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How To Stay Positive In Negative Situations

If want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down. Having a positive attitude can be hard, especially when everything isn’t going the way it supposed to. Discovering happiness through all this can be as exhausting as giving blood, but we all have to find a way to be positive through it all. Negative situations happen all the time. We can’t avoid them, so how can we counteract their negative effect on our lives and our attitudes? Learning the power of positive thinking helps us stay positive even in the midst of tragedy. A lot of people ask how to stay positive, well, staying positive isn’t always as difficult as you think. You just need to discover happiness in the smaller things in life. And then, when you project that happiness, it can have a great impact on the people who surround you. Let look at other ways you can try to stay positive in life. Learning how to stay positive in negative situations is invaluable in leading a healthy lifestyle. Here are 6 ways you can achieve ...

Panic As Naira Plunges To An All Time Low Of 500 Per Dollar

Naira-Dollar-Parallel-Market-2-640x431.jpg The Naira on Monday morning plunged to an all time record low of 500 against the United States dollar, down from 498 it closed on Friday at the parallel market. The news will be coming as a shock to Nigerians as a whole, most especially economic analysts, who still have predicted a sharp depreciation on the currency. Naira Weakens Further Against 3 Major Currencies At Parallel Market It is also trading 615 and 525 to the pound and euro respectively at the back market segment. At the highly pegged official market, the currency remains unchanged at 305 to a dollar. Naira Trades At 494/$ On Christmas Day, From 268/$ On December 25, 2015 It was learnt that the Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Mr. Bismarck Rewane had in a bulletin containing the FDC’s economic outlook for 2017 released in January, predicted that the naira would trade at N350/dollar at the Interbank Foreign Exchange Market and depreciate to N5...

Trump backs off tough stand on green-card holders

The Trump administration took a major step back late Sunday from its temporary ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, issuing a clarification that the order does not apply to green-card holders “absent the receipt of significant derogatory information. “In applying the provisions of the president’s executive order, I hereby deem the entry of lawful permanent residents to be in the national interest,” Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said in a statement. “Accordingly, absent the receipt of significant derogatory information indicating a serious threat to public safety and welfare, lawful permanent resident status will be a dispositive factor in our case-by-case determinations.” Kelly’s statement came hours after White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Trump’s executive order would not apply to legal permanent residents “going forward” and after federal judges in Boston had ruled that border security agents could not detain ...