Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a private, nonprofit, coeducational, and nonsectarian university situated between Manchester and Hooksett, New Hampshire, in the United States. The university is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, along with national accreditations for some hospitality, health, education and business degrees.


SNHU is best known for its online programs, which have made it one of the country's fastest-growing universities.

Ghanaian president, Akufo-Addo has reacted to the trending video of a police officer in the country beating a nursing mother at a bank. The president says he has given his full support to the Inspector General of Police in Ghana to deal decisively with the erring police officer.

”Policemen are meant to protect citizens not to assault citizens. The message that the IGP has taken to sanction the erring policeman and and to try and make sure that these things don’t happen again, they have my complete support. I support 100% the measures he has taken so that we can stop these incidents from proliferating” he said.

A French priest has been suspended from “all baptism and marriage celebrations” after a viral video showed him slapping a baby on the face during a baptism ceremony, the diocese said.
Father Jacque Lacroix, 89, a priest who belonged to the Meaux Diocese, became a viral sensation after a YouTube video showed him giving a baby a slap on the cheek. The video, which has been viewed more than 5 million times, sparked backlash from viewers.

The diocese released a statement on Friday regarding the viral video, saying that Lacroix has been suspended.

“This short video is an excerpt from the celebration during which the baby cries a lot. The elderly priest loses his temper and slaps the child. Aware of this inappropriate gesture, the priest apologized to the family at the end of the baptism,” the statement read.

The diocese then announced that Lacroix was “suspended from all baptism and marriage celebrations.”

“On Friday, June 22, Bishop Nahmias, Bishop of Meaux, took provisional measures to ensure that the priest was suspended from all baptism and marriage celebrations. These measures also require him not to intervene on the Collegiate Church of Champeaux now and to celebrate masses only at the express request of the parish priest,” the statement concluded.


Lacroix spoke to France Info radio about the video, referring to the hit as “something between a caress and a little slap,” AFP reported.

“The child was bawling and I needed to turn his head so I could pour the water. I was saying ‘be quiet’ but he wouldn’t calm down,” Lacroix said. “It was something between a caress and a little slap. I was trying to calm him down, I didn’t really know what to do.”

The video made the rounds on Reddit, YouTube and Twitter. It was not immediately clear when the video was recorded.

Facebook has suspended another analytics firm that harvested public data from its platform pending a full investigation into the company’s practices.

Crimson Hexagon, a Boston-based firm that produces consumer insights powered by AI, claims to have a repository of over 1 trillion public social media posts from companies such as Twitter and Facebook.

On Friday, the tech giant said it was suspending the analytics firm from Facebook and Instagram while it probes any potential violations.

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“We are investigating the claims about Crimson Hexagon to see if they violated any of our policies,” Ime Archibong, VP of Product Partnerships for Facebook, said in a statement. “Facebook has a responsibility to help protect people’s information which is one of the reasons why we have tightened our APIs significantly over the last few years.”

Chris Bingham, Crimson Hexagon’s chief technology officer, confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that the company is cooperating with Facebook’s inquiry and that the two firm’s teams are already meeting up.

Crimson Hexagon, which pulls publicly available data from users’ social media profiles on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere, lists on its website a range of big companies as customers—including Samsung, BBC, Walmart and GM. Although Facebook has come under fire in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal, its users may or may not be aware that, unless their settings are “private,” a lot of what they post, click on and share to the platform can be seen by the public.

Those posts, likes and tweets, which add up to a vast amount of data, can then be used by companies or government agencies trying to discern a person’s voting preferences or their consumer habits, for example. Post the Cambridge Analytica fallout, many Americans are not aware of how their data is harnessed for a myriad of purposes.

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According to The Journal, Crimson Hexagon sold its proprietary analytics platform in countries including Russia and Turkey, and it worked for a nonprofit known as the Civil Society Development Foundation to study Russians’ opinions of President Vladimir Putin.

In addition, U.S. government agencies have reportedly paid Crimson Hexagon more than $800,000 for 22 different contracts, including one last month with the State Department worth $240,000, The Journal reported.

In a blog post, Bingham emphasized that his company only accesses public data and that “under no circumstances” is surveillance a permitted use for governments using its platform.

Developers are not permitted to build surveillance tools using information from its platform, Facebook confirmed to Fox News. The company has also not yet found that Crimson Hexagon obtained data inappropriately.

Also, there are no allegations of wrongdoing on the part of the government agencies that contracted with Crimson Hexagon.

Popular mobile games such as "Clash of Clans," "Clash Royale" and "Marvel Contest of Champions" are being used to launder money, according to a new report from a German cybersecurity company.

In its report Kromtech notes that more than 20,000 credit cards were stolen from April 2018 to June 2018.

"Money laundering through the Apple AppStore or Google Play isn’t a new idea and has been done before," said Kromtech communications director Alexander Kernishniuk in the blog post announcing the findings.

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The aforementioned games were likely easy targets for thieves because of their size and scale. According to Kromtech, there are more than 250 million aggregate users for the three games, which generate a combined $330 million in annual revenue.

The thieves steal the credit card data, make purchases and then resell the accounts with the purchases to a third-party, so they have no connection to the stolen credit cards.

"The resources even maintain value after purchase, because in many cases, once bought, they can be traded, adding to the game play," said Kromtech Security head of communications Bob Diachenko. "The game itself can also be transferred from one account to another. Because of this, resources gathered or bought and games built to advanced levels can also be resold.  It is the selling of these on third party markets that holds the door open to the illicit activity that we found taking place."

News of Kromtech's findings was first reported by Variety.

It's fairly simple for thieves to get the data they need. Apple IDs are needed to make purchases, but they only need items like a password, date of birth, security questions, and an email address.

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"E-mail accounts are also very easy to create with a few providers requiring little in the way of verification," Kromtech wrote in its blog. "Combined, the carders were able to automate the account creation process, as you’ll see, allowing them to create accounts on a large scale."

Kromtech initially found stolen data on hacked MongoDB databases and from there, dug deeper, only to find that the database "appeared to belong to credit card thieves (commonly known as carders) and that it was relatively new, only a few months old."

Kromtech said it has sent its findings to the Department of Justice and is advising developers and Apple to make their systems more secure.

"Service providers need to meet today’s realities and properly secure their account creation process from abuse by automated tools," Kromtech wrote in its post. "Apple and the e-mail providers used did not do enough to protect against this kind of abuse."

The company continued: "Game makers could do a better job of policing their policies along with tracking and pursuing abusers. Apple could do the same."

When Nintendo launched the Switch and sales were much better than anyone expected, it looked as thought the 3DS was on life support. Surely sales would drop off quickly for the seven-year-old handheld now a portable console was available, right? Well, they didn't, and Nintendo is considering a new handheld to replace it.

Confirmation of that comes from Shuntaro Furukawa, Nintendo's new president. Furukawa has been an employee of Nintendo since 1994, starting out as an accountant before moving into global marketing, then working as a director with The Pokemon Company, and being involved in Switch development. He took on the role of president last month.

As Nintendo Everything reports, Furukawa explained that "the 3DS has certain advantages over the Switch such as ease of purchase and the like" and that Nintendo is "considering various possibilities" for a successor. The 3DS is certainly cheaper than the Switch, which makes it more desirable to those gaming on a budget or to parents with young children. It's also much easier to slide in a pocket and has battery life Switch owners can only dream of. In terms of sales, the 3DS went past 72 million units in April and new games are planned for 2019.

Although there's clearly no firm commitment from Nintendo yet, it will be interesting to see what, if anything, the company creates to replace the 3DS. I'd bet money on it retaining backwards compatibility with the 3DS and keeping the two screen format to differentiate it from the Switch. The internals and displays are well overdue a major update, though. Could we get a couple of 720p displays? And what will Nintendo call this new handheld?

Narrating the challenges he encountered while studying in Babcock, the Ogun state native says he almost dropped out of school because he was unable to pay his tuition fee.

t is a twist of fate for Micheal Agbojo, a former school drop out who eventually became the overall best graduating student a Babcock University.

Graduating with a GPA of 4.97

Becoming a dropout

From Rapper to Christian then Babcock

Professor Kelvin Etta says Nigerian lecturers are responsible for the falling standard of education.

Following the Executive Order by the President Donald Trump last Friday, Nigerians may be denied American entry visas.
If the Federal Government does not take a proactive visa policy review, Nigerians will no longer be issued with US visas which have two-year validity.

Also, Nigerians who hold dual nationality will be affected if their other passport is from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen — the seven Muslim-majority countries “of concern”.

According to an analysis of the Executive Order done by TheCable, at least two sections will affect Nigerians directly.

Nigeria issues one-year multiple-entry visa to Americans, which is a non-reciprocation of the two-year visa the US issues to Nigerians.

Although Nigeria also issues two-year visas to Americans, the continued issuance of one-year visas falls short of the US policy of issuing a minimum of two-year visas to Nigerians. This little detail may now be reciprocated by the Trump administration.

Section 9 of the Executive Order states: "The Secretary of State shall review all nonimmigrant visa reciprocity agreements to ensure that they are, with respect to each visa classification, truly reciprocal insofar as practicable with respect to validity period and fees, as required by sections 221(c) and 281 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1201(c) and 1351, and other treatment. If a country does not treat United States nationals seeking nonimmigrant visas in a reciprocal manner, the Secretary of State shall adjust the visa validity period, fee schedule, or other treatment to match the treatment of United States nationals by the foreign country, to the extent practicable…"

By this provision, except the federal government quickly moves to extend the validity of Nigerian visa to Americans, Nigerians too will be issued with one-year visas.

Given that the Trump order takes immediate effect, Nigerians holding valid two-year US visa are most likely going to be affected, the report says.

Nigeria is also not reciprocating the fees charged by the American government — despite shorter visa validity.

While the US charges Nigerians $160 for a typical visit visa, Nigeria charges $180, in addition to a $35 "processing fee".

The section on dual nationality involving seven Muslim-majority countries is not expected to affect a significant number of Nigerians because a second citizenship of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen is not common.

Many Nigerians, including government officials, hold dual nationality with either the US or Europe.

But Nigerians who have recently visited Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen may be subjected to extra immigration control with possible deportation.

The average Nigerian student entering tertiary institution whether University or College, is most likely going to be between 15 and 19 years old. 

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UNIBEN Post-UTME registration, screening date, cut-off mark, application cost, deadline and other relevant details have been announced. Cut-off mark is 200. The screening holds 27th July, 2018 and 11th, August, 2018. Registration deadline is July 22nd, 2018.

The University of Benin (UNIBEN) Admission Screening Exercise for 2018/2019 Academic Session; will take place between 27th July, 2018 and 11th August, 2018 in designated centres within the Ugbowo Campus of the University.

The Screening Exercise shall be conducted using the Computer Based Test (CBT) mode. The Post-UTME past questions are available. Get yours now by clicking here
All candidates are expected to be seated, latest one hour before the stipulated time for their screening exercise. PLEASE NOTE: Only candidates who applied through JAMB for the 2018/2019 UTME Admission and chose University of Benin as First Choice and scored 200 and above are eligible for this Screening Exercise.
METHOD OF APPLICATION:
All applications should be made between 8.00am 4th July 2018 and Midnight of 22nd July 2018.
The procedure for the Admission Screening Application is as follows:
Candidates are advised to have a valid e-mail account before starting the application process.

1. Visit uniben.edu
2. Click on WAEUP Student Portal
3. Click on Register for application at the top left of the displayed page to
4. Enter your Surname exactly as written on the JAMB Registration slip and your JAMB Registration Number immediately, your ID and Password will be displayed on the
5. On the WAEUP KOFA Student Portal lick on ‘Login’ (top right of front page).
6. Enter your Username and the password to
7. To start the application process, please click on ‘Application record’, provide all required information and upload your passport
8. Upload a RECENT and CLEAR “1x1” COLOUR PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPH WITH RED BACKGROUND IN JPEG FORMAT ONLY. Great care should also be taken to follow the specified formats on the UNIBEN website and portal. NOTE that the photograph uploaded will be the only valid ID  for  all  admitted  candidates  throughout  their  stay  in  the  University  of  FAILURE TO UPLOAD THE SPECIFIED PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPH WILL LEAD TO DISQUALIFICATION and failure/forfeiture of admission.
9. To pay for the Application, click on “Add online payment ticket” at the bottom of the page, then click on “Pay Via Remita” on the top left corner of the page, follow the instruction to pay the application fee of N 2,000:00; with a valid ATM-Enabled Card from any Commercial Bank in Nigeria
10. Preview and confirm your information before submitting your application online. (No correction will be accepted after the closing date).

1. Go back online on the appointed date to print out the acknowledgement slip that contains your specific screening

The grouping of courses for Screening.

S/N	GROUP	COURSE CATEGORIES / FACULTY
1	SOCIAL SCIENCES	Social Sciences
		Management Sciences
		Education – Social Sciences
		Education – Management Sciences
		Mathematics and Economics
		Statistics
2	PHYSICAL SCIENCES	Engineering
		Environmental Science
		Physical Sciences
		Education – Physical Sciences
		Technical Education
3	LIFE SCIENCES	Medicine
		Dentistry
		Basic Medical Sciences
		Pharmacy
		Life Sciences
		Education Life Sciences
		Agriculture
4	ARTS	Law
		Arts
		Education Arts

Candidates should go back on-line on 25th July, 2018 to check for their specific Day, Venue and Time for the Screening
NOTE that GSM phones and calculators are NOT allowed.
Closing Date:
Application website closes by midnight of 22nd July, 2018 (i.e. all applications must be concluded online not later than 22nd July 2018).
Candidates who pay after the deadline of Midnight 22nd July 2018 will not be screened. Signed
O. A. Oshodin (Mrs.)