COMPLETE LIST OF TECNO ANDROID THAT RUNS BBM APPS

It is no news that the Blackberry Messenger ( BBM) has been introduced to the Android and iOS platforms, but due to the fact that most Nigerians love the Tecno mobiles, they are quite interested in knowing which of these cheapest android smartphones in the tech market today can install and run the BlackBerry Messenger App smoothly.

I’ve gotten a couple of mails lately all related to this subject and decided to come up with a small post that would completely cover this.

Today, I’ll be making a detailed list of the Tecno Android smartphones can run BBM app to clear the air around this.

Note: As at time of post, the BBM app was developed to run on smartphones that run the Android version 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and higher, therefore the smartphones running lower versions of the Android family won’t be able to run this App.

List Of Tecno Mobile Phones That Run BBM

Tecno Phantom A2

Tecno Phantom PAD

Tecno Phantom A+

Tecno Phantom A

Tecno D1

Tecno Q1

Tecno M3

Tecno L3

Tecno D5

Tecno N7

Tecno S3

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JAMB 2014: REGISTRATION BEGINS

Joint admissions and matriculations board set for 2014 UTME.

All interested candidates are hereby informed that JAMB 2014/2015 UTME e-Registration has commenced.

This is coming as The Joint admissions and matriculations board (JAMB) has lunched the UTME 2014 e-Registration portal. Information reaching us at the moment suggests that the online registration scratch card will be sold at N4000.

As at the time this post was compiled, it is unclear when the online registration scratch cards will be available.

The 2014 JAMB UTME online registration portal can be accessed via the link below; http://www.jamb.org.ng/Unifiedtme/

It is also worthy of note that the three Exam options introduced by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will still be used for the 2014 UTME. Recall that the options are

(1) Paper and Pencil Testing (PPT),

(2) Dual Based Test, where questions will be presented on a computer device while answers are supplied on paper answer sheet, then

(3) the Computer Based Testing (CBT) where both questions and answers would be done on computer. Candidates are at liberty to choose any of the three options for the 2014 UTME.

ASSU STRIKE 2013: UNION BEGINS CALL OFF DISCUSSIONS

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU is set to convene its National Executive Committee this weekend to discuss the offer made to the union by the Federal Government to develop public Universities, it was learnt on Wednesday, and announce its decision to call off or continue the ongoing strike action.

ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Faggae after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan which ended in the early hours of Tuesday had told reporters that the union would take back an undisclosed message to the striking lecturers.

The Federal Government had offered to inject N1.1tn into public Universities in the next five years.

The source gathered that the union had concluded arrangement to hold the meeting to collate the views of members before a final decision would be taken on whether to accept or reject the offer.

Usually, the decision to embark on or to call off strike is taken at the union’s NEC meeting.

It was gathered that the meeting might hold any day between now and next week Friday. In the hierarchy of ASUU, the zonal coordinators after a meeting of the national officers are to brief the branch chairmen who would consequently call for congress in their respective Universities. But a source who spoke on condition of anonymity said a meeting with the zonal coordinators usually take place two days after a major meeting with the Federal Government because they have to come from the nine zones of the country.

He said, “There is a national strike coordinating committee comprising the national principal officers and the zonal coordinators which is the highest decision-making body.

In the country, we have nine zones. After the meeting, the zonal coordinators will brief the branch chairmen who will now call for a congress to brief all members.”

Asked if the strike would be called off soon, the source replied, “It is not a decision that could be taken in a hurry. All members must be carried along.

We have a mandate which is very clear – that is the implementation of the 2009 agreement. Anything other than that, they will have to relate to members. The zonal coordinators will collate the decision of the branches and forward them to the national officers.”

A chairman of a local branch of ASUU in a University in the South-West confided in one of our correspondents that the date for the NEC meeting would be communicated to all the chapters on Thursday (today). Another source said, “Before we embarked on the strike, there was a referendum. The referendum did not emanate from the principal officers but from the branches.

Members must be briefed before any final decision could be taken.”

Meanwhile, strong indications emerged on Wednesday that ASUU may soon call off its four-month old strike as the Nigeria Labour Congress described the meeting between President Jonathan and the leadership of the union as the most meaningful since 2009. The Acting General Secretary of the NLC, Mr. Chris Uyot, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents on Wednesday, urged ASUU to explain to its members the offer the Federal Government had made to the striking lecturers in order to arrive at the next line of action.

According to him, since ASUU is an affiliate of the NLC, it is the responsibility of the union to decide on whether to call off the strike or not in accordance with standard labour procedure. He said, “We simply advise that they carry out meaningful consultation with their members and ensure that whatever was offered was explained in totality to members of ASUU.

“I want to say that since the agreement of 2009 was signed, and of the various negotiations that have taken place, this was the most meaningful of the meetings. “All discussions were taken aside and the issues in the 2009 agreement were examined, discussed and analyzed in totality. “Let the ASUU explain in totality the offer that was made to its members. Even the NLC has to explain to the members of the National Executive Council of the Congress before taking decisions in such matters.

I can only say that calling off the strike depends on ASUU,” he added.

SHOCKING!! Tragedy in Anambra: 25 worshipers die in stampede

No fewer than 25 persons lost their lives in the early hours of yesterday in a stampede at the monthly adoration crusade organised by Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obinma of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry for prayers and healing at Uke in Anambra State.

The stampede was attributed to the unprecedented crowd at the prayer ground.

Sunday Sun gathered from eye witnesses that the victims died of exhaustion.

Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, and the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Willie Obiano, were among the dignitaries that attended the event. But the duo had left before the tragedy happened.

Eyewitnesses told Sunday Sun that Obi addressed the worshipers and promised to sponsor 20 persons on pilgrimage to Israel as well as provide a better place of worship.

“The last Friday all-night prayer was the largest. I have not seen the magnitude of crowd I saw since the history of this ministry. Maybe it was because it fell on All Saints’ Day, which Catholics regard as a holy day of obligation. So, many people didn’t open their shops and that was why the crowd was too much. It is possible that the cause of these deaths was stampede and exhaustion which occurred when people started struggling to leave the venue,” one of the eyewitnesses said.

Emeka Ilodiuba from Nnokwa in Idemili South council area of Anambra State who lost his wife in the incident, gave the account of the tragic event saying “I came with my wife Ebube Muonso. When the prayer ended about 5.30 am, we stood to go home. Before then, the governor and his entourage had left. But when we got to the entrance, there was unprecedented crowd trying to get out of the prayer ground. The crowd surged forward and that was when my wife fell down and people fell on top of her till she died.”

He maintained that the presence of Obi and Obiano at the prayer ground had nothing to do with the incident and called on the security agencies to thoroughly investigate the major cause of the stampede that claimed the lives of the innocent worshipers.

Another eyewitness said trouble started shortly after the event, when a group of people behaving like paid agents started shouting “Fire, fire, fire” which made people to scamper for safety. It is believed that the commotion was deliberately orchestrated by some people who learnt that Governor Peter Obi would visit the place. But the governor had quietly left the venue before the incident happened. The unprecedented crowd was attributed to the fact that the adoration fell on All Saints’ Day, which was the first day of the month (Friday) when many people usually gather for worship.

When informed about the tragedy, Governor Obi cancelled all his scheduled engagements for Saturday and rushed the scene to assess the situation. He described the incident as a national calamity that took the entire state by surprise. While addressing the crowd at the Crown, Nkpor, Immaculate Heart and Borromeo hospitals, Obi expressed shock at the incident and prayed God to grant the families of the dead the fortitude to bear the loss.

He assured that investigation had kicked off to ascertain the cause of the incident and promised to upgrade the Crown hospital, Nkpor in line with the commitment of his administration to partner with private hospitals to improve the heath sector while insisting that the incident was as a result of stampede.

“I was officially invited by the spiritual director of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry and I went and addressed the people. Part of the thing I told them was that we are not playing politics in the church and I left by 3.30 am. I went in company of about 10 persons mainly my siblings. So, I’m depressed, confused and sad at the development”, Obi said.

The Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG in charge of C Department, Mr. Kachi Udorji, who led other top police officers to the prayer ground and later to Crown Hospital expressed shock over the incident, stressing that investigations were already on to unravel the cause of the incident.

He later took other top officers, including DIGs and AIGs to the Onitsha Area Command and confirmed the figure of casualties and urged the police officers to work hard to get to the root of the incident. The Spiritual Director of Holy Ghost Adoration, Rev Fr. Emmanuel Obinma, who rushed to Borromew Hospital, looked very ruffled when our correspondent visited the place. He was, however, being condoled by Governor Obi and other Rev Fathers present.

The Chief Medical Director of Crown Hospital, Dr. Edwin Emegoakor, commended the governor for his spontaneous response. He said it was a pleasant surprise to him when the governor called him on phone few minutes after the victims were brought to the hospital to inquire about the wounded and appealed to him to take utmost care of them. He said, while he was still contemplating whether the governor was actually the one that called, Obi arrived at the hospital.

There are indications that the state might take care of the medical bills of the victims as the governor was said to have directed the hospitals to compile the names of the wounded. Emegoakor said that no death was recorded and that most of the victims brought to his hospital were revived and in stable condition. However, at Immaculate Heart Hospital, Nkpor, over 17 persons were confirmed dead. This is in addition to nine other deceased at Borromeo. The whereabouts of three other persons still remains unknown as at the time of filing this report.

The governor said that a panel of enquiry would be set up immediately to ascertain the immediate and remote causes of the incident.

NEWS: FACE OF A DEVIL

■ Kills uncle’s 9-yr-old son, another 5-yr-old boy

■ Collects N.2m ransom from uncle

■ Demands N3m from second victim’s parents

■ Harvests kids’ vital organs for money ritual

Michael Nwobodo’s inordinate ambition to get rich quick has left two families in deep sorrow and anguish.

The 24-yr-old gruesomely murdered two young boys and harvested their vital organs for money making rituals. He’s a kidnapper, armed robber and ritual killer who hails from Umualaguroyi Uhueze Nenwe village in Aninri West Local Government Area of Enugu State. He committed the heinous crimes between August and October this year.

In the first incident, which occurred in Ohuhu, Abia State on August 7, 2013, he abducted Emmanuel Nwobodo, the nine-year-old son of his uncle, Nnamdi Nwobodo, immediately the boy returned from school at 4.00pm on that fateful day.

He took the boy into a nearby bush, beheaded him and proceeded to harvest his kidneys, lungs, heart and genitals.

Done with the horrible act, he calmly dumped the boy’s dismembered body on the bank of a nearby river. When evening came and the boy had still not returned from school, the parents started searching for him. Chizoba even joined in the search for the unfortunate boy. When he could not be found, his parents reported the matter to the police at Isikwuato Police Station, Abia State.

Later, Chizoba made a call to his uncle, informing him thus: “I told my uncle that I kidnapped the child at 4.00pm, that if he can pay me ransom of N300,000 I would release the child to him. He paid me N200,000. After some time, I called my uncle again and demanded another sum of N200,000. I told him to sell his land, but my uncle refused to pay the money. At the time I was demanding the money, I had already killed the child.”

On October 11, 2013, barely two months after murdering nine-year-old Emmanuel, Chizoba again abducted another child, Promise Uwakwe, a five-year-old boy as he was returning from school. This time around, he enticed the innocent boy with biscuits, dragged him into the bush and when the obviously startled boy began to scream after sensing danger, Chizoba quickly strangled him to death and then removed the boy’s vital organs.

Promise’s father, Mr Ngozi Nwakwe said the family became worried when the boy’s school uniform was found on the ground but he could not be found. After the first day, he reported to the police at Anniri Police Post and the policemen joined in the search for the child.

When the child was not found after three days, the case was transferred to the Anti-kidnapping Squad of the Enugu State Police Command. Like the well-known Otokoto ritual killing incident that occurred in 1996 in Imo State, the blood of the gruesomely murdered innocent little boys cried unceasingly before the Throne of the Almighty for justice. “It was when the suspect demanded N3 million ransom from us that we alerted the police and they rounded him up and he confessed to them that he had killed my son and removed his genitals lungs, kidneys and heart and then dumped him inside a water tank from which we recovered his corpse,” Nwakwe said in anguish.

Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abubakar Adamu who narrated Chizoba’s murderous escapades to Sunday Sun revealed that the suspect was exposed when he called Mr Nwakwe and demanded N3 million ransom for the boy. The family refused and reported to the police. CP Adamu said the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Alex Akinlalu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and his team swung into action and arrested Chizoba at his village.

In a brief chat after his arrest by the police, Chizoba told Sunday Sun “I am a kidnapper, armed robber, ritualist, artist and musician. I traveled to India in 2013 to acquire power so that anything I engage in will prosper. I spent one month and one week in India. I needed money, so I contacted a herbalist who told me that if I wanted to make money I should look for two boys and two girls between the ages of four and nine years old for money ritual.”

Continuing, he said: “I used the two boys for the ritual. I bought red candle, blue candle, black candle, white candle and other ritual materials and did some incantations after which I threw the human parts into the bush.”

Meanwhile, Mrs. Elizabeth Nwobodo, mother of Emmanuel, the first victim, is crying and calling on the government to ensure that justice is done and she has been assured by CP Adamu that the suspect would definitely be charged to court for his heinous crimes at the conclusion of investigations.