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~Bluetooth:
First on igbo agenda is to loot the factory,rob some banks and declare biafra state
dumbest idea by fg in history.

What an empty skull u must be, maybe some1 shuld bluetooth u some brains! points of correction, the Igbo man does not need to loot the factory to get his supply of ammunition, who do u think are the contractors supplying the Niger delta militants their arms? It's the Ibo business guys!, and secondly 60% of the guns used by the militants are from Abia town called ABALA which is the undisputed gun capital of Africa, all guns manufactured by the locals here includes different types of automatic assault rifles, pistols, machines guns, sub-machine guns etc all when stood side by side with the ones from the foreign amoury u really cant tell the difference by the looks and workings.
And lastly the Igbo's agitating for Biafra today, doe not believe they needs arms to achieve their desired dream, as he has come to realise that there are many non violent ways he can achieve this, and which are more powerful than arms and violence.

P.M News December 9, 2009

A 27-year-old dwarf and final year student of the Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, Edo State, and her friend have become the latest beneficiaries of Prophet TB Joshua’s charity.

The duo got a brand new Nissan Sunny and N500,000 from the General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations recently.

Evelyn Cosy Omotekpen, who is a computer science student of the institution is said to be so short that she cannot walk long distances without the help of others.

But while facing so much challenges as a result of her stature which was almost getting her frustrated, she found Christiana Ehizua, who is now a graduate of Political Science from the same institution.

Recounting her ordeal before the gift, Evelyn told P.M.NEWS that she faced rejection and intimidation as a result of her stunted growth. She met her friend during a church service in campus and ever since then, she said Christiana has helped her do almost all the things she needed to do as a woman.

The sixth born of a family of seven children, the indigene of Uromi, Edo State said she preferred living with her friend because her friend was the only one who understood her.

“I met her in one of the campus fellowships. She came to me when I was crying and promised to always be there for me and even since, she has fulfilled her vow.

“Before my friend went for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), she would always hire tax cabs to take me to school, because the public vehicles often refuse to carry me. When she went on her national assignment, I faced serious problems as even fellow Christians despised me,” Evelyn said adding that Christians often left Ekiti State where she was serving to take care of her.

Also, Christians told P.M. NEWS that assisting Evelyn has been tough for her as he has been rejected by her friends who could not understand why she decided to “create a burden” for herself. She further said that she was scared to seek employment as that would mean that she would have less time for Evelyn.

She claimed that since 2006, Evelyn has been living in her family house in Ekpoma. “I do back her when we are going out and carry her like a baby when inside a public vehicle,” she added.

They said they decided to visit the church after watching Emmanuel TV, a television channel owned by the church. “Even at the entrance to the church, they thought Evelyn was a small child and I had to tell the ushers that they should allow her inside as she was an adult,” Christiana explained.

While presenting the gift items to the two beneficiaries, Prophet Joshua, who was elated that I did not drop out of school as a result of the rejection from the society, also promised to establish a business centre for her when she graduates.

The man of God said the car would help ease her transportation problem while the money would be used by Christiana to set up a business to enable her continue with caring for her friend.

Prophet Joshua who tasked wealthy Nigerians on helping the poor in the society added that the case of Christiana and Evelyn was to pass a message that people faced situations because others have the solutions.

Evelyn who says the car is a proof that every condition is temporary, said she is now hopeful that after graduation, she would get married to the right man for her.

P.M News December 9, 2009

A 27-year-old dwarf and final year student of the Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, Edo State, and her friend have become the latest beneficiaries of Prophet TB Joshua’s charity.

The duo got a brand new Nissan Sunny and N500,000 from the General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations recently.

Evelyn Cosy Omotekpen, who is a computer science student of the institution is said to be so short that she cannot walk long distances without the help of others.

But while facing so much challenges as a result of her stature which was almost getting her frustrated, she found Christiana Ehizua, who is now a graduate of Political Science from the same institution.

Recounting her ordeal before the gift, Evelyn told P.M.NEWS that she faced rejection and intimidation as a result of her stunted growth. She met her friend during a church service in campus and ever since then, she said Christiana has helped her do almost all the things she needed to do as a woman.

The sixth born of a family of seven children, the indigene of Uromi, Edo State said she preferred living with her friend because her friend was the only one who understood her.

“I met her in one of the campus fellowships. She came to me when I was crying and promised to always be there for me and even since, she has fulfilled her vow.

“Before my friend went for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), she would always hire tax cabs to take me to school, because the public vehicles often refuse to carry me. When she went on her national assignment, I faced serious problems as even fellow Christians despised me,” Evelyn said adding that Christians often left Ekiti State where she was serving to take care of her.

Also, Christians told P.M. NEWS that assisting Evelyn has been tough for her as he has been rejected by her friends who could not understand why she decided to “create a burden” for herself. She further said that she was scared to seek employment as that would mean that she would have less time for Evelyn.

She claimed that since 2006, Evelyn has been living in her family house in Ekpoma. “I do back her when we are going out and carry her like a baby when inside a public vehicle,” she added.

They said they decided to visit the church after watching Emmanuel TV, a television channel owned by the church. “Even at the entrance to the church, they thought Evelyn was a small child and I had to tell the ushers that they should allow her inside as she was an adult,” Christiana explained.

While presenting the gift items to the two beneficiaries, Prophet Joshua, who was elated that I did not drop out of school as a result of the rejection from the society, also promised to establish a business centre for her when she graduates.

The man of God said the car would help ease her transportation problem while the money would be used by Christiana to set up a business to enable her continue with caring for her friend.

Prophet Joshua who tasked wealthy Nigerians on helping the poor in the society added that the case of Christiana and Evelyn was to pass a message that people faced situations because others have the solutions.

Evelyn who says the car is a proof that every condition is temporary, said she is now hopeful that after graduation, she would get married to the right man for her.

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Super Eagles Coach, Shaibu Amodu, believes that the only thing that can stop the Super Eagles from qualifying for the second round of the 2010 World is if Nigeria failed to prepare adequately for the competition.

Reacting to the World Cup draws held at the Cape Town International Conference Centre on Friday, Amodu said he had nothing to fear about Argentina, Greece and Korea, adding that with the support of Nigerians the Super Eagles will get out of the group B.

According to Amodu, "we are going back home to continue the work we started more than a year ago and I believe that if we do our home work well, we can excel at the World Cup.

"We will start with the Nations Cup and see how the players perform and then know what strategy to deploy when the World Cup comes around. I am not saying that we will not play t0o win the Nations Cup because our performance in Angola will give us an insight into what will happen in South Africa 2010.

Reminded that Argentina defeated Nigeria in the two times they met at the World Cup, Amodu said "things are bound to change some day, and I believe that we can make that change in South Africa. But we will go back to work hard.

"However, I must say that our success will also depend on the sort of support we get from the federation and the people. In this world Cup we will meet teams from three different playing styles and we have to adapt to the different styles if we must progress. But I am sure we will succeed."

Just as was the case at the 1994 World Cup, Nigeria was drawn against Argentina and Greece in Group B of the 2010 World Cup, with Asian giants, South Korea completing the quartet.

EnerG:
For Nigerians, qualifying for the world cup is like winning the trophy itself so any other achievement is an extra (jara). For our chances I think we are just have to play our first three matches to know our next move.

exactly, when we hope for full dose all we get from dem is jara, but u also know dat when we expect jara dey give us full dose. our teams always move in opposite direction to our expectations.

With the world cup draw just concluded in South Africa, Nigeria is drawn in alongside Argentina, Korea rep. & Greece.
What do u honestly think of this group, for me rating  our opponents in this group, there are positive indicators on our chances of going through, and also negative indicators:

starting with the negatives-

ARGENTINA: These are two time world champions, feard for their attacking football which has as one it's Generals the dreaded Lionel Messi arguably the best striker in the world of football today.

KOREA rep.: Convincinly the best team from the Asian region, and the only Asian country to have made it to the semi finals, a level that no African nor Asian achieved in the world cup, the've always been a hard nut to crack in all their world cup appearance

GREECE: former European champions , beat teams like France which was then the best team in Europe, czech rep. which was tipped to win the tournament considering their form, and Portugal then Host of the tournament and hungrier than any other team to win in front of their home crowd their first major trophy

The positive indicators that favours us in this group are:

ARGENTINA: They too struggled just like Nigeria to qualify for the world cup, they only escaped through the qualification door by the skin of their teeth or is teeth of their skin, raising questions about the form of their present squad. Also many Argentines believe their coach Diego Maradona lacks the technical depth and character to take them to the world cup, and he is most likely to lead them

KOREA rep: Their wonderful outing in 2002 was credited to the 12th player they always had with them in each game THEIR HOME FANS, Which till date is still considered the best and most powerful home support ever given any team in soccer, and dont forget the referees blunderous role in their knock match against Italy which saw them through

GREECE: Going by the records we've met them once and beaten them, so we can do it again, and since winning the European championship they've not made any significant impact, making many to see their form then as a flash in the pan.

And lastly the Nigerian spirit excels when all odds when you least expect it to, as is the expectation of our eagles at the moment

mumu, already stated p.m news!

The state of health of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua may be going from bad to critical, P.M.News reported this evening.

It is believed that he has been slipping in and out of consciousness since he was rushed out of the country last week to a Saudi Arabian hospital.

Our source in Aso Rock hinted this morning that the first indication that things may have gone worse was when the President could not walk and had to be wheeled into the aircraft that took him to Saudi Arabia.

P.M.News also learnt this morning that a delegation of some governors and notable businessmen who left Nigeria for Saudi Arabia two days ago to see him are holding up in their hotel rooms, as they have not been granted access to the President.

Both the Senate President, Mr. David Mark and Dora Akunyili, the Minister of Information and Communication, have called on Nigerians to be more fervent in their prayers for President Yar’Adua’s recovery.

President Yar’Adua left the country’s shores a week ago for treatment of pericaditis at King Fahd’s hospital in Saudi Arabia.

The recent trip is the third in four months and this has raised the concern of Nigerians about the capability of their president to continue in office.

Before his departure to Saudi Arabia, the president was scheduled to present the 2010 budget to the National Assembly but he could not do so, due to the bickering between the legislators over which chamber should host the president.

Not a few people believed that the impasse was contrived by presidency officials to save the ailing president the rigour of standing and presenting the budget to the legislators. Many Nigerians were caught unawares by the President’s trip, fuelling speculations that the President must have been terribly ill.

The concern led to Presidential spokesman, Segun Adeniyi, issuing a statement about the health condition of the president.

Also rising in defence of the president, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa affirmed that the president “is hale and hearty.”

“We have received with shock and dismay the rumours making the rounds about the state of health of our President and wish to state that the president has gone to Saudi Arabia for routine medical check-up,” a statement he issued through his special assistant, Onov Tyuluh, read.

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The crisis rocking the nation's banking industry is likely to take off the merriment that comes with christmas, for about 400 staffs of Zenith Bank plc were on friday handed termination letters by the bank's mgt.
One wonders why Zenith Bank plc which is one of the banks declared healthy by the CBN has to take such drastic measure. and if zenith has to lay off as much as that number of staffs, then one wonders how many the banks whom CBN declared to be in a shaky and fragile situation would lay off.

This is so sad for the fact that the banking sector has for some years now been one of the sectors that has been very active in employing fresh school graduates in good proportion, and paying them reasonably well thereby turning around the lives of so many families.
With the movement of the manufacturing industries such as michelin, cadbury, unilever e.t.c to Ghana, we were left with just the banking and telecomms sector being amongst the most active with the former having the largest portion of recruitment, and with this sector crumbling before us today due to selfishness of few individuals ,all we have to do is just hang our with JEHOVAH

A Decade Of Sharia Law In The North Breeds Frustration
November 05, 2009 14:59 (7 hours ago), 204 views

A decade after Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north re-introduced strict Islamic Sharia law, the fervour has fizzled while disillusionment is becoming more strident about its patchy application.

Out of Nigeria’s 36 states, 12 re-adopted a strict version of Sharia in 1999 nearly a century after it had been abandoned.

But even one of the radical Muslim clerics who in 1999 actively lobbied for Sharia in Kano State, Abba Koki, conceded there were problems.

“People are disillusioned with the insincerity, deception and hypocrisy which characterise the implementation of Sharia,” Koki told AFP.

Zamfara State, which pioneered the return to the penal code, last week marked the 10th anniversary with a low-key ceremony attended by the clergy and politicians.

Since the introduction of Sharia coincided with the return of democracy to Nigeria after 15 years of military dictatorship, critics accuse politicians of hijacking the return to Islamic law to advance their own political mileage.

Sceptics say there is little to show that Sharia law has had a positive impact in a region still battling graft, moral decay and searing poverty.

“People’s aspirations for a just and decent society were dashed by self-seeking politicians who hide under the Sharia to promote their personal political interests,” charged Koki.

Five years into the law, Koki quit a Kano State government Sharia board in protest at what he called its failure to deliver.

“The clamour for Sharia was motivated by the people’s ardent desire to do away with injustices, corruption, impunity, immorality and other social ills bedeviling our society.

“Instead politicians have used this to seek votes and maintain the status quo after winning elections,” Koki said.

Sulayman Nyang, a lecturer in African studies and Islamic affairs at Howard University in Washington D.C. said Sharia was seen in northern Nigeria as a “pacifier in this world of chaos and uncertainties”.

“Caught in the crossfires of moral decay and grinding poverty, and very much handicapped by poor leadership and corrupt politicians, many a Muslim who believes in traditional Islam now sees the resurrection of the Sharia as a way out of their disturbing humiliation and low self-esteem,” Nyang told AFP.

Nigeria’s return to democracy, also in 1999, saw the emergence of a new political class which included former Zamfara State governor Ahmed Sani Yerima, now a senator, whose campaign promise was strict Sharia.

He won election and made good his pledge by declaring Islamic law in the state at an elaborate event. Eleven other states followed in swift succession.

Yet Abubakar Sadiq, political scientist at Nigeria’s Ahmadu Bello University, said none of the rulers at the time genuinely embraced Sharia.

“The northern political elite had come to the end of its political wits” and saw Sharia as “a new cheap and effective” tool for electioneering, said Sadiq.

Voters like Muhammad Nasir, an electronics dealer at Kano city’s downtown Sabon Gari market, agree.

“Nothing has changed in the last 10 years, there is nothing like Sharia in all the so-called Sharia states. Politicians are still corrupt, immorality is everywhere … there are brothels and beer parlours everywhere,” Nasir said.

But Kano State governor’s spokesman Sule Yau Sule countered critics as narrow-minded.

“Some people think Sharia is all about stoning to death and amputation, which is a narrow perception. Sharia is about human development, making a person a better being in all spheres and I believe this is what we are doing,” Sule said.

In the first two years, several death sentences were passed, none of which were executed.

Four women condemned to death by stoning for adultery had the sentences overturned on appeals.

Sadiq said Sharia judges were initially “overzealous” thinking that the rulers were “sincere and began dishing out capital punishments”, but later soft-pedalled.

Out of more than two dozen amputation sentences passed for theft in four states, only two were executed. One of them was on a peasant, Buba Bello Jangebe, for stealing a cow in 2000.

A prominent rights group in Nigeria, the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), wants the federal government to sponsor Jandebe for surgery to replace his limb.

“This we believe is the best gift to celebrate our 10 years of civil rule and the anniversary of the ‘launching’ of the Sharia,” said CRC.

Sharia was first introduced in northern Nigeria by Arab traders around the ninth century. In 1904 the British colonial administration allowed it to be practiced but outlawed the punitive aspects of stoning to death, amputation and flogging.

Nyang also warned of dangers of “misappropriations” of Sharia by Muslim extremists in Nigeria, the most populous black nation seen as pivotal to the region’s stability.

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BANKS SLASH WORKERS' OCTOBER SALARIES
By Enitar Ugwu

IN the banks, the belt-tightening continues. For a yet-to-be-explained reason and in an action that took many workers unawares, some banks in the country slashed the October salaries of their employees by half.

The Guardian learnt at the weekend that most of the banks which cut the pay did not inform their workers before the action as the employees only discovered that at the point of collecting their October salaries.

Some of the banks, it was learnt, apart from slashing salaries, have sacked those workers considered to be in excess of the required workforce.

Feelers from the industry show that the decision to downsize the workforce in the banks has to do with the urgent need to recapitalise and improve the liquidity positions of many of the financial institutions.

To achieve this requirement, almost all the banks have done away with most of the perks such as soft loans, which were common before the recent banking reforms.

Another one of the most prominent perks likely to be stopped by almost all the banks is the "up-front payment", which enables the worker to collect a significant percentage of his/her annual salary at once, mostly at the beginning of each year.

Also, investigation by The Guardian reveals that the usual yearly profit sharing by bank workers may not be possible, as there is hardly any profit to share.

A management employee in one of the banks told The Guardian that profit-sharing at this point in time is out of the question.

He added: "As you can see, after making provision for non-performing loans, coupled with other newly introduced measures, almost all the banks are going to post losses. So, where is the profit to share?"

He added that even if a bank made profit, sharing part of it would be foolhardy as every bank needs funds now for its operations.

However, labour unions within the banking sector are beginning to brace up for the impending face-off that may likely ensue between them and the management of the financial institutions if the current job losses continue.

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IF THIS IS TRUE IS MOST UNFORTUNATE !

By Moyo Fabiyi

The Public Relations Department of the 81, Division Headquarters of the Nigerian Army has exonerated the soldier, who killed Friday Ojeh at Jabital Hotel, Ikeja, as reported in the P.M.News of Wednesday, 28 October, 2009.

According to a statement signed by the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Lt.Col. K.A Umoh, “A group of OP-MESA patrol Number 5 were returning from Ilupeju, (where they had gone to effect repairs on their patrol vehicle), back to their base at Ogba. At the roundabout in the general area around Alade Market, they encountered a couple in distress who waved them down for intervention. The couple claimed that they had just been robbed.

“The patrol team stopped to investigate. The couple led them to a group of young men and identified one of them as the alleged suspect. Without giving the patrol team the opportunity to establish the facts, these group of young men threw caution to the wind and attempted to mob the soldiers. A scuffle ensued and one of them, the victim (later identified as Mr. Friday Ojeh), got into a struggle with one of the soldiers and attempted to disarm him. The struggle over the soldier’s weapon lasted over five minutes.

“The soldiers were clearly outnumbered and when it became obvious that if the struggle continued, the soldier’s weapon was going to be snatched or the soldier was going to be dispossessed or disarmed, the soldier had no choice than to fire a shot in order to extricate himself and his weapon. The shot caught the victim on his head at a point blank range, killing him instantly.

“The headquarters 81 Division of the Nigerian Army regrets this unfortunate incident and sympathises with the family of the deceased for this unfortunate but otherwise avoidable loss.”

Col. Umoh stated further that the division recognised the sanctity of lives and that attempts must be made to ensure that lives are not lost unnecessarily under avoidable circumstances. He stressed the importance of security in the sustenance and survival of Nigerian democracy.

Friday Ojeh, a bureau de change operator at Ikeja was shot and killed by a soldier at Jabita Hotel, Ikeja last Wednesday.

Ojeh was shot in the forehead by one of the soldiers who stormed the premises of Jabita Hotel, where Ojeh and others operate.

P.M. News gathered that Ojeh, who hailed from Kwale Local Government Area of Delta State, died instantly, with brain splattered on the floor.

The victim’s brother, Harrison, said: “I was not at the scene of the incident. It was the sound of gun blast that drew my attention and others to the scene, only to discover that my own brother had been shot dead.”

He also stated that Ojeh moved about two months ago to his newly completed house in Agbado crossing area, a boundary community between Lagos and Ogun states.

He narrated further: “There was a crisis here on Friday when a lady who came to patronise a bureau de change operator here said she was short-changed. But that had been resolved. It was not even my brother who short-changed the lady.

“Two soldiers with a lady came this evening (yesterday). Eyewitnesses told me that soldiers asked for his own share of the deal that took place on Friday. My brother explained to him that he was not involved and that there was nothing left for him.

“As my brother tried to explain to them, the soldier who shot him did not listen. He pushed him back and shot him on the forehead. After that, the soldiers strolled down to Alade market where they were posted.”

The soldiers and the woman who claimed to have been short changed were later arrested and later taken to Area ‘F’ Police Command Ikeja.

It's so sad that such a serious allegation could be made on the president and we just ignore it like that. I believe that it should be investigated to ascertain the truth. and for those who doubt, this story was carried by sahara reporters of 31st october 2009, making reference to desert herald of same day

First published in Desert Herald newspaper April 2007. It is a month now since Governor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of Katsina State and PDP presidential candidate was rumored to be dead as a result of a kidney-related illness. Although it didn’t take Nigerians long to realize that the rumour was false, there were however some nagging speculations from some quarters that Yar’Adua’s health was far from being normal.


As such, a retired hunter and psychiatric hospital staff in Katsina, Malam Sani Maigemu, has yet opened a Pandora's box of the Yar’Adua family charging that the Katsina governor’s brain in his youthful days had once hanged in the balance. In an exclusive interview the old man revealed that Umaru Musa was as mad as a hatter, that he had to be flogged and chained while receiving treatment in the psychiatric hospital.

As he told his story, Malam Sani Maigemu exuded the confidence of a man who knew what he was talking about. Isn’t there some sort of mistake? Could it really be the Governor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Nigerians all know? “Yes, Umaru is a mad man,” Maigemu confirmed.

The traditional healer said he treated his patients with concoction made from roots of plants, soap, and palm oil, and also applied chaining, flogging and beating on patients who proved either violent or stubborn in taking orders. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua however fell into these categories of patients, and he had his fair share of the flogging. Malam Maigemu revealed.

Who is Malam Sani Maigemu?

My name is Malam Sani. I formerly stayed in Jos and I worked in court with the white men. Then I later went to Gombe, Gummi (in present-day Zamfara State) Kano, Borno, and Kaduna before I later joined the psychiatric hospital in Katsina, where I was for over 35 years as a traditional healer, working along with the psychiatrists. I am now retired and happily leaving with my family here in Katsina, where I receive my monthly pension, which Umaru Yar’Adua has refused to pay us since January last year. I worked in court with Alkali Malam Shehu, before I later went to Jingir (in present-day Plateau State), where the white men gave me the task of monitoring the forest in Jingir. They gave me this job after they noticed my prowess in hunting and catching wild animals such as lions, leopards that sometimes blocked the roads for pedestrians. I was a good hunter, you know.

I also worked at the Dogon-Dutse Forest with the White men. They (the White men) said I was the 41st person to have worked with them, but they admitted I was the most skillful of them all. It was at Dogon-Dutse that my first child was born. His name is Auwal and he now works in a court.

How I Met Umaru Musa’s Father

I had traveled far and wide before settling at Daudawa in Katsina State, where I met Umaru’s father, Alhaji Musa Tafida. We were close neighbours at that time.

Curing Lunatics

I learned to cure lunatics traditionally from my grandfather. He taught me everything I needed to know about curing lunatics. I use traditional herbs on patients and in cases where a patient proves strong-headed we practically apply force. We use whip to flog them, which made them return to their senses and behave themselves.

Working with the Psychiatric Hospital

When I cam back from my adventure in some African counties, my sister sent for me that Galadima wished to see me, and that I should meet him at the psychiatric hospital. I immediately went. He invited me into his private room after having a brief meeting with the management. They said I could resume duty that very night. I was assigned to take care of the mad people, and I was not even told the nature of their various illnesses, but I was given full authority to do my job. The first thing I did was to unchain them and asses their conditions. In fact, I spent half of the night chatting with them. When the psychiatric doctor came the following morning, he could not handle them, and he had to beg me to re-chain them. That was how I started. I treated so many patients but I can’t recall their number now.

Umaru Musa Yar’adua at the Hospital

His father, Alhaji Musa Tafida, reported at the hospital that his son was seriously sick and he believed it was a psychiatric case. So I was sent to bring him (Umaru). When I met him in his father’s house, I asked him to follow to the Psychiatric hospital, but he refused. I had to flog him. Check his back and you will see the scars. So I chained him and took him to the psychiatric hospital. Each time be tried to be stubborn, I flogged him with my whip, which that I nicknamed “Kwaram-gwama”. It is a specially made whip I used on the patients whenever they tried to be violent.

Nature of Umaru’s Insanity

Yar’adua suffered from anxiety, effective disorder, such as depression, extreme mood swings, and stress from traumatic experience, isolation from people and other abnormal behaviours. That was why I sometimes had to use my “Kwaram-gwama” (whip) on him because no one could do that to him except me. Other members of staff treated him with kid gloves because of his rich family background. Umaru was too loose and usually stubborn. Even as a mad man he would refuse to follow simple instructions. I had to handcuff him when he was to be taken to Kaduna. Take a good look at his back and you will see the scars of my “Kwaram-gwama”. And still if you observe Umaru very well you will not miss that strange looks in his eyes. He can stare at even a familiar person for a long moment without blinking his eyes. He did that when he was in the psychiatric hospital. He would stare at a person or object for hours without blinking. After spending two days in Kaduna, his elder brother, Shehu Musa, decided to take him abroad.

Can Such Mental Illness Be cured?

Not really. Such patients hardly gain their normal sense. Like I said earlier, Umaru’s insanity was not caused by hard drugs but rather it is an inherited illness. I have treated Umaru Musa and his elder brother, Shehu Musa. When their father asked me to go along with Shehu for treatment, I locked him up in my house, but he somehow bolted and ran away. His father, Tafida and one of his close friends, one Alhaji Garba Mashi, were upset, and accused me of being careless. I suggested to the late Tafida to get me handcuffs to chain Shehu, and that he could even hold the key so that he would release him whenever he was satisfied and sure of Shehu’s recovery.

Is Umaru Musa Now Normal?

Because of the treatment I gave him at Daudawa, knowing the gravity of his mental illness, I don’t think he is completely okay now. The bouts of such mental illness usually occur during the dry and hamattan seasons. At close observation, you will find out that Umaru Musa does not even observe the five daily prayers regularly. No, Umaru is still abnormal.

“They Never Say ‘Thank You’ after Recovery”

If they see us after they have recovered, they often run away from us. I can still remember when Umaru paid a visit to the psychiatric hospital (after he became governor). I intended to meet him one-on-one but his orderly pushed me aside. And when he (Umaru) saw me, he immediately put his face down.

Present Status

I am now retired, living only on my little monthly pension.

*First published in Desert Herald newspaper April 2007. It is a month now since Governor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of Katsina State and PDP presidential candidate was rumored to be dead as a result of a kidney-related illness. Although it didn’t take Nigerians long to realize that the rumour was false, there were however some nagging speculations from some quarters that Yar’Adua’s health was far from being normal.


As such, a retired hunter and psychiatric hospital staff in Katsina, Malam Sani Maigemu, has yet opened a Pandora's box of the Yar’Adua family charging that the Katsina governor’s brain in his youthful days had once hanged in the balance. In an exclusive interview the old man revealed that Umaru Musa was as mad as a hatter, that he had to be flogged and chained while receiving treatment in the psychiatric hospital.

As he told his story, Malam Sani Maigemu exuded the confidence of a man who knew what he was talking about. Isn’t there some sort of mistake? Could it really be the Governor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Nigerians all know? “Yes, Umaru is a mad man,” Maigemu confirmed.

The traditional healer said he treated his patients with concoction made from roots of plants, soap, and palm oil, and also applied chaining, flogging and beating on patients who proved either violent or stubborn in taking orders. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua however fell into these categories of patients, and he had his fair share of the flogging. Malam Maigemu revealed.

Who is Malam Sani Maigemu?

My name is Malam Sani. I formerly stayed in Jos and I worked in court with the white men. Then I later went to Gombe, Gummi (in present-day Zamfara State) Kano, Borno, and Kaduna before I later joined the psychiatric hospital in Katsina, where I was for over 35 years as a traditional healer, working along with the psychiatrists. I am now retired and happily leaving with my family here in Katsina, where I receive my monthly pension, which Umaru Yar’Adua has refused to pay us since January last year. I worked in court with Alkali Malam Shehu, before I later went to Jingir (in present-day Plateau State), where the white men gave me the task of monitoring the forest in Jingir. They gave me this job after they noticed my prowess in hunting and catching wild animals such as lions, leopards that sometimes blocked the roads for pedestrians. I was a good hunter, you know.

I also worked at the Dogon-Dutse Forest with the White men. They (the White men) said I was the 41st person to have worked with them, but they admitted I was the most skillful of them all. It was at Dogon-Dutse that my first child was born. His name is Auwal and he now works in a court.

How I Met Umaru Musa’s Father

I had traveled far and wide before settling at Daudawa in Katsina State, where I met Umaru’s father, Alhaji Musa Tafida. We were close neighbours at that time.

Curing Lunatics

I learned to cure lunatics traditionally from my grandfather. He taught me everything I needed to know about curing lunatics. I use traditional herbs on patients and in cases where a patient proves strong-headed we practically apply force. We use whip to flog them, which made them return to their senses and behave themselves.

Working with the Psychiatric Hospital

When I cam back from my adventure in some African counties, my sister sent for me that Galadima wished to see me, and that I should meet him at the psychiatric hospital. I immediately went. He invited me into his private room after having a brief meeting with the management. They said I could resume duty that very night. I was assigned to take care of the mad people, and I was not even told the nature of their various illnesses, but I was given full authority to do my job. The first thing I did was to unchain them and asses their conditions. In fact, I spent half of the night chatting with them. When the psychiatric doctor came the following morning, he could not handle them, and he had to beg me to re-chain them. That was how I started. I treated so many patients but I can’t recall their number now.

Umaru Musa Yar’adua at the Hospital

His father, Alhaji Musa Tafida, reported at the hospital that his son was seriously sick and he believed it was a psychiatric case. So I was sent to bring him (Umaru). When I met him in his father’s house, I asked him to follow to the Psychiatric hospital, but he refused. I had to flog him. Check his back and you will see the scars. So I chained him and took him to the psychiatric hospital. Each time be tried to be stubborn, I flogged him with my whip, which that I nicknamed “Kwaram-gwama”. It is a specially made whip I used on the patients whenever they tried to be violent.

Nature of Umaru’s Insanity

Yar’adua suffered from anxiety, effective disorder, such as depression, extreme mood swings, and stress from traumatic experience, isolation from people and other abnormal behaviours. That was why I sometimes had to use my “Kwaram-gwama” (whip) on him because no one could do that to him except me. Other members of staff treated him with kid gloves because of his rich family background. Umaru was too loose and usually stubborn. Even as a mad man he would refuse to follow simple instructions. I had to handcuff him when he was to be taken to Kaduna. Take a good look at his back and you will see the scars of my “Kwaram-gwama”. And still if you observe Umaru very well you will not miss that strange looks in his eyes. He can stare at even a familiar person for a long moment without blinking his eyes. He did that when he was in the psychiatric hospital. He would stare at a person or object for hours without blinking. After spending two days in Kaduna, his elder brother, Shehu Musa, decided to take him abroad.

Can Such Mental Illness Be cured?

Not really. Such patients hardly gain their normal sense. Like I said earlier, Umaru’s insanity was not caused by hard drugs but rather it is an inherited illness. I have treated Umaru Musa and his elder brother, Shehu Musa. When their father asked me to go along with Shehu for treatment, I locked him up in my house, but he somehow bolted and ran away. His father, Tafida and one of his close friends, one Alhaji Garba Mashi, were upset, and accused me of being careless. I suggested to the late Tafida to get me handcuffs to chain Shehu, and that he could even hold the key so that he would release him whenever he was satisfied and sure of Shehu’s recovery.

Is Umaru Musa Now Normal?

Because of the treatment I gave him at Daudawa, knowing the gravity of his mental illness, I don’t think he is completely okay now. The bouts of such mental illness usually occur during the dry and hamattan seasons. At close observation, you will find out that Umaru Musa does not even observe the five daily prayers regularly. No, Umaru is still abnormal.

“They Never Say ‘Thank You’ after Recovery”

If they see us after they have recovered, they often run away from us. I can still remember when Umaru paid a visit to the psychiatric hospital (after he became governor). I intended to meet him one-on-one but his orderly pushed me aside. And when he (Umaru) saw me, he immediately put his face down.

Present Status

I am now retired, living only on my little monthly pension.




Alhaji Sanni Maigemu
*First published in Desert Herald newspaper April 2007. It is a month now since Governor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of Katsina State and PDP presidential candidate was rumored to be dead as a result of a kidney-related illness. Although it didn’t take Nigerians long to realize that the rumour was false, there were however some nagging speculations from some quarters that Yar’Adua’s health was far from being normal.


As such, a retired hunter and psychiatric hospital staff in Katsina, Malam Sani Maigemu, has yet opened a Pandora's box of the Yar’Adua family charging that the Katsina governor’s brain in his youthful days had once hanged in the balance. In an exclusive interview the old man revealed that Umaru Musa was as mad as a hatter, that he had to be flogged and chained while receiving treatment in the psychiatric hospital.

As he told his story, Malam Sani Maigemu exuded the confidence of a man who knew what he was talking about. Isn’t there some sort of mistake? Could it really be the Governor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Nigerians all know? “Yes, Umaru is a mad man,” Maigemu confirmed.

The traditional healer said he treated his patients with concoction made from roots of plants, soap, and palm oil, and also applied chaining, flogging and beating on patients who proved either violent or stubborn in taking orders. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua however fell into these categories of patients, and he had his fair share of the flogging. Malam Maigemu revealed.

Who is Malam Sani Maigemu?

My name is Malam Sani. I formerly stayed in Jos and I worked in court with the white men. Then I later went to Gombe, Gummi (in present-day Zamfara State) Kano, Borno, and Kaduna before I later joined the psychiatric hospital in Katsina, where I was for over 35 years as a traditional healer, working along with the psychiatrists. I am now retired and happily leaving with my family here in Katsina, where I receive my monthly pension, which Umaru Yar’Adua has refused to pay us since January last year. I worked in court with Alkali Malam Shehu, before I later went to Jingir (in present-day Plateau State), where the white men gave me the task of monitoring the forest in Jingir. They gave me this job after they noticed my prowess in hunting and catching wild animals such as lions, leopards that sometimes blocked the roads for pedestrians. I was a good hunter, you know.

I also worked at the Dogon-Dutse Forest with the White men. They (the White men) said I was the 41st person to have worked with them, but they admitted I was the most skillful of them all. It was at Dogon-Dutse that my first child was born. His name is Auwal and he now works in a court.

How I Met Umaru Musa’s Father

I had traveled far and wide before settling at Daudawa in Katsina State, where I met Umaru’s father, Alhaji Musa Tafida. We were close neighbours at that time.

Curing Lunatics

I learned to cure lunatics traditionally from my grandfather. He taught me everything I needed to know about curing lunatics. I use traditional herbs on patients and in cases where a patient proves strong-headed we practically apply force. We use whip to flog them, which made them return to their senses and behave themselves.

Working with the Psychiatric Hospital

When I cam back from my adventure in some African counties, my sister sent for me that Galadima wished to see me, and that I should meet him at the psychiatric hospital. I immediately went. He invited me into his private room after having a brief meeting with the management. They said I could resume duty that very night. I was assigned to take care of the mad people, and I was not even told the nature of their various illnesses, but I was given full authority to do my job. The first thing I did was to unchain them and asses their conditions. In fact, I spent half of the night chatting with them. When the psychiatric doctor came the following morning, he could not handle them, and he had to beg me to re-chain them. That was how I started. I treated so many patients but I can’t recall their number now.

Umaru Musa Yar’adua at the Hospital

His father, Alhaji Musa Tafida, reported at the hospital that his son was seriously sick and he believed it was a psychiatric case. So I was sent to bring him (Umaru). When I met him in his father’s house, I asked him to follow to the Psychiatric hospital, but he refused. I had to flog him. Check his back and you will see the scars. So I chained him and took him to the psychiatric hospital. Each time be tried to be stubborn, I flogged him with my whip, which that I nicknamed “Kwaram-gwama”. It is a specially made whip I used on the patients whenever they tried to be violent.

Nature of Umaru’s Insanity

Yar’adua suffered from anxiety, effective disorder, such as depression, extreme mood swings, and stress from traumatic experience, isolation from people and other abnormal behaviours. That was why I sometimes had to use my “Kwaram-gwama” (whip) on him because no one could do that to him except me. Other members of staff treated him with kid gloves because of his rich family background. Umaru was too loose and usually stubborn. Even as a mad man he would refuse to follow simple instructions. I had to handcuff him when he was to be taken to Kaduna. Take a good look at his back and you will see the scars of my “Kwaram-gwama”. And still if you observe Umaru very well you will not miss that strange looks in his eyes. He can stare at even a familiar person for a long moment without blinking his eyes. He did that when he was in the psychiatric hospital. He would stare at a person or object for hours without blinking. After spending two days in Kaduna, his elder brother, Shehu Musa, decided to take him abroad.

Can Such Mental Illness Be cured?

Not really. Such patients hardly gain their normal sense. Like I said earlier, Umaru’s insanity was not caused by hard drugs but rather it is an inherited illness. I have treated Umaru Musa and his elder brother, Shehu Musa. When their father asked me to go along with Shehu for treatment, I locked him up in my house, but he somehow bolted and ran away. His father, Tafida and one of his close friends, one Alhaji Garba Mashi, were upset, and accused me of being careless. I suggested to the late Tafida to get me handcuffs to chain Shehu, and that he could even hold the key so that he would release him whenever he was satisfied and sure of Shehu’s recovery.

Is Umaru Musa Now Normal?

Because of the treatment I gave him at Daudawa, knowing the gravity of his mental illness, I don’t think he is completely okay now. The bouts of such mental illness usually occur during the dry and hamattan seasons. At close observation, you will find out that Umaru Musa does not even observe the five daily prayers regularly. No, Umaru is still abnormal.

“They Never Say ‘Thank You’ after Recovery”

If they see us after they have recovered, they often run away from us. I can still remember when Umaru paid a visit to the psychiatric hospital (after he became governor). I intended to meet him one-on-one but his orderly pushed me aside. And when he (Umaru) saw me, he immediately put his face down.

Present Status

I am now retired, living only on my little monthly pension.

yeah so gud to hear of one gamer interested in flight simulator games, I've been an ardent follower of it.
last two I got in touch with a guy who brought me flight simulation X (FSX), But I believe he should be able to get u the deluxe edition of FSX.

steve was a very popular and successful radio D, J who held sway in the ninety's, for some of us who grew up in the ragga music of shabba ranks, patra, chaka damus & pliers era, he ruled the airwaves with captivating dancehall tunes

The nation was yesterday thrown into mourning as star broadcaster, Steve Kadiri, finally succumbed to the cold hands of death after a protracted battle with a kidney disease.

His death came barely a week after the death of two other broadcasters, Nicholas Anukanti and Momoh Kubanji.
Sunday Sun learnt that Steve who until his death was a staff of Daar Communications as an On Air Personality (OAP), died as a result of kidney complications.

Popularly known as “Steve the sleek”, he was in the news years ago as he sought support from public-spirited individuals to help him undergo a surgical operation. One of his brothers was said to have donated a kidney to replace the damaged one.
The operation, which took place in the year 2004, was said to have been successful and Kadiri lived until yesterday.

As at press time, details of his death were scanty but reports had it that his old habits of smoking and drinking did not help matters.
His death brings to three the number of broadcasters that passed away recently.
Funke Fadugba, former president of Nigerian Guild of Editors, in her reaction, regretted his passage, saying that his death was one too many for journalists as he was unique in his presentation. “My prayer is that God will grant him eternal rest for the service he rendered through the media”.

Also, another foremost journalist and Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Remi Oyo, expressed shock at his death and lamented the fact that death in many guises has claimed several journalists in the last four years.

Her words: “It is quite painful to have lost such a talent to the ugly jaws of death. May God grant his family and the media world the fortitude to bear the loss”.
Kadiri was the popular AIT and Ray Power 100 FM broadcaster who needed N5 million for kidney-transplant operation.

Fine artists in 2004 held an exhibition titled ‘Keep Steve Alive Art Exhibition’. The proceeds of sale made were given to the ‘Save the Sleek’ fund. Kadiri was a Fine Arts graduate of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi. Among those involved in the exhibition was his former lecturer, Sam Ovraiti.
During the campaign to save his life, Nigerians from all walks of life parted with millions of naira in excess of what Steve actually needed to be alive.

Let her write the two names on different sheets place them on the table and do TUMBUM! TUMBUM! BASKELELE!

I would advice you go into setting up a game house, this is one business that many has often ignored, but with a lot of returns.
all you have to do is buy 2 latest game consoles(ps3) and 1 ps2 3 small tv sets and one small gen( i better pass my neighbour) and a stabilizer.
now look @ this: teengers and adults who ccome to play pay =N=50 for 10 minutes game on ps3 and =N=20 on ps2
in 1 hour on each game machine with 2 players you make =N=600 multplied by two ps3 machines=N=1,200 in an hr, and from experience the rush @ the game house by kids can be overwhelming atimes and for just 4 hrs of biz in a day from the ps3 alone you make =N=4,800 per day. lets leave out the income from the ps2 and other hours of the day to take care of the hours patronage would be low, and fuelling ur gen set.
hope u get it.

i saw an offer for brand new 60g for =N=50,000 NAIRA@ OSHODI,
THE 80g goes for  around =N=65K to =N=70K,

The traffic is much on the net, it's seriously affecting their server for now, if u won just watch out for the small notice slip from the post office, as most of the slips get missing becos of their small size, or better still tell them @ the post office to watch out for u.

The Chief of Army Staff Gen. Dambazzau must be forced out of office for corruption, by every well meaning Nigerian within and outside the military following the part he played in the corrupt saga involving the allowances of the former UN peace keepers in Liberia whom he recently handed LIFE JAIL SENTENCES through the kangaroo court set up to them.
The Chief of Army staff who was not even properly screened by the senate before being appointed and backed by some top politicians such as senator David Mark, was then the General Officer Commanding 2 Div. Ibadan under whose command falls 323 artillery regiment Akure, Played a key role in the embezzlement of allowances belonging to these peacekeepers.
Aside deducting about $600 dollars from every UN peacekeeper from Nigeria for Barracks maintainance, and a set of camouflage, awarding dubious and bloated contract for the feeding of the contigents who at the end of the day are poorly fed, he and his gang of top military officers, which included the former chief of army staff general Luka Yussuf went ahead to deduct over $3,000 dollars from each the 850 soldiers returning from the operation, and when the bubble burst due to the protest by the soldiers he was so angered that he even manhandled one of the female soldiers when he arrived to see the situation of things , he quickly fronted some officers and soldiers who stood in as the culprits after being settled with several millions of Naira to shield Dambazzau and his gang from being exposed, and as a price they have to pay they were accused of only handed a light sentence for stealing and fraud by being demoted, while the officers whose money were stolen were jailed for life,what an irony!.
All Nigerians including every junior officer of the Nigerian military including the airforce and navy must stand for these gallant soldiers who stood their ground against corruption in the military,by saying no to the sentence or any form of punishment against them and support a call for the removal of the chief of army staff and independent investigation into the activities of the military in terms of management of funds provided the military with taxpayers hard earned money

that is great! d first good news to hit me dis year. we need information on when the drug is likely to be available to the nigerian market. and we hope d cost doesnt go beyond the average person.

relaxed mind, good rest and avoidance of stress (psychological & physical)

nobody owns any child, even d law tries 2 make us know dis, if there is an issue of who is 2 take custody of a child, d law usually considers who is more capable of taking care of the child in terms of safety and comfort. it does not try to find who owns d child. nobody owns any child that is why u have are punished if u kill a child, b'cos u don't own him