10 jobs that make it difficult for men to satisfy their wives.

Women need their men to spend quality time with them and shower them with loads of love, care and affection which is the top priority of every marriage.
In Nigeria, there are certain jobs that deprive men from satisfying their wives romantically and intimately. This may be due to long hours of working, and the strenuous nature of the jobs and which puts them in a position to starve their wives of romance and intimacy
Without wasting here, below are the categories of these jobs
1. Banking Jobs
Banking jobs is one of the time consuming jobs coupled with stress and fatigue which might perhaps cause a lot of psychological damage to men. The nature of banking jobs demand that a man resumes very early at dawn and goes home at odd hour at night. At the end of the day, the man arrives home at mid night with much fatigue which makes it difficult for him to satisfy his wife except during weekends.
2. Importing and Exporting
International successful business men such as Alaba boys who are car importers, electronic importers, etc are always worried about their containers and the delivery of goods to their customers. They spend more time traveling than staying with their wives at home. Sometimes, their wives are forced to cheat on them when they're being starved of love making 8)
3. Military and Paramilitary Jobs
Occupation such as Army, Airforce, Navy, etc, are jobs that doesn't give room for men to spend quality time with their wives, especially those ones sent the war front to fight for peace and justice. However, some of them may travel for months without having the privilege to set their eyes on their wives. By the reason of this, some of them resort to sugar mummy while in active service
4. Entertainment Jobs (Acting, Modeling and Singing)
Celebrities are usually restless and only spend a few fraction of time with their wives because they're wanted here and there. Most of these celebrated men womanize a lot that they might serve their wife of romance and affection. Last week, I was discussing my future plans with my fiancee when I told her about my interest in "acting". She flared up and started curses and abusive words on me, threatening me to consider her gone with the claim that she can't consider dating a man that will starve her joystick after marriage. Tosyne2much, the man of God, just shook his head and quickly turned it to a joke because I don't want to lose her 8)
5. Aviation Jobs (Piloting)
Pilots too are always busy traveling from one country to another after which they will return home after a few days. Most of them might even travel for two weeks before returning home. Their chances of satisfying their women is very relatively low
6. Logistics and Driving
The stress and danger of this job reduces the intimate performance of men which makes their wives unsatisfied. One cannot blame Dangote or the Young Shall Grow drivers who travel miles away for for several weeks without rest. These men are likely to under-perform at the end of the day
7. Sports (Footballers, Athletes, etc)
This occupation demands that men refrain themselves from sex so as not to lose fitness. Some of them are forced to avoid making love with their wives so that they can prevail in their career. Most Nigerian footballers are not so disciplined in this area that's why many of them who themselves strikers find it difficult to score 2 goals in a season :D
8. Sailing
This job also keeps men away from their wives for a very long time. Sometimes, they travel on the sea for as long as three months before they return home. To be very frank and sincere, this job deprives them from spending time with their wives when they're in need of them.
9. Medical Jobs
Medical experts such as surgeon and doctors are usually very occupied with a lot of work as patients keep disturbing them every now and then. Many a time, some of them come home tired and may not perform more than 30 seconds before they climax. KingTom, I throway salute 8)
10. Engineering Jobs
To be very sincere with you, engineering job is very strenuous. They are always at site working tirelessly in order not to disappoint those who gave them contracts. They come home very tired and exhausted and can use cutlass on any woman that disturbs their sleep
I drop my pen at this juncture
Original Writer: Tosyne2much

Ethno-Religious Cleansing At Federal University Dutsinma: Matazu Lied- Dr. Maryam Ati

D r. Maryam H. Ati, a former lecturer at the Federal University, Dustinma in Katsina State, has described, as a parade of lies, the attempt of Mr. Habibu Garba Matazu to paint the institution as a hotbed of ethno-religious bigotryunder the former Vice Chancellor, Professor James Ayatse. Mr. Matazu, a Principal Public Relations Officer of the university, had written a piece, published by SaharaReporters, in response to an article, similarly published bySaharaReporters, alleging ethnic and religious cleansing at the institution by Professor Ayatse.
According to Dr. Ati, Mr. Matazu’s claim that the former Vice Chancellor and the Governing Council were removed and replaced with a new Vice Chancellor, Professor Haruna Kaita, and Governing Council was inaccurate.
What happened, she said, was that Professor Ayatse honourably left the university on 16 February, following the completion of his tenure as Vice-Chancellor. Dr. Ati similarly described, as absurd, Mr. Matazu’s allegation that indigenes of Katsina State have not been employed by the institution. Addressing the claim, Dr. Ati wrote: “Even a small child will see through the lies here. How can a university that has two principal officers from the state (the Registrar and the Librarian), that conducted regularization interview on 10th and 11thFebruary, 2016, with the Federal Character Commission, the University Registrar, a consultant from outside the university and other senior management staff in attendance, as required by law, not have a single Katsinaindigene on the nominal roll? This is stretching the truth to an absurd limit.”
Responding to Mr. Matazu’s claims that almost all the staff recruited by the university aremembers of the Deeper Life Christian Ministry and that no Muslim or Christian of other denominations was appointed as dean, director or head of department under the Vice Chancellorship of Professor Ayatse, an indigene of Benue State, Dr. Ati said Mr. Matazucompletely turned truth upside down. She pointed out that Professor Ayatse, his deputy, Professor Johnson O. Fatokun; and the bursar, Mr. Momohjimoh Sadiq, were correctly identified by Mr. Matazu as Deeper Life members.
But Dr. Ati also pointed out that Sir BoyeOyewande, Director Physical Planning andWorks, is a Knight of the Methodist Church, not a Deeper Life member, as claimed by Matazu. The case of Mr. Jack A. Ebe, Director Procurement, presented by Matazu as a Deeper Life Christian, is similar. According to Dr. Ati, Mr. Ebe is a member of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA).
Professor. Joshua Ogunwale, the university’sDirector Advancement and Linkages, whom Mr. Matazu claimed was a Deeper Life member, said Dr. Ati, belongs to the Baptist denomination. Another lie said to have been told by Mr. Matazu concerned Dr. Godwin O. Adejo,Director Academic Planning. Dr. Adejo was presented as a Deeper Life Christian by Mr. Matazu. However, Dr. Ati said he is a member of the Living Faith Church.
Also identified as off-target was the presentation of Mr. Agber Torkuma, as a Director of ICT and Deeper Life Christian. Mr. Torkuma, said Dr. Ati, is a coordinator, supervised by a director, and not a director. He is also said to attend Chapel of Truth, not Deeper Life. Mr. Matazu, Dr. Atiadmitted, correctly identified Dr. OlabisiTanimowa, Director, University Health Service, and Professor Friday Ati, Dean of Social Sciences, as Deeper Life Christians.
But again, Dr. Ati said, he goofed in the case of Dr. Yunusa Magaji Matazu, a Katsina State indigene and member of the ECWA Church. Dr. Matazu is also said to be a cousin to the man who has lied against him. Both, maintained Dr. Ati, hail from Matazu Local Government Area of KatsinaState.
Similarly dismissed as hogwash was Mr. Matazu’s identification of Mr. Raymond C.O, the university Chief Security Officerand ECWA member as a Deeper Life Christian
Others wrongly identified as Deeper Life members are Professors Shade Omokore, Dean of Arts and member of JAWOM; A E Kighir, Dean Management Sciences and a Catholic; Benjamin A. Ladani, Dean of Education and member of Mountain of Fire; and Mr. Q. Amua, Dean of Student Affairs, a member of Christ Embassy.
Dr. Ati noted that Mr. Matazu was agenda-driven, the reason for which he avoided providing the full list of people occupying strategic positions during the Vice Chancellorship of Professor Ayatse.
“In his attempt to hoodwink the reading public,Habibu Matazu failed to give the full list of people occupying strategic positions in the university during the former Vice-Chancellor’s administration,” she wrote.
These, she said, included Alhaji Abubakar Muhammed, Registrar and Muslim from Katsina State; Dr. Babangida Dangani, Librarianand Muslim from Katsina State; ProfessorHamisu A. Bichi, Dean of Agriculture and Muslim from Kano State; Professor Baba Kutigi, Muslim from Niger State; Dr. Aminu D. Kankia, Director SOGAPS and Muslim from Katsina State; Tijjani Nadoro, Chief Internal Auditor and Muslim from Katsina State; andMatazu himself, who was the Principal Public Relations Officer and a Muslim from KatsinaState.
“It is obvious Matazu kept all these details away to convince the reading public that his fabrications are true. However, conscience is an open wound,” wrote Dr. Ati.
On Mr. Matazu’s allegation that the former Vice Chancellor ensured that most of the university’s junior staff were employed from Benue State, in alleged breach of the regulation stating that lower cadre staff be employed from the area where the federal institution is located, Dr. Atiwrote: You (SaharaReporters) may wish to send your reporter to Dutsinma on a fact-finding mission and you will realize that the university is plagued with a crop of indigenous staff who cannot communicate in English. This group constitute not less than 80 percent of junior staff on the nominal roll.”
On Mr. Matazu’s claim that the Governing Council of the university has established a committee to verify the status of all staff, Dr. Ati wrote that a staff audit had indeed been directed to be carried out by the Audit Committee. However, she said the incumbentVice Chancellor, Professor Kaita, did not wait for the report of the audit committee to be considered by council before terminating the appointments of close to 300 staff.
She said she was one of those affected, adding that there are issues with the exercise that the public needs to be aware of.
Explaining the issues, Dr. Ati wrote: “No part of the letter indicated that if I fail to regularize, which is the responsibility of only the Governing Council, I would be terminated. The paragraph 4 which was referred in the termination letter became null and void on 20thJuly, 2015. My services were fully acknowledged and remunerated as Lecturer I by the university after the said expiration for one full year. Attached are sample pay slips, lecture schedules, SIWES supervision schedule, appointment to represent the Faculty on the Board of Faculty of Management Sciences among others. Also, minutes of Departmental and Faculty Board meetings will testify to this. I have been used to teach and perform Departmental, Faculty and University meetings after 20th July 2015. I was upgraded one step higher in October 2015. This is a clear indication that my services were deemed regularized and well remunerated by the university. An official annual leave was approved for me by the Registrar, from which I resumed on 17th August, 2016. I was invited for and attended a regularization interview organized by the university on 10th of February with other staff members and have been waiting for the result before the purported termination of my appointment.
The university has, at all times, deducted my pension since then. Only indigenes of KatsinaState have been secretly given a regularization letter since the recent appointment of the Vice Chancellor. The Vice Chancellor has been terminating the appointments of non-Katsinaindigenes. The Vice Chancellor has usurped the powers of the Governing Council.”
Dr. Ati also demanded, among other things, thatMr. Matazu should immediately retract his article because it is full of falsehood, deliberate misinformation and outright lies. In addition, she is requesting that SaharaReporters to compel the university, using the Freedom of Information Act, to produce the nominal roll of the university as a confirmation or rebuttal of Mr. Matazu’s claims.
Source:Sahara reporters

Code Of Conduct Bureau To Probe Amaechi, Ngige, Fashola, Malami & Others Over Assets

The Code of Conduct Bureau has begun massive verification of assets declared by top serving and former public officers at the federal, state and local government levels. A statement by the Chairman of the CCB, Mr. Sam Saba, released by the Press and Protocol Unit of the Bureau on Thursday, stated that the exercise involved the physical appearance of the concerned public officers before the bureau for conference and field verifications of their declared assets.
The Code of Conduct Bureau has begun massive verification of assets declared by top serving and former public officers at the federal, state and local government levels.
A statement by the Chairman of the CCB, Mr. Sam Saba, released by the Press and Protocol Unit of the Bureau on Thursday, stated that the exercise involved the physical appearance of the concerned public officers before the bureau for conference and field verifications of their declared assets.
Conference verification requires public officers to present documents relating to their declared assets to designated officials of the Bureau.
On the other hand, field verification involves public officers taking CCB officials to locations of their declared landed, fixed and other assets that could not be conveniently moved to the bureau’s office.
He stated that by virtue of Paragraph 11 of Part 1 of the Fifth Schedule to the 1999 Constitution (as amended), “every public officer is required to submit to the Code of Conduct Bureau a written declaration of all properties, assets and liabilities and those of his/her spouse (if not a public officer) and his unmarried children under the age of 18 years.”
He added that any statement in the declaration, found to be false by any authorities or persons authorised to verify it, “shall be deemed to be a breach of the code”.
He stated, “To this end, the Bureau has commenced its 2016 4th Quarter Cycle of Conference and Field Verification of Assets of top public officers. Accordingly, letters of invitation have been dispatched to ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, service chiefs, and other top public officers.
“All invited public officers are to note that failure to honour the invitation by the CCB in this regard is a breach of the provisions of the constitution and could lead to prosecution under the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
Ngige, Amaechi and Fashola
“Public officers not yet invited are to await their letters of invitation.”
He listed 76 public officers that had been invited by the Bureau with a threat of the possibility of prosecution if they fail to honour the invitation.
Among the 76 invitees are 30 ministers whom, according to the Bureau, have yet to submit themselves to the exercise.
According to the Bureau, ministers who have yet to submit themselves for the verification are Rotimi Amaechi (Transportation); Babatunde Fashola (Power, Works and Housing); Ibe Kachikwu (Petroleum Resources (State); Abubakar Malami (Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice); Adebayo Shittu (Communications); Dr. Kayode Fayemi (Solid Minerals and Steel Development); Audu Ogbeh (Agriculture and Rural Development).
Others include Senator Aisha Alhassan (Women Affairs and Social Development); Solomon Dalung (Youths & Sports Development); Osagie Ehanire (Health (State)); Usani Usani (Niger Delta Affairs); Prof. Anthony Anwukah (Education (State)); Lai Mohammed (Information and Culture), and Gen. Ali Mansur (retd.) (Defence).
The list also includes Senator Udo Udoma (Budget and National Planning); Ibrahim Jibril (Environment (State)); Suleiman Adamu (Water Resources and Rural Development); Mustapha Shehuri (Power (State)); Prof. Claudius Daramola (Niger Delta Affairs (State)) and Kemi Adeosun (Finance) as those who have not submitted themselves to verification.
The rest are Prof. Isaac Adewole (Health); Okechukwu Enelamah (Trade, Investment and Industry); Geoffrey Onyema (Foreign Affairs ); Muhammadu Bello (Federal Capital Territory); Senator Hadi Sirika (Aviation (State)); Hajiya Khadija Bukar (Foreign Affairs(State)); Senator Chris Ngige (Labour and Employment); Heineken Lokpobiri (Agriculture and Rural Development (State)); Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu (Science and Technology); and Abubakar Bwari (Solid Minerals (State) ).
The rest of the public officers still expected to submit themselves to the bureau are the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele; Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Oyo-Ita Ekanem; Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olanishakin; Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Abubakar Sadique; and the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibas Ibok.
Also on the list are the immediate past Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase; Chairman, Police Service Commission, Chief Mike Okiro; Controller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Babatunde Mohammed; Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Waziri Adio; Director-General of National Pension Commission, Mrs. Chinelo Amazu; and Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, Export Promotion Council, Mr. Olusegun Awolowo.
Also yet to turn up for the CCB verification are the Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Sule Kazaure; Executive Secretary, Nigeria Sao-Tome & Principle Joint Development Authority, Kashim Tumash; Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru; Controller-General of Federal Fire Service, Anebi Garba; Director-General, Budget and National Planning, Mr. Ben Akabueze, and Managing Director, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Commission, Ibrahim Umaru.
Others include the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission, Prof. Abubakar Adamu; Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Mrs. Hadiza Usman; Managing Director, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, Ahmed Kuru, and Controller-General of MSCDS, Muhammad Abdullahi.
The Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, who are on the list, are Ntom Chukwu, Folusho Adebanjo, Emmanuel Inyang, Maigari Dikko, Joshak Habila, Shuaibu Gambo, and Hyacinth Dagala.
An Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Abdul Bube, is also on the list.
Military officers, whose names appear on the list, are Real Admiral Joseph Osa (Commandant, Operation Delta Safe) and Major General M. A. Koleoso (GOC Tradoc).
The CCB also listed a number of Federal Commissioners of the Civil Service Commission and three Group Executive Directors of the NNPC, who are yet to submit themselves to the CCB’s verification.
In the statement, the CCB stated that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, and five other ministers, among 15 other former and serving public officers, had submitted themselves to the asset verification.
Buratai recently became the target of scathing public scrutiny when reports of his choice $1.5m properties, which he claimed were acquired in the name of his wife in Dubai, hit the public space.
Saba confirmed to our correspondent on the telephone that all the 15 persons, whose assets had been verified, had been issued a certificate of Conference Verification/Field Verification.
“The Chief of Army Staff was the first to be issued his certificate. We started issuing to others last week,” he said.
Responding to further inquiry about whether the certificate issued by the CCB implied that the cleared public officers were free from liability of criminal prosecution, Saba stated, “Even though the tribunal (Code of Conduct Tribunal) is the institution with the power of adjudication in asset declaration breaches, the certificate means that from our own end, we are satisfied with the verification that we have done.”
The five cleared ministers are Abdulrahman Dambazau (Interior); Zainab Shamsuna (Budget & National Planning); Adamu Adamu (Education); Aisha Abubakar (Minister of Trade, Investment & Industry (State)); and Amina Mohammed (Minister of Environment).
The rest of the former and serving public officers already cleared by the CCB are the immediate past Secretary of the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim; Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood; a former Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Julius Okojie, and a former Controller-General, Nigerian Prisons Service, Ezenwa Peter.
They also include the Acting MD/CEO, Niger Delta Development Commission, Semenitari Tamunoibim; Controller-General, Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Ibrahim Ali (retd.); Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris; Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi; and Federal Commissioner, Civil Service Commission, Hope Ikrirko.
The CCB boss commended those that had turned up for the exercise.
Source:punch newspaper

Reintroduction of history in schools

Following the criticisms that have trailed the suspension of the teaching of history in schools, the federal government on Thursday ordered the reintroduction of the subject in basic schools across the country.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who called for the disarticulation of social studies in the current curriculum of basic schools and reintroduction of history as a subject, said this has become imperative given the critical nature of history to the nation’s socio-political development.
The Minister made the call in Abuja Thursday while addressing delegates at the 61st Meeting of the National Council on Education Ministerial Session.
He also urged the Council to consider making the study of Christian Religious Knowledge and Islamic Religious Knowledge compulsory for both Christians and Muslims to the end of Senior Secondary School.
Adamu said the reintroduction of history as a subject on its own in basic schools will give the Nigerian child a self identity of who they really are.
He added that Nigeria owes both the present and future generations the responsibility of removing all inhibitions against opportunities of acquiring morals and ethics as taught in the religious traditions.
“It is only the study of history, our own history, that can explain and give meaning to our very humanity and that is why we must study it and teach our little ones. It is also not enough that they merely know who they are; we must teach them about their God.
“Since it is said that if you want to destroy any nation, it’s either first the family is destroyed, then the education is destroyed and the third the social morals are destroyed and in Nigeria we owe both the present and future generations the responsibility to remove all inhibitions against making our children acquire morals and ethics”
At the Council Meeting, the Minister also launched the National Teacher Education Policy , NTEP, and the National Quality Assurance Policy, NPEQ
According to the Minister, the National quality Assurance Policy, NPEQ, is an assurance system for institutions below tertiary level and for expected standard of practice in Nigeria. On the other hand, the policy identifies the pivotal role of qualify teachers in the provision of quality education at all levels.
“The objective is to produce highly skilled knowledgeable and creative teachers who are capable of producing globally competitiuve students,the policy seeks to ensure that teachers recruited,trained and re-trained based on explicit standards,” he said.
On the theme, ‘Education Council Meeting ; Teacher Quality: A Tool for Sustainable Human Capital Development’ , Adamu stated that it was informed by the need to draw the attention of policy makers, technocrats, professionals, and stakeholders in the education sector to the indispensability of the teacher in human capital development for the achivement of national goals.
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Guru Faults Katsina Governor on Alleged $40bn Pumped into Niger Delta

Founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, has faulted the call by Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State on Niger Delta leaders to account for how they spent about $40 billion said to have been pumped into the region in recent years.
Maharaj who in a release titled, “Gov. Aminu Masari Is A Joker” and made available to journalists on Thursday, was reacting to Masari’s statement that the Niger Delta people have no basis for their agitation. He said the governor must look inward before pointing accusing fingers at another section of the country when it comes to accountability.
He said while the governor has done nothing wrong by asking Niger Delta leaders to be accountable, it is also true that no one will be saying anything illogically or constitutionally offensive by calling on Northern leaders to account for all they have received and extracted from the country.
According to him, it is an open fact that the Northern part is the country is the most backward area despite all the money in billions of dollars that its leaders have handled on its behalf, stating that Nigeria is gradually becoming a major African theatre of greed and graft, where stealing is a standard way of life punishable only when you either cannot bribe your way out of legal nemesis or when you enroll with the wrong political party.
He said, “Northern Nigeria leaders of today may deny all the accusations that they choose to avoid, they are free to issue all the threats they can and are at liberty to apportion all blames they can afford against their counterparts. Whatever it is they choose to do against love and truth can never erase the fact that they are predominantly responsible for Nigeria’s disgraceful state of destitution.”

We are already walking out of economic recession.

Finance Minister Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, yesterday said Nigeria was already walking out of the economic recession following some positive measures the Federal Government had taken.
Mrs. Adeosun added that the recovery plan was to invest more in infrastructure and stop wastage in governance.
The Minister, in an interview with reporters after the closing ceremony of the 2016 National Council of Finance and Economic Development (NACOFED) conference in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, noted that the economic recovery process would be driven from the local, state and the Federal Government levels.
“We are investing more in capital expenditure than we have ever invested. We are sorting out infrastructure; we are stopping wastage and so the sign of recovery is already there.
“We are already getting out of recession because of the actions the Federal Government is taking. If you are in a problem, the day you start to step towards progression, you are already getting out of it; we are getting out of it.
“Agriculture and solid minerals are already starting to grow and so they are responding to our policy initiative and we are expected to continue in that direction.”
“Nigeria is getting out of the trouble that we have found ourselves. We are turning things around and I believe everybody is united and everybody that was here (conference) represented the 36 states of Nigeria and this recovery will be driven from the state and local governments,” she said.
According to her, the diversification of the economy from oil to agriculture and solid minerals is yielding positive results.
She urged the Finance Commissioners from the 36 states and other stakeholders at the conference not to see economic recovery as the Federal Government’s responsibility, but rather join hands to save the economy.
“There are no Federal people; everybody lives in the states. So having everybody together working in the same direction is very important and I want everybody to be included,” Mrs. Adeosun said.

Lai Mohammed replies The Economist.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said the social reorientation campaign, ‘Change Begins with Me’ that was introduced this month was not scheme to silence Nigerians.
His response was contained in a statement issued yesterday to a story by The Economist published on September 24, 2016, entitled: ‘Nigeria’s war against indiscipline, Behave or be whipped.’ Mohammed said the article was pejorative, loaded with innuendos and couched in a language that was downright racist.
He tackled the magazine which accused President Muhammadu Buhari of ‘’taming’’ Nigerians
with the ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaign, saying the use of the word ‘tame’’ was unpardonable as it connoted that Nigerians are some kind of wild
animals that must be domesticated. He also said the usage was a deliberate put-down of a whole people under the guise of criticising a government policy.
“The paper, in striving to reach a preconceived conclusion, also insinuated that some 150,000 volunteers are being trained as enforcers of the ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaign. This is not true. In his speech at the launch of the campaign on September 8, 2016, the President, a globally-acknowledged leader who believes strongly in the rule of law, left no one in doubt that moral suasion, the very antithesis of force, will be employed to achieve attitudinal change among Nigerians.
“In that speech, the president said: ‘I am therefore appealing to all Nigerians to be part of this campaign.’ To the best of our knowledge and, surely the knowledge of those who own the language, the words ‘appeal’ and ‘enforce’ are not synonymous.
“In its rush to discredit the ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaign, The Economist, a widely respected newspaper, fell below its own standards by choosing to be economical with the truth. Enforcement is not part of the strategies to be employed under the campaign, and nowhere has it been said that the ‘moral police’ will be unleashed, as reported by the newspaper. In writing the story, the paper did not even deem it necessary to speak with any official of the government, thus breaching one of the codes of journalism, which is fairness. It chose instead to quote a ‘critic’ of the president in a perfunctory manner,” Mohammed said.
The minister accused the paper of committing the same gaffe that most critics of then ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaign have made by rushing to comment on a campaign they do not understand., adding that critics have ended up shooting themselves in the foot by hauling darts at the campaign shortly after it was launched. Mohammed described the campaign was an all-inclusive campaign that was designed to start with the leadership not designed to shift any responsibility to Nigerians,, saying that was explained by Buhari when he said the government would ‘’drive the campaign’’ and that it must be strongly supported by all concerned individually.
The minister insisted that aside from Nigeria, many countries had also launched similar reorientation campaigns to remodel social value assets.
‘In 1979, Singapore launched the National Courtesy Campaign to encourage Singaporeans to be more kind and considerate to one another. In 2011, Mozambique launched a campaign to educate students
on how to treat foreign tourists as part of preparations for the country’s hosting of the All-Africa Games that year. In 2015, China launched a campaign to ‘name and shame,’ any of its own tourists who behave badly, either at home or abroad. And this year, the Tokyo Good Manners Project was launched to improve manners in the metropolis of the Japanese capital. It is therefore uncharitable for The Economist to hide behind the facade of its own prejudice to denigrate Nigeria’s genuine effort at national re-orientation,’’

No decision yet on sale of national asset

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) is yet to take a decision on whether to resort to the sale of national assets to bail the economy out of recession.
Answering questions from State House correspondents at the conclusion of yesterday’s FEC meeting, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it was wrong for anyone to conclude that the federal government had concluded plans to sell national assets.
The minister however said government would come out, “very soon” with an elaborate plan to take the country out of the recession.
Mohammed described as “mere speculation” the claim that the federal government had decided to sell the country’s national assets to raise money.
He said: “Government is still working on the most comprehensive manner to reflate the economy and the government will make its position known very soon.
“On what the government will do is to reflate the economy, everything you have heard so far are just suggestions, and until the government makes its position known, all these assets sale, assets leasing, whatever is being bandied about, are nothing but speculations.
“The government is yet to come out with its position on how to bail out the economy and it will do that soon.”
When he was reminded that the National Economic Council (NEC) had already endorsed the recommendation of the president’s Economic Management Team to sell assets to raise money, the minister said: “NEC will recommend but it is the Federal Executive Council that will decide and what we decide will be the position of government.”
Earlier, the Minister of Water Resources, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, had said that his ministry presented three memos to FEC, namely, the National Water Policy, National Irrigation Policy, and a Draft National Water Resources Bill.
According to him, the National Water Policy seeks to provide strategies that will improve the management and delivery of water in the country with particular reference to water supply.
He said the National Water Resources Bill would consolidate all the existing laws on water-related issues including the Water Resources Act, the River Basin Development Authority Act, the National Water Resources Institute Act, the National Hydrological Services Act and other Acts.
The minister said when passed into law, the bill would open up the water industry for private sector investors.
The minister explained that the proposed bill would form a national law that would conform with international standards and international best practices.
“By so doing, we have been able to streamline many of the overlapping laws, sometimes we have conflicting laws like the one we have with Nigeria Inland Waterways Agency (NIWA) and some laws relating to the environment and mining.
“This bill seeks to sort out all those issues so that we have a standard national law, also so that we can set up a proper regulatory agency to regulate the water sector.
“With that, the door is now open for the private sector to come in in a big way to invest in water supply schemes in this country,” he said.
The minister said the irrigation and drainage policy would seek to recognise and bring in water users’ associations and generally improve not only irrigation infrastructure but irrigation management in the country.
According to him, Nigeria has the potential of 3.4 million hectares of land for irrigation but only 130,000 had been developed formally and only about 70,000 is utilised.
He said there is a huge gap and that government believes that introducing this policy would help the federal government and states to work together to have an all encompassing policy that would also help the government’s agriculture agenda.
“So it is a good thing that we brought the three policies together, and we believe the water resources sector is going to be an entirely different ball game from now on,” he said.
Also speaking on the water policy, the information minister said water had become one of the most important resources with economic, social and political implications.
He said the judicious use and allocation of water for humans, animals, livestock and industry had evolved into one of the serious issues facing humanity.
He said: “As a matter of fact, many countries have gone to war over the issue of water. So I believe it is only timely that Nigeria is proactive and has considered the issue of water resources as one that should not be left in the hands of anyone.”

Presence of El rufai and Ambode is worrisome.

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has protested the presence of the governors of Lagos and Kaduna States, Akinwumi Ambode and Nasir El-Rufai, in Edo State.
He said their presence in the state was worrisome in the face of the restriction placed on movement of persons within the state.
“We are also aware that the governor’s of Lagos and Kaduna States, Ambode and El-rufai, are also in Benin,” he said.
“This is worrisome. If the security agencies can declare restriction of movement even for those in the state, we are wondering why two governors not from Edo State will relocate to our state.
“We think that their reasons cannot be genuine. We have gone through the period of campaigning and we expect Edo people will be left alone to vote.”
He also said that the PDP had written to the Inspector General of Police on several alleged arrest and harassment of supporters, and had received assurances that the police in the state would be called to order.
“You know they have been using the security agencies to harass our people even till last night trying to arrest them, detain them in any flimsy excuses,” Mr. Ize-Iyamu said.
“But we have spoken to their superiors who have assured us that those who are doing so are doing it on their own and they would call them to order. For now we are satisfied with that assurance.”
But the APC has replied Mr. Ize-Iyamu, saying his complaints have no effect as the governors did not influence the process of election in any way.
“We have finished campaigns and I don’t know what their presence will do to the election,” Anslem Ojezua, Chairman of APC in Edo State, said.
“Who does it better than the PDP? They do it better. The governors have nothing to do with the election.
“Do they have any evidence that these two gentlemen have influenced the process in anyway?”
The spokespersons of Governors Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos and Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna have refuted the claim by the PDP candidate.
Both governors were nowhere near Edo today, their spokespersons said.
Steve Ayorinde, the Lagos State Information Commissioner said Mr. Ambode was not even in the country, while Muyiwa Adekeye, Mr. El-Rufai’s spokesperson said the Kaduna governor was nowhere near Edo on the day of the election.
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Edo decides

Nineteen candidates are vying for the ticket to the Government House. But the main contest is seen to be between Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, the ruling party in the state, and Andrew Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party.
There’s only one female governorship candidate, Tracy Agol, the 44-year-old Peoples’ Party of Nigeria aspirant.
Seven political parties have women as their deputy governorship candidates.
Edo State has a total of 1,925,105 registered voters; 192 Registration Areas (RAs); 2,627 Polling Units (Pus); and 4,011 Voting Points (VPs).
A total of 25,000 police officers were deployed across the state to ensure peace and security during the polls, while 44 observer groups were accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission as election monitors.
PREMIUM TIMES’ Josiah Oluwole and Ben Ezeamalu are in the state to bring you live, minute-by-minute updates of the election as it unfolds in the 18 local government areas of the state.
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Voting material have arrived at Polling Unit 005 in Benin.
An INEC adhoc staff explains the voting process to prospective voters at a primary school in Benin.
“The process has changed. Now after accreditation, you vote immediately.
“Voting starts by 8 am and stops at 2pm. Those who are in the queue when it’s 2pm will be allowed to cast their votes.”
At PU 001 in Asoro Primary School, Benin, a party agent attempted to tell people to vote for her party.
Chaos ensued.
Eghosa Arase, a voter, said everything was fine until the agent began canvassing for her party.
“The election is going peacefully, but some certain things is happening, some other members of some party, they are trying to cause crisis though we’ve tried to bring everything down.
“When you want to canvass, you have to canvass at home before you come here.”
PREMIUM TIMES found out that one of the major parties was giving out N2,000 to have people vote for its candidate.
80-year-old Alice Akpaha arrived at the polling unit with her temporary voters card and was told she couldn’t vote.
“They’ll give you the one you can use in 2019,” a party agent told her.
Voting has commenced at PU 021, Emokpae Primary School, Benin.
Godwin Obaseki, the APC candidate, arrives at his polling unit to cast his vote and shouts of ‘next governor, next governor’ rents the air.
Mr. Obaseki joins the queue to vote.
Mr. Obaseki, speaking in Pidgin English, said he is impressed with the voter turnout at his polling unit.
“Na my papa area where dem born me. So a lot of my family dey around here and everybody dey happy say governorship candidate come from their own area,” he said.
Mr. Obaseki is queued behind his wife. There are still 26 people before them.
“The queue for my unit is still very long, it will take some time but I no mind at all. Everything dey very calm, peaceful, no trouble at all.

10 Attitudes Ladies Display Online That Deny Them Husbands In Real Life

Whether you agree with me or not, social media is one of the places you can truly get to have a foresight of the kind of person you're dealing with. However, the attitudes displayed by most ladies online is a reflection of the kind of person they really are out there, so don't let the mentally ill pukes blindfold you that some people don't live their real lives online
Without wasting time, I shall discuss the attitudes displayed by ladies on social media that robs them of husbands in real life
1. Gold-digging Attitude
Some ladies are fond of putting up all sorts of gold digging status online just to showcase their class. To be very candid, no matter how rich a dude is, it's very discouraging to see a lady putting up status that reeks of gold-digging. This is a big turn off because such a dude will feel the lady is nothing but a money monger. This remind me when I saw a revelation that I should woo a lady on BBM, to my surprise she quickly put up the status "I'm allergic to broke dudes". The man of God just shook his head and the rest is history
2. Being too Rude/Hostile
Many ladies are not accommodating and are usually very rude, pompous and narcissistic online. They talk rudely, dish out insults at any slight provocation and also treat both guys with good intentions and bad intentions like Dangote bag of cement. Out of ignorance, many of them don't know that such an awkward attitude may deny them husbands.
3. Stereotyping Online Dudes as Players
A dude might stumble on a lady's comment and finds it very thoughtful and brilliant and the dude decides to send a mail just to know more of her. The lady sees the mail and jumps into conclusion that all he wants is sex. This myopic way of reasoning that every dude that sends friend request or mail only wants sex has been immensely contributing to their lost of potential chairmen.
4. Being Too Impatient
Impatience often makes ladies send their future husbands away just because they couldn't answer the question "where did you get my phone number or PIN?". Last year, I added a lady on BBM and guess what? She was the first to PING me with the message "tell me where you got my PIN otherwise I will delete you right away". Can you just imagine?
5. Incessantly Demanding for Recharge Card
This is a barbaric act that portrays a lady classless and shameless. A dude met a lady barely a week and she's already demanding recharge card and data subscription to enable her chat with him. In fact, the one that annoys me most is seeing status update such as ""my data bundle is about to finish, who cares to renew it?" Many ladies don't see anything bad in this act unknown to them that it depletes their chances of finding husband
6. Displaying Slut-ish Attitude
Before a dude decides to add a lady on social media, the first he will do is check her pictures to have a foresight of the kind of person he wants to add, and by the time he sees all sorts of boobs and buttocks revealing pictures, he concludes she's irresponsible and nothing but a chop and clean mouth material.
7. Changing Relationship Status like Disco Light
Another thing that discourages potential chairmen from wooing a lady is frequent changing of relationship status. If a lady often changes her relationship status from single to engaged, engaged to married and vice versa, this will put potential the chairmen into a state of confusion, therefore, some of them will lose interest in that process and they will feel she's chameleon-like in nature
8. Displaying a Degree of Dumbness
Just as my friend always say, If they want to date a lady, they will like to have her facebook ID and check the content of what she posts online and by the time they see updates that reeks of dumbness and illiteracy, they will just jejely wear their boxers and withdraw themselves.
9. Making Unrealistic Qualities in a Man
Honestly speaking, some ladies usually found on social media looking for 1,000 qualities in just a man. He must be rich, handsome, light skinned, funny, brilliant, six packed; must have elaborate joystick and should be God fearing. Haba !!! All these qualities in just a man? Even Jesus Christ does cannot have all these qualities.
10. Uploading Pictures of Various Dude as each day passes
No be say these guys dey go birthday or something. They are always putting up their pictures and start heaping praises on them for financially help. This act is a big turn off for dudes cos I will feel she's promiscuous in nature
I drop my pen at this point
Feel free to add yours
Original Writer: Tosyne2much

10 Attitudes Ladies Display Online That Deny Them Husbands In Real Life

Whether you agree with me or not, social media is one of the places you can truly get to have a foresight of the kind of person you're dealing with. However, the attitudes displayed by most ladies online is a reflection of the kind of person they really are out there, so don't let the mentally ill pukes blindfold you that some people don't live their real lives online
Without wasting time, I shall discuss the attitudes displayed by ladies on social media that robs them of husbands in real life
1. Gold-digging Attitude
Some ladies are fond of putting up all sorts of gold digging status online just to showcase their class. To be very candid, no matter how rich a dude is, it's very discouraging to see a lady putting up status that reeks of gold-digging. This is a big turn off because such a dude will feel the lady is nothing but a money monger. This remind me when I saw a revelation that I should woo a lady on BBM, to my surprise she quickly put up the status "I'm allergic to broke dudes". The man of God just shook his head and the rest is history
2. Being too Rude/Hostile
Many ladies are not accommodating and are usually very rude, pompous and narcissistic online. They talk rudely, dish out insults at any slight provocation and also treat both guys with good intentions and bad intentions like Dangote bag of cement. Out of ignorance, many of them don't know that such an awkward attitude may deny them husbands.
3. Stereotyping Online Dudes as Players
A dude might stumble on a lady's comment and finds it very thoughtful and brilliant and the dude decides to send a mail just to know more of her. The lady sees the mail and jumps into conclusion that all he wants is sex. This myopic way of reasoning that every dude that sends friend request or mail only wants sex has been immensely contributing to their lost of potential chairmen.
4. Being Too Impatient
Impatience often makes ladies send their future husbands away just because they couldn't answer the question "where did you get my phone number or PIN?". Last year, I added a lady on BBM and guess what? She was the first to PING me with the message "tell me where you got my PIN otherwise I will delete you right away". Can you just imagine?
5. Incessantly Demanding for Recharge Card
This is a barbaric act that portrays a lady classless and shameless. A dude met a lady barely a week and she's already demanding recharge card and data subscription to enable her chat with him. In fact, the one that annoys me most is seeing status update such as ""my data bundle is about to finish, who cares to renew it?" Many ladies don't see anything bad in this act unknown to them that it depletes their chances of finding husband
6. Displaying Slut-ish Attitude
Before a dude decides to add a lady on social media, the first he will do is check her pictures to have a foresight of the kind of person he wants to add, and by the time he sees all sorts of boobs and buttocks revealing pictures, he concludes she's irresponsible and nothing but a chop and clean mouth material.
7. Changing Relationship Status like Disco Light
Another thing that discourages potential chairmen from wooing a lady is frequent changing of relationship status. If a lady often changes her relationship status from single to engaged, engaged to married and vice versa, this will put potential the chairmen into a state of confusion, therefore, some of them will lose interest in that process and they will feel she's chameleon-like in nature
8. Displaying a Degree of Dumbness
Just as my friend always say, If they want to date a lady, they will like to have her facebook ID and check the content of what she posts online and by the time they see updates that reeks of dumbness and illiteracy, they will just jejely wear their boxers and withdraw themselves.
9. Making Unrealistic Qualities in a Man
Honestly speaking, some ladies usually found on social media looking for 1,000 qualities in just a man. He must be rich, handsome, light skinned, funny, brilliant, six packed; must have elaborate joystick and should be God fearing. Haba !!! All these qualities in just a man? Even Jesus Christ does cannot have all these qualities.
10. Uploading Pictures of Various Dude as each day passes
No be say these guys dey go birthday or something. They are always putting up their pictures and start heaping praises on them for financially help. This act is a big turn off for dudes cos I will feel she's promiscuous in nature
I drop my pen at this point
Feel free to add yours
Original Writer: Tosyne2much

Those who mostly become second wife

Here are the categories of ladies that may end up becoming the second wife of a man
1. Celebrity Freaks
Celebrity freaks are usually attention seekers who shamelessly fall cheaply for celebrities and will do all sorts of things to trap and have babies for these celebrities. This is aimed at getting to limelight and bearing children for them. This is one of the reasons why the baby mamas are on the increase.
2. Money Monger
The love of money is what WE CAN SEE IN ALMOST EVERY FEMALE. Any one of them that claims she doesn't consider money before dating a man, is a manipulative yet a talented liar. This excessive love of money makes some ladies consider guys of their age range as unworthy to date, therefore, they prefer to end up with an Alhaji, politicians, etc, not minding the number of wives they have.
3. Ladies with Low Self Esteem
Some young ladies battle with low self esteem that they always feel like they are not good enough to date kind hearted handsome dudes like Ronald4lif, Wristbangle, Mediapace and Lalasticlala, therefore, they hump at any man that shows little interest in them as it is a blessing in disguise not minding even if these men are as ugly as Adams Oshiomole and Obasanjo :D
4. Lazy Girls
Some ladies are just too lazy to work, too lazy to engage in productive things that yield make them self dependent and as a result of this, they see any well to do man as an escape route out of poverty. Such ladies will never consider dating a man struggling to make it no matter how bright his future is. All they want is a man that will open supermarket or boutique for them.
5. Ladies who want to become Queens
Each time I see the wives the of the late Oni of, I always dish out insults and rain curses on these naïve pretty young ladies whom I can never get the privilege to see the straps of their bras let alone get under their skirts. Just because of the prestige, admiration and reverence associated to being called the wife of a king, they forsake a kind hearted broke dude like men and will rather go in search of traditional rulers who are likely to relegate to six feet during love making.
6. Over-aged Ladies
In Nigeria, a woman without a man is like a king without a crown, therefore, they receive lashes from specifically family members for being irresponsible to find men that would catch their fancy. When some of them can no longer withstand family pressures, they may resort to settle down with the husband of another woman. Funke Akindele is a perfect example of this :D
7. Divorced Women
Ladies who were divorced on the ground of infidelity or promiscuity may later resort to find a man who they will have their heads under his roof. Some of them can go far as patronizing native doctors just to possess another woman's possession.
8. After one Ladies
Some of these ladies who had a child or two outside wedlock also need men in their lives. That was how one almost snatched from friend from his wife. We had to take my friend to a spiritualist to help deliver him from captivity :D
I drop my pen at this point
Feel free to add yours
Original Writer: Tosyne2much

10 public nuisance constituted by some Nigerian graduates due to unemployment

In this current unbearable recession of the nation, when many graduates can't even feed well let alone wear good clothing and live comfortable lives. Some are being frustrated by the current state of the nation that they consciously and unconsciously constitute nuisance in the society
Without wasting time, below are the nuisance being constituted by some graduates due to joblessness.
1. Political Thuggery
Many will agree with me that joblessness has eloped the thinking faculty of some graduates that they become APC/PDP tyrants causing riot and snatching ballot boxes during election just because of the meager some antagonistic politicians have promised them; and this often makes me wonder the kind of graduates our institutions are churning out every year.
2. They Become Fake Pastors
As barbaric as it sounds, some graduates suddenly turn themselves to pastors overnight without God's calling. They seek out the best of herbalists for magical powers just to perform signs and wonders that Jesus didn't perform during his time. They perform miracles that are too impossible to be real just to deceive gullible Christians so that their fan base will increase, and the more th congregation, the more the tithes and offering to buy exotic cars.
3. Fraudulent Activities (Yahoo Yahoo, 419, gbaju e)
Another public nuisance exhibited by some graduates is that they engage in fraudulent activities such as 419, yahoo yahoo, etc. Recently, some of them try to gather as many phone numbers as possible on facebook and will start sending bulk SMSes and email to mobile subscribers that their ATM cards have been deactivated due to failure to activate their BVN, and that they should send their account details to reactivate it.
4. Smoking Marijuana on the Streets
I know that many will agree with me that some Nigerians institutions are very known to be churning out thugs and cultists on the streets of Nigeria. When these people graduate from school and can't get jobs, you will see them hovering at jedi jedi seller shops drinking smoking marijuana. This display of public nuisance is very common with graduates of OOU.
5. Prostitution
As funny as it sounds, some ladies graduate from school and become prostitution just to meet their basic needs. They carry this operation out by posting all sorts of flirtatious pictures and status on facebook, whatsapp, instagram, etc, just to catch the attention of the best of interested chairmen on social media. Some ladies even focus more on the male corp members just to scam them on their alawi (N19, 500) :D
6. They Quarrel over Irrelevant things
Despite being jobless, some of them are so full of themselves that they demand for respect by force because they have Bsc. They quarrel over things that should be overlooked since they are idle. That was how a dude who graduated from Lautech told insulted a lady that she lacked respect because she failed to greet him. Could you believe he went as far as using his corper belt after POP to flog this lady when just to show that he had served
7. Bashing People on Social media
Some of them are found on social media poking their noses into other people's affairs, trolling, derailing threads and causing commotion where there is peace. They are always quick to label other people "jobless" when in fact, they are the ones suffering from joblessness.
8. Fighting At Vendor Cubicle
As job no dey, some will wake up very early in the morning and will head to the nearest vendor shouting at the top of their voices just to discredit Buhari as a bad leader when they can't even mange their own lives appropriately let alone managing a whole nation.. This public nuisance is very common with political fanatics when they can't get jobs
9. Causing Commotion at Parties
Since job no dey, some of them attend parties they're not invited and will even be fighting for Gulder, star and schnapps. Masquerade festivals, they are there, marriage reception, they are there, yam festival, they are there fighting for their own share.
10. They Become Beggars
Some of them will wrap their legs with bandage and will rub their eyes will rob pretending to be suffering from gonorrhea and HIV by speaking good English so that people can believe them and have compassion on them by giving them money. They are very many in Oshodi and Ijana-Ipaja
I drop my pen at this juncture
Original Writer: [b] Tosyne2mu

Balogun market attacked

Armed robbers have attacked Balogun Market on the Lagos Island, hacking three security men with machetes, in a failed attempt to burgle some shops in the market.
PUNCH Metro learnt that in the attack on Friday at about 5am, one of the robbers, a Nigerien identified only as Saidu, was also hacked to death by a mob.
It was gathered that the robbers, whose number had yet to be ascertained, were armed with cutlasses and attempted to open some shops.
Our correspondent learnt that a distress call was put across to the Ebute Ero Police Division, after which policemen went to the scene. The robbers, except Saidu, reportedly fled.
When PUNCH Metro visited the market on Monday, most traders refused to comment on the incident, saying business activities had not started as of the time of the incident.
A night guard, who did not want his name in print, however, told PUNCH Metro that the injured security men were rushed to the Lagos Island General Hospital.
He said, “It was around 5.30am on Friday. We were the only ones on the market premises, except for some Muslims praying in nearby mosques. We observed that the robbers were armed with cutlasses. They wanted to break into some shops. We confronted them and they attacked us.
“They injured three security men with cutlasses. Some people called the police at the Ebute Ero division. Two policemen were also on patrol around the market. They assisted us in confronting the robbers.
“The injured security men were quickly rushed to a hospital on the Lagos Island. When the robbers sighted the police, they fled. But we made sure that all of them did not escape. One of them was caught, and he turned out to be a Nigerien. He was beaten up by a mob. I don’t know his fate.”
A police source at the Ebute Ero division told our correspondent that the injured robbery suspect was rushed to a hospital, but he did not survive.
“The robber was hacked with machetes. He was also beaten up. He was later rushed to a hospital where he died,” he added.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the case had been transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, for further investigation.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the incident.
She said, “The robbery suspect, Saidu, of Niger Republic died on Friday at about 3pm. Some robbers, including Saidu, had attempted to burgle some shops in Balogun Market, before the police repelled them. Saidu’s corpse had been taken to a morgue. The case has been referred to SARS where further investigation is ongoing.”

Crisis occur in lautech

The ownership crisis rocking the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso took a new dimension on Tuesday as some hoodlums reportedly mobilised by some Ogbomoso indigenes invaded the campus and attacked some lecturers and other university workers from Osun State.
Our correspondent gathered that the Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, had sent a delegation led by the Chairman, Osun State House of Assembly Committee on Education, Mr. Folorunso Bamisayemi, to the university on a fact finding mission following the lingering crisis in the institution.
A source, who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent on the telephone that some Ogbomoso indigenes at the school mobilised some hoodlums, to attack the delegates and some university staff, who are Osun State indigenes.
The University Bursar, Mr. A.B.C Olagunju; one Dr. Osunbade who is a lecturer and another lecturer whose identity could not be ascertained as of press time as well as the security personnel attached to the bursar were reportedly attacked by the hoodlums.
It was gathered that the bursar was locked up in his office where he ran to when he learnt that some hoodlums were after him.
Although Osunbade, was said to have been mistakenly attacked because those who attacked him were said to have thought he is an indigene of Osun State because of the Osun prefix in his name.
The bursar, when contacted on the telephone told our correspondent that he was making an official report of the incident at the police station.
The Chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Universities, Alhaji Muraina Aleshinloye, who confirmed the attack on Osun indigenes to our corespondent on the telephone accused the Chairman, Ogbomoso Parapopo Worldwide, Home Branch, Mr. Saka Bello, of being behind the attack on the Osun State indigenes.
However, Bello when contacted on the telephone by our correspondent, described the allegation as a fabricated story to smear his reputation.
He said, “I did not attack anybody. Non of my members attacked anybody . It is a lie fabricated to tarnish my image. I am not a thug so why will I attack them?
“The only thing we said when we protested was that Osun State indigenes should go and prevail on their governor to also pay what he is owing the university so that the students could resume. That was what we said. We have also gone to Osun State Governor and appealed to him to pay what he is owing.”
He said his interest just like that of other stakeholders was that the university should not be allowed to die due to lack of fund by the two states financing it.
The Public Relations Officer of LAUTECH, Mr. Lekan Fadeyi, could not be reached as calls put across to his telephone lines did not connect.
The LAUTECH is jointly owned and funded by Oyo and Osun State Governments but the two states have been defaulting in payment of subventions to the university.
While Osun State is owing about 14 months, Oyo State is said to be owing eight months and this has forced some staff unions including SSANU to embark on an indefinite strike.

Pastor who invaded shrine to be charge to court

The Ogun State Police Command says it will prosecute a Pentecostal pastor, Wale Fagbere, who allegedly invaded a traditional shrine in the Ketu area of Ayetoro.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta on Monday that the cleric would be charged with malicious damage and conduct likely to cause a breach of the public peace.
“What he did was wrong and so he must be charged to court. If it was the other way round too, they would also be charged to court.
“Everyone has a right to worship whatever deity one chooses to worship without fear,” he said.
Oyeyemi, however, added that he could not tell in which court the accused would be arraigned as of press time.
NAN had reported that Fagbere on Saturday attempted to pull down a traditional shrine in Ketu, in the Yewa North Local Government Area of the state.
But he was reported to have gone numb upon entering the shrine, attracting a crowd to the scene.
He, however, regained consciousness after the traditional ruler of the town, Oba Abdulaziz Adelakun, intervened and directed that some traditional rites be performed on him.

Recession,a great disaster.

According to a survey carried out by FKO Investments and Research Limited, 75 per cent of Nigerians are worried about the economy while 15 per cent are worried about terrorism and insecurity. Ten per cent of Nigerians are worried about crime.
The economic decline of the Nigerian state has affected the lives of the populace negatively. Prices of goods and services are rising daily while the income of the populace remains stagnant. Nigeria is an import-dependent country and the scarcity of foreign exchange will adversely affect the importation of commodities.
Nigeria can move from being an import-dependent country to an export-driven economy. This can be achieved through proper policy and planning. Before ban can be laid on the importation of products, there needs to be an alternative. That means production of that said commodity and in proper circulation which will serve as an alternative on the banned import products.
The need to develop the rural part of Nigeria is crucial in the development of the Nigerian economy. Industries should also be situated in rural communities and not urban centres such as Lagos, Abeokuta, Port Harcourt among others. The term NANO-ECONOMY comes to play when an industry is situated in a rural economy. For example, if an industry is situated in a village in Osun State, the food sellers, “pure water” sellers, recharge card vendors and so on, will invade that site and set up shops in order to sell their commodities. After the opening of the industry and they are ready for operations, those petty traders remain because a ready market has been established. Over time, guest houses will be built in that community so as to house employees of that industry thereby fostering the establishment of schools and health centres for the children of the employees. All this, over time develops that village, and there will be a movement of goods and services from that village to the rest of the world and the economy of that community uplifted forever thereby fostering development and curtailing rural-urban migration.
The fight against corruption is necessary because corruption has eaten deep into the fabric of our existence, corruption cases should be fought to a reasonable conclusion, giving room for speedy trials. This will send a signal to the international community that we Nigerians are serious about the fight against corruption.
Foreign investors follow trends of the happenings of various economies of the world which form their basis of investing in such economies. Foreign investors will invest in a stable, less corrupt economy.

Nigeria should borrow -Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday stressed the need for Nigeria to borrow, spend less and earn more to get out of the current economic recession.
Obasanjo said this in Abeokuta at the opening ceremony of the National Council On Finance and Economic Development Conference (NACOFED).
The theme of the conference is “Enhancing Revenue Generation and Obtaining Best Value for Money in Expenditure”.
According to Obasanjo, the major problem with Nigeria is that “we are spending more than we are earning and we have not been able to save for the rainy day”.
He, however, proffered a three-fold solution of borrowing, spending less and earning more to the economic challenges of the nation.
Obasanjo, who said that funds were available outside the country, advised that Nigeria needed to approach its allies who could lend to the country on reasonable terms.
He warned, however, that no such nation would part with its funds without observing that Nigeria was taking practical steps to come out of its challenges.
The former president said that Nigeria must encourage production to earn more and increase its revenue.
He said since the nation was not in control of oil, it should therefore diversify and concentrate on the things it could control.
Obasanjo, who stressed the need to develop agriculture, frowned at policies which tended to turn the nation into a dumping ground for other countries’ products.
“I was shocked when the ban on importation of toothpick which we imposed in 1977 was lifted four years ago.
“How can a nation seeking to rank among the best in the world continue like that?
“We must begin to do away with things that we can do without and if we must import them, let them attract very high duties,” he said.
Obasanjo who backed the call for the sale of some national assets to raise money, described such act as natural.
The former president said port authorities and Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) were part of assets that Nigeria could partly sell to generate fund.
“I do not see why 49 per cent of NNPC cannot be privatised.
“I think the problem is in the coinage “selling of asset” as if we want to throw out our inheritance.
“What we are actually doing by that is simply re-organising.

2358 inmates are occupying a prison of 800-capacity-Comptroller

The Controller, Mr. Tinuoye Olumide, has said there are about 2, 358 inmates in the 800-capacity Ikoyi Prisons.
Olumide said this on Tuesday during a visit by the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Olufumilayo Atilade, to the facility, which was built in 1955.
“There are so far 321 convicts and about 2,037 awaiting-trial inmates,” he said.
“The capacity of the prison is 800, and about three weeks ago when I came into the prison at about 1a.m, I saw the way the inmates were sleeping, and honestly, I felt pity for them.”
He, therefore, called for the upgrade of the four prisons in the state to enhance the living condition of inmates.
Olumide commended the chief judge for the visit, which is part of activities mark the commencement of a new legal year in the state.
He urged the judiciary to continue to work tirelessly in a bid to decongest the prisons.
“I appreciate His lordship for this visit to the prison in this new legal year, and I believe that the year will yield more positive results for us all,” he said.
“The inmates are not kept in the prisons as punishment, but as a correctional centre. If it is possible for the prisons to be upgraded, then, I honestly urge same.”
Olumide also bemoaned the number of pending cases in courts, adding that it has posed serious problem for the prison authorities as the number had been on the increase.
“Some of these cases end up as pending for three to four years, and the prison authorities have little or nothing to do about it”.
Olumide said the situation had led the prison authorities to set up the “Three R” club aimed at reformation, rehabilitation and reintegration.
“When you go to the maximum prison, you find that some of the inmates on life imprisonment are not just graduates, but also undergoing their master’s degree programmes,” he said.
“This is the result of the reformation programme in the prisons.”
During the visit, Justice Atilade freed a total of 20 awaiting-trial inmates in exercise of her constitutional powers.
Source:punch newspaper

2358 inmates are occupying a prison of 800-capacity-Comptroller

The Controller, Mr. Tinuoye Olumide, has said there are about 2, 358 inmates in the 800-capacity Ikoyi Prisons.
Olumide said this on Tuesday during a visit by the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Olufumilayo Atilade, to the facility, which was built in 1955.
“There are so far 321 convicts and about 2,037 awaiting-trial inmates,” he said.
“The capacity of the prison is 800, and about three weeks ago when I came into the prison at about 1a.m, I saw the way the inmates were sleeping, and honestly, I felt pity for them.”
He, therefore, called for the upgrade of the four prisons in the state to enhance the living condition of inmates.
Olumide commended the chief judge for the visit, which is part of activities mark the commencement of a new legal year in the state.
He urged the judiciary to continue to work tirelessly in a bid to decongest the prisons.
“I appreciate His lordship for this visit to the prison in this new legal year, and I believe that the year will yield more positive results for us all,” he said.
“The inmates are not kept in the prisons as punishment, but as a correctional centre. If it is possible for the prisons to be upgraded, then, I honestly urge same.”
Olumide also bemoaned the number of pending cases in courts, adding that it has posed serious problem for the prison authorities as the number had been on the increase.
“Some of these cases end up as pending for three to four years, and the prison authorities have little or nothing to do about it”.
Olumide said the situation had led the prison authorities to set up the “Three R” club aimed at reformation, rehabilitation and reintegration.
“When you go to the maximum prison, you find that some of the inmates on life imprisonment are not just graduates, but also undergoing their master’s degree programmes,” he said.
“This is the result of the reformation programme in the prisons.”
During the visit, Justice Atilade freed a total of 20 awaiting-trial inmates in exercise of her constitutional powers.
Source:punch newspaper

UI bars hawkers, food vendors

Authorities of the University of Ibadan have barred hawkers and recharge card vendors from operating in the institution, finding by one of our correspondents revealed on Monday.
This comes as the university also enforced the ‘no parking’ order at its gate.
These measures, it was learnt, were put in place to check the threat message purportedly sent to some workers of the institution by a terrorist group, al-wilayat al-Islamiyya Gharb Afriqiyyah on Friday.
One of our correspondents, who visited the school on Monday, observed that a police van was stationed in front of the gate with policemen conducting stop and search on vehicles and individuals entering the school.
Many of the recharge card vendors and other hawkers who used to occupy the school gate were not there, just as the ‘no parking’ order usually flouted by commuters was strictly enforced.
But the Director of Communication, Olatunji Oladejo, who spoke to one of our correspondents, said the institution had taken other necessary security measures to safeguard lives and property in the school.
Oladejo said the institution was collaborating with security agencies to forestall any attack on the ivory tower.
He said, “We thank the various security agencies working with us but I must state that there is calm in the school. Apart from the presence of police and other security agencies at the school gate and around the campus, the university’s security outfit is also well equipped, trained and staffed to complement the effort of the police and other security agencies. We are not taking anything for granted.”
At the Sango Police Station, a few kilometres away from the school, an armoured personnel carrier was strategically parked in front of the station.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Adekunle Ajisebutu, said the command had deployed its intelligence officers to monitor the movement of people in and around the ivory tower.
Meanwhile, the Head, Directorate of Public Relations, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Mrs. Emi Alawode, on Monday, said that the ivory tower had put adequate security measures in place.
Apart from the private security arrangements on campus, the institution, she said, was liaising with the security agencies, such as the Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
Alawode also noted that the institution had deployed the ‘town and gown’ strategy, in order to ensure regular stakeholders’ meeting within the school and its environs.
She said, “Within our host communities, there are also Fulani herdsmen. We have started holding regular meetings with members of the host communities. The idea is that they can inform us of the new faces in their midst.”
The Director of Information, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Mr. Niyi Oduwole, said the security men in the institution had always been on guard, as the institution had perfected an effective security arrangement.
He added, “Modern security is intelligence-driven and that is what we do here.”
In a related development, the National Association of Nigerian Students has called on the Federal Government to beef up security in the universities in the South-West.
Its South-West Deputy Coordinator, Mr. Saheed Afolabi, said security agencies must ensure that adequate security arrangements were in place to prevent any attack in the institutions.
Afolabi said, “The threat to bomb the University of Ibadan by the terrorist group should not be taken with levity. Security measures should be in place to prevent this.”

We were promised medicine but given botany-candidate

Fresh admission controversy has hit the University of Lagos as some candidates are accusing the authorities of high-handedness,
CHARLES ABAH writes
For no fewer than 57 candidates, who participated in the 2015/2016 Foundation programmes that would enable them to study Medicine and Surgery at the University of Lagos, this September seems to be the longest month that they have ever witnessed in life.
In fact, since September 9, these candidates have not known peace, considering what they called high-handedness of the authorities of the university.
According to them, having passed all the necessary qualifying examinations that would enable them to proceed to the medical school, having spent hundreds of naira in terms of tuition and other sundry fees – undergoing a foundation programme – the authorities of the university are now scheming to abort their dreams.
Already, they have written to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rahamon Bello, demanding that the authorities should urgently look into their case.
In the letter dated September 20, 2016, the candidates, under the auspices of 2015/2016 Foundation MBBS, noted that denying them admission to study medicine in the ivory tower would be akin to a miscarriage of justice.
They copied the registrar of the university, director, School of Foundation Studies, provost, College of Medicine, as well as the Joint University Preliminary Examination Board in the petition.
Parts of their letter read, “The School of Foundation Studies admitted over 800 students into its programme with a promise that those who scored AAA (16 points) in all their courses shall be admitted to 200 level to study Medicine. We were asked to pay a huge sum of money – about half a million naira.
“The university tested us with a curriculum and at the end of the exercise, 87 of us obtained the required A’s. As if the management was happy about the less than 10 per cent pass, it came out with another fresh directive, which seems to call a ball that went over the bar a goal. The university said that it could only admit 30 students.
“Are we now being told that the university is nothing but a business centre and the JUPEB programme is nothing but a fraud? We hereby demand justice. This is but a rape on the collective intelligence of Nigerian students and an attempt to reduce the citadel of learning to a mere business venture. No sane society will let this go unchallenged. The university should provide reasons why, despite the recession in the country, parents will be made to cough out such whopping sums on empty promises.”
Our correspondent gathered that each of the candidates paid non-refundable acceptance fees of N25,000; N350,000 tuition; N7,500 medical insurance; N25,000 for examinations; N700 for syllabus, and N850 for biometric identity card. Besides, the candidates made personal arrangements for their accommodation for the one year that the programme lasted.
Beyond the fees, the narratives by some of the affected candidates and their guardians are the type some people will describe as touching.
“I have a B.Sc in Nursing from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. I graduated in 2009. No fewer than 800 of us enrolled for this programme last year and only 87 of us obtained the required three A’s to study medicine. With this, admission to the college of medicine would ordinarily be automatic but the authorities are changing the rules mid way into the game. This is not so in other universities.
“To study medicine in many other universities, one requires only 13 points, but here we all obtained 16 points. Yet, the authorities of UNILAG say they do not have space for us. I know how I struggled to make these grades. I know the psychological stress that I passed through to enable me to achieve this success. This programme nearly cost me my marriage as I struggled daily to cater to my husband and two teenage children.
“Why would I suffer the consequences of lack of space when they admitted so many candidates in the first place? The Federal Government needs to intervene in this matter; otherwise, we shall spend another year at home due to no fault of ours. Today, the authorities are asking us to go for such courses as fishery, botany, cell biology, psychology. Please, when has it become a crime to pass an examination? After having a degree in nursing, they expect me to start another course in fishery,” the candidate, who craved anonymity for fear of victimisation, said.
For another candidate, Adesewa, the decision of the university management will cut short her dream of becoming a medical doctor. The young lady, who said she obtained her WASSCE in 2013, noted that she had forfeited other admission placements just for her to study medicine.
She said, “I abandoned the admission I got to study Bio-Chemistry at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State in 2013 just to study medicine. In 2014, I sat for another UTME and obtained 68.75 aggregate marks. The cut off that year at UNILAG was 70 marks. In 2015, I enrolled for this foundation programme. Now, see the frustration I am facing again.”
But the Director, School of Foundation Studies, Prof. Oluwole Familoni, said the university did not promise any candidate automatic admission for medicine. According to him, both the candidates and their parents knew ab initio that the university had limited spaces for medical students.
He added, “There was no assurance of automatic admission for any candidate. Of course, we could not have done that because the regulators, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, would not allow us to admit more than 100 students.
“Agreed, the 87 candidates did well, they cannot force the authorities to admit them all to the College of Medicine and that is why we have given them the option to enrol for other programmes.”
On why the institution enrolled hundreds of candidates for the programme knowing that it had limited spaces, Familoni said it was a competition thrown open for all interested candidates.
He noted, “We could not have enrolled only 30 candidates for the foundation courses because we have only 30 spaces for them. It is akin to seeking employment in an organisation. Every firm has the right to select from the millions of applicants, those it considers suitable.

                Unilag VC,prof. Rahamon Bello
“We did not force them to purchase the forms. It’s a pity that they want to destroy the image of the university. They can go to court if they feel so aggrieved. Some persons tried it recently and they lost the case in the court. You cannot force any university to offer you admission.”
But a retiree, Mr. Joseph Taiwo, who said that he sold some of his personal effects, including his car, to ensure that his son sail through the foundation programme, noted that his family had not been in lively spirits since the news got to them.
He added, “When we initially received a report that he was among the few that obtained three straight A’s, we went for thanksgiving in our church. But that bubbling situation has died down in my home. We have all been wearing a mournful look since September 9 when news filtered that only 30 of them would be offered admission. Ordinarily, I would have sent him overseas to pursue the same course but I do not have the wherewithal.”
Appraising the development, the Coordinator, Education Rights Campaign, Mr. Taiwo Hassan, said the handling of the situation by the university was wrong.
“What UNILAG has done is very wrong and unacceptable. It amounts to changing the rules in the middle of the game. What the university has done is a violation of the rights of the students and I urge the affected foundation students not to take this lying low. They should stand up and organise themselves to challenge this injustice legally and politically. No one should accept that nothing could be done about this.
“As far as the ERC is concerned, we believe that this routine violation of students’ rights by UNILAG is one too many. Early in the year, about 102 undergraduates, who came into the university through the UTME for Medicine and Surgery were treated in the same way. Now is the time to say enough is enough to the impunity of the authorities,” the ERC helmsman said.

This is for those who love telemundo

1. You, when it’s time for ‘Passion For Revenge’.

The best!
2. When NEPA now decides to be unfortunate.

Hay God!
3. When they start doing bad things and your dad walks into the sitting room.

‘You this child!’
4. When your brother sees you holding the remote to your chest.

‘Everyday Telemundo!’
5. When it’s the weekend and they’re running marathon episodes.

Enjoyment galore.
6. When they conclude your favorite Telemundo series.

What will I do with my life now ?
7. When you’re enjoying ‘Woman of Steel’ and your mummy wants you to run an errand.

The pain.
8. How Telemundo actresses look every time, even when they wake up.

Everlasting beauty.
9. Your parents’ reactions when you burn dinner because of Telemundo.

“You did what?”
10. When you have 100 missed calls from your boyfriend, and he wants to break up.

Telemundo will not kill me.
Culled from zikoko.com