Gunmen Abduct Bayelsa State Governor's Younger Sister

Gunmen have been reported to have abducted a 26-year-old younger sister of Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson, Nancy Dickson, and her sales girl in Bayelsa State.

Nancy was reportedly abducted by four suspected gunmen. An incident which occurred around 3pm on Saturday at her shop on Okaka Road, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital.

The motive of the kidnappers has not been ascertained whether political or not. It was however gathered that the gunmen fired gunshots to scare away residents of the area before abducting their targets. An unnamed salesgirl in Nancy’s shop was also said to have been whisked away with her to an unknown destination. It was further gathered that the abductors had trailed their victim (Nancy) to her shop before seizing her and bundling her and the salesgirl into their ash-coloured Lexus Jeep.

When contacted, the authorities of the Nigeria Police in the state confirmed the abduction. The Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa State Command, Mr. Asinim Butswat, said the gunmen trailed their victim to her shop before they abducted her. Butswat said, “Nancy was abducted alongside her sales girl to an unknown destination.” The police spokesman said as soon as they got information on the abduction, the Command embarked on a stop-and-search/cordon operations in a bid to rescue the victims and apprehend the perpetrators.

Army Reduces Soldiers’ Death Sentence to 10-Year Imprisonment

The Nigeria Army has commuted the death sentence of 66 soldiers for the offence of mutiny in the ongoing military operation against the insurgency in the North-East to 10-year jail term.

Moreover, the soldiers were sentenced to death by two General Military Court-martials for mutiny and related offences last year. The 66 soldiers which were arraigned alongside others for charges including “criminal conspiracy, conspiracy to commit mutiny, mutiny, attempt to commit an offence (murder), disobedience to particular orders, insubordinate behaviour and false accusation, amongst others.”

Five of the soldiers were however put on trial for the alleged offences were discharged and acquitted of the charges while a soldier got 28 days’ imprisonment with hard labour. It was said in a statement by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, on Saturday the sentences were commuted following a directive by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, to review the verdicts.

Col. Usman said the directive was carried out and recommendations made to Buratai after each of the cases was examined on its merits before the decision was taken. He added that the panel was still looking into the cases of other soldiers the outcome of which would be made known to the public on completion of the exercise.

ACCEPTANCE: IT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK

There is a movement more accurately, toward radical acceptance, focusing on gratitude, and resonating with the positive. And with good reason: it works. People are improving their quality of life as a result of these techniques. It begins with acceptance, which probably isn’t what you think. Acceptance has been a key to happiness since Buddhism was born. The Second Noble Truth of Buddhism (of The Four Noble Truths) is that “desire (or craving) is the root of all suffering”. This is interpreted as wanting reality to be anything but what it is; in other words, a lack of acceptance. It is imperative to note that acceptance has been a cornerstone of the 12 Step treatment for alcoholism since the first “Alcoholics Anonymous” book was written in 1939.  Often when I discuss acceptance with students like my humble self, a common argument is put forth: “Acceptance is no good. It is passive and accepting things as they are is giving up. It is resignation to something unpalatable.” But that is not the real meaning of acceptance. There is no better explanation than Jon Kabat-Zinn’s in, “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness”: “Acceptance doesn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, mean passive resignation. Quite the opposite. It takes a huge amount of fortitude and motivation to accept what is- especially when you don’t like it-and then work wisely and effectively as best you possibly can with the circumstances you find yourself in and with the resources at your disposal, both inner and outer, to mitigate, heal, redirect, and change what can be changed.” (p.407). In other words, desiring the world to be something it is not at the moment is stopped and ruminating thoughts about how things “should be” are put aside. Then change what can be changed.

Acceptance helps reduce what people experience as negative. That is only half of the solution to improving one’s quality of life, however. It has been purported that it takes five positive experiences to counter one negative or, more generally, your brain responds to positive events like Teflon and to negative ones like Velcro. So, the new goal is to allow the positive to resonate, to be prolonged, not in a desperate grasping fashion, but instead through mindfulness and allowing it to permeate one’s attention. This helps counter the balance, and swing experience to the positive. In “The Mindful Way Through Depression” a suggestion is made to note things you enjoy while going through your day. This all relates to slowing down and resonating with enjoyable moments, rather than running from one thing to the next.

There might be things hampering you from doing the suggestions in this post. In a post called, “Why Don’t You Want To Feel Better” I point to the reasons people do not act on the information that is out there to feel better. I focus on defense mechanisms, how change is strenuous work and often staying the same is easier (even if painful) and how some create the meaning of their life from suffering. One might want to refer there if having difficulty implementing the changes suggested above. For some, the word grateful might be off-putting. I actually prefer the word appreciate. It is easily substituted. For a minute think about what you appreciate. Slow your life down, and appreciate all that you have. Even in the worst scenarios there can be appreciation. A shower. A sunset. The taste of your favorite food. Good conversation. Love of family. That feeling when you first lay down in bed after an exhausting day. The list is inexhaustible.

This makes it more likely to occur in the future. As neuropsychologists are fond of saying, “Neurons that fire together, wire together”. Over time, you’ll find yourself happier, calmer, and experiencing more joy. Have a nice week ahead.

The Fundamental Skills for Entrepreneur Success You Need to Have!

5 basic equipments necessary for making your business thrive…

For anyone who intends to launch a business, it is advisable to acquaint oneself with the essential peripherals. This I have therefore broken for you into five criteria. The skills you need to succeed in your business are interpersonal skills, financial skills, self-confidence, marketing skills, and technological skills. With the view to revealing the secrets of these skills, I shall be discussing the nitty-gritty of the equipments needed in acquiring them.

 

Interpersonal Endowment Skills

To own a business means that you like people or you interact. The way you deal with people determines much of your success. This does not necessarily suggest that you impress everybody you come across, you have to manage relationships which are why you need to understand that our mindsets are different, not everyone will reason the way you do. You have to understand the psychology of dealing with your customers so as not to allow conflicting interests overwhelm your judgment and attitudinal disposition. Everyone equally wants to have a good reputation, which is why you have to be customer-service friendly. You need patience to overcome every obstacle that comes your way in the course of doing business. Part of learning your customer-service skills is to develop the ability and willingness to listen to people so as to determine the fundamentals behind their emotions such as the way they talk or address pricing issues, their reasoning, aggressiveness or otherwise, and their pro-social behaviors.

Financial Skills

Business is all about the money you make and the ones you are able to let go. In doing this, you have understand financial figures. No one was born a business mogul. It starts from somewhere. There are however many financial management courses offering business management training that will nurture you to understand how businesses are being run. Most of this training can be tailored to fit to your schedule.

 

Self-Confidence

The self esteem you acquire in the course of doing business channels self presentation. Mind you, if you suffer from a lack of confidence, entrepreneurship can be very difficult. Confidence does grow as you establish yourself as an expert and build on other vital skills you need in order to thrive.

Marketing Skills

Many have ventured in very lucrative enterprise yet they do not make as much as they would love to. They fail in the area of getting their business across to their potential customers. Marketing encompasses using effective communication e.g. advert on newspapers, fliers etc. knowing how to define and target your market, and using the right combination to reach them.

Technological Skills

Today, businesses must be online and technologically, it must be terrific. Time is today’s most valuable asset you need to manage. Most businesses need to use email and other important technological tools like a website if necessary. You don’t have to sell your product and services online, but your electronic mail and website help to describe your business to customers who may be interested in patronizing. Finally, try conducting research on which technology will help your business save time, and keep current with the business world.

Best of Luck!

 Otule Abdul-Hamid Adeniyi

 Information Marketer & Self Publisher of My Money Time (MMT) Series.

adehamidinvestments@gmail.com

hamid.adeniyi@yahoo.com

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How to Download ANY Expensive EBook

How to Download ANY Expensive EBook

A Step-by-Step Approach to Follow Without EVER Paying a DIME!

Certainly, am sure you would agree with me that the success of online business depends largely on the right access to information on the internet. Its availability ranging from either the free information or the ones for sale. Both of them are necessary for one to thrive in this area. No wonder many online marketers, especially the greenhorns find it a bit difficult to venture well in it. On encounter with many online prospects, problems and complains arise like- how do I get the information I want to sell? What website should I visit? Is there any platform for me download my e-books free? I am a student, and I don’t have enough on me, how do I get the information I need for less amount? Well if my guess is right, then this article is a must for you to read. With the view to providing necessary answers to questions that has keep bordering you over the years, here is what you have just been waiting for.

Quite amazing! Isn’t it?

I have carefully designed researched on four (4) different download systems formula useful for online search for information.         

Formula 1;

With an e-book search engine on the internet. One can master the use of a reliable link for downloading- www.ebook-search-engine.com. This site is exceptionally good for downloading e-books.

Just go to the homepage, and choose PDF and then type in the name of the ebook you want to search for in the space bar.

For instance, I want to search for Robert Kiyosaki’s ebook titled “Rich Dad Conspiration of the Rich”.

All I have to do is click on it to download to your computer system.

Formula 2;

For you to search for files there, you need to go to www. Oh! I need a more sophisticated link to download any ebook. With the availability of the interne, the power of rapid share engine is timely essential. In case you do not know, Rapid Share itself is a website where people upload lot of files both e-books, softwares etc. see it here

-rapidshare-searchengine.com

That is all. But as you can see, the file is stored using a rar archive. You must have WINRAR on your system in order to be able to open most of the files on rapid share as most of them are stored in ZIP or RAR format. The WINRAR software is available for free download at www.brothersoft.com/downloads/winrar.htmlor search Google for “free WINRAR download” to get lots of sites where you can download it.

Okay, let’s go to the next means of downloading free stuffs from the internet.

Formula 3;

How to search for any file you want on 4shared.com see it here

- Website is www.4shared.com;

Just look for the “search files” bar, and the ebooks you find there are free for you choose from.

Formula 4;

How to search for any file you want using Ares. The website is www.ares.com. This is a powerful source for FREE access to

software’s, movies, games, music, ebooks and whatever you want on the internet– FREE of charge.

GOOD LUCK!

ABDUL-HAMID .A

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Which Online Business Opportunity Should You Choose

Choosing the right online business opportunity can be very confusing. Today most internet users are bombarded with different offers to join an online business opportunity. What makes it harder to choose is some of the online businesses are just scams. Choosing which online business to go with is a task in itself. There are many different factors to consider before making your choice. First, you will need to look at your personal situation and analyze where you are at. Next, you will need to take a look at the different online businesses and analyze them. Lastly you will have to turn your online business into a profitable venture for yourself.
The first item to look at is yourself. How much experience do you have with dealing or starting an online business? If you are a beginner you will want to look for a business that provides training and guidance. You will also want to look for a qualified mentor. How much time can you put aside to work your online business? Many people make the mistake of thinking they will not have to put in much time to grow their online business. Just because your business is online does not mean it will not require time. The final question is, how much money can you afford to invest in your business? There are many tools you will need to start your online business. Number 1 would be your website. Do you have the experience to build your own website or will you have to hire someone to build one for you. How will you advertise your online business? Through free methods or through paid advertising? These are all things to consider before joining any online business opportunity.
The next item to look at, is the online business opportunity. One of the main things to remember is you cannot get something for nothing. You will have to build your business. No one is going to make you a six figure income. You should take a hard look at any company that promises to do all the work for you. Again you cannot get something for nothing. When choosing which business to start, I believe you have to learn from experience. There are many businesses out there, you should go with the one you feel most comfortable with. With of course a couple of guidelines to follow. First do not play with money you cannot afford to lose. You may not be successful in your first online business attempt and that is fine. But do not use your rent money or income you need to survive on your online business. The longer you can keep on working your online business, the greater chance you have of succeeding. Next if your online business fails do not quit, keep going and learning. Many people quit after there first attempt, if you quit you will never succeed. Have you ever been in a bad relationship? After you broke up with your boyfriend or girlfriend, did you stop dating completely? Most people would answer they continued to date after their first relationship went sour. The same goes with your online business just because one online business did not workout for you, does not mean that all online businesses are bad.
Lastly you will have to learn how to market your online business. Which is a completely different subject but it can be done if you are willing to put in the work.

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How to Make Money Fast Online From Home In 3 Hours

Dear Readers,

 Learning how to make money fast online working from home can be a major challenge for most people in Nigeria especially in Nigeria. The reason behind this is not far-fetched.

Over the years, people have been using eBay as a great way to make money fast online and not only that it gives them the chance to become a powerseller which then gives them a great incentive to becoming a top rates seller. Here is what you do:

Step 1. Find some old items that you no longer need in your house and gather them all together. These could be DVD's, CD's or anything that has been gathering dust.

Step 2. Take quality pictures of these items and then upload them to your computer.

Step 3. Sign up for an account with ebay and then follow the help files and make your first listing. Make sure your listing is fully descriptive of the item and you allow for free postage as this will then get you higher up the listing rankings with eBay for more people to see. Remember that this is an auction site so people are expecting rock bottom prices so don't charge too high.

Step 4. Once your item is listed repeat the process with your other items and have a 3 day listing set up to make money online now in the quickest time possible. However you must realise that the longer the time your listing is live the greater the bids you will get and the greater the price you will receive.

Step 5. Your next step once you have done this a few times is to become a Powerseller which can be achieved within three months if you put some daily effort into it.

EBay is a fantastic way to start to make money online and you can take it a step further by buying the resale rights to amazing quality products and selling these on eBay. What I do is sell these high quality DVD make money online products using the resale rights I purchases and sell them on ebay for $3. 99. This will get more buyers into your sales funnel and build a nice customer database very quickly.

Then you can offer back end higher price products to this database in the future which is where the profits are made. Just make sure that the products you are offering are extremely good quality and always build a great relationship with your customers.

Making money online can be achieved very quickly providing you are willing to put some daily effort into it.....

I wish you all the best..