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As much as paying for a ticket secures your right to be on a flight, there are certain behaviors, which if displayed by passengers can more or less invalidate their right to be on that flight. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 sure ways to get thrown off a flight.

Wearing Something Inappropriate

Inappropriate clothing such as offensive t-shirts and the like can result in a passenger being removed from a flight by flight attendants. Considering the fact that airlines don’t publish their dress codes, it might sometimes be unclear to passengers which kinds of dressing might be appropriate. However, if a flier or passenger sticks to the rules of decency in dressing for public settings as it applies to the country or area, there will hardly be an issue.

Getting in a Fight

It’s just not worth it to get in a fight on a plane, no matter how much the person annoys you. It’s similar to how useless it is to get in a roadside fight with someone over their crappy driving. In the end, the two of you are only going to cross paths temporarily, after which you might never see each other again. So, why risk embarrassing yourself by getting in a fight? Flight attendants typically don’t waste time in removing aggressive fliers from the plane, particularly if all attempts to calm them down are futile. It doesn’t matter who started it or who is at fault, it simply will not be tolerated on a plane, especially getting in a fight with a flight attendant. If the plane is in motion when a fight breaks out, and the flier refuses to calm down or stop being aggressive, he/she will naturally be removed from the flight immediately the plane touches down.

Blatantly Ignoring Requests to Turn Off Your Mobile Devices

If you throw a tantrum or react aggressively to being told by a flight attendant to turn off your mobile devices, or if you blatantly ignore such a request, chances are you are going to be thrown off the plane. However, if you simply forget to turn off your mobile device and it maybe rings on the tarmac, no flight attendant is going to harass you. They’ll simply remind you to turn it off. As long as you are not throwing a tantrum or being aggressive and unreasonable with a flight attendant’s polite request, you’re hardly going to be thrown off that plane.

Being Drunk

If you appear drunk or act drunk, you might get thrown off a plane or not even be allowed to board in the first place. Visibly intoxicated passengers are typically not allowed on flights; the same thing applies if a passenger appears to be under the influence of drugs. Most airline reserve the right to refuse to transport passengers that appear to be intoxicated or under the influence of drugs.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/4-sure-ways-get-thrown-off-flight/

Despite suffering through slavery, oppression, mismanagement and a host of other vices, Africa is a continent that has fought to remain strong, admirable and formidable amidst suffering and oppression. One of such admirable aspects of Africa is its achievement in significant areas of life and work that many might not even be aware of. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, fills in this gap by sharing 4 great achievements of ancient Africans most people don’t know.

Mathematical Achievements

Many modern high-school level concepts in mathematics were first developed in Africa. More than 35,000 years ago, Egyptians scripted textbooks that included basic mathematical concepts like division and multiplication of fractions and geometric formulas to calculate the area and volume of shapes. The ancient Egyptians were the ones who considered a circle to be 360 degrees and estimated pie at 3.16. They also calculated distances and angles, solved algebraic equations and carried out mathematically based predictions on the size of the floods of the Nile. In addition, eight thousand years ago, the people in present-day Zaire developed their own numeration system, as did the Yorubas in present-day Nigeria. The Yoruba numeration system was based on units of 20 (instead of 10), and scholars have lauded this because it required an impressive amount of abstract reasoning and subtraction to identify different numbers.

Architecture and Engineering

Many ancient African societies built sophisticated environments. The Egyptians pyramids are very good examples of the engineering feats of ancient African societies. Later in the 12th century, in the far south, there were hundreds of great and architecturally brilliant cities built in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Massive stone complexes were the hub of these cities, and one even included a 250-meter-long, 15,000-ton curved granite wall. The cities had huge castle-like compounds with numerous rooms for specific tasks like iron-smithing. In the 13th century, the Mali empire was another African society that boasted of impressive cities, including Timbuktu, with grand palaces, mosques and universities.


Metallurgy and Tools

Some ancient African societies were responsible for a good number of the advances in metallurgy and tool making. Advances in Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago were believed to have surpassed those of the Europeans, and were astonishing to the Europeans when they learned of them. For example, Ancient Tanzanian furnaces could reach 1,800°C, which was 200 to 400°C warmer than those of the Romans.

Astronomical Achievements

It is believed that several ancient African cultures birthed discoveries in astronomy. Some of these discoveries are foundations on which the field of astronomy still relies on for footing, while some others were so advanced that their mode of discovery has still not been understood. Egyptians were responsible for a good number of these discoveries and they charted the movement of the sun, constellations and the cycles of the moon. They are believed to have divided the year into 12 parts and developed a yearlong calendar system containing 365 and a quarter days. They made their clocks with moving water and used sundial-like clocks.

Additionally, the Dogon people of Mali also garnered a wealth of detailed astronomical observations, with discoveries so advances that some modern day scholars actually refuse to credit them with the discoveries. They credit their discoveries instead to space aliens or unknown Europeans travelers. The Dogon people are believed to have known about Saturn’s rings, Jupiter’s moons, the spiral structure of the Milky Way and the orbit of the Sirius star system. Hundreds of years ago, they plotted orbits in this system accurately through the year 1990. They knew this system contained a primary star and a secondary star (now called Sirius B) of immense density and not visible to the naked eye.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/4-great-achievements-ancient-africans-people-dont-know/

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It is a known fact that entrepreneurs bootstrap when starting out because of limited finance. This is one of the main reasons why less than 50% of them survive the first five years in the market. To take your startup to the next level, entrepreneurs are regularly searching for venture capitalist and investors to invest in their businesses. Of course, startup investors desire innovative companies to invest their monies. However, they won’t drop a dime if they do not see the following things highlighted by Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, in your startup.

Strong leadership teams

To secure startup investor funding, show that you have smart, strategic, and successful leaders. You must show the competency of both your company founders and leadership team. So, endeavour to leverage your leadership team’s professional experience for increased investor interest in your startup.

Clear ROI

Return on investment (ROI) is the time needed to recoup the initial expenses invested in a business. Most startups aim to achieve this within the first one year of operations, but in certain sectors, it takes considerably longer due to high entry costs and low-profit margins. Would-be investors are aware that quite a number of startups that receive venture funding are unable to immediately make returns. As such, they want to see some real evidence that within a particular period, they will begin to get these returns.

Consumer interest in your product

Investors want to know that your product has a future in the marketplace. So, the onus is on you to show them proof that it has a market niche of its own and consumers are interested in your product.

Transparency

Transparency is important to increase investor trust in your business. No startup investor wants to enter a deal when they do not feel like they have all the facts. Be open and honest about the state of your business, the challenges you are facing and how you plan to surmount them.

Growth potentials

Investors do not want a company that will be stagnant. They want to invest in startups that will thrive and eventually provide a return on their investment. Therefore, your business should be built with scalability and growth in mind.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/5-key-things-investors-looking-startup/

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Originally posted on http://www.opinions.ng/zambians-react-chipolopolo-eagles/.

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Zambians finding the defeat difficult to handle.

Meanwhile:

Watch How Egypt Qualified for Russia 2018 to End 27-Year Wait

http://www.opinions.ng/watch-egypt-qualified-russia-2018-end-27-year-wait/

Nigeria’s Super Eagles defeated the Chipolopolo of Zambia 1-0 in Uyo on Saturday to qualify for the World Cup at the expense of their opponents.

Many Zambians have not taken this defeat well as our research on their comments after the defeat indicates as obtained from the Lusaka Times (https://www.lusakatimes.com/2017/10/07/nigeria-end-zambias-2018-dreams/).

Read their comments next:

Mzambia wa Zamani October 7, 2017 at 10:10 pm:

“Damn ,those Nigerian internet scammers must have used some cheating methods.Nigerians could never have qualified for Russia 2018 cleanly.”

Wanu Ngwee October 7, 2017 at 11:56 pm

“Now, can anyone help me understand why the Zambian soccer commentators on Supersport seem shy or scared to known to be supporting Chipolopolo- even when their counterparts are so clear about wanting their teams to win ”

AKASHAMBATWA October 8, 2017 at 12:10 am

“@1.4 Wenu …. it has angered me so much losing to a Team full of fluffers and hoopers from the English Premier league is so painful at least if those players came Seria A, LALIGA, BUNDASLIGA not EPL. It WILL TAKE ENGLAND ITSELF 200YRS FROM NOW TO WIN THE WORLD CUP, WHAT MORE FOREIGN PLAYERS.

Just see how coaches from top EPL clubs sweat and pant in UEFA Champions league when paired with likes of BARCELONA, BAYERN, MADRID. JUVENTUS, PSG.”

Nostradamus October 8, 2017 at 12:39 am

“I blame the PF government, they used all energies discussing corruption allegations. Forgetting that Nigeria, the world best thieves were offering $10,000 to each player just to beat Zambia.
2021.”

Flagrante Delicto October 7, 2017 at 10:36 pm

“Hard luck to our boys. You gave all you could but this world is run by shadow governments and the elite. If we had won today the Nigerians would have used all means possible (match fixing included) to beat Algeria. It’s a money game at the end of the day as confirmed by Herve Renard when he told CAF that you could not allow Zambia to go to the world cup coz Zambia is not ****. Sorry if I’ve offended someone.”

Enka October 8, 2017 at 1:49 am

“Emotions aside ,clearly the better team won.Even by comparing decades of int’l performances and stats Nigeria clearly stands out as having better experience than chipolopolo.Lets not kid ourselves Zambia -we’re still toddlers in football while Naija is a teenager.”
Kayla October 8, 2017 at 1:58 am

“Games like that need experienced players you can not drop almost all the experienced players and replace them new ones. You blend them not just dropping them for your own reasons. Don’t be prejudiced give give the older players a chance and slowly phase them out. That was a competitive game that needed the help of the seniors.. players straight from dynamos or Zanaco with no exposure.. the won the last game but I still insist that every game is different… No player is indispensable but please don’t just snub players because you have that power…be humble.”

The THIRD EYE October 8, 2017 at 6:23 am

“Defeat is painful and frustrating to anyone of us…But we must show the spirit of sportmanship…Nigeria has beaten Zambia both in their home and away.This means the Super Eagles are the better team.

Zambia has a good team (zero to zero in the first half of the game), but they met a better team.

Football is not played in the media or in the pages of the newspapers…( The Zambian Coach should note that “pride goes before a fall”)….statements like…I am praying for Nigeria to lose to Cameroun or I am coming to inflict pain on all Nigerians…are beyond a psychological warefare, but plain stupid. Congratulations Super Eagles. May God bless Nigeria and help all the other nations.”

Sorry Zambians better luck next time.

President Buhari: 'Super Eagles Gave us a 57th Anniversary Gift' http://www.opinions.ng/buhari-super-eagles-gave-us-57th-anniversary-gift/

The age of information and technology is at its peak and many are resorting to emerging technological advances to improve the quality of their lives and ease their work process. One of such people are teacher, lecturers and the like, who are steadily taking advantage of technology to enhance their teaching processes and lighten their workload. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 smart ways to use tech in the classroom.

Using Videos For Mini Lessons

This is a smart way to resonate effectively with visual learners. Teachers, lecturers and the like can add videos to your lesson plans to shake things up in a positive and interesting way for your students. They can also find or make relevant videos on specific topics or study areas, and play for students to listen to and learn from. This helps to further improve the students’ understanding of the topic or subject being taught. There are many websites that host teacher-made video content, which can help teachers with getting videos for mini lessons. TeacherTube, is an example of such websites, it’s like an education only version of YouTube.

Organizing Live Videos

As a teacher or lecturer, you can actually co-ordinate live videos for your students and invite guest lecturers or industry experts to deliver lessons to your students using conferencing technology. What make this method so great for the learning is that, it makes it easier for guest lecturers or industry experts to help educate your students on related subjects, with little or no stress. It can really help to expose students to new ideas and lighten your workload as a teacher or lecturer. Additionally, you can ask your students to prepare questions while listening to the live lecture, and ask the guest lecturer about them afterwards to make the process more interactive. Skype and Google Hangouts are great conferencing technologies to use for organizing live videos, and Skype even has a list of guest speakers who are willing to voluntarily speak out about their topics of expertise.

Set Up Student Blogs

Blogging can be a great creative outlet for students, especially for those in language arts classes and other writing-centric subjects or courses. WordPress is a great blogging platform to consider using and it can be used to host each student’s blog. Some of the products that students can create on the blog include: poems, short essays, movie or book reviews, diary entries from perspectives of historical figures or characters in a book or novel etc. Once you set up a blog for your students, blogging can easily become one of the easiest ways to introduce and use technology in the classroom.

Infographics

Infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge that is intended to present information in a quick, clear and easy to understand way. It is a great way to summarize your lessons to your students in a visual, colourful and concise way. There are many free online infographic makers that teachers can take advantage of to create infographics to use as teaching tools in the classroom.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/4-smart-ways-use-tech-classroom/

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Ikebesupa:
.. I suppose she is exporting me

To China, Canada and Colorado.

Flashmove:
English is our official language, they supposed tp use it ,let everyone understand it. Some people in the Army may not even know the meaning of the inscription.

The person raised a point you glibly ignored. It is like saying Latin should be removed from law. Do you speak Latin?

whitebeard:
Too much story for just army....besides Nigerian army really needs a new logo, our official language is English, but Arabic is what's used to write whatever is written on the logo, the army is for everyone in Nigeria, not for a certain set of people, such changes would be effected in the future..if the present generation lack the mentality and knowledge to do it..!

Besides Nigerian army also needs a new code of conduct, a new oath...imagine soldiers who swore to protect Nigerians on there graduation having completed how many years/month of training, would now come out and be thinking they are higher than civilians..instead of them to show real love to the people they swore to protect, u would see some of them punishing civilians on the street (just one soldier) a big disgrace to the army..

A huge reform is coming to the army and I can tell u it would be hot and the victims of the reforms would be the generals especially, incompetent fat, pot bellied, niggas that use sticks to support themselves from falling when walking and they call it swagger stick (what a shame) keep deceiving yourselves..!! It either u kit up and show the real power of a general or u are out..!!!

Nor everyone speaks English in Nigeria. Removing Arabic excludes more people since you say 'it is for everyone'.

IamPatriotic:
Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu will both be busy now putting together how the Change agenda of the Buhari's government qualified Eagle for Russia 2018, bunch of crooks.

LOL, you mean something like this http://www.opinions.ng/buhari-super-eagles-gave-us-57th-anniversary-gift/

Buhari: 'Super Eagles Gave us a 57th Anniversary Gift' http://www.opinions.ng/buhari-super-eagles-gave-us-57th-anniversary-gift/

Homeboiy:
He is trying to be a good man since 2019 is drawing near

Abi... how man go do? The hustle is real.

See you in Russia then Turakin Adamawa

Originally posted on --->http://www.opinions.ng/see-atiku-abubakar-congratulated-super-eagles-qualifying-world-cup/

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That the Super Eagles of Nigeria beat the Chipolopolo of Zambia 1-0 to qualify for Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup is no longer news.

However, what you might not know is that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar took to Twitter to congratulate the Eagles in the funniest of ways .

See the tweet next:

LexngtonSteele:

Unfortunately, verifying these stories is very hard. Atenu-denu (second hand/ 3rd accounts ) are often embellished.

Check the Nairaland comments on that notorious Zenith bank, Owerri robbery BEFORE video evidence.

1 person said over 30 robbers came and killed EVERYONE. Turns out the robbers were four and the victims likely 5 when video came out.

A very smart response.

Mediapace:
Nice .

Hope Dstv no go bribe those technician sha ?

Very funny. ABS has big money behind it and it doesn't need to collect bribe from DSTV.

TSTV the Nigerian-owned pay-TV service recently launched on October 1 looks set to push market-leader DSTV to limit with its low subscription rates and bundling of Internet with satellite television.

Many Nigerians have wondered if the company has what it takes to compete effectively against such a strong competitor especially with a service that is not widely available from current market operators.

However, our research indicates that TSTV has the backing of ABS which is a leading global Satellite operator which provides in its words: “Direct to Home (DTH), Cable TV distribution (CATV), Cellular Backhaul, VSAT and Internet Backbone services with diverse IP transit through its European, Middle East and Asian internet gateways.”

This means that TSTV is indeed covered in the technical aspect of its operations.

According to Tom Choi, CEO of ABS: “TSTV has the right content and premium product to satisfy the growing demand of Nigeria. We hope ABS-3A can assist them to take Nollywood to great heights. ABS has strategically located its newly launched satellites at prime video neighborhoods at 3°W, 75°E and 159°E. We have successfully developed DTH platforms across Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, South Asia and Russia/CIS. Our goal is to bring quality and affordable entertainment to a wider population.”

While Nigerians wait for the sale of TSTV to begin, it seems it is indeed ready and able to provide a degree of quality that will satisfy many Nigerians.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/tstvs-technical-partner-bid-outwit-dstv-unveiled/

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Nigeria’s Pay-TV sector: Can TSTV Walk the Talk?

http://www.opinions.ng/nigerias-pay-tv-sector-can-tstv-walk-talk/

Is she writing English or something else? Never read so much incoherence at once.

The tips here are very informative about Monkeypox http://www.opinions.ng/10-things-need-know-highly-infectious-monkeypox/

There are moments where you need your and it stubbornly refuses to power on. The instant reaction of many people is that of fear, worry and concern. This expected reaction is because many of us cannot do without our phones. There are so many reasons why your phone may not come on. Before you take it to an engineer in your desperation, Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency shares quick thins to do.

Charge your phone

In case your phone’s battery is dead, your phone might show empty battery when you try to turn it on. However, if the battery is completely dead, your smartphone will not respond at all when you press the power button. A quick charge of your phone for few minutes should solve the problem.

Remove the battery

Your phone can hard freeze and refuse to respond. If the device is completely frozen, your device may be powered and running but the device refuses to start as the OS is frozen and fails to respond when the power button is pressed. In this case, you can do a hard reset to fix it. This will make the device to reboot.

Hard reset

If the phone battery is not removable, you need to long-press the power button. This is regarded as a hard reset. Hard resetting your phone battery means that you need to hold the button for 30 seconds or longer. Your phone should perform optimally after this.

Restore factory setting

While sometimes, your phone might begin booting, but the Operating System is crashing or freezing. You can reboot your device to the recovery mode and do a factory reset. The best way to boot up the device is to use recovery mode to do a factory reset. Power down your phone and boot it by holding several buttons at the same time. The buttons that your press will depend on your phone. This will override all your settings and restore your phone to the mode it came from the factory.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/4-things-smartphone-not-power/

We all deal with stress from time to time. And in many ways, a little stress can be healthy. But when stress is prolonged or chronic, meaning it sticks around for weeks, months, or even years, it can lead to negative changes to your immune system and other biological functions of your body. In line with this, Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares some of the ways stress can make you sick.

Your teeth are fractured or damaged

Psychological stress really can cause you to grind your teeth—both during the day and at night while you sleep. Teeth grinding can lead to tooth fractures, cavities, and other dental issues, so it’s definitely a habit you’ll want to break.

You’re putting on weight

Long-term stress can cause you to add weight. This is because stress promotes cravings for high-calorie food. Of course, you know high-calorie foods can lead to weight increase.

Your joints ache

Stress promotes low-grade inflammation, it can heighten symptoms of joints ache in different parts of your body.

You’re always tired

The links between stress and poor sleep are well-established. But even if you feel you’re sleeping well, there’s evidence that stress may trigger feelings of fatigue.

You have headaches

Tension-type headaches have long been associated with stress. Stress-triggered headaches aren’t the result of rising heart rates, but instead seemed tied to over-working yourself when stressed out.

Your blood pressure is too high

To help you survive a precarious situation, stress fires up your sympathetic nervous system, which in turn cranks up your blood pressure so that your limbs and muscles are ready for action. None of that is an issue in the short term. But over time, chronically elevated Blood Pressure can overwork your heart, leading to damaged arteries and blockages. Be careful to put stress in check to forestall a rise in BP.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/5-warning-signs-stress-make-sick/

South American World Cup qualifying just got more interesting tonight with Lionel Messi’s Argentina slipping out of the play-off spot after a disappointing 0-0 home draw against Peru.

With one more game left away to Ecuador, Argentina can still qualify with a win in that match and if Chile, Colombia or Peru drop points in their final games.

Peru face Colombia and Chile face Brazil in their final group games. A win for Argentina in Ecuador should see them at least take 5th position and enter a 2-legged play-off with Oceania World Cup qualifying 3rd Round winner, New Zealand.

It will be interesting to see if Argentina and Messi pull this off.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/argentina-messi-verge-missing-russia-2018/

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MhizzAJ:
Cool tips
I could remember when i travelled from Birnin Kebbi to Lagos

One of my worst trip ever

Tell us the story.

ikbnice:
Which kin wahala be this again

It is like Smallpox cousin is back with a vengeance.

TRADELYN:
Thanks for sharing.

You are welcome. It is better to have useful information than be sorry.

Taking overnight bus is often something many travellers don’t look forward to due to the risks involved. The driver may overspeed in order to cover more kilometres, the bus may break down in the middle of nowhere and of course, there is little or no security. Hence, travellers either prefer to fly or take a day bus.

Regardless, there are situations whereby you have no choice than to take a night bus. Will you abandon your journey at this point? No, you have to travel no matter how terrified you are. Do not worry, Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, has got your back as we share tips for taking and surviving overnight bus trip.

Take a reliable transporter

You will find uncountable buses ferrying people to different destinations at terminals in Lagos. Do not just jump on anyone because of the enticing or giveaway price. Go to the main park to get a bus. Also, endeavour to book a bus in good condition so that you do not experience frequent bus breakdowns. If you do not want to go through this, you can call your friend to recommend good night buses before going to the bus station.

Arrive early

Travelling in the night does not mean you should arrive late at the park. If you do, you may not find any night bus. By 5pm, all the seats may have been sold out and by latest 6pm, they are off. So, arrive early.

Do not keep money and valuables in one place

No bus will stop for you to use ATM in case you need cash. Therefore, you should carry enough cash on you. This said, do not keep your money and other valuables in one place. Endeavour to distribute them into different places so that you will not be stranded in the event of theft.

Be careful what you eat and drink

Any food that will prompt you to use the restroom must be avoided. At the same time, do not drink too much water. The driver may just ignore your pleas to stop for you to ease yourself.

Dress for the cold

You might be sweating by the time you arrive at the bus station, but it’s amazing what a few hours of air-conditioning can do for your body temperature. Keep a warm jumper handy and consider taking a big scarf as well. You do not know when you may need it.

Bring power bank and headphones

Your headphones will come in handy when you are not talking to your seatmate. You can listen to your favourite song. As for the power bank, you can use it when your phone battery is low.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/ultimate-tips-surviving-overnight-bus-trip/

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No wonder that South African on Nairaland is excited to be in Nigeria.

positivetaught:
This is a PDP/Johnathan formulated brilliant economic promotion policy now been claimed by APC,but the would tell you PDP ran the country aground n they inherited a totally collapse country, hypocrites.

It predates Jonathan

Publicity stunt jor. From Limo to Bricklayer sure to drive crazy traffic.

VellyG:
Bein sport has an English sports channel exclusively for premier league on CTL. Am surprised most people don't know about CTL. Honestly if CTL was in Lagos dstv for don hear am.

I am wondering too. They used to be around a very long time ago.