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A Corper Treks from Abia State to Port Harcourt

Corp Member Set to TREK From Abia To Rivers State - See WHY

Nigerians have been known to take up several things as a 'hobby' or even a test of strenght. Sometimes, these 'hobbies' raise eyebrows in question.

Who can forget when it was a common thing for people who were 'trekking in support' of presidential candidates during the 2015 general elections held in Nigeria?

A young man even decided to 'trek for love'because he needed to prove to the woman he loved that he wanted to be more than a friend.

This corp member decided to embark on a long trek in celebration of his state's golden jubilee

Fast forward to 2017, a corp member identified as @mc_dave, has also decided to embark on a long trek as well.

The corp member who is currently serving at Umuahia, Abia state, decided to trek all the way from his place of primary assignment to Port Harcourt, Rivers state.

He claims he is embarking on the trek as a means of celebrating his state's golden jubilee and the completion of his service year.

mc_dave is starting his trek a day after his passing out parade

Announcing his move via Instagram, he wrote:

"What will you do to celebrate greatness? How far will you go to appreciate development and growth? What risk will you take to sing about the good culture and values of Rivers State?

My name is Mc Dave and I wish to let every Rivers man and indeed the world be on the know that, in my own way of celebrating the golden jubilee of Rivers state and my passing out from service as a corps member, I'll do a long distance walk from Umuahia the capital of Abia which is my state of primary assignment to Port Harcourt, The heartbeat of Rivers State...

#iwaka4Rivers #riversat50 #portharcourttotheworld

He went further to share a detailed picture of his plans. See below:

What do you think? Would you join the 'trekkers' anytime soon?

Source : NNU. Ng

Skin Bleaching causes Cancer and Deforms your Baby.

Warning To Mothers: Skin Bleaching Causes Cancer And Deforms Babies - Experts

Edmund Delle, a dermatologist at the Rabito Clinic in Accra, holds up a picture of a woman with

ochronosis — discoloration caused by long-term application of hydroquinone to lighten the skin

In the early 70s, Fela Anikulapo Kuti ridiculed women who were addicted with skin bleaching, calling them ‘ugly women’, yeye (useless) things’ in one of his most popular songs ‘Yellow Fever’.Decades after, the bleaching craze appears to have hit new heights, with pills and injectables now being used to lighten skins, according to this report by AFP.

Dr. Isima Sobande was in medical school when she first heard of mothers who bleached the skin of their babies. She dismissed it as an urban myth. But it wasn’t long before she saw it with her own eyes.

At a health centre in Lagos, a mother brought in a two-month-old infant who was crying in pain. “He had very large boils all over his body,” the soft-spoken 27-year-old Nigerian told AFP. “It seemed like they weren’t normal.”

The baby’s mother explained that she had mixed a steroid cream with shea butter and slathered his skin with it in order to make it whiter.

“I was very appalled. It was distressing,” said Sobande.

Shocked, the young doctor now takes a different view on skin bleaching, also called lightening or whitening.

For many Nigerians, it is a “standard procedure,” a gateway to beauty and success, she said.

“It’s a mindset that has eaten into society. For a lot of people, it’s the path to getting a good job, having a relationship.”

Skin lightening is popular in many parts of the world, including South Asia and the Middle East.

But medical experts say that in Africa — a continent where regulations are often lax or scorned — the widening phenomenon is laden with health risks.

Cultural watchdogs, for their part, see it as the toxic legacy of colonialism.

Africa is experiencing a “massive trend of increased use (of skin bleaching), particularly in teenagers and young adults,” said Lester Davids, a physiology professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

“The older generation used creams — the new generation uses pills and injectables. The horror is that we do not know what these things do in high concentrations over time in the body.”

Where statistics about Africa’s skin-bleaching industry exist, they are often old or unreliable. But evidence from the range of products, suppliers and services points to a continent-wide market that may number tens of millions of people and possibly more.

In Nigeria alone, 77 per cent of women — by extrapolation, more than 60 million people — are using lightening products on a “regular basis”, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in 2011.

Experts say the African market is rapidly expanding as companies seek to cash in on the continent’s booming youth population.

“More clients want insight on the lightening market,”said Rubab Abdoolla, a beauty analyst at market researchers Euromonitor International.

The rich tend to opt for pricier registered products which are available in standard doses.

Others are likely to buy creams, often bootleg concoctions mixed in the back streets, that may be dangerous and are blatantly sold in defiance of official bans or constraints.

Ingredients may include hydroquinone, steroids, mercury and lead — the same element that, at high doses, poisoned Elizabethan courtiers who powdered their faces ivory white.

“These chemicals damage respiratory, kidney and reproductive systems,” an official from the Nigerian drug control agency warned. “They cause cancer, affect the nervous system, deform unborn babies.”

In spite of the risks, authorities are struggling to control the bleaching innovations, which include a compound called glutathione, taken as injections or pills.

Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya have all banned skin bleaching products with high amounts of hydroquinone and mercury, with the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa urging people to “reject all colonial notions of beauty”.

In July, Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority issued a statement telling pregnant women not to take glutathione pills to bleach their unborn babies saying that there may be “serious toxic side effects” such as “asthma, renal failure and chest pains.”

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stresses that it has not given approval for any of the injections on the market today.

“These products are potentially unsafe and ineffective, and might contain unknown harmful ingredients or contaminants.”

Those who start using skin lightening say they invariably stay with the practice.

“Before you know it, it has become some sort of an addiction where you want to maintain that look,”said Dabota Lawson, a Lagos socialite and cosmetics entrepreneur.

“Just like with plastic surgery, it begins to feel like it’s never enough.”

In Lagos, the creams are assembled by a legion of cosmetologists and sold at a price anywhere from 5,000 naira to 20,000 naira ($14-55, 12-47 euros), a prohibitive amount in a country where the minimum wage is just 18,000 naira ($50, 42 euros).

Instagram skincare star Pela Okiemute’s “Russian White” body cream claims to give “firmness, intense beauty and a mixed race complexion”.

His “Cleopatra Royal” cream, whose label features Elizabeth Taylor in her famous role as the Egyptian queen, promises to “lighten and radiate”.

Customers should start seeing results in two weeks, says Okiemute, explaining that his creams, which include collagen, kojic acid and “anti-ageing” snail slime are safe, though he declined to divulge his formula.

“We have a lot of customers who have used a lot of wrong products, they come to us and we give solutions,” he says.

He flicked through his phone to show before-and-after photos of a client who had a problem with dark knuckles, a telltale sign of a skin bleacher.

Intravenous injections and pills of glutathione — an antioxidant naturally found in the body that has a lightening side effect — are the new frontiers of skin bleaching.

At his clinic on the outskirts of Lagos, beside an abandoned Chinese restaurant, plastic surgeon Aranmolate Ayobami charges clients 150,000 naira ($415, 350 euros) for a five-week course of glutathione injections.

Known as the “Buttmaster” for helping patients seeking an hourglass figure, Ayobami buys the injections from companies he trusts in the United Arab Emirates or the United States.

He only gives certain dosages for a limited amount of time, he said.

But sometimes clients will bring in their own cheaper product that they bought online and urge him to inject them. “We try to discourage that,” he said.

If many millions of Africans lighten their skin without regret, others are dismayed.

“Skin bleaching is one manifestation of folks trying to get power and privilege aligned with whiteness,”said Yaba Blay, a researcher at North Carolina Central University.

“We’re seeing folks attempt to be perceived as having more value because of their complexion.”

Recent black movements are trying to challenge that perception.

#Melaninpoppin, a hashtag celebrating black skin, and the smash-hit movie “Black Panther,” which featured an almost all-black cast wearing African-inspired outfits and natural hair, are held up as testaments to a shift away from longstanding Eurocentric standards of beauty.

But whether the tide of opinion is turning in Africa itself is another question.

“The truth for me was that my beauty was more accepted abroad than at home,” said Ajuma Nasenyana, a model from northern Kenya, who has walked for Victoria’s Secret and Vivienne Westwood.

“In the African industry the lighter your skin tone the more beautiful you are. Hopefully the industry is changing and starting to appreciate darker skin.”

Sobande, the doctor, said, “We’re living in a more positive environment than a few years before.

“But it’s going to take a lot of effort to change the mindset.”

Source : NUN.NG

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I made this Lovely Peplum blouses, including mine. Lolz. The sewing turned out to be neat,  both in and out.  I give God the glory.  Like I always say you can achieve anything you want through the help of the Holy  Spirit. Before I started Learning how to sew,  I developed cold feet,  I don't know why,  maybe because I hear people saying "sewing is hard,  it's this and that" and because the very first time I attempted to learn was with a crowd,  so I didn't grab anything from the class,  then I started giving up,  but then I just knew that I still liked fashion  and I have always wanted to sew what i wear.  So when I got Married,  my husband registered me for a fashion training, before each class I always tell the Holy Spirit to teach me, because I know nothing about sewing,  and within a month I caught up so quickly,  started making my dresses, several months passed,  I just noticed that Mhen, was is it this thing that I have been running from,  it's so easy.  So you too can Sew.  I will teach you soon.  Whatever you feel is hard for you to do in Life,  just cling to God, tell him anything,  he's your friend,  gist with him,  tell him your weakness  and then he will Strengthen you. 

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Apply For UBA Graduate Trainee Recruitment 2018

 

Industries: Banking Finance & Investment

Job Objective

• To ensure the place of business provides wonderful quality banking service to all or any customers.

 

• To keep up contact With new and existing customers on routine account management activities.

 

• To have interaction customers in cross mercantilism of the bank’s product and services as well as E-sales

 

Role and Responsibilities

•  Customer Relations Management/Sales
Proactively develop client relationships,       anticipate and provide solutions to client needs and give high priority to client satisfaction.

•  Accurately assess the risk profile, suitability,     and appropriateness of clients when marketing the bank’s products and services by maintaining an accurate and up to date call report, KYC   database.

 

• Sale to prospective customers UBA‘s E-banking products.

 

• Enroll new customers, and resolve related issues.

 

• Engage customers to cross-sell bank products    and services
increase product sales, and customer loyalty by maintaining good client relationship.

 

• Open and maintain accounts I’I accordance With the established procedures.

 

•  Apply regulatory requirements such as KVC.     Money laundering Prevention procedures at all times.

 

•  Accomplish tasks efficiently by showing concern for all aspects of the job, pay attention to detail and ensure that output is delivered at the highest possible standard

 

• Ensure that the customer’s instructions are duly effected by applying all standard checks and controls, coordinating with another department including head office operations and compliance.

 

• Ensure proper documentation for all new and existing accounts.

 

• Ensure timely opening of new accounts on the system.

 

• Support branch sales and service team.
Cheque book issuance and maintenance.
Dormant account reactivation
Meeter/Greeter.

Customer Service Ambassador

• Service improvement
make sure that walk-in customers directed to the counters, assisted in finishing transactions, and scanned with efficiency.

 

Service issue resolution

• Answer all customer queries, resolve ‘on the spot‘ service issues, escalate to 80M, issues that cannot be handled on the spot.

• Follow up customers with pending cases, and keep him/her informed.

• Compile and publish customer satisfaction score daily

• Download Customers’ issues from the Group Response Portal (GRP) and a monitor resolution of issues logged against the branch through the Business Office staff.

Educational Qualification

•Minimum Educational level B.Sc. in any related discipline

 

Experience

•  Prior experience in banking operations is highly desirable

•  Relevant banking experience preferably supporting retail customers

• Sales knowledge, skill & experience (added advantage)

knowledge

• Some knowledge of Banking products and services

• Good understanding of the operational, credit and regulatory risks facing the business

• Business Development and acquisition

Key skills

•  Excellent customer service orientation

• High level of integrity

• Good verbal & written communication skills

•Selling skills

• Focused, Motivated & Results Oriented

• Paying attention to details

•Good interpersonal skills

•Fast and error-free processing

•Strong problem resolution skills.

•Selling & Marketing Skills.

 

Closing date: 25/05/2018

How to apply:
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Prince Harry is to tie the wedding knot with American actress Meghan Markle

Prince Harry is to tie the wedding knot with American actress Meghan Markle1 min read

Fifth in line to the throne Prince Harry is to tie the wedding knot with American actress Meghan Markle, excellent known for her role as Rachel Zane in solid drama Suits, on Saturday, May 19.

The ceremony will be held at midday, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Revd. and Rt Hon. Justin Welby officiating.

Taking place at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where Prince Harry was christened, the location has superficially become a “very distinctive place” for the couple.

Various details – a well known as the wedding cake-maker and official photographer – have been revealed, but no ifs and or buts aspects – who has constrained Markle’s dress, for example – won’t be revealed until the big day.

Source: Everi Every

Canada trying to Curb the number of asylum seekers.

Canada looks to stem illegal migration from Nigeria

8 MAY 2018.
Canada is trying to curb the number of asylum seekers from Nigeria who are flooding into Canada via the United States, officials said Monday.

About 2,500 migrants, mostly Nigerian nationals, entered Canada illegally in April, bringing the total so far this year to more than 7,300.

They crossed on foot along a forest trail from New York state to Quebec province, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen told a news conference. He will travel to Nigeria in the coming days to press the issue.

At Ottawa’s request, US authorities have also recently tightened their visa rules for Nigerians to try to prevent tourists from flying to the US and then hopping across the border to file Canadian refugee claims.

An average of 70-80 migrants per day have been making the trip of late, said Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.

Nearly 21,000 border jumpers were intercepted by federal police in 2017 and allowed to file a refugee claim.

“Just over 90 percent of irregular migrants do not meet our criteria (for asylum) and they will have to leave Canada,” Garneau said, adding that 200 currently face imminent deportation after their refugee claims were rejected.

The first arrivals in 2016 were mostly Haitians who faced repatriation at the end of US temporary special protections granted after storms battered their desperately poor island nation.

But the wave expanded last year to also include Djiboutian, Eritrean, Nigerian, Pakistani, Sudanese, Syrian, Turkish and Yemeni nationals, among others.

The border jumping started with the election of US President Donald Trump, who promised to expel more than 11 million undocumented migrants.

Source: The Punch

How to use Palm Kernel Oil

How To Use Black Palm Kernel Oil.

The wonders of black palm kernel oil cannot be overemphasized. From time immemorial, black palm kernel oil has been in existence without appreciating its benefits. Black palm kernel oil is common in West African countries especially Nigeria. It is mostly seen in the rural areas. It is very affordable, because people neglects it, without knowing that, it is one of best oil that has so many uses. The European merchants that trades with West African countries, hardly purchased black palm kernel oil because, they never knew the importance of it, instead, they occasionally purchased palm oil  for use in Europe. Black palm kernel oil is totally different from palm oil. Black palm kernel oil is more saturated than palm oil.
              Palm kernel is a nut from a palm tree which has an edible seed inside. It is the oil from the seed that is widely known as black palm kernel oil. In some part of West Africa, the seed can be eaten raw or with other staple food. Black pal kernel oil is a highly saturated vegetable fats than palm oil. It does not contain cholesterol which  might be harmful to health instead, it is rich in lauric acid which helps to raise blood cholesterol levels. It can be stored for a very long time without alterations. It has a nutty smell that reminds someone of the rural lifestyle.
   HOW TO EXTRACT THE OIL FROM THE SEED
1. Break the palm nuts, and remove the black seeds inside.
2. Soak the seeds in water for one hour.
3. Remove them from the water after one hour and put it in a pot.
4. Put it on a fire and make sure that there is no single water in the pot. 
5. As you are cooking it dry, the oil will be coming out.
         SKIN BENEFITS OF BLACK PALM KERNEL OIL
1. It is used for the manufacture of soaps, washing powders, hair creams, personal care products etc.
2. It restores skin elasticity in order to prevent wrinkles.
3. It protects the skin from harsh weather conditions.
4. It is a good skin moisturizer.
 BENEFITS OF BLACK PALM KERNEL OIL ON HAIR
1. It is used to prevent hair loss or breakage.
2. Black palm kernel oil is used as a hot oil treatment on dry hair and scalp so as to soothe the scalp and moisturize the hair.
3. It strengthens weak hair and makes it shiny.
4. Black kernel oil can be used as a natural hair conditioner.
 HOW TO USE BLACK PALM KERNEL OIL ON CHILDREN
1. Epilepsy in children can be managed  by inserting a bit of black palm kernel oil in the child's eyes.
2. Some babies have a soft head at 0-12 months old or even more. Black palm kernel oil is used to strengthen those soft part.
3. In cases where a child is having difficulty to push out excreta, black palm kernel oil is used to soften the anus of a child in such a situation so as to ease the child problem.
4. Black palm kernel oil is used to treat children with high fever and convulsion.
5. It is used to treat abdominal pain in children as well as treat skin rashes in children.

Source: Nature's Skin Glow

Buhari under fire for saying Nigerian youths not ready to work

Buhari under fire for saying Nigerian youths not ready to work

AGENCY REPORT

President Muhammadu Buhari came under fire on Thursday for criticising Nigerian youths who he said “do nothing” and want everything for “free” in the oil-rich country.

Buhari, who declared earlier in April he is seeking re-election in 2019, made the remark on Wednesday at a business conference in London.

“A lot of them haven’t been to school and they are claiming, you know, that Nigeria has been an oil producing country therefore they should sit and do nothing and get housing, health care, education, free,” said Buhari.

The comment touched a nerve West Africa’s largest economy, which suffers from high unemployment and lacks basic government services, including running water and electricity.

Most business and homes rely on private generators for power and buy water privately.

Former Nigerian vice president Atiku Abubakar, who is also running for president, lambasted Buhari.

“I will never refer to Nigeria’s youth as people who sit and do nothing,” he said in a statement posted on Facebook, adding that youth are the “backbone” of the country.

Another presidential hopeful Adamu Garba said Buhari was being “humorous with our national pride”.

On Thursday morning, the hashtag #LazyNigerianYouths was trending on Twitter, with young Nigerians blasting the government.

“The government never created anything for me, I feed from my hustle and yet they say we are lazy,” said one tweet.

Nigeria’s combined youth unemployment and underemployment rate hovered around 50 percent in late 2017 following the country’s worst economic recession in 25 years.

Nigeria came out of recession last year but growth outside the lucrative oil sector remains tepid, constrained by a lack of education and infrastructure.

Nigeria is home to more than 180 million people, with 63 percent of the population living below the poverty line, according to the IMF in a March 2018 report.

Source : Punch

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Happy Easter

May the solemnity of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ never elude us all this season and always.

May we continue to witness more and more of such seasons in good health and wealth.
Amen

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What Brow Shape Suits Your Face?

WHAT BROW SHAPE SUITS YOUR FACE?

They say your eyes are the window to your soul - so let your brows introduce them! But one shape doesn’t fit all. Let us guide you to your best brows!

1.ROUND
Here, we’re big fans of fuller brows with high, sharp angles. This will bring perfect definition to gorgeous rounder faces, creating angles between your cheekbones and chin.

2.OVAL
With the most balanced face shape, you can get away with pretty much anything. Still, we recommend you opt for a pronounced high arch that extends laterally along your brow bone.

3.HEART-SHAPED
Go for a low, semi-straight arch that kisses your brow bone. A general rule of thumb? Simply follow the way your arch naturally rises and falls. Heavy shaping isn’t encouraged for this face shape since it already draws focus to your beautiful eyes and forehead.

4.OBLONG
Focus on extending the length of your brows from left to right, creating either a high or low arch. Remember, keeping things horizontal is key to balancing out your lovely features.

5.SQUARE
You’re already blessed with a defined jawline, so create balance with a thick brow and stronger arch. Angled brows help to balance and bring focus to your eyes - consider it a win-win!

Source: Beauty School