Majek Fashek still makes the guitar cry

Those days he would would headline shows where those, who will later become legends, such as Lucky Dube, were side acts.

He sang Send Down the Rain in Ethiopia, when one of their many droughts hit, and the rains came down. They worshipped him.

He was scheduled to overfill the shoes of his hero, Bob Marley and rule reggae.

But, as he claimed in a recent show on AIT, “I read books I shouldn't read.” And Majek Fashek, a star with the fire of a galaxy crashed. Currently, missing teeth, frail and haggard look, with tiny imitation of dreads is what his image is.

But on that AIT show, he still made the guitar cry as he wailed through Redemption Song. Our current crop of heavy-money, naked-female-butts singers faded into the voice control Majek still exhibited.

Worthy of note is the fact that he asked to use his guitar and played it like it followed him into his wilderness and back. Let’s hope he will remain afloat this time so that Kpangolo will live again.

Gulak declares self PDP national chair; Sets up 11-member c'ttee

From left, Jigawa State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stakeholder, Mr Ibrahim Brima; former Senior Special Adviser, Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Doyin Okupe, and Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, who declared himself Chairman of PDP at the party’s secretariat, Abuja.

THERE was confusion, Wednesday, at the national secretariat of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the former Political Adviser to former President Goodkuck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, stormed the secretariat with his supporters and made himself the national chairman of the party.

Gulak, who arrived the national headquarters of PDP at 1:42pm in company of other aides of former President Jonathan, went straight to the third floor of the building, and asked that the office of the national chairman be opened for him.

He immediately moved to the National Working Committee, NWC, Conference hall to address journalists, using the chair of the national chairman.

Addressing journalists, Gulak noted that a high court had thrown out an application by the PDP and the acting national chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, which sought to stop a previous ruling demanding that Secondus vacates office within 14 days.

He also said there would be a change to the proposed date of the national convention which was slated for March this year by the Uche Secondus-led National Working Committee, NWC, against the backdrop that the NWC ought to have first tabled the matter before the National Executive Committee, NEC, before announcing it.

The former Presidential aide was accompanied by Dr Doyin Okupe, Mr Shehu Birma, Ayakeme Whiskey, Chuma Nnaji, Mohammed Kachalla, Jonathan Asake, Moshood Salvador, Denis Emmanuel, Eddy Olafeso and Yusuf Hassan, among others.

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Nigerian student in Malaysia jailed 24 years over internet scam

An Ikeja High Court, presided over by Justice Lateefa Okunnu, has convicted and sentenced a Nigerian undergraduate of Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia, Hope Olusegun Aroke, a Nigerian, to 24 years imprisonment over an internet scam involving N25 million.
Justice Okunnu found the convict guilty of a two-count charge of forgery and obtaining money under false pretence levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The 25 years old undergraduate was accused of obtaining money by false pretence from his victims, cloning of bank cheques, wire transfer and forgery.

Fires by rat hunters raze Benue villages

Over 120  houses have been reportedly razed in separate fire outbreaks at Tse Mtaghji village, Bilawa and Akpuku village, Mbagune in Gwer West and Makurdi Local Government areas of Benue State.
The two incidents, which occurred within an interval of 48 hours, razed the entire Akpuku village, while about 20 houses were consumed, yesterday, in the Makurdi inferno.
A staff of the state-owned Radio Benue, Mr. Nicholas Ticha, affected by the Tse Mtaghji outbreak, said the incident was caused by bush burning.

Nursing mother sells baby for N300,000

The Bayelsa State Police Command, yesterday, confirmed the arrest of a 28-year-old mother, who allegedly sold her three months old baby girl for N300,000.
Spokesman of the command, Asinim Butswat, gave the name of the baby’s mother as Oyikepreye Enoch.
According to him, Enoch was arrested yesterday by men of the Akenfa Division, following a tip-off.
He said: “The suspect sold her child to one Esther Tony, 30, for N300,000.”
Butswat, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, added that both suspects were undergoing interrogation at the Akenfa Police Station, Yenagoa.

He shows little emotion in bed

My boyfriend of nine months is a hunk and I love him so much. Unfortunately, he is amazingly quiet in bed. It is impossible to know if he’s enjoying himself.
His foreplay is routine for him to get hard and, he also climaxes but he doesn’t even grunt!
How can I find out if he is enjoying sex with me and if I really turn him on?

Hubby wants oral sex

My husband and I have a good sex life, but I’ve never really got much kick out of oral sex. Most women go on about how good it is, but it does nothing for me.
When making love, I like really firm pressure and a slithering tongue just can’t provide that. In fact, the only time it worked for me, I stimulated myself with my fingers before my husband finished things off.
He’s complained he feels really cheated that I don’t enjoy oral sex. I even heard him complaining about it to a friend. So, now I feel guilty for short-changing him.

The world of Nigeria's sex-trafficking 'Air Lords'

Last year, the BBC's Sam Piranty was given access by the Catalan police, Mossos D'Esquadra, to an investigation into a Nigerian sex-trafficking gang. He spoke to traffickers and women rescued from sexual slavery before filming an early morning raid in November, which led to 23 arrests. He also discovered that the gang is now using London as a gateway into Europe.
The raid results in the arrest of the leaders of a Nigerian-based group running an international sex-trafficking ring in Barcelona. It's known as the Supreme Eiye Confraternity (SEC), or the Air Lords, and 23 people are now behind bars, with European Arrest Warrants issued for those who have left the country.
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“For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless!”

That was Daily Express news editor, referring to John Logie Baird's invention of television 90 years ago!

The first live TV audience found it hard to believe that it would take off. Now the invention of the mechanical television has been marked with a Google Doodle.

Ninety years ago today a moving head on a screen made history. It was the first public demonstration of live television, and the occasion is being marked with a Google Doodle.

The face in question belonged to Daisy Elizabeth Gandy, the business partner of John Logie Baird, the Scottish scientist who is regarded as the inventors of the mechanical television.

The mechanical television, also known as “the televisor” worked a bit like a radio, but had a rotating mechanism attached that could generate a video to accompany the sound. It preceded the modern television, which creates images using electronic scanning.

In 1924 Baird managed to transmit a flickering image across a distance of 10 feet and the following year, he had a breakthrough when he achieved TV pictures with light and shade.

Within two years this flicker was the face of a woman who was in a different room.

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LASSA FEVER: Lagos kills 7,243 rats

As the battle to curtail the outbreak of Lassa Fever continued in Lagos, no fewer than 7,243 rats have been killed since the outbreak of the virus in the state.
This is just as Lagos State government has directed its environmental officers to embark on a massive sensitisation campaign across the state on the need to de-rat the state.
These were disclosed, yesterday, evening at the sensitization and awareness programme on Lassa Fever outbreak, organised by the state government for environmental health workers at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa secretariat, Ikeja.
President Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria, EHOAN, Lagos State chapter, Mr. Samuel Akingbehin, said that over 7,243 rats had been killed at eight major markets in the state under its de-rat market programme.

2 ‘lunatics’ caught with rotting human head in Osun

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Osun Command, has arrested two suspects, who pretended to be mad, for being in possession of a decomposing human head.
The suspects, Alaba Folawiyo and Mutiu Lawal, according to Mr. Wale Folarin, the state's NSCDC Public Relations Officer, were hiding in an uncompleted building near Apomu Junction in Ikire, headquarters of Irewole LGA, when they were arrested.
A Blackberry phone hidden inside a drug pack, knife, perfume cans, clothes, school bags, shoes, wristwatches, ATM cards, electrical materials, roofing sheets, cooking utensils, suspected to be belongings of the victims of the suspects, were found in the building.
According to the corps, information gathered showed that the suspects had been in the area for a long time pretending to be mad men, while carrying out their activities with others who are now at large.

The millennial generation: Young, gifted and held back

IN THE world of “The Hunger Games” youngsters are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of their white-haired rulers. Today’s teen fiction is relentlessly dystopian, but the gap between fantasy and reality is often narrower than you might think. The older generation may not resort to outright murder but, as our special report this week on millennials describes, in important ways they hold their juniors down.

Roughly a quarter of the world’s people—some 1.8 billion—have turned 15 but not yet reached 30. In many ways, they are the luckiest group of young adults ever to have existed. They are richer than any previous generation, and live in a world without smallpox or Mao Zedong. They are the best-educated generation ever—Haitians today spend longer in school than Italians did in 1960. Thanks to all that extra learning and to better nutrition, they are also more intelligent than their elders.

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I make N300,000 monthly as a beggar— Drug addict

A suspected drug addict arrested by the Lagos State Command of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, has disclosed that he made over N300,000 monthly from begging in Ikeja.
Kehinde Olatubosun, 56, from Ibadan, Oyo State, was arrested along with 18 other drug addicts at a joint in Ipodo, Ikeja.
A decoy team of RRS officers, last Friday, traced a stolen phone to the joint, leading to the arrest of 17 suspects: a mobile phone thief, three drug peddlers and 13 drug addicts.
Olatubosun said he made over N10,000 daily begging at Mobolaji Bank Anthony Roundabout, beside Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Toyin Street and Opebi, all in Ikeja.
He said: “Every day, I make over N10,000 doing corporate begging. All days of the week, I am always in Mobolaji Bank Anthony Roundabout, Toyin Street Roundabout and Opebi.
“At times, I collaborate with other beggars. Whatever we make, we share. But I get a larger share.
“What I do is that I get LASUTH drug prescription papers from their waste bin. With this in my hand, I convince motorists, passengers and passers-by that I have a relative who is in need of money to buy drugs and I show them the prescription papers.

Falana says $2.1bn arms fraud is crime against humanity

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has petitioned the International Criminal Court, ICC, requesting it to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity committed by some Nigerians over alleged diversion of $8 billion earmarked to procure military equipments to fight insurgency.
In the petition addressed to ICC Prosecutor, Mrs Fatou Bensouda, Falana urged the court to commence investigation and the prosecution of indicted former and serving military officers as well as public officials found wanting in the alleged diversion of $2.1 billion security fund, believing that they had committed an offence against the Nigerian people.

The petition
In the petition dated January 19, Falana said: “We, therefore, submit that this is sufficient to hold Col Dasuki and others that have been indicted in the arms theft scandal responsible for crimes against humanity perpetrated against Nigerians.
“The failure of a former Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to prevent widespread and systematic corruption including the re-looting of the Abacha loot amounts to complicity under the Rome Statute, and therefore fits the legal requirements of a crime against humanity.”
To this end, the lawyer requested ICC to “urgently commence an investigation proprio motu on the allegations of the criminal diversion of the security fund of $2.1 billion and N643 billion earmarked  by suspected perpetrators, with a view to determining whether these amount to crimes against humanity within the court’s jurisdiction.
“I also urge you to invite representatives of the Nigerian government to provide written or oral testimony at the seat of the court, so that the prosecutor is able to conclude on the basis of available information whether there is a reasonable basis for an investigation, and to submit a request to the Pre-Trial Chamber for authorisation of an investigation.”

Secondus says thieves 're in Buhari’s government

The acting National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has said that some of the 55 Nigerians identified by the Federal Government to have stolen N1.34 trillion are presently part of Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.
Secondus, in an interview, however, accused the All Progressives Congress, APC-led administration of turning a blind eye to the misdeeds of its supporters and faulted the handcuffing of PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, during his recent court appearances.
Secondus, who reiterated that PDP was not against Buhari’s anti-graft war, stressed that it must not be selective, adding that the government must adhere strictly to Rule of Law, adding that those involved, even if they are in the present government, must be brought to book.

22-yr-old pregnant housewife raped to death in Kano

It was a painful end for a 22-year-old housewife, Aisha Abdullahi, who was raped to death by unknown person(s) at her matrimonial home at Ungogo quarters, on the outskirts of Kano metropolis.
Police spokesman in Kano, DSP Musa Magaji Majia, told reporters in Kano that the incident, which occurred yesterday, was reported by the deceased’s husband.
Police said Abdullahi Muhammad, husband of late Aisha, reported that he met the deceased in a pool of her blood when he returned home.
DSP Majiya said detectives had commenced investigation to unravel the mystery behind the act, stressing that no stone would be left unturned.

Man, 37, rapes mentally-challenged girl

Police in Lagos State have arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly raping a mentally-challenged girl (names withheld).
It was learned that the suspect, Adesola Moses, who resides at Osenatuilo Street, Alagbado by AIT Road, reportedly raped the victim in her mother’s shop.
The suspect took advantage of the victim’s mental health and had anal sex with her.
According to a family member, the victim’s mother, Muiynant Mustapha, left her 19-year-old daughter in her shop to attend a party, when the suspect sneaked into the shop, asked the girl to remove her clothes and raped her.

Teenager kills friend over girlfriend tussle in Kano

Police in Kano State have taken into custody a former student of First Grade College in Kano, Sadik Ado-Maje, suspected to have stabbed his friend, Usman Salisu, to death over a girlfriend.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Kano State Command, DSP Magaji Majiya, told reporters in Kano that the suspect had been apprehended after a futile attempt to escape justice.
DSP Majiya said: “The suspect is now cooling his heels at Kwalli Police Division and would be arraign soon as we complete our investigation.
“I do not want to pre-empt the likely outcome of our investigation, but I want to assure you this matter would be followed to its logical conclusion.”

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My boyfriend wants details of lovemaking with my ex

I broke up with my boyfriend of two years nine months ago and was fortunate to be in another relationship immediately after. My ex was the one who said we should cool things a bit and he had a girlfriend too. Unfortunately, our new romance didn’t work out and he begged that we should give our relationship another chance and I agreed because I never stopped loving him.
As soon as we got together, however, he wanted to know all the details about my sexual life with the other guy, and now when I tell him anything, he wants my answer to be detailed.
For instance, he doesn’t believe we never had oral sex like I often have with him. Why are all these unnecessary details important to him?

My best friend took my man

A few months after my boyfriend proposed to me, there were rumours of him
being sighted with my close friend at that time. He tried lying about it but my so- called friend admitted they were an item and she was pregnant. A few days later, my fiance called to tell me the engagement was off. I was devastated. I later discovered that he’d been seeing this ‘friend’ for months.
I feel humiliated and betrayed, and anger is the only thing that has kept me going. All I can think of is wreaking revenge on my ex-fiance and my so-called friend.

Cultural Ambassadors

My idea of a complete actor, Yemi Blaq, talking drummer, Aralolu ‘ARA’ Olamuyiwa and the monarch that makes guitar wail, King Sunny Ade, were among the people made Ondo State Cultural Ambassadors by Governor Olusegun Mimiko.

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Meet the woman living with 1000 cats

Sixty-seven-year-old Lynea Lattanzio has taken the phrase 'cat lover' to new heights by given up her 4200 square foot home to more than a thousand rescue cats. 

Lattanzio runs 'Cat House on the Kings', California's largest no-cage, no kill sanctuary for feral and abandoned cats, and, along with her team of volunteers, care daily for and estimated 800 adult cats and 300 kittens - and even a handful of peacocks. 

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Metuh in court

The embattled National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, was brought to the Federal High Court, Abuja, by officials of Nigerian Prison Service in handcuffs.

How Ajia was killed

Late Bayo Ajia, who was always with his lieutenants, was unusually alone, Monday, when he was killed.
The late Ajia was at his car wash centre at Taiwo area of Ilorin, ruminating with his members over the killing of Bukola Ajikobi, before leaving for Kwara Stadium, a short distance away.
Ajia was at the stadium when a familiar voice called him on phone to meet him in his car wash centre for a business.
It was learned that as soon as the deceased was sighted by his assailants, they boarded taxis, headed straight for him, shooting him three times on the forehead.
When the gunshots seemed not to be having the desired effect, the assailants brought out axes and machetes, with which they killed him.

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Girls always say they appreciate the little things in life until you present them with a small penis.

You think true love is difficult to find? Try finding the H.O.D of your department when you need his signature on a form.

May God bless you with the kind of wealth that will make your elders call you Big Uncle and Big Aunty.

They tell you the price of some wears in a boutique and you realise that your ancestors who walked around naked or in leaves weren't mad.

Okon and MTN

I dey my room jeje this morning, na im MTN come send me message say
"You have just won a 7 days free
amazing facts sms" Since na free,
I said no problem. I come sit down for one corner dey expect wonderful and lovely facts.
The first message come
enter saying "Do you know that
Nigeria is a country"
followed by the second saying "we get meat from animals" I open my mouth in shock,
then the third one came in "Do you
know that fishes cannot fly"
See this yeye MTN ? Them think say na only them sabi facts.
I come begin my own :
*Do you know that Abacha was alive before he died
*Do you know that orphans no get mama and papa
*Scientist confirmed that dwarfs are short people *UNILAG dey for Lagos state
*Do you know that urine is
liquid
*Do you know that everybody
reading this post is smiling
*Do you kmw that anybody that adds his/her own will be more happier . . .
Abeg, add yours make the fun continue

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Notorious political thug, Bayo Ajia, assassinated in Ilorin

Pandemonium broke out, Monday, afternoon at Taiwo, the commercial nerve centre of Ilorin, Kwara State capital, as a notorious political thug, Alhaji Bayo Ajia, was shot dead and cut several times with machetes by four men.
The assailants were said to have arrived the deceased workshop in a taxi cab around 4:15p.m. and met Ajia alone in his shop.
They then proceeded to under the bridge, close to the State Stadium complex, where the deceased operated a car wash, shot him several times on his forehead and dealt several machete cuts on his lifeless body to ensure that he was dead.

Buhari in Abu Dhabi

President Buhari with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyema, National Security Adviser Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno Rtd and Minister of Trade and Investment Okechukwu Enelamah during an audience with the UN Secretary General at the sidelines of the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi on 18th Jan 2016

President Buhari with H.E. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson President of Iceland during a reception prior to the Opening ceremony of the World Future Energy Summit 2016 at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) on 18th Jan 2016.

Richest 62 people own as much as half of world’s population – Oxfam

An international charity said on Monday that the wealthiest 62 people on earth now own as much as half the world’s population.

Oxfam said in a report released in London ahead of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland that some 3.5 billion people have grown poorer as the super-rich have grown richer.

It said the wealth of the richest 62 people has risen by 44 per cent since 2010, while the wealth of the poorest 3.5 billion fell 41 per cent.
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Residents smoke out Lagos burglar

Residents smoked out a young man whose gang had for long terrorised Jabe, a community at Gberigbe, Ikorodu, Lagos, especially on Sundays.
Determined to catch the thieves, who ran into the bush after stealing cell phones and other valuables yesterday, the community members set the bush on fire and smoked out one of them. The others escaped.

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i will still say Happy Sunday. A must read for reasonable Nigerians. Femi OtegbolaI really want to sleep but I'm tempted to write this to all who had been saying rubbish concerning the ongoing Dasuki gate of $2.1bilion.I think many don't know how much 2 billion dollars worth and what it could achieve. So they de-euphemise the gravity of the offence….as at the time of sharing that money last year..A dollar was about 220 naira..So if you calculate the worth of 2.1bilion in naira.. That's a whooping 525 billion naira..Ahhhhhhh.. Half a trillion Naira..In a country where the whole of Lagos state get between 9 to 10 bilion naira as monthly allocationeven at the height of oil boom.. I'm not sure it's up to that..This is to cater for the needs of over 25 million people in Lagos..So in a year, Lagos alone at the height of oil boom could only access 120 billion naira in a year.. And ifpaid regularly the amount Dasuki squandered could take care of Lagosians comfortably for 5years..Oyo State allocation is around 4. 5 billion in to cater for about estimated 10milion people in Oyo State..They could be wrong but census had about 5milion as the Last time so in a year oyo State could only access About 50bilion!And it will take the whole oyo State 10 years at least to finish 500bilion plus..Ahhhhhhh and you people out there are so audacious to be clamouring for the release of this kind of animals who care less about the lives of fellow human beings. For God's sake there are 1000 pieces of 1milion in a billion.. I mean 1milion naira in 1000 places..If you wake up in the morning and you spend 1milion naira daily, you will only manage to spend 365 to 366milion naira in a year and it may take you like 4years to squander 1bilion naira if you live moderately on 1milion naira per day as allowance so 500bilion would take how many years to finish.. (about 2000 years)Only a Mad man could do that..

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Senate set up search committee for missing budget

SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, tacitly admitted, yesterday, that the 2016 Budget was missing from the National Assembly, when he openly said a search committee set up by the Senate for the missing document would present its report today.

The search committee also quizzed aides of President Muhammadu Buhari in the National Assembly as well as staff of the offices of the clerks to the Senate and House of Representatives, yesterday.

Those interrogated made useful information to the committee which would be presented to the Senate in plenary today.

The Senate President, who had earlier at the beginning of Senate's session yesterday, announced to senators that copies of the 2016 budget document would be made available to them today, in readiness for general debate on it next Tuesday, eventually owned up on the missing document while responding to Senator Abaribe's point of order.

Ashimolowo to Buhari: Looters deserve only 20% of your time

President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to adopt the Pareto's Principle in governance, where just 20 percent of governance time is dedicated to the past, “otherwise it will take forever for majority of Nigerians to begin to see changes.”

According to Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre, KICC, who gave the advice, going by Parento's Principle, the Federal Government should dedicate 20 percent of resources to going after loot and perceived looters, while 80 should be given to creating an enabling environment and a future for Nigerians.

He doesn't want me back

Some months back, I told  my boyfriend of two years to let us cool things a bit in spite of the fact that he was the most loyal, honest and caring man I’d ever met.
I had just met someone else then who swept me off my feet. He wined and dined me and I was in seventh heaven until I came crashing down when he moved on to another relationship.
I felt rejected and decided to go back to my ex. But, he doesn’t want me back now.

Mother and daughter won't leave me alone

BELIEVE it or not, I am a virgin at the age of 25. My problem now is that my boss and her daughter are both trying to get me into bed. After I finished at the Law School, my mum arranged for me to work in her friend’s chambers to gain experience.
Sadly, my mother recently lost her battle against breast cancer. She died, leaving me devastated and my boss said if I ever needed anyone to talk to, she would always be there for me.
Then she started inviting me to her place for meals. She’s a single mother of two and lives with her daughter who is my age mate.
I was leaving her house one night after a meal when she asked me to wait. She shut the door and started kissing me, but she stopped when her daughter arrived home.

When IMF visits, tears follow

But those familiar with the IMF know that the expressed love for Nigeria, the youths, the poor and the orphaned, are side shows to make the visit look like some long lost aunt visiting her loved ones. The last time Hurricane Largarde made a landfall in Nigeria four years ago, it was so devastating that amongst other things, the whirlwind tossed petrol (PMS) price from N65 to N140 setting off serious social crises. The attempts to clear the hurricane debris took years, and the negative effects are still felt today. Some unique characteristics of IMF hurricanes are that their effects are not immediately visible and their after-effects are quite devastating. It is like cleaning up a nuclear accident site.
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1. Once, all villagers decided to pray for rain, on the day of prayer all the People gathered but only a young boy came with an umbrella.
THAT'S FAITH!
2. When you throw a baby in the air, he laughs because he knows you will catch him.- THAT'S TRUST!
3. Every night we go to bed, without any
assurance of being alive the next Morning but still we set the alarms to wake up.- THAT'S HOPE!
4. We plan big things for tomorrow in spite of zero knowledge of the future.- THAT'S
CONFIDENCE!
5. We see millions of students failing to gain admission, others failing to get Jobs after graduation,
But still we buy JAMB forms for
admission and subsequent graduation.-THAT'S OVER CONFIDENCE !"
"Now, Every Hope And Trust That You Have On God This Day You Shall Reap Fruits Of Over Confidence, As Long As You Can Say "AMEN"
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Why we shout at each other when angry

A Professor was teaching about Proverbs
15:1. He asked his students, 'why do we
shout in anger? Why do people shout at
each other when they are upset?' The
students thought for awhile. One said,
because we lose our calm. But why shout
when the other person is just next to you,'
asked the professor? Isn't it possible to
speak to him or her with a soft voice? Why
do you shout at a person when you are
angry? The students gave some answers but
none satisfied the Professor. Finally he
explained, 'when two people are angry at
each other, there is a distance in their hearts
psychologically. To cover the distance, they
must shout to be able to hear each other.
The angrier they are,the stronger they will
shout to hear each other through that great
distance. Then the Professor asked, 'What
happens when two people fall in love? They
don't shout at each other but talk softly.
Why?Because their hearts are psychologically
close. The distance between them is very
close. The Professor continued, 'When they
love each other even more, what happens?

DICTIONARY AND THE WORD

A dictionary is a reference book that gives some information about words. Every user of the English language is therefore expected to make the dictionary a valuable companion. The fact that nobody is a compendium of knowledge makes the dictionary indispensable as far as its uses are concerned. Yet, in order to use it intelligently, one needs some understanding of its plan.
But there are several misconceptions about dictionaries. First, people do think all dictionaries are alike. There are always differences among dictionaries as no two dictionaries have the same pattern of plan. Second, people generally think that dictionaries are infallible (i.e, without mistakes or errors). The fact remains that nothing and no nobody is infallible. It is possible for two dictionaries to disagree on a particular point, ye both of them cannot be right at the same time: it is either one or the other. Third, people do believe that when a particular word does not feature in the dictionary, then it does not exist or is not correct. But even the largest and unabridged dictionaries do not include every new word, slang, and change in meaning.

‘Herbalist hypnotised, raped, defrauded me of N7.9m’

Police have arrested a native doctor for reportedly hypnotising, raping and defrauding a 32-year-old lady (names withheld) of N7,900,000.
The suspect, Ifatade Elegbeleye Ademola, who hails from Ado Ekiti, poses as a cab driver and after selecting a victim, either introduces himself as a native doctor who specialises in curing different types of ailments or as being able to provide house helps.
According to the victim, who is into oil and gas business, “I met the suspect in March 2011 after my mother boarded his cab a couple of times from Iyana Ipaja to the house.”
She said Ademola assisted her mother with a sales representative. Later he told her mother that while he was praying to know if the sales rep would stay, he got a revelation that her daughter has a water husband. 

2 arrested over attempt to defraud Gov Fayose

Ekiti State Police Command, yesterday, paraded two suspects, Benedict Odiga, 38 and Abdusalam Hassan, 30, for attempting to obtain money from Governor Ayo Fayose under false pretence.
State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Etop James, said the suspects, who claimed to be President Buhari’s private security aides, were arrested at the governor's Afao-Ekiti country home.
However, one of the suspects, Benedict Odiga, denied trying to obtain money from Governor Fayose under false pretence, saying he was in Ekiti to see the governor, which he said was successful.
He said: “We only used those documents to beat security so that we can get access to the governor. We did not have a sinister mission, nothing to achieve. We did not demand for money from the governor. Our mission was just to see him.”
Asked why the governor got them arrested, if they were there to help him escape impeachment as being rumoured, Benedict said: “We discussed with him and when he suspected that those documents were forged, he decided to call the police.”

Bros escaped 2015 with bruises!

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"Only insecure men oppress their wives"

W ife of Pastor Felix Adejumo, President, Agape Christian Ministries, Rev(Mrs)Funke Felix-Adejumo is one of Nigeria's most influential ministers’ wives.  
The international motivational speaker and philanthropist gives tips to a successful marriage and speaks of her forthcoming Women on the Winning Edge conference.

A lot of marriages crash even before they start; what has sustained yours?
My husband and I would have been married for 32 years by September 8 this year. In these 32 years, we’ve both prayed together every day! When we are not together we pray on the phone.
Also, we agreed on transparency and honesty.
We tell ourselves absolute truth; what nobody on earth can tell us.  We confront our selves. And our bedroom has remained our ‘court room’ for years. Also, we are committed to making the marriage work. Divorce is not an option for us. That has been our cliché from the beginning.
So, the major and greatest force in our marriage is God. And that’s not to sound religious.  It is what God keeps that is kept.
Then, my husband is my only and best friend while I am his.  I always encourage singles to marry their friends.

Many working women complain family commitments slow them down in their career pursuits. What was your experience like and how did you cope?
God has blessed me with one of the most responsible family men on earth. When our marriage was young and we were raising our kids, my husband was committedly involved.  We raised the kids together and he also helped with school runs and works.
He put the children and me before church work and ministry. This disposition simplified my life extensively.
There were times when my husband will tell me to rest while he rocked the baby to sleep.

2-month old girl killed, abandoned in refuse dump

The lifeless body of a two-month old baby girl, with her neck twisted, was found in a carton at a refuse dump located near Salvation Army Primary School, Sabo, Ikorodu, Lagos, yesterday.

The body was reportedly discovered at about 8a.m. by a man who went to the site to defecate. He raised the alarm.

Passers-by, especially women, rained curses on whoever could have killed and abandoned the baby. They, thereafter, invited officials of the Ambulance Unit of the Ministry of Health.

The body was in a carton with diapers, a gown and an Ankara wrapper.

Alleged N82 million dinner: Wole Soyinka reacts

Rivers State Information Commissioner , Dr Austin Tam-George, declared that the state government would demand a refund of the N82million expended by former Governor Rotimi Amaechi on Professor Wole Soyinka’s dinner if it confirms that the Nobel Laureate received part of the the funds in cash.

Below is Soyinka’s reaction to the allegation:

Those who flounder in the sewage of corruption

By Wole Soyinka

This morning, I saw only the headlines in one or two print media regarding the 80th Birthday dinner to which I was hosted by the former governor of Rivers State, the Honorable Rotimi Amechi, now Minister of Aviation. I ignored them. It was not, and remains not my business to probe into the catering and logistical implications of the hundreds of institutions and governments all over the world to whom I acknowledge an immense debt of unsolicited recognition over the years.

Since then however, I have learnt of some unsavory statements by the insecure incumbent of the Rivers State government Lodge. These included a loose invitation to anti-crime agencies to investigate the potential crime of being honoured through any occasion. The unprecedented call by this governor is prescient of a warning I recounted in my recent pamphlet publication THE REPUBLIC OF LIARS, and was taken from my address to an anti-corruption global conference that took place in Tunisia two years ago. Those words were: CORRUPTION STRIKES BACK. In this ongoing instance, that expression translates most vividly as “Those who are neck deep in the sewage of corruption ensure that they splatter sewage in all possible and improbable directions.”

I do however fully support the Wikeleaks call for multi-directional probes. I recommend further that he involve the services of INTERPOL to guarantee its extension to all international organisations and governments to whom I owe uncountable events of recognition – including birthday luncheons, dinners, cultural receptions and events of real, fictitious, or simply opportunistic flavoring – to which I have submitted myself.

The descent to this present level of abominable distractions makes one truly despair. It is one that even I did not envisage when I warned – CORRUPTION STRIKES BACK! Whether it brings honour or dishonour to the nation is another matter – I am saddened, but indifferent.

This goat and tiger teach the world a lesson

An unlikely friendship between a tiger and a goat who was supposed to be his dinner has charmed Russia.

In a zoo in the far reaches of Siberia, predator and prey have become best buddies. Amur the tiger and Timur the goat’s charmed life started in late November, when Amur decided not to eat the goat when it was unleashed into his enclosure.

The intention was that the goat would be a gastronomic delight, not a playpal. But instead the two animals appear to have bonded, sharing a food bowl and appearing to play with each other by romping through Amur’s pen.

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DO YOU KNOW ENGLISH IS A CRAZY LANGUAGE?

English is the most widely spoken language in the history of our planet, used in some way by at least one out of every seven human beings around the globe. Half of the world's books are written English, and the majority of international telephone calls are made in English. English has acquired the widest vocabulary of all the world's languages, perhaps as many as two million words, and has generated one of the noblest bodies of literature in the annals of the human race. 
By Gani Gab Abisoye Bamgbose

Adding "ONLY" in different positions, a sentence meant 8 separate things

ENGLISH IS A FUNNY LANGUAGE!

Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence: "I hit him in the eye yesterday." The word is "ONLY".
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My jealous husband says he will kill us

My husband and I have been married for close to 15 years and I love him. He loves me too in his own way and is a good father to the children. 
Recently, his love has turned to vicious jealousy. He believes I‘ve always indulged in secret affairs and has compiled a list of ‘suspects’ which includes my former boss, a friend’s husband and my new boss. 
Now he’s resorting to violence. He’s threatening he would maim me if I don’t confess to all these drummed up affairs and the children are getting a bit frightened of him. The last straw was when he recently grabbed me by the throat because I was dancing so seductively at an outdoor party. 

One night with my best friend’s brother

A few months ago, my best friend’s brother paid a visit to one of the top managers in the office I worked for. He didn’t know I worked there and was actually glad to see me.
He offered me lunch and we had a lovely time. When he asked where I stayed, I told him. I thought he was just being polite but you can imagine how surprised I was when I saw him at my doorsteps a few days later. He said he was in the neighbourhood to see a friend.
I invited him in and we ended up sleeping together. Afterwards we both regretted it because he’s married with two young children, and we agreed not to say a word to anyone. 

Urinating without pay

(A WHATSAPP MESSAGE I LIKE)

 A man reached 70 years of age and was affected by a disease which made him unable to urinate.

The doctors told him that he needs an operation to cure the disease.

He agreed to do the operation as the problem was giving him severe pain for days.

When the operation was completed the doctor gave him a bill which covered all the costs.

After looking at the bill, the man started crying. Upon seeing this, the doctor said "If the cost is too high then we could make some other arrangements for you.

"The old man replied, "I am not crying because of the money but I am crying because God let me urinate for 70 years and He never sent me a bill!"

A historical garage of lesson

This was wealth.

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CLIMATE TALKS IN PARIS: Mother Nature has given up on us

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, now has a document from the Paris Climate Change Convention.
Let’s hope the industrial world will hearken.
SMOG IN BEIJING 
Meanwhile, Mother Nature has a way of mocking us: to get to the pre-Paris talks held in Bonn from 19 to 23 October, delegates fouled the climate with emissions the equivalent of that from a small city.
Looking at the crowd at the Paris Convention, the quantity of ecosystem-crippling gasses released into the atmosphere is enough for them to discuss throughout the jamboree.
Mother Nature has given up on us.

The faithful and hopeful bike

The story says a boy chained his bike to a tree and left for World War 1 (1914-1918). He didn't return.

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Mama Africa

Native Congo Free State laborers who failed to meet rubber collection quotas were often punished by having their hands cut off.
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Mozilla kicks off annual fundraiser on Firefox's home page

Mozilla Foundation has kicked off its annual fund-raising drive by placing the pitch on the home page of Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox browser.

The non-profit runs a drive each December -- this is the fifth straight year -- to finance its education, research and public awareness campaigns and projects. The money raised does not go toward expenses incurred to develop and maintain the Firefox browser or Firefox OS. Mozilla relies on contracts from a variety of search providers, including Yahoo and China's Baidu, to fund Firefox.

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Being a Nigerian

I had hired a Keke Marwa, taken two Okada; in search of fuel for my 10-litre jerry can. With the sun at its peak. No electricity, but high bill and sleep for my people is hellish without ventilation.

So there was no particular reason to be patriotic.

But there it was...

There was lump in my throat, a swelling in my chest and it was all I could do not to stand at attention and salute (bloody civilian) as it went slowly, but majestically, by:

An Army convoy: wicked-looking vehicles, apocalypse-like guns mounted (Gatlin, I think) and soldiers standing straight as a rod.

It soon went out of sight and, sweating under the raging sun, I continued my hunt. Total that was rescuing us from shysters suddenly decided not to sell to any one carrying jerry cans in a bid to curb supply to black marketers. So my tour ended up with, yes, same black marketers: N200 a litre.

And those soldiers? I don't know o. But I am certain that the Chibok girls are not anywhere near my house and Sambisa Forest is up North!