3 things that make marriage awesome

Marriage as we know is a union from God, approved by God to be between a man and a woman meant for each other.
According to the bible, there are many benefits of marriage which a lot will enjoy once they get into the union.
Marriage is a lifetime thing, so it is only wise to carefully choose a partner you are very comfortable with. I am not writing this to counsel you (not yet anyway), I just need you to understand why marriage should really be the normal way of life out there, not co-habiting, not single parenting. Here are some of the things that make marriage magical:
It is profitable for the Economy
Imagine if you just have kids and just dump them on the road–who will take care if them? The Government? With who’s money? Taxpayers! Now, if you marry before you have these kids, you all live in the same house, you take care of your kids…everyone is happy!
Marriage continues to be the most profitable union out there. Children who grow up in stable families have much less risk of being either the perpetrator or the victim of a crime. In addition, married men are more successful and earn more money than single men, which means they give back to the economy more than any unmarried man does. You are welcome.
Your children will thank you (later)
Like I talked about earlier, children who are raised by both of their married parents are more likely to not breakup there own marriage. This creates a stable, safe environment for children-one where they have been proven to do better psychologically, academically, and socially. So, by getting hitched to your best friend, you automatically give your children a leg up on tackling the big bad world? Sign me up for marriage!
What is in it for you?
It only human to want to know the benefit of anything you want to get into. Okay let us outline the perks of marriage:
Less depression and fewer problems related to alcohol
Greater social and financial mobility (the ability to move from poverty to wealth)
A longer life
The men make 20% more money
The women have greater physical and psychological health
Both of you experience better sex
Both of you are happier
But are there such things as unhealthy marriages-even abusive ones? Absolutely. And those kinds of marriages are awful, no doubt about it. They are also the reasons a few of us shy away from the union. Do not worry about it, just make the right decision for yourself and you would be fine. So, is marriage hard work? I heard it is a lot of work. But is it worth it? I know it is for me! And, from the looks of it, it seems to be more than worth all of the hard work for everybody else, too. So why not?
However, I’m not saying that all of you bachelors and bachelorettes have to go find yourselves a spouse right now or else you’ll be a menace to society-that’s rubbish. However, when the opportunity to marry comes along, don’t cheat yourself and avoid it, or even worse settle for cohabitation. Put a ring on it and spread the good news!

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FUEL SCARCITY: Blame it on PDP, Tinubu tells Nigerians

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has asked Nigerians to blame the Peoples Democratic Party for the lingering fuel scarcity that has plagued Nigerians in recent times.

Tinubu who spoke with journalists in Lagos on Saturday, said the PDP ruined Nigeria during its 16-year rule and refused to pursue relevant things necessary for the growth and development of the country.

He said:

"We want to stay focused and redirect Nigeria. We want to reverse the decay of 16 years. We are hearing comments from the PDP left and right. We are saying we want to clear the mess they created. For 16 good years, the PDP destroyed the country. We should not be lamenting over petrol queues today if they had seen what was necessary and done what was necessary for this country. 

 "We can’t be emotional and live in self-denial.  They should have done the Awolowo Road and the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. If they put priority on our railroad, if they put priority on electricity generation and distribution, we will not be in this mess  today.”

The APC chief also debunked reports that Nigerians are dissatisfied with the Buhari-led government.

He said:

“Nigerians are not impatient with the APC government; they just want to see the direction of the economic policy and want to be certain of the future. They want to be assured that we will not continue the leaderless, directionless and hopelessness of the past 16 years. 

 “The fact is that Nigerians do not want the importation of toothpicks to continue, we can make toothpicks out of our bamboo trees. Nigeria does not want to import rice or plastic. Nigeria does not want to continue in the direction of the past 16 years. What did they leave behind in our account? Why should certain things that we bring into this country become our priority? Why do we have to import those things that we can produce? The country needs surgical operation in the hands of a very honest Nigeria.

Biafra will be actualised using international law – IPOB

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has reiterated its resolve to pursue the actualisation of the independent state of Biafra using international law.A statement by the Spokesperson of the pro-Biafra group, Emma Powerful said Biafra had been in existence before the coming of British colonial masters, adding that it has the right to pursue its actualization even now.
The statement reads, “We will pursue for the actualisation of the sovereign state of Biafra using the International law, many other great nations in time past tolled the same part, a perfect example of this is the United Kingdom where the Scots, Welsh, Irish and the Anglo-Saxons maintain their indigenous identities as different people but of the British citizenship. In the same way, the indigenous people of Biafra are Nigeria by citizenship but Biafra by indigenous identity,”
“The Ancient Map of Africa in 1662 showed the three kingdoms in West Africa from where the new country called Nigeria was created by the colonial masters. The three kingdoms were as follows: The kingdom of Zamfara in the North, Kingdom of Biafra from the East: and the kingdom of Benin in the West.
“These three kingdoms existed on the map of Africa for more than 500 years before Nigeria was created in 1914.
”The kingdoms of Biafra and Benin shared common boundaries and had the Atlantic Ocean in the South with direct access to the sea, through their bays known as Bight of Biafra and Bight of Benin.”

WWE's Highest-Paid Wrestlers

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We saw the exciting display of WrestleMania 32 last night.
The details of wrestlers pay are notoriously hard to come by, and even a year ago, when we provided a breakdown of how WWE’s booking contracts work, we could shed very little light on exactly how much wrestlers are paid. No longer. Over the last year we’ve pored over court documents, SEC filings and WWE’s booking contracts and spent hours speaking with industry sources, allowing us to construct the first ever FORBES list of WWE’s Highest-Paid Wrestlers.
We estimate that last year the highest-paid wrestler made nearly $10 million, and the 10 top-paid stars collectively hauled in more than $30 million. That doesn’t come close to the checks cashed by the top earners in American sports and entertainment — guys like LeBron James and Kobe Bryant make over $20 million a year just in salary, while Hollywood’s top five actors were paid over $260 million combined last year — but it’s still far above what the average pro wrestler makes.

Leading that list is none other than John Cena, who we estimate made $9.5 million. The face of the company for the last decade, Cena not only boasts the highest base salary among weekly performers, but he’s also unrivaled when it comes to moving merchandise. If you need proof, just flip on any episode of Monday Night RAW and eye the rows upon rows of neon-clad fans cheering for the face that runs the place.

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And Cena’s earnings should only increase as he continues to follow former colleague Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson from the squared circle toward a second career in Hollywood. Last year Cena scored minor roles in comedy films Trainwreck, Sisters and Daddy’s Home. Next month he’ll start showing up on network TV as the host of American Grit, a new Fox reality competition show that will feature contestants taking on military-themed physical challenges.
Following Cena is Brock Lesnar, who made $6 million in earnings last year. Unlike Cena, who still mostly works a full-time schedule, Lesnar is a rare sight in WWE programming. Last year he entered the ring fewer than 20 times, and most of those occasions simply consisted of ominous standing while Paul Heyman performed his magic on the microphone. But when he does wrestle (or dismantle a Cadillac with an axe, for that matter), Lesnar is more entertaining than just about anyone else on the roster.
And that sort of drawing power, coupled with an unmatched resume (NCAA wrestling champion, UFC heavyweight champion, youngest ever WWE champion and, dare we forget, the one in 22-and-one), grants him the leverage to negotiate tremendous deals. Back in 2003 Lesnar signed a seven-year contract that gave him a $1 million base salary and an increased share of merchandise sales. Over a decade later his contract negotiations became headline news thanks to an apparent bidding war between UFC and WWE. After the latter promotion won out, locking Lesnar into a three-year deal last March, the “Beast Incarnate” announced the news on SportsCenter.
Cena and Lesnar are far ahead of the other top earners — no other wrestler made over $3 million last year. We estimate that WWE’s 10 highest-paid performers made over a combined $31 million. While that’s nearly two-thirds of the money the company spent on its in-ring talent last year, half went to Cena and Lesnar.
As we detailed a year ago, wrestler pay is essentially comprised of two key components. The first is base salary, also referred to as a wrestler’s guarantee or downside. Those downside values are almost entirely tied to performer tenure. Longtime veterans receive the biggest guarantees, which have typically been capped at $1 million, while even the most popular youngsters are limited to the low six figures.
The second, and often more important, area is bonus pay. WWE has long functioned on the principle that employees, whether in-ring talent or board room executives, ought to be rewarded for demonstrated success. Thus wrestlers receive bonus payouts for events worked, scaling from pay-per-view main events down to a house show’s preliminary match, as well as a share of their merchandise sales (typically 25% of profits from licensing and 5% of direct sales, either at shows or via WWE’s online store).

Those bonuses can be sizable even for the less active performers. Take Triple H as an example. No. 3 on our list with $2.8 million in earnings, Triple H has a booking contract that pays him a $1 million base salary, and last year he made over $700,000 in bonus money despite rarely taking a physical role in the ring (the rest of his total earnings are made up by executive compensation). In other words, he added more than 70% of his downside in bonus pay. Far more active and/or popular entertainers can do much better — we figure the likes of Cena and Seth Rollins made multiple times their base salaries in the form of event and merchandise bonuses.
Rollins is an ideal example of how a heavy workload and popularity among fans can pay off. Fifth on our list with earnings of $2.4 million, Rollins absolutely carried WWE last year from a storyline perspective. He performed in 11 pay-per-view events, all but once with the WWE championship on the line. And on just three of those occasions did Rollins fail to take part in the main event, only getting topped by the Royal Rumble, Lesnar vs. Undertaker at Hell in a Cell and Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan for a WrestleMania title shot. To put his eight main events into context, consider that no other wrestler performed in more than five last year. Perhaps most impressively, Rollins accomplished all of that despite missing the last two months of the year with an ACL tear.

Seth Rollins was a constant main event presence and carried the WWE championship for 220 days last year, only dropping it after a knee injury put him out of commission. (Photo by JP Yim/Getty Images)

And when it comes to workload Rollins is joined by two former teammates and fellow top-paid stars: Roman Reigns (No. 6, $2.1 million) and Dean Ambrose (No. 10, $1.1 million). In fact, the latter of the two did more than just about anyone last year — by our count Ambrose worked nearly 200 events. That count includes more than 100 house shows, a feat matched by just four other performers (Luke Harper and The New Day trio of Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods).
Yet Ambrose spent little time at the top of the card. He had just four pay-per-view main events and only one was at a major show (a Survivor Series title match against Reigns). Consider that Rollins worked 81 house shows and was in the main event in all but five of them. Ambrose, by comparison, main evented just 36 of his non-televised events. And as described in WWE’s booking contracts, a wrestler’s live event pay is “consistent with the nature of the match in which [he] appears,” ranging from dark matches up to main event.
As noted above, our earnings numbers are built off information gathered from court documents, SEC filings, WWE’s booking contracts and interviews with industry sources. We’ve only included currently active wrestlers, which explains why you won’t find The Rock anywhere on the list (for those who are curious, FORBES pegged his earnings at $31.5 million for the 12 months to June 2015). Also omitted from consideration are stock options that have not yet vested; last year Triple H earned some $600,000 in WWE stock, but those shares won’t fully vest until the summer of 2018.

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Plenty of Internet ink has been spilled on the subject of whether WWE’s stars are underpaid. From some perspectives that certainly seems to be the case. We figure that last year WWE paid its in-ring talent roughly $50 million, or just 8% of its $659 million in total revenue. Contrast that with the NFL and NBA, which share around half of league revenues with their athletes. Putting wrestling up against pro sports is obviously a case of apples and oranges, particularly in the sense that pro athletes benefit from collective bargaining while wrestlers are independent contractors who usually don’t even have agents to negotiate their contracts. But wrestler pay hasn’t risen nearly as much in recent years as that for other athletes and entertainers, and that’s in spite of WWE revenue surging, up 36% from $484 million in 2012.
The reason, according to many, is that WWE no longer has a true competitor threatening to outbid the company for top talent. One of the most famous such instances came in 1996 when Scott Hall and Kevin Nash left then-WWF for rival WCW, where both performers ranked among the promotion’s top-paid stars throughout the late 1990s; from 1997 through 2000 the duo collected a combined $9.4 million. When Bret Hart jumped ship to WCW a year later, he received $2.5 million in base salary plus a $6,500 bonus for any event worked beyond his limited schedule.
And when it comes to guaranteed payouts it’s hard to beat Hulk Hogan’s 1998 contract with WCW. Though he’d been with the company since 1994 (which in turn followed a decade with WWF), he apparently had a tremendous amount of leverage: Hogan’s 1998 deal included a $2 million signing bonus, paid at least $675,000 per PPV event and ensured Hogan at least 25% of ticket revenue from any weekly shows he performed at. On top of that he received a staggering 50% cut of merchandise profits and was even given creative control (more specifically, “approval over the outcome of all wrestling matches in which he appears, wrestles and performs”). According to WCW pay documents, in 1999 Hogan made $4.6 million, and that doesn’t appear to include the $4 million he was guaranteed for working a half dozen PPV events.
Today WWE has no such spend-happy competition to contend with, and the company has arguably taken on the vulture role. In January reports surfaced that WWE was after some of New Japan Pro Wrestling’s top performers. Those rumors were proved true just weeks later when veteran AJ Styles entered the Royal Rumble, and the following month WWE officially announced the signing of Shinsuke Nakamura, arguably NJPW’s biggest star. Those additions came just three months after WWE brought back Alberto Del Rio from Mexico’s AAA promotion, purportedly because they made an offer that AAA couldn’t match.
That spending power comes via WWE’s undeniable financial success. The $1.3 billion (market cap) company made a major gamble on its WWE Network two years ago, moving away from the decades-old pay-per-view model. The online-only network got off to a slow start, but as of the end of 2015 WWE was averaging 1.2 million paid subscribers, putting the company ahead of its projected break-even point. Last year WWE’s media division tallied $390 million in revenue, up 33% from $292 million the year before. And other parts of the business are thriving as well, with consumer products revenue up 26% to $98 million.
Heading into WrestleMania 32, WWE’s stock price sits at just over $17. That’s down from the $20-plus prices of six months earlier but is still well above the $11 floor that WWE shares hit after the company’s stock tanked in the spring of 2014. Some analysts are touting WWE as a top growth stock pick in 2016.
As for the future, it seems WWE’s biggest concern is keeping its top moneymakers healthy. Cena, Rollins and Randy Orton (No. 4, $2.7 million) have all been sidelined by injuries and will likely miss their major WrestleMania paydays. Meanwhile fan favorite Daniel Bryan was recently forced into retirement due to medical concerns, and wrestling legend Sting may also be at the end of his career after suffering a neck injury that required surgery.

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But fans will be no stranger to WWE chairman Vince McMahon’s supposed “brass rings,” the keys to success that are up for grabs by any performer willing to put in the necessary work. So while the rash of injuries is obviously a huge blow to WWE’s creative plans, they’ve also seemingly created opportunities for others in the company to step into the spotlight. Should any succeed, we may very well see some new names on next year’s list of WWE’s top earners.

Billionaires, Former Billionaires Outed For Offshore Wealth By The Panama Papers

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One of the world’s largest data leaks, called the Panama Papers, is shedding light on the world of offshore financing, used frequently by many of the richest and most powerful around the globe. An anonymous source reportedly tipped off Suddeutsche Zeitung, an investigative newspaper in Germany, which then shared the information with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
After a yearlong investigation, ICIJ and 100 reporting partners around the world began publishing a series of articles on Sunday based on the Panama Papers, which involved the leak of 11.5 million files including emails, invoices and bank records. The leak comes from Mossack Fonseca, a law firm in Panama that is reportedly one of the world’s biggest creators of shell companies. According to ICIJ, the files span decades, from 1977 to December 2015, and include details on 214,000 offshore entities with links to 140 politicians including the President of Argentina, Iceland’s Prime Minister and the King of Saudi Arabia. It also has details on at least 33 people and companies blacklisted by U.S., including Mexican drug lords and terrorist organizations. Mossack Fonesca issued a response to ICIJ’s report stating that as a registered agent it is simply helping its clients incorporate companies and that the law firm conducts thorough due-diligence, “one that in every case meets and quite often exceeds all relevant local rules, regulations and standards to which we and others are bound.”

Georgia’s former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is one of numerous billionaires mentioned in the Panama Papers

Some of what has been detailed so far sheds light on people Forbes has long followed. In fact, the ICIJ report states that it includes information on “29 billionaires from Forbes list of top 500 Richest” as well as movie star Jackie Chan who Forbes profiled, and soccer star Lionel Messi, who ranked fourth on Forbes’ 2015 list of highest paid athletes. Many of the 29 billionaires have yet to be identified, but Forbes went through and found references to a number of them, names that none too surprising to our magazine’s readers.
Below is a short, so far incomplete list of billionaires and former billionaires who are mentioned in stories reporting on The Panama Project or have ties to entities mentioned. The actual documents that were leaked have not been made available yet. Forbes has put in a request to see the documents related to the 29 billionaires. Forbes is also reaching out to all the billionaires mentioned below for comment and will update with any responses.
Dmitry Rybolovlev
For years many sources suggested that Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev was using offshore vehicles in part to hide assets from his ex-wife Elena. She sued him in 2012, saying that the $88 million Manhattan apartment the billionaire bought their 22-year-old daughter through an offshore vehicle was a ploy to hide assets in their divorce. Now the details of the role that offshore vehicles played in that divorce are apparently in the leaked documents. The documents, according to ICIJ, show how Rybolovlev used offshore vehicles to hide his wealth.  Xitrans Finance, for instance, which law firm Mossack Fonseca set up in the British Virgin Islands for Rybolovlev, held such assets as paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet plus Louis XVI furniture. According to the leaked document from Mossack Fonesca, he moved the items from Switzerland to places his ex couldn’t touch. Dmitri and Elena Rybolovlev both apparently declined to comment to the ICIJ.

Bidzina Ivanishvili
 Ivanishvili, who lives in a 108,000-square-foot compound in the mountains overlooking Tbilisi, was elected prime minister of Georgia in October 2012. (Forbes profiled him a few months before the election.) Thirteen months later he stepped down, after his party won the presidential elections, saying he’d fulfilled his task. Georgia’s richest person by far, he made his money in Russia and moved back home in 2003. According to the leaks, the British Virgin Island’s Financial Investigation Agency asked Mossack Fonseca for information about the ownership and activities of Lynden Management in 2011. Its Singapore office confirmed that Ivanishvili was a beneficiary of a trust set up by Credit Suisse. Two years later, according to the ICIJ, Mossack Fonesca BVI identified Ivanishvili as a “Politically Exposed Person” and asked its Singapore office for documents proving Ivanishvili’s identity and the source of funds for Lynden Management. Singapore, according to the ICIJ report, was unable to obtain them and later asked if Credit Suisse could handle the due diligence. A Swiss firm representing Ivanishvili apparently responded to ICIJ and said that he was willing to be transparent about his use of offshore companies and that banks like Credit Suisse regularly propose use of them.
Boris & Arkady Rotenberg
Suleiman Kerimov
Alexei Mordashov
Thanks to leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, reporters discovered that musician Sergey Roldugin, a longtime friend of Vladimir Putin, had set up offshore companies that likely received money from companies close to the four billionaires listed above, as well as other Russian businessmen. For more on what they found, please read The Secret Caretaker by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and  All Putin’s Men: Secret Records Reveal Money Network Tied To Russian Leader.
Putin’s son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov, whom Forbes outed as a billionaire this year, was also mentioned in The Secret Caretaker. Apparently Ozon, a Russian company that got favorable loans from Roldugin’s company, bought land that became mountain ski resort Igora, the site of Shamalov’s wedding to Katerina Tikhonova, according to Reuters.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
According to ICIJ’s analysis of the Mossack Fonseca data, Ukraine’s president became the sole shareholder of Prime Asset Partners Limited, which Mossack Fonseca set up for him in the British Virgin Islands in August 2014. That was just around the time of Russia’s bloodiest attacks on Ukraine. According to one of the articles, while he was fighting Russia, the now former billionaire, who was known as Ukraine’s chocolate king for his successful confectionary business, was looking for a copy of a utility bill to help set up the offshore company. His representatives apparently responded to the allegations, saying that  it was part of a restructuring to help sell his candy business.

Rooney says he has ‘a few years’ left for Man Utd and England

Wayne Rooney has said he has at least a “few years” left to make meaningful contributions to Manchester United and the England national team and is ready to kick on for club and country.
Rooney, 30, has been out of action for both United and the Three Lions with a knee ligament injury that was first reported on Feb. 17, ahead of his club’s Europa League date with FC Midtjylland.
In his absence, England youngsters Dele Alli and Harry Kane, along with Leicester’s Jamie Vardy, have carried the load for England, while Marcus Rashford has emerged as somewhat of a revelation for Man United.
However, retirement is far from the thinking of the current captain of both his club and international team, especially after scoring his 50th goal to break Sir Bobby Charlton’s goalscoring record for England.
“I’ve still got a few years left I feel,” Rooney said in an interview with the PFA’s “4 The Player” magazine which is set to be published on Monday.
“I’ll keep trying to, first and foremost, help the team be successful and if I can score the goals to help achieve that then that’ll be great.
“Over the last two years my form for England has been really good, I’ve scored a lot of goals. The record stood for more than 40 years so to be the one to break it means a lot. For Sir Bobby [Charlton] to present me with the award as well, that makes it even more special.
“But it’s something I’m looking to expand now, I’ve got the record and I just want to carry on scoring as many goals as I can.”
Rooney added: “I was playing really well before that injury so it could’ve been different but that’s in the past and you have to look forward.
“I think I’m a different player now to what I was then so I don’t compare myself. I’m always just thinking about what comes next and making sure I’m at my best for the summer.”
England manager Roy Hodgson is on the record saying that Rooney will almost surely be on the squad that makes the trip to France for the Euros this summer, but his place in the starting XI is anything but certain.
“I’ve never said he’s an automatic starter and I’ve not ever said anyone is an automatic starter,” Hodgson said. “If you say does he have a good chance to be a starter with his track record, ability and experience? Of course he has.”
England begin group play on Saturday, June 11, vs. Russia in Marseille.

Reps okay Buhari’s decision to scrutinise budget before signing

Contrary to expectations, President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to scrutinise the 2016 budget as passed and transmitted to him by the National Assembly has been accepted by the leadership of the House of Representatives.
Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Media, Abdulrazak Namdas, in an interview, yesterday said that the lower House had no problems with the president taking another look at the budget.
“There shouldn’t be a problem with the president looking at the budget line by line. Our duty in the National Assembly is to work on the budget and to send the document as passed. We have also promised to send the president the details of the budget in two weeks and this we shall do”, Namdas said.
The House of Representatives passed the 2016 budget of N6.06trillion into law following a motion by the Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin.
Buhari had said in Washington last Thursday that he would not sign the 2016 Appropriation Bill into law until he took a look at every single detail of the document passed by the National Assembly on Wednesday, March 23.
The president had presented the 2016 national budget before a joint session of the National Assembly, comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives, on December 22, 2015.
Soon after, it was dogged by allegations and counter-allegations, including claims that it was missing or padded. The president’s statement that he would scrutinise the budget came
as a surprise. This was because the National Assembly which had severally dismissed claims that it would pad the budget, also stated that for the first time, it reduced the total sum of the budget by N17 billion.
This was even as it told the press that it did not tinker with parts of the budget considered to be top priority to the president. Speaking with National Assembly correspondents immediately after
the passage of the budget, the Joint Committee on Appropriations said it was the first time since 1999 the country was witnessing a reduction in aggregate expenditure.
Jubrin, who first spoke on behalf of the committee, said though the budget estimates were huge, contrary to widely held belief that the National Assembly would add to it N17 billion was reduced from the initial estimates.
“We all know the challenges that accompanied this bill and often times, with overheads being most contentious. We engaged the executive and the Budget Office on it because we also discovered that
several critical items were not in the budget. We had to allocate funds to those areas.
“We also had to tilt some allocations in favour of security, anti corruption drive in order to strike a balance with the policy thrust of the government,” he said.

MTN launches SunStream for mobile devices

MTN South Africa has launched its new promotional package featuring World Panel’s SunStream which allows users to stream electricity from the sun directly into their mobile devices.
The new bundle was announced at an event in Mthatha with executives from MTN and World Panel Inc. present. The event was held outside the MTN store at Mthatha Plaza with product demonstrations and branded promotions.
The MTN/SunStream bundle carries an MSRP of R219 and includes a SunStream and free airtime on the MTN network. This promotional package is available at MTN stores in Mthatha and the SunStream expected to roll out across South Africa.
“The SunStream was developed with exactly this customer in mind: someone who views their mobile device as a lifeline, but lacks the power to keep it charged,” said Hennie Botha, World Panel’s Managing Director for South Africa.
“The reliable, affordable power offered by the SunStream can be a game-changer, and we are therefore pleased to launch this bundle with MTN.”
World Panel’s SunStream product line was introduced in late 2015 after years in development. Built to international standards, the new technology bypasses the need for chipsets or PC boards, which are notorious for breakage on typical solar charging devices. The highly durable SunStream products can charge most feature phones at or near the same speed as a wall plug and can perform even while submerged in water.

UK Government replies to Nnamdi Kanu’s plea for intervention

Following the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s call on the British Government for intervention in his case, the United Kingdom has responded by saying it has been visiting the arrested and detained leader in prison.
The spokesman for the British High Commission, Mr. Joe Abuku in an email to news agency, Punch, revealed the development.
The British High Commission in a statement said; “We have provided assistance to Mr. Kanu since his arrest in October last year, including visiting him regularly in prison and attending court appearances in an observational capacity.”
This comes in response to the plea statement released by the IPOB leader through his lawyer which reads in part; “It is repeating the obvious to state that our client is a full British citizen, by virtue of which position he is entitled to all rights, privileges and protection, guaranteed under the British laws and conventions.”

Mention the day I will die-El-Rufai hits back at Apostle Suleiman

The executive Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, has hit back at Apostle Johnson Suleiman, challenging him to mention the day he will die.
The Apostle had cause quite a stir when he had boldly proclaimed that the Governor will die (see here). This was as a result of the controversial Anti-Preaching bill that the Kaduna state Governor wants implemented in the state.
El-Rufai in an interview tries to explain in what context the bill is to be enforced amongst other things.You can read excerpts of the interview below.
One of your policies that has generated a lot of controversy is the religious preaching bill. What does the government want to achieve when it becomes law and how are you going to tackle the anxiety that it has generated among the people?
Kaduna State, more than any state in Nigeria, if you take out the Yobe, Borno and Adamawa axis,  which suffered from Boko Haram insurgency, has suffered the most from death and destruction of property due to misuse and abuse of religion. More people have been killed in Kaduna from the words that people have said. And if you go back in history to when the Maitasine incident happened; he was a Cameroonian that came to Nigeria and started preaching. The Emir of Kano had him deported back to Cameroon. After that, he managed to smuggle himself back again and continued preaching. He was preaching a version of Islam that was intolerant, a version that called other Muslims pagans and so on. But in spite of what he was preaching, he acquired followers and we all know what happened. Military operation had to be mounted to flush them out. Those that escaped from the Maitasine crisis moved to Borno State and started the Kalakato sect, which again led to many deaths and destruction in the early 1990s. All these came from people that were not trained in religious matters, people that woke up and started preaching and acquiring followers and inevitably their sects grew in large numbers to threaten communities and there were clashes.
That was also how Muhammed Yusuf started. He was a student of Sheik Jaafar Adam in Kano. They fell out because Jaafar felt that some of the views he was expressing were extreme and intolerant. He went and started his own sect and we all know what happened and we are still dealing with it.
Thus, when you have such things happening in your country, I think as leaders, we have to sit down and examine ourselves and the society and see what  we can do to prevent it.
In my opinion, it is the lack of regulation of religion that led to all these circles of death and destruction. Just recently, we had the Shi’ite problem in Zaria, following a similar pattern.
I believe that before you start preaching in any religion, you should have gone through a system of education, training and some kind of certification. Even those that deal with the physical life get certified, let alone those that deal with the spiritual life. We initiated this bill from the Kaduna State Security Council, based on reports of new sects emerging in Kaduna State.
Are there recent cases?
There is one around Makarfi called Gausiyya, they do their Zuhr prayer around 11am, different from other Muslims. This is how this thing starts and if you don’t resolve it quickly, it grows into something else.
A woman in Makarfi said Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was speaking to her and sick people started going to her for their healing. The husband of this woman was busy collecting N1,000 as consultancy fee before people could see his wife. We had to take steps to end that movement because before you know it, people would start coming from far and wide and this woman would become our next problem.
It was the report of two or three of these that compelled us in the security council to ask the question, whether or not there was a law that regulates preaching. Then we were told there was a law; since 1984 after the Maitasine problems, the administration   passed the law. It was subsequently amended several times to increase the fine and the imprisonment term. This is a living problem and we know it. Christian priests, the ones I know, go to seminary and spend so many years there, study under a more experienced Reverend to learn what to say and what not to say.
Religious leaders don’t preach hatred; they preach peace, tolerance and love. But today in my religion of Islam, anybody can wake up and start a sect; there is no control. In those days, from Islamiyya School, if you chose that line, you needed to study more books. After that, you would go to the East (Borno area) for more studies and training. Then from there, you would go to a mosque and begin to call people to prayer before you become an imam in any mosque. Before you became an imam of a Friday mosque, the community must agree that you were well learned and competent. But now, everyone can build a mosque, put up loudspeakers, call himself an imam and start disturbing people at night.
A priest that has gone through thorough teachings and training would not go and ask people to cause trouble and kill each other. They are trained men of God. In Christendom today, we all know that some people would drink something overnight and wake up the next day and claim they are apostles, that God had spoken to them. You could not disproof that because you were not there with him and he would start to collect followers. When he begins to preach hatred, what can you do? Is it the society we want? This is the question. The logic behind this law is to strengthen the 1984 laws so as to regulate and ensure that those that are given the opportunity to preach at least know what they are doing, they have a level of responsibility to develop the society rather than divide it. This is our goal; we don’t have anything against any religion or anybody.
What about freedom of religion?
Some people have argued that there is freedom of religion, of course; Section 38 is very clear: We must not have a state religion, every Nigerian is allowed to practise their faith or even if they  do not have any religion  at all. However, those that are quoting Section 38 of the constitution conveniently forget Section 45 which says that you can regulate any human right if it would affect the right of others. You can practise your religion but you can’t do it in a way that abuses the right of another. There is nothing in this law that is not in conformity with the constitution, or there is nothing new about it other than expanding the scope and after we sent the bill to the House of Assembly, I saw an article that alerted us of what we did not include: Blocking of federal highways, but that is in the Penal Code. It is good to have put it there because every Friday you see most mosques blocking roads. Why? We had to call them to a meeting to have a system that police would be there to guard and also control the traffic. In my opinion, this is a law that we need not only in Kaduna State but almost all states in Nigeria and I want to assure you that, I just came back from the National Economic Council meeting, and a handful of the governors asked me to send them our own law because they thought they also needed it in their state. Everybody is watching to see how we will handle our own. We sent it to the state assembly in October 2015 because some people are saying we sent it because of the Shi’ite problem. No! It was the state assembly that kept on looking at it and saying this one ‘na hot potato’ until now. But, on a very serious note, we don’t have any ulterior motive other than to put a framework that would ensure that Kaduna State people live in peace with everyone practising their religion and disallowing every Tom, Dick and Harry to come and say he can preach.
What will be the major role of the government in this?
We do not regulate as such, we have formed two committees that would issue the licence. It is not the government that will issue the licence. It is a committee of Christian umbrella bodies and Muslim umbrella bodies. We will just have an inter-ministerial committee to be checking once in a while and be keeping records because we want to know who is preaching here and who is doing what there. For us, the reaction was just disproportionate and many of the people that are talking about the law have never even read it. If you read that law, it is very short; it is 16 sections. I tell people who disagree with the bill to read it and tell me what they don’t like about it. Don’t tell me you don’t like the entire law because we know we have a problem and I am the governor and I need a solution. Don’t say the solution is not to have the law; we need the law but tell me what you don’t like, then we can discuss it. We want to find a solution that brings peace. We are not fixed in our position, what we are fixed about is that Kaduna State people must live in peace and everyone must be allowed to practise their religion without hindrance. We took an oath of office to do that. Apart from that, every other thing can be discussed. Are you telling me it is okay for someone to put up speakers in the night and start making a noise, be it Islam or Christianity, disturbing people? Is that okay? Which chapter in the two holy books says that Jesus or Muhammad (SAW) did that. Are we not trying to copy them? Are they not the perfections of both our religions? Jesus said, ‘Give to God what is God’s and to Caesar what is Caesar’s.’ Government is the Caesar.
We have informed the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Jama’atu Nasril Islam that if they have problems with any section, if there is anything to be done, and if they don’t want the government to be involved, we will remove it, but they must regulate.
What is your take on the assumption by some in the state that hold that the bill is aimed at stopping the practice of Christianity and Islam in the state?
I have not seen anyone talking about Islam actually. Most of the people that say I would die, as if I would not die, are people who call themselves Christian clergy. Of course, I will die. If that apostle is truly an apostle, he should mention the day I will die. There is nothing in that law that prevents or infringes the practice of religion. It seeks to ensure that those that preach religion are qualified, trained and certified by their peers to do it. And some sections of the media have made it as if the law was drafted against Christianity. It is most irresponsible and I have nothing to say except to leave the matter to God.

What Designers Look Out For In Making A Wedding Dress

The choice of outfit for the groom and a wedding dress for bride is an important decision. 

You want to make a choice that will give that aura of specialty on your special day.
Asides checking out venues, sending invites and making the cake and bouquet, having that perfect wedding ceremony requires more meticulous planning with key decisions to make.

Choosing a wedding dress  appears almost impossible at times, with questions over colour combination, design, shape and size.
Nigeria’s top fashion designer, Lanre Da Silva-Ajayi, brings in some expert tips.
Variety of designs come into focus, from victorian, to cosmopolitan, conservative, angelic, sultry and many others.

BlackBerry dumps $1 privacy, control subscription in BBM, all features now free

BlackBerry has announced its latest move to remain relevant: making all the privacy and control features within its BBM messaging app completely free to use.
The company first launched its Retract and Timer features within the cross-platform BBM app back in 2014, and though they were free to use initially they later represented part of the Canadian company’s $1 monthly premium subscription plan. The features are fairly self-explanatory — with Retract, you can later remove text or photos from a message thread so that they are no long visible to anybody in a conversation. And with Timer, you can set how long something is visible for in advance. The company later added more features to the premium mix, including the ability to launch anonymous private chats and edit messages.
Once a major player in the mobile phone realm, BlackBerry has been struggling in the hardware realm for a while and has been slowly moving away from its own operating system to embrace those that have emerged as the dominant forces in the mobile phone world — namely, Android and iOS.
Indeed, BlackBerry recently launched its first Android phone, and it plans to launch more before the year is out. But before all that came to fruition, the company opened up BBM beyond BlackBerry way back in 2013, as the company strove to capitalize on what was one of its most popular services. To monetize BBM, the company tried its hand at monthly subscriptions, but it now appears to have completely ditched its monthly the Privacy & Control subscription tier altogether. It is keeping some subscriptions going though, including “Sticker Club,” “No Ads,” and “Custom Pin.”
What’s perhaps most telling about this latest move is that BlackBerry is pushing for more users in what has become a competitive and converged space. WhatsApp recently passed one billion monthly users, Facebook Messenger topped 800 million users, while new(ish) kid on the block Telegram flew past 100 million users. Many of these popular apps are increasingly embracing privacy-focused features and, when you throw into the mix upstarts such as Janus Friis-backed Wire which is going all-in on encryption too, BBM’s proposition suddenly looks less appealing.
The bottom line is there are just too many messaging apps out there, and though BBM will no doubt still have a lot of dedicated users, it has to explore new ways of keeping people interested — and part of this plan includes giving more privacy and control features to everyone by default.

President Buhari arrives Abuja from Washington DC [PHOTOS]

President Muhammadu Buhari is back into the country after participating at the 4th edition of Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC, United States.
The presidential jet touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at the early hours of Monday.
He was received by the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase and other prominent Nigerians

A theatrical “jihad” offers Belgians some comic relief, pokes fun at jihadists' racism

THE provocation starts with the show’s title: Djihad, the French spelling for jihad. Three young Belgian Muslim men, Ben, Reda, and Ismaël set out to travel to Syria. Each was born in Brussels; each has been brought to despair by their failed lives in Europe. Each expects to find meaning by embarking on a holy war, killing infidels and building the Islamic State.
Despite the serious subject, the hit Brussels play is a comedy, poking fun at the characters’ racism, anti-Semitism and ignorance. The three jihadists bumble their way through security at the Brussels Airport. They make it to Turkey, and from there to Syria. But disillusion soon sets in. As a child, Ismaël adored the comic-books of a character called Bob The Sponge. Yet the more religious Reda tells him that drawing is anti-Islamic, and that the artists are infidels. Ben is shocked. “Even the guy who drew Bob The Sponge?” The audience erupts in laughter. Another taboo is rock and roll music. Ben grew up as a fan of Elvis Presley, dreaming of becoming a rock star. In Syria, this attachment becomes dangerous, and not only because of Presley’s subversive music. “Did you know his name is Elvis Aaron Presley?” Reda asks. “He was Jewish.”
In “Djihad”, truth becomes distorted—and dangerous. Caught between the world of the West and the world of Islam, Ismaël cannot become an artist, cannot become a rock ‘n roller. Reda's parents reject his Catholic girlfriend. The disillusioned, ignorant Islamists end up witnessing and participating in carnage. And in a frightening rehash of current events, they return to Belgium as homegrown terrorists.
Originally scheduled for just five performances in December 2014, “Djihad” has continued on tour ever since, playing to packed houses in Belgium and France. Reviews have been gushing. It was broadcast on Belgian television last November just after the attacks in Paris. More than 47,000 people had seen it live, including 25,000 high school students, making a giant hit. The play is funny and moving at the same time. Though it skirts with stereotypes and a few scenes suffer from a little wooden acting, for the most part it moves along a good clip, never boring or overtly moralising—a gripping presentation of tortured souls caught between two worlds, rejected by both.
At a recent performance, students—most from a Muslim background—filled the Le Public theatre in Brussels. Once the show ended, Ismael Saïdi, “Djihad”’s playwright who also plays Ismaël, held a cathartic hour-long discussion with them. The 39-year-old elaborated on the elements of the play that were drawn from personal experience; Reda Chebchoubi (who plays the character of the same name) had a Catholic girlfriend who was rejected by his parents. When Mr Chebchoubi's parents saw the play, they winced at the unflinching portrayal of their closed-mindedness. Mr Saïdi also believes he escaped a jihadist fate by going to a school outside his neighbourhood. “Education is the only way to prevent radicalisation,” he says.
He had performed the play the night before the recent Brussels bombings, and sees the need to continue performing the play in Belgium and France. A Dutch version recently opened in Amsterdam. It has not yet been translated into or performed in English, but Mr Saïdi dreams of taking it to Britain and America in the future. The West has heard plenty about ghettoes like Belgium’s Molenbeek and the radicalisation of Muslims in Europe. This is another facet of home-grown European Islam—funny, critical and self-aware—that not only Belgians and Dutchmen but Brits and Americans need to see.

Booze might be good for you. What does alcohol really do in the body?

Do you know some people actually map out plans on how to drown themselves in alcohol? Some have taken alcohol to be their sleeping elixir, which it’s not quite–ask a professional in the medical field. We have all established the fact that alcohol does more harm than good to our health–so how bad exactly? What is even good about it? Let’s discuss.
The bad. Let’s count how much calories you consume
If you’re trying to lose weight or get in shape or not trying to get that funny looking bloated stomach (men at the beer parlour kind of stomach) which type of alcohol should you order? In terms of sheer calorie count, beer has the most — about 150 calories. However, if you opt for light beer, that’s about 100 calories, which is about the same as a serving of wine or liquor. Beer usually has around 10 to 20 grams of carbs (although strong, sweet beers have more), while lagers and stouts have the least (around 6 to 11 grams). If wine is your thing, a glass of red only has two grams of carbohydrates, and keep in mind that drier wines will have fewer carbs and sugar. Hard liquor actually comes in at zero sugar and carbs. That might seem like a win, but it all depends how you drink it.
Maybe the good. Your brain loves the booze and might benefit from it
Let’s be honest, going overboard on drinks can make your brain feel foggy at best, or short a few brain cells at worst. But, keep your bar tab under control and you might actually be doing your brain a favor. Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol throughout your life can actually ward off cognitive decline and improve brain function. A study found that of the 489 women studied, moderate drinkers scored higher than abstinent women or heavy drinkers on a “Decline in cognition is usually due to the brain not receiving enough oxygen,” an expert explained on the cognitive functioning test.
Another good? Alcohol might prevent you from having stroke
Something good might just come out of your moderate alcohol gulps. Alcohol’s blood thinning effect can help ward off strokes. An expert explains that there are two types of strokes: ischemic, when a blood clot stops blood from going to parts of the brain, and hemorrhagic, when the brain bleeds too much. Around 80 percent of strokes are ischemic, which is where alcohol comes in. Moderate drinking helps reduce the clotting of blood, so there’s less of a possibility of a blood vessel being clogged. And then even if a clot does happen, alcohol can help with fibrinolysis, which is the dissolution of the clot.
The bad news. Alcohol doesn’t actually make you sleep well
If you imbibe before bed, you might help yourself nod off, but you’re not doing your body any favors in the long run. “Alcohol may help you sleep now, but you’ll likely pay for it by being wakeful later,” an expert explains. Boozy beverages can disrupt what’s known as sleep homeostasis, the process that helps your body regulate sleep, according to research in the journal, Alcohol. While alcohol is a somnogen, or sleep inducer, it can also disrupt you in the middle of the night. Then there’s the fact that relying on alcohol to help you sleep can lead to problems down the road. What tends to happen is that alcohol works less and less well as a sleep aid over time, so we respond by increasing the amount we are drinking.
The worse. Binge drinking
Binge drinking is “a pattern of drinking that brings blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels to 0.08.” That’s about four or more drinks for women and five or more drinks for men within about two hours. In the study, researchers discovered binge drinkers had bacterial DNA in their bloodstreams, which was a sign bacteria had leaked out from the gut. They also discovered elevated endotoxin present in the blood, which means toxins had been released from cells after cell walls were damaged by booze. The consequences: These toxins could lead to fever, tissue destruction and inflammation, which is tied to a host of health problems from cancer to depression. It sounds scary, but avoiding these issues is pretty simple if you live by the words for God sake “It’s all about moderation.”
So, I hope you make better choices this weekend and the next…or every time you have the chance to drink.

Simple ways to conquer emotional cravings and its bad implication

Do you know there is a link between emotional cravings and your health? We all know there’s an emotional component to weight gain and loss. Why else would we crave fattening comfort foods over celery sticks when we’re stressed? But according to a recent national survey, only 10 percent of people thought that psychological wellbeing was their biggest barrier to weight loss.
Instead, some 60 percent of respondents blamed poor food choices and lack of exercise for sabotaging their diets. Well, if we focus on being emotionally healthy first, everything else can fall into place.
Let look at three ways we can overcome emotional eating for good:
1) Keep a food journal
People roll their eyes at me when I suggest keeping a “food and feelings” journal. It doesn’t have to be super serious, but it’s helpful to detect a pattern. If you only order pizza after a heated argument with your partner, it tells you that you’re angry. It also shows you that you eat pizza to suppress anger. You might be surprised at what your journal reveals.
2) Pay attention to those cravings
If your mind is saying ‘I have to have those chips,’ that’s your clue that something else is going on in your body and it is not hunger. Are you bored? Aggravated? Need a little carb-y comfort? You’re probably not responding to your body’s pure hunger cues. It’s amazing the number of emotions we can attach to food.
3) Those little changes count
Maybe it’s substituting water for your lunchtime mineral or taking the stairs to your office once a week. The key, is to make changes realistic and incremental. “If you can do one small change a week, by the end of the year, you’ve made 52 changes, and that can transform your life.” You’ll also start to feel better about yourself — which will help you tackle both your food and fitness goals.

5 health benefits of eating banana flowers

Love eating bananas? Now try banana flowers!

  

Banana is an excellent weaning food and is an instant source of energy . Apart from the fruit, the banana leaves are also widely used. Eating on banana leaves is a South Indian tradition, and banana stem can be used to lose weight.  But do you know the banana flower has as many benefits as the fruit, leaves and stem?
Banana flowers are widely used in Maharashtrian cuisine. The banana flower is made into a sabzi or a stir fry that can be eaten with chapattis or dal rice and tastes like heaven. Although a little tedious to make as it involves a lot of peeling, the banana flower should be part of the diet because of its various health benefits.

1. Rich in dietary fibre—Banana flowers are an excellent source of fibre and as the fruit can prevent constipation. Because of their fibre content, they improve digestion and also promote bowel movements.
2. Rich in antioxidants—Banana flowers contain polyphenols which have antioxidant properties. These polyphenols can scavenge free radicals and prevent stress-related damage to the body
3. Can treat diabetes—The banana flower has a low glycemic index and with its high fibre and antioxidant content help in improving blood glucose levels and can be effective in managing diabetes.
4.  Can be used to treat diarrhoea and dysentry—A study published in the Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research says that banana flowers can also be used to treat diarrhea and dysentery.
5. Can relieve symptoms of menorrhagia—Banana flowers can also be used to treat abnormal and heavy bleeding during menstruation.

The Vibration of God is Strongest in Worship, Worship brings Wisdom and the Power for Prosperity

Posted by Enoch Tan

 

“God is Music. The Experienced Universe is a Song of Creation. In the Atmosphere of Worship, the Presence of God is so real. Concepts like “The Glory, The Greatness, The Majesty, The Wonders, and The Goodness” come alive in the moment of worship. A story of the past may just be something that can’t be experienced as real now. The linear perspective of what came before and what came after may not be enough for a mind that comprehends simultaneous time. But one can focus awareness on a particular area NOW and experience it NOW by feeling the Vibration of it NOW.

In the Atmosphere of Worship, the Vibration of God is felt NOW, and the Presence of God is experienced NOW. It is a very PRESENT REALITY. That Vibration is experienced as FEELING and that Feeling is Knowing, and it is a Knowing of REALITY.

The Vibration of God is the strongest in Worship. That is because that’s where His Presence is most tangible, The Glory is Most Glorious, and The Light is the Brightest.

The Vibration of God is the most subtle in the entire universe, and is therefore the most invisible. It is not apparent everywhere you see. But in the Atmosphere of Worship, the Vibration of God gets amplified and the opposite happens. It becomes the strongest and the most real Vibration of all. It is stronger than any other Vibrations of Light you can compare. The Vibration of God is so subtle that it is invisible in the Universal, but it becomes so PERSONAL when amplified in Worship. It is a divine paradox.

God is both Fully Universal and Fully PERSONAL at the same time. All it takes is to focus attention in the Right Way to activate the Right vibration to know the Personal.”

“There is a Presence that can be tangibly felt and experienced. It is the Presence that sweeps all over, washing us, saturating us with His Love, filling us with His Light.”

The Key to Experience the Fullness of God

“Praise opens the door to His Presence. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving in your heart. Enter His courts with praise. He lives in the presence of our praises. If you do not praise Him, you can’t see Him. Other beings who do not praise Him can’t see Him. They may look for Him but they cannot find Him. Therefore to them His Person is nonexistent. He exists outside of their range of perception. What you appreciate, appreciates. This is the Law of Attraction. Draw near to Him with your praises and He will draw near to you. His name is Jesus, and He is the Lord of lords, the Everlasting Father and the Fullness of God. Those that only praise God without the Name that is above every name would not experience His Fullness. There is a Song coming from the other side. Will you open your ears to it and sing with it? He is the Song of songs. He stands at the door and knocks. The door is your heart. Open the door and He will come in, and He will sup with you, and you with Him. He is Soul Food.“

“In the Presence of God all things are beautiful. Light is Sound, Music is Color. God is a Song, and the sweetest sound in the Universe is His Name: Jesus.”

“To worship is to “kiss the Lord”. It is a time of intimacy with God. It is a sacred act that needs a sacred space and a sacred state.”

Worshiping the Lord God brings the Highest Wisdom

Worship is a vibration. Even without saying a word, even without doing a thing, if you are internally appreciating God, you are worshiping Him. When you are reading His Word and you feel a sense of praise towards God, you are worshiping God. People generally talk about external acts as worship, but what’s happening internally is the essence of what’s going on. Whenever you FEEL good about God, you are worshiping God.

How to have wisdom that transcends the stars of heaven (other light beings that do not worship God)? You do that by worshiping God. The worship of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. Worshiping God gives you access to the wisdom of the Most High. Lucifer corrupted his wisdom by reason of his own brightness. That is why he no longer worships God, although he was created to be God’s original worship leader and equipped with all the musical instruments in Eden.

The Supreme Way to Attain 3 things: Grounding, Faith and Wisdom. 1. Ground yourself on the Solid Rock of All Ages – Jesus Christ. All other ground is less stable. No other foundation is as sturdy as Christ Jesus Himself. 2. Look to Jesus as the Author and Perfecter of your Faith. Faith to create reality comes easier when you focus on Him, the Source of Faith. 3. The Worship of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom. Solomon became the Wisest because he worshiped the Lord. Joseph, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego became Wiser than all other Magicians because they worshiped the Lord. Jesus has always been Source above all sources.

How to get into a state of HIGH vibration? How to get into the Vortex? Worship God, Praise Him! When you worship, every cell in your Being comes ALIVE, everything in your soul ALIGNS together in HARMONY, and your vibrational center is positioned to attract good into your life. Is worship is the need of an egoistic God? NO! Worship is for YOU to benefit. God delights in you to worship Him for YOUR sake. He wants You BLESSED, He want You WELL. This is the way to connect with Him personally. This is the way the Universe is originally designed. The morning stars sing for JOY, and All the Heavenly Hosts VIBRATE in tune with the PRAISES of the Most High.

Worship songs are love songs towards God. Just like there are love songs towards those whom you love, worship is love expressed to the greatest portion of your Self. You do relate to a loved one as another person don’t you? Likewise it is the same relationship between you and the Most High as a Person. Worship songs express love, thanks, honor, glory and exaltation. Although some beings have been divorced from that relationship with that greatest portion of Self, the Church is being reconciled with the LORD through Christ Jesus as the Bridegroom.

“The two books right in the center of the Bible are Psalms and Proverbs. The Heart of God and the Mind of God. Worship and Wisdom. Psalms comes before Proverbs. The fear (worship) of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Wisdom comes from Alignment with your Source.”

Worship brings Wisdom and the Power for Prosperity

“I wonder why is it that during moments of intense concentrated worship, my spirit senses and perceives many things of God and Heaven’s reality. But it seems fleeting and I seem to forget about those things at other times. There is a need to ground those energies so that the information in them remains a more constant experience in this reality.

During peak moments in worship, Heaven seems to open and all of Heaven’s bounty, the riches of His Glory can be tapped into and the flow can be directed into any desired areas of our lives. The frequencies of worship are not of this reality but that of Heaven, which is why we do not feel any of our earthly needs in that space. But it is not enough to just ascend into Heaven’s atmosphere during worship. We should also bring Heaven down into Earth as much as we can to make a Heaven on Earth as our reality. It is important to retain awareness of both realities and merge them during worship.

I also feel as though those who are living a life full of praise and worship seem to have a lot more magical power than many magicians out there who use all kinds of rituals that involve much effort and energy. Being plugged into your Source is the most important thing of all. Jesus is the Source.”

“If you bring the high praise unto Me, there will be a continual opening in the Heavens, spiraling upward, as you touch higher realms where even greater miracles are awaiting to manifest on the earth.”

– The Lord Jesus channeling a Rhema word through Renny Mclean (Eternity Invading Time)

“The Lord said to me, “If you want to feed a nation and if you want to feed a triple portion, you must dance.” The Lord said He would send us to feed nations, and He has been faithful to that promise; but it has come through an anointing to dance. Praising in the dance is powerful! In a positive sense, when our dance and our praise please the King, we can have whatever we want. Praise creates an atmosphere in which miracles happen.

“Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours” – Deuteronomy 11:24

I have found that if you dance on nations in the realm of the Spirit, God will also give you the opportunity to dance on them physically. Is it powerful? It’s powerful. You can stand in your hometown and possess nations. Dancing is one of the most effective ways to do it.

There is power in the dance. There’s an anointing for the nations. You’ll find that you have an anointing to feed nations as you begin to dance more before the Lord. Don’t let a day go by that you don’t dance. Praise the Lord in the dance. Let that anointing go from the top of your head to the soles of your feet. Praise the Lord in the dance!”

- GLORY: Experiencing the Atmosphere of Heaven (Ruth Heflin)

Six signs you have a serious sexual problem

It is important to know when something is wrong with your sex life, as early intervention could save you.

  Sex issues that need help

Sex is supposed to be fun, and also an intimate way to connect with a partner. This does not mean it doesn't come with its own set of challenges.
While some sexual challenges can be solves easily with the right tools, others usually need medical intervention or even therapy. Below are 6 kinds of sex problems that requires help.
#1 Persistent problems. If you experience a hard time “getting up” or getting hard, and this problem persists for two weeks or more, this is a sign that there could be a deeper underlying issue that needs to be looked at by a professional. This is the same for other performance-related issues that are out of your control.
#2 Painful. Sex should give you pleasure. If you feel unusual pain when you’re having sex, chances are, you *and/or your partner* have health-related problems. Consulting a therapist can help you find the best medical-based advice on what positions will best lessen the pain, what positions and deeds are most comfortable, and what techniques you can employ to make the most of your time in bed.

#3 No climax. Maybe you don’t have a partner and you’re used to having a go at it on your own. Then suddenly, you find yourself not reaching climax. Again, if this problem is persistent for a few months, or each time you masturbate, this can be due to an underlying issue that an expert can help sort out for you.
#4 Sex arguments. It may start with casual teasing about how your partner slept on you as you were about to do the deed…but then it happens again and again—so much so that you start to bicker about it. If you are arguing about your sex life and are complaining about it, it can help to seek a therapist before your problems in bed overflow to other aspects of your relationship.
#5 Unsatisfactory sex life. While you may both be very polite or don’t want your sex life to be the main drive for your happiness in your relationship, having one *or both* partners dissatisfied in the bedroom is a recipe for disaster. Maybe you or your partner is having erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation and you don’t want to tell the other party about it, or you are experiencing trouble reaching orgasm. This means you need help.
#6 Strained relationships. If your sexual performance and intimacy issues are causing a strain in your relationship, this is also a good reason to bring in an expert. Maybe you’re not having as much sex as you used to, or you are not performing well in bed, and this is causing your partner a great deal of frustration or disappointment that carries over, out of the bedroom. After all, a lack of sex can cause distance between couples and cause frequent bickering. If you want to save your relationship and enjoy sex with your partner again, you really should go see someone

Ten facts about female masturbation that could surprise you

These interesting facts about female masturbation might come as news to you.

Masturbation facts

The topic of Female masturbation is not that popular in our culture, but perhaps, these facts about it might make it easier to discuss.
1. More people do it than you think. A very high percentage of women admit to masturbating regularly, and this is not counting those who are probably too shy to admit it.
2. More women are even doing it more often than you think. 60 percent of women indulge in some self-lovin' about two to three times a week. About 10 percent of women do it every day.
3. There is something called Psychic Masturbator. These women can turn themselves on and even orgasm with their minds. A neuroscientist has witnessed and tested female volunteers in an MRI machine who could quite literally think their way to a orgasm just as intense as if they had done it the old-fashioned way.
4. Female animals masturbate too. Observed out in the wild and in their owners homes, female animals have been caught in compromising situations and they all have their sex toy of choice: horses rub against fences, birds bend their tails, while porcupines and monkeys have sticks.
5. It dates back in history. The first depiction of female masturbation was seen in a clay woman figurine dating back to 4 BC from a temple site on the island of Malta. She is referred to as the Hagar Qim woman and she is poised "with one hand languidly supporting her head."
6. Women are bigger dirty talkers.  According to a 2002 study, young women are much more open talking about sex than men are, including masturbation topics, although they only do this when among other women.
7. Masturbation helps with menstrual cramps. Experts explain that the surge of feel-good hormones released during solo sex can help relieve pain.
8. More women watch porn than you think. Studies reveal that more and more women are now watching pornography to learn more about female masturbation.
9. Women use it to put themselves to sleep. According to an infographic, 32 percent of women masturbate to help themselves fall asleep.
10. Some women will rather go solo. 41 percent of women said they enjoy masturbation more than sex.