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We are winning the war against insurgency...PMB

May God continue to grant you and the family the fortitude to bear the loss, amen. As for the killer, he who lives with gun shall go with gun!

Rip

Nice one

Very funny...

VAL for VALentine
RAM for RAMadan

Human beings and pretence! This same Omotola that said she won't support any politician (example is during the just concluded election).
http://naijagists.com/omotola-jalade-warns-political-party-begging-her-for-support-to-backoff/

Now, the story has changed. Anyway, itz a normal thing with we the celebrities. When it seems your career light is beginning to dwindle, you make up something to stay relevant.

kamair237:
op what do u own

Why u dey vex nah?

Anyway, here is my answer to your question...

It's not a scam! It's for real. Good luck bro

This is definitely one of the most expensive brands of Roll Royce. I saw it on the wall of a Nigerian lady on Facebook with this caption "My boy friend got this for me as a birthday gift. Hmmmmmm, it was all in a dream. It must come to fulfillment..."
If only wishes were horses, the beggars would ride on it...

High achievements, they say, take place in the framework of high expectations.

Let's join her in prayers! Who knows...

As much as I admire his comic personality, I think he got this one wrong. The attacks on the person of Buhari isn't just coming from the PDP.
The likes of Tinibu, Akande and what have you, have in one time or the other, attacked Buhari.

http://republicreporters.com/tinubu-attacks-buhari-calls-him-traitor-ingrateeven-if-president-buhari-is-not-interested-in-a-second-term-he-owes-the-apc-a-duty-to-keep-the-party-intact-tinubu/

http://elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/33673-tinubu-osibanjo-akande-shun-apc-nec-meeting-buhari-warns-the-party

Moreover, this same basketmouth fixed a show in London on the very day of Presidential election. This is the same person now vomiting trash!

http://www.lailasblog.com/2015/01/basketmouth-i-cant-cancel-my-show.html

Anyway, na freedom of information plus freedom of expression cause am!

This is definitely a political cartoon, that's why it had to appear on political section. This really got me laughing...
But ladies, how true is the statement?

A house built on lies can only be sustained on lies. The most righteous man in Nigeria has gone astray again. GEJ, While-You-Were-Away, they lied again, but NLNG has vindicated you. My only problem with this unprepared administration is that they act before they think.

So the northern rule continues

Honestly, this is not the type of question you seek public opinion before you make a worthwhile decision. But since you need public opinion, here is mine.

1. Is this MTN job your very first paid job?
2. How long have you worked with MTN ( because I know they are the people recruiting/relocating Call Centre Agents to Ibadan for now)
3. How much are they paying you?
4. How much have you saved so far?
5. What class of degree did you graduate with?
6. Can the money you have saved over the years take you through an MBA without borrowing?

If you can answer these questions, then you have the solution to your immediate challenge!
You are just a B.Sc or even HND holder and every idiot out there now has that same certificate. My dear, go and get your MBA and re-apply to MTN after you have got it. I assure you that your salary by then will be far higher than whatever peanut you get from them now as salary. Moreover, you can take up a small job which is not quite time consuming there in Lagos while running your MBA program.

7. Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon): Bugatti Veyron

Samuel Eto’o has had a fantastic football career and with all the big salaries, he has been able to build up a fleet of cars worth billions of Naira. Eto'o has always been a fan of cars and even reportedly offered former Cameroon striker Roger Milla a porsche as a Christmas present in 2010. He owns the N470m Bugatti Veyron, the world’s fastest car and also one of the most expensive. He is the only African footballer who actually owns one. Eto’o also owns N370m Aston Martin One-77 and N230m Maybach Xenatec.

6. Sulley Muntari (Ghana): Lamborghini Gallardo

Sulley Muntari is a cenyral midfielder who plays for Inter Milan and his country Ghana. He drives a luxurious Lamborghini Gallardo with an estimated worth of about N40 million.

5. Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast): Mercedes SL65

Drogba the former Premier League player with Chelsea has in his garage a whole list of good cars and the most expensive of his collection is Mercedes SL65-AMG which cost N45 Million.

4. El Hadj Djouf (Senegal): Mercedes SLR McLaren

El Hadj Djouf is a popular soccer player in Africa where he has also emerged twice as the winner of the continent's footballer of the year. The player owns a luxurious beautiful white coloured Mercedes McLaren SLR which is worth over N120 Million.

3. Obafemi Martins(Nigeria): Mercedes SLR McLaren

Obafemi or Obagoal as he is fondly called plays for Seattle Sounders FC, the former Newcastle United striker is one of the richest Nigerian athlete, has acquired a brand new Mercedes Benz Slr Mclaren worth 120 Million Naira.

2. Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo): Aston Martin DBS V12

Togolese footballer and Tottenham Hotspur forward Emmanuel Adebayor is one of the richest footballers in the world. He has more cars than he probably needs. Famous soccer player owns an Aston Martin – the car made famous by its use by superspy James Bond in the early Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Football stars are paid fabulous money to play on the global stage. Earning millions of dollars each year, many choose to spend their salary on the finest cars money can buy. We are going to bring you a interesting list of most expensive cars owned by footballers of Africa.

http://job.naij.com/tips-Top+Seven+Most+Expensive+Cars+Owned+By+African+Footballers-181-page-7

Here are 7 of the best cars driven by african players

1. Mikel Obi(Nigeria): Bentley Continental GT

One of Nigeria’s own, Chelsea Football Club Midfielder, John Mikel Obi, is definitely living life to the fullest. With an annual salary of close to $6 million (N1.14bn) outside revenues from endorsements and commercials, the challenge would be how to spend it, so it is understandable if he invests it in cars. His fleet of Cars include Range Rover, Mercedes Benz e-class and many more. One of his latest and one of the most expensive is Bentley Continental GT which estimatly costs over N40 million.

Congrats to them

Everything na news for naija. I was the head boy in primary school (name of school withheld for security reasons), senior prefect (students' Governor as we call it) in a secondary school in Abuja where we never saw naira with our eyes but dollars, vice President of African students union in one of the top 10 world universities according to global rankings; yet nobody gave a Bleep. If she come enter university hold post, then na national dailies go carry d news.

feldido:
Thanks

U are welcome!

Despite the microblogging social media network’s rapid rise to popularity, some business owners are still reluctant to commit to regularly engaging on Twitter. While they may have a Twitter profile set up, many are unsure whether investing their time and energy into daily interactions on the platform are worthwhile.

This article will outline the top 10 reasons why your brand needs to be on Twitter. Please add your own reasons in the comments below!

1. Your audience wants to see product updates on Twitter

According to Twitter, 74% of people who follow a brand on Twitter do so to get product updates. Think about it: People will follow you on Twitter simply to get notifications when you release new products. This is an enormous opportunity for businesses to promote their products and services to an engaged audience. Just make sure to temper these types of promotional tweets with lots of high-value, informational posts.

2. Important industry-related conversations are taking place on Twitter (with or without you)

“Twitter is not a technology. It’s a conversation. And it’s happening with or without you.” -@charleneli

Whether you like it or not, people are talking about your business and/or products on Twitter. If you’re using the platform, you can monitor brand mentions and respond to questions; if not, there’s a good chance your competitors are doing it for you. Use a tool like Social Mention to make sure you never miss a brand or product mention again.

3. Marketers are poised to increase their use of Twitter this year

According to Social Media Examiner, 66% of marketers are planning to increase their use of Twitter this year; compare this to the 62% who are going to increase their Facebook usage.

This means more industry-related conversations are going to be happening on Twitter, and more of your competitors are going to be connecting with your customers and prospects.

4. Twitter drives short and long-term sales

72% of Twitter followers are more likely to make a future purchase after following or engaging with a brand on Twitter. Seeking out a brand on Twitter indicates an interest in their products or services; and connecting with them by reading and engaging with their tweets keeps that brand top of mind.

Research also shows that there is real monetary value to having Twitter followers: according to Adobe’s Social Intelligence Report, revenue per visit from Twitter is $0.62. While this number is far below Facebook’s revenue per visit ($1.24), Twitter is still a significant source of traffic and sales.

5. Twitter users are more likely than Facebook users to shop online

If you want access to the online shopping crowd, research from GlobalWebIndex found that 73% of Twitter users shop online each month (compared to 69% of Facebook users).

To stay top of mind for these consumers, it’s important to share a steady stream of valuable content; including (but not limited to) coupons, deals and other incentives to visit your site and move users into your online marketing funnel.

6. Your customers are looking for coupons and discounts on Twitter

We’ve known for years that most people follow a brand on Twitter in order to receive special discounts and deals. This is even more true for the coveted millennial market: a whopping 85% of millennials follow brands on Twitter for the coupons. Whether your target market includes millennials or not, offering exclusive coupons and deals can be a great way to drive engagement and sales.

7. Tweeting can now increase your visibility in search

Twitter recently announced that tweets will once again appear in relevant Google search results. This means that popular tweets from your brand could show up on the first page of search results. This is not only great for extending the visibility of your tweets; it can ultimately lead to increased followers, engagement, and click-throughs to your site.

8. Twitter allows you to engage in public, real-time customer service

More than ever, consumers are turning to social media to ask questions and give feedback to brands. While receiving negative feedback in such a public forum can be disconcerting, it also gives businesses a public platform to showcase their commitment to customer service. For more on this, see my article, 7 Reasons You Need to Be Using Social Media As Your Customer Service Portal.

9. Certain industries receive a significant number of orders through Twitter

While Twitter may not be equally effective for every industry, research shows that it generates a significant amount of orders in certain niches. These are:

Etail/catalogues
Home and office furnishings
Home and garden
Gifts and specialty
If you’re in one of these industries and aren’t yet on Twitter, now’s the time to get connected and start driving sales.

10. Twitter can be a lead magnet (when used right)

According to Hubspot, 36% of businesses have used Twitter to generate leads. The key is using the platform in a way that it creates and nurtures relationships, not as a channel simply for broadcasting your message.

Some of the ways you can effectively capture leads on Twitter are:

Making use of lead generation cards
Promoting a valuable free info-product that allows you to capture customer emails
Offering coupons and discounts to your Twitter followers
Promoting your relevant blog posts
Monitoring and responding to brand and industry-related conversations
Using strong calls to action in your profile and tweets
Promoting contests and giveaways that require entrants to submit a valid email address

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2015/07/07/top-10-reasons-your-brand-needs-to-be-on-twitter/

The Picture below is that of Lynne Doughtie, the next chief executive of KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms in the world.

When I met Lynne Doughtie this week, I was struck by how different it felt sitting with her than with any male chief executive I had met over the years. Six weeks ago, Ms. Doughtie was elected United States chairwoman and chief executive of KPMG. When she takes over the role on July 1, she will become the first woman to serve in both of those roles for a Big Four accounting firm. Cathy Engelbert was chosen as chief executive of Deloitte in February.

In my short time with Ms. Doughtie, I found her to be warm, open, gracious and introspective – in short, qualities more traditionally associated with women. I felt relaxed, comfortable and unhurried talking with her, in part because she seemed more focused on having a conversation than on announcing or positioning herself.
By making this observation, I’m reinforcing a stereotype about women — and by implication a parallel stereotype about men, and especially male leaders, as dominant, aggressive and certain. So be it. For all the exceptions, these stereotypes feel true more often than they do not.

What seems undeniable is that we need more leaders who make people feel the way Ms. Doughtie made me feel. I say that for a simple reason. The better leaders make us feel – including about ourselves — the better we are likely to perform.

In the most interesting research I have come across comparing male and female leaders, the consulting firm Zenger Folkman studied 16,000 of them – two-thirds men, one-third women – as well as their managers, subordinates and peers.

Women rated better than men on 12 out of 16 competencies. These included “takes initiative,” “drives for results” and “stretches for results,” all traditional measures of effective leadership. They also included every one of the more human competencies — “practices self-development,” “develops others,” “motivates and inspires others,” “builds relationships” and “collaboration and teamwork.” These leadership qualities are more critical than ever in a highly networked, fast-moving, interdependent global economy. Traditionally, they have been valued far below more technical skills.
“Women do tend to be collaborative, and that is important in a world and a work force that is changing so fast,” Ms. Doughtie told me. “The challenge in most organizations is to innovate and adapt. An autocratic style doesn’t serve that. You need different perspectives at the table from diverse backgrounds.”

Interestingly, the female leaders in the Zenger Folkman study were rated about equal with the men when it came to solving problems and analyzing issues. The only competencies in which men rated higher than women were technical expertise, innovation and a strategic perspective about the outside world and other groups.

In another study, the organization Catalyst found that companies with the highest representation of women in top management consistently experienced better financial performance than the group of companies with the lowest.

Despite such findings, the number of women in top leadership roles remains depressingly low and slow to change. Women make up more than half of the work force, but they still represent less than 5 percent of the chief executives of the largest companies, and about 15 percent of senior executives.
Only two dozen presidents among the world’s 196 countries are women. Nearly 50 percent of those attending law school today are women, but only 20 percent of the partners at law firms are women.

The most obvious obstacle to the rise of women in leadership roles is the degree to which male-dominated corporate cultures still reward long work hours. As Prof. Robin J. Ely of Harvard Business School and her colleagues reported recently, men often feel compelled to sacrifice their families to advance their careers, while many women feel that the cost to their families is too great to pay. Even when women choose to pursue their careers, organizations continue to devalue or undervalue the range of leadership skills they often bring to the table.

In addition, as Sheryl Sandberg has pointed out, women often unwittingly undermine themselves. The event at which I met Ms. Doughtie this week was a conference on women’s leadership tied to a Ladies Professional Golf Association tournament, both sponsored by KPMG. Ms. Doughtie’s talk was a summary of the findings in a study that the firm commissioned about women’s attitudes toward leadership.

Nearly two-thirds of the 3,000 professional and college-age women in the KPMG study expressed a desire to someday become senior leaders. Only 40 percent were consistently able to envision themselves as leaders. While men often overvalue their strengths, women too frequently undervalue theirs. Call it a continuing confidence gap.
Eighty-six percent of the women surveyed were taught be “nice to others” growing up and to do well in school, but less than 50 percent were taught leadership lessons. Two-thirds said they were cautious about sharing their point of view at work or taking steps to become leaders.

Ms. Doughtie’s early advantage was having a role model in her own mother, a successful businesswomen who ran a family trucking business, among others. “I had role models all along the way who gave me confidence,” she said.

One was John Veihmeyer, KPMG’s global chairman, who grew up with five sisters, each of whom excelled academically and professionally. Mr. Veihmeyer pushed to name Ms. Doughtie the managing partner of KPMG’s United States advisory business 10 years ago, when others felt she was too young for such responsibility.

Two-thirds of the women in the KPMG study felt they had learned their most important lessons about leadership from other women, and 82 percent of working women in the study believed that networking with female leaders would help them advance their careers. Even so, four out of five women did not feel comfortable asking for mentors.
Ms. Doughtie will now have an opportunity to influence substantially the culture of a company that employs thousands of young women (and men). One way is by constantly retelling her story and by building a network of mentors for young women, both to help them navigate their career paths and encourage them to believe more in themselves.

Receiving praise from mentors and leaders, for example, was the single biggest factor influencing women’s perceptions of themselves in the study, more even than receiving raises and promotions.

At a broader level, my hope is that Ms. Doughtie — and Ms. Engelbert, who is also the mother of two children — will draw on her experiences to create more humane, flexible and sustainable work environments in a profession long known for relentlessly brutal working hours.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/business/dealbook/overcoming-the-confidence-gap-for-women.html?smid=li-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

According to the Mayor of Houston, Texas, July 17th 2015 has been set aside to honour the Nigerian Comedy guru for his value in the life of humanity.

The full text

BASKETMOUTH

Basketmouth is one of the leading players in the comedy industry in Nigeria. He represents the Stand-Up Comedy genre and is one of Nigeria and Africa's leading experts. The Basketmouth brand has won over the hearts of Nigerians and non-Nigerians.

On February 21, 2010, Basketmouth became the first African comedian to host a one-man comedy concert at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo, which was a huge success, and to this day, he has hosted nine different concerts in the United Kingdom. The concerts included Basketmouth Uncensored Live o2, Nigerian Kings of Comedy, the African Kings of Comedy, and Lords of the Ribs, and he hosted Comeddy Central in South Africa.

In 2001, Basketmouth was approached by MTV Base to host his own show "The Big Friday Show". The TV show went on to win the Best TV show in 2013. Basketmouth is one of the brand ambassadors of the leading telecommunication companies in Africa known as Globacom. It is a brand face for Dana Air, a leading airline company in Nigeria.

Basketmouth has headlined shows all over Africa, including in South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia and many more. He was approached by Comedy Central to do his own special and was invited to be part of Just for Laughs, one of the biggest comedy festivals in the world. Basketmouth is now embarking on a world tour, and he will be visiting Houston on July 18, 2015, because it is one of the largest populations of Nigerian-Americans.

The City of Houston commends Basketmouth for his commitment on bringing our community together through comedy and extends best wishes for continued success.

Therefore, I, Anniese D. Parker, Mayor of the City of Houston, hereby proclaim July 17, 2015, as Basketmouth Day in Houston, Texas.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and have caused the Official Seal
of the City of Houston to be affixed this
2nd day of July, 2015.

Annise D. Parker
Mayor of the City of Houston

They are going for courtesy visit.

This is the reason everyone must work hard to lead at least, an average life in this country.
If the parents of this young Destiny had made good use of their days, their child wouldn't be in this mess, at least not from being a maid!
My pastor will always echo "if you cannot train, don't born". Let the full wrath of the law be used on that woman for being this inhumane!

WhatDoYouMean:
Mod, if you sabi Maths pass me, carry this work go front page make I see...

If I catch myself eeeennnnhhh!

whillyamz98:
I disagree with the equation for 12. The square root sign is supposed to be on top not under. How can 9/3 give you 3 and 9 + -3 give you 12?

What + Do + You + Mean...