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I visited one office somewhere i wuse II where i s...

2007-08-07T14:36:00.000+01:00

I visited one office somewhere i wuse II where i saw Abuja street guide,coming to my computer system thinking that, i can get it too on net only to discover that I have to buy it online or something like that. can any one get me one? if yes,send to [email protected]. thanks

MDZmultimedia's Abuja City Guide map has the areas...

2006-09-14T12:57:00.000+01:00

MDZmultimedia's Abuja City Guide map has the areas and zones printed on it.

Areas are in Garki (Garki I specifically). Garki II was a later addition to Garki.

Zones are in Wuse I.

For added fun there are some missing areas, as far as I can remember they go something like 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11.

I suspect this is all related to the mangling that happened between the Plan and construction.

Photos designed to put people of meat. Horrible t...

2006-08-19T08:10:00.000+01:00

Photos designed to put people of meat. Horrible to look at (still can't look at the second one, especially). I can see why a vegan would post this. Effective.

thanks for the clarification Ijebuman but I still ...

2006-08-18T15:52:00.000+01:00

thanks for the clarification Ijebuman but I still dont think its a very viewer-friendly way of naming stations..

Regarding NTAIt's actually called NTA2 channel 5 (...

2006-08-18T12:31:00.000+01:00

Regarding NTA

It's actually called NTA2 channel 5 (not NTA Channel 2 Station 5)
The channel 5 part of the name refers to the VHF frequency it transmits on.

When it was set up in the early 80s, it was supposed to compliment the existing NTA station in Lagos - NTA channel 10. (just like the BBC set up of BBC1 and BBC2).

The naming convention is quite logical, in Lagos and Abuja where NTA has 2 stations it calls the additional stations - NTA2 and NTA Plus Abuja, while in the other state capitals it uses the name of the city or state.

for more on NTA stations
http://nigeriantelevisionauthority.quickseek.com/

2006-08-18T12:22:00.000+01:00

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Are you talking about "planning" and "Nigeria" in ...

2006-08-18T11:41:00.000+01:00

Are you talking about "planning" and "Nigeria" in the same sentence? There's barely any planning in Nigeria. And where there are planning regulations, a brown envelope scuppers it. Take Stelite Town in Lagos. It's supposed to be a storey building free zone, bungalows only. But mini-palace is erected everyday. Shame that.

Do you know where you are, or have you forgotten?

2006-08-17T23:55:00.000+01:00

Do you know where you are, or have you forgotten?

You think that's bad...My visit to the land regist...

2006-08-17T23:08:00.000+01:00

You think that's bad...
My visit to the land registry was a real eye opener.

While we are busy numbering homes on our estate 1, 2, 3, the land registry is storing them as Plot 121, 141, 150.
There is no referencing to match which plot to which house number.

To make it worse, people have built homes at both ends of the crescent. My house number is written on the wall as new 16b, Plot 161a and old 14b.

What the hell is a plot in the metric system anyway?

Been to all the places mentioned: Lagos, Abuja, Ne...

2006-08-17T16:32:00.000+01:00

Been to all the places mentioned: Lagos, Abuja, New York and Rome. Still prefer Abj. But then again...