The Danger of Gaining More Twitter Followers

We're all a little obsessed with gaining new Twitter followers, but the number really isn't as important as the quality of your tweets. If you tweet it, they will come.

Some Twitter users aren't as complacent as all that, however. Those who are #TeamFollowBack, for instance, will follow anyone who follows them in support of boosting each other's social media presence.

In this comic, Josh Mecouch of Formal Sweatpants warns tweeps to be careful what they wish for.

Comic illustration by Josh Mecouch, Formal Sweatpants. Published with permission; all rights reserved.
 
Source: Mashable

True life Story : How Owning A Blackberry Helped Ruining My Life

My name is Chinwe, I am 26 years old, I never graduated from the university, simply because I was stupid and careless. 

On my 24th birthday, I received a blackberry phone as a gift, have always wanted one. It was like a right of passage, my ex-boyfriend got it for me, he was a student like me, didn’t have a job, and I really never cared to ask as he could afford it. My concern at that point was that I had finally arrived. Other girls in my hostel had blackberries and I would always get pissed when I heard sounds of pings and messages coming into their phones at all hours and I would stare at my Nokia phone and wish I could throw it away, but half bread they say is better than none, so I hoped and even fasted to get a blackberry phone, looking back now, if I had the opportunity, I’d have a land line with no internet activity what so ever, anyway I got the blackberry phone and even got free
 

"I am an Hypocrite" - Kim Kardashian

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has said that she's a hypocrite for being pregnant despite not being married to the baby's father, Kanye West. The entrepreneur, who has been dating Kanye West for a year, and is still legally married to estranged husband Kris Humphries, told Ryan Seacrest on an upcoming E! Kardashian special: "I've said some things that I completely am a hypocrite about now."

She added: "I would say things about Kourtney like, 'You cannot have a baby without being married.'"
Kourtney has two children with boyfriend Scott Disick, but it looks likely that Kim could be married soon enough - or at least in time for her second child, if her and Kanye can think of more names beginning with K to name their brood. 

Friends plan big for Fred Amata at 50

Actor, producer and director, Fred Amata will turn 50 in a few weeks and in celebration of that, friends of the actor have initiated activities to celebrate him. It will include:

A celebrity charity challenge which will be a novelty football match where a select team of Nollywood  stars, actors, musicians, comedians TV&Radio  personalities, challenge, the 1994 nations cup winning Super Eagles team  Kanu Nwankwo, J Jay Okocha and other eagles players to 'Soccertainment' for charity.

Celebrity Birthday: Ini Edo

Today (April 23) is the birthday of star actress, Ini Edo. She is from Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. She attended Cornelia Connelly College in Calabar for her secondary school education. She obtained a diploma in Theatre Arts from University of Uyo, and she attended University of Calabar, where she obtained a degree in English.

She has acted in more than 100 films, some of which are I’ll Take My Chances, Memories of My Heart, World Apart, Games Women Play, Queen of the Jungle, Soul of a Maiden, and Native Son.

My boobs are beautiful”: Omawumi

“Bottom belle” crooner Omawumi is a force to be reckoned with in the music industry, but along with a powerful voice, the singer also has a very sexy body.

Answering a question on why her boobs popped out at an event, Omawonder revealed that, 

 “because I have small shoulders and my boobs are actually beautiful, I tend to wear revealing upper body dresses.”

She added that, “when you are looking at the mirror, you are not well as tall as to see how troublesome it could be. That dress has feathers in the front of it and before I left my hotel room, I asked someone if the dress was okay and she said yes.”

British Couple Arrested For Trying To Smuggle Nigerian Child

A couple from Oxford have been convicted of attempting pass off a Nigerian baby as their own so they could bring it back to the UK, following a Joint Border Force and Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) investigation a statement by Press Secretary of the British High Commission, Abuja, Rob Fitzpatrick said.

Gladys Effa-Heap and Simon Heap both of Wayneflete Road in Headington flew out to Nigeria in July 2010. Simon Heap is a 47-year-old expert on Nigeria who works with companies trying to forge international trade links and his partner is a nurse.

They later went to the British High Commission in Lagos where they applied for a British passport for the baby girl, claiming Mrs Effa-Heap had given birth within days of them arriving in Nigeria.

Corruption: Jonathan Disagrees with US Assessment of Nigeria

Ibrahim Lamorde, EFCC Chairman

•Signs agreements with buyers of PHCN companies

Muhammad Bello and Chineme Okafor

Against the backdrop of a report by the United States of America that there is deep-seated corruption in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan Monday reacted to the report, stating that the recent US appraisal of corruption in the country was skewed and unrealistic.

Hospital Seizes Body Of Stillborn Over Mother’s Hospital Bills

A 26-year-old Tunisian woman claims a hospital in Sharjah, an emirate of the United Arab Emirate, UAE, has refused to hand over the body of her stillborn baby until she pays the cost of her treatment at the hospital after she suffered a miscarriage.

Zikra Al Janoudi alleged that nurses and administrators at Al Qasimi Hospital in Sharjah had told her that if she wanted to bury the foetus, she would first have to pay Dh1,700 (about N73,500) hospital bills.

According to an official at Al Qasimi Hospital’s mortuary, the hospital could only take up the burial of babies after the concerned patient had cleared the hospital bills.

Report: 8 Million iPhones Returned Due to Problems

Apple returned up to 8 million iPhones to Foxconn “due to appearance of substandard or dysfunctional problems.” This could cost Cupertino’s top manufacturer up to $1.6 billion, according to a report from China Business.

The report doesn’t mention specific problems with the handsets. Additionally, we don’t know which models were returned.

If the batch was made up of existing models, such as the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S, this could eventually show up as a hole in Apple’s supply chain. However, if these defective models were in fact “iPhone 5S” models, Apple may be forced to delay the launch of its newest handset.

Fraudsters Litter Facebook With Answers To WAEC Questions

Few days into the ongoing West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, WAEC, some people believed to be fraudsters have posted purported answers to the examination questions on Facebook, asking intending candidates to get in touch with them for WAEC question papers. These fraudsters indicated phone numbers by which they could be contacted.

 A visit to the Facebook page showed answers to some of the papers that had already been written. But it was not clear if the Facebook account holders posted the answers after the exams were written or before, as no question paper was posted. Answers to the Physics paper which was written around last Monday were seen on another social network site. There were over 10,000 likes on the page with a visitor by name Aminu, saying, “Nice one broz, but remember Government for us, God bless you.” Two hours to the Chemistry practical which was written on Thursday morning at 9 am, the Facebook page operator had posted answers.

APC Edo Legislature Arrested In Polling Station With A Gun.

An Edo State APC (Formerly ACN) House of Assembly member from Agbede Edo State and other party tugs being paraded by security agents in possession of a Pump Action Rifle at LG polling Center during Edo State Local Government Election over the weekend.

Its a shame.

Madonna Graduate Commits Suicide over Unemployment

Chidike Oyeka, a 25-year-old graduate of Madonna University, Anambra, had stabbed himself thrice with a kitchen knife thereby killing himself. The Punch newspaper reported that Oyeka, on April 19, 2013, took a kitchen knife and stabbed himself repeatedly until his intestines were disembowelled. A neighbour who spoke to the newspaper said that the deceased who completed his National Youth Service Corps programme last February, have been depressed for a while, and had complained that he was not happy because of his inability to get employed.