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lonelydora:
Ecclesiastics 10:10 part B reads.....Wisdom is profitable to direct.

You remember Abraham lied to save life? Just pray for forgiveness and move on with your life.

Apply wisdom. Don't be so stupid to meet WAEC.

whisperingbird:
I did my ssce exam in 2016, the officers incharge told us to pay 2k in order to claim our calculator but I refused at first when I heard that it was for runs. I later paid when they refuse to give us calculator and we science students are the first to do practicals.
On the way, I collected a few answers to some questions I didn't know and since then I do feel bad. please what restitution advice can you give?






mods please help me to move it to FrontPage

Emmasteev:
You be Ffo

thereturnoflucy:
@Fabinfos

Leo Messi, has confirmed the birth of his third son, Ciro, on Instagram . FC Barcelona including other superstars have congratulated the Argentine.

See Instagram post below

http://fabinfos.com/leo-messi-confirms-the-birth-of-his-third-son-ciro/

ehix89:
Can you enlighten me on ways to make ones LinkedIn profile flashy, it seems there is something i'm not doing right at the moment. I will appreciate your response

myrrtle:
Hi there and hope we are all having a good weekend.

It's not my intention to reveal too much about my professional life, but if doing so will help someone, then it's not a bad thing.

Many people here know me as a recruiter and the web manager for Careersome. But aside that, I have a full-time job, working as a fullstack engineer and growing my career in that field.
Yes, you're right. I got my current job through LinkedIn, truth is I can count the number of offers I have gotten through LinkedIn

As a career enthusiast and consultant, I do a lot of career research and self study to get enough information to talk about career stuffs and guide people. I also apply the things I've learnt to my own career. In doing this, I've learnt that LinkedIn is a very powerful tool that no serious job seeker or career person should neglect, even if you have a good paying job.

You know I keep my LinkedIn profile updated and any new skill I learn, I put it there. And of recent, I've been getting a lot of messages like this" You appeared in 42 searches this week

You were found by people from these companies"

The annoying thing is that these companies, not just Nigerian companies, keep viewing my profile and do not contact me.

But that changed this week when the representative of a top financial company messaged me with a job description. Almost begging me to apply and even gave me his phone number to call him if I wish to speak.

Regrettably, I did not apply for the job because they wanted a Neymar and I know deep down within that am still an Mbappé. And also because I am not ready to leave my present job.

But the story here is that employers are seriously looking for the right candidates to engage. And LinkedIn is one of the tools they are using to search for these candidates

myrrtle:
Hi there and hope we are all having a good weekend.

It's not my intention to reveal too much about my professional life, but if doing so will help someone, then it's not a bad thing.

Many people here know me as a recruiter and the web manager for Careersome. But aside that, I have a full-time job, working as a fullstack engineer and growing my career in that field.
Yes, you're right. I got my current job through LinkedIn, truth is I can count the number of offers I have gotten through LinkedIn

As a career enthusiast and consultant, I do a lot of career research and self study to get enough information to talk about career stuffs and guide people. I also apply the things I've learnt to my own career. In doing this, I've learnt that LinkedIn is a very powerful tool that no serious job seeker or career person should neglect, even if you have a good paying job.

You know I keep my LinkedIn profile updated and any new skill I learn, I put it there. And of recent, I've been getting a lot of messages like this" You appeared in 42 searches this week

You were found by people from these companies"

The annoying thing is that these companies, not just Nigerian companies, keep viewing my profile and do not contact me.

But that changed this week when the representative of a top financial company messaged me with a job description. Almost begging me to apply and even gave me his phone number to call him if I wish to speak.

Regrettably, I did not apply for the job because they wanted a Neymar and I know deep down within that am still an Mbappé. And also because I am not ready to leave my present job.

But the story here is that employers are seriously looking for the right candidates to engage. And LinkedIn is one of the tools they are using to search for these candidates

SerialAlpha:
[b]We[/b]all have sex in the bathroom.
This ones just did it on camera, and that's the only difference.

And yes, did they force anyone to watch it ? No!
Ok then case close. Next!

Giel:
What does FFO mean? Lol, lolu is already gone as far as you are concerned
What did ceebi do? Read updates that they have reconciled.
BTW, Oshe11 look at my last mentioñ to you. I modified.
Blackhawk modified a mention to you also,

EscobarSnipes:
The problem lies partialy with the type of messages preached in churches nowadays: favour, blessings, prosperity, giving etc nowadays a church is where one goes and is comfortable in ones's sins, its where many go with intentions of finding a sex partner.

More emphasis are laid on the mercies of God than on the wages of sin and the consequences of toying with his grace-up to the extent that He is viewed as desperate to forgive.

The fact that Christ warned more about hell than the pleasures of heaven is a grim reminder of the morbid reality.
God being righteousness, MUST SURELY punish sin in any form. His silence, grace and long suffering will not be mocked but must be paid for.

Whether we like it or not it is the bitter reality we will one day face.
"......IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD"

martineverest:
isn't dbanj's father,deacon oyebanji,a deacon in winners' chapel?

why won't he campaign for tithing and offerings,when he was raised and fed with tithes?

Dimples129:
While some of us have 5

Blackhawk01:
Ksquare got saved and Khloe said "ebi n pa mi" ffo

cabalocracy:
CeCe na FFO...

Chikita66:
Try to have an open mind.

asuustrike2009:
God bless you

Chikita66:
You are too religious and that's your problem.

Chikita66:
I think she is just being a religious extremist and fanatics, I'm a Christian too and I know this is kinda extreme, you mustn't show the whole world you are a deeper life member, reminds me of the pharisees and Sadducees.

Chikita66:
I dread this kind of girls, they are always wicked, their heart black as charcoal.

Greenishland:
I love what she did. Muslims do worse and nobody talks but if a Christian stands for what she believes in, fellow so called Christians will start mocking and shouting "Deeper Life" Christians must wake up!

Jamariwolff:
I can't stop laffin.

But this typa girls can pretend, they'll catch your man and gv him all styles all in secret

kimbraa:
She's obeying God's commandment indeed. They read the bible, preach the word, act like they're living the life that's expected by God but their heart devise more evil than any other thing.

ajibolabd:
Fraudsters

homosapien002:
FFO

Brooke60:
I am looking for my period

Amagite:
Former Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria Tourism 2013, Powede Lawrence Awujo, got married in September last year has welcomed a baby boy this January.

She has now taken to Instagram to share cute photos of her son writing;

"This year started with nothing short of blessings and I’m still in awe of being a mother, you see my dear son came to the world smiling and has been smiling ever since.���
Nothing compares to the feeling of having life inside you and bringing forth life. ����Bitter sweet they say but all that bitter goes away when I see this cute happy face.��
My joy is full! My God did it again.❤️
#extraordinarychild#supernaturalchildbirth#firstfruit#daddystwin#Enibabyhasababy#"


http://www.amagitesblog.com/2018/02/ex-beauty-queen-powede-lawrence-shares.html

verticalngn:
The story is everywhere on the internet how Paddy Adenuga, the son of Nigeria’s telecoms and oil & gas business mogul where he nearly and almost bought Chevron, Netherlands.

He got guts, passionate, ambitious and he was ready to go to the moon even without a ride. He played the chess and played it well in the traditional ways.

Well, the story has been told, there is history and name made by Paddy already but we can’t shy away from the fact that the acquisition was not successful. He failed! What guts he got and why he failed?

EGO KILLED HIM

Paddy said “I pitched Catalan to Edgar and how if we pulled this off it would be the grandest of coups. Edgar was highly intrigued but stated that he wanted hard cash upfront from the onset. Whilst the others were all too eager to come on board and make their money via sweat equity or cash incentives when we had a target company in our sights, Edgar wanted to be paid money and a substantial amount before putting pen to paper. I was confused by his behaviour. I told him who the others were that were on Catalan’s advisory board but he wasn’t having it, either he would be paid his princely sum to attach his name to Catalan or no deal. I was 29 at the time and was still head-strong and prideful. How could this guy develop such an attitude? I thought we were friends. I suppose Edgar knew his value and wasn’t going to mortgage it on a promise of monies at a later date. As much as he liked my Trojan Horse idea, he just happened to like money more. I balked at his request in annoyance. I paid for lunch, told him no way, and stormed off home. This was a big mistake on my part that would rear its ugly head later.”

Edgar who is a professional that has lot of experience and the connections to pull through the Chevron acquisition to Catalan which Paddy also testified to backed out from joining the Catalan Bid team because Paddy was arrogantly couldn’t accept or negotiate his interest but he thought Edgar liked money. He admitted it was a big mistake from his own part not accepting or negotiating with Edgar because that was the beginning of his failure and before he realized, it was too late.

Paddy said “I had to reach out to Edgar and I’d also have to pay that princely sum of his. I met with Edgar for a steak dinner. I swallowed my pride and apologised profusely for our last meeting that didn’t go so well. I told Edgar that I wanted him on my team now on a full-time basis. Edgar knew he was needed now more than ever and cheekily asked for twice the amount he had originally requested for. This was no longer a princely sum but a king’s ransom. I did the math. It was worth it. I called my Bankers and made sure Edgar was paid. After everything failed, Edgar later told me that if I had brought him on from day one, the first question he would have asked me was, “What amount are you willing to pay for Chevron Netherlands, given what you wanted to use it for in Africa?” I told Edgar that the price I would have paid was USD 50 million. I should have paid Edgar his princely sum the first-time round, never again would I let ego or pride cloud my judgement.”

He had to pay doubled for Edgar and still did not win the bid. That is was the consequence of his ego and pride. In business, ego and pride don’t have place instead negotiate.

HE HELD IT TOO SECRETLY

” That night I went on a dinner date and bumped into an older friend of mine, Remi. I had always looked up to Remi. Remi is smart, successful, and highly intelligent. I felt like him and I were very much the same person and that he was me, just twenty or so years down the road. Remi asked me what I was up to with work and why I wasn’t in Lagos running the family business. I coyly changed topics as I didn’t want any Nigerians knowing what I was up to, certainly no one in “high society” or the political elite. Even though Remi was a great guy, I couldn’t take the risk. Chevron Netherlands was my Trojan Horse and it was on a strictly need to know basis. We will get back to Remi later.”

After everything failed, the Managing Director of Petrogas of Oman, the mystery company Paddy used most of later time to search that has the highest bidding and that acquired the Chevron company happens to be a close friend of Remi.

Paddy said “I called Remi and told him that I was back in Lagos. He invited me over to his palatial and modern home. He liked my Lion’s head insignia that I had stitched onto the pocket of my native Nigerian kaftan. We sat down for hours and talked business and politics. Then Remi asked me what was I doing in London all that time, away from the family business. I was happy to tell him about Chevron Netherlands at this point, the deal was done and over. Remi looked at me in astonishment, “You mean you took on a whole Chevron, with no noise, no fanfare and none of us knew? Ahh bros you try!” We laughed it off. Remi then revealed the biggest bombshell of my Chevron Netherlands adventure. The managing director of Petrogas of Oman was a close friend of his and he knew he was bidding for Chevron Netherlands at the time. If I had told him what I was up to when we saw in London, whilst I was searching for the last bidder, he would have introduced us. I was blown away. There it was that whole time. That mystery last bidder that I had searched so hard for was there for my taking and it passed right by me.”

Whooo! What would have happened if he told Remi and Remi speak with his friend at Petrogas of Oman would have be.. Instead of the Joint Venture he had with ONE and EBN, it should have be with Petrogas of Oman or he just play his chess in anyway anyway.

HIS TEAM DID’NT BELIEVE HIS INSTINCTS

This is very dangerous for any business when your team don’t believe your belief or instincts. Did he have a bad team? No but they simply can’t believe his lame ideas because they are professionals.

Paddy said “I countered that we needed to be aggressive and should take the entire abandex and offer cash of USD 50 million so that we could acquire Chevron Netherlands uncontested and plough quickly to our Africa strategy.

The Catalan management team thought I was crazy. Surely, I was 29 and now undeniably stupid. How could I look at that enormity of an abandex amount and now want to offer hard-earned cash on top of that? They believed I was frequenting my local bar too often and having one too many drinks. They pleaded with me that I follow their proposal. We argued further and eventually as a compromise, we agreed that we would take all of Chevron Netherlands oil & gas abandex but would still offer a notional $1 bid price. In my heart of hearts, I felt that a cash offer was needed to win but my management team, for which I had paid a respectable amount for their services, had convinced me otherwise. They were professionals I thought and they had my best interest at heart. The team printed out the documents for which I appended my signature and re-submitted.”

The same strategy his team rejected was the same strategy Petrogas of Oman the winner used.

Paddy said “Richard Kent sent me an email; Chevron Netherlands had been sold to Petrogas of Oman. The last bidder, the mystery company I couldn’t find. I’d later come to find out that USD 50 million plus an absorption of all the abandex was the winning formula for the bid – the same formula that I had proposed to my management team but they had pushed back on. This was a painful lesson to always trust my instincts, no matter the circumstance”

This is a big lesson to entrepreneurs that despite being ambitious, there should be a clear instincts to follow, people to tell even the fact he did not tell his father or any of his family friends that can help contributed to the failire and pride has no place in business of course, pride goes before destruction.

https://stackpreneur.com.ng/2018/01/adenugas-son-bid-acquire-chevron-failed/

bigCassava:
Mr Tony Onyemaechi Elumelu is a Nigerian economist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the Chairman of Heirs Holdings, the United Bank for Africa, Transcorp and founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation. the billionaire was captured
rocking the Gucci cotton embroidered with duke shirt worth N500,000 as he attended his companies meeting. Bleep poverty!




http://chikasom..com/2018/01/tony-elumelu-rocks-n500k-gucci-shirt-to.html?m=1

johnnyvid:
The University of Ilorin, Ilorin Kwara State has banned female student of the institution from hair attachment, and any form of Brazilian hair whatsoever.
According to a memo dated 22nd of January, the female students in the school are expected to go natural, which according to the school is a way of being modest and better reflection of individual character and personality.
Below is the memo:
Recall in 2017, the management of Unilorin shared this notice;
All students are hereby reminded that there is a DRESS CODE put in place by the University which must be observed at all times.
The University is determined to continue to impact positively on its students not only intellectually but also morally in pursuit of its avowed commitment to the development of TOTAL MAN.
To this end, it will award its degrees to only deserving students who have been found worthy not only in learning but also in character. Students are therefore strongly advised to exhibit good behaviour and dress decently at all times.
MALE STUDENTS SHOULD NOTE THAT:
the hair should be neat and well combed at all time;
the hair should not be coloured (except it is natural colour);
the hair should be well kept and groomed always;
the haircuts should not carry inscriptions;
curled hair is not acceptable;
artificial dread locks, plaiting, weaving o rebraiding of hair are not acceptable; and
beards must be well kept.
FEMALE STUDENTS SHOULD NOTE THAT:

Weaving, plaiting, braiding, fixing and wigs are acceptable;

hair extensions with colours such as; Blue, Green, White, Yellow, Red, Pink, and Purple or a combination of any of these colours are not acceptable;

hair must be neatly packed and weaved;

the hairstyle should not carry inscriptions;

all wears must be below the knee level;

pencil trousers are allowed but must be complemented with tops that cover the butt line; and
all traditional and corporate wears that do not reveal sensitive parts of the body are acceptable.

The mode of dressing of a student speaks volumes about him or her. In other words, one’s appearance influences people’s perception of one’s person.

Students should, therefore, always dress responsibly to command respect. All students must refrain from wearing INDECENT CLOTHINGS, if they must be accorded respect and protect their dignity.

EVERY STUDENT MUST HANG STUDENT I.D. CARD ON HIS / HER NECK

You are hereby required to note that the following constitute inappropriate mode of dressing that will not be tolerated in the University environment (including Lecture Halls, Library, Laboratories, Examination Venues, Seminar Rooms, Faculties and Administrative building as well as in University Vehicles):

Dress that exposes any sensitive parts of the body e.g. cleavage, chest, back, navel, thigh and armpit (clothes that reveal the armpits when hands are raised e.g. sleeveless/half sleeves);

Tight fitting wears;
Transparent/See Through Wears;
Tattered Jeans/Ripped Jeans;
T-shirts with obscene inscriptions, depicting immorality, hooliganism, etc.;
Indelible markings and body tattoos by male students;
Leggings/Jeggings trousers with shorttop;
Skimpy dresses e.g. Spaghetti, Camisole only, body hugs, topless blouse and shorts;
Knickers;
Bathroom slippers not acceptable within the administrative and academic areas;
Heavy make-ups;
Sagging trousers;
Wearing of earrings by male students;
Rumpled and dirty clothes;
Skin/ear piercing by male students;
Dread, Galax, Fadeoutand Rough Coil Haircuts, Unkempt Appearance; and
Hair plaiting or weaving by male students.
Some Faculties and Departments have prescribed Dress Codes for their students. Students in such Faculties or Departments are expected to comply with such Codes.

THE WAY YOU DRESS DETERMINES THE WAY YOU ARE ADDRESSED.

source: http://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2018/01/unilorin-female-students-banned-from.html