NewStats: 3,263,955 , 8,182,080 topics. Date: Monday, 09 June 2025 at 03:28 AM r4v4o

Sorry, I know this topic is old, but I was googling up Nigeria's National Anthem and this page came up as a link.

I was helping my son with his english home work, topic was comparisons and simile,
we got to "As familiar as the _____ " and I asked him and his mother to take turn to recite the two National Anthems and Pledge, which they all fell short of a word or two for mum, and a laughing galore for my son, in the middle of the fun was a reflection on the wordings, which made me emotional and almost wept for our dear nation, Nigeria. Our selfish instead of selfless leaders and we the people uhmm!!!, do we all these words and reflect on them daily?

Maybe if we do, we might have a better Nigeria, ^{just me thinking aloud now}

UPDATE : Just my luck for that period of time, back to 25/35kB range since yesterday

@aieromon : Thanks noted.

Is this general or just my luck, or someone forgot to enable their bandwidth manager?

Ever since my start of using starcomms EVDO, the highest speed ever attained was 30/35kBs.
Though fluctuating, I was reaching 200/270kBs and sometimes hiting 300kBs for the first time, today.
For like 1hr 11mins, I was able to a 735MB file.

Kindly share your experience, I think this is good for them.
If this continue, I will buy their shares, its a sign of something good to happen.

Market has bottomed out they are saying, uhmmm. Watch for a major retracement after this bullish move,
cos of fear and doubt to confirm if this is truly a recovery bull in the making, profit takers from the little bullish move will always cos retracement after which you will have the market balancing before a final recovery. (lets pray SEC/NSE know what they are doing to substain the bull, with all these scams and dirty games we hear of daily)

Injection of fresh funds by a major foreign investor,
Those expecting to partake of the released and anticipated good result/dividen/bonus from companies with strong fundamentals
are few of what is causing this bullish move.

Buy now (its crazily cheap) think long term cos, if you get out, you might miss the final rally except you are too good a speculator

Our government I guess don't know what they are losing by watching the market run dry, good tax opportunity and foreign funds, more funds for our organisations etc, but they are focusing on crude only and crying of deficit, thinking of borrowing from IMF (can't imagine that, clueless bunch of_._._)(uhmmm)

My conspiracy theory, pls don't believe this or quote me,
With all the Soludos we have in the cabinet. I guess the market was messed up so that they can devalue the Naira and rake in more dollar (FX) into their prvate purses, since they make and break the rule/law, they also know when/how to mop up funds from the market arena. they can wake up tomorrow morning and decide, we want to bring back the Naira, and must have sold all the stollen dollar. you get to hear of it much after.

that is why they always smile while briefing the nation on crazy negative down turn because they are always on the safe side.

Let me stop here for now. its the best time to be part of all these blessings in disguise, from AP N230^->N48, now 77^, 1st bank, Nestle etc even wise common man, can make his/her millions from thess wonderful opportunities.

here is another dimension

https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/nigeria/topic-266865.0.html

I guess here is another yahoo yahoo format

sat - 24//04/09

hi out of many profiles in this site
(nairaland.unblockandhide.com)
i found yours very interesting and I am very happy to write this mail to you.It gives me great joy and happiness to say hi to you this day and i hope to tell you more about me and my family when next i write. My name is *********,24 years old single girl and i hope that we can be friends and keep with each other if God wishes and i hope to hear from you
*****.

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many thanks

- - - - - - mon 27/04/09 - - - -

Hello my lovely one ,
I am very happy to receive your reply Like I said before my name is bridget aziku 24yrs old, single and never married. I believe that it is important we get to know each other better for trust and confidence which is necessary in any good and lasting relationship built on truth and real love.I love reading and spots and like to visit parks and garden to be close to nature. I love children too and will like to have many children when i get married. I am from Sudan and i am presently staying in a refugee camp here in Senegal .I came here because my parents died and our region is not safe at all because of the rebel soldiers who are rapping women everyday and i escaped through the help of the unicef and red cross and i am now ed with the united nationI choose to come to Senegal because i came once to Dakar three years ago with my late father because he was in oil business I will tell you more about my family and everything about me when i am sure who you are and that i can trust you with my life as true friend and guardian,Attached here is my picture ,
kisses to you,******.

*a tempting picture here*

love you,


- - - - - my reply - - - -

many thanks once again , really tempted but I am engaged already, I wish you luck in your search.
good luck


- - - - - 28/04/09 - - - -

Dearest Sweetheart,
I am more than happy in your reply to my mail today . How was your day?.
Mine a little bit hot over here in Dakar senegal In this camp we are only
allowed to go out only on mondays and fridays of the weeks. Its just
like one staying in the prison and i hope by God's grace i will come out
here soon. I don't have any relatives now whom i can go to, all my
relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person i have now is
Rev Ben Dominic who is the pastor of the (Christ The king Churches)
here in the camp he has been very nice to me since i came here but i am
not living with him rather i am leaving in the women's hostel because
the camp have two hostels one for men the other for women. The Pastors
Tel number is (+221-********) if you call tell him that you want
to speak with me bridget he will send for me in the hostel.

As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilledge to any thing be
it money or whatever because it is against the laws of this country.I
want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year as
a law student before the traggic incident that lead to my being in this
situation now took place.
Please listen to this, i have my late father's Fund deposit certificate
and death certificate here with me which i will send to you latter,
because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading
bank in Europe which he used my name as the next of kin, the amount in
question is $4.7M (four Million seven Hundred Thousand Dollars). So, i
will like you to help me transfer this money to your ) and from
it you can send some money for me to get my travelling documents and
air ticket to come over to meet with you. I kept this secret to people
in the camp here the only person that knows about it now is you because
i trust you that you will be of assistance to me.

So, in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and
don't relate it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the
money if people gets to know about it. i am giving you all this
information due to the trust i deposed on you.I like honest and
understanding people, truthful and men of vision, truth and hardworking men.The
money in question was made by my late father through his cocoa and
political career and that is why i don't want anyone here to know about it
until i travel out from here.
My favourite language is english but i speaks french and english very
fluently.
Meanwhile i will like you to call me like i said i have alot to tell
you.
Have a nice day and think about me.
Awaiting to hear from you soonest
Yours in love *******
kisess to you my love .


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uhmmm - - - - -

uhmmm still very much undecided, yet to comment.

pls don't just talk for talking sake, be real and serious when it comes to serious matter, thats got to do with mind manipulation happening daily in the name of religion or sprirituality?

It is shameful and indeed very disturbing that having satisfactorily divided the body of God (the Church) into many parts, with the center promising never to hold again, some of our men of God have proceeded on a new mission of dividing God himself into different parts or forms and making Him seem like a quantity that is subject to space and time and thus can be owned by a certain group of people.
- Sylva Nze Ifedigbo


The Church was busy praying against blood sucking demons instead of insisting on the provision of road repairs and street lights! We spend so much time putting up great shows of spiritual gymnastics instead of rebuking a corrupt government! The church was more interested in contracts, import duty waivers, titles and awards rather than the task of reform that follows revivals. In a nutshell, we had missed it and unwittingly allowed small doses of deception to intoxicate the church.

- My first with the 'ministry' of T. B. Joshua
- Ladi Thompson
(Excerpts from the book)

Am undecided and neutral for now but an interesting read, what do you think

http://www.nigerianantichrist.com/interview-ladi.htm

saw ur offlines,

0 is debatable as a perfect square, just like -ve whole numbers, lets leave that to the theorians*

Just to be confusing, some people say that whole numbers can also be negative, so that would make them exactly the same as integers. And sometimes people say that zero is "NOT" a whole number. So there you go, not everyone agrees on a simple thing!

he got thru to me via messenger, tried reaching him to confirm formula since, but no response, so I posted what I believe is the solution on the forum for him to see/use pending hearing from him.

are u in an exam hall or what? this is the fastest reply I can give you , based on your buzzing me , i was in a meeting ,

I hope to be back soon , hope someone can help with the formular/answer for no3

perfect square 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, = Q

Odd numbers 1, 3, 5. 7 9 = P

Whole numbers

1, QuP = 0,1,3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 16
2, QnP = 1,9
3, ( P u Q ) n = ?

21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42
43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49

x = 25, 36, 49
y = none = factors of 12 are 1,2,3,4,6,and 12
z = 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47

I hope am right , confirm this and lets pray am right, you too read your book ooo

naijacutee:

The original poster has not replied for 2 years now. . .

Have you guys e x t e r m  i n a t e d her with your advice?

I hope he/she made it

Anyone with these info pls?

They are all exploiting us, they render better service in other countries, try MTN in Ghana, u will be amazed.

Is it just me? I can't edit my post/reply.

I am now back to my 9am-9pm belt since yesterday, so you all can guess what the "token" was, which I believe probably mistakenly got because of the 2nd error of not placing me on the right belt in the first place. Waiting to switch from my backup ISP once its 9am.

@olivetree : I was told by the CS that their system update lags 4 hour, so they can never give you your current position but 4hrs late, my free 100hrs then, expired while my last call to them says I was having 3hrs,23mins. My plan was to manage the remaining time over the weekend, just as I was making the decision and trying to disconnect, I noticed the link disconnected itself, trying to reconnect immediately resulted to Access denied, name and invalid.
I called back and the above reason was given - lag in time. I don't know what to believe cos of my experience with them.

@estauso : based on your submission, starcomms require more centers to accommodate LAGOS, I don't doubt possible instant activation if they have the right structure, software and know how, which they can easily get, MTN does instant activation, all they need is the first verification/ID process to cub fraudulent activities and 419 guys picking up the link and other reasons best known to them. After which online payment system (ATM), recharge cards and other method could be implemented, Look at the banking sector, long queue reduced cos of ATM

I guess the has configured his script, free is now interpreted, echoed or printed as "free", a keyword I guess spammers on Nairaland uses and they were traping them.

@ the topic - So much for them ISPs, I really have to appreciate the NCC Woman (Consumers Affairs Department) for her swift and succinct response

Good morning ***,

Kindly resolve and revert.

Many thanks

*****

I was really ready to involve my lawyer, cos I also copied NCC's legal department, cost I lost a potential job, burnt fuel, stayed glue to the system all working hours, waiting for their fake hope of being connected daily for 5 good solid business days.

Hi Mr. Funsho, Chuka, Banji, Emaka etc, or any other CSO,

Attached is the teller for *********** AirCard 597E Awaiting activation since 23rd of March.

Thanks

This was a frustrated me on Friday the 27th.

I beg or SEUN, if this is not a bug, kindly edit your software not to change the word "F-R-E-E" (F) (R) (E) (E) to illegal, I thought I was the one making the mistake.

at their free browsing zone (wifi), and not illegal browsing zone.

I wonder why I can't edit posted items

I think, speed depends on what package you are on, I tasted the Izap and fell in love with it, though not as if they can't do better than the 35KB/s average they provide, cos I know of other ISP's bandwith doing upto 1MB/s or even more, imagine at their free browsing zone (Wifi), but not in Nigeria.

I have used MTN but I hate the 3G limitation which I finish in max 4days, they even deduct your bandwidth for s, which you are never told but you discover as you use.

For now I give it to Starcomms, in of portability (I don't need any funny E), speed - ok but can't watch my online TV programmes though, and as per downtime -> I think very reasonable.

If not for whatever was the cause of our little mis-understanding, you for no hear from me.

And as per the "token", I still don't know what token they are giving to me as I enjoy it and I don't want a situation were someone will use my case to harass them for undue compensation, its left to them to compensate as they deem fit, depending on your case with them.

But I have this little issue with most of the ISPs especialy reltel, when they activate you close to the end of the day, you are not compensated for the hours lost, and at the end of the last day of your subscription, 00:00 hrs on the dot, you are disconnected.
I think they should have a software that disconnects you at the very hour you were connected 30 days after.

Like I said earlier, I am now activated for the new month, but was still placed on the former plan. An error I notify them of and requested to be changed to my preferred plan, they replied with another apology, and a token of " " that's got to do with I guess the package error, I don't know how long I will enjoy it before my real subscription.

Note I am updating this topic so as to tell everyone, they responded, apologised and a token in their assumed appropriate way, my case might be different from yours and might require a different approach, token and all.

Thank you.

PS. I still don't know the reason why it all happen* in the first place.

NCC wrote Customer Service, reason for the call above, I am now activated and smiling, I don't know if I should include today as part of my subcription since I got activated around 4pm, what happens to the period wasted 9am -4pm? I am certain by 9pm they will definitely cut me off.

Got a call today, apologising and a promise to activate asap which I still very much await.

Kindly permit me to use this forum to vent my anger and bring to light how we mosttimes abused in this country by companies who think they can do injustice and go un-purnished just because they operate in Nigeria.

I bought the funny express card (AirCard 597E) for 15k, with sales reps beaming with smiles while marketing other products to me.
To activate the card became serious problem, activation took days with series of calls to *123
I had to pay for another provider pending the activation, so as to meet up with deadlines.
I exhausted the 100 hrs airtime and decided to switch over to the business time, 9am - 9pm. Another trouble started.

All customer service officers told me one lie or the other, framed as crazy unbelievable excuses, I was at a point told to go back to the bank and ask the teller I paid to, to re-post after 3days. I am working on it some will say, I am texting the activation department, I am mailing them, promising different hours of the day for four days. I now know almost all starcomms customer service officers name by heart, I can almost tell who is speaking by their voices. (I now do dream of calling starcomms data help line)

They all sang the same song, hold on while we check your details, thank you for holding on, our system is slow the reason for the little delay (got a bit scared cos I crossed over from other ISPs cos of speed) Can I have your card no, where are u calling from, teller no, number, Payment plan etc.
It got to a stage I told them not to ask me again ,  look at your system, its there, you can see the number of times you have logged the same complaint for the past four days and still counting.

AS I SPEAK, I am yet to be activated or my new subscription plan is yet to be effected. starcomms is already enjoying my money since the 23rd of March, wasting my precious time, thanking me for choosing/using a service I paid for without my been allowed to use. I bet I will never be compensated for all the time, energy, money and business I lost in between, unless someone wants to proof otherwise.

I wrote the NCC's consumer affairs bureau http://www.ncc.gov.ng I still await their reply.

Please, what do I do, so that ISPs like starcomms do not take undue advantage of my person and others.

You may share your experience for others to be aware of all the nonsense act they all perform.

Thank You