BREAKING :FORMER GOVERNOR, SUNTAI DIES

       

        Mr.Danbaba Suntai, a former Governor of Taraba State, is reported dead.
The former governor, whose helicopter crashed, died in the United States of America.
Suntai had remained unconscious since the crash of the helicopter on October 25, 2012, in Adamawa State.
A former Commissioner of Information in the state, Mr. Emmanuel Bello, confirmed the death of the former governor in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday.
Bello, who served in the regime of Suntai, said the “former governor died in the United States.”

BREAKING : THE PRESIDENT IS DEAD !

    Former Botswana president Ketumile Masire has died at the age of 91‚ his foundation said on Friday.
Masire‚ a key figure in Botswana’s independence movement‚ passed away on Thursday night after being admitted to hospital last week.
“The Board of Trustees of the Sir Ketumile Masire Foundation (SKMF) and the Masire family wish to inform all friends and supporters of SKMF of the passing on of Rre. He died peacefully at Bokamoso Private Hospital surrounded by his family at 2210hrs on 22 June 2017‚” the foundation said in a statement.
“We thank well-wishers and friends from near and far‚ for their prayers‚ thoughts and comforting messages of support during this difficult time.
“Rest in Peace Sir Q.”
A report on the SKMF website said Masire was in a critical condition when he was admitted to the intensive care unit at Bokamoso Hospital on June 18.
Masire was Botswana’s second president and was hailed for his leadership after it gained independence from Britain.
He was also well respected by South African freedom fighters.
“President Masire ascendance to power in 1980 was crucial to the PAC and its military wing APLA as we sent more young people to military training. It became more easier to pass through borders of Gaborone without any ‘E-Toll’ or difficulty. Botswana became the gateway for our troops to get into other countries such as Lusaka‚ Harare‚ Dar es Salaam‚ Accra etc‚” the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) said in a statement on Friday.
“We are thankful for revolutionary and courageous contribution that Sir Masire displayed in his entire life to help not only Botswana but his beloved country to realise its liberty. Africa is not where we want to see it but Sir Masire and his generation rescued Africa from imperial forces.

QUEST FOR A QUICK RICHES, WEALTH, POWER AND FAME

   

     The ugly happenings in the recent times in some parts of Nigeria where  human beings were being reportedly killed  for ritual purposes,called for  greater concerned from all and sundry.
     Sometimes in 2013, there was a case where a man in his thirties got hooked while trying to exhume a corpse somewhere in Ilobu, a town in Osun State. It was reported that the man,while trying to exhume the said corpse,got hooked inside the grave and eventually gave up the ghost. Among the eye witness, it was reported that a day to the incident, that the man was seen bragging while at a beer parlour, that this time tomorrow, he would be a rich man. Of course nobody would have wished him otherwise as there's nothing that God can not do. There have been cases of an unknown persons exhuming copses in the community for long. But no one has ever been caught.
    Also, some couple of years ago in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, a place, popularly called "Soka", was discovered, where it was discovered that human beings, having being kidnapped, were being taken to for rituals. Information has it that some fresh human parts and some containers containing human blood  were discovered, as well as some decomposing human parts.
       Recently, in Osun State, a female student of the Osun State University, Ipetu-Ijesha campus, boarded a public transport, even from one of the town's motor parks to Oshogbo,the State's capital. Information has it that the innocent lady fell into the wrong hand of the vehicle's driver himself,having being hypnotized and was taken to an herbalist who had earlier bargained with him. The driver, having been caught,confessed to have received a sum of ten thousand naira from the herbalist as a reward for the work he had done for him.
      Not quite long ago also, a man in a private vehicle was caught with a female human parts inside the Boot of his vehicle having being ordered by the security operatives to open it during one of their stop and search operations on the road.
     In all these cases and even some that were not officially reported or even known, the question is that ; Are we to live in this world forever ? Or that those that are into this dastardly act do not have blood flowing in their veins? Or that they fail to realize that their victims were equally human beings like them ? Or that their conscience have died ?Or that they've no emotions ? Or that,... .
    There's a common saying that, it takes two to tangle. In all the cases of the ritual killings, information have it that there have been some influential individuals in the society who have been patronizing them to buy those human parts from them. This has made it extremely difficult to really prosecute both the "sellers" and the "buyers" of these illegal commodities. Sometimes the law enforcement agents are "helpless" to actually prosecute these wicked souls of their dastardly deeds because of those involved.
   If however, these ugly scenario is not properly checked or totally put to a stop, it may come to a situation whereby these people would just be publicly kidnapping people on broad day light for their ritual activities with nobody dare to check them.
     For this not to happen,the following are some suggestions that could be
employed :

     *  INSTALLATION OF CCTV CAMERAS IN ALL STRATEGIC POSITIONS :
 
       As done in advanced countries of the world, there's need for us in Nigeria also to install CCTV cameras all over some strategic position,so that peoples movements could be monitored, especially those with evil intentions could easily be detected before raining an havoc on innocent and peace loving people.

*   ONCE A CASE OR CASES OF KIDNAPPING OR HUMAN KILLINGS ARE ESTABLISHED AT A COMPETENT LAW COURT, THE CULPRITS SHOULD BE MADE TO PAY THE SUPREME PRICE :
     In other words, there should be an eye for an eye principle. Once a person is confirmed guilty of kidnapping or killing of another person(s) in a competent law court, such must equally be killed without no options.
*  RELIGION EDUCATION SHOULD BE FULLY RE - INTRODUCE BACK INTO OUR EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM FROM THE PRIMARY TO THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL :
   
       The Scriptures says that, "my people are perishing for lack of knowledge". Because as of today, that  the religion education is no longer made compulsory as part of our educational curriculum, our younger generation are beginning to doubt the existence of God. The fear of God seems not to again be in their minds.

 *  TEACHING OF THE WORDS OF GOD TO THE CHILDREN BY THE PARENTS:
   
      It's quite unfortunate these days that the majority of our parents have little or no time for their children to inculcate the fear of God in them through the teaching of God's will with them. Everything is money,money and money. Worst still,some of the parents would leave home early in the morning and will not return back home until 11 pm.
     

JUNE 12TH,1993,..., TWENTY FOUR YEARS AFTER

JUNE 12TH, 1993,..., TWENTY FOUR YEARS AFTER

      The main essence of this write up is to bring it to our memory lane the explanation on how the issue about the popular "June 12th" holiday came into being,especially to our younger generation who are less than thirty years old to the understanding of the significant of the day.
   
       Saturday, June 12th,1993 was like any other day. The sun gave its illumination from its horizon. The blares of the automobiles horns rented the peaceful and calmed atmosphere. Everyone is seen moving on with their daily activities. The beautiful songs of the birds in the sky were adding glamour into the peaceful morning. Everybody, both young and old, were happy to have made it to the new day. Little children were  seen rolling motorcycle tyres on the roads due to less traffic congestion. Everyone seemed to have been eagerly waiting for the commencement of the Presidential elections. Especially those that were of the voting age and have since registered as voters. Everyone seemed to be tired of the military despotic type of leadership. The aged (both educated and otherwise) were equally not left out. Everyone was waiting for the real and genuine 'change' that was to come the way of every Nigerian both at home and in diaspora, when a true and genuine Democratic government must have been in place after the election.

       Prior to the presidential election of the 12th of June, 1993, two political parties, the S.D.P ( the Social Democratic Party) and the N.R.C (the National Republican Convention) emerged as the two political parties to contest for the election. Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, popularly called M.K.O, was the presidential candidate for the S.D.P, while Alhaji Bashir Tofa, emerged as the flag bearer for the N.R.C.

        A couple days to the election, a national presidential debate was organized for the two candidates. Among other things, this was done to enable the two candidates to tell both the Nigerians and the international communities of what their political manifestoes were. As well as telling the people what they would do if eventually elected as the President and the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The outcome of the debate indicated  that Chief M.K.O. Abiola would be a better candidate for the election.

      The election went on as scheduled. There was no cases of snatching of the ballot boxes. No cases of molestation from either of the two contesting parties. No cases of killings. Everywhere was peaceful. The voting exercises ended well. The counting of the votes started to time and also ended well .The following day, a Sunday,was suppose to be the day for the announcement of the election results as well as for the declaration of  the winner. Throughout the Sunday, every Nigerian and the international communities ended up being disappointed by the refusal of the Electoral body's chairman to announce the result and declare the winner. Nothing equally happened the next day. Throughout the week that followed the election week ,nothing was heard as regarding the announcement of the election results and the declaration of the winner from the electoral chairman. Two weeks past,nothing was heard. At this stage, many Nigerians could no longer bear it. People took to the major streets in protests against the refusal of the electoral chairman to announce the election results as well as declaring the winner. These protests went on and on. Still nothing was done or heard to douse the political tensions which have almost enveloped every nooks and crannies of the country. Meanwhile from the few results that were later released by the electoral body, there was an indication that even without the release of the remaining results, the S.D.P candidate, Chief M.K.O. Abiola seemed to have won the election.
With these, many concerned Nigerians wanted the international communities to wage into the political crisis by prevailing on the Federal government to order the electoral chairman to announce the remaining election results and declare the winner. However, all these appeals went into the government's deaf ears.
  The acclaimed winner,Chief M.K.O, Abiola had to eventually declared himself the President and the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Lagos, having travelled abroad to inform the international communities of the Nigeria political imbroglio, and realized that nothing was done in respect of this.

    Chief M.K.O. was eventually arrested by the Federal government for treason. He remained in the prison for some years. Meanwhile, the self-styled military president General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (even though not being elected by votes),who imprisoned him later 'stepped aside' having appointed Chief Earnest Shonekan,a man from the same state as Chief M.K.O. Abiola to head an interim national government.

      Unfortunately the interim government was soon booted out through a bloodless military coup d'etat headed by the then Army Chief, General Sanni Abacha. General Abacha equally saw no reason why Chief M.K.O. Abiola could be set free from the prison. While Chief Abiola was still in the prison, the news of the sudden demise of Head of State, General Sanni Abacha filtered into the air unbelievably. The reason was that the previous day to his death, that was on a Sunday, the Head of State was seeing, with the Palestinian's President, 'Yesser' Arafat at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport on his was back to his country after a State's visit to the country. Few days later the unimaginable news of the death of Chief M.K.O. followed. The outcome of this news brought about serious protests by the Nigerians. It was alleged that Abiola must have been killed by the Federal government as a result of the death of the Head of State as a way of "balancing the equation".

         Since 1999 when Nigeria returned back to the Democratic system of government, June 12th of every year have been observing by some States governors,particularly those that are of the South Western States of the country as a Democracy day in the country.

      Now that another June 12 has come, all Nigerians, particularly the lovers of Democracy should come together for the sustainability of our Democracy and make it the best in the world if possible.

     Long Live our nascent Democracy,Long Live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
    HAPPY CELEBRATION !
     

BREAKING : MOST WANTED AND THE RICHEST KIDNAPPER IN NIGERIA IS NAPPED BY THE POLICE

     

       A day is for the thief and many days are for the owner,so the popular saying.That's the case of the most wanted and the richest kidnapper in the history of Nigeria,whom the Nigerian Police authority has confirmed to have been arrested.

       The Inspector-General’s Intelligence Response Team led by ACP Abba Kyari on Saturday said it has arrested one of the most wanted suspected kidnappers in Lagos.

Kyari, who confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria, said the suspect was arrested at his Magodo residence in Lagos.

“IRT headquarters in Abuja is celebrating the arrest of the most wanted brilliant and notorious high-profile kidnapper in Nigeria.

“He has collected several billions of Naira as ransom in the last seven years as the kingpin of kidnappers.

“He was arrested at about 1.00p.m on Saturday in his residence in Magodo Estate, Lagos,” Kyari said.

He commended the Force Headquarters for mobilising the resources to go all out against the “richest and most notorious kidnapper” in the history of Nigeria.

Kyari said the Inspector-General had directed that the suspect should be paraded before newsmen on Sunday in Lagos. (NAN)

RELIGION TOLERANCE,... A PANACEA TO NIGERIA GREATNESS

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        It's no longer news that Nigeria is a secular state. In other words, everyone is authorized, under the law, to practice the religion of his choice as long as it doesn't pose any security threat to the general public.
    There are three religions in Nigeria. The Islam, the Christianity, and the traditional religion. The Muslims are for the Islam, Christianity is for the Christians, and the traditional religion is for the traditional worshippers. These religions have, as their object of worship, the Almighty God. While the Muslims pray to God through the prophet Mohammed(SAW), the Christians approach God through Jesus Christ,while the traditional religions worshippers approach God through Ogun, Sango, Oya,  Obatala, and so on. The Muslims worship in the Mosque, the Christians worship in the Church and the traditional worshippers worship in the shrines(Ojubo,in Yoruba). The Muslims, though do go to the Mosques everyday, their main day of worship is on Friday of every week. For the Christians, just like the Muslims too, they do go to the Church every day of the week for some special Church's programmes. However, they go for the Church' worship proper on very first of the week (Sunday),except a few of them like the Seventh Day Adventists, who observe their worships on Saturdays ( the Sabbath) according to their belief. The same thing with the traditional worshippers. Except that they do worship yearly depending on which of the deities they believe in. For instance, the Ogun worshippers, apart from the fact that they do worship on any other day of the week as the situation may demand for, they do worship on yearly basis. The same applies to the other deities.
       
       The constitution of the country allows  for the freedom of religion. That is, every Nigeria is free, under the constitution, to practice the religion of his choice without any intimidation from any quarters. Be that as it may, no religion is given the authority under the constitution to rubbish or castigating any other religion under whatever guise; either by preaching against their doctrines, disturbing them while preaching, or by inciting their members against any other religion different from hers.
         Irrespective of our faiths,as worshippers, there are some obligations that are being expected of us towards God as well as our fellow human beings. Which means that, in a simple language, religion can be thought of as a way of life of people to make heaven after death as well as for mutual coexistence among people.
        Gone are the days when people bothered less about  one's faith or belief ! Nothing like, "he's not a Muslim, so I have nothing to do with him". Or that since he's not a Christian, " I just have to hate him". Or that he's a traditional worshipper, an idol worshiper, hence he doesn't deserve to live. When we see ourselves as one ! When we eat in the same plates ! When we sleep together in a place with our two eyes soundly closed ! When the Christians are not  suspecting the Muslims. When the  traditional worshippers are not treating the Christians with contempt ! When there was a real love among the people, irrespective of their faiths and beliefs.  When people are being appointed into positions of responsibilities without minding their religious belief.
        There's this general saying that, if a house is continuously enjoying peace,  it then means that the bastards in that house are yet to grow to maturity.

          Unfortunately, this issue of discriminating against one another on the basis of one's belief in Nigeria became more pronounced in the early eighties when there were cases of religion crisis in the Northern part of the country between the Muslims and the Christians. As a result of this unfortunate happenings, several thousands of lives were lost as well as some properties worth  millions of Naira. Ever since then, the country has been continually  witnessing such occurrence. As a result, the Muslims are beginning to see whosoever that wouldn't share the same faith as theres,  as being an " infidels". The same thing with the Christians. The situation has unfortunately degenerated into the level that an average Christian sees a Muslim as a threat,each time he has an opportunity to have him by his side. So also a Muslim begins to see an average Christian as an infidel who deserve not to be alive.
     
         There's no doubt that these attitudes between the Muslims and the Christians has in no small measure, negatively affected the growth  and the well-being of the country.
      It's true that our staying here on earth is temporary. Be that as it may, the kind of the relationship that we have here on earth with those that we came across with is a function of our making heaven or otherwise. Non of the two books ; the Qur'an or the Bible preaches hatred, let alone the taken of lives of whosoever that doesn't share our faiths. So,if any one would now hide under any religion to indulge in killings or developing an hatred towards whosoever that wouldn't share our religion's belief, doesn't worship the Almighty God, no matter how religious the people may hold him or her. Islam, according to the Muslims,is a religion of peace. So also is the Christianity, according to the Christians. Therefore, if either of the religions would engage in hatred or killings of anyone who refuses to share their faiths, then, such religion remains no longer a peaceful one as it may be claimed to be. If a man bought a new car,for example, or own a property, and  he discovers that someone has damaged the car, or destroyed the property, such a man wouldn't be happy with whosoever that must have done that to him, no matter the reason. The same way with the Almighty.
 
       I want to believe that God is more than sufficient to fight for Himself. No one can assist Him to fight against whosoever that's perceived to be His enemy.
         Some of our selfish leaders have been unfortunately making use of  this ugly situations to better their political fortunes. Some of us, during an elections,  vote on the basis of religion sympathy and not on the competence or the qualifications of whosoever that's seeking for political office. "As long as he doesn't share my religion's belief,  I won't vote for him, let him even be more than qualify".
       Until we change our orientation away from what it used to be, our country, Nigeria, will continue to move backwardly instead of being moving forward.
     A word,they say,is enough for the wise.


     
   




   

   

BREAKING : RAPIST BURNT TO DEATH IN LAGOS

       

          Nemesis has caught up with a notorious Badoo cultist and r*pist after he was lynched to death by an angry mob today.The suspected Badoo rapist and cultists before he was burnt alive (Photo: Ikorodu Ambassadors Group/Facebook)

An angry mob in Ikorodu have burnt to death a suspected notorious Badoo cultist terrorizing the area after he was caught by the vigilante group popularly called the Onyabo.

According to information gathered from Ikorodu Ambassadors Group, the general public prevented the Police, SARS and the Vigilante from taking the suspect away.  Two people were hit by stray bullets that was shot to disperse the crowd. One was hit on the hand and the other on the head, but the crowd refused to let them take the alleged suspect away.

He was eventually beaten to a pulp before he was burnt alive by the crowd.