tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40108019474345805542024-02-21T11:34:28.351+01:00theAphizNaija At Its BestAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.comBlogger298125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-25354144266805019902014-01-13T22:56:00.002+01:002014-01-13T22:56:42.691+01:00Photos: Two Love Sick Girls Send Unclad Photos Of Themselves To One Guy..[Love] or [Infatuation]<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-36966514611332611582014-01-08T23:42:00.002+01:002014-01-08T23:42:19.788+01:00Galaxy backbone partners Microsoft on youth employment<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Galaxy Backbone last week joined forces with software giants, Microsoft Nigeria to create employment opportunities for young Nigerians through the Employable Skills Development Internship Program (ESDIP) .</div>
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The project is on the Microsoft platform, the Government Wide Messaging and Collaboration (GWMC).</div>
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The ESDIP Initiative is a project targeted at providing capability development programs and training in the federal public sector for the already deployed GWMC platform, while also enhancing adoption and usage of the platform.</div>
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Galaxy backbone is a government agency charged with the responsibility of providing a common information and communications technology platform for Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies.</div>
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It claimed that by the joint partnership with Microsoft, it will enhance modernization in government via the increased adoption of the already deployed government wide messaging platform, elevate the security stature of government data, by ensuring all sensitive government communications move from public mail infrastructure to the secured and 1-gov.net platform.</div>
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CEO, Galaxy backbone, Gerald Ilukwe, said, that “the Government Wide Messaging and Collaboration platform is about efficiency, cost-savings, increased productivity and the effective delivery of public services to the citizenry by modernizing the way public officials communicate within government. For Galaxy, there is a linkage with the employable skills development internship program.</div>
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The essence is to empower public officials and the interns to be more effective and efficient in their endeavors”.</div>
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In view of the strategic nature of the project, Microsoft will lend its support in certain key areas including “Change Management” – with a view to building capacity, drive benefits management and encourage early and rapid adoption of the solution by end users.</div>
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The organization will also partner with the Integral Assets Limited on recruitment of Interns, delivery of train the trainer sessions for Interns , on-site activation of devices and training of government officials, amongst others.</div>
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Speaking on the partnership, Olayinka Oni, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Nigeria explained that “the objective of the program is to train interns to develop transferable and employable skills that will facilitate their placement in organizations. At the same time, leverage the interns to support the GWMC program through the distribution of devices and training of recipients in the use of the devices.”</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Unless you have a major label money behind you, the ability to promote your music yourself is one of the most important skills you have to know. With the little money you have, You can hire some PR people to run media Promo and Hypes for you, it is up to you to make sure people know about the music you are making by engaging some contacts where ever you are. Getting started can be a little Stressful, however. These steps i compiled will help you start out on the right foot, and make sure all of the right people are standing up and taking notice of you.</span></div>
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<b style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">2 Know When to Act Small</b> - This step ties in with targeting the right audience and identifying your goals – you can save a lot of time spinning your wheels by keeping the small stuff small. While it’s always useful to keep other people up to date with what’s happening in your career, that guy from club vegas doesn’t really need to know every time your are playing a half hour set at the local bar/club, especially if bloggers/websites hasn’t given you much coverage yet. When you’re getting started, the easiest place to start a buzz is your local area. Build up the small stuff to get to the bigger stuff.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">3. Find Your Niche</b> - The sad truth is, every radio station, blogs, or fan for that matter, you are trying to reach is likely being bombarded with info from other music hopefuls. You must be able to stand out. Try to find something that will make people more curious about you – give them a reason to want to know more. Being Different worked wonders for Terry G, Burna Boy at the start of their career . You don’t have to tread same line that’s not your thinking you are gonna get the same attention the present top artiste is getting… Just find yours and work On it.. Burna Boy has that different tone … Those who tried to copy are no where to be found now.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">4. Branding</b> - Get your name out there. Make up some artworks, posters or anything else you can think of that include your name or band’s name. Then, leave the stuff anywhere you can. Pass them out at your favorite eatery,clubs , leave them on the poster the light posts – go for it. Soon, your name will be familiar to people even if they don’t know why, and when they see your name in the paper advertising an upcoming show, they’ll think “hey…I know that name, Am going and let’s see what he can offer.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></strong><b style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">7. Bribe/Sort People</b> - This is the hardest but the most important tip to stand out from the crowd is when you are expecting free stuff. DJs, Bloggers and OAPs love getting something for nothing, and also you’ll whip your fans into a frenzy (and get new fans) by giving stuff away. Some ideas:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Put some money behind the bar at a show and give free drink passes to all the industry people who come to check you out.</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Give people on your mailing list an exclusive download once a month (be it a new song or an alternate version of a song)</li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">At gigs, raffle (for free) mix CDs made by the band – everyone who signs up to your mailing list at the show gets entered in the drawing.</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-69129787823894378462014-01-08T22:04:00.002+01:002014-01-08T22:04:35.181+01:00NIN will serve as Individual’s Identity – NIMS<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC has said that the Non- Intelligent 11 digits National Identification Number, NIN is what will genuinely reveal the identity of registrants at any point in time.</div>
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The NIN will be pulled and given to Nigerians and legal residents after successful enrolment</div>
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The Director Corporate Communications of the Commission, Mr Okwudiafor Anthony, who revealed this further explained that the National Identity Management System is entirely different from mere Photo Card issuance that was carried out in previous schemes.</div>
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He said the NIN is the Individual’s Identity and the numbers are what will be used for authentication and verification through a sub-system.</div>
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He pointed out that the unique Smart Card that will be issued to all those that have registered and collected their NIN is unique because it is chip based card and 100% poly carbonate with 18 security features of international standard.</div>
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He also revealed that the Card also has 13 applications, including a payment solution, a match-on-card and an e-PRI.</div>
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The Director emphasized that the enrolment for the NIN is a continuous exercise from Mondays to Fridays with additional pre-enrolment portal that allows individuals to pre-enroll through the portal (www.ninenrol.gov.ng). The portal is capable of serving over one million pre-registration a day.</div>
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Okwudiafor added that the on-line pre- enrolment allows applicants to input their demographic data and print out the pre-registration slip that has a 2D Barcode and proceed to any nearest NIMC enrolment center to capture their biometrics and electronic signature which completes the process and issue the NIN.</div>
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He reiterated that the NIMS project is focused on Identity Management which is real time live processing of data from every location in line with the international standards (ICAO, ISO, IEEE, etc.) and best global practices.</div>
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Okwudiafor also revealed that more enrolment centers will be opened in all the LGAs areas across the Nation in addition to mobile enrolment centers in high traffic locations like the military, pre-military, universities, MDA’S and remote areas to cater for the grassroots.</div>
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He enumerated the benefits of the NIMS project which include providing a convenient and simplified process for enrolment into the National Identity Management System.</div>
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The National Identification Number (NIN) will help protect individuals from identity theft and fraud by providing a simple, reliable, sustainable and universally acceptable means of conforming individual’s identity at all. The system will make it difficult for criminals to use false or multiple or ghost identities. The system will also enhance the work of Law Enforcement Agencies</div>
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The National Identity Management System will also curb the ghost workers phenomenon in civil/ public service which will consequently help the Government in National planning.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-6719655596867781292014-01-08T22:03:00.002+01:002014-01-08T22:03:25.287+01:00Technology can check corruption faster than EFCC— Oyedokun, RIMA president<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From many government establishments like the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Ministry of Agriculture, to states like Lagos, Osun among many others, glowing stories have been shared on how simple implementation of tech solutions magically stamped out ghost workers, reduced spending, increased productivity and raised revenue generation within hours of introduction.</span></div>
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<a href="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Dr-Oyedokun.gif" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; border: 0px; color: #0a67b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Dr-Oyedokun" class="size-full wp-image-427321 alignright" height="338" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Dr-Oyedokun.gif" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; display: inline; float: right; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="273" /></a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, the problem has been to have a policy that will see this adoption, generally, in both the country’s social and political sectors.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, in a related bid, the country has spent billions of Naira, funding the country’s official corruption watchdog, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which many have argued has not achieved a landslide.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Comparing roles of the two in this interview, President, Records and Information Management Awareness, RIMA, Foundation, Dr. Oyewole Oyedokun said that while EFCC would only instil fear in the hearts of perpetrators which may not stamp out corruption, technology will bring a lasting solution and take the country light years ahead of other emerging economies. Excerpts:</span></div>
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By Ikenna Asomba</div>
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Many people will have this question; why RIMA Foundation?</div>
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Well, RIMA Foundation is an acronym for Records and Information Awareness Foundation. It was set up to help develop the information management industry in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.</div>
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The IM industry has the potential to help stimulate the economy of the country and also that of the continent. It has got potentials to provide both employment and investment opportunities.</div>
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Today, different individuals working in different organizations in the information management industry don’t have a common platform where they can come together, neither do they have any institute that could help them enhance their career. Now the foundation has taken it upon itself to help some of these people and some of these organizations.</div>
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You will be surprised that so many big organizations have challenges when it comes to managing information. And there seem not to be organizations that are specialized in proffering solutions to some of these problems. RIMA Foundation is trying to create awareness for such people.</div>
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With the growth of ICT, is information management rocket science?</div>
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Like I always tell people, information management is not only about technology; you can actually manage information even without IT. But the advent of Information Technology has also really helped a great deal.</div>
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For instance, if you manage information and records manually, there are so many limitations, but if you have to manage it using technology it makes it a lot more easier. For example, technology gives you the flexibility in file sharing and collaboration.</div>
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Having a file uploaded in Nigeria, could be shared by 20 people in 20 countries of the world simultaneously. But this is impossible in a manual process, where you have to transport the documents to them one after the other. So, you can see how helpful technology can be.</div>
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Also, in the area of storage, you could have millions of files stored in a file room or warehouse. And if you have to store all those file, it can be stored just on a DVD or small flash-drive that you can carry about in your pocket or bag.</div>
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But without IT, such documents could be stored in a warehouse having over 50, 000 archive boxes. So, technology has been tremendously helpful to the information management industry.</div>
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Why is information management a very critical part of our life, yet seems so unpopular among people?</div>
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Information is an asset to any organization. So, if any organization is protecting its other assets, leaving information behind, it’s a huge mistake.</div>
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For instance, an organization should have a policy, should have standards they are working with, they should have procedures and they should have plans and certifications in place that will guide the management of information within their organization.</div>
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But most of them, are not conscious of this fact. Information that is not properly managed, could wreck a multi-billion dollar company. In fact it wrecks governments the more. It’s actually suicidal to take information management as a secondary thing.</div>
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But in this country it’s easy to see the little money that is supposed to be invested in information management, embezzled and when trouble comes it sets either the company or government involved way back in terms of growth.</div>
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Ironically, we are crying over corruption and are spending huge sums to only instil fear when simple adoption of technology solutions that would make information open to all, would check the menace and send us ahead of other emerging economies.</div>
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Can you regard Nigeria as conscious of information management?</div>
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Well, it’s not a yes or no affair. If not for some of the political and leadership challenges, perhaps we would have gone beyond where we are today. If you take that the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Information now has a portal, information about events of the ministry are uploaded instantly, you will agree that things are getting better.</div>
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In the past, when you check some state websites, you see stale information. Even some states where they have a new administration, you still could see the photographs of the past governors on their website. So, that’s to tell you how far the level of awareness has gone.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-4928690433156357342014-01-08T13:06:00.002+01:002014-01-08T13:06:36.182+01:00Cash-less ATMS, dysfunctional POS terminals mar Yuletide celebrations<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
By Prince Osuagwu & Richard Udofia</div>
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Those who put so much hope on the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s cashless Nigeria initiative, particularly in Lagos metropolis, got a rude shock during the Yuletide. Some of them were left with a sour festive season with cashless Automated Teller Machines, ATMs and dysfunctional Point of Sale, POS terminals.</div>
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During the Christmas period, it was all hue and cries for people in Satellite, Maza-Maza and Festac Town areas who depended on the cashless project, to pay for goods and services or withdraw cash from ATMs outside banking hours.</div>
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On the Christmas eve particularly, a long queue of users were frustrated at ATM points in almost all the banks in Maza Maza- Satellite town axis as their transactions couldn’t get through.</div>
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A tour of Festac Town and Apapa areas of Lagos on new year eve also revealed a similar situation with huge crowd of people at different ATM locations in 23, 41 and 4th avenue roads in Festac and Berger yard areas of Apapa respectively, wearing long faces because the ATMS could not yield to all their attempts to get money out of them</div>
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Majority of the people who spoke to Hi-Tech expressed fear of spending the New Year celebration without food and drinks just like it happened to some, during Xmas.</div>
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A seemingly frustrated young woman, who later identified herself as Mrs Ifeka, could not control her soliloquy; “what will I tell this children when I get home. How can I face them at home without the things I promised to buy in the market? I think this whole ATM thing is a massive failure in Nigeria if it cannot serve good purpose at a time like this”</div>
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Another disappointed user who spoke to Vanguard, Mr Donald Ayorinde, felt disgusted that at a time when the government was supposed to make the benefits of cashless economy count, users were inadvertently made to distrust the system. “I lived in the United Kingdom for over ten years before coming back to this country last year.</div>
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I never experienced this kind of embarrassment. When, if not this time, would the government show the benefits of the cashless initiative it has been preaching about? Or are the banks deliberately sabotaging the project? How can all the ATMs in Lagos suddenly refuse to work during preparatory to Xmas and new year celebrations?</div>
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“Do you even know the worst of it all, is that you can hardly buy anything in any shop, no matter how big, and pay with your card. You either hear that the POS terminals are faulty or the shop attendants do not know how to operate them. I think it is only in Nigeria that I have heard this kind of stories; and if I may ask, what is the essence of cashless Nigeria when you can neither pay for goods and services with your card nor withdraw from the ATM to attend to an urgent need? You guys have a lot of work to do, for real!” He added.</div>
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The Central Bank of Nigeria, sometime in 2011 began to nurse the idea of a cashless economy as practiced by other developing and developed nations of the world. By January 2012, it rolled out the first implementation phase with Lagos state as beneficiary.</div>
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However, July 1 2013, it extended the number of implementing states to five, including Rivers, Kano, Anambra, Ogun and Abia as well as the FCT.</div>
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The aim was to reduce the dominance of cash in the economy by discouraging cash based transactions and promoting more of card and other electronic based transactions.</div>
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However, with a reported 40 percent of the point of sales terminals nationwide dysfunctional, the project may have not totally served its purpose.</div>
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Even with another phase of the cashless policy kick starting in the third quarter of last year, several opinions are that not much success has been recorded as an average businessman/woman still enjoys exchanging physical cash for business transactions.</div>
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Some of the problems so far identified, included less knowledge on its workability, high rate of illiteracy, insufficient terminals, high rate of technological deficiency, among others. Several opinions seem to favour a more relevant awareness campaign, publicity and sensitization of the masses on the operational use of the POS machine both in Lagos and the other five states in the second phase of the project.</div>
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On the contrary, the executive secretary, Electronic Payment Providers Association of Nigeria, E-PPAN, Mrs Onajite Regha however, argued that the cashless initiate introduced in Lagos was recording huge success, and has continued to impact positively on Lagosians and Nigerians respectively.</div>
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Although she admitted that the issue of connectivity to the POS terminals remained a major challenge, she also believed that with an average volume of 591,000 transactions on monthly basis, the cashless policy has exceeded projections in Lagos..</div>
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For her, “we need better connectivity to these terminals so as to encourage more public usage, but there is also the need for every stakeholder to contribute towards the full utilization of these machines and a permanent solution to connectivity issues.</div>
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Meanwhile, a close source at the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System, NIBBS, who pledged anonymity, promised that things will soon take a different look. “We are working with the telecommunication companies to ensure improvement on the POS terminals. With different network upgrades, the telcos are engaging in at the moment, the problems would soon be rectified”.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-62803714120878292892014-01-08T13:04:00.002+01:002014-01-08T13:04:44.840+01:001% use of genuine software can contribute $73b to global economy<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
BY EMEKA AGINAM</div>
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Although the fight against software piracy has not yielded the expected result by different economies, latest finding by the Business Software Alliance, BSA, has revealed that increasing the use of genuine software by 1% contributes $73 billion to the global economy as opposed to $20 billion from pirated software, a whopping gap of $53 billion.</div>
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This is even as the Head, Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Anglophone West Africa, Ijeoma Abazie who spoke at the recent anti-counterfeiting collaboration of Nigeria (ACC) 5th roundtable held in Lagos recently highlighted the benefits of curbing software piracy to include increased jobs, tax revenues and safety noting that these are more impact on the economy as opposed to the endorsement of software piracy which essentially funds terrorism globally, undermines online stability and security.</div>
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Accordingly, the ACC’s 5th roundtable was organised by Microsoft in conjunction with the International Trademarks Association (INTA) .</div>
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The ACC is the umbrella body for intellectual Property Rights (IPR) legalization and related issues in Nigeria with membership spanning across all sectors including the Intellectual Property Lawyers Association of Nigeria (IPLAN).</div>
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What global consumers spend:</div>
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To recapitulate the time and resources that are wasted on cybercrime, Abazie quoted IDC statistics, as saying that , “Globally consumers will spend 1.5 billion hours and $22 billion identifying and recovering from the impact of malware and global enterprises will spend $114 billion to deal with the impact of malware-induced cyber-attacks”.</div>
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Discussions during the session centred on piracy/counterfeiting as a major concern which cuts across varied goods, products and industries ranging from entertainment, IP/software, textiles, dairy, pharmaceuticals among others.</div>
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Transnational lack of borders of the internet:</div>
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The discussants noted that transnational lack of borders of the internet makes the unlawful copying and distribution of pirated products, services and designs at a global scale very easy but its enforcement difficult given the difficulty of ascertaining where the infringement took place whether on the infringer’s computer, the server and in which country.</div>
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Abazie, at the roundtable to review the IPR Bill addressed software piracy, its various forms, how it undermines the industry’s ability to innovate, limits economic growth in economies around the world and puts consumers’ data and security at risk as well as the use of anti-piracy technology to checkmate it.</div>
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Need to draft and enact an IP Bill for Nigeria : Panelists at the session to discuss the Industrial Property Commission of Nigeria (IPCOM) Bill agreed that there was urgent need to draft and enact an IP Bill for Nigeria to aligned with international best practice and technological developments.</div>
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Recommendation:</div>
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Lending the voice of the Devices and Software Company for reforms in Nigeria and the West African Sub-region, Abazie recommended the enhancement of enforcement using dedicated specialized IP enforcement, investigating and prosecuting resources and cross border cooperation among Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) across West Africa.</div>
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She reiterated the need for increased Public Education and Awareness to change the current apathetic public attitudes toward software and IP, leader-led model by Government through the promotion and use of legal software in state-owned enterprises and among all its contractors and suppliers as a precondition for contracting with it and also through implementing software asset management (SAM) programs.</div>
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Mulch-stakeholder strategy needed:</div>
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For Abazie, mulch-stakeholder strategy involving private and public sector collaboration on effective enforcement by LEAs; Industry-led initiatives to promote SAM in the public and private sectors; Increased support from the Nigerian Customs Service and strengthened cross border customs collaboration to checkmate the importation and distribution of pirated/counterfeit software; modernization of IP Laws to provide for the protection and enforcement of infringement of new software innovations, such as cloud computing technologies, online piracy and the proliferation of networked mobile devices; Fast tracking the enactment of an all-encompassing IP Bill aligned with international developments and Fast tracking the passage of the Cyber Security Bill and other related BillS as bail out option.</div>
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Earlier in her opening address, Lara Kayode, Partner O. Kayode & Co and who represented INTA, stressed the need for public awareness, strong enforcement of and a strong IP legal framework that adequately compensate and protect rights holders whose IP has been infringed as piracy and counterfeiting rob government globally of revenue that can be used to develop economies.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-8301338934172557592014-01-08T12:59:00.001+01:002014-01-08T12:59:25.187+01:00New Horizons introduces biometric certification in W/Africa<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
BY EMEKA AGINAM</div>
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Following the recent adoption of biometric technologies by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for all banks in Nigeria and also the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, for the development of highly skilled and certified IT professionals who will manage the issues that will arise in the usage of biometrics technologies, New Horizons, an IT training company, has introduced biometrics certifications into the market.</div>
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Biometrics is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is a form of recognition and identity confirmation that uses physical attributes of an individual that are impossible or at least hard to mask.</div>
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Common forms of biometrics include facial recognition, fingerprinting, retinal scans and DNA analysis.</div>
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While previously cost prohibitive, concerns over terrorism and security have made many world governments and private organizations implement the technology at least on a limited scale.</div>
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Biocertification offers three different vendor neutral certification programs, Certified Biometric Security Technician (CBT), Certified Biometric Security Professional (CBSP), Certified Biometric Security Engineer (CBSE), CBSD (Certified Biometrics Security Developer) designed for technology practitioners who are seeking to enhance their technical skills as well as their professional prospects.</div>
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Each program consists of instructional material prepared by experts and practitioners which is followed by a certification exam.</div>
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On passing the exam participants will receive the certification.</div>
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These certifications are designed for both novice and as well as experienced networking and IT security professionals who wish to gain a solid understanding of Biometric Technologies and as well usage of Biometrics in the real world applications.</div>
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The demand for skilled biometric security professionals is growing significantly worldwide.</div>
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The Certification programmes are designed for knowledgeable technology professionals in the field of biometric security and for those who wish to gain a solid understanding of biometric technologies and apply concepts and design principles to improve logical and physical access control in identity management systems.</div>
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Biocertification offers an international, vendor neutral biometric security training and certification program for technology professionals in one of the fastest growing areas of information security.</div>
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This is a great advantage for anyone who wants to build a career based on cutting edge technologies and help to solve real world challenges using biometric technologies.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />By becoming Certified Biometric Security Engineers, people will be equipped with a competitive edge in today’s tough market place.</div>
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Already, many small, medium and large organizations have chosen New Horizons as the single source for all their IT training needs.</div>
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According to the Managing Director of New Horizons, Mr Tim Akano “This partnership reveals New Horizons’ ever growing determination to take Nigeria and Nigerians to the greatest heights as concerns IT trainings and certifications.</div>
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Information Technology is the future of the World and Nigerians should not be left behind. This is another great opportunity introduced by New Horizons for individuals and organisations to be Security Certified and Protected”</div>
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Following the recent adoption of biometric technologies by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for all banks in Nigeria and also the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, for the development of highly skilled and certified IT professionals who will manage the issues that will arise in the usage of biometrics technologies, New Horizons, an IT training company, has introduced biometrics certifications into the market.</div>
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Biometrics is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is a form of recognition and identity confirmation that uses physical attributes of an individual that are impossible or at least hard to mask. Common forms of biometrics include facial recognition, fingerprinting, retinal scans and DNA analysis.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
While previously cost prohibitive, concerns over terrorism and security have made many world governments and private organizations implement the technology at least on a limited scale. Biocertification offers three different vendor neutral certification programs, Certified Biometric Security Technician (CBT), Certified Biometric Security Professional (CBSP), Certified Biometric Security Engineer (CBSE), CBSD (Certified Biometrics Security Developer) designed for technology practitioners who are seeking to enhance their technical skills as well as their professional prospects. Each program consists of instructional material prepared by experts and practitioners which is followed by a certification exam.</div>
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On passing the exam participants will receive the certification.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />These certifications are designed for both novice and as well as experienced networking and IT security professionals who wish to gain a solid understanding of Biometric Technologies and as well usage of Biometrics in the real world applications.</div>
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The demand for skilled biometric security professionals is growing significantly worldwide.</div>
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The Certification programmes are designed for knowledgeable technology professionals in the field of biometric security and for those who wish to gain a solid understanding of biometric technologies and apply concepts and design principles to improve logical and physical access control in identity management systems.</div>
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Biocertification offers an international, vendor neutral biometric security training and certification program for technology professionals in one of the fastest growing areas of information security.</div>
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This is a great advantage for anyone who wants to build a career based on cutting edge technologies and help to solve real world challenges using biometric technologies.</div>
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By becoming Certified Biometric Security Engineers, people will be equipped with a competitive edge in today’s tough market place.</div>
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Already, many small, medium and large organizations have chosen New Horizons as the single source for all their IT training needs.</div>
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According to the Managing Director of New Horizons, Mr Tim Akano “This partnership reveals New Horizons’ ever growing determination to take Nigeria and Nigerians to the greatest heights as concerns IT trainings and certifications. Information Technology is the future of the World and Nigerians should not be left behind. This is another great opportunity introduced by New Horizons for individuals and organisations to be Security Certified and Protected”</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-13344787473980516572014-01-08T12:57:00.000+01:002014-01-08T12:57:01.326+01:00Many Africans will come into formal economy through Mobile money<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
By Emmanuel Elebeke</div>
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A UK based Nigerian telecommunications consultant, Mr. Nnamdi Oranye says mobile money transaction will bring millions of Africans into the formal economy if fully adopted by the continent.</div>
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He however, criticised the charging of transaction fees for mobile money transfers, saying it was one of the reasons the service had not made the expected penetration in many rural African settlements.</div>
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For him, the charge is self-defeating and discourages low income account holders from adopting the novel transaction platform.</div>
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Oranye, who works with Indian Atlantic in the United Kingdom, also argued that the transaction fees remained the main reason some telecom operators in some African countries are still struggling to succeed in mobile money services.</div>
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He stated that mobile money transfers have the potential to make a huge impact in Africa’s unbanked population, giving it as a reason mobile money transfers should have no fees.</div>
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Oranye said mobile money transfer has become critical for the development of African continent considering the enormous potentials in the system.</div>
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He maintained that the system remains inevitable for South Africa, even with its technological prowess, since it has 13 million unbanked people who also need to come into the formal economy.</div>
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“This is the primary reason why M-Pesa type mobile money is struggling to gain traction in most markets outside of Kenya.</div>
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The amounts being transferred are often relatively small, so that the transaction charge can be quite large in comparison.</div>
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Despite the many benefits that mobile money transfers offer their users, persuading a low-income portion of the population to use a service that costs them money is a near-impossible task for operators,” he said.</div>
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Oranye further noted that total adoption of the novel system of banking is possible, since Africans have overwhelmingly adopted the mobile phone as their primary interface for connection and commerce, with phone subscriptions equalling 80 per cent of the continent’s population in early 2013.</div>
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“Technology that enables users to digitally transfer cash, pay bills, buy goods or make deposits without needing banks or accessing the internet is uniquely suited to Africa and other regions with minimal infrastructure,” said Oranye.</div>
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Recall that the pioneer of mobile money transfers was M-Pesa in Kenya, launched by telecoms operator Safaricom in 2007.</div>
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And from a slow start, it exploded to 17 million subscribers generating financial activity worth more than 20 per cent of Kenya’s annual GDP.</div>
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According Oranye, other operators followed Safaricom’s step by swiftly moving to get in on the act in other countries, but the take-up was unexpectedly reluctant.</div>
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“For instance, Kenya’s populous neighbour, Tanzania, has struggled to get up to five million subscribers. MTN, Africa’s biggest telecoms operator, and rival Vodacom, launched mobile money offerings in South Africa that were unmitigated commercial failures, not even approaching the one million subscriber mark,” he pointed out.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Photo file: Mobile Money 6/01/14</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-40702864170949405092014-01-08T12:54:00.002+01:002014-01-08T12:54:41.659+01:0063% of adult Nigerians use more than one phone<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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The results of the annual special edition of the telecoms polls released by NOIPolls Limited has revealed that most adult Nigerians who use more than one phone, actually find it inconveniencing. The choice however, according to the report, was to avoid the perennial poor quality of telecom services.</div>
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Further findings of the survey, was that a great majority of Nigerian phone users would want to see Network operators mandated to improve on their services in order to generally improve the quality of telecommunication services in Nigeria.</div>
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The survey also revealed that while about 60 percent of respondents demanded for such mandate, another 63 percent of adult mobile phone users in Nigerian were discovered to currently use two or more phone lines in order to escape bad QoS.</div>
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Although, with the report, it was not all negatives for the telecom operators as about 50 percent respondents rated the services of their network provider good while 55 percent affirmed they are getting value for money from their main network provider.</div>
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The report adduced that this 55 percent has remained constant over a two year period, but maintained that those that claim they are not getting value for money increased by 8-percent in 2013.</div>
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From statistics the survey used, the key factors that defined value for money for customers, included network/ service quality and low tariffs.</div>
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In its other top line results, only 2 percent of respondents have ported since the beginning of the Mobile Number portability drive while 26 percent do not believe the promotions of mobile operators are real.</div>
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The Nigeria telecommunication sector has witnessed significant growth over the years and remains one of the best and fastest growing sectors of the Nigerian economy. The industry is ranked the largest and fastest growing telecom market in Africa and among the ten fastest telecommunication growth markets in the world.</div>
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As at September 2013 the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) estimated a total of 121,271,218 subscribers and a teledensity of 86.62 in Nigeria.</div>
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The industry which contributes about 8.53% to the GDP as atMarch 2013 has recently experienced a slow growth rate and series of challenges ranging from poor quality of service to steep competition.</div>
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This implies that service providers rely heavily on price tariffs to gain market share and dominance leading to a perceived fall in the quality of service and an increasing rate of dissatisfaction amongst users.</div>
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Against this background NOIPolls said it conducted the special edition poll on the quality of telecommunication services in Nigeria to explore the mobile phone usage patterns, quality of services provide by telecommunications providers and at the end of the day, made recommendation to improve the quality of services.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-76457041878667746232014-01-08T12:52:00.002+01:002014-01-08T12:52:35.544+01:00LG brings G series Smartphones to Nigeria<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
LG Mobile, has deliberately targeted the Yuletide period to bring its G series smart gadgets, including the G Pro, G Pro-Lite, G2 as well as the G Pad to Nigeria.</div>
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With them, the company also flagged off a promo which will see customers who patronize its shops to buy these products, going home with gifts ranging from stylus pens, Bluetooth head sets, power banks and notebooks to Pocket Photos. The pocket photo is a new device that prints instantly after just taking a picture.</div>
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Announcing availability of the devices, General Manager, Mobile Communications, LG Electronics West Africa , Mr. JS Yoo said: “powerful performance, innovative cross-tasking and brilliant designs are the distinguishing marks of the LG G-Series smartphones. This game-changing smartphone range defies the limits of technology with breathtaking performance; As a result, users are able to seamlessly multitask across business and entertainment and we believe Nigerians deserve to them”</div>
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LG said it also introduced the G Pad 8.3 tablet to the Nigerian market, to further strengthen its G Series lineup of premium mobile devices. The G Pad boasts of Full HD display on an eight-inch class device, a unique user-experience and wide range of connectivity features.</div>
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The 16GB tablet features a slim and sleek form, equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 Processor with 1.7GHz Quad-Core CPU and a 1920 x 1200 widescreen and ultra-extended graphics array (WUXGA) display.</div>
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LAGOS—The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, gave the Federal Government, through the National Security Adviser and the Inspector General of Police, a 30-day ultimatum to thoroughly investigate the bombing of the Rivers State High Court premises in Ahoada and Okehi.</div>
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Similarly, former President of the association, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, supported the position of the NBA, saying that “it is high time the issue of threat and terrorism is controlled and curbed. I fully endorse the decision of the NBA.”</div>
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Prof Itse Sagay, SAN, on his part, said: “It is obvious that the people behind this are not just desperate, but they are also fascists, who have no respect for human lives and due process.</div>
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They want to intimidate the people, their political opposition turn them to onlookers, so that they can do whatever they want with our lives. They have gone further to also intimidate the judiciary, the third arm of government. For me, it is the height of irresponsibility. So, let them look for them (perpetrators) so that they can face justice.”</div>
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Another Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome also threw his weight behind the decision of NBA.</div>
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He expressed concern over the fact that politics has assumed a dangerous and murderous dimension in the country, culminating in the bombing of a court.</div>
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Also, United Progressive Party, UPP and Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM, faulted the bombing of the courts in Rivers State.</div>
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On his part, Senator Magnus Abe, representing Rivers South East senatorial district, described the security situation in the state as near anarchy.</div>
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Issuing the ultimatum through a statement signed by its President, Mr Okey Wali, SAN, the NBA said: “We condemn these acts of brigandage and view them not only as sacrilegious, but also as a desecration of the temple of justice. On no account, will we ever, idly stand by and watch these acts of violence and impunity to our courts, which are tantamount to an affront to the rule of law and threat to our democracy.</div>
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“This underscores the need for government to take the security of lives and property more seriously. The lackadaisical attitude accorded to the security of our courts nationwide, is now brought to the fore. The need to secure the premises of the hallowed courts of justice across the nation should be taken more seriously.”</div>
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NBA called on the National Security Adviser and the Inspector General of Police to employ all security apparatuses at their disposal, to unearth the culprits and bring them to Justice, adding “we will not and cannot, be satisfied with the usual mantra of, ‘the Police investigation is continuing.’ We demand an immediate and thorough investigation and expect a report, even if, interim, within 30 days of the date of the incidents. Attacks on our courts will not be swept under the carpet.”</div>
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Ozekhome said: “My worry is that politics in Nigeria is now assuming a dangerous and murderous dimension as never before seen in Nigeria.</div>
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“And to carry this politicking to the secred chambers of the court of law is introducing a totally novel dimension calculated to intimidate the judiciary and its personnel. He added that if the matter was treated with kid gloves, Nigeria may never recover from such a macabre of dance of death.</div>
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He called on the Police to immediately swing into action and unearth the perpetrators of the heinous crime against Nigeria. “I support the NBA in its decision of issuing an ultimatum to the relevant security authorities to arrest the perpetrators and prosecute them.”</div>
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Meanwhile, the Godspower Ake faction of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Rivers State has also condemned the fire incident at the state High Court in Okehi on Monday, saying that the development would, however, not affect the ruling of an Appeal Court in Abuja on the authentic leadership of the party in the state by January 15.</div>
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Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr George Nwogba, in a statement accused the Felix Obuah faction of the party of being behind the incident, adding that they would have disrupted the ongoing court processes if they had set fire on documents at the Court of Appeal.</div>
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PDM in Rivers State on its part, described the development as a threat to democracy. The movement in a statement by its state Chairman, Mr George Ngbor, warned the political class in the state not to plunge the state into crisis.</div>
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He said: “The current crisis rocking the state if not checked is capable of snowballing into an undesirable situation for indigenes and residents of the state. Politicians in the state should shun politics of bitterness.”<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />He added that it was not true that its members in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state had defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, maintaining that they were intact.</div>
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United Progressive Party, UPP on its part, said that the bombing was judicial terrorism, arson and reckless action aimed at intimidating judicial officers in Nigeria.</div>
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Condemning the attack by yet to be identified persons in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Ogbuche Dike, the party charged security agents to act quickly to meet expectation of Nigerians as security of lives and property were the primary purpose of government.</div>
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The party said the judiciary was the last hope of all aggrieved people, adding that any attempt to harass, subdue and influence esteemed Justices of the court to pervert justice shall be resisted by all lovers of democracy, due process and rule of law.</div>
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He said: “It is outrageous that some disgruntled elements should bomb the Rivers State High Court in Ahoada East Local Government Area, vandalise and set ablaze files and vital documents for adjudication at the state High Court Okehi, in Etche Local Government Area. It is absurd that these primitive actions could be taken in Nigeria at 100 years of existence.</div>
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“It is unfortunate that our beloved country is gradually sliding into a state of lawlessness fuelled by insurgency, militancy, kidnapping, armed robbery and terrorism. Security agents should wake up and live up to expectation as security of lives and property is the primary purpose of government.</div>
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“The perpetrators of the recent Rivers State courts bombings should be fished out and punished in accordance with the laws of the land to serve as a deterrent to others who might contemplate such heinous crimes,” the party added.</div>
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The Ake-led PDP in Rivers State, continuing, said: “Afraid that justice would soon slap them in the face over their treacherous, deceitful and false claims to the offices of the Chairman and Secretary of PDP in Rivers State, the other faction resorted to their latest option just to hold on to power no matter how illegitimate. We would prefer they allowed the Appeal Court decide their fate rather than engage in self-help of this magnitude, obviously couched in shame and opprobrium.</div>
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Near anarchy in Rivers — Abe</div>
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On his part, Senator Magnus Abe, representing Rivers South East senatorial district, described the security situation in the state as near anarchy and a total disobedience of the constitution of the country.</div>
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He noted with dismay that the foundation of ensuring peace in the state was being flagrantly abused by the police, contrary to the constitutional provision that makes the governor the Chief Security Officer where the state Commissioner of Police takes lawful directives from the governor.</div>
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“What is happening in the state is that some people are undermining the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The constitution clearly provides that the governor shall be the Chief Security Officer of a state and that the Commissioner of Police should take lawful directives from the governor.</div>
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“Once you destroy that foundation for the security of a state, you have nothing but near anarchy and that is what we are now witnessing in River State,” he said.</div>
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KANO-Unknown Gunmen, Tuesday night, attacked the country home of Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State, leaving scores injured.</div>
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An eyewitness told Vanguard that the incident occurred shortly after hundreds of Muslim worshipers rounded up their late evening prayers when gunmen disrupted the serenity of the village with sporadic gunshots.</div>
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Governor Kwankwaso’s father, Musa Kwankwaso, who is also the District head of the village was said to be in the mosque attached to his palace during the attack.</div>
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The account stated that Kwankwaso’s father escaped unhurt, as one of his palace guards led him to safety during the shooting.</div>
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Security sources told Vanguard that “troops have been mobilized to the village, 28 kilometres south of Kano to contain the situation.”</div>
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When contacted, the Police Public Relation Officer, Kano command, Magaji Musa Majia said that “yes, there is a problem in Kwankwaso village but details are very sketchy now.”</div>
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He however assured to get across to our Correspondent as soon as details of the incident are made available to him.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-88109843324568416502014-01-08T12:25:00.002+01:002014-01-08T12:25:23.744+01:00Strike: ASUP accuses FG of abandoning polytechnic education<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
As strike enters seventh month</div>
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ABUJA—Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has alleged abandonment by the Federal Government as the strike declared by lecturers in the sub-sector enters its seventh month.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />ASUP had gone on strike April 17, 2013, to press home demands for government’s proper funding of polytechnic education as well as address the disparity between the polytechnics and university graduates in the country.</div>
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ASUP president laments<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Speaking in an exclusive interview with Vanguard, National President of ASUP, Mr. Chibuzor Asomugha, lamented that the government was killing polytechnic education in Nigeria as several meetings held with government to ensure re-opening of polytechnics yielded no fruits.</div>
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Asomugha argued that the lack of interest by government to implement its promises for polytechnics to be re-opened was a deliberate ploy to deny students of Polytechnics access to education.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Expressing concern that efforts to draw the attention of the Nigerian public might be given political colouration and union leaders branded as working for opposition political parties against the government, Asomugha appealed to all relevant stakeholders to intervene on behalf of the poor students who might not have somebody in government to speak for them.</div>
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Lack of interest from FG<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />On why government has not shown interest in the lingering strike, the ASUP boss appealed to relevant stakeholders to prevail on the government, Minister of Education, Permanent Secretary and Minister of Labour to do the needful.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />He said: “I am not going to be talking for government, we have been in this, they have given us promises, they have not been fulfilling them.</div>
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“The promises were simple things, we even had the understanding where they promised to implement within one week and it is more than four months now, everybody should reach government and let them tell Nigerians what are the problems. I cannot be speaking for government, what I know is that government is not doing any thing.</div>
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“We met them yesterday (Monday), the same promises and I don’t know why they find it difficult to fulfil the promises. Okay tell me yourself, what is the problem in releasing the White Paper that is ready? It is the government that should tells us that. The SGF should tell us why he is withholding the White Paper.”</div>
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Way out of logjam<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />On the way out of the long strike, he said: “The way out is that we are still on strike until the members tell us whatever they decide with the strike.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“Government has been giving assurances in the past six months, the assurance of government does not amount to anything, that is why ASUU insisted on things concrete and people didn’t understand it.</div>
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“We agreed with government that they were going to take up four things out of the 13 that we had listed. Government has been able to meet one and half of those issues that we had listed. Even the NEEDS Assessment government constituted Committee is not working at the pace it should work, we are supposed to submit the report in February, up till now, we have not done much.</div>
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Waiting on government’s White Paper<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“Government said it was going to release the White Paper on the visitation to Federal Polytechnics, they were going to complete the lower cader of CONTISS 16 which was the thing that happened in 2009 and up till now, it hadn’t been implemented and then, that they were going to complete the appointment of six Governing Councils of six Federal Polytechnics which they have done.</div>
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“To constitute the NEEDS Assessment Committee to do the NEEDS assessments of the Polytechnics, which they have constituted and the Committee is more or less not working the way it should work. These are the four issues that we extracted out of the 13.</div>
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“There is a director in the Ministry of Education who is the Chairman of the Committee but the problem is that the Committee complains all the time of lack of funding from TETFund which is supposed to fund it.”</div>
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Abeokuta — A part-time student of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, Timilehin Ayobami Ogundare, has been found dead in his room in Ilupeju area, Baasala, Asero, Abeokuta, Ogun State.</div>
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He was believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself.</div>
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According to PM News, the deceased was also a computer operator with a firm in Abeokuta before his death.</div>
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A family source who pleaded anonymity said the deceased tried to kill himself last year but was stopped by some people.</div>
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The relation revealed that the deceased was arrested by some security guards and handed over to men of the state vigilance service when he attempted to jump into River Ogun. He was later released.</div>
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He attempted to jump into River Ogun</div>
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“The whole issue is still like a drama because I don’t know what could have made him decide to take his life. We have been looking for him since January 1. Later, we heard that he went to Lagos. He boarded a train from Lagos back to Abeokuta on Saturday and came down at Lafenwa. He trekked from the station through Enu Gada area to Ajitaadun down to Arakanga area with the aim of jumping into the river.</div>
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“He was arrested by the security men in the area when they saw him wandering with only his boxer pant on. They handed him over to the vigilante men at Oke Ilewo for further investigation.</div>
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“We went there to collect him and we were told to come back with him yesterday. On getting to his room, we found out that he had hanged himself. He left a short note, apologising that he disappointed us,” the source narrated in tears.</div>
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When the spokesman of the Ogun State Vigilante Service, Mr. Soji Ganzallo, was contacted, he confirmed the incident and expressed shock at the boy’s death.</div>
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“It is unfortunate that what we tried to prevent eventually happened. They (family) were careless with the way they handled the boy. If the boy had been properly monitored, this sad incident wouldn’t have happened. We got a distress call on Saturday by local security men around Arakanga that a boy was trying to commit suicide by trying to jump into the river. Our men rushed to the area and took the boy to our office.</div>
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“In the course of questioning him, he confirmed to us that he left home for Lagos on New Year day but did not tell us where and who he went to meet in Lagos. When we asked about his phone, he said he had no phone but only his SIM card was with him.</div>
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“Sensing that his parents will be looking for him, I directed that his SIM card be inserted into a phone, hoping that someone will call his line,” Ganzallo said.</div>
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The vigilante spokesman revealed further that not long after the SIM card was inserted into the phone, several calls came in.</div>
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Ganzallo said: “We discovered that those calls were from his mother, sister and a pastor. The pastor later called back and demanded to stand as surety for his bail. We agreed.</div>
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“The man of God arrived with the boy’s mother and some relatives. The pastor’s name is Wole Oyenekan and he gave his address as Egba Inner Circle Building, Abiola Way, Abeokuta.</div>
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“We questioned the boy but from what I was able to gather, the boy was determined not to tell anybody his problem. The pastor pleaded with me to hand him over to him. I initially disagreed but after much persuasions and assurance that they will monitor him, I released him to them and asked them to come back on Sunday.</div>
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“I was shocked when I heard the news that the boy eventually carried out his mission.”</div>
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He refused to go to church on Sunday</div>
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Another source disclosed that the teenager perfected his suicide by refusing to go to church on Sunday, feigning illness.</div>
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According to the source, “I remember that he told the pastor while coming from the vigilante’s office that he needed some money to pay for his school fees and the pastor told him to see him on Sunday after church service. After the breakfast, he said he was not feeling well and begged to be allowed to stay back, which was granted.</div>
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“After the church service, he joined other family members to eat the lunch around 4 p.m. After the food, he went into his room and no one bothered to know what he was doing until around 8p.m. when we were looking for him.</div>
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“When we forced his door opened, we met his lifeless body. He hanged himself with his belt. We went to the Obantoko Police Station to report the matter and the police arrived around 11.45 p.m. and removed his corpse to the mortuary,” he stated.</div>
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Abuja – Cruiserweight boxer Bash Ali on Tuesday in Abuja said his seven years of struggle to enter his name in the Guinness Book of World Records was almost becoming a reality.</div>
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The boxer expressed this excitement after the Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, inaugurated the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the Bash Ali Guinness Book of World Records Title Fight Project.</div>
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Ali had since 2006 been appealing to the Federal Government to stage the fight.</div>
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He had said the fight would take him and his country Nigeria into the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest boxer to feature in a world title fight.</div>
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“I feel great. My struggle for seven years has come to reality.</div>
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“Sometimes, a disappointment can be a blessing in disguise. Because, if I had fought seven years ago, it is possible that somebody by now may have broken the record.</div>
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“So, I will be fighting at the age of 58, which means in this century or in the next, whoever that will have to break the record must be at least 60 years.</div>
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“But, I am not happy about the delay,’’ Ali said.</div>
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He also assured that he would defeat his opponent, adding that his opponent was no match.</div>
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“I am reassuring Nigerians that on the day of the fight, Bash Ali will shock the boxing world.</div>
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“I will beat my opponent like a bad child, because I am old enough to be his father,’’ the boxer said.</div>
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Bash Ali will take on Rick Camlin, a 32-year-old International Boxing Union (IBU) champion.(NAN)</div>
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MAKURDI — A 21-year-old final year female student of the Benue State University, BSU, Joan Adaaku, has been reportedly found dead in a hotel room located in the heart of Makurdi, the Benue State capital.</div>
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Vanguard gathered from sources who preferred anonymity that the Economics undergraduate had checked into Savannah Guest House at about 7 a.m after paying N2,000 for a room</div>
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According to the source, “She actually arrived the hotel alone and after underaking some check-in formalities she entered the room and locked herself up.</div>
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“She never came out of her room again either to ask for food or any other things. So, at exactly 6 p.m, a room attendant knocked on her door to find out if she was interest in being attended to by room service.</div>
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“Her silence aroused suspicion and the room attendant, who repeated his call to the room at 8pm without reply, alerted the manager on duty.</div>
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“It was at that point that the management alerted the Police who moved in and broke into the room and discovered the lifeless body of the lady in a position that suggested she was making a call before her death.</div>
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Vanguard gathered that the deceased had on her a small purse which contained a Bible, rosary and N8,200. A bottle of water and a bottle of soft drink were also discovered in the room.</div>
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Contacted, the Benue State Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent, DSP, Daniel Ezeala who confirmed the incident said investigation into the matter had commenced.</div>
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This guys is obviously not happy with Maheeda with the was she is disgracing womanhood…</div>
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Dear Maheeda,<br style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />I am quite sure that you will find this piece of write-up not appealing but the fact is just that you need to re-check yourself and also re-structure your life. I am not preaching the gospel to you, neither am I seeking public attention.</div>
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I read one of your recent interview with one of Africa biggest Newspaper where you said that you are proud of your nude pictures. You also talked about your background which I found so rough and am very sorry for that. Nobody would have prayed for such background and I really appreciate your courage and struggle girl (Thumbs UP).</div>
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But all the same Maheeda, Ramsey Noah slept under Lagos Bridge without food. He struggled without exposing his butt or circulating his nude pics and now he is one of the biggest Actors we see on screen in Africa.</div>
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Did you know that Mercy Johnson once lived in an uncompleted building as a young girl with a lot of dreams? She struggled and went through a lot of tribulations but now she is also one of the biggest Actress in Africa.</div>
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STOP presenting yourself has a born again Christian. Chai! Satan Punish Devil. My dear you are very much far from it. I wonder if you know the meaning of been a born again. It about having total submission to God. Been spiritually and morally okay which I don’t think you are.I can’t still believed that you were once a gospel singer. It is never to late for you to change your heart and your ways.</div>
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You claimed that your mum and husband supports you. Who cares if they support you or not ? What matters most is for you to get back to your senses. Funny enough I can’t masturbate to your nude pictures not to talk of deriving pleasure from staring at it. You want attention, you are an attention seeker.</div>
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That’s cool but get your attention using another means. You put nude pics because you claimed that you are into what you call ‘showbiz’ but I call it ‘showkey’.</div>
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BE WISE SISTER MAHEEDA. ENOUGH OF THE DIRTY YANSH WEY WE DEY SEE. A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE. PEOPLE ARE WATCHING YOU. BE A GOOD ROLE MODEL.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304416655473635955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010801947434580554.post-74234432505219657522014-01-07T12:07:00.007+01:002014-01-07T12:07:21.076+01:00SHOCKING!: Acid Attack Victim Naomi Oni’s Alleged Attacker Was Her Friend – Mary Konye!!!<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 1em 0px;">
Acid attack victim Naomi Oni’s alleged attacker has been identified as her friend Mary Konye who was jealous of her.</div>
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DailyMail reports that 21 years old Mary Konye, who stood trial today, had disguised herself in an Islamic veil showing only her eyes, and followed Naomi Oni home in East London before allegedly dousing her in the corrosive acid.<br style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Ms Oni, 21, who worked at Victoria’s Secret lingerie shop, suffered horrific burns on her face and chest, lost her hair and eyelashes and was left scarred for life in the alleged attack on December 30 2012.</div>
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during her trial, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that Konye, who was studying business and finance at Hertfordshire University, had been close friends with Ms Oni since secondary school.<br style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />But she was envious of the shop worker’s good looks, and the pair had rowed in the past leading Konye to attack her with acid previously, it is alleged.</div>
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Konye knew Ms Oni had been deeply ‘moved’ by Katie Piper’s story – Katie is a model and TV presenter who was badly scarred and left blind in one eye after she was attacked with acid in an ambush arranged by her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Lynch.</div>
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Knowing this, Konye decided to launch the copycat attack on Naomi Oni that fateful day, jurors were told.</div>
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The court heard Ms Oni left work at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford, East London, at around 11.30pm with several colleagues. But she was oblivious to the fact she was being closely followed by Konye wearing a full niqab, a hooded black coat, gloves and a grey bag.</div>
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CCTV showed the university student had ‘lingered waiting to see the victim’ at Stratford and ‘tailed’ her home always making sure to keep a few steps behind her.</div>
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On the phone to her boyfriend throughout the journey, Naomi stopped off at takeaway to pick up some food and got the 368 bus to her house.<br style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Unaware she was being followed, she got off the bus at Lodge Avenue, a few hundred yards away from her house.</div>
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But she suddenly became aware of a presence behind her and spun around to see someone in a niqab who lobbed a glass of acid at her.</div>
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However, Konye, who was arrested on February 22 last year, denied carrying out the attack or ever threatening to throw acid at Naomi.</div>
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She said they had had quite a few fallings out, including one very big one, however she said she did not remember ever saying she was going to attack Naomi with acid.<br style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />She denied being in any way jealous of the victim’s looks.</div>
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Everyday, it is becoming clear that thieves and criminals are holding top positions in Nigeria…</div>
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<b style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px none; color: #cc0000; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">US College Says It Did Not Award MBA To Stella Oduah As It Has No Masters Programme</span></b><br style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Stella Oduah, Nigeria’s Aviation Minister who is embroiled in a scandal of towering proportions in the ministry, faces new integrity questions as her Masters’ degree has been challenged by the United States school which she claimed awarded the degree to her.</div>
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Her resume, presented to Senate as a ministerial nominee in 2011, indicated she obtained a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from St. Paul’s College Lawrenceville, Virginia, United States.</div>
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But the School’s Provost Vice President of Academic Affairs and Vice President of Institutional Development said in response to inquiries: “<b style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">We don’t offer any graduate programs here</b>.”</div>
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Sahara Reporters has learned from the President of the college that it has never in its 125-year history had a graduate school or graduate program.</div>
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“[Oduah] realized very early in life the indispensability of a sound education in her growth plans in life and therefore pursued her education with all diligence and sense of purpose,” her documents claimed, adding that a determination “to have the best education at the highest level” prompted her stay at the Virginia college in 1983 for the MBA programme.</div>
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As her public relations machinery marched on, in December 2012 The Sun newspaper published an article headlined “Stella Oduah: An Amazon of transformation,” which lauded her “<span style="border: 0px none; color: #cc0000; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">MBA from St Paul’s College, Lawrenceville Virginia USA</span>.” The story also praised her for being an official who brought her “rich educational background to bear on the aviation sector by automating revenue centers in all the agencies and parastatals to boost their revenue profile and enhance transparency and accountability in the system.”</div>
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Oduah’s new certificate questions are certain to feed into national concern about her credibility as an elected official, but also about Jonathan’s credibility, and about the nation’s security apparatus which verifies official documents offered to the Senate for official nominations.</div>
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If Mrs. Oduah deliberately deceived the Senate, it remains to be seen if the Upper Legislative House will be sufficiently motivated to take up the matter appropriately.</div>
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Afterall, Jonathan is yet to reveal the findings of the panel he set up to investigate Stella Oduah’s cars scandal.</div>
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