Following a 24 hour server interruption on April 6-7, Nigeriaworld re-evaluated system security. In the process we removed applications that were responsible for the interruption and enhanced those that could potentially cause downtime. The previously just-installed messageboard software unfortunately failed the new security standards and had to be uninstalled. These actions, though beneficial in the long-term, and quite understandably, incur short-term discomforts and possibly casualties.
In the interim while we evaluated new messageboard software for the long-term, Nigeriaworld and Nigeriandateline.com achieved a first in the young Nigerian Internet experience - we partnered to provide continuity for the Nigerian community. We at Nigeriaworld thank NDL for coming to the aide of a fellow Nigerian website in a spirit that we all hope more Nigerian websites will emulate and an omen for the future of our people and country. Unfortunately, the handshake of cooperation did not meet the satisfaction of many Nigeriaworld Messageboard users - often a fact of life. For that we both regret any inconveniency and hope we can continue to serve the community in some cooperative fashion in the future as we, in fact, have been even before this instance.
The Nigeriaworld Messageboard is back online and the system overhaul complete. We welcome all our readers and community members to join us in working towards tomorrow, and coincidentally at this milestone April in Nigeria's political life.
Nigeriaworld seeks to be a conscience and partner in all sectors of Nigerian life - business, technology, culture and our problem child - politics. We don't shy away from any of these concerns. But none is overly favored at the expense of the others. Politics of course takes center stage in the Nigerian life in this growing age but we at Nigeriaworld are not consumed by it - we are independent of the institution and all its players - individuals or groups, at home or abroad. Nigeriaworld continues to be driven by community service and has never compromised this mission. It continues to be and has always been sponsored and managed by me, Chuck Odili, an IT professional and entrepreneur, through tick and thin. The tenacity and struggle endures.
I personally apologize to all friends of Nigeriaworld that may have had their patience tested in this interim. Understand, as most parents do, baby steps are never pretty to watch. And like the baby we will persist! You are witnesses to our growing pains in the last few months but be rest assured we are neither deterred nor discouraged by them. How can we - with the promise of a new age and new way exhibited by our fellow Nigerians at Nigeriandateline and other private words of encouragement? I hope all recognize the significance of this unsung partnership and build on the new tradition for a greater tomorrow.
The messageboard is back to stay - in a better tested and more stable state, and aim to earn the confidence of our well wishers - no matter how long it takes. Thanks for your patience and sincere apologies for any inconvenience.
- Chuck Odili :: Administrator (webmaster)
No wonder Obasanjo believed that BiafraNigerians did not know he was defrauding them at the polls.
I think that the messageboards are now pretty well defined. Those who want to read Ohafia know where to go. If you want to read CSE, you know where to go. Ditto for Onabanjo, Wacko, Damian, Ambrose, Chiboy, Biafra, Adaeze, and the list goes on and on.
As for this bit about
quote:Nigeriaworld and Nigeriandateline.com achieved a first in the young Nigerian Internet experience - we partnered to provide continuity for the Nigerian community.
Even our delusional Chuck will soon learn that the "continuity" worked so well that his erstwhile members will continue running away from his NEPA-like egbeomooduduwa.com without looking back. I don't think that the members of the New Nigeriaworld Messageboard will be going back to the epiletptic egbeomo.com.
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quote:The Nigeriaworld Messageboard is back online and the system overhaul complete. We welcome all our readers and community members to join us in working towards tomorrow, and coincidentally at this milestone April in Nigeria's political life.
"Milestone April" is what we have been harping here as the reason behind the shambolic zonking of the intellectual materials of BiafraNigerians. Even bababoyz is truly fed up. If blooming Odili is sincere with himself let him reproduce the stuff folks have been posting in that board. It is impossible for him to claim that he lost stuff after the scandalous "loss" of only a few months ago.
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That bastard has screwed a whole lot of things I begin to wonder myself why his clients are still obsessed with him; they keep popping up with no questions asked whatsoever other than the same old song: "we are glad to be back on the air." What a bunch of airheads!
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I was just wondering why Chucky felt the need to say the following:
quote:It continues to be and has always been sponsored and managed by me, Chuck Odili, an IT professional and entrepreneur, through tick and thin.
One would think that with his track record, of lost data and crashed servers, he would not want to remind us that he is an "IT professional."
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The best way to characterize developments between BNW and Chuks place is the triumph of good over evil. But, it was only a matter of time.
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quote:Undue Censorship On The Net: A Case Against NIGERIAWORLD.COM
This story is that Mr Odili has been bought out by agents of the Nigerian Government who feel uncomfortable with the heavy dose of criticism on the board. Mr Odili is said to be a relation of one of Obasanjo’s staunchest supporters, the Governor of Rivers State, Mr Peter Odili and that the idea was that Mr Odili of Nigeriaworld was paid to discontinue that board now that the election is near so as not to influence people against the Government.
I have always been one of those who believe that the benefit of the Internet for the promotion of democracy and free speech is invaluable. One need only look around to see the growth of different sites dedicated to Nigerians and Nigerian affairs, more especially those with messageboards/discussion forums, where any Nigerian with access to a computer can simply from his/her home or office engage in lively debates with others from elsewhere around the world. Personally, I have never been one of those that make direct contributions on these forums; but I have always been an avid reader of contributions, and between some of my friends and myself, it’s a constant joke to talk about our addiction to the messageboards. In all this, the Nigeriaworld.com messageboard had been the foremost in our estimation. However, something happened at that site a few days ago that got me terribly worried.
Over the weekend (Friday, January 17 through to Sunday, January 19) I had tried to access the site with no luck as the site had recently been experiencing one difficulty or the other, so I was unduely worried. I had assumed that it would be up and running again in no time with no loss of data. On Monday January 20, 2003, the messageboard was once again open. However, it was now different. It was a brand new messageboard! In the opening post explaining the development, Mr Chuck Odili, the Administrator of the site explained to a bewildered readership that the content of the old messageboard was lost! Even though I had not made a contribution on the board, this news was devastating. Anyone who has been to the site and the messageboard will understand what I am talking about. We are talking about a huge body of opinion and research on Nigerian and other issues going back to at least 1999! All lost! In one fell swop!
In the next two to three days, it would seem that I could not complete any conversation with Nigerian friends without a discussion on the Nigeriaworld.com messageboard calamity. As expected, there were no shortage of views or conspiracy theories. However, I was so touched, I registered on the site as a new user, with the handle of "The Dame" and posted what I thought about the situation. This I did on Wednesday, January 22, 2003. Below is what I posted.
"AMIDST THE PRAISE, LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD
In my opinion, the members of this board, or should I say the re-registering members of the old messageboard have been very magnanimous in their reaction to the loss of their many hours, days, weeks, months and years of contributions. To say that I am disappointed will be an understatement.
I was not a member of the old messageboard by choice, but I have actively followed the discussions and I also belong to a pool of non-contributors who actively discuss some of the contributions on the various threads. In fact, I can say without a tinge of exaggeration that the board was our source of news and education on political and current affairs in Nigeria. We had been using the old messageboard for the last two and a half years.
I have read the Administrator’s post informing us about the loss of the old messageboard and its content, but I cannot help observing that it contains no apology of any sort to members who have lost this much here and to Nigerians who have come to be dependent on the site, neither does it contain a statement as to what he has done to prevent a repeat. If Mr Odili thinks that this board is his private affair, he better wakes up to the truth. It is now an institution, sustained by public trust. People have conferred on it some kind of respectability and indeed, there is a level of legitimate expectation on their part from those who run the affairs of the site. The Administrator is not doing anyone a favour; this is a business and the membership of the board is part of his bargaining chips, so to speak.
The reason for my disquiet is simple. It is very improbable that he could lose all the data, including the back-up in one fell swoop and then claim that he’s unable to recover the lost data. It just does not happen that way, not in this day and age! There are two issues I would like to address separately:the supposed lack of an effective back-up server; and the irrecoverability of the data A primary school child using the computer knows or is taught that you must back-up your work. By Odili’s own admission the traffic on the messageboard is continuously growing (it grew 16% in December 2002). That said, how come he had not upgraded the server and its backup in the last year or so to ensure that it could cope with the anticipated traffic especially as he has had previous incidents when the service has been offline, the last one, not quite two weeks ago?
It is inconceivable that an organisation of the stature of Nigeriaworld.com does not have a back-up server or that it could lose such data without a trace! Doesn’t he have disaster recovery files? Small organisations know to back-up their data at least once a week. Larger organisations are expected to carry out their back-up daily. In such cases, the least you can expect to lose is only the data input since the last back up. Where there is a disaster recovery plan, even if the building housing the server burns down, you can still get the business up and running within the next few days (e.g. when the World Trade Center Twin Towers came down, the organisations involved had their business up and running in different locations within days – the exception being the organisation that had its main files and its disaster recovery files on two different floors of the Twin Towers!).
The claim that the data is irrecoverable is also troubling. Even if your hardware breaks down and you do not have a back-up (which is inconceivable) you should still be able to recover most of the data as the database should be on a separate SQL server.
Whatever the case though, Odili should be able to recover the data. The police and other investigators are able to recover files that have been actively deleted from the hard drive (e.g. Enron, Andersen, J P Morgan, the current paedophile cases etc). I am surprised that Odili is saying nothing about recovering the data, making it seem as if its loss is foreclosed.
SPECULATIONS AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Following the "loss" of the old messageboard and the launch of this new messageboard, I have received calls and had a few discussions with fellow Nigerians and it is troubling what people are now saying. Regardless of how unlikely or unbelievable the stories are, one issue does give cause for concern and I believe that Mr Odili should also be very concerned as it goes to the very heart of what he is trying to build and indeed, affects his own reputation.
There are many variations to this story, but this is basically what they are saying and the fact that Mr Odili was able to come up with a brand new and improved site in such a short time seem to fuel the speculation the more, because in some of the versions this is being interpreted as the evidence of premeditation and pre-planed action. I do not know if Mr Odili is already aware of these stories, but I think this is about his own personal reputation and the struggle he’s gone through to create Nigeriaworld. He must seek to prove the doubters wrong. There’s still a chance.
In as much as I prefer not to deal in assumptions and to look for hard evidence, I must confess that, in my opinion, based on his postings so far, Mr Odili has not provided a good enough reason to accept what has happened as an act of God. In my opinion, the loss of the old messageboard and the many years of valuable data have not done Mr Odili’s reputation an iota of good (regardless of what the members are saying). For one, it has demystified Nigeriaworld.com and has reduced it to one of those "unpredictable Nigerian enterprises". Secondly, a few of us have used the site as an archive for information on Nigeria on issues contributors have dealt with at one time or another. Now, all that record, and the contributors’ hard work, we are told is gone…
To conclude, I would like to call on Mr Odili to do all he can to recover what he is telling us is now lost. It cannot be lost in this day and age and with the level of technological advancement available. It is too valuable to destroy in one fell swoop! He must put his reputation on the line to get those things back!
If he does not recover the data, he would give the conspiracy theorists a field day and it would only be a matter of time before the website itself goes to the dogs, for who will want to undertake many hours of research and writing only for someone down the line to say there is nothing to show for their contributions?
Mr Odili has to decide what he really wants to achieve – to protect the idea he has nurtured or to let it go the way of most of the Nigerian experiments.
I know that this contribution of mine may seem controversial, but Mr Odili and indeed, all message board members must understand where I’m coming from. I’ve sat and read all the ‘condolences’ and words of encouragement being sent around, but that should not stop us facing the facts. I am doing this out of respect and I hope Mr Odili must see it as such. "
Before I retired for the night, I knew that at least, two people had responded to the message. Against the background of returning members commending the Administrator and consoling him, I wasn’t surprised that the responses by "Mallam Radicat" and "J. Rahman" weren’t supportive of the view I had expressed. I personally did not intend to go back there now and again to engage people or respondents in an argument on the issue. As far as I was concerned, it was a message to the Administrator. All I expected him to do was to come out there on the board to reassure users.
What happened next was baffling. On the morning of Thursday, 23 January 2003, when I viewed the board as usual, I was surprised to see that the Administrator, Mr Chuck Odili has deleted the whole thread, including the responses others have made to it! Instinctively, I checked the list of messageboard members and again, to my surprise, he had deleted my name from the membership! My whole membership experience at the Nigeriaworld messageboard did not last 24 hours and all that for saying frankly what I think! I did not call Mr Odili or any other boardmember names, I did not accuse him of anything except to report the stories making the rounds and urging him to prove them wrong. I did no more than let him and others interested to know that it is still quite possible to retrieve the materials he’s lost, at least from what I know about such situations. But, what did I get? A total obliteration from the realm of discourse!
In my opinion, what Mr Odili has done is reprehensible. Contributors cannot spend time and effort speaking that publicly about what is wrong with our country, criticizing the government of the day only for Mr Odili to act that intolerably. Even if we were to assume that my post was a criticism of Mr Odili, what is wrong with that? Is he the man that does no wrong, the man that cannot be questioned? Is he bigger and far more sacred than Obasanjo or all those public officials and private citizens criticized on the pages of the site?
Mr Odili must be told that he’s done nothing but give impetus to the speculations. By banning me and deleting my post and the responses from the board, he’s proved that there’s really no free-speech on the site. Wittingly or unwittingly, every contributor on that board is under his censorship. I do not doubt that he has the right to censor people who use bad language or say defamatory things and so on, but to censor me for views I’ve expressed above is beyond the pale. He has acted no better than a dictatorship. All the talk about his being a private business and people contributing free does not hold water, because there are thousands if not millions of sites and messageboards out there who offer people the same opportunity. It is the traffic to your site that determines how much you make. He’s not doing anybody any favours. In this case, the impression he’s giving is that he’s taking Nigerians for a ride.
Charles Odili, the operator of egbeomooduduwa.com, placed all of his trust on his Yoruba cousins. It was no accident that after he banned everyone that he thought was pro-Biafra, all he had left at his forum were Yoruba people like Kunle, Ajibola Robinson, Orems, etc., and Yoruba-Igbos like "Big Steve," "Kenn," "nobiora," and other Igbo efulefu.
Even though his father is Igbo, Charles Odili identifies himself first as a Nigerian, second, as a Yoruba, third as an African, and last as an Igbo. When it came time to finish him off, it was his Yoruba people in coalition with the Yoruba-Igbo fools that stuck a knife in his back. If you visit Kunle's version of egbeomooduduwa.com you will see that the Yoruba-Igbos like "Big Steve," "nobiora," and "Kenn," did more damage to Chuck than Kunle and his fellow full-blood Yoruba tribalists could.
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Welcome to BNW. I have no idea what the link to egbeomoduduwa2.com is. Some Yoruba guy sent a mass e-mail to me with the link. I think the link had a bunch of numbers. I deleted it. Anyway, I know that forum is for Yoruba people and Igbo haters. So I don't care to remember the link.
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I am a member of the Village although I am on ROMLAND there. It is not for Yorubas and Igbo haters. With a little research on this board, you will find the place on your own.
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thank you ike and ednut. the village hint made me believe you're talking about ************************ of which i'm a member already and i'm yet to see any signs of igbohating there. the more the merrier. nigerians at home and abroad need as many outlets as possible for free expression. let's live and let the village live...now lets rock this joint too.
---- ps: why is the name not showing? lets try this again: nigeria.com gamji.com nigeriaworld.com ************************
WHY??
[ May 13, 2003, 02:11 AM: Message edited by: Manpikin ]
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I join others in welcoming you. The people at egbe2 are the ones that did not protest when censorship was going on at egbe1. Also, if they were truly non-tribalistic, they would joined this forum instead of stabbing chuck in the back with a new egbe.
If Aluko wants ********************1.com linked from BNW, Aluko should link BNW at ********************1.com Posts: 66 | From: Kalamazoo, Michigan | Registered: Nov 2001
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going by discussions at this forum that cannot /mustn't be named ( ), and going by discussions on this very thread, i perceive that the site was formed in principled protest against a dating site and not necessarily a stab in the back. but whatever the case, why is the name censored here?
there are some more serious issues facing our country than all these petty internet rivalries, you know.
(interestingly i just went over there and typed in biafranigeriaworld.com without sanctions)
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It appears that BNW and egbe2 decided to censor each other. As you know, BNW is now the largest source for Nigerian news on the web. I just found out that BNW is censored at egbe2. So, it doesn't surprise me if there is some type of reaction here to that censorship at egbe2.
If Aluko wants ********************1.com linked from BNW, Aluko should link BNW at ********************1.com Posts: 66 | From: Kalamazoo, Michigan | Registered: Nov 2001
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quote:(interestingly i just went over there and typed in biafranigeriaworld.com without sanctions)
I guess you are not one of the blacklisted members. I think you were right the first time; there is more over there than meets the eye. Maybe someone over there has had a change of heart. I know that some posts by people I know over there simply developed feet and walked or had parts chopped off. But, I wonder which is better: to type biafranigeriaworld.com and not see it, or to type a whole post and have it disappear? Anyway, I thought Ekpo was talking about newslinks by the Administrator as well, and not just links in posts. Study hard bro.
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Now you are here. You have the opportunity to become an ignored one-liner pariah of the forum, e.g., bababoyz, or a vigorous debater even if your views seem unpopular here, e.g. Adamu, Adekunle, etc.
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where's this kunle place you're talking about?...Manpikin
After claiming ignorant of the Kunle's place you went further to admit you are a member of the egbeomo 2.
quote:thank you ike and ednut. the village hint made me believe you're talking about ************************ of which i'm a member already and i'm yet to see any signs of igbohating there. the more the merrier. nigerians at home and abroad need as many outlets as possible for free expression. let's live and let the village live...now lets rock this joint too.
---- ps: why is the name not showing? lets try this again: nigeria.com gamji.com nigeriaworld.com ************************
WHY?? …Manpikin
quote: ekpo,
going by discussions at this forum that cannot /mustn't be named ( ), and going by discussions on this very thread, i perceive that the site was formed in principled protest against a dating site and not necessarily a stab in the back. but whatever the case, why is the name censored here?
there are some more serious issues facing our country than all these petty internet rivalries, you know.
(interestingly i just went over there and typed in biafranigeriaworld.com without sanctions)…Manpikin
After going through your posts, I can’t resist asking why you are here.
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You ain't seen nothing yet. I have been observing things from the side line and each time these reptiles crawl into our BNW some of us older members can second guess their next move.
Wether you choose to call him Kunle, Big-K, ManKind, Isioma or babaoyz, he is a pathological liar!
It is a shame that the old egbeomo is no longer functioning, but I'm sure the following link will provide an insight into the anti-BNW elements that masquerade under different handles.
Please those of us that have been around for a while owe the newer members some historical information. Damian, Ohofia, Wacko, Nwa Aro, Joy, Adaeze, Amanda, Dr B etc etc. As for Ednut, he was rooting for Odilichukwu of Egbeomo until he was disgraced out of the place.
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Ebubedike You hit it right on the head, Manpikin knows how to Mutate, the only things is everytime he mutates we fish him out right away. Owa mbu anyi huru Awusa na Uta.
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), and going by discussions on this very thread, i perceive that the site was formed in principled protest against a dating site and not necessarily a stab in the back. but whatever the case, why is the name censored here?