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Its in percentage terms my friend. Say india has 1.2 billion people and 120million poor. Thats 10% of the population. Nigeria has more than 80million poor. Thats close to 52% of her polulatiin.

ChiefAzubuike:
Very big lie. How can you say this when there's India, Bangladesh, Philippines, and most nations in south east Asia and the Americas. Well if she's saying this based on population density then India is far ahead.

Schoolgirl Tomisin Ogunnubi is a teenager with a passion for programming.

Three years ago she created My Locator, an app which helps children who are lost.

The mobile app, which is available on the Google Play Store, has already been downloaded more than 1,000 times since its debut in 2016.

"The app can also link you to Google Maps and show you the directions from your current location to the location that you had previously saved," says Tomisin, who is now 15 and studies in Ikeja, Nigeria.

Urgent response

"It also has a functionality where when you click on an alert button. It sends a text message and makes a phone call - that's if you've enabled it in your settings - to a particular number that you've designated to it.

"It could be an emergency number or it could be a family member's number. It's basically your choice. So in case of an emergency, when you need an urgent response, it sends your current address to that number so somebody can easily locate where you are."

Image captionTomisin's app has already been downloaded more than 1,000 times

"I was very conscious about security, thinking… there are different dangerous people, so I guess the idea of being able to go out safely might have been what triggered the idea for the app," she explains.

"But it was me then as my 12-year-old self thinking, 'Oh I've just learned how to create applications. How about I use what I have learned to create something that can be useful to me and other people?'"

Aniedi Udo-Obong, a programme manager at Google, says there is a lack of Nigerian role models in the industry, with most people in the country still pointing to figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

But more graduates are recognising the sector as a viable way to make a living and to founding technology firms, he adds.

Aniedi regularly comes across entrepreneurs brimming with ideas in his role at Google. His job includes building relationships with developers to boost the sector across Africa. He admits there's a need to improve My Locator, but says that Tomisin has already made the most important step.

Image captionTomisin is looked up to as a role model by younger students at her school

"I'm impressed with Tomisin's app for two reasons. I prefer to see products in whatever state they are than to hear about the most brilliant idea," he says.

"I like the fact that someone hatched an idea in their head and was able to bring it to fruition and complete it."

Junior talents

Tomisin's computer science teacher, Kofoworola Cole, says the teenager's achievements have changed the school's approach to teaching the subject. It's also had a ripple effect among her fellow students.

"It gave us more courage to be able to start from junior students, normally we focused on seniors. But when Tomisin was able to achieve that, we knew that, yes, there are talents in the junior school," she says.

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Aniedi says greater investment in education is needed to bridge the gap in learning between affluent students and those from under-privileged backgrounds.

"We have seen initiatives targeted at primary schools [for] young children in other countries like Estonia, the UK, China, Korea.

"I have fears that we're going to be left behind if we don't get our own children learning at the same rate with the same tools and technologies that their contemporaries in other countries and other markets are learning," he says.

For her part, Tomisin is very clear about the relevance of IT. "Technolgogy is the future and being able to know technology is being able to solve problems," she says.

"I'm passionate about it because being able to make a difference is something that I really like to do."

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They repeated the orlu road 3 times. If u remove the double mentions e no go reach 20!!

Ekez:
Invisible project of all time nonsense

My broda i wonda oh. No info at all. No correlation betwist headline n story.

PRESENTATION:
What is the content of the forged paper ?? What crime did he commit

Massa!! So dem fit teach person pidgin join? Kilode

kingxsamz:
I think you're trying to say " who no know no go know ".

In recent months, particularly in the wake of the utter chaos in the country, I have found myself going back again and again to the all-important question of leadership. Ex-governor of Anambra state, Mr. Peter Obi Why is Nigeria plumbing the depths of retrogression? Why is the country descending into anarchy even as the leaders continue to fiddle? Robin Sharma, a Canadian writer and motivational speaker, provided an answer. “Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.”
John Calvin Maxwell, an American author and also a leadership expert, agrees with Sharma. “Everything rises and falls on leadership,” he said. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
I have wondered endlessly what would have been if Nigeria had a different kind of leadership before, during and after the January 15, 1966 coup. Influence and inspiration What would have been if we had leaders who viewed governance from the prism of impact, influence and inspiration? These traits are important because as Warren Bennis noted, “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality,” a point which was amplified by Chris Hadfield when he said, “Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It’s about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others’ success, and then standing back and letting them shine.”
In all this, education is important: The very point John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president made in a speech he prepared for delivery in Dallas on the very day of his assassination on November 22, 1963. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other,” he wrote. But Simon Sinek, a British-American author, could not have put it more poignantly when he wrote that: “Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.” Majority of our leaders are not inspired, have no vision, don’t care about impact. They are people who treat knowledge contemptuously, people whose only preoccupation is the next election and, therefore, don’t give a damn about the next generation. That is why we are where we are.
At a time Nigeria is at the crossroads politically, socially and economically, what is needed are transformational leaders who have worldviews that can help pull the country back from the brink. With the right leadership, Nigeria will take its rightful place in the comity of nations, a point eloquently made by five Nigerian schoolgirls who won gold at the 2018 Technovation World competition in California, U.S., last week. How do I mean? I will explain shortly. But the awards first. Codenamed ‘Save a Soul,’ the group of five girls developed what they called FD-Detector (fake drug detector), an astonishing app to help fight the menace of fake drugs. By simply scanning the barcode on drugs, FD-Detector can determine the genuineness or otherwise of a drug, thereby mitigating countless loss of lives to the greed of fake drug merchants.
These girls – Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo, and Vivian Okoye – students of Regina Pacis (Queen of Peace) Secondary School, Onitsha, Anambra State, had an impressive run to the finals, having emerged victorious in Africa. To win the global trophy, they competed with students from Spain, USA, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and China. In all, more than 19,000 girls from 115 countries participated in the competition; over 2000 apps were submitted. Nigerians are ululating – deservedly. In this silly season of politics, when the long knives are provokingly drawn, there is something to be euphoric about. But the incredible achievement of these five magnificent inventors is only half of the story. The leadership that made that feat possible completes it. Enabling environment for qualitative education And that leadership was provided by Peter Obi, the immediate past governor of Anambra State, who created the enabling environment for qualitative education.
Before Obi became governor in November 2006, Anambra had become a failed state, literally. Warlords ravaged the state. Impunity walked on all fours. Turf battles were fought indiscriminately. Sitting governors were no more than puppets to barely educated ruffians. One of them, Dr. Chris Ngige, was kidnapped. His predecessor, Dr. Chinweoke Mbadinuju, only ran errands for the godfathers. The result was the shutting down of all primary and secondary schools in the state for more than one year. Then Obi came on board with a vision and a passion; inspired and the impact was dramatic. He did the mundane – paid salaries of civil servants, provided dividends of democracy in abundance. And in doing all these, he didn’t borrow a dime and, therefore, didn’t mortgage the future of the state and her people.
Leaving a very healthy balance sheet for his successor in a country where his colleagues only bequeath huge debt would have been enough achievement. But Obi went beyond what he considered the routine. Education for him was the only way to turn around the fortunes of a people. “Any society that deliberately allows its educational institutions to fall into stupor has already arranged the burial ceremony of the leaders of tomorrow,” he once said. Therefore, he made the revitalisation of education a cardinal mandate of his administration. And in doing that, he was audacious, intrepid, strategic and revolutionary.
Forceful takeover of mission schools The forceful takeover of mission schools by the defunct East Central State Government at the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970 was the beginning of not only the collapse of education itself but also values. In November 2011, Obi underlined that fact when he said, “The collapse of education in Anambra State is directly connected with the takeover of schools owned by the missionaries, churches and voluntary organizations in 1970, and promptly handed over 1,040 primary and secondary schools back to the churches with a vow. “We are not abandoning these schools in the name of handing them over because the state government will continue to pay the salaries of all their academic and non-academic staff; while the missions will be in charge of the day-to-day running and general administration of the schools. “Being mindful of the urgent need to turn around the education sector, and in line with our commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the state government has made special financial provisions to ensure that the churches do not have any initial problems in managing the schools. We have made available the sum of N6 billion, which shall be distributed to the new owners of these schools over the next 15 months, based on the number of schools each group owns.”
The sharing formula Even before the announcement, he had worked out the sharing formula. “The N6 billion will be shared among the Catholic Church, Anglican Church and remaining government schools in four installments. In the first installment, the Catholic Church, which owns a lion’s share of 453 schools, will receive over N762 milion, while its Anglican counterpart will get over N498 million. The remaining public schools not taken from the churches will share over N489 million out of a total of N1.75 billion. The second and third installments will gulp N1.25 billion each, while the fourth and last installment will cost the government N1.75 billion,” he said. And typically, he assured that the money was already in the bank, and would be released to the churches after they had submitted their work plans within 30 days. The administration made computers available to the schools, recruited trained computer teachers, provided internet connectivity, power generators and school buses.
The impact was instantaneous. Within six years, Anambra State had gone from its 26th position in national ranking to 1st in the NECO and WAEC national examinations. In 2015, Loretto Special Science School, Adazi-Nnukwu was rated the Best Improved Secondary School in Nigeria. In 2018, students of Regina Pacis College, Onitsha, beat the world in faraway California in Information Technology because of the leadership provided by one man who had vision, passion and drive. Yet, 2019 is around the corner and we are looking in the direction of people with neither the education, the vision nor passion to take Nigeria to the next level. Impossible.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/peter-obi-and-the-regina-pacis-girls/

First off...Alaska at the time sold was russian and it took more than 50 years later before the ussr came into being!
Second off....whats the difference between a tsar and a king/queen or a king and an igwe/olu/kabiyesi/or caliph??
Semantics i guesd


Alaska belonged to Russia, not USSR. Even though Russia was a part of USSR the region of Alaska was Russia, that was why they could sell. U call it drunken tsars, but it was sold by Queen Ekaterina.[/quote]

We r saying same thing...the soviet union did not sell. But russia sold!! Do u get the difference?? There is no way the soviet union could ve sold..as they were competing with the USA!!
but the drunken tsars that controlled russia before were careless.

Ekinematics:
On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl.

My broda...not eventually...but DEFINITELY!!!


When you are pursuing two rats at a time, you will eventually lose both.[/quote]

Mr. Man the former soviet union did not sell alaska to any usa...alaska was sold decades before the soviet union came into existence!!! Capiche??

Ç imagine if the former Soviet Union (U.S.S.R) didn't sell Alaska to the U.S...

Let me just correct your english:

Ghanaian actress, Ella Mensah took to her page to share some photos of her damaged car after she survived an attack by armed robbers at gunpoint while returning home from a film shoot in Lagos.

kidap:
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Ghanaian actress, Ella Mensah took to her page to shares[/colorsome photos of her [color=#990000]damage cars after she survive an attack by armed robbers at a gunpoint while returning home from a shoot in Lagos.

While sharing this photo,she wrote...



https://www.headofsocials.com/2018/08/09/photos-from-actress-ella-mensah-armed-robbery-attack-in-lagos/

Stop confusing us...u r not divorced but seperated...

daveson07:
the first paragraph states divorce bt nt Legal.

King?? Never heard of that. Did u mean a drama queen? Its a saying with no gender specifications i guess.

GloriaNinja:
HE IS SUCH A LIAR AND A DRAMA KING.

Y should he run? He should discuss with his wife n get her opinion on things.
If the woman is siding with her family then he can now set limits and give ultimatums.
But in the other hand if its by the family's grace that he became successful...then he should cut them some slack.

cujusELK:
run bro

To be honest no one will deny you from renting their shops in the east. The issue is can u compete??

What will a hausa man be doing in motor parts market in onitsha or nnewi?? Even if you give him 300.000.000 naira he cant compete.
Just same way an igbo man cant compete with a hausa man in cattle raring or an idoma infarming or a yoruba in finance..

uniqueboi:
Nice

The president has disclosed plans to reorganise the judiciary to fortify the corruption war.

He spoke yesterday during a joint press conference with the Namibian leader, Mr. Hage Geingob, after a closed-door session at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Specifically, under the reorganisation plan for the sector, the president said some judges would be dedicated to deal with corruption cases where all those found wanting in their dealings would be prosecuted.

"We are willing but it is very difficult under this multi-party democratic system. We are getting the cooperation of countries.

"We are trying to sell the assets wherever we found them and bring the money into the Nigerian treasury. This is all I can say at this stage because we are reorganising the judiciary," Buhari said.

Geingob thanked the Nigerian government for the support to Namibia, including the deployment of Nigerian volunteers under the Technical Aid Corps to his country.

Meanwhile, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, has canvassed continuous training for judges in maritime sector to enable them handle technical matters for efficient operations in the industry.

He stressed the crucial role of the maritime sector in the nation's economy, and called for efficient use of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms which, he noted, has a proven record of expeditious resolution of maritime cases.

The CJN spoke on Tuesday at the15th International Maritime seminar for judges. The three-day event was in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute (NJI).

Justice Onnoghen, who said he had to shelve an originally scheduled meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC), declared that judiciary had played its constitutional role in the growth of maritime industry.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said that considering the fundamental role of the maritime sector in facilitating conduct of global trade and commerce, there was need for requisite human capacity to take advantage of opportunities in the sector.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/top-stories/buhari-to-reorganise-judiciary-for-anti-corruption-war/ar-AAzBLk6?ocid=mailsignout


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The president has disclosed plans to reorganise the judiciary to fortify the corruption war.

He spoke yesterday during a joint press conference with the Namibian leader, Mr. Hage Geingob, after a closed-door session at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Specifically, under the reorganisation plan for the sector, the president said some judges would be dedicated to deal with corruption cases where all those found wanting in their dealings would be prosecuted.

"We are willing but it is very difficult under this multi-party democratic system. We are getting the cooperation of countries.

"We are trying to sell the assets wherever we found them and bring the money into the Nigerian treasury. This is all I can say at this stage because we are reorganising the judiciary," Buhari said.

Geingob thanked the Nigerian government for the support to Namibia, including the deployment of Nigerian volunteers under the Technical Aid Corps to his country.

Meanwhile, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, has canvassed continuous training for judges in maritime sector to enable them handle technical matters for efficient operations in the industry.

He stressed the crucial role of the maritime sector in the nation's economy, and called for efficient use of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms which, he noted, has a proven record of expeditious resolution of maritime cases.

The CJN spoke on Tuesday at the15th International Maritime seminar for judges. The three-day event was in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute (NJI).

Justice Onnoghen, who said he had to shelve an originally scheduled meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC), declared that judiciary had played its constitutional role in the growth of maritime industry.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said that considering the fundamental role of the maritime sector in facilitating conduct of global trade and commerce, there was need for requisite human capacity to take advantage of opportunities in the sector.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/top-stories/buhari-to-reorganise-judiciary-for-anti-corruption-war/ar-AAzBLk6?ocid=mailsignout

A job application letter (also known as a cover letter) is a letter you send with your resume to provide information on your skills and experience. This letter is your chance to “sell” yourself to an employer, explaining why you are an ideal candidate for a position.

It's important that your application letter is formatted properly and free from errors. Recruiters and hiring managers will notice if you do not follow the standard guidelines for writing the letter - or if it's full of typos and mistakes.

C as u show ur ignorance. Japanese and korean fans have been doing this since the 70s.
Infact no school in japan has cleaners asits done by pupils themselves!!
Go learn bruh!

Viralkid:
Is this a lesson of civility or a lesson of slavery, coming to another man's land to clean up their stadium when has such ever happened. They're probably doing this for the visa.. who knows

The houseboy of a naval officer, Lieutenant Abubakar Yusuf, has owned up to killing his 35-year-old boss and his girlfriend, Lorraine Onye, blaming the crime on frustration.

After strangling Onye, a 300 level student, the suspect, Raphael Jaja, stabbed Yusuf to death, packed his corpse in a bag and took it to a bush where he set it ablaze.

The native of the Opobo-Nkoro Local Government Area, Rivers State, said he decided to end the lovers' lives cruelly because his boss allegedly refused to pay his 15 months' salary, but could afford to buy an expensive phone for the girlfriend and pay N300,000 rent for her.

He said the naval officer had promised to help him save the salary - N15,000 per month - and pay him at once so he could use the money to plan his wedding. He said he felt bad when Yusuf reneged on the promise.

Reports had it that the naval officer killed his lover and took to his heels until recently when a discreet investigation conducted on the incident by DCP Abba Kyari-led Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team unravelled the mystery behind the crime.

Saturday PUNCH learnt the investigation followed a report made by the father of the late naval officer to the police.

The detectives got a lead after tracing Yusuf's mobile phone to Jaja's friend in Port Harcourt. The friend, who bought the phone from Jaja, led the operatives to arrest the killer houseboy on Monday, June 4, 2018.

A police officer told our correspondent that Jaja confessed to the crime and led investigators to recover the carcass of the naval officer in the bush as well as the deceased's Hyundai Veloster which he sold for N1.9m.

"We also recovered the naval officer's phone which he exchanged with the friend in addition to N30,000," the officer added.

While giving a shocking revelation about the crime in an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, 28-year-old Jaja narrated how he struck a relationship with his late boss and lived with him in his one bedroomed apartment.

He said "I am a technician. I have worked at Abuja International Airport. I returned to Port Harcourt in 2016 because my brother was ill. In July 2016, somebody introduced me to Lt. Yusuf that he wanted to install a DSTV. He was serving at the Navy Primary School in Port Harcourt. After I installed the DSTV, he told me to fix some wires. He was happy with the job I did.

"I told him I wanted to go back to Abuja, but he persuaded me to stay back and work for him. He gave me the spare key to his apartment and I started living with him. He promised to pay me N15,000 monthly and that he would pay all my money before my marriage slated for December 2017. He met his girlfriend sometime in 2017. Whenever she passed the night at the apartment, the lieutenant would ask me to sleep in a store in the compound."

Jaja explained that he helped the late officer to execute two contracts worth N22.8m in September 2017 and he promised to give him a share of N2.5m. He said for ethical reasons, Yusuf did not use his name to secure the contracts, which involved supply of computers to technical schools.

"While I was preparing for my wedding, I asked him to give me N400,000; he said he had no money. I eventually borrowed N320,000 to do the wedding. In January 2018, I went back to him to ask for my money. He said he did not have money and that I was disturbing him. I stopped going to the barracks. In March 2018, he called me several times, but I did not pick his calls. When I later picked, he said he had a job for me. On getting to his office, he said he had given it to somebody else because I didn't come on time. He laughed at me.

"I went to the barracks to help one of his colleagues fix a DSTV. On my way back home, Lieutenant Yusuf called me to help him take his decoder to the DSTV office for a reset. He gave me N1,000 transport fare. When I came back, he asked me to service his generator. When I finished, he gave me N1,000. I told him the money was small and that he was being unfair to me. I asked him to give me some money so that I could establish my own business to take care of my family. He said he did not send me to go and marry.

"The following day, he called me that the generator was not working again. He told me to buy N1,000 oil on my way to the barracks. After I fixed the generator, I asked him for payment, but he said he had given me N1,000 the previous day. I told him I collected the N1,000 because he was my boss.

"I asked for the money he was owing me again; he said he had no money and that I was disturbing him. He said he was also planning his wedding," Jaja added.

He told Saturday PUNCH that he began to plan Yusuf's murder in April 2018 when the naval officer returned from Abuja with a new Hyundai Veloster. Jaja stated that he met with the deceased on April 30 and demanded to know why he refused to pay him.

Ajaja explained, "He said he did not send me to marry and that I should carry my cross. I went back to him the next day for the money. He asked me to help him prepare noodles. There was a drug, Tanlin, in my pocket. I bought it because of a dog that my neighbour, who just packed out, left behind. The dog was disturbing me and I wanted to give it the drug so that it would sleep off. I put a little of the drug in the noodles. I discovered the drug did not have any effect on him.

"On May 3, I went back to his house. I met only his girlfriend at home. We did not like each other, but I decided to be friendly with her that day. I asked her to tell me about her relationship with my boss. She was initially reluctant until I assured her I meant no harm. She told me that she and my boss were supposed to travel to Canada in 2017, but they couldn't make it. She said he bought a phone for her and gave her N300,000 to rent a house.

"I was annoyed as she was saying all these. I asked her if she knew my boss' phone password; she said she did not know it. I persuaded her to tell me his ATM card password and she did. I pretended that I admired her hair style and told her to turn her back. The moment she did so, I held her neck and strangled her. She was foaming. She died afterwards. I hid her corpse somewhere in the room and covered it with clothes."

The self-confessed murderer said his boss did not suspect something was amiss when he returned from work in the evening, adding that the officer retired to bed afterwards. He said he unleashed terror on the boss around 4am while he was still asleep in the bedroom, stabbing him to death with a knife.

"I packed his corpse in a bag and kept it in the boot of his car parked on the premises. I cleaned the bloodstains on the floor, wore his uniform and drove the car out of the barracks. I drove the car to a village called Apani and dropped his body in a bush. I looked for a tyre and set his corpse ablaze. I burnt it so that nobody would be able to trace him.

"Still in the uniform, I drove the car to Benin, Edo State, where I sold it to one Alhaji. He did not want to buy the vehicle because I could not give him the documents. I convinced him that I am a naval officer and that he has no reason to be afraid. He bought the car N1.9m, but he was to pay me a balance of N120,000 before I was arrested through a church member I exchanged my boss' phone with in Port Harcourt," he narrated.

The expectant father further revealed that prior to his arrest, he travelled to Lagos State to withdraw N250,000 in Yusuf's bank account, adding that he sent a text message to Onye's phone to implicate his boss and travelled back to Port Harcourt.

He said, "I withdrew the money in Lagos so that the police would focus on tracking the withdrawals to the state. There was a day my boss and Onye were arguing over their relationship. He told her that his father had already got him a woman he would marry. So, I exploited that argument to send a text message to her phone, stating that my boss killed her. I killed them out of anger. It was not intentional. All I want is forgiveness."

  

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The command also recovered eight guns, three cars, four motorcycles, seven ammunitions, three knives, one generating set and 12 streetlights.

Two of the suspects paraded, Paul Chukwujekwu Ezengo and Emmanuel Adogah, were arrested for allegedly killing Ezengo's married lover in order to own her Acura SUV.

The suspects after giving her excess alcohol, killed her, butchered her body and packed it into two sacks that were later dumped in a river.

To cover their trail, the suspects also changed the number plate of the vehicle of the deceased from Abuja number to Ebonyi State number: SKA625AA.

The deceased, a 44-year-old Charity Chidebere Aiyedogbon mysteriously disappeared in 2016.

Giving details of how the suspects were nabbed, the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Sadiq Bello, said: "The dogged determination of the command to unravel the sudden disappearance of Aiyedogbon since May 2016 yielded a positive result.

On June 1, 2018, police operatives attached to the Command Anti-Kidnapping Squad succeeded in arresting the principal suspect, Paul Chukwujekwu Ezengo, aged 27 in Benin, Edo State.

"Upon his arrest, the suspect who has been at large since the lady's disappearance, confessed during interrogation that the mother of four was his girlfriend and that he conspired with one Emmanuel Adogah, aged 28 and murdered her on May 9, 2016 at about 11:30 at Kagini.

"According to Ezengo, he gave her excess alcohol to consume before he moved her from Yaoundé Street, Wuse Zone 6 to Kagini area where she was butchered and her mutilated body packaged in two sacks that were later dumped by the river bank at Ushafa, in Bwari Area Council.

He further confessed that he killed her because he wanted to take possession of her Acura ZDS Jeep and other property."

The police said they were able to recover the deceased's car and some of her property from the suspect.

Narrating his involvement with Charity and how he killed her, Ezengo said: "We met on Facebook and she told me she was divorced.

I was in a relationship with her for about a year and half.

We were having issues in our relationship because I was not benefiting from the relationship.

"She wasn't very rich when I met her but I knew she was comfortable and I needed my own share of her wealth. Later, evil thoughts came into me that I should kill her and take her car. I proceeded with the thought by involving my friend, Adogah.

"We went out to hang out one night in 2016 and while we were there, she had too much alcohol and dozed off. I carried her from the house to where we killed her in Kagini."

On why he decided to butcher her, he said: "That night after killing her, I was totally drunk. I wanted to carry her after killing her but she was unable to fit into the sack. That was why I decided to butcher her and dump her body in the river.

"It was greed and the devil that led me to do what I did. I was hoping to get her car after killing her.

I feel really bad for what I did but at the same time, I feel better because her spirit has been disturbing me and I believe that was why I was arrested."

Also narrating his own role, Adogah said: "My friend called me to come assist him.

My only role was just to help carry the deceased body from Ezengo's house to where she was eventually killed."



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The houseboy of a naval officer, Lieutenant Abubakar Yusuf, has owned up to killing his 35-year-old boss and his girlfriend, Lorraine Onye, blaming the crime on frustration.

After strangling Onye, a 300 level student, the suspect, Raphael Jaja, stabbed Yusuf to death, packed his corpse in a bag and took it to a bush where he set it ablaze.

The native of the Opobo-Nkoro Local Government Area, Rivers State, said he decided to end the lovers' lives cruelly because his boss allegedly refused to pay his 15 months' salary, but could afford to buy an expensive phone for the girlfriend and pay N300,000 rent for her.

He said the naval officer had promised to help him save the salary - N15,000 per month - and pay him at once so he could use the money to plan his wedding. He said he felt bad when Yusuf reneged on the promise.

Reports had it that the naval officer killed his lover and took to his heels until recently when a discreet investigation conducted on the incident by DCP Abba Kyari-led Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team unravelled the mystery behind the crime.

Saturday PUNCH learnt the investigation followed a report made by the father of the late naval officer to the police.

The detectives got a lead after tracing Yusuf's mobile phone to Jaja's friend in Port Harcourt. The friend, who bought the phone from Jaja, led the operatives to arrest the killer houseboy on Monday, June 4, 2018.

A police officer told our correspondent that Jaja confessed to the crime and led investigators to recover the carcass of the naval officer in the bush as well as the deceased's Hyundai Veloster which he sold for N1.9m.

"We also recovered the naval officer's phone which he exchanged with the friend in addition to N30,000," the officer added.

While giving a shocking revelation about the crime in an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, 28-year-old Jaja narrated how he struck a relationship with his late boss and lived with him in his one bedroomed apartment.

He said "I am a technician. I have worked at Abuja International Airport. I returned to Port Harcourt in 2016 because my brother was ill. In July 2016, somebody introduced me to Lt. Yusuf that he wanted to install a DSTV. He was serving at the Navy Primary School in Port Harcourt. After I installed the DSTV, he told me to fix some wires. He was happy with the job I did.

"I told him I wanted to go back to Abuja, but he persuaded me to stay back and work for him. He gave me the spare key to his apartment and I started living with him. He promised to pay me N15,000 monthly and that he would pay all my money before my marriage slated for December 2017. He met his girlfriend sometime in 2017. Whenever she passed the night at the apartment, the lieutenant would ask me to sleep in a store in the compound."

Jaja explained that he helped the late officer to execute two contracts worth N22.8m in September 2017 and he promised to give him a share of N2.5m. He said for ethical reasons, Yusuf did not use his name to secure the contracts, which involved supply of computers to technical schools.

"While I was preparing for my wedding, I asked him to give me N400,000; he said he had no money. I eventually borrowed N320,000 to do the wedding. In January 2018, I went back to him to ask for my money. He said he did not have money and that I was disturbing him. I stopped going to the barracks. In March 2018, he called me several times, but I did not pick his calls. When I later picked, he said he had a job for me. On getting to his office, he said he had given it to somebody else because I didn't come on time. He laughed at me.

"I went to the barracks to help one of his colleagues fix a DSTV. On my way back home, Lieutenant Yusuf called me to help him take his decoder to the DSTV office for a reset. He gave me N1,000 transport fare. When I came back, he asked me to service his generator. When I finished, he gave me N1,000. I told him the money was small and that he was being unfair to me. I asked him to give me some money so that I could establish my own business to take care of my family. He said he did not send me to go and marry.

"The following day, he called me that the generator was not working again. He told me to buy N1,000 oil on my way to the barracks. After I fixed the generator, I asked him for payment, but he said he had given me N1,000 the previous day. I told him I collected the N1,000 because he was my boss.

"I asked for the money he was owing me again; he said he had no money and that I was disturbing him. He said he was also planning his wedding," Jaja added.

He told Saturday PUNCH that he began to plan Yusuf's murder in April 2018 when the naval officer returned from Abuja with a new Hyundai Veloster. Jaja stated that he met with the deceased on April 30 and demanded to know why he refused to pay him.

Ajaja explained, "He said he did not send me to marry and that I should carry my cross. I went back to him the next day for the money. He asked me to help him prepare noodles. There was a drug, Tanlin, in my pocket. I bought it because of a dog that my neighbour, who just packed out, left behind. The dog was disturbing me and I wanted to give it the drug so that it would sleep off. I put a little of the drug in the noodles. I discovered the drug did not have any effect on him.

"On May 3, I went back to his house. I met only his girlfriend at home. We did not like each other, but I decided to be friendly with her that day. I asked her to tell me about her relationship with my boss. She was initially reluctant until I assured her I meant no harm. She told me that she and my boss were supposed to travel to Canada in 2017, but they couldn't make it. She said he bought a phone for her and gave her N300,000 to rent a house.

"I was annoyed as she was saying all these. I asked her if she knew my boss' phone password; she said she did not know it. I persuaded her to tell me his ATM card password and she did. I pretended that I admired her hair style and told her to turn her back. The moment she did so, I held her neck and strangled her. She was foaming. She died afterwards. I hid her corpse somewhere in the room and covered it with clothes."

The self-confessed murderer said his boss did not suspect something was amiss when he returned from work in the evening, adding that the officer retired to bed afterwards. He said he unleashed terror on the boss around 4am while he was still asleep in the bedroom, stabbing him to death with a knife.

"I packed his corpse in a bag and kept it in the boot of his car parked on the premises. I cleaned the bloodstains on the floor, wore his uniform and drove the car out of the barracks. I drove the car to a village called Apani and dropped his body in a bush. I looked for a tyre and set his corpse ablaze. I burnt it so that nobody would be able to trace him.

"Still in the uniform, I drove the car to Benin, Edo State, where I sold it to one Alhaji. He did not want to buy the vehicle because I could not give him the documents. I convinced him that I am a naval officer and that he has no reason to be afraid. He bought the car N1.9m, but he was to pay me a balance of N120,000 before I was arrested through a church member I exchanged my boss' phone with in Port Harcourt," he narrated.

The expectant father further revealed that prior to his arrest, he travelled to Lagos State to withdraw N250,000 in Yusuf's bank account, adding that he sent a text message to Onye's phone to implicate his boss and travelled back to Port Harcourt.

He said, "I withdrew the money in Lagos so that the police would focus on tracking the withdrawals to the state. There was a day my boss and Onye were arguing over their relationship. He told her that his father had already got him a woman he would marry. So, I exploited that argument to send a text message to her phone, stating that my boss killed her. I killed them out of anger. It was not intentional. All I want is forgiveness."

  

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Its about di record na my bro. Not who pass who. He get 100% for exam and minister pikin come get 98% and we come de hail am as most brilliant in world...tge other with 100 who is son of a nobody go vex na

Diegostan:
Sorry bro!

You're not Ronaldo or messi...
That's why nobody remembered you

.man 4get about ys blacks. Its stubborness that is worrying them. Etoi looks and talks stubborn!!


He hates blacks and has sterling...sane...de jesus... and so on.

A serious person cant withstand stubborn people

chukxie:
Yaya has echoed Samuel Eto's sentiment. Eto once gave an interview where he stated emphatically that Pep didn't like him..

Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic has predicted that their World Cup opener against Nigeria will be the toughest for them.

The Fiery Ones face the three-time African champions on June 16 before ties with other Group D opponents - Iceland and Argentina.

The Super Eagles have enjoyed positive performances since Gernot Rohr took charge in 2016, qualifying them for the global showpiece with ease.

And the 51-year-old gaffer, who applauded the German tactician, expects a tough contest with the west Africans.

“The first match against Nigeria will be the key to our group,” Dalic told Associated Press Television News [APTN], as per Total Croatia News.

“We are playing against an African team. They have a German coach that has changed the style of their game and has introduced a lot of young players in the national team who are young, hungry and ambitious and that’s their advantage. This is going to be the toughest game for us.”

Zlatko Dalic ps

 

On facing a Lionel Messi-led Argentina, the gaffer said: “For me, the match against Argentina will be the easiest match in the group. We are against the favourites to win the World Cup.

“Any team that has Messi can make a miracle. He is the best player in the world for me. It will be a great match for the two teams that play good football and have great technical skills.

“We have nothing to lose in the fight, and we are playing against one of the best teams in the world. It is a great motive for us.”

On Monday the Super Eagles lock horns with DR Congo at the Adokiye Amiesimake Stadium, Port Harcourt as part of their preparation for the global showpiece


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Justice Mojisola Dada of the special offences court sitting in Lagos, on Thursday declaredthe Chairman of Innoson Motors Nigeria Ltd, Innocent Chukwuma wanted over his failure tomake an appearance in court for his arraignment for the fifth time.

Chukwuma, alias Innoson is standing trial in a matter between his company and theEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Justice Dada had declared the automobile boss wanted, granting the request of Anselem Ozioko, the lead prosecuting counsel of the EFCC.

The News Agency of Nigeriareports that Innoson had previously failed to make an appearance in court for his arraignment on Jan. 17, Feb. 9, March 14 and April 25.

His failure to appear before the court for five consecutive times informed the issuance of the bench warrant.

During the proceedings of March 14, it was revealed that Innoson had petitioned the National Judicial Council over Justice Mojisola Dada, the judge trying the case.

Ozioko in his submission seeking the declaration of Innoson wanted said: "This appears to be the fifth time this matter is coming up before your Lordship for arraignment.

"The learned Senior Advocate of Nigeria representing the second defendant (Innoson) is still insisting on taking his application without ensuring the defendant is physically present in court.

"The question is, where is the second defendant? Is he too big for the court? Is he too big for the Federal Republic of Nigeria? Is he too big because he has money? Where is he?

"What my learned friends, the defence counsel are doing is contemptuous.

"We shall be applying for an order to declare the second defendant wanted."

Acceding to Ozioko's request, Justice Dada said, "The second defendant is hereby declared wanted and the case adjourned until June 22 for possible arraignment."

Earlier, during the proceedings, Ozioko had informed the court that the anti-graft agency will also be taking some steps to ensure Innoson's attendance in court on the next adjourned date.

Counsel to Innoson, George Uwechue (SAN) had requested that the court hear his application despite Justice Dada's declaration that no application will be heard until Innoson is physically present in court.

"At the last hearing, the court maintained its position that it will not take its pending application unless the first defendant is arraigned.

"We were about to cite our position regarding the court's declaration but we were interrupted by the prosecuting counsel and that interruption led to today's proceedings.

"Whatever we did that day, we sincerely apologize; we urge this court to allow us to continue our presentation.''

Prof. J. N Mbadugha, counsel to Innoson Motors Nigeria Ltd, in his submission told the court that he had an application challenging the jurisdiction of the court.

Mbadugha informed the court that he had made an appeal at the Court of Appeal over the case.

Justice Dada, however, maintained her position that the applications of the defence will not be heard until Innoson is physically present in court.

NAN reports that Chukwuma and his company, Innoson Motors Nigeria Ltd., are to be arraigned on a four-count charge of conspiracy to obtain property by false pretences, obtaining property by false pretences, stealing and forgery.

According to the charge sheet, the defendants committed the offences between 2009 and July 2011 in Lagos.

The EFCC alleged that the defendants with intent to defraud; conspired to obtain by false pretences containers of motorcycle, spare parts and raw materials, a property of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) from Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd, Apapa, Lagos.

They are alleged to have fraudulently induced staff of Mitsui OSK and Maersk Line to deliver to them via their clearing agents the goods which were imported from China in the name of GTB by falsely pretending that they were authorised by the bank to clear the goods.

The prosecution claimed that the defendants in order to facilitate the fraud forged a bill of lading numbered 598286020 of Maersk Line Limited and 11007950841 of Mutsui O.S.K Lines by knowingly putting a false GTB stamp and signature of the bank staff.

The alleged forgery was in order that the forged documents be used or acted upon as genuine to the prejudice of any person within Lagos or elsewhere.

The offences contravened Sections 1(1)(b), 1(3), and 8(a) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2016 and Sections 309(9), 388, 465 and 467(1)(j) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State 2003

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Smugglers in China are going high-tech.

Chinese authorities busted a criminal ring that allegedly used drones to smuggle almost $80 million worth of Apple (AAPL) iPhones and other smartphones, according to state media.

Chinese customs officials told state media the suspects illegally transported up to 15,000 devices per night across the border from Hong Kong to the neighboring city of Shenzhen.



Authorities said the gang used drones to suspend two, 200 meter-long cables between buildings on either side of the border. Bags carrying smartphones were attached to the cables and then pulled over to Shenzhen.

Customs officers said it was the first case they had encountered where drones were used to smuggle goods, according to state media. The bust was made in February as part of a joint operation between authorities in the two cities.


China has stepped up efforts to regulate use of drones in the country. Last year, the government brought in rules including a requirement for drones over a certain weight to be registered under their owners' real names, according to state media.

The crackdown followed an incident where drones were flown illegally over an airport in southwestern China, causing chaos for local air traffic.

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What is bad about genetically modified seeds...and how doed it reduce our populations?

Kaymercury:
that's where the problems lies you only see what they wanted you to see its so saddened and unfortunate that you are oblivion of what's going on.the[b] war has began long ago the war to reduce Africans population am very surprised that you are still unaware of this to you gates deals only in software?

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Cameroon's President Paul Biya has been in power for 35 years. But while his longevity in office is a talking point at home, the time he spends out of the country has stirred international comment - as Paul Melly, an associate fellow of Chatham House, explains.

Criticised by some for a supposedly "hands-off" style of rule, Cameroon's President Paul Biya recently held a cabinet meeting for the first time in more than two years.

Presidential elections are scheduled for October and Cameroonians are waiting to hear if the 85-year-old will seek a further term. But no such announcement was made at the meeting.

Mr Biya has been in power since 1982, making him one of Africa's longest serving leaders. Under his rule, Cameroon has survived an economic crisis and moved from being a one-party state to multi-party politics.

But it has also been marked by endemic corruption and reversal of democratic gains, leading to the abolition of term limits in 2008, which allowed the octogenarian to run for re-election in 2011.



Today's Africa is changing. The era of decades-old presidencies is slipping away. Satellite TV and the internet tell a growing urban audience about democratic changes of power in other sub-Saharan countries.

Some 60% of Cameroonians are under 25 and so were not even born when President Biya first came to power. There is massive demand for jobs and viable livelihoods.

The opposition Social Democratic Front has now recognised these generational realities. Earlier this year, the party's leader, John Fru Ndi, 76, stepped aside to make way for a new presidential candidate, 49-year-old businessman and former pilot Joshua Osih.

Swiss hotel

This is the challenge that confronts Mr Biya as he decides whether to stand for a further term that could take him into a fourth decade in power in a country hungry for change.

His repeated absences from the country have riled critics.

His foreign travels have been the subject of an online spat between the state-owned Cameroon Tribune newspaper and the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which calculated the amount of time the president spent abroad using reports from the daily newspaper.

The OCCRP estimates that the president spent nearly 60 days out of the country last year on private visits.

It also alleges that he spent a third of the year abroad in 2006 and 2009. The Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva is said to be his favourite destination.

The state-owned Cameroon Tribune called their investigation "a clear electoral propaganda".



Back home, President Biya adopts a low-key style, staying out of the limelight and sometimes retreating to his home village.

He entrusts the day-to-day running of the government to the Prime Minister, Philemon Yang, who holds monthly gatherings of a "cabinet council".

The prime minister is accorded wide latitude to manage the work of his ministerial team, while the head of state meets senior figures in private at the presidential palace in the capital, Yaoundé.




President Biya's hands-off approach has led critics to talk of an "absent president".

However, this relationship at least partly reflects Cameroon's unusual dual heritage of both British and French colonial rule. President Biya, like his predecessor Ahmadou Ahidjo, is from the Francophone regions, while the premier is always an Anglophone.

The president has to be seen to leave the head of government to get on with the job, says one non-partisan Cameroonian analyst.

So when President Biya does summon ministers to a rare formal cabinet gathering, it is usually for a special reason.

The most recent one was the official first meeting of a new ministerial team after a reshuffle earlier in the month. It is similar to the last cabinet meeting, in 2015, which had come soon after the previous government revamp.

This time there was speculation that Mr Biya would announce whether or not he would stand in this year's election, to seek yet another term in office - but in fact he gave no hint of his thinking on that.

Yet the surprise cabinet meeting did matter in another way.

Language matters

For more than a year, Cameroon's Anglophone regions in the North-West and South-West have been mired in crisis.

This started as a protest by lawyers and teachers demanding better provision for the use of English.



But tensions rose, leading to confrontation between the security forces, a 93-day blackout of internet services across Anglophone Cameroon, and separatist militants fighting for an independent "Ambazonia", with a rising death toll on both sides.

The government took steps to address the language issues, but the situation still looks dangerous. Both the UK and France have discreetly pressed for dialogue.

President Biya responded with a cabinet reshuffle on 2 March, signalling a carrot and stick approach: firmness on security and law and order was balanced with the creation of a ministry for decentralisation, holding out the promise of greater local control over development and public services.



He used this rare cabinet meeting to show his full backing for his ministers as they pursue this twin-track strategy - a firm stance on security in the troubled Anglophone region, but, at the same time, decentralisation, to give local people more control over their own affairs.

So, the so-called absent president had to show a firm hand while also preparing to loosen his grip.

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Now she wants to come back, I told her plainly I will not carry those load her sister carried, either she forgets them or I send a cab for her. She agreed to leave the load and come pick her later, immediately she told her sister, the music changed, my wife became abusive and told me if I won't come myself and carry the load then I should forget about her and my child, that she will never use a cab since I have a car and her sister cannot bring the load.

Dont carry that load ever or she n her sister gonna rude u 4 ever!!

Na who tell u say na glass??

crotonite:
.. This is a typical example of he who drives a glass car should not throw stones.

imagine you you hit a car like this from behind and it instantly shatters

The African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, says it has produced bamboo bicycles to improve the quality of life among communities.

Coordinator, Materials Science and Engineering in the university, Prof. Peter Onwualu, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeriaon Thursday in Abuja.

According to him, bamboo bicycles have been designed and built as part of the interdisciplinary business and innovation programme.

He said designing of bamboo bicycles was one of the technologies currently ready for commercialisation.

He said the institution was ready to partner with any capable investor that would be ready to mass-produce the products for the benefits of the citizens and the rest of the world.

Besides, he said, AUST had also developed ceramic water filters for the production of potable water in rural and urban communities.

He said the technology could be used to treat water and make it fit for drinking.

"Both our students and faculty understand that the purpose of scientific research is to make meaningful contributions to our civilisation and to offer solutions to real-life problems.

"As a result, some of the work done by our students, even at the Master's level, has produced technologies which can be used to improve the quality of life among our communities.

"The bamboo bicycle, and ceramic tile water filters, conceptualised, designed and produced at AUST, using local materials, are typical examples,'' he said.

AUST is a Pan-African institution, established in 2007 in response to a request from several African Heads of State, to give life to a request made by then President Nelson Mandela of South Africa.

The World Bank and the African Union are working together to create strong Pan-African centres of excellence to improve sub-Saharan Africa's capacity in science and technology

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