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Your Excellency, I bring you good
tidings.
I want to thank you for this generous
gesture of yours which has made it
possible for me to breathe the air of
freedom again, and to reunite with my
family, especially my wife Hafsat, who
had dwelt in her own prison throughout
my incarceration.
I decided to write you this letter the very
first day I learnt that you had made
up your mind to set me free. That was
weeks before my eventual release.
I know some of my words will sound
unpalatable; but I am a soldier in whose
squadron flattery is hardly a virtue.
Obviously, this freedom makes me happy
indeed but your motive, at least the
perceived it, tore my heart to shreds.
I heard it is all about 2015, and not that
I was unfairly incarcerated or that a
court of competent jurisdiction had
acquitted me.
However, I maintain even now that I am
innocent of the crimes I was accused of
and condemned to death for.
I am not the only one to rise from the
dead. Your wife, Patience, also died and
returned, remember?
I am scandalized by the political
undertone in the broth of my freedom.
I was once the most powerful military
officer in this country but now, from
what I gather, you have reduced me to a
pawn on the chessboard of politics?
In the past, generals paid me
compliments; but time changes
everything.
Mr President Sir, please permit me to
call you by your pet-name Jona.
I understand that everything you do
these days has 2015 imprimatur, but
bringing me into the realms of politics is
not a wise idea.
Let me refresh your memory a little, if
you would let me. I was incarcerated in
connection with the murder of Mrs
Kudirat Abiola.
Of course just as your popular picture as
politician who is respected among his
neighbours in Otuoke sticks on you like
glue, my reputation as a daredevil and
fearless intelligence officer precedes me.
My creation, the Strike Force, is the
deadliest Abuja, has ever known. Oh, I
am so proud of its accomplishments.
Strike Force made a snake in a garden
shudder in fear during our time.
Some even said that we had a crocodile
pond into which we threw uncooperative
people, usually NADECO members or
stubborn journalists. But I can assure
you no one has pointed out the pond
since we left power.
You see, I do not know how many books
you have read Jona; but I have even
memorised the Holy Qur’an.
As a Muslim, it fortified my belief that in
spite of the desire of those who wanted
me dead, I would be free; may be not as
quickly as I was discharged and
acquitted but obviously anytime soon.
Why did you release me Jona? Almost
all of those who learnt of my release
that fateful Friday morning hung my
freedom on 2015. They say you are
obsessed with it and that you would
unchain the devil himself to realize your
goal.
But I am what the Americans call a
goon, you know? I know nothing but
soldiering. Forget my grandstanding at
the Oputa Panel. It was military
strategy.
I knew in my military wisdom that a
million SANs would not free me if I did
not take my destiny in my own hands,
with facts and warts.
Lawless people don’t change overnight.
Without any prejudice to the lawyers in
this country, Jona, I can say without fear
of contradiction that my tactics hit a
chord, with and I believe that is why I
am here.
But mark you Jona, I Al Mustapha, have
no political value in my region, the north,
which you are trying to reach out to but
which you have also offended in no
small measure.
Northerners will hardly forget how you
ignored the Boko Haram insurgency until
it got out of hand.
Unofficial sources claim that close to
800,000 people, most of them
northerners, lost their lives and property
worth billions destroyed by the
insurgents.
The insurgency has resulted in
northerners losing their positions in the
armed forces; mediocrity now reigns. To
me as a former Chief Security Officer,
your initial inaction depicted a total loss
of control.
You were a lame duck, even in your first
term. So what’s all this elaborate
orchestration for 2015?
But don’t mind my position, Jona. Time
on death row has taken the winds off my
brains. Never mind Yerima Ngama, your
minister of state for finance, who told
people that my sharp reasoning still
amazes him.
Ngama is not a psychiatrist. He probably
never paid any attention to my behaviour
while I marked time in Kirikiri. I had been
confused.
Sometimes, I greeted people with a
clenched fist; while some other times, I
smiled, like General Gowon does. At
other times, I saluted in military fashion.
You would have noticed too, Jona, that
my choices since coming out are
dangerously flawed. I greeted everyone
in sight: TB Joshua, Fashehun, Otokoto,
Ganiyu Adams and Tokyo, to mention a
few of them.
I make no distinction between the living
and the dead, just like I have not
adjusted to life outside prison. I even
sought Abiola out only to learn that he
is deceased.
In that miasma, I paid first homage to
the Kano State Government instead of
my people in Yobe. It would have served
me just as well if I had driven straight to
Gashua and shook hands with Shekau!
Mr President, I am saying all these
because personally I know that where
the north is concerned, I am a political
paper tiger. Like Larry Hagman of the
famous soap Dallas, I am the man that
people love to hate.
I lack the political value you ascribe to
me, and if you released me to score a
political point in my region, you have
only taken a fool’s gambit. But I’m
sorry; I can’t help your 2015 dream.
Yours faithfully, Al-Mustapha.
Adapted From Daily Trust

http://ireporterstv.co/an-open-letter-to-president-jonathan-by-al-mustapha/

for some years now, I find it difficult to lie down on my back. my stomarch seem to go in, its like the content of my stomach is being sucked out as in when you suck out the air in a bag. its really painful. now I can only sleep face-down and this is not easy for me. I don't know what could be the cause of this. I used to think it was hunger but that has been proven to be incorrect. please your advice will be appreciated

signed. This is a disgrace to this country.

thanks people. I really appreciate your comments.

please nlders, got a txt and an email from agro traders ltd for an interview, I need information. your comments will be highly welcomed. thanks

Ref: U'r inv 4 a written INTERVIEW on either 19th or 22/7/13 by 10am @B-BON LTD, 16, Oshodi Rd,near Post Office, Oshodi, Lagos with CV/Pasport.. Gd luck. Mgt.


got this today, anybody know anything about these guys. pls assist b4 I waste t.fare from Benin. (saw the add in y'day guardian newspaper).

Polycary ONWUBIKO, author and
commentator on national issues, is of the
opinion that the dress code of the
Newscasters on the government owned
Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) should be
reviewed to accommodate other tribes and
not just few as it is the practice…
It has become increasingly unbearable to
contain the angst on the arbitrary imposition
of Hausa-Fulani Moslems cultural/religious
value system and dress code in the guise of
the show-casing the so-called “Nigeria rich
cultural values pertaining to dress code” on
the News Casters in the Nigeria Television
Authority (NTA) by the authority or the
Federal Ministry of Information and
Communication.
I do not know the particular Minister who
made a naive Policy or Rule that compelled
the News Casters in the NTA (and not the
Reporters) to be putting on the so-called
‘rich’ Nigerian Cultural/religious dress code
and observing Moslem’s religious practices
on spinsters. The obnoxious rule could have
been made during the military regimes that
were usually headed by the northern
Moslems. For instance during regime of
General Sani Abacha it was almost ‘illegal’
and sacrilegious to put on any other type of
dressing other than Hausa-Fulani dress code
of Caftan with cap and Babaringa in Aso
Rock Presidential Villa to dramatise the
supposed superiority syndrome of Hausa-
Fulani/Moslems dress code.
Of all the over 250 ethnic groups in the
country, it became curious that only the
Hausa-Fulani (Moslem), Yoruba and Igbo
peculiar ethnic dress codes are being
supposedly show-cased in the NTA network
news to dramatize the so-called Nigeria
‘rich’ cultural values and dressings. The
naïve, primitive and preposterous impression
being created is that Television which is a
white man’s ingenuity is a medium to
display archaic and amorphous cultural/
religious dress code and value preferences in
primitive and directionless countries like
Nigeria describe by a Daily Independent
Columnist as a big national and international
nuisance and embarrassment.
The question is: what has become of the
Benue people dress code which is white/
black strip wrapper, thrown over the
shoulders with a matching strip cap? What of
the Warri people style of dress code which is
Wrapper, long sleeve shirt, cap and bids?
What of Cross River and Akwa-Ibom dress
code of peculiar cap, long sleeve shirt and a
long twisted rope made of clothing material
on the neck down to the belly? What of the
Rivers/Bayelsa States archaic fore-fathers
dress code probably copied from colonial
masters (Bow cap) and latter Christened
“Resources Control” dress code? Their fore-
fathers did not manufacturer the archaic
colonial white man’s cap; even today the cap
is imported while cultural materials are
supposed to be locally made.
President Goodluck Jonathan has apparently
‘vowed’ to wear the so-called “Resource
Control” dress code even when he is opposed
to fiscal federalism as a PDP chieftain. The
lamentable thing is that while attending
public functions in international fora, where
other Presidents and heads of governments
from civilized countries even African
Presidents (Ghana and South Africa for
instance) appear in well designed suit (like
the Foreign Affairs and commerce industry
Ministers, Chief Olugbenga Ashiru, and Dr.
Olusegun Aganga, Dr. Akin Adesina,
Agriculture Minster, Senate David Mark and
Governor Peter Obi who appreciate
intermingling of suit and Nigerian cultural
and modern designed attire) so as to look
cute and smart.
Ironically past and present Nigeria presidents
would put on the so-called Yoruba, Igbo and
Hausa Fulani dress code when attending
public functions in the respective states of
Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo but do not deem it
civilized, decent and necessary to appear in
suit while on a visit to the civilized,
industrialized and developed countries of the
world. It is not even a religious preference or
compulsion because presidents from Arab
(Moslem) countries put on suit when they
are attending international conferences.
Sadly it is only Nigeria presidents that
appear in amorphous, wobbling and
shapeless attire in the name of show-casing
the supposed Nigerian rich cultural dress
code. Nothing can be more preposterous,
ludicrous, naïve and thoughtless than that
crooked mindset of Nigerian presidents in
rejecting wearing of suit while attending
international conferences because no one
admires the archaic attire.
I think that the sensible thing for the NTA to
do is to employ news casters from all the
ethnic groups in the country to be able to
show-case the supposed Nigeria rich cultural
dress code in the NTA network news. Why
restrict the “rich” cultural dress code to the
three dominant ethnic groups, that is, Igbo,
Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani? The
discrimination is grossly unfair and unjust as
it is against the provision of the Constitution
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The naive
and ludicrous policy or rule is simply a
pathetic case of Nigerian educated public
office holders with primitive mindset. The
striking question is: Which country in Africa
or third world countries has ever copied the
so-called “Nigeria rich” cultural/religious
values and dress code? Of course none,
meaning that Nigerian leaders are wallowing
in a delusion of grandeur. They use white
man’s scientific and technological inventions
but reject the white man suit, shirt and tie.
It is pertinent to point out that Television is
a white man’s scientific and technological
invention born out of years of painstaking
innovation, research and development. It is
therefore preposterous, lamentable and
ridiculous for the Hausa-Fulani ethnic/
religious champions in this patently accursed
and beleaguered country on the verge of a
failed state to turn the white man’s brain
work into a selected platform to impose
archaic and uncivilized ethno-religious value
system on the rest of Nigerians especially
the impressionable minds of children and the
youths who innocently believe that Nigeria
cultural values, most of which had its source
and spring from pure worshiping of idols and
deities, is sacrosanct, inviolate, admirable
and should be internalized as a model of life
style. The imposition was no doubt the hand
work of the Hausa-Fulani Moslems whose
stock-in- trade since the country’s flag
independent has been to impose their
nauseating ethnic/religious values especially
dress code on the rest of Nigerians in the
guise of show-casing the so-called rich
ethnic cultural values of Nigeria.
For instance, in the 1980s when the national
football team –Green Eagles were travelling
outside the country, the footballers and their
handlers were compelled to wear Caftan with
cap. Again, an attempt was surreptitiously
made to make lawyers going to court to
wear Caftan and cap. It took stout resistance
from the southern radical members of the
NBA to resist the silly imposition. Time has
come for this non-sense to stop. It is
against the fundamental human rights of the
NTA news casters to be compelled to wear
particular dress code in doing their job. Other
public servants in Nigeria (except the law
enforcement agents and the military) are not
compelled to wear the so-called native dress
code in the course of discharging their public
office duties. There is nothing special in the
news casting in the NTA to observe religious
values whereby spinsters are not allowed to
be news casters or must put on married
women or Moslem women dress code.
Private Television Station news casters in
Nigeria appear in conventional attires like
modern designed wears, suit and shirt with
tie; while spinsters read news and appear in
spinsters’ style of dressing.
Even in Arab (Moslem) countries news
casters in the Al Jazeera Television cable
network wear suit while their spinsters dress
like spinsters while reading news. Therefore
the NTA male news casters should be
allowed to appear in suit, shirt with tie as
well as conventional decent dress codes.
Those who have what could be described as
‘covert covenant’ with their ethnic/religious
dress code should be allowed to be putting
them on but the NTA authority should allow
the Igbo and Yoruba News Casters to wear
suit, shirt with tie and other modern designed
dressing without putting on cap (especially
the Igbos news casters because Igbos rarely
put on cap. It is plain hypocrisy and self
deceit to be putting on the so-called
“Nigerian ‘rich’ cultural/religious attire while
putting on the white man’s eye glasses,
shoes and stockings, wrist watches, pants,
singlets etc.
The searing fact is that Igbos are open
minded, dynamic, cosmopolitan and
republican in outlook and exposition. They
are not slaves to cultural and religious value
systems because they imbibe civilized and
conventional value system in the world. The
Igbo news casters definitely do not like the
outlandish and quixotic dress code which
they are compelled to wear because it is
alien to Igbo world view and civilized
mindset. More importantly, there is a
difference between a dress code identifiable
with the Igbos and the attire of traditional
Chieftains and Traditional Rulers. This group
is called “Nza na-Ozo” title holders with
peculiar dress code and cap. These
newscasters naively put on traditional
chieftains attires which is patently naive and
irresponsible; while the Yoruba and Hausa-
Fulani news casters do not put on their
respective traditional chieftains attires. This
is confusion and a grope in the dark and
should stop.
An average Igbo man does not put on cap in
the areas of is endeavour market, office,
social events and church. They are
predominantly Christians, and the Bible does
not allow male Christians to wear cap. Igbos
appreciate white man’s mode of dressing like
shirt, tie, suit; in addition to the creativity in
designing diverse dress codes in line with
modern way of life because society is
dynamic. They are not in secret ‘covenant’
with any ethnic (or religious) dress code
deity to be wearing a particular dress code
every where like and Hausa-Fulani Moslems.
As and open minded and cosmopolitan
people, Igbos at times put Yoruba and Hausa
Fulani attire but these ethnic groups would
never put on Igbo attire because of fixation
with their supposed sacrosanct cultural attire
probably a covenant with their deity; as it
were. The lamentable thing is that many
state government Television stations like
Anambra Broadcasting Service had
sheepishly and thoughtlessly copied the
policy of the NTA because they did not know
the secret essence of the show-casing the
supposed Nigeria’s rich cultural dress code.
This is outright senseless, naive and
celebration of primitive mindset of the ultra
conservative ethnic groups in Nigeria; it
should be stopped since we are not in a
theoretic state but a secular state.
The ministry of information and
communication should abolish the unjustified
policy which compels NTA News Casters to
be wearing particular ethnic/religious dress
codes and spinsters compelled to put on
married women attire to read news. The
imposition is a slavish yoke in disguise since
the staff are on the same pedestal with other
public servants who wear decent, modern
and conventional attire of their choice in
public offices and in the course of doing their
job. Heaven has not fallen in Nigeria as news
casters in the private television stations wear
suit, shirt and tie; while the employed
spinsters dress as spinsters.
It is ironical that NTA Reporters wear suit,
shirt with tie and other conventional attire
when they are covering news assignments
but they are not allowed to put on the same
dressings while in the news room. This
uncivilized and crude rule or policy should
stop. In the NTA, it is religiously sacrilegious
or abomination to allow spinsters to be news
casters or put on spinsters dress code. This
is a brazen imposition of Moslem’s religious
value system while Nigeria is supposed to be
a secular country and not a theocratic nation
State.
As I have earlier stated, if Newscasters from
Al Jazeera Cable Network are permitted to
wear suit, why then should Moslems religious
value system pertaining to wearing cap and
compelling spinsters to wear married women
attire to read news be imposed on the NTA
Newscasters? This brazen religious
intimidation should stop and news casters
must be liberated from this brazen and
unconscionable ethno-religious slavish yoke.
For instance, Mr. Cyril Stober is not a
Hausa-Fulani Moslem going by this name
but he has been compelled to wear Hausa-
Fulani Babaringa and Caftan dress code.
Please allow him to wear suit and dress code
of his choice as a public servant like other
Nigeria public servants who wear their choice
clothing to their offices.



http://dailyindependentnig.com/2012/10/ethno-religious-imperialism-in-public-television-stations/

I read with disbelief that a group of former super eagles players lead by Etim Esin protested against the fact that government has been insensitive to their plight following the death of the Edo state born Thompson Oliha, who is now the third member of the 1994 team that won the Nations Cup for the country after Rashidi Yekini and Uche Okafor.
My problem is first of all, these people played football for the country and were paid. It was not the case that playing for the country was the only thing they did. They were playing football for club sides and earning money before they played for Nigeria. Playing football for the country does not mean that when you retire, you are entitled to pension or gratuity. They were not civil servants.
Secondly, these people earned money by playing for their respective clubsides, they have squarndered it and are expecting government to come and take care of them. Etim Esin even went further to say that he agreed he made money while he was playing football, but according to him, that was then. The government should still take care of them.
It is vexing when you hear people who has had opportunity to make it in this country and the wasted it only to turn round and start demanding for assitance from government when there are millions of Nigerians who pray to God everyday for such an opportunity. How many Nigerians wallk the streets everyday looking for what to put in their stomach and here is a man who was given the opportunity, made money, finished it and is going on the street, protesting that government abandoned him. He should be careful.

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for those asking for source, I thought I saw Vanguard newspaper being mentioned and again I Saw this being scrolled across on independent televission Benin City yesterday.

the info I got is u won't be paid a regular salary, but since its a marketing job u are placed on a commission depending on what u can bring into the company. so I decided not to travel for the interview.

the truth is that I can't remember writing such an application, and if I did I would remember. but I intend going to their office here in Benin to get further info tomorrow.

I got a text message for an interview on the 27th of june and when I called the number, I was told to come with original document. but the job adverts says deadline for application is 2nd of july. I don't know what to do. pls help

I got a text today for an interview with the above metioned company, Although I can't remember applying for such a job. I just want to know if this is true and if true the type of quesyions I'm to expect. the interview is scheduled for 27th of june 2013 (next week) thank you.

help someone out please. email is eghuan1@yahoo.co.uk

dude pls help me out with this twealk my mail is eghuan1@yahoo.co.uk thanks

cos its more proffitable to preach about money

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Hot the same thing, called them and i could hear a bus conductor yelling behind. Asked why i can't find the company online and told they are working on it. Fro there I began to smell a rat. They told me if i can't make it i should reschedule for another day.

Please has anyone heard about the above name company before? They sent me am text for an interview for tomorrow the 26th of march in surulere lagos, and when i called the number i could hear a bus conductor in the background yelling ojuelegba. Am currently doing my youth service in enugu and i don't want to waste my time and money travelling to lagos and end up in a fix. Please help.

Please people, does anyone know or have an idea on how to start an online radio station? Am currently doing my youth service and am looking for something to do after nysc, not necessarily for cash, as i have close to a hundred gig of music collection i'll like to be streaming online just for fun. Please the legal implication will also be appreciated. Thank you.

Dancing alingo. Man of the match is the referee.

To say the truth, am a youth copper in enugu state and in udi local govt area. The head mistress of my school lacks the understanding of basic english language, lets not talk about the students now and the schools especially in the villages are a poor site

Did 175km/hr on onitsha/owerri road in 1998 toyota corolla

yeah, i remember when i did it to my uncle's friend's car. I used a stone to write on the body of the car and when i realised what i had done i used green paint to try and cover it, the only problem was that the car was brown in colour. My uncle wan kill me.

as a philosophy student who had a critical and robust study of the difference between the SPIRIT and SOUL, i can tell you cartigorically that there are three main views as to understanding what these actually are. we have the African, western and Asian perspective. according to the African perspective, the spirit is an animating force which at death of the individual goes to the spirit world to join the ancestors while the soul reincarnates as a new person. for the Asians (budhism and the rest), the spirit is what give the body life i.e. it is the active element of an individual while the soul is in continous state of reincarnation until it gains enlightenment to join Lord Krisna in paradise. according to the western version, which is mainly as postulated by the ancient Greeks as well as the Holy Bible, the spirit give the body a life force while the soul is the part of the human entity that retains memory. hope i have help you a little

Pls let me get info my mail is eghuan1@yahoo.co.uk. My external hard disk keeps making a clicking sound and it doesn't come on. Pls I need ur help

I don't think this ur view is entirely true. I make this statement on the FACT that in december last year, my cousin had an accident with his toyota corrola 1998 version which was bought in 2006. The truth is that the airbag indicator has been flashing for the last 2yrs and when he had the accident, the airbag still deployed and the car had been involved in many small small accidents before.

tell the truth,what your friend did was callous. she could have physically disabled a person just because the person was rude. truth is if it as a proper Benin girl you do that of thing to, you go fear the repercussion. my advice to you is to wath out when she's angry, she may use anything on you. watch your back when she's angry.