Lainjnr:
Charging with an iPad charger will only make ur iphone battery get damaged easily....... i.e. Number 1 is out of it...

It will have been better if it will damage your battery, it will damage the charging chips as well which will not make your phone to charge again when the battery drains out.

op you are saying trash..... I repeat never charge you iphone with an ipad charger. The rating on ipad charger is not satisfied by apple to charge any iphone. charging your iphone using ipad charger will damage your iphone.

MosakuAW:


On what site? Pls let us know.

As far as I know, Gtbank naira master card is not working on any site for international payment. Pls give me the site it works on let me try and screenshot back to you. Thanks

GTB Master Card still working on Skrill.

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Hardeysolution:
Which one is Buhari again nah? The staff protested and called For the help of the President, what again? ASUU is a group of senseless and jobless staff who under the ASUU does fulfil their political motive. No wonder Oloyede asked Unilorin to leave the association. I believe this wasn't now. It Is close to two months. So what is the wahala?
ASUU rejects Oloyede as jamb registrar
ASUU dis ASUU dat.. .ASUU must go.. .tired of ASUU nonsenses

Unilorin left ASUU during Abdulkarem Oba tenure as VC long before Oloyede..

herbie27:
Is obviously an abandoned structure, the new one is beautiful and i guess op didn't see that one.

I am 90% sure, the building is still in used!!! The school where I served in akwa-Ibom is worse
than that structure and ironically, the former deputy governor during akpabio's time is from the village I served and she did nothing about the school.

http://www.punchng.com/agatu-killings-and-buharis-moral-weakness

By Abimbola

President Muhammadu Buhari was quick to condole with Belgium over the unconscionable terrorist attack it suffered on Monday but one should not take his concern for humanitarianism. It was a verbal photo op – or voice op, if you like – by a President who wants to be counted among globally visible leaders. If Buhari genuinely believed in the worth of lives, he would have paid attention to the repugnant violence happening on his watch, the latest being the massacre of the Agatus of Benue State.
Days after that vile act, the President’s spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu, released a press statement that expressed simple “shock” at the incident. The statement was carefully worded to say nothing – it avoided any self-commitment and lacked a resolve. In fact, merely sending his voice through a proxy – rather than addressing the nation on the issue – showed how casual Buhari was about the affair.
In the statement, Buhari promised they would “act immediately” (even though days had passed since the incident happened) and added that they would “conduct an investigation to know exactly what happened” because “the only way to bring an end to the violence once and for all is to look beyond one incident and ascertain exactly what factors are behind the conflicts. Then he added, “Once the investigations are concluded, we will act immediately to address the root of the problem.”
The press statement itself smacks of administrative reticence and overall, a moral cowardice. We are talking about the massacre of whole communities and the man who took an oath to defend the life of every Nigerian says he is looking for the root of the problem? By claiming to search for “root causes” (which are not exactly obscure, mind you) Buhari makes it seem the mass killings are merely incidental to a more fundamental cause elsewhere. Even if the Agatus were personally responsible for any of the causes of grazing issues – for instance, climate change – they are in no way deserving of such brutal fate.
Why bring up a quest for “root causes” when you are faced with the more urgent task of confronting their killers and subjecting them to justice? By raising the issue of “root causes” Buhari merely distracts from the crime and seeks to etiolate the gravity of the violence by reducing it to an abstraction. That, in itself, is another form of violence against the Agatus. What good was that point of finding “root causes” and “looking beyond (that) one incident”? What is so painful and unbearable about sighting the decomposing corpses on the ground that they are in a hurry to “look beyond” them? This is like someone committing grievous murder and the Police Chief saying he will look beyond this “one incident” and find the root causes of psychopathy!
One of my biggest problems with former President Goodluck Jonathan was his accommodating attitude towards evil. He just could never summon enough adrenalin to act on anything. From the Ombaatse killings to Baga massacre, to Chibok abductions, to the mindless evils of Boko Haram, he was content to merely issue demoralising press releases to “condemn” the violence, set up a committee and let Nigerians exhaust themselves waiting for decisive actions to accompany his inaction. Buhari has not displayed a stronger will than Jonathan. As a matter of fact, he seems to be reading from his playbook. Jonathan was quick to condole with France when terrorists attacked them. Yet, at the same time, Boko Haram was ravaging parts of Nigeria and you never heard “pim” from him.
Since Buhari became President, we have seen the extrajudicial killings of pro-Biafran protesters treated as if it was of no consequence. When the President was asked during an Al Jazzera interview to watch the video of the protesters being murdered, he stoutly refused. He would not deign to let his much-vaunted incorruptible conscience be stained with their blood. When he had the opportunity to address the killing of the Shiites too, he left no reasonable person confused that he had already prejudged the issue and the gory details do not bother him. To Buhari, those Shiites gave up their right to life the moment they tested the will of security agents with their recalcitrance. Nothing about his unmeditated responses suggests he ran his thoughts on the treadmill of democratic ethos. If Buhari’s anti-graft war is truly about finding and punishing those who have reduced the quality of Nigerian lives through their greed and thieving tendencies, why is he acting so lacklustre when those same lives are being directly destroyed and more so, in such a brutal manner?
There is a part of me that seriously wonders what President Buhari meant when he talked about the “root of the problem.” That there is a background story to the massacre we are unaware of and which makes the fate of the Agatus somehow justifiable? Or, that justice for the dead in Nigeria is an improbability and is therefore more realistic to focus on resolving other issues? If the question of finding root causes becomes necessary, it should be the Nigerian state reflecting on the level of its weakened ethical structure such that some people can inhabit their own moral universe.
Please, note that the Fulani herdsmen who are alleged to have carried out these acts have not denied their involvement. Rather, they have sought to justify it, in interview after interview. One time, it was because they were avenging the death of their livestock. Another time, they dug up the death of their tribal chief in 2013 that was left unredressed. What they have not done so far is deny their own crime. Ironically, it is the agents of the state that have been helping them play down their heavy-handed brutishness and brutality.
The evasiveness in Buhari’s statement percolates to other arms of government. The Inspector-General of Police, Soloman Arase, has talked about “holistic” measures to stop massacres caused by Fulani herdsmen.
One time, he claimed the attacks were carried out by non-Nigerians who, unexplainably, managed to penetrate the country. Another time, he claimed to have been to Benue State but did not see so many dead bodies. Nothing he has said so far betrayed that he has a real clue. With so much power invested in him, the best he could offer in return was wring his helpless hands about a horrible crime he is impotent to redress.
Whatever Buhari’s current stand on the Agatu killings, it is important this is not merely cast into the bottomless bog of Nigeria’s blood-soaked existence for at least two reasons: One, if the Fulani herdsmen get away with this, they will move further down south. Already, they have been committing atrocities in parts of South-East and there is no telling how more emboldened they will get.
Two, for once, the mindless violence in Nigeria needs to begin to be redressed. There have been too many acts of violence and the blood of victims will not stop crying from under the ground. To put a stop to these kinds of killings, or just strengthen the ethical foundations of our society, it is imperative we do more than tell murderers to go and sin no more.
Senator David Mark, who was attacked when he made an onsite visit, should lead the initiative to fight for his people and retrieve their dignity. He needs not join the tribe of disempowered citizens who simply beat one palm against the other to wonder what the world was coming to. He has the various forms of capital needed to push this case forward. If Nigeria continues to act blind, he should involve international human rights agencies who can compel Nigeria to act. It took “foreign attention” like this to finally rouse Jonathan from his lethargy on Chibok girls. Maybe, it will help Buhari to begin to mind his own business, right at home, and not be flying around the world.

Brunel:
Before going to service I had already determined not to taint my reputation and not to do any of those things.
Fast forward to when I got to my PPA - a mixed secondary school. Tales had it that corp members before me came and messed themselves up....one of the cases led to a fight between some students over a male corp member, well I immediately set up a riot act which I read to them before every class session

'Good morning class, today we are studying Maths, if you do not have a pen, borrow one, if you forgot your book, tear out a sheet of paper, if you missed the last class leave a space, if you don't have a book write on your palms, if you do not want to write leave the class, when I write, you must write do we have an agreement?' *their voice ringing in my head yes uncle!!*
this became a routine and the students sang to it with glee every morning.
the stubborn ones, I'd flog (in the presence of the class to serve as deterrent) after two warnings and tell to leave the class, one day a girl chose to be VERY stubborn, refused to write, refused to leave the class, refused to be flogged on her palms.....lol! I flogged her anyway, she then feigned some kind of sickness, thank God I was finally vindicated.

I already knew from the teachers that they had slept with some, if not most students and they 'encouraged' me to have a 'wife' amongst on of the students, thing is once you mess up with ONE, the whole school hears about it the very next day!!!! as corpers no kuku sabi their language!
I recall that I had at numerous times told some of the students SSS and JSS girls to button up as some whether mistakenly or otherwise leave their top buttons open, one particular girl was even bold enough to wink at me, that was the day I took action and flogged her in front of the class and unlike me, I didn't explain to the class what she did, lol. she hated me after that, understandably.

At the end of the service year a non-academic staff of the school came to tell me that she heard whispers going round that corper Brunel didn't try for them that he couldn't even pick one out of the whole school. that day laugh wan kill everyone for staff room!
I gave presents to my best students and it was a mutually emotional departure service they gave me, the first of it's kind ever in the school.

My advice is guys shouldn't take advantage of these gullible girls - treat them like younger sisters, some no dey baff well, some carry infections, plus a few minutes of pleasure should not be exchanged for your reputation and respect, what goes around comes around.

A post is enough for the wise. lol

Thumps Up Bro....
I did just that during my service year and stood out among my fellow corpers and till date my students and some teachers from my PPA still communicate with Me. I was retained though and left three month later to pursue my dreams!!!
More of your type Bro!!!

Valentine died 4 love
Romeo also died 4 love
Jack in Titanic died 4 love
Samson in the Bible died 4 love
Greek heroes; Hercules & Archilles died 4 love...and even Jesus Christ also died for love!
Where are the women?
Pls, Don't buy any woman Valentine gift this year, until she gives you at least 5 names of women who died for love.
Is dying only meant for men

akinloluwao:
must u buy a car from him, why are u interested in that particular car? don't let anybody fool you

Thanks!!

I need an urgent help about this car I am about to buy....
Saw the car last year in Ibadan, we could not agree on price.
The seller called me yesterday that I should come pick it and I asked him I can't come to Ibadan for now due to work.
The seller told me the said said car is now in Oshogbo not ibadan again, I asked him why, he said the owner of the car stays in Oshogbo.
He told e the owner too is a car dealer and him is just a middle man
Feeling some foul play, I asked him to send me the mobile digit of the owner which he refuse and told me if I need his digit I should go to oshogbo myself which I don't have time due to my work.
The car Dealer naem is IK Ishola, from the screen shot I took from the car last Year

Would grateful if anybody that stays in Oshogbo knows this car dealer and can get me his address or digit.

Thanks.....

Do you remember CIROMA CHUKWUMA ADEKUNLE?
The guy that always write waec every year.
His name is always written on all waec question papers every
year.
Please you all should not forget to put CIROMA CHUKWUMA
ADEKUNLE in your prayers cos he registered again this year.
That brother must pass WAEC this 2016.
Enough is enough..... I pity him shaaaa.

December 10 may just be another day for millions of Nigerian, but for some it symbolises sorrow and tears, a day that left scars.

The reason? On December 10, 2005, a DC-9 plane operated by Sosoliso Airlines crash-landed in Port Harcourt resulting in the death of 108 of the 110 people aboard the plane.

According to reports, many of the victims survived the crash, but died in the resulting fire due to poor emergency services at the airport.

The fact that sixty-one secondary school pupils from Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja were aboard the flight made the crash more tragic and left the nation shell-shocked.

The pastor of Fountain of Life Church and relationship coach, Bimbo Odukoya, also died in the crash.

Ten years after, while the nation’s memory of the tragedy appeared to have been dulled, relatives and family members of the victims have come out to remember and honour them.

A former member of the House of Representatives, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, whose son was in the school at the time, tweeted, “We remember all victims of the Sosoliso crash, 10 years ago. Our 60 angels of Loyola Jesuit College will not die in vain.”

Many other people have also tweeted in honour of the victims. Some of the tweets, however, point out that not much has changed since the crash.

“10 years since Sosoliso. The problem is the Nigerian State. It is designed to be dysfunctional,” a user, Onye Nkuzi, tweeted via the handle @cchukudebelu.

In 2010, during the launch of a book, written in honour of the pupils lost by LJC, the Chaplain of the school, Fr. Ubong Attai, was quoted as saying, “Although things have not changed much, there was a bold step by the President then, Olusegun Obasanjo, after the crash, to sanitise the avaiation sector.”

Earlier this year, five years after Attai’s comments, the Port Harcourt International Airport where the crash occurred, was voted the worst airport in the world by over 26,000 travellers who were surveyed by the Guide to Sleeping in Airports.

As victims of the Sosoliso crash are remembered, here are the five worst air disasters in Nigeria.

5. Bellview Airlines crash – October 22, 2005

A total of 117 people, comprising 111 passengers and six crew members were killed when a Boeing 737-200 plane owned by Bellview Airlines crashed at Lisa, a village in Ogun State.
The plane, which was heading to Abuja, crashed shortly after taking off from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Although emergency authorities were notified on October 22 that the airport had lost contact with the plane, it wasn’t until the next day that its wreckage was discovered. There were no survivors.

4. ADC Airlines Flight 86 – November 7, 1996

In November 1996, an Aviation Development Company aircraft – Flight 86, which was enroute to Lagos from Port Harcourt, crashed, killing all 144 passengers and crew members on board.
The pilot lost control of the plane while trying to avoid a collision with another aircraft. An air traffic controller was responsible for the error that almost resulted in the mid-air collision.

3. NAF Lockheed crash – September 26, 1992

No fewer than 158 people, mostly military officers, were killed when a Nigerian Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules crashed in Lagos soon after take-off.
The aircraft, which was enroute to Kaduna, crashed into the canal at Ejigbo in Lagos shortly after taking off from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
The military officers killed in the crash were on their way to attend a course at the Nigerian Command and Staff College at Jaji in Kaduna State.

2. Dana Air Flight 992 – June 3, 2012

In all, 163 people lost their lives in this crash which occurred on a Sunday afternoon at Iju-Ishaga, a suburb of Lagos.
The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, crashed into a building after the crew reported engine trouble, killing all 147 passengers and six crew members as well as 10 people on the ground.
The plane had burst into flames after crashing into the building, but efforts to put out the fire was hindered by shortage of water as well as the huge crowd at the scene.

1. 1973 Kano air disaster

Nigeria’s worst air disaster claimed the lives 176 people, mostly pilgrims. On January 1973, a chartered Boeing 707 crashed while attempting to land at the Aminu Kano International Airport.
The flight, operated by Alia, had been chartered to fly pilgrims back to Nigeria from Saudi Arabi. Twenty-six people survived the crash.

The Sosoliso crash was Nigeria’s 6th worst air disaster in terms of fatalities.


www.punchng.com/sosoliso-flight-1145-and-nigerias-worst-air-disasters/

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday lamented the delay in court processes which often get high profile corruption cases stalled.

He said the development had left the various anti-corruption agencies only able to secure seven convictions in such high profile cases since 1999, a figure which he said was too insignificant.

Osinbajo was represented by the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), at a sensitisation workshop on sections 306 and 396 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 and delay of high profile corruption cases in Nigeria.

Sections 306 of the ACJ Act prohibit courts from granting order of stay of proceedings with respect to criminal trial while section 392 of the Act also stipulates that preliminary objection to a charge would only be considered with the substantive case and a ruling delivered on it at the time of the delivery of the judgment in the case.

Before the ACJ Act came into force in May 2015, many high profile corruption cases had been stalled at various levels of appellate courts due to various interlocutory appeals filed by defence lawyers.

Osinbajo, who lamented the delay tactics often deployed by defence lawyers to frustrate the course of justice in high profile corruption cases, said on Wednesday that though he was not an advocate for “conviction at all costs in high profile cases,” the law must be followed in all corruption cases either low or high profile.

He said though former President Olusegun Obasanjo identified corruption as “the number one monster devouring Nigeria since 2002,” only about eight high profile cases had been concluded with the prosecution successfully securing convictions.

He said out of the eight convictions one of them was reversed by the Supreme Court on technical grounds.

The Vice President did not name the cases in which the eight convictions were secured but it will be recalled that the Supreme Court on December 13, 2013, discharged and acquitted a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Chief Bode George, of criminal charges on which he had earlier been convicted by the Lagos High Court and the judgment affirmed by the Court of Appeal.

“It is a sad truth that of all the high profile cases filed since 2002 when the EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) was established and corruption was first actively identified then by the President, Olusegun Obasanjo, as the number one monster devouring Nigeria, only about eight high profile cases have been concluded with the prosecution successfully gaining convictions from the appropriate courts,” Osinbajo said.


www.punchng.com/osinbajo-slams-efcc-over-low-graft-convictions/

By Samson Folarin

Babatunde Omoyeni, a web designer who planned to spend his Christmas and New Year celebrations in the United States of America, has been killed in Lagos over N50.

He was to travel on December 10.

After obtaining all travel documents, the 38-year-old decided to go clubbing with his friends on Saturday.

He was returning when he had a disagreement with a bus conductor over the N50 fare and was stabbed to death.

PUNCH Metro learnt from a police source that angry residents almost lynched the conductor, who was identified as Samson Eletu.

He was reportedly saved by a community leader, who took him to the Aguda Police Division.

The source said, “The victim was returning home after a party when he entered the bus.


Eletu. Photo: Samson Folarin
“He gave the conductor N500, but the conductor told him he didn’t have N450 change, because the fare was N50.

“When they got to the bus stop, the man demanded his change and that started a fight.

“An Alfa in the bus intervened and separated them. But the conductor, who was still aggrieved, trailed the victim to his house.”

It was learnt that Eletu, while armed with a broken bottle, banged on the gate into the house.

“As the deceased opened the gate, Eletu stabbed him. Babatunde took to his heels, but the conductor chased him. Unfortunately, he fell down and the conductor stabbed him repeatedly,” he added.

It was learnt that Eletu was fleeing from the scene when he was nabbed by a suspicious resident who saw blood stains on his clothes.

The younger sister of the victim, Blessing Omoyeni, said his brother would not have died if he was rescued on time.

She said he spent over one hour in a pool of blood before he was rushed to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba.

She said, “Nobody was ready to assist him to the hospital. A man had to throw himself in front of a commercial bus and asked the passengers to disembark, before he could get help. “He was rushed to LUTH, but they were turned back at the gate by a doctor who pronounced him dead on arrival around 12am.

“People started beating the conductor and almost killed him before he was rescued and taken to the Aguda Police Division.”

It was learnt that the victim’s corpse was deposited at the Isolo General Hospital mortuary.

His girlfriend, Temiloluwa Ogundayo, said Babatunde had recently informed her to prepare for their engagement.

Ogundayo, who lived with Babatunde, said she was not aware that he had been killed until the early hours of Sunday.

“We have dated for over one year and he told me to meet my sister to ask for the requirement for our engagement. He said we would go there on Monday.

“On that Saturday morning before he went to work, we made love. He called me around 5pm to prepare food for him that he would soon be home. I had done everything and was waiting for him in the house till 11pm when I drifted off into sleep.

“Around 1am, he came in and slept beside me. He rubbed my head with his hand and I asked him if he had eaten his food, but he said I should not bother, that he was fine.

“I went back to sleep and it was around 6am that somebody called me and asked if I knew he was dead. I jumped up and looked around the bathroom and kitchen to know if he was there, but I couldn’t find him.”

The victim’s friend, Ogunyemi Olaribigbe, described him as quiet and gentle, adding that his death was a big blow to all who knew him.

Thirty-two-year-old Eletu said the victim attacked him first.

He said, “I am also a driver and I had parked my bus at about 7pm when I saw a co-driver who offered to take me home.

“It was along the way that he decided to pick passengers and there were eight of them in the bus.

“I collected money from seven of them, but he refused to pay and said he knew me on the street.

“It was at the bus stop that he broke a bottle and stabbed me in the forehead and cheek. I also got the same bottle, but unfortunately I stabbed him in the neck and he died.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, Joe Offor, when contacted promised to call back, but he had yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.

http://www.punchng.com/conductor-kills-man-a-week-to-us-travel/

By Simon Ejembi

Scientists in the United Kingdom have confirmed the existence of a new sexually transmitted disease called mycoplasma genitalium.

The confirmation of the bacterial disease, which causes painful urination among other things, as an STD comes more than two decades after it was first discovered.

A team of fourteen researchers arrived at the conclusion after conducting a national survey of the sexual lifestyles and attitudes of British men and women.

The researchers said the study, which involved the testing urine from 4,507 sexually experienced participants aged 16 to 44 years for MG, “strengthens evidence that MG is an STI”.

They added, “MG was identified in over one per cent of the population, including in men with high-risk behaviours in older age groups that are often not included in STI prevention measures.”

The study found that men of black ethnicity were more likely to test positive for MG and showed that the prevalence of the disease was 1.2 per cent in men and 1.3 per cent in women.

It also found that for both men and women, the disease was strongly associated with reporting risk behaviours such as increasing the number of total and new partners and unsafe sex in the past year.

Although it recorded no positive MG tests in men aged 16 to19, prevalence peaked at 2.1 per cent in men aged 25–34 years, while prevalence in was highest in 16 to 19-year-olds at 2.4 per cent and decrease with age.

It added, “Men with MG were more likely to report previously diagnosed gonorrhoea, syphilis or non-specific urethritis, and women previous trichomoniasis.”

Health.com in an article on about the study quoted a clinical associate professor, Raquel Dardik, as saying the symptoms for women included irritation, painful urination and bleeding after sex, while those for men included painful urination and watery discharge from the penis.

According to the article, the disease has been linked to both inflammation in the cervix (cervicitis) and pelvic inflammatory disease, which is a serious condition often caused by other STDs like chlamydia and gonorrhea.

Dardik was also quoted as saying that around 10 per cent of women who develop PID (which causes abdominal pain, fever, painful cervix, and pain or bleeding during sex), could blame MG as the underlying cause.

She, however, said people could get tested for MD and that it was treatable with the antibiotic azithromycin, adding that the use of condoms was an effective way of preventing it.

Dr. Jorgen Jensen of the Mycoplasma Laboratory, Statens Serum Institut in Denmark, however, said although the single-dose azithromycin treatment was best for MG, it was not good enough.

He explained in an article published in an issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases that although initial in vitro studies suggested that antibiotics of the tetracycline class were active, clinical experience soon demonstrated their inefficiency in producing both microbiologic and clinical cure.

He added that two recently published observational studies of 120 Australian and 183 Norwegian MG-positive patients found that only 84 per cent and 79 per cent, respectively, were cured by a single 1-g dose of azithromycin.

Jensen said, “(A study the study by) Mena et al provides a clear-cut answer to the question of whether multidose doxycycline or single-dose azithromycin is most efficient for the treatment of M. genitalium—positive urethritis; undoubtedly, azithromycin is best. However, it is not good enough, and additional studies of new approaches are definitely needed.”


www.punchng.com/scientists-confirm-new-sexual-disease/

Azuka Onwuka

I was in a bank last week and noticed that the person before me in the queue was a boy of about 12 years old. As he completed his transaction and left, a conversation started between the teller and me. As our chat progressed, the bank teller said that in spite of the boy’s size, he came to deposit N150,000. He exclaimed: “Igbo boys!”

He laughed and told him that soon the boy would be depositing one million naira or more. Some 15 years ago, when online/real-time banking was unavailable, these Igbo boys moved such huge amount of cash from Nnewi/Onitsha/Aba to Lagos/Kano/Port Harourt and vice versa, via buses, with all the attendant risk of armed robbery and road accidents.

One wonders why a 12-year-old boy should be trusted to go to a bank and deposit N150,000. What if he loses it? What if it is taken from him? What if he corners it and claims that it was stolen on his way? But that is part of the training of an Igbo apprentice. Before he could be trusted to handle N150,000, he might have been tried with N20,000. As he stepped out of the shop with the N150,000, the master might have sent a more senior apprentice to shadow him secretly to ensure that he went into the bank.

The result is that the boy of 12 years old matures financially faster than his mates even from wealthy homes. He understands how money comes in and how money goes out. He understands not just how to spend money but how to make money, how to save money and how to invest it. He understands how one can carry huge sums of money and go unnoticed. By the time he turns 18 or 20, while his age mates are still asking for pocket money, he has started giving pocket money to his siblings or parents or paying the school fees of his siblings and supporting his parents financially.

This apprenticeship is what has helped to spread wealth from the rich to the poor among the Igbo. It helped the Igbo to recover fast after the devastation of the Nigerian Civil War in which they lost virtually all their wealth and received the “ex gratia” payment of £20 irrespective of their deposits in the banks. It helped to spread the art of trading and money management among the Igbo. It helped to teach Igbo how to fish rather than give them fish.

How does it work? A man starts a motor spare parts business in Nnewi, Lagos or Kano. After a year or two, he goes home and takes a boy from a poor home to be his apprentice. He chooses from a poor family because a poor family may have about eight children that the parents cannot effectively cater for. Such families are more willing to release their sons. The boy may have just finished primary 6 or junior secondary school or his secondary school education and does not have any hope of someone paying for his university education or is not academically sound enough to make good scores to gain admission into the university. The boy may also be the first son from a poor family and believes that if he continues to the university, he may not be financially dependent in time to pay the school fees of his younger ones and support his parents. So he goes early into apprenticeship as a sacrifice for the family.

Depending on his age and academic qualification, the apprenticeship period will be agreed upon to last from five to seven years. While with his master, he just does not mind only business issues. He is a servant to his master. If his master is a bachelor, he enjoys his stay more. He tidies up the home, washes clothes, cooks, etc. If his master is based in a town that is semi-urban, he may join in farming early in the morning or in the evening. He may hew wood or go to the stream to fetch water. He gets to the shop first, opens it, and closes last. He goes around the market to look for prospective buyers. After the customer is done buying, he packs the goods in cartons or bags for him, and if it is a big and regular customer, he may help the customer to carry the goods or get a cart pusher to take the goods to somewhere close-by where the customer can arrange for how to transport the goods to his location.

Part of the training is that he will be able to endure all sorts of indignities from his master, his wife, his children and his relatives. If his skin is not tough, he may give up midway and leave. But if he endures, by the time he has spent about three or four years, he becomes a senior apprentice or “manager”. Even the master and his wife will treat him with more respect at this stage. His master may have brought in another apprentice. He may have been taught how to drive, so that he can take goods or the other apprentices in the company’s bus to and from the shop. Every two years, he may be allowed to travel home for Christmas and New Year to spend about two weeks with his own family. Some people can have up to eight apprentices at the same time.

At the end of the agreed period, the man takes his apprentice home to meet his parents. He then “settles” him by giving him any amount of money that he deems fit and prays for him. What the master gives to his boy during settlement matters but is not critical. It is what is learnt during those years of apprenticeship that matters. The apprentice learns the trade and all the intricacies involved as well as self-discipline and the management of customers. He gets to know customers who may become his soon after his freedom. Most times, once he opens his own shop, customers of his master, who liked the way he took care of them, would shift to him. If he gains their trust, they may even send him cash from Kano or Accra or Yaounde with a list of the goods they want and he will send the goods to them. One or two years after becoming his own boss, he goes home to get a boy to be his apprentice, and the cycle continues.

There is a different type of apprenticeship. It is done by people whose parents have the wherewithal to give them the capital to start off. They live with their parents but go to the shop of a man to learn the trade for a period of six months or one year. At the end of that period, they start their business. But the rate of success of such people is much lower than those who spent about six years under the roof of a master.

Many of the rich men in Igbo land like Mr Innocent Chukwuma of Innoson Motors, Mr Cosmas Maduka of Coscharis Motors, Chief Chidi Anyaegbu of Chisco Motors, Chief Alex Chika Okafor of A-Z Petroleum/Chicason Group, etc, went through this apprenticeship scheme. Many of today’s rich Igbo men came from very poor families. This apprenticeship scheme gave them the foothold to rise to wealth, for their parents would have not been able to pay their school fees or give them the money required to start a business that has prospect.

The Igbo apprentice is not seen as a “servant” forever. Once he completes his apprenticeship and starts his own business, he becomes a “friend” to his former master. Anytime he visits his “Oga”, he sits down with him in his sitting room to share a drink. He may even marry his master’s daughter. If his master is doing a burial, he comes as a special guest with a cow. When he is doing his event, his master also comes as a special guest. If he becomes successful in business, his master uses him to boast and tells other apprentices to strive to emulate him. Some even later turn around to help their masters financially when they have become very rich and their master’s fortunes have dwindled.

Later in life when they have become financially successful, some decide to acquire that education they cut short earlier by getting a degree. But even those who don’t have any degree ensure that they marry women that have degrees, so as to help in the education of the children and take care of any issue that requires “long grammar.”

There may be drawbacks in this scheme like abuse of children, abandonment of education by boys, and other issues, but the Igbo apprenticeship scheme is a unique scheme that has benefited the Igbo a lot.

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Catfish is one of the most popular and readily available fish in Nigeria. In fact, its delicacy – irresistible to many people – is very common at social gatherings.

It tastes great and is affordable when compared to other varieties of fresh fish in the market.

But do you know that the omega 6 fatty acids in catfish can increase your risk of getting blood clots, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and some cancers?

Though doctors say fish is a better and healthier option than meat, they quickly add that not all types of fish are good for the heart.

Nutritionists say that catfish is loaded with bad fat and high cholesterol that encourage clotting of the blood, a condition whereby blood flow is impeded. This may lead to cardiac arrest, thrombosis and, in some cases, heart attacks.

A cardiologist, Dr. Jane Anisulowo, says that farm or home-grown catfish is the worst example in this regard, as it contains more fatty hormones than the ones harvested from natural water.

Anisulowo says, “Fish is better than meat, no doubt. It digests easily and it contains proteins. However, catfish is not really a good option, especially the ones they sell these days, which are cultivated with hormonal feeds that are filled with steroids and other fattening chemicals just to make them profitable. These chemicals are cancerous in nature.

“Also, they contain so much oil that you can almost taste it. Fish, generally, contains oil, but catfish has oil in its skin. That is what makes it so oily and unhealthy.

“It also contains a lot of poly unsaturated fat that does not only make you fat but also settles in the blood stream. That is very dangerous because when blood fails to get to an organ, it fails and suffers paralysis.”

A study conducted by the National Institute of Health in 2012, using over 1000 species of the fish in different water shows that catfish contains a high amount of unfavourable omega-6 fat that causes inflammation in the body.

According to the researchers, three-ounce portion of catfish contains the same amount of bad fats found in red meat.

This is not to say that one should give up eating the fish as catfish contains some nutrients such as Omega3 fatty acids that are good for the body.

Anisulowo says, “If you can get the one from the river, which is rare in most cities, then you may eat it twice a month. But if the only one you can get is the one that is being reared by farmers, you don’t have to eat at all, or just eat it when it is partially smoked. In that way, some of the fats would have been lost in the process. Better still, there are some other species of fish that are oily but they contain good fats and are more nutritious.”

Here are some other species that you can add to your diet:

Mackerel

They are popularly known as Titus fish. The oily meat found on mackerel is its main health benefit. The fish oil, which is also known as omega-3 fatty acid, can be so beneficial that it is used as a supplement.

It lowers triglycerides. High levels of triglycerides in the body have been linked to heart disease and stroke. The most common causes of a high triglyceride level are obesity and poorly maintained diabetes, mainly stemming from an inactive lifestyle.

Some researchers have found out that omega-3 fatty acid is even more effective in reducing heart attacks than some commonly-prescribed drugs.

Mackerel and other fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids are good for the blood. They help to boost blood circulation and lower blood pressure.

Tilapia

Tilapia is a high-quality fish. It has proteins and contains all the essential amino acids your body requires from food diet to help to build proteins. One portion of tilapia cooked using dry heat contains about 26 grammes of protein. The Institute of Medicine recommends that adult men consume at least 56 grammes of protein, adult women consume at least 46 grammes and pregnant and nursing women consume 71 grammes of protein each day. Eating tilapia can help you to achieve that.

It may help in weight control. Tilapia is naturally low in fat, and only contains about 128 calories in each portion. According to a study published in a 2006 edition of “The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation”, subjects who consumed eight grammes of tilapia each week showed an improved body weight.

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The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, says terrorism in Nigeria indirectly created by northern leaders, who used religion to deceive poor Muslims.

Kukah said this in his keynote address at a conference organised by the Islamic Welfare Foundation at the Fountain University, Osogbo.

At the event titled, ‘The Muslim agenda for Nigeria: Challenges of development and good governance’, the cleric said the fresh agitation for an Islamic state by Boko Haram could be traced to the promise made by northern leaders to ensure the total implementation of Sharia law.

He said, “A hypocritical elite continues to believe that it can claim the benefits of democracy but use it only to consolidate its hold on power. This is what has laid the foundation for what is now Boko Haram.

“We must locate the current crisis of Boko Haram within the context of the inability of the northern Muslim elite to live by their own dubious creed of being Muslims. They preached Sharia Law but only for the poor. They preach a religion that encourages education, yet their own people are held in the bondage of ignorance.

“They came to power on the basis of a democratic society but they turned around and declared Sharia to generate a false consciousness among the poor that they want a theocracy.

“They did not wish to live by the same standards, so they decided to live their own Islam in the capitals of the world away from the prying eyes of their own people. Boko Haram began as a revolt against this mendacity, subterfuge and hypocrisy.”

Kukah said northern leaders failed to explain to the poor masses that Sharia law and democracy could not co-exist.

The cleric stated that the normal argument that Boko Haram was not a Muslim group was nonsensical because Boko Haram’s aim was the total implementation of Sharia law, which Muslim leaders had promised them in the past.

Kukah added, “Now, I hear Muslims in northern Nigeria hiding under the cover of the facts by saying: ‘These Boko Haram people are not Muslims. They do not represent us’. Well, first, they are your own children. You must take responsibility for what has made them what they are today and to the rest of society.

“They claim they have been inspired by the Quran and no other holy book. They say they want to build an Islamic state. So, they are Muslims. After all, from the debates of the Constituent Assemblies of 1979, 1988, and 1995 and beyond, did their fathers and grandfathers not stage walkouts, demanding Sharia Law? Was it not to tame them that President Ibrahim Babangida declared what he called ‘no-go areas’ in the debates about our constitution?”

The cleric noted that the kidnapping of the Chibok girls and the use of girls as sex slaves in the North were in line with the ideology that a girl, who is still an adolescent, could be married off to an older man.

He said, “The promise to institute Sharia has become the most potent tool for political mobilisation and organisation. Till date, the tactics may have changed, but the essence has not. Rather than face the tough questions of how and why over 15 million children in the northern states are on the streets; how and why the northern states are falling behind on almost every index of development, the northern Muslim elite continues to live for just the moment, with no plans for tomorrow.

“Should we pretend that a society that allows the forced marriages of its young daughters could frown on the idea of a group kidnapping and forcing young girls into sexual slavery? Islam must have an honest look at the mirror and have an internal discussion.”

The Catholic bishop urged northern leaders to stop pretending as if they did not know the root cause of Boko Haram.

He said they should ask themselves why Boko Haram was headquartered in the North and not in other zones of the country.

Kukah added, “Although we all seem to pretend that Boko Haram has caught us unawares, the worst thing is that we continue to hide our heads in the sands of self-deception by further denying the roots of this ugly side of our humanity.

“That Boko Haram, its disciples and victims are localised to northern Nigeria, should be instructive. What this calls for is an honest review of the root causes. We need to ask what it is about the past or the present that has led us to this ugly and deadly path.

“It is my considered view that northern Islam has to confront the realities of taking its religion into the modern world of democracy seriously. Muslims in northern Nigeria cannot accept democracy and reject the inclusive nature of its philosophy as it is the case today.”



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Emeralddd:
Still bearing the pains this insect gave me, please, can normal insecticide kill or prevent this insect attack?

Don't kill it on your flesh, use your mouth to blow it away and kill with your feet. Yes, insecticide can kill it... Use sheer-butter or tooth-paste to rob on where it inflicted pais on you....

watered:
Its only affecting "Yolobas"

The first time I saw and heard about the insect was in your region...... So get small sense.....

A continuing debate in English usage is the question of when to use "who" and when to use "whom."
According to formal grammar, "who" forms the subjective case and so should be used in subject position in a sentence, as in: who decided this?
The form "whom," on the other hand, forms the objective case and so should be used in object position in a sentence, as in: whom do you think we should support?; to whom do you wish to speak?
Although there are some speakers who still use who and whom according to the rules of formal grammar as stated here, there are many more who rarely use whom at all; its use has retreated steadily and is now largely restricted to formal contexts. The normal practice in modern English is to use who instead of whom (and, where applicable, to put the preposition at the end of the sentence): who do you wish to speak to?; who do you think we should support? Such uses are today broadly accepted in standard English

Credit- Azuka Onwuka
-- oxforddictionaries.com

fotadmowmend:

Person wey neva reach anoda man's farm go dey talk say na hin own big pass ....... OAU pre-degree campus alone is bigger than Uniilorin .... #fact not that alone , 100 years to come Uniilorin can neva be compared with OAU in terms of academics ....

Stop dreaming....... Unilorin has land mass of about 75,000Ha........ D biggest uni in naija by Far!!!

kallmemrB:
even the so called Ilorin never claimed they were yoruba while they were enjoying the loots and benefit of been a northerner then but Why Now

make anybody to lie to us....Ilorin is a lost city like atlantis...They are not Yorubas

A fool you, I am a yoruba and westerner not northerner not like you dat your Ikwerre people are denying Youi!!!

elijah2u:
#op did see this agitation coming to yield results for yorubas in kwara state and kogi state respectively ?

The next ruler of Ilorin will surely be Afonja of Ilorin....
So certain!!!

agent9:



No

Dats wat am saying. ... I didnt see anything too


Maybe due to clouds sha

kkkk

agent9:


Ok

Are u sure you saw it and it turned red because was outdoor. And saw nothing

Op, are you sure you snapped it which I doubt. I was outdoor monitoring the eclipse like a monitoring between 3:30a.m till 6a.m and saw nothing shey na inside moon u dey ni carry snap dat pix dat is clear Smell lies from your post