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MIAMI — The astonishing hurricanes of 2017, Harvey and Irma, have provided a sobering lesson in the power of nature, along with some modest reassurance about how Americans respond when calm blue skies turn a violent gray. The next test could come sooner than anyone wants. This stormy hurricane season is a long way from over, and there are ominous stirrings in the Atlantic, which has a history of brewing tropical cyclones that spin toward the United States. Hurricane Jose has been loitering in the Atlantic and might be preparing a run toward the East Coast this week. And Hurricane Maria is expected to hit the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean on Monday. While Texas and the Southeast pick up after significant wind and flood damage, the welcome news from the Harvey and Irma hurricanes is that, in a crisis, neighbors help neighbors. The government did not stumble and bumble as it did initially during the Hurricane Katrina disaster of 2005. Improved storm track forecasts gave millions ...

Good evening my own lovely, beautiful and most awesome fans. Its evening here in Nigeria and actually so cool. This evening i have got a message for you, to inspire you and motivate you never to settle for the least, for you have got over seven billion people you can get to be a joy to.  Have you ever thought why our own parents weren't better, greater and more successful than their own parents? have you ever wondered why some youths are there wasting life and living like a dead soul ... Your father was a drunkard isn't a reason for you to be like him, your mother lived her time as a prostitute isn't a reason for you to prostitute, you can be better than whatever your parents were, you could be the one who writes a page of your family name on Wikipedia, believe me you can do it, you can be whatever you want to be, make great men and women your mentors, read about their life issues, believe in your self that you can and you will. LETS THINK OF DOING THE FOLLOWING AND SEE IF ...

Donald Trump’s revised travel ban is causing turmoil in the courts once again, as one US judge grants asylum to a Syrian refugee’s family, while another has declined to rule on the latest version. District Judge James Robart has come under criticism for claiming that a complaint or motion needs to be filed against the new executive order before he can make a decision. After public outcry against the original ban, the Seattle-based judge ruled in February that Mr Trump's executive was unconstitutional, stopping it from being implemented across the country. But Judge Robart said he would not be able to rule on the second ban until lawyers filed the appropriate paperwork. Nevertheless, a judge in Wisconsin has already circumnavigated Mr Trump’s travel ban by allowing the wife and child of a Syrian refugee already granted asylum to enter the country. The president’s latest executive order, issued on March 6, removed Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens will be subject to a 90...

His excellency President Mohammed Buhari is back home as the adage has it, "Ajo, ko le da bi ile" . His excellency left Nigeria for vacation on the 19th of January and was scheduled to return home on the 6th of February, but due to His doctors advice on the President's health, the vacation was extended so further test could be carried out and the president would have a proper rest. It was announced on Thursday by Mr Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media, that the president would return to the country on Friday which is today.   Femi Adesina, the special adviser on media and publicity to the president, said Mr. Buhari’s  plane landed in Kaduna  well after 7.am today in Kaduna, debunking earlier reports that the president flew in at about 4.am.  Kaduna governor, Nasir el-Rufai, said on Facebook: “The President is back. He has landed safely in Kaduna and received by Acting Governor Barnabas Yusuf Bala and senior KDSG officials. The government ...

What makes Life fun is the fact that its unpredictable, we pass through so many things, at times we are sad and at times we are happy, there are times, things are going smoothly and times when things are rough. Despite all that, we all still want to live because nothing is certain and we don't know what will happen tomorrow. That is hope, an expectation of a lovely and nice occurrence, an expectation of a new beginning. I know its never easy to hold onto hope, for you will find moments that will pull you down, smash your heart, moments that will make it all seem dark and of all moments that will strive to take hope away from you. Hold on dear, and keep the hope alive. When you hope on, pain ends. Be calm, and keep that hope within alive. It may seem hard and difficult now, I indulge you to please never give up on hope.          Makinde Azeezat Oluwakemi

Have you ever come across or heard of a smooth mountain? Yet, they could be as high as reaching for the heaven's. The rougher it is, the tougher it is to climb and the higher it is reaching for the sky. The bitter truth is there is no smooth road to success, the only difference is some people achieve it so early in life, that doesn't mean you won't get to your own peak. Never use other people's riches to pray for yours, you don't know what they had to do to achieve it, so ask and pray for yours and keep building the dream, with your own unique ideas. You do not have to do it the way same way with others, all you have to do is create your own ideas, ideas that are scarce and rare. Take a very good look at the lives of great men of the past and the present who made great impacts in life, you will find out the road to their greatness wasn't smooth at all, but what kept them going? Faith in what they believe in, knowing giving up wasn't an option at all. Powers...

What actually defines Time? What makes it the most valued treasure? Time defines absolutely everything in the life of every soul, how u go about it and live in it, describes the sound it plays for you. Sound is the after effect of how your time is spent I know you are asking and wondering how? So let's take a look at it together. What differentiates Success from failure (though not the end. A man only fails the moment he quits) ? Success is the outcome of a well spent time, invested time and perfected time in total dedication and repetition of ones dream resulting into that sound called joy and jubilation. While failure is the result of spending good time trying hard but didn't get the expected result then quitting, which only gives the sound of Lamentations, regrets etc. So I challenge you this day, why quit? Because you failed? or you feel you can't cope again since you have spent a good time on it and yet you couldn't get the expected result? That should be a greater...

LIFE : how is it defined? Over time and ages, man has given different definition for it, ranging from the scientific, to the philosophy, and The personal Experience meanings. Looking at it, and trying to place a word to classify it, I say life is a "RACE". What is a Race? Isn't it a competition you have to work and prepare very hard for, so as to finish as the best. How you prepared and trained for the race, the hardship you had to pass through, the injuries you had which at one point wanted you to give up and quit the race, and the sacrifices you made, No one really wants to know about that , all they care about is seeing you finishing best in the race, then later they will be inspired by your success in the race and would love to hear about how you made it. Life is of no difference to that race, we all are a partaker of it, so its left to you, to make your preparations, sacrifices, and never to give up. Life wants you to strive hard, so has to know its value.

Many have been so broken, to the extend they see everything about life as dark. Some have even lost the hope of anything good in life. So take life as "Nothing good comes out of it". Verse versa, So many good people have spent their entire life tagging some others as total darkness, but No, there is nothing of such as total darkness, there is always a light in every darkness, waiting to shine, but it needs more attention to do that. Remember, " more charging time is to power the brightness of the touch" the moment you stop charging, then gradually it goes brim and finally dies off. So have we failed to help some people let their light shine by casting them out, not giving a single chance to them. So I inspire you today to stand by those whom you ones tagged as darkness, you could do that from a far not necessarily physically close. The same goes to you who have tagged the world as dark and given up hope, there are is a light out there for you deep within the darknes...

F- focus A- aspire I- inspire T- trust H- hope     The substance of things hoped for not yet seen is what we all know Faith as. It does not really mean to God or another being. It mainly starts with you first, "do you have faith in your self" is the faith firm within you that you can get to that main aim of yours? Have you heard of faith without work is dead. So I brought you this few tips to help you build it up. # Focus - Never let your guide down, work without distraction, stay away from that which you know distracts you In any form or way. # Aspire - Aim for the highest, remember the sky is only the beginning. Dream big and big everyday. # Inspire - let everything around you inspire you never to give up and let go for once. Try to read biographys of great men and women, it really help to inspire your faith. # Trust - trusting goes a very long way, you can never trust anyone and anything if you Dont trust youself . Trust in yourself and know you can do it. Dont give up. # ...

                                                                          HOPE   Its easy to feel hopeful on a be autiful day like today, but there will be dark days ahead of us too,there will be days you feel all alone,and that is when hope is needed most,no matter how buried it gets or how lost you feel,promise me that you will hold on to hope ,keep it alive,we have to be greater than what we have suffer,my wish for you is to become hope ,people need that and even if we fail, what better ways is there to live. sometimes it feels like we are saying goodbye, but we will carry a piece of each other into everything that we ...