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                                                     Money Mistakes (part 2) Welcome to a new week and perhaps the last day in the month of July. Should in case you missed the first part Money mistakes(part 1) . 6.  Never lend someone money you are not willing to lose. By the time you lend money, be contented in your heart that should the person not pay, you will not die. You should not even lose the person as a friend. If you realise the person can fail to pay you and you are ok  then lend. If you find you would even hate the person's entire clan, please advise the person to go to the bank.  7.  Never append your signature to guarantee someone on a financial matter if you are not willing or able to pay the money. Do I have to explain that one? No. It's self explanatory.  8.  Avoid keeping within easy reach money you don't intend to use in the short term - don't for instance walk with 100k in your pocket when all you plan to

Australian police disrupted a terrorist plot to bring down an airplane and arrested four men Saturday in raids on homes in several Sydney suburbs, the prime minister said Sunday. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said security had been increased at Sydney Airport since Thursday because of the plot. The increased security measures had been extended to all major international and domestic terminals around Australia overnight. Australian police work in Sydney's Surry Hills suburb on July 29, 2017. Law enforcement officials raided properties in several Sydney suburbs and arrested four people on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. (Sam Mooy / Associated Press    "I can report ... that there has been a major joint counter-terrorism operation to disrupt a terrorist plot to bring down an airplane," Turnbull told reporters. "The operation is continuing." Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin said details were scant on the specific

  An American tourist vacationing with his family in Turks and Caicos had to be medically evacuated to Florida after he was shot during an armed burglary Friday night. The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force said a 57-year-old U.S. citizen was shot by a masked gunman while in his vacation villa in the Leeward residential area of of Providenciales, an island in the Turks and Caicos archipelago, around 10:12 p.m. local time Friday. The man suffered from a single gunshot wound to his upper body and was immediately transported to a local hospital, where police said he was listed in stable condition. A spokesperson for the law firm Kirkland & Ellis confirmed to ABC News on Sunday that a partner in the firm, Mike Jones, was shot. PHOTO: Michael D. Jones, P.C. is pictured in this profile photo posted to the website of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he is a partner. (kirkland.com) "Mike Jones, a partner in our Washington, D.C., office, was sho

National Council on Information (NCI) has recommended the “setting up of a Council to regulate the use of social media in Nigeria”. The recommendation is contained in a communique issued at the end of Extraordinary Meeting of NCI on Hate Speeches, Fake News and National Unity held in Jos. Image credit: Issouf Sanogo (AFP/File) In the communique made available to journalists, the Council recommended the use of stringent measures in checking conventional media and their programmes. The Council, presided over by Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, noted that Social media has no address as such vetting and editing posting in social media might be difficult. The Council recommended that Information managers at the state level should open a website to counter report of any misinformation posted by the social media as quickly as the hate speeches, misinformation and fake news are posted. It recommended immediate killing of whatever postings on social

  A masked call happens when an international calling number (Caller Line Identity) is masked as local number traffic. It is a deliberate attempt by the fraudster to avoid paying the correct International Termination Rate (ITR) for international calls, but to benefit by paying Local Termination Rate (LTR). For example, when the number is masked as a local call, the operator pays N3.90 LTR and not N24.40 ITR. A SIM Box fraud is a setup in which fraudsters install SIM boxes with multiple prepaid SIM cards. The fraudster can bring calls through VOIP (through internet) and terminate international calls through local phone numbers in the respective country to make it appear as a local call, by initiating the call through local SIM installed in the SIM box. Call Refilling is a form of interconnect fraud in which one carrier tampers with CID (caller-ID) data to falsify the number from which a call originated before handing the call off to a competitor. Operators trade blame, NC

Image credit: Getty image Deception technology has grown out of work on another useful cyber-thief tracking technology known as honey pots, said Joe Stewart of deception firm Cymmetria. Image credit: Getty image In World War II, the Allies employed all kinds of sneaky tricks to deceive their enemies into thinking they had more troops and weapons at their disposal than they actually had.  The camouflage techniques of one unit active in North Africa, which on one occasion consulted a stage magician about the way he fooled audiences, proved decisive in several key battles. And the biggest deception of all was Operation Fortitude which fooled the Nazis about where the D-Day landings would actually take place. The same principles of deception and misdirection, albeit on a much smaller scale, are now starting to be used by some organisations to thwart malicious hackers keen to establish a bridgehead on internal networks. "It's a classic idea of warfare

                                                       Money Mistakes                                                         (part one)   1.  Never borrow money with interest to start a business (except for salary loans); only borrow to grow your business. This is because business takes a long time to gain ground and begin making profit yet for most of the loans you begin paying back a month later or even earlier. Hence,  never borrow to start a business expecting that business to be the one to pay back the borrowed money plus the interest.  2.  Never spend money you haven't received. Don't even promise someone money based on a promise you have from someone else. Don't hear somebody say, "Ezra come to my office tomorrow at 9am and pick 2m" and you go and buy items on credit hoping to clear when the promised money comes.  3.  If you want to ever save, whenever you receive money ensure you don't start spending before taking o

A visitor testing the functions on a Huawei Mate 9 smartphone inside a phone store in Pretoria, South Africa. Huawei is putting the finishing touches on its most powerful device yet, the Mate 10. — Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co is aiming to grow mobile shipments by only a modest amount in 2017, as it gears up to go head-to-head with the hotly anticipated 10th-anniversary edition of Apple Inc’s iPhone. The world’s No 3 smartphone maker, which in 2016 declared it will someday surpass both Apple and Samsung Electronics Co in market share, is shooting for shipments of 140 million to 150 million units in 2017 – up marginally from 139 million in 2016. But it’s also putting the finishing touches on its most powerful device yet, the Mate 10.  Huawei is the largest of a coterie of Chinese smartphone makers that have grabbed global market share via affordable phones with premium specifications. The Mate 10 will debut right around the time Apple is expected to take the