ILLEGALLY MIGRATED NIGERIANS IN ITALY

Figures from the Italian interior ministry estimated the record of Nigerian arrivals at 36,000, most of them claiming they were running away from Boko Haram insurgency or Niger Delta crisis.

The estimate was as of November 2016.

The Nigerian government was briefed by Italian authorities on this development late last year.

“Most Nigerian migrants pictured in this milieu, are motivated by economic and pecuniary interests”, said a spokesman for  Babachir David Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation.

From all indications, government may soon begin a campaign to dissuade the young Nigerian “opportunity seekers” from embarking on the “perilous Mediterranean crossings in their bid to emigrate to Europe”.

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FAYOSE BLASTS CLERICS OVER FALSE PREDICTIONS

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has taken a swipe at some clerics who had predicted that he would be impeached or removed from office in less than a year after his assumption of office.

It would be recalled that in 2014, shortly after his re-election and after his inauguration as governor, two clerics, (names withheld), from Ibadan and Akure, predicted that Fayose would not survive a year in office, adding that he would either be impeached or chased out of office as it happened in 2006 during his first tenure.

There were fierce legal and political battles afterwards that threatened his office but he was able to weather the storm. Boasting that negative prophecies against him will always fail because he is God’s project whose destiny is only determined by God, governor Fayose declared in Ado-Ekiti yesterday during the annual Christmas Carol Service at the Government House Grounds, that whatever God has purposed for him could not be altered by mere wishes of men. 

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MARSEILLE TO MAKE MIKEL HIGHEST PAID PLAYER

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Struggling  French Ligue 1 side Marseille  may have succeeded in convincing  out of favour Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi to shun big-money move  to the Chinese Super League to help revive the club.

Former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who  bought Marseille in October, had promised to invest heavily in the January transfer window to help manager Rudi Garcia  build a team  that could be European champions.

Les Phoceens were ready to rescue Mikel  from  his Chelsea nightmare in the summer  but the player’s  reported £3.4m-a-year  salary  reportedly  aborted  the  move.

With McCourt ready to spend in January – and Mikel yet to play a single game for Chelsea since the beginning of the season – reports in France on Sunday claimed Marseille were ready to sign the 29-year-old.

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HAPPY MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY

On October 22nd, volunteers from across the country will unite for Make A Difference Day, one of the largest annual single-days of service nationwide. Since 1992, volunteers and communities have come together on Make A Difference Day with a single purpose, to improve the lives of others. Make A Difference Day is made possible by you and the people of TEGNA with support from Arby’s Foundation and Points of Light.

QUOTES ABOUT MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” 

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi

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6 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE TURNING 30

Your 20s are a time for figuring out who you are and what you want from life.

While the only way to learn is to survive the inevitable cycle of successes and failures, it is always useful to have some guidance along the way.

To help you out, we've selected some of our favorite books that likely never made your high school or college reading lists.

It's an eclectic selection that focuses on topics like identity, how you see the world, and laying the foundation for a fulfilling career.

  Here's what we think you should read before you turn 30:

            Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius
 As you become an adult, you realize that there will never be a time in your life where everything is just as you hoped it would be.

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MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER : ZIG ZIGLAR AND BIOGRAPHY

Zig Ziglar was born in November 26 1926Coffee County in southeastern Alabama, to John Silas Ziglar and Lila Wescott Ziglar. He was the tenth of 12 children.

In 1931, when Ziglar was five years old, his father took a management position at a Mississippi farm, and his family moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he spent most of his early childhood. The next year, his father died of a stroke, and his younger sister died two days later.

Ziglar later worked as a salesman in a succession of companies. In 1968, he became a vice president and training director for the Automotive Performance company and moved to Dallas, Texas.

In 2007, a fall down a flight of stairs left him with short-term memory problems. 

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INTERESTING FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ABEOKUTA

INTERESTING FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ABEOKUTA

 Abeokuta was a sovereign nation for 20 years and 11 months before the British almagamated her with the rest of Nigeria. She had her own laws, Police Force, Civil Service and was well organized. The Alake was the head of the defunct government known as the Egba United Government (1 February 1893- 1 January 1914). The almagamation with the rest of Nigeria did not go down well with the Egba people and this resulted in the Adubi War (1918). I have compiled some facts about this ancient and paramount city that seats as the capital of Ogun State and also the pride of Egbaland.

Abeokuta was founded in 1830, with Sodeke as her leader.

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