Tuesday, September 24, 2013

BBM rollout for Android and iOS not resuming this week

BlackBerry-Messenger.jpgBBM rollout for Android and iOS not resuming this week: BlackBerry

It looks like the aborted rollout of the cross-platform version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will take more time to resume, according to a statement by a BlackBerry spokesperson.

Bike-a-Thon Race Pedals Off in Lagos by Rotary international

As part of programmes to commemorate the annual World Polio day on October 24 and create awareness on the deadly polio scourge responsible for scores of child mortality cases annually in Nigeria.
Rotary international in Nigeria has concluded plans to host the nation's first ever Bike-A-Thon ride on Saturday October 19, 2013.

The one-day programme is a fun cycling ride designed to generate interest, increase awareness and raise funds for activities towards total eradication of polio disease which is endemic in Nigeria.( especially in the North.) Nigeria currently remains one of the three (most) polio-endemic countries globally, alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan.
According to Dr Tunji Funsho, Chairman, Nigeria National Polio Plus Committee, "Rotary has committed itself to join forces with other partners to champion the efforts to eradicate ( war against)polio in Nigeria.

Man pays homeless to wait overnight for new iPhones

Wait overnight for new iPhones  turns into mob scene

An long camp-out for the new iPhone turned chaotic Fri morning once 2 men were in remission for fighting outside AN Apple Store and a man’s commit to rent homeless individuals to attend in line for the in demand devices backfired, authorities aforementioned.

Dozens of individuals recruited at a downtown l.  a.   homeless shelter to shop for iPhones in bulk at a urban center store were left unpaid, and that they mobbed the person WHO had employed them, urban center police Lt. mythical being Clawson aforementioned.

One of the homeless men was placed on a 72-hour psychological state hold once running into the road in AN angry state, Clawson aforementioned. newscast footage showed police breaking apart many scuffles and calming down furious customers.

Siege continues at Nairobi mall

Siege continues at Kenya-Nairobi mall

The Al-Shabab attack in Republic of Kenya|national capital} has affected concern into people across Kenya and particularly those operating within the necessary commercial enterprise sector.
Journalist from Euronews spoke to one (1) businessperson and he aforementioned Kenyans need the international community to avoid turning its back on the country: Kenya’s Interior Ministry declared via Twitter that its forces had taken management of the capital of Kenya shopping center which all hostages had been freed.

Thick smoke continuing to billow out of the Westgate shopping center in capital of Kenya, wherever Kenyan security officers aforementioned the besieging was coming back to and a minimum of sixty two individuals are killed and a hundred seventy five injured  by the al-Shabaab militant cluster.