Stop complaining, join political parties, Osinbajo tells youths

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You' ve power to change your destiny to better - Moghalu

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged youths in the country to join political parties ahead of the 2019 elections to enable them to be voted into political offices.

Osinbajo, who was represented by Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, made the call at the Emerging Political Leaders Summit in Abuja.

He said that it was not enough for youths to always complain about bad leaders, but that they needed to break the status quo by taking the chance to be elected and create the transformation they needed for a change.

“Youths have a challenge in their hands for the future of our country; so, I advice you not to sit down and fold your hands and be lamenting over bad leadership or politicians.

“Get down to business, organise and do something to become elected political youths; after all, Enahoro became a leader in this country at the age of 23 and later moved a motion for the nation’s independence at the age of 27.

“The leaders there today will vacate the place tomorrow so if you the youths don’t start preparing today by getting mentored and learning the ropes.

“There is no way you will perform very well if the mantle of leadership falls on you tomorrow; so there is need for you to go in there and participate,’’ he said.

Osinbajo, however, advised youths not to expect that from the day they start participating in politics they would become the president of Nigeria.

He said that it was not realistic and could not happen, but that they needed to start gradually from the ward level and move up to local government level and to state “before the presidency’’.

Mr Kingsley Moghalu, former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said that youths had the power to change their destiny to a better future by participating in politics from the grassroots.

Moghalu said that what the country needed was a democratic revolution at the polling units, adding that for it to happen the citizens should recognize that they had the power to change and improve governance.

“If they don’t exercise that power, if they keep selling their votes for N2, 000 so that they will eat today, their children will have no jobs in the future.

“It is high time Nigerians stopped seeking immediate gratification; they always love what they can get now and that is killing us as a nation.

“If this continues, then the citizens are just as irresponsible as the leadership they condemn,’’ he said.

Moghalu said that the next line of action lay with the citizens, adding that “we have talked enough, the politicians don’t listen, they keep carrying on in their old ways.

“We have had enough but if that is true, then we must act like we have had enough and take up the challenge to change the status quo.’’

The convener of the summit, Mr Wale Ajani, said the event was organsied to brainstorm ahead of the 2019 elections towards problem-solving both economically and politically for country’s development.

Ajani said that the summit became imperative at this auspicious moment in the nation’s history because Nigeria had remained a country of enormous potentials for several decades but unable to perform better in human development and economic indices.

“Leadership failure is largely at the heart of the current woes bedevilling Nigeria, with little being done to build a new crop of leaders.

“The nation seems fixated; the citizens have come to have very low expectations of their leaders. The summit provides a platform for qualitative conversations and discourse about Nigeria.’’

He said that it was time for Nigeria to have a paradigm shift as an alternative to the current system where there already existed a disconnection between citizens’ expectations and service delivery by politicians.

Source: Panorama

Lagos seals 18 hotels, event centres over N91m tax evasion

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has shut 13 hotels, restaurants and event centers for failure to pay their taxes due under the Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant Consumption Laws of Lagos State 2009.

The Hotels and Restaurants were said to be owing the State a sum of N426,976,528.87

The Director Legal Services of the LIRS, Mr. Seyi Alade, on Friday 17 November 2017 during the state-wide tax enforcement exercise, warned that defaulting Hotels, Restaurants and Event Centers will henceforth face the full wrath of the law if they fail to deduct and remit their taxes as provided by the law. He promised to release in due course the names of the entities affected by the enforcement exercise.

According to him, failure to deduct and remit taxes as at when due attracts very serious penalties that may lead to the sealing, seizure of the goods and chattels and criminal prosecution of principal officers of recalcitrant entities.

He said the LIRS usually gives a long rope by issuing multiple notices to the taxpayers to inform and also remind them of their tax liabilities adding that only recalcitrant taxpayers are shut down as in the present case.

He therefore urged all business entities operating in the state to ensure prompt remittance of their taxes to avoid costly disruptions on their businesses as a result of a distrain exercise.

Nigerian Navy course, 25 enlistment exercise closes on November 13 – LASG

Tunji Bello advised Lagosians  for participation 

The Lagos State Government has announced that the registration for the Direct Short Commission (DSSC) Course 25 Enlistment Exercise into the Nigerian Navy which commenced on Wednesday 11th of October, 2017 would close on Monday 13th of November, 2017.

According to a statement issued by the Office of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Tunji Bello, all interested Lagos State indigenes are implored to visit www.joinnigeriannavy.com to apply before the closing date.

While noting that the online registration is free of charge, it advised applicants to ensure strict compliance with the registration guidelines.

Exercise: A Future Investment

If current life expectancy is 58 years and adulthood begins at age 18, your midlife crisis is expected to occur between age of 35 to 40. Yoruba have an adage that says life begins at age 40. It is merely described as a time when adults contemplate their mortality and the waning years they have left to enjoy life. Now before the age of 40 many people have started experiencing symptoms of diseases depending on individual life style

According to Arbaje (a well known Psychologist), for many people, the mid-40s is the time in life when our future isn’t a scary unknown, our past is something we can laugh about, and our present is filled with marriage, kids, careers, and a general satisfaction in knowing who we are and what we want out of life. So it’s not surprising that we may feel melancholy beyond our 40s, when the future can once again seem uncertain. Let me tell you the truth, whatever your life style is before the age of 40 matters a lot.


As you grow old, the body physiological parameters also grow and wears out gradually. In some individual it is faster while in others it is slow depending on your lifestyle. Research shows that only 8 percent of young adults reported no daily stressors, compared with 12 percent of middle-aged adults (ages 40 to 59) and 19 percent of older people (ages 60 to 74).

Regular physical exercise boost both your energy and your mood, and it reinforces you more at old age Exercise is about way more than fitting into our clothes as we get older, it is one of the biggest factors determining our quality of life, says Rhonder Anderson.

The day-to-day activities they find hardest at age 50 and above include putting on socks, stockings and trousers, using escalators, stepping up into garden beds or bending down to pull out weeds, carrying groceries, walking up and down stairs, and getting up off the floor.

All of these require balance, strength, flexibility and coordination, which can be developed through circuits and obstacle courses — pulling, pushing, lifting and squatting. To walk up and down stairs, over things and around things, with changes of direction, going backwards and sideways has become so challenging for so many adults all because of lack of regular exercise.

Many of us are investing so much into material things which cannot save us at old age. So many people have fleet of cars but couldn’t at least buy one exercise equipment and even those who manage to buy it use it to decorate their room. Let us look at it this way, when you read, you increase the capacity of your brain. The same way reading increase the capacity of your brain is the same way exercise increase the capacity of your body system to function well at old age.

Human beings often aren’t good at thinking about the long term benefit of exercise, but  I am telling you that nurturing your health and developing good exercise habits in our 20s - 60s is a huge investment in the quality of your 70s and 80s.

To exercise is very cheap but to treat complications arising from lack of regular exercise is very expensive, don’t allow yourself to be a lab rat from which others learn from.

 Check your diet, do your regular exercise

By Toye Okunola
Exercise physiologist
For AgegePulse Magazine
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