MTN Business Launches SME Value Pack

MTN Business has launched a new SME-tailored solution called MTN SME Value Pack. This is a complete business-enabling solution that comes with an MTN Business-branded Internet router, an MTN Business-branded desk phone, a professional email account, data bundle, voice call minutes and bulk SMS – all in one package.


Amina Oyagbola, MTN Executive, said,“This new solution is an unbeatable choice for smart businesses. It is specially designed to make a huge difference in the way SMEs work. With this solution, growing businesses will have easy and convenient access to all the necessary tools they need to succeed.


This also reaffirms our commitment towards SMEs and our recognition of the critical role they play in every economyboth in development and job creation.”


Speaking further, Oyagbola noted that MTN SME Value Pack is in consonance with the MTN vision of leading the delivery of a bold, new digital world to its customers, of which SMEs are an integral part.


Onyinye Ikenna-Emeka, General Manager, Enterprise Marketing, MTN Nigeria,also lauded the benefits of MTN SME Value Pack, saying, “We believe thatthis solution will help SMEs achieve greater productivityeasily, while enhancing their business profile.MTN SME ValuePack, which can be purchased at any MTN store, comes in two bundle options from which SMEs can conveniently choose, with the assurance of getting real value.”


The launch of MTN SME Value Pack follows the recent launch ofThe MarketplaceandMTN Business Cloud Services, all geared towards enabling and inspiringthe millions of members of theSmall and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN)-recognizedforSME growth.

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Tiwa Savage celebrates is 1 million followers, on facebook

Tiwa Savage celebrated over 1 million facebook followers on her page and shared it on her IG page, she also stepped out in a nice top and distressed jeans. She wrote: Thank you, we are over a milli on Facebook.com/officialtiwa savage #God #Is #Faithful # Savage Soldiers More photos after the cut...

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Obama gives directive to all public schools in the US to allow transgender students use bathroom they identify with

The Obama administration yesterday recommended that all public school districts in the entire country allow transgender students to use whatever bathroom and locker-room that matches their gender identity. In the letter sent to all school districts in the US, transgender students should be allowed to use wherever they want without been asked for documentation to prove their preferred sexuality or medical diagnosis.


In a letter outlining guidance for schools that were sent out yesterday, the administration said as a condition of receiving federal funds, "a school may provide separate facilities on the basis of sex, but must allow transgender students access to such facilities consistent with their gender identity." The letter says the school should not require any medical diagnosis, nor should they demand documentation reflecting the student's gender identity before taking steps to protect transgender students, "even in circumstances in which other students, parents, or community members raise objections."


Adding that while schools are permitted to offer single-use restrooms to students who want "additional privacy," they should not require transgender students to use single-use facilities if their classmates are not required to do the same.


The letter was signed by officials from the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Education.


Alongside the letter to school districts, officials will distribute a list of "emerging practices," advice for how to deal with a number of issues, from ensuring faculty uses the student's preferred pronoun to preventing staff from inadvertently disclosing a student's status as transgender.


The best practices document also gives guidance on how schools can "protect the privacy rights of all students," holding up a suggestion from Washington state that recommends offering "students who may feel uncomfortable sharing the facility with the transgender student(s)" the option to use a separate single-occupant restroom.


Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin called the directive 'groundbreaking'. He said in a statement: “This is a truly significant moment not only for transgender young people but for all young people, sending a message that every student deserves to be treated fairly and supported by their teachers and schools,"


Source: ABC News

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Man arrested for taking off woman's hijab

37-year-old Gill Parker Payne, of Gastonia, North Carolina was on a South Airlines flight from Chicago to Albuquerque on Dec. 11 2015 when he saw a woman wearing a hijab sitting several rows in front of him.


Authorities say Payne approached her and told her to take it off, she refused saying it was a religious headscarf, then he responded, "This is America!" He then removed the hijab from her head.


The woman reported the incident to the Police and Payne got arrested. He was charged with using force or threat of force to obstruct a Muslim woman in the free exercise of her religious beliefs.


He appeared in court on Friday and pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge. He didn't go to jail but was fined.


Source: AP

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Three men arrested and face 1 year in prison for killing Tiny fish

Three men have been arrested and charged with the killing of a tiny fish (an endangered specie) destruction of property, trespassing and unlawful possession of a firearm by police after they allegedly broke into a fenced-off protected area of Death Valley National Park in Nevada on 30 April. The 3 drunk men Steven Schwinkendorf, 29, Edgar Reyes, 35, and Trenton Sargent, 26, stomped around in the water of Devils Hole, they threw up in the pond, threw beer cans and boxer shorts over the area, and tore up the habitat of the Devils Hole pupfish, one of the rarest fish in the world. One of the fish was later found dead.


According to the National Parks Service, the men fired a gun at least 10 times at gate locks, a motion sensor and several signs. Sensitive scientific monitoring equipment was also damaged.


They face the possibility of fines of up to $50,000 and a year in prison. The Sherriff's office said:


“Their unlawful visit ultimately culminated with at least one of the suspects stripping off their clothes and entering the water of Devils Hole.”


“The suspects in the water stomped around the shelf area of the critical ecosystem before swimming around the deeper water, leaving behind a pair of dirty underwear when finished.


“The intrusion is believed to have resulted in the death of at least one endangered Devils Hole pupfish, and fisheries biologists are trying to ascertain the extended damage that may have been done to food sources and egg sites which could lead to more loss of a species whose numbers are now below the last count of 115 in existence.”


Source: The Guardian

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Lol, someone offered to buy George Zimmerman's gun for $65million

On Thursday, George Zimmerman took the gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin up for auction on GunBroker and wrote: He said: "I am honored and humbled to announce the sale of an American Firearm Icon. The firearm for sale is the firearm that was used to defend my life and end the brutal attack from Trayvon Martin on 2/26/2012." The website took down his auction, saying it wanted “no part in the listing on our website or in any of the publicity it is receiving.” So he took the gun to United Gun Group and put it up for auction there.


Several people told the website to take it down but they tweeted... So an Internet user by the name of “Racist McShootface,” decided to frustrate George Zimmeman's effort to sell the gun by making a bid of $65 million, other trolls immediately recognized what McShootface was up to and made their own bids, using screen names like “Donald Trump” and “Tamir Rice.” The bid rose up to $65,039,000.00 before the United Gun Group deleted the bid.


George Zimmerman also tried to sell the gun to the Smithsonian but the respectfully declined. They tweeted.. He put it back on auction on the United Gun group website and someone genuinely offered to buy the gun for $415,000. Sad.

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See Photos of Doyin Okupe Prostrating and Begging Obasanjo for Forgiveness

While working with Goodluck Jonathan, the same Doyin Okupe talked to Baba Olusegun Obasanjo just as he wished, a respected Nigerian, international personality and elder from his home state - Ogun.


Now that he has finished serving Jonathan and returned home, he has seen that you do not insult your 'babas' all because of outsiders. He had to go personally to beg Obasanjo. See more photos... Speaking after the encounter, Okupe said: "I begged Baba Obasanjo, he forgave me and I kissed him."

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