And this is how smartphone users see 2G users.................
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I did a doubletake when I saw a friend's Facebook status update today : "I like it on the kitchen table." Probably just a private message mistakenly posted as a status update.
Then my sister posted, "I like it on the hall floor," and after a moment of feeling vaguely icky, I knew something was up. So I Googled and, of course, found that it's the latest viral breast cancer awareness campaign taking Facebook by storm. (The "it" is actually where a woman likes to leave her purse/handbag.)
Then my sister posted, "I like it on the hall floor," and after a moment of feeling vaguely icky, I knew something was up. So I Googled and, of course, found that it's the latest viral breast cancer awareness campaign taking Facebook by storm. (The "it" is actually where a woman likes to leave her purse/handbag.)
My friend Genevieve likes it on the barstool. My friend Jalade likes it in the car.
Bobos please Get your minds out of the gutter.
They're talking about their purses.
Titillating the Facebook newsfeeds today, women are posting where they like to keep their purses when they come home, but they conveniently leave out the word "purse."
Men are not supposed to know what it means. So stop reading now, men.
The trend follows the January Internet meme in which women posted the color of their bra as their Facebook status.
Both are to raise awareness of breast cancer. October is Breast Cancer Month. (It's also Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but that's another story entirely.)
The question remains whether the viral campaign actually does raise awareness or just raises eyebrows.
One response to a Facebook status: "Woah is right. Overshare."
Update, 10:45 a.m.
Men: Hmph. Some of the not-so-fair sex have complained that this post is sexist as they are forbidden to read past the jump. Others have complained about the actual Internet meme: "Yeah, that's a great way to get men on board with breast cancer awareness month...alienate them."
We suggest going with the flow, men. Men can put purses places these days too.
Oh, and ladies, go take a breast exam..
A BLACK couple with their new baby yesterday - a white, blue-eyed BLONDE.
British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is NOT an albino.
Dad Ben, 44, a customer services adviser, admitted: "We both just sat there after the birth staring at her."
Mum Angela, 35, of Woolwich, South London, beamed as she said: "She's beautiful - a miracle baby."
Ben told yesterday how he was so shocked when Nmachi was born, he even joked: "Is she MINE?"
He added: "Actually, the first thing I did was look at her and say, 'What the flip?'"
But as the baby's older brother and sister - both black - crowded round the "little miracle" at their home in South London, Ben declared: "Of course she's mine."
Blue-eyed blonde Nmachi, whose name means "Beauty of God" in the Nigerian couple's homeland, has baffled genetics experts because neither Ben nor wife Angela have ANY mixed-race family history.
Pale genes skipping generations before cropping up again could have explained the baby's appearance.
Ben also stressed: "My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn't been, the baby still wouldn't look like that.
"We both just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages - not saying anything."
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Doctors at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup - where Angela, from nearby Woolwich, gave birth - have told the parents Nmachi is definitely no albino.
Ben, who came to Britain with his wife five years ago and works for South Eastern Trains, said: "She doesn't look like an albino child anyway - not like the ones I've seen back in Nigeria or in books. She just looks like a healthy white baby."..
He went on: "My mum is a black Nigerian although she has a bit fairer skin than mine.
"But we don't know of any white ancestry. We wondered if it was a genetic twist.
"But even then, what is with the long curly blonde hair?"
Professor Bryan Sykes, head of Human Genetics at Oxford University and Britain's leading expert, yesterday called the birth "extraordinary".
He said: "In mixed race humans, the lighter variant of skin tone may come out in a child - and this can sometimes be startlingly different to the skin of the parents.
"This might be the case where there is a lot of genetic mixing, as in Afro-Caribbean populations. But in Nigeria there is little mixing."
Prof Sykes said BOTH parents would have needed "some form of white ancestry" for a pale version of their genes to be passed on.
But he added: "The hair is extremely unusual. Even many blonde children don't have blonde hair like this at birth."
The expert said some unknown mutation was the most likely explanation.
He admitted: "The rules of genetics are complex and we still don't understand what happens in many cases."
The amazing birth comes five years after Kylie Hodgson became mum to twin daughters - one white and the other black - in Nottingham.
Kylie, now 23, and her partner Remi Horder, now 21, are both mixed race.
Even so the odds were estimated at a million to one.
The Sun told in 2002 how a white couple had Asian twins after a sperm mix-up by a fertility clinic.
Yesterday three-day-old Nmachi's churchgoing mum Angela admitted that she was "speechless" at first seeing her baby girl, who was delivered in a caesarean op.
She said: "I thought, 'What is this little doll?'
"She's beautiful and I love her. Her colour doesn't matter. She's a miracle baby.
"But still, what on earth happened here?"
Her husband told how their son Chisom, four, was even more confused than them by his new sister.
Ben said: "Our other daughter Dumebi is only two so she's too young to understand.
"But our boy keeps coming to look at his sister and then sits down looking puzzled.
"We're a black family. Suddenly he has a white sister."
Ben continued: "Of course, we are baffled too and want to know what's happened. But we understand life is very strange.
"All that matters is that she's healthy and that we love her.She's a proud British Nigerian."
Queen Mary's Hospital said: "Congratulations to Angela and her family on the birth of their daughter."
COULD THIS BE IBBs HOUSE ?
He ruled Nigeria for 8 years (85-93) People have all sorts of things to say about him...I don't know why, but I sorta like this guy... i mean the man has taste see what he did for himself his late wife and their chilren ! See house ! Or did not have the foresight to build a house like this for them ?
Here's what the home of Nigeria's former head of state might look like and Maybe the Next President come 2011 insha allah naija will give it to him as our final parting gift.
Photos:All Photos are those of a master dribblers abode .The palace pictures were readapted/recreated fromThe album of an Estate Agent of known African Dictators !
He ruled Nigeria for 8 years (85-93) People have all sorts of things to say about him...I don't know why, but I sorta like this guy... i mean the man has taste see what he did for himself his late wife and their chilren ! See house ! Or did not have the foresight to build a house like this for them ?
Here's what the home of Nigeria's former head of state might look like and Maybe the Next President come 2011 insha allah naija will give it to him as our final parting gift.
Photos:All Photos are those of a master dribblers abode .The palace pictures were readapted/recreated fromThe album of an Estate Agent of known African Dictators !
The IBB mystique was shattered sometime in 2006. Before then, I was one of those Nigerians who thought he was a genius. I have never had any personal interaction with him, but those who have had regaled me with stories of his intelligence. Their narration bordered on apotheosis of the man called Ibrahim Babangida. It seemed he had a charmed life of sorts and was endowed with enough craftiness to manipulate himself out of any situation. I have a feeling that if he had retired quietly to his Villa in Minna, sipping cognac, reading newspapers and never making any comment, I would have forever believed that he was the Maradona who could dribble anybody and anything to score his own goals.
My delusion ended successfully when he attempted to run for presidency. That was when I knew that he was not as smart as I (and I dare say millions of other Nigerians) had believed.
Why on earth would IBB think he should make it back to Aso Rock? To use the time honored (even though worn) question: what on earth did he forget in Aso Rock that he is going back to pick up?
I will not catalogue his known sins here. He was once quoted to have said that Nigerians have a short memory and if it is true that he said so, then it is time he was told that Nigerians have not totally forgotten about the annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election and the concatenation of events which it triggered.
His renewed declaration of interest in the highest office in the land questions his integrity. IBB annulled a free and fair election simply because he wanted to perpetuate himself in office. Then, 17 years after, he turns around to take advantage of 'democracy'?
Fine; he gave a half hearted verbal apology for the June 12 annulment, but did he make any restitution for the lives and properties lost in the process?
Add to the fact that the man spent eight years in Aso Rock and had to 'step aside' only when the public outcry raged to the highest heavens, then we need not employ a soothsayer to tell us that allowing IBB near Aso Rock again won't be in the best interest of the nation.
How can we be sure that IBB will not spend another eight years in office and seek more terms to perpetuate himself in office like former President Olusegun Obasanjo almost did?
If he says his intention is to fill up the second term that should go to the North but which the incumbent President Umaru Yar'Adua may not be able to use due to his state of health, then he should give us another reason.
The greatest mistake will be to assume that 68-year old IBB has learnt to be left handed in his old age.
What on earth does he have to offer Nigerians that he cannot do from his enclave in Minna? He was quoted as saying on a TV interview that he wants to return to solve Nigeria's problems because he has been there before.
His 'being there before' cannot solve Nigeria's problems, sad to say. Obasanjo 'had been there before' as a military head of state and after eight years of civilian rule, he could still not solve the problem of power, let alone other major problems Nigeria is bedevilled with.
General Buhari 'was there before' as a military head of state and when he was put in charge of Petroleum Trust Fund, did we witness any major revolution? So, why should we believe IBB? Since he retired to Minna, in what way has he contributed to national development?
What IBB should be doing now is answering questions on the various allegations against him. If Nigeria were not a tired country, a man like IBB would be answering questions before a commission set up to investigate his administration's role in bringing this country to its knees. He would probably be entering a guilt plea to save himself. He would not go about telling us he is a messiah who has returned to solve the problems he helped created in the first place.
If IBB is really interested in this country, he needs not go to the polls to prove it. He can set up a foundation and invest his enormous wealth (wasn't he once listed as the 76th richest man in the world?) on charity. That way, he would still have impacted positively on Nigerians without assaulting our collective sensibilities with his desire to rule us again.
Let me state that I have nothing against his joining politics, though left to him and his supporters, this country would never have witnessed civil rule.
If he wants to be a 'moneybag' politician, he's rich enough to do so; but to jump on the presidency train is, frankly, a distraction that will cloud other viable candidates who may be interested in contesting.
For now, Nigeria can ill afford to be distracted in choosing her leaders.
IS THIS THE HOME OF A MESSIAH ?
The US led Carson-Babangida meeting lasted for about two hours in IBB's Minna Hilltop residence.
