₦airaland Forum

Ijele-igbo:
@asha80. You don't know a Bleep about Anambra politics so shut da Bleep up. Only soludo can make things happen. I am an Anambranian and live in Anambra. I perfectly understand the political situation here. I was at the women's development centre at Awka yesterday where Mr. Peter Obi was displaying his stupidity. First of all, he was indirectly insulting soludo saying that Good leadership does not require all the degress in the world but rather attitude and discipline. Secondly he was fooling himself and not ndi Anambra by declaring he wants to build 4000 primary school classrooms with the latest roboform technology. 1000 every year and started to give the president general of each town union of a community 2million naira including a booklet for the plan. A STUPID CAMPAIGN FOR HIS QUEST TO COME BACK FOR A SECOND TERM. Soludo will make a difference! He is the obama of Anambra

9ijaprince:
This woman said she is 31 and his first child is 16. Meaning she married at 15. Na whao.

rasputinn:
I guess it's over to the management of the Guardian Newspapers to ensure that whatever story the late journalist was working on is completed and made available to the public

I only hope the late journalist copied his report into some back-up device in the office

chosen04:
Pro Atiku activist, U want to tell me that the Bank didnt call to remind him abt his debt without the duration.
Small pikin lie!!!

nuzo:
Why is my second state in the news again? It should have been Ekiti.
Worst still, who is the "journalist" that penned down this incoherent meaningless garbage?

Sagamite:
Very, very serious.

Please be my honorary lecturer.

deor03:
This is enough to arrest him for corruption.

How much more Millions perhaps Billion would he have forgotten that he moved into his account


Rubbish !!!!!!

Sagamite:
I am still waiting for reliable indicators that OBJ stole £16bn (or whether na $ self) rather than continual moronic conjectures.

Anybody?

Fawzzziyah:
I live in Cotonou, and yes it is changing! There are a couple of new roads. Glo is in town, for all that's worth. And,, what else, I'm trying to think?
Oh yes! The people are more dubious than ever, poverty is at an all time high as government officials continue their pilferage of the little there is, utilitiy bills cost a bomb, and it seems if you are a foreigner, especially a Nigerian, you are targeted ALL the time.
Those of us that are here, call ourselves 'energy refugees'! If there was electricity in Nigeria, which is the pivot around which all else swings, we would be back home like yesterday.

Yes, Vodoo ( not Orisha ) is the official religion! And it shows, the people are both evil and diabolic. I wish all the people that are projecting that Benin will be the hub after Ghana, luck. What one needs is a six month stay minimum, among the people, not two nights at the Novotel!
I think when journalists come into town, they should interview those of us living here, instead of wining and dining with the very few indigenes, alot of who make their money from drugs and shady business deals.

" As Cotonou is changing ", so are the people staying the same,

George_D:
you guys keep revising history. i'm not surprised you're towing this line-afterall you are modest enough to admit you were in jss3 during this whole saga. keep believing all the lies your racially biased uncles shoved down your throat.

Bayo Ohu was working on the Certificate Forgery story of CGS Abdullahi Dikko before his murder-CPJ interviews wife of slain Guardian editor
Written by Clifford Derrick/CPJ Africa Correspondent
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 13:16





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Ohu's family
The killers of Nigerian Editor Bayo Ohu are still a mystery, three weeks after his murder. Now the family of the former Guardian newspaper journalist lives in fear. Ohu was shot dead early on Sunday morning, September 20, by a gang of five armed men and a woman in his apartment in Egbeda, a Lagos suburb in Nigeria. His killers made away with his laptop and cell phone, raising speculation that he was killed for his work as a journalist. Nigerian Police Commissioner Marvel Akpoyido told CPJ that investigations are ongoing.

According to local news reports, Ohu was working on a sensitive story about the use of forged educational certificates by a recently appointed customs official. This was confirmed by his widow, who told CPJ that this information had been passed on to her by senior journalists at The Guardian.

The 31-year-old mother of five girls, aged 10 months to 16 years old, described her slain husband as “loving, caring, and with a passion for journalism,” which convinced her to take up journalism as a profession herself. Blessing Bayo Ohu recently spoke to CPJ about her husband, her security concerns, and her future plans.

CPJ: How would you describe your life with your husband over the years of your marriage?

Ohu: We lived a very humble and comfortable life to the best of our ability. He was a contented, hard-working man who did not desire to have what was beyond his means. Above all, my husband was a very loving, understanding, and caring father.

CPJ: How would you describe his personality?

Ohu: He was an indoor person who did not make many friends and chose those he related to with care.


CPJ: Can you describe your last moments with your husband prior to his assassination?

Ohu: It was on a Sunday morning, so when I woke up, I told him I was going to church. Then I was called after 45 minutes by our neighbors and told about the incident.

CPJ: What did the neighbors tell you?

Ohu: To come home quickly, that something bad had happened. When I got home, I first saw a pool of blood at the house. The neighbors did not allow me to get inside the house. Nobody was telling me what had happened. I only saw a pool of blood from the outside but I was not seeing my husband. It never occurred to me that the pool of blood was his, and that he was already no more.

CPJ: How did you react to the news?

Ohu: It was unbelievable for such a thing to have happened to my husband. I never imagined that he could die that kind of death.

CPJ: How do you feel about your security and that of your children?

Ohu: I am worried that the same people who ordered my husband killed may come for us. They may think that there is more evidence left with us that may reveal their identities.

CPJ: Since the burial of your husband, have the police been in touch with you?

Ohu: Yes, about a week ago. One of the police in charge of the area came at about 9 p.m. to ask me about a particular cell phone and asked if it belonged to my husband. I looked at the phone and told him that it was not my husband’s phone and he left. Then after three days another set of policemen came, sent by the inspector general to come and console us. That is all I have had from the police.

CPJ: Do you think the police are doing enough to find your husband’s killer?

Ohu: I don’t think so.

CPJ: Did your husband hint to you about any risky story he was working on prior to his death? Any threats?

Ohu: No. Not at all.

CPJ: Do you know much about the circumstances surrounding his death?

Ohu: According to The Guardian, they said my husband was working on a corruption and certificate forgery story by some Nigerian custom officials. So I hope the newspaper will pick it up from there to find out how those people might have been involved in hiring my husband’s assassins.

CPJ: Have you been in touch with the management or editors of The Guardian?

Ohu: Yes. They have been in touch. I must say they are trying their best. But I would have liked more stories about my husband to be published.

CPJ: How would you describe his journalism career?

Ohu: My husband loved his job so much and had lots of passion for journalism. That is why I decided to join journalism, and he really encouraged me in my mass communication studies. Currently, I am doing a degree in mass communications in Ogu State University. But then, I was focusing on venturing into advertising not journalism, but because of what happened to him, I have now decided to go into full journalism to complete what he had started.

CPJ: I admire your resolve and courage, but aren’t you afraid you may encounter the same fate?

Ohu: No, not really. I am determined to find out who killed my husband and for what reason. The fact that he was killed by hired assassins was because he stood by the truth. This is my reason to go into journalism, to find our why he was killed and to continue reporting those things that his killers did not want reported.

Clifford Derrick is based in Johannesburg.
Culled from CPJ Blog

supereagle:
[/color][color=#990000]They are Federal Roads. Do not crucify Fashola. Most Federal Roads are bad in all the states in the south of Niger here. I do not know of thne North.

tpia.:
name the cohorts nah.