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Successful people  don’t become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance—happiness, wealth, a great career, purpose—is the result of hard work and hustle over time. To be successful, you have to use each day as an opportunity to improve, to be better, to get a little bit closer to your goals. It might sound like a lot of work—and with a busy schedule, next to impossible. But the best part is, the more you accomplish, the more you’ll want to do, the higher you’ll want to reach. So  as long as you have the hunger for success , you will always have the power within you to achieve it. Use your ambition , drive and desire—along with these 17 motivational quotes—to make it happen.   1. Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.   2. Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you. 3. Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now. 4.  Great things never come from comfort zones. 5. Dream it. Wish it. Do it. 6. Success doesn’t jus...

Governor Obaseki - RUGA will never happen in Edo-

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Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo State, has joined other state governors in the South South, South East and South West, to reject the contentious Ruga settlement projects being proposed by the Buhari-led government. The Governor vehemently rejected it saying it will never happen in Edo state. Obaseki said this when he spoke while giving a lecture on the topic “Challenges of Pastoralism and International Migration for Sustainable Peace and Development: Edo State Experience” at the Department of State Services Institute of Security Studies (Executive Intelligent Management Course 12), in Abuja. “In Edo State, we have found so-called herdsmen with maps in the forests, they clearly cannot be herdsmen who are dependent on their livelihood from their animal assets; that cannot be. I think it is important in the context of this discourse to make that distinction between conflict as a result of economic activities, separate from deliberate conflict that is related to oth...

South Korea fires warning shots at Russian military aircraft

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South Korea says its jets fired warning shots at a Russian surveillance plane that entered its airspace on Tuesday.   Officials said the plane twice violated the airspace over the Dokdo/Takeshima islands, which are occupied by Seoul but also claimed by Japan. South Korea's Ministry of Defence said it scrambled fighter jets in response and fired 360 machine-gun rounds.   Russia has denied violating the country's airspace and Moscow said two of its bombers carried out a planned drill over "neutral waters" and denied any warning shots that were fired by South Korean jets.   This is the first incident of its kind between Russia and South Korea.

Car accident reveals Catholic Priest has been stealing church offering

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A car accident in which a Catholic Priest fractured his hip, revealed that he has been stealing church offering to the tune of $95,000. When emergency workers responded to the accident in a California town last month, they saw bags of cash containing $18,305.86 allegedly stolen from the church in Father Oscar Diaz’s car. Subsequent investigation into the theft, revealed that Fr. Diaz had in his office and home, collection bags from Resurrection Parish totaling more than $95,000. “There is also evidence that money was stolen in a variety of ways from each of the parishes where he had served as pastor. I am deeply grieved that this has happened and am deeply saddened that the parishes he was sent to serve have been harmed,” Bishop Robert F. Vasa wrote in his July 22 press release. “The full extent of the theft is not known and may never be fully known but the Diocese is committed to determining as fully as possible the extent of the theft from...

US imposes visa restrictions on Nigerian politicians

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday, announced that it had imposed visa restriction on Nigerian politicians found culpable in sabotaging the 2019 election.  No name was passed off in the announcement, however Nigerian politicians affected by the visa restriction imposition are those indicted for electoral violence, rigging and other anti-democratic activities before, during and after the 2019 elections. “These individuals have operated with impunity at the expense of the Nigerian people and undermined democratic principles and human rights,” spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement. “The Department of State emphasizes that the actions announced today are specific to certain individuals and not directed at the Nigerian people or the newly elected government,” Ortagus added.

AAU student dies shortly after being released from EFCC custody

AAU student dies shortly after being released from EFCC custody : A 22-year-old student of Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Edo state, has died shortly after his release after spending two months in EFCC custody.   Austin Isaiah was allegedly arrest