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does it have Siri?

when people called me with my Nokia n97 mini, i barely hear, as the sound is very faint. should i need to change the earpiece and is it replaceable?

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/kaduna-blast-was-bomb-red-cross-says


y SaharaReporters, New York
The Nigerian Red Cross is backing eyewitness accounts that yesterday’s blast in Kaduna, in which several people were killed, was a bomb blast, not a gas explosion, the Associated Press (AP) has said, based on an internal Red Cross report on the incident a reporter saw today.

Yesterday, the Nigeria Police in Kaduna claimed that the explosion had resulted from a gas cylinder, dismissing eyewitness accounts which said two men riding a motorbike tossed a bomb into the area.

The Kaduna State Police Commissioner, Mr. Ballah Magaji Nasarawa, roundly dismissed reports of the two motorbike riders. “That is not true,” he said.




On his part, Assistant Superintendent Patrick David, the commander of the anti-bomb unit, told Saharareporters on the scene that the blast was a “mechanical explosion” from reactive available at battery sellers in the market.

Today, Kaduna state police spokesman Aminu Lawan told AP he was not aware of the Red Cross report, but maintained that the police's anti-bomb squad had concluded that the blast was accidental.

He said the squad found acid batteries, a gas cylinder and other "active" materials stored in the small shop where the fire started.


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Home | News | Jonathan woos senators, reps with new deal
Jonathan woos senators, reps with new deal
By Yusuf Alli 02/10/2011 00:00:00
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L-R: Vice President’s wife, Amina Sambo, Vice President Namadi Sambo, President Goodluck Jonathan, First Lady Patience Jonathan, Senate President’s wife, Helen Mark and Senate President David Mark cutting the 51st Independence Anniversary cake at the for
7-Year single tenure bill • Rotation of presidency, governorship between zones in new amendments • Senators, reps get 6-year renewable tenure • Opposition parties bank on North to defeat bill
In a bid to ensure its troubled seven-year single tenure bill scales through the national and state assemblies, the Presidency is set to present new proposals that will enshrine the rotation of the office of President between the six geo-political zones of the country in the constitution.
Similarly, there would be constitutional guarantees for the first time ensuring that the office of governor rotates between the senatorial zones of every state.
The existing 1999 constitution is silent on the issue of rotation of such positions between the zones. It equally does not recognize the zones as legal entities. Presently, only the constitution of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) provides for a lose arrangement where the Presidency rotates between North and South.
If President Goodluck Jonathan’s new proposals scale through the National Assembly, they throw open the 2015 presidential and gubernatorial contests as all zones at state and federal level would have constitutional grounds to vie for any of the positions.
Fresh facts emerged yesterday about a change of strategy driving the new proposals. Investigation by our correspondent indicate that the minister coordinating the amendments and some of Jonathan’s strategists have been studying reasons why former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s attempts to amend the constitution failed in 2006.
To avoid a repeat, the new approach will see the government offering senators, members of the House of Representatives and state assemblies a series of carrots and deals in what is essentially a divide and rule approach.
Senior government sources told The Nation on Sunday in confidence that the new bill will be packaged in such a way that there would items in the legislation that legislators would find hard to reject.
"The amendments will be proposed by the government in a manner that will leave members of the National Assembly divided on the tenure bill. At the end of the day, a Senator or Representative will have one cause or the other to support the amendments - including the single tenure proposal", the source said.
Some of the other carrots being put on the table include a renewable six-year tenure for National Assembly and State House of Assembly members as well as creation of new states and autonomy for local governments. Part of the strategy is also to infiltrate the ranks of opposition parties to get backing for the bill. But the government is unsure of the attitude of governors. It is equally apprehensive of a backlash from the opposition and media as was the case with the botched Third Term agenda.
A key opposition leader who wishes to remain anonymous, told The Nation on Sunday: "Jonathan will be shocked that members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the National Assembly will reject the tenure proposal. Feelers from even the PDP governors show that the tenure magic will die on arrival. "The booby trap for governors is that they will serve a six-year term under a President who will be in office for a single term of seven years. It means that a ruthless president can use state instrument to oppress or deal with them after leaving office or determine their successors in their states. "If the tenure proposal has no ill-motive, why can’t the president and the governors have the same exit date?
President Jonathan is proposing the French model of a seven-year single tenure for the new president and governors coming on board as from 2015.
Although the proposal initially raised considerable dust, the President has vowed to press ahead with the bill. The opposition have, however, vowed to mobilise Nigerians to reject the new tenure bill.
Indications are that the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and other opposition parties will soon open talks with Northern leaders in a bid to ensure the defeat of the tenure bill in the National Assembly.
"As far as the tenure bill is concerned, opposition parties intend to join forces to kill the weird proposal. We have started discussions with key Northern leaders on why the tenure proposal must not fly.
"There is no vision behind the seven-year tenure when we are already operating a system that allow two terms of four years each – making eight years. Their plan is to make a retroactive tenure to ensure that Jonathan stays in office for seven years," the opposition leader privy to the discussions said.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/21565-jonathan-woos-senators-reps-with-new-deal.html

http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/editorial/27850-nigeria-and-software-piracy

here is a growing use of computers in Nigeria, both for personal and business uses. Computers have software that enable users carry out different functions. Good trend it is, but a new report says Nigeria is home to the second highest piracy in the world. The report by Ipsos, which surveyed users in 32 countries, rated Nigeria just behind China in the number of people with computers that use pirated software – that is, obtaining software through illegal means. The rate of growth is put above 40 percent due to the increasing use of computers.

This is unacceptable. Essentially, software or any other form of piracy achieves few things, but all are inimical to the growth of business and development. First, it denies those that produced the software adequate reward for their work, and increasingly, a lot of money is being spent on research and development of these software. Second, those that acquire their software through legal means end up paying more for it. Third, intellectual theft, which is essentially what it is, discourages further development. Fourth, it results in the loss of millions of jobs. Sometimes, as a result of the above, it provides health and safety risks that come from unsafe products.

In situations where an average computer may contain as much as three to five software, this scale of piracy is huge and the losses suffered by software firms run into billions of US dollars. Emerging and developing markets account for a significant proportion of these activities and thus, the consequences.

One of the reasons illegal acquisition started or spread in developing countries is because what has been described as “accidental” illegal method is usually due to the fact many of these people were not aware of the proper approach and consequently unaware they were breaking laws. Also, the laws on issues such as piracy are still very weak and new in most developing countries, including Nigeria. Following this report, these laws and the approaches to dealing with piracy must now be strengthened.

While there is no significant number of software manufacturers in Nigeria, making Nigerian businesses only mildly affected in this case, piracy is such an international phenomenon that the implications are far and wide. Nigeria is a major of producer of films and music and the producers of these movies and music suffer similar losses that software manufacturers share as a result of piracy activities in Nigeria. Indeed, it is often the case that the proponents of piracy often cut across films, software and movies.

Piracy is essentially an infringement on the legal rights established by someone else. The enforcement authorities in Nigeria must work assiduously to reduce software piracy and other forms of piracy in Nigeria significantly. A piracy law broken is often the start of the infringement of another law. Those that benefit from software piracy, especially in commercial terms, also benefit from greater technology crimes. And in this case, they can only make the desired progress in partnership with software makers and their agents in Nigeria.

If Nigeria is to be taken seriously as an investment-friendly country and attract research and development in the area of software, we must take the problem of rising piracy very seriously indeed.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/editorial/27850-nigeria-and-software-piracy

There is a growing use of computers in Nigeria, both for personal and business uses. Computers have software that enable users carry out different functions. Good trend it is, but a new report says Nigeria is home to the second highest piracy in the world. The report by Ipsos, which surveyed users in 32 countries, rated Nigeria just behind China in the number of people with computers that use pirated software – that is, obtaining software through illegal means. The rate of growth is put above 40 percent due to the increasing use of computers.

This is unacceptable. Essentially, software or any other form of piracy achieves few things, but all are inimical to the growth of business and development. First, it denies those that produced the software adequate reward for their work, and increasingly, a lot of money is being spent on research and development of these software. Second, those that acquire their software through legal means end up paying more for it. Third, intellectual theft, which is essentially what it is, discourages further development. Fourth, it results in the loss of millions of jobs. Sometimes, as a result of the above, it provides health and safety risks that come from unsafe products.

In situations where an average computer may contain as much as three to five software, this scale of piracy is huge and the losses suffered by software firms run into billions of US dollars. Emerging and developing markets account for a significant proportion of these activities and thus, the consequences.

One of the reasons illegal acquisition started or spread in developing countries is because what has been described as “accidental” illegal method is usually due to the fact many of these people were not aware of the proper approach and consequently unaware they were breaking laws. Also, the laws on issues such as piracy are still very weak and new in most developing countries, including Nigeria. Following this report, these laws and the approaches to dealing with piracy must now be strengthened.

While there is no significant number of software manufacturers in Nigeria, making Nigerian businesses only mildly affected in this case, piracy is such an international phenomenon that the implications are far and wide. Nigeria is a major of producer of films and music and the producers of these movies and music suffer similar losses that software manufacturers share as a result of piracy activities in Nigeria. Indeed, it is often the case that the proponents of piracy often cut across films, software and movies.

Piracy is essentially an infringement on the legal rights established by someone else. The enforcement authorities in Nigeria must work assiduously to reduce software piracy and other forms of piracy in Nigeria significantly. A piracy law broken is often the start of the infringement of another law. Those that benefit from software piracy, especially in commercial terms, also benefit from greater technology crimes. And in this case, they can only make the desired progress in partnership with software makers and their agents in Nigeria.

If Nigeria is to be taken seriously as an investment-friendly country and attract research and development in the area of software, we must take the problem of rising piracy very seriously indeed.

I enjoy this fresh air 2011. Go Baba GEJ 2011-2015 it's your time to transform Nigeria

It's result of ur struggle to have FRESH AIR 2011, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

http://blueprintng.com/index/2011/08/%E2%80%98nigeria-is-broke%E2%80%99/


No supplementary budget this year
Jonathan cuts 2011 budget by 51%
Senate quarterly running cost slashed from N60m to N22m
Reps’ running cost now N15m as against N42m
Severance allowance of 6th Senate yet to be paid
By Amos Dunia
Abuja


President Goodluck Jonathan
“I think that the diversionary tactics seem to be working for the government. Two weeks ago, it was minimum wage or strike, now, we are bogged down with tenure elongation and later the executive arm would dust up the anti-EFCC and Farida campaign. It is a vicious circle.”

Indications emerged last week that the 2011 budget is heading for the rocks as the federal government has commenced moves to regulate the implementation of the budget based on half measures.
Already, President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration which came out of the April 2011 general elections, broke has embarked on an austerity measure that would witness major ‘belt tightening’ in fiscal responsibility and spending.
The austerity measures are to cover the period of the 2011 budget pending the passage of the 2012 appropriation bill by the National Assembly.
Already, there is a 51 per cent cut across the board in the 2011 budget of all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as contained in the Appropriation Act.
Blueprint gathered that the lack of adequate funds to finance the budget as passed by the National Assembly necessitated the cut thus the reduction in quarterly releases and approvals to the MDAs.
A dependable source in the presidency told our correspondent that owing to the shortfall in the ability of the federal government to finance the budget, there would be no supplementary budget this year.
This position was corroborated by another source in the ministry of finance who said that Nigerians must wake up to the reality of the need to tighten their belt until December or possibly March 2012 when the next fiscal year would commence.
“The fact of the matter is that there is no money anywhere to continue the excessive funding of the budget considered bogus and there would be no supplementary budget to cover for anything this year. It is not because we don’t need it but because the money is not just there,” the source enthused.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar had last year criticised the provisions of the 2011 Appropriation Act as passed by the National Assembly and assented to by President Jonathan saying that the budget did not address both micro and macro-economic indices of the critical sectors of the nation and thus would be difficult to implement.
However, former Minister of Finance and now minister of Industry Trade and Investment, Chief Olusegun Aganga countered the former Vice President accusing him of playing politics with economic matters stressing that the 2011 budget was carefully packaged to address all critical sectors of the economy that were mentioned by Atiku.
As a further proof that there would be no supplementary budget to address critical budgetary needs, the Ministry of Finance has already issued a circular calling for inputs to the 2012 Appropriation from MDAs indicating that the 2011 budget has come to a close.
The effect of the 51 per cent cut in the budget is believed to have affected the operations of the judicial and legislative arms of government than that of the executive as the quarterly running cost of both arms of government have been drastically reduced.
Blueprint checks at the National Assembly indicated that the two chambers of the federal legislature for instance are now operating under a very tight budget as their overhead and quarterly running cost have been drastically reduced following the cut in the 2011 budget.
For instance, the quarterly running cost of the Senate which used to be N60 million has been reduced to N22 million while that of the House of Representatives was reduced by about N27 million per quarter as against its budgetary provision of N42 million per quarter.
It was also gathered that the budgetary cut is seriously affecting the operations of the federal legislature as its members that resumed plenary in June expecting to be paid their statutory allowances as approved by the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission in lieu of accommodation, vehicles and other incidental allowances were shocked when they were paid only N7 million for accommodation and are yet to receive their vehicle allowances.
Similarly, the severance allowances of members of the sixth Senate are yet to be paid as a result of the 51 per cent cut in budgetary provision, a development that has put so much pressure on the President of the Senate and the leadership of the House of Representatives led by Hon. Aminu Tambuwal.
It was further gathered that the Senate leadership used the severance allowance of the sixth Senate to settle some of the allowances of the seventh Senate to enable members settle down for legislative business particularly the ministerial screening exercise.
Blueprint also gathered that the development led to the inability of the Body of Principal officers of the Senate to constitute standing committees of the upper chamber of the National Assembly before proceeding on its eight week-annual recess last Thursday as doing so may equally lead to further agitation for funds by some of the committees that may want to start their oversight responsibilities immediately.
Further checks revealed that apart from overhead costs, the reduction of the 2011 budget would affect capital budget of most ministries and parastatals as approvals are not being accompanied with cash backing.
“If funds meant for capital projects are not being released, the implication is non-implementation of projects and the only option left is to roll them over to next year’s budget,” an official of the ministry of finance told Blueprint on condition of anonymity.
In-coming Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had during her screening session on the floor of the Senate, said that there was the need for a review of the 2011 budget in order to address some critical sectors.
Our correspondent equally gathered that as a way of shedding off the heat that may be generated by the budget’s poor funding, the presidency is to introduce various diversionary tactics that would keep the people pre-occupied and would therefore have little time and attention for real economic issues that affect the people.
A senator on the platform of the ruling PDP told our correspondent; “I think that the diversionary tactics seem to be working for the government. Two weeks ago, it was minimum wage or strike, now, we are bogged down with tenure elongation and later the executive arm would dust up the anti-EFCC and Farida campaign. It is a vicious circle.”
It was also gathered that the unquantifiable amount of money that was believed to have been expended on the 2011 election starting from the pre-party primaries campaigns by the over one thousand campaign organisations, the PDP presidential primary and the climax which was the April general election may have dealt a blow on the 2011 budget.
In the same vein, Blueprint gathered that the over N80 billion allocated to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the process and conduct of the election equally affected the budget as the amount dispensed to the electoral body was not captured in the revenue profile that accompanied the passage of the 2011 Appropriation Act by the National Assembly.
With the cut in the budget, it is equally doubtful if the agreement entered into between the federal government and the organised labour over the implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage can be achieved as there are no available funds to meet such huge budgetary provision.

South-East:
We are getting there, slowly but steadily
Igbo man in Lagos govt
Yoruba, Edo men in Igbo govts
Yoruba man in Bauchi Govt
Yoruba, Igbo men in Kano Govt
One day an Igbo will rule Lagos
A Yoruba will rule Ebonyi
An Hausa will rule Delta
An Ijaw will rule Kaduna
etc, etc.

the only enemy preventing realizing the, is the NairaLand

By Innocent Anaba
LAGOS — Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who has been on trial for more than 12 years over alleged murder, yesterday, broke down in tears at a Lagos High Court, lamenting that he was kept behind bars because the authorities did not want him to reveal how late Gen. Sani Abacha and late Chief M.K.O. Abiola were murdered.

Al-Mustapha who is standing trial for the death of the late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola opened his defence, yesterday.
Led in evidence by his counsel, Al-Mustapha, told the trial judge, Justice Mojisola Dada, that he had both audio and video evidence of how the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha and the late Moshood M.K.O Abiola were allegedly murdered.

Al-Mustapha told the court that former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, was afraid he (Al-Mustapha) would make pubic, information at his disposal, hence he wanted him to spend the rest of his life in prison.
He said: “My incarceration was as a result of a script written and acted out by former Head of State, General Abubakar to further keep me in prison.

“First were the events that happened after the murder of General Abacha and late Chief MKO Abiola and for fear that I may divulge information that led to their death, they had to keep me in prison.”


Late MKO Abiola and Late Gen Sani Abacha
He further told the court: “There is documentary evidence to show that shortly after the death of late Abiola, the then Head of State (allegedly) ordered that various sums of money be withdrawn from the Central Bank of Nigeria.”
He told the court that $200 million, £75 million and N500 million were allegedly withdrawn from the CBN to appease South West leaders and douse tension that arose after the death of Abiola.

He told the court that all visitations to the late Abiola were on tape, disclosing that some people after visiting Abiola would come back at night to the Presidential Villa to speak against him.
How I made Abdulsalami Head of State

“I am an officer who is being persecuted. After the death of Abacha so much happened within three days and the country was without a President or Vice President. The then Vice President, Lt Gen Diya, was imprisoned for staging a coup. Many senior officers wanted to become Head of State, but God gave me the wisdom and I assisted General Abdulsalami Abubakar to become President. But, this is the price I am paying for my loyalty and for assisting him.”

Al-Mustapha said he did not order Sergeant Barnabas Jabila Msheila (alias Sgt Rogers) to kill Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, saying: “On several occasions I assisted the Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, Mr. Kola Abiola, his personal physician, Dr. Ore Falomo and his lawyers to visit him (Abiola) in prison. Abiola would have been killed the very day Abacha died but I relocated him within the barracks and used the Strike Force to protect him from those who wanted to balance the equation.”

The matter was adjourned to tomorrow for continuation of the trial.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/08/i-ve-video-evidence-on-murder-of-abacha-abiola-al-mustapha/

When can NAIRALAND be serious for goodness sake?!

is BES not BIS

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An average Hausa man knows that those claim to be middle belters hate him more than the Yorubas & Igbos do. And now that Nigeria is heading for a divide, how prepared are the middle belters for total domination of the Hausas in the new North Nigerian Politics?

sammyzacks:
Any body that understand nigerian politics and kaduna's peculiarity will agree that a new state for the souther kaduna people is long overdue. It will bring about lasting peace and end the marginalisation of the minority tribes by the dominant hausas.

MARGINALIZATION?
It's only when the issue of governorship pops up that you will cry for being marginalized. It may interest you to know that“majority rules“ goes a universal principle of democracy accepted by advance Democracies of Europe and America. When Makarfi was the governor he tried by all available means to please the southern kaduna people. Because after his local government, is southern kaduna he gave his attention and executed many projects most and abondoned Zaria and central Kaduna. It's also visible in workforce; simply check kaduna state workers statistics, one will never believe it's a state of 78% vs 22%. Up to date when one goes to any of the state ministries or hospitals, he will definately ask a question "where are the Hausas?" The people testified themselves by singing a song in a church (in a town called kachia) describing him as “jinin yesu kiristi“ means “he's from jesus family“. He even promised to give them power if not because of the pressure mounted on him by his people.
Namadi Sambo made sure that he rigged Yakowa back to power even at the expense of his popularity (which an average Hausa is now praying bomb explosion to Sambo).
When one check the state's army statistics, he finds out that most of the state generals are from southern kaduna.
I DON'T KNOW WHICH MARGINALIZATION YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

GURARA STATE?
Nigeria practices federalism which emphasizes "fiscal federalism". If I may ask, what are the sources of your revenue generation to the centre if Gurara is created?

PLEASE WE SHOULD BE SINCERE TO OURSELVES!