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Unilag Student Rape: Who is the Liar Okiro Or Sowore.


Sowore the ball is in your court, are you a rapist

HOODLUMS yesterday beat up and stripped the Osun state Commissioner for Regional integration, Hon Bola Ilori, naked during the All Progressive Congress, APC, Committee on True Federalism and Restructuring held in Akure, the Ondo state capital.

Ilori’s white long sleeve shirt and singlet were torn while the timely intervention of security operatives prevented further assault on him. The ugly incident disrupted the meeting which had in attendance the state leader of the committee Racheal Akpabio, state deputy governor Agboola Ajayi, state chairman Ade Adetimehin and the vice chairman south west of the party chief Pius Akinyelure, state commissioners and traditional rulers.

Other top party leaders from other south west states were equally in attendance to make presentations on behalf of their states For over 30 minutes pandemonium reigned supreme at the International Event Centre, the venue of the meeting.

Signs that a problem was looming was noticed when llori was booed by the party members when he was making an addendum to the Osun state presentation after their leader Adedeji Gbadegesin had spoken.

He was about leaving the venue, after the presentation, when some thugs mugged him and nearly stripped him naked. The members of the party from Osun state were said to have gone wild following the treatment Ilori meted out to their leader. Stones and other dangerous weapons were freely used by the party members outside the venue.

Security operatives efforts to calm party members from other states proved abortive as most of them fled the venue. In an interview llori alleged that it was the state Secretary to Government SSG lfedayo Abegunde that sent his boys to beat him up.

Ilori said that his molestation by the boys loyal to Abegunde was against the senatorial election in 2019. According to him the boys accused him of being a chieftain of the Alliance for Democracy AD and didn’t support the governor Rotimi Akeredolu in the last governorship election.

He said that the incident would have recorded casualties if he had not pleaded with party members from retaliating.

But the Ondo state information commissioner Yemi Olowolabi said that the Osun delegates came to the venue to foment trouble. Olowolabi said that they came with charms and cudgels to attack members of the party in the state.

The commissioner alleged that Ilori seized the microphone after the leader of the delegates from Osun State made a presentation. “ What happened was avoidable if he had not seized the microphone which must have provoked the party members. Olowolabi added that the event was peaceful until ilori seized the microphone when he was not the leader of the delegate from the state. He commended the state Deputy governor, party chairman and secretary to government for prevailing on party members not to take the laws into their hands despite the unwarranted provocation by the Osun delegates

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/pandemonium-apc-restructuring-committee-meeting-akure/

The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday said that the incumbent Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has nothing to show for the mandate he was given by the people of the state, and therefore does not deserve another mandate from the people of the state.

Mr Obi who was in Nnewi for an interaction with PDP officers in Nnewi North Local Government Area, said that most of the projects he started and could not complete before he left have remained the way he left them when he was bowing out of office.

Visibly angry, Mr. Obi made it abundantly clear that he is no more interested in contesting for any elective position again in the state and urged the PDP members to market Mr Obaze Oseloka who is the standard bearer of the party to all nooks and crannies of the area.

“I have no selfish interest in putting anyone into office, my interest is to ensure that the people of the state get the best, and equally fight bad governance anywhere no matter who is concerned.”

Mr Obi also stated that he has no personal issue with Chief Obiano and that the paramount thing to Anambra people now is to have a governor who will deepen his achievements in office by moving from Millennium Development Goals, MDGs to SDGs.

Reacting to a question on why Anambra people should trust his choice of candidate after the incumbent he helped into office has allegedly failed, Obi said that Obiano has not for once agreed that he helped him in any way.

He reassured the PDP faithful that better days lie ahead for them if they pitch their tent with Mr. Obaze who he said is a seasoned diplomat noting that Nigeria can not progress when some candidates are buying votes.

Meanwhile some of the people who attended the meeting, who are aggrieved with Mr Obi’s position said that the Governor should first of all publicly apologized to the people of the state, for deceiving them if he says that Governor Obiano is not doing well.

According to Chris Obieze, a participant in the meeting said “if former Governor Obi is telling us that the person he put in office as his successor is not doing well, he should apologize to the people of the state for deceiving us, how can we believe him now that another person he is bringing to us will be better, is there no possibility that he will fall out with this one when he enters office and he will come back to say the same thing he is not saying about Obiano, our people should be the last judge.”

https://www.today.ng/news/politics/16057/anambra-guber-obiano-deserve-second-term-obi?utm_source=NND&utm_medium=twitter

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has lent his voice to those calling on the Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to tone down his rhetoric.

Speaking at the the 13th edition of All Nigeria Editors conference, in Port Harcourt, Wike said well meaning Nigerians should call Mohammed to order over his irresponsible utterances and wild allegations against members of opposition political parties.

“Nigerians of goodwill must therefore call the Minister of Information to stop stoking the ambers of disharmony and divisions in the polity with his irresponsible utterances and wild allegations against members of opposition political parties.

“We are only pretending we think that all is well with our country. The country is in crisis as poor governance, nepotism, marginalization and state-sponsored repression continue to do violence to nation unity and cohesion”, he said.



“Nigeria has never witnessed the degree of contemporary agitations for justice and equity going on in the form of call for restructuring, fiscal federalism, demand for free and fair elections, stressing the need for “forthright leadership and consensus building to steer the ship of state from the wrong direction it is headed to safer grounds.”

“Today, the clamour for political restructuring, fiscal federalism, State police and guarantees for free and fair elections have never been this determined across the country and will never go away. It is becoming clearer by the day that to ignore these calls is pretentiously dangerous to the unity and peaceful co-existence of this country.” he added.

“For some of us therefore, there is nothing nobler than being counted on this path and as long as God gives us breathe we shall remain in the trenches fighting for our democratic rights and freedoms until victory is ultimately achieved.

But, we also believe that this is a fight that should and must be led by the media for full effect and agenda setting. This calls for greater vigilance and courage in giving effective voice to the contending issues and taking personal responsibility for factuality. It can’t be otherwise.” he added.

http://www.herald.ng/lai-mohammed-must-stop-wild-allegations-wike/

sarrki:
May he be to wailers the way they wish onto others

They are full of hate

They drink and eat hate

Yet they want love

You mean the Dog and the Barboons

The Hyenas and masquerades

The

sarrki:
Nothing breaking here

Its all on transit

God bless Muhammadu Buhari

Sarki.

Gbogbo awon Are orile-ede lo pada sorile ede won, Sugbon baba Buhari doriko ilu-londoni abi beeeko.

O lp jabo fun awon oga re to ran nise lo si USA.

Continue

We've about Operation Python Dance, Operation Crocodile Smile.

Still looking forward to the day FG will launch;

Operation good roads

Operation world class hospitals

Operation steady power supply

Operation low cost housing

Operation high standard of Education

Operation good drinkable water

Operation good transportation(railway, road and air transport inclusive)

Operation dual carriage

Operation eradicate boko haram

Operation stop Fulani herdsmen killing

Operation NO to tribalism

Operation NO to corruption

Operation NO to rituals and kidnappings

It seems this styles of operating is actually working!



WE ARE ANXIOUSLY WAITING FOR THE DAY

Concerned Nigerians


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Lalasticlala so sowore is also a R......t

Sowore "He that must come to equity, must come with clean hands"

The whole world is waiting for you

There’s no excuse for the use of force to take a gift bequeathed to any gender as regards sex. Rape which might be defined as sexual assault in its plainest form can also mean ‘to plunder or strip of resources’. Forcing someone to have sex with you against their will is a crime to the existence of that person. It debases the individual involved.

Rape isn’t gender specific but the most prevalent of rape cases are that of male orchestrated rape incidence.

The need for this write-up cannot be over emphasized as it has become a scourge in the society.

The lack of discretion and shame in which male engineered rape has become rampant leaves the mind worried.

Recently the case of secondary school students trying to rape their female contemporaries in the open is an issue that leaves the mind puzzled and the case of a young female teenager raped to death by some male suitors in her neighborhood, paints a horrid picture in the mind.

The situations are scary but what is more scary is the fact that up till now, there has been no scapegoat made of the culprits of the hideous acts; this as always been the case in Nigeria and I will use the case of the publisher of Sahara reporter, Omoyele Sowore as a case study.

Omoyele Sowore is the founder of the independent online investigative media outfit named Sahara reporters.

Just like the popular saying that he who wishes to shout equity must come with clean hands, the allegation of rape case against the publisher of Nigeria’s popular blogger Mr. Omoyele Swore has refused to go away.

Recall that former Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro in a forum back then, made a pronouncement that Omoyele Sowore of the Sahara Reporters was once arrested for rape.

The statement made by the former police chief has since become a subject of discussion, controversy and has refused to die down in the news media.

Okiro alleged that Omoyele Sowore had raped a UNILAG female student who’s now married with two kids. “I arrested him when I was Surulere Area Commander of the Nigeria Police. I prosecuted him and he jumped bail”, said Mike Okiro, former Inspector General of Nigeria Police?

Sowore is a power house when it comes to online reporting and some of the revelations of the media outfit have been ground breaking. However, Mr. Omoyele once leveled an allegation against the former inspector general of police, Mike Okiro and Mr. Okiro did state that Mr. Omoyele Sowore was a rapist that he once arrested, jumped bail and is back with vendetta to nail him for his arrest.

Okiro actually gave a graphical detail of the crime, the circumstances and the state of the victim at the time.

Brick bats have been flung back and forth over this revelation. As the controversy rages, some have hinted that, the unprofessional conducts of the police may have made his criminal evading of arrest possible while others allege that Okiro must have been privy to Sowore’s bail-jumping stunt, while yet another segment insist that politics or not, a criminal must face justice no matter how long ago the crime was committed.

So far, Sowore has neither affirmed Okiro’s pronouncement nor denied it, thus making further speculations and controversies, rife.

Typical of Nigerians, we allowed sentiments cloud our minds as regards this rape allegation and sacrificed reason on the altar of political patronage; people accused the then ruling party of witch-hunt and the issue was swept under the carpet without Mr. Omoyele Sowore denying it affirmatively.

This is how society enables rapists and empowers young males to believe once they can cheat the legal system and end up successful, they can get away with rape accusations, even when such accusations are made by ex- principal officers like Mike Okiro.

What hope will there be for any of his victims if the above allegations are true? Will they ever find justice? Will they ever be bold enough to step out with intimidations and accusations of being called paid political prostitute of his so called enemies?

Doesn’t this mean we would be empowering a beast beyond the normal boundaries of humanity?

It is time to throw away political affinities and sentiments and put on a thinking cap as what this issue portends if actually the allegations are true and to be honest with you the thoughts of it are chilling.

Try to imagine the pain of the supposed female victim of Sowore’s rape seeing him on National television being celebrated, try and imagine what effect it might have on her.

Imagine if she has male children and tells them that Sowore once raped her and all the Children see is a man being celebrated everyday instead of prosecuted, how do you think such young men will realize rape is bad?

Think deeply about it and see how letting Omoyele Sowore get out of the rape allegation so easily aids the move by young men attempting to rape their secondary school counterpart.

The issue here is not to nail Mr. Omoyele Sowore but to beam the searchlight of enquiry on a man whose establishment thrives on public trust.

It is saddening that the public can take accusations of rape leveled against such an individual with a pinch of salt. The intent of this write-up is not to declare him guilty but it is only right that the public should be interested in his innocence or lack of it. What if the former inspector general of police is right? What if the allegation against him is true? Does it mean we have a rapist as an investigative power house in Africa’s most populous country?

In Lagos State and Nigeria, a law has been passed to punish crime such as rape by legislators, State and Federal prescribed life imprisonment for any rapist. Since the crime was allegedly committed in Lagos which is also part of Nigeria, Sowore can be tried for the crime in any part of Nigeria.

Public commentators have been calling on government and other anti rape agencies both in Nigeria and abroad to once again look into the allegation of Mike Okiro, Mr Mike is not dead, he is still alive and can retell the story which will aide investigations, the victim is also alive and can tell her own story but should be under a protection.

Like I said earlier, this write-up is not an attempt to crucify Omoyele Sowore but if he has an atom of decency in him, he would come back to Nigeria, sue Mr. Mike Okiro and ask him to mention the name of the lady raped.

He would press charges so as to ensure that his name is cleared from such scandal. He would issue a press conference, denying ever being involved in such a case.

He would demand that his case file be brought out and make it a big issue. That way, young people will realize that rape is not a trifling issue.

Young people will realize that an allegation of rape is one that might come to haunt you in the future.

That way, a clear message will be sent out beyond Nigeria that rape is a big issue and must be treated as such.

So far, so good, there hasn’t been any clear denial of this allegations, there hasn’t been any press conference to address it and most importantly everyone have been acting like they have moved on like it doesn’t matter- which goes a long way to show the message we are sending to younger generations, the Nigerian populace should once again show interest in this case until it gets to a convulsive end.
The Writer, Bolanle Omupo Is An Anti-Rape Campaigner With END RAPE INITIATIVE (ERI) From Lagos Nigeria. EndRapeInitiative@Yahoo.com


http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/omoyele-sowore-of-sahara-reporter-rape-case-at-unilag-the-allegation-that-remains-fresh-must-read/

Chascop:
Spot the difference between PMB and PDT speech scene at the UN.

Take a look at the seats..



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OP YOU are crossing the national redlines

Lai Mohammed, minister of information, has described Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), as the master of hate speech.

Speaking at a press conference in Lagos on Monday, the minister said the federal government tolerated Kanu for too long.

He referred to IPOB as a contraption against the Buhari administration, saying the government had to swing into action to prevent the organisation from creating more problems.

“IPOB might not have invented hate speech, fake news, misinformation, but it has employed these to push its agenda,” he said.

“The self-imposed IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is the master of hate speech. His supporters should listen closely to his inciting remarks and cruel statements. If such does not constitute hate speech, then tell me what hate speech is

“We have tolerated the excesses of Kanu for too long. Mention one country in the world where an organisation has set up a military organisation, confronted the national army and engaged in exploiting of people without consequences.
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“There is nothing like genocide anywhere in our country today. What we have in the south-east is a clampdown on a band of lawless people who have no regard for the laws of the land.”

Mohammed alleged that the group had harvested fake videos of mass killings from other parts of Africa and doctored to look current.

He said this is to mislead the international community and win support.

“We must warn the nation against IPOB’s next line of action, which is to externalise their lies and propaganda,” he said.

“Now they are writing to the government and the national parliaments of some Western nations to give the impression that they are victims of violence orchestrated by the government, hence they need protection.

“Some of the tools that have been employed by IPOB include blatant lies and cheap propaganda, and the medium of choice for the organisation is the social media.

“IPOB has harvested gory videos and pictures from other lands and the distant past, which they are now circulating via the social media, to deceive the international community.

“IPOB is deceiving them into believing that the people of the south-east are being subjected to state-sponsored, ethnoreligious”

https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/15012/biafra-kanu-master-hate-speech-lai?utm_source=NND&utm_medium=twitter

Some policemen attached to the Osun State Police Command have allegedly dehumanised a bus passenger at the Erinmo Ijesa end of the Iwaraja-Efon Alaaye Road, Osun State.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the policemen, who were in a Hilux van, mounted a checkpoint on the road and extorted money from commercial bus drivers.

However, a commercial bus driver, who was stopped, reportedly refused to pay them any money and was ordered to park by the roadside.

After the driver parked, one of the passengers was said to have alighted from the bus to urinate in a bush.
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Our correspondent was told that the driver, on discovering that the attention of the policemen had shifted to another vehicle, quickly drove off, abandoning the man that went to urinate.

A monarch, the Owa Tapa of Itapa Ijesha, Dr Olapade Agoro, whose university’s site was around the area, said the abandoned passenger was picked up by the policemen and handcuffed to the patrol van.

He explained that the victim was handcuffed to the van for over two hours during which he soiled himself, as his cry for mercy fell on deaf ears.

He said, “The sad and highly embarrassing incident happened on Sunday (September 10, 2017). The commercial bus the man was travelling in was stopped by the police for the usual ‘palm greasing’. The man came down from the vehicle to urinate.

“However, the deal between the driver and the policemen failed, prompting the police to ask the driver to park properly by the roadside while they attended to another vehicle.

“While they focussed on the other vehicle, the driver used the opportunity to speed off, leaving behind the passenger who went to urinate in the bush. When the passenger came back to discover that the bus had gone, he made enquiries about its whereabouts.

“Immediately the police officers discovered that he was on the bus that sped off, they pounced on him and thereafter handcuffed one of his hands to the back of the police van. The man was left handcuffed to the vehicle between the hours of 11am and 1pm, during which he urinated on himself and wept profusely.”

He said he was angry at the maltreatment of the victim and he challenged the policemen.

Agoro said the cops subsequently released the passenger, who later came to his palace to appreciate the intervention.

“While still crying over his ordeal, he made me to realise that he had no money as the policemen had forcefully removed the last money on him from his pocket. I had to, on compassionate ground, give him N1,000 that enabled him to find his way back to his Aramoko Ekiti place of abode,” he added.

The traditional ruler said the inscription on the patrol van showed it belonged to policemen from the Osun Police Command, adding that fear prevented a resident from taking a clear snapshot of both the victim and the patrol number.

He, however, said he would recognise the men if he saw them again.

“I have a university site around the place, so there is a bump on the road. Because of the bump, vehicles are forced to slow down and the policemen use that as an opportunity to extort money from commercial drivers. Sometimes, they shoot indiscriminately. They have been doing this for a long time, but this incident was appalling.

“The situation of things in this country is terrible; but the policemen should not have tied the man down like an animal. The man urinated on himself and they didn’t care until I challenged them,” he added.

The spokesperson for the state police command, SP Odoro Folashade, said she could not react to the incident because the case had yet to be reported to any police station.

She said, “He should go and report to the nearest police station; then I will call them and find out what happened. What reaction do you want from me when the case has not been reported? He should go and establish his case, and then we will investigate.”

http://punchng.com/bribe-collecting-policemen-handcuff-passenger-to-vehicle-after-driver-escaped/

On the day the federal government accused disgruntled politicians of sponsoring the separatist group, IPOB, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has accused the state governor, Ayodele Fayose, of funding the group and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

The party accused Mr. Fayose, a vocal critic of the Muhammadu Buhari federal administration, of plotting to destabilise Nigeria.

The party also said that the governor’s counsel in a press release on Saturday urging dialogue to resolve the Biafran crisis was an afterthought.

The Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a statement on Sunday that the Nigerian Army was performing its constitutional role of preserving the unity of Nigeria and bringing all secessionists and their backers to justice.

Mr. Fayose had urged the federal government to embrace dialogue in the resolution of the Biafran agitation after the Nigerian military declared IPOB a terrorist organisation.

He had earlier accused the government and the military of ethnic cleansing in their handling of the Biafran agitation.

Mr. Olatunbosun said the governor’s actions and utterances had shown that he was “solidly behind any activity that will bring Nigeria down.”

“On April 26 and as published by The Nigerian Tribune Newspaper and its online publication on April 27, 2017, Fayose said he was working in conjunction with Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, to raise funds for Kanu, stressing that he was taking his support for Kanu beyond showing solidarity in court by raising funds that would be deposited in an account opened in Kanu’s name,” Mr. Olatunbosun alleged.

He quoted the governor as saying that, “as many lawyers willing to fight the oppression should join the struggle for liberation from the oppression,” alleging that Mr. Fayose was not new to seditious and treasonable activities to bring Nigeria down.

“He led a campaign to the Chinese Embassy in Abuja and later to Shanghai, the Chinese capital, to urge the Chinese government not to lend hands in helping Nigeria out of recession,” continued Mr. Olatunbosun.

“Relentlessly, he led hate campaigns against the symbol of the Nigerian authority, President Muhammadu Buhari, wishing him dead, including hounding and haunting the President across the world, including on his sick bed, and threatening to expose the President on a life-support machine, all these in spite of swearing to uphold the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and to be loyal to the Nigerian state and her President.

“He went further as reported in the media on May 25, 2017 that ‘Ekiti State is now part of Biafra’, which drew the ire of several Yoruba groups as reported in the media.

“Not done, while Nigerians and indeed the country’s leaders were celebrating Nigeria’s exit from recession, Fayose was the only governor across the country who dismissed the celebration as a ruse, maintaining that Nigeria was still in a deep economic mess even though in his state, he is the biggest stumbling block to the survival of Ekiti people by diverting all loans he took to pay workers salary to needless projects contracts awarded to his friends’ companies in which he allegedly has interest.”

Mr. Olatunbosun further alleged that Mr. Fayose demonstrated the seriousness of his support for the collapse of Nigeria when he released his telephone number 070300000393 and email: mystory2006@yahoo.com as reported in the media on April 27, 2017, urging all that were interested in the Biafra cause to contact him through the phone number and email address.

“All the South-east governors, including the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, have opposed Kanu in his secessionist activities while Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has warned Kanu and IPOB to stay away from Rivers; but Fayose declared Ekiti State as part of Biafra and that has confirmed the report that he is part of Biafra’s financiers as he had publicly declared to the media,” said Mr. Olatunbosun.
Nnamdi Kanu

“No wonder, just four months after Fayose started mobilising funds for Biafra, thousands of deadly weapons, including military assault rifles, were smuggled into the country but were intercepted by the Nigerian Customs while it was also discovered that uniformed Biafran militants already have military training camps where they are planning deadly assaults against Nigeria after threatening her leaders.

“We had earlier alerted the security agencies to the presence of armed gangs and stockpiling of arms in the Ekiti State Government House and his present activities in raising funds for Kanu only confirm that he is part of rebellion against the Nigerian state.

“We have always insisted that Fayose is a threat to the Nigeria’s unity and the economic survival of her people.”

The APC spokesman urged security agencies and Interpol to investigate Mr. Fayose in his support for funding IPOB with “the latest influx of military assault rifles into the country.”

“His support for Kanu in funds mobilisation for his treasonable act and the activities of Fayose’s media men in promoting the Biafran cause only point to one agenda to destabilise Nigeria and that has proved us right that Fayose has no agenda than the destabilisation of Nigeria to enable him escape all illegal and criminal activities linked to him in recent past,” he added.

But Mr. Fayose has described the allegation as baseless, saying his support for the group did not translate into funding of the IPOB.

His Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, who spoke on his behalf, told PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday that the APC allegation was an attempt to “cover up the federal government’s torture and killing of the Igbo people.”

He said the governor had the right to express his support for any group, including the IPOB, arguing that the travails of the Igbo people should be the concern of all Nigerians.

“The attack by the military on the IPOB should be a concern for all Nigerians,” he said. “The people are expressing their fundamental rights. Their demands are legitimate.”

He denied raising funds for the group, saying that it was the ploy of the APC and the government at the centre to defend their wrongdoings and silence any opposition.

“The agitation of the IPOB is as a result of bad governance by the present administration,” Mr. Adelusi said.

“If there was good governance, there would not have been any need for the agitations; there would not have been calls for restructuring by the Niger Delta agitators, Afenifere and other groups.”

Mr. Adelusi further reasoned that the proclamation of IPOB as terrorist organisation was uncalled for, given that far more dangerous groups like the Fulani herdsmen, who had been accused of killing, maiming and raping, had been treated lightly.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/243518-apc-accuses-fayose-funding-ipob.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has expressed gratitude to God for averting bloodbath in the state, following the withdrawal of troops deployed to Abia for a one-month military exercise code-named “Operation Python Dance.”

Ikpeazu made the remark on Sunday when he visited the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Abia council to commiserate with journalists over last Tuesday’s invasion of the secretariat by soldiers.

The governor noted that the presence of the troops sparked tension across the state. He said “we are grateful to God for intervening in stopping what could have been the greatest bloodbath known in the history of mankind.”

He also thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for reposing confidence in Southeast Governors’ Forum, “by giving us a second chance to talk to our people on the need for us to live as one united nation.” He added that the Igbos remained the most widely travelled people in Nigeria, living and conducting businesses in every nook and cranny of the country. The governor put the estimated population of Igbos in the north at about 12 million, with Borno having the least population of about 50,000 Igbo households. He said Abia needed peace for business to thrive, especially in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state. “I am very happy to say that normalcy has returned to the state,” he said, adding that Muslims worshipped in their Mosque on Friday in Aba. He, therefore, urged residents of the state to go about their lawful businesses, assuring them that government would continue to provide adequate security for lives and property. The governor described the invasion of the NUJ secretariat as unwarranted, saying that “journalists do not deserve such an attack.”

He said that although journalists faced different hazards in the course of their duty, military attacks only happened under military regime or war situation and not in a democracy.

Ikpeazu, who complained that the activities of his administration were under-reported, urged journalists to help in reporting the state positively to the world. He promised to look into some of the challenges facing the Abia NUJ, including taking steps to complete the union’s unfinished permanent secretariat.

Earlier, the state Chairman of the union, Mr John Emejor, narrated how the secretariat was invaded by no fewer than 20 soldiers without any provocation. Emejor said that Abia NUJ was the only council in the country that still operated in rented apartment. He described the relationship between the union and Ikpeazu’s administration as frosty and urged the governor to take steps to reverse the trend. The Abia correspondent of The Oracle Today newspaper, Bonny Okoro, was manhandled during the attack. His Samsung tablet, as well as a cellphone belonging to the correspondent of Daily Times, Mr Sunny Nwakanma, was also destroyed by the assailants. Gov. Ikpeazu was accompanied on the visit by his Deputy, Chief Ude Oko-Chukwu, Rep. Sam Onuigbo representing Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency, and the Pillar of Abia NUJ, Dr Anthony Agbazuere.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/operation-python-dance-army-withdraws-abia/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

According to Dailymail UK, the next superfood may well be cockroach milk. Forget kale, quinoa, cacoa, acai berries, chia seeds and coconut oil, because roaches could be the secret ingredient coming to the hippest cafes soon.

According to a group of scientists based in India, cockroach milk is four times as nutritious as cow’s milk and has a unique form of protein contained in it. The milk is produced by the Pacific beetle cockroach, the only type of the species that gives birth to live young.

The cockroach secretes a type of milk that contains protein crystals to feed its embryos before they are born.

‘The crystals are like a complete food — they have proteins, fats and sugars. If you look into the protein sequences, they have all the essential amino acids,’ author of the study, Sanchari Banerjee, told Times of India.

The protein also has other benefits, like the fact that it releases energy slowly over a long period of time. ‘It’s time-released food. If you need food that is calorifically high, that is time released and food that is complete. This is it,’ another scientist, Professor Ramaswamy explained.
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Scientists who made the discovery were working at the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, and believe the milk could be used as a protein supplement in the future.

However, rather than trying to milk cockroaches, which would prove very ineffective, the researchers are trying to find a way to produce the protein crystals in their lab.

The findings of the scientists can be read in full in the International Union of Crystallography Journal, but it’s fairly technical.

It’s not the first time scientists have advocated for consuming bugs either. Last year a study from Oxford University found that consuming insects like cockroaches gave you more protein than equivalent amounts of red meat.


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So APC is going on another charade spending again.

Public hearing about what restructuring an its headed by El-Rufai.

Make them continue their nonsense gathering.

adedipeopeyemi97:
pls I have this from sanna pay and still can't continue my registration on portal. what should I do

There should be a statement below that saying click to confirm your payment to continue. Did you click it or just Ignore it.

ATTENTION

for those that did change of course an institution to University of Ibadan.

you can now logged in. the University Post-Utme portal had been updated with the New candidates data from JAMB.

Sarki welcome back Mr Shia-Man undertaker Sherrif.

Myd44 right now writting congratulatory message for a job-well done to Mr Shia-man sheriff

Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, the deputy of the sacked National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, and other members of the party have defected to the All Progressives Congress in Delta State.

Ojougboh said they left the PDP because of the reign of impunity.

The defectors were received by the National Vice Chairman of the APC, Mr. Hilliard Eta; a leader of the party in the state, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor; Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu; and the state chairman of the party, Mr Jones Erue, among others in Agbor.

Ojougboh claimed that since the delivery of the Supreme Court judgment, which ousted the Sheriff faction, the Ahmed Markafi-led national leadership had refused to reach out to them, hence they decided to leave.

He said, “After the unfortunate court judgment, the next thing we heard was that they would grant us amnesty, as if we are criminals. When Raymond Dokpesi was nominated as a member of the committee for the non-elective convention, his nomination was rejected because they said they spent money on the court judgment.

“As if that was not enough, during the Anambra State governorship primary, Prof. Jerry Gana was made the chairman of a three-man committee to midwife a transparent election but governors Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State rejected it and came up with another committee that went to Anambra and handed everything to Peter Obi.

“We now said it is time to look for people of like minds, people of progressive ideology to meet with because I know most of you have ambitions to pursue. If we do not make a decision to belong to the progressives, most of you will miss out.”

In his remarks, a former factional chairman of the PDP in the state, Mr. Austin Ogbaburhon, told the APC chieftains that the Sheriff faction is a beautiful bride, adding that the defectors rejected offers from other political parties before agreeing to join the APC.

While receiving the defectors, Eta said the coming of the new members would boost the chances of the party ahead of the 2019 general election.

He said, “For us in the national working committee of the APC, Delta is a low-hanging fruit for us to pluck but the coming of Ojougboh and his teeming supporters has made the fruit even lower for us. We welcome you to the party and urge you to go to your units and wards to register. Registration is free and I believe you will add value to the APC.”

http://punchng.com/sheriffs-deputy-others-dump-pdp-for-apc/

Isoko1stSon1:
Who takes ye opinion serious anymore ?

What is your problem there.

Is he talking to you

Joebie:
you didn't follow the discussion. It all stemmed from the final league table.

I had suggested a better way to find the true champions. The old super 4 did just that.
Think the Jupiler league format, that groups I think the top 6 teams, and they play against themselves all over again.

My point is, our league is a wasted exercise with the table looking like that.

If i didn't follow the discussion how will i make the comment.

I only make a statement om what was used to replaced the old Super-4 league.

Is that a crime.

If you say you are sugesting a better way of knowing the true champion, thats better. But you need to go back and re-read your reply again.

safarigirl:
azzin.

Not too long ago, this was Odey,biw he's in one obscure league in Europe. Next season, another one will bite the dust

Every season all this top scorer keep behaving like PHCN light on and Off

Joebie:
And that determines the champions?
Let's understand context before we comment

Meaning what.

Is my comment not correct or what are you insinuating

Sarki.

[quote]I think one issue that has become a dilemma for this administration is how to resolve the report on the former SGF. That report has become like a bone in the throat of the President and people in the Presidency. And when you have a bone in your throat, you have to decide whether to vomit it or flush it in. Meanwhile, leaving it there will lead to injury and whether you vomit, swallow or leave it there, there are consequences.

The lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani, speaks with LEKE BAIYEWU about the cabal in the Presidency and President Muhammadu Buhari’s challenge in implementing the report on the suspended SGF


Will you describe the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Aisha Al-Hassan, as one of the ‘hyenas and leopards’ in the government for declaring her support for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for the 2019 presidential election?

I don’t think she is one of them. What brought her into national discourse was the statement she inadvertently made to declare her support for the former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The fact remains that it is her opinion, but many people do not actually agree with her. The fact that she could speak out shows that she is not a hypocrite. We must tell ourselves the truth.

When the President was sick and was in London (for medical vacation), there were many things that happen[b][/b]ed behind him, one of which was that many politicians that are celebrating him today and mobilised thousands of people to the streets to welcome him were actually not interested in his recovery when he was on his sickbed. If we can vividly recall, the level of support he has is more audible when he is around than when he was not.

In the Nigerian parlance, there is what we call ‘eye service.’ When the President is absent, you will see scheming; you will see political machinations; you will see politicians and political office holders jostling around, organising nocturnal meetings and forming alliances and restrategising for their own political future and for the 2019 election.

It surprised many of them that he came back because many of them thought he would not return alive. The difference between that woman (Al-Hassan) who made the statement as a minister and the others is that she was open and others are still having it in their minds.

I believe the President knew very well that many things had happened behind him. If she is prepared to work for the former vice president in the event that President Buhari decides to contest (again), she should easily excuse herself from this government and concentrate on what she believes in for the 2019 election.

I don’t like the way people are insulting her; I don’t like the way people are calling her all sorts of names. I think the President knows very well the kind of person he appointed as minister. She has her opinion but I may not share her opinion. I believe that our democracy should get to a point where we should tolerate opinions other than our own. The measure of our democratic relevance is not about our cliques; it is about our acceptance and conformity with democratic dictates and principles.

When a serving minister openly declares her support for Buhari’s political rival, does that not mean a vote of no confidence in the President?

I think she is in the best position to answer that, but from the little knowledge I have about her, she has always been a woman of respect and integrity. People have the right to express their opinion but we should understand that a lot has been achieved by this government in the areas of fighting corruption, economy and security. We should appreciate that. There are also a number of failures within the last two years but we are having problems with people who do not see any good in this administration. We are also having a problem with people who think that the administration is 100 per cent right, angelic and saintly, hence nobody should criticise it.

This is a free and democratic society; people must be encouraged to express their opinions. If we did not have the right to speak up and challenge the (Goodluck Jonathan-led) government, it would have been impossible for us to take over political power. Democratic societies provide the platforms for individuals to use and hold the government to account. Without the right to freedom of expression and speech, we are going to have a society where only the wills, wishes and dictates of the people in power become the rule. If you have been elected into office, you have voluntarily offered yourself to be scrutinised through public criticisms, which democracy itself provides for.

You and the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, once said when Buhari, as the Lion King, returned from his medical vacation, he would flush out the hyenas and the leopards in the kingdom. The President has been around for some time now. When will he do it?


I am of the belief that there will be cabinet reshuffle and I believe that some people will be removed from his government; some people will be replaced and there will be some substitutions. In the life of a government, there is the need for periodic reviews to assess the performance of people appointed into various offices. Those ones who have failed woefully should be dislodged from the government; those who have performed fairly should be assessed as to whether they should be taken to different ministries or be shifted to another agency; those who have performed well should simply be encouraged and remain where they are. If you don’t do that, there is likely going to be fatigue and the atmosphere of governance will be so suffocating.

You will see the technical failures of some appointees and it is also an opportunity to bring in people with fresh ideas. When a new government comes into office, what usually happens is that there is always the burden of responsibility and compensation on the president (or governor). That means that those who worked hard for his victory need to be compensated. That is why names of ministers (nominees) are collected from governors. Those who worked hard during the campaign are being compensated with ministerial positions. But if one has done that for a year or two, then one has been able to appease and please those forces that helped one to get into office.

Now, one has to settle for governance, which means bringing in people that will deliver results purely. There are three stages in the life of a government: the first cabinet is about compensating people who worked for you. The second is to bring in people who will deliver on your mission, irrespective of their political and social allegiances. Most times, the cabinet that comes last is usually an election cabinet; those who will work towards your re-election.

Some Nigerians have alleged that although Buhari is the President of Nigeria, some people around him have formed a cabal and hijacked his government. Do you share this view?

In every possible way, any dispassionate and even passionate watcher of events will attest to the fact that there are elements within the administration that constitute themselves as a government within the government; people who believe that they are superior to others. This is not peculiar to Buhari’s administration. If you check throughout the history of Nigeria, every government has its own men of influence who are considered a cabal, even at the state level. During the time of Shehu Shagari, everyone knew the influential role of Umaru Dikko; it was very clear. It was the same thing with Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration; there was what they called a ‘Reform Team,’ which gave advice on Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (to be next president) and also adopted Goodluck Jonathan. The only time the issue of cabal became so popular was during the time of (the late former President) Umaru Yar’Adua. It was also popular during the time of Jonathan.

Who are those that make up the cabal?

They are close confidants of the President; the president’s men who exploit that confidence and truth they have with Mr. President to manipulate the government and conduct the affairs of the government not in the interest of the person who they are serving but their personal interests. Those are the people who constitute a cabal and these are the ones I tagged wolves and hyenas and jackals.

Has the delay in the implementation of the report of your committee justified your claim that the Presidency was using deodorant on the rodents within the government and insecticide on those outside it?

I made the reference when a letter was sent from the Presidency to the National Assembly, clearing the former SGF and even blaming us for investigating him. I said if the letter truly came from the President, then it was very clear to us that there were double standards in the way corruption was being fought. I think one issue that has become a dilemma for this administration is how to resolve the report on the former SGF. That report has become like a bone in the throat of the President and people in the Presidency. And when you have a bone in your throat, you have to decide whether to vomit it or flush it in. Meanwhile, leaving it there will lead to injury and whether you vomit, swallow or leave it there, there are consequences. We did our report; the vice president – then as acting president – also did his report. It is like, now, the whole country is watching to see what the President will do about it. This is one report that has held the Presidency by the neck. I believe that the President knows it well that if there is one asset he has, it is his integrity.

Do you see Lawal as one of the sacred cows and the ‘untouchables’ in Buhari’s government?


I believe it is about his contribution to the success of this government, his place in this government and the fact that nobody saw it coming. Put all these together: if someone was involved in corruption and our report was enough to remove the person’s head, they didn’t need to do another one led by the Acting President; and to submit the report, it took months. It is like having a knife: it is easier to slaughter an enemy who did wrong than to slaughter a friend who committed the same offence.

What is happening is like the President has a sword, which he uses to behead people he does not know who committed offences. Now, he has the same sword with him to behead the person he knows, and the whole world is watching.

What is your reaction to former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement that the National Assembly is made up of unarmed robbers?


Sometimes, it is easier for people to criticise the National Assembly than to criticise the Presidency because if you want to criticise the government, you are targeting Buhari, but if you are attacking the National Assembly, you are giving relief to some people. I know very well that Obasanjo cannot call me as an individual that name.

We have been in the same prison with him; we wore the same handcuffs; we were jailed together with him. Certainly, if Shehu Sani is an unarmed robber in the National Assembly, then he is my father because we were in Kirikiri (Maximum Prison, Lagos) together.

So, he is the father of an unarmed robber. As far as I am concerned, I believe that his problem with the National Assembly started during his own time (as president) but there is a different generation of members of the National Assembly now. These are not the members that he had issues with.

http://leaders.ng/babachir-lawals-case-bone-buharis-throat-shehu-sani/

Joebie:
there is no more super 4..

It was only Modified to

Nigeria Professional Football League Super Four pre-season tournament

Joebie:
lol

The top 16 teams should be grouped into 4 groups in a tournament format, to determine the champions.

Federation cup is doing that

They should use prayer collect their money back.

Change my foot

PassingShot:
Do you have comprehension problem? Or, are you just knowing the facts the VP has stated in this report?

did you remember this:

PassingShot:
Yeah. I love this. Tell him who he actually is.

A very sore loser just like his goons on NL.

PassingShot:
I have no doubt that the government has (or knows the people behind it) a hand in it.

I will respond appropriately later please.