Any independent confirmation of these reports?

http://www.linknaija.com/2016/12/breaking-prof-james-ayatse-is-new-tor.html

http://www.queendoosh.com/2016/12/breaking-professor-ayatse-emerges-new.html

Please how much is a carton of Chicken now and how many in the carton?

I got information that my leader, mentor and the servant Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was returning to Nigeria yesterday after weeks of vacation and business abroad. I was to be at the Nnamdi Azikwe international Airport, Abuja betweem 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to welcome and honour the servant leader. Around 9 a.m., I sent one of my kids to the Lagos Airport to get me a flight ticket. He got the ticket and I was billed to check in by 2 p.m. as it was a 3 p.m. flight. I got to the Airport exactly by 2 p.m. and was there till about 10 p.m. when someone who recognised helped get a boarding pass. During my eight hour ordeal, I saw Arik Air’s unfortunate service firsthand. After collecting money, they abandon their passengers without shame. The management speaks to no one. They cancel flights without care. They have no system, no organisation and no sympathy. This is the story of a company that does not know how to manage success.
Arik Air controls almost 70 percent of the domestic airline business in Nigeria.
Arik Air has the highest number of aircrafts in Nigeria.
Arik Air knows how to collect money from passengers but does not know how to deliver efficient services.
Arik Air has no skills for managing its success.
Arik Air shows no remorse for its human rights abuses and abuse of office.
Arik Air thrives on impunity and gross inefficiency.
I can go on and on.
what do we do with Arik Air?
The Ministry of Transport and Aviation should investigate Arik Air. I understand that many petitions have been written about the avaition company and its less than desireable performance but the Federal Government has refused to pay attention. It is alleged that Arik Air cannot pay the debt it is owing aviation fuel suppliers; that Arik Air’s welfare of workers is nothing to write home about; that Arik Air’s workers are being owed months of salaries. And, many of the workers have been said ti have resigned and walked away. Arik Air seems to celebrate impunity as if enjoying immunity from the Federal Government. Given what I saw of Arik Air management yesterday, I think that time has come for the government to apply the big stick. This shame must not be tolerated any longer; something needs to give way.
I am calling on everyone who has suffered from Arik Air’s sense of impunity, its inefficiency, and gross incompetence, to speak up now. We must collectively stop this situation. Please share your experiences with Arik Air and let the world know. Arik Air must perform or stop operating; and the time is now.
Joe igbokwe writes from Lagos.
http://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2016/12/15/arik-air-goes-nigeria-joe-igbokwe/

Suspected herders yesterday allegedly killed a farmer, Pa Omifenwa Moses Atanda inside his farm settlement at Ado-odo in Ado-odo/Ota local government area of Ogun state.



The son of the 76 year-old father and correspondent of the Global News magazine, Jide Omifenwa confirmed the incident to his colleagues in Abeokuta yesterday.

He said the incident occurred about 1.30pm when his aged father had gone into the settlement to check the presence of the herders in the farm.

“But, after some minutes we observed that he was yet to return. We went into the farm only to meet his lifeless body. I quickly ran to the police station. We got a medical personnel who confirmed him dead and discovered that he was hit with a big stick,” Omifenwa said.

The bereaved journalist said three suspected herders had been arrested over the incident.

Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/herders-kill-man-in-ogun-farm/176287.html#HRcWu5RKUWJx6fOY.99

A 25-year-old woman, Patience Benedict, told police detectives that she stole the four-year-old son of one of her boyfriends’ neighbour to present him to another boyfriend as the son she had for him, so he will marry her. She was arrested by operative of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, for kidnapping the boy at Masaka area of Nassarawa State. Vanguard gathered that the suspect, who is a native of Kagoma in Kaduna State and a mother of three, was said to have kidnapped the boy (names withheld) last Monday, after telling his mother that she wanted to buy clothes for the boy. The suspect had two boyfriends: one in Masaka, Nassarawa State, and the other at Kubwa, Abuja, where he took the stolen boy. Police sources disclosed that Okpe’s mother was thrown into confusion when her son did not return while Patience, who took him away, refused to pick her calls. The boy’s mother reported to the police in Nassarawa State and when they could not make head way, the case was transferred to IRT. The IRT operatives trailed Patience to Kubwa area of Abuja through her mobile phone, apprehended her in the home of her boyfriend and rescued Okpe. Confession During interrogation, the suspect said she had no intention of kidnapping the boy, who she just wanted to use to fool her boyfriend, who she claimed refused to marry her. According to her, “I have no intention to kidnap that boy, but only wanted to use him to get back my boyfriend’s attention because he abandoned me since 2014 when I had a child for him. “I was formerly married to a man in my home town, who I had two children for. But I divorced him because he was always beating me when he is drunk. “I came to Abuja and I had two boyfriends. One was at Masaka, Nassarawa State, and the other was at Kubwa, Abuja. I became pregnant and gave birth to a baby girl for my boyfriend in Kubwa, known as Itortim Iorhemen. “But he did not know when I put to bed. Two months ago, I called and told him that I had a male child for him and he was eager to see his son. He even promised to marry me if could bring him his son.” She said it was then that she went to the house of the other boyfriend in Masaka, where she saw the small boy in the compound. According to her, “I told his mother that I have a sister, who has a child of same age and that I want to buy him clothes for Christmas so I would use his (victim’s) measurement to buy the clothes. “After much persuasion, the woman allowed me go with her child and I took him to my boyfriend, who was very happy. We even took group photographs and I fed the boy very well. But three days into our stay, the police showed up and arrested me.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/woman-steals-4-yr-old-boy-deceive-boyfriend-marriage/

In Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the venue will be the Camp Ground/Church headquarters near Tank, Rumuodara along the East-West road. There are other Retreat Centres across the State and the nation. Attend the one near you and be prepared for the new year as well as eternity!

The Deeper Life Bible Church will on December 23 begin its 2016 National December Retreat tagged, “Power for the present hour.”

The church said in a statement on Thursday that the four-day retreat would hold at the Deeper Life Conference Centre, Km 42, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway beginning from the evening of December 23.

It quoted the General Superintendent of the church, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi, who would minister at the conference, as saying that God would pour out His abundant blessings upon the worshippers as they opened their hearts during the programme.


“He never calls people to Himself only to send them away empty handed. He is a loving Father and cares about our every need. If we humble ourselves before Him and by prayer hold on to His promises, He will increase our benefits from the retreat,” Kumuyi said.

The cleric said it was only by God’s strength that people could triumph over life’s challenges.
http://punchng.com/deeper-life/

A young housewife in Sabon Gari, Zaria, is being accused of stabbing her husband to death in the heat of an argument over N200 meant for soup ingredients.



The lady, Zainab Hamisu, who was residing with her late husband, Suleiman Abubakar, 25, was alleged to have committed the act after Abubakar had demanded an explanation on her failure to cook for the family.

An elder brother of the deceased, Isa Abubakar, said: “At 9am of last week Thursday, I was called and told that Zainab had stabbed Suleiman and his intestines were out.

I rushed to the house and met him writhing in pain. We rushed to Major Abdullahi Memorial Hospital, but the doctor insisted that we must inform the police first since it was not an accident. I called the police and they arrested her.”

Abubakar said it was the deceased, before he died three days after the stabbing incident, that told them what transpired between him and his wife.

“He said he gave her N200 to buy soup ingredients to cook

for them. But when he asked for his food, she told him that she had used the N200 to pay her tailor for the clothe he sewed for her. My brother told her that food was more important than dress. The argument became heated and she found a kitchen knife and stabbed him,” Abubakar said. Zainab’s grandfather, Sama’una Maikaji, said they were disturbed by their daughter’s act, saying that the marriage was just about 14 months old.

The Kaduna State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Aliyu Usman, did not pick his calls, but a police source said Zainab was in police custody with her 30-day-old baby.

Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/woman-kills-husband-in-quarrel-over-n200-soup-money/176290.html#wftebqhWhcU1KmqF.99

The violence this time around was perpetrated more by uniformed men than the law abiding well-meaning people of Rivers State. Forget all the arm chair comments and denials. Not only carting away ballot boxes at gunpoint, but shamelessly altering results and even thumb-printing ballot papers. It was blue murder and a show of shame while marauding murderers are killing people on the farms and along the highways, Boko Haram is regrouping and reviving, rapists and robbers are on the prowl, PHCN is throwing us into darkness and the economy is killing. The blood will haunt all the murderers. For the records, some of our politicians are worse than the people we call common criminals! Killing your own constituents and citizens, and then celebrating a charade of so-called election victory is corruption and callousness. I pity the gullible and uniformed who have no idea of the true situation on ground.

The violence this time around was perpetrated more by uniformed men than the law abiding well-meaning people of Rivers State. Forget all the arm chair comments and denials. Not only carting away ballot boxes at gunpoint, but shamelessly altering results and even thumb-printing ballot papers. It was blue murder and a show of shame while marauding murderers are killing people on the farms and along the highways, Boko Haram is regrouping and reviving, rapists and robbers are on the prowl, PHCN is throwing us into darkness and the economy is killing. The blood will haunt all the murderers. For the records, some of our politicians are worse than the people we call common criminals! Killing your own constituents and citizens, and then celebrating a charade of so-called election victory is corruption and callousness. I pity the gullible and uniformed who have no idea of the true situation on ground.

The Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria are at loggerheads with the Kaduna State Government over a directive for all civil servants living in government quarters to quit the premises within seven days.

At a joint press conference in Kaduna on Monday, Adamu Ango, and Shehu Mohammed, state chapter chairmen of NLC and TUC respectively, on Monday in Kaduna, said the notice was not only an abuse of the right of the civil servants, but violated the known laws between a tenant and a landlord.

According to them, the law establishing Kaduna State rent tribunal, where all matters relating to tenancy is settled, stipulates that three months’ notice be given to any tenant before any eviction can be carried out.

The unions called on all its members occupying government quarters in the state to disregard the eviction order and remain in the premises.

“We have taken all diplomatic steps to ensure that the governor sees reason but all in vain. So we are calling on all our members to stay put at the same time calling the state government to prepare their arsenal because we are ready to sacrifice our lives to protect our members,” the unions said.

The labour unions also expressed dismay over the recent retrenchment by the state government, saying it is a ploy to kick some civil servant out of service.

Speaking on this, Mr. Mohammed said the Kaduna State Property Development Company which had 60 personnel, now has 14, while SUBEB with staff strength of 300, now has only 34 staff.

“Some of our members have already been sent to the office of the Head of Service where they are doing nothing, and in the end the government may decide to terminate their appointments saying their services are no longer needed.

“Therefore the restructure is not acceptable to us and cannot hold because we are going to fight against it,” he said.

Samuel Aruwan, Special Assistant on Media and Public Affairs to Governor Nasir El-Rufai, did not respond to calls or text messages on Monday.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nwest/217765-nlc-tuc-reject-el-rufais-eviction-order-civil-servants-vow-fight-death.html

The Bayelsa State Government friday rejected the list of policemen recently employed by the federal government, describing it as fraudulent.

It condemned in ‘strong and unequivocal terms’, the manner and mode of the recruitment exercise into the Nigeria Police Force and called for an immediate probe into the process.

A government statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Jonathan Obuebite, described the process as not only lopsided, but a fraud against the people of the state.

The statement noted that a situation where names of non-Bayelsans were used to fill the positions meant for the people of the state, was not acceptable and totally against the principles of federal character and due process.
According to the government, while each local government area across the country was meant to produce 10 candidates, those of Bayelsa were filled with fictitious names of persons, who are not from the particular local government areas.

The government emphasised that Bayelsa, made up of eight local government areas was entitled to 80 candidates, but added that the lopsided manner in which the recruitment exercise was conducted, has further depleted the state’s quota.
It called on the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Police Service and Federal Character Commissions, as well as other related agencies of the government to urgently investigate, correct the anomaly and equally bring the perpetrators of the “fraud” to book.

It stressed that failure to correct the seeming imbalance and fraud against Bayelsa and the Ijaw ethnic nationality, would be seen as a deliberate move by the Nigerian system to short-change the state, its people and the entire Ijaw ethnic nationality.

The state government called on President Muhammadu Buhari to step into the matter, arguing that it was a dent on the current fight against corruption in Nigeria.

Bayelsa had also recently protested against alleged lopsided selection of ambassadorial nominees and the recruitment into the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/12/13/bayelsa-rejects-police-recruitment-list-says-its-fraudulent/

The anarchy in Rivers State arising from the violent rerun elections held in the state on Saturday, took a turn for the worse yesterday when some security operatives made up of soldiers and policemen in Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) uniforms stormed the Port Harcourt City Hall collation centre and tried to disrupt the declaration of results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

INEC yesterday had announced the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates – Senator George Sekibo and Mr. Osinachukwu Ideozu – winners of the senatorial rerun elections in Rivers East and Rivers West Senatorial Districts, respectively.
This was after the commission had declared Senator Magnus Abe as the winner of the Rivers South East Senatorial District election on Sunday.

However, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state kicked against the results that showed PDP had won two of the senatorial seats, saying it would contest them as it was not done in accordance with the law.

Declaring the results at the collation centre, the Returning Officer for Rivers East, Prof. Orji Okumenkama, said Sekibo scored 93,098 votes to defeat the candidate of the APC, Chief Andrew Uchendu, who scored 34,193 votes.

The Returning Officer for the Rivers West Senatorial District, Prof Raphael Ndubuisi Echebiri, also declared that Ideozu of the PDP had polled 107,166 votes to defeat APC’s Otelemaba Amachree who scored 46,898 votes.

The announcement of the results, however, did not come without drama, as some security operatives made up of soldiers and policemen in SARS uniforms stormed the Port Harcourt City Hall collation centre and tried to disrupt the process.

However, as more people were attracted to the melee that ensued at the city hall, the security operatives shot sporadically into the air to scare the people and made their exit.

In the ensuing confusion, an INEC election officer, Mary Tokoyo, was manhandled.

“They (security operatives) hit me with a chair, they slapped me. I was molested,” she told journalists as she was taken to the hospital for medical attention.

The state governor, Nyesom Wike, was among those who rushed to the collation centre, as the security operatives invaded the centre.

Addressing supporters shortly after the announcement of the results, Sekibo dedicated his victory to “the resilience of the Rivers governor and the people”.

“I dedicate this victory to all the people of the Rivers East Senatorial District and indeed the entire people of the state. If not for their commitment and that they came out to support democracy, I believe that the hell-raiders would have taken away our mandate,” he said.

He also promised to pursue electoral reforms when he rejoins his colleagues at the Senate.

Also addressing the crowd at the city hall, Wike said the overbearing federal might which he said was on display before, during and after the rerun polls in the state, would not be allowed to happen in any other election in Rivers State, as the people had been taught how to prepare for elections.

He also threatened to withdraw logistics support to security agencies in the state in response to their activities during the elections.

Wike said: “I thank God for the strength and courage he has given to us in this election. We have really sacrificed. I know that freedom comes with sacrifice.

“Rivers people were murdered for just simple legislative elections. The federal government came with their might to conquer Rivers State, just because they wanted to win. They killed people because they want the state.

“The blood of those people they killed will be on their heads. States that cannot pay their workers salary and cannot carry out meaningful projects brought money to rig the elections in this state.

“They should be ashamed because they won one senatorial seat but we won two of the senatorial seats. They fought but God said, no way, do not be intimidated. This will never happen in 2019.

“They have shown us that there is no democracy in Nigeria, if not why don’t they conduct elections the way they have been done in other countries.”
http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/12/13/security-personnel-attempt-to-disrupt-rivers-senatorial-results-announcement/

Some security agents allegedly have blood on their hands and ink on their fingers from stamping on ballot papers! the majority of Rivers State people really embraced peace and wanted peaceful conduct of the elections.

This is not the time for arm chair analysis and mouthing on internet - speak with anyone on ground who has the smallest fear of God! The elections were hitch-free and peaceful in some areas but in others, they were at least three levels of malpractice. One was uniformed men openly shooting and carting away ballot papers and boxes -previous experiences of rigging were more by the politicians and their thugs with somewhat more clandestine security cover. This one was more by uniformed men at gunpoint. The second level, is deliberately delaying result of particular LGAs and waiting for others to be released, then forcefully altering the result of withheld result in order to exceed the gap. The third level is arresting targeted party stalwarts, agents etc. To be honest, most Rivers people and voters were determined to be peaceful and have been so this time. The real culprit are security forces but to be honest, some of them (security forces) are disgusted themselves but confessed that they had no choice -obey the first order! Some have been stained with the blood of the innocent and their fingers stained with ink of thumbprinting. All said and done, it is settled that there is no 'change' between PDP and APC (at least in Rivers State) and if not for divine intervention, 2019 will be worse than 2015 and probably any other election in our country's history! Please don't insult anyone on the internet or kill yourself for ANY politician. They are already working towards 2019 when people are hungry and angry.

The Rivers State legislative rerun elections held on Saturday were marred by irregularities, large scale violence, professional misconducts and open bias by security operatives and electoral personnel, a report released by an observer group, says.

The report, released by CLEEN Foundation, a civil society organization, on Sunday, fingered the Police, Army, SSS in multiple cases of violence and malpractices that characterised the exercise.

“The way and manner in which the election was conducted is a validation of the outcomes of the Security Threat Assessment report, and justifies the concerns of various stakeholders that the outcome of the election will not reflect the will of the people,” CLEEN said.

“There were serious cases of electoral violence orchestrated by the Police, Army and DSS in Ward 3 Bodo community in Gokana and Khana Local Government Area. This led to the shooting to death of Mr. Mbari John MeeBari.
“At Ward 12, Unit 5, Abonnema, Akuku Toru, Police shot sporadically to scarce away voters. At Sara 1, Sara 2 and Kalakama (Ward 12), Okirika LGA electoral materials were hijacked by the Army and officers of SARS at gunpoint, the report noted.

The group blamed the killing of a police officer, Alkali Mohammed, a deputy superintendent of police, and his orderly, on “unwarranted use of force and shooting”. Mr. Mohammed was beheaded in an ambush at Omoku, Ogba/Ndoni/Egbema LGA.

CLEEN lamented failure of the military and other security agencies to maintain neutrality towards the political parties.

“INEC, Police, Army and DSS provided overt and covert support for one of the political parties during the poll at Isiokpo INEC Collation Center,Ikwerre LGA, Ngo in Andoni LGA, Bonny LGA and Ahoada, INEC Staff and security agencies especially the army and police were observed openly aiding a political party.”
But both police and army insisted they did not favour any party. However residents many other and observer groups also accuse them of bias.

CLEEN said it observed late arrival of materials in some places, including “Ward 8, unit 14, Ubima, Ikwerre LGA; Ward 16, Nyokhana, Khana LGA, Ward 9, unit 3, Ogu Bolo LGA.

The group asked President Muhammadu Buhari, the Inspector General of Police and INEC to launch investigations into the conduct of military personnel and police officers deployed for the Rivers polls, and “bring those found guilty of professional misconduct to book.”

More than 24 hours after voting ended, results are yet to be declared in several constituencies amid claims of efforts by political actors to manipulate the outcomes.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/217694-inec-police-army-culpable-rivers-elections-violence-report.html

The Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday sent out a statement on behalf of the Nigerian army.

The statement signed by Kasimu Abdulkarim, general officer commanding of the 6 division of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, debunked the allegation that military collaborated with politicians to intimidate the electorate.

It was sent via apcrivers@yahoo.com – the address it normally uses for its emails.

APC army
A screenshot of the email

Nyesom Wike, governor of the state, had accused the APC of using the military to intimidate voters.

But the statement said the accusation was aimed at tarnishing the image of the army.

“It is true that soldiers of 6 Division Nigerian Army provided security during the Rivers legislative re-run election,” the statement read.

“These people allegedly accused soldiers of ballot box snatching, illegal escorts of some politicians, arrest and detention of voters during the general conduct of the elections.

“The weighty nature of these allegations could cause members of the public to view soldiers negatively, hence the need to adequately inform the general public on the true perspective.

“The public thus need to consider them as mere farce to garner public sympathy.”
https://www.thecable.ng/extra-rivers-apc-sends-press-release-behalf-army

He is a man of like passion who has discovered his God-given purpose which is he is pursuing relentlessly by the grace of God. Like Apostle Paul, he also can say I am what I am by the grace of God. He is a challenge to some of us and a beacon of hope. However, there are several other unsung and perhaps un-noticed, uncelebrated children of God who like the seven thousand in Elijah's days, have not bowed their knees to baal. Ever heard of Bro Gbile Akani and the Peace House brethren in Gboko, Benue State? What of Professor Zacharias Tanee Fomum of Cameroun who passed on in 2009. See this about Professor Fomum:

Professor Fomum was born in the flesh on 20 June 1945 and became born again on 13 June 1956. On 1 October 1966, He consecrated his life to the Lord Jesus and to His service, and was filled with the Holy Spirit on 24 October 1970. He was taken to be with the Lord on 14 March 2009.
Pr Fomum was admitted to a first class in the Bachelor of Science degree, graduating as a prize winning student from Fourah Bay College in the University of Sierra Leone in October 1969. At the age of 28, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry by the University of Makerere, Kampala in Uganda. In October 2005, he was awarded a Doctor of Science (D.Sc) by the University of Durham, Great Britain. This higher doctorate was in recognition of his distinct contributions to scientific knowledge through research. As a professor of organic chemistry in the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon, Professor Fomum supervised or co-supervised more than 100 master's degree and doctoral degree theses and co-authored over 160 scientific articles in leading international journals. He considered Jesus Christ the Lord of Science (“For by Him all things were created...” – Colossians 1:16), and scientific research an act of obedience to God’s command to “subdue the earth” (Genesis 1:28). He therefore made the Lord Jesus the director of his research laboratory while he took the place of deputy director, and attributed his outstanding success as a scientist to Jesus’ revelational leadership.
In more than 40 years of Christian ministry, Pr Fomum travelled extensively, preaching the Gospel, planting churches and training spiritual leaders. He made more than:
• 700 missionary journeys within Cameroon, which ranged from one day to three weeks in duration.
• 500 missionary journeys to more than 70 different nations in all the six continents. These ranged from two days to six weeks in duration.
By the time of his going to be with the Lord in 2009, he had preached in over 1000 localities in Cameroon, sent over 200 national missionaries into many localities in Cameroon and planted over 1300 churches in the various administrative provinces of Cameroon. At his base in Yaounde he planted and built a mega-church with his co-workers which grew to a steady membership of about 12,000. Pr Fomum was the founding team-leader of Christian Missionary Fellowship International (CMFI); an evangelism, soul-winning, disciple making, Church-planting and missionary-sending movement with more than 200 international missionaries and thousands of churches in 65 nations spread across Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia and Oceania. In the course of their ministry, Pr Fomum and his team witnessed more than 10,000 recorded healing miracles performed by God in answer to prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. These miracles include instant healings of headaches, cancers, HIV/AIDS, blindness, deafness, dumbness, paralysis, madness, and new teeth and organs received. Pr Fomum read the entire Bible more than 60 times, read more than 1350 books on the Christian faith and authored over 150 books to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 5 million copies of these books are in circulation in 12 languages as well as 16 million gospel tracts in 17 languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Fomum

This message is not from Pastor Kumuyi. He has never been in support of such kinds of 'revelations', 'dreams' and prophecy. His message is consistent and clear -radical repentance from sin, separation from worldliness and that "holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord". His theme is Jesus only is our message and his mission is to earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints, upholding the faith of our father's living still.

Teachers of Junior Secondary School (JSS) Kuje, on Tuesday protested in the school after the principal, Mrs. Kalla Yuwana, allegedly slapped their colleague, Malam Musa Suleiman.

One of the teachers, who spoke to our reporter under condition of anonymity, said the incident happened on Monday evening after school hours.

He said the teacher, who was a level 12 staff, took permission from the vice principal of the school to take four students to assist him to arrange for their inter-house sports competition at the Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), in the area.

He said the teacher and students did not return until around 5.00p.m. and that by then one of the parents of the students had phoned the principal and complained that he was yet to see his child at home.

The source said the principal immediately phoned the teacher to meet her in school and that when he came, she asked him to kneel down.

He said when the teacher refused to kneel down, the principal allegedly slapped him twice.

He said an attempt later by the teacher to apologise to the principal at her residence at about 7:00p.m., ended up in humiliation as the principal walked him out of her house.

City News further gathered that other teachers who came to school the following morning got wind of the incident and later converged at the administrative block of the school to protest against the alleged assault on their colleague.

When contacted, the principal, Mrs. Yuwana, declined to respond to the allegations.

“Please, am sorry I can’t talk now as I am bereaved. I have just lost my uncle,” she told our reporter on telephone.

Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/city-news/teachers-protest-as-principal-slaps-colleague-in-kuje/173054.html#YgmzTxeiYMM5cKMb.99

Some leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the north held a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja on Thursday.

Addressing state house correspondents after the meeting, Yakubu Pam, chairman of the northern zone of CAN, said they pleaded with the president to intervene in the issue of the abduction of underage Christian girls for marriage.

“We came to present ourselves as the northern CAN chapter to the president and to tell him some of the challenges that northern Christians are passing through,” he said.

“One of those challenges is the issue of girl child abduction in the north. In some northern states, some young girls and children are being abducted at the age of 12, and the parents will just hear that the girls have been married to traditional rulers and emirs.

“We are also having difficulties in expressing our faith in the northern part of the country. We have also told him some of the difficulties we are passing through with the Fulani herdsmen.

“The farmers need to be protected and in fact, we told the president that we have been encouraging our youths to go into farming and they need to be protected and when they come into the city, there is no employment; that is why farmers must be protected.

“”This is gathering a cloud of crisis already and if that is not taken care of it will lead to a serious crisis. These are the issues we told the president.”

Pam said the president promised to look into their complaints.

The issue of forceful abduction of underage has sparked criticisms across the country.

The recent instances were that of 15-year-old Ese Orururu, who was abducted from Bayelsa and taken to Kano, where she was said to have been forced to convert to Islam.

Another was that of Habiba Isiyaku, a 14-year-old, who was allegedly abducted by an official of AbdulMumin Usman, emir of Katsina, and later married off.

While Oruru regained freedom after a strong advocacy, Isiyaku is still in the custody of her alleged captors, who claimed that she willingly converted to Islam.
https://www.thecable.ng/rescue-daughters-forced-marriages-can-leaders-beg-buhari

This was a good conversation. I wonder where we are on intelligence gathering 4 years later.

Op, DSS is NOT under the Police at all but historically, it emerged from the E Branch of the Police as NSO in 1976 and broken into 3 agencies in 1986 as per my earlier comments. Unfortunately, there is a lot of regrettable rivalry between some of these agencies instead of collaborating for the common good.

freeze001:
No it is not. The problem is the coinage of that acronym 'DSS' which is not known to law. They are properly called the 'SSS' which is a constitutionally established body directly under the supervision of the Presidency. Personnel may be drawn from the police or other security agencies or from qualified members of the public but they have no hierarchical or operational link with the police outside of inter-agency collaboration.

Thanks for the effort but please note that DSS personnel CANNOT be drawn from the Police or any other security agencies. At inception as NSO in 1976, it was the then E branch of the Police that became NSO. In 1986, NSO was broken up into 3 agencies -SSS, NIA and DIA. DSS employs i.e. recruits and trains its own operatives.

One of the graduands at the University of Ilorin 32nd convocation ceremony, Yusuf Ololade Faidat, was the centre of attraction yesterday, having clinched 19 prizes.
Faidat, who is in her early 20s beat the men in her department to win the prize for the best graduating student from the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences.

She received the prize of N20,000 awarded each session by the Senate to the student adjudged to be the best in each faculty.
She also got another prize of N10,000, awarded by the Senate to the best student in each department. Daily Trust on Sunday gathered that Faidat took home prizes for best student in the departments of Behavioural Sciences, Pathology, Community medicine, Paediatrics and child health, Medicine, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics and gynaecology and Surgery.
Also, out of the 12 endowed prizes and scholarships, Faidat got 10 of them which are; the Henry Adewoye prize for best graduating student in Chemical pathology, Late Dr. Hamza Olayinka Brimoh prize for best graduating student in Medicine, Prof. Mathew Akinyemi Araoye prize for best graduating student in Medicine, Abdullahi Mohammed/Ilorin community prize for best graduating student in Child health.
Others are the late Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki prize for best graduating student in Medicine, Prof Stephen K. Odaibo’s prize for best graduating students in Surgery, Justice Mohammed Mustapha Akanbi’s prize for best graduating female student in College of medicine, 1992-1995 prize for best overall pre-clinical medical graduand at 1st professional MBBS and best overall clinical medical graduand in Part III final MBBS as well as Albert Anjorin prize donated by the Ilorin Medical Student Association (ILUMSA) Alumni for best graduating student in Pathology.
The overjoyed Faidat, while speaking to our correspondent attributed her success to the Almighty and perseverance.
“As a woman you can become whatever you want to be once you are persistent, irrespective of number of men around you. I read for about four hours every day,” she said.
The Deputy Executive Secretary of the National University Commission (NUC), Prof. Chinedu Mafiana, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the occasion, urged the University of Ilorin to retain her.
He warned university managers in the country against wasteful spending, saying any fund made available to them should be spent on productive activities.
“The government is aware of the hardship the citizens are going through at the moment but I want to assure all Nigerians that we shall overcome the present economic doldrums. Our country is blessed with great potentialities and resources that have yet to be harnessed. The task to restore our country to economic prosperity does not depend on government alone. All of us, men and women of our great country must be involved in the struggle to build a viable and virile country for the general well-being”, he said.
Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/female-medicine-graduate-clinches-19-prizes-at-convocation/168170.html#0BL5kO6HDd6UDrqz.99

Thousands of United Kingdom and Canadian visa applicants and intending travellers wanting to book hotels online were stranded on Monday as Deposit Money Banks stopped their naira debit cards from being used for dollar and other foreign currency-denominated transactions.

The DMBs had on Friday stopped their naira debit cards from dispensing dollars to customers via Automated Teller Machines in foreign countries, as well as disallowed the cards from being used for online and Point of Sale transactions.

The banks cited dollar scarcity and volatility in the foreign exchange market as reasons.

Guaranty Trust Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Stanbic IBTC Bank have already stopped the withdrawal of foreign currencies from the ATMs by their customers who travel abroad and cut the value of their online and PoS transactions to $100 per month.

The development made the UK visa applicants wanting to pay the mandatory $118 for the six-month and $499 for the two-year visas through their naira debit cards to be stranded.

Payment for the UK visa is done online via the government-designated website.

Travelling agents and applicants said they could not complete the UK visa application procedures on Monday. They said payments with naira debit cards of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Ecobank Nigeria, United Bank for Africa Plc and other banks were declined.

It was further learnt that intending travellers and visa applicants wanting to make hotel booking online could not do so as their transactions via the naira debit cards were declined by the banks.

“This is terrible. I am finding it difficult to pay for my UK visa online. I have filled the form. I have got to the payment section and I was trying to pay online but the transaction was declined,” a visa applicant, who identified himself simply as John, told our correspondent at the UK visa application centre in Victoria Island, Lagos on Monday.

Travelling agents assisting the visa applicants to fill their forms said they found it difficult to make payment for UK and Canadian visas online using naira debit cards.

The Chief Executive Officer, Flying Partner, a Lagos-based travel agency, Mr. Kunle Oladele, said, “We could not make payment for the UK and Canadian visa applications online. The few payments we made were done through our partners in foreign countries, who used international debit cards issued by foreign banks.

“We called our partners in South Africa, UK and the United States to do so for us. It is very terrible. I am not sure we can continue like this. Canadian visa applicants will have to go to the country’s visa office now.”

Bank officials told our correspondent on Monday that they could not help the situation, citing the scarcity of dollars as the reason for the suspension of visa payment services.

“There is no dollar again in the country. There is nothing we can do about it,” an official of GTBank told our correspondent on the condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, hundreds of customers besieged banking halls on Monday to apply for dollar debit cards, a day after the banks suspended naira debit cards from working overseas.

When our correspondent visited some bank branches, crowds of customers were seen filling forms to open domiciliary accounts and to obtain dollar debit cards.

Stanbic IBTC Bank and Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria had on Friday advised customers seeking to carry out transactions denominated in foreign currencies to apply for dollar or pound sterling debit and credit cards.

According to them, such cards will be linked to the customers’ domiciliary accounts.

In a notice to customers on Friday entitled: ‘Review of the international spending limit on your naira MasterCard’, GTBank stated, “We write to inform you of the monthly spending limit currently applicable when using your GTBank naira MasterCard for international payments via PoS and online.

“(The) previous monthly limit via PoS and online was $250; the new monthly limit via PoS and online is now $100. Kindly note that ATM cash withdrawal on your naira MasterCard is now only available in Nigeria.”

The development has also made students studying in the UK, US, Canada, Ukraine and other parts of the world to face more challenges getting their monthly stipends from their parents.

Most of the students had relied on ATM card withdrawals to get their monthly stipends from their parents before now.

Although other banks have yet to announce the suspension of ATM card services abroad, findings by our correspondent showed that many lenders had reduced drastically the amount that customers could withdraw via ATMs abroad.

The decision by some banks to suspend overseas ATM card services and online forex transactions came barely one week after the Central Bank of Nigeria, through the Bankers’ Committee, raised concerns about what it called the indiscriminate and suspicious manner in which some bank customers were spending dollars and other foreign currencies abroad through their naira debit cards.

Consequently, the regulator said it had concluded that bank customers who spent above the $50,000 annual forex limit it imposed would be barred from the forex market.

Dollar scarcity has been ravaging the economy after the price of crude oil, Nigeria’s main forex earner, crashed from $115 per barrel in June 2014 to around $51.4 per barrel currently.

The nation’s foreign exchange reserves have been depleting since then.

Last Wednesday, the country’s external reserves hit an 11-year low of $24.21bn, the latest data posted on the CBN website showed.

The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday said it has arrested a foreign national, whose stock in trade was to deliberately sleep with and infect girls with HIV.

The suspect, whose identity is still shrouded in secrecy, was said to have known about his health status, yet deliberately set to infect as many girls as he could with the dreaded virus.

His victims were said to be unaware of his health status until recently.

Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmos, a Superintendent of Police, said he would be charged to court this Friday.

She said, “A foreign national deliberately infected some girls with HIV. He’s under detention.”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/10/13/police-arrest-foreign-national-for-deliberately-infecting-girls-with-hiv/

Rowdiness was the order of the day at the international wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) as passengers stormed Travelex counter to buy cheap foreign exchange.
Travelex, an international forex dealer had last week started selling the dollar to airline passengers and Bureau De Change operators at less than N400.






When our correspondent visited a counter of the dealer at the MMIA, many airline passengers were seen scrambling to buy forex which was sold for N371 to a dollar as at the time of filing this report last night.
A dollar goes for between N460 and N470 at the parallel market.
But the company refused to sell to those travelling to African countries and Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, Daily Trust was told by travellers.
Though the decision by Travelex to sell the dollar at a cheap rate came as a relief, passengers scrambled to buy from it as was observed at the airport yesterday.
Many international passengers claimed they had been at the dealer’s counter since morning yet they were unable to buy.
However, Ahmed Abubakar, a Nigerian travelling to Cairo, Egypt told Daily Trust in Abuja that Travelex refused to sell to him and some other passengers travelling to African countries and Dubai.
“We don’t know why they refused to sell to us. They are only selling to those going to other places except African countries and Dubai. Must of us travel to the US, Europe or Dubai. I don’t understand this,” Mr Abubakar said.
Another traveller in Abuja who spoke with our reporter at the Travelex office at Area 11 corroborated Abubakar’s observation.
Ibukun Olurope who was travelling to Dubai for a business said the company refused to sell to her.
“Well, they didn’t give me any reason other than saying their bosses told them not to sell to Dubai travellers”, she told our reporter in Abuja yesterday.
When our reporters in Abuja and Lagos contacted officials of the Forex dealer in their offices in the two cities, they refused to speak to them.
But one of them in Lagos who pleaded not to be quoted said it was the instruction from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The acting spokesman of CBN, Mr Isaac Okorafor, did not answer calls made to his mobile line yesterday. He also did not respond to text message sent to him.
Meanwhile, rowdiness was also the order of the day at the Travelex office in Lagos even as many passengers whose flight times were near were unable to get dollars as of the time of filing this report.
Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/business/travellers-scramble-for-cheap-fx-at-travelex/166669.html#KBPLjYBMljjAv5T6.99

A fresh twist has emerged in the N350 bribery allegation levelled against Justice Ademola Adeniyi by the Department of State Security (DSS).
Justice Ademola, of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has formally petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mahmud Mohammed, on the matter. He flatly denied the bribery ever happened.
In an October 11 letter to the CJN, through the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, titled: Report on the unlawful invasion of my residence and abduction on October 7, 2016, Ademola insisted he knew nothing of a N350 million bribe talk less of sharing any money with his boss. Earlier, the security agency had accused Adeniyi of collecting N350 million on a terrorism case which involved upscale owner of Amigos Supermarket Mustapha Fawaz and one Thahini, who had been accused of being financiers of Hezbollah.
Regardless, Ademola insisted in his memo to the CJN that, contrary to media reports, he “never gave any money to anybody, including judges as claimed by the DSS. I never gave the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta any money.”
Addressing the DSS raid on his home last weekend, Ademola said the security agents turned his residence “upside down” and that, he could not “sleep at home because of the way it was roughened up.”
There were also reports that Justice Ademola could have run into troubled waters because he granted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who is in detention on treason charges, bail.
Last weekend, Justice Ademola was arrested along other judges by operatives of the DSS over alleged corrupt practices.
In a sting, nationwide operation, DSS operatives arrested some judges who were accused of taking bribe to subvert justice.
The arrests, which started in Kano and Gombe states, last Friday, swept to some senior judges in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja where two Supreme Court Justices Sylvester Ngwuta, John Okoro and also, Justice Ademola and his brother judge, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba were affected.
Also arrested was Justice Muazu Pindiga, of the Federal High Court in Gombe State, who served on the ElectionPetition Tribunal in Rivers State.
The DSS said large sums of money, in various denominations, local and foreign currencies, were recovered from the homes of the judges including banking documents.
Justice Liman, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State escaped arrest.
http://sunnewsonline.com/alleged-n350m-graft-ademola-clears-chief-judge-auta/

Two Turkish schools in Nigeria have changed their names, following the coup attempt in that country three months ago. The schools have now expunged the name ‘Turkish’ from their names, in view of their involvement in the coup as alleged by the Turkish government. This is as the Turkish embassy in Nigeria has announced that about four Nigeria students on doctorate degree programs, would be deported before the end of this week because of alleged irregularities in their documentations and entry papers.
However, a member of the House of Representatives, Raphael Nnana Igbokwe, has lampooned the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, for registering schools bearing the name of Turkish government without getting clearance from the country. Vanguard reliably gathered that Nigerian-Turkish International School in Abuja had been changed to Nigerian Tulips International College, while the Nigeria Turkish Nile University had been changed to Nigeria Nile University. Recall that the Turkish government had asked the Federal government to shut down Turkish schools in the country after the coup that took place in Turkey about July this year, claiming that they were owned by the Gulien movement, labelled a terrorist group, but the request was turned down. Disclosing the alleged change of name of Turkish schools in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, Nnanna Igbokwe who represents Ahiazu/Ezinihitte Mbaise Federal Constituency of Imo State, said the sudden change of names of the schools had become an issue of grave concern, especially as the Turkish government had accused the schools of breeding terrorist groups. He said the Turkish government had disowned ownership of the schools, wondering why the Nigeria regulatory agency saddled with the registration of companies and establishments did not do proper checks before registering the schools. He said: “Ordinarily, with the name Nigerian Turkey or Turkey International School, one will presume that the school is owned by the government of Turkey or has the support or backing of the government of Turkey. “But the schools have has now exposed, with the Turkish government and the embassy coming out to say that they don’t have any input or any stake in them, neither did they give consent or approval for the name of Turkey to be used. “Then, the fundamental question now becomes, where were our regulatory agencies, especially the Corporate Affairs Commission? Where did they turn their eyes when they approved that name?

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/4-nigerian-students-deported-turkish-schools-accused-terrorism-change-names/