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Politics / Last Election, I Almost Voted El-rufai. This Time He Has To Go. by Visionwriter: 7:20pm On May 12, 2018 |
El-Rufai is dividing Kaduna State, speaks, and refers to its leaders without respect. We will pick another candidate for next year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AKXzar0H64 |
Celebrities / (COMEDY) Davido Dragged To Court By Boyfriend's Society For Buying GF Porsche by Visionwriter: 4:04pm On May 12, 2018 |
Davido is brought to court by the Unmarried Men's Society for "Malicious Purchasement of Extravagant Gifts in the Form of a Porsche Without Regard To Girlfriend Repercussions." Justice Kure presiding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx9Myv_Cai0
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Politics / IG Of Police Dragged To Court By National Assembly For Not Showing (comedy Skit) by Visionwriter: 3:56pm On May 12, 2018 |
The IG is dragged to the people's court for not showing up to answer for the deaths in the country when called. Court in session. Justice Kure presiding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY9SPbBCk_g
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Politics / #nottooyoungtorun: A Look At Some Of The Young People Running For President by Visionwriter: 11:02pm On Mar 05, 2018 |
Politics / Re: Benue Killings: The Governors Are A Greater Hope Than The President. by Visionwriter: 5:24pm On Feb 01, 2018 |
magoo10: Yep... at this point, that is clear. What people say or even swear to do is not what they always do. He has no reason to act quickly. The governors and LGCs do. They should be given the power to act. |
Politics / Re: Benue Killings: The Governors Are A Greater Hope Than The President. by Visionwriter: 2:58pm On Feb 01, 2018 |
olureignforever: That's true. The problem is that if the Governors and LGCs don't start demanding for this, the tribes will get more angry. Very soon, everybody will pick up arms. And then we have a real problem on our hands. Learned yesterday that about 10 Fulani people were ambushed and killed by some Tiv people. Another 9 were killed by Herdsmen in Kaduna. This is all in one day. If they wait for Buhari, Nigeria will go up in flames. |
Politics / Benue Killings: The Governors Are A Greater Hope Than The President. by Visionwriter: 4:02am On Feb 01, 2018 |
The President is quiet about Benue. But honestly, the governors and most importantly the NASS can do something about it. During Jonathan's time, the governors had to wait for the President to give orders before the Police could move into high gear. Now with Buhari the governors still have to wait. In the meantime people die. The governors of these states should call their senators and change the law such that the state and local governments can have a first line of defence. One man should not be deciding from Abuja the level of security that the people should have. Its does not work. Even on a normal day, there is a small security presence in the cities. Not many people can say they feel secure in the house in Jos, for example, because of the police. Its time to change this system. It's not working. ( I talk more about this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opP0lCt9KGQ/) |
Politics / Re: Nigeria Loses $9bn To Illegal Mining In 2 Years by Visionwriter: 3:32am On Nov 24, 2017 |
Blue3k2: Yes. But if your reasoning is correct, then all the government has to do is give legal miners the license to access those areas and problem solved. They will take over those mines and no need to spend hundreds of millions. But its not so. Secondly, its not just registering illegal mines. If the process was that straight forward, the illegal mines would have registered themselves in the beginning and won't be illegal. Its registering them cheaply and transparently. You are right that some people will always prefer a black market. But when the black market is worth $9 billion or N3.2 trillion Naira compared to a $4 - $12 billion legal market, the problem is beyond just a few people preferring black markets. It means it is cheaper - even when you include security risks that come with precious metals- both for those selling and those buying to go through illegal means than to go through legal means. When its is incredibly more cost effective to be illegal than legal, you will find more people being illegal. And that cost is controlled largely by government. |
Politics / Re: States With Health Insurance Laws In Nigeria by Visionwriter: 3:11am On Nov 24, 2017 |
360command: Sorry, man. You don't have a "right" to free medical service, unemployed or not. Government is not there to be your father or mother. You should study the history of democratic government (or any kind of government anyway). Government is not there to take care of you. Nigerian government runs that way in order for politicians not to owe you anything when they get into power since they give you everything for free (or try to). What do you think happens when people who work see that their labor is collected and distributed to others without fair compensation. Ever wondered why more doctors are running out of this country and going abroad? Because you are not working for the money that government is using, you think it appears miraculously. In those other countries you are talking about, the people work and contribute to the government to do things that individuals cannot or will not do - build roads, public schools, security. Medicare that you referred to is a US program that was built for the elderly. They were expected to contribute to the system through their working lives and then get a certain minimum health insurance when they retired. Unemployed people could use the system because on average people remained unemployed for a few months (3-6 months) and usually had been contributing to the system or were on their parents health insurance policy. The poor can use it as a government aid not as a right. Big difference. Guess by the way which government program contributes the most to the US's $17 trillion dollar debt. The government should provide medical aid when it can but bro, its not a right. |
Politics / Re: Anti-grazing Law: Fulani Youths Appeal To President Buhari by Visionwriter: 5:37am On Nov 23, 2017 |
igbodefender: True. But this not a good justification for the law. I think an argument for peace is a better one because whether or not we believe ranching is economically better, no one should be able to change other people's lifestyle by force because they think it is "better for them". Even worse when you are not part of the group whose lifestyle would be changed. But if you argue based on peace, then you are forced to focus on dealing with the problem- the killings (http://creatrs.media/herdsmen-state-control-1-million-illegal-guns-nigeria/). |
Politics / Re: Nigeria Loses $9bn To Illegal Mining In 2 Years by Visionwriter: 5:12am On Nov 23, 2017 |
Blue3k2: Thats assuming the presence of the illegal miners somehow reduces the output of the legal miners. Mining is not like oil where you just puncture the pipeline. It is a stationary, long, hard digging job. If the legal miners are not already there it would be more of an expansion problem than an illegal mining issue. So it would still be more cost effective to simply, cheaply license the miners. When so much money is leaking and few companies expanding as fast it is an indicator that it is easier to do it the illegal way than to just go through government. The government always has a way of making things harder. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: States With Health Insurance Laws In Nigeria by Visionwriter: 4:52am On Nov 23, 2017 |
360command: If you are not working, how do they pay for the healthcare? Somebody is going to have to pay for the medication you will get, pay the doctor that went through 10 years of medical school and residency, not to talk of other equipment that were built and transported by people that were actually working. You have a right not to be unreasonably refused healthcare. But you don't have a right to get those things for free. From anybody including government. Every time you get something for free. SOMEONE ELSE is paying for it. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Nigeria Loses $9bn To Illegal Mining In 2 Years by Visionwriter: 4:43am On Nov 23, 2017 |
Blue3k2: Actually, they will lose a couple of billion Naira. If they stop the "illegal mining" it means nobody is actually removing the $9 billion worth of stones from the ground. We go back to zero. Plus the country would have spent N19 million per vehicle outside personnel costs just to bring us back to zero. The wiser way would have been to lower the requirements for the mining activities, register most of the miners, and collect tax from them. Then the country actually makes some money. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Tony Momoh Lists Nnamdi Kanu’s Failures by Visionwriter: 6:15am On Nov 20, 2017 |
Princedapace: Correct. Couldn't agree more. But unfortunately, the duty to correct the bad system of election/govt cannot be left exclusively to the govt. The govt cannot even be leader in this case. Its like asking a thief to guard a bank. Throughout history when a system of government doesn't work, the people have to force it to change. It doesn't have to be violent either but Nigerians need to for once shut down the country until at least we get the NASS to start considering restructuring and other things that will fix the system. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Tony Momoh Lists Nnamdi Kanu’s Failures by Visionwriter: 6:07am On Nov 20, 2017 |
realhumanity: Not justifying what they did but under Nigerian law no entity, including State and Local Governments can create any armed group capable of policing at all. So creating and registering it with the government was not an alternative. Secondly, the NPF stopped issuing gun licenses sometime toward the end of last year. So even personal owners cannot legally own a gun and defend themselves from an attack. The Federal Government is part of the problem (http://creatrs.media/herdsmen-state-control-1-million-illegal-guns-nigeria/). |
Politics / Re: Gowon: There's Nothing Wrong With Restructuring Nigeria, I Did It In 1967 by Visionwriter: 5:45am On Nov 20, 2017 |
That's one of the things we have to deal with. Those past decrees should discarded or voted on in the National Assembly individually. Military rule is over. |
Politics / Re: Positive Things Restructuring Nigeria Will Bring! by Visionwriter: 5:42am On Nov 20, 2017 |
Most of this is right except the provinces. Provinces are just a smaller form of federal government. In the middle belt alone, you'd have more than 100 tribes that agree now but may become a different story after they don't have to deal with the North. Smaller tribes are also in the South South and upper North. I have a friend that is Bura, for example, in Borno with a sizeable Christian population. They will not adjust well to Sharia Law. What Nigeria needs is more power concentrated as close to the local level as possible and then states and federal governments can handle what individual 'local' governments cannot. Most laws that deal with day to day events can be handled on the local level and under some rules these local levels can advocate to form a state. This way, states are created by people with a shared identity. States will provide general business, civil, and criminal regulation. States could be able to freely create shared blocs for economic/cultural reasons if they so wished though. The federal government handles international dealings, security that affects multiple states like gun regulation, drugs, highway kidnapping and robbery etc, national defence, general economy etc. 1 Like |
Programming / Re: I Want To Learn From Scratch How Yo Build An App Like UBER by Visionwriter: 3:01pm On Apr 18, 2017 |
The best way to learn is by building an app. If you look for tutorials that teach you different parts, it would be hard to remember at the end. Get a book like 'Learning Android' by O'reilly. Some can be found free online. They go step by step from basics and then help you build a real app. They will teach you Java and XML as directly related to Android. You don't need HTML and CSS. You will however need to learn another language like PHP and MySQL to help you store and get user information in the server. So get a book and build an app. That's how I learned this stuff. 5 Likes |
Business / Re: CBN Reintroduces Cashless Policy by Visionwriter: 4:28pm On Mar 28, 2017 |
The company I work built ShopATM. And this is why it was created. The CBN and partner banks don't make policies for the common man. The network issues, accessibility in smaller cities are still real problems. Lets see how the economy will take it. They will have to roll it back if it doesn't work. 3 Likes |
Business / Re: Why The Current ATM Cash Crisis? by Visionwriter: 4:22pm On Mar 28, 2017 |
vimi: True. POS has too many network issues. A mobile transfer would be a better way of doing things if the shop is willing to provide the funds. In fact we are testing an app that does the same thing, sorting shops by amounts they will have. This will help the industry while people get familiar with POS and the system becomes reliable. |
Programming / Beta Testers Needed For New App That Solves ATM Lines by Visionwriter: 11:34pm On Mar 25, 2017 |
We are in need of beta testers for a new app. Have you ever had to go into town to withdraw money? Maybe there was a long line or the machine was not in service. There's another group of people that have the reverse problem: shops. Shops have cash but have to take it to the bank at the end of the day. What if you could just get that cash instead. Our app does that. It directs users to a shop close to them that has cash and will give. The user transfers the money to shop and gets cash in return. We have space for about 100 beta testers that can test it risk free with a N500 app balance. The app is at: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oliveapplications.shopatm. Beta is officially only available in Jos. But if you are interested and in a different city, please let me know. We are identifying other cities and will be in the more popular ones in the coming weeks. All feedback welcome from Nairalanders. 2 Likes
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Programming / Re: New Social Network To Be Launched By Nigerian Youths by Visionwriter: 10:32pm On Mar 18, 2017 |
What is the social network for? |
Science/Technology / Re: This Futuristic ATM Means You’ll Never Have To Go Into A Bank Again by Visionwriter: 10:17pm On Mar 18, 2017 |
You will not wait in line at the bank. You will just wait in line at the ATM. |
Programming / Re: How Airtime/data Recharge Applications Work On The Back End by Visionwriter: 12:26pm On Oct 19, 2015 |
TOmmyJidex: Yeah, thanks. But this mean someone has to be sitting there 24-7 to monitor the queue. On the other hand, is it possible to use USSD codes on VTU i.e. transfer the VTU via SMS instead of the provided app. |
Programming / Re: How Airtime/data Recharge Applications Work On The Back End by Visionwriter: 12:30am On Oct 19, 2015 |
tunnyl:Thanks for the answer but I'm more interested in how it works on sites like that or apps like Zoto, Jara. |
Programming / How Airtime/data Recharge Applications Work On The Back End by Visionwriter: 9:04pm On Oct 17, 2015 |
Does anyone have any idea on how websites and applications that allow you recharge your phone through them operate? My research so far shows this may be a little complicated. Thanks. |
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