NEW YORK — Donald J. Trump will be the 45th president of the United States, the Associated Press projected Wednesday. He will be the first person to hold the office despite having no prior political or military experience.
The AP officially called the race for Trump at 2:31 a.m. ET.
The Republican nominee’s victory over Hillary Clinton marks a stunning upset that neither the polls nor the pundits saw coming. But Trump, defiant to the end, insisted he would win despite burning bridges with key voting groups and even many Republicans. In winning, Trump upended almost every norm of American politics and apparently changed the shape of the Republican Party.
He spent the final three weeks of his once-unlikely White House bid railing against a “rigged” election, alleging without evidence that voter fraud would be widespread. Trump even hinted at the idea of not conceding the race if he lost, jokingly promising to accept the results of the election “if I win.”
But the brash billionaire also predicted that he would shock the establishment and said his campaign would be “Brexit Plus Plus,” a reference to Britain’s exit from the European Union, which also was not forecast in the polls. And in the end, to borrow one of Trump’s favorite expressions, he did indeed exceed expectations “big league.”
“They all told it wrong from day number one,” Michael Cohen, a longtime Trump adviser and Trump Organization attorney, told Yahoo News.
“America is going to see the change that it deep needs and they’re going to have a leader a real leader,” Cohen added.
Trump spent the night huddled with family and friends, watching the returns inside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where one Trump campaign source initially said some allies expected him to lose and were simply hoping he would outperform Mitt Romney’s showing in the 2012 presidential race. But as the night wore on, the Trump team became more optimistic and began to think the celebrity businessman had a chance, based on razor-thin margins in battleground states. After Ohio was called for Trump, the same source predicted that even the Democrats might also be changing their assessments of Trump’s chances.
Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, described a jubilant atmosphere in his war room in a text to Yahoo News before Trump was projected the winner.
“Absolutely buoyant. We can smell the win,” Conway said.
The crowd that waited to see Trump speak in a ballroom at the Hilton cheered each time a state was called for him. (Unsurprisingly, the television monitors at the event were showing Fox News, the cable news network favored by conservatives on which Trump had appeared often.)
“I had hoped for this,” a second Trump campaign source said. “I knew there was a chance for this, but I gave it a 30 percent chance. I thought we would come up just short.”
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer as they watch election returns during an election night rally, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in New York. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
Polls had widely shown Trump to be an underdog against Clinton, the Democratic nominee who faced a series of questions over her use of a private email server and how her family foundation interacted with the State Department during her tenure as secretary of state. But those polls were apparently wrong.
Shortly before 2 a.m., Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta appeared on stage at the Javits Center in Manhattan, telling Clinton’s supporters that the candidate would not be appearing.
“We’re not going to have anything more to say tonight,” Podesta told the crowd. “We’ll have more to say tomorrow.”
Podesta added: “We are so proud of you, and we are so proud of her.”
Clinton had enjoyed a double-digit lead over Trump in national polls following the presidential debates, but she saw that cushion evaporate after FBI Director James Comey set off a political firestorm 10 days before Election Day. Comey said newly discovered emails related to the investigation were being reviewed, and Trump started predicting that she would be indicted. On Sunday, Comey said a review of those emails did not change his position that Clinton should not face criminal prosecution.
The results indicated that Trump outperformed expectations among working-class whites, forming a coalition of states that few thought possible when the campaign began. Meanwhile, Clinton underperformed among college-educated and young white women.
In the end, Clinton failed to overcome the showman, who gobbled up thousands of hours of free airtime on cable news by making a series of controversial and improbable promises, like a pledge to build a wall along the southern border of the U.S. and a promise to “shut down” Muslim immigration. Trump also stayed in the spotlight by fighting a series of feuds and raging against the media. And despite Clinton’s strong performance in the presidential debates, in which she goaded Trump into gaffes and kept the focus squarely on his shortcomings, she could not translate those performances into votes.
Trump’s election is already sending shock waves through the political system because it signals a repudiation of establishment politicians that, to many voters, the Clintons represent. The property magnate and former “Celebrity Apprentice” host, one of the most unconventional major-party candidates in U.S. history, had vowed to “drain the swamp” of Washington, D.C. He derided many of the leaders he’ll likely now need to work with, such as House Speaker Paul Ryan and many other congressional Republicans.
It also remains to be seen if president-elect Trump will be able to heal the country’s sharp political divisions, some of which were sparked by his campaign.
But the Queens, N.Y.-born Trump, 70, will have to face all of those challenges and more when he is inaugurated in January
RALEIGH, N.C., and GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A confident Hillary Clinton spent her final day on the presidential campaign trail flanked by pop stars, her family and the Obamas, promising to try to “heal” the country if she’s elected president.
Across four rallies in three states, Clinton looked ahead to a potential victory, promising voters she would bring a divided country together as president and reflecting in the past tense on how ugly the campaign had been.
Donald Trump, expressing equal confidence, barnstormed across the country vowing to win Election Day, fundamentally change the country’s path and make his supporters’ dreams come true.
Both candidates’ promises culminated in a pair of rallies held in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
Speaking at 1 a.m at North Carolina State University, Clinton shouted over the deafening cheers and foot-stomping of thousands of young supporters, who had been warmed up with performances by Lady Gaga and Jon Bon Jovi — including a duet of “Living on a Prayer.”
“This is sure worth staying up for,” she said, taking in the crowd.
The Clintons and the Obamas at a rally at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
“Tomorrow night this election will end, but I want you to understand, our work together will be just beginning,” Clinton said. “We have to bridge the divides in this country. As the Bible says, we have to repair the breaches.”
It was a lesson Clinton hammered home again and again on her final day on the trail, as she cast herself as a leader who could heal the nation after a long and brutal campaign. “We have so much divisiveness right now,” she said at a rally near Grand Rapids, Michigan. “We have to start listening to each other.”
She reminded her supporters that she wanted to be the president for “everyone,” not just those who vote for her.
“I regret deeply how angry the tone of the campaign became,” Clinton said at the largest event of her entire candidacy: another Monday rally with the Obamas and Bruce Springsteen that drew 33,000 people to Independence Mall in Philadelphia.
A supporter screamed out, “Not your fault!” Clinton laughed.
Meanwhile, Trump took the stage at 12:30 a.m. in a setting that was typical of any other one of his rallies this season: a sterile bright convention hall in Grand Rapids, Mich., featuring a simple stage with an American flag, a bleacher full of people behind him and a podium.
Donald Trump points to the crowd as he arrives to speak to a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
Two hours earlier, Trump had appeared at what his campaign had originally envisioned as his send-off to his unlikely bid for the presidency: a large arena rally in downtown Manchester, N.H., surrounded by thousands of people, including his family, and a stage marked by laser lights and a fog machine.
But in the waning days of the campaign, as Trump sought to find a path to 270 electoral votes, his campaign added a last minute stop here in Michigan, hoping to turn a traditional blue state red for the first time since 1988. It was his ninth state he visited in a little over 24 hours.
“If you think you’re going to get a regular speech at 1 a.m., you’re crazy,” Trump declared as he took the stage. But that’s exactly what the GOP nominee gave: the same stump speech he’s been giving for weeks.
Introduced by his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who did not stick around to share the stage with Trump, the GOP nominee attacked “crooked” Hillary Clinton as a slave to special interests and corrupt politician whose use of a private email server is likely to spawn investigations that will stymy her potential presidency.
Supporters listen as Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H. (Photo: Charles Krupa/AP)
In contrast, he cast himself as a change agent who could blow up a corrupt system who could turn the nation’s focus back to helping struggling blue-collar workers whose jobs have been gutted by American companies moving overseas.
Echoing the message that launched his unlikely White House bid more than a year ago, Trump reiterated his promise to undo trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and NAFTA. His pitch was clearly aimed at stirring up workers in what is one of the more conservative parts of the state.
“The corrupt politicians and their special interests have ruled over this country for a very long time,” Trump declared, reading from prepared remarks. “Today is our independence day. Today the American working class is going to strike back finally.”
“We are hours away from once in a lifetime change,” he said.
But Trump being Trump, he couldn’t resist breaking from the script. And he did so repeatedly, including when he again attacked Clinton for campaigning with celebrities in the days leading up to Election Day. The former reality television star suggested her decision to campaign with Jay Z and Beyoncé was “demeaning” to the political process.
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. (Photo: Paul Sancya/AP)
“We don’t need, we don’t need Jay Z or Beyoncé. We don’t need Jon Bon Jovi. We don’t need Lady Gaga. All we need is great ideas to make America great again. That’s all that we need,” Trump said.
But the event offered some embarrassing optics for Trump, who is banking on the support of his faithful followers to propel him to the White House. Almost as soon as the candidate took the stage, hundreds of the few thousand supporters on hand began filing out of the room.
They passed through an exit lane directly in front of the press corps, staring at reporters across a barricade as if they were on exhibit. Questioned why they were exiting, some pointed to the late hour, while others said they were trying to beat traffic. Some said they’d seen enough.
But Trump pressed on, undeterred by his thinning crowd. He declared imminent victory, pointing to the 16 primary challengers he’d defeated when many wrote off his candidacy as a joke. He said he had trust in his supports to turn out for him. “I know my people,” he said, adding, “If we win Michigan, we win this historic election.”
Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and musician Lady Gaga greets members of the audience after speaking at a midnight rally in Raleigh, N.C. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
Clinton’s jubilant final day sounded a lighter note than either Trump’s or the final slog of the general election, in which Clinton weathered the storm of her campaign chair John Podesta’s email inbox being made public by a cyberattack.
She took a dominating lead in the final weeks of the race, but the race tightened in the closing stretch. Ten days before Election Day, FBI Director James Comey announced that he would review new emails that appeared “pertinent” to the bureau’s investigation of the private email server Clinton exclusively used while secretary of state. The surprise twist injected Trump’s candidacy with a shot of adrenaline.
But Clinton has since rebounded a bit in the polls, though it’s still a close race: As of Tuesday morning, the RealClearPolitics average of national surveys had her up 3 points over Trump. And Comey announced Sunday that investigators had reviewed the emails and found nothing to change his conclusion from last July that neither Clinton nor her aides should face charges.
With these hurdles behind her, victory — and what comes next — appeared to be on Clinton’s mind Monday. The Democratic nominee answered a question from entertainer Ryan Seacrest on his radio show that morning about whether she expected to speak to Trump if she wins. “Oh absolutely,” she said. “I hope that he will, if I’m successful, play a constructive role in … coming together — bring people who supported him to the table so that we can have the kind of national conversation we should have.”
Huma Abedin greets supporters on the tarmac as she arrives on Hillary Clinton’s campaign plane in White Plains, N.Y. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
Clinton brought her longtime aide Huma Abedin back on the trail for the first time since Comey’s announcement. Abedin’s estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, was the source of the new emails, which the FBI reportedly found while investigating whether he sent lewd messages to an underage girl. On Monday night, Abedin was spotted on Clinton’s plane flying between Philadelphia and Raleigh, the same leg that Jon Bon Jovi jumped on for as well.
The Clintons appeared to be in high spirits aboard their plane after the Philadelphia event. Clinton’s press corps shouted questions at her and former President Bill Clinton from their cabin in the back of the plane. Both Clintons pretended not to hear the reporters, with Hillary Clinton playfully cupping her hand over her ear before turning back and taking her seat.
When she landed in Westchester at 3:30 a.m. after the marathon final day, Clinton was greeted by hundreds of staffers and supporters who waited for her on the cold tarmac. “Welcome home!” they chanted, before she emerged from her “Stronger Together”-branded plane to the theme of “Fight Song.” Clinton shook hands and said hellos for a few minutes as Secret Service agents and her aides, including Abedin, shadowed her. The Democratic nominee turned away from the crowd and gave Podesta a big hug, as if to thank him for something.
She then got into her car and was whisked away to her home.
For the first time since 1944, both major-party presidential candidates will spend election night in New York City.
But former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Monday that he doesn’t think New Yorkers need to be any more more worried about terror threats as they cast their ballots on Election Day than during past elections.
“No question about it — New York is a target,” Kelly told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga on Monday, shortly after Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference detailing the city’s plan for “beefed up” security ahead of Election Day.
"I want to remind everyone that public safety is a shared responsibility – if you See Something, Say Something," –@NYPDONeillpic.twitter.com/xO224wr8Rr
But beyond de Blasio’s promised to deploy “an extraordinary presence” of police officers at polling sites and other major locations throughout New York City, Kelly said, “I don’t think there’s much more that can be done, quite frankly,” to safeguard against a potential attack.
Kelly said that the NYPD, the nation’s largest municipal police department, is already “at a higher state of alert, generally speaking, and maintains that throughout the year.” He said he dealt with 16 different terror threats against New York City during his most recent tenure as police commissioner from 2002 through 2013.
“I believe the department is well-equipped and ready for virtually any contingency,” he said, noting that there are “600 major events south of 59th Street” in Manhattan alone every year, including U.N. General Assembly meetings and the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square. “But there are no guarantees,” he added.
Kelly said, “We’ve seen these threats before major events,” but he pointed out that, in terror attacks that have actually been carried out, in New York and elsewhere, “You normally don’t get a warning.”
Republican nominee Donald Trump has been making escalating charges for weeks about a “rigged system,” including discredited claims about widespread voter fraud. Kelly said he was concerned about whether rising national tensions could erupt on Wednesday, but he also sounded a note of optimism.
“We’re a country of laws. We want to maintain order, and it’s important that we keep that in mind,” he said. “It’s not in the nature of Americans to be disruptive during the polling process. We haven’t seen systematic voter fraud that I’m aware of, certainly not in this city.”
A crowdfunding effort has raised more than $150,000 in a single day to help repair a historic black church that was burned in what appeared to be a politically charged arson attack in Mississippi on Tuesday.
The GoFundMe campaign, launched on Wednesday by Blair Reeves, a New York City-based tech product manager, received more than 4,500 pledged donations in less than 24 hours. Reeves had hoped to raise $10,000.
“Holy crap, y’all,” Reeves wrote in a status update late Wednesday. “When I ginned up this page before my first meeting at work today, I had no earthly clue it would get so big. Thank you all so much.”
The burning of the 111-year-old Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss., is being investigated by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the mayor of the town told Yahoo News on Wednesday. “Vote Trump” was spray-painted on the outside of the church.
“This is a hate crime,” Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons said. “It’s a place where people raise their children, it’s a meeting place for the exchange of ideas, so we know the symbolism of the burning of the black church in the ’50s and ’60s was a way to intimidate folks who had their rights and civil liberties deprived. We’re looking at this as a hate crime, given the historic nature of this church.”
“Love trumps hate,” added Simmons, who took office in January. “And what we have to do is move forward in loving each other and respecting each other.”
Early Thursday, Reeves informed supporters of his campaign that he has been in touch with Clarence Green, the bishop of Hopewell Baptist, and that the funds raised will be transferred to the church’s bank account immediately.
“Just got off the phone again with Bishop Green. He’s had a very long day — up at 4AM and going ever since,” Reeves wrote. “He is overwhelmed at the response you’ve shown here. Thank you, very much. Love > Hate.”
Last month, a North Carolina GOP field office was firebombed, and a swastika and the message “Nazi Republicans leave town or else,” was spray-painted on the outside. In response, North Carolina Democrats launched a campaign to raise money to help it reopen.
“This is not how Americans resolve their differences. We talk, we argue, sometimes we march, and most of all we vote. We do not resort to violence by individuals or by mobs,” a message on their GoFundMe page read. “So, let’s all pitch in, no matter what your party affiliation, … and get that office open again quickly.”
The effort raised more than $12,000, and the office was reopened Wednesday.
Chicago Cubs players celebrate after winning the 2016 World Series. (Charles LeClaire/USA Today Sports)
The Chicago Cubs won the World Series early Thursday morning, defeating the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in 10 innings in Game 7 to end its 108-year title drought. And politicians out on the campaign trail paused to acknowledge the Cubbies’ historic victory.
President Barack Obama, a Chicago native and noted White Sox fan, took to Twitter to congratulate the team and invite them to the White House before he leaves office.
It happened: @Cubs win World Series. That’s change even this South Sider can believe in. Want to come to the White House before I leave?
Hillary Clinton, the Chicago-born Democratic nominee and self-described lifelong Cubs fan, caught the end of the game after her rally at Arizona State University.
According to a pool report, Clinton — who watched the Cubs clinch a spot in the World Series on her campaign plane — saw the final out “on an iPad tethered to an aide’s phone live-streaming via Slingbox.”
“Her staff, including super-Cubs-fan and fellow Chicago-area native Connolly Keigher paced around nervously as the game went into the bottom of the tenth,” the pool report reads. “When the third out came, Connolly flew the W via a flag she had in her purse just for the occasion. She and HRC held it up in celebration.”
Like his fellow Chicagoans, former Obama adviser David Axelrod was on pins and needles during the game, too.
Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, congratulated the Cubs and the Ricketts on Twitter and predicted another kind of comeback next week.
Predictably, there were no congratulatory tweets from Trump himself. During the Republican primary, the Ricketts family gave nearly $6 million to an anti-Trump super PAC, prompting this tweet from the brash real estate mogul.
I hear the Rickets family, who own the Chicago Cubs, are secretly spending $’s against me. They better be careful, they have a lot to hide!
Hillary Clinton’s campaign fanned out across the Sunday morning talk-show circuit to call on FBI Director James Comey to release more details about newly discovered emails he said were “pertinent” to the bureau’s investigation into her use of a private email server.
“As far as we know now, Director Comey knows nothing about the content of these emails,” Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, Clinton’s running mate, said on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.” “We don’t know whether they’re to or from Hillary at all.”
Kaine called Comey’s decision to send a letter to Congress Friday announcing a review of the emails — discovered on the laptop of disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin and the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation into his alleged sexting with a 15-year-old girl — “extremely puzzling.”
“Why would you release information that is so incomplete when you haven’t even seen the material yourself?” Kaine asked. “Eleven days before an election — why would you talk about an ongoing investigation? I just have no way of understanding these actions. They’re completely unprecedented. And that’s why I think he owes the American public more information.”
“If he hasn’t seen the emails,” Kaine added. “I mean, they need to make that completely plain.”
Yahoo News reported on Saturday that FBI agents had not been able to review any of the newly discovered material because the bureau had not yet gotten a search warrant to read them.
According to ABC News, Comey reached out to top Republicans and Democrats in Congress on Saturday to brief them on the agency’s review.
But as of Saturday night, the FBI was still in talks with the Justice Department about obtaining a warrant that would allow agency officials to read any of the newly discovered emails, and therefore the agency was still in the dark about whether the emails include classified material the bureau has not already seen.
On CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta cited the Yahoo News report, saying Comey “should have taken further steps” before thrusting the email issue back into the race for the White House.
“To throw this in the middle of the campaign 11 days out just seemed to break with precedent and be inappropriate at this stage,” Podesta said. “If they’re not significant, they’re not significant. So he might have taken the first step of actually having looked at them before he did this in the middle of a presidential campaign so close to the voting.
“I don’t fault him for taking a look at whatever he’s found,” Podesta continued. “But at this stage, having taken the step, then he at least ought to explain if he thinks they’re significant or not significant. Let him come forward and say why.”
“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information,” Comey said at that time, “there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”
Podesta said he believed Abedin, who had cooperated with the FBI’s original probe, had “complied to the best of her ability” and “turned everything over that she had in her possession.”
On NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said if the newly discovered emails are, in fact, from Abedin, then he assumes “they’d have to be redundant because she already turned over all of her emails.”
At a rally in Florida on Saturday, Clinton said that it was “pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election.”
“It’s not just strange,” Clinton said. “It’s unprecedented. And it is deeply troubling.”
Hello, welcome back... Without mincing words I'll go straight to the business of today which is the continuation of the part one of this article "Tips to survive the economic recession" if you missed the part one please endeavor to read it...very insightful. Straight to the tips 4. Don't expect so much: Economic recession affects every part of a country's economy and that in turn affects everyone in that country directly or indirectly, so as a person you shouldn't be expecting so much from friends and relatives, it won't be business as usual. Lending and giving power will drop drastically, those you're looking up to have just enough to barely take care of themselves and family. Now, you've got to be more creative and get busy with your hands. Do something marketable, be diverse in your thoughts and start up a business to take care of your immediate needs instead of waiting for someone to sort your financial issues out for you. Don't expect so much, get busy with your hands, be creative now than ever and add value to yourself and the economy. 5. Track your expenditures: Put your daily income and expenses into perspective to eliminate excess spending. Your income rate should in turn determine your spending rate. There must be a balanced synergy between the two. There are mobile applications like mint and Google budget that you can use to track your daily finances or a simple ledger capturing your income and spending will be beneficial. Instead of spending more we should actually save more now. This is not the time to change your cushions knowing that your financial power is not strong enough. Use them like that this Christmas and save your self the shame of not having moneys left for feeding yourself and your family. 6. Invest in your country: For those that still have the financial power of going for holidays and buying some luxurious stuffs, why not do that within the country? Each time you go abroad for vacations you're only exporting your country's wealth and importing poverty. This is the time we look inwards and invest in our country, patronise home made goods, use our local airlines, enjoy your holidays back home, the honeymoon will be tastier here. This is not the time to export the country's wealth, do your part to reverse the economic recession. Invest in shares, experts says "stock prices fall during slowdowns, invest in stock whose performance is minimally affected by upward or downward movements in the economy".
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It is very obvious that all countries in the world are experiencing a hitch in economic matters. The economic recessions and retrogressions are not characteristics for a particular country or state, it is evidently a worldwide issue that needs proper attention and the political will power of those in decisions making offices. I can say here categorically that this recession might last longer than we anticipated, it is therefore our shear responsibility to make the best out of this economic downturns. That is why I'll be sharing these tips on how to survive this period with little or no stress. Here comes the tips 1. Get Your Priorities Right: This as a matter of fact is really a big task for most people except those that have mastered the act. Picking in between multiple choices with limited resources is pretty tasking, especially when almost all of the available options are your basic necessities but the resources are limited. Here you've got to select the most needed from the needed, not the most eye-catching, not the most flashy or that which is for a show. Get your priorities right go for those things you can't do without. Save yourself of the mess don't buy what is not needed at this time. 2. Diversify Your Source Of Income: It's high time we look beyond the one portfolio style of life. Every good economist will always suggest the need for a person or government to look deeper into other means of making more money or raising revenues. This is inevitable in a time as this. That skill you've acquired sometimes past that have really be dormant you need to reactivate it and make it a marketable product. Your hobbies can be converted into income generating product. Trust me, you just need to give it a try. You learnt bead making but you haven't given it a try, why not try it now? You travel a lot? Why not start writing about the places you've visited? Share the knowledge and the experience in return you make some extra cash from there. There are loads of ways one can actually diversify, just sought yours out and you'll thank me later. (For guidiance, ideas and possible options please leave a message or get in touch through here or mvgalaxy16@yahoo.com we'll be glad to be of a service) 3. Reduce Your Expenses: There are habits that most of us possesses that really posses great dangers to our financial life but it's either we are not well informed or aware of the danger they posses or we just don't want to admit those facts. This have affected most people's way of life and distorted their financial lives. Some of which are; *Eating You must learn to reduce what you eat. The quantity of food you consume should be determined by the economic situation. Yes, this is a very difficult task but I tell you when you practice this your body will adjust to the system and all will go well thereby enabling you to meet your demands with your limited resources. Learn to control food wastage, don't boil more than is needed, please. *Drinking Some people especially the men have succeeded in drinking their future away through beer taking and the consumption of other forms of liquor. For instance if you're a man that drinks let's say two bottles of beer everyday after work, just sit down and calculate the average amount you've consumed this year you'll be shocked. It could even be enough for you to get a piece of land somewhere within the country. Why not convert these moneys into ventures that yields dividends? Jewelries are now too expensive, this is not the time to buy that gold, this is not the time for the human/Brazilian hair, this is not the time for the Armani designers, this is not the time to flirt around. This is the time to be conservative, this is the time to save as much as you can, this is the time to buy stocks, this is the time to be moderate in all things. This is becoming too lengthy, I guess I'll stop here for now... There shall be the part two of this article. Please hit the like button, leave your comments, subscribe and share so we can interact. God bless you...
Nigerian controversial entertainer, Charly Boy has taken to social media to write to all the ‘frustrated Nigerians’. He also went further to reveal himself as the ‘President of Frustrated Nigerians’ announcing he will be leading a revolution group against corrupt politicians in the country. “Like my friend Obinna said and I agree with him, henceforth…. “DON’T ASK for a Revolution; Be the Revolution. Forget about Buhari’s Change. Be the Change. Do not wail for that which is troubling this country; Fight to fix it and make the country great again. Do not hail the Corrupt and destroyers of our Dreams; Expose and ridicule them. The Politicians are Corruptly Connected; Criminally Bonded and Fearful of the MOB; The People. We must be audacious in our Demands; we must be Fearless in our Agitation and we must be ready to sacrifice our all for this Country.
”I will take the First Bullet; let my body be the first to drop; Let my Blood be the first to wash our LANDS. But let no Nigeria turn back once we begin this Resistance to Political Insensitivity and mindless looting of our common wealth; Let no Nigerian Walk Alone…The Nigerian Politician is our Enemy; The Nigerian People are the Victim and it is time to channel our anger towards a Peaceful Revolution”. We must stop being the victims and become THE FEAR. If our yeye Leaders no fear us, change no go come. Stay tuned for The Change.
Well, looks like lots of people are in for the new revolution as comments under the post from Area Fada’s followers have been affirmative. Some are even asking when the revolution will start.
The Nigeria people must stand together to build the country of their dream but anything or movement that will lead to violence must be abolished.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has, in a recent
decision, planned to stop the use of scratch cards for registration and checking of results. Parents in Lokoja however, have applauded the decision of the board saying it will reduce corruption in the system. In separate interviews on Friday, the respondents commended JAMB and the Federal Government for the move. A parent, Mr Amos Ajagun, said: “I support the scrapping of JAMB scratch cards because some of the people that sell the scratch cards cheat the students by selling above the actual cost. ‘“The decision will also reduce fraud and enable parents to access and check the result themselves,’’ Ajagun said. He thanked JAMB and implored the Board not to relent in its efforts to sanitise the education sector. Another parent, Mrs Roseline Ajogun said the decision was favourable to both parents and students alike. “I believe all parents and students alike support the decision to scrap the JAMB scratch card. It is unfortunate but the truth is that most people who sell the cards are corrupt. “They do not care about how parents or students struggle to get the money; as a parent, I gladly welcome the decision,’’ she said. Ajogun thanked the government and JAMB authorities for the decision and appealed to them to revamp the education sector to guarantee a better future for the country.
