“…brought to an end” indeed! When he couldn’t help his “daddy” to bring it to end. It is now you think you know how to bring it to end. We have been deceived enough. Go home after your tenure in kogi! After all Kogi is not better off.

Maureenho:


Thanks for your contribution but I wish to make it clearer. My passport is not yet expired but has from now till October to do so but my resident card can not be renewed again until I renew my passport. Many have few months to expire. My friend had to travel home because he doesn't want to risk 5 years non entry and he spent not less than $3000 which he cant come back to Vietnam anytime soon. Our records are at the Immigration database with our details, what is hard for them to use the details on their database and reprint a new passport. Why can't they have a staff of Immigration at the Embassies that will be doing the capturing and be sending back to Nigeria or better still, have the matchine that can do it. We have two Embassies here in Vietnam and non is renewing passport, then of what need are they there. Nigeria issues are always the worst when it comes to helping their citizens on disapora

Very sorry about what you’re going through over there. Like a brother said above, in Beijing China, it takes less than 3-4 hours to get your passport renewed. I just renewed mine a couple of months back. And the embassy staff are so duty bound to render help to Nigerians in the diaspora. My Ghanaian and Ugandan friends were surprised how fast I could have my passport renewed, because it’s not like that for them, even my Nigerian friend in Canada was surprised, me self surprise kpa kpa. I was proud to be a Nigerian for once! So brother it is not like that everywhere. It’s not easy sometimes for governments to meet all our needs at the same intensity and time. Let’s praise them when they do right and admonish, not condemn, them when they fail to do right. I’m hoping you’ll get yours sorted ASAP! Good luck!

@cardoso514 so because we have muscles, we the citizens shouldn't know or have an idea about the details of the deal? At least if "our huge foreign reserves" are going to be depleted, we should know by how much. I still think we have a right to know what kind of deals they signed. For all you know our future and that of our kids may have been mortgaged.

Well, I'm curious if anyone knows the details of the loan that the FGN took from China. Because from what's going on in some other African countries, where such countries couldn't repay their loans, I hope we don't wake up one day to the realisation that the Chinese government is taken over an airport, seaport, our oil or a state since we couldn't repay the loan.

I feel that leaders should make known to the citizens, details of whatever deal or deals they intend to get into or have gotten into. Or don't we have a right to know? Please, they should be open about the details so that we can be ready, I hate unpleasant surprises. Don't know if anyone feels what I feel. What do you guys think though? What's your take people?

A DELSU GENIUS IN RAGS

About a week ago, I was walking down a popular road in Benin city while on phone with a friend.
As I was about to cross a T-junction, suddenly while still on the phone I heard the man (in rags) whose pictures you are seeing speaking the best of English grammar, but not minding him nor listening to what he was saying, I walked past him.
Immediately he paused, and I heard a strange voice calling me by name.
Shocked I quickly hanged up the phone.

Don't you know me? He asked! I didn't say a word. Looking at him, still wondering how he got to know my name!
Are you not a Nifesian? He questioned.
He then went on to remind me what happened about ten years ago, how I helped him as a fresher in Delsu Asaba campus, how I accommodated him when he had issues in hostel 9.
He told me his name is Emeka. At this point I was confused so I hurried away.

But as I walked away, I was troubled within me especially because even though he looked insane but his ability to accurately remember events that transpired 10 years ago was baffling.
Convinced in my spirit to probe further, I went back.

I called him EMEKA and with excitement he said, "you Don remember me now abi?"
Then I interrupted him.

I asked him who else he knew in Delsu apart from me. Adebola Bakare he replied.

The following discussion ensued
Me: Who was you best friend in School
Emeka: Stanley ochuko

Me: which course did you study?
Emeka: business administration

Me: which year did you gain admission? Emeka: 2007

Me: where you a regular student? Emeka: no it was CEP he replied.

At this moment I was like how come you remember so much? Emeka: I can remember everything that happened.

Me: Okay, give me any of your family member's phone number.
Emeka: I can't remember any

Me: if you can remember what happened 10 years ago, you should be able to remember a number.
Emeka: if I remember I for tell you.

Me: Where do your parents recides? Emeka: DSC.

Me: which church do your parents attend? Emeka: deeper life bible church.

Me: which branch. Emeka: DSC branch.

Me: what about your siblings?
Emeka: I don't know where they are.

I discovered that He is from Isialangwa, Ugwa in Abia state. His mum's name is Mrs. Unkasi popularly known as "nwanyi church" he added. And for over 30 minutes I was with him asking questions and receiving answers?

Before I finally left, he described his place where he sleeps along the road to me. I have passed by that place several times within the week and always see him sitting.

I have gathered that his name is Onwughara Daniel and that he started having certain mental issues back in school.

MY THOUGHTS
How can an insane Man remember things that happened over 10 years ago?
Maybe he just needs a good psychiatrist then he will gain back his senses.

HOW CAN YOU HELP? (1) Let's start by finding his relatives with the information provided above
(2) Tag at least a friend or more from, CEP business administration, tag a friend who was in Delsu Asaba campus between 2007 to 2012, tag a friend from DSC in delta, tag a friend from deeper life bible church DSC branch, tag a friend from ugwa, tag a friend from Isialangwa, then shear the post on your wall, if we all help (Onwughara Daniel, Emeka) I mean if everyone that reads this post tag or share in his or her Facebook wall, before we get 1k share, perhaps we may have located his family members, if sharing this post is your Christmas gift to him, it's worth it. Thanks all, God bless you as you help Onwughara Daniel, Emeka locates his family and regain his sanity

God bless you

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I refuse to accept the statement by Buhari that Nigerian Youths are lazy as a statement of fact because it's not. Ever since the president made that statement, I have been thinking of how he arrived at that conclusion because for me, I sat down and cast my mind back to my growing up years just to find who amongst those around me back then was lazy, or didn't wanna go to school, or felt that Nigeria as an oil producing nation will provide him or her with freebies. I thought of all my classmates and all those other kids back then, and some, even though they didn't wanna go to school had to become apprentices in one trade or the other. And then, I also thought about those I've met along the way, growing up, and I still haven't seen anyone that fits the picture that the president painted right there at the Commonwealth meeting. And am still looking trying to find one and I still haven't. Now, I guess this is how we can easily know, by looking around us to see who really amongst the youths is waiting for the government to provide freebies for him/her and in essence fits this picture that the president is talking about.

Well, if you must know, the interesting thing I found is that the elites and all those who kill themselves to remain in the corridors of power are the ones that aptly fit the president's narrative, not the Nigerian youths that I know of and am part of. Because they (the elites and all those who kill themselves to remain in the corridors of power) are the ones who, because they know that Nigeria is an oil producing nation are lazy, want free medicals, don't wanna work but live larger than their means, a lot of them are illiterates but fabricate certificates to become leaders (and even one that's there right now at the top, has refused to show a certificate even if it's a forged one), they depend on and wait for the government for everything and want free stuff. Actually, the president is right but he didn't direct his words to the right class of people, he directed it to the wrong ones like he always does.

Now, the Nigerian youths are always striving to thrive with or without an enabling environment that the government should have ordinarily provided, we are very determined and willing to do all it takes to have a good life. Growing up, it never ever crossed my mind to just sit and expect the government to provide anything for me, even when it is their responsibility to provide the basics of life. I never thought that because Nigeria is an oil producing nation to sit back and wait on the government to provide healthcare, power, job, education, water, etc for me, of course, I'd have waited forever for it. And that is how every other youth that I know have lived in Nigeria. We even long to enjoy what other responsible governments provide for their citizens, like the basics of life.

If our lazy presidents/leaders and politicians who ride on our backs- the youths, use and at the same time abuse us, have done what they're supposed to do as leaders, Nigeria would have been a better place to live in. I have never seen a bunch of lazy leaders anywhere else in the world like we have in Nigeria. Leaders who have no business in governance are there at the helms of affairs, which is why we are where we are as a country. We all know that there are a bunch of lazy ass people all over the world, but that's not a problem that's peculiar to Nigeria alone, it's a global problem. Tell me, which of the western nation's youths will endure the harsh conditions that Nigeria's youths have to put up with? A country where we provide almost everything for ourselves besides the air we breathe. Yet, in the face of all these apparent difficult and harsh conditions, they're unperturbed and still grind! Why do we excel once we're outside the country? If Buhari wasn't lazy he would have provided just one thing - a state-of-the-art hospital that will treat him when he's sick (since that's his need), but no, he'll prefer to travel to the UK to get treatment from a ready-made-state-of-the-art hospital for his treatments. And this is what all these Nigeria's lazy ass leaders and their ilks do and he turns around to call the hard-working youths who made it possible for him to be there and to be able to pay for his medicals in the UK, lazy?! It's a shame! Let our lazy leaders provide the basics of life for the country, and see what becomes of Nigeria in 10 years. I'll never subscribe to that narrative that Nigeria's youths are lazy, NEVER! But rather, Nigerian leaders are the lazy ones! Because all they do is just sit and wait for the oil monies to come and share, which is why they keep recycling themselves in power. Where in the world would you see a governor wanting to become a senator after he leaves office or vice versa, or a minister wanting to become a governor even while still in service, or see politicians cross over from one political party to the next because his party lost power or relevance, as you have it in Nigeria? It is just appalling! And they have nothing to offer because they're lazy in thinking up ideas that will move the nation forward. #LazyNigerianLeaders, #NigerianLeadersAreLazy

Which president have you ever heard goes about talking bad of its youths like Buhari have done or does? Every time he goes outside Nigeria, that's when he finds his voice, but when he's back home, he's mute. When was the last time that Buhari ever engaged the youths of the country that he's their president? No media chats, no interviews, no relationship whatsoever with the youths that he has concluded to be lazy, at least to find ways to help them out of their 'laziness'. Now, if he wasn't lazy, he would have done that! And if he said that because of the Niger Delta youths, who are agitating for what's rightfully theirs to have, then I don't know what to say to him. Their environment is messed up, they pay the ultimate price for the whole nation and for you to be able to pay your medical bills in the Uk, and you're asking them to be quiet? Like I said, and I'll always say, Buhari was a mistake! I don't feel disappointed because I knew and still know that he's got nothing to offer (what can a lazy leader offer anyways?) and the earlier we realize this the better for us. And I say to every youth, crying and shouting, and just talking or writing about it, won't help us in any way. Go get your PVCs and do the right thing.

Nigerian leaders are the laziest set of leaders in the whole wide world who sit and do nothing but to share oil monies just because they know that Nigeria is an oil producing nation! #LazyNigerianLeaders, #NigerianLeadersAreLazy

A religion that will encourage one to intentionally stir up the hornet's nest and fight against laid down rules and regulation just to prove a point is not a religion of peace at all. Before you know it, fights will break out in different places just because some si.lly girl refused to obey a simple law/rule, and the irony is that she's supposed to be a lawyer that should know what to do. If we all were to "intentionally" start fighting against what we perceive to be a wrong in the laws/rules in our places of abode that doesn't favor us in whatsoever way, what will become of us and our existence/co-existence? See what your stubbornness has caused you, trying to prove a nonesense point my foot. Common sense is indeed not common. I just wonder how we all eneded up together.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is the strongest bank in Asia. It is an international financial institution that aims to support the building of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The bank has 57 member states (all "Founding Members" and was proposed as an initiative by the government of China. The bank started operation on Dec. 25, 2015, with an initial capital of 100 billion U.S. dollars, one million shares, and an initial paid-up capital of 20 billion U.S. dollars.

Nigeria’s former minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was appointed as a member of the international advisory panel of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on Friday among ten others. The panel members will advise the Bank on the development strategy said AIIB President, Jin Liqun.
According to AIIB Senior Communication Officer, Mr. Song Liyan “The panel provides impartial, objective and independent advice to the President, allowing the bank to benefit from the international experience and expertise of panel members,”

Mr. Jin Liqun went on to say, “It is a great honor to convene such an experienced and diverse group of international leaders to advise on the development of the Bank’s strategy. I have no doubt that the advice the panel provides will help shape the development of the Bank in the years ahead. I could not ask for a better group of ambassadors to help promote our new Bank to the world,”

Asia is in a move that will transform the world. Gathering people of such quality and wealth of experience is something that is worth applauding. On the 1st of October the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stunned world markets by approving China’s currency as a major world currency.

A number of African central banks are applying to the Chinese Central Bank for currency swaps, with Zimbabwe and Ghana already using the RMB as part of their reserve currency. Nigeria could also shift more of its foreign reserves into Chinese yuan from dollars as the RMB gains greater traction in global trade.

The other ten people that were appointed are former Bank Negara Malaysia governor Dr. Zeti Aziz, former Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, and former Swedish finance minister Anders Borg, former Timor-Leste finance minister Emilia Pires, former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern, former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Global Foundation secretary-general Steve Howard, Korea National Diplomatic Academy chair professor and former South Korean deputy prime minister and strategy and finance minister Dr. Oh-Seok Hyun, former U.S. ambassador Paul Speltz, and London School of Economics professor and former Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-Hwa.


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I do not think 2nd term should be the focus right now considering the economic situation on ground. Why not focus on the economy or they want to start campaign now now?

ABUJA — There will be no vacancy in the Presidency in 2019, members of the National Caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, declared on Tuesday night in a seeming lure to President Muhammadu Buhari to seek a second term. The national caucus, comprising serving and former governors, the National Assembly leadership, and selected members of the national executive of the party, at the meeting said the endorsement of President Buhari for a second term would help to stabilise the polity in the face of what members described as the 16-year rot inherited from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Meanwhile, the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has dismissed insinuations of a threat against his position, just as the caucus, Tuesday night, constituted a committee to resolve all pending issues in the party. One of the issues agreed on at the meeting, Vanguard learned yesterday, was that President Buhari should be given opportunity to seek a second term. Though the issue of a second term for the President was generally agreed, caucus members, however, also agreed that it would be too early in the day to kick start a second term campaign for the President. Vanguard learned that the issue was brought up as a way of resting restiveness among some party leaders, who have been divided over their various aspirations for 2019. The positioning by different party leaders on 2019 has been blamed for the problems that led to the crisis in the National Assembly and also the inability of the party to inaugurate its Board of Trustees, BoT, till date. “With Buhari contesting in 2019, those who have been squabbling will now have to queue up behind him and put the interest of the party ahead,” a source privy to the development revealed yesterday. Remarkably, leading senators in the party on Tuesday night met in Abuja where they also pledged to unify themselves in the face of the prospect of losing their influence to the more united PDP caucus. Odigie-Oyegun dismisses threat to his office Meanwhile, Odigie-Oyegun speaking to reporters at the end of the caucus meeting on Tuesday night dismissed reports of pressures on him to resign his office. He said: “I am not aware that my office is under threat. I led the party to the State House. It amazes me, occasionally it annoys me. That is one of the things you have to endure when you are in a position like mine." Noting the trend of the meeting, Odigie-Oyegun said that a committee had been constituted to resolve all the crises in the party. Speaking on the performance of his party’s government almost one year after taking over power, the national chairman pleaded for time on the part of Nigerians. He said the government would come on full stream when the 2016 budget is passed.
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Boys are not smiling anymore o

Abuja - Nigeria has been ranked the 103 happiest
nation of the world, and 6th in Africa in the World
Happiness Report.
The World Happiness Report 2016 update, which
ranks 157 countries by their happiness levels, was
released in Rome on Wednesday, in advance of
UN World Happiness Day, March 20th.
As indicated by the report, Nigeria dropped from
its 78th position in the World and 2nd in Africa in
the 2015 happiness ranking.
Denmark emerged the world’s happiest place,
while Algeria, standing at 38 at the global level,
maintains its position as the happiest place in
Africa.
Mauritius is now the second happiest country in
Africa, followed by Libya, Morocco and Tunisia
respectively.
According to the report, eight sub-Saharan
countries were among the 10 least happy places
on earth to live.
The bottom 10 were; Madagascar, Tanzania,
Liberia, Guinea, Rwanda, Benin, Afghanistan,
Togo, Syria and Burundi.
South Africa and Ghana stood at 116 and 124
respectively on the Global happiness ranking.
The World Happiness Report, an initiative of the
UN, is a landmark survey of the state of global
happiness, aimed at influencing government
policy.
The report reviews the state of happiness in the
world and shows how the new science of
happiness explains personal and national
variations in happiness.
It reflects a new worldwide demand for more
attention to happiness as criteria for government
policy.
According to the report, leading experts across
fields – economics, psychology, survey analysis,
national statistics, health, public policy and more
– describe how measurements of well-being can
be used effectively to assess the progress of
nations.
Healthy years of life expectancy, GDP per capital,
social support , perceived absence of corruption in
government and business, freedom to make life
decisions and generosity are some of the factors
the report considers.
The first world happiness report was published in
support of the April 2, 2012 United Nations (UN)
high level meeting on happiness and well-being.
The report was prepared by the Sustainable
Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the
Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is the head of the SDSN and
special advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-
moon.

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David Adeleke, the 23-year-old pop artiste
popularly known as Davido has rebuffed claims
by his estranged lover, Sophia Momodu on the
circumstances surrounding the removal of their
daughter, Imade, from Sophia’s custody.

In a lengthy narrative issued last night, Adeleke
alleged that Sophia had been in weekly contact
with Imade up till last week and claimed that
hospital authorities had sought to transfer the
baby to officials of the Lagos State Children
Welfare Authority on account of alleged drug use
by Sophia.

Adeleke in his narrative said the hospital
authorities recanted only after Sophia agreed to
surrender the baby for care with him, saying his
estranged lover had kept to the agreement until
she recanted last week as she insisted on going
along with the Adeleke family for the treatment
and family vacation in Dubai.

Adeleke in the narrative poured invectives on the
respected veteran journalist, Dele Momodu, who
he accused of not taking care of his niece,
Sophia, alleging that Mr. Momodu and his wife
entered the scene as busybodies who he
claimed did not bother about the welfare of their
niece until she had a baby for him.

Vowing that he was manipulated by Sophia and
that he would never marry her, he accused his
estranged live-in lover of debauchery, saying that
he was a well brought up man who would not
condone such attributes of a woman as a wife.

Efforts to get Mr. Momodu’s reaction to the
development were unfruitful as he did not
respond to SMS and phone calls at press time.
He said: “In May, the same month Imade was
born, Sophia settled in her fancy apartment for
which I paid a hefty bill for a 2 year lease. Her
baby was healthy. And she seemed happy. I
would take care of all the financial needs of
Imade and still pay Sophia a living allowance of
N300,000 plus utility bills.

“Within a matter of weeks, Sophia missing and
lusting for the streets of Lagos, especially the
glitzy night life. She often left Imade home for
clubbing, binge drinking and a life of debauchery
and deviant living. She would sleep all day and
party all night. When awake, she was addicted to
the telephone and cannabis. She paid the baby
no attention at all and seems to despise
motherhood and parenting.

Blood polluted to the maximum level with
cannabis

Imade was in her custody for two straight
months, unchallenged and uninterrupted, until the
baby took badly and severely ill in July. Imade
cried, ceaselessly, for 48 hours. She was rushed
to the hospital where her condition confounded
medical experts. Several tests were conducted
on her and later on the mother. Medical reports,
herein attached, proved that Sophia’s blood was
polluted to the maximum level with cannabis and
she had by the process of breast feeding
infected her child with complicated medical
conditions associated with the use of alcohol
and especially cannabis.

“The trouble spot for Imade was her lungs. She
had difficulty breathing largely because of the
contaminated breast milk and the severity of the
“Second Smoke” of marijuana inhaled by the
poor child.

“The medical experts at the hospital were
enraged by the callous treatment of Imade by
her own mother and declared her unfit for the
caring and the nursing of a delicate baby. The
team determined that they would hand over the
baby to the Children’s Welfare Authority of Lagos
State Government. My family started to plead
with the hospital management. For the first time,
Sophia too was sober, sorry and contrite. We
pleaded that the baby would be kept from the
mother once she was returned to us, and that we
would take over responsibilities for Imade’s
welfare.

“Voluntarily, Sophia, in the attempt to avoid the
handing over of the baby to the children welfare
authority, agreed to a compromise position that
she would transfer Imade to the Adeleke family
until the cannabis in the systems of both mum
and daughter was completely out and
comprehensively cleaned out.

“The medical expert also indicated that the full
damage to Imade’s person could not be
ascertained right away and that her mental state
now or in the future could not be determined nor
predicted, until perhaps when she would have
attained adulthood. This was why and how Imade
was transferred to the custody of the Adeleke
family.

Imade flown to hospital in Dubai

“Meanwhile, Imade was increasingly worse off in
wellness and she had to be flown to the
American hospital in Dubai. I wrote a letter of
release authorizing my sister to travel to Dubai
with Imade. The hospital saved Imade who was
returned to Nigeria with a medical equipment
that had to be used daily to enable Imade to gain
restful sleep and balanced respiratory rhythm.
The photograph of this equipment is hereby
attached.

“If Imade had not gone to Dubai, it is fair to say
that she may not be alive today. Still, some
people prevented her from keeping a follow-up
appointment at the American Hospital in Dubai.
For the silliest possible reason. My family would
not pay for Sophia’s flight ticket and thus Imade
would be disallowed from traveling for the vital
purpose of medical conditions that lend oxygen
to her life.”

“The claim has been made that the aborted trip
to Dubai was to take Imade to America. This is
not true. Imade’s Nigerian passport is right now
with the Immigration Office with no American
Visa embossed on it and Imade, though qualified
to possess an American Passport because her
dad is an American citizen, still does not possess
an American passport. True, her passport is
being processed but the truancy of her mother
has caused a major delay. I therefore ask, how
will Imade have entered America without a visa
on her Nigerian passport?

“The only reason why some of us are dancing
naked in the market place today, is because
Sophia’s request to go to Dubai on my ticket was
declined. She is demanding for her new car and
a raise of her allowance to one million naira per
month. The sole reason why she’s demanding for
the custody of Imade is to justify the necessity
for this delusional one million naira. A domestic
matter that could have been quietly and sensibly
settled has been tossed to the public domain
with the brutal consequences to the most
innocent actor in this drama, Imade.

“From December 23-28, Sophia lived at my
father’s Lekki residence in peace, except for the
first one hour when a medication was misapplied
by her and Imade speedily vomited for a fearfully
long time. Sophia did not know how to even
bathe her own baby. She brought a friend to stay
with her in a 3-bedroom flat with a resident
professional nurse and nanny. Overall, her stay
was joyful and in alignment with the thrills of the
Christmas holiday season.

“On December 29, less than 24 hours of leaving
my father’s house, Sophia was at the airport in
the company of her uncle and his wife with
malice aforethought and the aim to do maximum
damage that would obstruct her child from
travelling aboard to receive necessary and
needful medical care. She was welcome to join
us if she had bought her ticket or her uncle had
funded her for the trip.

“ I offered to buy her a car and suggested a
Toyota brand or Hyundai. She lost her cool and
told me off. She wanted a fancy jeep and
preferably, a Mercedes Benz Jeep. I laughed
because she just wanted to be a Lagos Big Girl
for nothing. She hardly can cope with the
cheapest car much less the ruinous cost of
maintaining a Mercedes Benz vehicle. In
December she received 500,000 naira as her
allowance without doing anything for Imade. Life
is not a bed of roses. Neither have I ever
promised Sophia a rose garden. Her spontaneous
motions of delusions utterly baffle me!

“On her twitter page, she claimed she has
recovered Imade from captivity. But Imade never
was in captivity. Sophia certainly knows where
Imade is. And it is where she left her on
December 28, at my father’s house. What is the
lie about? Sophia also claimed that she hasn’t
seen her daughter in 5 months, this cannot be
true. Sophie spent every Sunday with her baby at
my father’s house since July 2015 when she
voluntarily transferred Imade to the Adeleke
family after the cannabis incidence. She and her
daughter constantly appear on her face book and
twitter pages throughout this period of 5 months.
What manner of unreliable and lying person is
Sophia? The picture of your reconciliation with
Imade after “captivity” that you posted on your
twitter page came directly from the photo shoot
that you posed for at my father’s house during
your Christmas stay. Why can’t you ever be
affable with truth nor have a relationship with
honour?

“Uncle Dele Momodu was the first to bring this
domestic matter online and onto the internet.
Uncle Dele Momodu ran smack into the internet
highway on December 30 with Video recordings
that he dishonestly, immorally and unlawfully
recorded at a government facility and office at
the Murtala Mohammed International Airport,
Lagos. Uncle, you are wrong and you are not
doing the right thing.

“Life is beautiful if we all live in simple ways and
do not engage criminal gadgets to replace
integrity and honour. Your recordings cannot
alter the fact that I am “Davido” father of Imade
and it cannot force me to be the husband of
your cousin. In truth, I don’t know if you are
uncle or cousin to Sophia. Still, Uncle Dele
Momodu, it is immoral, unlawful and unethical to
clandestinely record anyone, especially friends
and family members.

“Late evening on December 30, I responded to
your vicious internet publications that attacked
me and my family. But my father’s counsel and
the love I have for Imade prompted me to recall
the arrow aimed at you. You see, my father
raised me well, and I promptly complied with his
advise. I thus deleted all references to the issue
of December 29 at the Airport and apologized to
you in particular along with all my fans. I showed
you respect even if u had provoked me.

“Instead of reciprocating with love and elderly
wisdom, you sustained your attack of me with
even more venom and hatefulness. With all due
respect for my dad, I am compelled to speak to
your lies and your simulation of grand self-
importance. I am 23 and you are almost 60. Your
cousin has a baby for me. Rather than bring us
together as a family, you wished for glowing
embers to come out of cool cucumber. This is
why you instructed your lawyers to put garbage
on the internet in a matter that should be
showcased in the court of law. Uncle, who
offended you? Is it Davido, Sophia or Imade? It
cannot be my late mum after whom I named
Imade. Is it my gentle dad?

“I am 23 and a performing artiste that God
immensely blessed and I have joyfully made good
in the industry. I won’t do this forever, and I shall
timely step aside in the nearest future. I have a
degree and I am stashing my monies aside so
that I can build a decent future for Imade plus
my future wife and family. I believe as the bible
says, “every good gift is from above”.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/davido-rebuffs-dele-momodu-says-sophia-visits-imade-weekly/

A forecast of key events in critical sectors that could alter national configurations in reverberating scales.
DEVELOPMENTS in the later part of the last year predicted that 2016 would substantially be momentous in every sense.
With so many unresolved fundamental national questions spilling into the New Year, the polity is poised to be awash with tension, anxiety and vaulting expectations that had characterised the previous year.
It would especially be so given the high expectations from Nigerians on President Muhammadu Buhari to deliver on his key promises on security and the economy.
Findings by Vanguard reveal that issues that could have reverberating effects on the polity in the year being previewed include budget benchmarks, subsidy removal, Supreme Court verdict on governorship elections, ruling on Kogi State governorship conundrum, ongoing probes/ Dasukigate and President Buhari’s performance. Others are Biafra agitation, national convention of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo and Ondo states governorship elections, payment of N5000 electoral promise, Bayelsa State governorship supplementary poll, volatile exchange rate and unsteady oil prices among others.
Expected Supreme Court verdicts
With the verdict of the Supreme Court on Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Taraba states governorship elections being expected in the first quarter of this year, it is envisaged that whatever becomes the outcome would alter the political configuration of the affected states.
In Akwa Ibom, a victory for the All Progressives Congress, APC, can simply set the stage for an epic governorship contest in a state assumed as politically volatile. Same stroke could amount to a boost for the PDP’s acclaimed spread in the state.
Nearly same scenario may play out in Nyesom Wike’s Rivers State in the aftermath of the expected judgment.
Following yesterday’s Court of Appeal reversal of the tribunal judgment that earlier sacked Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State, a final judgment from the Supreme Court would put an end to the issue.
Kogi Governorship conundrum
The legal confusion created by the demise of the governorship candidate of APC in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu in the middle of an election, may either be resolved or accentuated by the eventual verdict on the court cases filed by Audu’s running mate, Mr. Abiodun Faleke.
Like in the past when judicial pronouncements on governorship election cases in the state, modified Nigeria’s electoral calendar, the finality of the matter may create an awkward precedent.
Budget benchmarks: Despite being benchmarked mostly on non oil revenues, there are concerns on how the government could fund the Federal Government’s N6 trillion budget with non oil revenue.
While the proposed annual expenditure pegged the price of crude oil at N38$ per barrel, the commodity currently sells between $31 and 32 in the international market.
According to the latest report of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, oil may further sell at $20 per barrel thereby increasing the likelihood of more difficulties for the Federal Government funding budget 2016.
Going by IMF’s predictions, Nigeria would generate $44 million per day in 2016, amounting to $16.060 billion in the year.
That implies that the projected N820billion oil revenue and production of 2.2 million barrels of crude oil per day may not be realized.
Oil revenue and production
There are also fears over the feasibility of the budgeted N433.4 billion for Power, Works and Housing, N396 billion for Education, N294 billion, N221.7; Defence, Health; N202 billion and N145 billion for Police/Interior.
It is feared that if crude oil prices fall in line with IMF prediction, none of the critical sectors aforementioned could receive the exact appropriated funds.
Subsidy removal: The much talked about plan to remove subsidies on importation of petroleum products, would certainly be a big issue this year.
Indeed, the government’s renewed resolve to carry out the threat is already unsettling the detente between the Buhari administration and labour. If the government also rescinds its decision and oil prices rise, the payment of subsidy claims to marketers would have a lethal impact on country’s already lean finances. In fact, the bleak financial prospects of the year indicate that payment of such claims may not be sustainable this year.
Performance rating: President Buhari’s performance rating is a matter that would prominently take the centre stage all year round. Of course that is as a result of the high expectations from the man, who campaigned for the presidency on the mantra of change.
Already, the question of whether the administration has made remarkable impacts six months after inauguration is a subject of intense public debate with many claiming that change is yet to berth.
Same could play out in no small measure as the year progresses, particularly against the backdrop of the fact that the prevailing cash crunch may further make the administration struggle to attain parameters of the change agenda.
Ongoing probes/Dasukigate
The ongoing probes into alleged pilfering of public funds by highly placed Nigerians would certainly climax this year. This is given the commitment of President Buhari to curb corruption.
Definitely, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, would go after more suspects, while there is the likelihood of having further mindboggling revelations regarding the looting of the commonwealth.
One of the cases that would not fail to make screaming headlines, is the ongoing prosecution of a former National Security Adviser, Lt Col Sambo Dasuki, retd, and others over alleged embezzlement of $2.2 billion. In fact, Nigerians are waiting anxiously for what could become the eventual outcome of the prosecution.
N5,000 stipend for the unemployed: This year the administration is expected to start implementation of the its key campaign promise of paying N5000 to vulnerable Nigerians. It is an issue that may earn the Federal Government more knocks than kudos, given the belief that embarking on the scheme amid uninspiring economic realities, amounts to misplacement of priorities.
Already the government has said that the project is to be financed from monies saved from plugging of revenue leakages and other ancillary sources. “We believe that the money for this project will come from savings, budget and prudent management. And also we are going to have support from multilateral organisations especially in the area of cash transfer. Again some of these projects are not just recurrent, they are also capital in a way,” the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed exclusively told Vanguard.
However, whichever way the programme is handled, it has become one of the parameters for measuring the success and failure of this administration in 2016.
PDP convention: In March, the PDP is expected to hold its National Convention for the election of a new national executive. The exercise would climax the ward, local government and senatorial congresses that are expected that are also expected to produce new executives at those levels.
State Congress are slated for March 12 after which the Zonal Congress would take place on March 16 before the March 19 National Convention.
For a party that lost its 16-year grip on power through overwhelming defeat at the last general election and yet, still bogged down by internal crisis among its National Working Committee, NWC, members, the convention would present another opportunity for self reinvention.
The emergence of a new National Chairman is surely going to be the high point of the event, since the party needs a generally accepted chairman to pilot its affairs on the path of redemption. But the prospect of a hitch free exercise appears threatened by the perceived frosty relationship between the National Executive Council, NEC, and NWC.
Edo State governorship election: The question of who succeeds Governor Adams Oshiomhole at the end of his tenure on November 12, 2016 would further attract national attention this year. Oshiomhole, whose tenure ends on November 12, while setting the prerequisite condition for those aspiring to succeed him, recently said that someone who believes in the state with the capacity to govern it would emerge the candidate of the APC.
The high standard of performance created by the incumbent is such that the Edo electorate would not settle for the less among the aspirants, who have indicated interest.
Interestingly, the contest promises to be hotly contested between the APC and PDP on account of the latter’s somewhat strong presence in the state.
Those believed to be interested in job from the ruling APC include , Kenneth Imansuangbon Dr. Pius Odubu, Osaridion Ogie, Dr. Chris Ogiemwonyi, Gen. Charles Airhiavbere, Professor Oserhiemen Osunbor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, and Don Pedro Obaseki.
Others in the PDP are Senator Ehigie Uzamere, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, Solomon Edebiri and Matthew Iduoriyekemwen.
Ondo State governorship election: The state would conspicuously be in the national consciousness as a result of this year’s governorship poll.
Drawing analogy from the last two exercises in the state, which were hotly and bitterly contested by the APC and PDP, analysts foresee a repeat.
Being one of the two bastions of the PDP in the South-West geo-political zone, the party would be seen putting its best at ensuring that it retains the governorship seat.
In the estimation of observers, the PDP may be relying on the popularity of the incumbent governors, Dr Olusegun Mimmiko while the APC stakeholders would be looking up to Abuja. Bayelsa supplementary election: Undoubtedly, the January 9 scheduled supplementary election in Bayelya State would be the first major event of the year that is capable of arousing so much public interest.
The election, which is a fallout of the violence that marred the December 5 exercise in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, LGA, is certainly going to hold in same area and 112 polling units in an atmosphere of fear.
Instructively, the LGA with about 120,000 registered voters holds the ace in determining who becomes the next governor of Bayelsa. Whichever party the result favours in the final analysis the outcome would either amount to a consolidation for the PDP or a profound boost for the APC.
Strong base of the PDP The peculiarity of the Bayelsa contest lies in the state’s reputation as a strong base of the PDP and as well the home state of immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan.
Biafra agitation: There is a strong feeling among observers that issues surrounding the agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra, are not likely to take the back stage in the early quarters of the year.
With the disquiet provoked by the detention of the leader of the Independent People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu spilling over from last year, concerns about Biafra would continue to make the headlines.
Volatile exchange rate: The sustainability of the naira at the officially pegged rate of N197 to the dollar will continue to be an issue in the year especially if the price of oil does not rise.
However, some posit that the economic outlook could be positive with the right mix of fiscal and monetary policies to stimulate the economy and attract investments.
Boko Haram: Though the military was supposed to have stopped the insurgency at the end of last year, few doubt that the Boko Haram insurgents would not try to make appearances now and again.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/nigeria-key-issues-thatll-shape-2016/

A constitutional lawyer and founder of
Change.org, Ms Carol Ajie has petitioned
President Barrack Obama of the United States,
the National Judicial Council (NJC) amongst
others, over President Muhammadu Buhari’s
“disobedience of court orders.”
Ajie in the petition, which has garnered almost
200 signatories since its launch on New Year's
eve, said that Buhari by his statements during
the Presidential Media Chat at the State House
in Abuja, “is behind the flagrant disobedience of
court orders.”
The President had during the media chat
admitted that the former National Security
Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and the
leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr.
Nnamdi Kanu were being held against court
orders because they could run away.
However, Ajie said that this runs contrary to the
law and the principle of separation of powers as
enshrined in the constitution.
The human rights lawyer expressed concern that
the President if unchecked might drag the
country towards dictatorship.
“Buhari took the oath of allegiance to protect the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
and the President’s oath of office to discharge
his duties faithfully, in accordance with the
Constitution and the laws of Nigeria.
“Within President Buhari’s first year in office, too
soon after he took the revered oaths, he and
state agents acting under his supervision and at
his maiden media chat on Wednesday 30th
December, made puerile attempts to justify
constitutional breaches.
“But under the Immigration Act, the President or
the Minister may deport anyone who travels
without a valid travel document or detain for a
period not exceeding seven days. In holding
Kanu beyond the required period, they have
infracted on the Immigration Act, the
Administration of Criminal Justice Act, the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
1999 and subsisting court orders."
“We call on President Buhari to resign from
office or face impeachment proceedings.
Alternatively, to avoid another Burundi, We call
on him to comply with the orders of courts,” said
the lawyer in her petition.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lawyer-petitions-obama-asking-buhari-to-respect-court-orders/229324/

FIERY Catholic Priest and Founder, Adoration
Ministries Enugu Nigeria, AMEN, Reverend Fr.
Ejike Mbaka,yesterday, urged President
Muhammadu Buhari to be on his guards,
prophesying that alleged beneficiaries of massive
corruption perpetrated during ex-President
Goodluck Jonathan’s administration would plot to
kill him.
Mbaka made the revelations yesterday morning
during his New Year Prophetic Message at
Adoration Ground, where thousands of faithful
converged for supplication.
This is even as the Enugu- based cleric lashed
out to ex-President Jonathan, governors and
National Assembly members under his
administration some of whom were allegedly
involved in the squandering of the country’s
resources during the oil boom to detriment of
critical infrastructure that could have alleviated
the sufferings of the masses.
He asked Nigerians to brace up for tougher
times this year due to the economic hardship.
However, he urged them to be patient, prayerful
and hard-working, adding that things would later
improve. He also called for support for the
Buhari administration’s anti-corruption fight.
There will be light at the end of the tunnel
Mbaka said: “People will by now, begin to
question, is this the government we voted for?
But the Lord says, it will start hard, but it is
going to end well. It is going to end well. I am
commanded to ask for patience. The Lord says
that multiple crises will befall the system. But
later, the country will be filled with the peace of
Isaiah 66, peace that will be flowing like a river.
And in this peace will be the blessing. So, I am
claiming the peace in the midst of all the
looming crisis.
“New crises are going to come up. But at the
end,there will be peace. Peace will be
terbanacled at the epicentre of this country,to
handle any crisis no matter how benign,
malignant, barbaric or even satanic it will appear
like. God says He will be in charge. In 2013,
there was a prophecy that there was going to be
an oil doom after the oil boom. And when that
message came out from this ground, many
started calling me a prophet of doom.
“How can there be a doom? And the oil price
continued to climb. And the message said,
people and government should begin to gather,
as in the days of Joseph, to stop squandering
our wealth. And they never listened. Throughout
the six years of the past administration, God
blessed our oil with high prices, $140 per barrel.
But the message said there was going to be an
oil doom. Do not mind the high prices. It warned
our politicians to stop embezzling our wealth.
But they said the money would continue to
come.
“Our oil would continue to flow. During this
moment of the oil boom, there was excess crude
oil money. They did not know what to do with
our money. Our youths were suffering and they
are still suffering. Graduates have no jobs, new
industries were not built. Our roads were not
reconstructed.
Our hospitals were in shambles and in total
collapse. Our educational systems were in
shambles and these politicians were building
good schools outside Nigeria.
“They were busy building hospitals even in South-
Africa and other neighbouring countries. When
any of them is sick, he will be flown outside
Nigeria because there is no hospital in Nigeria
worth of good medication. You cannot find any
hospital in Nigeria that has worthy diagnostic
facilities. The entire money voted for hospitals
were looted. Corruption was in quantum to the
level that Nigerian Catholic Bishops had to
compose a prayer against bribery and corruption.
“The Bishops assured all the Catholics to be
praying that prayer everyday after the
communion. All the moneys voted for road
constructions were swindled. Many of the
politicians became millionaires and billionaires in
Naira, Dollars, Pounds Sterling, Euro when they
have no workshops and business centres.
Somebody who has nothing doing, yet he is a
billionaire because he is a politician. The oil
money was messed up.
“Now, oil doom has come. There was no
preparation for the doom. The economy of
Nigeria is an oil-based economy. My beloved
Nigerians,those who led us for the past six years
downwards have killed this country. None of
them is qualified to stay in this country by now.
Both the president, governors, senators, House of
Representatives members, council chairmen
among others. They are wicked. It does not
matter the man of God they worship with. Before
God and man, all of them are wicked.
“They hate this country. They succeeded in
removing the liver, kidneys and cardiovascular
system of this country and paralyzed the
neurological organs, and handed over to Buhari,
shambles and skeleton. A nation that is in
comatose. Nigeria right now,economically and
security wise is in the Intensive Care Unit, ICU. If
the oxygen is removed, Nigeria will go. People of
God prayed from here and there, and God
answered our prayers and gave us Buhari.
Buhari is God-sent
“I want to tell you today, that Buhari is a prayer
answered. Weather you hate or like him, Buhari
is a prayer answered. The Catholic Bishops of
Nigeria prayed against bribery and corruption and
this President came with a war against
corruption. All the prayers we have been doing
against bribery and corruption, God answered the
prayers through a Muslim who decided not to
discriminate. There is nothing like racial, ethnic
discrimination in this administration.
“He is a man of all. He means good for this
country and we owe him unalloyed, consistent,
spiritual and otherwise support. If he is not the
man at the helm of affairs now or had it being
the last regime continued, by now, Nigeria would
be for sale. Who will buy? All the moneys voted
for infrastructure, few people stole the money.
That is why we are passing through chronic
hunger, joblessness. Many have died and are still
dying because of this. That is why they want to
engineer you people to cause crisis even in this
part of Igboland under the guise that Igbo are
marginalized.
Nobody can marginalise Igbo
“Igbo people are unmarginalizable. Nobody can
marginalize the Igbo. The spirit of God wants me
to speak good over what has been happening in
this administration and that is what I am doing. I
am not a sycophant,I do not support anybody for
anything because I have the highest thing
somebody can have which is God. So, I want to
tell you that so far, God is happy with Buhari.
And he who God has blessed, may you not try to
curse because God will curse you.
The plots to kill Buhari
“Many people are planning, as it is revealed , to
kill Buhari. There are many plans on how to
eliminate his life so that corruption,
embezzlement will continue. But the Lord says,
God who put you there, will not forsake you. Be
firm, resolute, focused, unbiased and refuse to be
intimidated and distracted. Go ahead and war
against evil. Buhari, go ahead and war against
corruption. God and His people are behind you.
You are the answer of the prayers of the people.
“Our past looters, embezzlers, thieves on the
political terrain have eaten the cake and now
everybody is suffering. No ethnic group is
marginalized. In the present administration, Igbo
people hold the portfolio for Minister of External
Affairs, Godffrey Onyeama; Science and
Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu; Industry and
Commerce, Osita Enalema; Labour and
employment, Chris Ngige. And the problem of
this country now is unemployment. If our youths
are well employed, kidnapping will go. Kidnapping
was a child of the past administration. They
delivered that ugly baby, which resembled them.
It is my job to put your mind right. When
anybody wants to say that Igbo are marginalised,
do not believe it. Igbo are doing well everywhere.
So,why are we evolving a war that does not
exist?
“Those who are engineering this war, have their
children abroad! And they want to use our
unemployed youths to begin to walk around,
‘Igbo are marginalized,’ ‘our roads are bad.’ By
the end of this year, Buhari will expose the
names of the people who looted money meant
for our roads. What we are suffering now is the
resultant effect of the last malignant
administration that was intrinsically corrupt.
What we are suffering now arose from past
administration. But the Lord says there is hope.
Many people are going to suffer. We should all
get ready. But after the suffering we will all
smile.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/2016-prophesy-there-are-plots-to-kill-buhari-mbaka/

Dear Mr. Femi Adesina
Since I am a victim by association to one of the
most vilified and scandalised Nigerians through
media trial, this open letter is the best
opportunity for me to put some issues in proper
perspective following some of your public
remarks about your old friend.
As you are aware, I have been actively involved
in cementing relationships between the media
and security agencies in the recent past.
Immediately after my premature retirement from
the public service by the Jonathan
administration, I was invited by the Office of the
National Security Adviser (ONSA), under Col.
Sambo Dasuki (retired), to help in changing the
negative media narrative on Nigeria’s counter-
terrorism campaigns. It was at a period when the
Boko Haram had the upper hand in the
propaganda campaign in the war against Nigeria
with a section of the foreign media castigating
Nigerian troops as “cowardly” “undisciplined” and
“ill-trained.”
Among other things, I have the responsibility of
consulting for the Forum of Spokespersons of
Security and Response Agencies (FOSSRA), then
chaired by Major General Chris Olukolade, which
has membership from critical public institutions
including the military, security, intelligence and
response agencies. We also created and
sustained web portals for providing accurate and
timely information to the public.
I must commend you, Mr. Femi Adesina, for
playing a greater role in the success of our
campaign because as the then President of
Nigerian Guild of Editors, you also encouraged
editors to support our activities through
occasional self-censorship to manage negative
terrorists’ propaganda.
Being one of the closest editors to former
National Security Adviser, you were always
sincere and frank when you met and discussed
with Dasuki. You never hid your hardened
support for the candidacy of General Buhari of
the All Progressive Congress (APC). I remember
your annoyance over the security clampdown on
the media and when you sought Dasuki’s
intervention for compensation for media
organisations over their loss rather than engaging
in prolonged court cases. I was with you on that
occasion in his office.
Apart from interfacing between FOSSRA and
media representatives at different levels and
locations, which you encouraged, Sambo Dasuki
too, as National Security Adviser, occasionally
hosted media debriefing sessions where sensitive
information was disseminated with supported
photos and video clips. Many of such sessions
were classified, not for publication, where
atrocities of the terrorists; the gallantry of the
Nigerian troops; and sophisticated equipment
deployed for counter-terrorism operations were
disclosed or shown.
I am glad that not only were you adequately
informed of those success stories of the
Jonathan administration’s war on terror, you even
took the pain to pen an opinion article eulogising
Dasuki for keeping to his promise of clearing all
known terrorists’ camps before the handover to
the new government.
As a respected columnist, your article of May 1,
2015 on the back page of the Daily Sun with the
title “A little Late But Not too Late,” clearly
exonerated Dasuki from some allegations and
also revealed some concrete facts of the
achievements that were not being reported in the
media.
It is therefore baffling that the same Femi
Adesina could brazenly contradict himself shortly
after assuming public office in his official
statements. Some of us who know your cordial
relationship with Dasuki and information at your
disposal are indeed baffled by your dramatic
turnaround in so short a time.
Meanwhile, it is necessary to point out that not
all funds in ONSA are meant for arms
procurement. As you are aware, under its Special
Service Office (SSO), funds are expended on
training, espionage, communication, special
interventions for special causes including NGOs.
One of the successful programmes under ONSA
is the Soft-Approach to countering terrorism, of
which deradicalization without the use of force
through economic empowerment, education,
communication, rehabilitation and counselling
were part. The Presidential Initiative on North-
East (PINE) was conceived from the Soft
Approach.
As a media consultant who has distributed over
1,000 press releases on behalf of the military and
security agencies, I can state the following as a
fact from official documents and releases:
On August 6, 2015, through PRNigeria, Dasuki
named and provided pictures of sophisticated
weapons bought for the military, which included:
Alpha jets, Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs)
APCs, Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP)
vehicles, advanced artillery pieces, assorted
arms and ammunitions, highly sophisticated
surveillance drones, T72 Battle Tanks and
modification of F7 supersonic jet fighters. Even
in his official response to your statement against
him on November 18, 2015, Dasuki mentioned
official acknowledgements of delivery of some of
the equipment by the security chiefs.
It is therefore laughable when critics claim that
no weapons were purchased when a video from
Boko Haram leader Shekau displayed captured
sophisticated weapons after alleged mutinous
soldiers fled Baga
At the twilight of the Jonathan administration
more than 22 towns in Adamawa, Borno and
Yobe States were recovered and confirmed with
video and pictorial evidences through military
press releases. Some of the towns recovered
before the coming of President Muhammadu
Buhari included Abadam, Askira, Baga, Bama,
Biu, Buni Yadi, Damboa, Goniri, Gujba, Gulani,
Gwoza, Hong, Konduga, Kukawa, Marte,
Madagali, Michika, Monguno, Mubi, and others. A
clear testimony to some of the accomplishments
was the official DHQ release dated March 16,
2015 with reference No: DHQ/ABJ/901/32/DDI
and titled: “Troops Finally Rout Terrorists from
Bama and Last Stronghold in Yobe”.
Even though when you confirmed in the same
article while you were still a columnist that
“Sambisa Forest is falling” it was actually
stormed by Nigerian troops where about 300
kidnapped women and children were rescued
with video evidence before the emergence of the
current administration.
In an attempt to indict Sambo Dasuki, some
media leak unethically exposed the expenditure
of sensitive agencies like the National
Intelligence Agency, Department of State Service
and others to public ridicule. This is unfair. It
was for the sensitive nature of issues that we
guarded the recruitment of Special M Forces to
help in the air while Nigerian troops recaptured
the ground.
Some would rather call our Technical Advisers as
South-African mercenaries. Even when Nigeria
financially supported some neigbouring countries
to participate in the Multi-National Joint
Taskforce (MNJTF) it was deliberately done
because they were initially reluctant, as foreign
powers were not willing to help Nigerian troops.
Since Dasuki and others are now being arraigned
in court, rather than the continuing media trial
and planned secret trials, let the trial commence
in open court to enable prosecutors and
accusers present their arguments to remove
facts from fictions and reality from illusion.
Sir, as you know that I have tremendous respect
for you, I strongly urge you to use your good
office to protect the integrity of critical
institutions like security and the media from
public ridicule as some patriotic officers, media
organisations and publishers are already being
indicted without fair trial in the court of law.
While I vouch for your professional integrity, you
know for a fact that Dasuki is kind and
obediently loyal in and out of office. You know
that for sure, Mr. Femi Adesina.
As we end 2015, I pray the year 2016 will not be
one of a media circus but one in which the rule
of law will determine official actions and
suspects of all kinds will have their rights under
the constitution respected. This is my last article
on this issue and I do this with the best of
intentions to protect our institutions.

• Yushau A. Shuaib, Blogger: www.yashuaib.com,
yashuaib@yahoo.com


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/open-letter-to-presidential-spokesperson-femi-adesina/229243/

priscaoge:
Odimma

a think?

The Minister of State for Petroleum
Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has said that the
Port Harcourt refinery will start production in
the next one week.
The Minister made the statement during
his Christmas visit to the plant in Alesa
Eleme in Rivers State on Friday.
He was there to oversee the repair work
done so far and hinted that the refinery
would be back to production in the next
one week.
The Port Harcourt refinery has a combined
production capacity of over five million
litres of PMS per day and the Minister said
that getting the nation’s refineries to work
at full capacity is the way to go.
According to Mr Kachikwu, the up-scaling
of the nation’s refineries ensures
transparency and subsequent reduction in
the importation of petroleum products that
would make scarcity remain in the past.
It was announced earlier in November
that the Kaduna Refinery and
Petrochemical Company had also resumed
production of petrol four months after it
was closed for repairs.
The Managing Director of the company,
Saidu Mohammed, who disclosed this to
Channels Television in Kaduna, said that
the plant, which was closed in September,
came back on stream ahead of the
December deadline for Nigeria’s four
refineries to return to full production.

http://www.channelstv.com/2015/12/26/port-harcourt-refinery-to-start-production-in-one-week-kachikwu/

@MBuharil presenting 2016 budget @channelstv. If ur not watching #LetsBlameGEJ

http://www.channelstv.com/2015/12/22/president-buhari-presents-2016-budget-to-national-assembly/

Boss says to his secretary, “We are travelling abroad for the week, so make arrangements.”The secretary makes a call to her husband, “My boss and I will be travelling abroad for the week, so look after kids.”The husband makes call to secret lover, “My wife is going abroad for the week, so let’s spend the week together.”The secret lover makes a call to a little boy whom she is giving private lessons, “I’m going to be busy throughout the week, so you need not come for classes.”The little boy makes call to his grandfather, “Grandpa, I don’t have classes for the week, because my teacher is going to be busy. Let’s spend the week together.”The grandpa makes a call to his secretary, “I’m afraid we won’t be travelling again. My grandson and I are going to spend the week together.”The secretary makes a call to her husband, “My boss has some personal matters to attend to, so our trip is cancelled.”The husband makes a call to secret lover, “We cannot spend the week together, my wife has cancelled her trip.”The secret lover makes a call to little boy, “We will still have classes as usual this week.”The little boy makes a call to his grandfather, “Grandpa! I’m sorry we won’t be able to spend the week together. My teacher called and said that I have to attend classes.”The grandpa makes a call to his secretary, “Change of plans! My grandson is no more coming. So we are still travelling this week. Make arrangements.”
Can you tell who is controlling this chain

ADO-EKITI—Governor Ayodele Fayose
yesterday apologised to primary school
teachers in the state over the mix-up in the
payment of their last month’s salary.
According to a statement by the Chief Press
Secretary to the Governor, Idowu Adelusi, the
governor said; “Even though the mix-up was
from the State Accountant General’s office
but as the state governor, he takes
responsibility.
“I want to apologise for the inconsistency and
problems encountered in crediting the
accounts of some primary school teachers, it
was after my broadcast few days back that I
got a lot of text messages from some
teachers that were affected.
“I sincerely want to apologise, I have gotten to
the root of the matter, I have found out that
there were mix-ups here and there, the
accounts were credited and later withdrawn
for carelessness in the accountant general’s
office, for whatever it is I take responsibility, I
apologise and want to assure you all the
lapses will be corrected.
“My teachers at the primary school level, this
money will be credited to your accounts
between now and Wednesday unfailingly. My
apologies.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/fayose-apologises-to-teachers-for-underpayment/

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party said on Tuesday that the party did not prepare for defeat in the last general elections. The defeat was the first to be suffered by the party, which had been controlling the government at the centre since the country returned to democracy in 1999. Apart from losing the Presidential election to the All Progressives Congress, the PDP was also defeated in many states which it had been controlling for 16 years. Speaking in his office in Abuja on Tuesday when the Resident Country Director of International Republican Institute, Mr. Senten Barnes, paid him a courtesy call at the party’s national secretariat, the Acting Chairman of the now opposition party, Prince Uche Secondus, said the defeat came to the PDP as a surprise. He said, “We were so used to winning in the past 16 years. We never prepared for defeat and so when it came, we were surprised. “Now, we should know that money is not everything. Then, we were wrong. Selling of documents (by workers of the party) should stop. “The party will train members of staff in collaboration with IRI, and our workers must be careful against the sale of documents to outsiders. “The party must now go to the people. We need serious training and we would work with the IRI for the training.” The chairman also stressed that the era of automatic tickets for aspirants vying for elective positions was over. Secondus said that the decision to embark on biometric membership registration had shown that the era of few moneybags controlling the party had become a thing of the past. He urged members to pay their dues as the party leadership had decided to take the PDP back to the people. He said, “The era of ‘automatic tickets, no vacancy’ is over as this is not in our constitution. “We want to eliminate influence or what is called moneybags. In Kogi, the governor was threatened by other aspirants. There would be no automatic tickets for anybody.” He vowed that the national leadership of the opposition party would return the party to the people by organising error-free primaries. He also said that the party would not be financed by individuals anymore. Secondus said, “Our intention is to make our primaries zero expensive so that nobody will induce anybody. “My agenda is to revolutionise the party so that the idea of moneybags controlling the party will be eliminated. “We want every member to participate in the party activities by paying their dues. Through this, we can eliminate the class syndrome and bring the party to the people.”

US President Barack Obama offered advice Saturday to Kanye West on the rapper’s improbable White House bid — telling him that reality TV might be good training for Washington. West, who has declared with an unclear degree of seriousness that he will run for president in 2020, was performing at a fundraiser for Obama’s Democratic Party in San Francisco. Addressing supporters who paid up to $10,000 a ticket, teased that he had campaign advice for West, who is married to reality television star Kim Kardashian. “First of all, you’ve got to spend a lot of time dealing with some strange characters who behave like they’re on a reality TV show,” Obama said to laughter. Obama joked that the background of West — like Obama, an African-American who spent formative years in Chicago — may not be entirely far-fetched for the presidency. “Do you really think that this country is going to elect a black guy from the South Side of Chicago with a funny name to be president of the United States? That is crazy,” Obama said to applause. But Obama noted that the title of one of West’s albums may prove to be a political liability. “Saying you have a ‘Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ — that’s what’s known as ‘off-message’ in politics,” Obama said, referring to West’s chart-topping 2010 album. Obama did not resist taking a jab at the rival Republican Party, whose leadership in the House of Representatives is in disarray, saying that he heard “Kanye is thinking of running for speaker of the House.” West, who is known for his brash self-confidence and has likened himself to Michelangelo, declared in August at the MTV Video Music Awards that he plans to run for president in 2020. The rapper’s aspirations earlier won unlikely praise from real estate mogul Donald Trump, the acerbic front-runner in the Republican presidential race for 2016. Trump told Rolling Stone magazine last month that he found West to be a “nice guy,” adding: “I hope to run against him someday.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/obama-advises-kanye-on-us-presidential-bid/

Mr Akuki Keneth, the Assistant Commissioner of
Police (ACP) assigned to monitor the April 11
governorship poll in Rivers said on Friday that
the election in the state was peaceful.
Keneth, who is also the area commander in nine
local government councils of the state, testified
before the Governorship Election Petitions
Tribunal for Rivers sitting in Abuja.
The ACP who was subpoenaed by the tribunal
to testify said there was no disruption of voting
in the nine local government area that he
supervised.
“We commenced the first phase of our patrol
around 7: 30 a. m and end it up 11 a. m while
the second phase of the patrol commenced at
1:30 p.m.
“During the period, I went round my area of
coverage and I was also in constant touch with
my men at Cinema and Bonny highland area.
“At the places we visited, INEC documents
arrived there early and there were no threat to
security or any violence.
Kenneth said the councils under his supervision
on the election’s day were, Khana, Gokana,
Okirika, Ogu/Bolo, Eleme, Bonny, Opobo /Nkoro,
Andoni and Tai.
He said from the report he got from the
officers he dispatched to various area under his
jurisdiction, the election was peaceful and there
was no threat to life.
The witness described as “falsehood’’ an earlier
testimony of one DSP Yusuf Buba, before the
tribunal.
He alleged that Buba of the Mobile Police Force
who had earlier testified for the All Progressive
Congress (APC) lied on oath.
Kenneth said that Buba was only deployed to
the INEC office in Bori to provide security.
He contended that under the police disciplinary
procedure, the witness ought to be sanctioned
for his claim that he left his duty post to
monitor the election in other areas.
The witness also denied the allegations that
security men were seen thumb printing ballot
papers and that they provided security for
hoodlums who allegedly stuffed ballot boxes.
“I did not see any mass thumb printing of ballot
papers as alleged and I did not see anybody
removing INEC materials in Khana local
government area and INEC Headquarters,’’ he
said.
While being cross-examined by, Mr Akinlolu
Olujimi, the counsel to the petitioner, the
witness admitted that he was in charge of APC
and that he did all he could to avert the ugly
incidence of bomb blast at party’s campaign
office.
Another witness, CSP Uche Chukwuma, told the
tribunal that he was in charge of Ahoda East
local government area during the election.
He also testified that the governorship election
held and it was peaceful on April 11.
“On the night of April 10, I was on patrol all
through, with two patrol van fully loaded with
our men.
“On April 11, sister agencies like Nigerian prison
service, immigration, FRSC, NSCDC all sent in
their men to join my men. About 305 personnel
were posted to me.
“I deployed my men to the 154 polling units
under the local government.
“The local government was divided into two
constituencies and I posted 110 personnel to
the first one and 195 personnel to the second
constituency to monitor the election.
“I did not receive any negative report on the
election day from any of them,” Chukwuma
said.
He insisted that there was no electoral violence
in the areas he covered.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/police-commissioner-says-rivers-guber-election-peaceful/

By Nwobodo Chidiebere
“It is well known that in political war, the first casualty is the truth — that during any war, truth is forsaken for propaganda.” — Harry Browne When the news of Senate President Bukola Saraki’s summon by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) first hit the airwaves, many unsuspecting and gullible Nigerians celebrated it as strident anti-corruption war. Yet some discerning minds saw it as a witchhunt given the Senate President’s well- known disagreement with his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the office he occupies and the constitution of the Majority Principal Officers of the Senate. While the party gave a long list of Senators that must be named the Principal Officers of the majority party in the Senate, Saraki chose to go along with the tradition where the party only zones offices to geopolitical zones, but allow Senators and Reps from those zones to elect their preferred candidate. The preponderant opinion today, therefore, is that Saraki became the ‘most corrupt Nigerian ever’ the day he went against the whims of a club of overbearing club leaders who felt that Nigeria belongs to them. The Presidency’s denial through Garba Shehu has failed to impress Nigerians because this is a typical case of the witch crying at night and the child found dead in the morning. For instance, the President has not met with the Saraki-led Senate leadership months after their election. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is also after Mrs. Toyin Saraki and another head of one of the Sarakis’ business concerns. As Nigerians were still pondering over the persecution of Senator Saraki by those who are bent on annexing the National Assembly to enlarge their political empires from Lagos and Kaduna to Abuja, entered the APC State Publicity Secretary in Lagos, Joe Igbokwe, into the fray with a piece “No tears for Saraki”, which was larvishly used in the Vanguard newspaper. Although his obvious mission was to protect his political benefactors in Lagos, he inadvertently exposed the hypocrisy of the so-called ongoing anti-graft. Igbokwe is the Spokesperson of Lagos State Chapter of the APC, a principal partner in the already ill-fated Saraki-must-go campaign. Yet Igbokwe did not find it necessary to comment on those benefiting from IGR in Lagos. But even more important, Joe Igbokwe confirmed the widely held witch-hunt theory in the Saraki saga. Igbokwe wrote in his venom- filled, hate-driven, gutter language piece: “APC does not want Bukola Saraki as the Senate President and neither does APC want Ekweremadu as the Deputy Senate President. Saraki has caused enough implosions within the party…. He has slowed down the party’s machinery from taking off smoothly, and he has portrayed us as a weak party. Now is the time for him to go. Saraki has no choice than to go otherwise he will have himself to blame. Again if Bukola Saraki feels his hands are tightly glued to the exalted seat of the Senate Presidency and therefore cannot be removed, APC may be compelled to tear or cut his hands off, so that the National Assembly can move forward.” Hmmm! What other evidence do we need? This fully confirms Saraki’s remarks in the witness box that his party docked him because he became Senate President against their wish, but in line with the wish of overwhelming majority of the Senators who elected him. Igbokwe also wrote: “Saraki and his gang of forty thieves devastated the master plan of our great party to choose the right people to serve as the Principal Officers in the National Assembly.” Could this man tell us how a political party with a slim majority in the Senate can impose its so- called ‘Master Plan’ on the National Assembly that comprise of Senators elected from other parties? Does this Igbokwe and his paymasters know the difference between a National Assembly of Nigeria and National Assembly of APC? How much of the APC so-called ‘Master Plan’ went into the lopsided appointments by Buhari into key offices? In continuation of his vituperation and exposure of his chronic ignorance of the law, he said: “What Senator Saraki did is unheard of in the history of party politics. Saraki made the world to believe that APC leaders are unprepared for the task of governing this country. Saraki’s inordinate ambition at once put a question mark on the capacity of leaders of APC to drive leadership in Nigeria. Saraki tried to prove to the whole world that he is smarter than all the leaders of APC put together. Saraki ignored 51 APC Senators who were in a meeting and went to do business with 49 PDP Senators, a party APC just defeated after sixteen years bloody struggle. Senator Saraki bribed his way to the Clerk of the Senate and cajoled him to proclaim a Senate that is incomplete. Saraki and Ekweremmadu criminally changed the Senate rules in order to carry out the open robbery we saw in the hallowed Chamber of the Senate of Federal Republic of Nigeria.” By the above contradictions, one is led to conclude that hypocritical Joe Igbokwe assumed that majority of Nigerians are as gullible as his fellow one-man slaves in Lagos. When the Action Congress of Nigeria, Joe Igbokwe’s inner family of the APC extended family connived with the former Speaker Aminu Tambuwal and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila to work against the interest and directive of the PDP to enthrone Tambuwal as Speaker in 2011, the vuvuzelic Joe Igbokwe hailed it as democracy in action. The APC was also not only the brain behind Hon. Tambuwal’s eventual defection to the APC along with PDP’s Speakership mandate, but they also celebrated and praised the move to the high heavens. The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, befittingly named Lai Mohammed said: “I must say that this historic development means that our democracy is growing by the day and it is dynamic. On a more serious note, we welcome the defection of Tambuwal to APC. With this defection, APC has now taken the leadership of one arm of the national legislature. We think that having the head of the legislature from the opposition party makes for a balanced setting in government and it’s good for democracy…. Those who are saying this has not happened before and that Tambuwal should step aside as Speaker do not have the backing of history and the constitution.” The former Minority Leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila who is Igbokwe’s co-wailer today affirmed: “We welcome and applaud the Speaker’s decision… We are proud to acknowledge that the Speaker remains not only a member of the House of Representatives but also its Speaker. This position is consistent with the law and practice in a presidential system of government and Nigeria is no different. For the avoidance of doubt, the constitution requires only that the Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be elected by members of that House from among themselves. As a caucus, we pledge our continued support to the current leadership of the House of Representatives.” The then presidential aspirant, Mohammadu Buhari told APC Special Convention in Abuja: “We will like to thank Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal for what he did yesterday. We were overwhelmed. Taking such a remarkable risk and sending everybody on holidays till December is an achievement.” Today, as law of Karma and Section 50 of our Constitution may have it, the same Hon. Tambuwal that benefited from gang-up of then ACN, CPC, and ANPP worked with other pro- legislative independence lawmakers from both the APC and PDP to thwart the plot external puppeteers to pocket the National Assembly leadership through the imposition of puppets. What happened in the National Assembly is assertion of legislative independence. It was also politics of interest, not treachery or betrayal as the some APC power mongers and Igbokwe are trying to make Nigerians believe in the case of Saraki. And if it was betrayal, does the scripture not say that the measure a man gives is the measure he will receive? Thus, the foul-cry of APC and Igbokwe is the height of hypocrisy, especially when the same APC maneuverers ensured that APC lawmakers became Speakers of Benue and Plateau States Assemblies last June even when the PDP had the majority. I am also ashamed on Igbokwe’s behalf that he still has the face to argue that adult National Assembly members-elect who disregarded a Proclamation made by Buhari in accordance with Section 64(3) of the 1999 Constitution, clearly stating the time and venue for the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly were the democrats, while the Clerk to the National Assembly and the rest of the lawmakers who obeyed the Constitution were the anti- democrats, villains, and bribe-givers and takers. What a shame! The truth and immorality behind Saraki’s travails is clear and cannot be buried by paid propagandists. Those still in doubt as to whether he is being victimised for upholding the independence of the legislature would soon find out to their horror that Nigeria has become Africa’s North Korea.
Nwobodo, a political Analyst wrote in from Abuja.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/joe-igbokwes-ramblings-vindicate-saraki/

THERE are indications that the establishment of a new national carrier may become a reality soon with the submission of the report by a Federal Government committee with the mandate to work out modalities to restore the national airline. Submitting its report at the Ministry of Aviation, Chairman of the committee, Capt. Abdulsalami Mohammed, said that the committee had wide consultations and received a number of memoranda in the course of its sittings. According to him, “the creation of the committee on the establishment of a national carrier has generated a lot of excitement and comments both in the print and electronic media as well as in social media networks since its inauguration. “It was therefore not surprising that we received a lot of memoranda from interested stakeholders within and outside the country. “We consulted with a total of 74 stakeholders, ranging from airline operators to aviation agencies, service providers, financial consultants, institutional investors, aircrafts and parts suppliers and former staff of Nigeria Airways Limited.” Mohammed noted that the committee has given what he described as far reaching recommendations, which if accepted and implemented by the Federal Government will have positive impact on the aviation industry in Nigeria. Receiving the report, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Aviation, Mrs. Binta Bello, explained that the inauguration of the committee was based on a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari, to advise government on appropriate modalities for the establishment of a national carrier. She declined to give a timeline within which the proposal will be implemented arguing that, “the report has just been submitted to me and I have not even opened it. “Until I open the report and see the recommendations, I cannot say exactly what we are going to come up with.” The committee was inaugurated in Abuja on August 25 and given four weeks to complete its assignment. The Federal Government had made several failed attempts in the past at floating a national carrier after the demise of the Nigeria Airways which was established earlier in 1971 following a buy-out of the equities of Elder-Dempster and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). Reports indicate that for over 40 years, the airline served as link to various destinations not only in Nigeria but also across West and Central Africa and also operated intercontinental flights to Europe, USA, Middle East and Asia. According to an Aviation Consultant, Chris Aligbe, Federal Government’s Structural Adjustment Policy of Former President Ibrahim Babangida in the in the 1980s dealt the Nigeria Airways a devastating blow which may have eventually led to its grounding. According to Aligbe, “the Structural Adjustment Programme came with a huge devaluation of the Naira and stoppage of annual subvention to Nigeria Airways. “This twin policy action quadrupled Nigeria Airways problems as it multiplied the airline’s debt in terms of the quantum of it required to meet its foreign debt obligations which at the IATA Clearing House stood at US$42 million, among others.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/fg-begins-revival-of-national-carrier/

Four more witnesses for Gov. Nyesom Wike of
Rivers, on Thursday told the State Election
Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja that the April
11 governorship election was peaceful
The witnesses, who were from different local
government areas of the state, also declared
that there were no cases of multiple thumb
printing and ballot snatching in their
respective polling units.
The witnesses added that they were duly
accredited by their polling unit officials and
also waited for their votes to be counted
before they left the venue.
The witnesses included Mr Obubeleye Briggs,
a lawyer, who voted at polling unit 1 in Ward
13 of Akukutoru Local Government Area, and
Rev. Canon Nwankwo, who voted at polling
Unit 7, Ward 12 in Ikwere Local Government.
Others are Mrs Nkpang Igonikon, a public
health worker, who voted at polling Unit 6,
Ward 5 of Akukutoru Local Government Area,
and Peter Michael, voted at unit 12 Ward 9 of
Andoni Local Government.
Briggs said that the election process was
hitch-free and that after the whole process,
the winner was later declared in his polling
unit.
Also, Rev. Canon Nwankwo, from the Anglican
Church, said that the entire voting process in
his unit was transparent and credible.
Mrs Nkpang Igonikon, a health worker, said
that she voted in her polling unit without any
form of violence.
Mr Peter Michael, a community leader, told
the tribunal that the election went well in his
polling unit and that the tribunal should
disregard “the lies of the APC witnesses”.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports
that during the cross-examination by the APC
Counsel, Mr Akinlolu Olujimi (SAN), all the
witnesses told the tribunal that they did both
manual and card reader accreditation.
NAN also reports that Wike has so far
presented 11 witnesses from seven local
government areas to prove that the election
was free and fair.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/rivers-gov-polls-4-more-witnesses-confirm-wike-won-april-election/

She totally schools her son for lying about his homework. Estella Havisham has had it up to here with her son, Aaron. The 13-year-old YouTuber from
Australia lied to his mom about doing his homework, and now he has to pay the price — literally. His royally irked off mom wrote him a note that delivers the toughest of love on Wednesday, Sep. 2
“The child [Aaron] is going to have a rude awakening today after the words he exchanged with me last night,” Mama Havisham captioned the photo below on her Facebook. “Not only will [h]e find this on the door, but his mattress stripped, and the toys and clothes that I bought confiscated.”

Oof. Aaron makes a “teeny tiny bit of money” off his YouTube vids according to his mom, but nowhere near enough to pay her back for covering 13 years of his life, obviously. (Meanwhile, all of us city dwellers are weeping at the beautiful $430 rent.)
“I made the point to show what life would look like if I was not his ’parent,’ but rather a ’roommate,'” his mom explained in a follow-up Facebook post . “It was a lesson about gratitude and respect from the very beginning. Sometimes, you have to lose it all to realize how well you really had it.”

Her methods worked. When Aaron found the letter, he “stormed” out of the apartment in anger but later returned to his room, calmed down and said sorry. “He apologized, and asked what could he do to make things better and start earning items back,” his mom wrote. “He earned his comforter and some clothes right back. I did leave him some clothes to begin with, just not the ones he would want to wear every day.”
This is definitely one valuable lesson Aaron will always remember.

http://www.mtv.com/news/2270998/mom-note-son-realest-lesson/

A BRITISH mum married a Jamaican toyboy half her age, then fell pregnant with his child afte romancing him on Skype while they were on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Angara's Lovering, 38, fell in love whilst chatting to 19-year-old Loric Bullock - who she says is
mistaken for her 15-year-old daughter’s BOYFRIEND.
Baby-faced Loric has now moved in with his new wife in Cardiff - after she bought him a £3,000 visa - but Angharad insists their relationship is the ‘real deal’.
The couple saw each other for the first time when telesales worker Angharad flew out to Jamaica to meet him - and then fell pregnant during the three-week holiday.

Couple fell in love after Skype chats. Loved-up Loric proposed by text message. People often mistake Loric, who is now 22, for daughter Daisy's boyfriend.
Loved-up Loric then proposed by text message -
before the pair married in a £250 registry office
ceremony in which the bride wore a £20 dress she bought on eBay. After tying the knot, they now live together in Cardiff with their son Tyrese, now one, and
Angharad’s daughter from a previous relationship,
Daisy, 15. But people often mistake Loric, who is now 22, for Daisy’s boyfriend - and are shocked when they discover he is in fact her STEPFATHER. Angharad said she does not “give a damn” what people think. She said: “A lot of people confuse him for her boyfriend. “I don’t look as old as I am and I certainly don’t dress my age because I don’t want to look my age. I don’t have wrinkles so I’m lucky. “But Loric has a baby face. A couple of people have said to my daughter, ‘Is that your boyfriend?’ and she has to say, ‘No, it’s my stepfather.’

“I keep a very small circle of friends and I don’t really get on with my family so I don’t give a damn what they think.” Angharad and Loric first started talking when she took Daisy - whose father is Jamaican - over to the country to meet her grandparents in 2012. She said: “While I was there I met some guy and through that I got talking to Loric on Blackberry Messenger. “I didn’t think anything would come of it because he was really young - he looked about 12 in his picture. “He looked like a baby, but we just kept chatting and got on really well.”

When Angharad got back to the UK, she and Loric chatted on Skype and swapped texts and voice messages. Six months later Angharad went on a three-week holiday to Portmore, Jamaica, so that they could finally meet in real life. Speaking about the moment the pair first saw each other, Angharad said: “I was desperate tobgo and meet him. “We spent almost three weeks and we just had a lot of fun. “I thought he would just be nice to chat to but we completely fell for each other. We got on really well and then he said ‘I love you’. “When I got home and found out I wapregnantwe we saw it as a sign that we were meant to be.” Loric proposed to Angharad via text just weeks later and, despite having only met once, she said yes - and took out a loan to pay for a £3,000 temporary visa for her new fiance. In October 2013 she gave birth to their baby boy, Tyrese - with a doctor holding her hand and Loric 5,000 miles away on the end of the phone. It was not until March 2014, when Tyrese was five months old, that Loric got his visa and could fly to the UK to meet his son for the first time - and his fiance for the second. Months later the couple got married. But despite having a child together and celebrating their first wedding anniversary, Angharad says the couple are still only just getting to know each other. She said: “It’s been a tough time, but I’m finally getting to know the husband I met on Skype.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6655445/Love-at-first-Skype.html