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Justbehave:
So your family hospital refuse giving your child treatment because you couldn't transfer not even because you don't have money for the treatment?

🤐🤐

Justbehave:
Thief.This your format na children own. You still dey learn work

Thank you for the words. I pray same thing happens to you when you get married or if you already are, let it happen to your child. 🙏

Brandiebird:
Op, going by your comments… this one in particular (and all the others) you’re not a woman. I’m not calling you names but you are Not a woman. 🙄

Thank you for that.

Your believe, your choice. 🙏

ChybuzzDD:
There's no hospital that will have a child with a life threatening surgical emergency and still keep waiting for you to make a successful transfer before he/she can be taken to the theatre.

When i was in Nigeria during the covid-19 period in 2020, i operated on many children/adolescents with acute appendicitis in Portharcourt, most of whose parents never deposited any kobo.

In fact, according to my friend who owns that hospital, one of the parents hasn't completed his bill till this moment.

So, stop blackmailing Nigerian hospitals and medical professionals.

If you want to beg for money, just be straightforward about it.

W

And where in my post did you see me asking for money? 😡

I believe you have worked in all the hospital in Nigeria currently in all 36 states and you monitor their activities recently too.

please kindly take your toxic words off my post, I haven't got any time for nairaland men today.

Reinamaria:
Sorry.
May the space the death of your son left in your heart be healed.

Thank you so much sweetie, this words just covered a piece.


On top of it all, I just sent 30% my net worth to family at home and the rest to kid brother in Turkey cos they need it more.

God will support and console me..

Timoleon:
May your God give you the fortitude to bear the loss and the strength to push forward. Sorry for your loss.

Thanks Sir,

I love Nairaland family

Nothing here.....

Even the father inside grave will be crying now. I just pray he is returned safely so that one burial doesn't lead to another burial.

A group of entrepreneurs and customers of Ikeja Electric Plc in Lagos State have sent a Save Our Sour (SOS) to the minister for power of the firm’s threat to withdraw pre-paid metres.

They accused the electricity distribution company of desperate attempts to crush their operations.

Specifically, the consumers accused the officials of the energy supplier, believed to be the largest electricity distribution company in Nigeria, of threatening to ‘’forcefully confiscate their meters under the pretext that the consumers were operating their with what they termed ‘’old meters’’.

Thrice last week, the officials of the company from Igbobi Undertaking in the Somolu area of the state who mobilised to forcefully uninstall and chart the meters away were resisted.

In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP in Abuja yesterday, two of the affected consumers, Mr. Dele Oguntayo, a journalist and Mr. Abass Adie, a businessman, narrated how the “bold-faced” Ikeja Electric personnel swooped on their premises for the withdrawal of his meter to which he declined.

Oguntayo said he applied for a meter in year 2010 having paid N55,000 bank draft to Ikeja Electric and was not metered for several months.

While he was being issued what he termed “cut-throat estimated bills” for about a year, he added that “at a point, despite operating with a stand-by generator for several hours daily, the Ikeja Electric was billing him ‘’thousands of naira every month.

‘’The meter l applied for in the first quarter of that year was not supplied until about a year after my application and payment despite repeated visits and pleas to the company. Something will interest you: A professional colleague in a news agency as energy correspondent in Lagos had come visiting; and, about a year after his first visit, he promised to take my matter up with the managing director of Ikeja Electric.

“He even challenged me that as a journalist, l should have approached either the company’s head of public affairs or better still, the managing director. ‘So, less than 24 hours of his intervention, two meters were brought to me, same day, on the instruction of the managing director of Ikeja Electric!

‘’My conclusion then was that the officials were hoarding the meters for highest bidders and did not attend to applicants, except through touts.

‘’It may interest you again that about 10 years later, a female staff of the Ikeja Electricity Company who claimed to be of the marketing department came with another joker, claiming that the meter I was using was the allocation of a woman within the zone,” Oguntayo said.

“And, despite repeated explanations and appeals, the electricity company team said to be led by a male management of the company refused, bluntly to listen, saying that Ikeja Electric Distribution Company had already phased out ‘old meters’, the affected consumers stated.

‘’We further appealed to the officers that the meters were purchased by us and that it will be illegal to withdraw the meters which we bought, without replacement.

‘’In fact, we told them that we are of the opinion that in normal a clime, the meters should be replaced when they are withdrawing the current ones instead of putting us in darkness.

‘’But to our dismay, they mobilised the second day, in multiples, apparently poised for a showdown with us.

‘’However, as law abiding citizens, we maintained our position that our meters were sold to us by Ikeja Electricity company and further our claims that we paid with bank drafts in favour of Ikeja Electric, yet they insisted on taking away our property’’, the customers said.

‘’Yet the team leader who was simply called ‘Sam’, the Undertaking Manager told us that throughout the country, meters are the property of electricity distribution companies, hence they are at liberty to withdraw same anytime, even, without notice.

‘’Despite the argument that we would inform our lawyers about the development, for advise, the Ikeja Electric men re-surfaced the third day with ladders, threatening to illegally chart away our meters and we still, as gentlemen and law abiding citizens asked them to reason.

‘’At that point, one of them told us that he did not expect us to argue the matter because if occasion demands, he would never resist taking his own meter by the company.


The electricity company however said that customers with ‘old meter’ should apply for ‘new meter’ while they would be ‘put on estimates’ pending the approval of their application.

‘’We were mandated to pay for ‘new meters’ costing approximately N117,000.00 each, within 14 days, failure which the officials threatened to take “drastic action’’.

Similar situation was reported by a top Lagos civil servant at the Ipaja New Town Scheme, an estate flagged off by the Lagos State Government in Ilapo Village via AIT, Alagbado Lagos, who recently approached Ikeja Electric for the replacement of her damaged ‘Customer Card’ but was only told to buy a new meter because the present one one is ‘outdated’.

According to the consumer, ‘’they bluntly told me l would need to immediately pay for a new one which l did not plan for due to the present economic realities’’.

‘’She threatened to withdraw the meter because, according to her, l probably manipulated the system to secret the meter through the back-door.

‘’Consequently, I made several visits to see the Manager when they relocated to Obanikoro area of Ikorodu Road but was always told that their boss was busy.

‘’But when I spoke with one Mr. Ayeni, the Ikeja Electric spokesman on the telephone last week, about the recent threat and my resolve to brief a lawyer, he directed me to one Mrs. Ayanga, the Igbobi business manager who could still not be reached for an appointment.

While reacting to the incident, Adie was of the view that upgrading of facilities, including the metering system was a welcome development and asked the company to phase payment of the new meters rather than putting consumers on estimated bills after withdrawal of the existing meters.

I had suspected that this would happen. Lazy students have finally seen an avenue

Good morning.

It's a New Week to get fitted.

Good one

rottable:
I thought as much. Its users had increased tremendously. I've Microsoft acquired it

You can say that again dear. I also had the hunch that Microsoft has done that but not yet confirmed.

Love Sunday.... We are always active!!

The leading Artificial Intelligence research organization, OpenAI has announced to monetise ChatGPT platform.



OpenAI, the leading Artificial Intelligence research organization, has announced plans to monetize its popular language generation model, ChatGPT. The move will allow businesses and developers to integrate the model into their own applications and services and will help generate revenue for OpenAI, enabling them to continue to invest in the development of advanced AI technologies. However, this move also raises ethical concerns and could have a significant impact on the job market and the research community.


What is OpenAI?

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research organization that aims to promote and develop friendly AI in a responsible manner. The company was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity.

On the topic of monetizing its ChatGPT platform, OpenAI has recently announced plans to make its popular language generation model available for commercial use. ChatGPT is a powerful natural language processing model that can generate human-like text. The company plans to offer the model as a cloud-based API, allowing businesses and developers to integrate it into their own applications and services. This move is expected to help OpenAI generate revenue and sustain its research and development efforts.


What is the ChatGPT platform?

ChatGPT is a language generation model developed by OpenAI. It is based on the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture and has been trained on a massive dataset of text from the internet. The model is able to generate human-like text in a variety of formats, such as conversation, poetry, news articles, and more. ChatGPT can be fine-tuned for specific tasks, such as answering questions, generating responses in a chatbot, and summarizing text. It is considered one of the most advanced language generation models currently available and is widely used in research and industry.


How will OpenAI monetize the ChatGPT platform?

OpenAI plans to monetize the ChatGPT platform by offering it as a cloud-based API (Application Programming Interface) that businesses and developers can integrate into their own applications and services. This would allow customers to use the model’s advanced language generation capabilities to improve their own products and services.

The company plans to charge customers on a pay-per-use basis, with prices determined by the number of requests made to the API. Additionally, OpenAI may also offer additional services like custom fine-tuning of the model for specific use cases or industries, and technical support. The company might also offer different pricing plans based on the usage volume, custom models, and additional features like analytics, monitoring, and reporting.

It’s worth noting that OpenAI is also open to collaboration, providing access to its technology to a select group of partners and industry leaders, allowing them to integrate the technology into their own products and services, and enabling them to generate revenue from them.


What are the implications of this move?

The move by OpenAI to monetize the ChatGPT platform has several implications.

Firstly, it will help OpenAI generate revenue and sustain its research and development efforts. This would enable the company to continue to invest in the development of advanced AI technologies and to advance its mission of developing friendly AI that benefits all of humanity.

Secondly, it will make the powerful language generation capabilities of ChatGPT widely available to businesses and developers. This could lead to the creation of new and innovative products and services that leverage the model’s capabilities, such as advanced chatbots, automated content generation, and more.

Thirdly, this move could also lead to increased competition in the language generation market. As more companies and developers gain access to ChatGPT technology, it could lead to the development of similar or competing products and services.

Additionally, this move by OpenAI could also have a significant impact on the job market. As language generation technology becomes more widely available and sophisticated, it could lead to increased automation of certain tasks that currently require human labor, such as content creation, customer service, and more. This could lead to job displacement in certain fields, and it will be important for companies and society to address this issue and ensure that workers have the necessary skills and support to adapt to the changing job market.

Finally, this move could lead to ethical concerns regarding the use of language generation models like ChatGPT. As the model is able to generate human-like text, it could be used to create fake news, impersonate individuals, or spread misinformation. It is important that OpenAI and its customers ensure that the technology is used in a responsible manner and that appropriate safeguards are in place to prevent misuse.

BennyDGreat:
Following the recent wave of news about the Chatgpt....I decided to test run it with a general overview of the Nigeria cryptocurrency industry....This was the result...Kindly share your thoughts after going through.

The crypto currency industry in Nigeria has seen significant growth in recent years. The increasing adoption of digital currencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, has led to a growing number of exchanges and businesses in the country.

One of the key factors driving the growth of the crypto industry in Nigeria is the country's large and young population, as well as a high level of mobile and internet penetration. This has made it relatively easy for people to access digital currencies and participate in the crypto market.

In addition, Nigeria's struggling economy has also played a role in the growth of the crypto industry. The Nigerian naira, the country's official currency, has been heavily devalued in recent years, leading to high inflation and a lack of trust in traditional financial institutions. As a result, many Nigerians have turned to digital currencies as a way to store value and protect their wealth.

The Nigerian government has not yet provided a clear regulatory framework for the crypto industry. However, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued a circular in January 2017 stating that all banks and other financial institutions are prohibited from transacting in cryptocurrencies. However, the circular did not prohibit individuals from buying and selling cryptocurrencies.

Despite the lack of clear regulations, the crypto industry in Nigeria continues to grow. There are now several exchanges and businesses operating in the country, including Quidax, Binance, and NairaEx. These exchanges allow Nigerians to buy and sell digital currencies using the Nigerian naira.

One of the most popular use cases for digital currencies in Nigeria is for remittances. The country has a large diaspora, and many Nigerians living abroad use digital currencies to send money back home to their families. This is because digital currencies are often faster and cheaper than traditional money transfer services.

Another popular use case for digital currencies in Nigeria is for online shopping. Many Nigerian businesses now accept digital currencies as a form of payment, and many Nigerians use digital currencies to buy goods and services online.

Despite the growth of the crypto industry in Nigeria, there are still some challenges that need to be addressed. One of the main challenges is the lack of understanding and education about digital currencies. Many Nigerians are still not familiar with the technology and how it works, which can make it difficult for them to fully participate in the crypto market.

Another challenge is the lack of trust in digital currencies. Some Nigerians are still skeptical about the safety and security of digital currencies, and are hesitant to invest in them.

In conclusion, the crypto industry in Nigeria is still in its early stages, but it has seen significant growth in recent years. The country's large and young population, as well as a high level of mobile and internet penetration, has made it relatively easy for people to access digital currencies and participate in the crypto market. However, the lack of clear regulations and understanding about digital currencies are still challenges that need to be addressed.

ChatGPT has come to stay and is doing wonders.

This is funny and outrageous.

Balablu Blublu Bulaba (on the beat).