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MOTIVATION CORNER...

First Bank Plc is the largest company in Nigeria; Dangote Group, The Most Profitable Company; Julius Berger Plc, The Highest Employer of artisans and informal labour; Oando Plc, The Highest Revenue Earner; D'banj the highest paid entertainer, Zenith Bank Plc, The Most Capitalised Company And Dangote Cement, The Most Valuable Company in Nigeria. Also on the rise as world class Nigerian emerging brands comes Globacom, Wizkid, GTbank... Where do you stand in all these. Are you among the: 81 percent of Nigeria's working graduates that earn below N100,000. 57 percent of these claimed "working adults" and "entrepreneurs"are logically unemployed (they are either being owed, are the "MD/CEO" of their "one man business", claim to work as a "no choice" so they won't be considered idle, frustrated, to get by or engaged to a job they hate). How did we get here. These group can not shake the GDP of this country. They only widen a gap. T
First Bank Plc is the largest company in Nigeria; Dangote Group, The Most Profitable Company; Julius Berger Plc, The Highest Employer of artisans and informal labour; Oando Plc, The Highest Revenue Earner; D'banj the highest paid entertainer, Zenith Bank Plc, The Most Capitalised Company And Dangote Cement, The Most Valuable Company in Nigeria. Also on the rise as world class Nigerian emerging brands comes Globacom, Wizkid, GTbank... Where do you stand in all these. Are you among the: 81 percent of Nigeria's working graduates that earn below N100,000. 57 percent of these claimed "working adults" and "entrepreneurs"are logically unemployed (they are either being owed, are the "MD/CEO" of their "one man business", claim to work as a "no choice" so they won't be considered idle, frustrated, to get by or engaged to a job they hate). How did we get here. These group can not shake the GDP of this country. They only widen a gap. T

Charly BoyArea Fada opens up on his sexuality

The “Area Fada” talks about being abused at 10 years old and catching his first Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) at 12. Charly Boy has always been the king of controversy and in a piece titled “My Wandering Penis”, the power bike-lover opens up on a topic many people have been curious about – his sexuality. The “Area Fada” talks about being abused at 10 years old and catching his first Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) at 12. Read the full article below: Some say that I am gay; some have called me a fag, crazily some think am a transvestite. Some will swear I’m bisexual, hummmmmm. My Sexuality has always been a subject of great scrutiny and misconception ever since I can remember, and I have had a ball if I say so myself. Na today? E don tey! My parents saw Pepper. When I was barely 10yrs old, my baby nurse was caught tampering with me sexually, Chineke! A practice that pleasured me even though I didn’t know what the heck to do, when we were caught by my mother needless to say

Five PDP govs meet Obasanjo over Jonathan, economy

Five Peoples Democratic Party governors led by the Chairman, PDP Governors Forum, and governor, Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, on Thursday held a closed-door meeting, which lasted for three hours, with the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, in his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Other governors on the trip are the governors of Bauchi, Jigawa, Cross River, and Niger states, Isa Yuguda, Sule Lamido, Liyel Imoke and Babangida Aliyu respectively. The governors arrived Obasanjo’s residence around 12.30pm and emerged from the inner chamber at exactly 3.30pm. Briefing journalists after the meeting, Obasanjo, said the governors’ visit was not unconnected with nagging issues of the Boko Haram insurgents and the economy. But from his utterance, the frosty relationship between President Goodluck Jonathan and Obasanjo was also discussed. He said that his criticism of Jonathan in recent times was not aimed at castigating or bad-mouthing him. He said,”

Dignitaries remember Mandela

The Mandela family, struggle veterans, government leaders, diplomats, and celebrities gathered at Freedom Park in Pretoria on Friday to commemorate former president Nelson Mandela's death. Acting President Cyril Ramaphosa sat with Ahmed Kathrada, Sophie de Bruyn, Mandla Mandela, Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini, and Tshwane mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa. Various religious leaders opened the proceedings with prayers. Ramokgopa welcomed the guests and said Mandela remained a m oral compass for the world. Guests sang "Mandela a gona wa tshwanang le wena [There's no one like Mandela]" in intervals during the proceedings. Young people wearing Nelson Mandela Foundation T-shirts praised Mandela's legacy in poetry, followed by Pitika Ntuli, whose poem also honoured the former president. Mandela's former praise singer Zolani Mkiva said Mandela had respected tradition. "He knew we can neve