At the end of this session, we have a blog, we have a blog http://writersfor..com.ng/, the blog has a single page writersfor..com.ng/p/writersforblogspotcom.html. We have a basic but professional look to the blog already and we are set to begin blogging.

If you check the page, you will find out that there is a upper menu and you can access our pages. There are Home and WritersforBlogspot items already. How did we do that? Can you figure it out? Well here are the screenshots.

Over to the dashboard, Layout menu, and then Add Gadget. Look for the Pages Gadget and drop it on the sidebar.

Drag the gadget from the region called sidebar-right-1 to main.

We head to Nairaland so we can start an update of the first part of the training which covers how to open up and setup a blog.
Why did we do that? Because there is a community here, and we wanted them to benefit from the training. It will add to their knowledge and give visibility to our project too.

The editor screen should be familiar to you if you are a Google Docs user. On the right hand is a gears icon. You can access more page settings there. Intermediate and advanced users who understand all that is available there may need it.

The editor has enough features to make a decent document, and easily too. We begin with our first page. This gets exciting now.

We add text and format the document with headings etc.

We add a link to WHAT (what.com.ng) and to Nairaland. It is easy to add links. You can also test the hyperlink. It is a nice feature to ensure you got the URL right.

To add a page in Blogger, return to the menu of the left side of the dashboard. There is a Page menu there.

We proceed to structure the blog. We want to add a page. Your blog will need pages for many possible reasons. In this instance we are adding a page which will give a summary of what the writersfor. project is about.

This is another nice option and I note it for when we need to change the default mobile template.

Since most people will be using mobile devices to visit writersfor. blog, we are concerned about what it will look like on mobile devices. Nicely though, Blogger allows us to select whatever template we want for the mobile version of the site. It is right there under the Template menu.

Here are some possible looks for our mobile site.

So this is how we ended up with a many-heads profile image.

We proceed to edit our profile, and add some basic information. It is good to have a full profile if you can. That is part of what counts as a quality blog.

Back to the dashboard and the menu on the left of the screen. There is a Template option on the menu. That is where we can select a different look for the writersfor. blog. See some of the possible looks the blog can have.

We go back to edit the header panel. Now it is looking better.

After modifying the GADGETs, this is the preview of the site. Notice that we now have "Hello Nigerians ... Hello World! ..." message at the top of the screen. This is because we added a header widget.

However the description is too long, thereby making the whole thing ugly. User interface is very important for blogs like it is for any things in life.

We proceed to Layout (available on the left side of the dashboard screen). On the Layout screen, we add and arrange GADGETs. Gadgets are the equivalent of Wordpress widgets.

After that, we edit the Gadget About Me. We add image, some description and other information.

This is the selected look for our blog. There are a variety of designs you can chose from too.

Now we are done with the account, creating a blogger blog and finally have access to a dashboard. Now we have access to joining and making an impact in blogosphere with our simple blog for training bloggers.

We setup a blogger/Google account using an existing email (a yahoo mail address, you can use any email you have beforehand). Now it is time to find a good name for the blog. Having a nice name was important to us. We chose writersfor . . com.

Now that we've created and verified a Google account (using an existing yahoo email address), it is time for a blogger account setup.

Account confirmation etc. Better to select call verification instead of SMS.

These series of images shows all the steps taken in the making of Writersfor..com right from creating an account to setting up and posting. It is a continuous project, hence the name reality training. You will see shots of every act take in making it and in blogging day by day.

Aliyeous:
chei buh my broda u sure say dis tn go work. rememba hw selfish our leaders are

Well we can only do our part as Nigerians, we can only support these actions. Seems like people are joining them to do the hunger thing too.

As times go by selfish leaders will only have themselves to blame. The Arab spring revolution was started by ordinary issues and ordinary people.

Flexherbal:
Will this touch the heart of the leaders?

You've asked a major question. Unfortunately selfishness runs in the blood of an average Nigerian, especially the leaders, the 'rich', and the powerful.

Imagine the silence in every quarter about workers' salary. The consequences of this phase we have entered in Nigeria will be bad. Mark it.

See these guys who said they aren't eating on May 1. Many like them on Facebook.

From - maydayhunger.org

In terms of advocating for other people’s rights, Nigerians are behind. In terms of standing up for our rights, we are also behind. Maybe we feel “Get up, Stand up” is only a song. But it is not. It is a wake up call. MayDayHunger is a wake up call.

That is why I decided to do the smallest I can towards this unheard of thing which seems to be spreading like a cancer in Nigeria – this thing of governors not paying salaries. It no longer matters whether it is 27 states or 37 states that owe.

MayDayHunger is just my own little way of calling for workers to be paid. Before workers die of hunger and have health and mental breakdowns, I want to say my bit in support of the workers. I hope it gets to the nation and the world.

[img]https://www.facebook.com/maydayhunger/photos/a.479261208945494.1073741828.479231405615141/479438575594424/?type=3[/img]

Is it only for me alone?

If you understand the way about which MayDayHunger is to operate, you can participate. You only need to skip a meal on May Day – May 1, 2016. That is all. No protests, rallies, or anything of such.

You can come to the homepage here and share what you would rather have ate on that morning, you can tell your other friends.

I really do not want workers to participate. This is for them. This is to show my/our solidarity for them. So if you are a worker and you have got some little food left, please eat. The journey ahead is still a long one.

Who am I?

I don’t want this to be about me, nor do I want any popularity or score from this. That is why I remain known to few and would love to keep it that way.

Why does it matter?

Millions of people are directly affected, and the whole nation is indirectly affected. Goods are not selling as much as they used to sell, schools are having more debts owed them by parents, even auto mechanics in most states are feeling the impact of non-payment of salaries.

I see the suffering of some kids who their parents have not been paid. I see the families which are gradually falling apart because of financial strains. I see it all and wonder why everyone, including the NLC is silent.

Knowing how Nigeria works, I see this shameful thing is about to become the new thing in Nigeria, and it is about to become a standard. That is not right.

Will MayDayHunger work?

It is working already!

What MayDayHunger is not

This action does not involve the NLC in anyway
This action does not call for a protest
This action does not call for donations
This action is not for or against any political group.
Political parties are not allowed to participate

Nigeria using UK aid to persecute president's political foes rather to fight Boko Haram

Student stands in a burnt-out classroom at a school attacked by Boko Haram in Maiduguri CREDIT: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP
Con Coughlin, defence editor
12 APRIL 2016 • 7:52PM

Hundreds of millions of pounds of British foreign aid given to Nigeria to help combat Boko Haram terrorists is instead being used to fund a witch-hunt against opposition politicians, it is being claimed.

Britain has committed to spending £860 million in foreign aid to Nigeria, which now boasts Africa’s largest economy, to help support the country’s efforts to crush Boko Haram terror group, which has been responsible for a spate of outrages, including the kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls.

But Western officials are now raising concerns that the government of the country’s recently elected leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, is misusing the funds to persecute political opponents.

Since Mr Buhari came to power last July, a number of prominent members of the former ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have been arrested and imprisoned without charge. Among those detained was the party’s official spokesperson.

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Most of the arrests have been sanctioned by the government-controlled Economic and Financial Crime Commission, which was set up to tackle corruption and receives funding from the Department for International Development.

But while Mr Buhari’s government continues to use British aid money to target his political opponents, it is proving less effective at tackling the Islamist-run Boko Haram terrorist group.

Much of the aid Britain provides to Nigeria is aimed at helping the country’s security forces to become more effective at tackling Boko Haram, which boasts of its links with Islamic State (Isil) and achieved international notoriety two years ago after kidnapping 276 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria two years ago.

•  Boko Haram demands '$50m ransom' for release of kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls 

Scores of British military personnel – including members of the Special Forces – are based in Nigeria helping to train the military to tackle Boko Haram. But despite Mr Buhari’s pledge during last year’s general election campaign that he would make tackling Boko Haram one of his top priorities, there is growing concern among Western officials that the Nigerian military is failing to take effective action against the terrorists.

This has resulted in Boko Haram now being regarded as the world’s deadliest terrorist organisation, responsible for more deaths than Isil. There are now reports that the group is trying to train kidnapped children to act as suicide bombers.


President Muhammadu Buhari is currently on a visit to China   CREDIT: WANG ZHAO/AFP
“This is a scandal in the making," explained a senior U.S. official. "There is no doubt the growing strength of Boko Haram is because President Buhari is far more interested in settling scores with his political opponents that concentrating his energy on defeating terrorists,”  “The result is that Nigeria is starting to look more and more like a police state while Boko Haram just goes from strength to strength.”

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Another Western diplomat added: “If Buhari was serious about fighting corruption he would be focusing all of his efforts on targeting corruption that is impeding Nigeria’s ability to focus its efforts on tackling Boko Haram.”

Accusations that Nigeria is abusing British aid will add to the growing controversy over Downing Street’s commitment to spend 0.7 percent of GDP on the foreign aid budget. Last week the Telegraph reported that DFID was under pressure to cancel £200 million of foreign aid to Tanzania following concerns over a widely condemned election.

This resulted in Dr Liam Fox, the former Defence Secretary, accusing the government of “spraying money around” simply to achieve the 0.7 per cent target.

Western officials have expressed concern about Mr Buhari’s increasingly autocratic style of government since he came to power last year. A retired major-general, Mr Buhari, 73, previously headed a brutal military dictatorship following a coup in December 1983, which lasted until he was overthrown by another coup in 1985.

Now political opponents claim he is returning to his old dictatorial ways, abusing British aid meant to improve Nigeria’s ability to tackle Boko Haram to consolidate his hold on power.

Apart from the concerns over British aid, American officials are also angry that  $2.1 billion of aid given to the Nigerian military to tackle Boko Haram has not been properly accounted for.  

Mr Buhari’s claim that he is winning the war against Boko Haram - recently claimed the group no longer poses a serious threat - has been undermined by recent revelations the Nigerian authorities have tried to cover up the fact that hundreds more schoolchildren have been abducted by Boko Haram.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/12/nigeria-using-uk-aid-to-persecute-presidents-political-foes-rath/

5% Value Added Tax too low – Osinbajo
April 8, 2016

’Femi Asu

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the current five per cent Value Added Tax rate in the country as very low, adding that the Federal Government would increase the taxpayer base this year.

Osinbajo stated this on Thursday in Lagos in a keynote address at the 1st National Forum on the Economy organised by Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation Newspapers.

VAT is a consumption tax payable on goods and services consumed by individuals, government agencies and business organisations.

The International Monetary Fund had last week reiterated its advice to the Federal Government to increase the VAT rate gradually.

The Managing Director of the fund, Christine Lagarde, had in January during her visit to Nigeria, urged the government to increase the VAT rate.

“To move the nation forward, we must move beyond oil. The reality is that while oil accounts for 14.4 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product, it continues to be the source of 90 per cent of official foreign exchange earnings; and prior to this year, up to 76 per cent of government revenues,” Osinbajo said.

He said having an easy source of revenue had denied Nigeria the opportunity to engage in critical thinking to develop the economy.

“In order to move forward, we must reduce the current dependence of the federal and state governments on the ritual sharing of revenues from oil. Doing so requires broader and genuine efforts at the diversification of our economic structures in terms of drivers of economic activities. The foundation for a strong economy requires that we have appropriate fiscal policies,” the vice president explained.

Noting that the country had a very low rate of VAT of five per cent and a low taxpayer base, Osinbajo said, “We are focused on increasing the taxpayer base in the first instance this year.”

“At the federal level, implementation of the budget will stimulate the economy rather than impose undue austerity. Accordingly, up to 30 per cent of expenditure has been devoted to capital spending and N500bn for social intervention, which will create jobs directly and indirectly, while also boosting demand.”

According to him, non-oil sources, comprising mainly Company Income Tax, VAT, and customs and excise duties are expected to contribute about N1.5tn, which is more than oil-related revenue estimated at about N820bn.

“This is unprecedented in a long while in our nation and is a near complete reversal of the previous ratio of oil to non-oil revenues. These are bold and clear indications that the Buhari administration is serious about change,” he said.

The vice president noted that the way forward was for the nation to move from reliance on crude oil to the production of petroleum products.

Osinbajo stated, “By this, I mean that instead of merely extracting and exporting crude oil, Nigeria must now take full advantage of the petroleum sector and its entire value chain. This will mean refining our crude before it is exported; it will entail becoming an African regional petrochemical hub.

“It will also require making full use of our natural gas resources domestically and abroad; and it will require that we fully implement local content laws and regulations in the oil sector so as to fully utilise its abundant forward and backward linkages.”


http://www.punchng.com/5-value-added-tax-too-low-osinbajo/

Any hope of driving real efficiency in federal agencies hinges in large part on the ability of our elected leaders to come to some consensus on the nation’s fiscal course. If there was any question that the budget President Obama submitted to Congress in early February was dead on arrival the congressional leadership answered it by announcing they would not even bother to hold hearings on it.

Yes, there is a budget “deal” in place. It established new spending caps for the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years, and put off debate over the debt limit, but it’s what the deal did not do that bears talking about. It did not allocate funding by agency, which means we are almost certainly headed toward one or more continuing resolutions to kick off the next fiscal year. Nor did the deal address any of the core philosophical and fiscal differences that exist between the parties. In other words, while skirting an immediate political problem it did nothing to provide the kind of insight that agencies need for their own short and long term planning.

Of course, the questions—on both sides—are many. For example, the proposed Republican budget for 2016 would have reduced non-defense spending to its lowest proportional level (as a percentage of GDP) in some 50 years. Is that a good idea? Does it go too far? Are the targeted cuts the right ones? Meanwhile, the administration’s proposed budget for 2017 acknowledges that the deficit is back on an upward trajectory, toward the $1 trillion level; that the national debt will rise to nearly $22 trillion; and that by 2024, annual interest payments on the debt will rise to levels equal to nearly 80 percent of the entire discretionary budget. What are the implications of that reality? And what happens if interest rates rise even slightly more than anticipated?

Then there is the Affordable Care Act. I personally supported, and still support, it. But when originally passed, one of the tools that kept it “deficit neutral,” was the planned imposition of a tax on so-called “Cadillac” health care plans. But that tax has been delayed at least a year and will almost certainly continue to be pushed down the road. Neither party actually supports it. In fact, it is one of the few issues surrounding the ACA on which they agree. But what does the loss of that key funding mechanism do to the fiscal integrity of the health care program specifically and the overall budget more generally?

These issues aren’t news to anyone who follows such things. But that doesn't make them any less important. Moreover, by failing to actively and substantively engage in a debate over the 2017 budget now, Congress is perpetuating a problem that too few people seem to think matters. That is, the lack of clarity and predictability in funding has a direct impact on the ability of agency leaders to manage effectively and of agencies themselves to operate at anything close to optimal efficiency. No one hesitates to chastise them when things go wrong; so why wouldn't we want to give them every opportunity to do things right?

The continued fiscal stalemate and the ways in which it is whipsawing agencies and, in turn their employees and contractors, let alone the citizens they serve, isn’t healthy for anyone. This has been a complaint of many years. But it deserves far more attention than it is getting.

Stan Soloway is president and chief executive officer of Celero Strategies, LLC.

http://www.govexec.com/excellence/promising-practices/2016/03/americans-should-demand-serious-budget-debate/126283/

Mar 2 2016 - 7:58am

South Africa’s Clover Industries will no longer invest in Nigeria due to the country’s foreign exchange restrictions, the dairy products company said on Wednesday.

“The current financial crisis experienced in Nigeria which is fuelled by the low oil price is a further cause of concern, thus the group has decided to withdraw from future investments in Nigeria,” Clover said in a statement.

“It’s a sad decision but until the currency crisis is resolved we wont be able to invest in there any further,” Chief Executive Johann Vorster told Reuters.

Clover had planned to invest no less that 100 million rand ($6.43 million) in developing its products in Nigeria, he said.

The company said it would continue to expand in Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland.

He added that the company would like to keep the Clover brand alive through its Tropika juices.

South African fashion retailer Truworths said last month it pulled out if its Nigerian business saying it was unable to import clothes and was struggling to pay rent and access foreign exchange.

Clover on Wednesday posted a 7 percent rise in first-half profits due to a higher demand for its milk products and as a heatwave in southern Africa caused consumers to reach for its juices and bottled water.

Headline earnings per share, a main gauge of profit in South Afica that strips out certain one-off items, for the six months to December totalled 117 cents from 109.2 cents in the previous year.

Vorster said Clover was on the prowl for acquisitions which it would fund through its balance sheet, adding that the firm could go to investors for cash “if needs be”.


http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/03/south-african-firm-halts-6-4m-investment-in-nigeria/

PUNCH LAUNCHES ‘FREE ESE’ CAMPAIGN: Kano man steals, forcefully marries 14-yr-old Bayelsa girl. They told me my child was 18 years old—Father

Charles Oruru is Ese’s father. He narrates his ordeal in this interview with Simon Utebor

Did you travel with your wife to Kano for the release of your daughter?

On the first trip, I did not go with them. On August 17, when my wife called me and said they refused to release the child to her, I became angry. Thereafter, I went to the Bayelsa State Police Headquarters to lodge a complaint. They directed me to B Division and said I should arrest the persons linked with the abduction. I arrested the leader of some of the Hausa boys, Dan Kano and two other persons. Dan Kano is the one who usually brought them to Bayelsa. I took him to the station and the police took our statements.

What happened after this?



After that, the DCO at Ekeki called me to tell me that the case was not for them and that he was transferring the case to A Division because it was close to the state headquarters.

Ese's Father
Ese’s Father
They gave bail to the two other boys from Sokoto based on their statements. Dan Kano was subsequently moved to A Division where he was detained. From there, a police officer said he was going to release two policemen to travel with me to Kano to enable me to get my daughter.

When did you leave for Kano?

We travelled on September 2, and spent over 15 hours on the road before getting to Kano. The following day, we distributed letters given to us by the Bayelsa Police Commissioner to state headquarters in Kano, Kwani Police station and Kura LGA where Yinusa (the main suspect) is from. On September 4, they called us for a meeting and we went to Kwani police station near the Emir’s Palace. Present were the two police officers from Bayelsa with about four policemen from Kwani including Chief of Kura LGA, the secretary and other persons. About 15 of us went to the Sharia Council. When we got there, many people were already there. They called their chairman. I was shouting, ‘I need my daughter, I need my daughter.’ The chairman said I should calm down and that we were not fighting. We all sat down. They were angry with me and said my daughter was 18 years old and I was claiming she was 13 years. I told them it was false, that my daughter was 13 years old then. She clocked 14 last week. They told me my daughter had come to join Islam. I told them we are Christians and that they could not tell me my daughter had converted to become a Muslim without my consent. After all the argument, the DCO pleaded with the chairman that since the girl was underage, she should be released to me to take home. Instantly, the chairman’s countenance changed and started speaking furiously to the DCO in Hausa. Though I did not understand Hausa, I was made to understand that the chairman was angry because the DCO asked him to release the girl to me. The policemen there were not happy with the development, wondering why they should be telling the father of a child the age of his daughter.

Were you afraid of the chairman and others in Kano?

No, the DCO insisted that the child should be released to me but unknown to us; it was a gimmick to deceive us further. The Sharia Council chairman calmly told us to come the following day for the release of Ese. But the promise was not kept. When I got there with the policemen the next day, the story changed. When we got there, they said they were going to release the girl to Zone 5, Benin City, for onward release to Bayelsa State Police Command to us. So, that was how we went on a fruitless journey to Kano without getting my daughter.

When did you return to Bayelsa?

We came back on the September 8 and up till now, my daughter has not been released. From information, we learnt that the Sharia Council was yet to release my daughter to the Zone 5 as promised. I do not know what else to do. The Sharia Council and the Emirate Council are behaving like government unto themselves. We have tried all we can to get our daughter released to no avail. I am appealing to the Federal Government and the relevant authorities to intervene in the matter to get my daughter released. We do not want this to degenerate into a tribal crisis.

I can’t sleep, I’m always crying – Mother

Fifty-year-old Mrs. Rose Oruru, tells ARUKAINO UMUKORO about her pain over her missing daughter

How are you coping with the fact that your daughter has not been released to you?

I am still living and breathing, I am not dead yet. I cry every night. But I pray to God every day to help me solve this problem and bring my daughter back home to me.

When last did you speak with your daughter and what was your discussion about?

I spoke to her in the first week of October 2015. It was the boy who abducted my daughter from Bayelsa that put her on the phone, because she said she wanted to speak to me. My

Ese's mother
Ese’s mother
daughter started speaking our dialect, Urhobo, to me. As we were conversing, I heard them shouting at her in the background and asking why she was speaking our dialect. That was when she switched to English and said they did not want her to come back. We spoke for about three minutes. That was the last thing she told me. I haven’t spoken to her since then.

Who were the people telling her not to speak Urhobo to you?

I think they were some people in the Emir’s palace or the Sharia council, because the council is close to the palace of the Emir of Kano. The people in the council are the ones in control.

Before the incident that forced your daughter to Kano, did she tell you about wanting to change her religion?

No, not at all. She and I did not discuss anything like that. They had just finished a programme in our church that Sunday before she was taken away. She also went to church that Monday and came back home before she was taken away that week. She has never for once told me that she wanted to become a Muslim.

Did you notice any difference in her attitude or behaviour before then?

No, I did not.

What do you think made her follow them to Kano?

She does not have a boyfriend. She was forced to go with them; they manipulated her because she is still a small girl. I feel these people forced her to travel with them. Someone who wants to travel would normally go with luggage, but Ese did not travel with anything, she only wore her clothes, a polo shirt, and her Dunlop slippers. That was what she left home with. She was taken away on August 12, 2015.

Was your daughter a friend to the person she allegedly followed to Kano State?

I am a food seller, and the people (Hausas) are many in the area where I carry out my trade. They usually came to buy food from my shop, including the man that carried her away. He came to buy food from my shop all the time. My shop is at Opolo, opposite Golden Gate, where the motor park is situated, in Bayelsa.

What is the name of the man whom you said abducted your daughter?

His name is Yinusa, but he is popularly known here as Yellow. He rides a keke marwa (tricycle). Before now, he used to sell firewood, until someone gave him a keke marwa. He took my daughter, Ese, and ran away with her. He has since not returned.

Did you suspect any of your customers at the outset?

No, I did not suspect anybody at the start. It was in the process of looking for her that I was told that Ese was not around. So, I went around asking in the neighbourhood. Someone later told me that it might have been one of the Hausas that hid her and then took her away. I was at the mosque where they usually pray, and one of the men, a labourer, came to me and told me he knew why I was looking for my daughter. I asked him how he knew and what he knew. That was how I knew the person that took my daughter. The man told me that when he came back from work one day, his friends had told him that Yinusa told them that he was going to take Ese to Kano State, convert her to Islam and marry her. He said he was angry with them and asked them why they did not report the matter to me. So, I went to confront them. I went to ask a carpenter who Yinusa usually patronised and asked him about the whereabouts of this man and my daughter. The carpenter said he did not know and was surprised. I asked another person who sells recharge card, who said he had not seen him recently.

What did you do afterwards?

I travelled with one of the Hausa men who lived around our area, to Kano on August 14, because we had been told that Yinusa had arrived Kano with my daughter, and that they told the community that Yinusa had run away with my daughter. We arrived Kano on the 15th and went to meet the district head of the community. We received a poor welcome. The district head was angry that the Hausa man brought me to Kano, then he told me I did not have a child, because they had already converted my daughter to Islam and that her name is now Aisha. He now said even Yinusa’s father had not seen my daughter. We went to the Emir’s palace the same day and when we told them why we came, youths gathered and tried to beat us up until someone called the police and took us way. Again, my husband, with two policemen, and Dan Kano, travelled to Kano on September 2. The same thing happened again.

What do you know about your daughter’s present condition?

We do not know anything. We only rely on hearsay. Yesterday, some people said she had been handed over to the police, another group of people said she was no more seen around the area. We don’t know what to believe. But I want to believe my daughter is either at the Emir’s palace or the council, because the council is close to the Emir’s palace.

Is Ese your first child?

No, she is the second to the last born. I have five children. They are all worried about their sister. Last Monday was her 14th birthday. I did not even have money to buy soft drinks or biscuits to celebrate her birthday in her absence. We only prayed for her together. We felt bad about it and cried. I can’t sleep at night. I am really worried. But I thank God for leading people to come and help me. I pray that she is safe wherever she is. She is supposed to be in SS1 now, because she had finished JSS3 and had written the junior WAEC before she was abducted.

http://www.punchng.com/they-told-me-my-child-was-18-years-old-father/