Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Digital Buyer Penetration Worldwide from 2011 to 2018

Statistic: Digital buyer penetration worldwide from 2011 to 2018 | Statista
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This statistic gives information on the digital buyer penetration worldwide from 2011 to 2018. In 2013, 41.3 percent of global internet users had purchased products online. In 2017, this figure is expected to grow to 46.4 percent.

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* Forecast.
Internet users who have made at least one purchase via any digital channel within the calendar year, including online, mobile and tablet purchases.
Figures regarding 2011 and 2012 were taken from previous publication





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How Marketers Use Social Media and Important Statistics on Nigeria

Infographic: How Marketers Use Social Media | Statista
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Monday, September 22, 2014

Sophia Loren Celebrates 80th Birthday With Richest Man in the World

Sophia Loren Celebrates 80th Birthday With Richest Man in the World


Legendary actress Sophia Loren celebrated her 80th birthday on Saturday and spent it as any bombshell should: with the richest man in the world in a gorgeous locale. Carlos Slim, 74, threw the ...


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WIN an Invitation to AfricaCom 2014, Africa’s Leading Telecoms Event



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WIN an Invitation to AfricaCom 2014, Africa’s Leading Telecoms Event


APO will offer transport, accommodation and perdiem for one African journalist to attend the AfricaCom 2014

CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, September 22, 2014/ -- APO will offer transport, accommodation and perdiem for one African journalist to attend the AfricaCom 2014, Africa’s leading telecoms event (http://www.comworldseries.com/africa), held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 11–13 November 2014.

AfricaCom 2014 will bring together individuals and companies to debate on how to embrace innovation in Africa’s telecoms, media and ICT markets.

The deadline for entry is midnight on October 17, 2014.

Winner will be announced on October 23, 2014.


More information about AfricaCom 2014: http://africa.comworldseries.com

SOURCE 
APO (African Press Organization)


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Saturday, September 20, 2014

National Domestic Violence Hotline Receives Long-term Commitment of Resources from National Football League



AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Domestic Violence Hotline (the Hotline) is pleased to announce that the National Football League (NFL) has committed to providing significant resources to the organization that will allow the organization to virtually answer every call, chat and text from domestic violence victims, survivors, their loved ones and even abusers for the next five years.
"We have never had the funding needed to meet the demand for our services from those seeking help with domestic violence and dating abuse. Last year, because of this lack of resources, more than 77,000 calls went unanswered. Recent domestic violence incidents involving NFL players pushed the capacity of our organization to unprecedented levels," said Katie Ray-Jones, president and chief executive officer of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. "Because of this long-term commitment by the NFL to provide The Hotline with much-needed resources, our services will finally be accessible to all those who need us when they bravely take the first step to find safety and live a life free of abuse."

Immediately following the release of video last week showing former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his then-fiancé in an elevator, the Hotline's call volume increased by 84% and has remained higher than normal with spikes happening after each new report about domestic violence charges against NFL players. As the controversies continue, the Hotline has been unable to answer nearly 50 percent of the calls, chats and texts.

"Our decision to enter into a long-term partnership with the NFL will help us immediately increase our ability to hire additional advocates, improve our infrastructure and provide more education about domestic violence that affects one in four women and one in seven men in their lifetimes," said Maury Lane, chair of the board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. "It is important that we answer their calls."

Of those who reach out to the Hotline for help, 95% are experiencing emotional and verbal abuse including degradation, insults, humiliation, isolation, stalking, and threats of violence against themselves and their children and loved ones. Often, the abuser threatens suicide. More than 70% are experiencing severe physical violence and say they've been slapped, choked, punched, pistol whipped and beaten. This physical abuse has resulted in bruises, cuts, miscarriages, broken bones. Nearly 10% of those reaching out to the Hotline for help have experienced sexual violence. They've been raped, exploited, sexually coerced, even forced to get pregnant in order to keep them tied to their abuser.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline is a non-profit organization established in 1996 as a component of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

Operating around the clock, confidential and free of cost, the Hotline provides victims and survivors with life-saving tools and immediate support. Callers to the hotline 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) can expect highly trained advocates to offer compassionate support, crisis intervention information and referral services in more than 200 languages.  Visitors to TheHotline.org can find information about domestic violence, safety planning, local resources, and ways to support the organization.

The Hotline relies on the generous support of individuals, private gifts from corporations and foundations and federal grants. It is funded in part by Grant Number 90EV0407/03 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)/ Family Violence Prevention and Services Program, a division of the Family and Youth Services Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Administration for Children and Families or the U.S. Department of HHS.

Contact Information:
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Phone: (512) 426-4904
E-mail: lisalawrencepr@gmail.com
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SOURCE The National Domestic Violence Hotline
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Friday, September 19, 2014

President Jonathan, Senator Mark, Why Lt. Gen. Minimah is Out of Line on Domestic Violence Issues

 Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah.

President Jonathan, Senator Mark, why Lt. Gen. Minimah is out of line on domestic violence issues

The Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, should publicly offer profound apologies to all women and girls in the nation having recently declared a militarized form of domestic threat against military personnel wives. Just a few weeks ago, while addressing soldiers of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army in Enugu, he thoroughly tread on the rights of women to protest any course dear to them, such as the posting of their husbands into deadly areas of the heavily armed  Islamist terror group, Boko Haram.

In a highly  barbaric way, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah reportedly instructed soldiers in the following manner. "If they repeat it, all those wives will leave the barracks. This is not a civil service organization. This is not a Boy Scout organization. Any repeat of such act, I will tell soldiers to use koboko on the wives and bundle them out of the barracks."



Commanding Officer 65 Battalion Lt Col Dazuki, briefing the President Nigerian Army Officers Wives Association (NAOWA) 81 Div Chapter Mrs Chinyere Obi Umahi, on arrival to his unit during a familiarization tour.

The threat of flogging a group of Nigerian wives with a knotted rope whip, generally referred to as a koboko, is not only  a completely  disreputable and inappropriate behavior for an army officer in leadership, but renders the threat tantamount to the violent departure of over 200 school girls now under the abduction of Boko Haram.

For decades, the nation’s females have suffered acts of deadly domestic violence from men in Nigeria.  For a leader in a military system, which is highly regarded worldwide to be an institution of reputation for excellence in terms of human rights, to advocate domestic violence and abuse against women is victimization of the highest order to our young democracy.

Is this man not aware that in 2013, Nigeria passed a federal law to reduce gender- based violence? On a psychological level, the authorization to beat and disable military wives remains not only verbally and emotionally disgusting, but physically sickening, as such order could for decades and decades become a strong practice of soldiers and officers in dealing with certain behaviors of their wives and girlfriends.

The idea that  wives cannot dictate how their husbands should be  employed nor have a role in the Nigerian army is absolutely nonsense, as  wives by nature have a much higher function within the military. They are there to provide emotional support, period.

And even if they act out, get angry and show rage on behalf of their husbands, a profession like the military should always show unequivocal commitment and sensitivity to women’s issues, as they, in every and all cases, remain the emotional lifeblood that sustains the majority of our serving men.

Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah is supposed to command the ethos and values, as well as standards, for true leadership. As such, he should be the guiding center by personal example for his  subordinates and show responsibility of  character and spirit for our children,  especially for the girls and boys now and our nation’s future children.

Dr. John Egbeazien Oshodi is a Forensic and Clinical Psychologist and a former Secretary-General of the Nigeria Psychological Association.Jos5930458@aol.com

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First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan To Host First Women And Girls Summit



I am endorsing this event, because it is for the benefit of Nigerian women and girls who suffer most in conflicts as we have seen from the horrible and terrible atrocities of terrorists in Nigeria from the Niger Delta to Lake Chad.
We must unite to do our best for the protection, security and welfare of our mothers and daughters and save them from the dangers of conflict no matter the circumstances of their birth, faith or tribe. 

~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, aka "Orikinla Osinachi", author of Children of Heaven, Scarlet Tears of London, The Language of True Love, Bye, Bye Zimbabwe,In the House of Dogs, The Prophet Lied, Diary of the Memory Keeper, Nollywood Mirror Series and other books in print and electronic versions distributed by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lulu, Tower Books and other booksellers worldwide.




Date:  13–14 October, 2014
Venue: Abuja, Nigeria
Nigeria’s first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, in collaboration with the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), Friends Africa and the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) invites everybody for the Women and Girls Summit 2014.
The summit will focus on developing global level partnerships and setting up international working groups, with a trans-formative agenda designed to bring change to the lives of women and girls across Nigeria and Africa.
Speakers:
First Lady, Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan
Former First Lady, Kenya
Special Advisor on post-2015 Development Planning, Ms Amina J. Mohammed
MD/CEO,Standard Chartered, Bola Adesola
Director Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Professor Akosua Adomako-Ampofo
CEO, CHILD Accra, Dr Juliette Tuakli
Special Adviser, MDG Goals, Ogun State, Hafsat Abiola-Costello
Country Representative, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Mairo Mandara
CEO, WEConnect, Comfort Sakoma
For partnership opportunities, please send an email womenandgirls@friends-africa.org




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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Global Pacific & Partners Hosts the 21st Africa Oil Week in Cape Town, South Africa



CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Sept. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Join industry colleagues for the most prominent annual Conference held inAfrica's oil and gas-LNG and energy industry. Since 1994 this event remains the widely recognised for forging and enhancing relationships between both companies and governments.




Meet with state oil officials plus private and public companies seeking to execute acreage deals, along with institutional investors and a wide range of growing service and supply industry operators found across the oil and gas-LNG value chain


Hear from: Ministry of Minas, Industria y Energia, Equatorial Guinea, Empresa de Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Mocambique, Ministry of Mines & Energy, Namibia, Ministere du Petrole de L'Energie et des Mines, Mauritania, Ministry of Mines, Ethiopia, Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, Ministry of Energy, Kenya, Petroleum Exploration & Production Department, Uganda, Ministry of Petroleum & Mining, South Sudan, Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria, Ministere des Hydrocarbures, DRC, Geological Survey Department, Malawi, Ministry of Hydrocarbons, Madagascar, Ecopetrol, Ministry of Hydrocarbons, Congo, National Petroleum Agency,Sao Tome & Principe, Petroleum Technology Development Fund (Nigeria), Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation, Ghana Oil and Gas Service Providers,  ONGC-Videsh, PetroSA, JOGMEC, PetroSeychelles, Government ofCanada, ONHYM, South African Oil & Gas Alliance, Agence de Gestion et de Cooperation Entre laGuinea-Bissau et le Senegal, Gabon Oil Company, Petroleum Agency SA, Total, Tullow Oil, Chevron, ENI, Oando Energy Services, Addax Petroleum, Anadarko, CNOOC Africa, Atlantic Energy, ExxonMobil, Africa Oil Kenya, Genel Energy, Global Pacific & Partners, Salama Fikira, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Fastnet Oil & Gas, FBN Capital, Africa Oil & Gas, BP plc, OMV, African Petroleum Corporation, BG Group, Mitsubishi, Spectrum,Sasol Petroleum International, Shell, Noble Energy, Ophir Energy, Afren, Pluspetrol, HRT Petroleum, Svenska Petroleum Exploration, Statoil, Petroceltic, Mitsui, Marathon Oil, Impact Oil & Gas Limited, TransGlobe Energy, Discover Exploration, World Bank, CAMAC Energy, PGS, CGG, Schlumberger, Compass Energy Services, Vaalco Energy, Mart Resources, TGS, Galp Energia, Fugro, Petronas, Royal African Society, Cairn India


Numerous executives in the global industry have remarked that the annual Africa Oil Week stands apart as a leading meeting in the global oil-gas calendar.

Opening Guest Speaker is Paolo Scaroni, Deputy Chairman, Rothschild London
Their 16th Scramble for Africa: Strategy Briefing held on the Monday, provides unrivalled insights into the Continent's fast-changing upstream oil and gas game, with presentations by Dr Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners).
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When Rain Falls, Online Video Views Rise - Ooyala

HEADLINE2 Mobile and Tablet Viewership Rises to 27 Percent of All Online Video, Report Investigates How Consumer Viewing Habits Change With the Weather 

http://go.ooyala.com/rs/OOYALA/images/Ooyala-Global-Video-Index-Q2-2014.pdf

Nigeria's Entertainment and Media Revenues Will Reach An Estimated US$8.5bn in 2018 - PwC Report

Increased Internet access expected to generate more consumer spend across the African continent over the next five years: PwC report

-        Nigeria's entertainment and media revenues will reach an estimated US$8.5bn in 2018. One of the fastest growth rates in the world

-       The Internet will be the key driver for Nigeria, where the number of mobile Internet subscribers is forecast to surge from 7.7 million in 2013 to 50.4 million in 2018
- See more at: http://www.nigeriansreport.com/2014/09/nigerias-entertainment-and-media.html#sthash.M69JznG5.dpuf


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