Top Ten Habits of highly effective people

There is one secret that almost every rich person knows. This secret is very important because it’s the reason they are rich in the first place. This big secret can be summed up in the words of the mighty Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Arsenal keep City in check

Manchester City squandered an opportunity to replace Chelsea at the Premier League summit after being held to a 1-1 draw by an improved Arsenal side on Saturday.

Chelsea’s 1-0 loss at Crystal Palace meant that victory at the Emirates Stadium would have sent City top on goal difference, but they remain third after David Silva’s opener was cancelled out by Mathieu Flamini.

The day’s events mean that only five points now separate leaders Chelsea and fourth-place Arsenal, who produced a much more determined display after last weekend’s 6-0 demolition by Jose Mourinho’s side.

20-Year-Old Sodomy Convict Lashed 20 Strokes For Gay Act Done 7 Years Ago

A young man convicted of sodomy by an Islamic Shariah court in northern Nigeria has been whipped 20 times.

UTME: Chrisgate gives guidelines for success

PRESIDENT, Chrisgate International, Mr Christopher Alabi, has warned the 2014 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates not to rely much on their brilliance while tackling the questions, saying that smartness and timeliness in answering questions within the limited time count.

Parable of the fool and his money…

The other day, a friend narrated a story, which I found stranger than fiction; the story related to the travails of a family who lost a successful and illustrious breadwinner, who, incidentally, died without a Will. The family’s elders were consequently entrusted with the responsibility of efficiently managing the estate of the deceased.

The 10 Real Tips to Becoming a Billionaire like Dangote

The 10 Real Tips to Becoming a Billionaire like Dangote

I was recently called to approve of a very handsome advertising offer from the D. Group in a magazine I edit. It was really good money. I told the online magazine to politely reject the offer. It will be better we stay broke and poor than partake in his filthy wealth and lose our principles and dignity, I told them. On one condition can we accept to run his ads—if he promises to reduce the extortive price of cement for all Nigerians by just 20%, we will run his ads for free for him for one whole year.

Malaria and pregnancy, a dangerous twist

“What if I get malaria while I am pregnant?” She asked. Don’t direct your thoughts in that direction, I answered. Actually, pregnancy makes you susceptible to malaria. Studies have suggested that if you get malaria while you are pregnant, your immunity level decreases.

I recall that six weeks into Julie’s pregnancy she had malaria. She never accessed treatment until it was discovered that the foetus was no longer breathing. Julie was induced and in the process it was discovered she had malaria. Unfortunately, it affected the foetus.

Malaria in pregnant women can lead to complications. These include jaundice, anaemia, haemorrhage, enlargement of the spleen, and kidney failure. If a pregnant woman has malaria, there is a greater risk of stillbirth, miscarriage, low birth weight babies and neonatal death. There is also a small risk of the baby being born with malaria.

Passing malaria to the unborn

It is possible but rare. Most babies remain unharmed but in very rare cases the baby can get the disease through the

It’s the menopause, not the end

Even as a woman,Oluwatope has always  had very little knowledge about the biological make up of a woman. She knew absolutely nothing about the menarche and puberty and even less about menstrual periods until as a 12–year-old, she woke up one morning and saw blood stains on her night dress and bed sheets. “I didn’t know what happened but I was really scared when I saw the blood.

I thought I was going to die and began to cry. I was the youngest child in a family of five with three children — all girls. I have two older sisters but neither of them, nor my mother or father prepared me for the experience. My first menstrual period was an unpleasant surprise.”

Experience

If Oluwatope’s entry into womanhood was unexpected and unprepared, expecting her to understand what the menopausal experience would be like is probably asking too much. “I was as ignorant about menopause

2face’s live BBC Radio 1Xtra performance!

Africa’s finest 2face Idibia blesses the mic on the BBC Radio 1Xtra show “Destination Africa” which is currently recording exclusive footage straight from Lagos. Watch it below. 

Baby Factory Business

By Ishola Balogun
For quite some time now, a new wave of making money through selling of new born babies and child trafficking is currently sweeping across parts of the country. The racket of keeping young girls and boys to produce children and then sell to desperate buyers is fast gaining prominence not only in the South-East but also in South West.

Operators of the homes and their syndicates usually scout for females with unwanted pregnancies and lure teenagers  to their herbal clinic for delivery. Some keep young girls (teenagers) and allow their male syndicates to impregnate them and hold them in hostage throughtout the gestation period.  Thereafter, the owner of the home settles them with cash and administers the babies to desperate childless women who patronise her herbal clinic to seek for fruits of the womb at higher costs.

TRAGIC. Fire outbreak in Garki Market, Abuja

No fewer than 40 stalls got razed by an early morning fire at the Garki Model Market in Abuja on Saturday before it was put out.

According to Mr brahim Yahaya-Joe, the Manager, Abuja Market Management Limited (AMML), he received a distress call at about 6.02 a.m. informing him that there was a fire outbreak in the market which had started from a cold-room store before spreading to other parts adding that here were also other cold rooms and cylinders around the area which aggravated the fire

Why I am still single — Moyo Lawal

Some have said there are several personalities to the person called Moyo Lawal, a curvaceous actress who is well known as the character ‘Chinny’ in the Mnet soap opera ‘Tinsel’. She’s an effervescent type, who could  blow either old or cold, depending on the tide her temperament is riding.

As a liberated woman, nobody really sees Moyo as the wife material type but the ‘Cloud of Pain’ and ‘Big Gals on Campus’, girl reveals recently, that there is every woman beneath that her façade of big tough girl when she said she would really have loved to have been married except that she hasn’t seen anything like the right man on the horizon

2 lawyers found dead inside vehicle in Delta

Abuja - The police command in Delta has commenced investigations into the death of two lawyers inside a vehicle at Ozoro, near Warri.

The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP. Celestina Kalu, told reporters in Warri on Friday that it was too early to determine the cause of the death.

"Investigation is still on because they were found dead inside a vehicle."

Solid DEAL with solidstar

We at Achievas Music are too proud to announce that Solidstar has just signed an ambassador deal with the Nigerian Football Association in-conjunction with the Nigerian Football Supporters Club.

The deal will have Solidstar record the official Super Eagles theme song which will be used to unite and inspire the players on and off the pitch and also our country.

Dr. Rafiu Oladipo who represented the NFA and who also is the president of the supporters club in a statement said - We needed someone one who was passionate about Nigeria football and who has that gyration in his voice and who the new and old generation can relate to and it was just Solidstar that came to mind"

THE PRESIDENCY WILL NOT PROBE Minister of Petroleum

The Presidency has said that it will not probe the allegations of misappropriation of public funds levelled against the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, told Saturday PUNCH on Friday, that the Federal Government would not set up a probe panel to investigate the minister because the House of Representatives was currently probing her.

I Can’t Waste My Time On El-Rufai, He’s Too Small –Oritsejafor

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor in this interview with Ozioma Ubabukoh, bares his mind on controversies surrounding churches, the Boko Haram insurgency and sundry issues

Apart from being a general overseer in your church, you head Nigeria’s highest religious organisation, the Christian Association of Nigeria. How do you feel when people criticise you sometimes on all fronts?

Criticism is part of life. Anybody who does not expect criticism should think again because criticism can actually enhance a man’s capacity to do better. Criticism for me is not a problem. The only thing that is a problem, in my own opinion, is when you are not doing what is called constructive criticism.

Wenger Replies Scholes’ Criticism Of Gunners

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has responded to ex-Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes’ comments that the Gunners are “million miles” away from winning the Premier League title.

The Gunners trail leaders Chelsea by six points in fourth place and faces a trip to third-placed Manchester City on Saturday. Speaking during his pre-game news conference on Saturday, the French boss said: “People who have managed zero games have opinions. We have accepted that. “If six points is a ‘million miles away’, I don’t know what the translation of a mile into a point is.”