Though there is enough credit on your SIM card but you are having a hard time sending text messages as you keep receiving a notification like ‘sending failed’ or ‘message sending error’. Though the issue might evolve from ‘bad network signal’ but more than not, it could also be due to wrong or incomplete message center number.

So, if you have been experiencing this problem time and again, you should just check [via the message setting] to see if there is no figure missing from the message center number or whether the one you have on your phone corresponds to that of your network service provider. In essence, you do not have to pay a dime to any technician or go through the ‘assiduous’ task of waiting on a customer care attendant to get this (problem) resolved.

It is in this regard that I wrap this short write-up with the correct message center number of different network providers:-

Airtel: +2348020000009
MTN: +2348030000000
GLO: +2348050001501
9Mobile: +2348090001518

Pakistans former cricket hero Imran Khan is on his way to becoming the countrys next prime minister, as results of Wednesdays election trickled in Thursday.

However, incumbent party has rejected the early election results and suggested blatant rigging.

Shahbaz Sharif, the leader of the Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), dismissed results as counting was still underway.

Today what they have done has pushed Pakistan back 30 years We reject this result, Sharif, the brother of Pakistans jailed ex-leader Nawaz Sharif, told a press conference in Lahore.

People will not bear it, he added.

The election has been marred by widespread allegations of pre-poll meddling by the powerful military in favour of Khan, which saw the process dubbed Pakistans dirtiest election.

As election workers sorted through massive piles of paper ballots, other major parties including the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) also alleged the count was being manipulated.

My candidates complaining polling agents have been thrown out of polling stations across the country, tweeted PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, adding: Inexcusable

Facebook Incs shares lost as much as a quarter of their value on Wednesday after executives said that profit margins would plummet for several years due to the costs of improving privacy safeguards and slowing usage in the biggest advertising markets.

The second-quarter results were the first sign that a new European privacy law and a succession of privacy scandals involving Cambridge Analytica and other app developers have bit into Facebooks business.

The company further warned that the toll would not be offset by revenue growth from emerging markets and Facebooks Instagram app, which has been more immune from privacy concerns.

Facebooks fortunes shifted in under two hours as the company first reported revenue and user growth that missed expectations and then issued warnings about future growth and expenses.

Operating profit margin, which fell to 44 percent in the second quarter from 47 percent a year ago, will sink to the mid-30s for more than two years, Chief Financial Officer David Wehner said in investor guidance.

The plummeting stock price wiped out as much as $150 billion in market capitalization and erased the stocks gains since April when Facebook announced a surprisingly strong 63 percent rise in profit and an increase in users.

If the share drop holds on Thursday, it would be Facebooks largest single-day decline, topping a 12 percent decrease in July 2012.

Nasdaq futures dropped 0.85 percent late on Wednesday, suggesting the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite index would fall when trading opens on Thursday morning. Facebooks results prompted selling in other Nasdaq listings, including media and advertising rivals Amazon.com Inc, Netflix Inc and Alphabet Inc.

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Facebook had cautioned investors to expect a big jump in second-quarter costs because of efforts to address concerns about poor handling of users privacy and to better monitor what users post. Total expenses in the second quarter surged to $7.4 billion, up 50 percent compared with a year ago.

Facebook forecast similar increases for the second half of the year, also citing spending on video content and marketing.

Its gloomy forecast for revenue growth surprised investors, though, and prompted many questions from financial analysts on a conference call with company executives on Wednesday.

Sales in the second quarter grew 42 percent, its slowest pace in nearly three years, to $13.2 billion compared with $9.3 billion a year ago.

Wehner said quarterly revenue growth would be closer to 30 percent the rest of the year.

He cited currency fluctuations and a shift in usage to features where Facebook shows less advertising or charges less due to lower demand.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union also will cause a revenue drop. The new privacy law forced several changes to Facebooks privacy terms and sign-up process, leading a minority of users to opt for non-personalized ads, which tend to generate less revenue.

Theyre talking about currency headwinds, but more we think its due to slower user growth given GDPR and more focus on privacy, Morningstar analyst Ali Mogharabi said.

Facebooks daily active users in Europe declined by 3 million amid the new regulation. Worldwide daily user growth for Facebooks namesake service slid for its sixth straight quarter, bringing it to nearly 1.5 billion users in the second quarter.

The company said for the first time that more than 2.5 billion users interact with at least one of its apps each month, but analysts have said many of them are spending more time with Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram. Commercialization of those apps is nascent.

Revenue from emerging markets has not picked up the slack either. Sales from United States, Canada and Europe fell $75 million in the second quarter compared with a year ago, while revenue from other markets rose $51 million.

Gene Munster, a venture capitalist at Loup Ventures, said in an email that Facebook is entering a new period where declining user growth will translate to slower revenue growth.

He added that Facebook has a track record of resetting revenue growth and expense expectations only to turn around and exceed those expectations the following quarter.

Facebook reported $5.1 billion in profit, or $1.74 per share, compared with the average estimates of $5.1 billion and $1.72 per share among research gathered by Thomson Reuters.

The threat of additional privacy regulatory setbacks remains a concern, according to analysts.

Facebook suffered a blow in China on Wednesday when regulators there withdrew their approval of a company innovation hub to support local startups, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Misinformation on WhatsApp contributing to mob killings in India have added to the pressure on Facebook to re-evaluate how its services maintain security and decorum.

Nearly all social media services have received greater scrutiny since U.S. intelligence agencies in January 2017 revealed that organizations tied to the Russian government had seeded content on the platform to shake up the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Senator Dino Melaye was on Wednesday arraigned before the Abuja High Court sitting in Apo by the police and was granted bail in the sum of N5 million.

The lawmaker was arraigned on a six count charge of attempted suicide, escape from custody and damage of police property.

The prosecution counsel, Mr. Alex Izinyonu, said Melaye escaped from police custody on April 24, 2018, after he broke the glass on the second window of a bus belonging to the Police, using his left elbow.

The lawmaker was said to have jumped into a waiting vehicle, an action which the police say amounted to an offence punishable under section 327 of the Penal Code Law.

He explained that the defendant while being conveyed in a police vehicle to Lokoja, forced his way out of the bus and escaped.

Melaye, who represents Kogi West senatorial zone, denied committing the offences.

The trial judge, Justice Silvanus Oriji granted him bail in the sum of N5 million.

Oriji also ordered Melaye to produce two sureties in like sum, as part of the bail condition.

The judge also ordered that the sureties must be directors in the civil service, who are resident in the FCT, and depose to affidavits of means.

Senator Melaye is among the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senators that recently defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is in trouble as members of House of Representatives on Wednesday introduced five articles of impeachment against him.

Eleven House Republicans are spearheading the impeachment proceedings.

The impeachment articles accuse Rosenstein of intentionally withholding documents and information from Congress, failure to comply with congressional subpoenas and abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

It was not immediately clear whether the House of Representatives would consider the resolution before lawmakers begin the August recess Thursday afternoon.

The House will reconvene Sept. 4.

The resolution states it will be referred to the Committee, meaning the Judiciary Committee, for further review.

That language suggests the full House will not immediately consider the articles of impeachment.

The articles were introduced by Reps. Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Jim Jordan of Ohio, the chairman and a prominent member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.

I just filed a resolution with @Jim_Jordan and several colleagues to impeach Rod Rosenstein. The DOJ has continued to hide information from Congress and repeatedly obstructed oversighteven defying multiple Congressional subpoenas.

In an exclusive interview on Fox News The Ingraham Angle on Wednesday night, Meadows said it would be possible to effect a so-called privileged resolution on impeaching Rosenstein as early as Thursday morning, which would require a vote within two days, although the impending House recess would likely delay that vote unless it were held quickly.

Both Meadows and Jordan told host Laura Ingraham the effort was long overdue.

For nine months, weve asked for documents, and thats all we want.

Not only have subpoenas been ignored, but information has been hidden, efforts have been stonewalled, Meadows said.

Weve caught the Department of Justice hiding information, redacting information that they should not have redacted, Jordan charged, adding that Rosenstein had attempted to intimidate House staffers with subpoenas.

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The Makurdi High Court has sentenced two persons to death for kidnapping and killing a former Vicar-General of Otukpo Catholic Diocese, Rev. John Alexander Adeyi.

The convicts are Suleiman Goma and Haruna Idi who were slammed with a six count charges.

The court says the convicts conspired and kidnapped Adeiyi, on April 26th, 2016 and took him to Okungaga forest in Okpokwu area of the state where they demanded N2 million and eventually killed him after collecting a ransom of N1.5 million.

The trial judge, Justice Andover Kakaan, said three guns including two pistols and a Dane-gun as well as charms were recovered from the convicts in the forest where they committed the crime.

Justice Kakaan said that one of the two convicts in his statement which was tendered in court admitted that he bought the pistol for the purpose of committing armed robbery and kidnapping.

Justice Kakaan while delivering his judgement advised youths to desist from criminal act and engage in useful ventures.

Reports say that decayed body of the priests was found behind the local government council secretariat, Obu Otukpa.

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The Osun PDPs governorship candidate, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, has been dragged to court by some aggrieved members of the party for alleged non-possession of primary school certificate.

The members are seeking that the court grant an interim order to set aside results of the governorship election that produced Adeleke.

The plaintiffs are also asking the court to grant an order restraining the PDP from presenting Adelekes name to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the September 22nd governorship poll.

When the case came up for mention on Wednesday, July 25, the counsel for the applicants, Mr. Mathew Ayandokun, prayed the court for an interim order setting aside the election of Adeleke.

He also asked the court to stop the INEC from accepting his nomination as the partys flag bearer.

Ayandokun after the court hearing told journalists that his clients were challenging Adeleke in court because he does not possess and has not produced his school leaving certificate.

Adelekes lawyer, Mr. Edmond Biri-Omoni, however, debunked the allegations.

Biri-Omoni, while addressing journalists insisted that his client has a certificate.

He added that it will be proper for him and his client to be put on notice and served with the necessary papers before coming to court.

Justice David Oladimeji adjourned ruling on the application till Thursday, July 26.

Adeleke, a lawmaker representing Osun West district in the National Assembly during the primary held on Saturday, July 21 polled a total of 1,569 votes to beat his closest rival Dr Akin Ogunbiyi who scored 1,562 votes.

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For some weeks now, the dust over the power tussle in the Nigeria Football Federation has been unsettled as a ruling from a civil court was given preference over FIFA statutory regulation – one that has definitely not gone down well with the world’s football governing body. At the frontline of the struggle is Chris Giwa who is having the backing of the Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung – albeit under the guise of respecting court order. With the forceful removal of Amaju Pinnick – who is recognized as NFF president by the Federation of International Football Association – from office, Nigeria football administration has once again been brought under the scrutiny of the disciplinary committee of FIFA, and as such, there have been concerns about an impending ban on Nigeria [as it relates to football].

Chris Giwa is one who is not a stranger to controversies. Back in 2014, he was elected president of the Nigeria Football Federation in an election that was not acknowledged by FIFA but has since been defiant in assuming the position on the basis of that result. In 2016, he was banned by the NFF for seeking redress at a civil court, and the ban was ultimately extended by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and FIFA. So, the question goes that why should the Sports Minister be so much concern about having someone who is on a five-year ban at the helm of affairs? Well, the Minister will probably submit that he is acting in consonance with the orders of the Supreme Court and will not want to go to jail. But then how shall we lose consciousness of the fact the he (the Minister) is a friend to Chris Giwa and has not been in good terms with Amaju Pinnick? I would not know if Mr. Giwa really has any decorum in this respect considering that he is seeking to take charge of an office that is directly affiliated to a body that has frozen out [of football matters] prior to this moment. What sort of relationship is he hoping to enjoy with FIFA? And how will his administration drive the cause for credible development in the nation’s football with FIFA’s hammer hitting the head? It is quite clear to see Chris Giwa is fighting a lost cause – safe you wish to shame the truth.

The event (that is, the NFF crisis) has certainly shown the ugly side of some individuals as well as the judiciary system. There is no denying the fact that the Minister of Sports deserves some stick for the role he has played thus far but the judiciary cannot be left out of this mess either. Should the civil court not have known that the case involving football administration is not her responsibility? The case ought to have been referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sports in the first instance. Moreover, by hearing from one side and passing judgment [and ruling in its favor] thereby, the court showed biasness even as it did
not serve any paper on the Amaju Pinnick’s camp.

Again, it is really disappointing to see Chief Festus Adegboye Onigbinde being nonchalant about what the impending ban could spell for the nation’s football teams and players. It is hard to imagine that the Falconets could have their dream of playing at the U-20 world cup truncated should FIFA eventually ban Nigeria from football activities. Likewise, the Flying Eagles’ participation at the African U-20 Nations Cup, intercontinental club competitions for Nigerian clubs as well as the transfer of Nigerian players abroad will also be jeopardized. But all this seems not to matter an administrator in the caliber of Chief Onigbinde – not good enough, I must say. And while erstwhile Enugu state commissioner for sports, Barrister Ray Nnaji may not see FIFA banning Nigeria, it is important to remind ourselves that FIFA is not governed by Nigerian laws and will not watch things done in a way that contradicts the statutory order without taking punitive measures sooner or later.

It is just as simple as it is; if the Sports Minister along with Chris Giwa are not ready to abide by the rule as stipulated by the governing body [of football administration] then Nigeria definitely has no business competing among the comity of nations. It is however not right for a couple of individuals to ground football development in the country just because of their own self ambition. It is not possible for progress to be made in a state of illegality and/or disorderliness and the sooner the Barrister Dalung realizes this, the better for our football.

The BBC has published a video showing Nigerias top football coach, Salisu Yusuf, caught on camera taking cash from men posing as football agents to two Nigerian players.

The footage was captured by controversial Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in September 2017 and is being broadcast for the first time by BBC Africa Eye.

Yusuf was the first assistant to Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr during the Russian World Cup. And he is due to lead the national team to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

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Nigerias top football coach, Salisu Yusuf, has been caught on camera taking cash. The footage, exposed here for the first time, was captured by controversial Ghanaian investigative journalist and recently handed to .

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According to the video, Yusuf accepted $1,000 from the men posing as football agents to field some unidentified two players.

In his response, Yusuf denied any wrongdoing. He said he did not demand any money and that what he was given, $750 and not $1000, was a gift.

Yusuf also said his selection of players for the African Nations Championship(CHAN) 2018 was based on merit.

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Thirty seven members of the House of Representatives formerly in the fold of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has dumped the party and moved to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and African Democratic Congress (ADC)

The Representatives in a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara officially announced their defection during plenary on Tuesday.

Top on the list of the defectors is the Chairman Committee on Rules and Business Rep. Emmanuel Orker-Jev (Benue).

Of the 37 defectors, 33 went to the PDP while four others from Oyo state moved to ADC.

Other prominent members who dumped the APC include:Sani Rano, Barry Mpigi, Ali madaki, Dickson Tackighir, Hassan Saleh, Danburam Nuhu, Mark Gbilah, Razak Atunwa, Ahmed Garba Bichi, Abdulsamad Dasuk and Zakari Mohammed.

This is coming after 15 senators in the Senate dumped the APC for PDP.

The defection in the house of representatives threw the chamber into a rowdy session as the remaining members of the APC in the House staged a walkout from plenary to address newsmen.

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