He is the "I Am That I Am" The God that never sleep he is always watching his people particularly Nigerians.

Who is actually robbing God?.. BOWEN UNIVERSITY N650,000 per semester COVENANT UNIVERSITY N640,000 per semester BENSON IDAHOSA N500,000 per semester BABCOCK UNIVERSITY N450,000 per semester REDEEMERS UNIVERSITY N450,000 per semester AJAYI CROWTHER UNIVERSITY N350,000 per semester MADONNA UNIVERSITY N350,000 per semester. All these UNIVERSITIES were built from TITHES and OFFERINGS of the common people who now can't afford to send their children to these schools today. Where is the morals and responsibilities of the churches as charity in Nigeria? What is the difference between church and political leadership in Nigeria? These schools were all built with the sweats of their church members who kept sowing seeds like: -special offering seeds -first fruit seed, -redemption seed, -thanksgiving seed, -harvest seed, -tithes, -pastor's seed, -church building seed, -evangelism seed, -father's day seed, -mother's day seed, -children' day seed, -Pastor's cake seed, -olive oil seed....etc. These schools are now elite schools, only for the rich politician children. The gainers then use the profits to buy private planes & jets to fly up high in luxury, ride Exotic Cars and live in expensive Mansions, while their members, (who are mostly the least of Jesus people) sleep hungry. The next Sunday, they will read Malachi 3:6-12 to these members again without making reference to Deuteronomy 14:22-29 about their own responsibility to these poor members in their churches. If you think this is unfair, like me, please pass on this message because this is reality and we also need the CHANGE here!!! Thank God for early missionaries who built schools and gave basic education FREE or NEAR FREE to many of us including the CURRENT LEADERSHIP of these churches and universities. The TRUTH is a bitter pill to swallow.

Imagine you are in a relationship with a lady and you guys hardly get to see each other, may once in a blue moon that means no sex at all but the lady wouldn't mind calling you on phone all day..she loves you and you actually feels something for her. These continue for two years,three year..
She eventually travelled out of the town where the two of you were living probably to another state. Now you got admitted into a Higher Institution,then the story began to change from your own end maybe because of the new environment, she on her own part always tries to keep in touch.. Now eventually someone is coming in (man body no be firewood na) and as it happened you later discovered that the new lady is pregnant with your child and she even gave birth,but the old lady keep on calling and you no longer have interest in her you just want to remain faithful to the one that have the child for you
How do you put it to the former lady "E no fit work" please let us drop our candid opinion to help some people.

My people is it worth it calling the country we are part of a useless country? The fact remains that things have gone wrong we all know but we can't go that far cursing our beloved country NIGERIA a useless country doing that is like placing curse on ourselves because we are the country nobody else from anywhere...why should we be insulting our leaders when God is involves selection of leaders....please my people #E Go Better! No be only poor man prayer oo but na prayer of faith..make we hope in God things things will surely get well again God no d sleep na...

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Phobia could be extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group. Different people have different phobia for a particular thing or situation. .
Here is a list of various types of phobia

A
Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause
itching.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne
noxious substances.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to
airsickness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in
crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a
safe place.
Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.
Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Algophobia- Fear of pain.
Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
Altophobia- Fear of heights.
Amathophobia- Fear of dust.
Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.
Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.
Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia.
Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched.
Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
Ancraophobia- Fear of wind. (Anemophobia)
Androphobia- Fear of men.
Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.
(Ancraophobia)
Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.
Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched.
(Haphephobia)
Apiphobia- Fear of bees.
Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to
the roof of the mouth.
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
Arrhenphobia- Fear of men.
Arsonphobia- Fear of fire.
Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness.
Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and
lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia)
Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space.
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia. (muscular incoordination)
Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness.
Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins.
Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored
or forgetting.
Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions.
Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
Aurophobia- Fear of gold.
Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights.
Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies,
animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly
represents a sentient being.
Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.
Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.

B

Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of
walking or falling.
Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Bathophobia- Fear of depth.
Batophobia- Fear of heights or being close to high
buildings.
Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as frogs,
newts, salamanders, etc.
Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles.
(Aichmophobia)
Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body
smells.
Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.

C
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
Cainophobia or Cainotophobia- Fear of newness,
novelty.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia- Fear of cancer.
Cardiophobia- Fear of the heart.
Carnophobia- Fear of meat.
Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.
Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places.
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.
Cenophobia or Centophobia- Fear of new things or ideas.
Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)
Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.
Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia- Fear of cold.
(Frigophobia, Psychophobia)
Chemophobia- Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety.
Chionophobia- Fear of snow.
Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched.
Chirophobia- Fear of hands.
Chiroptophobia- Fear of bats.
Cholerophobia- Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
Chorophobia- Fear of dancing.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money.
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.
Chronophobia- Fear of time.

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Dear Brethren,
As it may interest you to know, GOD always desire us all to have Salvation for that reason he sent his only be gotten son to come and save us.
Today I will like us to consider some few scripture in-oder to get the true meaning of Salvation."Salvation could be summed up to be deliverance" Deliverance? From what? Ok we will look at the Old Testament meaning and then New Testament, When the Israelites came out of Egypt and reached the Red Sea, Moses told them
to “stand still, and see the salvation of the
LORD” (Exodus 14:13). In this case, God provided a physical deliverance for Israel from the armies of Egypt.
In the New Testament, the term “salvation” is
specially used to refer to the great deliverance from the penalty of sin, which is eternal death (Romans 6:23). That is why the book of Hebrews calls it “so great a salvation” (Hebrews 2:3).
Why do we need salvation?
Why does man need to be saved? First, we go back to the time when man was created by God in the garden. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man
became a living being "soul", KJV]” (Genesis2:7).
Later, the prophet Ezekiel noted that all souls (living beings) belong to God. “Behold all souls are Mine; the soul of the father, as well as the soul of the son is Mine; the soul who sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4).
This is repeated again in verse 20: “The soul who sins shall die.”
Every human being (except for Jesus Christ) has
sinned. Yes through Adamic nature we inherited at birth “For all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God” (Romans 3:23). The penalty for sin is death. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
So man needs to be saved—delivered from eternal death—and to be given the gift of God, which is eternal life. That is why salvation is necessary, and why Jesus came to the earth as a human being. “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). Salvation is only possible by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Now at this point let us see the story of a Tax collector in (Luke 19) Zacchaeus was a chief Tax collector and in those days tax collectors were seen as great sinners.. But when the people saw that jesus has decided to stayed at his place they condemned Zacchaeus as a great sinner since he was ready to receive salvation he told our lord jesus Immediately "I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have receive anything from any anyone by false I restore it fourfold"after hearing this and seeing the zeal jesus answered and said to him "Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham"
Surely from the story these point are to be noted;
God is willing to receive those who come to regain their freedom from sin anytime.
Salvation is always available for any one who think they are deeply in their sin God will always forgive you. That's why he is a merciful God no matter how people may condemned you he will receive just make up your mind.
You must be ready to give up everything to follow christ the tax collector was ready to give back everything he false fully collect from anyone. Salvation is always there for anybody that is christ died for our sin so it may be forgiven.

Has Jesus done anything yet?
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Yesterday,two protesting pensioners of Benue State slumped right inside the Government House in Makurdi while insisting Governor Samuel Ortom must pay them.
But the leader of the concerned pensioner, Mr. Kyado said no week passes without four to five pensioners dying in penury across the 23 local government areas of the state due to hardship arising from hunger, disease and starvation.

The victims who could be in their early seventies were amongst hundreds of pensioners who had storm Governor’s office for a peaceful protest staged by hundreds of pensioners to press home their over eleven months arrears owed them by the state government.

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Yesterday,two protesting pensioners of Benue State slumped right inside the Government House in Makurdi while insisting Governor Samuel Ortom must pay them.
But the leader of the concerned pensioner, Mr. Kyado said no week passes without four to five pensioners dying in penury across the 23 local government areas of the state due to hardship arising from hunger, disease and starvation.

The victims who could be in their early seventies were amongst hundreds of pensioners who had storm Governor’s office for a peaceful protest staged by hundreds of pensioners to press home their over eleven months arrears owed them by the state government.

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Governor Okezie Ikpeazu yesterday urged Abia State residents not to panic after a court ordered him to vacate office immediately.
In a statement, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Enyinnaya Appolos, said Ikpeazu will appeal the judgment
The governor noted that as an appointee of the Abia State Government from 2011 to 2014, when he served as the General Manager, Abia State Passengers Integrated Manifest and Safety Scheme (ASPIMSS), and first Deputy General Manager, Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) Aba and Environs, before his resignation in October 2014 to contest the governorship election, his taxes within the period were deducted at source. When he needed his tax clearance in 2014, he applied to the Abia State Board of Internal Revenue and was issued with his tax receipts for the period in question, he said.
Ikpeazu maintained that he remained the governor, according to the law, and will await the final determination of the matter by the appellate courts.
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday voided Ikpeazu’s election on the ground that he was not qualified to have contested.
The judge held that the evidence before the court supported the plaintiff’s position that Ikpeazu made a false claim in relation to the information he submitted to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for onward submission to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Justice Abang, who upheld arguments by plaintiffs’ lawyers Alex Iziyon (SAN) and Femi Falana (SAN), said having lied about his tax clearance certificates and personal income tax receipts, Ikpeazu failed to meet the requirement under Article 14(a) of the PDP Electoral Guideline for its primary elections.
The judge said as against the requirement under Article 14(a) of the PDP Guideline, requiring a candidate for its primary election to provide evidence of his payment of personal income tax as at when due in the last three years, there was no reliable evidence before the court that Ikpeazu paid his tax regularly three years before he contested the party’s primary on December 8, 2014.
The judge spoke in two separate judgments in the suits by Dr. Samson Uchechukwu Ogah vs. PDP and Obasi Uba Eleagbara and 2 others vs. PDP and two others.
“He lied in his declaration to INEC that he fulfilled all requirements to stand election, whereas he did not. The issue before the court is disqualification to participate in the first defendant (PDP’s) primary election for Abia State. It is not whether he was qualified under Section 177 of the Constitution to contest the governorship election.
“Since there is no provision for independent candidate, it is material that he must first meet the PDP requirement as stipulated in Article 14(a) of the PDP Electoral Guidelines,” the judge said.
The judge said since Ikpeazu was not qualified to contest the PDP primary by making false claim in his tax information submitted to his party, and which his party later submitted to INEC, he breached Section 31 of the Constitution.
Justice Abang ordered the PDP to submit to INEC as its candidate for the last governorship election in Abia, the name of the aspirant with the second highest votes in the party’s last primary because Ikpeazu, who came first, was not qualified to participate in the primary. He said the votes recorded in the primary by Ikpeazu were wasted votes.
The judge, who identified several discrepancies in the tax documents Ikpeazu submitted to his party, noted that the three receipts bore the same date of July 4 for the annual income tax he claimed to have paid in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
He noted that if, as he claimed that his annual income tax was deducted annually by his employer, being a civil servant, he ought to have simply obtained evidence of such payment from his employer and not obtain receipts form the State Tax Board, with similar dates and serial numbers. He noted that one of the receipts carried December 31, 2011 as its issuance date, but pointed out that the date was a Saturday, a no-work day in Abia State. He wondered why the receipt was issued on Saturday

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Roy Hodgson has resigned as England manager after his side suffered a shock 2-1 loss to Iceland on Monday to crash out of the 2016 European Championship in France.
The fact that he has won just three of 11 games in major tournament finals was always there to haunt him.
England had suffered their worst humiliation since they were knocked out of the 1950 World Cup by the U.S. in Brazil as Iceland shocked them out of contention.
After Wayne Rooney’s 4th minute penalty kick, Iceland equalised within a minute as England failed to deal with a trademark long throw, before Ragnar Sigurdsson bundled home from close range.
Iceland — with a population of just 330,000 — were among the lowest-ranked teams in France at 34 in the world.

“I’m sorry it will have to end this way but these things happen,’’ Hodgson said while explaining his resignation.
“Now is the time for someone else to oversee the progress of a hungry and extremely talented group of players.
“They have done fantastically and done everything asked of them. I hope you will still be able to see an England team in a final of a major tournament soon.’’
Hodgson, who won 33 of his 56 games as England boss, would have been out of contract at the end of the tournament.
The former Liverpool and West Brom boss was due to discuss a possible contract renewal.
But Football Association (FA) chairman Greg Dyke had said he (Hodgson) would only stay on if England “do well’’ in France.
In a statement issued following Hodgson’s resignation, the FA said: “Like the nation, we are disappointed to lose this evening and that our run in Euro 2016 has come to a premature end.
“We had high hopes of progressing through to the latter stages of the competition and accept that we have not met our own expectations or those of the country.
“We back Roy Hodgson’s decision to step down as England manager and will discuss next steps imminently.’’
England had qualified for Euro 2016 with a 100 per cent record in their group had started the finals with a 1-1 draw against Russia.They had gone on to beat Wales 2-1 and draw 0-0 with Slovakia in their final Group B game.
The results that left them in second place and in a tougher half of the draw.
Hodgson had faced heavy criticism following the Slovakia game for making six changes to the side that had beaten Wales.
Under Hodgson’s guidance, England had reached the quarter-finals of the last European Championship in 2012, losing to Italy on penalty kicks, before a dismal showing at the 2014 World Cup.
They had then in Brazil gone out at the group stages without winning a game.
Hodgson also confirmed that assistants Ray Lewington and Gary Neville would also leave their posts.
In a reaction, former England striker Alan Shearer described the Iceland defeat as the team’s worst performance.
“That was the worst performance I’ve ever seen from an England team. Ever.
“We were out-fought, out-thought, out-battled and totally hopeless for 90 minutes. It looked to me like Roy was making it up as he was going along.’’
Shearer, who revealed he wanted to become England manager before Hodgson was appointed, added: “Our players caved tonight.
They caved and the manager caved.’’
Another former England international, Jermaine Jenas, said Hodgson “didn’t know” what he was doing, adding “He didn’t know his best team or system.
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ALLEGED FORGED SENATE RULES: Fury in NASS over bid to dock Saraki, Ekweremadu ABUJA— Outrage overflowed in the two chambers of the National Assembly, yesterday, over bid to arraign the two presiding officers of the Senate for alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Rules 2015, with the Senate pointedly accusing President Muhmmadu Buhari of turning into a dictator. Following a four-hour closed-door session, the Senate in a unanimous resolution, summoned the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to appear before its Committee on Judiciary within two days, even as senators across party lines affirmed that the Rule Book, allegedly forged, remains authentic. The Senate resolution also claimed a plot by the Presidency to remove its leadership through what it described as a coup. The indignation in the Senate over the planned arraignment of Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, also spilled over to the House of Representatives, which in a similar resolution, called on the President to keep to the constitution in his decisions in order not to abort the nation’s democracy. Similarly, the PDP caucuses in the Senate and House of Representatives, in separate meetings, also lambasted the Presidency, with the PDP senators resolving, henceforth, to stop all manner of cooperation with the All Progressives Congress, APC-led administration. The PDP House caucus at a press conference in the National Assembly building, vowed to resist any plot to remove the presiding officers of the Senate, describing it as an attempt to foist a dictatorship on the country. Meanwhile, the reality of the showdown crystallized, yesterday, evening as judicial officials pasted the summons on Saraki and Ekweremadu to appear before the Federal High Court on June 27. The summons was pasted by way of substituted service, and it became the first time the two men were formally being notified of their prosecution. The Senate resolution followed a four-hour closed door session presided over by Senator Ekweremadu. Senate summons Attorney-General Following the session, Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West), upon a matter of urgent public importance, raised a motion accusing the Buhari administration of attempting to change the leadership of the Senate by muzzling the legislative arm. The motion, which was adopted unanimously without dissent, warned that the Senate might be compelled to withdraw its support for the administration if it continued to interfere in its domestic affairs. The Senate said the attorney-general must appear to “justify with evidence the basis for his action and why it does not constitute gross misconduct, incompetence, contempt of court and abuse of office.” It insisted that the “Senate Rule 2015 was not forged” and that “it is the authentic rule of the Senate.” The motion, tagged: “Motion on the imminent threat to our democracy as it relates to the alleged invitation of our principal officers by the court in Abuja,” asked the Senate to rise and defend democracy. Melaye’s motion went further: “This Senate notes further that the judiciary had through several rulings in a recent case suit no AFC/ABJ/CS/646/2015 on the same issue, warned the executive arm from treading the path of criminalising or interfering in the running of the internal affairs of the Senate. “This Senate, therefore, acknowledges the grave implications this emerging trend poses to the security, continued existence, unity, and survival of our dear country. “This Senate is aware that the legislature is subject to provisions of the constitution to regulate its procedures as explicitly stated in Section 60 of the Nigerian Constitution, which we have all sworn to uphold.” He said he was disturbed that instead of “applying itself to the myriads of problems confronting the nation, including the escalating cost of living, extremism, worsening insecurity, rising ethnic divisions, skyrocketing unemployment, declining national productivity and an economy nose-diving into recession, the executive continued to be hell-bent on chasing rats while the federation burns.” Upon that and other resolutions, the Senate declared that if its rules were fake, then the treatments the President had received using the same rules were fake.

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And I appeal that the investigation should be accelerated because justice delayed is justice denied. Life has become so frustrating but I thank God for his mercies Sunday Vanguard learnt that the matter is being investigated by the homicide section of the Edo Police. It was said that the wife of the native doctor has been interrogated and some other persons questioned also.
Spokesman for the state Police Command, Abiodun Osifo, who hinted that detectives were investigating the matter, described the attack on the victim as wicked, assuring that the suspects will be arrested in due course.
“We appeal to members of the public to help us with useful information because, without information, the police can do little or nothing. This is a crime against God and humanity and we must not condone it. How can somebody bath a fellow human being with acid? Even if the person is your enemy, does that make sense? Such people must face the law no matter where they are hiding. You cannot run forever. I believe the police will uncover the suspects and bring them to justice”
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Gunmen at the early hours of Friday, stormed the home of Mr. Denen Igbana, the Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to Benue State Governor on Security, and shot him dead in the presence of his family.
This was just as an Army Corporal attached to the Benue State Joint Security Patrol team code named ‘Operation Zenda’, allegedly shot a year two female student of Primary Education Studies at the College of Education in Oju local government area
of the state.
Saturday Vanguard learned that Igbana,
a retired Police officer, was killed by a
gang who waylaid him in front of his house along Naka road, in the outskirts
of Makurdi town.
Narrating the incident to Governor Samuel Ortom who paid a sympathy
visit to the family of the deceased, an eyewitness and Tax Collector in the
area, Thomas Ayakpam said the assailants struck at about 1:32am
He explained that the SSA had come home only to run into the assailants who were armed with sophisticated weapons.
“They opened fire on his vehicle (a Toyota Hilux) perforating the car on all sides.
“ Igbana ran out of the car, shouting and heading towards my own house but they shot him on his leg. He fell. At that point one of the gunmen came closer to him and he started shouting, ‘Gana so you can kill me, you want to kill me, what did I do to you?”. He was then shot severally and the people fled.”
In his response, Governor Ortom who could not hold back tears said the deceased was one of his trusted aides who played a vital role in ensuring the success of the administration’s amnesty programme. The Governor who charged security operatives to apprehend the masterminds of the killing said, “they have killed part of me but I’m still alive and I will ensure that anyone responsible for this dastardly killing would be made to face justice.”
Meantime, Saturday Vanguard gathered from an eyewitness that the female student of College of Education in Oju was shot while sitting in front of her residence at Lawani hostels, situated outside the school campus.
According to the source, “the problem started when one student of the institution was alleged to have a long standing problem with a female student and supposed girl friend of a soldier.
“For that reason, the soldier, Thursday afternoon stormed the institution to whisk Anthony to the ‘Operation Zenda’ base in Oju, but fellow students resisted the move. He was asked to get an approval from the institution’s management before taking the student away.
“At that point the angry soldier went away, promising to come back. That evening the soldier went back to the institution with some of his colleagues to abduct the said Anthony but were resisted by students in the institution who also aided Anthony to escape.
“Vexed by the action of the students the soldier opened fire with his riffle and the innocent girl who was sitting by the door of her room got hit at the side of her chest.
“She was rushed to Adoga hospital in Oju where she was given two pints of blood because she had lost so much blood and thereafter rushed to the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, BSUTH, for further treatment because the bullet could not be extracted and her condition was deteriorating.
“As I speak with you we cannot ascertain the condition of the student but the Army Corporal has been arrested by the Police in Oju and transferred to the Command Headquarters in Makurdi.”
Meanwhile, attempts to reach the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Assistant Superintendent, ASP, Moses Yamu failed but a top Police source who craved anonymity confirmed that the matter was being investigated while the Army Corporal was being interrogated.
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Ilorin - Abductors of the Chairman of the APC in Kwara,Hon. Ishola Balogun-Fulani and Secretary, Chief Bode Adekanye, have demanded for N50 million ransom.
It was learnt that the kidnappers made the demand on Friday night after they had allowed the APC chiefs to speak with their family members. Balogun- Fulani and Adekanye were kidnapped on Friday night while returning to Ilorin from Abuja.
A close aide of Adekanye, who craved anonymity, said on Saturday that family members of the kidnapped APC chieftains offered to pay the abductors N10 million which they accepted.
Meanwhile, Gov Abdulfatah Ahmed has described the abduction of the party chiefs as `` atrocious, despicable and unfortunate.''
Ahmed said this on Saturday in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba.
He said government was ready to render the required assistance to security agencies in ensuring that both men regained their freedom.
The governor urged anybody with useful information that could help secure the release of the two men to contact the security agencies.
Ahmed also assured the people of the state that government would do everything possible to guarantee the safety of lives and properties. (NAN)
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A yet to be identified solider has drowned in a boat accident that occurred in Bayelsa State.
According to media reports, the soldier who was attached to the Niger Delta’s Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Pulo Shield (OPS) was escorting oil workers from an oil spill site when their boat capsized at Taylor Creek near an oilfield operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Okordia,
Yenagoa local government area of the state.
“The boat conveying the crew from Agip’s field capsized on their way back from the site at the oilfield and before help could come the soldier drowned and died, they were using a hand paddled canoe to cross the workers one at a time.
“The soldier was washing his boots when water entered the boat. It capsized and soldier’s riffle fell into the creeks. The other members of the crew had crossed and were waiting for the soldier who could not make it,” a source from the community said.
The source said the attention of the fishermen operating along the creek was drawn to the ill-fated boat, adding that the soldier had died before they could get there.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian army has gone on the offensive against Boko Haram, killing 35 of the terrorists shortly after a second Chibok girl was rescued yesterday.
Army representative Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman made the announcement of the offensive yesterday while confirming the girl’s release.
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Gunmen have killed the Senior Special Assistant on Security to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Mr Denen Igbana. Benueforum.com gathered that the unknown gunmen stormed his house around 2AM on Friday and shot him.
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has directed security operatives to immediately fish out the perpetrators.
He added that anyone who has been mentioned in relation to the crime should be brought in for questioning if he is implicated in the investigation.
The official vehicle attached to the late security assistant, had several bullet holes as the assassins started shooting at him when he got home. The gunmen had trailed him to the field next to his house. He was brutally shot and left to bleed.
Speaking to Benueforum.com,his brother Mr Iorzua Igbana, his neighbours Mr Stephen Avaan and community members who narrated the last words of the deceased, said that he pointed accusing fingers at a former warlord Mr Terwase Akwaza A.K.A Gana.
Hon Abraham Kwaghngu, a colleagues of the late security assistant who were with him on Thursday before his gruesome murder, also said that he had complained
about threats to his life.
The State Commissioner of Police vowed
to track down the perpetrators, following
the Governor’s directive to arrest those behind the killing.
Governor Samuel Ortom also visited the
hospital to see Igbana’s son who fainted
due to the trauma of the violence and
shooting at their home.
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THE federal government has said its decision to partially deregulate the downstream sector of the petroleum sector would enhance its school feeding programme.
Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, stated this yesterday, when a federal government delegation, led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation,David Babachir Lawal, met with members of the National Working Committee and State Executive Committees of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja.
At the meeting called to discuss the issues thrown up by deregulation, Mohammed listed several impacts the policy would have on Nigerians.
He said, “The first is the employment of 500,000 unemployed graduates, the second is the employment of 100,000 non graduates, technicians and artisans. The third is the one meal a day programme targeting 5.5 million pupils all over Nigeria. This is the most exciting of all our programmes. Even if we are going to give these children one egg a day, it means we will need 5.5 million eggs and in a calendar year of 200 days, we will need over a billion eggs. You can imagine what this will do to agriculture.
“We have the enterprise scheme which is a system of revolving loan. We are targeting one million market women and men, 460,000 artisans and technicians and 200,000 agricultural workers to be given loans through their cooperatives to start their own businesses. We have the N5,000 conditional cash transfers to one million most vulnerable Nigerians as a first phase. Then finally, we have bursaries, scholarships for all students in Nigeria studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics.”
National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie- Oyegun, said such meetings would be convened on a regular basis so party members would understand government’s policy. He said:
“What this does is to arm everyone of us from the national and state levels so that we can speak with confidence, in addition to whatever passion we can muster about what is going on at the national level and go away with the conviction that things are not just happening capriciously with the conviction that we promised change. Change is a process, it is not an event,not something that happens the day after the government was sworn-in.”
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The Federal Government on Wednesday, said Nigeria was ready to commence the production of nuclear energy.
The Minster of Power, Works and Housing, Mr
Babatunde Fashola, who made this known at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja, said Nigeria had secured the necessary certification from the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA).
Fashola said: "`This thing has protocols and standards; we are already in it; we are not venturing into it; we started a nuclear programme 17 years ago.
``We have gone through the training level; we have produced 25 graduates of master’s level under certification by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
``We have found the sites; the sites have been approved, two sites have been approved by International Atomic Energy Agency.
``We have started the design for the financing; that is the stage we are now; once we conclude that, we move to the design for the construction.
``If all things go well, by quarter four of next year - that is the schedule that I met - we should have started construction, so that is what I meet.``
Fashola said it was important for Nigeria to focus on the gains and safety of nuclear energy as obtained in other developed countries.
He said that since the whole world was moving toward a cleaner fuel and the use of more sustainable form of energy, Nigeria could be an exception.
He, however, said that the developed countries could only share the technology with countries ready keep to the standards in the utilisation of the technology.
The minister further said that diversifying the nation’s energy mix would lead to the utilisation of the various forms of renewable energy sources in the country.
This, according to him, will ultimately make electricity cheap in the country.

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A witness in the ongoing trial of Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, a former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Yazidu Ibrahim, a Staff Officer,
Accounts, Office of the National Security Adviser, yesterday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja, how he was instructed to pay N300 million to a company, BAM Projects and Properties Limited, owned by Bello.
Bello, his son, Mohammed, and their company, Bam Project and Properties Limited, are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly receiving N300 million from the office of the former National Security Advi-ser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
At the resumed hearing yesterday,Ibrahim told Justice A. R. Mohammed that he received a written instruction on a piece of paper to prepare a payment mandate for BAM in the sum of N300 million.
Led in evidence by Adebisi Adeniyi, who stood in for Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), Ibrahim further stated that the piece of paper had the account name, account number,amount and reason for payment (payment for safe houses).
According to him, there were two signatories on the payment mandate: Mohammed Sambo Dasuki, a former National Security Adviser, and S.A. Salisu, Director, Finance and Administration.
“After they have signed the paper, I would also sign before taking it to the bank (Central Bank of Nigeria),” he said.
During cross-examination by counsel to the first defendant, Solomon Umoh (SAN), the witness told the court that he did not know if there was any contract between the defendants and office of the National Security Adviser, adding that “no documents for payments were made available, apart from the piece of paper sent to me.”
The case was adjourned to June 1 for further cross-examination of the witness by counsel to the second and third defendants.
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This week is National Mental Health Awareness Week. As
Most people have been suffering from bad mental health for over the years now. I have learned some fact to cope and go about in a more normalised way,
With it being National Health Awareness Week, I wanted to
post something that will
help those who have not found that place of peace which
allows them to cope with their depression or anxiety.
So, for my first post of the week, I give you 100 ways to
calm your anxious mind! These can apply to those who
feel like they are having an anxiety or panic attack, for those who feel triggered or for those who have the urge to
self harm. Not all of the below ideas will work for everyone. If one doesn’t work then please don’t feel
disheartened, pick another and see if that works.
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1. Listen to calming music or music that you like
2. Draw, paint or colour
3. Watch YouTube videos
4. Tidy your room
5. Go for a walk
6. Paint your nails
7. Prepare a meal
8. Peel an orange
9. Make your bed
10. Exercise
11. Yoga
12. Meditation
13. Cuddle a soft toy
14. Concentrate on your breathing
15. Colour-coordinate your wardrobe
16. Play an online/console game
17. Make a scrap book
18. Organise your DVD’s
19. Watch a film/tv show
20. Eat some chocolate
21. Pluck your eyebrows
22. Dance
23. Sing at the top of your lungs
24. Practice make-up techniques
25. Take a nap
26. Listen to ASMR videos
27. Learn sign language
28. Learn to swear in different languages
29. Count to 10 slowly
30. Look at the sky & try to find shapes in the clouds
31. List 10 of your favourite things
32. Ring someone you care about
33. Have a bath or shower
34. Read a book
35. Do a wordsearch/crossword
36. Water your plants
37. Take your dog out for a walk
38. Stargaze
39. Get a massage
40. Have a pillow fight with the wall
41. Chew gum
Check full list here:
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The Federal Government says more than 17,500 road construction workers are to be re-engaged as contractors return to project sites across the country.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, made this known when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said that the contractors had declared their readiness to re-engage workers, who were laid off due to the huge debt owed by the Federal Government in the past three years.
“We are trying to ensure that everybody (contractors and workers) go back
as quickly as possible to have the most effective impact.
“Just by speaking to 20 of our road contractors yesterday on the number of
people they have laid off who they can move back to work.
“The return that I got was over 17,500 people that they would re-engage.
“So, that is the first step. We have over 200 road projects, so, that is just 20 contractors and we are going to be meeting with more.
Now, that’s change. People who lost their work are coming back to work.
That’s what this budget brings.
“Capital expenditure for the ministry is about N353 (billion). That’s a lot different from what we had in 2015.’’
Fashola criticised the failure of the previous governments to settle debts owed contractors, a situation, which he said, had created enormous challenges even in the face of dwindling oil revenue.
He, however, stressed that the government would not allow current challenges to distract it from doing its best possible to improve the well-being of the people.
“If contractors have not been paid for three years when oil was selling for a lot more, the budget is bigger now but the responsibility is just enormous because the oil resources have reduced.
“So, this is what we should have done three years ago when we had income at close to 100 dollars per barrel.
We are going to run as hard as we can. And everything little thing that we do, we hope would improve the quality of peoples’ lives.
According to him, the biggest impact of the budget so far is the restoration of jobs, beginning with the construction sector.
“Taking one simple step means that we can take about 17,500 and more people to work. That’s more important to me than how much debt was owed.

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ONITSHA—Tragedy struck yesterday at Okpoko Junction,near Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, Anambra state, when a hit-and-run driver knocked down a yet to be identified pregnant woman, who died instantly.
The incident, according to an eye-witness, occurred at about 4 p.m. when the pregnant woman was hit by an over-speeding vehicle as she tried to cross the busy express way.
The source added that the Federal Road Safety officials attached to Onitsha Unit Command later removed her corpse to a nearby hospital mortuary where it was deposited.
One of the eye-witnesses and National Publicity Secretary of Campaign for Democracy, CD, Dede Uzor A.Uzor, who spoke to newsmen, described the incident as tragic and called on both the federal and Anambra State governments to build a pedestrian fly-over across the ever-busy Okpoko junction to avoid more lost of lives and properties within that axis.
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ABUJA-THE House of Representatives on
Tuesday ,ordered its committee on sports to
summon the Minister of Youths and Sports,
Solomon Dalung and officials of the Nigerian
Football Federation ,NFF, in a bid to amicably resolve the crisis rocking the apex football body in Nigeria.
This was sequel to a motion of urgent public
importance promoted by Rep Prestigious Ossy which recalled that trouble started when a high Court nullified the election of Amaju Pinnick
and declared Chris Giwa as the winner of the
election.
"Since the declaration of Chris Giwa as the
winner of the September 30, 2014 election and
the substantial President of the Nigerian
Football Federation by the court, the in fighting has escalated. "It took the timely Intervention of officers and men of the Nigerian Police to prevent a total breakdown of law and order at the headquarters of the NFF "Ossy told the House.
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ABUJA - President Mohammadu Buhari is handicapped over the increase in the price of premium motor spirit, PMS, Vice President, Yemi Osinabjo has said.
Seemingly rising in defence of the president amid the backlash of angry feelings among many Nigerians caused by the all-time drastic increase, Osinabjo said that though the president was opposed to the new price initially, he had no choice than to accept the change.
According to him, the decision was necessary if the country must source for foreign exchange to import fuel.
In any case, the Vice President said that even if the local refineries were resuscitated, the country would still need to import product as they would only run at 40 percent capacity.
Osinbajo spoke Tuesday in Abuja at the public presentation of a book titled "Anatomy of Corruption in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges & Solutions, a collection of essays", edited by a renowned lawyer and Senior. Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr. Yusuf Ali.
This is not the first time, the office of the Vice President would be exonerating the president from the hike.
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wednesday attempted to reverse his unguarded remark about Nigeria and Afghanistan, two. countries which on Tuesday, he, described as “fantastically corrupt”, when he was briefing Queen Elizabeth II on the ongoing anti-corruption summit being hosted by the United Kingdom.
While briefing Members of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons wednesday, the British PM said Nigeria and Afghanistan had taken “remarkable steps forward” on corruption, reported the BBC.
The PM said the countries’ leaders were “battling hard” to tackle the problem.
His attempt at a mea culpa came after Buhari, who arrived London on Tuesday evening for the summit, said Cameron’s gaffe was not reflective of his administration’s. fight against corruption.
However, when asked yesterday by journalists at the pre-anti-corruption conference in London if Nigeria was
“fantastically corrupt”, Buhari candidly replied, “Yes”,adding that corruption in Nigeria was endemic, but his government was committed to fighting it.
He went on to state that he was not going to demand an apology from Britain or Cameron, making it abundantly clear that he was more interested in the return of Nigeria’s assets held in British banks.
“I am not going to be demanding any apology from anybody. What I will be demanding is the return of assets.
I have already mentioned how Britain led and how disgraceful one of Nigeria’s executives (former Bayelsa Governor, the late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha) was. He had to dress like a woman to leave Britain and left behind his bank account and fixed assets which Britain is not prepared to hand over to us.
“This is what I am asking for. What will I do with an apology? I need something tangible,” he said.
Also in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour
wednesday, Buhari refused to be defensive over Cameron’s statement, saying: “Well he said what he knows about both countries. He did not say what he said to the press, it was a private conversation.”
In its reaction, the Afghan embassy in London said tackling corruption was one of President Ashraf Ghani’s top priorities and “bold” action had been taken.
“We have made important progress in fighting systematic corruption in major national procurement contracts and are making progress on addressing institutional issues as well as issues related to impunity… therefore calling Afghanistan in that way is unfair,” the embassy said.
According to the BBC, Cameron was asked about his comments on Nigeria and Afghanistan during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, where he jokingly checked if his microphone was working, refering to “tips on diplomacy” and said he had made “many unforced errors” in the past 24 hours.
Answering a question from Tory backbencher Philip Davies, who asked why UK aid was being given to countries that the PM sees as corrupt, in his reply, Cameron praised the action taken by Afghanistan and Nigeria and warned that cutting off aid could “come back to haunt us here”.
He also defended the action by his own government, including initiatives on overseas tax havens and measures to make sure “plundered money from African countries can’t be hidden in London”.
In the footage showing Cameron’s comments on Tuesday, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby intervened to say: “But this particular president is not corrupt… he’s trying very hard,” before Speaker John Bercow said: “They are coming at their own expense, one assumes?”
Earlier, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the PM had been “merely stating a fact” in his comments, and ex-London mayor Boris Johnson said people would “find it refreshing he was speaking his mind”.
Downing Street said the presidents of Nigeria and Afghanistan had “acknowledged the scale of the corruption challenge they face in their countries”
But Labour MPs said a Tory government “hosting an anti-corruption summit was like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop”.
“The government is refusing to take meaningful action to close Britain’s constellation of tax havens, which together constitute the largest financial secrecy network in the world,” said Shadow International Development Secretary Diane Abbott.
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