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franzis:
I hurriedly went to open a dollar domiciliary account , still waiting for the card which GTB says the issuance cost 38 USD and have like 200usd balance on your account... No restriction on that but you have the be buying dollar from the black market to fund

Yeah, I am aware of that.

phensbassey:
pps help me with my WordPress site, I can't post anything... www.phensbasseynews.

I am talking about paid hosted wordpress site and not FREE one.

Godvilla:
Our world evolves around Technology, a fact we cannot deny.

2016 has been quite an eventful and intriguing season in the tech world. From Apple's daring decision to do away with the conventional 3.5mm jack port
to the explosive Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Everyone felt the impact in some very unexpected ways.

Here are the Top Ten Stories that made waves this year.

1. Virtual Reality (VR)

Unless you've just woken up from a 3 year coma, you probably must have heard a lot of hype about the virtual reality and the Oculus Rift.
Virtual Reality radically redefines digital entertainment. Immerse yourself in games or go inside your favorite movies. Time travel, space travel, or hang out with friends in VR.

After the emergence of VR, We were expecting this year to be a quantum leap for VR Technology. Sony PlayStation, HTC Vive and Facebook's Oculus Rift VR all made their official debuts, but it turns out that the content doesn't yet have the impact of the hardware.

Nevertheless, we expect to see new developments that will make VR a prospective candidate of a Revolutionized Technology.

2. Explosive Samsung Galaxy Note 7

Apparently, this was the most widely spread news of the year. Samsung has always played a second fiddle to Apple. In a bid to come out of that zone, they decided to release a device that will match up the iphone 7 and probably march upon it to take up the pole position.

Note 7 had a fresh breath of design (beautiful curved design), High resolution screen, the best camera, a memory-card slot, water resistance, a headphone jack, huge battery — quite amazing features.

Few weeks after launch, the Note 7 started exploding mysteriously. Samsung had to issue a global recall with safety battery replacements but the backup call could not salvage the situation. Eventually, Samsung was forced to permanently discontinue the phone.

What a horrific nightmare for Samsung.

3. The 3.5mm Jack Port Removal

Nobody saw this coming from Apple!

The conventional 3.5mm jack has been a standard feature used in devices worldwide. Over the years, Apple has always proven to be the fore-runner of many innovative ideas.
But am just short of words to describe this, whether I should call it innovative or removal of a long standing feature just beats my mind.

Perhaps, Apple's vision into the future where audio will be wireless inspired them to make this daring step. To Apple, "the future is now" and in one way or the other, someone had to make it a reality.

They always take the lead, while others follow. Will other manufacturers queue in the line? Only time will tell.

4. Facebook Fake Stories

Are you surprised? Well, this will only come as a surprise to those who seldom use Facebook. News of Hillary Clinton conducting Satanic rituals swept across Facebook — No, it wasn't true.
But the wide spread of fake news emerged as a serious problem during and after the US election.

Majority of Americans were glued to their smartphones, engaging in different social media activities to get up to date analysis and news.
These fake news were orchestrated by trolls who had mastered the skill of making tons of cash by capitalizing on the fears of some Americans who had lost faith on the mainstream media.

5. Facebook Global Dominance

In 2016, Facebook enlarged it's empire across the globe and ultimately became a global force to reckon with, Climbing to seemingly surprising heights.

Emerging as a vital source of information during the US election, the spread of political propaganda and misinformation thrived immensely.

In a bid to bring Facebook-controlled internet to remote parts of the world, Facebook's Solar-powered Aquila drone flew for the first time.

Virtual Reality is fast becoming the new phase of technology, Facebook didn't waste much time to show it's vision for Virtual Reality by debuting it's Oculus rift.

Facebook launched its all new live video feature to allow users broadcast their live through their smartphone cameras in a refreshingly innovative way.

When we thought we've seen it all, Facebook introduced artificial intelligence technology that can describe photographs to the blind.

What a year of great dominance for Facebook.

6. The Copy Cats

Everyone wanted to stay relevant and influential in the social media domain. The only way of maintaining the status quo, was to copy similar features from their rivals in a redefined manner.

Facebook Introduced a LinkedIn-Like feature where prospective job seekers can easily meet up with recruiters across the platform.

Instagram and Facebook debuted live videos where users could share their live just like Snapchat,

Facebook also introduced chat rooms to it's messenger which is similar to yahoo chat. Whatsapp was not left out, they added a feature that lets users stream videos before downloading just as you'd do on YouTube.

Twitter also was caught copying a Feature from Snapchat, It's QR code. The QR codes will allow you to follow other users by scanning QR codes linked to their profiles.

7. Autopilot Cars

Have you seen the movie - iRobot? If you have, then you'll know what am talking about.

Just like we see in Sci-Fi movies, where sophisticated cars move at a great speed with nobody behind the steering wheel. That era is shortly coming upon us.
Some automobile manufacturers are already venturing into driverless cars.

Tesla - an American Auto maker in Silicon Valley, announced to put an enhanced self-driving autopilot in all of it's new models.
In Pittsburg, Uber was the first company to put driverless cars on the road.

Other manufacturers like Audi, debuted its first test of self driving automobiles.

8. Hackers On The Horizon

In 2016, Hackers have garnered increasing knowledge of hacking in a seamless manner, giving us worrisome thoughts about security breaches.

Google announced the launch of its Pixel devices with an acclaimed top notch security, but that claim was ridiculed in just 60 seconds by group of Chinese white hackers at the PwnFest hacking competition that took place in Seoul.

Yahoo threw away it's users trust through the window after it was discovered that the company didn't publicly disclose the amount of hacks it encountered since 2014.

Many other DDoS attacks have been recorded, like the one on Dyn which took place on October 21, 2016.

These and many more attacks leaves us doubtful of how security will be in the near future.

9. Twitter 4 Sale

Over the year, twitter have been dodging the big question. But it was publicly known after the board of directors met in San Francisco to discuss whether it can still operate as a stand alone company. After much deliberations, the board of directors thought it wise to sell the company.

Jack Dorsey, Two time CEO and co-founder has been able to add only 10 million users to the platform since he took over the post in Oct, 2015.

Relatively, Advertisers have withdrawn their interest and some top executives have left. Hundreds of employees were laid off their duty - a last resort to make the company profitable.

Top companies like Disney, Google and Salesforce have apparently shown interest, but are monitoring the situation with keen prudence.

10. #RIP Vine

Famous for it's six-second video, Vine was popularly known for transforming creative teens into celebrities overnight.

In October, Vine announced that it will permanently shutdown the app for good, many users reacted to the news with stunned disbelieve. Although Vine had lost many users over the years.

With it's parent company (Twitter) experiencing twist of fortune and an impending sale, it's obvious Twitter could not shoulder the burden because of the low income generated from Vine.

Everyone from the app's founders to its biggest stars, used the #RIPVine hashtag to bid a final respect to a once influential app.

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You are a good writer, bro. Get a wordpress site done. You can do it with just $15 for domain and hosting in your first year of usage.

ayobase:
GTBank is much better.

You can ask a friend to help out if you have exhausted your monthly $100 transaction.

Yeah, right. I will do just that. I got Access Bank Mastercard but it hasn't worked since I got it. Just tried it minutes ago and it still hasn't worked. But someone claimed it worked on this thread or is it only their Visa card that works?

zamirikpo:
are u guyz saying the maximum online transfer is $100 or $200 monthly....thats ridiculous, i need to make online payments of $1000 ......so i would wait for 5 or 10 months to conclude the transaction. how about those paying school fees for there wards abroad,how would they do it

where have u been living? under a cave? most of you do not read news and see the kind of statement u just posted. Money isn't everything bro. learn to read news and nairaland is the best on the go for news sources.

It was posted here severally but I am sure u didnt read them or ignore. Even TV and Radio had same news.

The new development is that

1. some banks naira mastercard and visa cards no longer works

2. those which still work have reduce theirs to $100 (gtb)-$200( access bank) as the monthly allowable spending for online transactions. so, here is what you can do. Apply for 4 bank accounts at different branches and use them to your own advantage. simples.

sinistermind:
Mega Party? What would change? Won't it be the same calibre politicians that are still coming back? The same PDP, The same APC. Until a mega party comes on board that recognises the youths role in politics and national development, a party that won't recycle the same stock of politicians that has left the country is tatters, a party that would recognise that there is a "nobody" out there that can fix Nigeria, then such party has my full support.

I share your sentiments but our brothers among us, who are the youths are the cancer. They will approach these men, collect money to bribe and buy votes using poverty in the land. I wish our literate level in Nigeria was around 80%, it would have really made it HARD to deceive Nigerians.

Sadly, that is not the case right now. They know they can use the poor among us to weaken our resolve, undermine our effort and install these old rag tags on us.

It is a shame.

orangedexsolar:
zenith, uba and access bank works fine. even access have 200usd monthly limits y the rest are still 100usd

zenith bank didn't work bro.

zenith bank didn't work when I tried to use it o. Guess they have disabled their payment for online usage. Will have to wait till tomorrow to complete my registration.

does anybody know how much zenith bank charges?

orangedexsolar:
zenith, uba and access bank works fine. even access have 200usd monthly limits y the rest are still 100usd

Oh thanks. I have zenith bank card. I think I should just make some transfer to that one and use it for now. I was at Access bank today to get another card. So I think at the end of the day, I should be able to get $400 usage per month.

gypsey:
why is every one mentioning some certain particular politicians suggestively? why couldn't we vote some new, fresh, young and unbiased politicians in, instead of recycling the old and bald headed crooked ones, it's obvious they have disappointed nigerians numerous times and will disappoint again. are our youths this dumb that we are relying on the same old politicians to keep ruining our futures and our childrens future? in these days of online, enternet, facebook twitter, Google, yahoo and digital world, were people can access informations on every thing from their mobile phones. it's obvious that these crooked recycled politicians has nothing to offer nigerians. it's time the youths take control of nigeria. or just devide the whole country and every region go their way and face their fate. it's also obvious that we are not united as nigeria so what's the point of trying too hard to hold us together? even though it doesn't seem to be working.

Can't you see the shameless handles who are probably in their 20s to 30s supporting criminals. Just look at the bastard saying oil our machine and we are good to go. Look at the fool and tell me if there is any hope in this country with remnants of over distilled by products of foolery ? How can the young generation rule a country with nonentities like these who are only interested in their pockets no matter the shape of the country?

Do you think these politicians do not know that these are the loop holes they can use to undermine the efforts of well-meaning Nigerians?

Seun:
Do they charge the black market rate?

nope. They charge 320 per dollar but with a monthly limit of $100 which I seem to have exceeded. Hence my search for alternative cards that work. I have zenith bank card but I am not sure if they work.

cornel994:
GTB still works

I have exceeded the monthly limit, sir. So, I am trying to see which card can be of help as an alternative which will enable me payment in 4 days time.

Hello, I have exceeded my monthly GTB card limit for this month.

I have first bank card, UBA africard, zenith bank card and of course, GTB card.

Please does zenith bank still allow online payments? I have dumped my First Bank card due to their stupid monthly charges on card/account.

Mustiboy:
lol bro! How on earth is that possible? I respect Her body pls, I don't ball like that.

The only thing I can tell you is that, I wish you quick recovery from your first accidental heart break. Since you have decided to fall in love, heart break awaits you. It might be from this girl or another girl.

Izen:
Please don't let your low self esteem about your negative bank balance rub off on me, it's not my fault you're broke. You clearly read where I listed the qualities I love about him and chose to ignore. The funny thing is that we're colleagues. Not everything is about money. I've spent on male friends before and it's really no biggie to me.

You should have posted this in the family section. It will surprise you to know the age range of over 60% of posters here. The days of matured fellows around here is gone, only a few are around. So do not take their comments serious.

Izen:
Okay, you know what guys..... You don't have to give me any advice. Let's all pretend like we don't have our emotional sides. I'm asking a genuine question here that affects me because I don't want to fall in love and get hurt in the process. Is it bad to ask? And no, I'm not jobless. My life is perfectly okay. I'm just falling in love and hoping it's not with the wrong guy. If you have ever experienced something like this and want to help, thank you. I'd really appreciate it. But as for those of you insulting me, I really don't know what you're trying to achieve. Is it to make your selves feel better about your maturity or what? It's not by force to comment.

How long have you been a member on here?

makavele:
u've had enough ladies to comment, shut da f**k up and close dis thread now . .

perv!

mschwwwww

makavele:
[size=78pt]THREAD CLOSED !!!![/size]

Thread Opened.

Twaci:
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look ateww

2ScrewsLoose:
Chai women

This thread proves a lot about ladies... They always do the opposite of what they are being told..

Eve shildren i ail o

curiosity

queenitee:

hmmm

queenitee:
Seriously!!
Is it a must to create a thread ni?

OMG... it's not a joke.

TrapQueen77:




Warrrrisdis?

what is your problem? Why did you view? You must be very stubborn offline.

slimthugchimee:
i blame your fellow sperm that allowed you to finish first

I don talk my own.

Fiwasayo:
It depends on the mind set of the man in question....some men earn way more than that and still they are unable to maintain or keep a home/family.

let me marry you nau. I earn just 50k seriously.

Ranchhoddas:
After following you as logicboy for years, I have come to the conclusion that you have a thing for that lady. You just have a crazy way of displaying it. This might just be love and you know that true love is hard to find. Don't fight it bro. *runsoutofthread*

LWKMD

5 year is enough to start and grow a business if you were determined. Well, I realised that people tend to take a path of destiny in line with circle of friends they keep.

modath:
Can you take me through the process? Thx.

sorry, it's the other way round. You deactivate DCC within paypal

http://www.ogbongeblog.com/2016/10/cancel-paypal-dynamic-currency-conversion-dcc.html?m=1.

Hawlahscho:
Wait..... Someone pls tell me. Is this the reason I cant link my Naira MasterCard with my Google play store for purchases

create a paypal account and switch to DCC within your paypal account.

lol.... not much response to this thread. It goes to show the kind of marriages people have these days. One would expect, with amount of wedding pictures abound, you would expect to see at least 50% comment saying they do love their partner, going by the number of views this thread has garnered. Alas that is not the case now. It therefore means that love does not really exist in the actual sense; it is mirage.