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Prof. Umar Danbatta, who is currently the Executive Vice Chairman of Nigeria Communication Commission NCC, said the commission will soon review the interconnection charges for voice services which has been on ground since 2013.

Danbatta who was represented by the Director of Policy Competition and Economic Analysis, Mrs. Josephine Amuwa, said this on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 in Abuja at a “Stakeholder’s Forum on Cost Based Study’’ for the purpose of mobile voice termination rate. According to him, the reason is based on the current market dispensation.

He said that the commission had carried out a thorough cost study and have determined to review the current interconnection rates for voice services which had been on the rail since April 1, 2013.
According to him, since the last determination, the country’s communication market has seen incredible growth in both subscriber numbers and traffic volumes.

“The sector has witnessed changes in available technologies and other network elements, including global financial markets which have an impact over inputs such as cost of capital.

“The scale of changes will inevitably affect the unit cost of providing services, including interconnection and may lead to differences between regulated interconnection rates and underlying costs.

“This in turn may result in differences between on-net and off net retail tariffs.

“It is very important we ensure that interconnection services are not only fairly priced and non-discriminative, but should reflect the cost providing such services in the market.

He also, “It is in this regard that the commission has decided to review the rates set in its 2013 determination in the light of current market realities.”

According to him, the study delivers the chance to meticulously examine the emergence of grey market activities in the telecoms industry in Nigeria.

“Such as call refilling, call masking, and sim-box fraud as a result of the introduction of an interim International Termination Rate for Inbound International traffic.’’

To this end, the commission carried out a thorough selection process and appointed Messrs’ Price ewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC) to among other things “carry out an impact assessment on the subsisting interconnect regime.

“Identify shortfalls on the subsisting interconnection rate regime and provide workable solutions.

“Determine if there is need to have different termination rate for National/Domestic and international traffic.

“Determine the Mobile Termination Rate for voice services using appropriate cost modeling techniques for New Entrant(s)/Small Operators and Existing /Big Operators.

“Determine the appropriate basis for Glide Path (if necessary); Develop a suitable definition of a New Entrant (s) /Small Operator to enjoy the benefits of asymmetric rates.’’

Danbatta said that with respects to the commission’s principle of guaranteeing participatory regulation, the stakeholders’ forum was only to formally introduce the project consultant to the industry stakeholders, but also to start the project.

“You will agree with me that the supply of industry statistical data is most critical to the success of determining appropriate interconnection termination rates for the telecommunication industry.

“Therefore, your prompt response in providing accurate date will be invaluable.

“The commission has an obligation to create a level playing field for all operators, and in line with international standard practice, NCC shall ensure that interconnect rates reflect the cost of
termination on the networks."

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/ncc-to-review-interconnection-rates.html

Just when Nokia is about waking up from very a deep and lengthy sleep, Blackberry is looking for a way to give it another doze of hypnotic drugs. Why?

Blackberry has accused Nokia of continual usage of its technology without getting approval thus filing a patent infringement lawsuit against Nokia.
It claimed that some Nokia products like radio network controllers, Flexi Multiradio base stations and liquid software are making use of some patients that belongs to blackberry. Precisely, the lawsuit includes products and services that use LTE networks, like T-Mobile and AT&T in the United States.

According to Blackberry, it acquired some of those patients in question way back in 2011 as a member of a group that bought Nortel’s patents for $4.5billion after the company went bankruptcy.

Nokia actually made attempt in buying these patents in 2009 before Notel’s bankruptcy proceedings came up.

The suits reveals that BlackBerry is in quest of compensation from Nokia for this illegal use of their technology, but the suit does not point out how much in damages the company wish to get from Nokia.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/nokia-sued-by-blackberry-for-patent.html

Feature phones are mobile phones that comes with features such as the capability to browsing through the Internet and store data and play music but does not the advanced operations of a smartphone or computer.

Feature phones, of course opposite of the word "smart phones". Are they really dump, what are we to call standard cellular phones, old desk phones, phones like Nokia 3310 would be called what?

These kind of mobile phones were primarily meant for consumers who wished to have a multifunctional mobile device but may be due to lack of enough funds or intentionally refused to dip their hands into wet side of the pockets to get a smart device.
Summary of Some features available on features phones includes:
Supports Voice calling
SMS support functionality,
Some basic multimedia functionality
Internet access,
Possesses some productivity apps like calculators, organisers, etc.
Some of the services offered by the user's telecom service provider.
*Rumours says feature phones will soon support 4G LTE service.*

Feature phones tends to use They also tend to make use of software and User interfaces that are branded, specially-designed for the phone unlike the mobile operating system generally used in smartphones such as Android, iOS , Blackberry OS, Windows, Symbian (though no long in production) and so on.

History had it that the first cell phone was the Motorola DynaTac which was released back in the year 1984 and was considered a feature phone if we are to use the recent standard for classifications of mobile phones in terms of feature and smartphones. Smartphones was introduced the mid-1990s but was made popular by Blackberry incorporation (then research in motion, RIM).

Feature phones became so popular in the early 2000s, all thanks to Nokia and Motorola brands that produced best-selling feature selling phones. Recall that Nokia 3310 sold more than 100 million units in year 2000.

The introduction of Symbian OS by Nokia, iOS by Apple Inc (around 2007), Android by google and other OS(s) brought the thought to many that the end of feature phone may be at the corner but they all seems to be wrong because feature phone may leave forever.

One of the major factors that may elongate the use of feature phones is just SIMPLICITY, easy to use in terms of navigation (some even have dedicated button for some services). They also very RUGGED, screen does not break easily especially those in smaller sizes with physical button...
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According a research carried out by University College London and Cardiff University, Continual blows to the head may perhaps lead to dementia later in life.

This definitely means footballers may likely be exposed to this to long-term brain damage due to frequent blows to or sometimes kicks on the head.

The research said that constant heading of heavy balls may expose players at risk of developing this type brain diseases in later life.

According to BBC, in response to this research, the Football Association has promised to investigate this claim.

The research was conducted in alliance between University College London and Cardiff University, involving the examination of six footballers who had played for an average of 30 years.

In post-mortems it was learnt that all six football players developed dementia later in their lifetime, while four revealed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

"When we examined their brains at autopsy we saw the sorts of changes that are seen in ex-boxers, the changes that are often associated with repeated brain injury which are known as CTE,” Professor Huw Morris told the BBC.

"So really for the first time in a series of players we have shown that there is evidence that head injury has occurred earlier in their life which presumably has some impact on them developing dementia."

The study has been made available in the journal Acta Neuropathologica.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/study-links-footballers-to-brain-damage.html

It’s no longer news that HMD, a Finnish company, formerly Nokia veterans is now in charge of manufacturing Nokia Android phones. It also has the plan of announcing some of its new devices at upcoming MWC 2017 which simply means the company has confirmed its presence at MWC.

Recall that the sales of the beautiful Nokia 6 was exceptional and this shows that NOKIA is back to the system again.

Based on a report from Venture Beat, HMD will announce three devices: two smartphones (of course base on Android OS), and a feature phone. The upcoming smartphones are rumoured to be named
Nokia 5 (possible the Nokia “Heart” seen in a benchmark test in January 2017) and Nokia 3.

Possible features of Nokia 5 expected are
5.2-inch 720p display,
2 GB of RAM
12 MP rear camera,
Rumoured to cost around $200.

Now, coming to Nokia 3, its price is expected to be around $150, likely to be a low-end smartphone (with features yet to be disclosed).

Also, our beautiful Nokia 6 (presently obtainable only in China) will also be in the showroom at MWC 2017.

Reincarnation of Nokia 3310

NOW, here comes the greatest surprise of the year (for now) is one of most famous phones on earth. Remember I mentioned two smartphones and a feature phone. Astonishingly, it's said to be the REBORN of the popular Nokia 3310, the "modern version" of Nokia 3310. Nokia 3310 was first released way back in 2000 and sold over 100 million units (wow). Remember, it was so strong that it can be used to break palm kernel, extremely durable and reliable with very long battery life. Guess, its modernised one will not come with such features again.

Nokia 5 is expected to cost around $200, Nokia 3 expected to be around $150 while Nokia 3310 is expected to cost around $60.

MWC 2017 event is expected to hold on February 26.

Year 2017 becoming interesting for lovers of gadgets.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/re-born-of-nokia-3310-and-two-other-new.html

President Muhammadu Buhari will speak with the United State President, Donald Trump today February 13, 2016 on phone by 3:45 pm local Nigerian time (GMT +1).

President Buhari who is currently on medical vacation in London will be phoning the U.S President from London at 9:45 am Washington time, which is 3:45 pm in Nigeria and 2:45 pm in London.

This is coming from the Personal Assistant to Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad announced this information through his twitter handle.

He also said, President Buhari will also speak on phone with the president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma.

However, the reason for the proposed call is yet to be revealed but there speculations that it will not be far from being a congratulatory call to President Trump over his emergence as the 45th President of the United State of America from the Nigerian President.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/buhari-to-phone-donald-trump-by-345pm.html

Lagos State Police Command, have apprehended a lady, Mitchel Harrold, 37, in Agbor, Delta State on Tuesday, for allegedly drugging her lover, a medical doctor, in a hotel in Ojodu area of Lagos and carting away his car, laptop and mobile phones.

Mitchel, who is said to be from Warri, Delta State was arrested after the police traced her through a car dealer in Lagos, who was helping her to get the necessary document for the stolen Volkswagen Passat Wagon, 2001 model.

The Nigeria Guardian reported that the suspect and her man friend checked into a popular hotel in Ojodu, Berger on Thursday, January 19, around 5:30p.m., with the intent of spending the night together.

While her Man friend was in the bathroom, Mitchel went to get a malt drink and yoghurt for the pair for relaxation.

According to the victim, man friend statement (name withheld) “I went in to take a bath and when I returned, she had gone to buy some drinks. I took the malt drink and yoghurt and I slept off. I slept off at 6:00p.m. and woke up around 2:00p.m. the next day.

“Behold, when I woke up, my personal effects such as phone and laptop had gone. Unfortunately for me, I do not know any of her relatives. We only met on a social media dating site, Badoo about a year ago. As I woke up, I rushed straight to meet with the receptionist and gateman to ask for her whereabouts, that was when I realized my car had been taken away too.

“They told me someone came to pick the car for her. And she said she was going to get food. Immediately, I reported the incident at Omole Police Station,” he said.
The victim said he was just aware of her real name, Harrold Mitchel, after the arrest, because she gave him Aisha Ibrahim as her name.

He went further, “I was getting to know her for real now. She only gave me Aisha Ibrahim as her name with these numbers – 08067188213, 07081240038. Since the incident, I had been trying to call her but to no avail. One of the numbers was switched off, she wasn’t picking the other”.

Adesanya Gbenga, a generating set repairer, who was an accomplice has also been arrested. His role was moving the stolen vehicle from Lagos to Sapele.

He said, “That wasn’t the first time I would be helping her take a vehicle out of Lagos to Sapele. It was about the third time. First, it was a Toyota Camry ‘Big for Nothing’. I helped her moved it from Ajah to Sapele, Delta State. The second one was an ‘End of Discussion’ Honda Accord and thirdly, Volkswagen Passat, 2001 model. I moved that too all night to Sapele.

“I was introduced to her in 2016 by her elder brother, who worked as clearing and forwarding agent. I was told she needed the assistance of a good driver to take to Warri. I later met her in Ajah where I helped took a Toyota Camry to Sapele.

“About four months later, she summoned me to GRA Ikeja. She gave me a Honda Accord (End of Discussion) to help her collect fuel from his brother at Wawa, Ogun State. I took the fuel and returned the car. She then told me that she has gotten another driver to take her. She gave me N5,000 and I left.

He also said, “The last vehicle is the one that has created crisis for me. Although, I have been wondering where she has been getting these cars but she told me that she hired them from Delta whenever she comes to Lagos, and that a driver brought her to Lagos and returned to Delta. I didn’t know she steals cars”.

A source disclosed that she had started processing custom papers for the vehicle through the his brother, Mukoro Okpako two days earlier before her arrest. She informed Mukoro of her desire to sell the car and begged him to assist her in perfecting custom papers for the Volkswagen ...

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We all know that Samsung is still mourning the untimely death of NOTE 7, a wonder to cherish forever, a beauty to behold but turnout to be a weapon of mass destruction. It’s a serious humiliation.

Samsung already trying to clean away the Galaxy Note 7 mess by working on the next variant in Galaxy Note series which may be called Galaxy Note 8 (just guessing name).

At the instant, there are no details about the technical specifications, not to even guess the possible launch date of Samsung Galaxy Note 8. The only glimpse available now is that Galaxy Note 8 is at the development stage with a supposed code name for the project, ‘Baikal’.

Baikal is basically the name of a very large lake in the mountainous Russian region of Siberia, north of the Mongolian border and considered the deepest lake in the world

More information will be made available later, stay tuned…

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/report-says-galaxy-note8-project-code.html

The “HELLO” by Adele won the record of the year.

Adele herself won five awards in all at the Grammys, including album, record and song of the year beating Beyoncé in the top three categories with her comeback album “25”.

She humbly broke one of her awards into two so she could give the other half to Beyoncé.

Find below the full list of the winners:


Record of The Year:

Hello" — Adele WINNER
Formation" — Beyoncé
"Work" — Rihanna Featuring Drake
"Stressed Out" — Twenty One Pilots

Album Of The Year:

25 — Adele WINNER
Lemonade — Beyoncé
Purpose — Justin Bieber
Views — Drake
A Sailor's Guide To Earth — Sturgill Simpson

Song Of The Year:

"Hello" — Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Adele) WINNER
"Formation" — Khalif Brown, Asheton Hogan, Beyoncé Knowles & Michael L. Williams II, songwriters (Beyoncé)
"I Took A Pill In Ibiza" — Mike Posner, songwriter (Mike Posner)
"Love Yourself" — Justin Bieber, Benjamin Levin & Ed Sheeran, songwriters (Justin Bieber)
"7 Years" — Lukas Forchhammer, Stefan Forrest, Morten Pilegaard & Morten Ristorp, songwriters (Lukas Graham)

Best New Artist:

Chance The Rapper WINNER
Kelsea Ballerini
The Chainsmokers
Maren Morris
Anderson .Paak

POP FIELD

Best Pop Solo Performance:

"Hello" — Adele WINNER
"Hold Up" — Beyonce
"Love Yourself" — Justin Bieber
"Piece By Piece (Idol Version)" — Kelly Clarkson
"Dangerous Woman" — Ariana Grande

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:

"Stressed Out" — Twenty One Pilots WINNER
"Closer" — The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey
"7 Years" — Lukas Graham
"Work" — Rihanna Featuring Drake
"Cheap Thrills" — Sia Featuring Sean Paul

Best Pop Vocal Album:

25 — Adele WINNER
Purpose — Justin Bieber
Dangerous Woman — Ariana Grande
Confident — Demi Lovato
This Is Acting — Sia

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:

Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin — Willie Nelson WINNER
Cinema — Andrea Bocelli
Fallen Angels — Bob Dylan
Stages Live — Josh Groban
Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway — Barbra Streisand

DANCE/ELECTRONIC MUSIC FIELD

Best Dance Recording:

"Don't Let Me Down" — The Chainsmokers featuring Daya WINNER
"Tearing Me Up" — Bob Moses
"Never Be Like You" — Flume featuring Kai
"Rinse & Repeat" — Riton featuring Kah-Lo
"Drinkee" — Sofi Tukker

Best Dance Recording

"Tearing Me Up" — Bob Moses
"Don't Let Me Down" — The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya WINNER
"Never Be Like You" — Flume Featuring Kai
"Rinse & Repeat" — Riton Featuring Kah-Lo
"Drinkee" — Sofi Tukker

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

Human Nature — Herb Alpert
When You Wish Upon a Star — Bill Frisell
Way Back Home: Live From Rochester, NY — Steve Gadd Band
Unpsoken — Chuck Loeb
Culcha Vulcha — Snarky Puppy WINNER

Best Rock Performance
"Joe (Live From Austin City Limits)" — Alabama Shakes
"Don't Hurt Yourself" — Beyoncé Featuring Jack White
"Blackstar" — David Bowie WINNER
"The Sound of Silence" — Disturbed
"Heathens" — Twenty One Pilots

Best Metal Performance
"Shock Me" — Baroness
"Slivera" — Gojira
"Rotting in Vain" — Korn
"Dystopia" — Megadeth WINNER
"The Price Is Wrong" — Periphery

Best Rock Song
"Blackstar" — David Bowie, songwriter (David Bowie) WINNER
"Burn the Witch" —Radiohead, songwriters (Radiohead)
"Hardwired" — James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, songwriters (Metallica
"Heathens" — Tyler Joseph, songwriter (Twenty One Pilots)
"My Name Is Human" — Rich Meyer, Ryan Meyer and Johnny Stevens, songwriters (Highly Suspect)

Best Dance/Electronic Album:

Skin — Flume WINNER
Electronica 1: The Time Machine — Jean-Michel Jarre
Epoch — Tycho
Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future — Underworld
Louie Vega Starring...XXVIII — Louie Vega

CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC FIELD

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album:
Culcha Vulcha — Snarky Puppy WINNER
Human Nature — Herb Alpert
When You Wish Upon a Star — Bill Frisell
Way Back Home: Live From Rochester, NY — Steve Gadd Band
Unpsoken — Chuck Loeb

ROCK FIELD

Best Rock Performance:

"Blackstar" — David Bowie WINNER
"Joe (Live From Austin City Limits)" — Alabama Shakes
"Don't Hurt Yourself" — Beyoncé Featuring Jack White
"The Sound Of Silence" — Disturbed
"Heathens" — Twenty One Pilots

Best Metal Performance:

"Dystopia" — Megadeth WINNER
"Shock Me" — Baroness
"Slivera" — Gojira
"Rotting in Vain" — Korn
"The Price Is Wrong" — Periphery

Best Rock Song:

"Blackstar" — David Bowie, songwriter (David Bowie) WINNER
"Burn the Witch" —Radiohead, songwriters (Radiohead)
"Hardwired" — James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich, songwriters (Metallica)
"Heathens" — Tyler Joseph, songwriter (Twenty One Pilots)
"My Name Is Human" — Rich Meyer, Ryan Meyer & Johnny Stevens, songwriters (Highly Suspect)

Best Rock Album:

Tell Me I'm Pretty — Cage The Elephant WINNER
California — Blink-182
Magma — Gojira

Continue...

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Yeah! We are waiting for two great phones, LG G6 and Galaxy S8. Though, LG G6 will be pipping S8 in terms of release date (official date - Feb 26). This was as a result of using the Snapdragon 821 instead of the 835. So throw it out before S8 occupy the whole space, nice move.

Alot has been heard and in fact rumours are still flying around about this Galazy S8 since the sudden demise of Note 7 which cost Samsung alot of its reputation.

Now, another leak released by the popular Evan Bass, telling us that we have a larger S8, that is Galaxi S8+. All thanks to an official logo shared by Evan Bass.

Just like its precious S-editions, Galaxy S7 and S6, we have been expecting Samsung to release two variants of the S8. We all know that the main difference between the two versions has always been the screen size.

Recall, the past two S-editions featured something called 'edge' to differentiate the two versions. However, Samsung will ditch that mode of seperation because both S8 and S8+ are expected to feature curved, bezel-less displays.

Wait!!! Samsung are yet to even name the larger version of S8, the 'S8 Plus', but according to Blass's latest leak, it shows that the 'plus' branding will feature the + symbol instead of having it spelled out. Afterall, that is never going to be an issue, Samsung's naming could be closer to our guess.

Presently, all rumours are pointing towards the S8 featuring a 5.7-inch display and the S8+ with a 6-inch one. That's an increase in size when compared to last year's 5.1-inch and 5.5-inch displays on the S7 and S7 edge respectively, but the overall dimensions should be smaller than current 5.7-inch and 6-inch handsets due to the very minimal bezels that will be present.

Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy S8 and S8+ later in March, and with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 CPU, curved, bezel-less screens, Bixby AI assistant, and a lot more.

We are waiting it, just like a world cup final.

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The release date for the much anticipated Blackberry Mercury has be known according to a
teaser that allegedly came from the company.

Actually, the name 'Blackberry Mercury', was not mentioned on the teaser. Note that, the real name of the phone will be announced when the phone is released officially even though everybody call it BB Mercury.

The teaser says that the last in-house phone to be designed by BlackBerry will see the light of day on February 25th, 2017. The time is 7pm in Barcelona and 1pm in the afternoon of the same day in New York City.

The rumored specs for the Mercury is as below:

-Display: 4.5-inch display with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
-Snapdragon 625 chipset carrying an octa-core CPUAdreno 506 GPU
-3GB of RAM
-Battery: 3400mAh
-Camera: 18MP rear-facing camera and an 8MP front-facing snapper using the same sensors as Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL .
-A physical QWERTY keyboard under the display
-Fingerprint scanner.
-A Type-C USB port in on board.

Let's wait till Feb 25th for other important information, such as pricing and availability.

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The release date for the much anticipated Blackberry Mercury has be known according to a
teaser that allegedly came from the company.

Actually, the name 'Blackberry Mercury', was not mentioned on the teaser. Note that, the real name of the phone will be announced when the phone is released officially even though everybody call it BB Mercury.

The teaser says that the last in-house phone to be designed by BlackBerry will see the light of day on February 25th, 2017. The time is 7pm in Barcelona and 1pm in the afternoon of the same day in New York City.

The rumored specs for the Mercury is as below:

-Display: 4.5-inch display with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
-Snapdragon 625 chipset carrying an octa-core CPUAdreno 506 GPU
-3GB of RAM
-Battery: 3400mAh
-Camera: 18MP rear-facing camera and an 8MP front-facing snapper using the same sensors as Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL .
-A physical QWERTY keyboard under the display
-Fingerprint scanner.
-A Type-C USB port in on board.

Let's wait till Feb 25th for other important information, such as pricing and availability.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/blackberry-mercury-to-be-released-on.html

I personally thought the mass infilteration of smartphones will automatically eliminate feature phones but I was wrong. No wonder Bloomberg reports shows that smartphone shipments in Africa
declined by 5.2%.

Finally if this could later become real, then smartphones needs to be smarter than present.

Although, feature phone market share is decreasing day by day in the developed countries. On the other hand developing countries like India and Africa, it is increasing. Reports said, almost 65 percent of mobile phone users in India still make use feature phones.


Rumors have been flying around like eagles for long about feature phones to be launched by Reliance Jio.

Now a report has disclosed the image of the Reliance Jio upcoming feature phone.

Phoneradar posted an image (first image of the phone from Riliance Jio) that shows the look, design and shortcut key setup of the new feature phone.

However, name of the maker was not indicated but shortcut keys for Jio services such as Jio Live TV, Jio Music and MyJio apps were seen on it. It is a non-touch screen which makes a bit boring for me but its allowed because its a feature phone.

It comes with dedicated tourchlight button, T9 keypad and D-pad in the middle of the phone.

Now this is it, the phone support Reliance Jio 4G VoLTE. There has reports that company might launch a 4G VoLTE powered feature phone to increase its subscriber base in rural areas within Indian. And it can launch a feature phone with 4G VoLTE support as low as INR 999 only in India. A lot of Indians and foreigners still don’t use a smartphone in rural areas of India and still prefer a feature phone. This phone is just for such people.

The new phone is said to be priced INR 1,299 in Indian, according a report. That is $20 equivalent.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/feature-phone-with-4g-lte-set-to-be.html

A herdsman, Ahmed Dele has his head chopped off yesterday in Omu town, in Oye Local Government Area.

This is happening just after just days a farmer head and hands were chopped off by same assailants in Orisunmibare, the same LG.

Ahmed was allegedly got his head removed few kilometers from the town where his cattle were grazing. He was said to have been pursued by his assailants before killing him.

Secretary Jamunati Fulbe Association of Nigeria, Ekiti State Chapter, Idris Salaudeen has confirmed this incident and also that the victim was a member of the association. He said, Dele, 26, a Fulani from Kwara State was declared missing by his boss, Jimoh Dele last Monday, after he failed to return home with his Cattle.

Accordimg to him, the victim’s body was later discovered around 4.30 am in the bush, two kilometers away from the Omu town.

Salaudeen disclosed that with this ugly incident has brought fear into many of members to go about with their legitimate business since they are yet to know the motive behind the gruesome killing of one of their members.

He therefore beg Federal Government and security agencies to save the Fulani community from “unprovoked and unwarranted attack by unmasking the killers and bring them to justice.”

“This is a very sad frightening development considering what the country is going through in terms of insecurity. There has been a lot of misconceptions and negative reports about the activities of Fulani herdsmen in recent time. But I want to tell you that we are peace loving people and we have been living peacefully with our various host communities in Ekiti State.”

Still on the sad incident, the Olomu of Omu who is the traditional ruler of the community, Oba JA Ogundeyi described the incident as strange and condemnable.

The monarch said the victim is peace loving individual who has been found wanting in his business and claimed that the whole community is mourning him.

“The deceased is personally known to me in the Palace because he was a jovial person. Whenever he was going leading his cattle for grazing he would stop by and play with me. The whole community is very sad about this. Our community played host many tribes and ethnic groups and we have been living together peacefully.”

Oba Ogundeyi said the palace in collaboration with the necessary stakeholders are already in action to investigate the reason for this gruesome act and call for calmness among the people of the town.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/tension-as-herdsman-beheaded-in-ekiti.html

Since August 27, 1993 that the self-styled military President of Nigeria, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, stepped down, he has not really been in the public like the his senior army counterpart, General Olusegun Obasanjo.


An Award-winning film producer, Obi Emelonye announced his plans on producing a biographical movie on General Babangida which is alleged to be to titled 'Badamasi'.

The Pre-production of the film is scheduled to commence from next month, March and will run till June, 2017. Emelonye has produced popular movies such as “ Last Flight to Abuja”, “ Oxford Gardens”, “The Mirror Boy” and “Onye Ozi”.

While addressing the press earlier this week about the project, Emelonye said, “Badamasi” is a story of love, war, politics, violence, diplomacy, coups, corruption and governance laced with heavy dose of Machiavellian intrigue.

Emelonye said, “The time has come for Nigerians to start telling their stories. This journey started in 2012 when I watched Mandela. As I watched it, I felt proud as an African. As Nigerians, we have several historical figures who haven’t been immortalized on the big and small screens for the world to see.”

According to Emelonye, the project is to indirectly bring out some history of the rise of an ophan to a great military leader, define some controversial moments during his rule and some other military rulers; ranging from the civil war to several coups and a touch of the June 12 saga.

“For so long, so many of these issues surrounding the IBB years have been shrouded in mystery and hearsay, remaining eventually unresolved. This has not been helped by the noble silence of the man himself since stepping aside from the highest office in the land. In a series of no-holds-bar interviews, IBB spoke, for the first time about these controversies.

The result is some shocking perspectives and revelations that make this film a must watch for every Nigerian and indeed, every African.”

Through this film, Nigerians will get to know a lot of unresolved, schemings and game of chess behind this great military leader that was also known as ‘Maradonna’ by the masses.

Emelonye however admitted said that he’s aware of the controversy the movie will generate when it touches the cinema screen on October 1, 2017.

According to the him, the film will unearth many of the ‘darkest’ events in the life of Babangida, including the ‘ June 12 saga’, the infamous ‘Gideon Okar coup’ among other burning issues that set IBB apart from other African leaders.

Emelonye defines the project as “the most important film of his career so far” and approaches the project with a sense of responsibility, objectivity and artistic wholeheartedness.

“ When I want to embark on his film, I looked at the story of General Yakubu Gown, Olusegun Obasanjo, President Mohammed Buhari and General Ibrahim Babangida. At the end, I settled for Babangida because his story is highly inspiring and still has historical relevance. This was in 2013, I know that a lot of things happened during IBB’s reign as Nigerian military leader which are still in the public domain till date. When I met him, I told him I’m making a film on a man called Badamosi, almost critical, almost objective about the man. And he replied; “May be, it’s time for me to speak,” Emelonye said.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/its-time-for-me-to-speak-ibb.html

Recall in September, Google promised to release an app that will allow you to download clips from YouTube to your phone or Tablet for offline viewing. The name of the mobile app was called YouTube Go.
To follow-up their pledge, Google has released the YouTube Go app in a beta form today.
Please take note, it only available for Indian users only because of the country’s blotchier cellular coverage, sluggish carrier speeds, and expensive data buckets.
The app is going to be tested with some selected downloadable videos, made for the local market, and you only chance for two choices in terms of quality options which are basic and standard - neither of the get to the level of HD definition.
If you own a low storage capability, you will enjoy this app and really be grateful to Google for the introduction because the downloaded videos are pretty small.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/download-video-directly-on-your-android.html

Religion in brief
Religion is said to be defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

Wikipedia also stated the Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views,
sacred texts, holy places, ethics, and societal organisation that relate humanity to what an anthropologist has called "an order of existence". There are so many types of religion in this present world which includes christianity, Islam, Jainism, Shinto, Sikhism, Rastafari, Paganism, and many more.

"Though we can't prove the existence of one (or many) god(s), we can provide evidence for the power of religion," reference to Psychology.

Corruption
A man is said to be corrupt when he engage yourself in dishonest or fraudulent activites, abuse of power when he finds himself such situation, and other illicit conducts.

How Religion is fast becoming the face of Corruption in Nigeria.
It is in Africa, using Nigeria as an example, you find a man who looted thousands, millions or billions of Naira depends on the level of access to public funds and will still seeks for his clergy's permission to build or finish a religious building all in the name of God.

(From christian perpective)
A funny reason why one of my close friend his old church was because he was INSTRUCTED (not persuaded) to bring his first fruit of the year to the church. This simply means giving his January salary of the year to the church as a salary earner. On my friends side, he wondered how he would survive the whole February if he surrenders the whole January salary knowing fully well that the later is always the longest month of the year. From the church side now, if it has 100 members and atleast 50 of them earn something at the end of the month, it will be a great harvest for that month.

Now, imagine a church with a member whose hard-earn monthly income is N1million, is he going to give out everything? Huh! Multiply that by 5 or10 or even more depends on the number of big men in the church. Remember, they will tell you that the money is for the man of God and not directly for the church itself. NO WONDER SOME SO CALL MEN OF GOD LIVES HOLLYWOOD LIFESTYLES.

A man will embezzle billions of naira and still pay tithes like millions, billions. Yet his pastor is fully aware that he's just a civil servant and will never question him. The church may even assign a special date for celerating him and announcing the size of the tithe publicly. Tell me how another innocent top civil servant like the church member will not wish to be celebrated like his counterpart, thereby tempted to emulate him to cut corner too or even do more.

Another aspect is members buying exotic cars for their pastors. I am not condemning this act, it's actually very good and also a means of showing gratitute to what God did for you through your man of God. But, pastors needs to check properly before collecting any gift.

Thinking aloud about the election period in Nigeria, it's no longer new to us that politicians goes to church once or twice in 4 years. They give exorbitant offerings to the church, buys magnificent gifts to pastors and members, promises completion of church buildings if under construction, of completed, they give funds for one thing or the other. Campeign inside church. Yet, Pastors will welcome that and even pray for them to do more term (if possible, pray 5 terms for them) forgetting that this same people refused to do anything for the masses that voted them in.

(Islam perspective)
How can an Imam who claims to have integrity lead prayer in a personal mosque own by someone who is currently under investigation by anti-graft agency. You know who he was before he join the train of politics, he worth nothing then but worths billions now. He earned that level within just 4 years. Even a deaf and blind person knows that he is corrupt.

There is a mosque close to my former abode, the former Imam was accused of embezzling a N1 million meant for completion of the building which was donated by a popular female politician in the country. Imagine this horrible accusation.

Until our religious leaders retrace their steps back to goodwill before this country can go forward, knowing fully well that NIGERIA IS SUCH A RELIGIOUS WORLD on its own.

Some of the false ones takes advantage of their followers because they know that all they love to hear is miracles while swimming inside rivers of laziness.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/02/opinion-religion-becoming-face-of.html

Nigerian largest telecommunication company is about to add to the myriad of predicaments experience by the masses by charging for share and sell services. According to a reliable source
within the company, this service will go live from 31st January, 2017.

This honestly needs to be looked into by the regulatory body before it becomes a virus on its own within the whole telecom sector of the country.

Please find below the notification MTN Nigeria sent to its staff:

"This is to inform you of the change that will be implemented on share and sell transactions initiated by customer in the near future. The go live date will be communicated soon.

1. All share and sell transactions performed by customers will attract an applicable transaction fee.
2. Customers will still... Read more.

http://tellforce..com.ng/2017/01/mtn-nigeria-to-start-charging-for-share.html

Same issue here in Ilorin. I have even complained on their twitter page, called customer care (200, and was referred to 400) but no improvement. Why did I even dusted the sim and activated data on it self?

matrix199:
Did you just say MMM is a programme sent by God to liberate poverty? By asking you, B, to pay 20k to A, then wait for Cs to join the scheme for you to get back your money with 30% interest.

And you have the audacity to call another "a fool", when it's obvious who the fool is.

Young man, MMM was an ingenious, lazy, economically unproductive concept of getting returns on money. It was time for it to crash, so it did euphemistically.

MMM is now history in Nigeria.

This is grammatically gagacious. Lori MMM yi na.

But OP, stop it. we are still in the pool of fever, u r bringing another thing. Jan 14th has taken over Jan 1st.

Ofcourse, he is not the one ruling now. He has never ruled by himself nor is he doing now.

2019, Bubu, U r gone.

ALMUSTAQIM:
FAYOSE, SPEWING RUBBISH AS USUAL.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT OUR PMB 1523 HAS THE SOCIAL, MORAL, POLITICAL & LEGAL RIGHTS TO PERSUADE YAHYA JAMMEH TO STEP DOWN & HANDOVER.

FAYOSE, GOMINA WITH MOUTH DIARRHEA

FAYOSE BE CAREFUL

FAYOSE BE CAREFUL

All these kids self.

This is just the immaculate truth.

sarrki:
Jonah Chai Jonah

He destroy everything

Economy he destroyed

Security he destroyed

Nigeria image he destroyed

Foreign Reserve he Emptied

Jonah so a failure

If Jonah is a Failure, then buhari is a Born failure cos this is the second time of failing to make Nigeria Great.

God!!! 2019 is just toooo far. 2years and 5months looks like 250years.

GossipHeart:


Hunger will soon kill these Afonjas

Just prepare Amala and Ewedu for them, they will appreciate it more than money

This is what happens when U envy some set of people. U keep on thinking about them and feel intimidated.

Nigeria is not Ghana.

Dalyjay:
why am I reading dis nonsense?

Idiot, must U comment abi na everytin u sabi. mtcheww.

ogatechy:
Microsoft Launched A New App To Help Colorblind People

http://www.dtechbaze.com/2016/11/microsoft-launched-new-app-to-help.html

My pastor advised me not to click.

tmanis:
Jesus take control over this guy...

I don't think it's possible again cos his crase don cross border and he is not willing to surrender.

La Click La Daku. Mtchewwww.