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we Nigerian are simple greedy and dont like good things, for Christ sake, what is all this yarbing against the ex-militants all about, when those guys  are blowing our pipe lines and doing all sout of this over there, we are here yarbing, now they have repent and accept peace some stupid people are still here yarbing nonsense, infact enough of all this madness, just free those guys.

I think the era of brutal assaults from people like this should be history by now. The school authorities must take a stand; to match these cowards who think they are gods fire 4 fire. They should be dealt with decisively and embarrassed openly and I bet they will simmer.

“The guy was bleeding through his nose and right temple; his right eye and lips were swollen. Even while he was down and unconscious, the guy kept kicking him with his boots; the beating was just too much,” said Ime Etim, a final year student of the University of Lagos, describing the assault that almost resulted in the death of Jide Pinheiro, a post-graduate student of the institution.

However, the extent of damage to Mr. Pinheiro who has been in the hospital for over three weeks remains unclear. His right eye is swollen and he has trouble forming images. The result of the CT scan carried out on him has not been disclosed to him, he said, and he could only guess why.

The attack occurred on the evening of October 30 this year, near the car park of Mariere Hall. Eyewitnesses initially thought Mr. Pinheiro had died after he fell unconscious. “I was shaking where I was standing,” added Mr. Etim.

According to witnesses, Chijioke Onuoha, a 200 level student of Political Science and his friend Donald Okeke repeatedly hit Mr. Pinheiro on the head, with a brick. Although they could not confirm the reason for the attack, they heard Mr. Onuoha shouting after the incident: “No one can challenge me; there is nothing anyone can do about it, don’t you know who I am?” Mr. Pinheiro was immediately rushed to the school’s medical centre.

Three weeks have passed since Mr. Pinheiro was temporarily confined to the hospital bed. However, the students of the institution say they are yet to see any punishment meted out to the assailants, and fear that the influence of his father, a senior lecturer at the university, might be the reason.

Chijioke Onuoha, also known as C.J, is a part-time musician, and the son of Browne Onuoha, a senior lecturer at the institution’s department of Political Science, and the co-editor of Transition Politics in Nigeria.

The incident at the park

In his hospital bed, and in a barely audible voice, Mr. Pinheiro told NEXT he went to the car park to buy suya, a barbecued meat, when he saw Mr. Okeke and Mr. Onuoha approaching their car which was parked close by.

The trouble started when he overheard one of them insult a lady: “One of them said ‘get the f**k off the car’, I was just looking, but in my mind, I was like, ‘was that necessary?,’” said Mr. Pinheiro.

After that, the two men accused him of staring at them, and ordered him to kneel down.

He said: “It was crazy; I don’t know why they were acting like that. When I didn’t move, the other one (Mr. Okeke) started fiddling with his phone, like he was calling somebody. I was like ‘I don’t want any trouble’, but I knew what was coming when one of them pushed me.

“All I knew afterwards was waking up at the hospital. To me, it was like a split second, but obviously, it was not. I blanked out instantly, it was later that some of my friends told me he had also hit my head against the metal balustrades at the park.”

At that point, Mr. Pinheiro fell unconscious and it took him a week to remember the events of the night. Some of the witnesses who confirmed the incident said they were amazed that Mr. Pinheiro had not fought back.

“I still don’t understand why he did not even raise an arm while the beating was going on; the thing dey baffle me,” said Tunde Lawal, an eye witness.

“I witnessed from when the guy (Mr. Pinheiro) was standing tall, till he bent low, the beating continued, and till he was down,” added Mr. Etim.

However, Mr. Pinheiro said he had not defended himself because of a promise he made to himself and his grandmother.

“I have made up my mind not to be violent; once, I had a fight with the driver at home and my grandma wasn’t happy, so I promised myself not to fight anybody again,” he said.

Mr. Onuoha initially refused to speak with NEXT when contacted on the phone, “You’d have to speak to my lawyer, that’s all I’m gonna say to you,” he said.

He however admitted later that there had been a fight but that he had acted in self-defence. He claimed that Mr. Pinheiro had drawn a knife from a nearby suya seller and tried to attack him. He said Mr. Pinheiro was in his way, and had not moved when asked to move off.

“I’m not gonna give you a long story; I’d just say this: I told him to move out of the way; he refused, he pushed me and I pushed him back. He reached for the Mallam’s knife, and tried to stab me, so I defended myself. It’s as simple as that; it’s all I’m going to say to you,” he said.

In an interview with Monday, the suya seller, he denied that Mr. Pinheiro took his knife on the night, saying, “Na only this knife I get for hand, and nobody take am from me.”

Efforts to reach Chijioke’s father, Mr. Onuoha, at the Political Science department of the university were unsuccessful, as he was said to be out of the country on sabbatical.

The circumstances surrounding the attack remain unclear, but as Mr. Pinheiro continues to wait for justice, his assailant roams free.

Harris Longe, the school’s Dean of Students Affairs told NEXT that investigations are underway but that any action to be taken by the school would follow a set of procedures, as is the norm in the institution. “He’s going to face a disciplinary panel that would determine if he’s to be rusticated or expelled; there are laid down rules and regulations to that,” he said, adding that “the panel would decide how serious it is, but in this case, it is serious because he (Mr. Pinheiro) was hit on the head with an instrument; he could have died.”

He said the school cannot discipline the other assailant, Mr. Okeke, because he is not a student of the school but confirmed however, that a report has been made to the police, and he expects the victim to follow-up on it.

The victim said he will press charges as soon as leaves the hospital.

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Samuel Ejikeme Okoye, a professor and one of Africa's top astrophysicists, died in London on Wednesday, November 18, according to a statement authorized by his family. The statement, however, did not say the cause of his death.

Mr. Okoye, who hailed from Amawbia in Anambra State, was born on July 26, 1939.

He earned a B.Sc (First Class) in Physics from the University of London and a PhD in Astrophysics at Cambridge University. He was the first black African to obtain a doctorate in Radio Astronomy.

An internationally renowned scientist, he will be remembered by many readers for his science columns for The Guardian which he wrote for more than four years. His columns, which focused on information technology as well as advances in scientific ideas, drew a wide readership because of his ability to convey difficult scientific ideas in accessible language.

Mr. Okoye was a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science as well as the Royal Astronomical Society of the United Kingdom. For five years, he served on the governing council of the Pugwash International Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

In addition, he was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, International Network of Engineers, Scientists for Global Responsibility, and the International Astronomical Union.

For many years, Mr. Okoye lectured in physics and astronomy at the University of lbadan and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) where he achieved the rank of full professor in 1976.

At the UNN, he also served at various times as Director of the Division of General Studies; Head of Department of Physics and Astronomy; Associate Dean and later Dean of the Faculty of Physical Sciences, and Dean of the School of Post Graduate Studies. In 1978, he acted as Vice Chancellor of UNN.

Mr. Okoye's numerous scientific papers and publications span the ionosphere physics, solar physics, and the theory of extragalactic radio sources and cosmology. He also authored a monograph, Viable and Affordable Policy Objectives for a Nigerian Space Programme. He co-edited two books, Basic Science Development in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects, and The World at the Crossroads: Towards a Sustainable, Equitable and Livable World.

Apart from working in Nigeria, Mr. Okoye also lectured in the Netherlands, the US, and the UK. From 1990 to 1993, he served as a visiting professor/senior research fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, and Fellow Commoner at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.

He was a member of Nigeria's official delegation to the United Nations Conference on Peaceful Uses of Space in Vienna, 1981 as well as a member of a panel charged in 1984 with producing an integrated energy policy for Nigeria. From 1986-1988, he was the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Awka campus of the Anambra University of Science and technology.

Mr. Okoye was a consultant to the United Nations on the development of space science and technology in developing countries (1979-1986).

In late 1993, he was seconded from the UNN to the Federal Government. He served as the pioneer science attaché and head of the Science and Technology unit of the Nigerian High Commission, London.

Mr. Okoye taught or inspired a generation of Nigerian scientists who hold high academic, industry and bureaucratic positions in Nigeria and around the world.

His family will be announcing funeral arrangements in due course.

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@blacksta AND candylips TWO of you are the most stupid idiot i have ever seen on this planet, read your Bible and stop saying Nonsense, ' Even the Son of Man has Never Know when the Time is" End of Quate, so stop that your useless idiology.

@Chapelle.S ,, you are 100% right, Nigeria most surely Disintegrate on or before 2015.

Why do we have so much FRUDSTARS IN nairaland many people has been duped of their hard earn money, what can we do to stop this

just 5 days ago a friend from Ibadan called me and tell me he was duped by one guy here , his id is IBfinance, apart from that i have been getting so many report here,

Pls what can we do my people??

Hanoobaba:
Where are the exams going to be held? Cos I know how many the total annual population of UME candidates are. Year in year out problems of candidates not finding their centres and others being posted to other states arise.
Now UME and MPCE will be written at the same time, the population will be overwhelming. I dunno, maybe neighboring countries will also be used as centers!

HAHAHAHAHHA MY guy u are funny, abi Togo, ghana , Niger and so on can be used a center?? lol

You guys should not panic, the guy was arrested ealy this morning with A combined team of SSS Ikeja Division, after a 3 days hard investigation via his FinBank Acct details, i spend alot of money to get him traped but im not worried,

bilymuse:
almajiri state

not only in KANO. in most Northern states what a waste>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Maryam Babangida

Maryam Babangida, Nigeria's former First Lady is dead. The fomer chairperson of the Better Life for Rural Women during her husband's years in office, had been hospitalised for ovarian cancer at the UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles.

Mrs. Babaginda's condition worsened about six months ago after she attended the wedding of Umaru Yar'Adua's daughter, Nafisat, who married the 54 -year old governor of Bauchi State.

General Babangida, the retired ex-dictator was granted a US visa on compassionate grounds to be at the bedside of his wife, till her death.
Her cancer had reached an advanced stage.

Like father like son, orji uzor kalu is of the like of IBB. He ruined Abia state and put it in a mess it is now. He dint achieve what he want in Imo state. Nemesis will soon catch him if he don’t re tress his steps. People are no happy with his actions.

OWERRI—Imo State House of Assembly has ordered the immediate arrest of former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Kalu, and a critic of the Governor Ikedi Ohakim administration, Mr. Maximus Uba, for their alleged refusal to honour a series of invitation extended to them to appear before the lawmakers.

The development followed the unanimous resolution of by the House, when the report of the Chief Samuel Anyanwu ad-hoc Committee was read on the floor of the House by the Speaker, Chief Goodluck Opiah.

The lawmakers expressed dismay that Kalu and Uba had refused appearing before them to answer to the allegations of financial misappropriation, they recently leveled against Governor Ohakim.

To ensure the duo’s arrest  the lawmakers directed the Clerk of the House to take appropriate official measures to contact the Inspector-General of Police, the Imo State Commissioner of Police and the Assembly’s Sergeant-At-Arms to carry out the directive.

It will be recalled that last week, Kalu apologised to the House for his inability to honour their invitation on November 10, following his trip overseas on the invitation of the Catholic Pontiff.

Kalu, who wrote the lawmakers through his lawyer, promised to appear before the House as soon as he returned  and a convenient date fixed for him.

The letter read, “our attention has been drawn to the public notice in the media, summoning our client to appear before the Imo State House of Assembly on November 10, 2009, to testify on the on-going House probe of financial misappropriation improvident against the Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim”.

“As an astute believer in the rule of law and out of difference to the stunning of the House, we regret to inform you that our client will be unable to honour the invitation today as he is presently out of town. We shall inform you accordingly, as soon as our client returns to the country so that we can schedule the date and arrange acceptable modalities for the invitation that will suit all the parties concerned in the matter”, the letter added.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/19/imo-assembly-orders-orji-kalus-arrest/

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