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editorial Tips to beat the Valentine's Day blues

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ou don't have a date on Valentine's Day. It's no big deal. It's just like any other day. The only difference is, you may just feel a little down that you're dateless.

But fret no more because you're just as fabulous as those attached folks out on dates that night. In fact, you may even be more awesome than they are. Here are ways to beat the Valentine's Day blues.

Hang out with family. This seems to be a great retreat to any depressing occasion that you don't want to or can't partake in. Sitting on mom and dad's couch, for instance, will be so comforting. Top it off with a cup of cocoa and you'll just reminisce about the times you were young and could care less for Valentine's.

Ladies, Pick your best guy friend and make him take you out. Yes, I'm suggesting that you fake it. If you don't have a man at the moment, use a boyfriend doppelganger. You can still hit the restaurant and bars for the fun Valentine's Day specials, and no one will be the wiser.

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Give yourself a makeover. Maybe it's not Valentine's you have an issue with.

Perhaps it's you? Not to make you feel bad, but maybe all you need is a little bit of a revival? Plan for a new look. Get a haircut, style yourself anew, and change things up.

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on >> Proposed Cyber Crime bill?

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he proposed CyberCrime bill which is before the House of Reps is quite shocking?

For insulting someone online, you can get a 5year jail term. They are now trying to clip the wings of news sites, blogs, readers/commenters and users of social media?

A 10 year jail term or a fine of N20million or both is been proposed for anyone who engages in child pornography.

The bill is also seeking the death penalty for any person who is found guilty of hacking into Criminal National Information Infrastructure or any

computer network that would lead to loss of lives Comments & Reactions

BONARIO NNAGS said.

Hehehehe in OBJ's voice "I just dey laugh" I guess if those engaged in cyber crime are to be sentenced to death, corrupt politicians should be stoned to death or burnt alive.

Igor said.

Hacking into our criminal national information database is a treasonable offence. Edward Snowden will be lucky to get a life sentence if he is caught by the American authorities .However,I prefer life

sentence to death sentence.

On the other hand, I am fully in support of the sentence, with respect to the child pornography aspect of the law.

AB said.

GOOD! also Mr. President should seek death penalty for corrupt practice too, s u c h a s m o n e y embezzlement of public funds and other.

Olu OmoFayemi said.

What will happen to those that steal millions and billion dollars from d i ff e r e n t g o v e r n m e n t accounts Oga GEJ? Na majority punishment regime we dey now! This

president is clueless and unimaginative at all. May God save the masses and may the poor be blessed through the right ways.

Ms Abi said.

I am actually extremely happy to hear this news. For the past month i have watched different shows on television here in the USA (MTV, comedies, even movies) and one statement i keep hearing is about a Nigerian prince and how Cyber Café Users they want your bank very sick and off point for account details and all sorts this. If our government is of embarrassing things. not greedy, selfish and.

Thank you Mr. President!!! Useless, all of this would.

Not be rampant. Create job Anonymous said. employments and spend the Mr. President. You. Are

country money in the rightful places, all of this would not be available.

Most people do it to make ends meet and. Survive. <

on >> Undergraduate In EFCC net over $90,000 romance scam EFCC Press Release

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n undergraduate o f t h e University of Ibadan, 28-year- old Orowo Jesse Omokoh, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly obtaining Ninety Thousand Dollars ($90,000.) from one Mrs. Jette Jacob, an Australian based in Orowo Jesse Omokoh

Johannesburg, South Africa, in what is known as a romance scam.

The suspect allegedly met the Aussie on a dating site and struck a sizzling romantic affair that necessitated him moving to Johannesburg in 2013 to link up with his lover.

Omokoh allegedly arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 4, 2013, to meet with Jacob who had been in

J o h a n n e s b u rg s i n c e November 2012. Five days after Omokoh arrived and took up residence with her, Jacob was found dead in her apartment with some of her valuables missing.

After the incident, Omokoh reportedly fled South Africa and returned to Nigeria.

The South African Police which is investigating the mysterious death are suspicious that Omokoh

has a hand in the demise suspected fraudster had been elusive until a few of Jacob. days ago when he was On March 15, 2013, the nabbed. He has already EFCC received a petition made useful statements from Richard Stanford of while efforts are on to A u s t r a l i a n F e d e r a l track his accomplices.

Police, asking for help to track Omokoh, alleging The suspect would be t h a t t h e N i g e r i a n arraigned in court as soon defrauded Jacob to the a s i n v e s t i g a t i o n i s tune of $90,000 in a completed. dating scam.

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on >> Why women in entertainment find it difficult to get married

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Bonario Nnags Said.

He's saying the truth The other while watching a Nollywood movie which a prominent actress who most people wish they could be like is in. A friends told me how he met her and a politician at Indonesia.

uring a discussion with Dolapo Oni, Bolanle Olukanni and Michelle Dede on the Boy & Girl Talk Marriage section on Moments With Mo show, Big Brother star Uti Nwachukwu said the reason why he and most men can't marry women in the Nigerian entertainment industry is because the women sleep around with big men and they know it.

"Most celebrity women in the entertainment industry Comments & Reactions have had to sleep with one big man or the other to Mich said. have the comfortable life He merely stated the they live. Its common obvious. To each his own! knowledge".

Peejay said.

He said whenever he hangs Uti, go and marry and stop out with his friends and they making excuses. As for talk about getting married those actresses allegedly to actresses, that most times sleeping around. God is the men say never because watching U! they've met these actresses in private places with these Soul said. big men.

I'm here forming good girl

and virgin while I'm buying asoebi every other day. I have three weddings to attend tomorrow!!! You can imagine. And the brides have been around too and very much and have bleached. Yet, na them find husband. If Mr right is not showing up soonest, I will contact Dencia, then I will start aristo waka.

Gbenga said.

These actresses are sharks.

No brain to think, carried away with societal egos and association. Feeling of wanting to belong. Buying hand bags of 1.5m to showcase.

Who can you invite to your show/school to talk about marriage amongst Nigerian actresses?

Cintetic said.

Na dem sabi. Even if dey marry, the marriage no dey last. Oh my omo sexy is d only celebrity that still has her marriage in tact.

- Uti Nwachukwu Ijeoma Okafor said.

So many of the ladies out there have had to sleep with someone before finally settling their husbands. If you ain't cool with it Uti, go get a virgin.

Like you have’nt slept with girls. Make we hear abeg.

Faith Ojo said.

And how's that a secret he.

Just stated the obvious.

Think about it after you have acted a dozen of movies that u re being paid less than nothing doing, and you now become a popular figure it is only natural for them to sleep with these "big men" to keep up. It doesn't still make it right though.

me, I don't think there's any big deal about that if you love her go ahead and put the ring on her finger.

When the problems comes is when she's legally married to you and she still flirt around then you can take any action.

Archie Said.

He's just being factual.

Please don't blame him. Its what we all know. Even the so called musicians find it difficult to get settled with them. Reasons best known to them.

Ijeoma Ogbonna Said.

Tr u e t a l k . A f t e r w e finished school, and those ones they called “crazy” are the ones marrying up and down, myself Rayner Sylvester said. included!!lol, Na for dat ur Its hustling, leave those h o u s e w e y u d e y , girls alone. What about we pretending to be a good girl guys that has more than u go find husband? < two to three girlfriend. Tto

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Tips to Succeed at ONLINE DATING

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variety of full body shots as well as close ups of your face. If posting a photo online makes you uneasy, consider using a private photo sharing service such as www.protectedpix.com.

Using the 'teaser image' feature you can modify your photo to give an idea of what you look like without someone being able to actually identify you. You can show your original photo to someone after you screen them and decide S e l f - E v a l u a t e . B e that you are interested. honest with yourself about the kind of person Play the field. Don't put you're looking for. Don't all of your focus on s e t t l e ; h o w e v e r , online dating. Don't understand that the seem so desperate that saying you can't judge a the internet is your last book by its cover can be and only hope to find that very true. If you can't someone special. For all find anyone interesting you know the right in the current profiles, person is out at the understand that new ones library, coffee shop, or appear daily on popular buying groceries. You have to be positive and sites. think that way as well.

A d v e r t i s e . P u t u p People are not attracted s e v e r a l r e c e n t to desperation. photographs of yourself - in both indoor and Check back. Check a outdoor light, also a few times a week to see if anyone new has shown up that may interest you.

Thou shall n o t ccording to a recent, most people are starting to get comfortable with online dating. However, some minor mistakes are still what keeps people from meeting the person they so badly deserve. Online dating can be fun and easy if you know the tricks of the trade. Read these helpful dating tips and you could be the busiest person on the block in no time

stalk. Do not hound the same person over and o v e r, s e n d t h e m a message or two and after that leave them alone if they don't return your contact -- they're probably not interested.

Keep it positive.

When writing things about yourself tell people what kind of person you are l o o k i n g f o r. B e humorous and upbeat, but be clear about what your interests are and the type of individual you are interested in. If you won't date a smoker, a drinker, someone with children, make that clear (but not rudely) in your profile.

Keep in mind that some smokers, drinkers, single parents may still (for whatever reasons) contact you.

Do your homework.

Some of the online dating websites are becoming more sophisticated in the way they match up people, but that does not mean that they cannot make mistakes. Always check someone out for yourself (Google, etc.) before you accept a date from them. Just because an emotionless computer thinks you may be a good match for someone does not mean that you are.

Look their profile over and email/call them a few times before making the decision to meet.

Interview. Always have a phone conversation with a match before any initial meeting. Be highly cautious of anyone who does not want to speak on

the phone before meeting, or comes up with repe

text you during your any of these occur. initial meeting to see if Keep an open mind. Be you're fine. optimistic and upbeat, Fraud is everywhere. but be realistic that even Be alert to red flags, such the most accurate profile as a person repeatedly and photograph does not canceling meetings, always correlate to real asking for money, or life chemistry between p r e s s u r i n g y o u f o r two people. Sometimes personal information or two individuals simply sex (including nude w o n ' t c l i c k , b u t photos) early in your sometimes they will.

Detect Liars / acquaintanceship.

Cut Good luck! < Fraudsters.

Ta k e n o t e o f a n y off contact completely if discrepancies in the 8 Read More @ www.wikihow.com details the person provides you -- it's usually an indication that the person is misleading you. ated excuses as to why they cannot meet you.

Have no further contact if a match does this.

Caution. Be cautious with the information that you provide a potential match. Do not give specific details about where you live or where you are employed.

Play it safe. Always have the first few meetings and dates in a public place and always let a relative or friend know where you are going and who you are meeting. Never invite someone to your home during an initial meeting.

Do not drink heavily and do not allow anyone but the waiter or staff and yourself near your drink.

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s is the case with most African countries, the majority of people meet their romantic partners via the traditional methods of friends of the family, mutual friends, organizations, work, or school, etc; however, like in Nigeria, the dating landscape as a whole is changing. With each passing day, online dating is becoming more common.

Should you decide to sign up for the online dating sites we recommend, be sure to read member profiles carefully as you might come across a lot of fake profiles.

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eports culled from Linda Ikeji’s blog states that online retailers Konga and Jumia are at war! Konga is alleging that Rocket Internet, parent company of Jumia has hijacked all look alike name to Konga.com and registered it to divert traffic to their own site, Jumia.com.

Rocket Internet registered Konga.cd for Cote D’Ivoire, Konga.cm for Cameroun, Konga.ly for Libya, Konga.mu for Mauritius and Konga.ma for Morocco. Others include: Konga.mw for Malawi, Konga.sc for Seychelles, Konga.sh for Saint Helena, Konga.co.ke for Kenya and Konga.co.za for SA.

Without further ado, here are our thoughts and reviews on the two best online dating sites in Africa (regardless of what country you are in) so that you can get started on searching for a potential significant other in this fine continent.

AFROINTRODUCTIONS.COM: Afrointroductions.com is by far the best online dating site in Africa. No other site has achieved the delicate balance between quality and quantity like this site has. To be honest, it is really the only site you need in Africa as all the other sites just don't come close.

To h a v e t h e f u l l m e s s a g i n g functionality and to appear higher in the search results, you will have to buy a Gold or Platinum subscription. The

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few extra bucks you pay per month is usually worth the results you get.

Remember, your love life, like your career and education, is one big investment that, when successful, will pay off in the end.

Just like the real world, there will be men or women who you will not click with or who don't respond to your messages (or just disappear). There are women or men who might only be

interested in helping you to part with your money. That is life. Just keep sending out messages and reach out until you find the person you are looking for and get success. As is typical with online dating, expect a response rate of around 1-10% depending on how good your profile is.

(Response rate = people who will respond back to you to whom you sent an introduction message).

VS What this means is that Rocket Internet has effectively deprived them of the benefit of domain localisation. The look alike sites were reportedly registered in June 2012 by Arnt Jeschke on behalf of Rocket Internet GmbH in Dublin.

Konga is now claiming that this development is affecting its effectiveness in over eleven countries including Nigeria, where it's major customers are. The only option that they may have left would be to buy the domain names from Rocket Internet, for which, should Rocket Internet decide to sell at an exorbitant price, Konga may not be able to operate in that country as Konga.

Meanwhile Jumia claims that Konga also registered a look alike name Jumai.com.ng which redirects to Konga.com. Konga claims they have since dropped the name.

BADOO.COM: A massive worldwide online dating site launched in 2006, Badoo is an OK option for Africa. It doesn't have near t h e s a m e q u a l i t y a s

Afrointroductions.com, which is why I would not focus on it as a starting point for your search. It is hard to tell what profiles are real and what profiles are fake on this site.

Badoo works on the “freemium” model, which means that it is free to sign up, but you have to pay for upgraded features. The site operates in over 180 countries.

In internet business, this practice is called cyber squatting and many countries haves enacted a law against it. Konga founder, Shagaya, is said to be exploring means to seek legal redress against Jumia.com.

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Tips and tricks for speeding up your Android device

ndroid smart phones and tablets can become slow and sluggish over time. These easy-to-follow tips will help make your device run like new.

You may have noticed over the past few months that your oncespeedy Android device has slowed down considerably.

Simple tasks such as switching between apps or returning home are proving more troublesome than before, and you are now experiencing lag in all the wrong places. Things don't have to be this way, however.

These simple tips and tricks can help speed up your device and make it perform like new: 1. Uninstall or disable unused apps.

Your device has a limited amount of internal storage and the less free space it has the slower it will perform. If you have filled your device with photos, music, or apps, it is recommended to free up space by either uninstalling unused apps or moving files to cloud storage services like Dropbox

or Google Drive.

Uninstalling apps can be done by going to Settings, opening the Apps menu, and selecting the app you wish to uninstall. Preloaded applications from carriers or manufacturers that cannot be uninstalled, known as bloatware, can at least be disabled and hidden from the app drawer using this method.

On smartphones and tablets that include expandable storage you can also move apps to the microSD card. To do this, enter Settings, go to the Apps menu, click the app you wish to move, and select the "Move to SD card" option.

2. Clear app caches.

Cached data can build up over time in your applications and affect the performance of your device.

Deleting individual caches can be done in the Apps menu, but a number of free programs are available through the Google Play

store that can automate the process. Some of the most popular ones include App Cache Cleaner and Clean Master, both of which are available for free.

3. Limit widgets and live wallpapers.

Many people would argue that widgets are one of the benefits of using an Android device. They can be helpful for finding information quickly without having to open an app, but at the same time they can eat away at battery life and slow your device.

Reducing the number of widgets, especially dataintensive ones like Facebook, will help your smart phone or tablet run more smoothly and last longer. You can remove widgets from the home screen by long-pressing the one you wish to delete and dragging it to the top of the screen.

Another cool Android feature is the option to use a live wallpaper as your background. Like widgets, however, live wallpapers can slow down your device and drain the battery. You can also change your wallpaper with a long press on the home screen.

4. Disable animations.

A hidden settings option in Android will give you access to commands you may have never known existed. Go to Settings, About Phone, scroll down to Build number, and tap it seven times. You will now have access to developer options. These special settings allow you to do a variety of things, but they are meant for advanced users and

shouldn't be changed unless you know what you are doing.

One tweak that could speed up your device is disabling animations within the operating system. To do this, open Settings, go to Developer options, and scroll down to the Drawing option.

Next, turn off the Window animation scale, Transition animation scale, and Animator duration scale.

This will disable animations that occur when you open, close, and switch between apps. Although the interface will look less polished, there should be less lag in performance. <

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hatever deal PopCap made with the devil seems to be worth it, as the publisher/developer's string of fun casual games continues with Zuma's Revenge. The original was released back in 2003 and moved 17 million copies, but we're only now getting a sequel. You'll find the same core gameplay with flashier graphics, new powerups, and a few new game modes. If there is a complaint to be made about Zuma's Revenge it's that the game is maybe too similar to the original. But more Zuma will likely be welcome to most gamers, this one included.

If you are not one of the 17 million people who have played Zuma, this is a matchthree game with a twist. You control a spinning frog who fires colored balls from his mouth at a long line of marbles slowly snaking towards a pit of despair. If the chain reaches the pit, it's game over. So our hero, the frog, must spit balls at the snake, creating matches of at least three same-colored balls and eventually clearing the board. Making a match will leave a gap in the chain, which creates an opportunity for combos. Same-colored balls are attracted to one another, and

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n Rovio Mobile's popular game, Angry Birds, multicolored chickens take on the properties of bombs when pushed to the limits by egg-stealing green pigs.

Explosive chickens, adorable as they are, would be pointless without big buildings to topple, and Angry Birds provides more than 200 of them, with more added all the time. You can thoroughly demolish anything from stone castles to glass houses as you punish those evil, egg-stealing pigs.

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if a gap leaves, say, a yellow ball on either end they will snap together and potentially create another match.

Zuma's Revenge could be called Zuma Comes Back for Seconds, as it plays just like the original but adds loads of new levels. There are a few new features, but they don't change the game significantly. My favorite new addition are boss battles at the end of every area of the island (oh yeah â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Zuma's Revenge takes place on an island). These challenges break up the action and put the frog at the bottom of the screen where he must fire balls at the devil on top. The usual lines of balls get in your way, though, creating a

Space Invadersish test of skill.

A few new power-ups have also been added. The laser will instantly eviscerate any balls you aim it at. Another will load the frog's mouth with three cannon balls that will fire at once in a spread shot, bashing through anything in their way.

You'll also find PopCap's usual lighthearted sense of humor here.

Once you've hopped through the story mode you'll unlock a couple bonus modes with a higher difficulty level: Iron Frog Gauntlet and Heroic Frog.

There are also fun challenge levels that require you to achieve a certain score before time runs out. <

Angry Birds Review chicken in your slingshot, pull back while setting your angle, and let go to start the destruction. Angry Birds' gameplay is incredibly easy to understand, and the visual payoff for blowing stuff up is consistently impressive. Blue chickens split up in midair for a spread effect; heavy bomb chickens explode and send structures flying; and egglaying hens let you deliver a

yolky payload directly below.

You always receive the chickens in a particular order, which diminishes some of the strategy. Even though some chickens can be used to set up chain reactions, like using a burrowing hen to soften up a building's stone exterior and then following up with a ticking explosive chicken to blast out the walls--you don't get to do this if you don't get the chickens in this order.

Angry Birds has some minor issues, but most of the time, you won't notice because you'll be too busy trying to squish pigs and make full use of your chicken arsenal. The game's weapons, physics, and varied levels are really quite excellent, and they make this militaryfarm-complex a whole lot of fun. <

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