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Come Saturday, 24th October 2015, all roads will lead to Lagos when Datare Porbeni will be getting married to his belle. Datare is one of the sons of former Naval topshot Vice Admiral Festus Bikepere Porbeni who is ex-minister Diezani Alison-Madueke's uncle. Let's tell you a bit about Datare: he had his first degree at the University of Manchester and proceeded to London School of Business and Finance for master's in Investment Banking. He works as a development analyst at Admiralty Fleet Limited. The holy solemnization of Datare and his wife-to-be will hold at Redeemed Christian Church of God in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos. Immediately after the church wedding, there will be a reception at BICS Gardens in Lekki.



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Dr. Olaokun Soyinka is the first child of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka. A UK-trained medical doctor, Dr. Soyinka is the immediate past Ogun State Commissioner for Health. Olaokun Soyinka sometime back spoke to KIKELOMO IWAJOMO on life as Kongi's son, his childhood years, his marriage to renowned writer Lola Shoneyin, and his interest in politics.



What's it like being the son of world-renowned Prof. Wole Soyinka?

It's been very interesting and whenever I am asked this question, I always say it's a privilege with the passage of time you come to appreciate more and more as one gets older since he's like a father figure to many Nigerians. And also you will begin to hear more and more about the history because surprisingly,when you are close to somebody, you may not know how much they have done to influence people's lives. With the passage of time,you get to meet so many people. And these all add to your understanding and appreciating. You now understand why people admire or commend him. You begin to understand the depth of why it is so not just because he is a writer. There are so many stratas to his life. It reinforces that it is a privilege to be his son.


What were your childhood years like?

Very mixed,anybody looking at me sees me as an oyinbo. I have 2 sides to me. My mother was English. As a result my life has been divided 2 countries. But most of my adult life, say in the last 2 decades , have been in Nigeria. My childhood was a lot of travelling with quite frequent change. I went to university in England, Government College Ibadan for part of my secondary and then England for the other part of my secondary as well. My primary school was partly in England, and Nigeria. So my childhood was very interesting.



What's your relationship with your father while growing up?

It was good and still is. You know he travels a lot - as a public figure he moves around. Sometimes he is there, sometimes he is not. But he was there as a father and was there for me to have a relationship. As a kid, you don't appreciate what you have. I know of course that people looked up to him but then as a kid you look up to him too.

As the offspring of such a great man, what are the attributes you emulate from him?

That will be for others to say really. I will tell you what I hope, or what I emulate in him. Number one thing is being principled. Thinking deeply about this, coming to the right decisions about the right things to do and the right way to behave the right way based on sound reasoning and then sticking to it. One thing you can say about my dad is that he is principled and consistent with his principles- in the long run, it always serves you well.Also is his sense of humour- you have to be serious when needed. But sometimes messages can be gotten across with a bit of humour, lighten the mood. If you notice, no matter how serious he talks, somewhere in there, there will be some humour.And privately, he is a good company because of his sense of humour.I think I can go on and on. But these are 2 things I can aspire to emulate as far as his writing ability, clearly I don't have that. But having said that, within my medical sphere, I still do a lot of writing - communicating in health terms.



Are you a member of the Pyrates Confraternity?

I am a Seadog. I joined in the UK. I am what you call an adult member. I wasn't exposed to it here. You know I told you I had my university education in the UK. I didn't get to join then. So it was after my university I joined the chapter there.



At the time you wanted to join, did you discuss with your father?

I mentioned it as some point. He didn't push me either way, he believes you have your own mind. When I told him, he said ok. So the pressure to join came from outsiders not my father.


For the full interview:

http://dawntodusknews.com/life-as-wole-soyinkas-1st-child-olaokun/

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Not many know that former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode is married to a Ghanaian woman Regina. They have been married since 29 November 2011. Earlier today the ex-minister changed his Facebook cover image to that of him and Regina, a woman he describes as 'My Queen'. Regina Fani-Kayode (nee Hanson-Amonoo) hails from a distinguished Ghanaian family and is a pastor in the intercessionary ministry of the Pentecostal/Evangelical church. Regina and Femi are blessed with a beautiful daughter, Remi.



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By JUMI RHODES


A 32-year-old man Jackson Igwebuike studying at the University of Canberra in Australia has been dragged before the ACT Magistrates Court after allegedly being caught with $10 million worth of drug ice in his possession.Jackson Igwebuike was charged with attempting to possess 10 kilograms of methamphetamine worth $10 million. He is currently in Australia on a student visa. According to ABC News, Jackson Igwebuike was arrested as he attempted to board a bus that was going to Sydney on Saturday. The police believe the drugs were illegally imported from China. Going by reports, the Australian Border Force in Sydney had earlier this month intercepted a consignment of ornate Chinese fish statues, which were about 80cm long by 20cm wide, containing the drugs.





The ACT police then took charge of the operation and continued with a controlled delivery of the drugs to Canberra, which were collected by Igwebuike and driven to a second location also in Kaleen(in northern Canberra) before they were taken out of the statues. Igwebuike was later arrested by police at the Jolimont Centre bus stop where he was boarding a bus to Sydney with the drug packages on him. Going by Australian laws, Igwebuike, who arrived in Australia in July 2015 on a student visa, did not enter a plea and made no application for bail. If convicted of attempting to possess a commercial quantity of an illegal drug, Jackson Igwebuike will face a maximum penalty of life in jail.



Photo Credit: Jackson Igwebuike /Facebook; Drug Ice/ACT Policing


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The crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,121 pilgrims, a new Associated Press tally showed Monday, after officials in the kingdom met to discuss the tragedy.The toll keeps rising from the Sept. 24 disaster outside Mecca as individual countries identify bodies and work to determine the whereabouts of hundreds of pilgrims still missing. The official Saudi toll of 769 people killed and 934 injured has not changed since Sept. 26, and officials have yet to address the discrepancy.Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdul Aziz, who is also the kingdom’s interior minister, oversaw a meeting late Sunday about the disaster in Mina, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. The agency’s report did not mention any official response to the rising death toll.


“The crown prince was reassured on the progress of the investigations,” the SPA report said. “He directed the committee’s members to continue their efforts to find the causes of the accident, praying to Allah Almighty to accept the martyrs and wishing the injured a speedy recovery.”King Salman ordered the investigation into the disaster, the deadliest in the history of the annual pilgrimage. It came after a crane collapse in Mecca earlier that month killed 111 worshippers, and the twin disasters marred the first hajj to be overseen by the king since he ascended to the throne at the start of this year.


The Saudi king holds the title of “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques,” and the monarchy’s supervision of the hajj is a source of great prestige in the Muslim world. Riyadh has rejected a suggestion by Shiite power Iran, its main regional rival, to have an independent body take over planning and administering the five-day hajj pilgrimage, which is required of all able-bodied Muslims once in their lifetimes.Iran has repeatedly blamed the disaster on the Saudi royal family, accusing it of mismanagement and of covering up the real death toll, which Tehran says exceeds 4,700, without providing evidence.



“The lying and hypercritical bodies, which claim to (be promoting) human rights, as well as the Western governments, which sometimes make great fuss over the death of a single person, remained dead silent in this incident in favor of their allied government,” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday, according to a transcript on his website.


“If they were sincere, these self-proclaimed advocates of human rights should have demanded accountability, compensation, guarantee for non-recurrence and punishment for the perpetrators of this catastrophe.”
Iran and Saudi Arabia are deeply divided on a host of regional issues and back opposite sides in the wars in Syria and Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been at war with Iran-backed Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, since March.
Saudi Arabia has meanwhile been targeted in gun and bomb attacks by an affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group, which holds a third of Iraq and Syria in its self-declared “caliphate.”





Like al-Qaida before it, the IS group views the Saudi royal family as illegitimate because of alleged corruption and its alliance with the United States.The AP count of the dead from the Mina crush and stampede comes from state media reports and officials’ comments from 30 of the over 180 countries that sent citizens to the hajj.Iran leads all the affected countries, saying it had 465 pilgrims killed. Many of the dead also came from Africa. Nigeria said it lost 199 people, while Mali lost 198, Cameroon lost 76, Niger lost 72, Senegal lost 61, and Ivory Coast and Benin both lost 52.


Others include Egypt with 182, Bangladesh with 137, Indonesia with 126, India with 116, Pakistan with 102, Ethiopia with 47, Chad with 43, Morocco with 36, Algeria with 33, Sudan with 30, Burkina Faso with 22, Tanzania with 20, Somalia with 10, Kenya with eight, Ghana and Turkey with seven, Myanmar and Libya with six, China with four, Afghanistan with two and Jordan and Malaysia with one. The previous deadliest-ever incident at hajj was a 1990 stampede that killed 1,426 people.


Source: Associated Press

By JUMI RHODES


Diezani Alison-Madueke's stepchildren are more known, but no one seems to be noticing that the former petroleum minister has just 1 biological child with her husband, Rear Admiral Alison Madueke(retd.), former Chief of Naval Staff and ex-military administrator of old Imo and Anambra States.



The reason Diezani's child has been able to fly so low under the radar is that he is a teenager. Diezani Alison-Madueke inherited 5 children(Chimezie, Ugonna, Chima, Ngozi, and Donald) from her husband's first marriage. The children lost their mother years before their father remarried the Bayelsan princess in the 1990s. Diezani and Alison's church wedding held in an Anglican church in Port Harcourt in the '90s.



For those not in the know, Diezani Alison-Madueke is an Ijaw princess, as her father HRH Frederick Abiye Agama(Ogbotom Edede of the Epie Atissa clan) was in his lifetime a top management staff in Shell before he became a king in Bayelsa. Diezani's mother is HRH Beatrice Oyete Agama (née Porbeni), she is a sister to Vice-Admiral Festus Bikepere Porbeni(retd.).



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By JUMI RHODES



Sheikh Muyideen Bello is one of Nigeria's highly-revered Islamic clerics. He speaks truth to power with his tough sermons on various subjects. In one of his lectures titled Legal Marriage, Sheikh Bello speaks about why a man should marry more than 1 wife. According to Sheikh Bello, “Allah said a man should marry any kind of woman he likes. As a man, if you want to marry a fair-complexioned or dark woman, marry her. Allah said we should start from 2 women. I know women will not like to hear this. If you have to marry, start with 2 women, that is what the Quran says. The Yorubas have a saying that a man with 1 woman isn’t a real man. For instance if you are married to 1 wife and you're angry she over-salted your food, you have just 1 wife. You don’t have a choice than to eat the food or buy food outside. But if you have another wife, she would ensure she fixes the wrong of the first one.






“I have received so many messages from people that why should I encourage polygamy. I tell them, is it me encouraging polygamy? Allah said you should marry 2, 3, 4. Allah said if as a man you know you can’t take care of them, then marry 1. Then if you are a me-my-wife kind of man, the implications are too many. As Muslims, 4 women is the maximum a man can have, have 2 living with you then if you have 2 houses outside, you put the other 2 there. The implications in marrying just 1 wife are too many.If you can afford it, you build a house for each of your wives. After-all they won't see one another, so you will be the only one facing them. But if you can't afford this luxury, you have to be a me-and-my-1- wife husband."



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Former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said it was fun to him when insulted as a sitting president by his critics or political opponents. According to him, the published insults have been kept in his archives at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta. Obasanjo made this disclosure while presenting his keynote address at the first international conference of the African Studies Association of Africa, ASAA, entitled, “African Studies in the Twenty-First Century, Past, Present and Future” which held at the International Conference Centre of the University of Ibadan.



In his words, “If you visit the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, you will find thousands of archived newspaper comics and columns meant to spite and insult my person even as a sitting President. No individual or group of people was ever queried or jailed or repressed for expressing this freedom. Rather, I encouraged them because I derived fun and pleasure from the humour as I know who I am and nobody needs to tell me who and what I am not “.



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Nigeria's Senate on Wednesday, 14th October 2015 cleared the under-listed 19 ministerial nominees of the 37 forwarded to the red chambers by President Muhammadu Buhari.


1. Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma(Akwa Ibom)
2. Dr. Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti)
3. Chief Audu Ogbeh (Benue)
4. Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi)
5. Dr. Osagie Ehanire (Edo)
6. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau(Kano)
7. Alhaji Lai Mohammed(Kwara)
8. Amina Ibrahim Mohammed(Gombe)
9. Engr. Suleiman H. Adamu (Jigawa)
10. Ibrahim Usman Jibril(Nasarawa)
11. Babatunde Raji Fashola(Lagos)
12. Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu(Delta)
13. Abubakar Malami,SAN (Kebbi)
14. Dr (Sen.) Chris Nwabueze Ngige(Anambra)
15. Sem. Aisha Jummai Alhassan(Taraba)
16. Barrister Solomon Dalong(Plateau)
17. Mrs Kemi Adeosun(Ogun)
18. Sen. Hadi Sirika(Katsina)
19. Barrister Adebayo Shittu(Oyo)


http://dawntodusknews.com/full-liststates-senate-confirms-19-of-president-buharis-ministerial-nominees/

By KIKELOMO IWAJOMO



The immediate past governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN drew attention all over the world earlier today when he was on the podium for the ministerial screening in the Senate. For hours, he trended on 'worldwide' Twitter! Fashola has many things going for him. For the Senior Advocate of Nigeria(SAN), when he isn't in a high-level policy meeting, he takes to his library. Fashola is a voracious reader.


Those close to Fashola know him as a bookworm. Shortly after he handed over to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, three books chronicling his achievements as governor of Lagos State between 2007 and 2015 were launched: 'The Great Leap', a book written by Mr. Hakeem Bello, who served as Special Adviser on Media to Fashola and two others co-authored by Dapo Adeniyi. The other two are: 'In Bold Prints: Thoughts of Babatunde Fashola' and 'Lagos Blow Down: West Africa’s First Controlled Demolition'.


Here’s a small but revealing side of the famous bureaucrat: the kind of books Fashola likes to read. Along with the Quran(Holy Book of Islam), personal development and law titles, autobiographies, and biographies, Fashola also reads economic theory for fun. On his bedside table are books by development economists who see potential in poverty, people like the late C.K. Prahalad of the University of Michigan and Hernando de Soto of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima.



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By KIKELOMO IWAJOMO


As you read this, plans are in top gear for the wedding ceremony of Walida Atiku-Abubakar, one of the daughters of former vice-president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Walida will be getting married to Murtala Garo in Yola, capital city of Adamawa State, on Friday, 13th November 2015. Already invites to the celebrity wedding which are in form of kits are being sent to VVIP guests. Let’s quickly add that, expectedly, the biggest event management company has been contracted for a smooth wedding planning.


http://dawntodusknews.com/atiku-abubakars-daughter-walida-set-to-wed-photo-of-the-wedding-kit/

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