Food For Thought!! Life Is The Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and in life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

"What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided. So, don't let the cups drive you ...enjoy the coffee instead."

Have A great week ahead!!!

Who's Hotter: Wizkid Girlfriend vs. Davido's [Photos}

They are both young and superb, we all love them . .and they are definitely doing well in the Nigerian Music Industry. They have both being compared in almost everything, from fan clout to financial success to musical talents, and both have proven their worth in these areas over and over again.

Apparently, whil going through comments from different websites and blogs to see who is winning/or has won, I noticed that both artistes’ girlfriends haven’t been compared!

I guess the reason is because, unlike Wizkid (who has a girlfriend and flaunts his relationship) lots of fans don’t know Davido also has a girlfriend too! And yes, she is a looker! Her name is Nish Kards.

Reader's Mail: I am in love with an A-List Celeb, Please help!

Got this from a WCB Reader!

I'm passionately in love with an A list celebrity,I love him 2 d extent that I would do anything for him,I've been in love with him for more than a year now,right now I'm almost going crazy, I really don't know how to tell him because I feel he'll just ignore me or see me as an obsessed girl, I dream of him a lot lyk I know him.

I'm currently following him on twitter, what should I do, I can't concentrate anymore I want 2 be wit him in sickness and in health,he's name is Adeleke Adedeji david

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Fuse ODG Beats Wizkid, Tiwa Savage, Mafikizolo, Ice Prince… Wins MOBO Best African Act Award

 Ghanaian artist Fuse ODG beat Wizkid, Ice Prince & Tiwa Savage from Nigeria, Spoek Mathambo, Mafikizolo and Liquid Deep from South Africa, and Bombino from Niger to win Best African Act at the 2013 MOBO awards which held yesterday at Glasgow’s new Hydro Arena in Scotland. Congrats to all the nominees and winners. Continue to see the full list of winners…
Full list of winners
Best African Act – Fuse ODG
Best Album – ‘Home’, Rudimental
Best Female in association with Tresor Paris – Laura Mvula
Best Gospel – Lurine Cato
Best International Act – Kendrick Lamar
Best Jazz – Sons of Kemet
Best Male – Wiley
Best Newcomer in association with HTC – Krept & Konan
Best Reggae Act – Sean Paul
Best RnB/Soul Act – Laura Mvula
Best Song in association with PRSforMusic – ‘La La La’, Naughty Boy
Best UK Hip Hop/Grime – Tinie Tempah
Best Video in association with SBTV – ‘La La La’, Naughty Boy
Be MOBO – Stephen Lawrence Trust

EXCLUSIVE: Don’t Call Me Commander-In-Chief Of The Armed Forces, Jonathan Tells Nigerians

In what is a clear departure from the norm, the presidency has ordered all government functionaries to desist from addressing President Goodluck Jonathan as the “Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria” at non-military functions.

The directive is contained in a strongly worded October 14 circular, No SGF/OP/1/S.3/X/664, by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim.

The memo, obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, Thursday, was addressed to the Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, ministers, heads of ministries, departments, agencies and parastatals, the leadership of the National Assembly, and government-owned companies.

“It is further directed that except in purely armed forces programmes, Mr. President should not be addressed as the “Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the statement warned.

“The approved designation of the President for the purposes of all official correspondence, public announcements or Communication should be “The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“I am to stress that for all official purposes, Mr. President should be addressed as follows: ‘His Excellency, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Mr. Anyim added, urging strict compliance to the presidential directive by all Nigerians.

This new directive contradicts the norm among public office holders in Nigeria who like their titles, official and otherwise, emphasized at public events. It however, does not remove the fact that the president, by virtue of the constitution, is the commander of the Nigerian armed forces.

Section 130 (1) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) states: “There shall be for the Federation a President. The President shall be the Head of State, the Chief Executive of the Federation and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation.”

Also, Section 218(1) of the constitution spells out the powers of the President as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation to include the power to determine the operational use of the armed forces of the Federation.

The memo did not state the reason for Mr. Jonathan’s decision. But former Nigerian leaders, both military and civilian, have always been called by that title both in military and non-military programmes.

Only official portrait

The directive also warned against the use of Mr. Jonathan’s unofficial pictures at programmes of events, invitation cards, or publications by Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, as well as other government organizations.

The circular directed that, henceforth, only the official portrait of the President should be printed in official documents or displayed in offices across the country.

READ CIRCULAR BELOW

Ref. No. SGF/OP/1/S.3/X/664

Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation

The Presidency,

Shehu Shagari Complex,

Three Arms Zone,

Abuja.

14th October, 2013

Chief of Staff to the President,

Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Office of the Vice-President,

Honourable Ministers/Ministers of State,

Head of the Civil Service of the Federation,

Special Advisers/Senior Special Assistants,

Service Chiefs/Inspector-General of Police,

Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission,

Chairman, Code of Conduct Tribunal,

Chairman, Federal Character Commission,

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission,

Chairman, National Population Commission,

Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission,

Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria,

Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,

Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,

Chairman, National Assembly Service Commission,

Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Extra-Ministerial Departments,

Clerk of the National Assembly,

Chief Registrar, Supreme Court of Nigeria,

Secretary, National Judicial Council,

Auditor-General for the Federation,

Accountant-General of the Federation,

Directors-General/Chief Executives of Parastatals, Agencies and Government-Owned Companies.

USE OF OFFICIAL PORTRAIT AND APPROPRIATE DESIGNATION OF THE PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

It has come to the attention of Mr. President that several Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as other Organisations often use his unofficial pictures in programmes of events, invitation cards or publications. Mr. President has, therefore, directed that, henceforth only his official portrait should be printed in official documents or displayed in offices.

2. It is further directed that except in purely armed forces programmes, Mr. President should not be addressed as the “Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” The approved designation of the President for the purposes of all official correspondence, public announcements or

Communication should be “The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” I am to stress that for all official purposes, Mr. President should be addressed as follows:

“His Excellency, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR,

President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”

3. You are accordingly required to bring the foregoing directives of the President to the attention of all concerned for strict compliance, please.

Anyim Pius Anyim, GCON

Secretary to the Government of the Federation

 

Source: Premium Times

ASUU To Meet Over Strike, Says Not Under Pressure To Call Off Strike

The National Strike Coordinating Committee, NSCC, comprising of principal officers and Zonal Coordinators of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU will be meeting Saturday to take stock of the ongoing strike embarked by the union that is entering the fourth months.

Meantime, ASUU said that it was not under any pressure to call-off the strike despite what it called sponsored protests and rallies against the union, stressing that before the union decided to embark on the strike, it holistically took objective assessment of the situation.

One of the branch Chairmen of ASUU and member of NSCC who spoke exclusively to Saturday Vanguard on the condition of anonymity said that the meeting will take place in Ondo state and that there would be a situation report including the meeting representatives of ASUU had with the Federal government last week’s Friday.

He said,”We are meeting tomorrow, National Strike Coordinating Committee. Tomorrow is arrival. Our Principal officers and Zonal Coordinators met with government last week Friday, one week today, so we want to discuss the outcome of the meeting, after that we will now meet.”

Commenting on the plethora of protests by different groups over the strike which could be mounting pressure on the union to call off the strike, he said that “There is no pressure on us. We look at things objectively and remember that even me as I am talking we cannot suspend the strike.

“We have to get inputs from the branches that is why our strike is always very tight, because before we declared the strike, we have collected inputs from all branch officers in the universities in Nigeria, we collated it, discussed it extensively for two days before we declared the strike.

“And if there is any offer made by government, we have to look at it, that is the principal officers ten of them in number, the zonal coordinators who take over functions of NEC during the strike, so, they will look at what government has offered, brief us the branch chair persons then it is at this point we will now know whether to convene an emergency NEC to look at it holistically.

“By the time they are briefing us, they will also ask us to brief our committee members and take the issue to the congress, it is not a one man show, all these ones they are talking about politics it is not true, the process right from the least of all the lecturers to the highest that is the professor from each branch, we collate all their responses, it is only when they advice us to suspend that we suspend, it is not just one man show.”

He explained that during strike situation, the National Strike Coordinating Committee comprising of principal officers and zonal coordinators always take over the functions of NEC, adding, “every single week, the zonal coordinators will take the information to the various branches who will now take the information to congress, collating information from congress, the branch chairman will take it back to the zonal coordinator, the zonal coordinator takes it back to NSCC, the reason is that NEC has the larger component, we are many.”

He said that the reason behind allowing the smaller number of officers to meet during strike situation was to cut cost.

“Why NEC cannot meet during the strike is because of cost, we are more in number. In NEC we have over 100 people, but NSCC will be between 10 and 20, so it is manageable, we have a channel of communication.”

All attempts made to call the National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge failed as he neither picked calls put across his GSM line nor replied the text message sent to him.

19-Yr-Old Teenager Jailed For Selling Cassava-Stuffed Nokia Phone

A 19-year- old street trader, Emeka Chukwumuata, was on Friday sentenced to two months imprisonment by the Special Offences Court, Alausa, Ikeja, for selling a cassava-stuffed Nokia phone.

“I am usually lenient to young people but you have to go in for inflicting pain on people,’’ the Magistrate, Mrs O. Kushanu said.

“It is unfortunate that it is the young people who are being brought to the court, the manufacturer should be raided and brought to court,’’ she said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accused was sentenced after he had pleaded guilty to the charge.

Chukwumuata, who resides in Ikeja area of Lagos, faced a charge of street trading.

The prosecutor, Mr Babatunde Sunmonu, said that the accused committed the offence at about 11:00 a.m. on Medical Road, Ikeja.

Sunmonu said that the offence committed contravened Section 10(1)(a) of the Street Trading and Illegal Market Prohibition Law 2003.

ONITSHA MARKET ON FIRE: Traders Attempt Suicide, Jump Into Raging Inferno

Onitsha traders and small scale industrialists lost goods and properties worth millions of naira yesterday in Onitsha following an early morning fire that gutted the polythene dealers market, Nwaizu Estate, Awada.

Three businessmen, who could not withstand the enormity of their losses allegedly attempted suicide by jumping into the raging fire but they were later rescued by fellow traders.

Traders watched helplessly as nothing was recovered from the inferno.

Scores of distraught shop owners in the market said the inferno started in the market at about 2am, after a storm with claps of thunder ripped through the area and a nearby shop caught fire which spread to the entire market.

Giving further insight on the incident, the Chairman of Progressive Polythene Dealers Welfare Association, Mr. Vincent Elechi, said the traders had suffered terrible losses and regretted that the situation would have been salvaged if the state fire service had responded promptly.

“From our findings, it was the electric pole at the entrance of the market that caught fire when thunder struck. But immediately I got the information, I alerted the state fire service and they promised to come, but later said they needed to refill their water tank. By the time they arrived, everywhere was on fire because our products are highly inflammable.  We have more than 3,000 traders and small scale industrialists here but all our years of toiling have been reduced to ashes.  Though we are still counting our losses, presently more than N500 million has gone down the drain,’’ he said.

Corroborating the chairman’s claims, the Vice Chairman of the market, Francis Ubakasi, said some people were rescued from the fire when they attempted suicide.

He stated that the market served the polythene needs of Nigerians and some African countries, while some of them borrowed money from the banks to finance the procurement of their machine tools.

The traders appealed to the state government to come to their aid to cushion the effect of their losses.

 

Source: Daily Sun Newspaper

Robin Thicke watches as his wife 'dirty dances' with another man

Singer Robin Thicke and his wife actress Paula Patton have been together for 20 years..since she was eighteen and he was sixteen. Last night Robin performed at the VIP Room in Paris and after the gig, he watched with amusement as his wife gyrated with a partygoer....Twerking at one point.

Recently it was alleged by a groupie that these two have an open marriage. The groupie, 20 year old Lana Scolaro told Life & Style, that not only did she sleep with Robin, but his wife was just a few feet away. "I don’t think he cared what she thought. I was with him the whole night!” Lana said

Lana said that initially she pushed him away because he's married, but that Robin told her Paula was 'chill' and even encouraged Lana to talk to her. (Read it HERE). See more photos after the cut...