MOST FOLLOWED CELEBRITIES ON INSTAGRAM

Social media has become a tool for activism as it is an intersection of technology, culture and global  interaction. Reports across the world say that Instagram happens to be the fastest growing social media site at the moment with more than 400million users. However, most users have popular accounts which they follow for different reasons. JOAN OMIONAWELE examines the 10 most followed Nigerian celebrities and reasons  they drive traffic to their pages daily.

Nigerian popstar, David Adeleke, also known as Davido leads the league of the most followed Nigerian celebrities on  Instagram with over 2.3million followers,  while Ayo Balogun, aka Wizkid follows with about 1.9million followers.

NAIJA DELTA MILITANTS DECLARE CEASEFIRE,GIVES THE GOVERNMENT CONDITION FOR PEACE

Few days ago at ABUJA —President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military to suspend operations in the Niger Delta for two weeks to create a window for dialogue with militants.


 Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, disclosed this in Abuja, yesterday. According to him, the Federal Government is determined to explore the dialogue option, with a view to restoring genuine peace in the region, where oil production has been significantly hurt by activities of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, in the last two months. President Buhari He said: “The President is interested in dialogue and has mandated the military to halt actions for about two weeks to ensure a team that will be led by the NSA, dialogues with the militants to ensure peace in the region. This is coming as more oil companies in the Niger Delta have reviewed their operations, following
continued bombing of their facilities in Delta and Bayelsa states. Avenue open to militants, says Kachikwu ‘’The avenue is open for them, provided the militants are willing to embrace dialogue and allow truth to reign because we are going to involve key leaders from the region who have had previous experience in that area to play whatever role they can" More

 

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WINDOW FOR DIALOGUE

The Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF), which emerged in solidarity with the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) a few weeks ago, has announced a ceasefire following Federal Government’s offer of a dialogue.

JNDLF had threatened to blow up aircraft through the launch of anti-aircraft missiles as part of planned effort to shut the country’s airspace.

LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE

Many years ago, Norman Cousins was diagnosed as “terminally ill”. He was given six months to live. His chance for recovery was 1 in 500.
He could see the worry, depression and anger in his life contributed to, and perhaps helped cause, his disease. He wondered, “If illness can be caused by negativity, can wellness be created by positivity?”
He decided to make an experiment of himself. Laughter was one of the most positive activities he knew. He rented all the funny movies he could find – Keaton, Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers. (This was before VCRs, so he had to rent the actual films.) He read funny stories. He asked his friends to call him whenever they said, heard or did something funny.
His pain was so great he could not sleep. Laughing for 10 solid minutes, he found, relieved the pain for several hours so he could sleep.
He fully recovered from his illness and lived another 20 happy, healthy and productive years. (His journey is detailed in his book, Anatomy of an Illness.) He credits visualization, the love of his family and friends, and laughter for his recovery.

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Some people think laughter is a waste of time. It is a luxury, they say, a frivolity, something to indulge in only every so often.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we’re not well, laughter helps us get well; if we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.

 

Since Cousins’ ground-breaking subjective work, scientific studies have shown that laughter has a curative effect on the body, the mind and the emotions.
So, if you like laughter, consider it sound medical advice to indulge in it as often as you can. If you don’t like laughter, then take your medicine – laugh anyway.
Use whatever makes you laugh – movies, sitcoms, Monty Python, records, books, New Yorker cartoons, jokes, friends.

Give yourself permission to laugh – long and loud and out loud – whenever anything strikes you as funny. The people around you may think you’re strange, but sooner or later they’ll join in even if they don’t know what you’re laughing about.
Some diseases may be contagious, but none is as contagious as the cure. . . laughter


 

A TALE OF TWO PEBBLES

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Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful daughter. So he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the farmer’s debt if he could marry his daughter.
Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified by the proposal. So the cunning money-lender suggested that they let providence decide the matter. He told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty money bag. Then the girl would have to pick one pebble from the bag.

If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife and her father’s debt would be forgiven. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven. If she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail.
They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the farmer’s field. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick a pebble from the bag.
Now, imagine that you were standing in the field. What would you have done if you were the girl? If you had to advise her, what would you have told her?
Take a moment to ponder this. What would you recommend that the girl do?
The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.
“Oh, how clumsy of me!” she said. “But never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked.”
The moneylender dared not admit his dishonesty. The girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one.

THE SAD CANDLE

A man had a little daughter, an only and much beloved child. He lived only for her, she was his life. So when she became ill and her illness resisted the efforts of the best obtainable physicians, he became like a man possessed, moving heaven and earth to bring about her restoration to health.
His best efforts proved fruitless, however, and the child died.
The father was totally irreconcilable. He became a bitter recluse, shutting himself away from his many friends, refusing every activity that might restore his poise and bring him back to his normal self.

The Sad Candle

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Then one night he had a dream. He was in heaven and witnessing a grand pageant of all the little child angels. They were marching in an apparently endless line past the Great White Throne. Every white-robed, angelic tot carried a candle. He noticed, however, that one child’s candle was not lit. Then he saw that the child with the dark candle was his own little girl. Rushing towards her, while the pageant faltered, he seized her in his arms, caressed her tenderly, and asked, “How is that your candle is the only one not lit?” “Father, they often relight it, but your tears always put it out again,” she said.
Just then he awoke from from his dream.

The lesson was crystal clear, and it’s effects were immediate. From that hour on he was no longer a recluse, but mingled freely and cheerfully with his former friends and associates. No longer would his little darling’s candle be extinguished by his useless tears.

HOMELESS MAN JOHN



This evening as I was leaving Shoprite, I noticed this man going through the garbage can outside of the store.

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 As I walked to my car I watched him as he reached in the garbage can and pulled out fast food trash bags and inspected all that was in the thrown away bags. He did this for several minutes. He would find a few fries in one bag and a bite or two of a hamburger in another bag. You can see the hamburger wrapper by his knee where he was placing the food items he’d found.
He never bothered anyone or tried to stop and beg for money as people entered and left the store. After he went through the entire trash can he neatly cleaned up the area and wrapped up the food he found in the dirty hamburger wrapper. My heart literally hurt for him. I am not someone who just hands out money or even helps homeless people because so many are not truly homeless. I don’t guess I’ve ever seen someone actually go through a garbage can to try to find food to eat.



HOMELESS MAN

I knew I had to help him. I got out of my car and asked him if I could buy him something to eat. He told me he would appreciate anything I could get him. He was on a bike and I told him if he’d follow me I’d buy him a meal at the fast food place around the block. He followed me and I bought him the biggest meal they had on the menu. The only request he gave me for his order was if I could get him a big glass of sweet tea to go with his meal!

ONLY GREY HAIRS

The child and his mother:

A curious child asked his mother: “Mommy, why are some of your hairs turning grey?”
The mother tried to use this occasion to teach her child: “It is because of you, dear. Every bad action of yours will turn one of my hairs grey!”

The child replied innocently: “Now I know why grandmother has only grey hairs on her head.”

TALE OF A PRIVATE LESSON TEACHER ((EPISODE 1))

THE TALE OF A PRIVATE LESSON TEACHER ((EPISODE 1))

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Just a mere fiction and i trust u gonna love
it..
passing out parade has come and gone, I
will definitely miss my
friends, my PPA, my environment in ota, a
lot of thoughts were running through my
mind as I was packing and
arranging my loads. I begin to ask myself,
“after service year then what next?”.
I had tried to apply for jobs during my
service year but I couldn’t get a befitting
job. My friends that were born with a silver
spoon had jobs waiting for them at home,
“Which kind wahala be this?”, I picked my
bag, board a bus to
akure. On getting home, my family and
neighbours welcomed me, it was as if a
white man came on a visit. People asking
me questions, some were greeting, some
were asking for what I
brought.
As days rolled by, I begin to search for what
to do, I moved round the town to see if I
could get a job somewhere.
One day while I was passing by on the 3rd
street, I saw a woman coming out of a
mighty duplex, the house was painted
white,. She was pasting a notice on her gate
as I was passing by. I moved closer to see
the what she was pasting,and on it I saw ”
A home lesson teacher wanted URGENTLY”.
Chaiii, I ignored at first and moved on. After
walking about 8 steps. I stopped and think.
***** why I go refuse this job na?, dem be
rich people ooo, so
dem fit pay.*****,

THE MANAGEMENT OF NYSC HAS DISMISSED THE REPORT THAT THE SCHEME HAS BEEN SCRAPPED

The management of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has dismissed the report that the scheme has been scrapped, describing it as a malicious and mischievous rumour.

Reacting to the report on the scrapping of the scheme which trended at the weekend, the management insisted that there is no iota of truth in the report, announcing that the 2016 Batch ‘A’ (Stream II) Orientation course will commence soon.

“Our attention has been drawn to the report trending that NYSC has been scrapped. We want to emphatically say that there is no truth in such report. That rumour must be a mischievous one.

“The management wishes to inform prospective Corps members that, based on the assurance received from the Federal Government regarding release of funds, the 2016 Batch ‘A’ (Stream II) Orientation course will commence soon.

“Prospective Corps members are, therefore, requested to watch out for specific date for commencement of the exercise, which will be announced as soon as all necessary logistics are put in place.

“Management empathizes with the affected prospective Corps members, and appeals for continued patience even as all efforts on the matter are fast yielding results,” the released noted.

Things Nigerian single ladies do when in need of boyfriends

 ITS A PITY

Fellow ladies in the house, if you would be offended with anything of the things you would be reading here, please pardon us. We are only trying to call your attention to some of the things you do in the society in a bid to make you change your ways. Really, being single could become lonely at times; you may feel completely left out when you do not have a man to call your own. Your friends may not be helping you with their constant change of display pictures and boo bae. And the Saturday ‘owanbes’ may distract you for a while and put you in a desperate situation. Yes, we understand the pressure you may be going through when you do not have a boyfriend and everyone expects you to be in a serious relationship. Always remember that there is a time for everything and all these things that bother you would become a thing of the past in due season. Many single ladies have put themselves in terrible situations as a result of their desperation when it comes to being in a relationship. For ladies like these, it is always all over them that they need a boyfriend; they cannot get it off their mind and most times, they end up falling into the wrong hands. Find below some of the things ladies do that would make you know they are in dire needs of boyfriends: 

1. Wearing clothes that are not comfortable

Okay, we get the part of ladies dressing to follow the fashion trend, we also understand that everyone wants to look good and classy at all times. However, wearing clothes that are too tight for comfort is not the best way to go at it. Some single ladies love to wear clothes that would choke them and not allow them eat, mere looking at them, you can sense their discomfort in those outfits. To recognize the single ladies that are in need of boyfriends, they would always crave attention wherever they go. The tight clothes would no doubt make heads turn but they also have to worry about eating in order not to make their stomach bulge out of their tight dresses.

 2. Bleaching

 Thankfully, the society is starting to accept the fact that black is beautiful. Most ladies in the society want to be like ‘oyinbo’, it is pathetic seeing these ladies denature their skin cells all because they want to be fair skinned. A man who would like you will do irrespective of your color. The laughable thing is many of these girls do not buy the right cream so they end of bleaching one ear and leaving the other one. Although they may be hunting for boyfriends, the moment the men see the uneven patches on their skin, they already cast them.

 3. Exposure of vital body parts

 If you are not trying to gain some man’s attention why would you walk around the street half naked? Many single ladies love to expose their boobs and blame it on the style or cutting of the fabric they wear. Why would you wear a cloth with low bust cutting? There are ladies who are sassy and highly respected in the society; they know the trend and do not bare their bodies in order to look more beautiful. Another crazy thing to be noted is the way these ladies pull down their short dresses in a bid to cover their thighs. If there is nothing wrong with the outfit they need not pull it down.

 4. They are party lovers

Now there is nothing wrong in being a party lover; however, most of these single ladies know they are most likely to run into men at places like that. Ladies who are desperate and in dire need of boyfriends do not miss out on any of those much talked about parties and awards. They do whatever would make men notice them. When men notice this, they would end up flowing with the tide and playing on them.

                               5. When they propose to crash at a man’s place
  

   

Now some single ladies are shameless; they have little or no integrity left when it comes to certain issues. Some of these desperate ladies in the society would blatantly tell men they want to sleep over at their places. Why would you be willing to sleep over in a man’s house when he is not your boyfriend or your family member? The society should stop putting the blame on men when it comes to sexual misconduct; some women actually put themselves in compromising positions. Anything could happen overnight!

  6. Using nude pictures as DPs

 

Single ladies who are desperately looking for boyfriends believe in flaunting what they have; they are the ladies that would post nude pictures of themselves on Instagram and Twitter.

 As expected, they have lots of followers on their social pages because men love cheap things. When you put up unclad pictures of yourself,  you do not expect responsible men to walk up to you and propose.

 The likes of the men you would attract are those who practice ‘hit and run’. When these ladies finally hook up with some unlucky men when they want to settle down, they go on and delete those social media pages.

 Note that the internet is the last place you need to put your shit; it does not go even when you have cleaned up.

 7. Tattoo and piercings

 

Nigeria cannot be compared to western countries; there are some things that the society has not accepted.

 Tattoo is one of these things. A woman who has every part of her body covered in tattoo is not considered responsible. As a matter of fact, some men do not like it when their women have tattoos all over them. Piercing of some body parts do not appeal to most of the men we have here.

 The single ladies in the society who are desperate do these and reduce their chances of winning the hearts of responsible and eligible men.