₦airaland Forum

yanabasee:
Well...her mates are crying inside hummer jeeps.. Lamborghinis' and she's talking abt G-wagon!

Bae's so old fashioned!

femi4:
I feel like beating your Yoruba teacher right now

surgecom:
Bros, if you don't understand Yoruba, ask someone to help you out. Do you know the meaning of "Ikoko lofo, Omi odanu? Well, it simply means "the wife dies, the child/children is/are alive, which is very contrary to what we have here.

Please modify

Ghost447:
Very weird indeed, that was how my cousin went to school in Sango Ota and never returned in 1999.

Kaybaba5:
Ibi gbogbo ni ati nko adie ale.
No state is exceptional

naijafella:
Ogun state.... Always making headlines for wrong reasons.If not ritualitsts today,cultism tomorrow, if not kidnappers, you sure bet it will be child slavery,...

Olaleye Aluko

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• Aderinto and Wasiu (Inset) Photos: Family

The police in Ogun State have arrested two herbalists, identified simply as Quadri and Adam, for allegedly stabbing a man, Wasiu Balogun, and his friend, Wale Aderinto, to death in the Agbado area of the state.

Our correspondent learnt that the herbalists, who are siblings, allegedly attacked Wasiu and his friend with knives for confronting them after they allegedly stripped Wasiu’s wife, Mutiat.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident occurred at about 7pm on Owonikoko Street last Tuesday.

Our correspondent learnt that on the day, a teenage girl, Kabirat, who is the younger sister of the herbalists, had come to Mutiat’s house, and the woman had scolded her for failing to greet the people she (Kabirat) met in the house.

Kabirat was said to have left the place in anger.

It was gathered that Adam and Quadri, came some minutes later to Mutiat’s house, and started a quarrel, during which they allegedly stripped the woman and beat her up.

PUNCH Metro learnt that neighbours tried to mediate, but the herbalists allegedly threatened to beat anyone, who intervened, with charms.

Thirty-eight-year-old Wasiu, who worked as a vulcaniser, and his friend, Aderinto, a welder, reportedly came back from their workplaces in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State, and met distraught Mutiat at home.

The two were said to have headed for the herbalists’ house after they were told of what transpired between Mutiat and the herbalists.

Our correspondent gathered that on getting to house, matters degenerated, which led to the herbalists stabbing Wasiu and Aderinto to death.

It was learnt that the neighbours reported the incident at the Agbado Police Division.

The herbalists were subsequently arrested and detained.

When our correspondent visited the area on Monday, Mutiat said everybody scolded Kabirat for failing to greet anyone, but she went to her house to tell her brothers another story.

Mutiat added that the suspects stabbed Wasiu and his friend to death with poisonous knives.

She said, “There was no fight on that Tuesday. The girl came to our house and ignored everybody. People in the house scolded her for it.

“When the girl left, her brothers came some minutes later. They are herbalists. Their father is also a native doctor. They came with charms and knives. They beat me up. They stripped me. Neighbours tried to restrain them, but they threatened them.

“When my husband and his friend came back from work, he was angry and he went to their house. They attacked him and his friend with knives. They were both stabbed to death.”

There was no one to talk to PUNCH Metro at the herbalists’ apartment as both suspects had been moved from the Agbado division to the Ogun State Police Command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

The teenage girl, Kabirat, had also reportedly fled the area.

A neighbour, identified only as Olumide, said the suspects were notorious in the area for violence.

He said, “The suspects’ family worships Osanyin. They were involved in a similar violence sometime last year, but they were pardoned. The man and his friend had gone to talk to them for manhandling his wife.

“The herbalists first attacked the friend, and when Wasiu held them, they stabbed him too. It was one of us who reported the matter at the police station. Wasiu had five children from his first wife, but I don’t know how many children Mutiat has for him.”

The Ogun State acting Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the arrest.

He added that investigation was ongoing into the matter at the state command headquarters, Abeokuta.

tarekamos:
God bless Lagos State and Ikorodu, where the story of my life began

EazyMoh:
I ask again how would you feel if you see an Hausa man with a pig "Odimegwu Ojukwu' or "Awolowo" inscribed on it parading it through Ariaria market or Ibadan?

Great sportsmanship from Barcelona’s 12 and 13 year olds…


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Barcelona Infantil B commiserate with Omya

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Barcelona Infantil B win the World Challenge Cup

Barcelona’s Infantil B side has gone viral in the last few hours after showing some brilliant sportsmanship at the end of a tournament in Japan.

The 12 and 13 year-olds from La Masia, have been taking part in the World Challenge Cup in Japan, which they won, beating Japanese team Omya in the final.

Barcelona’s Infantil B, managed by Sergi Mila, won the final 1-0 thanks to a solitary goal by Xavi Planas.
Barcelona Infantil B side goes viral

Adrià Capdevila, of Barcelona Infantil B, was voted MVP of the tournament.

After the final against Omya, the Barcelona Infantil B players consoled their opponents, many of whom were in tears.

There was lots of hugging from the Barcelona youngsters and a clear desire to calm down the distraight players from Omya.

kenonze:
I see it as another unsustainable development loading

NYSC is already loaded with similar programs

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A street in Ikorodu town, Lagos

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The upgrade of Ikorodu township, a rapidly expanding settlement in Lagos State, to a contemporary eco-city development is in top gear as the government’s consultant has unveiled a new and ambitious programme to review the city’s spatial dynamics.

The coming master plan hopes to cover a period of 20 years from 2016 to 2036. So far, the State’s Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development has completed and published six model city plans of Alimosho, Apapa, Agege/Ifako, Mainland, Ikoyi-Victoria Island, Badagry and Lekki for the use of professionals in the built environment and the public.

Last week, consultant for the project, City Scape Planning Services, met with major stakeholders representing various interest groups from the town’s roughly two million population. They included several sole administrators of the affected Local Council Development Authorities (LCDAs) comprising Agboyi – Ketu, Isheri North, Ikosi, Gberigbe, Agbowa, Imota, Ibeshe, Ijede, amongst others, Lagos State House of Assembly members including the majority leader, Mr. Sanai Agunbiade, representatives of the Ministry of Physical Planning, Lands Bureau, former state commissioners, professors of Town Planning, state agencies such as LAMATA, Lagos State Water Ways and so forth.

The CEO, CityScape, Mr. Niyi Odetoye, shedding light on the project, stated that stakeholder input was paramount to the planning process. Hence, the first level of execution will be the data collection drive.

“The job we had was to prepare a master plan for the region. Ikorodu plays a major part in the entire Lagos. The plan envisions a development, which will utilize the sub-region’s undeveloped green fields, waterways and lagoon front potentials to make it a viable investment destination in Lagos State.”

An analysis of the facts on ground shows that there has been rapid spatial growth in Ikorodu at the rate of 118.3 per cent annual urban growth between 1990 to 2011 increasing to an eye-popping rate of 1171.6 per cent annually by 2015.

He added that recent studies have also shown that Ikorodu interconnects with the Lagos metropolis with over 40 per cent of the residents / home owners working in the metropolitan Lagos according to a functional urban area survey. Thus to prepare a sub-regional plan in accordance with the provisions of the Lagos State regional plan for a sustainable city requires an all inclusive approach.

He said the underpinnings of the project is to ensure that it aligns with global and regional development agenda through a bottom – up approach that will ensure the issue of poverty is dealt with.

Odetoye equally proposes a project that will be situated within the local regional development framework and that would be driven by technology to ensure proper coverage of all the relevant sectors as well as incorporate the local interests of the stakeholders with environmental sustainability placed high on the ladder of priorities.

“Our proposals align with local culture, with capacity development strategies for all the actors such as community leaders, residents, the market men and women and so forth. We don’t want it to end up being an academic exercise. We are placing a lot of emphasis on environmental sustainability by leveraging natural resource potentials and mitigating possible threats and risk prone areas.”

The method is based on global best practices, benchmarking with UNHABITAT Protocol for Urban and Territorial Planning.

“Through a go along method of data collection, policy stakeholders’ forum and community consultative forums, it will ensure involvement of the community by the time we move to site. We have put together a comprehensive community participation plan. Lastly there will be a validation exercise to ensure that data collected is authentic and everyone is on the same page.

Also speaking on the potentials of the project and the policy challenges /gaps in past planning policies and processes, Prof. Leke Oduaye identified urbanization, development being faster than projections of master plans and that generic models did not consider local peculiarities.

He explained: “Urbanization is the biggest challenge to Ikorodu. How inclusive have previous master plans been? The location of Ikorodu is very strategic – it is highly accessible to other parts of Lagos. Existing plans did not envisage the rate of growth in Ikorodu. The models were not culturally rooted – they come from abroad thus cannot address our local needs. Development plans ordinarily should be able to absorb shocks.”

Stakeholders at the event highlighted aspects of Ikorodu’s potentials and necessary infrastructure to be kept in focus in the planning of the new master plan. Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. S. O. B. Agunbiade, stressed the tourism potentials and cultural heritage of Ikorodu and revealed that the town celebrates no less than 200 cultural festivals yearly. He cited the various locations of pre-colonial and early independence justice system of Ikorodu as places to be preserved and developed into tourism destinations.

Other infrastructural needs as noted by the participants included a modern e-library, fire station, a sea port to serve as supporting infrastructure for the Apapa port, water transportation for both inter-Lagos and intra-Ikorodu routes, health facilities, as well as the proper distribution and rehabilitation of road networks in the region to connect the communities within the sub-region among others.

The Africa Union (AU) has indicated its willingness to partner the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) in skills acquisition for youths in Nigeria.

The AU Envoy in Nigeria, Dr Tunji Asaolu, gave the indication on Monday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy visit to the Director- General of NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Sule Kazaure.

Asaolu noted that the NYSC was the only body that could help the Federal Government to reduce the burden of unemployment in Nigeria.

“We want to partner NYSC, using corps members to run teachers volunteer scheme and use these teachers in a survey and those who perform well will be retained.

“We are encouraging people to develop skills in production and agriculture; our partnership will create jobs, enrich the economy and develop the country at large.

“NYSC can be richer than Dangote because it is accepted in all parts of the country.

“Some programmes that can help engage youths are Africa Youth Volunteer Corps, Pan Africa Safety Commission and so on.

“With the intervention programmes that we have, we will see how we can subsidise to enable us to achieve the goal,’’ Asaolu said.

Asaolu said that if corps members were making and using products made by NYSC, the organisation could become a big company of its own.

Responding, Kazaure, pledged to key into the partnership and added that a technical committee had been set up to meet with the AU.

He said NYSC was ready to partner AU to empower and improve the lives of Nigerians. (NAN)

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Reuben-Abati


Last Friday, my phones rang again and again (thank God for dead phones gradually playing Lazarus), but what triggered that ring-ring was the article: “The Man Who Named His Dog Buhari” (August 26) in which I had indicated all the positive attributes of a dog and why a man naming his dog Buhari should not generate a community and legal trial or so much stress in the public space. One caller kept me on the phone for close to two hours.

He said he was proceeding right-away to buy a dog and name it Reuben Abati and that he would bring that dog to my neighbourhood, with the name inscribed on both sides of the dog and he would in my presence call out the dog: “Reuben Abati, come and eat, Reuben Abati, stop shouting, Reuben, stop being stupid, Reuben, you this idiotic dog!” and he’d like to see my reaction. I laughed. He said it was not something to be amused about, because although I had argued that a dog is a man’s best friend, and that in other societies, a dog is treated with respect and considered loyal and trustworthy, his view was that I failed to acknowledge the fact that in our culture, to attach the name of a man to an animal is definitely an insult.

His point was that Africans are not cut out for that kind of indulgence, and we have not yet, given our peculiar circumstances of development and culture, attained that stage where animals are given such reverence, or a time when Africans will build hotels for cats and dogs, have sex with dogs, adopt animals as biological children or talk about animal rights. He said in Nigeria, dogs are variously perceived as a taboo, as a dirty animal, as bush meat to quench hunger or as item for rituals. He said a lot of other things.

“You were writing about a dog being so important in Western cultures. You should have told us what a dog is in our own culture and may be that will give you an idea of why Joe Chinakwe’s action should not be treated so lightly?”

He answered his own question.
“What you don’t now is that a dog is a dirty animal in our culture. Even in the Bible, the dog is referred to as something dirty and vile, don’t mind these Oyinbo people now turning a dog into something important. And if you are wondering why Joe Chinakwe’s neighbours want him dead, I need to tell you that in Islam, a dog is like a pig, a taboo. Go and do your investigation, you are not likely to find Muslim families keeping dogs as pets. People use dogs for rituals in Yorubaland to appease Ogun, the god of iron and they eat it afterwards. In the South South, a dog is also a special delicacy for the family soup pot. And have you seen an Ondo man eyeing a dog, and salivating? Special meat. So, if a dog in America is a king, here it is a sacrificial lamb. Should anybody then give the suggestion around here that Buhari is a sacrificial lamb or an edible offering? What nonsense!”

I kept quiet. I wanted him to exhaust his angst.
“The lesson of this whole thing is that people should avoid actions that can cause problems. We are living in a delicate country where people are suspicious of one another. People should learn to watch what they do. That your Chinakwe knew what he was doing. He took a dog, labelled it Buhari on both sides and went to a place occupied mostly by Northerners, and Muslims, and he started parading the dog. Look, he could have been killed. And if he was killed, the next thing we would hear is that Fulani herdsmen have killed an Igbo man and his dog. Nobody will ask for the cause of the violence, or talk about what the Igbo man did. Why should an Igbo man act that way? It is obvious a good number of them don’t like this government, and they have the right not to, but they should not disturb public peace, or try to frustrate this innocent man in Abuja.”

I gave a short speech about human rights and the freedom of choice, and the need to avoid ethnic labeling. He fired back, so loudly I had to move the phone a few inches away:

“Nobody is saying Igbos should support Buhari. But why is it that they are always the ones at the centre of every incident? When they live in your community, they want to take over. They will appoint an Eze Ndigbo, something they will not allow in the East for other ethnic groups, and they will disregard the local monarch. They have taken over a part of Lagos and claimed it as their own, but nobody else can claim any part of Igboland. Who introduced unitary government, but now Igbos are the ones saying they want Nigeria to be restructured. Every trouble in this country, there must be an Igbo hand in it. If that man and his dog had been slaughtered, the whole thing could have degenerated into an ethnic conflict.”

I made some statements about tolerance and why ethnic-labeling is unproductive. I argued that President Goodluck Jonathan was called a goat and that the goat had the name printed on it. He didn’t allow me to land.

“That was bad enough because a goat is regarded as a senseless animal among Igbos, they call it Mkpi. It wasn’t a Northerner that called Jonathan a goat.”

“They said worse things about him,” I interjected.

“But no Northerner went to Jonathan’s household or his community to abuse him to his face. We must talk about our culture not American or European culture. If Chinakwe had named his dog Buhari and kept it within his compound, there would have been no problem, but to carry a placard on the dog and begin to walk around with it, that is provocative. Do we write names on dogs in Nigeria? We don’t. You can call your dog what you like, but don’t behave in a manner that can cause problems.”

“But the police are being mischievous. They are doing eye service. They are chasing the wrong dog.”
“No”, he retorted. “It is their job to enforce law and order and to protect life and property. Your friend’s action posed a threat to what the police stand for. What was he trying to achieve? He deserves to be jailed”

“Because he is Igbo?”

“Because he did something stupid.”

“He says he named the dog Buhari because he loves President Muhammadu Buhari”

“He is lying. He should know that no Muslim will feel honoured being called a dog. And why is he mentioning the President’s name? A man who says his father is Alhaji
Buhari, and he is aggrieved, took him to the police station. It has nothing to do with the President. He should be lucky he is alive. And being Igbo, he also knows that when you call a man Nkita in Igboland, he could take your head off in anger.”

“I stand with him. We are in a democracy. He has the right to call his dog any name he chooses.”

“Yes. But he cannot use the same name to provoke people. He is not being charged for naming a dog, he is being charged for inciting hate and behaving in a manner that could breach the public peace. If he loves President Buhari as he says, why doesn’t he name a child of his after the President? That is how we honour people we admire in African culture. In your article, you were quoting white people, dead and alive, I am quoting my grandmother in the village whose wisdom is more relevant.”

“I still don’t get your point. And I think we are spending too much energy on this naming of a dog and its parade.”
“We should because small things matter a lot, and small things can destroy a country. People should know their environment and behave properly. I want to see that man punished.”

“I don’t want him to be punished. We should aspire to make this country an open and free society.”

“Of course, it is people like you who defend gay rights, abortion and prostitution. One man has just been arrested, again in Ogun State, for stealing 18 tubers of yam (valued at N10, 000) and a bunch of vegetables (worth N50) I won’t be surprised if you argue that he is exercising his right to be free from hunger. Or you may even say- that is stealing and not corruption.”

“I will argue that it is a sign of the times, in the same manner in which the widespread theft of pots of soup in local compounds is a sign of the times, and in fact in the same manner in which Chinakwe’s naming of his dog is a poignant political statement. When the people are hungry, angry, helpless and afraid, they will resort to codes, actions, symbols and metaphors to reflect their sorry condition and frustration. For your information, the man who stole yam and vegetables is insisting that he is not guilty! He is 30 years old and he has been remanded in prison custody.”

“Good for him. We are waging a war against indiscipline and corruption.”

Long after the conversation with this fellow, who by the way is a government official in Abuja, I came to the same conclusion that Nigeria is at a tethering edge. We are not yet a nation. We are divided by ethnicity, culture, and religion and the walls of division are so strong, only a little push could pull down those walls. This situation places us far away from the currents of democratic leadership and limits our ability to balance primordial culture with new realities and the people’s aspirations. We are at a crossroads of belief, unbelief and faithlessness.

I had thought or read that it was Joe Chinakwe (whose name keeps changing curiously in various reports – Joe, Joseph, Joachim, Iroko – but no matter, he is at best a working metaphor) who had put dog Buhari to death, but it turns out that the dog was actually killed by aggrieved Northerners in Chinakwe’s community. Chinakwe’s dog is yet another Nigerian metaphor: a metaphor of extant fault-lines. That Igbo dog-owner must watch his back. If he gets roughly handled like his dog, the same policemen who have been so busy trying to punish him are likely to do nothing since in their view, he brought it all upon himself.

By Alabi Williams

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It’s barely four weeks after Korede Taiwo, the nine-year old was rescued from a church where his father, dreadlocked pastor Francis Taiwo, held him hostage, inside the Key of Joy Celestial Church of Christ, Ajibawo, in Atan Ota, Ado-Odo, for allegedly stealing eba and soup. Now, the Police are investigating another dreadlocked prophet, so-called, who was last week exposed for putting chains on a whole community of 28, 13 of whom are children.

According to reports, the prophet, one Emmanuel Adeyemi who operated a worship home at his swampy abode at Olamidu Close, Unity Estate, Okeira, claimed the captives were mentally sick. But initial checks by the Police revealed that some of the victims might be of sound mind, especially when taken to another environment and given time to recover from an apparent spell. Three graves, reports said, were found in the compound.

The Police are said to be working to establish a case of inhuman treatment against the prophet. Meanwhile, the Lagos government has taken custody of the 28. This is another case of undocumented healing centre or worship centre, where citizens are at the mercy of one man, who uses unorthodox methods to operate a commune and take absolute charge of lives of others. From pictures posted of the place, it does not look like a good place to raise children. The environment does not appear to meet minimum requirements of sanitation, where inhabitants, especially minors, could experience average lease of life. It is not clear yet if the children go to school, but in their dreadlocked appearance, they may have been primed for the same trade as their captor – prophecy. It also means that they may not have been regular beneficiaries of government programmes, like immunization, basic education and other social interventions. On the flip side, they are also not guided by state laws. They are simply a law unto themselves, without oversight by government agencies.

Hundreds of similar outfits are allowed to thrive across the country because they put on the cloak of religion. They are encouraged to proliferate by our acquiescing and abdicating governments. At other times, governments are intimidated by religion. Over time, individuals are chained by religion and the larger society is held captive too. And so far, there has been no correlation between our religiosity and development.

Until the military employed force to rein in members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) last December, they had operated their commune in Zaria, Kaduna State, without much interference from government for years. Occasionally, there had been skirmishes whenever it was found that IMN was on the verge of trespassing their constitutional space. Each time, it was always at some loss to the movement, which some trace to its minority status within the larger Islamic body in Nigeria. But the last encounter (December 2015) was simply colossal, as not less than 347 IMN members were dispatched so untimely, when they gravely confronted the military convoy of the Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Yusuf Tukur Buratai. The propriety or otherwise of that encounter, on either side, is not part of this narrative. An inquisition and judicial procedure is ongoing, but suffice to add that, whether Nigeria records casualty as in deaths or inhuman abuses resulting from religious afflictions, it hurts to the marrow. When non-taxpaying individuals and organisations inflict collateral damage on the country, such figures do not add to the county’s Gross National Product, they diminish it.

For instance, the military/IMN encounter cost money, though not budgeted. IMN, on its part, recorded losses as its base was grounded and infrastructure pulled down. The panel instituted by the Kaduna State government cost money. The hurried burial of slain IMN faithful in the night, the logistics and morgue fees were all borne by government. And they were never budgeted. Even cost of litigation on either side is being serviced by funds that could have gone into productive endeavours. Since December, Ibrahim el-Zakzaky, leader of IMN has been guest of the Federal Government and wherever he is quartered, the expenses are a drain on the budget of the interior ministry. Head or tail, these are losses, which drafters of the Constitution of our beleaguered Republic, to an extent envisaged and attempted to mitigate. But which religious profiteers and political parasites have continued to frustrate.

I have not heard or read it anywhere, that the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has looked into our religious industry, to see what could be added from there to the Federation Account. Even the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) does not include in its tax net opportunities that could accrue from the sector. All because we have deluded ourselves that some areas are ‘no go’ because we pretend to and are actually acclaimed to be the most religious people on earth. Yet, we go on pilgrimages and pay taxes to host communities.

To rehabilitate the Northeast after years of mindless Boko Haram onslaught will cost Nigeria trillions. According to figures from the Finance Ministry, Presidential Intervention in the Northeast for second quarter of the 2016 budget is N3, 476,768,138.00. Don’t forget, we are just at the preliminary stages of managing Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Meanwhile, foreign countries are dropping huge sums into the Northeast bowl. The United States gave huge sums recently, just that we do not know how the donations are being handled, whether they are appropriated within the 2016 budget. Yet, there are stories of IDPs going hungry and on verge of death. That’s just at the level of housecleaning.

When the situation finally calms, when Boko Haram is fully degraded with no more traces, the homes and schools, which they wantonly destroyed, have to be reconstructed. The roads they vandalized and the bridges they blew up have to be fixed. The farmlands they cruelly laid with explosives have to be demined and the psychological bruise they inflicted on the Northeast and Nigeria has to be systematically cured. The exact military cost of containing Boko Haram may never be known, especially as some Nigerians had and are still helping themselves to it unlawfully, but let it be said that it is huge. At a time countries are spending to recover ailing economies, we are spending to cure ailments caused by religion. The matter is not even helped when government still concedes special allocation for persons who decide on their own, to embark on religious tourism to service the economy of others.

It is more horrifying when religious conversations continue to be morbid. It means that after Boko Haram, we have not learned anything. On a day the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry was visiting the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, who is head of the Muslim community of Nigeria, in neighbouring Zamfara State, where politicians have elevated the Sharia above the Constitution, some citizens were roasting eight others for alleged sin of blasphemy. What a shame!

And that was not all. Someone sent an sms the week before Kerry arrived Nigeria. The news had been abroad that Kerry would visit, but would restrict himself to the North. The sms read; “What’s the meaning of the story that John Kerry, US Secretary of State would visit Nigeria and as part of his itinerary would meet with ‘northern Governors’? Is this not an intrusive, divisive endeavor that seems to elevate a particular section of Nigeria over others?”

I told him I was yet to read the said story and its context; that, when I do I will engage him. Kerry has indeed come and gone; he actually met with northern governors. And since then, many, including the Christian community have queried Kerry’s meeting with only northern governors.

Sincerely, I do not see what the hoopla is. Kerry, with due respect, could be the equivalent of a cabinet minister of our own Republic, except that we so challenged and lacking in self-respect. I am not aware that Kerry administered any preferential treatment on the north. Kerry cautioned against excessive use of force against militants. That speaks to the situation in the Northeast, as well as the military campaigns in the Niger Delta, and at other places. The US president, Barrack Obama, had himself crisscrossed Africa twice, at least, and was so close to us in Ghana. I did not hear Christians or Muslims complain. If Kerry visited only the North, doesn’t that justify the scriptures, when Jesus said He did not come for those who are in good health, but for the sick? Sincerely, North and South, we need to break the chains of religion!

papaejima1:
Even though naija police no sabi investigation, this one is an easy one for them.
They will catch the idiots as easily as getting a toad in a fish net.
BVN dey there, Phone records dey there, INEC PVC dey there and all carry their photos.

Dumb has no better definition than those three louts.

Samson Folarin


Hotel Workers Kill Boss, Disappear With CCTV, Car


The Niger State Police Command has started investigations into the killing of the owner of Deploo Hotel and Suites, Mr. Lucky Okonkwo, who was murdered in his hotel in Suleja, Niger State.

PUNCH Metro learnt that 59-year-old Lucky was stabbed to death on Friday by a three-man gang, suspected to be workers at the hotel, shortly after he returned from a trip to Kaduna.

He was said to be at the hotel for the purpose of supervision.

It was learnt that after killing the victim, the suspects took away the Closed Circuit Television decoder of the hotel, the victim’s phones and fled in his Peugeot 406 saloon car.

They also took away a file containing certain information about the hotel.

The security men at the hotel, who were the prime suspects, were reported to have fled immediately the incident happened and had since been unreachable on their telephone lines.

They were identified as Frank Anavukko, Victor Anerah and Emmanuel Adeh.

Our correspondent was told that the incident was discovered on Saturday morning by a housekeeper who saw a pool of blood streaming out from the victim’s office.

The matter was reported at the Madalla Police Division and some of the hotel workers were arrested.

Lucky, an indigene of Delta State, was said to be the immediate past Vice-President of the Nigerian Association of Technology Engineering, North-West zone.

The victim’s first son, Paul, told PUNCH Metro that his father was killed around 7pm.

He explained that workers at the hotel claimed not to have known when his father was murdered.

He said, “He just returned from a trip and around 7pm of that day, he went to his office. When his workers didn’t see him and they discovered he was not reachable on his telephone lines, they called my mum the following day.

“She rushed down to the hotel and met him in a pool of blood. The workers claimed they didn’t know when it happened. They said they only saw three people going into his office and the same set of people driving out in his car. They said they also saw those people with the CCTV decoder and when they queried them, they said, ‘Oga asked us to go and repair it’.

“Aside from the CCTV and the car, those men also left with his money and other valuables. We don’t really know the motivation for the murder.”

Paul said the family reported the case to the police at the Madalla division, adding that some of the workers on duty at the time had been arrested.

He urged the police to speed up investigations and bring the perpetrators of the crime to book.

A source told PUNCH Metro that the father of five struggled with his assailants before he was overpowered and killed.

He said, “The man was a retired PHCN worker. He was killed on Friday night. On Saturday morning, a man cleaning the hotel saw a pool of blood coming out of his office and raised the alarm. At the scene, there was a knife with which he was killed. There were also signs of struggle as the office table was broken. He had a deep knife cut in his palm, probably while he was holding the knife from piercing into him. They drove away his grey colour Peugeot 406 saloon car, with number plate KUJ-424 BB. They also made away with a file containing some information about the hotel.”

It was gathered that the case had already been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Minna.

A source said the fleeing hotel guards were the prime suspects.

He said, “One of them is already in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. How can something happen on Friday and in less than 24 hours, you have already disappeared to Port Harcourt if not that you are culpable?”

The Police Public Relations Officer, Niger State Police Command, Elkana Bala, said the police were closing in on the suspects, adding that information available to the police showed Lucky was killed by his workers.

He said, “He was suspected to have been murdered by his workers; he was not killed by outsiders. After the incident, those male workers ran away with his Peugeot 406. We are trailing them. The SCIID, Homicide section, has commenced full investigations into the matter.”

Ighoga898:
based on d kind of meaningful & far fetched lyrics from his songs, am not surprised dat 2baba is featured by him.
''First time I came to New York, i used to think New York was like heaven, but I was surprised to see a beggar on d streets of New York''.
Still wondering how a beggar can b in these streets or was it a figure of speech

AnakinSkywalker:
Thank you for setting this straight.

THERE ARE BEGGARS IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK ALL THE WAY TO DOWN TOWN MANHATTAN.

NOT JUST BEGGARS, BUT MUGGERS, PICK POCKETS, CON ARTISTS AND HOMELESS PEOPLE IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK. WOMEN EVEN BEG WITH KIDS/BABIES JUST LIKE IN LAGOS. IN FACT IN THEIR METRO SUBWAYS YOU MAY BE ROBBED OR YOUR POCKET PICKED!

As a matter of fact there are over 4,000 homeless people in the streets of New York.Go to Grand Central, Macy's Herald Square. Even right in front of the Empire State Building you see beggars there. They forget that areas like East New York and Brooklyn-Bronx- also exist. I don't know what some people think New York is. Granted it is a modern city, however, it is not heaven! All vices and ills of the society that you can think of exist there. New York is like Lagos. You must be street smart otherwise the streets will consume you. As a New Yorker, just like a Lagosian, you think fast, easily detect danger and aware of your surroundings. You are hardly gullible. That is why most Lagosians can survive in any city in Nigeria. Unless that City is too dull.

boolet:
Dem plenty sef, its just that all man for himself and no coordinated team begging or in pairs. Many homelessnleople sleep on th streets at night too. Bros beggar no be only by siddon with plate. How about mobile begging? Bus stops and subways etc are sites for stationary begging too...

tonio2wo:
I know that buhari has no hands in d arrest! The police are just being over zealous in this case. Like I said someone wants to impress his boss aka oversabi!

tonio2wo:
No matter how you want to paint this morality their is no law in the constitution of nigeria where its a crime to name ur pet whatever you want.

Yes he might have done that out of dislike for the name "buhari". People hate people so what? Jesus was hated so who dafuck is buhari not to be hated? More over u dint hear d other side of the story, for the so called foreigner to threaten to kill d accused for naming his dog, he might have been the bad neighbour here.

tonio2wo:
How is it a crime or offence to name ur pet whatever u want??

loopman:
This is exactly how you idiots got Nnamdi Kanu into this present predicament and almost forgetting about him.
With your uncouth utterances and noise making on the social media, you will equally put this guy into problem.
For the sake of the pregnant wife and little daughter, you idiots should just meshionu, your baboon noise on the internet is not helping the man

Boleyndynasty2:
They should just close the case and free the man joor.


There's a thread about a woman whose daughter was killed by an obsessed lover,his yet to be charged to court but NPF have time to attend to this trash.

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The Assistant Inspector-General of Police for the Zone II Command Headquarters in Lagos, Abdulmajid Ali, on Saturday said the case files of a man alleged to have named his dog ‘Buhari’ should be transferred to his desk with immediate effect.

“For now, the AIG Zone II has called for a meeting that we want to call the parties involved in the matter to see how the matter could be resolved,” Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told PREMIUM TIMES.

Joe Chinakwe, 30, was arrested and confined to a police cell in Sango Otta, Ogun State, for three days last week after a neighbour complained that he named his dog ‘Buhari,’ the Vanguard reported.

The neighbour, who police identified as Halilu Umar from Sokoto State, reportedly told the police that Mr. Chinakwe’s decision was aimed at spiting and ridiculing his father who also happened to be named ‘Alhaji Buhari.’

Mr. Chinakwe, a trader, was immediately arrested and detained for three days without bail, the Vanguard reported.

The paper quoted police sources as saying that Mr. Chinakwe’s action was “very provocative” and capable of stocking ethno-religious tensions in the country, allegations Mr. Chinakwe reportedly denied.

Mr. Chinakwe told the Vanguard he named his dog ‘Buhari’ out of personal affection he had for President Muhammadu Buhari.

After a brief freedom he was granted by the police, Mr. Chinakwe was again rearrested on Friday.

Police said they rearrested Mr. Chinakwe ahead of his arraignment before a Magistrate’s Court on Monday as well as to guarantee his safety, having been allegedly threatened by neighbours.

Mr. Oyeyemi said since Mr. Ali had expressed his interest in the case and wanted to broker a peace amongst the parties involved, Mr. Chinakwe might not be charged to court again on Monday.

“The matter may likely not go to court again on Monday,” Mr. Oyeyemi said.

The Zone II Command covered Lagos and Ogun States

Airforce1:
stingyness is one of the many reasons I disliked my father

Child hood woulda been boring but mom spiced it up

God bless and keep you alive for me mom

Love you forever.


**Billionaire Ambition**

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Muhammadu Fari, State Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Yobe, said fishermen recovered corpses of two boys from River Nguru on Wednesday.

Mr. Muhammad told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Damaturu on Thursday that the boys were likely aged between 13 and 14 years, and that investigation was in progress to ascertain their identity and cause of death.

The commandant urged parents and guardians to monitor the movement of their wards to avoid the waters as the rain intensifies.

Mr. Muhammad said several houses, farmlands and livestock were destroyed by flood in Adaya village, Potiskum local government area of the state.

“We received report of flooding after down pour in which several people were rendered homeless following destruction of houses and farmlands while livestock were washed away.

“There was no loss of human life but, eight goats died while several others were missing’’, he said.

The commandant charged communities living on water ways to relocate from the water routes to avoid further disaster.

“There are reports indicating possible flood in Yobe and other states, so the communities should take precautions to safeguard their lives and property

“Residents of towns and villages are also advised to evacuate drainage and water channels to pave way for smooth flow of water in their communities,” he cautioned. (NAN)

kossyablaze:
Oh.... Nice then