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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: FRSC 2018 Recruitment Invitation For Screening by MaxelSilva(m): 8:39am On Sep 21, 2018
If you were selected in Zamfara state, hola me abeg make we know ourselves
Celebrities / Re: I Was A Bus Conductor & Okada Rider For 7 Years - Small Doctor (VIDEO) by MaxelSilva(m): 5:04pm On May 21, 2018
Op borrow me data to watch this Video.. In Between, Small doctor is Truly from the Streets
TV/Movies / Re: Skip The Avengers: Why Entrepreneurs Should Watch 'black Panther' Again Instead by MaxelSilva(m): 9:12am On May 12, 2018
Nice One Op.. But I don't watch Movies Twice..

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Health / Re: Helpful Remedies For Fixing Bad Breath by MaxelSilva(m): 9:04am On May 12, 2018
This Guy sitting next to me must read this post.. My nose has been subjected to This Inhumane Condition since I boarded this Mile 2 bus..

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Technology Market / New Age 10500mah Powerbank Has Two 4000mah Battery Inside? by MaxelSilva(m): 3:08pm On Apr 10, 2018
I opened my New age 10500mah powerbank to know why I doesn't keep charge anymore. And to my dismay, I found two 4000mAh battery inside.. Is this normal or have I been cheated. I bought it at the new age office in Alaba.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Cameroonian Government Official Commissions An ATM (Photos) by MaxelSilva(m): 2:41pm On Apr 10, 2018
See Joke..Black people decieving themselves.. lala.. push am forward abeg.. make we dey see our m. u. m. u

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Sports / Re: Nigeria/senegal Tie: Five Things To Watch by MaxelSilva(m): 4:24pm On Mar 23, 2017
I cant wait to watch this match
Music/Radio / Nigerian Valentine Song Playlist by MaxelSilva(m): 8:29am On Feb 14, 2017
Mc Galaxy- Your love Cynthia Morgan- In Love Simi- Smile Tjan- Your smile Dija - Air Bez - You Suppose Know Muno- Separate Ways Tekno- Diana Runtown- Mad over You Tekno- Pana Phyno- Pino Pino Davido ft Simi- Maga to Mugu Iyanya- Up to something BOJ ft Simi - For sure Tonye- Written in the STars Yemi Alade - Sugar and Spice Doray ft praiz - Sugar love remix Shaydee-Smile Kiss Daniel- Mama Nikki laoye ft Banky W- onyeuwaoma Simi- Tiff Simi- love dont care Iyanya- Heartbeat Chidimma - Baby Na Love Runtown- Let me Love You
Celebrities / Piers Morgan, J.K Rowling Engage In Twitter War by MaxelSilva(m): 12:03pm On Feb 12, 2017
J.K. Rowling has engaged in a Twitter feud with British broadcaster Piers Morgan following his appearance on a US talk show which saw him exchange a war of words with Australian comedian Jim Jefferies following his defence of President Donald Trump.

In last night's (10 February) episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Jefferies lashed out at Morgan for refusing to refer to Trump's travel ruling as a Muslim ban.

Rowling immediately vented her fury on Twitter - as well as comedian Patton Oswalt and Star Trek actor George Takei.

Yes, watching Piers Morgan being told to Bleep off on live TV is *exactly* as satisfying as I'd always imagined. https:///4FII8sYmIt
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 11, 2017

Morgan refused to take this lying down, responding to the Harry Potter author saying that's why he's never read a word of her globally-successful book series - but Rowling had the comebacks lined up.

Because you had a premonition that one day the author would roar with laughter at seeing you called out for your bullshit on live TV? https:///8rkKSqJTnG
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 11, 2017
Everything I said was factual.
If you think screaming 'Bleep OFF!!!' at me changes that, then you're mistaken. https:///0U9fVoTjfc
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 11, 2017
.@piersmorgan Would you like a couple of hours to mock up some pictures of refugees carrying explosives to substantiate your position? https:///sFj0kqIajd
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 11, 2017
The superior, dismissive arrogance of rabid Remain/Clinton supporters like @jk_rowling is, of course, precisely why both campaigns lost.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 11, 2017
The fact-free, amoral, bigotry-apologism of celebrity toady Piers Morgan is, of course, why it's so delicious to see him told to Bleep off. https:///4XNF4G0nlD
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 11, 2017
.@piersmorgan If only you'd read Harry Potter, you'd know the downside of sucking up to the biggest bully in school is getting burned alive.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 11, 2017
No bigger bullies right now than the shrieking, hysterical anti-Trump celebrity brigade.
You lost, so suck it up Dolores. https:///RFQkyJWxZ5
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 11, 2017
Business / 21 Things I Learnt On Living On Bitcoin For A Week. by MaxelSilva(m): 10:16am On Feb 11, 2017
21 things I learnt from Living on Bitcoin for a week
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/05/09/25-things-i-learned-about-bitcoin-from-living-on-it-for-a-week/#6a5c5d7727ca
1. It is possible to live on Bitcoin in San Francisco for a week. It cost me about 4.85 Bitcoins. I sometimes had to live
on the fringes to get by.
2 . It is only recently possible to live on Bitcoin for a week. Three of the four merchants I relied on for my most basic need – food – only started accepting Bitcoin in the last month.
3. It would have been much easier to do my experiment in Berlin. I could have just hung out all week in Kreuzberg, a neighborhood with the highest concentration of merchants accepting Bitcoin, including, importantly, a bar .
4. It’s disconcerting to live on Bitcoin with the currency volatility. The buying power of my little 5 Bitcoin bank has fluctuated wildly since I created it, from a BTC valuation high of $140 USD to a low of $90 USD. I bought 28 mini-cupcakes at the low point for .5896 BTC. They were $56 at the time (which is already crazy). Reevaluating at BTC's high point, I spent $86 on cupcakes. My expense report is going to be a nightmare. Bitcoin will not be able to stabilize as a currency until there are more places that list their prices in Bitcoin.
5. It’s hard to convince someone who has never heard of Bitcoin before to accept it as payment. You can simply choose to walk away from the person who won’t accept Bitcoin payment, but that is hard to do when the person is your landlord.
6. Bitcoin is hard to explain to people. It is perhaps like what it was like
explaining “Internet” in its infancy . The easiest way is to call it "the local currency of the Internet," "the Internet applied to money," or "stateless virtual money." Or given the mysteriousness of its unknown and now absent creator ("Satoshi Nakamoto"wink and the fact that thousands of people have turned their computers into autonomous mining drones working for mining pool operators that have spent and will spend years slaving away on Nakamoto's code to create new Bitcoins, this may actually be the Singularity's mint.
7. There will only be about 21 million Bitcoins made. That number will be reached in 2140.
8. As of this writing, over 11 million Bitcoins are in circulation.
9. Bitcoin is like digitally paying in cash , in that you can move money online from one person to another person without using an intermediary like a bank, a credit agency, a Paypal, or a Western Union, and you can do so without attaching your identity to the payment. It’s like having your own email server and creating a different address for every message you send out. And it means no one can shut that wallet down – as happened to Wikileaks when payment providers refused to process payments sent to it.
10. But it is not like cash in that the movement of the money is traceable. The security of Bitcoin comes from the fact that the whole network sees that a particular transaction happened, and that money moved from one place to another place. It’s as if every time you paid in cash in the real world, the serial numbers were scanned so that you could trace the money as it moved around, making it near impossible to introduce fake new money.
11. So it’s less anonymous than you might think , but it would have worked very well for Junie Hoang, the actress who sued IMDb for posting her real age on the site . Hoang had scrupulously kept a pseudonym while working in Hollywood but when she paid for a IMDb Pro account, she had to use a credit card which revealed her real name. IMDb used her real name to find (and post) her birthdate. That wouldn’t have happened if she could have paid in Bitcoin. Other potential Bitcoin uses might include online purchases we don’t want associated with our identities. There’s been much attention paid to Bitcoin being the currency of choice for drug purchases on Silk Road, but it could also be useful for paying for the online purchase of porn or intimacy gadgets; embarrassing or illness-revealing medications; pregnancy tests (say if you don’t want the store you’re buying from to know you’re potentially expecting), or a donation to an organization where you wish to remain anonymous. As my colleague Andy Greenberg notes, Bitcoin
accounts for 99% of the assets of non-profit Defense Distributed , maker of the 3D-printed gun.
12. In-person Bitcoin purchases rely heavily on QR codes. I’ve never seen so many people actually using QR codes.
13. Living on Bitcoin is a great way to lose weight. As it is not widely accepted, you are prevented from spontaneous snacking. And because most transportation providers do not currently accept it, you must walk or bike a lot. I lost 5 pounds in a week .
14. There are people who are very excited about the idea behind Bitcoin.
They are the Bitcoin Believers. You can call them technolibertarians or digital gold bugs. They like the idea of a monetary system not controlled by a government that doesn't have a Fed that can choose to print money when it wants to. They are generous. I
received over 10 BTC in tips from enthusiastic readers.
15. There are people who are very excited about the financial opportunities behind Bitcoin. There is a whole economy of miners, mining equipment makers, payment processors, money exchangers, and speculators rising up around it. It is actually thriving. There are a ton of people trying to make money off of this thing. Some are legitimate businesses and some are pure gambles, such as the Redditor with a wife and child who used the $30,000 limit on his credit card to buy Bitcoin when it was valued at $14-25 USD and cashed out when it went above $200. He did not respond to a media request; he may still be celebrating.
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16. If you're not a technolibertarian or a Bitcoin opportunist, the appeal of Bitcoin is still revealing itself . (1) It lets you make digital purchases in stores without revealing your identity (by using a credit card with your name and number on it). It would let you do the same thing online. (2) Merchants can avoid paying high transaction fees and don't have to worry about fraudulent purchases that result in charge-backs. "When a transaction is done, it's done." If merchants were to offer discounts to Bitcoin shoppers, that would make the currency more appealing. (3) For spending internationally or while abroad, you don't have to worry about converting your money to the local currency, and the conversion fees that go along with that. (4) It allows people to make purchases when they are banned by other traditional payment providers.
"PayPal alone blocks access from over 60 countries, and many credit card companies have similar restrictions. Some are blocked for political reasons, some because of higher fraud rates, and some for other financial reasons," said WordPress in a blog post when it enabled Bitcoin payments. "Whatever the reason, we don’t think an individual blogger from Haiti, Ethiopia, or Kenya should have diminished access to the blogosphere because of payment issues they can’t control. Our goal is to enable people, not block them."
17. I won't totally believe in Bitcoin until I can buy a fresh cup of coffee with it.
18. Bitcoiners are the new vegans. Merchants that offer their goods to this niche community can tap into a fervent and loyal customer base.
OkCupid , WordPress, Reddit and others have already figured that out.
19. I am not the first person to try to live only on Bitcoin. In the summer of 2011, a 25-year-old electrical engineer went on a road trip from Connecticut to Los Angeles , only using Bitcoin the whole way. He accomplished this mainly by meeting up with people from the Bitcoin community to whom he paid BTC to buy things for him in U.S. dollars. He also got over 500 BTC in donations from the Bitcoin community. "It was pretty wild," he told me. "When I left 1 BTC = 1 USD; 1 tank of gas == 35 BTC. When I hit LA during the 2011 peak 1 BTC ~= 30 USD; 1 tank of gas == 1.2 BTC." He also survived, though he would not have had he obeyed my rule of only buying from merchants who sell goods and services for Bitcoin.
20. I couldn’t have done any of this story because I couldn’t pay for my smartphone with Bitcoin. The major flaw in my experiment: it would have been near impossible without the data plan on my Verizon iPhone -- which is one of the things I couldn't pay for with Bitcoin.
21. Bitcoin is on the U.S. government's radar. The Treasury Department told Bitcoin exchanges in March that they need to do due diligence to prevent money laundering. James Freis, counsel at Cleary Gottlieb and former director of the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, says Bitcoin is unique in that it's not possible to regulate the administrator (the absent Nakamoto) -- the administrator is now a diffuse network making Nakamoto's code a reality -- but it can regulate the companies that exchange Bitcoin for cash. Freis says the guidance offered by the Treasury department doesn't mean Bitcoin is legal or illegal, but that the exchanges "have to follow the rules.” Freis is skeptical about Bitcoin's future. "Bitcoin only has value because people accept that as a form of payment," he says. "But that acceptance could go away in an instant.”
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TV/Movies / Re: #bbnaija: Why Did Soma Omits Gifty's Name In This Tweet? by MaxelSilva(m): 5:34pm On Feb 10, 2017
I want all of dem Out of dat house..smells.lik poo.
Politics / Re: Buhari Inherited A Dire Situation Courtesy Of His Hapless Predecessor, Goodluck by MaxelSilva(m): 7:55pm On Feb 09, 2017
WHEN will the blame game stop..They better pull their hats out off their lying ass*s n get to work
Nairaland / General / Re: Beware Of This Kind Of Scam... by MaxelSilva(m): 1:51pm On Sep 02, 2016
Chai..Dis people nearly nack me of 150k
today...thankGod i googled d Power Indicator rings!
Ndi Ara..Awon werey..GOD bless nairaland oo..
Education / Re: INJUSTICE AGAINST FUNAABITES!! #savefunaab Trending On Twitter by MaxelSilva(m): 8:48pm On Aug 20, 2016
Karma iz a Bitch and it will surely comeback to bite those police crooks in the ass!..O Lord Where art thou.

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Celebrities / Popular Fuji Artist Alhaji Sule Alao Malaika And His Band Beats Up Funaabite. by MaxelSilva(m): 11:24pm On Nov 21, 2015
At the wedding party of a female student of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta which held today at Oluyole Area of Ibadan, Fuji artiste popularly known as MALAIKA molested a Final year student of FUNAAB who was at the party with other students to felicitate with their colleague. The Fuji artiste was said to have arrived very late to the event after the newly wedded couple had left. It was reported that he did not meet up with the agreements as he was scheduled to perform around 12pm to 2pm. The molested Funaabite was accused to be snapping pictures of empty seats while MALAIKA stubbornly performed to an empty crowd as all guests had left the event in annoyance because the Fuji artiste did not meet up with agreement. If not for the timely intervention of fellow students, the said student will have been seriously injured as he was rough handled and dealt with violently.
This is an injustice to the Greatest Nigerian Students by a popular figure who is supposed to be a role model. MALAIKA did not even deem it fit to tender apologies. We call on all progressive students far and wide to spread this message on every social media platform until this kind of oppression cease to exist. We request that Alhaji SULE ALAO MALAIKA tenders his unreserved apologies to all Funaabites and entire student structure of Nigeria or else he faces the wrath of the Gods of Aluta

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