₦airaland Forum

if them like re-commissioned the whole of Edo state,

It is pastor IZE-IYAMU we want as our Governor.

The Ali Modu Sheriff PDP faction have began attempts to shop for loyal Appeal Court judges who will hear the appeal against the judgement many believe they purchased from controversial Justice Okon Abang of Abuja Federal High Court. A source close to Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has told LeadersNG that the Sheriff’s faction are confident of getting a favourable Appeal Court Panel.

The source said the faction of the party have made peersonal contacts with the president of the Court of Appeal and things will work in their favour.

A presidential source has also told LeadersNG that the president will back the Ali Modu Sheriff and will help to ensure they win at the Appeal Court.

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BENIN—There was a mild drama at the Edo State headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Benin, yesterday, as the electoral body allegedly stalled the inspection of ballot papers by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following protest by the All Progressives Congress, APC, that it had filed a motion at the Election Petition Tribunal, restraining INEC from allowing the PDP from inspecting the materials.

But the APC insisted that it did not oppose PDP’s inspection of the electoral materials, but the materials should not be scan.

According to APC state Chairman, Mr. Anslem Ojezua, “We did not oppose the inspection of the ballot papers by the PDP. What we are against is the move by them to scan the materials. This is not their prayer in their petition. Their counting should be done in the open court.”

It will be recalled that the Edo State Election Petition Tribunal, last month, granted both parties leave to inspect the ballot papers used in the conduct of the election.

However, the inspection, which was supposed to be jointly started by both parties at 9:00 a.m. but was cancelled by INEC in collaboration with APC

culled from Vanguard

HtwoOw:
Yeye pipu, senseless pipu


Later you'll come and beg for goof roads and infrastructure

why are you crying more than the bereave ?

Erisco is looking for forex to import tomatoe puree into the country

The grim picture

According to the World Health Organisation, out of 100 per cent Maternal Deaths in the world, Nigeria constitutes about 10 per cent and out of every 100,000 live births, 575 are lost, while 145 women are lost daily due to pregnancy related issues or during childbirth.

Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria says 11,600 maternal deaths were recorded in Nigeria between December 2015 and January 2016.

Last available data from Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy, CAUP, shows that while maternal mortality rate may have reduced in some parts of Lagos like Victoria Island and Surulere slightly, far more than 570 deaths per 100,000 live births were still experienced in places like Alimosho and Epe area of the state with no significant improve in the healthcare systems in these area.


Baruwa and Akinyele PHCs are in Alimosho LGA. Oko-Oba PHC is in Epe LGA.

Expert’s perception

A consultant Paediatrist and Gynaecologist, Dr. Ben Onaiwu, says what is being experienced in PHCs across the state was a result of systemic errors, noting that across the nation, priority has generally not been given to primary healthcare.

“If you check our budget, majority goes to the tertiary level of care, while just little is trickled down to primary healthcare. I don’t think the situation is any different in Lagos State. But if we all fix our healthcare system from the grassroots, there is the likelihood that maternal and newborn deaths will be greatly reduced.”

Onaiwu described primary healthcare as a pyramid where those at the base need more basic healthcare. “Those who will require secondary care will not be as much as those who would require primary healthcare. Same for tertiary and compared to secondary. But why do governments put more focus on tertiary healthcare while neglecting the base of healthcare which is the primary,” he said.

The Special Adviser, PHC to Lagos State Governor, Dr. Olufemi Onanuga says there is a new vigour to tackle issues relating to primary healthcare needs of Lagosians, adding that prioritising healthcare at the grassroots will make life easier for the rural poor.

He said a monitoring team was now in place to pay unscheduled visits to PHCs across the state.

THISDAY couldn’t confirm if the team has paid such unscheduled visits to Oko-Oba, Baruwa and Akinyele PHCs.

According to him, “PHCs that have not been functioning are now being equipped, like Orile Iganmu Primary Health Clinic have been equipped,” adding that the state was also recruiting health workers into flagship PHCs.

Lack of functional Public Health Cares, a motivation to own a TBA clinic

An assertion by the ‘Medical Director’ Mama Metta Traditional Birth Clinic in Iyana Ipaja area of the state, Mrs. Temilade Fayemi, sums up why there exist several hundreds of Traditional Birth Attendants in the state, often regarded by healthcare professionals as unskilled birth attendants.

She never saw reasons to start the practise of TBA full time until she relocated to Iyana Ipaja in 1981 and discovered there was no where for pregnant women to access ante natal care and subsequently delivery. “Though back in Ilupeju, I used to help my father to deliver some of his patients. When I got to Iyana Ipaja, I saw where women were suffering because there was no health facility for them to deliver. I then took it upon myself to help them. Over time, everyone knew me and it became a reason to establish this clinic just to help people,” she said.

Mama Metta said she wonders why journalists and most healthcare professionals do not consider the role of TBAs as very vital, especially in areas where primary health facilities were not available. “Some of us are very well trained in this job because Lagos State government has given us different forms of trainings which has made us better. “TBAs are ready to die with their work because they are always available in the communities, but how many PHCs are available even at night to care for pregnant women?” She queried.

Before THISDAY left her ‘clinic’ at about 3pm, 38 pregnant women had come for ante natal that day alone. She said they were still expecting more before the end of that day. Asked about successes and fatalities, Mama Metta was careful enough not to delve into that. “It is God that knows which will survive or not. Ours is to do our work,” she retorted.

The abysmally poor level of healthcare in Oko-Oba PHC, Baruwa PHC and Akinyele PHC has again may have brought to rest, the imagination by most people in the state, who often wondered why Lagos State did not meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) five, which is on maternal and newborn health, despite the enormous economic resources at its disposal, as well as the number of healthcare professionals when compared to other states of the federation.

Of the 36 states in the country, including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, only Ondo State met MDG five, while the remaining states are still grappling with reducing maternal and child deaths.

Akinyele PHC, a facility operating at a suboptimal level

Unlike Oko-Oba and Baruwa health centre, Akinyele PHC in Abesan Estate was open for business when THISDAY visited Friday, 14th October, even though just few health workers were on ground to attend to people. But one thing was common to all health facilities visited; they all don’t have doctors manning the facilities.

A nurse who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said apart from not having doctors, they were short of health workers, hence they do not do 24 hours, adding that once its 3pm or latest 4pm they lock up the facility till the next day.

On whether pregnant women access the facility for delivery and ante natal, she said they were lacking a lot of facilities, like drugs and other treatment tools needed for safe delivery and other types of treatment. “Only few women come here for delivery, but during immunisation days, you will find a lot of women here with their children,” she adds.

Ironically, the other two facilities visited by THISDAY had a well built structure, supposedly dedicated to PHC, but Akinyele PHC that was open to the public operates from a dilapidate building with just three rooms built like stores.

Appeal court and APC working hand-in-hand to frustrate PDP

Appeal court and APC working hand-in-hand to frustrate PDP in ondo election.

I see no reason why the judges should step down just because of mere accusation.

This is just a ploy be bot appeal court/APC to delay justice till after election, because they know jomoh Ibrahim can't win.

Akinyele Public Health Care (PHC), a facility operating at a suboptimal level

Unlike Oko-Oba and Baruwa health centre, Akinyele PHC in Abesan Estate was open for business when THISDAY visited Friday, 14th October, even though just few health workers were on ground to attend to people. But one thing was common to all health facilities visited; they all don’t have doctors manning the facilities.

A nurse who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said apart from not having doctors, they were short of health workers, hence they do not do 24 hours, adding that once its 3pm or latest 4pm they lock up the facility till the next day.

On whether pregnant women access the facility for delivery and ante natal, she said they were lacking a lot of facilities, like drugs and other treatment tools needed for safe delivery and other types of treatment. “Only few women come here for delivery, but during immunisation days, you will find a lot of women here with their children,” she adds.

Ironically, the other two facilities visited by THISDAY had a well built structure, supposedly dedicated to PHC, but Akinyele PHC that was open to the public operates from a dilapidate building with just three rooms built like stores.

Baruwa PHC, a no go area for women and children

Like the Oko-Oba healthcare centre, the Baruwa PHC in Ipaja area of the state is not any different. The facility is one of those government buildings community members wished was converted to museums or town hall facility. It is ideally meant to serve the healthcare needs of the over 400,000 people living in Baruwa and some parts of Ipaja, but it has not lived up to its billings.

THISDAY’s visit to the centre at about 2pm on Wednesday 12th October, showed that like the Oko-Oba PHC, the facility was also under lock and key, and grasses have taken over it, with no clear walk way from the front of the building to the main door leading to the lobby; a scenario suggesting the facility has not been in use for a long time.

But same cannot be said of other houses around the PHC, as they were seen to be tidy and habitable. Only the PHC in the area had the odd look, like an abandoned building.

Since no health worker was on ground for a chat with this reporter, he decided to move round the community and hear the people’s perception about the government facility and how useful it has been to them.

One of the residents, Mrs. Adekunle Oluwatoyin, a teacher, said the people of Baruwa and its environs have given up on the facility because anytime they go there, they no longer come out with desired results as against the previous practise many years ago, adding that now, people resort to other means of healthcare, rather than depend on the government’s facility.

“Many years ago, this health centre used to be very active because then they had drugs, doctors and nurses were on ground to attend to patients, but now, the only active thing happening in the PHC is the monthly immunisation. That is only why we take our children there, and it is just once a month,” she explained.

According to her, since the beginning of the present administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, the PHC has lost its glory and name because there has not been a single doctor or nurse on ground to attend to the various health emergencies that occur in the community every now and then.

“I remember when my last child was ill about four years ago. I took her there and she was attended to promptly. But sometime last year when she had same issue, I didn’t bother taking her there again because you will not find anybody to attend to you. Even if you are lucky to see a nurse there, she will tell you there is no facility on ground to treat patients. Even plaster is not available in that healthcare centre,” she said.

How do pregnant women, especially the poor ones, access ante natal and/or delivery? Adekunle said that is why there were several Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) everywhere in the community, as they have decided to use the lack of proper healthcare by the government to their advantage.

“We have never had the number of TBAs we have now in this community, but the situation of things in the PHC has made our women choose what is available. Almost every pregnant woman here registers for ante natal in any of the numerous TBAs around. Also, that is where they give birth because they regard it as not just pocket friendly, but very accessible and most importantly an available alternative to the government facility,” she noted.

A chat with one of the women whose younger sister in the community uses TBAs during pregnancy and delivery, Mrs. Amina Nurudeen, showed that in recent years, women and their newborns have lost their lives due to the inaccessibility of skilled birth attendants and functioning PHCs around.

“When my younger sister had her pregnancy, she went to register in one of the TBAs where she started ante natal, but on the day of delivery, it was out of share luck and God’s mercy that she came out alive. There was complication as it was later discovered during delivery. She was carrying twins in her, but the birth attendant was only able to bring out the first child. The second child became difficult to deliver. They started giving my sister all manner of concoctions to force the baby out, but she was already dying because she had lost strength and blood.

“It was when someone rushed to call me that I knew the battle my sister was fighting. The TBA was helpless as it were. I immediately chartered a taxi that took her to a private hospital in Ayobo area of the state, where she was then saved. The second child could however not make it alive because the concoctions and delays may have affected his health,” Nurudeen stated.

She said the situation was not only exclusive to her sister, but that several newborns have been lost lately due to the practise of some TBAs in the community who were not skilled in the act of delivery and post-delivery care.

“I can’t say the job of TBAs in this community is bad because they are doing what the government is unable to provide for the people. But the issue is that not all of them are good in this job. Some always have one or two stories of either losing their patients or the children, though on a large scale, they are delivering women here better, when compared to what the PHC offers,” she said.

THISDAY investigations showed that when officials from the Ministry of Health are carrying out their supervision to healthcare centres, the ‘part time’ staff of Baruwa PHCs converge in the facility to receive them, and after which disappears into thin air until the next head count or immunisation day when their services will be needed.

A source, whose sister supposedly works with the PHC said she was surprised two weeks ago to see her sister dressed for work one morning. “I asked why she was going to work today, and her reply was that they were expecting people from Alausa, hence they had to converge in the centre to make it look like the place was functioning. After their supervisors left, my sister returned home. I am not sure she has attended work since then,” she said.

To be doubly sure of the observation experienced on Wednesday the 12th of October, THISDAY, again, visited the facility on Friday, 14th October at about the same time as two days before. The health facility was still under lock and key.

A passerby told this reporter that a snake was killed just a day before in the compound, and that he had not seen any staff in the facility that day. “May be you should come during the immunisation day, because this place will be full of women, children and some workers of the health centre,” he said.

The sorry state of some Primary Health Centres in Lagos State has forced pregnant women to resort to self help or seek alternative healthcare in traditional and mission birth clinics, which are in no small measure leading to increasing deaths of women and newborns in the state, Martins Ifijeh reports

Alone and deserted is a fenced building with a swampy road leading to several communities in Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State, just about three kilometres from the tarred road. A casual look suggests it is an abandoned building overtaken by weeds, but the newly introduced mini sign posts by Lagos State government for direction to public institutions give a clue. It is the Oko-Oba Primary Health Centre.

But the bleakness of the building showed it has not lived up to its name in recent times. Goats and fowls were seen at strategic locations of the compound, while the level of growth of weeds suggests reptiles and other dangerous animals might be lurking around. A scenario that shows truly, the over half a million people have deserted the facility.

As at 1pm on Tuesday the 11th of October when THISDAY visited, the facility was under lock and key with no one in sight. There was no electrical power connected from the pole into the building, suggesting it was never designed to have power at all, or more directly, it was probably never designed to attend to patients, since light and running water are critical and important facilities for a clinic.

When Nigeria, along with other member countries of the World Health Organisation (WHO) adopted the 1978 Alma Ata Declaration, it agreed to provide accessible and affordable primary health centres for the grassroots such that healthcare will be much closer to the people. But the over 500,000 people in various communities under the Oko-Oba PHC have been disadvantaged already from their statutory right; right to healthcare.

Just as THISDAY was about leaving the compound, a resident of Ojaoko Oba community, Mr. Akeem Lacis, who was surprised seeing someone in the building said there were no workers manning the facility anymore, except for a woman who he said comes once in a while.

“She didn’t come to work today. Maybe you should come next week if you must see her,” Lacis said, adding that, if the reporter’s purpose of seeing the health worker was for treatment, that he should not bother coming back as the facility has no single drug for treatment.

Further discussions with Lacis showed that the people in the various communities have given up on the facility since the past two years, adding that people stopped patronising the centre months after it was inaugurated when they discovered there were no health workers, other than the woman who doubles as the nurse, doctor, cleaner and gateman.

“Many of my community people have brought their children and pregnant women here before, but they were never treated because drugs and other treatment facilities are not available,” Lacis said.

According to him, overtime, the once elated members of the various communities who felt their health needs would be met with the establishment of the health facility decided to take their destinies in their hands by patronising local traditional healers, and in some cases, some lose their lives to the lack of access to quality healthcare, which ordinarily the clinic was meant to provide.

“When they inaugurated this place, all our pregnant women were eager to register for ante natal here because it was somewhat like an upgrade for us. They were proud to tell their neigbhours and who ever cared to listen that they were going to the clinic for ante natal because everything was functioning well, including the presence of a doctor. But everything started going down with time. The doctor left because government refused to pay him, same with the nurses. Seems government no longer budget for this place at all,” he queried.

He said many people die in the area every now and then because of the lack of healthcare. “From here to the next health facility is about two hours journey on bike, because as you can see, cars cannot enter our communities due to the bad roads. All our transportation here during rainy season must be either with bike or bicycle,” he said.

Lacis imagined how members of the communities would carry their pregnant wives who were in labour on bikes for a two hours journey to the nearest health facility, adding that this has contributed to the maternal and child deaths in the various communities.

“When a pregnant woman has an emergency either during the day or night, there is no health facility around that can help save her and the child. There is even no private health centre here as well. So its either the woman in pain is taken to any of the unskilled birth attendants scattered all over the communities or taken on a two hour journey to the nearest health centre in Epe town.

“We are witnesses to the many deaths that have occurred among our pregnant women and newborns because they are unable to access health facilities on time or are being attended to by unskilled birth attendants,” he noted.

He said the matter has been reported on several occasions to the former Chairman of Epe Local Government Area, as well as the present Sole Administrator, Hon. Olu Ogunniyi, but that nothing has been done so far to address their health needs. “We have also complained to this new local government boss that our women and children were dying because of the sorry state of the health centre. He promised to do something about it, but till date, we have heard nothing from him or even the State government,” Lacis said.

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is expected to name a new Chief Justice on Thursday. The commissioners are currently on a retreat to deliberate over the best candidate to replace Willy Mutunga after concluding interviews for 12 candidates who applied for the position.
Sources at JSC said the commissioners would be guided by the Judicial Service Commission Act, which mandates them to name the successful applicant within seven days after the conclusion of interviews.
Ann Amadi, the JSC secretary who doubles up as the Judiciary’s chief registrar will be responsible for administering the voting and will declare the voting complete after all the applicants have been considered and all members have voted. “The JSC Act is very clear on what follows at the end of the interviews. That is what is guiding us as we go through the selection process,” said the source.
Those interviewed were Supreme Court judges Jackton Ojwang and Smokin Wanjala, Court of Appeal judges Alnasir Visram, David Maraga and Roselyn Nambuye, and High Court judge Mbogholi Msagha, retired judge Aaron Ringera, senior counsel Nzamba Kitonga, US-based law lecturer Makau Mutua, Daniel Wambura and Lucy Wanja. Paul Udoto opted out.

culled from www.leadersNG.com

A Niger Delta activist, Comrade Paul Bebenimibo, has claimed that any meeting of Niger Delta leaders with President Muhammadu Buhari without one of the former militant leaders, Government Ekpemupolo, otherwise known as Tompolo, will not be successful.

According to Bebenimibo, those parading themselves as Niger Delta leaders were not in touch with the people.

The activist in a statement issued in Benin City on Monday, urged the Federal Government to make effort to identify the true stakeholders in the Niger Delta to achieve peace in the region.

He stated that the commencement of the Maritime University at Okerenkoko and the private sector driven $16 billion EPZ project, would guarantee a conducive atmosphere for dialogue.

culled from www.leadersNG.com

desire21a:
.if it different from decleared. This is what the function should be

don't die decause of GEJ

please tell osinbanjo that campaign has since ended,

it is only 2yrs left in their adminstation

Qmerit:
Liars called Lawyers

what about those thatprotested against the Judges?


in your eyes they are saint.

I pity people like you

Qmerit:
Liars called Lawyers

what those paid protesters that protested aganst the judges ?

in your eyes they are saint.

Zombie

Militancy in the Niger Delta region is as old as the country itself. So, it is trite to attribute its advent to the current administration in any form. Only children that have been growing without the benefits of history lessons would not remember that there was some minority rights militancy in Niger Delta years ago, which bred a legend called Isaac Adaka Boro who died on May 9, 1968. It is undisputable that agitations in the area partially triggered some of the internal wars, notably the civil wars that the nation survived in the seventies. Besides, militancy in the area actually propelled political actions that led to the choice of a Niger Delta governor (Bayelsa State’s) as a vice presidential running mate to candidate Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2007. And the ‘political correctness’ was consolidated in 2011 when the 2007 running mate Goodluck Jonathan, was elected president and in office until power changed hands democratically in May 2015.

Lest we forget too, agitation in the Niger Delta area led to a political project called “Niger Delta Amnesty Programme” to repentant militants during the administration of President Yar’Adua (2007-2010). What is more, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and Niger Delta Ministry were created to serve the same purpose: development to address challenges in the volatile region.

Expectedly, heavy price has been paid for the unrelenting efforts of militants in the area as trillions of Naira have been lost to agitations including blowing up of economic assets, (oil installations) in the area.

Indeed, the incalculable destruction of assets has been viewed as one of the critical factors responsible for the collapse of the Nigerian foreign reserve profile and concomitant inflation and recession plaguing Nigeria at the moment.
It must be acknowledged that the previous governments and the present one have applied various strategies including subtle diplomacy or moral suasions and military tactics to reassert sovereignty of the state for sustainable economic growth, but without much success. This is unfortunate. But despite these sordid backgrounds, a recent comment by the President that militants in the Niger Delta area had an objective to colonise Nigeria has raised some curiosity that is capable of undermining conflict resolution mechanism being forged for the area.

This is the origin of the recent presidential Freudian slip: President Muhammadu Buhari in a meeting with a visiting Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Frank Walters Steinmeier at the State House, Abuja, had noted that the objective of the militancy in Niger Delta region was to colonise Nigeria. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari said: “But another serious form of insecurity has reared its head on the Niger-Delta. The objective is to colonise the country economically by sabotaging oil and gas installations. We are trying to speak with their leaders to know how many groups there are and we are also working with the oil companies. The militants engage in sophisticated sabotage using skills they had gained from trainings either by government, or the oil companies to vandalise installations deep in the sea…”

The president also lamented to the foreigner that the Niger-Delta situation had become more complex, since the militants had no central command, and some of them had been mere extortionists.

Unfortunately, the president’s responses to militancy in the Niger-Delta region so far are capable of aggravating situation. Presidents do not speak so regularly to such situations this way. Speeches from the throne are very influential. Government’s militant attitude to the agitators in groups no fewer than 10 including the famous ones like the Niger-Delta Avengers (NDA), the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta (MEND) has been immature. Without compromising sovereignty of the state, applying diplomacy and conflict resolution mechanisms such as caution and persuasion needed to assuage the region that has had a feeling of being historically short-changed in the scheme of things is not a sign of weakness. Sovereignty derives from only the people that the government itself has a responsibility to protect and dispense welfare to. This is what the constitution guarantees. Every stakeholder in the Nigerian project wants peace in the region that hosts the economic assets. It is presidential courage and wisdom to avoid unconscionable, irritating and inflammatory statements that can undermine peace and security, in this regard.

It should be recalled at all times that the cause of militancy in the Niger-Delta religion of Nigeria is the age-long deprivation of the basic economic rights and social welfare of the people of the region that hosts the main source of the nation’s revenue through oil and gas. Their demand for a fair and equitable share from such resources cannot, in any case, be described as colonising tactics. Colonisation would only arise if the agitators were non-Nigerians. Indeed, the Niger Delta agitators are bonafide citizens of this country and so have the inalienable rights to demand better life and opportunities for their people. Their reactions, in this connection cannot be interpreted as colonialism in its classical meaning. Describing them as colonialists or extortionists in this historical context, would amount to giving a dog a bad name in order to hang him. The president should as a matter of urgency modify these statements in the interest of peace and corporate existence of the country he has a historic mandate to lead at the moment.
This is no time for demonisation of a region. How else could the same presidency classify militants in the North East known as Boko Haram who indeed have been on a self-confessed mission to Islamise Nigeria? Should the insurgents be profiled by the presidency too as a classical example of religious colonialism?

In this regard, all the stakeholders including those speaking for the militants should take part in negotiations to end militancy instead of adopting violent means that can harm the economy. The current initiative (negotiation) that some forces in Abuja have been reportedly frustrating should be fruitful because it is in public interest. Brain, not brawn is required at this time.

Banks are taking their scarce assets to governments as foreign exchange crisis and economic recession threaten return of investments.

Lending rates to different sectors of the economy for the month of September as published by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) show that deposit money banks see higher risks in lending to the private sector, including agriculture.

Loans to governments and Mining & Quarrying remain the lowest at 24 and 23 per cent respectively. For general commerce, oil and gas, construction, manufacturing, mortgage and agriculture, banks would charge the highest rates at 27 per cent on the average. Ostensibly due to exchange rate volatility, interest on loans to general commerce peaks at 30.14 per cent among 21 banks — the highest according to checks by The Guardian.

Apart from government’s special credit schemes for agriculture, commercial banks are not very keen on lending to the sector as the average interest rate for agric. loans stands at 26 percent.

culled from Guardian

The woman who was reportedly assaulted by the Onojie of Uromi in Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, Mrs. Betty Okoebor, on Sunday begged the monarch for forgiveness.

The traditional ruler and Ojuromi of Uromi, His Royal Highness, Anslem Aidenojie II, had been suspended for seven days by the state executive council for allegedly attacking the woman and causing her “bodily harm,” among other alleged offences.

But the victim, Okoebor, who knelt before the monarch at his residence in Benin, in the presence of some Uromi elders, said that her plea became necessary as it was not customary for a traditional ruler to seek forgiveness from his subjects.



The woman, who was accompanied by some of her relatives, noted that she was not coerced into taking the decision, which she said was based on the fact the Ojuromi remained her father.

“I have offended my father and have come to him for forgiveness. He has forgiven me and also prayed for me,” Okoebor added.

In his reaction, the Ojuromi of Uromi said that the woman had a “little disagreement” with the palace and for which she apologised.

Aidenojie II said, “Betty is my daughter; she had little disagreement with the palace and she has come to apologise.

“As a father, I have forgiven her and have also prayed for her to have good health, prosperity and success in every aspect of her endeavour.”

culled from Punch

Mynd44:
Lmaoooooo.

When we have a Senate that us filled with politician who are moved more by corruption, things like this is what happens

oops

you are a moderator,

you are not suppose to comment talk-less of taking side

Unblockable:
Were you a kid when the Deji of Akure was sacked for assaulting his wife in public?

Deji of Akure can be sacked , after-all there is no difference between a yoruba Oba and a motor park chairman,

we Edos, hold our tradition, culture and customs to high esteem.

as for oshiomole, his days is already numbered, so the palace should ignore him.

Nkemtreasure:
What will he say? No developments to discuss apart from kitchen things.

whenever he answers questions from journalist, you know something is wrong somwhere

The president is suppose to brief nigerian every 3 months on economy, polity and security situation of the country,

but PMB is kept quiet so far,

Is it that APC is shielding Nigerian from observing something about PMB during interviews

I observed that PMB has only done one presidential media chat since his inception of office.

As the president he is suppose to hold presidential media chat every 3-months as done by obasanjo and jonathan,

Can anyone tell us when the next presidential media chat is going to hold?

what about Amechi, when is he going to be suspended for Judge bribery allegations ?

Good moves by the senate.

Appointment of INEC chairman should also be taken away from the presidency

Abuja: The crucial meeting called by the Presidency with leaders of the Niger Delta region, which was slated for October 29, has been moved to the November 1, 2016, a key member of the group, has said.

The information moving the meeting to the new date was passed to the Edwin Clark-led Pan-Niger Delta States Consultative Forum by Petroleum Minister, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu, according to one of the leaders.

The meeting, according to the source, has been shifted to allow for more consultation among the various stakeholders who are to meet with the President Muhammadu Buhari, his security aides, Niger Delta governors and about 40 representatives of the Niger Delta region. No fewer than 13 top class traditional rulers and prominent leaders are expected to take part in the peace parley aimed at ending the dastardly bombing of oil facilities in the troubled Niger Delta region.

A leading member of the Pan Niger Delta States Consultative Forum told Vanguard that they would also use the window provided by the shift to meet with aggrieved Niger Delta youths in the creeks to appease them and seek their support and cooperation for the crucial meeting.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/bombings-buhariniger-delta-leaders-peace-parley-shifted/

friimarket01:
keep blowing it up shey na my papa land you dey pollute?

so you are complaining of injustice and you are dealing injustice to your future Generation by destroying the environment. how does that even make sense?


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9niceguy:
I will not insult you, my parent never thought me that....
My question to you is, what is the number of these miscreants you claim to be speaking the mind of Edo people?
If truly majority of Edo people disagree with the result, the whole city will be shut down due to protest.....and if they should reschedule the election people like you will be the one shouting that buhari is wasting your money..
The election has come and gone and if they are not satisfied let them go to the court and let them provide their evidence.
It's not right for them to litter our country with their placards.
thanks
Yours faithfully
clockpulse

It is docile youth like you that is stagnating this nation