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Bambless1:
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michealewela:
Crystal palace win...

Made mistake on choosing Aston villa o!

JESU!!!!

michealewela:
Crystal palace win...

Yes o! aston has being having a bad season so far...

Accumulating games or singles.... Whats your favorite and why? Let's have some fun

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Bambless1:
No Prob, Do You Have Online Betting Account?

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Wednesday game. My weekend lost still hurts

Fingers crossed

I do it all the time. Nothing special about it though

This ivory pendant mask is one of a pair of nearly identical works; its counterpart is in the British Museum in London. Although images of women are rare in Benin’s courtly tradition, these two works have come to symbolize the legacy of a dynasty that continues to the present day. The pendant mask is believed to have been produced in the early sixteenth century for the King or “Oba” Esigie, the king of Benin, to honor his mother, Idia. The Oba may have worn it at rites commemorating his mother, although today such pendants are worn at annual ceremonies of spiritual renewal and purification.

In Benin, ivory is related to the color white, a symbol of ritual purity that is associated with Olokun, god of the sea. As the source of extraordinary wealth and fertility, Olokun is the spiritual counterpart of the “oba”. Ivory is central to the constellation of symbols surrounding Olokun and the “oba”. Not only is it white, but it is itself Benin’s principle commercial commodity and it helped attract the Portuguese traders who also brought wealth to Benin.

The mask is a sensitive, idealized portrait, depicting its subject with softly modeled features, bearing inlaid metal and carved scarification marks on the forehead, and wearing bands of coral beads below the chin. In the openwork tiara and collar are carved stylized mudfish and the bearded faces of Portuguese. Because they live both on land and in the water, mudfish represent the king’s dual nature as human and divine. Having come from across the seas, the Portuguese were considered denizens of the spirit realm who brought wealth and power to the “oba”.

Object Information

Provenance

Sir Ralph Moor, Benin City, Nigeria, and his family, ca. 1897–1909; Prof. Charles Gabriel Seligman, Oxford, U.K., 1909–(d.) 1940; his wife, Brenda Z. Seligman, London, 1940–1958; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1958, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1958–1972; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1972–1978
References

Girshick Ben-Amos, Paula. The Art of Benin. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

LaGamma, Alisa. Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011, 26.

https://dantewest./2016/01/04/queen-mother-pendant-mask-iyoba-slideshow/

Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has defied “death prophecies”, which had predicted he would not survive 2015.

The first such claim came in January when Austin Liabunya, founder and president of BSI Winning Life Ministries in Malawi and self proclaimed "healing minister", claimed “Mugabe’s biological clock will not tick beyond this year,” Harare 24 reported on January 3, 2015.

With the 91-year-old’s supposed passing, the controversial "prophet" also claimed in his New Year’s Day ceremony in Lilongwe that Zimbabwe would be "restored" and would find itself "in the top five of the richest countries in Africa."

One month later and another Malawian prophet also claimed 2015 would be Mugabe’s last. Kenneth Eagle of the Holy Tabernacle Ministries, also based in Lilongwe, said he had visions of Zimbabwe in a state of mourning following the president’s death.

"(Zimbabwe) is not far before the flag is pulled down for some days… as a symbol of honor to their beloved leader," Eagle said in February.

Mugabe will "go straight to Hell if he will not confess Jesus as his personal savior," Eagle added, according to AllAfrica.com at the time.

Like Liabunya the month before, Eagle said Mugabe’s death would bring "a better nation with much of economy fruitfulness."

In a backtracking on his failed prophecy, Liabunya has laid the blame at humankind's understanding of time.

In a statement published by Malawian Watchdog, Liabunya said that if people claim he’s wrong as 2016 is underway, his prophecy is based on "the timing of God" and not within the accepted time spectrum.

"If you have problems with time it’s because you can’t see spiritually according to the timing of God," the statement reads.

Zimbabweans and those who seek its rich mineral wealth are preparing for Mugabe’s death - and the possible opening of markets it would create.

The southern African nation has the world’s third-largest platinum supply, 20 billion tons of coal, and more than 60 other minerals like gold and silver.


https://www.rt.com/news/327851-mugabe-defies-death-prophets/

Saudi Arabia’s 2016 budget is allegedly based on an average crude price of about $29 per barrel, Bloomberg reports, quoting Riyadh-based Jadwa Investment.

If I want to go into plantain farming... can you please give me a break down on how much i will be needing to start planting? 2k per acre lease...

We’ve all been there. When the “newly single” excitement wears off and we realize we still have our old bad habits. The realization happens after dating two or three shitty people in a row that all seemed “different” but all ended up exactly the same.

We don’t notice it until we’re sitting with our friends having literally the exact same conversation about needing “someone who has their shit together” or “someone who isn’t scared of commitment” two weeks in a row about two different people. You know it’s bad when your bestie stops you midsentence to ask “Wait are you still talking about Dele, Nkechi or Hassan?

So we sit down and write a list of the things we really need in a relationship. What does a great partner look like. Maybe we might create a list of “How I want to feel in a relationship” for the more evolved women. I have a notebook full of these lists.

(Hopefully – after reading this you’ll never want to do that again.)

Relationships fail when we create rules and expectations. Those rules are often disguised as “needs” and “wants”. Don’t worry – there’s a better way to get to the same result.



I want someone creative

I need someone who loves me unconditionally

I need to feel fully supported

I need someone who’s open and honest

I need someone who deals with my crazy family

etc

.

Without these rules we feel like we would let someone walk all over us, take advantage of our love and break our heart. It’s a well-meaning effort to find a relationship that is healthy and fulfilling. But it isn’t fixing the real issue.



The problem isn’t that you can’t trust other people. It’s that you don’t trust yourself.

We create these rules to ensure that we don’t let bad relationships slip past the gatekeepers of common sense and rationality when we are caught up in the throbbing chemistry experiment of new love.

But common sense and rationality aren’t the voices you need to listen to. They work with the information that they. That info often says “there’s no reason NOT to date this guy, I guess”.

It’s your intuition that’s always spot on. It can see and feel things that won’t become rational for another six months.

Too many people beat themselves up by asking “How could I have not known? or “Why was I such a blind idiot?” “How did I miss all the red flags?” Because the flags didn’t show up for a year and a half. It’s not your fault for not seeing them.

The better question is “Why didn’t I listen to my intuition?”

We listen to our rational brain and it fails us, but our intuition is always right. ALWAYS.

We have been trained to analyze every interaction and text conversation to make sure the relationship is “working”. We need to justify that sense that things “just doesn’t feel right”. Why? There’s no need to overanalyze when you trust that your gut feels something you can’t see (yet).

Everything changes when you start listening to your gut intuition and start acting intelligently – not just rationally. Emotional intelligence is saying:

“this guy is amazing on paper – he checks all the boxes on my list – but he feels kind of dodgy. I’m out. No explanation needed.”

I believe having a list of criteria is important. But not a list of rules that a relationship needs to follow. A list of promises that you make and keep for yourself.

The way to build self-confidence and self-trust is to make small promises to yourself. And keep them!

Seriously, fortheloveofgod, keep those promises.

Here are a couple of my most recent promises to myself.

I promise:

Not to date anyone who relies on texting to communicate – call me.

To occasionally question my assumptions

To always make my own plans for life and then be flexible to fit with someone else’s

To never prioritize convenience over awesomeness

To accept that I can’t fix everything

To say things that are awkward

To say things that are important even if they hurt feelings

To ask myself “is this really important” before nagging. And to nag if the answer is “yes”.

To expect better sex. And ask for it in detail.

To say “i don’t know”

To accept that not everyone needs to get along

To know the difference between being hurt and not getting my way

To love myself first

To get out of a relationship early

To get back in a relationship if it was right

To surround myself with people and things that make me feel

To eat chocolate even when I feel chubby

To take responsibility for my own life

Gabriel E Junior
Social Media Strategist, Blogger & Scientist

https://dantewest./2015/12/27/stop-dating-the-wrong-people/

KashyBaby:
Lol...u can take away everything, except my phone..Coz in this place where I live in, I am alone & only phone can connect me to my family & friends abroad

NYSC posting?

“The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.” —Ray L. Wilbur

Toys are not merely playthings. Toys form the building blocks for our child’s future. They teach our children about the world and about themselves. They send messages and communicate values. And thus, wise parents think about what foundation is being laid by the toys that are given to their kids.

Wise parents also think about the number of toys that children are given. While most toy rooms and bedrooms today are filled to the ceiling with toys, intentional parents learn to limit the number of toys that kids have to play with.

They understand that fewer toys will actually benefit their children in the long-term:

1. Kids learn to be more creative. Too many toys prevent kids from fully developing their gift of imagination. Two German public health workers (Strick and Schubert) conducted an experiment in which they convinced a kindergarten classroom to remove all of their toys for three months. Although boredom set in during the initial stages of the experiment, the children soon began to use their basic surroundings to invent games and use imagination in their playing.

2. Kids develop longer attention spans. When too many toys are introduced into a child’s life, their attention span will begin to suffer. A child will rarely learn to fully appreciate the toy in front of them when there are countless options still remaining on the shelf behind them.

3. Kids establish better social skills. Children with fewer toys learn how to develop interpersonal relationships with other kids and adults. They learn the give and take of a good conversation. And studies have attributed childhood friendships to a greater chance of success academically and in social situations during adulthood.

4. Kids learn to take greater care of things. When kids have too many toys, they will naturally take less care of them. They will not learn to value them if there is always a replacement ready at hand. If you have a child who is constantly damaging their toys, just take a bunch away. He will quickly learn.

5. Kids develop a greater love for reading, writing, and art. Fewer toys allows your children to love books, music, coloring, and painting. And a love for art will help them better appreciate beauty, emotion, and communication in their world.

6. Kids become more resourceful. In education, students aren’t just given the answer to a problem; they are given the tools to find the answer. In entertainment and play, the same principle can be applied. Fewer toys causes children to become resourceful by solving problems with only the materials at hand. And resourcefulness is a gift with unlimited potential.

7. Kids argue with each other less. This may seem counter-intuitive. Many parents believe that more toys will result in less fighting because there are more options available. However, the opposite is true far too often. Siblings argue about toys. And every time we introduce a new toy into the relationship, we give them another reason to establish their “territory” among the others. On the other hand, siblings with fewer toys are forced to share, collaborate, and work together.

8. Kids learn perseverance. Children who have too many toys give up too quickly. If they have a toy that they can’t figure out, it will quickly be discarded for the sake of a different, easier one. Kids with fewer toys learn perseverance, patience, and determination.

9. Kids become less selfish. Kids who get everything they want believe they can have everything they want. This attitude will quickly lead to an unhealthy (and unbecoming) lifestyle.

10. Kids experience more of nature. Children who do not have a basement full of toys are more apt to play outside and develop a deep appreciation for nature. They are also more likely to be involved in physical exercise which results in healthier and happier bodies.

11. Kids learn to find satisfaction outside of the toy store. True joy and contentment will never be found in the aisles of a toy store. Kids who have been raised to think the answer to their desires can be bought with money have believed the same lie as their parents. Instead, children need encouragement to live counter-cultural lives finding joy in things that truly last.

12. Kids live in a cleaner, tidier home. If you have children, you know that toy clutter can quickly take over an entire home. Fewer toys results in a less-cluttered, cleaner, healthier home.

I’m not anti-toy. I’m just pro-child. So do your child a favor today and limit their number of toys. (Just don’t tell them you got the idea from me.)

https://dantewest./2016/01/02/why-fewer-toys-will-benefit-your-kids/

This is the world under the influence of electronic devices.

It is an eerie place, filled with people who seemingly look past each other and into empty space. In reality, they are staring into their cellphones, tablets and other screens.

We all know the girl who texts through dinner dates, compulsively checks Instagram to see what all her friends are eating at other restaurants, or ends every argument with a Google search—she’s one of those people so tied to their cell phones that it’s never out of arm’s reach. But what if that friend is… you?

Just the other day, I was spending time at home with a close friend who brought her group of their friends who came around with their kids. I couldn’t help but eavesdrop on the conversation of the kids playing, one of the most repeated conversations I overheard was their constant comparison of technology. “Which iPhone do you have? What number iPod is that? And guess who just got a new iPad for her birthday?” It was alarming to hear kids under the age of 10 spend so much energy comparing models of battery-powered electronics. And as much as I wanted to blame them and correct them, I was reminded that we adults are not that different. If we are not comparing cell phones, we are often lusting after faster computers and bigger television screens.

We can’t help ourselves. We naturally want more of what makes us feel happy, at ease or socially accepted. Because addiction often is born from pleasure and convenience, even the most innocuous things can become addictive. The emergence of smartphones has exacerbated our addiction to connectivity, not to mention pleasure. Scientists have shown our brains get a hit of dopamine – the chemical linked to happiness – when we hear our phones beep or ring.

I’ve been noticing a trend more and more within my circle of friends and within our generation as a whole: We can’t seem to get by without some sort of interaction with our phone. I was out to dinner with a friend, who leaves his phone on the table, face up, constantly checking it while we’re eating. I began wondering if I was completely boring or if he was expecting a text from the Pope. Another friend couldn’t watch a movie at home without checking his phone every 15 minutes or so. At concerts, we’re seeing the concert through the lens of the camera app rather then experiencing it as it was meant to be experienced. I have friends whose faces I haven’t seen in years because they’re always looking down at their phone — but I know the top of their head very well.

A group of my guy friends went out to celebrate a birthday and at one point I noticed that every one of us was doing something on our phones. One of the boys suggested we all put our phones in a pile and whoever checked their phone first had to pay the tab. It worked. We may love our phones but we love not being broke more. No one wanted to pay that gargantuan alcohol bill, so the phones sat in a glowing pile, buzzing and chirping away.

We aren’t experiencing life. We’re losing moments with every tap. It’s cheating, really. We may be physically present with our friends and loved ones but we’re texting some one else… or checking a sports score… or tweeting… or reading the latest Olamide and Don Jazzy fall out article (Please continue reading, btw).

I challenge you to try this: Put down the phone. Put down the iPad. Be present and be in the moment for just one day. Enjoy the conversation of those that are physically with you — those who have chosen to take time out of their lives and spend it with you. Watch an entire movie without checking your phone. Have a full conversation without glancing at a screen. Disconnect for just a moment. I’m up for the challenge…are you?

https://dantewest./2016/01/02/the-model-of-your-cell-phone/

Bullshiit.
No prejudice to those who type Amen to scams like this.

The new year is just around the corner and during these times we often begin thinking of ways we can adjust ourselves and our habits to grow and evolve in our lives. Whether you are the type to create resolutions, or you prefer to look back on the prior year and see how you can improve upon it, there are always things we can do to expand ourselves, and in many cases make our lives both easier and more fun.

Here is a list of 16 things that I personally feel we should all put an end to in 2016: (and yes I chose 16 things to specifically match the year 2016)


1. Running From Your Problems

You cannot run from something forever, and believe it or not, the longer you run from something the more difficult it becomes to face. Challenges arise for a reason, and as difficult as many of them can be to both face and overcome, doing so, gives you the opportunity to become a stronger and more capable version of yourself. There are also fewer things more liberating than the feeling of finally facing something that you had put off or had been afraid of for a long time.


2. Lying To Yourself & Others

Lying is, in my opinion, the most naturally cumulative process. What starts as a simple and small lie (possibly even with the intention of not hurting someone) quickly spirals into an entirely false reality where the biggest factor preventing you from sharing the truth is the unwanted reputation of being known as a liar. Moreover, we may lie to one another once in a while, but we lie to ourselves all the time, often to protect our oh-so fragile egos. We might even be inclined to lie to ourselves when reading this list, not wanting to admit how many of these traps we actually fall into. Remember that in the end, the past has helped to make you who you are but it does not define you; you always have the ability to make the transition to full honesty and you will probably be pleasantly surprised by how much lighter an honest existence can feel.


3. Letting The Fear Of Making A Mistake Stop You From Doing Something

Mistakes certainly can be a frustrating experience but never are they worth holding yourself back from doing something you feel pulled to do. We all know we learn from our mistakes but we need to also remember that we learn even more from stepping outside of our comfort zone and doing something different or new.


4. Comparing Yourself To Others

Whether it’s an iconic figure or even a friend or co-worker, many of us have a natural tendency to compare ourselves or our circumstance to that of another. Think of how many times you may have said, either vocally or under your breath, “must be nice” when looking at a facet of another person’s life. Just as the famous saying goes: “the grass will always seem greener on the other side.” Whether or not the grass actually is greener has no true bearing on the only grass we should be focused on — the one right below our feet. The moment we stop comparing and instead focus on our own experience is the moment we are most likely to both find peace in things being the way that they are, and motivation to change them should we feel the need to.


5. Living For Something In The Future

Whether it’s something as temporary as an upcoming vacation or as permanent as retirement, living for something in the future is great for one key thing: preventing us from living right now. One thing is for certain, in this life we are never going to be any younger than we are right now, so what time is better than right now? I’m not suggesting that we stop making all future plans, since they certainly can be useful, but that we instead focus on the present and allow the future to be what it will when the time for it comes.


6. Trying To Get People To Feel Sorry For You

Nobody likes a Negative Nancy or a Pessimistic Peter, yet so many of us regularly make a habit of sharing nothing but the unpleasant or unfavorable. As nice as it can feel at one level to receive sympathy from another person, we all know it does absolutely nothing to change the situation that we are complaining about. In fact it actually makes it a bigger part of your reality, since now you aren’t the only one to identify with it. Accept whatever it is that seems to be plaguing you and choose to move on from it rather than bask in the accompanying stories or emotions.


7. Trying To Re-live/ Make Up For Your Past

As I previously mentioned, your past does not define you, and that applies whether you look upon it favorably or as something you wish you could forget. As fun or torturous as reminiscing can be at times, in the end nothing truly matters outside of this moment. Rather than preoccupy yourself with a comparison to another point in time, why not try giving all of your energy and attention to the one that is right in front of you?


8. Putting Things Off For The Eternal Tomorrow

This one could alternatively be called ‘being lazy,’ and it more than likely is the one that plagues the largest percentage of us. Laziness is a lethal pandemic that has been stood up to before, but still manages to hold its ground a lot more often than we all probably would like. Remembering that there is no time like the present, opt to show laziness who is boss a little more often and you might be surprised at how contagious present action can be. You will undoubtedly be more productive and might just find yourself motivated to do a lot more than you ever thought imaginable.


9. Blaming Things Outside Of Yourself

Even though we all do genuinely find ourselves as the ‘victim’ to a person or circumstance from time to time, we usually (and inaccurately) point the blame elsewhere far more often. As much as this can be an effective tool for dodging difficulty with another person, it never works when trying to avoid difficulty within yourself. You will always know the true cause behind even the grandest lie and not living up to it will never be the easier path to travel. Own up to what you have caused or what is really holding you back and you might just find yourself a lot more in control of your own reality and even more comfortable in your own shoes.


10. Letting The Past Define How You Think Of Others

Your friend may have unnecessarily called you a jackass three years ago but that doesn’t mean that you need to see them as a jackass today. You should always use your own guidance to determine whether or not you want to surround yourself with certain people, but you shouldn’t let the past taint that guidance. As difficult or as emotionally charged as a lot of it may be, the past is simply baggage that should have no bearing on the present moment. Think of how much you have changed and grown throughout your life. Now consider how foolish it would be to assume that the same does not also apply to everyone around you.


11. Setting Expectations For Things Before They Happen

Let’s face it, the imagination loves to wander, and in most cases it wanders to create expectations far grander than even humanly possible. As fun as getting lost in la-la land can be at times, it also manages to do a pretty good job of making the present reality seem pretty blah by comparison. I’ve heard countless people tell me how the best things in life have always seemed to happen when they least expected it, so what better way to help create that than to simply stop expecting. Be in the moment and things will always seem that much more exciting (if for no other reason than you haven’t imagined them first).


12. Looking For Someone Perfect

Not only is our idea of perfect most likely heavily shaped by entertainment and popular media, but it is also ever-changing and therefore pretty well impossible to find. Rather than focusing on your search for that perfect someone to complete you, focus on what you need to do to feel complete within yourself. We are all capable of being and feeling complete love on our own, relationships are simply the extension of that love with another person. The shedding of the need for “perfection” will also make you a lot more open to connecting and sharing experiences with anyone that comes into your life, helping you to remember that love can often be found in the oddest places.


13. Trying To Be Someone That You Are Not

Whether it’s the impact of popular opinion once again, or simply the preference of someone you are trying to impress, we are never doing ourselves a favor when we try to become someone else. Even if the charade manages to work in getting you what you were going for, it only does so for a false version of yourself. Focusing on understanding and fully owning, with comfort, who you truly are will take you a lot further in life than anything artificially created.


14. Beating Yourself Up

As insulting as another person can be, there is no one capable of being more vicious to ourselves than, well… ourselves. Whether you let your high school crush get away, you dropped the game winning touchdown, or anything else along those same lines, nothing from the past needs to have any bearing on the present. Choosing to create this moment anew rather than weigh it down by things that are completely irrelevant to everything but your mind, can be a really freeing process.


15. Living Predominantly In The Digital World

We all love the digital world. How do I know this? To be reading this article right now, you are actively engaging in it. While the internet, our phones, tablets, and everything else that electronically exists are all wonderful tools, let’s make sure they don’t dominate our 2016. Let’s use them as we need to, but also be sure to incorporate an adequate portion of face to face interaction and nature-based activities into our regular life.


16. Just Reading & Not Doing

As amazing as books, quotes, and even articles such as this one can be to help remind us of what we already know, we must also begin putting these things into action. Allow these resources to become a starting point rather than a regularly needed reminder.

https://dantewest./2015/12/31/last-post-of-2015-things-to-drop-in-2016/

There are about 4 types of vehicles plying Abuja roads. The super rides of our darling Senators (We are still waiting eagerly to see the cars they budgeted for themselves on the road), the private cars of ordinary Nigerians moving about with their business, public transport vehicles/trucks/whatnot then we have taxis.

Taxis in Abuja are also divided into 2. The popular white and green kabu kabu, drop or just plain taxi (depending on what you want to label them as) and the new age taxi managed by ecommerce giants such as Easy Taxi and the likes. There are a good number of taxi apps servicing Abuja, the taxi apps have been expensive but they still manage to serve a purpose with the teeming youth population eager to show class.

I visited Abuja in June, Debby, my on and off sweetheart invited me for a little vacation, on getting to Abuja, I was all smiles as she came to pick me up from the airport with a neat looking ride. The smile on my face was priceless, in my mind, I was thinking Debby has stepped up not only to have a neat ride, but also afford a driver. Well, my smile was more about finally meeting Debby after a really long time apart.

She screamed as she saw me, the way we were acting at the airport, you would have thought we were getting married the following day. After exchanging pleasantries, we got in the ride and the driver was like where are we heading to next. I almost said home, Debbie calmly gave the driver directions and cuddled right into my arms.

The ride was amazing and smooth, on getting to our destination, she promptly paid the dude, it was then it occurred to me that we were indeed in a taxi. Debbie went on and on about how taxi apps have been filling a huge need since inception. She told me that she felt really secured when ordering a taxi through the app, I was like, you use Uber too? Nope, Easy Taxi, not sure Uber is in Abuja yet though, was her reply.
As a Lagos boy, Easy Taxi is by no means a new name. I follow them on Facebook and Twitter, infact, I use them almost every other week, whenever I am going to places I don’t wanna stress my car with. This makes me a huge fan of the brand.

Now its December, I came to Abuja on a different aim and ran into Debbie again. We were genuinely happy and excited to be with each other once more, we decided to run wild in town. Pulling out my phone, I decided to use Easy Taxi once more, lo and behold, the entire taxi ordering was a huge failure and disappointment. After 30 minutes of trying, Debbie decided we should use another taxi app since a taxi wasn’t forth coming. My interest was pricked, so I did a little bit of investigation.

It seems the ever vibrant Nigerian market has being a tough nut to crack by the not so new management of Easy Taxi. The ship looked like it was sinking.

Since the introduction of the new MD, the company has being on a downward slope. Many Easy Taxi staffs are confused about what future, if any, Easy taxi has. The company has been plagued with falsifying awards, disgruntled employees, and not meeting with customers expectations.

The Senior PR, Events and Partnership at Easy Taxi tendered her resignation letter and left for a company with better structure earlier this month . Same with the Public Relations arm of Easy Taxi also resigned this month. These are the people who made Easy Taxi a force to reckon with in Nigeria, especially Lagos. They were exceptionally great at looking for leads, she sealed lots of partnership deals, and did extensive work with following up with clients.

To add insult to injury, the entire staff of Easy Taxi in Abuja have being told to submit their laptops, effectively sacking about 12 people at once in an Ecommerce business environment. Who does that? The MD had previously employed about 9 of her own people, even out of the people she employed in Abuja, some have already left the company before the Abuja shutdown.

On November 13th, I wrote a piece, Easy Taxi was gradually bowing out to Uber Taxi, this was as a result of my new found appetite of trying different taxi brands. I could remember noticing a change in the company’s mode of operation. Especially with the fact that some of the taxis were not using A/C as initially thought.

Anyway, it’s surely a company to look out for, who knows, a turnaround might be under construction.

https://dantewest./2015/12/31/easy-taxi-shuts-down-in-abuja-nigeria/

There are about 4 types of vehicles plying Abuja roads. The super rides of our darling Senators (We are still waiting eagerly to see the cars they budgeted for themselves on the road), the private cars of ordinary Nigerians moving about with their business, public transport vehicles/trucks/whatnot then we have taxis.

Taxis in Abuja are also divided into 2. The popular white and green kabu kabu, drop or just plain taxi (depending on what you want to label them as) and the new age taxi managed by ecommerce giants such as Easy Taxi and the likes. There are a good number of taxi apps servicing Abuja, the taxi apps have been expensive but they still manage to serve a purpose with the teeming youth population eager to show class.

I visited Abuja in June, Debby, my on and off sweetheart invited me for a little vacation, on getting to Abuja, I was all smiles as she came to pick me up from the airport with a neat looking ride. The smile on my face was priceless, in my mind, I was thinking Debby has stepped up not only to have a neat ride, but also afford a driver. Well, my smile was more about finally meeting Debby after a really long time apart.

She screamed as she saw me, the way we were acting at the airport, you would have thought we were getting married the following day. After exchanging pleasantries, we got in the ride and the driver was like where are we heading to next. I almost said home, Debbie calmly gave the driver directions and cuddled right into my arms.

The ride was amazing and smooth, on getting to our destination, she promptly paid the dude, it was then it occurred to me that we were indeed in a taxi. Debbie went on and on about how taxi apps have been filling a huge need since inception. She told me that she felt really secured when ordering a taxi through the app, I was like, you use Uber too? Nope, Easy Taxi, not sure Uber is in Abuja yet though, was her reply.
As a Lagos boy, Easy Taxi is by no means a new name. I follow them on Facebook and Twitter, infact, I use them almost every other week, whenever I am going to places I don’t wanna stress my car with. This makes me a huge fan of the brand.

Now its December, I came to Abuja on a different aim and ran into Debbie again. We were genuinely happy and excited to be with each other once more, we decided to run wild in town. Pulling out my phone, I decided to use Easy Taxi once more, lo and behold, the entire taxi ordering was a huge failure and disappointment. After 30 minutes of trying, Debbie decided we should use another taxi app since a taxi wasn’t forth coming. My interest was pricked, so I did a little bit of investigation.

It seems the ever vibrant Nigerian market has being a tough nut to crack by the not so new management of Easy Taxi. The ship looked like it was sinking.

Since the introduction of the new MD, the company has being on a downward slope. Many Easy Taxi staffs are confused about what future, if any, Easy taxi has. The company has been plagued with falsifying awards, disgruntled employees, and not meeting with customers expectations.

The Senior PR, Events and Partnership at Easy Taxi tendered her resignation letter and left for a company with better structure earlier this month . Same with the Public Relations arm of Easy Taxi also resigned this month. These are the people who made Easy Taxi a force to reckon with in Nigeria, especially Lagos. They were exceptionally great at looking for leads, she sealed lots of partnership deals, and did extensive work with following up with clients.

To add insult to injury, the entire staff of Easy Taxi in Abuja have being told to submit their laptops, effectively sacking about 12 people at once in an Ecommerce business environment. Who does that? The MD had previously employed about 9 of her own people, even out of the people she employed in Abuja, some have already left the company before the Abuja shutdown.

On November 13th, I wrote a piece, Easy Taxi was gradually bowing out to Uber Taxi, this was as a result of my new found appetite of trying different taxi brands. I could remember noticing a change in the company’s mode of operation. Especially with the fact that some of the taxis were not using A/C as initially thought.

Anyway, it’s surely a company to look out for, who knows, a turnaround might be under construction.

https://dantewest./2015/12/31/easy-taxi-shuts-down-in-abuja-nigeria/

gtrust:
ISIS has gone "ottokoto"

Lol. No be only you dey reason am

braine:
Why would they do that? When they have oil in abundance and its even cheap. Na wah o.

Having oil in abundance doesnt mean you wont get hurt by dwindling prices.

Their wicked gamble is going to backfire most definitely, no doubt about that. Even the saudi royals all know this as a fact.

Islamic State’s human organ harvesting is sanctioned by a fatwa issued last January, when the group’s Islamic scholars explained that internals of ‘apostates’ could be extracted from their bodies for the needs of Muslims, even if the ‘donors’ die.

A document obtained by Reuters reveals that organs harvesting is charitable deed by codes of Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL), maintains IS’ Research and Fatwa Committee.

“The apostate's life and organs don't have to be respected and may be taken with impunity,” says Fatwa (religious ruling) #68 issued January 31, 2015. “The notion that transplanting healthy organs into a Muslim person’s body in order to save the latter's life or replace a damaged organ with it is permissible,” the document says, specifying that removal of organs that “end the captive's life” is also not prohibited.

The Fatwa #68 was reportedly found in a trove of other Islamic State’s documents obtained by the US special forces as a result of raid into eastern Syria in May. Reuters could not independently confirm the authenticity of the document.

The data retrieved in May has been compiled into ‘Lessons Learned From the Abu Sayyaf Raid’ package exposing IS of justifying practices punishable elsewhere in the world, the human organs trafficking being just one of them.

The raid in May that resulted in killing Abu Sayyaf, IS’s top financial official, brought the US seven terabytes of data from terrorist’s computer hard drives, thumb drives, CDs, DVDs and papers, Reuters cited Brett McGurk, the US president's special envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL.

In February this year, Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohamed Alhakim, called on the 15-member UN Security Council to look at allegations of organ removal by the IS, urging the UNSC to investigate the issue.

He informed that bodies with surgical incisions and missing kidneys had been discovered in shallow mass graves on Iraqi territory.

“We have bodies. Come and examine them,” Alhakim said. "It is clear they are missing certain parts."

He also said several doctors had been executed in Mosul for refusing to participate in organ harvesting.


In August the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported of French-speaking IS militants openly discussing harvesting human organs from sex slaves on social media back in September 2014.

The fatwa obtained by Reuters does not define who could be attributed as ‘Kafir’ (disbeliever in Islam), but enslaving of minorities practicing other religions on the territories controlled by IS is a well-established fact. Thousands of Iraqi women have already been forced into sex slavery, with as many as 3,000 women and girls having been taken captive only from the Yazidi tribe in Iraq during IS offensives across the region.


IS has issued a number of fatwas, providing legal justification to a range of criminal and openly barbaric practices.

For example Fatwa #64 issued on January 29, 2015, presents regulations for rape, explaining in detail when and how Islamic State militants should have sexual intercourse with female slaves.

IS even has a fatwa justifying cannibalism in extreme circumstances.

“A group of Islamic scholars have permitted, if necessary, one to kill the apostate in order to eat his flesh, which is part of benefiting from his body,” the regulation says.

https://www.rt.com/news/327078-isis-captives-organs-harvesting/

Saudi Arabia has destabilized the crude market while increasing its oil output by 1.5 million barrels a day, said Russia’s Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak.

"This year Saudi Arabia has ramped up production by 1.5 million barrels per day, which in fact destabilized the situation on the market," Novak told Rossiya 24 TV channel.

According to him, the balance of oil supply and demand could be achieved in 2016. Iran’s return to the global energy market could also affect oil prices, Novak added.

Earlier this month, OPEC decided not to cut output, it left ‘de facto’ production unchanged at 31.5 million barrels per day (bpd). The previous official output ceiling was 30 million bpd, but OPEC was already pumping more than that.


The cartel’s output hit a three-year high in July at 31.5 million barrels per day (bpd) following OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia’s output increase. The kingdom then refuted media reports it was pumping more to compensate for lower prices.

Despite the perpetual appeals to reduce output and support oil prices, OPEC has been refusing to do so as the organization is trying to maintain its market share. Saudi Arabia has been the main opposition to production cuts.

The group of 12 OPEC countries accounts for about 40 percent of the world’s crude production.

https://www.rt.com/business/327272-saudi-oil-market-destabilization/

We’ve all been there. When the “newly single” excitement wears off and we realize we still have our old bad habits. The realization happens after dating two or three shitty people in a row that all seemed “different” but all ended up exactly the same.

We don’t notice it until we’re sitting with our friends having literally the exact same conversation about needing “someone who has their shit together” or “someone who isn’t scared of commitment” two weeks in a row about two different people. You know it’s bad when your bestie stops you midsentence to ask “Wait are you still talking about Dele, Nkechi or Hassan?

So we sit down and write a list of the things we really need in a relationship. What does a great partner look like. Maybe we might create a list of “How I want to feel in a relationship” for the more evolved women. I have a notebook full of these lists.

(Hopefully – after reading this you’ll never want to do that again.)

Relationships fail when we create rules and expectations. Those rules are often disguised as “needs” and “wants”. Don’t worry – there’s a better way to get to the same result.

Without these rules we feel like we would let someone walk all over us, take advantage of our love and break our heart. It’s a well-meaning effort to find a relationship that is healthy and fulfilling. But it isn’t fixing the real issue.

We create these rules to ensure that we don’t let bad relationships slip past the gatekeepers of common sense and rationality when we are caught up in the throbbing chemistry experiment of new love.
But common sense and rationality aren’t the voices you need to listen to. They work with the information that they. That info often says “there’s no reason NOT to date this guy, I guess”.

It’s your intuition that’s always spot on. It can see and feel things that won’t become rational for another six months.

Too many people beat themselves up by asking “How could I have not known? or “Why was I such a blind idiot?” “How did I miss all the red flags?” Because the flags didn’t show up for a year and a half. It’s not your fault for not seeing them.

We listen to our rational brain and it fails us, but our intuition is always right. ALWAYS.

We have been trained to analyze every interaction and text conversation to make sure the relationship is “working”. We need to justify that sense that things “just doesn’t feel right”. Why? There’s no need to overanalyze when you trust that your gut feels something you can’t see (yet).

Everything changes when you start listening to your gut intuition and start acting intelligently – not just rationally. Emotional intelligence is saying:
I believe having a list of criteria is important. But not a list of rules that a relationship needs to follow. A list of promises that you make and keep for yourself.

Seriously, fortheloveofgod, keep those promises.

Here are a couple of my most recent promises to myself.


I promise:

Not to date anyone who relies on texting to communicate – call me.
To occasionally question my assumptions
To always make my own plans for life and then be flexible to fit with someone else’s
To never prioritize convenience over awesomeness
To accept that I can’t fix everything
To say things that are awkward
To say things that are important even if they hurt feelings
To ask myself “is this really important” before nagging. And to nag if the answer is “yes”.
To expect better sex. And ask for it in detail.
To say “i don’t know”
To accept that not everyone needs to get along
To know the difference between being hurt and not getting my way
To love myself first
To get out of a relationship early
To get back in a relationship if it was right
To surround myself with people and things that make me feel
To eat chocolate even when I feel chubby
To take responsibility for my own life


https://dantewest./2015/12/27/stop-dating-the-wrong-people/

After 3 hours beating... you must have an encounter with God na

One of the things that both men and women do which causes friction in relationships is to give advice (often unsolicited) when what we should really give is support.

In general support sounds like: “I know what you mean; that too bad.” “I totally understand. That happened to me, too, once.” “I am sorry you are going through that.”

By contrast advice sounds like: “You should do this, that, and this other thing” Or what I think is the very worst form of unsolicited advice… health recommendations.

Support: “I am so sorry you going through cancer treatment. Call me if you need anything. I am there for you.”

Advice: “The treatment you are using is bad. You need to see X doctor and use X approach, read X book and try X vitamin.” When it comes to health issues people are scared and unless your advice is asked for it’s best not to say anything that will cause them to second guess the treatments they have decided on.

Support: “I am sorry things aren’t working out with your boy-friend, call me if you want to talk.”

Advice: “You need to dump that guy right now, he is no good for you!” Though I understand it’s tempting to say that to a girlfriend who is clearly dating someone who isn’t worthy of them but, at the end of the day it’s their choice and if you don’t respect that or you run the risk of losing them forever.

Giving advice rather than support feels draining to the giver, particularly if that advice is never followed. It is also annoying for the receiver, especially if the receiver has already decided how to handle something, and most importantly, it is very damaging to a relationship because it can feel a lot like a parent telling what to do. Who wants that?

Also, by pushing your values, ideals and beliefs on someone who hasn’t asked to hear them, you run the risk of making this person feel uncomfortable talking to you, which may leave them with no support at all and in some situations that can make things far worse.

In general, to maintain more balanced relationships be supportive, and unless specifically asked keep the advice to yourself. It will help both feel more like equals in the relationship, and trust me, you will feel better about it.

Respect yourself and your friends enough to honor their choices, whatever they are.

https://dantewest./2015/12/25/save-your-relationships-by-not-giving-advice/

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