Thank You!!! MTN Foundation: Free breast cancer screening in Enugu

MTNF, the corporate social investment of MTN Nigeria has taken its free breast cancer screening to residents of the South East geopolitical zone of the country. The MTNF breast cancer awareness campaign took place in Enugu recently to commemorate the annual global awareness on the scourge of breast cancer held every October.

This initiative will be providing free breast cancer screening at MTN Mammography center located at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu State.

MTN Foundation is currently executing various projects in 341 locations across the 36 states of Nigeria, including the FCT. The Foundation has spent over N10.5 billion on social projects in the areas of health, education and economic empowerment. Recently, the Foundation deployed state-of-the-art Mobile Clinics stocked with medical equipment and drugs to States across the six geopolitical ones. These mobile clinics have helped to reduce the incidence of maternal and child deaths, especially in rural communities.

Windows 7 Command Line: How to find & fix disk errors via CMD; chkdsk /f C:

Launch command prompt as an Administrator

Type chkdsk /f C:

When you use the above command, Check Disk performs an analysis of the disk and then repairs any errors it finds, provided that the disk isn’t in use. If the disk is in use, Check Disk displays a prompt that asks whether you want to schedule the disk to be checked the next time you restart the system. Click Yes to schedule this check.

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Nice One!!! Sambo on his way to 16th Abuja Motor Fair

Vice President Namadi Sambo is expected to lead other dignitaries from the public and private sectors to declare open the 16th edition of the Abuja International Motor Fair on Thursday.

The fair which started on Tuesday October 22nd, is being attended by over 25 auto and allied companies from Nigeria and abroad.

Stallion Motors: Made in Nigeria Vehicle

Recall: Stallion is an elegantly designed family sedan that comes in two variants with five-speed manual and four-speed automatic transmission powered by 1.25 Kappa Dual VTVT engine respectively.

It has introduced another made-in-Nigeria Grand i10, a car built for people looking for exceptionally low weight cars that maximize fuel consumption.

The unveiling of the Hyundai model at an interactive session with motoring journalists in Lagos on Friday came a few months after the firm's presentation of locally assembled Nissan Patrol vehicles to President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja.

Microsoft Outlook: Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.

My customer encountered the above error this morning when she tried load her MS Outlook;

Investigation shows that customer's e-mail account profile has been corrupted;

Outlook profile was recreated issue resolved;

Steps:

• Goto Control Panel
• Click on the Drop-down menu in "View by" then select Large icons
• Select Mail
  
• Click Show Profiles
  
• Click Add
  
• Type Profile Name then click OK
  
• Select Always use this profile
  
• Click Apply
• Click OK
• Launch MS Outlook again

MINSAT: Application Error; Unable to launch the application.

My customer reported this error while trying to launch Minsat application (via Internet Explorer 9) on her system.

IE was troubleshooted and investigations shows that there was an issue with the java installed then the following means was deduced to resolve my customer's issue;

• Uninstall Java 7 update 51 (64-bit)
• Install Java 7 update 51 (32-bit)
• Adjust Java "Security Level" to "Medium" from Java Control Panel

1. Goto Control Panel > Click on the Drop-down menu on View by: then select Large icons
2. Click on Java (32-bit)
3. Select Security tab then adjust the Security Level to Medium
   
4. Click Apply then click OK

• Launch MINSAT application again

APPLE: iPhones success story Vs iPads

Information gathered from Apple Q4 2014 earnings revealed that its latest iPhones broke early sales records.

Apple sold 39.2 million phones, up big from the 33.8 million iPhones it sold during the same quarter last year which made it a huge quarter for iPhones with the first nine days of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus sales.

My question; how would iPad fare 'cos Apple sold 12.3 million iPads down from the 13.1 million that were expected, and even more from 14.1 million the company sold during the same time last year.

Basketmouth's Blind Date With Tina

So funny......

Microsoft at it again!! Wearable fitness band coming soon

Microsoft wearable fitness band has been announced to be launched in the coming weeks; planning is in progress to make this a reality.

Information gathered revealed that device will be stocked at retailers in time for the holiday season and moreso, device launch will mark 10 years since Microsoft announced its SPOT smartwatch in 2004.

The followings are lists of functions of Microsoft fitness band;
Will track steps, heart rate, calories burned and other key health attributes.

The key part of this device will be its support for Windows Phone, iOS and Android.

Court Updates: Hijab in Lagos public schools Vs Lagos State Government

Two 12-year old girls under the aegis of the Muslim Students of Nigeria, Lagos State Area Unit filed a suit on 27th May, 2013 seeking redress and asking the court to declare the ban as violation of their rights to freedom of thought, religion and education.

Justice Modupe Onyeabor dismissed the suit instituted by helding that the prohibition of the wearing of Hijab over school uniforms within and outside the premises of public schools was not descriminatory, does not violate sections 38 and 42 of the 1999 Constitution as calimed by the plaintiffs.

Meanwhile, the judge reminded them that Section 10 of the Constitution made Nigeria a secular state and that government must maintain neutrality at all times.

She noted that since the public schools were being funded by the government, it was therefore competent to issue dress codes and other guidelines to the students.

Thank You!!! Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan joined forces to fight Ebola with $25m (N4bn)

No doubt, this family has really done well in the movement against Ebola before it spreads further beyond control.

He mentioned this on his Facebook page that he and his wife are donating $25m to the Centres for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola.

Mark contend that we need to get Ebola under control as soon as humanly possible before it become a long term global health issue like HIV or polio.

My suggestion; more of corporate and social services/donations would go a long way to wage war against Ebola.

Kudos!!! A right activist asks court to stop N65 ATM charges in Nigeria.

Timi Frank, through his lawyer, lawyer Olugbenga Adeyemi, has beseeched the Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from going futher in its reintroduced N65 charges on cash withdrawals via ATMs in the country.

Godwin Emefiele, CBN governor had ordered that any customer who makes cash withdrawals from ATM of other banks should be charged N65 at the fourth withdrawal in a month. He made the statement on 13th August, 2014 while the policy took effect nationwide on 1st September, 2014.

Olugbenga filed a suit on 18th September, 2014; he made it clear that the reintroduction of ATM charges is a negation of the cashless policy, discriminatory against the poor, it discourages low income earners from savings and no customer is charged any fee in a country like United Kingdom for using the ATM of other banks.

My questions: 

1. How did commercial banks survived the past months without charges on ATM withdrawals?
2. Should ATM be used as source of revenue?

WOW!!! Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi, FIIRO; 250 Research & Development (R & D) Outputs

The Director General of the institute, Dr. Gloria Elemo revealed that outputs from the 250 research and developments carried out by her institute would promote an estimated number of 1,500 SMEs via new technologies.

Prior to Investment and Technology Week organised by the institute which kicked off today (14th October, 2014), she said not less than 50,000 direct job opportuninties will be created to tackle the worsening unemployment issue in Nigeria.

Citrix: Error number 2320. ICA Configuration Manager: The lockdown requirements in force may be conflicting

Investigation carried out on the above error message shows that this issue is particular to user's Windows 7 service profile;

I was able to resolve this issue by recreating user's profile.


Steps followed:

Kindly backup Windows Registry before proceeding on the below tips;

• Logon as Local Administrator
• Rename user's profile (C:\Users\Username)
• Navigate to Windows 7 registry

1. Open Run (Windows button + R)
2. Type regedit

• Locate Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
• Right-click on ProfileList key then click Find
• Type Username then press Enter
• Delete user's Folder Key then restart the system

Microsoft Ends Support For Windows Server 2003

By July 2015, Microsoft will end support of Windows Server 2003 which means any remaining 2003 servers you may have will no longer get security patches.

In view of the above, join Darren Mar-Elia on a detailed session for organizations that are running  server 2003 today.

Hewlett-Packard About To Break into 2 Companies; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc.

This was confirmed by Hewlett-Packard on Monday 6th October, 2014 that both companies will be publicly traded while business-oriented company will be called Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and the PC company will be called HP Inc.

The comapny said the change is expected to be completed by October 2015 which is the HP's fiscal year.

HP's chief executive, Meg Whitman,said the strategy is to more aggressively go after the opportunities created by a rapidly changing market(Technology Landscape Shifts)
It was noted that Ms. Whitman will retain much power at both companies while the company also added to the number of prospective job cuts.