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Houstency:
new to Tbills. I just went to FBN and told them i need form to purchase Tbills. Filled the form and got credited with my profits. Did my maths and saw that it was 10.83%. Is there any line of actions to take for better rates next time? Thanks

quote ur own rate..got 11.02% . Just got my SMS alert

Houstency:
With this CBN's marginal rate of 12.48% for 364 days, First bank gave me 10.83% for 364days.. very pretty poor i think.

did u go with bank rate

Waiting for the official SMS from zenith.

Timmi:
CBN held a T-bill auction earlier today, where it sold N32.4bn 91-day bills, N22.8bn 182-day bills and N55.7bn 364-day bills at 8.10%, 9.20% and 12.48% stop rates respectively. These stop rates were higher than the last auction on the 4th of May, most likely in reflection of the higher yields in the secondary market.

went for 11.02% did it fall within the successful bid?..

Seriously waiting for stop rate...

Imade

Super talented artiste, David Adeleke, aka Davido threw a grand party to celebrate his beautiful daughter, Imade who turned a year older on the 14th, May, 2016.



However, it was learnt that Davido’s babymama, Ms. Sophie Momodu was ‘bounced’ from the party which held at her grandfather’s residence at Esther Adeleke Street, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.



The event was graced by celebrities like Tiwa Savage, DOTUN of Cool FM, Peter Okoye and some other top celebrities who all came with their kid(s).

Happy birthday..oga dele

Hmm....this is a very critical situation

A young man who is in need of a serious advice, His Story has been trending online for days now.

The unnamed young man, who is about 31 years old is torn between leaving her girlfriend of 5 years who gave him her kidney and getting married to her without any feelings for anymore.

Read the mail below:-

“Hi, I am 32years old and my girlfriend is 31years old. We’ve been together for 5 years and now live together in a nice house.

Things have been slowly fizzling out and I’ve been feeling like we don’t belong together for a few months now. I feel like if I don’t make a decision soon we will be married and I will feel this way forever. But on the other hand, getting a kidney transplant has changed my life for the better in so many ways.

I feel like staying together is the right thing to do even if I’m not in love anymore. I’ll never be able to pay her back. I’m so torn and conflicted and feel like I have to make an impossible choice.

If I stay with her, I’ll always feel trapped and in a loveless relationship. If I break up with her, I’ll forever feel like an evil person for dumping someone who literally put their life on the line for me.”

What do you think he should do?

Rexceedo:
Banks like frustrating T-bill patronizers in order to retain their cash. I've been a victim of this severally. They compel and persuade you- why not go for FD? T-bill is not paying at the moment?....and many blablas. If you insists, they'll advise you to leave it for them to do the bidding. But at last you won't be successful.

it's so annoying... For over two months now..

mekaboy:
Very possible. Once money is pumped into the economy by govt, CBN has to mop up with high rates to control inflation.

so..boss, what rate are u aiming at..? I might queue in

IHelp:
Treasury bill 04.05.2016
Last treasury bill auction stop rate was 11.05 for364days.

FGN Bond 11.05.2016
Successful bids for the 15.54%FGN FEB 2020, 12.50% FGN JAN 2026 and 12.40% FGN MAR 2036 were allotted at the Marginal Rates of
13.2490%,13.7430% and 13.9000%, respectively.

Next treasury bill am looking at between 12% to 12.7% for 364days

alright..but, I can't afford to miss out this time...# because , I hv bn going with bank rate, yet I hvnt gotten any deal. Just hv to do it myself this time

Nw nw?

mekaboy:
That should be for 91 days if govt means business. 365 should be between 12 and 14.

I doubt the possibility of sudden jump in rate..

10.5% for 365 days

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An international team of scientists said Monday they had discovered a trio of Earth-like planets that are the best bet so far for finding life outside our solar system.

The three orbit an ultracool dwarf star a mere 39 light years away, and are likely comparable in size and temperature to Earth and Venus, they reported in a study, published in Nature.

“This is the first opportunity to find chemical traces of life outside our solar system,” said lead author Michael Gillon, an astrophysicist at the University of Liege in Belgium.

All three planets had the “winning combination” of being similar in size to Earth, “potentially habitable” and close enough so their atmospheres can be analysed with current technology, he told AFP.

The find opens up a whole new “hunting ground” for habitable planets, he added.

Gillon and colleagues calibrated a 60-centimetre (23.5-inch) telescope in Chile, known as TRAPPIST, to track several dozen dwarf stars neither big nor hot enough to be visible with optical telescopes.

They zeroed in on a particularly promising one — now known as TRAPPIST-1 — about one eighth the size of the Sun, and significantly cooler.

Observing it for months, the astronomers noticed that its infrared signal faded slightly at regular intervals, evidence of objects in orbit.

Further analysis confirmed they were exoplanets — planets revolving around stars outside our solar system.

The innermost two circle their dwarf star every 1.5 and 2.4 days, though they are hit with only four and two times the amount of heat-generating radiation that Earth receives from the Sun.

The more distant orbit of the third planet takes between four and 73 days, according to the study.

“So far, the existence of such ‘red worlds’ orbiting ultra-cool dwarf stars was purely theoretical, but now we have not just one lonely planet but three,” said co-author Emmanuel Jehin, also from the University of Liege.

He called the discovery a “paradigm shift” in the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

Given their size and proximity to their low-intensity star, all three planets may have regions at temperatures within a range suitable for sustaining liquid water and life, the study concluded.

– Hitting the jackpot –

Their proximity to Earth means scientists will be able to find out a lot more.

“These planets are so close, and their star so small, we can study their atmosphere and composition,” said co-author Julien de Wit, a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT.)

“This is a jackpot for the field,” he said in a statement, adding that it should be possible to determine if they harbour life “within our generation.”

Up to now, the search for Earth-like orbs in our Galaxy and beyond centred on stars like our Sun, more massive and hotter than the dwarf around which the newly-discovered worlds orbit.

But the discovery suggests that a significant fraction of ultracool dwarfs hold potentially habitable planets in their gravitational sway.

“At the scale of the Galaxy, this means billions of additional places where life might have developed,” Gillon said.

The mass of the three planets circling TRAPPIST-1 cannot be less than 50 percent of that of Earth, and are probably not more than double, he added.

“They could be richer or poorer in water and rocks than our planet, and if they have an atmosphere, it is probably very different that ours.”

To give rise to life as we know it, planets have to be in a “Goldilocks zone” in relation to their star, far enough away so that its heat doesn’t evaporate all the water, but close enough so that it can exist in liquid form.

Building and using the TRAPPIST infrared telescope to hunt for planets was a risky strategy.

“It’s not looking at 100,000 stars at a time, like the Kepler Space Telescope,” de Wit said. “It is few of them that you’re spending time on, one at a time.”

“And one paid off,” he added.

A video presentation of the discovery can be seen here: http://www.trappist.one/

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(CNN)Malawi's albinos are at risk of "total extinction" amid escalating attacks against them for their body parts, the United Nations warned.


Albinism is a genetic condition that leads to little or no pigment in the eyes, skin and hair.
Albinism is a genetic condition that leads to little or no pigment in the eyes, skin and hair. The southern African nation has about 10,000 albinos, according to the U.N.
In some African countries, albinos' body parts are believed to bring wealth and good luck. As a result, attackers chop off their limbs and pluck out organs, and sell them to witchdoctors.
Even after albinos are killed, some attackers go a step further and steal their remains from graveyards, said Ikponwosa Ero, the United Nations' expert on albinism.
Living in constant fear
"Persons with albinism, and parents of children with albinism, constantly live in fear of attack," she said.
"Many do not sleep peacefully and have deliberately restricted their movement to the necessary minimum."


From albino model to talk show host 06:35
Ero recently visited Malawi, which has seen an increasing number of attacks.
Since the end of 2014, there have been 65 recorded cases of attacks, the U.N. said.
Ero urged the government to step in to protect albinos and go after their killers more aggressively.
"It is clear that an urgent and coordinated response from the government, civil society and development partners working in strong partnership with each other is required," she said.
Casting the outcast: Meet the albino model challenging
She called for better training for police and those who work for the court system, saying punishment for those who attack albinos is not stringent enough.


Can football 'heal' Albinos? 05:02
"As pointed out by various stakeholders during my visit, stealing a cow may attract a higher penalty," she said.
Albinism is not limited to countries such as Tanzania, Burundi and Malawi.
In the United States, about one in 20,000 people have some type of albinism. But in countries such as Tanzania, the number can be as high as one in 1,500.

domopps:
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charijee:
[color=#CD1076]None....still searching [/color]

so which would u prefer

domopps:
#teamroundhsapebears




Cheeeeers

pishuurrr or I don't believe..

Except your bae's is bottle surface

Eeroh95:
you think you are doing me?

You are doing yourself

bia...nwanne,nobody is doing anybody...we all biara ebea to have fun ..ighotala?.. # much respect to my Igbo brothers!!

Kakamorufu:
where you been living

just got back from star wars....

Eeroh95:
who you don help?

ask the ladies... . Maybe you hv been so busy following senator" common sense"..that you have failed to notice..

Flashh:
[color=#1970BC]You are just looking for irrelevant attention.

Use Google to ask this question.[/color]

thanks for giving me one...

Who is dagrin...and who en EPP