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To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, checks the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cooks “sitting is the new coolness” line. To its detractors, love at first sight must be an illusion – the wrong term for what is simply infatuation, or a way to sugarcoat lust. Best Chromebook: Google…
To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, checks the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cooks “sitting is the new coolness” line. To its detractors, love at first sight must be an illusion – the wrong term for what is simply infatuation, or a way to sugarcoat lust. Best Chromebook: Google…
It was a historic moment yesterday as Hon. Benjamin Kalu, member representing Bende federal constituency of Abia State in the 9th National Assembly and his entourage, were hosted by Chief Chinedum Ndubuisi (Ijiriji Bende), the Honourable member representing Bende South in Abia State House of Assembly, at his country home in Uzuakoli. The visit was to foster an alignment between the two leaders of APC and PDP for the good of the constituents and was initiated by Hon. Kalu’s philosophy of Bende first before politics. Recall that Hon. Kalu’s slogan and belief throughout the 2019 campaign season was “we are…
Top excos of Bende Town Development Union, on March 7, visited the country home of Chief Benjamin Kalu to congratulate him for his recent victory in the hotly contested House of Representatives elections for Bende Federal Constituency. They presented him with a formal letter of congratulation wherein they pledged their total and continued support to him as he undertakes the task of representing Bende. In his response, BenKalu thanked the town union for their support, recalling the time that they unanimously adopted him as their preferred candidate for the position late last year. He reaffirmed his commitment to diligently representing…
During his campaign tour of Item yesterday, APC Candidate for Bende Federal House of Reps was welcomed and endorsed by HRM the Okpi of Item during the the traditional Ima nzu ceremony. See pictures-
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is worried that the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will impact negatively on its preparations for next year’s general elections. Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Festus Okoye, disclosed this in Abuja yesterday during a one-day seminar on Media and Gender Sensitive Reporting of Elections. It is near impossible for members of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) to provide all the ad-hoc staff requirements of the commission, Okoye said, explaining that the electoral body draws over 70 per cent of the staff need from students of…
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has revealed the government officials behind Alex Badeh’s death. He revealed this yesterday while giving details of a brief discussion he had with late Alex Badeh, a former chief of Defense Staff, while in Kuje prison. Badeh, who served as the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, was assassinated along the Abuja-Keffi highway last Tuesday evening. Speaking on the murder of Badeh during a special worldwide broadcast from Israel, Kanu alleged that the late Chief of Air Staff was murdered on the instructions of some persons in the government.…
A former Nigerian Ambassador to Ukraine, Ibrahim Kasai, has revealed why retired military Generals like former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, IBB, and T. Y. Danjuma are against the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari. Kassai claimed that the former generals are against Buhari because they fear he may not renew their oil licences, The Sun reports. He said: “I have said it, most of them are into oil business and Buhari is likely not going to renew their licenses, he is taking on policies that will better the masses in the country and those in oil business are just few;…
The servant of God, Primate Elijah Ayodele of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Oke Afa, Isolo, Lagos, has predicted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will find it difficult to wrestle power from President Muhammadu Buhari come February 2019 because they refused to do the right thing from the beginning. Primate Ayodele made this proclamation during his end of year interactive session with journalists at his church premises while also rolling out his prophecies for 2019. According to Ayodele: “I said it the other time and I still maintain it, if PDP had given the ticket to Bukola Saraki, they…
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has decided tom pay workers in the State their December salary on time. The governor directed the State Ministry of Finance to ensure that payment of workers’ salaries for the month of December 2018, commencing from Wednesday. Ortom said the directive was to enable the workers to celebrate Christmas, as he earlier promised them. In a statement made available to journalists by his Chief Press Secretary, Tever Akase, Ortom further directed officers in charge of “payment vouchers” to put in “extra effort, even if it means working all night, to see that workers…