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If you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk. Tuco - in the Good, the Bad and the ugly

Labee:
Oga no scare the guy like that nah (per the bolded above). Daily demurrage for terminal TICT 2nd or even Grimaldi na 8,800 naira per day for the first period. He appears to be in the last period. Hence his demurrage na N12,600 per day. You forgot to mention, releasing officer money. DC Money, CIU money, OC Gate money, even the agencies money (Police/anti bomb, SS, NDLEA, ), even valuation get money. This container should cost him N1,550,000 million to clear (assuming it is loaded with goods. However, if the container only contain just the 3 cars, then he should be paying N1,400,000 million naira. Any regulatory body can easily place alert on the system. For instance, the one that I cleared in December had an alert initiated by port CID. They claimed that they got information from New York that I had furniture in my container. I just laughed and gave them 10,000 (ten thousand naira), and they released the alert immediately

You mean, you have to go through all these to clear your goods at the port?

correctyourself:
Call 070........... for assistance and follow up

Please, the man is serious.

Please read and guard your phone all iPhone 6 users to.

‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6

It’s the message that spells doom and will render your handset worthless if it’s been repaired by a third party. But there’s no warning and no fix

 Happy days? The first customer of Apple’s iPhone 6 … but users have since reported problems with the mysterious ‘error 53’ message. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images

Miles Brignall

Friday 5 February 2016 06.59 GMT

Thousands of iPhone 6 users claim they have been left holding almost worthless phones because Apple’s latest operating system permanently disables the handset if it detects that a repair has been carried out by a non-Apple technician.

Relatively few people outside the tech world are aware of the so-called “error 53” problem, but if it happens to you you’ll know about it. And according to one specialist journalist, it “will kill your iPhone”.

The issue appears to affect handsets where the home button, which has touch ID fingerprint recognition built-in, has been repaired by a “non-official” company or individual. It has also reportedly affected customers whose phone has been damaged but who have been able to carry on using it without the need for a repair.

 

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But the problem only comes to light when the latest version of Apple’s iPhone software, iOS 9, is installed. Indeed, the phone may have been working perfectly for weeks or months since a repair or being damaged.

After installation a growing number of people have watched in horror as their phone, which may well have cost them £500-plus, is rendered useless. Any photos or other data held on the handset is lost – and irretrievable.


Tech experts claim Apple knows all about the problem but has done nothing to warn users that their phone will be “bricked” (ie, rendered as technologically useful as a brick) if they install the iOS upgrade.

Freelance photographer and self-confessed Apple addict Antonio Olmos says this happened to his phone a few weeks ago after he upgraded his software. Olmos had previously had his handset repaired while on an assignment for the Guardian in Macedonia. “I was in the Balkans covering the refugee crisis in September when I dropped my phone. Because I desperately needed it for work I got it fixed at a local shop, as there are no Apple stores in Macedonia. They repaired the screen and home button, and it worked perfectly.”

 No choice: journalist Antonio Olmos dropped his iPhone while covering the refugee crisis and had to use a local repair shop

He says he thought no more about it, until he was sent the standard notification by Apple inviting him to install the latest software. He accepted the upgrade, but within seconds the phone was displaying “error 53” and was, in effect, dead.


When Olmos, who says he has spent thousands of pounds on Apple products over the years, took it to an Apple store in London, staff told him there was nothing they could do, and that his phone was now junk. He had to pay £270 for a replacement and is furious.

“The whole thing is extraordinary. How can a company deliberately make their own products useless with an upgrade and not warn their own customers about it? Outside of the big industrialised nations, Apple stores are few and far between, and damaged phones can only be brought back to life by small third-party repairers.

“I am not even sure these third-party outfits even know this is a potential problem,” he says.

Olmos is far from the only one affected. If you Google “iPhone 6” and “error 53” you will find no shortage of people reporting that they have been left with a phone that now only functions as a very expensive paperweight.

How can a company deliberately make its own product useless with an upgrade, and not warn customers about it?

Antonio Olmos

Posting a message on an Apple Support Communities forum on 31 December, “Arjunthebuster” is typical. He/she says they bought their iPhone 6 in January 2015 in Dubai, and dropped it the following month causing a small amount of damage.

They carried on using the phone, but when they tried to install iOS 9 in November “error 53” popped up. “The error hasn’t occurred because I broke my phone (it was working fine for 10 months). I lost all my data because of this error. I don’t want Apple to fix my screen or anything! I just want them to fix the ‘error 53’ so I can use my phone, but they won’t!”

Could Apple’s move, which appears to be designed to squeeze out independent repairers, contravene competition rules? Car manufacturers, for example, are not allowed to insist that buyers only get their car serviced by them.

Apple charges £236 for a repair to the home button on an iPhone 6 in the UK, while an independent repairer would demand a fraction of that.


 

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California-based tech expert Kyle Wiens, who runs the iFixit website, says this is a major issue. “The ‘error 53’ page on our website has had more than 183,000 hits, suggesting this is a big problem for Apple users,” he told Guardian Money. “The problem occurs if the repairer changes the home button or the cable. Following the software upgrade the phone in effect checks to make sure it is still using the original components, and if it isn’t, it simply locks out the phone. There is no warning, and there’s no way that I know of to bring it back to life.”

He says it is unclear whether this is a deliberate move to force anyone who drops their phone to use Apple for a repair. “All along, Apple’s view is that it does not want third parties carrying out repairs to its products, and this looks like an obvious extension of that,” he says. “What it should do is allow its customers to recalibrate their phone after a repair. Only when there is a huge outcry about this problem will it do something.”

The Daily Dot website features an article by tech writer Mike Wehner headlined “Error 53 will kill your iPhone and no one knows what it is”. He relates how his own iPhone 6 Plus was left “effectively dead to the world”.

Only when there is a huge outcry about this problem will Apple do something

Kyle Wiens

Meanwhile, an article by tech writer Reuben Esparza, published in November by iCracked, a phone repair service, states: “When pressed for more information about the error, few, if any Apple employees could offer an explanation. There was no part they would replace, no software fix, and no way to access the phone’s memory. The fix was a new iPhone.” It continues: “Though still largely a mystery to most, we now know that error 53 is the result of a hardware failure somewhere within the home button assembly.”

A spokeswoman for Apple told Money (get ready for a jargon overload): “We protect fingerprint data using a secure enclave, which is uniquely paired to the touch ID sensor. When iPhone is serviced by an authorised Apple service provider or Apple retail store for changes that affect the touch ID sensor, the pairing is re-validated. This check ensures the device and the iOS features related to touch ID remain secure. Without this unique pairing, a malicious touch ID sensor could be substituted, thereby gaining access to the secure enclave. When iOS detects that the pairing fails, touch ID, including Apple Pay, is disabled so the device remains secure.”

She adds: “When an iPhone is serviced by an unauthorised repair provider, faulty screens or other invalid components that affect the touch ID sensor could cause the check to fail if the pairing cannot be validated. With a subsequent update or restore, additional security checks result in an ‘error 53’ being displayed … If a customer encounters an unrecoverable error 53, we recommend contacting Apple support.”

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair?CMP=fb_gu

Not bad. But, is not advisable when thinking of marriage.
Just love and be fond of and do things for her for the sake of your love that she resembles.

She didn't touch the part of her defence that is needed. Rume, did you snatch your friend's love from her, or not? Are you claiming that they were never in any committed relationship before you met him?

Leyqute:
This is false. Where is the logo of the car? That's the only proof. It's not about being a THomas but seeing is believing.

With the false information being peddled around the internet nowadays, the blogger and the reader ought to have done the right thing by capturing the front of the car. Sorry, this is false until evidence is tendered.

Shikena.

Your last line just destroyed your good writeup. I am also looking for the logo. But to label the news false is going too far.

BUTCHCASSIDY:
My only beef with the Innoson vehicle is their logo
I mean they can do waay better. Get some guys in yaba tech or Nsukka. make it a design competition or something... winner gets a cash prize. surely Mazi Innoson cant be that stingy.

Exactly. I don't like their logo.

Marxxx:
davide470 about six years ago when I got to this stage, I was confirmed by an Indian. We were 18 only 3 were picked. To be candid if I asked them the questions that Indian man asked me six years ago I am very sure none will scale through. Your degree (1.1, 2.1) shows you are capable of learning, But it doesn't show your speed or rate of learning. We deal with very complex financial theories. Moreover first class is as common as clay around here. Trainees are very expensive to maintain. So when they under perform...your decision making skill will be questioned...Arithmetic (Numerical skill) determines alot. Sometimes you get incomplete data from a client and you are supposed to advise them based on the data. They are paying you millions for that, do you tell them incomplete data? You reason out the rest from God knows where....so I was fair enough...

People are lashing at you because of your testimony.
My question for you is : would something have gone terribly wrong if you had delayed the comfirmation till you are ready?

Punch newspaper

Exporters lose N78bn to dollar restriction, others

February 2, 2016

Anna Okon

The ongoing conflict between stakeholders and the Central Bank of Nigeria over the export repatriation policy, which came into force in February 2015, has forced some non-oil exporters to abandon the sector, while others have gone underground to carry out informal exports, our correspondent has gathered.

The CBN had in a circular signed by its Director, Trade and Exchange Department, Olakanmi Gbadamosi, on February 19, 2015, mandated all authorised dealers to repatriate the proceeds of oil and non-oil exports into the export proceeds domiciliary accounts of the respective exporters.

The circular stipulated 90 days for the repatriation of the oil export proceeds and 180 days for non-oil export proceeds.

According to the Coordinator, Agribusiness, Community of Agricultural Stakeholders of Nigeria, Mr. Sotonye Anga, the policy operates in such a way that exporters remit dollars to the government and get paid in naira at the official exchange rate of N199/dollar.

“We pay dollars into the domiciliary accounts and when it is time to withdraw, they pay us in naira at the official exchange rate,” Anga said.

The exporters had immediately after it came out opposed the policy, maintaining that it was not good for the economy and not in tandem with the transformation agenda of the Federal Government.

Our correspondent gathered that the situation had led to a continued drop in revenue from the non-oil sector.

According to the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, earnings from the sector dropped by N52.2bn in the second quarter of 2015 from N130.4bn recorded in the second quarter of 2014 (a 39.25 per cent decrease).

The CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, had earlier indicated that Nigeria recorded a decline of $6.14bn (N1.2tn) in non-oil export receipts from $10.53bn in 2014 to $4.39bn in 2015.

A director in the office of the Chief Executive Officer, NEPC, Mr. Olajide Ibrahim, confirmed that the export proceeds repatriation policy was having unintended effects and that the CBN was aware that the inflow of forex into the country was at its lowest in recent times.

Anga said the reason why stakeholders were frustrated with the policy was that while it had forced local exporters to trade their dollars at the official exchange rate of N199; people who were coming into Nigeria from other countries were exchanging their dollar at the parallel market at the rate of N300 or more.

“These people (foreign buyers) buy produce from the same market and farms as the local exporters, and they already have advantage since they exchange their dollar for N300. Thus, for every dollar the foreign buyer spends buying produce, the local exporter stands to lose N101 since the produce is sold at the parallel market rate,” he explained.

Operators said the situation was compounded by commodity prices in the Nigerian market, which had continued to rise even though prices in the global market were falling.

The National President, Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria, Dr. Victor Iyama, said cocoa was currently selling at N800,000 per metric tonne or $2,900. “Multiply that by N199 and see if the exporter is making a gain or loss,” he said.

Iyama insisted that the government could not grow exports with the policy, adding that the sector should be liberalised and that exporters should be allowed unfettered access to their earnings, adding that if the sector was liberalised, Nigeria would be able to realise about $300bn annually from it.

“This form of restriction was in place before former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the then CBN Governor, Charles Soludo, abolished it and liberalised the sector in 2006. They observed that the policy was ruining exports and the government was losing revenue from the non-oil export sector. Prior to 2006, the inflow of foreign exchange into non-oil export was less than $500m, but between 2006 and 2015, it increased to about $4bn,” he said.

The Director-General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Muda Yusuf, agrees with the operators and described the policy as a disincentive to exporters.

Yusuf said there was a need to review the policy and allow exporters unfettered access to their export proceeds so that they could take advantage of the depreciation in the value of the local currency to their benefit.

Asked if there was a link between the low inflow of forex into the economy and the policy, Yusuf said the CBN’s approach to the forex situation had created problems for everybody, including the exporters.

“The entire approach of the CBN to the forex situation is creating problems for everybody, because the policy is not encouraging the inflow of forex,” he stated.

The Commissioner for Economic Development, Akwa Ibom State, Dr. Emmanuel Onwioduokit, faulted the CBN’s approach, noting that it was what was used in the 1980s, which did not work.

Onwioduokit, who was an economic analyst with the CBN before his appointment as a commissioner, said the country was only going to end up losing all the money it was trying to preserve with the kind of policies that the central bank was rolling out to conserve forex.

The commissioner said exporters should be allowed to buy and sell at whatever price they deemed fit since there was a restriction on the allocation of foreign exchange to people at the official window and since the exchange rate was unstable.

“Every other price is dictated by the parallel market and people selling produce will always quote their prices to reflect what is being sold at the parallel market. The currency is not stable, you may buy something today and tomorrow when you go back, the price has increased,” he stated.

A professor of Economics and Director, Centre for Continuing Education, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Sheriffdeen Tella, said nothing was wrong with the policy as long as exporters were allowed to withdraw their money in foreign currencies.

He added that the exporters were complaining because there was a widening gap between the parallel market and the official exchange rate.

Reacting, the Director, Corporate Communications, CBN, Mr. Ibrahim Mu’azu, said, “Exports are done through the interbank market and not through the parallel market. This is why the exchange rate can’t be based on the parallel market rate.

“Exporters are supposed to repatriate their proceeds through the banks that financed the exports. But there was a time some exporters were diverting the export proceeds, rather than repatriate them.”

But Iyama faulted Muazu’s assertion, noting that the interbank market did not operate in farms where people go to buy produce. “What do farmers know about the interbank market?” he asked.

He also disagreed with the CBN spokesperson about his claim that the exporters were supposed to repatriate the proceeds through the banks that financed the exports, noting that not all exporters were financed by the banks.


http://www.punchng.com/exporters-lose-n78bn-to-dollar-restriction-others/

Poseidon000:
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Once gave my mumu bottom lyk this to the only woman I ever loved. What did she do?

She used the love to spit on my face and told me,"fvck your self" while pretending to feel same way.

This is a woman I loved with every muscle and nerve in me. ditched numerous ladies on my neck for her, and treated her lyk a queen, did all the foolish things people do for love, just lyk the above depicted.

What did I get? I got a terrible heartbreak, the type of pain I have never felt all my entire life.

The bitch was screwing a guy she claimed to be a broda. I mean,blood brda and I was oblivious of the fvck going on,cos I took permission from the suppose brda(my childhood friend) to date his sister, thinking that they're real blood relative.

I was still on my mumu mode, going to get her a gift for her birthday, when I noticed the junior brda of my friend who accompanied me. Keep insisting I don't get her a gold jewelry, he insisted i get a cheap gift for her and I was lyk dude "what's your fvcking prblm", Is there something you are not telling me

That was when the dude opened up on how his conscience wouldn't allow him to see me decieved, and how his bro was screwing my one and only love at night in their room..lol. Man dun suffer.

I was ineffably infuriated, but managed to give my sis, all I already bought for her. That was how I gave the custody of my mumu bottom to my family.

I can't do the depicted bullshitt for anyone in the name of love. Women don't appreciate sincerity and men who treat them lyk queen. They want baddass motherfucker coded .
Now, we run show with full sense on play, and don't give a fvck.
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You are not alone, Bro. Especially Nigerian girls that don't have principles. They are like our politicians.

vizkiz:
yeah, it might probably work for other girls outside Nigeria. Treat a Nigerian chick that way and she will still furck some other nigga treating her like a biitch. #fact

You don't need a prophet to tell you that. Nigerian girls are not humble.

PHEMIEY:
I pity u...she will fancy some other guy treating her like a (sub) normal girl

Exactly. Not that treating her like in the above image is wrong. The problem is that she won't appreciate it.

charix:
It has a potential to make more money than LIB, not that it actually does.

Exactly.

udokpuenyi:
I laff sotee, i dont know when i touch my landlady daughter for bombom lol

Then we will add you to number six :
6. Udokpuenyigate - how Udokpuenyi molested his landlady's daughter, who is a minor.

PrinceAlex001:
lemme guess, the company is at VI? Along Bishop Aboyade Close?

How did you know? You can relate with the story. Abi?

If he tries to rape her in the office - which I doubt make noise like made, he has more to loose.

I will like you to do the above without minding the consequences. If he tries to rape you at his office, yell with all your strength.

Fight and fight and fight! That is, if his advances are not your way of life.
But if you are so inclined, then nothing to offer you.
Mind you, after sleeping with you, he would still use you as a reference -of the kind of people he has slept with.

Solozzo:
Arabic is a beautiful language. The Arabs gave us the numerals(1,2, 3......... Etc ) as well as the concept of zero as a number. They named many stars in the heavens. And the invention of hospitals too!!

Every language is beautiful. But forcing another foreign language on us is not keeping with the administration's look-inward policy. Instead of forcing the French language on us, let the government enforce Nigerian languages, while doing everything to encourage the study and learning of French by incentives.

great664:
I feel you Sir, Nigerian stupidness just tire me , and the problem is there is no WAY to survive it cuz the policy makers are the most consumer of foreign product so any policy in banning them will be shooting themselves so it won't work, do You expect the President, senators, Reps even LG chairman to withdraw their children abroad to school in Nigeria? No way so they will surely frown in such policies..

The only way we can survive it a little is if the Govt can Totally close the Ports and ban everything we import, it will be a hard decision but trust me Nigerians will surely survive the hardship for months and withing months alternatives will be put in place , u trust naija for that..

Government should Ban everything m

Your view may be good. But, have you considered what will happen if other nations ban Nigerian goods?
Instead of total ban on importation, let us hasten the mining of solid minerals, and then support farmers to produce cash crops. Then, let there be partial ban -affecting only those commodities that we can produce.

I have observed that the content of Bella Naija are far richer than those of Linda Ikeji blog. I don't know whether any other person has observed this.

A great burden and suffering, it is to him.

This article is from the UK Daily Mail.
A man from Bangladesh is suffering from a rare
Disease that makes tree-like roots to grow at his hands and feet.



The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, suffers from a rare skin disorder known as Epidermodysplasia VerruciformisCondition means that wart-like lesions, resembling tree branches and bark, grow from his hands and feet  Medics have now come together to discuss treatment - seven years after he began suffering from the disorder  

By KATIE LOUISE DAVIES FOR MAILONLINE


A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. 

Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. 

Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts. 

Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, in Bangladesh, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia verruciformis, where tree-lie roots grow from his hands 

The rare inherited skin disorder means gnarled growths sprout from his hands and feet. Medics will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts in Bangladesh.

Mr Bajandar sits on his bad at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as medics come together to discuss possible treatments for him.

The skin condition, which is in inherited, cases wart-like lesions on the body. The lesions are pictured on Mr Bajandar's feet above 

WHAT IS EPIDERMODYSPLASIA VERRUCIFORMIS?

Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV) is a rare and inherited skin disorder which creates wart-like lesions anywhere on the body. 

The condition is caused by infection with the human papillomavirus and can create widespread skin eruptions, including wartlike lesions and reddish-brown pigmented plaques. 

In order to inherit the disease two abnormal EV genes, one from each parent, must be present. No serious treatment against EV has been found, yet several treatments have been suggested. 

Notable cases include a Romanian man named Ion Toader who was diagnosed with the condition in March 2007, and the Dede Koswara, from Indonesia.  

Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. 

On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. 

According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. 

According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. 

In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. 

An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. 

The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.

He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. 

At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. 

Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. 

But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. 



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3424150/Bangladeshi-man-suffers-rare-condition-causes-tree-like-roots-grow-hands-feet.html


Such a pathetic story.

islandmoon:
that was a man who didnt pay salaries but instead preferred to use the little that belong to the poor for Arms deals, sharing it for dasuki, obanikoro and others!! OP, Obasanjo is known as a father in Africa anyday anytime! and we can only be sure of your claim after jonathan has stepped out to talk about arms deal

Is he your father? Are you proud of him?

Obviously, she was interested in you all along but chose to approach it calmly

conversant:
since Oshiomole left,NLC has been a scam.Bt the matter of electricity hike is rediculouse and uncalled for,with the current economic recession.

You better rephrase it to : since Oshiomole left NLC that we know he is a scam.

One would have thought that with a new party in power, that the National assembly can cut down on their budget. But that's where they have agreement.