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Research and Innovation is really needed in our tertiary institutions. We have many professors in our universities yet we can't build machines, vehicles and planes not even motorcycles and tricycles. We still import everything.

Good advice:
Marry the person you love and live happily after. Live your life full of love and peace.

Bad advice:
Don't marry the person you love.
Marry the person you hate and live hatefully after. Live your life full of hatred and violence.

Your choices determines the quality of life you will live. Simple.

Bad management and stupid banking polices are killing the bank.
They became proud and arrogant and started maltreating their customers immediately after they were rated number one bank in Nigeria. Pride goes before fall. Now the bank is in free fall to the bottom of the banking sector because they are maltreating and exploiting their customers.

OpenAI and other AI companies must build Guard rails that guide the AI systems to proper conduct and prevent it from harming people and causing damage.

@seun
Do the needful. Please.

Deborah almost made it. 😭😭😭

The school authorities had tried to keep her safe. They had hidden her inside the school security office. A taxi had been called to rush her off campus. All she had to do was make it out of the office and into the taxi. But she didn't make it.

Let's talk about it.

Deborah Samuel Yakubu was a 200-level Home Economics student at the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State. She was 21 years old.

Her class had a WhatsApp group. It was meant for announcements, lectures, exams—you know, the sort of group that almost every class has. Eventually, people started sending all sorts of things into the chat. It wasn't just about school anymore. Religious messages were being shared there regularly.

According to reports, Deborah objected to that.

On the morning of May 12, 2022, she sent a voice note to the group chat. She was speaking Hausa. She said that people needed to stop sending things unrelated to schoolwork into the group chat. She also made comments about the Prophet Muhammad that some members of the group believed to be bl@sphemous.

At first, after her message, the group went silent. Then the replies started coming—disbelief, @nger, and even more @nger.

According to several reports, some people in the group told Deborah to withdraw what she had said and apologize. But she didn't. Whether she believed she had done nothing wrong or simply didn't realize how serious the situation had become is not something I can say for sure.

That voice note did not stay within the group for long. Before long, it had spread beyond the class WhatsApp group. It reached people outside the campus.

Deborah came from a Christian family. For some of the people listening to the recording, it wasn't just what she had said that @ngered them. It was also the fact that they believed someone who wasn't a Muslim had ins¥lted the Prophet Muhammad.

The atmosphere was changing. Something was coming.

News of the voice note spread quickly. Some students wanted Deborah p¥nished. Others tried to calm the situation and explain that she hadn't meant it that way.

Around 9:00 that morning, the situation had become so serious that the school contacted the police for help. They reported that a m0b was beginning to gather.

Realizing that Deborah was no longer s@fe, the school authorities rushed her to the school security office and locked her inside while arrangements were made to get her off campus. According to reports, a taxi had already been called to take her to the police station.

She was very close to getting out.

But before she could make it out of the security office and into the taxi, the crowd f0rced its way to where she was. They dragged her outside.

Before we proceed, say no to sharia law in Yorùbá land, either you're a Christian, Muslim or traditional adherent. The law will surely cause ch∆os and conq¥er us for Fulani jihadists.

What happened next was captured on video.

Deborah was pull€d out of the security office. She was shouted at, p¥shed, be@ten, and p£lted with st0nes. The @ttack was relentless and extremely vi0lent.

Eventually, tayas were placed around her b0dy, and she was s€t on faya.

The @ttack happened in broad daylight on the school campus, in front of a crowd. Nobody seemed able to stop what was happening. More and more people joined the @ttack, while others recorded it.

Later, those videos spread across Nigeria, leaving many people h0rrified.

The reaction was immediate.

Shehu Shagari College of Education was shut down indefinitely. The police announced that two suspects had been arrested in connection with Deborah's k1lling.

The Sultan of Sokoto condemned what had happened and called for those responsible to be brought to justice. President Muhammadu Buhari also condemned the k!lling, saying that no one had the right to take the law into their own hands. He ordered an investigation.

But the arrests did not calm everyone down.

Instead, protests broke out in parts of Sokoto. Some protesters demanded that the two suspects be released immediately. Ch∆os was brewing.

A curfew was imposed across the city.

The reaction to Deborah's k!lling was not limited to Sokoto. Politicians, religious leaders, and human rights organizations across Nigeria condemned the k!lling.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar initially condemned Deborah's killing on social media. However, after facing backlash from some people in the comments, he deleted the post. He said it had been misrepresented and was creating more division. He also said he hadn't written it himself.

The protests did not remain p£aceful. Churches were @ttacked. Christian-owned businesses and buildings were vandalized. Vehicles were burned. It was absolute chaos.

Bishop Matthew Kukah later said that several Catholic churches and church properties had also been t@rgeted.

Eventually, the case went to court.

Remember, two men had been arrested in connection with Deborah's k1lling. Many people expected them to face m¥rder charges. Instead, they were charged with criminal conspiracy and inciting public disturbance.

That decision sh0cked many Nigerians. Lawyers and human rights organizations questioned why the charges did not reflect the fact that Deborah had been k!lled. Who was going to answer for her m¥rder?

The two accused men were represented by 34 lawyers. Meanwhile, the prosecution repeatedly failed to appear in court. The case was postponed again and again.

Eventually, the court struck out the case after the prosecution repeatedly failed to present its case.

Years later, Amnesty International stated that Deborah's killers still had not been brought to justice.

After Deborah was buried, her family's life changed. They no longer felt safe where they lived.

Apostle Chibuzo Okafor, the founder of Omega Power Ministries, stepped in. Reports say that he relocated Deborah's family to Port Harcourt, provided them with a home, gave them a car, helped her parents start a business, and supported them as they rebuilt their lives.

So yes, they survived, thank God. But they had to start life over in a different city without their daughter because of something that began in a class WhatsApp group.

Wild.

Read David Mark's Monday, April 11, 1994 Interview of How He And Other Military Officers Brought Abacha To Power.

He Also Claimed That He and His Colleagues Refused To Validate Chief MKO Abiola's June 12, 1993 Victory Because Yoruba Obas Wanted Full-Scale Military Rule. This Claim Was Later Debunked By Multiple Yoruba Obas and Elders, Who Claimed It Was An Excuse David Mark And His Colleagues Used To Topple The Civilian Administration of Earnest Shonekan.

Newswatch: What happened?

Mark: When we saw that things were getting out of control in the country and it had become obvious that the interim government could not hold an election and the ship of state was drifting precariously, we reluctantly decided that the military should again intervene. When we met, we considered three possible options. The first option was to give Shonekan and his team the teeth to be able to bite and conduct the presidential election successfully as was in the transition programme. The second option was to go for a short but full military regime for six months and conduct only the presidential election thereafter. And the third option was a mixed grill, a diluted military regime for no more than one year, culminating again in a presidential election.

Most of us favoured option one for obvious reasons. We believed that Nigeria at that time, was not in the mood for a military regime. People were no longer prepared to tolerate the military. In addition, most of us were acutely aware that the entire world was moving toward democracy. The dramatic effects of the last few years-the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rise of democratic movements around the world clearly galvanised that point.

Newswatch: How were you to accomplish this?

Mark: We were to accomplish option one by openly telling the nation that the military was strongly behind Shonekan and his team in their effort to complete the transition programme successfully. General Abacha was to make the announcement and warn the State Governments that were not cooperating that they risked being removed and state of emergency being declared in their states. We were to be emphatic and unequivocal in our support for Shonekan and his team. But surprisingly the Governors did not want Shonekan to succeed. They made Abacha's home their pilgrimage point and urged Abacha to take over power.

The second option was a short full fledged military regime for six months - we discarded this for obvious reasons, some of which I have already told you.

This option presented more problems than we could handle at that time. The problems included possible economic sanctions from the western world, head on collision with the international monetary and financial institutions; if at that late stage in our march towards democracy we returned to military government again, it would completely undermine our leadership role in the African continent. And more importantly there was the possibility of being disgraced out of office by a civilian uprising. We were not even sure that the soldiers in the barracks who had also witnessed the move toward democracy around the world, would be supportive. Why should they anyway when their condition is worse off in a military regime? And we realised sadly too that the solution to our economic and political problems could not be solved by simple military decree.

The third option, which was a longer one, was a diluted military arrangement for no more than one year. Within this one year we were to conduct all the elections from local government chairmanship to the presidential. After all, Obasanjo and Yar'Adua did their elections in one year; therefore there was no reason why we could not have done the same.

In all the three options, there were a few constants. The two political parties were to remain, although they could be renamed if the politicians so desired, government was to stop funding the political parties. Parties were to fund themselves, the parties were not to be treated as government parastatals. The parties were to refund N100 million each back to the government. Independent candidacy was to be allowed in all the elections and as much as possible each of the two political parties was to nominate a southern presidential candidate for obvious reasons.

Newstwatch: By southern Presidential candidate do you mean a Yoruba?

Mark: No not necessarily, I mean a candidate from the Southern part of Nigeria. He could be Igbo or any Southern minority.

Newswatch: You did not appear to have settled on any of the three options. What we now have bears no resemblance to all the careful calculations. What happened?

Mark: Yes we did settle on an option. At the end of a stormy debate, we favoured option one which marked the beginning of a major disagreement within the group. Eventually, General Abacha and Diya reluctantly agreed but with the proviso that Diya "would sound out the CD, CLO, Yoruba leaders of thought, the elders, and the Obas to see if option three would be acceptable." Diya confirmed that he sent Onagoruwa to meet the Ala'afin and to tell him that the Ooni was opposed to a military regime in hope thereby to get his support, since Diya knew the two traditional rulers rarely agreed on any one issue. He also added that he had discussed with Jakande who was prepared to abandon Abiola if he was offered the position of Minister of External Affairs or Finance. Diya maintained that most Yoruba leaders would settle on any other Yoruba man, apart from an Egbaman, as a presidential candidate. He eventually assured us that after an extensive consultation with Gani, Beko, Falana, Onagoruwa, the CLO, CD, the elders, the Obas, and the leaders of thought, they agreed to support total military regime for no less than five years to put the economy right. He then arranged for Onagoruwa to go and thank all those involved as well as seek the support of other eminent Yorubas.

Newswatch: Was Diya's assurance of the support of the Yoruba all you needed to adopt option three?

Mark: Yes, option three, as originally conceived, that is for one year because our concern at that state was how best to defuse the tension in the western part of the country and assure the Yorubas that there was no plan to deliberately deny them or any section of the country, for that matter, the presidency.

Like I said earlier we were also worried about the popularity and support of the CD and CLO in the Yoruba speaking area. Happily we were assured that Onagoruwa had taken care of that sector.

Newswatch: If all of you were anxious for democracy, did you consider reversing the annulment of the June 12 election?

Mark: No.


Newswatch: Why?

Mark: Because after Diya, consulted with the Yoruba leaders of thought, they unanimously and unequivocally agreed to forego June 12 and instead opted for a military government. It was at this point that Diya again raised the issue of discarding option one because Chief Shonekan would deliberately ensure that Abiola was one of the presidential candidates. He said that would be against the wishes of the Obas and the Yoruba leaders of thought.

PETER OBI BOUGHT £1 MILLION HOUSE IN UK IN 6 MONTHS AS ABACHA WORKER
Hear Peter Obi Boast of Buying a House In London For £1 Million, Six Months After Abacha Appointed Him Into His Government On April 24, 1996. Video is at link given below:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1267303472250041/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Read David Mark's Monday, April 11, 1994 Interview of How He And Other Military Officers Brought Abacha To Power.

He Also Claimed That He and His Colleagues Refused To Validate Chief MKO Abiola's June 12, 1993 Victory Because Yoruba Obas Wanted Full-Scale Military Rule. This Claim Was Later Debunked By Multiple Yoruba Obas and Elders, Who Claimed It Was An Excuse David Mark And His Colleagues Used To Topple The Civilian Administration of Earnest Shonekan.

Newswatch: What happened?

Mark: When we saw that things were getting out of control in the country and it had become obvious that the interim government could not hold an election and the ship of state was drifting precariously, we reluctantly decided that the military should again intervene. When we met, we considered three possible options. The first option was to give Shonekan and his team the teeth to be able to bite and conduct the presidential election successfully as was in the transition programme. The second option was to go for a short but full military regime for six months and conduct only the presidential election thereafter. And the third option was a mixed grill, a diluted military regime for no more than one year, culminating again in a presidential election.

Most of us favoured option one for obvious reasons. We believed that Nigeria at that time, was not in the mood for a military regime. People were no longer prepared to tolerate the military. In addition, most of us were acutely aware that the entire world was moving toward democracy. The dramatic effects of the last few years-the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rise of democratic movements around the world clearly galvanised that point.

Newswatch: How were you to accomplish this?

Mark: We were to accomplish option one by openly telling the nation that the military was strongly behind Shonekan and his team in their effort to complete the transition programme successfully. General Abacha was to make the announcement and warn the State Governments that were not cooperating that they risked being removed and state of emergency being declared in their states. We were to be emphatic and unequivocal in our support for Shonekan and his team. But surprisingly the Governors did not want Shonekan to succeed. They made Abacha's home their pilgrimage point and urged Abacha to take over power.

The second option was a short full fledged military regime for six months - we discarded this for obvious reasons, some of which I have already told you.

This option presented more problems than we could handle at that time. The problems included possible economic sanctions from the western world, head on collision with the international monetary and financial institutions; if at that late stage in our march towards democracy we returned to military government again, it would completely undermine our leadership role in the African continent. And more importantly there was the possibility of being disgraced out of office by a civilian uprising. We were not even sure that the soldiers in the barracks who had also witnessed the move toward democracy around the world, would be supportive. Why should they anyway when their condition is worse off in a military regime? And we realised sadly too that the solution to our economic and political problems could not be solved by simple military decree.

The third option, which was a longer one, was a diluted military arrangement for no more than one year. Within this one year we were to conduct all the elections from local government chairmanship to the presidential. After all, Obasanjo and Yar'Adua did their elections in one year; therefore there was no reason why we could not have done the same.

In all the three options, there were a few constants. The two political parties were to remain, although they could be renamed if the politicians so desired, government was to stop funding the political parties. Parties were to fund themselves, the parties were not to be treated as government parastatals. The parties were to refund N100 million each back to the government. Independent candidacy was to be allowed in all the elections and as much as possible each of the two political parties was to nominate a southern presidential candidate for obvious reasons.

Newstwatch: By southern Presidential candidate do you mean a Yoruba?

Mark: No not necessarily, I mean a candidate from the Southern part of Nigeria. He could be Igbo or any Southern minority.

Newswatch: You did not appear to have settled on any of the three options. What we now have bears no resemblance to all the careful calculations. What happened?

Mark: Yes we did settle on an option. At the end of a stormy debate, we favoured option one which marked the beginning of a major disagreement within the group. Eventually, General Abacha and Diya reluctantly agreed but with the proviso that Diya "would sound out the CD, CLO, Yoruba leaders of thought, the elders, and the Obas to see if option three would be acceptable." Diya confirmed that he sent Onagoruwa to meet the Ala'afin and to tell him that the Ooni was opposed to a military regime in hope thereby to get his support, since Diya knew the two traditional rulers rarely agreed on any one issue. He also added that he had discussed with Jakande who was prepared to abandon Abiola if he was offered the position of Minister of External Affairs or Finance. Diya maintained that most Yoruba leaders would settle on any other Yoruba man, apart from an Egbaman, as a presidential candidate. He eventually assured us that after an extensive consultation with Gani, Beko, Falana, Onagoruwa, the CLO, CD, the elders, the Obas, and the leaders of thought, they agreed to support total military regime for no less than five years to put the economy right. He then arranged for Onagoruwa to go and thank all those involved as well as seek the support of other eminent Yorubas.

Newswatch: Was Diya's assurance of the support of the Yoruba all you needed to adopt option three?

Mark: Yes, option three, as originally conceived, that is for one year because our concern at that state was how best to defuse the tension in the western part of the country and assure the Yorubas that there was no plan to deliberately deny them or any section of the country, for that matter, the presidency.

Like I said earlier we were also worried about the popularity and support of the CD and CLO in the Yoruba speaking area. Happily we were assured that Onagoruwa had taken care of that sector.

Newswatch: If all of you were anxious for democracy, did you consider reversing the annulment of the June 12 election?

Mark: No.

Newswatch: Why?

Mark: Because after Diya, consulted with the Yoruba leaders of thought, they unanimously and unequivocally agreed to forego June 12 and instead opted for a military government. It was at this point that Diya again raised the issue of discarding option one because Chief Shonekan would deliberately ensure that Abiola was one of the presidential candidates. He said that would be against the wishes of the Obas and the Yoruba leaders of thought.

Dress as you want to be addressed.
The current generation of students are very wayward.
Its now very common to see female teachers and students wearing skimpy bikini dresses to school.
At a recent school graduation ceremony all the graduating female students wore skimpy revealing see through dresses and came on stage to sing. Parents and male teachers were shocked to see many immature breasts on display in public.

God bless the Nigerian Army.
God will defeat and shane all the enemies of Nigeria. Death to all terrorist and rebel.

Fake Prophets Everywhere.
Too many con men defrauding people by parading themselves as Christ or Apostles of Christ.
Many claim to be more Christian than Christ.
Many claim to be more Angelic than Angels.
Many claim to be more Godly than God.
Some ask for money, some ask for sex, some ask for your Assets like cars or houses from believers.
Some Muslims do the same.
Some days ago I saw a muslim preacher on the streets of Abuja that claimed he is resurrected Muhammed here in Nigeria.
Very Funny.