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The Commander of the 2 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Brig. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, on Thursday, led officers and men of the command to clean up the Akpandem Market in Uyo as part of activities marking the launch of the Operation Crocodile Smile IV in the area.

Speaking with journalists, Lagbaja said the exercise was part of the civil/military relationship.

He added that the army would continue to ensure peace and harmony with the civil society.

He said, “What you are witnessing this morning is environmental sanitation in continuation of our Operation Crocodile Smile IV.

“We will relate with the civil populace; we will relate with every stakeholder and it is on the basis of this relationship that we have come here this morning to clean the environment, especially this market.

“It is a show of military support to the civil populace that we are working to take care of their needs. The Operation Crocodile Smile IV is a military exercise that will be driven by intelligence. So, it serves two purposes.

“First, is to assist in training our troops for their day-to-day activities; and second, it has an intelligent head. Based on intelligence that we will receive from sister agencies like the Department of State Services, the police and other agencies, we will act to apprehend criminals and economic saboteurs, who operate in the general environment.

“We have population influencing activities like environmental sanitation, and tomorrow (Friday), we are going to have a medical exercise. We will go into schools and carry out sensitisation.”

The Chairman, Akpandem Market, Mr Nseabasi Ndoh, commended the Nigerian Army for maintaining a cordial relationship with the civilian population by cleaning up the market in spite of its core engagement.

He stated, “The army spokesman called me on Wednesday and told me that soldiers were coming to clean up the market; I thought he was joking. By 6am, they were here.


“They came with large number of their men and they have assisted us to clean the market. They have cut grasses around the market; so, we are very happy.

“I have been seeing the army from a very long distance, but today, I am so surprised about what they have done, because I have known the army for shooting.”

Ndoh added that the market committee had set up a sanitation task force to check the dumping of refuse in unauthorised places in the market.

Destiny Asuquo, a 25-year-old plumber who was arrested for break-in and entry into a store in Rumuodara, a suburb of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has blamed hunger and thirst for his criminal action.

He said this while pleading for pardon from the owner of the shop which he broke into to steal biscuits, soft drink and gala sausage, which, in his words, were meant to help ‘quench his hunger.’
Asuquo, from Akwa/Ibom state, was arrested by a vigilance group in Rumuodara Community, last Thursday’s morning after he broke into the provision shop to steal the biscuits, gala and soft drinks.
On interrogation, the suspect who said he is a plumber claimed he has not eaten for two days and has been hoping to get a job, but to no avail.

He claimed he was forced to break into the shop to eat something to save his life, having suffered chronic attack of ulcer for two nights.

The suspect has been handed over to Okporo Police station in Rumuodara for investigation and prosecution.

However, the Civil Rights Council Rivers State has called on the Vigilante group in Rumuodara to ensure that rights of arrested suspected criminals are not violated.

MTN Nigeria says it has not started charging its subscribers for bank transactions done via Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD).

The USSD allows banks’ customers access to bank services via their mobile phones.

Daily Trust reports that many MTN’s subscribers Sunday became agitated on Sunday when they received messages from the company informing them that with effect from Monday, it will start charging N4 per 20 seconds for USSD.

But speaking with Daily Trust on Monday, the Senior Manager, External Relations of MTN, Mr Funso Aina said the telecom company had not started implementing the new charge.

He said the company put the charge on hold as result of a directive from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

The Minister of Communications Dr Isa Ali Panatmi had on Sunday directed NCC to ask MTN to halt the planned charge.

“Many thanks for drawing my attention to it. We have directed NCC to ask MTN to suspend the plan. We are not aware of it officially. We will investigate and make sure right thing is done. Best wishes,’’ the minister said.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has also told banks to yank off businesses from telecommunication operators that charge bank customers using USSD to make transactions.

The CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele gave the order during a press briefing at the sidelines of the World Bank/IMF meetings in Washington DC on Sunday.

He explained that “about five months ago, I held a meeting with some telecom companies as well as the leading banks in Nigeria and the issue of USSD came up. At that time, we came to conclusion that the use of USSD is a sunk cost which is not an additional cost on the infrastructure of the telecom companies. But the telecoms companies disagreed with us and said it’s an additional investment and they needed to impose it. I appeal to them that they should review it downwards and they refused’ he said.

Explaining further Mr. Emefiele said: “I understand that three or four weeks ago, rather than reduce it, they went ahead to increase it by 300 per cent. I opposed it and I have told the banks that we will not allow this to happen. The banks are the people who give this business to the telecoms companies and I leave the banks and the telecom companies to engage. I have told the banks that they have to move their business, move their traffic to a telecom company that is ready to provide it at the lowest possible if not zero cost.”

A young man (name withheld) was seen charging his phone directly from the electricity transformer. This came after three weeks of power outage in the neighborhood. An eye witness said the young man 22yrs was sighted in the transformer with his charger connected to one of the armored cables and him seating comfortably operating the phone. When interviewed the reason for such an expensive risk, he said since that machine is called transformer, definitely there won't be power outage there, hence he chose to charge from the source of the light

He basically stated that he was getting married tomorrow so he didn’t have enough money for a wedding ring that he wanted to buy and he needed to pay for the wedding venue…

A Texas man has been arrested after his fiancée saw a social media post of him robbing a bank the day before his wedding so he could pay for the ring and the venue of his ceremony.

Heath Edward Bumpous from Crockett, Texas was charged with aggravated robbery and booked into the Trinity County Jail for allegedly approaching a bank teller at Citizens State Bank in Groveton, Texas, informing them that he had a weapon and then demanding money which he was then subsequently given, according to ABC’s affiliate station in Tyler, Texas KLTV.

“He basically stated that he was getting married tomorrow so he didn’t have enough money for a wedding ring that he wanted to buy and he needed to pay for the wedding venue,” Sheriff Woody Wallace said.

After receiving news of the robbery, Wallace immediately posted pictures of the suspect on the Trinity County Sherriff’s Facebook page in hopes that the public would be able to provide tips that would lead to the capture of the suspect.

It was then that Bumpous’ fiancée saw the Facebook post and recognized him.

“His fiancée, who he was supposed to marry tomorrow, was able to get in touch with him on the phone when she saw our post on Facebook. She knew it was him. She contacted him and asked him if he robbed a bank … she convinced him that she knew it was him. His picture was all on Facebook. He needed to turn himself in,” said Wallace in a video posted to his Facebook page.

Bumpous took his fiancée’s advice to heart and decided to turn himself into the Houston County Courthouse and confessed to his crimes.

Wallace says that most of the money was recovered along with clothes that he threw out of the window of his vehicle during his escape and the gun that he had concealed with him as well.

“He is now in custody. He has been charged with aggravated robbery. The district attorney has accepted the charges. It will go to a grand jury and he will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” said Sherriff Wallace.



Culled from abc.go.com

Love never fails

WISDOM FOR WOMEN

1. A First Class degree won't make you a first class wife, rather, your submission and respect will.

2. The woman who respects her husband is the best wife anyone would ever have.

3. Your character and attitude will go a long way in determining whether your husband will wish he never regret getting married to you.

4. To be a great wife, you need more anger management skills than nagging skills.

5. Be a leader at work or anywhere else, but be a companion at home... it's wisdom.

6. Don't compete with your husband, complement him.

7. Your strength is in humility and submission, not in strife and contention.

8. Be tender, every man respect a tender woman but firm.

9. Never punish your husband by starving him of food or sex, he may be forced to get it outside.

10. There is nothing wrong in accepting that you are wrong when you are wrong.

11. Prepare to forgive your husband if he wrongs you. For a forgiving wife is better than a vengeful wife.

12. Make a decision to be a good wife, you will need it in the long run...

MAY GOD BLESS ALL WOMEN BOTH MARRIED AND UNMARRIED.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Garba Shehu says he is yet to receive any invitation card on the rumoured planned marriage between President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq.

Shehu, who was contacted yesterday, via text said that “I haven’t received a wedding invitation up till this moment.”

The social media had been awash with reports of a planned marriage between President Buhari and Hajiya Farouq, prompting Nigerians to make moves to confirm the authenticity of the occasion said to have been scheduled for yesterday.

World Teachers' Day, also known as International Teachers Day, is held annually on October 5. Established in 1994, it commemorates the signing of the 1966 UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which is a standard-setting instrument that addresses the status and situations of teachers around the world. This recommendation outlines standards relating to education personnel policy, recruitment, and initial training as well as the continuing education of teachers, their employment, and working conditions. World Teachers' Day aims to focus on "appreciating, assessing and improving the educators of the world" and to provide an opportunity to consider issues related to teachers and teaching.


To all the teachers in Nigeria I celebrate u, happy world teachers day

A medical doctor, Dr. Oluwole Yusuf, has cautioned against the use of toothpaste to tighten the vagina to prevent irritation and inflammation among other diseases.

Yusuf told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Ilorin that the recent obsession by women having tight vagina was unhealthy and resorting to the use of toothpaste to tighten the vagina was a harmful practice.

According to him, the vagina is a self- cleansing organ that the body system does without help.

“Toothpaste is caustic and too abrasive for a sensitive body part like the vagina and using such on it can destroy the organisms meant to protect the vagina from possible infections.

“When the vagina can no longer protect itself, the body is prone to infections which could later destroy the tubes and block the chances of getting pregnant,’’ Yusuf said.



He urged women not to allow themselves to be “body-shamed’’ by their partners thereby, leading them to “a journey of ruin and regret’’.

“If a man tells you that you are too loose down there and you want to ruin your future because of that, he will eventually leave you for another.

“Be confident in yourself and allow your body to be the way it is.

“There are different healthy exercises or practices that can be done that will slowly tighten the vagina without posing a threat to the woman.

“Kegel exercises and Yoga exercise are part of the exercises that can make the vagina tight without engaging in harmful practices,’’ Yusuf said.

FearGodinall:
Who are these founding father because in 1914, when Nigeria was coined, these assumed fathers were not in the picture of founders.

Founding fathers not been in pictures does not mean there weren't any one, that my grandma don't have any pictures doesn't mean I had none

A former political adviser to President Shehu Shagari, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai has said that 59 years after independence, Nigeria has not met the expectations of its founders in terms of development.

Speaking to Daily Trust yesterday, Yakasai said although Nigeria has recorded some developments, the expectation was that the country would have been far ahead of where it is today.

“If we compare our position with sister countries like India, Brazil and Malysia, we will find out that they are far ahead of us and this is not what our founding fathers wanted,” he said.

The former political adviser said as a way forward, Nigerians should build democracy and strive hard to follow its dictates.

“The attitude of some Nigerian leaders destroyed our democracy. We call ourselves a democratic nation, but in reality, we know we are not because in a democratic nation, party leaders are in-charge not individuals. Even where you find individuals in-charge, it is the party members that vote that individuals to be in-charge.

Professionally interrogated, hope you didn't beat confession out of his mouth oooo, here in Port Harcourt we don't interrogate by beating instead we give them [b][/b]Rice and bottle water, as in the case of the serial killer. Make una no beat suspect again ooo

Na dem

Life is short and also very long
If you get into debt, chances are you will never get out again
Depression is as deadly as cancer, this is when your brain decides to kill you
One day you will die, this could be the end or there could be an afterlife or there could be a reincarnation. Truth is nobody really knows that is why there are so many theories.
You arrive here with nothing and you leave with nothing
You don’t need to be right about anything, you simply need to appear to be right.
You are completely alone in the universe, the better you are at fooling yourself into believing you are not alone, the better off you will be.
The physical world you experience is not really what the world is like. Your brain constructs an “experience” based on a summary of all the information your senses give it. (Watch the documentary on the brain by Dr David Eagleman, will blow you mind).
In the near future we will have designer babies, Jurassic Park and space travel, these things make life exciting
If you live in a peaceful country, be grateful because sooner or later the gap between the haves and have not’s will become large enough that war will break out. There is nothing we can do about this, all civilizations have a sell by date.
Chance's are, there will be nuclear warfare in your life time, which does not matter because you are going to die anyway.
Fact is stranger than fiction
What you understand is laughable outweighed by what you don’t, your ignorance is unimaginable… and then you die not really understanding anything.
Movies are the closest thing we have to reality, the news is the furthest thing from reality.
When you look at a person, all you see in a low resolution thumb nail, every assumption made about this thumbnail is wrong, yet you still believe it… because, you know nothing Jon Snow.
All life is meaningless, the sun rises and the sun sets, day after day after day, season come and seasons go, there is nothing new under the sun.
Better to eat, drink and be merry for all the days of your life.

The whereabouts of A middle aged man by name Ola is still unknown. He is a printer by profession, (ie he has a printing press). He resides at ozuoba in Obio-Akpor local government area of rivers state, where the negative incident took place, and has his office at Azikiwe street, UST back gate after he business on Thursday last week, eyewitness said in the early hours of Friday he went out to dispose waste (troway dirty) and was (allegedly) held by would be men of the rivers state government environmental task force( this is not yet proven because we have contacted the office of riwama and they said they don't have idea of such case) . All efforts to locate his whereabouts is yielding no positive result. The police have yielded into the matter but we're still begging on members of the public who can give us useful information as to his whereabouts will be appreciated

You might know what Nelson Mandela stood for, but how much do you really know about this inspirational man?
Nelson Mandela Quick Facts
Here is a list of quick facts about Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela was born July 18, 1918.
He was born in Transkei, Africa.
When he was born, his name was Rolihlahla Mandela.
His birth name means "to pull a branch off a tree" and "troublemaker."

He was given the name Nelson in school when he was seven years old.

His father had four wives. Mandela is the youngest of all of the sons that his father had. In fact, he is the only one surviving.

He grew up in a rural area, and he engaged in activities such as herding animals.

As a youngster, he attended boarding school.

His father passed away when Nelson was 12 years old. Afterwards, wealthy relatives had custody of him.

He attended Fort Hare Missionary College; however, he was expelled for organizing a strike against the white rule of the college.

He met Oliver Tambo, a great friend of his, at Fort Hare.

He was working toward a B.A. when he was in college.

He studied law at the University of Witwatersrand.

In 1942, he joined the African National Congress.

He became Deputy President of the African National Congress.

He was a lawyer in addition to an activist and politician.

He was sentenced to life in prison for life.

He was imprisoned on Robben Island and then in two other South African prisons.

During his time in prison, he was able to have secret talks with F. W. de Klerk, the President of South Africa. Due to these talks, he was able to be freed.

While he was in prison, he was told that if he stopped his acts of violence, he would be allowed to go free. He did not agree to this provision.

Mandela was in prison for over 27 years.

In 1968, both his mother and son passed away. However, he was not permitted out of prison to attend their funerals.

His only son passed away due to AIDS.

In 1993, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. de Klerk.
They received this Nobel Peace Prize for getting rid of the apartheid system.

In 1994, he became the first president of South Africa to be elected by a democratic system, and he became for first black president.
Once he was finished with his presidency, he became an advocate in support of people suffering from AIDS.

He has honorary degrees from more than 50 universities worldwide.

A hobby of his was boxing.

Nelson Mandela is a Christian.

He was married in 1944 to Evelyn Ntoko Mase. They were married for 13 years. He married Winnie Madikizela in 1958 and they divorced in 1996 after 38 years. In 1998, on his 80th birthday he married Graca Machel, who was the widow of a former Mozambique president.

He fathered six children, had 17 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.
In 2004, at the age of 85, he announced that he would retire from the public domain.

Nelson Mandela was hospitalized for a respiratory infection for over a month in Pretoria, South Africa prior to turning 95. He was in serious condition with a lung infection and was on life support for almost six months.

He died at home on December 5, 2013 at the age of 95.

His body lay in state in Pretoria and a state funeral was held in Qunu. He was buried in the family graveyard in Qunu.

Now you know plenty of interesting facts about this extremely important figure in history.

Love is the focal point of this year's conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses holding in several cities across Nigeria. In Ilorin, the convention series will start on Friday, November 1, (though it started in August in other parts of Nigeria) at the Assembly
Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Tanke, Ilorin. The three-day conventions featuring the theme “Love Never Fails” will be concluded
in the city on Sunday, December 8. The conventions will be held in
English and Yoruba.
“These events will illustrate the positive influence that love can
have to bring people together from diverse backgrounds,” Gill
Adekannbi, a local representative of Jehovah’s Witnesses, said in a
statement.
On the convention programme highlights, Adekannbi said: “The
convention programme will examine how Bible principles help people in
practical ways.
The Friday programme will address how love can help people surmount
obstacles such as a troubled upbringing, chronic illness, or poverty.
Saturday’s programme will consider how Bible principles help husbands,
wives, and children to show love for one another. Sunday’s programme
will include a public Bible discourse entitled “True Love in a
Hate-Filled World—Where?” that will address overcoming prejudice and
hatred.”
The statement stressed that conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses are
free to the public and that no collections are taken.
It noted that “Love Never Fails” is one of the largest global
conventions in 2019, spanning six continents and over 200 countries
and presented in over 400 languages. A complete programme schedule, a
video about conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses, times and locations
for these public conventions can be found on the official website of
Jehovah’s Witnesses, jw.org,” the statement said.

Really heart breaking

A young man by name Chijimaka from Rumuji odegu in Emohua local government area of rivers state was gruesomely gunned down by men of the Nigerian police force. This guy as is a graduate of university of Port Harcourt, awaiting for his call up letter to serve our great country Nigeria.
What is the work of the police, to save the citizens or kill innocent people. Below are the pictures and tributes a facebook user/friends of the deceased .

Kingpee2:
professionals or no professionals,I won’t gamble my wife’s unclothedness with any other man.

, what if it means her life

The Chairman, Nigerian Diaspora Commission, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has revealed plans by the Federal Government to stage 400-year remembrance anniversary of slave trade in Badagry area of Lagos State.

Dabiri-Erewa made the disclosure while meeting with the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu alongside other members of the organizing committee of the ‘Door of Return’, the committee that has been organising the slave trade anniversary festival in the last three years.

According to Dabiri-Erewa, the event if hosted regularly is capable of boosting the tourism potentials of the state as it would afford participants the opportunity to reunite with their ancestral root.

Similarly, Governor Sanwo-Olu applauded the choice of Badagry saying with the hosting of such magnitude, the town’s commerce, businesses and tourism potentials will grow tremendously.

Kingosytex:
I have met many 100+ yr old men who are still chain smokers. "Smokers are liable to die young" isn't for everybody. To some, it is actually a recipe for long life just like the old woman said. One man's meat is another man's poison.

But what message are they sending to the younger generation, and if eventually one their child happens to be an ardent smoker, will such person have the mind to reprove and reprimand?

[b][/b]since she started smoking at the age of 10, Melita Gordon says she won't stop smoking till she dies.
According to the Jamaican grandma, stopping would kill her. This statement was backed by her doctor who speculates that her relationship with cannabis may be partly responsible for her longevity.

Melita Gordon, the daughter of Richard Gordon and Michelle Jones says since she was baptized into the practice by her parents her commitment to pot has never ceased.



As reported by Green Rush Daily, Gordon said speaking in patois, “When mi goes a doctor he say him ah tell mi fi to stop smoke marijuana, because if mi stop, him a go lose mi,”

Cannabis plant
Although she has been smoking every day all day long for 85 years, not everyone is happy with her habit. Especially her daughter, who despite begging her mother to stop or at least reduce it to a roll per day, has made no inroads between her mother and marijuana.

Marijuana considered a narcotic in Ghana and some parts of the world, properties seems to have made its presence in half-truths and unfounded truths.

But leaked scientific research conducted in the late 1990s appears to endorse Melita Gordon's ‘theory’ to a long and happy life. According to this unpublished results, the study revealed that THC (a chemical compound found in the cannabis plant) increased the life expectancy of the test subjects.

At the end of the experiment, “those that were given THC had a clear survival advantage over the untreated rats”, as reported by the study.

Probably we should revisit this study when weed is legalized in Ghana.

Ebije1:
The girl is 12 not 10 and she was raped by an unknown man who currently on the run. OP get your facts before posting.

Check out the source of the story, it's not heresy

A girl, Masenengen Targbo, said to be 10 years old, was delivered of a baby girl yesterday at a Makurdi hospital in Benue State.

A man, Ukan Kurugh, told our correspondent that when he learnt about the incident, he rushed to the hospital after arrangement with some kind-hearted people and sought her transfer to the Foundation Hospital in Makurdi.

“At 1:00am, she was moved out of the General Hospital and straight away into the theatre; on arrival at the Foundation hospital and in less than an hour, Masenengen was delivered of a baby girl weighing 2:5 kg through caesarean section,” he said.

The father of the newborn was not yet known as of yesterday.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/10-year-old-girl-gives-birth-in-benue.html

Very pathetic, please take heart, that what you experience when you're indoctrinated. Religion seems to be intruding into family affair which is not supposed to be. Anyway take heart � � �

AutoJoshNG:
There is no available record of the nationality of the first person to drive a car in Nigeria.

However, some sources offer an idea of who the first Nigerian to drive a car was.

According to some records, the first Nigerian to drive a car was a certain philanthropist known as Thomas Jones.

Thomas Jones – known famously as Tom Jones - was a wealthy Lagosian.

He is best known for donating the first public library to the government of Lagos, which was at the time known as the Lagos Colony.

The library opened in 1931, almost 20 years after Jones died.

The exact date that Tom Jones first drove the car is not recorded, though, it was believed to have occurred before 1913.

A popular street on Lagos Island, Lagos, was named after Tom Jones.


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Source:

https://autojosh.com/who-is-the-first-nigerian-to-drive-a-car-photo/

The first Nigerian to drive a car was Odike Wojawhu, the father of my father.
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Gunmen Saturday night killed the community development chairman of Choba community in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Lawrence Igwe and Orji Azuh.

One Iyke Wordu sustained a gunshot injury during the attack which took place at the victims’ homes.

Choba community had come under series of attacks in the last four months by armed men and cultists.

Sources from the community said they woke up to see the bodies of the victims after sporadic shootings that lasted for about three hours.

It was gathered that Wordu was rushed to a hospital for treatment; while the bodies of Igwe and Azu were deposited at the morgue on the order of the police.

The spokesman of the state police command, Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the incident.

He said the Commissioner of Police had ordered a full scale investigation into the incident.