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Your future self is watching. Make her proud. #Bisi28 #Favour

Benefits of Smiling Smiling offers numerous benefits for both mental and physical health. Here are some of the key advantages of smiling: Mental Health Benefits - *Boosts Mood*: Smiling releases endorphins, natural mood boosters that can help reduce stress and anxiety. - *Reduces Stress*: Smiling can help reduce stress and make you feel more relaxed. - *Improves Approachability*: Smiling makes you appear more approachable and trustworthy, making it easier to connect with others. Physical Health Benefits - *Lowers Stress Levels*: Smiling can help lower cortisol production and reduce the risk of heart disease. - *Boosts Immune System*: Smiling can help release immune-boosting hormones and improve the function of infection-fighting antibodies. - *Relieves Pain*: Smiling can release endorphins, natural painkillers that can help reduce pain and improve mood. - *Improves Cardiovascular Health*: Smiling can help improve blood flow to the brain and lower blood pressure, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Social Benefits - *Contagious*: Smiling is contagious and can brighten up a room, making everyone feel more welcome. - *Improves Relationships*: Smiling can communicate positive feelings and intentions towards others, strengthening relationships and building trust. - *Makes You More Attractive*: Smiling can make you look younger, more attractive, and more confident. Additional Benefits - *Looks Younger*: Smiling can help tone facial muscles and improve complexion, making you look younger and more radiant. - *Improves Confidence*: Smiling can boost self-confidence and make you feel more approachable and attractive to others. Overall, smiling is a simple yet powerful way to improve both mental and physical health, relationships, and overall well-being. Culled from: https://lovethatsmile.com/dental-articles/benefits-of-smiling-8-unbelievable-reasons-to-smile-more #Chinosky #grace

What is joy? Joy means taking; Jesus first Yourself last Others in-between ❤️ #SpreadTheLove

To eat for dream is free but nobody wants to cook free food for dreamers. So guys buckle up and hustle tight for yourself. Nobody recognises a jobless man

FROM ANOTHER PLATFORM By Obi Nwakanma And I hear you, bro. But think about it: from 1970- 1979, the generation of the Igbo who had fought and funded the war, were not talking of marginalization. They took on the task of restoration. I remember the story the late Mbazulike Amaechi told me when I once visited him in Ukpor. At the end of the war, the Igbo business elite who had been in PH, and whose property had been forcibly acquired by the new government in Rivers state went to Asika to intervene. Asika sat with them and urged them to seek the intervention of the courts and make this a seminal case on the defense of Igbo property rights in Nigeria. He did not want to seem to put undue pressure in a very sensitive time on the government of Rivers state. The Igbo were being harassed and stopped from work and resuming their life in PH. Asika encouraged them to seek the legal benefits of Awolowo who was the most powerful politician in government at the time. These Igbo businessmen met Awo, in Lagos, and after he heard them, Awo demanded that they go and pay 1 million pounds into his Chambers account, before he would could take on their plea. The Igbo business men asked Awo where he thought they could get one million pounds, having just come out of a devastating war. He said it was their business and dismissed them. The men later met in ZC Obi’s home, and after rounds and rounds of discussions, they agreed at ZC Obi’s urging, that they would no longer pursue the matter. ZC Obi said, “ let us ge back to work. Let us send our young men back to work. We shall build Aba until it gets into Port Harcourt, and no one will know the difference.” And that was precisely what they set out to do, and were about accomplishing that feat up till 1987. By 1979, the Igbo were powerful enough to ge a serious factor in Nigerian politics. Between 1979-83, the Igbo were not talking about marginalization. They were engaged in restoration . Mbakwe had asked Ihechukwu Madubuike as minister for education, to place as priority the establishment of another federal university in Igbo land. Thus FUTO in 1980. Between he and Jim Nwobodo, they launched an industrial policy that quickly turned the East once more into an active economic belt. They did not wait for the federal government. Imo state University and Anambra state university of Technology were the first state universities to be established under the state laws. I was reading the Imo State University Act that established the charter of the old Imo state university the other day, and I am still utterly impressed by the quality and precision of thought that went into organizing that university under the inimitable MJC Echeruo, one of Igbo lands sharpest minds of the 20th century. The same goes for ASUTHEC. Nwobodo went specifically to Harvard to make Prof Kenneth Dike to return to Enugu and establish ASUTHEC. Now, compare that Igbo, to this generation of the Akalogoli. Mbakwe took Shagari specifically to Ndiegoro, in Aba, wept publicly with dramatic impact , and forced Shagari to promise to establish the ecological fund to deal with places like Ndiegoro in Igbo land. He compelled Shagari to understand that Gas and Petroleum were abundant natural resources from Imo state, and that Imo deserved and must be given new shares/ consideration , if the federal did not want Imo to sue, and even begin to raise questions about the federal government’s s seizure of Eastern Nigerias oil and gas investments, like the PH refinery for which no compensation has even to this day, been paid. Mbakwe pushed the oil issue and said to Shagari that the proposed Petrochemical Plant must be located in Imo, otherwise he would begin to build the Imo Petrochemical Industries himself . The grounds had been cleared by October 1983, and work started at the Imo Petrochemical Plant at Izombe by the time the military struck on Dec. 31, 1983. It was Buhari who later relocated that plant to Eleme. Mbakwe began the first Independent Power company with the Amaraku power station under Alex Emeziem at the Ministry of Utilities. The father of my high school buddy at the Government College Umuahia was the project manager who designed and installed the power station at Amaraku and had begun work at the Izombe Gas power station; all with engineers and technicians from the Imo state ministries of work and public utilities. They did not go to China to sign a contract. They just went to South Korea to procure the parts they designed and which they installed themselves! By 1981/2 most towns in Imo state had electricity under the Imo state Rural Electrification project. Same with the Five Zonal water project under the Mbakwe program. The project manager was Engineer Ebiringa. They did not go to China or America or wait for the federal government. 85% of the Imo Water project had been completed by the time the soldiers struck. There are still giant iron pipes buried underground in almost all the towns in the old Imo state under that project which was designed to give Imo the first constant, clean water of any state of Nigeria. Only a phase of the Owerri water project was completed by the time Mbakwe was kicked out of office, but even so, Owerri had the cleanest, most regular water of any city in Nigeria. Imo organized her public schools. Imo organized a first class public health system. My own father was commissioned under the Health Management board as the government’s Chief Health Statician, to conduct the first broad epidemiological survey of Imo state in 1982. I saw him at work. They were serious and professional men, who took their duties very seriously because they were highly trained. The Imo state civil service was possibly the finest civil service in West Africa; finer than the federal service, because they had a highly selected and well trained pool of civil servants who delivered value to the people. They were not talking about marginalization. You may say what you like today about Jim Nwobodo, but he started the independent satellite newspaper In Enugu, which balanced the story coming out of Lagos. No one was talking about marginalization until Chuba Okadigbo, rightly used that word to decribe the way the federal military government of Nigeria was treating the Igbo, in terms of access to real power. There were not enough Igbo officers represented in the organograms of the military governments, and yes, that word was apt, in that period . But we have taken it too far, and turned it into an excuse for our intellectual and political indolence. The Igbo have waited for their comeuppance on Nigeria, but shit ain’t happening. Nigeria is moving on without us, for better or worse. We must now recalibrate and engage. Let us use the final gas in our tanks, all of us now, between 55-75 years, to complete the work of restoration which the last generation began but which we have abandoned because we dropped the ball. We may weep all we want and complain that Nigeria is unfair, but the universe is indifferent. I dare say, Nigeria actually has no capacity to marginalize the Igbo. We better stop marginalizing ourselves or risk our children and their children inheriting the slave’s mentality!! That’s the danger we court with this story of Igbo marginality, which is actually self imposed, and self indulgent! I pray we rise again!!!! Happy New Month to us all!!! #Discipline

The Parable of the 10 Virgins teaches us about: 1. Preparedness 2. Planning 3. Self-sufficiency 4. Importance of timing These lessons can be applied to various aspects of life, such as career, finance, relationships, and personal growth. #tessy_rich #Favour #knowledge #preparedness

I Was a Bad Girl for Three Years Until... Florence Adeyemo — the Mary Magdalene of Jesuit High School. The kind of girl everyone admired. The girl her family and classmates fondly called Pastor Mrs. Flo. She was the white sheep of the senior block — gentle, elegant, holy, and brilliant. What better combination could anyone ask for? Flo did everything right. Not because she was a “Miss Perfect,” but because she genuinely lived a righteous life. She wasn’t trying to impress anyone. She simply loved God — and it showed. But then, something happened. Three weeks after the senior secondary school holiday, Flo started hanging out with Natasha — the class wolf. Natasha, the daughter of a senator, was wild and rebellious. Lazy in school, loud at parties. She lived for the nightlife and didn’t care what anyone thought. Flo told herself she was only trying to win Natasha over to Christ. After all, Jesus was always found among sinners, right? Her intentions were pure. Her boundaries were not. Slowly, Florence changed. The girl who used to whisper words of prayer began to speak words soaked in profanity. Her gracious, calm spirit gave way to a sharp, restless energy. She became defiant. Disrespectful. Rebellious. Overnight, Flo became a different person. A bad girl. Her fall was loud. It took serious intercession, divine mercy, and tough love to pull her back from the edge. The process wasn’t easy. But it worked. She learned her lesson — the hard way. No matter how pure your intentions are, the company you keep will shape your character. Set boundaries, or you may become what you were trying to change. © Juliet Chinenyenwa Alex #grace #julietchineneyenwaalex

A guy who earn 100k every month. How long will it take him to furnish his house considering these prices below: 1, House rent for self contained=500,000. 2, Air conditioner= 120,000. 3, mattress = 200,000. 4, Bed frame= 150,000. 5,Gas cooker and cylinder = 200,000. 6,Television =150,000. With TPain in government a pi being constant for the next six years, how long will it take him to furnish this house?

Every minute, someone leaves this world. Age has nothing to do with it. We're all in this queue without realizing it. We never know how many people are in front of us. We can't go to the back of the line. We can't get out of line. We can't stop moving forward. So, while we wait in line... Let's make peace! Let's do good! Let's tell the truth! Let's be honest! We will leave this world one day, that's for sure. There's no point holding a grudge against someone who could leave at any moment. There's no point sending a brother to prison when you yourself could leave first. What's the point of boasting about putting others down when you could be gone in the next few minutes? Why do you let yourself be deceived by your money, your social position, and your connections, when you're not the first to have them? While you seek your brother's death for a piece of land in the village, others exploit your continent and even invade planets. Evil is ignorance. Pride is for the foolish. Selfishness is for the poor. Betrayal is for the weak. So let's do good while we're still alive! Let's use the little time we have left for the course of humanity. #happiness #AWESOMEGOD

Not everything needs a response. Sometimes silence is self-respect. #Favour #Bisi28

A thief has no mercy; he (or she) won't balk at stealing the alms of a beggar. Be perceptive; don't appeal to anyone's mercy, but their self-interest; people will always respond to calls that will feather their nest. #PeaceOfMind

Dream About ALCOHOL, If you see yourself consuming or drinking alcohol is a dream symbol of pollution, backsliding, and wayward life. Did you dream of drinking alcohol? If you drink alcohol in the real life, then it signifies you are wallowing in sin. If it happens you are not a drunkard, then it means your soul has been arrested to fall short of the glory of God. To drink too much alcohol in your dream is a sign that you are far away from God and its possible that his mercies will not prevail. Once you discover you are picking interest for alcoholic drinks, then you may need to see your pastor to conduct deliverance on you. This may not be an ordinary revelation. You have to fast and prayers between 6am to 3pm with these Bible references Rom 6:1, Rom 8:1-3, Isa 54:17. You have to pray fervently for the alcohol, beer, to come out from your mouth.