Inspiring 87-Year Old

She said, *“Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”*

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, *“Of course you may!”* and she gave me a giant squeeze.

*“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?”* I asked.

She jokingly replied, *“I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…”*

*“No seriously,”* I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

*“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!”* she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk non-stop.

I was always mesmerized listening to this *“time machine”* as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, *Rose became a campus icon* and *she easily made friends wherever she went*.

She loved to *dress up* and she *revelled in the attention bestowed upon her* from the other students.

*She was living it up.*

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet.

I’ll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium.

As she began to *deliver her prepared speech*, she *dropped her three by five cards* on the floor.

*Frustrated* and a *little embarrassed*, she leaned into the microphone and simply said, *“I’m sorry I’m so jittery*. I *gave up beer for Lent* and *this whiskey is killing me!*

*I’ll never get my speech back in order*; so *let me just tell you what I know.”*

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, *“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing*.

There are *only four secrets to staying young*.

*Being happy*, and *achieving success*.
You have to laugh and find humor every day.

You’ve got to *have a dream*. When you lose your dreams, you die.
We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!

There is a *huge difference between growing older* and *growing up*.

If you are nineteen years old and *lie in bed for one full year* and *don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old*.

If I am *eighty-seven years old* and *stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight*.

Anybody can *grow older*. That *doesn’t take any talent or ability*. The idea is to *grow up by always finding opportunity in change*.

*Have no regrets*. The *elderly* usually *don’t have regrets for what we did*, but *rather for things we did not do*.

*The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”*

She concluded her speech by courageously singing *“The Rose.”*

She *challenged* each of us to *study the lyrics* and *live them out in our daily lives*.

At the year’s end *Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago*.

*One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep*.

*Over two thousand college students attended her funeral* in *Tribute* to the *Wonderful Woman who taught by example* that it’s *Never too late to be all you can possibly be*.

If you found it *insightful*, and a *peaceful words of advice*, your may *share* with *friends* and *family*, they’ll really enjoy it!

*REMEMBER*;
*Growing Older* is *Mandatory*, *GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL!*

We *make a Living by what we get*, We *make a Life by what we give*.

Have a *Great Life Ahead*...
🌹💫🌹

Irony of Man

.. COPIED FROM KING'S COLLEGE OLD BOYS WALL

Very inspiring piece!!!!

Man, O Man!
When without money, eats vegetables at home.
When he has money, eats the same vegetables in a fine restaurant.

When without money, rides a bicycle to and from home.
When he has money rides an  ‘exercise bicycle’ at the gym.

When without money, walks to earn food.
When he has money, walks to burn fat.

Man, O Man! Never fails to deceive thyself!

When without money, wishes to get married;
When he has money, wishes to get divorced.

When without money, wife becomes secretary;
When he has money, secretary becomes wife.

When without money, acts like a rich man.
When he has money acts like a poor man.

Man, O Man! Never can tell the simple truth!

Says share market is bad, but keeps speculating.
Says money is evil, but keeps accumulating.
Says high positions are lonely, but keeps wanting them.
Says gambling & drinking is bad, but keeps indulging.

Man, O Man! Never means what he says and never says what he means..

Life is not about what you couldn't do so far, it's about what you can still do.
                             
N200 seems too much to give a beggar but it seems okay when its given as tip at a fancy restaurant.

Praying to God for 3 minutes
takes too much time but
watching a movie for 3 hours doesn't.

Two poor starving kids sitting on the pavement
weren't given even a slice of bread but a painting of them is sold for hundred dollars.

Think about It..
Make a change, because you can ....
Here are six easy ways to earn, even after death.

1) Give a smile or gift to someone. Each time you give a smile, it will make someone's day. You gain.

2) Donate a wheelchair to a hospital. Each time a sick person uses it, you gain.

3) Participate in building an orphanage, or a hospital or a school or a college. Anybody uses it, you gain.

4) Place a water cooler in a public place. When someone drinks the water, you gain.

5) Plant a tree. Whenever a person, animal sits in its shade or eats from it, you gain.

6) And the easiest of all is, share this message with people. Even if one applies any of the above, you gain.

Inspiring

I love this - I hope you do too.

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water..

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

  'I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.

The old woman smiled, 'Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?'

'That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.'

For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.

Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.'

 Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

 You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

 SO, to all of my cracked pot sisters, brothers and friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

Vanity

*I REMEMBER...V A N I T Y !*

✍ I vividly recall the story of a man who became popular for *engaging in money rituals just to buy the 80's edition of the Honda Prelude*; you wouldn't buy that car for 50,000 Naira today. Vanity!!!🤔

✍ A guy brutally murdered his brother, *just because he wanted to acquire the rave of the moment - Pathfinder Jeep*. That same vehicle is now better described as a coffin....Vanity!🤔

✍ I remember as a kid, my whole street gathered at a neighbour's house *to watch a "drama" shown on a "Double-Door Black & White Television"*. Today, there is Plasma Television and its almost found in every student's room....Vanity!🤔

✍ Some ladies left their true loves *because some rich guy persuaded them with a Benz 190, which turned out to be the only car they ever owned till date.* They found out too late that true love is invaluable.....Vanity!!!🤔

✍ What about *Santana, Mercedes Benz, V Boot, 505 Evolution, Toyota Crown...?* All overtaken by *latest models of Camry, Honda, Bugatti, Bentley, X6, Acura and Infinity....* Vanity!!!🤔

✍ A guy declared drinks *because he launched the Nokia 3310 Mobile Phone in 2002.* Today, that phone would embarrass the owner and is a joke compared to the low cost and everyday phones..... Vanity!!!🤔

✍ What about the *MTN SIM Card that many people went extra miles to buy for over 30,000 Naira?* Today, you will not buy it anywhere because all networks are begging people to even take it for free...Vanity!!!🤔

*People are still making the most horrific sacrifices over VANITY and make enemies over WORTHLESS MATERIAL THINGS!* 😔😔😔

What can I say??🤔

👉 *Look back at that one thing you want to kill or die for today; in your Marriage, Office, Family, Community... and see what becomes of it tomorrow.* Just think about it!🤔

👉 *There is absolutely nothing you can't achieve... PLEASE TAKE IT EASY!* 🙏🙏🙏

👉 All you need is a *Little Time , PATIENCE, Absolute Obedience and Trust in God* and *you would thank God without regrets.*😄

👉 *There is actually nothing in this world that is worth going to HELL for. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!*🤔

👉 *YOUR MONEY, POWER AND ARROGANCE CANNOT TAKE YOU TO HEAVEN; BUT ONLY YOU AND YOUR GOOD DEEDS WILL!!!*

👉 Please *be heaven focus*; your eternal place of glory, peace and joy.

👉 *BECAUSE LIFE IS TOO SHORT AND FULL OF VANITY AND DECEIT.*🤔

👉 *50 YEARS IS JUST 2,500 WEEKENDS!!!* 😧😧😧
*TAKE IT EASY!!!*🙏🙏🙏

Fruits On Empty Stomach

*Eating Fruit on Empty Stomach*

This will open your eyes ! Read to the end and then send it on to all on your e-list. I just did !

Dr Stephen Mak treats terminal ill cancer patients by an "un-orthodox" way and many patients recovered.

Before he used solar energy to clear the illnesses of his patients, he believes on natural healing in the body against illnesses. See his article below.

It is one of the strategies to heal cancer. As of late, my success rate in curing cancer is about 80%.

Cancer patients shouldn't die. The cure for cancer is already found - *its in the way we eat fruits.*

It is whether you believe it or not.

I am sorry for the hundreds of cancer patients who die under the conventional treatments.

*EATING FRUIT*

We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths.

It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know how and *when* to eat the fruits.

What is the correct way of eating fruits?

*IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS!*

*FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH*

If you eat fruits on empty stomach, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.

_FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD._

Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit.

The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so due to the bread taken before the fruit.

In the meantime the whole meal of bread & fruit rots and ferments and turns to acid.

The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.

So please eat your fruits on an *empty stomach* *or before your meals !*

You have heard people complaining :

Every time I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats up, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc.. etc..

Actually all this will not arise if you eat the fruit on _an empty stomach._

The fruit mixes with the putrefying of other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat !

Greying hair, balding, nervous outburst and dark circles under the eyes all these will *NOT* *happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.*

There is no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic, because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter.

If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the  *SECRET of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.*

When you need to drink fruit juice - *drink only  fresh fruit juice,* NOT from the cans, packs or bottles.

Don't even drink juice that has been heated up.

Don't eat cooked fruits because you don't get the nutrients at all.

You only get its taste.
Cooking destroys all the vitamins.

But eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice.

If you should drink the fresh fruit juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it.

You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse or detoxify your body.

Just eat fruits and drink fresh fruit juice throughout the 3 days.

And you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look !

*KIWI fruit:*
Tiny but mighty.
This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

*APPLE:*
An apple a day keeps the doctor away?
Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby _helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke._

*STRAWBERRY:*
Protective Fruit.
Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging and free radicals.

*ORANGE :*
Sweetest medicine.
Taking 2-4 oranges a day may _help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer._

*WATERMELON:*
Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which _helps boost our immune system._

They are also *a key source of lycopene the cancer fighting oxidant.*
Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium.

*GUAVA & PAPAYA:*
Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content.

Guava is also rich in fiber, which _helps prevent constipation._

Papaya is rich in carotene; this is _good for your eyes._

*Drinking COLD water or drinks after a meal = CANCER*

Can you believe this ?

For those who like to drink cold water or cold drinks, this article is applicable to you.

It is nice to have a cup of cold water or cold drinks after a meal.

*However, the cold water or drinks will solidify the oily stuff that you have just eaten.*

*It will slow down the digestion.*

*Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food.*

*It will line the intestine.*

*Very soon, this will turn into FATS and lead to CANCER !*

_*It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.*_

Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.

World's Pennis Day

*Today is World 'Penis Day'....Funny but Educative....*
***********************
*A true friend is like a Penis, he stands up for you in times of need. A genuine friend is like a Bra, she supports you at all times. A faithful friend is like a Condom, he protects you from all harm, A loving friend is like a Vagina, she accomodates you fully despite the size of yr problem, what kind of a friend are you to me? Penis, Bra, Condom, or Vagina friend?*
*Do u know that the Penis is d greatest breakfast ever?  According to doctors it has a mushroom head, a sausage body, two eggs and milk which provides nutrients. Thus making ladies healthy and full for 9 months*.
 *Besides it has 3 good manners too*
1)  *Its very courteous, it stands before it performs*
2)  *It is very emotional, it weeps during performance*
 3) *It is polite, it bows after  performing.*.
*Send to ladies 2 laugh and to men 2 make them happy and proud of themselves!.                                             ⭕1) Kamasutra says : If you suck one nipple, the woman herself offers the other one. And that was the origin of "buy one get one free!"*
⭕2) *Did you ever notice: everything on a woman's upper body starts with a "B". Blouse, Bra, Bikini, Boobs & lower body with a "P" Peticoat, panties, pussy... That's origin of BP!*
⭕3)  *Before sex, you help each other get naked. After sex, you dress only yourself. Moral: In life no one helps you once you're fucked*.
⭕4) *Success is like 'pregnancy'. Everybody congratulates you but nobody knows how many times you got fucked to achieve it*.
⭕5) *Life is like a dick, sometimes it becomes hard for no reason*.
6) *Practical thought: A husband is supposed to make his wife's panties wet, not her eyes. A wife is supposed to make her husband's dick hard, not his life*.
*When a lady is pregnant, all her friends touch her stomach & say "Congrats"!*
*But none of them come and touch the man's Penis and say "Well done"!*
*Moral: "Hard work is never appreciated: "Only results matter 😃
*"Happy penis day"

Hilarious African Proverbs

INTRIGUING AFRICAN PROVERBS.

⭕1. The anger of a penis doesn't destroy the vagina. (Zimbabwe)
⭕2. There's no virgin in a maternity ward. (Cameroon)
⭕3. A child can play with it's mother's breasts but not with the father's testicles. (Ghana)
⭕4. The man who marries a beautiful woman and the farmer who grows corn by the road side have the same problem. (Ghana)
⭕5. When you see a woman sitting with her legs open, never tell her to close them, because u do not know her source of fresh air. (Ethiopia)
⭕6. He who says that nothing lasts forever has never tried Hausa perfume. (Nigeria)
⭕7. The only woman who knows where her man is every night is a widow. (Togo)
⭕8. An erected penis has no conscience. (Uganda)
⭕9. If u go to sleep with an itching anus, u are sure to wake up with smelly fingers. (Kenya)
⭕10. The day a mosquito lands on your testicles is the day you will know there is a better way of resolving issues without using violence. (Senegal )

Mind Test

To Check Your Presence of mind.............Take this TEST.

Relax, Clear Your Mind and Begin, What's the 1st answer that comes to your mind???...........

1. What do you put in a toaster?

Answer:
"Bread." If you said "toast," give up now and do something else.. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said bread, go to Question 2

2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows drink?

Answer:
Cows drink water. If you said "milk," don't attempt the next question.
Your brain is over -stressed and may even overheat. Content yourself by reading more appropriate literature such as Auto World. However, if you said "water", proceed to question 3...

3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a
green house made from?

Answer:
Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said "green bricks," why the hell are you still reading these?? If you said "glass," go on to Question 4.

4. It's twenty years ago, and a plane crashes from 20,000 feet over Germany (If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into East and West Germany) Where would you bury the survivors? East Germany, West Germany, "no
man's land"?

Answer: You don't bury survivors!!! If you said ANYTHING else, you must stop. If you said, "You don't bury survivors", proceed to the next question.

5. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from Mumbai to Pune. In Mumbai , 17 people get on, in Pune , 16 get off. Name the driver.

Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember your own name? It was YOU!!

😊

Try it seriously dont cheat its amazing
A MUST TRY!!!!!!!          ALZHEIMERS'  EYE TEST

(I love this part.. It's absolutely amazing!)

Count every  "  F  " in the following text:

FINISHED  FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED  WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
(SEE  BELOW)

HOW MANY ?

3....4....

WRONG,  THERE ARE  6  --  no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !
Really, go Back and Try to find the  6 F's before you scroll down.

The reasoning behind is  further down.

The brain cannot  process "OF".

Incredible  or what? Go back and look again!!

Anyone who counts  all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.

Three  is normal, four is quite rare.

Famous R. Mugabe's Quotes

1. Any man who successfully convinces a monkey that honey is sweeter than banana, is capable of selling condoms to a Roman father.
2. Dear ladies, If your boyfriend didn't wish you a happy mother's day or sing sweet mother for you, you should stop breastfeeding him.
3. He who swallows a complete coconut have absolute trust in his anus.
4. Dear sisters, don't be deceived by a man who text you "I miss you" only when it's raining, because you are not an umbrella.
5. Swimming pool is more useful than Liverpool.
6. If over 15 guys have sucked your breasts, you don't need to call those things "your breasts", It's called COW BELL, OUR MILK! - Repeat after me, OUR MILK!
7. It's hard to bewitch African girls these days. Every time you take a piece from her hair to the witch doctor, either a Brazilian innocent woman gets mad or a factory in China catches fire.
8. All I hear always is, 'No sex before marriage?' If that was God's plan, then you would receive your joystick or vagina on your wedding day.
9. The only warning Africans take serious is LOW BATTERY.
10. Men sucking lady's breast is normal because the act was learnt in childhood when they were young but the act of lady's sucking men's d*ck is what baffles me, where did they learn it from?
11. Whenever things seem to start going well in your life, the Devil comes along and gives you a 'girlfriend'.
12. When your clothes are made of cassava leaves, you don't take a goat as a friend.
13. If you have attended over 100 weddings in your life and still single, you are not different from a Canopy.
14. Dating a slim/slender guy is cool. The problem is when you are lying on his chest then his ribs draw adidas lines on your face.
15. If you are ugly, you are ugly. Stop talking about inner beauty because men don't walk around with X-rays to see inner beauty.
16. Respect pregnant women because it's not easy walking around with evidence that you've had sex.
17. Some of the girls of today can't even jog for 5 minutes but they expect a guy to last in bed with you for 2 hours? Your level of selfishness demands a one week crusade.
18. I stopped trusting ladies when my class 3 girlfriend left me for another boy all because he bought a sharpener wid a mirror.
19. Nothing makes a woman more confused than being in a relationship with a "broke" man who's extremely good in bed.
20. Witchcraft is when a 24 year old girl who cannot jog for 5 minutes expects a 40 year old man to last for 1 hour in bed.
21. Being dumped by a dark-skinned girl is the worst thing ever; because anytime you get home and see charcoal, you become emotional.
22. Women with beauty and no brains, it is your private parts will suffer the most.
23. When one's goat gets missing, the aroma of a neighbour's soup gets suspicious.
24. Its better for a man to be stingy with his money because he hustled for it than a woman to deny you a hole she didn't drill.
25. Even Satan wasn't gay, he approached Unclad Eve instead of Unclad Adam. Say no to same-sex marriage.
26. If you are a married man and you find yourself attracted to school girls, just buy your wife a school uniform.
27. It is every man's dream to remove a woman's pant one day but NOT when it's on a drying line.
28. Virginity is the best wedding gift any man would receive from his newly wed wife but lately, there's nothing as such any-longer because it'll have already been given out as a Birthday gift, token of Appreciation, Job assurance, Church collection, Examination marking schemes & for Lorry fares!"
29. Treat every part of your towel nicely because the part that wipes your buttocks today will wipe your face tomorrow.
30. We are living in a generation where people “in love” are free to touch each others’ private parts but cannot touch each others’ phones because they’re private.”
31. Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real.
32. If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.
33. South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner.
34. What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.
35. Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.
36. Cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in a piece of paper with fire on one end and a fool on the other end.
37. A brave man is he who has a running stomach and still wants to flatulate.
38. Journalist: Sir don't you think 89 years would be a great time to retire as a President.
Mugabe: Have you ever asked the Queen this question or is it just for African leaders?
39. Interviewer: Mr President, when are you bidding the people of Zimbabwe farewell?
Robert: Where are they going?
40. My dear ladies, please don't buy a selfie stick when your armpit itself needs a shaving stick.

Banned Dangerous Drugs

Please note the following very Important Life- Saving Information.

Do you know that "Procold" that cold & catarrh drug is a banned drug? Now you know
FOR YOUR INFORMATION AND ACTION
Pls Read Very Carefully

Nigeria has become a dumping ground for banned drugs; also the business for
Production of banned drugs is booming. Pls make sure that u buy drugs only
If prescribed by a doctor (Also, ask which company manufactures it, this
would help to ensure that you get what is prescribed at the Drug Store) and
that also from a reputed drug store. Not many people know about these
banned drugs and consume them causing a lot of damage to themselves.

We do forward Jokes and and other junk all the time. This is far more important.

DANGEROUS DRUGS - THESE DRUGS HAVE BEEN GLOBALLY DISCARDED BUT ARE AVAILABLE
IN NIGERIA . The most common ones are D cold, action 500 & Nimulid.

ANALGIN:
This is a pain-killer . Reason for ban: Bone marrow depression.
Brand name: Novalgin
____________ _________ _________ _
CISAPRIDE:
Acidity, constipation. Reason for ban : irregular heartbeat
Brand name : Ciza, Syspride
____________ _________ _________
DROPERIDOL:
Anti-depressant. Reason for ban : Irregular heartbeat.
Brand name : Droperol
____________ _________ _________
FURAZOLIDONE:
Antidiarrhoeal. Reason for ban : Cancer.
Brand name : Furoxone, Lomofen
___________ _________ _________
NIMESULIDE:
Painkiller, fever. Reason for ban : Liver failure.
Brand name : Nise, Nimulid
____________ _________ _________
NITROFURAZONE:
Antibacterial cream. Reason for ban : Cancer.
Brand name : Furacin
____________ _________ _________ _
PHENOLPHTHALEIN:
Laxative. Reason for ban : Cancer.
Brand name : Agarol
____________ _________ _________
PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE :
cold and cough. Reason for ban : stroke.
Brand name : D'cold , Vicks Action-500, Procold etc.
____________ _________ _________
OXYPHENBUTAZONE:
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Reason for ban : Bone marrow depression.
Brand name : Sioril, Buta etc.,
___________ _________ _________
PIPERAZINE:
Anti-worms. Reason for ban : Nerve damage.

Brand name : Piperazine
____________ _________ _________
QUINIODOCHLOR:
Anti-diarrhoeal. Reason for ban : Damage to sight.
Brand name : Enteroquinol.

Please check the chemical composition of the drug for any of the above mentioned name which may bear different brand name in Nigeria and take care.
__._,_.___

Nigeria at 56

*President Buhari's scorecard*

*ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ON
56TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY. OCTOBER 1ST
2016*

*FULL SPEECH*

Today – 1st October is a day of celebration for us
Nigerians. On this day, 56 years ago our people
achieved the most important of all human desires –
freedom and independence. We should all therefore
give thanks and pray for our founding fathers without
whose efforts and toil we would not reap the bounties
of today.
2. I know that uppermost in your minds today is the
economic crisis. The recession for many individuals
and families is real. For some It means not being able
to pay school fees, for others it's not being able to
afford the high cost of food (rice and millet) or the
high cost of local or international travel, and for many
of our young people the recession means joblessness,
sometimes after graduating from university or
polytechnic.
3. I know how difficult things are, and how rough
business is. All my adult life I have always earned a
salary and I know what it is like when your salary
simply is not enough. In every part of our nation people
are making incredible sacrifices.
4. But let me say to all Nigerians today, I ran for office
four times to make the point that we can rule this
nation with honesty and transparency, that we can stop
the stealing of Nigeria's resources so that the
resources could be used to provide jobs for our young
people, security, infrastructure for commerce, education
and healthcare.
5. I ran for office because I know that good
government is the only way to ensure prosperity and
abundance for all. I remain resolutely committed to this
objective.
6. I believe that this recession will not last.
7. Temporary problems should not blind or divert us
from the corrective course this government has
charted for our nation. We have identified the country’s
salient problems and we are working hard at lasting
solutions.
8. To re-cap what I have been saying since the
inception of this administration, our problems are
security, corruption and the economy, especially
unemployment and the alarming level of poverty.
9. On Security, we have made progress. Boko Haram
was defeated by last December – only resorting to
cowardly attacks on soft targets, killing innocent men,
women and children.
10. Nigerians should thank our gallant men of the
Armed Forces and Police for rescuing large areas of
the country captured by insurgents. Now, residents in
Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States, as well as several
neighbouring states go about their daily business in
relative safety. People can go to mosques, churches,
market places in reasonable safety.
11. Commuters can travel between cities, towns and
villages without fear. Credit for this remarkable turn-
round should go to our Armed Forces, the Police,
various sponsored and private vigilante groups, the
local traditional leaders. Security is a top to bottom
concern and responsibility.
12. Besides Boko Haram, we are confronting other
long-running security issues, namely herdsmen vs
farmers, cattle rustling, kidnappings. This
Administration is firmly resolved to tackle these
challenges and to defeat them.
13. A new insurgency has reared up its head in the
shape of blowing up gas and oil pipelines by groups of
Niger Delta Militants. This Administration will not allow
these mindless groups to hold the country to ransom.
14. What sense is there to damage a gas line as a
result of which many towns in the country including
their own town or village is put in darkness as a result?
What logic is there in blowing up an export pipeline and
as a result income to your state and local governments
and consequently their ability to provide services to
your own people is reduced?
15. No group can unlawfully challenge the authority of
the Federal Government and succeed. Our
Administration is fully sympathetic to the plight of the
good people of Niger Delta and we are in touch with
the State Governments and leaderships of the region. It
is known that the clean-up of the Ogoniland has
started. Infrastructural projects financed by the Federal
Government and post amnesty programme financing
will continue.
16. We have however, continued to dialogue with all
groups and leaders of thought in the region to bring
lasting peace.
17. Corruption is a cancer which must be fought with
all the weapons at our disposal. It corrodes the very
fabric of government and destroys society. Fighting
corruption is Key, not only to restoring the moral health
of the nation, but also to freeing our enormous
resources for urgent socio-economic development.
18. In fighting corruption, however, the government
would adhere strictly by the rule of law. Not for the
first time I am appealing to the judiciary to join the
fight against corruption.
19. The Third Plank in this Administration’s drive to
CHANGE Nigeria is re-structuring the economy.
Economies behaviour is cyclical. All countries face ups
and downs. Our own recession has been brought about
by a critical shortage of foreign exchange. Oil price
dropped from an average of hundred USD per barrel
over the last decade to an average of forty USD per
barrel this year and last.
20. Worse still, the damage perpetrated by Niger Delta
thugs on pipelines sometimes reduced Nigeria’s
production to below One million barrels per day against
the normal two point two million barrels per day.
Consequently, the naira is at its weakest, but the
situation will stabilize.
21. But this is only temporary. Historically about half
our dollar export earnings go to importation of
petroleum and food products! Nothing was saved for
the rainy days during the periods of prosperity. We are
now reaping the whirlwinds of corruption, recklessness
and impunity.
22. There are no easy solutions, but there are solutions
nonetheless and Government is pursuing them in
earnest. We are to repair our four refineries so that
Nigeria can produce most of our petrol requirements
locally, pending the coming on stream of new
refineries. That way we will save ten billion USD yearly
in importing fuel.
23. At the same time, the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and the Central Bank have been mobilized
to encourage local production of rice, maize, sorghum,
millet and soya beans. Our target is to achieve
domestic self-sufficiency in these staples by 2018.
24. Already farmers in thirteen out of thirty six states
are receiving credit support through the Central Bank
of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrowers Programme. Kebbi state
alone this year is expected to produce one million
tonnes of locally grown rice, thanks to a favourable
harvest this year. As part of the 13 states, Lagos and
Ogun are also starting this programme. Rice alone for
example costs Nigeria two billion USD to import.
25. The country should be self-sufficient in basic
staples by 2019. Foreign exchange thus saved can go
to industrial revival requirements for retooling, essential
raw materials and spare parts. It is in recognition of
the need to re-invigorate agriculture in our rural
communities that we are introducing the LIFE
programme.
26. Government recognises that irrigation is key to
modern agriculture: that is why the Ministries of
Agriculture and Water Resources are embarking on a
huge programme of development of lakes, earth dams
and water harvesting schemes throughout the country
to ensure that we are no longer dependent on rain-fed
agriculture for our food requirements.
27. In addition, government is introducing Water
Resources Bill encompassing the National Water
Resources Policy and National Irrigation and Drainage
Policy to improve management of water and irrigation
development in the country. We are reviving all the
twelve River Basin Authorities, namely;
Anambra - Imo
Benin - Owena
Chad Basin
Cross River
Hadejia - Jama'are
Lower Benue
Lower Niger
Niger Delta
Ogun - Osun
Sokoto - Rima
Upper Benue
Upper Niger
28. The intention is eventually to fully commercialise
them to better support crop production, aqua –culture
and accelerated rural development.
29. This Administration is committed to the revival of
Lake Chad and improvement of the hydrology and
ecology of the basin. This will tune in with efforts to
rehabilitate the thirty million people affected by the
Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad basin
countries.
30. The second plank in our economic revival strategy
is centred on the Ministry of Power, Works and
Housing. The Ministry will lead and oversee the
provision of critical infrastructure of power, road
transport network and housing development.
31. Power generation has steadily risen since our
Administration came on board from three thousand
three hundred and twenty four megawatts in June
2015, rising to a peak of five thousand and seventy four
megawatts in February 2016.
32. For the first time in our history the country was
producing five thousand megawatts. However, renewed
militancy and destruction of gas pipelines caused acute
shortage of gas and constant drop in electricity output
available on the grid.
33. There has been during the period June 2015 to
September 2016 big improvement in transmission
capacity from five thousand five hundred megawatts to
the present seven thousand three hundred megawatts.
34. There were only two system collapses between
June and December 2015, but due to vandalism by
Niger Delta militants the over-all system suffered 16
system collapses between March and July 2016 alone.
As I have said earlier, we are engaging with
responsible leadership in the region to find lasting
solutions to genuine grievances of the area but we will
not allow a tiny minority of thugs to cripple the
country's economy.
35. In the meantime, government is going ahead with
projects utilizing alternate technologies such as hydro,
wind, and solar to contribute to our energy mix. In this
respect, the Mambilla Hydro project, after many years
of delay is taking off this year. Contract negotiations
are nearing completion with Chinese firms for technical
and financial commitments.
36. The project is to be jointly financed by Nigeria and
the Chinese-Export-Import Bank. In addition, fourteen
Solar Power Projects have had their power purchase
agreements concluded. Hence the plan to produce one
thousand two hundred megawatts of solar electricity
for the country would be realized on schedule.
37. And in line with the objective of government to
complete all abandoned projects across the country,
the Rural Electrification Agency's projects needing
completion are provided for in the 2016 Budget.
Bringing electricity to rural areas will help farmers,
small scale and cottage industries to integrate with the
national economy.
38. Roads Construction and Rehabilitation has taken
off. The sum of twelve billion naira was allocated to
this sector in the 2015 Budget, not enough even to pay
interest on outstanding unpaid claims.
39. Notwithstanding the budgetary constraints, the
current budget allocated two hundred and forty billion
naira for highway projects against twelve billion naira
in 2015. Many contractors who have not been paid for
three years have now remobilized to sites. Seven
hundred and twenty point five billion naira has so far
been released this budget year to capital projects.
40. The Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has
received one hundred and ninety seven point five
billion naira. Work on the following highways has now
resumed.
Dualization of Calabar – Itu Road in Cross River/Akwa
Ibom States.
Dualization of Lokoja – Benin Road, Ehor - Benin city,
Edo State.
Re-construction of outstanding sections of Benin –
Shagamu Express way, Edo/Ogun States.
Expansion works on Lagos – Ibadan Dual carriageway,
Ogun/Oyo States
Rehabilitation of Onitsha – Enugu Expressway,
Anambra/Enugu States.
Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Enugu – Port
Harcourt Dual carriageway, Abia/Rivers States.
Rehabilitation of Hadejia – Nguru Road, Jigawa State.
Dualization of Kano – Katsina Road, Kano State.
Dualization of Kano – Maiduguri Road, Borno State.
Dualization of Azare – Potiskum Road, Azare – Sharuri
Road, Bauchi State.
Rehabilitation of Ilorin – Jebba – Mokwa – Birnin
Gwari Road, Kwara State.
Construction of Oju/Lokoja – Oweto Bridge over River
Benue, Benue State.
41. Other major highways are in the queue for
rehabilitation or new construction.
42. Already contractors have recalled about nine
thousand workers laid off and Government expects that
several hundreds of thousands of workers will be
reengaged in the next few months as our public works
programme gains momentum.
43. On railways, we have provided our counterpart
funding to China for the building of our standard gauge
Lagos -Kano railway. Meanwhile, General Electric is
investing two point two billion USD in a concession to
revamp, provide rolling stock, and manage the existing
lines, including the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Line. The
Lagos-Calabar railway will also be on stream soon.
44. We have initiated the National Housing Programme.
In 2014 four hundred million naira was voted for
Housing. In 2015 nothing. Our first budget this year is
devoting thirty five point six billion naira. Much of the
house building will be private – sector led but
Government is initiating a pilot housing scheme of two
thousand eight hundred and thirty eight units uniformly
spread across the 36 states and FCT.
45. We expect these units to be completed within 4 –
6 months. These experimental Nigeria House model
Units will be constructed using only made in Nigeria
building materials and components. This initiative is
expected to reactivate the building materials
manufacturing sector, generate massive employment
opportunities and develop sector capacity and
expertise.
46. The programmes I have outlined will revive the
economy, restore the value of the naira and drive
hunger from our land.
47. Abroad, Nigeria’s standing has changed beyond
belief in the last 18 months. We are no longer a pariah
state. Wherever I go, I have been received with un-
accustomed hospitality. Investors from all over the
world are falling over themselves to come and do
business in Nigeria. This government intends to make
business environment more friendly because we can
not develop ourselves alone.
48. All countries, no matter how advanced, welcome
foreign investments to their economy. This is the
essence of globalization and no country in the 21st
century can be an island. Our reforms are therefore
designed to prepare Nigeria for the 21st century.
49. Finally, let me commend Nigerians for your
patience, steadfastness and perseverance. You know
that I am trying to do the right things for our country.
50. Thank you and may God bless our country.