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Useful post. Merci beaucoup!

Mariangeles:
Nobody is completely selfless.

That is true, but the challenge comes when someone who is 90-99% selfish pretends to be in a relationship with someone who is 5-10% selfish.

Sooner or later, the Centre will no longer hold, and things will fall apart. By that time, relationships with family and friends, careers, reputations, and bank accounts might all have been damaged beyond repair.

bukatyne:
The visionary and assertive men aren't much either.

So they would go round nicely

Great riposte, Bukatyne. However, I meant this as a practical question, not a critical, satirical or sentimental one.

Ergo, let's consider the reality on ground: how many men (assertive or no) would spend two hours before a mirror, put on revealing clothes and go prancing about hoping to be picked up by a lady with more money than common sense?

While not denying the existence of gigolos, and while agreeing that assertive / visionary men are scarce, I find it really hard to believe that the good women would go round nicely.

In my line of work, I am finding this to be a recurring and ever-greater challenge. Basically, I am seeking sincere suggestions for the purpose of helping those who consult me in this regard.

Avec toutes mes plus sincères salutations.

bukatyne:
Men be more assertive and be vision driven; you will automatically weed these entitled women.

Excellent advice! Unfortunately, in many places, these entitled, unreasonable (or even toxic) girls now make up the vast majority of the female population.

Consequently, the good, virtuous or reasonable women aren't enough to go round for the "visionary and assertive" men.

What do you advise in such a situation?

prof2007:
... Or the case of the Australian woman who divorced her Italian husband and took their 4 Italian-born daughters back to Australia, where she now wants to live. She defied a Family Court order that the girls, who are in their teens, should return to Italy.

The father says he loves his daughters and wants them home and the full bench of the court agrees. But the mother wants what she wants, so she's sent the children into hiding.

Vraiment incroyable!

Yewandequeen:
Maybe she is a victim of rape, and still traumatizing.

Absolutely correct. Best comment so far.

Maybe the lady was previously raped; maybe she has a medical condition or a personality disorder making her react negatively to touch; maybe she just doesn't like it.

Regardless of the reason, if someone says "NO", just accept It, apologize and move on.

Four major things I've noticed that are causing problems in our society:

1. Lack of consideration for others.
2. Lack of strategic thinking/decision-making skills.
3. Lack of rock-solid honesty/integrity.
4. Too much of sentiment (ethnic, tribal, religious, political etc).

Wow!

Corruption is a cancer that destroys. We must always condemn it and fight it whenever and wherever we see it.

Lagos State Government has urged those in the habit of picking and dropping passengers at undesignated bus stops, particularly on the highways, to stop or suffer the full wrath of the law.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transportation, Dr Taiwo Salaam, who handed down the warning, stated that the practice would not be condoned as it is disrupting free flow of traffic on the roads.

He further stated that the directive is in line with Section 49 of the Lagos State Traffic Law which stipulates that it is an offence for commercial buses to pick or drop passengers on the fast lane, walkways or at undesignated bus stops.

Salaam said drivers of commercial vehicles are to utilise relevant road infrastructures provided by the government for drop-off and pick up of passengers such as the lay-by and slip roads at various bus shelters/terminals across the metropolis.

He also emphasised that tricycle and motorcycle activities should be kept 50 metres away from highways and road junctions.

He emphasised that the State Government has zero tolerance for avoidable gridlock and traffic congestion, adding that garages modified to markets without authorisation should be reverted to the original and intended usage.

According to him, it is the belief of the current administration that if commercial vehicles comply with all laid down traffic rules and regulations, it will reduce the level of recklessness on the highways and by implication reduce the hours wasted in traffic.

Salaam said non-compliance with the laws is viewed as recklessness under section 51, 52 and 53 of the State Traffic Laws and in the event of accidents, violators are liable to a fine of N50,000 to N100,000 and a jail term ranging from three months.

"In case of death, the offender will be liable to seven years or more jail term, including suspension of his driver’s license", he added.

The Permanent Secretary reminded drivers that measures have been put in place to checkmate traffic law violation, including the installation of Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Cameras in strategic places to monitor and apprehend violators and reduce human interface with motorists.

SOURCE: BrandSpur

HOW TO REPORT POOR SERVICE FROM YOUR BANK TO THE CBN

If your bank has failed to satisfactorily resolve issues reported to them, you now have a means of laying your complaints directly to the CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria):

1. Send an email to cpd@cbn.gov.ng

OR

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SOURCE: https://t.guardian.ng/energy/fg-committed-to-n701b-power-generation-intervention-fund/

Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has pledged commitment to pay N701 billion Payment Assurance fund to power Generation Companies (GenCos).

Reacting to a media report which claimed government would discontinue the payment, Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Power, Louis Edozien, discredited the publication, insisting the payment has been on track.

“The Payment Assurance Programme of the FGN that authorised Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trader (NBET) to borrow N701.9 billion to guarantee payment for any power it has contracted from generation companies on the national grid and their gas and other suppliers have been in operation since January 2017.

The amount NBET is authorised to borrow is not yet fully drawn. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the programme and has not taken any decision to stop it. FEC is the appropriate authority to comment on the Programme’s tenure and borrowing ceiling,” Edozien said in a statement.

He urged generation companies to take advantage of the regulation to sell the power they can generate (of which 2,000MW is now stranded) to Eligible Customers who need it and are willing and able to pay for it.

He further stated that the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), should continue to support the regulation by making targeted investments in the national grid, as needed to service specific contracts with generation companies and Eligible Customers to transmit the power.

Encouraging electricity distribution companies (DisCos) to embrace the policy, the Permanent Secretary said if the DisCos were satisfying power supply needs of their consumers, users would have no reason to generate power by themselves.