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Abah1001

Writing

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Writing is a medium of human communication that involves the representation of a language through a system of physically inscribed, mechanically transferred, or digitally represented symbols.

We all write for different purposes, some write for fun, some write because of Writing sake😁 even some write to make money (Yea, just like me). I'll tell you that in the next line👇

Writing has been my hobby from day one ( No wonder I'm always selected as the Secretary in any organization I found myself). Whenever I'm less busy, I'll just pick up my pen and paper and start putting things down without knowing, after I will compile it and it will make a meaning.

Later on, I was told about Amazon KDP by a friend, though I've been hearing about that but didn't put much interest. So after my friend told me of that, I asked him some necessary questions I suppose to ask as a newbie I am about the business. I was afraid I must say because I have lost my money in many online businesses(Ponzi).

To cut the story short, I later got the Amazon KDP course at 40k. Went through the course and starts implementation and thank God things are going well. So I no longer write just for fun, or Writing sake 😁 I now write to earn in Dollars. That my friend is truely a God's sent ♥️. I owe him a lot.

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Voting

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INEC Warns Against Campaigns In Churches, Mosques, Violators Risk Imprisonment

Exactly one month to the commencement of campaigns for the presidential and National Assembly elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has warned political parties and candidates against the use of masqueraders, public facilities and religious centres for campaigns.

The commission asked political parties to align strictly with the provisions of the Electoral Act to avoid sanctions as stipulated by the Act. INEC had fixed September 28 for the commencement of campaigns for the presidential and National Assembly, while the elections would hold on February 25, 2023.

Relying on Section 92 of the Electoral Act, 2022, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of its Committee on Information and Voter Education, Mr Festus Okoye, in a recent interview with our correspondent explained that the law expected political campaigns to be civil and devoid of abuse.

Okoye said, “Section 92 of the Electoral Act makes it mandatory that a political campaign or slogan shall not be tainted with abusive language directly or indirectly likely to injure religious, ethnic, tribal or sectional feelings.

“Therefore, abusive, intemperate, slanderous or base language or insinuations or innuendoes designed or likely to provoke violent reaction or emotions shall not be employed or used in political campaigns.

“Subsection 3 states that places designated for religious worship, police stations and public offices shall not be used for political campaigns, rallies and processions; or to promote, propagate or attack political parties, candidates or their programmes or ideologies.

“Masqueraders shall not be employed or used by any political party, aspirant or candidate during political campaigns or for any other political purpose.”

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Love

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📌THE PAINS📌

Do you know the PAIN😥 of watching the person you love online and not chatting you.

The pain😇 of watching someone you love loving someone else.

The pain😵 of accepting the changes of the person you love,

The pain 😫 of letting go what you still love .

The pain😔 of forcing things to work out in your relationship but everything seems getting worse.

The pain💔 of seeing your partner taking you as their last priority.

The pain😿 of texting them multiple times but yet not getting a response.

The pain😪 of visiting them but seems your presence is not noticed.

The pain😩 of trying your best to make them smile by the little things you do but yet not appreciated.

My dear, just because you love someone doesn't make you a slave to them .

Don't k*ill yourself trying to please someone who doesn't care about your feelings .

You deserve better . They will try coming back to you when they get disappointed by those they thought were better than you , by then, they will realize they have lost a diamond while they were busy

chasing after stones please stop wasting people's time, if you don't love them, let them know on time ,,❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Loyalty

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There was a writer named: Chinua Achebe, who in the company of his books, I felt the prison walls at Robben Island fall down."— Nelson R. Mandela, 2013. 🇿🇦

Chinua Achebe is most famous for his novel Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, which tells the story of an Igbo village's reaction to British missionaries and colonial authorities. ... He also published several other novels, short stories, children's books, and essays.

Achebe's primary purpose of writing the novel(Things Fall Apart)is because he wants to educate his readers about the value of his culture as an African. Things Fall Apart provides readers with an insight of Igbo society right before the white missionaries' invasion on their land.

In 1958 he published Things Fall Apart, his groundbreaking novel brought him worldwide attention. It has since become one of the most widely read books in modern African literature. Later novels include No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, and Anthills of the Savannah. In 1967, Achebe co-founded a publishing company. Achebe lectured at universities in the United States and returned to become a research fellow and later professor of English at the University of Nigeria.

He also served as a director for two Nigerian publishers. In 1990, following a serious car accident, Achebe moved to the United States. He taught at Bard College and Brown University. In addition to his novels, Achebe wrote poetry, short stories, and a children's book. Achebe was the recipient of dozens of honorary degrees from universities. Among other honors, he was awarded the Man Booker International Prize, the Dorothy and Lilian Gish Prize, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

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Nigerian History

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WHO SOLD NIGERIA TO THE BRITISH FOR £865K IN 1899?

This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria.

All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that.

Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With this wealth came influence.

However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade. In 1879, George Goldie formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modelled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference.

When the Brits got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs. Within two years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organisation’s activities to coastal regions.

By 1886, the company name changed to The National Africa Company and was granted a royal charter (incorporated). The charter authorised the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the company was again renamed. The new name was Royal Niger Company, which survives, as Unilever, till this day.

To local chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged free trade in the region. Behind, they entered private contracts on their terms. Because the (deceitful) private contracts were often written in English and signed by the local chiefs, the British government enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, when he tried to export palm oil on his own, was forced into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja was “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to return home, but he died on the way back, poisoned with a cup of tea.

Seeing what happened to Jaja, some other native rulers began to look more closely at the deals they were getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms was Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like most rulers in the yard, was faced with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He also resented the monopoly enjoyed by the Royal Nigeria Company and tried to seek out favourable trading terms, with particularly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).

By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company increasingly dictated whom the natives could trade with, and denied them direct access to their former markets. In late 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and tried to form an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma against the Royal Nigeria Company to take back the trade. This is significant because while Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.

On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an attack on the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which was in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-dawn raid had more than a thousand men involved. King Koko’s attack succeeded in capturing the base. Losing 40 of his men, King Koko captured 60 white men as hostages, as well as a lot of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then attempted to negotiate a release of the hostages in exchange for being allowed to chose his trading partners. The British refused to negotiate with Koko, and he had forty of the hostages killed. A British report claimed that the Nembe people ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, under Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe people died and smallpox finished off a lot of others.

By April 1895, business had returned to “normal”, normal being the conditions that the British wanted, and King Koko was on the run. Brass was fined £500 by the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted weapons were returned as well as the surviving prisoners. After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko was offered terms of settlement by the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British promptly declared him an outlaw and offered a reward of £200 (£26,000; NGN12 million today) for him. He committed suicide in exile in 1898.

About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, was run out of town. The pacification of the Lower Niger was well and truly underway. The immediate effect of the Brass Oil War was that public opinion in Britain turned against the Royal Nigeria Company, so its charter was revoked in 1899. Following the revoking of its charter, the Royal Niger Company sold its holdings to the British government for £865,000 (£108 million today). That amount, £46,407,250 (NGN 50,386,455,032,400, at today’s exchange rate) was effectively the price Britain paid, to buy the territory which was to become known as Nigeria.

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Stop Corruption

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We define corruption as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Corruption erodes trust, weakens democracy, hampers economic development and further exacerbates inequality, poverty, social division and the environmental crisis.The most common types or categories of corruption are supply versus demand corruption, grand versus petty corruption, conventional versus unconventional corruption and public versus private corruption.Corruption is a complex social, political and economic phenomenon that affects all countries. Corruption undermines democratic institutions, slows economic .In a nutshell, corruption increases inequality, decreases popular accountability and political responsiveness, and thus produces rising frustration and hardship among citizens, who are then more likely to accept (or even demand) hard-handed and illiberal tactics.

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Integrity

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Demonstrating integrity regularly means building honesty into your everyday routine. Practicing honesty is not always easy, especially in situations where you may be at fault. Living the value of integrity requires holding yourself accountable, accepting responsibility, and facing the consequences of your actions.What Is Personal Integrity? Personal integrity is the sum of ethical standards that communicate what kind of person you are in how you treat yourself and others. Integrity means you are predisposed to help others, be honest, and lead by example. For these reasons,Character traits related to integrity

Gracious.

Respectful.

Honest. Integrity requires honesty. ...

Trustworthy. People with integrity follow through on their commitments. ...

Hardworking.

Responsible. Those with integrity take accountability for their actions. ...

Helpful. When someone has integrity, they help those in need. ...

Patient.

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Focus

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Eagles Have Vision

Eagles are fearless

Eagles are Tenacious

Eagles are High Flyers

Eagles Never Eat Dead Meat

Eagles posses Vitality

Eagles Nurture their younger onesEagles are also seen as a symbol of grace, beauty, courage, pride, bravery, power, freedom and determination. Several of these characteristics have been Unlike other animals, Eagles get excited with the storm

Eagles nurture their young for as long as 5 months

Once the eagle sets its eyes on a prey, it never loses its forcus.Eagles have broad wingspans. ... Eagles are set apart from other species by their larger and more powerful builds. Eagles have larger heads than most bird species,those are the characteristics of the eagle 🐦.

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