THE iCON360 BLOG: 10/02/14

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Education in Edo state: AAU Ekpoma’s 500-seating Capacity Lecture Theatre Commissioned

AAU Ekpoma’s 500-seating Capacity Lecture Theatre Commissioned
Two 500-seating capacity lecture theatres and a block of lecturers’ offices at the Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma has been commissioned by the Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole.
Speaking while commissioning the projects, Oshiomhole said that the management of the university justified the initial N250 million provided by the government to develop infrastructure in the university, which, he said made the government to review it upwards by 100 percent to N500 million, promising to further review the fund by another 100 per cent if the N500m was judiciously expended.
He said: “The management of the University under Professor Agbebaku is the best of all time. When I told the Commissioner for Works how much this project cost, I am not sure he believed me until he heard from the VC herself.”
Oshiomhole commended the Vice Chancellor for completing the project but however expressed reservations at the pace of work on the administration block.
He threatened to revoke the contract if the contractor fails to complete the project on schedule.

Bursted! Google Removes Jennifer Lawrence Nude Photos After $100 Million Lawsuit Threat

Jennifer Lawrence‘s legal team has been working hard in trying to stop the spread of dozens of nude photos of Lawrence that were reportedly hacked from her personal phone account. On Wednesday, her legal team went after giant search site Google with a $100 million lawsuit if the site didn’t remove the stolen pictures from their image search engine.
Since the Aug. 31 leak, many sites such as reddit, Twitter and Imgur have removed the pictures under threat of legal action. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Google, which indexes photos from other sites rather than host the pics itself, came under fire after Lawrence’s attorney, Marty Singer, blamed the search engine for facilitating the distribution of the pics.
“Google, one of the largest ISPs in the world, with vast resources and a huge support staff, generating multimillions of dollars in revenues on a daily basis, has recklessly allowed these blatant violations to continue in conscious disregard of our clients’ rights,” the letter wrote.
On Thursday, Oct. 2, Google responded by saying that they have now removed “tens of thousands” of the Lawrence hacked pics.
In a statement, Google writes, “We’ve removed tens of thousands of pictures — within hours of the requests being made — and we have closed hundreds of accounts. The Internet is used for many good things. Stealing people’s private photos is not one of them.”
Meanwhile, the FBI is continuing the investigation into the hacker ring that leaked dozens of private celebrity photos on the Internet. So far, no arrests have been made.

Iconic drink: Moët & Chandon Launches “SUCCESS IS A MATTER OF STYLE” With Nectar Imperial Rose

The world’s most-loved champagne house, Moët & Chandon has launched a new ad campaign for Nectar Imperial Rose along with a Light-up bottle to continue the celebration of its campaign, “Success is a Matter of Style”.
“Success is a Matter of Style”, remains the global Moet tagline, however this is the first time if has been used in Nigeria for Nectar Rose, one of the House’s most daring champagnes. This campaign celebrates the art of reinventing yourself while staying true to who you really are—the champagne toasts to sharing of meaningful life moments.