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Flickr/glassguy12345 Juniper released its  top 10 tech trends  for 2014 today. And if the research firm is right, our cities are going to get smarter, our money is going digital, and we’ll be printing a lot more products at home. Here’s a quick overview: Cities will get smarter Cities will get increasingly smart as sensors and cloud-enabled apps connect transportation, metering, healthcare, lighting, and environment data, and make it actionable.See what Sensity is doing,  building a billion-node planetary network of sensors — in street lights . Also, see what  IBM is doing in San Francisco  and  Cisco is doing in Lake Nona, Florida Mobile money will continue to grow — as will “mAgri” Mobile money is enabling banking and financing systems in the developing world via mobile wallets, which should continue to grow both there and in developing countries. And as mobile grows in Africa and Asia, so will the provision of data, including data on better crop manageme

South Africa plans 'historic' funeral for MandelaPublish

Children pose in front of a poster of Mandela at the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Centre of Memory in Houghton, Johannesburg. PHOTO/AFPnewvision A grieving South Africa started preparing Saturday to host a unique gathering of world leaders for Nelson Mandela's funeral, as his family expressed their profound sadness and loss at the anti-apartheid icon's death. Across the country, ordinary South Africans gathered in groups large and small, to both mourn and celebrate the life of the prisoner turned president who transformed their country and became a global symbol of hope and freedom. Presidents, religious leaders and cultural figureheads from all corners of the world are expected for the funeral, which will see a cortege with Mandela's coffin pass through the streets of Pretoria on three consecutive days. The memorials and events will culminate in Mandela's burial on December 1

GRAMMY AWARDS NOMINATION LIST 2014

The nominees have been named for the 2014 Grammy Awards, and it seems to be a good year for rappers. Jay-Z had the most nominations with 9, while fellow rappers Kendrick Lamar & Macklemore and Rya Lewis have 7 apiece. Pharell and former N-Sync singer Justin Timberlake also have 7 nominations. Nigeria is lonely represennted by Femi Kuti, who grabbed a nomination for Best World Album The Recording Academy announced the nominations Friday during a concert at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. The 56th Grammy Awards will be held on Jan. 26 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. See Full List Of Nominees Below: Record of the year Get Lucky — Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams Radioactive — Imagine Dragons Royals — Lorde Locked Out Of Heaven — Bruno Mars Blurred Lines — Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell Album of the Year The Blessed Unrest — Sara Bareilles Random Access Memories — Daft Punk Good Kid, M.A.A.D City — Kendrick Lamar The Heist — Mac

ASUU Strike 2013 Update: Nigerian Government Again Calls to End Strike

ASUU  President Dr  Nasir   Fagge , left, and Nigerian Minister of Education  Nyesom   Wike . ( ASUU ; Facebook) The Nigerian federal government called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU ) to end its several-month-long strike and accused the opposition All Progressives Congress of politicizing and manipulating the industrial action. “By the time we finish with the strike, the crisis will take its toll on states as many of them won’t be able to pay allowances,” Minister of Information  Labaran  Maku said, adding that the strike is starting to damage the Nigerian education sector,  reported the  Osun  Defender. He said that some states might not be able to pay allowances on lecturers by the time the strike ends. Maku also accused the All Progressives Congress of manipulating the strike. “I know  ASUU  very well.  ASUU  went into the strike out of the conviction that they would get more resources for the universities but opportunists in the [Congress] who

TOKE MAKINWA WHAT AN OUTFIT

I couldn't just imagine her, I mean Toke Makinwa wearing tissue or used Tissue to wrap her body. would you be comfortable with this. i know what tissues are been used for cleaning your ass. 

6-MAN GANG ARRESTED FOR RITUAL KILLING(viewer discretion advised)

The Nkwerre Vigilante Network this week arrested a six-man gang specialized in the sale of human parts for rituals and transplant in Nkwerre, Imo State. The men confessed to kidnapping their victims at various locations in the state and using their parts for ritual purposes. Some parts they sold to people who needed them for transplant. The men, who are mostly bricklayers, confessed that they sell the parts from N500k to N1million, depending on the parts in demand. Two of the ritual killers were found to be pastors. The men took the vigilante network members and some policemen to their hideout which is a forest in Umugara Village in Nkwerre. There, police found the decomposing corpses of some of their victims, mostly women and children.

Prof. Iyayi ACCIDENT OR ASSASINATED

The nature of two holes on the late Professor Festus Iyayi’s body gives life to suspicions by his colleagues that he may have been shot. Along with grief, anger will be the dominant emotion when Professor Festus Iyayi is buried this week in his hometown, Ugbegun in Edo State. The two feelings have mixed, predictably with unsavoury outcomes, since the former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, died on 12 November in an auto accident on the Lokoja-Abuja Expressway. Iyayi was travelling to Kano in the company of three other ASUU members for a meeting on the ongoing strike by members of the union when a police escort van in the convoy of the Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State rammed into the bus the university teachers were travelling. Iyayi died instantly, while three his colleagues were seriously injured. Wada, who was severely injured in an accident involving his convoy last year, was widely criticised by ASUU and the wider public for his failure to lea

USB 3.0 will be reversible

Finally, users of cameras and other accessories need not worry if they are plugging their devices into computers the right way, as the next generation of Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection will be reversible. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group said the new USB Type-C connector will also allow thinner and sleeker product designs and provide a growth path for performance enhancements for future versions of USB. “While USB technology is well established as the favored choice for connecting and powering devices, we recognize the need to develop a new connector to meet evolving design trends in terms of size and usability. The new Type-C connector will fit well with the market’s direction and affords an opportunity to lay a foundation for future versions of USB,” said Brad Saunders, USB 3.0 Promoter Group Chairman. Among the key features of the Type-C connector are: Smaller size, similar to the USB 2.0 Micro-B Usability enhancements, so users need not be concerned about the plug ori

Nelson Madiba Mandela DIES @ 95

Nelson Mandela, who led the emancipation of South Africa from white minority rule and served as his country’s first black president, becoming an international emblem of dignity and forbearance, died Thursday. He was 95. Mr. Mandela had long declared he wanted a quiet exit, but the time he spent in a Pretoria hospital in recent months was a clamor of quarreling family, hungry news media, spotlight-seeking politicians and a national outpouring of affection and loss. The vigil even eclipsed a visit by President Obama, who paid homage to Mr. Mandela but decided not to intrude on the privacy of a dying man he considered his hero. Mr. Mandela will be buried, according to his wishes, in the village of Qunu, where he grew up. The exhumed remains of three of his children were reinterred there in early July under a court order, resolving a family squabble that had played out in the news media. Mr. Mandela’s quest for freedom took him from the court of tribal royalty to the liberation und

HEADIES AWARD 2013 FULL LIST

See the full list of nominees below: BEST RECORDING OF THE YEAR A non-voting category for the best single recording by an artiste or group in year under review. I WISH – WAJE GOOD MORNING – BRYMO NATURAL SOMETHING – SOUND SULTAN THIS YEAR – JAYWON PRODUCER OF THE YEAR An individual responsible for producing the most acclaimed song or album in the year under review. PHEELZ – DUROSOKE DTUNES – SHO LEE DEL B – LIMPOPO LERIQ – LIKE TO PARTY LEGENDURY BEATS – EMI NI BALLER BEST MUSIC VIDEO A voting category for the best conceptualist, best directed and most exciting video in the year under review. This award goes to the video director. ALINGO – JUDE OKOYE/CLARENCE PETERS OLIVER TWIST – SESAN GAGA CRAZY – AJE FILM WORKS AZONTO– MOE MUSA YES/NO – CLARENCE PETERS BEST R&B/POP ALBUM A category for the best R&B/Pop Album in the year under review (by single individual or group). IYANYA VS. DESIRE – IYANYA O.B.O. – DAVIDO R&BW – BANKYW BLESSED – FL

Enyeama keeps 11th consecutive clean-sheet!

Nigeria goalkeeper  Vincent Enyeama  claimed his 11th consecutive shut-out and 14th overall to displace Salvatore Sirigu as a late Nolan Roux goal gave Lille 1-0 win over Marseille. The result means the Super Eagles number one is now just 140 minutes shy of the French League record of consecutive clean-sheets held by Bordeaux goalkeeper Gaëtan Huard. To do so Enyeama only needs to keep Bastia out, and deny PSG for 52 minutes. The former Enyimba man only needed to protect his net for four minutes against Marseille to slip ahead of Sirigu. And despite the frenzy of those opening five minutes, the Nigerian barely had to do much. But then Marseille upped the ante, and it took brave, if sometimes insane, goalkeeping from the Super Eagles number one man to hold on to his record. First he pushed out Pierre Gignac's crossed curler away after 17 minutes, then made a monster save on 24 minutes from the same man as Marseille came dangerously close to ending his run. An initial atta

Video shows rescue of ship's cook after three days under water

Newly released footage reveals moment Nigerian crew member is rescued after surviving in air pocket of sunken tugboat Ship's cook Harrison Okene spent three days under water after his tugboat sank off the coast of Nigeria. Photograph: DCN Diving Group / Barcroft USA Footage has emerged of the moment a ship's cook was rescued by divers after surviving for three days at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an air pocket on a sunken tugboat. Harrison Odjegba Okene, a Nigerian cook, survived by breathing an ever-dwindling supply of oxygen in an air pocket. As the temperature dropped to freezing, Okene, dressed only in boxer shorts, recited the last psalm his wife had sent by text message, sometimes called the Prayer for Deliverance: "Oh God, by your name, save me … The Lord sustains my life." Okene believes his rescue in May after 72 hours under water at a depth of 30 metres (about 100ft) is a sign of divine deliverance. The other 11 crew on board the Jasco

Paul Walker Crash Story: Actor Was With Friend Roger Rodas

Investigators sought to determine the cause of a fiery crash that killed "Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker while the actor's fans erected a makeshift memorial Sunday near where the Porsche he was riding in smashed into a light pole and tree. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said speed was a factor in Saturday's one-car crash, though it will take time to determine how fast the car was going. Because Walker is so closely associated with the underground culture of street racing portrayed in the popular "Fast & Furious" film franchise, the fatal accident had an eerie quality — a tragic end for a Hollywood hero of speed. The crash also killed Walker's friend and financial adviser Roger Rodas, according to Walker's publicist, Ame Van Iden. She said Walker was a passenger in the 2005 red Porsche Carrera GT when they drove away from a fundraiser in the community of Valencia, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles

ASUU Rejects Government’s Order To Resume

The striking Academic Staff Union of the Universities (ASUU) has rejected the Nigerian government’s ‘Back to Class’ order, describing it as a political blackmail. The government had on November 28 threatened to sack lecturers that failed to resume duties by December 4. Responding to the seven day ultimatum issued by the Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, the union maintained that it would not be cowed by the threat. “We shall never succumb to this. Our country is our union’s constituency. We shall bow only to what we, as academics, are convinced will serve the interest of Nigeria and its people,” the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Mr. Nasir Faggae, told reporters on Monday in Abuja. The Federal Government, in a meeting with the uinon, agreed to deposit part of the funds that the union had requested for the revitalisation of public universities in Nigeria to meet international standard. President Goodluck Jonathan and the