June 2018
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at June 30, 2018 0
*POLICE AND ARBITRARY ARREST*

By The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi
   
In a clime like ours, where notable criminal activities hold sway, conscious efforts at ridding the society of bad eggs ought to be the business of every responsible and responsive government. Although government reserves the right to adopt strategies it deems fit to combat its peculiar societal malaise, I am afraid if arbitrary arrest and detention with heavy fines is any option in the list of the possible strategies.

Of late, several complaints of arrest and detention of individuals in which there is no likelihood or evidence of crimes committed have continued to trail the operations of the men of the Nigerian Police Force. Sadly, this is gradually becoming a norm in our country.

Apart from the fact that victims are denied explanation as to why they are being arrested, they are, in most cases, subjected to physical or psychological torture during interrogation as well as extra-judicial punishment and other abuses. Even where victims are proven to be innocent after all, they are still not given the privilege to go without paying huge amount of fines.
This violates the United Nations’ declaration on human rights which strictly prohibits the act of depriving an individual of his or her liberty.

Article 9 of the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights states that “no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile”.
By this singular provision, no individual, regardless of circumstances, is to be deprived of his liberty without having first committed an actual offence against a legal statute. This also means that not even the government can deprive an individual of his liberty without due process of law.

Suffice it to say that anyone who is deprived of his liberty by unlawful arrest or detention, shall be entitled to challenge it before a court of competent jurisdiction. This also means that victims of unlawful arrest and detention have an enforceable right to compensation.
If, therefore, all these information about arbitrary arrest and detention are anything to go by, it is still not clear why any police officer should clamp down on unsuspecting persons in the guise of ridding the environs of criminals through indiscriminate or mass arrest only to release them later on payment of huge sums of money. It becomes worrisome when security agents hide under the cloak of securing a place to harass and embarrass innocent and law-abiding citizens just for pecuniary gains.

Unfortunately, the security challenges in country in recent time have made the intervention of the police inevitable even when the citizenry have complaints about their mode of operation which is usually in excess. But for how long would this be allowed to thrive? Must every person be harassed in a bid to fish out the bad elements? The recent method of combing communities through indiscriminate or mass arrest is viewed by many Nigerians as a money–making strategy, usually embarked upon by the police when they run out of cash, rather than efforts to sanitise the society of criminal elements.

As a matter of urgent public importance, i condemn in strong terms, incessant intimidation and arrest of innocent citizens by officers of Nigerian Police Command.
I wondered why the police who are supposed to be state instrument for the protection of lives and property of citizens now embark on arbitrary harassment, arrest and detention of innocent citizens.

For me, the police have rather become an instrument of political strife, witch-hunting and vendetta in the hands of government officials. I know, however, that am just one voice among many who could not be heard but are troubled and pained by this ugly development. These activities of the police tend to criminalise persons who are no longer free to gather and hold meetings or discuss on matters of mutual interest without the police raiding and arresting them for reasons known only to the security agents.

This trend, if allowed unchecked, might enthrone impunity and turn the police against the people they are supposed to protect and secure. Law-abiding Nigerians should be allowed to enjoy their fundamental human rights instead of subjecting them to unnecessary arrest and harassment.

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at June 29, 2018 0
*STATE CITIZENSHIP: A THREAT TO ONE NIGERIA*

 By The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

Since time immemorial, the Nigerian state has been characterized by low-level of national integration which manifests in inter-ethnic rivalry, tribalism, feeling of marginalization on the part of the minorities and ethno-religious violence. Scholars and researchers over the year have therefore inquired into the issues responsible for national disunity among the peoples of Nigeria as well as recommending solutions to those issues. However, one of those issues responsible for national disintegration in Nigeria but unfortunately have been given less attention is the issue of state citizenship.

There is no gainsaying to the fact that in Nigeria of today, state of origin or state citizenship certificate is one of the documents required to be presented in most official engagement. While there is nothing wrong in issuing state of origin/citizenship certificate to indigenes of a particular state, there is definitely something wrong as regards to using state citizenship status as a determining factor for deciding; who gets what, when and how. There is no doubt in the fact that in Nigeria, the chances of getting a job(especially with a state government) or getting admission into a tertiary institution of learning depends largely on one’s state citizenship. This practice is not in any way integrative because it negates the principles of building an inclusive society.

Undoubtedly, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to get a job with a state government which is not of one’s origin. What this implies is that in most cases, recruitment into state civil/public service is usually reserved for the indigenes of such state. No wonder the civil and public service in many Nigerian states is characterized by low level of effectiveness and efficiency. It is simply as a result of the faulty recruitment and selection process. To apply the round peg into the round hole, meritocracy is very essential. Hence, recruitment into the state public/civil service should be based on how qualified you are and not where you come from. More worrisome is the fact that non-indigenes, even though they are resident in a particular state which is not of their origin still find it difficult to get jobs with the state government where they reside despite the fact that they pay their tax to the state government. The desperation to gain access to the opportunities reserved only for indigenes/citizens of a particular state, have however made many non-indigenes swear false affidavit or get falsified citizenship certificate so as to claim the citizenship of such state.

It is pitiable that the ‘citizenship syndrome’ is more rooted in the Nigerian educational sector. In federal tertiary institutions, there is the issue of ‘catchment area’ which gives applicants from the states that constitute the catchment area of a particular school, a higher chance of being admitted. This practice as well is not integrative as it negates giving all applicants, irrespective of their state of origin, equal opportunity. The case is worse in state-owned tertiary institutions where non- indigene students are made to pay higher tuition than their indigene counterpart. Even in the United States where something similar is being practiced, it is fairer than the experience in Nigeria. In the US, there is the ‘in-state’ and ‘out-of state’ dichotomy. This implies that students who are residents or whose parents are residents of a particular state will pay lesser tuition in state-owned tertiary institutions of learning of such state than those who reside out of the state.

To justify the practice in the US, residents (not citizens only) of a particular state who have paid their tax to the state covert are made to pay less since the state schools are funded and maintained with tax payer’s money. Someone who resides in State of Michigan for instance and have paid tax to the covert of the state will pay lesser tuition fee than someone from Arizona who has never paid a dime to the covert of the Michigan state government. In contrast to the experience in Nigeria, non-indigenes whether they are residents or not or have paid their tax to the state covert or not have to pay higher in state-owned institutions. For instance an indigene of Imo state who have lived all his life in Abia State and have always paid his tax regularly will still have his children pay higher tuition fee if they are to attend state-owned tertiary educational institution in Abia.

In essence, the dual nature of citizenship in Nigeria is a factor that has disintegrated, and is still disintegrating the Nigerian state. Unlike India – a heterogeneous and plural country like Nigeria, where there is only one citizenship which is the Indian citizenship only, Nigeria has placed too much emphasis on state citizenship which in turn has contributed to the low-level of national integration. It is therefore apt to conclude that unless state citizenship is de-emphasized in Nigeria, a ‘one Nigeria’ will remain an illusion to be pursued but never attained.

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at June 28, 2018 0
*PLATEAU, A STATE WHERE VULTURES FLY!*

The carnage and seeming ethnic cleansing that has been taking place across the north central states is a matter that should trouble every good conscience. No single month passes by without stories of attacks, killings and reprisals. The most recent is the killing of 86 tribesmen of Barkin Ladi LGA of plateau state, with some sources putting the figure to more than 100. Some local sources say that some family members are missing and in some cases, an entire family was wiped out leaving no trace of the actual number of the dead.

Plateau state is hemorrhaging and the security forces either seem incapacitated or complicit in the killings. One can make this speculation given the rise in these killings despite having a military which is rated as the fourth in both sophistication and size in Africa. Human life has been reduced to nothing, or as some commentators put it, is now being equalled to that of COWS! 

The local media must divest itself of partisan mentality which clouds their reportage on this festering carnage, and show the world how the inaction of security forces has turned plateau into a grave yard of sorts and left the unburied for vultures and other scavengers. The sight is most horrible!

Nigeria cannot survive a Rwandan like carnage. It is either we rise, speak and act to prevent it, or it consumes us all when it comes. I pray it doesn't come. The Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, is the highest mass slaughter of a people since the Nazi Holocaust during the second world war. As Meredith put it: "Some Tutsi fathers on facing the prospects of slaughter, threw their newborns into the river in a last gesture of love", preferring crocodiles to eat them up to watching them being slaughtered or dismembered by the rampaging Hutu militias. That was the level it got to in Rwanda. Today in plateau and some other middle belt states, families stand and watch their members being slaughtered by ethnic militias and all we do is condole with the families, always.

Something MUST be done to stop this carnage. These vultures must be sent back to the forest!

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 *The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi*
Chairman, Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice (CRJ), Imo State Chapter.
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at June 26, 2018 0
*HERDSMEN MASSACRE: WILL RAIN OF JUSTICE EVER FALL?*

By The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

Random gunshots have replaced early morning cockcrows that wake people up from sleep. Mourning, lamentation, and overflow of tears have become the order of the day. Communities and villages have become practical arenas for massacre; “temple run” has become the only way of saving one’s life.

Children have become orphans overnight. Wives have turned to widows; young widowers are groping for their wives but they are nowhere to be found, they’ve been butchered. Nursing mothers have turned to barren women in a broad day light, parents are burying their kids on daily basis, all hopes are battered, shattered and scattered.

Schools have become a continental shelf for herdsmen’s exploration and exploitation; Churches are turned to terrestrial field of exploitation with its leaders and members as preys to their human predators in the people of “Fulani herdsmen”. Walking on the streets now is risky but sleeping at home seems to be a greater risk, comfort of human residence is a thing of the past.

Mass burial is sluggishly becoming a new normal, the use of coffin for burials is seemingly fading away, digging of individual graves is scantly obtainable, animals’ lives seem to have more value than the lives of humans, and people do no longer sleep two eyes closed because of herdsmen. This is quite sickening and pathetic.

Fellow Nigerians, are the above situations not obtainable in Adamawa, Benue, Taraba and most recently Plateau states of this country? Or will it be far from the truth if it is asserted that the present conditions in these areas may even be worse than alleged? Or do we still need specific references to point out such developments? If so, few examples will suffice.

On 22nd May 2018 as reported by an online media (thenigerianlawyer), two Catholic priests, Rev. Fathers Joseph Gor and Felix Tyolaha and 17 others killed by herdsmen got a mass burial. The two Catholic priests and 17 other worshippers were killed by suspected herdsmen in Gwer local government area of Benue state. They were killed on the altar during a mass alongside with 17 worshippers when the attackers invaded St. Ignatius Quasi Parish Ukpor-Mbalom in Ayar-Mbalom community of Gwer East Local Government Area on Tuesday April 24, 2018.
Later that same month, on May 28, 2018, it was reported that herdsmen invaded a Catholic seminary in Jalingo, Taraba State shot priest at about 12.30am, just less than one week after the Catholic Church across Nigeria led marches to protest against the bloody attacks by Fulani herders.

According to a statement by Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Atsue, the Rector of Sacred Heart Minor Seminary, Jalingo, he said: “I had a meeting with the officials of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and the bishop has equally approved one week break for the seminarians to enable them manage trauma for a while and to show themselves to their parents that they were safe”.

Just recently, reports with horrible and gory pictures permeated the social media space, narrating how herdsmen attacked 11 Plateau villages on Sunday, killed more than 120 (though residents insisted on about 200) persons, torched 50 houses and number of vehicles. This civil unrest and upheaval led to placing three Local Government Areas under curfew. These are not the only infraction ensuing from herdsmen attacks in recent times as others go unreported.

From the forgoing, a reasonable man is forced to ask: will the rain of justice ever fall on the issue of these herdsmen massacre? If so, when will that be? Why is our government so tardy on taking decisive action to curb this menace?

Lest we forget, section 14 (2)(b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has clearly and unequivocally stated that the security and welfare of people shall be the primary purpose of having government as an institution and a machinery for the people. But unfortunately today, this provision of the law is seemingly becoming a sword against the weak and a shied to the strong.

About a week ago, it was reported that a High Court sitting in Yola sentenced five persons to death by hanging for the murder of “a herdsman” and injuring of several cows in Demsa Local Government of Adamawa state, thus contravening section 96(1) and section 221of the Penal Code. Justice was done in that regard.

Without justifying the killing of the herdsman, what makes ‘this single killing’ so spectacular that action was instituted in court to secure the conviction of the perpetrators when lives of hundreds of Nigerians are gone as a result of herdsmen attacks? If these herdsmen enter court and stand at the dock for trial, will heaven fall? Will the court room experience Earthquake?

In as much as we are respect his Lordship’s Judgement and also appreciating the diligent work of the persecution, we wonder whether these same laws are not extant at the phase of this massacre and mass burials that are being conducted in the country? Are the courts not in places for these herdsmen to be tried? Where are the prosecuting authorities when the mass burials ensuing from herdsmen attacks are conducted? Can justice be one-sided? Will it be true that justice was done, seen, said to be done, and heard to have been done?

Without being biased, when IPOB agitation escalated, several attempts were made for it to be proscribed and it was. It troubles the minds of many as to what further actions of terror that the Fulani herdsmen are yet to exhibit for them to be proscribed as a terrorist group. What feature is left for them to display under the Terrorism (Prevention) (Amendment) Act, 2013 thus withholding their proscription?

Before we allow ethnicity, political interests and religious indoctrinations to becloud our thoughts, let’s remember that the creator will ask for these innocent bloods, let’s live lives with consciences, let’s have soft spot for others, let us remember they are humans like us with blood and flesh, deserving to live as we do.

May this piece of lamentation alongside with cries of others serve as an alarm of redress to the President of the Federation, the Chief of Army Staff, the Inspector General of Police, the Governors of the affected states and other concerned citizens of Nigeria, to suggest and device means in combating this menace. Right to life under the constitution is inalienable.

Let the rain of justice fall, injury to one is injury to all.

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at June 26, 2018 0
*JUSTICE FOR DEVELOPMENT*

By The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi
   
As has become the tradition in the country, following the victory of President Muhamadu Buhari at the polls, many groups visited him to show solidarity and pledge their loyalty to him. During one of such visits by Northern Leaders Forum, the leader of the group, Alhaji Maitama Sule, (now late) spoke extensively on what could be described as the bedrock for development in any society. The late elder statesman told the then President-elect to uphold the principles of justice and fair play if he must succeed.
Hear him: “It is the same Buhari that gave this country a sense of direction when he was a military leader. This time around I’m sure Allah has brought him to correct the ills of the past to the full. But Sir, it is easy and you know it was easy when you were there as a military leader. But what made it easy? Justice! With justice, you can rule Nigeria well. Justice is the key. Do justice to all and sundry. If you are going to deal with the people, do justice irrespective of their tribe, religion or even political inclination. Justice must be done to whosoever deserves it. Power can remain in the hands of an infidel if he is just and fair. But it will not remain in the hands of a believer if he is unfair and unjust. Behind every crisis anywhere in the world is injustice. The solution to that crisis is justice. The world itself can never be governed by force; never by fear. Even never by power. What governs is the mind. What conquers is the spirit and the weapons of governing the mind and the spirit are justice and fair play. …I am asking you to do justice to all parts of Nigeria. Justice will bring about peace. Peace and stability are the prerequisite of development. Development will bring employment. With employment you will not have idle people. An idle man is a devil’s workshop. An idle man thinks nothing but evil. It wants to do nothing but evil. Justice will do away with all these. I know you can do it. Do justices to us, do justice to them, do justice to everybody. Allah will reward you for that…”

Three years down the road, can it be said that the president has adhered to the wise counsel in piloting the affairs of the nation? In all the actions and inactions of the current administration right from inception till now, has justice been upheld? On the issue of appointment to offices where people from certain parts of the country are favoured to the detriment of the others, can we call that justice? Our president and his men never miss an opportunity to tell Nigerians and the world that they are fighting corruption in the country. However, some analysts and opposition party members have claimed that the anti-graft war is one sided and more of a witch hunt. Can anyone in all honesty describe such war as a fair and just action?

For many months now, herdsmen have been killing people across the country. Many villages have been set ablaze in states like Benue and Adamawa while lots of farmers have had their farmlands destroyed and their means of livelihood damaged by the herdsmen.
Apart from the usual tough talks and empty threats by the Federal Government and the police, what has been done to bring the perpetrators of these heinous crimes to justice? Rather than fishing them out and making them pay for their atrocities, the heads of security in the country are constantly making excuses for their inhuman acts.

For instance, after the January massacre of over 70 people by herdsmen in Benue State, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, attributed the action to communal clash. The Defence Minister, Col Mohammed Dan-Alli (rtd), on the other hand, claimed that the enactment of the anti-grazing laws by some states was the immediate cause of violence by herders. That was even as the Breeders Association, Miyetti Allah, claimed responsibility for the Benue killing, saying it was done in retaliation for their lost cows. Can we call that justice?

Meanwhile, while the herdsmen are treated like the untouchables, which embolden them to carry on with their killing spree, some other agitating groups are visited with violence. Some groups are even labelled terrorists. Can we still call this justice and fair play?

On the state and local government levels, the story is not different as the people at the helm of affairs throw caution to the winds and do things unjustly. Some governors concentrate all developmental projects in their senatorial zones or local governments of origin, neglecting other places. Some of them even crumble businesses in the their respective states just for theirs to thrive. As another general elections approach, some of our leaders are doing everything possible to impose their candidates on the people irrespective of the peoples’ wish. Is this justice.
With all these manner of injustice, why wouldn’t there be crisis in the country and some states as is presently the case? And how can we think of meaningful development in the midst of all these? One, therefore, think it’s high time all Nigerians, particularly the leaders at all levels, not only ponder on Sule’s counsel but also act on it for the good of the nation. This killings of innocent Nigerians MUST STOP and the leadership of the Herbsmen Miyetti Allah should be held accountable for numerous KILLINGS in PLATEAU!

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at June 25, 2018 0
*REDUCING THE PLIGHT OF NIGERIANS*

By The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi
   
For a good number of Nigerians in paid employments, it is no longer a secret that their take-home pay hardly lasts them beyond the first week after collecting their salaries. There are house rents to pay, food-stuff to buy and several domestic demands to meet, including children’s school fees. Enough money also has to be kept aside for transportation during the month.

There is hardly any category of workers who are not complaining and quite a few who depend solely on their legitimate salaries alone. This situation exposes many workers to numerous temptations and agonies which give rise to corrupt practices or falling prey to heartless money lenders, in an effort to survive the hard times.

The plight of pensioners is equally pathetic and tragic. Apart from the problem of anxiety and uncertainty when salaries and pensions would be paid, regular and retired workers often have pathetic stories to tell. For retirees, the situation is compounded by ailing health and loss of self-esteem as a result of having to beg those who would have been their subordinates or messengers for one favour or another.
It may not be known in higher circles that the process of getting gratuities paid, even after waiting for up to four years, involves some horse-trading-to put the name of the game politely! Those who had served diligently and retired honorably deserve better deal.

The plight of a large number of jobless youths is really heart-breaking. One begins to wonder why Nigeria is in such a pathetic state where social security cannot be provided as a means of curbing many ills which often arise from mass unemployment. It is even more heart-breaking when one thinks of the level of profligacy and mindless squandering of public resources by a few privileged people.

Is no secret that there are lots of economic abuses, looting of public funds and absence of accountability in high places. A number of Nigerians are aware of the level of corruption and hypocrisy in the system and in a mismanaged economy, the reactions of the masses can be predicted quite easily.
Private sector workers are not left out in the current economic plight, as “down-sizing” of the workforce and payment of half-salaries have become quite common. Companies that were quite buoyant a few years ago are now folding up or relocating to other places, and of course, their workers would be laid-off. Even banks are not finding the economic situation friendly and their workers live in fear of losing their jobs. Perhaps, multi-national oil and gas companies may not feel the heat of the hard time and their workers, being the envy of the time, often face a different kind of plight, namely: fear of kidnappers. There are those who rest neither by day, nor sleep by night. Some move with police escorts.

High cost of food-stuff compound the plight of the Nigerian masses, and, one of the reasons for high cost of food-stuff is the wide-spread menace of cattle and herdsmen. Despite what anybody may say to the contrary, farmers have been known to run home from their farmlands, complaining of the presence of several cattle grazing in their farms.

High cost of governance, with a large retinue of special advisers and sinecure-holders, make public administration in Nigeria the most juicy engagement. Is it false that political office holders take home an average of three million naira a month, as well as their food, drinks, fuel and newspapers being paid from public funds? Is it not time that we revisit the issue of lavish spending of public funds?

One way to reduce the plight of Nigerians, especially civil servants, is to work out a system of payment of salaries every two weeks rather than monthly. In civilized countries workers get paid on weekly basis so that no one would go to a money lender in order to feed. Those who had asserted in the past that no Nigerian was yet picking food from dustbin should move round, without police escort, to see what’s happening.

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at June 23, 2018 0
*2019: THE CHOICE BEFORE IMO PEOPLE*

By The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

I guess many in Imo State now realize that the state has since 1999 been on the wrong leadership pedestal. I also hope that the people now do realize that the comfort they had shown with leadership, at all levels, with persons of questionable character, has done the state more harm than good. It is hoped that the realization of this will spur action towards correcting mistakes of the past with the 2019 general election


It must now be obvious to Imo people that all politics is local and that there is really nothing spectacular about aligning with the government at the center. The most important thing in politics is that a state gets it right with its leadership. This simply means that every state of the Nigerian federation stands alone in defining how it pursues its development and how it interprets its desires. This has nothing to do with how the government at the center expresses its obligations. For the Imolite therefore, 2019 offers another opportunity to get it right and define the leadership that will explore the potentials of the state and transform it using same.

This, therefore, means that Imo people must rise beyond the demands of the immediate and begin to think of their state in future tenses. Being futuristic ought to make the people sit back and evaluate what they have been through in the hands of those they empower to administer the fortunes of the state including House of Assembly members, House of Representatives members, and members of the Senate. It also means that the people must begin to envision a state where integrity and vision are more cherished values than financial worth.

Sadly, the last has been the bane of leadership in the heartland state. Many will prefer to deal with the moneybag who promises transformation without questioning the sources of wealth. Our preference for such has brought the state to where it is today. Imo once noted for hard work and integrity, sadly took a dive into a pool where hardwork and integrity are no longer essentials for leadership. We forgot that in the labour maxim which says that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys for workers lies a truth that if you worship cash, you get a Robin Hood, or Dillinger, for a leader. Those who have followed leadership evolution of Imo state since 1999 will realize that our decent started immediately we allowed persons of questionable wealth to return to hijack our traditional institution. They became our traditional rulers not an account of inheritance or merit, but on account of the fact of how much they threw around bastardizing the traditional leadership system in the process.  Having successfully hijacked the traditional institution while our youths clapped after working as foot soldiers, they embarked on a conquest process whereby likes were enthroned as red caps dominating the traditional cabinet and community leadership. Such characters eventually took over town union leadership. The conquest was total.

With this gradual erosion of traditional ethos and values, we began a descent into the system whereby our worse became our best. We, therefore, valued financial worth to cerebral worth. Our academics thus meant nothing to us because they did not have the cash to throw around. Those with technical know-how were derided because they did not have the millions to announce at community luncheon. Men of value and integrity took the back seat because our communities no longer valued them on account of their lean pockets. And without saying much, we told our children that it was better to come back with deep wallets than a bag of certificates.

The choice before Imo in 2019 is to correct the mistakes of the past by voting credible candidates, not men of questionable character.

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at June 22, 2018 0
*AS 2019 DRAWS NEAR*
   
By The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

The coast is now clear for Nigerians to go to the polls for another round of general elections in 2019. Political gladiators have also begun to dust their shoes in preparation for the game they feel they know best. But the real issue before Nigerians now is how to vote only credible candidates. The question on the lips of many is; will Nigerians vote for the right people as the only way out of the current political and socio-economic quagmire plaguing the country?

Voting the right people into power in 2019 is the only way to survive this current wave of economic downturn. With the situation on ground, there is the need for us to look beyond political patronage in casting our votes come 2019 because failure to take the right decision will plunge the country into another sad story.
In its strict sense, politics relates to the art of governing. It is about the ways by which the affairs of a nation, the well-being and happiness of the citizenry are decided. It is about making decisions. Politics is the glue that holds democracy together and also the oil that lubricates the creaky machinery of bureaucracy to make it more responsive.
That is why in his farewell address to the United States of America, former President George Washington warned that political parties “are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the will or power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reigns of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion” .

So, the electorate must check the track records of candidates they wish to vote for because putting corrupt people into office this time would be too costly and disastrous for the country.

Many Nigerians have expressed concern over the moral drift in the country and how degenerating our society has become. They point to the tragic consequences of increased crime rates, horror of violence, loss of values and widespread corruption etc. Regrettably, when an opportunity arises for them to do something about the situation through participation in political processes, most people shy away. I think the time has come for us to elect credible Nigerians who mean well for the country. Politics is about public service and public service is the noblest thing citizens can do in a democracy. Sadly, however, politics is no longer valued as an honourable calling in Nigeria as many well-meaning citizens are not encouraged to participate; but we should know that it is our responsibility to put the right people in the right places. We need godly men and women in positions of authority so that we have a peaceful, just and moral society. When the righteous rules, they say the people rejoice; so if the righteous people are not voted for, then, we leave the doors open for our nation to be governed by the wicked.

The nation at this crucial time needs credible people in politics and government to make Nigeria viable economically and otherwise. Getting things done the right way requires good leadership, with the support of the followership. Our leaders must work towards the accomplishment of a common goal knowing that leadership is a process of getting things done through the people. It means responsibility. Nigerian leaders and politicians should know that the people are looking up to them to get things done properly. Everything revolves around leadership. The impact of leadership has been frequently cited in the Bible. For example, in the ancient Israel, when God’s people had a good King, all was well with the nation and there was development. But when they had a bad King, things went bad for everyone. That is why the scripture teaches that without a vision, the people perish (Proverb 29: 18)

Nigerian leaders must, therefore, provide selfless service to the citizenry. They should know that making other people feel good makes them stronger. Governance demands that whatever decisions taken by those in power should be in the best interest of the majority.

As the 2019 general elections approach with high expectations, it is expected that the electorate look beyond the old practice of voting candidates based on party affiliation or tribal sentiments. Be wise! Vote rightly.!

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Are Migrants from Nigeria Human Beings?
Kenneth Obi
In April, a former Nigerian public official lost his daughter under questionable circumstances. The young lady’s death was avoidable, and who knows, maybe her spirit is already haunting a UK hospital and another one in Nigeria. A hospital in Birmingham misdiagnosed her condition; the one in Nigeria performed surgery on her without having a life support machine. When her condition deteriorated post-surgery, the hospital could not artificially ventilate her heart. She died as a result.

I was hurt to read about that needless loss of life; anyone should. A premature death is hurtful enough, but an avoidable one is shattering. In seven months of this tragedy, the father has written two public notes on his grief. One could tell he deeply loved his daughter. In the latter, he talks of bereavement hallucination and its redemptive and therapeutic powers. It is clear that this father will not get over his daughter’s death anytime soon; it is an agony no one should experience.

In that same piece, he urges the government to “grade and classify” hospitals as “first, second and third tier, the same way banks are categorized in Nigeria”. He wants a first-tier hospital to have “an agreed high standard of medical equipment installed and top-quality personnel working there” so that “patrons can know the level of service to expect when attending any hospital based on its classification as 1st, 2nd or 3rd tier”. To rewrite his thoughts, the rich should be able to patronize truly first-class hospitals; the poor can settle for the second or third-tier. Or, who would third-tier hospitals serve? The rich? First-tier hospitals will care for first-tier lives; third-tier hospitals for third-tier lives. But this is not where I am going.

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Some weeks ago, 26 Nigerian “third-tier” lives perished at sea while attempting to cross the Mediterranean from the north coast of Africa. All 26 were women, two of them even pregnant. This wasn’t the first time that Nigerian migrants would die, or the first time the public would gett a sniff of their travails while on the risky sail in search of green pastures. Anyone interested in knowing the grim dangers of the average migrant journey should please google ‘Europe by Desert: Tears of African Migrants’. Thank me for the link if you wish, but you should compulsorily thank Emmanuel Mayah, the writer, one of the most daring journalists to ever emerge from Africa. At great risk to his life, Mayah went undercover for 37 days with illegal migrants, traveling across seven countries in an attempt to cross the Sahara Desert. On his return, he documented the dangers involved in such journeys: rape, armed robbery, fraud, blood oaths, hunger, dehydration, death.

That was in 2009. Eight years after, very little has changed. Year on year, migrants keep dying in their thousands — from the hundreds of thousands who’d rather die than remaining on the continent. This year alone, 150,985 have arrived in southern Europe via North Africa, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM); 2,639 others died while trying to.

In May, Nigerians were among the 44 migrants to have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger while en route to Libya, where they were to cross to Europe. Ghana was the only other nation represented in that tragedy. In August, Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO), quoting data from the IOM, said Nigerians formed the majority of the 1,500 migrants to have died in the first seven months of 2017. Both NIDO and IOM have always acknowledged that these figures are an underestimation of migration casualties; it is never easy to account for deaths in the desert, at sea, and at the various stages of an illegal trip.

Migrant casualties are literally an everyday affair, but the latest round is generating an above-usual notice for various reasons. This is one of the very few cases where Italian officials are suspecting that migrants were deliberately murdered after they had been sexually assaulted. An investigation is already ongoing and five people are in detention already. The nature of this investigation has to be harped on: Italy is investigating the death of 26 Nigerians who tried to enter Italy illegally; given the circumstances, it is under no obligation to do so. Italy also gave dignity to the migrants, organizing a burial ceremony for them, even going ahead to place a picture and an information card with copies of dental scans and a list of traits like tattoos and scars “that might someday be used to identify the victim if a family member ever comes looking”.

In all this, the Nigerian government was conspicuously absent. The girls were buried without Nigerian presence at the solemn ceremony. Meanwhile, the Embassy of Nigeria in Rome has been sleeping — no interest in the investigations into the cause of the deaths. On the day the 26 were buried, Geoffrey Onyema, the Foreign Affairs Minister, was quiet. Meanwhile, when Nigeria beat Argentina in a World cup friendly three days earlier, he was quick to pen a congratulatory message to the Super Eagles, announcing: “Russia, here we come!”

Okay, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, SSA to the President on Foreign Relations and Diaspora, issued a statement describing the death of the girls as “avoidable and preventable… tragic and lamentable… just not worth it ultimately”. But to know what she truly feels, look no further than her Twitter engagement with those implicitly blaming the tragedy on the government. When one person tweets that “Everybody is trying hard to blame the gov for their death as if they were sent on a mission by the gov,” Dabiri-Erewa retweets. When another berates the Federal Government for its absence at the interment, she asks if the Nigerian mission was “duly informed of the time, date and venue”. Finally, as contained in the press release, and as she generously argued on Twitter, Dabiri-Erewa believes the solution to persistent migrant deaths is to educate Nigerians about the dangers of such journeys. Absolutely not!

Talk to anyone in Edo — the state with the highest contribution to Nigeria’s migrant population — and you will hear that migrants are well-aware of the risks. The problem is that they’re in so much suffering already that they wonder if death can be any worse. There is something migrants are running away from; and unless the government addresses it, more deaths are bound to happen. What they are chasing after are the simple things of life: food, shelter, clothing, employment, dignity, a sense of belonging in their own country. Only people who have experienced the lack of these basics can understand and interpret the frustrations of migrants.

The ex-public official who lost his daughter, for example, was failed by the health system. Seven months after, he hasn’t healed. Now, consider a poor Nigerian who has been failed numerous times by the health system, uncountable times by the job industry, many times by the education system. Imagine the travails of a man who has lost his wife because he couldn’t afford first-tier healthcare, whose children are out of school because he couldn’t pay their fees, whose family has been thrown out by his landlord because he couldn’t pay his rent. Many years of multiple frustrations will convince him that there is better life abroad, and he’d rather die trying to get it than remain in penury in Nigeria.

In case Nigerian public officials do not know, many of them are culpable for the death of these migrants. By their daily abdication of their responsibility to take decisions in public interest, by filling their pockets at the expense of building the structures that could have kept the dead migrants back in the country, by constantly travelling abroad and experiencing the way normal societies work yet failing to replicate the same at home, by their blithe contempt for the life of the common man so long they and their families are sorted, so many Nigerian public office holders — not all — have blood on their hands. The migrant’s doesn’t mean a thing to the government, but no problem; God hasn’t stopped being God!

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FG Promoting Darkness in Nigeria Through Wrong and Cut Throat policies!
Ken Obi
The Federal Government is out of its depth in resolving the electricity crisis in the country, and is rather making the bad situation worse through faulty policy directions, cutthroat measures, and disincentives which further compound the problems.

According to Rural Electrification Agency (REA), ‘about one hundred million Nigerians,​ ie 75% of total population are not connected to national grid, 63 million of this population do not live within a 1-km radius of the nearest electricity pole.’ Also, according to the latest ‘Power Generation Report’ by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, released on 9 April this year, 8 out of Nigeria’s 27 power plants were at a time shut down due to gas, line and frequency management constraints.

These facts suffice to consider electricity policy alternatives that de-emphasise having all Nigerians on the national grid, but rather concentrate more on renewable, off-grid solutions which are easier and more flexible to deploy, which serve the purpose providing electricity well and are eco-friendly.

Regrettably, the Nigerian Customs Service (NC​S​) has imposed a 5 to 10% import duty on solar panels necessary for deploying electricity by solar system. This new imposition is a disincentive to spreading electricity accessibility for Nigerians ​and an outright contravention and violation of Federal Government law: CET Code 8541.4010.00 — a law that puts import duty on solar panels at 0% in order to encourage wider adoption of alternative, renewable sources of electricity, with focus on solar energy.

The consequences of this self-destructive​ and lawless action by the NCS is that cost of solar power installations have now become more expensive and difficult to access. This is stifling the operation of an industry that is supposed to provide an alternative for alleviating Nigeria’s poor electric power woes.

Despite outcries, and repeated calls to draw the Federal Government’s attention to this anomaly, the FG has remained mute and unconcerned. CRJ suspects that the FG may be deliberately killing the solar energy sector, in order to promote the use of generator sets depite its high cost of fueling and maintenance, aside toxic fumes and other environmental health hazards associated with their continued usage. By killing the solar energy market the FG is consciously or unwittingly protecting the interests of generator-import industry. This further begs the question, whether the present FG has its priorities right.
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CRJ is of the view that as a country we should be focusing on decentralising access to electricity from the national grid, by encouraging off-grid solutions like solar​, wind,​ and other forms of renewable energy sources; as well as deploying embedded power, which handles power generation, transmission, and distribution within specified locations.

​The Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola in February this year called for ideas from the public on what to do with 2,000 Megawatts of ‘stranded power’; a situation where electricity is generated but wastes because of the compromised state of our national grid which lacks the capacity to transmit same to all nooks and crannies of the federation. Nothing emphasises the need for alternative options more than this.

The Federal Government should be committed to giving tax holidays to the alternative energy sector, and to encourage them with other incentives. We want Nigeria to be the African hub for alternative energy. We shall train manpower at all levels of the value chain, producing numerous technicians, researchers, installers, etc in order to create a market for easy and readily-available access to alternative source of energy.

CRJ wants the FG to grant incentives to operators in the generator import business to switch over to solar and other alternative sources of decentralised clean energy, which are obviously more beneficial.

Investments in the national grid have not yielded us value for money in decades. It is best to focus on the alternative solution which is working well for others. If the sector would not be encouraged and supported, it is better to let it be than to kill it.

The other danger in having and executing this incoherent electricity energy policy is, it stands to derail Nigeria’s plan to generate 30% of electricity through renewables by 2030.

 *Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice (CRJ)*
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Conviction of Nyame, Dariye: Important Victories For Anti Corruption Crusade
Ken Obi
Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice (CRJ) lauds the conviction of former Plateau State Governor, Joshua Dariye for misappropriation of public funds. The 14 year jail term handed to the former governor by the Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Gudu Abuja is praiseworthy for the fact that it sends a clear signal that the looting of the public treasury is a serious crime against society. Coming on the heels of the similar conviction of former Governor of Taraba State, Reverend Jolly Nyame, the latest verdict against yet another corrupt politician is a boost for the anti-corruption crusade of the Federal Government. This verdict gives hope to the ordinary Nigerian that the long arms of the law is not meant for only the poor and powerless. It is a clear message that the rich, mighty and powerful who are derailing the fortunes of our country by looting public resources, can also be held to account.

CRJ commends the courage of the justices, who used their verdicts from the bench to make very decisive statements against the evils of corruption. We call on other judges across the country to emulate the courage and commitment of these judges sending a clear message against all forms of corruption. It is also pertinent that we use this opportunity to appeal to judges at the appellate courts to adopt a similar decisive approach to dealing with corruption cases.
Those who stole the country dry may be banking on using legal technicalities to upturn their convictions. We call on the higher courts to exhibit courage at this critical time.

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For us, the mind boggling corruption perpetrated by the convicted politicians is responsible for the denial of basic services to the Nigerian people. The fact that millions of Nigerian children cannot access a basic service like education, is a direct result of the assault on the public treasury by convicted politicians like Dariye and Nyame. Similarly, the fact of Nigeria’s collapsing health system, the death traps that are roads, and the failure to deliver other critical services like electricity, can be traced to the monster of corruption. It is for this reason that all Nigerian patriots must commend the judges in these trials for putting the substance of justice over and above legal technicality.

It is equally fitting that the latest verdict against corruption, came just one day after the newly minted June 12 Democracy Day. The new democracy day is about justice, equity and fairness. All forms of corruption are not compatible with the notion of democracy as the government of the people, for the people and by the people. CRJ therefore calls on Nigerians to support anti-corruption agencies as they intensify the fight to recover looted funds, and reclaim our country from the hands of the big thieves, whose serious crimes have made the country a laughing stock in the comity of nations.



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[6/19, 6:56 AM] People's Bishop: *FG Promoting Darkness in Nigeria Through Wrong and Cut Throat Policies.*

The Federal Government is out of its depth in resolving the electricity crisis in the country, and is rather making the bad situation worse through faulty policy directions, cutthroat measures, and disincentives which further compound the problems.

According to Rural Electrification Agency (REA), ‘about one hundred million Nigerians,​ ie 75% of total population are not connected to national grid, 63 million of this population do not live within a 1-km radius of the nearest electricity pole.’ Also, according to the latest ‘Power Generation Report’ by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, released on 9 April this year, 8 out of Nigeria’s 27 power plants were at a time shut down due to gas, line and frequency management constraints.

These facts suffice to consider electricity policy alternatives that de-emphasise having all Nigerians on the national grid, but rather concentrate more on renewable, off-grid solutions which are easier and more flexible to deploy, which serve the purpose providing electricity well and are eco-friendly.

Regrettably, the Nigerian Customs Service (NC​S​) has imposed a 5 to 10% import duty on solar panels necessary for deploying electricity by solar system. This new imposition is a disincentive to spreading electricity accessibility for Nigerians ​and an outright contravention and violation of Federal Government law: CET Code 8541.4010.00 — a law that puts import duty on solar panels at 0% in order to encourage wider adoption of alternative, renewable sources of electricity, with focus on solar energy.

The consequences of this self-destructive​ and lawless action by the NCS is that cost of solar power installations have now become more expensive and difficult to access. This is stifling the operation of an industry that is supposed to provide an alternative for alleviating Nigeria’s poor electric power woes.

Despite outcries, and repeated calls to draw the Federal Government’s attention to this anomaly, the FG has remained mute and unconcerned. CRJ suspects that the FG may be deliberately killing the solar energy sector, in order to promote the use of generator sets depite its high cost of fueling and maintenance, aside toxic fumes and other environmental health hazards associated with their continued usage. By killing the solar energy market the FG is consciously or unwittingly protecting the interests of generator-import industry. This further begs the question, whether the present FG has its priorities right.

CRJ is of the view that as a country we should be focusing on decentralising access to electricity from the national grid, by encouraging off-grid solutions like solar​, wind,​ and other forms of renewable energy sources; as well as deploying embedded power, which handles power generation, transmission, and distribution within specified locations.

​The Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola in February this year called for ideas from the public on what to do with 2,000 Megawatts of ‘stranded power’; a situation where electricity is generated but wastes because of the compromised state of our national grid which lacks the capacity to transmit same to all nooks and crannies of the federation. Nothing emphasises the need for alternative options more than this.

The Federal Government should be committed to giving tax holidays to the alternative energy sector, and to encourage them with other incentives. We want Nigeria to be the African hub for alternative energy. We shall train manpower at all levels of the value chain, producing numerous technicians, researchers, installers, etc in order to create a market for easy and readily-available access to alternative source of energy.

CRJ wants the FG to grant incentives to operators in the generator import business to switch over to solar and other alternative sources of decentralised clean energy, which are obviously more beneficial.

Investments in the national grid have not yielded us value for money in decades. It is best to focus on the alternative solution which is working well for others. If the sector would not be encouraged and supported, it is better to let it be than to kill it.

The other danger in having and executing this incoherent electricity energy policy is, it stands to derail Nigeria’s plan to generate 30% of electricity through renewables by 2030.

 *Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice (CRJ)*
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Why A Social Contract Is Inevitable For The Common Man  ,
There is a saying in Nigeria that when you have a behemoth ahead of you, you fight it; when the behemoth is behind you, you face it and fight it, too; but when you are alone, you must rethink your strategy.

"For a country endowed with immense human and natural resources like Nigeria, 58 years is too long a time to be plagued by lack of basic amenities and leaders who are primarily driven by self-greed than they are common good."


It is almost a commonplace assertion that when leaders fail to provide solutions, they are unworthy of their appellation. The trend of failure in leadership in Nigeria has been emblematic of betrayal, incompetence, and executive dereliction. The decades-long demonstration of goodwill and selflessness by we the people of Nigeria have brought us nothing but brutal betrayal of faith and trust by political leaders. By engaging in dereliction of political obligation, leaders in high and low chambers of power have remorselessly sabotaged our commonwealth. Now we are at the precipice of the Rubicon River and, we have the option to either return to the manacles of executive lawlessness and political slavery or press on to reclaim our collective wealth. For there is no better way to demonstrate patriotism than to pursue a cause in which the common man may derive fulfillment. Suffice it to say, peace and development are mere words where injustice, tyranny, and anarchy reigns.

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Since the beginning of the Fourth Republic on May 29, 1999, politics in Nigeria has been a one-sided affair. Rather than politics of inclusion, what has been in vogue is the politics of deception and oppression. And when deception goes on for too long, in a particular society, it becomes the norm. Whereas oppression is easily noticeable, deception is not. And when oppression goes on for too long, the people, out of fear or personal benefit, become mute and numb. The greater good, for which leaders are democratically elected, is often relegated for self-good when the people fail to hold leaders accountable.

Again, it is often deliberate, when leaders neglect their political obligation and democratically practice dictatorship, and sufficiently preoccupy the people with inanities and frustration, while they loot and plunder, as we have seen in recent times. This Machiavellian style of leadership has been more evident in Nigeria’s polity than not. The cycle is a vicious one that derails governance completely.

As heart-breaking as this may seem, what is perhaps more strikingly begging attention is the pervasive non-resistance from the most critical and most affected divide between the two parties in question – we the people. Suffice it to say, that there are two parties in Nigeria; we the people on the one hand, and the politicians on the other. While we the people are law-abiding, the politicians are not. While we the people are honest in our dealings, the politicians are not. While we the people are desirous of the greater good, the politicians are not. While we the people are patriots primarily concerned with the common good, the politicians are not. And when in a union, a party is dishonorable in its conduct, the purpose of such union is often defeated, easily. It is, however, the responsibility of the party which is more honorable in such union to visit upon the dishonorable other, a sanction for betrayal.

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Meet a woman Amber Luke who decided to take tattoo to extra length by changing the colours of her eyeballs without regret.




Amber Luke, who is dubbed ‘Blue Eyes White Dragon’ by pals, developed an addiction to tattoos at the tender age of 16, and now has more than 50 designs.
Woman, 23, who developed a tattoo addiction at 16 has now spent £6k on body modifications including a split tongue and blue eyeball inkings
Amber Luke says she has "no regrets" and is happy with her new look




The body piercer, from Australia, told Daily Mail Australia: “I have no regrets whatsoever. I’m absolutely in love with my image.”

Amber says she “hated” the way she used to look and thought her blonde locks and flawless skin was “very plain” and “boring”.

She got her first tattoo as a teen as she “craved to know what the feeling was like”, and had three inkings by the time she was 18.

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“I developed an addiction at 16 years of age,” she said


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Kenneth Obi for CRJ
As part of the effort to promote righteousness and raise anti-corruption crusaders in Nigeria, Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice club will soon be formed in all public secondary schools in Imo State. This is following the approval of their request to form the said club by the Executive Secretary of Imo State Secondary Education Management Board.

The CRJ Social Justice club is the brainchild of the Imo State chapter of the Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice, the people's Bishop, Rotarian Kenneth Obi. According to the cleric "Social justice issues are major in Nigeria today and students are to take a stand against it." The Social Justice Club’s mission is to inspire, educate, empower secondary school students and prepare them for future careers in social advocacy. Part of being in CRJ Social Justice club is promoting awarenesses of social justice issues and fighting against corruption in Nigeria.

The CRJ Social Justice Club is not only a club, but a place where students can go to discuss their opinion on social justice issues. They will do so at designated days and will also be attending workshops out of school at other times. Members of CRJ Social Justice Club shall be known as "ADVOCATES" and shall have many goals and tasks as a group and participate in as many learning opportunities as possible. They shall involve themselves in the community and learn about the world and what is currently happening in today's society. The clubs main intention is to focus on social justice issues and fight against corruption in Nigeria.

Again, the Imo State Chairman of CRJ, Bishop Obi said, “Students for Social Justice is a group that aims to promote awareness of social justice issues and discuss certain social justice movements that are happening in the world. They shall also participate in direct action events where they will attend rallies, protests or hold workshops with other schools in Nigeria to create a strong central movement in the social justice world. Doing so will create many relationships that will be formed off of discussion and talking to one another about issues in Nigeria.

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The club when formed, will teach new ways to look at problems and events not only happening in the Nigeria, but all around the world. The students will discuss large issues and give their opinion on the subject, free of judgement from others. The discussion setting will open a pathway for new valid opinions to be presented while allowing them to see it through someone else’s eyes. That way, New Nigerians will be nurtured to carry the torch of hope and inspiration for our great country Nigeria.

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FIFA World Cup Russia 2018

 Football is not a mathematical approach so it can't follow straight line graph.
What is your own view:- use the comment box. Follow us here and get all how it happened or how it may happen. Just as John Cena describes footballers, will Video assistant Referee work for or against this FIFA World Cup Russia 2018. Are we going to expect some accusations.

Can these make FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 to finals
Uruguay or Egypt 
France or Denmark 
Brazil or Switzerland 
Germany or Mexico


                                       World Cup Group Winners

Uruguay A 
Spain B 
France C
Croatia D 
Germany F
 Brazil E
Belgium G 
Poland H

World Cup Group Winners


14/06/2018 16:00  Uruguay / Egypt        Winner
15/06/2018 16:00  Spain / Portugal        Winner
16/06/2018 11:00  France / Denmark      Winner
16/06/2018 14:00  Croatia / Argentina    Winner

17/06/2018 13:00  Brazil / Serbia             Winner
17/06/2018 16:00  Germany / Mexico     Winner
18/06/2018 16:00  England / Belgium     Winner

19/06/2018 13:00  Colombia / Senegal   Winner
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Top player vs Top player


17/06/2018 16:00 Neymar - T. Werner                 1 - H
16/06/2018 11:00 L.Messi - A. Griezmann           1 - H
15/06/2018 19:00 Gabriel Jesus - Diego Cost    1 - H
15/06/2018 13:00 H.Kane - E. Cavani                 1 - H
17/06/2018 16:00 T.Muller - E. Hazard                 2 - A

15/06/2018 13:00 L.Suarez - R. Lewandowski    2 - A
17/06/2018 19:00 P.Coutinho - James Rodriguez 1 - H

16/06/2018 17:00 K.De Bruyne - C. Eriksen        2 - A
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Two-head Snake discovered in a garden

Mystery and Miracle work hand in hand. But there are some miracles that are not noticed by human. Day and night changing miracles.

Just as some pastors perform some dangerous miracles, there are also some real miracle you can witness as if you are dreaming.

Some creatures come in different forms and shapes. Anything that looks abnormal in the eyes of religious fanatics is regarded as miracles. But scientifically, if a creature looks abnormal is may be traced to genetic deformity or formation disorder. 


A rare two-headed snake is being trained by a New Orleans family after its discovery in a backyard.

SWNS reports that wildlife educator Tanee Janusz, 39, adopted the western rat snake when a fellow member of her naturalist society found it in his garden.

The foot-long reptile, which is 10 months old, has two heads as a result of a genetic deformity affecting just one in 10,000 births. The animal has two brains but a single respiratory system, digestive tract and body, according to SWNS.

Named Filé and Gumbo by Janusz, the heads reportedly have different personalities. Gumbo is the dominant side although both heads are described as “feisty” and often end up wrestling after trying to go in opposite directions.

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Janusz is now touring schools, libraries and scout groups educating people about the rare animal.

The nonvenomous snake feeds on frozen mice.

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Last month a venomous copperhead snake was spotted near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. And earlier this year, an Australian couple got a terrifying surprise when they found one of the world’s deadliest snakes lurking inside a garden hose reel.
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