How Late Keshi Disobeyed His Father, Ran from Home to Serve Nigeria – Odogwu of Illah

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How Late Keshi Disobeyed His Father, Ran from Home to Serve Nigeria – Odogwu of Illah
A resigned 81-years of age chairman and a nearby individual from the late Stephen Keshi's family has talked about the late AFCON 2013 winning mentor in Illah, Delta State.


Talking in a restrictive meeting with Daily Sun, 81-year-old Chief Ogbuenyi George Ofuokwu, who is the Odogwu of Illah and a nearby individual from the late Super Eagles mentor, Stephen Keshi's family, has uncovered some obscure insights about the unbelievable footballer who was laid to everlasting rest today in Benin, Edo state in the midst of tears from family, companions and partners.

The following are selections from the talk;

How did late Stephen Keshi begin his vocation in football?

Late Stephen Okechukwu Keshi's vocation as a football player was not by happenstance or sheer luckiness. It was an inherent capacity and yearning to succeed that drove him to such a fortunate level in football. As a child he used to kick each article he ran over and that was the manner by which he created solid enthusiasm for football.

Shouldn't something be said about his dad's response to his enthusiasm for the amusement?

I knew Stephen since when he was a 2-year-old when his family was living in Idi-oro, the territory between Baba Olosha and Moshalasi in Mushin, Lagos. His dad, Pa Aniemeka Keshi took me as a child and was instrumental to my coming to Lagos numerous years prior. Stephen Keshi's dad was a strict individual and the instruction of his kids was of most extreme significance to him. I see myself as a nearby individual from the family and I additionally intervened at whatever time Keshi conflicted with his dad's choice.

How did his dad respond when he won the Principals' Cup in Lagos?

Before he won the Principals' Cup, Stephen Keshi left home since his dad dismisses the possibility of a football vacation, yet he was determined and took his heart. At that point, his dad ceased to pay his school charges. His mom called me to meditate, which I did, yet his dad kept up his position. In any case, his mom would cook soup, wrap the "Eba" (Carrie) and concealed it inside her headscarf to take to Stephen in his companion's home. Luckily, Reverend Father Dennis Joseph Slattery detected his football abilities and gave him the grant to St. Finabarr's College. He developed to wind up an understood star subsequent to winning the Principals' Cup. Later he was welcomed into the national group and we began perusing his stories in the daily paper. By then, his dad delicate accelerated and began appealing to God for his achievement in football. Stephen Keshi contended energetically by resisting his dad due to a football vocation that wound up making him the chief of the Nigerian national football group.

Will you prompt the administration on the best way to deify him?

I was an individual from the panel sent by the committee of seniors in Illah to welcome Stephen Keshi, when Nigeria won the 2013 African Cup of Nations in South Africa. I was at the air terminal furthermore gone to a few services held in their honor. The Delta State Government named a stadium after him in Asaba furthermore guaranteed to construct a games foundation in Illah, which would be named after him. This has not been finished.

Niger Delta Peace Deal: MEND Says Nigerian Govt Has Agreed To Release Nnamdi Kanu, Okah Brothers, Other Concessions

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Niger Delta Peace Deal: MEND Says Nigerian Govt Has Agreed To Release Nnamdi Kanu, Okah Brothers, Other Concessions


In an announcement issued yesterday, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) asserted that a group arranging in the interest of the Federal Government for an arrival of peace to the oil-rich delta had consented to discharge a few confined or detained activists, including Nnamdi Kanu, pioneer of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Henry Okah, a MEND chieftain serving a correctional facility sentence in South Africa, Charles Okah, and Obi Nwabueze. The announcement revealed that Mr. Kanu and other confined IPOB activists would be discharged on condition that they repudiate their fomentation for withdrawal. As per MEND, ex-Senator Adolphus Wabara had acquainted the trade off with secure the arrival of the expert Biafran fomenters.

Retouch likewise expressed that the administration's arbitrators had concurred not to capture or irritate outlaw ex-MEND activist, Government Ekpemupolo (famously known as Tompolo), "at whatever point he makes himself accessible as an agent of the MEND Aaron Team 2." moreover, the gathering expressed that the legislature would audit the lifelong incarceration allotted on Edmund Ebiware.

Patch proclaimed itself the main activist gathering from the Niger Delta locale in a matter of seconds occupied with a discourse with the Federal Government of Nigeria, including that oil organizations and security officers were speaking to the legislature in talks went for handling peace in the area which has seen expanding assaults on oil offices since President Muhammadu Buhari came to control in May 2015.

Repair expressed that the assertion required a survey of "criminal allegations against Urhobo flexibility contender, Mr. Kelvin Prosper Oniarah," and the survey of life sentences gave to seven officers in 2008 for supporting the Niger Delta battle. The influenced officers are Major Suleiman Alabi Akubo, Sergeant Mathias Peter, Lance Corporal Alexander Davou, Lance Corporal Moses Nwaigwe, Lance Corporal Nnandi Anene, Lance Corporal Taatihi Emmanuel, and Private Caleb Bawa.

Announcing the considerations "productive," MEND appeared to back military responses against the Niger Delta Avengers ought to the gathering decline to quit assaulting oil establishments in the region. Repair's announcement proclaimed, "a standout amongst the most prompt and critical fall-outs of the progressing exchange is the basis for the Federal Government and MEND to together and independently find a way to protect and secure the area if the headstrong Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) proceed on their silly and politically-roused way of assaults on the nation's oil resources.

"To this end, both sides concurred that the Special Forces of the Nigerian Army ought to start the absolutely standard however key military activity code-named 'Operation Crocodile Tears'; while MEND would initiate a meet the Government-Actors-and-People voyage through the Niger Delta locale code-named 'Operation Moses.'"

The announcement proceeded: "While 'Operation Crocodile Tears' is gone for guaranteeing the battle availability of the Nigerian Army in Amphibious and Internal Security Operations in the Niger Delta and in addition check

criminal exercises like abducting, pipeline vandalism, theft and different types of criminal exercises led by the NDA in the locale, MEND's 'Operation Moses' is basically to advise, instruct and for the most part sharpen the citizenry in the Niger Delta, especially the Government, the young, oil organizations, older folks and aggressor group on the need to truck and backing the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration in its decided offer to proffer manageable answers for the present Niger Delta emergency."

Retouch encouraged all states, nearby governments, oil and gas organizations and the general population of the Niger Delta area "to go with their legal and true blue worries with no particle of trepidation as we have gotten FIRM ASSURANCES from the Federal Government that 'Operation Crocodile Tears' is a harmless activity in the national interest."

It included, "In the interim, MEND's 'Operation Moses' should be tied down by the AARON TEAM 2 Dialog, Peace, and Development Initiative together drove by Mr. Odein Ajumogobia (SAN) and HRH King Alfred Papapreye Diette-Spiff, the Amanyanabo of Town-Brass in Bayelsa State.

"'Operation Moses' should start with a visit by the recognized individuals from the AARON TEAM 2 to President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja between August 22, 2016, and August 26, 2016.

"From that point, the Team should hold sessions with top officials of major indigenous and worldwide oil and gas organizations working in Nigeria, including the state oil organization, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on August 29 and 30, 2016 in Abuja. The center of those sessions might incorporate, to mind: Local substance improvement; Petroleum Industry Bill; Corporate Social Responsibility/Host people group relations, and so on.

"On September 5 and 6, 2016 in Abuja the MEND Aaron Team should hold sessions with the top echelon of security offices in Nigeria and additionally the top administration of the mediation offices in the Niger Delta, specifically: Ministry of Niger Delta; Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the Presidential Amnesty Office. The Minister of Justice/Attorney General of the Federation is required to by and by go to these sessions. The center of the sessions should include: Extension of presidential acquittal to specific classifications of political detainees in Nigeria; Fundamental Human Rights; NDDC Act in center; Presidential Amnesty Proclamation 2009 in center; breakdown of government foundation in the Niger Delta in center; Calabar-Lagos rail line in concentrate; East/West Road in center, and so forth.

"After these basic sessions, "Operation Moses" should move to visit the 9 states in the Niger Delta district, starting with Rivers state between September 12, 2016, and September 14, 2016. Between September 15, 2016, and September 18, 2016, the Aaron Team might be in Bayelsa state. Between September19, 2016, and September 21, 2016, the Team might be in Delta state. From Thursday, September 22, 2016, to Sunday, September 25, 2016, the Aaron Team might be in Akwa Ibom state. Between September 26, 2016, and September 29, 2016, the Team should be in Abia and Imo states. Lastly, between October 3, 2016, and October 7, 2016, the Aaron Team should be in Edo and Ondo states.

"The focal clearing house for all exercises associated with "Operation Moses" might be the MEND Aaron Team 2 secretariat. As needs be, the Secretary of the Team, Timipa Jenkins Okponipere, Esq., should properly speak with every single concerned individual and establishments.

"Eventually, peace and improvement in the Niger Delta district is the last destination of the continuous discourse amongst MEND and the Federal Government."

"Nigeria Will Disintegrate Before Buhari's Very Eyes If… " – Fani-Kayode

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"Nigeria Will Disintegrate Before Buhari's Very Eyes If… " – Fani-Kayode


Previous Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has cautioned that Nigeria will break down if President Muhammadu Buhari utilizes military may handle the Niger Delta revolt.

Fani-Kayode said this in a post he shared on his Facebook divider on Saturday. He composed, "On 29th July 2016, CNN reported that "the Nigerian government is planning troops for a crackdown in the Niger Delta if peace talks come up short".

"This is tragic and unfavorable. As United States Senator Ted Cruz once said, "The light of truth is more grounded than the fear of dimness."

"It takes after that the greatest misstep that the Buhari organization can make is to endeavor to 'split down' on the Niger Delta and slaughter blameless regular citizens.

"On the off chance that this ever happens, for reasons unknown, it will set off a chain of occasions that will prompt the end of Nigeria as we probably are aware it. Nigeria will crumble directly in front of Buhari if any more pure blood is shed and if the towns, rivers, and towns of the oil creating states are shelled and decreased to rubble."aggressive Congress, APC rally in Edo state.

Representative Oshiomhole Shows Off His Dance Moves at APC Rally (Photos)

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Representative Oshiomhole Shows Off His Dance Moves at APC Rally (Photos)

See photographs of Governor Adams Oshiomhole flaunting his move moves at the All Progressives Congress, APC rally in Edo state.

Troubled Banking Sector: Emefiele Tells Nigerians Not to Panic

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Vexed Banking Sector: Emefiele Tells Nigerians Not to Panic

National Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele has encouraged Nigerians not to freeze concerning the delicate condition of the nation's keeping money industry.

With the IMF determining a 1.8 percent withdrawal in the economy this year, the prompt prospects for the saving money division are dismal yet Emefiele still trusts that the monetary framework stayed strong.

"The key strength of the Nigerian keeping money or monetary framework stays solid as of now. There is no requirement for anyone to start to frenzy or stress that any bank is in trouble," he said after an MPC meeting amid the week.

"Contributors of banks, if it's not too much trouble please persevere. We engage you: continue on ahead. You won't lose your stores in any bank."

In any case, his alleviating words, which took after a surge by investors to pull back assets from Skye prior this month, may have the inverse impact, particularly after police in May struck three banks – Access, Fidelity, and Sterling – as a feature of a test into asserted illicit exchanges.

2019: Atiku and Mimiko Plot Against Buhari

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2019: Atiku and Mimiko Plot Against Buhari


In front of 2019, there are reports that previous Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Ondo Governor, Olusegun Mimiko are plotting to stop President Muhammadu Buhari's re-decision.

The New Telegraph has acquired the data that the key figures in the decision All Progressives Congress (APC) are reflecting on what a source called 'a solid third constraint'. The third compel is allegedly another political gathering in front of the 2019 presidential survey that would witness the union of Atiku Abubakar, ex-VP, and the officeholder Governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, as presidential hopeful and running mate correspondingly.

The source said, "Similar to a country in need of authority, appropriate initiative, and another first light will soon confront the nation since what Nigerians are getting is not what they anticipated. The change mantra has all the earmarks of being blurring and a few persons are starting to suspect something.

"As it was in the keep running up to the last presidential race, whereby up to this point opposing persons met up for a typical cause and introduced the present government, we are taking a gander at the likelihood of assembling one and all to save the country from nepotism.

"From all signs, the present administration has fizzled the country and in the event that you read what a North West pioneer said in a meeting today (yesterday), you require nobody to let you know that we require an extraordinary political bearing. All the while, anything can happen, including the enrollment of another political gathering or resuscitating a current one in light of the fact that in all the real gatherings, that is PDP and APC, there are issues.

APC Wins Minjibir By-Election in Kano State

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APC Wins Minjibir By-Election in Kano State


The All Progressive Congress, APC, has risen champ of the Minjibir electorate by decision in Kano state.

Alhaji Tasi'u Ibrahim was pronounced champ by INEC returning Officer, Prof Abu Mohammed. He said the APC applicant surveyed 21, 970 votes to crush the 14 different candidates.

As per him, Alhaji Auwalu Ubale of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) came next with 1, 238 votes.

Actress Juliet Ibrahim Rocks Low Cut Hair

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Actress Juliet Ibrahim Rocks Low Cut Hair

Suits her! Nice one..

 

Imagined! FCMB Manager Shoots Himself Dead Over Debt

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Imagined! FCMB Manager Shoots Himself Dead Over Debt


A chief at the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Plc, Mr. Olisa Nwakoby has shot himself dead. Mr. Olisa shot himself dead within the sight of his Priest at the Lekki range of Lagos Island, Lagos State.

As indicated by New Telegraph, Nwakoby was the supporting officer of a credit that the indebted person was not paying back and was stuck in an unfortunate situation with the bank.

With weight mounting on all sides and anxiety over sullying his family name, the investor, and father of a 10-year-old young lady shot himself.

The broker had met with his cleric and instructed him to advise his significant other to deal with their tyke and after that continued to actually blow his head off.

"It was later found that he took cash from the bank, N350million and the cash began making issues for him. He slaughtered himself." said the source.

Nwakoby was the child of Chief Patrick Oguejiofor Nwakoby who was a previous director of First Bank of Niger Plc, a fruitful attorney , legislator, and a very regarded group pioneer before his passing.

I Missed Keshi's Burial Because I Was Ill – Amaju Pinnick

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I Missed Keshi's Burial Because I Was Ill – Amaju Pinnick


President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has said that he missed the entombment of previous Super Eagles skipper and mentor, Stephen Keshi, on the grounds that he was unwell.

Keshi was covered in the place where he grew up in Illah, Delta State on Friday, with some key dignitaries from the football house missing.

Pinnick is one of the authorities that has gone under reactions, yet he demands that he was extremely required with the plans and just missed the entombment as a result of the disorder. What he said beneath…

"It's truly miserable the way we simply utilize amazing dialects. Right from the minute he passed, I have been effectively included extraordinarily," Pinnick wrote in light of a corresponding on Twitter.

"I took after the motorcade from the funeral home to the congregation in Benin. I was at the administration all through. I took after the motorcade to the stadium. I was there again all through once more.

"I did a two and half hour excursion to Asaba. I did the whole program with them. I had a private meeting with the family to reappraise plans.

"I woke the following morning unwell, hurled. On my approach to Illah, I was battling however needed to turn around quickly, I got a part to leave Port Harcourt to go to which he did.

"You individuals ought to mercifully discover the part I and the NFF played from his demise to date."

I Regret Marrying Many Wives – Jide Kosoko

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I Regret Marrying Many Wives – Jide Kosoko

Veteran on-screen character, Jide Kosoko, has uncovered he wouldn't urge any man to wed more than one spouse. This is what he told NigerianTribune when he was inquired:

Do you lament being a polygamist?

Oh my goodness, I don't supplicate that my adversary ought to practice polygamy. What's more, this ought to be a lesson to the youthful ones coming. I know a few people will say their religion grants it, however, the religion did not implement it. I have genuine business to do now. I have youthful kids to deal with.

It is over 41 days since you lost your better half, Henrietta. It is on record that you have continued work.

How have you been adapting to existence without her?

When you say how I have been adapting, sincerely I don't know how to answer that inquiry. I don't know whether I ought to let you know I have been fine or something else. I can just say God has been my stone till this minute. Truly I am yet to deal with the truth that she is no more. I would prefer not to trust that she is no more. Such a large number of things have been coming up since she passed away and I know things will proceed with like that for quite a while.

When she kicked the bucket, there were distinctive reports about what prompted her demise. The most prominent one was that she kicked the bucket of diabetes. Might you be able to let us know what prompted her passing and your last minutes with her?

Despite everything you won't quit getting some information about her. Everyone recognizes what prompted her demise. It is as of now in people in general space. She kicked the bucket of entanglements emerging from diabetes.

Why did her family demand that she ought to be covered in Delta State against the course of action you had made for her to be covered in Lagos State?

That was the confusion that individuals had about the internment. Since the day she passed on, her family had needed her to be covered in Delta. There were no issues about that by any stretch of the imagination. I was just attempting to expect her to be covered in Lagos.

What sort of relationship did you have with her folks; did you get their favors before you chose to wed her?

Since the start of our relationship, her dad did not dither to tell me that they had traditions and convention that must be entirely stuck to. The man let me know that I am giving you my little girl however I am not discharging the rope. So when she passed on, I just suggested that she ought to be covered in Lagos yet I am a man of society and I regard custom exceptionally well. Along these lines, there was simply about where she would be covered in light of the fact that we definitely knew where we were going.

How are you adapting to the suggestion hawked in a few quarters that losing three spouses was not regular?

Segun, why are you making this inquiry? I trust you don't need us to end this meeting? I would prefer not to begin talking about all that. I don't realize what you anticipate that I will let you know. Henrietta lived with me for more than 20 years. I never expected or asked that she would bite the dust. It disheartens my heart when I hear individuals saying a wide range of things in regards to her demise. We as a whole result in these present circumstances world at one point in time and our way out will happen one day in any case. God is the provider of life. He gives it and takes it when He prefers. I wish I could prevent Henrietta from biting the dust. I trust she passed on at God's delegated time for her. In the event that the ball is in my court tomorrow, I won't surpass that day. It is in whose spot to say that somebody's passing is not common? I abandon them to their conviction. I abandon them to God.

FG Recruits Locals As Civilian JTF, Engages Ex-Militants As Partner In Niger Delta

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FG Recruits Locals As Civilian JTF, Engages Ex-Militants As Partner In Niger Delta

The Federal Government has on Friday affirmed the progressive arrangement of troops into vital positions in the Niger Delta area and the conceivable alternative of power against individuals from the new activists occupied with assaults on oil and gas pipelines if the continuous exchange between the gatherings and delegates of the legislature fizzle.

The Federal Government has on Friday affirmed the continuous sending of troops into key positions in the Niger Delta locale and the conceivable alternative of power against individuals from the new aggressors occupied with assaults on oil and gas pipelines if the progressing discourse between the gatherings and delegates of the legislature fall flat.

Pretty much as it uncovers its maintained security arrangement in the district to handle militancy and other criminal exercises with the proposed enrollment of indigenes of oil-bearing groups of the Niger Delta into nearby arm of the Joint Military Task Force, the legislature revealed that it was setting up a crisis military unit group to react to assaults and draw in the activists and prepared Amnesty recipients in insight gathering in the area.

The Minister of Defense, Mansur Mohammad Dan-Ali, while talking in Yenagoa amid an approach the Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, spoke to by his Deputy, Rear Admiral John Jonah (RTD), affirmed that the military is occupied with uncommon faculty pivot and sending inside key ranges of the Niger Delta and that the recently planned security arrangement and bases for the district will be group driven with indigenes of oil bearing groups serving as Local JTF and insight segments.

As per Mr. Dan-Ali, "Amid the last meeting with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbanjo, it was concurred that the security course of action must include the general population. I am here to demonstrate that the general population of the group must be included. As we have succeeded in the North-East with local people as Civilian JTF, we will include such in the Niger Delta district. We will combine them into the new security foundation for the area."

"We are additional to include a portion of the ex-aggressors that have obtained preparing under the Amnesty program in our security plan. We are paying them and anticipating that they should put to utilize a portion of the learning obtained under the neighborhood and outside preparing. We likewise anticipated that each other partner would be included in the course of action. An uncommon Brigade unit is likewise to be imbued in the district."

Mr. Dan-Ali, notwithstanding, noticed that the achievement of the new security course of action is subject to the dynamic contribution of States in the execution. "The states must be included to help with identifying illicit sites that are utilized to contort and discolor military operations in the area. It must be known not State Governors that keeping Nigeria one is an errand that must be done and it must include all."

On the likelihood of the utilization of power against the Niger Delta aggressors if the progressing exchange with the Federal Government falls flat, Mr. Dan-Ali, reacted saying 'It can't be precluded."

The Chief of Defense Staff, General A.G Olorunsekan, in a talk with newsmen after the approach the Governor, noticed that the military is prepared and in positions in the Niger Delta district, "We have permitted the continuous exchange between the Federal Government and the Militants. Our troops are in position. My message to the aggressors is to guarantee they go to the transaction table and us in the military will draw in continuous military foundations for the district."

Prior in his discourse, the Bayelsa Governor, spoke to by the Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral John Jonah, lauded the military for the endeavors made so far in handling issues of militancy and another culpability along the conduits and streams of the Niger Delta area. He said, "The Niger Delta exercises, whether negative or positive, is floating around Bayelsa State. Bayelsa will keep on collaborating with the security offices and the Federal Government. Without security, there can be no advancement."

"To begin with, we need to guarantee expanded security exercises in Bayelsa. A circumstance where our ladies are stripped exposed along the water via ocean privateers is wretched. Our waters are no more protected. We respect the possibility of the contribution of local people in the security courses of action. Local people have the navigational information of the waters than the military."

Adekunle Fajuyi And The Politics Of Remembrance By Niyi Osundare

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Adekunle Fajuyi And The Politics Of Remembrance By Niyi Osundare

Ideas - Show me your legend and I will let you know who you are. - You know a nation by the sort of individuals it recollects. - Nigeria's solidarity is not debatable on the grounds that you can't arrange what does not (yet) exist. - Nigeria: Political re-organizing is insufficient. - Adekunle Fajuyi was the principal real Nigerian figure to accomplish the notorious handshake over the Niger.

- Show me your legend and I will let you know who you are.

- You know a nation by the sort of individuals it recalls.

- Nigeria's solidarity is not debatable on the grounds that you can't arrange what does not (yet) exist.

- Nigeria: Political re-organizing is insufficient.

- Adekunle Fajuyi was the principal real Nigerian figure to accomplish the famous handshake over the Niger.

- Adekunle Fajuyi is Omoluabi in the genuine Yoruba feeling of the word

- Fajuyi kicked the bucket as a warrior. He lives on as an Idea.

My support in today's occasion is prologued by a lovely good fortune. At the point when in March this year I got a phone call from Engineer Francis Ojo, that wizard of stray pieces who additionally flourishes as logical mastermind, enthusiastic patriot, political polemicist, and courageous creator of sizzling exposition, I thought he had listened to my discussion with a kindred Nigerian three days prior about Lieutenant-Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, the primary military legislative leader of Western Nigeria, and what a distracted, selfish country had done to the recognition of his remarkable chivalry and rousing respectability. Yet, my prior visit occurred in the United States, while Mr. Ojo's call came, after three days, from England. Thusly, there was no chance our architect could have caught this talk over the unfathomable Atlantic (regardless of the level of his building wizardry!). So I was vastly satisfied to realize that there were a considerable lot of us in various parts of the world who just couldn't overlook this astounding officer pioneer, and are keen on ensuring that the nation for which he yielded his life does not.

Furthermore, when Mr. Ojo let me know that the pervasive Yinka Odumakin was there with him (in faraway London) as he inquired as to whether I could convey the current year's Fajuyi Lecture, I said to myself 'Aaah, Yinka; there comes my July Nemesis once more!' For it was in July 2008 that Odumakin trapped me for the MKO Abiola Lecture; after four years and around the same time (alongside the irrepressible Pastor Tunde Bakare: favor his spirit!) the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) Lecture; now, after an additional four years, but then another July, the Fajuyi Lecture. What should we expect in the seventh month of the year 2020; and 2024?

In any case, this year and this month have picked themselves as those to recall. For, this month, this day, a large portion of a century prior, Nigeria encountered its second overthrow de tat and first counter-upset. A cluster of weapon employing rebels, set on the night out the ethnic scores of the shocking killings executed by Nigeria's first upset, rated the Western Region government house, Ibadan. Their prime target/quarry? General Aguiyi Ironsi, the then Head of State on a visit toward the Western Region capital. Be that as it may, Adekunle Fajuyi, quintessential Omoluabi, rejected either to surrender or relinquish his visitor. The heroic fighter ran down with his Commander-in-Chief. Notwithstanding this and a few different demonstrations of gallantry, Fajuyi's six-month residency as military representative checked him out as a man supplied with enormous good quality and excellent initiative. What standards of Omoluabism undergirded Fajuyi's idea and activity? Why is this courageous officer barely ever recollected save in his ethnic base? What does this say in regards to Nigeria's blemished union, the character of her values, the nature of her memory, the governmental issues of her recognition? These are a portion of the inquiries this address expects to address.

Of Heroism, Memory, and the Crises of Remembrance

In Galileo, one of his most interesting plays, Bertolt Brecht, the hugely imaginative German writer, artist, polemicist, and humanist, jars our discerning staff with his now renowned jumbling maxim: 'Despondent the area that need saints'. Like the greater part of his epigrammatic intercessions, this one too works like a twofold edged sword, hardheartedly sharp on both edges, sounding both as a settled adage and contestable verity. The more we attempt to disentangle this adage, the more it puzzles itself into further confusion:

1) Why ought to the area be "despondent" on the grounds that it is 'in need' of legends? Would it be able to be that that area has no legends since it is so consistently fair, so permanently customary, so all around debased that it is unequipped for creating that gauge of persons who tower above time, spot, and condition, whose temper constitutes the layout for fortunate behavior, whose centrality, along these lines, is profoundly felt, broadly recognized, and imperatively attractive? An area with a positive response to this bewildering inquiry could be said of being harassed with what I have chosen to call the Hero Deficit Complex (HDC), an area with a missing expert in its matrix of qualities.

2) Is the area 'in need' of saints since it can't work ideally (even insignificantly) without the tutelage and larger predominance of this club of prevalent people? This fake determines itself into different inquiries: when does the legend transmogrify into a prop for a handicapped society; the column for their falling building? How "equivalent" can a people be who draw their quality, sustenance, even reason deter, from those that are more equivalent? Will the legend truly stand so tall without the genuflection of the saint admirers? To put it another way, the inexorability remainder of the saint constantly makes its own particular Hero Dependency Complex (HDC)

How about we rearrange our accommodation so far into two direct revelatory sentences: That area is troubled which is unequipped for delivering saints; that area is additionally miserable which is dependably or perpetually subordinate upon legends.

Notwithstanding these two premises - or due to them – the idea and routine of bravery hold on in each human culture, and incalculable societal establishments have teamed up in guaranteeing its diligence. Also, as Wale Adebanwi has powerfully illustrated (Adebanwi 2008), in Yorubaland, gallantry, and precursor love are commonly fortifying, commonly sustaining wonders. What's more, in such manner, the partitioning line amongst god and man, the heavenly and the physical, the holy and the profane is amazingly thin, as most otherworldly Yoruba notables relocate between the two conditions of being without hardly lifting a finger: Ogun was a seeker/agriculturist before his rise to the godliness accountable for iron and metallurgy; Sango moved from mortal eminence to celestial ascendance; while Osun, Oya advanced from our workaday human presence to goddess greatness. Be that as it may, the trip from human to celestial is never a typical, routine move. It must be earned through the accomplishment of great deeds and the development of superhuman accumulations. Furthermore, much of the time, the uncommon nature of the life lived must be supplemented by the exceptional way of the demise experienced. For the individual set apart out for worship must be someone fit for instructing both worship and copying (our vertical look) without requesting them; a Titan worth each syllable in the laudatory which praises his value.

Living legends are intense; those dead are double along these lines, in light of the fact that however dead, they are never gone. Unexpectedly, they are accepted to have only traveled to the domain of ancestor hood, that zone of respectful omniscience and respectability, of unvarnished verities and settled intelligence, past the jazzed hustles and frivolous bickerings of sublunary presence. Which is the reason in an evident blend of sorcery and cultic conjuring, the present is always in the exchange with the past; the verbal structure of societal correspondence is described by a strained and perspective convention that resists the rationale of quotidian time. Greek memory gleams with the Golden Age of Pericles; the Russians are thankfully mindful that the designation "awesome" in 'Diminish the Great' is valid and legitimate to its last letter; the English know when to summon a Chaucer or a Churchill; scarcely one day goes in Turkey without some respectful notice of Ataturk; at Rushmore, the United States cut out of a stone rock four appearances of those she considered the most critical of its Presidents in 0ver 200 years; the daring island of Cuba, Fidel Castro is a stanza in each melody. In a most prominent spot in Ljubljana, the delightful capital of Slovenia is an enormous statue of France Preseren, nationalist and benefactor holy person of Slovenian verse whose verse throbs noticeable all around every time the Slovenian song of devotion is sung. What's more, coming nearer home, by what means would we be able to sing Africa's Freedom melody without giving the wind the names of Nehanda, Samore Toure, Lumumba, Nkrumah, Mandela, Mandela, Mandela, Mandela?

Not all predecessors are saints. Nor are all legends predecessors. A barely astonishing perception, considering the way that while ancestor hood is accepted/attributed pretty much like a turning point station in a transitional experience, something similar to an acquired status, bravery is earned/accomplished constantly through laborious trials and unprecedented achievements. In any case, these two brands of creatures are committed to one obstinate marvel: Memory, the antitoxin to obscurity, that waiting reverberation of the music of popularity. Memory is a vast wandering stream; History is its origin; names are its list markers; memorabilia and different symbols of overlook me-nuts are the stones in its liquid and remarkable passage. Recognition is its dynamic and indispensable current. For, Memory without Remembrance resemble tender without a match; a tiger without its jump. To recollect is to spring into life

Quiet At Center Of SaveMayowa Campaign Found To Be Truly Sick

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Quiet At Center Of SaveMayowa Campaign Found To Be Truly Sick

An essentially fruitful online push to raise reserves for Mayowa Ahmed, an unpleasantly wiped out and thin lady, has been buried in discussion after a famous online tattle blog, Linda Ikeji's Blog posted that the SaveMayowa crusade was a trick.
A fundamentally fruitful online push to raise reserves for Mayowa Ahmed, a horribly wiped out and thin lady, has been buried in discussion after a famous online tattle blog, Linda Ikeji's Blog posted that the SaveMayowa crusade was a trick.

Nonetheless, an examination by journalists of SaharaReporters found that Ms. Mayowa Shukurat Ahmed, a 28-year old graduate of the University of Lagos, is really wiped out and right now on affirmation at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). Our correspondents found that the patient was on Monday, July 25, 2016, taken to the private wing of LUTH's ward where she was required to begin accepting treatment for stomach harm.


A LUTH official, who talked about his own ability, said he was "baffled at the woman's (Aimakhu) conduct. I didn't know she was a performing artist. She was simply making a great deal of commotion, yelling. She called Linda Ikeji, keeping in mind we were all the while attempting to comprehend what was going on, she was at that point conversing with a few people and the police," said the source. He included: "One of our senior experts needed to talk with her, however, I needed to let him know not to converse with her since she may slight him and that may prompt LUTH's security getting irate. So I let him know we would resolve it."

SaharaReporters messaged Emory International Hospital, which purportedly gave Ms. Ahmed's family with an evaluation for her treatment cost. The healing center guided our reporter to its Media Relations Department, however, the office couldn't be come to by means of the number given. Ms. Ahmed's family has said they now plan to fly her to Abu Dhabi rather, however, they never specified any healing facility.

The Lagos state police charge said they were investigating the entire contention. Its representative, Dolapo Badmos, said, "The Command wishes to illuminate all the great lively individuals who had given liberally to this precipitate it will guarantee it [is] not a fabrication," said the police, including that the result of the examination "might be made open."

Ms. Ahmed's relatives have commandingly denied the trick claim, demanding that the patient was genuinely debilitated and should have been flown out of the nation to get therapeutic treatment. On online networking, those thoughtful to the family have reprimanded those blaming them for trying to cheat clueless Nigerians. They have likewise denounced blogger Ms. Linda Ikeji of taking part in snap teasing.

An announcement from LUTH unveiled that Ms. Ahmed had been to other restorative labs where she was determined to have "intra-stomach mass," including that she had been a patient at LUTH for other wellbeing conditions. A therapeutic report uncovered that Ms. Ahmed is likewise a sickle cell tolerant.

SaharaReporters realized, nonetheless, that her family evidently took her to LUTH, not for treatment of her ovarian tumor but rather so the doctor's facility could balance out her wellbeing enough to empower her to travel abroad. LUTH authorities said they educated the patient's family that she was not fit for any travel, but rather the family demanded that all they needed was that the doctor's facility ought to help her wellbeing to the point where she would have the capacity to travel.

In their announcement, LUTH revealed that the patient's family "asked for to fly Miss Ahmed outside the nation scarcely 24 hours after her confirmation in LUTH, in this way slowing down all the arranged examinations intended to touch base at a complete analysis. We could transfuse her with greatly required blood simply after bunches of influences where the family was told point clear that it was unsafe for her to go via air, given her low blood number."

Prior this week, a video including the patient and a Nollywood performer, Toyin Aimakhu, was transferred on online networking to request reserves for wiped out Mayowa. In any case, things turned sour when the performer, who is likewise the organizer of Life stake Foundation, proclaimed that the battle may have been a trick. Ms. Aimakhu said she associated something fishy when the family with Ms. Ahmed would not permit her to see the patient. She likewise said a specialist at LUTH, in the wake of seeing the patient's therapeutic report, said the report was fake.

Aramide Kasumu of Life stake Foundation likewise said she found past the point of no return that the family did not have a welcome from any healing center abroad and that Ms. Ahmed's therapeutic condition had passed the phase that any medicinal consideration could rescue. She excessively inferred that the family more likely than not set out to trick Nigerians.

Our journalists couldn't achieve Ms. Aimakhu to affirm which therapeutic report she appeared to the LUTH specialist. In any case, the medicinal report enumerating Ms. Ahmed's wellbeing condition was apparently issued by Reddington Hospital in Ikeja and a specialist at LUTH couldn't have affirmed its legitimacy.

An advisor at LUTH, who favored not to be named, said the patient's case was not absolutely sad. He told SaharaReporters that there may be promise for Ms. Ahmed in the event that she could manage the cost of treatment at better-prepared doctor's facilities in some outside nations. "In all actuality, her case is extremely basic. I would even say it is past 50-50, however with better social insurance offices, she could scale through." He included that specific restorative conditions "are past what Nigerian healing centers can treat appropriately."

He and other LUTH authorities said they never issued any medicinal report to Ms. Ahmed as the clinic, at the season of composing this report, had not done any medicinal examination of the patient to determine the seriousness of her condition.

In the warmth of the allegations, Ms. Aimakhu denied calling Linda Ikeji to provide details regarding the case. Our examination, be that as it may, uncovered that it was the performing artist who called Ms. Ikeji. An instant message, which our reporter got from the workplace of the police advertising office, likewise showed that the performing artist got the police.

Facebook’s COO Sandberg Endorses Hillary Clinton

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Facebook executive chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg endorsed Hillary Clinton with a message posted on her Facebook site just months after the company faced scrutiny for claims of anti-conservative bias in how it curates news.
\Sandberg, who wrote about her role as a top woman executive in her book ‘Lean In,’ said her support for Clinton ‘is not because she is a woman. It is because she is the most qualified candidate and she is the leader we need.’

‘We need a leader whose policies reflect where we’re going, not where we’ve been. There is still so much to do – on equal pay, on equality in the workplace, on building a society where everyone has the chance to reach his or her potential, regardless of background, gender, race, or sexual orientation,’ she said.

Russian Weightlifting Team Banned From Rio Olympics

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Russian Weightlifting Team Banned From Rio Olympics

Russia's weightlifting group has been banned from contending at the Rio Olympics in August over doping offenses, the game's overseeing alliance said on Friday.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said a portion of the Russian contenders had been named in a report authorized by the World Anti-Doping Agency which uncovered proof of state-sponsored bamboozling in Russia.

"The honesty of the weightlifting sport has been genuinely harmed on various times and levels by the Russians," the IWF said in an announcement. "Thusly a suitable assent was connected with a specific end goal to safeguard the status of the game."

Two of the eight-in number Russian group had as of now been banned for doping infringement, and another four were named in the McLaren report into doping.

Tiwa Savage Denies Joining Illuminati

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Tiwa Savage has denied joining Illuminati after she performed a week ago at the One Africa Music Festival, finishing her execution with a sign which delineates Illuminati. In another video, the Nigerian vocalist, who is currently being overseen globally by Jay Z's ROC Nation denied the sign, saying to her it is just a SHAPE OF A DIAMOND and she simply did it not by any stretch of the imagination know the significance, so it's no illuminated sign.

A considerable measure of Nigerians was astonished subsequent to viewing the video which demonstrated her fingers noticeable all around with the sign. Some were, however, quick to say, Jay-Z is professedly apart, so they are not amazed, he has dragged Tiwa into it.

Meet The 21-Year Old Girl Who Lives The Life Of A Baby, As Boyfriend Babysits Her (Photos)

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Meet The 21-Year Old Girl Who Lives The Life Of A Baby, As Boyfriend Babysits Her (Photos)
This 21-year-old wears nappies, drinks from a container and relapses back to earliest stages in an offer to make peace with her grieved youth.


Jess, who was sexually manhandled matured only two, endured sadness and uneasiness as she combats the injury. Be that as it may, now, with the assistance of her 24-year-former beau David, she dresses in baby grows and has a Youtube taking after of thousands.

David, who calls himself Jess' Daddy said: "A few people have called me a pedophile and have some good times of Jess. All things considered, I simply attempt to overlook it. "We know we're alright and aren't doing anything incorrectly."

Jess, from Lakeland, Florida, said she is presently more sure and glad.

She said: "Age play is truly my best escape and it permits me to recover the honesty of my youth and have it play out the way I generally needed.

"Beside that, however, relapsing and being "somewhat" just fits with my identity.

"It permits me to be perky and adorable, which is what I'm similar to actually in any case thus I imagine that I would even now be carrying on with this way of life in the event that I'd had a more "typical" adolescence."

The couple, who have been as one for a long time, say for them age play is not sexual and is all the more a direction for living.

"We never have intercourse while I'm age playing however for many people it is a sexual crime," she included.

Jess gets bunches of positive remarks from other grown-up infants and one of her adherents even constructed a five-foot tall bunk for her to play and rest in.

Jess is currently searching for a genuine sitter who will complete a sleep time routine for her and take care of her while David is away at work.

Photographs: Ghanaian lady of the hour wears shoes on her big day, clarifies her choice

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Photographs: Ghanaian lady of the hour wears shoes on her big day, clarifies her choice
A Ghanaian lady of the hour, Vera Ewura Obeng picked specially crafted desert boots for her wedding on July 13. As indicated by the expert picture taker, she took the choice in the wake of seeing the agony most ladies experience in an offer to look glitz on their Big Day. In a Facebook posted on July twentieth, the lady of the hour clarified her decision of footwear and obviously, applauded back at those ridiculing her.

"Subsequent to being a wedding photographer(‪#‎VeraObengphotography‬) for a long time it's not out of the question that I learn not to rehash what Brides experience again and again.

For me, What is the point in wearing heels to chapel and expel it amid gathering? I simply don't get it. On the off chance that you need heels wear it all through the occasion. I wore mine for 9 hours. I see Brides whining about the heels constantly. It even doesn't make my photographs decent. My "combo" as some are calling it is really uniquely designed "‪#‎HORESEMAN‬ HOOVES ".

We as a whole duplicate and glue including me. Our issue is we do it without perusing through what we have replicated"

For those adage I am ‪#‎manifest‬ sister, "see iii ghanafo) kasa" I've just seen him once. It was from a separation in an inn I went to work in. It is pleasant to have him as a major sibling however. Never heard any of his tunes aside from the late one to ‪#‎sarkodie‬. Also, I can say I don't comprehend a thing. Call me "kolo". " I like it like that.

Again for those proposing my significant other ought to have been in something comparable, you're the best for your recommendation. The thought was not to "join powers like commander planet ". He is an academician and I am a craftsman. We can just conform yet not to change who we are. He adores me and I do love him too. No compelling reason to change. "cherish you hFestus Attah Isoah Iso

What's more, for my dress , I simply don't get the bit where I burn through a large number of mahama cedis on a dress I can't wear once more.. "I can't think far" . Welcome me to your child dedicating and I will happily come in it.

For me, this was my fantasy wedding, on the off chance that you wear a heel as tall as me, by the day's end, its about our decisions.

Note that I don't have anything against wearing of heels and outfits. (you look like disney princesses )

To every one of the individuals who made Wednesday thirteenth July a Special day for my significant other and I, bless your heart. You have no Clue what it intends to us. For the individuals who "flee" to come… "

.Police summon seven-year-old kid for murder

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.Police summon seven-year-old kid for murder(Photo)


The police in Enugu on Friday summoned a seven-year-old kid, Chibuike Miracle Oramalu, under the steady gaze of a justice court, for claimed murder.

Chibuike, an essential two student in a nursery and elementary school, had on May 29, inadvertently discharged a weapon, which slaughtered 12-year-old Oluebube Boniface.

The weapon had a place with Mr. Edwin Oforma, who utilized Chibuike's mom as a cleaner and maid in his home.

Chibuike coincidentally discharged the shot subsequent to finding the firearm in Oforma's room while making the bed, as he was told by Chukwunanu, Oforma's child.

Taking after the occurrence, the kid was at first confined by the police from May 30 till July 13, when he was discharged.

In spite of the fact that Chibuike's mom, Mrs. Nwakaego Oramalu, and her legal advisor, Mr. Olu Omotayo, of the Civil Rights Realization and Advancement Network, had raised the alert over the young man's confinement, the Enugu State Police Command asserted he was in "defensive guardianship".

In any case, around two weeks after his discharge, Chibuike was on Friday charged, under the steady gaze of an Enugu judge court over affirmed intrigue and murder.

The proprietor of the firearm which Chibuike inadvertently terminated, Oforma, was summoned close by the seven-year-old kid before Magistrate Hillary Asogwa.

In the charge sheet, which was acquired by our reporter, Chibuike and Oforma were, in number one, blamed for planning among themselves to confer murder.

President Buhari Appoints 5 New Directors-General of Health Agencies

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President Buhari Appoints 5 New Directors-General of Health Agencies

President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed the arrangement of heads of five vital wellbeing establishments in the nation.

The heads are; the Center for Disease Control, National Agency for the Control of Aids, the Nigerian Institute for Medical Research.

Others are the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and National Health Insurance Scheme.

The new representatives are:

NIMR – Prof Babatunde Salami

NACA – Dr. Sani Aliyu

NHIS – Prof Usman Yusuf

NPHCDA – Prof Echezona Ezeanolue

CDC – Dr. Chikwe Andreas Ihekweazu

All the five arrangements have effectively produced results

Breaking News: Indonesia Executes 3 Nigerians By Firing Squad

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Breaking News: Indonesia Executes 3 Nigerians By Firing Squad
Indonesia has executed three Nigerian medication convicts by terminating squad, an authority said.

The Nigerians were executed alongside one Indonesian on Thursday, the affirmation came soon after 12 pm (neighborhood time) and occurred in spite of substantial downpour and rainstorms.

Appointed Attorney-General for General Crimes Noor Rachmad said one nearby and three Nigerian medication convicts were executed by terminating squad.

"The executions were for the present led on four convicts on death column," he said.

"This was done not so as to take lives but rather to stop underhanded goals, and the insidious demonstration of medication trafficking."

He didn't say why 10 other medication convicts, who had been relied upon to confront the terminating squad, were not executed, in spite of the fact that the island where the convicts were being killed was hit by a noteworthy tempest as the executions occurred.

Tiwa Savage Opens Up About Her Deal With Jay Z

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Mavin Records first woman, Tiwa Savage has at long last talked about her arrangement with the Jay Z-claimed administration organization, Roc Nation.

In a select meeting with Hot 97 New York radio host, Ebro Darden, Tiwa Savage talked about African music, and her arrangement with Roc Nation.

'I met B High (Jay Z's cousin, and Roc Nation head of versatile methodologies), I got a call, and he specified it and I (makes a distrustful sound)… He was not kidding. I don't know whether you've ever met him, however he is not kidding. Also, I cherish the way that they are not attempting to change me. They truly simply need to convey what I as of now bring to the table to whatever is left of the world, and they genuinely trust in the development. So definitely, I'm truly amped up for it,' she said of the arrangement.

'The motivation behind why we didn't generally make a lot of commotion about it is on the grounds that many people come over from Africa and they say they have this arrangement and that arrangement, and afterward nothing happens. We simply needed to do it the best possible way, get it official. I would not like to do that to my kin. I needed them to truly trust that it was truly happening, so we needed to sit tight for the ideal time, and now is the ideal time.'

No one can prove I stole Rivers State money – Former governor, Rotimi Amaechi say

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No one can prove I stole Rivers State money – Former governor, Rotimi Amaechi say

Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has denied allegations that he embezzled money meant for the development of Rivers state when he was governor. Amaechi said this while speaking at a stakeholders’ forum on corruption organized by the Federal Ministry of Justice in Abuja today July 28th.

    “If you had followed the Rivers State government when I was governor, we were the first state to introduce the Public Procurement Law in the country. The state cabinet used to call the Director General of Public Procurement in the state as an alternative governor, that they wanted an amendment to that law. The reason they wanted amendment is that he (DG) refused to increase the threshold to one hundred million naira, per ministry, instead he reduced it to 10 million naira. I had a battle with him (DG BPE) and the world bank who insisted that we should not go for an amendment but should persuade him to increase the threshold. I remember the cabinet tried to go to court against him and I remember that he was also trying to go to court against Commissioners. In fact, the procurement DG wrote a memo that I felt was very incriminating requesting that since the law requires the governor to take any commissioner who doesn’t comply with the public procurement law to court, I should please take the commissioner of education to court for not complying… Everybody in the cabinet felt that he was an alternative governor, they felt that he was slowing the process,” he said.

Mary J Blige Files For Divorce After 12 Years Of Marriage

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Mary J Blige Files For Divorce After 12 Years Of Marriage
Mary J. Blige has petitioned for separation from her chief spouse Kendu Isaacs following 12 years of marriage.

As indicated by court reports recorded on Tuesday, Blige referred to beyond reconciliation contracts as the reason for separation and requested that end the court's capacity to grant spousal backing to Isaacs.

A date of detachment is still "to be resolved," by records, which were initially acquired by TMZ.

While the couple has no youngsters together, Blige, 45, has been a stepmother to Kendra's kids – Briana, Jordan and Nas, from a previous relationship since they got hitched in 2003.

The Nationalization of State Perfidy by Modiu Olaguro

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The Nationalization of State Perfidy by Modiu Olaguro

As Nigeria slides into retreat, kinsmen have come to ask where the downpour started to beat them. As though our condition was not sufficiently terrible, the Nigerian State has further made unhappiness of an officially dull circumstance.
As Nigeria slides into retreat, kinsmen have come to ask where the downpour started to beat them. As though our condition was not sufficiently terrible, the Nigerian State has further made despair of an officially dim circumstance.

Grim by the intensification of monetary hardships and a specialist emasculation of the possibilities of the general population, nationals seem to have discovered comfort in the instruments of the drenched in tangled rebellion to the financial reality in the area. In a vibe of regular distortion, the boozer's advancement moves in consonance with the inauspicious results of an inebriated administration.

How Nigeria with plenteous human and material assets fell into retreat in under 10 years oil sold for over $100 a barrel ought to commonly constrain the slightest enchanted to political cooperation to draw in the administration of the nation.

With splendid personalities littered over the area, the psyche that is yet to arrange his or her citizenship in the right point of view must be a lost soul- - not with the pervasiveness of additional legal killings of men who are paid to ensure us nor the reestablished attack of the annihilatory crooks who shed appendages on the sickle!

In light of this advancement, each Nigerian left with an iota of cognizance should have been moved by that concealed some portion of man to question his place in this topographical expression. For no country, not even those known for otherworldly judgment in Hoggish and Aping terms ever had it this awful.

For the custom of dolce far niente of Nigeria's (s)elected delegates seems to have spiraled into a bold blowout of franticness as of late.

With the arrangement to go to Germany for professional preparing (what sort of preparing is professional preparing?), our governors have taken exemption and vote based contortions to an unequaled high.

Nobody appears saved in this bold show of vile exhibitionism, not even the to some degree cerebral legislative head of Kaduna, Nasir el-Rufai.

What's more, you read this in the news yet sees Nigerians go about them everyday errands as if it concerns them not is in truth what makes the entire situation baffling. Where do one start to ingrain cognizance in the psyches of Fanon's pathetic?

What sort of spell did the Nigerian hegemonic powers cast on the general population that makes them apathetic regarding the misleading demonstrations of the power hoodlums? "A moronic populace,"ọ̀wọ́adé Akinadé noted, "is the delight of an awful government".

With the president mincing no word to advise hegemonic aggravations on the non-debatability of the solidarity of the nation, it is critical to educate the stoic man from the woods of Daura that this nation (his nation) is only a contraption of the slavemaster; a geological expression cut by a pale-cleaned beau, dedicated by his pale-cleaned sweetheart and left in the city just for her diapers to be reliably changed by components who prey on her helplessness to supplant imperialism with neo-expansionism.

A vagrant has a place with the shelter. This is the reason Buhari's fantasy of the sacredness of the Nigerian State is downright a wet dream, an illusionary clutch a virtual condition of cheerfulness of the improvement of an effectively battered regular citizen military quarters.

As of now when states' guide are consistently redrawn in both soil and suffrage terms, the world watches in exceptional bewilderment at 21st century Nigerian administration as it lectures the indivisibility of a nation whose solidarity exists just in name.

With each tribe needing each other in the cesspool of contempt and silly religious horde doing theirs for the great beyond's reward, one marvels what inspires and keeps the president going in his drive to protect the Lugardian legacy.

For a president who rode into the manor on a bank credit, the nation still gets itself enmeshed in a celebration of doddering disarray as three of the borrower's kids as of late finished their studies past the blue sea and red ocean.

To Nigerians who see past the present, the psyche picks one to solicit what is left of patriotism when a previous head of state and four-time candidate for the administration puts his ward outside of the Nigerian educational system!

What's more, this is the reason the country spins in a condition of spiraling activity. The photos of the Buhari being sprinkled on our aggregate awareness is characteristic of only Mr. Buhari's non-faith in the redemptive force of the Nigerian state in both instructive and academic terms.

It is this neutralise inclination imbued in the hearts of the tip top that sprouts a hubristic character characteristic of what Fanon calls "dark skin, white cover".

Had Candidate Buhari considered the inconsistencies in commending the graduation of his remote educated youngsters at once he sits as the guest of no less than forty colleges, open disgrace would have controlled him from dumping our bastion for that of the white man. When you have confidence in the redemptive force of a framework, you will stick to it in the soul of confidence and battle in whatever limit - pioneer or adherent.

Sadly, had Dino's masculinity not been occupied looking for Remi's hymen, one would have requested that he debatable a bill commanding open office holders (counting competitors) to devour our schools and educators.

The standardized way of the treacherousness which has as of now devoured the CBN and FIRS now become the overwhelming focus in the controlling standards this legislature coaxed the general population with- - hostile to debasement.

With the protecting of Minister Dambazzau, Chief of Army Staff Buratai, and a large group of other political masturbaters, President Muhammadu Buhari has further saved Nigeria into a pit where the guidelines don't matter. Any astonishment why the Ape has abruptly come with regards to the Goat?

Sandwiched between alcoholic tide and breathed out smoke amid the Prohibition Era in the United States, Margaret Shrouder, a character in Terence Winter's Boardwalk Empire, whose fall into wholesome perplexity over the striking inconsistencies in the political prostitution and exemption amongst Atlantic City's authority looked to box her hubby, County Treasurer Enoch Thompson into the ethical corner. She got more than what she sought after:

"... Knucky Thompson: If we'd just chosen great men we never have pioneered.

"Margaret Shrouder: If not great then what would it be a good idea for them to be?

"Kentucky: Useful. To the individuals who bolster them."

This is the rundown of the change Nigerians voted in favor of. The transformation is lost.

Modiu Olaguro composes from Badagry.

Buhari Vs IBB: Finally The Defining Moment By Louis Odion

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Buhari Vs IBB: Finally The Defining Moment By Louis Odion


With the previous record, President Muhammadu Buhari has incredibly revived a profound injury the country has breastfed for as long as 31 years. In stripping the Daura-conceived general in the royal residence upset of August 27, 1985, his failings recorded by past confidants included egotism, firmness, and void.
..I discovered that a few officers were burning through cash. I asked, 'Where did they get the cash from?' They said it was from the Military Intelligence store... Later, I learned that General Aliyu Gusau who was accountable for insight took import permit from the Ministry of Commerce, which was responsible for supplies, and offered it to Alhaji Mai Deribe. It was worth N100,000, a considerable measure of cash then. When I found this, I faced them and took the case (to) the armed force chamber... I said on the off chance that I didn't rebuff Aliyu Gusau, it will make an issue for us... So I said General Aliyu Gusau needed to go. He was the head of insight. That was the reason Babangida got a few officers to expel me."

With the previous record, President Muhammadu Buhari has breathtakingly revived a profound injury the country has breastfed for as far back as 31 years. In undressing the Daura-conceived general in the royal residence overthrow of August 27, 1985, his failings recorded by past confidants included presumption, rigidity, and vacancy.

In the December 2015 release of The Interview magazine, General Ibrahim Babangida had rejected the idea that there was an ulterior rationale other than the inventory of transgressions read by Brigadier Nimyel Dogonyaro in the sunrise telecast reporting Buhari's ouster.

Inquired as to whether the overthrow was provoked by the trepidation of fast approaching rebuff by the Buhari organization, Babangida expressed: "Keep in mind that I was one of Buhari's nearest assistants. I was the Chief of Army Staff. So I had a vital position, a critical part to play in that organization. I don't think it needed to do with a notice."

Be that as it may, in the discussion distributed in the present version of wave production The Interview, not just did the president release IBB's hypothesis as false, he exposed the intense good insolvency of the individuals who brought his rule as military head of state to a sudden end. As indicated by him, the urgency of a couple corrupted commanders to avoid equity, as opposed to national interest, propelled the administration change then. Furthermore, in what could maybe be depicted the most pointed test in late history, he challenged Babangida and Gusau to oppose him: "Let him (General Babangida) rehash his own story. Aliyu Gusau is still alive."

Buhari's disclosure just adds to the current and by a wide margin more obscene myth of Gloria Okon frequently whispered in a casual open visit. In those days, the media had reported the capture of one Ms. Gloria Okon while supposedly making a decent attempt drugs out of the nation at once the simple Buhari administration had forced the death penalty on such. Actually, the same law had as of now been summoned retroactively to freely execute a few Nigerians for endeavoring to sneak heroin.

Along these lines, normally, there were fears that Okon would be next on the passing line. At that point, a turn. Whatever remains of the dramatic dramatization is now carefully caught in a documentation by the country's driving legitimate student of history and predictable human rights crusader, Richard Akinnola. It worked out that the suspect was apparently just a dispatch for an intense figure in the sitting military organization.

Before long a while later, the country was told the suspect had abruptly dropped dead in authority! In any case, as a general rule, the genuine Gloria Okon was said to have been pirated out in a high-stake scheme while the carcass of another person was exhibited as hers. The then president noticed a rodent and set up a board to unwind the riddle. It happened that before the board could present its report, power had changed hands at Dodan Barracks! End of the request. A year or two later, the genuine Okon was allegedly located at a high-society soirée in London, went to by the fabulous life partner of a key figure in the administration of the day!

Another record, however unconfirmed, states that it was the general who organized the departure from the care of the genuine Gloria Okon who later got himself humorously being involved in an ensuing overthrow plot and was in the long run executed close by other indicted co-schemers. A further contort was conveyed to the account with the case that it was an endeavor by a Lagos-based news magazine to sort all these dim happenings out into a thriller main story that eventuated in its central editorial manager being shelled to death one Sunday morning in Lagos. This October denotes the thirtieth commemoration of the death of star columnist Dele Giwa.

While incidental proof may weigh intensely in popular feeling, it is less allowable in the courtroom. Along these lines, for the present, without pertinent verification, the Gloria Okon story will, best case scenario, still be entertained as simply theoretical, if not so much imaginary.

In any case, with Buhari's profound salvo in The Interview, IBB, evidently a key player in the country's political history in the previous four decades, has without a doubt now been put on the spot, from where there appears to be no simple getaway. Hush is in some cases romanticized as brilliant. Be that as it may, not in the current situation. How the so-called military president clarifies the profound charge may now viable characterize his place in history as either an unacknowledged holy person or a definitive patriarch of fabulous theft.

Indeed, there is doubtlessly about Buhari's intention in uncovering a dim mystery. Time is said to be the best healer. Be that as it may, it is evident Buhari will convey the sharpness of 1985 to his grave. Endeavors by some do-gooders to accommodate them throughout the years have just accomplished corrective results. Where it counts in Buhari's heart is the harmed from the agony of losing force and the injury of his resulting experience in care. Case in point, when Buhari lost his mom, IBB declined to permit him one final open door, regardless of the fact that on merciful grounds, to see her remaining parts before internment. Pretty much as another record says that the "beyond reconciliation contrasts" that prompted the breakdown of his first marriage to Safinatu emerged from how she comported herself around his traducers while he was grieving in single detainment in Benin.

Tellingly, Sambo Dasuki right now at the focal point of $15b arms reserve trick was a piece of the group that physically seized Buhari from his living arrangement on August 27, 1985, and would wind up as one of the compelling "IBB young men" who used gigantic force somewhere around 1985 and 1993.

In any case, any implication to Buhari's old malignancy will barely give any indirect access to IBB to escape examination here. For at issue is the topic of open profound quality. Would it be able to be conceivable that the country was beguiled and taken for a ride, then, with the journey to ensure the illegal exchange of a couple of covetous commanders erroneously introduced so alluringly as an enthusiastic mediation to safeguard national interest?

From Buhari's portrayal of Gusau, the personification that raises is that of a pirate, a profiteer prepared to bargain open trust away for the material increase. It gets all the more irritating considering that he is effortlessly viewed today as the most powerful player in the country's knowledge group in the most recent three decades amid which he was reused as the national security consultant by progressive organizations.

It is an open mystery that the Zamfara-conceived general coordinated solitary the drafting of Olusegun Obasanjo by the military foundation to turning into the president choose in 1999 on PDP's stage. Passing by this dooming testimonial of his one-time manager, how are we now to trust the expressed worth shortage did not likewise consume all Gusau's later engagements out in the open office? An awful still here is a man who could have wound up as close nonmilitary personnel president in 2007 and 2011 having set up a solid offer in the PDP primaries.

Taken together, on the off chance that IBB likes to modest far from Buhari's straight out case that union was at the base of his outs in 1985, the Minna-conceived general dangers having his notoriety further solidified in ignominy as one who formally initiated scum as the foundation of administration in the country's history. On the off chance that defilement has now transformed into a humongous industry today, a few history specialists have constantly distinguished the man affectionately called Maradona as the person who gave the seed capital decades prior.

Such perusing depends on experimental evidence. His ascent in 1985 is seen as signposting not only the movement in the character of national legislative issues, however, values too. As months moved by, everything the country had held high was undermined. No measure was considered excessively compelling nor establishment excessively hallowed in the resulting blowout of defilement. Indeed, even in music, profanity turned into the new verses as quick rhythm beat continuously uprooted reflective sound of old that set more accentuation on philosophical messages.

In social space, the way of life of "settlement" supplanted the custom of due procedure. Showiness supplanted unobtrusiveness.

In the educated community, rough cultism soon eclipsed the valiant richness of what used to be referred to as understudy confraternity as might got to be valorized over right. Outside, philistinism thrived as some castle educated people framed a religion around the cunning general who appeared to favor the evil fitting clothing of a savant ruler. Generally, as the state clasped down on "undue radicals" in the varsity classrooms aim at "educating what they are not paid to instruct."

At an individual level, IBB was fast at introducing any dedication in the general population with the serenade of "Insha Allah," yet his deed later frequently mirrored a tenacious double-crossing of that serious conjuring. He was never hard to find of awesome whimsical thoughts. However, deficient with regards to individually teach, whatever he planted with the right hand was soon subverted with the left as colleagues were issued unlimited free passes to loot such endeavors.

By the record of now

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Kano Film Village: Throwing The Baby With Bathwater? By Jaafar


At the point when an ultramodern abattoir started operation in 1982 in Challawa, Kano, some Kano ministers began lecturing against eating the items, since, they accepted, were not halal. Begun by the main military legislative head of Kano State, Audu Bako and finished by the principal non-military personnel senator, Abubakar Rimi, the N10 million abattoir was fitted with an item plant with the ability to process 100 dairy cattle, many camels, several sheep, goats and a large number of chicken at once.

by Jaafar Jul 28, 2016

At the point when an ultramodern abattoir started operation in 1982 in Challawa, Kano, some Kano ministers began lecturing against eating the items, since, they accepted, were not halal.

Begun by the principal military legislative head of Kano State, Audu Bako and finished by the primary non-military personnel senator, Abubakar Rimi, the N10 million abattoir was fitted with an item plant with the ability to process 100 dairy cattle, many camels, several sheep, goats and a huge number of chicken at once.

Aside from frosty storeroom to store more than 3,000 prepared creatures, substantial powerhouse furnished with generators, the creation plant was completely coordinated to process blood, offal waste, bone marrow, bone, horns and hooves for neighborhood creature sustain generation and fare.

Be that as it may, Kano ministers were miserable with this. They exchanged on their mouthpieces, mounted the podium and began raging. They lectured that the dairy animals were paralyzed and get to be oblivious at the butcher section before slaughtering. The abattoir administration exposed the gossip and contended that dairy animals and different creatures were handled by a procedure.

As of now that made low support and repugnance for the items. The abattoir shut a few a great many. As I compose, the machines have decayed away, the premises assumed control by grass, reptiles, and rodents.

What had the puritans profited from the conclusion of this uber-industry with an ability to supply handled items to numerous parts of the nation and support the economy of the state?

Amid the send forward supper of an overseeing chief of First Bank, Jacobs Mojo-Ajekigbe, in 2008 in Kano, he told the social occasion that when he began his saving money vocation in 1978 in Kano, the city was superior to anything Dubai regarding foundation and monetary possibilities. He communicated alarm that the city was retrogressing as opposed to advancing.

With our hellish cursedness to advancement, for example, foundation of film town, how would we advance? A multi-billion naira venture fit for putting Kano on a worldwide silver screen guide, is currently retired - not this time to the nattering puritans. They are not cheerful that a 20-hectare film town, displayed after Indian and Chinese film focuses and furnished with a cinematography focus, a 400-limit theater for preparing, lodging, sound stage, diner square, three-star inn, shopping center, stadium, facility, and so on, would be implicit Kano.

They appear to be miserable a great many individuals will be utilized and Nigeria's publicizing industry will record exponential development through the generation of top notch plugs. A large portion of the superb TV advertisements you see Dangote, Glo and Nigerian banks putting on global TVs are either created in Europe or South Africa. With a standard film town in Kano, we can tap this depleting income.

I review on July 30, 2009, the day Boko Haram pioneer, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed, Daily Trust requesting that I meet certain Juma'at mosque Imam to hear his perspectives. The Imam, who is today one of the bleeding edge pastors issuing a fatwa against film town and besmirching the workmanship, communicated his annoyance to me (over the killing of a man who killed no less than 1,000 individuals at the time!).

Understanding the ramifications of sympathizing with terrorists, the Imam called around 9pm and begged me to drop the story. I said I was defenseless as I had effectively sent the story to Abuja. I couldn't precisely say what he advised the editors to drop the story.

In the entire dramatization with reference to building film town in Kano, what puzzles me more than anything else is the way that the pastors, the Imams, and their online networking copycats never ascended against Boko Haram terrorists the way they ascended against film town. I've never heard a solitary Jamaat mosque sermon intensely censuring Boko Haram in Kano, yet last Friday I was told every one of the Imams in Kano denounced constructing film town in the state.

To the ministers, the film industry is more unsafe than Boko Haram, while overlooking that Boko Haram drew motivation from their hyper Salafi-Qutb teachings. Accept the only choice available, these radical evangelists made for us Boko Haram, a creature that so far slaughtered almost 20,000 individuals, bombarded mosques, places of worship, markets, and schools.

Miserable that the president just got listening ears on cries against film town, while cries against expansion, hardship, high power duty and fuel cost build fell into his hard of hearing ears.

EFCC Arraigns Ex-Ebonyi Council Chair, Two Others For N25m Fraud

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EFCC Arraigns Ex-Ebonyi Council Chair, Two Others For N25m Fraud


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, July 28, 2016 summoned a previous Coordinator of Afikpo South Local Government Development Center of Ebonyi state, Ugwuocha Okoroafor; his treasurer, Christian Chukwu Owo, and the regulatory officer, Mrs. Anne Eke Agwu before Justice E.A. Ngene of the State High Court, Afikpo, on a 15-check charge of intrigue and taking of open assets totaling over N25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five Million Naira).

by Economic and Financial CrimES COMMISSIONThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, July 28, 2016 summoned a previous Coordinator of Afikpo South Local Government Development Center of Ebonyi state, Ugwuocha Okoroafor; his treasurer, Christian Chukwu Owo, and the managerial officer, Mrs. Anne Eke Agwu before Justice E.A. Ngene of the State High Court, Afikpo, on a 15-tally charge of connivance and taking of open assets totaling over N25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five Million Naira).

Okoroafor and his affirmed accessories were said to have at different times somewhere around 2013 and 2015 raised vouchers for installments as far as anyone knows for contract honors, pay rates and freedom day festivities in the names of staff of the board, who denied getting such supports.

Examination concerning the matter which was accounted for by Center for Prevention of Corruption and Human Right Initiatives and some staff of the board uncovered that the denounced persons cushioned their compensations and that of other staff in conspiracy with a staff of the bank where the neighborhood Government's record is domiciled .

The aggregate of N16, 000,000 and N8, 000,000 were at various times followed to the charged individual's record which their wage profile couldn't legitimize.

At the point when the charges were perused to them, all the denounced persons argued not blameworthy to the charges, provoking advice to the blamed persons, M.O. Njoko and B.O Igwenyi (SAN) to request that the court discharges their customers on safeguard.

The court conceded safeguard to each of the blamed persons in the whole for N500,000 and one surety each in like total. The surety the Judge ruled, must be an occupant of the state, who has a landed property inside the locale and must present confirmation of three years charge installment.

The matter has been deferred to September 21, 2016, for beginning of the trial.

ides Defy Dogara, Collect Funds To Publish Magazine Key aides of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have disregarded his instruction against soliciting for funds from members of the House to publish the maiden edition of "Reps Speaker", a quarterly in-house journal. Among the aides, who defied the speaker, are the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS) Mr. CID Maduabum, and Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs,Turaki Hassan. by Sahara Reporters, New York Jul 28, 2016 Key aides of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have disregarded his instruction against soliciting for funds from members of the House to publish the maiden edition of "Reps Speaker", a quarterly in-house journal. Among the aides, who defied the speaker, are the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS) Mr. CID Maduabum, and Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs,Turaki Hassan. SaharaReporters learned that the magazine was the brainchild of Maduabum who, exploiting the inadequacies of Turaki as spokesman, persuaded a reluctant Dogara to approve its publication. But Dogara's approval, said an insider, was accompanied by a caveat: "Do not solicit for funds from any quarters, especially members of the House." Reliable sources confirmed that the Director-General of the National Assembly-owned Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS), Dr. Ladi Hamalai, offered to fund the publication, something warmly received by the Speaker. But the aides ignored Dogara's warning by going ahead to solicit for funds from some political figures with whom the Speaker is close. Among these is Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State and members of the House. House members reluctant to provide funds were pressured into placing advertisements at a unit cost of N250,000. This was kept away from the Speaker and his Chief of Staff. But Maduabum and Turaki were perpetually gripped by fear of being exposed, especially in the media, after the magazine was launched. The duo took the preventive step of bribing members of the Speaker's media team, who were similarly kept in the dark, about the publication of the magazine. However, two of the Speaker's media assistants, Yakubu Musa Fagge and Ilya Habila, handed the N50,000 each received from Turaki to Dogara's Chief of Staff, with letters explaining their action. In his letter, Fagge said he was handing over the money, received in two installments of 25,000, because he did not know the source of the money, considering that the magazine in question was printed free. Habila's explanation was that he could not understand how N3million raised at the-the magazine launch was expanded and demanded an explanation. The letters got Dogra's Chief of Staff to demand from Turaki a response to the issues raised by the media team members in their letters.

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ides Defy Dogara, Collect Funds To Publish Magazine

Key aides of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have disregarded his instruction  against soliciting for funds from members of the House  to publish the maiden edition of "Reps Speaker", a quarterly  in-house journal.  Among the aides, who defied the speaker, are the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS) Mr. CID  Maduabum, and Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs,Turaki Hassan.
by Sahara Reporters, New York Jul 28, 2016

Key aides of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have disregarded his instruction  against soliciting for funds from members of the House  to publish the maiden edition of "Reps Speaker", a quarterly  in-house journal.  Among the aides, who defied the speaker, are the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS) Mr. CID  Maduabum, and Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs,Turaki Hassan.

SaharaReporters learned that the magazine was the brainchild of Maduabum who, exploiting the inadequacies of Turaki as spokesman, persuaded a reluctant Dogara to approve its publication. But Dogara's approval, said an insider,  was accompanied by a caveat: "Do not solicit for funds from any quarters, especially members of the House."

Reliable sources confirmed that the Director-General of the National Assembly-owned Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS), Dr. Ladi Hamalai, offered to fund the  publication, something warmly received by  the Speaker.

But the aides ignored Dogara's warning by going ahead to solicit for funds from some  political figures with whom the Speaker is close. Among these is Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State and members of the House.

 House members reluctant to provide funds were pressured into placing advertisements at a unit cost of N250,000. This was kept away from the Speaker and  his Chief of Staff.

But Maduabum and Turaki were perpetually gripped by fear of being exposed, especially in the media, after the magazine was launched.  The duo took the preventive step of bribing members of the Speaker's media team, who were similarly kept in the dark, about the publication of the magazine.

However, two of the Speaker's  media assistants,  Yakubu Musa Fagge and Ilya Habila, handed  the N50,000 each  received from Turaki to  Dogara's Chief  of Staff, with letters explaining their action.

In his letter, Fagge said he was handing over the money,  received in two installments of 25,000, because he did not know the source of the money, considering that the magazine in question was printed free.

Habila's explanation was that he could not understand how N3million raised at the-the magazine launch was expanded  and demanded an explanation.

The letters got Dogra's Chief of Staff to demand from Turaki a response to the issues raised by the media team members in their letters.