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These modern-day Josephs, driven by love for their country or ambitions, risked their lives to secure a better future for their people. While it easily can be argued that they are all not saints, the sacrifice made by these people has to be respected. These modern-day Josephs , driven by love for their country or ambitions, risked their lives to secure a better future for their people. Here are seven presidents who rose from prisoners to becoming the leaders of their nations.


1. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi [India]
The first and only female Prime Minister of India , Indira was the daughter of the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru . She first served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977, before losing her seat to the Janata alliance. She later won a bye-election in 1978 but was arrested along with her son Sanjay Gandhi by the Janata government on some trumped up charges but was released after the collapse of the Janata coalition. In 1980, Indira Gandhi once again became Prime Minister but was assassinated by her bodyguards in 1984 for ordering the storming of the Harmandir Sahib as a countermeasure to the Punjab insurgency.




2. Fidel Castro [Cuba]
The son of his father’s maid, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz and his brother Raul were captured and sentenced to 15 years in prison, after their group “The Movement ” staged a failed attack on the Moncada barracks on July 26, 1953. Released in 1955 they traveled to Mexico , where they met Ernesto “Che” Guevara who helped them mount a series of successful military campaigns, that eventually led to the collapse of General Fulgencio Batista’s government in January 1959. Manuel Urrutia was then installed as president while José Miró Cardona became prime minister. But after just a month Miro resigned, and Castro was sworn in as prime minister at the age of 32.




3. Dilma Vana [Brazil]
Daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant, Dilma Rousseff joined various guerilla groups which fought against the dictatorship in 1964 before she was captured, tortured, and locked up between 1970 and 1972. The Mensalao corruption scandal in 2005, saw her become the Chief of Staff of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and in March 2010 she resigned to run for president. Dilma Rousseff became Brazil’s first female president in 2010 and was re-elected again in 2014, but was suspended by the senate for six months on 12 May 2016, before she was finally impeached on 31 August 2016.


4. Kim Dae Jung [South Korea]
Referred to as the “ Nelson Mandela” of Asia, Kim Dae-Jung was arrested in 1980 and sentenced to death. But the intervention of the United States and the Pope John II , saw his sentence changed to 20 years in prison, then to an exile in the US. In 1985, Kim returned to South Korea and was once again put under house arrest, before losing the first transparent elections held in a long time by dictator Chun Doo-hwan after succumbing to pressure. Finally, after trying four times, Kim Dae-Jung defeated Lee Hoi-Chang and was sworn in as the eighth President of South Korea on 25 February 1998.

5. Nelson Mandela [South Africa] A lawyer by profession Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela joined the ANC in the late 1940s, co- founded its Youth League and before being appointed President of the ANC’s Transvaal branch. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1962 for conspiring against the state after his militant group Umkhonto we Sizwe , launched a sabotage campaign against the government but was freed in 1990 after serving 27 years. In 1994 Mandela became the first black President of South Africa after winning a multiracial general election. A true statesman, he only served one term before handing over the reins to Thabo Mbeki .


6. Patrice Lumumba [Congo] Hailed by Malcolm X as the most impressive black man to ever walk the African continent, Patrice Lumumba was handed a 69-month sentence in 1959 for his anti- colonial fight but was released after serving only nine months and became the Prime Minister at the young age of 34. He only lasted three months as Prime Minister before being ousted in a military coup fronted by Mobutu Sese Seko but orchestrated by the US, England , and Belgium their former colonial lords. Lumumba’s believed to have been shot multiple times, before his body was dissolved in acid, by the Belgian military in a bid to cover a full-scale investigation. Belgium later apologised in 2002 for its role in his death.





7. Olusegun Obasanjo [Nigeria]
Credited with bringing the civil war to an end, Olusegun Obasanjo first became the President of Nigeria after the death of Murtala Mohammed in the failed Dimka coup. In 1995, Obasanjo an outspoken critic of the Abacha regime was arrested on trumped up charges of plotting a coup but was released after the sudden death of Abacha in June 1998. After his release, Olusegun Obasanjo contested for and won the presidential elections held in 1999, under the Peoples Democratic Party and also won a second term in 2003.

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Thanks op, was at old aba road when it occured...my boss had to call us out to come see it....it occured during the early hours of today, 8---30am this morning.

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Bravemargai:
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I know this is not the right section to post this but I have to




photo of Annular Eclipse in Port Harcourt Today

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Flexherbal:
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But, this herbal tea you are talking about, has restore the pride and confidence of many men. It has brought peace back to homes. If you do not have a challenge in that area, you will not understand what men with that challenge go through.
You should join me in this, brother. There is joy in putting smiles in the faces of men and restoring the pride of men who have lost respect from their wives.

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*Primary skul shoutout*
✔Shoutout to all doz girls dat begin 2 cry wen de call a
boy ur husband,i hope u are still single
✔2 all doz boys dat brings ball 2 skul and decides who
they wants 2 play wit, i hope u guys are now gud decision
makers
✔2 Doz pple who do not allow odas to use thier water
bottles, makin us feel our mouth are dirty, i hope u pple
are now working wit CLOSE UP.
✔2 all doz pple who lyk sitting beside d window, i hope u
are still recievin d fresh air
✔ 2 all doz pple who sets pen on pples chair so dat de
can seat on it, i hope u are now terrorists
✔ 2 all doz pple who says dat if u eat beans and egg u are
likely 2 fart, i hope u now medical doctors
✔Shoutout to doz boys and girls dat tears oda pple notes
for test rather dan tearing thier own, i hope u guys are stil
smart
✔To doz pple who cant use thier pen without its cover, i
hope u pple are stil with d covers
✔2 doz clean pple who dont allow thier bag to touch d
ground, i hope u guys are still neat.
✔2 doz pple who don't buy anything during breaktime but
wud wait at d food shed and start begging 4rm pple who
bought, i hope u guys are now real beggers
✔ 2 all doz boys who used bobo or viju milk containers 2
play ball, i hope u guys are now footballers
✔ 2 Doz smart ones who do not allow thier classmates 2
copy thier homework, i hope u are still d best.
✔2 doz pple dat sang diz song, u guys didnt kno hw it
feels 2 B a victim of diz song..
Who mess am
na solo
Solo say na teacher
Teacher say no wori,
Na my class pple na im mess Am
Poooo!
I hope u guys are now musicians
✔to all boys and gurls that follow pipl around and do servant fr them on thier bdae to get in the bestfriends pic/presents n abandon em next day
✔And finally, 2 all doz class captains who wrote our names
as noise makers x4, i hope u are now leaders.
Dere are lots of memories we had 4rm our Primary school
days.....It was d best. LOL



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Home Management 3 (Practical ) Planning Session 12.00noon – 1.00pm ================================ Wednesday 31st August, 2016
Commerce 2 (Essay) 3.00pm – 5.00pm
Commerce 1 (Objective) 5.00pm – 5.50pm ================================ Friday 2nd September, 2016
Biology 2 (Essay) 9.30am – 11.10am
Biology 1 (Objective) 11.10am – 12.00pm ================================ Saturday 3rd September, 2016 English Language 2 (Essay) 9.30am – 11.30am
English Language 1 (Objective) 11.30am – 12.30pm
English Language 3 (Test of Orals) 3.30pm – 4.15pm ================================ Monday 5th September, 2016 Geography 2(Essay) 9.30am – 11.30am
Geography 1(Objective) 11.30am – 12.30pm
Biology 3 (Alternative to Practical Work) 2.00pm – 4.00pm ================================ Tuesday 6th September, 2016
Agricultural Science 2 (Essay) 9.30am – 11.40am
Agricultural Science 1 (Objective) 11.40am -12.30pm ================================ Wednesday 7th September, 2016
French 2 (Essay) 9.30am – 10.45am
French 1 (Objective) 10.45am – 11.45am
Home Management 2 (Essay) 2.00pm – 3.00pm
Home Management 1 (Objective) 3.00pm – 4.00pm ================================ Thursday 8th September, 2016
Financial Accounting 2 (Theory and Practice) 9.30am – 12.00noon
Financial Accounting 1 (Objective) 12.00noon – 1.00pm ================================ Friday, 9th September, 2016
Hausa 2 (Essay)** 9.30am – 11.30am
Hausa 1 (Objective)** 11.30am – 12.30pm
Igbo 2 (Essay)** 9.30am – 11.30am
Igbo 1 (Objective)** 11.30am – 12.30pm
Yoruba 2 (Essay)** 9.30am – 11.30am
Yoruba 1 (Objective)** 11.30am – 12.30pm ================================ Saturday 10th September, 2016
General Mathematics 2 (Essay) 9.30am -12.00noon
General Mathematics1 (Objective) 2.00pm -3.30pm ================================ Thursday 15th September, 2016
Physics 2 (Essay) 9.30am – 11.00am
Physics 1 (Objective) 11.00am -12.15pm
Geography 3 (Practical and Physical Geography) 2.00pm – 3.50pm ================================ Friday 16th September, 2016
Chemistry 3 (Alternative to Practical Work) 9.30am – 11.00am ================================ Saturday 17th September, 2016
Economics 2 (Essay) 9.30am – 11.30am
Economics 1 (Objective) 11.30am – 12.30pm ================================ Monday 19th September, 2016
Literature-In-English 2(Prose) 9.30am – 10.45am
Literature-In-English 1 (Objective) 10.45am – 11.45am
Literature-In-English 3 (Drama & Poetry ) 2.00pm – 4.30pm. ================================ Tuesday 20th September, 2016
Chemistry 2 (Essay) 9.30am – 11.30am
Chemistry 1 (Objective) 11.30am -12.30pm
Government 2 (Essay) 2.00pm – 4.00pm
Government 1 (Objective) 4.00pm -5.00pm ================================ Thursday 22nd September, 2016
Agricultural Science 3 (Alternative to Practical Work) 9.30am -11.00am ================================ Friday 23rd September, 2016
History 2 (Essay) 9.30am – 11.30am
History 1 (Objective) 11.30am – 12.30pm ================================ Monday 26th September, 2016
Christian Religious Studies 2 (Essay) 9.30am -11.30am
Christian Religious Studies 1 (Objective) 11.30am – 12.30pm
Islamic Studies 2 (Essay) 9.30am -11.30am
Islamic Studies 1 (Objective) 11.30am – 12.20pm
Arabic 2 (Essay) 2.00pm – 4.00pm
Arabic 1 (Objective) 4.00pm – 4.50pm ================================ Tuesday 27th September, 2016
Further Mathematics 2 (Essay) 9.30am – 12.00noon
Further Mathematics 1 (Objective) 3.00pm – 4.30pm ================================ Wednesday 28th September, 2016
Physics 3 (Alternative to Practical Work) 9.30am – 12.15pm
Foods and Nutrition 2 (Essay) 2.00pm – 3.15pm
Foods and Nutrition 1 (Objective) 3.15pm – 4.15pm ================================ WAEC GCE 2016 TIMETABLE COMPLETED BY WENEBUNWO

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