Monday, May 16, 2016

Facebook and Twitter Are the Top Social Networks for Advertisers

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are the top three social networks for advertisers. More than 200,000 businesses advertise on Instagram every month. Source: Statista.

Monday, May 9, 2016

Free and Unlimited VPN App for iPhone and iPad Available Today

Free and Unlimited VPN App for iPhone and iPad Available Today
Opera is first major tech company to launch free VPN app for iOS

OSLO, Norway, May 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
If you own an iPhone or iPad, the free Opera VPN app can help you enhance your online privacy, access more content and extend the reach of your apps. This is especially relevant on campuses and workplaces as people often experience restricted access to social-media and video-streaming websites.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Read The Mafia Manager for Victory in Corporate Warfare



Have you read The Mafia manager : A Guide to The Corporate Machiavelli ?
 If you want to know how to compete and succeed in the corporate world, then read the book asap.
 I have read it and I recommend it as I have also once recommended the Holy Bible, The Art Of War by Sun Tzu and The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

In the dog eat dog corporate world, being ruthless is necessary for success according to the Machiavellian rules of the Mafia. All I know about the author is that V is a Capo of distinguished fame, keeps several residences around the world. His present location is a guarded secret.

Review

“Whoever V. is, he offers the sort of advice it is dangerous to refuse.” ―Playboy
“A grimly brutally humorous book at the business world. Consider it a merger, or hostile takeover, so to speak, of How to Get Ahead in Business Without Really Trying by The Godfather.” ―The Washington Post

The world's oldest and best-organized conglomerate now reveals management techniques everyone can use. Unlike other guides to business, The Mafia Manager shuns theoretical verbiage to present the philosophy of leadership that founded and captained "The Silent Empire" through centuries of expansion and success. Some sample pearls of wisdom:
-"Be sure you understand what your boss has ordered before you act on his command. What if you whack the wrong guy, or bomb the wrong joint...Learn the art of asking questions."
-"Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer."
-"Don't become involved in any office political battle without first asking yourself, 'What's in it for me?' and then 'What's in it for them?'"
-"If you must lie, be brief."

WCommunity Invites Nigerian Children To Studying Abroad 1.0.1


Ivy League schools are some of the most prestigious schools in the world with high selectivity in admission. The combine academic excellence with the development of the students’ particular and individual skills and talents. They also encourage a strong network of alumni bodies with connections to the best opportunities after school life. The schools are eight in number: Cornell University, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Columbia University, Brown University and Dartmouth College.

Getting into any of the Ivy League schools requires adequate preparation on the part of parents as well as the child. Although these universities are for young adults, any parent that intends to enroll his/her ward in one of these schools would need to start the training the child from a tender age.

The College admissions process can be very stressful and confusing, especially for families located outside of the United States, including Nigeria, we are facilitating access to accurate information and expert guidance to help families and students face the college application experience more informed, better prepared and equipped to find a perfect institution.

The session is complimentary and will be facilitated by Peggy Hanefors of Ascent Education Advisors, USA. Years of experience in Ivy League recruitment and admissions combined with in depth knowledge of international educational systems and curricula uniquely positions Peggy to provide guidance and support to students and families around the world.

We thought to extend this invitation to you because we believe this training will be beneficial to you.

Please see invite below.

Due to the limited number of slots, kindly register at https://thewcommunity.com/events/family-in-focus-the-ivy-league or RSVP to kike.ibirogba@accessbankplc.com.

While the Saturday, May 14 session is for Parents and their children, there will be a Parents only session same time on Thursday, May 12, 2016.

The Facilitator, Peggy Hanefors will be taking event participants on the step-by-step practical guide of raising and getting children prepared for the school of their dreams- specifically The Ivy League Schools and other top schools around the world.
Details of the event are as follows:
Date: May 12 & 14
Venue: Plot 1665, Oyin Jolayemi street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Time: 10am

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Producing a Documentary Film is More Challenging than Making a Movie

Meg Masha at the new Tinubu Square in "Sights and Sounds of Lagos" tourist documentary film.

Only filmmakers who have produced both documentaries and movies can understand what I am saying.

I have been professionally engaged in TV and Film productions since I was 17 as a script writer and puppeteer for TV puppet drama at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Channel 10 on Victoria Island in Lagos before I joined others on different locations of Nollywood movies more as an observer than an actor in the 1990s. Then in 1998, I ended up as the Production Manager of "Money Wise" on DBN TV, the first private TV station in Nigeria founded by Sonny Adun in the 1980s.

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Femi Odugbemi's "Gidi Blues" is A Must See Romantic Drama


What's your #GidiBlues is the fast trending buzz in Lagos now, from the street to the internet.
Femi Odugbemi's star studded romantic feature "Gidi Blues" is a titillating love story showing us a romantic drama in Africa's largest mega city of Lagos as never seen before in movies from Nigeria's Nollywood.


What's your #GidiBlues? Seeing your sweetheart topless or eating hot Amala with vegetable soup at the popular White House in Sabo Yaba? My #GidiBlues is hot sex with my sweetheart! Sex makes the world go round 360 Degrees! Without sex, none of us will be here today. Whatever makes your day or turns you on is your #GidiBlues.


"Gidi Blues" is a must see romantic movie you will enjoy.
Starring Gideon Okeke, Banky W, Aduke, Hauwa Allahbura, Lepacious Bose, Daniel Lloyd, Nancy Isime, Bukky Wright, Tina Mba, Segun Obadare-Akpata, Toyin Oshinaike, William Ekpo and other stars in Nollywood and from abroad.  

Synopsis
Akin is an indulged playboy from an affluent family who accidentally meets an interesting beauty in an unpredictable place. Nkem is a beautiful, confident but unusual young lady who devotes herself to her work as a community volunteer in the belly of the city’s worst slum. Their encounter drags Akin into a whirlwind experience that unravels his world.

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

TED CRUZ WAS HERE




Dr. Phil Osagie Announced Among Board Members for 2017 WCF Davos

Dr. Phil Osagie.

One of Nigeria's leading international PR experts, Dr.Phil Osagie has been announced as one of the Board members of the 2017 World Communication Forum in Davos, Switzerland. See details in the following official press release.


WCF Davos Switzerland Forum announce board members for 2017

On April 15, 2016, the new WCF Committee was officially announced – the Program Board in charge of the preparations for the next, 8th edition of the annual World Communication Forum in Davos Switzerland. Announcement of the Board is the first step towards the organization of the next WCF forum.

The event will take place on 9-10 March, 2017, in Switzerland, again at the Davos Congress Centre, a traditional meeting place for an annual survey and marking the trends of the global communication industry worldwide.

The goal of the forum is to strengthen the impact of communications both as a business branch and as a professional community that fosters the global development of the world.

The high-level expertise of the 36 Committee members includes public affairs, country reputation, intra-governmental and global corporate communication, social and digital media insight, crisis management, cross-cultural interaction, branding, design, integrated marketing, and more. They represent the national communication industries and professional communities of 24 countries on 4 continents.

Among the Committee members of WCF’s Program Board for 2017 are:
Alfred Koblinger, CEO of BBDO Holding (Austria)
Prof. Dr. Ali Murat Vural, Executive Board Member, Bersay Communications (Turkey) Donald Liphoko, Director General, Government Comms & Information System (South Africa)
Dymitr Romanowski, Co-founder and CEO of The Story digital branding agency (Poland)
Eva Snijders, Storyteller. Coach. Change Agent (Spain)
Faith Muthambi, Minister of Communications of the Republic of South Africa Gabor Hegyi, Founding Managing Director of Capital Communications (Hungary)
Guntram Kaiser, Chief Executive Officer of KaiserCommunication GmbH (Germany) Gianni Catalfamo, Web 2.0 evangelist, Founder of cc:catalfamo (Italy)
Irina Bakhtina, VP Global Sustainable Biz Comms Capability & Training, Unilever (Russia)
Iryna Zolotarevych, Head of the PR&GR Practice at AGAMA Communications (Ukraine)
Jamie Vernon Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief at American Scientist, Director of Science Communications & Publications at Sigma Xi (USA)
Jon-Hans Coetzer, Executive Dean, Glion Institute of Higher Education (Switzerland) Kara Alaimo, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor of Public Relations, Hofstra University (USA) Lorenzo Brufani, Competence Communication, Owner and General Manager (Italy)
Maxim Behar, ICCO President, Chairman of Hill+Knowlton Strategies in Prague, CEO & Chairman of the Board of M3 Communications Group, Inc. (Bulgaria) Mustapha Khalfi, Minister of Communications and Government Spokesperson of Morocco Nurul Ashiqin Shamsuri, Program Diector, Information and Communication Secretariat at Wanita UMNO, and Head of Program at UCSI University (Malaysia)
Paul Holmes, Founder and CEO of The Holmes Report and the SABRE awards (UK) Dr. Philip Osagie, Global Strategist of JSP Communications & African PR expert (Nigeria)
Philippe Borremans, Director Strategy at PR Media - Morocco (Belgium)
Rana Nejem, Founding Director of YARNU (Jordan) Sabitha Natraj, Chief Manager Corporate Communications, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (India)
Saurabh Kumar Uboweja, Founder, CEO & Director Brand Strategy at Brands of Desire (India)
Sean Gardner, Co-Founder of the Huffington Post "Twitter Powerhouses Series" (USA)
Sergey Zverev, Founder and President of CROS PR & Public Affairs (Russia)
Sherwet Kafafy, Marketing and Communication Director at TAQA Arabia (Egypt)
Scott Fahlman, Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Solly Moeng, Managing Director, DonValley Brand, Marketing & Comms (South Africa) Srdjana Janosevic, Chief Press Secretary at the President's Office, Republic of Seychelles Stuart Bruce, Digital Corporate Communications, Online PR trainer and consultant (UK)

Tanuja Kehar, Vice President, Corporate Communications at Unitech (India)
Tatevik Pirumyan, Executive Director of APRA - the Armenian Public Relations Association Xu Wejdong, Vice Secretary General, China International Public Relations Association Yogesh Joshi, President of ABCI - the Association of Business Communicators of India Zhao Dali, Executive VP & Secretary General, China International Public Relations Association. Yanina Dubeykovskaya, member of the Committee in her capacity as WCFDavos Founder & Content Director as well as President of the WCFA association, shared: “WCFDavos, both as a forum and as a global community, is developing only through the human beings it unites. For 7 years, we have been able to involve representatives of about 60 countries and transform the event into the most influential and most appreciated diversity-of-expertise platform in the world.

The WCF Committee acting as the Program Board in 2017 includes leaders of the global professional community who, as key drivers of the Forum, provide a unique agenda content and intensify its impact worldwide.”

The function of the WCF Committee as a Program Board is to outline strategic key points for the conceptual format of WCF’s 8 edition, announce a draft agenda, steer the preparation phases, make resolutions on due partnerships, suggest or approve topics and applications by speakers, and monitor all the marketing and implementation throughout the year, taking also into account the schedule for due upcoming regional forum sessions till the end of 2016. The WCF Committee’s first action as a Program Board will be to approve the draft agenda for the World Communication Forum in 2017 and announce it on the official website.

Ends

WCF Committee & Program Board for 2017: http://www.forumdavos.com/committee  WCF is an annual global event held at the Davos Congress Centre in Switzerland. Initiated by an International Coordinating Committee in 2010, it has united a great number of acknowledged professionals from 58 countries worldwide.
Since its third annual edition in Davos, WCF has started expanding its global professional community with regional sessions held in some of the largest cultural centers and business capitals across Europe and Asia. The two-day conference covers the latest trendy areas and issues and outlines future tendencies in the global communications industry.

Follow #WCFDavos in the social media: Official website: http://www.forumdavos.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WorldCommForumDavos
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WorldCommForum YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/forumdavoscom

Contact:
Yanina Dubeykovskaya, WCFDavos Founder and Content Director, President of the WCFA
+41 76 241 3224, yana@forumdavos.com

Friday, April 29, 2016

NIMASA Boss Calls for Inter Agency Deployment of Resources To Combat Piracy



NIMASA Boss Calls for Inter Agency Deployment of Resources to Combat Piracy

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has called for the deployment of inter Agency resources including the use of advanced technology to secure Nigeria’s maritime domain.

 Dr. Peterside who made the call when he led a delegation of the Management of the Agency to the Air Force Head Quarters in Abuja , seeks  collaborative ways of dealing with the rising cases of piracy in the Nigerian waters.

The Nimasa boss requested the immediate review of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) the Agency has with the Nigerian Air Force with a view to strengthening the Agency’s capacity to deal with maritime crimes as well as reduce the response time for Search and Rescue (SAR) operations.

He commended the Nigerian Air Force and the military for the successful prosecution of the war against insurgency in the North East .
According to him “now Nigeria can begin to discuss developmental issues for the good of all its citizens”.

While emphasising that maritime security needs a multi sectoral and inter Agency collaboration, Dr. Peterside called on relevant stakeholders to pool national resources together to defeat piracy and other maritime crimes for the economic prosperity of Nigeria.

He pledged the commitment of the Agency to partner with the Nigerian Air Force in order to fight this economic crime and reposition Nigeria as a major hub for maritime activities in the West and Central African sub region.

 In his Response, the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar said the Air Force can deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) attached with cameras in addition to its fleet of Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) to enhance the surveillance of the Nigerian maritime domain.

Air Marshal Abubakar who said that the Air Force has several senior officers with competence in aeronautic engineering informed the NIMASA delegation that the Force has produced a prototype that is already in use and that they are ready to build capacity of some NIMASA personnel to handle UAVs.

While calling on the assistance of NIMASA and other relevant stakeholders for mass production of these UAVs, the Air Chief also pledged the support of the Nigerian Air Force to partner with the Agency to deal with maritime crimes.

It will be recalled that NIMASA and the Nigerian Air Force had endorsed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigerian Air Force where the Force is expected to provide air surveillance of the maritime domain as well as provide support to the Agency’s search and rescue operations amongst others.