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Many parents still adopt antics to persuade their wards to maintain chastity. When they were growing up their parents told them to avoid being touched (not in the literary sense) by male folks, because if they do, they will get pregnant. That was what worked then; if at all it worked then. But not any more. Today's children are wiser than you can imagine. Quite a lot has changed; unfortunately parents are still employing old methods to confront new challenges. Parents are better be aware that it's difficult to live in the days we live now than in the days they grew up. There were no social media; there were no internet connectivity; there were no mobile phones; and issues relating to LGBT were not common place. In the days we live in now, one can go about his innocent business online and have a nude picture pop up on the screen. It will take discipline not to follow up such a link, especially for the male folks. The use of free email address usually exposes internet surfers to this. Sometimes these nude pictures pop up on WhatsApp group pages. Little wonder, the scriptures raised the alarm about the days we now live in. Many parents, rather than talk to their wards, lie to them. Lying will achieve nothing. Rather, it will reduce your worth before the children. Role modelling does not imply perfection. Sincerity is required, not lying. Some parents would lie of their academic strides, only for their wards to find out the truth later. This won't help. Don't lie to your wards, come out plain to them. Tell them, if you're a Christian, how you sometimes struggle to pray. Let them know you have dosed off reading the Bible. Tell them some of your struggles and you overcame them. Don't tell them you married as a virgin when you didn't. Don't lie to them, your sincerity will win them.

There is usually this covert presentation of sex from the pulpit that it (sex) is bad. It is usually presented as being evil. Sincere parents have bought into this and presented sex to their wards in the same fashion. That does not align with the truth. Preachers and parents tend to forget that some of these children have first-hand experiences to rebuff the claim that sex is bad or evil. Some of them have learnt from masturbation the bliss that comes with a cum. Some have had a fore-taste of sex: cuddling, handling, smooching, necking, kissing, and they know the pleasure derived. So, to tell them that the main act, sex, is evil is self-deceiving. Sex is good! It's pleasurable; that's the truth, take it or leave it. Nobody can be tempted with something that is not attractive, appealing, or enticing to him. Let the children know it's God that created sex, not the devil! The devil has nothing good in stock. He has only got perversions. Young Christians should be made to also understand that the sexual urge they've got is not the devil's. They should be helped to understand that sexual urges are not sinful either. Equip them with the truth. The fact that they have sexual urge shows that they are normal human beings. It is an indicator they are perfectly normal. It is human, and no less spiritual, to feel that way. Please, help them with the truth. What then is the truth?

One, sex is good! God authored it. "Every good and perfect gift comes from the Father." Sex is one of those good things! This is no heresy. One clergy describes sex as the highest physical pleasure ever known to man. What a submission!

There is, however, a caveat: that something is good does not imply it is right. Two illustrations can be helpful. One, as good as breast milk is for a babies, one would think it is right for a 30 year old, isn't it? Of course, not! Two, one euphoric about-to-wed lady goes to work in a wedding gown. What would you think of such a lady? As good, desirable and beautiful a wedding gown is, it is no suitable and appropriate costume for the workplace. It is therefore imperative to make an apparent distinction between what is good and right. Sex is good, but for the unmarried, it isn't right. There is a scriptural embargo on sex for the unmarried. Sex is designed to be enjoyed and useful within the confine of the marriage institution.

Three, staying chaste is possible. Many assume when this is said, it means it is easy. 'Possible' and 'easy' should not be misconstrued. Didn't the scriptures say that, with God all things are possible? What it didn't say is that, with God all things are easy. Admittedly, it is not easy to control one's sexual urges, noted one publication. The hormonal changes of puberty inevitably result in "accompanying increases in sexual impulses." However, even with the inevitability of sexual urges, it is possible to stay chaste, stay pure, and stay uncontaminated, irrespective of the odds.

Four, let them know they can have help when they need it. Let them know you can help them. Let them know God can help them. Let them know no aspect of their lives is outside the scope of God's concern. Let them know they can go to the throne of grace, obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. The rendition in The Message Bible makes a beautiful reading: "We do not have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all (without sin). So let's walk right up to him and get (the help) he is so ready to give." Wow! What a word and promise that can be depended on absolutely.

Five, for those among them filled with the Holy Ghost (Spirit) already, they should be reminded they are not immune from having sexual urge. They have to come to an awareness that speaking in tongues, fasting, or prayer will not repress sexual urge. In the event of an imminent sexual sin, all they have to do is to flee. The earlier they come to terms with the fact that they cannot be wiser than the scriptures, the better. Didn't the scriptures warn to flee every appearance of evil! We are also to flee fornication. And to a youth like them,Timothy, he was warned to flee every youthful lust. With youthfulness comes attendant lusts, but the scriptures assured us one can overcome these inevitable lusts by fleeing them. Fleeing could imply avoiding some movies totally. It could mean not reading some contents. It could mean not seeing a lady in a remote area, compromising places, or dark spots all alone. Certain things can't happen under certain situations. It could also mean not sharing the same room with a lady. One can probably resist once or twice and not survive the third. Remember Samson?And to every scriptural injunction, he gives us examples. So, for the instruction to flee fornication and every appearance of evil, he gave us Joseph.

Six, every act, sex included, begins with a thought. It is however dangerous to harbor and accommodate the thought for so long. It is more dangerous still to resist or fight thoughts with thoughts. Thoughts are to be fought or resisted with words. The temptations of Jesus were thoughts amplified as though physical actions or conversations going on in the mind of Jesus. However, for each of the thoughts nested in his mind, he verbally responded by saying, "It is written." Of course, he got nothing short of a victory in this encounter.

In the event of a mistake, it can be very painful. It can be such a trying moment, especially for parents who have high expectations of their children. Suffice to say, nobody can empathize with them enough. Being that as it may, the decision taken afterwards can be detrimental or beneficial. It is usually the case to have a teenager married off in the event of a mistake. She is pregnant; and as a result, she has to jettison her future. What parents in this position should realize is that a mistake can be turned around depending how it is managed. First, it begins with an understanding that a mistake is no doom. Admittedly, it won't be easy, and nobody is suggesting so. A mistake can be redeemed. That a lady is pregnant for a guy doesn't mean they should be married, given the unique circumstances, however. Some ladies have risen from such a mistake, married someone else, and have gone on to become no less successful in life.

Parenting in the 21st Century comes with a lot of responsibilities and one must prepare for the enormity of the task, God supplying the grace.

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It will not count, many will assume. God already knows who would emerge winner, Christian folks would say, too. No so so talk talk (Ola Rotimi-Holding Talks) we go talk and later complain of the choice we could have made but made on our behalf. The reason I concluded in the link below that northerners are smarter than southerners.

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Election is few days from now and the prevalence of political apathy among the southern populace, illiterate, semi-literate, and educated, is repugnant. The illiterate and the semi-literate seem to fair better, though. The political apathy exude by the educated is alarming. One then wonders why millions of naira is spent on political adverts on the social media. In the end it is the less educated, the elderly, the ones that stomach infrastructure will easily suffice, that will vote in the south.

Election day is another holiday or casual leave for the political apathetic among Nigerian workers, in the south at least. This is why I strongly share Tunji Ajibade's submission in The Punch of September 28, 2018 that, politically, northerners are smarter than southerners. He submits thus: "...The rate of collection of PVCs according to INEC was low. It's more so in parts of the South than the North of Nigeria....Oloja pointed out that although the North appeared silent at the time, it was working actively towards the 2019 elections. The North, he said, was mobilising its people on several fronts, including getting the masses to register and collect their PVCs while the South was busy making noise in the traditional and social media. He notes further that most people in the South are too proud, aloof, making too much noise online without taking the essential democratic steps that determine who gets political power. My addition to that is to note how in the last Ekiti and Osun governorship elections politicians had to deploy money to lure (supposedly highly educated southerners) to the voting booths; meanwhile, supposedly illiterate northerners would always fill voting booths to willingly cast their ballots."

Despite the braggado of being educationally advantaged, the northerners beat the southerners to political power. Southerners tend to forget that it is political power, left to Northerners, that dictates the viability of the economy and the general well-being of the populace. With the white elephant project that oil exploration in the Chad basin has become, the Northern political power bloc keeps in mind the possible disintegration of the frail geographical entity called Nigeria and continues the search for crude oil at the basin at any cost. That's just an example that further corroborates Tunji Ajibade's submission that the North operates by foresight that always gives them political advantage. He posits: "While some in the South went about shouting themselves hoarse and threatening the consequences for Nigeria if the June 12 mandate was not validated, the North, that is the more relevant personalities, was silent, or seemingly so. My view then that when the North was silent, that was when it was most active, was confirmed after General Olusegun Obasanjo was released from prison in 1998. Gen Ibrahim Babangida visited him in his Ota home. Asked by journalists what he came to do, he said he came to see Obasanjo because the retired General mattered and would continue to matter in Nigeria. People such as Prof. Ango Abdullahi, a former VC of Ahmadu Bello University, had since affirmed that the meeting where the North resolved to adopt Obasanjo as the PDP presidential candidate was taken in his house. The North was silent but had its way that time, while those who only shouted had their say."

Southerners are always too busy to be at political rallies; they are too sophisticated to cast their ballots either, but they are given to social-medializing on the democratic process, spending hours that influences little or nothing during the election. The candidates of their choice win opinion polls that are inconsequential in the political process of the country. They are also the one that are politically polarised.

It is also pathetic to hear Christians' disposition to politics, particularly elections. We have been so delusioned by many years of inadequate appropriation of scriptural truth laid bare in black and white that we are so encumbered with our heavenly pursuit that we have lost earthly relevance. The result of this delusion is the ill-informed antagonism of Christian aspirants, especially the pulpit bound. Can anyone forget the intimidating rhetorics and intellectualism, and opposition with which Revd Martin Luther King Jr fought the forces of racial discrimination and inequality in the US? And what of Archbishop Desmond Tutu? The voice of one crying from the church against apartheid in South Africa. In Nigeria, the church is expected to be docile and passive. What a repressive arrogation! Didn't Daniel, said to be a prophet, soar to the political pinnacle in the then Babylon Empire? It is then left to the imagination when scriptural perversions are common place and form the basis for our actions and inactions. So when a Christian lady said to me, "I won't vote, God already knows who would emerge winner" I understood her. When asked the implication if every other eligible voter takes the same stance as hers, her answer was incoherent, but expectedly defensive. In a situation that a vote counts, it is minus for any of the political aspirants. Her view is regrettably shared even by colleagues at work. One of them had made the inconvenient effort to collect her PVC, but to my dismay, she said she won't be voting. "Nobody will take my place, I will live to be the mother of my children," she stated emphatically. Pathetically, this sad disposition has remained so for years and it may not change soon, reason being that men are bond servants to their beliefs.

http://olabanjititles..com/2019/02/reflections-on-forthcoming-elections.html?m=1

"May you not be a victim of a set up." That was the prayer tortoise prayed for the monkey that he ignored, putting up a show of arrogance that he had no need of such prayer. Since he wouldn't be persuaded to say amen to the prayer, because he thought himself immune against such, cunning tortoise devised a means to teach him a lesson. He got bean cake spiced with honey and took it to the lion to eat. To achieve his mischievous intent, he didn't give the already salivating lion enough of the honey-spiced bean cake to eat. He told the lion if he wanted more, the monkey had a factory of it. "It's the excreta of the monkey you just ate," he lied to him. " If this is the excreta of the monkey, and it is this tasty, I had better paid him a visit," the lion said. Tortoise encouraged him not to delay. The lion was soon at the house of the monkey. When the lion told the monkey the reason for his visit, the monkey was perplexed. Thinking the monkey was pretending, he hopped on the monkey and gave him some heavy blows on his belly. The monkey excreted but to the dismay of the lion, it was tasteless. Thinking the monkey was proving stubborn, he rained him heavier blows until he excreted and there was no more to excrete. Of course, the lion had been deceived by tortoise so that he could teach the monkey some lesson.

Inspired by Ebenezer Obey's lyrics...
"Oro akoba oba maje kari(2ce)/won ni ki obo se amin lojosi o n se faari/o su dundun/o su opo/o su dundun/o tun wa su olomi sororo."

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"May you not be a victim of a set up." That was the prayer tortoise prayed for the monkey that he ignored, putting up a show of arrogance that he had no need of such prayer. Since he wouldn't be persuaded to say amen to the prayer, because he thought himself immune against such, cunning tortoise devised a means to teach him a lesson. He got bean cake spiced with honey and took it to the lion to eat. To achieve his mischievous intent, he didn't give the already salivating lion enough of the honey-spiced bean cake to eat. He told the lion if he wanted more, the monkey had a factory of it. "It's the excreta of the monkey you just ate," he lied to him. " If this is the excreta of the monkey, and it is this tasty, I had better paid him a visit," the lion said. Tortoise encouraged him not to delay. The lion was soon at the house of the monkey. When the lion told the monkey the reason for his visit, the monkey was perplexed. Thinking the monkey was pretending, he hopped on the monkey and gave him some heavy blows on his belly. The monkey excreted but to the dismay of the lion, it was tasteless. Thinking the monkey was proving stubborn, he rained him heavier blows until he excreted and there was no more to excrete. Of course, the lion had been deceived by tortoise so that he could teach the monkey some lesson.

Inspired by Ebenezer Obey's lyrics...
"Oro akoba oba maje kari(2ce)/won ni ki obo se amin lojosi o n se faari/o su dundun/o su opo/o su dundun/o tun wa su olomi sororo."

http://olabanjititles..com/2019/02/you-not-be-victim-of-set-up.html?m=1

To prospective undergraduates and parents

The decision to choose courses to be studied at the tertiary institution should not be left to secondary school students alone. It's a brilliant idea that they should be allowed to choose their course of study, but it is imperative that they should be guided. In fact this guidance shouldn't be left to school teachers; sad to say, they know little themselves on career choice. It has been discovered that secondary school leavers are just interested in post secondary school education without any end in mind. They just don't want to be at home when their mates have secured admission. Hence, they settle for just any course.

There are different perspectives on the choice of course of study. There is an obvious and popular perspective that extols the superiority of university education above others. Another argues that education is not in the certificates amassed, or the course studied, but in the development of the mind. No perspective, no matter high-sounding and convincing, is valid if it is not viable in the Nigerian context. There are students who will not need their course of study as a means of survival. Such can choose to study any course at the tertiary institution, since their goal is just to get a degree. The few in this category can even decide that their passion will turn out to be their means of financial empowerment. The reality, however, is that many graduates in the country are employment seekers. And it is to the government that many graduates seek employment, primarily because of job security.

There are those that will make a living off their course of study. It is hardly the case to have medical doctors and allied medical practitioners like nurses, pharmacists, medical laboratory scientists, physiotherapists, radiologists, optometrists, engage in other businesses other areas other than their professions. The reason is because these professions allow for private practice too. A prospective undergraduate may then like to consider any of the medical courses. They cost a fortune though.

On the contrary is the sad experience of graduates of microbiology, and biochemistry. A number of them are being turned away from hospitals in Nigeria. Microbiologists' mandatory industrial training attachment is a herculean task to secure at the nation's hospitals. And for corps members among them, they have sad tales of discrimination and rejection to tell. Medical laboratory scientists have made their practice and usefulness in the hospital redundant and doctors' quest for dominance in the medical profession has not helped matters too. The two courses are so despised at hospitals that they are usually advised to seek employment at foods companies (where it is said they are better needed). With this in mind, one then wonders why a prospective undergraduate still desires to study Science Laboratory Technology (SLT) at the polytechnic. The question is: to what end?

Without sounding bias, of what relevance is a course like banking and finance? Why settle for such a course when courses like economics and accountancy are available. Mind you, the Federal Civil Service employs a chartered accountant on CONHESS 9/Grade Level 10 (that is two levels above the normal entry point), not CONHESS 7/Grade Level 8. You may wish to know the difference between CONHESS 9/Grade Level 10 and CONHESS 7/Grade Level 8 is 6 years! I guess something similar is obtainable at the State Civil Service too.
A university graduate of banking and finance will be employed on the executive cadre of the civil service. The problem with being employed on the executive cadre is that there is a progression limit. That could change much later, but that's how it has been, and is, for now.

A general observation in determining a course of study is the neglect of monotechnics. This could be due to lack of information, misinformation, or prejudice. Many secondary schools leavers may be at a loss if asked to identify one monotechnic in the country. Yet they abound. It is at monotechnics that dental technologists, dental technicians, medical laboratory technicians, etc., are trained. These despised and relatively unknown courses have more employment viability in hospitals than a number of science related courses students waste their time studying at the university. Monotechnics, like polytechnics, are diploma (OND, HND, and in some cases, PGD) awarding institutions. A prominent monotechnic in Nigeria is the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Ikeja.

Prospective undergraduates who intend to study agricultural science related courses may have to be reminded that agric has lost its practicability and appeal in today's Nigeria. It is a reality that has to be admitted. While agricultural science enthusiasts will not accede, how will one explain graduates of agricultural science turning up for job vacancies at hospitals. Sadly, a number of them have had to pick up junior cadre jobs for survival.

That prospective undergraduate that has opted for a course in education had better watch it too. The prospect of such a course is bleak and the worth in Nigeria today, rather unfortunately, is paper weight! The Federal Civil Service, for instance, no longer employ graduates of education. They have been told to seek employment where they are suited.

http://olabanjititles..com/2019/02/career.html?m=0

Of uniqueness of Abeokuta locations, and churches

While today there are obvious imprints of modern civilization in the ancient town of Abeokuta, the names of certain locations, notably former settlements, within the town continue to reveal her historical past, bearing certain uniqueness. A major uniqueness is the nomenclature of these locations which begin in prefixes such as Ìta, Òkè, Àgọ́, Ìsàlẹ̀, Ìdí.

The locations include:

Ìta-mọ́rìn
Ìta-àká
Ìta-ọṣìn
Ìta-ẹ̀kọ
Ìta-ọba (within Ìjẹ̀bu axis)
Ìta-òṣìgbό (within Ìjẹ̀bu axis)

Òkè-mọsan
Òkè-ṣàjẹ́
Òkè-eégúnyá
Òkè-iléwó
Òkè-ìjeùn
Òkè-àgọ́ὸwú
Òkè-ìtὸkú

Àgọ́-ọ̀bà
Àgọ́-ὸdo
Àgọ́-ọ̀kà
Àgọ́-ìkà
Àgọ́-ìjẹ̀ṣà
Àgọ́-òkò
Àgọ́-ìwòyè (within Ìjẹ̀bu axis)

Ìsàlẹ̀-ìgbèyìn
Ìsàlẹ̀-àké
Ìsàlẹ̀-àbẹ̀tu
Ìsàlẹ̀-ìjeùn

Ìdí-àbà
Ìdí-igi
Ìdí mángὸrὸ
Ìdí-Ìrókò (within Ọtà axis)

Observers could also have taken note of some uniqueness that can be identified with some churches in the country.

A number of assemblies of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), even those built by the river bank, are referred to as Oke. Examples include: CAC, Oke-Igabala; CAC, Oke-Itura; CAC, Oke-Iye; CAC, Oke-Agbala; CAC, Oke-Aanu.

You need not trouble yourself when in search of a river, just try and locate any assembly of the Celestial Church of God (CCC) or Cherubim & Seraphim Church. They are either built by riverbanks or not too far from riverbanks. If you don't know this, just be on the lookout.

It is common to see a First Baptist Church, but never a second or a third. The Nigerian Baptist Convention may stand in a better position to explain why this is so.


http://olabanjititles..com/2018/08/weekend-digest.html?m=1

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Am presently working on my thesis... INFLUENCE OF TEACHERS QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCE ON STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL PHYSICS..

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Thank u guys as I expect relevant replies..

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS


Consonant / t /

1. It is pronounced in words such as seat, tea, team, neat, bottle, etc.

2. / t /, not / θ /, is pronounced the TH-beginning in the following words:
Thomas;
Thames
Thompson;
Thyme.

3. However, / t / is not to be pronounced in the TH-beginning in words such as:
think;
thin;
thick;
thing, etc.
Often times, as second users of the language, the difficult in pronouncing / θ / in each of the examples cited above is evident. Hence, the tendency to pronounce / t /, rather than / θ /.

4. Furthermore, it is / t / that is to be pronounced in –ed ending of the following:
Verbs ending in letter k + ed
Verbs ending in letter p + ed
Verbs ending in letter f or / f / + ed
Verbs ending in letter sh/ch + ed
Verbs ending in letter ss + ed

Examples to buttress each of the instances cited above had been provided in a previous blog post olabanjititles..com.ng/2018/04/english-language-class.html?m=1 on Tuesday.

5. / t / is never to be pronounced in the following words:
often subtle wrestle
listen apostle Christmas
depot rapport epistle
whistle sachet mortgage
castle chalet bustle
bustle debut hustle

6. / t / is not pronounced in word ending –TION and –TURE. Carefully use a dictionary to check up the sound that is realised or pronounced in the following words:
i. action;
ii. education;
iii. station;
iv. future,
v. posture.
If you do a careful check, you will observe that it is / ʃn / that is realised in the first three (3) examples. In the last two (2) examples, on the other hand, it is / ʧɘ / that is realised. So, take these quick exercises:
1. Is / t / realised in the underlined letters in caption?

2. / t / is pronounced in the underlined letters in gesture, TRUE/FALSE?

Find attached below practice exercises on consonant / t / from my book on English sounds.

Sugar's Healing Therapy
The hidden healing power of sugar | Clara Wiggins

Doctors are finding one way that sugar can benefit your health: it may help heal wounds resistant to antibiotics.

As a child growing up in poverty in the rural Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, Moses Murandu was used to having salt literally rubbed in his wounds when he fell and cut himself. On lucky days, though, his father had enough money to buy something which stung the boy much less than salt: sugar.
Murandu always noticed that sugar seemed to help heal wounds more quickly than no treatment at all. So he was surprised when, having been recruited to come to work as a nurse for the UK's National Health System (NHS) in 1997, he found that sugar wasn't being used in any official capacity. He decided to try to change that.

Now, Murandu's idea finally is being taken seriously. A senior lecturer in adult nursing at the University of Wolverhampton, Murandu completed an initial pilot study focussed on sugar's applications in wound healing and won an award from the Journal of Wound Care in March 2018 for his work.
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In some parts of the world, this procedure could be key because people cannot afford antibiotics. But there is interest in the UK, too, since once a wound is infected, it sometimes won't respond to antibiotics.

To treat a wound with sugar, all you do, Murandu says, is pour the sugar on the wound and apply a bandage on top. The granules soak up any moisture that allows bacteria to thrive. Without the bacteria, the wound heals more quickly.
Evidence for all of this was found in Murandu's trials in the lab. And a growing collection of case studies from around the world has supported Murandu's findings, including examples of successful sugar treatments on wounds resistant to antibiotics. Even so, Murandu faces an uphill battle. Funding for further research would help him reach his ultimate goal – to convince the NHS to use sugar as an alternative to antibiotics. But a great deal of medical research is funded by pharmaceutical companies. And these companies, he points out, have little to gain from paying for research into something they can't patent.

The sugar Murandu uses is the plain, granulated type you might use to sweeten your tea. In the same in vitro trials, he found that there was no difference between using cane or beet sugar. Demerara, however, wasn't as effective.

The pilot showed that strains of bacteria grew in low concentrations of sugar but were completely inhibited in higher concentrations. Murandu started recording case studies in Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Lesotho (where he first trained in nursing). Included among them is a woman living in Harare.
"The woman's foot had been measured, ready to be amputated, when my nephew called me," Murandu says. "She had had a terrible wound for five years, and the doctor wanted to amputate. I told her to wash the wound, apply sugar, leave it and repeat. "The woman still has her leg." This, he says, is one example of why there is so much interest in his methods, particularlyfrom parts of the world where people can't afford antibiotics.

In total, Murandu has now carried out clinical studies on 41 patients in the UK. He hasn't yet published the trial results but has presented them at national and international conferences. One question he had to answer during his research was whether sugar could be used on diabetic patients, who commonly have leg and foot ulcers. Diabetics need to control the level of glucose in their blood so this isn't an obvious healing method to use on them.

But he found that it worked for diabetics without sending their glucose levels soaring. "Sugar is sucrose – you need the enzyme sucrase to convert that into glucose," he says. As sucrase is found within the body, it is only when the sugar is absorbed that it is converted. Applying it to the outside of the wound isn't going to affect it in the same way.

While Murandu continues his research on human patients, across the Atlantic US veterinarian Maureen McMichael has been using this healing method on animals for years.

McMichael, who works at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital, first started using both sugar and honey on pets back in 2002. She said it was a combination of the simplicity of the method and the low cost that attracted her – especially for pet owners who couldn't afford the usual methods of bringing the animal to the hospital and using sedation.

McMichael says that they keep both sugar and honey in their surgery and often used it on dogs and cats (and occasionally on farm animals). Honey has similar healing properties to sugar (one study found it to be even more effective at inhibiting bacterial growth), though it is more expensive.
"We have had some really great successes with this," McMichael says. She gave an example of a stray dog that had come to them after being used as "pitbull bait", hung from a harness and attacked by pitbulls being trained for fighting. The dog came in with up to 40 bite wounds on each limb – and was healed within eight weeks. "She was a stray so there was no money for her. We treated her with both honey and sugar and she did fabulously," McMichael says. "She's all healed now."

Back in the UK, tissue engineering specialist Sheila MacNeil of the University of Sheffeld has researched how naturally occurring sugars can be used to stimulate the re-growth of blood vessels. Her research stemmed from from her work on tumours, when she noticed that one particular small sugar derived from the breakdown of DNA (2-deoxy-D-ribose) kept cropping up. MacNeil's team experimented by applying this sugar to the membrane surrounding chick embryos. According to MacNeil, the sugar stimulated double the number of blood vessels than would grow without it.

But of course these types of naturally occurring sugars found in our bodies are a long way from the type of everyday sugar used by Murandu in his experiments. The "dream ticket", MacNeil says, would be to find a sugar that could be used in both ways. She believes this is the next step research should take.

Meanwhile in Wolverhampton, Murandu's plan is to set up a private clinic using his sugar method. He hopes that one day sugar will be commonly used, not only by the NHS but also at public hospitals in some of the other countries where he has been working. He continues to get regular emails from around the world, asking for his advice – and guides patients remotely over email and texting. His far-away clients send him photos of their results along with their grating gratitude when they are healed.

It is an ancient method and one used unofficially by many poor people in developing countries, but for Murandu it was only by coming to the UK that he realised the significance sugar could have in the medical world. He sees it as a blending of his local knowledge with the modern research facilities in Britain.
"Like sugar, the knowledge came raw from Zimbabwe, was refined here – and is now going back to help people in Africa," he says.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180328-how-sugar-could-help-heal-wounds

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Mahatma Gandhi writes on bad handwriting
Re: I make no complaints, just observations

Legendary Mohandas K. Gandhi writes on the essence of good handwriting in his autography, An Autobiography: The story of my experiments with truth thus:

"Though I was none the worse for having neglected (physical) exercise, I am still paying the penalty of another neglect, I do not know whence I got the notion that good handwriting was not a necessary part of education, but I retained it until I went to England. When later, especially in South Africa, I saw the beautiful handwriting of lawyers and young men born and educated in South Africa, I was ashamed of myself and repented of my neglect. I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. I tried later to improve mine, but it was too late. I could never repair the neglect of my youth. Let every young man and woman be warned by my example, and understand that good handwriting is a necessary part of education. I am now of opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write. Let the child learn his letters by observation as he does different objects, such as flowers, birds, etc., and let him learn handwriting only after he has learnt to draw objects. He will then write a beautifully formed handwriting."

(cf: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/sep/09/cambridge-conisders-typed-exams-as-handwriting-worsens; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10833696/Pupils-losing-marks-in-exams-due-to-poor-handwriting.html)

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I make no complaints, just observations

The full-stop (period) has long disappeared in students' write-ups. Capitalisation is the worse hit. It is no longer the norm for sentences to begin in capital letters. And there is so much disregard for proper nouns. To sum it up: hand-writing is in a sorry state! This seems to bebe a global trend though. Last year one of the foremost universities in the UK proposed typed answers to exams as a result of this escalating phenomenon (cf: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/sep/09/cambridge-conisders-typed-exams-as-handwriting-worsens; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10833696/Pupils-losing-marks-in-exams-due-to-poor-handwriting.html) Whatever happened to writing exercise book that we grew up to know as 2D!

Responsibility has taken flight in schools and many of today's schools will have nothing to do with spanking. Occasional instances of its extremity are often cited as the basis. Advocacy against abuse is also cited. What is the divide between genuine spanking and abuse? Nobody seems to know in absolute terms. What the American society and many homes in Europe have turned into tells of the debilitating consequences of the neglect of the rod of instruction, be it spanking or reprimands.

Students who are supposed to be smart drag their legs on the floor and nobody seems to be bothered. Well, as long as they are brilliant, no attention is paid to their moral depravity. Contemporary education is synonymous to academic success, excluding inculcating life core values. May I ask: does anybody still bother to check pupils' nails in schools? Lessons missed at home are lost in schools too? And who is concerned when school boys are dressed in such a way that denigrate manhood? Who instructs school girls on how to sit? Are they taught that there is a girl-like manner to sit? I have a student that I have to constantly remind that she is a girl! One sits or stands in front of school girls and you have a screen to stare at! It can be that pathetic! A school girl was asked to put on her socks. You needed to see the way she went about it. She lifted up her legs in the same manner a boy would put his trousers on, and I was like Oh, my God! In fact, it was this scenario that inspired this piece. This can be tested further. Ask any school girl to pick up something on the floor and watch to see how they will go about it. Suffice it to say that it's the same with school boys.

How to go about these changes seems to be a herculean task, but we surely must start somewhere. More importantly is the question: who will take up the responsibility?


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This revered man of God was never at any time the General Overseer of CAC. He retired as CAC General Evangelist.

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About two years after the demise of his wife, the General Overseer of Christ Apostolic Church, Vineyard of Comfort popularly known as CAC Agbala Itura, Prophet Samuel Kayode Abiara yesterday said he is prepared to re-marry.

The cleric made the revelation at an elaborate send off service held in his honour as the retired General Evangelist of CAC Worldwide in Bashorun, Ibadan,The Nation reports.

While giving his farewell speech as the retired General Evangelist, Prophet Abiara said:

he disclosed.

Speaking on his retirement, he said contrary to people’s notion that he wants to quit the work of God, he is still an active worker in God’s vineyard, saying his retirement is to obey the church’s constitution which makes it compulsory for officers to resign after clocking 75.


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This revered man of God was never at any time the General Overseer or CAC. He retired as CAC General Evangelist.

Mboi:
Yul Edochie came out but no single youth supported him because he doesn't have money to share so he has to join the train.
Youths of this nation should come out and join ANRP not doing analysis on social media.

One question we must not cease to ask is: do we just vote for a candidate whether credible or not, just because such is a youth?

You see a worrisome picture of how prepared Nigerian youths are ready for power from the activities of NANS!

When Nigeria fought her bloody war— dubbed Biafra War or the Nigerian Civil War depending on who is telling the narrative—it was her youth that prosecuted it. The gladiators were mostly youths: Olusegun Obasanjo, Yakubu Gowon, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Benjamin Adekunle, Victor Banjo, among others. These young officers were in their early thirties when they speared-headed the war that lasted almost three years. And when then military government was to come up with the plan of re-building the nation after the devastating consequences of the war, it was to the nation’s youths that the country’s leadership turned to. To salvage the worsening aftermath of the war therefore, the political leadership of the country immediately turned to the fresh graduates from the tertiary institutions all over the country. This was to give birth to The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

It is in youths the success and the future of any nation or institution lies, basically because of their strength. This strength is not limited to physical strength. It is all-encompassing. It includes mental strength, wit, smartness, and importantly, inner drive and motivation. That inner drive to get things accomplished. That power and motivation that drives on even when failure seems inevitable at inception or mid-way. The power of conception and actualisation. Landmark innovations, novel ideas and ideals! Those are the components of the strength being referred to! Included in that strength is the wisdom to excel in any chosen fields of endeavour, and the wisdom for territorial subjugation and domination—see how Google, Facebook and Nairaland Forum have garnered users exceeding the population of some countries and continents. It is this strength that makes youths prime target of the God-head and the devil. It makes them necessities to the kingdom the God-head and the devil represent exclusively. It is because of this strength that the youths are being lured and enticed with fleeting pleasures. It is because of this strength that the spirit of disobedience seems to be at work in the hearts of many a youth. And the purpose for this is simple: to waste their strength. It is this strength that the evil one wants to reduce to a piece of bread. It is this strength that the devil wants to negotiate for like the porridge-bait negotiation for Esau’s birth right. It is this strength that makes youths soar like the eagle and it is the same ability that has impacted unto them the daring ability that is exceeding unparalleled by any other population group.

It is still in light of the strength of youths that Apostle John addressed a portion of his epistle to them, citing the reason for his action as their strength! This is one of the hallmarks of youths: vigour! And it is this vigour that God wants to harness for His glory. Unfortunately, it is the same vigour that the devil is interested in. It is therefore to whom youths yield their vigour that they will become slaves. In older men and women is this attribute lacking, because they are at the eclipse of their age when depravity of physical strength is inevitable. Small wonder, they dream dreams but youths see visions! Such is the blessedness of the sight of the youth, and it is no competing for because it is the doing and making of the Lord and it is marvellous in our sight! They see visions and run with them. Little wonder they are blessed with strength so that they can run with the vision they see! Not to the youths! It is not to the youths that they will be at ease in Zion. They have got no time for docility, neither is passivity found in them. Diligence is their watchword and they make actualising their visions their ultimate goal.

It is worth knowing that anything youths don’t get involved in has a short-life span. Watch it: prominent, flourishing, and prosperous industries are managed by youths. Name it, from sports to entertainment. They are not wanting on the political scenes either. French and Canadian Presidents are few examples. Didn’t the shame of Israel and the obvious molestation of Israel’s army linger on until 17-year-old David stepped into the scene, brought victory to God’s covenant people, and in the process rose to national prominence and subsequently became the king of Israel?

Whatever it was that God’s wisdom saw in Josiah that he made him king at eight is a pointer to the fact that even pre-teens can be useful vessels in the hands of God. Tender age is no barrier in this regard. When Nebuchadnezzar invaded the land of Israel by the pre-determinate counsel of God, one thing he sought was Israel’s young men. He was selective of the fine ones among them. Probably those who were of scholastic and intellectual capacity. It was the youth internship or educational system of the Babylonian nation that produced the like of Daniel and his friends. Isn’t the saviour of the world a youth even at his death? At 33, he lived a life so pleasing and acceptable before the Father that he delivered the world from their sin and from the hand of their oppressor. By his death, he led captivity captive! At 33! Wow! On Mount Zion shall more saviours arise!

What does one make of the life of Joseph if not a living wonder at 30, who could manage a major global economic crisis at his age and the king found it convenient to adopt the economic blue-print he presented when he interpreted the dream of the king as the perfect solution to the looming economic crises he was warned of in his dream?

We now live in an age that the youths are the teachers and the elderly are the learners. Many a parent learnt how their phones and the social media work through their children. In fact, many of them cannot effectively use the internet unaided. And aren’t the activities for which youths are the principal actors the reason people sit glued to their television sets? Just take football, music and the social media as quick examples. Over 81, 000 spectators will gather around 22 players who are aged between 17 and possibly 38, and the world stands still! That is the extent to which youths can make things happen. It was a youth that stopped the killing of twins in Nigeria. Historical accounts have it that the young Scot, Mary Slessor, was 16 years when she arrived the shores of Nigeria, and her mission has preserved many youths today, including the writer’s mom.

The youth population is larger than any known population group in the world, but how the presidency of this nation and other political positions have eluded them begs the question. They have played vital roles in every election in the country at the national and state levels. However, this role has been limited to political thuggery and election racketing, a role that power-drunk political god-fathers and politicians have fixed them in elections gone-by. It is time youths chat their own cause and determine their political future rather than wait for the empty lofty promise: youths are the leaders of tomorrow. When will the tomorrow arrive is the question that seems to elude one at the moment. At present, the country’s political class has no obvious plan for the Nigerian youths, the mass unemployment is a critical evidence. Another is the quality of education the nation provides for her teeming youths. The earlier this reality dawns on youths, the better. If 2019 will be a better year for this population, the answer lies with them.

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How To Set Whatsapp To Auto Respond Messages

Just imagine that you have a question for a Business about one of their product or services and you send them a message via whatsapp and then this pops up.....

Hey, thank you for getting in touch. Your message is important to us, so this is our automated reply to let you know we're not on Whatsapp right now, but we will be in touch within the next 12hrs to reply to your message. Thank You.

  Awesome right? 


This is because you have your 'Instant Reply' and your expectations have been managed.


The company have acknowledged your message and you now know that someone from the company is going be to getting in touch with your answer within the next 12 hours. Wouldn't it be amazing to offer the same great instant reply to your own customers, friends and family. 

How To Get Started and more goto> http://www.nextcinfo.com/2018/03/how-to-set-whatsapp-to-auto-respond.html?m=1#more

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PLEASE, WHERE IS THIS IN ABEOKUTA?

Sex, since the history of man or human evolution has gone through several changes, even in terms of definition and form and the individuals engaging in it. Once upon a time, sex was thought to be primarily for reproductive reasons, then for the relief of sexual tension and later, for the sexual pleasure. Right from the explosive documentation of the Kama Sutra, various studies and experiences have been carried out by persons and institutions to unravel the mystery of human sexology and why, besides procreation, sex is important to mortal men and women.

From the researches of Alfred Kinsey who is regarded as the father of sexology in the 40s and 50s to Masters and Johnsons famous researches on orgasms of the 60s and 70s, sex has become a subject of great interest to all. Now, a research conducted by psychologists Cindy Meston and David Buss on why women have sex which is published in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour, the duo in their new book of the same title, have listed 237 reasons why women have sex with their partners. Ranging from the mundane desires to experience physical pleasure; to the vengeful intentions of getting back at a cheating partner, the spiritual attempt to get closer to God, or the altruistic gesture of wanting a partner to feel good about themselves. Meston and Buss concluded that the motives for engaging in sexual intercourse may be larger in number than what most people think and psychologically complex in nature too. Some of the reasons listed are quite glaring and practiced across societies and persons at various times, regardless of their marital status too. In fact, marital sex as well as long term relationships tend to be more complex than those in newer or non-commitment relationships. Just as a married woman may have a legion of reasons for not wanting to have sex, she just might have another gazillion on why she must have sex.

The most important and common reason being duty sex. Once married, it is assumed that providing sexual pleasure to her partner is a given. She must fulfill her own side of the bargain to keep the union. To some other women, it is the price for the status and benefits. In this case, it has nothing to do with her own sexual pleasures or preference and more about submission, ditto the man. Many women also believe that the more sex they have with their partners, the less chances he is likely to stray. Women assume that the more sex he gets with them, the less chances he is likely to think about sex outside the box, much less look for it. While good communication channel and a strong sexual connection may have been identified as important keys to a good relationship, hardly has having sex with a partner on demand been known to keep a person from straying into the thighs of another woman. Some women also believe that sex and children are the perfect ways to keep their men. Women dubiously believe that the more children and responsibility they throw at their husbands, the less likely they are to walk away from them. So, where they have agreed on two children, these women, on their own volition, manipulate or "accidentally" go on to have more children. This hardly works in some cases. You can only keep a man down for as long as he wants to stay down. Lets just go through some reasons I found quite interesting in this book which I have practical examples for.

Pity sex: Women may sometimes give in to sex for this simple reason, after all, we are women with maternal instincts. Some of the women in the book confessed to have had sex with men just because they felt sorry for them. According to one, she had been dating a guy over two years and he had been pleading with her all through. One day, she said she took pity on him and agreed. However, he was out of the door as soon as he could pull his pants up. A similar scenario happened to one of the young girls I counsel. She had been dating the guy for quite some time, and though she had told him she was no virgin, she however decided to go celibate until she was married. The guy had gone on to systematically work on her emotions and soon, broke her down. She said the day she agreed to have sex with him, he had prostrated flat on his stomach, swearing heaven on earth. What kind of desperation is that? However, what happened after the act, almost robbed her of her education as she did not want to return to school. She said immediately it was over, he jumped up and punched the air with his fist, asking if that was all that she had to offer. He went on to tell her that he had only been acting out a script and never loved her. In fact, he and a couple of guys already placed a bet on her...
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It was the military government of Group Captain Segun Akanbi that forced homes in the capital city to have toilets. He ensured that soldiers went from house to house to enforce it. In one instance, the soldiers called at a man's house; one of the many who had defied the order. On sighting them, he asked his pre-teen sons to tell them he wasn't at home and hid in the other room. When the soldiers knocked on the door, fear gripped the sons. With the fierce look of the soldiers they spoke without being asked any question. "Our daddy said he is not at home," the younger of them said. Not realizing exactly what his younger brother had said, the elder also affirmed it.

His heart sank when he heard this and unconsciously shouted, "Ha!" covering his mouth with his hand just too late. One of the soldiers dashed into the room, dragged him out and laid many stripes with a three-tail horse whip on his back. The soldiers' reason for the severity of his punishment was not because he has yet to have a toilet, but because he taught his little children truth management. His sons looked on perplexed, not knowing how what they said to the soldiers and their dad's present predicament are related.
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How Lola brought juju from Lagos to Nnewi http://olabanjititles..com.ng/2018/02/fiction_4.html?m=0

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Highway to Grave, Hit & Run, Mama Sunday, Hostages (TV series), Set up, Died Wretched, should make the list too!

In 2015, specifically in February, it was being debated whether a medical procedure that will help correct certain genetic defects should be legalised or not. After MPs were advised to vote on the procedure according to their conscience, it scaled through. Consequently, a clinic in Newcastle has been granted permission to use the procedure. Read about the details at
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