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yea man if there is no codeine, there will be no mallams to cut our grass and carry our garbage

In this modern times, the internet has become a basic need, however, there are many dangers surrounding it. Since we cannot avoid being connected, it is wise to sort solutions to secure our connections. One of the best ways to stay safe while you conduct your business online is to hide your IP address.
An Internet Protocol (IP) Address is a number that is given to your computer (or any other web enabled device) by your Internet Provider to serve as an identity. However, there are many reasons for hiding this particular address. They include;
Hiding your identity so as not to leave a digital trace online and overall maintain your right to privacy.

Get access to websites that have been filtered by your country, work or school network such as social networks like Facebook, video streaming services like Netflix or YouTube

To protect your online surfing from spies such as the Government agencies, Internet Providers or other malicious parties.

To stop advertising networks from tracking you and spamming your web experience with adverts.

Now that we have established that hiding identity comes with a lot of benefits, you might be wondering where to find a guide to blocking your IP address. Well there are several ways of doing it; they include using a Virtual Private Network (VPN), using a proxy server, using public WIFI, and finally surfing via Tor Browser. The best one of them is using VPN.
VPN, as the name suggests is a virtual network that you are given access to by a VPN provider. This option lets you choose which country you want to appear to surf from. It is wise to choose a country which does not have any website filtering restrictions such as the United States. Prices of the VPN services usually differ from one company to the next but, in most cases, you pay extra for faster connection speeds, however, the fees are generally affordable. In comparison, VPN is much faster than the other methods of hiding your IP such as using a proxy server or Tor browser. In addition, there are many companies offering it, so the pricing competition between them benefits the user in terms of pocket friendliness. Finally, unlike public WIFI that is restricted to a certain range from the hotspot, VPN does not have such barriers.

abiodunosin:
you only asked question. OSINBAJO is a person. We have ordinary person and extra ordinary person. Osinbajo belongs to the group of extra ordinary person with academics excellence and success. A senior Advocate of Nigeria,a Senior Pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God and the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. His mission is here and is vission is clear, i think that, he has demonstrated in his commitment to restore Nigeria economy. The establishment of the national social intervention programme through its four cardinal point such as N-Power, Conditional cash transfer, government enterprises and empowerment programme and Home grown school feeding programme.

Lol mtchew SAN of banana rep, VP of banana rep, senior pastor in the den of thieves ,party to a regime with 0 accomplishments,I repeat OSINBAJO NA PERSON?

That's not how you spell prize

anyimontana:
dumb a$$

that's not what your mom said last night

johnmartus:
you rude .

He is a thief

brigadier747:
I can't lower my pedestral PEDESTAL to engage a jobless retard in stupid class tuzzle TUSSLE... Like I said uv not been prevailed PRIVILEGED he to own a car....

I no know say na illiterate pikin I dey follow argue, no wonder you no sabi value motor

tuna4servi:
Walahi u dont have sense if i slap u enh ur brain will reset

All these hausa people that are always contradicting themselves, how can my brain reset when you claim I don't have sense

Walexddon20:
Why don't you go and ask your dumb ass father that question. Useless biafran dogs

I will ask him when he is done scolding your aboki popsy for not opening the gate on time

abeggnow:
when u give a fool a phone

you didnt complete it what does your father do when they give him a phone?

dareal199:
lol Shee you na person, how dare you people talk shit against the government and the VP in particular, ignorance is killing you

abegi osinbajo can go f*ck himself for all i care, VP of banana republic is that possible

Drlouis415:
is not that we don't know that you guys masturbate with pic of cow and goats,

is not that we don't know u guys have sleep with cows ?


is not that we don't know things you guys do.

just seek peace

SEEK peace with the end of ma D*ck biafran

alertness:
The business seems to be dwindling in income nowadays as people prefer recharging through their bank accounts.

ok what about a brothel? i know a guy that can set you up for less than 150k
08032773199 his name is nurudeen

mmsen:
I'm not Igbo.

Nice try though.

The fact that they are on your mind suggests that they occupy a station higher than you.

ok ok silence Afonja
now go and get me a bottle of beer and tell your daughter to seat on my lap

kuku suck buhari p*nis make we know say you are sucking up

thread has already been posted

stephen keshi dey wait for you

Drlouis415:
stop that insult. seek peace with all men.

seek peace with my ballz flat head

I love writing. Or at least for the most part, I do. But words are hard and refining my words is even harder.

Trust me when I say this — Almost all blogposts out there that give you the Blogpost goals, go through so many rounds of spell checks, grammar checks, this-and-that check. In fact, my theory is that — the time taken for a blog post to go from ‘now editing’ to ‘published’ is probably longer than it took to actually write that post!

Writing a perfect blogpost is a daunting task but nobody said it was easy (Coldplay reference anyone?). I’ve now realised that I don’t have to do it alone.

Over months and months of writing, I’ve found a few tools that I absolutely swear by, which have helped improve my writing so much! Now I’m no writing expert but I sure have learned a thing or two (or five) over these months. So, this is me compiling my notes over the months into this post. So gather around you guys, some good bits coming right up .
1. Grammarly

Tenses, Conjunctions, Punctuation. Advise or Advice. Co-operate or Cooperate.These are the problems that have always haunted me as a blogger ( new post ideas, WordPress vs Medium, hitting the publish button and getting readers have also haunted me but that’s for another day)

Proof reading is essential, but it sure is painful

Enter Grammarly. This nifty tool helps me proofread my work of creation to make sure there are no speling mistkes, no commas missing and that my end result reads well. I just have to copy and paste my text into Grammarly’s Editor and see it work its magic! I still remember the first time I used it. It made my unrefined blog post light up like a Christmas tree with all the grammatical errors .

What’s even better is that it not only highlights the mistakes in my text but it also gives me actionable solutions to those mistakes. Ain’t nobody got time for running around trying to figure out what’s wrong with the post! Wrong spellings, missing punctuations and unhyphenated words will soon be a thing of the past my friend.
Grammarly

This tool is like my own personal English professor. Minus the ear twisting and reprimanding ��

Pssst! Want to know something I love even more than the Grammarly Online Editor? It’s the Grammarly browser extension. You can download the free Grammarly extension for your browser and it will automagically start flagging the errors wherever you start typing. Like an angel watching over you I love this extension and it’s something that I can’t live without (I really can’t. I suck at tenses)

Alternatives: Correctica, Your English professor, Your sibling*

*my sibling will never help me with this
2. Power Thesaurus

I overuse words by the dozen. And then overuse them some more. And if you’re reading them aloud, your tongue could be in knots! (Knot kidding)

Don’t want to be like me? Use Power Thesaurus

Power Thesaurus makes me sound less irksome (I hope you noticed how I replaced annoying with irksome there) and sound fancy at the same time .

It’s an easy to use thesaurus that’s been crowdsourced and built by writers like you and me. I know that there a lot of similar tools out there. But I’m a sucker for all things Community. I just need to enter my word of choice in the search box and the tool will suggest a list of alternatives I can use in place of my word along with a list of antonyms for it. These alternatives are also rated by the Community and the words with the best ranks are suggested at the top, followed by lesser ranks. This tool makes sure I never run out of words. Ever. Abnormality can become Anomaly, Excitement can become Exhilaration, Untidy to Unkempt, Indirect to Vicarious …. the possibilities are endless!

Tip : Download their Free Chrome Extension and get the most out of it. Just double tap on a word you want to find an alternative for and click on the Power Thesaurus icon for more suggestions .

Alternative: Thesaurus.com
3. ZenPen

I tend to get distracted easily, especially when I’m trying to avoid writing. I find myself experimenting with all of those little editing/(formatting?) tools available at the side while writing, before I even have the first sentence ready.

Which is how ZenPen becomes my saviour. I absolutely love this tool for it’s no nonsense attitude. It gives me a minimalist writing space to write my blogposts without any distractions. Think Horse Blinders .
ZenPen

But want to know my most favourite feature on here? It lets you set a… wait for it… target Word Count goal! This feature activates a small word count meter at the right of the page which turns green when you hit your count target. Nothing beats that moment of happiness when that meter turns green!

You can even save and download your work to view later. Or you can do what I do. Simply copy and paste your text to your blog when you’re done typing!That’s it. This tool doesn’t promise to do much but delivers on what it actually claims to do �

P.S. This piece is being written on ZenPen!

TIP– Maximize your writing screen on ZenPen (from the features tab at the left) and turn your screen to dark. It makes for a fun — distraction free writing experience!

Alternative– Dropbox’s Paper (another favourite), those ancient little things called books and diaries and journals.
4. Hemingway

“Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

No, this tool won’t transform you into Ernest Hemingway or your laptop into a typewriter. But what it does, is no less cooler than that. This is personally my most favourite of the lot. My one stop tool to refine my blog post and make it publish ready! It does everything-

Highlights grammatical errors,
Points out complex words and suggests alternatives,
Flags passive voices, and,
Highlights sentences which are difficult to read and could do with breaking lines.

Hemingway

I just have to copy and paste my text into their Online Editor and it immediately points out the grey areas in the text and which need improvements. By now, you all know there’s at least one feature within these tools that’s my favourite. This tools has one too. What is it? Glad you asked. It grades your work on the basis of readability! For example, my last blog post got Grade 5. Smaller the number, the better the grade #️⃣

It’s almost like having an examiner grade your paper. Except, that there’s no one to give you judgemental looks if you score less or go complaining to your parents about the low score.

Fun Fact : The best Grade I’ve scored on this platform is 2. Can you do better than me and get that Grade 1? Give it a spin!

Tip : Make maximum use of those extra features available on the editor as well- Bold, Italicise, Bullet, Heading styles, Word Counts are just some of the features available .

Alternative : I couldn’t find an alternative tool for this. It’s the best in my opinion. What’s a girl gotta do?
5. Evernote

A wise man once said, “A blog post is only as good as the notes it’s made of.” That wise man was my team lead and he just made that ish up.

This holds true for me though. I NEED to take down notes of ideas for blogposts as and when I think of it because I suck at remembering things later. And Evernote is that super handy tool that helps me take the right notes, so I can bring them all together when I put pen to paper on my next blog post.

Since I can’t always be on my laptop when that next blog post idea strikes or, when I discover a fancy figure of speech I could use in my next blog post, Evernote lets me note down things on the go wherever I am. I can note down Texts, Images and even Audios for when I want to revisit them later.
My Evernote

The best way I’ve used it though? I have it installed on ALL my devices and I no longer have to worry about arranging my thoughts or syncing my notes across accounts. I can now dump all my ideas in one place. And when I’m ready with enough notes, I get those notes, gather my thoughts and start writing.

It can be as simple a tool as you want it to be or equally powerful if need be. These notes can also be categorised into different files called Notebooks. I think of it as my own filing system.

Some of my notebooks are- Blog Post Ideas, Good reads, Home To Do list (mostly empty), My favourite dessert recipes (over flowing) and hence also a Workout Regime list (also empty) .

The best part about this tool is that your notes are backed up automatically. So no more fear of losing those pesky little post-its anymore (RIP you beautiful little colourful papers I’ve lost by the hundreds) And, you’re saving paper. Extra points for the environmentalist in you! .

Tip: Download the Evernote web extension and note down everything you want to save by simply copying and pasting it into your Notebooks!

Alternative : Microsoft OneNote, Simplenote. Your pen and paper (yes, the physical kinds). You know what? Throw those notes wherever possible. Your Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, your toilet paper (no judgements), your hand, your best friend’s hand. No matter what, write down those notes wherever possible!

Maket:
How does this translates to tribal war in Nigeria? You and all these that like your post should collect 10 Market SLAP. How you share the slap doesn't concern me.

no be me tell igbo gals to dey dump their fan belt selling boyfriends after school

autotrader2:
Mr Man, don't spam this Ad. This is for serious people and businesses.

eat a d*ck you thief that probably stole that from someones car

myrrtle:
kobo smart why you no sabi mind you business with this your green head like spoilt water melon.

ugh you suck

mmsen:
It has nothing to do with Igbos, I don't know why they are on your mind.

silence you second class Nigerian, now go and get me size 42 jeans and size 44 canvass

Skmoda360:
are you asking me?

i am asking your father?

afonja people be like
lets use this as gun props in our movie

osinbajo na person?

recharge card under umbrella sales man

Skmoda360:
hahahahahaha...
you sabi the gizzard....no bigot intended.

whats that?