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5 Ways To Protect Your House From Thieves

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Every part of your house needs protection, even the seemingly insignificant parts. If you do not take strong security measures to protect your home, thieves can find your house an easy target. It is on your part to protect your home from areas that will not be easy to mark for theft. No thief or thieves will want to steal from a house that will take them a lot of time to break into. They would prefer to steal from an easy-to-break-in house to a house with strong security. 1.…

8 Health Benefits Of Music You May Not Know About

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Almost everyone has a particular song that triggers an emotional response when they hear it. This emotional response depends on the circumstances that accompanied the song the first time we heard it. For instance, a song that accompanied the first dance at your wedding. It could also be a song that reminds you of the loss of a loved one. Music is something we are all touched by. Everyone loves music. This universal bond with music has led researchers to investigate its therapeutic potential. Numerous studies have shown that music…

6 Things That Can Damage Your Smartphone

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For a person who cares about his or her smartphone and wants to reduce the risk of having it damaged, here are a few things you must not do.   1. Using the phone while connected to an electric source The practice of using the phone when connected to an electric source can cause the phone to explode due to overheating. It also poses hazards to one’s life which include the risk of explosion and electrocution.   2. Using a damaged cable or using the wrong charger Every smartphone is…

POS Of Trouble: How Operators Fall Victims Of Yahoo Boys By Femi Ogunlana

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Point of Sale (POS) terminal recently became popular in Nigeria, starting from about 2013 as a terminal where transactions can be made with the use of one’s debit or credit card without having to physically go to a bank. Investopedia defines a Point of Sale (POS) terminal as “a hardware system for processing card payments at retail locations.” Embedded in the hardware is software to read magnetic strips of credit and debit card. The advent of POS terminal is a big relief to bank customers especially in areas far from…

Birthday Tribute, 17 Years Ago: How Isa Gusau, As Fellow Journalist, Loaned Us N1.5 Million For Correspondents’ Week By AbdulKareem Haruna

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While some or many, may write about Malam Isa Gusau’s exceptional role as media strategist to Governor Babagana Zulum, I chose to go memory lane, in my birthday tribute to a dear brother.   By the title of this tribute, I decided to recollect part of the speech I delivered on Monday, August 7, 2017, at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, press week.   I gave the vote thanks at the end of the colorful event, after serving as secretary of the press week’s organizing committee.   The last…

BOOK REVIEW: EWO NA SOKO KIN NA (WHAT GOD HAS DESTINED) By Umar S. Adamu (NTA) [email protected]

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Even though some school of taught opined that reading culture is on the declining level, I have strong contrary opinion to that notion. Because it is in the contemporary that many young people are now into book writing especially in our mother tongues unlike before when reverse was the case, imaging the level of reading across even the Social Media and increasingly extent people are now addicted to learning indigenous language, Nupe inclusive. People are now reading, writing and publishing beyond the breadth of our forefathers. The 24 pages book…

More On Gov Matwalle’s healthcare strides

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Welcome to Matawalle’s Zamfara where a world class State tertiary hospital is now a reality….. or just google the name of Ahmad Sani Yariman Bakura Specialist Gusau to see for yourself this success story.   A hospital where a multimillion magnificent 50 megawatt hybrid solar project has been executed in the hospital providing three switchable sources of power to ensure a 24-hour supply.   ….Where a multimillion computeried CT scan imaging machine has been installed in the hospital   ….Where an industrial Oxygen producing plant project had been completed and…

How to end vote-buying, tribunals in Nigerian elections – Mike Igini

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Mike Igini discusses how Nigeria can overcome vote buying, improve the conduct of elections and reduce the intervention of the courts in the electoral process.   The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa-Ibom State, Mike Igini, in an interview, on Tuesday on the Sunrise programme of Channels Television, discussed how Nigeria can overcome vote buying, improve the conduct of elections and reduce the intervention of the courts in the electoral process. Below are excerpts from the interview.   Q: What is INEC’s assessment of the recently concluded Osun State governorship election?…

Female celebrities and the recent craze for cosmetic surgery, by Bernice Eke

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Cosmetic surgery is becoming so popular these days among Nigerian celebrities as beauty standards to them are no more about having a pretty face but a curvy and snatched body.   Women no longer seek to have slim frames; rather, they prefer wider hips, bigger bottoms and contoured breasts, and so they go through a lot all in the bid to look s3xy.   The most common cosmic surgery is a “butt lift,” which involves liposuction of the abdomen, thighs, flanks, and intergluteal region, then injecting that fat into the…

The National School Feeding Programme In Nigeria By Bola Bakare

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The Nigerian polity, for years, has been plagued with an astronomical number of out of school children, a situation which has been of major concern to governments; federal, state and local even as both the international community and the private sector have put in, efforts, concerted, to ameliorate this anomaly which, over the years, has affected our literacy level and stalled the development of the nation. Several reasons adduce for this though we must, first, acknowledge that the proportion of out of school children vary from region to region, being…