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Many blue –chips   companies are opting for cloud services   to help them grow their business in Africa .This has seen the drastic rise of cloud business in the continent prompting the cloud service providers to up their game as they compete for the African market.   This demand has seen cloud service provider Oracle to announce   a massive recruitment drive to hire 1,400 new cloud sales professionals. The recruitment drive across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business region seeks to get professionals who will play a vital role in fueling the growth of the company’s cloud business throughout the region. The new roles will be based in six locations,Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Cairo and Dubai (Middle East and Africa); Dublin (Ireland); Malaga (Spain) and Prague (Czech Republic). In addition to hiring the very best talent from the above locations, Oracle is looking for recruits with a rang...

  At least 4 people were killed in a suicide bomb blast that happened inside a mosque in Ngue Tchewe, a village in Far North Region in Cameroon today January 18th. The suicide bomber believed to be a teenage boy, attacked the mosque while the Muslim faithfuls were saying their early morning prayer. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but it is believed that Boko Haram is responsible

A University in Canada has reportedly apologised for admitting 500 students by mistake. York University reportedly sent out apology messages to students who received admission , saying they made a 'mistake.' The spokesperson for the institution explained, " There was a processing error whereby approximately 500 individuals were sent emails indicating they had been accepted for admission to York. This occurred immediately after the university had sent emails to acknowledge their applications had been received ." On Monday, one of the affected students, Jailani, received an email from York saying, "Congratulations! You are being offered admission to York University ." A day later, he received another email saying, " You recently received an offer of admission email from York University. Please accept our apologies — we made a mistake ... Jailani didn't hide his disappointment. He tweeted, " I hate university already :),...

  The world’s richest 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world’s population, according to a report by the charity Oxfam. Super-rich individuals saw an increase of 44 percent since 2010, taking their cumulative wealth to $1.76 trillion – equivalent to the total owned by 3.5 billion of the world’s poorest people. The UK-based charity on Monday also said tax havens were helping corporations and individuals stash away about $7.6 trillion, depriving governments of $190bn in tax revenue every year. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Oxfam Australia’s Chief Executive Helen Szoke said there were no appropriate mechanisms to check if wealth was being shared appropriately. “We believe there is a need for commitments from global business leaders and political leaders for major tax reform to get rid of the tax havens,” Szoke said. “There’s too much leakage of what should be paid in taxation exacerbating this gap [between rich and poor].” Referring to economi...

  The number of women using donated sperm to get pregnant is rising, but many find the cost of treatment at private clinics prohibitive. This has led some women to use unlicensed donors – but are they putting their health at risk? Simon Watson, 41, has been an unlicensed sperm donor for 16 years, donating once a week. “Usually one [baby] a week pops out. I reckon I’ve got about 800 so far, so within four years I’d like to crack 1,000,” he tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme.. “I’ve got kids all the way from Spain to Taiwan, so many countries. I’d like to get the world record ever, make sure no-one’s going to break it, get as many as possible.” Very few women are eligible for artificial insemination on the NHS as the criteria are very strict. Private licensed clinics cost between £500 and £1,000 for each cycle of treatment. Men are allowed to father no more than 10 children. Mr Watson charges £50 for his services – the “magic potion pot” – ...

The US has imposed fresh sanctions on Iranian companies and individuals over a recent ballistic missile test. The new sanctions prevent 11 entities and individuals linked to the missile programme from using the US banking system. The move came after international nuclear sanctions on Iran were lifted as part of a deal hailed by President Barack Obama on Sunday as “smart”. Four American-Iranians were also freed in a prisoner swap as part of the deal. Among them was Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian – whom President Obama described as “courageous”. A fifth American was freed separately.  Rezaian and two of the others freed flew to a US base in Germany via Geneva for medical evaluation. Another, Nosratollah ­Khosravi-Roodsari, did not fly out with the others, US officials said. A fifth man, Matthew Trevithick, was freed in a separate process. The US said it had offered clemency to seven Iranians being held in the US for sanctions viol...

The singer who celebrated his birthday yesterday shared photos of all his kids he has from three women, then later shared these photos with his current woman- His wife (above). Michelle 9ice twin, Miya and Maya   ZION

  The police in Lagos State are investigating an alleged rape of a Primary five pupil, Zainab (pseudonym) by a gang of five men in the Bariga area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that the police had arrested all the suspects, who were being interrogated at the Bariga Police Division. Zainab, 15, was said to have been lured into an apartment on Opeloyeru Street, where the men took turns to rape her. It was gathered that the victim’s “crime” was that she turned down the advances of one of the men, identified as Femi, who wanted to date her. The victim and her father were said to have first reported the case at the Oworonshoki Police Division, which allegedly dismissed it. A family friend, however, took it up and reported it to an agency of the Lagos State Government. Zainab was subsequently taken to the Mirabel Centre of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, for medical tests. The Kwara State indigene, who s...

Barely two weeks into the new year and it already feels like we have had enough celebrity gossip and palaver to last us a lifetime. Starting from the Davido vs. baby mama/Dele Momodu social media war, which began in the last few days of 2015 and reached its peak in the first week of 2016, to the Olamide vs. Don Jazzy Headies stage battle on January 1 (of all days) – here are the top five celebrity feuds,  1. Davido’s babymama (public) drama  At the beginning of the year, fans thought the dispute between Davido and his baby mama Sophia Momodu was subsiding, we didn’t know it was actually going to get hotter. Last week, on January 7, Davido (David Adeleke) and his father Deji Adeleke went to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) after Sophie Momodu filed a petition against the two of them.The pair made a statement regarding the baby mama issue. According to Whistle Nigeria, Davido accus...

  A Texas middle school student was suspended after sharing her inhaler with an asthmatic student who was gasping for breath on Tuesday. She now faces up to 30 days at alternative school, following a hearing on Friday. Indiyah Rush, 12, may also face a month in an alternative school as part of her punishment, Fox4 reported. Rush, a A/B honor roll student, was in gym class at Schrade Middle School in Garland, Texas when her classmate began wheezing and gasping for breath. “Asthma gets worse by every second,” Rush, who has had the disease since she was 5,  told Fox4.com. Rush offered the girl her inhaler and the two were sent to the principal’s office, where Rush was punished with several days of at-home suspension and 30 days of alternative school. According to the school district, sending a student to a month of alternative school  is an automatic punishment for sharing a controlled substance, which includes prescription drugs like inhaler...

A spelling exercise for year six pupils with obvious spelling mistakes made by the teacher has gone viral-after an irritated mum shared it on Twitter. The homework task, supposedly designed to help the primary school children with their SATS exams, gives a list of six words they are expected to learn to spell. But two words -sincerely spelled incorrectly as "sincerley" and immediately spelled as "immediateley"- stick out as obvious errors. There was also a typo in the last sentence where the word 'you' should read 'your.'

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Niger State has won the chairmanship seats of all the local governments that elections were conducted last Saturday in the state. The result has drawn criticisms from other political parties in the state who are alleging that the elections was rigged and manipulated   in the 23 local government councils whose results have so far been confirmed. The results were released by the returning officers from the local government areas at the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC) in Minna, yesterday. However election did not take place in Suleja even as the SIEC did not disclose to journalists the reasons for that. The election results in Shiroro was said to have been undergoing sorting at press time, hence the result was not formerly released. However there are indications that the APC may also win the local government council to give the party 100 per cent victory in the election. The result showed that the r...

I know most of you think that there is nothing good that can ever come out from the word “IDIOT” but very soon even “STUPID” will start yielding something good. Yes it is true that after first free subscription you now have to pay before you can re-subscribe for the MTN free 150MB MusicPlus data that you enjoyed freely and continuously last year. But before you will be asked to pay, there are different codes you can send to get the free 150MB in 4 different occasions, and that is what we are going to be showing you today.   Remember that the first time when we introduced this free MTN 150MB MusicPlus tweak, we asked you to send the letter D to 5900 , and since you can now get that only once, after you have exhausted the first free MB, here are the other codes you can send to get additional 150MB each; Send i to 5900 Send 7a to 5900 Send IDIOT to 5900 Note that you cannot accumulate the 150MB data, meaning that in each of the code above you sent,...

The Joint Taskforce (JTF), Operation PULO SHIELD (OPS) has warned that community leaders would henceforth be held responsible for any attack on the country’s oil and gas facilities in their domains. The JTF Commander, Maj.-Gen. Alani Okunlola, gave the warning on Sunday while inspecting the site of Friday’s pipeline explosion site at Egwa 11, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta. Okunlola, who led other security personnel to the explosion site, also warned that henceforth, extant laws banning the use of outboard engines with 200 horsepower and above would be enforced in the region. "This warning is coming as a result of the recent multiple attacks on oil facilities and platforms by suspected militants in the Niger Delta,’’ he said. The JTF commander, who described the acts as economic sabotage, assured that the command would apprehend the perpetrators. He, therefore, advised them to desist from further destruction of the nation’s oil...

Three American soldiers and a translator have reportedly been kidnapped by militia in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. While their identities have not yet been confirmed, Iraqi independent news agency Akad News said a US serviceman and a translator are among those who were captured in the south of Baghdad. The American Embassy in Baghdad confirmed that “several” US-citizens are missing. “We are working in full cooperation with Iraqi authorities to locate the missing Americans,” US Embassy spokesman Scott Bolz said. The media reports are yet to be verified, but Arab news channel Al-Arabiya said the kidnapping has been confirmed by “ well-informed sources.” The US embassy in the Iraqi capital said it is aware of the reports but cannot comment as of yet. US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that the US government has been informed of the reports of missing American citizens in Iraq and is “working with the full cooperation of the Iraqi authorities to locate and...

There’s no two ways about it: relationships are hard work! You have to commit to each other through thick and thin, set aside your desires to make your partner happy, make sacrifices, and the list goes on. No real relationship will ever be easy. But did you know that a bad relationship can take its toll on your body? And we’re not just talking your happiness–we’re talking your overall health! Here are some of the health dangers of bad relationships: Heart problems — In one study, patients were monitored over the course of 12 years. During that time, of the 10,000 people studied, those who were in negative relationships had a much higher chance of developing heart problems. Not only did they have a higher risk of heart problems, but the problems had a higher mortality rate. Some even suffered fatal cardiac events as a result! Reduced recovery – – Did you know that bad relationships can stop you from recovering from disease and injuries? Breast cancer survivors ...

  A member of a 3-man robbery gang arrested at the weekend by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Command, has revealed that he went into robbery to raise funds for his diabetes drugs. The suspect, Phillip Toihile, 24, along with his two accomplices, Salifu Abbey, 26, and Idris Sulyman, 28, were picked up in Ijora by the RRS operatives at about 10:00 pm while attempting to rob a taxi driver, Amori Fatai. Upon arrival at the RRS’ headquarters at Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Toihile, who confessed to the crime, explained that he went into robbery to raise N17,000 to buy his prescribed drugs. The suspect, an ex-convict, who was released from Kirikiri prison in July 2014, stated: “This entire thing is like a temptation. With my condition, I am not expected to be found in a situation like this. I was sick. I went to a health centre. They said I am diabetic and that my sugar level was 475 milligram. The doctor prescribed ...

  The city crime branch and the anti-narcotics cell (ANC) of the Mumbai police in a joint operation conducted in south Mumbai have arrested 5 Nigerian nationals on charges of smuggling and peddling cocaine in the city. The seized cocaine's cost amounts to Rs.12.60 lakh in the international market.   "We have started a joint operation in coordination with the ANC of the city police and have been gathering information through human sources and other modes of information regarding drug peddling in the city which is reaching the youth and influencing them in drug culture. The operations are being conducted by the teams of crime branch and ANC. We had received information regarding presence of foreign drug peddlers in south Mumbai dealing in cocaine. On receiving the information the crime branch unit 2 and a team of ANC laid a trap and we successfully arrested five foreign national with 210 grams of cocaine," said Dhananjay Kulkarni, DCP, De...

I just received the story and video from the Dorothy Njemanze Foundation. A 3 year old girl narrates how she was raped by a 30 year old neighbour in Elelenwo in Port Harcourt on December 28th, 2015. She was interviewed by a familiar face and she gave graphic details. Speaking, the girl's mother said she went to report the matter to the police station and they collected N3,500 from her to arrest the rapist and another N5,000 to take the matter to court. Please watch the video after the cut...

Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, made one of the SSS officers attached to him clean his shoes in public How disgraceful is this? In a video which is going viral, the minister, dressed in white, and relaxing on a couch, was seen lifting his legs as the SSS officer stooped before him and began cleaning his shoes with a handkerchief.  This happened as the minister attended the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Academy, NSCDC, in Abuja sometime in December. You can even see that the SSS officer is carrying a gun. Watch the disgraceful video after the cut...

    However, sources close to the AGN president denied the allegations terming it as unfounded and baseless attacks to dent the image of Emeka Ike. Crisis has reared its ugly head again in the Actors' Guild of Nigeria barely nine months after Nollywood actor, Emeka Ike took over the reins of power. There are allegations that all is not well among members of the executive council as the president, Emeka Ike, and the national secretary, Samuel Onibiyo , are at loggerheads. Sources alleged that trouble between both parties began after the executive members of the guild attended a church service in Onitsha and an argument had ensued between the national secretary and the president over what has been tagged negligence and constitutional breaches by the president.  It was further alleged that following the altercation between Ike and Onibiyo in the church, the president had joined forces with the chairman of the Anambra chapter of AGN, Browny, to...