MUST READ: The atmosphere in the realm of the Supernatural

My brother/Sister reading this, I want to share with you an important secret many of us are yet to know if not all.

Mark my words. These have been seen in the Spirit by an authourity and hence I speak.

Demons have been released enormously recently upon the surface of the earth to destroy pathetically any unsaved soul... Yes! It's true and I am not bluffing.

Demons of lust, fear, maliciousness, envy, sexual immorality, depression, dark spirits from hell, conjurers, deceit, anger etc have been released by the devil because he has little time to finish his wicked mission. The Lord of Hosts is coming very very very soon.  I am emphasising it because your soul is too priceless to burn in the fire fueled by God's wrath.

I will prove my point why you must repent now and to you who have repented, why you must be steadfast in the Lord

Many nations have legalised same sex marraiges with elaborate ceremonies to herald such sacrilegious acts

Ladies now sell their Virginities for money. A sin against your own body and a sin against God

Christians have grown cold in worship and many have deviated from the call and have toed the path of destruction

The Illuminati concept of things

The blindness and deafness of Christians to the voice and signs of the Endtime

Wars, strife, deceit,  envy, famine, theft, sexual immorality,  lovers of money and haters of God, crisis

Wrong doctrines (2Tim 4:3-4)

But I say to you believers, whi are strengthened through the renewing of your mind; The new mind in Christ Jesus, Be steadfast,  oray for your brothers. Oray for the advancement of the Gospel.  Consecrate yourselves (1 Cor 3:16)
Meditate on the Gospel (Jos 1:8) Be of good cheer for the crown of righteousness awaits the ones who abide in his righteousness

Jehovah Tsidkenu- The Lord my Righteousness

HOW TO UPGRADE YOUR BLACKBERRY TO AN ANDROID SMARTPHONE

So everyone seems to be going android now
especially now that Tecno has come up with a
new range of cheap Android phones.

Now we have come up with one of the latest
technology to upgrade your Blackberry phone
to an Android.

The procedure is easy but you have to follow it
carefully else you could destroy your phone
forever. If you aren’t sure of yourself, give your
phone to someone who is tech savvy to follow
these steps for you.
The procedure

Get your blackberry smartphone ready phone
ready.

Make sure it is fully charged

Got to your kitchen

Get a fry pan and pour any kind of oil into it.
Set it to heat on the cooker/stove and wait till
it begins to give off a bit of smoke to show it is
very hot.

Throw your phone into the pan and let it heat
till it is a crisp golden brown then remove it.
Take a bath, dress up and go to a Samsung
store

Buy a Samsung Galaxy S4
Congratulations, you have successfully
upgraded from Blackberry to Android! You can
now enjoy android like everybody else.

Again, make sure you follow the procedure
carefully for maximum results.
Have fun upgrading!

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(Disclaimer: The writer of this article will take
no responsibility for any phones damaged while
following this procedure. Using this tutorial is
fully at the risk of the reader.)

Can you afford that foreign degree BY ’ USIERE UKO (2)

The author of ‘Practical Steps to Financial Freedom and
Independence,’ Usiere Uko , continues on the subject of
acquiring a university education without going bankrupt
I ran into an old friend some months back at the old wing
of the domestic airport in Lagos currently undergoing
renovation. He works for an international oil company and
is based outside Lagos. He was trying to catch a flight
back to his base. We exchanged pleasantries as his
protocol officers helped with his checking in. I asked what
brought him to Lagos. He came to visit his son at the
University of Lagos. I asked him why he did not join the
bandwagon of sending children abroad. He sure could put
down the money as the rest of his colleagues.

He explained that he was not ready for a project of that
magnitude in addition to some personal projects he was
handling. Secondly, since he needs to keep an eye on his
son, the best option would be to relocate his family
abroad, a concept he did not subscribe to – running two
homes. With the current uncertainty in the oil and gas
sector, he wanted to be sure he had a solid financial
foundation in the event his employers sprung a surprise
on him. If his son wants to go abroad for a master’s
degree, he can get a job and pay for it himself, he
concluded. As he headed towards the boarding gate, he
reminded me that I advised him to put his house in order
a couple of years back. He was doing just that.

An industrial age mindset

The concept of “go to a good school, get good grades
and get a good job” is an idea from the industrial age, a
relic from an age gone by decades ago, replaced by the
information age, which belongs to entrepreneurs (including
entrepreneurial employees). The underlying belief beneath
the idea of getting a good job is that the child will settle
down and take care of the parents – in this case, parents
who, though rich, became poor so that their children can
become rich through acquiring a foreign degree. In the
mind of such parents, this is a fool proof investment with
guaranteed returns. Abel in part 1 of this article
discovered otherwise the hard way. There is nothing
wrong with expecting your children to take care of you in
old age, but if your children are the only financial security
you have, you may find yourself broke for a long while.

When the focus is on getting a job and living happily ever
after, the child is not taught at an early age to be street
smart and financially independent. Rather than think
through creative ways to make money and learn how to
invest when the money gets into their hands, they
become dependants, who sometimes maintain a higher
standard of living than their sponsors, learning at an early
age to be hyper consumers rather than producers.

In part 1 of this article, I mentioned that African and Asian
parents pay for their children’s university education while
in the west, parents tend to hands off after secondary
school. While I am not recommending we adopt the
western model wholesale, there is wisdom in making our
children learn the dignity of labour and value of money
while in the university or even earlier. Interestingly,
businessmen who made their money from scratch
understand this more than folks who came upon money
or are highly paid. They make their children work and
earn their way up. They fly first class while their children
fly economy class until they understand how money
works.

I still remember when I needed to paint my boys quarters
some years back. I gave the job to two lively young men
who I later realised were students of the University of
Lagos. I have run across many artisans who are
university students trying to work and save for school.

A young lady knocked on my gate last year asking for a
cleaning job. Upon questioning, I found out she too was a
student of the University of Lagos. Some students own a
thriving business on campus while in school.

With this type of mindset, these youngsters will not be
idle when they eventually graduate. Rather than put on
the toga of applicants, fold their hands and do nothing or
become a nuisance to society, they will fold their sleeves
and get to work, putting their God-given ingenuity in
action.

When a parent bankrupts himself to send his child to a
foreign university, hoping that when the child graduates,
he will take care of him or her, if the child fails to get a
job after coming home with a foreign degree, what next?

A foreign degree does not guarantee a job

The number of young Nigerians with foreign degrees is
growing by the day while the number of available jobs is
shrinking. The US unemployment hit double digits in 2010
and currently stands at 7.2 per cent, but the bad news is,
most of the jobs are low level jobs, not the dream job a
graduate is hoping for. Detroit is bankrupt. The American
dream has migrated to China. Back home in Nigeria, oil
theft has shrunk revenues by about 40 per cent and the
government’s ability to fund joint ventures has been
adversely affected. States are crying and some companies
are tightening their belt. If ever a foreign degree was a
guarantee for a job, this is no longer the case.

If a foreign degree is no longer a guarantee for a plum
job, is it wise to wipe out your financial security to also
send your child abroad? Foreign trained and locally
trained applicants have one thing in common – they are
all applicants. The option of a local university is always
there, if that is all you can afford without wiping off your
reserves. There is no shame in cutting your coat
according to your cloth, irrespective of what you or others
think your size is.

There is nothing wrong in sending your child or yourself
abroad if you can afford it. This means your financial
independence plan is firmly in place and you have an
asset paying for this luxury. Have at the back of your
mind that jobs are no longer guaranteed and job security
went with the industrial age. Academic IQ is no longer
enough in today’s marketplace. The child needs to
develop emotional intelligence and financial intelligence.
That child may not be in position to take care of you
sometime soon. He may move back home to parents after
graduation, foreign degree, foreign accent and all.

As times change, we need to change with the changing
times rather than remain frozen in an old paradigm. Do
not put your financial future in the hands the company,
pensions or your children. Take control of your financial
future by attaining financial independence and live life on
your own terms.


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Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work -Weekend Take away

There are an endless amount of characters in the
workplace.

There’s the lady you find in the break room, always on a
diet and commenting on your weight (God help you if
you are proportionate, she will eat you alive). The guy
who shows off way too many baby pictures of his not-
that-cute-kid. The girl who stays in her office with the
door shut, even during fire drills. And the dreaded over-
talker who never gets the hint (which might explain why
that one girl stays in her office).

We all play roles in our workplaces, many of which are
unique to only our office. But there’s a standard cast of
characters as well. You can find varieties of them
anywhere you go, but they all share the same skill sets.
They are the ones who will succeed and the ones who
will fail.

In lieu of filling you with fluffy “this is what a successful
person looks like” talk, I thought I’d take the opposite
route. The following is a list of people who stand out for
all the wrong reasons. Fair warning: If you don’t know
who this person is at your office, it might be you.

1. The Gullible One.

If I’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that you
should never believe everything a company says. Don’t
believe them when they say they don’t expect layoffs
(the mere mention of that word suggests they’re on the
way). Don’t believe that they’ve offered you the highest
salary they can. Don’t believe them when they say they
can’t negotiate your raise. And definitely don’t believe
them when they say “this year has been really bad, but
next year you’re going to get hooked up on that
promotion you want!”
When a boss, HR rep or recruiter (or anyone playing a
role in your career and financial success) states
something that makes you tilt your head to the side and
think “huh…that seems sketch,” don’t just accept it.
As I’ve said before, the car dealer will act like he can’t
budge on a number. But if you stand up and start
walking to the door he’ll automatically find a discount
for you. Companies are in it for the bottom line even
when they’re negotiating things with their employees.
They want to encourage you to stick around while also
finding a way to save money. And it saves them money
to give you a smaller raise, to skip a round of
promotions, to make you work through Christmas. Don’t
fall for it.

2. The Groupthinker.

Groupthink is a psychological problem that runs rampant
in workplaces. Even more if you’ve got a large
population of “longtermers” in a corporation. Groupthink
is why technology isn’t updated, why policies are
outdated, why there’s no new blood (or ideas) on a
team, why you hear the sentence “you can’t do that,
that’s not how we’ve always done it!”
It’s easy to spot these people, especially if you’re new
to a company. They sit in clumps together and they
make bizarre statements in meetings, they do the same
things every day and they complain when their life is
disrupted by something (or someone) new.
If you fight against a mass of groupthinkers, you run a
high risk of failure, persecution, derailment and tons of
frustration. But if you engage and join them, you will
become silly and possibly unmarketable for your next
career jump. Take your pick.

3. The Fearful One.

People do ridiculous things when they’re scared. Just
ask anyone who’s died in a horror movie (I mean, who
drops the phone and runs up the stairs?!).
Fearful people will cause you serious amounts of trouble
at work. If they’re scared of getting fired, they will find a
way to point a finger at you. If their project is failing,
they will suggest your role was to blame. Drowning
people will grab whatever they can to keep their head
above water. Don’t stand too close and become that
object.
And don’t become the drowning person. If you ever feel
worried about something at work, you sense something
bad coming your way or you screw up big time, avoid
the fear by taking some action. Talk to someone, your
boss, your mentor or a peer to get information that will
quell your fears. Or fess up and find out immediately
what repercussions are headed your way for the screw-
up so you’re not worried about the unknowns. Do
whatever you need to do in order to avoid becoming the
fearful one.

4. Apathetic Guy.

The other day, a friend of mine posted a message on
Facebook FB +3.3% stating her frustration that people
keep calling her upcoming maternity leave a “vacation.”
She mentioned a litany of things that have to be done
while you’re on maternity leave (none of it sounded
remotely vacation’ish). She referenced this because she
felt judged and persecuted for her decision to take the
time off.
Consider now the single person. If you haven’t been in
this demo for awhile, you might not be aware of this,
but single people are also victims of workplace apathy.
I’ve actually heard the sentence, “You can stay late
tonight to finish this, right? I gotta get out of here and
it’s not like you’re going home to a family.”
Everyone is dealing with something. Everyone feels
judged and misunderstood every once in awhile. And
everyone feels the sting from these moments. Show
some compassion even when you’re having trouble
putting yourself in their shoes.
Don’t be the apathetic coworker. The grass isn’t always
greener, even though it may appear so.

5. The Sore Loser.

Anytime you’re successful or experience something
great in life or your career, I guarantee you that someone
somewhere will doubt that you earned it the good ‘ol
hard-working way. That someone somewhere is the sore
loser.
A sore loser will think you got that deal because you’ve
got an important last name. Or that you were hired
because your Mom sits in the corner office. Or that you
simply got lucky (literally and figuratively).
You can’t stop a sore loser from thinking what they
want and you can’t convince them out of their opinion.
The only way to battle a sore loser is to make sure
they’re not right (it might surprise some of you ladies
that yes, business can indeed be conducted outside the
bedroom!).
Update: It’s been called to my attention by several
female readers that the comment above was offensive
and diminishes the hard-earned success of females in
the workplace. I realize now it was a poor example and
misrepresented the very reason I have this column. It
wasn’t my goal to suggest that women are perpetuating
a Mad Men-era stereotype and that men are absolved of
their roles in these scenarios. While it exists, this in fact
is NOT a common problem in the workplace. I mentioned
it as merely a side note to emphasize the importance in
making sure “Sore Losers” are not making accurate
accusations by carrying yourself properly in the
workplace.
Use your connections and your network to get ahead,
but do your own dang work. Show results. Then the
sore losers will disappear one by one.

6. Malicious Gossiper.

There’s harmless gossip and then there’s malicious
gossip. Harmless gossip is…harmless. But you must
avoid the malicious gossiper completely. In fact, put
large amounts of space between you and this person.
Assume that since they’re willing to share really bad
information with you, they’re sharing it with other
people. They’re kind of like the flu.
If you run across a malicious gossiper and they start
talking, whatever you do, don’t agree with them.
Because the next thing you know, your sentence of “Oh,
I agree with you – I bet she totally slept with that guy to
get that job” will be shortened to “So and so just told
me that so and so slept with so and so!” And voila,
you’re screwed.

7. The Apologizer.

I recently attended an event where several startups were
invited to pitch. One woman stood up to sell her idea to
a room undoubtedly full of millions, a big opportunity for
a small company. She looked sharp and ready. But then
she opened with, “Don’t worry, this isn’t a crappy
website that does blah…”
Well shoot. For the remainder of her presentation, I
assumed her website was crappy.
The Apologizer will discredit themselves as soon as they
open their mouth. They will start a presentation with
qualifying statements like the one above or they will ask
for a raise by saying, “I know we don’t have a lot of
money, but…” They lose these deals because they show
a massive lack of confidence in the statement,
regardless of topic.
You don’t necessarily have to avoid this person. Just
don’t be this person. The company pays you a salary
because they think you’re worth it. You have every right
to be in the room and to be having that conversation
right then. Why act like you don’t belong there?
Repeat the following statement as many times as you
need to before you have an important conversation or
make a presentation: Be confident, not cocky.

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I HID MY FAMILY UNDER THE BED DURING 1966 COUP-80 YEAR OLD OKUBOYEJO

Former Wema Bank Executive Director and Obasewa of Ijebuland, Oluneye Okuboyejo, who recently retired from the board of University Press Plc, tells OLUFEMI ATOYEBI how he survived with his family during the first coup in Nigeria

How did you spend your youth?

I was born on May 21, 1933 in Ijebu-Ode but I spent my youthful days in Sapele and Warri. Because of the typical Ijebu background my parents had, they went as far as the then Mid-Western Region to trade. I was with them and attended St. Luke's Primary School, Sapele. Reverend Odunuga from Ijebu-Ode was the headmaster then.

I also attended the prestigious Hussey College in Warri. After passing my Cambridge School Certificate Examination in 1953, I left Sapele and moved to Ibadan. Before we left secondary school, five of us were picked from Hussey College and sent to the Ministry of Education in Ibadan as officers. I was there until 1958. The present Olubadan of Ibadan, Samuel Odulana was my boss in the office. He was known as S. Lana and I did not know his full name until he became a king. He cherished punctuality and accountability. My aim was to use the opportunity to gain admission to the University College, Ibadan, now University of Ibadan. The competition to gain admission was so tough because there were just two major tertiary institutions in Nigeria at the time. I did not gain admission at my first attempt.

What did you do after failure to gain admission?

While studying for the examinations, I played for Hercules Football Club in Ibadan. I met Dr. Lekan Are there and we became friends. He is from Oke-Are and I was living in Amunigun. The team was the best in the city in the early 50s. Are was brilliant and gained admission to the UI while I was still waiting. I then called my parents and explained to them that I could no longer wait and that I wanted to travel abroad to study. In 1958, I left for the United Kingdom to study. My parents wanted me to study medicine but after examining the lifestyle of my brother and his friend, I decided to study law when I got to the UK. Being medical doctors, my brother and his friend had no time for themselves. They were the first set of doctors at the University College Hospital in Ibadan and they slept there often because of the pressure of the job. I wanted my freedom and moreover, my friends called me 'The Law' in school because of the way I dressed and argued. I also loved being a lawyer because of the respect lawyers earn in the society.

But I had a problem convincing my parents to allow me read law so I called an uncle and told him to beg them on my behalf. I think my father reluctantly agreed but he continued to pay for my tuition and send money for other needs.

What about your mother?

Because my friends called me 'The Law', our neighbours and her friends called her 'Mama Lawyer'. So I knew she would support my decision and I was right. But she did not argue with my father when he said I should study medicine.

At 25, how easy was it for you to adjust to a new culture and environment in the UK?

I was determined to succeed, so it was not so difficult for me. The condition in the UK for law candidates was that they must have passed Latin language at Advanced level. I was a science pupil in Nigeria and although I did a bit of Latin, I was required to spend one year studying Latin and other subjects which I did. I was then admitted to the Holborn College of Law, London in 1960. The college, which is now a university, was an external institution that was feeding University of London and training students for the Bar Final.

Were there other Nigerians in the school?

We were many and I can easily remember that the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Mohammed Uwais, was in the same set with me in the college. In 1963, I obtained my certificate and at the same time I earned my university degree. At that time, if you were called to the bar in the UK, you could practice in Nigeria. But a few months before we completed our study in the UK, there was a change of law which required us to attend a law school in Nigeria. We protested at the Nigerian High Commission but we did not have our way. But the protest reduced the duration of study at the law school to three months and on arrival in Nigeria, I was in the second set of students of the Nigerian Law School that was at the time located at Igbosere area of Lagos.

Did you practice in the UK?

Before I left London in 1963, the Western Region Government in Nigeria sent representatives to London to interview and offer employment to some of the best Nigerians studying there. I was offered an appointment but my wife and child were with me and I was not in a hurry to return. The government then promised that the appointment would be deferred until I returned home and that the ticket fees for my family would be paid. I eventually returned immediately after my study. I was offered the position of the state counsel. But before I resumed, I met Afe Babalola, whose wife is my wife's youngest sister. Afe was in the UK when I was also there. He advised me to join him in his chamber in Ibadan but the government paid for my ticket to Nigeria and it would be dishonourable for me to walk away. I joined the House of Chiefs as a senior officer. But in 1966, there was a coup and the legislature was disbanded. On my request, I was transferred to the administrative arm of the government where I could rise to the position of a permanent secretary.

How much was your first salary?

As a graduate coming from abroad, I earned N620. I was given an accommodation in Agodi and later Eleyele and Iyaganku. I was also told that only two people in the civil service earned what I was being paid. But the region was desperate for my service.

How much of your first salary did you give your parents?

I gave everything to my parents. That is the tradition in Yoruba land. The father will distribute the money among members of the family and give the rest to the child. Then they will all pray for the child. That was what happened to my first salary.

Did your children do the same?

I trained my children the way I was trained. I have six children who live abroad. Each of them brought their first salary to us although with the kind of economy we have now, we could not touch their money. We just prayed for them and support them whenever they need any assistance. God has been very good to me in everything. I am not rich but I can afford whatever I want to eat at my age.

Where were you on the day of the 1966 coup?

I was at home in Eleyele, close to the military barracks. My wife was a teacher at the military school. In the night, we saw people running around and there was confusion in the barracks as gunshots were reeling out constantly. My wife called me and expressed her worry. For a couple that just returned from Europe, coup was strange to us. When we realised that a coup had taken place, we dashed under our bed with our two children. What made the neighbourhood volatile on the day was the fact that the Premier of Western Nigeria, Samuel Akintola, lived across my house. There was battle for control in his house and he was killed in the coup. After the state creation of 1976, I was posted to Ogun State with my friend, Abayomi Oduntan, as permanent secretary.

What were other challenges you faced in the new environment?

There were few but the major one was individual ambition. When I left in 1984, I was not due for retirement but I was at the peak of my career. My salary and allowances could not be increased again, meaning that I could seek a new challenge elsewhere to better my earnings. I approached the governor, the late Olabisi Onabanjo, with my proposal to retire voluntarily. He was instrumental to my appointment as Executive Director of Administration, Wema Bank. The bank was just being taken over by Western Nigerian Marketing Board and it was in shambles. I took over a dilapidated structure but with the effort of the good people on the board, we were able to put it on a sound footing. My friend, Lekan Are, came in as a shareholder when we diversified governments' holdings and privatised the bank. He was always critical when we held meetings but we listened to him and his contributions helped the bank. I left in 1993 with the aim of returning to full legal practice. So, I set up a chamber in Ijebu-Ode. But it did not take off fully fledged as I planned because I was called to help resuscitate Merchant Bank in Lagos. They had liquidity problem but I used my goodwill in Central Bank of Nigeria as a former director of Wema to help Merchant Bank.

How did you become University Press Plc director because it's a different industry from what you were known for?

Are is the Chairman of UP Plc board and when he called me to fill a position on the board, I accepted it. I took over from Ola Vincent, the former CBN Governor and I retired fully in March this year. I am happy that the company is very healthy now under Are. His ingenuity helped the company's survival. With a share capital of N150m, the turnover has reached N2bn without borrowing money from the bank.

How did you meet your wife?

My wife, Olubanke, is the daughter of the past Awujale of Ijebu land, Oba Gbelebuwa Adesanya. We met through school activities. She attended Anglican Girls Grammar School, although I did not attend school at home, I was a member of the Association of Ijebu Students. That was where we met and we became good friends.

What encouraged you to approach a princess and how did you gain entrance into the palace when you visited her?

It was not easy to reach her or get to the palace but God had destined us to be one. The king normally had his rest close to the back door of the palace in those days so nobody was allowed to use the door. But my wife's mother liked me so she allowed me in through the door each time the king was not there. When he got to know about it, he realised that our relationship had gone far so he just approved of it. I later moved to the UK and she joined me there. She actually came to study and she stayed with her brother, Tayo Adesanya, who attended King's College in London. That gave us the opportunity to nurture our relationship and get married. But her father died soon after she came to London in 1960.

Did you face any challenge or competition marrying her?

There was no competition involved but there were other challenges. In Yoruba land and other African cultures, marrying a princess is never an easy task. My friends called me and were almost telling me that I could be swimming in difficult waters because my royal in-laws would dominate me after marrying their daughter. But my wife did not make a show of any of the royal paraphernalia she was bestowed with. She was submissive, gentle and kind-hearted. You hardly could hurt her. Before I sat for my final paper in London, we got married in 1961. Before leaving Nigeria, she was a teacher.

Did your parents immediately accept your wife when they knew you were dating a princess?

The truth was that they thought I would have difficulties later on. But the moment they saw how she was relating with them, they accepted her and loved her. They gave her gifts regularly and she bought things for them.

What has touched you most in life?

That was the day I got the result of my final law degree examinations in London, June 1963. There were many Nigerians who had to come back for one paper or the other. The result was published in a newspaper but because of fear, I did not buy the paper. My classmate who bought it called me and congratulated me. I was in the toilet when I heard the good news.

What are you doing now?

I have always been deeply involved in community service. I am the chairman of Ijebu-Ode Development Board of Poverty Reduction. It was founded in 1999 in collaboration with the Awujale of Ijebu land, Oba Sikiru Adetona and Akin Mabogunje. It was meant to ease the difficulty of the less privileged people in the society.

What is your favourite food?

I like amala and ewedu because I lived in Ibadan for so long. I also thank God for my good health even though I have always been busy.