Rivers University Expels Student For Having Speech And Hearing Challenges

The student opened the letter she was clutching in her hands and felt the walls around her crumble.
As Jane Ottah stood outside her departmental office at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, the reality of what she had just read began to gradually sink in.

“What I saw in the letter was the shock of my life,” said Ms. Ottah, 28, who was in her first year in the Department of Educational Foundation.

“This was a thing I will never believe, this was the one thing that could have taken away my life if it wasn’t for the help of my friends‎ who were there when I was about to faint.”

‎On January 30, 2015, the university terminated Ms. Ottah’s admission over claims of speech and hearing challenges.

“I am directed to state that during your recent medical examination in the Health Services Department, it was observed that you are medically challenged and have hearing and speech difficulties,” read the letter signed‎ by C.M Ewhorlu, Principal Assistant Registrar (Senate) of the university.

“I am further directed to state that as a result of these difficulties our team of medical personnel found it impossible to communicate with you.

“Since the University ‎does not have special communication facilities, the Vice-Chancellor has directed that you be de-registered on health grounds. I am in the circumstance, directed to inform you that you have been de-registered on health grounds with immediate effect.

“You are therefore advised to hand over all University property(ies) in your possession to your Head of Department and thereafter leave the campus.”

‎Despite the university’s claims that she was a special student, Ms. Ottah insisted she had no such challenges.

After initially applying to study Business Administration at the university, Ms. Ottah was offered an admission to read Educational Foundations in September 2014.

When the school reopened a month later, she joined other fresh students for the admission formalities, which included a medical check-up at the institution’s medical centre.

“As soon as I went there and I was asked what is wrong with my voice, I told the doctor that I have a voice problem, that I can talk but at times my voice is somehow,” Ms. Ottah told PREMIUM TIMES during a Whatsapp chat.

“I was not with my hearing aid the day I went there., and she (the doctor) didn’t understand me very well but the other younger doctor was there as well who was asking me questions about what happened to my voice and I decided to tell her about my hearing problem as well‎.

“And she asked me some questions like how did it happened and I told her. She seemed to understand me a bit but the elder doctor didn’t‎.

“And she asked about my eyes just because I was putting on glasses‎. And I told her that I do have eyes problem‎ and she checked my eyes and put it down on a book‎.

‎”And she asked me if I was sick as a kid because of my hearing loss. I told her no. It just happened in a way that one can’t tell.

“So she asked about my secondary school, if it was a deaf school. I told her no‎, it’s not a deaf school I went to‎‎.”

According to her West African Examination Council result made available to PREMIUM TIMES,‎ Ms. Ottah‎ finished from Hallel College in Rumuogba, Port Harcourt, with three distinctions and five credits.

At the university medical centre, Ms. Ottah said she overheard the doctors discussing the possibility of her coping with the academic rigours.

“From that day, nothing was bad. I was busy with assignment, project, test, and planning for my first semester exams in February,” she said.

The school went on Christmas break on December‎ 22, 2014, and resumed on January 5th, 2015.

Everything seemed fine for Ms. Ottah.

Until the first semester examination began.

“On the first paper, there was a paper that the lecturer will give you to sign if your name is there, and if you see your name on the list you have to sign there and I did mine,” she said.

Ms. Ottah said she signed against her name during her second and third‎ papers.

However, on the day of the fourth paper, trouble surfaced.

“I didn’t see my name on the list to sign and I was worried that I asked my course mate and she direct me to go to the ICT centre to check,” she said.

“I went there with two of my course mates and we were told that they couldn’t find my name on the list but my name was there and that they‎ couldn’t see the course I requested, and I was told it was from the medical centre. They blocked me from there.

“And I went with my course mate and met with the doctor, crying with a shaky voice which made her not to understand what I was talking about and I decided to call my friend to speak on my behalf. For example, I will talk to her and she will tell them what I am saying‎.

‎”As soon as we were done talking, the doctor said she once one told me that day I was in her office that I should come the other day but I didn’t. I was so busy that I forget about it. She sent me to my Department Office.”

It was at the Department Office that a lady delivered the letter which bore the shattering news to Ms. Ottah.

“‎In school, no one ever knew about my hearing problem, it was just my voice they knew,” she said"

Benedict Ottah, her father, described the letter as a “serious embarrassment”.

“I drove to the school, met the HOD, unfortunately, she didn’t attend to me in a way that she should,” Mr. Ottah told PREMIUM TIMES over the telephone.

“And I put up a letter demanding her (his daughter’s) instant recall. They refused. All of a sudden the HOD sent me back to the Medical Board. Only to be informed by the Medical Board that I should write a letter to the VC.

“I later wrote a letter to the VC, copied the Medical Board, the HOD, and the registrar who wrote the letter.”

‎In his letter to the Vice Chancellor, Mr. Ottah appealed for his daughter’s re-registration, noting that she had been taking her lectures and doing her class assignments without stress or complaints.

“I wish to state that on 2nd March, 2015, in the office of the HOD of Technical and Science Educational Foundations, Jane Ihuoma Ottah demonstrated clearly to the witness of the HOD her hearing and responding ability different from what was stated in the above letter,” Mr. Ottah wrote in the letter dated 2nd March, 2015.

“This demonstratio‎n was made possible while she wore her hearing aids. The same demonstration repeated again when she was referred to meet the Medical Director, Medical Services on same 2nd March 2015 in the office of the Medical Director himself.

“However, Jane Ihuoma Ottah did not attend the medical observation with her hearing, ear-aids the day she was scheduled. Furthermore, I wish the Medical Services may conduct another examination that she should be allowed to use her hearing aids. I am optimistic that this report will be put to rest.”

‎About two weeks after he wrote to the university, Mr. Ottah said he returned to the school only to be told by the head of her daughter’s department that the letter was “infuriating to her”.

‎”I told her what transpired in her office was exactly what I communicated, and then you are blaming me. All of a sudden she demanded that I should leave her office. Honestly I was seriously embarrassed,” he said.

“Only to go back to the VC secretary, I was being turned up, come back today, come back tomorrow. I ended up ‎without no response up till date. They did not respond to my letter.

“The university has just denied her the opportunity to be in school. I know my daughter has a problem‎ but she had every opportunity up till today.”

When contacted by PREMIUM TIMES, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Blessing Didia, said he had never heard of Ms. Ottah’s case.

“The matter happened in January as you said. I came from the University of Port Harcourt to become VC here in August,” Mr. Didia, a professor of medicine said. “This is the first time I have heard about the case.”

When asked whether he would review the case now that he is aware, Mr. Didia said, “They don’t admit deaf and dumb here. And if what you said really happened, the vice chancellor then must have seen reasons why she could not be taught here.”

‎Efforts to reach the school’s Registrar were unsuccessful and an e-mail sent to the school’s official mail address was not replied.

Ms. Ottah said she had remained at home since her dismissal – weeping over her misfortune and praying – while her friends are now in 200 level in the school.

“I never thought that Rivers State University of Science can send me away like this,” she said.

“‎Discrimination needs to stop. Everyone has the right to be educated no matter the conditions one is facing.”

The International Ford Fellowships Alumni Association Nigeria (IFFPAN), which first brought the student’s ordeal to the attention of this newspaper, has condemned the action of the University.

Speaking through its president, Faruk Sarkinfada, a professor, it said, “It is regrettable that a University in Nigeria in the 21st century can discriminate against any citizen on account of her disability.

“Her right to Education has been breached. The aspect of her life that must be telling her she is not wanted in our society will unfortunately impact negatively on her whole being.

“The university should review its decision and reinstate her, so that she can acquire tertiary education like her contemporaries.”

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TataFolks: Fans Slam Comedian A.Y For Wearing One Shoe Repeatedly

I wonder what the fad about celebrities not rocking a shoe or a cloth more than once  no matter how expensive they are is all about. Guess one of the prices to pay for being a celebrity lolx.

So it happened that Bro A.Y has been posing in the same pair of shoes for some time now and some fans, call them nosy spotted this and pointed it out on Instagram. But wait o, it is a bit normal to notice a person wearing the same cloth over again but shoe? Haba! Una no get important thing to focus on? I see, those fans loved the pair of shoe at first sight reason they could notice A.Y has rocked it more than once. I lie?

Anyway, no mind them jare Bro A.Y, continue to dey flex. But why you too dey do plenty pictures na, or you don dey compete with Tonto? Just joking o

See the controversial shoe after the cut

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Do You Know Any Fuel Station Selling PMS Above The Approved Pump Price Of 87 Naira per litre? Call These Numbers

If you stay around or know any filling station selling above the pump price of 87 naira per litre or is hoarding Gasoline, Call the above numbers in your state to report.
A good innovation you will agree, let's join hands to make Nigeria better for all of us.

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I Won The Poll, Audu’s Votes Died With Him - Wada

Idris Wada, governor of Kogi state and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 21 election, says the votes of Abubakar Audu, his main rival in the poll, “died with him”.

Audu passed on shortly after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the election inconclusive.

The electoral commission explained that a winner could not be declared because the number of cancelled votes was higher than the margin between the two leading contenders.

Audu, who was ahead, polled 240,861 votes, while Wada got 199,514 votes, leaving a margin of 41,353, which was less than the 49,953 votes that were voided.

INEC subsequently scheduled a supplementary election for December 5 and asked APC to replace its late candidate.

But in a statement on Sunday, Wada, who had earlier expressed reservation over INEC’s directive, accused the commission of doing “a hatchet job”.

He said being the only surviving candidate with the “majority of lawful votes cast”, INEC ought to issue him a certificate of return.

“Whatever votes Audu scored in the election died with him,” read the statement signed on his behalf by Phrank Shaibu, his chief communications manager.

Wada described as “specious” INEC’s argument that APC’s right to substitution was sustained by the electoral act, saying the electoral body should know that it is for the court, not the commission, to determine which course of action is effective or not.

“In arriving at a decision, INEC merely carried out the directives of the attorney-general of the federation… the AGF is not competent to issue directives to INEC to allow APC to substitute its candidate for the Kogi guber poll and that such directives are null and void for its inconsistency with the provisions of the constitution,” the statement read.

“To us as a party, the most egregious of the faux pas committed by INEC is asking the APC to lawfully nominate a candidate for the supplementary governorship election without a valid and legally cognizable primary election of the party conducted within the mandatory timeliness specified by the electoral act.

“It is our considered opinion that, INEC, more than any other body, ought to know that having regards to the provisions of section 141 of the electoral act, 2010, votes scored by a candidate who died during an election cannot be inherited by or transferred to a person who was not a candidate at the said election and who did not participate in all stages of such election, for the purpose of concluding such election.”

He said it was on the strength of the position of the electoral act on the developments in the state that he has asked the court to compel INEC to issue him with a certificate of return.

The statement added that the party was hopeful that the court will issue an order of injunction restraining APC from organising or holding a fresh primary election for the purpose of “any supplementary election”.

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T.B. Joshua, others to be arraigned on Monday over death of 116 persons in church building collapse

T.B Joshua 

The Lagos State Government has

concluded plans to arraign Pastor TB
Joshua and other trustees of Synagogue
Church of All Nations (SCOAN) on
Monday, November 30, 2015, before a
Lagos State High Court in Ikeja over the
collapse of a six-story building in the
church on September 12, 2014, which led
to the death of 116 persons.

The trustees will be arraigned before
Justice Lawal Akapo alongside the
engineers who constructed the collapsed
building.

A statement by the Deputy Director,
Public Affairs of the Lagos State Ministry
of Justice, Bola Akingbade, confirmed the
scheduled arraignment.

It would be recalled that Justice Ibrahim
Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos
had dismissed the fundamental human
rights enforcement suits filed by the
engineers who constructed the collapsed
six-storey building to stop their planned
trial.

The engineers, Oladele Ogundeji and
Akinbela Fatiregun, had filed two
separate suits before Justice Buba
seeking an order restraining the police
from inviting, arresting or prosecuting
them over the victims’ death.

The Lagos State Government had set up a
Coroner Inquest to unravel what went
wrong, and in a verdict delivered on
August 7, 2015, Magistrate Oyetade
Komolafe, the Coroner, indicted the
engineers and recommended them for
investigation and prosecution for
criminal negligence.

The church building, a guest house,
collapsed in September 2014, killing 116
people, many of them South Africans
who travelled to Nigeria for the church’s
service in Lagos.

The inquiry sat for months and set July 8
for its ruling.

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Does President Mohammadu Buhari Have A Conscience? - FFK

An Article by Femi Fani-Kayode

''Aside the 105 soldiers killed by Boko Haram, additional 34 soldiers were killed 2 days ago but it wasn't in the news''- Deji Adeyanju. I concur with Mr. Deji Adeyanju. The most heartless and reprehensible thing that our government could have done is to cover-up the fact that 105 of our soldiers were killed by Boko Haram a few days ago. To do such a thing is simply evil.

A soldier ought to be honored in death and this is especially so if he dies in the course of doing his duty and fighting for his nation.
The government has not only dishonored them by not acknowledging their sacrifice but they have also buried them in the wilderness like rabid dogs.
This is wickedness of the highest order and President Buhari, his Chief of Army Staff and his Minister of Defense should bury their heads in shame.
Anyone that buys the lie and propaganda that the 105 soldiers never died and that they are still alive is a compound fool or village idiot.
Will the military also deny the fact that a few days ago 34 of our soldiers were killed by Boko Haram? These boys died for their country. Why deny them?
I am outraged by the fact that a soldier will sacrifice his life for his country yet the citizens and authorities of that country don't even appreciate it.
Pictures of the dead bodies were posted on social media. Everyone in the military knows that those soldiers are dead. It is an open secret. Yet because government denies it so many people just choose to believe them.
The truth is that Boko Haram must have used chemical weapons in the attack.When you look at the pictures of the dead bodies this is obvious. It was probably mustard gas.
All we want from the military is the truth. If 105 soldiers were not killed then how many actually were?
The whole episode happened last week in Borno state and the military authorities are denying it. I am sickened by that.
If others cannot appreciate the importance of honoring our dead soldiers, I can.  I will not be intimidated and I will not remain silent.
Tell us where our boys are buried and if you refuse to do so we will keep asking. There must be accountability and respect for those that have made the supreme sacrifice just to keep the rest of us safe. Our soldiers deserve that much.
Finally let it be said loud and clear that since President Buhari came to power he has not bought one bullet for the military. Considering the fact that we are in the middle of a protracted and very bloody war I believe that this is utterly shameful. If you say you want to fight and defeat Boko Haram then why are you not buying arms for your troops?
This brings me to other matters and raises other questions about our President's sincerity of purposes and commitment.

You say that you are fighting Boko Haram yet you are travelling the world drinking tea with world leaders whilst your soldiers are secretly being slaughtered.
You say you are fighting Boko Haram yet you were nominated as their spokesman and chief negotiator 2 years ago in proposed peace talks with the Federal Government.
You say you are fighting Boko Haram but the man you appointed as your National Security Adviser was retired from the army a few years ago for ordering the release of Boko Haram terrorists under suspicious circumstances.
You say you are fighting Boko Haram but the first thing you did when u came to power was to remove military checkpoints.This guaranteed Boko Haram free movement and access to the entire country.
You say you are fighting Boko Haram yet last year you told the world that an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north.
You say you are fighting terror yet since you came to power Boko Haram has grown in strength, has regained lost territory and has been declared the ''worlds number one most deadly terror group'' by the Global Terror Index.
You say you are fighting terror yet since you came to power Nigeria, according to the Global Terror Index, has been declared as not just having ''the first most deadly terror group in the world'' which is Boko Haram but also of having ''the fourth most deadly terror group in the world'' which is a group that the Index describe as the ''Fulani militants'' and that we call the Fulani herdsmen.

You say you are fighting Boko Haram yet since you came to power Nigeria has been declared the world's ''third most terrorised country'' by the Global Terror Index after Iraq and Afghanistan which were declared first and second respectively whilst Syria and Pakistan were declared fourth and fifth.
You say you are a ''born again democrat'' yet you voted against the protection of human rights at the United Nations alongside Iran, Zimbabwe and North Korea.
You say you respect human rights yet you barricade Colonel Sambo Dasuki, the former National Security Adviser, in his home, endanger his life, deny him medical attention, flout court orders and make him critically ill.
You say you respect human rights yet you arrest Governor Boni Haruna simply for standing as surety for Dasuki and you try to force him to abandon his friend.
You say you respect human rights yet you raid  Governor Attahiru Bafarawa's home and arrest and detain his son simply because he is friends with Dasuki.
You say you respect freedom of speech and human rights yet you lock up Nnamdi Kanu indefinitely and your security agents shoot two unarmed and harmless pro-Biafra youths to death in Enugu simply because they were involved in a peaceful demonstration.
You say that you are a believer in the rule of law yet you ordered your secret police to storm a sitting governors official home in Akwa Ibom knowing that he enjoys immunity from such matters.
You say you love Nigeria yet a bomb goes off in Kano killing over 21 people and instead of coming back home to mourn with your people you continue junketing around the world.
You say you know how to run Nigeria but according to Paul Wallace and Michael Cohen of the United States magazine known as Bloomberg Business your ''bounce has become bust'', your ''policies irk investors'', you have ''destroyed Nigeria's economy'' and you ''do not have the capacity to move the country forward''.

You say that you know how to manage the economy yet stocks and shares have crashed, small businesses are folding up, our foreign currency has dried up, industries are collapsing, agricultural output has decreased, our foreign reserves have been spent and the value of the naira has depreciated since you came to power and it continues to fall.
You say you know what you are doing and how to manage Nigeria's affairs yet the U.S,-based Washington Times newspaper says that you lied to America about your so-called good intentions for Nigeria and that you have ''duped the United States of America'' with your false promises and empty words.
You say that you are fighting poverty yet according to the Business Day Newspaper Nigerians are ''getting poorer for the first time since 1999''.
You say that you will restore our countries fortunes yet the fuel queues are back and the prices of food, transport and basic commodities are soaring by the day.
You say that you are a man of your word and after you were declared winner of the election you promised not to malign, persecute, witchunt, demonize, disrespect or go after President Goodluck Jonathan and members of his administration unless you had concrete evidence of wrongdoing yet when you came to power you did precisely that.
You say you are fair-minded, true to your friends, loyal to your supporters and always reasonable yet you did not concede even one ministerial slot or approve one ministerial nominee of the two men that helped you more than any others to win the presidential election, namely President Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor Bola Tinubu.
You say that you want the country to change, that you believe in fairness and equity, that you are a progressive, that you believe in a generational powershift and that you want the country to move forward yet you are trying to destroy Governor Bukola Saraki simply because he won an election and became Senate President.
You say that you are fighting corruption yet no-one has been made to face the music or brought to book over the 25 billion naira REMITA and Systemspecs scandal and neither has the matter been clarified or resolved even though it has been established that the whole deal was struck under your watch.
You say you love Nigeria and all Nigerians yet your Fulani kinsmen, under the guise of herding cattle, are slaughtering thousands of innocent people all over the south and Middle Belt, yet you remain their Grand Patron and you refuse to utter to a word of condemnation for their actions.
You say you respect Nigerians yet every time you travel out of the country you spend your time telling foreigners and the foreign media how useless, rotten and corrupt your people are and how you are the only saint in Nigeria.

In view of all this I am constrained to ask whether President Muhammadu Buhari has a conscience or is it that he has just lost touch with reality? Everything that I said about him during the Presidential campaign has been confirmed and in just six months he has betrayed the trust and squandered the goodwill that the Nigerian people bestowed upon him in the March presidential elections. I have to say that I am not surprised by this because his ''change'' mantra was just an illusion.
May God enable him to find the courage to retrace his steps before it is too late and may the Lord deliver Nigeria from those that are around him that fail to tell him the truth.
What he and his APC failed to disclose to the Nigerian people during the campaign is that what he meant by ''change'' was a change from light to darkness. Sadly our people trusted him and now he has plunged our nation into that darkness.


I gather that they call those of us that oppose President Buhari and that are PDP supporters the ''wailing wailers''. That is an interesting expression because by the time Buhari finishes with Nigeria I have little doubt that the entire country will be wailing.
The truth is that I would rather be a ''wailing wailer'' that posterity vindicates than a ''lying liar'' or a ''howling howler'' who has lost his way and who continues to have confidence in a man like Buhari and a party like the APC that is hell bent on destroying our country and our cherished democratic institutions with their Rambo-like insensitivity and total ineptitude.

All those ''lying liars'' and ''howling howlers'' that voted for President Buhari should clap for themselves for the terrible mess our country is now in. We will remember them in our prayers too.

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TataFolks: Checkout this throwback pic of Fayose & his wife many years ago... Cute right?

Talking about when men were boys and women were were girls. Here is a throwback picture of The Executive Governor of Ekiti State,  Peter Ayodele Fayose and his wife, Feyisetan Fayose many years back.

Love in the air you will agree. *in Omawumi's voice* this one na serious love wan n tin tin. *winks*

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Audu’s inconclusive death, Mugabe’s wheelchair by Reuben Abati

An ainteresting article by former presidential
spokesperson, Reuben Abati...read below...

“You look sleepy”
“My brother, let’s just say I slept at a fuel
station, looking for fuel.”
“For which of the women in your life,
because I hear these days, to please a
woman in Nigeria, you must be ready to
supply the three major things lacking in the
land: money, fuel, and happiness.”
“Leave that matter, please. My condolences
on the death of your man, Governor
Abubakar Audu”
“We thank God for his life. He played his
part.”
"“To be so close to breasting the tape and then
fall.”
“I know. I know. May be if he had not insisted on
running again for the office of Governor in Kogi
state, he would still be alive today.”
“The man drove himself too hard, publicly and
privately. He ran for every Gubernatorial election
in Kogi state since 1991. There must be
something special in being Governor for him.”
“Don’t speak ill of the dead, I beg you. Simple
etiquette.”
“But you know now?”
“I don’t know nothing”
“Then the man went and married a young, 23-
year old. If the election had been concluded and
the man had won, the First Lady of Kogi state
would have been a 23-year old lady! Those who
seek public office should always weigh their
lifestyle and their health against their ambition,
but politicians act as if they are superhuman.”
“Can you stop?”
“A 74-year old man, with a 23-year old wife. That
alone is enough to give anybody hypertension.”
“He was 68”
“Official age. He was 74, somebody told me.”
“Excuse me! Respect the dead, please. Abubakar
Audu was a democrat extraordinary, a courageous
politician, a visionary, selfless, man of the people,
and his party’s popular choice.”
“My view is that it is not the election in Kogi that
is inconclusive per se, a supplementary election
will be organized, a winner will emerge; it is
Audu’s death that is inconclusive considering the
many issues it has thrown up.”
“What kind of talk is that? Death is final. It is the
cessation of all things, a necessary end.”
“Nothing has ended with Abubakar Audu’s death
oh. Did you not see the desperate efforts made to
get some Prophets to resurrect him? And some
people actually believed that he could be the
Lazarus of our time! They started jubilating.”
“That is concrete proof of his popularity. But I
was shocked seeing Nigerians will believe
anything, and being so superstitious. Even the
grave diggers stopped digging, waiting for the
prophets to perform a miracle.”
“I hear there was a meeting of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the Kogi
election but the moment the prophets waded in,
even INEC suspended its meeting and did not
reconvene until the prophets failed.”
“Only in Africa!”
“When the Prophets didn’t deliver, people got
angry. They could have lynched those Prophets”
“Well, at least, some people will now know that
the prophets are not always right in the age of
biology and science. Who could have been behind
such a hare-brained scheme?”
“The man’s in-laws, for example.
“Oh, come on”
“Or persons who may have been promised
appointments and contracts. Or it could be
persons who invested in his candidacy. Elections
in Nigeria are business investments. The investors
must have thought of a last minute strategy to
reverse the situation. Simple economics. ”
“You and your theories. The same people will do
business with whoever eventually wins the
election, anyway.”
“There is also the inconclusive matter of the 23-
year old wife. When the death was announced,
many commentators on social media were more
concerned about the young widow. Comments
about how she will cope, what she would do next.
One guy asked for her phone numbers.”
“Stupid, callous fellow.”
“Another fellow actually said he was ready to
inherit all of Audu’s assets and liabilities in that
regard.”
“Let him go ahead. Ole!”
“Besides, Audu’s death has turned everybody into
a Constitutional expert. What happens if a
candidate dies in the the course of an inconclusive election? Who becomes the new candidate?”
“Simple. The APC will field another candidate, appeal to whoever is aggrieved within the party to step down until an appropriate candidate who definitely must be Igala, is identified. I don’t see the APC fielding any candidate who will automatically make them lose the election.”
“You think the APC candidate must still be Igala? But nothing is ever that straightforward in Nigerian politics.”
“Of course, otherwise, it will be a walk-over for Governor Idris Wada. The Igalas have the numbers. Politics is a game of numbers. The stakes are high. I foresee many court cases”
“Let them field Audu’s young widow then”
“Are you out of your mind? Why are you so obsessed with this lady?”
“Or may be his son. Does he have any son who is qualified? Let them make it a family affair. If he had supported his son as a candidate…But people just don’t know when to quit and hand over to the next generation.”
“With a 23-year old wife, he was definitely committed to the next generation.”
“Some people are of the view that his running mate should just run with the mandate, but I don’t think the circumstances favour him. He is from a minority group in Kogi state. He is a Christian, and the party may not back him.”
“Poor James Faleke”
“Yeah, he must be troubled. What if he and Audu had won. And they had been sworn in. But now, there are no guarantees.”
“God’s will is supreme. That is one lesson we all must learn from all this. Remember Abacha? When it was time, God intervened. We are all pencils in God’s hands. You can amass all the wealth in the world, marry all the young women, misapply the people’s money, get so close to Cannan, but you can then fall sick and die. In life, things happen and all you have left is six feet, rich or poor, six feet.”
“Six feet”
 “I hope Robert Mugabe knows this. I hope Grace Mugabe knows.”
“Why Robert Mugabe?”
“Didn’t you read that story about 50-year old Grace Mugabe, First Lady of Zimbabwe, buying her Robert, a special wheelchair?”
“The way you pronounced Robert, you make it sound like Robot”
“Isn’t that what the 91-year old President of Zimbabwe has become, a Robot. Grace Mugabe’s Robot”
“Sad. In his days, Robert Mugabe, multiple degrees holder, was a shining star. And now, his wife is pushing him around”
“She actually has a PhD, awarded in two months, without examination or dissertation, by her Robert in his capacity as Chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe!”
“Mugabe! A Pan-Africanist, who stood up to the British and neo-colonial imperialism; today, he is falling down at public functions, he reads the wrong speech in parliament, he is old and tired, and yet he won’t quit.”
“He should. Zimbabwe already has the oldest President in the world, and he has been in power since 1980- 35 years!”
“With a wife like “Dis Grace” Mugabe, he won’t. She says she is ready to push the wheelchair herself, just in case anybody is in any doubt.”
“I won’t put anything past that woman. Didn’t she once proclaim that any woman who wears mini-skirt and gets raped should not complain? Is that not the same woman who punched a journalist in the face during a foreign visit?”
“Mugabe has stayed too long and has allowed a woman to destroy his legacy. He is so smitten with “Dis-Grace”, he allegedly fired his Chief of Defence Staff last year for staring at her derriere!”
“That’s madness.”
“But the woman get am oh. The thing dey; very seriously. And you know in that part of Africa, the women don’t need to buy it and enhance it like Kim Kardashian, the thing just dey and you can lose your head.”
“I think someday in Africa, we’d have to start voting for these First Ladies too. Voters should be given the right to choose the President’s wife, or at least they should be screened by parliament.  In Africa, the wives wield so much influence.”
“They do in other places too. It is the man that matters.”
 “When Mugabe sits in that wheelchair, Zimbabwe is finished!”
“For democracy to work, we need to worry about the leadership recruitment process in Africa.  How do we free democracy from a debilitating sense and culture of entitlement. How do we get persons who are still up to it, and who will not aspire to rule till they are on wheelchair or life-long medication.”
““All men who play God and who aspire to be God, let them be reminded, it is just six feet. In Cameroon, Paul Biya has been sitting tight for 33 years, in Congo, Nguesso has been in power for 36 years, in Equitorial Guinea, Mbasogo is almost a god in human form. And you have dos Santos in Angola (36 years) Bashir in Sudan (22 years) Museveni in Uganda (29 years), Idris Deby in Chad (25 years) and Jammeh in Gambia (21 years).”
“Six feet. Just six feet in the grave.”
“I hope they all know.”
“It is also a lesson for the poor, including those young ones who play God with their talents.”
“Absolutely. There are people these days who play God with their laptops, their pens and I-pads. Imagine some people jubilating over other people’s misfortune.”

“Six feet, my brother, not an inch more nor less. In the grave, all men are equal.”

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FUTA student commits suicide after finding out he will be having an extra year (Graphic Images)

A final year student of the department of
Engineering, Federal university of technology
Akure simply identified as Festus, hung himself
after checking his results and discovered he will
be spending an extra year as a spill over
student in the school. See the photo after the
cut...

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On TataFolks: I am "beautiful" and "Pretty" - Denrele Edun

So I thought "pretty"  and "beautiful" are adjectives that qualify the female gender, but did our own Denrele just used them to qualify himself? Or is it herself now? Am even confused now. Wish he will just help someone of us clear the confusion. 

well, he is indeed pretty and beautiful, how many ladies will qualify themselves confidently with those adjectives? Ride on jare Bros (abi na Sis), haters goon hate, but they can't stop your shine.

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Corp Member Strangles Girlfriend Over Rival in Delta

A Batch ‘B’ corps member, Jeremiah Osewe, at the Issele-Uku Orientation Camp near Asaba, Delta State, almost choked his girlfriend to death on Monday over a rival corps member.

It was reliably gathered that the victim, Stella

Omorodion, before coming to the orientation

camp, had a boyfriend who was unknown to her boyfriend at the camp.

Sources said that trouble started when Stellar former boyfriend was redeployed from Zamora State to Delta State, and after making enquiries discovered that Stella was in the camp at Issele-Uku.

The sources added that the duo resumed their relationship. It was learnt that the victim and her former lover boy were sighted at the popular Mammy Market in the community by the enraged corps member who was alleged to have mobilized his friends to the scene.

On getting to the scene, it was further gathered that the angry corps member grabbed the neck of the victim and started squeezing it till she almost died before fellow corps members rushed to the scene to save the situation.

Speaking to our correspondent, the state

coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs. Esther Etukudo, said, “We got the report of what transpired between two NYSC members and our findings revealed that it was a rival love relationship; the girl was almost strangled to death by the angry corps member who claimed to be her boyfriend after what would have been a bloodbath; they took the girl to the hospital for treatment and the boy was sanctioned for indiscipline.”

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8 Year Old Girl Fights Rare Case of Breast Cancer

Chrissy Turner

An 8-year-old Utah girl was diagnosed earlier this month with secretory breast carcinoma, a rare form of breast cancer.

According to a report in the Pediatric Surgery International Journal, secretory breast carcinoma is extremely rare. It accounts for less than 1 percent of all breast cancer cases.

Chrissy's mother, Annette Turner told ABC News that it was Chrissy who first found the tumor.

“She came to us on a Sunday afternoon, she said, ‘Mommy I have been scared and I have this lump,'" Turner recounted to ABC News. “It had been there for a while.”

So, "I was in shock," Chrissy's mother Annette Turner explained about her daughter's Nov. 9th diagnosis. "No child should ever have to go through cancer," she added.

Prior to this, Annette Turner was diagnosed with cervical cancer and her husband was diagnosed with non-Hodgikins lymphoma.

“My heart and thoughts are on my daughter and having her get better,” Turner said to ABC News.

"I was kind of scared to kind of figure out what it was," Chrissy told ABC News.

Although rare, doctors at the Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City said they are confident that it can be removed.

"It is very treatable," said Chrissy's physician Dr. Brian Bucher, at Primary Children's Hospital. "Chrissy will need to undergo a simple mastectomy...to remove all the remaining breast tissue to prevent this cancer from coming back."

The family is currently raising money online to help fund treatment for Chrissy.

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Innocent man exonerated of rape he didn't commit after 16 years in prison

Angeles Superior Court Judge, William
Ryan, has overturned the conviction of a man
who spent 16 years in prison for sexual assaults
that DNA evidence later proved he didn't commit.
The man named Luis Vargas broke down in tears
as the judge ordered the case dismissed after new
DNA evidence linked the crime to a serial attacker
on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

Luis Vargas had been in prison for crimes he
didn't commit since 1999 and was serving a
sentence of 55 years to life for three sexual
assaults he didn't commit. When the verdict was
announced & he was declared innocent, he placed
his hand to his forehead, covered his eyes and
shed some tears as he was finally free of the
shame. His mother & daughter were present in
court.

However, Vargas is not a free man yet because of

his immigration status. He has been taken into
federal custody until his green card can be
restored.

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Prince Abubakah Audu, APC Gubernatorial candidate in Kogi feared dead

According

to unconfirmed reports making the round, Prince Abubakah Audu, the All progressive Congress (APC) slumped and died earlier today at his residence in Kogi State. 

Details later.

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Photos of the 42 year old unemployed man who won Zimbabwe most ugly man pageant

A 42 year old unemployed man,  Maison Sere was declared the winner of the most ugly man in Zimbabwe pageant.

The winner, speaking at the event said he is so happy to win the competition after coming fourth position last year. He beat other contestants to win the prized of $500 attached  to the position.

The organizer of the pageant, David Machowa, who created the show in 2012 described the show as a success, adding that he plans to organize the most ugly man in the world competition.

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BRT vehicle catches fire

The remain of the BRT vehicle 

PASSENGERS rushed down yesterday as an Abule-Egba-bound Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) vehicle caught fire under the Iyana-Dopemu bridge.

The bus was coming from Oshodi when the incident occurred around 2.30pm, resulting inc traffic gridlock.

A passenger, identified simply as Chukwudi,sSai  the driver tried to douse the smokeg coming from the engine, with an extinguisher
before it turned into a fire.

Chukwudi said the driver asked the
passengers to disembark, but many refused.

“We were still standing beside the bus waiting on the driver to get rid of the smoke wheny suddenly, the bus caught fire. I ran for safety.

The rest of the passengers who refused to come out of the bus jumped through the window. I was scared.

Even the driver of the bus ran away. I thank God I am alive because it could have happened on the move,” he said.

An eyewitness, Darlyn Ayase, said the firetSt started around 2:45pm.

She said: “I was inside a bus and the driverd wanted to make a U-turn saying there was an accident. Immediately, I came down from the
bus to see things for myself. Before the fire fighters reached the scene, the bus wast almost burnt. They quenched the fire for other vehicles to pass. I think the battery was faulty.”

Mr Henry Lebechi, who was sitting under the bridge, said he saw the vehicle and some passengers jumping out of the window.
He said the driver went to the nearest BRT office to get an extinguisher to fight the fire, addinng: “Everybody did their best but the fire went out of control. The incident started at about 2:30pm and drivers from other BRT
buses stopped to help quench the fireh with their extinguishers.”

Mr Rasheed Ayinla, a commercial bus driver, said the BRT vehicle was filled with passengers adding that it was when it dropped a passenger at Iyana Dopemu that the smoke started.

A vulcaniser, Taiwo Ebinuga, said he was
shocked to see people inside the bus when it caught fire, adding: “People alighted from the bus and some were still seated. The back door
was locked; if not for the passengers that alighted , the story would have been different.

People at the back seat shouted for help
before they jumped out of the window. As the last passenger got out, the bus caught fire completely. I urge bus drivers to have a fire extinguisher in their vehicles.”

Bisi Lawal, a trader, said, she saw smoke
coming out from the bus but the passengers didn’t notice it until it became obvious.

She said: “The rear door was locked except the front door and people pushed each other to get down from the bus. People need to be calm and patient when they are in trouble.
Panicking will never solve the situation. Almost everyone poured water on the bus but our lives are important. I thank God there were no casualties.”

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Mr. President, are you for real? - Etcetera

Dear President Buhari, I will like to extend an invitation to you for a tour of down town, so that you can have a clear view of what the people who
voted you into office feel about certain decisions your government has taken so far, especially the decision to ban ‘I-pass-my-neighbour generator’.

Contrary to the picture your advisers have painted to you, the decision to ban ‘I-pass-my neighbour’ generators will only bring more
hardship to the people down here who have never in any way, benefitted from the Nigerian
government at any time. The little hope that your “change” mantra brought to the poor man is fast
becoming another tale in the book of presidential lies.

So, for you to really understand the ramificationramifications of your decision, I urge you to come for a quick tour of down town. Don’t worry sir; it won’t cost you a thing. We will ensure that your visit is as comfortable as we can. Yes, we know you don't take ‘shepe’ or ‘mishango’ or ‘Ghana root’ mixed with ‘draw-draw’. But don’t worry, we will have enough pure water available for you to cool your feet, wash your face and quench your thirst.

It is true that the streets down here are littered with broken water pipes and heaps of smelly refuse dumps as a result of lack of government presence. But babu wahala, we will see to it that your danshiki doesn’t get so messed up.

It will be nice to have you address the youths and explain to them why you have taken the decision to throw our streets into darkness and expose us
to more terror from armed robbers.

Sir, have you considered the amount of small business operators that will be incapacitated by the ban you have imposed on ‘I-pass-my- neighbour generators’? Come sir, and see for
yourself how many families will lose their source of livelihood simply because they cannot afford to
purchase the bigger generators.
Sir, what becomes of the barber, the hair dresser, the recharge card seller whose business is run
with ‘I-pass-my-neighbour’ generator? Have you
considered the difference between N10, 000 generator and a N50, 000 generator? Do you think the people are happy using ‘I-pass-my neighbour generators? Someone who earns as low as N15,000 monthly, how do you expect him to buy and
maintain a N50, 000 generator?
You should also consider they have other needs.
I think this is a wrong move and one that will drive most self-employed youths into armed robbery and other illegal activities.

And ‘I-pass-my-neighbour generator kills? Hmmmm Mr. President, I thought hunger and bad
roads have killed more Nigerians than generators? How come you haven’t placed a ban on hunger and bad roads? Is this a part of the
“change” we should expect from this regime? Is this one of the groundbreaking ideas given to you
by the new minister for power? How do we achieve steady supply of electricity by banning smaller generators?

What I see here sir, is the government favouring
the rich against the poor. The importers of bigger
generator will no doubt see this as a welcome
idea; that is if they didn’t lobby for it. This is one
of the most insensitive decisions taken by any
Nigerian government. Shouldn’t it be a general
ban on generators?
Is it that punishing the poor has become a goal in
itself for the government? Too many affluent
Nigerians – and, in particular, members of the
political elite – seem to have no sense of how
much suffering is down here on the streets.
Little wonder the governors woke up one morning
and decided that they can no longer pay the N18,
000 minimum wage of workers. For these
governors, what is really striking is the total
disconnect between conventional wisdom and the
reality of life – and death – for much of the
nation. It is like there’s a badge of wickedness on
the forehead of our politicians.
Sir, what we want is for you politicians to stop
talking blithely about the importance of alleviating
the sufferings of the masses and truly start
looking at the way their less-fortunate citizens
live.

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See Reuben Abati's hilarious response to a twitter user who pointed out that none of GEJ former aides placed a birthday message in any newspaper

It is GEJ's Birthday today, and none of his former associates has placed any birthday message for him in the media, something they would have done if he is still the president.

A twitter user pointed this out and Reuben Abati gave an hilarious response.

Here is the meaning of what the twitter user and Abati said in yoruba language:

Owo epo ni omo araye n ba ni la - it is the hand soiled with oil that people will help you to lick (not the one soiled with blood).

Meanwhile, Abati sent his birthday message  to the former president.

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We can no longer pay 18,000 minimum wage - Governors

Some of the Governors at the meeting. 

The 36 state governors at a meeting yesterday, at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja under the umbrella of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, said that dwindling prices of oil has affected their states income thereby making it difficult to pay the N18,000 minimum wage that was signed into law in March 2011 by former President Goodluck Jonathan.

However, the Labour Union rejected the Gov's stance saying that workers will shut down the Govt if the Governors don't pay the minimum wage. The factional president of the NLC Ayuba
Wabba said the Govs salaries were ridiculously high asking them to declare salaries their as approved by the Revenue and Fiscal Mobilisation Commission, that of their commissioners, advisers and others, their security votes and others. He also asked about the bloated overhead cost, inflated contracts by the Govs.

The Governors said it was easier to pay the minimum wage when oil sold at $126 as against the current $41 per barrel.
They, therefore, advised the President to diversify the economy towards agriculture and mining and any other lucrative source of income to improve the nation's economy.

Reading the communique issued at the end of the meeting, Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari said:

“We resolved that we must look at ways to enhance revenue generation and at the same time look at ways to cut our overhead costs, especially the political office holders’ salaries and other overhead expenses.

“The situation is no longer the same when we were asked to pay N18,000 minimum wage, when oil price was $126 (per barrel)
and we continued paying N18,000 minimum wage when the oil price is $41, while the source of government expenditure
is from oil, and we have not seen prospects in the oil industry in the near future.

“We will diversify our economy in the area of agriculture and mining. But at the same time, we should understand our situation where some of us (states) today are taking N100 million as monthly allocation and then have salaries of over N2 billion to pay.

“We, therefore, agreed here to take this suggestion to NEC in our meeting today (yesterday) so that we can find ways to tackle this problem.

“We are also looking at coming together to have discussions with Mr. President and his team, technocrats and experts in the economy to see how we can tackle this problem. We are working harder to deal with it.

In their reaction, leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, warned that if the governors wanted workers to shut down the nation because of the issue, workers would gladly do so, saying “the governors should not think the Nigerian workers do not have the capacity to retrench them.”

Factional President of NLC, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, said:
“We reject it totally. Nigerian workers will never accept it. We all know that it is a reality that N18,000 can no longer take the workers home and cannot sustain any family. Many countries are reviewing their minimum wage upwards to meet the
current realities. In Nigeria, there is even greater need to increase the minimum wage because our currency had been devalued;
inflation keeps rising among others.

“What is the relation of the Nigerian currency to the Dollar or what is value of the N18,000 to the Dollar? We are going to
reject the move with all our might. We are not the cause of the problem. They should think out of the box to find solution to the
problem.

When there was excess crude money, the workers did not benefit and so, we cannot bear the brunt. If the governors
want us to close down the country, we will do that.

“What about their outrageous salaries, bloated overhead cost, inflated contracts and others? NLC is meeting tomorrow (today) on the organ of the Central Working Committee, CWC. This issue is going to feature prominently and we are going to come with a strong statement on it.
Obviously we cannot bear the brunt. They governors should think how to generate
revenue instead"

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Today is Former President Jonathan's Birthday!

Goodluck Jonathan 

Former President Goodluck Jonathan turns 58
today. He was born on this day November 20th 1957. We wish him a Happy Birthday.

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Robbers killed Police man, injured many in Ogun

A vehicle hit by bullet

A gang of armed robbers in a Commando style, raided a bank in Agbara, Ogun State yesterday morning.

A policeman was killed and many people were injured.
Sources said other people were also shot dead, but it could not be confirmed last night.
There are also various accounts of how the robbers stormed the area.

The gang, believed to comprise about 20 members – some of them women, others in hoods – in one of the accounts, stormed the industrial estate, which houses about 10 branches of banks on motor bikes and a
Camry car hijacked a few minutes earlier from the owner.

They shot sporadically in the air as they headed for one of the banks. They smashed the entrance door with explosives, held members of the staff hostage as they carted away millions of naira. They escaped.
Eyewitnesses reckoned that the robbers spent not less than 40 minutes before the police intervention.

They were said to have escaped through the water way in Agbara after a gun battle with policemen.

A policeman attached to the bank was killed.
An expectant woman who was shot in the leg by the robbers, was taken to the hospital.

A bank official said a lot of cash was stolen.
It was learnt that the Camry Salon the armed bandit came with was snatched about 30
minutes from a man who was taking his children to school.

The man, who pleaded not to be named, said:
“I was taking my children to school when some guys stopped me at Ilase. They pointed a gun at me and asked me to step out of the car. I had to obey them because they were
with a gun.”

An eyewitness said: “I was on my way to withdraw money with the ATM. I was three buildings away from the bank when started hearing gun shots. People started running. I ran into another bank’s building. It was close enough for me to see what was going on outside. I saw guys with motor cycles and one car. I noticed there were two ladies and some covered their faces.

“There were about 15 of them that I saw. I saw the Quick Response Squad Armored
carrier in front of the bank and the robbers were shooting at the carrier, which was bullet proof.

After a gun battle, the robbers fled and the police took over the scene. We saw the dead
policeman, some injured bank workers and an expectant woman shot in the leg.”

Another account said the robbers arrived at Agbara in two speed boats and hijacked two
vehicles- a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) and a bus – and rode right through Agbara market
to Bank Road, which was their target.
It was gathered that they blew open the metal doors and vaults at the bank with dynamite,
packing their loot, after holding the staff of the banks hostage at gunpoint.

To ensure that no rescue operation would be carried out, the gang stationed some of their
members at the entry and exit routes into the road. A police armoured personnel carrier in
the area was riddled with bullets. They made their getaway through the waterways, carrying the stolen money “Ghana must go bags”.

According to an eyewitness account, the armed robbers came into Agbara through the
waterway behind Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education in Ijanikin; as early as 8am.

Ogun State Police Commissioner Abdulaziz Ali did not comment. But Lagos State Police Commissioner Fatai
Owoseni said: “Responding to the distress call, policemen from Lagos Command cordoned off all waterways in the area with
aerial patrol covering the entire route which they fled through.

“We had surveillance mounted at the bridge at Obadore, Agbara, and Ishashi while others
combed. We have helicopter patrolling the area.

“At present they are being held up along the waters. They have retreated and heading towards Ogun State. We are at alert.”
Bank customers were also robbed yesterday on 23 Road in Festac,Lagos, where there was
a robbery last month. Lagos Police spokesman Joseph Offor,a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said:
“What happened was that some robbers attacked a bank customer and collected his
money. They shot him on the leg and fled. It happened on 23 Road.

Source: Nation Online

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Man marries Pizza, says 'human relationship is complicated'

Have you ever loved a food so much that you thought of marrying it? That might have happened to some folks that have favorite food, but even at that, one will most likely wave off such thought almost immediately they come.

But a Russian just took the bold step many will tag crazy by marrying a pizza. According to him, human relationships are complicated and pizza won't reject nor betray you.

Russian authorities however, refused to officially register the marriage and a church also turned the couple down so the ceremony took place in a pizzeria with the chefs and managers as witnesses.

The Pizzeria also presented them with a non-official wedding certificate.

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Atiku Will Be Next Nigeria President - Prophet Chukwudi

Prophet Emmanuel Chukwudi aka Prophet Elijah, the General Overseer of Kings of Kings Deliverance Church, who hails from Ntezi in Isielu, Ebony state has said that he predicted that formerformerly President, Goodluck Jonathan will lose the 2015 general election to President Muhammadu Buhari,  but he did not publicize it.

In his recent prophecy, Chukwudi has revealed that Abubakah Audu will be the governor of Kogi State. He equally stated that Atiku Abubakar will be the next president of
Nigeria in 2019.

“He opens my eyes under different circumstances it comes when I am fasting or praying, when I am singing praises to God or even when I am walking in the street.”

According to him former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar is set for a second coming, “the Lord revealed to me that Atiku Abubakar is the next President of Nigeria come 2019”, he went to proclaim further, “part of PDP will break up and merge with another party. On that platform, Atiku Abubakar will emerge the flag bearer and from there become president of Nigeria .”

He further told this reporter “the Senate President, Bukola Saraki will lose his seat as the president the house”.

Prophet Elijah also predicted that Wike will lose out to Peterside in the struggle for the soul of River State. He also foresees Abubakar Audu taking over the incumbent in Kogi State.

When he was asked if he was not being pro APC with his vision he calmly retorted, this is what God reveal  to me the come to pass. And you will testify I am
a servant of the highest God.

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NJC Sacked Justice Akanbi

The National Judicial Council, NJC, in a statement released in Abuja, said it has directed Justice
Lambo Akanbi of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State to, with immediate effect, proceed on compulsory retirement after Pres. Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, approved the sack of the justice after the NJC, found him guilty of judicial misconduct.

The NJC said it had at the meeting, considered various allegations that were levelled against Justice Akanbi by Shell Petroleum Company Nigeria Limited and recommended his sack to the President.

According to the Council, the allegation against the judge was that he
“unilaterally appointed Mr. Emeka Nkwo of CYN-JAC (NIG) Ltd., who was not proposed by any of the parties as referee or valuer in Suit Nos FHC/PH/CS/434/2012 and
FHC/PH/CS/435/2012.

“He also appointed the same referee or valuer in Suit FHC/PH/CS/25/2003, which is another matter involving one of the parties in the first suit.

“He heard and concluded the case without
dealing with the notice of preliminary
objection on the jurisdiction of his court.

“He sat on the case in the Federal High
Court, Yenegoa in Suit FHC/YNG/
CS/30/2013 after a new Judge had been transferred to the state without a fiat from the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court.

“The judge also delivered the ruling in suit No FHC/PH/CS/07/2009, four months after final addresses were taken without any cogent reason contrary to the constitutional
provisions that judgment should be
delivered within a period of 90 days.

“Justice Akanbi also dismissed the
application to set aside the report prepared by the valuer, CYN – JAC (NIG) Ltd and later changed the ruling to judgement which prevented the respondent from pursuing the
application for stay of proceedings at the Court of Appeal.

“Justice Akanbi also failed to give a copy of his ruling delivered on June 12, 2013 to the complainant until June 28, 2013.

“In the exercise of its constitutional powers, at the same meetings of November 4 and 5, 2015, council had suspended Justice Akanbi from office before the approval for his compulsory retirement by President Muhammadu Buhari,” read the statement that was signed by the acting Director of Information at the NJC, Mr. Soji Oye.

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Oh! How I Love to Wail

The social media in recent time has g iven the word ‘wail’ a new meaning, to Wail is to lament, to cry in grief, usually in a loud voice, but today in Nigeria, to wail is to say anything to criticize the present government, to wail is to see any thing wrong in the way the country is being governed and say it. You do not need to belong to an opposition party, you just have point out a wrong thing and you are
tagged a “wailing wailer”.

 But looking at wailing in the above context, I think I love to Wail, I do not mind being tagged a wailer for my dear country, this tag, I wear like a badge with honour. Oh! How I Love to Wail.

I must confess I have never been a great fan of our dear PMB, but I appreciate thebcircumstances that brought about his emergence, not only that, democracy is about the people, the people have spoken through their votes, and that is the final, it
does not matter what the minority wants, the majority have spoken,in this case, I belong to the minority. Am however concerned about the direction
the country is going.
 The word development is not an ambiguous word, the meaning is not hidden, evelopment is not on paper, development is not promises or press releases, neither is it media talks, rather, development is what can be seen, visible changes in the standard of living of the people. Power is
yet to improve when we hear increase in megawatts generated but no increase in the hours we enjoy power supply, the military made us believe boko haram has been nipped in the bud yet hundreds of Nigerians are being slaughtered and injured as a result of bombing being carried out by the sect in the north.
Thousands of graduates are unemployed, yet we are made to believe drastic measures have been taken to create jobs and improve the economy. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation recently
released a statement assuring Nigerians about the availability of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) in the country, yet there are queues in filling stations in the country with some buying for as high as 400 naira per liter.

The change we seek indeed takes time, but Nigerians are eager to see the direction this administration is going, this change maybe slow, but at least it must begin and it must be seen.

I will not blame some Nigerians that have being criticizing the present administration thus far, most of them are students of history, some things happening now has happened before, and when bad history is about to repeat itself, caution is needed, and in this dispensation, let the wailers wail in service to their countryside, let them call for caution. Hope the noise of their wail will reach the high places.

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See Why You Should Stop Making France Flag Your Profile Picture

After the unfortunate bomb blasts and shooting
incidence in Paris last week, lots of people
around the world, especially Nigerians has
taken to the social media to “mourn” with
France.

It was first the #prayforparis hash tag that
flooded the social media, now using the
France Flag as a profile picture is the new
social media trend.

While this may be seen as a commendable
act, there are few questions begging for
answer. Nigeria as a country has been
battling with terrorism attacks which has
claimed many lives, not only Nigeria, but
some other countries in the middle east
have been in chaos for many years, why
are they not getting any attention? Why is
France our only Prayer point while some
other countries are also under attack?
There was another bomb blast in Yola, Adamawa state just yesterday and no one is neither talking about it or praying for Nigeria.

This tweet by a citizen of France and

some of the responses it got should be
enough to change change our mentality.

Let's pray for the peace of our planet, let's pray that terrorism will end and our generation will witness tranquility. One life is not more important than the other, either an American or an African.

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