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eyinjuege:
Pls, why was the grandma arrested when she died in her boyfriend's house?

Was it suicide or murder?

Was the suicide note in her handwriting? Or was it forged after she was murdered?

Mental health issues aren't taken seriously in Naija. The government should do more in terms of awareness. I think she must have been seriously depressed.

The police had no business arresting the grandma for her death, maybe she might be charged to court for endangerment of a minor cause she threw her out of the house...

That's the justification I think

I was eating and enjoying my soft drink this
morning @7:45 in a Restaurant; A man entered
the restaurant with a brief case.

I guess he is a big politician because his dressing and pot belly
portrays it. He walked and sat down as
everybody looked at him.

Suddenly a woman came to him and started
crying. The woman knelt down and told him that
her children and her wan die of hunger since her
husband died. This man opened the brief case
and gave this woman five hundred thousand
naira. The woman jumped up and left the scene
in happiness.

I was still watching when another
man started crying and came to him. He knelt
down and begged him that he needed money to
establish a business. This man brought out
1million naira cheque and gave this man.

This time, I started murmuring and practicing on
the lie I will blow to have my own national cake.
I started crying and came to the man.
Immediately I knelt down, I heard "cut!! Cut!!
Cut!!". I turned and saw the director of the
movie. He laughed and said "ol boi na movie we
dey shoot here" ooo... Hehehehehehe shame
wan kill me. Chai!! Economy no go kill person
faaa...

Lol... Have a wonderful night folks...

Allahu Samad

I wonder why immorality and unethical behaviors are celebrated/promoted particularly in Nigeria?

Hmn! Can't they understand?

A 17-year-old girl, Temitope Saka, has died after drinking insecticide, Sniper, in the Igando area of Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the victim left behind a suicide note in which she allegedly blamed her grandma for her death.

Our correspondent gathered that Saka’s boyfriend reported the incident to the police at the Igando division, which led to the arrest of the woman.

It was learnt that the victim’s mother died when she was three years old.

A source explained that Saka, who was the only child of her parents, was taken to her grandmother’s house on Mofoluwasho Close, Alhaji Ede bus stop, Igando.

The source said, “She had been living with her grandma since her mother died. The grandma is a trader in Ikotun, where the girl met her boyfriend, who is also a trader.

“There were times that the girl brought the man home and he spent the night with her because the grandma went for vigils.”

Another source said when the victim became pregnant, her grandma insisted she packed out of the house.

“The woman insisted that she packed to her boyfriend’s house. She threw out her luggage and chased her away,” he said.

Our correspondent learnt that the victim drank the poison last Wednesday and began foaming in the mouth at her boyfriend’s house.

She was said to have been rushed to the Igando General Hospital where she died.

Her boyfriend, who saw the suicide note, was said to have reported the incident to the police.

A resident said, “The girl and the boyfriend loved each other. The man did not even reject the pregnancy.

“The grandma probably chased her away because she could not stand the shame that the girl got pregnant out of wedlock.

“Last Wednesday, while she was at the boyfriend’s house, she started foaming in the mouth and she was taken to the hospital.

“The boyfriend found a suicide note where she accused her grandma of causing her death. He reported to the police.

“The police took the note and arrested the woman. She was in tears at the bus stop as she kept saying she didn’t mean any harm. It was a sad sight.”

A woman on the street told our correspondent that Saka was her parents’ only child.

She said, “Out of all the women her father married, it was only her mother that had a child and she was the only child. She was the hope of the family. Now that she is dead, that hope is gone.”

Our correspondent learnt that it was the second time in less than two months that a pregnant teenager would commit suicide in the area.

On June 18, a 19-year-old girl, Uche Obiora, allegedly took Sniper at her boyfriend’s house, which is a street away from Saka’s grandmother’s house.

A resident, who identified himself as Goddey, appealed to the government to intervene in the increasing rate of teenage suicides in the community.

When our correspondent approached Saka’s relatives at their house on Mofoluwasho Close, they declined comment.

A fair-complexioned woman, who donned a berret, said, “Nothing evil happened to us here. Please leave now. We don’t want to say anything. You can write whatever you have heard. We have nothing to say.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed Saka’s death.

She said, “The victim allegedly drank a substance suspected to be Sniper insecticide.

“She was rushed to the Igando General Hospital for treatment; but she died. Her corpse has been deposited at the hospital’s morgue for autopsy. Investigation is still ongoing.”

Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has relieved the State Accountant General, Danjuma Adamu, of his duties with immediate effect.

Mr. Adamu has been accused of spying on all financial incomes of the State government and passing on this information to the former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who currently serves as a senator.

He was also accused of sabotaging all financial payments to the State government, a situation which caused the delay in salary payments to the State civil servants.

In a press statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Mallam Muhammad Garba, and made available to SaharaReporters on Sunday evening revealed that Mr. Adamu is to hand over the position to the Director of the Treasury in the Ministry of Finance, Ibrahim A. M. Kura, being the most senior.

Mr. Ganduje thanked the outgoing Accountant General for the services he rendered to the State and wished him God's guidance in his future endeavors.

Our correspondent recalled that the State House of Assembly in May 2016 passed a resolution calling on the governor to sack the Accountant General.

Olohun ooooo! Wayoooo Allah, this is tragic.

Sound and quick recovery.

may their souls rest in peace

What a bigotry and myopic thought! FFK is suffering mouth diarrhoea..

That's lovely.

Churches, Mosques and the larger society must change as well.

It seems she has phobia for a public address, and she is in a State Assembly. Didn't she campaign?

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday
approved the appointment of 17 new chief
executives of various parastatals under the
Federal Ministry of Education.

The new appointees are Abubakar Rasheed
(National Universities Commission); Lilian Salami
(Nigerian Institute For Educational Planning and
Administration); Hameed Boboyi (Universal Basic
Education Board); Lanre Aina (National Library of
Nigeria); Charles Uwakwe (National Examinations
Council); Abba Haladu (National Commission For
Mass Literacy, Adult And Non-Formal Education);
Bashir Usman (Nomadic Education Commission);
and Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe (National Business
and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB).

Others are Sunday Ajiboye (Teachers
Registration Council of Nigeria); Afolabi Aderinto
(Computer Registration Council of Nigeria);
Bappah Aliyu (National Commission For Colleges
of Education); Abdullahi Bichi Baffa (Tertiary
Education Tax Fund); Garba Dahuwa Azare
(National Teachers Institute); and Michael
Afolabi (Librarian Registration Council of Nigeria).

Also appointed are Steven Ejugwu Onah
(National Mathematical Centre, Sheda); Ishaq
Oloyede (Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board); and Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche (National
Institute of Nigerian Languages).

A statement by a deputy director in the ministry,
Benjamim Goong, said the new chief executives
had been invited to meet with the Minister of
Education, Adamu Adamu, on Tuesday.
Mr. Goong also said four heads of parastatals
under the ministry were retained.

They are; Samaila Junaidu of Nigeria Educational Research
& Development Council; Raaufu Adebisi of
Nigerian French Language Village Badagry;
Mas’ud A. Kazaure of National Board For
Technical Education; and Muhammad Mu’az of
National Arabic Language Village, Maiduguri,
Borno State.

S/No Parastatal Name

1.
Nigeria Educational Research & Development
Council (NERDC)
Prof. Samaila Junaidu
2.
Nigerian French Language Village Badagry,
(NFLV)
Prof. Raauf Adebisi
3.
National Board For Technical Education (NBTE)
Dr. Mas’ud A. Kazaure
4.
National Arabic Language Village, Maiduguri,
Borno State (NALV)
Prof Muhammad Mu’az

S/No Parastatal Name

1.
National Universities Commission (NUC)
Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed
2.
Nigerian Institute For Educational Planning and
Administration (NIEPA)
Prof. Mrs Lilian Salami
3.
Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC)
Dr. Hameed Bobboyi
4.
National Library of Nigeria (NLN)
Prof. Lanre Aina
5.
National Examinations Council (NECO)
Prof. Charles Uwakwe
Prof. Charles Uwakwe
6.
National Commission For Mass Literacy, Adult
And Non-Formal Education (NCMLA&NE)
Prof. Abba Haladu
7.
Nomadic Education Commission (NEC)
Prof. Bashir H. Usman
8.
National Business and Technical Examination
Board (NABTEB)
Prof. Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe
9.
Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN)
Prof. Sunday Josiah Ajiboye
10.
Computer Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN)
Afolabi N. Aderinto
11.
National Commission For Colleges of Education
(NCCE)
Prof. Bappah Aliyu
12.
Tertiary Education Tax Fund (TETFund)
Dr. Abdullahi Bichi Baffa
13.
National Teachers Institute (NTI)
Prof. Garba Dahuwa Azare
14.
Librarian Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN)
Prof. Michael Afolabi
15.
National Mathematical Centre, Sheda (NMC)
Prof. Steven Ejugwu Onah
16.
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB)
Prof. Ishaq Olarenwaju Oloyode
17.
National Institute of Nigerian Languages NINLAN
Prof. Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche

The four parastatals whose chief executives will
retain their position are:

S/No Parastatal Name

1.
Nigeria Educational Research & Development
Council (NERDC)
Prof. Samaila Junaidu
2.
Nigerian French Language Village Badagry,
(NFLV)
Prof. Raauf Adebisi
3.
National Board For Technical Education (NBTE)
Dr. Mas’ud A. Kazaure
4.
National Arabic Language Village, Maiduguri,
Borno State (NALV)
Prof Muhammad Mu’az.

The Presidency on Monday said contrary to
claims by some individuals and groups, President
Muhammdu Buhari has treated all Nigerians
without bias for ethnicity or religion in his
appointments and policies since he assumed
office on May 29, 2015.
It said claims that the present administration
was targeting Christians and members of the
opposition were without foundation.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a
statement while reacting to The London
Telegraph’s article “Children Face Death by
Starvation in Northern Nigeria” published on
Saturday.
Shehu said the article repeated a claim from an
earlier piece “Nigeria Using UK Aid to Persecute
President’s Political Foes” published on April 12,
indicating that Nigeria was diverting United
Kingdom’s aid monies away from defeating the
Islamist terror group Boko Haram towards those
the newspaper identifies as political opponents
of the administration.
He said the statement was incorrect and
unhelpful.
The presidential spokesman said to suggest
Buhari’s government as deepening Muslim-
Christian division was not only untrue, but played
into the hands of Boko Haram who wished to
divide Nigerians along religious lines.
He said, “As for claims that the administration is
targeting Christians and the opposition, these are
without foundation.
“Since assuming office, President Buhari has
treated all Nigerians without bias for ethnicity or
religion – as the composition of his cabinet and
the policies and programmes of his
administration demonstrate.
“To suggest his government as deepening
Muslim-Christian division is not only untrue, but
plays into the hands of Boko Haram who wish to
divide Nigerians along religious lines.
“Fighting this group is key priority of President
Buhari’s administration. Indeed the international
community has widely acknowledged his
determination to defeat terrorism in Nigeria and
the entire Lake Chad Basin.
“There is nothing to gain by attempting to mould
public opinion against these facts. Therefore we
invite The Telegraph to visit Nigeria: to witness
first hand not only the challenges we face, but
the administration’s determination to confront
them.”
Shehu noted that while the claims in both articles
were attributed to an unnamed source in the
United States and “Western officials”, yet the
first article drew the condemnation of the US
Embassy in Abuja as having drawn conclusions
directly opposite to the position of the US
government when it was first published.
He explained that the UK government does not
give development aid to the Nigerian government
for operations against Boko Haram.
He added that the Federal Government is not in
position to divert aid monies meant for refugees.
He also noted that the blame for the plight of
refugees lies with members of Boko Haram,
saying they are its cause, not the Nigerian
government.
He added, “To state the facts: the UK
government does not give development aid to
the Nigerian administration for use in military
operations against Boko Haram. Where British
military support – such as intelligence – is
provided, it is precisely and only, given for
operations directly against Boko Haram.
“Similarly, the Nigerian Government is in no
position to divert aid monies used for emergency
relief for refugees or IDP camps for any other
purpose, as these are dispensed directly by DFID,
USAID, the United Nations, the International Red
Cross, Doctors without Borders and many other
organisations – with which we enjoy excellent
relations.
“The humanitarian situation in these camps is
real. The administration remains deeply
concerned about the medical, health and
nutrition challenges and we are doing everything
with the limited resources we have at our
disposal to improve the situation.”