Bukola Saraki shares his experience in Maiduguri today

He visited IDP camps in Maiduguri, Borno state today. More tweets after the cut..

 

Rapper T.I gives his take on Ciara's boyfriend playing dad to her son

Last weekend, photos of Ciara's boyfriend Russell Wilson playing dad to her son with Future hit the net and an angry Future took to twitter to indirectly call Ciara out for supposedly 'exploiting their child'. Rapper T.I has weighed in on the controversy.

Popular radio DJ, Ebro, shared the photo above and asked his instagram followers for their opinion on the photos of Future Jnr hugging Wilson. T.I. responded. See what he said after the cut...

NAFDAC boss interrogated by EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC today interrogated the Director General of NAFDAC, Paul Orhii, over allegations of fraud. Mr Orhii is being investigated for allegedly awarding contracts to companies he has interest in. He arrived the commission's headquarters in Abuja this morning at about 10am and is currently being interrogated.

Photos: Check out Akon's private Jet

Yep, the singer has a private jet. Akon is said to be worth over $300m...who knew? He was in Nigeria over the weekend and that is the private jet he came in. He left yesterday. See more pics after the cut

Photos: Mariah Carey hits the beach with her children, Roc and Roe

Singer Mariah Carey enjoyed a day at the beach in LA with her twins Monroe and Moroccan...and her handlers/friends. See more photos after the cut...

Majek Fashek's problem is beyond drugs, its spiritual - Oritz Wiliki

Reggae star, Oritz Wiliki says the problems plaguing his fellow reggae legend Majek Fashek is beyond drugs. He says it's spiritual.

 "His problem is beyond drugs; it is spiritual. Sometimes, if you have a one-on-one conversation with him, he would discuss with you as if nothing was wrong with him. I also think part of the problems is that he is not engaged. You know, an idle mind is the devil’s work­shop. If we put him in rehab and he finds something doing after he is okay, Majek will be well 100 per cent I can assure you. Even in his present condition, he still maintains the same aura on stage that he had when he was the rave. I believe that if he is busy going on music tours, there will be no problem" he told Sunnews Online.

Quality husbands will be scarce in Nigeria in the near future - Catholic Women group says

According to the National President of the Council of Catholic Women Organisation of Nigeria,Chief Felicia Onyeabo, there will be a scarcity of quality husbands in Nigeria in the near future following the increasing number of male dropouts from schools in the last 10 years. Mrs Onyeabo said this at a press briefing to herald the inauguration of a catholic school in Abuja last week

“The future of this country is going to be very bleak for the male-child. How many girls do you see hawking clothes? Go to Onitsha, they are all men. We have looked round and have come to see that there is a neglect of boys in education. Who are the armed robbers on the streets? They are mostly the boys. Let us concentrate on training boys.
The NCCWO feels that a vacuum is being created, and very soon, we shall be faced with a situation where our educated girl-child will not find a corresponding suitable boy-child to marry. This is because more boys drop out of school, apparently because the high rate of unemployed youth discourages our young boys from appreciating the need to be educated. The NCCWO also considers the fact that in the near future, quality husbands will become extremely scarce, with too many highly educated women looking for husbands, and settling for anyhow husbands, just to get married. The result of this type of situation is better imagined and will not augur well for Nigerians.”she said

Buhari says Boko Haram will be defeated by the end of this year

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Boko Haram will be defeated hopeful by end of this year.
Buhari made this statement in Cotonou, during a gala lunch held in honour by the President of Benin Republic, Boni Yayi. He expressed optimism that the Multi-national Joint Task Force, MNJTF launched in Cameroon on Thursday would start yielding fruits soon.

This is as Yayi who described his country as the 37th State of Nigeria assured president Buhari that 800 troops would be contributed to the Joint Task Force by his country in the all-out-assault on insurgents.
While commending the gesture by Yayi, Buhari said “I assure you that we will defeat Boko Haram by the end of this year”.

President Buhari who was on a one-day official visit to Cotonou as the special guest of honour at the 55th independence anniversary of Benin Republic was bestowed with the national honor of the Republic of Benin.

Nigeria’s president recalled that both countries have maintained peace over the years even when he was a military Head of State.

He said:

“I am impressed by your concern and critical approaches by increasing your contributions to the multinational task force of the Lake Chad Commission. This is a great sacrifice on the part of the Benin Republic….

“Even in my first coming into office under a different arrangement, we have learnt to live in peace with our neighbours. Within the week I was sworn in, I went to Niger, Chad. I was supposed to go to Cameroon but I was summoned by the G7 leaders to brief them about the security situation in Nigeria concerning Boko Haram which declared allegiance to ISIS which gives it international dimension”.

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Graphic photos: Uganda lady stabs Nigerian boyfriend in the eye in Malaysia

Details about what really happened are sketchy but according to multiple Uganda websites, a popular pimp named Phiona Namatovu but popularly known as Aaliyah stabbed her Nigerian lover in the eye after she found him having sex with one of her ladies. This happened in Malaysia but the websites didn't say when exactly it happened. Aaliyah is alleged to specialize in bringing women from Uganda to Malaysia for prostitution.

The injured man was simply identified as a 49yr old from Nigeria. Police in Malaysia have arrested Aaliyah for attempted murder while the injured man is receiving treatment at a hospital. See more photos after the cut...

From a factory worker to the world's richest self-made woman: The story of Zhou Qunfei

Zhou Qunfei is the founder of Lens Technology and owns a $27 million estate in Hong Kong. Her stake in Lens Technology, which went public this year, is worth $7.2 billion. But long before all this, she worked in a factory and helped her family raise pigs and ducks for food and additional money.

 

This is her inspiring story written by David Barboza for The New York Times. Read it after the cut...

                        How a Chinese Billionaire Built Her Fortune

Qunfei is the world’s richest self-made woman. Ms. Zhou, the founder of Lens Technology, owns a $27 million estate in Hong Kong. She jets off to Silicon Valley and Seoul, South Korea, to court executives at Apple and Samsung, her two biggest customers. She has played host to President Xi Jinping of China, when he visited her company’s headquarters.

 

But she seems most at home pacing the floor of her state-of-the-art factory, tinkering.

 

She’ll dip her hands into a tray of water, to determine whether the temperature is just right. She can explain the intricacies of heating glass in a potassium ion bath. When she passes a grinding machine, she is apt to ask technicians to step aside so she can take their place for a while.

 

Ms. Zhou knows the drill. For years, she labored in a factory, the best job she could get having grown up in an impoverished village in central China.

 

     "She 'll sometimes sit down and worked as an operator to see if there is anything wrong with the process," said James Zhao, a general manager at Lens Technology. “That will put me in a very awkward position. If there was a problem, she'd say, "Why didn't you see that?"

Ms. Zhou has honed her hands-on knowledge into a world-class, multibillion-dollar operation, one at the vanguard of China’s push into high-end manufacturing. Lens Technology is now one of the leading suppliers of the so-called cover glass used in laptops, tablets and mobile devices, including the Apple iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy. This year, her factories are expected to churn out more than a billion glass screens, each refined to a fraction of a millimeter.

 

“This is an industry that requires highly sophisticated technology,” says Stone Wu, an analyst at IHS Technology, the research firm. “If you have a ruler, check out how thin 0.5 millimeters is, and you’ll understand how hard it is to manufacture something that thin.”

 

 

In creating a global supplier, Ms. Zhou, 44, has come to define a new class of female entrepreneurs in China who have built their wealth from nearly nothing — a rarity in the world of business. In Japan, there is not a single self-made female billionaire, according to Forbes. In the United States and Europe, most women who are billionaires secured their wealth through inheritance.

 

No country has more self-made female billionaires than China. The Communist Party, under Mao Zedong, promoted gender equality, allowing women to flourish after capitalism started to take hold, according to Huang Yasheng, an expert in China’s entrepreneurial class and a professor of international management at M.I.T. And in a country with few established players, entrepreneurs like Ms. Zhou were able to quickly make their mark when they entered business in the 1990s as China’s economic engine was revving up.

 

Ms. Zhou’s stake in Lens Technology, which went public this year, is worth $7.2 billion. That puts her fortune on par with the media tycoon John C. Malone and Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay.

Ms. Zhou isn’t a celebrity chieftain, like Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of the e-commerce giant Alibaba. Few in China had even heard her name before her company’s public offering this year. She rarely grants interviews or makes public appearances.

 

An elegant woman with a cherubic face, owlish glasses and a preference for Christian Dior suits, Ms. Zhou is fastidious and demanding — “Sit up straight!” she commands of a general manager during a meeting. Yet she exudes charm and humility, a quiet recognition that things could have easily turned out differently.

 

“In the village where I grew up, a lot of girls didn’t have a choice of whether to go to middle school. They would get engaged or married and spend their entire life in that village,” she said in an interview at her office, where there was a wooden statue of Mao and a 27-inch desktop Mac. “I chose to be in business, and I don’t regret it.”

 

 

Leaning Toward the Obsessive

The youngest of three children, Ms. Zhou was born in a tiny village in the Hunan Province of central China, a farming community about two hours south of Changsha, the provincial capital. Her mother died when she was 5. Her father, a skilled craftsman, later lost a finger and most of his eyesight in an industrial accident.

 

At home, she helped her family raise pigs and ducks for food and additional money. At school, she excelled.

 

“She was a hard-working and talented student,” Zhong Xiaobai, her former middle-school teacher, says. “I once read her essay, ‘My Mother,’ aloud in class. It was so moving it brought everyone to tears.”

Despite her academic focus, Ms. Zhou dropped out of school at 16 and traveled south to Guangdong province to live with her uncle’s family and search for better work. While she dreamed of becoming a fashion designer, she eventually landed a job on a factory floor in the city of Shenzhen, making watch lenses for about $1 a day.

The conditions, she said, were harsh. “I worked from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m., and sometimes until 2 a.m.,” Ms. Zhou recalled. “There were no shifts, just a few dozen people, and we all polished glass. I didn’t enjoy it.”

After three months, she decided to quit and wrote a letter of resignation to her boss. In it, she complained about the hours and boredom. Even so, she expressed her gratitude for the job, saying she wanted to learn more.

The letter impressed the factory chief, who told her the plant was about to adopt new processes. He asked her to stay, offering her a promotion. It was the first of several over the next three years.

In 1993, Ms. Zhou, then 22, decided to set out on her own. With $3,000 in savings, she and several relatives started their own workshop next door. They lured customers with the promise of even higher-quality watch lenses.

At the new company, Ms. Zhou did it all. She repaired and designed factory machinery. She taught herself complex screen-printing processes and difficult techniques that allowed her to improve prints for curved glass.

“In the Hunan language, we call women like her ‘ba de man,’ which means a person who dares to do what others are afraid to do,” said her cousin Zhou Xinyi, who helped her open the workshop and now serves on the Lens board.

Along the way, Zhou Qunfei married her former factory boss, had a child and divorced. She later married a longtime factory colleague, who serves on the Lens board, and had a second child.

Her work habits lean toward the obsessive. Her company’s headquarters is at one of her manufacturing plants in Changsha. In her spacious office, a door behind her desk opens into a small apartment, ensuring she can roam the factory floor day or night. 

 

Propelled to Dominance

It was the mobile phone that made Ms. Zhou a billionaire.

In 2003, she was still making glass for watches when she received an unexpected phone call from executives at Motorola. They asked if she was willing to help them develop a glass screen for their new device, the Razr V3.

At the time, the display screens on most mobile phones were made of plastic. Motorola wanted a glass display that would be more resistant to scratches and provide sharper images for text messages, photos and multimedia.

 

“I got this call, and they said, ‘Just answer yes or no, and if the answer’s yes, we’ll help you set up the process,’ ” Ms. Zhou recalled. “I said yes.”

Soon after, orders started rolling in from other mobile-phone makers like HTC, Nokia and Samsung. Then, in 2007, Apple entered the market with the iPhone, which had a keyboard-enabled glass touch screen that rewrote the rules of the game for mobile devices. Apple picked Lens as its supplier, propelling Ms. Zhou’s company into a dominant position in China.

After that, Ms. Zhou invested heavily in new facilities and hired skilled technicians. More than once, colleagues say, she put up her apartment as a guarantee for a new bank loan. Within five years, she had manufacturing plants under construction in three cities.

 

“She’s a passionate entrepreneur, and she’s very hands-on,” says James Hollis, an executive at Corning, which has a partnership with Lens Technology. “I’ve watched her company grow, and her develop a strong team. Now there are over 100 competitors in this space, but Lens is a Tier 1 player.”

Lens operates round the clock, with 75,000 workers spread across three main manufacturing facilities that occupy about 800 acres in the Changsha region. Each day, the company receives bulk shipments of glass from global manufacturers like Corning in the United States and Asahi Glass in Japan.

The glass is cut, ground down to size, bored and polished to give each plate a transparent finish. Then the plates are strengthened in a potassium ion bath, painted and cured. Finally, they are cleaned and coated with anti-smudge and anti-reflection films.

 

Ms. Zhou designs and choreographs nearly every step of the process, a detailed-oriented approach she traces to her childhood. “My father had lost his eyesight, so if we placed something somewhere, it had to be in the right spot, exactly, or something could go wrong,” she said. “That’s the attention to detail I demand at the workplace.”

 

Lens has not experienced the kinds of labor troubles that have clouded other contract manufacturers like Foxconn. But current and former workers say the job is challenging. Much of the work is done by young women who inspect glass at different angles, trying to detect flaws.

“As a quality inspector, I had to stare at those products all day long, so this is a tiring job,” said Gao Zhimei, who recently left Lens Technology. “But I should say that working in manufacturing is always tiring and working at Lens is not more tiring than working in other factories.”

 

Expanding a Customer Base

Lens Technology went public in March, as the Chinese stock market was booming. With the recent market collapse, the company has lost 45 percent in value, but it is still worth about $8 billion.

Last year, the company notched revenue of about $2.4 billion. Profit rose 40 percent in the first quarter. But Lens gets nearly 75 percent of its revenue from Apple and Samsung, making the company reliant on just two customers. In May, at the first shareholders’ meeting since the company went public, an investor pressed Lens about how it planned to maintain an edge in a hypercompetitive market that thrives on innovation.

 

Several executives tried to answer the question. Then Ms. Zhou spoke up, saying she was prepared to diversify the company’s business with production facilities geared toward higher-end glass, as well as sapphire and ceramic.

 

After the meeting adjourned, investors piled into a bus and rode with Ms. Zhou to the Lens campus, less than a mile away. Ms. Zhou had sat quietly through much of the shareholders’ meeting, but on the tour of the factory, she came alive. The shareholders hung on every word.

 

-The New York Times

Man shot dead by suspected hired assasins this afternoon in PH (photos)

This happened this afternoon in the city of Port Harcourt. Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins chased the man in this vehicle to Sobaz filling station at Obi Wali Rd, Rumuigbo in Port Harcourt and shot him dead point blank in his car. The car is still there with the man inside as it happened about 20 minutes before writing this post...in case anyone recognizes the car. More photos after the cut...

This 24 year old Nigerian lady says she's slept with 600 men

The unidentified lady claims she slept with over 600 men in a year. That is definitely an exaggeration because we only have 365 days in a year and if you had every day with different men, (which is impossible, cmon!) you still have to account for about 235 days. Anyway, the student of a vocational institute in Owerri, Imo State, told Sunday Sun that she resorted to using her body for money when her boyfriend who was sponsoring her education abandoned her.

“My boyfriend whom I met at Onitsha, Anambra State when I went to visit an un­cle was sponsoring my education. We had agreed to get married as soon as possible. Then some people I regarded as friends started peddling wicked lies against me and without confirming if what they were saying was true or false, he called it quits just like that. They told him I had an incur­able disease. So, I decided to help myself because my parents cannot do anything for me. We are poor” she explained.

She also had a very interesting interview with The Sun newspaper reporter. Read that after the cut...



She said that when her boyfriend walked out of the relationship, she got a job in the bar section of a hotel but her take-home pay could barely take her any­where. So, one day, she went to a night­club with her friends and a man took her to his hotel room. The following morning, the man gave her N15,000 for services rendered and she was hooked.

Consider what she said:

“They were paying me N10,000 a month and you work late hours. But if you go out to hustle in the night, you can get that kind of mon­ey within a day or two. About 600 men slept with me from last year to this year.”

But Beatrice is now singing a different tune. She said that she later discovered that prostitution is not as lucrative as she had thought. She said that she is tired of warming men’s bed every night, adding that she wants to settle down. Below is excerpt of the conversation she had with the Sun Reporter:

How much were you making per night?
Sometimes N5,000 or more. Sometimes a man will sleep with you and in the morn­ing he will start telling you stories, saying he has no money.
In such situation what do you do?
What can you do? You just go home.
When did you start hustling?
Last year.
About how many men have you slept with?
About 600 men slept with me from last year to this year.
How many since you started?
That is all, sir.
Are you truly promising that you won’t do prostitution again?
Yes, I promise.
How many abortions have you done?
Two times. I’m telling you the truth.
Do you have children?
No.
Do you really mean that you slept with only 600 men from last year to this year?
Yes.
Can you remember the first time you had sex?
2009. The person was your boyfriend?
Not really a friend.
How?
He impregnated me and left me. I was in SS3. That happened in 2009.
How old were you when he got you pregnant?
18 years. My final year in secondary school.
Did you complete secondary school?
Yes.
Did you abort the pregnancy?
Yes.
You did it in a hospital or chemist shop?
Yes, in a hospital. The man gave me money to abort it.
How much?
N15,000
Who took you to the hospital?
My girlfriend.
How old was the pregnancy?
One month.
Did you tell your parents about the pregnancy?
No.
How long did you date the man?
He was not my friend.
So, what happened?
My girlfriend and I were going to my uncle’s place in Asaba but somehow, I lost the address of the place. So we were stranded that night; we didn’t know what to do. We now met the man and told him what happened to us. He now accommo­dated us in his house. That night, he gave me food to eat. The following day I left. I did not know I was pregnant.
Did he rape you?
Something like that. The food I ate made me sleep off.
Was he the first man to sleep with you?
Yes.
Your girlfriend also slept in the same house
Yes, with the guy’s friend.
His friend slept with your friend?
I don’t know. She did not tell me.
When did you get pregnant for the second time?
Who did it?
My boyfriend.
He asked you to abort it?
No. He wanted to marry me but I don’t like him for marriage.
How old was the pregnancy be­fore the abortion?
One month.
Do you like sex?
Please, why are you asking me all these questions? No. I don’t. But I will for my loved one.
Hope you are now using con­doms?
Yes.
Have you done HIV test?
Yes.
When?
Last two months.
Why? Did you suspect that you were infected?
How? No.
Why did you go for the test?
Nothing. I just went.
There must be a reason for doing that. Tell me the truth
Ok. A man came to seek my hand in marriage. That was why I went.
Why didn’t you marry him?
I don’t like him.
How much did you save from hustling?
I don’t have any money, please.
What did you do with the money you made?
I used it to take care of my school fees, house rent and myself.
How much are your school fees and house rent?
My school fees is N20,000 while my house rent is N100,000 a year. It is a self-contain apart­ment but I have a roommate.
Do you go to church?
Yes. I do.
After sleeping with a man in a hotel at night, you go to church in the morning?
Not always.
Why did you stop hus­tling?
I’m tired of it.
Is it because you are no longer making enough money?
It’s not like that. I want to settle down. I’m tired.
You are tired of everyday sex?
Yes. I want to marry. I need God’s help in my life.
If a man offers you like N20,000 for a night, will you reject it?
Yes. I’m tired.
Please sir, I need help. I only look up to God for help.
When was the last time you went out on business?
I can’t remember the date but it was on a Sunday. I think it was in May.
So, no amount of money can make you do it?
Yes sir.
Will you confess to your husband when you marry that you slept with more than 600 men in one year?
Yes. If he is the one that will understand me, I will.
You will confess before or after marriage?
Before.
When you were active in the business, you used to sleep with several men in a day?
Maybe.
Have you slept with two men at once?
No. I don’t do that.
Do you sleep with your fellow students and teach­ers?
No.
Have you ever made love with a woman?
No.
Is your roommate also a student-prostitute?
No. But she has a boyfriend.
And she doesn’t advise you?
No.
But she knows that you sleep around?
Yes. Her parents are rich.
Your parents don’t ask you how you are managing in school?
I tell them that my boyfriend is helping me.
Were you into blow jobs?
I don’t understand you.
Were you giving your customers blow jobs?
I’m not feeling fine. I’m very sick.
Answer the question
No. Please stop.
Answer. Do you charge extra for blow jobs?
Please, I don’t know what to say to you.
Were you into blow jobs?
Yes. But not all customers.
Those who ask for it?
No. if I like, I do it.
Do you charge extra for that?
No. Why do you want to know?
Do you enjoy it?
No.
Why then were you doing it?
I just feel like doing it some times.
How does sperm taste?
Please can you tell me why you are asking me all these questions? Please, I don’t know. I know that I need help from God but I don’t want to answer this kind of questions.
Is the girl you travelled to Asaba with also a prosti­tute?
Please I don’t know. She is a student.
Which school?
Unilag.
Have you ever been ar­rested by the police?
No.
I want to link you with an NGO that rehabilitates prostitutes. Your life will be turned around.
How? I don’t understand. Hmmm. Me?
Permanent solution to your problem
Prostitutes? That means you don’t like me.
Ladies looking for men to sleep with are called pros­titutes or harlots. You were doing that
Yes I know. But not now.
Ok. You are a retired prostitute 
No. I’m not a prostitute.