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That's very lovely. I really like this. And this obviously didn't make front page since 2007, considering the few comments.

NICE TO HAVE A HISTORIAN IN OUR MIDST I chatted with a young American lady, she told me her mum is a Nurse n she wished to study photography....I was dazed n asked her y not medicine or health related courses or lucrative course? She said she will be happy to be a photographer..... Its this country that makes things to turn upside down, no matter ur course, be happy,be the best n make the best out of it.
I'm sure u'll be sadden when u see some barristers after years still suffering.
I STUDIED HISTORY, n I'm so proud to be a HISTORIAN[/quote]

ON POINT, MY DEAR!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INSIGHT!

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A CASE OF SOMEONE THAT IS SUICIDAL HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU AND ALL YOU CAN SAY IS "NA WETIN THE GAL FIND NA IM SHE C NA"
IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER THE OP, JUST GO TO ANOTHER POST, PLEASE

This testimony/report can be of help to so many frustrated graduates,if only they can look within.For, said The Lord Jesus Christ, "The kingdom of God is within you". Please, read on!

When you have a Harvard degree in accounting and finance, you would think it would be a cakewalk to find a job on Wall Street.

That wasn't the case for Daniel Saks, the 29-year-old cofounder and co-CEO of AppDirect, a cloud marketplace and management platform.

When Saks got his master's degree from the Harvard Extension School in 2009, he tried to get a job at a bank like Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley, but he never received an offer. It was the recession, and jobs weren't opening up.

Things were starting to look bleak. Saks' only work experience at the time was an unpaid summer internship at a small firm in San Francisco. Worse, his family’s 100-year-old furniture business had just shut down because of the recession.

"Life was pretty grim," Saks tells Business Insider.

With no job and his family business going under, Saks needed time to clear his mind. He decided to go on a trip to see his old family friend Nicolas Desmarais, who was in San Francisco doing consulting work at Bain & Co.

At about that time, Saks was also starting to think about launching his own business. He always admired his father's entrepreneurial spirit and felt as if running a business was in the family. He just couldn't figure out what exactly he wanted to do.

Desmarais at the time had large tech-company clients who were looking for ways to upgrade their infrastructure and cloud offerings. So he was aware of the industry's shift to cloud software, or software offered through the internet. And as Saks bounced around ideas with Desmarais, it became clear that if he were going to start a company, it had to be in cloud software.

"We realized cloud computing could completely change the way businesses operate," Saks says. "It could have even saved my family's business."

Saks spent the next five months finalizing his business plan. He also persuaded Desmarais to quit his job to work full time on the new startup. Desmarais' mom was disappointed that he was leaving his lucrative consulting gig, but the two went on to cofound AppDirect in 2009.

AppDirect is now the backend software powering the marketplaces of many companies. It basically builds an app store for its clients, much like iTunes or Google Play, but only for business apps. It provides a white-label marketplace for companies like Samsung or Rackspace, so those companies could rebrand it as their own marketplace. For example, Samsung has its own Samsung KNOX marketplace, and Rackspace runs its own Rackspace Marketplace, where apps optimized for their respective platforms are sold to clients. Both marketplaces use AppDirect's technology.

The idea of AppDirect may sound simple, but companies have to spend a lot of resources to build up app stores on their own. Although some companies like Salesforce have the capacity to build their own, many businesses prefer outsourcing to companies like AppDirect. It also gives AppDirect's clients the ability to curate and monitor the apps sold on their marketplaces, giving complete transparency over use of the apps.

The business has been doing quite well. More than 20 million people are using AppDirect's service so far, including employees at big enterprises like Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, and ADP. Its revenue has been doubling for the fourth straight year and reached $18 million last year.

On Wednesday, it announced another round of funding at $50 million from investors including Peter Thiel and Ajay Royan's growth-stage venture capital fund Mithril Capital Management. Saks told us the company was valued at roughly $600 million, double its valuation from last year.

"AppDirect opened a new market for software makers by helping small businesses find software and use it well," Thiel said in a statement.

Saks says AppDirect expects to continue doubling in size (both in revenue and employees) in the foreseeable future. It already has offices in San Francisco, Munich, London, and Montreal, but Saks plans to keep expanding with the new funding.

Desmarais' mom is also convinced. After AppDirect signed on Bell Canada, one of the biggest companies in Canada, she told him, "If you signed on Bell Canada, then sure you can go start this business."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/appdirect-raises-50-million-from-peter-thiel-2015-2#ixzz3RmBWW7l1

Here are a few things to learn from the life of a young female billionaire who dropped out of school to start her own company.
Please, read own,

Elizabeth Holmes is rich.

Super rich.

As the founder and CEO of Theranos, a biotech blood-testing company, 31-year-old Holmes is the youngest self-made female billionaire in America.

In 2003, she founded her company with the notion that you could test blood for various health issues through a fingerstick rather than by drawing vials' worth of blood.

More than a decade later, and with a partnership with Walgreens, Holmes' Palo Alto–based business is flourishing.

Here are 10 facts about Elizabeth and her remarkable venture.

1. She dropped out of college. Elizabeth Holmes left Stanford University when she was 19 years old with the intention of starting her own company. She was studying chemical engineering.

2. Her parents' resumes are equally impressive. Her father, Christian Holmes IV, reportedly held "several executive positions" with The United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Her mother, Noel, worked as a foreign-policy and defense aide on Capitol Hill.

3. She hates needles. She told CNN Money in 2014, "I really believe that if we were from another planet and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one."

4. She has retained more than half the stock in her company. Smart cookie.

5. She can quote Jane Austen by heart. But she says she doesn't have time to read much anymore.

6. She studied three years of college-level Mandarin while in high school. Holmes reportedly called Stanford admissions repeatedly when she was a high-school sophomore, only to be told they didn't accept high-school students. She persisted until the head of the department agreed to test her fluency. She was accepted right away.

7. One of her former Stanford professors now works at Theranos full time. When Holmes told Channing Robertson, a dean at the engineering school, that she was leaving Stanford to start her own company, she offered to make him her first board member. He also introduced Holmes to viable venture capitalists.

8. Her parents allowed her to use her tuition money to start her company. She had essentially stopped going to classes because she was working on her company anyway.

9. Her company's current board of directors has no women. But she says that she "qualifies." (She is cited as chairman.)

10. Her net worth is estimated at $4.5 billion.

Read more: https://www.dailyworth.com/posts/3309-10-fast-facts-about-elizabeth-holmes-of-theranos#ixzz3RBxCzT4Z

http://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-to-know-about-americas-youngest-female-billionaire-2015-2?utm_content=buffer7d0b9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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EVERYBODY IS ENTITLED TO HIS OPINION. THAT SAID, THEIR OPINION DOES NOT CHANGE ANYTHING. BUT LET ME REMIND YOU ALL NAIRALANDERS, IF BUHARI COMES TO POWER, ANY NEGATIVE CRITICISM OR POST AGAINST HIM IN ANY BLOG WOULD BE MET BY JAILING WITHOUT TRIAL, AND BAN OF THE BLOGS,[IF HE CAN].

THERE IS NO PRIZE THAT IS TOO MUCH FOR FREEDOM.

FELLOWS,
PLEASE ASSIST ME WITH THIS INFO.IF YOU ARE CAPABLE, THEN SHOW EVIDENCE OF YOUR WORK.

BY DYNAMIC WEBSITE, I MEAN THE ONE THAT CAN HOLD VIDEOS AND OTHER THINGS.

BUHARI VOTED AGAINST A NIGERIAN BECOMING OAU SECRETARY GENERAL IN 1985 BECAUSE OF TRIBAL CONSIDERATIONS,AND GAVE HIS VOTE INSTEAD TO SOMEBODY FROM NIGER[A FULANI LIKE HIM]. PLEASE, READ ON.

Between 1983 and 1985, Peter Onu of Nigeria was Acting Secretary-General of the OAU. At the 1985 Summit in Addis Ababa, statesmen like Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania, lobbied for his election as substantive Secretary-General. However, there was a major stumbling block to Peter Onu’s candidature: his Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, was campaigning against him.

Buhari claimed: “This generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country than Nigeria.” But when the crunch came, his allegiance to Nigeria disappeared. In the election of the OAU Secretary-General in 1985, Buhari voted against Nigeria and for Niger instead. He secured the election of Ide Oumarou, a Fulani man from Niger; as opposed to an Igbo man from Nigeria. By so doing, Buhari became the first and only Head of State in the history of modern international relations to vote against his country in favour of his tribe.

Years later, General Buhari marched all the way from Daura to Ibadan to demand of Oyo State Governor, Lam Adeshina: “Why are your people killing my people?” Again, he was not referring to Nigerians as his people. Instead, he was an advocate for the rights of murderous Fulani herdsmen who killed Yoruba farmers that objected to their cattle grazing on their land and damaging their crops. This same Buhari who voted against Nigeria in 1985, and said in 2003: “Muslims should only vote those who will promote Islam,” is now shopping for votes nationwide. He should be rejected outright.

Ignorance running riot

If APC had wanted to be taken seriously, it would have come up with a better presidential material than Buhari. There is something anomalous about a party whose mantra is change, recycling a 73 year old man as its candidate for the president of modern Nigeria. Buhari has little or no understanding of public policy. That is why APC will always come up with some excuse or the other not to have him participate in a debate with Jonathan. Buhari fought corruption by imposing ridiculous 300-year sentences on offenders. He fought exam malpractices by imposing 24-year prison sentences on school children.

He dealt with indiscipline by flogging people to queue at bus-stops. He dealt with food shortages by sending soldiers to break into private warehouses and shops. He fought trade imbalances by taking Nigeria back to the stone age of trade by barter (counter-trade). He sought to extradite a Nigerian from Britain by drugging and crating him.

There is so much about Buhari ending the Boko Haram insurgency as he did the Maitatsine insurgency in the 1980s. But the General needs to be advised that Boko Haram is not Maitatsine. Maitatsine was in two towns: Boko Haram is in three states with spillover effects into others. Maitatsine fought with bows and arrows: Boko Haram fights with sophisticated weapons. Maitatsine was a local insurgency, Boko Haram is an international phenomenon.

Anti-corruption hypocrisy: Buhari does not know what corruption means and how to fight it. He became Nigeria’s Head of State through the corruption of a coup d’état and he then tried to fight corruption with corruption. Imposing retroactive decrees and killing Nigerians under them is corruption. Putting an Igbo vice-president in Kirikiri, while placing the Fulani president under palatial house arrest, is corruption.

Detaining people like Michael Ajasin in jail, even after they were discharged and acquitted by kangaroo courts, is corruption. Jailing journalists for telling the truth is corruption. Putting pressure on a judge in order to jail Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is corruption. Shepherding 53 suitcases of contraband unchecked through Customs during a currency change exercise is corruption. Swearing an affidavit that your school-leaving certificate is with the military when it is not, is corruption.....
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/jonathan-superior-presidential-material-buhari/#sthash.8tVjoR1z.dpuf

Sparksfly I can't fathom with ya.
Nigerian men are my very third option.

BUT THE TOPIC IS ABOUT GETTING NIGERIAN MEN. MUST U COMMENT?

THIS IS WHAT EVERYBODY SHOULD JOIN HANDS AND TALK ABOUT, AND IF NEED BR, COLLECT SIGNATURES TO SIGN PETITION TO COMPEL THE NCC TO COMPEL THE SERVICE OPERATORS TO LISTEN TO THE NEEDS OF THE NIGERIAN YOUTHS REGARDING INTERNET ACCESS. BUT ,AS U CAN SEE, THIS TOPIC HAS NOT GENERATED MUCH FOLLOWING BC IT IS NOT ABOUT PDP-APC CAMPAIGN