It's better to live on top of the roof than to live with a nagging woman under the same roof.
Saturday, 23 April 2016
TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL NAGGING DAY
It's better to live on top of the roof than to live with a nagging woman under the same roof.
William Shakespeare: London Underground map given makeover for Bard's 400th anniversary
Bored of the Northern and Bakerloo lines on your daily commute? Why not try the Villains and Heroines lines instead? London Underground has released a special edition tube map to celebrate the 400th anniversary of
William Shakespeare ’s death and the new station names are much more dramatic than the likes of Blackfriars and Bank.
Characters from the Bard’s iconic plays sit alongside each other, from Lady Macbeth to Cressida, with the three theatres where Shakespeare’s works were performed - the Globe, the Blackfriars and the Curtain - also bagging spots on the map, created by Transport for London and Shakespeare’s Globe.
“What this wonderful keepsake reveals is that Shakespeare’s work, his characters and themes intersect with each other in fascinating ways,” said Farah Karim-Cooper, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe.
“To think about navigating the plays in the same way we think about getting around the Underground reminds us that as complex as they are, the works of Shakespeare are entirely accessible to everyone.”
Shakespeare collectors can buy the map from the London Transport Museum and the Globe with posters costing £3.99 and art prints £15.
Celebrations are planned nationwide for 23 April, when Shakespeare is believed to have died in Stratford-
upon-Avon in 1616.
William Shakespeare ’s death and the new station names are much more dramatic than the likes of Blackfriars and Bank.
Characters from the Bard’s iconic plays sit alongside each other, from Lady Macbeth to Cressida, with the three theatres where Shakespeare’s works were performed - the Globe, the Blackfriars and the Curtain - also bagging spots on the map, created by Transport for London and Shakespeare’s Globe.
“What this wonderful keepsake reveals is that Shakespeare’s work, his characters and themes intersect with each other in fascinating ways,” said Farah Karim-Cooper, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe.
“To think about navigating the plays in the same way we think about getting around the Underground reminds us that as complex as they are, the works of Shakespeare are entirely accessible to everyone.”
Shakespeare collectors can buy the map from the London Transport Museum and the Globe with posters costing £3.99 and art prints £15.
Celebrations are planned nationwide for 23 April, when Shakespeare is believed to have died in Stratford-
Meet Jelani Aliyu, Nigerian genius who designed Revolutionary Chevrolet Volt (PHOTOS
Jelani Aliyu, hails from Sokoto State, Nigeria and is General Motors Lead Exterior Designer and the designer of the Chevy Volt. General Motors is the world’s largest automobile maker. The car has been described as an American Revolution and one of the hottest concepts in the design line.
Jelani was born in 1966 in Kaduna, to Alhaji Aliya Haidara and Sharifiya Hauwa’u Aliyu. The fifth of seven children, theirs is a very close-knit family. For him, it was an amazing experience growing up in Sokoto, surrounded by the rich culture of the people and the state and enjoying excellent access to the latest and international information.
From 1971 to 1978, he attended Capital School, Sokoto, an excellent school and this served as a very productive educational experience for him. In 1978, he gained admission into Federal Government College, Sokoto, from where he graduated in 1983 with an award as the best in Technical Drawing.
Jelani was privileged to meet and make many good friends from all parts of the country and beyond during this time. He had tremendous encouragement and mentoring from his family and friends and his creative art develop the ed. He drew a lot, designed his own cars, and even built scale models of them, complete with exteriors and interiors.
After FGC, he got admission into the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to study Architecture, but soon discovered that curriculum did not support his future vision and plans.
After considering other institutions in Nigeria and their academic programmes, he concluded that only one of them had the study criteria that would support his future goals. The institution in which he chose to pursue his education was one he felt offered the best creative programmes and had experience that would give him the best foundation required to study Automobile Design abroad. That institution was the Birnin Kebbi Polytechnic. He was there from 1986 to 1988 and earned an associate degree in Architecture, with an award as Best All-Round Student. While there, he did some in depth research into home design and construction, looking into materials and structures that would be most compatible with our environment and climate; buildings that would stay cool in a hot environment with little, or no artificial electrical air conditioning. Upon graduation from the polytechnic, Jelani worked for a while at the Ministry of Works, Sokoto.
In 1990, Aliyu moved to Detroit, Michigan to enroll at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit under a Sokoto Schorlarship board sponsorship. Having always wanted to study Automobile Design, this was a dream come true and an absolutely fascinating experience. The course was very practical and emphasis was put on creativity and the development of new designs to provide solutions . He received his degree in automobile design in 1994.
In 1994 he began his career with the design staff of General Motors. He worked on the Buick Rendezvous and was the lead exterior designer of the Pontiac G6. He also worked on the Astra with General Motors’ Opel Division.
With his brilliant work on the design of the Chevrolet Volt, which was unveiled in 2007, Jelani Aliyu is considered by many to be the super star of the General Motors renaissance.
Jelani was born in 1966 in Kaduna, to Alhaji Aliya Haidara and Sharifiya Hauwa’u Aliyu. The fifth of seven children, theirs is a very close-knit family. For him, it was an amazing experience growing up in Sokoto, surrounded by the rich culture of the people and the state and enjoying excellent access to the latest and international information.
From 1971 to 1978, he attended Capital School, Sokoto, an excellent school and this served as a very productive educational experience for him. In 1978, he gained admission into Federal Government College, Sokoto, from where he graduated in 1983 with an award as the best in Technical Drawing.
Jelani was privileged to meet and make many good friends from all parts of the country and beyond during this time. He had tremendous encouragement and mentoring from his family and friends and his creative art develop the ed. He drew a lot, designed his own cars, and even built scale models of them, complete with exteriors and interiors.
After FGC, he got admission into the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to study Architecture, but soon discovered that curriculum did not support his future vision and plans.
After considering other institutions in Nigeria and their academic programmes, he concluded that only one of them had the study criteria that would support his future goals. The institution in which he chose to pursue his education was one he felt offered the best creative programmes and had experience that would give him the best foundation required to study Automobile Design abroad. That institution was the Birnin Kebbi Polytechnic. He was there from 1986 to 1988 and earned an associate degree in Architecture, with an award as Best All-Round Student. While there, he did some in depth research into home design and construction, looking into materials and structures that would be most compatible with our environment and climate; buildings that would stay cool in a hot environment with little, or no artificial electrical air conditioning. Upon graduation from the polytechnic, Jelani worked for a while at the Ministry of Works, Sokoto.
In 1990, Aliyu moved to Detroit, Michigan to enroll at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit under a Sokoto Schorlarship board sponsorship. Having always wanted to study Automobile Design, this was a dream come true and an absolutely fascinating experience. The course was very practical and emphasis was put on creativity and the development of new designs to provide solutions . He received his degree in automobile design in 1994.
In 1994 he began his career with the design staff of General Motors. He worked on the Buick Rendezvous and was the lead exterior designer of the Pontiac G6. He also worked on the Astra with General Motors’ Opel Division.
With his brilliant work on the design of the Chevrolet Volt, which was unveiled in 2007, Jelani Aliyu is considered by many to be the super star of the General Motors renaissance.
What Oil Companies in Port Harcourt Pay their Workers
It is always the dream of every graduate to work in an any Oil Company in Nigeria simply because they are one of the very few companies that pay the highest salaries in Nigeria.
Given that the Oil and Gas sector in Nigeria is the strong hold of the country’s economy, it is no surprise that these oil companies dole out mouth watering salaries plus other allowances to their employees, especially the senior staff in such companies.
Note that all oil companies salary structure are not the same. Some pay as much as N18 million per annum while others can go as far as N50 million per annum or even more. Well, this depends on the department, nature of job and type of oil company. Nevertheless, the oil and gas sector still pay far better than any other sector in the country, unless you are a politician.
And so, I stumbled on a piece of information from a reliable source online that exposed what Oil Companies in Port Harcourt pay their workers with focus on basic entry level salary scale and put it on Nigerian Infopedia for all to see.
Entry Level Salary Scale of Oil Companies in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
1. Total E&P Nigeria: the highest paying oil company in Nigeria today, with about 1700 workers. Entry Level Salary is N7 million to N12 million a year
2. ExxonMobil: is the second largest oil producer in Nigeria, with an estimated total of about 4 million deep-water/shallow-water offshore acreage. Entry Level Salary is N6 million to N10 million a year.
3. Chevron Nigeria: boasting a daily production capacity of over 230 thousand barrels of crude oil, Chevron Nigeria is the third-largest oil producer in Nigeria with Entry Level Salary at N6 million to N9 million per annum.
4. Shell Nigeria: known to be the oldest and also the largest oil producer in the country which produces about 600,000 barrels daily with 6000 employees of which about 90% are Nigerians. The Entry Level Salary for Shell Nigeria is N3 million to N8 million.
6. Aiteo Eastern E&P: Has its Entry Level salary at N3 million, six hunded thousand to N5 million a year.
7. Schlumberger Nigeria: Entry Level salary scale is N3.6 million to N6 million a year.
8. Halliburton Nigeria: a multinational upstream E&P service provider that specializes in operational and reservoir solutions. The salary for Entry Level: is N3.6 million to N4.5 million a year
9. Saipem Nigeria: Salary for Entry Level is N2.4 million to N4.8 million a year
10. Seplat Petroleum : Entry Level salary is N2.4 million to N4.8 million per year and is listed in both Nigeria and London stock exchange.
11. Oando Group: Nigeria’s first IOC. The salary for entry level for Oando is N1.8 million to N4.8 million per year
12. Conoil: with about 6 oil blocks, Conoil entry level salary is N1.8 million to N3.6 million a year.
What’s your take about this information or do you know of any job that pays higher than these oil companies in Nigeria as listed below ? We would like to hear from you using the comments section below!!!!
Given that the Oil and Gas sector in Nigeria is the strong hold of the country’s economy, it is no surprise that these oil companies dole out mouth watering salaries plus other allowances to their employees, especially the senior staff in such companies.
Note that all oil companies salary structure are not the same. Some pay as much as N18 million per annum while others can go as far as N50 million per annum or even more. Well, this depends on the department, nature of job and type of oil company. Nevertheless, the oil and gas sector still pay far better than any other sector in the country, unless you are a politician.
And so, I stumbled on a piece of information from a reliable source online that exposed what Oil Companies in Port Harcourt pay their workers with focus on basic entry level salary scale and put it on Nigerian Infopedia for all to see.
Entry Level Salary Scale of Oil Companies in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
1. Total E&P Nigeria: the highest paying oil company in Nigeria today, with about 1700 workers. Entry Level Salary is N7 million to N12 million a year
2. ExxonMobil: is the second largest oil producer in Nigeria, with an estimated total of about 4 million deep-water/shallow-water offshore acreage. Entry Level Salary is N6 million to N10 million a year.
3. Chevron Nigeria: boasting a daily production capacity of over 230 thousand barrels of crude oil, Chevron Nigeria is the third-largest oil producer in Nigeria with Entry Level Salary at N6 million to N9 million per annum.
4. Shell Nigeria: known to be the oldest and also the largest oil producer in the country which produces about 600,000 barrels daily with 6000 employees of which about 90% are Nigerians. The Entry Level Salary for Shell Nigeria is N3 million to N8 million.
6. Aiteo Eastern E&P: Has its Entry Level salary at N3 million, six hunded thousand to N5 million a year.
7. Schlumberger Nigeria: Entry Level salary scale is N3.6 million to N6 million a year.
8. Halliburton Nigeria: a multinational upstream E&P service provider that specializes in operational and reservoir solutions. The salary for Entry Level: is N3.6 million to N4.5 million a year
9. Saipem Nigeria: Salary for Entry Level is N2.4 million to N4.8 million a year
10. Seplat Petroleum : Entry Level salary is N2.4 million to N4.8 million per year and is listed in both Nigeria and London stock exchange.
11. Oando Group: Nigeria’s first IOC. The salary for entry level for Oando is N1.8 million to N4.8 million per year
12. Conoil: with about 6 oil blocks, Conoil entry level salary is N1.8 million to N3.6 million a year.
What’s your take about this information or do you know of any job that pays higher than these oil companies in Nigeria as listed below ? We would like to hear from you using the comments section below!!!!
Friday, 22 April 2016
Governor, Rivers State(PDP) and Governor, Sokoto State(APC)
Governor, Rivers State(PDP) and Governor, Sokoto State(APC) doing this together at Aso Rock Villa, Abuja while you are on Facebook insulting me, your friends and other religious leaders because of your party sentiment and because we share different political views. Do you know who you are? Hmmmmmmm let me just keep quiet.
You see their faces? You see the smiles? Why over stress yourself on issues that won't add value to your life, huh?
Please learn to discuss issues of local and national importance and stop hero worshiping public servants like this governors.
You see their faces? You see the smiles? Why over stress yourself on issues that won't add value to your life, huh?
Please learn to discuss issues of local and national importance and stop hero worshiping public servants like this governors.
Naira was strong until my removal in 1985 – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buahri on Friday said Nigeria’s currency, naira, was strong during his military regime but lost value after his removal from office in 1985.
Speaking at a meeting with members of the Council of Retired Federal Permanent Secretaries, Mr. Buhari said he resisted the pressure from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to devalue the currency and remove fuel subsidy.
He insisted that he was yet to be convinced that the vast majority of ordinary Nigerians would derive any tangible benefit from a devaluation of the naira.
The president said he still held the conviction that motivated his principled resistance to devaluation in his first tenure as Head of State.
“When I was military Head of State, the IMF and the World Bank wanted us devalue the naira and remove petrol subsidy but I stood my grounds for the good of Nigeria.
“The naira remained strong against the dollar and other foreign currencies until I was removed from office in August, 1985 and it was devalued.
“But how many factories were built and how many jobs were created by the devaluation?
“That is why I’m still asking to be convinced today on the benefits of devaluation,” Mr. Buhari told the retired Permanent Secretaries led by Christopher Tugbobo.
Mr. Buhari welcomed the council’s pledge of support for the successful implementation of his administration’s change agenda, especially in the priority areas of improving security, curbing corruption and revitalizing the nation’s economy.
“I am glad you have rightly identified the key issues we campaigned on.
“We need a dynamic bureaucracy, which will not mislead us into taking wrong decisions,” the president said.
The Council of Retired Federal Permanent Secretaries was established in 2004 to serve as a platform for retired permanent secretaries to offer constructive advice to government on key policy issues.
Philip Asiodu, the pioneer chairman of the council, said its members want the present administration to succeed because Nigeria had already lost many opportunities for progress.
“We are non-partisan. The interest of Nigeria is paramount to us and we are anxious that you should succeed,” Mr. Asiodu told the president.
OBJ &Buhari: Ex-Generals and Their Boys are up to Something Bad – Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Why am taking a swift from supporting General Buhari.
Obasanjo endorsed General Buhari as the man to deliver this nation. I was personally shocked, when I heard the news. This is because, I was expecting Baba to stay at the touch line, and leave Nigerians to study his body language. But the masquerade could not control his dance in the public market. Hence he mistakenly flogged his own mother who is also a trader in the market.
Nigerians, I am left with no option than to tell us that, these ex-generals and their boys are up to something. The issue at hand is not all about the presidential seat. But rather, the national cake (oil blocks).
Less I forget, is it not the same Obasanjo who woke up and hand picked his puppet 2011, who eventually grew like Joseph the messiah of Egypt? Is it not the same Obj that told us 2011, that General Buhari is too old to rule this country? Is it not the same Obj that told us Buhari is a dictator?
Somebody should have a rethink like me. We must understand the preacher’s language before decoding his message. If Obj can take a swift and prefer General Buhari to Jonathan, a puppet he dedicated his energy and resources to win 2011 election, then as an average Nigerian, we should have a rethink and ask our leaders what is so special in Aso Rock.
If leadership is to serve the people, why is it that,the ex-generals finally gang up against their new recruit on account of change? If we’re to outline the sins of Mr.President, are the ex- generals not guilty of such sins? One may ask why is SPEAKER taking a swift? Everybody wants change.
But I am astonished the way and manner these ex- general joined the train of change. Is it that, this is the first time they heard the word change? If NO, why did they not change this country when they were given opportunity?
Why advocating for change now when the puppet body language shows he Will not renew their oil blocks licence? Why advocating for change now, when the puppet purchased equipment to monitor and reduce vandalism? Why advocating for change now, when the strong headed puppet wiped out their ghost names from the civil service pay roll?
Why advocating for change now, when the puppet sacked your boys as corrupt ministers? Why advocating for change now, when the puppet refused to dump Sambo for another puppet? Why advocating for change when he refused to kill Nigerians indiscriminatel y. But rather he is exploiting all means of dialogue. Unlike your Odi brutal killings and destruction.
Why advocating for change now, when the puppet refused to twist governors hands with EFCC to pave his way like you did? Why advocating for change now, when at 72 years, you still tell your children of 50years they are the leaders of tomorrow? Why advocating for change now, when the puppet refused to give you the fertilizer deal?
Why advocating for change now, when the puppet refused to jail your enemies? Why advocating for change now, when the puppet refused to rig election for your daughter? Why advocating for change now, when in your time railways were not working? Why advocating for change, when in your time, our judiciary could not delivered a fair judgement in favour of oppositions?
Baba,Nigerians are fed up of you sitting in Otta, deciding their future. We want to decide our destiny with the help of God. We want to practice true democracy by using our votes to decide our future. Let the good works or antecedents of our leaders speak volume for them. Just after the presidential chat with Mr.President, we discovered that, you, your colleagues and errant boys, are spreading false informations to pave your way to aso rock.
Lastly, I challenge you Baba, #Tinubu, #Atiku and others to tell Nigerians you don’t have oil blocks or you Generals are not fighting the last battle to protect your oil blocks. They won’t come out and speak my brothers and sisters.They want us to believe they are fighting for us. When they have their own local refineries at their backyards. R..I.P Fela: Animals wan dash me my human right. TRUE OR FALSE???
60-year-old woman caught with 5 babies says: I paid fertility clinic N1m for each child
The issue of baby factories came up in Oyo State on Wednesday, April 20, when the Oyo State Police Command disclosed that it has arrested a 60-year-old woman, Ms Asabi Adebayo with five children whom she claimed to have given birth to in a fertility clinic, after paying N1million for each. She claimed that the five children were born from two pregnancies as twins and triplets and were aged between two and one.
But the Commissioner of Police in the state, Leye Oyebade, said she was suspected to be part of a baby sale syndicate who sell children to people residing abroad.
Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on how the woman was apprehended, Oyebade said that Iyaganku Division of the command received a report from the proprietress of an orphanage in Ibadan on April 14, 2016, that the 60-year-old Ms Adebayo requested her to assist in getting a police report to fly her five children abroad.
“I directed the officer in charge of the Juvenile Welfare Centre of the Division to arrest her. When she got to the station, she told the police that she got the children for N1million each. She confessed that she got the children from a woman in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, but when the police from Oyo State command got there, the woman, who probably got a hint that the police were after her, could not be seen.
“We are trying to find out how the person who sold the babies came about them. Before we can get the details of the children, we have to get the person who sold them because she is the one that can give account of how she came about them. While at that, we have been able to identify that these are children that have been sold and for us to trace their origin, it will take some time. Investigation is still ongoing,” the police commissioner stated.
He promised that his command was going to work towards getting those involved. “We have set our dragnet and we have our information. Apparently, the person has gone into hiding but he or she will be fished out,” Oyebade added.
Ms Adebayo, who was visibly disturbed about her arrest, narrated to the Nigerian Tribune how she got the children that led to her arrest.
According to her, “I had been looking for fruits of the womb for many years until I reached menopause. Over two years ago, someone introduced me to a woman at Ikorodu, Lagos State, who could facilitate pregnancy through herbal concoction, so I and other women went there and were given the concoction.”
She also revealed that at the time she came in contact with the woman for fertility treatment, she had stopped menstruating, “but we were given concoction to menstruate just once. After that, I had sex with my partner. I am not married.
“We took the concoctions for nine to 10 months before we delivered. For delivery, we were taken to Port Harcourt. I delivered twins from the first pregnancy over two years ago. I got pregnant the second time and had triplets about a year ago. I paid N1million for the treatment on each of the children. In total, I paid N5million. I breast-fed my children for three months before weaning them as babies. ”
When asked why she had to pay N1million on each child since multiple births could come from any pregnancy, Ms Adebayo replied that the woman who gave her treatment told her ahead of delivery that she would pay according to the number of babies from each delivery. She insisted that she did not buy the babies, contrary to her initial statement at the police station in which she was reported to have confessed paying N5million to get the five children.
She said that she took the police to the place where she delivered the babies in Port Harcourt but the operators of the fertility clinic, a couple, were nowhere to be found.
Responding to questions in a quivering voice, Ms Adebayo, who claimed to be a British citizen, said: “I had been warned not to have children while I was abroad because of my health, so I had made up my mind to put them up for adoption so as to be free.”
On how she found herself in Ibadan though residing in Lagos State, she said: “I came because the owner of an orphanage I approached said that if I wanted to get the children adopted, I would need to get a police report to take them out of Nigeria.”
On the story that she wanted to do business with the children buy buying them and putting them up for adoption abroad so as to make some money, Ms Adebayo replied: “For business? They are my children; how can I use them for business? I want to take them abroad so that they could enjoy the benefits I have overseas.”
Revealing the operations of the ‘fertility clinic’, Adebayo stated: “These people using concoction had many clients. We were over 1,000 and would queue to be attended to at Ikorodu. Wherever they were, we would go and queue. They gave us concoction and tested us, telling us we were pregnant. I didn’t go for scanning because we were told it was not necessary.
“I want the couple to be apprehended. (Burst into tears). I know them as Mr and Mrs Okoro. We were many that fell into this deceit. My stomach was big like that of a pregnant woman and I had normal delivery. They would make us lie down, give us concoction, make a cut in the opening of the birth canal and would be pressing our stomachs. When asked whether she was sure that the children’s DNA would match hers, she replied: “I don’t know, I don’t know. The couple should tell the whole world how they were doing it.”
The woman disclosed further she was battling with some diseases, which the Nigerian Tribune learnt were related to cancer and high blood pressure. On why she went ahead to have the children when she knew it was a health risk and she would still give them up for adoption, Ms Adebayo tearfully replied: “I adopted children in the past, though not officially, but they all left me later, saying that I was not their biological mother.”
But the Commissioner of Police in the state, Leye Oyebade, said she was suspected to be part of a baby sale syndicate who sell children to people residing abroad.
Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on how the woman was apprehended, Oyebade said that Iyaganku Division of the command received a report from the proprietress of an orphanage in Ibadan on April 14, 2016, that the 60-year-old Ms Adebayo requested her to assist in getting a police report to fly her five children abroad.
“I directed the officer in charge of the Juvenile Welfare Centre of the Division to arrest her. When she got to the station, she told the police that she got the children for N1million each. She confessed that she got the children from a woman in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, but when the police from Oyo State command got there, the woman, who probably got a hint that the police were after her, could not be seen.
“We are trying to find out how the person who sold the babies came about them. Before we can get the details of the children, we have to get the person who sold them because she is the one that can give account of how she came about them. While at that, we have been able to identify that these are children that have been sold and for us to trace their origin, it will take some time. Investigation is still ongoing,” the police commissioner stated.
He promised that his command was going to work towards getting those involved. “We have set our dragnet and we have our information. Apparently, the person has gone into hiding but he or she will be fished out,” Oyebade added.
Ms Adebayo, who was visibly disturbed about her arrest, narrated to the Nigerian Tribune how she got the children that led to her arrest.
According to her, “I had been looking for fruits of the womb for many years until I reached menopause. Over two years ago, someone introduced me to a woman at Ikorodu, Lagos State, who could facilitate pregnancy through herbal concoction, so I and other women went there and were given the concoction.”
She also revealed that at the time she came in contact with the woman for fertility treatment, she had stopped menstruating, “but we were given concoction to menstruate just once. After that, I had sex with my partner. I am not married.
“We took the concoctions for nine to 10 months before we delivered. For delivery, we were taken to Port Harcourt. I delivered twins from the first pregnancy over two years ago. I got pregnant the second time and had triplets about a year ago. I paid N1million for the treatment on each of the children. In total, I paid N5million. I breast-fed my children for three months before weaning them as babies. ”
When asked why she had to pay N1million on each child since multiple births could come from any pregnancy, Ms Adebayo replied that the woman who gave her treatment told her ahead of delivery that she would pay according to the number of babies from each delivery. She insisted that she did not buy the babies, contrary to her initial statement at the police station in which she was reported to have confessed paying N5million to get the five children.
She said that she took the police to the place where she delivered the babies in Port Harcourt but the operators of the fertility clinic, a couple, were nowhere to be found.
Responding to questions in a quivering voice, Ms Adebayo, who claimed to be a British citizen, said: “I had been warned not to have children while I was abroad because of my health, so I had made up my mind to put them up for adoption so as to be free.”
On how she found herself in Ibadan though residing in Lagos State, she said: “I came because the owner of an orphanage I approached said that if I wanted to get the children adopted, I would need to get a police report to take them out of Nigeria.”
On the story that she wanted to do business with the children buy buying them and putting them up for adoption abroad so as to make some money, Ms Adebayo replied: “For business? They are my children; how can I use them for business? I want to take them abroad so that they could enjoy the benefits I have overseas.”
Revealing the operations of the ‘fertility clinic’, Adebayo stated: “These people using concoction had many clients. We were over 1,000 and would queue to be attended to at Ikorodu. Wherever they were, we would go and queue. They gave us concoction and tested us, telling us we were pregnant. I didn’t go for scanning because we were told it was not necessary.
“I want the couple to be apprehended. (Burst into tears). I know them as Mr and Mrs Okoro. We were many that fell into this deceit. My stomach was big like that of a pregnant woman and I had normal delivery. They would make us lie down, give us concoction, make a cut in the opening of the birth canal and would be pressing our stomachs. When asked whether she was sure that the children’s DNA would match hers, she replied: “I don’t know, I don’t know. The couple should tell the whole world how they were doing it.”
The woman disclosed further she was battling with some diseases, which the Nigerian Tribune learnt were related to cancer and high blood pressure. On why she went ahead to have the children when she knew it was a health risk and she would still give them up for adoption, Ms Adebayo tearfully replied: “I adopted children in the past, though not officially, but they all left me later, saying that I was not their biological mother.”
POLITICAL KILLINGS OR NOT, PEOPLE ARE BEING KILLED..
Dear Governor,
Some days ago whilst speaking to the Members of the House of Representatives Committee on the Army investigating the military invasion of Ogoni communities, Governor Wike stated unequivocally that there are no political killings in Rivers state.
According to him, "Like every other state, we have our security challenges, but we don’t have political killings. We have cases of cult related violence, but the security agencies are tackling the issue frontally with the support of the Rivers State Government.”
He further alleged that the reports of insecurity and political killings during the rerun elections were “concocted by misguided politicians.”
The question I believe is did people die? Yes. Have their killers been brought to book? No.
Where lives are concerned the semantics becomes unimportant. Samuel Okonta’s –[the murdered youth corper]- families do not care if he died via political killings or social killings. All they care is that he died. Same goes with those massacred in the Ogoni communities and the random killings that occur on our streets per day. Last week it was the UNIPORT student Peter Ofurum; the week before, there was an assassination along Aba road. Call it what you like, the fact remains that political, educational, social, and emotional killings are occurring every day and saying that it isn’t does not refute the incontrovertible evidence.
34-year-old Lance Corporal Adegboyega Adebayo, one of the two soldiers killed in Abonnema, Akukutoru LGA two days before the Rivers State rerun election, was buried in Ogun State on Friday. He was survived by a wife and two children, one of which is a 2-month-old baby who will never know her father. They don’t care if the killings were politically motivated or otherwise.
The family of the deceased soldier also decried the lack of empathy from both the Rivers State and the federal governments, adding that neither had bothered to pay a condolence visit to the family.
When Governor Wike said that "We have a secure state where businesses are thriving. That is why our internally
Generated revenue is growing regularly," we wondered if he was referring to the thriving business of Armed Robbery within the state which we talked about here. On Monday, there was yet another armed robbery attempt in the daylight hours which resulted in one dead suspect and four recovered vehicles. Business is thriving indeed.
We may choose to politicize and socialize killings, but we cannot continue to disregard death. And people are are dying uneccessary deaths in Rivers state.
Some days ago whilst speaking to the Members of the House of Representatives Committee on the Army investigating the military invasion of Ogoni communities, Governor Wike stated unequivocally that there are no political killings in Rivers state.
According to him, "Like every other state, we have our security challenges, but we don’t have political killings. We have cases of cult related violence, but the security agencies are tackling the issue frontally with the support of the Rivers State Government.”
He further alleged that the reports of insecurity and political killings during the rerun elections were “concocted by misguided politicians.”
The question I believe is did people die? Yes. Have their killers been brought to book? No.
Where lives are concerned the semantics becomes unimportant. Samuel Okonta’s –[the murdered youth corper]- families do not care if he died via political killings or social killings. All they care is that he died. Same goes with those massacred in the Ogoni communities and the random killings that occur on our streets per day. Last week it was the UNIPORT student Peter Ofurum; the week before, there was an assassination along Aba road. Call it what you like, the fact remains that political, educational, social, and emotional killings are occurring every day and saying that it isn’t does not refute the incontrovertible evidence.
34-year-old Lance Corporal Adegboyega Adebayo, one of the two soldiers killed in Abonnema, Akukutoru LGA two days before the Rivers State rerun election, was buried in Ogun State on Friday. He was survived by a wife and two children, one of which is a 2-month-old baby who will never know her father. They don’t care if the killings were politically motivated or otherwise.
The family of the deceased soldier also decried the lack of empathy from both the Rivers State and the federal governments, adding that neither had bothered to pay a condolence visit to the family.
When Governor Wike said that "We have a secure state where businesses are thriving. That is why our internally
Generated revenue is growing regularly," we wondered if he was referring to the thriving business of Armed Robbery within the state which we talked about here. On Monday, there was yet another armed robbery attempt in the daylight hours which resulted in one dead suspect and four recovered vehicles. Business is thriving indeed.
We may choose to politicize and socialize killings, but we cannot continue to disregard death. And people are are dying uneccessary deaths in Rivers state.
The FInal Solution to Education Problems in Nigeria
The FInal Solution to Education Problems in Nigeria
Greatest Nigeria students! This medium is to inform you all about our latest SKU upgrade. We have decided to create a student forum to solve skul problems .due to what happened in uniport ,we have created a site and a BBM account to help share information to all Nigeria students phone.with this all students will be informed of what is happening in all the universities in Nigeria.you can share your education problem to the BBM and our alumni forum are there to help solve them and it will be posted to our site for the whole Nigeria student to see and download. So be free to send assignment questions and solutions to our admin for easy broadcast.if u have any news or useful idea also to help ourselves please also send it across.
Greatest Nigeria students! This medium is to inform you all about our latest SKU upgrade. We have decided to create a student forum to solve skul problems .due to what happened in uniport ,we have created a site and a BBM account to help share information to all Nigeria students phone.with this all students will be informed of what is happening in all the universities in Nigeria.you can share your education problem to the BBM and our alumni forum are there to help solve them and it will be posted to our site for the whole Nigeria student to see and download. So be free to send assignment questions and solutions to our admin for easy broadcast.if u have any news or useful idea also to help ourselves please also send it across.
My Bre asts Are Killing Me, They Won’t Stop Growing – Woman Cries Out
This was sent to Laila Ijeoma, according to the letter, the pregnant woman lamented about how her boobs keeps getting bigger and bigger nonstop.
According to her, the rate at which her boobs are growing is quite frightening and it is becoming a great source of concern to her. Read her mail below:
“Please i need help. this is not funny any more. My breast is beginning to frighten me. I am 14 weeks pregnant (my first pregnancy) and my breast has grown past size 44 and with a very strong texture.
Even though I am fair, my aureola is expanding at an alarming rate and has turned pure black and my nipple are erect and hard and painful non stop I am naturally busty and normally i wear size 34 cup.
I have never seen any thing like this my entire life. I am seriously worried and it seems to be getting bigger every morning.
The weight is also a problem. I strain to stand straight and my back is aching terribly. My husband has been supportive but i know he is worried too though he tries to mask it often. i am slim and slender and I now look absurd. I had to keep changing bra size every 2 weeks and I still have a long way to go in my pregnancy as I just entered my 2nd trimester.
I like to be free when am at home but my elder sister told me to wear bra always and I have started wearing them even to bed but its not helping. Please does anybody know what I can do to stop this breast from growing.”
Please anyone who can advice her, drop it below!!!!!!
According to her, the rate at which her boobs are growing is quite frightening and it is becoming a great source of concern to her. Read her mail below:
“Please i need help. this is not funny any more. My breast is beginning to frighten me. I am 14 weeks pregnant (my first pregnancy) and my breast has grown past size 44 and with a very strong texture.
Even though I am fair, my aureola is expanding at an alarming rate and has turned pure black and my nipple are erect and hard and painful non stop I am naturally busty and normally i wear size 34 cup.
I have never seen any thing like this my entire life. I am seriously worried and it seems to be getting bigger every morning.
The weight is also a problem. I strain to stand straight and my back is aching terribly. My husband has been supportive but i know he is worried too though he tries to mask it often. i am slim and slender and I now look absurd. I had to keep changing bra size every 2 weeks and I still have a long way to go in my pregnancy as I just entered my 2nd trimester.
I like to be free when am at home but my elder sister told me to wear bra always and I have started wearing them even to bed but its not helping. Please does anybody know what I can do to stop this breast from growing.”
Please anyone who can advice her, drop it below!!!!!!
Saraki should step aside as Senate President!!!!
The present Senate serving the Nigerian people runs the risk of being remembered as the worst since 1999. Public Relations Consultants and media officials of this particular Senate have done their part flooding both the print and the online media with details of how productive the Bukola Saraki-led Senate has been, and they have been quite aggressive in telling us about 30 important Bills which when passed, will change the face of Nigeria and deliver change.
The Senate according to one report has considered over 125 bills, debated over 48 motions, and passed three bills. But nobody is apparently impressed. During the Jonathan administration, the Senate was the better regarded of the two legislative chambers. While members of the House of Representatives in the Seventh Assembly behaved as if they were a band of students’ unionists, the then Red Chamber projected an image of maturity and temperance, even if it was also self-serving! With the 8th Assembly, the House of Representatives, apart from the shameful resort to physical combat over the distribution of “juicy” committees in November 2015, has shown itself to be better organized than the present Senate. The critical difference is that of leadership. It is one of management. It is a matter of weight and politics.
What is clear is that the leadership recruitment and selection process in the legislative arm of government is as critical as it is in any other sphere of government. During the 7th Assembly, the politics of the emergence of the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, a PDP lawmaker who became an agent and later, chieftain of the opposition party, ensured that the House remained almost permanently in a frosty relationship with the Executive. Likewise, the manner of Bukola Saraki’s emergence as Senate President, marked again by alleged disloyalty to his own party and collusion with the opposition for personal gains, has laid the foundation for the supremacy of intrigues, cabals, and the politics of mischief in a Chamber that should be devoted strictly to the making of laws for the good governance of Nigeria.
His colleague in the House of Representatives also emerged under controversial circumstances, but Yakubu Dogara’s politics seems to be better managed. Saraki’s politics is made more complex by the fact that he has strong roots in the two dominant parties in the National Assembly and has proven to be extremely influential across party lines, making him a dominant force in Nigeria’s current power equation, and most certainly, a threat to other power centres.
Online, the Saraki-led Senate claims that it has done a lot, even if it has spent more time being on vacation in less than a year, and obsessed daily with the politics of contradictions. The Senate President once reportedly boasted that the Senate under his watch has helped to block corruption by helping Nigeria to save money. He talked about the Senate’s probe of the Treasury Single Account (TSA). But now, here is the contradiction: Many Nigerians would find it difficult to see how a Senate whose leader is on trial for corruption-related matters, and that has chosen to buy for its members, luxury SUV vehicles at inflated cost can claim to be helping Nigerians at a time when the economy is on a tragic downward spiral, and yet the same Senators had allegedly collected vehicle loans. This has brought the Senate condemnation from both the Nigeria Labour Congress and a coalition of about 400 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
But we know where the problem lies: politicians are always playing games, and the Senate under Bukola Saraki’s watch has acted more than once, as if it is against the people. This Senate has had to reverse itself thrice in the last one month following public outcry about its lack of moral rectitude. The painful reality is that the impression has now been created that the Senate as presently constituted is playing the politics of one man. It has reduced itself to a Saraki-must-stay-and-the-Executive-and-anti-Saraki-APC-leaders-must-bow-Red-Chamber. Most members of the House of Representatives have tactfully stayed away from this abuse of privilege and utter contempt for the original mandate of the National Assembly, but they need to be advised to also stay away from the kind of infectious madness that seems to be seizing hold of the Senate. It is a form of madness that encourages recourse to farce, burlesque and conspicuous acquisition.
Determined to show support for their embattled Senate President who is on trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), and whose name has also been mentioned in the Panama Papers scandal, many of the Senators abandoned the Senate Chambers and started following their boss to the Tribunal. On one occasion as many as close to 50 Senators abandoned their primary assignment and chose to go and play politics at the Tribunal. If this seeming relocation of the Senate to the Code of Conduct Tribunal was meant to intimidate the presiding judge, His Lordship has refused to be intimidated, either by the crowd or the convoy of buses or the retinue of 90 defence lawyers. He has now chosen to attend to the case on a daily basis. The number of Senators doing follow-follow has since reduced: it will of course, be absurd to shut down the entire Senate to embark on sycophantic frolic. Nonetheless, the Saraki case is taking its toll on the Senate. It has placed it on a collision course with a court of competent jurisdiction, with the Executive and also divided the ruling All Progressives Congress.
It has also led to a situation whereby the lawmakers even attempted to change the Code of Conduct Bureau Act in an obvious attempt to frustrate the Saraki trial. In less than 48 hours, the amendment bill went through first and second readings. If there had been no public outcry, the lawmakers would have passed the bill in less than 72 hours. It would have been the fastest piece of legislation ever, and yet it was meant to be self-serving: making a law to sabotage due process, even when they know that a law cannot have retroactive effect. When that failed, our Senators came up with the ingenious idea that the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal must appear before the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions. An indignant crowd of civil society agitators also shut that down. The Chairman of the CCT has also been a target of campaigns of calumny. Saraki’s supporters are throwing everything possible into this matter, where the legal process fails, the legislative process is deployed; when that also fails, an internet war, rallies, protests, all designed to win the public mind is launched.
Senate President Bukola Saraki may not have read Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power,for he seems to have broken too many of those laws already; perhaps he has read The Art of War by Sun Tzu. He should have been told that to rush headlong into war without mastering the dynamics of power is costly. This is one bitter political lesson about the strategy of war that Senator Saraki is currently learning. But now that he has gone so deep into the battlefield, he may no longer be allowed to surrender or retreat, even as his troops are gradually fleeing. Saraki has stepped on the proverbial Banana peel; as he struggles for survival, our Senate, the people’s Senate, must not be allowed to fail as a public institution. Senator Saraki should step aside, for now, as Senate President. If he emerges victorious from his travails, his colleagues should do him the honour of reinstating him to that office of honour, without question. But if he loses, he should remember that war only offers two possibilities, and even when a warrior wins, there may still be dangers on the way back home. In all, the politics of Saraki’s trial should not consume the Senate, and indeed the 8th Assembly.
“So far, so good”, Saka Olawale wrote assessing the present Senate. I don’t think so. If anything, this Senate needs to be rescued. Whatever explanations our present set of Senators offers would be difficult to believe given the manner in which they have exposed their own limitations. The Senate cannot even keep documents. Copies of the 2016 Budget vanished from its custody. The copies when eventually found mutated into versions unknown to the Executive arm that presented the same Budget at an open ceremony.
For five months, the Senate is embroiled in a needless controversy over the content of the Budget. What is worse: In almost one year, no Senator can be quoted as having said anything engaging or profound. The only Senator who makes a serious effort to display some common sense is far more active on Twitter than on the floor of the Senate. The more prominent Senators are known for their rabid politicking or their wardrobe or exotic cars or the comedy that they provide. One of them even came up with a bill to gag free speech. It was in this same Senate that some male chauvinists declared that women cannot have any equal rights with men, and so a Gender Equality Bill is unacceptable.
They failed to realize that in the United States, whose Constitutional democracy we are copying, a woman is only a short distance away from emerging as Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party and as 45th President of the United States. I imagine many of them struggling to be photographed with the same woman if they are so privileged. Was it also not in this same Senate that a member argued that Nigerian lawmakers should only patronize Made-in-Nigeria-women? This was meant to be a “brilliant” contribution to a debate on the need to promote Made-in-Nigeria goods. How dumb! And this kindergarten level statement actually generated some debate!
Married or not read this!!!!!
“When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.
Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?
I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Jane. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her!
With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company. She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Jane so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.
The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn’t have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Jane. When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.
In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn’t want anything from me, but needed a month’s notice before the divorce. She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month’s time and she didn’t want to disrupt him with our broken marriage.
This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day. She requested that every day for the month’s duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning. I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.
I told Jane about my wife’s divorce conditions. . She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully.
My wife and I hadn’t had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mommy in his arms. His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don’t tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office.
On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn’t looked at this woman carefully for a long time. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her.
On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me. On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn’t tell Jane about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger.
She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily.
Suddenly it hit me… she had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head.
Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it’s time to carry mom out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day.
But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn’t noticed that our life lacked intimacy. I drove to office…. jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind…I walked upstairs. Jane opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Jane, I do not want the divorce anymore.
She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead. Do you have a fever? She said. I moved her hand off my head. Sorry, Jane, I said, I won’t divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn’t value the details of our lives, not because we didn’t love each other anymore. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart. Jane seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away. At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, I’ll carry you out every morning until death do us apart.
That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed -dead. My wife had been fighting CANCER for months and I was so busy with Jane to even notice. She knew that she would die soon and she wanted to save me from the whatever negative reaction from our son, in case we push through with the divorce.— At least, in the eyes of our son—- I’m a loving husband….
The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves.
So find time to be your spouse’s friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy. Do have a real happy marriage!
If you don’t share this, nothing will happen to you.
If you do, you just might save a marriage. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Remember love is the richest of all treasures. Without it there is nothing; and with it there is everything. Love never perishes , even if the bones of a lover are ground fine like powder. Just as the perfume of sandalwood does not leave it, even if it is completely ground up, similarly the basis of love is the soul, and it is indestructible and therefore eternal. Beauty can be destroyed , but not love.
God bless you.
CRIME I CONVEYED GUNS TO LAGOS APC CAMPAIGN VENUES – CULTIST
A self-confessed cultist, Muhideen Ibrahim, who was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, has said he conveyed guns to the All Progressives Congress campaign venues during the 2015 electioneering on the Lagos Island.
Ibrahim, 29, from Kwara State, added that he took two pump-action rifles to the governorship primaries held at the Tafawa Balewa Square in the Onikan area for the “protection of my gang’s candidate”.
However, the state APC denied knowing him, adding that Ibrahim could be a mad man. The party advised the police to bring him to justice.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the Denton Police Division arrested Ibrahim on Tuesday from a hideout in the Ijora Badia area.
It was gathered that a locally-made pistol and two expended cartridges were recovered from him.
Our correspondent learnt that Ibrahim, aka Oginni, had been on the police’s watch list since last year for his alleged involvement in the murder and violence on the Lagos Island.
It was learnt that another suspected cultist – Sodiq Kolade – had earlier been arrested by the police for alleged possession of guns.
He was said to have denied the allegation, but confessed that he knew those who had guns.
Kolade was said to have led the police to Ibrahim’s hideout where he was arrested.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Ibrahim, who confessed that he joined the Eiye Confraternity in 2007, said the guns his gang took to campaign venues were not for violence, but for protection of their governorship candidate.
He said, “I live in the Ijora Badia area, and I am known as Oginni . One of the boys in the area, Sodiq (Kolade) was the one who brought policemen to my house. I had a friend called Dagbe, and he lived with me in Ijora.
“He and I belonged to the same gang. During the last general elections in the Onike, Yaba area, we had guns. Anytime there was campaign on the island, they would contact me and other members of my group. We belonged to the APC. In the governorship primaries, we had our candidate.
“Dagbe had two pump-action guns. I conveyed guns to campaign venues three times. It was not for violence. It was just to protect ourselves and our candidate. I was paid N5,000 for each trip.
“I joined the Eiye Confraternity in 2007. The person who initiated me has travelled. He is now in Malaysia. His name is Sammy. So, we used the guns to only protect our candidate. I still belong to the party. I work at the council level to collect tolls from okada and
Keke Napep riders in Ijora.”
On the other hand, Kolade, who lived on Kano Street, Oyingbo, told our correspondent that he led policemen to Ibrahim’s hideout when the policemen insisted that he (Kolade) had guns.
He said, “I know Oginni because he used to move with my elder brothers. When the police arrested me, they insisted that I had guns. I told them I did not have guns, but I could take them to someone who had guns. So, I took them to Oginni’s place. I belong to Dagbe and Soko’s boys.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said the command would not relent in ridding the state of criminals.
He said, “He is one of the leaders of a notorious cult in Ebute-Meta. He and six others were nabbed by the police. Some are still on the run, but they will be arrested too.”
The spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe, however, said the suspect’s mental state should be examined, adding that the party did not breed hoodlums.
He said, “We do not know this hoodlum. We do not know what he is talking about. We do not know whether he is a mad man. You also do not know his mental state. Let the suspect face the law. We are not part of this. Our party is not made up of hoodlums.
“Did he show you his APC membership card? He has to produce a proof of membership. Please, ignore that man.”
Ibrahim, 29, from Kwara State, added that he took two pump-action rifles to the governorship primaries held at the Tafawa Balewa Square in the Onikan area for the “protection of my gang’s candidate”.
However, the state APC denied knowing him, adding that Ibrahim could be a mad man. The party advised the police to bring him to justice.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the Denton Police Division arrested Ibrahim on Tuesday from a hideout in the Ijora Badia area.
It was gathered that a locally-made pistol and two expended cartridges were recovered from him.
Our correspondent learnt that Ibrahim, aka Oginni, had been on the police’s watch list since last year for his alleged involvement in the murder and violence on the Lagos Island.
It was learnt that another suspected cultist – Sodiq Kolade – had earlier been arrested by the police for alleged possession of guns.
He was said to have denied the allegation, but confessed that he knew those who had guns.
Kolade was said to have led the police to Ibrahim’s hideout where he was arrested.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Ibrahim, who confessed that he joined the Eiye Confraternity in 2007, said the guns his gang took to campaign venues were not for violence, but for protection of their governorship candidate.
He said, “I live in the Ijora Badia area, and I am known as Oginni . One of the boys in the area, Sodiq (Kolade) was the one who brought policemen to my house. I had a friend called Dagbe, and he lived with me in Ijora.
“He and I belonged to the same gang. During the last general elections in the Onike, Yaba area, we had guns. Anytime there was campaign on the island, they would contact me and other members of my group. We belonged to the APC. In the governorship primaries, we had our candidate.
“Dagbe had two pump-action guns. I conveyed guns to campaign venues three times. It was not for violence. It was just to protect ourselves and our candidate. I was paid N5,000 for each trip.
“I joined the Eiye Confraternity in 2007. The person who initiated me has travelled. He is now in Malaysia. His name is Sammy. So, we used the guns to only protect our candidate. I still belong to the party. I work at the council level to collect tolls from okada and
Keke Napep riders in Ijora.”
On the other hand, Kolade, who lived on Kano Street, Oyingbo, told our correspondent that he led policemen to Ibrahim’s hideout when the policemen insisted that he (Kolade) had guns.
He said, “I know Oginni because he used to move with my elder brothers. When the police arrested me, they insisted that I had guns. I told them I did not have guns, but I could take them to someone who had guns. So, I took them to Oginni’s place. I belong to Dagbe and Soko’s boys.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said the command would not relent in ridding the state of criminals.
He said, “He is one of the leaders of a notorious cult in Ebute-Meta. He and six others were nabbed by the police. Some are still on the run, but they will be arrested too.”
The spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe, however, said the suspect’s mental state should be examined, adding that the party did not breed hoodlums.
He said, “We do not know this hoodlum. We do not know what he is talking about. We do not know whether he is a mad man. You also do not know his mental state. Let the suspect face the law. We are not part of this. Our party is not made up of hoodlums.
“Did he show you his APC membership card? He has to produce a proof of membership. Please, ignore that man.”
Fuel scarcity: NUPENG calls for Kachikwu’s resignation
In a statement signed by Comrade Joseph Ogbebor, NUPENG Acting General Secretary, the union stated that “due to Kachikwu’s inability to address the perennial fuel scarcity which has become an epidemic and a cankerworm since his appointment as NNPC Group Managing Director, he should resign.”
The union reiterated that the man-hours lost at filling stations is becoming unbearable and that he should resign forthwith as all the solutions proffered by him have yielded no results but pains on the suffering masses.
“Kachikwu’s anti-peoples policies are too elitist and not in tandem with the campaign promises of the Buhari administration.
“The proposed plan by NNPC under Dr Ibe Kachikwu to cut contracting cycle in the oil and gas sector which will impact negatively on the workers in the sector from the current two to four years to six months will further worsen the unemployment situation in the country,” it said.
NUPENG added that the planned privatisation of the nation’s assets vis-à-vis, the refineries, depots, jetties through the backdoor to cronnies will further compound the challenges facing the sector.
“This is borne out of the total failure of the privatization of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, (PHCN) which brought us total darkness and massive loss of jobs.
The policies enunciated by Dr Kachikwu are obnoxious, alien, unworkable and full of semantics and have failed from the on-set, hence the nation’s citizens have continued to suffer with redundancies been declared on a daily basis in the oil and gas sector since he assumed office,” it said.
The union added that the inconsistencies in the policies and promises never kept have put us in this quagmire.
News Flash :
•Caretaker Committee Chairmen to hand over to HPMs
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has dissolved all the 23 Local Government Caretaker Committees with immediate effect.
A statement issued by Simeon Nwakaudu, Special Assistant to the Governor on Electronic Media, directed the Caretaker Committee Chairmen to hand over to their respective Heads of Personnel Management, HPM.
The governor also directed the HPMs to immediately compile list of staffbeing owed salaries. He directed that the list, including the number of months owed to the workers by the respective councils be submitted to the office of the Governor with immediate effect.
Simeon Nwakaudu,
Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor, Electronic Media.
22nd April, 2016.
The Bible has all we need in life!!!!
Everything I need is inside the Bible! Everything I have so far came from the Bible! Whatever I want, if I can locate it in the word of God, I can have it in due time. Right now, the process is ongoing for me to acquire all my desires. As I keep believing, speaking & acting on the words covering my needs, soon enough, the words will be made flesh(become physical realities by creating my expected desires through a spiritual faith process). The secret of answers to prayers is asking based on the word. May God help us to continually find answers in his word in Jesus name!
RIVERS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY SWORE IN 9 PDP MEMBERS-ELECT AND 1 OUT OF 2 APC MEMBERS-ELECT ON 19, MARCH, 2016, TODAY
Ahoada East State Constituency I: Martins Manner (PDP)
Ahoada East State Constituency II: Ehie Edison (PDP)
Akuku Toru State Constituency I: Major Jack (PDP)
Akuku Toru State Constituency II: Benebo Frederick Anabraba (APC)
Emohua State Constituency: SamOgeh (PDP)
Obio/Akpor State Constituency I: Martin Amaewhule (PDP)
Obio/Akpor State Constituency II: Michael Okechukwu Chinda (PDP)
Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni State Constituency: Ahiakwo Christian (PDP)
OmumaState Constituency: Kelechi Godspower Nwogu (PDP)
Opobo/Nkoro State Constituency: Andrew Miller (APC) was absent
Port Harcourt State Constituency II: Tonye Adoki (PDP)
Ahoada East State Constituency II: Ehie Edison (PDP)
Akuku Toru State Constituency I: Major Jack (PDP)
Akuku Toru State Constituency II: Benebo Frederick Anabraba (APC)
Emohua State Constituency: SamOgeh (PDP)
Obio/Akpor State Constituency I: Martin Amaewhule (PDP)
Obio/Akpor State Constituency II: Michael Okechukwu Chinda (PDP)
Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni State Constituency: Ahiakwo Christian (PDP)
OmumaState Constituency: Kelechi Godspower Nwogu (PDP)
Opobo/Nkoro State Constituency: Andrew Miller (APC) was absent
Port Harcourt State Constituency II: Tonye Adoki (PDP)
UNIPORT TO REOPEN PAYMENT PORTAL FOR THE FIFTH TIME
The Senate of the University of Port Harcourt has directed Management to re-open the Payment Portal for two weeks on the resumption of the University to enable students who missed the four previous deadlines comply and complete their online registration.
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