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Ladies Get In Here! 10 Things Not To Do In A New Relationship.

Psychologist and Lagos Socialite Adejoro Olumofin, has advised ladies not to do these 10 things when they are in a new relationship.  Read below.

Some Ladies today wonder
why after a guy has shown interest in them or after 2/3 dates he disappears or
doesn’t return their phone calls, text, whatsapp or bbms. I have listed some of
these reasons above. 

1) Don’t take your friends along when he invites you on a
date: Some Nigerian Ladies for some
reason that is beyond me, take their friends on a date with a guy they just
met. I can attest to this because it has happened to me before. 

No positive outcome can come out of this but some of the
negatives are: 

(i) The guy will be turned off 

(ii) He may start liking or prefer one of your friends to
you 

(iii) He will never get the opportunity to know you as much
as he wants because of the 3rd wheel 

(iv) He may think you don’t have a mind of your own 

(v) He may turn you
and your friends back



 (2) Don’t go
to his house unannounced: One thing a
man hates the most is for you to show up at his house unannounced or invited
especially when he just met you. That’s a “NO NO” because he’ll just
think you’re a stalker or a psycho and he’ll act out.. Some ladies out of
emotions and lack of trust show up at a guys house, what they don’t know is
they are pushing him away or giving him reasons to leave.

(3) Don’t ask him for Money: Some Ladies meet a guy and in less than 2/3 weeks the
demands start rolling in. Please pay for my Brazilian hair, buy me birkin /
Chanel bag for my birthday next week, my rent is due, or plain & simply, I
need 500k or 1 million. Most guys would take off when they meet a Lady like
this. They would say she’s opportunistic and compare her to the ladies who are
not asking them for a kobo or dime.

 (4) Don’t compare him to your ex or talk about your ex,
only if he requests: Some Ladies
compare and contrast their new guy to their old one, not only in their mind but
to his face as well. They say things like my Ladi used to take me to KFC you’re
taking me to Mr Biggs, Jide bought me Prada for my birthday last year you’re
buying me Zara? . Guys hate being compared, it punctures their Ego so allow him
be the Boss and take you out, don’t compare or dictate terms of dates or gifts. 

 (5) Don’t be
to quick to upload his pictures on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter (Social Media)
: Ladies, you just met a guy, a new
flame, the relationship is at its early stages, there’s still so much you don’t
know about him why upload his pictures for the world to see? The relationship
may not even be defined yet.. By doing this, you’re giving people room to
influence and alter your infant relationship. Also you don’t want to be like
those people who have to cleanse their instagram and Facebook pages of a guys
picture every 6 months because of a breakup. Some ladies have a new boyfriend
on Instagram every 3 weeks, after a heartbreak they delete old pictures and add
new ones. 

(6) Don’t wear see through or exposing outfits on your first
date: Guys are very Impulsive and
instinctive by nature, by wearing a dress or gown that’s says “SEX”
that’s all that will be on his mind and nothing else. He won’t want to hear
anything about you anymore; your personality, your job, your family etc. All
he’ll be thinking about is how he’ll take you to his house or hotel room
because you’ve sent him a signal saying you want sex. 

(7) Don’t bore him with your Family issues: Some ladies carry their personal or family problems
out with them on dates, instead of making waves and progress with their new
guy, they talk about how their house got burnt last week, or how their friend
always borrows money or clothes from them, or how they hate their sisters or
brothers.. All these are TMI (Too Much Information) Focus on him and let him
Focus on you.. Don’t allow extraneous variables creep in and take over your
conversation. 

(8) Don’t talk about
marriage or the future: The number
one thing guys are scared of after God is the “C” or “M”
word. “Commitment or Marriage” so if you just met a guy and you’re
already talking about marriage or children he is definitely going to take off
and say you’re putting him under pressure and he can’t keep up.. Let him be the
one to bring it up not you because he’ll say you’re desperate.

 (9) Don’t pry about his pocket, earnings or
the car he drives: A friend of mine went on a Blind Date at Radisson
(Lagos) to meet a Lady who his cousin had introduced him to through Instagram.
He complained he had not even ordered a drink when his date asked him: What car
do you drive? That was her first question.. “What do you drive?” He
said he wondered do you want to date me? Or date my car? Most guys would be
offended by this and even have a negative impression about you immediately,
because a guy would wonder do u like me or my car?. Focus on him, his future
plans etc 

(10) Don’t get drunk on your first outing with
him: Firstly Ladies, this is for your own safety a lot of ladies have been
taken advantage of because they were intoxicated. You also don’t want to
embarrass yourself and say or do things that you can’t defend or verify.

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Who released, killed and ate our lion? | By Reuben Abati

Photo published for Reuben Abati: Who released, killed and ate our lion - YNaija
“Did they send you your own share of the bush meat?”
“Bush meat?”
“The lion in the zoo that became bush meat in Jos”
“What’s my own inside? I don’t know any zoo worker in Jos and how could a lion that was allowed out of its cage and got shot end up in my stomach. The kind of things you say sometimes.”
“That means you have not been following the story.”
“It is an animal tale”
“Created, concocted and delivered by animals in human skin, working in animal kingdom, telling us animal tales. What surprises me is the fact that there has been no public uproar, no outrage.”
“People are too busy thinking of how to survive as human beings, how to fight the current nationwide epidemic of empty pockets and stomachs, and survive the change in their lives.”
“But when a similar incident occurred at the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, there was serious outrage all over the world. Dr. Palmer, the American who killed the lion was the target of abuse and attacks. He even had to shut down his dental office. There were calls for his prosecution.”
“I know. In our case, the international community is indifferent. It is as if nothing has happened. A lion was killed in Zimbabwe; there was protest. A few days ago in Kenya, two Maasai herdsmen were charged for poisoning a lion. A lion is killed in Nigeria, not a whimper. “
“The truth is that the rest of the world is convinced that Nigeria itself is a zoo. Boko Haram is slaughtering thousands of human beings, girls are being abducted in hundreds, women are being raped, voters are getting killed in Kogi and Bayelsa. With such evils against humanity, why should anyone worry about a Nigerian lion being shot and ending up in the zoo of stomachs?”
“The zoo of stomachs”
“Look, I can swear that if you open some people’s stomachs in this country, what you will find is a zoo: lions, grasshoppers, horses, cats, rats, snakes, dogs, rabbits, antelopes, crocodiles, birds, elephants, extinct animals, disappearing species, anything that can serve the gut, and ginger the taste buds. That is why we can never successfully run a zoo, or a Games Reserve.”
“See, the situation in Zimbabwe with Cecil, the lion is no different. In Zimbabwe, the zoo guides deliberately released the lion and Dr. Palmer laid siege and gunned down the lion, and beheaded it. In Jos, their explanation is that the lion slipped out of its cage when it was being fed breakfast.”
“Lying liars. Fibbing fibbers.”
“They made it sound as if the lion was living in a room and parlour and he just moved from the room to the parlour, to the verandah and to the streets.  It is a zoo, for Heaven’s sake and there are standards and best practices!.”
“How will they know what the best practice is, when they don’t even know the age of the lion? The manager of the zoo says the lion has been there since 1972. A 43-year old lion, and yet there is no established protocol for managing it.”
“There is no 43-year old lion anywhere in the world. That is a lie. They don’t have records. They don’t keep records.”
“The lion doesn’t even have a name. In Zimbabwe, and Kenya, they name their lions.”
“That is not a problem. We can give the lion a name, right now. What is the name of the state Governor?”
“Simon Lalong.  What about him?”
“Good.  Simon, the lion. How about that?”
“Ha. The man is still alive oh. And of what use is a name to a lion that is dead, skinned, cut into bits and pieces, taken home to the cooking pots, eaten, digested, and washed down with whatever the animals eating animal meat deemed fit.”  
 “The very reason the Governor should order a serious investigation. Who released the lion? And why? Who killed it, skinned it? And who took part in the Feast of the Lion? For all you know, the zoo-keeper deliberately released the lion. He may have been commissioned to do so, by herbalists, who I hear value the body parts of a lion. In that kind of world, the teeth of a lion, the paws, the skin, the ears, all of this can be used by ritualists to give a human being, lion-like powers.”
“Blood of Jesus!”
“Did you not see how the killers posed with the lion for photograph, drooling from the mouth, salivating, looking hungry?
“They made it seem as if the lion was a jailbird who escaped, and resisting arrest, they shot it, instead of tranquilizing it. And they turned the zoo into an abattoir!”
“All the characters involved should be investigated and sacked. Otherwise, tomorrow, they will release a rabbit and gun it down, next tomorrow, an antelope will also break jail, and it will be shot, to be followed by a snake, all getting shot and ending up in people’s pots as bush meat.”
 “That is why we can’t run a proper zoo, games reserve or a tourism programme. We talk about climate change and the environment but we don’t know that animals are important to the ecosystem. Sad.”
“Have you not heard of the lion that the Saraki Senate has also let loose?”
“A zoo in the Senate? I don’t get it.”  
“They have just released one lion called Social Media Bill.”
“You mean the Frivolous Petitions Prohibition Bill”
“The law seeks to gag the social media. It says you can’t even complain on your what’s app, email, twitter, BB or blog and if you say something that is frivolous, you can go to jail or pay a fine.”
“That is an assault on the fundamental right to free speech; a dangerous lion that should be tranquilized!”
“They don’t have tranquilizer in Jos zoo or any other zoo in Nigeria, is it in the Senate that they will have it? Look, some activists have decided to organize their own public hearings and shoot down this particular lion.”
“Let’s go there then. Let the shooting shooters, the gunning gunners, the writing writers, the protesting protesters, the marching marchers, the shouting shouters, the fighting fighters, the petitioning petitioners, the blogging bloggers and the tweeting children of anger have their own public hearing. That’s democracy.”
“You left out the Wailing Wailers”
“They too. I think this is the type of lion that Nigerians should kill, not Simon.”
“I like your passion. But there was a protest in Abuja on Tuesday. I didn’t see you joining them?”
“Hen. Hen. You want them to mistake me for a lion that escaped and shoot me, abi? You don’t know that to be an activist, you must also be wise, and protect your stomach from bullets.”
“I thought you were bullet-proof. And you need not be afraid, anyway. The Senate has made it clear that it is acting in the public interest and that its members are not opposed to free speech. Just a simple matter.”
“Please! My fear is that they are all shooting already and because they are yet to hit target, there are stray bullets flying all around, respecting nobody. You go and ask Dino.”
“Which of the Dinos? Dino 1, Dino 2, Dino 3 or Dino $1,000?”
“I don’t know. But the people in Aso Rock have been smart enough to duck.  They are now talking about free speech. Free speech. Free speech! Thank God oh, for free speech!”
“Not in Bayelsa at this time, though. Or in Kogi, where people are suspicious of tomorrow.”  
“Why not in Bayelsa? I saw the people insisting that they should be allowed to choose  their Governor. Too much violence in that election.”
“I hear Countriman has declared that he’s not going to die and that the election will be concluded.”
“Who is so-called?”
“Dickson”
“Ha, Dickson na Ijebu Ode boy oh. Him no ready to die. Bobo no go die, afi to ba di Governor. Bobo!”
“But INEC says the Bayelsa election is inconclusive.”
“This new INEC should just be renamed Inconclusive National Electoral Commission (INEC). If they take weeks to conduct elections in eight local governments, with less than one million voters, if they have to run a nationwide election, then the entire country will be declared inconclusive. Where is Jega by the way? They need him as a Consultant.”
“Why? Let him enjoy his retirement, I beg.”
“Why not?” 
“It is called change, my brother.”
“But not in Kogi where I hear the Deputy-Governor elect is swearing that if he is not allowed to inherit the Audu-Faleke undeclared victory, he will not show up to be sworn in as a Deputy Governor on January 27, 2016.”
“He doesn’t want to be Deputy Governor again?”
“He says he cannot betray former Governor Abubakar Audu.”
“Ha. Inconclusive matter! I think we should declare 2015 our year of inconclusiveness. 2015: Nigeria’s Inconclusive Year. How about that?
“Nigeria’s Year of Inconclusivity.”
“Two weeks to Christmas, see how people are looking sad. Some people this year will just pretend that there is no Christmas, Christmas having been declared inconclusive! Even prostitutes have reduced their charging rates; everybody is looking for survival, and anything is fair game, be it a live lion, or the people’s rights or what is that famous blogger’s favourite word again? Yes, eggplant. As Douglas Adams said: to summarize the summary of a summary, people are a problem.”
“Tell me more about these prostitutes and their current rate cards.”
“No be me and you.  You go and find out. You see, you are part of the problem.”
“That includes you too, I beg. You always talk about change; now you have it, and you don’t want to talk about it. My friend, don’t complain. Go and sit down.”
“Change?”
“Change is the necessity of history”  
“You know the truth?”
“What?”
“Things do not change, we do.”  Henry David Thoreau.”
“I don’t know him. You know what? Stop quoting dead people.”
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Kindest footballer ever? Everton player sponsors Christmas lunch for hundreds of homeless people

Everton and Scotland star Steven Naismith hands out the Christmas dinner at the Loaves and Fishes charity Christmas Lunch for the homeless.

Everton forward, Steven
Naismith has again warmed his way into the hearts of a million people (perhaps
billion) worldwide.  The 29 year-old
recently sponsored Christmas lunches for hundreds of homeless people in Glasgow
and Liverpool. This isn’t his first time of doing this, he paid for their Christmas
meals when he was at Rangers and also donated tickets for Everton’s home games
to unemployed people in Liverpool. 
Speaking to reporters,
the Scottish said, “It is both humbling and inspiring in equal measure. Over the years,
I have had the opportunity to speak to the people who come to Loaves and
Fishes. Many of their stories make difficult listening, because of the
severity of hardship they have endured.
“This is something I
look forward to every year. It’s the start of Christmas for me. It’s brilliant
to come and get a banter with some great characters – they tell it as how it
is, some saying I’m a good footballer and others that they think the opposite –
and I’m happy that I can help.
“It’s a very small
gesture for me but I’m always told how much it means to them.”

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Short Story: Pristine | By: Morountodun (Vol 2)

Read the first part of the Pristine series here

The soldier did
seem to like Dara. Good thing too that Dara shone at marching. People no longer
snickered at her, they admired her instead—her perfectly timed responses to the
slow match, quick match, attention by number and halt commands, the pride with
which the platoon commandant called her to the front to show other corpers how
it was done.
It all felt so good, so much that
she didn’t even consider joining either the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)
or the Peer Education Training (PET) programmes going on on camp, both of which
would have interested her normally, had she not wanted something different from
what she was used to.
“Excuse me, I think you dropped
this.”

Dara turned to find a guy holding
up an orange handband and shook her head. “No, its’s not mine.”
It was the fifth evening on camp,
parade had just ended and she was thinking of stopping over at the room to see
if the twins wanted to eat at the mammy market too. She continued walking and
the guy followed her.

“You were great back there. Did
you have some military experience? Or are you just a really fast learner?”

Dara answered, “I had never
marched prior to this.” Then she glanced at him. “You aren’t in my platoon, are
you? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you before.”

“I’m in platoon seven. You were
pretty easy to notice though. Not that I was looking.”

Dara smiled. He had obviously been
looking.

When they got to the front of the
girls’ hostels, he asked her, both hands in his pockets, “Isn’t it rather early
to retire for the night? What are you doing till lights out?”
“Actually, I just want to see if
my friends are available to go and find something to eat together,” she
replied.

He shrugged. “I’m available.”

She went into the room to check
Kenny and Taiwo anyway, but soon returned alone shortly after she had left,
He grinned. “How could I not have
asked for your name? What if you hadn’t come back?
Dara smiled and told him.

“What does Dara mean?” he asked,
really wanting to know.

“Oluwadarasimi. God is good to
me.”

He sighed. “Yoruba names are just
so beautiful and meaningful. I’m David.”

She looked over at him, noticing
for the first time how very tall he was.


“So Dara, what would you like to
eat?” he asked as they walked past the auditorium and towards the mammy market.

“Noodles. There’s this Igbo lady
that adds lots of vegetables that I like. What about you?” Then her eyes caught
his wrist and she shook her head, amused, as she said, “I was going to suggest
that you report the handband you found at the OBS, but apparently it was never
lost.”

“Mmm…yea, noodles…that’s my
joint,” he replied, throwing back his head in mock ecstasy.

                                                       
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“Oluwadarasimi Ajoke.”

“Yes, mummy,” Dara answered,
holding her phone closer to her ear so she could hear above the loud music
booming all over the camp from the OBS speakers. Her mum called her name,
Oluwadarasimi, in full most times, but whenever she added ‘Ajoke’, her native name,
it meant serious talk.

“Has anything been said about
relocation forms over there? I hear it should be out by now. You daddy has been
making some calls to his friends at the NYSC headquarters in Abuja.”

“Yes, mum. But I really want to
stay here,” she really wanted to say, but didn’t have the heart to, so she lied
instead, “No, mum.”

Her mother sighed. “Please just be
at alert and do everything you’re supposed to do when you get the news, okay?
We’re trying our possible best to get you out of that place as soon as the
three-week camp is over, but you know you have to write a letter and fill
relocation forms over there too.”
“Okay.”

When the call ended, Dara slid her
phone into her waist purse, increased her pace and caught up with David. She
had had to reduce her steps while she received the call, leaving him scrolling
through his phone with one hand, the other hand in his pocket. He smiled at her
as she apologized, “Sorry for the break in transmission. That was my mum.”

“Did you tell her?” he asked. They
had talked about the relocation dilemma, debating on whether staying in Gombe
for the whole year was worth it. His excuse for applying for the relocation was
that he had a job to get back to in the South-South.


“I couldn’t. But I will, sooner or
later.”

“This is like the best evening
I’ve had since I got to camp,” he said, when they got back to the girls’
hostels area.

“I told you, that lady makes the
best noodles ever,” Dara replied with a giggle, facing him in front of her
hostel block.

He smiled. “Nah. Well, yeah, it
was a nice meal, but I meant meeting you, getting to talk to you—“


“Tricking me into talking to you,
you mean?”

“Well, thankfully, it worked,” he
replied with a grin, then added in a more serious tone, “So I’ll see you
tomorrow.”
Unsure if it was a question or a
statement, Dara nodded before she turned to make her way into the room.
To be continued…..

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Nigeria U-23 team secures Rio 2016 Olympics ticket


Nigeria has booked a place at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games football tournament. Nigeria advanced to the final after beating host, Senegal 1-0 in the first semi-final. 
The squad will now battle Algeria who also qualified for the final, for the 2015 U-23 AFCON gong. 
The match will be played on Saturday at the Leopold Sedar Senghor in Dakar by 8pm (Nigerian time).
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"I'm still in shock." Stephen Keshi speaks on his wife's death

The former national team handler who is in the US has described the death of his wife as a shock. He told Completesportsnigeria.com that Kate had been ill for a while before breathing her last on Wednesday.

“She was ill for a while now and I’m still in shock of this great loss. She was more like a sister to me and was the rock behind me and everything I do.” He said.
Keshi and Kate got married more than 30 years ago and  are blessed with 4 children. They gave out one of their daughters, Ifeyinwa out in marriage 9 months ago.
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Opinion: Where are The Chibok Girls? | By: Debbie Ariyo

It has been almost 20
months since April 2014 when news of the mass kidnap of girls from Government
Secondary School in Chibok, North East Nigeria by terrorists came to light.
This is one of the most mysterious cases of mass disappearance in human history
as the girls, it seems, have just disappeared without a single trace.
Since then, all
efforts to find and rescue the girls have proved abortive. The Nigerian
military so far has not been able to find these girls. International rescue
efforts called in as a result of the worldwide brouhaha generated by the girls’
disappearance has also proved unsuccessful. Since the Chibok girls, hundreds of
other kidnapped villagers including women and children have been found and
rescued and many continued to be rescued. As recently as mid October 2015,
there were reports of about 350 captives being rescued by the military, but not
this group of girls.
More poignantly,
President Buhari, who rode to victory based on his condemnation of the past
government’s seemingly lackadaisical attitude towards this issue seem to have
lost interest. Buhari promised to bring these girls back home as soon as
possible once he gets into power. So far, there are no reports of any efforts
to achieve this goal since his inauguration in May 2015.
No one in Nigeria is
talking about the Chibok girls anymore.
President Buhari and
his government are no longer talking about the Chibok girls or making any
references to them as a government priority. The Nigerian military are no
longer talking about the Chibok girls nor are they providing updates about
rescue efforts. Once in a while, the founders of Bring Back Our Girls campaign
led by Oby Ezekwesili organises meetings at Unity Square in Abuja with a
handful of people attending and then it is silence – until another low key
activity happens – in comparison to the first few months or so when rallies
were held on a daily basis in Abuja and other cities. The Nigerian media are no
longer talking about the Chibok girls – no features, no articles and no
coverage. Even the whole world which was incensed by news of the disappearance
has gone quiet about the Chibok girls.
This turn of events
has left many people bewildered. Questions are being asked about the reality of
Chibok girls with an increasing number of people expressing doubts that girls
were kidnapped in the first place. Cynics go as far as describing the case to
be a politically motivated effort by the then opposition party to discredit the
then government of Goodluck Jonathan. Others claim that girls were kidnapped
but not as many as the numbers being peddled about by the media.
Indeed, this is a most
baffling case. My own issue, having campaigned about this earlier on after the
news broke, held events here in London in partnership with others, including in
the UK House of Parliament, spoken at numerous events and written articles
about this is that, 20 months later, were girls really kidnapped from Chibok
and if yes, how come we haven’t heard anything at all about them in all these
months? If girls were kidnapped from Chibok on the 14th of April 2014, then
when are they coming back home?
The government of
Nigeria cannot continue to keep quiet about this matter. People need to know
what has become of the Chibok girls and what efforts are being made to rescue
them. People also need to know if they will ever be rescued. The girls’ parents
in particular need some form of closure. At the other end, the hard question
also needs to be asked: “Were any girls really kidnapped from Chibok?

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Sad! Ex Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi loses wife

Keshi and wife during their daughter’s wedding in March 2015
Former Super Eagles manager, Stephen keshi has lost his wife, Katherine to the cold hands of death.  He died of cancer, her family has confirmed.
Below is a statement from Emmanuel Ado, on behalf of the Keshi family, confirmed that the 54-year-old lost her three-year-long fight against the sickness on Wednesday night in the United States.
“With gratitude to God the Family of Mr. Stephen Okechukwu Keshi CON announces the death of our dear wife, mother, daughter, sister Mrs. Kate Keshi née Abureme 
“She died in the United States of America. She has in the last three years battled with cancer. She gave a good fight, until she finally succumbed yesterday.
“She is survived by her husband of 33 years, 4 children, her mother, brother, sisters and numerous relatives. We ask for prayers for her. ”
Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinning also condoled with the ex Nigerian footballer. 
“Keshi is a Nigerian hero and we mourn deeply with him at this time. This has come like a big blow, but we pray that he receives divine strength to cope with the situation, and we also pray that the Almighty God will grant the departed eternal rest,” Mr. Pinnick added. 
May God give the family the fortitude to bear this loss. Amen
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Opinion: Why Nigeria Needs Social Media Bill | By: Anthony Ogunlowo

This article is not going to win me any new friends – especially in the blogging community – but in the spirit of democracy I believe a bill to curb the irresponsibility of some bloggers and social media users is necessary after all.
    In a country that’s just getting to grips with the concept of free speech, many see this proposed bill as an attempt to gag free speech as the incumbent President did in 1984 with his infamous Decree 4.
     I don’t think it’s the intention of the sponsors of the social media bill to return to the throwback days of controlled press and free speech but to police it, weeding out what I would refer to as rogue bloggers, for instance, who publish, sometimes, malicious lies about people and the government.
      Blogging , tweeting and commenting on the various social media sites has become a new way for the ordinary person, in the street, to share their opinion about anything with anybody out there in the vast online community without fear of restriction or persecution. But there needs to be checks and balances.
      The wanton spread of malicious lies, rumours or hearsay is punishable by law in all countries around the world.
      As a blogger myself I have a moral responsibility to ensure that whatever information I share with my readers – on Facebook, blogs, twitter etc – is the truth. It would be irresponsible, for instance, to post an article or link suggesting the government was planning to do something they were not or post lies. In the dangerous world we live in today that can lead to mass civil unrest.
     There are a lot people who use the social media platforms responsibly and some who don’t – these are the ones the bill is aimed at.
         Even though its and unwritten rule, bloggers for instance are bound by the same code of conduct as journalists – stories need to be researched properly and only the truth, not rumours or lies , can be published or posted.
         Most bloggers have a subscriber base that runs into hundreds of thousands, and if they’re in the league of Perez Hilton or the Kardashians that figure can run into millions and millions – more than the circulation of most regional newspapers – and an incorrect story, rumour or lie will go out to all of them causing untold embarrassment to an individual concerned. Now if a journalist, OAP or newscaster spreads a false story the latter could be sued for libel or defamation of character. It shouldn’t be any different for somebody who posts something on any of the social media platforms. You can’t have one rule for one and one for another.
        Anyone, bloggers included, have to take full responsibility for whatever they publish or post online. You can’t go round slandering, spreading malicious rumours or lies about someone or the government and expect to get away with it!
        In light of this let’s take a look at some  recent litigation concerning some rogue social media users from around the world:
–          Under section 127 of  the Communications Act of 2003 of the United Kingdom 1,209 people in 2014 were convicted for sending indecent, offensive or obscene messages.
–          In April 2014 a Dutch girl was arrested for  joking about hijacking a plane on twitter.
–          Wrestler Hulk Hogan was fired by the WWE over an N-word rant on twitter.
–          In 2011 Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan of the UK were both jailed for 4 years after creating a Facebook event encouraging a riot.
–          In 2013 Yang Xiuyu was arrested by Chinese authorities for spreading rumours online.
         So bloggers and social media posters get your stories right! Only publish what is the verifiable truth – not rumours or hearsay – because if this bill goes through, a spell in Kirikiri prison or a hefty fine is not an interesting prospect!  
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Scottish University revokes Donald Trump's honorary degree over controversial remarks

Robert Gordon University (RGU) Aberdeen has revoked the honorary degree it bestowed on American Presidential candidate, Donald Trump following his recent controversial remarks. The TV personality recently demanded for a ‘total and complete shutdown’ on Muslim immigration to America following a shooting last week which claimed the lives of 14 people. This didn’t only spark worldwide outrage, a petition to bar the Republican frontrunner from Britain was garnered more than 358,000 signatures.  
A spokesman for RGU said his views on Islam are ‘wholly incompatible’ with their ethos and values.
“Mr Trump’s recent remarks have shown that he is no longer fit to be a business ambassador for Scotland,” a spokesman for the regional government said as he was dropped as a “GlobalScot” ambassador, a position he took up in 2006.” The statement added.
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