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Was reading through BBC trending articles when I stumbled upon a Celebrity-Political controversies post as a singer portray the president of Russia to promote GAY!
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The article was titled "#BBCtrending: Putin's 'gay kiss' at Lovato gig" and the content goes does:

Russian social media users are campaigning against the US singer Demi Lovato after her concert at New York's gay pride event on Sunday featured a controversial use of an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

During a performance of Lovato's latest track Really Don't Care, two of her male backing dancers shared a kiss. One of them was naked except for a portrait of Vladimir Putin attached to his underwear. Shortly afterwards, hashtags about the event began trending in Russia.
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See the controversial act in picture below:
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Thousands tweeted #DemiHurtsRussianLovatics ("Lovatics" is how the singer's fans refer to themselves) to show their anger over the incident. #StayStrongPutin has also been used as a way of demonstrating support for the president. "I used to be neutral towards her, but now I'm totally disappointed," wrote one Russian on Twitter. "Now I feel like our country is one big family! Putin unites people!" said another.

The vast majority of Russian social media reaction was strongly against the Putin "gay kiss". But many of Lovato's fans expressed support for the singer. "I'm sorry but she's just standing up for gay rights. Putin's horrible towards the gay community and it's SO wrong." wrote one fan.

The singer herself took to her Twitter page on Monday to respond robustly to the deluge of negative tweets. Lovato denied accusations she'd used offensive language to describe Vladimir Putin, but added "I did have Putin struttin in a rainbow thong. Get your facts straight bitchesss."

What is your take on this article?

CCN reported few hours ago that a cargo plane crashed into a commercial building shortly after takeoff from an airport in Nairobi, Kenya, early Wednesday, the country's airport authority said.
All four people on board are feared dead.

The Fokker 50 plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
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Because the crash occurred early in the morning, there was no one inside the building, the airport authority said. Thanks to God for those occupants that they left home earlier to work.

Mutuwa: Its really a bad habit,tho rampant nowadays.it really has no moral standard.

seemly uncontrollable thought

okpara ugo: I am a humble guy who has some rich friends who struggled their ways to the top without the golden spoon syndrome when they were born.

I happen to see that some guys who are out of relationship for one thing or the other or were unable to marry their first love are finding it very hard to settle down with ladies of their choice. These ladies aged between 22-27 tend to come around to enjoy expensive dates and enjoy driving in their cars but will hardly accede to a discussion on marriage.

One question they often ask these successful guys is, " Why not get another job ". One can easily see the concern on their faces when asking this question. Oftentimes these guys are shocked by these questions as some of them have worked in banks and telecom firms before meeting these girls. But right now developed businesses which they do and earn good profit comparable to their salaries as paid employees. In addition some have built good houses, own cars and businesses.

Very vivid is mike's case who was formerly a white collar job worker who when he was living in a one room apartment had many girlfriends and most of these girls were begging him for marriage. He counted about 3 girls who once knelt down in his room to ask for his hands in marriage. Mike now finds it hard to comprehend that now that he owns a business and drives a big car and occupy a big house, what he meets are player ladies. Mike has counted at least 5 of his lady friends who are asking him to get another bank job.

Mike tries to explain to them that getting another bank job is not the problem but meeting the banks deposit targets as he has dumped several offers in the past after he called it quit from the corporate world. One now wonders whether these ladies are disconnected from reality that one, there are no jobs and two, to maintain a job, one cannot actively maintain a thriving business.

Ken once discussed with me how often ladies accepted to be friends with him when he was on tie and suit and worked as an office assistant in a corporate firm. He had a wonderful command of english language though he capped his education at the OND level. He developed love for a particular business and started it while his younger brother ran the business for him he still maintained his job. Later on he found out that his profit from business started exceedinghos salary and he later quit his job to pursue his business fully. Today mike is very successful and lives in his own house, though still single. The ladies he sees are more interested in friendship than in settling down and he has also encountered same questions like," Why not get another job" from his lady friends.

To sum up this write up, why will a lady accept to date a bank contract staff with a salary of N60k or an oil company contract staff with a salary of N80k in preference to a businessman with proof of wealth ?

Those they are meeting are not yet serious ones because most good and marriageable ladies out there even hardly accept offer for expensive shopping and clubbing etc. till they are sure of the commitment of such man.

Tell your friends to check it if they are in search of real life partner then they should stop flashy life style cause everyone knows that it doesn't most times last longer neither is guarantee for steadiness.....

I sometimes indulge in this but quickly put my mind back on the moving vehicles. Months ago a youth copper was knocked down dead by a moving car while he was carried away pressing his blackberry.

When is it appropriate to give attention to phone when walking by the road side? You can also include a real life ordeal to educate others.

Yemlizzy: Of course! Its quite compulsory but our society would turn deaf ears to issues like this. In the longrun,it would do lot of good in nuturing the young ones who seem obvilious to anything pertaining to their sexuality.

good contribution...thanks....

The news making up the homepage and tv programmes about celebrities this days is either sudden death or marriage breakups. But, today I want every readers of this to contribute how to help save these marriages for one genuine reason to me. The reason is that our little children are watching, loving and following this celebrities. Helping them is helping our future (the little ones) from taking up such to be part of how life should be since successful and popular people show that off frequently (shake off bad habits) to them.

Any ANTIDOTE? Please recommend here!

Ujujoan: They want to do cashless policy abi? Yet when you make an online transfer they charge you almost N120.

So what will I benefit from registering for online banking, getting my password, paying for hardware/software token etc if at the end I'm still going to charged every time I make an online transaction

Nonsense people with nonsense policies.

hmmmm...that is the trick on every transfer through current account to other banks oooooooo

solemate: God bless u

AMEN...........................unlimited times.......

Dual Core: This is a script to backup your detabase. If you're a PHP developer you can modify it to backup your files.

http://pastebin.com/9rpedgKu

THANKS so much...already open to check the page and saw the code.....busy now but will check later.THANKS AGAIN SIR!

shikshark: trust me.......this casless policy cannot work in oyo state

Chai....oga please light up the reasons so we can compare and contrast some with those places that it is now working ooooooo

Techwriter: Jesus said that wisdom is justified by her children. In other words check the end of a concept to justify the mean s in the West where they have more psychologists and research they have more divorce and relationship problems. Those in Nigeria reading those research instead of the Bible end up like them: divorces and heart break. Teach your children the Bible and show them godly living by your lifestyle and you would need bother a little about s3x education

That is true but not all will do that so can we start first from what will still have positive impact on all either you believe in JESUS or not.

dom: pls what the hell is intimate education when a forum for matured minds like nairaland cannot call words by its real name i wonder what you expect from primary schools. Maybe na even this otiose and indiscriminate censorship vex the hackers sef.

Am sorry please....but I even tried to restate it clearly that is while I requoted it as "Is it appropriate to integrate sexual education into informal education for children or not?" but nairaland programming changed it to intimacy after over 4 corrects I left it and if you read the article you will notice that there is nothing like intimacy except the programming also changed it. visit the source to confirm.thanks!

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If you are interested as a Doctor/Nurse jobs in the above named country jobs(fat salary, free accommodation, modern equipments etc.)...then whatsapp or contact me on 0 7 0 6 6 0 5 2 2 2 8...I have a comprehensive guide on it for interested people....God save NAIJA one day... or what is your take on this?

Dual Core: There is a difference between mistakes and carelessness. I think putting the word "mistake" in my first post was a wrong choice. A mistake is when you do something you don't know you shouldn't do. Carelessness is when you do something you know you shouldn't do.

This is not a mistake made by Nairaland, it is carelessness.


The most important question is: What should I backup?
Most sites are dynamic today, such dynamism is powered by the database. So a key aspect of your backup should be your database. There is a tendency to think that we will never need a backup so we become careless with the issue. Personally I am too busy to be running backups manually, well thanks to cron jobs.

A simple script can be used to make remote backups of your files and databases. When placed in a cron job, this script can run hourly, daily, weekly without your attending to it. You may choose to have such backups packaged and sent to your mailbox or any other hosting account you have.

The key thing is that there should not be a single point of failure between your main site's location and its backup location.
Put simply, if you have your site in Port Harcourt, put the backup in Sokoto.

is the script what could be given out...if not how may we talk better maybe on whastapp, email, etc. sir.

juwoonn: I forgot to mention that. Almost everybody in a center writes the same thing, in fact a candidate forgot the photocopy of one of the answers in his/her booklet (teacher involved malpractice) and another forgot a page of the keypoint in the booklet. The education sector is really deteriorating by the year.

chai...it be like say education no dey soft like african magic for our students this days oooooooo

That is better.....he learnt his lessons

The Central Bank of Nigeria has put in place modalities to introduce the cashless policy 30 states of the federation having completed phases 1 and 2 of the policy in six pilot states- Abia, Anambra, Lagos, Ogun, Kano, Rivers- and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The CBN, in a notice by its Corporate Affairs Department to all stakeholders and the general public, said Phase 3 of the policy’s implementation would commence in the remaining 30 States of the Federation on July 1 as scheduled.

The apex bank also said it has mapped out modalities to ensure the cashless policy succeeds in other parts of the state as it did in the pilot states.

The Head, Shared Services at the Central Bank, Mr Chidi Umeano, who was a guest on Channels Television’s daily business programme, Business Morning, said the apex bank is doing all it can to deploy the needed infrastructure to support the policy.

According to him, the one year waiver of charges on withdrawals is one measure to give time for the infrastructure to be put in place.

He says the Central Bank has carried its sensitisation campaign to the rural communities and is still doing more to sensitise Nigerians.

The CEO, Cowry Assets Management Ltd, Mr Johnson Chukwu, who was also a contributor on the programme, said the cashless policy has benefited the economy in so many ways but urged the Central Bank to do more towards putting all that is needed in place to ensure its efficiency and success.
Sourced from http://www.channelstv.com/2014/06/30/cbn-to-commence-nation-wide-cashless-policy/
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Are you prepared as a Nigerian?

Soclose007: Pls where can i see those chemical to buy?

visit any reputable market for selling related ingredients nearest to you and get it from them. In abeokuta, places like KUTO is recommended.

bestplanb: Nice write up.Try and add Citric Acid as your preservative

since it is not a bar soap or consumable foods..preservative are not necessary...although I may enquire more about related stuffs later...thanks....

naijacutee: Are all the components above safe for handling by non-chemists?

Yes, just use RUBBER GLOVE and preferably mixed the ingredients with turning stick for more safty.......

the title although to be "Is it appropriate to integrate sexual education into informal education for children or not?" but due to space.

Going by the rate at which RAPE is rampant in the society all over the world today. I am of the opinion that SEX EDUCATION should become integral part of INFORMAL EDUCATION received by children from parents/guardians to enlighten them from falling prey and reduce the front page disheartening news from newspaper daily, return self-esteem to our children and also build a future without bitterness, resentment and guilt in both parent and children.

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sex education picture

It is better thought at home by parent/guardians than through movies, aggressive adult ready to take advantage, nude and pornographic websites that flood the internet today and other unreliable sources that has been a major influence on these kids. I will like every parent to read the professional advice below from Dr. John O’Connor, Ph. D as broadcasted by LoveToKnow (thanksvery much) platform.

Teach Your Children About Sexual Predators
When Dr. John O’Connor, Ph. D. worked as a correction officer and overnight counselor in a prison (he has also been practicing psychology for thirty years), he learned that sexual predators usually don’t act crazy, psychotic, or violent. They blend into society and look like someone’s brother or the next door neighbor.

Sexual Predators Behave a Certain Way
Sexual predators often target children they view as vulnerable, lack self-esteem, are lonely, or are being abused or neglected at home, but any child can be vulnerable.

“Sexual predators are very smart. They know who to target and what to do to take advantage of children,” Dr. O’Connor states. “Also, they all try and establish themselves as a trusted part of that child’s life, to fill an emotional void the child isn’t getting.”

However, Dr. O’Connor reminds us that all children and parents should be aware of warning signs given by a potential predator:

Showing extra attention to a child.
The adult asks to spend time alone with the child that is beyond group-sanctioned activities.
Brings little gifts for the child.
Encourages your children to keep secrets from you.
Touches your children in an inappropriate way, from being overly “chummy” to touching private areas.
Uses threats and intimidation to scare your child into not telling.
Talks about private parts or sex.
Teach Your Children What to Do
Teaching your children the proper behavior they should expect from all adults in their lives helps prevent victimization. Think of this as an extension of teaching them not to run out into oncoming traffic.

Good Touch Versus Bad Touch
Your child should know that there are certain areas on their bodies that adults should not touch. Don’t be afraid to point them out, either on a drawing or a doll, or their own bodies. Teach your child to state that it is not okay to touch them there and leave the room and call a parent.

Have Them Practice the Word NO!
Help your children feel comfortable telling any adult NO! who is not behaving properly.

Teach Your Children to Avoid Situations That Will Make Them Vulnerable
Examples of situations to avoid are: http://informationvilla.com/blog/2014/06/integrate-sexual-education-into-informal-education.html

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With the above article from a professional psychologist , do you now think that is right or appropriate to integrate sexual education into informal education for children or not?

Am very happy that my article here was perfectly right as Mr. Seun Osewa has finally consented to this when I read a recent post from him.... Website is an enterprises that requires strict management and monitoring as he said. WEBMASTERS lets beef up our website security and call out for help from reliable webmaster when issues strucks check his post at https://www.nairaland.com/1793151/concerning-catastrophic-loss-valuable-data

I was present in a seminar hosted in my church (RCCG) on a special Entrepreneur Sunday and below is what I learnt from the seminar which can be beneficial to anyone also and can be developed into business part-time or full-time.
NOTE: The following Ingredients is for 25 litres of water

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S/N NAME QUANTITY/AMOUNT PURPOSE QUANTITY OF WATER TO BE USED
1. Sulphoric Acid 1 & half (use all) Foaming agent 3 litres
2. Natrosol Quantity sold for #600 (use all) For thickening 15 litres
3. STTP Quarter (use all) Booster for foaming 3 litres
4. Soda Ash Quantity sold for #50 (use all) Thickening 3 litres
5. Caustic Soda Quantity sold for #100 (use all) To remove dirts 2 litres
6. Colour (green-optional) As required or Quantity sold for #50 (use all) To give colour As required
7. Texapon Quantity sold for #130 (use all) Foaming agent Mixed in the same water with sulphonic acid
8. Perfume 1/8 Quantity sold for #350 (use all) For good fragrance It’s already in liquid form
9. Containers - - -

WARNING: It is recommended to use protective rubber hand-glove when mixing each ingredient separately to avoid any hazard resulting from direct body contact before final mixture.

METHOD: for more details and mixing method visit full free guide below

How To Make Liquid Soap

What is your take on the guide above?

Dual Core: What serious organisation or web master keeps backups of a server on the same server? Why are they called backups?

Sadly its a common trend and its a shame that people who you expect should know better still make very silly mistakes intentionally mostly because they have this feeling that it wont happen to them....until it happens.

That is true....but can you help with safer mediums to save the backups outside like mail etc....Please list them if you do not mind because other webmasters are reading......
THANKS!!!

ibitomisi: Lol! If I have half of the knowledge you have on web design, mehn!!!! leme just save it.

ahh..you made me laugh like this naaaaaaunnnn just a little boy still learning though!!!

ibitomisi: nice job.

Thanks and please any contribution if you are a webmaster......be rate of hacking attempts on websites this day is a concern to me....having more than two website that am managing...tired of all this...please help oooooooo.....although I have security on ground but learning more is also essential....

I couldn't hold this anymore but pour out my heart to help my readers worldwide especially Nigerians. To the glory of God am a website designer at Foskaay Enterprises and had pretty good works online like informationvill.com ; careerpingger.com ; kaybaba.com ; revlisimo.com ; shop.revlisimo.org etc. doing fine in their own paste some own by me or designed for others. The reason for this introduction is not to market my skill but to get my readers aware that the writer of this article is not a newbie nor ja-ja-si (dummie) to the website world so you can listen to pick one or two things. In quick list I want to highlights lessons to learn from Nairaland hacks which kept it down for nothing less than 5 days (Dollars missed daily for Seun Osewa and other NairaLanders making it big through the platform).

Lessons:

1. Treat website like business even if you don't earn from it yet or ever!
Although this may not affect Seun Osewa much has he is trying his best but what about you and I. Some of us Nigerians see website has what you design, put it there and forget (no wonder many domain names expires without owner been aware of it. I have some customers like that now) to run itself. If you open a business offline or work in an organization and you don't check-in for weeks am sure you know the implication, that is the same with which a website online operates. It must (not should) be checked often to monitor its states.

2. Do technical checkup for your website as often as possible?

Now, let’s get something here and I quote as posted by stan-ogb on a post about Nairaland resurrection:
"On the other hand, i observed that the hackers that tried to wipe out this forum had successfully wiped their data till about January 11. We pray such thing does not happen again."

Do you know that there is scarcely any successful hacking on a website without attempts? I perceive that seun osewa may have missed this lesson out to give technical check on this forum as often as possible because he would have diagnosed and discover the attempts and even if he can't stop it he would have backup his business outside the host like subscribing to an insurance company in the real offline business world. With that he could have stop or just restore the backup easily if that is what happened oooooo (am not having the fact here).

2.1 How to technically checkup your website?
(i) Check your website activities alert platforms like email often to discover any technical activities behind the scene of your website that you can't know from the frontend. Example. One of my website, I had checked the updates email for a while until just recently I took to it again. surprisingly I found out that hackers have been trying to penetrate but thanks to God and the security measures was strong enough to repel them and they had continue trying (wickedness dies hard) till they had gotten my USERNAME perfectly well and now trying PASSWORD (with that have lost 50% security protection already to such hackers). When I saw it I screamed within and jumped to the backend and did few things you should also do if it happens to you (I created another username and password, transferred all post attached to the former one and finally deleted the user account straight away). If I had over trusted my password and overlook such or didn't even check the email in weeks from then. They may possibly had taken over my website by now and leave me to start clearing their mess when they finally leave.

2.2. Always update outdated tools like template, plugins, widgets, etc. once you get notifications. It may cause vulnerability to your website for hackers.

2.3. Let’s change the mentality of just patronize cheap but baseless designers out there.
For example I got a client in need of an active forum almost equal to Nairaland in features but for an organization. it includes programming that allows people to submit forms aside from signing up the forum, the forms will give out a printable page after successful inputs for registered person to print a copy and the organization will have an interface within to confirm anyone that comes to their office online as a registered member.

With all these I billed the customer sincerely #200,000 with two years hosting (unlimited), security of database, social media and 3 months free service/technical support after installation etc. Guess what my readers....NAIJA stuff naauuuuuhhhhhhh.... One person involved came up and said he has guys (designers so to say) that will get that done for him for MAXIMUM (yes mean highest) of #20,000 (twenty thousand Naira) and could even beat price down to #15,000 that if I can handle it I should stay or forget it. What do you expect from people like me (just a small boy though). I said you are free to go I CAN NOT HANDLE such.
Now tell me which site will fall possibly as the number one hack victim if not for websites with the above features that net the design only #15,000 only with hosting, design programming, security etc. CHAI!!!! Although Foskaay Enterprises is offering web design promo of #15,999 but not for website of that class I noted and closed the chapter with them.
Do you see such scenario? Please be conscious of too cheap to be through website design fees and designers...my humble advice
I am sorry that I will have to stop here for now for a reason that am still a LEARNER and believed that I have experts ahead of me reading this. Forgive me for blunders and unprofessional advice or confrontation to people especially my dear brother (Seun Osewa) but I plead for something please include your own leasons learnt from NairaLand hack and also tell us other website safe (design, security, backup etc.) use TIPS.

Thanks for time well spent with this little boy. I remain
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Olasunkanmi Ayomide Fakeye
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Mad Cow: Impossible to say how true..


But mathematically, it makes no sense as a Married man fends for two as against 1. His house is bigger than that of the Bachelor. However conserves money on food as he eats mostly at home and his social life (clubs and pubs) reduces to Hennessy and Alomo.

But on another hand, a Bachelors lifestyle can be very wasteful especially on things like food (Take-outs), the Vixens, Club (Champagne Campaign) and more.

I agree with that comment oooooooo

[quote author=Elli-dude]Hope the unmarried can say something?[/quote]If you have helped the married care for the young before or stayed with they during those early period...no one is an island of knowledge jooooooooo....

PhockPhockMan: . A federal high court in Abuja Friday ordered the People's Democratic Party (PDP), to servefive governors who defected from the party to the All Progressive Congress (APC) the substituted service by publishing the suit against them in one insertion either in the Thisday Newspapers or Guardian Newspapers.After the court set aside the earlier service of the court's processes on the governors, thePDP filed an application pursuant to order 6 rule 5 (c) of the Federal High Court Rules seeking to serve the processes on the governors by placing same in newspapers.In a short ruling, Justice GabrielKolawole said: "I am satisfied that the plaintiff/ applicant has disclosed good reasons to warrant the granting of the application. And it is hereby granted as prayed, The applicant shall within 7 days publish the suit in the ThisDay Newspapers or Guardian Newspapers. They would be entitled to 30 days to respond. The case is adjourned to 22 Sept 2014 for mention."Details to follow
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/defection-court-orders-pdp-to-publish-summons-against-governors/182036/

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