Turning a friendship into something more is a delicate task, but it can definitely be done. Many are convinced that it’s hard to turn an established friendship into a relationship, but that cannot be further from the truth. Romantic relationships that start off from a foundation of friendship often last the longest. With these kind of relationships, the attraction often extends past superficial reasons, such as how they look or how much they earn. It’s definitely worth a shot. If you’re curious how to make the first move on a girl who happens to be a friend, turn to these 6 tips.

6) Make Strategic Jokes

Bringing up the subject of having a crush on a woman you’re friends with can be awkward and hard to navigate. How to make the first move can be even trickier. To figure out how she feels, one trusted website recommends joking about the idea of getting together.

Saying something subtle and harmless like, “How crazy would it be if we got together?” is a good way to bring up the subject without revealing anything at all. Once you throw out a few joking lines, pay attention to not only how your friend responds, but also see if she does not throw out her own “what if” questions.

5) Touch Her (More)

If you have been wondering how making the first move looks when it comes to friendships, touching can do a lot to help. Think about how you touch your friend normally (if at all). If you hug her, try hugging her a little bit longer, or squeezing her shoulder next time.

You can also try placing your hand on her leg (don’t leave it there for too long) or brushing her hair out of her eyes. Keep your touching innocent. Trust me, she’ll pick up on even the smallest changes in touches and if she’s into you, you’ll start noticing her touching you differently.

4) State Your Intentions Clearly

The best way to let your friend know you’re romantically interested in them is to tell them about it. Make sure you choose the best setting to do so, one which does not put your friend on the spot. Pick a neutral place, such as a quiet park or a café. Do go over your mind about what you’re going to say so that it does not come out rushed or jumbled up. Make sure to let your friend know that you want to have a serious talk, so they are mentally prepared for it. Don’t spring it on them out of the blue.

3) Be Honest to Yourself and Your Friend about Your Expectations

When you let your friend know about your intentions to date exclusively, make sure you know what you really expect out of the talk. For example, do you just want to try dating before making it exclusive. Otherwise, perhaps you have fallen so hard that you already know you want to make them your significant other? Are you mentally ready to have your friendship change even more in some way after your confession? Even if it’s hard to do so, let yourself be vulnerable if you really want to take your relationship to the next level. It will let your friend know of your sincerity.

2) Spend More Time With Her Alone

This is one of the easiest tips on how to make the first move with a friend. If you generally hang out with your friend in group settings, try planning nights out (or in) alone with her instead. The goal here is to spend as much alone time with her as possible. This will give you a better chance to talk and flirt with her one-on-one.
Spending time alone is also likely to have her thinking about the possibility of something more. Before you “make a move” on a woman, you want to know that she wants it, right? Because if you know she wants it, you can be nearly 100% certain she won’t reject you or push you away. Here’s the truth: When a woman wants you to make a move, she’ll show you with her body language. The trick is knowing what to look for.

The #1 sign a woman wants you to make a move is when she gives you a special kind of “permission.” If she touches you, leans toward you or stays really close to you, she’s telling you that she wants you to touch her! It’s that easy. All you have to do is pay attention to her body language when you’re with her. (If you’re already mirroring her negative body language, this should be a piece of cake.)

And once you have her “permission,” literally nothing is stopping you–she wants you.

1) Be Ready for All Outcomes

Whatever the response is, make sure you brace yourself for it. Of course, it would be great if your friend is also open to dating you, but other outcomes are likely as well. For one, your friend may need time to think it over. If this is the case, make sure you ask them how long they think they need, so you’re not hanging on to false hope, and can move on quicker.

Then, of course, there is the possibility of your friend not seeing you as a romantic partner due to certain circumstances in their lives. If that is the case, don’t push them into giving you a chance. If you need space to settle your feelings, ask to be apart for a while. Don’t worry about your confession changing your friendship, or ending it. Chances are, if you’ve already developed feelings for your friend, your relationship has already changed.
With rejection, if you’re truly good friends, you will be able to rise above it and become friends again. On the other hand, if your feelings are reciprocated, you’ll be extremely glad that you took these steps to take your friendship to the next level.
If you think she’s interested but you are not sure, here’s a way to find out for certain if she’s into you. Look for these secret “signals” that reveal when a woman wants you sexually.
These are subtle things a woman will do when you’re talking to her, when you’re watching a movie, when you’re surrounded by other people in a public place, like a park or cafe and even if she treats you like “just a friend” otherwise… if you see one or two of these “signals,” then you’ll know deep down, she’s dying to sleep with you.

She’s probably just too scared to tell you, or make the first move on her own. This is simply how it is with most women. Which means that when you do make the first move, she’ll kiss you back, pull you in closer… And after a few moments, she’ll probably whisper, “Wanna come back to my place?”

Good luck, and happy dating! Please leave your comments below.

The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Ministry of Education, Mrs Adebunmi Adekanye, has congratulated Master Ezeunala Ekene Franklin, an SS3 pupil of Meiran Community Secondary School, Meiran, for making the best score in theUnified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) 2019.

Concise News reports that Franklin, 15 scored 347 in the examination. A breakdown of the result showed that he had 78 in English, 91 in Mathematics, 86 in Physics and 92 in Chemistry.

In a statement signed by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Education, Adesegun Ogundeji, Mrs Adekanye says she was not surprised at Franklin’s performance, saying he had won many laurels representing the state in competitions.

She says the 15-year old came first in the Zonal final of 2018 NNPC National Quiz competition. He proceeded and represented the South West at the National finals in Abuja.

Adekanye notes that Franklin was to lead the Lagos team to 2018 Junior Engineers, Technicians and Scientist (JETS) competition last December but when it was rescheduled, he had to be dropped to enable him to concentrate on his WASSCE.

She expresses joy that a new team of SS2 pupils eventually won the competition. A feat she ascribes to the qualitative education that the State has been providing.

Mrs Adekanye says a number of public school pupils did very well in the 2019 UTME – like Ihejeamatu Anthony of Festac Senior Grammar School who scored 327; AbdulLateef Adeyemi of Government Senior College, Ajara (295) and Tadese Fafai and AbdulWaheed Adegbite both of Abibat Mogaji Millennium Secondary School, Agege (291 and 271).

The Permanent Secretary praises Franklin and others who had made Lagos and Nigeria proud locally and internationally.

Adekanye says their performance would encourage the government to do more in making the school environment conducive for teaching and learning and continue organizing inter-school competitions in places such as the state quiz/debate and current affairs.

A Pyramid Scheme also known as Ponzi Scheme which has made it’s way to the Nigerian Internet space as many users of social media troop in money to get returns.

‘Loom’ as its called is a peer to peer program which is mainly depends on referrals to stay alive.

According to a research made by Okay Nigeria, the program initiated in the UK, went viral in Australia, and now is in Nigeria.

How ‘Loom’ works.

• You are invited, usually by a friend or relative, to join a Whatsapp group chat
• Then you are asked to ‘invest’ N1,000 or N13,000 with a promise that you will make eight times the amount back once you recruit
• After you have paid your money, you are asked to invite your own family and friends to join the system.
• There are four levels in Loom Nigeria – Purple, Blue, Orange and Red
• Each time 8 people join the loom, the person in the center (Red) will get target amount and leave.
• The loom will then split into two groups. The top half and the bottom half become the new looms and everyone moves into the next level (Purple Level – into Blue Level – Into Orange Level) and the cycle begins again.
• The more people you manage to add to the circle, the quicker the movement of it, and thus, the easier it will be for you to make your chunk of ‘easy money’.
• Loom Money Nigeria promises a staggering easy cash reward of N8,000 for paying N1,000; N104,000 if you pay N13,000

How real is ‘Loom’

As earlier stated, Loom is a Pyramid Scheme and is not sustainable without referrals so it will surely end up as a scam.

Here are proofs

1. Typically in a pyramid scheme, you pay to join.
2. The scheme relies on you then recruiting other people to join up and to part with their money as well.
   For everyone in the scheme to make a profit, though, there needs to be an endless supply of new members.
3. In reality, the number of people willing to join the scheme, and ultimately the amount of money coming into the scheme, will dry up very quickly.
4. For every person to eventually make the kind of money, Loom is promising, each Whatsapp group needs to always keep on growing with new members.
5. For the first person to be paid, he/she needs 8 people
6. For those 8 people to be paid, the Whatsapp group needs 8 x 8 = 64 new people
7. For these 64 new people to get paid, the Whatsapp group needs 64 x 8 = 512 new people
8. For these 512 people to get paid, the Whatsapp group needs 4,096 new people
9. For these 4,096 members to get completely paid, the Whatsapp group needs 32,768 new members.
10. You can continue the calculation.
11. Every ponzi scheme will certainly get to a point where there’s no new investors and no new people coming into it and once that happens, the system will crash.

Stay away from ‘Loom’ as you will lost your money.

Some 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations candidates and parents have appealed to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to release their results.

The examination that was conducted on between April 11 and 18 has caused a lot of tension and anxiety as candidates nationwide has spoken in clear terms.

On NTA Weekend file yesterday, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is’haq Oloyede made it known that the results of the recently concluded JAMB examinations are ready and are undergoing scrutiny
“As a matter of fact, the result is ready the moment a student concludes his exam, however on our own part we have to crosscheck to make sure the student was not involved in any form of malpractice”

He further noted that the examinations did not go without attempts at malpractice.

Regarding rescheduled exams, he mentioned that candidates with genuine challenges have being transported to Abuja for their exams. He added that there will be no further exams for people with any form of inadequacies
About the release of the exams, he said:
“I can assure you the results will be released in due time. We are checking footages from individual exam centres to ensure people who engaged in malpractice are brought to book, the people in charge of this are working day and night.

Several candidates, guardians and parents have reacted that they are fed up with the inability of the board to release the results. They said “we don’t want to hear anything from the board again other than to release the UTME results”.

Notts Country, the oldest club in the world, has been relegated.
The 157-year-old club lost 3-1 at Swindow on Saturday, becoming condemned to relegation.
Owner and chairman Alan Hardy says he takes ultimate responsibility for the club’s relegation from the Football League and says he hopes to sell the club in the “near future”.
It has been a dreadful season on and off the pitch, with the club having had three managers in the dugout and using more than 40 players in the campaign.
They also have the worst defensive record in League Two in an appalling campaign in which instability has ultimately proven too damaging.
In a statement after the relegation to the National League Hardy apologised to the supporters for what has been a shambolic campaign.
“Having headed into this season with every intention of challenging for automatic promotion, to find ourselves in this situation is bitterly disappointing for everyone involved with the club,” he said.
“Once again I have invested heavily in the playing budget this season, fully supporting each manager with new signings, and having had the best interests of this club at heart since my arrival two and a half years ago, I am as distraught as anybody at today’s outcome.
“But, as owner, I take ultimate responsibility and apologise to our fans, whose support has been unwavering despite the difficulties we’ve faced.
“Staggeringly, we boast the third-highest average attendance in the league – more than 7,000 – while our backing away from home has also been superb.
“Our supporters don’t deserve this and their frustrations are completely understandable.
“I also have huge sympathy for the staff at the club, who have worked incredibly hard all season in extremely testing circumstances. I thank them for their efforts.
“Naturally, questions will now be raised about the club’s immediate future.
“Conversations with prospective new owners are ongoing and I expect a deal to be completed in the near future.
“I truly hope the next custodian of Notts County is able to restore our status as the world’s oldest Football League club at the earliest opportunity.”

These profitable Internet business ideas are really trending right now because people are able to start an internet business from home which is cheaper to start up with. The advantage of these profitable internet business ideas is able to spend time with your family, do house chores at the same time running the business and do things your own way without being disturbed by anyone.

Cardi B took home 6 awards at the recently held 2019 Billboard Music Awards including Best Female Rap Artist, and opted for three epic outfits to go along with her wins.
After arriving the red carpet in a yellow, bedazzled, cut-out dress by Moschino , the platinum selling artist change into a shimmering silver, strong-shouldered gown from Julien
Macdonald ‘s Spring 2019 RTW collection to accept her 2nd award of the night.
Styled by her longtime stylist, Kollin Carter, she topped off the look with gold Christian Louboutin heels. Glowing from head-to-toe, Cardi look also deserved its own award.

A World Cup 2022 venue dubbed the ‘v@gina stadium’ has been unveiled after becoming the first to be completed from scratch ahead of the tournament.
The 2022 World Cup will take place in Qatar and work is completed on the 40,000-seater venue.
Mail Online reports that the Al Wakrah stadium will host matches up to the quarter-finals and contains innovative cooling technology to bring temperatures down for the 40,000 fans.
It was designed by the late British-Iraqi architect, Dame Zaha Hadid, who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2016, aged 65.When her plans were first released in 2013 they were said to have been inspired by the flowing shape of a dhow boat, a traditional Arabian pearl diving and fishing vessel.
The drawings were topped with a structure resembling the sails of a dhow. But the images went viral with commentators suggesting the stadium looked more like a woman’s private parts.
At the time Dame Zaha was angry at the comparison, saying: ‘It’s really embarrassing they come up with nonsense stuff like this. What are they saying? Everything with a hole in it is a vagina? That’s ridiculous.’Iraqi-born Hadid – whose other works included the Aquatics Centre at the 2012 London Olympics, the MAXXI Museum in Italy and the Guangzhou Opera House in China – added: ‘If a guy had done this project there wouldn’t have been the same level of criticism’.

As well as the shape of the stadium, which is 12 miles south of the capital, Doha, being designed to keep out the desert heat, Al Wakrah will also use a revolutionary new air-conditioning technology to bring temperatures down to around 72F for fans and players.
This is done by piping cold air through 100 ventilation units into the stadium, which has a 92m retractable roof to provide shade to the pitch.
The tournament has already been moved to the winter months to avoid the searing summer temperatures in the Gulf.
As part of the tournament’s legacy, when the World Cup is over the top tier of the stadium will be dismantled and shipped to the developing world.

In its promotional material, Aecom, the firm that won the Al-Wakrah contract with Zaha Hadid Architects, said of the designs: “Inspired by the dhow boat that carried generations of local fishermen and pearl divers, the stadium weaves together Qatar’s past with it progressive vision for the future.
“Sustainable materials and practices will be used throughout the stadium and the pitch and spectator stands will be cooled to a perfect temperature for football.”
But some critics thought the unintentional comparison with female genitalia was for the good.
One said: “In a world where sport and vaginas very rarely come together with such prominence (see every UK female footballer’s salary versus every UK male footballer’s salary)’, the likeness ‘can only be a good thing.
“After all why not have 45,000 people crammed inside a woman’s reproductive system? It’s not like they haven’t been there before.”
Qatar is producing eight stadiums for a 32-team World Cup, although FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has said he would like to expand the tournament to 48 teams, which would involve Doha co-hosting with an Arab neighbour.
He has admitted the chance of this is small because of a Saudi-led blockade of Qatar, but “worth trying”.
The Khalifa International Stadium, which was built in 1976, has already been unveiled for the tournament following redevelopment.

Cardi B was the biggest winner of the night at the Bilboard Awards.

This is what she walked home with.

Since this was her big night, the spotlight was on her.

At the red carpet, she was photographed with Offset. It went well till rapper Offset dipped her.

Cardi B suffered a wardrobe malfunction.

Cardi B defended the malfunction on the red carpet saying it was her deriere that was photographed and not what everyone thought it was.

Just when music lovers and the whole music industry have not gotten over the “Zanku” dance he discovered and spread across to everyone in 2018, Zlatan Ibilehas come up with a new dance to get music lovers amused and excited.

The singer through his Instagram page showed of this new dance skills which he calls the “Gbeku” dance. In a similar way to the wide spread “Zanku” dance; this new dance to is all about lifting your boy (Gbe body e) and infusing into it a little bit of the “zanku” steps but in a more complex but robust manner.

The singer however admonished music fans to still continue to rave in the moment of the “zanku” dance till the new one is introduced in a proper way.

He wrote; “@rexxiepondabeat and @sparkzy_minded, please take it easy !!!! Make una still they chop the ZANKU DANCE !! When it’s time to introduce the GBEKU DANCE PROPER UNA GO HEAR PANSA PANSA.”

Zlatan set a trend for a new dance in 2018 which became blown, he is incoming with a new one, but do you think this will be better accepted like the “Zanku” dance?