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The Distance Between Success And Failure Is You - Part II

Danny: “Paul, I will repeat to you some of the things you said to me so that Tom can also learn from them. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Andy you too can listen carefully. Here we go. You said life is real hard, especially for you, right? You believe you are not smart enough or have enough education to make the big bucks, correct? You also believe that it is real hard and difficult to make money, isn't it? You believe all the rich people are crooks, which implies you'd rather be honest than rich - be honest and die wretched, correct? You further believe you will never be rich, that you have to work real hard for your money, and that is only when you have enough money that you can make money to work for you, correct?  You also believe that in order to succeed financially it will take a lot of hard work, sweat, suffering and struggles. Correct? And we're not finished yet because you also believe you never get any breaks and that maybe this is your fate in life, isn't it? Did I miss anything?"

Andy: “Absolutely nothing.”

Paul: (In a sad tone of voice) “you covered just about everything"

Danny: (he laughed) “congratulations, Paul. With all those beliefs and thoughts in your mind, you are not attracting success to you; you are not a success magnet but a failure magnet. You cannot succeed that way, because you have programmed wrong things in your mind and you cannot reap from your mind (life) what you did not sow into your mind except by stealing from others which is not legal. And no thief is ever bold of what he has.”

The Distance Between Success And Failure Is You - Part I

Do you know that the distance between success and failure is you?

I would like to narrate a story of a man, Paul, who was a Supervisor at a shipping company. He was born and raised up with a wrong mindset against the rich which affected the way his life turned out to be. Fortunately for him, he met a few of his classmates who made him to reformat his mindset to eliminate all the weed-seeds of wrong notions about riches to a more successful-driven mind. For Paul, his story was about a person who was covered with the ashes of poverty to a person that was quaked into riches; he re-wrote the history of his lineage from failure to success.

Paul was a very vibrant and hardworking young man who always goes the-extra- mile to pay his bills and sustain his aged parents. But one day, he got frustrated because he was not getting what he expected in life: he was not earning enough money to pay all his bills again; he was not meeting his demands; he was not having influence among his peers.

Hence, he ventured into other new businesses that could generate more money for him and perhaps make him more famous. (Just like what most people do today). Unknowingly to him at that time, he was chasing success away from himself because his mindset towards the rich and the successful was very negative. He was working against the universal law of attraction that says "like attracts like", or the law of sowing and reaping that says “whatever a man sows, so shall he reap". So, Paul's negative mindset (attitude) was repelling success and attracting frustrations and failures to his works and world.

Challenges Will Give birth To A Better Nigeria, says Tinubu

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu said at the weekend that the challenges facing Nigeria will give birth to a better nation.

He noted that the process of achieving the required result, though difficult, would lead the country to good fortunes, if undertaken.

Tinubu explained that the challenges demanded that the country changed from dependent on oil or fall by the wayside, adding that there was no third option.

The former Lagos State governor spoke in Abuja on Saturday at the dinner/award ceremony organised by the Ahmadu Bellow University Alumni Association.

Saraki Should Step Aside As Senate President By Reuben Abati

The present Senate serving the Nigerian people runs the risk of being remembered as the worst since 1999.  Public Relations Consultants and media officials of this particular Senate have done their part flooding both the print and the online media with details of how productive the Bukola Saraki-led Senate has been, and they have been quite aggressive in telling us about 30 important Bills which when passed, will change the face of Nigeria and deliver change. 

The Senate according to one report has considered over 125 bills, debated over 48 motions, and passed three bills. But nobody is apparently impressed. During the Jonathan administration, the Senate was the better regarded of the two legislative chambers. While members of the House of Representatives in the Seventh Assembly behaved as if they were a band of students’ unionists, the then Red Chamber projected an image of maturity and temperance, even if it was also self-serving! With the 8th Assembly, the House of Representatives, apart from the shameful resort to physical combat over the distribution of “juicy” committees in November 2015, has shown itself to be better organized than the present Senate. The critical difference is that of leadership. It is one of management. It is a matter of weight and politics.

The Naked Words (2)

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?”

…Lance Armstrong

Naked Words

"If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence."

-John B. Gough

DasukiGate Case Continues,: No Secret Trial And No Masked Witnesses

The era of Change is bringing sanity to the justice system where fairness and equity would be the order of the day. Hopefully, this trend of sanity would be manifested in all institutions.

In accordance to the report made available from premium times, a Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed an application by the State Security Service, SSS, to use masked witnesses against a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, who is on trial for alleged corruption and illegal possession of firearms.

The SSS had asked Justice Adeniyi Ademola to allow the use of masked witnesses against Mr. Dasuki.

But the court dismissed the application.

EFCC detective fails to answer questions on document he tendered against Saraki

According to report by the Cableng, Michael Wetkas, a detective of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday denied knowledge of the contents of a petition he tendered as evidence against Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).

The petition, which is marked “Exhibit 11″, was written by a group known as Kwara Freedom Network, alleging corruption against Saraki.

While being cross-examined by Kanu Agabi, Saraki’s lead counsel, Wetkas said he was not involved in the investigation of the petition he tendered as evidence at the tribunal.

Gbajabiamila Writes Chinese Leader•’Fayose’s Letter Amounts To Constitutional Sabostage

House of Representatives Majority leader Femi Gbajabiamila has described Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose as a meddlesome interloper following the letter he wrote to Chinese President Xi Jinping on the alleged $6 billion loan sought by Nigeria from China.

In a letter to the Chinese leader yesterday, Gbajabiamila said Fayose ignorantly overreached himself and wilfully breached the constitution by failing to defend the oath he swore to.

The House leader, who said members of the lower chamber were worried by the flagrant abuse of office by Fayose, however, asked the Chinese leader to ignore him as he showed lack of understanding of the workings of the federal system of government.

Dasuki's Gate: Jonathan’s ex-aide Dudafa arrested

Former presidential aide Mr. Waripamowei Dudafa has been arrested, The Nation learnt yesterday. The Nation Newspaper had reported.

The former Senior Special Assistant (Domestic Affairs) to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan is to be interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in connection with the investigation into the $2.1billion arms deals.

Sources said he was being grilled last night over $47million and 5.6million Euros (N10 billion) which were withdrawn from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Another Prank From Senate To Interrupt Saraki’s corruption trial

 According to report from premium times, the Senate had initiated moves to          dislocate Saraki’s corruption trial, summons CCT judge

The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions on Monday summoned Danladi Umar, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), who is presiding over Bukola Saraki’s corruption trial.

Mr. Saraki, the Senate President, is facing 13 counts of false assets declaration and fraud before the CCT.

According to The Nation newspaper, Justice Umar‎ was asked to appear before the Committee “unfailingly” by 2 p.m. on Thursday.

LEGISLATIVE SACRILEGE: PURPORTED AMENDMENT OF THE CCB&T & ACJA ACTS by Senator Babajide Omoworare

Instead of making uninformed contribution on Senate Bill 248 - A Bill for an Act to Amend the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act Cap. C15, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 and for other Related Matters proposed by Senator Peter Nwabuoshi; I have decided to have a deep breath and have a second look at the laws and other ancillary matters. Let me say ab initio without mincing words that I oppose the Bill in toto on points of law and I am averse to same for moral reasons, having taken more than a cursory look at the Constitution, the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act, the Bill in question and the Lead Debate of Senator Nwabuoshi.

It is important to note that another Bill is pending before the Senate: Senate Bill 249 - A Bill for an Act to Amend the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015; and for Other Related Matters by Senator Isah Misau. The purport of the amendment is to amend Section thereof and ensure that the ACJA does not apply not only to Court Martial, but also to such other Courts and Tribunals not listed in Section 6 (6) of the Constitution. I have also looked at the ACJA and this Bill and I do not agree with same.

It Is Now Sahara Reporters VS Saraki & NASS

The battle between Sahara Reporters and NASS is getting hotter. The Tweet below confirmed that: 

FLASH: @bukolasaraki spent N150million in three days to discredit Code Of Conduct Tribunal chair, Justice Danladi Umar

— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) April 17, 2016

FLASH: Kwara state government has made available $900,000 to @bukolasaraki through BDCs via a lady named "Fatima Suleiman" from Jigawa/Edo

— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) April 17, 2016

FLASH: @bukolasaraki has spent thousands of dollars in attempts to discredit operators of @SaharaReporters, creating fake pages and website

— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) April 17, 2016

Nigerian Senate Buys 108 Toyota Landcruisers At twice The Original Price | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/ahJFba5T6v

— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) April 17, 2016

Saraki: The Man Who Dug His Own Grave By Osita Chiagorom

At the inception of this administration, the president and the ruling party, APC made it known to all that they don’t need a senate president with excess baggage.

They don’t need a senate president with outstanding corruption cases because they want to maintain a neat leadership devoid of personalities with ongoing corruption cases.

Ordinarily, Senator George Akume was supposed to emerge as the senate president in the sense that he was the senate minority leader when his party(APC) was in the opposition.

With his party coming to power, he was supposed to be automatically elevated to the senate presidency.

U.S. agrees to give Nigeria $480m Abacha family loot

United States has agreed to repatriate to Nigeria about $480million believed to have been stolen by the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha and his family.

But the conditions for the repatriation of the cash and other details are being worked out, The Nation has learnt.

Also, it was learnt that the Department of Justice in the United States now has a Kleptocracy Unit, which will assist to track looted funds and money laundered by public officials from Nigeria and other nations.

Shocking Photo: Here’s a Photo of Snakes That Got Electrocuted After One Tried to Bite the Other

A revolting photo shows two snakes that got electrocuted as one bit the other inside a home electrical box.

Workers for the electrical services department in Morganton, N.C., found the reptiles when they went to turn off power at a house that was scheduled to be demolished, according to a post on the Facebook page for the city government: “One snake slithered across two hot terminals and was electrocuted; The second snake was biting the first and received the jolt as well.”

OperationCallYourSenators From SaharaRepoters Is Causing Trouble O!

FLASH: #OperationCallYourSenators Senators are feeling it! Senator T. A Orji Ochendo testifies pic.twitter.com/LRhRDt55uy

— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) April 17, 2016

Corruption Trial: Senate President Saraki’s Camp In Disarray, Dino Melaye Failed To Appear At Poorly Attended Meeting Of 'Likemind' Senators

Hours after the refusal of the fundamental rights application by Senate President Bukola Saraki to stop his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) by a Federal High Court in Abuja, there were signs at the weekend that some of his prominent loyalists within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may be retracing their steps.

There were strong indications that they may be opting to support an ongoing move by the leadership of the party to unite the party’s caucus in the national assembly.

Reliable national assembly sources told The Nation yesterday that prior to the judgment delivered by Justice Abdul Kafarati on Friday, some frontline supporters of the embattled Senate President have resolved to withdraw their support for Saraki in his bid to remain in office as Senate President while his trial at the CCT lasts.

2016 Budget Palaver: Heads may roll as Presidency uncovers more infractions

As controversy continues to dog the budget transmitted by the National Assembly to the Presidency for assent, indications emerged last night that President Muhammadu Buhari was still furious with the high level of distortions inflicted on his estimates by the lawmakers.

For that reason, the President is said to be considering measures to deal with those who masterminded the budget infractions, thereby drawing back the hands of his administration. Competent sources said that the President became more