₦airaland Forum

By Marie-Therese Nanlong Jos

THE one-year-old baby, Best-Miracle Davou, born to Margaret Davou, 64, has received an education insurance policy which would cater for her education from kindergarten to tertiary level.

The insurance policy offered by Alps Hospital and Diagnostics, a fertility clinic which facilitated the pregnancy and birth of the baby, is part of the hospital’s corporate social responsibility to the baby, whose parents are retirees and advanced in age.

Mrs Davou conceived through assisted reproduc-tion technology—IVF— and delivered through a caesarean section after 38 years of marriage.

She is said to be the oldest woman in Africa to attain such feat.

Explaining the reason for the gesture, the Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Kenneth Egwuda, a Consultant Gynaecologist and IVF Specialist, said: “Considering the age of the parents and being retirees, we feel by the time this baby grows and needs quality education, they may not actually be strong enough to provide such.

“So we take it upon ourselves, as part of our corporate social responsi-bility, to provide the education insurance policy to ensure the child gets quality education when the time comes. This policy lasts till she completes her tertiary education. “We started as GynaeVille Specialist Hospital, focusing mainly on fertility issues, but we had to diversify hence the change of name to accommodate the diagnostic.

“There has been this debate about the age of people who should be permitted to have this treatment and the debate cut-off was 50 to 52 years.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/05/sexagenarians-miracle-baby-gets-scholarship-tertiary-level/

By Abdulwahab Abdulah

PRESIDENT and founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun has said Nigeria is under siege, crying for a rescue.

Addressing a press conference in Lagos, Fasehun said the country is militarised and there is lack of adequate security in all parts of the nation, noting that there are breaches and violation of citizens’ fundamental rights on daily basis. Reviewing the state of the nation and democracy in the last 19 years, the OPC leader said there is little to cheer.

He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to “lead all arms of the Executive in the protection and continued sustenance of Nigeria’s democracy, in collaboration with the Legislature, the Judiciary, the Media and Civil Society.”

Fasehun said: “Today, Nigerians appear to be under siege. From the North to the South, from the East to the West, all parts of the country are militarized and turned into a virtual police state. The Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) has lost focus. Instead of implementing its primary objective of curtailing armed robbery in the country, it has turned itself into an army of occupation, harassing and pilfering money from innocent citizens.

“What we see now is that police arrest and intimidate people into confessing to crimes they know nothing about without respecting their right to legal counsel and representation. This must stop.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/05/nigeria-siege-says-opc/

Nollywood actor, Nkem Owoh has spoken about a
very painful subject regarding the death of his
younger brother Bartholomew Owoh.
Bartholomew Owoh was one of the three young
Nigerians executed by General Buhari for an
offence that allegedly did not carry the death
penalty. Bernard Ogedengbe (29), Bartholomew
Owoh (26) and Lawal Ojuolape (30) were publicly
executed by General Buhari.
According to a source close to the Nollywood
actor who spoke with Breaking Times, Nkem
Owoh and the rest of his family have not
recovered from the trauma of the cold-blooded
killing of the three young men, particularly their
brother and son, Bartholomew Owoh by President Buhari.
The laws of Nigeria at the time the offence was
committed did not prescribe the death penalty.
When Buhari took over power, he insisted the
young men should be executed and they were
killed publicly by the firing squad.
According to the source, “Nkem Owoh and his
family have not forgiven Buhari for killing their
brother at the young age of 26.
Every time Nkem Owoh sees Buhari on TV, he
weeps bitterly over his brother. He can’t even
believe that Buhari has the nerve to seek re-
election as President”.
Bartholomew Owoh and others were allegedly
arrested for peddling cocaine and convicted for
that crime.

https://www.joyeden.info/nkem-owoh-will-never-forgive-buhari-killing-brother/


Mynd44, lalasticlala, Seun

PLEASE, LET THIS POST SMELL THE AIR OF FRONT PAGE, BIKO

Happy Sunday to all Nairalanders.
What department of your church/mosque/shrine do you belong to?
Mine are Sunday School and Publicity in CAC.
Oya, Lala, what are you doing for God?

Time is 9.15pm. Just saw CDQ and Kiss Daniel’s GBAYI video on ONTV’s Top Ten Nigeria countdown, and, meeeen....it is raw!

Raunchy! Vulgar!

It made No. 7. But it is a descent into the x-rated.

All those bums! Shaking, unclothed bums! The video is one of those that should be restricted to club plays, not for airplay on any TV station. What do you think?

As usual, media trial has begun. Too bad. He remains innocent until the prosecution proves its case against him and the judiciary rules him guilty.

The man lost at Appeal and Supreme Courts. Kudos to the judiciary on this reverting back to the High Court. Yet the Executive wants us to join in condemning the judiciary as corrupt.

[quote author=Skepticus post=67559798]
I'm surprised at Islamic countries like Albania and Nigeria
Nigeria is a secular not an Islamic nor Christian nation

mencer:
Hometown of Segun Agagu a former minister of power ! karma things

Jimoh Ibrahim the billionaire owner of NICON.NOGA Hotel, General Olu Bajowa, Oba Akinruntan Obateru the Obat Oil magnate and former Deputy Governors are from the Okitipupa area Ikaleland

In Ilu-Titun, area of Okitipupa, Ikaleland, in Ondo State, residents are lamenting that the entire Ikaleland (about four local government areas) has suffered electricity absence for the past three years... some say eight years! The picture here is of fallen poles and power cables. Please, help bring this to the attention of the Power Minister, Babatunde Fashola, and Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, to actualise in Ikaleland the CHANGE the people voted for.

Sorry, guys, I have been in transit through the weekend. I am just viewing your analysis. But please, what is the cost implication of these options? Na money matter nau!

I once got a Nissan Hardback for the last election. Double cabin. Manual gear, with auxiliary. Diesel engine. Reliable all through, even when I had to be on the road past midnight at 1am, the confidence level was up there. You could load up to a dozen bags of rice and it bore the load well. Reliable and rugged. Only problem was aesthetic. But it served.

greenhulk:
Every phone with glass display will break when dropped. It even gets worse if it has glass front and back. Forget all these gorilla glass thing, they are there to offer scratch resistance and not shatterproof. So it's better to always wear a case on ur phone if u are the type that always drop ur phone.

If u really want a shatterproof phone then get a phone with screen made of plastic and not gorilla glass. There's a reason Samsung used plastic for the display of the Galaxy s7 active instead of gorilla glass 4 used in the regular s7 edge. Also Motorola z2 force has a plastic screen and it is shatterproof.

Thanks for this. But please, how much do these "non-gorilla" plastic screen, shatterproof phones cost?

I have had a couple of smart phones and the conclusion is that one major issue with smart phones is the ease with which their screens break. Perhaps to build consumer confidence, there are some phones posting DROP TESTS.

Can you recommend any phone that will pass any drop test, a smart phone whose screen and touch-screen will not break so easily when dropped?

Which android/i-phone has the best drop-test success?

And what is the price?

I READ THIS AND IT CAPTURED MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY ABOUT THE WASTED JOURNEY HIS EXCELLENCY MADE TO LAGOS, A JOURNEY THAT STRETCHED FROM HOLY THURSDAY THROUGH GOOD FRIDAY...

http://guardian.ng/issue/dear-buhari-how-was-lagos/
https://thisage.com.ng/president-buhari-remember-lagos/

Your Excellency,

On behalf of our state’s estimated 20 million residents, let me say congratulations on a safe and uneventful trip in and out of Lagos. Alhamdulillah!

How is Hajia Aisha? Some folks here were wondering why she did not make the trip; she was most probably baby-nursing Yusuf, who is still recuperating from injuries sustained from that freak power-bike accident on Boxing Day.

Your Excellency,

On behalf of our state’s estimated 20 million residents, let me say congratulations on a safe and uneventful trip in and out of Lagos. Alhamdulillah!

How is Hajia Aisha? Some folks here were wondering why she did not make the trip; she was most probably baby-nursing Yusuf, who is still recuperating from injuries sustained from that freak power-bike accident on Boxing Day.

But my reason for writing is not to bother you about who accompanied you on that trip and who did not. Like me, you will naturally ruminate over those two days you spent in a state that prides itself as the “State of Aquatic Splendour” and “Centre of Excellence.”

We Lagosians too have been reviewing that your visit, the kernel of which was your opening the Ikeja Bus Terminal, an initiative of the state government. They say it is ultramodern. But bellyachers prefer to reduce your grand assignment to the commissioning of a bus-stop.

As these cynics insist, a bird by any name is a bird; and a bus terminal remains a bus-stop, no matter how grandiosely you paint it.

But I think these hate-speechers got it wrong, because the Akinwunmi Ambode I know will not concede an inch of that edifice to those lousy agberos and motor-park touts that are the hallmark of our regular bus-stops, where they have turned life into hell for commuters and transporters.

In fact, some people have begun to conclude that knowing you for whom you are, should you win re-election in 2019 and Ambode’s scheming for 2019 somehow unexpectedly kisses the dust, this singular project qualifies him for appointment as a super-minister with a portfolio of up to five ministries! Kai, people and their imagination sha!

Your other assignment in Lagos was your distinguished presence at the 66th birthday colloquium for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu –the beautiful bride of Nigerian politics today.

By the way, your current courting of Tinubu (appointing him to supervise APC reconciliation’s and backing his position against the John Oyegun-led APC NEC’s tenure extension) shows you are really heeding Hajia Aisha’s voice in “the other room,” and restoring to the front-burner someone who invested in your 2015 electoral success.

Even then, Your Excellency, I am troubled. Why?

You came and could not say to Lagos, “I come bearing gifts.” You came into office in May 2015 (i.e. three years next month), and you are coming to Lagos for the first time –officially!– without having one single Federal project to commission, inspect or launch!?No FG project for Lagos in three years?

Hello! And this is after you supervised budgets of over N26 trillion (N4.49 trillion in 2015, N6.06 trillion in 2016, N7.298 trillion in 2017 and N8.6 trillion in 2018)!

And not one of the 19 ministries, 36 ministers and roughly 202 parastatals under you could come up with anything creative for you to do in Lagos. Anything! If only for eye service! If only for show!

Or were your MDAs affected by the omnipotent, omni-sufficient posturing of this state whose record-breaking N1.o46 trillion for 2018 is not only the largest ever by any state government, but is bigger than the budget of several Third World countries? Does that figure give the illusion that Lagos can live without Abuja’s inputs?

Problem is that, lately, the Federal Government appears to be in retreat, handing over some of its traditional responsibilities to states and the private sector in PPP arrangements. Even in Nigeria’s almighty petroleum sector, strategic partners have trouble getting Federal authorities to hand over requisite counterpart funds for joint ventures.

In Lagos, Federal facilities like the Airport Road and the State House at Marina have been ceded to the state, while the National Theatre and the National Stadium in Lagos escaped the same fate by the whiskers, thanks to public outcries.

In spite of keeping the lion’s share of the national cake (52.68 percent, to the states’ 26.72 percent and the councils’ 20.60 percent), the Federal Government is shedding duties and looking more trim but irresponsible.

But, sir, this is Lagos! As far as projects and programmes are concerned, the Federal Government cannot cold-shoulder this strategic city state, a significant commercial hub in the West African sub-region. In fact, persistent agitations have been for placing Lagos on a special allocation, just like Abuja enjoys.

For a two-day visit, which you had three years to prepare for, no Federal project was inspected, launched or commissioned by Your Excellency!

You came into a state with an estimated 7-million housing deficit, and you did not as much as commission or launch one block of flats! I understand you went to Atlantic City and savoured the magnificent buildings and sublime layouts of this private initiative that pours scorn on the pedestrian achievements of politicians in public office.

How apt would your visit have been if you partly spent it commissioning a housing estate executed under your Minister plenipotentiary, Mr. Raji Fashola, former Lagos Governor! By the way, during his eight-year tenure, Fashola impressed in several things, but definitely not on housing.

He is oft quoted as saying: “If there are no low-cost cement and building materials, how can any sane person talk of low-cost housing?” That speaks volumes for the current barrenness in that arm of his three-pronged ministry.

It would have made a world of difference if you spent a portion of those 48 hours inspecting or launching a renovated National

Stadium in Surulere, a.k.a. Sports City; or inspecting or launching a newly-constructed ultramodern, world-class heart centre, kidney centre, cancer centre or something at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) to magnetise medical tourism towards Nigeria.

Perhaps, your Minister of Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, would have brought you down to the Arts Theatre in Iganmu, and afforded you the glory of commissioning or inspecting “ongoing renovations” at this FESTAC ’77 masterpiece now in shambles. Perhaps, he could have brought you to see how he is helping tackling galloping unemployment by Nigerians occupied with his pet project of masquerade “wardrobing.”

How more useful this visit would have been if you went inspecting or commissioning maintenance work on the intractable access roads to the Apapa and Tin-Can ports, through which Nigerians and foreigners connect the nation’s busiest and most profitable seaports and star revenue generators.

Even one of the roads has been ceded to Dangote on a tax buyback arrangement, another mark of government’s “weight-shedding.”

If your IG of Police (taking a breather from denigrating “sinking” governors and belittling their people’s slaughter) had lined up brand-new police patrol vehicles for commissioning by you, it could have elevated your Lagos visit.

This is the state yielding the country’s largest VAT income! This state is the nation’s commercial capital! This state is the former administrative capital of the nation!

This state is the state with the highest population, where all tribes and nations are represented. This state is the state with the highest customs revenue generation.

This is Nigeria’s most sophisticated state! This is our own New York and California and Hollywood and Liverpool and Dubai rolled into one!

This is the state hosting the greatest number of media houses, the nation’s virtual media capital –our own Fleet Street! This is our own Hollywood, Bollywood and Canniwood!

Yet there is no single Federal Government project for three years!

It cannot be due to the country’s economic downturn, seeing so many trillions have rolled out in the last three years?

It cannot be due to your 97-5 per cent Pareto Principle to mostly breastfeed states that favoured you in 2015, because from Lagos’s total votes of 1,443,686, you won 792,460, over 50 per cent. Who dares joke with a state having 5,827,846 registered voters in its kitty?

In less than a year, you will (God sparing your life) return to Lagos for campaigning. Lagos will need then to do a cost-benefit analysis of its relationship with Your Excellency. We are talking of 5,827,846 votes!

Truth is that for joining mainstream politics, the first time since 1999, Lagos (under APC) should be garlanded with projects from its affinity with the equally APC-controlled Centre. So far, Lagos is yet to reap the fruits of this romance.

Your Excellency, I did not set out to make this a Letter of Lamentations; and sorry, if it sounds like one. Bottom line is that you have one year to do penance. By the time you come for campaigns, you should meet a smiling Lagos. All we are saying –In your kingdom, remember Lagos!

May God grant Yusuf perfect recovery. Extend my greetings to Hajia Aisha and the rest of the family.

My best regards.
Oboagwina, a journalist, writes from Lagos


http://guardian.ng/issue/dear-buhari-how-was-lagos/
https://thisage.com.ng/president-buhari-remember-lagos/

The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Leah Sharibu, the only girl left in Boko Haram captivity from the 110 students of the Government Girls’ Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, recently abducted by the Islamic sect.
OPC advocated that rather than being tried in regular courts, Boko Haram members should face military court martial, while those found guilty should be sentenced to death.
Reacting to Leah’s travails and an offer of amnesty lately made by President Muhammadu Buhari to Boko Haram, the Yoruba socio-cultural group, in a statement by its founder/president, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, said: “Offering amnesty to a world-acclaimed terrorist organization is the most unequivocal testimonial that government has been merely spewing lies and propaganda about defeating Boko Haram.”
After negotiations with government representatives, Boko Haram returned only 104 girls to Dapchi, amidst reports that five captives died in transit, while Miss Sharibu, 15, was being held for refusing to renounce her Christian faith.That the Federal Government agreed to such a divisive deal was dangerous, insensitive and unpatriotic, OPC said.
“Nobody should make a martyr of that small girl,” OPC warned. “Her ordeal for being a Christian makes many Nigerians to wonder if religion is why the government appears to be foot-dragging negotiations for the release of the Chibok girls, many of whom are Christians.”Frowning at the negotiated release of only captives of one faith, OPC lampooned government and its negotiators for making a blunder of the entire Dapchi abduction by not regarding injury to one girl as injury to all.
The Yoruba socio-cultural group wants Leah back home with her parents for Easter.OPC wondered why Nigeria could not borrow a leaf from Israel that invaded Lebanon in 2006 to recover two Jewish soldiers from Hezbollah, and from the French policeman who died last week after taking the place of a hostage in a supermarket attacked by a terrorist.
“The Leah episode is an international embarrassment and is another heartbreaking proof, plus others like the unchecked killings by Fulani herdsmen, that PMB belongs to some people and not to others,” OPC said.OPC asked eminent Muslims like the Sultan of Sokoto and all Northern Emirs to bring pressure on Boko Haram for the quick release of the young girl.
“There is no other way for these Muslim leaders to convince the world of their disagreement with Boko Haram’s philosophy and action than their calling for her immediate return and their denunciation of this gross violation of Leah’s rights to life, belief, movement, conscience and association, as guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution, the African Charter and United Nations Conventions.
“There is no greater way to convince Leah and all other Nigerian children of other tribes and faiths that Nigeria belongs to all of them than for her to safely return home unmolested, safe and sound,” OPC said.
According to the group, President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent offer of amnesty to Boko Haram was a n insult to the dead, maimed and internally displaced victims of the anti-western education terrorists, as well as soldiers who lost their lives in the fight against terrorism.
“If the government says it has defeated Boko Haram, technically or completely, then what is the rationale for offering pardon to these terrorists?” OPC said. “Instead, government should commit its energy to totally breaking Boko Haram and other insurgents, just like Iraq has done to ISIS.”
Describing he amnesty offer as irrational and inciting, OPC said, “Boko Haram does not deserve pardon because it is an unapologetic terrorist gang, whose unprovoked and large-scale killing of innocent civilians places it in the league of Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS and ISIL. We demand that they be brought to justice.”
OPC cited the life sentences handed down to Niger-Delta militants like Charles and Henry Okah for a bombing incident, and accused Federal prosecutors of treating apprehended Boko Haram and killer Fulani herdsmen with kid gloves by handling them mild punishments.

https://guardian.ng/news/fasehuns-opc-demands-freedom-for-leah-rejects-amnesty-deal-for-b-haram/

"An empty grave is there to prove that Jesus lives"...This comes from a hymn.

"And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, 'All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth' "...Matthew 28:18

The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Leah Sharibu, the only girl left in Boko Haram captivity from the 110 students of the Government Girls’ Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, recently abducted by the Islamic sect.
OPC advocated that rather than being tried in regular courts, Boko Haram members should face military court martial, while those found guilty should be sentenced to death.

Reacting to Leah’s travails and an offer of amnesty lately made by President Muhammadu Buhari to Boko Haram, the Yoruba socio-cultural group, in a statement by its President, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, today Wednesday, said that: “Offering amnesty to a world-acclaimed terrorist organization is the most unequivocal testimonial that government has been merely spewing lies and propaganda about defeating Boko Haram.”
After negotiations with government representatives, Boko Haram returned only 104 girls to Dapchi, amidst reports that five captives died in transit, while Miss Sharibu, 15, was being held for refusing to renounce her Christian faith.

That the Federal Government agreed to such a divisive deal was dangerous, insensitive and unpatriotic, OPC said.

“Nobody should make a martyr of that small girl,” OPC warned. “Her ordeal for being a Christian makes many Nigerians to wonder if religion is why the government appears to be foot-dragging negotiations for the release of the Chibok girls, many of whom are Christians.”

Frowning at the negotiated release of only captives of one faith, OPC lampooned government and its negotiators for making a blunder of the entire Dapchi abduction by not regarding injury to one girl as injury to all.

The Yoruba socio-cultural group wants Leah back home with her parents for Easter.

OPC wondered why Nigeria could not borrow a leaf from Israel that invaded Lebanon in 2006 to recover two Jewish soldiers from Hezbollah, and from the French policeman who died last week after taking the place of a hostage in a supermarket attacked by a terrorist.

“The Leah episode is an international embarrassment and is another heartbreaking proof, plus others like the unchecked killings by Fulani herdsmen, that PMB belongs to some people and not to others,” OPC said.

OPC asked eminent Muslims like the Sultan of Sokoto and all Northern Emirs to bring pressure on Boko Haram for the quick release of the young girl.

“There is no other way for these Muslim leaders to convince the world of their disagreement with Boko Haram’s philosophy and action than their calling for her immediate return and their denunciation of this gross violation of Leah’s rights to life, belief, movement, conscience and association, as guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution, the African Charter and United Nations Conventions.

“There is no greater way to convince Leah and all other Nigerian children of other tribes and faiths that Nigeria belongs to all of them than for her to safely return home unmolested, safe and sound,” OPC said.

According to the group, President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent offer of amnesty to Boko Haram was an insult to the dead, maimed and internally displaced victims of the anti-western education terrorists, as well as soldiers who lost their lives in the fight against terrorism.

“If the government says it has defeated Boko Haram, technically or completely, then what is the rationale for offering pardon to these terrorists?” OPC said. “Instead, government should commit its energy to totally breaking Boko Haram and other insurgents, just like Iraq has done to ISIS.”

Describing he amnesty offer as irrational and inciting, OPC said, “Boko Haram does not deserve pardon because it is an unapologetic terrorist gang, whose unprovoked and large-scale killing of innocent civilians places it in the league of Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS and ISIL. We demand that they be brought to justice.”

OPC cited the life sentences handed down to Niger-Delta militants like Charles and Henry Okah for a bombing incident, and accused Federal prosecutors of treating apprehended Boko Haram and killer Fulani herdsmen with kid gloves by handling them mild punishments.

Take the cucumber home to your daddy, now, let it pay your dowry and walk you down the aisle! Daughter of Jezebel....

There are contradictions. Was Ajomale (Tinubu is his oxygen), who supposedly signed the communique on behalf of the chairman, afraid of swimming against the tide of majority of his fellow chairmen? Did he (from the venue) get back to Tinubu on the reality on the ground and his boss told him to PLAY ALONG? Is this not done to defeat any claim that MR RECONCILER is himself the main antagonist to those he should be reconciling?

But one thing for sure, Tinubu has lost control of APC, and the Tinubu everyone knows is never comfortable except on the driving seat. Tinubu is surely not comfortable with these chairmen's support for Oyegun, but he might have seen the handwriting on the wall.

Methinks, Jagaban is doing eye-service, bidding his time, till the opportune time when he can deliver his REAL AND FINAL killer punch to Oyegun and the President. Everyone should wait for that killer punch. An explosion is coming. Expect it.

Sebi these are the kinds of power.drunk people you want to put in charge of state police?

Dear Seun,

Over time, it has been the norm for sort of automatic function on Nairaland to change abbreviations in the title to lower fonts. OAU becomes oau, MBBS turns to mbbs. Confusion usually comes where the abbreviation is also a proper word. E.g. WHO, who, and others.

Pls could u guys work rectify this anomaly that does not occur in most known interactive platforms.

I am loyal sir.

JKisOK

An Oyo State High Court presided over by Justice Olajumoke Aiki on Friday declared the review of the 1957 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration and other Related Chieftaincies in Ibadan land by the Justice Akintunde Boade Review Commission, which was set up by the Oyo State Government, as unconstitutional, illegal, null, void and of no effect.

The commission had recommended, among others, the creation of several monarchs in Ibadan which led to the installation of 21 kings by the state Governor Abiola Ajimobi.

But the Osi Olubadan of Ibadan land, Rashidi Ladoja, challenged the composition and recommendations of the commission in court, joining Ajimobi as co-defendant.

While delivering judgment, Aiki held that wearing of beaded crowns is beyond the purview of sections 10, 12 and 25 of the Oyo State Chiefs Law, stating that Section 25 of the Chiefs Law could not be treated in isolation to the provisions of Parts Two and Three of the Chiefs Laws.

The court also said provisions of Parts Two and Three of the Chiefs Laws, particularly sections 10, 12 and 25, did not give power to the governor to review the Olubadan chieftaincy declaration, while also restraining the government from accepting and implementing the reports of the commission.

https://punchng.com/breaking-court-nullifies-installation-of-21-kings-by-gov-ajimobi/

Have a pen and paper with you. Jot down things as you read. It may be points, it may be whole sentences. But just write down what you have read. You may stop when you get back your reading/comprehension glue.

9TH JANUARY 2018

PRESS RELEASE

FULANI HERDSMEN, OPC WARNS BUHARI

Dr. Frederick Fasehun, President of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the $1 billion security loan the government is canvassing for would be employed in fighting killer Fulani herdsmen.

He also asked the President to relinquish the Petroleum Ministry, as well as unbundle the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing and hand the resultant establishments over to three professional ministers.

Speaking in Lagos at a Press Conference, themed “STATE OF THE NATION 2018,” the OPC Founder said the first duty of government was to provide security, a task he said President Buhari had woefully failed to discharge, especially in relation to killings by Fulani herdsmen and Fulani militia in what, it said, appeared to be a case of organised ethnic cleansing against Northern Minorities and other Nigerian tribes.

Fasehun, who was flanked by OPC’s Deputy President, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, and its National Coordinator, Alhaji Mudashiru Adeniji, said: “In the wake of this ugly genocides came the shameless and insensitive pronouncement by the government’s spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, on no less a medium than the BBC, that the Fulani herdsmen were a lesser threat than the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. It was an uncanny statement. For the government to have this unperturbed attitude to Fulani herdsmen, internationally reputed as the fourth deadliest terrorist organisation in the world, amounts to ignoring a dangerous viper on the bed. Ranking after Boko Haram, ISIL and El-Shabaab on the Global Terrorism Index, armed Fulani militias today constitute the real threat to national unity, with their rapacious evil campaigns throughout the length and breadth of this country.”

As far as OPC was concerned, clearly, the pastoral nomadic lifestyle of the Fulani herdsmen was no longer fashionable and sustainable, and they should be compelled to embrace modern ranching as obtained worldwide.

According to him, the killings persisted and perpetrators were emboldened by the fact that no single Fulani killer had been hanged for murder.

OPC issued a warning.

“This cannot continue. Killers must be brought to book and made to feel the full weight of the law. Nobody has a monopoly of violence; and in the face of threats to their very survival, people will eventually resort to self-help, a move that can tear this country apart and turn Nigeria into a free-for-all killing field. The military and other security forces must tackle the menace of Fulani militias by declaring a security emergency, disarming Fulani herdsmen and bringing Fulani killers to justice,” the group said.

Fasehun lamented that the government had also failed on the economic front.

In his words: “The economy is in shambles, infrastructure dilapidated, insecurity widespread, workers’ salaries are unpredictable and corruption has new merchants among the President’s henchmen.”

He accused Buhari of failing in his campaign promise to stop importation of petroleum products, revamp the refineries and reduce the pump price of petrol, and urged him to learn from President Goodluck Jonathan who appointed a substantive Minister of Petroleum.

“Nigerians are tired of the ongoing blame game between government and oil marketers. All Nigerians want is FUEL! An oil-rich nation like Nigeria, owning four national refineries, has no business importing fuel! Buhari has failed as Minister of Petroleum; he simply lacks the health, the capacity and the creativity to manage Nigeria’s biggest revenue resource. Buhari should relinquish the mantle of Minister of Petroleum to a competent and experienced petroleum industrialist whose sole mandate will be to get the refineries operating at full capacity and ensure local production for domestic consumption within three to six months,” Fasehun said.

OPC demanded the political restructuring of the country, pointing out that, the United Kingdom, Nigeria’s former colonialist had restructured to the point of substantial granting autonomy to Wales, Ireland and Scotland.

The group said: “As currently constituted, Nigeria needs to be restructured. The current system is not only robbing Peter to pay Paul, it has encouraged audaciousness, ingratitude and indolence on the part of Paul. It is a monkey-dey-work-baboon-dey-chop arrangement that cannot survive. Right now, Nigeria’s Centre is too powerful. The country should return to the pre-military 1963 arrangement agreed by our nation’s founding fathers with autonomy and devolution of power to the regions and the states.”

DR. FREDERICK FASEHUN
Founder/President, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC)

No one is saying social media are infallible. But the current clampdown on the media by the current regime appears to be a carry-over of General Muhammadu Buharis DECREE 4 OF 1984. It is clearly in contradiction of Section 22 of the Constitution, which says:

"The press, radio, television and other agencies of the mass media shall at all times be free to uphold the fundamental objectives contained in this Chapter and uphold the responsibility and accountability of the Government to the people."

The United Nations Children' Fund (UNICEF) says approximately 20,210 babies were born in Nigeria on New Year's Day.

NAN reports that the births represented the third largest population of newborns in the world on January 1, 2018.

UNICEF said nearly 386,000 babies were born worldwide on New Year's Day, 90 percent of which were recorded in less developed regions.

Globally, over half of these births are estimated to take place in nine countries, according to UNICEF.

These are: India, 69,070; China, 44,760; Nigeria, 20,210; Pakistan, 14,910; Indonesia, 13,370; United States, 11,280; Democratic Republic of Congo, 9,400; Ethiopia, 9,020; and Bangladesh, 8,370.

UNICEF said while many babies would survive, some would not make it past their first day.

Speaking on Monday, Stefan Peterson, UNICEF's chief of health, said the agency is challenging nations around the world to make sure more newborns survive their first days of life.

“This New Year, UNICEF's resolution is to help give every child more than an hour, more than a day, more than a month – more than survival,” he said.

In 2016, an estimated 2,600 children died within the first 24 hours every day of the year, according to the UN agency.

http://www.proudlyoruba.com/nigeria-records-20210-births-on-january-1-third-highest-worldwide-after-india-and-china-unicef-says/

If it would affect the home, then she owed a duty to seek your permission or cooperation. Check out this Bible passage.

NUMBERS 30

1 ¶ And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. {break: Heb. profane}
3 ¶ If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; {she vowed: Heb. her vows were upon her}
7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
16 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.

onuwaje:
I knw how dis feels

Just yesternight i lost my elder sis
She slumped n died


At d age of 33

So sorry, take heart, may God console you.

8th December 2017
The Chairman
PDP National Convention Planning Committee
Wadata Plaza
Abuja.


WITHDRAWAL OF CANDIDATURE FOR NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF PDP

Our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party, has, from inception, adopted certain principles, which have evenly balanced offices amongst the country's geo-political zones. In line with such and other parameters, I have, at different fora, expressed my strong belief that the next National Chairman should come from the South-West.

I am however convinced that with 7 out of all 9 aspirants coming from the South-West, this multiplicity of contenders will work to the detriment of our zone when it comes to voting. Delegates' votes split 7 ways will not produce a chairman from the South-West. It therefore becomes necessary to prune our number down to no more than two.

With less than 24 hours to the convention, I have painfully decided to withdraw from the race hoping that others will join me in bringing down the number such that the South-West can have a fighting chance of clinching the National Chairmanship of the PDP.

The support from serving and past governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives, women, youth and opinion leaders has been tremendous. While sincerely thanking them for their unflinching loyalty, I empathize with the great disappointment they must feel at this decision. I plead that we all put the overall interest of PDP first.

I pledge my support to whoever emerges as the National Chairman as determined at the National Convention.

Kindly take this letter as my formal notice of withdrawal from the race for National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party.

It is time to Rebuild, Unite, Now!

Long live the Peoples Democratic Party.

Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Yours Sincerely, 
JIMI AGBAJE OON


cc. Chairman
National Caretaker Committee

A true Ogboni person would never spell APENA as AKPINO....no no no! If the Pastor is not the originator of this highly suspect letter, then he should ignore the letter. That spelling error is the give away. The source is Igbo. Search starts with the Pastor himself. Then spread the dragnet to any Igbo person who has an axe to grind with him. That's just my 2 kobo.

It is hard to be judgemental. But look at the lines on the face. In the second picture, she looks more stressed and the smile appears forced. In the first, she looks more relaxed, more beautiful even. In picture one, she looks younger -although we do not know the time lag between the two pictures. Nothing is good about divorce, except where there has been physical violence and it will save a life.