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Almost every relationship involves some kind of compromise. But there are difference between compromises that help the make the relationship better and those that make you lose yourself. If you have to lose your identity to keep the relationship, it’s not worth it. 1. Don’t Compromise Beyond Reason: 2. Give Yourself Time To Heal From Your Last Relationship: 3. Enjoy Being Single: 4. Know The Kind Of Person You Want To Be With: 5. Just Stop Looking        

  Dubai is a shopper's haven. Between its endless array of malls, corner shops and status as a tax-free country, it's no wonder millions of tourists troop in to the country each year. The Dubai Mall which is regarded as the world's largest mall based on total area and the Mall of the Emirates , which houses amongst other things, a ski slope, are just some of the many shopping arenas scattered around Dubai. But as every discerning traveller/shopper knows, they don't exactly always offer the best bargains in the world. So, if you're planning to visit Dubai anytime soon and looking for a place which offers great bargains, check out these places.

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it but in the end, there it is” – Sir Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945 and 1951-1955). Nothing empowers the spirit more than the truth. Nothing warms the soul more than the truth. Nothing dispels the darkness more than the truth. Nothing emboldens the noble more than the truth. Nothing sheds the light more than the truth. Nothing enlightens the ignorant more than the truth.   Nothing frees the enslaved more than the truth. Nothing liberates the mind more than the truth. Nothing purges the evil more than the truth. Nothing hurts the vile more than the truth. Nothing troubles the murderous more than the truth. Nothing exposes the reprobate more than the truth. Nothing burns the slanderer more than the truth.

Manchester United finally scored after 404 minutes – a run that included three goalless draws – to defeat CSKA Moscow 1-0 at Old Trafford on Tuesday night. Wayne Rooney, who has been seriously criticized by fans and the media, scored United’s winner after a fine cross from Jesse Lingard. Nacho, on as a substitute for Marcelo, scored the only goal of the match, as Real Madrid overcame Paris Saint-Germain 1-0, despite playing on the back foot for most of the game

After a successful screening of the Ministerial nominees by the Senate, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday handed over the confirmed Ministerial list to President Buhari. The President received the list from the Senate president at the Presidential Villa, Abuja

Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh (rtd.), Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), on Tuesday said the organization was collaborating with Niger Delta agencies and multinational companies to get ex-agitators fully employed. Boroh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that government agencies would ensure that ex-agitators who were empowered were gainfully employed.

The Communist Party concluded a meeting last week to finalize its 13th Five-Year Plan, a blueprint for economic and social development between 2016 and 2020. China 's top economic planner said on Tuesday that the country's biggest challenge in the next five years is to negotiate the middle income gap. Xu Shaoshi , chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said that China can achieve its targets set out in the country's 12th five-year plan, which runs between 2011 and 2015. He was speaking at a briefing on the country's 13th five-year plan. The Communist Party concluded a meeting last week to finalize its 13th Five-Year Plan, a blueprint for economic and social development between 2016 and 2020.

The Osun House of Assembly, has appealed to the striking medical and dental workers in the state hospitals to suspend their action. Mr Najeem Salaam , the Speaker of the assembly, made the appeal when the lawmakers met with the executive council members of the medical union, on Tuesday in Osogbo . Salaam said that the assembly would try its best to ensure that the issues that prompted the strike were resolved.

A 35-year-old teacher who raped a 9-year-old girl will spend 7 years in prison as his reward. A primary school teacher in Ado Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State, Kareem Akinyemi, is to spend the next seven years in prison after he was sentenced by an High Court for allegedly raping his nine-year-old daughter.

The United Nations, UN, Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday observed that terrorist attacks in Nigeria and some other affected countries in the world as well as other ills such countries are facing are facilitated by corruption. The UN scribe who stated this while briefing participants at the ongoing Sixth Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption holding in St. Petersburg, Russia asserted that other crimes, including human and illegal wildlife trafficking are also encouraged by corruption. Mr. Ban, who was represented by the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, Yury Fedotov, underlined that ending corruption and bribery was crucial for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September by Member States to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change over the next 15 years.

It's Nomakeup Tuesday and the beat is back with another favourite celebrity stripped to the bare face sans any form of makeup.

Manchester City star, Yaya Toure leads a slew of players in the nomination list for the English Premier League African Player of the Month awards. The award is for Africans plying their trade in the English Premier League and is organized by New African Soccer. In a statement released by the awards director, Tunde Adelakun , the Ivory coast midfielder, Southampton and Senegal international forward   Sadio Mane and Nigeria’s Watford striker Odion Ighalo of Nigeria are the nominees for the October Player of the Month.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho took time off the crisis at his club to take his family to dinner spot in London. The Mourinho and his family were on Monday, November 1 pictured entering and exiting the Gaucho Grill in Chelsea as he enjoyed the company of his clan ahead of the Pensioners UEFA Champions League clash with Dynamo Kiev .

Following a groundbreaking year of firsts, Titilope Sonuga , Intel She Will Connect Ambassador for Nigeria, and the country's first inauguration poet who performed at the swearing in ceremony of President Muhammadu Buhari , is set to bring a one  kind spoken word poetry and music production to the Muson Centre stage on Friday, November 6, 2015 at 7pm. This coming of age story titled Becoming, is an exclusive celebration of womanhood, brought alive through an all female ensemble that will feature the soul stirring poetry of Titilope Sonuga and the breathtaking vocals of powerhouse performers: Ruby Gyang , Omolara ,  Falana and Deborah Ohiri at the Agip Recital Hall of the historic Muson Centre.

Multi-Award winning musician, Davido and Nigerian Rave of the Moment, music star Kiss Daniel thrilled guests including top Nigerian celebrities from the entertainment industry, several Captains of Industry and other guests at the launch party for the Denim range of Fragrance held on the 31of October, 2015 at the Lagos Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos.

Majmua Theatre is super excited to announce that Band Aid returns BIGGER AND BETTER to Theatre at TerraKulture all Sundays in November. Band Aid premiered in May, 2014 and recorded over large audiences and rave review in the media and on online, which prompted a repeat showing in December 12, 2014 at the MUSON. Band Aid is the story of three Band mates – Femi , Flex, and Ton,  connected by their love for music who meet and fall in love with Ivie who is also a music enthusiast.

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested four persons for allegedly kidnapping a 53-year-old matron, Mrs. Eralkhuemen Unulkiere who works with Rubber Estate Nigeria Limited located at Araromi Obu in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state. Those apprehended in connection with the abduction include, Tosin Adenikiju,Abiodun Olabowale, Omoniyi Akinsoyimi and Olatunji Igbekele, Disclosing this, the state Police spokesperson, Mr Femi Joseph said the suspects made confessional statements after they were arrested and the victim rescued. According to the police spokesperson, the suspects were arrested by detectives deployed to the creek by the state police command. He noted that the victim was rescued through what he termed, “a well coordinated intelligence gathering,” adding that no ransom was paid. “The woman was rescued last night unhurt and without any ransom paid by the anti-kidnapping squad led by DSP Onabanjo Adekunle,” Joseph disclosed. The image maker poi...

Victor Osimhen’s next goal in the FIFA U-17 World Cup will see him equal the all-time record of nine goals in the competition. The Golden Eaglets striker has netted eight times in the ongoing competition in Chile and is on course to match a record jointly held by France’s Florentine Sinama Pongolle and Souleyman Coulibally of Mali. Already, Osimhen has equalled the eight goals of Germany’s Marcel Witecczek, which was set in China 1985. If he finishes as top scorer in Chile, Osimhen will become the third Nigerian player to achieve the feat, after Wilson Oruma at Japan 1993 with six goals and Macauley Chrisantus at Korea 2007 with seven goals.

Ever sat in a Johnny Rockets and craved jollof rice with your cheeseburger? If so, then Nigeria is the place where all your dreams have already come true. Thanks to the upward mobility of Nigerians, some of America’s favorite global food brands are tasting success with chain restaurants across the country. “The end of military rule in 1999 saw the country's economy slowly open up, with new professional jobs being added in banks and the rapidly growing mobile phone market. That gave birth to Nigeria's rapidly growing middle class, whose members ... represent nearly a quarter of the country's population, according to a September 2011 study by investment firm Renaissance Capital.

A prominent Sierra Leonean politician, Mrs. Kargbo Fatmata, has alleged that the arrival of 4,000 bottles of TB Joshua’s holy water to her nation was the key to the eventual decline of the alleged incurable disease, Ebola. Fatmata, who reports say is the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sierra Leone, gave the ‘startling’ revelation in Lagos, Nigeria, at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations, SCOAN, on Sunday, 1st November, 2015. According to a prophecy disclosed via SCOAN’s television station, Emmanuel TV, the prophet had allegedly prophesied in August 2014 that his ‘Anointing Water’ had the ability to cure the deadly Ebola virus which had ravaged several West African countries.

Nollywood star, John Okafor, popularly known as ‘Mr Ibu’ has opened up on his ‘free styling mode and odd-feminine’ characters in movies as well the issue of homosexuality in Nollywood. Speaking with Vanguard, the 54-year-old actor who is best known for his hilarious appearances in movies, revealed that he doesn’t prepare for acting in any special way as it comes naturally to him. “There is no preparation; it’s an in-built thing. I love acting, and interpretation of characters given to me doesn’t really take me time to do. Straight ahead, I read and interpret my characters and I enjoy it so much, especially those kind of odd feminine roles I play. I just do free style and it turns out well, abi?”

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it has cleared 42 candidates for the forthcoming governorship polls in Kogi and Bayelsa. The Kogi election is billed for Nov. 21, while the Bayelsa poll comes up on Dec. 5. The commission’s bulletin issued on Monday in Abuja, stated that the list of cleared candidates was published by INEC and signed by Farouk Usman, the commission’s acting Secretary.

                 Beware                      It has come to the notice of the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN)          that certain unscrupulous individuals have been              sending unsolicited mails and text messages to unsuspecting bank customers, alerting them about deactivation or suspension of their bank accounts due to uncompleted Bank Verification Number (BVN) registration process.   An example of such messages reads thus; “Dear customer, due to the new BVN policy by the CBN your account has been deactivated and to reactivate, call......”   The Central Bank of Nigeria wishes to warn individuals and the ge...

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has set for itself the target of ensuring that 80 per cent of Nigerians are aware of their fundamental human rights by the end of December, 2015. The Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof. Bem Angwe, made the declaration on Monday in Abuja when he received the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency, NOA, Mr Mike Omeri, at the NHRC headquarters. In his words, “By the end of this year, we want to achieve a target of having at least 80 per cent of Nigerians aware of their rights.

The Abia State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, the state capital, has upheld the victory of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, who was candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the April 11 election. The tribunal in a ruling delivered on Tuesday dismissed the petition of candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in that election, Mr. Alex Otti.

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The relative stability in power supply that greeted the emergence of the Buhari administration can now be seen as an illusory appetizer. The supply was so deceptively regular that everyone thought the long-awaited end to Nigeria’s eternal darkness had finally arrived.  The honeymoon with the power distribution companies (Discos) has ended. Darkness has since returned to Africa’s largest economy.  In some communities power supply is worst than what happened in the dark days of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). No one is offering any explanations for the return of darkness.  Pipeline vandalisation that used to truncate the supply of gas to the power stations has reduced drastically.  The droughts that used to be blamed for the low output from the hydro power plants have given way to torrential downpours that have flooded some cities in northern Nigeria. From all indications, the darkness might have been conjured to compel consumers to believ...

Peterside explained that security has deteriorated in the state due to lack of support for security agencies by Governor Nyesom Wike. He alleged that the 60 security vehicles that Wike claimed his administration donated to the police and other security agencies in the state was farce and a photo trick claiming that so-called vehicles were line up for photo shoot for the cameras of journalists.

Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford stopping Kings center Anze Kopitar from getting a rebound during the third period. Credit Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews each had a goal and an assist to lead the Chicago Blackhawks to a 4-2 victory over visiting Los  Angeles, ending the Kings’ seven-game winning streak. Kane scored to tie it at 2-2, then set up Teuvo Teravainen’s tiebreaking goal in the third as Chicago scored three goals in the final period. The Blackhawks’ Corey Crawford made 33 saves and the Kings’ Jonathan Quick stopped 22 shots. â–  Joffrey Lupul had two goals and an assist, James Reimer stopped 43 shots and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Dallas Stars, 4-1, to pick up their first home win of the season. Jamie Benn got his 10th goal of the season, and Antti Niemi finished with 22 saves as the Stars’ three-game winning streak e...