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  • Student wins facebook contest

    A student of Psychology of the Universityof Nigeria (UNN), Somma Phillips has won a 55-inch Hisense 3D Smart TV in the brand’s facebook contest.

    According to the Country Director, Hisense, Mr. Jacob George Chacko, the facebook activation tagged “then and now” challenge is designed as a call-to-action for people to ‘move up to a higher sense of reality’, to a life of Hisense.

    “For this purpose, we offered one of our premium top of the range products accompanied with two 3D viewing glasses as star prize for the contestant with the highest likes. All the participants need do was to take a picture of a very old TV set, place it side by side with our state-of-the-art Hisense and invite friends to like the picture,” Chacko said.

    Managing Director Dajcom Ltd Mr. David Shafa described Hisense as the most innovative home appliances brand, adding that Hisense believes that for technology to be innovative, consumer needs are not just to be satisfied, their expectations have to be met and exceeded.

    “It’s not about what the technology is; it’s about what it does. How it improves the lives of the consumers.This is the construct that the campaign sought to bring to life,” he said.

     

     

  • The Nation’s facebook page verified

    The Nation’s facebook page verified

    Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper, The Nation’s  Facebook page was on Wednesday, July 9 verified.

    With the verification, The Nation is the first print newspaper to have its facebook page verified.

    On its verification policy page, facebook states that “some well-known public figures and Pages with large followings are verified by Facebook as having an authentic identity.”

    “We verify profiles or Pages to help you be sure that they are who they claim to be. Keep in mind that not all authentic profiles and Pages are verified and that you can’t request to have your profile or Page verified,” the social media company said.

    Reacting to the feat, Managing Editor, Online of The Nation Newspaper, Lekan Otufodunrin said “we are proud of this recognition and pledge to continue to serve our friends on the platform better.

    “We are committed to sharing latest news and useful information with our friends on Facebook. They can also chat with our staff and get quick response to enquiries,” Otufodunrin stated.

    Adediwura Aderibigbe, the Social Media Administrator noted that the verification is an acknowledgement of the high quality online presence and engagement of  The Nation.

    “It feels good to see your efforts being rewarded. It is not easy to be verified when there are other online news social pages with larger fan base that have not been verified. This is to our fans and we promise to even improve on getting them informed whilst entertained, ” Adediwura assured.

     

  • Why I purged my Facebook friends list

    An unfriending spree made my online life a whole lot better

    It was a small act, but it was also one of liberation. In retrospect, I wonder if the woman had meant to come off quite so obnoxiously when she’d expressed her shock at my admission that I hadn’t yet read that hot bestseller everybody was talking about. But the way that she’d phrased it — “Well, what do you do with all that time when you’re at your cancer treatment?” – made me wonder why I was friends with her in the first place. And then I realized: I wasn’t her friend at all. We’d been in the same social circle of moms a few years earlier, before she’d moved away. We’d never been close and we were less than that now. Yet here we were, whatever semblance of a relationship we’d ever once had now reduced to me taking crap from her on Facebook. I scrolled over her profile picture and clicked “unfriend.” Oh, the sweet freedom of decluttering.

    I thought of that woman again recently, when a friend – a real one – mentioned that she’d found herself in a social media dilemma that was causing her true pain. Dolores [her name, like those of the other people quoted here, has been changed to protect her privacy] had been looking at an old school photo she’d been tagged in on Facebook, and there, in the comments, was the man who’d raped her. “I had almost posted something,” she said, “but then, there’s that asshole, close to me. Right there. There’s his ugly face and his whole happy life. I don’t want to see him smiling and acting normal. It scares me to think how many smiling normal men have a past of raping their dates.” She blocked the man to protect herself from seeing his posts, but then she began to wonder about their mutual friends, and what value some of those other old faces from her past really had in her life any more. She decided it was time for a sweep as well. She unfriended the person who’d posted the original photo too.

    In the early days of Facebook, it was easy – desirable even – to pick up friends with abandon. I remember my account back then as an empty home, and the impulse to furnish it was deep. I friended people I knew from other, similar online communities; I friended colleagues and old schoolmates and people I’d had an interesting conversation with that weekend at a party. Then a few simultaneous and unpleasant events happened in my on- and offline life. A person I’d crossed in an online community years before – and who’d taken great pleasure in abusing me there – found his way onto several lists of “mutual friends.” A person I’d been briefly acquainted with many years ago found me in a Facebook group for a common interest, and began harassing me with obsessive messages.

    Then I got cancer, and I decided that it was as good an excuse as any to make at least one place in my online life a little more private. I stopped – with only a few meaningful exceptions ever since — adding friends. And I became ruthless about purging people I didn’t have a strong enough connection to — especially those who posted quack science stuff, who were openly hateful of ideals I stand for, whose entire feeds were of a self-promotional “DO THIS FOR ME” nature, or who frankly abused their “Here’s another picture of what I’m eating right now” and “Here’s another picture of my pet” privileges. I had never had a particularly bloated friends list, but after my “Game of Thrones”-like cleansing, it became considerably sleeker. Sure, I could have just hidden the feeds of some of them, but what would have been the point? Why keep people in the attic of your online life, never to interact with them? Why not just tighten up and move on?

    Rachel, a law student, has a similar outlook. Three years ago, she cut her Facebook friend list right in half — from 1,200 to 600. As she puts it, “I was applying to law schools and just thinking more about my professional reputation. Not that there was anything horrible on my Facebook, but I wanted to control the number of people who had access to all that information about me. I also think part of my motivation was to spend less time looking at the profiles of people I didn’t really know… It was easy at first to go through and cut people I had never actually met, then people I had met once or twice several years before, but hadn’t talked to since. It got harder as I decided to cut people who were friends of friends, people I went to school with for many years, and people whose lives I was interested in following, but with whom I did not have a personal relationship. I think I decided to keep schoolmates based on our friendship at the time, not on how well we’ve kept in touch since. I’ll admit that I held on to a few people I barely know just because they’re fun to follow.”

    Yet Rachel and I seem to be unique. When I asked around recently about unfriending, I was surprised at how many people don’t do it. My writer friend Clark says, “I don’t unfriend. I put people on a restricted list and try to make sure my ‘public’ comments are PG instead of R. FB, for me, in large part is about promoting literary readings and events, so to unfriend someone is to chip away at the potential of my market. And I think unfriending goes against the Southern manners with which I was raised. Better,” he cracks, “to let the relationship die via slow, algorithmic atrophy.”

    Emmy similarly says, “I hide feeds now just because unfriending seems a little OFF WITH THEIR HEADS, which I know is stupid — there’s no implied social contract to stay ‘friends’ on social media — even if, in my case, it’s mostly business ‘friends,’ but I’m a wuss.” Alicia says, “In my experience, unfriending is like a shot across the bow, inciting threats, unanswerable injured relations, toxic amounts of ‘How could you?’” And Juliet adds, “It just seems cruel to unfriend someone, when they haven’t done anything specifically to me.”

    Then there are those who see unfriending as a last resort. Ed, an attorney, recalls, “The one that comes to mind is the guy who tried to explain that trans-vaginal ultrasound was in fact a medically useful procedure for women seeking abortions.” Carly admits, “I unfriended a guy who became a MRA. He posted a lot of anti-feminist BS, and so I pulled the plug. There are legitimate arguments to be made for men’s issues, but MRAs are a hate group and rape apologists. Life is too short.” Bella did it after a FB friend went on a selfies binge, explaining, “I felt like I was watching sadness in front of me.” And Joanne takes the dramatic types at their word, noting, “The ‘please unfriend me if” thing is sort of a golden opportunity to do so.”

    I still have a few people on my friends list I’m not really friends with, but the urgency I once felt to clean house has abated as my Facebook circle has grown smaller. I certainly know firsthand the ego sting that an unfriending can bring. It’s a decisive act, whereas most of the time in life it’s easier to quietly drift apart. But I also know that the simplicity of a small list of names is a joy that outweighs it. Now, I just try to, in the words of my friend Meg, “be proactive by not friending stupid people.” And my short list could always comfortably get even shorter. As my friend Susan puts it, “My feeling is that FB is purely recreational/personal and any aspect of it that makes me feel bad I am totally justified in eradicating.”

    Courtesy: Salon.com

     

  • Customs officers arrested for raping Facebook friend

    Two officers of the Nigerian Customs Service, Seme Border Command have been arrested for allegedly raping a 23-year-old lady.

    The suspects identified as Felola Uzezi and Mohammed Sanni, have already been transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, for further interrogation.

    The victim told policemen from Area K Police Command that she met one of the customs officers on Facebook and visited him after an invitation. The visit however turned nasty as her Facebook friend and his colleague allegedly raped her.

    It was gathered that the men were picked and quizzed by operatives from Area K Command from where they were transferred to SCID.

    The two men, attached to Gbaji Custom’s checkpoint were alleged to have raped the lady  at Limca Bus Stop area, along Badagry Expressway, home of Felola Uzezi.

    “I met Uzezi on Facebook and became friends with him. After a while, he invited me to his house. Uzezi invited Sanni over to his place when I came to visit him.

    “Uzezi asked me for sex, but I told him that I was menstruating. When his friend Sanni came, they raped me, ” the victim explained.

    The victim later reported  the rape to the police and both suspects were picked.

    Police who visited the scene of the crime, allegedly found blood stains on Uzezi’s bed and a boxer he gave the victim to wipe herself after the act.

    The National Public Relations Officers of the Nigerian Customs Service, Mr. Wale Adeniyi when contacted said he was  aware of the case but details according to him are still sketchy.

    “The Seme Command Comptroller has been notified and he is working with the police for a thorough investigation. We will await a formal report from the police to enable the Comptroller-General take appropriate action. While we await this, we must state that the Service frowns at such heinous crime and perpetrators if found guilty, will be dealt with.”

    Command spokesperson, Ngozi Braide, a Deputy Superintendent (DSP), confirmed the arrest but said that they did not meet on Facebook. She explained that they met at a location in the area.

    Braide said the matter would be transferred to the SCID and that investigation in ongoing to establish what really happened.

     

  • What kids do online

    What kids do online

    Nigeria’s telecoms revolution has brought about growth in the number of subscribers. It has also led to flooding of the market with cheap internet-enabled mobile phones. Parents buy their kids mobile phones, iPads and other electronic devices, oblivious of what they do with them. LUCAS AJANAKU reports that some of these kids are either posting embarrassing messages and goofy self-portraits on Facebook or doing it on Instagram.

    Thirty-four year-old Esther Daniel, mother of three, is a busy woman. She works with a private firm on Victoria Island and she lives in Egbeda, a Lagos suburb. Her husband is an Abuja-based civil servant while their three kids attend private schools in Abule-Odu. The eldest is a 10-year-old boy, who is in Junior Secondary School (JSS1).

    With the increasing dangers of keeping housemaids at home, she felt the best way to stay in touch with her kids is to buy a mobile phone for the eldest so that she and her husband could monitor their movement to and from school. To complete the communication circle, mummy also buys airtime on the phone so that when the kids are in need of anything, they could call either her or their father.

    She bought one of the cheap internet-enabled mobile phones for N2,500 for the boy. For long, the family stayed in touch happily and effortlessly.

    One weekend when everybody was at home, Mrs Daniel picked her son’s mobile phone, opened the message inbox and was shocked by what she saw. As soon as she clicked on the web browser, what opened was his son’s Facebook page. “I was shocked to discover that my son already had about 1000 friends on Facebook. I took my time to read some of his chats and was dumbfounded. My worry is the time he has the opportunity to stay on the internet and engage in all these frivolous chats. I seized the phone and called his school teacher to complain that the school management was not doing enough in monitoring what the kids do. I was shocked to discover later that the teacher I called is also one of my son’s friends on Facebook,” she said.

    The experience of Mrs Daniel is one out of many in the country. It is one of the many other sides of the telecoms revolution.

    The number of popular social media sites available on kids’ mobile devices has exploded in recent years with the smartest applications (apps) now enabling kids to chat informally with select groups of friends with ease and without being monitored by parents, care-givers, coaches and college administrators, who are frequent Facebook posters also.

    According to an online tech news platform, Balancing Act, many of these new mobile apps don’t require a cellphone or a credit card. There are free and can be used on popular portable devices such as the iPod Touch and Kindle Fire, as long as there’s a wireless internet connection.

    A non-profit, non-partisan research organisation that provides free data and analysis on the social media, Pew Research Centre’s Internet and American Life Project, says more than three-fourths of American teenagers have a cellphone and use online social networking sites such as Facebook. But educators and kids say there is plenty of evidence to suggest that Facebook for teenagers has become a bit like a school-sanctioned programme – a necessary rite of passage with plenty of adult onlookers –while apps, such as Snapchat and Kik Messenger are the much cooler after-party.

    Educators say they have seen kids use their mobile devices to circulate online videos of school drug searches to male students sharing nude pictures of their girlfriends. Most parents, they say, have no idea about this.

    Head, Science Department, Jofem Comprehensive College, Egbeda, Lagos, George Akpan, said he used to consider himself fairly tech savvy because he is frequently on Facebook, but was shocked to learn that his kid brothers could message their friends with Samsung Galaxy. His uncle shuts their home’s Wi-Fi after 9 p.m, but laments his uncle’s attempt to keep tabs on the kids’ online activity is not yielding any dividends.

    Mobile apps ‘refer to the software applications that can be downloaded to a mobile device through an online store such as Apple’s iTunes. According to the Federal Trade Commission, there are some 800,000 apps available through Apple and 700,000 apps on Google Play.’

    According to Balancing Act, among the most popular mobile apps among kids is Instagram, free software that digitally enhances photos and posts them to user’s account online. The photos can be shared on other social media sites such as Facebook, which bought Instagram last year.

    Then there’s Snapchat, among the top 10 free iPhone apps available. Coined by the media as the “sexting” app, Snapchat lets users send a text, photo or video that self-destructs within 10 seconds of being opened.

    Kik Messenger also allows unlimited texting for free and offers anonymity to its users. Able to run on an iPod Touch or Kindle Fire, Kik allows vague user names – for example, a nickname or a string of random digits – that won’t reveal a person’s real name or phone number.

    But as with anything online, each of these apps comes with serious caveats.

    Snapchat, for example, acknowledges on its Web page that its messages aren’t guaranteed to disappear: Anyone receiving a text or photo can use their 10 seconds to capture a “screenshot,” or photo of their device’s screen, and save that image to their phone. Video also can be downloaded, although Snapchat says it alerts senders when their data is saved.

    Instagram is considered pretty tame as long as kids adjust their privacy settings to limit who can see their photos and don’t post nudity, which could subject them to child pornography laws. But many parents, such as Mrs Daniel, don’t know their kids are on Instagram until there’s trouble – usually when kids post photos at parties, and other kids who aren’t invited see them.

    A career guidance counsellor at Jofem Comprehensive College, Lagos, Mr Fab Olawole, said parents often would hand their kids a mobile device without understanding what they can do with it. He estimated that even without the latest social media app, the average secondary school student probably transmits some 150 texts a day.

    “Some of the kids are so tech savvy that they explore areas where their parents never could imagined. A lot of them have fallen victims to cyber bullies while others have learned one bad habit or the other online.

    “While it is good to allow the kids to have early access to technology as demonstrated by the availability of computers in the school, it is the duty of all care givers to monitor what their kids do at home. At school, the teachers do the best they can but you will agree with me that the bulk of the job is at home because that is where the kids have freedom-most of them have their rooms fully equipped, where they could do what they like when their parents are asleep,” he said.

    Balancing Act reports that there are general security concerns too. A recent report by a cyberthreat research company, called F-Secure, found that some of the new social networking sites have become ripe targets for spreading malware and propagating scams.

    It said in January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States (US) arrested a 27-year-old man in Los Angeles who allegedly hacked into hundreds of social media and email accounts, including Facebook and Skype, and found naked photos and personal passwords that women had stored online. He used the naked photos to try to coerce women into disrobing for him via Skype and threatened to post their private photos to their Facebook accounts if they refused to comply, according to the indictment.

    Another important thing is that almost every mobile app available collects some kind of personal data, such as a person’s birth date or the location of their phones, and shares same information with third parties for marketing purposes. While a new regulation by the US Federal Trade Commission this year is aimed at keeping advertisers from tracking kids younger than 13, there is nothing near such regulation in Nigeria. Most social media apps require that a person promise to be at least 13 when they sign up, thereby exempting themselves from the tougher privacy restrictions.

    President, Nigeria Internet Group (NIG), Bayo Banjo said the internet has become a huge platform for criminals who take advantage of the anonymity it provide to perpetrate criminal activities. He said parents should warn their kids against providing information to strangers.

    He recalled that in years preceding the advent of the internet, parents always warned their kids against giving undue attention to strangers or people that are unknown to them. He urged parents to monitor what their kids do online.

    Some experts have also recommended the use of filters and blockers that would limit the sites kids are exposed to.

  • From me to my facebook friends

    Don’t end up with the dumb girl whose only contribution is to wait for the pay cheque

    To you young men who are yet to get married, don’t follow the footsteps of some brothers before you o. Because that woman is intelligent, hardworking, sophisticated and sociable you think she’ll make you feel inferior so you avoid marrying her. Don’t end up with the dumb girl who appears quiet and reserved. The only contributions she will make to your life is to wait for the pay cheque and kill you with no ideas even when your business needs a sharp brain to get it going.

    That social one will mix with the best brains and you will tap from that. She will add 2 plus 2 and your business gets 22. And the sophistication! People will respect you because they think to have married her, you must be rich.

    •42 Likes: Ebun Adebayo, Taofiq Ademola Mustapha, First Lady Chizzy Ibebuike Ada-Biafra and 39 others like this.

    •Hydee-id Idowu Bakare: This is good, however, love and personal affection must be established regardless of the background of the girl!

    Emmanuel Enitan Seun Adedokun: Gooooosh why is it that all your post just have to minister to me….thenks…Mummy G.O.

    Adeola Agoro: I have seen marriages with solid love crashing out of poverty and lukewarmness to matters of finances by the woman. You come home and bring a business idea – no contributions. You need instant cash to help secure a business – no assistance from her. Very soon, you will wonder if love is enough to keep you afloat. It’s so easy for a man to fall when the woman is empty.

    •Emmanuel Enitan Seun Adedokun: Jeeeeesus.. See how she talked Hydee-id Idowu Bakare’s opinion Wait…who is this lady called Adeola Agoro? Your approach to issues atimes makes me wonder…where you came from….

    Adetilayo Oridupa: Nothing explains it better. Another good the dumb girl does is using more children to tie down her man; God knows where that mentality comes from.

    Adeola Agoro: Proverbs 31:10-31:

    10 Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.

    11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

    12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

    13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

    14 She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

    15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

    16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

    17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

    18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

    19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

    20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

    21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

    22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

    23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

    24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

    25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

    26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

    27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

    28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

    29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

    30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

    31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

    •Adeola Agoro: Adetilayo Oridupa, I wonder o. Imagine getting pregnant every year and not giving the man enough space to enjoy the money he brings.

    Emmanuel Enitan Seun Adedokun: I said …Mummy G.O. Adeola Agoro..pls just note that I’m always good at the ushering unit and also girls coordinator. ..Lol.. Mon sere ni ooo

    Adeola Agoro: Emmmanuel Enitan Seun Adedokun, I’m just doing what God sends me to do. Islam is also clear on the kind of wife you should be seeking. The Prophet e said: “A woman may be married for four reasons: for her property, her status, her beauty, and her religion.

    Hydee-id Idowu Bakare: ‘Deola, haven’t you seen a man that married a rich lady, but because there’s no love in between the rich lady is dumped for a lady of choice….please don’t make women with money believe they can purchase husband!

    Adeola Agoro: Hydee-id-Idowu Bakare, I have said my own. Whichever marriage is bound to break up will find its way down the hill with or without money.

    Munir Etu: Spot on, my mistake initially but wiser now sister

    Balogun Danjuma OmoBaale DaleKatunsa: I still prefer the quiet and reserved… lobatan

    Kunle Bolarinwa: I need quiet and reserved one… Homely Woman… That’s my type….

    Adesoji Ogunkola: You are right ma

    Monzur Olohungbebe: It’s no all about money though I agree the woman must be able to complement the man positively

    David Ayodele Bolarinwa: Lovely piece here with thanks…however, being quiet or reserved is not equivalent to being dumb neither is being a social butterfly synonymous to being smart…they are all different qualities at different zonal classifications.

    Dupe Zeniat: Even though you’ re making sense Hajia but the ego in our men ‘ll not allow that, more so some men ‘ll prefer those ladies dat they ‘ll be able to toss around like coins.

    Abiodun Alaran:Men get it clear madam said intelligent and sophisticated woman

    •Adeola Agoro: My brothers, go and do your survey – most hardworking women may be shy, respectful and carry their husbands on their heads, but they’re not quiet and reserved. Quiet and reserved people cannot make it to board meetings neither can they survive the wuruwuru nature of the business world.

    Most times, those who claim to be quiet may actually, not have anything to say. Common Facebook, they don’t have friends because they don’t have nothing to post. So how can they advise you as a man and what ideas would they pass to their children?

    •Ayoola Adebowale: Well, you are right and you are wrong because some ladies are both introvert n extrovert…So are you saying the quiet ladies should get wild just because they want to make their husband rich?

    Adeola Agoro: Not being quiet and reserved does not mean wild. It means being friendly, accommodating and lively. I know what I’m talking about.

    Ayoola Adebowale: Now you are talking… you don’t have the right to say quiet people are dumb. It’s wrong

    Adeola Agoro: Ayoola Adebowale, I take your point.

    Ayoola Adebowale: Smiles…

    Omolara Oshodi Tolu: Very good point

    Idris Nasir: Hhmmmmmm!!!!!

    Kehinde Ayodele Olabintan John: God bless you for your super brain. Nice advice.

  • What makes you win the heart of your spouse – food, character or the sexual intimacy?

    •Matured audience… Rated R!!!! Tayo Adedeji-Phillips asked this question via Facebook and here are the responses.What do you think?

    •Folake Jubril: Both and more, your character speaks volume regardless of whether you are good in the first two. Imagine having a nagging partner who can cook and good in intimacy, I’d rather you spend your money on mamaput than living wit a crazy spouse.

    •Bode Adebola Asake Flakky Twinkles: Nice expression

    •Tayo Adedeji: Phillips Folake Jubril , well said paa! Character! Character!! Character!!!

    •Tayo Adedeji-Phillips: We also have to remember that some spouses are blessed with good character and equally good in cooking with seasoning but they have a very low ‘libido’ for sexual intimacy. So how do you compensate such people, Bode Adebola Asake and Folake Jubril ?

    •Bode Adebola Asake: There so many factors that lead to low libido…which I suggest should be ironed out between spouses…

    •Toyin Folly: Both ni o…..

    •Tayo Adedeji-Phillips: Stress and lack of sufficient estrogen may also be a factor including death of a loved one and depression.

    •Aji Amachree Ihetu: This question isn’t for women I guess?

    Tayo Adedeji-Phillips: Spouse!

    •Aji Amachree Ihetu: Ok. I think it is a combination of good food, crazy sex, intelligent conversations and a peaceful and clean home. That’s what keeps him. What keeps me is simply the Benjamins. Mmmmmm, maybe throw in security and peace.

    •Tayo Adedeji-Phillips: I think you’ve just nailed my own preference as a guy…intelligent conversations! Thus, such conversation will transit to good intimacy because it arouses curiosity. Nice one Aji Amachree Ihetu .

    •Folake Jubril Tayo Adedeji:-Phillips on that level, all they need do is teach one another what to do, visit a sex therapist, sometimes lack of sexual libido could be a medical situation…

    •Tayo Adedeji:-Phillips It may also be genetics…

    •Rele Abudu: All of the above….but character and the koko is very ……very…..very….very…..key gan ni.

    •Rele Abudu: Me like character, intelligence, the koko, education and cleanliness.

    •Adeola Agoro: Folake Jubril. Right on point.

  • Dangote is world’s 23rd richest

    Dangote is world’s 23rd richest

    The ranks of the world’s billionaires continue to scale new heights–and stretch to new corners of the world. Forbes global wealth team found 1,645 billionaires with an aggregate net worth of $6.4 trillion, up from $5.4 trillion a year ago. The magazine unearthed a record 268 new ten-figure fortunes, including 42 new women billionaires, another record. In total, there are 172 women on the list, more than ever before and up from 138 last year.

    Microsoft founder Bill Gates is back on top after a four-year hiatus, reclaiming the title of world’s richest person from telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, who ranked No. 1 for the past four years.

    Also for the first time, an African, Aliko Dangote of Nigeria, breaks into the top 25. Worth $25 billion, he moves up 20 spots.

    Gates, whose fortune rose by $9 billion in the past year, has held the top spot for 15 of the past 20 years. Spanish clothing retailer Amancio Ortega (best known for the Zara fashion chain) retains the No. 3 spot for the second year in a row, extending his lead over Warren Buffett, who is again No. 4. American gambling tycoon Sheldon Adelson, who added $11.5 billion to his pile, makes it back into the top ten for the first time since 2007. Another first: A record net worth of $31 billion was needed to make the top 20, up from $23 billion last year.

    The year’s biggest dollar gainer was Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, whose fortune jumped $15.2 billion, to $28.5 billion, as shares of his social network soared. Tech, and more specifically Facebook, helped propel numerous fortunes lately. The company’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, joins the ranks for the first time, as does Facebook’s longtime vice president Jeff Rothschild. Also, thanks to a $19 billion deal (including restricted stock) with Facebook, WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton join the ranks of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest for the first time. They are 4 of 26 newcomers whose fortunes come from technology, 10 of whom are American, including Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Workday cofounder Aneel Bhusri.

    Thanks to the tech boom, and strong stock market, the U.S. once again leads the world with 492 billionaires, followed by China with 152 and Russia with 111. By region, Europe boasted the most billionaires outside the US, with 468 in total, closely followed by Asia, which had 444 billionaires.

    The list suggested that wealth was spreading, with four new countries featuring for the first time – Algeria, Lithuania, Tanzania and Uganda.

     

  • Nigeria at war with Boko Haram – Presidency

    Nigeria at war with Boko Haram – Presidency

    The Presidency on Friday said the country was at war with Boko Haram, apparently backing off previous claims that the sect members were on the run and desperate.

    President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has been fiercely criticised over its handling of the conflict, both for its inability to stop massive attacks on defenceless civilians and for what some have described as mixed and contradictory messages on the severity of the crisis.

    Jonathan has termed the ongoing military offensive in Boko Haram’s northeastern stronghold a success and maintained that normality will be restored to the embattled region by May.

    Presidential spokesman, Doyin Okupe, told the Channels television that the Boko Haram conflict was a “war situation.”

    “We are dealing with a very, very serious enemy,” AFP quoted Okupe as saying on Channels TV.

    “We are engaged in a war that has been internationalised,” he added in an apparent reference to Boko Haram’s reported but unconfirmed presence in neighbouring countries like Cameroon.

    The conflict has killed thousands since 2009 but many argue the plight of civilians in the northeast has worsened since the military began its operation in May.

    Since then, nearly 300,000 people have been displaced in the region, according to the United Nations, and more than 1,500 people killed, according to the UN and figures compiled by AFP.

    “It is very difficult, very costly in terms of lives lost. But we will overcome,” Okupe said. “We are in the dying phase of this insurgency.”

    The defence ministry on Thursday said the insurgents were “desperate” to escape Nigeria because of military pressure and would be “degraded towards elimination shortly.”

     

  • Beware of Facebook fraud

    Beware of Facebook fraud

    My in-depth knowledge of online marketing has put me ahead of others on how Internet fraud works. Let me stick to facebook posts and pages. You launch your facebook account and certain pages are suggested for you to like. Well, it costs you nothing, you like at will.

    The trend now, which Nigerians easily fall prey to, is to cook up human interest stories that would attract their emotions. They take advantage of your over religiosity to type ‘amen’ as comments under make believe stories.

    I do not know about other countries, but I know Nigeria is one of the most religious countries. We fall victim to fake clerics. They enjoy while we endure. They eat what they want while we eat what we need. We rely so much on whatever the pastor says. We pressure prophets to prophesy. When God has not said a thing, the prophet would have no choice but to spew something in order to save his ‘job’. I digressed.

    Back to the subject matter, you would see a page whose name suggests obscenity suddenly becoming prayer warrior overnight. I see Nigerians, even my ignorant friends typing amen, liking and sharing not knowing they are making money for others. They get paid based on the number of likes, shares and comments. If somebody needs your prayer, you don’t need to type it.

    Yes, there are a couple of pages with names of clerics, they pray too and people of course type amen too. You would see thousands of comments, the mugus keep typing amen, dancing to the tune of the business man at the other end. They smile to the bank, while you waste your precious time and sometimes money to type yeye amen.

    They most times give you conditions to claim the ‘prayer’ and you want to make sure you meet the criteria. Uhmm. I wish you were like me o. It’s very simple; all I need to do is say amen I do not need to type it. My God can hear me even when I have not uttered a word.

    Among other sinister motives, the perpetrators use the data of those who like their page and comment for other related frauds. Sometimes, your account may be hacked or cloned.

    It is time for you to unlike those pages that are contributing nothing to your life positively. Like pages that can make good impacts on your life. Pages you can acquire knowledge, you really do not need all this prayer warriors. You can pray on your own.

    Stop being so easy to dissuade, haba! Of course, women are more prone to this than men for they are more religious and emotional but few men who could discern the tactics know their typing AMEN or RIP may not change anything.

    Read between the lines, I don’t doubt the power of faith but most of those pages were set up solely for business purpose and dastardly acts. Be wise!