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Wisdom for Women
1. A first class degree won't make you a first class wife rather your submission and respect will.
2. The woman who respects her husband is the best wife anyone would ever have.
3. Your character and attitude will go a long way in determining if your husband will wish he never Regret getting married to you..
4. To be a great wife, you need more anger management skills than nagging skills.
5. Be a leader at work, or anywhere else but be a companion at home.. It's wisdom!
6. Don't compete with your husband; compliment him.
7. Your strength is in humility and submission, not in strife and contention.
8. Be tender, every man respects a tender woman but firm.
9. Never try to punish your husband by starving him of food or Sex, he maybe forced to get it outside.
10. There is nothing wrong in accepting that you are wrong when you are wrong.
11. Prepare to forgive your husband if he wrongs you.. For a forgiving wife is better than a vengeful one.
12. Make a decision to be a good wife, you will need it in the long run..
God Bless the Women!.
Source: Nigeria Camera
How to make your marriage work.
Ruminate over these marriage do(s) and don't(s):
*Resolve issues as quickly as possible.
*Do not let anger or resentment fester or carry on till the next day.
*Pray together as often as possible. "The family that pray together, stay together ".
*Eat together with your wife.
*Share the same bed with your wife.
*Don't keep much friend, and be careful with the friends you keep.
*Communicate regularly.
*Live exemplary lives.
*Recognise that your wife is different from you and that you cannot change the essence of who she is – only God can.
*Know that none of you is an angel.
*Always remember your first love.
*Never compare your spouse with any other person.
*Accept her for who she is – strengths, weaknesses and all.
*Discover and utilise her primary love language.
*Tolerate her especially when you don’t understand her.
*Defer to her in areas where she is stronger, smarter or better than you.
*Respect her opinion even though you may disagree sometimes.
*Prioritise her above the children.
*Be open about any concerns you may have over any issue.
*Gauge her mood and choose the right moment to raise important issues
*Extend mercy and grace to her and also forgive always.
*Appeal to God when nothing she does makes sense to you.
*Challenge her to become her best self.
*Talk, listen, wait, negotiate and pray until two of you can agree.
*Give your wife space sometimes because girls will be girls and boys will be boys.
*Meet her needs so that she can meet yours too.
*One of the greatest gifts you can give your children is to love their mother unconditionally.
*Keep family issues in the family and not expose your family to in-laws and outlaws.
Just have fun and enjoy the journey as much as I can every day
I hope that this has helped you in some way or the other. You can have your marriage as God intended originally.
It's not late, you can make it better. Go, make it happen!
Archaeologists Finally confirm that Queen Sheba die and buried in Nigeria
A site, hidden away in the dense rain forests of south-western Nigeria is believed to be the burial ground of the biblical Queen of Sheba. This burial site is itself located within a large area which is surrounded by the ancient Eredo earthwork and is believed to be the wealthy Queen Sheba’s Lost Kingdom. The small, sleepy village of Oke-Eiri, located on the outskirts of Ijebu Ode, in Ogun State, hosts this burial site of the ancient Queen, and has been the destination of local pilgrims for centuries who come to pay home to the sleeping legend.
The Christian Bible described the queen as a women of immense power, intellect and wisdom, who came to visit King Solomon when she heard of his outstanding wisdom. It was recorded that she came with “a very great caravan of camels, carrying spices, large quantities of gold and precious stones”. It was also stated that “never again where so many spices brought into Israel as those the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon”. In Islamic tradition, she is commonly referred to, as Bilkis, Bilqis, Balqis or Balquis by the Arabs, who believe that she came from the city of Sheba, also called Mareb, in Yemen. Historical and archeological studies revealed that there are many links between the Biblical queen and Bilikisu Sungbo of Ijebu land. The Queen of Sheba is said to be associated with ivory, eunuchs and gold. Ivory and gold are known to be very abundant in Nigeria at the time, while eunuchs were present in ancient West African palaces.
A team of British scientists working with Patrick Darling Archaeologist at Bournemouth University.Discovered the remains of an ancient kingdom deep in the Nigerian rainforest.
Each year, thousands of pilgrims come to honour what they believe is the grave of the queen of Sheba. This is a spot bare of vegetation in the Nigerian rainforest where tall trees have become entangled with canopy foliage, festooned with spider’s webs and falling leaves, creating a gloom that inhibits vegetation.
A team of British scientists may have rediscovered the centre of one of Africa’s greatest kingdoms – and the possible burial place of the legendary Queen of Sheba.
The team of British scientists may have rediscovered the centre of one of Africa’s greatest kingdoms – and the possible burial place of the legendary Queen of Sheba.The team from Bournemouth University, working with archaeologist Dr Patrick Darling, have completed a preliminary survey of the left over wall and ditch measuring 70ft high in places and around 100 miles long.
The grave and wall of the legendary Queen of Sheba.
SOURCE: NIGERIACAMERA
Lesson of life.
A lovely little girl was holding two apples with both hands.
Her mum came in and softly asked her little daughter with a smile: my sweetie, could you give your mum one of your two apples?
The girl looked up at her mum for some seconds, then she suddenly took a quick bite on one apple, and then quickly on the other.
The mum felt the smile on her face freeze. She tried hard not to reveal her disappointment.
Then the little girl handed one of her bitten apples to her mum,and said: mummy, here you are. This is the sweeter one.
No matter who you are, how experienced you are, and how knowledgeable you think you are, always delay judgement. Give others the privilege to explain themselves. What you see may not be the reality. Never conclude for others.
Which is why we should never only focus on the surface and judge others without understanding them first.
Those who like to pay the bill, do so not because they are loaded but because they value friendship above money.
Those who take the initiative at work, do so not because they are stupid but because they understand the concept of responsibility.
Those who apologizes first after a fight, do so not because they are wrong but because they value the people around them.
Those who are willing to help you, do so not because they owe you any thing but because they see you as a true friend.
Those who often text you, do so not because they have nothing better to do but because you are in their heart.
One day, all of us will get separated from each other; we will miss our conversations of everything & nothing; the dreams that we had. Days will pass by, months, years, until this contact becomes rare... One day our children will see our pictures and ask 'Who are these people?' And we will smile with invisible tears because a heart is touched with a strong word and you will say: 'IT WAS THEM THAT I HAD THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE WITH'.
NIGERIA NEW GOVERNORS' LIST.
Abia - Okezie Ikpeazu (PDP)
Akwa Ibom -Emmanuel Udom (PDP)
Adamawa -Bindow Jibrilla (APC)
Bauchi -Barr.Mohammed Abubakar (APC)
Benue - Samuel Ortom (APC)
Borno - Kashim Shettima (APC)
Cross River -Prof. Ben Ayade (PDP)
Delta - Ifeanyi Okowa (PDP)
Ebonyi -Engr Dave Umahi (PDP)
Enugu -Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (PDP)
Gombe -Ibrahim Dankwambo (PDP)
Imo - Rochas Okorocha (APC)
Jigawa - Alhaji Badaru Abubakar (APC)
Kaduna - Nasir El-Rufai (APC)
Kano - Dr Abdullahi Ganduje (APC)
Kastina - Aminu Masari (APC)
Kebbi - Atiku Bagudu (APC)
Kwara - Abdulfatah Ahmed (APC)
Lagos - Akinwumi Ambode (APC)
Nasarawa -Umaru Al-Makura (APC)
Niger -Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello (APC)
Ogun -Ibikunle Amosun (APC)
Oyo -Abiola Ajimobi (APC)
Plateau -Rt Hon Simon Lalong (APC)
Rivers - Nyesom Wike (PDP)
Sokoto - Aminu Tambuwal (APC)
Taraba - Dickson Darius Ishaku (PDP)
Yobe -Ibrahim Gaidam (APC)
Zamfara -Abdulaziz Yari (APC)
Gorgeous 25-Year-Old Wins First Ever Miss Nigeria USA Beauty Pageant [PHOTOS]
The first ever Miss Nigeria USA beauty pageant held on Saturday May 23rd, in New York. It was a glamorous event with 18 gorgeous beauties contesting for the ultimate prize.
The contestants were between the ages of 18-28, all Nigerians but based in US.
Frances Udukwu won the top prize. Frances is a 25 year old graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health and Health care Systems Management from Temple University and currently has a career as a health care consultant.
Nigerian singer, Banky W, amongst other celebrities who grace the pageant, performed at the event.
SOURCE: THE SHEET
Olusegun Adeniyi: In the end, Pres. Jonathan lost power but found himself.
It remains for me the most memorable moment in the movie. The captain was informing the ship owner (who had bought into the lie that no force on earth or in heaven could sink the Titanic) that the ship had hit an iceberg. “From this moment, no matter what we do, the Titanic will founder,” he said. Having put so much faith in his own propaganda, the ship owner retorted: “But this ship cannot sink.” Without missing a beat, the captain responded: “She is made of iron, Sir. I assure you she can. And she will. It is a mathematical certainty.”
Because those who survive on rent in our country are adept at marketing their greed, they always succeed in selling to whoever occupies the number one office in Nigeria at any period that he is not only above the law, he is so powerful that he can never be defeated in an election. But with the current defeat of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan by Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), it is now very clear that the president of Nigeria is human, afterall and he can be ousted by the same people whose votes put him in power. That message has been most eloquently passed and our country will never remain the same again. It is a new day!
For sure, the president of Nigeria has enormous financial resources he can mobilise at any given time while the security agencies and critical institutions of state work at his pleasure regardless of what is written in the Constitution. And he is forever surrounded by clowns and jobbers of all sorts—I was privileged to have seen many of them at work in the Villa—who sing the mantra that, as “President and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”—a title that is so needlessly repeated for his pleasure almost as if it is a line in the national anthem—he has such unlimited power that he can even turn a man into a woman. Now we know better.
Having never bought into the scam that a president of Nigeria cannot be defeated, I have since about four months ago been telling some people very close to President Jonathan that he was electorally vulnerable. But they never took me serious. In my personal encounter with the president in his office on July 23 last year (he sent for me), I particularly explained to him that he was increasingly being perceived as “anti-North” and that it could hurt him at the general election. I recall the president interjected by saying “but Segun, you know me…” to which I replied that it was not my view but a perception challenge he should deal with. If he made efforts in that direction, they were either too little or too late, going by the results of the presidential election across the entire Northern zone where Buhari won outright in 16 out of 19 States. Details of that private encounter I had with the president will come in my coming book on the 2015 general elections in Nigeria that should be out before the end of the year.
Needless to say, I am not one of the people surprised by the outcome of the presidential election. In the fourth instalment of my 2015 election series, “A Time to Choose”, on 29 January this year, I wrote: “as the incumbent, Jonathan will run on his record which unfortunately would include not only his performance in office (which is not as bad as being projected) but also mismanaged relationships that may have been more costly in terms of the eroded support base. We may never know how much political damage the president inflicted on himself by his failed bid to install a Speaker for the House of Representatives in June 2011 and the refusal to accept defeat gracefully thereafter; the futile attempt to oust Rotimi Amaechi as the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) Chairman and how that eventually led to the split within the ruling party; the ill-feelings from aggrieved party members who lost out at the recent PDP primaries; the unfortunate Chibok ‘Waka-Come’ theatrics at the Villa by the president’s wife that went viral internationally; the saga of the ‘unaccounted for billions of Dollars’ in oil receipts that is yet to be conclusively resolved and the accompanying drama with Sanusi Lamido Sanusi that played out from the CBN Governorship office in Abuja to the Emir’s palace in Kano; the presidential redefinition of corruption as being different from–and perhaps more tolerable than—stealing; the evident contradictions inherent in the fact that those who once ran a vicious media campaign against Jonathan, baptizing him with the moniker, ‘clueless president’ are now the ones speaking for him etc. The thing about elections is that choices are usually made by most voters on the basis of sentiments (and emotions) such as the foregoing and that is why the incumbent is often disadvantaged, especially when the public mood is as fouled as it is in Nigeria today…”
I wrote that three months ago and I have been proved to be correct. However, despite the bitterness that characterised the 2015 presidential election campaigns, President Jonathan redeemed himself when it mattered most not only by the way he gracefully accepted defeat and congratulated Buhari even before the collation of results was concluded on Tuesday but also by the manner in which he rose to the occasion last Saturday.
Despite the discomfort of having to stand in the heat, Jonathan comported himself very well as the president, not a partisan, as we all watched on national television how three card readers failed to read his biometrics and accredit him for voting at his home town, Otueke, Bayelsa State. At a time television camera could project very clearly that his wife was already boiling with anger, the president said he was prepared to wait for as long as it would take for it to work before he was eventually accredited manually. Calm in disposition and measured in his utterances, Jonathan refused to be goaded by the reporters who were asking him leading questions about the use of card reader, knowing where he stood on the issue. “President Jonathan is just one person, so if we have problem with one person, as far as the election is going on well nationally, I am not worried. There might be a delay, my interest is that we conduct a credible election,” he said.
At the end, even if he lost the election, President Jonathan has turned out to be a man of his word. The fact most people ignore is that given the objection of his party to the use of the card reader, if the president had stormed out of the polling unit at Otuoke when three card readers failed him, that probably would have been the end of the election. And by now, Nigeria would be on the boil. Fortunately for all of us, Jonathan chose not to travel that familiar road often trudged by African leaders and history will forever be kind to him for it.
That Nigerians are today proud of Jonathan is not in doubt and it is a shame that it would take a defeat for him to approximate to the president many had wanted to see in recent years. But in the days and weeks to come when he begins the self-introspection as to how he lost the presidency, Jonathan should look no farther than his immediate environment. From his overbearing wife who used the campaign podium to preach hate, forgetting that there indeed is a God in heaven who promised in the Bible to “overturn, overturn, overturn… until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him” regardless of whether such a person is “analogue” or “brain dead” to people like Godsday Orubebe who made a disgraceful public show of himself on Tuesday not to mention Chief Edwin Clarke and confederates who, forgetting that politics is a game of addition, imagined they could abuse and blackmail the whole of Nigeria into re-electing their Ijaw kinsman.
How and why Jonathan lost will be a subject of interrogation in my coming book but it is a pity that his handlers paid scant attention to my warning of 19 January 2012, in a piece titled “Their Son, Our President”, which rankled Aso Rock and for which someone procured the services of hacks to attack me. I hope that Jonathan’s people will go back to read and reflect on what might have been had they taken counsel in the Yoruba adage that when your tuber of yam is growing too big, you use your hand to cover it.
For an election that had been predicted to be the end of our country, Nigerians have every right to be happy about the turn of events but there are just too many heroes and the first to be commended is the ordinary voter who stood under the sun and in the rain to exercise his/her franchise. And then the much-maligned chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega. Calm under pressure, mature in his approach to issues, serene in the face of provocation yet so firm and resolute in his conviction, Jega has written his name into the history books by delivering when it mattered most. With any other person, it is doubtful if we would be where we are today as a nation. And of course we must commend our president-elect, Buhari, not only for his tenacity of purpose (having lost three previous times) but also for the maturity with which he handled the campaign irritations from some PDP bigwigs and the president’s wife.
Finally, the biggest accolades go to the president who conceded defeat so that his nation can move on. By that simple but important gesture of patriotism, honour and nobility, Jonathan has earned the status that one old man imagined he could confer on himself just by the theatrics of tearing his party card before television camera. I just hope that the leaders of the victorious APC would have the decency to treat the president with respect in the remaining period of his tenure and after he leaves office. He deserves it.
I will be a bloody hypocrite to say that I was praying for Jonathan to win the presidential election. To be honest, I felt the country could do with some Change (even if I still don’t know its content) because of the way Jonathan mismanaged a couple of serious national issues, especially the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-east. There was also this academic interest about whether the proposition in my May 2011 research paper ‘Divided Opposition as Boon to African Incumbents’ on factors shaping incumbent elections in Africa with special focus on Nigeria, would prove to be correct. Now that my thesis has been validated, I enjoy no real satisfaction that Jonathan is leaving office this way because, despite my misgivings about some of the people around him or his mixed stewardship, I still have a strong affection for the president who I consider a very good man.
If the president needed any validation that he acted wisely, it is by the outpouring of congratulations to him from all over the world and the way he has practically repositioned our country for business. Perhaps nobody has captured the situation as succinctly as Mr. Mo Ibrahim, one of Africa’s wealthiest men and philanthropist, who said yesterday: “The news from Nigeria today is wonderful. Africa’s largest country has concluded a peaceful election process. Furthermore, the incumbent has already gracefully conceded and congratulated his successor – a first for Nigeria and a benchmark for other African countries to follow. Today, we Africans are all proud of Nigeria and President Jonathan. Thank you Mr. President. If you are seeking a legacy, you have definitely achieved it.”
Last Saturday in my HOTEL ROOM in Lagos, my friend and research assistant, Dipo Akinkugbe, with whom I was watching on television the drama of Jonathan and the Card Reader as the election accreditation exercise unfolded, said after the president had fielded questions from reporters and left: “This is a rare display of statesmanship that I have not seen in President Jonathan for a long time.”
That, I told him, is the essential Jonathan whose Ijaw handlers and a few power mongers from other parts of the country did not allow to blossom. But in falling from power through the electoral process, Jonathan has risen in the estimation of Nigerians for his statesmanlike concession to General Buhari.
Perhaps, in this final moment of loneliness, the President finally acted as Jonathan, unencumbered by the hidden motives of the army of power merchants and ethnic salesmen who have held him hostage all these years. Perhaps it is this last act of selfless submission to the will of the people that will eternally redeem Jonathan in Nigerian history. This end, then, could justify the murky path of this humble man from Otuoke who started life without shoes but has risen to great power and now to the honour roll of great Nigerians.
The message from the foregoing is profound yet so simple: In losing power, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has finally found himself.
Source: THE SHEETBlast hits China chemical plant
An explosion hit part of an oil storage facility on Monday at Dragon Aromatics, an independent petrochemical producer in eastern China, Xinhua reported.
The blast happened around 7 p.m. local time at a pumping station for a condensate storage at the plant in Zhangzhou in Fujian province that produces paraxylene, or PX, a chemical used in making polyester fiber and plastics, state media said.
PX is normally produced from heavy naphtha, which can be derived from condensate after it has been processed in a splitter. A condensate splitter produces both light and heavy naphtha. The new Dragon plant was designed to produce around one million tonnes a year of light naphtha, which will be marketed to other Chinese petrochemical plants that operate ethylene facilities.
Xinhua cited the plant as saying one injury had been reported. It was not immediately known if any of the plant’s production facilities were affected or shut.
Dragon Aromatics officials were not immediately available for comment.
The Zhangzhou fire department said on its microblog 430 fire fighters were sent to the scene. The fire department said pictures circulating on social media purporting to show dead and injured were fake.
Dragon Aromatics, owned by Xianglu Group, a Taiwanese petrochemical group, is one of the largest independently-run PX producers in China.
The plant is set to expand its condensate splitter by almost 40 percent by end of this month to 5.5 million tonnes a year (137,000 barrels per day), an industry source has said.
A condensate splitter processes condensate into naphtha, which is then used as feedstock to produce PX.
There have been protests in China against petrochemical plants because of concerns they contribute to pollution.
In 2013, Dragon Aromatics delayed it’s opening of $3 billion unit due to a small blast.
The blast was attributed to leaks at a hydrogen pipeline during testing of a 3.2-million-tpy hydrocracker unit, a company official said at the time. No causalities were reported.
At that time, the company had won 4 million tonnes in import quotas for condensate for 2013, and had secured about five shipments of condensate – a light crude ideal for making petrochemicals – including supplies from Iran and Indonesia, traders said at the time.
The plant opening had been by delayed by slower-than-expected construction and problems in gaining environmental clearance.
SOURCE: CCTV - AMERICA
LESSONS FROM 2015 ELECTION.
- BE CONSISTENCE WITH YOUR GOD.
- POWER OF INCUBENCY IS NOT IMPORTANT.
- NO MATTER HOW MANY TIME YOU TRIED, CONTINUE UNTIL YOU SUCCEED.
- POLITIC IS NOT ALL ABOUT MONEY.
- PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER TO EFFECT CHANGE.
- NIGERIANS ARE UNITED, AND SPEAK IN ONE VOICE.
- THE VOTERS MADE SURE THEIR VOTES COUNTED.
- LANGUAGES, SKIN COLOUR, ETHNICITY, AND RELIGION CAN NOT DIVIDE US.
- ALL NIGERIANS ARE ASKING FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE.
- INTERNAL DEMOCRACY IS IMPORTANT WITHIN THE POLITICAL PARTIES.
- NIGERIA IS IMPORTANT IN THE WORLD.
- EVERY AFRICAN IS INTERESTED IN NIGERIA.
- LEADERS SHOULD SHOW CONSIGNS ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE PEOPLE.
- POLITIC IS ACCUMULATION OF YOUR PAST EFFORTS, NOT ONLY ELECTION TIME.
- CAMPAIGN SHOULD BE ISSUES DRIVING, NOT MALIGNING THE OPPOSITION.
- NIGERIAN ARE INTERESTED ON WHO CAN DELIVER GOOD GOVERNANCE.
- NEVER SHOULD YOU UNDER ESTIMATE THE ADVICE OF THE ELDERS.
- LET THE NIGERIAN KNOW THAT YOU ARE IN CONTROL TO CERTAIN EXTENCE.
- IT PAYS TO JOIN FORCE WITH POLITICAL PARTIES OF LIKE MIND – COALITION.
- PEOPLE ARE MORE INTERESTED ON WHO GOVERN THEM.
- INTRODUCTION OF TECHNOLOGY BOOSTED PEOPLE’S CONFIDENCE THAT VOTE WOULD COUNT.
- SPIRIT OF SPORTSMANSHIP SHOULD BE DISPLAY ALWAYS.
NIGERIAN DECIDES
* Vote don't fight.
* Thumb not fist.
* Winning or losing in a ward does not translate to aggregate winning or losing.
* Fighting or killing one another does not change the election result.
* The political mathematical formulae I've seen around here shows that, Friends, party, marriage, etc. are variables; the only constant thing is ''self interest'.
* Thumb not fist.
* Winning or losing in a ward does not translate to aggregate winning or losing.
* Fighting or killing one another does not change the election result.
* The political mathematical formulae I've seen around here shows that, Friends, party, marriage, etc. are variables; the only constant thing is ''self interest'.
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