Mr Daisi Oso, the Vice-Chairman, Oshodi Local Government Area, Lagos State, on Saturday advised the empowered youths in the area to be engaged in productive ventures rather than indulging in frivolities.
Oso gave the advice at the end of a five-day skill acquisition programme organised by Spin Club, in collaboration with Leo Club, at the Oshodi Youth Centre.
He urged the youths to be focused in a particular business, and get acquainted with it, before learning another trade, thus becoming a Jack of all trade, and master of none.
Spin Club is a humanitarian organisation established in May 2016 in Lagos State.
It was the third skill acquisition training programme the club would organise since inception.
The programme entails bead, bag and shoe-making; make up, soap and wig-making, and catering.
“I want you all to make use of your time wisely and don’t engage in gossips, as this could rob you of success in life.
“This is a beautiful opportunity for you all.
“I won’t want you to go back home doing nothing, know that we all cannot go for the white-collar jobs,’’ he said.
Miss Hulaimah Kolawole, President of Spin Club, congratulated the participants and urged them to ensure they become self-reliant and financially independent through the knowledge gained at the programme.
Kolawole called for more sponsors for the programme, as the club intended to eradicate poverty in youths through the skill acquisition training, thus minimising crime rate in the society.
“I want you all to make a living for yourselves and affect the lives of other less privileged individuals out there.
“That way, we can all be happy when our pockets are full.
“We want more sponsors so that we can reach out to more jobless youths out there; so, we call on private individuals and corporate organisations to help us out,” she said.
Miss Louisiana Iwule, the Chief Executive Officer of Luzkara Media, who became an entrepreneur at 21, charged the participants to be successful in business through hard work and remaining focused.
“If you must be successful as an entrepreneur, don’t rely on anybody but yourself, depend solely on your hard work and be focused,” she said.
175 youths, who participated in the training, were issued with certificates.

The Nigerian Senate resumed today from their seven-week recess and in his welcome speech, Senate President Bukola Saraki made some salient points about the economy and how it can be revived, amongst other things. As it was a pretty lengthy speech, we’ve listed some of the most interesting and noteworthy statements with interjections of how we truly feel about those statements. 1. “I remember trying to explain to my people that this kind of thing (the current economic crisis and its attendant evil) does not happen overnight; that the seeds for the condition we suffer from today must have been planted by past administrations that refused to do what was necessary” This statement must have come at a time when Senator Saraki fell briefly into a state of forgetfulness. The Saraki dynasty is a part of the past administration, the present but hopefully, not the future. Bukola Saraki was the Governor of Kwara state from 2003 to 2011, so we know he planted a few seeds himself. And is this an attempt at another blame game? 2. “It is clear to me that when people are desperately hungry, what they need is leadership with a clear vision; leadership whose daily actions reflects the very urgency of the people’s condition” Mr Senate President sir, how about we start by you lot practising the above sermon? How’s that for a change? For one, your salaries do not reflect the hardship of the people so CUT IT. When that’s done, we’ll take you seriously. Next please… 3. “Distinguished colleagues, the simple question for our debate must be; how do we tame the widespread hunger in the land? How do we save our businesses from collapse? How do we save jobs for the majority and create even a lot more? Here are the answers. Give yourselves up to the EFCC for those who have pending cases, those who allegedly siphoned state funds (including Saraki himself) should return them, those who need to go to jail should pack their bags and then, we’ll continue from there. 4. “The world has come to know Nigeria as a people who have formed a habit of proving naysayers wrong and turning adversity into triumph. Many times experts have quipped that Nigeria is finished, but we come back stronger.” This is supposed to be encouraging but no, we should all cover our faces in shame. 5. “This occasion will not be any different. But it will not happen by a slogan!” Is the Senate President throwing jabs at the #ChangeBeginsWithMe campaign? Of course, he is and this feels so good. We refuse to chant useless slogans while we’re led into damnation. 6. “My expectation is that by the time we are done with our debate, we should make key actionable recommendations to the Executive on what this chamber sees as the way forward in the immediate, mid-term and long-term solutions to this economic situation.” We reckon this debate will take ages considering today’s session lasted only three hours. These people are just not serious. If the economic situation really mattered to the Senate, they would take the bull by the horn. 7. “I do not think anybody in this chamber has gone through more political persecution than myself since the inception of this government but i will be the last to fold my arms and say that the current economic problem is not my problem. No, it is.” Yes, it is. And none of the political persecution is undeserved so this pity party is nowhere near appealing. 8. “Distinguished colleagues, we cannot afford further distraction and fixation to politics that would not and does not add food on the table of our people, or add one mega- watt of electricity to our grid. Everywhere you go, there is hunger in our land and our people want solutions to their problems.” Literally everywhere you go except the homes of Senate and House of reps members. 9. “We will be relying on your courage, bi-partisan spirit, endurance, personality, long hours of plenary sitting that could sometime last into the night if necessary, diligent oversight and prompt committee reporting.” Isn’t this what they call medicine after death? This is all of why you were voted in in the first place? Add a renewed mentality and selflessness to that list, by the way. And for sittings that could last into nights, we’ll see.

A beer company was hiring a taster, someone to taste the beers before selling out. So they placed adverts and one afternoon, a dirty, rough looking man walked into the manager's office asking to be employed. The manager tried to figure out how he could drive this man away but couldn't come up with an idea, so he decided to give the man a trial. He ordered his secretary to give the man a glass of wine. He took a sip and said, "It's red wine, a muscat, three years old, grown on a north slope, matured in steel containers." "That's correct!" The manager exclaimed, "Well give him another one lets see." So he was given. He took a sip again and said, "It's brukutu, a combination of herbs and akpeteshie, distilled at Akokoaso near New Abirem in Eastern Region of Ghana 3 years ago" "Incredible!" said the manager. Now the manager went closer to the secretary and whispered to her saying, "Go get some of your urine in a cup let's see if he will get that." So the man was given the cup of urine. He took a sip, turned to the manager and said, "Female urine, 26 years old, 2 weeks pregnant and if I'm not given this job, sir, I will tell your wife who is responsible for the pregnancy! "both the man and secretary fainted.

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The programme is worth millions of Naira and anchored by Motherland Beckons and has as part of strategies to push residents’ involvement a cleaning competition among all the streets in Ife. The cleanest street in Ile-Ife and its environs when chosen would receive a cash reward of 100,000 Naira every month. At the commissioning of the project held in front of the Ile-Oodua, Enuwa Square in Ile Ife, Osun State, Oba Ogunwusi, who was accompanied by his queen, Olori Wuraola Ogunwusi, said the provision of the two new Leyland trucks and waste disposal bins was to encourage the people of Ile-Ife to take the issue of sanitation very seriously. He declared that “environmental sanitation or cleanliness is crucial in the drive to make Ile-Ife a tourist destination. And Ile-Ife has to be prepared ahead for the millions of tourists expected to visit the ancient historical city from next year”. Ooni of Ife at the launching of the ‘Gba’femo’ initiative According to him, this is why about 200 youths have been selected and enlisted for the take-off of the programme in collaboration with Local Government Authorities. Waste To Wealth Programme Oba Ogunwusi, therefore, urged the women and elders to co-operate with them in order to make it successful. “We should not leave every responsibility to the government alone. We are the ones that voted for those in position of authority. Thus, we are also part of the government. Therefore, we need to support the governments at all times to make our environment clean, neat and healthy. “It is part of Ife anthem to uplift Ile-Ife. It is when we uplift our community that the government would be encouraged and give necessary assistance to our community,” the Ooni told reporters. He noted that the event was a great one before God. “This is because God dwells in cleanliness. And that is why the event is special to me,” he highlighted. Oba Ogunwusi emphasised that environmental sanitation and cleanliness in all ramifications should be properly observed and carried out in all the nooks and crannies of Ile-Ife. He encouraged all the residents to ensure that Ife city became the cleanest city in Nigeria. He said that the programme would begin from each household. One of the trucks that will be used for waste disposal in Ife town “It is the women that ensures cleanliness of the home. Therefore, all the women in Ile-Ife and environs should give priority to environmental sanitation and cleanliness, the monarch added.” He also urged the Environmental Sanitation Vanguard in the palace to ensure the replication of the clean palace environment observed in the last six months despite visits by thousands of people daily to the palace. Earlier, the Project Manager, Mr Tunde Awoyemi, while addressing the crowd at the event said that Ooni Ogunwusi had challenged the youths, women and elders of the community to be actively involved in environmental sanitation and cleanliness of Ile-Ife and environs. He added that the two new Leyland trucks and waste disposal bins provided by the monarch would go round the city to collect refuse and dump them at a designated dump site where it would be separated for recycling, converting it to wealth. “It would be waste to wealth programme,” he stressed. Also the Ife Traditional Council led by Obalufe of Iremo, Oba Idowu Adediwura and Lowa Adimula of Ife, Oba Julius Omisakin, spoke glowingly in support of the programme initiated by Ooni Ogunwusi. They said that they had chosen wisely in picking Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi as their king. They also appealed for support and co-operation of all and sundry in Ile-Ife and its environs to make the programme successful. This initiative is coming days after flood destroyed property in the state’s capital city, Osogbo , leading to the death of one person. The incident had been blamed on indiscriminate waste disposal by residents, something that the Ooni is trying to address in Ife town. Dredging work has, however, started in Osogb o to guard against recurrence of the incident that occurred after flood warning was issued

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed its readiness to help sub-Saharan African economies whenever it is required to do so. IMF deputy managing director, Mitsuhiro Furusawa, gave the indication, on Tuesday, noting that central banks in the region had been facing some challenges that needed help from IMF. “The IMF is fully committed to providing any assistance that the Kenyan authorities and those across Africa may need to continue upgrading the monetary policy frameworks to address the challenges of the future,” he said. The IMF official cited Nigeria’s economy at the moment and said “at times there may appear to be a conflict between the goals of low inflation and economic growth”. “But we have learned from hard experience that high inflation distorts the private sector’s savings and investment decisions — leading ultimately to slower growth,” he said in Kenya. “That is why countries have increasingly placed greater emphasis on price stability, and many of them have made low and stable inflation the primary objective for monetary policy. He also said, “new central banks lacked independence from their governments: they were directed to finance large fiscal deficits. There were pervasive foreign exchange and interest rate controls”. “The weaker relationship between money and inflation, and the changing financial landscape, are again calling on African central banks to adjust their strategies. “Ghana, South Africa, and Uganda have adopted formal inflation-targeting regimes. Other countries with flexible exchange rate regimes are de-emphasizing the role of monetary aggregates and incorporating elements of the monetary policy practices of industrial and emerging market countries.” Furusawa recommended that: “First, the central bank should have a clear legal mandate of policy goals and operational independence to pursue these goals,” he said. “Second, the primary, medium-term objective of monetary policy should be price stability. Monetary policy ultimately has a limited capability to directly influence real variables such as output growth over the long-term. “Third, the central bank should make a medium-term numerical inflation objective the cornerstone for its monetary policy actions and communications. A transparent inflation objective provides a simple benchmark against which to measure performance. “Fourth, the central bank should carefully take into account the implications of monetary policy adjustments for financial stability. However, this should not come at the expense of undermining the central role of the medium- term inflation objective. Any significant erosion of central bank credibility can change inflationary expectations for the worse. This, in turn, could have an undesirable impact on real activity and financial stability. “Fifth, the central bank should have a clear and effective operational framework, by setting an operating target and clearly communicating the link between such an operating target and the medium-term inflation objective. This supports the functioning of money markets. “Sixth, the central bank should have a transparent, forward-looking monetary policy strategy that reflects timely and comprehensive assessments of the monetary transmission mechanism. “Seventh, central bank communications should be transparent and timely. This helps reduce uncertainty, improves monetary policy transmission, and facilitates accountability. The goal must be to build credibility.”

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Value your life and your time.

Hnm...well God knows the best sha

You've probably heard it from many non-native speakers: English is a VERY hard language to learn and master.
""DON'T YOU THINK SO, READER,RATHER, SAYING LATHER, BATHER, FATHER? Finally which rhymes with ENOUGH, THOUGH, THROUGH, BOUGH, COUGH, HOUGH, TOUGH??
We may take that fact for granted because it’s the first or only language we’ve had to learn, but the pronunciations of words seem to make no sense. Eight ways to pronounce “ough?” That’s insane! Well, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. This poem, which actually manages to rhyme as well, walks us through the many, many pitfalls of the English language. Take a crack at it and gain a new appreciation not only for the skills you’ve developed but those that non-native speakers have as well!

D guy is out of is senses

how much is the monthly payment to be given to the corpers under the new government? need answers pls

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