₦airaland Forum

Please, where can I get the Airtime/Data TopUp API?

This API enables developers and service providers to dispense airtime/data plans/logical PINs from their applications/websites.


Thank you.

Search using whatcms.com

He is a corrupt politician.

Like for BUHARI
Share for SARAKI

Bb

Prove that the above is your account...

Stupid journalism.

This is just someone's opinion and all the political bigots are warming their blood.


Wake up

That is why I always dodge any crowd where people are fighting or taking mob action.

It is wisdom not fear.
RIP

Any difference between lunar eclipse prayer and eclipse of the sun prayers?

The blacks kill its own. I developed a game "The Sky Island", 12 years ago when I was in JSS3. No sponsorship, No support even from family members. I ended up being the only player of my game

Coal or charcoal

[quote author= post=69599406]Oh interesting, show us the man with brain without capital to invest that made it in life![/quote]More interesting, show me a man with capital without brain to invest that made it in life....


Capital is overrated... We sincerely lack true ideas.

[quote author= post=69596021]Three billion dollars?
That is massive!

Dangote will always be on Top.
It takes money to make money.[/quote]It takes brain to make money

GTBank out of ideas �

Experienced farmers should please share their farming mistakes so that newbies like us can learn from it.

Experience is the best teacher...

gentlegenius:
Guy....
Pls check yourself again.
You only read to pass exams... And that's why you are a first class graduate.
People like you forget everything you read the moment you leave exams hall.
Learned and well educated people don't read to pass exams, they study to know.
You shouldn't encourage others to be like you... Because there difference between reading and studying.

You are missing the point.

Reading a day to has nothing to do with reading to pass, it means being smart enough to know exactly what you want at the exact right time in the exact right place.

I know myself more than what you think. Life is all about winning. That's all what that matters.

Suspect33:
brother, i want to study engineering but am not so good with math, is that a good choice

Not been so good in mathematics is not a challenge.
University is where you build your entire life. You have to get yourself ready with it. As long as engineering is your choice and what you like, you are good to go. The war is real, get ready for it. Hug.

V

#5 You Only Read A day to examination

I always do this and I am a First Class engineering graduate.


Don't discourage someone.

You are just here to advertise.
You smart small...

I need small payloader for sale. Pls send specifications & price. No dogon turanchi.

majorbravo:
I would not trade my spot for anything. If i was a woman, I would be a nun and convince all the women to become celibate.

Aint gonna be pressed into the pillow and bed for no man. lol. Women well done.

Good

hmm

damtan:
I guess you wrote dragnet's aptitude test for the first time. The numerical section is not new. it has always been that way.

Today is the 10th time am writing different dragnet exams.

Guess what?

I passed all with the exemption of last years' Agip which I wrote again today.

We gisted with the Agip officials for over an hour in Abuja today after the exams, and they respect our feedback. They even called and where shouting to the dragnet guys. The Agip guys really mean it. Guess what? they follow our feedbacks on Nairaland.

May God help us all.

Here are my takeaways from the tests, may be it will help those writing next year. Dragnet flopped big time.

1. NUMERICAL REASONING
This section is just not cool, in any aptitude test, you are expected to test accuracy and speed. In doing so, you should give small values and fractions that can be manipulated since you are not giving is calculator, not stupid values like 29,908.
Even if you can give strong large values at least let the options be wide. Not giving us options like 11.21, 11.22, 11.23 etc.
This is highly unprofessional.

2. VERBAL REASONING.
This is the only section that is a little bit balanced.

3. ENGINEERING SECTION
This is the useless questions I ever read in my life. How is this fair at all?

bukoso:
why is this place silent like this

Why won't it be silent when everybody is here to take information but no one is willing to give what he/she has.

2008.

Which material is this please. Kindly share it here. It looks very similar with what we wrote last year

Click "Like" if you understand this picture

Click Like if you understand this picture

Karius created a whatsapp group.
Karius added De Gea.
Karius added Cabarelio.

No Nigerian can visit Ajaokuta Steel Company ASC, see investments of more than $8b rotting in the African sun and not cry. i went there, I cried. what exactly is the problem? if I have written severally on this topic, but today let me do a comprehensive post.

Ajaokuta Steel Company is massive, she has 68km road network, 24 housing estates on the project. Some of the estates have over 1,000 homes, a seaport, a 110mw power generation plant, there are 43 separate plants in Ajaokuta alone. It is estimated that if Ajaokuta becomes operational, it will create 500,000 jobs.

There is no industrialized nation on earth that does not have a steel sector it’s that simple. A report by the Central Bank of Nigeria shows that Nigeria currently imports steel, aluminum products and associated derivatives of approximately 25 metric tonnes per annum estimated at $4.5bn, this figure will continue to rise, and the Nigerian economy continues to expand. Ajaokuta is an integrated steel company, it was designed by the Russian to be self-sufficient to get all its inputs from Nigeria and make steel. Ajaokuta strength is also its weakness, Ajaokuta can only work with all inputs available.



this will be a slightly technical post, but please try and follow.



Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon amongst other things, iron is the base metal in steel, to make steel, you need Iron Ore, Coke from Coal, Limestone as main components. these components are mixed in a blast furnace to produce liquid steel which can be long steel for rail lines or flat steel for automobile making etc

To give a simple example, look at steel as making jollof rice, iron ore is the rice, the limestone and coke are the pepper and salt the pot is the blast furnace. At a steel plane the blast furnace is ONLY turned on when the steel company is ready to make steel. Blast furnaces operate continuously and are never shut down. The raw material to be fed into the furnace is divided into several small charges that are introduced into the furnace at 10- to 15-min intervals. this means everything must be in place BEFORE the blast furnace is turned on, the iron ore, the coal, the limestone, everything, why? Because you do not switch off a blast furnace for another 10 years or however its campaign life is.



Nigeria has blessed with all the major raw materials needed to produce steel including iron ore in Kogi, coal and limestone in Enugu.

Nigerian iron has very low iron concentration. Agbaja has the largest iron ore deposit in Nigeria with about 2 billion tonnes but the Agbaja iron ore has a high phosphate content. Phosphate can cause brittleness in steel making it to fracture, thus Agbaga was abandoned for Itakpe. Itakpe iron ore has no issues with phosphate but has low iron content, thus to make steel with Nigeria iron ore, a process called “beneficiation” has to be done to process the Itakpe ores to raise its iron content to meet the required standard for steel production.

Coal? Most of the coal found in Nigeria is non-coking, thus, unsuitable for steel production. coal deposits in Enugu, have no impurities but are non-coking. The good news? Nigeria has abundant deposit of limestone and we have natural gas to provide power



So back to Ajaokuta, what really happened? why can Nigeria not make steel anytime soon? let’s link up the elements

Policy Failure: The Ajaokuta contract was signed between the Nigerian government and the Soviet state-owned company, Tiajpromexport (TPE) the company was scheduled for completion in 1986. In 2012, the Federal Government launched her backward integration policy. Going forward import licenses for steel products was only granted to companies producing steel locally. TPE to ensure they could import steel parts for Ajaokuta simply went ahead and built the rolling mills in Ajaokuta before the actual steel plant was completed, they imported billet from Ukraine to accomplish this. Thus, Ajaokuta was producing steel before the actual steel plant was started. Thus, amazingly Ajaokuta has a functional rolling mills but no operational blast furnace, Ajaokuta cannot produce steel from basic iron ore found in Nigeria in her blast furnace.…this is the definition of cart before the horse.


NIOMCO Factor: The iron ore in Nigeria earmarked for Ajaokuta is from Itakpe, it has low iron content thus the FG built National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO) a 2.15 metric tonnes beneficiation plant designed to process the low-quality iron ore from Itakpe to iron ore suitable for Ajaokuta Steel. Simply put, if NIOMCO does not operate, Ajaokuta CANNOT operate (unless Ajaokuta uses imported iron ore.) as at today, June 17th 2018, NIOMCO is not operational




Railway: 15m tonnes of iron ore cannot be moved by road, as it will destroy the roads, thus a railway was to be built from Itakpe to Ajaokuta to take iron ore from the beneficiation plan in Itakpe to the Ajaokuta. The. Itakpe to Ajaokuta by rail is just 52km, the rail line was to be delivered by March 2019, but the Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi revised the delivery date to June 2018 and converted the purely commercial railway to also carry human passengers. These changes meant the cost of the project and delivery dates had to change as passenger wagons and train stations had to be built. To achieve this, 12 new passenger stations and 12 access roads had to be designed and built. The Itakpe to Ajaokuta (IA) has two stations. As at June 2018, The station IA1 – Eganyi to Itakpe, is still under design. Station AW1 – Ajaokuta (standard station) (zero per cent work done). Thus the railways are not functional


Blast Furnace: The furnace in Ajaokuta is the heart of Ajaokuta, it is the pot where the jollof rice will be cooked, however it has never been turned on, why? because there has never been any time Ajaokuta has had raw materials available to ensure continuous day in day out production for 5 years. Why has there never been materials? Because there is no rail way to take iron ore from Itakpe to Ajaokuta. Why is there no railway from Itakpe to Ajaokuta? Because NIOMCO in Itakpe is moribund and no functional and cannot convert Nigeria iron ore to high grade ore for the furnace in Ajaokuta.


So, it follows that for Ajaokuta to work, we MUST have three key critical paths



1. NIOMCO must be functional
2. Itakpe to Ajaokuta Railway line must be functional
3. Blast Furnace operational
U
All three are not functional, so its clear Nigeria cannot make steel in Ajaokuta. Nothing however stops a corrupt government official from importing billets and running them in the rolling mills to deceive tax payers. So, when anyone tells you Ajaokuta will soon work ask them, can a steel plant work without NIOMCO, railways and a blast furnace?



All is not gloom, Kayode Fayemi as Minister was able to secure an out of court about Ajaokuta, we must build on this



In closing, Ajaokuta is the only steel plant in the world built by the USSR, sold to Americans, then to Indians, all these teams have come and gone with their own technical style, there have even been accusations of asset stripping by the Indians.



So why this post? because I am a patriot, I will not sit by and watch scarce resources be wasted in a grand deceit. Probably some corrupt folks have told Mr President that Ajaokuta can produce economically viable steel if “small” dollars are spent. You can already see how the critical rail line delivery dates was moved back to ensure it is done in time for 2019 elections, yet it is still in design stage. Ajaokuta is Nigeria and probably Africa biggest failure. It has failed. Can it be made to work yes but the cost to integrate Ajaokuta with her mines and rails can be used to build new smaller modern turn key functional steel mills. The government should get out of Ajaokuta, sell the place and allows the private sector capital and expertise restructure and own it.



If you want to make jollof rice and there is no rice the solution is not to keep boiling water without rice but to go and get rice.



I so post

http://kaluaja.com/the-economy/this-is-why-ajaokuta-cannot-make-steel/

Is there fast charging please?

m