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 One of the most exciting decisions you can make is to be on the lookout for opportunities to invest in others. For me,this has been one of the most powerful principle of momentum I've implement  in my life. About ten years ago, I remember  driving to lagos with my family.I was listening to Zig Ziglar tape and on this tape he said,"You "ll always have everything you want in life if you "ll help enough other people get what they want." when i heard this statement,literally,something went off inside me,and i said out loud,"I'm going to do it." That decision to look for ways to help others,to invest in them, change my life.  "There" are three key to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others and sharing  with others". Assign yourself the purpose of making others happy and successful .People have a way of becoming what encourage them to be.   There are two types of people in the world: Those who come in...

When God made you it put a smile on His face. Yes, that’s what the book of I Corinthians tells us. So, why then do so many people not accept the way God made them? And even more incredibly, try and change the way God made them?  He made you on purpose for a purpose.  God has a job for you to do that no one else can do as well as you can. Out of billions of applicants, you’re the most qualified. It’s been said that the biggest enemy of great is good. The biggest enemy most of us will face is ourselves. That nagging voice that says, “Be like him, you’re not worthy, do what she does, go where the crowd is going.”   You see, when you are trying to be like someone else, the best you can ever be is second best. It’s time  to get our eyes off of others and onto God.  People will always detour you, but God will always keep you on track. To become the person God intended you to be, use what God has given you.  Follow your unique plan....

You can make more friends in two months by helping other people than you can in two years by trying to get others to help you.  Just one act of yours may be all it takes to turn the tide of another person's life.  Find the problems that you're an answer to.

Despite the daunting security challenge in the country, one event that the present administration celebrated in style was the nation’s centenary – 100 years of the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates to form Nigeria. To show the significance attached to the project by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, a year-long programme was designed. Awards were given, competitions held, lectures were delivered and dinner was held, among others. One outstanding thing however is the Federal Government’s decision to create another city to be known as the Centenary City from Abuja. Based on the grand dream, all the challenges being faced by dwellers of other big cities in Nigeria will be absent in this unique haven. There will be no security challenge, power will not be a problem, flood will not threaten its existence. Name them. It sounds as if one is reading from scripture but this is what this administration says it is set out to do. Although activities...

Five days after the very mad and unbelievably shameless act of reckless, total devilment of several public transport buses in Lagos, by members of the Nigerian armed forces, the 81st Division released a statement of total denial. The Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Lt. Col. Omale Ochagwuba, in his publicly released denial, claimed that “hoodlums” and not soldiers broke and burnt the buses. The denial by the Nigerian Army is a painful – but not surprising – blow to Nigerians and a cause for great alarm. Too many Nigerian civilians of reputable character witnessed the vandalism and captured the act with their eyes and on camera. Too many Nigerians were barred by the members of the Nigerian Army from taking pictures of the mayhem, forced to raise their hands while they walked past. Too many Nigerian citizens were punished by the soldiers on the rampage that day. The denial of this veritable narrative by the army is a cause for serious concern. Does the army ...

Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has said that the party will not beg any ex-president, ex-governors or ex-senators wishing to defect from the party. He stated this at a rally organised by the party’s South-West Organisation and Mobilisation Committee in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Wednesday. The rally had in attendance the chairman of the committee, Buruji Kashamu, former governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, state chairman of the party, Yinka Taiwo, party leader, Brimo Yusuff, governorship candidates of the party in Oyo, Hazeem Gbolarumi, Femi Babalola, Seyi Makinde, Teslim Folarin, Kehinde Olaosebikan and several members of the party. Fayose said, “This is the last time that any member of the party, irrespective of his position, whether former governor or president will be begged to remain in the party. If they want to join other parties, they can go. They should not disparage the party again because if they do, they will go. “They have enjoyed benefits in the p...

THE World football governing body, FIFA, has suspended Nigeria till further notice after government interfered in the running of football in the country. The most immediate effect of the ban is that the country will not be entitled to participate in the upcoming FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, coming up in Canada between August 5 and 24, except the suspension is lifted by July 15, 2014. Nigeria will also forfeit an U-17 African qualifier in Democratic Republic of Congo, slated for July 20, if the ban is not lifted. But the NFF in a statement late on Wednesday denied that FIFA had stopped Falconets from travelling. In the statement by the NFF’s Acting General Secretary, Lawrence Katken, the body said, “It is a blatant lie to say FIFA refused to issue tickets to the Falconets. What happened was that the former General Secretary, Musa Amadu, mistakenly cancelled the earlier reservations, so when the delegation got to the airport, they could not find seats on the fligh...

A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Aturu, is dead. A source close to him said the vibrant legal mind died of high blood pressure on Wednesday. He was age 49. Aturu, who was reportedly rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja in the early hours of Wednesday, was confirmed dead by medical personnel later in the day. The late Aturu obtained a first degree in Law from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Until his death, he was the Principal of Bamidele Aturu and Company in Lagos. Commenting on the sad incident, a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, said he received the news as a shock. “I just heard it but I am still trying to confirm; I was told he died of high blood pressure-related ailment. It is sad and I’m still in shock,” he said. Another lawyer, Mr. Fred Agbaje said he was speechless. Another legal luminary, Chief Anthony Idigbe (SAN), who told one of our correspondents that he had yet to confirm the dea...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday admitted that the country was currently passing through stress orchestrated by the violence being perpetrated by members of the Boko Haram sect. He said that was why his administration had resolved to tackle the insurgency from different fronts. Jonathan spoke while inaugurating a steering committee for the Safe Schools Initiative, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The committee, which is co-chaired by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and a former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, also has the likes of Aliko Dangote, Nduka Obaigbena, as well as governors of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, among others as members. He said, “This country is passing through stress within this period, caused by the excesses of the Boko Haram sect and our government has been approaching it from different fronts. “We always insist that the defence or security does not end terror but we need to stop collateral damage on inn...

Former President Bill Clinton defended his wife, Hillary Clinton, about their current statements about bankruptcy out of the White House. Hillary reaping a lot of criticism after issuing the statement when asked about his ambitions for running for President. In an interview with ABC News in early June 2014, Clinton said her family went bankrupt when he left the White House in 2011. He also revealed in an interview with The Guardian at the weekend that Bill Clinton are not really rich. “(Hillary’s statement) is factually correct, that (at that time) we were a few million dollars in debt,” said Bill Clinton, Tuesday (06/24/2014). Clinton’s defense revealed in an interview with NBC News that is scheduled to be aired on Sunday (06/29/2014). In this interview, Bill Clinton said Hillary who also is a former foreign minister and one of the strongest candidates for running for President of the Democrats in the election in 2016, has a lot of work to overcome poverty throughout Cli...

Hundreds of subway passengers Eurotunnel from England to France yesterday stranded in the Channel Tunnel train they were traveling due to power failures. The Daily Mail newspaper reported on Monday (7/7), hundreds of passengers were waiting patiently to be picked up. Many of them even take pictures selfie in the tunnel before they picked up a car to be evacuated. A total of 382 passengers and four dogs eventually evacuated to the terminal in Calais, France, to wait for the car pool. Eurostar train company serving the route was forced to cancel a scheduled departure time in four days and gave the announcement delay. They even advise passengers not to travel if their journey was not essential. The train finally arrived from London, England, to Lille, France, in five hours due to power failures. The train usually only take 90 minutes. The train could not continue traveling around 07.30 when the new quarter to take a trip from Folkestone, England. About 20 minutes later t...

China appears to be facing an epidemic of “hard work excessive” sehinggi now in China even the term to refer to those who died from working too hard, guolaosi. Guolaosi last case involving a senior official of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, Li Jianhua were killed by “working too long” in April. Li Jianhua (48), collapsed at his home and died shortly afterwards after a late night to finish the job. Colleagues Li, Bloomberg said, he often worked until midnight and even early morning. Li also traveled to 10 provinces of China and met with 68 corporate financial management in the second half of last year. The death of Li became the latest in a series of similar cases that invite the attention of the foreign media. Other cases override Jie Pan (25) an auditor of a public accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Cooper who died from meningitis in 2011. Although there is no clear evidence of the disease, death and excessive work, but young women often upload a sense of fatigue th...

A Professor of Medicine at the College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin, Salami Kazeem, has said that Nigeria ranks as the third HIV/AIDS most heavily burdened country, after India and South Africa. He added that Africa carried the global heaviest burden of HIV/AIDS; and that about 3.5 million Nigerians are currently living with the virus. He spoke at the Unilorin’s 149th inaugural lecture on Monday, in a lecture entitled, “Realities of living with HIV.’ Kazeem said although the national median prevalence of HIV had reduced in recent years, the reality was that the number of people living with the virus had increased by almost 500,000 in three years. He said AIDS-related deaths had also increased in the same period because Nigeria was behind target in most success indicators for HIV treatment. He also lamented that the incidence of new infection was common among married sexual partners who are not ready to let go of each other, even long after marriages to differe...

The National Association of Pharmacy Technologists and Technicians of Nigeria has said it will collaborate with relevant stakeholders in the health sector in the war against fake drugs. The Chairman of NAPTON, Cross River State chapter, Mr. Henry Tita, said this in Calabar in his acceptance speech after the chapter’s election. He said, “I also dedicate this victory to late Prof. Dora Akunyili for what she believed in, and together with members of my association, we will fight to eradicate fake drugs in our society.” Tita noted that the association was the technical arm of the pharmacy profession, urging related associations not to undermine its importance. He called on the Cross River state government to accord NAPTON due recognition to allow for industrial harmony. Also, the State Chairman of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Mr. Andem Usua, spoke in the same vein, saying the association should be allowed to play its part in fighting drug faking.

Pension funds operators are targeting $100bn assets by 2020, which is an increase of 300 per cent over the $25bn currently under their management. The Managing Director, ARM Pension Managers (PFA), Mr. Sadiq Mohammed, said this during an interview with our correspondent in Lagos. “The expectation of PenOp is that the pension funds being managed will rise to about $100bn equivalent in 2020 from the present $25bn, while the National Pension Commission has a projection of $72bn by 2020,” Mohammed said. According to him, the target is attainable because there are new contributors signing into the Contributory Pension Scheme, with high expectation of the economy getting more liberalised, and improved employment situation. Mohammed also observed that the new pension law that raised the monthly contribution of workers from 15 per cent to 18 per cent would give the funds a boost. He said that the industry would be investing in higher yielding assets because currently, operators h...

Stephen Keshi has reportedly demanded a significant salary hike to sign a new contract to remain as Nigeria coach. According to  africanfootball.com  on Tuesday, Keshi, who announced last week that his contract with   the Nigeria Football Federation had expired after the Super Eagles crashed out of the World Cup following their 2-0 defeat by France, told President Goodluck Jonathan that he will sign a new deal if the NFF agrees to pay him N10m a month. The former Nigeria captain received N5m a month in his initial contract. Africanfootball.com  reported that Keshi made the demand when he met with Jonathan at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja on arrival from the World Cup in Brazil. He was also said to have demanded that his new salary be paid upfront to avoid the delays he suffered in the previous deal, as well as the recall of his former assistant Sylvanus Okpalla. A top official at the Presidential Villa told  africanfootball.com , “He (Keshi) demande...

The World Cup’s best dribblers — Lionel Messi and Arjen Robben — face off when Argentina and Holland meet in the semi-finals on Wednesday, according to AP . In Brazil, Robben has been quick, Messi has been quicksilver. In Sao Paulo, either one could turn the semifinal with a dazzling turn of pace or a weaving run to propel his team to the final. “We have to cut the supply line to Messi,” Dutch defender Bruno Martins Indi said. The Barcelona star led Argentina through the group stage with four goals. He has also made 180 passes in his five matches so far. Holland have shared the goal-scoring duties more evenly — Robben and Robin van Persie each have three, Memphis Depay has two of the team’s total of 12 — but the Bayern Munich winger’s scintillating sprints with the ball have often been the highlights of Oranje matches. “We know that we will play against one of the best teams when it comes to counterattacks because of the speed of their men up front,” Argentina midfielder ...

At least 80 people were injured in a train collision near Berea in Durban on Tuesday evening, said South African officials. The accident trains are passenger trains operated by Metrorail. The power line of the railway was shut down after the crash. Emergency Service ER24 spokesperson Derrick Banks told media that the passengers, sustained minor to moderate injuries, had been transported to various hospitals. Metrorail spokesperson Dumi Dube said no death have been reported. The investigation of the accident is under way. However Dube said the collision could have been caused by faulty signals on one of the trains.

 Seven people have been killed and one seriously injured when a mini truck fell down a bridge on Tuesday in the province of Mascara, in the west of Algeria, the state-run radio reported. The accident occurred at 3 pm in the national road 17 in Mohamadia, when a mini truck carrying eight people skidded off the road and fell down from a 25-meter-high bridge, the radio quoted an official of the Mascara firefighting department as saying. The seven workers who have been killed were aged between 28 and 53, while the 22-year-old driver is still in coma, the source confirmed. The dead bodies of the victims were transferred to Dahou Dahaoui Hospital in Mascara, while an investigation was underway to determine the circumstances of the accident. Figures provided by the National Center for Prevention and Road Safety show that more than 27,500 road accidents occurred in 2013, killing more than 3,700 people and injuring 49,120 others. A driving license’s demerit point system is still...

The 21-year-old Redeemer’s University undergraduate, Tolani, who killed his father, Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, last Thursday, has said his late father provoked him into killing him. PUNCH Metro  had reported that Tolani murdered his father at Canaanland Street in the Redemption Camp along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State. The 300-level student of Department of History and International Relations, spoke with our correspondent on Tuesday at the Ogun State Police Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta , where he was being detained for the crime. Tolani, who the vice chancellor of RUN said was facing a disciplinary committee in the school before he committed the crime, was initially reluctant to open up to  PUNCH Metro . He said, “Go and read the statement I made to the police.” But he later changed his mind after a measure of persistence, saying he regretted his action. Expatiating on how the father provoked him, he said there was an argumen...

The Council of State, made up of former heads of government, on Tuesday held its second meeting in the year and came out with a promise that the abducted pupils of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, would soon be rescued. More than 200 girls were seized from the school on the night of April 14 by members of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The incident has attracted global condemnation and protests. Almost 90 days in the custody of the terrorists, there have been many not-too-pleasant stories about the welfare of the girls. But briefing journalists at the end of the Council meeting, presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio said the military high command had given assurances that the girls were safe and would soon be rescued. Akpabio said the council was satisfied that those security agents knew where the girls had been kept and that the soldiers were on top of the situation. He said, “Top on the agenda of ...