% of Imo registered voters came out to vote for GEJ.
I wonder when we will move past mindless rigging in Nigeria.

PS: Congrats to Rochas Okorocha. I've always despised that Ohakim fellow for being an incompetent bully. Good riddance to bad rubbish. I've heard tales of Igbos in markets in far away Lagos doing their victory dance. Shows you how much this lout was hated.