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In December 2019 at about 7pm, I suffered a road traffic accident opposite the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH). My car somersaulted on the express way. I was struggling with my seatbelt with my car still in the upside position when I saw people running towards me to come and help me out of my car and upright it. While I was trying to locate my phone and wallet, the guy who seemed to lead the rescue party noticed my worry, and reassured me that no one was interested in any such thing. They helped me get out of the car and my car out of harm's way.
It would mean a lot to me if even one of those guys who helped me out that night would read this and know that I treasure what they did for an utter stranger without asking for anything in return. God bless you all wherever you are!

I think you've got Bell's paralysis. See an ear nose and throat surgeon quickly

There is such a thing as a developmental paediatrician or a paediatric neurologist, I am sure that would help your special child immensely

Copyright The Holy Bible. The Freeze version

See a doctor. A psychiatrist actually. And quickly at that. You are in my prayers for God's healing and mercy in Jesus name

It is as a last resort that I have decided to go public on this matter. Arik air used to be my first choice of air travel within Nigeria since 2008.

Late last year, December 15th and 16th 2016, I made online booking and subsequent payments for some colleagues travelling from Kano to Lagos and back 31st Dec and 7th January 2017 respectively. Tickets issued them were 7252108997765, 7252108996999 and 7252108996998 respectively. Flights tickets were N58,615 and N112, 636 which totals as N171,251.00.

The airline just within 5 hours of the scheduled take-off sent an sms and subsequently an email cancelling the flight. I tried to contact them immediately for a remedy, which they had none to offer. My colleagues then suddenly had to travel to Lagos from Kano by road! Leaving me with the instructions to follow through with the Airline. The airline has not made any progress beyond asking me to forward the itinerary informations which I obliged them with since the first week of the New Year. Several phone calls later and after paying a visit to their Kano Airport office, I was told that since it was an on-line payment, they were not obliged to do it from their Kano end.

My grouse with the airline is that they have neither deemed it fit to keep me in the know of the status of my refund claim made since Dec 31 2016 and they have not as much as offset their indebtedness to me. I plan to take them up in the court of public opinion and with the Consumer Protection Council as well as seek legal redress following which I will ask for compensations and interest for my money held since December 2017. I have copies of all the email exchanges with the Airline. I hope Arik Air will do the needful and save itself from the embarrassment of bad publicity.

08060382775
Kano

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It is as a last resort that I have decided to go public on this matter. Arik air used to be my first choice of air travel within Nigeria since 2008.

Late last year, December 15th and 16th 2016, I made online booking and subsequent payments for some colleagues travelling from Kano to Lagos and back 31st Dec and 7th January 2017 respectively. Tickets issued them were 7252108997765, 7252108996999 and 7252108996998 respectively. Flights tickets were N58,615 and N112, 636 which totals as N171,251.00.

The airline just within 5 hours of the scheduled take-off sent an sms and subsequently an email cancelling the flight. I tried to contact them immediately for a remedy, which they had none to offer. My colleagues then suddenly had to travel to Lagos from Kano by road! Leaving me with the instructions to follow through with the Airline. The airline has not made any progress beyond asking me to forward the itinerary informations which I obliged them with since the first week of the New Year. Several phone calls later and after paying a visit to their Kano Airport office, I was told that since it was an on-line payment, they were not obliged to do it from their Kano end.

My grouse with the airline is that they have neither deemed it fit to keep me in the know of the status of my refund claim made since Dec 31 2016 and they have not as much as offset their indebtedness to me. I plan to take them up in the court of public opinion and with the Consumer Protection Council as well as seek legal redress following which I will ask for compensations and interest for my money held since December 2017. I have copies of all the email exchanges with the Airline. I hope Arik Air will do the needful and save itself from the embarrassment of bad publicity.

08060382775
Kano

Helpful comments are welcome.
Moderators please give this the needed prominence it deserves.

what happens to the subsidy thieves? Nigerians enjoy sweating over the small stuffs!

two wrongs dont make a right. Even your parents know that heaven would not be only populated by deeper lifers and that not all deeper lifers would even get to heaven. I would not ask you to rebel or take your life, I would just advise that you prayerfully endure and make up your mind when the time is right about where and how you would want to serve your Maker. Once you are out of their care and custody, they cant stop you.
I agree that mummy might be acting out of fear and panic. All moms may not be like Ben Carsons mom but never doubt her best-intentions for you even if she fails to express it in the best way. Dont stop honoring and giving them their due respect because your length of life depends on it. And dont give suicide a second or third thought, because the devil will ensure to grant your wish.
God help you to follow his banner my dear.

The public water supply in Kano State has been fantastic until a few weeks ago when the Water Agency started to flood homes with what looks like gutter water. What is more disturbing is that the particulates in the water wouldnt settle down even when you leave the water to stand for upwards of 24hours if you had intention to use the water after decantation of its sendiments.
The situation is the same from Gyadi-Gyadi to Sabongari and beyond. You wouldnt dare cook or wash with it, because that would be deliberately inviting a disaster.
No body seems to have an explanation for this and the government seems not to have noticed either, for if they have,they havent issued an apology or deemed it fit to release an official statement. Or have they? We demand more accountability from the public service especially when it is a fee for service public utility like the Kano State Water Agency

The public water supply in Kano State has been fantastic until a few weeks ago when the Water Agency started to flood homes with what looks like gutter water. What is more disturbing is that the particulates in the water wouldnt settle down even when you leave the water to stand for upwards of 24hours if you had intention to use the water after decantation of its sendiments.
The situation is the same from Gyadi-Gyadi to Sabongari and beyond. You wouldnt dare cook or wash with it, because that would be deliberately inviting a disaster.
No body seems to have an explanation for this and the government seems not to have noticed either, for if they have,they havent issued an apology or deemed it fit to release an official statement. Or have they? We demand more accountability from the public service especially when it is a fee for service public utility like the Kano State Water Agency

On Biafra I Stood
By Sam Nkire

I have read several comments and opinions on the raging issue of Biafra, some for and most against. But so far, none has adequately captured my own opinion on the matter, hence this intervention.
Many friends of mine, especially those from the northern part of Nigeria, have, in recent times, said to my hearing that prominent Igbo especially, had refused to condemn the spate of protests by the “Biafran boys” until very recently. My northern friends probably forgot that prominent northerners also literally ran into their holes with sealed lips, in the early stages of Boko Haram. They were scared stiff and avoided comments, either for or against.
However, and for the avoidance of doubt, no reasonable Igboman, prominent or not, will support any form of agitation by means of force. Any manner of protest, which involves violence, is condemned in all civilised societies, including Igboland. For this reason and more, I regret to announce to my younger brothers, the proponents of a new Republic of Biafra that though I stood for the ideals of Biafra nearly 50 years ago, I stand for it no more today. I stand for Biafra no more not because all is well with the people who inhabit the geographical entity today referred to as the defunct republic of Biafra, but because it is my belief that there is hope in a united Nigeria, no matter how partial the unity.
I believe that Biafra is dead. And before the leader and founder of Biafra died himself, he let everyone know that Biafra was dead, to rise no more. The People’s General, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, never told Biafran boys and girls to carry on with the ‘war’ or to ‘fight to a finish,’ as he would command during civil war days. Ojukwu rather enjoined Igbo and, indeed, easterners, to integrate, compete and make Nigeria home forever.
From the rumblings in the jungles of the North East to the graveyard silence in the cricks of the Niger Delta and now the protests on the streets of the South East, one could see that the Muhammadu Buhari administration inherited ingredients of disunity in the polity, which need to be addressed urgently. Because the problem of Boko Haram was not nipped in the bud, it has caused the country colossal losses in terms of life and property. Many have been displaced from their homes and a large number remain in refugee camps within the country. Therefore, my fervent prayer is that these protests by young Biafran agitators do not turn into something similar to what we had and have in the Niger Delta and the North East. And my advice to the Biafran agitators and their sponsors, if any, is to look at the bigger picture. They should weigh what they stand to gain from demonstrations against the gains of dialogue and negotiation.
Even the executive presidency of Nigeria can only come to Igboland through good or negotiated politics, not protests. Of all the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria, South East has the smallest voting strength. And since politics is said to be a game of numbers, it is only wise for Igbo to always partner with people who can boost their number.
Arguably, the most marginalised region in Nigeria, the eastern part, especially the South East, has the worst network of roads, the highest number of unemployed graduates and has always had the least representation in government. Luckily, the President Buhari administration has the political will to do something to change the fortunes of the beleaguered region. I am one of those who believe that six months is too short a period to judge an administration. Let Nigerians (including Biafran agitators) give President Buhari time because he needs time to turn things around. Nigerians voted for change and change comes with effort (will) and time. President Buhari has the will. All he needs is time.
To my younger brothers and sisters from the former Eastern Region, I think you have made your point and it is now time to give peace a chance. Let us heed the words of our departed hero, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu (may his soul rest in perfect peace). Let us mingle, struggle, compete and make Nigeria home forever.

• Nkire, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), wrote in from Abuja.
Source:The Sun Newspapers

Sambo Dasuki And The High Thieves By Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu

Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu once sat down for an interview with a newspaper reporter. The reporter, to break the ice, called the former Biafra secessionist leader, ‘’Chief’’. Ojukwu repulsed the honorific designation –as though it was a slur. Ojukwu admonished the journalist to stick with, ‘’Dim’’: ‘’Chief’’ sounded like ‘’Thief’’. Many thieves answered to the title of chief. And he, Ojukwu, would rather not be counted in.


Sambo Dasuki cued one’s mind to visualize a cult of proper thieves when he began to reveal how he abused the Office of the National Security Adviser as an ATM for enriching his cronies.

But as he delved into how he repurposed money meant for prosecuting the war on terror into a slush fund for ingratiating his network of political contacts, and he started to name his collaborators, and tell on people like ‘High Chief’ Alegho Raymond Dokpesi, the plot of the heist emerged: This was an orgy of High Thieves!

All the gory details have yet to be revealed. And when it is all ventilated, we would still be short of the whole truth. The High Thieves who perpetrated this wonder are too morally bankrupt to afford complete honesty.

Yet, it seems like we already know enough to extrapolate that the regime of looting Dasuki inaugurated as NSA to President Goodluck Jonathan is the vilest gang rape ever visited on the Nigerian people.

Dasuki did not merely enrich his friends at the expense of the Nigerian state. This is not an instance of kleptomaniacs kissing commonwealth gold. This was an evolutionary leap above the quotidian. This was a sack that, though far from being fully measured, exhausts you with its breathtaking, nauseating grandeur. It was a merciless scorched earth operation!

Nigerians are the first to proclaim that their country is a kleptocracy. The pro forma business of the rulers is stealing. And Nigerians rate the performance of a government official by how effectively he affects to be a less malevolent looter than his or her predecessor.

That said, the most pessimistic Nigerian can always be counted to grudgingly affirm that Nigerian rulers harbor an ember of patriotism. The High Thieves don’t steal like fools. The High Thieves practice sustainable stealing. It’s in their enlightened interest to steal with the mitigating consideration of the survival of Nigeria. The High Thieves would never conspire to loot Nigeria into extinction.

Dasuki tears the fabric of that naïve supposition into pieces!

Dasuki and his friends trivialized the money covenanted to defeating Boko Haram, a potent existential threat to the Nigerian state. They took the money released in the name of a desperate national security emergency and shared it among themselves.

Dasuki didn’t care that Boko Haram was seizing a large swathe of Nigerian territory and hoisting their flag and uploading videos of their triumph. Dasuki didn’t care that Nigerian soldiers were mutinying because they had no weapons to fight. Dasuki didn’t give a damn.

Dasuki demonstrably invalidated the myth that Nigeria is a mess because of impunity. He showed that the Nigerian condition was much worse than our distant view captured: Insanity had long overrun impunity!

Dasuki was not a Thief. He was not a High Thief. He was The Most High Thief. He was a deity. The god Thieves and High Thieves worshipped. The god who allocated them bounties of grace, according to his pleasure!

Dasuki confessed that he personally paid Dokpesi, Chairman of DAAR Communications, 2.1 billion naira for adverts aired on African Independent Television and Raypower. It’s incredible! Because the preponderance of what Dokpesi’s channels ran was hate speech and malicious caricatures of Candidate Muhammadu Buhari.

It’s Dasuki’s unique opinion that the duty of managing national security obligated him to fund the character assassination of a Nigerian citizen!

Meanwhile, there was something called Goodluck Jonathan National Campaign Organization at the time. It comprised of a Directorate of Media & Publicity, which was headed by Femi Fani-Kayode.

Neither Fani-Kayode nor any of the organization’s media managers paid the ad bills. It had to be Dasuki, a serving NSA, someone who had no place or role in the campaign structure!

Coincidentally, since state investigators nabbed Dasuki and nudged him to talk, Fani-Kayode has been screaming that his ‘’friend’’ and ‘’a good man’’ was being witch-hunted!

As time goes one, we would get to know whether Dasuki, the ‘’good man’’ excluded Fani-Kayode, his friend, from his prodigal generosity. Yes, we will get to confirm why, as soon as the elections ended, Fani-Kayode bought his girlfriend a brand new 2014 model Range Rover car!

Still on Dokpesi, it is a testimony of his managerial cunning that he personally and furtitively collected the advert windfall himself. That kept the staff in Dokpesi’s employ, who were last paid ten months ago, in blissful ignorance. They continued to toil with a clean heart. Hoping that payday will come someday. Unaware that a slave driver had pocketed their wages.

Curiously, Dokpesi said he was billed to travel abroad to see his doctors the day the EFCC invited him over for a chat. It fits the pattern. A High Thief is exposed and he falls sick, and becomes overwhelmed by the need to go on medical exile!

It must be that a scandal disorients their biological immunity. It wakes up latent diseases in their bone marrow. Or it infuses them with a strange plague. Or it develops in them instant capacity for feigning terminal sickness!

Dasuki himself has been campaigning that he has cancer. Not the self-evident cancer of avarice. Cancer of a certain inner body organ. And he has been trying to whip up public sympathy. He has been insinuating that the Buhari administration wants to murder him by refusing to allow him go abroad for chemotherapy treatment.

The man who rerouted money meant to cater for soldiers in a life-and-death battle with terrorists to his cronies wants to elongate his life. The retired colonel who literally disarmed Nigerian soldiers prizes his life dearly. The man who traded the lives of Nigerian troops and civilians for lucre wants to live to ripe full age.

Dasuki confessed that he furnished his former state governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, with 4.6 billion naira … for ‘spiritual purposes’. That’s a code. In the raw sense, it’s a contract to hire marabouts to importune God for the re-election of President Jonathan.

I imagine that Dasuki, a muslim, ceded the christian leg of ‘spiritual purposes’ to a christian. I hope that we will soon see the face of the man who recruited pastors to pray down Jonathan’s victory from heaven. And we will confirm the identity of the mega pastors who reportedly received bribe to endorse Jonathan and market his candidature to their flock.

On the whole, the conduct of this raid upon raid, over the campaign period, without any alarm going off, underscores how much stealing has been a natural part of government metabolism. The bouts of larceny happened and happened and happened and life progressed as if everything was well.

Goodluck Jonathan, the Commander-in-Chief under whose watch these financial hemorrhages occurred, pleads that he knows nothing of the looting spree. He says he did not authorize the traffic of ‘national security’ money into private pockets. That’s laughable for a plea of innocence.

Only a vegetating head of state would be impervious to the knowledge of the random motion of such volumes of state money. Jonathan indicts himself for complicity when he claims that he was such an absent-minded president that he did not notice his top security aide was evacuating the treasury of the nation!

During the campaigns, Jonathan preached that ‘’my ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian’’. That sounds so hollow now. He averted his eyes while Dasuki wrought a war crime. Jonathan pretended to be in coma while Dasuki facilitated human deaths to achieve Jonathan’s re-election!

This scandal highlights our unfamiliarity with Nigerian government officials. We have always taken their humanity for granted. We had always assumed they were simply wicked. They are humans with numb conscience. Well, the High Thieves are much worse. They are beasts in human skin!

A couple of months ago, Al-Jazeera aired the humiliating story of Nigerian troops in the battle front. They were famished. They trained with casual dress on their back and bathroom slippers on their feet. They had no combat gear. They carried antiquated toys as answer to the sophisticated weapons of the insurgents!

This scandal introduces us to VIPs that carves up Nigeria's defense budget into private spoils. VIPs that stole the nation. VIPs that made Nigeria an anti-citizen state. VIPs that fed Nigerians to terrorists.

This fraud is apparently beyond restitution: If all the spoils were returned, the total won’t compensate for the incalculable humanitarian disaster. The fraud is also beyond justice: To sentence the High Thieves to life imprisonment or to send them to the gallows would be tantamount to an extreme indulgence in leniency.

So the question is: What do you do to these High Thieves?



Source: Sahara Reporters Media

My mother and sister both have this condition. As kids, other kids taunted us over this ''strange" conditions of my mom. My sister was growing up with this damaged psyche and was investing so much into being more cosmetically pleasing and acceptable. 5 years ago this november, she married a man who surprising enough, fancies her condition. He confessed to her that he loved her for it and despite it and did not think it was a wierd condition. They are blessed with three children today and the marriage is waxing stronger by the day. Did i mention that both of them are practicing christians?