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Cars: Their Names, Meaning And Nomenclature

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Ever wondered how the names , of cars were chosen .All those abbreviations you just don’t seem to understand like BMW(Be My Wife ).Its time to know the truth.I would be taking the veil of ignorance off your faces 1. Alfa Romeo Formerly known as ALFA(Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili).The name changed when Nicola Romeo bought the company 1915. 2.Aston Martin The name was coined from the founder’s name Lionel Martin,and the “Aston Hill” races (near Aston Clinton) where the company was founded. 3.Audi The founder’s name is August Horch, so he formed the name of the company from the Latin translation of his German name “Horch”.Long story short Horch (German)=Audi(Latin). 4.BMW Nope its not “Be My Wife”.Its Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Works). 5.Cadillac Now owned by General Motors(they bought the original company in 1909).It was named after the 18th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, founder of Detroit, Michigan.Cadillac is a sma

Funke Akindele Moves Into New Home In Lagos (Photos)

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Actress, Funke Akindele shared photos on snapchat saying she is moving into her new home at Amen Estate, Eleko, Lagos. Congrats to her! See more photos after the cut.

Exclusive: Almost 200 e-commerce websites vulnerable to shopping cart flaw

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A vulnerability in open source shopping cart software osCommerce has affected almost 200 websites that have been listed and posted online. A source informed SC Magazine of the  Pastebin  list of 198 websites, which they said were fairly small e-commerce sites and vulnerable to the osCommerce flaw and could be subject to attack soon. SC Magazine showed the list to a number of industry experts. Andrew Barratt, partner at PTP Consulting, confirmed that all of the websites have the same vulnerability and said it appears that the examples given allow the password file to be stolen, or access to be granted to their database information including connection strings and passwords. Michael Jordon, information security consultant at Context Information Security, said that the osCommerce bug affects the ‘extras' directory bug that may let remote users view files on the target system and according to  securitytracker.com  this was originally reported on in April 2006. Jordon said: “So

Four killed following clash between police and kidnappers

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- Four people have been killed in a clash between kidnappers and men of the police force in Lagos - The kidnap incident took place along Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos state - An open fire battle battle led to the death of the kidnappers Four suspected kidnappers were killed on Friday, December 16, after they clashed with some policemen from the Lagos state police command.

Sorrowful! Tears flow as 11 wedding guests perish in Ondo state

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About 11 people have been reported dead, after a crash in Ondo state - The victims are said to be guests on their way back form a wedding ceremony - A few other persons are said to have received varying degrees of injury An accident involving a fully-loaded commercial bus and a Dangote trailer at the Akintelu end of the Benin-Sagamu Expressway, has led to the death of 11 people.

Judge Orders Husband To Have Sex With His Wife (pics)

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.A 34 year old woman took her husband to court for denying her sex. The woman told the court that her husband was physically and emotionally abusing her. She said that the most annoying part is that the husband has been denying her sex.  “He has been beating me claiming that I hate his relatives.” “He has also been denying me conjugal rights. We no longer have sex... He left home since July, ” the woman reportedly said in her affidavit. The man on his part said he was tired of the union and want the marriage to end.  However, the magistrate ruled in favour of the sexually starved woman and ordered her husband to take her home, continue the marriage and give her sex regularly.  Here’s how the story was reported in the media.

CBN May Legalise Use Of Bitcoin

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Lucy Nwachukwu(NAN): Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, the Managing Director, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Commission (NDIC), on Friday said the commission and CBN had set up a committee to look into the trending digital currency, Bitcoin. According to Bitcoin.org, Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin is open-source; its design is public, nobody owns or controls Bitcoin and everyone can take part. On Bitcoin reddit page, it was explained that it is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralised digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, naira- bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin. As such, it is more resistant to wild inflation, devaluation, import policies, currency fixing and corrupt banks. It is a true floating

Two Nigerian Men Fight Inside Airplane (Video)

Monday, 19 December 2016 Video: Two Nigerian men fight inside airplane The video of two Nigerian guys exchanging punches as if it were pleasantries during an international flight has gone viral. In the footage the pilot could be heard announcing to other passengers who rarely bulged to react, that the plane would be diverted to Lomé, Togo over the fight which was was “not acceptable at all.” Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT06Z98lVGk

Holiday Bonus from MMM Nigeria: + 20% on all contributions made before January 1

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In 2016 the MMM Community united millions of people in Nigeria. Regardless of their age, social status, ethnicity or confession, millions of Nigerians help each other with MMM and change their lives for the better. And we will do our utmost to make the new year even better than the last one! On the occasion of the upcoming holidays, we are introducing a bonus: +20% on all contributions made from December 7 to January 1. So, when you provide help, for example, in the amount of 1,000 naira, you will be granted 1,000 Mavro-NGN plus a bonus of 200 Mavro-NGN (so it will look like you provided help for 1,200 naira). Holiday Bonus Terms: The bonus is frozen for a month after the PH-request is created. The bonus will be granted only for “new” money. It means, if you created a request to get help after December 7 and later you provided help for the amount you withdrew, you will not get the bonus. You should not create a request to get help until the bonus is unfrozen (thi

MMM Port-Harcourt chapter donates borehole to Ogoni community

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Bothered by the dearth of potable drinking water faced by residents of Kedum, Kaani ward, in Ogoni community of Rivers State., the MMM-Nigeria’, a community of mutual financial aid and donations, Port Harcourt chapter, Sunday, commissioned a borehole in the community, saying it's its own little way of ameliorating the plights of residents in Kedum area and other neighbouring communities.      A Guider in the ‘MMM Community’, Ndukwe Joseph Ndukwe, said the project was motivated by the desire of the group to affect the society positively especially now the country is faced with excruciating recession induced hunger and poverty.       "That is what defines us as a community of people providing financial help to each other on the principle of gratuitous, benevolence and reciprocity," Ndukwe stated.        Present at the commissioning of the project were the MMM Nigeria, PH chapter number one man,Abiye Johnson (100k+ Guider); Nonso Onwuneme (100k+ Guider), other MMM Guider

BREAKING NEWS!!! HELPING REVOLUTION SHUTTING DOWN

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It is at the early hours of today that members and participants of www.helpingrevolution.com already know what has befallen them when its time for them to get returns on investments and the system couldn't match them at all, and this seems to be an automatic before.      Opytainment crew spoke to a participant who claimed he has invested over $1,000 USD on the platform claims he has been duped as the system does not work on peer-peer as they claim they are.        It has later been discovered that they have a central account where all members bit coin are assembled and directed to where the GH platform is operated by a Autobots.       This system claims to pay her participants 200% return on investments. Nigerians be warned on all these pyramids platforms that has flooded the internet now adays.

#BREAKING_NEWS: RITUALISTS ABDUCT EIGHT JOB SEEKERS IN IBADAN

See what someone sent just now: #BREAKING_NEWS: RITUALISTS ABDUCT EIGHT JOB SEEKERS IN IBADAN . Ritualists have adopted a new trick to lure their victims into captivity by taking advantage of the high rate of unemployment in the country, inviting jobless youths to report at a point where they are ferried away to the slaughter’s slab. We reliably gathered that unsuspecting unemployed youths were requested by the syndicate to report at a designated point where they were taken away in a Sienna car to the ritualist den in a bush along Ibadan-Ijebu-Ode road. One of the victims, Adesola, Aina on Monday, November 28, 2016 said that he saw a GSM number on the wall along the street requesting interested candidates looking for job to report at Idi-Arere, Ibadan. He said he reported at the agreed point in the morning since he had been jobless for sometime now. According to the young man who was visibly shaking as he narrated his experience in Ibadan this morning, nine of the job seekers

Manchester City vs Chelsea 1-3 2016 All Goals & Highlights

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Diego Costa, Willian and Eden Hazard struck for Chelsea to fire them to a 3-1 Premier League win at Manchester City on Saturday, cancelling out Gary Cahill’s spectacular own goal in the first half.

Corper Ifedolapo Oladepo Did Not Die In Kano Camp - NYSC Shares Story

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Ifedolapo Oladepo Did Not Die in Camp - NYSC THE National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) has, on Friday cleared air over the controversial death of a First Class graduate of Transport Management, Ifedolapo Oladepo from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Osogbo at its orientation camp in Kano State. In an exclusive chat with Vanguard , the KANO Coordinator of NYSC, Abdullahi Baba said that the late Coper died in a Government hospital. “The truth of the matter was that the Coper did not died at the camp, she died in the hospital. She was sick, treated at the camp clinic, and when she was not responding, she was taken to second facility hospital at Gwarzo General hospital “. Speaking further, the state Coordinator “I have reported the matter to my Head office, she was handled by our doctors in the camp before she was transferred to Government hospital.” He distanced the Camp management from the Coper’s death stressing that “we have nothing to do with her death, the records and the

Re: Funeral: Coffins Of The Brazilian Footballers Who Died In Plane Crash

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United for one last time, these are the coffins containing the remains of Brazilian footballers killed in the devastating Colombia air crash.

Funeral: Coffins Of The Brazilian Footballers Who Died In Plane Crash - 

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The coffins of some of the Brazilian Chapecoense football team players killed in a plane crash in the Colombian mountains, are seen at the San Vicente Mortuary in Medellin today.