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Ojukwu lacked compassion. How can a human with a heart see this and keep on Fighting? Ojukwu didn't surrender because of Pride.

If Ojukwu thought his cause was so Noble, why did he run? If he believed in the biafran cause, he should have been willing to die for Biafra. He should have been willing to march into Hell for a Heavenly Cause.

Those children are far better than the winning side today... So what's your point?

I'll never forget you (Anambra) if i do let my right hand wither

Wetin concern man with woman dressing eh? Until i hear "girl child" voice from north and some parts of southwest i ll not join the protest
Here in the east, its a taboo to mess small small children

Nawaoo Yoruba and their big mouth!

I don port o!

When did GEJ become the council Chairman in Ogun state?

Nice wove

Jicles: That cAN never possible in a matcH....Foul play it WaS.

Another world record breaking 4 Naija

Good 4 him

Fantasy Football Scores:
It’s impossible to score 78
goals in 45’mins —
Mathematician

Three university lecturers on
Thursday expressed mixed
feelings over the ongoing
scandalous results from a recent Nigeria Nationwide League (NNWL) Division 4
competition.
The three lecturers are:
Akinfenwa Oluseye and Onyeka
Ubaka of the Mathematics
Department, University of
Lagos and Ismail Raji(also a
Mathematician) of the
University of Ibadan’s
Department of Educational
Management.
According to them, while it is
mathematically impossible, it is statistically possible to score as many as 78 goals within 45
minutes in a match, Akinfenwa
Oluseye, a specialist in
Mathematics, told the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Lagos: “it is mathematically
impossible to score as many as
78 goals in 45 minutes during a
football match.
“Mathematically speaking, it is
impossible to score 78 goals
under 45 minutes because 45
minutes multiplied by 60
seconds equals 2,700 seconds,
and the 2,700 should be divided
by the 78 goals scored.
“That means that in the second
half, a goal was scored every 34
seconds for them arrive at that
score line.
DO OR DIE AFFAIR: A typical
scene from the Nigerian league.
“Considering the speed of the
players, the field of play and the short jubilation by players, one can round it up to 39 seconds per goal and if you do the mathematics again, you will find that it’s not possible.
“That means you will have 39
seconds to score every other
goal, which isn’t remotely
possible, because you can’t be
that fast. Oluseye also notes:
“assuming it’s the fastest man
on earth picking the balls and
returning it to the centre, it still doesn’t sum up”.
He added that even if the
opponents were mere statues,
the goals would not total 146
goals in all.
“It is a match between two
opponents and even if one
wasn’t present at the pitch, one
cannot even score up to that
number of goals because the
ball has to be passed between
the players”.
Ubaka, a specialist in statistics,
on other hand, said: “from a
statistical point of view, it is
possible to score 79 goals and
above in a match.
“Football is a game of chance,
the probability of scoring as
many as 100 goals is not
impossible; chances are that the players are not good or they are not standard players.
“Maybe, within the first half,
the coach studied their
opponents’ weaknesses and
capitalised on the slightest
mistake to shoot at target.
“If the goalkeeper is not good, it is possible to score 10 goals
under a minute. Statistics and
probability prove that it is
possible to score as many goals
and even more than 100 goals
within that duration,” Ubaka
said.
Raji, of the University of
Ibadan’s Department of
Educational Management, said: “It is possible but there may be some conspiracy. There is a tendency for that, but a team can score as many as 80 goals.
“They can score a goal every 30
seconds. A ball can travel from
one end of a pitch under a
minute and if the winning team
is not wasting time, it can score as many goals as possible”.
Plateau Feeders and the Police
Machines FC, in an apparent
bid to win the two slots for
promotion from Division 4 to
Division 3 of the NNWL may
have connived to achieve the
scandalous goals, in order to put their qualification beyond
question.
Plateau United Feeders had
defeated Akurba FC of
Nassarawa, 79-0, while Police
Machines defeated Bubayero of
Gombe, 67-0. All four clubs
have been banned indefinitely
by the Nigeria Football
Association

If the civil war will be the answer let there be. Imagine me to pack out from 3 bedroom flat to a room and parlor apartment because i can not pay my 250k annual rent. Nigeria govt is wicked!!!

Nigerians have continued to express outrage over the recent Appeal Court judgement which discharged and acquitted Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Lateef Shofolahan, two people accused of masterminding the assassination of Mrs. Kudirat Abiola, wife of Chief MKO Abiola, acclaimed winner of the 12 June, 1993 presidential election.
The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, a Yoruba socio-political group, while condemning the judgement in a statement made available to P.M.NEWS, reminded the public that no one would escape the judgement of God.
“We of the Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) continue to wonder whether the justice administration system in Nigeria is fostering the cause of strong nationhood. Now that the Appeal Court has pronounced Al-Mustapha innocent, we can as well say the late despotic ruler, Sani Abacha, under whom Al-Mustapha served as Chief Security Officer, did no evil and therefore should never again be spoken ill of.
“It is also instructive that no one has been pronounced guilty of any of the numerous high profile murders in this country, which makes it difficult not to believe that Nigeria’s justice administration system is not skewed against the poor and ordinary citizens languishing in our prisons for frivolous charges.
“One is being forced to believe that justice in Nigeria is defined by influence and power instead of equality before the law,” ARG said through its Publicity Secretary, Kunle Famoriyo.
It said the Oputa Panel was only good for the media frenzy it created and did nothing to make Nigerians forget evils of the past in order to forge ahead as one true nation.
“We are of the opinion that building a just society is even far more important than any form of development and it is the reason we have been sounding the gong for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference, without which true and lasting peace may remain elusive to us, cutting us short of attaining our full potential.
“Kudirat Abiola walked a golden path and left an enviable legacy. Had her husband, the late Bashorun M.K.O Abiola, been allowed to rule according to the June 12 mandate, she would have dignified First Lady office and would have undoubtedly used it to defend human rights.”
In his reaction, Abdul Abiola, son of the deceased, described the judgement as a stab in the heart.
“As a grown-up I am no longer bitter, but the problem is that this might continue to happen to other people. This is an injustice in our system and I pray that our leaders should do the right thing,’’ he said.
Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Save Nigeria Group, SNG, said: “after Al-Mustapha was duly convicted by a lower court, it is so painful that he has been acquitted.”
Mrs. Modupe Onitiri-Abiola, wife of Chief MKO Abiola, also rejected the judgement wondering what evidence the Appeal Court based its judgement on.
Former personal aide to Chief Abiola, Olu Akerele, said he was sure the evidence was deliberately tampered with in favour of the accused.
To him, “enemies of Chief Abiola and the nation’s progress may be rejoicing now that the suspects have taken advantage of a lacuna in the justice system to be set free, but they shall surely stand before the Lord in final judgment. The case was dragged for 14 years by al-Mustapha’s lawyers in a bid to frustrate the entire justice system to a point where even the public lost interest in the trial to allow for muddle ups,” Akerele, who was in prison for 18 months under the Abacha regime, said.
National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Gani Adams, said the judgement was an encouragement for evil doers in the country.
“This judgment will in no small measure discourage the will of Nigerians to stand against injustice and oppression in Nigeria.”
Professor Itse Sagay, contitutional lawyer, “the principle must be established in this country that anybody who infringes on a person’s right, particularly the right to life, must pay fully for it under the law.”
Ladi Rotimi-Williams, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said: “I don’t know how they arrived at their conclusion. The law is an ass, I must say. It is surprising; very surprising and shocking. I believe the state will appeal that judgement. The facts are there.”
The Lagos State Government, through the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Ade Ipaye, said it was still studying the judgement and would decide once it obtains a copy of the judgement from the Appeal Court.
The Kudirat Initiative for Democracy, KIND, while rejecting the judgement of the Appeal Court through a statement released by its Executive Director, Amy Oyekunle, said it was both disappointing and shocking.
The organisation, established by Kudirat Abiola-Costello, the late Kudirat’s daughter, recalled that, “Barnabas Jabila ( a.k.a. Sgt. Rogers) and Muhammed Abdul (a.k.a. Katako) had, at the early stage of the trial testified that they were directed to murder Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, by Major Hamza Al-Mustapha; that they were given information on her movements by Alhaji Lateef Sofolahan; and that they, respectively, shot and killed Alhaji Kudirat Abiola and drove the Peugeot 504 car, which they used in trailing her car and bolting away, after killing her at the Cargo Vision Area of the Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, by the Toll Gate,” adding that the lower court which had earlier sentenced them relied on this and many other evidences.
It described the judgement of Hon Justice Amina A. Augie who presided over the appeal, as well as Justice Rita N. Pemu, Justice Fatima O. Akinbami, as not fair enough.
“KIND is informed that the grounds of the Court of Appeal’s decision included the ‘contradiction in the testimony of the prosecution witnesses’, the non-corroboration of their testimony, being co-accomplices; the non-adducing of medical evidence (including non-tendering of autopsy and ballistic report), the non-investigation of the crime by the Nigeria Police Force, which it is argued has the sole power to investigate the crime, instead of the hybrid Special Investigation Panel (SIP) and the non-calling of the police to give evidence.”
—Kazeem Ugbodaga & Eromosele Ebhomele
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/07/15/outrage-over-reprieve-for-al-mustapha-persists/

Over a hundred tenants who were expecting to be given keys to their new apartments on Monday stormed Ketu area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, after they realised they had been duped by the property’s developer.
The prospective tenants had paid hundreds of thousands of naira for 13 mini-apartments and were asked to come for their keys on Monday at the newly built house located at 59, Oriola Street, Alapere-Ketu.
However, on Sunday night, rumour began to circulate that some tenants had been given keys and were already occupying all the apartments. Those who arrived today had to confront those already occupying the apartments, claiming they had also paid for the aprtments.
As dozens of people stormed the house in protests, the developer, the landlord and the agents had all disappeared. Their phones were all switched off.
“I paid N400,000 for a mini-flat and I was asked to come and get my key today,” said 69-year old Mrs. Mariam Eboigbe. “But the landlord is nowhere to be seen.”

The house belongs to Alhaji Ishola Salawudeen who issued some receipts to the prospective tenants and gave his address as 59, Oriola Street, Alapere-Ketu.
“I paid to the landlord himself. I came to meet him here and I paid him N230,000 for a room self-contained ,” said Iyamah Anthony Oshoke.
Bashorun Ganiat who paid N475,000 for a two-bedroom flat was also stranded. Calls to the landlord did not go through.
Folami Emmanuel paid N380,000 as rent for 18 months, while Mutiu Ogunlana paid N230,000.
Other duped victims such as Ismail Olatunbosun, Stephen Okeleke and Abel Oke paid N325,000, N550,000 and N325,000 respectively but could not get the apartment.
“I paid N205,000 for a year rent. I don’t know what to do now. I don’t know where the developer or landlord lives,” said Owoyomi Aderemi.
Iyamah Anthony who paid N230,000 and Ambrose Simeon who paid N410,000 could not believe they had been duped.
Utulu John Ndubusi who paid N250,000 and Ukachukwu Theresa who paid N500,000 said they don’t have anywhere else to go as they had borrowed the money to rent the house.
Others such as Ebenezer Rotimu who paid N320,000, Ugochukwu who paid N150,000 and Ofenake Benjamin who paid N250,000, looked dazed and stared at the house helplessly.
Pastor Yele Akin who had paid N580,000 and Omoniyi Aderemi who paid N205,000 as well as Lateef Fadipe who paid N200,000, were frantically trying to get across to the landlord or the developer.
“People can be heartless,” said Alli Rasak who paid N305,000.
Jessica Onuoha who paid N410,000 and Abdulsalam Olawale who paid N210,000 as well as Okechuwku Collins who paid N300,000 were about joining others to go to Alausa to lodge a complaint.
Many more tenants were showing up and displaying their receipts at the time of going to press.
—Simon Ateba
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/07/15/100-tenants-battle-over-13-flats/

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged Nigerian students, especially those residing in violence-prone areas of the North, not to be discouraged by the activities of the Boko Haram sect.

The Nobel Laureate also charged President Goodluck Jonathan and state governors to create conducive environment for Nigerians to access qualitative education.



The Nigerian icon stated this at his residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital when he hosted 79 secondary school students across the country who participated in this year's Open Door Series project, an international cultural exchange programme,which was part of the activities marking his 79th birthday. Soyinka was born July 13, 1934.
The over 200 students who were selected throughout the country were pruned down to 79 representing the age of Soyinka.

The event, tagged: “Memoirs of our future", which also included an essay competition, was organised by a Lagos based multimedia company, Zmirage, in conjunction with the Ogun State Government.

While advising students not to be dissuaded by certain negative things in the country, Soyinka urged them to draw inspiration from the life of a 16-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head on October 9, 2012 by Taliban fighters over her campaign for girl-child education in Pakistan.

Malala had on Friday addressed the maiden United Nations Youth Assembly where she called on world leaders to provide free education to all children, and further vowed not to relent in her campaign.

According to him, " We must not allow ourselves to be discouraged. And the fact that people are still going to schools in those areas violence-prone areas of northern Nigeria shows that we should not be discouraged. You are not a complete human being if you are not educated, schooled or cultured.

Speaking further, the Nobel Laureate debunked rumours that he graduated from the University College Ibadan with a third class. Soyinka said he made a Second Class Upper degree.

He explained that he had kept silent over the years on the matter but decided to open up for the sake of the children as a mark of respect for them.

Soyinka said there was no mystery behind his grey hair.

On his aspiration in life, the literary giant disclosed that he would have loved to become an architect, musician or a pilot,if not for faith that changed the course of his life.

"I would have loved to be an architect, or a musician, but not an amateur but a trained one, and if I have the opportunity to sit behind a pilot in the plane, I would have loved to be an airplane pilot. When I left school, I wanted to be a journalist. I actually sat for an examination to be absorbed in Daily Time as a reporter, but I was the last to submit because I wrote several sheets of paper and at the end I was told that I wrote a short story and not a news story. So, I was not taken. Thank goodness, I did not become a journalist," he added.

Earlier at the Government House, Oke Igbein, Abeokuta, the State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun urged the students not to relent in their educational pursuits, as he described Soyinka as "a world citizen," who the participants in the essay competition must emulate.

He commended the organizers and restated the commitment of the state government towards supporting the celebration of the life of the Nobel Laureate.

Amosun later presented prizes to the winner of this year’s essay competition, Motolani Akinpelu from Oladapo Alayande School of Science, Oke Bola, Ibadan, Oyo State.

The second position was won by Cosmos Adedero Andrew of Mount Saint
Gabriel Secondary School, Markudi, Benue State while the duo of Miss
Adebisi Oluwatomisin of Leeds City High School, Ibadan and Miss
Chukwuwinke Nora from Dority International School, Aba, Abia State
came third.

Odiakosa Alfred of St. Charles Secondary School Onitsha, Anambra State, took the fifth position.

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Hope he don't end up like Benjamin Adekunle aka scorpion

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

Three Nigerian corps members serving at Government Comprehensive Secondary School in the oil producing state of Rivers were kidnapped early this morning through Ogolokom Water Front in Abua today.


Corps members kidnapped in Rivers State

The kidnapped corps members are Ugochi Martins, Lajoke Richard and Esther Nwanchukwu.
Abua is one of the four local councils that make up the Orashi region of the state. Chairmen of the councils that also include Ahoada East, Ahoada West, and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni,ONELGA, early this week complained to Governor Chibuike Amaechi about the increased rate of kidnappings in the area.

Confirming the kidnap,the Rivers State Police Command Public Relations Officer,Angela Agabe,DSP, said the command has closed down three lodges being used by corps members in Abua/odual Local Govt area following the kidnap.

The police image maker also said other corps members have been relocated to Ominama corpers lodge at Abua central for safety.

DSP Angela Agabe further said security operatives have been drafted to the area and intensive search is on to rescue the innocent kidnapped NYSC members.

The Corps Members lodge closed down is located at Ogolokom, Otapha and Egbelom communities.

Earlier in the week in Port Harcourt, Chief Cassidy Ikegbidi, Chairman of Ahoada East along with his counterparts from Ahaoda West,ONELGA, decried the kidnappings and growing insecurity in the area, since the deployment of Mr Mbu Joseph Mbu as the Police Commissioner.

The council chairmen complained of increased rate of robberies and kidnapping of female Corps members who are also sexually molested while in captivity.

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With Nigerian children rated as the most AIDS infected in the world, this news from Malaysia must be good news indeed.

AIDS scientists have expressed optimism over their search for a cure for the disease Saturday ahead of a major conference in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia with more funding and research breakthroughs boosting their hopes.

Thousands of delegates will attend the four-day International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference which starts on Sunday in the Malaysian capital, the first time the bi-annual meeting will be held in Asia.

Sharon Lewin from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said funding for cure research had gone from millions to tens of millions of dollars per year.

“I think we are a long way off, but what has changed in the last three years is a realisation, that there needs to be a commitment (to this),” she told AFP in a telephone interview.

“In 2010, at that time, very few people really believed it was possible… Between that time and now, there has been a major shift. There’s evidence that things have really been moving.”

Deborah Persaud of the US Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland, said the case of the “Mississippi baby” that her team worked on presented a “ray of hope”.

The baby, born in the US state of Mississippi, was apparently cleared of the virus after being given aggressive anti-retroviral treatment within 30 hours of her birth. She is now almost three years old.

“There needs to be a lot of work done… We have to replicate the case; we need to understand the case,” she told reporters ahead of the conference.

“The key thing for us that we should focus on is to do what we know how to do — and that is identify kids who are infected and treat them early.”

Children below the age of 15 make up 10 percent, or 3.3 million, of the estimated 34 million people infected with HIV worldwide. In total, the global pandemic has claimed 30 million lives.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is expected to release new medical guidelines at the conference Sunday, which could make more people infected with HIV eligible to receive drugs.

Last month, scientists meeting in Paris to mark the 30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, said they have high hopes for a treatment that will be given at an early stage of infection.

But they said people with a long-running, untreated infection and a compromised immune system may never benefit from an envisioned “functional cure” — through which a person would retain traces of the virus but no symptoms.

About 1.8 million people die every year from AIDS, a disease in which the immune system is destroyed, with sufferers exposed to pneumonia, TB and other illnesses.

With 60,000 Nigerian children infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) last year, Nigeria has the highest number of children with the virus in the world, according to the latest report by the United Nations.

The number of children infected with the virus is higher than that of any other country in the world, and is a source of worry for experts with one describing it as “alarming.”

The UN report titled “2013 Progress Report on The Global Plan: Towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive” is the most recent on the global plan which seeks an elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015, as well as keep their mothers alive.

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AIDS Scientists express hope for cure

Omo! see ugly people everywhere.... Abi them take ugly swear 4 Ibadan peeps