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alexis: Yoshi-Master



There is nothing wrong with prayer - we should all pray and pray more. However, praying when there is a snake in your house doesn't make any sense - I hope you get my point



You are right What is the average wait time for the police in Nigeria? What happens before the police arrives, if they arrive? It takes more wisdom to be proactive. Wisdom is closing locking your doors and gate at night, it's not leaving your windows opened for mosquitoes to bite you even if you believe God is a healing God.



No one can tell the intentions of anybody. I mentioned law abiding citizens. What makes you a criminal or a crack head is the "intent".



Illiteracy, doesn't make an accident scene a war movie; the "intention" of using the gun does.



Alot of my questions haven't been answered. I believe one or two has been. Thank you for clarifying though



My apology, I meant no harm and if I came across as calling you names - it wasn't my intention and I sincerely apologize. I don't think it's an issue of illiteracy. Someone with a JSS 8 education can apply for a gun and get it - If the law in Nigeria stipulates it.



Yes, they lock their doors - but they needed bigger guns to survive and exist to this day

You highlighted the ineffectiveness of the current police force, we all know that their services at present are below par.

However, when formulating policy like this that affects the entire population, you can't advocate such policy citing a few advantages, while leaving out major disadvantages.

The wise thing to do in this scenario, would be to shun gun rights in Nigeria. The same way I would shun Nuclear Energy in present day Nigeria, not because nuclear energy doesn't have incredible advantages, but due to present day lack of maintenance culture. In essence, the wisdom I possess dictates that we are not ready for such.

Such is the same with gun policy in Nigeria. Even the U.S with their high literacy rates and priority to education, still have random shootouts, how much more dire would the situation be in a country like Nigeria.

I hope you know people still conduct such barbaric acts as jungle justice, something that can't even be fathomed in developed countries, you can't add guns to that mix.

My take is that for this to be a reality in Nigeria, our education standard would need to have increased by leaps and bounds. We would need a generation were almost every child is in school, like 99.9999%, a generation of mostly civilized educated Nigerians, only then would I say we as a country are ready.

I have to settle down at work now, so I will end this here, for now.

alexis: That is the thing in Nigeria - majority of the people are ignorant. Remember the saying - "My people suffer because of the lack of knowledge?". People that own guns legally and want to own them legally are law abiding citizens. More people die from accidents in Nigeria than from armed robbery. And most of the people that have guns have them illegally and that is why they use them at night to rob and kill others.

The reason I am asking all these questions is to get information. To increase knowledge on how to obtain a gun legally. If you think protection means praying and calling the police - then you shouldn't lock your doors at night when you go to bed . It amazes me that in this day and age, such mentality of protection means been ignorant

Hahaha, me choosing to pray doesn't make me ignorant, au contraire, if anything it makes me more sound.

I rep Psalm 91 all day, but as they say, "Heaven helps those who help themselves", and "Be as wise as serpents", so we still have to proffer practical solutions to the issue of security and protection. Hence my recommendation to call the police (a practical secular solution).

Now you say "people that want to own guns legally are law abiding citizens", you can't make that generalization, because even criminals would love to own guns legally, crackheads also would love to use crack cocaine legally, doesn't make them law abiding citizens neither.

Also, the issue I raised was not about criminality, but illetracy. Imagine a car wreck, and some pyscho tout pulls out his gun to shoot you, obvisouly then he becomes a criminal, but he wasn't about a minute ago.

Your question had already been answered by previous posters, I was just extrapolating; giving a major reason why gun rights should not be granted to citizens.

Call me what you want, I am going by statistics, and a country with such a high illetracy rate has no business giving every "so called" law abiding citizen the right to own a gun.


Yes I do lock my doors, because as I said "Heaven helps those who help themselves", even the Isrealites still had to lock their doors and rub the blood of a lamb on their doors to avoid the plague. Basically they still had to do their part.

OP, with the current illiteracy level in the country, granting citizens that right would be like setting off a time bomb.

Unless you are trying to achieve population control, cause I foresee so many people being wiped out in the name of "Right To Bear Arms".

My suggestion for protection, pray and make sure you have all the relevant police numbers. You can also make friends with some officers, so you can call them directly should the need arise (though I would not trust police enough to have them too close to my private life).

#1-stunner:
i really wish dey legalise it... i need a pistol

A girl packing heat? Now that's some gangsta shhit!

naptu2: I had a similar experience decades ago. There had been a thunderstorm that morning and parts of the street were flooded. The driver went to drop someone off before coming back to take me to school. He parked outside the compound when he came back.

I went outside the compound, was about to cross to where the car was, put my foot on what I thought was the driveway and down I went. The only thing that saved me was my agility. I went down and somehow came back up immediately. The neighbours were screaming. I pretended that everything was ok, but I could feel the pain in my thigh where it had scraped the edge of the gutter and the bottom of my shorts was wet. That mark stayed on my thigh for many years.

Basically, I couldn't see the gutter (or the driveway) because of the flood.


Now, I've mentioned two things I'd like to see standardised (covered drains and embedded service ducts), I'll mention another.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s the Lagos Island Local Government was described as the "richest local government in Nigeria". This was because it was home to one of the largest market clusters in Nigeria (Balogun-Idumota-Tinubu-Jankara) and the nations main financial centre (Broad Street/Marina). The LILG decided to maximise revenue from these facilities and also free up the sidewalk and they did this by clamping illegally parked cars, constructing the Marina Car Park and erecting parking meters at specific locations. Organisations reacted by building multi-level car parks and car parks on their first floor.

If you walk down Broad Street and adjacent streets, you'll discover that NECOM House (Nitel), Freeman House (Shell), Kontagora House (FMB), Niger House (UAC), St Nicholas House (St Nicholas Hospital), etc all have car parks on their first floor. This ensures that their staff and visitors do not need to park on the sidewalk.

Victoria Island was originally designed as a residential area, but companies that fled from Marina during its decline in the late 80s erected tall office blocks there. Most of them do not have these designated car parks, so their staff and visitors park on the sidewalk. There was a half-hearted attempt to correct this problem a few years ago (the government posted signs to indicate parking areas and non-parking areas) but it was abused. I think that the government needs to vigorously enforce the "no parking on the sidewalk" rule and ensure that new developments have adequate parking spaces before they are given planning approval.

Enforcement really is needed, and I'm talking about conscious 24/7/365 type of enforcement.

For instance, I was just admiring the pics rossik uploaded with nice sidewalks, but truth be told, if we had that at the moment, it would be a keke maruwa's and psycho driver's deepest wet dream, a paradise for them. Unless it is elevated I guess.

I also would like it if more multilevel parking spots are built in conjested areas, it doesn't even have to be part of a company's building, it could just be independent.

rman: The operating environment in Nigeria is not a s friendly as we all assume it is.
Most of these operators have not even rolled out 3G in all the major cities across Nigeria, so 4G LTE is still a couple of months away.
Although, some have already done preliminary tests for 4G LTE on sample sites in Nigeria.

The reason it is easy to roll out services in developed country is because there is a very good fibre network everywhere and that is the most reliable way of delivering high speed Internet.

Slowly but surely we will get there

Exactly fibre is the best, but as far as wireless networks go, 4GLTE is pretty good, even for online gaming with minimal lag. If they get it right, at least it would be an upgrade for Nigerians, before fibre becomes a reality.

Swift guys say they will have theirs by October, so fingers crossed.

Although some of them do lie, I once had to request that a certain provider take down their ad banner in front of their store, lol, they probably thought I was crazy.

Their ad banner said speeds up to 42mbps, and I was like "whaaaaaat!!!!", "how?", only for me to go in and request a test. Meanwhille, the lady was like "why do you want to run a test, our network is very fast". Anyway, I ran the test there with speedtest.net.

Result? 0.5mpbs.

If that is not a scam, I don't know what is.

luluosas: That's correct. This is where NITEL landlines would have come to the rescue but, corruption, lack of maintenance and mismanagement killed the once Nigerian pride in the telecoms industry. What a pity!

True, but hopefully we will see a rise in smart entrepreneurs venturing into laying of fibre.

Just imagine having a 10-15 Mbps unlimited plan for like 15-20k per month, that would be awesome.

luluosas: Perfecting 3G coverage and service reliability is this most needed for the time being. By the way, how many cities across Nigeria can truly boasts of stable 3G services?
Don't even mention the supposed 3.75G nationwide coverage by AIRTEL, it is just a scam as ordinary 2G service with Edge network is beating the 3.75G network in my location (Internet speed and reliability).
Our telecoms service providers really have to step up their Internet services for good.

Well truth is we do not wanna be stuck with just 3G for too long, when other countries have progressed to high speed connections, some pushing out about 50mbps.

There is a company that is presently working on laying fibre around Abuja, connecting to the already available ducts that have been placed at strategic locations.

I just can't wait for development like that to spread across the country.

If Nitel had done a good job with door to door wiring, even copper wired connections would have been giving us high speeds and reliable networks.

Wired connections are the future, with fibre being número uno.

maryjames9: Fashola has made lagos a home again,a pride of 9ja. Sanity has replaced the madness,disorderliness,lawlesness,gheto-like,under-bridge life styles of lagosians. Slums have given way for ultra modern buildings, dirts and untidiness on roads for flowers and beautification. Lagos BRT busses with far more efficient,easy,safe,cheap and accessible transport system. Places like Ojuelegba,mushin,oshodi,orile and name them are now clean and good,thanks to Fashola. Fashola is the President we need in this country.

Yes he has achieved a lot, but...

Lets not act like complete sanity has been restored to Lagos roads.

The road users still drive with reckless abandon without adequate checks by LASTMA or police.

As far as I am concerned LASTMA is doing an average or below average job regarding restoring full sanity to the Lagos driving scene.

They do not patrol actively, you do not see them pull over erring drivers who change lanes impulsively, those that drive on lane markings, and so on.

You just see them standing at junctions waiting to catch drivers that have slowed down either due to traffic lights or congested traffic.

To me this is not enough, to restore full sanity to Lagos roads, they have to be actively patrolling all the time and be driving side by side with other road users.

For hardcore gamers like myself, Internet is naija is especially painful.

The latency with 3G networks is soo high, it makes playing PS3 games online unbearable.

I'm tired of tapping the X button, only to see a punch thrown three seconds later.

Swift bought out unwired and is planning to unveil LTE services on the network, that would mean high speeds and lower latency, I just hope it's not another Internet fraud.

Thanks guys for keeping this discussion positive, it has been very informative.

I had no idea Jamaica had gone that far, having sidewalks even in poor neighborhoods. Just finding out that Newyork has metal coverings on their surface drains (though I prefer these), didn't even know there were surface drains in the U.S.

I really like the new drainage in that pic of Lekki Phase 1, together with the sidewalk, this has to become the new standard for roads constructed in my opinion.

Only took pics of Akin Adesola street.

Let me preface this by saying that I am not partisan, and residing in Lagos, I can attest to most of the good works by the governor, Fashola.

Now to the topic of discussion, Open Gutters, we have them at a lot of streets in Lagos.

What I see here is an opportunity for beautification of our streets, wasting away.

I wonder what it would take to upgrade the standard of our drainages. This may not seem like a big deal to some people, but I believe we need to go by professional standards in everything we do in Nigeria, big and small, for us to progress.

If lagos is to become a top tourist destination, then little things like these need to be handled with the same seriousness as the big things.

Gregdcutie: yeah I should be faulted for that, I only thought he had brains but he just showed me that brains are not everything because in his case brains are obviously nothing,one more slowpoke than I counted on.But hey! Without stupidity there can be no wisdom, so the world needs him afterall

Lol, dude you're crazy! If only he would answer to this higher calling.

1. Garri:- You'd want to switch most meals to garri, the food of champions. I hear they now have instant garri in a sachet.
2. Drink lots of water:- Helps ease hunger pangs.
3. Get a room mate:- Helps to split the cost of rent making housing more affordable
4. Take the bus:- Who you kidding, flousing with that ride when the tank is on E.
5. More Garri:- Repeat as necessary, until the situation subsides.
6. Start hustling again:- Dust the dirt off your shoulder and get back into the zone.

I wish you the best, I have known what it is to be broke and it aint pretty. Just make sure that when the money starts pouring in again, you double up on your savings to cover any unforeseen events.

Evil Brain: Basically, all the posts on this thread can be divided into two broad groups
1. Those that are ashamed of how this guy has embarrassed us. And...
2. Those that are too dull to understand how this guy has embarrassed us.

Hahaha, that was quite harsh!

Gregdcutie: am not gay dude but would not be condeming anyone either I just found his post hillarious and liked it and u just insulted me...smh calling you an i...diot would be an insult to all the stupid people. Dumb retard and whatever makes u dumb works pretty gud. Ur special effort at stupidity today was duely noted, you can now slip into something more comfortable like a coma

Dude, I can't believe you actually gave that guy the time of day by responding to his post.

Somebody that can't see that the comment was with regards to the scientific method used by the guy, more so than it was about the conclusion, doesn't deserved to be quoted.

I'm sure that's how they prove theories in his grammar school. His teacher will say "that breeze that just blew now is because of spirits", and that nicca would be like "My teacher told me so, that's how I know".

I'm sure when he is walking around, you can literally hear his peanut sized brain bouncing about in his mostly empty head.

See the guy holding beaker with lab jacket, feeling like Einstein.

Somebody should please go and collect that jacket from him, nonsense!

Dealership Owner: Sir, are you okay?

Driver: Yes, thank God for my life.

Dealership owner: So your bill is 6 million for the damages.

Driver: God, why me?

sainty2k3: U can make it whatever u want it to be, but u'll need to give another answer apart frm 2. Cos their aim is to look for someone who think outside the box . I'll give like 4 different answers and reasons why it could be any of the 4

Still a dumb interview question in my opinion.

SilaV: It depends on the perspective with which an individual wants to view the equation.For instance,if we were to look at it from mathematics angle,then the following conditions would apply:
(1) The number bases you are working with.If it were to be base ten,then the answer would be 2.However,if it were to be base two,the answer would be "10"(pronounced one-zero)
(2)The operation the cross symbol represents.That is,the concept of binary operation would be looked at.In binary operation,the cross or plus sign is not regarded as the "normal addition" operator.Any sign that comes in-between two numbers in binary operation is often expressed as "opertion".For example, 1+1 is read as "one operation one".Of course, in binary operation if the plus sign actually means addition,then one of the rule would apply;1+1= 1.
Again, if the equation is to be looked at from social perspective,then the institution of marriage would come to mind.In marriage: 1+1=1
Just my contribution.

The portion in bold is just semantics, even in base 2, the equivalent would be the same magnitude.

10 = (1*2^1)+(0*2^0) = 2 in base 10.

If that were to be the case, we might as well use other bases, not just 2 and 10, meaning we'd be answering for a while.

I like the marriage one though, but all in all, I feel it's a somewhat dumb question.

Baybe: Seriously, what's with the fake American accents . They are presenting to a Nigeria audience and not American audience, why change your accent? It's getting annoying.
Some even make use of the accent when speaking pidgin English, Smh

You need to hear them on radio, "Oh my Gawd, Oh my Gawd!"

There is a way you can speak in a refined manner without faking, guess they don't gerrit.

Op, you have to first get people out of the thong thread to your thread to comment.

Baybe: I saw one at the bank yesterday. The child should be about 2 years old. He refused to be carried by the mum preferring to seat on the floor blocking people's way. If the mum tried to carry him, he started to cry. I felt like spanking him real hard . I pitied for the mother shaa, see disturbance .

Was this in Nigeria or abroad?

Segun Banjoko: Can someone pls help? What's thong?

Go home, and find your favorite BYC pant, and a pair of scissors.

Now turn the pant around to the side your fatty tissues will usually rest, and cut of as much material as possible (don't ask me why). You want to make sure only a thin line is left, with no material on your fatty tissue.

Turn to the front and do the same, with just enough material to cover your general.

There you have it, a thong!

Its too late, Sisqo already made the "THONG SONG".

There's no going back now!

OP, you must not know bout me, you must not know bout me.

I can have a million naira in a minute, matter fact it'll be here any minute.

Please revise your list.

Thank you op

I was exposed to cellular radiation when I was younger, now whenever I get angry, I smash cellular phones. I have been through so many phones, and the docs say there's no cure. Just yesterday's I used my phone to stone one hediot that bashed my car. I believe I can manage my condition now with the steps you outlined.

While I applaud MTN for their contribution, I must say that vans don't look good on police, maybe they they would be better suited for soldiers.

Are they suppose to pack suspects and just throw them in the back of the truck?

Ten Ten!

What kind of question is this?

Sho!

I guess this is a question for the little piggies in the house. Don't think clean ppl worry much about their boxers cycle, it just normal for them to put on a fresh pair after a shower, or at least within 24 hours.