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Pep Guardiola (44) will not extend his contract
with FC Bayern München. The German record
champions’ new coach from 1 July 2016 will be
Carlo Ancelotti. The 56-year-old Italian will
receive a three-year contract expiring on 30 June
2019.

FC Bayern München chairman Karl-Heinz
Rummenigge commented: “We are grateful to
Pep Guardiola for everything he has given our
club since 2013. I am convinced that Pep and
our team will now work even more intensively
towards achieving our major sporting goals –
especially as it is now confirmed that Pep is to
leave FC Bayern.”

“Carlo Ancelotti has enjoyed success everywhere
as a coach and has won the Champions League
three times,” continued Rummenigge. “Carlo is a
calm, balanced expert, who knows how to deal
with stars and favours a multifaceted style of
play – we were looking for this, and we have
found it. We are looking forward to working with
him.”

Carlo Ancelotti commented: “I am very honoured
that I will be coach of the great club FC Bayern
from next season.”

source: www.fcbayern.de/en/news/news/2015/press-release-guardiola-not-extending-ancelotti-new-fcb-coach-201215.php

Chelsea have sacked manager Jose Mourinho
seven months after he led them to the Premier
League title.

The 52-year-old Portuguese had been in his
second spell at the club, taking charge in June
2013.

Chelsea finished eight points clear last season
and also won the League Cup, but have
endured a terrible start to their defence, losing
nine of their 16 league games so far.
Mourinho's final match was Monday's 2-1
defeat at leaders Leicester City.

Pep Guardiola, Guus Hiddink, Brendan Rodgers
and Juande Ramos have all been touted as
possible successors.

Mourinho in the Premier League
Season Managed Won Drew Lost Win %
2004/05 38 29 8 1 76.32
2005/06 38 29 4 5 76.32
2006/07 38 24 11 3 63.16
2007/08 6 3 2 1 50
2013/14 38 25 7 6 65.79
2014/15 38 26 9 3 68.42
2015/16 16 4 3 9 25

Mourinho's legacy
He leaves with Chelsea just a point off the
relegation zone and 20 points behind Leicester.
Champions League qualification via one of the
top four spots in the Premier League looks
almost impossible.

However, the Blues are through to the last 16
of European football's biggest club competition,
where they will face French champions Paris
St-Germain in February and March.

Mourinho only signed a new four-year contract
on 7 August and is Chelsea's most successful
manager.

He won three Premier League titles, two of
those in his first spell between 2004 and 2007.
The Portuguese has also won the FA Cup, in
2007, and the League Cup three times - in
2005, 2007 and 2015.

Troubles on and off the pitch.
It has not only gone wrong in the Premier
League for Mourinho, he has also had his
issues off the pitch.

A 2-2 draw with Swansea on 8 August was
overshadowed by a fallout with his medical
team, in particular club doctor Eva Carneiro.
Carneiro had her role downgraded after
Mourinho said his medical staff were "naive"
for running onto the pitch to treat attacking
midfielder Eden Hazard.

She eventually left on 22 September and is
now taking legal action against Mourinho and
the Blues.

Mourinho also received a suspended stadium
ban and £50,000 fine for claiming referees
were "afraid" to award his team penalties in a
3-1 home loss to Southampton in October.
He subsequently had to serve a one-match
stadium ban and pay a £40,000 fine for his
behaviour during a 2-1 defeat by West Ham,
when he spoke to referee Jon Moss at half-
time.

What now for Mourinho?
It is unlikely he will be out of management for
long, given his record of success at Chelsea
and other top European clubs.

He guided Porto and Inter Milan to Champions
League glory in 2004 and 2010 respectively,
then led Real Madrid to the Spanish La Liga
title in 2012.
At 52, he is still some way from retirement age,
but he has expressed a wish to coach the
English and Portuguese national sides at some
stage in his career.

In fact, he claimed he turned down the chance
to become England boss when Steve McClaren
was sacked in 2007.

Mourinho has a proven track record of bringing
success over the short-term but doubts will
remain over his ability to build a dynasty.
Will that make his candidature less appealing to
the kind of club he is used to managing, such
as German giants Bayern Munich, rising French
stars Paris St-Germain or Premier League duo
Manchester United or Manchester City?

What now for Chelsea?
The Blues may be struggling at the wrong end
of the Premier League table, but they are still
in the Champions League and both domestic
cups, while achieving European qualification is
not impossible.

The key for any new manager is improving the
morale of a talented squad that has
underachieved this season.

Players such as Hazard, Diego Costa, Willian,
and Oscar were key to Chelsea winning the
league title but performances have fallen well
below the heights they reached last year.
After the 2-1 defeat by Leicester Mourinho said
he felt his "work was betrayed" by his players,
and midfielder Cesc Fabregas has said it is
time for everyone to step up.

"If you are a big player and paid like a big
player, you must play like a big player and
behave like a big player," said the Spain
international.


source: www.bbc.com/sport/football/34670192?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_sport&ns_source=facebook&ns_linkname=sport

Aluta mata

The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission on Tuesday arraigned a
former National Security Adviser, Sambo
Dasuki; a former Minister of State for
Finance, Bashir Yuguda; a former Sokoto
State Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa; Mr.
Bafarawa’s son, Sagir; and others on
fresh charges bordering on money
laundering and criminal breach of trust.

The charges against all the accused
persons are currently being read to
them at Court 24 of the FCT High court,
Abuja.

We will serve details on the charges and
proceedings in court in subsequent
updates.

The EFCC had on Monday charged Mr.
Dasuki, a former Director of Finance at
the Office of National Security Adviser,
Shuaibu Salisu; a former General
Manager at the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, Aminu
Babakusa; Waripamowei Dudafa (now at
large), a former Senior Special Assistant,
Domestic Affairs to former President
Goodluck Jonathan; and two firms,
Acacia Holdings and Reliance Hospitals.

They were docked at the Federal High
Court Abuja on a 19-count charge
bordering on money laundering and
criminal breach of trust.

source: www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/195212-breaking-efcc-docks-dasuki-yuguda-bafarawa-others-on-fresh-corruption-charges.html

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Here is the Part 1 of this write up www.nairaland.com/2798760/caliphate-emir-nigerias-master-race#41018479

Here is the Part 2 of this write up www.nairaland.com/2801066/caliphate-emir-nigerias-master-race

Is it any wonder that my friend and
brother, Governor Nasir El Rufai once
warned the Nigerian military against
what he considered to be their excesses
in the fight against Boko Haram and told
them that “anyone, whether soldier or
otherwise, that kills a Fulani must
consider it as a debt that will be repaid”?

Is it any wonder that in 2001 some
unscrupulous and irresponsible leaders
in the core north invoked “political
sharia” as a secret weapon in their
attempt to discredit, destabilise and
destroy President Olusegun Obasanjo, a
southern Christian president?

Is it any wonder that in 2001 President
Muhammadu Buhari, a core northern
muslim, said “what is the business of
christians if we muslims chop off our
limbs in the name of sharia”, and went
further by saying that it is his intention
and desire “to spread sharia all over the
federation”. Is it any wonder that the
same man said in 2014 that “an attack
on Boko Haram is an attack on the
North?”

Is it any wonder that Governor Bello
Masari of Katsina state said that there
was a link between Boko Haram and the
Fulani militants/herdsmen and that they
both “kill people and rob them of their
property”.

Is it any wonder that virtually every
single notable southern leader in our
political history that has ever aligned
with the North, including MKO Abiola,
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Isaac Boro and many
others who ended up secretly regretting
it because after all their noble efforts of
regional and ethnic bridge-building they
ended up being cheated, insulted,
marginalised, humiliated, maligned,
misrepresented, used, dumped, jailed or
killed? Worse still in the case of Saro-
Wiwa, after he was hung acid was
poured all over his body in order to
remove any trace of him.

Is it any wonder that Dr. Junaid
Mohammed, one of the leading apostles
of Northern hegemony, said that
Nigerians should “let the Biafrans go”
and that “they need Nigeria more than
Nigeria needs them”?

Is it any wonder that Chief Bola Ige of
blessed memory once referred to the
Fulani as “the Tutsis of Nigeria” and that
Mohammed Yusuf, a leading core
northern civil servant, once referred to
the Tutsis as “the Fulani in diaspora?”

Is it any wonder that virtually every
single courageous, moderate, honest,
liberal and truly progressive core
northern leader, like Abubakar
‘Dangiwa’ Umar, Nuhu Ribadu, Kashim
Ibrahim Imam, Halilu Akilu, Tanko
Yakassai, Sule Lamido, Lawal
Batagarawa and many others who sought
to build bridges of peace and
understanding with the South throughout
their lives and careers – that insist and
insisted on equity and fairness between
the ethnic nationalities, that refused to
describe their tribe as the “master race”,
and resisted racial and religious bigotry,
and that deplores injustice and
wickedness and that stands up against
the excesses of his own leaders and
people is persecuted, viewed with
suspicion, misrepresented and not
allowed to achieve his full potentials by
the deeply conservative and reactionary
leaders of the ultra-conservative core
North?

The Bible tells us that “God works in
mysterious ways, His wonders to
perform”. When the misguided and
ultra-conservative leaders of an ethnic
nationality in a multi-cultural and multi-
ethnic state pride themselves on building
an empire, enslaving others, occupying
their land and holding on to power by
consistently using violence, religion,
subterfuge, lies, deceit, manipulation
and the shedding of blood, a terrible
price has to be paid. God is not mocked
and neither does He sleep. He will ask
the murderer, where is your brother
Abel and He will tell him that “his blood
cries out to me from the ground for
vengeance”.

For those who doubt the veracity of my
earlier assertion that every single core
Northerner that has ever ruled this
country has either died in office or been
removed from power and detained for a
number of years, permit me to enlighten
you.

Kindly note the fact that General Yakubu
Gowon, General Ibrahim Babangida and
General Abdulsalami Abubakar who
were also Heads of State of Nigeria and
who were also from the north were not
core northerners but Middle Belters.
That is what set them apart and made
the difference. We are talking about core
northern leaders here and the bitter and
tragic end that each and everyone of
them suffered after being Head of State,
President or Prime Minister.

Consider the following. Sir Tafawa
Balewa who was the Prime Minister of
Nigeria from 1960 till 1966 was from the
core North and he was killed whilst in
office. General Murtala Muhammed who
was Head of State of Nigeria from 1975
till 1976 was from the core North and he
was killed whilst in office. Alhaji Shehu
Shagari who was President of Nigeria
from 1979 till 1983 was from the core
North and he was removed by a military
coup d’etat whilst in office after which
he was detained for two years during
which he almost went blind.

General Muhammadu Buhari who was
Head of State of Nigeria from 1983 till
1985 was from the core North and he
was removed in a military coup d’etat
whilst in office after which he was
detained for four years. General Sani
Abacha who was Head of State from
1994 till 1998 was from the core North
and he died under mysterious
circumstances whilst in office. Alhaji
Umaru Yar’adua who was President from
2007 till 2010 was from the core north
and he died under mysterious
circumstances whilst in office.

No one deserves to be killed or to die in
such mysterious circumstances and no
one deserves to suffer incarceration
unlawfully. I am saddened by what each
and everyone of these respected leaders
suffered and by what they were forced to
go through. I deplore murder, violence,
bloodshed and the unconstitutional
removal of democratically-elected
presidents and prime ministers.

I do not relish what happened to any of
them and neither do I endorse what
befell them. However it is clear to me, as
it ought to be clear to any discerning
reader, that there is more to all this than
meets the eye. It is not a coincidence.
There is a clearly established pattern of
sad and unfortunate events here that
cannot be ignored or wished away and
that must be critically examined. In
short, there is clearly a bigger picture in
all these and a concise message that
many of us fail to appreciate,
acknowledge or recognise.

The bible says “he who lives by the
sword shall die by the sword”. The
efficacy of this spiritual truism and
powerful scripture is better proved and
exhibited in our country than perhaps
any other. Today in Nigeria God is
asking Cain “where is your brother Abel”
and this time He must get an answer.
Yet who precisely is Abel? The answer is
simple and clear: Abel is Gideon
Akaluka, the young man from Benue
state who was dragged out of a Kano
police station by a barbaric mob and
whose head was cut off and placed on
the end of a long pole for allegedly
desecrating the Koran. Abel is the little
Igbo girl who was ravaged by kwashikor
and starved to death during the Nigerian
civil war. Abel are the two young men
who were shot to death in Enugu for
marching against injustice, for
demanding the release of their leader
Nnamdi Kanu and for calling for the
establishment of Biafra.

Abel is the pastor whose church was
burnt down, whose family was
butchered and who was crucified at the
alter by an irate mob of terrorists and
Islamic fundamentalists in Borno state.
Abel is the Muslim girl who was stoned
to death for falling in love with a
Christian boy and attempting to marry
him in Zamfara state.

Abel is the woman who was hacked to
death with her children and thrown
down a well by a mob of Muslim fanatics
in Jos. Abel is the Kataf man that was
castrated and chopped into pieces, the
southern Kaduna girl who was burnt
alive, and the Berom woman who was
mutilated and raped to death by Fulani
militants. Abel are the five young Igbo
traders who were slaughtered in their
shops for “not being able to recite the
Koran” at Madala market in Niger State.
Abel are the 105 brave young soldiers
who were attacked with chemical
weapons by Boko Haram in Borno State
and who our government have refused
to acknowledge or honour in death. Abel
are the over 200 girls from Chibok, the
170 girls from Bam and the thousands of
other young girls from all over the North
who were abducted from their homes,
schools and communities and who were
raped, tortured, enslaved, maimed and
murdered in cold blood by Boko Haram.
Abel are the hundreds of thousands of
Igbos who are always butchered
whenever there is any conflict or dispute
in the North. Abel are the 21 Shia
Muslims who were blown to pieces in
Kano by Boko Haram. Abel are the nine
young Igbo martyrs shot to death by
security forces during a peaceful IPOB
march in Onitsha.

Abel is the palm wine tapper who was
cut to pieces in Delta State and the Royal
Father who was hacked to death in
Enugu by Fulani militants. Abel is the
embattled community in Delta State who
were forced to ban the Fulani militants
and herdsmen from entering their land
due to their consistent acts of rape,
murder, terror and violence.

Abel are the great souls that the leaders
of the core North conspired to destroy by
setting them up with trumped up and
malicious criminal charges. These
include Chief Obafemi Awolowo who was
sent to prison for three years on the
watch of Sir Tafawa Balewa and
President Olusegun Obasanjo who was
sent to prison for three years on the
watch of General Sani Abacha.
Abel is Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-
Ojukwu who fought against the mass
murder of his people, who protected his
kith and kin from Cain’s genocide and
who was driven into exile. Abel are the
defenceless young Igbo boys and
harmless old Igbo men who were
rounded up in the town square in Asaba
and executed by Nigerian troops.
Abel are the 800 innocent souls,
including eleven young youth corpers,
who were butchered by President
Buhari’s supporters in the core North
after he lost the presidential election in
2011. Abel are the 350 teachers who
were killed by Boko Haram in Borno
state.

Abel is every single one of the hundreds
of thousands of innocent souls who were
killed in sectarian violence and ethnic
pogroms in Northern Nigeria over the
last 55 years. Abel are the so-called
wretched of the earth: the weak, the
helpless, the voiceless and the
downtrodden. Abel is the silent majority
who have no voice to speak for
themselves, who are not members of the
so-called “master race”, who were not
“born to rule” and who were cut short
and sent to the great beyond before their
time. For every nation and every evil
seed comes a day of reckoning. In
Nigeria we are almost there. It is just a
matter of time.

Until then Cain, the rejected of the Lord,
shall remain rejected and Abel’s
innocent blood shall continue to speak
against him and his seed. The Lord God
of Hosts, the Ancient of Days and the
God of All Flesh is speaking and He is
saying “let my people go”. The question
is whether Cain is listening.

Before I conclude this piece permit me to
clarify one or two issues. It has been said
that I am “anti-core North and anti-
Fulani”, yet nothing could be further
from the truth. The only thing that I am
“anti” is injustice and wickedness. I
would like to remind readers that one
eighth of the blood that flows through
my veins is Fulani and this derives from
my maternal great grandmother who
was a pure Fulani woman.

I am very proud of that aspect of my
ancestry and I am equally proud of my
almost pure Yoruba bloodlines and
heritage. I can hardly be described as a
hater of the Fulani when I am partly
Fulani myself. However if some believe
that criticising the leadership of the
Fulani and the atrocious and oftentimes
irresponsible way that they have
behaved over the last 55 years makes me
“anti-Fulani”, then so be it.

I would also like to remind my traducers
that I was introduced into politics and
given my first political appointment in
1992 by a highly respected and much-
loved elder statesman who happens to be
from the core North by the name of
Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, the Marafan
Sokoto. Marafan is like a father to me
and he is a man who I cherish. If I was
“anti-Fulani” or “anti-core North”, this
would not be the case and I would
harbour no such affection for this great
Nigerian.

Again I have defended my friend and
brother Colonel Sambo Dasuki, the
former National Security Adviser, and
resisted the ruthless persecution and
misrepresentation that he has been
subjected to by the Buhari
administration, as much as anyone else
over the last few months. This is because
his human rights have been consistently
violated and, despite the horrendous
media trial that he and his associates
have been subjected to, I believe that he
is innocent of all the criminal charges
proferred against him. Dasuki is not just
a Fulani but he is a Fulani prince of
royal blood and noble heritage. If I
“hated” Fulanis I doubt that I would have
bothered to stand by him.

If I raise issues about the core North or
the Fulani, it is because I believe that
they can do far better, and I am of the
view that they need to do a lot of soul-
searching about their role and purpose
in a wider Nigeria. If this country is to
remain one then the tendency in the
core North that honestly believes that the
Fulani were “born to rule” must retrace
their steps and think again.

This point has been eloquently
enunciated by Mr. Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB,
the OPC, MASSOB, Afenifere, the Yoruba
Council of Elders, Ohaneze, the Ijaw
National Congress, the Niger Delta
militants and so many other ethnic
nationalist and self-determination
groups over the years, and who can
blame them?

Like President Thomas Jefferson, one of
the founding fathers of the United States
of America, said 210 years ago, “we
prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful
slavery”. Again like President Kwame
Nkrumah of Ghana, the father of pan-
Africanism, once proclaimed, “we reject
the tranquility of servitude”.

Again like Rev. Martin Luther King, the
father of civil rights and African-
American liberation once said “freedom
is never voluntarily given by the
oppressor: it must be demanded by the
oppressed”.

Again like Mr. Yinka Odumakin, the
spokesman of Afenifere, said “methinks
that it is Nigeria that is dead and that the
quest for self-determination is very
much alive”.

The point is simple and clear: the days of
“masters and slaves” or “horse and
horse-rider” are long over in our nation.
In today’s Nigeria every tribe, every
ethnic nationality and every individual,
no matter how big or small, must be
treated with sensitivity, caution, dignity
and respect and must be regarded as
equals.

If this fundamental principle is not
respected and if we refuse to answer the
‘National Question’, I have no doubt that
eventually this country will hit the rocks
and will break into two or more pieces.

Those who choose to misrepresent,
misconstrue and misunderstand me may
continue to do so if it makes them feel
any better. Regardless of what they say I
shall continue to stand up for the
oppressed whether they be Christian or
Muslim, northern or southern or whether
they are Yoruba, Igbo, Fulani, Ijaw,
Hausa, Edo, Isoko, Tiv, Idoma, Berom,
Kanuri, Efik, Ibibio, Nupe, Shuwa Arab
or anything else.

As long as God gives me life and a strong
voice I shall continue to speak the truth,
I shall continue to educate others about
our nation’s history, I shall continue to
resist injustice and oppose evil and I
shall continue to treat my detractors
with the contempt and disdain that they
deserve.

Some may hate me for writing this piece
and they may seek to discredit and
destroy me because of it. This is because
the truth hurts and they cannot bear to
hear it. Let me assure them that my
covenant with the Lord will not allow
them to achieve their evil plans for me
or mine. No weapon fashioned against
me shall prosper and every tongue that
rises against me stands condemned.

The blood of Jesus speaks for me. The
Lord is my shield, my glory and the lifter
of my head. He alone gives me utterance,
knowledge, wisdom and understanding.
He alone gives me courage and strength.
He alone do I fear.

source: www.blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=169965

JUVENTUS VS BAYERN MUNICH

ARSENAL VS BARCELONA

PSG VS CHELSEA

ROMA VS REAL MADRID

GENT VS WOLFSBURG

PSV VS ATLETICO MADRID

BENFICA VS ZENIT ST PETERSBURG

DYNAMO KYIV VS MANCHESTER CITY

My name is Myra and I'm a very angry and bitter woman. And it's all thanks to the 'witch' called Hetty, my landlady.
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Before the 'Jezebel', came into our lives, my husband CJ and I were doing just fine. We had been married for about eight years and though we did not have children, CJ was not too worried.

"When the time comes, we will have children. God's time is the best," he often said anytime I grew anxious over our childless state. You know how our African society is. Once a couple gets married, people especially family members, friends, colleagues and other so called 'well-wishers' expect the woman to start popping out babies as quickly as possible. My husband's parents and other family members live far away from us and hardly visit so pressure from their end was not much.

All the same, I never relented in my quest to have my own child. I fasted and prayed and cried to God to remember me. But the years went by and there was still no issue.

Then about two years ago, we had to move to another apartment from where we were staying in Lagos due to problems with the landlord. He had increased the rent by over fifty percent without warning and threatened to eject any tenant who did not comply. My husband, who felt the new rent was too high for the flat decided we should move.

So that's how we ended up in our new place. The house, made up of four flats is owned by Hetty who had inherited it from her parents. She lived in one of the flats downstairs with her two children, both teenagers. Hetty, who is in her late 30s, was said to be divorced or separated from her husband. When we moved in newly, the woman was so nice and helpful to us, always asking if we had any problems. She would invite us to her home and even cook for us. With time,
we became very close. I thought in my naivety that she was just being nice.

How did I know that she had designs on my husband! Anyway, I found out later that my husband was dating our landlady. It had been going on for months before I knew about it. You see, because of my job I'm hardly at home. My office is in Victoria Island so I leave home early and return home late as well. My husband is a business man so his schedule is more flexible than mine. There are days he does not go out at all, but stays at home and works on his computer and makes contacts on phone.

Since the story came out about their affair, friends and other concerned well-wishers have told me that I should have been more careful, that I should not have allowed a woman like her, single and still quite young and pretty to get close to my husband. But what were they expecting me to do, tie a grown up like him up? He's mature enough to know right from wrong and that dating that woman is something he should not have done.

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I found out about the affair from a neighbour who had been seeing them going out together and acting like lovers whenever I was at work. I confronted CJ and though he denied it initially, he finally owned up and confessed. He pleaded with me to forgive and forget that it was the 'work of the devil.'
"What devil?" I countered furiously.
"Instead of accepting responsibility for cheating on me with our landlady, you are blaming the devil!" I was very angry with him and I felt hurt too. What the woman has that I lacked, I wondered, weeping bitter tears. Ok, she was very pretty but I was not bad looking and was even younger than her.

CJ promised to stop seeing the woman, also begging me not to go and fight her as we could be kicked out of the apartment. I loved my husband very much and he meant the world to me so I forgave him. Things went on as normal though I was more vigilant this time around. As for my landlady, she travelled with her children abroad for the summer holidays and I did not see her for some time. The children came back and resumed school but she stayed behind for a few more months.

When she returned later, it was clear to even a blind man that she was pregnant. I did not think much of it and just ignored her as I had been doing since I found out she was sleeping with my husband. That was until CJ broke the terrible news to me, that he was responsible for her pregnancy! How could this have happened, was the first thought that entered my mind. I was, as expected devastated by the new development. Here was I, married to him for nearly eight years and yet to produce a child. Yet a clandestine affair with our landlady had resulted in a
pregnancy.

I became ill when I heard the news and had to take some time off from work. When my mother who lived near us heard what happened, she came to spend time with me. It was my mother and younger sister who came with her that went to my landlady's house and fought with her. Much as I hated the woman, I was not in support of physical combat and told my mother to leave her alone. The damage had been done and fighting her would not solve anything, I reasoned.

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It was my husband that I was more worried about. He had become so happy since Hetty announced she was pregnant for him.
"Finally, I will be a father," he had stated with obvious pride the day he broke the news to me. When I recovered, I called him one day that due to the situation of things, I no longer felt comfortable living in the same compound with the landlady, that we had to move. To my shock, CJ was vehemently opposed to my suggestion, insisting there was no need to relocate.

"Hetty will soon put to bed and as the father of the baby, I need to be around to look after them," he said. I was not ready to give in and I gave him an ultimatum: it's either we left or he should forget about me and our marriage. I told him I was not ready to share my man with any woman, least of all that conniving landlady of ours.

"I can't stay here anymore. Seeing that woman every day with her big, protruding tummy drives me crazy. I need to get away for my own sanity and peace of mind," I said.

That was when he told me that I could do whatever I wanted, that he was not ready to go anywhere.
"I'm going nowhere. We just moved here so why would we be moving so soon? Learn to adjust to the situation or ..." he rejoined.

Since I'm not ready to adjust, I have begun making alternative plans. My younger sister, who has her own apartment in town, has suggested I move in with her until CJ comes to his senses. I don't know what will happen to my marriage when I leave. I still love my husband and I know he cares about me too, but that woman seems to have cast a spell or used 'love charm' on him or something. I need to get away before I lose my mind with worry and stress. I don't know if I have taken the right decision or not. But I need some space right now before I lose my mind or even die prematurely from all the trouble my husband and his mistress have caused me...

THE END!

Names have been changed to protect the identity
of the narrator and other individuals in the story.

source: www.truelifestoriesng..com.ng/2015/12/im-childless-but-my-landlady-is.html?m=1

“Do not call a conspiracy what these people call a conspiracy, neither fear ye their fear but sanctify the Lord your God in your heart and Let Him be your only fear”- Isaiah 8:12

In an essay titled “Afenifere: A Syllabus Of Errors” which was written in 1998 and published in Gamji.com, Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi wrote the following:
“Anyone who needs a lesson in how not to be a politician, and how never to win power in Nigeria should study Yoruba politicians.

Unless the Yoruba masses disown Afenifere, this group of degree-bearing political illiterates will lead Yoruba land down its own version of a syllabus of errors, an island unto themselves, hallucinating in their own idiocy and content to remain marginalised citizens in their own country while blaming the North for their self–inflicted woes.

The syllabus of errors remains a black spot on the history of the Catholic Church. Afenifere will be an even blacker spot on the political history of the Yoruba.

Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi’s pedigree speaks mountains of what his political stance would be ab initio. He probably believes, like other Fulani politicians, that the
problems of this country have a lot to do with the shift in power away from the Fulani to individuals like Babangida and Abacha, products of “lower cultures”.

The Fulani of the North, proud of the
history of the Caliphate, remain proud of
the roles played by Fulani leaders of the
political and military establishment in
Nigeria – Ahmadu Bello, Murtala
Mohammed, Aminu Kano, Shehu
Yar’Adua, Shehu Shagari, Jubril Aminu.

They are sad that other Nigerians do not
know the difference in ethnic
background between say, Murtala
Mohammed and Ibrahim Babangida.

They do not understand how a man like
Abacha, born to a cigarette-seller in
Fagge quarters of Kano (and this speaks
mountains of him, how he ruled and
how he died) can be taken as the
quintessential representative of the
Caliphate whose head he disgraced and
whose culture and values he sought to
erode.

So Shinkafi probably believes in the
need for a power-shift: Back to the
Fulani. He may not be alone in this
tendency. Politicians like Mahmud
Waziri, Bamanga Tukur, Jubril Aminu,
even M. D. Yusufu may consciously or
unconsciously have similar views.
To the Fulani, there is nothing like
ceding the presidency or power. If you
want it, you work for it…If you lack the
stomach to dig in and fight, too bad for
you. Southern politicians have always
failed to understand the complexity of
the North and its politics”.

These are interesting words from an
interesting Fulani man. The disdain and
sheer contempt that Emir Sanusi
harbours for non-Fulanis and
southerners and for Afenifere and the
yoruba people, in particular, remains
intact till today. His assertion that
“southern politicians have always failed
to understand the complexity of the
North” is false.

I am making this intervention not out of hate but out of love and compassion for those that have lost their lives at the hands of our adversaries over the last 55 years. I am also mindful of the fact that every single
person that is a member of the ruling class or that has held a position of leadership in this country between 1960 and today, including yours truly, has to take
partial responsibility for the terrible things that our people have experienced over the years…

Despite the fact that we southerners
understand the nature of core Northern
politicians and leaders very well, we
have always chosen to hold our peace,
condone their excesses, carry their
baggage and accept their strange ways
and complicated peculiarities in the
name of national unity.

The truth is that it is Emir Sanusi and his
Fulani people that have misunderstood
southerners all along. We in the south
may be accommodating, tolerant and
generous people but our kindness and
liberal nature must never be mistaken
for stupidity or weakness. That is the
mistake that people like Sanusi often
make with their racist views and
condescending words. He forgets that the
culture and history of most of the
southern empires and kingdoms predates
that of the Fulani caliphate by hundreds
of years.

17 years after Sanusi wrote this piece
about Southerners I have decided to
respond to him by sharing my views
about the core North and its Fulani
leaders. This is especially so because we
have a hardline Fulani conservative at
the helm of affairs in our country today.
Sanusi wrote his views about the South
in 1998 when his fellow Northerner was
Head of State but I choose to write my
views about the North, not when my
fellow Southerner is in power, but rather
when a Northerner is President. I have
not taken offence at Emir Sanusi’s views
about Southerners and I sincerely hope
that he and his people will not take
offence at my views about core
Northerners.

This article will not only be deemed as
being controversial but its contents will
also be keenly contested and scrutinised.
This is because I am going to express
some home truths here which the
majority of our people know to be true
but few are prepared to voice.

I am making this intervention not out of
hate but out of love and compassion for
those that have lost their lives at the
hands of our adversaries over the last 55
years. I am also mindful of the fact that
every single person that is a member of
the ruling class or that has held a
position of leadership in this country
between 1960 and today, including yours
truly, has to take partial responsibility
for the terrible things that our people
have experienced over the years, for the
criminal negligence that we have all
indulged in, for the shameful conspiracy
of silence that we appear to relish and
for the abysmal and pitiable situation
that we have found ourselves in as a
people and as a nation. Those of us who
are members of the ruling elite are all,
in varying degrees, guilty and it is to
partly ameliorate that sense of guilt that
I feel constrained to speak out and
expose the truth.

I am not a racist or tribalist. I deplore
violence and bloodshed. I have no hate
in me for any individual or ethnic group
and I am a firm believer in the view that
all men are equal before God regardless
of the circumstances of their birth, their
creed, their tribe, their nationality or the
colour of their skin. Whilst I hold these
truths to be self-evident, I also believe
that it is incumbent upon those of us who
lay claim to being leaders to always
speak the truth about the history and
unfolding events in our country, no
matter how uncomfortable that truth
may be.

We owe it to ourselves, to posterity and
to God to do so. Let it be said many years
from now after we are all long departed
that within the madness and cacophony
of national anguish, servitude and pain
and during the course of the brutal and
systemic suppression of the freedom and
will of a cheated and broken people,
there were at least a few voices that were
courageous enough to call a spade and
spade and to warn about the grave
dangers and consequences of ignoring
the injustice and wickedness that has
thrived in our country from time
immemorial and from generation to
generation.

Despite all the insults, threats,
misrepresentation and, oftentimes,
slanderous and utterly bizarre
allegations that I, my family and my
loved ones have been subjected to over
the years from ignorant, venal and hate-
filled men, I shall be counted among
those few voices. If nothing else, that is
good enough for me and with that alone
I would have made a meaningful
contribution to my nation’s history and
done my forefathers proud. It is with
this in mind that I urge readers to fasten
their seat belts and consider the
following contribution.

Sinister forces and dark elements from the deeply conservative core north have killed more Middle Belters and Southerners than any other in our country over the last 55 years. Worse still, those sinister forces do not just kill but they also establish their own communities in the land and territory of their victims and forcefully occupy it.

When Cain killed his brother Abel the
bible tells us that God asked him the
following question: he asked “where is
thy brother Abel?” Cain responded in a
defiant manner by asking God the
following question in return: he asked
“am I my brothers keeper?” God
responded by telling Cain that his
brothers blood was crying to Him from
the ground for vengeance. From that
point Cain was afflicted with a terrible
curse which could not be lifted because it
came from the Living God.

Wherever he went, the curse that goes
with shedding his brother’s innocent
blood followed him. This was made
worse by the fact that he refused to
repent or show any remorse for what he
had done. Everything that he did failed
and everywhere he went he was
despised, rejected, feared, hated and
viewed with suspicion by his
compatriots, colleagues and fellow men.

Tragedy and misfortune stalked him and
he ended up being nothing but a
vagabond, a marauder, a parasite and a
wanderer in foreign lands. He became a
byword and a proverb: a herder of goats
and cattle who lived and survived by
guile, doublespeak, stealing, pillaging
and intimidating others. He became the
proverbial leech who made a headway in
life only by benefiting from the sweat,
labour and hard work of his hosts and
benefactors, by sponging off whichever
community gave him succour and by
resorting to violence and bloodshed at
the slightest opportunity and at the drop
of a hat.

He also acquired an obsession with
controlling others and an insatiable lust
for power and the perpetual domination,
suppression and conquest of what he
perceived as “lesser tribes and lesser
people”. Simply put he was a dangerous
predator who sought to milk others dry
and conquer by guile and assimilation.
There are comparisons to be made with
Nigeria here.

Sinister forces and dark elements from
the deeply conservative core north have
killed more Middle Belters and
Southerners than any other in our
country over the last 55 years. Worse
still, those sinister forces do not just kill
but they also establish their own
communities in the land and territory of
their victims and forcefully occupy it.
They have refused to stop doing so and,
to all intents and purposes, they have
developed an insatiable blood lust which
compels them to shed innocent blood at
the slightest whim in order to subjugate
others and to remain in power.

The South, whom our British colonial
masters once referred to as the “rich
wife”, has effectively become the Abel of
Nigeria whilst the conservative core
North, whom they once called the “poor
husband”, has now become the Cain. For
many years the Lord has been asking the
core North what they have done to their
Southern and Middle Belt brothers and
why they keep doing it.

For years the conservative core North
has responded with defiance and anger
and asked God “am I my brother’s
keeper?” The result of this open defiance
and lack of remorse is simple and clear:
it has attracted Gods wrath. Is it any
wonder that Boko Haram now ravages
the core North? Is it any wonder that
every single core Northern leader that
has ever ruled Nigeria since 1960 has
either been killed or died in mysterious
circumstances whilst on the throne or
was removed in a military coup and
then subjected to a number of years in
detention?

Is it any wonder that the core North is
totally dependent on the rest of the
country for its sustenance and economic
survival? Is it any wonder that a UNICEF
report which was released a few years
ago stated that if Nigeria were to ever
break up that the core North would be
the most impoverished, the most
backward, the most unsustainable and
the most barren area in the whole of the
West African sub-region?

Is it any wonder that they were viewed
with so much suspicion by others that
the core northern states were excised
from the country by Major Gideon Orkar
in his 1991 coup broadcast and asked to
re-apply if they wanted to be part of
Nigeria again?

Nigeria’s Boko Haram is now officially the world’s most deadly terrorist organisation whilst what they have described as “the Fulani militants” (aka Nigeria’s Fulani herdsmen) are number four. Is it any wonder that according to the same Global Terror Index report Nigeria is now the “third most terrorised nation in the world”, whilst Iraq and Afghanistan remain the first and second and Syria and Pakistan remain the
fourth and fifth respectively? Given this, is it any wonder that there are loud and increasingly persistent
calls for self-determination in Southern Nigeria?


Is it any wonder that the leading South-Western politician within the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) is secretly complaining and quietly lamenting the fact that he was used in the 2015 elections by the core North simply to put one of their own back in power so that their hegemony could be resurrected and their agenda of perpetual and everlasting Northern rule could be established forever?

Is it any wonder that according to a
survey carried out this year by Global
Terror Index , which was published in the
United Kingdom’s Independent
newspaper, that two of the four most
deadly terrorist organisations in the
world today are based in core northern
Nigeria and are led, funded, peopled and
inspired by core Northern Nigerians?
According to the report, Nigeria’s Boko
Haram is now officially the world’s most
deadly terrorist organisation whilst what
they have described as “the Fulani
militants” (aka Nigeria’s Fulani
herdsmen) are number four. Is it any
wonder that according to the same
Global Terror Index report Nigeria is
now the “third most terrorised nation in
the world”, whilst Iraq and Afghanistan
remain the first and second and Syria
and Pakistan remain the fourth and fifth
respectively? Given this, is it any wonder
that there are loud and increasingly
persistent calls for self-determination in
Southern Nigeria?

Is it any wonder that the core North is
ravaged by poverty, disease, violence,
strife, conflict, stagnation and bareness
more than anywhere else in our
country? Is it any wonder that according
to a 2015 UNICEF report Nigeria has the
“highest number of child brides on the
African continent”, with no less than 23
million child brides in the North?

Is it any wonder that according to the
World Health Organisation Northern
Nigeria has the “highest number of
young girls in the world suffering from
vagina vesicovaginal fistula (VVF)”, a
disease which comes as a consequence of
sexual intercourse with young underage
girls.

Is it any wonder that the core north is
afflicted with a self-serving and
calculating ultra-conservative ruling elite
who keep their own people in perpetual
subjugation, darkness and bondage and
who come from a distant foreign land
called Fouta Jallon in modern-day
Guinea?

Is it any wonder that most core
Northerners name themselves after the
towns and villages that they were born
and raised in rather than after their
families and forefathers? Is it any
wonder that we have a nomadic core
Northern President who finds it difficult
to stay at home?

Is it any wonder that a colourful
personality from one of the core
northern states, who later became a
respected traditional ruler, was an
Islamic fundamentalist in his youth, was
incarcerated for two years for being a
radical jihadist, and was one of those
that inspired and orchestrated the
murder of Gideon Akaluka for
“desecrating the Koran”.

Is it any wonder that a core northern
Nigerian by the name of Omar Farouk
Abdul Mutallab, the notorious
“underwear bomber” who tried to blow
up an American airliner that was filled
with passengers in Detroit, told the FBI
that his “most trusted mentor” and
“favourite uncle” was a well-known and
leading core northern leader? Is it any
wonder that Bishop Matthew Hassan
Kukah, one of the most respected
Northern voices in the country, recently
said “the northern Muslim elite laid the
foundation for Boko Haram”?

source: www.blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=169949

TimothyNkenu:

A black can be racist against a fellow black - you disagree with that.

I totally disagree

TimothyNkenu:

No.
Preference of one race against the other - now that's racism.

So what difference have you made from what I said

TimothyNkenu:


They hate other blacks - and yes, you can be racist against your own race.

It's called marginalization not racism.
Discrimination from the same race is called MARGINALIZATION while discrimination from different race is called RACISM.

Na who don pick injury again

So I just found something I wrote in the past.
I drew a little inspiration from Francine Rivers. I called it Love and Faith.

'Love one another' Jesus said. Sometimes it takes more than eternity to learn how. Sometimes it takes reaching the height of frustration or the depths of depression to look up to love. Sometimes it takes hitting rock bottoms to release yourself to be lifted from the more to stand on a firm foundation.

Sometimes it takes a child, lost but laughing, hopeless but happy, weak but willing, to remember how. Sometimes it takes the heart of a child, even though deeply hurt, abused and harassed to learn how. Sometimes it takes another child, sick, forsaken, deserted, but yet so joyous to remember that love resides everywhere.

Many times we tend to forget that our lives are controlled by one driving force: Love. We forget to love others, because we want all the love to ourselves. So unlike Jesus. We move on only cause of God's Love.

Faith: Our substance of living. We let go of it cause we have lost all hope. Think about a woman in her menopause still hoping for a child.
A broke student going out with their ATM and looking at their phone, waiting for an alert. A12year old pressing her clothes to go back to boarding school for her next session even though Daddy lost his Job five months ago. Now that's faith.

Keep faith, nurture it, let it grow. Watch what can happen when you do. Faith lights the way but love will keep us on the right path. God will make a way, He always does.

It seems like the father Christmas is finding it hard to breathe....

For some past few times, I've sat down and read all you guys comments and I deliberately refused to respond and I'll continue to do so.
LVG is not the right man, I agree but true patriotism is not in you guys analysis. THANK YOU!

I just couldn't help myself with laughter after seeing the expression on those mens' faces with the caption.




Lalasticlala please help put a smile on my fellow NLers' faces.

JeffreyJamez:

Oya go nosh breakfast...

JeffreyJamez:


no one asks me to do anything before i do it...i just do

Awon werey 100%™

Laveda:
Nah you sabi

Story for the gods...

JeffreyJamez:

Dude, this move is old

No one asked you.

Laveda:
Laveda abi? I'm not Laveda.

Sorry Esther...