Syria is a Hell on Earth

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The death toll there has doubled in a year's time, if an opposition group is right.

Since civil war broke out there, 310,000 people have been killed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. 

A year earlier, SOHR's tally stood at 162,402. And the year before, the United Nations put the death toll at 70,000.

Violence has plunged well over half of all Syrians into such destitution that they are in dire need of survival aid, the United Nations says, as food rations are being cut for lack of donations.

Numbers alone can't convey the immeasurable anguish of millions, but maybe it can remind the rest of us of the magnitude of the world's currently greatest tragedy.

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We’ll rescue Nigerians if situation demands, says minister

THE United States has joined the South African government and other civil society leaders in condemning the violence against foreigners taking place in KwaZulu-Natal and other parts of the former apartheid enclave that has led to the killing of some migrants.

They stated their concern at the loss of innocent lives, destruction of property, and impact on families and communities, and urge those involved to refrain from all forms of violence, exercise restraint, and rely on peaceful dialogue to resolve any differences.

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Shocking,nanny caught on camera breastfeeding employer's baby

A house help in Nairobi was on Friday caught on camera breastfeeding her employer’s nine-month-old baby. According to Nairobinews.co.ke, the house help, Grace Mwikali Mwema, took up the house help job barely two days when she was spotted on a hidden camera in the living room breastfeeding the baby

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Video confession of the Nanny that kidnapped the Orekoya boys

The nanny who has been confirmed to be Funmilayo Adeyemi has confessed in a video on how she abducted the children from their home in Surulere. She narrates how the kidnap was planned by her husband, brother-in-law, wife, mother and her four children. You need to watch this :

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10 ways to be Creative in your Work Place

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Have you ever found the creative inspiration you were seeking at the most unexpected time, or thought you were having that long-awaited problem-solving epiphany just as you nodded off to sleep?

According to neuroscientists John Kounios and Mark Beeman, there's a reason for that. Their book, The Eureka Factor, explores the influences at work behind that much sought-after "Aha!" moment. Research suggests that in trying to conjure up inspiration, most of us end up suppressing it. The book explains how to clear out mental junk, in order to make way for pivotal revelations.

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President Elect Muhammadu Buhari and Oby Ezekwesili make Time's list of 100 most Infuential people

Its great new for Nigerians as our President elect makes Time's list of 100 most influential people. The list which is segmented into five categories namely: Titans, Pioneers, Artist, Leaders and Icons.

Muhammadu Buhari was listed under the Leader category alongside Oby Ezekwesili a major influence in the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

Time magazine quoted him to have said “We must begin to heal the wounds and work toward a better future,” in his April 1 victory speech. “We do this first by extending a hand of friendship and conciliation across the political divide.” It’s a promising start for a President-to-be who wants to leave a legacy to match the historic conditions of his election.

Obiageli Ezekwesili wasnt left out of their write up as the writer said:

‘’Although I have not met Obiageli Ezekwesili, I know the #BringBackOurGirls campaign that she championed is very important. It would have taken a long time to raise awareness about the girls taken by Boko Haram without her using her platform as a former Minister of Education’’.

kanye west made the list as a titan among others....

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Finally the picture of the Orekoya kid's kidnapper

Finally,the picture of Funmilayo Adeyemi the nanny who kidnapped the 3 Orekoya kids.She has since been arrested and the children recovered.It was said that she was caught in shasha area of Lagos state.

Xenophobia in SA...This Killings have to Stop

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In 2008 in Gauteng, fellow brothers and sisters from the continent were injured and killed in violent xenophobic attacks. In January this year, violence broke out between foreign nationals and locals in Alexandra after a Somali shop owner shot and killed a 14-year-old who tried to rob his shop. Looting followed. It then spread to Diepsloot and the West Rand. This week,xenophobic violence erupted in Kwa Zulu Natal and Johannesburg, leaving at least six people dead and displacing thousands.

We must never condone any form of violence. We must never celebrate when a fellow human being is killed or attacked simply because they are of a different nationality.

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Police Unmask kidnapper...Real name Funmilayo Adeyemi

More details continue to emerge on the arrest of Mary Adebiyi, the nanny who abducted the Orekoya kids and who was picked up by operatives of SARS, led by Abba Kyari yesterday last night at Coker Estate, Shasha , Akowonjo, Lagos

She was arrested with her maid after she fled her home when she realised police operatives have closed in on her.

The police say contrary to what she told her employer and the OLX portal, her real name is Funmilayo Adeyemi and she hails from Osun State. She had earlier claimed Oyo State to her cover tracts.

According to Police sources, Adebiyi is not new in the kidnapped business, she was the mastermind of the December, 2014 kidnap of two boys, Raphael and Michael Esharegaran from their parents home in Magodo, Lagos. The boys were reunited with their parents after N2.5million ransom was paid

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How Orekoya Kids were rescued...

Few hours ago, news broke that the three kidnapped Orekoya kids by their nanny have been found without the detailed information of how they were found.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, on a Channels TV programme Sunrise Daily spoke live on Thursday morning that the police have been able to arrest Mary Akinloye, the 23-year-old nanny, who kidnapped the children in Surulere area of Lagos State.

kudos to the Nigerian Police force. 

Google collects your Email address to serve you Ads

In the never-ending quest for eyeballs and dollars, Google is said to be asking advertisers for customer data like email addresses to serve up more highly-targeted ads, the Wall Street Journal reports.

In the proposed idea, an advertiser — like an online retailer, for instance — would give Google more data about their customers, like their email addresses. Google would then use that data to let that retailer buy ads targeting those existing customers when they search for products the retailer sells.

Such a move mirrors a similar service Facebook launched in 2012. Called “custom audiences,” Facebook’s ad offering has helped the social media company grow its advertising revenue by 65% to $11.5 billion, the Journal notes, cutting into Google’s ad share.

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Kidnapped Orekoya Kids Found

 Few days ago, some kids were abducted by supposed nanny to the Orekoya family named Mary Akinloye.It was learnt that the nanny had only resumed for a day before executing the act.

You would recall that the news went viral on most social media platforms on the kidnap of the kids and the ransom of 13million requested.

The parents however lamented about the fact that they couldn't raise the amount requested by the nanny and her gang only for news to go round that the kids have be found in shagamu area of Ogun State.

The mother of the kids had to clarify the rumor via her Facebook page that it was false.

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However, 7 hours ago, Mrs Adekunle Busayo Adekunle Orekoya took to her Facebook page to announce that her kids have been found. Thou there was no comment of if the ransom was paid or not.

Comments have since rolled in from well-wishers as the children have been reunited with their family. We hope the same story would be the fate of the Chibok girls who have been kidnapped for a year and 1 day now.

Is our Petroleum minister seeking Asylum?

The petroleum minister Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke last night through the Group Public Affairs General Manager of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, denied the rumor of her seeking relocation from Nigeria. 

Alegbe stated that his boss is just out of the country for a short vacation and would soon return to her job contrary to an online publication that the minister had been denied asylum by six countries, where she had so far applied, but did not state the said countries.

 Business Council for Africa (BCA) has been quoted to say that no fewer than six countries had already refused an asylum request by Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.

The BCA gave the impression that the minister would be investigated under the new administration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), even though he had said that he would not probe his predecessors.

BCA recalled President-elect Muhammadu Buhari clearly stating that the rest of the world looks at Nigerians as corrupt, and that his administration will pursue all public offices and individuals who are believed to be guilty of corruption.

It would be recalled that her administration has experienced scandals in relation to mismanagement of resources and missing funds.

I guess we would have to wait till our president elect is sworn in to unravel these miseries.

The Internet Of Things

A Peep into The Internet Of Things

It’s no news that the world that we currently live in a digital village where seamless communication occur through various channels per second daily.

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Data transferred everywhere in between different devices and region all in the bid to acquire and use information for a better world thou in some cases destroy it.

It brings us to the light of Big Data which is a term used to describe bulk amount of structured, partly structured and unstructured data. Data is gotten through various means for divers’ purposes. This data collected can be mined for information.

The big data trend is daily tilting into The Internet of Things. A process which involves a network of devices from domestic, utility and industrial equipment.These devices are equipped with the ability to acquire/collect data, share data and communicate information to execute task on their own while you are engaged with other activities. 

At the moment, with the aid of Google map in your car or on your device, you can effortlessly locate you proposed destination. Project that into few years from now when we would have devices with sensors and chips for different purposes in across different sectors i.e health, automobile, household etc. with wearable techs coming into play now, no doubt it’s going to be a massive success of device connectivity, data collection and sharing soon when at a click of button you can connect with you household equipment.

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Imagine your refrigerator reminding you of grocery exhausted in it for purchase, or you mobile app suggesting to you what to buy as it related to the environment you are in.Devices are going to be very smart to use data previously collected to predict and suggest things to the user(human device interaction).

Big data is speedily creating room for the internet of things to take the center stage. I hope you are getting ideas how internet of things is going to revolutionize the way we live and communicate. It’s surely a bright future ahead as we hope for the best because with INTERNET OF THINGS,EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED.

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