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  • Cynthia: Judge warns defendants against delay tactics 

    Cynthia: Judge warns defendants against delay tactics 

    Justice Olabisi Akinlade of a Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere Monday warned the four men standing trial for the alleged murder of Cynthia Osukogu, a postgraduate student of Nasarawa State University, against attempting to delay the case.

    The trial which began in 2012, was scheduled for adoption of final written addresses yesterday, but suffered another setback when the defendants’ counsel sought for more time to file the addresses.

    The trial has suffered a series of adjournments due to delays by the defendants’ counsel in filing their written addresses since 2015.

    Justice Akinlade, who did not hide her displeasure over the delay Monday, warned the defence to stop giving flimsy excuses to delay the trial.

    During hearing in August 2015, the judge threatened to send the fourth defendant, Nonso Ezike, back to prison for deliberately stalling trial.

    Osukogu was allegedly murdered by friends she met on social media website, Facebook, on July 22, 2012, at Cosmilla Hotel, Lake View Estate, Festac Town in Lagos.

    The defendants, Okwumo Nwabufor, Olisaeloka Ezike, Orji Osita and Nonso Ejike, are standing trial on a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder.

    The case was adjourned till June 8, for the adoption of written addresses.

  • Cambodia sentences Facebook user for comments

    A Cambodian Court has sentenced a university student to 18 months in prison for calling for a colour revolution on Facebook in 2015.

    Kong Raya, 25, was convicted of incitement by Phnom Penh’s Municipal Court on Tuesday, local media reported.

    Kol Preap, Executive Director of Transparency International Cambodia, said the sentence was a clear message to Facebook users, who numbered over 5 million, or 34 per cent of the population in 2015, according to USAID.

    “This particular case of Kong Raya could generate concern among Facebook users on their possible consequences for expressing political opinions or personal views on controversial issues, especially from now leading up to the elections in 2017 and 2018,” he said on Wednesday.

    The term colour revolution is usually used to describe non-violent democracy movements in former Soviet republics in the early 2000s.

    Online discussion of such movements has led to political crackdowns in countries like China.

    Kong Raya had asked his friends on Facebook in August 2015 if they would dare to make a color revolution with me,” according to the Cambodia Daily.

    He was arrested two weeks later by police from the Interior Ministry, the newspaper said.

    Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since 1997 but effectively in control for 30 years, has found that his Cambodian People’s Party is less popular with today’s youth than previous generations.

    Facebook has become a popular forum for political discussion in Cambodia, particularly among young people who are dissatisfied with alleged corruption in the governing party and the opposition.

     

  • Tips for safety on Facebook (Parents and teens)

    Tips for safety on Facebook (Parents and teens)

    February 9 (today) is the Safer Internet Day. As a result, Facebook’s Head of Global Safety, Antigone Davis has some tips to help parents and teenagers take more control over their security and privacy, and keep children safer online.

    This year’s theme is “Play Your Part for a Better Internet”. Here is why: whether your child is creating an online account for the very first time or you have a teen browsing the Internet with little supervision, every parent has a role in making the Internet a safer place for all. These best practices make that responsibility a bit more manageable, and can be presented as “resolutions” every parent should make in 2016, or as simple tips and tricks for keeping your kids safer online.

    8 tips for safety on Facebook

    Think before you post!

    It’s easy to get caught up in the moment and write or do something that may seem funny at the time. But remember, what you say can really hurt someone, or come back to haunt you.
    Think about these questions before posting:
    1. Is this how I want people to see me?
    2. Could somebody use this to hurt me or my reputation?
    3. Would I be upset if they shared it with others? What’s the worst thing that could happen if I shared this?
    Also remember that any information you post – whether in a comment, a note, or a video chat – might be shared in ways that you didn’t intend. Before you post, ask yourself: Would I be OK if this content was shared widely at school or with my future employer?
    Of course, we all make mistakes. If you find yourself wishing you hadn’t said or done something, it’s never too late to apologize.

    Know who you are communicating with

    On Facebook, every time you share something – a post, a photo or a link – you choose exactly who can see it. You also choose your friends on Facebook and for this reason, it’s important to only accept friend requests from people you know. If you ever receive hurtful or abusive messages or posts on your profile, you have options.
    Depending on how serious the situation is, you can ignore it, ask the person to stop, unfriend or block the person, or tell your parents, a teacher, a counselor, or another adult you trust. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect.

    Play your part

    On Facebook, you can always report abusive content – whether it’s on your profile page, or someone else’s. Everyone who uses Facebook agrees to abide by our community Standards, which define what kind of posts are welcome and aren’t welcome.
    For example, hate speech, graphic violence and bullying are not allowed on Facebook and we remove this type of content when it is reported. You can also report inappropriate Pages, Groups, Events and fake or impostor profiles. (Remember that reporting is confidential, so no one will know who made the report.)
    This list is just a start. Facebook is a community, but a community only works well if it has certain rules and resources to ensure people feel safe. That’s why we are so dedicated to providing the Facebook community with the tools needed to feel safe and supported. But a community also requires people to take care of it and act responsibly.
    This month, take some time to think about the ways you can be a better neighbour on Facebook.

    Stick with what works

    Typically, you can employ the same parenting style for your kid’s online activities as you do offline. If you find your child responds best to a negotiated agreement, create a contract that you can both sign. Or, maybe your child just needs to know the basic rules. In that case, you can establish them early when you first buy a mobile device for him or her.

    Your kids will “do as you do, not as you say”

    This statement is as true online as it is offline. Try to be a good role model. If you set time restrictions on when your child can use social media or be online (i.e., no texting after 10:00 pm), modelling that same behaviour makes a big difference. If you want your child to be civil online, model civility and respect in your texts to him or her.

    Engage early and establish norms

    Data suggests parents should engage online with their children as soon as they are on social media, by befriending them as soon as they join Facebook or following them on Instagram when they sign up. It gets harder to do so if you wait.
    While this is not surprising, it is worth noting that just as you lay the foundation for dialogue and conversation offline with your children early, you have to lay that foundation early online. Even before they are on social media, talk to them about technology as a whole. It can help lay the groundwork for future conversations.

    Seize key moments!

    There are many natural times to have these conversations: when they get their first mobile phone (it’s a good time to establish ground rules), when your child turns 13 and is old enough to join Facebook, Instagram and other social media services, or when your child gets a driver’s license (it’s a good time to discuss the importance of not texting and driving).

    Ask your children to teach you

    Not on Instagram? Maybe you’re interested in trying a streaming music service? If your children are already familiar with these services, they can be an excellent resource. The conversation can also serve as an opportunity to talk about issues of safety, privacy and security. For example, maybe you can ask them questions about privacy settings as you set up your own Facebook account. And, as most parents know all too well, your child will likely appreciate the opportunity to teach you.

  • facebook announces mobile web support

    facebook announces mobile web support

    Facebook recently announced that Audience Network will now include support for mobile web, enabling 2.5 million Facebook advertisers to reach more of the people they care about on mobile devices – global availability.

    According to the Social media giant, mobile web continues to be an important platform for a lot of publishers, especially news and media publishers.

    Mobile is the main channel where people consume media, but publishers still struggle to monetize their traffic. This is true for in-app and even more so for mobile web.

    On average, news sites receive approximately 40 percent of their traffic from mobile devices. Also, a comScore comparison shows that the top 1000 mobile web properties have 2.5 times the reach of the top 1000 apps.

    “Today, Facebook enables publishers to use its people-based targeting and ad formats – including native ads – to allow efficient monetization of mobile web traffic.

    “This is similar to our existing Audience Network product for mobile apps; we are simply extending the delivery of ads to mobile websites.

    “It just takes one click for advertisers to expand their campaigns beyond Facebook and Instagram to reach people across all touch points in the entire mobile ecosystem (app and mobile web).

    Across mobile web, publishers will now be able to:

    1. Monetize their mobile web native formats: Use native ad formats, including carousel ads as well as create native versions of standard formats – native formats that currently make up over 80% of the impressions on the Audience Network today and perform up to 7x better than standard banners formats.
    2. Publishers can now leverage our fully customizable native units, and innovative formats like carousel ads that showcase multiple images, to create unique ad experiences that match the look and feel of their mobile website.
    3. We’re also helping publishers create easy-to-implement native versions of standard formats, such as 300×250 medium rectangles, to improve the ads experience of every ad served from Audience Network.
    4. Integrate Easily: With no SDK integration it’s easy for publishers to go live the same day they are approved
      For more information including success from beta partners, check out the blog post here.

  • Don’t marry a nerd, be one – Zuckerberg advises

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    Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has advised women not to date nerds if they want to be successful – but to be nerd s.

    This advice was given by a grandmother posted on Facebook telling her granddaughters to “date the nerd in school” because he may turn into the next billionaire.

    In a response to a New Year post from the tech tycoon, Darlene Hackemer Loretto commented: “I keep telling my granddaughters to Date the nerd in school, he may turn out to be a Mark Zuckerberg!”

    Similarly, Zuckerberg said: “Even better would be to encourage them to be the nerd in their school so they can be the next successful inventor,” he advised.

    The Facebook chief executive recently celebrated the birth of his daughter Max with his wife Priscilla Chan.

    A nerd is a term that indicates that a person is overly intellectual, obsessive, or lacking social skills.

  • Ganaru’s facebook account hacked

    Ganaru’s facebook account hacked

    The facebook account of Kano Pillars’ technical adviser, Mohammed Baba Ganaru has been hacked by fraudsters who are demanding for cash from his unsuspecting contacts.

    The former Nasarawa United coach, who confirmed the development to SportingLife, warned the public not to transact business with any individual who impersonated him.

    “My facebook account has been hacked,” Ganaru told SportingLife.

    “I have received calls from various contacts who told me that someone posted on my facebook account asking people for money that he would help them get clubs.

    “The posts they have received are not from me and they should please discountenance them.”

    Identity theft is increasing among some of the country’s top stars.

    Ex-Nigerian star, Garba Lawal and  Moroka Swallows of South Africa goalkeeper, Greg Etafia, suffered a similar fate when their e-mails and telephone lines were hacked and cloned respectively.

    Top football personalities like former CAF and FIFA executive Amos Adamu and Segun Odegbami have also had their e-mail accounts hacked.

     

     

  • Facebook introduces ‘dislike button’

    Facebook introduces ‘dislike button’

    Facebook has on Friday responded to solve its users’ call for a “dislike” button, in the form of six new emoji.

    Speaking about the latest development from the social media giant, Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer, Facebook, noted that for a long time that the feature wouldn’t be integrated in the “dislike” button that many people had asked for.

    Zuckerberg hinted last month that social media site was planning to expand the ‘Like button’, thereby creating more ways for people to express their feelings.

    He disclosed that the new development is going be in form of emojis that represent ‘Haha, Yay, Love, Wow, Sad and Angry.’

    According to the CEO, similar to the Like button, the reactions will appear on any post in the news feed on mobile or desktop. The number of reactions that any post has received will sit underneath the post and users will be able to see who reacted and how.

    Thus, to test run the latest development, the site will start rolling out the feature in Spain and Ireland and 
    once the buttons are rolled out to a users’ feed, there’ll be no way of turning them off.

  • Man who forewarned of Abuja blast deletes Twitter, Facebook accounts

    A social media user, Chima Okoro who predicted the October 2 Abuja multiple blasts about 24 hours before it occurred has deleted his social media accounts.

    Through his Twitter handle, @ChimaOkoro63, he forewarned about terrorist attacks in Abuja and Lagos.

    He posted 28 tweets between 8:34am and 9:12am,    ?on October 1, listing the areas that will be attacked.

    He said: “I pray for Nigeria. There will be a bomb blast in Abuja and Lagos. Boko Haram is going to attack and kill police, army and navy.

    “They are evil. Believe me or you leave, until you allow #Biafra to go.”

    But the tweets generated controversy after the bomb blasts with many blaming security agencies for not taking steps to avert Friday’s disaster.

    Others however felt the security agencies should have hounded and arrested the guy, who they suspected to be a member of the sect.

    As the tweets generated ethnic strive among social  media users, he deleted his accounts, to prevent further circulation.

    The ethnic verbal war forced other users to investigate his true identity and it was discovered that @ChimaOkoro has multiple identity.

    One Abdul Mahmud (@AbduLMahmud1) said from True Caller application, telephone number 08130502474 on Okoro’s facebook account belonged to one Sadiq Hono.

    However, on another social media platform, 2go, his identity was revealed as Yarima Muazam.

    Mahmud wrote: “A terrorist group or mindless terrorist will not appeal on social media using real identity. @Chimaokoro63 is one example.”

    Ayobami Oyalowo,  @ayourb wrote: “We need cyber police. Criminals like @chimaokoro63 should be taken and questioned. We can’t keep attributing everything to Boko Haram without evidence.”

    “@Chimaokoro63 appears to have left a clue to his real identity. His Facebook account has a mobile telephone number that is revealing.”

    At the time of filing this report, the Directorate of State Security (DSS) could not be reached to know if there are plans to investigate Okoro.

  • ‘Facebook has billion users in one day’

    For the first time over a billion people used Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg.

    The “milestone” was reached, when “one in seven people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family”, he said in a post.

    Facebook has nearly 1.5 billion users who log in at least once a month, but this was the most in a single day.

    The company gained its billionth user in October 2012.

    It was founded in 2004 by Mr Zuckerberg while he was a Harvard student.

    In his post, he predicted that Facebook’s reach would continue to grow.

    “This was the first time we reached this milestone, and it’s just the beginning of connecting the whole world,” Mr Zuckerberg wrote.

    In July, Facebook claimed that over half of the world’s online users visited the site at least once a month.

    It was only back in October 2012 when Facebook first announced it had one billion users using the site at least once a month – and now, just under three years later, the site has managed to pull in that many in a single day.

    The question is how can it continue to grow? Surely it will plateau at some point, right? Yes – but we’re a long way off that.

    I’ve just come back from Facebook’s headquarters in California to discuss some of the projects in the pipeline. On the wall, a map of the world highlighted countries with lots of Facebook users.

    Sure, the US, Europe and India are almost at peak Facebook. But there are huge gaps – Africa, much of Asia, some of Latin America. That’s where Facebook is focused on now.

  • 11 whack things to do on social media

    11 whack things to do on social media

    There is no denying the fact that Social media has come to stay with a truck load of advantages as well as disadvantages. The consciousness of these advantages and disadvantages should help us as social media users to maximise our activities on each platform without offending or endangering ourselves or others.

    Like some people say, “it is just social media”, and when you try to correct some others on the abuse of the social media, they say “is it not my own account?”

    The power the social media wield is unfathomable but many people do not understand that. Just as they can help us make new friends as well as reconnect with old ones, social media has the power to make or mar an individual depending on their activities.

    It has been observed that only a tiny click of social media users who are business conscious often mind their posts and contributions but those that are not do the following whack things which you should not be found doing.

    Click on the start button below to see them.