TOBI'S DESK

What event of 2013 was your best? Which was your sadest? Which inspired you the most? Which was the funiest?

An Egyptian man shot dead a neighbour in a town near Cairo after the latter’s daughter made a hand sign symbolic of support for the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, reported a local newspaper on Saturday. The suspect, a truck driver, had fired at his 60-year-old neighbour in Shebeen Al Qanter, north of the Egyptian capital, in a brawl that started when the victim’s daughter taunted the driver’s wife by waving the pro-Brotherhood Raba’ah sign, said the independent newspaper Al Tahrir. Police said they had arrested the suspect and the gun he used in the attack. Raba’ah is an area in eastern Cairo where supporters of the ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi staged a mass sit-in for more than a month before security forces cleared them out in a deadly crackdown in mid-August. Since then, the sign taking the shape of four fingers has become popular among loyalists of Morsi, who belongs to the Brotherhood. Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, was deposed by the arm

No. 23: Kostyantin Zhevago Age: 39 Net Worth: $1.5 billion Son of a mining engineer, Kostyantin Zhevago took over Poltava Iron Ore, the largest exporter of pellets in CIS, at the age of twenty two, and in 2007 he took his mining company Ferrexpo public. An avid soccer fan, Zhevago owns FC Vorska football. No 24: Dan Gertler Age: 39 Net Worth: $2.2 billion An emerging face of irresponsible capitalism in Africa, Dan Gertler took his family’s fortune in diamonds and invested it in mining assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo. While in his 20s, he became a friend of Joseph Kabila, who then ran the military and is now the DRC’s president. No. 25: Ana Luia de Mattos Barretto Villela Age: 39 Net Worth: $1.15 billion Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela belongs to one of Brazil’s oldest and most distinguished banking families. She is one of the largest individual shareholders of a holding company that controls Unibanco Holding S.A., one of Brazil’s largest banks. No. 26: Lee S

Age: 37 Net Worth: $1.3 billion Sabanci is the daughter of Ozdemir Sabanci who was assassinated in 1996, and a board member of the large conglomerate Sabanci Holding. Nicholas Woodman: The Mad Billionaire Behind GoPro, The World's Hottest Camera Company No. 17: Nicholas Woodman Age: 37 Net Worth: $1.3 billion GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman built the first camera prototypes in his bedroom with his mom’s sewing machine and a drill. GoPro came out with its first camera, a 35-millimeter waterproof film version, in 2004. Today, the camera shoots full video in cinema quality HD, allowing anyone from professional surfer Kelly Slater to amateur snowboarders to capture their adventures. No. 18: Chase Coleman Age: 37 Net Worth: $1.4 billion The hottest young money manager on the planet, Coleman cooled off a touch in 2012, but his Tiger Global hedge fund extended its impressive winning streak, finishing a third straight year with a net return in excess of 20%. No. 19: Ryan Ka

No. 8: Marie Besnier Beauvalot Age: 32 Net Worth: $1.5 billion Marie, along with siblings Emmanuel, 42, and Jean-Michel, 45, inherited French dairy giant Lactalis, producers of popular Président brie among hundreds of other cheese, milk and yogurt brands. No. 9: Sean Parker Age: 33 Net Worth: $2 billion Parker is revamping his much hyped start-up, Airtime, with the hopes that the video chat site will have the impact of his other Web companies. At 19, Parker skipped college to disrupt the recording industry with music swapping site Napster. He served as Facebook’s first president at age 24. No. 10: Ayman Hariri Age: 34 Net Worth: $1.35 billion Hariri is the son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He’s involved in running Saudi Oger, one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest construction companies, and the source of the Hariri family fortune. No. 11: Yvonne Bauer Age: 35 Net Worth: $2.4 billion Bauer owns 85% of her family’s publishing empire. She is the fifth generation of

The World's Youngest Billionaires: 29 Under 40 SHAR There are 1,426 billionaires in the world this year. They are the wealthiest of the wealthy. But only 29 members of this elite list are under 40 years old, with that exciting combination of money and youth. Those 29 have a total of $119 billion between them. Ten come from the technology sector, including four from social networking giant Facebook. Eleven come from the United States, the rest from countries abroad. Five are newcomers to the billionaire ranks. Read the full list below. see photosAP Click for full photo gallery: Youngest Billionaires of 2013 No. 1: Dustin Moskovitz Age: 28 Net Worth: $3.8 billion Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg‘s former roommate, no longer works at Facebook, the social networking giant that he co-founded. A signee of Bill Gates‘ and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, Moskovitz bikes to work, flies commercial, and pitches his own tent at Burning Man. No. 2: Mark Zuckerberg Age: 28 Net Worth: $13.

Channel O continues its #Top10Most series this week with a focus on music video directors in Africa. The urban music channel looked at originality, body of work, views/comments, and awards each producer have won. While Channel O acknowledge that depending on the artist some directors get to work with big budgets, it used a ―pound-for-pound approach to even the playing field. Check out the Top10 below 1. Sesan from Nigeria 2. Clarence Peters from Nigeria 3. Andrew Macharia from Kenya 4. Patrick Elis from Nigeria 5. Jude Engees Okoye from Nigeria 6. The Godfather Prouduction from Nigeria 7. Justine Campos from South Africa 8. AJE Filmworks from Nigeria 9. Mark Hofmeyer from South Africa 10. J. Hill from Ghana

The "second-class" citizen nature of Nigerians living in India was again brought to the fore this week after the police in Vashi, Mumbai, failed to register any complaint against a mob of over 100 people who nearly lynched Onouha Lucky. The mob attack on 24-year-old Nigerian occurred after he had a petty squabble over N13 (about Rs5) with a shoeshine vendor. Lucky asked the cobbler, identified as Sheshrao Purbe, to polish his shoes. Purbe narrated that he usually charged N26 (about Rs 10), but the Nigerian threw Rs 5 at him. This led to an argument and Purbe was punched hard on his face. The fight between the two soon attracted a crowd and a mob surrounded the alien. The angry mob started slapping and punching Lucky. He ran into the Vashi railway station and hid himself in a foodstall to save himself from being lynched. However, he had been spotted by someone, and the mob continued beating Lucky for about 15 minutes before the police rescued him. The embattled Nig

The Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has claimed that he is one of the persons on the lists of 1,000 politicians that President Goodluck Jonathan is targeting to kill, as alleged in a letter by a former Nigerian president to Jonathan. At a rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held in Port-Harcourt, to galvanise support ahead of the 2015 election, Governor Amaechi decried the level of impunity in Nigeria, alleging that the police and other security agencies were molesting innocent citizens.. “There is no rule of law in Nigeria at all. We are being molested by police. They are paying thugs to shoot dynamites and guns against innocent citizens,” Amaechi told the crowd. Citing a letter by a former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, alleging that President, Goodluck Jonathan, has hired snipers for targeted politicians, Ameachi said that President Jonathan’s response to the letter demanding that Obasanjo should provide the list of politicians targeted was not neces

Top 9ja public Quotes of the Year 2013. 1. "You are a widow… go and die” By Edo state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole 2. "We do not pray for accidents but it is inevitable… we do everything to ensure that we do not have accidents, but it is an act of God.” By Stella Oduah, Aviation minister 3. "I cannot categorically tell you one now… the one we are going to make use of is going to be made known by my oga at the top…” By Mr Obafaiye Shem, former Lagos state commandant of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps 4. “Yes, Patience Jonathan is my Jesus Christ!” By Hon. Evans Bipi of the Rivers state house of assembly 5. "As the president, I don’t know him (Abu Shekau) and don’t know if he is dead or alive; you journalists will know more than us. You are the ones who talk to Boko Haram” In a presidential media chat, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan 6. "Come, sit on my laps and I will show you a level of grace you do not understand.” According

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Now History is good, just as food is good, but the content of a meal determine if it is healthy. Most times we intrigue ourselves with enquiries about others, so much so that it becomes detrimental to our well being because we then tend to live under their shadows. The knowlege of oneself gives one a strong footing cos it povides one with a background on which to stand on; it gives you a platform. The essence of education is provision of a better life, can life be any better than when there is trust and truth? its a capital NO. this can be achieved if one knows and change the man in the mirro #real  education

"@ there was a country On a hot and hmid day during the wet season our geography  teacher  decided t move oentire class outside to the cool shade of a large mango tree . After setting up the blackboard he proceeded to give the class a lesson on the geography of great britain. The village "madman". Came by, and after standing and listening to the teacher's lesson for a short while, walked up to him, snatched the chalk from his hand, wiped the blackboard, and proceeded to give us an extended lesson of ogidi, my home town" Now that is real education, not from the teacher, but from the ad man.

hello everyone,this is my first post and its just to let you know that I have publisied my desk, fill free to state your thoughts, and pls I would need ur help to grow in this. Its my little way of lending my thoughts to the happenings in the world and in Nigeria particularly. Thanks and welkom.