South Sudan President Declares Free Visa Entry

                                                         President Salva Kirr 

President Salva Kirr of South Sudan has declared free travel entry into his country for all persons holding Rwandan and East African passports as part of the integration plan.

"I declare that those with Rwandan passport and whole of East Africa will no longer need visas to travel to South Sudan" Kirr said in a tweet this December 28.

The move is expected to spur the involvement and transactions between South Sudan and other five EAC member states that are already pushing for major integration and development projects under the Northern Corridor region, of which South Sudan is one of the latest entrants.

LONDON on high terror alert for new year eve

A “friendly” intelligence service warned of a gun or bomb attack being carried out in a crowded area of a major European city in New Year.
The news comes as Russian authorities told citizens the “safest” way of seeing in the New Year was to stay at home.

But Labour MP Keith Vaz has urged Britons not to let the terrorists win this New Year saying: “We should never allow the threat of terrorism to frighten us into changing our normal lives.
“We need to continue with our celebrations.
“Given the current climate, of course we should be extra vigilant and continue to be well protected but if we give into fear then they would have won.”

FG to concession Nigerian National Theatre

The process of handing over the National Theatre to private sector management is underway, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said.
According to him:
 “We are not averse to a Public-Private Partnership arrangement that will add value to the iconic complex

“The National Theatre is a national monument and a tourist attraction. We will not allow it to go derelict or become a magnet for hoodlums. This monument is the pride of the nation, and it has always served as the point of convergence for Nigerians seeking fun and relaxation, especially during festive periods, and a centre for the promotion of arts and culture.”

“It is totally unacceptable that fun-seeking individuals who throng the National Theatre for relaxation during festive periods or at any time will become the victims of attacks by hoodlums.

“We will work with the security agencies, especially the police and the Department of State Services, to upgrade security at the National Theatre. It is also important for the management of the complex to ensure that its perimeter is better secured to ward off hoodlums,’’ the minister said.

Radio Biafra transmitters installed on MTN masts —FG

The Federal Government of Nigeria has said the transmitters for Radio Biafra, which has been accused of spreading secessionist agenda and campaigning for the carving out of a Biafra Republic from Nigeria, were found to be installed on MTN masts in Enugu and Anambra states.

According to the Federal Government, the installation of the transmitters on the telecommunications company’s masts was to ensure wider coverage for the radio.

This is contained in the government’s case summary of the fresh six counts of treason and other ancillary offences instituted against the founder of Radio Biafra and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and two others, before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

One of the two other defendants in the six counts filed by the Federal Government is a field maintenance engineer, David Nwawuisi, charged with the responsibility of maintaining the MTN masts in Enugu State.

The other defendant, Benjamin Madubugwu, was said to be living in Ubilisiuzo, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, where he allegedly received custody of a container housing transmitters from Kanu.

THE BEAST WHOSE DEADLY WOUND IS HEALED.

Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
We clearly see the ambition of the Turkish President to resurrect (heal the deadly wound) of the Islamic Empire. The Bible calls the AntiChrist the King of Babylon.
Isaiah 14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and *the sceptre** of the rulers.
It seems that whoever rules Iraq (Ancient Babylon) will rule the Islamic World, as the Bible says the Sceptre of the Empire will be in Babylon (Iraq). So either Turkey will have to annex Iraq to obtain the kingly scepter, or we should expect a king to rise within Iraq, who will hold sway over the empire. Either way we can clearly see the Islamic world edging ever closer, to healing the deadly wound of their fallen empire.

Culled from the internet

Civil Servants in Zimbabwe Threaten Riots Over Salaries

Civil servants have threatened to go on strike on January 1, 2016 if Government fails to come up with measure to enable them to report for work as they wait for January 5 to receive their December salaries.

Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa last week announced that the December salary payment date for all other civil servants, health workers included, had been moved from December 29 to January 5.

Salary payment dates for those in the education sector were also moved from December 28 to today.

Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZiNA) general secretary Mr Enock Dongo said nurses understood the difficulties faced by the Government in financing its operations.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Jailed for Receiving Bribe

Israel’s top court on Tuesday upheld a bribery conviction against former premier Ehud Olmert, which will make him the country’s first ex-prime minister to serve jail time.

The 70-year-old, who was prime minister from 2006 to 2009, was sentenced in May last year to six years in prison on two separate charges of taking bribes in the early 2000s.

“Olmert has been acquitted of the felony of taking a bribe of 500,000 shekels ($128,500/117,000 euros),” the decision read, but “unanimously convicted of the felony of taking a bribe of 60,000 shekels”.

“The sentencing will be for 18 months” beginning on February 15, said the decision reached by five justices.

The trial of the former premier was linked to the construction of Jerusalem’s massive Holyland residential complex when Olmert served as the city’s mayor.

Guinea Ends Transmission of Ebola Virus

                                               Saa Sabas Temessadouno

Forty-two days have passed since the last person confirmed to have Ebola virus disease in Guinea tested negative for the second time. The country now enters a 90-day period of heightened surveillance to ensure that any new cases are identified quickly before they can spread to other people.
 Saa Sabas Temessadouno holds a certificate showing he was cured of Ebola (file photo). “ It’s my certificate I’m most proud of” Saa Sabas Temessadouno, who fell ill in April last year, after accompanying a sick elder to the health clinic. He spent more than three weeks in an Ebola treatment unit after testing positive for the virus. “This certificate proves I have been cured of Ebola,” he said. “It shows I am no longer contagious. When people see it, they believe it.”

10 principles every bachelor must know

1. Marry a Woman you can Pray with, not just Sleep with
2. A Real Man is NOT measured by how many women he has slept with, but by how many women he has told “Sorry, I’m already taken.”

3. The consequence of watching Good Women pass you by without asking them out, is to become angry and frustrated when they end up marrying your not so competent friends.
4. If you ask God, the rule for dating is simple, “Never undress a Woman you haven’t first dressed with a Wedding ring.”
5. There is a certain type of Woman you need to avoid at all costs, ” the Woman who thinks beauty is more important than character.”
6. Any Woman can look beautiful in a short skirt. But If she can look beautiful in a long dress, that girl is a Keeper!
7. Never impregnate a woman with a BABY until you have first impregnated her with a VISION.
8. Find you a Woman who can trigger your IQ- Intelligence Quotient, not just trigger your Hormones.
9. Perfect Women don’t exist , Good Women are everywhere.
10. A Woman can cheat on you but Jesus will never cheat on you. So before getting a Woman, get Jesus first!
In the end, as a Man, always, always focus on making money and never stop making it. It is Creflo Dollar who first said, ” I’ll never let my daughter marry a Man who doesn’t have a job.”

Written by Toyin Awodeyi

REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD STOP DRINKING ALCOHOL

 There are lots of reasons why you might want to stop drinking alcohol. Some people need to stop drinking as a result of developing an alcohol related medical condition such as liver disease, or because they start taking medication which reacts badly with alcohol. Others choose to do so for religious reasons, or simply as a move towards a healthier lifestyle but wait a minuite,lets look at the biblical reasons:

1) Genesis 9:20-26 - Noah became drunk; the result was immorality and family trouble.
2) Genesis 19:30-38 - Lot was so drunk he did not know what he was doing; this led to immorality
3) Leviticus 10:9-11 - God commanded priests not to drink so that they could tell the difference between the holy and the unholy.
4) Numbers 6:3 - The Nazarites were told to eat or drink nothing from the grape vine.
5) Deuteronomy 21:20 - A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious.
6) Deuteronomy 29:5-6 - God gave no grape juice to Israel nor did they have intoxicating drink in the wilderness.
7) Deuteronomy 32:33 - Intoxicating wine is like the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
8) Judges 13:4, 7, 14 - Samson was to be a Nazarite for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or strong drink.
9) 1 Samuel 1:14-15 - Accused, Hannah said she drank no wine.
10) 1 Samuel 25:32-38 - Nabal died after a drunken spree.
11) 2 Samuel 11:13 - By getting Uriah drunk, David hoped to cover his sin.
12) 2 Samuel 13:28-29 - Amnon was drunk when he was killed.
13) 1 Kings 16:8-10 - The king was drinking himself into drunkenness when he was assassinated
14) 1 Kings 20:12-21 - Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking when they were attacked and defeated by the Israelites.
15) Esther 1:5-12 - The king gave each one all the drink he wanted. The king was intoxicated when he commanded the queen to come.
16) Psalm 75:8 - The Lord’s anger is pictured as mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked.
17) Proverbs 4:17 - Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.
18) Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
19) Proverbs 23:19-20 - A wise person will not be among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.
20) Proverbs 23:21 - Drunkenness causes poverty.
21) Proverbs 23:29-30 - Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.
22) Proverbs 23:31 - God instructs not to look at intoxicating drinks.
23) Proverbs 23:32 - Alcoholic drinks bite like a serpent, sting like an adder.
24) Proverbs 23:33 - Alcohol causes the drinker to have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces willfulness, and prevents reformation.
25) Proverbs 23:34 - Alcohol makes the drinker unstable
26) Proverbs 23:35 - Alcohol makes the drinker insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a warning. Alcohol is habit forming.
27) Proverb 31:4-5 - Kings, Princes, and others who rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgment.
28) Proverbs 31:6-7 - Strong drink could be given to those about to perish or those in pain. Better anesthetics are available today.
29) Ecclesiastes 2:3 - The king tried everything, including intoxicating drink, to see if it satisfied. It did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:8)
30) Ecclesiastes 10:17 - A land is blessed when its leaders do not drink.


Written by Favour Baruwa

4.3-magnitude earthquake recorded in east Edmond

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake was reported near east Edmond early Tuesday morning.
The quake originally was reported around 5:40 a.m. as a 4.1 earthquake.
An aftershock was recorded at 5:49 a.m. as a 3.4-magnitude quake. It was centered 3 miles east-northeast of Edmond.
Residents from all over Oklahoma reported feeling the earthquake. Hundreds of people posted on the KOCO Facebook page that they felt the earthquake, and multiple peopled called the newsroom stating they lost power after the quake.

Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu apologises to Buhari

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed regret for referring to President Muhammadu Buhari as a terrorist, evil and a paedophile in his radio broadcasts.

Kanu, who has been charged along with two others by the Federal Government before a Federal High Court in Abuja on six counts of treason and other ancillary offences, said he intended to write a private letter to Buhari to express his apology to the President.

 According to Nnamdi Kanu, “Reference to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a terrorist, evil and a paedophile is regrettable and uncalled for and for that, I unreservedly apologise and will be doing so in a private letter to the President.

“Before PMB (President Muhammadu Buhari) there was the administration of Goodluck Jonathan. I also said uncomplimentary things about him and Igbo elders as well, which I now recognise should not have happened because it is un-African to be rude or insolent to elders.

“All I was trying to do is to draw attention to the problems afflicting society and something done about them.”

Kanu, who described himself as a Nigerian and a British citizen, justified his agitation for a Biafra Republic.

He said IPOB’s secessionist agenda was informed by the “incessant hardship, lack of holistic development in the socio-economic landscape of Nigeria, lack of youth employment, corruption in high offices and economic regression.”

5 Mistakes you must not repeat in 2016

Everybody makes mistakes. This fact has been with us since elementary school, and it is just as applicable to the business world. Mistakes are an important part of life, as they provide opportunities to learn and grow.
2016 is almost here,do not make the mistakes that you made in 2015 again.
Here are a few examples of mistakes made by many good entrepreneurs who have learned to ensure that they do not happen again.

1. Believing in something that is too good to be true

We have all heard that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This holds true in business as well. It can be easy to follow people who are very charismatic and confident. Good entrepreneurs who have been a little too naïve in the past never let it happen again. Always do your due diligence and make decisions only after considering logic and evidence. Ask serious questions before you get involved or committed to something, especially if it seems too good to be true.

2. Running your business without a budget

Sticking to a budget forces you to make thoughtful and purposeful decisions about what is most important. Smart entrepreneurs know where their money is coming from and where it is going, and they control it every step of the way. Creating and sticking to a strict budget allows a business to respond better to challenges and opportunities that arise, because money is not being lost on unnecessary discretionary expenditures. Budgets require discipline, and discipline is essential to success in the business world.

3. Losing track of the big picture

As an entrepreneur, your business depends on you to keep track of many different things at once. It is easy to get lost in one task and allow everything else to be pushed aside. Intelligent entrepreneurs regularly balance their daily tasks and priorities with larger goals. It is important to remember that the small things are all in service of the bigger picture, and if you lose sight of the overarching purpose, everything else will suffer.

4. Being afraid of conflict

Conflict is an important part of developing strong relationships with other people. Especially in business, there will be times when people’s ideas will cause friction. Smart entrepreneurs know that shying away from conflict only makes things worse because nobody will be happy with inaction. It is better to address conflict in a positive, constructive way that works to solve the problem. Problems are inevitable in every business, and it is important to trust your team to be part of the solution. Shying away from a problem will only cripple your business as well as the respect that others have for you.

5. Using poor communication skills

Many entrepreneurs assume that they have solid communication skills. After all, if you weren’t able to communicate your business’s mission and purpose in a positive way, why would people want to be a part it?
The truth is, good communication skills are rarely inherent and can be very difficult to develop; they must be cultivated and fostered. When speaking with others, whether they are employees, partners or customers, it is important to speak clearly and use facts to explain and justify your decisions.
Many smart entrepreneurs use communication/personality tests to learn what different communication styles you and your employees use. Such tools can help you and your team better understand each other and communicate in ways that will ensure the message is clear to everyone.
If you have made any (or all!) of these mistakes, you’re in good company. The problem is if you do nothing to fix it. Entrepreneurs must reevaluate situations and adjust their plans often in order to stay on the path to success.

Written by Michael Brenner.
 Michael Brenner is the CEO of Marketing Inside Group, Head of Strategy at NewsCred, and the former VP of Global Content Marketing at SAP. Michael is also the co-author of the upcoming book The Content Formula, a contributor to leading publications like The Economist, Inc Magazine, The Guardian, and Forbes and a frequent speaker at industry events covering topics such as marketing strategy, social business, content marketing, digital marketing, social media and personal branding.
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The boiling point

Put a frog into a vessel fill with water and start heating the water. As the temperature of the water begins to rise, the frog adjust its body temperature accordingly. The frog keeps adjusting its body temperature with the increasing temperature of the water. Just when the water is about to reach boiling point, the frog cannot adjust anymore. At this point the frog decides to jump out. The frog tries to jump but it is unable to do so because it has lost all its strength in adjusting with the rising water temperature. Very soon the frog dies.
What killed the frog?
Think about it!
I know many of us will say the boiling water. But the truth about what killed the frog was its own inability to decide when to jump out.
We all need to adjust with people & situations, but we need to be sure when we need to adjust & when we need to move on. There are times when we need to face the situation and take appropriate actions.
If we allow people to exploit us physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually or mentally they will continue to do so.
Let us decide when to jump!
Let's jump while we still have the strength.

Written by Belle Bickham