Julius Berger needs to review its policies with Nigeria and find a way to work amicably with the FMW. The Chinese construction companies are properly positioned to kick them out of Africa / Nigeria. Roads, bridges, rail, ports etc.
They have the funds, they are backed by China, they bring counterpart funding, they add CSR projects, more reasonable in terms of diplomacy, and they deliver. JB should understand that this is not Nigeria or Africa of 1990. Work don different...ise ti yato.
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Some people asked me to share what I just shared in a space about the rate limits. I don't work for Twitter but, I do architect IT cloud solutions as my day job.
It is temporary. Twitter's rate limiting is not what everyone is thinking it is. It is not to punish non-paying users.
"Data scraping" is a big deal. This is where automated systems load the website or app and pull your tweets/data. It's a huge security issue. Automated systems are pulling every tweet/word/user account information to store in an unknown database somewhere else.
This could be state actors like China, the US Government, Australia, or other bad political actors like PAC's that are trying to gain access to everyone's information to analyze and use for nefarious things. Manipulating what is said on the site can be done at scale with data scrapping.
It could also be used to figure out the identity of Anons or to punish people in their country for what they tweet. Looking at you #Australia and #Canada and #UnitedKingdom
The temporary measures of limiting tweets is to protect users just as much as it is to protect the entire Twitter network from going down. They are currently scrambling to get ahead of this and tune their network security to block it from happening again.
It's also important to note that twitter has 500,000+ servers. That's not free. In cloud data centers, the companies that use them have to pay for what is called "ingress and egress" of data going "in and out" of the servers. A data scrapping event that is large enough for them to start limiting means that it was a MASSIVE event that could be considered an attack on the site. It would also put massive load on their servers and cost them so much money it could threaten the site's financial ability to keep running. It could be on purpose to put twitter out of business from cost alone.
Many people are misunderstanding why @elonmusk wants people to pay for twitter or for the twitter API (a programming interface that can pull data for other sites and apps).
The reason he wants people to pay is because if China or porn companies want to create massive bot farms of fake accounts, it is currently free. These bad actors are highly skilled and operate like a business. They have professional staff that continuously change their tactics and Twitter engineers have to fight 24/7 to stay ahead of them. If they have to pay for every account or pay to use the API, it would cost them A LOT of money. This limits the amount of people who could create bots, put automated porn on here, and the hacking/scrapping/DDOS attacks on the site. It protects you.
It also guarantees twitter will continue to exist without bloating it with tons of ads. This is all a part of the plan to create a free-speech place we can enjoy without being controlled by outside actors or advertising companies. I know $8 is a lot to some people but, it is for many reasons. None of the reasons are to hurt or punish people.
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IPMAN and N700 per liter.
Nigerians need to understand that subsidy removal means complete deregulation of the sector. When something is deregulated it means its no longer under regulation. Petrol prices are no longer under regulation by any body, state or non-state body.
The government body responsible for regulating Price is Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority through the Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF). Removal of subsidy has stripped NMDPA that right to regulate the price or the need to operate the PEF.
Petrol price will now be determined by market forces like every other deregulated commodity.
Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) is just and independent body of Petroleum marketers like every other independent body that can only set price for their members. They CANT set price. They can only influence through the supply chain.
NMDPRA has issued 6 companies with PMS Import License. Everything about the price of PMS will now depend on these 6 companies. And they can never have a fixed price. Because the aggregate factors that inform the price are dynamic.
The 6 companies are authorized to import PMS from any refineries in the world subject to meeting Nigeriaโs quality standards. Nigeria imports PMS primarily from Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, India and UK in that order. The companies have at least above options and more. And may not get from this countries at same price.
The pump price will largely depend of the Global Crude Price, Cost of Sea Transportation and Handling , Import Charges, Margin (importers), Logistics (in ln land) and Margin of distributors and retailers. So itโs practically impossible for petrol price to be fixed even for one week.
Nigerians are so much used to the regulated PMS Market. Hence, the curiosity to know the exact price. But the reality before us is that the price will fluctuate from time to time. It can be below or above your expectations just like every other commodity in the market BUT can never be fixed.