How to Identify ‘Runs Girls’ In Lagos

Lagos is a place where the struggle for limited resources is keen. All facilities are highly COMMERCIALIZED including love. Things are not always what they seem to be at the surface level, so there is a need for you to ‘shine your eyes’ before being caught buying the counterfeit.

These are top features of a Lagos prostitute who maybe trying hard to hide her identity to avoid stigma:
(1) Runs girls in Lagos are fond of heavy make-ups:
They are always desperate to create an impression wherever they go. This leads to obviously heavy and colourful make-ups that mayn’t even rhyme at all. The ‘foundation’ could be so strong like she wants to erect a building on her face.

(2) Awkward piercings:
These set of ladies pierce their nose with rings attached. Their ears carry multiple piercings too. Some bold ones go as far as rocking nose rings to show how fashionable they are.

(3) They chew gum indecently:
The act of chewing gum is very paramount among full time prostitutes and ‘aristos’ seem to have mastered the act well and I wonder the rationale behind it.
(4) Breast display:
As goods are displayed on shelves in the shopping mall, so also the runs girls flash their ‘selling points’ I.e their area of strength for prospective buyers. They make sure you can a vivid look of what you are up against like the massive boobs, big bum and exposure of the flat tummy or waist.
(5) Tattoos:

In Nigeria today, most decent and well-cultured ladies don’t draw tattoos. Most ‘female marketers’ are fond of conspicuous tattoos which are positioned at strategic points for you to feed your eyes on and they are always quite bold.
(6) Bleached skin:
A fair lady gets more attention and is easily noticeable than a dark one. Runs girls don’t joke with bleaching. The skin is unnecessary white while the fingers, toes and knuckles stand out black with the intention to break away like Biafra.

(7) Runs girls in Lagos love expensive phones with busy lines:
When a lady’s phone rings incessantly like she is a customer-care agent and you know she isn’t selling anything; my guy, she is into ‘E-commerce’ like Jumia delivering the assumed and the social media is likely her booking office.
(8) When you keep calling her phone and introducing yourself severally:
Runs girls have several clients to deal with. They hardly store numbers until they are sure you have the will to do business. They easily lose track of the identity of their callers and you get poised to re-introduce yourself over and over again.
(9) If she disappears mysteriously like the 2016 national budget from the senate on Friday nights:
Friday nights are sacred nights in Lagos when the ‘god of koboko’ is worshiped by hardworking men that must have been engaged productively throughout the week. On a night like this, a hot runs girl must have been booked by the highest bidder; hence a dramatic disappearance until Saturday morning.

(10) She is a likely ‘selling it’ if she spends the entire day sleeping and heads out every night:
Runs girls in Lagos have opposite working schedules, they leave for work when others are returning, and go on recess when others are at work .

Written by Abiyamo

How to turn your problems to opportunities

There's only one simple question to ask, in order to turn a problem into an opportunity. And believe it or not is was contained within a long forgotten film starring John Belushi of all people.
The movie Continental Divide basically disappeared without a trace when it came out some 30 years ago, and that's too bad.
True, it didn't have much of a plot. As IMDB puts it: "A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher." And it was hard to see Belushi as a true leading man (as he was supposed to be here.)
Still, the movie had two things going for it.
1. A clever script by Lawrence Kasdan (Raiders of the Lost Ark; The Big Chill) and
2. A line that you should always ask yourself when you are confronted with the unexpected.
Blair Brown, the aforementioned eagle researcher, takes Belushi into the wild and on his first glimpse of nature in all its glory he asks, "am I pleased or frightened?"
It is the exactly the same question you need to ask when confronted with what most people would describe as a problem.
Are you pleased or are you frightened?
Now, let's be clear. Some problems are exactly that. The computer crashes. You are stuck in traffic. You develop a 103 degree fever before the big presentation. Those are problems and there very little you can do to turn them to your advantage.
But many of the problems you are confronted with should leave you pleased.
For example, you thought you were onto a big idea. You would create an app that would allow people to search for types of restaurants (Italian) at specific price points ($50 a head) and automatically make the reservation for you and put it in your Microsoft Outlook.
However, when you asked a representative sample of your potential audience about it, they told you there was no reason to develop the software. They were happy with the available options like Open Table.
So, why is something like this good news?
There are three reasons.

• You learned something. This is no small thing the more knowledge you have the insights you can have.
• You learned this ahead of the competition, people who are actually developing "better" versions of Open Table and the like and who are going to discover there is no market (after they have spent tens of thousands of dollars--or more.)
• The knowledge could take you in another reaction

For example, when you were talking to the potential customers who eventually shot down your idea you kept hearing variations on a theme.
Once they scored the reservation, many of them thought of the reservation as an asset and like all assets they wondered if they could monetize it.
"Wouldn't it be great if I could sell my reservation to someone who really wanted it? The restaurant is "hot" and people are waiting for months to get in and there has to be a market for people who want to jump the que."
And similarly, people told you, "you know, I would pay to get into my favorite place at the last minute."
All of a sudden, you are testing the idea of playing restaurant matchmaker.
The point is you could give up, when confronted with a problem. Or you could ask yourself, what can I do with this in order to turn it into an asset.
And that, with a tip of the cap to Mr. Belushi, is how to turn a problem into an opportunity.

Written by Paul B Brown

Egyptian lawyer sues Netanyahu for ‘1967 war crimes’

An Egyptian lawyer has filed a civil lawsuit against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s alleged violations during 1967’s Six Day War, reports coming in..

According to reports, the lawyer, Ismail Labib, filed the lawsuit against the Israeli prime minister in a court in Cairo, demanding that Netanyahu pay him compensation of 100 million Egyptian Pounds for the killing of Egyptian captives by Israel during the 1967 war.

Labib stated that he decided to sue Netanyahu on behalf of his brother, Mohammad Labib Mohammad, who was among the Egyptian soldiers who were captured and killed by the IDF during the Six-Day War.

Isrealie president welcome newest submarine

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot attended the arrival of the German-built INS Rahav.

It left the German port of Kiel last month and sailed in with a crew of 50 on board.

Due to be operational in a matter of months, the vessel cost NIS 1.6 billion (around $406 million), one-third of which was underwritten by the German government.

 Netanyahu said the submarine, which, according to foreign reports is capable of delivering a nuclear payload, would be a key part of the country’s defensive array.

 “Above all else, our submarine fleet acts as a deterrent to our enemies who want to destroy us. They won’t achieve their aims,” he said. “They need to know that Israel can attack, with great might, anyone who tries to harm it.”

Lagos State Flags Off Construction of 114 Roads in 57 LGAs

                                                    Lagos State Governor,Akinwunmi Ambode 

The Lagos State Government of Nigeria on Tuesday announced the flagging off of 114 roads to be constructed in the 57 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the State, just as it assured that more roads will be accommodated in the next phase of the project.

The project, which is being fully funded by the State Government, will be constructed two per each LGAs and LCDAs, and is expected to be completed within six months.

 Speaking at a joint press briefing addressed by the State’s Ministries of Information and Strategy, Local Government and Community Affairs and the Conference of Executive Secretaries of LGAs and LCDAs, the government disclosed that the project would commence simultaneously in all the Councils within the next seven days.

Chairman of Conference 57, the umbrella body of Executive Secretaries of LGAs and LCDAs in the State, Hon. Kolade Alabi said:

  “This is no doubt unprecedented in the history of not just Lagos State, but in the entire nation with all modesty. I salute Governor Ambode’s vision, sense of commitment and dedication to grassroots development. It is indeed taking Lagos to the next level and the benefits as well as the gains of this project on the socio-economic lives of Lagosians cannot be over-emphasised”.

Osinbajo Launches 2,000 Housing Units In Kaduna

                                                                   Yemi Osinbajo

Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,Yemi Osinbajo yesterday flagged off the foundation laying of 2,000 housing units projects initiated by the Kaduna State government.
The Vice President equally laid the foundation of a N5 billion naira shopping mall and galleria, expected to be commissioned in the next one and a half years.
Addressing the crowd at the sites of the projects, Osinbajo reiterated that the federal government along with the Kaduna state government was keen to start delivering on the campaign platform that brought both the President and the Governor to power.
He said the APC was confident in el-Rufai as one of the more competent hands the party can boast of, adding that the party is committed and determined to provide Nigerians with good governance.

The making of Rocktown Records

Frank Ugochukwu Edwards was born into a family of seven from Enugu state of Nigeria. He has five siblings. He began singing at the age of ten years. He learned to play the piano from his father when he was young.

 In his teenage years, he became a born-again Christian. He has six albums and many hit singles to his name.simply known as Frank Edwards but nicknamed as Richboy, is a Nigerian contemporary Christian singer,song writer and recording artist and the founder and owner of record label Rocktown Records, which is home to recording artists such as Edwards himself, Gil, Divyn, and David among others.

 He is a member of the Presidential band of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome in Christ Embassy Church. His debut album The Definition was released in 2008. It was a 14-track album and was distributed by Honesty Music. Angels on the Runway his second album was released in 2010 and another, Unlimited, in 2011. Tagjam, was released in November 2011. He is currently known as Nigeria's Hottest Gospel rock artiste Now in Nigeria. In 2013 he appeared in the live performance of Sinach's "I know who I am" video. Besides being an artist with many songs in all musical genre, In May 2011 he was nominated as the Gospel artiste of the year in the sixth annual Nigeria Entertainment Awards (NEA). He won the award of the best Gospel Rock artiste in the first annual awards^, he also won West Africa best male vocalist in 2012/ best hit single at the love world awards 2012/ and 3 awards at the Nigeria gospel music awards (male artiste of the year,song of the year and best male vocal)
He can be reached through his facebook account which is www.facebook.com/mhiz.evelyn

EU builds road on dead sea to annex area for Palestine

The European Union is funding an unauthorized Palestinian road to the Dead Sea in Area C of the West Bank to help annex that area to the Palestinian Authority, said a non-governmental group.
The group, which monitors illegal Palestinian construction, is scheduled to give a presentation on the matter to Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee’s sub-group on Judea and Samaria.

It also petitioned the High Court of Justice last month against the road, the first 20 kilometers of which are under construction.

At present, the road is designed to be an access route from homes in the Palestinian village of Teqoa to nearby agricultural lands. Some eight kilometers of the road have been laid out in preparation for the pouring of cement.

Malawi First Female Minister is dead

Rose Lomathinda Chibambo, Malawi's first female cabinet minister at independence, has succumbed to a heart attack.

 

She died at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Blantyre in the early hours of Tuesday, January 12, 2016, according to hospital sources. She was 86.

Chibambo hailed from Kafukule in Mzimba district, northern region.

Funeral details are yet to be announced by the family.

Nyasa Times reported a few days ago about her hospitalization.

Hero of Malawi's independence struggle, Rose was imprisoned by the British and gave birth while in jail. Malawi's first female cabinet minister, she rebelled against Kamuzu Banda during the Cabinet Crisis of 1964 and was exiled in Zambia for 30 years.

Pillars of Poland’s democracy are destroyed-Timothy Garton

                           Timothy Garton Ash

 Poland, the pivotal power in post-communist central Europe, is in danger of being reduced by its recently elected ruling party to an illiberal democracy.
Basic pillars of its still youthful liberal democracy, such as the constitutional court,public service broadcasters and a professional civil service, are suddenly under threat. The voices of all allied democracies, in Europe and across the Atlantic, must be raised to express their concern about a turn with grave implications for the whole democratic west.
And this needs to happen soon. For the political blitzkrieg of the past two months suggests that the strategy of the Law and Justice party (known by its Polish acronym as PiS), and specifically of its one true leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, is to do the dirty work of transforming the political system rapidly, even brutally, and then to show a kinder, softer, more pragmatic face. He has the parliamentary majority to do this (although not the two thirds needed to change the constitution), still considerable popular support – and, shockingly, the president of the country is behaving like his glove puppet.
For at least 20 years Kaczyński has dreamed of what he sees as completing the anti communist revolution of 1989, but he also knows, recalling his experience in power from 2005 to 2007, that the window of opportunity may not long be open. So he says to himself, like Macbeth, “If it were done … then ’twere well it were done quickly.”
 Since what I have just written will be seen as partisan, unfair criticism by many who voted for Kaczyński’s party in last autumn’s election, let me state equally clearly what I am not saying. I am not criticising a party with a clear parliamentary majority for pushing through its proclaimed conservative, Catholic, Eurosceptic policies, cleverly combined with an almost left wing set of economic and welfare promises. I may not like those policies, but that’s democracy. I have been for nearly 40 years now a friend of Poland, not just of one milieu, let alone of any particular party. Among my most moving memories is the vast crowd in front of the historic monastery of Częstochowa greeting Pope John Paul II in 1983, and singing the old patriotic hymn Return to Us, O Lord, Free our Fatherland.

 Timothy Garton Ash is the author of nine books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last thirty years. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Get ready to go to jail, BJP tells Indian minister

Reports from New Delhi suggests that there has been a Lashing out at Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal over his fresh attack on the Modi government, BJP on Friday accused him of taking one unconstitutional step after another and asked him to be "ready to go to jail" in the defamation case filed by finance minister Arun Jaitley.
The Kejriwal government has been a "complete failure" and the chief minister has been resorting to levelling politically motivated charges against BJP leaders to "hide" its failures and "protect" his principal secretary who is facing corruption charges, the party alleged.
 Attacking the AAP leader after he insisted that the commission of inquiry appointed by the Delhi government to look into the alleged DDCA corruption will continue working despite the Centre's decision to term it illegal, BJP said he should give these arguments in the court where the defamation case was being heard.

"Kejriwal and his associates should be prepared to go to jail. His government has taken a number of unconstitutional decisions to hide its failures and corruption," BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma said.
The Delhi chief minister should read the Constitution and stop taking unconstitutional decisions, he said, adding the city government was spending huge amount of public money on publicity campaign instead of using it for people's welfare.