April 22, 2017

TIMBERLAND RELEASE NEW SNEAKERS FOR SS17

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 The brand has launched three new styles for SS17, taking inspiration from streetwear and contemporary footwear to create updated lightweight versions of classic styles.

The new range sees the Killington and Amherst updated with Sesnsorflexx technology, which featured advanced three-part outsole for stability, cushioning and flexibility that’s perfect for roaming the city and summer weekends at festivals.
Head over to the shoe selling shop and get the SS17 range now.
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April 21, 2017

Retiring on $1 Million is Not Enough

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Why savers are losers and spenders are winners in the modern economy



When it comes to getting rich, so-called experts are full of advice on how to save your way there. There’s no shortage of articles about couples who saved their way to $1 million or “expert” tips on how to save more money.
And these articles are true. You can save more money following their advice. But you have to consider the cost. Because the saver mindset is a very different and dangerous mindset about money than how the rich think about money.

All you need is a million?

Take for instance the couple, Carl and Mindy, who saved $1 million on four years. Their instincts were right.
“I was having this horrific day at work,” 42-year-old computer programmer Carl told Farnoosh Torabi on an episode of her podcast. “I was 38 at the time, and I'm like, 'There's no way I can do this until I'mr 62 or 65 or whatever age people normally retire at.”
Many people feel trapped in their jobs but do nothing about it. Congrats to them for taking action. But in the end, it is still the action of a poor-person mindset about money.
The couple started by analyzing their spending habits. “My wife and I wrote all of our expenses in a book,” Carl explains on their blog. “Every time we returned from shopping or paid a bill, we logged it.”
Based on their logs, they determined they could live on $24,000 a year. To be safe, they added a $6,000 cushion and bumped that estimate up to $30,000 a year.
To get there, they decided they needed $1 million saved up to retire by age 42. To achieve this, they did the standard saver playbook: they downsized and cut expenses, while working side jobs and investing in their personal residence and the stock market. read more

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April 21, 2017

The Three-Prong Education Solution - This Is All We Need

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Let’s face it. If any of us had a nickel for each of the education plans and ideas that have been produced on blogs, tweets and elsewhere in the last few years, I could pay every teacher in America a $2,500 bonus. Right?
Well, what are we going to do? When can we agree that we have a few educational pedagogies and foundations, relevant to our changing world and new economy, that we can identify as where all of us need to go.
My suggestions is this simple: We need to combine the best of project-based learning, career technical education and career readiness, and the best available digital tools and resources. I should be superintendent of the western world right? OK, until then, can we work towards collaboratively calling out the three areas driving it all. How complicated is this? It’s not. PBL, CTE/Career Readiness and Tech really do cover it all. Let’s do this. Here we go:
The Pedagogy

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Project-Based Learning, or some derivative, is the future. Check with most people that are connected to the future of work and the world, and ask them what students should be doing. They will all describe something that looks like PBL. They may call it inquiry-based, challenge-based, problem-based or something else. But they are essentially talking about students taking on real world problems, challenges and issues -  that allow them to dive deep and have ownership - while producing professional, public work. Yes, it includes lots of inquiry, critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and flexibility. BTW, we can embrace this or fight this, or anything in between, but it’s going to happen one way or another. Everything most of us are encouraging educators to pursue pedagogically, who are really trying to do anything relevant or impactful, is something that is PBL-like. Yes, it’s messy. Yes, it’s more student-driven. Yes, it’s more than lesson design (it’s project design). Yes, it involves work way beyond a textbook, note taking, tests and worksheets. Work is project-based so our learning needs to follow. Anything less is not sufficient or relevant. If teachers cannot adopt or adapt, they may have to get out. Maybe new ones will want in if they see it being more interesting and meaningful.
Here are just a few of the major advantages of adopting a project-based pedagogy:
  • Real World Applications
  • Public Work
  • Student Voice & Ownership
  • Collaboration & Partnerships
  • Reflection and Metacognition
  • Problem Solving is Job Relevant and Leads To Job Creation
  • Deeper Learning
  • Portfolio Development
  • Students Can Articulate Skills and Concepts Learned
  • Community Connections
  • Four C’s Skill Development

The Purpose & The Product (True Career Readiness)

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For far long, the disconnect between school and careers has been apparent to almost everyone, including our students. Educators and others have leaned on the phrase “you’ll need this in college” when it came to explain the why to students. Simply, we need to be much more honest and explicit and make sure that we are doing in our classrooms and courses indeed has direct connection to skills and applications that our students are going to face in this very new 21st century global economy. Context, relevance, application, authenticity, engagement are all very necessary to make education work for our young people and connecting our content to careers is the means to this end. Yes, it’s Career Technical Education. But it’s really much more than that. It’s true Career Readiness that works towards creating all students to explore and identify specific career interest areas, as well as opportunities to truly develop both the technical and soft skills that the world is demanding. Career Fairs are not nearly enough. Career Reports only scratch the surface as well. We need to embed career components and connections in all of our core and elective courses. Additionally, we may need to go a lot further. For example, why can’t our English classes be a place where all students read, write, research, present and more related to various career possibilities? Since all high school students have English for four years, imagine if English became the mechanism  to connect students to work-based experiences such as internships, develop digital portfolios and professional web presence, social media literacy and so much more. Our students are entering a much more independent contractor - oriented economy and they will need these universal skills regardless of career or industry.
Here are just a few of the major advantages of connecting our education to career readiness for all students and all programs:

  • Relevance
  • Application
  • Mentoring
  • Work-Based Opportunities & Experiences
  • Career Exploration
  • Soft Skills Development and Training
  • Improved Higher Education Success and Understanding
  • Professional Learning Networks

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The Platform (Ed Tech Resources - i.e. the internet)


Over the last several years, we have seen a huge influx of technology into education. Indeed, we call it Ed Tech. This includes teachers incorporating technology into their curriculum and instruction. But even more importantly, it’s become our students using technology to produce more professional, relevant and applicable work - individually and collaboratively. Still, a good part of our education system is clinging to edu dinosaurs like textbooks, paper and pencil, low level tests and exams and industrial models of lecture-based approaches. However, the time has come for us to acknowledge that Ed Tech is just now Education. That’s right. If we are not using technology as our primary tools and and resources, we are essentially cheating our students. We now have dozens of devices and thousands of applications that allow all of us, and especially our students, to create, collaborate, ideate, innovate and initiate.
Here are some of the advantages of recognizing tech as the tool for learning for all ages, grade levels, courses and programs:

  • Multiple Sources and Resources (often free and not dependent on one text)
  • Interactive
  • Adaptive
  • Continuously Expanding Options and Choices
  • Models Professional and Academic Uses of Technology
  • Flexible (web or cloud-based available anywhere)
  • Develops Technology Skills, Digital Portfolio and Positive Digital Footprint
  • Professional Learning Networks
  • Students Become Teachers, Facilitators, Experts

Well, there you have it. To me, anything else we can discuss related to education can fall into one of these three categories that have multiple iterations and paths. Our students need to experience learning related to a project-based, career-skilled and high tech economy and world. Let’s do it (ok….if it were this simple, we would be universally doing it).
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April 19, 2017

Professor, lecturers arrested in Ambrose Ali University over involvement in cultism

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The Edo State Police Command, has arrested a Professor and some lecturers of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma over alleged cult-related activities.

Addressing reporters on Tuesday in Benin, the Edo State capital, the State Commissioner of Police, Haliru Gwandu, said a double-barrel gun, single-barrel gun and one pump action gun were recovered from one of the arrested academics.
Gwandu disclosed that the arrests were made in response to distress calls from members of the university community.
He said, “The professor was arrested. He was granted bail. The case is under investigation.
“It was a distress call from the community; the university community made a call that cult groups were killing people; they killed so many.
“And at the time when they (policemen) went to inspect a site, they discovered more than 14 beheaded students at that particular time.
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April 19, 2017

Olamide really wants to make heaven

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MY DREAM IS TO MAKE HEAVEN - olamide badoo

     YBNL Chief/Boss OLAMIDE ADEDEJI A.K.A "Baddo"  has revealed how he really want to make heaven. he said, "I fears God and nothing his going to stop that".

     The rapper, who is known for profanity in his lyrics and music videos, leading to some of his songs being banned from airplay by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, considers money, fame and material things as nothing but vanity,

The multiple award winner told Vanguard that the biggest achievement he craves is heaven.
“The biggest achievement in this world is seeing my people grow, everybody living good; everyone living fine, living their dreams and making heaven.
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April 18, 2017

abuja airport re-open

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Nigeria’s Abuja Airport reopened on Tuesday as six weeks of runway repairs were completed and operations resumed with an Ethiopian Airlines flight.

Nnamdi Azikiwe airport in Nigeria’s capital has been closed since March 8, but reopened a day early as the runway reconstruction was completed ahead of schedule, the government said.

During the closure, flights used Kaduna Airport, but many international carriers including British Airways and Lufthansa refused to use the smaller airport, located over 150 km (100 miles) away.

International carriers continued to use the international airport in the country’s commercial hub Lagos while Abuja was closed.

Some work had been carried out overnight prior to March 8, but the runway had to be closed completely to complete the resurfacing.
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April 18, 2017

is this post really true?

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Nepa not PHCN LOL
This is no lie jare.



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April 18, 2017

Nigeria guy might go to prison in U.S again

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A 53-year-old Nigerian man named Abdullahi Shuaibu has been arrested by the police in New York in the United States of America for robbing banks. Sahara Reporters reports that although Shuaibu works at the United Nations headquarters in the famous city, he was also a bank robber who hit four banks in two months. Read more
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April 18, 2017

Nysc update!!! Correction of Date of Birth

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Correction of Date of Birth

 
Henceforth, information from the West African Examination Council (WAEC) will now be used to effect changes on the NYSC portal as from the 2017 Batch 'A' online Registration. The new procedure is as follows:
    STEPS
    • Login to your dashboard and click on the link to Date of Birth
    • Enter WAEC Verification PIN, select WAEC Type, Year of exam and enter your Examination Number
    • Click on Verify button
    • Click SUBMIT or CANCEL

Correction Of Course of Study The Following are the Procedures for Correction Of Course Of Study On The NYSC Platform.
    STEPS
    1. Login to your dashboard and click on the link for Correction of Course of Study;
    2. Select Course of Study; and
    3. Click SUBMIT
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