Malaysian officials are hopeful of locating the missing plane after Chinese satellites picked up a large object in a broad stretch of ocean.
According to Yahoo,
Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters Saturday that he had been informed that a Chinese satellite had spotted an object 22.5 meters (74 feet) by 13 meters (43 feet).
“The news that I just received is that the Chinese ambassador received a satellite image of a floating object in the southern corridor and they will be sending ships to verify,” he said.
State broadcaster CCTV tweeted an image of the object and said it was captured around noon Tuesday, about 120 kilometers south of another satellite image that was taken days earlier of two objects in the water.
Planes and ships have been searching the area of the earlier discovery for three days but have found nothing so far. Flight 370 went missing March 8 shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing with 239 people on board.
After about a week of confusion, authorities said pings sent by the Boeing 777 for several hours after it disappeared from air traffic control screens indicated that the plane ended up in one of two huge arcs: a northern corridor stretching from Malaysia up to Central Asia, or a southern corridor that stretches in an arch toward Antarctica.
Military planes and civilian planes have already been searching about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) southwest of Australia, and two military planes from China arrived Saturday in Perth to join Australian, New Zealand and U.S. aircraft in the search. Japanese planes will arrive Sunday and ships were in the area or on their way.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Paul Okoye & Anita Isama Say “I Do!” [PHOTOS]
Paul Okoye & Anita Isama are finally a married couple!
The traditional wedding is taking place today in Port Harcourt.
Check out the first pictures of the bride and groom below.
The traditional wedding is taking place today in Port Harcourt.
Check out the first pictures of the bride and groom below.
Wizkid – Show Me The Money (Radio Rip)
WizkidPremiered his new song –Show Me The Moneyon the radio yesterday.
Produced byShizzi, here’s the radio rip ofWizkid’sShow Me The Money.
TheShizzi&WizkidCOMBO has been responsible for BIG hits in the past like“love my baby” & “body”so hopefullyShow Me The Moneywill follow suit.Show Me The Moneysounds so similar to Jaiye Jaiye though; I guessWizkidwants to stick to a winning formula for his songs.
Yup! Get familiar!
Download Wizkid – Show Me The Money (Radio Rip)
Wizkid - Show Me The Money(Radio Rip)(3.3 MB)
Produced byShizzi, here’s the radio rip ofWizkid’sShow Me The Money.
TheShizzi&WizkidCOMBO has been responsible for BIG hits in the past like“love my baby” & “body”so hopefullyShow Me The Moneywill follow suit.Show Me The Moneysounds so similar to Jaiye Jaiye though; I guessWizkidwants to stick to a winning formula for his songs.
Yup! Get familiar!
Download Wizkid – Show Me The Money (Radio Rip)
Wizkid - Show Me The Money(Radio Rip)(3.3 MB)
Obesere To Produce Rape-Themed Movie
Fuji singer, Abass ‘Obesere’ Akande, is reportedly planning to shoot a movie whose focal point will be rape.
Obesere, who just recently got out of a rape scandal, is said to have a script already written and has budgeted N20million towards the production of the movie.
His publicist, Deola Adeoti, said, “The movie is targeted at unravelling the mystery behind the rape scandal. A whole lot of things have been said about him in the past few weeks, but I think this movie will tell the world the plain truth. Apart from his own experience, Obesere is aware of some men who had been blackmailed with this same scandal and he felt that it was high time he exposed some of these women of evil.”
Obesere, who just recently got out of a rape scandal, is said to have a script already written and has budgeted N20million towards the production of the movie.
His publicist, Deola Adeoti, said, “The movie is targeted at unravelling the mystery behind the rape scandal. A whole lot of things have been said about him in the past few weeks, but I think this movie will tell the world the plain truth. Apart from his own experience, Obesere is aware of some men who had been blackmailed with this same scandal and he felt that it was high time he exposed some of these women of evil.”
Obesere To Produce Rape-Themed Movie
Fuji singer, Abass ‘Obesere’ Akande, is reportedly planning to shoot a movie whose focal point will be rape.
Obesere, who just recently got out of a rape scandal, is said to have a script already written and has budgeted N20million towards the production of the movie.
His publicist, Deola Adeoti, said, “The movie is targeted at unravelling the mystery behind the rape scandal. A whole lot of things have been said about him in the past few weeks, but I think this movie will tell the world the plain truth. Apart from his own experience, Obesere is aware of some men who had been blackmailed with this same scandal and he felt that it was high time he exposed some of these women of evil.”
Obesere, who just recently got out of a rape scandal, is said to have a script already written and has budgeted N20million towards the production of the movie.
His publicist, Deola Adeoti, said, “The movie is targeted at unravelling the mystery behind the rape scandal. A whole lot of things have been said about him in the past few weeks, but I think this movie will tell the world the plain truth. Apart from his own experience, Obesere is aware of some men who had been blackmailed with this same scandal and he felt that it was high time he exposed some of these women of evil.”
How Tiwa Savage Helped And Killed Mocheddah's Music Career
Mocheddah held alot of promises in the Nigerian music industry in 2010. She released her debut album ''Franchise Celebrity '' with 2 hit singles Koma Roll & If You want me, bagged an MTV Award for BEST NEW ACT & Channel O Music Award. She did some collabos around Africa and the continent was watching out for her as the NEXT POP SUPERSTAR. The sky was her starting point and her music career was booming. All these were made possible by her label KNIGHTHOUSE.
During that time, Mocheddah was arguably the biggest female artiste in Nigeria. Tiwa Savage was still upcoming likewise Wizkid. In 2011, she released another hit single SEE ME ft Phenom which rocked the airwaves in Nigeria & around Africa. And her market started selling seriously. After this, she seemed to disappear from the industry. Then came 2012 when we started hearing rumours that Mocheddah has parted ways with Knighthouse her record label. The rumour became a reality cos she truly left and established her own label CHEDDAH MUSIC. This move started her decline in the industry cos she shot herself in the foot. Being a CEO of a record label and an artiste at the same time wasn't easy.
She went ahead to release 3 singles after being away from the industry for so long. She shot the video for LOUDER, one of the singles but lo and behold both the classy video and the singles did not do well in the market because it seems fans have started to sleep on her by then. The reason being that when she left the industry for a while, Tiwa Savage came back from America and claimed the throne from her as NIGERIA'S QUEEN OF POP. And she amassed so much fans that Mocheddah's original fans started forgetting her. Cos during Mocheddah's exit, Nigeria was lacking a POWER FEMALE ARTISTE and Tiwa Savage came at the right time.
In September 2012, Mocheddah made another attempt at breaking into Mainstream Music in Nigeria by releasing another single COMING FOR YOU ft May D. The song did relatively well but since there was no video for it, it fizzled out. Since then, Mocheddah seems to have gone into oblivion. Nothing was heard about her in the music industry again.
Personally I think Mocheddah made a very big mistake by leaving Knighthouse Record. Though I didn't know what caused the separation, but I think she should have stayed for the sake of her career. By now, she would have been so BIG in the Industry. I guess other upcoming artistes should learn from her story.
Watch LOUDER video
download video here
During that time, Mocheddah was arguably the biggest female artiste in Nigeria. Tiwa Savage was still upcoming likewise Wizkid. In 2011, she released another hit single SEE ME ft Phenom which rocked the airwaves in Nigeria & around Africa. And her market started selling seriously. After this, she seemed to disappear from the industry. Then came 2012 when we started hearing rumours that Mocheddah has parted ways with Knighthouse her record label. The rumour became a reality cos she truly left and established her own label CHEDDAH MUSIC. This move started her decline in the industry cos she shot herself in the foot. Being a CEO of a record label and an artiste at the same time wasn't easy.
She went ahead to release 3 singles after being away from the industry for so long. She shot the video for LOUDER, one of the singles but lo and behold both the classy video and the singles did not do well in the market because it seems fans have started to sleep on her by then. The reason being that when she left the industry for a while, Tiwa Savage came back from America and claimed the throne from her as NIGERIA'S QUEEN OF POP. And she amassed so much fans that Mocheddah's original fans started forgetting her. Cos during Mocheddah's exit, Nigeria was lacking a POWER FEMALE ARTISTE and Tiwa Savage came at the right time.
In September 2012, Mocheddah made another attempt at breaking into Mainstream Music in Nigeria by releasing another single COMING FOR YOU ft May D. The song did relatively well but since there was no video for it, it fizzled out. Since then, Mocheddah seems to have gone into oblivion. Nothing was heard about her in the music industry again.
Personally I think Mocheddah made a very big mistake by leaving Knighthouse Record. Though I didn't know what caused the separation, but I think she should have stayed for the sake of her career. By now, she would have been so BIG in the Industry. I guess other upcoming artistes should learn from her story.
Watch LOUDER video
download video here
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Nigerians Spend N447.8bn On Recharge Cards Monthly
A workshop organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, weekend, to educate Nigerian Legislators on some intricate parts of telecom business/investments, incidentally exposed that Nigerians make a massive monthly investment of over four hundred billion naira on recharge cards alone.
This whopping sum, may have demystified the age long cliché that ‘Talk is cheap’. Besides, the investment on recharge cards, surprisingly dwarfed the ones made on House Rent, Petrol, Kerosene and electricity –options, known to have squeezed the economies of average Nigerians for several decades.
From the statistics of an ICT expert, Mr. Gbenga Oyebode of Aluko &Oyebode law firm, Nigerians spend 149.1bn on House rent, 128bn on Petrol, 144.8bn on Kerosene, and 91.8bn on electricity monthly.
At the workshop themed: “ICT infrastructure as key driver for economic development: what role for the legislature?” Oyebode reeled out these figures to postulate the impact of ICT infrastructure on economic development.
However, he noted that “a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, shows that broadband penetration contributes significantly to economic growth. But notwithstanding all of the potential of ICT to GDP, Nigeria still lags behind due to insufficient development of ICT infrastructure. Today, broadband penetration is estimated at 6% in Nigeria.
Another facilitator and Principal Partner, Kayafas Konsult Ltd, Mr Stephen Bello, also echoed Oyebode’s view that broadband is at its infancy in Nigeria with less than about 2% of the population having access to it.
He however added that the cost is still exorbitant even for corporate bodies. “We are still far from ITU targets which recommend that 50% of citizens and 40% of households by 2015 should have access to broadband. However, the recent policy framework and spectrum auction by NCC are designed to boost broadband availability in Nigeria.”
Meanwhile, the Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah while briefing the legislators at the workshop said that the Nigerian National Broadband Plan seeks to promote broadband deployment, increase broadband adoption and usage, and ensure the availability of broadband services at affordable prices. Juwah argued that the effect of this would be an increase in competition in the industry, a downward impact on prices, and improved quality of services to subscribers.”
The workshop also provided operators the opportunity to give their perspectives on the Open Access Model of the NCC, meant to deepen broadband penetration. In a paper titled:Broadband and Infrastructure development in Nigeria: Operators’ perspective of the Open Access Model, Executive Officer, MainOne, Ms. Funke Opeke, contended that “operators have had a mixed reaction to the Open Access model. Large, incumbent operators with most of the existing infrastructure have not been very enthusiastic about the plan. Since open access will drive convergence of infrastructure costs to a common benchmark, it will become increasingly difficult to gain benefits from proprietary infrastructure, higher tariffs, which make it difficult for new entrants/smaller players to participate in the telecoms value chain in Nigeria. Currently, the bigger you are, the more you can maximize value across the entire value chain, from value added services like ring tone, content distribution, to network connectivity services, corporate connectivity, Internet service.”
She also added that “open access implies barriers to entry will not be as high and thus new players could come into the market if they think they can do better without having to build out and replicate the infrastructure owned by any of the big boys. Smaller players are excited at the opportunity – but daunted by the challenges and need support. The example of Superflux is a good one. Indigenous entrepreneurs that are raising money locally will need support if we do not want to stifle their growth. This is a proven model in other parts of the world, so we need government to support them.”
Joseph Tegbe of KPMG, also made a case for the Open Access Model. Based on the various challenges in the country and the trend of deployments in other jurisdictions, he sought to convince the lawmakers that the Open Access Broadband Deployment Model is suited for Nigeria as it wouldthe gaps in broadband deployment, through the deployment of new fibre and leveraging existing fibre infrastructure;available the new network infrastructure and services to all telecom operators on a fair and non-discriminatory basis at a regulated price; minimise duplication of rollout and unnecessary environmental impact; Help realise the objectives of the National broadband plan with a minimum broadband speed of 1.5 Mbps to the general population; Facilitate faster and wider broadband penetration nationwide andsharing of infrastructure.
This whopping sum, may have demystified the age long cliché that ‘Talk is cheap’. Besides, the investment on recharge cards, surprisingly dwarfed the ones made on House Rent, Petrol, Kerosene and electricity –options, known to have squeezed the economies of average Nigerians for several decades.
From the statistics of an ICT expert, Mr. Gbenga Oyebode of Aluko &Oyebode law firm, Nigerians spend 149.1bn on House rent, 128bn on Petrol, 144.8bn on Kerosene, and 91.8bn on electricity monthly.
At the workshop themed: “ICT infrastructure as key driver for economic development: what role for the legislature?” Oyebode reeled out these figures to postulate the impact of ICT infrastructure on economic development.
However, he noted that “a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, shows that broadband penetration contributes significantly to economic growth. But notwithstanding all of the potential of ICT to GDP, Nigeria still lags behind due to insufficient development of ICT infrastructure. Today, broadband penetration is estimated at 6% in Nigeria.
Another facilitator and Principal Partner, Kayafas Konsult Ltd, Mr Stephen Bello, also echoed Oyebode’s view that broadband is at its infancy in Nigeria with less than about 2% of the population having access to it.
He however added that the cost is still exorbitant even for corporate bodies. “We are still far from ITU targets which recommend that 50% of citizens and 40% of households by 2015 should have access to broadband. However, the recent policy framework and spectrum auction by NCC are designed to boost broadband availability in Nigeria.”
Meanwhile, the Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah while briefing the legislators at the workshop said that the Nigerian National Broadband Plan seeks to promote broadband deployment, increase broadband adoption and usage, and ensure the availability of broadband services at affordable prices. Juwah argued that the effect of this would be an increase in competition in the industry, a downward impact on prices, and improved quality of services to subscribers.”
The workshop also provided operators the opportunity to give their perspectives on the Open Access Model of the NCC, meant to deepen broadband penetration. In a paper titled:Broadband and Infrastructure development in Nigeria: Operators’ perspective of the Open Access Model, Executive Officer, MainOne, Ms. Funke Opeke, contended that “operators have had a mixed reaction to the Open Access model. Large, incumbent operators with most of the existing infrastructure have not been very enthusiastic about the plan. Since open access will drive convergence of infrastructure costs to a common benchmark, it will become increasingly difficult to gain benefits from proprietary infrastructure, higher tariffs, which make it difficult for new entrants/smaller players to participate in the telecoms value chain in Nigeria. Currently, the bigger you are, the more you can maximize value across the entire value chain, from value added services like ring tone, content distribution, to network connectivity services, corporate connectivity, Internet service.”
She also added that “open access implies barriers to entry will not be as high and thus new players could come into the market if they think they can do better without having to build out and replicate the infrastructure owned by any of the big boys. Smaller players are excited at the opportunity – but daunted by the challenges and need support. The example of Superflux is a good one. Indigenous entrepreneurs that are raising money locally will need support if we do not want to stifle their growth. This is a proven model in other parts of the world, so we need government to support them.”
Joseph Tegbe of KPMG, also made a case for the Open Access Model. Based on the various challenges in the country and the trend of deployments in other jurisdictions, he sought to convince the lawmakers that the Open Access Broadband Deployment Model is suited for Nigeria as it wouldthe gaps in broadband deployment, through the deployment of new fibre and leveraging existing fibre infrastructure;available the new network infrastructure and services to all telecom operators on a fair and non-discriminatory basis at a regulated price; minimise duplication of rollout and unnecessary environmental impact; Help realise the objectives of the National broadband plan with a minimum broadband speed of 1.5 Mbps to the general population; Facilitate faster and wider broadband penetration nationwide andsharing of infrastructure.
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