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Chidi Achebe Receives Martin Luther King Social Justice Award
Sunday, 11 December 2011 00:00 Editor Sunday Magazine - Newspeople & Goodpeople
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THE medical doctor son of famous writer, Chinua Achebe, Chidi, will on Friday, January 27, 2012, will be honoured with a Social Justice Award.

The President and CEO of Harvard Street Health Center will receive the Ongoing Commitment category of the Martin Luther King Social Justice Award by Dartmouth College in recognition of his ongoing commitment to the quest of bridging health care disparities that exist amongst America’s most vulnerable and underserved populations.

Says Chidi, “I am absolutely delighted and deeply honoured to have been selected to receive such a prestigious award. I feel incredibly fortunate to have an opportunity to serve such wonderful patients on a daily basis and to be part of the family of servants who want to improve health care for all” Dr. Achebe said.

Dr. Achebe completed undergraduate studies in natural sciences, history and philosophy at Bard College; received an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, his MD at Dartmouth Medical School and an MBA degree at Yale University’s School of Management. He also completed his residency in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX.

For a brief period, Dr. Achebe served as Medical Director of the Whittier Street Health Center; he then served as Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, Medical Director of Harvard Street Health Center before his appointment as the President and CEO of the Harvard Street Health Center.

After several years of work at various Boston health centers, Dr. Achebe now sees “the struggle against inequalities in health and health care for all vulnerable, underserved Americans, as the next stage of the Civil Rights movement;” and has dedicated his life’s work to helping to solve the conundrum of health care inequity in America’s health care system.

Dr. Achebe makes church calls, and speaks at youth summits, conventions, conferences, schools, barber shops —focal gathering areas where he can reach underserved patients — reminding the community of the value of health, preventive care, and the quality of service readily available at Harvard Street.

While expanding his unique implementation of “medicine without borders,” Achebe works as a passionate advocate for the global community through his writings that call attention to worldwide health concerns such as the HIV/AIDs pandemic and Prostate Cancer.

His efforts have earned him a featured TV appearance on Basic Black; profile in the Boston Globe and AOL Black Voices, an interview on WUMB-FM’s Commonwealth Journal (interviewed by the legendary Barbara Neely); and feature length articles in several international periodicals, journals, and newspapers.

Through his years of work, Dr. Achebe has become a leader in the battle for healthcare equality and serves on several boards and committees where he continues his passion to be at the vanguard of the quest to bridge disparities that exist in the health care system.

Kobojunkie:
Good to see that someone actually understood the intent . . , ROFL

Duh! With boko haram in the North and kidnapping and motor park thuggery in the south, Nigeria is as good/bad as Libya.

All these Damola boys sef

And Segun kept defending  the same health till the man died. Segun should be charged for something, anything,>>>>>>>>>>>>  like blocking democracy and smooth running of the government

Kobojunkie:
They arrive with, or to harrowing tales

Both. Come from fry pan and jump right into the fire.

careytommy:
are you sure?What of bayelsa?

Bayelsa would be among the second tier producers and that is merely due to land space. However, per square km, Bayelsa, especially around Ogbia area produces these crops in large quantities.

mykali:
i don't understand. . .how are they supposed to die together?

Okay let me break it down for you: they wined and dined together when the going was good; now that the going is bad, they should sink together. Is it clearer now?

The middle belters can deceive no one. They are a bonafide part and parcel of the North. They dined together when things were moving for them. Now they must ''die'' together.

Recurring violence by drivers’ union
Friday, 09 December 2011 00:00 Editor Opinion - Editorial

Tokyo

IN a space of six months between June and November this year alone, the country lost no fewer than 30 lives to the violent activities of some lawless motor park operators under the cover of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). The pervasive air of terror unleashed at will by rival gangs, amid greater terror in the country by the Boko Haram group, is in part a commentary on the value the touts place on human lives and the capability of relevant law enforcement agencies to fully and comprehensively address challenges of insecurity in the land. Nonetheless, it is time the authorities stopped the lawlessness of the NURTW men, to save law-abiding citizens who are often victims of such violence, and to enthrone a regime of peace and order at motor parks.

More often than not, the recurring mindless violence stems from the struggle for control of the motor parks by rival union groups who are motivated by the huge cash benefits from park fees and extortions by union officials daily. The temptation to crush any challenge to the constant flow of the non-taxable, easy money is high. Elections into union offices are akin to going to war. This should not be permitted.

On June 6 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital alone, 20 deaths were reportedly recorded in a single incident of motor park terror, causing untold sorrow to many families whose relations were caught in the crossfire along the Iwo Road major park. That followed closely on the violence recorded a week earlier on May 30, with many seriously injured. Scores of vehicles were torched on both occasions.

The wave of violence shifted to neighbouring Ogun State in October where at least three casualties were reported in the clash for control of Ifo town garage. By November 1, the Epe motor park in Ijebu-Ode boiled over to send the city into turmoil - the result of another union gang rivalry, which again cost three lives, two of them innocent passers-by. Two weeks later, tempers flared again in Sango Ota in a dawn mayhem that paralysed movement and all commercial activities, well into the day. At the end of the saga, four persons lay dead before the police rallied to restore normalcy.

By statistics, Lagos has no clean record on this matter because the mega city has had its fair share of destruction, maiming and deaths similar to these recent clashes especially at the notorious Oshodi parks. That sector seems to be the biggest around, as enormous cash is raised for union officials at the parks.

Unfortunately, the activities of the touts and officials or backers cannot be divorced from their hobnobbing with politicians and some police officers who give cover, and who fail to diligently prosecute for murder and breach of public peace. A governor and a former police commissioner in Oyo State were for instance openly accused of supporting the activities of an influential NURTW factional leader. A rival union leader lost his life in a gruesome manner in the power-play. Such bestiality is against norms and values in civilised climes and stands condemned.

There may be some decent and focused leaders in the union but so far, the image of the NURTW has been uncomplimentary. A union whose members regularly operate like organised thugs against the common good of the society, and against acceptable trade unionism ethos should be called to order. NURTW’s numerical strength should never be a deterrent to decent behaviour by the membership.

Unionism having come a long way in the country, its aim should primarily be for the advancement of the welfare of members, and not to promote anti-social behaviours. Union leaders ought therefore to curb the ills identified or associated with their members. The exhibited characteristics of touting, extortion, violence and gangster-like activities should not be identified with a serious union.

Passengers of commercial vehicles have a right to be transported safely to their destinations as a binding contract. Two, the parks are not killing fields for residents. Three, elections into union offices, or any office, should not be a life and death affair. The leaders have the obligation to cooperate with law enforcement agents to rid their union of bad eggs.

Police should fully assume their interventionist role to maintain peace at the parks and to prevent outbreak of violence, through intelligence units. States and local councils also have onerous task to ensure that law and order is maintained in their domains. They should stop being complicit in drivers’ unions affair, while erring unionists should promptly and diligently be prosecuted.
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We never forget the Langtang Mafia oh!!!
Neither have we forgotten the Okar coup
The Middle belt have had more than a fair share of the Nigerian enterprise.

Gowon
IBB
Abdulsalam Abubakir

Not to mention:

Danjuma
Domkat Bali
Joshua Dogonyaro
Jeremiah Useni

All top military brasshats that have controlled Nigeria directly and indirectly at different times

Have all being middle belters and some of the big bad wolves of Nigeria

Yet, when the south cries about northern domination, middle belters want to exculpate themselves

I beg middle belt make we hear word. You have contributed more than any group except for the core north in running Nigeria to the ground.

The quantity of banana produced in Nigeria has not been estimated. However,
it is known to be produced in varying amounts within the following States: Abia, Akwa
Ibom, Anambra, Benue, Cross River, Delta, Enugu, Kaduna and Ondo.

http://www.ajol.info/index.php/jae/article/viewFile/47048/33431

Rivers State is missing on that list. From my experience, I would say:

Edo, Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Abia and Imo are the largest banana/plantain producers in Nigeria.

FACE:
Are you sure this yellow cassava will be good for asoki ? "Soakability" is the final test for gari.

You have to test and see, but do not mistake this with the effect on soakability of adding red palm oil to white garri. Good that vitamin A is water insoluble so soaking garri from this improved cassva for drinking will not eliminate the vitamin. However, soakability is only just one out of 100s of post harvest qualities that processed cassava should have. One other important comment made by one contributor in the facebook page where this news is posted is the issue of zinc deficiency which is quite chronic globally.

Bee farming for honey and bee keeper training is also hot in Umudike Abia state.

http://beekeepinginnigeria.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=24

Cassava farm in Umudike Abia State

Enugu: NATURAL RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT
Posted to the web: 1/30/2003 12:10:47 PM
 


The natural resources of the state include its vast agricultural lands, its extensive rainfed flood areas and its forest and forest products such as the oil palm and lumber wood.

Agriculture, Forestry and other Basic Activities: Agriculture, predominantly subsistence, ranks first in the people's economic activities. It can be divided into two types: Agriculture on the plateau is based on the extensive cultivation of the conven tional staples of yam, cassava, maize, sweet potato, grain legumes, pawpaw, banana, plantain and vegetables.

Income from the farm is supplemented by earnings from the sale of products from local economic tree crops like oil palm, cashew, kola nut, coconut, mangoes, breadfruit (ukwa), castor beans, oilbeans, et cetera. Most of these tree crops are located on the compound land farm plots.

Terrace farming is important on .the hill slopes of Nsukka, Lejja, Udi and Maku. Livestock keeping is also important. Floodplain agriculture is practised in parts of the NigerAnambra plains especially at Adani and Ornor. It is based on comparatively largescale cul tivation of rice and yam, and also, fish farming.

An increasing number of migrant farmers from the densely settled slowgrowing and landhungry rural areas of Awka, Orlu, Owerri, Okigwe, eastern Onitsha and Udi in Imo, Anambra and Enugu States, and some from Abak, Ikot Ekpene and Uyo areas in Akwalbom State, have moved into the plains to join in exploiting the vast agricultural potentialities of the floodlands which are beyond the capability of the local people.

A number of agricultural enterprises have been established to tap the agricultural potentialities. They include the Adarice Production (Nigeria) Ltd. and the Enugu State River Project which are pub lic production projects located at Adani in Uzo Uwani Local government Area. Others are the United PalmProduce Ltd. at IbiteOlo, Ugwuoba and lnyi, and the Premier Cashew Industry Ltd at Oghe.

There is also a Palm Development Agency for tapping the vast resources of the natural palm and developing the oilpalm sector generally. There are livestock and poultry facilities at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka Campus. Private enterprise par ticipation is also important. For example, the EkenediliChukwu, Chidi Ebere and Urneano rice, maize and cassava farms in Adani area are very largescale agricultural enterprises. There are also

large private fish ponds in the area. The state government's agricultural develop ment policy is three pronged: 1. Direct Public Participation through farm settlements, tree crop plantations, irriga tion schemes and agrobased industries. However, the government is at present privatising the public projects and retain ing only minority shares.

Public Participation in commercial Private Agricultural Production, that is, running joint ventures in largescale crop farming, livestock and fish farms and in forest plantations with farmers, private entre preneurs and corporate bodies, local or foreign, if possible by public initial invest ment. Small Holder Agricultural Production, whereby the government seeks to emphasise the role of the smallholder in the private sector.

The projected agricultural development schemes include: a. Irrigation (the OloKalawa and the Agba Umanakalawa Schemes) for maize, rice, tomatoes, onion and pepper.

Oil Palm Development in lnyi, Ugwuoba, IbiteOlo, Umulokpa and UzoUwani for which about 2,800 hectares have been acquired, and 1053 hectares already planted. Livestock and Poultry Production: The government intends to establish four cattle, sheep and goat breeding and fattening centres at Achi, Nachi, UkpabiNimbo and Ogbede. It runs a hatchery and parent stock farm at Oghe.

There are also plans to acquire the Federal Pig Breeding and Progeny Testing Centres at Okpuje, Nsukka LGA. Forest Plantation: Several forest reserves have been planted with economic species such as gruclina. There is also a World Bankassisted pilot project covering 700 hectares of pine in Apakwume Nze.

The government intends to expand the pine plantation to 30,000 hectares. On the whole, the agricultural lands of Enugu State are very much beyond the capability of the present agricultural population, using available technology, to fully exploit.

Here then lies a great potential for profitable investment by local and for eign interests. Mineral Resources: Minerals abound in Enugu State although most of them are not yet exploited. Coal is mined at Enugu. Other known minerals in the state include ironore, silica, clay, kaolin and pyrite (Ministry of Information, 1993

Prospects of the existence of petroleum and natural gas are being vigorously explored. Also the prospects of striking oil in the state cannot be ruled out, apart from coal which is being exploited. Local Sourcing of Raw Materials: The tradi tional industries and crafts in the state are based on the locally sourced materials.

At the state's Community Skills Centres, the crafts include wood work, metal work, pottery, weaving and basketry. The Anambra/Enugu Vegetable Oil Products Limited in Udi Local Government Area utilises the local palmkernel oil to produce margarine and refined vegetable oil, and the cashew nut industry in Ezeagu Local Government Area uses the local cashew products. Industrial Development: Enugu State has a wide industrial base, made up as follows:

AgroBased Industries: Anambra/Enugu Vegetable Oil Products Ltd., located at Nachi in Udi Local Government Area. Premier Cashew Industries Ltd., located at Oghe in Ezeagu Local government Area. Sunrise Flour Mill Ltd., located at Emene Industrial Estate. Volunteer Service Agency (VSA) Livestock Feedmill, located at the Ninth Mile corner, Ngwo, on the outskirts of the OnitshaEnugu Expressway.

Chemicalbased Industries: Ebony Paints Ltd., located atAwkunanaw, Enugu. Niger Gas Company Ltd., located in the Emene Industrial Area. Eastern Plastics Ltd., located at Emene. Continental Medical Complex Ltd., situat ed at OjiRiver. It specialises in the production of toilet papers.

Mechanicalbased industries: Aluminium Products Ltd., located at Ohebedin in lgboEtiti local government Area. Emenite Ltd., located at Emene. It produces pressed pipes and fibrecement building products. Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company (ANAMMCO) Ltd., located at Emene.Niger Steel industries Ltd., located at Emene. Vanguard Industries and the Nigerian Construction and Furniture Company .

They produce furniture. The NCFC is also a construction firm. 3d All the above are government owned industries. However, the new civilian administration (since May 29, 1999) is set to privatise the industries. A lot of private enterprises already supplement the government's industrial development efforts. They engage in metal works, and in the ry. making of bread and confectioneries, soap and :ts detergents, beer and soft drinks, among others. The Rural industrialisation, as a dimension of govern nd ment policy, is also pursued vigorously.

Congratulations to Dr. Chiedozie Egesi and Paul Ilona, two brothers doing me proud.

Nigeria Releases New Vitamin A Cassava to Improve Public Health for Millions
Newsroom

   
Washington D.C, December 7, 2011: The Nigerian Government today announced the release of three new vitamin A-rich ‘yellow’ cassava varieties that could provide more vitamin A in the diets of more than 70 million Nigerians who eat cassava every day. The yellow color (cassava is generally white) is due to the higher vitamin A content.

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is widely prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. It afflicts almost 20% of pregnant women and about 30% of children under-five in Nigeria. VAD can lower immunity and impair vision, which can lead to blindness and even death.

Children and women will be the main beneficiaries of these new yellow varieties, which could provide up to 25% of their daily vitamin A needs. Varieties with enough vitamin A to provide up to half of daily needs are already in the breeding pipeline and should be ready for release in a few years.

These new yellow varieties were bred using traditional (non-transgenic) methods by the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Nigerian National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike Abia State, and were liked by farmers during field trials.

Cassava is an extremely adaptable crop; it is drought tolerant, requires limited land preparation, and grows well in poor soils. The new yellow varieties are also high yielding and resistant to major diseases and pests.

“Demand for these varieties has already started, but it will take some time before we have enough quantities to give out, ” said Paul Ilona, the HarvestPlus Manager for Nigeria.

The yellow cassava is already being multiplied through stem cuttings. In 2013, when sufficient certified stems are available, HarvestPlus and its partners will then distribute these to about 25,000 farming households initially.

Farmers will be able to grow these new vitamin A varieties and feed them to their families. They can also multiply and share cuttings with others in their community amplifying the nutritional benefits. After the mid-2014 harvest, more than 150,000 household members are expected to be eating vitamin A cassava.

This work is funded by HarvestPlus. Other partners include the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), and Nigerian Government agencies.

HarvestPlus leads a global effort to breed and disseminate micronutrient-rich staple food crops to reduce hidden hunger in malnourished populations. It is part of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Improved Nutrition and Health. It is coordinated by CIAT and the International Food Policy Research Institute.

http://www.harvestplus.org/content/nigeria-releases-new-vitamin-cassava-improve-public-health-millions

Media Contacts:

Paul Ilona, Country Manager, HarvestPlus
p.ilona@cgiar.org, Tel: + 234 803 457 6085

Peter Kulakow, HarvestPlus Cassava Crop Leader, IITA
p.kulakow@cgiar.org, Tel: +234 813 833 8751

Chiedozie Egesi, Asst. Director & Head, Cassava Breeding, NRCRI
Chiedozie.Egesi@nrcri.gov.ng, Tel: + 234 703 496 2100

Yassir Islam, Communications Head, HarvestPlus
y.islam@cgiar.org, Tel: + 1 (202) 862-5602

Coal:
Enugu (by far the highest producer)
Kogi
and may be Kwara.

The entire eastern regions (SE/SS) and Edo and Delta are the largest palm oil producers in Nigeria

You often hear of
Abia palm industry
Ada palm (Imo)
Rison palm (Rivers), etc

Cashew producing states in the country are Kogi, Kwara, Oyo, Niger, Imo, Enugu, Abia, Kaduna and Federal Capital Territory.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/02/price-of-nigerian-cashew-nuts-jumps-up-188-in-international-market/

Indeed, cashew production is massive in Okigwe/Uturu (Imo/Abia) and in Enugu. You can see the endless plantations when you drive on the PH to Enugu Expressway.

Overview

Abakaliki is the capital of Ebonyi State. It is located at the intersection of the Enugu, Afikpo and Ogoja Roads. Abakaliki was formerly known for its Guinea worm pandemic. However, years of sustained provision of a portable water program for the public have eradicated Guinea worm cases from the state.

Abakaliki is home to a golf course, many quarry factories, food processing and block-making factories and dozens of rice mills. It also boasts a fertilizer blending plant, a large poultry (Nkali Poultry) reputed to be one of the largest in Nigeria and the largest market in the State. Ebonyi State University (popularly known as EBSU) is also located in the town.

http://www.ebonyionline.com/abakaliki.html

The national root crop research institute (Umudike, Abia State) in conjuction with IITA recently developed a cassava variety with vitamin A fortification

Ebonyi is very good in the quarry industry. A number of German companies are mining there. In fact, quarry business is the oil of Ebonyi state, with the youths incessantly asking for one form of compensation or another from the companies

There are about 14 cocoa-producing states in Nigeria

At the moment Cross River appears to be leading, though there is production data controversy with Ondo.

Abia, Edo, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Akwa Ibom and Delta are other very strong cocoa producers.

Beaf:
So they have moved their problems from Oyo to Lagos?

Duh!! The entire SW (not just Oyo) has always been a babel of deaths from motor park touts. You only need to do some googling to unearth past news.
It is the single largest cause of death in the SW, even more than politically-motivated killings, killings from armed robbery and gbomogbomo.

Okija_juju:
so the question i asked was it wrong or bad?!

stop talking about the us in a conversation such as these because we do not even begin to compare, all these international flights i listed are barely even full on some occassions, i have been on an airfrance flight that was barely up to 50% of its capacity, you just cant redirect the traffic of an airline purely out on ethnis or sentimental reasons, it would be more profitable if the clamour was for the dredging of the river niger and establishment of a port in anambra because from my brief stay working with the nigerian ports authority, i can tell you that alot of business men would greatly appreciate one,

if humann traffic where so plenty on international routes, most airlines would be running two flights daily out of here or you would have multiple airlines flying the same route.

lets be logical in our discussion please, according to ezeagu, easterners make up the bulk of passengers on certain routes and I find that quite interesting to note, I had no idea, Yet there are no daily local flights out of these eastern airports, That's rather hard to swallow, Just sayin

fyi

The Re-opening of Enugu Airport

Thisday Editorial

Monday, December 27, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of air passengers who use the Akanu Ibiam airport, Enugu, have every reason to be happy at the re-opening of the facility a few days ago. The airport, now upgraded to an international status, had been shut down for more than ten months so that refurbishing work could take place.

While the airport was in disuse Enugu-bound passengers had to endure the routing of their flights through the much smaller Sam Mbakwe airport in Owerri. They would then drive another three hours to Enugu through a federal highway that is in shambles. For most part the journey by road to or from Owerri was like running a gauntlet between armed robbers and kidnappers. Many paid dearly while the closure of the Enugu airport lasted. However, as the saying goes, all is well that ends well.


The reopening of the airport following the expansion of the runway is a welcome development. The Akanu Ibiam airport is one of the oldest in the country. Years of neglect had, however, left the facility in a less-than-befitting state. Not only were the run ways not long enough for international flights, even the departure and arrival lounges had become utterly seedy, lacking some of the basic facilities that standard airports are known for all over the world. News of the upgrading of the airport was understandably therefore well received by most people who use the facility regularly.


As an international airport, the Akanu Ibiam facility is expected to be equipped with modern facilities to enable travelers flying out of the country to take off from Enugu without having to go to Lagos, Abuja or even the Port Harcourt international airport. That it took so long to upgrade the airport is one of those ironies of the Nigerian state. A survey of foreign trips made by Nigerians over the past decade, for instance, indicates that a good deal of it involves people from the Southeast who would have loved to take off straight from Enugu. Yet they had to fly first into some other city before they could catch an overseas flight. Such circumnavigation! Now that the airport has been upgraded to an international status it must live up to the billing in terms of the amount of facilities available there.

Expanding the runways is not enough. Attention also needs to be paid to other operational facilities that conduce to safety. One that cannot wait is the completion of work on the facilities that would enable airplanes take off and land in the night. We hear that right now that cannot happen because the installation of the necessary facilities is yet to be completed.

The airport's terminal building also needs expansion and more modern restrooms. The existing ones are hardly befitting of an international airport. The hope of the users of the Akanu Ibiam international airport is that the airport will match the best anywhere.

For most of them, the upgrading of the airport is prayer answered. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) must not disappoint them. All that needs to be done to make the airport truly international should be provided. Already some of the foreign carriers are reported to have expressed their preference to originate and terminate their flights in Nigeria from Enugu because of the high volume of their passengers that come from that region. That will be good for not only the prospective passengers but also for FAAN. Let nothing therefore stand in the way of the airport. By and large, we expect the federal government to also upgrade more Nigerian airports to international status.


http://odili.net/news/source/2010/dec/27/207.html

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-575467.0.html

Dr. Benedict D. Ilozor, Ph.D., MNIA, FMA, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Professor & Research Coordinator
Architecture & Construction


Eastern Michigan University
School of Engineering Technology
Construction Management Programs
206 Roosevelt Hall
Ypsilanti, MI 48197

http://www.emich.edu/cot/profiles/ben_ilozor.htm

I see you guys are avoiding this very important topic heh!

^^^^
Lies. Chime's was a blatant rumor that has been proven to be so. This one is true. They should check Tinubu and Fasola too for clandestine affairs.

Hopefully this news will engage the Ojukwu haters for a while.

Lagos Deputy Governor’s Husband Impregnates Lover …I can’t control His Manhood -Deputy Governor

Lagos Deputy Governor’s Husband Impregnates Lover …I can’t control His Manhood -Deputy Governor


This is surely not the best of times for the Lagos Deputy Governor, Joke Adefulire. The reason is that her husband, a magistrate in Lagos State judiciary, has put a lady (name withheld) in the family way.

Those who are in the know alleged that Magistrate Adefulire of Igbosere Magistrate Court for some time now has been going out with the lady and many people close to him claimed that it was his wife’s long absences from home that made him to look elsewhere.

We gathered that since the former commissioner turned deputy governor joined full time politics, she has had little or no time for the husband because of her busy schedule and meetings here and there.

Goooogle learnt that when news of the alleged pregnancy got to the deputy governor at the Lagos State secretariat, she took it in her stride, saying that there was nothing she could do about it, adding that she cannot hold her husband’s manhood.

It would be recalled that the deputy governor was once married to Toyin Kembi who worked as a driver at the Lagos Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, with whom she had four children before one of them died.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/67066-lagos-deputy-governor-s-husband-impregnates-lover-i-can-t-control-his-manhood-deputy-governor.html