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The Most Effective Way to Advertise a Website: An online tool that will help your business grow faster than ever using ingenious way of harvesting web traffic using social media.

Ladi Kwali, the first and only woman to appear on Nigerian currency: twenty-naira note

Ladi Dosei Kwali (1924 - 1984) is the first and only woman to appear on Nigerian currency: her portrait is on the back of the twenty-naira note.

Ladi was the pioneer of modern pottery in Nigeria. Her first name means "born on Sunday" while her second name is the name of her hometown. She born to Gbagyi parents in the village of Kwali, located in the Gwari region of present-day Abuja, where pottery used to be a common occupation among women. 

Kwali grew up in a family in which the womenfolk made pots for a living. She first came to learn Gwari pottery-making as an apprentice to her aunt, who taught her the Gwarin Yamma techniques of coil and pinch methods of pottery. 

With help from the famed English studio potter, Michael Cardew (Baban Shaku) who had helped launched the Abuja Pottery Training Centre along with Kwali in 1952 and spent the following fifteen years teaching, Kwali came to international prominence for her talents in the 1950s. Prior to the Centre's launch, Kwali had worked as a professional potter, as well as trading and running a shop in Minna, Niger State.

The Emir of Abuja at the time, Alhaji Suleiman Barau, was so enchanted by the exquisite charm and beauty of her work that he bought many of her pieces for his collection. It was during a visit to his palace that Cardew first noticed her works and encouraged her to join the centre.

 When she joined the pottery centre in 1954 as its first woman potter, Kwali was trained in new methods taught there. She became famous for her experimental and innovative works merging the Gwari style she was proficient at with the modern techniques, creating glazed dishes, bowls and beakers, with stylised animal sgraffito. These are the works for which she is best known and they were a great asset to the growth in the popularity of Abuja pottery outside Africa.

Through Kwali's contact with Cardew, she and her work became known in Europe and America and she became a very popular member of the Centre's touring lecture team of the Centre. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, her work was shown to great acclaim in London at the Berkeley Galleries. Kwali remained associated with the Abuja Pottery Training Centre works until her death. She gave lectures and demonstrations at home and abroad on her craft for the duration of her career. 

The Abuja Training Pottery Centre was renamed the Ladi Kwali Pottery Centre, and major roads in Abuja and Niger State are named after her.

She received a number of other honours in her lifetime. She was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1963 and was awarded an honorary degree byAhmadu Bello University in 1977. Her pottery was also displayed during Nigeria's independence celebrations in 1960. In 1980, the Nigerian Government invested her with the insignia of the Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA), the highest national honour for academic achievement.  

Following the death of Cardew in 1983, Kwali died on August 12, 1984 at the age of 59 in Minna, leaving a great legacy in her work. 

Mark Zuckerberg lashes back at Trump's "Facebook is anti-trump" claim

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg lashes back at President Donald Trump tweet on Wednesday morning, after he criticized the social network.

In a post on Facebook, Mark said the claims of Trump are the opposite of what liberals and the media argued following his election.

“Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like. That's what running a platform for all ideas looks like," he wrote. 

Mark's response came on the same day that Facebook, Google, and Twitter have been asked to testify before Congress on November 1st, where they’ll face questions about Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election and how it might have used their platforms to spread misinformation in an attempt to influence the outcome.

But he admitted he had underestimated the impact of misinformation on the election.

“After the election, I made a comment that I thought the idea misinformation on Facebook changed the outcome of the election was a crazy idea,” he wrote. “Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it. This is too important an issue to be dismissive. 

"Facebook was always anti-Trump.The Networks were always anti-Trump hence,Fake News, @nytimes(apologized) & @WaPo were anti-Trump. Conclusion@?'' Trump tweets..

He listed the positive impacts of the site during the election – including get out the vote efforts and the fact that every candidate had a page to promote their own ideas and interact directly with voters and added that facebook is under intense pressure to do more to help stop the spread of “fake news”.

Uganda passes Presidential Age Limit Removal Bill

Uganda parliament in a heated session on Tuesday made their first move towards the removal of presidential age limit in favour of the 5times elected President  Yoweri Museveni 73, who is ineligible to stand in the next polls in 2021 in accordance with the existing constitution which states  that a person standing for president must be under 75 years of age.

This move triggered widespread opposition from civil rights activists and religious leaders, university students, as opposition politicians were seen brawling for a second consecutive day.

Tension escalated in parliament for the second day over the debate, backed by members of Museveni's National Resistance Movement (NRM) party as punches were thrown and benches clambered over which resulted to the barring of 25 legislators by Speaker Rebecca Kadaga after engaging in another brawl on the same issue on Tuesday.

Despite the disagreements, the bill was passed after the leader of the parliamentary opposition, Winnie Kiiza of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), led a walk-out.

China orders the shut down of North Korean companies in the country

Following the UN sanctions over Pyongyang’s latest nuclear missile tests, Chinese Government have ordered North Korean companies in the country to shut down by January.

China’s ministry of commerce said today that North Korean firms and joint ventures firms in China will be shut within 120 days of the UN decision, which was announced on 12 September.

Beijing had previously ordered banks to stop working with the North Korean regime following US concerns the Chinese government wasn’t being tough enough on the North Korean nuclear threat.

China is North Korea’s main ally and trading partner, responsible for around 90 percent of the hermit nation's commerce. making the success of UN sanctions dependent upon Beijing’s cooperation, and the latest sanctions are a clear indication of China’s growing frustration at Kim Jong Un’s regime.

Founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner dies at 91 in Los Angeles

Founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner, on  Wednesday died at age 91 at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, surrounded by loved ones, as stated by the magazine. 

Playboy Mansion also known as the Playboy Mansion West was the former home of Hugh Hefner. In Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, near Beverly Hills, the mansion became famous during the 1970s through media reports of Hefner's lavish parties.

Hefner was an American magazine publisher, editor, businessman, and playboy. He was best known as the editor-in-chief and publisher of Playboy magazine, which he founded in 1953. He was also the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, the publishing group that operates the magazine. Hefner was also a political activist and philanthropist in several causes and public issues. He was born in 1929, April 9.