New Price Regime for Fuel

Hooray!! The price of fuel has been reduced from Seventy Naira to Sixty Five.

That was three days ago. Imagine, in anticipation of a price increase, the stations increase the price at the pump. Sometimes there is a scarcity of the product.

Now there is a reduction. Oh thank goodness there is no interuption of supply, but there has been no change in the price yet.

Can anybody guess how long it will take to reflect at the filling stations?

FBN Share Offer and the Stock Market

First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) is offering about three billion shares to raise around a billion Naira. The buzz in the market is that it is a very good thing, and investors are likely to have very good returns on their investment.

The market hype is so much that is clouds out everything else on the market. I think it is a good deal, but a lot of people thought UBA was a great deal too and it has not lived up to that hype in my opinion (unlike Oceanic bank).

If you want to play the market, you have to do a lot of study and research. Know the things to watch out for, and all the terms and what they stand for. EPS, P/E ratio, moving averages and things like that.

You also have to decide what kind of investor you want to be. Some trade only in new shares, while others actively seek out opportunities in older stock. Or you can be very passive and entrust your investment to an investment house to trade your money in the stock market. The choice is yours. However you want to play it, the stock market is a place to make money or lose money quickly. Play carefully.

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Fuel Crisis

The tanker drivers are bent on forcing their wishes on us to the detriment of other people’s.

I think the state government should come up with their own tanker driving crew and lock all the others who refuse to comply out of the state. Their absence on the Apapa-Oshodi expressway makes driving there a pleasure. the only problem is now we have no fuel to cruise.

YMCHAT

Dear All,

Please update your Yahoo! messenger.

The threat is real.

How hard can it be? It only takes a few minutes to do and can save you a whole lot of inconvenience.

Best regards

Fchuki

Nigerian Scam

Someone sent me the following link to see a scammer caught on abc News. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHphszkawoU

As a Nigerian, I find it disgusting that a lot of Nigerians are into this act especially as it paints the whole country in a bad hue. Still a vast majority of our political class is corrupt.

In my view, most people have not been educated as to how to detect scam. I put the blame on governments worldwide. if your citizens are victims then you should educate them so that more would not fall into the same trap. As it is, more and more Americans still fall into this trap and that is a failure of the American government. The same goes for all other countries with significant victims.

Personally I think it is hilarious how educated people in this day and age still believe in get rich quick schemes.

Maybe if the victims are incarcerated and shown on public television internationally, we can get people to understand better what they stand to loose. Maybe even turn them into a reality show.

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Discover Music Online

Musicovery is a cool site for listening to music online. A visual interactive tool for selecting music depending on your mood and preferred genre.

You can choose and explore music by mood, style and genre. You can even explore the music by year. Lots of music from different places and times and lots of ways to discover them and play them. Lo-Fi if you want it free or pay for it and get Hi-Fi. Plus, links to amazon and iTunes so you can add more music to your collection.

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The Swallow and the Other Birds

It happened that a Countryman was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other birds were hopping about picking up their food.

‘Beware of that man,’ quoth the Swallow.

‘Why, what is he doing?’ said the others.

‘That is hemp seed he is sowing; be careful to pick up every one of the seeds, or else you will repent it.’

The birds paid no heed to the Swallow’s words, and by and by the hemp grew up and was made into cord, and of the cords nets were made, and many a bird that had despised the Swallow’s advice was caught in nets made out of that very hemp.

‘What did I tell you?’ said the Swallow.

Moral
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

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Request for Raise

Before you ask for a raise, please learn from Mr Penis and evaluate your position critically before you do. Mr P did not do that and got turned down.

 

 

Request of the Penis:

I, the Penis, hereby request a raise in salary for the following reasons:

1. I do physical labor.
2. I work at great depths.
3. I plunge head first into everything I do.
4. I do not get weekends or public holidays off.
5. I work in a damp environment
6. I work in a dark area that has poor ventilation.
7. I work in high temperatures.
8. My work exposes me to diseases.

Management Response:

Dear Penis,

After assessing your request, and considering the arguments you have raised, the management denies your request for the following reasons:

1. You do not work 8 hours straight.
2. You WORK IN SHORT SPURTS AND fall asleep after EACH brief work period.
3. You do Not always follow the orders of the management team.
4. You do not stay in your designated area, and are often seen visiting other locations.
5. You do not take initiative – you need to be pressured and stimulated in order to start working.
6. You leave the workplace rather messy at the end of your shift.
7. You don’t always observe necessary safety regulations, such as wearing the correct protective clothing.
8. Every time you get excited, you throw up and then faint
9. You will retire LONG before you are 65.
10. You are unable to work double shifts.
11. You sometimes leave your designated work area before you have completed the assigned task.
12. And if that were not all, you have constantly been seen entering and exiting the workplace carrying two Suspicious-looking bags.

Sincerely, The Management

4 reasons not to be a penis…
1. You’re bald your whole life.
2. You have a hole in your head.
3. Your neighbors are nuts.
4. The guy behind you is an ass hole

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Give Thanks!

Gratitude is a positive emotion, which involves a feeling of emotional indebtedness towards another person; often accompanied by a desire to thank them, or to reciprocate for a favour they have done for you. In a religious context, gratitude can also refer to a feeling of indebtedness towards a deity, e.g. God in Christianity.

Psychological research has demonstrated that individuals are more likely to experience gratitude when they receive a favor that is perceived to be (1) valued by the recipient, (2) costly to the benefactor, (3) given by the benefactor with benevolent intentions, and (4) given gratuitously (rather than out of role-based obligations) (e.g., Bar-Tal, Bar-Zohar, Greenberg, & Hermon, 1977; Graham, 1988; Lane & Anderson, 1976; Tesser, Gatewood, & Driver, 1968).

Research has also suggested that feelings of gratitude may be beneficial to subjective emotional well-being (Emmons & McCullough, 2003). In people who are grateful in general, life events have little influence on experienced gratitude (McCullough, Tsang & Emmons, 2004).

Compare with feelings of obligation; appreciation.

Thanksgiving approaches. Ok, for Americans, it’s still a bit way off. But should giving thanks be put off till that one day every year or is it something one does regularly?

Lots of people have a few things to say for gratitude:

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Melodie Beattie:
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Leroy [Satchel] Paige:
[D]on’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
New York Post, October 4, 1959

Marcel Proust:
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Meister Eckhart:
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.
Margaret Cousins:
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
John F. Kennedy:
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
and finally,
William James:
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

Even God wants to be appreciated as can be seen from the story of the ten lepers in Luke 17:12-19

Be Thankful
Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire,
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?

Be thankful when you don’t know something
For it gives you the opportunity to learn.

Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.

Be thankful for your limitations
Because they give you opportunities for improvement.

Be thankful for each new challenge
Because it will build your strength and character.

Be thankful for your mistakes
They will teach you valuable lessons.

Be thankful when you’re tired and weary
Because it means you’ve made a difference.

It is easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are
also thankful for the setbacks.

GRATITUDE can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles
and they can become your blessings.
~ Author Unknown ~

Sites dedicated to the Gratitude:
Go Gratitude
Gratitude Theory
Thanksgiving Square
Wisdom Quotes
Quotes to live by

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The Kingdom

Dictionary.com defines kingdom as follows:

1.	a state or government having a king or queen as its head.

2.	anything conceived as constituting a realm or sphere of independent action or control: the kingdom of thought.

3.	a realm or province of nature, esp. one of the three broad divisions of natural objects: the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.

4.

Biology. a taxonomic category of the highest rank, grouping together all forms of life having certain fundamental characteristics in common: in the five-kingdom classification scheme adopted by many biologists, separate kingdoms are assigned to animals (Animalia), plants (Plantae), fungi (Fungi), protozoa and eucaryotic algae (Protista), and bacteria and blue-green algae (Monera).

5.	the spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ.

6.	the domain over which the spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ extends, whether in heaven or on earth.

The Bible says: seek ye first the kingdom… (Matthew 6:33)

What are the benefits of the Kingdom of God?
The Kingdom protects and provides for it’s citizens.
How does one enter the Kingdom?
Just as the best way for one to become a citizen of America, England, Germany France or where ever, is to be born there, the best way to become a mamber of Gods Kingdom is to be Born Again

To know more about the kingdom, one should look at the government, rights of the citizenry, the domain, how the kingdom protects, etcetera, there are

A Host of sites dedicated to the Kingdom:
Seekyefirst
The Word of righteousness
The Kingdom A Reward
Born Again Info
If you know of any other significant site, please leave your comment.

Bibles?
The OnlineBible
Bible Gateway

Seek ye first the kingdom of God

Seek ye first the kingdom of God,
and his righteousness,
and all these things shall be added unto you;
allelu-, alleluia:
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