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Effective ways to protect your accounts while transacting online

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Online banking, by computer or phone, is now as common a way to access your accounts as stopping at an Automated Teller Machine, with many bank depositors making it a habit, according to www.nerdwallet.com. But you know who else loves online banking? Hackers. After all, it is easier to steal someone’s money from far away than while standing in line at the teller window. Banks are beefing up their security systems to fight cybercrime: More than 70 per cent of bank executives say they have increased their annual budgets in this area, according to a banker survey. But consumers also have a role to play. Here are five steps to take to protect your accounts so you can bank securely online. Ask for two-factor authentication When you log in to a website, you prove who you are by entering a username and a password. That is one factor. With two-factor authentication, you are asked to enter another piece of identification such as a temporary code. The bank would email or text you the
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38 Nigerian universities increase their school fees (SEE new amounts)

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The average Nigerian would normally go to a federal university because of the affordability. However, even the federal university are starting to hike their prices, leaving many scared about the future of education for the average man in Nigeria. There have been changes in school fees of some institutions, below is a table of such changes according to Vanguard: Institution Old fees New fees 1. UNILAG N14,500 N63,500 2. ABU N27,000 N41,000 3. UNN N60,450 N66,950 4. OAU N19,700 N57,700 5. UNIZIK N20,100 N65,920 6. BUK N26,000 N40,000 7. UNIABUJA N39,300 N42,300 8. UDU N32,000 N43,000 9. NOUN N36,000 N41,000 10. UNIBEN N12,000 N49,500 11. UNILORIN N16,000 N75,500 12. FUTA N13,560 N83,940 13. FUTMINNA N20,000 N37,000 14. FUNAAB N18,250 N33,000 15. UNICAL N30,500 N42,750 16. UNIUYO N71,000 N84,250 17. FCET Akoka N16,000 N40,000 18. Osun Varsity N95,000 N135,500 19. ANSU N76,000 N139,000 20. LASU N96,750 N158,250 21. IBBU N25000 N52,000 22. IM
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SHOCKER!!! UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI student caught trying to force a baby down the toilet.

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Just in UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI Female Student Caught Trying To Force New Born Baby Down The Toilet. A female student of University of Maiduguri, was caught trying to force down the toilet a new born baby she gave birth to. She killed the little Baby herself, then tried to force her down the toilet before she was caught. Incident took place at Murtala female Hostel. Why are some ladies so wicked? They are not ready to have kids but they keep running after men instead of paying attention to their books.
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Facebook updates safety check with advanced features.

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In a bid to build a safe community for millions of subscribers on its platform, Facebook has announced new updates to Safety Check to make it an even more relevant and useful experience in times of crisis. Helping to keep the community safer means everything to Facebook as it hopes that these updates to Safety Check continue to do just that. The platform’s Safety Check has notified people that their families and friends are safe more than a billion times across the world. As part of their ongoing commitment to build a safe community, the platform will announce several updates to Safety Check. Following a crisis, one-way people give and request help is through fundraising. To make this easier, Facebook is introducing Fundraisers in Safety Check. Within Safety Check, people will be able to create or donate to a fundraiser for charitable and personal causes to help those in need. Fundraising provides a way for people who are also outside of the crisis area to offer help. Fundraisers i
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Top 5 things you can do with facebook messenger

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Facebook messenger is world's most popular messaging app as we all know. The company has made it a standalone product, one that doesn’t even require a Facebook account. You can send messages to people in your phone book and just enter a phone number to add a new contact. You probably think Facebook messenger is about sending messages to family and friends right? No, you can do all sorts of things with it as well, things you didn't realize you could do. And we have selected top five things you can do with Facebook Messenger. 1. Send Someone Money On Facebook messenger Yes, this is one of the cool things you can do with the world's most popular messaging app. Facebook Messenger allows users to send and receive money from other users, making it a very convenient way to send a friend money you own them or to receive money they owe you. in order for this to work, you must have the latest version of the messenger app. How To Send Or Receive Money On Facebook Messenger Alot
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Meet the young Nigerian graduate who rejected Bill Gates job offer.

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Chris Kwekowe, a young Nigerian entrepreneur reportedly turn down a job offer be a software engineer at Microsoft, owned by the richest man in the world, Bill Gates to begin his own start-up in Lagos. The twenty-three years old Lagos university graduate proudly revealed this to Bill Gates during a television interview for Africa’s brightest young entrepreneurs in August 2016, according to Vanguard. He said he did so, to build up his own website called Slatecube– a website aimed at curbing Nigeria`s unemployment problem. “When I told him, Gates was intrigued and he smiled. After the programme, all the directors were like, ‘Dude, you mean you actually turned down a job at Microsoft and had the guts to tell Bill Gates?’” According to reports, a survey of 90,000 young Nigerians which was done in January 2016 discovered that 45% of college graduates didn’t have jobs with key reason on lack of professional skills such as: critical thinking, entrepreneurship, and decision-making. He not
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I had friends who encouraged me not to give up –Adeniji, BOWEN first-class graduate

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Despite starting with what she termed a not-so-good result and was fast losing interest in giving her academics all it required, Adeniji Adeola eventually graduated with first class, the grade she had always wanted. In this interview with TUNDE AJAJA, the 20-year-old who had 4.51 CGPA from the Department of Computer Science, BOWEN University, Iwo, Osun State in the 2015/2016 academic session talks about her journey through school and what kept her going Do you recall what first attracted you to Computer Science? I was interested in the idea that it made work a lot easier and it evolves on a daily basis. You get to explore the ideas you have on your mind and see them come to life. Computer Science is one field of study where you actually enjoy what you are doing and you require little physical effort or resources to achieve so much. These things attracted me to the course. Actually, I applied to study accounting. Upon resumption, I was informed that I could not study the course be
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