Sunday, November 29, 2015
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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Demands Kanu's Release, Decries Exclusion of Igbos in Decision ...
THISDAY Live Meanwhile, the Nigerian Army has disclosed how their proactive application of the Rules of Engagement (RoE) and strategic approach to crisis communication, helped to ensure that the Biafran agitation does not snowball into violence with a disastrous ... |
The holiday season is here, and shoppers and merchants alike are gearing up for the busiest shopping season of the year. How will technology impact retail this season, and what’s new in 2015 about the ancient “art of the sale”? eMarketer predicts a happy holiday season for retailers this year, with US retail sales in the months of November and December increasing 5.7 percent… Read More
Saturday, November 28, 2015
SaharaReporters.com |
Insurgency: December Deadline Not Feasible Says CCC
SaharaReporters.com Notwithstanding the great strides being recorded by Nigerian military in the fight against insurgency, the Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) has observed that the December 2015 deadline for the defeat of the insurgents is not feasible. |
The first two days of the holiday sales period have netted $4.45 billion in U.S. online purchases, with mobile devices — led by smartphones — accounting for a record $1.5 billion of that amount, with $2.72 billion spent on BlackFriday and $1.73 billion on Thanksgiving. The figures come from Adobe, which has been tracking some 4,500 sites, including 80% of the top 100… Read More
Searching for a job is just like dating, banking or procrastinating on chores until someone else does them: It’s something we all have to do. So why shouldn’t the job search be the basis for mobile apps, like those other adult obligations? Over the past couple of years, it has. As 2015 turns to 2016, the job search is now squarely the business of mobile technology, with the tedium… Read More
Recorderpost.com (satire) (registration) (blog) |
Military to make list of Boko Haram suspects available to public places
Recorderpost.com (satire) (registration) (blog) The Centre for Crisis Communication, a research and advisory body independent of government, said the deadline was "not tenable" given the continued wave of bombings in the northeast. In his remark, France' Chief of Defence Intelligence, Major-General ... |
Microsoft has now made good on its earlier promise that it would soon roll out a beta version of its Cortana personal assistant – a rival to Apple’s Siri and Google Now – to users of iOS devices. This week, a handful of testers who signed up to trial the new app were notified by way of email that the iOS version of Cortana was available for download. The beta version of… Read More
Information Nigeria |
Boko Haram: December Deadline Not Sacrosanct – CCC
Information Nigeria PMB-Service Chiefs The Executive Secretary, Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC), Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (retd.) has said President Muhammadu Buhari's December deadline to the to end terrorism is not sacrosanct. The CCC boss made this known ... |
A feature Instagram users have wanted for some time – support for switching between multiple accounts directly in the app – is now being tested, according to a new report out this morning. Select members in Instagram’s official beta testing group for Android have spotted the option in Instagram’s settings in their beta build of the mobile application. The feature… Read More
Friday, November 27, 2015
New York Daily News |
Nigerian military cannot crush Boko Haram by December: officials
New York Daily News Air Commodore Yusuf Anas of the Center for Crisis Communication said the deadline "may be unrealistic" and warned Nigerians not to view December as a "sacrosanct date when all suicide bombings will end." The 6-year-old uprising already has killed ... Nigeria: Anti-Insurgency Goal Extended Boko Haram Won't Be Defeated by December Deadline, Nigerian Gov't Admits Nigeria's Government Stands Firm on Its Deadline to Defeat Boko Haram |
The number of people buying goods online and by mobile during the holiday season continues to grow, but the average value of what they are buying may be falling. IBM has now published some of its stats for Thanksgiving online sales — amassed by way of its Benchmark survey tracking thousands of sites — and it reports that sales overall were up 26% yesterday compared to a year ago. Read More
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World news in brief: Turkey-Russia spat escalates
Dubuque Telegraph Herald Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, of the Center for Crisis Communication, said the deadline "may be unrealistic" and warned Nigerians not to view December as a "sacrosanct date when all suicide bombings will end." The 6-year-old uprising already has killed ... |
In February 2011, I visited my friend Bill Huang who worked for Tencent in Shenzhen. Bill was telling me about their new messaging app, called WeChat, that had just launched. At the time, I had been using WhatsApp for more than a year. I asked Bill why they would build a copycat. His reply? He simply insisted that I download the app and take it for a spin. That night, I went home to Hong Kong… Read More
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- Alexandra Carrell
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