₦airaland Forum

What a Goal from the Drog!!!.

The goal was out from this World.

@OP, without a shadow of doubt, it looks like your brain cells was dipped in a barrel of semen.

stinking swine!

@Ejine, please temper justice with mercy and spear "Bitterleaf" Bittyend this humiliation he is receiving this morning.

@OP, Which pill did you take? The Red pill or the Blue pill? Btw, welcome to a place called reality.

THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) yesterday described as worrisome the huge number of Nigerians serving prison sentences in foreign jails.

The Executive Director of SERAP, Mr. Adetokunbo Mumuni, spoke in the wake of reports, which indicated that over 800 Nigerians were in Togolese jails, 457 in Brazil, 400 in the United Kingdom and many others in jail in Asian countries.

Mumuni told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the rate of unemployment, insecurity and poverty in the country, was partly responsible for the trend.

He called on the Federal Government to create more employment opportunities for its citizens to discourage them from travelling to other countries to seek greener pastures.

Mumuni said it was unfortunate that many Nigerians were desperate to travel abroad despite the enormous human and natural resources the country was blessed with.

He said it was disturbing that some Nigerians, in their search for better opportunities, often found themselves on the wrong side of the law in foreign countries.

"I think before travelling, they should be given a kind of orientation on the laws existing in the land they are going to.

"Some of them are in prison for violating immigration laws and other minor offences," Mumuni said.

He charged Nigerian embassies and high commissions to live up to their duties by investigating the charges preferred against Nigerians and come to their aid.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/apr/13/1.html

Op, have you ever been arrested for being an idi-ot?

Calloti aka Lasinoh, didn't know you do E-slap now ... Hmmm.... easy sweerie...
Don't take Nl too serious.

sandy jo: One of the main reasons american women avoid nigerian men is their lack of good hygiene.Many nigerian men have offensive body odor about their person.Many of them refuse having a shower and they hardly wash their underwears with the result that many of them stink like dead rats.I can understand that back in africa you people dont have running water but then why is it when you come to this country you still refuse in having a shower? And yet you all scream racism when an american woman refuse in dating you.No american woman wants an african who stanks as a boyfriend.

Poor skank sounds hurt. A basic project loose bit*ch, abandoned by her spe*rm donor, now she's mad and only gets to feel special when Africans give her attention. She sounds so hurt she has to wear this insecure mask as if she doesn't pray to God each night that there's an illegal Nigerian di*ck left for her to choke on. Classless dirty hag openening threads about Nigerian men all over Nl.

#So True.

Na wa O! Northern Nigeria is turning into the den of Terrorist.

ABUJA-The United States of America Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Terence McCulley, has disclosed that part of the problems responsible for delay in issuing visas to Nigerians were old facilities built many years ago.


McCulley said plans had been concluded for a new consulate in Lagos by the U.S. Government to provide better services, adding that it would be ready within the next five years.

The ambassador, who made the remark while speaking during a video conference with journalists in Abuja, stressed that the facilities were envisaged to handle the increasing number of visa applicants in Nigeria.

He said: "We are facing challenges in terms of our physical layout both in Lagos and Abuja. But we are looking at buildings which were constructed many years ago when the demand for US visas was far reduced.

"We have seen more increase in demand for US visas and that has frankly strained our facility and we struggle with that on a daily basis. We hope in the next five years to build a new consulate in Lagos which will resolve some of these physical challenges.”

He said that the US was committed to supporting Nigeria to end the Boko Haram challenges in the country.

"We are committed to partnership with Nigeria and we have programmes with the Nigerian Police in various capacity. I don't know if there has been some success in recent weeks over tragically the lives of the Italian and British hostages that were lost. There were significant successes in capturing and detaining members of the extreme faction of Boko Haram.

"So I think that there would continue to be challenges and Nigeria can count on partners like the United States to help build capacities to address these challenges.

"The demand for US visas in Nigeria has increased substantially in the last twenty four months. We value the interest of Nigerians going on holiday, going on business, going to universities in the United States.

"We recognized that not all applicants are going to be qualified, but I will tell you that more than fifty percent of applicants requiring visas to the United States do receive them. But what I tell our consular officers in Abuja and Lagos is that they are the windows of America and that we want all applicants to be treated with respect.

"Thousands of Nigerians go to United States each year and around seven thousands Nigerians studying in the United States and more Nigerians are studying in the United States than any other countries from Sub-Saharan Africa."

He said that the US was committed to supporting Nigeria to end the Boko Haram challenges in the country.

"We are committed to partnership with Nigeria and we have programmes with the Nigerian Police in various capacity. I don't know if there has been some success in recent weeks over tragically the lives of the Italian and British hostages that were lost. There were significant successes in capturing and detaining members of the extreme faction of Boko Haram.

"So I think that there would continue to be challenges and Nigeria can count on partners like the United States to help build capacities to address these challenges.

On the fight against corruption in Nigeria, he said: "We have a variety of programmes to build capacity of the EFCC. We saluted the nomination of Chairman Ibrahim Lamorde. For a year and half, we tried to raise nomination because we recognized that the EFCC had not been able to fulfill its mandate.

"We have a variety of training programmes in place to build the capacity of EFCC workers. Chairman Lamorde is going to Washington in a week's time to have similar discussion with law enforcement and other agencies. At every opportunity, we talk about the need to address the problem of corruption.

"It is a dialogue we carry out at the highest level of this government and we recognize there is a problem. But I think we are deploying resources to assist the government of Nigeria to address this problem and it is part of our public diplomacy message."



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THE issue of religion in a relationship is a major one. In the African context, we see parents insisting on their children getting married to a man or woman who practises the same religion or have the same faith. We also see parents who are only concerned about the family background, occupation and sincerity of the heart of their children's life partners. These set of parents claim they are interested in their children's happiness and peace of mind in marriage. However today, when one xrays people's opinion about married partners sharing the same religion or different religion, the reasons are varied and so diverse that you begin to wonder if people ever consider love, trust, communication, honesty or even commitment above other things when choosing a life partner. The issue of religious differences has broken so many relationships and courtships of many years,thus, bringing sorrow and hatred into many lives.In exploring this issue of husband and wife practising different religions, Oluwakemi Aremu sought people's opinion . Excerpts:





Olatunji Owolabi, Chartered Accountant: Husband and wife in a perfect marriage are one. Thus, no religion should separate them.


Ibiwoye Olasunkanmi, lecturer: I believe that the success of any marital relationship is based on having similar value systems and not religious beliefs. If both partners are tolerant, supportive and understand each other's beliefs, it will be easy to practise a different faith from their spouse's and still live harmoniously. People who share the same religious beliefs or are practising the same religion still get divorced. Therefore, check your values and attitude to life.


Ayeni Oluwafemi, student: Religion is an act of worship. It includes the existence and total belief in a supernatural being.


Marriage on the other hand is instituted for a man and woman to become one by a supernatural being, be it God, god, or deities. This issue of practising the same religion by couples depends on mutual agreement between them. Culture is also respected here because the man is the head, he decides on what and how his family will look like. The religion the man chooses should be the woman's preference. Though it can create unity in cultural diversity, but in the real sense, the conflict and crises happening globally is caused by religious intolerance. I totally disagree that husband and wife should practise different religions.


Eseigbe Angela, businesswoman: The key issue which people seem to ignore is the fact that it is the woman who does most of the training and grooming of the children. She teaches them how to pray and instil value in them. How well will a woman play this role if she gets married to a man of a faith different from hers? People should know that marriage is not just about the man and woman. It is a marriage of two families and the foundation of several generations to come. The 'love birds' will eventually become parents and their home will become the first learning institution and agent of socialisation for each child. What kind of orientation do children in inter-faith marriages have? Whose faith should they be introduced to: mum's or dad's?


Tunde Adegboye, engineer: I can tell you categorically that it is not the best for couples to practise different religions. Personally, I cannot allow my wife to go to another church, let alone of practising another religion. Normally, children are named according to the religion their parents practise and in some cases, children will not even know the one they are to call their own probably, they attend both the Quranic School and at the same time church.


Faith Omeonu, National Youth Service Corps member: Let us face facts; the problems of inter faith marriage dates long before the marriage institution. The couple must consider several issues: How do we convince our families to accept the union? Under what faith should we conduct the marriage ceremony? Should we agree on one faith or do we continue in our separate faiths? What faith should we introduce to our children? The questions are endless. Personally, I don't think it is advisable. The home could be broken in the process. I can't marry a man who practises another religion from mine; Our union won't be successful.


Aderibigbe Yusuf, self-employed: [/b]Yes, husband and wife can practise different religions as long as the understanding and fate that brought them together are intact and the woman is performing her duties as a wife in the house while the husband is equally up to the task. Also, a Yoruba adage says O jise kan, ko gbodo di ojise kan lowo meaning you must not disturb your fellow human being. A very good example is Mr Babatunde Fashola, Governor of Lagos State who is a Muslim while the wife is a Christian and they are living happily. So also is a family friend whom I know very well, the husband is a Muslim while the wife happens to be a Christian. The children go to church with their mother and the father is in support of this. They are living together happily.


[b]Omotosho Abisola, educationist: There is nothing good in practising different religions as couples.The way they will reason will be different and definitely crises in such a marriage cannot be ruled out. Moreover, what exactly are you impacting in your children? Where should they go? Is it to follow mummy or daddy? Before parents know it, the children will no longer share the love they used to share together because what they believe in is different. There is likely to be argument on some issues which could lead to hatred.


Femi Fatogun, National Youth Service Corps member: It depends on the background of the couple. Don't forget that couples are brought up in different backgrounds. The children also have the right at a certain stage/age of their lives to choose whatever religion they wish to practise; so it shouldn't affect the home.


Ayo Damilola, corps member: [/b]Marriage is all about sharing the same values, belief, religion and so on. If at all there is going to be a difference, it shouldn't be on the issue of religion because it can lead to separation.


[b]Efedhoma Kate, counsellor: In my many years of practice as a relationship expert, I've come to realise that in most cases if not all, what drives couples apart are basically the basic differences on sex related issues, financial issues and how they deal with them. So also is the third party that is forever trying to come between the partners. The third party may be as far from them as friends and relatives and as close as the children in the union. Difference in religion shoudn't be a barrier, love supersedes all.


Aremu Damilola, student: I don't think so because when two people with different beliefs get married, they will have different orientations, thus bringing about dispute and it can eventually break their home.


Ebube Nwoko, self-employed: The basis for marrying my wife is that we have the same faith. I can't marry a woman who doesn't practise my religion.


Abdulrahman Elere, public administrator: Don't let us deceive ourselves, there would be problem on the long run, irrespective of how they try to cover-up. The best way to avoid this is for both partners to practise the same religion and have the same faith.


Adebayo Matthew, student: It is a matter of choice, whether couples are practising different or the same religion, love supersedes all.


Samsudeen Salawu: Yes, they can. Practising different religions should not be a big deal if there is true love between lovers.


Alhaji Jelili Lawal: God forbid! It is not right at all. I can't even imagine myself getting married to a woman who doesn't practise my religion. I will be going to mosque while my wife goes to the church. Definitely, our children's belief will be affected, it's never done. The answer is capital NO!

…Begs aggrieved football administrators to sheath the sword


President of the Senate, David Mark, has stated that it is high time Nigeria used the power and passion of football to fight insecurity and disunity in the country, stressing that even Boko Haram members watch the game.

The Nigerian third citizen, who spoke during the recent public hearing organised by the Senate Committee on Sports at the National Assembly, also appealed to the disgruntled sports administrators to quickly withdraw their cases from the courts in the interest of the game and the country.

“We used to evolve a robust sporting policy to take us where we are. Our young girls and boys need to be encouraged when they do well. There is need to continuation of policy. Today if we change a sports minister instead of continuing from where his predecessor stopped, he would rather start discrediting his predecessor. We must learn to build on what others have done.

“Before I conclude my rather lengthy address for obvious reason that I’m very interested in sports, I want to remind us that the greatest unifying factor in this country is sports. There are talks about religion and regional issues among other differences, but sports is one area we all agree. Once it involves sports, every Nigeria, irrespective of where we come from will agree.

“I believe that even Boko Haram members do watch the game of football. It is our unifying factor and we must begin to look at it from that perspective. If we get it right, we would go a long way in uniting and bringing peace in this country,” he noted. Appealing to the litigants, the former military governor, said:

“Football is only a small fraction of this public hearing, but it is very important. The big question those in court should ask is whether the litigations can help Nigerian football. If it would not help us, they should stop them.

“If they were there just for their personal interest in gains, then they should withdraw the cases from the court. They should take national interest to heart and give Nigerian interest the priority so that it is just a matter of going to win in the court.

If they win in court and it does not help our sporting activities, there is no access for the litigation,” Mark noted. He assured on the outcome of hearing, stressing: “We will follow up whatever comes out of the Senate public hearing because we are not doing it only for the National Assembly, but for the whole nation and we need all hands to be on deck.

“The media should queue up, the parliament and everybody would equally follow up so that we implement the outcome of the deliberation. I’m sure that if properly implemented, it is going to help us. Many Nigerians were truly worried about our declining performance in sports,” he noted.

Frazy: You atheists are helping the adversary, enemy of God, who is satan.
You stamp out Christianity and what do you think will rise in its place?
Islam or Communism? Either way you will worship the state in communism with little rights and [b]with Islam ....[/b]well you should know by now what they say about unbelievers.

They will be bombed to smitten

[color=#000000]By Olusola Fabiyi, Jude Owuamanam, Sunday Aborisade and Success Nwogu[/color]


Northern leaders have again expressed doubts about the willingness of President Goodluck Jonathan to fulfil his promise not to contest a second term in 2015.


Jonathan had during a foreign trip in January 2011, while speaking on Nigerians in the diaspora's involvement in future elections promised that he would “work towards it by 2015 even though I will not be running for election.”


The leaders, under the aegis of the Coalition of Northern Leaders, said every action of the President indicated that he would run for a second term. The CNL is a pressure group comprising the North's finest crop of academics, professionals and businessmen.


The spokesman, Dr. Junaid Mohammad, who spoke to THE PUNCH in Abuja, said the President's recent actions and inactions did not inspire confidence.


Mohammed said while Jonathan had warned ministers and party members to stop campaigning for 2015, he had not passed a similar warning to his kinsmen who were asking him to run for a second term.


Mohammed was referring to the President's comment at the 59th National Executive Committee meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party where he asked members of the party to stop 2015 politicking.


Mohammed said, “The President has refused to caution people like Asari Dokubo, who revealed that he (Jonathan) would run for a second term.


“Now, he (the President) is busy empowering his people with juicy appointments. He has put his Niger Delta kinsman at the helm of affairs of the Ministry of Niger Delta (Mr. Godsday Orubebe).


“Also, his kinswoman is in charge of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, (Deziani Allison-Madueke); the lady at the helm of affairs in the Ministry of Land is also from his constituency (Mrs. Amma Pepple).


“The President has also single-handedly handed over the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency to the former militants from his region (Mr. Tompolo).


“He has also pushed away the former Governor of his home state, Chief Timipre Sylva out of the road for his boy (Mr. Henry Dickson) and the allocation formula is favourable to him and his people.'


Therefore, the spokesman for the Northern leaders urged Jonathan to honour his commitment.


“He should abide by what he told the world concerning 2015. Why would he ask people not to talk about 2015 when he has refused to caution those promoting his own ambition?” he asked.


The CNL had, in a communique issued at the end of its meeting in Abuja on March 15, alleged that Jonathan was using the Belgore Committee to pursue his third term ambition, through the promulgation of a new constitution that would provide for a single tenure of seven years.


But the presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, had in an interview with journalists, faulted the allegation.


Abati had said, “If their concern is about the seven-year term, President Jonathan has made it clear that his proposal is out of patriotic concern about the amount of wastefulness, greed, tension, conflict that goes into the obsession of a second term.”


But the Coordinator of the Federation of Midle Belt People, Manassah Watyil, in an interview with our correspondent in Jos, said the North should pursue its agenda differently, without bringing the Middle Belt into its fold.


Watyill, who said his organisation, had been observing activities of the CNL, said, “If the North wants us, the Middle Belt, to support it, they would not have been killing us. Do you know that the name North Central is added to our nomenclature by them to tear us apart and to give us a false sense of belonging?


“We have been reduced to beasts because they believe they are born to rule. How can we support them when they term us second class citizens? We are working towards taking our place like other regions of the nation.”


Also the Chairman of Kwara Yoruba Unity Forum, Mr. Olala Kasum, in a telephone interview with our correspondent in Ilorin, said the North had been creating obstacles, which had been inhibiting Jonathan from executing his developmental agenda.


Kasum said, “Jonathan has every right to contest for a second term being a Nigerian. The northern leaders have been holding power for years. It is not a question of length of time but productivity and relevance.


“Jonathan is using the old and dead woods. We want him to find those who are very close to the masses and use them. Jonathan has not performed because these people go round to abort his effort.”

Commenting on the North's allegation, the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, said since the President had assured Nigerians that he would not seek a second term in office, he should be allowed to concentrate on his job.

SHE is the most hyped child in the world and just days after her birth, she featured in her father's album "Glory". Her cries was sampled at the end of the track making her, the youngest child officially in the rap business and now she might be the only one who can save aunt RiRi (Rihanna) from herself.



According to Now Magazine, Jay-Z and Beyonce has threatened to ban Rihanna from seeing their Newborn daughter, Blue Ivy Carter if she continues her self-destructive liaison with Chris Brown.


Jay-Z who is like a big brother and mentor to Rihanna is said to be very upset with her, after rumours of an affair with her ex-boyfriend who battered her after 2009 Grammys broke. A friend of the couple claims Jay-Z got "Beyonce to tell Rihanna he doesn't want her around the baby if she takes Chris back. He wants Blue to have positive role models, not someone who'd take back a man who hit her".


Rihanna 24, and Chris Brown 22, had been a couple up until 2009 Grammys. The couple got into a row at Clive Davis's pre-Grammy party which heated up as they pulled over in the L.A Hancock Park area. During the argument that ensued, Rihanna threw the keys to Brown's rented Lamborghini out of the window. He went in search of it and on returning, beat her within an inch of her life. When she came round, Brown had fled the scene and Rihanna in need of hospitalisation. The "Umbrella" singer became the poster lady for domestic abuse and spoke out about hidden abuse stating she wanted to be seen as an example of recovery. In 2009, she told Glamour magazine in US: 'Domestic violence is a big secret. 'No kid goes around and lets people know their parents fight. Teenage girls can't tell their parents that their boyfriend beat them up. 'You don't dare let your neighbour know that you fight. It's one of the things we [women] will hide, because it's embarrassing.


Adding: 'My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see, and they have followed every step of my recovery. 'The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. 'I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like 'I represent a voice that really isn't heard. Now I can help speak for those women.' But she went back to Chris to the amazement of those who applauded her when she initially left but she finally took herself out of the relationship as she would not want those looking up to her to think it is okay to be hit and it is alright to be with an abuser. In an interview with Diane Sawyer she explained how victim go through self denial and back to their abuser " the minute the physical wounds go away, you put it in the back of your head wondering what could I possibly have said to make him do this". When asked if she will ever take him back she said "I can't answer that question right now because you never know what the future holds. He was my best friend and we were in love. We spent two years of our lives in a relationship. Love doesn't just go right away" Right now Chris Brown and Rihanna are back into each other's lives with speculation of an affair which her supporters especially Jay-z is against. RiRi claims her relationship with Brown is purely professional, to advance her career. Defending their collaboration, Rihanna called KIIS FM and explain her decision to record two duets with her ex-abuser.


'I reached out to him about doing Birthday Cake because that's the only person that really...... it made sense to do the record, Just as a musician, despite everything else, that was going to be the person,'. She explained : 'I thought about rappers, and I've done that so many times, and the hottest R&B artist out right now is Chris Brown. So I wanted him on the track.' In return, she provided vocals on a remix of Brown's new dance song "Turn up the Music". 'It was a trade off,' she added.


'We did two records, one for my fans and one for his fans, and that way our fans can come together. There shouldn't be a divide, you know, it's music and it's innocent.'


Though RiRi is claiming professional collaboration, her tweet is hinting on reconciliation. She tweeted 'When they see me with you, wonder what the crowd would say? When they find us together, what will all the people say?' and Brown singing 'girl I wanna f*** you right now. Been a long time, I've been missing your body', concurs Rihanna's tweet. Little wonder big brother Jay-z is not buying the "it's innocent" claim but rather issued an ultimatum, showing her tough love.

"There is a sense of opportunity here. People believe 'my turn will come,'" said Folarin Gbadebo-Smith, the director of the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives in Lagos. "Whereas in many other places there's that sense that where you find yourself in society could be permanent, here everybody is rich in waiting."

Hmmmm

This article is shorter than the Atheist Bible!

@bennyraz, why do you think they get tired and don't last more than one round? #justaking

Smh at the level of Bigotry going on here. *Spits and walks out of thread*

Lolz!! Beaf, i logged out of my pc, you made me logged back. You are such a funny dude. You just made my day.

insightful!

Conspirators? Messi and Xavi possibly discussing smuggling routes.

Extravagantly humorous conspiracy theory i have come across in last decade.

^^^^ Here is the source http://odili.net/news/source/2012/mar/18/321.html

They are fighting me because I found a driver earning N1m monthly – Prof Oshodin, UNIBEN VC


By Simon Ebegbulem

University of Benin (UNIBEN) has been in the news of late over the allegation that the management favours the employment of Bini natives to the detriment of others. In this interview, the vice chancellor, Prof Osayuki Oshodin, responds. Oshodin spoke after a Fellowship Award was conferred on him by the Nigeria Institute of Entrepreneurs.


UNIBEN was ranked the best university in the country recently. How were you able to achieve that?

It is the result of hard work and dedication. What we did was to strengthen academics, in terms of administration and in terms of research. When you look at the development of infrastructure in this university, you will know that it is nothing to talk about.

And since I came on board about two years ago, I have ensured that many of those rickety houses were pulled down; ram shackled structures have been pulled down and renovated. For example any body who has gone there has been impressed because it was as if Ekenwa campus had been abandoned.

Infrastructural development is one area we looked at and we have done so well. If you look at academic programmes, when I took over, the sessions were irregular. But by God's grace, by the end of this session, we will be meeting the target of having a regular session.

We plan to end this session in October-November. The kind of academic programme we have is of high standard. Our graduates are doing very well overseas and all over the world. Some of the best medical

doctors in the US are products of this university, this is another area the people who did the ranking looked at.

You were in the Entrepreneurship Award, I never knew them before but suddenly they said they wanted to make me their patron because I have been encouraging them entrepreneurship here. The reason is that it is not enough to get a degree these days.

What of if you have the degree but you cannot get a job with it. You should be able to branch out to do some other things. I have been encouraging both staff and students to develop themselves.

On staff development, the Federal Government and Tertiary Education Trust Fund have been very helpful in this area because they have been providing funds for the training of staff. So our graduate students have the opportunity to go to the best universities in the world, they get their masters and PHD then they come back.

I have been encouraging that, I even have a small internal budget apart from Tertiary Education Trust Fund. We have sent over forty persons abroad for training. The environment itself, you can see we have all green here; they also looked at that. We are doing very well environmentally.

How have you been able to curb cultism in the university?

When you keep the students busy and you give them their entitlements, they will not have time for immoral activities. I have used sports to encourage them effectively because you know I am a sports man. We have the VC's Cup; so by the time they go to school in the morning and in evening go for sports they are engaged.


That is the reason I renovated the Sports Complex to enable them to have access to sports facilities so that they can have varieties of games. That will keep them occupied. You don't expect somebody who plays sports from 6:30 to 7a.m. to go and be doing cultism.

I also ensured that the lecturers follow their time-table to the letter and they also make sure that they take attendance. And you the know that the law is very clear, if you don't have up to 75 per cent attendance, you are not supposed to do exam.

So when you don't take exam, what will you tell your parents when you get back home? One of the strategies too is that some of those who graduated have no jobs, so they become involved in cultism, they won't go to their homes any more.

But many of them, once they graduate now, those that made first class, I employ automatically. Those who don't have, we also employ them within the limits of our budget. I can confess to you that the personnel cost that I have can even still accommodate some people in terms of employment.

My offence to those people who are used to business-as-usual is that they were keeping the money and sharing it. But I refused that it will not happen again and insisted that I will use it to employ. I even threatened at a point that if they didn't want me to employ, I would return the money to the Federal Government. They agreed because they knew that returning it to the Federal Government will open a can of worms.

Commendation from Federal Government

I paid arrears to the tune of N900million when I came in as VC. I recently paid promotion arrears which were never paid too. They said there was no money then whereas the money was deposited somewhere. You see, when I took over, I was handicapped to an extent that I had no handover note.

So I could not have access to all the accounts but, with God, I started discovering them. So I started asking questions on why some accounts were not being utilized while government sent the money for a purpose. I said the money must be utilized for the benefit of the university. You can see some of the structures that we recently erected.

Those structures are not N2 structures, we have five lecture theaters of one thousand seaters each. If you go to the engineering faculty, we have another two thousand going on at the same time. I believe that when government brings money for such things, it should be utilized but the attitude of some people is that you should first of all go and keep it in a bank so that it will bring profit for you.

That is evil. So I was not surprised with the commendations I received both from the unions in the university and the Federal Government.

How I discovered inflation of salaries

When you have goodwill in a community, you get all the information you need. I sat in my office, then people will either phone or send me text message giving me information. Don't waste any information you get because it may help you a lot.

That is how I got the information that people were inflating salaries. And when I got that information, I called the former head of that department, I said, ' look I have information that people are inflating salaries.' I discovered that a driver was earning one million naira a month and then one intermediate official was collecting N3million monthly.

So I gave the department head the opportunity to investigate the matter. She did and did a wishy-washy report, she wanted to cover up some people. I said okay. I decided to set up my own committee to look into the matter. When they came back with the report, I was alarmed. Virtually all of them inflated their salaries and they were just collecting the money.

Initially they were denying because one of them had boasted to them that the fraud will be covered up. Why are you covering up if you are not party to it?. Even the panel report reflected that the department head should be held liable for that fraud.

Unfortunately, all the people that were involved in that were all her kinsmen and women. So she started saying that I wanted to drive all her kinsmen and women away. I am not the one who posted them, they were indicted by the university panel.

You are being accused of running a Bini agenda in the university after it was learnt that a Bini senator facilitated your appointment?

When they say I am running a Bini agenda in the school, I laugh because I know that it was only God that put me here as VC. Do you think that it is all the Binis that are supporting me?. That is why this ethnic thing cannot work here. Yes I heard that people were saying that a senator from the state supported me.

But that is not true, that senator had his own candidate, I was not his candidate. That is why I keep telling people that my coming here is God. The people who just left my office now are not Binis, they are Igbo, Yoruba, Ora and Esan.

And they all came for help and, many of them, it is either I have employed their wives or children and they are not Binis. That senator, with all due respect to him, he had a candidate. They selected three persons, I was not one of them.

As at that time, I knew that God was with me and none of those people could beat me to it. It is the handiwork of God, I did not know those Council people but I just applied and God gave it to me. Even when people came to my house to inform me that I was now the VC, I was shocked and said, even with all these wranglings that took place.? These people you were talking about were against me.

Again, this story that recruitments have been lopsided in favour of the Bins, there is nothing like that. You can go round and find out from all the newly employed people, how many of them are Binis? In fact one of them, an Igbo boy, told me that they may have to form an association of newly employed people so that they can go and speak to journalists on this matter.

Because that was how the sacked top official messed up; she went to Abuja and met one Director and told the man I was a tribalist, but she did not know that I had employed the man's son and this same man had never seen me in life. You see the irony of life? When she left the man, the man called me and asked if I had a problem with the official. I said I didn't. The man now