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This country is full of evil leaders especially in military and paramilitary sector.

Launched in Bermuda, the boat was named ‘Rita’ by Sir Ben Ainslie’s wife Lady Georgie Ainslie and daughter Bellatrix. The name has a winning pedigree – Sir Ben has used it throughout his career.

BAR shared the engineering skills used by Jaguar Land Rover to create its newest models. Aerodynamic, self-learning car, artificial intelligence and virtual-modelling technologies are all helping the boat to go faster.
Jaguar Land Rover( is the UK’s largest investor in automotive research, development and engineering spending billions on new product creation and innovation, the partnership with Land Rover BAR enables the engineers to up-skill and practice new methods in different environment and platforms.

“This process of two-way engineering and our wider STEM programme across the business has enabled us to develop, learn and provide our capabilities to the BAR team. We developed industry-first aerodynamic testing to support the wingsail design which you can see on the final boat here today,” said Tony Harper, Director of Research at Jaguar Land Rover.

From the success of this project, and with our knowledge of analysis and construction of light-weight vehicles, we have also supported the structural design of the daggerboards – the surfboard-style structure underneath the boat that allow it to fly and keep it stable when out of the water.”

Each light-weight daggerboard needs to bear 2,400kg, the equivalent of a new Land Rover Discovery, so their job on the boat is crucial.

Seyi was shot dead by a yet to be identified chief from Orisumbare community, who escaped the moment the deed was done. The wife of the deceased, Mrs. Oladipupo Folake, 35, told
Vanguard that the alleged killer of her husband has thrown the family into downward spiral of grief and mourning.
The sad news: Narrating how she learned about her husband’s death, the young widow, who fought back tears intermittently, said, “I was at the sawmill doing my petty trading, buying and reselling some fire wood, when the director of the sawmill suddenly drove down to the sawmill that day and asked one Okada man to take me home, saying there seems to be some trouble in Ayede

“So I went with the man but while we were near the general hospital in Ayede, my husband’s elder sister called to inform me that my husband was wounded with a gunshot and had been rushed to the general hospital.
So I headed straight to the hospital and when I got there I became very anxious when I saw many people there and demanded to see him but the nurses there said he wasn’t in a condition where I could see him. A nurse actually felt concerned with the way I was behaving at the hospital and took me behind the doors to see him. He was shot below his groin and had lost a lot of blood.
The burden and urgent need for help: “We have four children, our first born is about 15 years old now and in secondary school. The last is just about two years old. My husband has been single-handedly taking care of all of us because I don’t have a job. I have school certificate and also completed a grade 11 teaching programme but because I haven’t got a job, I have been fetching fire wood at the sawmill to sell.
“I make very little money doing that and that was why all the family responsibility was shouldered by my late husband. Now that the whole responsibility of taking care of the four children has become mine, I need urgent help from the government and other well-meaning people so I can take care of these children.”
Demand for justice: Folake, the young widow described her husband as a peace loving person, who could never hurt a fly, and wondered why such cruelty could be visited on her family, she said the security agents must do all they can to bring the assailant of her husband to justice. “I also want the government to ensure that my late husband gets justice. This is an unjust killing and the government should ensure he gets justice so that his soul can rest peacefully,” she said.
Premonition about husband’s death: “That morning before my husband went out, I had asked him if he would eat pounded yam and he agreed. I told him I didn’t feel like eating pounded yam and he gave me money for my breakfast. I had prepared our children and they went to school.
While I was peeling the yam, he told me that he was searching for something in our wardrobe and also informed me that the community had sent them on an errand. He didn’t tell me the details of the errand. He appeared to be in a hurry and was rushing to get what he was looking for.


“The moment he told me that the community had sent them on an errand I became very disturbed and something within me told me to dissuade him from going and I called him by his daughter’s name, saying Baba Deola, please don’t go to the place, my heart says you shouldn’t go. But he didn’t say anything. So I continued peeling the yam.
Premonition and prayer for husband
“After a while, I heard him kick start his motorbike and he was gone. I still felt that premonition about where he was going and I prayed for him. I eventually prepared the pounded yam for him and set the table so that he could eat whenever he returned but I never knew that would be the last time I would see him.”
Government must punish the killer of my son
The octogenarian father of the deceased, Pa Babatunde Oladipupo, agonised over over the killing of his son, told Vanguard that government must punish the killer of his son. “Please tell government to punish the killer of my first-born and only one who has been taking care of me since I lost my wife.”
According to th deceased’s aunt, Mrs. Abejide Comfort, last frantic efforts to save the deceased by rushing him to the Federal Medical Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, failed because she could not reach other relatives on time. She described the deceased as easy-going and a gentle man. “He didn’t have time for any idleness, he was the first-born of his father. And it took a lot of time after their marriage before his parents had him. His aged father, Pa Babatunde Oladipupo, is still in shock about his death. The octogenarian is still finding it difficult to believe he has lost Seyi, his first-born.
“Seyi was the only one taking care of his aged father as he and his family have been living with the aged father. We plead with the government to kindly get a job for his widow so that she could take care of their young children,” he said.
First son of the deceased, master Oladipupo Seyitan, who is in JSS two in Ayede Grammar School, recalled that his father had vowed to assist him become a soldier in future by sponsoring his education to that effect. “Now that he is being killed, I don’t know who will help me become a soldier in future,” the young boy lamented.
How it all started: Meanwhile, since the killing of Seyi a pall of darkness and ominous silence has descended on the two communities of Ayede and Itaji. The two towns which are about 45 minutes drive from the state capital, Ado-Ekiti, have been under security siege, as a detachment of policemen were seen guarding the Onitaji palace which is barely two kilometres to Ayede town.
Oladipupo was allegedly shot on Egan farmland, a land which has been a subject of three-year dispute between Itaji and Ayede communities. The deceased had led a team of youths assigned by the Attah of Ayede, Oba Mumuni Orisagbemi, on the morning of January 31, to remove some poles allegedly erected on their land by the people of Itaji.

Speaking with Vanguard , one of the youth leaders in Ayede, Segun Ajayi, described the erection of the pole on their land as a clear breach of the boundary line, stressing that the act enraged the youth of Ayede, who marched to the palace of Oba Orisagbemi to register their protest.
He said the monarch ordered the team of youths to remove the poles which was seen as an encroachment on their own land by the people of Itaji.
Ajayi claimed that the chief who shot Seyi, allegedly now at large, had invaded them on Egan land while after they had removed the poles. He said,“Seyi and I usually lead others to the land when issues like that arises. We had been told to find out about the land five days earlier.
We were not sent to go and fight anybody but were instructed to remove some poles the people of Itaji had erected on our portion of the land. We were not also armed. We got to the place and removed the poles encroaching on our portion of the land as we were instructed.
“It was then some boys came around and they were escorted by policemen. Those were the people who had used the poles to encroach on our land. So we were deliberating on how we would all come to our monarch to resolve the issues and how the police would escort us to the town.
That was when a chief of Orisumbare came, armed. I was the first to tackle him, I reminded him that the land in dispute was between Ayede and Itaji and did not concern him who hails from Orisumbare town. He replied me by saying I should be silent and that he was on his land which was given him by the monarch of Itaji, Oba Adama Babalola.

It was reported, a few days ago, in almost all national dailies, that the Nigeria Customs Service seized 49 boxes containing 661 pump action rifles unlawfully imported into Nigeria.
The rifles were said to have been concealed in a container of steel products and other merchandise. Three suspects were said to have been arrested. According to retired Colonel Hameed Ali, the Comptroller of Customs, the arms were cleared at the port with the assistance of two customs officers who have since been apprehended and are now being investigated.

This is the latest in the series of unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria, and it raises a number of issues. First, who are those behind unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria and what are their intentions?
Unlawful importation of arms: At a press conference, in which Colonel Ali triumphantly reported the arrest of three suspects, he also informed the Nigerian public that a team of customs officers on intelligence patrol had, on Sunday, January 22, 2017, along the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway in Lagos, intercepted a truck whICH registration number he gave as BDG 265 XG, purportedly conveying the arms in a container whose number he gave as PONU/825914/3. Such news would have been sweet in the ears but for the fact that nothing was said of the owner of the truck and nothing was said of the owner of the container.
Playing to the gallery
That raises further questions: in whose name was that truck registered and in whose name was the container registered? Are they registered in the same name? Have their owners been investigated? When shall they and their foot soldiers appear in court?


Not to raise these and related questions, and not to address them, will leave us where we have always been, that is, a place where a criminal act is committed but there is neither trial nor conviction nor sanction, a country where criminals are phantoms, a strange land where there are crimes but no criminals. That is why the triumphant account of the Comptroller of Customs comes close to another episode playing to the gallery.
But there is another issue to be raised, and that is, whatever happened to intelligence in this country? Newspapers reported that the Comptroller of Customs informed Nigerians that impounding the truck containing the unlawfully imported arms and the apprehension of three men suspected to be involved in the crime of unlawful importation was the achievement of a “roving team of the NCS’ federal operations unit, while on intelligence patrol”. But on closer scrutiny, this advertisement of prowess is in fact an advertisement of colossal but recurring failure of intelligence. A dictum has it that prevention is better than cure. Intelligence is crime prevention.
Nigeria’s security agencies—the Customs in this case, the Police, the Army, to mentioned but these—have repeatedly demonstrated their ineptitude when it comes to preventing acts that are inimical to security. The Police arrives at the scene of a crime after the crime and after the departure of the perpetrators. The Directorate of State Security neither locates nor arrests makers and users of Improvised Explosive Devices before they strike. The Police and the Army were only deployed to Southern Kaduna after massacre of Nigerian citizens.

Nigerian Customs officers fail to do their work at the ports only to mount roadblocks on highways at spots where stopping your vehicle would constitute a danger to other road users. But the Comptroller of Customs wants Nigerians to believe that what his officers have done is a heroic accomplishment of a “roving team of the NCS’ federal operations unit, while on intelligence patrol”?
In his words, “This feat was no doubt commendable and represents the new normal in the service, where most officers and men are on a daily basis ensuring that illegalities are not allowed unchecked.” For this, he lauded his officers, saying, “I commend the FOU Zone A Comptroller, all officers and men involved in this great seizure.”
Locking the stables after the horses have escaped: The Comptroller General’s assessment should give sleepless nights to discerning minds. For this, in fact, is by accident or design, another of many instance of abysmal failure of intelligence. It is best described as locking the stables after the horses have escaped. Colonel Ali spoke with candour about the obvious when he said, as reported in the dailies, that unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria “is even more unacceptable considering the fragile security situation in some parts of the country.”
But, precisely because of this precarious security situation, the Customs and other security agencies in Nigeria need to act in ways that demonstrate that they are able and willing to secure our beloved Nigeria and its peoples. The high level of insecurity in our land is no longer news. It has led to the death of many innocent Nigerians.

egbusi1:
nice one itel

Itel S31 na the talk of town now

Horlaarsco:
leading where??

Guy, you no dey this world?

One of the leading mobile company ITEL released another selfie series to their existing ones called S31 with amazing features.


1. 2G (GSM) : {GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900}MHz
3G: HSDPA (900 / 1900 / 2100)MHz
Sim Type: Dual Micro Sim support functionality

2. Screen Size: 5.5 Inch IPS HD Display
Screen Resolution: 720 x 1280 pixels.
Pixel Per Inch: 300 ppi

3. RAM: 1 GB RAM
Internal Memory: 16GB Expandable to 64GB Via MicroSDcard.
Sensor: Accelerometer, Proximity, and Compass Sensor.

4. Build: Polished Poly-carbonate Plastic
Colours: Gold, Black.
Weight: 140G
Dimension: 153.2 X 76.4 X 7.8 mm.

5. Camera Features: Wide angle selfie, Pro mode, Face detection, Beautify mode, HDR, Panorama
Front Facing Camera: 5MP
Video Recording: YES @720P
Back Camera: 5MP Video recording @1080P

6. Music Support: AAC, AMR, MP2, MP3, M4A, MKA.
3.5mm Audio Jack
Video: H.263, H.264, MP4, MPEG4.
Stereo FM Radio: Yes
Loudspeaker: Mono

7. OS Version: Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Processor: 1.3GHz Quad-core (MediaTek
MT6580) Chipset
GPU: Mali-T400
CPU: 1.3 GHz Quad-core (Cortex – A7)
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Hotspot, Internet Connectivity.
Bluetooth: Yes v4.0
GPS: Yes.
USB: Micro USB v2.0

Itel S31 na baba..... This phone rock die. Itel is taking over the mobile phone market

Although am also using Itel S31 but what I love most about it that, I Play games seamlessly with it because of its 1.3 GHz Quad-core Processor. I easily Switch between apps without any hassle.

Last week thursday was my girlfriend's birthday, i was thinking of what to buy for her, i decided to asked a female friend of mine, she said i should try to get her 'itel S31' selfie series...... I was relunctant because she is using infinix hot note, but i conceded to buy it for her, since i get her itel S31 selfie series, she has fell in love with it. I asked her why she now prefer itel S31 to Infinix Hot Note..... She gave me these reasons, which I call the "power of Itel S31 camera" ladies can be funny..




1. I can edit my pictures using the 5 Level Face Beauty Mode of its camera and have the best quality capture without stress


2. Also in low light, it got me covered. It comes with a 5.0MP Front Camera with Soft LED Flash that captures with great brilliance even in the dark.

Aside of these, Itel S31 comes with other juicy features.

Yeah... Itel S31 is a classy pocket free phone for everyone.

I love my Itel S31 because i can edit my pictures using the 5 Level Face Beauty Mode of the camera and have the best quality capture without stress. Itel S31 na baba among others.

Who still dey use Tecno in this world....... You better dump it in dust bin and get ur self any Itel selfie series..... Itel S31 is okay.

I will implore you to buy Itel S31 series... Is a perfect phone that will give you value for your money.

Itel mobile recently released Itel S31, another latest selfie series loaded with some special features.

This new addition to the selfie series has a 5'5 HD IPS display with 1.6mm ultra narrow bezel.

This device runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, which does not allow your battery drain from seldom used apps.

The App Standby feature of the OS limits their impact on battery life so your charged battery lasts longer.

Play games seamlessly, the 1.3 GHz Quad-core Processor of this new device. Switch between apps without any hassle.

This phone is irresistible to ladies.... itel S31 is perfect for selfie lovers

This is a phone to push other phones aside..... Itel S31 is handy and pocket friendly.

This should be an ideal phone for gaming.... Am loving this itel S31

My dream phone Itel S31....... Itel mobile is the best.

Wao! I never knew this phone is out.... Itel S31 my dream phone

This phone is quite loaded with features that make it tempting to buy..... I love dis Itel S31

Welcome on board...... Hope to buy mine soon... S31 is a pocket friendly.

Am getting this classy phone... Itel S31 is the phone of the moment

Even in low light.... The camera is perfect? Itel S31, respect..... This will be a perfect val gift.

Itel is winning the race with their amazing selfie series....... S31 na baba

Nice specification........ How much is this bro?

okikiosibodu:
OP, I am not sure I saw the make of the phone even after a meticulous perusal...you mind tell me the make and the model?

LOL... itel S31

xendra:
awww! I want one for valentine

You can surely get one from any mobile store that sell quality like 3CHUB

It no more news that Itel mobile has released another selfie series S31..... It amazing features make it why Ladies are demanding for it

This new addition to the selfie series has a 5'5 HD IPS display with 1.6mm ultra narrow bezel. With this, you'll get a wider and crystal clear display


This device runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, which does not allow your battery drain from seldom used apps. The App Standby feature of the OS limits their impact on battery life so your charged battery lasts longer.


Even in low light, we've got you covered. This device comes with a 5.0MP Front Camera with Soft LED Flash that captures with great brilliance even in the dark.


You can edit your pictures using the 5 Level Face Beauty Mode of the camera and have the best quality capture.


This device comes in three different colours, Black, Rose Gold and Pure Gold. All made to blend with your lifestyle and Fashion

There is a popular saying that "taste of pudding is in the eating" that's the best way to describe the latest flagship of itel S31.... A phone for classic guys from the stable of Itel mobile company... You can't really say the value of this phone until you own one. HERE are few features of this mouth-watering classic phone :


Operating System Android™ 6.0
Platform MT6580W
Processor Quad-core, 1.3GHz, 4x Cortex‐A7

Display 5.5'' IPS HD Screen

Camera
5.0 MP AF Back Camera with Dual LED Flash
5.0 MP Front Camera with Soft LED Flash
can take fabulous selfies even in low light.

Memory 16GB ROM + 1GB RAM, up to 32GB of SD
enough internal storage for your precious Apps and media

Battery Capacity 2400mAh
Enough juice to last you a whole day, for heavy usage should last more than half a day.... Removable battery unlike other products



OTHER AMAZING FEATURES ARE :

Double click to wake up

Smart False Touch Rejection Mode (help prevent pocket dialing or other accidental touch issues)
Three Finger Swipe Down to Screenshot

Flip Case Quick Circle Interface

Gesture Wake Up

Dual SIM

5 Ways to Lock The Screen

Note: Inbuilt useful apps like App Freeze, Multiple Accounts, Power Saver, One-click Cleaner, and Change Wallpaper are left for you to experience

I heard this itel S31 is available in all mobile stores that sell quality, classic phones.

My brother. I hope u read this, this girl may do as she said, similar thing happened, where a colleague of mine was arrested through bank order from court. The order was to fix his bank and whenever he come to bank for complain, the bank was to arrest him for fraud. I will advise you to refund her money.

You insult Governor Ayo Fayose yet he was able to stop Fulani herdsmen killings in Ekiti. Of what good is your own sophisticated Governor if he can't protect your life? An average Ekiti man knows that Fayose will fight for him. Can you say the same about your Governor? Fayose will never go to Abuja to cry to President Muhammadu Buhari if Fulani herdsmen kill Ekiti people. If the first responsibility of a government is the protection of life and property, I challenge any Nigerian to name a Governor who does this better than Fayose.