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6 Jan 2016
LASU gets new Vice Chancellor
50 Cent deletes photos of his 3yr old son from his IG following rumour his baby mama dating Jason Derulo
He doesn't want to be with his babymamas and still doesn't want other men around them? Same thing happened with his other baby mama Shaniqua Tompkins who once accused 50 of kicking her and their then 10-year-old son Marquise out of their house after she began dating someone else. The house later burned to the ground under mysterious circumstances after Shaniqua refused to move out.
Twitter To Expand Tweets From 140 Characters To 10,000
Twitter’s most beloved features is set to change. The company is planning to extend its 140-character limit to as many as 10,000, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Twitter’s fans were quick to complain that such a change, expected to be announced by the end of March, would spoil the brevity and speed of the real-time service.
The character limit that forces users to pen snappy tweets could give way to the longer essays found on Facebook. It could transform Twitter into more of a public blogging platform rather than one that is succinct and well-suited to quips and breaking news headlines.
This person said, however, that Twitter Inc. is aiming to retain the look and feel of the user timeline. For tweets that are longer than 140 characters, users will have to click and expand to see the rest of the text. As users write beyond the 140-character limit, Twitter will signal to them that they have crossed the threshold as a way to encourage brevity.
In a tweet on Tuesday after the news spilled out, co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted a screenshot of text, 1,317 characters with spaces, explaining his thinking behind the expansion.
“We’ve spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it,” Mr. Dorsey wrote.
“Instead, what if that text…was actually text? Text that could be searched. Text that could be highlighted. That’s more utility and power.” Despite the change, Mr. Dorsey said Twitter will “never lose that feeling” of speed, creativity and brevity.
“Despite the lamentations that the change will alter the spirit of Twitter, the truth is that users have been clawing for a longer character limit for some time. Loyal users often create so-called tweetstorms where they string a series of tweets together by replying to them in numerical succession. Users have also gone around the character restriction by attaching screenshots of longer text to their tweets.
In July 2015, Twitter expanded the 140-character limit on private messages to 10,000.
Twitter has been doing a bit of soul-searching to jump-start user growth ever since the return of Mr. Dorsey as CEO in July. The debate to increase the character limit has been in the works since as early as September.
Source:- Twitter blog
hunger deaths and lack of medical care at a Maiduguri IDP camp? (photos)
Obama cries as he pushes gun control at speech surrounded by families of mass shooting victims
'Every time I think about those kids it gets me mad,' Obama said as tears rolled down his face.
Obama was introduced by Mark Barden, the managing director of Sandy Hook Promise. Barden’s son Daniel was killed in the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Also on stage with Obama today: Jimmy Greene, the father of Ana Grace, another child murdered in the Newtown massacre.
'We do not have to accept this carnage as the price of freedom,' Obama said, as he stood before gun control activists, including former representative Gabby Giffords, who was shot point blank five years ago this week and survived"
The president was flanked by gun violence survivors and the families of others who were not as fortunate as he spoke.
Peter Read, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and the father of Mary Read, killed in the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, joined the president on stage as did Jennifer Pinckney,the wife of Reverend Clementa Pinckney, murdered at the Emanuel AME in Charleston last year.
Obama pointedly lambasted Republicans decrying his executive actions and told presidential candidates, including Donald Trump, who have characterized the new measures as the beginning of the end, 'This is not a plot to take away everybody's guns.'
'Contrary to the claims of what some gun rights proponents have suggested, this hasn't been the first step in some slippery slope to mass confiscation,' Obama declared in remarks from the East Room of the White House.
We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to become scapegoats for President Obama’s failed policies - NRA official Chris Cox
To those who are trying to 'twist' his words on the Second Amendment, Obama reminded them, 'I taught constitutional law.'
'I know a little bit about this,' he said. 'I get it.'
'But I also believe that we can find ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the Second Amendment,' he said.
The president berated lawmakers on Capitol Hill for not doing more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and said, 'The gun lobby may be holding Congress hostage right now but they are not holding America hostage.'
N. Korea conducts successful powerful Hydrogen-bomb test
The detonation of the thermonuclear weapon triggered a 5.1 magnitude earthquake when it exploded at 10am local time at the Punggye-ri test site in the north east of the country, the tremors of which were felt many miles away.
Its ignition ends weeks of speculation that leader Kim Jong-Un had developed such a weapon, which is lighter yet even more powerful than the fission blast generated by nuclear bombs containing uranium or plutonium alone.
'The republic's first hydrogen bomb test has been successfully performed at 10am on January 6, 2016, based on the strategic determination of the Workers' Party,' a state television news reader announced five-and-a-half hours after the blast.
Reading a typically propaganda-heavy statement, the anchor confirmed that a 'miniaturised' hydrogen bomb had been detonated in an operation that was deemed a 'perfect success'.
She added that in doing so, North Korea 'joined the rank of advanced nuclear states' and had elevated their 'nuclear might to the next level', providing a weapon to defend against the United States - who they claim to have 'numerous and humongous nuclear weapons' - and its other enemies.
The broadcast concluded by saying: 'If there is no invasion on our sovereignty we will not use nuclear weapon. This H-bomb test brings us to a higher level of nuclear power.'
The successful detonation marks a major step in North Korea's nuclear development and is bound to cause considerable anxiety to neighbouring countries.
Last month, Kim Jong-Un had suggested Pyongyang had already developed a hydrogen bomb - although the claim was greeted with scepticism by international experts.
Daily Mail/AP
Benitez releases statement after being sacked by Real Madrid
Rafa Benitez has released a statement following his sack as Real Madrid manager after just seven months and three losses. In a statement released on his website, the 55-year-old Madrid native thanked those at Real Madrid for allowing him to work at the club and wished his successor Zinedine Zidane luck for the future. Read the statement after the jump...
He wrote:
"Now, at the end of my time as first team coach of Real Madrid, I would like to use this article to say goodbye to everyone at every level of the club. I want everyone at the club from the board of directors, executives, workers and all of the fans, know that it has been an honour and privilege to be in charge at this club where I grew up as a person, player and coach from the lowest categories through to the first team.
"As a Madridista from Madrid, steeped in the traditions and values of this institution, which I learned in the old sports city of Castellana, it has been an honour to work for these colours. I would especially like to thank everyone at the new sports city and the Santiago Bernabéu who since my first steps through the door have supported me and made my work easier. Thanks to all for helping.
"With all that I have said still in mind, I would like to wish good luck to Zinedine Zidane, my successor, and his staff. To all the players, coaches and staff in both Valdebebas and Bernabéu, I wish all the best and also good luck.
"With all my respect and thanks... HALA MADRID and NOTHING ELSE. "
people can be funny....lol,SEE Photos
He looks like he's normal from the front...then he turns his back and you wonder which asylum he escaped from... lol..
Lassa Fever Outbreak In Rivers, Two Confirmed Dead
Rivers State Government has just confirmed the outbreak of Lassa Fever in the state, which has claimed the lives of two persons so far.
The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Theophilous Odageme who confirmed the outbreak today in a statement enjoined the members of the public not to panic because the state government had taken a proactive measure to contain an outbreak.
The statement urged members of the public to report any of such symptoms as: persistent high fever, stooling, vomiting, bleeding from the nose, mouth and anus.
He advised members of the public to maintain good hygiene and quickly report any case of Lassa Fever to the nearest Health Centre or Hospital urgent attention.
Companies’ Rejection Of Corps Members Against Spirit Of NYSC – Dalong
Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Solomon Dalong on Tuesday in Lagos lamented the rejection of corps members deployed to companies and parastatals for their mandatory service year. Just as he also suggested that quarterly orientation programme be adopted for corps members as against the one done every four months.
Dalong who spoke during the inspection of NYSC camp at Ipaja and at Surulere, Lagos said: “The rejection of corps members by both private and government organisations is highly regrettable.” He said that circulars have been sent to various organisations to accept corps members into their organizations because they are on national service.
Relating his experience he said: “One of the instances I met on ground here (Lagos) was that the corps member was irregularly rejected because she was not given a letter from the company to indicate that she was rejected. “Her deployment letter was officially stamped by Nigeria Port Authority without date after which they sent her back without explanation.”
According to him, organisations are suppose to accept this corps members and put them to use, adding that if the corps members have over stretch their facilities, they should write and indicate such in their correspondences and not to sent the corps member away without explanation. He maintained that Corps members should not be rejected on lack of good reasons.
The Minister who frowned at a situation where people choose to accept corps members based on certain erroneous sentiments said that many times, considerations are given to people based on who you know. ” This is against the spirit of the scheme itself,” he said. He explained that the scheme is intended to build confidence in Nigerians, to promote national integration and national unity adding, “when corps members are rejected based on certain consideration, it negates the fundamental principles of the scheme”
Meanwhile, the Minister also suggested to the director general, NYSC, General Johnson Olawumi that orientation camp should be quarterly. He explained that when the scheme was created, the initiator never took into consideration that there will come a time in Nigeria when the output of graduates will be far above the initial contemplation.
“Base on numbers of graduates every year, it is good we start thinking of how we will adopt a quarterly orientation programme. He said: “With the increase of tertiary institutions in Nigeria, if we do not adopt the quarterly orientation programme now, a time will come when the upsurge of graduates will over match the capacity.”
Speaking in the same vein, the Director General, NYSC, General Johnson Olawumi who was present at the occasion said he was pleased with the advice of the Minister, noting that he will work toward the actualisation of the initiative
