Ibadan-Lagos expressway 1978

This picture was from 1978... in Nigeria. This is the old expressway Ibadan-Lagos expressway.

This was a road that was plied by my dad and uncles and his friends in quest for education, trade and job. They call it the story of Ibadan and Lagos.

There is no check-point; there is no yeye police saying wia your papers, or oga roger  us naaa...?

There are no potholes? No traffic... No armed robbers,...

It was the 70s and there were no issues like these...

Happiness

You were born in a first class hospital, I was delivered at home, we both survived.

You went to a private primary school and I went to a public school, we both ended in the same high school.

You woke up from the bed and I woke from the floor, we both had a peaceful night rest.

Your outfits are all expensive, mine are all simple and cheap, we both still cover our nakedness.

You ate fried rice and roasted chicken, I ate local made food but we both still ate to our satisfaction.

You ride on Lexus jeep, Range Rover, G Wagon, Hummer Jeep and I use public transport but we still got to our various destination.

You may be reading this post from your Sony xperia, BB Z10, Q10, Samsung Galaxy 6edge, IPhone6+ and I typed it with my Touch one broken screen, we still see the message.

Lifestyle is not a competition and there are different ways to get a lot of things done, different lanes all leading to the same destination. Just because your neighbour is doing things faster does not mean you are failing.

Happiness doesn't come from having everything, but making the best out of what you have, it's all about how you see yourself.

Happiness is not having what you like. Happiness is liking what you have and being content

Money to a wife

Money given to a wife by her husband... what do we call it?

The two Kenyans... a Joke

Nigerian guy living in Sweden smartly married a Swedish lady, so as to be legally certified with resident permit, but the lady was not aware of this. He lied to the lady that he is from Kenya because of the bad reputation of Nigerians in that part of Sweden. 

After their wedding, the lady returned home one day and informed the guy that she met her friend, a Swedish lady also married to a Kenyan and will like them to have a dinner together. The Naija guy was disturbed and kept thinking how he will get out of this dark spot. He postponed and postponed the proposed dinner until he got tired of postponing. 

Finally the D-DAY came, they all sat down in a restaurant. Our Naija guy was quiet and was sweating profusely in spite of the cold atmosphere of Sweden (-8C). The ladies asked their husbands to communicate in their local dialect since they are both from same country(Kenya). 

The Naija guy being a man of great savvy decided he will just speak Igbo, if the other guy didn't understand, he will claim that he is from another tribe and region in Kenya. Then he started, "Nwanne a wum nwafo owerri, owerre nchi ise, I wu kwanu onye olee, daa? 

The other Kenyan looked up and replied "Ah Nwanne, ekele diri chineke, onyena asuru ndigbo uzo ha. E chekwe m na enwela m nsogbu taa. Abu m nwafo AHIAZU Mbaise . Nwanne birikwe o! They shook hands and embraced each other to the admiration of the ladies. Igbo's no dey carry last. Igbo kwenu! Don't laugh alone, share.

Do you know that?

1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was constructed between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez- a French construction company and cost £5 million.

2. Pat...ience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-educated First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and a PhD from University of Port-Harcourt.
3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in Taraba and is called Chappal Waddi which means “The Mountain of Death”.
4. There are 196 countries in the world and at least one Igbo person from Nigeria lives in every one of them.
5. The Pidgin word ‘Sabi’ came from ‘Saber’, Portuguese and Spanish for ‘to know’. Both country’s ships traded slaves from the Bight of Benin.
6. Katsina College (now Barewa College in Zaria) has produced 5 Nigerian Presidents/Heads of State since it was founded in 1921 in Katsina.
7. Ojukwu taught Murtala Mohammed and Ben Adekunle at Regular Officers Special Training School, Ghana. Both ‘fought’ their teacher during the civil war
8. At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, there were 41 Secondary Schools in the North and 842 Secondary Schools in the South.
9. In 1983, Senator Arthur Nzeribe spent $16.5 million to win a Senatorial seat in Orlu (in Imo State).
10. In 1973, the Federal Government of Nigeria considered officially changing the name of “Lagos” to “Eko”. Regarding “Lagos” as a colonial name.
11. The geographical area now referred to as Nigeria was once referred to as ‘Soudan’ and ‘Nigiritia’.
12. Offences punishable by death sentence after the 1966 coup included embezzlement, rape and homosexuality.
13. MKO Abiola was named Kashimawo (Let us wait and see) by his parents. He was his father’s twenty-third child, but the first to survive infancy.
14. Jaja Wachucku was the first person to refer to Lagos as a “no-man’s land” in 1947, provoking a national controversy.
15. Jollof rice, chicken breast, serve of ice cream, tea, coffee or Bournvita, with full cream milk and sugar: Meal Cost = 50Kobo- Unilag in the late 1970s
16. At the point death in 1989, Sam Okwaraji was a PhD candidate and qualified lawyer with an LL.M in International Law (University of Rome)
17. When British Bank of West Africa (now First Bank) opened a branch in Kano in 1929, Alhassan Dantata (Dangote’s Grandfather) opened an account depositing 20 camel-loads of silver coins.
18. Jaja Wachuku is reputed to have owned the biggest one-man library in West Africa. Balewa sometimes referred to him as “Most Bookish Minister
19. The colonization of Nigeria took more than 40 years to achieve and the territories were integrated by the use of force.
20. Yoruba is spoken as a ritual language the Santeria cult in Carribean and South-Central America.
21. Slavery existed in the Nigerian territory before the 15th century and was abolished in the 19th century- 1807 by the British.
22. At least 55 women were killed in South-East Nigeria, in 1929 when the women forced the Umuahia warrant chiefs to submit to their rule.
23. The coinage ‘Supreme Court’ was first used in 1863 by the colonial administration through the enactment of the Supreme Court Ordinance No. II.
24. MKO Abiola died suddenly on July 7, 1998, exactly one month after General Sani Abacha died mysteriously on June 8, 1998.
25. Agbani Darego was the only one to wear a maillot as opposed to a bikini during the Miss Universe contest in 2001.
26. The ‘Ankara’ material is not indigenous to Nigeria. Our indigenous textiles include the Akwete, Ukara, Aso-Oke and Adire.
27. Aloma Mukhtar is the first female lawyer from the North and went on to become the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria.
28. The area known as Makoro town in Lagos was first a swamp, later sand-filled by the colonial government and served as the first bridge to the Island.
29. Esie Museum is Nigeria’s first museum, established in 1945. Once reputed to have the largest collection of soapstone images in the world.
30. Aminu Kano formed the Northern Teachers’ Association (NTA) in 1948, the first successful regional organization in the history of the North.
31. George Goldie, who played a major role in founding Nigeria, placed a curse on anyone who attempts to write his biography.
32. In 1996, John Ogbu, a Nigerian Anthropologist firmly advocated for the use of African-American Vernacular to teach in the U.S
33. Hause Language indigenous to Northern Nigeria is spoken in 11 African States. Germany, French, U.S., and British International radio stations broadcast in Hausa.
34. The surgeon who ‘killed’ Stella Obasanjo was sentenced to 1 year in prison, disqualified for 3 years and fined €120,000.
35. The word ‘asiri’ means ‘secret’ in Hausa, Yoruba, Nupe and Igarra. It also means ‘gossip’ in Igbo.
36. Igbo-Ora in Oyo State, Kodinji in India and Candido Godoi in Brazil are the towns that produce the highest number of twin births in the world.
37. Bishop Ajayi Crowther, a Yoruba, in 1857 produced a reading book for the Igbo Language and a full grammar and vocabulary of NUPE in 1864.
38. The first TV broadcast in Nigeria and Tropical Africa was on October 31, 1959.
39. In 1978, a 50Kobo increase (from #1.50 to #2) in the cost of University Students’ meal per day caused the ‘Ali Must Go’ protests.
40. Albert E. Kitson discovered coal in Enugu in 1909. This discovery led to the building of Port-Harcourt town in 1912.
41. Today, only Nigeria has a larger black population than Brazil. More than 3.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved and transported to Brazil.
42. Groundnut pyramids were the invention of Alhaji Alhassan Dantata to stack bags before export.
43. In 1967, old traditional ruler, Oba Akran and A. Ademiluyi were jailed for 14 years (7 each) for stealing £504,750 (#2.5b).
44. Since 1960, Nigeria has been either ruled by an ex-lecturer/ex-teacher or military man. The only exceptions are Azikiwe and Shonekan.
45. If you visited Lagos in 1975, you could spend a day at the Presidential Suite of Federal Palace Hotel for #100, single room for #19.
46. The first aircraft to land in Nigeria landed in Kano in July 1925. A British fighter jet flew from Khartoum (present day Sudan).
47. In 1895, Koko of Nembe (now in Bayelsa) took 60 white men hostage. When the British refused his demands, more than 40 of those men were eaten.
48. The ‘Naira’ was coined by Chief Obafemi Awolowo when he was serving as the Federal Commissioner of Finance.
49. Koma Hill (settlement in Adamawa where people lived and practised the killing of twins) was discovered in 1986 by a NYSC corps member.
50. The pilot (Francis Osakwe) that flew Ojukwu away from Biafra (1970) was the same pilot that flew Gowon to Uganda (last flight as Head of State).
51. In 1986, Shehu Shagari was banned from participation in politics for life. The ban has still not been lifted.
52. As the wife of the deputy Head of State (Vice President of Nigeria) in 1984, Biodun Idiagbon personally ran a small ice cream shop in Ilorin..
53. Koma Hills (Adamawa State) inhabitants when discovered were observed to engage in the practise of borrowing wives among themselves.
54. Juju, Dashiki, Yam and Okra are words in the English dictionary that originated from ethnic groups located in present day Nigeria.
55. Nigeria has more English speakers than England, and more Muslims than Saudi Arabia and Syria.

Hard things to achieve successful

Success does not come easy. Ask any one who has made it to the top of the ladder of success and he/she will tell you that it was not a bed of roses. Success can often be a result of a life of self denial.

How often do we hear the saying ‘You cannot eat your cake and have it’. This is so true about success. You have to be
willing to do or face those things that 80% of the people don’t want to do or face to be a success story. Please continue below to a write-up I came across a while ago. Unfortunately I cannot remember where or how I came across this article.

In order to achieve success in life, You have to do the hard things.

1. You have to make the call you’re afraid to make.
2. You have to get up earlier than you want to get up.
3. You have to give more than you get in return right away.
4. You have to care more about others than they care about you.
5. You have to fight when you are already injured, bloody, and sore.
6. You have to feel unsure and insecure when playing it safe seems smarter.
7. You have to lead when no one else is following you yet.
8. You have to invest in yourself even though no one else is.
9. You have to look like a fool while you’re looking for answers you don’t have.

10. You have to grind out the details when it’s easier to shrug them off.
11. You have to deliver results when making excuses is an option.
12. You have to search for your own explanations even when you’re told to accept the “facts.”
13. You have to make mistakes and look like an idiot.
14. You have to try and fail and try again.
15. You have to run faster even though you’re out of breath.
16. You have to be kind to people who have been cruel to you.
17. You have to meet deadlines that are unreasonable and deliver results that are unparalleled.
18. You have to be accountable for your actions even when things go wrong.
19. You have to keep moving towards where you want to be no matter what’s in front of you.

You have to do the hard things. The things that no one else is doing. The things that scare you. The things that make  you wonder how much longer you can hold on.

Those are the things that define you. Those are the things that make the difference between living a life of mediocrity or outrageous success.

The hard things are the easiest things to avoid. To excuse away. To pretend like they don’t apply to you. The simple truth about how ordinary people accomplish outrageous feats of success is that they do the hard things that smarter, wealthier, more qualified people don’t have the courage – or desperation – to do.

Do the hard things. You might be surprised at how amazing you really are.

Bill Gates: 5 Success Attitudes

If you’re looking for a role model of lifelong success, you can’t do much better than Bill Gates.
Microsoft, the company he founded, created a whole industry. At a net worth of nearly $80 billion, he’s one of the richest men in the world. His philanthropic activities have a far and wide reach and have actually made the world a better place. Lest we forget, he also achieved his dream of putting a personal computer on every desk.

What factors contributed to Bill Gates’s success?
He certainly was in the right place at the right time with the right concept for a product. But over the years, he himself has pointed to some of the attitudes he believes lead to continued success. They’re a good guide for anyone, in any field.

Here are some of the 5 most relevant attitudes he looks for–and which anyone can develop:

1. Knowing how to say no.

This is an advice Bill Gates got from Warren Buffett, and it’s extremely useful for everyone, whether you’re rich and successful or not. There will always be an unending supply of opportunities, things to do, causes you care about, and on and on. In this busy world, knowing when and how to say no to projects, social invitations, and other requests for your time may be the most important skill you need. It will allow you to figure out what’s truly important, and then focus your attention there.

2. Welcoming criticism.

“Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement,” Gates advises in his book “Business @ the Speed of Thought”. While it’s never pleasant to hear someone tell you how you’ve screwed up, without that kind of feedback, your learning process and growth will be much slower. I find listening to criticism nearly always gives me perspective that I didn’t have, and that I need.

Of course, some criticism is not useful–so you have to use your judgment to tell the difference. With that in mind, next time someone wants to chew you out, don’t walk the other way. Stop, listen, thank them–and learn.

3. Optimism.

It can be hard to be optimistic in a world where so many things seem to be going wrong. But without optimism, no one would ever start a company, invest in a new idea, or try out a new product or market.

Gates appreciates the value of optimism, and since his work addresses some of the most disheartening problems on our planet, such as sex trafficking, hunger, and extreme poverty, he needs a lot of it. “Optimism is often dismissed as false hope,” he said in a Stanford commencement speech in 2013. “But there is also false hopelessness.”

4. Being willing to fail.

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose,” he wrote in his book The Road Ahead. Today’s can’t-fail product could wind up obsolete tomorrow, he explains, which could be what’s happening to desktop personal computers and the Windows operating system that often runs them.

You may find successes more enjoyable than failures, but it’s the failures that will teach you the most and give you the best opportunities to grow. Keep that in mind next time you fall flat on your face.

5. The ability to focus on a goal and keep progressing toward it.

In an annual letter from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates drew some lessons from the history of the steam engine. “You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal,” he wrote. He went on to say that finding the right goal and the right metric for tracking one’s progress is surprisingly difficult.

Then again, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it.

Key to Entrepreneurial Success is Hardword

Beneath all that joy and happiness, glitz and glamour of the successful launch of an entrepreneurial venture is a lot of hard work – Sheer Hard Work.

You may have all the skill possible. You may have spotted all the business opportunities possible in th world. You may even have access to all the necessary financing possible. Even done your market survey and plan etc. However, without hard work i.e the willingness to put in the extra shift necessary to creatively bring all of the above together to achieve your target, you will surely fail.

As a matter of fact, without hard work you will not be able to do all the necessary things to make your startup or business a success story. The possibility of conducting marketing survey and designing a market plan, crafting your business plan, arranging finance, putting your team together etc all require working hard extra long hours. Remember: There is no short road to success.

Of course, don’t get me wrong. Hard work alone will not take you to the promised land. Otherwise, every truck pusher, gravedigger etc who physically toil from dawn to dusk would have gotten stinkingly rich by now.

Take this story about Cooper Dressler who was recently elevated to being a team member of the Oracle America’s Cup boat racing team. Below are two quotes in his own words:

“At the beginning, I was sort of just a hired help”

“… A bit of labour, random things, packing containers. I learned how to drive a forklift pretty well …”  

Going by his words: Having started out as a helper, his willingness to graft (work hard) on the boat led to his being upgraded to the sailing team.

According to Jimmy Spithill, the skipper who led the Oracle team to its first America’s Cup success, Dressler’s hardworking enterprise set him apart from the rest and convinced him to upgrade him to the sailing team. He has these to say about Cooper:

“Cooper is just a fantastic story … the most important thing is your attitude and your work ethic.”

“It didn’t matter what job he was doing, he was always upbeat, motivated – a great attitude. We all saw that and we thought ‘We’ve just got to have this guy on our team’.”

Hard work truly pays not only in the America’s Cup but in all spheres of life and even more so in the success of an Entrepreneur. Your hard work as evidenced from moving your project from the idea stage to the business plan stage will help convince potential partners, potential investors, potential team members (staff) etc to join up in bringing your idea to fruition.

Hard work pays! Always!

Muhammad Ali: The Odyssey of a Heroic Champion

Declaring oneself a hero doesn’t ordinarily do the trick. But former Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali was an international hero in the eyes of sports fans and ordinary citizens around the world. Ali began calling himself “The Greatest” early in his career, and clearly alienated many. Now people generally realize that his braggadocio was always part of the act, something that enabled him to perform at his best in the ring, and entertain and inspire millions.

His odyssey to heroism was complicated, but by the time of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, there was no question as to which American medal winner would light the torch at that year’s Games. Two years later, it was only a bit of a surprise when corporate America fully endorsed Ali by putting him on a box of Wheaties cereal, The Breakfast of Champions. The citation on the box credited Ali’s impact in sports and beyond: “he was a courageous man who fought for his beliefs” and “became an even larger force outside the ring with his humanitarian efforts.”

When Ali, then Cassius Clay, won the heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston in 1964, large portions of white America were uneasy. Although Liston was widely associated with organized crime, and seemed like something of a thug, rumors also circulated about Clay being associated with “Black Muslims.” Many people found this truly frightening. And although Ali’s wit and boxing skills were extremely entertaining, almost as many were turned off by the talking and bragging of “The Louisville Lip” or “Gaseous Cassius.”

In short order, some of people’s worst fears were confirmed. Clay turned to Islam and took the name Muhammad Ali. He became a vocal critic of the Vietnam War and was arrested for refusing to be inducted into the armed services. Ali’s resistance to the draft on the grounds that he was a Muslim minister struck many as ludicrous. But he fought in court for his deferment from the army and eventually won in a unanimous Supreme Court decision. However, his legal struggles kept him from boxing for three and a half years, costing him precious time at the peak of his career. But he had proved the depth and sincerity of his beliefs. At the same time, more and more people believed that he was correct to defend African American’s rights to their own values and self-respect, and in his opposition to the Vietnamese war.

Eventually Ali got the chance to win back the boxing title he had lost while he was banned from fighting, and that he failed to regain when he met Joe Frazier in 1971. The year was 1974, ten years after he first won the title from Sonny Liston. He fought a classic battle against George Foreman in the African nation of Zaire, now called Congo. That year he was named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated and it was clear that most Americans had come to embrace a talented and dedicated athlete who had both overcome racial and cultural barriers and had the courage to define himself and to help and encourage other black Americans to do the same.

After regaining the title from Foreman, Ali fought for several more years. But the numerous punches he had absorbed during his long career made him the victim of Parkinson’s syndrome, a neurological disorder which makes motor activity, including walking and talking, extremely difficult. During his lifetime, Ali fought outside the ring for those he regards as his people, and he is a hero to most of America. His skill, his struggle, his commitment, his charm and his charisma were inspirational. He was one of the most recognized and admired people in the world. Both he and the nation have come a long way since he burst on the scene as a sassy young fighter who perplexed or repelled much of the country.  For many, he will always remain an important hero.

- By Scott T. Allison and George R. Goethals

Lancaster University Vice-Chancellor speaks on Brexit EU

Dear Students,

We have woken up today with the news that Britain has voted to leave the European Union. Students will naturally have important questions that will need answering over the next few months about how this affects them personally – some of those questions will be impossible to answer for some time. We should remember that leaving the EU will not happen overnight and that there will be a gradual exit process with significant opportunities to seek assurances and influence future policy as we adapt to our new future.

Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty is the clause that triggers a two-year negotiation process between the UK and other Member States, during which time the terms of the UK’s exit from the European Union will be decided. This planning process will involve experts across all industries to ensure that there is minimal disruption to business and universities. The Prime Minister stated in his resignation speech that he will go by October and it is for his successor to invoke Article 50 at that point.

Barring unilateral action from the UK Government which is unlikely, the vote to leave the EU does not mean there will be any immediate material change to the UK university sector’s participation in EU programmes such as Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+, nor to the immigration status of current and prospective EU students and staff.

Throughout the transition period Lancaster will work with other universities and UUK to focus on securing support that allows our universities to continue to be global in their outlook, internationally networked and an attractive destination for talented people from across the world and especially Europe. 

A key priority will be to convince the UK Government to take steps to ensure that staff and students from EU countries can continue to work and study at British universities and to promote the UK as a welcoming destination for the brightest and best minds. We will of course keep you up to date with developments.

My very best wishes

Professor Mark E. Smith, Vice-Chancellor

Muhammad Ali's Success Quotes on Entrepreneurship

You don't need to love boxing like my Dad to know who this legend is to love him. Thanks to Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T), Mohammad Ali, for his lifetime words of Inspiration.

Muhammad Ali (born as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial and polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring.

Clay was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and began training when he was 12 years old. At 22, he won the world heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston in an upset in 1964. Shortly after that, Clay converted to Islam, changed his “slave” name to Ali, and gave a message of racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white domination during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

In 1966, two years after winning the heavyweight title, Ali refused to be conscripted into the U.S. military, citing his religious beliefs and opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War.[12] He was eventually arrested, found guilty of draft evasion charges and stripped of his boxing titles. He successfully appealed his conviction in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971.

Ali remains the only three-time lineal world heavyweight champion; he won the title in 1964, 1974, and 1978.  Nicknamed “The Greatest”, he was involved in several historic boxing matches. Ali retired from boxing in 1981.

At a time when most fighters let their managers do the talking, Ali, inspired by professional wrestler “Gorgeous George” Wagner, thrived in—and indeed craved—the spotlight, where he was often provocative and outlandish.

His notable quotes on Entrepreneurship:

1. “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”

2. “A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

3. “At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.”

4. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

5. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”

6. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it–then I can achieve it.”

7. “I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”

8. “A man who has no imagination has no wings.”

9. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”

It’s always the little things that we fail to notice, the little things that trip us up. Keep an eye on the details as well as the big picture. Ali did–and look how amazing things the results ended up.

10. “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”

11. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

12. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

13. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

14. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” Preparation

15. “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”

16. “Friendship … is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”

17. “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.” Entrepreneurs don’t do what others expect them to do.

18. “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

How to detect a two-way mirror

How can you tell when you are in a room, restroom, motel etc. with a mirror or a 2-way glass?

Here's how: 
A policewoman who travels all over the U.S. and gives seminars and techniques for businesswomen passed this on.

When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a 2-way mirror (i.e., they can see you, but you can't see them)? 

It is very difficult to positively identify the surface by just looking at it but, if you place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and there's a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror.

However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, FOR IT IS a 2-WAY MIRROR!

"No Space, Leave the Place" So remember, every time you see a Mirror, do the "fingernail test." It doesn't cost you anything. Remember: "No Space, Leave the Place"

Women:- share this with your girlfriends, sisters, daughters, etc.
Men:- Share this with your wives, daughters, girlfriends, etc

WHEN A LIZARD CAN, WHY CAN'T WE?

I Felt Guilty And Almost Shed Tears...4real!

This is a true story that happened in Japan.
In order to renovate the house, someone in Japan breaks open the wall. Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls. 

When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside hammered into one of it's feet. He sees this, feels pity, and at the same time curious, as when he checked the nail, it was nailed 5 years ago when the house was first built!

What happened? The lizard has survived in such position for 5 years! in a dark wall partition for 5 years without moving, it is impossible and mind boggling. Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 5 years! without moving a single step - since it's foot was nailed!

So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing to survive. Suddenly, another lizard appears with food in its mouth! the Japanese builder was stunned and deeply touched. For the lizard that was stuck by nail, another lizard has been feeding it for the past 5 years... It has been doing that untiringly for 5 long years, without giving up hope on its partner.

Imagine what a small creature can do and humans blessed with a brilliant minds can't. Please never abandon your loved ones. Never say you're too busy when they really need you.

You may have the entire world at your feet but you might be the only one in their world.
A Moment of negligence might break the very heart which loved you against all odds. Before you say something just remember..it takes a moment to break but an entire lifetime to make.

Imagine? it has been doing that untiringly for 10 long years, without giving up hope on its partner.

Think, will u do that to your partner? Think that will you do it to your Mom, Who brought you after a big struggle of Nine long months? Or at least to your Dad, Friends, Co-workers, brothers and Sisters?

As information and communication technology advances, our access to information becomes faster and faster. But the distance between human beings . . . is it getting closer as well? ...Please never abandon your loved ones.

A powerful metaphor, this story brings to mind humanitarian aid to oppressed regions. We can give and give, bringing in supplies, food and medicine, but the people cannot be free unless they are released from burdens imposed by despots, “the nail.” To really make a difference, we have to figure out how to solve the root cause. Yes, we are one world, one tribe. I only wish that each of us could live by this ideal.

There is a lovely story titled Lean on me, by Kirk Franklin. 

Kirk Franklin - Lean On Me ft. Mary J. Blige, Bono, The Family, R. Kelly, Crystal Lewis 

 Remain blessed as you listen. Music video by Kirk Franklin performing Lean On Me. (C) 1998 

HOW TO DETECT A HIDDEN CAMERA IN ROOM

When you stay in a hotel, how do you know there is no room pinhole camera?When you travel or take a business trip, and stay in a hotel or a guest house or room you could unknowingly be photographed.

You can use this method to check your room :When you enter into the room, turn off the lights, and close the curtains, open your phone camera, do not turn the flash light on.

Turn around the room with your cell phone. When a red dot is found, that means that a hidden web camera is installed.If no red dots, the room is ok.

Please forward this message to your friends who travel a lot or take business trips..

Kinapped kid sings Every praise

God is so faithful, this kid Willie Myrick was kidnapped but he kept on singing EVERY PRAISE, by Hezekiah Walker, and the kidnapper drove him round and dropped him off.

On March 31, 2014, 10-year-old Willie Myrick was abducted from his Atlanta, Georgia, driveway. 

The abductor allegedly lured Myrick with cash and when the boy got close enough, the man grabbed him 

Two important management lessons from a 500 Naira note

It happened some time ago but I was in an audience listening to a motivational speaker. The speaker got out his wallet & pulled out a 500 Naira note. Holding it up, he asked, "Who wants this 500 naira note?"
Lots of hands went up. Including mine. A slow chorus began to build as people began to shout "Me!" "Me!" I began to wonder who the lucky one would be who the speaker would choose. And I also secretly wondered (and I am sure others did too ) why he would simply give away 500 naira. Even as the shouts of "I want it" grew louder, I noticed a young woman running down the aisle. She ran up onto the stage, went up to the speaker, and grabbed the five 500 naira note from his hand. "Well done, young lady," said the speaker into the microphone. The speaker simply say "Most of us just sit and wait for good things to happen. That's of no use. You've got to make things happen. Make a move" 'Simply thinking about doing something is of no use and not gud enough'. Our lives are like that. We all see opportunities around us. We all want the good things. But the problem is we don't take action. We all want the 500 naira notes on offer. But we don't make the move. We look at it longingly. Get up, and do something about it. Don't worry about what other people might think.
Take action.

Later, the speaker got another 500 naira note and held it up for all to see, I thought I knew what's up. But he just asked a simple question. "How much is this worth?" "Five Hundred naira!" the crowd yelled in unison. "Right," said the speaker. He then took the note and crumpled it into a ball and asked "How much is it worth now?" "Five Hundred naira!" screamed the audience. He then threw the note on the ground, stamped all over it and picked up the note and asked one more time: "And how much is it worth now?" "Five Hundred naira!" was the response. "I want you to remember this," said the speaker. "Just because someone crumples it, or stamps on it, the value of the note does not diminish. We should all be like the 500 naira note. In our lives, there will be times when we feel crushed, stamped over, beaten. But never let your self-worth diminish. Just because someone chooses to crush you, that doesn't change your worth one bit!

Don't allow your self-worth to diminish because someone says something nasty or does something dirty to you."

Never let your self-worth diminish.

IS JONATHAN'S GOVERNMENT CORRUPT? -THEY WANT CHANGE

This is just a flashback. Only recently did the British Prime Minister David Cameron say that Nigeria is fantastically corrupt. Is that true? Or did we learn from the British government? Here are some facts for you to read

1. Obasanjo’sgovernment spent $16bn for power, and
only achieved to change the name of NEPA to PHCN, yet
some people and Obasanjo says Jonathan’s
Government is corrupt.

2. Obasanjo’s government,
Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar were
involved in a $180m Hallibuton bribery scam that
made world news, Yet Obasanjo says Jonathan’s
Government is corrupt.

3. Obasanjo’s government,
Obasanjo and Atiku spent about N1tn with Siemens
for the production of National ID Card, with a
N34bn bribery scam. I am yet to get mine, Yet
Obasanjo says Jonathan is corrupt.

4. Bola Ahmed
Tinubu used Babatunde Fashola to build 1
kilometer of road for N1.2bn, while Akpabio builds
same for N120m. Yet Tinubu and Fashola says
Jonathan is corrupt.

5. Bola Tinubu and Fashola
spent $460 million (N55 billion at 2009 exchange
rate of N118/$1) of tax payer’s money in the name
of Lekki-Epe Concession Company (LCC) to build a
toll gate, and yet taxed Lagosians even after
claiming to buy back the concession, for using the
road with no records, Yet Tinubu, Fashola and
Obasanjo says Jonathan is corrupt.

6. Buhari
delegated all powers to Afri-Project Consortium
(APC), a consulting firm owned by his Wife’s
brother, which allowed his In-law’s firm to Initiate
all projects for the PTF, Approve all projects for the
PTF and Execute all projects for the PTF. APC was
able to make away with N25, 758,532,444 (Twenty-
five billion, seven hundred and fifty-eight million,
five hundred and thirty-two thousand, four
hundred and fourty-four Naira). Buhari says he did
not know. Yet Buhari, Tinubu claims Jonathan is
corrupt.

7. Rotimi Ameachi spent N50bn to build a
2kilometer monorail that is yet to be completed.
And Ameachi, Tinubu, Buhari says Jonathan is
corrupt.

8. 56,000 ghost workers were discovered
and terminated, so former President called
President Jonathan to leave the 56,000 ghost
workers to remain in status quo, When President
Jonathan ignored, Obasanjo claimed that Jonathan
is corrupt. Nigeria was rated the 2nd must corrupt
Nation in the world as at 1999 – 2007 when
Obasanjo was president, then rated 3rd from 2007
till 2011. In 2014, Nigeria is rated 37th in the world,
with a four months review that will place Nigeria at
46th. Yet Obasanjo says Jonathan is corrupt...even
the PDP refugees that are now APC are saying
Jonathan is corrupt...

NIGERIANS judge for yourselves!!

Euro 2016 Groups and Fixtures

Euro 2016 Groups and Fixtures

How excited are you that Euro 2016 is here. You will get latest updates here throughout the competition.

Find the Fixtures and Groups for the Euro 2016 games below:


Group A


Albania

France

Romania

Switzerland 

Group A Fixtures  (All times CAT)

June 10   21:00hrs   France vs Romania

June 11   15:00hrs   Albania vs Switzerland

June 15   18:00hrs   Romania vs Switzerland

June 15   21:00hrs   France vs Albania

June 19   21:00hrs   Romania vs Albania

June 19   21:00hrs   Switzerland vs France


Group B

England

Russia

Slovakia

Wales

Group B Fixtures  (All times CAT)

June 11   18:00hrs   Wales vs Slovakia

June 11   21:00hrs   England vs Russia

June 15   15:00hrs   Russia vs Slovakia

June 16   15:00hrs   England vs Wales

June 20   21:00hrs   Russia vs Wales

June 20   21:00hrs   Slovakia vs England


Group C

Germany

N.Ireland

Poland

Ukarine


Group C Fixtures  (All times CAT)

June 12  18:00hrs   Poland vs N.Ireland

June 12  21:00hrs   Germany vs Ukraine

June 16  18:00hrs   Ukraine vs N.Ireland

June 16  21:00hrs   Germany vs Poland

June 21  18:00hrs   N.Ireland vs Germany

June 21  18:00hrs   Ukraine vs Poland


Group D

Croatia

Czech Republic

Spain

Turkey

Group D Fixtures  (All Times CAT)

June 12   15:00hrs  Turkey vs Croatia

June 13   15:00hrs  Spain vs Czech Republic

June 17   18:00hrs  Czech Republic vs Croatia

June 17   21:00hrs  Spain vs Turkey

June 21   21:00hrs  Croatia vs Spain

June 21   21:00hrs  Czech Republic vs Turkey

Group E

Belgium

Ireland

Italy

Sweden


Group E Fixtures  (All times CAT)

June 13  18:00hrs  Ireland vs Sweden

June 13  21:00hrs  Belgium vs Italy

June 17  15:00hrs  Italy vs Sweden

June 18  15:00hrs  Belgium vs Ireland

June 22  21:00hrs  Italy vs Ireland

June 22  21:00hrs  Sweden vs Belgium
Group F

Austria

Hungray

Iceland

Portugal

Group F Fixtures  (All times CAT)

June 14  18:00hrs   Austria vs Hungary

June 14  21:00hrs   Portugal vs Iceland

June 18  18:00hrs   Iceland vs Hungary

June 18  21:00hrs   Portugal vs Austria

June 22  18:00hrs   Hungary vs Portugal

June 22  18:00hrs   Iceland vs Austria