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THERE were indications Wednesday that the estranged wife of Enugu State governor, Clara Chime, has relocated to Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, with her mother, Patience Igwe.

The Guardian gathered that the change of abode followed the decision of the family to ensure that she “overcomes the sad memories of her over four years botched marriage with Governor Sullivan Chime”.

It is not known whether the family would in the future return her to Enugu as the source said “they will stay in Port Harcourt for some time for now”.

A family source disclosed that Clara was overwhelmed on Monday morning when a convoy of six vehicles from Enugu Government House, filled with her luggage, brought her to her mother’s house at 67, Coal City Garden Estate, behind Central Bank Headquarters, Enugu.

On arrival at the residence, she was said to have flung into the waiting hands of her mother that her years of “pain were over”.

It was gathered Wednesday that Clara’s mother, had on Tuesday visited their Ozulobu community, Amuda, Umunneoche Local Council of Abia State, where she briefed members of the Eze-in-Council on the development in the marriage between her daughter and Chime.

She was said to have told the council that the marriage was over as the “governor has brought your daughter back under the guise that she is ill and cannot continue with the marriage”.

According to the traditional ruler of Ozuluobu autonomous community, His Highness, Eze Bob Ogbenna: “Clara’s mother (Patience Igwe) told us that the governor promised to take care of her anywhere she is”, adding that he (Chime) also mandated ‘the family to look for cure for her’. They have left for Port Harcourt,” he added.

“I wonder why he thinks that the family should be the one to look for a place to cure her. Whatever be the case, the most important thing now is that our daughter has been released to us”, he said.

Eze Ogbenna added: “Although we have not seen Clara, I am convinced that nothing is wrong with her. We have asked questions through her mother and she has not told us about any misbehaviour or strange attitude. As a family and community, we support that she moves somewhere to recover from the trauma she had been subjected to in the name of marriage. Clara will brief us at the right time”.

Clara had recently raised an alarm over an alleged confinement at the Governor’s Lodge, Enugu, on the orders of her husband. She had written to the human rights organisations, seeking her release.

Governor Chime had, however, denied any such motive, stressing that her wife’s restriction was based on her health challenges and on the advice of her doctors.

Eziachi: The usual tripe from the Nigerian PLC shareholders gathering. As youthful as Dimeji Bankole I presumed.

Okoro2015: Amaechi is obsessed with the kind of spirit of talkativeness only found in rare species of women prostitutes. No wonder he was the only G7 Prostitute portrayed with flat bosoms.

JECBOSS: Exactly my thought. Who then do we believe? I guess none!

Lagos State government has said it will no longer admit student who failed to obtain a 60% pass in its placement examinations into any of its model colleges and other schools

Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye who disclosed this over the weekend at an interactive meeting with Parents Forum of public secondary schools in Lagos State explained that the placement tests are necessary in order to ensure that lofty standards are not only maintained but set in public secondary schools in the state.

Oladunjoye who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mrs. Omolara Erogbogbo urged parents to desist from approaching teachers and other people for the placement of their wards into model colleges and upgraded schools.

She affirmed that students who failed to meet the promotion criteria set out in the state would not be promoted.

The commissioner urged teachers and principals of public secondary schools in the state to adhere strictly to the promotion criteria and guideline in the state.

She said for a JSS I student to be promoted to JSS II, such a student must obtain an average pass of 50% including English and Mathematics in the examination.

According to her, “for a JSS II student to be promoted to JSS III, he or she must also obtain a 50% average pass including English and Mathematics in his or her examination while a JSS III student must obtain credits pass in six subjects including English and Mathematics at the Basic Education Certificate Examinations in order to be promoted to SS I”.

“An SS I student must also averaged 50% in six subjects including English and Mathematics in order to be promoted into SS II class and a SS II student must similarly obtain 50% in 5 subjects including English and Mathematics in addition to a 50% cumulative pass in the screening tests undertaken in schools”.

JECBOSS: Soon this matter will be swept under the carpet and the news goes back to Governor Amaechi and other G7 Governors. It seems corruption is part of the transformation agenda of Mr President. Corruption still remains the hallmark of this administration!

The Federal Government on Wednesday granted Nigerian citizenship to 174 foreigners.

Briefing journalists after the weekly meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation, FEC, chaired by President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday, the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, said a breakdown of the applications submitted included those from 45 ‘Niger Wives’ (foreigners married to Nigerians), and 129 from persons that were born by naturalised Nigerians.

Mr. Moro said another 27 applications were rejected and were not approved by FEC because “they did not meet the basic requirements of tax payment and ability to live their lives in Nigeria without being economic burdens and security problems”.

“A series of factors were taken into consideration, but much more importantly the issue of security that have become very serious consideration especially when foreigners from countries that are prone to violence such as Lebanon and Syria apply to become Nigerian citizens,” the minister said.

The minister also criticised Nigerians who were losing faith in the country.

“We are in this country losing some level of faith in the viability of Nigeria, on the brightness of the future of Nigeria given the level of potential that we have in this country today by some Nigerians and cynics, especially opposition political parties or persons creating an impression that Nigeria is gravitating towards a failed state.

“Yet we have foreigners who have very serious economic interest in Nigeria who have lived in this country, some since independence who are eager to become Nigerian citizens by taking into consideration the economic viability and potential of Nigeria and hoping that their lives can better be lived in this country as Nigerian citizens than citizens of their countries,” he said.

Mr. Moro said the applicants were from diverse countries as Venezuela, Mexico, Thailand, South Korea, Cameroun, Syria, Lebanon, Greece, India, and Singapore.

According to a working document of the FEC, the Interior Minister had presented a memo to Council seeking approval for the report of the cabinet committee to review the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Nigerian Citizenship (ACNC) for the grant of Nigerian citizenship to foreign applicants.

The council had inaugurated a seven-member committee to review the recommendations for the ACNC on the grant of the Nigerian citizenship. The committee then concluded its assignment with a report to council.

The EFCC also submitted its report on the 79 applicants referred to it in 2012; and recommended only 51 out of the 79 applicants for citizenship.