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LOVE POEM: Agape
By Nelson OsualaIf kisses were water,I will give you the sea.If hugs were leaves,I will give the forest.If friendship was life,I will give you mine.Quite simply, I love you.This is Family Week.Post this message to your family and friends and me.If 3 come back…you’re adorable,5 means you’re loved.I LOVE YOU…Distance makes me miss you.I may not always stay in touch but I care about you very much.I may not always stop by to say hi,but I hope to never have to say goodbye.I may not prove to be the perfect familyOR friend but I hope the friendship we share never reaches an end.Send to people who mean the galaxy to you, I just did.I want this poem back.You are my family till the end.Now let’s see if you can get ten. -
NEWS: Goodluck Jonathan's Media Chat
By Dickson BlessingPresident Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the media chat held today stated that ”elections will be conducted in this country and the government will be inaugurated on May 29th of this year.The president also responded when asked about his confidence on the INEC chairman Attahiru Jega “if I feel that Jega is not good enough, for obvious reasons, then I can by provisions in the Constitution that gives the person who appoints the power to remove, and I’ve not told anybody I’m going to remove Jega. This however contradicts the previous rumours of the chairman being threatened out of office.He also assured that the issue of the Chibok girls would get better and that the state of insecurity in the north eastern part of Nigeria is being taken seriously and that election could not be held this week because of the safety of the public. -
QUOTES OF THE DAY: "If You Fear Something, You Give It Power Over You"
Fear is a negative force that has the capacity to cause or create action or reactions. It is nothing we should underestimate because of the destructive tendencies. There is a sage that says the only thing we must fear is fear itself. Fear is as powerful as we allow it. Thus the way to manage it is by facts and information fact fully handled. (F.A.I.T.H). Faith is a firm belief based on would or superior evidence.
Confront your fear with knowledge. This will rob fear of its power instead of fear robbing you of power.Courtesy of African proverb
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VALENTINE : Show Love Not Sex
By Lizzy Adie.
Each year February 14th, many people exchange cards, candy gifts or flowers with their special valentine. The day of romance we can valentine’s day is named for a Christian martyr and dates back to the 5th century, but has origin in the Roman holiday lupercalia.
Saint Valentine day, also known as valentine’s day or the feast of Saint Valentine is a holiday observed on February 14th each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a holiday in most of them.
St. Valentine’s day began as a liturgical celebration by one or more early Christian saint named valentinus. Several Martyrdom stories were invented for the various valentines that belonged to February 14, added to later martyrologies. A popular history account of Saint Valentine of Rome State that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. According to legend, during his imprisonment, he healed the daughter of his jailer, Asterius. An embellishments to this story States that before his execution, he wrote her a letter signed ” your valentine ” as a farewell. Today, Saint Valentine’s day is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion, as well as in the Lutheran church. The Eastern orthodox church also celebrate saint Valentine’s day.
It has now evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards known as Valentines. -
TECHONOLOGY: L.G's VR Headgear Would Be Available For Free
LG again keys into the smartphone world, powering a virtual reality of classy designs. The company is reportedly working on a VR headset fashioned like Google Cardboard, but would be plastic. It's expected that the VR set would work with its G3 smartphone.LG intends to give this for free in selected markets for every new LG G3 sold.
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TECHNOLOGY: Mircosoft Fixes Flaws Used By Chinese Hackers
Microsoft has released a patch to close a bug exploited by hackers, whose aim was at U.S military and government networks.
The flaw was used to compromise Windows PCs that visited sites seeded with other malware created by the group.
Popular news site Forbes was one victim unwittingly enrolled into the cyber-espionage campaign.
Security systems on US military networks ultimately foiled attempts to steal data, said one expert.
“It's fairly brazen for a Chinese cyber-espionage group to use such a public site,” said John Hultquist from iSight Partners, which said it had traced the attack back to a group called Codoso.
Data grabbing
Forbes' site was compromised via a software add-on, or widget, that made use of a version of Adobe's Flash software, which in turn was vulnerable to an exploit believed to have been created by Codoso.
This was paired with a separate vulnerability that the hackers used to takeover Windows machines.
The booby-trapped widget was present on the Forbes site between 28 November and 1 December, 2014, said a spokeswoman for the news site.
“Forbes took immediate actions to remediate the incident,” said the spokeswoman.
“The investigation has found no indication of additional or ongoing compromise nor any evidence of data exfiltration.”
No group had claimed responsibility for the attack, she added.
According to Mr Hultquist, he mentioned that the iSight had been tracking Codoso since 2010 and was confident it was behind the attack.
Additional intelligence about its origin has been provided by security company Invincea which spotted machines infected via the Forbes exploit on military networks.
Once it took hold on a Windows machine the Codoso malware sought to log what software the machine ran and to map networks to find other machines to compromise, Mr Hultquist explained
“It's all about land and expand,” he said.
“They want to get in and stay in and be as persistent as possible and gather intelligence over a long period of time.”
No data was stolen from official US networks using this exploit, said Norm Laudermilch from Invincea.
However, he said, analysis of the malware showed that it had been used to get at various other sites and the sheer number of people visiting Forbes would suggest a lot had been caught out by it.
Adobe patched the Flash bug on 9 December and Microsoft has now moved to close the other loophole found and exploited by Codoso.
Mr Hultquist said the evidence suggested Codoso was no common-or-garden cybercrime group.
“There are different motivations for hacker groups, but this one is about espionage and that, by definition, is not about making money,” he said.
China was not alone in setting up such groups and trying to gather data by hacking, he added.
“We've seen dozens of them,” he said.
“It's a very inexpensive way to get an advantage over your adversaries.”
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NEWS: Obasanjo Declares His Support For Buhari
By Dickson BlessingThe former president of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has publicly declared his support for the APC presidential candidate Gen Muhammed Buhari.The past president who had served Nigeria under the peoples democratic party PDP had condemned the postponement of the election.He publicly declares in support that “The circumstances [Buhari] will be working under if he wins the election are different from the one he worked under before, where he was both the executive and the legislature — he knows that,” he said.“He’s smart enough. He’s educated enough. He’s experienced enough. Why shouldn’t I support him?”Chief Olusegun from all indication had decided to remain calm after this public endorsement of Buhari and also promises to speak out more after the election. -
NEWS: Boko Haram Abducts 8 Girls In Cameroon
By Dickson BlessingBoko Haram insurgents have kidnapped eight girls from Cameroon and killed seven hostages.The school principal Chetima Ahmidou disclosed to news men that the girls were between the ages of 11 and 14. He also said his brother had been killed alongside the seven girls when riding in a bus in Koza area of the country.It shows from all recent attacks on Cameroon, that the sect is carrying out their threat on ”giving it hot” to the Cameroonians. Thousands have lost their lives on recent border attacks and invasions by the sect.The force set up under the auspices of Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger are working round the clock to devise more strategic means to curb the menace of these terrorist.