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The Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, 2021 has been filled with a lot of surprises and intrigues, especially with the shocking elimination of the heavyweight teams — Ghana and Algeria from the tournament.

QUEST TIMES takes a look at the qualified teams for AFCON 2021 last 16:

Group A:
Cameroon (Winners) Burkina-Faso (Runners-up)

Group B:
Senegal (Winners) Guinea (Runners-up)

Group C:
Morocco (Winners) Gabon (Runners-up)

Group D:
Nigeria (Winners) Egypt (Runners-up)

Group E:
Ivory Coast (Winners) Eq. Guinea (Runners-up)

Group F:
Mali (Winners) Gambia (Runners-up)

The following are best third-placed teams:

Cape Verde, Malawi, Tunisia and Comoros ended up finishing in the best third-place finish spots the end of the group stage.

https://thequesttimes.com/afcon-8-teams-that-qualify-for-knockout-stages-other-best-third-placed-teams/

By Jonathan Asogwa

It is frequently said that he who goes to equity should come with clean hands, but it’s more absurd and shameful when a revered masquerade decides to dance naked in the market square. The result is that women and children will cover their faces to run away from the absurdity and avoid their eyes from seeing evil in the complete turnaround of the celebration they had gathered in the square to perform. Such a performance is called an eyesore and a negation of traditional African theater.

Big masquerades from Nkanu division such as Chimaroke Nnamani, Bartholomew Nnaji, Ken Nnamani and the older James Nwobodo are like the masquerades that decided to strip themselves naked in the arena and at the end of the day had nobody to watch their obnoxious performances.

As educated as these Nkanu irredentists claim, they fail to realize that Enugu East senatorial district is a multi-cultural zone populated essentially by urban dwellers that form the majority population in the three out of the six local government areas that make up the senatorial district. It’s an agony that such a huge voting population could just be reduced or emasculated by this clannish minority group into their microcosm Nkanu clan. These naked masquerades are also making the same attempt to emasculate the Agbaja people in Enugu North local government council, the Isi-Uzo people and the Nike confederacy in Enugu East and Enugu North local government councils. For God’s sake, Enugu east senatorial district is not synonymous with Nkanu division.

Pathetically, James Nwobodo, from Nkanu, who was a former Governor in the second republic; Chimaroke Nnamani (Governor 1999-2007), Kenneth Nnamani who was Senate President and Bartholomew Nnaji (two times Minister), all form the same Nkanu division, have been behaving like Don Quixote who leaves in a fantasy world. The case of Chimorke Nnamani is more pathetic having been recently rescued from both political and economic oblivion, only for him to be globetrotting, using the yuletide season to raise somebody’s hand in Nsukka.

Chimaroke Nnamani with his over N5.3 billion fraud, still hanging on his neck has been going around healthy and unashamedly campaigning for his Man Friday and an alleged co-conspirator in financial crime (both were detained by the EFCC and still under prosecution) to become Governor in 2023 so that the looting spree of Enugu state could continue unabated. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is therefore duly welcome back despite all the false medical reports that Dr Nnamani has continued to furnish EFCC as excuses to dodge his prosecution. Why is Chimaroke walking free when the plea bargain had to do with his companies and not himself?

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi can now see clearly what some of us saw when we vehemently opposed the re-installation of the Ebeano deadwood. Chimaroke who through magnanimity was resuscitated and brought back to life has now turned around to become like the little nza bird who after an elaborate feast decided to challenge his chi to a wrestling competition. What Chimaroke wants is for him to remain senator and his brother of same Nkanu division to become governor so that all will end well to his glory and the rest of us in Enugu East senatorial district will clap for them as they click champagne glasses, rejoicing and singing anashikwe shasheewe. Isorite!

Since Enugu east LGA has gone to the Senate twice, Enugu South has gone to the Senate twice in addition to being Governor, Senate President, etc, Nkanu division (because there is no remarkable different in what they now call Nkanu East & West and parts of Enugu south) has gone to the Senate twice in addition to eight years governorship and eight years as deputy governor, living behind only Isi-Uzo and Enugu North LGAs as the most pauperized partners in Enugu East senatorial district, equity demands that these two most marginalized LGAs should be given preference in the choice of both governorship and Senate in the 2023 dispensation. The case of Enugu North LGA is so bad that it presently does not have a representative in the Enugu State Executive Council, there is no commissioner from Enugu North local government council.

I’ve heard incorrigible arguments such as that Senator Isaiah Ani was a former Senator and Chief C.C Onoh a former governor, but the proponents of the this debased argument refuse to tell those who don’t know that Isaiah Ani was of the old Nsukka zone while Onoh was of the old Udi zone, whereas we were all brought together and congregated from our diverse diasporas into the new Enugu East senatorial district in the 1999 dispensation and we all came as equal partners and not as Nkanu clan. Somebody made an infantile remark that a certain local government is a younger partner or a late entrant in the senatorial district and I wondered if there was a later joiner in the new senatorial district when it was created in 1996.

By 2023, Chimaroke Nnamani would finish eight years in the Senate without summoning a single constituency meeting, either a stakeholders meeting or a general assembly. He has no single constituency project to his credit in the eight years, yet people are still emotionally attached to Ebeano, that is the tragedy of Nkanu clannishness. What the ‘distinguished’ Senator now does is a crazy sell of corruptly amassed plots of land and uncompleted buildings scattered here and there in Enugu without anybody, even the EFCC, raising any eyebrow. So how come Chimaroke is the one selling those properties when it was his companies that were charged to the court instead of him, but he has now turned around to sell off the over 170 ill acquired landed properties and is piling up monies that he wants to use to unleash his violent trademark in the 2023 elections?

The people of Enugu should equally research on how Pinnacle oil evolved in 2004 and find out promoters of the company that now want to use the ill acquired wealth from the state treasury to reinstall themselves on the people of the state for worse pillage to come. Nnamani’s mates such as James Ibori went to Prison, what is still delaying the EFCC from serving the same treatment to Chimoroke Nnamani? The amiable former Governor of Enugu state, Gentleman Sullivan Chime saw all these Nnamani’s shenanigans and decided to bench him for eight years and that made Chime have peace in his administration, now Ugwuanyi went and resurrected Nnamani and since then both Ugwuanyi and Enugu state lost peace.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should equally look into the violation of the electoral act with the early campaigns of Chimaroke and his ‘anointed Peter’ who was detained with him at the EFCC for attempt to bribe the EFCC investigation team leader (now a commissioner of police) with N20 million and another N30 million the then EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu to fast tract the release of Sir Chinyeaka Ohaa and others from EFCC custody. These are the traits that Nnamani wants to bring back to Enugu state. Anointed indeed! In his usual characteristics, Chimaroke Nnamani did not wait to be fully back to the PDP when started pushing for a local government chairmanship candidate which almost destroyed the party in his local government.

Remarkably, Nnamani forced the candidacy of Sullivan Chime on the spine of Enugu state even when there were other credible aspirants such as Ike Ekweremadu, he was not challenged by anyone. So how come now that Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is governor, Nnamani wants to topple and play the same role he played in 2007 as if he is still a sitting governor? Nnamani boasts that he has settled all EFCC officials with choice properties in Enugu state; hence he feels free selling the properties that investigations have been concluded on by the agency. It’s a shame to EFCC that Nnamani is still walking arrogantly free on the streets of Nigeria without the Enugu state government recovering its N5.3 billion and when his mates such as James Ibori, Jolly Nyame, Joshua Dariye, Orji Uzo Kalu, Lucky Igbenidon and late Alemaseigha have either finished their sentence or are still in the prison for similar offenses.

It is also noteworthy that EFCC is prosecuting Femi Fani-Kayode for producing fake medical certificate when Nnamani has all the while since 2007 paraded false medical reports and each time he is to be arrested he will quickly pretend to be sick and trump up some false medical report, capitalizing on his medical profession. Nnamani pretends to have a heart problem, yet he has the energy to go on campaigns showcasing his crony.

All said and done, Nkanu east LGA being part and parcel of Nkanu division cannot claim to be marginalized in Enugu East Senatorial zone when it has held all the ministerial and deputy governorship positions but utilized the years fighting one another in communal wars that denied the area of meaningful development. Nkanu produced the first Igbo Inspector General of Police (IGP) as well as the Chairman of Nigeria Drug law enforcement Agency (NDLEA). None of the modern day Nkanu heroes could make the wars in their enclave abate until Governor Ugwuanyi intervened in the matter and restored sanity in the area. Is this a people that should be handed over power again to continue the massacre of one another? Certainly not! In the case of Jim Nwobodo, one expected he would have retired from partisan politics to become a statesman, but he has failed to leave up to that responsibility, which is sad.

As Governor Ugwuanyi makes up his mind about his successor, he should remember that the Nkanu man has never hidden his resentment and disdain for the Nsukka man, made manifest by Chimaroke Nnamani against his deputy Ezenwata Okechukwu Itanyi. This same Chimaroke Nnamani on many occasions described and categorized Isi-Uzo as Nsukka throughout his pervasive and bloody maladministration dotted with the marginalization of the Nsukka people. The same Nnamani moved the ESUT campus and Teaching hospital from Nsukka to Enugu and relocated every development to Agbani in a true exercise of his inherent clannishness. It is no longer news following the fate of the resigned commission for lands that the Nkanu people have sworn to reverse every housing developmental project executed by Ugwuanyi and Chime in Nkanu land, if they become governor. The ‘politics of demotion’ started with late Senator Fidelis Okoro’s house in GRA, is still fresh in the memories of NdiEnugu.

I pitied the innocent Mrs. Ifeoma Nwobodo who is married to an Nkanu man but was never allowed to contest for any political position in the acrimonious Nkanu land. She saw it all in her husband’s homestead from where fingers are always pointed at Nsukka as being clannish, yet Nkanu is not only much clannish but weaponized like an atomic and nuclear bomb bound together. It’s still a pity that Bartholomew Nnaji after becoming minister has suddenly become aware that there is no federal presence in Nkanu east and decided to run after Ken Nnamani who could not also bring any federal presence in the constituency as Senate President. As Minister for Power, who did Prof Nnaji empower in Nkanu east? All these Nkanu leaders now singing Nkanu ogbuzuru were all in different positions to develop their area but failed to do so but rather resorted to primitive wars indicative of their real origins close to Enugu state.

Let’s take another look at the very clannish Nkanu clan: A snake’s offspring will always be long and so it is with a people whose inherent profession is butchery. It has been killing sprees ever since the second republic when Jim’s Vanguard was a metaphor for political violence in Igbo land and which made the returning Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu to join NPN instead of the NPP. Second republic collapsed and at the return of the present dispensation, the older Nkanu man foisted his brother on NdiEnugu in 1999. It was Sullivan Chime that gave Enugu state this 16 year fresh breath which the blood tasteful can no longer wait to continue scavenging. I can however bet them that the God of David and the God of Abrahm is still alive. Like all that lacked a good foundation Jim, Ken and Chimaroke engaged themselves in wars of attrition between 1999 and 2007. Is that what we want to repeat in Enugu state after the Ugwuanyi peace model?

Solution, equity and justice demand that in clear conscience, governorship and the Senate should be left to Isi-Uzo and Enugu North local government councils to take as first line charges. These are the council areas in Enugu East senatorial district that have not been encouraged to have a breath in what rightfully and constitutionally belong to the zone where they are neither visitors nor less partners.

Here is a list of nicknames of the 24 teams who qualified for the group stages of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.

Group A

Cameroon: Indomitable Lions

Burkina Faso: The Stallions

Cape Verde: The Blue Sharks

Ethiopia: Walyas

Group B

Senegal: Teranga Lions

Guinea: National Elephants

Malawi: The Flames

Zimbabwe: The Warriors

Group C

Morocco: Atlas Lions

Gabon: The Panthers

Comoros: The Coelacanths

Ghana: The Black Stars

Group D

Nigeria: Super Eagles

Egypt: The Pharaohs

Sudan: Falcons of Jediane

Guinea-Bissau: African wild dogs

Group E

Ivory Coast: The Elephants

Equatorial Guinea: The National Thunder

Sierra Leone: The Leones Stars

Algeria: Desert Warriors, Fennec Foxes

Group F

Gambia: Scorpions

Mali: The Eagles

Tunisia: Eagles of Carthage

Mauritania: The Almoravids.

https://thequesttimes.com/afcon-nicknames-of-national-teams-playing-in-cameroon/

Nigeria defeated Guinea Bissau 2-0 in their final group match in the ongoing AFCON 2021 encounter in Garoua on Wednesday, Quest Times report.

The victory saw the Super Eagles emerge as the only team to record 100% win in the group stages of the tournament.

Umar Sadiq scored the opening goal in the 56th minute while Ekong netted the second in the 75th minute.

Egypt also defeated the Falcons of Sudan 1-0 to qualify for the knockout stages.

https://thequesttimes.com/breaking-farewell-to-guinea-bissau-as-nigeria-break-record/

For a 49-year-old widow, Mrs Funmilola Ajiyo, it has been a battle for survival since her husband, Lawrence Ajiyo, died in a cooking gas accident on April 24, 2011.

The battle took a twist when “some family members conspired with my lawyer, Faniyi, to confiscate everything my husband left behind.”

Mrs Ajiyo, who claimed to be the only legal wife of late Lawrence and mother of his daughter, Precious Ajiyo, has been thrown out of her Oreofeoluwa Crescent, Governor’s Road, Ikotun, Lagos, matrimonial home.

Funmilola said she met Lawrence in 1999 and got married in 2006, but said not long after his death, family members hired a lawyer to help them process the letter of administration, without her knowledge, as she had already hired a lawyer over the same purpose.

Recent development

In the wee hours of Friday, January 14, some police officers, who claimed to be court sheriffs from the Lagos High Court took possession of her matrimonial home without prior notice to quit and threw all her belongings outside.

She told Vanguard: “As I speak, they have evicted all my tenants (about seven) from their apartments, and taken over my matrimonial home. I can no longer sleep with my two eyes closed because of the threat to life. I’m calling on all Nigerians to come to my aid. My
life is in danger.

“I had to take my only daughter to boarding school just to save her as well from being attacked. All I want right now is justice.”

She’s greedy, says her lawyer

Contacted on phone, Faniyi denied the allegation, saying the widow was being “greedy” and “playing the victim card.”

Faniyi confirmed he was introduced to Funmilola by his friend, Mr Akindele Awoshika, in 2012.

On alleged withholding of original documents given to her by Mrs Ajiyo, he said: “You’re particular about the documents. Something brought about the documents. I need those documents to process the letter of administration.”

When asked to identify the documents given to him by Mrs Ajiyo, he responded: “I can’t identify anything offhand now. Though she handed over some title documents to me, those documents belong to her husband and not hers. She is getting so many things wrong.

“And she is not the only wife. There are four other wives. I got to know that there was a fourth wife that the man (deceased) married after her.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/01/my-lawyer-conspired-with-husbands-family-to-throw-me-out-widow/

McSolomon Appiah though not born with a silver spoon, crossed all hurdles to achieve a qualitative education.

The untold story

Appiah, a native of Teoa in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, started his early education at Onwe-Nkwanta M/A Primary School near Tepa and subsequently attended junior high school at Tepa R/C JHS.

Even though he looks older than many of his mates, the Ghanaian did not allow the age gap to deprive him of getting the best legacy for himself; hence, he kept pushing… pushing… until he achieves his dreams.

His feat

At 20, Appiah completed senior high school before heading to the University of Education, Winneba, where he obtained a first-class degree in BSc Management Education at age 24.

https://thequesttimes.com/mcsolomon-appiah/

Esteban Obiang’s 70th-minute goal was all Equatorial Guinea need to end reigning champions Algeria’s 35-game unbeaten streak.

Algeria are likely on their way out of the tournament should they lose their final group match against Ivory Coast.

The 2019 Cup of Nations winners could only draw 0-0 with Sierra Leone in their opening game in Cameroon and lost 1-0 to Equatorial Guinea on Sunday.

Meanwhile an Equatorial Guinea side ranked 114th in the world and 28th in Africa are now well placed to reach the knockout stages for the third time.

https://thequesttimes.com/114th-ranked-equatorial-guinea-end-reigning-champions-algerias-unbeaten-streak/

An Indonesian woman who confessed to engaging in extramarital s3x was publicly flogged 100 times in the Aceh province.

AFP reported that her male partner, who denied the adultery allegations, was whipped only 15 times.

The couple were caught in 2018 at a palm-oil plantation and brought before Aceh’s Islamic court, according to a local report.

The man is married and heads the East Aceh fishing agency, according to AFP report, citing the head of the general investigation division at the East Aceh prosecutors’ office.

https://thequesttimes.com/woman-flogged-100-times-man-receives-15-lashes-over-extramarital-s3x/

The Super Eagles of Nigeria brought a goal-shy Africa Cup of Nations to life on Saturday, as they defeated Sudan’s Falcons 3-1, to go through to the knockout stages.

Samuel Chukwueze, Taiwo Awoniyi, and Moses Simon, were all on the score sheet.

https://thequesttimes.com/just-in-super-eagles-defeat-sudan-3-1-to-reach-knockout-stages/

Nigeria will be seeking their second win at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, when they take on Sudan’s Falcons of Jediane at the Roumde Adjia Stadium on Saturday.

QUEST TIMES takes a look at three key mistakes the Super Eagles must avoid ahead of their clash with the Falcons of Sudan.

Use different tactics

If there is one thing Coach Augustine Eguavoen must do to win tonight is to change his game plan. He should not rely on the same tactics his team used to win the Pharaohs of Egypt. As what is good for Paul might not be the same for Peter; there is a need for a change of tactics. We recommend a good attacking football if the Super Eagles must win the game.

Continue reading: https://thequesttimes.com/nigeria-v-sudan-three-key-things-super-eagles-must-know-ahead-of-clash/

Antecedent

Funmilola Ajiyo met her husband, Lawrence Ajiyo in 1999 and they got married in 2006.

She said the deceased, who worked with Total Nigeria Plc, had a fire accident while cooking in his residence in Makurdi, Benue some time in 2011 which later led to his sudden demise.

After the fire disaster, family members who saw her (Mrs. Funmilola) as a threat to the deceased’s properties, hired a lawyer without her prior notice, to help them process the letter of administration.

Mrs. Funmilola had already hired a lawyer for the same purpose. Both parties have been at loggerheads since that time.

Recent development

In the wee hours of Friday, January 14, our reporter received a call from the widow (Mrs. Funmilola) who narrated how some police officers, who were in the company of others who claimed to be court sheriffs from the Lagos High Court, “forcefully” took possession of her matrimonial home without prior quit notice, and threw her belongings out.

“As I speak, they (one Reverend John Otahumele and others) evicted all my tenants (about seven) from their apartments, took over my matrimonial home. I can no longer sleep with my two eyes closed because of the threat to life. I’m calling on all Nigerians to come to my aid. My life is in serious danger. I had to take my only daughter to boarding school just to save her as well from being attacked. All I want right now is justice (cries),” she lamented.

https://thequesttimes.com/i-was-ejected-out-of-my-matrimonial-home-without-quit-notice-widow-cries-out/

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has appointed Pascal Okechukwu, popularly called Cubana Chief Priest, as his social media aide.

Announcing this on his Instagram page where he posed with his appointment letter, Cubana Chief Priest wrote; “I just picked up my letter of appointment as Special Adviser To His Excellency @he_hopeuzodimma on Social Media Influence and Social Events Management.

“I have an instruction from His Excellency @he_hopeuzodimma to make over 1,000 Imo youths get super successful like me from the Almighty social media which made me in just one year.

“It’s so easy for me to do and I will do just that through christ who strengthens me. Amen...

https://thequesttimes.com/uzodinma-names-cubana-chief-priest-as-social-media-aide/

For 49-year-old Mrs. Funmilola Ajiyo, life may not have been a bed of roses.

Aside from losing her husband, Mr. Lawrence Ajiyo to the cold hands of death, no thanks to a fire disaster from a cooking gas on April 24, 2011, some family members conspired with her lawyer to confiscate everything the deceased left behind, she alleges.

As it stands, Mrs. Ajiyo, who claims to be the only legal wife of the late Lawrence Ajiyo and mother of his daughter, Precious Ajiyo, has been thrown out of her matrimonial home situated at 1, Oreofeoluwa Crescent, Governor Road, Ikotun, Lagos.

Antecedent

Funmilola Ajiyo met her husband, Lawrence Ajiyo in 1999 and they got married in 2006.

She said the deceased, who worked with Total Nigeria Plc, had a fire accident while cooking in his residence in Makurdi, Benue some time in 2011 which later led to his sudden demise.

After the fire disaster, family members who saw her (Mrs. Funmilola) as a threat to the deceased’s properties, hired a lawyer without her prior notice, to help them process the letter of administration.

Mrs. Funmilola had already hired a lawyer for the same purpose. Both parties have been at loggerheads since that time.

Recent development

In the wee hours of Friday, January 14, our reporter received a call from the widow (Mrs. Funmilola) who narrated how some police officers, who were in the company of others who claimed to be court sheriffs from the Lagos High Court, “forcefully” took possession of her matrimonial home without prior quit notice, and threw her belongings out.

“As I speak, they (one Reverend John Otahumele and others) evicted all my tenants (about seven) from their apartments, took over my matrimonial home. I can no longer sleep with my two eyes closed because of the threat to life. I’m calling on all Nigerians to come to my aid. My life is in serious danger. I had to take my only daughter to boarding school just to save her as well from being attacked. All I want right now is justice (cries),” she lamented.

https://thequesttimes.com/i-was-ejected-out-of-my-matrimonial-home-without-quit-notice-widow-cries-out/

Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, a former governor of Oyo, passed on in the early hours of Wednesday in his home-country, Ogbomoso.

Here are 7 things you probably don’t know about Alao-Akala:

Alao Akala was born on 3rd of June, 1950, in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo.

He as the only governor in the history of Oyo to have served as a local government chairman, deputy governor and governor.

He was also the first governor in the history of Oyo to welcome a baby boy, while serving as governor.

Alao-Akala had his elementary school at Osupa Baptist Day School, Ogbomoso.

He proceeded to the Kamina Barracks Middle School, 5th Battalion of Infantry in Tamale, Ghana.

He became a Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) Honoris Causa, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso in 2006 and Doctor of Science (Political Science) Honoris Causa, Lead City University, Ibadan in 2008.

The Oyo former governor was blessed with seven children.

https://thequesttimes.com/alao-akala-7-things-you-probably-dont-know-about-late-ex-oyo-governor/

A senior pastor of Remnant Christian Network, RCN, Apostle Arome Osayi, has announced the demise of his brother, Ojinimi, whom he said did not make it out alive from den of his abductors.

According to the Benue-based preacher, ransom was paid to the kidnappers but Ojinimi died due to “serious strain on his health”.

Narrating how his elder brother died, Arome on Wednesday, took to his Facebook page (Apostle Arome Osayi) and wrote,

“My older brother, Ojinimi Osayi just passed (on) under very heartbreaking circumstances brought on by the massive insecurity that’s got Nigeria on a chokehold...

https://thequesttimes.com/how-my-brother-died-in-kidnappers-den-after-paying-ransom-cleric/

A youth group under the auspices of GYB2PYB, has called on the national leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to shelve his “lifelong ambition” of becoming the president of Nigeria come 2023.

Earlier, Tinubu informed Buhari that he would want to contest in next year’s election.

The former governor lamented that he was tired of being a kingmaker and it was time to actualise his dream.

Reacting, GYB2PYB in a statement forwarded to Vanguard Tuesday, by its Director-General, Oladele Nihi, appealed to the APC chieftain to halt his presidential ambition for “a youthful candidate that will be able to carry the burdens of the most populous black nation on earth”.

Posing some fundamental questions for the APC leader, the group asked; “Why decide to achieve a supposed lifelong ambition at a time Nigerian youths are collectively clamouring for thorough inclusiveness and active participation in governance across board?

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/01/2023-tinubu-should-step-down-for-youthful-candidate-pro-yahaya-bello-group-reacts/

A youth group under the auspices of GYB2PYB, says the national leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) should shelve his “lifelong ambition” of becoming the president of Nigeria come 2023 for “a youthful candidate”.

GYB2PYB, a youth support group for Yahaya Bello of Kogi, disclosed this during its One Year Anniversary held in Abuja on Tuesday.

Appealing to the APC chieftain to halt his presidential ambition, the group Director-General, Oladele Nihi, said; “We are therefore on behalf of Nigerian youth appealing to our National Leader to halt his intentions of informing Nigerians about this “lifelong ambition”, for we are not ready to cooperate; as our yearnings and cry for power would not be cowed by any sudden lifelong ambitions and mostly not by the older citizens of this country.”

Questioning reason for the “lifelong ambition” of the former Lagos governor, Oladele asked; “Why now that President Muhammadu Buhari promised to handover to a much younger person come 2023. A promise he made in 2018 during the signing of the NotTooYoungToRun bill into law?

https://thequesttimes.com/2023-why-tinubu-should-shelve-his-lifelong-presidential-ambition-group/

A video has surfaced online showing a group of Nigerian strippers praying in tongues before commencing work.

In the video shared on YouTube by Alexander Thandi Ubani , the three strippers were seen holding hands and praying before resumption of duty.

One of the ladies was heard praying that their clients spray them their “hard-earned money”.

They also asked for forgiveness of their sins, spoke in tongues, jumped up in excitement and showed off a bit of their skills.

VIDEO HERE: https://thequesttimes.com/video-moment-strippers-were-caught-speaking-in-tongues-before-commencing-work/

With exactly 405 days until the 2023 presidential election, the search for a new leader for Africa’s most populous country and largest economy – Nigeria – has begun.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced Saturday, February 18, as the date for the 2023 general election.

Recall President Muhammadu Buhari during an exclusive with Channels Tv last week, said he won’t reveal the identity of his anointed candidate for the safety of such a person.

This, however, has become a growing sensation on social media, as many Nigerians have been wondering who exactly is Buhari’s favourite in the ruling All Progressive Congress.

Quest Times takes a look at some eminent Nigerians who may very well fit Buhari’s favourite person to be next president in the ruling APC.

https://thequesttimes.com/2023-list-of-early-permutations-and-potential-candidates-for-president/

There have been widespread speculation and rumours in political circles and in the social media space, that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, who presided over Nigeria’s affairs from 2010 to 2015, could run for president again in the 2023 elections.

According to the rumour mill, the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been wooing Jonathan to headline their presidential tickets ahead of the vote.

As it turns out however, Jonathan cannot run for the office of president anymore in Nigeria because he is now legally and constitutionally barred from doing so.

On June 8, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law a Bill that limits a Vice-President or Deputy Governor who completes the terms of their principals, from seeking re-election to the position of the President or Governor more than once.

https://thequesttimes.com/quest-explainer-goodluck-jonathan-cannot-run-for-president-again-in-nigeria/

Chizzy Ogari is the current Little Miss Nigeria International and in this interview with Arogbonlo Israel, the pretty and eloquent beauty queen spoke on her dream of becoming a doctor, advocating for the girl-child and many more.

Excerpts…

Briefly tell us about yourself. Who is Chizzy Ogari?

I’m the current Little Miss Nigeria International. I’m 9 years old, an indigene of Rivers, Southern part of Nigeria. I’m currently in Basic 5 at Delphi International school. I’m smart, intelligent and friendly, but dislike bullying. I like writing, reading and swimming. I would like to be a medical doctor, precisely a surgeon. It enables me save more lives as I can because, it grips me seeing people in pains due to one ailment or the other. Would also like to advocate for child rights and have a foundation to support the girl-child because I have soft spot for the less privileged children.

What makes you unique?

My resilience makes me unique. This makes me not give up no matter how difficult the task might be.

When did you join pageantry?

I had interest for pageantry when I was 5 years old. I have always dreamt of becoming a queen with a crown on my head because, I believe queens have the positive mindset to change the world. So, I started working towards this. Firstly, I contested for Little Miss Intelligent. Also, I was about contesting for Little Miss Africa but couldn’t achieve it because of the outbreak of COVID-19, hence, the event was called off then. I was privileged to contest for Little Miss Nigeria and won the crown as Little Miss Nigeria International.

https://thequesttimes.com/exclusive-meet-9-year-old-little-miss-nigeria-international/

Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, Femi Fani-Kayode, an All Progressive Congress (APC) chieftain, says governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi will defeat former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, if they meet in the race.

Fani-Kayode made the assertion while featuring on Channels TV’s Politics Today, which was monitored by Quest Times on Friday.

Asked if the Kogi Governor could defeat Atiku during the presidential election in 2023, Fani-Kayode said: “Why not? He will defeat him hands down.

https://thequesttimes.com/can-yahaya-bello-defeat-atiku-in-2023-fani-kayode-speaks/

A 76-year-old man in Kenya reportedly died after having a good time with a woman in a local guesthouse.

Authorities in Nakuru county have started their investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of the retired teacher.

Background

The 76-year-old old man had booked a room at a Salama boarding and lodging on the night of Wednesday, January 5, and later joined by a twilight girl about half an hour later, according to a local media report in Kenya.

https://thequesttimes.com/76-year-old-teacher-takes-local-booze-dies-during-s3x-romp-with-lover/

Salima Mukansanga, a Rwandan referee is set to be the first woman to officiate at Africa Cup of Nations in the history of the tournament.

Here are quick facts to know about her:

Salima Mukansanga was born on 25 July 1988.

She has been to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo Japan, 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France among other big events.

https://thequesttimes.com/salima-mukansanga-meet-the-first-ever-female-referee-to-officiate-at-afcon/

“I’m absolutely aware of it” was the response of President Buhari when asked if he was aware of the millions of Nigerians who still find it difficult to feed under his watch.

It’s no gainsaying or a gimmick that the current economic situation in Nigeria is one that calls for drastic measures (not sympathy) to be put in place to save the citizenry from “hunger virus” which seems more predominant than the deadly coronavirus rampaging the world.

For an average citizen, the greatest infrastructure is not the street lights on the busy roads, nor the railways that seems to be the greatest achievement of some political gladiators or the epileptic power supply that has now become prayer points in churches and mosques, but rather poverty alleviation, that is, provision of essentials to ameliorate the livelihood of the citizenry — Stomach infrastructure.

On a sad note, out of the over 200 million Nigeria’s population, nearly 87 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty, according to an online survey. Hence, it’s no surprise when the Giant of Africa overtook India in 2018 as the country with the poverty capital of the world, with an estimated half of the country’s population, thought to be living on less than $1.90 a day.

The findings, based on a projection by the World Poverty Clock and compiled by Brookings Institute, show that more than 643 million people across the world live in extreme poverty, with Africans including Nigerians accounting for about two-thirds of the total number.

Going forward, rising prices, known as inflation, the cost of doing business, borrowing money, mortgages, corporate, and government bond yields, and every other facet of the economy have been a major challenge for every successive governments, as the citizens who are mostly affected have little or no option than to resolve to alternative means of survival.

Nigeria’s recent inflation report shows that the country is still plagued with double-digit inflation, implying that prices have increased massively since the emergence of COVID in 2020 when the economy was engulfed with panic buying, border closures and lockdown restrictions.

By implication, there is a decrease in the value of the dollar while encouraging interest rate on loans, thereby decreasing real returns on savings. The lower the inflation rate, the greater are the productive effects of a reduction.

Over time, the disproportionate impact of inflation on lower-income households and those working in sectors with low savings (e.g., agriculture) will exacerbate inequality. Ultimately, inflation will not only negatively affect incomes, but also economic productivity and job creation, further constraining Nigeria’s recovery from recession.

If double-digit inflation persists during 2022-2023, rising prices will distort consumption, investment, and saving decisions of the government, households, and firms, with adverse ramifications for long-term borrowing and lending, according to World Bank projection in 2021.

In 2015, President Buhari promised Nigerians that he would ensure that the Naira was equal to the dollar in value if voted into office (what public commentators see as mere campaign promises). Today, 1 US dollar is 412.80 in Nigerian currency (Naira), which has since been fluctuating day-in, day-out. What has really changed over the years? Why is the government still finding it difficult to fulfill its promise to Nigerians? Could this also be the reason millions of Nigerians are suffering? These questions must be carefully answered to understand the current economic realities.

Moving away from the economic tendency, the political instability of the country is another determinant for the poverty bedeviling the citizens. However, these programmes have largely failed to overcome the three reasons for this persistent poverty: income inequality, ethnic conflict, and political instability.

Today, Nigeria has been disjointed more than ever before as a result of the agitations for self-government, restructuring among other political concerns, which in turn, affect the citizens negatively. We can’t deny the fact these crises would have died down if proactive measures were taken before now rather than giving them a fire brigade approach.

An economy without political stability is like sitting on a powder keg, hence, there is the need to look deeply into these critical areas affecting the livelihood of the citizenry if we must find an ultimate solution to the pains and sufferings bedeviling these low-income Nigerians who are mostly affected by the economic downturn.

Arogbonlo Israel is a journalist and good governance advocate, writes from Lagos.

https://thequesttimes.com/opinion-hunger-virus-has-buhari-really-done-enough/

Manuel Neuer, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Edouard Mendy have been confirmed by FIFA as the three nominees for The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper award for 2021.

Manuel Neuer who took home the crown in 2020 faces a tough defence, as Chelsea and Senegal’s Edouard Mendy has been in stellar form in the 2020-21 season, saving the Blues game in, game out with breathtaking saves.

The Senegalese shot-stopper also has a Champions League winners medal to back his claim.

https://thequesttimes.com/see-nominees-for-2021-the-best-fifa-mens-goalkeeper-award/

The Ibadan high chiefs on Wednesday announced Lekan Balogun as the Olubadan designate.

At a meeting which was held in Mapo hall, Ibadan, Oyo state capital, the 10 high chiefs said there is no court case stopping them from appointing the new Olubadan.

They said the administration of the late Abiola Ajimobi did not tamper with the Ibadan chieftaincy declaration of 1957 by elevating them from high chiefs to kings.

https://thequesttimes.com/breaking-lekan-balogun-named-olubadan-of-ibadan/

By Arogbonlo Israel

The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has advised Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo ahead of the 2023 presidential election.

It is no more news that the vice president of Nigeria is being pushed by certain groups to become the next president of Nigeria in 2023.

He has also not denied being in the race especially for the fact that there are several campaign materials about him flying around.

Primate Ayodele, in a statement signed Thursday, by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, which was forwarded to Vanguard, said “Osinbajo should not mismanage his money because he will face crisis, scandals and several documents will be used against him”.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/01/2023-no-harm-in-trying-but-it-wont-be-easy-primate-ayodele-tells-osinbajo/

Women from Nigeria’s nineteen Northern States have declared their support for Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, naming him as their choice candidate to run for President in 2023.

The group under the aegis, Yahaya Bello Network (YBN) made this known on Tuesday when they paid a visit to Bello at the Kogi State Governor’s Lodge, Abuja.

Hon. Hadiza Ahmed, Chairperson of the YBN said of all those that have shown intentions to run for President in 2023, Bello is their preferred choice considering all his achievements as governor of Kogi.

Ahmed said that the achievements of Bello and seeing him as the best person to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 have prompted a lot of Nigerians and the YBN urging him to contest for President.

She said that Bello has shown good leadership in Kogi state which can be seen across all sectors.

She also applauded the governor for being the most youth and women friendly governor in the country, which has gotten him a lot of international and national recognitions and awards.

“We are here to call on the Executive Governor of Kogi, His Excellency, Gov. Yahaya Bello to answer our call as a youth to be our next President in 2023."

https://thequesttimes.com/northern-women-endorse-yahaya-bello-for-president/

Death they say is inevitable, as it is the end of the life of a person or organism.

As funny as it may sound, many have gone into their early graves during consensual lovemaking because of unusual extenuating circumstances.

Here are 5 causes of sudden death during lovemaking:

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH)

The commonest cause of death during intercourse is someone who has subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). It’s a form of stroke and also a form of blood vessel taking blood to brain bursting during love-making.

The use of unknown energy enhancers

Some die as a result of engaging in the act despite their unstable health condition, to satisfy their lust and some take energy enhancements to go extra miles to satisfy their partners without minding the dangers attached to it.

Having extra-marital partners

Intercourse with an extramarital partner may increase the risk of sudden death as compared to that with marital partners.

https://thequesttimes.com/5-causes-of-sudden-death-during-lovemaking/

An elder stateswoman cum centenarian, Josephine Ezeanyaeche has called on the Federal Government, FG, to develop a framework to facilitate free transportation for senior citizens and boost peaceful coexistence among Nigerians.

Ezeanyaeche, an activist made the call when she visited the Amazing Grace Foundation Old Peoples Home on Monday in Kado, Abuja.

Ezeanyaeche also known as Ezinne Gburugburu of Akukwa Ngo, Igbo-Ukwu in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra described her visit to the Home as unique and remarkable.

The High Chief is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Voice of the Senior Citizens of Nigeria.

https://thequesttimes.com/provide-free-transportation-for-senior-citizens-102-year-old-tells-fg/