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5 important rules for couples in long-distance relationships

Being in a long-distance relationship could indeed be trying and difficult. There will be days when you’ll long to just be with your significant other, and nights when Skype calls will not be enough to fill the void their absence created. Regardless of this though, you can still make the best of your relationship or marriage in your partner’s absence. 1. Extra effort While couple who see each other every day need to put in effort, be trusting, considerate and patient with their partner, being in a long-distance relationship requires you to put in extra effort, be extra-trusting and a lot more patient with your partner. 2. Fixed meeting time Couples in this kind of relationship need to have a meeting time that nothing should change. A weekend, a month, or any agreed time that both partners need to religiously follow. Making a promise to be around and failing to fulfil such promise will add extra tension on a relationship that is being stretched already, an

This young man rose from a fuel attendant to finance manager

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A Nigerian man has shown that one can become anything he wants to be if he or she puts his mind to it no matter how long it takes. This is the story of this young man who goes by the Twitter handle @Dacosta9110 who posted a 1999 photo of himself as a fuel attendant at a filling station and another of himself today where he is a Finance Manager in a company. The young man who took 18 years to achieve his dreams today has taught that you can be anything you want to be with determination and hard work. This is the testimony @Dacosta put up on his Twitter handle: "Yours sincerely as a pump attendant in 1999 and as a Finance Manager in 2017. Don't give up on your dreams."   He is now the most trending topic on the social media with many commending his determination and spirit which has seen him become what he is today. NEVER GIVE UP!!!

Norway has been voted the 'Happiest Country' on Earth

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According to the World Happiness report released yesterday, Norway won the top slot to become the 2017 Happiest country on earth out of the 155 countries ranked by the report. “Norway has insulated itself from the boom and bust cycle of many other resource-rich economies,” said the report, put together by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Denmark, Iceland and Switzerland held the next three spots. The rankings are determined by a handful of social and economic factors that “support happiness,” the report said. They include gross domestic product per capital, healthy years of life expectancy, social support, trust (absence of corruption in government and business), generosity (as measured by recent donations) and perceived freedom to make life decisions.   The U.S. dropped in the rankings this year to 14 from 13 as a result of what Jeffrey D. Sachs, one of the study’s authors, views as a social crisis.