2 British Nigerian women assaulted & detained in China for 2 months

Two British Nigerian woman have been detained in China for more than two months after their dream holiday turned to nightmare.

Modupe Idowu, 59, and her friend Esther Jubril Badmos, 48, were arrested after becoming embroiled in a dispute at a shoe shop in the city of Guangzhou.

They were locked up in 'hell-like' conditions at a detention centre for 38 days and although they have now been released, the two women remain trapped in the country as their visas have expired and authorities refuse to issue them new ones.

“Moyes unsettled Rooney, not me” – Mourinho

Jose Mourinho has insisted that he is not to blame for Wayne Rooney’s desire to leave Manchester United.
Instead, the Chelsea boss blamed his United counterpart David Moyes, stating that his comments have unsettled the striker and that fans at Old Trafford would be wrong to turn on him on Monday night.
“Why? They are against me? But I didn’t say to Rooney you will be a second choice for me. And they are against me?” Mourinho said.

“We are trying to get a player that a manager told ‘You will be a second option for him. We are not going for Van Persie.’
“The fans don’t have to be against me. If I say Ramires is a second option for me and he plays when Lampard is tired or injured – if someone comes here to get Ramires – nobody is upset.”
Moyes had said earlier this summer that, “I think he’s got a major role to play because we need to try and score as many goals as we possibly can. I think Wayne can play up-top, he can play dropped in.
“Overall my thought on Wayne is he’ll be key. If for any reason we had an injury to Robin we are going to need him.
“I want to be able to play the two of them. I want to be able to use Danny Welbeck and Chicarito as well.”

Stowaway kid: Controversy as FAAN faults Arik’s statement; FG to probe incident

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, has punctured Arik Airline’s account of how a teenager managed to hide inside the undercarriage of its aircraft at the weekend.
The controversy is not unexpected as there are fears that the federal government may probe aviation authorities as well as the airline over the incident that has been described as a national embarrassment.
On Saturday, a boy was discovered in the wheel of an Arik Air flight at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos. The flight originated from Benin Airport in Edo State.
Arik, the biggest domestic Nigerian airline, had blamed the breach on FAAN.
Its managing director, Chris Ndulue, while expressing shock, described the incident as a security breach, “We are worried by the incessant security lapses at our airports. We are appealing to FAAN to immediately address the problem”.
In his explanation, Arik’s Communication Manager, Adebanji Ola, said the teenager sneaked into the aircraft main wheel of Flight W3 544, departing Benin-City airport for Lagos at 9.00am.

“The pilot of the aircraft notified the control tower when he noticed the presence of a strange boy in the bush about 200 – 300 meters at the end of runway 23,” he said.
“The control tower informed the Captain that they were sending security men to the place to arrest the boy, adding that the pilot was told he had been cleared for take-off as the situation was under control.
“As the captain was making his final turn, preparatory for take-off, a cabin crew called his attention to the information by some of the passengers that they saw a boy running towards the airplane.
He added that “The First Officer confirmed that they had observed it earlier and alerted the control tower which responded that they have sent the patrol team to arrest the boy.
“The Captain again reported to the control tower and was informed that the situation was under control and that he had been cleared for take-off.”
But the General Manager, Corporate Communications of FAAN, Yakubu Dati, criticised the airline for being economical with the truth.
Dati said in the statement that “The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria read with great dismay the statement released by Arik Airlines about the stowaway found on board Arik’s flight 544 from Benin to Lagos on Saturday 24 August, 2013, in which FAAN was unfairly indicted while the airline took no responsibility whatsoever for such a serious security breach.

Ameh Comrade Godwin: BBA: So Beverly Osu had sex for nothing? I dey laugh o!

Did I hear someone say duoooor? I almost buried my head under my pillow when Nigerian representatives at the just concluded Big Brother Africa tagged ‘The Chase’, Melvin and controversial Beverly Osu were evicted from the competition at the eleventh hour and the denied the money and fame they fought to grab. Tongue out!
For Melvin, he’s fought a good fight. Thank you for being a worthy ambassador in far away South Africa. I’m proud of you.
Honestly, I am not a fan of that particular reality (immorality?) show; in fact, since its conception, I have never liked it. I have my extreme reservation about the show. The immoral activities in The House during the competition made me to write an article entitled BBA: Platform for free public fornication a few months back.
Many people had faulted my conclusion on the competition, but I was not moved because truth, they say is always bitter. Like me or hate me, I will always stand for the truth.
In the said article, I agreed that the fact that, the ‘Show of Shame’ no doubt, preaches unity amongst African countries, as it unites people from different countries and culture and promotes the exchange of ideas. I also cleared that it promotes inter-personal relationship amongst the contestants.
However, some activities in the house made me to wonder on what the reality show really stands for.
From a more critical perspective, the BBA has really gotten into the heads of our youth. All the juicy details of what happens in the house especially in the wee hours were never missed by many young boys and girls. They can correctly tell you whose boobs were grabbed, which pair stole some kissing moments, as well as the various colours of underwears displayed in the last 24 hours and who had the “biggest” JT bulge in the house.
Before the winner emerged Sunday night, my friends on Blackberry and other social network sites had bombarded me with Broadcasts and messages campaigning for Beverly Osu to go for the money. Their reason? She was real, she didn’t pretend like others. Did I hear them say REAL? So savouring the Turgid Pole of a stranger on a satellite television is being real? No, I disagree.
I learnt that despite all the criticisms, Beverly has been getting from Nigerians following her sexual escapades with house mate, Angelo, her mum is super proud of her daughter and was planning a big welcome party for her; what a dance of shame!

The question is, will the heroic party for her ‘proud daughter’ still hold since Namibian Dillish Matthews has gone with the $300, 000 star prize? Mama Beverly needs to answer this one.
When I later went back to watch the 3 minutes 17 seconds video footage of her live ‘sex’ with Angelo in the bathtub, I was moved to tears.
So this Angelo guy come ‘bang’ our lady for free? God dey sha!
Does that mean that Nigerians are foremost in such acts? I mean we have scored high in sex and sex related issues. Yet back at home, we pretend a lot about such acts. On this global TV, we didn’t fail to show the world the stuff we are made of in matters of ‘bedmatics’ and the tricks surrounding it.
So she couldn’t keep her pants on for the sake of dignity? She has portrayed the image of Nigerian girls as being wayward. What if her kids and their friends in the future surf the Internet and find these pictures and video of hers? There is no end to the cries, criticisms and concerns trailing her recent faux pas. “Allowing a guy to shag you openly; this is annoying. What a shame, she was even the one on top. What desperation!,” a colleague of mine fumed when the issue of the sex tape was mentioned in the office. There is no doubt about it: It was a big fuck-up!
It is good to know that Nigeria had won in three consecutive episodes from- Chuwang Pam Kelvin in 2009, to Uti Nwachuckwu in 2010 and to ‘breastfull’ Karen Igho in 2011. However, I see those three straight wins in two different perspectives. First, it is good to know that we have the largest market and also that we didn’t fail our flag bearers. By our incredible votes, we did boost their winning chances.
This time around, it was a case of much pain, no game for our own Beverly.
I think the Big Brother noise is over; I can now subscribe my DSTV for my little boy, Michael to enjoy his Cartoon Network.
Like my colleague, Chichi would say, “BBA is gradually becoming a continental show of shame. It is high time we pulled the plug on this modern day show of sleaze masked as home entertainment.”
As I end this article with anger burning in my heart like the Babylonian furnace, I leave you with the word from the Good Book-the bible, “Don’t let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, “Life is not pleasant anymore.” (Ecclesiastes 12:1)
But don’t forget, the Bigger Brother up there is watching.
I still ask, so Beverly had sex for free? I dey laugh (apology to OBJ).
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Power sharing: Jonathan is an enemy of Yoruba, we will not support him in 2015 – Group

National Coordinator of Yoruba Youth Alliance (YYA), Jackson Ojo, has advised President Gooluck Jonathan not to expect votes from Nigeria’s southwestern region in 2015.
Addressing newsmen in Osogbo, Ojo described President Jonathan as number one enemy of the Yoruba, who does not have the interest of the region at heart.
According to him, those referring to themselves as Yoruba leaders and also planning to deliver Southwest to the President in 2015 will fail.
He was reacting to assurance given to President Jonathan by Olabode Goerge, Iyiola Omisore, Ebenezer Babatope, Hossia Agboola, Professor Tunde Adeniran, Kayode Adetokunbo, Wole Oyelese, Lekan Balogun, Musiliu Obanikoro, when they visited him in Abuja.

According to him, “the Yoruba people are worse hit in the power sharing and political office holders under the present administration. No Yorubaman can be found in the list of 20 top political office in the country.
“We’ve not had it so bad as it is being experienced under the present administration of Jonathan. Even during the worst and satanic government of the late General, Sanni Abacah, some Yoruba participated and there were adequate representation. It was the same story under General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
“Despite the fact that Yoruba did not vote for Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in his first term, Yoruba was still appointed to hold some political positions, even under late Musa Yar’Adua, we were still adequately recognized, but now it is not so again.
“The election that brought President Jonathan to power in 2011 saw the Yorubas voting for him massively even not the way we voted our own Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Despite that fact, the Yorubas are nowhere to be found in Jonathan’s government. The Yorubas are now tenant because we are not partaker in the present government,” he said.

COZA church members ask Pastor Biodun to come clean on adultery allegations

As the cloud of adultery mess hovers around the Ministry of Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of Common Wealth Of Zion Assembly, COZA, concerned members of the church have expressed disappointment that the ‘Apostle’ has not clinically come out to either accept or deny the allegation levelled against him.
Fatoyinbo has been in the news for allegedly sleeping with one of his church members who gave her name as Ese Walter.
The wind blew and the chicken romp was exposed over the weekend when the lady in a tell-it-all article exposed her escapade with the man of God.
Ese in the controversial article entitled, “My affair with Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA,” explained how she savoured the ‘John Thomas’ of the preacher for years before things fell apart between them.
If you miss the story, read it here.
However, the pastor has neither come out to refute or accept the allegation but claimed that when he asked God, God told him to keep quiet, a statement, which his teeming members have described as ‘immaterial.’
“Now read my lips, I know there are people here that are not part of our church, read my lips, we are going to speak but we are consulting to come out with a robust reply. Before then, I will not say anything, but I owe it to you as members that have made me proud and have made God proud,” he told his congregation during the Sunday Service.
Speaking with DailyPost, a member of the church who gave his name as Israel (surname withheld) said the pastor should stop beating about the bush but come out to tell his members the whole truth.

“God can’t ask you to keep quiet in this matter because his name is at stake too. The church of God is being accused here and same God is telling him to keep quiet? That is immaterial, I can’t accept that. I came to church this morning to hear from him only for him to spoil my day with such statement.”
Asked if he would still continue to worship with the church, the fair completion man said, “I’m not worshiping the man of God, my aim is to make heaven at last, that won’t stop me from going to the church but we should not lie against God.” He added.
Another lady who gave her name as Tees, said, “The truth is that members of the church will support their pastor. The girl will be at the receiving end even if she is telling the truth. That’s Africa for you. If it were Yankee, They would investigate this man. Now the girl must feel like its a million people against one person. I believe her though, but I also believe she feels scorned. That is the root of all this revelation. Hell hath no fury like a “woman scorned”
For Simzie, the man of God is yet to clear the air on the matter.
According to her, “As far as I am concerned, you have not said anything to refute the allegation made against you, or maybe I do not understand your language. Just make it simple by saying NO, this never happened or better still if you are too proud or ashamed to confess to your subjects or congregation, then I suggest you go to a higher man of God and help yourself. One thing I am sure of is that you need help. Why do I believe Ese? I went through something similar in the hands of a man of God who claimed that he was visited by Jesus Christ in his home. Ladies, we really have to be careful. There is so much deception going on now in the world,” he warned.
Another angry member of the ministry who would not want his name mentioned said he would be disappointed if the pastor is found guilty of the allegation.
According to him, “There’s no smoke without fire, a lady would not just wake up and start writing what she doesn’t know. I just pray he’s impeccable because this is big shame to the body of Christ,” she said.

You will be held responsible if Nigeria breaks up – Governor Uduaghan tells Guild of Editors

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Delta State governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan at the weekend stated that the media would be held responsible if Nigeria breaks up.
The governor, while speaking at a gala nite organised for the editors to round up the 9th edition of Guild of Editors Conference in Asaba, said, “I want to sincerely thank the President and other members of the Guild who have been here for these past few days. There is no doubt that as journalists, you owe our people the responsibility of ensuring that we keep Nigeria one.
“Whatever you write or whatever you do not write for those who write whatever you say and whatever you do not say can keep us together or break us. So I want to appeal that some of us love Nigeria and want Nigeria to remain one.
“Some of us love democracy and want democracy to continue. We believe that we are still not firm on the ground in terms of democracy, but we believe that with time as we fall and get up, we will eventually stop falling. We will start walking and start running.

“So I want to appeal that sometimes before you write, think of the impact of that write-up, how it will affect society. I’m not saying you should not criticise, but when you are doing it, have the interest of the country’s uppermost in your hearts,” he added.
Uduaghan called on the need for Nigerian editors to hold government accountable.
The governor earlier on Friday during an executive session told the editors to monitor the implementation of budgets in order to achieve transparency and accountability in governance at all levels.
This, he said informed the need for Delta State government to print and circulate its 2013 budget freely to individuals, including participants at the conference.
“Budget should be a public document that people can have access to and hold government accountable to it. This is why we have printed and distributed our state budget to people including you all in this hall.
“You can also access our budget online at any of our websites. I think we are the only state in the country to have done this. Government is accountable to the people in everything,” he said

Police arrest two for vandalizing PHCN facilities in Ondo

The Police in Ondo West Local Government area of Ondo State, has arrested two persons in connection with the vandalization of equipment belonging to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria ( PHCN).
The two suspects; simply identified as Ojo Abiodun (21), and Oladiran Olawale (29), allegedly specialize on illegal business of selling electrical cables.
It was reliably gathered from sources at the station, that the two suspects were allegedly found in possession of the alleged stolen cable and other electrical materials which were said to have been removed from the 300KVA transformer installed in the agrarian community of Pele on the outskirt of Ondo town.
Their arrest was carried out by men from the Anti-Crime unit of the police division at about 6am yesterday at road 13 Funbi Fagun street, while making frantic effort at escaping with the loot in a Golf taxi cab painted in Ondo State colour with yellow and blue, marked Lagos EU 199 KRD .
Items alleged to have been found with the suspects include transformer winding coil, laminated cord, feeder pillar, laminating sheet as well as two 50-
litres of plastic jerry cans filled with transformer oil, all said to be the property of the PHCN.

Other items also said to have been recovered include several bottles of liquor, pliers, knife, torchlight, spanner and a weedy substance suspected to be cannabis.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of the place, Mr. Emmanuel Okorie, a Superintendent of Police ( SP), confirmed the arrest.
He added that investigation had commenced into the matter.
Okorie however stated that the suspects who are currently undergoing interrogation, would be arraigned in court, as soon as investigation
is concluded on the matter.
Meanwhile, the vehicle loaded with the alleged vandalized equipment and materials have been taken to the premises of the station as at the time of filing this report.
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of PHCN in the state, Mr. Orghale Eduziare who reacted on this described it as unfortunate, adding that the organization had been witnessing several attacks on its facilities in the town for some years.
Eduziare, who commended the Police for apprehending some of the suspects, also charged them to go after others whom he said were still at large.

Felix Festus: Questioning the sincerity of ASUU

The threat to academic stability in the nation’s ivory towers because of the current strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has attracted headlines in the dailies. The media has also been awashed by many criticisms, most of which have been directed at the Federal Government in which President Jonathan is the representational character. However, it appears many of the critics have failed to consider the other side of the coin, which is one of the essentials in a debate on such a controversial issue.
Therefore, the focus of this piece is to examine the purpose of the present ASUU’s strike and their sympathizers’ rage against the FG.
Firstly, ASUU came up with the issue of autonomy for universities. The FG approved the idea of autonomy so long as the universities would generate internal revenue to offset their expenditure, including salaries and allowances. This government’s position provoked ASUU members. They poured venom on the government for merely supporting the idea of autonomy – existence as an independent body! Having realized the illusion surrounding university autonomy, members of the academic union played down their demand. This raises a question on the sincerity of ASUU’S demands.
On the issue of Federal Government’s assistance to state universities, this writer supports the idea of assisting the state universities. But must the Federal Government be compelled to render support to universities established and owned by state governments? Methink helping state universities should be as necessary as the state governments are required to support the federal institution located in their domain. Needless to say that state governments collect tenement tax from federal institutions sited in their states.
The idea of compelling the federal government to offer help to state-owned universities is borne out of the fact that academic staff from state universities are also part of ASUU. The truth must, however, be told. The Visitors to state universities are the state governors. Academic and non-academic staff of state-owned universities are employees of the state governments. Compelling the FG to assist state universities no doubt negates the principle of federalism. It only brings to fore the overdependence of constituents on the government at the centre.
The progressive increase of education budget to 26% between 2009 and 2020 is another contentious issue in the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement. The agitation for increase to 26% in budgetary allocation, as recommended by UNESCO for developing nations, is a legitimate one. So tere is need
to improve the current 8% total budget to education by the FG.
However, while the FG should be chastised for its current 8% budget to education, one needs to remind discerning readers that in nations where huge budgetary allocations are committed to education, members of the academia engage in scholarly research that help to solve societal needs. Only a few of our academics engage in fruitful research capable of solving the needs of our society. Most of the university teachers set their target in journal publication that would help them gain promotion in their academic career even when such is far from rendering solution to our societal needs.
Akin to increase in budgetary allocation is the issue of earned academic allowances for university teachers. Allowances are stimulants that reinforce positive inclination towards work. While government is working out modalities to pay earned academic allowances to deserving university teachers, the Dr. Fagie led ASUU is kicking against such, insisting that allowances should be paid across board, even when not all lecturers merit such allowances.

My experience as an undergraduate and post-graduate student in one of the first generation universities showed that not all university lecturers deserve mention in the earned allowance, particularly the absentees. It is an open secret that some of the lecturers who are fulltime employees in the federal universities abandon their duty posts to shuttle between federal and private universities. They stagger their responsibilities in multiple roles as
lecturers–in-charge in both public and private universities sacrificing quality of delivery in the process, at the expense of unsuspecting students in public universities.
These ‘abroad’ lecturers hardly attend classes to teach in the public universities. When they return, mostly towards the end of the semester, they engage the students in lengthy, patchy lecture hours in a bid to cover a course work that ought to have been concluded before the time of exams. Any student who dare challenges lecturer’s absenteeism in public universities are often victimized with a threat of carry-over of the course handled by the lecturer or delay in graduation.
At the post-graduate level, the situation is even more unpalatable.
Many post-graduate students fail to complete their programmes in line with the academic calendar due to lecturers’ negligence. They hardly
spend quality time to guide and mentor their students in their long essays. With this domineering posture, a percentage of the students either incur extra year(s) or abandon their programmes out of frustration. If you would not grow grey hair while undertaking a Ph.D degree as a student, you have to not only be hard working in your research pursuit, but also be willing to worship the deified characters in lecturer’s garb! Let me add here that a considerable number of the lecturers have passion for their calling. Those ones always act right by performing their duties without compromising
standard; they deserve their earned allowances and should be rightly rewarded.
The influx of private universities became more pronounced during the regime of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo. Yet, thousands of university
applicants seeking admission could not either gain admission into the universities or afford the luxury of high fee demands of the private universities. In fulfilling his campaign promises in 2011, President Jonathan established nine federal universities and further established three to make it twelve. The establishment of federal universities provided succour to admission seeking candidates. Besides providing admission to deserving applicants, it also signaled a massive employment into the education sector. Jonathan will go into the history books as one whose regime established most federal
universities in a single tenure.
The prolonged quagmire and the sit tight approach of ASUU members are having devastating effects on Nigerian students, undergraduates and post-graduates. The rot in the education sector as claimed by ASUU should not be further fertilized by ASUU’s hard-line posture. The standstill caused by ASUU/FG impasse could have been resolved if only ASUU and FG would shift ground and make concession, at least for the sake of the students who bear the brunt of the face-off.
Already, the Federal Government has made a spirited effort to get the striking lecturers back to work. The government recently released a whopping 130billion naira in response to ASUU’s demand for infrastructural development in public universities. According to the Secretary to the Federal Government, Anyim Pius Anyim, 100billion naira is for infrastructural development, while the remaining 30billion naira has also been disbursed as part of FG’s attempt to defray the backlog of the earned allowances.
That means the federal government has shifted ground in this regard, so what is ASUU waiting for?
*Felix Festus is a PhD student in one of Nigerian federal universities.

Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi: ASUU strike as it turns students to artisans

Clairvoyants around the world should please hurry down to Nigeria for their service is well needed around here. Their coming now will be a
little too late but it is better late than never. Since ours is a nation with great predilection for strikes, their being of service to us will help us make the most of industrial actions we experience here.
Of course, having seers around will mitigate the effects of strikes on our lives, making it a thing to exploit, not to deplore. For, given the right information, we have the capacity to turn a seemingly unpleasant circumstance to a wonderful one. And this we can actualise as regards strike, if we had forecasters within our reach.
It is a common knowledge that Nigeria has enough clairvoyants. In fact, the country is brimming with them. From the gods of men in Lagos
synagogues to the ordinary man at the street corner who would always correctly tell you the team to carry a match even when the game is still afoot.
We have them here. It is just that they have not redirected their ability to this all-important area so needed by Nigerians. Given their wizardry in the act, I don’t want to believe that telling when a strike would end is too much a thing for them to foresee. No it can’t be, not when these men stay in Nigeria and predict what is to happen overseas and it happens just as they presaged.
With this established, let us then call on them to look inwards.
Perhaps, they may by that begin to receive honour in their country.
Actually, these gifted people should be in the employ of the government. It is not out of place to demand that. Since government is notorious for carrying about in a manner that triggers strike, let it make available for us seers who will provide us with the telling that would help us manage our lives while industrial actions last.
Today’s subject is informed by a report I read which has it that the strike embarked upon by ASUU since July 2, 2013 has forced many students in Abeokuta and its environs to register for various vocational trainings. The report revealed that the students, tired of idling about at home and spurred by their parents, took up vocational trainings in tailoring, hairdressing, auxiliary nursing, electronic repairs, shoe making, carpentry etcetera.
One Bisi Adedeji, who is a student of History and Diplomatic Studies at the Tai Solarin University, Ijebu-Ode, said, “I voluntarily told my parents I wanted to learn the trade after realising that a solution to the strike is not in sight and looking ahead for employment benefits after acquiring the degree certificates which is in doubt. I quickly decided to learn the trade for my benefits and to be independent and an employer of labour.”
Most of the students interviewed said they were tired of sitting at home and have grown to be passionate about their training, adding that the current high rate of unemployment in the country and the challenges of getting a white collar jobs led them into going for the training. For Mr Femi Shodunke, whose ward is an undergraduate, the strike may be a blessing in disguise as many of the students may end up using the trade learnt while it lasted to better their lives in future.
As laudable as this initiative of the undergraduates may be, I have one fear for them which is that the strike may be called off at any moment thus putting the kibash on the completion of their trainings.
Some of them may have opted not to go for this training immediately the strike began because of this fear. Seeing the lingering slant the strike has taken: they may sign in for the training on the seventh week only for it called off on the nineth week. In that scenario, will the two weeks be enough to provide them with all the knowledge required for the craft?
It is for this reason that we should be availed the service of seers who will readily tell us at the outset of an industrial action how many months it is to last. Better still, any of the two sides to the trade dispute should be magnanimous to let us know the length of days the strike would take, for both of them are in a position to.

Hence, it is not enough for ASUU to tell us that they are embarking on a “total and indefinite strike”. In as much as they left us a clue in that, the union could have gone further to tell us the exact number of days it can wait on the Federal Government after which it would accept its fate and return to the classroom trusting God to intervene in the matter. You know that is what we are good at: beckoning on the Almighty for help in issues we can glaringly take care of by ourselves.
In the same vein, the Federal Government can spill the beans as regards when they intend to make the lecturers return to work. They can simply disclose how long they would want to call off the bluff of ASUU. Although the Finance Minister’s claim that government has no money to foot the N92 billion demands of ASUU is instructive, she could have added that ASUU could therefore remain on strike till the end of the life of this administration for all they care.
If only she had been that generous with the above line, then would Nigerian students know they have over a year to toy with. With that in mind, don’t be surprised when you see them become more of an artisan than a student whenever the strike is called off. In the hostels you will be sure to find sowing machines and other equipment littered over the place. There is even a great probability that you may find students trying to fix their clients’ vehicles under that tree in front of their dorm while lectures are going on in their classes.
But cheerio for this is just a supposition. My fear is that that mocking remark of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation(SGF) spells the possibility of bringing this to life. At a recent meeting between the government and ASUU over the impasse, SGF- Anyim Pius Anyim had ridiculed to the amusement of those on government’s side that the Minister of Education should “go and give them(ASUU) N400 billion,”
It is the fact that such a scornful statement can come from a senior government official like him that makes one understand why more students are enrolling for artisanal trainings. That pejorative remark is much of a pointer to how long it will take for the strike to be called off. If only these people will speak in plain languages so that poor students would understand their fate. But since they wouldn’t, let them at least employ forecasters to come to rescue of students.
But seriously speaking, do we really need the services of clairvoyants? And do we indeed need parties to the industrial action telling us when they will culminate the strike? I know the answers to these questions are required to guide undergraduates who would want to use the time-out to enter for artisanal trainings, however, here is another poser: Are our students supposed to punctuate their university education with accidental skills acquisition programmes?
These goes to show that there is truly no alternative to ending the current strike that has crippled activities at the nation’s public universities. On that score, it is incumbent on ASUU and the government to work sincerely for the quick resolution of this impasse that has the potency of turning our young ones into artisans rather than scholars.
It’s not even as if they will be good artisans as their trainings will ultimately be disrupted by the call-off of the strike. Further, they may not have fixed their entire mind on learning the craft since their ernest expectation would be for the strike to be called off.
Similarly, the possibility that they would not see the end of the trainings could tamper their devotion to the vocational tutelage.
It is bad enough that the country is already reputed to be overflowing with half-baked graduates, let’s not make it worse by creating room for half-baked artisans as well. It’s high time academic activities is allowed to resume in our public universities.
Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi,
Editor-in-Chief,
wazobiapost.com
ug.ugovester@gmail.com
@ugsylvester

Photos: Olamide swarmed by fans at Computer Village

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Photos: Olamide swarmed by fans at Computer Village

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Drake and Rihanna spotted on a date

Multiple eyewitness report seeing Drake and Rihanna on a dinner date in New York on Friday night

Drake and Rihanna will make such a great couple...if only Rihanna will let Chris go and give them a chance. See more tweets after the cut..

IT IS A GEN GEN OOOOO..Wat is the need?

Davido tweets his advice to women

CERTIFIED

Actress Chika Ike shows part of her walk-in closet on instagram

Every girl's dream, every MAGA penny. Another pic after the cut...

Stunning Dillish wins Big Brother Africa - The Chase

Dillish Matthews from Namibia has won the 2013 Big Brother Africa - The Chase. She goes home with $300, 000. I think she she deserved to win. Beautiful girl with a good character. Congrats to her!

Actress Stella Damasus advices women on how to keep their men

Actress Stella Damasus took to her Adiva blog yesterday to advice women on how to keep their men. Read it below

"...let me go to the topic I want to discuss today "keeping your man" This is for the married women o please this is not targeted at single girls. Now we know that the one thing men cannot live without apart from money is SEX. In this forum I really don't care where anyone is from or what religion you belong to, I will be as raw and honest as possible.

I do not understand why women especially Africans do not talk about sex when we know that it is the one thing we do regularly with so much pleasure.

Read the full article after the cut...

Keeping Your Man - By Stella Damasus

Hello ladies,

Been a while since you read from me and I am sorry about that. However I never said I would be the only one writing for this blog. I threw it open to members to send in their articles, concerns, challenges, questions and other things to the Adiva email address and we will publish it.

Not only that, we will get the experts/professionals to help answer some of your questions, I am still waiting to hear from you all.

Anyway I have good news and that is the fact that you will be able to watch me talk more/elaborate on things I will write in the blog. Yes o my YouTube channel will be very very active soon with my new project called Stella's diaries.

You all need to look out for it because it will be very exciting as usual. I will say it the way I see it and I am sure by now most of you know I am not ashamed or afraid to speak my mind.

Anyway let me go to the topic I want to discuss today "keeping your man".This is for the married women o please this is not targeted at single girls.

Now we know that the one thing men cannot live without apart from money is SEX. In this forum I really don't care where anyone is from or what religion you belong to, I will be as raw and honest as possible.

I do not understand why women especially Africans do not talk about sex when we know that it is the one thing we do regularly with so much pleasure.

Anyway our men love sex to the max and we know that for a fact. So how come when we are dating them we are so willing to give them what they want even though we know it is wrong. The first few years of marriage is filled with sex almost five times a day in different parts of the house and at odd hours, but after the few years we start to back down, we start to make excuses, we start to see it as a chore and then we let them know that we are really not interested in them physically.

Wow, what happened to the lady fox, the hot chic, the sexy cat that he got married to?
What happened to the babe that would understand the signal he would give and immediately comply?
What happened those times when he would race home to his sexy energetic ever ready wife who would make him feel wanted?
I know that most of you will say "I have kids who wear me out, I have work that drains me, I got older, my sex drive has gone under, I have a headache" to the point that the man will need to get a visa at your "embassy" to visit his favorite place in the World.

When you do this to him, how do you expect him to come home everyday to look at your tired, grumpy and unfriendly face?

How would you expect him to come home to you complaining about the plumber, your child that was being rude, and your boss that gave you a hard time?
NOOOOOOO please.

At that point he wants you to take him to that special place were the sky is so wonderful and turn his brain around to the point that all you say will sound like sweet music to his ears.
These men are human beings who go through their own challenges, half of which you don't even know because they are trying to save you from all the stress.

What annoys me the most is when we women start to complain and nag about the men not having time for us, and how they no longer find us attractive anymore and that's where the suspicion starts. That's when the saying comes, "if he is not getting it from me someone else must be giving it to him’.

I don't encourage cheating at all in fact it goes against what the bible teaches no matter what. I will not also judge anyone who has been caught in a web he is not proud of for one reason or the other. I believe that if we are truly sorry for our sins and we go to God with the determination not to sin again, he is merciful and will forgive us.

In all of this I know that all men are not beasts, neither are they evil because we married them. I also know that men do not get married and carry it at the back of their minds that they must cheat. That's not how it works please. There are things that we do that trigger things in their brains and these things drive them to do things that they really would not have done. Most of us believe it when they say men don’t think with their brains but they think with their penis. I beg to differ because they know what they are doing and I don’t see how the penis can have a brain that will control the whole body. There is always something that sparks off in the brain that sends the signal to the penis.
You may or may not agree with me but this is what I choose to believe. Most men we married are not so evil and dubious, some may be cowards but cast your mind back to the kind of man you chose to marry and see if there were traces of that character or not.

What men want:
- They want to feel like they are in control of things which is not bad because they are the head.
- They want to feel loved and like it or not they are our first babies who desire words of affirmation no matter how macho they seem.
- They want to feel WANTED all the time, it gives them the confidence that all men crave for.
- They want to know you are still sexually attracted to them.
- They don't want you to make it obvious that you are smatter even if you are.
- They like their space and alone time.
- They don't want to come home to a fat mama who is the opposite of the sexy curvy woman he fell in love with, because she let herself go after they got married. Why should she try and look the same? She is married now, who else does she have to impress? WRONG! Men are first of all moved by what they see before anything else. So when they can't see that anymore or at least an effort to getting back that body that turned them on, they'll probably lose interest in you and find it someone else.
- They don't want to come and hug you after work with you are smelling of onions and oil. At least take a shower before he gets there or if there is no time spray perfume.
- They want to come home to a nice smelling neat and tidy home.
- They want to walk into the bedroom with the bed all made up and clothes arranged. Maybe a small note on his pillow saying I love you and I am glad you are home, that definitely puts an automatic smile on his face even if for three seconds, it keeps him interested in you
- They want you to be a good listener not just a talker.
- They want to know that you believe in them and you are proud of them.
- They want to know that no matter what you will have their back and support them, then ask questions later.
- They just want to see that you are making an effort because no human should expect you to be perfect.
- They don't want another mother but they want you to take care of them the way you would your kids.
- They want a wife, girlfriend, sorry to say (personal call girl) which is not a bad thing because he is your husband who is free to express his sexual desires as long as they are not life threatening or demeaning.

There are so many things I can add and you will not stop reading so let me end this by saying: if you do not try to do at least 60 percent of this regularly, trust me a younger version of you will cross his path and that is exactly how the enemy works. When that younger and more energetic version of you catches his eye, your matter will quietly end. This girl will rock his world so bad that coming home to you will become a chore. These girls can give him all these things and even more that the men find it so difficult to resist. All the money that was supposed to go to you and your children will find their way to her pocket. They can get anything they want from your man because they know the secret to getting and keeping him.

I know that this article will cause a lot of controversial wahala but it is fine because in life people don't like to hear the truth. This might also be an opportunity for people to make silly comments but the truth is I am loving it all. I finally have the attention of people who will ordinarily not want to listen to me or watch me.

Ladies on a more serious note, if you are guilty of these crimes and are depriving your husband of what is rightfully his then don't be shocked when a younger version of you gets the best of him.
I will let you all know when the extended version of this topic will be on my YouTube channel. God will bless your homes and give you the wisdom you need to keep it together.

Think about this objectively, try out what you agree with and discard what you don't. Leave the messenger out of it for a change and see the bigger picture ahead.

Take care of yourselves and remember that I love you all.

Kaffy’s husband is 25 years old

I’m sorry, but its cool to let you know. So according to the international passport he posted on his instagram page on thursday, Kaffy’s husband and PSquare’s drummer Joseph Ameh was born May 23rd 1988 (circled above). That makes him 25. Kaffy DanceQueen was born in 1980, which means she’s eight years older than her boo.
Meaning that before Toyin Lawani there was Kaffy? Phewww. Good stuff. I’m really proud of this new generation of women . Guess what matters most is happiness…

STRIKE Continues as ASUU Withdraws From Negotiations with FG

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday announced its disengagement from further negotiations with the Federal Government (FG), over what it describes as the latter’s perceived insincerity in the 2009 agreement as well as the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) both parties signed in January last year. The union National President, Dr. Nassir Faggae Isa, said at a press briefing held at the University of Lagos on Thursday that the 2009 agreement and the MoU must first be honoured, even if ASUU feels the need to consider renegotiation with the government. The union had embarked on a total strike on July 2 over government’s failure to honour the 2009 agreement. Faggae said, “Consequently, our members are left with no other choice than to prosecute this strike to its logical conclusion. ASUU members nationwide are saying this strike will not be suspended until and unless the government respects the 2009 agreement and makes concrete efforts to implement it in the best interest of the country.” According to him, during a meeting held between ASUU and the government representative on Monday, government declared that it neither had any motive to revitalize public universities through committed funding, nor was it ready to pay in full the accumulated Earned Academic Allowances between 2009 and 2013.