You Cant Frame Me: Wike warns FG

April 9, 2018

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has raised the alarm over a plot by the Federal Government and her agents, to frame him up by planting illegal items on him in any of his trips outside the shores of Nigeria, and have him quizzed and embarrassed by foreign security agencies.

The governor disclosed this in a statement by his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, yesterday.

“My investigation reveals that the federal government, using her security agencies, is planning to set me up anytime I am travelling outside the country.

“They plan to organise security to storm the hotel I am staying and say they found xyz cash in my possession; after which they would say I was arrested for currency trafficking or whatever offences outside the country.

“They will then precipitate crisis in my state and other parts of Nigeria.

“They will plan demonstrations to demonise me and claim I have gone outside to embarrass the country. The public odium is meant to smear me before my people and other Nigerians. It is unfortunate, wicked and unfair. What they plan is similar to what was once done to the late Chief DSP Alamieseigha. They are planning what they call the ‘Alams treatment’ for me. But, by the grace of Almighty God, they will fail.”

Governor Wike said although he is neither scared nor disturbed over the plot, he felt the need to alert the country and the world, to plot.

He said: “I am using this opportunity to alert the world of the sinister plot. I am a law-abiding citizen of this country and countries I visit in the course of my work or holidays. I have never dabbled into anything illegal. So, any attempt to frame me up on trumped up charges or alleged offences is bound to fail. What they are doing is just cheap politics. They want to intimidate the opposition into silence as they are already doing with their so-called ‘looters’ list.’ It won’t work.

“We can’t all be intimidated. What we expect government at the centre to do is to showcase to the people their lists of achievements; why they should get a second chance. But, they have nothing to show, so, they are embarking on intimidation and arm-twisting tactics of the opposition.”

Wike said he is sure of resounding victory at the polls in 2019, because he has “been serving the people diligently and efficiently.

“My works will speak for me. My projects will speak for. The people of Rivers state will speak for me by voting me back. No shaking,” he added.

Source : Sun

BVI Channel 1 Crew Visits Innoson Plastic Industry

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April 7, 2018

BVI Channel 1 Crew was at Innoson Factory ,Emene in Enugu State yesterday in furtherance of her resolve to identify and promote the philosophy of Akulouno (Think Home Philosophy) .Osita Agu of ADF accompanied the BVI Channel 1 Team to witness the Innoson wonders.It was a site to behold as thousands of our people work inside the factory to earn a living.Innoson Plastic Plant when fully utilized has the Capacity of feeding the entire African Market with all kinds of plastic items .

In the spirit of Akulouno, BVI Channel 1 online wishes to encourage people from south eastern part of Nigeria to borrow a leaf from Innoson Group to make Alaigbo a new investment destination .It is high time we stopped developing other land(s) while leaving Alaigbo like burial ground.

BVI Channel 1 is partnering with Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) to drum up massive support for Akulouno Project.

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Tragedy as Man kills only Child For Pregnant Lover

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April 7, 2018

Stories of men who kill for love most often sound far-fetched and are frequently staples of make-believe. But recently, such a horror happened in real life when Thompson Agena cold-bloodedly took a life for the sake of winning a woman’s love. His crime leaves family, friends, and neighbours reeling with shock and disbelief because the victim was his six-year-old daughter and his only child who lost her mother exactly two years ago.

Love and tragedies

The life of Thompson Agena, 47, a native of Awe Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, is characterized by tribulation and tragedies. Agena, who earns his livelihood as a carpenter since he completed his secondary education in Government Science Secondary School Lafia in 1988, married his wife, Cecilia, a native of Obi Local Government Area of the state in 2005 and the couple had their first child, a daughter named Mercy in 2011. Thereafter, they had a difficulty conceiving a second child until 2016 when Cecilia took in and eventually died shortly after giving birth.

A repentant Thompson Agena narrated to Saturday Sun how he lost his wife to maternal mortality on April 20, 2016. His wife’s second pregnancy was a few days overdue when he took her to the General Hospital in Lafia to be induced and he went back home to make plans for to welcome back the mother and the new child. “I got one of my younger sisters to help her at home when she returns back, and I painted the house in bright colours. I did all I could to make sure that it was comfortable for my wife and our new baby,” he recounted.

At the hospital, Cecilia had a prolonged labour, finally giving birth to a 4.6kg baby boy, but she continued bleeding, suffering a postpartum hemorrhage, and at 1:23 am, had died of blood loss.

According to him, the hospital was out of stock of the drugs needed to stop his wife’s bleeding. “So I went out to buy them. Nobody told me why she died,” he said.

While he had contemplated taking legal action against the hospital for negligence, he was discouraged by the futility of such action taken by some individuals in the past.

“I decided to leave it to God because nothing I do will bring her back,” he said.

A week later, another tragedy struck. The baby boy died and was buried immediately in the village.

While the circumstance leading to the death of his wife and his newborn child was beyond his control, he, however, had no excuse for indulging in the self-inflicted calamity of murdering a child.

The impossible ‘marriage condition’

A year after his wife’s demise, Agena enrolled for a part-time diploma programme at the Nasarawa State Polytechnic where he met Joy Orkuma, a native of Guma Local Government Area, Benue State. The pair fell in love, and soon after, she became pregnant.

Agena was as passionate about his newfound love as to declare his willingness to do anything in order to get her committed to marriage. Like Herodias’ daughter who asked for “the head of John the Baptizer”, Orkuma asked for the elimination of his six-year-old daughter.

In the night of February 22, Agena did her bidding. He picked his daughter who was in deep slumber and dumped her inside a well.

Her body was discovered the next day when a farmer named Joseph Kula wanted to use the well. Kula raised an alarm and neighbours rallied to recover the lifeless body from the well.

Agena, since arrested by the police and charged to court, attributed his heinous action to an overpowering love for his new girlfriend and the unbearable phobia of losing her and the pregnancy she had for him.

According to the suspect, his girlfriend argued that she wouldn’t want to raise a family with a witch around her. Agena alleged she had threatened to abort the pregnancy and quit their relationship if he failed to take action.

When Saturday Sun spoke over the phone to Joy Orkuma, currently on the run, she conveyed no sympathy about the situation. She claimed she only suggested her incompatibility with the six-year-old whose behavior she described as unusual for a girl of her age. “I told him that if I must marry him, Mercy will have to leave,” she asserted, “[because] she always appear in my dreams each time I pass a night in her father’s house. So when I became pregnant for him, I told him that I can’t deliver a baby in the house for Mercy to kill.”

She had no misgivings speaking ill about the murdered girl whom she told Saturday Sun was not a human being. According to her, the father’s murder of his daughter was the best thing to do.

In the meantime, the scales have fallen from the eyes of the murderous father whose remorse is not about the life he snuffed but a lamentation of letting down his late wife’ that, “My wife will never forgive me in her grave. I have betrayed her trust and love for me.”

According to him, Joy Orkuma had hated Mercy from the beginning and had consistently framed stories about her. “I regretted buying into her devilish ideas,” he wailed.

A twist in the tale

The younger brother of the suspect, David Agena brought a fresh angle to the story when he told Saturday Sun that his elder brother was not the biological father of the late Mercy. According to him, the late Cecilia Agena was two months pregnant when she married his elder brother.

“We all knew what happened, but that is a long story,” he said. “I don’t want to talk about that now. No sane human being will kill his daughter because of a girlfriend, [I mean] how can you do a thing like that? Cecilia was a nice woman, godly and hard working; she loved her husband so much, in fact, they both love themselves. I don’t know what came over him.”

He gave further background about the contentious paternity.

“About three guys, including my elder brother, were dating Cecilia and when she got pregnant. It was confusing who actually was responsible. But she insisted it was my elder brother, who out of love, accepted it and got married to her. Later, we heard that he was not the one. So, there was that problem. But, my elder brother and his late wife were the best of friends. There is no reason for him to do what he has done because of a woman.”

(the Sun)

My People Want Freedom & Not Restructuring – Bishop Onubogu Explodes

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April 7, 2018

Real Igbo Elders and leaders have spoken and you can only find such men in ADF.

In case you don’t know him, he was the ADC to Biafran Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu during the Biafra war, he went and returned with his boss from exile and he said things many have not heard about the war.

Major Gideon Orkar Coup Speech In April 1990

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April 7, 2018

Fellow Nigerian Citizens,

On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orkar, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.

We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialize and other human rights violations.

The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with immediate effect. Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated. We wish to emphasize that this is not just another coup but a well-conceived, planned and executed revolution for the marginalized, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the Middle Belt and the south with a view to freeing ourselves and children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonization by a clique of this country.

Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.

They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now extending same to the south.

It is our unflinching belief that this quest for domination, oppression and marginalization is against the wish of God and therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence.

Anything that has a beginning must have an end. It will also suffice here to state that all Nigerians without skeleton in their cupboards need not to be afraid of this change. However, those with skeleton in their cupboards have all reasons to fear, because the time of reckoning has come.

For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the three primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida administration. The reasons are as follows:

(a) To stop Babangida’s desire to cunningly, install himself as Nigeria’s life president at all costs and by so doing, slowpoke the progress of this country for life. In order to be able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has evidently started destroying those groups and sections he perceived as being able to question his desires.

Examples of groups already neutralized, pitched against one another or completely destroyed are:

(1) The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted Sultan to cause division within the hitherto strong Sokoto caliphate.

(2) The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State, especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the body politics of this country.

(3) The buying of the press by generous monetary favors and the usage of State Security Service, SSS, as a tool of terror.

(4) The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of the draconian decree Number 47.

(5) The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an intended massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the necessitating factor.

(6) Deliberately withholding funds to the armed forces to make them ineffective and also crowning his diabolical scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than half of the members of the armed forces.

Other pointers that give credence to his desire to become a life president against the wishes of the people are:

(1) His appointment of himself as a minister of defense, his putting under his direct control the SSS, his deliberate manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options, his recent fraternization with other African leaders that have installed themselves as life presidents and his dogged determination to create a secret force called the national guard, independent of the armed forces and the police which will be answerable to himself alone, both operationally and administratively.

It is our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is unacceptable to Nigerians of the 1990’s, and, therefore, must be resisted by all.

Another major reason for the change is the need to stop intrigues, domination and internal colonization of the Nigerian state by the so-called chosen few. This, in our view, has been and is still responsible for 90 percent of the problems of Nigerians.

This indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of progress.

This clique has an unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled fostering of mediocrity and outright detest for accountability, all put together have been our undoing as a nation.

This will ever remain our threat if not checked immediately. It is strongly believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique and misrule, Nigeria will have in all ways achieved developmental virtues comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, India, and even Japan.

Evidence, therefore, this cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted by a major and unpardonable clog in the wheel of progress of the Nigerian state. It is suffice to mention a few distasteful intrigues engineered by this group of Nigerians in recent past. These are:

(1) The shabby and dishonorable treatment meted on the longest serving Nigerian general in the person of General Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the Babangida administration.

(2) The wholesale hijacking of Babangida’s administration by the all-powerful clique.

(3) The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams and so on from office.

(4) The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of Middle Belt and southerners from public offices and their instant replacement by the favoured class and their stooges.

(5) The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and retarding its place to suit the favoured class to the detriment of other educational minded parts of this country.

(6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or 0-0-0 while the aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute affluence on a daily basis without working for it.

(7) Other countless examples of the exploitative, oppressive, dirty games of intrigues of its class, where people and stooges that can best be described by the fact that even though they contribute very little economically to the well-being of Nigeria, they have over the years served and presided over the supposedly national wealth derived in the main from the Middle Belt and the southern part of this country, while the people from these parts of the country have been completely deprived from benefiting from the resources given to them by God.

( cool The third reason for the change is the need to lay a strong egalitarian foundation for the real democratic take off of the Nigerian state or states as they circumstances may dictate.

In the light of all the above and in recognition of the negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision to excise the following states namely, Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the following conditions are met.

The conditions to be met to necessitate the re-absorption of the aforementioned states are as following:

(a) To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji Maccido, who is the people’s choice.

(b) To send a delegation led by the real and recognized Sultan Alhaji Maccido to the federal government to vouch that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest for domination and operation will be a thing of the past and will never be practiced in any part of the Nigeria state.

By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in Middle Belt and southern parts of this country until the mentioned conditions above are met.

They are also required to move back to their various states within one week from today. They will, however, be allowed to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the stipulated conditions are met.

In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle Belt and the south are required to come back to their various states pending when the so-called all-in-all Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a united Nigeria. A word is enough for the wise.

This exercise will not be complete without purging corrupt public officials and recovering their ill-gotten wealth, since the days of the oil boom till date. Even in these hard times, when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles to work for lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with complete impunity are living in unbelievable affluence both inside and outside the country.

We are extremely determined to recover all ill-gotten wealth back to the public treasury for the use of the masses of our people. You are all advised to remain calm as there is no cause for alarm. We are fully in control of the situation as directed by God. All airports, seaports and borders are closed forthwith.

The former Armed Forces Ruling Council is now disbanded and replaced with National Ruling Council to be chaired by the head of state with other members being a civilian vice-head of state, service chiefs, inspector general of police, one representative each from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.

A curfew is hereby imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice. All members of the armed forces and the police forces are hereby confined to their respective barracks.

All unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting to cause chaos will be ruthlessly crushed. Be warned as we are prepared at all costs to defend the new order.

All radio stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the national network programme until further notice.

Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May God and Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all”.

April 22,1990.
Lagos,Nigeria.
MAJOR GIDEON ORKAH

We Will Die With TY Danjuma-Middle Belt Forum

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April 7, 2018

Our attention has been drawn to some thoightless and careless statements made by the Nigerian Army and the Sharia Council of Nigeria against the Elder Statesman and Philanthropist, Gen. T. Y. Danjuma (Rtd).

Gen. T. Y. Danjuma had on the 24th March, 2018 at a convocation of the Taraba State Unibersity, Jalingo berated the Nigerian Army for colluding with the Fulani herdsmen to carry out genocide and ethnic cleansing agenda in the Middle Belt Region and some some other parts of Nigeria.

It is important to note that, the Nigeria Army admitted to the crime but stated that complaints received were from outside Taraba State. But does it really matter? The fact remains that the Army colluded with the Fulani herdsmen/bandits to kill, maim and rape women in our communities. In some of the places they carried out these heinous crimes, they took over the houses, farm lands and communal villages of the victims and occupied same. So if this is not ethnic cleansing, what is it?

In Numan, Adamawa State, the herdsmen severally invaded a number of communities; deliberately targeting and killing their district heads and other traditional rulers and burning down their towns and villages (as happened in Dong District). When the vigilante rose to the occasion to defend and roll back the ivaders of their land during one of such attacks, the herdsmen ran and hid inside the Savannah Sugar Plantation. The vigilante surrounded the plantation so as to arrest them. But all of a sudden the Nigerian Air force fighter jet arrived and bombed the local vigilante group to enable the herdsmen to escape. Pray, what do we call this type of aerial cover to killer criminals other than government-aided genocide?
In Southern Kaduna, the case is not any different. Some of their choice their choice lands and villages have been taken over after the Autochthonous people of the lands had been completely annihilated. If this is not ethnic cleansing, what is it called?
As we write this, most parts of 5 local government areas of plateau state have been overran and their choice lands/villages similarly taken over. The local government in which such unprovoked invasions took place include:
Jos North
Barkin Ladi
Riyom
Wase
Bokkos.

Of recent, Benue state became visibly the worst hit. The new year gift they got on the 1st January, 2018 was the massacre of over seventy (70) of the local people. And since the mass burial of seventy three unarmed and innocent people of that state in one of such attacks, over a hundred people have further been murdered in cold blood, even as we write this piece. And as it has been the killer herssmen’s trademark, they had some of the natibes’ lands and homes taken over and are still living there to date. We ask again, what do you called this type of genocide other than ethnic cleansing?

As of today, nobody is safe in the middle Belt; Kogi State recently came under attacks by this same terrorists called Fulani herdsmen. In this case, a traditional ruler, his wife and children were killed. On the whole, over fifty (50) people lost their lives in the attacks that took place in Omala, Dekina and Bassa Local Government Areas. But what is even more amazing is that s oldiers practically blocked youths/vigilantes from Abejokolo from rescuing those at Agbenema for the hours the genocide lasted. And till now, the Government of the Federation has not issue any statement to condemn the killings, how much less the Presdent visiting the scenes. We once again asked, what should we call this?
As it stands today, no one in this cultural Region is safe. From Numan to Mambilla, Brinin Gwari to Iseluku, Ondo to Ogone’nigu, Guma to Southern Kaduna; no community is is safe! For, the Fulani herdsmen appear to have the license to kill, main and takeover other peples’ lands at will. Even such a conclusion can be deduced from the comments made by the Minister of Defence, the Inspector General of Police and the official confirmation by the Commander In Chief that, he didn’t know the Inspector General of police refused to carry out his orders. We ask once more, is that same man still occupying the office as Inspector General of Police after such a summit revelation?

Another question is do we, as Nigerians, have any constitutional rights to self-defense? since the first natural rule of life existence for any living organism or a community thereof is that of SELF-PRESERVATION, do we have the right to defend ourlives? If yes, what is wrong when Gen. T. Y. Danjuma merely reminded us that, look, don’t fold your hands while you die (like chickens) one by one? If we have the right to defend yourselves, the Elder statesman and war hero only reminded us of our constitutional responsibilities as citizens. To us, Gen. T. Y. Danjuma deserves a National Honour for his timely call for to save lives, rather than the castigations from any quarter except, perhaps, by the actual sponsors of the killer Fulani herdsmen. And it is for this reason we demand herewith that the Nigerian Army and the so-called Sharia Council of Nigeria to withdraw their negative comments against this great Leader and Patriot par excellence. Failure to do so within the next twenty-eight (28) days from the date of this publication will leave us with no option than to sue them for libel and character assassination because that is what their comments amount to.

Finally, we herewith restate that we stand by our leader General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (Rtd) on this matter urge our people to rightly prepare to defend themselves when attacked since government security apparatuses (that are supposed to protect us) are not neutral or at best look the other way as we are attacked and killed.

(Bala J Takaya)
National President, Middle Belt Forum

(Dr Ben Dikki)
National Secretary, Middle Belt Forum

(Dr Isuwa Dogo)
National Director of Publicity, Middle Belt Forum

Online Poll on what We actually want In Nigeria

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April 7, 2018

BVI Channel 1 online is conducting an online poll on what Ndigbo/Biafrans actually want in Nigeria .As at today,Biafra Referendum has got the highest votes.Other options are Unity,Nigeria Break Up,Restructuring,The final result will be announced by 30th May.Let your vote count now.Click on https://bvichannel1.com/bvi-poll/ to vote.

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Nigeria Minister Faces Sack Over Unethical Behaviour

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April 7, 2018

For asking what appears to the officials of the Federal Ministry of Education a hate-filled question, I was asked to leave the venue of the 19th Stakeholders Meeting on Unity Schools/Colleges. The order came in such an uncharitable, direct and malevolent manner! It matched the same venom that gave vent to it. I was not allowed to pick up my files and say a few words to colleagues. I must leave, and leave immediately within split seconds.

What did I say?

Priscilla Ihuoma, the spokesman of the Minister has just announced what appeared to me, the information that brought me to Abuja. I was waiting for this announcement. I got it. I predicted the minister. She played into my hands. I had waited for an opportunity to share my thoughts on my hatred, opposition and stance against Unity Schools and the injustice in Nigerian education system. I missed the opportunity in 2016 and 2017 to present my views. Then, the meeting was a hushed one. This time around, we were told the meeting would drag to two days. And stakeholders who have views could easily share them as the Minister would entertain such.

Mrs Ihuoma, the announced the breakdown of the registrations for the 2018 Common Entrance Examinations. A total of 71, 294 young boys and girls were registered for the examination, a little shortfall from the 81,930 that registered in 2017. Lagos State hit the top with 24,465, FCT came next with 7, 699. Of course you know why? Igbos in Lagos and FCT are included! Then, she murmured a well rehearsed statement: Zamfara 28, Kebbi 50, Taraba 95. These three states came first from behind.

She went ahead to tell us the obvious: that the nation has 104 unity schools; that most of these unity schools dont get up to their carrying capacity; A budget, running into billions of naira goes into their maintenance each year and that The Unity Schools take up to 45% of the budgetary allocation of the Ministry of Education.

I was bitter. I was overtly burning with rage and hate. I couldn’t wait for the question and answer session. I did all I could to get hold of the microphone and finally, I got to the aisle, looked directly to the raised table and heaved a sigh of relief. I glanced through my notes and let loose the canons:

Why do we have 12 Unity Schools in the East where more than 50% of candidates come from? Mr Minister, why are kids from Igboland not given admission to those Unity schools that don’t get up to their quota/carrying capacity? Honorable Minister, can you explain why A young girl from Imo state,seeking admission into any of the country’s 104 Federal Government Colleges (Unity Schools) must score 139 points out of a possible 300 to stand a chance of being taken. But her counterpart from Zamfara state only needs to guess two answers right?.Why does the young boy from Abia be denied admission even when he scores 198 while his counterpart from Gombe who merely wrote the examination ( but scored zero) is allowed to study in any unity school of his choice? Why do we have only 2 Igbo principals in the 105 Unity schools in Nigeria? Does this reflect intellectual preparedness or merely a reflection of the wishes of the leadership of the nation and that of the ministry? Why must the federal government set up a well funded advocacy team to persuade villagers, traditional rulers in North and clergy to encourage their citizens to send their wards to unity colleges while efforts are not made to accommodate thousands of kids from the East who are denied admission yearly. Our Minister, I hope you are aware that Last year, Nigeria’s four Federal Government Colleges did not produce a single candidate that scored five credits that included English and Mathematics, needed to gain admission into the university.

Hon Minister, i hope you are aware that, Federal Government Girls’ College, Bajoga (Gombe State); FGGC, Bauchi (Bauchi State); FGGC Gboko (Benue State), and the Federal Science and Technical College, Kafanchan (in Kaduna State) did not produce a single pupil with credits in English and Mathematics.

Honorable minister, I hope you are aware that In 2013, human rights lawyer and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Lagos over admission inequality in Federal Government Colleges. The court declared as unconstitutional, the decades-long state-based, quota system admission into federal government colleges. John Tsoho, the trial Judge, in his ruling declared that the action of the Minister of Education in prescribing and applying different requirements for candidates seeking admission into unity schools is in violation of Section 42(1) of the 1999 Constitution. If this is the case, and definitely that is the case, Why, does the Minstry of Education under you refuse to adher to the court ruling?

Why does, Zamfara State, with 28 candidates for the 2018 common entrance examination have three Unity Schools, while my state of Imo has only two!!! Why do we have three Unity schools in Taraba ( that has only 95 students this year) while Enugu State has only two. Hon. Minister, I can go on and on to…

It was at this point that heavens was let loose. Stop there!!! Voices form the elevated table raged. It was amidst claps and jeers, heckles and clear disapproval from those whose benefits have been threatened; acclamation from those whose grievances have been let loose, that i was ordered and whisked away from the ICC, venue of the stakeholders meeting. No harm befell on me. I retired to my hotel room, got enough rest and made a Lagos-bound journey. I am sure, the organizers wouldn’t invite me to subsequent meetings. But who cares?

From Dr. Modestus Ezenwa.

Nnia Nwodo-Resign Now or .. Ohanaeze Youths

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April 7, 2018

A fresh crisis appears to have hit the Igbo apex group Ohanaeze Ndigbo as its youth wing, said that the President General of the body, Chief Nnia Nwodo has lost the leadership mantle he was given and is now bent on leading Ndigbo to a political deadend.

They stated this in a statement issued and signed by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing and Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, Secretary General.

The youths therefore called Ndigbo to rise and stop Nwodo before he commits political suicide that would burn the hands and identities of Ndigbo.

They urged articulate youths and wise elders, as well as technocrats to rise up to rescue Ohanaeze Ndigbo from Nwodo’s clique and save the Igbo nation from political suicide.

“Imagine, out of 24-man executives of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nwodo uses an illegal organ of Forum of States’ Presidents against the Constitution of Ohanaeze to subdue, intimidate and humiliate other Ohanaeze Ndigbo executives members.”

They also alleged that he has formed a cabal, and is now constituting a menace against the democratically-elected members of Ohanaeze youths and women.

According to them, “the Ohanaeze Youth Wing, OYW, is presently at the receiving end of Nwodo’s political forays and not in a haste to adopt or support any presidential candidate to avoid a repeat of the Igbo’s 2015 choice that has not done them any good.

“Igbo youths would like to have answers to the gross inequalities in Nigerian nationality, because we believe in popular governance as the name Ohanaeze Ndigbo elicits. We would like the Igbo leaders of thoughts and Southeast Governors to in league with Ohanaeze Ndigbo show the way before we can endorse any presidential candidate.

“We, hereby, pass a vote of no confidence on Chief Nnia Nwodo and his Ohanaeze Ndigbo presidency and give him seven days to appear before the Ohanaeze disciplinary committee to explain and answer for his political infidelity against Igbo.”

Reacting to the allegations levelled against Nwodo, the General Secretary of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Uche Okwukwu said that any decision taken by Ohaneze stands to be ratified by the Imo-Obi, the apex organ of the Igbo, which periodically meet to take decisions that affect the interest of Ndigbo.

“The decision to dissolve the youth and women wing and elect new ones was the decision taken at Ime-Obi, it was not a NEC decision. The youth and women wings have been dissolved and they will soon start selling forms for those who want to contest to come forward and buy forms.

On the issue of giving him an ultimatum to appear before a disciplinary committee, I don’t think that they have the power to do that because they have been dissolved. The youths and women wing of Ohaneze does not exist and so they cannot give ultimatum to anybody to appear before any committee . They are hereby cautioned and told to desist from instigating people, if they want to contest election , they should wait and buy form when the time comes and if they win, they will be seen as the democratically elected officers of the body”.

SOURCE :SUN

Again, herdsmen kill 5 in Gen Danjuma State

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April 6, 2018

Barely 12 hours after armed herdsmen attacked and killed a family four in Mbayi village, Takum Local Government Area, again, herdsmen, have killed five people in neighbouring Donga Local Government Area of the state.

They were killed in the early hours of yesterday, according to the state’s Police/Public Relations Officer, ASP David Misal, who confirmed the attack.

He said four bodies have, so far, been recovered but operatives are combing the area to effect any possible arrest and ensure quick return of normalcy.

However, a resident, Mr. Henry Ianna, told Daily Sun on telephone that the attackers, numbering over 30, invaded Utile community, along Donga – Isha road, and killed five people.

“The attackers came in the early hours of today (Thursday) when people were still asleep and started shooting.

“The attacks have now spread to Shaakaa village and so far, five corpses have been recovered and the attacks are still ongoing, as we speak (yesterday).

“The casualty figure may rise as shooting is still going on. The areas under attack are still volatile so we could not go into other places, for fear of being attacked and you know the attacks began at night when people were still asleep, so, there is tendency that more bodies could be recovered,” he said.

Ianna added that hundreds of people are fleeing the troubled spots to Donga, headquarters of the local government, for safety.

Source :Sun

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