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Lakayana: Yeye dey worry you why drag our president into this when you disrespect your parents don't expect your friends to respect them.

PayWell: e still dey pain you say you never chop.

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DUBAI (Reuters) - Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi billionaire and an investor in some of the world's top companies, has bought a stake in microblogging site Twitter for $300 million, gaining another foothold in the global media industry.
Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's king who was estimated by Forbes magazine this year to have a fortune of over $19 billion, already owns a 7 percent stake in News Corp and plans to start a cable news channel.
Twitter was a key means of communication for protesters in the Arab Spring revolts this year, violence that threatened Saudi Arabia until the kingdom unveiled a populist $130 billion social spending package.
The Twitter stake, bought jointly by Alwaleed and his Kingdom Holding Co investment firm, resulted from "months of negotiations," Kingdom said.
Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo valued the company at $8 billion in October, according to media reports, which would peg the size of Alwaleed's investment at just under 4 percent.
Kingdom's executive director Ahmed Halawani told Reuters that "substantial capital gain" was the motivation behind the investment, adding that there were no moves to ask for a board seat or influence strategy at Twitter.
Twitter, which allows people to send 140-character messages, or Tweets, to groups of followers, is one of the Internet's most popular social networking services, along with Facebook and Zynga.
Bernhard Warner, co-founder of analysis and advisory firm Social Media Influence, said: "The Arab world, of course, knows full well the value of Twitter. In the past year, it has been a force in politics, in regime change, so there is not a single person in that region in a position of influence who is not following the increasing power of Twitter.
"(Alwaleed) must see Twitter as something that is going to be a really powerful broadcast channel," he said, adding the Saudi had got into the internet boom belatedly, with mixed results, and appeared to be "kind of late" to the game again.
Investors in Saudi Arabia were more bullish, sending shares in Kingdom up 5.7 percent to 8.30 riyals at the close.
"One of the few sectors to record significant revenue gains in the last three years has been technology, which is why Kingdom would see Twitter as a good addition to its diversified portfolio," said Hesham Tuffaha, head of asset management at Bakheet Investment Group in Riyadh.
Saudis are increasingly turning to satellite television, online news providers and social networking to stay abreast of world events. The world's biggest oil exporter announced a series of stricter regulations for journalists earlier this year.
Alwaleed, 26th on the Forbes list of billionaires with a sizeable stake in Citigroup, has spoken in favor of broader political participation, fair elections and effective job creation across the Arab world.
He has also been publicly supportive of management including the Murdochs at News Corp and Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit.
Several Arabs tweeted that they were worried Alwaleed's purchase would influence strategy negatively at Twitter.
But Abdel-Khaleq Abdullah, an Emirati political scientist, said the investment was unlikely to raise eyebrows in official circles.
"He just saw an opportunity, a money-making opportunity, nothing more, nothing less," he said. "(Internally), it's going to be viewed as a shrewd investment and I don't think we should read too much into it."
The prince's wife, Princess Ameerah al-Taweel, is a regular Tweeter and has nearly 83,000 followers on the site.
INVESTOR BACKS IPO
Halawani gave his backing to a potential initial public share offering from Twitter, saying the investor would be interested in participating.
Markets are eagerly anticipating a Twitter float but the company said in September it was in no hurry to go public. It raised $400 million in venture capital financing this summer.
It now counts more than 100 million active users who log onto the service at least once a month. Facebook, the world's largest social network has more than 750 million active users.
Internet search giant Google recently launched a social networking service dubbed Google+ which some observers say could attract users away from Twitter.
Shares in online games developer Zynga ended at a 5 percent discount to their issue price on their trading debut on Friday, and analysts said any valuation for Twitter could be misleading.
"You could put any number of zeroes behind a valuation of a private company. Before it goes public it is almost meaningless," said Warner.
"This is a very small group of investors which has put money into this thing. That will be diluted and diluted and diluted again until it goes public. And that is when we will see what the value is. These are kind of magic numbers at the moment."
Kingdom owns a near-30 percent stake in Saudi Research and Marketing Group, which runs a range of media titles.
"Our investment in Twitter reaffirms our ability in identifying suitable opportunities to invest in promising, high-growth businesses with a global impact," Alwaleed said.
Alwaleed paid $500 million for shares in last year's General Motors IPO. In August this year he unveiled plans to build the world's tallest tower in Jeddah.



http://finance.yahoo.com/news/saudis-prince-alwaleed-buys-stake-071140529.html

Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.
Kim's death 17 years after he inherited power from his father was announced Monday by the state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. The country's "Dear Leader" — reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine — was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease.
North Korea has been grooming Kim's third son to take over power from his father in the impoverished nation that celebrates the ruling family with an intense cult of personality.
South Korea put its military on "high alert" and President Lee Myung-bak convened a national security council meeting after the news of Kim's death.
In a "special broadcast" Monday, state media said Kim died of a heart ailment on a train due to a "great mental and physical strain" on Saturday during a "high intensity field inspection."
Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but he had appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media.
Kim Jong Il inherited power after his father, revered North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, died in 1994. He had been groomed for 20 years to lead the communist nation founded by his guerrilla fighter-turned-politician father and built according to the principle of "juche," or self-reliance.
In September 2010, Kim Jong Il unveiled his third son, the twenty-something Kim Jong Un, as his successor, putting him in high-ranking posts.



http://news.yahoo.com/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-il-69-died-030848603.html

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Whats the difference between 12v 200ah and 24volts 200ah deep cycle batteries?

Cant ever be surprised since I voted for Cpc and told fellow people who were brainwashed for voting for that old fool Johnny who thinks like a fish. More Boko Haramis in the making if he dares,  ,  Jonhhy, try to remove it you hear? Very useless president. Is this the time to remover or even be thinking of such a dire move when Boko is reigning and all other madness surrounding his crazy cheap government. He lacks pure unflinching wisdom.

George_D:
ikiriye,
what is the spec of these fiamm batteries, i.e voltage, amps, etc?

and at what cost per each or per crate?

Hello George, could you please email me the seller of the Zenith deep cycle batteries? How genuine and long lasting are these batteries? Email is educatedsoul@gmail.com. I need it asap.

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rokiatu:
LOL don't get me wrong. If you happen to meet my bf, he will tell you that I am someone who do not love a guy for money. Trust me, I never ever asked any of my bfs for money. Not once.


But they were smart enough to buy stuff for me to surprise me etc etc. And I did buy them stuff also. You see, all that sh!!t is just formality. In this time and age, if you are hard working, you can make your own money. I was raised to rely only on myself and nobody not even my mom.

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oLeE rIpPeRs, MaKe YoU nA hOlD thEm WeLl

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