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How Long Should A Courtship Last?

Courtship starts when a MATURED SINGLE MAN after a STRONG CONVICTION from GOD that a single lady is meant to be his wife decides to PROPOSE his INTENTION OF MARRIAGE to the lady and the MATURED SINGLE LADY also decides to ACCEPT his PROPOSAL after a STRONG CONVICTION from GOD that the man is meant to be her husband.

There are seven areas of preparation that every wise single person should put in place before going into a relationship or marriage.

*Spiritual Preparation

*Physical Preparation

*Financial Preparation

*Emotional Preparation

*Mental Preparation

*Social Preparation and

*Moral Preparation

Once you are ready to go into a relationship, you Should Not Operate Your Relationship As A Secret Cult. Your Pastor Or Your Mentor Should Know About Your Relationship. Both Parents Must Also Bless The Courtship. Courtship Should Not Be A Secret Affair If You Don’t Have A Hidden Agenda! If Your Partner Says You Must Not Tell Your Pastors, Mentors Or Parents About Your Courtship, There Is Fire On The Mountain! 😳☹️

If You Are Not Matured Enough To Go Into An Open Courtship, Then Don’t Go Into It! Avoid A Secret Courtship!

Courtship Should Not Be Less Than 6 Months and More Than 2 years Except Where There Is Parental Objection Or Financial Challenge!

Marriage is not what you rush into. Courtship Should Not Be Less Than 6 Months before you tie the knot.

Courtship is a period of serious discussion, assessment, learning, openness and pre-marital counselling. It is a period of knowing one another more intimately.

Scripturally, no time is specified. But based on counseling and personal experience, I advised that no courtship should be less than 6 months and more than two years except where there is sickness, parental objection or financial challenge.

If it is less than 6 months, there is a danger of not knowing each other at all before the wedding.

It is extremely dangerous to marry somebody you do not really know even if he says he is an apostle or she is a world evangelist. Do yourself and your destiny a favor by not getting married in darkness. People can pretend to be what they are not but if you are patient and prayerful, you will discover so many things about them.

Also, courtship should not be too long.
If courtship is too long, it can lead to sexual immorality because of too much exposure to each other, or it can be boring and if care is not taken it can lead to a broken relationship.

If you court for only a month or less, then, you will need God’s special grace in your marriage because, knowing each other will last almost a lifetime. While learning about each other takes time, you are better off when you know quite a lot about someone.

Although, it is not how long but how well.

I know of people who have gotten married very quickly (like in a matter of days) and are still married decades later—and people who did the same thing and were divorced just as quickly. Or, a couple may be “in a relationship” for a decade, finally get married, and then split up in the first year.

It really depends on the people involved, the reasons why they get married when they do and their preparation for a godly marriage.

Singles should spend more time in prayers for the right person for them, and give their time also to godly marital seminars, marriage books and counseling.

Similarly, singles in courtship should pray, fast and gather more knowledge from the Word, concerning His promises and commandments needed for a successful family life.

You will not miss it in marriage in Jesus name.

Pst Samuel Olagbenjo
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LADY, CHERISH THIS KIND OF MAN

  1. Cherish the man who loves his mum. He has been brought up well
  2. Cherish the man who loves to read, and not just for exams. He is wise and deep
  3. Cherish the man who is funny. You will never be bored
  4. Cherish the man who treats strangers and the less privileged with dignity. He has a kind heart
  5. Cherish the man who listens. You will be understood
  6. Cherish the man whose idea of fun is constructive, not endless drinking and clubbing. He is mature
  7. Cherish the man who is a family man ready for responsibility and clear about what he wants with you. Your time will not be wasted
  8. Cherish the man who respects his father no matter how his dad is. He has learned true manhood
  9. Cherish the man who doesn’t insult his ex or your ex even if the break up was messy. He is someone who enters into love for the right reasons
  10. Cherish the man who needs you. He will hold on to you
  11. Cherish the man who lets you love him, who lets you see the nakedness of his weaknesses and strengths. He trusts you
  12. Cherish the man who accepts correction and changes his ways if he offends you. He will make himself better to love you
  13. Cherish the man who prays for you. He knows you are a gift from God
  14. Cherish the man who treats other women with respect. He will show you even more respect
  15. Cherish the man who loves the children you and also is a father figure to those not his. That man will have an honourable legacy
  16. Cherish the man with a vision. He will challenge and build you, he knows where he is going
  17. Cherish the man who has a good set of friends.You can tell the character of a man by the friends he keeps
  18. Cherish the man who values intimacy above sex. He will be faithful to you
  19. Cherish the man who is interested in your dreams. He cares about your future
  20. Cherish the man who respects your decisions and doesn’t rush you. He sees you as a life partner, not someone to dominate
  21. Cherish the man who corrects you when you wrong and inspires and pushes you to do better. He sees your potential and will not rest until your potential is lived out. That man is a keeper
  22. Cherish the man who has been consistent on his focus. You can depend on him
  23. Cherish the man who works hard, is self motivated and is diligent even when he has little. That man is going places and one day he will make you proud
  24. Cherish the man who is not intimidated by other men when they notice your beauty. He is a secure man

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TEN WAYS TO AVOID HEARTBREAK IN 2021

Heartbreak is a more pronounced words when it comes to relationship and I am of the opinion that heartbreak is avoidable in 2020.

1.Know your genotype.

As an adult, your number one goal before going into any relationship this year should be to know your genotype because knowing this well help you a long way in your choice of whom to marry.

I have counseled several people who had to be break up their relationship due to genotype incompatibility and the pain is immeasurable.

A friend had to break up two year old relationship because they found out their genotype were not compatible.

If people had followed correct medical genotypical combination, there wouldn’t had been a “WORD SICKLE CELL DAY”.

You are not qualified to be in a relationship if you don’t know your genotype.

Kindly walk up to the nearest Hospital and get to know your genotype.

  1. Be convinced Before going Into A Relationship.

A relationship where God is the pioneer is difficult to break.

A relationship where you are both convinced the Holy Spirit is leading you to marry each other is difficult to break.

Before entering a relationship this year, ensure you pray and be led by the HOLY SPIRIT.

The reason you have been experiencing heartbreak is because you allow your carnal, sensual and physical knowledge to always lead you to a relationship not the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit will not break your heart while leading you to a relationship.

I have counseled many people who experienced heartbreak last year and I realized nearly all of them were not led by the HOLY SPIRIT before entering the relationship.

Your partner can just decide anytime and call off the relationship when you are not both convinced about God’s leading in the relationship.

If there’s a case that calls for heartbreak if you are not leading yourself, then you can easily run to the Holy Spirit on your knees to God in prayers for intervention.

The more reason I advocate for Courtship not dating.

Courtship is when you are convinced through the Holy Spirit about a Sister or Brother before entering a relationship with them while dating is when you physically asses someone to see if they are maritally suitable for you.

The highest number of heartbreak occurs due to Dating.

Go into courtship not dating this year.

  1. Don’t make your relationship secret.

I don’t expect you to go into relationship with someone without your mentor or Pastor awareness if only you don’t want to experience heartbreak.

I don’t expect you to be in a relationship without the awareness of your parents if only you don’t want to experience heartbreak.

Allow your mentor, parents or spiritual leaders to oversee your relationship under God and you will experience no heartbreak.

I could remember a situation where a Coach said she and the partner already called off their relationship due to a friction between the two despite they had conviction before entering the relationship.

When their parents heard they called off the relationship, the fiance’s father called him to order and to apologize for his misbehavior towards the fiancee.

Assuming their parents were not aware of the relationship, that’s the way way they would have broken up the relationship despite they are happily married with two kids today.

If you don’t want to experience heartbreak, get to know or meet each other’s biological or spiritual parents, it’s a sign of seriousness in a relationship.

Be bold enough to tell any lady or guy who asks you out that you are engaged.

Be bold enough to let your friends and family know that you are engaged.

  1. BE ACCOUNTABLE.

Learn to give weekly or monthly report and updates on your relationship to your mentor, Pastor or parents.

In case there is repeated misbehavior from him or her, such can easily be called to order while giving account of your relationship.

  1. AVOID PREMARITAL SEX OR ROMANCE

Premarital sex don’t make a man loves a lady more, rather it makes him to lust after her the more.

Sex doesn’t keep a man in a relationship.

It’s either he leaves you after having sex with you or leaves because you don’t give him sex.

If he leaves you because you refused him premarital sex, he’s not your husband.

A young lady came to me telling about her relationship with his boyfriend.

She confessed to me she has had multiple sex with the guy without using condom and I asked, do you remember premarital sex is a great to your body and God? what of if you get pregnant? What of if you are infected with STDs? She was dumbfounded.

I warned her of the need to leg go off the relationship because it’s sex driven and go through sexual purity class but she ran back to the boyfriend after a while and I didn’t force her not to go.

She came to me crying and lamenting after few months of ignoring me and leaving for the boyfriend.

She told me how her spiritual life became empty due to premarital sex and romance.

She told me how she aborted for the guy and still had sex with him thereafter.

But at the end, the guy broke her heart despite he was the one who deflowered her, impregnated her and gave her money for abortion. That’s the goal of premarital sex.

I was not surprised when she was narrating her experience with me while crying and sobbing in tears.

Premarital sex prepares you for premarital heartbreak.

Any relationship whose foundation is based on premarital sex cannot last and if it eventually leads to marriage, they won’t enjoy their marriage due to either infidelity or satanic attack because they have opened the doors for the devil through their premarital sexual sins.

The more reason divorce is so rampant is premarital sex.

Premarital sex lays a foundation for cheating in marriage and adultery leads to divorce.

No man or woman wants to be cheated on in relationship or marriage.

  1. Be committed to your Relationship.

If you are not interested in a relationship, set your partner free.

There are people who are in a relationship like they are not because either of the party is not serious or tired of the relationship.

A relationship where you can go for days, weeks or months without calling, chatting or visiting may not escape heartbreak.

A relationship where it’s only a partner that initiates chats, calls or visitation may not escape heartbreak.

A relationship that’s saprophytic in nature i.e only the brother or sister giving without giving anything in returns may leads to heartbreak.

A relationship where you compare your partner’s physical appearance(shape, height or skin) or academic level (NCE, HND,BSC) with another person shows you are not serious and heartbreak maybe inevitable.

A situation where you compare your relationship with others may spring up jealousy and discontentment

  1. Avoid communicating with your ex.

It’s easy to move from a friend to a Lover but very difficult to move from lover to ordinary friend.

It’s difficult to resist someone you have been once being emotionally attached to before.

The more reason you should avoid any form of communication with your ex.

You may wish them Happy Birthday in their inbox and let it ends there.

I have heard several reports of married women or men having sex with their ex in marriage.

Any frivolous discussion, chats, calling or visitation is not allowed except you are preparing for heartbreak with your current partner.

  1. Don’t make opposite sex your BESTIE

If your relationship will survive heartbreak this year, opposite sex should never be your BESTIE (best friend).

The more reason I preach you befriend your partner or marry your friend.

Opposite sex should not be your reading partner if your relationship will survive heartbreak this year.

If your relationship will survive heartbreak this year, you will not chat, call or visit opposite sex daily or too often this year.

  1. Be Transparent.

Be transparent in your decision making by carrying your partner along.

Your partner should be able to access your phone, laptop or other electronics gadgets without feeling reluctant except you are planning for heartbreak.

Giving your partner access password to your social media makes you to be your Lover’s keeper not your monitoring spirit like you think.

Be transparent when it comes to financial dealing with your partner.

Avoid any questionable character or lying.

  1. Be Purpose Driven in your relationship.

A relationship that’s bonded by purpose cannot easily experience heartbreak.

I don’t expect you to be in a relationship if you have not discovered your purpose on earth.

If the only thing you worship in your relationship is ” I love you, I miss you and exchange of gifts”, then such relationship is likely to fail.

Discover Purpose before relationship.

Be purpose driven in your relationship.

Being purpose driven means carrying out spiritual exercise together.

  1. Be intentional about your relationship goal.

You have to be sincere with yourself and be sure you are ready or ripe for a relationship before committing yourself into one this year.

You have to be sincere to yourself and be sure you want to marry this person before going into relationship with him or her, else you are preparing for heartbreak.

If you cannot marry him or her, there’s no reason to go into the relationship.

Don’t play with someone’s emotion.

Don’t waste someone’s resources, time and money this year all in a name of fake relationship.

Don’t be a reason someone will go for fasting and prayers in MFM prayers city or Shiloh this year.

God knows how to deal with deceivers in a relationship.

May true love find you this year.

Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished

© Love Doctor Oluwaniyi Aderopo Hezekiah

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LINDA VISITS HOSPITAL FOR THE 1ST TIME AFTER 10 YEARS OF BEING PARALYSED

Linda lost both Parents (Mum & Dad) at aged 10. She became disabled in the process and after loosing both parents she also Lost her only sister who came to her aid.

She had no Hope in Life of even seeing a Hospital Building so she had to be in the room by sleeping on the Floor for 10 Solid years..

Today we took Linda to the Hospital for the 1st time in her Life and it was all Tears of Joy but the unfortunate thing was that, Linda had NO HEALTH INSURANCE (NHIS) so we spent a little bit there.

Linda broke in Tears after being to the Hospital for the 1st time after 10years of being Paralysed and we have been scheduled to come back in April but she had been given some drugs.

We have hope and believe that Linda will surely get back to her feet again so let’s all support her in Prayers.

Our Doors are still opened to anyone that wishes to donate any little that you can to the following numbers to support Linda getting back to her Feet…

Donate to
0540169707
0202072024
(Clinton Yeboah).

God bless you all for your Love and Support.
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John Dumelo Fulfills Promise Even After Losing Election, Donates Another New Laptop To A Medical Student

Popular Ghanaian actor, Philanthropist and politician, John Dumelo has honoured his promise of buying a new laptop for a medical school student at the Ghana Medical School in Korle Bu.

It could be recalled that before the 2020 general election, John Dumelo was going about donating laptops to students in various tertiary institutions in the country to aid them with their studies.

Apparently even after losing the election, he still contineous to do so. Earlier today, Mr. John Yao Avu of the Ghana Medical School in Korle-Bu was the lucky recipient of one of those laptops.

The news was shared by blogger Mac Jordan on his official Twitter page saying;

”Thank you @johndumelo1 for once again honoring your promise of donating a brand new laptop to our brother John Yao Avu of the Ghana Medical School in Korle-Bu. May God continue to strengthen and embolden you works abd efforts. Akpe. Mawu ne yra wo #Dzolali #NowOrNever”

See the photos below;

Source:ENEWSGHANA.COM

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What you need to know about WhatsApp new privacy policy

Pipo wey dey use WhatsApp dey wake up to see say dem gats agree to one message: ‘WhatsApp is updating its terms and privacy policy’ for both Android and iOS users, but wetin dis one mean?

First tin be say, users no even get chance to say no, as di company tok say you gats accept di terms and changes if you wan keep using WhatsApp accounts. Di new terms of service and privacy policy go start from February 8, 2021, and, if you reject am, you no go fit use di service again.

Wetin be di important changes?

For di old version of di privacy policy, di first line be: ‘Respect for your privacy dey coded for our DNA.’, dis one don change. Dis line no dey part of di new privacy policy but WhatsApp tok say dem still get end-to-end encryption – wey mean say dem no go share your messages.

WhatsApp

One section of di international privacy policy don comot, wey fit allow pipo to select if dem go wan share dia personal information wit Facebook for di first 30 days but now, di latest alert go send you go dia online help centre ‘if you go like to delete your account’.

Sake of dis one some pipo online – plus Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk – say make users to switch go oda privacy-focused messaging services like Signal and Telegram.

Extra tins to know

If you gree to di changes, see all di information WhatsApp go share wit oda Facebook companies:

  • account registration information (like your phone number),
  • transaction data
  • Informate on how you dey gist wit odas (plus businesses) wen you dey use our Services
  • mobile device information
  • your IP address

Source: BBC

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12 THINGS YOU MUST NOT DO AS SOON AS YOU GET MARRIED

There are many things an unmarried person will do and go away with it, but once you are married, it comes with the repercussion that will hurt your marriage dearly and hurt people in your life. So once married you must not do the following:

  1. STOP SPENDING TIME WITH OPPOSITE SEX ALONE : Once you are married you need to stop hanging out with opposite sex. No matter how innocent this may look, it will hurt the one you are married and may even lead you into an illicit relationship that will hurt your marriage. As a rule, avoid opposite sex once married, its a great way to honour your marriage vow and show respect to your spouse
  2. STOP FLIRTING: Don’t ever flirt with anybody once married, don’t play with anybody’s emotion, you may not come out of it without hurting somebody.
  3. BREAK ALL CONTACTS WITH YOUR EX

Break all contact with old boyfriends or girlfriends. You may need to delete some numbers, you may need to unfollow some people on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. This show that you are responsible and truly committed to your marriage vow.

  1. STOP NIGHT CHATTING
    Stop night chatting with anybody male or female, if you must do it, it must be with the permission of your spouse and that must be very important and it must not happen often.
  2. NEVER REMOVE YOUR WEDDING RING
    Always put on your wedding ring, it shows you are responsible, committed to your marriage and ready to be faithful.
  3. NEVER HIDE THINGS FROM YOUR SPOUSE .
    You are to be totally open and Vulnerable to your spouse. No secrecy, no darkroom, no hidden agenda.
  4. FLEE FROM PORN: Though, porn is bad for everybody, it is worse for a married man or woman to be hook on porn. Porn addiction had destroyed many homes, flee from porn
  5. NEVER SPEND UNACCOUNTED TIME WITH OPPOSITE SEX: Infidelity is not just about sleeping with someone else, it begins when you begin to spend time with opposite sex which must not be open to your spouse.
  6. FLEE CLUBBING: There is nothing beneficial in clubbing for a married man or woman, no matter your explanation for it, clubbing will hurt your marriage dearly.
  7. AVOID ALCOHOL: Flee from alcoholic drinks, it hurts marriage, it encourages sexual infidelity and violence in marriage.
  8. AVOID NIGHT CRAWLING : Evening is the family time. Get back to your home in the evening, returning home by midnight and 1:00 am does not show you are responsible; it will hurt your marriage.
  9. NEVER HAVE SEX WITH ANYONE ELSE

In marriage, you are only permitted to sleep with your wife or husband , you are not permitted to sleep with anybody else. Once you begin to sleep with anybody other than your spouse, it begins to hurt your marriage even if your spouse is not aware of it.

You will not fail in Marriage in Jesus name

By Pst Bisi Adewale

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Oral Sex and the Alarming Rise of HPV-Related Throat Cancer in Men

By 2020, the rates of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer are expected to surpass those of cervical cancer. So why aren’t young men getting vaccinated?

In the summer of 2010, Gary Bolnick started to feel weighed down with a new kind of weariness. A self-described workaholic, he was used to burning the candle at both ends. But when he discovered lumps in his neck, he went to his doctor to get it checked out.

“They were like, ‘Don’t even worry about it, it’s all good,'” he tells Broadly. But when his symptoms started to worsen—the fatigue continued and the lumps grew in size—he went back to the doctor, who took a biopsy. On New Year’s Day, 2011, he received the results: stage-4 tonsil cancer.

The leading cause of tonsil cancer is tobacco use, but Bolnick, who is married with two kids, didn’t smoke. His doctor told him that his cancer was caused by human papilloma virus, or HPV. It was only three years earlier that Maura Gillison, now a professor of internal medicine at Ohio State, published the results of a seven-year-long population study that discovered people with head and neck cancer were 15 times more likely to be infected with HPV in their mouths or throats than those without.

Bolnick had his tonsils removed immediately, and afterward underwent radiation and chemotherapy. “I had a feeding tube and lost a lot of weight. I lost about 80 pounds,” he says. “From there, I was kind of off the grid for a year. I had a lot of adverse reactions to the chemo and the radiation, and I was in pretty bad shape. I wasn’t really able to function in my job and in my life. I was really out of it.”

HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the US—there are more than 100 types, though not all cause health problems. But today, more and more people, predominantly men, are being diagnosed with oral HPV-related cancer. That’s not surprising, since a recent report from the CDC found that between 2011 and 2014, more men (6.8 percent) than women (1.2 percent) had high-risk oral HPV, or a strain of HPV known to cause cancer. Within 20 years, health experts expect the majority of head and neck cancers to be caused by HPV-positive carcinomas instead of smoking and alcohol, and by 2020, the rates of HPV-related oropharyngeal (area encompassing the throat, tonsils, and back of the tongue)cancer will surpass those of cervical cancer.

It’s unclear why more men are affected by this disease, says Krzysztof Misiukiewicz, an oncologist with the Mount Sinai Center for Head and Neck Cancer’s HPV Program for Men, but research has shown that oral sex is the main risk factor. In fact, in 2013, actor Michael Douglas revealed that his stage-4 throat cancer, which he later admitted was actually in his tongue, was the result of cunnilingus.

“Whenever we talk about HPV-positive cancer, we think this person had multiple, multiple, multiple sexual partners,” Misiukiewicz says. “It’s not about being more or less promiscuous. We have couples who have been married for 60 years … and unfortunately, they develop this cancer. The virus stayed quiet and then became visible after 60 years of marriage.”

The good news is that the prognosis is pretty good for cancer patients who are HPV-positive and have never smoked. Even many of those whose cancer returned after remission have a good chance at survival, Misiukiewicz says.

But, as Bolnick confirms, the treatment “is really rough.”

Currently, the only way to safeguard from developing any HPV-positive cancer—whether it’s oral, cervical, penile, or anal—is to be vaccinated. But the vaccine only works for people who have not been exposed to the virus yet, and about 14 million people become infected with some form of it each year. That’s why the age requirements are fairly young: The CDC recommends the HPV vaccine for young women at age 11 or 12, through 26, and for young men through 21.

But historically, few young people get vaccinated. The HPV vaccine was initially approved for girls in 2006 to help prevent cervical cancer. Later, in 2010, those recommendations were extended to teenage boys as well to protect against genital warts.

However, according to Misiukiewicz, many parents are ill-informed about HPV or think getting the vaccine promotes sexual activity or promiscuity, and will bar their children from getting vaccinated. In 2014, for example, only 40 percent of girls aged 13-17 received all three doses of the vaccine. For teen boys, that figure was about half (21.6 percent).

“About 80 percent of the US population has been exposed to the virus at some point, so it is very important to vaccinate young people before they initiate sexual activity,” Misiukiewicz says. Doing so would eventually lead to a decrease in incidence and prevalence of this cancer, he says.

Most people who contract HPV clear the infection on their own, and only a small fraction of patients will go on to develop HPV-positive cancer, Misiukiewicz says. But unlike cervical cancer, which can be detected early through regular pap smears, there are no preventative interventions for HPV-related oral cancers. Also, condoms cannot fully protect against the transmission of HPV, Misiukiewicz says. And according to the Oral Cancer Foundation, by the time cancer is detected in the mouth or throat, it’s usually pretty advanced.

“I don’t know what determines who develops the cancer and who doesn’t,” Misiukiewicz says. “We still don’t know, but it does not mean once you’ve been exposed you’re going to develop the cancer.” A study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology echoed his point: In trying to determine the risks patients with HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer posed to their partners, researchers found that the partners did not have higher oral HPV infection when compared with the general population. As a result, their cancer risk remained low.

Bolnick and his wife participated in that study. She ultimately had her tonsils removed because she came back positive for HPV and was at a higher risk for cancer, he says.

Bolnick has been cancer-free now for six years. He admits he had no knowledge of HPV’s links to cancer prior to his diagnosis. “Not at all,” he says. When he met with the doctor who would ultimately treat him, he says he didn’t really understand what it all meant.

“I still don’t fully understand,” he says. At the time, “it really didn’t connect with me. To be honest with you, I was so overwhelmed with the fear with what I was going through. I wasn’t really focused on the cause as I was on how to fix it.”

“It [was] an experience beyond life-changing and scary,” Bolnick says. “It is just a painful process.”

Source: vice.com

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20 LESSONS TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

  1. It is more swag, flex and prestigious to be a student of LEGON or KNUST than to be a student of UEW, UCC or UDS student. However, that does not determine who becomes great in future. Never compete with students from other schools. Build bonds not bones.
  2. If your programme is Diploma or HND, be minded to further without any break. Most minimum job requirements are Bachelor’s Degree. Perhaps, your WASSCE results, or other factors, did not permit you to pursue a degree straight away. Don’t be discouraged, just determine to quickly top-up upon completion.
  3. Some of your female colleagues will use Sex to get First Class, better grades or obtain other advantages, just as you used “protocol” or good grades to gain admission. Don’t make yourself a “moral judge” in the school. Focus on your life and do your best.
  4. Not all your classmates must be your friends. Don’t throw yourself or force yourself on anyone. Just go with the flow while respecting everyone.
  5. Airtel/Togo has very nice and affordable student-friendly data/internet packages. Patronise their sim cards and use their data packages for all your academic works.
  6. There is no job guarantee for you after the study. Apart from Nursing Training, Teacher Training and Medicine students who’ll be posted directly to fill vacancies in their respective fields, all others will search and compete for the few opportunities available. Take note.
  7. Let prayers lead you. In the school, there are a lot of people from all walks of life. Some are not humans. Some consult spirits, burn candles, chat with ghosts in the night, etc. Attach yourself to a strong praying and Bible-believing church. As Counsellor Kojo Swedru, I recommend “The Church of Pentecost”.
  8. If you’re in Private University, the public impression is that you’re not very intelligent. You did not meet the cut-off grade for your ideal programme in a public university that’s why you opted for the private. Don’t fight this impression because, after all, it’s 90% true. Focus on success in life. In fact, some private universities like Ashesi, etc are more prestigious than most public ones.
  9. Never challenge a lecturer, at least, in public or in-front of your class. If you must do that, be extremely tactical such that your genuine intentions (if you have) would not be misinterpreted.
  10. Not all your coursemates will graduate with you. Some could die, others will not be able to pay their fees, and a few others will travel abroad. In fact, some will quit and pursue some other ‘life’. Regardless of whatever happens on the way, just keep moving.

Thank you!

The author, Counsellor Kojo Swedru, is a certified Counsellor with the Ghana National Association of Certificated Counsellors. Follow him on Facebook for lessons 11 – 20.

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Rawlings to be laid-in-state from Jan 24.

The late President Jerry John Rawlings will be laid in state at the foyer of the Accra International Conference Centre from January 24 to January 26, 2021, the Foreign Affairs Ministry has said in a circular to foreign missions.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana presents its compliments to all Diplomatic Missions, International Organizations and Honorary Consulates accredited to the Republic of Ghana and with reference to the former’s Note Verbale No. PR/CIR dated 16th December 2020, informing of the postponement of the funeral arrangements for the late Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, Former President of the Republic of Ghana, has the honour to inform of the new dates for the funeral and burial rites of the late former president as follows:

” Laying-In-State from 24th to 26th January 2021 at the Foyer of the Accra International Conference Center (AICC) From 9:00 a.m. to 5p.M. daily;  Mass on 26th January, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Holy Spirit Cathedral, Accra; Burial Service on 27th January, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Independence Square, Accra,” the circular said.

Former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on November 12,2020.

Jerry John Rawlings was born on 22 June 1947 and is a former Ghanaian military leader and subsequent politician who ruled the country from 1981 to 2001 and also for a brief period in 1979.

He led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected President of Ghana.

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Bosomtwe MP’s vision 100 engineers in 10 years on course.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bosomtwe in the Ashanti Region, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has set up a 10 year vision to ensure that the Bosomtwe area produces at least 100 engineers in the next 10 years.

As part of that he has been offering scholarships to brilliant students from the area for them to pursue high level education at the tertiary level.

On Monday morning, be bid farewell to 30 students from the Bosomtwe who have gained admission at the University of Mines and Technology (UMAT) at Tarkwa to pursue various courses in Engineering.

Dr Adutwum is fully funding the education of the students.

He posed and took pictures with the students who were about boarding a bus to the Tarkwa campus of UMAT in the Western Region.

The excitement on the faces of the students and that of the parents who had assembled in front of Dr Adutwum’s constituency office building “was palpable,” Dr Adutwum stated in a post on social media.

“Fees paid, accommodation provided and a bus ready to convey them to Tarkwa, I encouraged them to aim high, study hard, read wide and pursue success,” the former Deputy Minister of Education in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s first term in office wrote.

“My vision of ensuring that Bosomtwe gets 100 engineers within the next ten years is on course,” he added.

Source:graphic.com.gh