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I perceive you're wondering what a "House Arrest" will really mean or would not not mean for the out of favour athlete. A run through this concise article would be of help in clearing any confusion or misconceptions.   See article after the cut. Enjoy! South Africa's double-amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius is under house arrest in a mansion with high walls and opulent wrought iron gates in the leafy suburb of Waterkloof in the capital, Pretoria. It is far removed from the city's Kgosi Mampuru II prison, where the athlete has spent the last 12 months. The Paralympian - who was released from jail a day earlier than expected, presumably to avoid a media scrum - will be under house arrest for the next four years for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013, and for negligently handling a firearm at a restaurant in the same year. Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison, but under South Africa's laws an offender can be put unde

I had always wondered how teeming fans could get something out of sports for their ‎unalloyed, and perhaps fanaticism towards both local and foreign football (other sports) clubs. They seem to shout the most, fight about issues, argue (sometimes to the death), and yet get/make no dime out of it. So my puzzling continued until the world finally launched into an era of sport (prediction) betting. I would and am not via this post encouraging nor discouraging anyone's participation in sport betting, but I sure can tell you that like every other endeavor (business), its got its LOSES & GAINS. Hence, the choice is yours to make. Credits to a brilliant blogger (Tayo Theophilus) who in one of his posts elucidated marketable points about some of the available sport bet companies in Nigeria. now let's have this knowledge in full. With the increasing surge of football traders in Nigeria, many are now seeing the opportunity to start making money from football betting righ

The world's most powerful passport holders are from United Kingdom and the USA, as they can freely visit 147 countries. Competing with the 1st-world countries could be a tall order for now, but let's see how well the Nigerian passport has fared against those of other African countries. Amazingly, ‎Africa's most powerful passport holders are from Seychelles. Check out top 10 most powerful passports in Africa : 1st place : Seychelles – no visa required in 116 countries According to PassportIndex.org, people with Seychelles passports have visa-free access to 116 countries. The most powerful passport in Africa also holds 23rd position in world's passport power rank. 2nd place : South Africa – no visa required in 84 countries‎ ‎South Africa passport holders can travel to 84 of the world's 196 countries without any visa restrictions. The South African passport holds the 44th place worldwide. 3rd place : Guinea – no visa required in 81 countries ‎Guinea passport holders ca

DID YOU KNOW?‎  In the simplest way, the difference between them is speed. E is for EDGE (2.75G), which is an enhanced form of what in old phones used to be called GPRS (2.5 G). It has relatively slow data rates of around 236kbps (1mbps peak speed). But actual usage speeds are often lower. Don't expect to stream a video with E showing on your network bar. What Is 3G Network & WCDMA? 3G is the next one. It uses WCDMA signalling. The data rates here are comparable to edge but It offers better quality, better latency, lower delay, so making it more suitable for audio, video and streaming services. Meaning of H, H+ And Their Differences H is HSPA which stands for high speed packet access. It's an improvement over 3G and is mix of HSDPA (downlink) and HSUPA (uplink). Major changes were done on the radio side which increased the data rates to up to 3 and 7Mbps (in theory, its more). Many Smartphone users in Nigeria will have noticed that H has replaced 3G on their phones H+ is Ev

Like that old familiar line from somewhere in the New testament Bible; "The child in my womb leaped for joy" feeling, so it was for me on hearing this news. Obviously I have wasted no time in revealing my stand point on this novel development .  "It's long overdue" I felt within me. Its something I had always waited for. However down trodden our tertiary education, and I must say education at all level in Nigeria has gone, a First Class degree isn't sold with trays in the market just yet. You have your opinions about that sentence, I agree. (A yoruba adage says and I interprete ; "If you journey far, you'll come accross a hunchbacked ‎squirrel ") Kudos to those who where able to bag such an enviable degree from their various institutions of learning (I didn't) .  The recent development by the NYSC in ploughing back excellence produced by the Universities and Polytechnic into the same is commendable. It saddens my heart to see that graduates

You wish, very earnestly, that your pay-TV subscription would not run while you are not watching. You are not alone. Almost every pay-TV subscriber would want it that way. That would make us use our subscription in a way similar to how we use the airtime on our phones when we are on the pay-as-you-go platform. It would be terrific to subscribe for one month and have the subscription stretched over three or four months by being billed only when we watch. If we do not watch for a cumulative of 10 days in a month, perhaps because we leave for work very early to return very late, attend many social engagements or travel out of town, we would have gained 10 days in the next month because we would not have been billed for the time we were not watching. In very simple terms, you would want to be billed only when you watch-for an hour, two hours or more. It is just terrific. No other way to describe it. But it is an eminently unrealisable wish. It is also technologically unworkable. First and

"Everyone Is A Stranger, A Visitor Somewhere. This new found hostility by South Africans, towards other nationals is uncalled-for. To think it's the presence of foreigners in a country that hampers availability of jobs and other socioeconomic gains is a wrong notion, and as for me, is  a clear indication of misinformation and there's a need for re orientation of South Africans. If non-nationals are getting the jobs in your country, then it could be a clear indication your unemployability or share laziness and/or inability to come up with business innovations which these foreigners have done and is inturn appearing threatening to you/your survival in your own country. To have descended to such low i.e Xenophobic actions, going even as far as killing and maiming foreigners is appalling and show a gross level of barbarism.  Your plights could have been tenable to some extents if channeled appropriately, ofcourse we had the "Ghana Must Go" in Nigeria, which in my vie