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Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon (aka Igodomigodo) is
the Chief of Staff to Governor Adams Oshiomhole
of Edo State. In this interview, Obahiagbon assesses the administration of President
Muhammadu Buhari. He also speaks on some
issues affecting Edo, asserting that the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) stands no chance in the
guber election scheduled to be held in the state
in 2016.
BY SIMON EBEGBULEM

You ran in the senatorial primary of the APC for
Edo South ahead of the 2015 polls but lost to
Hon. Samson Osagie. How were you able to move
on?

Moving on was nothing of a quagmire at all and
that is because as a student of mysticism and
hermeticism,I hold the view very tenaciously that
“as above so below”, meaning that nothing
happens in the life of a student of light by
accident. I gave it all my best and vicariously
yearned again for another parliamentary lacuna to
use parliament as a pizza for social engineering
and legislative dialectics, but when it did not
happen, it just meant that the cosmic keyboard
was vibrating at its own rhythm and harmonics
according to the law of the cycles which is itself
an immutable divine law.

Some Nigerians believe that the administration of
President Muhammadu Buhari has been sluggish.
Do you share that sentiment?

President Buhari has left no one in doubt-except
of course incorrigible political Philistines and
revanchists-that he has set his hands on the
plough and no political Jupiter can stop him now
from cleansing the Augean stable and navigating
the ship of the Nigerian state from Bermuda
Triangle. He has demonstrated a diaphanous
commitment to pulverize the monster of
corruption by not just vacuous sloganeering as it
was in the past, but has announced a willingness
to begin an epic prosecution of economic
vandals. The constitution of a Presidential
Advisory Committee against corruption, headed
by the fiery and no nonsense Professor Itse Sagay, is a further demonstration of his commitment.
I simply don’t understand what they mean by
sluggishness. Mr President met a country in a
state of economic phlebotomy, social anomie,
moral putrescence and political erebusism. Was
he supposed to have, against this background,
begin to take precipitate steps bordering on the
harum scarum just to satiate the dramatic
proclivities of those who lightly cogitate that
Nigeria is a political cinematography? No no no.
Fixing the Nigerian economy just now requires
systematic methodology,a sangfroid disposition
and a calculative mind as cool as cucumber. His
shuttle diplomacy to rally Nigeria’s neighbours
and the international community at regional and
global levels are already paying off in the war
against Boko Haram. His spartan discipline and
respect for the rule of law, especially on fiscal
matters, are already yielding positive mileage for
the economy. Nigerians are used to theatrics and
histrionics but President Buhari is not a man of
theatre and drama.He is a man of few words but much action.

The PDP in Edo recently kicked against the
approval of the National Assembly of the World
Bank loan being negotiated by the state
government. What is your take on the argument
that it will further plunge the state into debt?

The objurgations of the PDP in Edo State against
the loan deal, as you call it, before the National
Assembly is sheer jejune political polyphony and
sciamachy. The World Bank, as you know, would
not indulge anybody who plays ducks and drakes
on financial matters and, in any case,the laudable
achievements of Edo State government is palpably
visible to the blind and audible to the deaf.These
are facts too gargantuan and irrefutable to be
contested except and save those habilimented in
astigmatic political monocles. The Edo PDP
Chairman is a comedian; any time he wants to act, he beckons on journalists to tell them to come. We are not bothered about their criticisms.
As you can see, Edo is working. Once Edo people
are happy with the Comrade Governor, Orbih and
his cohorts are inconsequential.

But are you not worried that with the achievement
of the PDP in Edo South in the National Assembly
elections, it might replicate that success come
2016 governorship election?


What were the results achieved by the PDP in the
last elections? They simply latched in on the
South/South sentiments and the Christian/ Muslim stratagem during the presidential election
and, even at that, the final results were a photo
finish and, of course, when the House of Assembly election took place, when the issues
were now local and internal to Edo, was it not now conspicuously demonstrated that APC owns
papa’s land, going by the outcome of the
elections? If anything has changed since then it’s
that the people of Edo are now more attracted to
the APC and the Comrade Governor, especially
with the non-performance of the PDP also at the
federal level and their eventual defeat.So what is
the tension? Edo is APC state anytime, any day
and come rain, come sun. 2016 will come and go
and I can tell you that it will be wishful thinking
for the PDP to dream of winning the governorship
in Edo, not now and not in the nearest future.

But the agitation by some people in Edo South
that they should be allowed to produce
Oshiomhole’s successor and not the governor,
don’t you think it might lead to crisis in your
party?
I laugh and shudder when I hear views such as
this and, that is because if you like, it will be an
ignis fatuus to ever think that it would ever be
possible at anytime for there to be unanimity of
opinion among Edo South leaders of APC as to its
choice of a gubernatorial candidate, when that
time comes. In any case, who says the governor
is not also from Edo South as he is also from Edo
Central and Edo North respectively?
The governor is a democrat who will not impose
any candidate. Did the governor impose me on
the people as his Chief of Staff during the
senatorial nominations? Did he impose Prof.Julius Ihonvbere, the Secretary to Edo State
Government on the people of Edo North, when he
ran for the Senate? But we must all be conscious
of the fact that the achievements of APC today in
Edo have made us rise above twelve feet tall and
driven by Mr Governor.
We must all be conscious of the fact that Mr
Governor is the face of APC in Edo..We must all
be conscious of the fact that Mr Governor will be
leading the campaign in 2016 and would provide
himself as APCs political battle axe. We must all
be conscious of the fact that Mr Governor shall
both be the political mine layer and mine
sweeper for the election. I think the Comrade
Governor will consult with the National Chairman
of our party who is an eminent son of Edo and
in whom we are all proud and thereafter consult
with other stakeholders from the state and, that
is because whoever will wear the crown is going
to be Governor of Edo state and not governor of
Edo South assuming the gubernatorial cap tilts
along the senatorial trajectory of Edo South.
But there is this fear that the party may be
engulfed in crisis if some aspirants feel cheated?
I don’t foresee any crisis arising from our
primary. Some of us have lost out in party
primaries and we have remained in the party and
worked for the candidates that emerged and the
party realizing that, in a political contestation,
only one aspirant will emerge. I have looked at all
my brothers across the state who are
gubernatorial aspirants and they are all men of
integrity, rectitude and honour.I would be
surprised and shocked if anyone of them turns
his back at the electoral fortunes of the party
simply because he did not get the gubernatorial
ticket of the APC. None of them strikes me and
comes across as capable of that kind of a decision.

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/buharis-spartan-discipline-already-yielding-result-obahiagbon/

ziky2010:
To the best of my knowledge,what I am seeing in this picture is not a forest

Are u kidding me? Maybe it's ur house.

OLADD:
Which soul is resting in peace? His exploits while on earth will determine that.

Would u pls mind ur biznes, sir?

May his soul RIP

Baba don tok am before before sey, even if u b him pikin, if u steal Naija moni—now wey stealing don become kwaraption—u go smell pepper. Wallahi.

With Baba in place, Boko is in for a very long thing.

Nigerian Celebrities And Baby
Mama Syndrome
Patience Ivie Ihejirika
— August 2, 2015
Having children outside wedlock has become a
common practice among Nigerian celebrities as
more of them aspire to join the club of
fatherhood with no intention of getting married.
PATIENCE IVIE IHEJIRIKA takes a look at some of
them.
Oritsefemi
Oritsefemi Majemite Ekele, the afrobeats singer
who’s story changed after his re-make of one of
Fela Anikulakpo Kuti’s popular songs Double
Wahala is a proud celebrity dad with two
daughters from two different baby mamas.
He was recently quoted as saying he has no
plans of marrying either of his baby mamas.
Seun Kuti
The last son of the legendary afrobeat pioneer,
Fela Anikulakpo Kuti, recently declared publicly
that he does not believe and he has no intention
of getting married soon because he can’t imagine
losing half his earnings. However, the dude likes
being a father.
Seun and his partner, Yetunde George Ademiluyi,
have a lovely daughter. In an interview, the star
talked about the exhilarating experience of
fatherhood. “Training your first child is a life
experience. It is a lesson in selfless service. You
know, babies are strong but they are also quite
dependent. You know you have to sacrifice your
time, and now I am the one who sacrifices my
time all night. My partner works all day, I work all
night. I am in the studio anyway, so I can stay
awake all night. Well, it is interesting and my
baby is quite peaceful,’’ he stated.
Wizkid
Despite the fact that he happens to be one of the
youngest and busiest fathers in the Nigerian
music scene, Wizkid whose real name is Ayodeji
Ibrahim Balogun, still has time to spare for his
kid.
The artiste is said to be fond of his son,
Boluwatife and his baby mama, Shola Ogudugu.
However, there is no sign that the rich lad would
be getting married anytime soon though he is
enjoying his role of a father and often posts
pictures of his son on his instagram page.
2Face
Now often referred to as the ‘father of all nation’,
2face was linked to three baby mamas before he
eventually tied the knot with Annie, his longtime
girlfriend.
2face has three children with Pero Adeniyi
namely; Rose, Justin and Oluwakitan, two with
Sumbo Ajaba namely; Nino and Zion and two
with Annie Macaulay, namely Isabela and Olivia
One of his baby mamas, Sumbo, who had two
lovely kids for him, recently got married to a
Pastor in Lagos. When 2face was asked by an
online magazine how he felt about it, his reply
was “Sumbo deserves all the best; I wish her
many good things in her marriage. She’s a nice
person.”
Obafemi Martins
The Nigerian soccer star, popularly called
Obagoal has also made the list of celebrity dads,
having three children from three different women.
May D
Akinmayokun Awodumila, popularly known by
his stage name May D, is on the list of Nigerian
celebrity Dads. He has a son with his long-time
girlfriend, Debola.
Terry G
Terry G, is a proud father of one with his UK-
based girlfriend, Mimi Omoregbe. She gave birth
to a baby boy in November 2012. The singer,
whose real name is Gabriel Amanyi hit limelight
with his hit single Free Madness in 2008. He was
said to have conducted a silent traditional
wedding with Mimi in 2011
Timaya
Timaya became a father in 2012 and he said he is
in no hurry to tie the knot but his baby mama,
Barbara, who admittedly is his kind of woman.
Timaya, born Enetimi Odom named his daughter
Emmanuella Perere Timaya. He recently
celebrated his baby mama via his Instagram page,
saying, “After giving birth to my child she still
looks hot. Mama Emma oo.LOL.”
Jessy Jagz
Ruby, a mother of one is Jesse Jagz’s baby mama.
The talented rapper/singer is MI’s younger
brother and the brothers have known Ruby since
their childhood as the singer is very much close
to the Abaga family.
The singer met the Abaga brothers back in Jos in
the church choir where MI was the music
director. Jesse Jagz and Ruby have a seven-year-
old daughter, Jade. Jesse Jagz, a proud and
committed father has often talked about his
daughter in his songs, most especially on the
song entitled This Jagged Life. The duo aren’t
dating anymore but those close to them say they
remain close friends and are jointly raising their
daughter.
Ice Prince
Babatunde Bimbo became known in 2012 after
she confessed to carrying the child of Nigerian
rap star, Ice Prince Zamani, a confession that was
trailed by denials and rejection. Bimbo, an
undergraduate at that time, had to drop out of
school to keep the pregnancy.
The baby was christened Toluwalase. Ice Prince,
who initially distanced himself from mum and
child, later admitted in an interview to being the
father.
In a sudden twist of event, Ice Prince embraced
his child and re-named him Jamal Zamani. In an
interview, Ice Prince explained that he had denied
his son because things were complicated at the
time.
“It was complicated back then, I didn’t really
know what was happening and I wasn’t sure of
certain things. So, the best I had to do then was
deny it and sort out things first. Now I know he is
my child and I have done everything as a father
ever since,” he was quoted to have said in the
interview.

www.leadership.ng/entertainment/451163/nigerian-celebrities-and-baby-mama-syndrome

HIV Breakthrough! Spain Finds
Functional Cure For HIV Virus
(Confirmed)

Doctors in Barcelona, Spain believe they have
found the cure to HIV – the AIDS-causing virus
that affects the lives of more than 34 million
people worldwide, according to WHO.

By using blood transplants from the umbilical
cords of individuals with a genetic resistance to
HIV, Spanish medical professionals believe they
can treat the virus, having proven the procedure
successful with one patient.

A 37-year-old man from Barcelona, who had been
infected with the HIV virus in 2009, was cured of
the condition after receiving a transplant of
blood.

While unfortunately the man later died from
cancer just three years later, having developed
lymphoma, the Spanish medical team is still
hugely encouraged by what it considers to be a
breakthrough in the fight against HIV and related
conditions, according to the Spanish news source
El Mundo.

Doctors in Barcelona initially attempted the
technique using the precedent of Timothy Brown,
an HIV patient who developed leukemia before
receiving experimental treatment in Berlin, the
Spanish news site The Local reported.

Brown was given bone marrow from a donor who
carried the resistance mutation from HIV. After
the cancer treatment, the HIV virus had also
disappeared.

According to The Local, the CCR5 Delta 35
mutation affects a protein in white blood cells
and provides an estimated one percent of the
human population with high resistance to
infection from HIV.

Spanish doctors attempted to treat the lymphoma
of the so-called “Barcelona patient” with
chemotherapy and an auto-transplant of the cells,
but were unable to find him a suitable bone
marrow.

“We suggested a transplant of blood from an
umbilical cord but from someone who had the
mutation because we knew from ‘the Berlin
patient’ that as well as [ending] the cancer, we
could also eradicate HIV,” Rafael Duarte, the
director of the Haematopoietic Transplant
Programme at the Catalan Oncology Institute in
Barcelona, told The Local.

Prior to the transplant, a patient’s blood cells are
destroyed with chemotherapy before they are
replaced with new cells, incorporating the
mutation which means the HIV virus can no
longer attach itself to them. For the Barcelona
patient, stem cells from another donor were used
in order to accelerate the regeneration process.
Eleven days after the transplant, the patient in
Barcelona experienced recovery. Three months
later, it was found that he was clear of the HIV
virus.

Despite the unfortunate death of the patient from
cancer, the procedure has led to the development
of an ambitious project that is backed by Spain’s
National Transplant Organization.

March 2015 will mark the world’s first clinical
trials of umbilical cord transplants for HIV
patients with blood cancers.

Javier Martinez, a virologist from the research
foundation Irsicaixa, stressed that the process is
primarily designed to assist HIV patients suffering
from cancer, but “this therapy does allow us to
speculate about a cure for HIV,” he added.

www.africanleadership.co.uk/blog/?p=1635

The problem was rectified after I sent a new version from a Tecno...dnt knw d model.
Tnkz all.

lalasticlala:
link to source if there is any...

It's up there already

jayriginal:
In 1876 you saw it as a world problem? Lol. You must be the oldest nairalander then.

Meanwhile, smart phones are tested. The industry is regulated and OEMs make sure they comply with safety standards.

Na language matter o...if at all u do GST 4 skul.

emmyojiah:
op b like "phone kills ur time, what about all the time u spent writing this long article, was it not wasted ?

No, it's not wasted. It is time spent on imparting gainful knowledge.

This tin never hit FP uptil now? Lalasticlala

"Joseph was alleged to have alighted from his car and told Yetunde that if she were one of his students he would have dealt with her."
What if Yetunde was your VC's daughter?

"Joseph was alleged to have alighted from his car and told Yetunde that if she were one of his students he would have dealt with her."
What if Yetunde was your VC's daughter?

iduzebaba:
all I know about dem nupe is dat dem sabi do correct jazz for... Infact jazz na dem foreign exchange

What is jazz...you mean jazz music?

WHO ARE THE NUPES?

Today most people think that the national name 'Nupe' applies only to a clearly-defined linguistic group found mainly in Niger South, Kwara North and parts of Kogi, FCT, Kaduna and other states of the Nigerian Federation. The truth, however, is that the Nupe phenomenon is far more than the parochial definition above.

The more we research into the Nupe question the more we discover that the Nupe identity
encompasses far more than the traditional
definition of Nupe as a tribe or language found in Niger, Kwara and Kogi states. The definition of the Nupe identity has been evolving and expanding over the decades as more and more research data emerge.

First there is this discovery that the Nupe also
include the various so-called ‘Sub-tribes’
including the Dibo, Kakanda, Gupa, Kupa,
Bassange, etc, etc. Then came about the ongoing discovery that Nupe actually includes all the tribes of the Nigerian Middle Belt including the Gbagyi, the Igbira, the Igala, the Tiv, the Jukun, etc, etc.

On the other hand there is also the unfolding
discovery that the whole Kororofa complex,
comprising of over two-third the entire
population of Nigeria, is Nupe. This will make
Nupe the largest ethnic group or tribe in Nigeria.

In the beginning we all thought that the Nupe
people are those who speak what is today known as the Nupe language. These people – variously known as the Nyipe by the Gabgyis; as the Nufawa by the Hausas; as the Tapa by the Yorubas; as the Nupe by themselves; etc, etc – are, as we have mentioned before, concentrated in Niger and Kwara states and are to be found in all the neighbouring states and the FCT.

This classical Nupe people are said to have a
tradition alleging that a certain mythical figure,
called Tsoede, was their eponymous founder. The father of this Tsoede was said to have been an Igala prince who married a Nupe princess to give birth to the bastard/half-caste founder of Nupe.

This was the traditional story of the Nupe people as recorded by the earliest of the European expeditionists and missionaries to arrive KinNupe. By the time of the Lander brothers and Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther all that was known about Nupe cosmogony was centred on the personality of Tsoede the, so-called, Founder of Nupe. Professor Leo Frobenius came along, in 1911, to give academic credence and authority to this traditional history of the Nupe people. It was frequently claimed in those days that the
history of the Nupe Nation does not go beyond
the emergence of Tsoede in the 14th or 15th
century. It was said that the Nupes had no history and did not exist as a nation until Tsoede came and founded the Nupe Nation.

But by the time that Professor S.F. Nadel arrive
KinNupe in the 1930s and plunged into his
detailed sociological researches on the Nupe
peoples he discovered a lot of inconsistencies in the traditional and conventional history of the foundations of the Nupe Nation as being centred wholly on the Tsoede personality.
Professor Nadel was the first to emphasise the
existence of a pre-Tsoede Nupe Nation and
thereby extending the existence of the Nupe
Nation and the Nupe peoples to the period before the birth and emergence of Tsoede. Professor Nadel actually came up with his elaborate story of what he termed the ‘Bini Confederacy’ which he said was a mighty federation of Nupe city states that flourished long before the emergence of Tsoede.
Professor S.F. Nadel also, and more importantly, discovered and extended the Nupe Identity beyond the traditional linguistic group known as the Nupe or what he called the ‘Nupe Zam’. It was Professor Nadel who popularised the idea of referring to related lects and dialects as ‘Nupe Sub-tribes’. These he listed as including the Dibo, Kakanda, Gupa, Bassange, etc, etc.

So, we see that the Nupe Identity and Nation
comprises of not just the classical Nupe people
but also the so-called Nupe subtribes. With this new definition we will see that the Nupe Nation will extend to include greater parts of not only Niger and Kwara State but also Kogi, the FCT, Nasarawa, Kaduna and many others.

But in the 1950s and ’60s the flood of
historiographic research into Nigerian history
and culture added another dimension to the
Nupe Identity question with people like Professor Michael Mason categorically demonstrating that Tsoede was not the Founder of Nupe. He pointed out that the Nupe Nation and Nupe people existed for several centuries on end before the time of Tsoede. Professor Michael Mason insisted that Tsoede should rather be referred to as the Re-founder of Nupe.

Professor Michael Mason also pointed out that
the traditional period of the 13th or 14th century assigned to Tsoede by scholars including Professor Leo Frobenius and Professor S.F. Nadel is wrong. It is the contention of Professor Michael Mason that Tsoede lived and flourished long before the 13th or the 14th century. This, of course, means that the Nupe Nation existed for
several centuries before the 14th century
previously assigned to the foundation of the
Nupe Nation.

But, and more importantly, Professor Michael
Mason discovered that the Bini Confederacy of
Professor S.F. Nadel was not restricted to just the Bida axis as was claimed by the latter. Professor Michael Mason found out that the story of the Bini Confederacy also existed among the Nupe people of Lemu whom Professor Nadel didn’t actually include in his list of the twelve Bini city states.

Moreover Professor Michael Mason also
discovered that the Bini Confederacy was not just a collection of Nupe Bini city states but was actually a large federation or empire of Bini nations. These Bini nations that went into the formation of the expanded Bini Confederacy of Professor Mason’s discovery evidently included the Edo-Benin kingdom, the Igala kingdom, the Kebbi kingdom, the Oyo kingdom, the Igbira Panda kingdom, and so on and on. This, of course, tallies with the conclusion of world linguists who scientifically listed the Nupoid group of languages as including the Igala, the Igbira, the Gbagyi, and so many other peoples of Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria.

We see in this context, therefore, that the Nupe identity is actually a very large one – far beyond the traditional definition of the Nupe as a people confined to just the Central KinNupe area.

In recapitulation we can see how the definition of the Nupe Identity have evolved from that of a simple reference to the Nupe people in Kwara and Niger State to that of a Nupe nationality comprising of the so-called Nupe Subtribes to that of all the tribes and ethnicities abutting or neighbouring the Nupe Nation. We also see how the timeframe for the history of Nupe have extended along a timeline that goes several centuries, if not a millennium, beyond the traditional 13th or 14th century previously assigned to Tsoede and wrongly claimed to be the time for the foundation of the Nupe Nation.

The interesting point here, however, is that
accumulating research data have continued to
both expand the Nupe Identity to include more and more of the Nigerian peoples who have not been traditionally identified as Nupe and also to extend the timeframe of Nupe history and prehistory back to millennia. In other words the Nupe Identity is fast expanding in terms of both space and time. We discuss these in the following paragraphs.

Nupe historiography is now discovering a vast
pre-Tsoede era that may prove to be even more elaborate than the details we have on the post- Tsoede era. It is now becoming clearer that apart from the Bini Confederacy which Professor S.F. Nadel said predated the Tsoede era there was also the AtaGara empire. In other words the Bini and the AtaGara were contemporary confederacies or empires in the immediate pre-Tsoede era. As a matter of fact Tsoede was an half-caste whose father was the king of AtaGara while his mother was the Queen of Bini. The Igala, actually Gara, referred to in the Tsoede Mythical Charter was the AtaGara empire which was located right here in Central KinNupe and not the Igala kingdom that is still headquartered at Idah outside KinNupe proper today. It was Tsoede’s Nupeko, otherwise known as Kororofa among the Hausas, that came and relegated his parental empires of the AtaGara and Bini to the background.

AtaGara shattered into various daughter
kingdoms all of which migrated out of Central
KinNupe. These included the Zaria kingdom, the Igala kingdom, the Oyo (Katunga) kingdom, the Igbira Panda kingdom, the Zhitako or Dibbo people, the Shintakoi Gbagyi people, etc, etc. The Bini empire also shattered into the Kebbi kingdom, the Agife Gbagyi people, the Nyife or Ile Ife Yoruba people, etc, etc.

And before the era of the AtaGara and the Bini
empires there was the Akanda, Gara, Bini and Ife kingdoms all located in Central KinNupe.
It is the Akanda that are still variously known as the Kakanda, Kyadya, Batati, etc, etc. The Akanda and the Gara merged to form the
United kingdom of AtaGara while the Bini and the Ife kingdoms merged to form the Binife,
otherwise known either as the Bini or Nupe,
empires.

And then there was also the arrival, in KinNupe, of the Kisra Refugee peoples from the outside world – from outside the African continent. These Kisra people were variously known as the Kisara, Saraki, Sagi, Zakzak, Yisa, Esa, Asa, Hausa, and so on and on. They came to KinNupe with an ancient from of Christianity and their emperor was known as the Isa or Yisa. It was the Yisa or Esheti kingdom of these ancient Kisara peoples that eventually shattered into the various daughter kingdoms of Zakzak (or Zaria), Esa (or Asa or Hausa), Shango.

These things happened several centuries, or even a millennium, before the time of Tsoede.
It was the Nupeko empire otherwise known as
KoroNupe or Korofe founded by Tsoede that was also referred as Karifi, Korofa or Kororofa by the Hausa city chronicles. This Nupeko or Kororofa empire founded by Tsoede expanded out to cover the whole of ancient Nigeria and neighbouring places of the Central Sudan in ancient times. This is how came about the fact that over two third the population of Nigerian people are today of Kororofa, Nupeko or Nupe origins to this very day. So, the territorial identity of the Nupe people extends beyond Niger and Kwara states to engulf the whole of Nigeria and even beyond.

And several centuries before the time of Tsoede Nupe dynasts including the Nyizagis (of Yisa Nupe empire), the Bagis (of the Gwagba Nupe empire), the Egifes (of the Niyfe or Ife Nupe empire), the Egibi, Gibi or Bigi (of the Bini Nupe empire), etc, flourished, reigned and declined. The truth is that the origin of the Nupe people goes beyond the Tsoede era to a primeval time eons beyond the time of Tsoede. The Apa, Ifa, Ife, Nyife or Nupe people have been around since the beginning of civilisation. They were remnants of the super and First Civilisations of Fara or Bara that produced the world emperor known as Fara, Afra, Abra, Abram or Abraham otherwise known as Ibrahim in the Semitic scriptures.

—Ndagi Abdullahi, Research and Documentation Unit, Niger State Government House.

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psucc:
These are only moves to quench the flame. With the fire base still intact it, it won't go soon.

The best way is for the government of the northern states and their LGs to be honest to the point of stopping payment of loyalties to the Boko Haram.

Don't make claims you cannot substantiate with fact.

7 PRAGMATIC WAYS TO END BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY

This piece was written earlier today by Ohwojeheri Al-Faruq, a student of Islamic knowledge from Edo State, Nigeria. It focuses on pragmatic solutions to ending Boko Haram insurgency that has lingered unabated in the country for the past 5 years. Enjoy.

1. Let the government recognize that this is a Muslim problem and let the Sultan know that accepting it is a Muslim problem does not tarnish Islam. God Almighty gives every community their own trial and they have to face it
not deny it if they must succeed. Let our Sultan call Boko Haram to a discussion with FG. A discussion where their agitation (if any) will be tabled and a compromise will be reached. People are not punished by people alone. If you can't stop their terror then negotiate with them and leave them to God Almighty. We can't be religious people and be closing the doors of
forgiveness no matter the atrocity done. If Allah was to close the doors of forgiveness when a sin gets too much non of us will have ours open by
now. However, the appeal for forgiveness should begin from the government pleading to those who have lost loved ones. The decision should not be up to those of us that have not lost anyone. This talk of
negotiating from "a point of strength" is ridiculous. If you have the upper hand already as a government then why will you negotiate? You negotiate when everyone is feeling the heat so
that there can be compromises. We can't sit in our conveniences in Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt and make mouth about how we don't negotiate with terrorists. If you were so bold, fearless, and principled about it how come armed robbers rob daily and we don't see your type who tell them to shoot instead of giving them corporation?

2. If compromises for peaceful resolution are not
reached at least let both groups (BH and FG) agree to fight military to military alone. I strongly believe BH will accept this. The plan will be the
government will not arrest your wives and children nor attack innocents. You too will not do same. A free space for combat like the time of old will be appointed and it will be fight to finish and fairly so. If BH believe they are out for Jihad then they will gladly take this offer and we will save civilian lives.

3. If still they refuse these then the Sultan should raise an army comprising of Muslims from any part of the country and the world to fight them. I
assure you that when there is a rebellious group from among Muslims, it is Muslims that can fight them because they won't be able to get support using religious sentiments. The Sultan can work with retired and serving military personnels (he is one of them) who are Muslims to hurriedly train Muslim youths for this combat. Calling in America and Israel will only give Boko Haram legitimacy in the eyes of oppressed Muslims in other part of the world. They will be seen as fighting oppressors and their oppression will thus be disguised.

4. A vital part of the fight in point 2 is that while the training is on, the Sultan can gather the position of the scholars of Islam in one fatwa. Let this fatwa be signed by each and every known person of knowledge and circulated properly.
The fatwa should have the following qualities:
* No attempt to be liberal. Say Islam as it is and
don't sound like a sellout.
* Recognize their grievances no matter how silly or little and admonish them to be patient and point to the fact that fighting oppression which is Jihad is different from fighting because of anger.
* Address the issue of rebellion against
constituted authority. Very instructive in this regard is that the Prophet of Islam never fought Jihad as an insurgent. That is he never took up arms against an establish government under whose area of governance he was. One country or one state or one government fighting another is a
different matter. These and many more points can be made with many more evidences from the Qur'an and sunnah.
*Address the issue of the permissibility of revenge and educate them on the limits being that what you revenge with must not be more than what was done to you. Then go ahead to show them how they have done more harm than the government did to them.
*Must not include going to the extreme with them like calling them non-Muslims, or cursed, or condemned, among other rhetorics that has not help anyone.
*Evidences should be brought from scholars they respect and do not see as sellouts. Scholars from different parts of the world may also append their signatures to this. Let it be establish that this instruction to drop arms is an Ijmaa (a consensus of scholars), not just what one Mallam says in one Mosque and another politician says in one public lecture. All these are just suggestions of how I think the scholars of Islam may tend towards, but honestly they know best what and how to say what should be said. Note that I said SCHOLARS, not celebrity preachers that are creeping up trying to make
Islam look "cool" and hence watering down the religion in the process.

5. If the group still does not blink after all these, then the Muslim youths being trained for the battle should be ordered to fight them to finish. These Muslims will be gotten from:
*Muslims in the forces (Army, Police, e.t.c)
*Muslims with any form of vigilante training
*Any willing Muslim including migrants from all parts of Nigeria and the world who has seen this injustice and wants to answer the call of the Sultan. Those who get so angry and all cursy on
Facebook should stand up at this stage and work the talk.

6.Funding and weapons for this Muslim group going for the correct Jihad should be provided by Muslim countries with clear and transparent arrangement with the Nigerian government on
weapon control before and after the struggle. Again, Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia, and Qatar should provide assistance not America, Britain and Germany, if we truly want this to end.


7.One of the first duty of this Muslim group should be to protect the non-Muslim community in the North and their places of worship because as soon as Boko Haram start feeling the heat their first target aimed at demoralizing the effort is to intensify attack on non-Muslim so as to cause a
war from the other end. This Muslim group must be visionary, proactive and strategic and all these can be mapped out by the commandant of this group.

NB: My suggestions on this matter came from the following:
1. The Qur'an prescribes that if two Muslims fight, settle them, but if one is adamant and continues oppression then join the innocent one in fighting the oppressor (Qur'an 49:9).
2. The Prophet Muhammad said “Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is oppressed.” The Prophet was asked: “It is right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he is an oppressor?” He replied: “By preventing him from oppressing others.” Now, this does not only tell us what to do, it also
shows us that the politics of no Muslim can act like Boko Haram is a LIE and the Prophet himself
had since informed us that some Muslims may become oppressors.
3. Allah says it CLEARLY in the Qur'an how things like these are solved when He said: "For had it not been that Allah checks one set of people by means of another, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, wherein the
Name of Allah is mentioned much would surely have been pulled down. Verily, Allah will help those who help His (Cause). Truly, Allah is All-Strong, All-Mighty." - Qur'an 22:40
May the end result be safety and security for the innocents.
Al-Faruq
07-07-15

A Perspective On The Discrimination Against Nigerian HND Holders By Christian Dimkpa Germany Dimkpa@uni-jena.de At present, the average Nigerian graduate, be they of the university or the polytechnic hue, is largely poorly trained and therefore ill equipped to face life’s dynamic realities. On a visit to Nigeria last summer, one of my former lecturers at the Michael Okpara College of Agriculture (MOCA), Owerri Imo State, during a discussion, concluded that the last set of motivated and serious students of his college graduated in 1998. I agreed with him not because I was of that set, but because my HND research project attests to that. However, I remembered that this same lecturer, like several of his peers, rather than engage the students in rigorous academic work, sold plagiarised hand-outs to us like no man’s business. This brings me to the recent directive from President Obasanjo, aimed at ending the discrimination between HND and BSc graduates. Whether employers of labour are heeding this directive or not, is another story. But, tell me, what is there to discriminate against when both qualifications (as obtained from Nigeria in recent times) reek of mediocrity? The truth is, like his BSc counterpart, the present Nigerian HND graduate is a lazy, dependent fellow who would not take his destiny in his hands. Many students attend polytechnics for several reasons. For me, but also, am sure, for many ND students, being from just an average-resource base family, undertaking an ND program was a form of security, since the later is of shorter duration, and there is no guaranteed funding for the longer BSc program. It was reasoned that in the event of loss of sponsorship (from death or loss of job by the sponsor); one can pause after the ND, work for a while and then continue with higher studies. For the much longer BSc program, loss of sponsorship midway could see the individual involved back to school certificate level. Would you blame anyone for reasoning this way? I wouldn’t; with poverty so palpable in Nigeria. Although I was fully aware of the discrimination phenomenon, I did not let it be a road-block to my ambition. If you will permit, a brief delve into my career might help to buttress this point. I use to hold (of course, I still hold) a National Diploma (ND) and a HND in Crop Production, both from relatively non-renown higher institutions in Nigeria. However, it is instructive that today, I am pursuing a PhD program at one of the prestigious Max Planck institutes in Germany (best research institute in Europe and eight best globally), and this is in an innovative field of study that perhaps, may never be conducted in any Nigerian university many years from now. This is after obtaining an International MSc degree in Belgium from a university that is listed among the first 300 globally. Note that no Nigerian university is in the first 500, and in the newspaper recently, one Nigerian stakeholder lamented that even if the ranking is extended to the first 5000 best universities, Nigerian universities would still not make the list. After my HND studies in 1998, I worked with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan, as a Research Assistant. During the interview for that position, several BSc graduate applicants from ‘well-known’ universities such as UI, UniLag, OAU-Ile Ife, among others, were interviewed as well, but the big university names associated with those individuals did not save them from relegation, as they say in football parlance. What I am emphasising here is that it is the intellectual quality of the individual, not the institution attended, that often matters. If you know IITA, then you will agree with me that when it comes to staff recruitment, personal merit is the watchword, not merely possessing a HND or BSc degree. Afterwards, I applied for graduate studies at the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta (UNAAB). Surprisingly or not, I was not considered suitable for admission either because of my HND (upper credit), or because I do not come from that part of Nigeria (remember that tribalism is another serious scourge in Nigeria). But that is by the way. Nevertheless, I did not relent in my desire to attain the highest academic level possible, so that in spite of possessing a HND and the unexplained rejection by UNAAB, and thanks to hundreds of internet hours, I soon obtained a full scholarship from the Belgian inter- university council (www.vlir.be) in 2003, to study Molecular Biology (Plant Biotechnology) in that country. When I arrived in Belgium for the MSc program, I found out that of 241 Nigerians who applied for scholarship for the course, I was the only one admitted. Remember, I held a HND, not the ‘almighty’ BSc. The curious mind that I am, I inquired more about the unsuccessful Nigerian applicants and behold, they were mostly university graduates (again from UI, UniLag, OAU, UNN, UniPort, etc). Of course, two other students of The Polytechnic Ibadan were also admitted but for a different MSc course. That polytechnic offers only HND and not BSc programs. Such is the power of the individual merit. I have since acquitted myself very well in the Belgian MSc program; hence I was admitted, again on full fellowship, to one of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) of the Max Planck society in Germany (http:// www.mpg.de/english and also (http://www.ice.mpg.de) , to study beneficial plant-microbe interaction using modern biotechniques, including proteomics and metabolomics. The other Nigerian scholars, formerly holding HNDs, have since undertaken different higher pursuits here in Europe. This narrative does not by any means attempt to denigrate Nigerian BSc graduates or the universities from which they graduated, but rather to de-emphasise the entrenched segregation. There is even a dichotomy between federal and state university graduates. Wonders shall never end, in Nigeria! From my experience, it can be seen that the senseless HND-BSc dichotomy should have no place in the mind of any serious-minded Nigerian graduate. After all, the HND is fully recognised in the UK and have several equivalents in other European countries. What then is all the fuss about it in Nigeria? My little advice to the Nigerian HND holder who have suffered this discrimination, and who feel qualified enough for certain positions denied them is this: do not let man-made barriers block your ambition, except you have none. Take a cue from others; take time off to do meaningful internet browsing, not using the internet for 419 and other such negative activities. In no time, you too can obtain scholarships to foreign and much better rated institutions of higher learning. By so doing you would have catapulted yourself well beyond any possible academic discrimination if you choose to return to Nigeria to work. Christian Dimkpa, a PhD fellow of the International Max Planck Research School, writes from Jena, Germany (cdimkpa@ice.mpg.de)

Read what the scumbag once said in a YouTube video: "On that Sunday, Ottis had come by to visit me while my parents and siblings were away at one of my aunts’ house visiting, and of course, being our impetuous selves, we had great SEX that day. And on that Tuesday his cousin William
contacted me and told me that Ottis had
committed suicide." He's only an "imam" in perverting the religion of Allah. This is a disgrace to moral bankruptcy. I pity those who're unfortunate to listen to his deceptions.

I was on the queue in the banking hall to withdraw some cash this morning when I set my eyes on this young man in his late 20s trying so hard to recharge his MTN line using his voter's card serial number. He tried several times but to no avail. Then, I decided to take photographs of him in the act. Could it be that this guy is just ignorant or just criminally minded?

Rosemary216:
Lolxxxx.... Com take my own if u no get money 2 chng am!!

My neighbour had d same problm, wait lemme ask him wat he did!!

Pls do, ma'am. Will b glad...

Tolzeal:
Okay This is what to do.


First Download Astro File manager from PS, Use for the installation .If No way still,?? Then move to second step.

I presume your device is rooted. Download root explorer, Search for "Whatsapp"" , delete anything you see with whatsapo tag, Then do whatsapp Installation again.

You should have a clean state .

My phone is not rooted...but I'll do as u've said.

I tried installing a new Whatsapp application on my Samsung GT-S6102 after uninstalling the old one this morning, but all to no avail. I keep getting the response "application not installed" each time I try installing...
I need help from NL engineers please, as I'm expecting a very important message.
Do not suggest that I change the phone cos ah no get moni.

Jorussia:
S.A nor even dey fear us,the giant of Africa.Make dem nor let us come use military force capture that country o.

Which military are you talking about, man. Is it the same military that is finding it too difficult to deal with ordinary Boko Haram?

Ariel20:
I need help.. addiction is an under-statememt

Go save your phone in a bank for a year.

Ariel20:
I need help.. addiction is an under-statememt

Go save your phone in the bank for a year.
Lol

p2t2r:
obviously not.

"...I am simply
advising you to maintain moderation in
your engagement with your smartphone,
to be on the safe side."