Ever since the new Airtel Data is Life Advert came out, users online have not been able to hide their excitement with the simplicity and creativity behind the advert. A look at the conversations with the hashtag #DataisLife shows the numerous feedbacks about the advert.

No doubt, Airtel has set a new standard for advertising in Nigeria.

Nairalanders, is this the best Nigerian advert ever?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QOKJ0FGk90

From a global perspective, the girl child is considered vulnerable to several societal ills. This perception is more pronounced in developing countries, where the belief is that there is the need for effective policies to safeguard the girl child from violence, limited access to education, neglect, abuse, gender disparities and other negative trends.

There is growing concern around the world that urgent actions need to be taken to address these challenges and education and empowerment initiatives have been identified as the needed tools.

In celebrating this year’s International Day of the Girl Child on October 11, the attention of stakeholders from around the world was focused on issues surrounding the girl child. The theme of this year’s celebration was “Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress: A Global Girl Data Movement”. This special day was set aside to raise public awareness on girls’ right and highlight gender inequalities that are widespread worldwide.

The latest UN statistics show that there are 1.1 billion girls in the world today. These girls represent an opportunity to shape a sustainable world that’s better for everyone. However, their dreams and potentials are often thwarted by lack of opportunities and discrimination.

Like other developing countries, the girl child in Nigeria is not immune to these challenges. A peculiar case is that of the 276 girls kidnapped in a school in Chibok, Bornu State. The negative experiences of these girls have become a rallying point for the challenges faced by the girl child worldwide.

The day also helped reveal the efforts made by governments at various levels to educate and empower the girl child. Worthy of note are those undertaken by Osun state.

Before Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola assumed office on November 27, 2010, the public education system was in a bad state such that only students whose parent couldn’t afford private schools were left in public schools.

Facilities of these public schools were not only dilapidated, students’ performance in both internal and external exams were at an all-time low with tuition fees in the state owned tertiary institution outrageous.

The situation has however taken a positive turn since the advent of his administration. The government has also placed priority on girl child education. Presently in the state, there are 622,726 students between the elementary, middle and high school. Of these number, 309,488 are females and 313,238 are males. This is a laudable achievement that dwarfs the average expectation for developing nations.


Infographic showing the distribution of male and female students In Osun State.

The governor restructured the education system into elementary, middle and high school structure. He also constructed 100 Elementary, 50 Middle, and 20 High Schools during his first term through the O’School programme.

He also focused on improving the nutrition of students in public schools by introducing the school feeding programme, O’Meals in line with the UN recommendation. The government believes a well-fed pupil will be more attentive in class compared to a hungry pupil.

It’s no surprise that the programme has recorded success stories with the school enrolment increasing by 25% spread over 38,000 pupils within four weeks of its introduction.


Graph showing the increase in school enrolment from May to June, 2012

Apart from education, O’Meals programme has also helped economically, improving the production capacities of farmers and empowering 3,007 women appointed as food vendors to serve pupils on school days. It is noteworthy that the Aregbesola-led administration spends N3billion naira per annum to feed primary 1 – 4 pupils in all the public primary schools in the State of Osun.


Graph showing the monthly increase in allocation for the O’Meals Programme in Osun State

Of the 13 states that started the feeding programme, only the State of Osun is still implementing the School Feeding Programme.

Osun State recorded an outstanding feat in its quest to promote education by sponsoring 5 outstanding female students in an exchange program in the United States. The program is in partnership with an NGO AWOW International Girls Leadership Initiative, which empowers and offers skills and professional mentorship to young women.

The 5 girls will attend the annual AWOW Summit & College Tour Leadership Forum for young women, scheduled to hold at the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United State, with the theme '' Leading the Future."

Not only will the summit enable the girls to share experiences and knowledge through the cultural exchange, the girls would also have opportunity of scholarship for University Education in the USA.

Statistics show that when 10% more girls go to school, a country's GDP increases by 3% on the average and a child born to a literate mother is 50% more likely to survive past the age of 5.

Governor Aregbesola while speaking on government’s commitment to education development, said: “This is the continuation of our commitment to standard education. To us, education remains our priority and as a matter of fact, this government has invested hugely on this.”
He also stressed the importance of bridging the gap between public and private schools as a means of preparing the nation for good leadership in the future.

The UN explained that girls’ education is both an intrinsic right and critical in reaching other development objectives. Educating girls can help break the cycle of poverty.

Girls’ education is essential in achieving quality learning relevant to the 21st century, including girls’ transition to and performance in secondary school and beyond. Adolescent girls that attend school delay marriage and childbearing, are less vulnerable to disease including HIV and AIDS, and acquire information and skills that lead to increased earning power. Evidence shows that the return to a year of secondary education for girls correlates to a 25 per cent increase in wages later in life, the UN said.

Adetola Ige who writes from Oshogbo,

Osun State capital

Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/osun-develops-prototype-solving-gender-inequality/

From a global perspective, the girl child is considered vulnerable to several societal ills. This perception is more pronounced in developing countries, where the belief is that there is the need for effective policies to safeguard the girl child from violence, limited access to education, neglect, abuse, gender disparities and other negative trends.

There is growing concern around the world that urgent actions need to be taken to address these challenges and education and empowerment initiatives have been identified as the needed tools. In celebrating this year’s International Day of the Girl Child on October 11, the attention of stakeholders from around the world was focused on issues surrounding the girl child.

The theme of this year’s celebration was “Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress: A Global Girl Data Movement”. This special day was set aside to raise public awa[img][/img]reness on girls’ right and highlight gender inequalities that are widespread worldwide. The latest UN statistics show that there are 1.1 billion girls in the world today.

These girls represent an opportunity to shape a sustainable world that’s better for everyone. However, their dreams and potentials are often thwarted by lack of opportunities and discrimination. Like other developing countries, the girl child in Nigeria is not immune to these challenges. A peculiar case is that of the 276 girls kidnapped in a school in Chibok, Bornu State.

The negative experiences of these girls have become a rallying point for the challenges faced by the girl child worldwide. The day also helped reveal the efforts made by governments at various levels to educate and empower the girl child. Worthy of note are those undertaken by Osun state. Before Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola assumed office on November 27, 2010, the public education system was in a bad state such that only students whose parent couldn’t afford private schools were left in public schools.

Facilities of these public schools were not only dilapidated, students’ performance in both internal and external exams were at an all-time low with tuition fees in the state owned tertiary institution outrageous. The situation has however taken a positive turn since the advent of his administration. The government has also placed priority on girl child education.

Presently in the state, there are 622,726 students between the elementary, middle and high school. Of these number, 309,488 are females and 313,238 are males. This is a laudable achievement that dwarfs the average expectation for developing nations.



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From a global perspective, the girl child is considered vulnerable to several societal ills. This perception is more pronounced in developing countries, where the belief is that there is the need for effective policies to safeguard the girl child from violence, limited access to education, neglect, abuse, gender disparities and other negative trends.

There is growing concern around the world that urgent actions need to be taken to address these challenges and education and empowerment initiatives have been identified as the needed tools. In celebrating this year’s International Day of the Girl Child on October 11, the attention of stakeholders from around the world was focused on issues surrounding the girl child.

The theme of this year’s celebration was “Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress: A Global Girl Data Movement”. This special day was set aside to raise public awareness on girls’ right and highlight gender inequalities that are widespread worldwide. The latest UN statistics show that there are 1.1 billion girls in the world today.

These girls represent an opportunity to shape a sustainable world that’s better for everyone. However, their dreams and potentials are often thwarted by lack of opportunities and discrimination. Like other developing countries, the girl child in Nigeria is not immune to these challenges. A peculiar case is that of the 276 girls kidnapped in a school in Chibok, Bornu State.

The negative experiences of these girls have become a rallying point for the challenges faced by the girl child worldwide. The day also helped reveal the efforts made by governments at various levels to educate and empower the girl child. Worthy of note are those undertaken by Osun state. Before Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola assumed office on November 27, 2010, the public education system was in a bad state such that only students whose parent couldn’t afford private schools were left in public schools.

Facilities of these public schools were not only dilapidated, students’ performance in both internal and external exams were at an all-time low with tuition fees in the state owned tertiary institution outrageous. The situation has however taken a positive turn since the advent of his administration. The government has also placed priority on girl child education.

Presently in the state, there are 622,726 students between the elementary, middle and high school. Of these number, 309,488 are females and 313,238 are males. This is a laudable achievement that dwarfs the average expectation for developing nations.

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Telecoms consumers across the country are in for yet another round of excitement as leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced the launch of Airtel Mega Pack Offer, a distinctive package that provides a free Dongle, MiFi or Router on any purchase of bundles from N10, 000.00 and above.

Airtel Mega Pack Offer, which is designed to reward its customers, will provide one free device to customers who purchase data bundles from N10, 000.00.

Speaking about this new offer, the Chief Commercial Officer, Airtel Nigeria, Ahmad Mokhles noted that Airtel is committed to its key objective of providing innovative, highly relevant and affordable mobile Internet services and solutions to telecoms consumers across the country.
According to him, the new value offering is yet another testimony to Airtel’s renewed drive of making reliable mobile Internet service more accessible to SMEs, corporates and high net-worth individuals.

“At Airtel, we are passionate about empowering and helping SMEs, entrepreneurs and high net-worth telecoms consumers to succeed in their professional and business endeavours,” he said.

To benefit from this new offering, customers can purchase data bundles from N10, 000.00 from any Airtel shop across the country. Customers who purchase data bundles from N10, 000.00 and above will receive a free dongle or MiFi; while customers purchasing data bundles of N36, 000.00 and above will receive a free dongle, MiFi and router.

Customers are also required to activate the data bundles at the point of sale through RCV and ERC. The data bundles are available at all Airtel showrooms and Channel Partners outlets across the country.

It will also be recalled that Airtel Nigeria has reviewed its data tariff plan in a strategic move to offer more value to customers.
The Airtel Mega Pack Offer is designed to continually excite as well as reward customers on the smartphone network.

Lol! This is not a cheat plan. It's a legit plan from Airtel. You have nothing to fear for. Rather share the good news so other heavy downloaders like us can benefit from it

Jolaoshot:
OP should please remove this post.. a lot of people knows about this plan already.. if you guys don't stop nagging on how valid the plan is, it's just a matter of time before airtel blocks or increase the subscription price.

Contrary to news making the rounds that Airtel has pulled the plug on their Unlimited night plan, the unlimited night plan is still very much active. It is necessary to correct this notion because of the misleading articles with incorrect information shared at the moment.

Unlike other night plans by competing brands that have data limits, Airtel’s Unlimited Night Plan is unlimited just like the name implies. This means you have access to unlimited downloads between the hours of 11pm and 6am. Again note that competitor’s only give you access to a limited data cap for only 4 hours (12am – 4am) while Airtel gives you unlimited data cap for 7 hours (11pm – 6am).

The Airtel Unlimited Night Data plans are shown below;
1. N100- Unlimited browsing for 1 hour between 11pm and 6am
2. N200- Unlimited browsing for 2 hours between 11pm and 6am

How to subscribe to the Airtel Unlimited Night data plan?
1. Migrate to the Airtel SmartTRYBE by dialling *312#
2. Dial *312*3# to subscribe to the Airtel Unlimited Night Plan

On the lighter note you don’t have to stay awake all night to start your downloads when you can initiate your downloads from 11pm the night before and conclude it in the morning by 6am on the Airtel network.

Not only are the 1 hour and 6 hours night data plans still intact, Airtel only recently just came out with new 24hrs data plans that offer the most affordable data plans in Nigeria with a whopping 7gig worth of data going for only N3,500.

CC @Lalasticlala help push to frontpage.

The ongoing protest by the Nigerian Labour Union, National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) over the disengagement of some of its members in Ikeja Electric, is taking a negative dimension which is capable of plunging the whole network into darkness and crippling socio-economic activities in the areas covered by the electricity distribution company.

In the last three days, residents and commercial operations under Ikeja Electric network have been witnessing epileptic power supply and inconsistent services to its valued customers due to the aggressive picketing stance adopted by NUEE and other affiliate unions who have thrown their weight behind them.

Apart from barricading the entrances to the Head Office, Business Units and Undertakings, the Union members have also prevented the staff from gaining access into these premises thereby rendering them incapable of providing any quality or consistent services to its valued customer. This intrusion has also hampered the purchase of recharge cards and units for both prepaid and post-paid customers of the company.

All the power facilities including the 14 Transmission Stations and 57 Injection Sub-Stations from where power is distributed to customers under Ikeja Electric network have also been shut down and sealed by the Union members.

Media reports indicate that the picketing of the company is over recent layoffs. There are several reports paining a disturbing picture of how the labour union agitators and their touts - yes, they must have been touts – jumped into the company’s premises to enforce total disruption of its operations. How can this happen in a sane environment? Which picketing law allows unionists to display such illegal and condemnable acts in the name of protests? The promoters of this activity no doubt have self-serving interests, else, how can one justify their actions as being the appropriate “sanction” on the company for staff that were laid off?

A recent advertorial by Ikeja Electric noted that the company has employed over 600 staff and promoted 74 all in the space of one year. 229 were asked to go for poor performance on the job. To the best of my knowledge, this might just be the only company in the power sector that is hiring on this commendable scale. The company disclosed that it had since hired 41 young graduate engineers to “enhance the sustainability of the business and create a platform for grooming future leaders in the sector.”

The publication also indicated that in the last one year over 245 unique learning and development interventions had been conducted with over 2000 staff benefitting from the training programmes. “A job re-grading exercise was conducted that flattened the previous 17 career levels that typically takes 30 – 32 years to become the CEO of Ikeja Electric to only 9 career levels. This allows for accelerated career growth within the organisation.”

Perhaps the promoters of this illegality against Ikeja Electric need to be reminded that the success of any enterprise is dependent on the quality of the people driving it. Must we remind these rampaging unionists that the public sector days where we never had accountability and performance parameters are long gone?

Nigeria’s power sector clearly needs an overhaul of its human capital profile to live up to the yearnings and aspirations of over 170 million Nigerians who have come to see darkness as a way of life.

The privatisation exercise was a huge leap for Nigeria in its quest for reforming the sector. This is the time for all Nigerians to rise up against people who have benefitted from the decadence of the past and cannot tell that the game is up. We have witnessed some improvement since privatisation, but we still have a long way to go as we are centuries behind due to decades of neglect and corruption in the sector.

One does not believe that a sincere Labour Union driven by a responsible leadership will embark on such a rudderless mission at the expense of the whole nation.

There are more civil ways for the Unions to engage a private company which has the authority to tweak its workforce to promote efficiency and service excellence. What would Labour protest over if the company went under? One really has to question the motive of Labour with regards to its recent activities in the power sector. Whose side is Labour on?

It is paramount for Nigerians to understand that the power sector needs huge investments in human capital to be effectively positioned for modern-day excellence in power generation, transmission and distribution.

We may be unwittingly given the nod to more darkness if the nation watches on idly to allow this festering new wave of illegality in the name of protests to thrive. Labour has in the past been the bastion of equity and progress. This recent trend looks more like sabotage and must be nipped in the bud. So, whose side is ‘Labour’ on?

Chukwuka is a Lagos Based Physician

I've always had a positive experience with Airtel. That customer care rep is just a bad egg. It's hasty concluding so quickly because of one bad experience.

More brands will also be wiling to use the opportunity to empower her and leverage on hr new found fame

amiskurie:
If they can't give her a good car and nice house,just don't make her popular and leave her to be ridicule while hawking bread once again.







Meanwhile..

That might be a hasty conclusion. The important thing is for her to escalate it to the relevant guys at Airtel. They will get this resolved for her. The sympathies and theories on here won't get this fixed for her. I know for sure that if the claim is true, then it will be resolved.

ItsMeAboki:


And also to EFCC, I suspect collusion on part of Airtel staff or at best negligence, which in any case you have valid cause to sue them for damages. Good luck.

TY Bello just shared this on her Instagram page. The famous agege bread model that coincidentally appeared in Tinie Tempah's photoshoot has graced the frontpage of Thisday Style Magazine. TY Bello went in search of the lady Olajumoke Orisaguna and found her. Today, her story has changed and she's graced the cover of the prestigious Thisday Style, a feat many experienced models only dream of.

Someone special our #olajumoke made it on the cover of this day style this morning . You all should buy one . This just made me cry . She really is a blessed woman with an amazing story . I almost cant believe it !

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BBel01JEbDW/

Frauds of this nature happen sometimes. I've had a great experience using Airtel. They take customer complaints very serious. If this complaint is true, then the lady can be rest assured it will be resolved. That's for sure.

Lassa fever is an acute viral illness that occurs in West Africa. The illness was discovered in 1969 when two missionary nurses died of it in Nigeria. The Lassa fever virus (LFV) was named after the town where the first cases occurred, Lassa a village in Borno State located in the North Eastern region of Nigeria.

The virus, a member of the virus family Arenaviridae, is a single-stranded RNA virus and is zoonotic, or animal-borne. In areas of Africa where the disease is endemic (that is, constantly present), Lassa fever is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. While Lassa fever is mild or has no observable symptoms in about 80% of people infected with the virus, the remaining 20% have a severe multisystem disease. Lassa fever is also associated with occasional epidemics, during which the case-fatality rate can reach 50%. Lassa fever is an endemic disease in portion of West Africa and is recognized in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. However, because the rodent species which carry the LFV are found throughout West Africa, the actual geographic range of the disease may extend to other countries in the region.The number of Lassa virus infections per year in West Africa is estimated at 100,000 to 300,000, with approximately 5,000 deaths. Unfortunately, such estimates are crude, because surveillance for cases of the disease is not uniformly performed. Approximately 15%-20% of patients hospitalized for Lassa fever die from the illness. However, overall only about 1% of infections with Lassa virus result in death. The death rates are particularly high for women in the third trimester of pregnancy, and for fetuses, about 95% of which die in the uterus of infected pregnant mothers.

The first case of the current outbreak was reported in Bauchi state in November, 2015. It has now extended to at least 17 states claiming at least 63 lives in the process.

Symptoms of Lassa fever typically occur 7 – 21 days after the patient comes in contact with the LFV. These include fever, retro-sternal pain (pain behind the chest wall), sore throat, abdominal and back pain, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, conjunctivitis (red eyes), facial swelling, protein in the urine and mucosal bleeding. Permanent hearing loss, tremors and encephalitis have also been described.

ichommy:
Balling things, Bros don see new club?

Airtel no want make you waste your money con catch STD on top.