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A total of 188, 580, electorate from Kogi
West have signed the recall register form of
Senator Dino Melaye.
Announcing the figure at the All
progressives Congress State Secretariat in
Lokoja, the returning officer for the recall of
the serving senator, Adamu Yusuf explained
that out of 360,098 of the total registered
voters of the seven western senatorial
districts comprising Yagba west, Mopa Muro,
Kabba Bunu, Yagba East, Koton Karfe, Lokoja
and Ijumu, 188, 588, signed the recall
register constituting 52.3% of the voters in
senatorial district.
Yusuf while giving a breakdown of the recall
exercise noted that for Yagba East – out of
35,331 registered voters, 18, 374 (52%)
signed the recall of the serving lawmaker.
Others are Mopa 18,356 voters (9,186
signed comprising 50.04%), Kabba Bunu
60,522, voters (28,277 signed making
46.7%, and Yagba West out of 35, 966
registered voters 20,029 signed signifying
55.7%.
Lokoja local government recorded the
highest with 63, 736 (54.8%) voters
recalling the senator out of 116, 296
registered voters.
For Koton Karfe 24,703 (52.77%) voters
penned their signature while in Ijumu out of
46,819 registered voters, 24, 238 depicting
51.8% passed a vote of no confidence on
the senator to represent them in the
National Assembly.
” Going by the above figures, it is important
to let Nigerians know that we have met the
Constitutional requirements of 51.1%. Dino
has failed to represent Kogi West so we are
calling him back home,” Yusuf added.
Meanwhile, the seven Local government
administrators constituting Kogi West were
all present during the exercise. dailypost.ng/2017/06/19/breaking-trouble-dino-melaye-188-580-electorates-sign-recall/?utm_source=dlvr.it_dp1&utm_medium=facebook

A dustbin man in Bogota in Colombia, who
never studied further than primary school,
has gathered a library of more than 20,000
thrown away books.
The collection began 20 years ago, when
Jose Alberto Gutierrez fished out a discarded
copy of Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.
He now offers his books to other people as
a free community library.
"I realised that people were throwing books
away in the rubbish. I started to rescue
them," he said.
Mr Gutierrez, who has gained the nickname
The Lord of the Books, began collecting
books that had been dumped in the waste
bins in wealthier parts of the city.
He would take them out of the rubbish and
retrieve them for families in poorer areas.
His collection of chucked away books is now
used by families wanting to help their
children with their homework, in a free
library called the Strength of Words.
"There was a lack of them in our
neighbourhood, so we started to help," said
Mr Gutierrez.His home has been overfilled with books, so
they are now taking books to poor parts of
the city or to remote areas without any
access to libraries.
"The more books we give away, the more
come to us," he said.
He has also been providing books for
fighters being demobilised in Colombia's
peace process.
A fighter from the Farc rebel group
contacted him about getting books to help
them prepare for jobs when they re-enter
civilian life.
"Books transformed me, so I think books
are a symbol of hope for those places. They
are a symbol of peace," said Mr Gutierrez.
Now in his 50s, Mr Gutierrez is going back
to study for his school leaver's exam, which
he missed first time round. www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40173423

The idea of drafting a nation's brightest new graduates to become teachers in the most deprived areas has been used in both the United States and the UK, where the approach was pioneered by Teach for America and Teach First respectively. But how would this model fare in a country where the education system had been pulverised by four decades of constant war and conflict - Afghanistan? The answer to this question is unfolding in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, where 80 graduates from Afghan universities are teaching 23,000 girls and boys in 21 schools under the Teach for Afghanistan scheme launched at the beginning of this academic year. The scheme is the realisation of the dream of its founder and chief executive, Rahmatullah Arman, who at 26 has taken on a challenge which might deter the most courageous social reformer. Mr Arman returned to Afghanistan in 2011 after studying at the University of Pune in India, where he also volunteered for the Teach for India scheme. No desks, but lots of students Impressed by the transformation he had witnessed in Indian schools, he decided to attempt something similar back home. But first he had to educate himself about what remained of the Afghan education system and the country's social fabric. He was both shocked and inspired. After 14 years of US-backed reconstruction, Afghanistan was still a country where 3.6 million children were not in school, where half of the teachers were unqualified, where 75% of pupils dropped out by the age of 15, and where the adult illiteracy rate hovered around 60%. "For me, the biggest inspiration was when I went into schools where there were no chairs, no desks, often not even teachers, but the schools were still crowded with pupils," said Mr Arman, speaking in Kabul. "I saw families taking their children to school, even where a blast could happen at any time, with all the security problems of which we are all aware, and yet still there are nine million children at school. "I saw the hope that the people have, the spirit of not giving up. They have lost their futures, but their children might have a future." He was convinced that he could give these children "Not only an education but a very good education, not by others but by Afghans themselves." So in 2013 he started to create what would become Teach for Afghanistan with help from the global educational partnership organisation, Teach for All (which was created jointly by Teach for America and Teach First in 2007). Mr Arman set high criteria for his recruitment drive. To join, applicants needed "not just a degree but at least 75% marks" as well as leadership experience and communication skills. "Something really wonderful happened," Mr Arman said. "For 80 positions we received 3,000 applications, all meeting the criteria, and 99% were from Afghan universities." Educating girls It was important that many of these "fellows" were female, to show by example that a girl could become fully educated, get a good job, and still get married and have children. In traditional Afghan communities, to be able to read and write was regarded as enough education for a girl. Teach for Afghanistan has a different view. "It is about changing mindsets, and that is a very long-term process", Mr Arman said. In one example, a female teacher, Manzoora, heard that the parents of two girls in her class of 14 to 15 year olds wanted to take them out of school. She begged the parents to come and see her; the mother came, observed lessons, talked to the teacher, went back home. And after much discussion, they decided to let the girls stay in school. Given the continuing violence within Afghanistan, did Arman fear for his own safety? "Actually, no, because the approach we take is very local, we are building good relationships with community leaders and religious leaders as well." "Since we started, we have not witnessed a single attack on any of our fellows, on any of the schools or pupils." And if, at first, some incumbent teachers and officials saw Teach for Afghanistan's fellows as competitors, they quickly learned to welcome them as partners, he added. Tackling extremism The fellows receive the same salary - about 9,000 Afghanis - as state teachers. It's not a good salary, Mr Arman agreed: "But we convince them they can have a better future, which is much more than just a salary." Throughout their two-year commitment, fellows receive leadership training and support that will open up many different opportunities for them, he added. Mr Arman is convinced that Afghanistan's future depends on releasing the potential of its youth: "Afghanistan has the youngest population in the world and I believe it could be our greatest asset." He also believed education was the most effective way of countering the appeal of extremism and terrorism. He quotes Pakistani education activist Malala Yousufzai: "I don't want to kill terrorists, I want to educate the children of terrorists". "That is the true way to eradicate extremism in my country". With help from the Malala Fund, Teach for Afghanistan has just recruited a further 30 fellows - 20 female, 10 male - to begin teaching in schools in Parwan province this month. Ultimately he hopes to be able to supply teachers to all 34 provinces: "The need is to go national, the need is huge, and we will go for it."

A Kenyan family is griped with shock and
joy as their 'dead and buried' son, Vincent
Oguyi returns home to them.
Oyugi, who lives in a rented house in the
outskirts of Narok Town, was believed to
have died in an accident last August. It was
believed that he was inside a pick-up
delivering vegetables to a local market
when the vehicle veered off the road and
killed three people working on a nearby
farm.
According to Daily Nation, the news of his
death sparked off funeral arrangements,
which resulted into the collection and burial
of a body thought to be Oyugi’s on Sunday,
December 4, 2016.
His mother explained that an autopsy and
identification of the body was done at the
Narok County Hospital before they were
granted permission to take it for burial.
Oguyi's mother happy to see her son back
and alive
READ ALSO: Nigerian man declared dead by
doctors in Australia allegedly resurrects in
India (photos)
She further added that, no DNA tests were
done because of the damage done to the
remains. She said: “The body was in bad
shape and we were convinced that it
belonged to my son, so we proceeded to
make burial arrangements, upon which we
buried him on 4th December last year."
But on Tuesday, January 3, the man who
was presumed dead walked into his family
compound in, Masaba South Sub-County,
Kisii County. He explained that he had
jumped out of the vehicle before it veered
off the road.
He said: “It is true I was in the vehicle but I
jumped out shortly before it rolled, I got a
scratch but walked away shocked and did
not come back to the scene."
He added that he had all the while been at
his residence in Narok and was not aware
that his family was looking for him.
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The family members could not come to
terms with the miracle as they began to
check his body for familiar signs to confirm
he was really there.
Oyugi’s uncles, Mose Ombeche and Samuel
Ombogo, said the news of the resurrection
had seriously surprised them. Ombogo also
said tradition demands that a resurrected
man should be cleansed before allowing
him into the house.
“In such circumstances, he would not be
allowed home until certain rites are
conducted, we will have to first buy a white
male chicken or white goat. They will be
killed and eaten by the family to cleanse
him. When the body that is buried here is
exhumed, we will put the innards of the
white goat into the grave to cleanse the
family.” https://https-www-naij-com.0.freebasics.com/1081209-joy-son-presumed-dead-buried-returns-home-family-video-photos.html?iorg_service_id_internal=692981340802115%3BAfrVdFk7I7iSJkgn

- The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim
Idris has rewarded some police officers for
their hard work
- The officers have been specially promoted
to encourage them and others to work
harder
- They were responsible for the
apprehension of Lagos most wanted
kidnapper, Duneme Onwuamadike
popularly known as Evans.
A report by Daily Sun indicates that the
Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris,
has approved the special promotion of
policemen who participated in the hunt and
arrest of Lagos most wanted kidnapper,
Duneme Onwuamadike popularly known as
Evans.
According to the report, the IGP decided to
motivate his men to do more exploits after
he was commended by the presidency for
Evans arrest.
A source quoted in the report said the
police officers involved are; 35 operatives of
Intelligence Response Team (IRT), 11 from
the Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU) and one
person from the IGP monitoring section.
READ ALSO: Victim narrates how he was
kidnapped by notorious kidnapper
'Evans' (photos)
The memo where the promotion was
approved was signed by the commissioner
of police in charge of welfare, Posi Ajunwa.
29 sergeants were promoted to rank of
inspector, while three corporals were
promoted to the rank of sergeant with
effect from Saturday, June 16.
Excited, some of the beneficiaries especially
the rank file who could not hold back their
excitement promised to work harder.
Meanwhile, the wife of Evans has revealed
that she was not privy to the criminal
activities of her husband
Speaking to Vanguard, the woman revealed
that she could not believe all that she had
heard about her husband.
She said she did not know he was a
criminal because he presented himself as a
God fearing man who always led the family
in prayer.
“I feel very bad because I did not know if
he was doing all these or not. Even if he
was into all these, why did he not stop
because of me and his children? All the time
when we pray, he used to promise God that
he would tell Him his story later in life,” she
said.
NAIJ.com had earlier reported that Evans
confessed that he was caught by the police
because his charm failed him. https://https-www-naij-com.0.freebasics.com/1110497-igp-idris-promotes-policemen-nabbed-evans-kidnapper.html?iorg_service_id_internal=692981340802115%3BAfrVdFk7I7iSJkgn

Facebook has announced details of steps it is taking to remove terrorist-related content. The move comes after growing pressure from governments for technology companies to do more to take down material such as terrorist propaganda. In a series of blog posts by senior figures and an interview with the BBC, Facebook says it wants to be more open about the work it is doing. The company told the BBC it was using artificial intelligence to spot images, videos and text related to terrorism as well as clusters of fake accounts. "We want to find terrorist content immediately, before people in our community have seen it," it said. No safe space The ability of so-called Islamic State to use technology to radicalise and recruit people has raised major questions for the large technology companies. They have been criticised for running platforms used to spread extremist ideology and inspire people to carry out acts of violence. Governments, and the UK in particular, have been pushing for more action in recent months, and across Europe talk has been moving towards legislation or regulation. Earlier this week in Paris, the British prime minister and the president of France launched a joint campaign to ensure the internet could not be used as a safe space for terrorists and criminals. Among the issues being looked at, they said, was creating a new legal liability for companies if they failed to remove certain content, which could include fines. Facebook says it is committed to finding new ways to find and remove material - and now wants to do more than talk about it. "We want to be very open with our community about what we're trying to do to make sure that Facebook is a really hostile environment for terror groups," Monika Bickert, director of global policy management at Facebook, told the BBC. One criticism British security officials make is of the extent to which companies rely on others to report extremist content rather than acting proactively themselves. Facebook has previously announced it is adding 3,000 employees to review content flagged by users. But it also says that already more than half of the accounts that it removes for supporting terrorism are ones that it finds itself. It says it is also now using new technology to improve its proactive work. "We know we can do better at using technology - and specifically artificial intelligence - to stop the spread of terrorist content on Facebook," the company says. Automatic analysis One aspect of the novel technology it is talking about for the first time is image matching. If someone tries to upload a terrorist photo or video, the systems look to see if this matches previous known extremist content to stop it going up in the first place. A second area is experimenting with AI to understand text that might be advocating terrorism. This is analysing text previously removed for praising or supporting a group such as IS and trying to work out text-based signals that such content may be terrorist propaganda. That analysis goes into an algorithm learning how to detect similar posts. Machine learning should mean that this process will improve over time. The company says it is also using algorithms to detect "clusters" of accounts or images relating to support for terrorism. This will involve looking for signals such as whether an account is friends with a high number of accounts that have been disabled for supporting terrorism. The company also says it is working on ways to keep pace with "repeat offenders" who create accounts just to post terrorist material and look for ways of circumventing existing systems and controls. "Our technology is going to continue to evolve just as we see the terror threat continue to evolve online," Ms Bickert told the BBC. "Our solutions have to be very dynamic." One of the major challenges in automating the process is the risk of taking down material relating to terrorism but not actually supporting it - such as news articles referring to an IS propaganda video that might feature its text or images. Whereas any image of child sexual abuse is illegal and can be taken down, an image relating to terrorism - such as an IS member waving a flag - can be used to glorify an act in one context or be used as part of a counter-extremism campaign in another. "Context is everything," Ms Bickert said. Caught out The company says its algorithms are not yet as good as people at understanding the context that helps distinguish between the different categories. Facebook says it has grown its team of specialists so that it now has 150 people working on counter-terrorism specifically, including academic experts on counterterrorism, former prosecutors, former law enforcement agents and analysts, and engineers. Ms Bickert said: "We have to have people who can review it. "I like to think of it as using the computers to do what computers do well and using people to do what people do well." Challenges remain. A few minutes after creating an account in a made-up name, I was able to find complete versions of IS propaganda videos that included the beheading of Western hostages. Critics argue that the challenges may be enormous in a site with two billion users but the company makes billions of dollars from the content on its site and could devote more resources - and more of its best engineers - to dealing with the issue. The company says it has begun focusing its "most cutting edge techniques" to combat the problem and clearly now believes it needs to be seen to be acting.

In an interview recently granted by former
Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode,
he insisted that Abiola was given a
poisoned tea by Former US National Security
Advisor, Susan Rice, because he refused to
relinquish his mandate. Source:https://https-www-naij-com.0.freebasics.com/1110266-fani-kayode-reveals-mko-abiola-murdered-video.html?iorg_service_id_internal=692981340802115%3BAfrVdFk7I7iSJkgn

More than 160 people are now known to have died in Sunday's appalling attack in Baghdad. It is just one of eight different attacks believed to have been carried out by the so-called Islamic State (IS) over the last month - the Muslim month of Ramadan. In total, more than 300 people have died in such atrocities from Orlando to Dhaka to Istanbul. IS is also suspected of being behind an attack on one of the holiest sites in Islam on Monday - the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Ramadan is traditionally viewed as the most holy and spiritual month in the Islamic calendar, a time of penance and temperance. For 30 days, Muslims abstain from drink and food during sunlight hours and believe that God is at his most forgiving during this time. Mosques are consequently fuller than usual, typically packed with worshippers seeking divine mercy and blessings. Juxtaposed alongside that ascetic puritanism is the view of radicals who regard Ramadan as a month of conquest and plunder. They believe it is an opportune moment to double down on their millenarian war against civilisation and therefore launch more attacks than normal. Indeed, al-Qaeda's official chapter in Syria, the Nusra Front, recently described it as "a month of conquests." As Ramadan approached, IS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani told supporters around the world; "Get prepared, be ready to make it a month of calamity everywhere for the non-believers... especially for the fighters and supporters of the caliphate in Europe and America." This is the clarion call that likely roused lone wolves such as Omar Mateen, who massacred 49 revellers at a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, after pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-styled Caliph currently ruling over a significant portion of Syria and Iraq. 'Path of Allah' The belief in Ramadan as a month of war comes from Islamic history itself. The Prophet Muhammad waged his first jihad, known as the Battle of Badr, during Ramadan in 624. Eight years later he also conquered Mecca during the month of Ramadan, thereby claiming the city which houses one of Islam's most holy sites today: the Kaaba. The attack on the Prophet's tomb caused shock across the Islamic world - raising the question of why IS might chose to bomb the burial site of Islam's most central figure? IS adopts an ultra-literal and puritanical form of Islam that - contrary to most Muslims - believes the Prophet's Mosque is actually a shrine, because the Prophet is buried within its confines. As a result, they regard it as distracting people from the worship of God alone and believe the site should be demolished. That kind of thinking fuels the radical belief that jihad is, in itself, much more than just a militaristic action. It is also seen as an act of worship akin to ordinary ritual acts and is fought "fi sabil Allah" (in the path of Allah). Abdullah Azzam, who is often referred to as "the godfather of modern jihad" because he led the original Arab foreign fighters in Afghanistan during the 1980s, argued that "neglecting jihad is like abandoning fasting and praying." Later, he wrote, "jihad is the most excellent form of worship, and by its means the Muslim can reach the highest of ranks [of paradise]." Extremist interpretations Ordinary Muslims rightfully despair at these interpretations of jihad and its link to Ramadan. For them it is a month of restraint and reflection - but such is the crisis of modern Islam that extremist interpretations of the same idea are almost wholly divorced from normative understandings. To the radical mind, if additional prayer and alms giving is encouraged in Ramadan - then why not more bloodshed too? View it that way and you understand precisely the line of reasoning that has given rise to such a grisly and gruesome death toll this year.

So-called Islamic State has said it carried out a deadly attack on a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul in an area dominated by minority Shia Muslims. The Sunni extremist group claimed responsibility for the al-Zahra mosque suicide bombing, which left four people dead, through its Amaq news agency. Among those reportedly killed were a police officer and a prominent local figure who founded the mosque. The attack comes during the holy month of Ramadan. It took place at the end of the daily fast. There have been reports that senior officials had been due to attend services at the mosque, on the western edge of the city. During these particular nights of Ramadan, the Shia hold rituals for martyrdom of Imam Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad. According to a statement on interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish's social media profiles, the attacker had attempted to enter the mosque but was barred from reaching the prayer hall. Instead, he triggered a bomb in the kitchen. It has also been reported that the sounds of gunfire rang out after the explosion, which also left four police officers and four civilians wounded. An attack last month in Kabul killed 90 people when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb hidden inside a tanker truck close to the heavily protected diplomatic area during the morning rush hour. Some 400 people were injured by that blast, which left a deep crater. No group has said it carried out that attack but Taliban militants denied being involved. Recent bomb attacks in Kabul have been claimed either by the Taliban or so-called Islamic State (IS). The attack was followed by a series of protests against the deterioration of security, during which five people died when police fired on protesters. Suicide bombers later targeted the funeral of one of the protesters, killing at least seven people. Another 100 people were injured. Why are people being attacked during Ramadan? In recent years, there seems to have been a noticeable spike in violence during Ramadan - despite it being a time for penance and temperance. But while most Muslims view it as such, Shiraz Maher, of King's College London, explained in an article for the BBC last year that others see it differently. "For 30 days, Muslims abstain from drink and food during sunlight hours and believe that God is at his most forgiving during this time," he wrote. "Mosques are consequently fuller than usual, typically packed with worshippers seeking divine mercy and blessings. "Juxtaposed alongside that ascetic puritanism is the view of radicals who regard Ramadan as a month of conquest and plunder. "They believe it is an opportune moment to double down on their millenarian war against civilisation and therefore launch more attacks than normal." source www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40296509

If you are buying your dad a present for Father's Day on Sunday, I bet you don't spend as much as you did on your mum for Mother's Day. With Father's Day due to be celebrated on 18 June in the UK, US and more than 70 other countries from Argentina to Zambia, retailers around the world are set to enjoy a significant boost. But while the amount of money we all spend on Father's Day continues to go up every year, it still trails far behind Mother's Day. In the US, the average amount spent on gifts per dad this weekend is expected to be $135 (£106), says the National Retail Federation (NRF), with total spending expected to reach $15.5bn. By contrast, Americans spent an average of $186 on Mother's Day presents this year, for a total $23.6bn, says the NRF. This is a third more and the figures for the UK paint the same picture. So why do we spend more on our mums? Dr Lars Perner, a consumer psychologist at the University of Southern California, says that most of us simply think our mothers deserve better or bigger presents. "To some extent, wrong or right, mothers are often considered to be the biggest contributor to the home life. "People tend to understand the sacrifices they make, that's what you see. Moms have a special place in people's hearts - there's a special idea of what they offer the family." Dr Perner adds that perhaps dads are also "less interested in tangible tokens of appreciation". "I think fathers think they don't really need expensive, showy trinkets, or anything like mom's bouquet of flowers." he says. "They're not typically gift oriented. They generally don't expect anyone to feel an obligation to buy material items for them." But before millions of dads complain that they really would like some generous gifts this weekend, Prof Kyle Murray, of the Alberta School of Business in Canada, says figures show that every year more money is being spent on Father's Day. "Retailers have long made a big push on Mother's Day because demand for gift- giving was strong, and Father's Day more of an afterthought," he says. With traditional gender roles continue to break down, and fathers are doing more housework and hands-on parenting "it is not surprising to see more emphasis on Father's Day," says Prof Murray. He adds: "Retailers are of course happy to cater to consumer demand and have been ramping up their Father's Day promotions, as it becomes a more active spending occasion." Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, adds that as today's fathers have a "more emotional" relationship with their children than past generations, it makes it "a whole lot easier to buy presents for him, because his kids know him on a deeper level". Father's Day facts The modern Father's Day is an American invention, with the first widespread celebration taking place on 1910, two year's after the first Mother's Day celebration While Mother's Day was officially recognised by the US government in 1913, Father's Day had to wait until 1972 Unlike Mother's Day, Father's Day is celebrated on the same day in the US and the UK - the third Sunday in June Portugal, Spain and Italy are rare exceptions, celebrating Father's Day on 19 March, which is also St Joseph's Day - the date chosen to celebrate Joseph, the husband of Jesus' mother Father's Day started to be marked in the UK after World War Two More than 70 countries now mark Father's Day on the third Sunday in June But what presents should you buy your dad for Sunday? Male grooming products remain a hardy perennial, with firms in that sector looking forward to a significant rise in sales. In London, Truefitt & Hill, the world's oldest barber shop, says that sales of its shaving, hair care and aftershaves go up significantly this week. Joanna Broughton, managing director of the business, which also has outlets around the world, and an online operation, says: "We do find that our Father's Day offers are exceptionally popular, and we do find ourselves exceptionally busy on this very special occasion." Meanwhile, US shaving giant Gillette is for the second year in a row running a promotional campaign. The "Go Ask Dad" initiative encourages sons to ask their fathers for advice rather than look things up on the internet. "We've always been a champion of Father's Day, and passing on shaving traditions," says Barbara Diecker, North American communication manager for Gillette. For dads who might be hoping for something more fun than a new razor this weekend, a number of surveys on both sides of the Atlantic are a useful guide to what you may receive. In the US, the most popular Father's Day presents, in descending order are - dinner or brunch, clothes, gift cards, power tools, personal care products, sports goods, and car related items. Meanwhile, the best-selling gifts in the UK are chocolate, alcohol, books, gadgets and aftershave. And the total UK spend in 2015 was £684m, up from £658m in 2014. If you are going to buy your dad a present you'll probably buy a card, too. But yet again, you are unlikely to spend as much on the card as you did for your mother. Last year the average amount spent on a Father's Day card in the UK was £1.85, says the Greeting Card Association of the UK, comparer to £2.09 for a Mother's Day card. Miles Robinson, co-founder of UK card-shop chain House of Cards, agrees that "dads don't get quite the same recognition" as mums."Perhaps fathers aren't so bothered about the sentimental side of cards, or gift giving, at Father's Day as mums are for Mother's Day, but we think it's just as important to remember and recognise the role that dads play." Yet while mums may overall get more generous presents and more expensive cards, there may be one area where dads come out on top - we buy them nicer bottles of booze. UK wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd says that its figures suggest that customers are spending more on wine and spirits for Father's Day than for Mother's Day. While it hasn't revealed its underlying sales figures, it says that last year the value of products bought for Father's Day soared by 240%, compared with an increase of just 13% for Mother's Day. Best-sellers for Father's Day include its own- label gin, whiskies and "Good Ordinary Claret", its popular red wine from Bordeaux in France.

By Stephanie Hegarty
BBC News, Lagos It is one of Facebook's fastest growing
communities and has become such a
phenomenon that last week, Mark
Zuckerberg asked to meet its founder. But
what is Fin?
Female IN or Fin is a "secret" Facebook
group that has recently clocked up over a
million members, largely from Nigeria.
But it's a secret that founder Lola Omolola
wants you to know all about - if you're a
woman that is.
Though it has a vaguely romantic air, secret
is just Facebook terminology, Ms Omolala
says. It means invitation-only - you need to
know a member to get in.
"It's a safe place, for a woman who has
something to say," Ms Omolola explains.
"You don't have to agree but it is her story,
she can say it."
The group is a sort of confessional space,
where women share stories that they might
be uncomfortable - or even afraid - to tell in
person.
It doesn't offer anonymity - members have
to post under their real names.
And the stories are stunning, although they
remain strictly confidential.
In the few days that I've been a Finster, I've
read testimonies on domestic abuse,
physical and emotional violence, child abuse
and rape.
One woman speaks about the moment she
told her parents she was about to have a
child as a single girl of 17, another about
finally being accepted as a lesbian by her
mother after many years.
They are brave and intimate, telling of failed
relationships or unconventional sexual
preferences.
The posts are brutally honest but many of
them are laced with self-deprecating
humour.
Like the woman who mortified herself on a
first date in front of a banquet hall of people
or the lady who stole the keys of a bus
driver after he bumped her car and refused
to apologise.
Many of the stories speak of a distinctly
Nigerian experience.
Until recently the group was called Female In
Nigeria, so it's not a surprise that most of its
members are just that.
"The Nigerian woman has been the core of
this process, because I am a Nigerian
woman," says Ms Omolala.
A former journalist, she moved from Nigeria
to the US in the early 2000s at the age of 24
and started the group nearly three years
ago.
She had had an idea to start something for
some time - a forum where Nigerian women
could talk openly about the issues that
affected them. But it was the kidnap of the
Chibok girls that drove her to do it.
"I knew the cause of it," she says.
"When you grow up in a place where a
woman's voice is not even valid, everything
reinforces that idea that we're not good
enough."
It didn't surprise her that a group of men
could kidnap and enslave these girls,
because they didn't see them as equals.
"Between the ages of three and six I noticed
that whenever a girl shows any sign of self-
awareness she gets silenced. When I said
anything I got a pinch - a real, live pinch."
Those pinches came from aunties, uncles,
even her mother but never from her father.
And it's him that Ms Omolola traces her early
feminism to.
Her father was a part-time businessman and
was often at home with the children while
her mum worked as full-time haematologist.
"We never felt any gender disparity," she
says.
"I realise now how much effort it must have
taken. It was not something he was just
stumbling into. It was an active choice."
Fin started out as a group where women
could discuss women's issues - one of the
first blogs was on domestic violence - and
Ms Omolola expected it to be an abstract
conversation.
But women responded with their own
stories.
Almost instantly it became a place where
people could share things they had never
shared before.
"When we started I used to cry. I stopped
sleeping, I stopped eating," she says. "I was
not ready for the stories that were coming
out."
"There were women who had been abused
for 40 years and hadn't told anyone. No-one
should live like that."
Now the group gets hundreds of
applications for posts every day but they are
managed and approved by a group of 28
volunteers. About four or five make it on the
page.
Fin has strict rules. Above anything else,
Finsters are not allowed to judge each other.
Any negative comments are removed, as is
the member who posts them.
"I noticed that those people who try to shut
women up in real life, they came there," says
Ms Omolola.
"They are so deeply conditioned to work
against their own interest.
"It's the online version of the pinch and the
shush."
But the pinchers and shushers were
persistent.
In a religiously conservative society like
Nigeria, expressions of female sexual
freedom were never going to go
unchallenged.
Some members tried to get around the ban
by commenting with passages from the
bible which condemned the woman's
actions.
That inspired a second rule - no preaching.
"We prohibit religious-themed advice," it
says in the rules. "Fin is not a place of
worship."
People have likened Fin and its founder to
the devil, they've called the group evil, a
corrupter of young women.
Ms Omolola says she has been the subject of
concerted attacks by church groups. But
she's not worried.
"Most people think that the controversy
would kill me," she says. "They don't realise
that it's actually empowering me."
After amassing a million-strong membership
and a high-profile meeting with Mr
Zuckerberg, what is next for Fin?
Ms Omolola has dreams of expanding the
group into bricks and mortar, providing
centres where women can go to talk about
their experiences in a safe space.
But that may be a long way off.
"It needs money and right now I have
none," she says. "I can't even pay my rent."
It's something that she discussed with
Zuckerberg and though Facebook haven't
offered funding yet, she's still in
conversation with it on how to move the
group forward.
From day one, she says, she had offers from
companies who want to advertise on Fin
but she has refused to monetise women's
stories.
On Mr Zuckerberg's prompt she is now
focusing on promoting the message of the
site - female empowerment and tolerance.
And she's doing interviews for the first time. Source www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40261913

EKSU have wifi but nt through strong and network nt available everywhere in d campus

No can bobo us again wit all dis lies. I rememba d last tym they fight nxt few month they release album. All dis fight tin na confirm lies jst 2 gain more attention.

Suggestion pls, jamb officer shld be given automatic political post. Who is fooling who. Reject million of naira lyk dat wen he, himself is collecting bribe 4rm private institution.

BUHARI & INHUMAN ACTION
List of people that was jailed by Buhari in 1984;
I. Chief Bisi Onabanjo
2. Chief Bola Ige
3. Chief adekunle Ajasin
4 Chief Sam Mbakwe
5. Chief Ambrose Alli
6. Chief ApaAku
7. Chief Jim Mwobodo
8. Chief L Kayode Jakande
9. Chief Alex Ekwueme
10. Chief Obafemi Awolowo ( house in Apapa buggled and looted).
If not Buhari government is anti-human, why did he order;
1. Chief Shehu Shgari (house arrest )
2. Akinloye ( resting in London)
3. Chief Akinjide (resting in london)
4. Uba Ahmed (allowed to eloped with our money to the USA.
5. Umaru Dikko (cooling self in London. Later his forceful extradition
was botched by insider. His perception of corrupt man is southerners
while 95% of people he put behind bars are non NPN (we all know
what that party means) but southerners as 95% of those he jailed
remained the symbol of this same democracy he wants to benefit from
today.
Our memeories aren't short anymore. Away with another junta. Away
with a man filled with animosity. So, let's vote against him the 4th
time with our votes once more.

OPINION POLL: VOTE NOW/ Between president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan & General Muhammadu Buhari who u trust with ur money resources & ur home to manage? Voting starts new & ends in 24 hours & shortly after the result of the poll will be released on this medium.. Be warned that u are not permitted to vote more than once¡ Eligible voters are all those that have seen this on this medium

10 TYPES OF FRESHERS YOU
MEET ON CAMPUS
Here are some of the types of
freshers you meet in the campus:-
1. The JJCs every little thing
amazes them(the buildings,
crowd, cars. Etc) You begin to
wonder if it is their first time of
going out.
2. The ajebohs they flaunt their
wealth in the campus and remind
you who their father is at every
slightest opportunity. They display
their phones; take people out for
a treat regularly to impress.
Majority of the people in this
category got the money via
extortion from their parents and
everything normally cease after
their first year in school.
3. The gurus first to ask and
answer questions in the class,
suggests taking their mates
tutorials and depends in the past
glory from their secondary school.
If you fall in this category, just
pray you don’t meet some silent
and low key gurus in your class
that will outshine you if you don’t
work hard.
4. The womanizers the only thing
they think of is how to get the
opposite sex. The guys
desperately want to date every
girl on campus maybe because of
the freedom and access they
enjoy.
5. The socialites similar to the
womanizers. They want to be
everywhere, associate with
everybody on campus. You find
them in all parties, fellowships,
community days and they even
forget their main motive of being
in the campus.
6. The politicians few weeks after
reg and they start vying for post
(s). They contest for the class/
course rep as if they are
contesting for president.
7. The historians some will always
tell you about their family,
previous school. The most
annoying ones are those that
always refer to their age and the
number of times they
have written jamb. Like who
cares!!!
8. The oversabis they claim to
know everything going on in the
school already as if they have
spent 7 years. They try to put
people through the reg, knows
the names of all the lecturers but
you later discover they themselves
are naïve.
9. The preachers after resumption
theirs is to win as many souls as
possible.
10. And the categories of Cool,
social, brilliant, handsome/
beautiful and well packaged guy/
lady
Abeg make una add una own...
Which num are u fa ,thank u

B:Bokoharam.
U:Unleashed.
H:Harm.
A:Against.
R:Real.
I:Indigene.

Contd
Nothing beyond the fact that
he once warned in the media
that Buhari was an ambitious
soldier who would bear
watching through the lenses
of a coup-detat. Babatope’s
father died while he was in
Buhari’s custody, the dictator
remained deaf to every plea
that he be at least released
to attend his father’s funeral,
even under guard. I wrote an
article at the time,
denouncing this pointless
insensitivity. So little to
demand by a man who was
never accused of, nor tried
for any crime,much less
found guilty. Such a load of
vindictiveness that
smothered all traces of basic
human compassion deserves
no further comment in a
nation that values its
traditions.
But then, speaking the truth
was not what Buhari, as a
self-imposed leader, was
especially enamoured of
enquire of Tunde Thompson
and Nduka Irabor both of
whom, faithful to their
journalistic calling, published
nothing but the truth, yet
ended up sentenced under
Buhari’s decree. Mind you,
no one can say that Buhari
was not true to his word.
Shall tamper with the
freedom of the press swore
the dictator immediately on
grabbing office, and this was
exactly what he did. And so
on, and on, and on……

Contd. This royal
duo went to Israel on their
private steam and private
business. Simply because the
Buhari regime was pursuing
some antagonistic foreign
policy towards Israel, a policy
of which these traditional
rulers were not a part, they
were subjected on their
return to a treatment that
could only be described as a
head masterly chastisement
of errant pupils. Since when,
may one ask, did a free
citizen of the Nigerian nation
require the permission of a
head of state to visit a
foreign nation that was
willing to offer that tourist a
visa? One is only too aware
that some Nigerians love to
point to Buhari’s agenda of
discipline as the shining jewel
in his scrap-iron crown. To
inculcate discipline however,
one must lead by example,
obeying laws set down as
guides to public probity.
Example speaks louder than
declarations, and rulers
cannot exempt themselves
from the disciplinary
structures imposed on the
overall polity, especially on
any issue that seeks to
establish a policy for public
well-being. The story of the
thirty something suitcases it
would appear that they were
even closer to fifty – found
unavoidable mention in my
recent memoirs, YOU MUST
SET FORTH AT DOWN,
written long before Buhari
became spoken of as a
credible candidate. For the
exercise of a changeover of
the national currency, the
Nigerian borders air, sea and
land had been shut tight.
Nothing was supposed to
move in or out, not even
cattle egrets.
Yet a prominent camel was
allowed through that needles
eye. Not only did Buhari
dispatch his aide-de-camp,
Jokolo later to become an
emir- to facilitate the entry of
those cases, he ordered the
redeployment as I later
discovered – of the Customs
Officer who stood firmly
against the entry of the
contravening baggage. That
officer, the incumbent Vice-
president is now a rival
candidate to Buhari, but has
somehow, in the meantime,
earned a reputation that
totally contradicts his
conduct at the time.
Wherever the truth lies, it
does not redound to the
credibility of the dictator of
that time, General Buhari
whose word was law, but
whose allegiances were
clearly negotiable.
On the theme of double,
triple, multiple standards in
the enforcement of the law,
and indeed of the decrees
passed by the Buhari regime
at the time, let us recall the
notorious case of Triple
Alhaji Alhaji Alhaji, then
Permanent Secretary in the
Ministry of Finance. Who was
caught, literally, with his
pants down in distant
Austria. That was not the
crime however, and private
conduct should always
remain restricted to the
domain of private censure.
There was no decree against
civil servants proving just as
hormone driven as anyone
else, especially outside the
nation’s borders.
However, there was a clear
decree against the keeping of
foreign accounts, and this
was what emerged from the
Austrian escapade. Alhaji
Alhaji kept, not one, but
several undeclared foreign
accounts, and he had no
business being in possession
of the large amount of
foreign currency of which he
was robbed by his overnight
companion. The media
screamed for an even
application of the law, but
Buhari had turned suddenly
deaf. By contrast, Fela
Anikulapo languished in goal
for years, sentenced under
that very draconian decree.
His crime was being in
possession of foreign
exchange that he had
legitimately received for the
immediate upkeep of his
band as they set off for an
international engagement. A
vicious sentence was slapped
down on Fela by a judge who
later became so remorse
stricken at least after
Buhari’s overthrow that he
went to the King of Afro-beat
and apologized.
Lesser known was the
traumatic experience of the
director of an international
communication agency, an
affiliate of UNESCO. Akin
Fatoyinbo arrived at the
airport in complete ignorance
of the new currency decree.
He was thrown in gaol in
especially brutal condition,
an experience from which he
never fully recovered. It took
several months of high-level
intervention before that
innocent man was eventually
freed. These were not
exceptional but mere sample
cases from among hundreds
of others, victims of a decree
that was selectively applied, a
decree that routinely
penalized innocents and
ruined the careers and
businesses of many.
What else? What does one
choose to include or leave
out? What precisely was
Ebenezer Babatope’s crime
that he should have spent
the entire tenure of General
Buhari in detention?

Cont. Tai who
stood at street corners,
fearlessly distributing leaflets
that took up the gauntlet
where the media had
dropped it. Tai who was
incarcerated by that regime
and denied even the
medication for his asthmatic
condition? Tai did not ask to
be sent for treatment
overseas; all he asked was
his traditional medicine that
had proved so effective after
years of struggle with
asthma! Nor must we omit
the manner of Buhari coming
to power and the pattern of
his corrective rule. Shagari’s
NPN had already run out of
steam and was near
universally detested except
of course by the handful that
still benefited from that
regime of profligacy and
rabid fascism. Responsibility
for the national condition lay
squarely at the door of the
ruling party, obviously, but
against whom was Buharis
coup staged? Judging by the
conduct of that regime, it
was not against Shagaris
government but against the
opposition. The head of
government, on whom
primary responsibility lay,
was Shehu Shagari. Yet that
individual was kept in cozy
house detention in Ikoyi
while his powerless deputy,
Alex Ekwueme, was locked up
in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was
the Buhari notion of
equitable apportionment of
guilt and/or responsibility.
And then the cascade of
escapes of the wanted, and
culpable politicians.
Manhunts across the length
and breadth of the nation,
roadblocks everywhere and
borders tight as steel zip
locks. Lo and behold, the
chairman of the party, Chief
Akinloye, strolled out coolly
across the border. Richard
Akinjide, Legal Protector of
the ruling party, slipped out
with equal ease. The Rice
Minister, Umaru Dikko, who
declared that Nigerians were
yet to eat f’rom dustbins –
escaped through the same
airtight dragnet. The clumsy
attempt to crate him home
was punishment for his
ingratitude, since he went
berserk when, after waiting
in vain, he concluded that the
coup had not been staged,
after all, for the immediate
consolidation of the party of
extreme right-wing vultures,
but for the military hyenas.
The case of the overbearing
Secretary-General of the
party, Uba Ahmed, was even
more noxious. Uba Ahmed
was out of the country at the
time. Despite the closure of
the Nigerian airspace, he
compelled the pilot of his
plane to demand special
landing permission, since his
passenger load included the
almighty Uba Ahmed. Of
course, he had not known of
the change in his status since
he was airborne. The
delighted airport
commandant, realizing that
he had a much valued fish
swimming willingly into a
waiting net, approved the
request. Uba Ahmed
disembarked into the arms of
a military guard and was
promptly clamped in
detention.
Incredibly, he vanished a few
days after and reappeared in
safety overseas. Those
whose memories have
become calcified should
explore the media coverage
of that saga. Buhari was
asked to explain the vanished
act of this much prized
quarry and his response was
one of the most arrogant
levity. Coming from one who
had shot his way into power
on the slogan of discipline, it
was nothing short of
impudent. Shall we revisit the
tragicomic series of trials
that landed several
politicians several lifetimes in
prison? Recall, if you please,
the judicial processes
undergone by the
septuagenarian Chief
Adekunle Ajasin. He was
arraigned and tried before
Buhari’s punitive tribunal but
acquitted. Dissatisfied,
Buhari ordered his re-trial.
Again, the Tribunal could not
find this man guilty of a
single crime, so once again
he was returned for trial,
only to be acquitted of all
charges of corruption or
abuse of office. Was Chief
Ajasin thereby released? No!
He was ordered detained
indefinitely, simply for the
crime of winning an election
and refusing to knuckle
under Shagari’s reign of
terror. The conduct of the
Buhari regime after his coup
was not merely one of
double, triple, multiple
standards but a cynical
travesty of justice. Audu
Ogbeh, currently chairman of
the Action Congress was one
of the few figures of
rectitude within the NPN.
Just as he has done in recent
times with the PDP, he played
the role of an internal critic
and reformer, warning,
dissenting, and setting an
example of probity within his
ministry. For that crime he
spent months in unjust
incarceration.
Guilty by association? Well, if
that was the motivating
yardstick of the
administration of the Buhari
justice, then it was most
selectively applied.
The utmost severity of the
Buhari-Idiagbonjustice was
especially reserved either for
the opposition in general, or
for those within the ruling
party who had showed the
sheerest sense of
responsibility and patriotism.
Shall I remind this nation of
Buhari’s deliberate
humiliating treatment of the
Emir of Kano and the Oni of
Ife over their visit to the
state of Israel? I hold no
brief for traditional rulers
and their relationship with
governments, but insist on
regarding them as entitled to
all the rights, privileges and
responsibilities of any
Nigerian citizen.

The Many Crimes Of Buhari
By Prof. Wole Soyinka
0
BY ASSISTANT OPINION
EDITOR ON DECEMBER 18,
2014 OPINION
The grounds on which
General Buhari is being
promoted as the alternative
choice are not only shaky, but
pitifully naive. History
matters. Records are not
kept simply to assist the
weakness of memory, but to
operate as guides to the
future. Of course, we know
that human beings change.
What the claims of
personality change or
transformation impose on us
is a rigorous inspection of
the evidence, not wishful
speculation or behind-the-
scenes assurances. Public
offence, crimes against a
polity, must be answered in
the public space, not in
caucuses of bargaining. In
Buhari, we have been offered
no evidence of the sheerest
prospect of change. On the
contrary, all evident suggests
that this is one individual
who remains convinced that
this is one ex-ruler that the
nation cannot call to order
Buhari? Need one remind
anyone – was one of the
generals who treated a
Commission of Enquiry, the
Oputa Panel, with
unconcealed disdain. Like
Babangida and Abdusalami,
he refused to put in
appearance even though
complaints that were tabled
against him involved a career
of gross abuses of power
and blatant assault on the
fundamental human rights of
the Nigerian citizenry.
Prominent against these
charges was an act that
amounted to nothing less
than judicial murder, the
execution of a citizen under a
retroactive decree. Does
Decree 20 ring a bell? If not,
then, perhaps the names of
three youths – Lawal
Ojuolape (30), Bernard
Ogedengbe (29) and
Bartholomew Owoh (26) do.
To put it quite plainly, one of
those three Ogedengbe –
was executed for a crime
that did not carry a capital
forfeit at the time it was
committed. This was an
unconscionable crime,
carried out in defiance of the
pleas and protests of nearly
every sector of the Nigerian
and international community
religious, civil rights, political,
trade unions etc.
Buhari and his sidekick and
his partner-in-crime, Tunde
Idiagbon persisted in this
inhuman act for one reason
and one reason only: to place
Nigerians on notice that they
were now under an iron,
inflexible rule, under
governance by fear. The
execution of that youthful
innocent for so he was, since
the punishment did not exist
at the time of commission –
was nothing short of
premeditated murder, for
which the perpetrators
should normally stand trial
upon their loss of immunity.
Are we truly expected to
forget this violation of our
entitlement to security as
provided under existing
laws? And even if our
sensibilities have become
blunted by succeeding
seasons of cruelty and
brutality, if power itself had
so coarsened the sensibilities
also of rulers and corrupted
their judgment, what should
one rightly expect after they
have been rescued from the
snare of power. At the very
least, a revaluation, leading
hopefully to remorse, and its
expression to a wronged
society. At the very least,
such a revaluation should
engender reticence, silence.
In the case of Buhari, it was
the opposite. Since leaving
office he has declared in the
most categorical terms that
he had no regrets over this
murder and would do so
again. Human life is inviolate.
The right to life is the
uniquely fundamental right
on which all other rights are
based. The crime that
General Buhari committed
against the entire nation
went further however,
inconceivable as it might first
appear. That crime is one of
the most profound negations
of civic being. Not content
with hammering down the
freedom of expression in
general terms, Buhari
specifically forbade all public
discussion of a return to
civilian, democratic rule. Let
us constantly applaud our
media those battle scarred
professionals did not
completely knuckle down.
They resorted to cartoons
and oblique, elliptical
references to sustain the
people’s campaign for a
time-table to democratic
rule. Overt agitation for a
democratic time table
however remained rigorously
suppressed military
dictatorship, and a
specifically incorporated in
Buhari and Idiagbon was
here to stay. To deprive a
people of volition in their
own political direction is to
turn a nation into a colony of
slaves. Buhari enslaved the
nation. He gloated and
gloried in a master-slave
relation to the millions of its
inhabitants. It is astonishing
to find that the same former
slaves, now free of their
chains, should clamour to be
ruled by one who not only
turned their nation into a
slave plantation, but forbade
them any discussion of their
condition. So Tai Solarin is
already forgotten? Tai who
stood at street corners,
fearlessly distributing leaflets
that took up the gauntlet
where the media had
dropped it. Tai who was
incarcerated by that regime
and denied even the
medication for his asthmatic
condition?

EKSU supplementary admission list 2014/15 have been release on jamb website. U can check it by going 2 jamb.org.ng under 2014 click check admsn status, enter ur jamb reg no n submit.