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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a woman, Ezine Paul, for allegedly selling his younger sister’s 24-day-old baby for N30,000.



Ezine’s 28-year-old sister, Uju Gladys, was said to have been impregnated out of wedlock in 2009.



Because of her inability to locate the man responsible for the pregnancy, her elder brothers and sisters were said to have resolved that she should be living with Ezine in Ipaye, a suburb of Lagos, pending her delivery.



Gladys told journalists at the premises of the command’s Public Relations Officer, on Monday that she delivered a baby girl on December 12, 2009 and her sister made away with the baby on January 5, 2010.



She said when she confronted her, Ezine claimed that the family directed her to take the baby to a motherless babies’ home so that she could get proper upbringing.



She said she was taken aback when she contacted her elder siblings and they denied knowledge of the alleged family resolution.



Gladys said that based on the advice of her sister, Chineye Onuoha, she reported the case at Ayobo Police Station, where the Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Julius Isijola, led some policemen to arrest Ezine.



Ezine confirmed to journalists that she sold the baby to a Ghanaian, whom she met through an unnamed female neighbour.



She said that she was paid N30,000 while the neighbour told her that she also received N20,000 from the buyer.



She said that she was told that the buyer had since travelled out of the country with the baby.



The command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Frank Mba, said that efforts were on to track down the female accomplice and possibly the alleged buyer.



He added that during investigation, detectives discovered that Ezine had earlier engaged in suspected illegal adoption of a baby.



Mba said that investigation revealed that a seven-year-old girl, Geneva, who the suspect had been claiming to be her daughter, was not her biological daughter.



Confirming the allegation, Ezine said that she got the girl about seven years ago allegedly at the General Hospital, Onitsha with the aid of a nurse when she could not bear a child.



She claimed to have paid about N70,000 for the “adoption.”



“I did that in ignorance. But now, I know that I engaged in illegality as regards Geneva,” she told journalists.



Mba displayed photographs of different persons and assorted charms allegedly recovered from the suspect’s wardrobe.
http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20100317142789

Born 16 days after Nigeria’s independence to Chief Remilekun Adetokunbo Fani-Kayode and Mrs. Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode, also a chief, Femi Fani-Kayode means different things to different people. In the early 1880s, when very Nigerians could boast of the ability to scribble A,B,C, Femi’s great-grandfather, The Reverend Emmanuel Adedapo Kayode had already acquired a Master of Arts Degree from Durham University. By 1920, his grandfather, Victor Adedapo Kayode had obtained a masters degree in law at the prestigious Cambridge University. By 1941, Femi’s father, Remilekun Fani- Kayode took after his father by enrolling in Cambridge University. After obtaining an honours degree in law, Remilekun made history by becoming the best graduating student in the British Bar examinations in the whole of the British Commonwealth. In 1954 , Chief Remilekun Fani-Kayode was elected into the Federal House of Assembly on the platform of the now defunct Action Group. In 1963 he was elected Deputy Premier of the old Western region of Nigeria under Chief Samuel Akintola in addition to another appointment as Minister of Local Government Affairs for the Western Region. Shortly after the military coup that sacked the First Republic, Femi Fani-Kayode moved to England. After going through public schools he obtained a degree in law from the same Cambridge University where his father and grandfather attended, making him one of the few Nigerian families with three generation of Cambridge graduates.

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Even though he served as Ministers of Culture and Tourism and Aviation, the six-footer and British-accented Femi is perhaps most remembered for his role as Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Hardly any day passed without Femi having to join issues with critics of the Obasanjo administration. The role, no doubt, earned him a lot of enemies and few admirers.

Since leaving government in May 2007, apart from a case between him and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the alleged misappropriation of certain aviation funds, very little has been heard from Femi Fani-Kayode. It was Femi in his element….

In a matter of months, Nigeria shall be celebrating the golden anniversary of her political independence. Incidentally, you shall be clocking 50. Would you say Nigeria has fared well, given the current challenges that seem to have made the country the laughing stock of the world?

I believe that we have to thank God for the fact that the very serious constitutional crisis that was posed by the disappearing act of President Umaru Yar’adua late last year and up until today has more or less come to an end, that is, if it has not fully come to an end. We now have an Acting President in place who seems to have finally cultivated the courage to begin to assert himself and to take charge of the affairs of the nation, which is very important. The country is beginning to stabilize and is now coming out of the terrible trauma of having had to put up with a President that nobody has seen or spoken to in the last five months or so, nobody has set their eyes upon him, heard his voice, knows what is wrong with him or even really knows where he is up until today. That is a very sad state of affairs both for him and the nation but despite that, and with the coming of the new dispensation; I believe that we are now beginning to make some progress. I think there is every reason to hope that things will get better. However there are still some very serious challenges which the nation faces today and which have come as a consequence and a fall-out of the weak, ineffectual and uninspiring leadership that this country has been subjected to in the last 3 years. The movement of troops to the airport without the knowledge of the Acting President when our President was surreptitiously smuggled into Nigeria under the cover of darkness and in the middle of the night without anyone’s knowledge is the first major challenge. The question remains, who gave the order for that troop movement and why was the Acting President and the Commander in Chief not informed? Up until today that question has not been answered, nothing has been done and, as far as we know, no-one has been sanctioned for that grossly illegal and provocative act. The second major challenge is the genocide that was perpetuated in Jos only last week where over 500 innocent Christian women and children were hacked to death by a well-organized, well-armed and well-funded group of Hausa-Fulani Muslims who allegedly acted in collusion with the GOC of the Nigerian Army that was responsible for the security of that area. The Governor of the state Jonah Jang, who is a Christian, and General Domkat Bali who is a respected elder of the state, a Christian and the retired Chief of Defence Staff during General Babangida’s regime together with the Plateau State Christian Elders Forum have all alleged that the GOC, General Maina, who happens to be a Muslim as is his boss the Chief of Army Staff General Dambazzau, simply refused to heed their consistent warnings that an attack against their people was imminent and indeed was already taking place. He admitted that he received text messages to that effect but for some strange reason did nothing to protect the people. This is a major issue and if this sort of thing continues it has the potential of blowing up the whole country and acting as a catalyst for a very bloody and prolonged religious war if not handled with the utmost sensitivity, skill, caution and care. I can tell you that the feeling is running very high over this issue on both sides of the religious divide in this country as the Muslim community see what happened last week as a revenge mission for what members of their own community in the same Jos were subjected to only last January when hundreds of Muslim Hausa-Fulani women and children were slaughtered like flies by Christian and ethnic Berom militias. Needless to say, all these killings and mass murders are an abomination. They are condemnable and reprehensible. And when this sort of thing happens I do not see Christians or Muslims or Hausa-Fulanis or Berom. I only see Nigerians killing one another and hacking to pieces each other’s most prized and most cherished possessions and gifts from God, their own women and their children. And the greatest danger of all is that if the Nigerian Army gets entangled in this mess and is split along religious or ethnic lines that will be the end of this nation. We should all try and learn from history because that is exactly what happened just after independence in India when part of the military supported their Hindu brothers and the other part supported the Muslim community during a spate of ethnic and religious violence and unrest. The result was that the country was thrown into an uncontrollable and unprecedented orgy of fratricidal and sectarian butchery, bloodshed and violence which eventually led to the dismemberment and carving up of the entire country and the subsequent establishment of the Muslim state of Pakistan. That is how the nation of Pakistan was carved out of the predominantly Hindu state of India. Sadly even after that bitter separation the two countries still fought no less than three terrible wars between them over land disputes in the Kashmir. That sort of thing must never be allowed to happen in Nigeria and in order to avoid it the Nigerian military must maintain it’s traditional and professional neutrality when it comes to any form of ethnic or religious unrest or conflict in the country. That is what has made the alleged attitude of General Maina so alarming and so dangerous. The third challenge is the breakdown of the Amnesty accord with MEND and the other militant groups in the Niger-Delta area which has resulted in the detonation of car bombs in Warri just earlier today. It is very important that the government gets a firm grip of this problem expeditiously and tries to solve it as quickly as possible before it escalates into a full-scale regional conflict which would result in a massive loss of life and the disruption of world oil supplies. There are many other challenges that we face today as a nation and in my view the sooner we have a sovereign national conference in this country and the sooner we restructure the Federation and enthrone true federalism with resource control, devolution of power from the centre, derivation as the principle for the sharing of the proceeds from our mineral resources, the introduction of state police, the confirmation of the secularity of the state, the complete crushing of any form of religious extremism, bigotry or fundamentalism and we imbue all the other hallmarks of a true federation, the better it will be for us all. That, in my view, is the way forward if we are really interested in a strong, united and peaceful Nigeria which will then remain as one into the distant future. No matter who becomes President or Governor next year, if we do not address these vital issues and answer the national question once and for all then we are only postponing the evil day. Sooner than later a set of circumstances will certainly unfold which will compel us to address it whether we like it or not. Why should we wait for that? We should get down to it right away and begin to seriously look at these things now whilst we can still do so in an atmosphere of relative peace, camaradie and tranquility.

Talking about the leadership crisis, many Nigerians believe that, denials notwithstanding, former President Olusegun Obasanjo deliberately foisted Yar’Adua on Nigerians simply because he couldn’t pull his third term agenda through. And that some of you, members of Obasanjo’s kitchen cabinet, were collaborators in the scheme that put Nigeria on the brink.

The contention that there was some kind of sinister and a pre-meditated attempt to put Nigeria on the brink by Obasanjo and his boys by supporting Umaru Yar’adua’s presidential bid is simply not true. That decision was taken in the best of faith by the government of that day and by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and for anyone to suggest otherwise is ridiculous and unacceptable. Some of us served that government for four years and others for eight years and we served our country to the best of our abilities. Towards the end of our tenure a decision was made to support a particular candidate for the Presidency. As far as we were concerned the man Umaru Yar’adua had been governor of Katsina state for eight solid years and there was therefore no reason whatsoever for us to doubt his competence and health bearing in mind the fact that he came highly recommended by President Obasanjo and a number of other highly placed people. Based on that we took a position and supported him. The fact is that nobody, not even President Obasanjo, knew how ill he really was at that time. And what happened subsequent to his coming into power such as the gradual yet drastic deterioration of his health and the course that he chose to take in the style and substance of his governance is something that nobody could have seen or predicted. If we knew that things would have turned out like this for him we would not have supported him or put him there. If anybody had told me three years ago or anytime before then that Nigeria would have a President who would disappear for five months, and still counting, and that no member of his government or his family would be able to tell Nigerians about his whereabouts or his medical condition, I would not have believed it. The truth is that the assertion that Obasanjo sat down to plan all this and inflict such pain, trauma and hopelessness on the Nigerian people just really does not make any sense and it is not true. You may not like him very much but one thing that I can assure you is that Obasanjo is not a sadist. For him to have done what some are now suggesting would have been the height of wickedness on his part and this is simply not the case. I repeat that nobody could have envisaged that it would turn out the way it did for Yar’adua and it is only God, in His infinite wisdom and mercy, that knew what would happen and what lay ahead. It is something that we pray will never happen to any President in the life of our nation again.

Looking back now, would you, in all honesty, say that the decision to support Yar’Adua was a right one?

I am not sure that that question is relevant now. Whether this was the right or wrong decision it was clearly in Yar’adua’s destiny to be President of Nigeria even if it was only for a specific period of time. So whether anyone liked it or not it simply had to come to pass. God willed it and allowed it to happen for a purpose and so no-one could have stopped it or stood against it. Again because there is the principle of collective responsibility which is strictly practiced and adhered to in government and which dictates that once a decision is taken by the leadership then everyone is bound by it no matter how they feel. We can raise objections and even argue about it amongst ourselves and even with the President up until the time that he puts his foot down and takes a final decision. At that point everybody in the cabinet or in the relevant caucus must fall in line and must publically defend that decision and position no matter how he or she felt about it before the final decision was taken. If you cannot do so then you must resign. The truth is that from the outset there were a number of us that were not comfortable with the idea of Yar’Adua becoming President, for a number of reasons and we all said so at the time. But there were other people within government who supported the idea. Those of us that were against it simply did not win the day. This is politics; you can’t always have your way. With that behind us and once Mr. President told us that he had finally made up his mind, we all joined hands together and supported Yar’Adua’s candidacy.

You said there were a number of reasons why some of you opposed the idea of Yar’Adua becoming president. Can you share some of the reasons?

Firstly it was clear to some that if Yar’Adua became President, his wife Turai, would be the one that would be running the country. Two, some of those that knew him from school and that grew up with him believed that he had the capacity to be extremely vicious; that his record in Katsina betrayed him as somebody who enjoyed turning on all those that had once helped him politically. Another issue was that, apart from the Middle East, he had never been to any country in the world or in the west-be it Europe or the United States of America. And for the many years he served as Governor of Katsina State, he never visited any state in the southern part of Nigeria. And then there was the issue of his health. These were the concerns and some within our caucus voiced those concerns at the time. However President Obasanjo had immense confidence in him and assured us that there was no need for such concerns. We discussed the issues extensively and eventually we all agreed that this was the man to support, even though there were other people, other candidates that could have come in and almost did come in.

Others like?

Well there is no doubt that Nasir El-Rufai could have come in. He had a very good chance and he almost got the nod but sadly it was not to be, at least not then. It was really between him and Umaru Yar’adua once it was clear that the Presidency had been zoned to the north. And eventually Yar’adua got it and the rest is history. Looking back at it now it is a decision that I personally regret. I don’t think it is right for us to act as if we did the right thing. If we are to be honest with ourselves I think that we made a mistake and a terrible one at that. And I don’t think it is good enough for me to say, ‘Oh! Some of us opposed it at the time.’ At the end of the day we all have to take collective responsibility for what we did. We have to accept that and we have to concede the fact that it was a regrettable decision. I believe one should be able to stand up and say, ‘gentlemen, we made a mistake.’ He (Yar’Adua) was not psychologically, mentally and physically prepared for that job. He was not the right choice and everything he did from the moment he got into office proved the fact that he wasn’t the right choice. And of course eventually his health failed and he disappeared into thin air and up till now nobody has seen him. But I thank God that there is now an Acting President in place and that the National Assembly did the right thing at the right time to save Nigeria.

Still on el-Rufai, how strong a threat would you say he was at the time to Yar’Adua’s emergence as the PDP flag-bearer and then, president?

If Yar’Adua hadn’t gotten the nod of President Obasanjo, El-Rufai would have been the President of Nigeria today . There is no question about that in my mind. It was a straight choice between the two. There was a strong and very intense lobby from our caucus to get Obasanjo to support el-Rufai. I was deeply involved, he was my candidate and even though he did not win I would never shy away from saying that anywhere. He was my candidate from the beginning up until the time we were over-ruled by our boss and leader and told that Yar’Adua would be the candidate. There was also the issue of the North/South divide for the presidency. But once it was settled that it was going to be a Northern thing, it became a straight fight between el-Rufai and Yar’Adua. Of course there was the ‘’governors’ group’’- people like James Ibori, Bukola Saraki and Lucky Igbinedion backed by Andy Uba, Ojo Maduekwe, Abdullahi Mohammed and a number of others- who all wanted Yar’Adua. But what I call the ‘’intellectual group’’- people like Nuhu Ribadu, Akin Osuntokun, Uba Sani, Lawal Batagarawa, El Rufai, Bayo Ojo, Frank Nweke, Oby Ezekwesili, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nenadi Usman, myself and a handful of others- all supported Nasir. But we lost out. Yar’Adua was endorsed and the rest, as they say, is history. What is important is that once the decision was made we collectively agreed to bring in Yar’Adua and that in my humble opinion was a terrible mistake.

Being a former member of the Executive Council of the Federation, how would you describe the stand of the ministers vis-à-vis Section 144 of the Nigerian Constitution? Is it practicable for ministers under such arrangement to declare a president and their boss unfit to continue in office?

Why not? If they had the political will, if they had the courage, if they had the interest of Nigerians at heart, they would. I really don’t see the issue here. As far I am concerned, they should have done that already. The longer they wait, the more they jeopardize the future of the country. It is not good enough to have an Acting President. There is a need for a substantive President and Goodluck Jonathan deserves to be that substantive President. As much as he is trying to be fair to everybody, to be as gentle as possible, to reach out and carry along members of the same cabal that worked against him, the truth is that eggs have to be broken if you want to make an omellete. And at some point he will have to say, ‘’okay, enough is enough. I want to move the country forward’’. The sooner that is done, the better for Nigeria. Lots of people, not just in the cabinet, need to be displaced and replaced.

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You have clearly stated that your candidate for presidency was el-Rufai, and that Nuhu Ribadu was on the same page. Today, the three of you are hounded by at least one agency of government. Is this, in your opinion, a coincidence or a move by some persons to exact their pound of flesh?

I leave it for Nigerians to figure that one out for themselves. All I know is that in Nigerian politics there are no coincidences. I won’t say more than that. There were also those who were called to the side and threatened. Such were asked to dump the positions they took as, in their opinions, this was unacceptable. Perhaps their own turn to be tormented would have come at a later date. There is no big deal though and one must always learn to forgive because the battle belongs to the Lord. You cannot win it…only God can win it for you so you just look to Him, trust Him, call on His name and leave it all to Him. One thing is very clear to me though…, that God is with me and He is faithful and true. I see His power and His blessings manifesting in my life everyday so I give Him thanks for all things, both good and bad. You see I am a great believer in the power of divinity and destiny. What God has ordained for a man, that man will be, no matter what any mere mortal says, does, plans or decrees. Delay is not denial. I lost all my sense of fear of men and the difficult circumstances and sheer cruelty that they can inflict on those that they hate for no just cause and the despicable things that they can do to those that they seek to persecute and destroy, many years ago. And at the end of the day you will ask yourself who and what man really is with all his vanity and power. The answer is that he is nothing before God….the bible says ‘’who art thou O man? Thou art as the grass that withers. Thou art as the flower that fadeth…, a man that is born of woman that is today and tomorrow is no more’’. That is all we are…nothing before God…, so no matter what power you may think you have today you must humble yourself before the Lord your maker and know that He alone rules in the affairs of men and forges the destiny of nations. There is nothing anyone can do to me unless God allows it. So if anyone ones to exact their pound of flesh, let them go ahead. Eventually God will exact His own too and we are already seeing signs of that.

The political firmament is beginning to buzz with activities. Your party, the PDP, appears to be fussing about its zoning arrangement for next presidential elections. They have even technically knocked off Jonathan from the race by restricting its presidential ticket to the three zones in the North.

(Cuts in) You see, this is the problem. In my opinion, zoning has created more problems than it has solved. As far as I am concerned, zoning is a phenomenon that came from medieval history. Why should the whole country be bound by the zoning formula of one political party? Merit, not zoning, should be the watchword especially when we consider what we have had to contend with in the last three years or so. We came up with the wrong person and we were stuck with him. Just look at the sheer incompetence of some of the people that Yar’Adua brought on board. The truth is there are competent people who can run for the Presidency on their own merit. You shouldn’t zone anything to help anybody. Let the best person emerge.

What if the party refuses to budge?

Well that would be a monumental error on their part and I certainly hope that they do not. In 2003, the presidency, according to the PDP’s gentleman’s agreement, was supposed to have remained in the South but that didn’t stop people like Alhaji Abubakar Rimi and Chief Barnabas Gemade, who are both from the North, from contesting. Fortunately, the party recently said it was throwing its doors open to all the three zones in the North. Maybe they will still go a step further and open the doors to everybody. But, like I said, this is one factor that has held us down and stagnated our growth.

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state served as a minister under Obasanjo. In a recent interview he expressed regret working for Obasanjo. Do you feel the same way, too?

Of course not. Yuguda was probably the longest serving minister under Obasanjo. He was Minister and served in Obassanjo’s cabinet for no less than 7 or 8 years. I therefore think it was most uncharitable for him to have said what he was quoted to have said. Since he has not caused a retraction to be published I have to assume that he really did say those things. And the truth is that he has shocked me. I don’t know what happened to the gentle, decent and humble Isa that I once knew and that we was literally like a brother to me and a son to Obasanjo. I am disgusted and horrified by his comments and his outburst. How could he have said such a thing? At what point did he begin to regret? Was it during his tenure as minister, immediately he left office, when he became governor on the ANPP platform, after he defected to PDP, or after he married Yar’Adua’s daughter? It is important for him to tell Nigerians because, they might also be interested in knowing why he stayed put for seven or so years as a Minister without resigning. By the way, how can they compare what they have done in the past three years to Obasanjo’s achievements? When Obasanjo was handing over, Nigeria was debt free. Go and see the monumental debts they have piled up for Nigeria again. They have practically destroyed everything that worked under Obasanjo. Thank God Goodluck Jonathan has come to clear the mess they piled up. That is what Isa Yuguda should be talking about, and about his challenge to keep Bauchi State free of religious extremists. But he appears more pre-occupied with kicking Obasanjo because he imagines it is fashionable to do so. He was a very close friend, so I am really surprised he could blab the way he did. He is one of the few that benefited so much from Obasanjo in terms of the opportunity to serve, which provided the platform for the governorship he enjoys today. And the truth is that had it not been for Obasanjo he would never have been governor of Bauchi state today but that is a story for another day.

Back to you. You were in the news recently, and for the wrong reasons. There was this story that you posted nude pictures of your daughters on your Facebook. What made you do such a thing?

Do you really believe that I could ever do such a thing? As a matter of fact can any sane person do such a thing? Does that assertion make any sense to you? I have exactly the same pictures in my official website-www.femifanikayode.org- as I have in my Facebook photo gallery and they have all been there for almost a year now and no-one has ever complained of seeing any nude pictures in my photo gallery out of the almost 5000 friends that I have on Facebook or out of the large number of people that regularly visit my website. And of course if they had made such a complaint I would have asked them to produce the pictures. I have been in politics since 1989 and I have seen all sorts of things and been accused of all sorts of things but I must say that this one really does take the cherry on the cake. The question is where are the nude pictures? They should produce them for the world to see. I have five beautiful daughters who will one day get married. They are not only beautiful but they are also well-educated, well-bred, well-mannered and well-brought up. They are gifted, creative, talented, wonderful and disciplined girls and each and every one of them has a bright and great future. The first finished her first degree at Durham University a couple of years ago and is now doing a law course in London. The second is in her final year at London University, the third is about to finish at her school and begin University and the two youngest ones are at very good private schools. I am very proud of them all, I have always cared for them and given them the best and, as much as possible, shielded them from public glare because I, and not them, elected to go into politics. If you say you want to persecute and fabricate lies about Femi Fani Kayode or whatever, go ahead and do it, but please leave my children out of it. Even in war, the rules of engagement and international convention and practice is that women and children are to be exempted from the hostilities and are not to be touched or harmed. But these, for many, are desperate times. They therefore have no qualms about adopting desperate measures. If not, why would they fabricate such wicked lies in order to embarrass those they don’t like? The pictures that I have there are family pictures from a family album of over 200 shots and the one that they were referring to was the one with my daughter in fancy dress. Another was at their friend’s party, and yet the other was the picture of another of my daughters, who is a final year university student and who has an official portfolio of modeling shots from where she took one of the pictures and gave it to me. And the pictures in question are the ordinary run of the mill pictures that most children take these days. If anyone then chooses to say that these are nude shots then I leave them to their filthy consciences, their depraved and reprobate minds and to God. It is their children that will appear nude and strip naked before the world and not mine. The other picture which they posted was of Folake, my eldest daughter, when she was five years old sucking her thumb and sitting in the sitting room without a shirt on. That picture was taken by her mother 18 years ago. Folake is now 23 years old. When we challenged them to produce the nude pictures they showed a clean pair of heels. The person who ‘authored’ the piece does not exist. I know those behind it. One of them used to be close to me, but she is so full of hatred and bile now. I also know what they plan to do next, in the local papers and in the internet. Even in that, I am very grateful for the response of Saharareporters, even though it was an opinion they merely ran and not a story. They promptly published our rejoinder, which impressed me immensely and by which they earned my respect. Pointblanknews followed suit. Huhuonline, Modernghana, Nairaland, Nigerian Voice, the Will and a number of other blogs also published our rejoinder. I was really touched by that and I remain eternally grateful to them and to all those on Facebook and in the internet community for their expressions of solidarity and support for me and my family. As for the beautiful young ladies that are my daughters they are taking it all in their stride and they find the whole thing quite amusing. I have promised to write them another poem just to make up for all
http://www.pointblanknews.com/os3055.html

Nollywood star actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, a.k.a. Omo Sexy led other notable personalities in Abuja this afternoon to protest recent developments in the country.

The protesters, including Charly Boy, Ovation magazine publisher, Dele Momodu, Stella Damasus-Nzeribe, Muma Gee and Six Foot Plus among others, stormed the National Assembly complex, Abuja to register their displeasure with current happenings in the country.

Combat-ready armed regular and mobile policemen and other security agents however, tried to stop the protesting youths from entering the National Assembly but they succeeded in forcing themselves in through the main gate.

The protesters slept on the ground and barricaded the entrance to the assembly. The police had a hectic time trying to prevent them from breaking through the security cordorn. The youths were poised to scale the last gate to enter the chambers of the National Assembly even as the police were threatening to shoot them.

As at the time of going to press, there was no movement into the assembly.

The protesting youths under the aegis of Enough is Enough, made up of a coalition of individuals, organizations and collectives were seen singing in front of the gate.

“Open the gate for us, we want to see our honourable,” they chorused.

Before the protesters arrived the entrance of the National Assembly complex, Abuja, security was beefed up with Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC), policemen and other security personnel.
http://thepmnews.com/2010/03/16/omotola-leads-youths%e2%80%99-protest

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A Nigerian gospel singer Evangelist Jacob Kunle Ajomale was jailed in the United States of America after he committed a fraud related offence, has learnt.

According to a press statement from the U.S. Department of Justice, Ajomale was sentenced to six months imprisonment and two years supervised release for making false statement while applying for a United States passport.

Acting United States Attorney, Channing D. Phillips and Acting Director Patric B. Donovan of the State Department‘s Diplomatic Security Services stated that Ajomale, 46 ,was sentenced by Honorable Justice Ellen. S. Huvelle of a United States District Court.

He was said to have been jailed acting on government evidence that on March, 7, 2001 Ajomale completed and submitted a U. S .Department of State application for a United States passport at the Washington D. C. passport office .

P.M.NEWS learned that prior to submitting the application, the Nigerian obtained a valid driver’s license from his friend, Emmanuel Adegoke, with the intent of using his name to obtain a fraudulently issued U.S. passport in his friends name for his personal use

The accused and Adegoke were said to bear similar physical facial attributes .Notedly , the Maryland driver’s license bore a photograph of an individual with a side facial profile , which he attached a photograph of himself to with false name, address, date of birth, social security number and date of birth of Adegoke to comit the ofence.

After submitting the fraudulent application on 7, March 2001, he received a U. S. passport which he later used to travel to Nigeria,

Nemesis, however, caught up with him on 5, February, 2009 when he was arrested at Baltimore-Washgton International Airport arrival terminal as a result of a federal arrest warrant, and notification by the U. S.Customs and border protection to the assigned agents.
http://thepmnews.com/2010/03/16/revealed-nigerian-gospel-singer-jailed-in-us

what peter actually meant was that ladies should focus on inner beauty rather than outer beauty - he wasn't really condemning jewellry wear

Their stories are like lines from a horror movie. They bring tears to eyes, leave your heart bleeding. They are tales of sorrow by the widows of the last sectarian killings, tales of how their children and husbands were butchered in their in Dogo Nahawa, a village near Jos. With pain dripping from the dirge they sang, the bereaved women virtually brought the National Assembly to its knees as people shed uncontrollable tears. The gate of the complex had been flung open to hundreds of women protesting last week’s genocide in the Plateau state capital.

The atmosphere in front of the National Assembly building popularly known as White House was somber, as the shrill voices of women clad in black, with green leaves on their heads pierced through the early morning weather with melodious but sorrowful songs.

They were the voices of the women from Plateau State who had come to National Assembly to protest the dawn massacre on March 7 of women and children in Dogo Nahawa a remote area in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.
As they sang, displaying gory pictures of slaughtered women and children, tears flowed freely from eyes of both the protesters, the on- lookers and even female security agents sent to ensure orderliness of the protest. Journalists were not left out. They forgot for a while their midgets and notepads.

Like a sore thumb in the midst of the women numbering over 600 stood this woman of about five feet tall who was dressed in green and black instead of the complete back that others wore.
She just stood there neither crying nor singing, but sweating heavily when Sunday Sun approached her to know why she was not dressed in full black like others and why she was not singing too.
She muttered in a low voice that her name was Priscilla Sunday and counted seven of her fingers. One of the women apparently watching over her whispered that Priscilla lost seven children in addition to other relations in the massacre.

Spurred to share her experience in the pogrom, the 35-year-old Priscilla said that it was in her presence that some of her children were slaughtered by the rampaging Fulani herdsmen, who invaded her home in the early morning of the black Sunday. By the time the herdsmen retreated to their evil holes and the dust cleared, she lamented that seven of her children had been wasted.

“ I cannot describe what I saw with my eyes. My children’s heads were cut open with cutlass, their brains spilled on the ground and arrows cutting through their bodies. Why, what have we done?” She asked and burst into tears.
To her, the security agents in Plateau State had failed the people they were sent to protect. She was so bitter about it that she suggested that all soldiers, all policemen should leave Plateau because according to her, their presence had not done the people of the state any good.

She also suggested that since the security agents could no longer guarantee their safety, they should leave and allow the warring factions to confront each other in a fight, which according to her, would determine who remains in Jos. “Let us fight so that which ever side wins would remain in Jos. I want to avenge the death of my children”, she declared.

Narrating how the villagers were caught napping by the invaders, she said, “We were sleeping when suddenly we were woken up by sounds of gun shots and people shouting. We did not even know where they came from. These men trooped into our houses and started attacking us with dangerous weapons like guns, cutlasses and clubs.
“It was unfortunate that the children could not run as fast as the elders. Even toddlers were not spared. What is all this about? I watched them kill my seven children and others within the compound and there was nothing I or any other person could do.“ As these things were happening, no security agent was in sight. Neither policemen nor soldiers came to our rescue.

We are asking government for adequate security so that we can live peacefully in Plateau. However, if they can no longer guarantee our safety, security agents should give way and allow us to fight so that who ever wins should stay in Jos. If they defeat us, let them remain in Jos and if we defeat them, they should be prepared to also leave Jos.
“ As it is now, we do not see any reason why any security agent should remain in Jos. If they cannot assist us, they should leave. We are not going to fight them with dangerous weapons like gun, cutlasses, clubs or charms. God that we serve will definitely fight for us.

“We know that God is seeing all that we are doing. If they say they do not want us in Jos, where do they want us to go? I know that if we engage them in an open fight, our God will give us victory over them,” she stated.
Another Victim, Mrs. Debora Lanbe Danjuma, 27, recounted her experience thus:
“I am a mother of a four-year-old who was hacked to death in my presence for reasons I don’t know. As you can see, I am seven-months pregnant.

On that fateful Sunday, we were on our way to the Church with my son and my late husband. We were in front of our house and I remember I forgot my handset and my husband went back inside to bring it. Suddenly we heard our neighbour shout. We saw a young man running towards us with wound shouting Madam, Madam run they are coming. I could not move fast with the pregnancy and drag the boy along. I was trying to run when one of them just came and collected the boy from me. Before I knew what was happening, before my own eyes I watched them slaughter my son.

“As my husband was coming out to join us, somebody just shot him in the head and spilled his blood and brain on me. This is how I became a widow.” she managed to narrate before tears started to roll out from her cheeks.
On how she managed to escape from the marauders, she said she would be lying if she said she knew how she escaped.
“Only God can explain how I escaped. God can explain how I was not killed. The truth is that I don’t know how I managed to escape, if I tell you how I escaped, I would be lying,” Deborah confessed.
Mrs. Lare Onu, who led the widows to the National Assembly captured the mood of the women and other victims of the last violence in Jos in her speech to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, after he personally came out to welcome and identify with the mourners.

“We are here this morning because of what is happening in Plateau state. Innocent villagers were killed with children that were one month and two months old. They were all slaughtered like animals. Some of these villagers do not even know where Jos is. So why are you killing them? They went to the remotest area of Jos to kill people.
“The question is what were the security men doing. The solders were there, they were called and they did not come. This thing started around 10’o clock and they did not come until 5 in the morning. The Federal Government, the state government and the elders in Plateau have not told the truth about what is happening in Jos.
“We are talking about indigenes or no indigenes here, let us leave religion out of it. Are there not Yorubas and Igbos in Plateau, why are they not fighting, why is it only the Hausa people that are fighting?

“What we know is that there are people behind these things and they are not telling us the truth. The problem is that when our people want to retaliate, they will say stop. We are saying enough, enough and enough of these things”.
The full message of Bankole was delivered by the House Leader, Tunde Akogun, who assured them that government will surely put an end to incessant killings in Jos or anywhere in the country.

Hon Bitrus Kase representing Jos South federal constituency in the House admonished the wounded women not to contemplate a reprisal, but allow God to fight for them. He urged them to fast and pray for God to rise on their behalf.
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/mar/14/national-14-03-2010-001.htm

Jonathan meets Obama
By Olusola Balogun
Sunday, March 14, 2010


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The Presidency of acting President Goodluck Jonathan seems to be getting more international acceptance and support as American President, Barrack Obama, is reported to have invited the Nigerian leader to an international summit scheduled for next month.

Although the agenda of the said summit is still very sketchy, it was gathered that Obama personally called up the former Bayelsa governor asking him to attend the conference.
According to a source at the Presidency who confirmed the development, “it is true that the acting President will be going to the US in April and he will be attending a summit. They called it a nuclear summit.

He was personally and specially invited by Obama to attend the meeting.”
He disclosed that Jonathan is already making arrangements to attend the meeting, hinting that the acting President might use the opportunity to further press for the issue of delisting Nigeria from the list of terror nations that it was included soon after Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempted suicide bombing on American soil.
Political analysts view the development as a major boost for the Jonathan administration that is facing some acceptability challenges from some quarters in the country.

It is also seem as a clear departure from the era of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua who seldomly attend international summits and is in the habit of sending representatives to such meetings even before he took ill in November 2009
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2010/mar/14/newsbreak-14-03-2010-001.htm

Print version Woman, 52-year-Old Delivers Baby; Married In 1985
March 12, 2010 14:54 (4 hours ago), 172 views

By Eromosele Ebhomele

A 52 year-old lady evangelist, Foluke Awoleye, has given birth to a baby girl after 25 years of marriage without a child. She rightly named the baby Miracle.

Evangelist Awoleye told P.M. NEWS that she witnessed a lot of pressures during the period she remained hopeful for a child of her own.

According to her, her husband’s family members tried to persuade him to get another wife, but he rebuffed their advice due to the love he had for her.

She also claimed that as an Evangelist, she tried not to be sad or discouraged during this period which she described as her trying time.

“My husband’s people advised him to seek an alternative, because they had lost hope that I can bear a child.

“But because my husband is a man of God and he loves me, he continued to tell them that he would not do anything against the oath he took when we got married.

“He told them that whether I give birth to a child or not, he would allow God’s will to be done.”

Mrs. Awoleye, who is a gospel musician, further said she pacified herself with her songs.

“I always knew God would perform this miracle, but as a human being, there were times I got tired of waiting.

“In such circumstances, I ran to my father, who is the Bishop of a church and he would calm me asking me to wait upon God,” she said adding that she had tried various means to bear a child, including visiting various hospitals.

She said she released an album in which she said that her miracle was on the way, but two years after the album was released and there was no conception, she said family members started asking her why she sang the song when she had no faith.

Some, she said, were asking her when the miracle would come.

“When they started seeing my protruding tummy, they kept wondering what could have happened to me and they kept on wondering till I finally put to bed,” she said.

Comments (7)
http://thepmnews.com/2010/03/12/woman-52-year-old-delivers-baby-married-in-1985

this is the wrong section! dumb-head!!!

good question - i think it means 'what's been happening to you?' or 'i'm thinking about you' or 'i have not heard from you in a while' or 'i would like to know more about you' - the relationship between you and the poker determines what the poker is using it for - hope you get it

Dear Agatha,

Thanks for the wonderful work you have been doing in the lives of your fellow Nigerians in answering and advising them rightly on different issues. May God Almighty preserve, guide and empower you more for us and your family.

Agatha, please I have been nursing this problem for some time now and do not know what to do or how to go about it, hence my sharing it with you.

I got married under the native laws and customs two years ago. Unfortunately she hasn’t been able to take in since then. Each time she is about to take in, she develops severe abdominal pains and before we know it, she starts bleeding. It has become frequent with her.

Since we didn’t know what was causing it all, we recently went for a test, which revealed she has urinary tract infection and high typhoid. But the problem now is that the result also revealed that my genotype and hers are same. We are both AS, though my blood group is (O+) and hers (B).

According to our doctor, it is not medically advised we get married. I didn’t tell her what the doctor said, because I really don’t know how to present the matter to her without causing her emotional problems. To be double sure that the results were correct, I persuaded her that we go for another series of tests to make sure all was well with both of us. The results confirmed what the first tests said.

It has been two years of our staying under one roof and we both love each other dearly. But how do I tell her what the doctor said? Will she not think I want to dump her for another woman since she is unable to get pregnant? I have been keeping it a secret from her. I told my Dad and he said I should give her the result to read or tell her straight away, but I felt that is not right. She might collapse and anything can happen. Please help me out.

Blessed Mike

Governor Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi of Zamfara State has said that it is wrong to see the North as a parasite because the region produces no oil. He disclosed his state will soon start enjoying the 13 percent revenue derivation like oil-producing states in the country.
He told Daily Sun in Gusau in an interview that a Chinese solid mineral processing company has started test running in this direction that will take out the state from being a “parasite state.” Excerpt:   

PROJECTS EXECUTION
“From the inception of this administration in 2007 to date, we have built many roads and work is on-going  in many others. We commissioned the Kotarkoshi-Mada Road. Others include Katuru-Galadi-Tibiri which connects Shinkafi and Maradun local government areas. The Kaura Namoda-Birnin Magaji Road is almost completed, from Magami to Dankurmi and from  Janbako to Boko into Maradun. That road cuts across Maradun, Talata Mafara, Bakura and Zurmi local government areas and work is in progress. Similar projects are going on in other parts of the state. Hopefully, by the time they are completed, the roads network in the state will be among the best in the North West.” 

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
“You see, we started our projects as early as possible. Just a month after we took over, price of crude oil was really high and the economic meltdown has not arrived. The money we had from the federation account was well spent on a well planned blueprint we had. We know very well how hard the economic crunch has affected virtually all sectors, but we have ensured that our projects continue, even though at slower pace. If not for the economic crunch, we would have finished most of the projects before now. Also the coming of the economic crisis has forced many states to look inward  for altenative revenue to execute  projects.”

MINERAL PROCESSING FACTORY
“We are building viable industries that will  be enough to make us financially independent of the Federal Government. The solid  mineral factory  near Gusau on Zaria Road, which is nearing completion will provide employment opportunity to our teeming youths. It will also bring income amounting to billions of naira annually. We will process all types of minerals in that factory. We have the highest mineral deposit in the whole country. Right now we are test running, very soon it will be commissioned by Mr. President.”

“Even though the meltdown has slowed us down a little, we have planned long term solution by diversifying our sources of revenue to solid mineral processing factory where. We invested more than N6billion in partnership with a Chinese company. We will soon start getting 13 percent revenue derivation as our sisters are getting from the oil.  We have devised strategies to keep us going and so far, we are matching forward to get there. Count us out of the so-called parasite states.” 

PDP POLICIES
“Policy-wise, the PDP has the best policies for this country. My appeal is that Nigerians should continue to be patient. I am confident that by God grace the good is coming very soon if we are patient. 
“People should change their attitudes on what government should be doing for them.  They should appreciate and be development-oriented which I believed is the only way we can move forward. Let them look inward and see what they can contribute for the development of their state. We want to join hands with them to ensure we move our state forward rapidly. We have the best intention and interest of the state at heart.”
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/mar/11/national-11-03-2010-005.htm

yes- she can get a 9ja passport

this is a lie!

hahahaha! umaru training wit chelsea and arriving from Saudi with Turai

Dear Agatha,

I really appreciate the way you solve problems. I am a civil servant in Akwa Ibom State. The man I am dating is also a civil servant. We have been together for sometime now and hoping to get married some day. Although he hasn’t mentioned anything to that effect, but I keep hoping he would ask me to marry him.

However something happened recently that is giving me cause for concern. I went to his place that night to visit when a text message came into my phone from a man I knew before I met him. Because he was with my phone, he opened the text message to read it. Unfortunately, this man and I had since gone our separate ways following a misunderstanding we had. Besides, I wasn’t so much in love with him.

In the text, he was apologising and declaring his love for me.

He became very angry with me after reading the text message and refused to speak with me throughout the night. He also transferred the text message to his home for him to show his parents and friends.

On Valentine’s Day, I went with some gifts I bought for him to his house, hoping his anger would have abated, but I still met him very angry. Though he collected the items from me, he still wasn’t ready to talk to me and still isn’t talking to me. He is also refusing to call me on phone.

Agatha, I love him very much and would want to marry him, but given the present situation, I don’t know what to do. I need your advice.

Christy.

Dear Agatha,

Please, help me once again concerning my teenage sweetheart. Between September last year and December, I was responsible for the provisions of her daily needs.

Being in Abuja for university education, she request of me to help provide her accommodation since I stay on campus. Although, I promised last year to help her out on this, I later changed my mind, because of what happened between my ex-fiancée and me.

I eventually spoke to a friend of mine who lives in Abuja to help accommodate her for me. He agreed and told me she would live with his sisters.

When I told her of the arrangement I made, she declined insisting she wanted a place of her own. I then gave her the go ahead to look for a house. Last month she called to say she has gotten an accommodation, and that she wanted to share the place with a friend of hers so they can share the bills equally.

She sent me a text message days later to inform me that someone else was about renting the house they saw, and so asked if I was still going to help her as promised. I was very angry when I got the text because it was devoid of any romantic sentiments. For all she cares, I could be just another person in her life. I didn’t bother to reply the text message and didn’t call either. She however called me on Feb 13, to wish me a Happy Valentine. She also requested we chat online. When she came online, I took the opportunity to present her with the package I have in mind for her, a marriage proposal I told her I would be coming back home in Easter to implement. I told her I needed her response since I plan on buying the wedding things before coming back to the country.

To my shock, she told me marriage is not something we can discuss online that, besides she doesn’t know me, despite the fact that she and I have known each other for 12 years.

She told me that she asked me for money to get an accommodation, but I refused because I don’t care about her. I was angry and told her that I am now convinced she wants me for the money she can milk from me and not because she cares for me in any way.

To my dismay, she told me she was ready to refund whatever amount of money I have spent on her. I really don’t know what this woman wants from me. I love her so much, what should I do to have her, Agatha?

At 32, I need a mother of my children not just a wife. Besides, my mother is desirous I get married.
Worried Anewday.

newly found - someone has displaced abbey_city

this lady is mwah!

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?action=profile;u=228056

Abbey_city:
Honestly, embarrassing is an understatement!

ur picture has already been removed so what's d embarrasment?

  pls be honest about this,  let's say maybe your life depends on it - let's say u were arrested and found urself in a police cell - in a difficult situation -or let's say, a lecturer insists you wud not graduate from the uni except u play ball, wud u use what you have to bail urself out or say to bribe a man?

Freiburger:
Must u use a girls PIC or post a[b] TOPIC [/b] on her to show her u like her?

well, she hasn't complained!

@thoniaslim - u are not bad urself

the prettiest is abbey city

just saw her picture now and i don't think i've seen anyone prettier or have you?  give it up for abbey_city!

@ poster - pls hook up with me and let's disuss plans - i have a similar vision

why not try online dating?

The Northern Senators Forum (NSF) and members of the National Interest Group(NIG), the group of lawmakers who pushed for the installation of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as acting president, held separate meetings on Thursday during which they x-rayed North’s displeasure with what they called perpetual acting president situation in the country.

Sources in Abuja told Saturday Tribune that the two groups are worried that the North should no longer continue to condone the situation of perpetual acting presidency and that measures should be put in place to ensure that the North is represented in govenrment.

It was gathered that the two groups plan to move motions to first condemn the situation next week and that they will now follow it up with discussions on the way forward.

Sources further said that the North was worried that the acting president had been left as a sole administrator and that such a situation was not good for all.

A source further said that the region was losing much because of its lack of representation at the highest level of government.

Another source said that the North was bordered that the zone was losing from its lack of representation at the presidency.

Sources said that the North, which started tinkering with options weeks ago, was looking in the direction of some candidates as possible VP materials.

NIG had earlier shortlisted six candidates for the post of VP.

The NSF, according to sources, is also analysing the candidates, apart from looking at the options on how to ensure the emergence of a VP.

A source said that while the two groups did not want to heat up the polity with the option of impeachment or the invocation of Section 144 of the constitution, the right option would be arrived at, at a meeting on Tuesday in Abuja.

“We are meeting on Tuesday with a view to arriving at the best way forward, but I can tell you that the North wants a quick end to the acting presidency such that one of our sons would become a VP,” said a source.

It was gathered that the lawmakers decided to lie low after the governors advised against the Federal Executive Council (FEC)’s invocation of Section 144 so as to restrategise.
http://www.tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/news/530-north-in-fresh-plans-to-produce-vp.html