Did you know that at Harvard, one of the most prestigious universities in the world, the most popular and successful course teaches you how to learn to be happier?__ The Positive Psychology class taught by Ben Shahar attracts 1400 students per semester and 20% of Harvard graduates take this elective course. According to Ben Shahar, the class - which focuses on happiness, self-esteem and motivation - gives students the tools to succeed and face life with more joy._This 35-year-old teacher, considered by some to be "the happiness guru", highlights in his class 14 key tips for improving the quality of our personal status and contributing to a positive life:
�Tip 1. * Thank God for everything you have:* Write down 10 things you have in your life that give you happiness. Focus on the good things!
�Tip 2. * Practice physical activity:* Experts say exercising helps improve mood. 30 minutes of exercise is the best antidote against sadness and stress.
�Tip 3. * Breakfast: * Some people miss breakfast for lack of time or not to get fat. Studies show that breakfast gives you energy, helps you think and perform your activities successfully.
�Tip 4. * Assertive:* Ask what you want and say what you think. Being assertive helps improve your self-esteem. Being left and remaining silent creates sadness and hopelessness.
�Tip 5. *Spend your money on experiences:* A study found that 75% of people felt happier when they invested their money in travel, courses and classes; While only the rest said they felt happier when buying things.
�Tip 6. * Face your challenges:* Studies show that the more you postpone something, the more anxiety and tension you generate. Write short weekly lists of tasks and complete them.
�Tip 7. * Put everywhere nice memories, phrases and photos of your loved ones:* Fill your fridge, your computer, your desk, your room, YOUR LIFE of beautiful memories.
�Tip 8. * Always greet and be nice to other people:* More than 100 inquiries state that just smiling changes the mood.
�Tip 9. * Wear comfortable shoes: * If your feet hurt you, you become moody, says Dr. Keinth Wapner, President of the American Orthopedics Association.
�Tip 10. * Take care of your posture :* Walk straight with your shoulders slightly backwards and the front view helps to maintain a good mood.
�Tip 11. * Listen to music:* It is proven that listening to music awakens you to sing, this will make your life happy.
�Tip 12. * What you eat has an impact on your mood:* Do not skip meals, eat lightly every 3 to 4 hours and keep glucose levels stable.- Avoid excess white flour and sugar.- Eat everything! Healthy- Vary your food.
�Tip 13. * Take care of yourself and feel attractive: * 70% of people say they feel happier when they think they look good.
�Tip 14. * Fervently believe in God:* With him nothing is impossible!
Happiness is like a remote control, we lose it every time, we go crazy looking for it and many times without knowing it, we are sitting on top of it ...
AutoJoshNIG:
Wedding days are typically designed to be very memorable. The couple involved put in so much efforts to make the event one to linger for long in the memories of all.
To achieve this, different tactics and antics are orchestrated to make the wedding eventful, especially with interesting high points, all designed to make the event the most talked about event for as long as possible.
However, there are some rather daring couples who succeeded in making their wedding a very memorable event. They succeeded not necessarily due to the grandiose nature of the event. Neither did they achieve it due to the presence of some celebrity performer that performed at the event. Or the grand wedding venue.
Rather they used usual wedding vehicles to make give their events a unique touch and to be the talk of the town, or well, in this era of the Internet and the World Wide Web, the talk of the world.
Anyway, Autojosh presents some very usual and I dare say very daring couples with the most usual wedding vehicles.
Yeah right. please you people should say something else.
Why dont they call Buddha when they detonate their bombs. Why always Allahu Akbar!!
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And before you tell me it's the west that is trying to paint Islam bad, the question I will ask you is why are there verses in the quran that violence in whatever form.
I know you wouldn't answer my questions, you will ask questions back so suit yourself.
there r more killing verses in the bible than there is in the Quran
remi1444:
Its easier for a head of a camel to through the eyes of a needle than for a foreigner, i Mean European to be tried in Nigeria. The treatment he will be given can't be compared to an ordinary fowl thief. The prison wardens will be address him(murderer) as sir and if need be, they might snap selfie with him.
If i can, I'll wish that Italian dude to be arraigned in Justice Okon Abang court.
Questions nobody is asking government.
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We have watched as the NNPC hiked our daily fuel consumption of petrol from 30 million litres to over 60 million litres, yet over 70% of the country suffer from one form of scarcity or another.
To justify the above claim, they told us that they have spent $5.8 billion between December and February. If you do not know, this is N1.76 trillion ( 20% of the 2018 Budget).
They claim they imported 9.8 million metric tonnes of fuel within this period.
In 2017 alone, NNPC spent $28 billion to import fuel. Yet early last year, we celebrated "our refineries". Of this figure, they claim 40% is spent on logistics alone.
Can we ask some questions?
In 2014, a litre of petrol was N87 and government was spending less on fuel subsidy which was equally enmeshed in corruption. But at least, the product was available.
This government came to power, using the corruption within the fuel subsidy regime as plank for the need to vote out the former government. They hiked the fuel price from N87 to N145 with the excuse that this will help balance the market and remove subsidy. We agreed.
But today, this same government through the NNPC is spending more on subsidy ( N1 billion daily) yet fuel sells N145 per litre in Lagos and Abuja mostly, with other parts of Nigeria buying fuel at higher prices.
Can someone compare what was being spent annually on subsidy payments under the "very corrupt" government of President Jonathan, and what we are wasting today on same subsidy, yet the products are not available?
As if that was not enough, they hiked the quantity of fuel imported to almost 60 million litres daily, claiming that the need to curb scarcity is responsible.
If we still have scarcity in many states of the federation, what happened to the fuel NNPC claim it brings in daily?
The cheap excuse they have been giving us is that unscrupulous elements diverts fuel to neighboring countries.
Figures from the International Energy Agency show that the total fuel consumption of all our neighboring countries is 153,200 litres per day.
Chad consumes 11.2 litres per capita or 2,200 barrels per day; Togo 13,000 bpd or 102.6 litres per capita; Niger Republic 14,000 bpd or 46.5 litres per capita; Benin Republic 41,000 bpd or 234.2 per capita; and Ghana 83,000 or 157 litres per capita.
These markets combined cannot absorb the volume of petrol “missing” daily from Nigeria.
WHERE IS THE MISSING FUEL?
The DPR is lost.
The PPPRA claim they have no idea what is happening.
Figures from the NPA is unreliable.
Who can provide the true figures of quantity of fuel NNPC claim it imports?
No country can grow where you have an agency that is above the law, above oversight functions of legislators, above scrutiny, above the law.
The amount of money being siphoned daily through NNPC operations which they recently claim Nigerians have no power to demand access to, is unthinkable in the history of Nigeria.
NNPC is still paying millions for the Petroleum Equalisation Fund, yet fuel prices are anything but uniform across neighboring states.
To think that this is happening under the very nose of a government that came to power with a promise to fight corruption makes it more disheartening.
I keep saying that Dasukigate will be a child's play.
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The President @MBuhari istration has completed 12 stations of the Abuja Light Rail project. Trial phase set to commence, ahead of full operations soon. #AbujaLightRail
The Chilean Public bade farewell to their President Ms.Michele Bechellet after finishing her term in office. During her term in office, she improved the education, health system, created jobs and didn't tolerate corruption. She left office owning a one bedroom flat and a motor cycle.
What a respectable send off!!!
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Assalamualaikum,
Did anyone of us imagine how the sun is gonna rise from the west as said by our prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) 1400 yrs ago..
but now scientists found how it happens..scientists were making researches on MARS for long time....MARS which rotates in the same direction of the EARTH has now started to rotate in the opposite direction...now the sun rises from west in MARS..this is named as RETROGRADE MOTION...and this happens to all planets..amazingly EARTH is next.!!
ALLAH says when the sun rises from the west the doors of FORGIVENESS will be closed..no more dua for repentance will be accepted..it's not too far for this to happen..!!
Let's not waste time on movies, music, parties, etc..spend more time to read and learn QURAN and HADITHS..PRAY five times..and teach our kids on Islam..these acts will only benefit us in our GRAVE..
ISLAM is a beautiful religion and ALLAH has made it so easy for us to follow through our beloved PROPHET MUHAMMAD (peace be upon him)...
Don't just forward this to all..for a sec ask your self..Have we done anything in our life for LIFE AFTER DEATH...??
Are we ready to meet ALLAH on the day of JUDGEMENT
.. we are all alone on that day..
▪ Have you ever wondered what would have happened if we treated the Quran the way we treat our mobile phone...?
▪ What if we can carry it with us wherever we go;
In our bags .... & in our pockets?
▪ What if we looked at the pages several times a day
▪ What if we went back to take it if it's forgotten
▪ What if we treated it as though we cannot live without it..?
- And really, we cannot live without it...!
▪ What if we give it to our children as gifts
▪ What if we read it while travelling ?
▪ What if we made it a priority every day??
Let our logo be :
" The Quran is my best friend.
▪ Only 7% will re- send this message.
▪ Be amongst them & send it to the largest possible number of people
▪ Don't be of the 93% who will not share the message....
▪ Think ... Even once... Day of Judgement... we will realise we daily opened messages from friends ...
▪ We shared/forwarded the jokes & gossips ...
▪ But how many times do we open the Quran and read the messages sent from Allah Subhaana WaTa'aala Himself
❇ Scientifically proven :
Listening to Quran reduces the prevalence of cancerous cells in the human body and even destroys them.
� The prolongation of prostration strengthens memory , and prevents stroke
Shaitan said :
"I wonder how humans claim to Love Allah and disobey Him, and claim they hate me yet they obey me!"
▪ Will take 60 seconds to benefit your loved ones, it on as a reminder.
YouTube shooting: Female suspect found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound, 4 others shot --
Terrified employees fled as gunfire rang out at YouTube's sprawling headquarters in San Bruno, California, shortly after midday Tuesday, prompting a massive police response and evacuation as victims were transported to nearby hospitals.
San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said one female suspect was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Four people were transported to local hospitals with gunshot wounds.
Heavily armed police surrounded the facility, with armed SWAT vehicles stationed outside. Police officers could be seen patting down employees evacuating the campus to a nearby parking lot, where they were surrounded by police cars.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said President Trump has been briefed on the shooting and they are "monitoring the ongoing situation."
On Twitter, Mr. Trump offered his thoughts and prayers to those affected in the shooting
The San Francisco Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said it was responding to the scene.
Several employees tweeted they heard gunfire Tuesday afternoon. Vadim Lavrusik said he barricaded himself and others inside a room before they were able to escape safely.
NaijautoNg:
Don’t know your car’s injector is good or bad? Check our list out and get the answer.
Inside most of the cars’ fuel system, there is something called the fuel injector. This component's functions to provide fuel for the car engine. The injector basically injects the fuel into the engine’s cylinder via a nozzle, starting the internal combustion process.
Like other important parts of the engine, the injectors are managed by a computer dubbed the Engine Control Unit (ECU). The ECU ensures fuel injection at the right intervals so that the engine can deliver the best possible performance.
And to achieve that possibility, the injectors should be in a good condition to guarantee the engine’s operation. If there is a problem with the fuel injector, the engine will not perform its functions as it should do. A bad fuel injector will prevent the fuel from injecting it into the engine or will mess up the intervals it is supposed to spray. Either way, it will make your car engine fail to start.
But how do we know our car’s injectors are well-functioning or not? Keep calm, Naijauto shall share 7 visible symptoms to realize a bad fuel injector.
1. Fuel leak
If you see the gasoline is leaked out of the injector's body, it could be a definite sign of a broken or damaged injector. As the injector is cracked, the fuel can’t reach the nozzle and then, it will be leaked out. So if you see this symptom, check your car’s fuel injector and replace a new one.
If you see the gasoline is leaked out of the injector's body, it could be a definite sign of a broken or damaged injector
2. Bad fuel economy
If the engine does not receive enough fuel that it needs for combustion, it will put additional demands on the injector to provide more fuel. This could be caused by a damaged injector as it can’t supply enough fuel for the motor. As such, your fuel economy will decrease and you are going to pay extra money for gas.
3. Engine surge
If the cylinder is sprayed with too much fuel, it will lead to a surge in the engine and significantly slower your acceleration.
If the fuel injector is not absolutely closed, the fuel can't get burned and gives off an odor that can be easily smelled.
5. Engine light turns on
The most visible sign of this problem is when the "Check Engine" lights up on your dashboard. Although this may led by different reasons a damaged fuel injector might be one of them.
6. Engine Misfires
If there is not enough fuel sprayed into the engine, it will repeatedly misfire when you try to start it up. Or even when it is able to start, it is hard to take off or take pauses after you step on the gas pedal. And running for a long distance seems to be impossible.
If there is not enough fuel sprayed into the engine, it will repeatedly misfire when you try to start it up
7. Engine vibrates
When there is not enough fuel sprayed into the cylinder, the engine will cause vibration after it completes each cycle without fuel.
Fuel injector will have a longer lifespan than average if you take appropriate maintenance. According to car experts, the fuel injector should be cleaned every 30,000 miles. If not, it could be clogged and can’t deliver the fuel to the cylinder. That said, the injectors will get worn over time and show the same symptoms as a clogged one does. Once you know your injection is bad, you will have to spent around N100,000 for a replacement.
IamBoobs:
Good day NLers.
I'll try and make this short and simple.
Am 23, I've my own Data Selling business and by God grace am doing well, so money is never a problem.
But the problem I've is that, am a skinny dude.
When it comes to food, I don't have much choice, so basically am always eating, same type of foods all the time.
I eat all sorts of Carbohydrates and protein foods still yet man still slim.
I know some will say maybe it's my parent genetics, but NO, they're both Fat, same as my other siblings.
Dear NLers, Please any Food Diet I can Eat Or Fruits Or Maybe Drugs I can use?? I must be Normal or FAT o lol.
Please help a skinny dude.. Lol
NOTE: I don't masturbate, I don't smoke, I don't Have Any STD.
Try Ensure Drinks last thing you take at night and first in the morning.... Good luck.
Greetings Guys, if your bbm whatsapp has stopped working nothing to worry about just go to your web broser and search on google.... Whatsapp, free apk and follow the instructions enjoy!!!!!!!..... it gives you the latest android version
Greetings Guys, if your bbm whatsapp has stopped working nothing to worry about just go to your web broser and search on google.... Whatsapp, free apk and follow the instructions enjoy!!!!!!!..... it gives you the latest android version
joseph6071:
Do you believe in miracles? well, this woman just got her own portion of the miracle as she got proposed to at the shiloh 2017, indeed "a new dawn" fell on her
Davindal:
Please guys, trust no girl wholeheartedly oo. Trust any girl at your own peril, if you fail to heed my warning.
A girl I have been keeping for almost 2 years - with the hope of marrying her once I out from here in NDA - just disappointed me, thereby shattering me to pieces. Right now, am in pains.
I was given 3 days to enable me attend an important event at home. Before the permission, my supposed babe have been disturbing on how badly she needed to be sexed, and how distance has been a barrier to that effect. I kept telling her to hold her chill, that am gonna be back soon. Although I had heard annoying stuffs about my babe - now an Ex, on how she was frolicking with different guys in my absence, but I was not deterred; simply because, I didn't believe in hearsays.
Yesterday, she called and sent me sweet text messages as she normally do. I asked her to come over to my house around 4PM which she reluctantly obliged. But the way she sounded over the phone made it clear that she never wished to see me any time soon, maybe due to her schedules with other stuffs.
However, I pondered how my babe who has been disturbing and informing me on how 'conjirized' she is suddenly feel not too excited coming to see me dispite being aware that I came home on Tuesday(17th) night.
Time ticked to 4pm yesterday, I didn't see her. I exercised patience till 5pm before I gave her call, but she didn't pick. I called for the second time but no picking again. I decided to hold dowm my anger and not to call her again for the day. Around 15mins to 6pm, she called back saying that her phone was on silent. I ask why, and she told me she would explain when she reached my home that she was running short of airtime.
Finally, she came and apologized after explanation of what led to her phone being on silent. I asked her never to worry that am not holding anything against her, that she should be free.
However, situation changed the moment I tried making love with her as she undressed. Down her private part, I perceived the 'SCENT of CONDOM', and that was it. I enquired why she smells of condom there, but she couldn't give me coherent and articulate answer.
Being furious, I slapped and pushed her out of my compound.
Today in the afternoon, I sent her final warning to stay clear from me or I will shoot her skull to pieces.
Finally, guys be weary of whom you date. Most ladies out there are evil.
U have no right to hit a female u sld just walk away....... If she had resisted and fought back Wat wld hav then happened...... Love no b do or die .... B wise
There is no love-lost among them and Olori Wuraola.
The three, Princess Folashade, Princess Adesola and Princess Bimpe are sisters to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi.
Known to always appear with the monarch to most places he went especially when he was newly installed, there is obviously a supremacy battle among them and Olori Wuraola, who was the only wife and queen in the palace.
As expected, Olori Wuraola put them in their place and this ignited a silent war.
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, formally took for wife, former Wuraola Itohan Sonia Otiti Zainab Obanor on March 12, 2016. Initially all seems to be well with the queen and her in-laws but everything turned awry with what a source described as “the attitude of Olori Wuraola towards family .”
According to a report from TheCapital.ng that broke the alleged crash of the Ooni of Ife/Olori Wuraola’s marriage, one of the reasons for the challenged union is the fact that the queen is at war with her in-laws:
The report says, “Inside sources described the marriage as a sham, plagued by suspicion, hatred and devoid of love; they accused Olori of many unpublishable things and lack of commitment to her marital vows. Even as you read she is not on talking with her in-laws. The allegations are as wide as they are wild.”
Though sources close to the queen have denied any marriage crash, its obvious the young marriage is challenged. The sisters, who could have being a source of help for Olori Wuraola have left her in the cold.
“Unfortunately for the sisters, they cannot narrate all they have experienced in the hands of the Queen. When they went on the USA and London tours with the king, Olori Wuraola dealt with them. Before, the sisters lived in the palace but they are no longer there. In fact, when the Ooni of Ife’s father, Price Ropo Ogunwusi, clocked 75 in March 2017, Queen Wuraola, who is a daughter-in-law, was conspicuously absent at the low key get-together,” a source close to the palace said.
At the Baba Oba’s 75th birthday, the three princesses and very few family were present.
Well, these three princesses— Princess Folashade, Princess Adesola and Princess Bimpe— who are the Kabiyesi’s eyes and ears on the social scene, saw to it that a paramount ruler in Yoruba land did not end up with just a queen. They were said to have arranged the meeting of the new queen, Bolanle who hails from Abeokuta, Ogun State, with the Ooni.
Though the new queen stays in the personal house of the Ooni, she gets the attention and love of the three princesses.
That the Ogunwusi princesses keep a close-knit family cannot be ignored in the scheme of things in the palace especially with the issue of who the king marries.
Fortunately for them, their brother, the king, honours them too.
Who are these celebrity princesses? What’s about these princesses?
For Princess Folashade Fadairo who is the third child, she read English Language ditto for her younger sister, Princess Adesola Olojede. Adebimpe Daodu read Banking and Finance at the Osun State College of Technology.
Aside the fact that they co-run a business called FOLSOLBIM VENTURES, Folashade also runs a private business called FOLAR designs which is one of the most patronised beauty and gift items outfit in Lekki Ajah axis. Sola also oversees the affairs of Alpha Reign Ventures, an outfit that sells luxury phones. Adebimpe who is the last of them, was working as a health officer at Winnipeg regional health authority in Canada. The 40-year-old has relocated to Nigeria since her brother’s installation as king.
I have been married for a year and half. I thought hubby and i have been living happily and i would've swore he was faithful. A few days ago i saw that a random lady messaged him on Facebook and they got talking. I was shocked at first to see that he was chatting her up. Fast forward to yesterday I checked his phone and saw that himself and the lady had more conversation and what started as facebook chat had progressed from phone calls to whatsapp chat. The content of their chat seems they were eventually planning to hook up.
I confronted hubby but he wasn't remorseful and told me he doesn't owe me faithfulness and went on to sleep in the other room. Hubby and I pray together and are looking towards a very bright future together, this is not something i really saw coming from him. I am very troubled in my heart and pregnant for our first baby. He dozent feel any atom of pity that the whole issue might cause me problems and I have been wondering what has come over him. I am 100 percent faithful to my hubby and want the union to work out. I am at work typing and holding back tears. Please i need advise from mature people in the house, how do i deal with the situation. I am in my late 20s, he is in his late 30s.
Pray and be patient.... Request he run some STD tests eventually just to b safe on ur part.... It's well. Have no trust in man but Allah.
CastedDude:
On Wednesday 7th of June 2017, immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole surprised his blind adopted daughter Miss Joyce Imasuen Osaivbie on her 15th birthday at her home. Read below how the governor met the blind girl when she was 9 years old and adopted her.
On the 4th of December 2011, the Network For The Advancement of People with Visible Disabilities (NAPVID) organized the first ‘NAPVID RIGHTS ABOVE CHARITY’ LECTURE-an event organized every year since then to mark the United nations Day for Persons with Disabilities. We daringly invited the then Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to attend as Special Guest of Honour.
At this point, it’s necessary to tell the story of how we finally got the governor to commit personally to being at the event.
After sending the required letter of invitation to the governor’s office several weeks before the program, we hadn’t gotten any kind of response. As the days drew closer, we were concerned because we believed that the governor’s presence at the event would have made the purpose of holding that event have any meaning. How could we gather stakeholders to discuss the plight of physically challenged individuals in our society if the Governor who largely held the responsibility for them was not present? We didn’t know what else to do. We couldn’t see him personally, and the only we had in government house then, the Late Comrade Olaitan (the Governor’s then Principal Secretary who was later murdered) hadn’t been able to help us secure the governor’s commitment. We kept praying for a miracle.
Our Miracle came a few days into November 2011 when we got news that as part of his 3rd year anniversary in Office, the comrade governor would be holding a town hall meeting with all citizens who could attend. The event was going to be broadcast live on various media outlets. We decided to have a few of our attend and see the possibility of talking with the governor.
On the day of the town hall meeting, it got to the point of Question and Answers. One of our , Ehigie Omoregie Wisdom- a visually impaired lawyer- persistently kept putting up his hands to be allowed to ask a question. Persistently, for some reasons best known to them, the governor’s aide with the microphone kept ignoring him. When he heard that the session was going to be closing soon, he took a bold step that led to the story being told today. He told the person with him,
"Brother, please just guide me to the front. Ignore anyone who tries to stop us…"
They both started the difficult task of pushing through the crowd approaching the high table where the governor and other dignitaries sat. As expected, as they got closer, they were resisted by the governor’s aides and Barr. Omo’s insistence on achieving his goal led to some ‘disturbance’ that got people’s attention, including the governor’s. Noticing that at the center of the noise was a visually impaired young man; he instructed that he be allowed to speak.
I can’t the details of all Omo said to him, but paraphrasing, it went something like,
“Sir, thank you for all you have said and done so far. There is so much that concerns the physically challenged community that you need to know about. Unfortunately, this forum will not be conducive to share even a fraction with you. Please, in a few days, we would be having an event to mark the United Nations day for persons with disabilities. We have sent a letter to your office weeks ago. I plead with you to make out time to attend…”
The Governor instantly agreed to be there, and instructed his aide to ensure it was included in his itinerary for that day.
On one of the days preceding the event while we were planning the programme, a member of the team suggested that in addition to the President’s address to the governor, we should have one of the students from the School for the Blind read an address to the governor. To give it more effect, she was to read from a Braille-printed manuscript. You might wonder how else she would have read such an address. I was informed that the lady, who had been chosen to do this assignment, could actually memorize the whole address and recite off-heart!
The child chosen for this assignment was then 9 year old Miss. Joyce Imasuen Osaivbie.
A day before the event on December 2nd, we got a call from late Comrade Olaitan who informed us that the governor was going to be presenting the 2012 budget to the State Assembly the next day, but had asked him to assure us that he would come for our event immediately he left the State assembly complex.
Our program was scheduled to start at 10am. At 12 noon we couldn’t delay any further for the governor’s arrival as some of our guests had been seated for quite a while. As MC, I quickly had a short meeting with the President Barr. Melody Omosah (I will talk about Barr. Melody shortly), and he said
“Bugie lets start running the programme, but leave out my address and Osaivbie’s address for when the governor comes”.
Little did we know that God had a plan to alter a child’s destiny, hence his leading us to take that decision.
The Governor came in at about 2pm. it’s important to state that all the while he was in the Assembly Complex, he kept asking his aide to call us and assure us that he would still come, no matter how late it would be when he ended there. We ran the parts of the program we had left out earlier till it got to where Miss. Osaivbie gave her address.
It was the most beautiful and touching sight everyone in that hall that day had experienced. She read the braille address fluently, eloquently, with amazing confidence and perfect pronunciation of words. She didn’t stutter at any point, or make a mistake throughout her reading the 2 paged address. There were several teary eyes in the audience that minute, and the applause that followed was deafening.
When it was time for His remarks, Gov. Oshiomhole was magnanimous, generous and full of empathy towards the physically challenged and their plight. Then he got to the point where he made the following remarks,
“I listened to the young girl who read the speech earlier. I have never heard a child, even the non-physically challenged read like she did. It broke my heart…I don’t know her background, but whatever it is, I want to say publicly today that I want to adopt her as my child…”
Whatever doubts some of us had that it was a ‘political statement’ was erased when we got a call from the governor some days later that he would want to see ‘his daughter’, her family and a few of the NGO in his official residence a few days to Christmas. His reasons were, to introduce her to her new siblings (his other kids) and to plan what her Christmas would be like that year. The visit held, and it was indescribable. There was deep and genuine love and ion for this child from the governor and his kids (his wife had ed on at this time and he hadn’t re-married). He was at his jovial best and embraced all who came with warm affection. It was obvious, this was for real.
Between then and now, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has been the father he said he would be, even out of office. Medical intervention has been sought by him to see if anything could be done for her sight. He has maintained her upkeep and education all through. Through his efforts, she is presently a student at the prestigious Queens College Lagos where she remains one of their brightest and most brilliant students.
Yesterday was her 15th birthday, and the governor paid a surprise visit to her family’s modest apartment in Benin-City, with everything needed for a special child’s birthday celebration. He didn’t go alone; he went with over 40 aides who included the Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, his Deputy, the Edo State House Majority Leader, top politicians and government officials.
The little ‘blind’ daughter of the former governor had shone like a billion stars, and had changed the fortunes of her family.
Mdaz(m): 7:55am On Apr 11, 2018 
