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Saturday, 20 January 2018

What are your thoughts on this (Sex Dolls) ..

Note, photo might be disturbing 

Each of these sex dolls costs N900,000 each and a hotel in Germany has already started a sex doll brothel where you have sex with them at the rate of N40,000 per hour. Like seriously?? 40k for one hour.. Massive production already going on.

What are your thoughts on this??😔😔
For me.... Hmmmmm
Angel Michael please come and blow the trumpet, some of us are tired.

@ Ben onyi aka biggy smalls
Some girls be getting mad because of sex dolls. When most of you were using Cucumber,  did we complain? Mtcheeeeeeew
😂 😂 😂

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Domestic Violence: How Social Media Is Helping Victims Find Their Voices *What's Your Own Say About it????


Domestic violence has a long, ugly and subsisting history in Nigeria, or anywhere for that matter.
To get an idea, all you need do is cast your mind back on the recent tragedy out of South Africa where a man killed his girlfriend and burnt her body.
In general, Many have been scarred, killed, and others permanently left numb to the happiness that marriages/relationships are meant to be about.
Recently, I came across a narration by a daughter on Twitter, of how her mother suffered continuous physical and emotional abuse from her father.
So bad was this abuse that the mum lived in perpetual fear and knew no happiness until she split from that man. [Ironically he initiated that divorce process.]
In the past, women hardly came out to talk about these things, choosing to bottle in all the pain and suffering in silence – and when suffered domestic violence, they could not bear the shame of even breathing a word of it to anyone.
These days, thankfully, people are becoming more ‘vocal’ about abuse, and this is largely due to the availability of social media platforms.
Actress Mercy Aigbe alleges that she was battered by her husband, Lanre Gentry; Singer Muma Gee released pictures alleging that her enstranged husband had abused her, Tonto Dikeh also came out on Instagram to talk about being abused.
Even Fuston Utomi, who owns the Foston Musik which Patoranking is signed to, has been called out on Instagram by Ajoke, his ex-wife, for his alleged acts of savagery on her during the time they were married.
Although Oladunni Churchill has come out with counterclaims of his own against Tonto, it is still obvious that a pattern is emerging here – social media has provided an extra avenue for people to come out of the closet about abusive marriages.
In the past, people only had the options of forever keeping quiet, reporting to the police, members of the abuser’s family or theirs.
These days though, abused persons are running to the haven provided by social media to share their stories and narrate their ordeals.
So great has been social media’s influence on recent domestic violence narrative that even men have hopped on these platforms to raise the alarm when they have also been subjected to abuse.
Even men have found an outlet for their sufferings on social media (Vanguard)
Take for instance, Twitter user Rosanwo who narrated that his wife had ceaselessly abused him, once leading to a shift of his spine.
Will domestic violence suddenly end because few perpetrators have been called out on social media platforms? Is this even the way to go about putting a stop to domestic violence?
Of course, stopping domestic violence is a very serious matter which surely goes beyond sharing painful stories and narrating marital struggles on social media.
But you could refer to these shared stories as the cliché first few drops that later form a mighty ocean, or more accurately, the first footsteps taken on a journey of a thousand miles.
Muma Gee shows evidence to back up her domestic violence claim (BN)
There is still a lot more that needs to be done – first, the laws guiding these matters need to be better, and punishments need to get stricter than 3 years for men and 2 years for women as established in sections 353 and 360 of the criminal code.
The police will also need to do better in enforcing these laws. A lot better.
There has been much talk about how men wouldn’t go to the police to report domestic violence because they’ll be laughed at, and called weaklings who can’t even ‘handle’ an ordinary woman.
It has also been heard that some women would complain to the cops about being beaten by their husbands and the issues would be treated as a triviality.
These things are unfounded, of course, but we all know what they say: no smoke without fire.
Anyway, the fact remains that only a small sample of victims actually come out to report these cases.
So how exactly is the police supposed to crack down on offences that are not being reported, or why should new laws be made to curb an offence that is not being ‘perpetrated enough’ to warrant a review of the existing laws?
The first step to containing this ever-present epidemic of domestic violence is to have victims – men and women – speak out about what they are going through.
There can be no doubt that social media has so far helped to drive forward the narrative on domestic violence, its damaging effects and the need for both abused men and women to speak up before it’s too late.
One can only hope that more abused people get the strength and bravery to come out from the shadows where they stay and suffer the battery and torture in silence.
And as evidence has proven, social media will always be an available outlet if it ever gets too hard or embarrassing to reach out to anyone in person ..

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Saturday, 18 February 2017

Nigerians Suffer Fresh Xeophobic Attacks In South Africa

The Nigerian Community in South Africa have confirmed attacks and looting of Nigerian-owned businesses in Pretoria West on Saturday.
Mr Ikechukwu Anyene, President, Nigeria Union, told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone from Pretoria, South Africa, that the attacks began at 4.00 a.m.
He said that the union had reported the incident to the Nigeria mission and South African police.
“As we speak, five buildings with Nigerian businesses, including a church have been looted and burned by South Africans.
“One of the buildings is a mechanic garage with 28 cars under repairs, with other vital documents, were burned during the attack.
“Also, the pastor of the church was wounded and is in the hospital receiving treatment,” he said.
Anyene said the union had informed Nigerians in South Africa to be vigilant in the face of renewed xenophobic attacks.
According to him, the union received information that there will be xenophobic attacks against foreigners on Feb. 22 and Feb. 23.
“We began taking precautionary measures when the incident took place today.
“The attack in Pretoria West is purely xenophobic and criminal because they loot the shops and homes before burning them,” he said.
Anyene called on the Federal Government to persuade its South African counterpart to protect Nigerians in their country.

Thursday, 5 January 2017

BREAKING: Here’s The Outcome And Decision of MMM Nigeria From Its First Meeting In 2017.

MMM NIGERIA had their first meeting in 2017, today in Lagos. The deliberations according to one of their super guiders are as follows:
“1. We are here to re-orient ourselves. Not to get jittery this year.
2. Yes the media has flooded us with wrong names( Mazi Mekus Munachi etc)
No it’s real name is Mavrodi mundial movement…it is was created by Mavrodi owned by participants and its a global financial aid. A donation exchange program. It is not a business. We donate without guarantee that our money will come back. But…
3. Reciprocity and benevolence keeps us alive. Hence we build trust overtime.
4. Asides football ,MMM is the best and highest unifying factor for Nigeria.
5. Since there is no “central account” the only force out there is “Panic”.Eg. Man dies when MMM froze is a panic induced statement.
6. Mavrodi’s programming skills created the dispatcher that matches millions of people. Guiders don’t match people.
7. While in Jail…he kept on thinking outside the box. And thought of the “peer to peer” system.
8. Do you know that last year…
-New businesses were born.
-People were made financial free.
-MMM members were living above recession.
-People met their heart throbs in MMM. For examples.
9. You are not getting money from thing air. You must have given something to get something.
10. New model has 30days freezing of mavros not 14days anymore. I.e Your mavros will be blue for 30days after your money has left your pocket.
11. Our 30% is generated through a popular financial term called crowd funding. Insurance company, pension fund use this method(The money of people paying pension or premium now is used to settle those due for pension)
12. The computerised system sees the total PH and GH . Not the individual PHs or GHs. (Only guiders can see individual pH and GH in their structure).
As such Total GH for December was a red flag. Hence the frozen mavros we all saw in December.
13. Your referral bonus begins to reduce when your downlines PH begins to reduce.( New money rule)
14. Guiders school is for everybody. Every two weeks in a month( Rough prediction for now)
15. The new model focuses on enhancing the rules ( no more leniency)—eg. No multiple account.
If your family all use your link to register, then you must upload their IDs to support to get inform them to avoid a likely Moratorium.
Once they have a valid ID card uploaded they(your family members) can PH more than you.
16. Do not edit anything in your PO.
17. Do not click I refuse to make payment this year. Give only what you have. The sanctions will be hard.
18. Support is extremely alert this year.
19. The community( existing and new members) must keep providing help of their spare money.
20. Don’t force anyone to join. The evidence of MMM is now real to all.
21. Avoid panic— Government, Negative media, Bank threats.
22. India, SA are solid programming countries and yet MMM still lives on there. MMM Nigeria server cannot be tampered because its not in any country. ( Cloud server)
23. Every confirmed mavro will not grow more than 30%. SA is doing this. Might be included in the new model.
24. You really don’t loose your money in MMM. Only time delays that can happen.
25. If MMM was a ponzi scheme…then why is his( Mavrodi’s)face all over the world. The system is honest enough to tell you everything you need to know.”
THE NEW MODEL.
1. GH can never be longer than PH again. It will always be balanced and will last for as long as you can imagine. In as much as PH and GH buttons are still clicked. The community is stronger and the system is tighter.

Friday, 16 December 2016

MMM Nigeria: DEATHS, COMMOTION IN BANKS TRAIL PONZI SCHEME FREEZING

It looked trivial when Marodi Mondial Moneybox (MMM) Nigeria sprang up in November 2015. Barely one year into the scheme, the self-income generating platform, as some participants described it, has become so popular it was being advertised in places of work and worship centres. Soon after, the reality seems to be manifesting, as the promoters suddenly announced the freezing of the programme for one month. How have contributors been reacting to this development? ISIOMA MADIKE in this report also sought the opinion of the medics and clerics on the issue

Ade stepped out of his luxury Range Rover Sport Utility Vehicle radiating opulence. As he walked towards his Omole palatial home in a majestic manner, exuding confidence of some yuppie millionaires to show everyone in his neighbourhood that he has arrived, his mobile phone rang. With the swag of a Nigerian moneybags, Ade picked his call.

What he heard was not pleasing to say the least. He was disturbed and started sweating profusely. He latter fainted and was rushed to a private hospital where he is still receiving treating.

As Ade regained consciousness in the hospital, he tried to inquire if what his friend told him on the phone was correct. “Yes, my brother,” said the doctor handling his case.

“MMM programme has been frozen till January ending. No more transactions until the partial ban is lifted. But, don’t worry; some of us are used to it. They did same last December,” added the doctor who revealed to Ade that he is also a participant. Despite these soothing words from the doctor, Ade, no doubt, has reason to be worried.

Although, he had made fortunes from the scheme, the lure of more money appeared to have pushed him into investing more into the scheme. He had gone out of his pocket to take from his company’s advert money in his care for a bounty returns.

Before the cookie crumbled, Ade had advanced with a total of N21 million into the programme. “What am I going to tell my cr editors? My company? Oh, I’m finished,” Ade exclaimed in astonishment.

Pathetic as his story may seem, Ade is not an isolated case. At the Delta State University, Abraka, a student was also said to have fainted but revived when the MMM news broke.

The “jambite” had invested his school fees into the programme hoping to make quick money that will catapult him into the elite group of the “happening boys” on the campus.

How wrong he was. His, has equally become a misadventure of sort, or so it seems. In Benin, capital of Edo State, a bride to be had also invested the money her groom to be had given her to shop for their coming wedding in the first week of February 2017.

Playing smart, the lady had wanted to surprise everyone by scooping more money to lavish on things not originally budgeted. Her action was not only miscalculated but has thwarted her plans of getting married soon and killed her joy.

Roughly two weeks to his wedding ceremony, a man identified simply as Adakole in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, attempted to commit suicide by drinking insecticide after news filtered to him that MMM account was frozen.

The man was said to have invested N300,000 meant for his wedding in the scheme. Saturday Telegraph gathered that Adakole, realising that his hope of smiling home with 30 per cent interest was no longer feasible before the wedding as he now risked losing everything, opted to take his life by consuming the poisonous brew.

A friend of the MMM victim, who refused to be named, told one of our reporters that his friend was still battling with his life at an undisclosed clinic in Otukpo where the incident occurred.

The friend, who said Adakole had called him to confirm if it was true that the scheme had “crashed” before attempting to take his life, also pointed out that he had contacted the fiancée who resides in Abuja to ascertain her state of mind.

When contacted, the Benue State Police Public Relations Officer, Moses Yamu, feigned ignorance as he said his command had not officially received such report.

Also in Warri, Delta State, one person was feared dead while many others were reportedly wounded in stampedes in various banks after the announcement of the suspension of the MMM accounts of about 3.3 million Nigerian participants in the scheme.

The contributors who received the news with shock were said to have rushed to the banks to verify the authenticity of the news. In the commotion, a man who was expected to cash N1.5 million of his investment, slumped and died when he could not withdraw the money.

Two other persons who also slumped in the same manner were quickly revived by sympathisers, while scores of others sustained various degrees of injuries in the melee.

As the drama played out, hoodlums took advantage of the rowdy situation to extort money and robbed customers. Meanwhile, medical experts have been reacting to the seeming confusion of MMM.

One of them, Nwaiwu Iheukwumere, said the devastating effects of MMM’s demise is currently evident in hospitals across the country with respect to the physical, mental,emotional and spiritual well-being of Nigerians.

“Mental homes are beaming with patients of different ages. This, of course, is associated with what has just happened with the MMM scheme. But, what we are seeing now may be small compared to what will happen when the scheme finally collapsed. It’s just a matter of time; it won’t take long before the bubble will burst,” he said.

He, nonetheless, listed other psychological effects to include anxiety disorders. People, according to him, will become anxious while apprehension will grow rapidly.

Anger and rage will also grow and the responses of people to questions will change swiftly. “People are likely to become more vulgar. It will trigger depression, loss of empathy and people will become gloomier.

There will also be loss of appetite and weight, attention deficit as people will no longer be at ease. Forgetfulness and schizophrenia will set in whereby you see people talking to themselves while taking a walk.

“Aside those, there will be suicidal tendencies and cases of murder will increase exponentially in which the fear and respect for God will diminish rapidly.

Blurring to loss of visions will occur as well as vertigo and loss of balance. Above all, heart attack, hypertension, cardiac arrest, and frequent fainting attacks will soon become the order of the day.

If these are not well managed, the result will be deaths and more deaths,” the doctor predicts. Just like Iheukwumere, another medical practitioner, Chinyere Okoro, also believes that many people who are into MMM may come down with High Blood Pressure if the programme crashes.

He said: “If your state of mind is not alright, you might start having traumatic symptoms, you might be purging, sweating profusely. “It does not mean you will die or go into shock; your heart will not stop working because of MMM. The only thing that will happen is that people will lose appetite and lose touch of reality.

If you are not eating, you will lose weight. If you are diabetic or hypertensive and do take your drugs, nothing will happen to you because you are trying to manage it. It’s not like you will run mad. It depends on your state of mind but once your state of mind is affected, you can’t go to your normal routine activity and you will just be depressed,” Okoro said.

However, Bishop Stephen Ogedengbe, founder and head of Evangelical Ministries (Wisdom Chapel), located in Shasha, Lagos, told Saturday Telegraph that this is not the first time things like this will be taken to the house of God. He was reacting to stories of many Christians engaging in the scheme.

Ogedengbe, who likened MMM to money doubling and wonder bank, said that Jesus Christ had beaten up money doublers in His days. “The money doublers are those who are selling gold, soothsayers and those who are doing franchise in the house of God.

The house of God is for evangelism and for salvation. People who are in this attitude and this transaction of MMM, they are looking for magic, not miracle.

So, if you want to be rich, you have to be rich in the Lord and by the grace of God, through hard work and through prayer and genuine transaction. “So, MMM is unrealistic profit and gains.

The arithmetic is simple: it uses the money of A to pay B and B to pay C and C may not even get his or her own money eventually. It is manipulation and distractions. It’s making our nation to be lazier.

We just need to go back to hard work, to creativity, little and smaller trading and entrepreneurship. We need to make our country to work, not sitting down and expecting money doublers who just came to play on the intelligence of Nigerians and vulnerable men and women.” In like manner, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, also called the scheme gambling.

He said it would be unfortunate if Christians who supposed to know better were into it.“It’s really unfortunate that Nigerians are now so gullible to be deceived by mere 30 per cent incentive of some dubious individuals.

“For the pastors that are aiding and abetting the programme, they too are guilty. Or, is it their business to come and be preaching MMM to their congregation? Let people face the consequences of their foolish actions,” Okogie said.An Islamic scholar and lecturer at the Lagos State University, Ojo, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, also said that Islam abhors gambling.

“It’s not allowed.Islam says, verily indeed, it’s intoxicant; gambling is Haram, that is forbidden. The Quran says therefore, stay away from them, from alcohol, from gambling, from game of chance and this is a game of chance.

“In MMM, you put in your money, you don’t do nothing, you just sit down and expecting some money to roll in.I think it’s something greedy elements in society show interest in.

It is very easy to deceive Nigerians because they are always interested in what is cheap. They want to reap where they did not sow. The 419s always target greedy people and if you are in such position, if you don’t eye what does not belong to you, the moment somebody starts telling you about millions, you will tell him, look, I am a government worker, salary earner, I have not gone into business.

So, you can’t be talking about millions. “The moment Nigerians start rebuffing people like that, the society will get better and people would not be cheated so easily.

So, in this business, little amount gathered together by some people is being shared out to a few. Many are robbed to pay an infinitesimal minority maybe five or six people per day but millions are paying in and the directors laugh all the way to the bank every minute. The Quran forbids the amassing of wealth; the accumulation of wealth, greed.

It’s forbidden for Muslims to engage in things like this, it is Haram and the earlier they knew it, the better for all of us.” However, against the backdrop of persistent warnings from government organs to Nigerians participating in the MMM, the founder of the scheme said Ponzi was not a scam.

In an open letter displayed on the page of all participants of the scheme, Sergey Mavrodi, said instead of the government killing the scheme, it should strengthen it to help Nigerians thrive and redistribute wealth.

House of Representatives, Central Bank of Nigeria and Security and exchange Commission, at different times, warned Nigerians, against investing in the scheme, saying doing so is risky.

In spite of such warnings, new converts are going into the scheme. Information on MMM Nigeria website, put the figure of those in the scheme to over three million Nigerians.

And Mavrodi is insisting that MMM was not shady and that all participants were informed of the risks involved at the point of registration. “You say that MMM is bad. Why? Yes, it produces nothing, but nothing gets out of the country either,” Mavrodi said.

“The money is just redistributed among the citizens of Nigeria. It gets from those who are richer to poorer ones, in this way restoring social justice. What”s wrong with that?” He continued: “You say that MMM is a scam.

What is the scam here, if all members are warned in advance about all the risks, the possible and impossible ones? They know there are no investments at all.

The warning is a red text on a yellow background placed on most prominent place of the website.” On November 9, the House of Representatives resolved to probe the scheme after the adoption of a motion moved by Saheed Akinade- Fijabi (APC-Oyo).

“But the scheme’s structure, operations and intendment indicate otherwise as their clients can have multi-level structures under them and receive a bonus (in p e rc e n t – age) from each f i n a n c i a l transaction of every participant in their structures,” he said.

He added that the scheme entered the country this year, by capitalising on the high level of unemployment and poverty to deceive unwary Nigerians into falling prey to their antics.

He claimed that the antecedents of the founders could not guarantee the security of investment. “It is worthy of note that the government of China banned the operations of MMM on the ground that it was a payment pyramid scheme without registration in the country and has the capacity to cause financial havoc in the system,” Fijabi stressed.

Critics of the scheme, according to Mavrodi, were not knowledgeable on how it works. He said, “You have repeatedly stated that “it should be investigated!.. researched!..” It means you know nothing about this system yet; you even haven’t understood how it works.” MMM is a global mutual aid community.

It is social financial donation exchange network in which a million community of people who have agreed to willingly extend financial helping hands to one another via donation are engaged in it. It is not a bank, an investment opportunity, a business but simply a community of people helping one another financially. Participants register for MMM and wait for 30 days.

They provide help and get help to grow by 30 per cent monthly. The scheme was launched in November 2015 in Nigeria but it got popular this year. Its philosophy is to financially empower its members who are committed to helping one another.

New members are often recruited into the scheme by the promise of 30 per cent monthly return on their investment and higher returns when they offer to assist members that ask for financial assistance. 

Wednesday, 14 December 2016

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Friday, 9 December 2016

Google and Facebook do battle for Africa’s web

Facebook’s efforts to control the access of African internet users has sparked an infrastructure arms race between the internet giants

Africa’s internet users are benefiting from the fact that two of the world’s biggest tech companies are using their considerable means to compete over Africa’s internet users.

Facebook’s Internet.org initiative, launched in 2013, is in the pole position, controlling access to the web through its Free Basics platform. This has stung search giant Google to fight back and get more Africans on the open web, or risk losing its role as the internet’s main search tool.

Both powerhouses have grasped the huge potential the continent’s 1.2 billion audience presents for increased advertising revenue and growth in new users. Using old and new technologies, the giants are playing it out undersea, on land and in the skies to secure a piece of the African connectivity pie.

Facebook opened its first African office in South Africa in 2015 and has a substantial footprint on continent. According to 2015 statistics released by the social network, 60% of all internet users in Africa were active Facebook users.

To champion his cause of getting the world online, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg launched the Free Basics app in September 2015 to provide internet access to the two-thirds of the world lacking it.

The Free Basics app gives users free access to a limited number of websites, Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp and Facebook itself without charging data costs.

Facebook and mobile network operators carefully select country-­specific sites to cover entertainment, health, news, social media and sports, leaving users with less need for Google.

The Free Basics platform only works through mobile carriers, which is a faster means for Facebook to reach the masses. In November last year, Facebook announced its biggest African collaboration yet – with ­Airtel Africa – to launch Free Basics in 17 countries.

So far, the app is available in 11 Airtel markets including Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and Nigeria. In Ghana, the partnership has created ­“tremendous growth in terms of customer intake, with more than 200% growth,” according to Airtel Ghana’s data business director, Jean Claude Domilongo Bope.

Free Basics is now available in 21 African countries out of a total 47 countries worldwide. The charitable nature of the project has been questioned, as mobile operators – and not Facebook – are left to cover the data costs.

The app has also stirred controversy in India, where regulators banned it in February 2016 for violating net neutrality.

Building links Nevertheless, the threat is real, and to challenge Facebook’s popularity across the region Google has focused its energy on improving the continent’s much-needed infrastructure.

Last-mile connectivity – the connection that extends networks into homes and businesses – remains a challenge, and this is where Google is stepping in. Through its Project Link initiative, the search giant is building links between undersea cables and internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile networks.

Launched in 2013, the project aims to build wholesale fibre-­optic networks. These are then leased to ISPs and mobile operators, who can in turn provide customers with faster, more reliable and cheaper internet access.

Google chose Kampala as the first African city for the project, building more than 800km of fibre across the city.

Roke Telkom, the first wireless access provider to join the Project Link partnership in Uganda, has rolled out more than 110 Wi-Fi hotspots around central Kampala, providing unlimited Wi-Fi connections within malls, restaurants and public places for the city’s three million residents.

The service prides itself on affordability and charges USh1,000 ($0.29) and USh18,000 for a daily and monthly subscription, respectively.

After piloting the project in Uganda, Google began work in Ghana in June 2015 to build 1,200km of fibre networks in three cities. In the field of fibre network construction, Google faces competition from the likes of Liquid Telecom (see page 80) and Chinese telecom firms.

The battle of the giants is also being played out in the skies using new technologies. In 2014, Facebook took it up another level when it announced plans to use drones, satellites and lasers to connect everyone in the developing world to the internet. The company is pouring money into satellite internet access but has had a few bumps along the way.

In September 2016, a SpaceX rocket carrying the $200m Amos-6 satellite leased to Facebook by French satellite operator Eutelsat exploded ahead of its launch, destroying their joint efforts to deliver satellite broadband internet to remote parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2013 Google had launched Project Loon, which aims to use high-altitude helium balloons to provide high-speed internet to areas where connectivity is scarce.

Star wars In July this year, Facebook completed a successful test flight of a solar-powered drone named Aquila, while Google has carried out test flights of the balloons and claims to have flown over 17m kilometres of test flights to date since the project began.

These ambitious projects have garnered both praise and scepticism, as neither of the two companies has provided much information on how or when they plan on bringing these prototypes into use.

“This race is conducted in a black box because nobody really knows how close to being real any of those technologies are,” argues Russell Southwood, an analyst at telecoms consultancy Balancing Act.

“Until the horse comes off the track, we have no way of knowing whether any of these solutions are realistic, both in terms of cost or in terms of operating in Africa,” he says.

He suggests focusing on much cheaper business models “rather than getting over-excited about something that may come in probably two years and more realistically in three to five years”.

Some successful projects that are already working include ­Ushahidi’s portable BRCK router, which provides internet access to rural areas in Africa, and Kenya’s Mawingu Networks, which has set up solar-powered hotspots in places without grid power.

Tuesday, 25 October 2016

Dangote sacks 36 expatriate and 12 Nigerian workers

Dangote sacks 36 expatriate and 12 Nigerian workers

Recession is biting hard as Nigeria’s biggest employers of labour aside the government, Dangote Group has fired 48 members of staff.

The group which is owned by Africa and Nigeria’s richest man, Aliko Dangote sacked 36expatriate and 12 Nigerian workers from the group’s headquarters and one of the subsidiaries, Dangote Cement Plc.

According to a report by Punch newspaper, the sack of the workers was not unconnected with the current high cost of running business in thecountry occasioned by the unavailability of foreign exchange and the unprecedented hike in the naira to dollar exchange rate.

It was reported that  the huge amounts in foreign currencies being paid to the expatriate workers had become a burden on Dangote due to the steady depreciation in the value of the naira and the difficulties of raising enough dollars.

May God help our great Country Nigeria

Saturday, 22 October 2016

#MTVMAMA2016: And the Winners Are

#MTVMAMA2016: And the Winners Are…Yemi Alade, Wizkid, Cassper Nyovest, Sauti Sol & More
It’s a wrap!
The 2016 MTV MAMAs has come to an end after an exciting night of performances, award recognition and red carpet glamour.
Some of the winners of the night include Yemi Alade who won the Best Female Act for the second time in a row, Wizkid for Best Male Act,
Patoranking for Song of the Year and more.
Check out the full list of winners below.
Best Live Act : Cassper Nyovest
Best Group : Sauti Sol
Best Female Act: Yemi Alade
Best Male Act: Wizkid
Best Collaboration of the Year : DJ Maphorisa feat. Wizkid & DJ Buckz – Soweto Baby
Best Video of the Year : Niquer Ma Vie – Youssoupha
Best Hip Hop : Emtee
Best Pop Alternative : Shekinah / Kyle Deutsch
Best International Act: Drake
Best Breakthrough Act: Tekno
MTV Base Africa Re-Imagined Award: Vivian Nnano &
Legend Award: Hugh Masekela
Best Lusophone Act: C4 Pedro
Best Francophone Act : Serge Baynaud
Listeners Choice Awards : Jah Prayzah
Personality of the Year : Caster Semenya
Song of the Year : Patoranking feat. Wande Coal – My Woman My Everything
Artiste of the Year : Wizkid
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