Electronic Commerce in Nigeria: The Exigency of Combatting Cyber Frauds and Insecurity

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has grown on such a large scale that there is no commercial activity you cannot embark upon within your home or business premises.  This rapid growth in e-commerce has attracted a lot of sellers and buyers alike. There is  the evolvement of smart phones, tablets and palm tops which enable the users to buy and pay for things online, do internet banking, pay their bills or to even make a bet anywhere and at any time.  These innovations have brought convenience and also contributed to the quality of life of users. The main and distinctive advantage of e-commerce is that it has made life much more convenient for people and also removed various forms of barrier to trade since e-commerce could be conducted through various media. There is also the evolvement of the Automated Teller Machine (ATM), which has largely reduced queues which dominate financial institutions in the past. Now you can deposit or withdraw money without need to physically face a cashier in the banking hall. Despite the benefits and advantages of e-commerce, this technological advancement in the business world is still plagued by some challenges and the major one being security.  This paper will therefore, examine electronic commerce, its advantages, the issue of security as a major challenge and concludes with suggestions and recommendations. Key words: E-commerce, Security, Fraud, Encryption and Password

Santa Fe New Mexican, 08-08-1900

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English Is It! (ELT Training Series). Vol. 3

English Is It! (ELT Training Series) was created with a view to providing opportunities which can make up, somehow, for this gap. The aforementioned members are the permanent teaching staff in the group, they investigate their different areas of expertise in their classes, expose them to the group and make proposals, which are later turned into articles. To do that, all members have extensively trained to spend the most time in the writing process in order to give the least work to the reader. They have both been succinct and explicit, and tried to say what they meant while meaning what they said. They bore in mind that, unlike class sessions, there is no audience in front, who can ask for clarification; therefore all the planning, the sequencing, the explanations and details have been considered under this premise..

The Hilltop 1-30-2006

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Introducing the Eskaya writing system: A complex Messianic script from the southern Philippines

This paper introduces and documents the Eskaya writing system of the Philippines, developed ca. 1920–1937, and attempts to reconstruct the circumstances of its creation. Although the script is used for representing Visayan (Cebuano)—a widely used language of the southern Philippines—its privileged role is in the written reproduction of a constructed utopian language, referred to as Eskayan or Bisayan Declarado. Held to have been invented by the ancestral 'Pope Pinay', the Eskayan language and its script are used by approximately 550 people for restricted purposes in the southeast of the island of Bohol. Of the approximately 1,065 characters in the system, a primary set of 24 are alphabetic with optional syllabic values; the remaining letters have syllabic values only and can be decomposed into an inahan ('mother'), standing for (C)V, and a sinyas ('gesture') indicating consonant diacritics on either side of the nucleus. Coda diacritics are largely inconsistent, meaning that each syllabic character needs to be acquired independently. The script has minor logographic elements with ideography employed in the decimal numeral system. Over half of all Eskaya characters are redundant and at least 37 represent phonotactic impossibilities in either Visayan or Eskayan. The sheer size, complexity and irregularity of the hybrid Eskaya script is unparalleled among the world’s writing systems. I argue that the very opacity of Eskaya writing is, in part, what makes it attractive to new learners and has contributed to its successful transmission for 90 years