Poem Of The Week: Diary Of A Hanging Slave

Years, times and moments.
Flash before his eyes.
Things not understood.
Like the writings on his palm.
Nature loans her shroud of dark covering.
As his life, now it seems, it’s concluding.
On his lips are tales of time past.

Nigeria Stock Index Closes Near One-Year High

Like all other stock markets around the world, Nigeria’s stock market index has had its fair share of ups and downs. Against this backdrop, the level of growth that has been recorded in recent times is considered a welcome development by many.

The Wonders and Health Benefits of the Apple Fruit

A healthy diet should contain an array of nutrient-dense foods, such as vegetables and fruits. And that’s why the apple is a wonder fruit – on its own, one apple is packed full of vital nutrients which help you achieve maximum health. Like the old saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Ever wondered why that saying came to be?

Transportation At Its Finest: The SmartCity Resorts!

Who says you have to travel by Road in Lagos? With the incessant traffic, it’s somewhat of a relief to find that some people are actually thinking outside the box in a bid to ease the all too common burden of movement in Lagos.

From Mother to Child

The first thing I will have to stress here is this—I am not a doctor or a medical personnel. Medical pieces are not really my forte but, as humans, we have a natural instinct to crave knowledge and seek for answers.

Poem Of the Week: The Pianist

Another song yet to play
Maybe a breath left or
A chorus for the heartbeat away
Gradually she fades like my memory
From colours to black and white
Long forgotten scenery

How To Take Care Of Your Beards!

It’s so obvious that keeping beards is the new sexy for men, regardless of your race, believes, tribe or culture. A well trimmed and clean beard is part of today’s fashion for men, it’s like an extension of any apparel you put on or the perfume/ cologne one wears. I for one welcome this new trend and i guess it’s going be around for a very long time, so welcome to my world of the grown and the sexy.

The Central Bank of Nigeria Plans to Introduce Agent Banking

A banking agent is a retail or postal outlet contracted by a financial institution or a mobile network operator to process clients’ transactions. Rather than a branch teller, it is the owner or an employee of the retail outlet who conducts the transaction and lets clients deposit, withdraw, and transfer funds, pay their bills, inquire about an account balance, or receive government benefits or a direct deposit from their employer. Banking agents can be pharmacies, supermarkets, convenience stores, post offices, and many more.

7 Signs She Wants To Date You

When a lady is in love with a guy, she communicates her feelings through various means. Though subtle, they capture her intensions, express her emotions and it will take proper perception on the part of the guy to interpret the message correctly and respond accordingly. More often than not, whether a guy ask a lady out or not eventually boils down to his ability to recognize

Poem of the Week: Echoes and Silence

Solstices comes with dark days, nights and fears.
I stare at Utopia.
Mind stained with blood, sweat and tears.
In my head I hear voices calling.
Six feet at the edge of my thoughts, I’m falling.
Branded with pains, I howl.
Headed for grace land, on Wounded Knee I crawl.
In the field of my emotions.
With pity dark clouds look down at me.

Risk Management: Are You Prepared?

Uncertainty is something we as humans cannot question but prepare for. In recent times, a lot has happened nationwide, lives and properties have lost via Natural disaster (flood, Sand storm etc) or manmade mishap, writing a list here will just put me on the stop for ever. As humans, we are vulnerable to risk of any form at any given time, but a simple question is how prepared are we as humans towards our environment of uncertainties? The question lingers.

The Beauty of the year: 2012

If you like numbers (mathematics), figures or the whole arithmetic world then you will defiantly love this. Something caught my attention some days back, it’s something we all know but I guess a lot of us never took note of it, well to cut the long speech short, it’s the calendar arrangement of the months in the year 2012, you will notice something unique about them, it is far from the regular.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PROF WOLE SOYINKA

Prof Wole Soyinka, a man with many strips, an icon, a leader, an Author, a Nobel laureate, and a Father celebrates his birthday today July the 13th .We as a family and a firm, connectnigeria.com warmly wish you a splendid birthday. Happy Birthday to one of Nigeria’s greatest exports, distinguished for his immense contribution in the field of literature, an intellectual force and a man of integrity.

Tips on How to Eat Fresh and Healthy

Healthy ways to eat is something we’ve all heard one way or the other, guess it’s now a worn out cliché, but we all know the phrase “health is wealth”, so I don’t think it will be out of place if I stress on the importance of eating fresh and healthy.

Poem of the Week: My Illusions

She floats like the ether in the wind.
A lost and forgotten sound from a charming string.
Voice of a violin, breaking all silence.
Exquisite, precious like time.
Her beauty is of the essence.
My words I can’t say.
In her sight I’m lost.
To oblivion I sway.

Tips on How to Protect Your PIN

A personal identification number (PIN, pronounced “pin”; often erroneously PIN number) is a secret numeric password shared between a user and a system that can be used to authenticate the user to the system. Typically, the user is required to provide a non-confidential user identifier or token (the user ID) and a confidential PIN to gain access to the system.