THE 12 LAWS OF KARMA

1.THE GREAT LAW – As you sow, so shall you reap. This is also known as the Law of Cause and Effect. Whatever we put out in the Universe is what comes back to us. If what we want is happiness, peace, friendship, love…Then we should BE happy, peaceful, loving, a friend. Negative energy sent out to others will come back to you 10 fold

2.THE LAW OF CREATION – Life doesn’t just HAPPEN, it requires our participation. We are one with the Universe both inside and out. Whatever surrounds us gives us clues to our inner state. BE and DO yourself what you want to have in your life.

3.THE LAW OF HUMILITY – What you refuse to accept, will continue for you. If what we see is an enemy, or someone with a character trait that we find to be negative, then we ourselves are not focused on a higher level of existence.

4.THE LAW OF GROWTH – Wherever you go, there you are. For us to GROW in Spirit it is WE who must change and not the people, places or things around us. The only given we have in our lives is OURSELVES, and that is the only factor we have control over. When we change who and what we are within our heart, our life changes too.

5.THE LAW OF RESPONSIBILITY – Whenever there is something wrong, there is something wrong in me. We mirror what surrounds us and what surrounds us mirrors us: we must take responsibility for what is in our life.

6.THE LAW OF CONNECTION – Even if something we do seems inconsequential, it is very important that it gets done as everything in the Universe is connected. Each step leads to the next step and so forth and so on. Someone must do the initial work to get a job done. Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance-they were both needed to accomplish the task. Past, Present, Future…they are all connected…

7.THE LAW OF FOCUS – You can’t think of two things at the same time. You should climb up a ladder on step at a time. When you lose your focus you let in insecurities and anger.

8.THE LAW OF GIVING AND HOSPITALITY – If you believe something to be true, then sometime in your life you will be called upon to demonstrate that truth. Here is where we put what we SAY that we have learned into PRACTICE.

9.THE LAW OF HERE AND NOW – Looking back to examine what was prevents us from being totally in the HERE AND NOW. Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, old dreams…Prevent us from having new ones.

10.THE LAW OF CHANGE – History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.

11.THE LAW OF PATIENCE AND REWARD – All Rewards require initial toil. Rewards of lasting value require patient and persistent toil. True joy follows doing what we’re suppose to be doing, and waiting for the reward to come in it’s own time.

12.THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE AND INSPIRATION – You get back from something whatever you’ve put into it. The value of something is a direct result of the energy and intent that is put into it. Every personal contribution is also a contribution to the Whole. Lack luster contributions have no impact on the Whole or work to diminish it.

Culled from whatsapp by Ike Onwubuya

How to Talk

*👍How to TALK 👍*

Talk to *Mother* _lovingly,_

Talk 2 *Father* _respectfully,_

Talk 2 *Brothers* _heartfully,_

Talk 2 *Sisters* _affectionately,_

Talk 2 *Children* _enthusiastically,_

Talk 2 *Relatives* _empathetically,_

Talk 2 *Friends* _jovially,_

Talk 2 *Officials* _politely,_

Talk 2 *Vendors* _strictly,_

Talk 2 *Customers* _honestly,_

Talk 2 *Workers* _courteously,_

Talk 2 *Politicians* _carefully,_

Talk 2 *GOD* _silently,_

Talk to *WIFE*

~no no~ ......

*KEEP QUIET & LISTEN ONLY...!!!*

😂😂😂

21 FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE DANGOTE REFINERY

1. Over $4 billion worth of equipment currently sits on the site.

2. The project is slated to cost $14 billion (N5 trillion) of which Dangote is contributing $7 billion in equity.

3. The project site is 8 times larger than Victoria Island. It is located on 2135 hectares of land in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos near the Lekki Free Zone.

4. It is the largest industrial complex in Africa.

5. Work goes on, on the site, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

6. World Record 2.72 million accident free hours recorded on site, without a single lost time to injuries.

7. It is the largest single train grass roots refinery in the world with a processing capacity of 650,000 BPSD.

8. Dangote Group brought in the world’s #1, #2, and #5 sand dredgers to sand fill the site. 60% of the land being swampy.

9. During construction, the project will employ over 25,000 Nigerians and will employ over 300,000 workers upon completion.

10. Dangote is investing over $7 billion (N1.4 trillion) in the project.

11. It is the largest single train refinery project on the planet.

12. When this project comes online, Nigeria will save a minimum of $10 billion a year on imports.

13. The Ammonia component of the plant will produce 2.8 million tonnes of Urea.

14. Dangote is producing its own electricity to power the plant and by so doing is saving 75% costs. Dangote produces electricity at a rate that is significantly cheaper than the Federal Government. Dangote’s cost is $400,000/MW, while Federal Government is $2,000,000/MW.

15. All the civil engineering is done by Nigerian companies.

16. The plant has an export value of $6 billion per annum, meaning Dangote’s efforts will increase the amount of foreign exchange in Nigeria’s foreign reserves by at least 40% of current value on a yearly basis.

17. Dangote said when this project comes on line, his friend Femi Otedola will save at least N26 per litre on millions of litres of diesel and petrol which his companies import annually. This savings will be passed on to the consumers and it will take a lot of pressure off the banks.

18. Billions of Naira were paid to acquire the land and to settle the existing communities. More money was also allocated and spent to relocate the existing communities.

19. This project will restore the dignity of Nigeria, a crude producing country that has for years gone abroad to meet its demand for refined products.

20. Refined products to be produced at the plant include but is not limited to Propane, Petrol, Jet Fuel, Diesel, Kerosene, Carbon Black, Polypropylene, Polyethylene.

21. The United States Trade and Development Agency is supporting this project with $997 million.

Credit: Utuk Iyanga.

Culled from whatsapp by Ike Onwubuya

Catholicism in Numbers

Fwd.: *VATICAN - Dossier for World Mission Day: the number of Catholics in the world is increasing*

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Catholics in the world is increasing: almost one billion and 300 million, 17.7% of the world's population. 

According to figures from the Church’s Book of Statistics (data related to 2015) and elaborated by Agenzia Fides, the baptized are 12 million and a half more than the previous year (2014). This is one of the data in the Dossier published by Agenzia Fides on the occasion of the 91st World Mission Day, which is celebrated on Sunday, October 22, 2017, which offers a panorama of the Church in the world.

According to the Dossier, 1 billion and 100,000 people live in Africa, 19.42% are Catholics (222 million), with an increase of 0.12%. In America, out of 982.2 million inhabitants, 63.6% are Catholics (625 million), with a decrease of 0.08%.

In Asia, out of 4.3 billion people, 3.24% of the population (141 million) are Catholics, an unvaried figure.

In Europe, the population is increasing (716 million), but for the second year in a row, the number of Catholics is 39.87% (285 million), a decrease of 0.21%.

38.7 million people live in Oceania, 26.36% are Catholics (10.2 million), with an increase of 0.24% compared to the previous year.

The Catholic ecclesiastical circumscriptions (dioceses, vicariates, apostolic prefectures etc) in the world are 3,006 (+ 8 compared to 2014): 538 in Africa, 1,091 in America, 538 in Asia, 758 in Europe and 81 in Oceania.

The number of Bishops in the world increases by 67 units (5,304) while the number of priests decreases by 136 units (415,656).

Fides’ Dossier also informs that there are 351,797 lay missionaries in the world while 3,122,653 are catechists.

The Catholic Church runs 216,548 schools in the world, attended by over 60 million pupils. In addition, almost five and a half million young people attend Catholic institutes during high school and university studies. Finally there are about 118 thousand Catholic social and charitable institutes (hospitals, Care Homes for people with Leprosy, orphanages, homes for the Elderly) scattered throughout the world.

In Fides’ Dossier there is also an overall picture of the missionary cooperation activity of the Pontifical Mission Societies (Propagation of the Faith, Saint Peter the Apostle, Missionary Childhood, Missionary Union) which, in their support to local Churches (building of chapels and seminars, education, pastoral and formation activities), granted subsidies which amount to 134 million US dollars in 2016.

In order to illustrate the Dossier, a motion graphics (in Italian and English) is available on Agenzia Fides' Youtube channel that you can freely download and reproduce on other websites. (Agenzia Fides 20/10/2017)

Posted by Ike Onwubuya

#900k Gatemen

This question was asked on Twitter some days ago;

 "As a graduate, would you accept a job of N900,000 monthly as a Gateman?"

Here were the crazy and hilarious responses that followed....... Nigerians, I hail thee😂😂

1. I would have said NO but my hobbies include opening and closing of gate...😂

2. Why I con go school na, if not to be a young smart gateman? My dream job, we're all gatemen in our family.

3. See you, gateman that am doing free of charge most days these days..... Izz like u want me to resume on credit already, abi? 

4. I would even work seven days a week and twice on Sundays.... I go even train my pikin to take over from me. 

5. I can be the gateman, the dog, the security lights and the alarm 😄😄😂

6 After taking the job, I would pick up a form to do my masters and PhD in Opening gate and security science to be a better gateman

7. I started opening gate when I was 6 months old, so I hv too much experience plsss. Where can I apply?

8. Is it not just to open and close gate? Call me your GM.. Boss of the gate.. Commander in chief of the gate forces. When do I start?

9. Some are gatemen, some are Senior Access Controllers.. I'd even combine the two together.

10. Me that i will use my certificate to be fanning myself beside the gate when am feeling heat. 

Posted by Ike Onwubuya 

Ten ways to stay safe from the dreaded Monkey Pox

1. Avoid Monkey meat especially the Kanda. 

2. Avoid that alcoholic concoction called Monkey Tail or Monkite or Kpanrangan. 

3. Avoid Monkey Cage when u visit any Zoo until further advised. 

4. Avoid Chinese Films especially 'Snake in The Monkey Shadow'. 

5. Avoid Monkey (Wayo) Business, especially my Igbo brothers. 

6. If u luv playing football like me please avoid 'Monkey Post' for now until after the 2018 World Cup in Russia. 

7. For the sake of ur life, avoid watching those Hausa & Togolese men who carry Monkeys about in Major Nigerian cities, especially Lagos, in the name of entertainment & magic. If not u will just die troway!!! 

8. Don't ever use the phrase 'Monkey no fine but im Mama like am' else the pox will come upon u like a Hurricane. 

9. Don't allow any of ur children to be jumping upandan like Monkey else dem go catch am o! It is better they jump like Antelope or any other animal. 

10. Run 440 if u spot anyone with the disease. Avoid unnecessary physical contacts, especially in Bayelsa State & always wash & sanitise ur hands b4 eating. If u can help it, stay in ur house until this scourge is sent to meet its cousin (Ebola Virus) in the pit of hell. 

Tomatoes

A teacher asked her students to bring some tomatoes in a plastic bag to school.

🍅Each tomato was to be given the name of a person whom that child hates.

🍅So, the number of tomatoes would be equal to the number of persons they hate.

🍅On a pre-determined day, All the children brought their tomatoes well addressed.

🍅Some had two, some had three and some had five, some even had 20 tomatoes in accordance with the number of people they hated. 🍅The teacher then told them they had to carry the tomatoes with them everywhere they go for two weeks.

🍅As the days passed the children started to complain about the decay and smell of the tomatoes.

🍅The students who had many tomatoes complained it was very heavy to carry and the smell was too much.

🍅After a week, the teacher asked the students “How did you feel this week?”

🍅The children complained of the awful smell and heavy weight of the tomatoes, especially those who carried several tomatoes.

🍅The teacher said, “This is very similar to what you carry in your heart when you don’t like some people.

🍅Hatred makes the heart unhealthy and you carry that hatred everywhere. 🍅If you can’t bear the smell of spoilt tomatoes for a week, imagine the impact of bitterness on your heart as you carry it daily.”

🍅The heart is a beautiful garden that needs regular cleaning of unwanted weeds. 🍅 Forgive those who have angered you.

🍅This makes room for storing good things.

🍅Get Better, Not Bitter!!!

AIthough you may not usually forward texts but this makes sense. So forward it to someone or group. They might be motivated to let go and cleanse their hearts 💕 !!!!!

Love everyone😘

Posted by Ike Onwubuya

Political Jackals and Hyenas

Author Unknown. Identify the Hyenas 

Let's identify them by their characteristics, features and functional labels:

1. Political jobbers without visible means of livelihood 

2. Billionaires without employers of labour

3. Salary receiving politicians without other notable means of incomes

4. Billionaires politicians without other means known to Nigerians or his or her immediate family 

5. Billionaires politicians without  factories or industries 

6. Billionaires politicians without having been a CEO or attend board meetings 

7. AGIP (any government in power) billionaires without appointment or political office holders

8. Tag along politicians millionaire without any clear means of livelihood 

9. Follow follow am loyal sir to polilooters millionaires without any means of livelihood 

10. Mouth dey pain me friends of polilooters who could not tell his master the truth for the wickedness of looting every institutions 

11. Those that looted Volkswagen and want to be Governor of an oil rich region

12. Those that monopolise every trades, businesses and kill off competition and dare no one to rise up. GOD pass una 

13. Those that ensure that constant electricity is a forbidden fruit in Nigeria and will continue to be the sole and major player in supplying diesel and ensure no competition exist

14. Those bad eggs that ensure collaboration with the generator producing country from Japan and China and sabotage every cable wire, transformers using area boys or foot soldiers and endure top directors in phcn are given 1st class holiday to ensure they do their biddings. They dictate light on and light off

15. Politicians with exotic cars, exquisite mansion and flamboyant lifestyles without other notable means of livelihood 

16. Billionaires evil servant who has been in the ministry for years whose asset if blown wide open can resurrect the dead to come back and slap his face with an award certificate of been the most clever thief with a low lifestyle, indicted and below the EFCC radar

17. Past Governors who are still maintaining the flow of national resources, planting their boys here and there just to ensure the steady flow of illegal wealth into their reservoirs dog pocket 

Please add yours because you know most of these dragons more than I do.

Ike Onwubuya 

A short list of some very "powerful" Nigerians

1. Security guard at recruiting firms
2. Over-sabi PA to a politician
3. Petulant secretaries at some offices
4. The lady at the Visa interview office
5. The people in charge of jollof rice at any party (I dey tell you)
6. The clerk at the university's transcript office
7. Final year project supervisors
8. Demi-god filling-station attendants during fuel scarcity
9. Ekwensu mother-inlaws with Patience Ozokwor's DNA
 10.The health worker at the HIV/AIDs testing unit
11. That registration officer at the HoD's office who drinks tea in the afternoon

No matter what you do, don't mess with these people!!!

Top ten facts about January 13

1. January 13 is the feast day of St Mungo (also known as St Kentigern), patron saint and alleged founder of Glasgow who died on this day in 614. 

2. January 13, 888 was the date of death of Charles the Fat, King of West Francia, East Francia and Italy, who was probably not fat at all. 

3. On January 13, 1128, Pope Honorius II declared the Knights Templar to be an “army of God”. 

4. On January 13, 1404, King Henry IV signed into law the Act Against Multiplication, forbidding alchemists from turning base metals into gold. 

5. On January 13, 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered Callisto, the fourth moon of Jupiter. 

6. On January 13, 1854, Anthony Faas of Philadelphia patented the accordion. 

7. It was also the date of the death in 1929 of Wyatt Earp, peacefully at the age of 80. 

8. On January 13, 1942 Henry Ford patented a plastic automobile known as the Soybean Car. 

9. On the same date, an aircraft ejector seat was first used by a German test pilot. 

10. And finally, according to a 1973 Sesame Street calendar, January 13 is Rubber Duckie’s Birthday which is why this is Rubber Duckie Day in the US.

Source: http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/753609/Top-ten-facts-January-13