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By Lemuel Irabor Contact: lifeandasixteenyearold@gmail.com   W e all love to get rewarded adequately for the various services that we render. Whether we are salary earners or high school students earning stipends to save towards having a college education, the feeling is the same. However, even the slight suspicion of being taken advantage of can foster ill feelings and has been found to be a leading cause mental health issues such as stress and depression. Here are (free) 10 glaring indications that you are being underpaid by your employer. 1. Your workload has increased but your pay hasn’t    Perhaps the most glaring evidence of your being underpaid is that you literally ‘work like an elephant but eat like an ant’. Despite the increased paperwork, your pay check doesn’t improve. 2. You never get raises     Business etiquette recommends that on an average of once a year, ...

By Lemuel Irabor Let's explore the possibility of utilizing the gargantuan amount of electric power in lightning as a source of cheap renewable energy. B eing known to appear before a thunderclap (thus earning the moniker,’thunderbolt’);lightning has evolved from being known as a mystical wonder to being discovered to be a simple naturally-occurring electrical phenomenon. Due to the great difference between the relative speeds of sound and light in air, the thunderclap is usually heard about 7 seconds after the flash of lightning with the flash itself normally lasting microseconds.The flash appears as a ‘long crack’ in clear skies and, in cloudy atmosphere, is not readily seen from the earth although the associated illumination is still noticed. Lightning flashes usually appear white.Depending on local atmospheric conditions; flashes of colours such as yellow and blue-violet have also been reported. An average of 100 occurrences of lightning are recorded world...

 Life and a Sixteen-Year-Old by Lemuel Irabor All Rights Reserved. © Lemuel Irabor 2016- [First posted on UC Forum] I am happy to share excerpts from my book with the whole world. 16-Sept. Life is so complicated! Sometimes I don't even get it.Look at it this way:God created apples for eating.But insatiable humans had to squash the apple to get the pulp for apple pies,etc. and extract the juice in big machines and add lots and lots of health hazards,just so we can have drinks like 5 Alive and Lacasera. That's not the complicated part. It's when they give us tests in class asking us to explain the processes involved that really irks. I mean,who does that? Sigh. All I wanna write is that the apple-in whatever form-gets into the stomach of man. Again I wan.. Oh!Hi there. You may be reading this and wondering who could be writing this. Well.. I'm Martin. Sixteen. Nigerian. 174cm tall. And believe me I have my share of problems.UNfair share of p...

By Lemuel Irabor Contact: lemuelirabor@yahoo.com         'Sweet moin-moin!'     'Old park!Old park!'       'Okpa! Ooo-kpa!'       'Obiagu!Obiagu!'     The sun is high in the sky and so are the hopes of the various businessmen and women in the renowned Abakpa market located in Enugu,southeastern Nigeria.     With a history dating to eons before the first colonial masters set foot in the region,the bustling market is undoubtedly one of the oldest in Nigeria.The main center of the Abakpa market is divided into lines of shops,every shop on each line selling a particular type of commodity or service such as grain,textile,art work,electronics,tools,meat,poultry products,accessories,bukkas,stationery and even processing plants.   One simply has to ask,say where the textile line is and he'd easily be directed.   The processing plants are actually miniature industries as th...