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@areaf: EHEEEEEN!!!!! that is the way!!!!!!! anyway, if we needed someone to rebrand Nigeria internationally, let us gt someone more eloquent. but i need a president that can reform a country. a reformed nigeria will do more to our international image than a gorilla jumping from G8 meetings to commonwealth confrences!!! (i didnt call anyone gorilla oooo! it is a figure of speech!!!!!!) every company that has come to Naija in this administration would have come anyway due to international market forces, not because we have put suitable policies in place or the environment for setting up shop (electricity, cheap telecomms, housing, construction materials, transport etc) has improved. if electricity and telecomms can become more available naija would overtake India in outsourced jobs like Customer service etc!!! with the amount of programmers on round Microsoft would leave silicon valley and come to the true silicon valley.......Maiduguri!!!!!!
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Posted: 2006-06-14 18:34:14
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Abu you couldn't have put it any better. It bafflles me that Obj and his cohort of ministers & advisers fail to realise that providing basic infrastructure (power, communication, security) will make Nigeria more attractive to potential investors.
I'd love to have someone like Gov. Donald Duke as president of Nigeria come 2007
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Posted: 2006-06-14 19:50:00
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i support abu & amby, Nija's problem is that if infrastructure which everyone knows, even primary school students know this.. Obj's round tripping doesn't have any effect on Nija's progress IMO.. Donald Duke is not a bad idea considering what he's done so far.
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Posted: 2006-06-14 20:11:00
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Yeah, Duke is ok. But I think the Igbos should produce the next Prez. So, my choices are Emeka Anyaoku and Orji Kalu in that order.
This message was posted from a T610
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Posted: 2006-06-15 14:47:36
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@The Apostle, welcome back from the mission fields, how was ur "Evangelism" hope u nabbed some converts
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Posted: 2006-06-15 17:25:54
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@coola: it will be hard for a Igbo presidency to come up. PDP (which is the party most likely to win) already has an under standing of power bouncing from north to south. if they had done it by the 6 geopolitical areas then it might have washed. personally, i'm pushing for Adamu Muazu. anyone that has seen Bauchi state pre 1999 and sees it now must give the man a hand. thier roads, schools, hospitals, power supply, water has improved tremendously, using state monies (albeit waiting for federal reompnsation in some areas). This is the kind of person we need!!!!! alas, he is close to OBJ so i doubt he will go against any person obj puts foward as ANNOINTED!!!!!!!
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Posted: 2006-06-15 21:37:18
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@all: is it my eyes or did i just see fani was given a ministrerial position????
God save us all.......
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Posted: 2006-06-15 22:05:37
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Hey, come on. Fani apologised!!! He said he was only doing his job. It was his job description to "take issues with anyone who took issues with my Boss". He said he was not brought up to be rude to people. Smart fella.
Yippee! Vmobile is off-and-on this afternoon.
MTN seems to have finally plugged the loop-hole. Since Friday last week... I haven't been able to browse.
Is it true that Glo is upgrading to EDGE?
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Posted: 2006-06-16 12:47:56
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Ok, it's been a week that I've owned my new Nokia N70 and here are some observations, you might call it a mini-review of sorts.
Why the N70?
Well, like I said in previous post on this thread and the South African thread there weren't any other phones available when it came time for me to upgrade. I was going to wait for the K800 August seemed too far off. I also wanted an S60 device although I had read bad reviews about the 6680, the predeccesor of the N70.
First Impressions
Out of the box the phone looks quite sturdy and the metal finish gives you confidence that it's no lightweight. When I touched the phone I realised that I had overstated the finish- in fact it's made up mostly of plastic with only the front panel around the keypad and the screen made of metal. If you got sticky fingers be careful cause the surface attracts fingerprints.
Switching it on
This particular version of the N70 is Vodafone branded so the first thing I encountered when switching it on was those ugly menu icons...soon though I got rid of them by simply changing the theme to one of the default Nokia themes.
User Interface
I've only played around a couple of times with S60 but like most recent phones, perhaps with the exception of a few, the menu structure on the N70 is quite intuitive.
Call Quality
It's quite good, mind you there's a GSM tower inside my office so there's no reason for me to get bad reception.
3G Quality
What irks me about this phone is that I can't choose for the phone to connect to the Vodacom APN only through UMTS. It only gives me an option of "GSM" or "Dual Mode", what in fact happens is that the phone tends to switch to GPRS/EDGE when in dual mode even though there are 3G base stations located all over Cape Town. When it does choose 3G, the speeds are pretty fast.
So what's in the box?
Well it comes with a host of user manuals, I counted three. There's also a pair of white earphones that copies the look of those from the iPod, a charger and a cloth to wipe the phone of fingerprints as I mentioned earlier. I found the sound quality of the earphones to be poor compared to those that come with
phones.
Overall Impressions
I'd say it's value for money but would hasten to call the N70 a world beater, the K800 might just have something to say about that. Talk time and stand-by time is much better than those on my P910. The camera is capable and the slide mechanism at the back of the phone makes taking picture so much easier (I'll post pictures later).
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Posted: 2006-06-16 15:14:18
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@coola: COOLA!!!! COOOLAA!!!!!! If taylor apologizes, should we leave him be? If Hitler apologized, should he be forgiven (by us, not by God)? Its not an apology I need. Its a competant person in office. Is he competent or not!!!????What ever portfolio he is given, is he qualified? does he have connections? does he have the vision? NO!!!!!
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Posted: 2006-06-16 15:42:59
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