school teaches how to get a job (not how to create one), financial security, schools dont teach financial freedom.

Got this from this movie; the gods must be crazy part1::

Civilized man refuse to adapt himself to his environment, instead he adapts his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles etc. But somehow, he didnt know when to stop. He more he improve his surronding to make his life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sent thru 15 to 20 years in school just to learn how to survive in this complex environment they were born into. So since civilized man refuse to adapt himself to his environment, he now has to adapt evryday to the new environment he creates for himself everyday,...

9jageek: There are brand handles and Individual handles.
For Individuals that are popular :-

@Tweetoracle
@RipFaceboook
@UnilagOlodo
@AfricaMars
@Prodeegy
@Drewbaba
@SirFIZZ
@GossipGirliee

These are very interesting people you should follow on Twitter to stay ahead of whatever is going on in the Nigerian social media stage.

For political commentary you should follow:-

@rosanwo
@ogundamisi
@elrufai
@ged

For technology and Internet news and discussions:-

@Techloy
@SeunOsewa
@Mukoshy
@EmperorDIV

Popular brands are:-

@Nairaland
@BellaNaija
@NigerianMusic
@sturvs

With these handles, Twitter will definitely be fun to check every time.. People should help list more popular handles
Enjoy...

nice list, will definitely follow some of them now

Please can some help provide top twitter handles own by Nigerians? I think @nairaland, @lindaikeji should be somewhere up.
Follow me too @wh_igoask fill the _ with o cos the system here will delete the post if spelt out fully.

yeah back to the topic; if Naija Mechos were Docs,
1. When you're down, they'll give you 2 knocks on the head and try to start you.
2. If you still don't respond, they'll clean dust off you, use a tools to hit your head, nose and heart and try to start you again
3. If you're weak, they'll increase your heart beat to make you work faster,
4. If you toyota heart (pump) is faulty, they will take one from another nissan body (car) beside you and assure it'll work.
5. When done treating you, they'll test drive you even though they don't have a drivers license
6. They'll tie one of you veins and tell you it's not really needed.
7. When you call them for an emergency, they'll come with just their handset, and after checking you out, tell you it's notthing serious but they'll need something as simple as bandage (That they should have brought along)

to be contd

Got this online
[size=20pt]If mechanics worked like doctors[/size]

So it takes three weeks to get a mechanic to check out your car, during which time you’re rescheduled four times.
And here you are, three weeks later. You arrive five minutes early for your appointment with the mechanic, and the receptionist — maybe the same one, you can’t be sure — hands you a clipboard with a form full of questions about your car, your car’s history, your car’s previous owners…it’s a lot of information, but it’s reassuring: somebody‘s going to take all of this into account. It won’t be like those other times you went to the mechanic.
You return the clipboard to the receptionist. A half-hour, another receptionist pops her head out from behind the garage bay door. “Can you park your car in the garage for me?” she asks, and vanishes. You duly retrieve your car and park it in the garage. “Wait here,” she says, “the mechanic will be by in a minute.”

It’s not a minute. It’s not ten minutes. It’s fully forty-five minutes later when the mechanic finally comes into the garage, moving fast, looking at the clipboard with your information. “Hi,” he says, and shakes your hand. He seems to deliberately make eye contact with you, as if it’s something they taught him in mechanic school. But he only holds it a second, and then returns to your clipboard.
“So what seems to be the problem here?” he says. Hesitantly, you start telling him. “About a month ago, my car started making weird noises when it started.”
“Uh huh.”
“Then the lights, you know, the dashboard lights and the headlights started dimming–”
“Uh huh.”
“I checked the battery–”
“Uh huh.”
You wait a second, a bit nonplussed. He hasn’t looked at you the whole time and doesn’t particularly seem to be paying attention.
“I checked the battery, and it’s fine, so I didn’t know….”
“Uh huh,” says the mechanic. “Well, from what it says here, it looks like you have a blown alternator.”
“No, but I actually replaced the alternator six months ago–”
“Uh huh. Well, it’s probably still the alternator. Just to be sure, though, I’m going to need to run a complete set of diagnostics on your car, just the standard stuff: full engine check, transmission check, electrical check of course, and then we’re going to go ahead and put it in a wind tunnel to make sure it meets manufacturer aerodynamic specifications–”
“Do we really need to do all that? I mean, couldn’t you just look at the alternator, if you think that’s what it is?”
He smiles, a touch patronizingly. “We want to get a good, complete picture of where your car’s at, mmokay? Otherwise, we might miss something.”
“So how much will all of that cost?” you ask.
He shrugs. “I have no idea,” he says. “It depends on a lot of factors, you’d have to ask my receptionist.”
“You don’t know how much it costs to run these tests?”
“Nope. That’s not really my department. But once we’ve run them, we can figure out exactly what’s wrong with your car and how we’re going to fix it, okay?”
He’s walking towards the garage door. He’s actually just walking away from you towards the garage door. ”My assistant will be by to get you all checked out,” he says over his shoulder, and then he’s gone, leaving you staggering against the side of your poor, damaged car.
Another half-hour later, the assistant shows up. Or rather, pops his head in the door. “Follow me,” he says, and you do, to a small room with an aging computer on a desk. He sits behind the desk. “Do you have comprehensive insurance?” he asks. You tell him quietly that you don’t. He sighs. “Okay, so you’re paying the full amount.” He consults your clipboard, upon which the mechanic has apparently left some notes. He types for a few moments and then his printer spits out a small pile of papers, which he hands to you.
You pick them up.
You read down until you see the total for the battery of tests the mechanic has ordered for your car, the battery of tests you’re fairly sure you don’t need.
You suddenly feel dizzy. It’s more than you paid for the car in the first place…and you bought the car new.
“There’s also the cost of your consultation with the mechanic, which you can see here,” the assistant says, turning over the paper in your hand.
You look at him in abject horror, willing him to open his mouth and justify this incredibly ridiculous expense, which — if your dazed calculations are correct — suggests that the mechanic is charging roughly $400 per minute of his time.
He doesn’t. He just nods again. “Of course, that includes the cost of the mechanic’s assistant looking at your car while it was in the garage, before the mechanic showed up, and opening the hood.”
“Did they do anything to it?”
“Oh, no. We’re not qualified to do anything, we’re not actual mechanics. He just made sure it wasn’t actually on fire.”
“I could have told you that!”
“Yes, but you’re not a mechanic, are you?” He smiles, and it’s clear that he’s apprenticing to the mechanic in Advanced Condescension.
He hands you another, worryingly large stack of paperwork.
“Now, we can set you up on a payment plan….”
You nod, resigned, and sign away most of what you’d planned on earning for the next six months.
“Okay, I’ve scheduled you for an appointment next week to bring your car in and do these tests,” he says. You look up in astonishment.
“You’re not doing them today?” you ask. He laughs, genuinely amused. “Oh, God, no,” he says. “Our testing facility is backlogged. But we’ll get you in there.”
“And how long after that ’till the test results come back?” you ask through numb lips. He shrugs. “I really couldn’t tell you,” he says. “Not even ballpark?” you ask. He shrugs again. “Probably three weeks,” he says, “if you’re lucky.”
“But I’m afraid my car is going to catch on fire or something, or just break, and I need it to go to work!”
He shrugs a third time. “If it’s really that serious, you can take it to the emergency mechanic.”
“Can they fix it?” You’re hoping he’s going to tell you something different from the receptionist did on the phone, but again, he just shrugs.
“Probably not. They’re not really trained to do diagnostics. They’ll probably just tear out all the wiring and hook it–”
“Straight to my battery, right.” He shrugs again. This guy is a master of shrugging. “That’s just the way it works,” he says.
He leads you out the door, to where your car is now sitting, forlorn, in the parking lot. You thank him — for what, you’re not entirely sure — and get in, turn the engine. It makes the funny noise and you want to turn to the mechanic’s assistant and shout Here! That’s the noise! Did you hear that?
But he’s long gone, and so you pull away, watching the lights of your dashboard instruments pulse rhythmically as you putter towards work.

way forward?? subsidy??

public figure now nolly figure

[size=14pt]Liverpool should have waited.[/size]

makes sense

Nemesis

freed by police or cash?? Well the good news is that he's free

The rain didn't go away Sunday in Paris, causing two stoppages at the French Open final and postponing the finish of the men's final between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal until 7 a.m. ET on Monday.
Nadal, the six-time tournament champion, was leading the top-ranked Djokovic 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 1-2 when play was postponed for a second time at 6:54 p.m. local time. An earlier stoppage in the second set lasted 34 minutes. A misty rain had fallen for much of the match and contributed to a heavy feel for both the clay and the tennis balls.
The Spaniard won the first two sets and was up an early break in the third before Djokovic rattled off eight games. According to the ATP's Greg Sharko, it was the first time Nadal had ever lost eight consecutive games at the French Open. Given Nadal's dominance at Roland Garros -- he's 51-1 in his career -- the Djokovic comeback was nothing short of stunning.
The wet ball may have had something to do with Nadal's struggles. The wetter the ball, the harder it is to add the devastating topspin that makes Nadal so dangerous on clay courts.
Whatever it was, Nadal was uncharacteristically testy at the start of the fourth set. He petulantly threw a wet ball in the direction of the chair umpire and repeatedly looked toward head referee Stefan Fransson during Djokovic's mini-run, asking why the players were still on the court, still playing. When Fransson finally decided to call a rain delay for the second time, Nadal showed his irritation.
"It's always the same with you," he said while jabbing a finger at Fransson. "You never take one position."
Rain was in the forecast for Sunday afternoon, but French Open officials declined to move up the 3 p.m. start time of the match. Had the final started two hours earlier, it's likely Nadal would have raised his record-setting seventh trophy at Roland Garros or Djokovic would be toasting his fourth-straight major.

Is this an ad for Trudigits. Mr moderator can your review my products/services on NL frontpage too. How will I go about it .

Back to the topic. Most of these Naija hosts are resellers. So no matter how good, they can't be better than those who owns the server. That said, some of our hosts run their own server (or so I think). My verdict, if its a small project, use proudly naija, if its a global project, use international standard. Hostgator, Siteground, iPage, fatcow or maybe gomummy (godaddy)

Just changing host aint so good, if you're busy.

It's all about how well you package your self/company. (Do the following and you will make at least a million naira (sales) in your first year. (if you are good as you think.) PS: some Tech personnel sucks at marketing. So you can form a partnership with a non tech person

1. You MUST have a website where you showcase your recent works and the services you offer
2. You should register your company and open a company/corporate account with a bank.
3. You should use WE often instead of I, even if it's a one man business. Say stuff like our technical team will..., our sales rep will... , our Legal adviser will...,
4. Predesign some websites eg for churches, schools (SMS), Dating site, e-commerce etc.
Prepare a proposal and try to sell one of your products eg. SMS to a school., Dating site to some school guy, church site to a new generation church, etc
Also when trying to pitch a sale, go with a lady and yourself (or a guy if you are a lady) and dress corporate.
5. After few installations, use words like ' we just complete Example High School's website..., people tend to buy when they see their competition buying.
6. Do some cheap/free jobs at first to promote your brand.
7. ALWAYS deliver quality even if they are paying less
8. Innovate or Die (IT rule- currently killing yahoo, growing google,)
9. Use/Learn SMM social media marketing. You dont need google ads, you need SMM
10. to be contd. typing on phone aint easy.

Kagawa, modric,....who's next. Buy one make we see first

that's noble

there should be a way to unsubscribe from adverts and offers from all these telecomms company self

i use mine on namecheap with no problem. But it's not working on fb and goggle. [size=14pt]Please which naira MasterCard works on fb and/or google?[/size]

Hackers No be small thing. Next na fb, huh?

just if they can manufacture a nokia touch phone with android OS. It'll be so baam

nokia all the way

Goodness it landed safely.

Please source for the 20 years age limit. Thanks

maybe it will drive on iRoad, use iFuel and transport iPassangers

Water don pass garri

An Apple board member has revealed that Steve Jobs had dreamed of creating an iCar before his sad demise in October last year after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer.

Speaking at a Fast Company conference, Mickey Drexler stated that the car industry is a tragedy in America and Steve's dream was to design an iCar which would give the automotive industry the shake-up it required.

Italy based auto designer Liviu Tudoran has taken cues from the Apple products and designed a concept car called iMove for the year 2020.

https://www.airtime.com/


They've been building Airtime for two years, raised more than $33 million in venture capital, and they're about to take on a fairly established industry of video chatting. But they're doing it, as you might expect, with a very big twist. Oh, and with a whole lot of passion.

"There is one social graph," Parker tells me. "We are all members of it. It's called real life."

And that's exactly what Parker and Fanning are looking to bring to the Internet today. The real life interaction, the real life responses to the things we see on the Internet and share with people: that's something that can only be done with video.


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"Right now everything in the social space is asynchronous," Parker says. He explains that people either use instant messaging or Facebook or Twitter where the text-based responses aren't instantaneous. "Why isn't more happening live on the Internet?" he asks.

"There is a need for a physical presence and connection on the Internet. It's absolutely critical," Fanning says.

Airtime fills those gaps, they tell me, and the webcam is the answer. There are over 800 million webcams shipping this year, but the two say they feel that none of the current video chatting solutions, including Skype, Facetime, Google's Hangouts, and even Facebook, have got it right.

Services like Skype and Facetime require you to download software onto your computer. It also requires that you log in to a separate account. And discovering people or friends with likeminded interests on those services isn't encouraged. Airtime takes on each of those issues: it is browser-based, you can only sign in with your Facebook account, and it's built around chatting not only with your friends but friends of friends with whom you share common interests.


"Your friends are all on Facebook and it's open," Parker says. Only one social network can rival the real life social network that Parker describes, and that's Facebook.

say-d-fact:
[size=18pt]all i see is a building where is the rail..... like a car without engine.........[/size]

The post talks about the Rail Stations, not the rails or trains

Nice

that's not the solution

Tragedy upon tragedy.