₦airaland Forum

The change is great.

Just as I mentioned in my earlier post:

I Will like to see new features like getting an alert when your name is mentioned in any thread whether you are following that topic or not. Companies will be able to register with a fee for that feature such that when their names are mentioned on NL, they receive an alert in order to monitor the discussion. Even individuals too.

Cheers.

Real-Time Advice: Twitter gets credit for bringing about change. But for some, it also costs hunks of it.

By QUENTIN FOTTRELL

Sticks and stones may break bones, but 140 characters can do a whole lot more damage.

While Twitter can be a powerful social networking and marketing tool, hasty posts on site sometimes get pretty expensive. Misfired tweets have ended careers, led to huge fines, and most recently upended a murder trial. As reported this week in the Wall Street Journal, that case and others across the country highlight how Twitter and other types of social media are disrupting the jury trial.

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Here are five of the more regrettable tweets so far -- and the estimated hefty price tags that came with them.

Anthony Weiner tweets away his seat
Price tag: $174,000 salary, dreams of being mayor, president
Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman for New York, resigned last June after sending a sexually explicit photo of himself to a college student over Twitter.

Juror tweets, judge orders retrial
Estimated price tag: $600,000-plus
The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed the murder conviction of a death-row inmate after a juror tweeted that the trial was over nearly an hour before the jury announced its verdict.

NBA fines tweeting team owners
Estimated price tag: $525,000
The National Basketball Association has fined team owners thousands of dollars for tweets. Last November, Miami Heat owner Micky Arison was
fined a reported $500,000 for commenting on the player/trade union bargaining process, which is a no-no for a team owner, according to NBA rules.

Spirit Airlines ad blast for $9 fares
Price tag: $50,000
Spirit Airlines tweeted about $9 one-way tickets from Los Angeles last June, but failed to mention the additional taxes and charges in its brief 140-character ad blast. In November, the Department of Transportation fined the Florida-based airline $50,000 for deceptive advertising practices. The taxes and fees were disclosed on the airline's website, but only after clicking on a second link. A spokeswoman for Spirit declined to comment on the fine.

CNN editor Octavia Nasr fired for tweet
Estimated price tag: Future earnings
In 2010, a 20-year CNN veteran, Octavia Nasr -- then a senior editor covering the Middle East -- was fired after sending out a tweet saying she had respect for Shiite Cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. It read: "Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot. #Lebanon" During his lifetime, Fadlallah was a vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy and supported suicide bombings against Israel.

Read the full version here: http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/technology/5-very-costly-tweets-1331074668303/?cid=djem_sm_WeekontheStreet_h#tabs

HBD NL.

Seun, more grease to your elbow.

My birthday wishes for NL.

I Will like to see new features like getting an alert when your name is mentioned in any thread whether you are following that topic or not. Companies will be able to register with a fee for that feature such that when their names are mentioned on NL, they receive an alert in order to monitor the discussion. Even individuals too.

Cheers.

Dangote as a group i.e Dangote Holdings Ltd is not listed on NSE & MTN is not listed on JSE but MTN Group Ltd.

No insult meant pls.

Dear Saint Valentine,

I want the following:

An iPhone 4 not a BB Porsche & iPad 2 not a BB PlayBook.

Best regards.

lagerwhenindoubt:
A UFO Flying Saucer just landed at Alausa Ikeja - two Space beings have engaged Fashola to ask for the location of Synagouge Church of all Nations to heal their dying Alien King from Tuberculosis

Next Nollywood movie

Well received with thanks.

OAM4J:
I have sent you a PM with the account details.

Thanks and God bless you as you support the project.

Kudos guys.
@r231 Nigeria bank acct pls.
Cheers.

vuduchild:
na wa OOOOOOO, hahahahahahaha, is this a school or a mental facility ?

Nymph node:
This guy has done it again! Hurraw! He has been casted as a kid, an undergraduate, a business mugul, a drug baron now as a woman. I cant wait for him to get a role as Hercules or a gladiator. He surely deserve a national honour.

Why do Nigerians like saying things twice e.g

siasia, jayjay, holiholi, magomago, moimoi, chinchin, kulikuli, puffpuff, yanmayanma,  mumu, borrowborrow , crycry, copycopy, jedijedi, sharpsharp, wakawaka, followfollow, lafflaff, potopoto, kabukabu, gbomogbomo; fearfear, touchtouch, yoriyori, jagajaga, lielie, lailai; wuruwuru, talktalk,yahooyahoo.
just joking. Have a lovely week and enjoy this beautiful day (11/11/11).

From: Nigerian Ports Authority

Please, be informed that Mr President has approved the abolition of Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) for all shipments into and out of Nigerian seaports with immediate effect.

In essence, no shipping line is authorized to demand for Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) as a condition for cargo shipment to Nigeria. This directive takes effect this day, 9th of November, 2011 and all shipping lines operating in Nigeria are to adhere strictly and ensure compliance.

Modification seems to be a wahala.

1st  French
2nd Mathematics
3rd  Chemistry
4th  Physics
5th  Food and Nutrition

(Food & Nutrition was not taken in WAEC though and I remember the teacher was so so upset with me because I was one of the best students. Hahaha, sorry teacher I joined the class cos I couldn't resist the aroma from the Lab). In fact, my school was one of the few schools (if not the only) then in Owerri (HOGOSCO) that had a well equipped Food & Nutrition Lab. Don't know what has become of it now. That was my subject's lifestyle what's yours? Love food, love subject. smoothfm.

1st French
2nd Mathematics
3rd Chemistry
4th Physics
5th Food and Nutrition

(Food & Nutrition was not taken in WAEC though and I remember the teacher was so so upset with me because of I was one of the most best students. Hahaha, sorry teacher I joined the class cos I couldn't resist the aroma from the Lab). In fact, my school was one of the few schools (if not the only) then in Owerri (HOGOSCO) that had a well equipped Food & Nutrition Lab. Don't know what has become of it now. That was my subject's lifestyle what's yours? Love food, love subject. smoothfm.

1st  French
2nd Mathematics
3rd  Chemistry
4th  Physics
5th  Food and Nutrition

(Food & Nutrition was not taken in WAEC though and I remember the teacher was so so upset with me because of I was one of the most best students. Hahaha, sorry teacher I joined the class cos I couldn't resist the aroma from the Lab). In fact, my school was one of the few schools (if not the only) then in Owerri (HOGOSCO) that had a well equipped Food & Nutrition Lab. Don't know what has become of it now. That was my lifestyle what's yours? Love music, love life. smoothfm.

by Lunga Sibanda


A MAN caught Being Intimate with a donkey stunned a court on Monday by claiming that the animal was in fact a hooker he pulled from a nightclub.

Sunday Moyo, 28, from Mandava township in Zvishavane, was charged with bestiality on Monday.
Zvishavane magistrate Mildred Matuvi heard how Moyo was found by police officers on routine patrol performing a sex act on the animal inside his yard just after 4AM last Sunday.

The donkey, which had been tied by the neck to a tree, was lying on the ground.
Although he was not formally asked to enter a plea, Moyo admitted committing the crime but told the magistrate an enthralling tale which had the court in stitches.

“Your worship, I only came to know that I was being intimate with a donkey when I got arrested,” he began.
“I had hired a LovePeddler and paid US$20 for the service at Down Town night club and I don’t know how she then became a donkey.”

The magistrate remanded Moyo in custody to October 27 and also ordered that he be examined by two government psychiatrists.




http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-6349-Hooker+turns+into+donkey,+court+hears/news.aspx

October 26, 2011 By Andrew Couts

Dubbed the "anti-Facebook," newly launched social network Unthink aims to free users from the bonds of corporate money-making by giving them complete control over their personal data.


There’s a new social network in town, and it bills itself as everything Facebook’s not. Unthink.com, which opened up registration today for an initial round of beta users, says it is the “anti-Facebook,” and vows to give users complete control over their personal data.

Unthink, which is based in Tampa, Florida, came out swinging, with a manifesto that vows to “emancipate social media,” along with a promotional video that literally says “FU” to Facebook and Google+ for making money by “spying – yes, spying” on users and bombarding users with ads, among other grievances.

According to Unthink chief executive Natasha Dedis, the idea for a new kind of social network came to her in 2007, when her son asked to join Facebook. After reading Facebook’s terms and conditions, as well as the terms of MySpace (which reigned king of social media at the time), Dedis said in an interview with SixEstate that she realized that these companies were operating under a business logic that was “totally irrational and exploitative.”

“…I felt that they were basically taking my son hostage,” said Dedis. “He was giving them a perpetual license to do whatever they wanted, they could change the terms at any time. So I thought, ‘Oh my god, in the real world, no business could ask its clients to enter into such a legal relationship. So how is this even legal on the Web?’ It just baffled me.”

Unthink attempts to tackle the exploitation problem in a number of different ways. First, Unthink makes all user data private by default. Users may then allow others to see the information they want public, and keep private anything they want private. Next, Unthink doesn’t sell user data to companies. Instead, users can choose to have specific brands “sponsor” their pages. Any users who don’t want corporate sponsorship can pay a $2-a-year fee to use the service. In addition, Unthink users may choose how brands communicate with them via a section that’s totally separate from their regular information stream.

As we see it, Unthink faces an inconceivably difficult uphill battle against Facebook and Google+. At the same time, however, Unthink’s servers are, at the time of this writing, completely overwhelmed by the bombardment of traffic headed to the site today. While some may see that as evidence that the company is unprepared for the big leagues, it at least shows that people are interested in a Facebook alternative – something we saw in droves with the launch of Google+.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/new-social-network-unthink-says-fu-to-facebook-and-google/

@ OP

Are you Marty Gabel,  the Associate Editor for Appolicious and AndroidApps.com. If not, please give credit to him and always include link to any info such as "copy & paste".

Popular smartphones no longer worth buying
Posted October 21, 2011 12:05pm by Marty Gabel

link: http://www.appolicious.com/tech/articles/9981-popular-smartphones-no-longer-worth-buying

Cheers

Poor Photoshop work.

Macteejay2:
Harvard University may be America's top-ranked national university, along with Princeton University, in U.S.News & World Report's latest Best Colleges rankings, but a competitor across the pond is now stealing some of that thunder.

For the second year in a row, the United Kingdom's University of Cambridge topped Harvard in the U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings, released today and based on data from the 2011 QS World University Rankings. Developed by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a leading global career and education network, the World's Best rankings showcase the top international universities, from North and South America to Europe and Asia and beyond.

Six distinct indicators were evaluated to rank the top 400 universities worldwide: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, proportion of international faculty, proportion of international students, and citations per faculty. The gap between Cambridge and Harvard was incredibly small--a difference of about 0.7 points in their overall scores--and can be attributed to Cambridge's more impressive faculty-student ratio.

Despite Harvard falling slightly behind a U.K. university, U.S. schools dominated the top 400 list, with six American institutions appearing in the top 10 (Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University). The highest showing by a non-American or non-British university was Canada's McGill University, at No. 17. Asia's highest ranking came via University of Hong Kong (HKU), at No. 22.

A separate ranking of the top 100 Asian universities highlights the dynamism of the Asian region, where countries such as China, South Korea, and India are investing heavily in higher education to cater to both domestic and international students. This year, to better reflect the region's unique character, a distinct methodology from the top 400 global rankings was used, with indicators such as Asian academic reputation and Asian employer review.

The leaders of the pack came from Hong Kong, with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and HKU taking the first and second spots, respectively. The gap between the two was very narrow--a difference of 0.2 points in their overall scores--with HKUST's research productivity giving it the edge. Japan, whose economy is slowly recovering from the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, was nonetheless dominant in the Asian rankings, with five Japanese schools in the top 10.

Meanwhile, China, the world's largest source for international students at U.S. universities, made strides with its own schools. Peking University and Tsinghua University were both among the top 20 best Asian universities, performing very well in the academic and employer reputation indicators. India didn't fare as well, due to low citations scores; its highest entries were three Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Kanpur, Delhi, and Bombay) at No. 36, No. 37, and No. 38, respectively.

Like Asia, Latin America is undergoing significant development, propelled by rising economic powerhouse Brazil. The country's Universidad de São Paulo took the No. 1 spot in the top 100 Latin American universities rankings, beating Chile's Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile by 0.4 points in its overall score. The new Latin rankings use a distinct methodology, evaluating indicators such as Latin American academic reputation, Latin American employer review, and proportion of staff with Ph.D.'s.

Brazil was the clear leader, fielding three institutions in the top 10 and eight in the top 20. The country's huge investments in higher education to fuel economic growth, and its prioritization of research, have paid off: Brazilian universities performed particularly well in measures such as papers per faculty and proportion of academics with Ph.D.'s.

Meanwhile, Mexico--with two institutions in the top 10 of the Latin rankings--showcased strong reputations across the region, despite lower performance in research measures for most of its universities. The fifth-ranked Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) had the highest academic reputation, while seventh-ranked Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) had the second-highest employer reputation.

Going beyond global and regional comparisons, the new World's Best Universities subject rankings examine the top schools worldwide in 24 subjects (top 30 for chemical engineering and top 50 for all other subjects). Divided into five broad categories--arts and humanities; engineering and technology; life sciences; natural sciences; and social sciences--the individual subject rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation, and citations per paper.

MIT dominated all engineering and technology rankings, taking the top spot in the computer science; civil engineering; chemical engineering; electrical engineering; and mechanical, aeronautical, and manufacturing engineering fields. Other American institutions that had strong showings in that category include Stanford University, University of California--Berkeley, and California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

U.S. universities similarly led the pack in two other broad categories: life sciences and social sciences. In the former, Harvard took the lead in biological sciences and psychology; in the latter, while Harvard took the No. 1 spot atop the accounting and finance; economics and econometrics; politics and international studies; and sociology rankings, Stanford topped the statistics and operational research rankings.

http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/top-400-universities-in-the-world?page=16
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Cambridge-Tops-Harvard-Again-usnews-8808299.html?x=0


Only South Africa, ie University of Capetown made it among the Top 400 list. It was ranked 156.

Actually 2 South African Universities. They are University of Cape Town (the undisputed best University in Africa) and Wits University (University of the Witwatersrand).

Lagos, Nigeria – Paga, an innovative financial services company has been selected by Diamond Bank to deliver branchless financial services to their customers.

Through the partnership Diamond Bank customers will be able to link their bank accounts to their Paga accounts – permitting them to perform transactions on Paga directly from their bank account. Customers will be able to perform a variety of transactions including money transfers and bill payments. Over time Diamond Bank will leverage Paga’s agent network to offer its banking products to the un-banked.

Paga, founded in 2009, is a home-grown money transfer service with a mission to deliver innovative and universal access to financial services for all Africans. The company’s initial set of products are meeting the critical needs of the Nigerian public: ability to transfer money to anyone fast and reliably, pay bills, top-up airtime or pay merchants safely. Paga delivers these services via the mobile phone, internet, and a nationwide network of agents.

Speaking on the partnership, Dr Alex Otti, Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank, remarked "Diamond Bank is committed to delivering excellent banking services to its customers as well as devising new ways of reaching new customers. Expanding the reach of formal banking is vital to our long-term strategy and in due course Paga will allow us to reach a new segment of the population."

To learn more about Paga, contact the company at 0700-000-7242 or visit www.mypaga.com.

GoldCircle:
But can some one please tell me who will thus be responsible for screening and confiscating  fake and substandard drugs and products at the port before they get to the end users? I agree these agencies were suddenly becoming monsters, but we also cannot forget in a hurry the numerous seizures of substandard drugs and products by NAFDAC & SON respectively at the ports not to talk of the large catchment of arms discovered recently at the ports.

She noted that apart from the statutory agencies like the Nigerian Ports Authority, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, government agencies allowed to operate in the ports are Nigeria Customs Service, State Security Service, Police and Port Health, bringing a total of six as against the former 13.

All the other agencies are to be invited, when required to witness examination, by the Nigeria Customs Service.

Goldcircle, you should understand that the Nigerian seaports have duplication of offices hence the need for the action. As usual, we should not be fast to jump because there has to be an official gazette. This is Nigeria, anything can happen.

She also said:

The use of Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) has been abolished.

All the other agencies are to be invited, when required to witness examination, by the Nigeria Customs Service.

The ports and harbor bill presently in the National Assembly will be facilitated

The reconstruction of the access roads will commence when the rains go down

CAC – Apapa command was directed to speed up release of bulk cargo. ONLY resident officers and CIU are authorized to perform physical examination.

A welcome development. Hey, they have two weeks. I hope clearing agents will not go through hell for the remaining 14 days.

see below

abassarems:
I work @ this port and personally saw the container and infact snapped some pictures. Its not really that the 40ft container was full of all this explosives, i don't even think its up to half of d container, but u know how d press exaggerates. They r actually explosives but not yet wired so can b handled anyhow. They actually wrote a governor's name on d cartons but that does not mean he is d true owner cos anybody can put any name on anything.

It is very true consignee's name (receiver) are not confirmed, shipper can include any name on the bill of lading. Most times addresses can not be located in Nigeria. The shipping industry is not well regulated, anything goes.

I just checked and found out that this unit has below history because I noticed the arrival date was not stated.

Event F/E Location St/Pr Date/Time Vessel Voyage
VSL ARRIVED F TINCAN/LAGOS 02-Jun-11 21:55 CSCL CALLAO 0019W
DISCHARGED F TINCAN/LAGOS 02-Jun-11 07:00 CSCL CALLAO 0019W
VSL SAILED F SHEKOU GD 18-Apr-11 17:15 CSCL CALLAO 0019W
LOADED F SHEKOU GD 18-Apr-11 03:12 CSCL CALLAO 0019W

Austyn316:
[b][/b]It's unfortunately that he would be allowed to continue as a resident judge of Glo Naija Sings. This is a bad example and it will paint the the programme in bad light. Let him stay away until the investigation in Beat FM is complete. I strongly suggest that charges should be pressed against him by the victim of the crime to serve as a deterrent against other people like him.

Well said. He should stay away pending the outcome of the investigation.

Another observation:
99.3 Nigeria Info not 93.9 Nigeria Info

This is a very good one after so much news about bombing here and there. BBM.

Before 97.6 - Metro FM - FRCN (Lagos)
Now 97.7 - Metro FM - FRCN (Lagos)

Nice list though.