GTBank #EStorms‬ Ikorodu Town With Wande Coal and Rayce in Live Concert

Hip hop stars Wande Coal and Rayce performed live on Thursday April 30, 2015 in Ikorodu Town as Guaranty Trust Bank takes banking to the grassroots in GTBANKESTORMS!

Nigeria's most innovative bank is taking banking to everyone on the internet in Nigeria with the launching of the groundbreaking GTBANK ESTORMS campaign..
The GTBankEstorms is an e-channel awareness storm to engage and convert as many customers as possible to adopt the bank’s alternative channels. The e-channel activation will take place from community to community in Nigeria from Lagos to other states in the country. 

GTBankEstorms held in Abule Egba Branch of Guaranty Trust Bank at 402, Abeokuta Express way, Abule Egba, Lagos on Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd April 2015, Akowonjo Branch at 35, Shasha Road, Akowonjo, Lagos State on Thursday, 23rd and 24th of April, 2015; Ikotun Branch at 49 Idimu-Ikoyun Road, Ikotun, Lagos on Monday, 27th and Tuesday, 28th of April, 2015 and the Ikorodu Branch: at 47, Lagos Road, Ikorodu Town, Lagos State on Wednesday 29th and Thursday, 30th of April, 2015

The GTBankEstorms in Ikorodu Town started at 10am from the bank and moved to the nearby C & S Primary School, Majidun Ogolonto, Ikorodu Town at 2pm with popular hip hop artistes Wande Coal and Rayce performing in a live concert without gate fees and attracting many of the customers and others to the free show.

Mr. Jide Shipe.

Miss Adekemi Oluwabamishe ( A representative of Total quality management group  of GTBANK) .

The live concert was great fun! The body guards and Nigerian police officers had a tough time as they stopped the area boys from harassing Wande Coal and Rayce. 

 
 A jester entertaining the audience.
 
Wande Coal thrilling the audience.

 
Rayce performing.

Ace comedian and Nollywood actor Baba Tee and comedian and MC Shola Samson cracking the ribs at GTBANK e-STORMS concert at C&S Primary School, Majidun, Ogolonto, Ikorodu.

GT Bank influential marketing for social community and e-banking is really effective as the musical concert and comedy attracted many people in Ikorodu Town with several of them going home with prizes of Nokia phones they won in dancing competitions and raffle draws.

Mr. Jide Sipe, Manager Corporate Communication and External Affairs of GTBank said Guaranty Trust Bank is taking banking to the grassroots through electronic channels to migrate customers from the banking halls to the convenience of wherever they are 24/7. This event is to create public awareness on this new development of mobile internet banking on the fingertips of the people on the go.

Many of the customers and others were excited about the event and made the following remarks:
 “I like GT Bank for their good banking”.
 ~ Adetola Ayomide, Ogolonto, Ikorodu Town.
“I like what GT Bank brought to the community of Ikorodu town. I will like to bank with them as long as it is affordable.”
~ Mrs. L.A Hambolu, Majidun, Ikorodu Town.
“I love the new internet banking service. I already have a GT Bank account.”
~ Mr. Sefiu Moliki, Idi Iroko, Ikorodu Town.
“I want to open an account with GT Bank from what I see today and I have been hearing good things about them.”
~ Mr. Paul Okonewa, Idi Iroko, Ikorodu Town.

The alternative e-channel platforms that will be available for activation at the branches include:

• Mobile Banking: Mobile phones have increasingly become tools that customers use for banking, payments, budgeting, and shopping. Our GTBank Mobile App is a two in one App which consists of Mobile Banking and Mobile Money . The mobile application merges our internet banking and mobile money service offerings to allow customers enjoy more flexible banking.It is a convenient, secure and an affordable way to carry out banking transactions from your mobile phones.The GTBank Mobile App is positioned to fulfill all our customers’ daily financial and non-financial needs. With the GTBank Mobile App customers can Check account balance, Transfer Funds to family and friends, Stop and confirm cheques, Bill payments, FX transfers, Flight Bookings, Airtime Recharge, Online Shopping, Purchase cinema tickets e.t.c. To download the Mobile App, kindly visit any of the app stores on Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Nokia and Windows. 
• Internet Banking: The GTBank Internet banking service provides our customers a safe, secure and convenient way to conduct banking transactions online. With internet banking, you enjoy the convenience of managing your GTBank accounts quickly and easily – anytime, anywhere! 
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• SME MarketHub: The SME MarketHub platform is an online e-commerce platform that allows businesses owners create online stores to sell and promote their offerings to millions of buyers online. The platform also provides access to free business and financial management tools that will help our business partners grow profitability and enhance efficiency. On the MarketHub, you can buy a range of products from Men’s and Women’s clothing, Shoes, Bags, Food stuffs, Gadgets, Electronics and lots more, all at affordable prices. To start shopping, visit www.smemarkethub.com
• One Click Top-up: With the One Click Top-up, GTBank customers can conveniently buy airtime on their mobile phones directly from their GTBank account by simply dialing a short USSD code (*737*AMOUNT#). It brings a higher level of convenience for our customers as it is designed to deliver with speed and simplicity. Customers can top up their phones using a single code *737* Amount#. 
• SMS Banking: The GTBank SMS banking service allows customers operate banking services through their mobile phones via SMS messaging. You can keep watch on your bank account with our round the clock SMS banking service. With GTBank SMS Banking, you can check your account balance on the go, confirm account number, subscribe to GENS, reset Internet Banking password and block lost, stolen or compromised card. 

Do you reside or work in Abule Egba, Akonwonjo, Ikotun or Ikorodu and enivrons? Then, we invite you to visit our experience centres at any of these branches from the 21st – 30th of April, 2015. Get your tokens, download the GTBank Mobile App, shop on the Hub, win gifts from the lucky dip and so much more!. Come and experience excellent banking on-the-go as we are one step closer to you.

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Igbos Have Produced the First National Leaders of Nigeria

 Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, first President and Head of State of Nigeria.

Igbos have been the first national leaders of Nigeria and have no cause to whine.

Igbos produced the first President and head of state of Nigeria - Dr. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, P.C. (November 16, 1904 – May 11, 1996)


Igbos produced the first military head of state - Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi (3 March 1924 - 29 July 1966)

Igbos produced the first President of the Nigerian Senate, the first of whom was Nnamdi Azikiwe, who stepped down from the job to become the country's first Head of State.



Igbos produced the first indigenous Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives - Jaja Anucha Wachuku (1 January 1918[1] – 7 November 1996) and he was also the first Nigerian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the first Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

See more in the coming must read first book on the 2015 presidential election "The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream" by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima. The book will be released worldwide on May 29, 2015 and the public presentation will be on June 12, 2015. 

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Michael Weiss on Tinubu: Is This White Journalist Dividing Us with His Whiteness?

Michael Weiss on Tinubu: Is This White Journalist Dividing Us with His Whiteness?

 

Michael Weiss of The Daily Beast, an American online opinion and news outlet known for its peculiar style of reporting, is generally known as a journalist who focuses on developments in the Middle East and Russia but now has suddenly ventured into Nigeria, the most populous black nation in the world and one with an emerging democracy.

Michael Weiss.

 

At a time when this black nation and its people are in a joyful mood for growing a little higher as a democracy in a broadly peaceful election, Weiss comes from out of nowhere, or all the way from the Euro-American world, where he would submit himself as a middleman between warring leaderships of the two main political parties in Nigeria.

 

At a time when our young nation is in its first-ever peaceful political transition and is fully shifting into a new presidency, Weiss would suddenly open up our society into a provoking mode by dredging up an old-aged allegation against Bola Tinubu, one of the leaders of Nigeria's main oppositional party in the 21st century.

 

Weiss, all the way from America, would plunge himself into the domestic affairs in Sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria in particular, focusing on a more than twenty-year-old drug-related accusation against Tinubu which is widely known by the people, and for which there was no evidence of indictment or conviction.

 

The people of Nigeria remain aware that in the last few days a war of words has passed between Tinubu and Buruji Kashamu, a leader of the outgoing political party, who has been reportedly indicted for drug charges and possibly facing extradition to the United States in the coming weeks or months.

 

If Weiss was really concerned about the social realities facing the leadership in Africa, Nigeria especially, it would have been more helpful if six to twelve months ago; he had raised issues regarding the impact of the social behaviour of leaders as they relate to the national leadership, especially leaders such as Tinubu or even Buruji.

 

Weiss, by his action of injecting himself into native matters like what we have here, all too obviously personifies what we know from American history.

 

Malcolm X, at one time a prominent African America leader, in a speech in New York on April 8, 1964, stated “The greatest weapon that the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been divide-and-conquer…is the same strategy as that which was used in the past (to)   divide…plays one Negro leader against the other… plays one Negro organization against the other… makes us think we have different objectives…”

 

Following the same line of thinking several years later, we have the words   by Bill Cosby, an African American stand-up comedian, as reported in the The Atlantic Newspaper in May 2008, stated,   “We are not a pitiful race of people. We are a bright race, who can move with the best. But we are in a new time…I’m tired of losing to white people…”

 

There is no attempt to portray Weiss as a racist or a racially divisive individual,   but what is clear is that if he wants to comment on our democratic and leadership challenges, his focus should be more on how to take positive steps towards   building up to a strong democratic country.

 

Tinubu, like every one of us, has his personal ups and downs. Weiss needs to be educated about the man called Tinubu, who, in the eyes of many open-minded Nigerians, will be counted as one of those leaders who recently paved the way for entry into a true democracy. He is that man who was a founding member of the pro-democracy National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), which organized support for the restoration of democracy and recognition of the June 12 results, and subsequently went into exile in 1994, only to return back to the country in 1998 after the death of military autocrat, Sani Abacha.

 

Tinubu would subsequently serve as a democratic Governor from 1999 to 2007 and to this day serves as a national leader of the All Progressive Congress, along with Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osibajo, incoming President and Vice-President respectively. They are jointly raising the spirit of democracy in our nation.

 

As for Weiss, we have one message for him.   What we need more of at this time are ideals and values to help us become a forward-looking democracy and less of the psychology of divide-and-conquer.  

 

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

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Olashore International Becomes First School in Nigeria To Launch iPad Education

 Chairman of the School's Board, Prince Abimbola Olashore, School Principal Mr. D.K. Smith and Dr. Phil Osagie, Managing Partner, JSP Communications Limited for APPLE (Core Group Africa)

OLASHORE DEMONSTRATES BLEND OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION

On Tuesday April 28, 2015, Olashore International School (OIS), a private co-educational school became the first Nigerian school to launch the iPad for students in a special blend of technology and education.
The presentation was done by Chairman of the School's Board, Prince Abimbola Olashore, School Principal Mr. D.K. Smith and Dr. Phil Osagie, Managing Partner, JSP Communications Limited for APPLE (Core Group Africa). The event took place at the prestigious Victoria Crown Plaza Hotel on Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
It is one of the biggest ever technology roll out in the school system in Nigeria as Olashore is entering into a strategic partnership with Apple through Core Group Africa, the authorized exclusive distributor for Apple in Nigeria and Sub Saharan Africa.

Olashore International School is integrating technology fully into its curriculum with Apple iPads in all the classrooms as part of the daily learning process.
When this plan is rolled out, the school authorities said that students and the teachers will be solving complex problems and discovering latest research information simultaneously in real time.
Olashore International School (OIS) represented Nigeria at the Core Group Africa organized Apple iPad Summit from February 16-17, 2015 at the The Forum in Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa.

The iPads in Classrooms program is expected to be achieved by setting up LAN Network Distribution in Classrooms and Hostels, Proper Wireless Distribution in the classroom, indoor wireless device with high frequency, Firewalls to manage internet access on the iPad, Proper audio and visual multimedia systems in the classrooms that will support the iPad integration, Learning Management System that will not use the Internet, and a Mac Server for Mobile Device Management that will be used to manage the iPads.

Mr. Smith emphasized the importance of the 4C's (“super skills)” for the 21st century! Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity by sharing thoughts, questions, ideas, and solutions and he also explained the application of the Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition (SAMR) model
Substitution
In a substitution level, teachers or students are only using new technology tools to replace old ones, for instance, using Google Docs to replace Microsoft Word. the task ( writing) is the same but the tools are different.
Augmentation
Though it is a different level, but we are still in the substitution mentality but this time with added functionalities. Again using the example of Google docs, instead of only writing a document and having to manually save it and share it with others, Google Docs provides extra services like auto saving, auto syncing, and auto sharing in the cloud.
Modification
This is the level where technology is being used more effectively not to do the same task using different tools but to redesign new parts of the task and transform students learning. An example of this is using the commenting service in Google Docs, for instance, to collaborate and share feedback on a given task task.
Redefinition
If you are to place this level in Blooms revised taxonomy pyramid, it would probably correspond to synthesis and evaluation as being the highest order thinking skills. Redefinition means that students use technology to create imperceptibly new tasks. As is shown in the video below an example of redefinition is "when students connect to a classroom across the world where they would each write a narrative of the same historical event using the chat and comment section to discuss the differences, and they use the voice comments to discuss the differences they noticed and then embed this in the class website".

In 2014, American K-12 schools spent an estimated US$9.94 billion on educational technology according to Joseph Morris, director of market intelligence at the Center for Digital Education.


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Tribal Planet Partners with UN Women in support of the HeForShe Campaign For Gender Equality

NEW YORK and SAN MATEO, Calif., April 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- UN Women has teamed up with Silicon Valley technology company, Tribal Planet, Inc. to provide advanced mobile, media and analytic technology for the HeForShe campaign - a worldwide movement that aims to mobilize one billion men and boys globally as advocates and change agents in ending gender inequality.

The mobile technology platform developed by Tribal Planet will enable the HeForShe campaign to reach supporters in key countries with limited Internet connectivity, providing them with campaign's messages as well as tracking the impact of their actions on a data analytics platform.

"Mobile technology offers a truly global solution to reach and engage people on the important issues associated with gender inequality and create opportunities for young and older alike," says Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN Women. "The ubiquity of mobile phones offers us a way to greatly increase access to the HeForShe campaign, and through that platform, to build action by men and boys for gender equality in all corners of the world. Importantly, it also gives us another route to register and analyse precisely what people are doing to live up to their commitments."

Tribal Planet will orchestrate everything from feature phone and SMS campaigns in emerging markets, to state-of-the-art smart-phone activations at world-class concerts and media events in developed nations. The initial app launch will be released in 15 countries including USA, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Indonesia, Thailand, Egypt, Morocco, China, South Africa, India, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and UAE.

"Gender equality is among the most important challenges that needs to be solved for today.  It's an issue that is relevant to every person on the planet," said Jeff Martin, Founder and CEO of Tribal Planet, Inc.  "Mobile phones are the best way to authentically reach and power the voice of young people and give them the opportunity to learn, commit their support and take action on this most pressing issue. Through the use of mobile analytics, tangible results and proof of impact have no middleman."

Building on the impressive awareness generated by the HeForShe movement, Tribal Planet will draw on its more than a decade of experience in mobile app development, activation, analytic technology and entertainment management to support the expanded reach and impact of the campaign in key markets including the developing world.  The first apps for Nokia and Samsung feature phones and smart phone apps for Android and iOS devices will be available for download starting late in April 2015.

The country-level roll out and activation of the HeForShe apps will be combined with existing UN Women activities and government, university and NGO partnerships, using sporting and music events, celebrity advocacy and local meetings to motivate and inspire men and boys to download the app, sign the HeForShe commitment and take continued action and report on what they are doing that is making a difference.
For more information about HeForShe, please visit www.heforshe.org.

	UN Women is the UN entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. For more information, visit www.unwomen.org.
	HeForShe is a solidarity movement that calls upon men and boys to stand up against the persisting inequalities faced by women and girls globally. The campaign strengthens the support for women's rights as human rights by enlisting the support of men and exhorting them to put themselves forward as advocates for gender equality. For more information, visit http://www.heforshe.org/.
	About Tribal Planet Tribal Planet, Inc. is a mobile technology and entertainment company that has established itself as an industry leader in mobile marketing around consumer passion points including music, entertainment, sports, and causes. Founded in 2001, Tribal Planet is the first company to generate more than 1 billion dollars in mobile-based sales for the entertainment industry through several global carrier alliances. For more information, visit www.tribalplanet.com.

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Rochas Okorocha Declared Winner Of Imo State Governorship Election

 Rochas Okorocha Declared Winner Of Imo State Governorship Election 

The incumbent Governor Rochas Okorocha has secured victory after today’s supplementary polls to conclude the inconclusive governorship election in Imo State. Mr. Okorocha, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has beaten Emeka Ihedioha, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by 416,996 votes.   Mr. Ihedioha scored 320,705 votes. 

http://saharareporters.com/2015/04/25/rochas-okorocha-declared-winner-imo-state-governorship-election

Owelle Rochas Okorocha becomes the first bona fide APC governor in the south east of Nigeria.

Celebration in Imo State.

I have already congratulated him since April 11, because I knew that he was the winner of the gubernatorial election and the choice of the majority of the voters in Imo State. The PDP has lost the support of the people and the APC is now the party for the nation building of a New Nigeria and will produce the first Igbo executive President of Nigeria before 2030. 

I am very happy for Owelle Rochas Okorocha, the visionary leader of a new generation of Igbo national leaders in Nigeria.To our Almighty Father JEHOVAH GOD be all the glory, honors and powers in the heavens, on the earth and entire universe forever and ever. Amen!Somebody shout HALLELUJAH!


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Mrs. Gesila Khan and INEC in Rivers State Block APC from Having Access To Evidence

Mrs. Gesila Khan, Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Rivers State. 

Mrs. Gesila Khan and INEC in Rivers State block APC from having access to evidence

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Rivers State had earlier today barred the State Party agents for the All Progressives Congress, APC, from accessing INEC premises to photocopy result sheets for the last elections in preparation for the party’s appearance at the Election Petition Tribunal. Since our agents began to visit the INEC they have been witnesses to gross misconduct and extensive electoral fraud going on in the INEC headquarters under the meticulous supervision of the REC Gesila Khan and the Head of Administration, Mr. Bocco.

At the INEC headquarters, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been given unfettered access to thumb-print ballot papers so as to correspond with the figures they had allocated to their candidates and others.


The thumb-printing and result writing is at present going on in three location at the commission. The locations are

1.      The strong room of INEC near the Administrative Secretary’s office,
2.      The store and inner store of the commission
3.      Next door to the legal officer locked with people inside.
4.      The 23 LGA offices of INEC in Rivers State
Mr. Peter Ogunte, an INEC staff is coordinating them
As soon as the elections were ended, the APC state party agent had written to the REC requesting for the following essential documents:
1.      Voter Registers
2.      Materials Distribution forms E25A
3.      Query Log for accredited voters
4.      Result sheets for all the 23 LGA's

Under the electoral law, all results and other materials used for the elections are meant to be available and accessible to all parties as soon as the elections are over to enable those who need to go persons have 21 days within which to file any applications at the Elections tribunal.

The APC has sent several reminders to the Rivers REC Mrs. Khan. As at today 12 days after the purported elections, we are yet to receive the result sheets for five local government areas, only for party agents to be denied entry.


The question to ask Mrs. Khan and Mr. Bocco is what are they hiding and what other evil are they contriving?


Since after the show of shame in Rivers State on March 28th and April 11th, the PDP and INEC in Rivers state have been re-writing the results, doctoring documents and thumb- printing ballot papers in its offices as well as hotels.

The APC had raised this alarm repeatedly and wishes to reiterate its call on INEC Chairman Professor Attahiru Jega to

1.  Direct Mrs. Khan to comply with the electoral law as well as the freedom of information act

2.   Please move all sensitive material for the Rivers Elections away from Rivers State
We believe that Rivers people deserve to elect the government that would serve them, protect and defend their interest.

Mrs. Khan and Mr. Bocco should not be allowed to wickedly thwart this most fundamental of all human rights as even God almighty allows us His creation our right to choose.

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Ibim Semenitari
Director, communications
Greater Together Campaign Organisation
Friday, April 24, 2015

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PDP, INEC Working On New Election Result In Rivers State - GTCO

Several days after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, concluded elections in Rivers State, with results declared, it is still compiling results. In collaboration with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, INEC has been busy thumb-printing ballot papers and doctoring result sheets of all the local government areas so as to correspond with the figures they allocated to the PDP and others during the elections of March 28, and April 11, 2015.

As part of their preparations for the Election Petition Tribunal, PDP has camped INEC Presiding Officers, POs, who conducted the disputed elections in the various LGA’s in hotels and sundry places, while INEC had directed both its personnel and ad hoc staff to report at the State headquarters to doctor the figures and cover their tracks.

Similarly, the election “umpire” has thrown open its doors for the PDP and its agents to also thumb-print some of the ballot papers in the safety of its premises, after a tip-off led the police to CRKR, in the Elekahia area of Port Harcourt, believed to be owned by a PDP chieftain, where Presiding Officers who conducted elections in Khana Local Government Area were camped to doctor results on Wednesday April 22, 2015.

Khana, one out of the 4 Ogoni local governments, has significant population and was one of the worst-hit councils where unimaginable massive thumb-printing and other electoral irregularities took place during the general elections of March 28 and April 11, 2015.

Recall that the All Progressives Congress, APC, had petitioned INEC over the subject matter without any steps taken by either security agencies or INEC to investigate the complaints and stop the travesty going on in Rivers State. Regrettably, even the events of the night of Wednesday, the 22nd, were given a short shrift by the police whose conduct may indeed lay credence to the claims that they have been completely compromised. The APC is appalled by these actions and wishes to again reiterate its call for INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to take more than a passing interest in events in Rivers state and as a matter of urgency retrieve all sensitive election materials in the state.

We trust that he will appreciate our concern and kindly oblige us for the sake of the millions of Rivers people who stand to be disenfranchised if something isn’t done urgently.

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Ibim Semenitari
Director of Communications,
Greater Together Campaign Organisation
Thursday, April 23, 2015.

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