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IT was made known on Saturday that a large chunk of the funds used by the terrorist group, Boko Haram passes through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), unknown to many officials.
According to latest reports, this disclosure was made by an Australian, Dr Stephen Davis, who had close links with the terrorist group and had worked as a go-between for government during negotiation.
Davis, who said he was disclosing all he knew about the Islamist group because he could no longer bear what the kidnapped Chibok girls were going through, affirmed that Boko Haram commanders told him that a senior CBN official (names withheld) was fully involved in the funding of the insurgency.
Davis, in an interview with an online publication, TheCable, said Western countries could not trace the majority of the source of funding to Boko Haram because “it is done through a legal channel; through the gatekeeper; the CBN, and that makes it very easy to cover up.
“One of the biggest of suppliers of arms and military uniforms to the JAS (Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad), better known as Boko Haram, currently lives in Cairo, Egypt. He is the recipient of money sent by political sponsors from Nigeria. The funds go through the CBN’s financial system and appear to be legal transaction.”
Nyanya bombing suspects’ relative involved
Dr Davis spoke further that three of the suspected masterminds of the recent bombings in Nyanya area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, were relatives of the said CBN insider who facilitated movement of funds for the terrorists.
“Meanwhile, the CBN official who handles the funding is an uncle to three of those arrested in connection with the Nyanya bombings. The three boys lived with him. They were arrested by the Department of State Security (DSS) after the bombings, but they do not seem to have been interrogated about their uncle in CBN. Or if they have given up information about their uncle, then, the SSS has not moved against him.
“Also, a senior official of CBN, who recently left the bank, was very close to Sodiq Aminu Ogwuche, the mastermind of the Nyanya bombings who also schooled in Sudan. Boko Haram commanders said Ogwuche’s wife used to visit this top official in his office at the headquarters of the bank in Abuja before the Nyanya bombings. They were very close,” he said.
Why he opened up
Davis said he decided to come out to speak now because the Nigerian authorities were not acting fast and that he was heart-broken by the evils being done to the Chibok girls.
“I have three daughters. I just cannot stand the thought of what those girls are passing through. I have spoken to an escapee who described how she was being raped for 40 days by militants. I can’t stand it. It is heart-breaking.
“Nigerian authorities must act decisively now,” he said.
B/Haram also uses Chibok girls to get money
Davies also opened up on how members of the group may have been using the abducted girls in their captive as bargaining chips to extort money from government.
He said the terrorists were now in groups and each of the groups had some of the girls, who had also been divided into groups, in its custody.
According to another report by Daily Mail, the Australian expert disclosed that but for the money politics among the groups within Boko Haram, he would have helped the Nigerian government to secure release of about 60 of the girls.
Davies said he was within 15 minutes of achieving this when a rival group of Boko Haram members got wind of the huge money involved and moved the group of girls away from where it was supposed to be met.
The foreign media added that “the 63-year-old former Canon Emeritus at Coventry Cathedral in the United Kingdom (UK), who has extensive contacts with African terrorist groups, had been negotiating with Boko Haram commanders for some time before they agreed to release the girls.
“Mr Davis was asked to come to Nigeria by the country’s president for his hostage negotiation expertise, after previously brokering a truce between violent rebels and the government in the Niger Delta in 2004, when he was working for the oil company, Shell.”
According to the report, which also quoted ABC’s Radio National, Davies himself explained that “I made a few phone calls to the Boko Haram commanders and they confirmed they were in possession of the girls.
“They told me they’d be prepared to release some as a goodwill gesture towards a peace deal with the government. So, I went to Nigeria on the basis of being able to secure their release.
“This is a long process of building trust on both sides. There are several groups to deal with as the girls are held in several camps. This makes any thought of a rescue highly improbable. To attempt to rescue one group would only endanger the others.
“Every day, there was the possibility of the release of the girls.”
He added that upon negotiating strict conditions for the girls’ release, the rescue mission was sabotaged by “another group who hoped to cash in on the monetary reward being offered by Nigerian police for their retrieval.
“We travelled for four-and-a-half hours to reach them, but 15 minutes before we arrived, they were kidnapped again by another group who wanted to cash in on the reward.”
Obsolete arms militating against forces –Report
Meanwhile, insiders in military circles have proffered reasons for a slow start of full Nigerian military operations against the dreaded Islamic sect.
Details contained in a report submitted to the Nigerian authorities and which was examined at a recent top security meeting indicated that the Nigerian military was left with no new arms procurement since 1982 after the Shehu Shagari-led administration embarked upon the last massive arms procurement.
A source further told Sunday Tribune that “the military had not been empowered since the Shagari administration; every other regime after Shagari was involved in regime protection. This is the first time since after Shagari when the military is being fully equipped.”
Role of opposition
Another source also stated that internal opposition elements had also informed the slow operations of the military, as some of the politicians introduced ethnic and religious insinuations to the initial operations in the North-East.
Another reason for the slow start, according to the report, was the fact that the Nigerian military has largely not seen war in the last 20 years or so. It was also gathered that a good number of the men and officers who participated in Sierra Leone and Liberian wars had retired.
It was also indicated that terrorism, a global trend in recent years, is new to the Nigerian military and that the architecture to fight insurgency is not the same as for traditional warfare.
“Nigerians are not aware of the challenges the military is facing. The infrastructure that need restructuring are massive. Right now, the military is being repositioned and I am sure that when it is ready, it won’t take a long time for it to rout the insurgents,” another source stated.
Effect of coups
Besides, the technical analysis of the situation indicated that the military was practically demobilised as a result of two coups in the past. It was gathered that the Mamman Vatsa coup of 1987 saw to the demobilisation of the Air Force because reports had indicated that officers of the Force were to be massively deployed to bomb strategic places during the coup.
The Gideon Orkar coup of April 1990 was also said to have brought another albatross on the military as the Armoured Brigade was said to have been largely demobilised after the aborted coup.
Sources said since the two major aborted coups, the regimes continued with the implementation of regime protection policy.
“You don’t lay the blame for security lapses on the administration of President Jonathan. He is the one who is now empowering the military and ensuring that it maintains the rules of engagement and respect human rights at all times. We are assured that a more professional military will emerge out of the ongoing reforms. There would certainly be some dare devil squads which will deal decisively with anyone who plans to threaten the territorial integrity of Nigeria,” the source stated.
Excerpts from the interview
Can you share with us your experience with Boko Haram leaders?
Let me take you back a bit. I specialise in negotiation. It may interest you to know that I have been involved in peace negotiations in Nigeria since 2004 when President Olusegun Obasanjo invited me to intervene in the Niger Delta crisis. With a local Nigerian colleague, I spoke with Asari Dokubo and took him to Obasanjo at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Because Asari is a Muslim, the Muslim boys in the north heard about me and warmed up to me. I did a report in 2005 on the threat of extremism among young northern Muslims. Obasanjo’s security chiefs dismissed the report with a wave of the hand. They said no such thing existed. In 2007, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who desired to end militancy in the Niger Delta invited me and made me presidential envoy. I toured all the northern states. I went to the country’s borders. I came back with a report that there were some budding sects in the north. The national security adviser (NSA) at the time, Gen. Sarki Mukhtar, dismissed the report. He said they didn’t exist. A succession of NSAs dismissed all these reports and allowed the groups to flourish.
In all your discussions, did they name their sponsors?
They named the man who lives in Cairo. He is of the Kanuri tribe. He passes arms, ammunition and uniforms to them. The CBN official who handles the funding (name withheld by TheCable for legal reasons) is an uncle to three of those arrested in connection with the Nyanya bombings. The three boys lived with him.
They were arrested by the SSS (Department of State Security) after the bombings but they are yet to be interrogated about their uncle. The official still works with the CBN. He is still there. He works in currency operations. He knows how to handle the transaction in a way that it can never be traced. Western countries are frustrated that they cannot trace the funding.
How can they when it is passed on legally, through the gatekeeper, through the CBN? Also, a senior official of CBN, who recently left the bank, was very close to Sodiq Aminu Ogwuche, the mastermind of the Nyanya bombings who also schooled in Sudan. Ogwuche’s wife used to visit this official in his office at the headquarters in Abuja before the bombings.
They were very close. Don’t forget that the CBN official who handles the transactions also used to report to his superior, the official who recently left the bank. Also, there is a politician who was supplying operational vehicles for the suicide bombers.
How did you become involved in the negotiation for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls?
Because I had built trust among the militants, I made calls to them when I heard about the abductions. They confirmed to me that the girls were with them. I came to Nigeria in late April (the girls were abducted on April 14). I told the president I would try to intervene and help get the girls out. He said he would give me the needed support if I wanted. However, what I discovered was that thrice we tried to get the girls released, and thrice my efforts were sabotaged. That was when I now realised that some politicians were also involved in the insurgency. There were remnants of those involved in the former peace deal as well as a political arm and what I call the ritual arm which specialises in butchering human beings.
While I was making efforts to get the girls released, the political backers of the group threatened that if I got 30 or 40 girls out, the militants would kidnap another 60 to replace them. I became very frustrated. They threatened that any commander of the group who agreed to participate in any dialogue would be slaughtered by other commanders. The political sponsors are very powerful because they supply the finances and the arms. Until they are cut off from the group, those girls will not be released. We are talking about 200 Chibok schoolgirls, but there are over 300 other girls that have been kidnapped. There are many young men that they also kidnapped and turned them against their families. They asked them to go and slaughter their family members and they are doing it. Nobody is talking about those ones. They are the new child soldiers.
What deal were you seeking under Jonathan’s mandate?
The president wanted peace. He asked me to discuss with them so that we could arrive at the terms of peace. They came up with some terms that were acceptable and others that were not acceptable.
What were those terms?
They wanted training for the widows of their deceased fighters. They asked the government to give these women cottage training. They, ironically, wanted education for the children of their deceased members. That is why I don’t call them Boko Haram (“Western education is a taboo”). They asked that the children be sent to school. They also wanted the government to rebuild villages that were destroyed by the security agencies. They asked for amnesty as well.
What terms were unacceptable?
The president said he would not grant amnesty in the sense that they meant it. He said those who surrendered their arms would not be prosecuted, but those who continued to commit more crimes would face the law and would be charged with treason. They also wanted women and children who were being held in custody to be released. Their leaders that I spoke with were ready to accept the conditions. But the NSA then, Gen. Owoye Azazi, went vehemently against it. He said there should be no negotiation with terrorists. He completely turned the military against the peace deal I was working on, even though we were very close to bringing an end to the insurgency the same way we did it in the Niger Delta. The military then refused to back the deal. They succeeded in convincing the president not to accept it. I could understand where they were coming from: the security budget was like $6 billion and any peace deal would seriously reduce their budget.
How can we get these girls released?
The first thing is to stop the bagman who supplies weapons and military uniforms. We know his name, location and associates. If the man is stopped, the slaughterers, the ritual arm of the group, would be demobilised. The girls can be released afterwards. This man controls these ritualists.
Was there really any deal to release the girls?
Yes, there was. Some commanders of the group told me that they would first release 100 of the girls and that would be the first step towards dialogue. They needed a guarantee from President Jonathan that they would not be arrested or prosecuted if they showed up for dialogue. They agreed with me that if they did that and no one was arrested, then they would return to the camps to release the rest of the girls.

I am so surprise to see this crowd at the TAN South-South Rally For GEJ 2015 in Port Harcourt. My expectation was that the people will be scared of Ebola and stay back at home but they defy the Ebola threat to so support for the President. Unbelievable what I am seeing on Channels TV. This is true show of support.

Health workers in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Alakahia, near Port Harcourt, and their counterparts in the Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH), Port Harcourt, have abandoned their duty posts, for fear that the corpse of the medical doctor who died of Ebola virus disease (EVD), Dr Ikechukwu Sam Enemuo, may have been deposited in the morgue of one of the tertiary health institutions.
Health workers, including mortuary attendants at the BMSH, which is a Rivers State government-owned health facility, became convinced that the corpse of the Ebola victim was not deposited at the hospital morgue, and they returned to work.
But that was not the case at the UPTH as the workers vowed not to return to their duty posts and criticized the hospital management for accepting the infected corpse without considering the welfare and safety of the workers and people in the hospital community.
A health worker in the hospital, who spoke to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND on the condition of anonymity, said, “Our concern is the mortuary staff are the first contacts with this corpse; what measures have been put in place for these first contacts of the corpse? That is our concern; that is what caused the panic and pandemonium in the hospital.
“We are all afraid, all of us in this hospital. If I am infested, I can infest you. I don’t what to die, because I have not trained all my children. Please, I am appealing to the mortuary attendants, if you see any corpse outside, please don’t touch it. My own blame is on the management for hiding an issue like this from the staff.”
A top official of the health workers’ union in the hospital, who pleaded anonymity, said they are demanding that the mortuary department be shut and all the mortuary attendants who had contact with the corpse of Enemuo be quarantined.
She said, “Since the corpse is actually an Ebola victim, it means the mortuary should be closed down until we get very vital information concerning the corpse. The mortuary should be closed down and the mortuary attendants be quarantined.
“The management is aware that the corpse is that of an Ebola victim, yet it accepted it. The people that are working in the mortuary, they don’t have anything to protect themselves.”
Reacting to the development, the management of UPTH assured the health workers that there was no cause for alarm over the corpse of the victim of EVD, which was deposited in the morgue of the hospital.
Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital Dr Charles Tobin-West told newsmen in Port Harcourt that the affected mortuary had been de-contaminated.
Tobin-West said, “There are safety measures we have put in place. The morgue has been de-contaminated. We know that Ebola is contagious; Ebola can kill but fear kills faster. Pre-emptive measures have been taken to take care of the morgue.”
Also, Rivers State governor Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has appealed to the people not to panic over the outbreak of the dreaded Ebola in the state, saying that the state government is doing all it can to contain the spread of the virus.
Amaechi, in a state-wide broadcast on Thursday evening, said officials from the Federal Ministry of Health and other international agencies were already in Port Harcourt, working with the state Ministry of Health to contain and combat the virus.

The widow of Dr Ikechukwu Sam Enemuo, who died in Port Harcourt last week after treating a diplomat who had contact with the primary contact, Mr Patrick Sawyer, has tested positive to the Ebola virus disease.
Rivers State commissioner for health Dr Sampson Parker said the widow of Dr Enemuo had been flown to Lagos for treatment where the National Treatment Centre for the Ebola virus is located, since the test of the result conducted on her indicated positive.
Enemuo, the medical director of Sam-Steel Clinic, Rumuokoro, Port Harcourt, died on Friday, August 22, 2014, at the Good Heart Hospital, GRA, Port Harcourt, and the result of samples taken from his body indicated that he died of the Ebola virus disease.
No fewer than 100 persons including the wife of the deceased have been quarantined while the two hospitals and a hotel where the late Enemuo met with a staff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), who is believed to have had contact with the index case, the late Liberian-American Dr Patrick Sawyer, have been closed down.
The commissioner said, “We transferred her to Lagos for two reasons: she wanted to leave this zone and, second, we transferred her to enable us concentrate on tracking those who have had secondary contacts with Koye. There is a perfect synergy between the federal and the Rivers State governments on combating the disease in Lagos.”
Addressing journalists in his office yesterday, Parker said the late Enemuo knew that Koye, who works with the ECOWAS was a carrier of the Ebola virus.
Parker said: “He had received the late Dr Patrick Sawyer in Lagos. Upon developing the symptom, he confided in a female colleague called Lilian, who contacted the late Dr Enemuo. It was after contact was established with Dr Enemuo that Olu Ibikunle Koye flew to Port Harcourt to see Dr Enemuo.
“To conceal his movement, Koye, who had been quarantined amongst other people for having primary contact with the late Sawyer, sneaked out of the isolation unit where he was being observed and took a flight to Port Harcourt and switched off his phone so that he could not be reached or traced should he answer a call.”
On arrival in Port Harcourt, the commissioner for health revealed, Koye avoided being traced, checked into Mandate Gardens, a local hotel in the Rumunokoro area in Obio/Akpor local government area. The hotel is within the Rumunokoro area where Dr Enemuo’s private health facility, Sam Steel Clinic is located.
“From what we have gathered so far, Dr Enemuo, knowing full well that Koye was positive of the Ebola virus, took some measure of precaution to protect himself while treating Koye. Knowing the enormity of what he was doing, Dr Enemuo, upon Koye’s departure for Lagos, poured bleach all over the room that Koye slept in order to sanitise the place.
“Upon developing the Ebola symptom, Dr Enemuo approached one of our colleagues for treatment at Green Heart Hospital, along Evoh Road, in GRA. Dr Enemuo did not tell the doctor that was treating him the truth. He merely told him that he had a fever. He lied. He did not tell the doctor that was treating him his full story.
“But the doctor, a nice and conscientious professional, suspected that Dr Enemuo was either hiding something or was suffering from a strange ailment because he proved negative to malaria fever and typhoid fever. To be sure of what he was doing, he spoke to other very experienced doctors about the strange case he was handling in his hospital.
“He even invited some of his colleagues to come over to his hospital to study Dr Enemuo’s medical history. Of course, the news of the Ebola virus was all everywhere, so, they were afraid to go. None of them showed up at the hospital where Dr Enemuo was being treated. His condition continued to deteriorate and he eventually died and his body was taken to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH.
“When news got to Koye that the doctor that treated him in Port Harcourt had died, he collapsed. It was then he opened up and confessed that Dr Enemuo had treated him when he travelled to Port Harcourt. He confessed that he sneaked out of quarantine to Port Harcourt.”
The commissioner for health stated that 60 more people who had secondary contact with Koye were quarantined last night bringing the total so far to 160, adding: “Our contact tracing team is working seriously to make sure we contain the spread of the Ebola virus in Rivers State.”

COMPACT PERSONALITY PROFILE OF PROF. RICHARD KING.






BIRTH AND FAMILY



Prof. Richard KING was born on 17thMay 1958 into the family of Chief John King Usoro MBE [deceased] of the Nung Awu Immediate FamilyNucleus and the Atontia Extented Family Linkage, both of IkotEbok Villageand Idua Clan in the present Eket Local Government Area [LGA] of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Chief John King was theHead of Idua Clan until his demise in 1975 at the age of 105 years.



EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND



Primary and Secondary Education



The Basic Education of Prof. Richard King commencedat St. Gregory’s Primary School, Ikot Ebok, Eket where he obtained the First SchoolLeaving Certificate (FSLC ~ Distinction) in 1972. He proceeded to the NigerianChristian Secondary School, Ukpom, Abak LGA, where he took and passed the O’Level General Certificate of Education [GCE] examination in 1976 while still inClass IV. He served his Secondary School in various capacities including: ClassPrefect, Student Laboratory Attendant and Senior Prefect. He was an excellentfootball player and an outstanding athlete.



Tertiary Education



Prof. Richard King attended the University ofPort Harcourt (UNIPORT) as a pioneer student where he graduated with a BSc (SecondClass Honours, Upper Division) Degree in Zoology (1981), MSc Degree in Hydrobiologyand Fisheries Biology [1985] and Ph.D Degree in Zoology (with major in FisheriesBiology) (1994). During his undergraduate days, Prof King was the President ofthe UNIPORT Chapter of the National Association of Cross River State Students(NACRISS) (1978 – 1979) and President of the National Association of ZoologyStudents (NAZOOS) (1978 – 1979). He was also the Welfare Officer of thePostgraduate Students’ Union (1982 – 1983).



Others



In the year 2001, Prof. King spent a tenureas Biodiversity Research Scientist in the Laboratoire d’Ichtyology,Musee Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium while in 2006, he attendedthe Word of Faith Bible Institute, Living Faith Church Worldwide for the BasicCertificate Course (BCC). In 2007, Prof. King received a brief lecture at the Harvard BusinessSchool, HarvardUniversity, Boston, USAduring a Study Tour on Corruption.



EMPLOYMENT CHRONICLE



Prof. Richard King devotedly served as ayoung Tutor in Science School, Hong in the present Adamawa State during themandatory National Youth Service Corps Programme in 1981/82. He joined theservices of the erstwhile University of Cross River State as a Lecturer and ResearchScientist in 1984. He later transferred his services to University of Uyowhere he held several posts of responsibilities including:



[1] Head, Department of Zoology

[2] Pioneer Head, Department of Fisheries& Aquaculture

[3] Acting Dean, Faculty of Agriculture

[4] Pioneer Director, Center for Wetlands &Waste Management Studies

[5] Director, Remedial Directorate

[6] Chairman & Member of SundryCommittees and Panels



Prof. King rose rapidly through the ranks tobecome the First Professor of Fisheries & Aquaculture of the University ofUyo and the First Professor Product of the University of Port Harcourt. Heserved as an Environmental Consultant on several Baseline Environmental Studies(BES), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Post ImpactAssessment (EPIA) projects in the Niger Delta. Prof. King was an EIA ReviewPanelist for the Federal Ministry of Environment for a timeframe of over seven(7) years.



SCHOLARLY SUMMITS ATTENDED



Prof. King has attended a minimum of thirty-five[35] major National and International Scientific and/or Professional summitsincluding workshops, conferences and symposia.



INTELLECTUAL PUBLICATIONS



As a judicious scientist and prolific writer,Prof. King has authored and/or coauthored a minimum of fifty-six (56) JournalArticles; six (6) Edited Conference and Workshop Articles; seven (7) TechnicalReports; five (5) Books/Book Chapters; and nine (9) other Scholarly Articles.Prof. King also Edited five (5) Journals/Books and Refereed five (5) Journals.



MEMBERSHIP OF PROFICIENT ORGANIZATIONS



Prof. Richard King belongs to the followingNational and International Professional Organizations:



[1] Member/Vice President for Africa ~ InternationalSociety for Environmental

Geotechnology(ISEG)

[2] Member ~ Network of Tropical Aquaculture& Fisheries Professionals (NTAFP)

[3] Member ~ Nigerian Society for BiologicalConservation (NSBC)

[4] Member ~ Nigerian Conservation Foundation(NCF)

[5] Member ~ Nigerian Environmental Society(NES)

[6] Member ~ Ecological Society of Nigeria (EcSON)

[7] Member ~ Fisheries Society of Nigeria(FISON)

[8] Fellow ~ Instituteof Industrial Administration (FIIA) of Nigeria













MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIO-CULTURAL AND TRADITIONAL ORGANIZATIONS



Prof. Richard King occupies various positionsin a minimum of ten (10) Socio-cultural and Traditional Organizationsincluding:



[1] Member ~ Ibibio Elders Forum

[2] Member ~ Uyo Traditional Rulers AdvisoryCouncil

[3] Member ~ Idua Clan Advisory Council

[4] Member ~ Afigh Iwaad Ekid

[5] Patron ~ Foundation for Better Nigeria (FBN)

[6] Grand Patron ~ Divine MandateOrganization (DMO)

[7] Grand Patron ~ The Akwa Ibom FrontlineYouth Movement

[8] Grand Patron ~ Ibom Patriotic Congress(IPC)

[9] Grand Patron ~ Akwa Ibom RedemptionMovement (ARM)

[10] Founder ~ Prof. Richard King Foundation(PRO-KING Foundation)



NOTABLE NATION-BUILDING CONTRIBUTIONS



Prof. Richard King has contributed to Nation-buildingwithin recent years in the following capacities:



[1] Member ~ 2007 Presidential Campaign Team

[2] Member ~ 2011 Presidential Campaign Team

[3] Member ~ Niger Delta Technical Committee

[4] Member ~ Vision 20:20 20 NationalTechnical Working Group [Environment

Thematic Area]

[5] Member ~ National Parks SteeringCommittee of the National Council on

Privatization(NCP)

[6] Chairman ~ Governing Board, University ofPort Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH)

[7] Member ~ PresidentialMonitoring Committee on NDDC.

[8] Chairman ~ Technical Subcommittee, PresidentialMonitoring Committee on NDDC.



REMARKABLE SERVICES TO AKWA IBOM STATE



[1] Being instrumental to the employment ofseveral indigenes (spread in all the

Senatorial districts) in the private sector.

[2] Being instrumental to the employment ofseveral indigenes (spread in all the

Senatorial districts) in the public sector.

[3] Being instrumental to the Federal BoardAppointments of some prominent indigenes.

[4] Sponsorship of some indigenes onpilgrimage to Jerusalem, Israel.

[5] Provision of educational support to someindigent Secondary School and University

Students.

[6] Proffer of Sundry Support and Empowermentto Market Women.

[7] Proffer of Sundry Support to Orphanagesand Destitute Centres.

[8] Being instrumental to the donation ofPower Transformers to some Communities in

Eket.

[9] State-wide Distribution of thousands ofFree Copies of the Quarterly Christian

Devotional Book ~ Our Daily Manna.







AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS



The main accolades received by Prof. King include:eight ( Awards for Excellence; four (4) Scholarship Awards; one (1) AcademicDistinction; three (3) Merit Awards; one (1) Distinguished Service Award; andone (1) Academic Noble International Award. He is also a recipient of thebefitting Chieftaincy titles of Obong Ibihedi Ekid, Nkukugh IduaClan and Obong Ikkike Uyo.



POLITICAL AFFILIATION AND ACTIVITIES



[1] Prof. King is an active Member of thePeoples Democratic Party (PDP) and belongs

toWard 3, Eket.

[2] He served as the only male indigene ofAkwa Ibom State in the 2007 and 2011

Presidential Campaign Teams.

[3] Prof. King is the author of two authorizedPresidential campaign materials viz:

(i)The Dr. Goodluck Jonathan that I Know (2007); and (ii) Dr. GoodluckEbele

Jonathan:APersonality Profile(2011).

[4] He participated as Commentator and in theScript preparation for the Electronic

MediaPublication, Democracy at Work: Goodluck Working for Nigeria, Vol 3.

National Orientation Agency. 2011.

[5] Prof.King also contributed to the Script for the Electronic Media Publication,

Democracy at Work: Goodluck TransformingNigeria II. National Orientation Agency.

2011.



FAMILY LIFE



Prof. Richard King is happily married to aloving and caring wife, Lady Laurel King who originally hailed from Ikot OkuNtuen in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Her father was Mr. Stephen S. Ibanga[deceased]. She holds the following qualifications: MSc [Environmental HealthManagement]; Bachelor of Pharmacy [B. Pharm.]; Higher National Diploma [HND ~Nursing Education]; General Nursing Certificate; and Community MidwiferyCertificate. Lady King is an Environmental Health Scientist, Pharmacist,Registered Nurse and Registered Midwife. She is a dedicated Christian andDeaconess of Living Faith Church Worldwide. She is also a holder of theprestigious Chieftaincy title of Obongawan Ikikke Uyo. The marital unionof Prof. and Lady King is blessed with five [5] children.



RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION



Prof. Richard King is a Devout Christian andDeacon of the Living Faith Church Worldwide [aka Winners Chapel].



SPECIAL TRAITS



The life of Prof. Richard King is embellishedby the following unique qualities: Faith in God, Holiness, Honesty, Respect forElders, Diligence, Transparency, Accountability, Justice, Fair-play, Peace,Freedom, Orderliness and Excellence in Service Delivery.









HOBBIES



The main leisure activities of Prof. Kinginclude reading, writing, playing badminton and guitar.



CONCLUSION



From the foregoing, Prof. Richard KING can beaptly described as a Godly and Highly Distinguished Scholar, an Educationist, aResourceful and Dedicated Worker, a Seasoned Administrator and Politician, anIndefatigable Achiever and an unassuming Gentleman.

To all those who live in or have been to Port Harcourt in the past 2 months. If you visited Samstel clinic, Rumuokoro, PH, or Good Heart specialist hospital, Evo road, GRA and Hotel Cyntia in D/line within the last few weeks, you are kindly urged to report to the Rivers State Health Ministry IMMEDIATELY!A risk assessment would be conducted for you. In the interest of your family and for the sake of those you love please do not hide or live in fear or denial. God help us all. Please re-broadcast

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The northern part of Nigeria for some years now has been one bad news or the other, if there is no suicide bombing and BH overrunning a communities in Borno, it will be Fulani herdsmen and farmers killing each other. just watch channels this evening and the news I see is thousands displaced people from Nassarawa. I am just tire of this news and I wonder how come my community, L.G.A and State is at peace? is it that we don't have the tendency to fight and kill each other or is it that we make conscious effort to be at peace? What is that thing that is lacking in the North that makes them prone to crisis? NEED ANSWERS MY FRIENDS.

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His phone is passworded and he wouldnt gv me his code, said cos i always read meanings to every chat he has wt ladies,i didnt drag d issue then, i gave him d trust dt he wouldnt betray me.
But unfortunately for him now
, i know his pswd and wen i get uncomfortable wt d lady in question, i went thru his phone. I was right,they r more dn friends, infact theyve planned a rendevous for ds weekend. He ws goin on a journey which he could go on sunday but he insisted hes going on saturday .
I screengrabbed thr chats,sent it to my phone so he cant deny it.
Now how do i play ds out? Wat if he blame me for snooping on his phone, am i d bad guy here?
Guys pls to d rescue, how do i handle d situatn so i can cm out d champion

Madam what you don't know will not hurt you but what you do hurts. so why try to dig to know, please don't hurt yourself again. you are deliberately trying to read his messages on phone to dig out some stuff and that is nothing but a deliberate act to get hurt.

5kva inverta and battery will be how much

Na the usual Tinubu. election is around the corner, just to go get his settlement from GEJ. This time they choose hospital outside naija to do that.

which village be this?

Brahms: Hat on Suit? Who does that?

Well, to be Educated doesn't mean you're Civilized.

what do you know?

my president is strong and sound. he need to rest because from September till Feb 14, 2015 he will be so busy in electioneering.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nigeria-confirms-2-ebola-cases-114318752.html#Uu7QD0u
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Two new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria and, in an alarming development, they are outside the group of caregivers who treated an airline passenger who arrived with Ebola and died, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Friday.

The two are spouses of a man and woman who had direct contact with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who flew into Nigeria last month with the virus and infected 11 others before he died in July, including the male and female caregiver who both subsequently died of Ebola, Chukwu told reporters in Abuja, the capital.[/color]

Nigerian officials initially claimed the risk of exposure to others was minimal because Sawyer was whisked into isolation after arriving at the airport. But Lagos state health commissioner later Jide Idris acknowledged earlier this month that Sawyer was not immediately quarantined the first day.

The latest two cases bring the total number of confirmed infections in Nigeria, including Sawyer, to 14. Five have died from the illness, five recovered and were discharged from hospital while another four are being treated in isolation in Lagos, the commercial capital where Sawyer's flight landed.

The damage has been far greater in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, which have each recorded hundreds of cases. Liberia has seen the most deaths, with 576.

Keneking: agreed...why is it not in Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana and Benin. Why is not in Mali and Niger?

Jona ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

can you go to the isolation center in Lagos and clean the victim's sweat. come back here in 21 days and give us the situation report.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nigeria-confirms-2-ebola-cases-114318752.html#Uu7QD0u
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Two new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria and, in an alarming development, they are outside the group of caregivers who treated an airline passenger who arrived with Ebola and died, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Friday.

The two are spouses of a man and woman who had direct contact with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who flew into Nigeria last month with the virus and infected 11 others before he died in July, including the male and female caregiver who both subsequently died of Ebola, Chukwu told reporters in Abuja, the capital.

Nigerian officials initially claimed the risk of exposure to others was minimal because Sawyer was whisked into isolation after arriving at the airport. But Lagos state health commissioner later Jide Idris acknowledged earlier this month that Sawyer was not immediately quarantined the first day.

The latest two cases bring the total number of confirmed infections in Nigeria, including Sawyer, to 14. Five have died from the illness, five recovered and were discharged from hospital while another four are being treated in isolation in Lagos, the commercial capital where Sawyer's flight landed.

The damage has been far greater in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, which have each recorded hundreds of cases. Liberia has seen the most deaths, with 576.

fkaz: Why back and forth from federal govt?

Don't display your ignorant here. Are you not aware that Ebola is contacted by body fluid? the article said the new cases are spouses of primary contacts that are late now. it means husband has contacted the virus from the wife.

Can the world and Nigerians do the same for Boko haram? read the post below:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/08/19/isismediablackout-goes-viral-following-purported-execution-of-james-foley/

The images are horrific: A fighter with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) appears to brutally behead James Foley, a U.S. journalist kidnapped in Syria in 2012, in a video released online Tuesday.
The release of a video depicting the purported beheading of American photojournalist James Foley has prompted a backlash against propaganda released by militants with the Islamic State, the group that claimed to have executed him.

The hashtag #ISISMediaBlackout began trending shortly after the video’s release on Tuesday, as Twitter users urged others not to share the video or any other graphic images released by the militant group. The hashtag references one of the group’s names, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and was created shortly after the video was released. It appears to have originated with a woman using the Twitter handle @LibyaLiberty.

“Amputate their reach,” she said in one tweet. “Pour water on their flame.”
The video of Foley’s purported killing was initially posted on YouTube, but taken down shortly afterward. Still images from the video were removed from Twitter.

The Islamic State laid blame for Foley’s apparent execution on President Obama’s recent decision to launch airstrikes in Iraq, and said a second journalist, Steven Sotloff, who was also shown in the video, would be killed if the strikes did not cease.

Some individuals, including Al Jazeera America’s Wajahat Ali, said sharing the images of Foley’s apparent death on social media played into the militant group’s hands.

Yungwizzzy: Is this an achievement??


tissue paper??


while Chinese kids making tecno android phones!!

if we had started when others did tissue papar, we for dey do tchno and android today.
if by GEJ we are awake from slumber that is an achievment

Dirty street. is this part of Lagos?

PAINGAIN: u said it all. Imagine naija with great leaders and d govt doing the right things. This country would be one of d G8 members. I've said it before and I'm sayong it again, our rulers(I never call them leaders) should make us to b independent of d west.

IF DEATH THROUGH EBOLA IS NOT STARRING AT US IN THE FACE, WE WILL NOT NOTICE EFFORT OF THE GOVERMENT ON THIS. THE CITIZENS ALSO HAVE ROLE TO PLAY TO GET THE COUNTRY TO THE G8 DREAM.

Lagos dirty sha

Send Ebola to their camp.

Ebola walking on the street well dress

All this trash because the FG has decided to increase security in Osun the way they did in Ekiti. The electorate are not complaining however it is only the Student that plan to cheat in examination that complains of too many invigilators. In all the polling booth all the political parties has a rep. APC why this panic? I see it as a sign of failure.

How come Ebola killed over 800 Africans and no medication was found, but immediately 2Americans got infected a ZMAPP medication show up as the cure. Make we shine our eyes oo

People should not be allow to travel out of Lagos. Let contain this Ebola thing.