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Ayanda, wife of South African gospel singer
Sfiso Ncwane has advised women to not only
pray and cook but to also add twerking to the
list of wifely duties.
Ayanda, who has been married to the gospel
star for nine years, is quoted in Drum magazine
as saying:
"You pray, you cook and you twerk for
your husband. He needs to find twerking
at home. As much as I'm a wife, I can't
afford to stop being a girlfriend. When
we close the bedroom door, it's not time
to pray. Intimacy is very important. You
can't downplay intimacy."
The word ”renew” may be literally translated to be”change” or “exchange”. Our greatest weakness is our own strength, and if we will go to the Lord in our utter weakness He will exchange our weakness for His strength.
We are strengthed and empowered by GOD when we acknowledge our helplessness. GOD can only lift us higher when we lift our hands in total surrender to Him. It is at the point when we realize how frail our strength is that GOD can step in. We can never accomplish tangible and outstanding results by ourselves, it takes the strength that GOD supplies. In order to have greater results than you had in the first half of the year, let the power of Christ find expression through you. Depend solely on the strength that He gives.
Confession
I declare that the power of GOD is made perfect in my weakness. The second half of this year will be filled with amazing results because the power of GOD finds expression through me in Jesus Name.
Bible Reading: Psalm 126 -128
The federal government has declared Tuesday,
July 5 and Wednesday, July 6 as public holiday
to mark Eid-el Fitri celebrations.
This was contained in a statement signed by the
Permanent Secretary, Mr. Bassy Okon
Akpanyung, on behalf of the Minister of Interior,
Lt Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), in Abuja.
The minister enjoined all Muslim faithful and
Nigerians in general to extend the spiritual
benefits of Ramadan, which are love, peace and
justice to their daily living and through this
contribute to the development of the nation.
The spokesman of the Avengers, Mudoch
Agbinibo, confirmed the suspension in a
statement posted on Facebook.
It added, “Notice! This is to bring to your
notice that our twitter handle
@www.twitter.com/@ndavengers has been
suspended and our blog
@www.nigerdeltaavengers disabled.
“We use this medium to appeal to our fans
and supporter to be very careful with any
website or twitter claiming to represent us.
We shall launch new accounts soon! We
must continue the struggle!!!”
Forbes writer Nsehe Mfonobong interviewed former journalist turned entrepreneur Rotimi Williams who owns the second largest rice farm in Nigeria. Read the feature below...
Nigerians consume more than 5 million metric tons of rice every year, with a significant portion of its consumption needs sourced from imports. Rotimi Williams WMB -4.95%, an ambitious 35 year-old Nigerian entrepreneur and rice farmer, is on a quest to change that.
Williams, a former Journalist, is the owner of Kereksuk Rice Farm, the 2nd largest commercial rice farm in Nigeria by land size. His farm, which is situated in Nasarawa state in northern Nigeria, currently sits on 45,000 hectares and employs more than 600 indigenes of Nasarawa.
I recently caught up with the budding entrepreneur in Lagos, and had a brief chat with him where he recounted his journey and mused on how Nigeria can attain self-sufficiency in rice production in the near future.
What’s your educational and professional background?
I attended King’s College in Lagos. After attending secondary school at King’s College I proceeded to obtain my first degree at University of Aberdeen where I graduated with a degree in Economics. I also obtained a Master’s Degree in Economics from the same institution. My quest for more knowledge led me to enroll for yet another Master’s Degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London where I gained an MSc. in Finance and Development Studies.
Upon graduation, I landed a role as an analyst at the European Economics and Financial Centre in London. Afterwards, Euromoney Magazine- employed me where I covered the African space.
I would say that this is where my journey truly started.
Given your background as a journalist, what informed your decision to venture into rice farming?
While at Euromoney, I had the opportunity to travel around a few African countries. These trips exposed me to countries like Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia and Ghana. A common thread amongst the aforementioned nations is agriculture. Agriculture is at the very core of these countries and this got me thinking. After a few more trips, I decided to move back to Nigeria and sink my teeth into the agricultural space. Nigeria remains the largest economy in Africa from both a GDP perspective and also the strength of the size of our population.
Upon my arrival back in Nigeria, I got a job at a premier Bank where I was promised to sit on the agriculture desk – my hope was that I would gain enough knowledge of the Nigerian agricultural industry and develop myself from there.
Unfortunately, the agricultural desk at the Bank never quite achieved its set goals. I pushed hard for the Bank to adopt policies and gain inroads into the agricultural industry but my attempts were somewhat frustrated. I sincerely feel that the bank wasn’t quite ready to launch fully into the agricultural space.
As my frustration grew, I decided to quit banking and planned to go it alone into agriculture. Frankly, my decision led to a challenging sojourn as attempts to raise funding with my partner proved difficult. We started a Structured Trade and Commodity Finance company. After a while I started consulting for small agriculture companies seeking to raise capital both locally and internationally.
You currently own the second (2nd) largest rice farm in Nigeria with 45,000 hectares in Nasarawa, Nigeria. What’s the story behind your acquisition of such vast land, and what are some of the challenges you’ve encountered in farming in the volatile northern region?
Two years had past and we still had no funds, so I made an offer to the farm owner, that with a 50-50 split, I would develop the farm with both personal funds and external funding. He agreed and that’s how I became part owner of 17,296 hectares of farmland. Knowing that agriculture would become the integral area of focus in Nigeria, I was bullish and ramped up the land to 55,000 hectares. I later parted with my partner as a result of unaligned
views and strategy. I maintained 45,000 hectares for myself and today we have started producing, with our quality paddy being sold to major milling companies in Nigeria. However, I must add the following, I often have people ask how I learned abut farming, as everyone thinks you need a special degree in agriculture to be a farmer, but I always tell them the truth, I learnt it all on Google GOOGL +1.11%. I downloaded every article I could find on rice production, consumed it and then practiced it in the fields.
Frankly, my experience working alongside indigenes of Nasarawa state has been exceptional. I have learnt over the years that if you approach people with respect even more so while one seeks to set up a business venture. Having a healthy sense of community makes all the difference in attaining one’s set objectives. I lean heavily on the wisdom and cultural approach of the indigenes to carry out farming on such a scale here in Nasarawa
Wales shockingly defeated Belgium 3-1 to advance to the semi-final stage of Euro 2016. Goals from Ashley Williams, Robson Kanu and Voakes was enough to neutralize a Naingollan opener and lead Wales to an unprecedented European championship semi-final berth.
Wales will play Portugal in Lyon next week Wednesday as Real Madrid teammates and the World's most expensive football players ever Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale square up against each other
Popular Nigerian Writer Chimamanda Adichie and her husband Dr. Ivara Esegee have welcomed their first child. In a new interview with Financial Times, the writer revealed that she and her husband welcomed their daughter a while back but she decided to keep it private. According to her,
"This is the first time I’m saying it publicly. I have a lovely little girl so I feel like I haven’t slept . . . but it’s also just really lovely and strange. I have some friends who probably don’t know I was pregnant or that I had a baby. I just feel like we live in an age when women are supposed to perform pregnancy. We don’t expect fathers to perform fatherhood. I went into hiding. I wanted it to be as personal as possible
27 year old Isis Thomas, from Bristol,UK was blocked from logging into her facebook account because of her first name. On Monday, Isis tried to log into her profile only to find Facebook asking her to change her name.
In an interview she said:
“I just tried to log in and when I did, the password went through and this box came up asking me something about changing my name. I was on Facebook as Isis Worcester, because when I first signed up years ago I didn’t use my real name, which is Isis Thomas, because of where I worked at the time. I thought it was about the surname, so I just changed it to Isis Thomas. But that didn’t work and I realised they had a problem with me being called Isis.
“They sent a message saying Isis wasn’t allowed, it didn’t comply with the policy. They asked me to send in proof of identity, which I did.That was on Monday and I haven’t been let on the site since.
“I checked out other times this has happened, and found a woman called Isis who had to start a Twitter campaign because Facebook made her send in ID three times before they finally let her back on.”
Isis’s mum Sian named her after the ancient Egyptian goddess, worshipped as the ideal mother and wife, and the patron of nature and magic.
For most of her life, people commented on Isis’s pretty and unusual name, but things changed upon the rise of the terrorists declaring themselves the Islamic State – commonly abbreviated as ISIS.
Isis continued :
“Things have definitely changed for me and my name. I used to work in a doctors’ surgery and had my name on a badge. People would comment on it a lot, try to make jokes or tell me it was unfortunate. Some would think it was some kind of company name.
“It frustrates me that people still use ‘Isis’, especially when I see newspaper reports and they’ve written it ‘Isis’ instead of at least using capitals, like ISIS, because it’s an acronym. I have no plans to change my name, though, I love it. I just want Facebook to realise it’s my real name.”
Isis’s mum Sian is furious at Facebook, and said:
“It’s as though she has never existed. I have found Facebook impossible to contact and I’m furious.
Facebook recently launched a crackdown on ISIS extremists using it for propaganda
Source: TheSunUK
