Opinion: Ghost President, Ghost Achievements, Ghost Monies in Apartment Owned by Ghosts - Reno Omokri

Reno Omokri

Former aide to the ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has continued with his "Ghost Mode" comments against President Muhammadu Buhari despite being called to order by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).


He has released an article to elucidate more on his tweet. The article read thus;

For the better part of this week, Nigeria has been having much of a to do about the royal snub from the Oba of Lagos to the Ooni of Ife. Such outrage, such consternation against Oba Rilwan Akiolu. The venom vented on him on social media and in real life were as though he had committed some unpardonable sin. 

We are angry with an Oba who refused to shake an Ooni, but not at a President who refused to shake his own female ministers on religious grounds but did not remember religion when he shook hands with the Queen of England, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Iara Oshiomhole. 

You can see that hypocrisy, rather than corruption is the main problem of Nigeria. A nation that sympathizes with a star's husband for attempted suicide and charges a destitute woman with attempted suicide. No wonder our Presidential Villa had been turned to a retirement home! 

Strewth! 

As a people, we are easily distracted, easily carried away. We are excitable, with hyperactive nerves, quick to run away after fancies while the issues that are at the heart of our survival as a people are left untreated. 

While we were tearing our our hair over what might just have been an oversight on the part of the Oba of Lagos, the minister of Information, the eponymously named Lai Mohammed, announced to a distracted nation that President Muhammadu Buhari, who had just missed his third Executive Council of the Federation meeting, would be working from home! 

This is the same Lai Mohammed who in December 21, 2009 called for his predecessor, the late Professor Dora Akinyuli, to give daily updates on President Yar'adua's health. 

Speaking as the Publicity Secretary for the now defunct Action Congress, Lai said: 

“It is clear to discerning Nigerians that those pretending to speak authoritatively on the President’s health are deceiving the public, since they are neither well informed on the issue nor competent to speak on it. Therefore, a daily briefing by the Minister of Information, based on authentic details provided by the President’s doctors, should start forthwith. As we have said many times, the health of the President, as a public figure can no longer be of interest only to his family and friends. Nigerians have a right to know." 

This is the same Lai who told us in January that the President was in perfect good health. Now we know that his health is so good that he has to work from home! 

And to add insult to injury, just two days before Lai told us that the President would now work from home, Chief John Odigie Oyegun was hugging the headlines calling for a second term for the stat at home President! Really! 

We only see the man every Friday , yet instead of praying for his recovery Oyegun is scheming for his second term! That is how they deceived Abacha and Yar'adua to cling onto power instead of tending to their health. What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his soul? 

This is a man that we only see on Friday at Mosque. The man has more or less become a ghost President! 

A ghost President, with ghost achievements fighting ghost workers with an EFCC that goes after ghost monies in apartments owned by ghosts. This is what President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressive Congress have reduced Nigeria to! 

It is hypocritical for a government that fights ghost workers to have a ghost President. If the President is sick let him hand over to the more than able Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo! 

If you think it is harsh to ask the President to hand over to Osinbajo then ask him if he did not give the same advice to Yar'adua in 2010! Precisely on March 10, 2010, President Muhammadu Buhari called for the impeachment of Yar'adua because his health condition prevented him from performing his duties. For three weeks our President has not attended council meeting. For three weeks the only time we see him is at Mosque. Would he have tolerated this from Yar'adua? 

From President Muhammadu Buhari's residence in Aso Rock to his office takes a five minute walk. I have walked that route myself. I know what I am taking about. I have been in his official residence and I have been in his office. 

His office and his residence are connected by a corridor. If he cannot make it to the office despite the close proximity between his office and his residence, it suggests he may need something more than resting at home. Remember what Obasanjo said on January 20, 2010 “If you take up an assignment, a job-elected, appointed whatever it is, and then your health starts to fail and you will not be able to deliver to satisfy yourself and to satisfy the people you are supposed to serve, then there is a path of honour and the path of morality. There is path of honour and the path of morality." 

A 93, President Robert Mugabe does not work from home. Even Pope Benedict XVI, whose home was his office, resigned in 2013 when his health could not handle the demands of the papacy. It is not about age. It is about capacity. President Muhammadu Buhari said the same thing about Yar'adua. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 

Again, President Buhari, if you cant cope, temporarily hand over to Osinbajo! It does not have to be permanent. Go and take care of yourself. Aso Rock is a Presidential Villa not a retirement home!
What moral justification does the Head of Service or any authority have to query any civil servant for absenteeism going by this recent development? 

I urge any civil servant who is being queried or has been sacked for absenteeism to sue the Federal Government. If President Muhammadu Buhari can work from home and still collect full salary, why can't other federal workers? If the man with the most vital job can do his job from home, why can't civil servants with less vital duties follow suit. 

And you can imagine that only this week, the State House correspondent of the Punch Newspapers was banished from Aso Rock Presidential Villa by President Muhammadu Buhari's Chief Security Officer because of a story on the President's health. Now we know what the fuss was all about!
And the excuse given by the Presidency that they were unaware of the CSO's action only raises more questions than it answers. 

The worst thing the Nigerian Presidency could do in the case of the The Punch Newspapers reporter that was expelled from Aso Rock Villa by President Muhammadu Buhari's Chief Security Officer is to admit that they were not informed before the actions. If the Presidency was not informed about this action done in the Presidency's name then it begs the question, who is ruling Nigeria? Who is exercising the executive powers of the President? Is the tail now wagging the dog? Is this a déjà vu of the Yar'adua situation? No wonder Babachir asked 'who is the Presidency'. We did not know what he meant!
From the way things now stand, I just have to ask that between Nnamdi Kanu and President Muhammadu Buhari, who is actually in prison and who is actually free? 

At least we see Kanu in court. How often do we see Buhari? Nnamdi Kanu speaks with authority, can we say the same of an unrepentant blamer who blames everyone but himself for the misfortune of his administration? Nnamdi Kanu has no NTA or a Liar Mohammed yet his words affect more headlines than those who do, proving that leadership is not by position! Yet somebody thinks Nnamdi Kanu is in prison and President Buhari is free! I laugh in Igbo and Fufulde! 

And to think that Joe Igbokwe, the Publicity Secretary of the Lagos State chapter of the APC had the guts to say that the Igbo are not interested in Nnamdi Kanu's cause! 

If Joe Igbokwe really thinks the Igbo are 'not interested' in Nnamdi Kanu's cause, let him go and say so in Onitsa Market and see if he survives. It is easy to stay in Lagos and say such nonsense, but I have a word of advise for Igbokwe: No matter how much a slave rejects his father's name, his master will still not include his own name in his will. 

Hypocrisy has almost become a national pastime under this APC administration. It is not surprising. What more can one expect from a government that was conceived in propaganda and delivered in deceit? 

Take the hypocrisy in the case of Mrs. Titilayo Momoh, the failed suicide who attempted the act on the Third Mainland Bridge. Now she has been charged to court. 

I do not understand the point of charging failed suicides to court for attempted suicide. Do we want to drive them to succeed at suicide? Failed suicide need counseling, support and understanding. Stress, pressures of life and disappointments drove them to suicide. By charging them to court we are only adding more stress, pressure and disappointment to their life, further pushing them to suicide. This is an archaic law that is against the principles of natural justice and needs to be taken off our statute books. 

A government that does not care if Fulani herdsmen kill us has the guts to charge a woman for attempted suicide! Are they angry she cheated Fulani herdsmen off her life? This is a travesty of justice! They have not charged the killers of pastor Eunice Elisha who was killed in Kubwa, fifteen minutes from Aso Rock Villa. They have not charged the killers of pastor Eunice Elisha who was beheaded in Kano in broad daylight. They have not charged the killers of Southern Kaduna minorities. But it is Mrs. Titilayo Momoh who is overburdened by a debt she cannot pay that they can try for attempted suicide. What a hypocritical action! 

When Tiwa Savage's husband, Tunji "Tee Billz" Balogun, attempted suicide, nobody charged him for attempted suicide and rightly so. So why charge Mrs. Titilayo Momoh with attempted suicide? Does Nigeria have one law for the rich and famous and another for the poor and unknown? This woman attempted suicide because the economy collapsed and her business was in ruins leaving her in debt. Let us not fight the symptoms and leave the disease. If the government wants to deter suicide then they should fix the economy instead of trying Mrs. Momoh. 

I could go on and on, but I have limited space. You can email me at
reno@renoomokri.org to continue the conversation.

Reno's Nuggets: 

My nuggets for this week centers on money so that people like Mrs. Momoh, who are overburdened by debt can get some financial intelligence that will see the escaping the debt cycle if they apply these wisdoms I gleaned from the word of God. 

The big difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich only borrow money to invest while the poor only borrow money to consume. The rich man gets a loan to build a clothing factory, or a retail mall or a small boutique because he knows that the poor man will go to the same bank to get a loan or a credit card to splurge on new clothes to impress people. You see, many people who look rich are not rich simply because they spend too much money trying to look rich and have little left to be actually rich. The term dressed to kill may mean dressing well but it may also mean spending too much on clothes to kill yourself with poverty. The more the poor continue buying clothes and other accessories they do not need, the more the rich becomes richer and the poorer they become. So break the cycle. 

Never borrow to consume only borrow to produce. 

Those who say money cannot buy happiness act as if being broke can buy happiness. Get money even if it cant buy happiness. Money multiplies your ability to do good. The world is evil today not because money is evil but because evil people control money. Ask yourself how helpful the Good Samaritan could have been if he had no money. 

Now ask yourself how destructive satan can be if his people had no money. Jesus preached and taught about money more than about ANY OTHER THING. So go out there and make money, do not be afraid of it. #RenosNuggets

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Are EFCC's findings Real or Pre-planned?

Series of events on recovery of different set of huge amount of money have now been recorded by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and some might secretly still be in process. Kudos to them for the hardwork, however, so many theories about the discoveries have started compressing our brains because some informations are still missing.

Recall that on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, the sum of N49 million was been intercepted by the operatives of the EFCC before the passing the process of moving out of country through the Kaduna airport. My question is, how would such huge amount of money be stashed in big bags escape the airport's CCTV and human securities? It sounds funny.

Till date we are still waiting for the details of the owners.

ALSO READ: N49 million cash intercepted by EFCC at Kaduna Airport

Another was after getting a tip-off got from a whist blower, the operatives of the EFCC instantly rushed down to the well-known Balogun market in Lagos to intercept a huge amount of cash in different currencies on April 11, 2017. The cash in total was about N250 million money, which includes €547,730, £21,090 and ₦5,648,500.

It was reported that the source who gave the tip-off to the anti-graft agency told them that the location of the N250 million money was changed to somewhere inside the market, so as to convert it to foreign currencies by anonymous people.

ALSO READ: Photos: EFCC found another N250m cash in Lagos Balogun market

Another question is, does it mean, the Bureau De exchange agents who were to convert the currencies does not know the identity of the owner or have a link to the owner. Atleast, they must have contacted somebody before collecting the job of conversion to the desired currency?

Will you convert a currency without being given the information of the desired currency?

Remember Tellforceblog reported that the EFCC, Lagos chapter, had on April 8, 2017, uncovered yet another large sum of money in the tune of N448,850,000 (Four hundred and forty eight million, eight hundred and fifty thousand naira) suspected to have been laundered and kept in a shop at one LEGICO Shopping Plaza, located along Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island of Lagos State.

The money in denomination of N500 and N1000, stashed in some bags commonly known as Ghana Must Go bags and hidden in a shop in the wait of converting it into foreign currency.

According to the information provided by a source who was the concerned whistle blower, men of the agency swooped into action by raiding the shopping complex and sought the details of the alleged owners of two shops, LS 64 and LS 67 which were found with locks and keys.

ALSO READ: Video/Photos: About N500 million discovered in a Plaza Shop by EFCC

Something get disturbing my thoughts, does it mean, the shops does not have landlord? If it has, the landlord was supposed to have the details of the tenants. How can all the neighbours claim ignorance and you will keep quiet as an investigator?

I am not saying they should be interrogated through torture (the African way). No! That would be nonsence, but do it professionally.

Now, the discovery that has open some person's eyes, the Osborne Tower brouhaha. On April 12, 2017, the EFCC alleged that it has recovered another huge amount of money from a home.

ALSO READ: Video&Photo: EFCC discovers $38m, N23m and £27k hidden in an Ikoyi home

The anti-graft agency revealed that the money in different currencies, including $30 million, N23 million and £27,000 was found stashed in an Ikoyi home, in Lagos State.

This latest discovery has been generating a lot of controversies, to the extent that some bodies have started coming out to lay claims for the money.

Even a whole state, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, came out to say the $43 million allegedly found by EFCC belongs to his state and had has given the Federal Government 7 days ultimatum of to return the money which was found in an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos State.

Speaking to the Press at the State House in Port Harcourt on Friday, Governor Wike claimed that investigations carried out by the Rivers State Government revealed that the allegedly discovered money by EFCC was the proceed realized from the sale of gas turbines by the former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi.

He said: "The money in question belongs to the former Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. We want to confirm that the houses in Ikoyi also belong to Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.

"If you recollect in 2015, we said that gas turbines built by Former Governor Peter Odili were sold to Sahara Energy, business partners of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi at $319million.

"That money was used to sponsor the All Progressives Congress for the 2015 general elections. From the date of sale of the gas turbines to May 29, 2015, the money depleted from $319million to $204,000.

"What was stashed at the Ikoyi residence was part of that fund.

"We have facts to prove that the said money belongs to the Rivers State Government. The Federal Government must return our money."

For me, I think Rivers State is trying to make commedy out the issue.

One of the interesting part of the story is the storming out of National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to the public to lay claim on the money.

The NIA is one of Nigerian government agency tasked with overseeing foreign intelligence and counterintelligence operations. It is supposed to be a secret agency, according to the international code of conduct relating to such function of security, NIA are meant to even be more of a secret agency than even the DSS.

The role of NIA and its functions are equivalent to some foreign agency like the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or the MI6) or that of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and so on.

Yet, NIA issues are not supposed to be flying on media platforms, to the level of coming out to claim some controversial elements through media. Is there no proper co-existence among all our security and intelligence agencies.

All our secuity agencies are supposed to work as one, assist each other investigations, but in Nigeria, No!

They even look for a way to kill themselves, recall the indictment of the Ag Chairman of the EFCC on corrupt practices by the Department of State Services.

MY FINAL QUESTION IS, hope the EFCC is not trying to manupulate its way in earning back its reputation?

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NBA Vice President Ubani asks EFCC 6 serious questions on recovered $43m

*The ownership of the large sum discovered in a residence in Ikoyi has been hard to get but was easy to locate the money itself

*Monday Ubani is demanding answers to six question relating to the discovery of the money and also urging Nigerians to ask more

Barrister Monday Ubani, who is the second national vice-president of the Nigerian Bar Associatio (NBA), has raised up six serious questions concerning the huge sums of foreign currencies recently discovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a luxury building in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The owner of the alleged discovered fund which includes $43 million has remained unknown hours after it was recovered. All those suspected by the agency have came out to deny any knowledge of the reported cash.

Recall that on April 14, 2017, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) suddenly woke up to announce that it's the owner of the money. Just few moments later, the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike reacted by saying the money belongs to the state.

Ubani, who was very irrated with the ongoing drama sorrounding the recovered money said: “Nigeria to some of us has become the ‘theatre of the absurd’.

“How do you explain certain things that happen here for which you can't make any sense out of it?

“Take for instance the several billions of naira (in different currencies) discovered recently in someone's house in Ikoyi Lagos, Nigeria.

“The rumor had it that the large sums of money belongs to former PDP chairman, Muazu who has denied ownership; the second accused, retired NNPC staff Mrs Nnamdi-Ogbue has also denied ownership.

“The current minister of Transportation, Mr (Rotimi) Amaechi linked with ownership of the money has also denied vehemently the ownership of the large sums of money.”

Ubani talking about who could truly owns the funds, he added: “Suddenly, the story changed, that an Intelligence arm of the government, NIA has come forward to claim ownership of the money."

Ubani said from what had been reported so far about the recovered money, here are some of the claims of NIA:

(a) That the money was approved for them by the previous government.

(b) That the money is meant for covert operation.

(c) That EFCC is embarrassing them (sister agency) by seizing the money that naturally belongs to them.

Ubani then asked the critical questions:

(1) Is the house where the money was found the office of NIA?

(2) Who is the true owner of that house where the money was discovered?

(3) If it was money approved by the previous government, why was it not spent for the purpose approved and why was it not returned to the treasury if not spent?

(4) Why is government money not in the bank but in a private home? Is government not in breach of its anti-laundering law by keeping such large sums in the house?

(5) How long has that money being kept there or was it not brought there recently that attracted the attention of the diligent whistle-blower?

(6) And so many questions (you can ask your own). I hope the hardworking and diligent whistle-blower will get at least 2.5 percent of his fees for a labourer is worthy of his or her wages?

He admonished Nigerians to ask their own questions over what he called a mind-boggling issue.

Ubani concluded: “Nigeria don tire me, no be small thing o! One thing is clear though that President Buhari should not mishandle this issue, it can stain him badly!”

Via

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Opinion: EFCC Discovery; Comedy of Discoveries and Bastardisation of the Anti-Corruption War - Jude Ndukwe

This write up seems to a great piece for me because I was almost thinking in the same direction but still wish its not true.

Read the piece below by Jude Ndukwe;

"Ever since the whistle blowing policy of the federal government was announced in December of 2016, there has been a frenzy of activities in the anti-corruption sector of the economy. While many have been excited by these activities, others have approached the issue with deserving skepticism.

This is because a majority of Nigerian officials would always find ways of “legally” enriching themselves by circumventing government policies meant to improve the society.

With the sudden gale of humongous sums claimed to have been uncovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, one begins to suspect that there is more to it than meets the eye especially when the Head of the organization has been described by the Directorate of State Security Services, DSS, as one who “has failed the integrity test and will eventually constitute a liability to the anti-corruption drive of the present administration”.

This damning verdict on Magu by the DSS was passed after what the security agency described as a painstaking investigation into the activities of the Borno born police officer while serving as EFCC’s Acting Chairman.

That report by the DSS nailed the coffin on Magu’s expected confirmation by the senate, and since then, Mr Magu and his backers in Aso Rock have gone so desperate to push for Magu’s retention by the president despite the negative security report on him and his non-confirmation by the senate as required by law.

Part of the script to get a gullible section of the Nigerian public on his side is to get the easily excitable ones who seem to form a majority of the populace entertained with what looks like phantom discoveries and uncovering of humongous sums of money without any trace of the owners.

Such movies are, of course, very easy to act. All that would always be needed is the cooperation of those who have formed themselves into a cabal that has come to needlessly hate the senate and would do anything to spite that institution even if it means helping Magu get some monies from amenable government financial institutions to plant somewhere and later turn around to claim that Magu’s EFCC has discovered the same money where it was planted, hence, most of the discovered funds have no owners attached to them.

For example, how could anyone with brains believe that the EFCC actually discovered the large sum of N49m at the baggage screening section of the airport without either identifying the owner or apprehending the conveyor? How did anyone ferry that huge sum in five sacks through the screening machines of the airport and was not detected? Not that the money was hidden among other items, but were just all in five different sacks on their own, yet, passed through the screening machines without being detected?

Why has the EFCC not shown Nigerians the CCTV footage of the person purported to have ferried the money into the airport and ask Nigerians to help identify and apprehend him? Who were those who screened the sacks and passed them through before they got to the baggage section?

And as if that was not bad enough, few days later, the EFCC claimed to have discovered another N448m in a Lagos Shop on Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, still without an owner. One would have thought that the EFCC would be more circumspect in its operations so as not to cast doubts on them, but its desperation to be seen to be working has made it fall into the temptation of exciting Nigerians with ear-tingling news of discoveries. Somebody rented that shop; the shop has an owner. Where are they and who are they? Unless such vital information is provided, Nigerians would continue to deride the senseless Nollywood-like discoveries of the anti-graft agency as an action inspired by selfishness and desperation.

It is the same story with the N250m purportedly uncovered in the popular Balogun market few days after. That one, like its twin brothers, has no owner!

The latest of these discovery series are the $38m, N23m and £27,000 purportedly uncovered at Osborne Towers in the high brow Victoria Island area of Lagos. Since that discovery, several parties have been linked to its ownership without any clear indication as to who the actual owner is. That is exactly what happens when your discovery prowess seems to beat that of even Discovery Channel!

A good number of Nigerians are suspecting that these purported discoveries are nothing but stunts instigated by the federal government and scripted by the anti-graft agency just to either divert attention of the Nigerian public from the failures of the current administration and or for the laundering of Mr Magu’s already badly battered image.

A more disturbing angle to it all is the notion in some quarters that those who are pulling these stunts might just be pulling them to deceive the FG, the media and the general public while they smile away to the bank with their 5% reward from the federal government whistleblowing reward policy.

It is believed that those behind these dramas, which can be a powerful ring of highly placed persons, only plant the monies somewhere and raise a whistleblower who “tips off” the anti-graft agency who in turn swoops on them. And in order not to cause confusion about it and or blow open their lid, they sell the stories of the monies being abandoned by unknown persons only for them to claim the 5% whistleblowing reward on the monies through their fake whistleblower. This possibility is very real in the strange circumstances of the spate of sudden discoveries of cash in places where the owners of either the cash or the buildings they are discovered are not identified or even known.

So while Nigerians get easily excited by such news, the whistleblowing ring smiles to the banks with “legally” earned money (I am sure no one wants to know how much 5% of $38m is in today’s exchange rate value. That’s a whopping N580m at a conservative rate of N305/$, not to talk of other “recoveries” running into hundreds of millions of naira. So that’s good business for our new whistleblowing cabal. Let no one be deceived).

This is similar to the abuse the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, once said was going on in the Central Bank where some powerful individuals are said to just sit in their gardens and call for hard currencies from the apex bank at very ridiculous or even no rates, sell to the Bureau De Change operators at prevailing market rate, make huge sums of profits and return the “borrowed” hard currencies back to the CBN while these highly placed individuals keep the profits.

One should not be surprised if that same ring has found its way into the anti-corruption war and are taking advantage of the loopholes in government’s good intentions about the whistleblowing policy, and making money for themselves through phantom discovery of monies without owners.

To stop this trend, the whistleblowing policy should be strengthened, and reward should go to only those whose whistleblowing not only lead to the discovery of cash but also the proper identification of the owners for arrest and prosecution. If not, powerful individuals will continue to source huge sums of money from government owned financial institutions, plant same somewhere, raise a fake whistleblower who discovers the money, get the percentage reward on it, and go to court to obtain a forfeiture order, and the money returns to government, and the cycle continues.

I do not trust the EFCC under Magu. An institution that is reputed for feeding the public with deliberate falsehood about suspects and facts of court proceedings as in the case of Col Nicholas Ashinze which has led to the stalling of that case cannot be trusted especially as the DSS has also confirmed that Magu has failed the integrity test. A man who has been confirmed by the DSS to have failed the integrity test can always fall for anything including the 5% that follows the whistleblowing report leading to the recovery of monies that have no one identified as their owners.

While Magu seems incurably fascinated by the attention he gets from the media, he lost about four high profile cases in just one week, an outcome that confirms the fact that his strategy of media trials and razzmatazz has seized his attention from diligent investigation and prosecution.

Making the counting of the monies uncovered a public show was needless just as it vitiates the seriousness otherwise attached to the anti-corruption fight and reduces same to nothing but a comedy designed to amuse rather than cleanse the society. All these have led to the bastardisation of the anti-corruption war. One of the most potent solutions to these charade going on is for government to look for a more competent and honest man/woman with clean records (and there are plenty of them out there) to take charge of the agency if we must achieve meaningful result in this fight!

Lastly, I implore the DSS not to shy away from commencing an investigation into this sudden gale of discoveries by the EFCC with a view to ascertaining their authenticity and help bring this madness to a halt. Anyone found complicit in the suspected “planting and harvesting” of monies anywhere should be brought to book immediately. This way, the confidence of Nigerians would be restored in the anti-corruption war.

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Clear Signs that JAMB is not ready for Exams This year

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is preparing for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which is scheduled to hold in May.

The registration process this year has been one of the most stressful for candidates who have not stopped complaining.

It took some candidates more than three days to do their registration while some others are still finding it hard to register.

Some Nigerians are worried about the preparedness of JAMB for this year’s UTME and this is why.

1. Poor network for registration

One of the complaints candidates have had about the new registration process introduced by JAMB is slow speed of internet services at CBT centers. Some have been stranded at registration centres as they were unable to generate their Personal Identification Number (PIN) due to poor network.

2. The mock examination failed to hold

The board had fixed April 8 for its inaugural mock exam but it was postponed last minute despite assurances that nothing would go wrong. Candidates arrived at their centres on the day of the test but it was postponed until further notice due to some “unforeseen circumstances. Could this be a sign of things to come?

3. Not enough equipment for computer based test

Some Nigerians are of the opinion that Nigeria has not developed enough in Information Communication Technology (ICT) to make CBT mandatory.

One of the candidates said: “Nigeria has not gotten enough equipment to make CBT mandatory. We have not gotten there yet. A lot needs to be put in place. If in the urban areas we are still complaining of no network, what then becomes of the villages?”

4. JAMB is yet to get it right

The board had failed to carry everyone along when it fixed mock test for April 8, knowing that some candidates had not been able to do their registration. Also, since CBT was introduced, it has been one challenge after the other.

“Since the introduction of CBT we are still faced with network failure, malfunctioning of computers and all that. Is this a sign that JAMB exam will experience hitches at the detriment of the students?” one of the candidates queried.

It was earlier reported that the JAMB registrar Prof Is-haq Oloyede revealed that about one million UTME candidates have registered for the 2017 UTME as at April 7, 2017.

Above all, candidates and their parents across Nigeria have raised an alarm over the stress of registering for the examination.

Via.

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Has rain forgotten how to fall this year? Weather apps are all inaccurate.

Does it mean RAIN has forgotten how to fall in Ilorin?

The moment you step out of the boundry of Ilorin City, you will start seeing fresh green grasses everywhere, you 'll hear sweet songs from the bird, singing joyfully at the sight of green leaves tapping themselves on the trees.

Domestic herbivores animals swinging their tails at the taste of fresh and green grasses. Bulls and sheeps swinging their tails and using it to send away their trouble makers, though, flies can be frustrating at times.

Now, going back to my question, it's like Ilorin as a whole needs prayer if you are the spiritual type. And if you not, please become one now.

This is April 11, 2017, all we are seeing is clouds. We have only experience a proper rainfall once, but for me I will call that 30 minutes storm. Why?

It fell and put almost the whole town into darkness by breaking almost electric poles across the town within 30 minutes.

The funny thing about this issue is, all the so call weather forcast apps on our phones, tablets and PCs keeps lying to us. In fact, as I am typing this now, my Google app is displaying "Rainfall" is currently falling in Ilorin while everywhere is dry.

God should please come and help us.

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Crying is good for your Mental Strength - Proved by Scientists

Why does an individual weep over his or her missing handkerchief, while another will scarcely shed a tear for the demise of a friend or family member – if and still, after all that?

Does the urging "Have a decent cry" convey any physiological or mental legitimacy?

Scientists have started concentrating the exploration of crying with a goal to help us better comprehend what human tears mean from social, mental, and neuro-logical points of view. Late studies demonstrate that crying is fit as a fiddle, as well as basic for good emotional well-being and dependability.

Crying is good for your psychological wellness.

Crying is a piece of our human enthusiastic bundle. Crying gives a viable channel and passage for troubling considerations and aggravating occasions. Every now and again suppressing your feelings and withholding tears can prompt long haul mental harm.

Here are some reasons why you ought to allow the tears to stream:

1. Crying alleviates push 

Tears are restorative, and crying is cathartic. Thirty years prior, an organic chemist found that passionate tears convey more protein than non-enthusiastic tears (e.g. tears from slashing an onion) showing that critical mental and physiological changes happen inside the body when we shed tears.

Trial clinician Alex Goetz, author of General Health Inc., put it along these lines:

"Tears fill an imperative need. Enthusiastic tears, shed in snapshots of serious feeling, convey push hormones and are method for disposing of them. Regardless of the possibility that crying humiliates you, it flags that you've achieved a level of stress that is unfavorable to your health."

The physical procedure of profound, enthusiastic crying includes strong fits, quick admission of breath, and tears, all of which crescendo and afterward bit by bit die down. Amid this procedure, the body tenses and afterward unwinds, giving a sentiment discharge – and stress and its physiological indications disperse.

2. Crying forms mental durability 

Crying is a method of recognizing your feelings and confronting them head on. Keeping away from or overlooking negative sentiments can be unfavorable to your psychological well-being and could prompt tension and depressive issue. Or, on the other hand, in lieu of crying, you may wind up utilizing other, less gainful, ways of dealing with stress including liquor addiction, tranquilize mishandle, or different sorts of undesirable enthusiastic practices.

Confronting and grasping your feelings and permitting yourself the opportunity to sob for your own psychological well-being is vital and requires bravery.

3. Crying helps you adapt and recuperate 

Educator Roger Baker from Bournemouth University trusts that crying is the change of pain into something substantial, and the procedure decreases sentiments of injury. The idea here is that when you sob for passionate reasons, you start an enthusiastic mending process.

Tears permit you to externalize and symbolize mental hurt in a physical shape. Your tears kick off your recuperation.

4. Crying braces connections and cultivates group

Tears are a positive portrayal of our identity. Our tears exhibit our profound enthusiastic association with our reality and demonstrates that we give it a second thought.

Crying before individuals uncovered your weakness and permits others to see that your passionate protect is down. Crying in especially troublesome or tragic circumstances where numerous individuals are affected, annihilates enthusiastic dividers and bears others the opportunity to convey what needs be. Bonds are forged and fortified when genuine companions sob together.

Crying has been scientifically demonstrated to improve you feel. No, it doesn't take care of your issue, change the circumstance, or bring individuals once more into your life. In any case, it provides you with an enthusiastic outlet that starts the mending procedure, eases push, makes you rationally more grounded, and cultivates group.

So proceed… let it flow.

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Pregnancy: Dealing With Morning Sickness

The fervor of discovering that you're pregnant can soon lose its allure in case you're one of the 70% of ladies who encounter morning disorder . It's genuinely normal and typically one of the main pointers that will be a mother. The term is somewhat of a misnomer as there are ladies who encounter it around evening time, or all through the whole day.

For the greater part of ladies morning infection implies feeling squeamish while half experience spewing too. Gratefully it doesn't last the whole nine months, and most ladies begin feeling better from around 11 weeks while for others it vanishes through and through in the vicinity of 12 and 14 weeks. Like the regular chilly or influenza, since it's basic doesn't mean it isn't hard to overcome. On the off chance that you have encountered it, you will know sickness can remove it from you, abandoning you feeling depleted and exasperated.

A few ladies will probably encounter sickness and heaving amid the initial couple of weeks if any of these apply:

• You encountered comparative manifestations in a prior pregnancy.
• You have a background marked by movement disorder.

Anti-conception medication pills made you queasy and made them regurgitating – it's the means by which your body reacts to estrogen, which is pervasive amid pregnancy as well.

It keeps running in the family. On the off chance that your mom or sister/s fought with morning affliction, there's a shot it will influence you as well

You get headaches consistently

While morning infection is dreadful and can make them wish you hadn't fallen pregnant in any case, there some approaches to facilitate the side effects.

Enjoy the scenery

Certain scents will turn your stomach, from your colleague's fragrance to the whiff of the previous evening's supper warming up in the microwave. This has a considerable measure to do with estrogen, the hormone in charge of smell, and if for reasons unknown you have abnormal amounts of it, similar to when you're pregnant, will resemble a hunting dog, grabbing on each aroma inside a 100-mile span. We propose conveying a jug of lemon concentrate or even a sprig of rosemary in your pack that you can sniff when important. Maybe let individuals recognize what you're doing on the grounds that you would prefer not to be known as the insane sack sniffing woman.

Keep a journal

We don't mean like a "Dear Journal, I feel so sick today" sort of journal yet rather keep track for the duration of the day of when you feel squeamish if there is anything specifically that triggers it or aggravates it and after that find a way to oversee it or dodge it. Along these lines, for instance, on the off chance that you understand it crests at 4 pm when you're somewhat peckish, convey a few saltines in your pack to facilitate the appetite or if it's the lunchtime smells from the container that set you off snatch that purse and notices it.

Remain hydrated

While it appears like an exceptionally basic thing to do, keeping your admission of fluids up when you can't continue anything down is a colossal ask, however it is basic you remain hydrated. On the off chance that essential have a go at deceiving your body into supposing it needs fluids, for instance, take a stab at chomping on salty snacks that will trigger your thirst. Another shrewd path is by crunching on ice chips or gradually tasting on a cool or extremely heated water for the duration of the day. The temperature is as imperative as the fluid in light of the fact that for a few ladies a lukewarm drink abandons them feeling far more atrocious.

Continue eating

We don't mean eating for two, however to rather snack on little snacks for the duration of the day as opposed to having three major dinners that will abandon you feeling sick. Getting sustenance in, and keeping it in, is essential so attempt and discover nourishments that you'll have the capacity to stomach. There are no immovable standards in the matter of what will work in light of the fact that everybody is distinctive and what is sustenance to one expecting mother is a vomit fest for another. Dull snacks like pretzels, saltines, and dry grain, works, as does popsicles and even watermelon.

Herbs

There are a few herbs that can quit morning ailment, including lemon emollient, peppermint, dark horehound, glade sweet, wild yam and peach takes off. These are accessible in tablet, case or liquid concentrate yet make sure to tell your drug specialist why you're taking them as a few herbs can be hurtful amid your pregnancy.

Be readied

By following your pregnancy step by step , you can arrange around morning affliction. For instance, in the event that you are one of the unfortunate expecting mothers who have the retching sort of morning ailment then it's a smart thought to convey a survival pack with you, so you're set up for any circumstance. While it may appear like an immense burden, it'll bail you out in the most clumsy of circumstances. We propose a change of garments (in the event that something goes wrong), a toothbrush and toothpaste, possibly some mouthwash and breath mints. Keep in mind the barf sack and your go-to reserve of wafers or pretzels, in a different pack obviously.

Pressure point massage or needle therapy

Pressure point massage or needle therapy utilizes delicate weight or minor needles that objective certain operational hubs and is known to be exceptionally viable in a non-obtrusive manner. You can visit a homeopathy or eastern pharmaceutical master for treatment or wear things like ocean groups, or stretchy wristbands.

There are examples where morning affliction is so serious, medicinal intercession is vital. Specialists can help with professionally prescribed medications that will ease queasiness and have the capacity to suggest different cures, where essential.

Luckily, morning infection doesn't last the whole pregnancy and for the most part facilitates before the finish of the primary trimester. Going to sites or downloading applications that advance a way of life by fusing solid nourishments and exercise is a decent approach to traverse the principal trimester, and in addition whatever remains of your pregnancy.

We know when you're feeling sick the exact opposite thing will need to do is exercise however a delicate walk will improve you feel by discharging endorphins that balance queasiness and exhaustion, regardless of the possibility that it's only 15-20 minutes a day.

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Useful Tips on Time Management

Have you at any point had the learning about that time runs so quick and you can't complete the process of everything on time? Or, then again at times you have a super long schedule and you have no clue where to begin with?

You're not the only one.

Luckily there are a ton of time administration apparatuses that can offer assistance. What's more, we've additionally arranged some pragmatic time administration tips in addition to some regular oversights individuals make.

Time managament tools 

Toggl: Monitor your time

Disregard the customary timesheet. Toggl is the best apparatus for you to monitor your time spent on various assignments. It comprises of a clock and a dashboard which gives you a diagram of how much time you have spent for various errands in the previous week.

Panda Concentrate Mode : Remain Concentrated On Your Assignments

Panda Center Mode is an expansion for you to remain concentrated on your every day assignments. You can just enter your undertakings to be done on the day and after that at whatever point you open another tab, you will instantly consider them to be an update.

Hocus Center : Conceal your latent windows naturally

In the event that you generally open numerous applications and they frequently occupy you from your work, you ought to attempt Hocus Center. It is a Macintosh menu bar utility that shrouds your latent windows.

Woodland: To beat web fixation

Woodland is an intriguing application that helps you to beat Web compulsion. When you press the catch to plant a tree, you can't change to another application unless you surrender it. It pushes you to make great utilization of 30-minutes to completely focus on your work and complete it viably.

Trello: Arrange Your Errands Well

Trello is a gainful application permits a group of individuals to screen on a similar assignment together. You can order diverse undertakings as indicated by their temperaments. Everything is exactly initially.

TimeTree: A flawless outline of your calendar

TimeTree is an easy to use application permits you to orchestrate your calendar with your loved ones. You can impart occasions to them with the goal that you can talk about and affirm arranges together. Sorting your calendars by updates permits you to audit any updates in a flash.

Wunderlist: Clear schedule with updates

It is safe to say that you are searching for an application which permits you to make a thorough schedule? Wunderlist may be the appropriate response. It permits you to make distinctive schedules and you can even include hashtags every thing of the rundowns.

Keep in mind the Drain : Make a rundown of errands with particular hunt criteria

The Shrewd Include highlight of Recollect the Drain permits you to enter your undertaking's properties in one line, including due date, need, rehash, and labels. Additionally, the supernatural inquiry wizard helps you to make a rundown of undertakings with particular pursuit criteria easily (e.g. assignments evaluated to take 15 min or less).

Todoist : Diversion allowed schedule

Todoist has a basic and diversion free plan for you to remain engaged and roused. By breaking huge undertakings into littler sub-errands with multi-level, you can compose and audit assignments betterly. You can likewise effortlessly include due dates utilizing ordinary dialect, for example, "monday at 2pm".

Noizio: Surrounding foundation sounds

Maybe at times the clamor of surroundings is the motivation behind why you think that its hard to concentrate on your work. Here's the arrangement: making an encompassing foundation sounds to discover your solace. You can even blend the sounds all alone.

Best time administration traps

Aside from the devices, there are additionally various tips that can make us significantly more beneficial.

Spend The Initial a hour and a half On The Most Essential Undertaking

As our cerebrum are most dynamic in the morning, we ought to spend the initial a hour and a half of the day on the most vital assignment so we can complete it proficiently. Quit doing minor matters like looking over the schedule or checking messages in the morning. You would miss the brilliant time of completing things.

Have A Timesheet To Monitor What You Have Done

A timesheet is the most straightforward and maybe the best device to have a reasonable picture of what you have done in each schedule vacancy.

By isolating your day into various availabilities and filling in what you have done, you can look at the truth and the desire. Did you complete your errand obviously? Or, on the other hand did you invest excessively energy in it? Furthermore, why? You may likewise perceive the amount you have enhanced your productivity step by step.

Make A Quit doing Rundown

Rather than a schedule, which the vast majority have, a world-class profitable individual ought to have a quit doing list.

You may wind up investing excessively energy in things that don't generally make a difference. That is presumably the way to deal with your time betterly and turn out to be more proficient. Quit looking over online networking at work and quit doing every one of those pointless things. These may be the things you would compose on your rundown.

Set Time Restrain

Work grows itself on the off chance that we apportion more opportunity to an undertaking. That is the thing that the Pakinson's law about. At the end of the day, as Cyril Northcote Parkinson composes,

On the off chance that you give yourself seven days to finish a one day undertaking, then (mentally) the errand will increment in many-sided quality and turn out to be all the more overwhelming in order to fill that week.

So set time restrain. On the off chance that you can complete an errand inside 60 minutes, then next time, attempt to complete it with 50 minutes. By distributing less time to an undertaking, you would bit by bit make sense of the genuine time required for you to complete it without squandering at whatever time.

Recognize Your Pinnacle Hours And Calendar The Most Vital Errands For Those Hours

Everybody has distinctive working examples. What's imperative is to distinguish your own particular pinnacle hours.

Our mind has restricted ability to focus and it changes among individuals. So it's vital to arrange your day around your body's regular rhythms. Attempt to plan your most critical errand for this period and work on minor undertakings amid your non-top circumstances. For instance, orchestrate a meeting with a customer amid your pinnacle hours and check messages amid your non-crest times.

Also, Here Are The Don'ts:

Make Checking Email The Primary Thing To Do At Work

Checking email is by all accounts the vert first thing you need to do at work. Be that as it may, that is not the situation.

It is not the most critical thing at work and it gives you a fantasy that you're accomplishing something. Consider it: what have you accomplished in reality in the wake of denoting all messages read? Most likely you have something more vital to take a shot at.

Multitask And Feel That Would Make You More Effective

A few people think multitasking do work. In any case, master discloses to us that it conveys mischief to our cerebrum:

Actually, multitasking was found to build the generation of cortisol, an anxiety hormone, and also adrenaline, which can overstimulate the cerebrum and cause "mental mist".

Put just, the more data you need to deal with, the less time you need to give it the idea it merits. When you enter a "mental haze", you begin settling on poor choices or reacting nonsensically. So don't attempt to do look into for an article and compose it in the meantime. This most likely takes you a more drawn out time.

Not Taking Breaks

Taking breaks is not an exercise in futility. Indeed, it supports our profitability.

As we probably am aware our cerebrum has a restricted ability to focus, there is no utilization in working for sequentially for a long stretch. Following a hour or two, we start to lose center. That is the ideal opportunity for you to take somewhat short break and give your cerebrum some outside air to revive. Have some tea or get a few snacks to eat. The significant down-time empowers you to think inventively and work viably.

It is reasonable for everybody. Despite age, sex, occupation, and anything, everybody has 24 hours a day. In any case, why a few people can do that much inside only a solitary day? The key is time administration. With reasonable devices and shrewd deceives, you can augment your efficiency and prevail in whatever your objective is.

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The Mentally Strong Mindset: Forgive, Free Yourself And Free The Mind

Excusing somebody can be difficult–the hardest life challenge ever. It resembles remunerating somebody for something they didn't do right or brought about damage with. Be that as it may, truth be told, pardoning them is not about them–it is about you. A key credit to excuse is being sufficiently solid to do it. How are you expected to be solid and have the capacity to excuse a wrongdoing? Shouldn't something be said about dear loved ones that deceive you?–How do you pardon them? How would you simply overlook something that cut you down? You are powered by feelings of outrage, threatening vibe, fear, wrath, hatred and intensity.

The responses to these inquiries are obscure. Absolution is intense; it is precarious. Pardoning is a theme of dispute in, libraries, places of worship, working environments, and supper tables all around the globe. Try not to expect statements of regret, yet attempt to excuse. Connections can be extremely undermined on account of misconceptions.

Begin from Inside

At the point when individuals get immersed in the situation of pardoning, they have to begin investigating their own particular feelings. On the off chance that you are charmed in past issues or stressed over the future, your mind begins activating sparkles of antagonism. You have to investigate your own feelings deliberately. It might work for the best to pardon and never revisit instead of be restrained in regret and lament. You would wind up in an enthusiastic dimness – is it worth holding tight to things that have as of now passed and that can't be changed? Is it worth stressing over about what is yet to come – which you have no influence over? Or, on the other hand would you rather concentrate on the present – which you do have control over? In the event that you need genuine feelings of serenity and a sparkle of inspiration in your life, it is best to excuse and be the "greater" individual.

Perceive Your Need to Control

Much of the time, we have a tendency to dislike how another has lived. You simply wish they could change. You may need them to apologize or connect with you, so things backpedal the way you recollect that it, in a way you were OK with. That is the thing that makes excusing so troublesome. Mending can't work that way. No one can change on terms you make. They have to change their own particular terms. The cherishing thing is to give up by permitting the individual to take his or her own particular life lessons.

The Requirement for Retribution

What is the most ideal approach to deal with retribution? A sweet grin. Grin when you are harming the most. In the event that somebody means to truly get to you, you will befuddle that individual. On the off chance that you do surrender, you are giving into their delight in you being irritated. It is best for you to experience your life travel without glancing back at the individuals who endeavored to make walks in the way. There is no better requital. Pardon and continue proceeding onward. Relinquish individuals, and make a splendid pathway towards your satisfaction.

Prepare to give up, pardon yourself in the first place, and after that excuse others. Live in the present since it's justified, despite all the trouble. There are numerous things to be appreciative for. Open up to them. Adoring is never simple, particularly when times are unpleasant, yet it is the most considerable and emphatically determined activity conceivable. Everybody needs a quality of pardoning and comprehend that errors happen. Yes, obviously not all missteps are excusable. There is a scarce difference between errors, sins, and wrongdoing. Be that as it may, on the off chance that you figure out how to excuse, you will gently proceed onward with your life.

Advantages of Pardoning

• Set yourself free 
• Proceed onward with life and recuperate 
• Expel malignance and outrage from your heart 
• Assert expert over your brain and your heart 
• Make true serenity 
• Pardoning serves superior to exact retribution 
• Discharge from casualty attitude 

It is affirmed, pardoning is helpful for the person who excuses, yet it might simply be useful for the ones pardoned also.

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President Muhammadu Buhari’s Health: Gloating is of no value

President Muhammadu Buhari

This is an article written by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari.

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"I learnt an enduring lesson on the day General Sani Abacha died. It was June 8, 1998, and death had laid its icy hands on the maximum ruler, and the scepter had fallen from the grip of the king. I was deputy editor of National Concord, the newspaper owned by Basorun M.K. O Abiola, the man Abacha not only inveigled out of his mandate as democratically elected President, but whom he had also locked up in military gulag for five years.

Mr Dele Alake, who was to become Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos State for eight years, was editor, but he had travelled on the fateful day. So, the lot fell on me to produce the newspaper, as the deputy editor. Dr (Mrs) Doyin Abiola was Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief.

Naturally, on a great news day like that, an editor would leave his office, and be on the shop floor, ensuring that the newspaper was swiftly produced. 

Time was of the essence, if you would partake in the harvest of sales the next day. So, I was in the computer room downstairs, editing the news stories as they were typed at the speed of light. It was there that Dr Abiola met me, as she prepared to go home about 7 p.m. She said something that both baffled and amazed me:

“Editor, no gloating. We have every reason to rejoice that Abacha is dead, but no gloating. Just present the news as professionally as possible. Don’t gloat!”

I thanked her, and she left. Her instruction continued to ring in my ears, and was followed to the letter. Those who read National Concord the next day would recall that there was no sense of triumphalism, no newsman’s orgasm of any kind, in the treatment of the story. Just professionally done. “Don’t gloat!”

Did Doyin Abiola have reasons to instruct her newspaper to preen and gloat about Abacha’s death? Every. He had given the impression that he would take over power, and hand over to Abiola, who had won the June 12, 1993, presidential election, which the military annulled. Instead, he locked the man up in solitary confinement. Doyin did not see her husband for five years.

Also, Abacha had shut down Concord Press for about two years, causing the company grave economic afflictions. Under him, Kudirat Abiola, one of Doyin’s mates, had been murdered, shot down in the streets, allegedly on the orders of the state. And many more evil deeds. Dr Doyin Abiola had every cause to waltz, and do a jig, at the death of Sani Abacha. But she did not. She even told her editor: “Don’t gloat!” I never forgot, and will never forget that lesson. It is human, and it is also divine.

Between January 19 and March 10, of this year, President Muhammadu Buhari was away in London, first on routine holiday where he would do normal medical check-ups, and then, it became a medical vacation, in which he had to ask for an indeterminate number of days.

Yes, who is he or she that never falls sick, let that person cast the first stone. As the President frankly confessed on his return, he had never been that sick in his life. Human, just human. Presidents, kings, queens, potentates, wealthy people, are also human, aren’t they? They itch as well, and scratch as hard. Sickness, not only death, is often a leveler among all mortals, young, old, poor, rich, dull, brilliant, ugly, beautiful, everybody.

And we know what attended the President’s medical sojourn from certain quarters in the country. Wild news. Hate news. Rumour. Evil thinking. Even, gloating. They did all kinds of photoshops, and spewed all kinds of evil stories. They passed round outright wickedness on WhatsApp, and those of us who debunked their evil tales became enemies.

They tried to tag us with all kind of labels, saying we were liars and deceivers. But wise was the man who said: “The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.” Or our own Professor Tam David-West, in his book, Philosophical Essays, also said: “Truth like the cork cannot sink. It cannot be sunk. It always floats.”

When President Buhari spoke with me on phone from London on February 25, I was elated, and issued a press statement, detailing our conversation. Many Nigerians, good people from a great nation, who could get hold of my phone number, called.

They would ask if truly we had spoken. Once I confirmed, they broke into tears of joy, crying like babies. They brought tears to my eyes many times. Till this son of hate, a purveyor of evil and tragedy, called. He identified himself as Jude (I decide to withhold his other name for now). He said: “Mr Adesina, you claim to have spoken with President Buhari. When are you going to stop this political deceit? How can you speak with a man who is long dead, and you are deceiving the public that he’s still alive?”

I didn’t argue with the man (though I was tempted to call him sonofagun, the son of a gun). I held my peace, let him finish his orgy of evil, and calmly cut off the phone. Doomsday prophets. Evil thinkers. Peddlers of mischief.

Then, on March 10, the President returned. Ecstasy and pure rapture from good Nigerians, who had been praying and supplicating unto God. Mai Gaskiya was back. The honest man had returned. Ramrod straight, man of integrity. He had been spared by God, and restored to us. Oh, glory!

Did you listen to that short speech that President Buhari read on his return? Did you listen to his off the cuff remarks? Was there any gloating? None. Did he rub it in on those who had peddled evil news, fake news, hate news? No. That is maturity. That is how to be the father of a country. And I remembered Dr Doyin Abiola: “Don’t gloat!”

Do you know what some other people would have done in the same circumstance? They would have taken evil minded people to the cleaners. But not President Buhari. They would have made snide remarks about peddlers of hate news, calling fire and brimstone to fall upon them.

But not our President. He would have been justified if he did so. The Good Book says, “He that digs a pit shall fall into it. He that rolls a stone, a stone will roll back at him. He that breaks the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.” So, President Buhari would have been justified, if he gave evil people some jabs. But he did not. What a heart!

Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.

How did that Jude Somebody feel when the President returned? He even bears Jude, a Christian name. How embarrassing! But he was full of bile, in the gall and throes of bitterness. May God forgive him. Amen.

With President Buhari’s health saga, some truths have been brought to bold relief once again. Anybody can be sick. Big or small man. A man of power, or a man of no consequence. Let us therefore be conscious of our mortality at all times. I can testify, from my many private discussions with him, that President Buhari is a man keenly aware of his own mortality at all times. A worthy example to follow.

Another lesson. Life and death are the sole preserves of God Almighty. Despite all those concoctions and contraptions, fake pictures, false stories on WhatsApp, mendacious newspaper reports, President Buhari came back alive. Who says anything that God has not said? There are many devices in the heart of man, but it is the counsel of God that shall stand. The counsel of God has prevailed concerning Nigeria, and concerning our President. Let us learn the eternal truth. No matter the devices in the heart of man, the counsel of God stands. It is not me that says so. It is straight from the Good Book.

From March 10, when President Buhari returned, purveyors of evil have disappeared. Vanished! Utterly transmuted, like Brother Jero, in that work by Wole Soyinka. Even on social media, where they had held sway for many weeks, they evaporated. Like a beaten dog, they had their tails between their feet, and ran for cover. But should we rejoice? “Don’t gloat!”

There is nothing we have, that we did not receive from above. So, why boast? Why gloat? Rather, we should be thankful to God. The President has thanked millions of people who prayed. And they continue to pray. Olorun da Baba si fun wa. God, please, spare Baba for us.

Let him take us to the Promised Land. A land that is secure, free completely of Boko Haram, flowing with milk and honey. A land where corrupt people get their just desserts, ending behind bars. A land where human life has value, where wanton killings stop, where justice and equity covers the space, like the waters cover the sea. A land where mischief makers repent, and turn to God.

Where is that Jude Somebody? I kept his number. I feel like calling him, saying “Son of a gun, how now?” But I shouldn’t do it. And I won’t do it. Because I remember Dr Abiola’s instruction: “Don’t gloat!”

By Femi Adesina.

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Article: Analyzing The Machiavellian Mind of Nasir El-Rufai - Reno Omokri

This is a piece written by Reno Omokri.

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Reno Omokri and Nasir El-Rufai

"I am sure you have all heard about the accusations against a man of God, Apostle Suleman, by a Canada based stripper who says she feels shortchanged because Pastor Suleman reneged on his promise to marry her.

“You may also have read the response of the Omega Fire Ministries of Apostle Suleman to these allegations.

“Not that I agree or disagree with Omega Fire Ministries allegation that the Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir Elrufai is behind Apostle Suleman's accuser, but there are many coincidences and it begs questions.

“Before I go into these coincidences, let me say that I know Malam Nasir Elrufai and if you think former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is an evil genius (he is not, IBB was very unfairly treated by the media and is one of our better Presidents) then you have not yet come across El-Rufai.

“I have never met a man so Machiavellian as Malam Nasir El-Rufai. In fact, his cold and calculating tendencies almost make Machiavelli a religion for him. If you want to know what this man is capable of, then read former President Olusegun Obasanjo's book to learn how he savaged his own foster father. Former President Obasanjo wrote that he 'shudders' when he casts his mind back to what El-Rufai's did to his own flesh and blood including his own blood brother and uncle!

“For a man like Obasanjo, who witnessed the Nigerian Civil War with all its bestial brutality, to shudder at El-Rufai goes to show you the moral depths of depravity to which Malam Nasir Elrufai has sunk.

“This is how President Olusegun Obasanjo, Elrufai's boss of eight years described him in his book-My Watch Volume 2:

“Nasir’s penchant for reputation savaging is almost pathological. Why does he do it? He is brilliant and smart. I grant him that also. Very early in my interaction with him, I appreciated his talent and brilliance. At the same time, I recognised his weaknesses; the worst being his inability to be loyal to anybody or any issue consistently for long, but only to Nasir el-Rufai. He barefacedly lied which he did to me against his colleagues and so-called friends. I have heard of how he ruthlessly savaged the reputation of his uncle, a man who was like, in the African setting, his foster father. I shuddered when I heard the story of what he did to his half-brother in the Air Force who is senior to him in age.”

“So, without further ado, let us consider the coincidences in the matter between Apostle Johnson Suleman and Malam Nasir El-Rufai and see if there are any merits to Omega Fire Ministries' allegations.

“On March 29, 2016, Apostle Johnson Suleman challenged Malam Nasir Elrufai over his Preaching License Bill which he promoted in Kaduna State. On April 3, 2016, Elrufai responded.

“Shortly thereafter, Apostle Suleman revealed that he had gotten a security report that someone had arranged for Fulani herdsmen to kill him and make it seem like an accident. We know for a fact that killer Fulani herdsmen have killed the king of Ubulu Uku in Delta state, HRM Akaeze Edward Ofulue III. We also know that they had kidnapped and whipped the leader of Afenifere, Olu Falae. So no one can blame Apostle Suleman for taking the Security report seriously.

“Around that time, in a Freudian slip (the work of God?) Malam Nasir Elrufai revealed to selected newsmen that he had traced Fulani herdsmen to a number of African nations and told them that ‘there is a new governor who is Fulani like them and has no problem paying compensations for lives lost and he is begging them to stop killing.’ Please note that this is an exact quote from the mouth of Malam Nasir Elrufai.

“A man who can pay herdsmen (as he himself admitted) instead of arresting them should not be underestimated.

“What is Apostle Suleman being accused of? Sleeping with a known stripper and self-confessed harlot. Okay, Malam Nasir El-Rufai tweeted on January 28, 2013 these exact words, “if Jesus criticises Jonathan’s government, Maku, Abati or Okupe will say that he slept with Mary Magdalene”. That tweet betrays a mindset. If a man can say this about Jesus who is our Lord and Saviour, one wonders what will happen to a mere mortal. Do not forget that Mary Magdalene herself had a past. In Apocryphal history she is recorded as a former prostitute.

“So on January 28, 2013 Elrufai tweeted that government critics can be accused of sleeping with prostitutes so as to discredit them and four years later, when he himself has returned to government, his own critic is now being accused of sleeping with a prostitute. Can this be a coincidence?

“Also, of all the states in Nigeria, why did the second faceless accuser, who spoke exclusively to Premium Times, ask for the protection of the Kaduna state government? Does Kaduna State have a reputation for peace or security? If you reading this want a secure and safe haven would you choose Kaduna state? Why have foreign airlines refused to fly into Kaduna airport which is the designated alternative to Abuja's temporarily closed Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport?

“And then why would a government confirm such a thing to Premium Times?

Now Premium Times is the only news outlet that carried the story of the second anonymous accuser. Why is that? Premium Times is known to have a very strong link to Malam Nasir El-Rufai.

“Musikilu Mojeed, the Managing Editor of Premium Times was until 2011 the Investigative Editor at Nigeria’s NEXT newspaper a paper in which El-Rufai had very major interests in. Elrufai's favorite news medium, Sahara Reporters cites him as an investor in NEXT.

“The publisher and editor in chief of Premium Times, Dapo Olorunyomi, was also an editor at the now defunct NEXT.

“Now Premium Times, the successor newspaper to Next Newspaper, just happens to be the one and only paper that was able to make contact with this new faceless accuser who, like the Canadian based stripper and self confessed harlot, did not present a shred of evidence.

“Premium Times were also able to get a 'top official' from the Kaduna state government to talk about the matter anonymously.

“Another coincidence, on August 13, 2013, Festus Keyamo joined the All Progressive Congress. He immediately moved to contest the Delta Central senatorial by-election following the mysterious death of the lawmaker representing that Senatorial zone at the National Assembly, Senator Pius Ehwerido, but lost at the primary level to his opponent, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor.

“Already, this indicates that Keyamo harbors a political ambition and sees the APC as the vehicle for which that ambition can be fulfilled. Within the APC, Malam Nasir Elrufai is seen as the Khalifa (successor to President Muhammadu Buhari) and the nation's unofficial Vice President.

“Beginning from 2013 just before Keyamo declared for the APC, Elrufai began promoting Festus Keyamo on Social Media (check his Twitter TL).

“Who is the lawyer for Apostle Suleman's Canada based stripper/harlot accuser? You guessed right-Festus Keyamo!

“On March 10, 2017 Festus Keyamo's law chambers released a statement stating that other “unfortunate victims” of his (Apostle Suleman) have come forward and are also itching to tell their story, with proofs."

“The next day, on March 11, 2017, the faceless accuser using the pseudonym 'Queen Esther' gave an interview to Premium Times alleging that Apostle Suleman had slept with her, but that just like the Canada based stripper, she had lost all her evidence of the relationship after her phone was mysteriously wiped clean of its data! She thereafter sought the protection of El-Rufai's Kaduna State Government!

“So Keyamo's chambers revealed that there were new accusers one day and the very next day one of the new accuser just happens to connect with a paper with whom Elrufai is known to have very strong links!

“Albert Einstein said that a "coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous". Ian Fleming, that great writer and creator of the James Bond character said "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

“There are too many coincidences in this whole orchestrated tale that only the most gullible person will believe that there is no Machiavellian puppet master in the background manipulating events.

“Look closely at the Canadian based stripper and self-confessed harlot. This is a girl who gave an interview on March 10, 2017 threatening to expose all her evidence against Apostle Suleman only to give another interview on March 15, 2017, where she said 'God will expose' Apostle Suleman.

“Can you imagine!! A stripper who is very good at exposing her body and who promised Nigerians she would expose Apostle Suleman now calls on God to do the exposition for her in her interview with Continental TV! And there will be gullible Nigerians who will still take this manipulator serious.

“In 2003, Malam Nasir El-Rufai was nominated as a minister by then President Olusegun Obasanjo. He went for Senate screening and alleged that two Senators, Senators Ibrahim Nasir Mantu and Jonathan Silas Zwingina, had requested for a bribe before they would clear him.

“Like the Canada based stripper and harlot, El-Rufai promised to release evidence of his claims to an astounded nation. After Nigerians waited with baited breath for two weeks, El-Rufai gave another interview saying he had no evidence but that God was his witness! Sound familiar?

“Last year, in the middle of one of the most divisive elections the world has ever seen, a girl accused then candidate Donald Trump of rape but because she had no proof Americans dismissed her. If Donald Trump had been a Nigerian, we would celebrate such a girl!

“Anyone who wants to speak up in defense of the Body of Christ and particularly against the killings of Christians by Fulani herdsmen, as Apostle Johnson Suleman and I have done, must prepare for blackmail or leave the struggle!

“Why? Because Christians, especially Southern Nigerian Christians, are so superficial in their Christianity that, with their own hands, they will pull down one of theirs on allegations without a shred of proof!

“I admire the Muslim Ummah in Nigeria. Look at how Muslims behaved when their spiritual leaders were accused in the Ese Oruru saga or when the Emir of Katsina (unbeknownst to many in the South, Emirs are spiritual not traditional rulers) was accused of abducting an underaged Christian girl. With Muslims, even with proof, they stick to their leaders. With Christians, even without proof, they destroy their leaders!

“Have we forgotten what this same Elrufai said when the Nigerian Army conducted an operation to flush out killer Fulani herdsmen from Plateau state in 2012?

“These were his exact words on July 15, 2012 in response to the Nigerian Army:

"We will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not that kills the Fulani takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes."

“If a man is willing to threaten an armed group like the Nigerian Army for going after killer Fulani herdsmen then ask yourself what he would be willing to do to an unarmed clergy man like Apostle Suleman who speaks against Fulani herdsmen!

“Connect the dots people, connect the dots!

“During Jesus's time on earth, He was falsely accused, without proof, of performing miracles by the power of beelzebub (satan). If some Nigerian Christians had been there when the Pharisees made that accusation, I am willing to stake my life that they would have believed the allegation against our Lord and Savior!

“In The Bible, Potiphar's wife even had proof about her lies that Joseph tried to rape her, so Potiphar can be forgiven for believing her, but what proof does this stripper and self-confessed harlot have in relations to her allegations against Apostle Suleman? None. Absolutely nothing.

“The only circumstantial evidence that could have corroborated her claims was the allegation that Apostle Johnson Suleman had gone to her parents for her introduction, yet when her father swiftly denied it she changed her story and claimed that the introduction was done in the Apostle's office.

“Who does a marriage introduction with a married preacher in the married preacher's office in a mega church where he is known as the sin fighting founder?

“If you believe that woman's story and you are my friend in real life or social media, kindly delete yourself from my life because it means that if I am falsely accused in future you WILL believe my accusers!

“For some time now we had stopped hearing about killings by Fulani herdsmen. In fact, we were seeing, for the first time, seemingly genuine and concrete action by the erstwhile Acting President, Pastor Yemi Osinbajo, to stem the tide of killings. But all of a sudden, the killings have started again after a brief hiatus. What recent event has emboldened these killer Fulani herdsmen? Are there no Nigerian elders that are bold enough to say the obvious?

“Was Apostle Johnson Suleman sleeping with Nollywood Actor, Leo Mezie, when he paid his entire medical bill of £60,000 for kidney transplant in the U.K.? This is what Sahara Reporters and Premium Times would not tell you!

“Was apostle Suleman sleeping with the nine poor Nigerians (male and female) he gave cars to on February 5th, 2016? Was he sleeping with the 30 widows and other indigent people that he gave out millions to to start their own businesses?

“This is an exact quote from the Nollywood star, Leo Mezie, who gave this testimony last year, ever before the Jezebel stripper made her lying allegations. This is what Leo Mezie said “I want to at this point thank Apostle Suleman Johnson for all what he did for me. I have never met him before; I took ill but as soon he heard the news, he contacted me and asked that we stopped all further public appeal for fund. He then took over all my medical bills, I mean every one of it throughout my stay in the UK. I did not lack anything. I thank God for using Apostle Suleman Johnson to save me from death.”

“This is a man with a Christlike mind who lives and loves to help people and you wicked souls who will not even spare a dime to help your own starving relations, how much more a stranger, come here to condemn him! And then you wonder why Nigeria has no helpers?

“And if you think all I have written about El-Rufai is too farfetched, then consider the testimony of Olusegun Adeniyi, former editor of ThisDay and spokesman to the late President Umar Musa Yar'adua.

"On the way, Balat, himself a former minister in Obasanjo’s government, asked, ‘Segun, this cabal thing, were you really a member?’ Before I could respond, former Federal Capital Territory minister, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, who played a prominent role in the campaign that eventually brought Jonathan to power, interjected, ‘There was no cabal, WE CREATED THE MYTH IN THE MEDIA TO NEUTRALIZE TURAI'” (Adeniyi, Segun. Power Politics And Death. pg. 272)

“Finally, ask yourself why El-Rufai's letter to President Buhari was only leaked after Apostle Suleman raised the alarm of his possible sponsorship of his stripper accuser?

“Look at how the narrative has shifted from the trail of breadcrumbs behind the Canada based stripper to the memo. A classic media diversion strategy.

“Hillary Clinton once boasted that "If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle." What does Nasir Wl-Rufai do when he wants to change theheadline? Leak a memo!”

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