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Location: Ikoyi, Lagos.
Estimated Start Date: As soon as possible.
Introduction
We are a new high-end wellness and medical aesthetics clinic located in Ikoyi, Lagos. Our mission is to help Lagosians look and feel their best through cutting-edge skin and self-care treatments in a relaxing, luxurious environment.
We’re looking for a creative and organized part-time Social Media & Content Coordinator to help us launch and grow our brand online. This is a flexible role ideal for someone who understands wellness and beauty culture, is based in Lagos, and is excited to work in an aesthetic, premium space.
Key responsibilities:
Plan and schedule Instagram and TikTok content (3–4x weekly).
Film and edit short-form videos using a phone (behind-the-scenes, testimonials, etc.).
Design simple graphics using Canva.
Manage Instagram DMs, comments, and stories
Coordinate influencer partnerships and giveaways.
Support paid ad campaigns on Instagram and Facebook
Track basic engagement metrics weekly.
Ideal Candidate :
Based in Lagos, ideally close to Ikoyi
Passionate about skincare, beauty, and wellness
Comfortable creating content using a phone and Canva
Experienced managing a business or personal brand’s IG/TikTok account
Knows how to spot trends and write engaging captions
Organized, independent, and reliable.
Role Type & Compensation:
Part-time, 10-15 hours per week
₦100k-₦150k/month based on experience
Bonus perks: free medical-grade facials and laser treatments after 2 months
How to apply:
A short note on why you're a good fit
2-3 links to Instagram or TikTok pages you’ve managed ( can include your own!)
Optional: 1 Canva graphic or IG Reel you’ve made
Send via DM or email: md@care360ng.com

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Have you reflected on the story of Job, and asked yourself what crime did Job commit.
God used Job's situation to teach us more about faith and show Satan that it is not only about wealth, friends or family.
In the book of Job, the discussion between God and Satan was done in the spirit realm. The spirit realm is accessible to all spirits- good or bad.
In Daniel 10;13 answers to Daniel's prayer were hijacked b the Prince of Persia for 21 days until arch angel Micheal came to help.
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Position: Personal Assistant

Job specification
1. Liaising with the CEO and management of the group.
2. Assist the CEOs in errands
3. Make a physical interface for the CEO
4. Confirm and monitor CEO approvals
5. Protocol officer at airport, events and guest management for the CEO.
6. To be familiar with the CEO business and residence
7. Assist in screening calls, emails, transactions and visitors

The person
1. A Youngman aged 25-30 years
2. Good Appearance; dress in a professional manner
3. Excellent communications skills
4. Must be able to complete tasks accurately with little supervision.
5. Must be flexible and willing to work extra time during busy times and on-call during weekends and after business hours
6. Demonstrate the highest level of ethics and ability to maintain confidentiality at all
times and with documentation.
7. Good knowledge of Lagos and Nigeria key cities and the ability to drive will be an advantage.
8. Security-conscious with street sense.
9. Minimum education is OND.

Interested candidates should submit their application and CV to-
ernieremark@yahoo.com

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Its wickedness for anybody that is enjoying the gain of this democracy today not to recgonize PROF. HUMPHREY NWOSU. He declared the June 12 election against all odds. If he had not announced the election results there wont be any June 12 for us to celebrate. He is the unsung HERO.

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The issue with this post was presentation of ideas -message. However many of us were impatient to find underlying the messages which the writer have tried effortlessly to pass. Globally, technology has become the key through which opportunities are met and this does not exclude the entertainment industry, here is where animation ad gaming falls into. The writer berates our government for not supporting the industry, we all know that Nollywood worth several billions of Dollars was totally built on individual efforts, he further urge the youth to up their game by developing game apps and also build local animation industry.

(Profile) Joe Igbokwe: What manner of a crusader?

By OBINNA EZUGWU

On Joe Igbokwe’s Facebook wall are several articles promoting and defending President Muhammadu Buhari, and at the same time, lashing out at those opposed to the president. His latest is a diatribe against Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Publicity Secretary who he described as “low, timid and crude.”

In another, he insists that his party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) must do all it takes to win the upcoming governorship election in his home state, Anambra.

As the Publicity Secretary of Lagos APC, Igbokwe punches beyond his weight. His tirades resonate across the nation, and he has been at it for a relatively long time.

It was 2013 and the then governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola had dumped hundreds of Igbo ‘destitute’ at Onitsha head-bridge in Anambra State. It was an act that triggered a series of angry backlash from the Igbo community at home and in the Diaspora. On social media, the Igbo and the Yoruba were at each other.

At the thick of the controversy, two Igbo sons: Dr Chris Ngige, then senator representing Anambra Central zone and Mr Igbokwe who doubled as General Manager of the Lagos State Infrastructure & Regulatory Agency (LASIMRA), and publicity secretary of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) came out in defence of Fashola, insisting that his action was justified. Both men were strong members of then ACN. The former had been elected senator on its platform, the later was appointed by the ACN government in 2006.

In a well circulated article, Igbokwe said there was no way Lagos government would accept influx of beggars from all over the country, and that for those deported, it was for their own good.

“Most of these people picked up are mentally retarded, terribly abused, sexually dehumanized, hungry, weak, and memory lost. What Lagos does is to pick them up and take them to rehabilitation centres,” he wrote.

“Some of them after recovery may decide to engage themselves by joining skill acquisition centres we have all over Lagos, some may decide to join their kits and kin in their States of origin. After interrogations and investigations those willing to go are taken to a central place close to their towns to find their way.”

But on the contrary, most of those affected said they were forcefully picked up and deported against their will. As expected, both men attracted anger and commendation, depending on which side of the divide one was in the argument.

Fashola would eventually put the matter to rest by apologising, but it had telling impacts on the political lives of both individuals. Ngige’s position contributed greatly in costing him his senatorial seat in 2015…he had been a popular political figure prior, beating the late Prof Dora Akunyili to the Senate in 2011, but his fortunes dwindled rapidly after his remarks on the deportation.

For Igbokwe, it helped to shoot him up to national limelight, and to cement the part he has chosen…the part of a crusader, a campaigner for whatever he believes is in his interest. And when such interest collided with that of his Igbo ethnic group, he never hesitated to protect the former, and berate the latter.

He has established himself largely as anti Igbo, or simply anti any interest that does not promote his own political or personal interest. He has not looked back, and fortune, it must be said, has smiled on him.

As a crusader, it is hard to pin Igbokwe down to any particular beliefs or principles. His, it seems, changes with new realities. He had started his life as an activist in the 90s first by highlighting the marginalisation his Igbo ethnic group suffered in Nigeria, which according to him, had continued since the end of the civil war in 1970. And second by aligning with the famous NADECO movement formed in the aftermath of the June 12 debacle.

He spoke out loudly and vigorously campaigned against that unfortunate cancellation of 1993 election. He stood firmly against political injustice, and was all for the restoration of MKO Abiola’s mandate. The prevailing political opinion within the NADECO rank at the time was restructuring and true federalism. Igbokwe was all for it and spoke for it with as much vigour as he demanded that Abiola be allowed to govern.

In 1995, he wrote his first book, titled “Igbos: 25 Years After Biafra,” a book described as being “of mediocre quality” and its analysis as “a wash,” by seasoned writer and lecturer, Obi Nwakama. But Nwakama admits that the book did its job of putting across the message he intended to pass… the message of Igbo marginalisation. The book must have done well financially too, for Igbokwe said he became a millionaire after its launch.

NADECO birthed the Pro Democracy movement which later metamorphosed into the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and Igbokwe was part of it all. He was discovered by the new sheriff of South West politics, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and it has been a rollercoaster ride.

In 2006, Tinubu made him pioneer General Manager of LASIMRA. That same year, he became the Publicity Secretary of Lagos Action Congress. A job he has kept even as the party changed to Action Congress of Nigeria and now All Progressive Congress (APC). Having spent over 10 years at LASIMRA, in 2015, the new Lagos governor, Akinwumi Ambode moved him to Wharf Landing Fees Collecting Authority Apapa where he now serves as chairman.



But Igbokwe is rarely known for his job at Apapa. He largely made his name as publicity secretary who speaks what he believes to be the mind of his employers. He has been very successful at it, and according to him, it has “opened the doors of the rich and poor… opened the inner ways, byways, subways, expressways and highways to the corridors of power in Nigeria.”

With his success, he admits, came new beliefs. He began to see the world differently. Whilst not much has changed with regards to the marginalisation of the Igbo in Nigeria, which was the subject of his book in 1995, Igbokwe no longer thinks it is necessary to talk about it. He has made his money, he is comfortable and as far as he is concerned perhaps, the marginalisation of the Igbo is no longer a big deal.

“He no longer believes Igbo marginalisation is an issue because of what he has gained from Lagos which the Igbo could not offer him,” notes Chidibere Anthony, an Abuja based legal practitioner. “He is indirectly seeking national relevance through the aforementioned propaganda.”

Igbokwe stood for political justice during his budding years in the 90s. He stood for equity, equality and importantly, he stood for true federalism. But today, he writes long articles to justify the marginalisation of the Igbo by Buhari because according to him, those who didn’t vote for the president deserves no justice, no equity and no equality. The talk of restructuring, for him, may also have largely become the talk of opposition.

“He is a person who has sold his conscience and personality for a morsel of porridge,” says Lagos based lawyer and analyst, Mr Ikechukwu Ikeji. “He speaks for his stomach.”

One cannot help but notice the contradictions in Igbokwe’s character. While the Buhari administration has relentlessly worked to undermine Tinubu, his boss, he does not seem to care either out of sheer ignorance of the prevailing political atmosphere, or he is angling for a new boss in Buhari.

It is common knowledge that Tinubu has been shut out of the government he worked so hard to enthrone. While the former governor’s boys in the media have largely turned against the president whose administration many say, has fallen short of expectations, Igbokwe sees no evil and hears no evil. For him the only truth is what Buhari’s spokesmen put out as ‘statements’. If a scandal is unraveled, he insists that everyone must wait for the “official” position of government for therein exists the only truth.

“Igbokwe is not a character that should be taken seriously,” argues Bar Okey Ilofulunwa, former secretary-general, Igbo think tank group, Aka Ikenga. “He doesn’t have enough grasp of issues.”

About the Igbo nonetheless, he still accepts somewhat that they are still marginalised. In a recent interview with online medium, Sahara Reporters, he said: “Yes, Igbo have been marginalized in Nigeria since the end of the Civil War in 1970. It is a deliberate, systemic, and strategic marginalization.”

But it no longer pays him to make the marginalisation an issue. For it seems the only crusade worth his while is one that will directly or indirectly improve his income.

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“If you think we have trouble in Nigeria now, we will see trouble in Nigeria. No Anambra man would let an Enugu man be president, no Imo man would let an Abakaliki man be president”.

Chief Jim Nwobodo and Chief C.C. Onoh both from present Enugu State were Governors of old Anambra State (Ebonyi, Enugu & Anambra States) for years and there was never any trouble about that.

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EazyMoh:
Having closely followed Nigerian politics especially 2011 and 2015 elections, I believe there are enough indications to safely predict who and who might be most likely victorious presidential candidates in 2019.
Until PMB's recent medical trip I was convinced there was no major obstacle for a PMB's second term. This I believed was simply due to the lack of a viable presidential candidate that can challenge the president at the polls.
May I remind you in 2011 that people voted mainly against GEJ due to his failures (real or perceived). Likewise in 2019 people (the majority at least) may consider voting against PMB (also against real and perceived flaws), but the deciding factor is lack of a reliable opposition figure to do to PMB what he did to GEJ .
So foreclosing the above scenario due to the president's health gives room for predicting his likely successor. Going by the president's decision to play neutral in legislature leadership elections, it's safe to say the president may decide to do the same thing in 2019 regarding APC presidential candidate.
This brings us to the top five people I'd consider most likely to succeed PMB.
Disclaimer: This is entirely my opinion, you are entitled to yours.

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By Chido Nwakanma

In the wake of the outrage against the atrocities of Fulani herdsmen, an outrage now endorsed by the Presidency, Northern Governors met on Friday, April 29. The Governors claimed that Boko Haram has been subdued. They lamented the security challenges facing the country, saying that “in the North West and North Central, the security situation is alarming as the issues of cattle rustling, kidnapping, banditry and the persistent conflict between farmers and cattle rearers were gradually assuming unacceptable proportions.”
There was no outright condemnation of the practices of the herdsmen in recent times.Rather, one of their key resolutions was to decry what they alleged as “demonization of Fulani herdsmen” and the Fulani.
No one should be shocked at this attempt by the holders of exalted positions over a vast swathe of Nigeria to externalise a problem that stems from their lands and is causing unease all over the country. Rather, we should all collectively be assisting the Northern Governors to think hard about solving their problem because we are involved.
The North has vast farmland for their cattle. They have more land than the rest of Nigeria and use it as the basis for revenue allocation! But it is increasingly becoming arid. Large portions of the land have gone with desertification and global warming. The pressure is pushing the herdsmen southward and with more desperation than hitherto.
Worse, they are behaving in Wole Soyinka’s characterisation as uncultured and greedy tourists. They want to take over other people’s land, as the bill by one of their leaders in the National Assembly seeks to appropriate other people’s lands.
Externalisation.
Northern Governors should lead their people into more strategic thinking. They need only to look to the Middle East where the United Arab Emirates has recovered deserts and built greenhouses. Pray what is the benefit of their trumpeted affiliation with those Arab lands if they cannot borrow best practices from them? The solution to the lack of suitable green lands in the North lies in the Governors applying grey matter and searching for global best practices. They should break the problem down into its component parts and then reassemble it for solutions. Look at the roots.
There is the Great Green Wall project aimed at tackling this problem. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo initiated the project in 2005. The Great Green Wall initiative is a pan-African proposal to “green” the continent from west to east in order to battle desertification. It aims at tackling poverty and the degradation of soils in the Sahel-Saharan region, focusing on a strip of land of 15 km (9 mi) wide and 7,100 km (4,400 mi) long from Dakar to Djibouti.
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The Global Environment Facility notes, “Populations in Sahelian Africa are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climatic variability and land degradation. They depend heavily on healthy ecosystems for rainfed agriculture, fisheries, and livestock management to sustain their livelihoods. Unfortunately, increasing population pressures on food, fodder, and fuelwood in a vulnerable environment have deteriorating impacts on natural resources, notably vegetation cover. Climate variability along with frequent droughts and poorly managed land and water resources have caused rivers and lakes to dry up and contribute to increased soil erosion.”
There is a tidy sum of about US$81m involved in this project. One writer, Dylan Thuras, notes that more money is available. He states, “.. International organizations have pledged over $3 billion toward the completion of this massive environmental project, designed to help stop land degradation.”
The African Union backs it. “In June 2010, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan signed a convention in Ndjamena, Chad, to create the Great Green Wall (GGW) Agency and nominate a secretary to develop the initiative further.”
Member countries choose their priorities and get funding from the Global Environment Facility. That body reports that Niger has made the most progress. “Progress is apparent especially in the Zinder region of Niger, where tree density has significantly improved since the mid-1980s. GEF CEO Monique Barbut attributes the success to working with farmers to find technical solutions, particularly long-term land and financial solutions, in order to save the trees.”
Nigeria commenced implementation in 2013 and in 2014 set up the Interim Office of the National Agency for the Great Green Wall with the appointment of an Acting Director General. Nigeria’s GGW programme involves 11 states. Benefitting states are Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara. It involves the establishment of a greenbelt covering 1500km from Dandi Arewa Local Government Area of Kebbi State to Marte in Borno State. The Federal Government approved a takeoff fund of N10b for this project under then Minister of State for Environment Lawrencia Laraba-Mallam.
What has happened to the Nigerian GGW project? What is the progress report? How are the Governors of the North driving it?
Southern leaders must now pay close attention to ecological funds. In the past, Governors in both the North and South saw it as free money and addition to their loot. Citizens must also pay attention.
Ecology must now be a subject of interest for all of us, from citizens through media to governments. Ecology is the real and open source of the problems. We need intellection, and action, to tackle this challenge. Environmental challenges have been precursors of great innovations. The Dutch City Amsterdam taught the world to conquer water; there is global cooperation on tackling environmental challenges. Instead in Nigeria, it is clear that Ecology has joined with culture, religion and politics to breed terrorist Fulani herdsmen rather than the pastoralists of old.
In the South, particularly the East, we must be alert. We must take measures to protect our lands, and speak up against the Grazing Bill and such efforts to reap where people did not sow. Imeobi beckons. Vigilance. Remember the Boy Scout motto.
We must encourage the Northern Governors to internalise. The problem is within, not in the “demonization of the Fulani”. They can solve the problem, as examples from across the world show. Great civilisations tackle the problems that nature or other forces throw at them. They do so by thinking strategically. They seek solutions. Nowadays, no one does so by expropriating other people’s lands.
Most importantly, as the excesses of the herdsmen inform us, it is a collective Nigerian problem.

By Chido Nwakanma

In the wake of the outrage against the atrocities of Fulani herdsmen, an outrage now endorsed by the Presidency, Northern Governors met on Friday, April 29. The Governors claimed that Boko Haram has been subdued. They lamented the security challenges facing the country, saying that “in the North West and North Central, the security situation is alarming as the issues of cattle rustling, kidnapping, banditry and the persistent conflict between farmers and cattle rearers were gradually assuming unacceptable proportions.”
There was no outright condemnation of the practices of the herdsmen in recent times.Rather, one of their key resolutions was to decry what they alleged as “demonization of Fulani herdsmen” and the Fulani.
No one should be shocked at this attempt by the holders of exalted positions over a vast swathe of Nigeria to externalise a problem that stems from their lands and is causing unease all over the country. Rather, we should all collectively be assisting the Northern Governors to think hard about solving their problem because we are involved.
The North has vast farmland for their cattle. They have more land than the rest of Nigeria and use it as the basis for revenue allocation! But it is increasingly becoming arid. Large portions of the land have gone with desertification and global warming. The pressure is pushing the herdsmen southward and with more desperation than hitherto.
Worse, they are behaving in Wole Soyinka’s characterisation as uncultured and greedy tourists. They want to take over other people’s land, as the bill by one of their leaders in the National Assembly seeks to appropriate other people’s lands.
Externalisation.
Northern Governors should lead their people into more strategic thinking. They need only to look to the Middle East where the United Arab Emirates has recovered deserts and built greenhouses. Pray what is the benefit of their trumpeted affiliation with those Arab lands if they cannot borrow best practices from them? The solution to the lack of suitable green lands in the North lies in the Governors applying grey matter and searching for global best practices. They should break the problem down into its component parts and then reassemble it for solutions. Look at the roots.
There is the Great Green Wall project aimed at tackling this problem. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo initiated the project in 2005. The Great Green Wall initiative is a pan-African proposal to “green” the continent from west to east in order to battle desertification. It aims at tackling poverty and the degradation of soils in the Sahel-Saharan region, focusing on a strip of land of 15 km (9 mi) wide and 7,100 km (4,400 mi) long from Dakar to Djibouti.
.
The Global Environment Facility notes, “Populations in Sahelian Africa are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climatic variability and land degradation. They depend heavily on healthy ecosystems for rainfed agriculture, fisheries, and livestock management to sustain their livelihoods. Unfortunately, increasing population pressures on food, fodder, and fuelwood in a vulnerable environment have deteriorating impacts on natural resources, notably vegetation cover. Climate variability along with frequent droughts and poorly managed land and water resources have caused rivers and lakes to dry up and contribute to increased soil erosion.”
There is a tidy sum of about US$81m involved in this project. One writer, Dylan Thuras, notes that more money is available. He states, “.. International organizations have pledged over $3 billion toward the completion of this massive environmental project, designed to help stop land degradation.”
The African Union backs it. “In June 2010, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan signed a convention in Ndjamena, Chad, to create the Great Green Wall (GGW) Agency and nominate a secretary to develop the initiative further.”
Member countries choose their priorities and get funding from the Global Environment Facility. That body reports that Niger has made the most progress. “Progress is apparent especially in the Zinder region of Niger, where tree density has significantly improved since the mid-1980s. GEF CEO Monique Barbut attributes the success to working with farmers to find technical solutions, particularly long-term land and financial solutions, in order to save the trees.”
Nigeria commenced implementation in 2013 and in 2014 set up the Interim Office of the National Agency for the Great Green Wall with the appointment of an Acting Director General. Nigeria’s GGW programme involves 11 states. Benefitting states are Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara. It involves the establishment of a greenbelt covering 1500km from Dandi Arewa Local Government Area of Kebbi State to Marte in Borno State. The Federal Government approved a takeoff fund of N10b for this project under then Minister of State for Environment Lawrencia Laraba-Mallam.
What has happened to the Nigerian GGW project? What is the progress report? How are the Governors of the North driving it?
Southern leaders must now pay close attention to ecological funds. In the past, Governors in both the North and South saw it as free money and addition to their loot. Citizens must also pay attention.
Ecology must now be a subject of interest for all of us, from citizens through media to governments. Ecology is the real and open source of the problems. We need intellection, and action, to tackle this challenge. Environmental challenges have been precursors of great innovations. The Dutch City Amsterdam taught the world to conquer water; there is global cooperation on tackling environmental challenges. Instead in Nigeria, it is clear that Ecology has joined with culture, religion and politics to breed terrorist Fulani herdsmen rather than the pastoralists of old.
In the South, particularly the East, we must be alert. We must take measures to protect our lands, and speak up against the Grazing Bill and such efforts to reap where people did not sow. Imeobi beckons. Vigilance. Remember the Boy Scout motto.
We must encourage the Northern Governors to internalise. The problem is within, not in the “demonization of the Fulani”. They can solve the problem, as examples from across the world show. Great civilisations tackle the problems that nature or other forces throw at them. They do so by thinking strategically. They seek solutions. Nowadays, no one does so by expropriating other people’s lands.
Most importantly, as the excesses of the herdsmen inform us, it is a collective Nigerian problem.

Enugu community decries arrest of 76 villagers after feud with Fulani herdsmen

MARCH 26, 2016

*Calls on govt to save their farms - By Anayo Okoli

THERE was tension and fear among the residents of Ugwuneshi autonomous community in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, following the alleged arrest of 76 of their people by “men in military uniform” over a clash with Fulani herdsmen.

Awgu where the community is situated is a border community with Lokpanta in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State which hosts a cattle market. According to the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Godwin Nwobi, the incident took place on Thursday last week. Igwe Nwobi alleged that Fulani herdsmen who settled in the community without permission had been using their cattle to destroy their crops and farmlands over the years.

He said pleas and warnings from the farmers to the herdsmen had always fallen on deaf ears as they continued to graze on the community’s farmlands with impunity.

Irked by the continued destruction of their crops which he said were their only means of livelihood, the youths of community protested the impunity of the herdsmen.

He disclosed that after the protest, information filtered in the village that two women who went to farm had been abducted by the herdsmen.

“When we got such information, the community gathered to discuss modality of dispatching some people on rescue mission and suddenly they were surrounded by men in military uniform who arrested 76 of them and carried them away in trucks”, the monarch said.

He therefore appealed for the intervention of the Enugu State Government, to secure the release of the arrested villagers who he said were taken to Umuahia Prison. “It is wrong for our people who fled the North because of Boko Haram to be treated as slaves in their own land.

We don’t want to be destroyed by herdsmen like they did in Agatu, Benue State. Government should please come to our rescue. We appeal to our Governor, and other South East Governors to save Igbo land from herdsmen invasion before it is too late”, Igwe Nwobi lamented.

But the Public Relations Officer of the 14 Brigade Ohafia, Major Sydney Mbaneme, denied knowledge of the incident, saying the “men in military uniform” were not soldiers. According to him, they might be fake soldiers and civilians who camouflage themselves, saying that “if at all they are solders, they are not our soldiers.”

However, the zonal Police Public Relations Officer of Zone 9, Police Command, Emma Jiakponna, DSP, said he was not aware of the incident.”

Meanwhile, Ohanaeze Youth Council has condemned the arrest and detention of the villagers, saying it as “an insult to the Igbo nation.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/enugu-community-decries-arrest-76-villagers-feud-fulani-herdsmen/

EreluY:
If she's truly a qualified and registered nurse with UK and US professional working experience, she should-if she has the right papers, return to the UK. Her two daughters who are currently resident in the USA should be able to raise funds for her one way flight ticket (around £500-600). She would land a nursing job within a twinkle of an eye. Concerning the swindling of her property - that is sadly typical of Nigeria and Nigerians. She's lucky to be alive. She needs to get out of that jungle with her life intact.

...Her daughters in US are not working presently, read the passage again