UCHE JOMBO RODRIGUEZ TRAVELLED TO AMERICA TO MEET HER HUSBAND.

Nollywood movie producer and actress Uche Jombo has temporarily relocated to the United States of America to be with her husband. Uche Jombo’s hubby is a Puerto Rican-American man who currently resides in New York . Uche and Kenney Rodriguez met online last year and got married in May. She left the shores of Nigeria on Tuesday the 15th of October 2013 after the completion of her Unconditional and Under My Skin movies. Uche Jombo at the departure lounge of MMIA in Ikeja, Lagos Uche was photographed at the departure lounge of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, together with several other Nollywood stars, who will be attending an award ceremony in the US. According to sources, the actress made the move in order to set her marital life in order and to start a family. She is likely to return to Nigeria in late 2014. “ 'Special one'. ‘Waiting for my flight’ ” Uche Jombo said in a tweet. The actress who arrived New York on Wednesday has travelled to Texas. Wishing her a nice stay in the US.

FEMI ADEBAYO A.K.A JELILI SET TO DROP A SONG

Femi Adebayo popularly called Jelili, talented
Nollywood movie producer and actor
Femi Adebayo has dropped a new
comedy music video tagged ‘Fuji
Tabi Theatre‘.
The premiere of the highly
anticipated musical video will hold
at Anchor Events Centre in
Agidingbi, Ikeja Lagos on Sunday
November 10th, 2013
Femi Adebayo shot the musicals
recently at a location in Omole Phase
II, Lagos.
The video features Wasiu Alabi
Pasuma, Sefiu Alao, Sanyeri, Adebayo
Salami, Golugo, Dayo Amusa, Funsho
Adeolu, Ronke Oshodi Oke and other
many other Nollywood movie stars.

D' BANJ HEADLINES HENNESSY ARTISTRY FINALE

This year’s Hennessy Artistry has
finally reached its peak. The music
project, which has been on for four
months will end today 19 October with
a concert.
This year’s show promises
exceptional activities lined up for
guests who will attend the event
holding at the Marquee of the
Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island,
Lagos.
The finale, which will be headlined
by D’Banj, will also feature Olamide,
Phyno, Seyi Shay, Pucado, K-Switch,
Chidinma, Vector, Sean Tizzle and
Show Dem Camp.
“The journey through the campaign
is one to always remember.
Hennessy Artistry 2013 has come a
long way and will round up
tomorrow. So if you love Hennessy
and Banger Lee, expect great things
only at the finale,” D’Banj asserted.

Adding his voice, Phyno said: “This
finale will be wild. The club tour was
a great experience for me, so I know
this finale will be out of this world.”
Among the exciting packages
planned for this event are the two
massive DJ booths which will be
built in the centre of the hall for the
first ever DJ battle of the year.
DJ Neptune, DJ Xclusive and DJ
Humility will battle live on stage
and try to outshine each other with
their different blends of hit tracks in
their amazing selection of jams
which represents what Hennessy
Artistry stands for, the art of
blending.
“The whole idea is to make this
year’s finale bigger and better than
last year’s. All plans have been put
in place for Saturday and our
objective is to create a lasting
memory for our guests…it should be
an exciting party,” said Lere
Awokoya, Brand manager, Hennessy
Nigeria.

ASUU STRIKE HAS INCREASED PROSTITUTION.

COALITION of Civil Society Organizations, Market women and students have staged a protest with placards of different inscriptions at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, over the continuous strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, alleging that the strike has increased prostitution in the country. The group which noted that the strike was entering the fourth month appealed to the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC and appealed to the union to call off the strike in the interest of Nigerians. Some of the placards read, “ASUU please save our young girls from prostitution, NLC, TUC and NUPENG mediate now, Stop playing politics with our future, This ASUU strike has lost its tactics, ASUU please save our future.” Though, the group in some of the placards had accused the striking university teachers of being selfish and too rigid in their demands, in what looked like a contradiction, the groups also said that the demands were germane and for the good of the education system. Delivering a letter to the NLC President at the Labour House, the leader of the protest and Executive Director of Conscience Nigeria, Comrade Tosin Adeyanju said that they decided to embark on the protest to appeal to the labour leaders to mediate on the lingering face-off between ASUU and the Federal Government that had led to the continuous closure of public universities in the country. Comrade Adeyanjul said, “We embarked on this protest today to further appeal to all major stakeholders in the Nigeria project and we deem it fit to come to the labour house because of the strategic importance that labour represents in this country. “For almost 100 days, our students, our dependants, our children have been locked out of our ivory towers and nothing has changed. We are here to appeal to the labour leaders in this country to come and mediate on the lingering and prolonged ASUU strikes. “We are not unaware on the germane and relevant issues raised by ASUU, there is need for our institutions to be revitalized, there is need for improved research, there is need for improved allowance, there is need for infrastructural development in ivory towers, but all over the world no country has been able to meet the demands of labour unions 100 per cent.”

“With the information available to us, we are aware that the federal government proposed and has given ASUU a 100 billion initial fund requested for different issues in the various universities. We are aware that ASUU appealed for more money to be given on the earned allowance and 30 billion was given for earned allowance as at today about 130 billion has been given to ASUU.” Receiving the protesters, President of NLC, Abduwaheed Omar, represented by the Chief Economist of NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo’eson said that the labour leaders had initiated moves by writing to the Federal government about four times on how to mediate but government had not responded to their letters.

TWITTER LAUNCHES ALERT FOR GETTING CRUCIAL INFORMATION DURING EMERGENCY

Twitter has
launched Alerts, a new system designed to
help users get crucial information in the
event of an emergency.
Following on Twitter's implementation of a
similar system called Lifeline in Japan last
year, Alerts is meant to deliver the most
important -- and accurate -- information from
"credible organizations during emergencies,
natural disasters or moments when other
communications services aren't accessible."
The new system makes sense because Twitter
is already seen by many users as the most
reliable way to get real-time information
about breaking news, emergencies, and other
events. Giving users a way to get the most
reliable information from the most credible
agencies is a natural extension of that
common use case.
If you sign up to receive an account's
Twitter Alerts, you will receive a
notification directly to your phone
whenever that account marks a tweet as
an alert. Notifications are delivered via
SMS, and if you use Twitter for iPhone
or Twitter for Android, you'll also
receive a push notification. Alerts also
appear differently on your home
timeline from regular tweets; they will
be indicated with an orange bell.
The system is meant to allow users to sign
up for alerts from a wide variety of public
and private organizations that would be
putting out critical information via tweets
during an emergency. Users have to opt in
for alerts from each such agency. So, for
example, to get alerts from the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, a user
would need to go to FEMA's Alerts page and
click on the "Activate Alerts from @fema"
button.
Twitter has so far added a variety of national
and local organizations in the United States,
Japan, and Korea. In the US, those include
the American Red Cross, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, the US
Department of Homeland Security, and many
others. Twitter said it will add more agencies
over time.

APPLE TRIMMING IPHONE 5 PRODUCTION

Following multiple reports in recent days claiming Apple's trimming iPhone 5C
production, comes another. NPD
DisplaySearch on Friday said that Apple has
trimmed iPhone 5C production by 35 percent,
while boosting production of the pricier
iPhone 5S by 75 percent to catch up with
demand.
To recap, the iPhone 5C is basically last
year's iPhone 5, but with a colorful plastic
back and slightly different cellular antennas.
The iPhone 5S is the company's new top-of-
the-line iPhone, with a 64-bit processor, new
camera, and dual-LED flash, along with a
Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the home
button.
Both devices went on sale last month and
led to record-breaking opening weekend
sales. Between the two, the 5S has been
tougher to come by, with new buyers facing
several weeks of wait time through Apple's
online store and with carrier partners, while
there's no waiting on the 5C.
Adding to its figures, NPD says Apple
misfired with the iPhone 5C's launch timing
in China, releasing the device when many
shoppers were expecting deep discounts from
local carriers, which had to pick which
phones to subsidize.

GOOGLE WILL NOW SELL FACEBOOK ADS

Despite the longtime, full-blown rivalry
between Google and Facebook, it looks like
the two Internet behemoths may finally be
coming to terms with each other -- at least
when it comes to serving up ads on the
Internet.
Google announced Friday that its DoubleClick
unit will soon let its ad clients buy ads on
Facebook.
This means that starting in a few months,
clients will be able to buy inventory on
Facebook Exchange (FBX), the social network's
retargeted ads platform, via DoubleClick's
Bid Manager.
FBX's retargeted ads take into account
people's browsing behavior outside Facebook,
as captured through cookies, with the aim of
offering up messages about products they've
already shown interest in.
"Partnership has been key to Google's
success as a rising tide lifts all boats. So
we're excited to announce a new way to help
our clients succeed by working with Facebook
to participate in FBX, their real-time bidding
exchange," Payam Shodjai, DoubleClick senior
product manager, wrote in a blog post.
Google's announcement about the
partnership was brief -- a mere four
paragraphs -- and on the outset, it might not
appear to be deserving of much hype, but it
means a lot to those in the tech advertising
space.
When FBX was launched earlier this year,
Google was noticeably absent from the group
of ad tech companies that were welcomed to
the platform -- it was an obvious snub
toward the biggest player in the ad tech
industry.
It's not entirely clear why they've decided to
partner now -- but the agreement will
undoubtedly benefit both parties.
DoubleClick is a powerhouse in the online
advertising industry. And FBX is an enticing
offering for ad buyers who are looking for an
entry into the online playground of
Facebook's 1 billion-plus users.

FACEBOOK SETS NEW PRIVACY OPTION FOR TEENAGERS

Facebook on Thursday made two seemingly contradictory changes
to its settings for teen users. On one hand, it narrowed the audience that can see teens’ posts by default; at the same time, however, it made it
possible for the first time for teens
to open up their posts to the public
at large. Until now, the default
audience for posts made by kids
aged 13 through 17 was “friends of
friends,” and kids had the option to
change it. Now, the initial setting
will be the narrower set of “friends.”
Drop your comments below if you're a teenager on facebook.