Haswell donates His liver To Save His Wife Life. Saboi Mundia Kalinda got a donated liver from his husband, Haswell Kalinda last month. Saboi, who had a liver operation, has now thanked him for donating part of his to her.

According to Saboi, who is still with her husband in India, God blessed her with a gift of life through her amazing husband who donated part of his liver to save her life. She further stated that herself and Haswell are recovering well and she hopes to be reunited with my family pretty soon.

Below is what Saboi posted

Today four weeks ago, God blessed me with a gift of life through my amazing husband who donated part of his liver to save my life.

I thank my Jehovah God for what He has done for me I have learnt so much about God and about life and appreciate God in a new way through my experience.

It is amazing how God has revealed to me and my family how He works out things for our good.

Sometimes we get so hurt by the way things are happening even when we pray so hard, but God already has it figured out, even if we don’t understand and it is just wonderful when in the end you realise how God was working things out for you.

Therefore I want to say to you ‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.’ Proverbs 3:5 and 6.

Both me and Haswell are recovering well, i am still in India and hope to be reunited with my family pretty soon.

My family and i have received so much support from so many people including my mother who has sacrificed so much for me and i don’t know what i would ever do without her, my amazing transplant team at Max Super Speciality Hospital headed by Dr. Subash Gupta, family and friends, friends of friends and relatives, my wonderful in-laws, my church family at Chainama SDA church and other churches, my workmates at CEC Liquid Telecoms and various people i have never even met. Thank you for your fasting and prayers, (please continue praying), financial contributions, words of comfort and encouragement and visits.

My healing process is ongoing for a while and i continue to ask for your continued prayers. For you all, I am gratefull and pray for God to bless each one of you according to your needs Haswell Kalinda I have been trying to find the right words to show how grateful I am for you my dearest husband but I realise no words could ever put into context what your gift means to me. I don’t know what I did to deserve you my love, all I can say is that I’m truly blessed.

You have always loved me unconditionally and you are proud to show your love for me to the world. It has been a very bumpy road but you’ve stuck by my side loving me, praying for me, making me laugh, encouraging me, making me feel beautiful even when I don’t feel that way, you have supported me in every way possible. I would like the world to know that you are a wonderful man and I will always love you with all of me Thank you for being an example to our kids and everybody else of what true love really is. It’s amazing to feel how much our love for each other can still continue to grow after all these years and to such a deeper level. I pray for the favour of God to rest upon you, I pray for your good health and prosperity in all you do.

I pray for your continued growth in God’s grace, knowledge and wisdom. “A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.” Proverbs 11:25. God bless.

Former Big Brother Naija housemate Tobi Bakre ,While in the house, the talented young man disclosed that he is 23-year-old but Nigerians have failed to believe that is his real age. Rumor has it that Bakre might be 29-year-old.

Tobi Bakre needs to introduction, the young man was one of the most controversial contestants who made it to the final round of the show.

Ever since the show came to an end on Sunday, April 22, the young man has caught the attention of most ladies and also top fashion brands in Nigeria.

Despite his dramas with Cee-C while in the house, Bakre still manages be to be on top of his game and plans on taking his business to the next level. He is a professional photographer, former banker and an entertainer.

On Monday, May 7, some of his throwback pictures surfaced in social media have many find it hard to believe that he is that young.

A mild drama was recorded at the National Assembly quarters in the federal capital territory, Abuja, after the wife of a lawmaker beat up her friend for dating her husband.

Wife of a member of the federal House of Representatives, was on Monday evening captured on camera as she stormed Gudu, after the National Assembly quarters in Abuja to beat up her friend who is having a secret affair with her husband.

According to an exclusive report, the unidentified lawmaker’s wife got hold of picture and video proofs of the illicit affair and stormed the house her husband got for her friend.

It was gathered that the visibly enraged woman pounced on her and beat her till her sister and neighbours came to her rescue.

In Cross river state gorilla living in the wild met a farmer in the bush and followed him home.

It was reported that residents of Bitiah Irruan village in Boki LGA of Cross river State all gathered at the farmer’s home to witness and see the animal for themselves as many said such incident has never happened before.

Trying to figure out why the gorilla followed the farmer home, some said it was possible the animal no longer had food in the bushes, so he followed the man home, hoping to get food from there.

Others insinuated it could be a sign of favour to the farmer, another said the gorilla lost his way while moving from Bumaji village to Bitiah where an NGO takes care of them.

A Facebook user, Osang Gabriel shared the photos and wrote:

Wonders shall not end. A gorilla followed a farmer from the bush to his house at bitiah irruan boki cross River State to his living house live (sic)

A pregnant woman and 16 others were claimed in tragic accident at Asaba-Illah road in Delta State. It was gathered that the victims perished on the deplorable road while traveling to Abuja.

Eye witness, Jeremiah Kennedy said the vehicle with registration number AA 261 XX, bumped into a pot hole and somersaulted several times. He said a pregnant woman and sixteen others died on the spot.

Investigation revealed that residents of Ugbolu, Illah communities under Oshimili North Local Government Area of the State have been facing challenges over the the deplorable conditions of the road.

The Asaba-Illah-Ebu-Ugbolu road, a federal road, had been neglected over the years for inexplicable reasons and had claimed several lives, especially during night fall, when unsuspecting motorists ply it.

A resident of the area, John Anosike said; “There is need for urgent government intervention to alleviate the suffering of the road users, and save them from robbery attacks by bandits who waylay them at the deplorable spots.”

But an official of the Federal Ministry of Works, Sylvester Ogor, said, “No fund has been approved for the repairs of the road, hence the road gets worsened and now a death trap, as soon as money is approved, we will commence work on the road”.

Sources said transporters going to Illah/Ebu would prefer to go through Asaba-Benin Expressway via Otulu Junction by Akwukwu-Igbo to Illah, a journey of about one hour.

The sources added that the pregnant woman, and the sixteen persons who died were taken to the FMC Asaba mortuary.

A poke-nosing Nigerian man who has assumed the position of a de facto brother of Chioma said to her that she  should tell Davido to come and pay her bride price first .

A man is worried that Chioma could end up being one of the two other babymamas of Davido if she finally gets pregnant for the singer.

According to the man whose moniker on Instagram is Mbosi111 explained that Davido needs to visit Chioma’s hometown in Imo State for traditional marriage rites instead of making a reality show out of their romance.

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“Chioma my daughter this is your broda. Please take Davido to Imo State let him come pay your bride price officially. All this picture up amd down will not help us because if belle enter now, him go park you one side and the next one go be Ngozi. Please the word of elders is wisdom ok,”

Musician, Charles Oputa aka Charly Boy is celebrating his mum, Mrs Oputa, as she turns 100 years old today May 8th.

He wrote;

”Many cheers to our rugged, peaceful and serene Great grand mother.
In fact you deserve to live in paradise and shown the finer things, but you rather be with us in this our suffering and poverty stricken environment. Kai, over try worry you.
Gracious woman, so wonderful and divine,?You’ve endured many things in a world so unkind!
Thank God you have us to protect you from all the rubbish of the world. It’s funny how you hold our fears within your palm!??Even in your young old age your talk is confident, your eyes are soft and your skin as soft as a baby’s bum. Now we all live in competition to see the many smiles we can activate in you in a day. ?I can’t imagine a gift greater than you, your love is Heaven sent. You truly deserve all the attention and love we try to shower you with.
We all love you like, kilode!!!!!!?Happy first 100yrs
Indeed you’re something else”.

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The Senate on Tuesday summoned all Service Chiefs for explanation over proliferation of firearms in the country.
The upper chamber also mandated its Committee on Intelligence and National Security to conduct thorough investigation into the development to unravel its remote and immediate causes.
The resolutions were sequel to a motion on “Proliferation of Dangerous Firearms in Nigeria’’ by Sen. Suleiman Hunkuyi (APC-Kaduna) at plenary.
Hunkuyi said that tribal, communal, religious and other sectarian clashes, including farmers/herdsmen crises were now more devastating.
“This is due to wrongful and easy acquisition of firearms in violation of due process as laid down by the enabling laws and regulations.
“This ugly trend has contributed to the colossal loss of lives and wanton destruction of property of Nigerian citizens.”
He explained that the situation was attributable to inability to control the proliferation of firearms within country.
“The spate of unrest due to proliferation of firearms has negatively impacted on economic and agricultural activities to the extent that due to fear of attacks, law-abiding citizens fear going to the market and farms.”
In his contribution, Sen. Shehu Sani (APC-Kaduna) said the rate and frequency at which people were being killed in the country was evident that there were more firearms than there were tractors.
“The political class are complicit in the proliferation of firearms in Nigeria,” he said, adding that stakeholders must move fast “to rescue the drift”.
Sani called for a new national political orientation where people should not see politics as a do-or-die affair, but should see it as an opportunity to serve the people.
On his part, the Leader of the Senate, Sen. Ahmad Lawan, said “the country is bedevilled by so much insecurity.”
He said that proliferation of illegal firearms was the major reason why there were many killings in the country.
The leader called on the service chiefs to find lasting solution to the issue.
In his remarks, President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, said that the issue of security in the country was number one concern of all Nigerians.
He decried the rate of killings and the inadequate and poor response by security agencies to address the menace, and calling for concerted effort to check the trend.
“People are now going about with weapons as if they are accessories,” Saraki said.

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Nigeria has successfully joined another football body, WMF or the World Minifootball Federation. This body organizes six-a-side football tournaments. Yesterday, The President, Mini football Association of Nigeria, Andy Elerewe made this announcement in Abuja.

What does he have to say?

As per Andy Elerewe, Nigeria has decided to join WMF to participate the tournament African Minifootball Cup to be held from 5th May to 12th May in Tripoli, Libya, this year. He further added that the association would assemble its team for the African Championships within the next four days following the affiliation to the new world football body.

Nigeria has some of the most underrated football players today, but that might soon change with the World Cup just weeks away from now. It could help the Nigerian players prove their mettle on the world stage, and let everyone know just what they have to offer.

Elerewe conveyed that he is proud to announce the association and successful completion of the registration process with CAC. It took only four days for the world Minifootball Federation to accept and affiliate Nigeria at the extraordinary general assembly held on 27th April 2018. This is a proud moment for Nigerian football.

Nine countries will officially participate in The Africa Mini football Cup Championship to be held in Tripoli, Libya between 5th to 12th May 2018. In the six a side football championship 11 players from the country will represent the tournament.

Mini football is definitely and new craze and widely popular among the younger generation. Now it has become a global sport although it is not a new concept. Mini football is as old as the regular version of the game. WMF is responsible for making this sport an International Sporting event which is organized officially. The sport is played on artificial or natural turfs outdoor.

Each team consists of nine players with only six playing on the field at any given moment. There is a 10 minutes interval between two halves of 30 minutes each. The game is played on smaller fields with smaller goal posts.

About the prospects of the New Championship

The sport has already shown the signs of dominating the world attention. It is now recognized officially in more than 140 nations, since the inception of Minifootball World Cup in 2015 held in the nine cities of the USA. There is no looking back since then. The last edition of Minifootball World Cup was held in 2017 at Tunisia.

The head coach of the Mini Football team of Nigeria, Justine Madugu gave the assurance to the nation that in spite of participating for the first time his team will try their best to win the championship.
He further disclosed about the formation of standard local leagues in Nigeria which is made mandatory by this world body.
The local leagues will be transformed into Intercontinental tournaments in the coming years. This will give an opportunity to these clubs to compete on the global stage. The world cup of mini football is organized once in every 2 years but has no link with FIFA.

David Adeleke, aka Davido, Nigerian popular musician who bought his girlfriend Chioma a 45 million naira Porsche is in the news again this time he has bought himself a private jet, making him the youngest Nigerian to own one.

The ‘FIA’ crooner who just dropped another hit titled Assurance for his partner disclosed this on his Twitter handle @iam_Davido on Wednesday.

The 25-year-old singer tweeted:”Bought already… it’s not soup. it’s Hard work and Ambition!”

Davido is yet to give the detail of the aircraft model and how deep he dipped into his pocket to purchase it.

Brigadier General Suleiman Kazaure, Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, on Wednesday warned corps members to refrain any act of misconduct through their participation as ad-hoc staff in the forthcoming elections.

He gave this warning on Wednesday at the Lagos State Orientation Camp, Iyana-Ipaja as the 2018 Batch ‘A’ Orientation Course came to an end.

He said the full weight of NYSC Bye Law would be applied on any erring Corps Member that violated electoral laws.

Kazaure said: “the NYSC would not undermine the goodwill it has built over the years through the misconduct of corps members,” adding that “the welfare and security of all Corps Members remain the priority of the Management of the Scheme.”

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwumi Ambode in his address urged the Corps Members to contribute their quota to the socio-economic and political development of the State.

He admonished them to leave indelible footprints in the state ‘in the area of Healthcare Delivery, Education, campaign on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, Social Services and Agriculture.’

Governor Ambode, whose address was read at the Ceremony by the Commissioner for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Relations, Honourable Oluseye Oladejo said excellent performance would be rewarded at the end of the service year.

He advised the Corps Members to embrace entrepreneurship development as the only antidote to the increasing rate of unemployment among youths in the country.

Lagos State Coordinator, Prince Mohammed Momoh urged them not to embark on authorized journeys but also be security conscious as they settle down in their respective host communities.

“Refrain from keeping late nights and respect the culture and traditions of host communities”, he said.

Apparently, it is becoming worrisome that many Nigerian children can hardly speak their native languages and it is impacting negatively on the culture and values of the system; even schools are no longer giving attention to the teaching of mother tongue, MADUAKO ELEWEKE writes

Teaching of indigenous languages in Nigerian schools has continued to pose serious challenges to teeming Nigerian children today, especially in private schools. It is becoming a serious problem in our various families, because parents are also not interested in teaching their children the mother tongue. They believe that learning and teaching of English language help them to become supper intelligent. They measure their children’s intelligence and performances through the use of English language, thereby discouraging them from speaking and learning local languages.

Most countries all over the world study in local their languages while in Africa, Nigeria especially, and perhaps in a few other former colonies that formal education is offered in a language that is foreign to their children.

It is important for all stakeholders to pay attention to the growing extinction of many of our indigenous languages and the implication to the future of our country. It is worthy of note that this year (2018) is most veritable as the world marked Indigenous Language Day, the same week the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, launched Igbo and Yoruba language services in Nigeria.

Realising the importance of mother tongue or indigenous languages, the United Nations set aside a day for its celebration every year. Despite Nigerian being signatory to the convention, she has not done enough to encourage the learning and teaching of our local languages in our schools.

According to the Nigerian national policy on education, teaching and learning of mother tongue is made mandatory for both primary and secondary schools, but schools, especially the private ones, hardly give attention to the teaching and learning of the native languages.

Some of the private school owners, instead of encouraging the teaching of local languages, take joy in diminishing it by prioritising teaching and learning English and French to the detriment of the native languages. Hardly can you see a private school hiring a teacher to teach any of the local languages.

A renowned educationist and former Minister for Education, Prof. Babs Fafunwa, having understood the importance of mother language in teaching of children, carried out an experiment on teaching of some primary school pupils in local languages at University of Ife Staff Schools and the results indicated that children understand better in their mother tongues than when in second languages

According to Fafunwa, many primary school leavers leave come out with no proficiency in either the language of instruction, ie English, or the mother tongue – Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa or any other.

He said the experiment showed that learning in mother tongue rather than in second language provides a more effective means of education and his findings showed that a child best learns in his or her mother tongue.

Long before the intervention by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, on the promotion of indigenous languages, the federal government of Nigeria had shown concerns for the plight of Nigerian languages when it sought to encourage their teaching and learning in schools under the national policy on education; but there is no political will to enforce the policy.

Section 1, paragraph 8 of the policy states that “the federal government, beginning from late 1970s, shall take official interest in and make policy pronouncements on the teaching of the indigenous languages, instead of concerning itself solely with English.” In the document titled ‘Federal Republic of Nigeria National Policy on Education, NPE,’ the federal government laid it down as a policy for the whole country that: in primary school, which lasts six years, each child must study two languages, namely his mother-tongue/the indigenous language, if available for study or any other indigenous language of wider communication in his area of domicile, and English language.

While in Junior Secondary School, JSS, which is of three-year duration, the child must study three languages – his/her mother tongue, if available for study, or an indigenous language of wider communication in his area of domicile, any one of the three major indigenous languages in the country, namely Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, provided the language chosen is distinct from the child’s mother-tongue. In Senior Secondary School, SSS, which also lasts for three years, the child must study two languages, an indigenous language and English language. Sub-section 19(4) says ‘Government shall encourage the learning of indigenous languages.’

However, many schools cannot offer these indigenous languages because of lack of teachers and preference for English and French languages

Over the years, the interest in language learning in the country shifted substantially away from the indigenous languages towards English and French languages.

However, the World Bank and UNESCO studies on basic education all indicated that children learn better and faster – eagerly – when instructed in their mother tongues.

Other studies confirm that countries that rank highest in the world in mathematics and science tests, as reported by Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, TIMSS, are usually those that pay more attention to teaching schoolchildren in indigenous languages.

Studies also showed that using the learners’ native language is a bit easier to connect in the learning process and the interactive learner-centred on approach, which is well recognised by most educationists, flourishes in an environment where learners are adequately skillful in the language of instruction.

Barely 20 years ago, the need to strengthen and promote indigenous languages caught the attention of the international scene when the UNESCO proclaimed February 21 as the International Mother Language Day. That day is set aside to celebrate all the languages spoken all over the world with the aim of promoting the right of people to use indigenous languages, otherwise known as mother-tongue, as means of encouraging integration in all aspects of public life, particularly in education.

Realising also the need for local language, the Lagos State government early this year signed the Yoruba Language Preservation Law, making it compulsory for all primary and secondary schools – private or public – in the state to include teaching of Yoruba Language as a core subject at all levels.

A professor of Yoruba Language at the Department of Linguistics and Languages, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Prof. Oluyemisi Adebowale said for Nigeria to be relevant in the globalised world, it must emphasise the rejuvenation and sustenance of its indigenous languages.

According to her, the federal government’s National Policy on Culture emphasises the need for conscious and concerted efforts by all levels of government to promote the teaching of indigenous languages.

She said if the policy is fully implemented, no doubt, it will see to the revival and promotion of indigenous languages in the country.

The professor blamed private schools for neglecting the teaching of mother tongues, urging that private schools be thoroughly monitored to see that they implement the policy, as many of them are very good at promoting foreign languages, cultures and ideas at the expense of Nigeria.

Also, a professor of English Language, Prof. Charles Ogbulogo expressed fear that if something was not done urgently, most Nigerian indigenous languages might go into extinct.

According to him, most parents in Nigeria cannot identify the key words in their native languages and to that extent, cannot teach their children those languages.

Ogbulogo, who is of the Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, said Nigerians lacked the desire to make indigenous languages to work effectively, because they had not been able to adequately develop them.

“There must be a new orientation about what we do about our indigenous languages. We need to preserve our languages as a people. We need to review our stand on the teaching of our local languages so that our younger generations must be made to appreciate them. We must develop our local languages to carry the weight of sacrifice and technological development so that our younger ones must key into them,” he stated.

Ogbulogo also said that some of the major challenges facing the teaching and learning of indigenous languages are due to preference for English language to the detriment of our indigenous languages.

According to him, Japan and China are making tremendous progress in education and development because they are giving preference to their indigenous languages, adding that the national policy on education is not known to many Nigerians, including teachers, because of the positions of the minority nationalities, and that most minority tribes are not comfortable with the policy.

Governing Board of the National Business and Technical Examinations Board, NABTEB, Prof. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, has charged all monitors of the examinations nationwide to expose any centre, public and private schools, where they discover any malpractice.

Shilgba made the appeal recently ahead of the examinations, which began on Monday across the country.

He enjoined them to reveal any NABTEB official who is found to have engaged in any malpractice, such as undue delay in the retrieval of answer booklets, or extortion from examination centre owners.

He warned against photocopying of question papers before the subject examination.

The NATEB also urged the candidates to report any person or group that makes them to pay more than N11, 500 for the examination.

He further enjoined the Registrar and members of the Governing Board, as well as the management and staff of NABTEB, to monitor the conduct of the examination.

“The conduct of examinations is the primary task of NABTEB, and therefore its monitoring is an undeniable assignment for you the governing board members”he said

According to him “As we take strategic steps toward positioning NABTEB for the broad tasks for which the agency was established in 1992, I urge you all to address your mind to the noble task, having your eyes focused on the testimony of history.”

Shilgba promised to forward the list of all NABTEB examinations centres in the country on state-by-state basis to all board members, to enable them monitor the examinations.

Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN has concluded plans to host the 7th Africa Federation of Teaching Regulatory Authorities, AFTRA conference aimed at proffering solutions issues on qualitative education delivery in Africa.

The conference, titled ‘Teaching and learning in Africa in the context of Sustainable Development Goal 4, SDG4, and Continental Education Strategy for Africa, CESA, 2016-2025” is aimed at charting the way forward for the sector.

The Registrar, TRCN, Prof Segun Ajiboye disclosed that the conference billed to hold between May 14 and 19 in Abuja would provide opportunities for exchange of best practices between the statutory regulators of the teaching profession in Africa and members of the global community particularly the academia, Information and Communication Technology, ICT, experts, teachers’ unions, employers of teachers and international development partners.

Ajiboye explained that the conference would feature presentation on the implications of terrorism, refugees and internally displaced persons on education as well as the professionalisation of teaching in Africa.

He further stated that the African Union would also be hosting a special session where all Ministers of Education in Africa will discuss the progress on teacher professionalism and the teaching profession in the region.

The TRCN boss said the choice of Nigeria for the conference is not unconnected with its zeal to rebrand the teaching profession and ensure that teachers get the best in their chosen profession.

“The TRCN is happy to host the conference which is the Africa Regional Branch of International Forum of Teaching Regulatory Authorities, IFTRA.

“This years’ conference will further deliberate on issues of professionalism as well as the challenges facing the teaching profession in Africa. it will exhaustively deliberate on the working and living conditions of African teaching with a view to suggesting areas of improvement to Ministers of Education in the region who will also be part of the meeting” he said

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Disabilities Matters, Dr. Samuel Ankeli has decried poor accessibility of most of tertiary institution’s structures in the country , which he said poses serious problem to persons living with disability.

He called on the government to establish special universities, Polytechnics and colleges of Education for people with special need.

Ankeli said this during sensitization workshop on data governance for disability in Nigeria, an implementation strategy for Basic Registry and Information System, BRISIN held in his office in Abuja recently.

He also lamented the discrimination and gap between the able and disabled people in educational system and urged government to step up plans to bridge the gap.

“ our educational system has made it in a such a way that only 5 out of 100 people living with disability will gain admission and depriving 95 the opportunity of admission even when they have all it takes to be admitted.

“Before now they said persons with disability are not useful, they don’t go to school. But now they are going to school yet government is not given us the opportunity to contribute our quota,” he said.

Ankeli therefore appeal to the government to pay attention on improving educational infrastructure to meet education need of these special students in FCT and nationwide.

He however, expressed optimism that the Basic registry and Information System in Nigeria, BRISIN is designed in such a way that would capture and include the data of people with disability.

According to him, the BRISIN, number of PWD will be captured, those going to school, those working and those who are not doing anything will be collected, stating that this will help government plan ahead of their welfare.

Ankali appreciated the effort of the present administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari for the special attention given to people with disability, saying that a lot still needs to be done.

The newly appointed, Chairman, Governing Council of Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze, Anambra State Mr Philip Shekwo has commended the college management for their purposeful leaderships .

According to the new Council Chairman, the College’s management have done much towards lifting the college to greater height, saying that the achievements recorded in the institution were awesome.

He also commended the infrastructural development in the College Permanent Site and identified several challenges facing the institution, among include bad access roads.

He frowned at the deplorable state of access roads to the institution, assuring that his leadership will do something to ameliorate them.

According to him, the poor state of access roads to the College, as well as the internal road networks in the College was lamentable.

He called for concerted efforts in addressing these key challenges and promised to contribute his quota towards the development of the College.

The Acting Provost Acting Provost, Dr (Mrs) Cecilia Ibekwe, who was delighted over the visit of the chairman, expressed confident that his appointment as a technocrat and former commissioner for education will improve the fortunes of the College.

She said the College has recorded modest achievements since its inception in 1989, stressing that the institution stands to benefit immensely from the leadership of the new Council Chairman, given his experience as a former Commissioner for Higher Education in Nasarawa State.

While conducting the Chairman around the facilities in the College, the Deputy Provost, Dr Madichie, explained the various academic programmes offered in the school. She said aside the National Certificate of Education NCE programme, the College now runs degree programme in affiliation with the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

Madichie said the College has over 6000 students, saying that the NCE degree and Professional Diploma in Education programmes offered in the College enjoyed the required accreditation from the regulatory bodies.

Also speaking, the College Registrar, Sir Augustine Udensi, said the College has not received any take-off grant from the Federal Government since the inception of the College.

According to him, this has affected the development of the College in critical areas.

He also explained the challenge of funding, and commended TETFund for providing lifeline to the College through her interventions.

Chairman, Governing Council, Mr Philip Shekwo, the Acting Provost, Dr Ibekwe (2nd from left) and other principal officers of the College

It has been revealed that some group of haters have hatched a plan against President Buhari, and the plans however has been revealed.

The Presidency says haters are instigating the electorate against President Muhammadu Buhari by creating statements that never existed and attributing such to him.

Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a statement, Wednesday, described as fictitious, a portion of the February 2015 lecture by the then candidate, Buhari at Chatham House, London.

He said: “The public is hereby alerted to a new dimension in the orchestrated plot to diminish the stature of President Muhammadu Buhari before millions of Nigerians who love and adore their President.

“First, it was a pernicious twisting and misinterpretation of the words of the President by mischievous elements, perhaps they can earn him opprobrium and infamy.

“When they see that the gambit is not achieving the desired results, they have now gone into utter fabrication of apocryphal statements, which they purvey through the social media.

“An example is a fictive portion of the February 2015 lecture by the then Candidate Buhari at Chatham House, London.

“This is what is circulating now on social media: ‘What is the difference between me and those who elected us to represent them, absolutely nothing. Why should Nigerian President not fly with other Nigerian public?

“Why do I need to embark on a foreign trip as a President with a huge crowd with public funds? Why do I need to go for a medical trip abroad if we cannot make our hospital (sic) functional? Why do we need to send our children to school abroad if we cannot developed (sic) our university (sic) to compete with the foreign ones?’

“Fortunately, the Chatham House lecture of 2015 is in the public domain. The full text was published by many Nigerian newspapers, and is still available in their libraries and various websites. The concoction by haters and agents of disunity is not part of the text of the lecture at all.”

Adesina said the Presidency was, however, glad that millions of Nigerians, young and old, were smart enough to see through the machinations.

He said “the dubious people” would not succeed as Buhari’s reputation had been built over time and sustained for decades.

“That is why he is widely acclaimed for integrity, transparency, honour, and accountability, both home and abroad. Negative minds can never erode or corrode this.

“Bitter emotions stunt the soul and defile the mind. Those behind it will find out, eventually, that they are the ones swallowing poison, and expecting another person to die. They will realize the folly of their actions, to their own grief.”

The Oyo State Government has claimed that it has exposed a plot by a group within the All Progressives Congress (APC), under the auspices of Unity Forum to burn down the state secretariat of the party.

The state claimed the move was part of their desperate bid to scuttle Saturday’s local government election and party congresses.

According to the state government, it received intelligence that members of the group had been holding clandestine meetings at different locations in Ibadan to perfect the plot by recruiting thugs to carry out this hatchet job.

A statement on Wednesday by the Executive Assistant, Political to the Governor, Morounkola Thomas, said that the group included some members of the House of Representatives, a minister, as well as former and serving political office holders

The statement alleged that the group has been meeting in the homes of two of their members in Bodija and Samonda areas ofIbadan, with a view to causing mayhem and panic among the good people of Oyo State.

The government, however, warned the group to be prepared to bear the consequences of their planned action having taken precautionary measures to scuttle their plans, while it urged law-abiding citizens to go about their businesses without fear.

“Oyo State is peaceful and will remain peaceful with the support of every law-abiding citizen. The governor has been a peace-loving leader and chief promoter of peace in the last seven years of his administration.

“He will, therefore, not fold his arms and allow any group or individual, irrespective of status, to take the state back to the dark era of political brigandage and violence.

“The protesting members of the House of Representatives and their leaders are all beneficiaries of Governor Ajimobi’s generosity and should be grateful to him, instead of biting the fingers that fed them.

“We are aware that they are looking for relevance and the only way they can get this is by linking Governor Ajimobi to the imaginary threat to their lives and well-being. Would anyone planning to injure you inform you before the act? They should have come up with a more believable tale.

“These are the governor’s political sons and I don’t know what will profit a father to kill his own son. The Almighty has been sufficiently good to him with every sense of modesty and he will not take issues further with them.

“All their tantrums are mere distractions and a plot to derail the governor from his focused cardinal objectives of transformation, reformation and repositioning agenda, which have indubitably transformed the face and fortunes of the state.

“It sounds unbelievable that the said Reps members and their ilk could claim that the same governor who single-handedly propelled them from political irrelevance to the limelight will now be plotting to take their lives.

“The ward congresses have come and gone. The congress committee and the so-called Unity Forum adjudged the congress to be free and fair. An appeal committee has been put in place and I will only advise those aggrieved with the outcome of the congress to explore the opportunity.

“The governor has turned his attention to the task for which he was elected for the second term by the good people of Oyo Stateand will not allow himself to be distracted by the noise of the marketplace. I will rather advise them to get busy with the business of lawmaking for which they were elected.”

United Nations’ top human rights official is calling on Turkey’s government to lift the country’s state of emergency immediately, arguing that harsh penalties for dissent are hard to reconcile with “credible elections.”
Turkey is holding elections in June. A state of emergency declared after a failed coup attempt in July 2016 is still in place.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said in a statement Wednesday that “the space for dissent in Turkey has shrunk considerably” over the past two years. He pointed to the jailing of journalists and arrests during May Day protests.
Zeid said: “It is difficult to imagine how credible elections can be held in an environment where dissenting views and challenges to the ruling party are penalized so severely.”