MTN & Nigerian ICT Firm launches a revolutionary social mobile learning product

MTN Nigeria has just partnered with Bilyak Consulting an indigenous ICT 

firm to launch a mobile learningplatform that provides educational contents for all ages and professions. 

Over 300 training courses and the platform is endorsed by Open University,such as 

UK; WAEC, JAMB, UBEC and more, additionally training for ICT, banking and other professions.

The introduction of MTN mAcademy (www.mtnmacademy.com) might not just be a value added advantage to MTN but might end up changing the whole way Educative information is transmitted.

 ...and also bridge the educational divide by providing affordable,

 at the moment the platform is available to Nigerian and Cameroon market and from our researc,

h we understand it will be going live in South Africa next month. What it looks like with features, 

such as meeting and connecting with other learners, asking an expert and learning, 

this will be social learning for Africa. Now the question is 

"will this be the ‘killer’ platform that will take Nigerians and Cameroonians away from facebook?

MTN mAcademy could be a simple solution to the National ‘headache’ of the Education sector, coming from the angle of the mass failure of Nigerian students at the recent WAEC exams. What mAcademy has achieved here is to provide opportunity for learning even while you are stuck with your mobile devices. Its knowledge on the move and interestingly, it’s free for the Secondary School Pupils and their Teachers. One can only imagine the magnanimity of the value added, when considering the JAMB, WAEC, NECO and NABTEB revision notes and practice exams made available for the Secondary school students.

On MTNs partners facebook page www.facebook.com/bilyak we can see they are offering an educational grant competition (prize money range from N20,000 to N300,000) for learners that pass some test on the platform. 

9ice welcomes 4th child from 3rd Baby’s Mother

9ice is currently on the campaign trail as he is aiming for a seat in the Federal House of Representatives in 2015, however, this is not the only exciting news about the musician.

The musician and his fiancé Olasunkanmi Ajala have welcomed their first child together – a baby girl! Olasunkanmi is the Creative Director of events management and decor company De Sky Events. The couple have been together for a while and now their relationship has been blessed with a bundle of joy.

The couple only recently went public with their relationship as Olasunkanmi recently uploaded a photo of them unto her company’s instagram page after entertainment journalist Stella Dimoko-Korkus exclusively revealed details of their relationship on her blog.

This is 9ice’s 4th child. His first son Zion was born while he was married to his ex-wife Toni Payne in 2008, he also had a set of twin girls with his then-girlfriendVictoria ‘Vicky” Godis soon after and now a new baby girl.

Congrats to 9ice.

Two Nigerians and an Isreali arrested for smuggling $9.3m into SA

South African police are currently investigating two Nigerians and an Israeli citizen who tried to smuggle $9.3 million in cash into the country on September 5th.

According to South Africa's City Press newspaper, the money which was in bundles of unused $100 bills packed in three suitcase were transported in a small business jet, a bombadier Challenger 600 with a Nigerian crew and piloted by Captain Tunde Ojongbede. Continue...


The jet departed from Abuja and when it arrived South Africa, the money was discovered and when asked, the men said it was for the purchase of arms for the Nigerian security services.

Spokesperson of the South African Revenue Service (SARS), Marika Muller in a statement said the money was seized at the Lanseria airport, northwest of Johannesburg

"The passengers' luggage was searched after Customs officials detected irregularities. The money was detained as it was undisclosed/undeclared and above the prescribed legal limit,"

South African airport security spokesman Solomon Makgale confirmed a police investigation was underway but declined to give details.

Usher ready to tie the knot again?

Looks like Usher is thinking about settling down again. A few weeks after mentioning in an interview that he hoped his ex-wife Tameka Raymond would stop using his last name if he ever married again, Usher admits he's getting closer to tying the knot again.

In an interview on Extra with Angie Martinez Usher said;

“I’ve been even more excited about the idea of it. It could be the fact that I’ve spent the last year at everybody’s damn wedding, like I’ve become damn near the wedding singer, know what I mean?”

Usher has been dating his manager and Def Jam exec Grace Miguel, 47, since 2009.

See the cute girl accused of breaking into a man's home & raping him

This pretty 26 year old woman, Chantae Gilman, is being accused of breaking into her neighbour's house and raping him.

From TheSmokingGun

A Seattle woman has been charged with raping a man who told cops he awoke in his bed to find his attacker sexually assaulting him while she had his hands pinned down, according to a police report. Chantae Gilman, 26, was charged this week in connection with the alleged June 2013 attack inside the 31-year-old victim’s Seattle apartment. Gilman has prior felony convictions for attempted robbery and possession of a stolen vehicle, as well as several misdemeanor convictions, according to court records.

 As detailed in a probable cause affidavit prepared by a Seattle Police Department detective, the victim told cops that while he did not know Gilman, she was an acquaintance of another man who lives in his duplex. He described Gilman as “a drug user in the area.”

The man said that on the night of the attack he attended a birthday party for the neighbor whom Gilman knows. “Once arriving home he fell asleep on his bed,” Detective Roger Ishimitsu reported. “Victim slept very hard due to a long day.”

At 2 AM, the man told cops, he awoke to find the 5’ 7”, 240-pound Gilman on top of him. The victim said that his erect penis was inside Gilman, who had the man's “hands pinned down over his head,” as first reported by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

While Gilman ignored demands to get off him, the man said, he was “able to work his way out from underneath" her. Gilman, he added, had “told him to be quiet.” The man subsequently succeeded in pushing Gilman from his home. Later that day, he went to the Harborview Medical Center for a sexual assault examination.

Court records do not reveal how Gilman got into the victim’s apartment.

When questioned by cops, Gilman denied knowing the victim and said she did not recall being at his home or having sex with him. “She said that she has a mental illness and suffers from Bipolar disorder and Psychosis,” wrote Detective Ishimitsu.

A DNA sample collected from Gilman matched that of female DNA that was recovered from the victim’s sexual assault kit. As a result, Gilman was named in a September 8 criminal information charging her with second-degree rape for assaulting a victim who was “incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse by reason of being physically helpless.”

In a post last month on her Facebook page, Gilman reported, “I've got 2months sober and I'm 31 weeks pregnant.” Gilman, the mother of two young children, has struggled with substance abuse for the past several years, according to other Facebook messages. (3 pages)

Man arraigned in court for allegedly raping foreigner

A 34-year-old man, Fabian Anyanwu, who allegedly assaulted and raped a 22-year-old Cameroonian lady,on Monday appeared before an Apapa Magistrates’ Court in Lagos today.

Anyanwu, a resident of 721 Road, D Close, Block 2, Festac Town, Lagos, is standing trial on a two-count charge of assault and rape. The prosecutor, Cpl. John Iberedem, told the court that the accused committed the offences on August 15 at his residence. Continue...

Iberedem said that the accused assaulted and forcefully had carnal knowledge of the complainant.

"The complainant said that the accused offered to give her a free ride since he claimed to be going towards the same direction with her. When it was time for her to alight from the car, Anyanwu refused to stop but took her to his house.

“The lady said that the accused beat her up and also had carnal knowledge of her."

The complainant said that it was Anyanwu’s neighbours who invited the police when they heard her screaming, ” the prosecutor stated.

Iberedem said that the offences contravened Sections 171 and 258 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Section 258 prescribes life imprisonment for rape, while Section 171 stipulates three-year jail term for assault occasioning harm.

The senior magistrate, Mr Patrick Adekomaiya, granted the accused bail in the sum of N20,000, with one surety in like sum and adjourned the case till Sept. 18 for mention.

Source: NAN

Hilarity! Colombian cycling team step out in the worst sports kit ever

Lol. This is too funny. Colombian female cycling team unveiled their new sports kit over the weekend and it looks like they are all on their periods and those are pads. The poor ladies, cycling in the Giro Toscana this week, probably didn't see anything wrong with their red and yellow kit until it was shared over a 50,000 times on Twitter.

The nude-coloured cloth used around the groin area, giving the ladies camel toe, has caused a lot of debate online. "Worst designed garment of clothing in the history of the human race.” someone wrote

"Extraordinary that someone would design it and even more extraordinary that any woman would wear it!! :-)” Another person wrote.

People are also wondering if it's an innocent oversight by an over-enthusiastic designer or done for publicity for the team. Is this sports kit embarrassing? See another pic after the cut..