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The full question is Is it really difficult for African children to get an education? How does this affect your heart - does it make you feel really emotional?


A lot of African girls are being denied education purely on the basis of gender. It really saddens me, but instead of just being upset I decided to do my part. I have a scholarship called the David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship and it's run by the GEANCO FOUNDATION. It's a scholarship for girls affected by Boko Haram in Nigeria. http://www.geanco.org/

Answer by - David Oyelowo, Actor, Queen of Katwe, A United Kingdom, Selma
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Kingpinukecy:
if so, y r u looking for advice....guy u r confuse. Then continue doing wat sooths u to do. And dont ask any qstion dat look obscured here..... :-/

Pray for her for wetin? Aint spoiling her relationship, I'm just baffled..

CoolFreeday:
why not advice her to stop instead of spoiling her relationship?
Do you know if she doesn't cheat on her husband any more?
Pray for her n advice her if you're concern and leave her relationship alone.

I would still bunk her even if I knew she was engaged ...

Kingpinukecy:
its possible...because most ladies of dis days does foolish,agonostic and naughty tins to some extend dat if u r told wat they are doing u will hate ladies for life....some of dem r jux reckless and stupid in behavior dats y. Most especially dey dont knw wat dey want, and now adays immorality is rampered in our community. But guy, make i tell u mah,if u knw say she don dey engage b4, y u go bang her?u mah no try at all

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Strategic Leadership: My Personal Theory and Practice

One must be intellectually vigilant, inquisitive and always examining the utility of strategy and tactics. Always guarding against muddled thinking or allowing emotions to blind you. You make sure, as a leader, that you do not commit the grave error of giving primacy to transient strategies or tactics, over the permanent goal.

Where We Have Been, Where We Are and Where We Are Going

The Defence College has a special role to play in reshaping Nigeria. This institution is that special place where the best talent in the military may engage in fertile intellectual exchange with some of the brightest in our civilian institutions and from other nations. The laymen often mistakenly view the military as an inflexible, often unthinking collective. This is a distorted view.

Some of the best minds in our nation are found in the military. No military can be successful over the long-term unless it has the intellectual agility to adopt its doctrines and practices to the challenges of a dynamic and chaotic world, as we have today. Like any large organisation, a military overly resistant to change will find itself on the wrong end of history. It will not answer the questions an incessantly changing environment places before it.

The Nigerian military was established to respond to challenges resident in Third Generation or Trinitarian Warfare. The genesis of standard military philosophy can be traced to the works of classical and neo-classical theorists and practitioners such as Sun Tzu, Jomini, Clausewitz, Alfred Mahan, Giulio Douhet, JFC Fuller and Basil Liddell Hart.

Today, much of the world’s military challenges have little to do with the confrontation of standing army against standing army. You now must adapt your concepts and your very institution to Fourth Generation or Non-trinitarian Warfare. Here, you deal with the intersection of ideology, politics and highly weaponised non-state actors, whose membership, tactics and aims are fluid and inconstant.

In the space of the last ten years, the Nigerian military has had to face violent militants in the tropical Niger Delta, then turn to battle wicked Boko Haram in the Sahelian Northern Nigeria. The principles of Jomini and Clausewitz have to be materially reinterpreted to apply to these battles. Yet these conflicts are of a different nature than what these 19th century thinkers encountered, but these modern conflicts are as brutal, and strategically important to the state as traditional warfare. This modern version is even more difficult to master and to win due to the fluid, almost clandestine nature of the adversary. Today, you battle not against standing armies, but against vanishing ghosts.

I commend the Nigerian military for what it has achieved against Boko Haram. You have battled and bested this evil enterprise. This vile force has been reduced to where it no longer poses a strategic threat. You have done as well as a military can in putting down this amorphous danger. The nation thanks you. I must say here, however, that we cannot lower our guard.

We have learned cardinal lessons from the Boko Haram crisis. First, we must govern justly and for the benefit of the people to prevent the recurrence of violent extremism in the future.

Widespread poverty caused by an unjust allocation of income, wealth and resources provides fertile ground for extremist ideologies, that run contrary to the inclusive democracy we seek to perfect.

Protracted years of gross mis-governance are a down payment on the rise of extremism.

Second, the armed forces may contain violent outbreaks but they cannot fully resolve strife originating from a nation’s political and social imbalances. Some type of political resolution is needed.

The military is hamstrung because it must restrain operations in order to protect the civilian population, which is the prime duty of the military. A paradox of Fourth Generation warfare becomes apparent. The duty to protect the state is rendered more complex because of the restraint that must be exercised in combating domestic insurgencies. However, engaging in less discrete operations may be easier done but this always proves counterproductive in the end because of the risk of alienating the local population.

Third, the longer an unfair political economic situation goes unattended, the more extreme become the views of the disaffected. The more difficult a political situation becomes, once the situation degrades into violent insurgency. There is little room to find a political solution and almost no mutual trust to attempt to locate that finite space. As a result, the nation is compelled to resort to force, to resolve non-military contradictions. This means the more the military has to expend itself in a contest of diminishing military returns. The more time that passes, the more the military is degraded. A conventional military is not structured to be on perpetual war footing. More resources have to be spent to prevent the military from diminishing its current state of readiness.

The insurgency becomes institutionalised with each passing year. Insurgent ideology gives way to institutional inertia. Insurgency becomes something its members do simply because they have been doing it. It is no longer a means to an end; the insurgency becomes the end in itself.

Enough of my layman’s attempt at military theorising for the moment. Yet, what I have said underscores a crucial point. The civilian and military worlds do not occupy distinct universes. They are but different points along the spectrum of collective human endeavour. For a nation at our stage of evolution, any politician who cares about internal security must be somewhat versed in military concepts and strategy. Any military officer who cares about the future progress of the nation must be conversant with the different political and economic themes contesting to govern the moment.

I was asked to speak about Strategic Leadership: My Experiences. I shall do so. But, since I am not in uniform, permit me a touch of insubordination. I have slightly amended my message to be “Strategic Leadership: My Personal Theory and Practice.”

My Theory of Strategic Leadership

Excellent strategic political leadership is based on commitment to a political vision. A leader must have a coherent objective in mind. Strategy and tactics are then fashioned to work toward that vision.
This is an essential consideration. There cannot be strategic leadership without a conscious objective. Political leadership in Nigeria generally has fallen short in this regard. Leadership has been short-sighted and fixed on narrow, immediate objectives. Because of this, leadership has been more transactional than strategic in nature. It has been more focused on the retention of power and control than on the substantive results and long-term consequences of its policies and actions.

This state of affairs results in a cruel paradox. Fixation on the details of numerous transactions produces a mirage of control and order over every event and episode. However, when all the pieces are brought together, they give a picture of disorder and even chaos. Excessive control over individual parts comes at the sacrifice of harmony of the whole. The parts do not fit well together because they were not created as a unified whole.

Things become as confusing as a labyrinth, with many entrances but no exits. It is as if we take 20 authors asking each to write a separate chapter of a book, without coordinating with each other. In this way, we protect ourselves from the writers plotting against us. While that objective is achieved, there is little chance that the book will be a coherent tale when we tack the chapters together. Each section will be fine in isolation. When read together, they constitute nothing more than literary confusion, intelligent babble. The totality of the work becomes less than the sum of its parts. So much energy expended towards almost no discernible purpose, except to control the process, no matter how dysfunctional the outcome.

This is the bane of our political economy. We have so much talent in the nation but it has not been engaged and engineered to function in unison. Fiscal policy does not mesh with monetary policy. Trade policy undermined industrial policy, thus ease of doing business is inhibited. Overseas peacekeeping missions do not always harmonise with core foreign policy interests.

No national system is perfect. In each, exist some contradictions. This is but evidence of the imperfection of human nature itself. However, a nation in progress seeks to minimise, not harvest additional contradictions, otherwise its leadership strategy is doomed to fail.

These dilemmas arise in governance because there is no accepted overarching vision or strategy to achieve that vision. In the absence of these essentials that give definition to inputs and outcomes, coherence gives way to happenstance. Unaided by a greater purpose, governance and its institutions become ends in themselves. Their primary aim will be to exist, not to achieve. Leaders likewise become imbued with the same blindness. They occupy power because power needs to be occupied.

I was fortunate to recognise early in my political life that a true political leader distinguishes himself by marrying principled vision with practical strategy. In combination, these things show you the way home and how to get there. Just as importantly, they help you determine what not to do or where to avoid as a good compass keeps you from going south when your destination lies north.

Developing vision and strategy are easily said but hard to attain. Thought, diligent planning and constant reflection are needed.

President Dwight Eisenhower once said: “In preparing for battle, I have always found plans are useless but planning is indispensable.” The deeper meaning of this statement is priceless.

You may set forth intelligently crafted plans. Once the complex enterprise begins, war or politics, unforeseen events and untold chances stir the dust and change things so quickly that the strict letters of our plans lose utility.

Any general or leader who stubbornly adheres to preconceived notions has written his own tombstone: here lies a leader who defeated himself.

No matter the beauty of your intellectual constructs, they cannot subdue reality; they must adapt to it. The plan can be a prison but the planning is essential. It conditions the mind to keep an eye on the objective so that you may adapt to changing conditions without losing sight of the prize.

At this juncture, I am reminded of the tale of a farmer and his son. The farmer’s corn fields were plagued by ravening birds. Saving the harvest clearly became his objective. His strategy was to have his son gather stones, early every day, then toss them at the crows to scare them off. This went on daily for several months.

One day, the crows did not come. The boy spotted the birds in the adjacent fields of his father’s worst enemy. Conditioned to bothering the crows, the boy hauled rocks to the other man’s field so that he may pelt the crows. While the boy was gone, wild pigs came and trampled much of the cornstalks.

The father spotted the boy and screamed for him to come home. The boy came running. The father asked why was he being so disobedient. The boy was perplexed, saying you wanted me to chase the crows away.

The father answered: “No.” I wanted you to protect our corn. While here, the birds were our enemy. Not here, they are just birds. When they are in that man’s field, they are even my friends.

“My son, you forgot the purpose of what you were doing. So you set yourself elsewhere and left the field unattended to bother birds that were doing us no harm. By your mistake, you just undid all the toil of these months and you put the harvest at risk.”

My constant vision has been the transformation of this nation into a robust decentralised democracy with a diverse industrial base, to provide sufficient jobs to a growing urban population; and a sufficient agricultural base, to achieve food security and provide a decent livelihood to the rural population.

We have made some progress toward this vision. But we have a long way to go. I want to sketch out the journey thus far and offer my thoughts on how the future might unfold.

Strategic Leadership In Practice

Where Have We Been?

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prestigiouslady:
Good afternoon Familanders.

I'm in dire need of advice hence my write up.
I'm a single mum of one, I got separated from my ex two years ago...though we are not officially divorced yet. After things got pretty nasty and he had to chase me back home (prior to this, my folks had wanted me to come back home due to his constant abuse)... I thought we could resolve issues, we both tried to but he's just like a smoke, he can't hide his character for too long..he's hot tempered, egoistic, and he can so mouth trash me(emotional abuse).he grew up in a home where his mum was the C in C, so he hates women trying to have a say.I must always do whatever he says not minding if I'm comfortable or not. I have my own share of the blame cos sometimes, he pushes me and I react back, so I'm not saying I'm a saint either. But my friends and family knows I'm not a trouble maker.

So I've been alone for two years, no date, no relationship cos I'm still officially married to him.. I went to see some of his friends and they told me to move on without him, its sad but they couldn't hide it anymore, he has moved on even so show casing a lady around as his new found love..but when things go down the drain between him and his gf, he comes back to me trying to see if we can make things work.

Now I have two problems here,
1. I don't want to be the one to sue for a divorce cos he will blackmail me emotionally (he tells everyone who cares to listen that he didn't chase me out of the house but I left cos I couldn't endure which is a lie from the deepest part of hell)... he doesn't want to sue for a divorce too.

2. I'm becoming too lonely, most night I cry myself to bed.. the last time we spoke, he told me "you're a very good lady, I love you but I really don't know why things arent working between us".. I know he loves me but I'm becoming too lonely and I don't want to cheat on him.

3. Around July 2016,a friend of mine (family friend) has been on my neck for a relationship, I've known him for a while, he was there for me all through when things was bad, he is a good man and he knows I'm separated (he's officially divorced to a white woman)...he's like everything I want in a man.

I really don't know what to do...do I sue for a divorce? or go into a relationship with my new guy for the main time..please help me.


Thank you

cc

1 THE TEASE- She is beautiful….knows she looks very good …with looks and a body that can cause a brother to sin. She understands the effect her looks have on men and she is ready to exploit it to the hilt…..remember, beauty doesn’t define good character….don’t think you will tame her because she doesn’t want to be tamed and she takes no prisoners…..so just WALK ON BY…..

2. THE LIAR- she never appears to give correct information. You don’t know her real name or age……You may discover that her “Uncle” is not a blood relative at all. She claims she went to school with classmates who don’t remember her…..WALK ON BY…

3. THE SOCIAL CLIMBER- She is desperate to change her antecedents and move up the society ladder……wants to bear your prestigious family name at all cost…… Introduce her to your celebrity friends and she latches on or ignores you completely. She has a goal and not even you can stop that….WALK ON BY…

4. THE GOLD DIGGER- she is always asking you for money. You know she is with you just for the money and gifts you shower on her. She gets upset when you don’t give her money and helps you spend your money like its going out of fashion. She doesn’t give a care in the world whether you have savings or not….WALK ON BY…

5. THE VILLAGER – She is not in your league at all. Dissimilar backgrounds and exposure. Don’t get too wrapped up in the Cinderella story of “rich man, poor girl live happily ever after”. It’s never that simple…There is always a price to pay…..you have to be deeply in love and ready to give lots of patience and sacrifice necessary….don’t start what you can’t finish……IF YOU KNOW YOU CANNOT SEE IT THROUGH…..WALK ON BY

6. THE NAG- always pestering you to do one thing or the other. Full of complaints after complaints. You can’t do anything to please her…….WALK ON BY

7. THE ILL- BRED- very badly behaved. Has the potential to curse out any/everybody….can never seem to quieten……always ready to fight……Chances are that she will curse out both you and your relatives at will……WALK ON BY…

8. THE SEX ADDICT- She has no personal or religious inhibitions about sex and is a willing bed partner. Sex is no big deal. The challenge will be if you can meet up to her needs sexually. If you succumb, know that you are you are probably not the only sexual partner she has and there is a great chance of you being presented with a pregnancy very soon…want to avoid all the mess…..WALK ON BY..

9. THE PROUD- very proud of her achievements and/or background. She lets you know that you are not really in the league of her previous boyfriends and under normal circumstances, she wouldn’t be with you….she expects you to be very grateful that she is interested in you…she will not respect you …not today…..not likely ever…….WALK ON BY..

10. THE JEALOUS FREAK- she monitors your movements and is very suspicious of you. Any female friend or colleague of yours is seen as a potential rival which she deals with even before verifying facts. She is often apologetic when her suspicions are either proven wrong or unsubstantiated……..don’t stay…..WALK ON BY..

11. THE MOMMA’s GIRL- she is quick to let you know that she tells her Mother everything and takes constant advise from same. She doesn’t appear to have a mind of her own and cannot take decisions without running it by her mother……if you mind the constant dictates of her mum…..WALK ON BY…

12. THE CONTROL FREAK- wants you all to herself. Will ensure you sever relations with close friends and relatives. Her life is centred around yours and she wants you to do same. Will not relate with …..WALK ON BY

“A good woman is hard to find, and worth far more than diamonds” Proverbs 31:10MSG. There are lots of good women out there . Prayerfully, approach one. May you be led by the spirit of God and not fall into the hands of an evil woman. Amen.

Source: https://tinuola.blog/2016/12/14/single-guys-twelve-types-of-ladies-to-walk-on-by-from-in-2017%EF%BB%BF/?fb_action_ids=10206071711750901&fb_action_types=news.publishes


© Mrs Tinuola Agbabiaka,
a marriage counsellor,
Practical Christian Living Initiative is a non profit organisation geared towards encouraging love and romance in marriages as well as encouraging mature Singles who are waiting for their life partner.


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SuperSuave:
I like this story but you need to move it to the literature section and don't forget to update the next episodes soon

It is not fictional ooo. Thanks

walcut:
sorry to say but this looks fictional to me.

My name is Tola(not real name) and my life is in shambles. I am what you call a new bride having been married for barely 6months.

I met my husband Kayode (not real name) about a year and a half ago at a mutual friend’s birthday party. It wasn’t love at first sight. In actual fact, it was quite the opposite. He appeared very rude and demanded that I dance with him which I refused. It was obvious he had taken more than enough of his share of drinks and was a little tipsy. I recall him being in the company of his friend Toks (not real name) who tried calm him down and also apologise for his actions. Toks took my number and promised to call to ensure that his friend kayode apologised properly.

Two days after the party, I got a call from Kayode who apologised and asked to make it up by buying dinner. We met for dinner and I saw that the sober Kayode was really nice and we had a lot in common. We talked long into the night and it was obvious that we were going to spend more time in each other’s company.

Fast forward, a year later, we were married! Wow! I am a married woman at last. I intend to be very happy in this marriage or so I thought…..

While I struggled to adjust to married life and make time out for my husband Kayode, life did not change at all. He made it very clear that Toks and himself were inseparable and no one can come in between both of them. It was not uncommon for me to prepare meals for two as Kayode would often come home with Toks to have his meals. I began to wonder if I was married to two of them but Kayode would not listen.

On this day that I will forever regret, I was in the bathroom when Toks came to the house to see his friend Kayode who just stepped out of the house briefly. I quickly wrapped my towel around me and opened the door for Toks to come in. I had just started bathing and needed to go back to finish off my bath. After all, this was my husband’s childhood friend. I opened the door and let him into the house apologising for not responding quicker to his knocks. I remember specifically asking him to wait for his friend who just stepped out for a minute to pick some groceries. I went back into the bathroom to finish up my bath but as I stepped out of the bathroom the second time; Toks was right by the door . I do not know how long he had been standing there waiting…..

As there was no place to run to, I knew I was in trouble even before he touched me…his eyes said it all………All my cries were muffled by his big hand that he used to cover my mouth…….he kept mumbling that he saw me first but had to let go for his friend………

Finally, it was over and his parting words were ” if you like, tell your husband, he will not believe you“…….. Tell me, am I not in trouble? What do I do now?

Oh, how I wish I could turn back the clock and not opened the door… Why and how could I have thought Toks was harmless? How?

Come to think of it, this is all Kayode’s fault or is it mine? No, it Toks that is an animal! I just don’t know what to think anymore. My mind is in turmoil….I want to tell my husband but am afraid that will be the end of my marriage… Should I tell? Or Shouldn’t? Hasnt it been said that what you don’t know, don’t hurt? I’m confused…… .

Every woman needs to hear my story….Rape is real and the rapist is usual someone you trust or are comfortable with….very rarely the stranger that attacks in the streets…..Please watch out

Source: https://tinuola.blog/2017/01/12/raped-by-my-husbands-best-friend/
© Mrs Tinuola Agbabiaka,
a marriage counsellor,
Practical Christian Living Initiative is a non profit organisation geared towards encouraging love and romance in marriages as well as encouraging mature Singles who are waiting for their life partner.


you can follow us on facebook-Practical Christian Living Initiative twitter, IG ND Linkedin-- @PCLI_NG

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my gf was at my place over the weekend and decided to spill the beans over what happened to her sometimes in November, that very day, she came to my crib looking 'takeaway'. I asked her what is pumping, she said it's a friend's birthday.
Ever since, I usually tease her about that day..
Then this weekend, she told me how the guy took her outing and proposed to her, then handed his atm card and pin number to her so she can buy anything she wants for the day.
while pondering about the incident, I decided to ask my fellow Nairalanders..

You fit release your atm and pin to your/a girl on your birthday?

lomaxx:
They have two heads.

The kingdom of Dubai, as it stands today is the result of the vision of its founder monarchy, His Highness Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and the current ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The Emirate of Dubai was raised to a modern city from the arid Arabian Desert in a span of just last 40/50 years. Out of the seven Emirates, Dubai however progressed faster and evolved into the most modern city of UAE.

Dubai had money, but did not have modern technology, educated men and skilled labour. So, the king invited men and companies from all over the world to build a modern city, work and do business there. He also wisely shared the prosperity of Dubai with all those who migrated there.
Secondly, he declared Dubai as a Free Port without any Tax of any nature and this triggered an explosion in trading activities by all those international giants in Dubai,

Thirdly, he came up with a massive plan to convert the arid desert to a green pasture, virtually with the help of “Drip watering”. Today one can see the one inch pipe that is laid out in the entire breadth and length of Dubai like the arteries in a human body. Even the water vapour that comes out of the Air conditioners are captured/collected and then used for watering vegetation!

The earlier inhabitants of Dubai were known as “Bedouins” who dwelled in the Desert on their Camels. Today there are no Bedouins in Dubai as all of them have been resettled by the King with free health care and free education. They also hold today several costliest real estate properties across the world!

Dubai is a money spinner. The major revenue streams are Trade, Exports, Tourism, Real estate and they have a mega company called DUBALowned by the king with a turnover of AED 8,670 billion and a net profit of AED 2,219 billion. It is a huge conglomerate.

Another main source of income is from their Airlines business. Dubai International airport is one of the busiest airports in the world. Built in 1960, today it can handle 80 million passengers annually and 5 million tons of cargo! NatGeo terms it as one of the “mammoth airports” in the world!

The GDP of Dubai was $ 360 billion in 2012 & it ranks third in Middle East -after Saudi & Iran- and 30th in the world. Dubai does not offer citizen ship to foreigners, but it is considered to be a Global Economic Hub. Its inflation is pegged around 1.2%

Dubai is very cosmopolitan; one may find people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, USA, Europe, Philippines and Africa. As a matter of fact people all across the globe come to Dubai & live and work there. Just to give one example of UAE‘s international trade, UAE is a major consumer of US goods & services, with $ 8.4 billion worth of imports!

The ability of the UAE to withstand the impact of Global Financial crisis demonstrates the UAE’s financial & monetary stability. Dubai has established a reputation for being a low crime zone. It is said that in the dead of night a lone woman can walk anywhere in Dubai without any fear!

Dubai’s open economic policy, minimal government control and private sector regulations have played an instrumental role in attracting vast foreign direct investment (FDI). It also has the best infrastructure that entice any investor and I found out that the last time they had one minute power break-down was 20 years ago!

Apart from a favorable tax environment, companies in Dubai can obtain significant cost advantage due to absence of foreign exchange fluctuations. There are no trade barriers & quotas in Dubai.

Dubai has the major landmarks of the world, Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure, ultra luxurious Burj Al Arab and Atlantiis hotel and Palm Jumeriah high class residential colony bring high and mighty and rich wanderers. “The World” is another ambitious project Dubai is engaged in building out of the sea. Sheikh Zayed Road of Dubai has more than 200 sky scrapers. It has the finest Malls in the world that attracts millions of people from across the world. It even has an “Academic” city where almost all the best universities have made their base. It also offers eventful nightlife for nocturnal “creatures” of the world!

Well such a country can’t go poor and can’t help, but becoming wealthier than many wealthiest.

ARTICLE WRITTEN BY --Devidasan Chathanadath, An Explorer of Human Refinement.
Written Jun 16, 2015

ON https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-city-of-Dubai-so-wealthy

A modern retelling of the story of St. Yves.
A physician, theologian and lawyer each had become world
renowned for the brilliance and creativity of their thought and
erudition. Each had contributed major treatises advancing the
scholarship in their respective professions. Each had been
called upon by the world's leaders to volunteer their invaluable
time and intellectual talents toward the betterment of human
kind and to help foster peace among the peoples of the world.
As fortune would have it, all three were traveling toward a summit
meeting of the world's scholars to once again contribute
their great talents, when their plane crashed and all three were
instantly killed.
As the first of these great minds, the physician approached
the heavenly gates, St. Peter rushed out to greet him, grasped
his hand and welcomed him warmly as a "good and faithful servant"
to his eternal reward in heaven. Similarly, as the theologian
approached Heaven's portal, St. Peter again rushed out
and embraced the great savant with a warm embrace of welcome
to his eternal reward.
At that moment, the lawyer, still a ways down the road, was
seen approaching the gates of Heaven. Spontaneously the skies
opened up with great songs and joyous hymns, the cherubim
and seraphim were seen overhead singing angelic praises with
Hosannas and Alleluias, and golden trumpets announced the
pending arrival of the famous barrister. A great carpet was
rolled out. From the skies, accompanied by flourishes from
harps, rose petals fluttered down to mark her pathway as she
approached nearer and nearer to the heavenly gate.
From just inside the portal, the physician and theologian
were taken aback and approached St. Peter.
"We don't want to complain," they said. "We are happy to
be here in heaven for all eternity, but we have a question.

"On earth, the two of us, like this attorney, were world
famous for our scholarship and wisdom. Like her, we contributed
our time and talents to the betterment of humankind.
Yet, when we reached the heavenly gates, all we received was a
warm handshake and a quiet welcome to our heavenly reward.
She, on the other hand, is being greeted by all of the heavenly
cherubim and seraphim, a great golden carpet has been rolled
out to mark her way to heaven, the golden trumpets are
announcing her arrival. . . . Why is she entitled to such a glorious
entry?"
"Shhh!" responded St. Peter, "You must remember, this is
the first lawyer to make it to heaven in three hundred years!"

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That doesn't make him a good man not to talk of a good president, but Americans had to choose between 2 evils and they went for a lesser evil..
At least, Trump hasnt been accused of Murder...
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Sins Of The Clintons- 40 Years Of Sex, Lies And Scandals!
https://www.nairaland.com/3458598/sins-clintons-40-years-sex

"Trump Force One"- which many as named the jet has been one of the most popular symbols of Donald Trump’s campaign to the Presidency, Trump even calls it the T-Bird. according to a documentary by Discovery Channel featuring the plane. Trump's Boeing 757 cost a whopping $100 million.
Take a closer look at Donald Trump's personal Boeing 757-200 jet yourself:
Although Trump may be the jet's current owner, he wasn't its first.
Trump's Boeing 757-2J4ER first flew in May 1991. The new airliner was delivered to Sterling Airlines, a now defunct Danish low-cost carrier. A couple of years later, it found its way into the fleet of Mexico's TAESA, also a now defunct airline.
Trump took delivery of the then 20-year-old jet and added his personal touches in 2011— at great expense.
a master bath with 24-karat-gold fixtures and .
.. a shower! In total, the plane is equipped with two bedrooms.
In fact, virtually every fixture in the plane is 24-karat-gold plated — even the seat belts!
The plane's headrests and pillows are embroidered with the Trump family crest.


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