₦airaland Forum

Gunmen, suspected to be cultists, on Saturday morning killed a Catholic priest and lecturer in the Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo, Rev. Fr. Desmond Osuagwu in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
The priest, who is a member of the congregation of the Claretian Missionaries, Eastern Province, Nigeria, was said to be heading for the St. Mark’s Catholic Chaplaincy, Obinze Barracks, where he served as a Chaplain to conduct the day’s Eucharistic mass for the men of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
It was gathered that the assailants waylaid him on the road at a pathway before Avu junction, along the Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, dragged him out of his SUV before he was killed by stabbing him in his neck and his stomach.
A reliable source told our correspondent that the suspected cultists dragged him into a nearby bush, tied him on a tree and killed him.
According to the source, the assailants did not take any money from the priest’s car.
Osuagwu, who hails from Obowo Local Government Area of the state, was until his untimely death, the Director of Students Industrial Works Experience Scheme at the Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo.
The cleric, who celebrated his 25 years anniversary as a priest last year, was reported to be among the top contenders for the position of Superior-General of the Claretian priests, slated to hold sometime in 2016.
The Imo State Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Enwerem, confirmed the incident.
He said, “We heard the information that morning and immediately moved our men to the scene of the incident. The state police command is intensifying all efforts to see that the perpetrators of the dastard action are brought to book. We must surely get them.”

MizMyColi:
‎Last I checked, I don't remember blaming Mr Rochas Okorocha for the bad roads.
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I merely dropped a personal observation, based on what is obtainable in the villages/towns that we ran through, though it's not the topic in discussion.‎..which is basically why I started it on another paragraph. Within a less than 5km distance, I counted over a dozen billboards extolling Rochas, both for semi-completed, completed, uncompleted and yet-to-clear-the-grass projects

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@Passingshot @Caseless @‎Youngice @Wristbangle


@Freemanan @Shachris ‎@Meister 
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Kindly oblige by showing me where I succinctly or outrightly blamed Owelle.
Thanks in anticipation.
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Now to deviate ma......most of those billboards you're referring to were put up by NGOs and individuals who are appreciative of OROs works (with probably other ulterior motives) so they have nothing to do with Rochas.

You wrote about "uncompleted,semi-completed and yet to clear the grass projects",could you please highlight some of these 'projects'

MizMyColi:
OP, though I don't see any markers to show that this is really PH Owerri Road, I do not doubt you.

I plied that route today to FUTO, though, I did not witness the bad part of the road. There are possibilities the carnage is further down the road.

Personally, what I observed in the villages/towns I've toured so far is that, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and his wife, with all due respect is running a government of BILBOCRACY - A government run on Super 48 sheet billboards, by the billboards, and - for the billboards.

Sister the road in question is a road linking a state to another which makes anything concerning the road a federal project so stop hating on our amiable governor

Morenike (not real name) sat at a corner of the expansive compound; away from where the other girls were converged, flicking her eyes from side to side as she took deep breaths occasionally. The scotching rays from the sun pounding furiously on her frail frame on the wooden bench where she sat seemed to compound her misery. At only 19, she has seen enough trouble to last an entire lifetime. First raped several times and impregnated by her father at 16, before suffering a similar fate two years later at the hands of another man, the young woman is indeed bleeding from all sides. Morenike’s agony is without measure. “I used to live with my mother and her husband before she died,” the petite-looking teenager began, growing increasingly restless as she narrated her heart-wrenching story. “So I was forced to go back to my biological father at Ebutte Meta in Lagos when my mother died. After some time I noticed he (my father) would buy a particular kind of tea whenever he was returning home in the evening and mandate me to drink it after which I would sleep off till the next morning. The first time I drank the tea, I noticed blood on my private part and thighs but I thought it was menstruation. But after some time I started noticing that whenever I drank the tea and slept off, by the next morning I would feel very weak especially around my waist and pelvic.” The pains were not ordinary. Later becoming suspicious of her father, Morenike decided to share her experience with a classmate in school who in turn informed a female teacher. Alarmed, the teacher told the 19-year-old to be more vigilant and try not to sleep too deep the next time her father forces her to drink the ‘tea’. What she experienced that night still shocks her. “He thought I had slept off as usual that night after taking the tea he usually gives me to drink. He had removed my skirt and panties and had wanted to penetrate when I held him back. I was really shocked. He threatened that if I struggled with him, he would kill me and that if I ever told anyone, he would make me run mad because he is a member of the Odua’s Peoples Congress in our area and he had a lot of charms. None of our neighbours knew what I was passing through even though it was a face- me-I-face-you compound. “After two days, I reported the matter to my teacher in school and my father was arrested by some government officials from the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. It was after some tests were conducted on me that it was discovered that I was already a few weeks pregnant. I was taken to a Home in Ayobo area where I stayed until I gave birth. The baby was taken to an orphanage while my father was sentenced to six months imprisonment,” she explained. While at the rehabilitation home in Ayobo, more problems crept into Morenike’s life. A male inmate at the facility for the homeless and needy where they stayed who had been pretending to share in her pains forced his way in-between her legs. A second pregnancy in three years popped up. The young man whom she identified as Jude and whom she described as being responsible for her pregnancy, had never been seen till date. It was salt on an already bleeding wound. “Jude always came around me to check how I was getting over the experience with my father and carrying on with a new life. But I never knew he had ulterior motives and was planning on how to rape me. Immediately he succeeded and got me pregnant, he ran away from the home we were staying at Ayobo. It was after that period that officials of WAPA took me away from the place and brought me to Ozanam House in Ikeja. “The second baby is a little over a year now and like the first child who is in the orphanage; there is no father to take care of him too. Whenever I think about this, it really breaks my heart because how can I explain to him in future or the first child how they came about. “Anytime I see any man the age of my father, I run away from such place because it reminds me of all that he did to me. I wish I never had a father,” she said, fighting back emotions while another girl her age who had been following her conversation with our correspondent came to console her. The sight would melt even a steel heart. Like Morenike, many of the other girls at Ozanam House, a home established and operated by a women arm of the Catholic Church in Lagoswhere the needy, emotionally and psychologically brutalised young ladies are rehabilitated and given hope in the heart of Lagos, share similar experiences. While some were impregnated through rape, the others were denied and abandoned by persons they trusted and lived their lives for, the moment they became expectant mothers. The shame, stigma and depression they have suffered is nothing compared to having children who might never grow up knowing their real fathers, many of the ladies told our correspondent. Apart from attempting suicide on more than one occasion, the young women say their lives are devoid of happiness. The reporter was only given permission to speak with the girls after he accepted not to disclose their real identities for fear of rejection. Amarachi was a happy mother and wife until tragedy struck a few months ago. Married in 2011 at 20 to her bricklayer husband with whom she lived with in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, she had a baby the following year, capping off her first year under Tochukwu, her hubby’s roof, in remarkable fashion. But calamity soon set in and what began as a promising start in matrimony soon fizzled into thin air, bringing darkness into a once happy home. Today, Amarachi lives in perpetual pains, wishing she could disappear from the face of the earth. “My husband had gone to work in Ilorin, Kwara State and was returning to Lagos when he and a colleague were arrested by the police. No reason was given for his arrest and he has been at SARS in Lagos since 2012. “As a result of this, life became very difficult for me and our child after he was arrested so I had to struggle and look for a job to survive. I later got a supermarket attendant job at Lekki and was going from Ikorodu to the place every day. “But one night while I was walking home, I noticed a guy trailing me and as I tried to walk faster as there was no commercial motorcycle in sight, his steps also increased. Before I knew what was happening, he had descended on me, pinned me to the ground and raped me. It was after I started feeling sick and visited the hospital a few days later that I was informed I was pregnant. There is nothing in this world that I didn’t try to do to remove this pregnancy. But the more effort I made, the more I was warned of losing my life if I tried aborting it. “My husband is locked up at SARS and now I am carrying a rapist’s baby, don’t you see that I am doomed? Though, my in-laws are aware of the situation, I feel like killing myself. How can I give birth to a child who might never grow up knowing his real father? My life is at a standstill at the moment,” she said. Seven-month pregnant Ebube’s unborn child might also grow up not knowing a father. Though, not raped, the young man who put her in the family way denied ever knowing her and had since fled their Berger, Lagos neighbourhood after she informed him of her condition at the initial stages. Efforts to locate him and make him take responsibility for his action have proved daunting so far. Uncertain of what the future holds for her and the unborn baby, the young woman had contemplated suicide on several occasions. Even under the watchful eyes and counselling of spiritual leaders at the sprawling rehabilitation home, the 23-year-old’s thoughts are never far from taking a crazy step. “There is no day that I don’t think of taking my life,” she says, repeating it several times as if to convince our correspondent of how serious and determined she was. “There is no use staying alive and suffering with a child that has no father. The guy who got me pregnant denied ever knowing me after I informed him about the situation. He has since run away from the area we used to live together at Akiode in Berger. My friend whom I was squatting with threw me out two months later because she said she could not accommodate me and the pregnancy. It was through the help of a priest in the church I was attending that I was brought to Ozanam House. “I ask myself all the time who the father of this child I am carrying would be. It is a question I am yet to find answers to. On several occasions I had locked myself up in the room and cried all day, thinking several bad things in my head including ending my own life. Only God can heal the pains I am passing through at the moment,” she said. Morenike, Amarachi and Ebube are not the only girls at the House faced with an uncertain future after being impregnated through rape or denied and abandoned by the men whom they trusted and gave their bodies – three other young ladies between the ages of 15 and 22 also share similar fate. For them, the male gender now has a new definition – cruel and heartless. Many of them told Saturday PUNCH that the sight of a man now irritates them especially after all they have been made to pass through.

Bro this is off the hook to say the least.....You have an amazing talent

As in he wants to privatise all the government schools in the state...........Is the state really that broke ?

Mhizkel:

I can't see anything good in u ma......pls come n hug me

donpata:
I missed out on jumia megaton but still bought the injoo fire at 15,700 using a 2k app voucher. It's. 17,700 but u can try beat it down using an app. Voucher. The phone is 2g ram, 16g rom, and 5mp cam. Plus 2500mah ba3. There are some complains sha abt the phone. Mine is still on the way so can't say anything yet.

Brother abeg how u take get d voucher ?

When you have egusi soup buh you still want to eat vegetable soup

TheSonOfMark:
[size=14pt]PRAIZ: I think he's as good as John Legend.


Have you listened to his cover of Rihanna's STAY? He upstaged her.
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Well you don't see John Legend singing a cover of Rihanna's song do ya

I've gotten this same shit like thrice.
They just use the same old stale method they just don't upgrade,I actually told the last one that she really needs to come up with a new n improved story line.

Nice write up buh you forgot Musa Yahaya who is also an awesome player.......Icon it seems like Awoniyi has relegated Isaac and his club hardly releases him for international duty

Hmmmmmmm so many pervs on nairaland

anyaikenga:
Rich man wit what trade or Job?

Why don't you google him and find out the number of business enterprise he has long before he came in as a governor...............Do you know that at age 14 he already had a bus on the road and a driver giving him account ??

brixton:
Let me peruse

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The APC henchmen will kill Buhari before you know it... They will either attempt to remove or kill him if he don't align with their corrupt tendencies. I am a Buhari critic, I will change my stance about him if he truly fight our political elites milking the nation dry since independence. Buhari seem a good man but his operational environment?

Someone above wrote that Rochas has always been rich; what are his antecedents? How did he make so much money? Advanced fee fraud? In saner climes people like Rochas don't have any business being in the corridors of power talk alone being a head of Governors in the ruling party!

Dude what are u writing about ? Rochas declared his assets before he came into office and he was worth 3trillion naira so what's all this fuss about 1billion and FYI our amiable governor is from Oru East in Orlu and not Mbaitolu in Owerri so don't get it twisted

missclasssy:
Generalization laced with Fallacy.

Yeah fallacy of hasty generalisation

FLAWLES:
Hmm;Darkness

. Girl that niccur na rich ghanaian actor oo

VickyyB:
I don't date guys for sex.

Lmao.......And why do u think the guy is dating u ?

kristina1:

Whats with the face ? U no go answer ?

That doesn't make any difference cause the seat of the vice president is more or less a glorified position and he won't have any authority to effect any reasonable change except if we're looking at the fact that Buhari is an old man and is probably close to the grave apart from that who the vice president is doesn't make a difference cause anybody it is will be more or less like Sambo.

My personal opinion; all this is a waste of time cause i'm pretty certain Buhari won't win GEJ and not because GEJ is a better man but he is seriously going to use his power and authority to frustrate them.

Wrong wrong wrong.....
Now let me break it down for you,all the rubbish written before the comma (,) are not important,the only important aspect of the write up is just "what is today ?" and the answer would be any day of the week that we're inmif today is Sunday the answer would be Sunday but since today is Saturday the answer is Saturday.............It's quite easy right

Now this riddle was actually used to test IQ level back in the early 90s.

And please when you answer give your reason cause there will be prizes up for grabs

If The Day Before The Day After Yesterday Is Sunday,What Is Today

The sack of Keshi has long been overdue......The man is slowly killing Nigerian football,his winning AFCON and reaching the 2nd round of the World cup we're all luck and it seems like his luck has run out......If he continues to be the coach we might not even qualify to defend our trophy even though i don't actually think employing Siasia is the right step forward even though he could still do well cause he has probably learnt from his past experiences.
The thing with Keshi is he doesn't learn from his mistakes,he isn't there to coach but to make money,He just has his mind on the money and not to make the team better

davidflipcy: Hmmm cool. I think I will try this in Aso rock who knows I might turn to a celebrity doing that

dude you have to ask yourself a question first, "where is Aso rock and what does it look like ?"

egopersonified: Please what age range are 2nd graders?

They should be around 9 or 10

I want to understand something........Tyler is a manly dude and from descriptions his boyfriend is too,so who will act as the lady in bed

Now this is a guy that all Nigerians should try to emulate

Damsman10: Tuesday?,
pls help me out am lost, how

Now the question is actually "what is today" so all the other stuffs behind it are just random rubbish so the answer should be any day of the week that we're in,if i asked the question today the answer would be Wednesday,if i asked the question on sunday the answer would be Sunday

Jxtmayor: today is Tuesday.

Yeah....one gala for you

i hope you didn't just guess it

cococandy: can I give up my mirror addiction?

A NEW beauty trend is on the rise which promises to help women feel more confident – introducing “mirror fasting”. The theory is that by avoiding looking in mirrors for a significant period of time you will become less fixated on your image and will boost your self-esteem.


Excerpts from a convert's testimony




Debbi is happy to be reunited with her mirror []
This is right up my street as while I don’t see myself as a particularly vain person I can’t deny that I’m somewhat addicted to my reflection. We have nine mirrors at home, three of which are in my bedroom.

When I admitted to a friend how much I check myself before going out she was amazed I found time to leave the house at all.

I don’t stand there gazing adoringly. I scrutinise myself from every angle, keen to see how others view me, so I know exactly what is going to step out of the door. Once outside it doesn’t stop. Car and shop windows are perfect for a quick image check.

Sometimes when I’m out for dinner I even have to make sure my seat doesn’t face a window or mirror otherwise I’m distracted by my own face all night.

A recent study, published in the journal Behaviour Research and Therapy, found that women look in the mirror around 38 times a day

I’m not alone. A recent study, published in the journal Behaviour Research and Therapy, found that women look in the mirror around 38 times a day.

It’s clearly high time I begin my mirror fast. For a week I decide to allow myself a small hand mirror to do my make-up and a cursory glance in a full-length mirror to make sure I avoid any sartorial skirt-tucked-into-knickers nightmares. I then cover the main mirrors in my house. I’m under no illusion that a habit I’ve had for years will be hard to break.

My first task is getting ready in the morning. I no longer spend precious minutes agonising over the new wrinkles etching themselves into my face or the odd blemish that may or may not evolve into a pimple. Basic tasks such as brushing my teeth or putting in my contact lenses are considerably more challenging. I play my outfits safe by wearing tried and tested jeans and T-shirt combinations but I can’t deny I’m anxious. Using a small hand mirror I quickly apply some eyeliner and mascara.

However, the second I leave the house to take my son to nursery, I’m hit by my reflection in a car window. I duck my head before being greeted by a bank of reflective office windows lining the road.

Usually I would glance sideways in order to make sure I’m standing up straight or to see if my bottom has changed in size since I left the house.

Now I’m not able to, I’m suddenly aware of how much I seek out my reflection.

My new plan is to keep my eyes in front of me and allow myself to think about other things such as the various meetings I have to arrange.

“It will get easier,” I reassure myself but like a true addict I’m suffering from withdrawal. I can’t help feeling that my teeth aren’t clean enough and I have to rely on friends to tell me if I have any spinach caught between them.

I don’t see any upsides to avoiding the mirror until my new regime comes into its own after one particularly late night.

Instead of gazing at hungover bloodshot eyes I scurry past every reflective surface and head out of the door carefree. If I have no idea how wretched I look I can’t possibly be bothered by it.

I reach new heights halfway through the week when I complete the nursery drop off in my scruffy gym gear but I find it impossible to remain reflection-free for the entire week. A rogue mirror in a public toilet catches me unaware.

At the end of my week I’m eager to check in the mirror that all is as it should be.

It’s a thrill to see myself brush my teeth and get dressed with the reassurance of my reflection.

Part of me misses the freedom of not worrying about what I look like though and since my experiment I’ve made a conscious effort to cut down on how much I look at myself.

Mirror fasting made me quite anxious at first but as the days passed I felt liberated as I became used to not checking myself every minute.

So after all the time and sweat you wasted na only 2 likes you get