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Sunday, 3 July 2016

Latest Facebook Privacy Policy Hoax

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In recent weeks, you may have seen a Facebook "privacy notice" creep into your Facebook timeline. It probably looks like this: 

"As of July 3, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern standard time, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute or take any other action against me based on this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308-11 308-103 and Rome statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish this statement at least once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE you MUST copy and paste to make this I will leave a comment so it will be easier to copy and paste!!!" 

Because it urges people to copy and paste it into their own statuses, the message is proliferating on people's Facebook news feeds. And it's not the first time this has happened. 

As the Washington Post's Caitlin Dewey points out, variations on this privacy screed have made the rounds on Facebook since 2012 . But it's pointless to pass it around. 

Facebook isn't interested in owning anything you post. Everything you post on Facebook - status updates, pictures, videos, bogus Facebook "privacy notices" - is yours. "Anyone who uses Facebook owns and controls the content and information they post, as stated in our terms. 

They control how that content and information is shared. That is our policy, and it always has been," Facebook said in a 2012 post , addressing what it called a "Copyright Meme Spreading On Facebook." 

You're also not preventing Facebook from "violating your privacy" when you just re-post a chain message. When you first signed up to use Facebook, you agreed to the company's Terms of Service, which include its privacy policy. 

And while Facebook at times updates its Terms of Service, your agreement to those updated terms is implicit. 

You also agreed to give Facebook 

"a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-license, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook." According to the company's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities . 

This means Facebook can use anything you post on the website to promote itself. The "privacy notice" you might see getting passed around on Facebook is useless, a hoax. 

If you don't agree with Facebook's policies, though, you have a few options besides re-posting a copy-and-pasted "privacy notice."  you can: 

  • Not sign up for a Facebook account in the first place. 
  • Negotiate a modified privacy policy with Facebook (good luck with that). 
  • Ask Facebook to amend its policies. 
  • Delete your facebook account.  

Friday, 17 June 2016

Tr6Feet_Ain't No Mountain.

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Nikky_Hypnotized(Produced by ABCeedy)

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Nnkechi Ekeanya Goodluck (Nikky) is a fast growing Nigerian Artist which have shared the stage with Banky W, Omawunmi, Psquare, Cynthia Morgan, Basket mouth, Davido, 2baba, Iyanya and the likes. Nikky dropped her first Single tittled Hypnotized produced mixed and mastered by the Ace beat maker ABCeedy recommended by djan. This is a hit you will surely love to hear!!! 
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Sunday, 8 May 2016

10 Things You Probably Don't Know About Mother's Day!

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  1. MOTHER'S DAY FOR PEACE: Social activist Julia Ward Howe first brought the idea of a day centering on mothers to the United States after the Civil War, but Howe's version was much different from the flowers-and-hugs version we know today. Howe wrote the Mother's Day Proclamation and envisioned a Mother's Day for Peace, in which women would protest against war. Some groups still observe the holiday in this manner, one of the most famous being a huge crowd of women who gathered outside the Lawrence Livermore Library at the University of California in 1982 to protest nuclear weapons. 
  2. FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS: The Mother's Day we celebrate today was started by Anna Jarvis in the early 1900s. Jarvis got Congress to recognize the holiday, founded the Mother's Day International Association and even trademarked the phrase "Mother's Day." Jarvis was inspired by her own mother, who had called for "Mothers Work Days" to improve conditions for soldiers on both sides during the Civil War. 
  3. MYTHS AND MYSTERIES: Ancient myths alluded Greeks and Romans celebrated Mother's Day by honoring Goddess Cybele, personifying Great Mother Earth and Goddess of fertility, and Rhea, mother of the Gods. 
  4. TOO COMMERCIALIZED: Less than a decade after she fought so hard to make it happen, Anna Jarvis ended up despising the holiday she helped popularize. She spoke out vehemently over the commercialization of Mother's Day, called for its demise and was arrested during one of her protests in 1948. 
  5. MOTHER'S DAY AROUND THE WORLD: Mother's Day is the third most popular holiday in the world, second to only Christmas and Easter. Other countries celebrate their own versions of Mother's Day. The UK has Mothering Sunday, which dates back to the 16th century and is observed on the fourth Sunday after Lent; Japan has its celebration of the Empress Kojun's birthday, which has become just as commercialized as the American Mother's Day; and Spain and Portugal celebrate on December 8 by honoring both the Virgin Mary and their own moms. 
  6. FLOWER POWER: Florists might hawk huge Mother's Day bouquets with exotic blooms and designer names, but the traditional gift is a single, simple carnation. A research study decoded why moms love getting flowers so much. The study, conducted by Nancy Etcoff, Ph.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, concluded that flowers affect human behavior, making people feel more compassionate toward others and happier in general when fresh-cut blooms are around. 
  7. MILLIONS OF MOMS: Mother's Day press release from the U.S. Census Bureau stated that there were about 85.4 million mothers in the United States (taken from a 2009 tally). 
  8. "HI MOM": As of 2006, Mother's Day sees more phone calls on than any other Sunday of the year, says Pew Research Center.  
  9. MONEY TALKS: In 2015, the National Retail Federation reported that $21.2 billion was spent on Mother's Day gifts that year. Nearly 80 percent of those who honored the holiday bought a card. Almost 70 percent purchased flowers, and 34 percent opted for jewelry. How much jewelry? Jewelry spending hit 4.3 billion in 2015. 
  10. FULL TIME JOB: The job of a mother is never done. It's a 24/7 commitment. According to the 2015 Insure.com Mother's Day Index, if you put monetary value on the many things Mom handles in the household, her market value would be an impressive $65,284. You rock, moms! 
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Friday, 18 March 2016

New Music!!! Be Mine by Skylite!!!

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Frontier of The Ambassadors and Toptainment Bois 'skylite' has dropped the long anticipated single titled 'Be Mine' produced by The Ace and legendary producer Dee-Yasso himself.
Be mine is that kind of song that's gonna go deep into your heart and minister to your spirit and emotions. There's a high rate of lyrical potency and professionalism on this track that you cant afford to miss. Download and Share!

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Thursday, 19 November 2015

Boko Haram; The World's Most Deadliest Terror Group.

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Boko Haram



Boko Haram has overtaken ISIS as the world’s most deadly terrorist organisation, according to a new report released Wednesday tracking terrorist attacks globally..

The Nigerian-based terror group, also known as Islamic State’s West’s Africa province (ISWAP), was responsible for 6,664 deaths in 2014.

In comparison, ISIS is believed to have killed 6,073 people in the same period. Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the group, also known as the Islamic State, in March of this year.

Saturday, 27 June 2015

Alhaji Balarabe Musa Blasts President Buhari.

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Speaking to National Daily in an interview recently, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, The first civilian governor of Kaduna State has critised President Muhammadu Buhari over his handling of affairs in Nigeria since he took over.
Read the interview below:

The general elections have come and gone, what is your perception of the current state of the nation?

Well, first and foremost, it has been mixed feelings since after the elections. Yes, it was good we had the elections otherwise the story would have been different. Nigeria would have been in a terrible situation if the elections did not hold. What saved us was President Goodluck Jonathan who conceded defeat and congratulated Buhari, the winner. But then, the rest of the issues which is the state of the nation are still negative in all respects.

Nothing has changed; things still remained the same in this country. The 2015 election does not have any promise to Nigerians. If you are one of those Nigerians that rely on wishful thinking, you can say the election has some promises for you but I don’t think so. Take for example the inaugural statement of President Muhammadu Buhari, he said he has not promised to do anything.

His speech was too ritualistic, the same words we have been hearing from past leaders, be it civilian or military. His statement was not qualitative enough to convince Nigerians that something different has come. He said in his speech “I will improve on education,” So what? Past leaders have told us that before but did they improve the education in the country? The question is how are you going to improve on education? Nigerians need specific road map and targets; I mean qualitative targets like declaring that education from primary to tertiary level is now free not a blanket speech that holds nothing for anybody. I very much doubt it.

Your wish for this country has always been free, fair and credible elections, how will you describe the 2015 general elections?
This is the ridiculous thing that happened and that is why I remain critical. The 2015 elections were actually peaceful if you compare it with other elections yet we recorded deaths and other social disorders. Nigerians expected worst things than what happened in the 2011 general elections but it didn’t happen because nobody cared about the elections. Only very few Nigerians cared and participated.

Out of 70 million registered voters, only 28 million cared to go and vote; and out of the 28 million only 15 million voted for the President; 55 million never cared to go and vote. The level of apathy was very high. It shows that the people did not even care for the elections. Informed Nigerians, especially the media, didn’t take that into account in assessing the real situation but that was what happened.

How do you claim free, fair and transparent elections in a situation when out of 70 million registered voters only 15 million actually voted for the President, yet, you claim this is free, fair and transparent election? There was also the deciding role of money power that took place during the elections. It was money power that decided who won the elections.

If you said money played a major role, one would have expected the incumbent to be at an advantage as a sitting President. How did it happen?

Both parties displayed money power during the elections. Both PDP and APC used unimaginable sum of money during the elections. I stand to be corrected; it may interest you that APC used more money than PDP. It was their money that decided the winner. The only thing, I believe and I know it has been proven to be so, is that PDP for strategic reasons decided to withdraw from power and let APC take over and grapple with the problems in the country because PDP has failed woefully to tackle the problems.

One of the reasons they decided to let go power was because they know that if PDP had won the elections, Nigeria’s situation today would have been different. That was why instead of venturing into the looming danger, PDP preferred to wait and fight another day. They are already talking of returning in 2019.

When taken into account, the fundamental reality, APC did not really defeat PDP in the 2015 elections. PDP tactically withdrew and merely allowed APC to take over. PDP knows that if they had returned, there would have been massive violence in all the northern states.

Remember what happened in the North during the campaign for 2011 elections. The media is not really educating the people on the true situation of things. Remember the incidents after the 2011 Presidential elections, particularly, in the North West, North East and some parts of North Central, PDP leaders were attacked openly and their property destroyed in large scale.

There was an inquiry by the Federal Government and at the end, PDP leaders throughout the North were compensated heavily by the Federal Government after those who were involved in the anarchy were arrested and investigated. The Federal Government knew who were responsible in organizing that 2011 post-Presidential election violence but nothing happened to those that were arrested, instead they were paid heavy compensation by the PDP government.

PDP government couldn’t take any action against the organizers of that violence because they were preparing to hand over power in 2015. They knew that and some of us knew it too.

Before the 2015 elections, it was reported that the group you led split over who to support, Jonathan or Buhari, how did you manage that?

No, there was no split. We had National Executive Committee meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, and decided through voting. 26 states voted in favour of the PDP at the Presidency while other voted for APC for the presidency. We also agreed that states’ leaders should decide on whom they will support in their respective states.

Now that Buhari is in charge, do you think he can solve the problems of this country?
No! I don’t think so. No single person can do it in Nigeria without a revolution. It is not just Buhari but anybody. Even I cannot handle the situation without a revolution. When I say a revolution I mean fundamental change. For instance, you have to change the social, economic and political systems controlling all developments in this country and the leadership produced by the system.

From one base to another, self-interest first; to one base on public interest first. You have to bring about that change. You have to change the economic system. In the system now, public interest has been relegated to third. To change it effectively, we have to bring the leadership of the state in the economy to ensure peace, equality, justice and dignity of the human person and progressing even development in the whole country. Is Buhari prepared for that? Can you effect such change without a revolution? We have a situation where the rich and powerful that are so mindless, selfish and so entrenched that they will oppose everything to bring about this leadership of the state in the economy.

Take for instance, the present controversy at the National Assembly where members are demanding wardrobe allowance amounting to N9 billion. Wardrobe allowance means clothing allowance for each senator will have over N21 million while House of Representatives will have over N17 million. When you have leaders like this, produced by a system based on self-interest, how can you change the reality without a revolution because those who are enriching themselves will resist any change and it can be violent. The change we want must be revolutionary in nature. So, the way it is now, Buhari has no answer to Nigeria’s problems.

APC promised Nigerians that they have come to fight and eradicate corruption. Do you think APC can achieve this?

How can you fight corruption with corrupt leadership? It is not possible. You cannot do it because you are also corrupt. They are not free from being corrupt. About 80 per cent of APC and PDP leaders are all before the three anti-corruption agencies, ICPC, EFCC and Code of Conduct. So, you can see that they cannot fight corruption because they are corrupt.
Are you saying that the present APC leadership is corrupt?

Was PDP leadership corrupt? The answer is yes, it was; and 70 to 80 per cent of the APC leadership now came from the PDP. Invariably, what we have today is not APC but PDP one (1) and PDP two (2). Now, APC has the majority in the Senate yet they couldn’t elect APC Senate President without the support of PDP. So, it is clear that they have now started working together.

The APC which defeated PDP yesterday is today working with the PDP and rely on PDP to perform, what do you expect. Nothing will change without a fundamental change and a fundamental change in this case means revolution, I hope when it comes, it will be peaceful.
With this outrageous demand of wardrobe allowance, Nigerians can organise themselves in such a way that National Assembly after they have passed the law or at the process of passing the law, Nigerians can act within their constitutional right to remove such bad government.

Many people don’t know how this mindless corrupt system came to be in Nigeria. After the election in 1979, that is the Second Republic, members of the National Assembly led by Joseph Wayas, who was the Senate President then, demanded the right to fix their own remunerations. Shehu Shagari, who was the President then, saw the danger in it and he told them that he was against it but the senators insisted.

So, when we had the National Economic Council meeting which was made up of state governors, vice president etc., after the meeting, President Shagari came to us and said he needed our help. He told us that he called for a dinner and the senators refused to attend because they were angry with him because he refused to allow them to fix their remuneration. So, that is why he needed our help and we told him that we have no alternative but to help him because if he allows them at the federal level, members of the state House of Assembly will do same to us.

In spite of the sharp difference between the parties, especially the NPN and the UPN, we came together for our own common interest to support the President. A committee of governors was formed to advise the President. At the end, we recommended maximum remuneration for all public officers both politicians and civil servants. We submitted our recommendations to the President which he presented at a press conference but that did not go down well with the National Assembly members as they came up with war against the President and the governors. They threatened to remove the President.

They were callous and vicious. At the end, President Shagari allowed them to decide their own remuneration and that was what opened the floodgate of corruption in Nigeria today.
I don’t know whether Buhari was aware of this history because he was not a politician but he needs to be aware of this as a leader. Now, is he going to allow himself to suffer the consequences Shagari suffered as a result of failure to contain the greed of the members of the National Assembly? We are not just talking the holistic of their remuneration which is up to 10 items but we are only talking about one item.

Now, should Buhari allow it after knowing that the root of the NPN problem where he could not perform was because he could not restrain the National Assembly from demanding and getting what they wanted?

Barely one month now, President Buhari has not been able to form the Federal Executive Council, what do you think is responsible to this?

Nobody can be comfortable with the level of arrangement so far, particularly, when I can see the kind of coordination in a negative sense between the center and the state, just as the president could not constitute his federal executive council, so also the states have not. That means there is a conspiracy otherwise it will not happen like this. It is disappointing, particularly, at the federal level. Buhari is not new in this position.

He was military Head of State. Before even being sworn in, he should have known who to appoint as ministers and also announced them within two days after inauguration but this has not happened. Why it has not happened I don’t know but I pray it is not the beginning of incompetence.

What is the implication of the delay in executive appointments?

The danger in this is that forei
gn countries will not do business with him, knowing that he has no team. Then, those that decide to deal with him will be taking risk and they know it. Secondly, the country will be doubting its direction because even in Nigeria, businessmen will be interested in the ministers they are going to be dealing with but they don’t know. The delay has shown that something is wrong with the leadership.



The revered politician had earlier predicted that the mass defection of members of the PDP to the APC may end up turning Nigeria into a one party state.

Friday, 13 March 2015

Bokoharam And ISIS: A Partnership That Will Hurt Nigeria.

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The Islamic State group has welcomed a pledge of allegiance to it made by the Nigerian terrorist organisation Boko Haram, according to an audiotape Thursday purportedly from its spokesman.
“We announce to you to the good news of the expansion of the caliphate to West Africa because the caliph… has accepted the allegiance of our brothers of the Sunni group for preaching and the jihad,” IS spokesman Mohammed al-Adnani said in the message, using the AArabic name for Boko Haram.

Itself a radical Sunni Muslim movement, IS has seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria and declared an Islamic “caliphate” there, and has also drawn expressions of allegiance from jihadists in Egypt and Libya.

On Saturday, an audiotape attributed to Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said “we announce our allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims, Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim al-Husseini al-Qurashi,” referring to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Shekau has previously mentioned Baghdadi in video messages yet stopped short of pledging formal allegiance.

But there have been increasing signs that the Nigerian militants, whose six-year insurgency has claimed more than 13,000 lives and left 1.5 million people homeless, have been seeking a closer tie-up.

IS spokesman Adnani urged Muslims to join militants in West Africa and insisted that the caliphate was growing.

“Our caliphate is resisting and it is advancing in the right direction. We are fighting the Crusaders and the rafidah (Shiites) and day by day the Islamic State is becoming strong,” he said.

He insisted that the jihadist group is “sure of its victory” regardless of the challenges it is facing.

For months, IS has been targeted with air strikes from a coalition led by the United States and suffered territorial setbacks in Syria and Iraq.

And Iraqi government forces have closed on the city of Tikrit this week in a bid to retake it from the group.

Ghana Tops In Waec International Examination

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Ghana has for the past five years toped the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) Competition for the international excellence award, WAEC announced on Thursday. For the year 2014, all three Ghanaian candidates who participated in the award with other WAEC students, swept all the three top awards offered at that level once again.

The overall top candidate, Hasan Mickail, a former student of Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) in the Western Region, who was the best candidate in the General Science programme, both at the national and international level, also won the Bandele Award for the best performing candidate in the whole of West Africa.

Ghana, Nigeria, and the Gambia participated in the 2014 WAEC examination, while Liberia and Sierra Leone, the two other WAEC countries, did not participate in the examinations due to the Ebola pandemic and a change in those countries educational system.

The Very Reverend Samuel Nmai Ollennu, the Head of National Office, WAEC, who announced this at this year’s WAEC Distinction Awards ceremony organized to honour candidates, who excelled in the May/June 2014 edition of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) said Ghana, since the period of the SSCE and when the WASSCE was introduced has been topping in the international exams.

He said for the past four years, Ghanaian WASSCE students have continuously topped in the international Exams.

Rev Ollennu explained that for a candidate to win such awards, he or she must obtain a minimum of eight grade A1s.

Candidates, who qualified for the awards, competed at two levels, consisting of the national (home country) and international (West Africa) levels with other WAEC candidates.

At the award ceremony held in Accra, the overall top winner, Mickail and four other awardees were given various sums of money, certificates, and laptops, whilst their former schools were given plagues.

Mickail was offered a full scholarship by the Universal Merchant Bank Ghana Limited to undertake a tertiary education in any university in Ghana, while the WAEC Endowment Fund, the main sponsor of the Distinction awards gave him the cedi equivalent of 300 dollars, and the Ghana National office of WAEC gave him 700 dollars, cedi equivalent.

Other award winners were Mr Kenyah Blaykyi, formerly of St Augustine’s College, who took the second position, received the cedi equivalent of 200 dollars and 300 dollars from the WAEC Fund and the Ghana National office, WAEC, respectively. FirstBanc Ghana, a financial institution is also giving Mr Blaykyi GHC 2,000 as part of the package.

Henry Enninful Archibald, a former student of Mfantsipim School, won the third position and was rewarded with 200 dollars and 300 dollars from the Fund and the Ghana National Office respectively. The Enterprise Insurance Limited also gave GHC 1,000 to Mr Archibald.

Mr Elvis Okoh-Asirifi , formerly of Opoku Ware SHS in the Ashanti Region, and Ms Deborah Akosua Atuabea Attuah, a former student of Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast, won the best candidate in business and General Arts Programmes respectively. They all received the cedi equivalent of 400 dollars each and certificates.

Rev Ollennu said by giving the awards, WAEC believed that it would be an incentive to spur the students on to work harder in future examinations and in other future endeavours.

Dr Iyi Uwadiae, the Registrar at the WAEC Council commended Ghana for the consistency in winning the awards over the past years, assuring that, in spite of the few examination malpractices, WAEC exams were “still valid and very reliable”.

Mr Enoch Cobbinah, the Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, who represented the Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Alex Kyeremeh, said the outstanding performances by the students indicated that “Ghana’s educational system is the best in the West Africa region so no one should think that our educational system is in shambles”.

Source: GhanaNewsAgency

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Sunday, 25 January 2015

US Secretary Of State, John Kerry Arrives In Nigeria For Talks With President About Bokoharam And The Up Coming Election.

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Armed group also attacks northern town of Monguno, as US secretary of state arrives in country for talks with president.

Boko Haram has launched a major offensive in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri and the town of Monguno, engaging in fierce battles with the military.

Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Abuja, the capital, said the army was claiming some success in its attempts on Sunday to stop the fall of Maidiguri, the largest city in Borno State, but local sources said that fighting was ongoing in some areas.

A member of the civilian joint-task-force (JTF), a vigilante group fighting Boko Haram, said at least 20 soldiers and 10 civilians had been killed in clashes in Maiduguri.

"There was also celebration and jubilation among some members of the military in certain areas where they have been able to repel attacks by the [Boko Haram] group," Ndgege said.

Locals told the AFP news agency that Boko Haram fighters first attacked the Jintilo settlement, about 5km from Maiduguri, at around 04:00 GMT.

"Troops are repelling a simultaneous attack on Monguno and Maiduguri by terrorists," Nigeria's defence headquarters said on Twitter. It said a land and air operation against the group was ongoing.

Kerry arrives in Lagos 

The fighting erupted as John Kerry, the US secretary of state, arrived in the country on Sunday and met with President Goodluck Jonathan and his chief rival candidate, former general Muhammadu Buhari, ahead of next month's presidential election.

"It is absolutely critical that this election can be conducted peacefully. The international community is paying very close attention to this election," Kerry said in Lagos.

Military sources told Al Jazeera that collaborators in the Nigerian army were most probably helping Boko Haram. They said that many of the group's weapons were coming from the army and not from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which has a strong presence in neighbouring countries Chad, Niger, Mali and Mauritania.

Fears have been growing for months about a possible strike on Maiduguri after the group began seizing towns and villages in three northeastern states about six months ago. On January 3, they captured the fishing hub of Baga, in the far north of Borno State, which security analysts said put them in a better position to strike south Maiduguri, the state capital.

Maiduguri would be a major prize for the group, which is trying to carve out an Islamic state in the region. The group control large parts of Borno State and some areas of neighbouring Adamawa and Yobe states.
SOURCE: Al Jazeera.
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Thursday, 22 January 2015

Akon: America Was Never Built For Black People.

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There's a huge difference in how the government allocates funds for the poor in Africa, argues Akon.
The Senegalese-born rapper Akon, who grew up in the US, still holds Africa close to his heart. His initiative, known as "Akon Lighting Africa" programme, aims to bring clean electricity to 49 African countries by the end of 2020.

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However, in an interview with Talk to Al Jazeera, he turned his attention to the increase in US police brutalityand his views on life as an African American.


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Monday, 19 January 2015

Don Jazzy Grabs The Creative Person Of The Year Award

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Don Jazzy has added another award to his already crowded award cabinet.On Saturday January 18, 2014, he won the 'Creative Person of the Year' award organized by Sun Newspapers.

The award was presented to him by Nigerian music icon 2face and Nollywood actress Chika Ike. The award ceremony took place at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Read Also: America Was Never Built For Black People - Akon.

Don Jazzy posted a picture of him receiving the award on Instagram with the caption "Just received this award for the creative person of the year from @Sunnewsnigeria presented by our father @2faceIdibia1 himself and the lovely @ChikaIke.

I would like to say thank you again to everyone that supports and prays for me and my team #Mavin. And also to the management of Sun Newspaper for this award. May God continue to bless your hustles too. Amen. #SMD."

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Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Meet The Guy With The Biggest Butts And Curves.

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New 20-year-old R&B singer Micah is a man but his body features will amaze you!The guy who got to the eyes of many through his Instagram account is an upcoming singer, songwriter and musician. Micah is a man but he has hips that are larger than life, hips like a woman, the type of hips that most women will go under the knife to get.

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From his photos he posts on his Instagram page, it is obvious he enjoys and loves who he is and all the paparazzi that comes with it. Micah’s measurements are – chest: 41.5″ waist: 37″ butt/hips: 63″.

President Goodluck Jonathan Promised Nigerians 2Million Jobs Annually If He Wins The Upcoming Election.

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Same old story? The president Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan has pledged two million jobs annually if he won in February polls. 

The President was speaking in Ibadan, Oyo State, while meeting his supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the coming presidential elections.

The president was cited by the News Agency of Nigeria as saying he will produce jobs for the crowded jobless inhabitants in Nigeria.

Jonathan did not say how that will happen, after mainly worsening to provide as many jobs in the last six years as president.

As well corruption and insecurity, the Jonathan’s government is obstinately criticized over the huge unemployed population in Nigeria.

The presidency has always pointed to its Small and Medium Scale support agenda, Youwin, which gives grants to only 1,200 people annually.

The government says the programme has involved hundreds of thousands, a figure that has been asked.

According to Premium Times, the government has also failed to defend its statement that it produced 1.6 million jobs in 2013.

At the Ibadan campaign, Mr. Jonathan also praised South-West chiefs for endorsing fairness, human rights, saying he will endure to respect and work with people from the zone.

Jonathan also said the votes of Nigerian women will either release or sanction them to the kitchen, advising women to vote for PDP.


Saturday, 27 December 2014

Together, We Are Greater: Over 200 Muslim Youths Protected Christians On Christmas Day.

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It was reported that more than 200 Muslim youths volunteered to protect Christians during this year’s Christmas celebration in church a service in Kaduna.
According to Vanguard, a cleric of Christ Evangelical Church Sabon Tasha, Kaduna South, Pst. Yohanna Buru disclosed this in an interview with pressmen in Kaduna. Buru confirmed that over 200 Muslims were at his church to help protect the faithful from any attack during the church service.

The cleric who is still overwhelmed by the gesture of love and care shown to the faithfuls by the Muslim youths made it known that he really appreciate their love, care and support. He also made it known that the feat is the first of its kind after the series of crises that rocked the state in recent past.



Noting that the initiative was an indication that peace has come to stay in the state, Buru said the measure will strengthen a lasting peace between the two religions.

He also prayed God to continue to bring about peace in the country the country, praying that other citizens would emulate the gesture.He urged Nigerians to learn to live in peace with one another irrespective of ethnic or religious differences.

The pastor said the essence of that was to protect the Christian worshipers as part of effort to strengthen peaceful co-existence between Muslims and Christians in the state. He also expressed happiness over the protection given to them by the Muslim brothers.
 The cleric said that peace was a major panacea to the positive development of any nation.

Thursday, 25 December 2014

The Tree That Produces 40 Different Types Of Fruit.

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This magical tree produces 40 different types of fruit.
Award-winning contemporary artist and Syracuse University art professor Sam Van Aken grew up on a family farm in Reading, Pennsylvania, but he spent his college years and much of his early career focused on art rather than agriculture. 

While Van Aken says that his work has always been "inspired by nature and our relationship to nature," it wasn't until recently that the artist's farming background became such a clear and significant influence, first in 2008 when he grafted vegetables together to create strange plants for his Eden exhibition, and then shortly after that when he started to work on the hybridized fruit trees that would become the Tree of 40 Fruit.

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Each tree begins as a slightly odd-looking specimen resembling some kind of science experiment, and for much of the year, looks like just any other tree. In spring, the trees bloom to reveal an incredibly striking and thought-provoking example of what can happen when nature inspires art.

Then, over the course of several months, Van Aken's trees produce an incredible harvest of plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, and almonds, including many you've likely never seen before.

Thus far, Van Aken has created and placed 16 trees in museums, community centers, and private art collections around the country, including in Newton, Massachusetts; Pound Ridge, New York; Short Hills, New Jersey; Bentonville, Arkansas; and San Jose, California.

Using a unique process he calls "sculpture through grafting," Van Aken creates trees that grow and support more than 40 varieties of stone fruit, including many heirloom, antique, and native varieties.
On the heels of Van Aken's TEDxManhattan talk, we spoke with him about the Tree of 40 Fruit, how he developed and executed the concept, his plans for the future, and what happens to all that fruit.

Epicurious: What is the Tree of 40 Fruit and what inspired the project?

Sam Van Aken: At the time this project began I was doing a series of radio hoaxes where I hijacked commercial radio station frequencies and played my own commercials and songs.
In addition to becoming acquainted with FCC regulations I also discovered that the term "hoax" comes from "hocus pocus," which in turn comes from the Latin "hoc est enim corpus miem," meaning "this is my body" and it's what the Catholic priest says over the bread during [the] Eucharist, transforming it into the body of Christ.

This process is known as transubstantiation and [it] led me to wonder how I could transubstantiate a thing. How could the appearance of a thing remain the same while the reality changed? And so, I transubstantiated a fruit tree. Through the majority of the year it is a normal-looking fruit tree until spring when it blossoms in different tones [of] pink, white, and crimson, and late in summer it bears [more than] 40 different types of fruit.

Epi: What is the goal of the Tree of 40 Fruit and what do you hope to communicate?

SVA: First and foremost I see the tree as an artwork. Like the hoaxes I was doing, I want the tree to interrupt and transform the everyday. When the tree unexpectedly blossoms in different colors, or you see these different types of fruit hanging from its branches, it not only changes the way you look at it, but it changes the way you perceive [things] in general.

As the project evolved, it took on more goals. In trying to find different varieties of stone fruit to create the Tree of 40 Fruit, I realized that for various reasons, including industrialization and the creation of enormous monocultures, we are losing diversity in food production and that heirloom, antique, and native varieties that were less commercially viable were disappearing.

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I saw this as an opportunity to, in some way, preserve these varieties. In addition to maintaining these varieties in my nursery, I graft them to the Tree of 40 Fruit. 

Additionally, when I place a Tree of 40 Fruit, I go to local farmers and growers to collect stone fruit varieties and graft them to the trees. In this way they become an archive of the agricultural history of where they are located as well as a means to preserve antique and native varieties. 

Epi: You've described your artistic process as "sculpting by way of grafting." Could you explain what that means?

SVA: I currently work with over 250 varieties of stone fruit and developed a timeline of when they blossom in relationship to each other. By grafting these different varieties onto the tree in a certain order I can essentially sculpt how the tree is to blossom.

Epi: Why did you choose to work with stone fruits?

SVA: Stone fruits have [a] greater diversity among the species, and are the most inter-compatible. Although it gets tricky when you start to graft cherries, for the most part one can easily graft between plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, and even almonds.

Epi: Where and how did you acquire all the different fruit varieties?

SVA: My primary source for most of these varieties was the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York. When I began the project there was an orchard at the Experiment Station with hundreds of different plum and apricot varieties. They planned to tear this orchard out, so I picked up the lease until I could graft all of these varieties onto the trees in my nursery.

Epi: How long does it take to create one of your trees?

SVA: Depending on when the tree is planted it takes about five years to develop each tree and graft 40 varieties to it.

Epi: Do you continue to work on the trees after they're planted?

SVA: After the tree has been planted, I visit it twice a year, in the spring to prune and [in] late summer to graft, for three years, until the tree is established.

Epi: What happens to all the fruit from your trees?

SVA: Until I discovered garlic and peppermint repellents, they were a huge hit with the local deer, but fortunately we've resolved that. I've been told by people that have [a tree] at their home that it provides the perfect amount and perfect variety of fruit.

So rather than having one variety that produces more than you know what to do with, it provides good amounts of each of the 40 varieties. Since all of these fruit ripen at different times, from July through October, you also aren't inundated.

Personally, I give away most of the fruit that comes from my trees. For people who aren't aware of farming and growing, the diversity of these varieties and their characteristic tastes are surprising and they ultimately begin to question why there are only a few types of plums, one type of apricot, and a handful of peach varieties at their local market.

Epi: Each of your trees has the capacity to grow more than 40 different varieties of stone fruits. Can you explain the significance of the number 40?

SVA: The number 40 has been used throughout Western religion to represent a number beyond counting. [Being] interested in this idea of a bounty of fruit coming from one tree, 40 seemed appropriate.

Epi: Do you have any plans for the future of this project?

SVA: I would like to continue to place these trees throughout the country preserving these heirloom, antique, and native fruit varieties. Wherever I place them there is a sense of wonderment that they create through their blossoms, the different fruit, and the process by which they are created.

Eventually, I would like to create a grove or small orchard of these trees in an urban setting. I have always stayed away from artwork that educates people, but to some extent these works in addition to being beautiful and producing fruit cause one to reconsider the possibilities with food and fruit production.

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Monday, 22 December 2014

13 Tips Of Living.

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Here is a collection of 13 tips of living;

1. Memorize something everyday. Not only will this leave your brain sharp and your memory functioning, you will also have a huge library of quotes to bust out at any moment. Poetry, sayings and philosophies are your best options.

2. Constantly try to reduce your attachment to possessions.Those who are heavy-set with material desires will have a lot of trouble when their things are taken away from them or lost. Possessions do end up owning you, not the other way around. Become a person of minimal needs and you will be much more content.

3. Develop an endless curiosity about this world.Become an explorer and view the world as your jungle. Stop and observe all of the little things as completely unique events.Try new things. Get out of your comfort zone and try to experience as many different environments and sensations as possible. This world has so much to offer, so why not take advantage of it?

4. Remember people’s names so that they feel appreciated and for your own future benefit when you want something from that person. To do this, say their name back to them when they introduce themselves. Then repeat the name in your head a number of times until you are sure you have it.



Continue to use their name in conversation as much as possible to remove any chance of forgetting it. If you’re still having trouble, make up a rhyme about their name: “Dan the Man” or “Natalie flatters me.”

5. Get fit!It’s ridiculous to think that we have one body, one sole means of functioning, and people are too lazy to take care of themselves. Fit bodies lead to better health, confidence and more success with romantic endeavors. I’d say those are 3 very good reasons to get in shape.

6. Learn to focus only on the present.The past is unchangeable so it is futile to reflect on it unless you are making sure you do not repeat past mistakes. The future is but a result of your actions today.

So learn from the past to do better in the present so that you can succeed in the future.

Even more specifically, live in THIS moment.Even 10 minutes ago is the past. If you live purely in this moment you will always be happy because there is nothing wrong in this split-second.

7. Smile more often.Whenever you get a grin on your face, your brain is releasing serotonin, the happy hormone. Smiling is the natural way to force yourself to be happy. Many people even smile for five minutes straight in the morning to get themselves in a great mood for the day.

It is a very powerful tool that is utilized less and less as we grow older and need happiness more than ever. Just remember that while happiness leads to smiles, smiles also lead to happiness.

8. Drink water.Hydration is tremendously important for overall health. Soda has absolutely ZERO nutritional content; it’s like pouring a punch of sugar and syrup into your cup. Instead, fill it with life-replenishing water.

It may taste plain at first if you’re coming off of a heavy soda-drinking streak, but you’ll soon find yourself addicted to it. 10 glasses per day is optimal, how many have you been getting lately?

9. Don’t take life so seriously!Learn to laugh at the little things and this whole “existence” thing will be a whole lot easier. Be amused by your mistakes and failures and be thankful that you learned your lesson and won’t mess up like that again. And most importantly do things that you enjoy! Life is not strictly business, it can be mixed with pleasure.

10. Think positive thoughts.When you find yourself thinking a negative thought, stop it immediately by any means necessary.

Slap yourself in the face, yell something positive at the top of your lungs or jump up and down. Do whatever it takes to get back to a positive mindset as such is essential for continual happiness and success.

  11. Help others.I’ll just give you a plethora of reasons why this is a MUST

Helping people has a ripple effect. If you help someone they will feel more obliged to help someone else, and so on. Pay it forward

You grow by giving and helping others. It can change you in ways you never expected. Your relationship with that person will become stronger. It’s the most fulfilling thing you can do on this planet. It not only feels amazing physically, you also feel like a good person

You might be able to call in a favor later when you need some help Karma (if you believe in it) Because there are more people in this world than just you

12. Be honest at all times.Lies lead to nothing but trouble. Being known as trustworthy is an excellent trait to maintain and essential to having integrity.


13. Sleep less.Fully adjusting to a new sleep cycle can take up to 21 days so don’t give up if you feel tired after switching to 5-hour nights. The “required” 8 hour/night is for normal people. If you’re reading THIS article on THIS site, you are not normal. So figure out how much sleep YOU really need and adjust accordingly.

As enjoyable as sleep is, waking existence is much more fulfilling and efficient. IF this really sparks your interest, check out alternate sleep cycles with which you can be fine off of 2 hours of sleep per day.

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Sunday, 21 December 2014

Life In Lagos: In Search Of The African Middle Class.

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Lagos, Nigeria, is Africa’s most populous city—with an estimated 21 million inhabitants. It also boasts the biggest economy of any city in Africa, housing some of the richest people on the continent, as well as huge numbers of poor.

Robin Hammond photographed life in Lagos, Nigeria, for the story “Africa’s First City” that appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a series of five posts on Proof, he chronicles this city of contrasts that is fast becoming Africa’s hub of creativity, fashion and business.

We attempt to make understanding foreign societies easier by putting them into neat little boxes in our heads. The French are like this, the Chinese like that. It’s how we make sense of the world.
The great thing about working for National Geographic is having the time to challenge preconceived ideas of a people or a place. We leave realizing that those neat little boxes don’t work; life “over there” is as complex as it is here.

I went to Dolphin Estate in Lagos, Nigeria, to see a typical working-class neighborhood from where the oft-reported on African middle class was rising.
Like many of my encounters in this enormous, changing city, it wasn’t what I expected.

I went to Dolphin because it looked poor—the type of place where people could only go up. The buildings are ramshackle, there is rarely electricity, water must be delivered by hand, the streets are often flooded. If you were driving by, you would assume that this was a concrete slum.

But that would be wrong. A closer investigation reveals more. Multiple satellite dishes hang off every building, men with briefcases and women in skirt suits come and go; the cars parked on the road outside the apartments are all modern and shiny. Come early in the morning and you would see them being cleaned. Stay a little longer and you would see that those cleaning the cars are the drivers employed to chauffeur the cars’ owners.


I went to Dolphin Estate to find those who would make up the middle-class of the future and discovered that much of Dolphin Estate had already made it.Mr. Tajudeen Bakare is seen at his family’s home in Dolphin Estate with his daughter, Hazeezat Bakare, 11, son, Hamzat Bakare, 8, and daughter, Hammeerat Bakare, 4.
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But it wasn’t a simple error of judgment, it was a complex one. Along with the teachers and civil servants with shiny cars who make up Dolphin’s middle class, there were the mechanics and traders and tailors who don’t have cars: the working class. Then there are those who live on the estate to serve the middle class: those who deliver the water, and do odd jobs. These were mostly Nigerians from the north of the country; it’s much poorer there, so many northerners travel south in search of manual work.

The more I delved, the more colorful and diverse Dolphin became. There was the young woman studying Russian at university—she proudly told me of her trip to Moscow; the young girl who wanted to be a writer, but she couldn’t read because her glasses were broken; the robe-wearing evangelist; the Manchester United fans (they’re everywhere!); the guy with the little photo studio who Photoshopped exotic backgrounds into his photos. 

There were teenagers whose parents had a generator and who watched “Spiderman” while the rest of the estate was without power; their apartment was so loud they couldn’t hear us knocking on the door. I met a couple who ran a non-governmental organization who proudly announced they were HIV positive before even telling me their names.

I watched Chinese soap operas while children prepared for school and their father, a Muslim, made his morning prayer. I ate rice and canned fish under a spotlight after the electricity went out and plunged the apartment I was in into darkness. I peeked in on a private gym where muscular men lifted lumps of concrete, and into a makeshift fitness studio where women did aerobics.
Complex communities are a challenge for storytellers. Those boxes we use to simplify and compress are helpful when describing a place—especially when you have a limited number of words and photos. But they are also a problem, especially when it comes to Africa.

One of the reasons I decided to make this project about Lagos was that I wanted to make work that challenged our view of the continent. So often, people describe Africa like a single country with a single culture.

I’m often asked by well-meaning people to explain the African mentality towards such and such, or what do Africans think about this or that? On a continent with a population nearing a billion, and 54 countries and many, many more cultures, there is no single answer.

Part of the reason I went to Lagos was to do a story about Africa’s diversity. Rather than trying to define a place with a few pictures, I wanted to create work that embraced the city’s complexity—that showed a small slice of the continent and left people with the idea that there is much more to Lagos, and to Africa, than can be captured in any article or photo essay.

I went to Dolphin to find Lagos’ rising middle class. I went there falling into the usual trap of trying to define a people and a place in a narrow way.
I did find the rising Lagos’ middle class in Dolphin, but I also found much more.

Robin Hammond has dedicated his career to documenting human rights and development issues, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Born in New Zealand, Robin has lived in Japan, the UK, South Africa and France. View more of his work at www.robinhammond.co.uk

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