Saturday, 12 March 2016

HOW OFTEN DO YOU WASH THIS HOUSEHOLD ITEMS?

 

1. SHEETS: EVERY 1 TO 2 WEEKS

Skin cells, sweat, dust mites … don’t even think about what’s building up on the sheets you dive into each night. Just wash them. Once a week or every other week should do it unless you’re an especially damp sleeper.

Monday, 7 March 2016

Full List of Winners At the AMVCA Award 2016


Best Art Director – Frank Rajah (The Refugees)

Best Television Series Award – Ariyike Oladipo (Daddy’s Girls)

Best Makeup Artist in a Movie or Series – Louiza Calore for Ayanda

Best Short Film or Online Video Award – Oluseyi Amuwafo (A Day With Death)

Best Writer for Movie and TV series – Trish Malone (Ayanda)

Best Lighting Designer (Movies/TV) – Stanley Ohikhuare (Common Man)

Best Cinematographer – Paul Michaelson (Tell Me Sweet Something)

Best Sound Editor – Jose Guillermo (Cry)

Best Picture Editor – Shirley Frimpong-Manso (Rebecca)

Best Costume Designer – Uche Nancy (Dry)

Best Local Language Movie/TV Series (Swahili) – Single Mtambalike (Kitendawali)

Best Indigenous Movie/TV Series (Hausa) – Salisu Balarebe (Dandi Kowa)

Best Indigenous Movie/TV Series (Yoruba) – Binta Ofege

Best Indigenous Movie/TV Series (Igbo) – Paul Igwe (Usekwu Igbo)

Best Documentary – Remi Vaughan (Faaji Agba)

Best Supporting Actor In A Movie – Sambassa Nzeriba (A Soldier’s Story)

Best Supporting Actress – Tunbosun Aiyedihin (Before 30)

Best Actor In A Comedy – Folarin ‘Falz The Bahd Guy’ Falana (Jenifa’s Diary)

Best Actress In A Comedy – Funke Akindele (Jenifa’s Diary)

Trail Blazer Award – Kemi ‘Lala’ Akindoju

AMVCA 2016 Industry Merit Award – Bukky Ajayi and Sadiq Daba

Best Movie (Southern Africa) – Joyce Chavura – (Lilongwe)

Best Movie (East Africa) – Elizabeth Miachael – (Mapenzi)

Best Movie (West Africa) – Genevieve, Chinny Onwugbenu and Chichi Nwoko – (Road to Yesterday)

Best Actress In A Movie/Drama/TV Series – Adesua Etomi (Falling)

Best Actor In A Movie/Drama/TV Series – Daniel K. Daniel (A Soldier’s Story)

The Best Director – Akin Omotosho (Tell Me Sweet Something)

Best Overall Movie – Stephanie Linus (Dry)

The AMVCA is an annual awards show which features nominations in over 20 categories in African film and TV series. The awards comes live under the tutelage of Multichoice and is a reward for the most remarkable performances in the continent’s movie industry, with voting from the public. The first edition of the AMVCA was on March 9, 2013 and witnessed a massive viewership in over 50 countries around the world.

Saturday, 5 March 2016

Facebook CEO Joins the World richest People List toppers

Mark Zuckerberg, one of the CEO's Facebook, who was last year the 16th Richest in the world in presently according to 2016 list of the Richest released by Forbes, the 6th Richest in the world, with Bill Gates still maintaining same position of the First on the list.
See the full list for the first ten Richest.
1. Bill Gates $70 Billion
2. Amancio Ortega $67 Billion
3. Warren Buffett  $60.8 Billion
4. Carlos Slim Helu $50 Billion
5. Jeff Bezos $45.2 Billion
6. Mark Zuckerberg $44.6 Billion
7. Larry Ellison $43.6 Billion
8. Michael Bloomberg $40 Billion
9. Charles Koch $39.6 Billion
9. David Koch $39.6 Billion

Friday, 4 March 2016

NIGERIANS STUDYING ABROAD HAVE FINALLY BEING REMEMBERED ON THE DOLLAR ISSUE.


  The House of Representatives is urging the Central Bank of Nigeria to designate banks to handle the payment of school fees for Nigerians Studying Abroad.
     This is in a bid to address the scarcity of foreign exchange and its effect on the foreign transactions.
    This resolution came by the way of a motion sponsored by House of Rep Member, Musa Adar and supported by 76 Lawmakers.
    The Central Bank is expected to collate a comprehensive data bank of all Nigerians Studying Abroad so that the required Foreign Currency can be released to their parents at CBN rate.

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

20 FUNNY, INTERESTING FACTS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND

  1. It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted)
  2. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
  3. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
  4. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
  5. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
  6. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
  7. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (busted?)
  8. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
  9. Rats and horses can't vomit.
  10. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
  11. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
  12. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
  13. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
  14. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
  15. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
  16. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  17. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  18. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
  19. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
  20. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

Sunday, 7 February 2016

THE SALARY SCHEME OF NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS

The controversy over the monthly salary of a Nigerian lawmaker has finally been laid to rest with a formal disclosure of what the legislators earn. The National Institute of Legislative Studies, NILS, apparently worried by growing public outcry against the Nigerian lawmakers, on Friday released a set of documents, showing what constitutes the earnings of the 109 Senators and 360 members of the Nigerian House of Representatives.The documents, which were made available to Vanguard in Abuja on Friday, indicated that the Nigerian lawmakers earn perhaps one of the least salaries among legislators in the world, as against the notion that their pay was outrageous.
           Apart from releasing   global comparative figures drawn from nine countries

COUNTRIES WITH THE WORLD MOST HIGHLY PAID LEGISLATORS

A global comparison released by the NILS(National Institute of Legislative Studies) shows the countries with the Highest paid Lawmakers. The ranking goes thus:
National Institute of Legislative Studies,

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/re) shows that lawmakers in:
1. Legislators in the Philippines earn the highest annual basic salary of $4, 497,957,
2. United States of America where a Senator goes home with $3,409,422 while a member of the US House of Representatives takes $1,429,909 home annually.
3. Kenyan Lawmakers who earn $968,013 per annum
4. Australia where Lawmakers take home $646,230
5. United Kingdom with £494,285.43.
6. India, where Lawmakers earn $474,484 per annum
7. Singapore with $253,469
8. Tanzania with $230,961.
9. Nigeria where a Senator earns N33, 992, 360 and a Member of the House of Representatives earns N33,347, 985, 50 .