Please what is your candid opinion on this issue? Is it really proper for a pastor to watch BBA program? I have heard pastors discuse about the house mate and also voted for tham... Concedering the fact that this program is highly imoral and and does not in anyway edify God's name; is it morally right for a pastor to watch?

By Femi Falana

Deportation of dissidents : In 1885 the British colonial regime deported King Jaja of Opobo to a remote island in West Indies where he died in 1889. His offence was that he had challenged the imperialist control of the coastal trade. In 1941 Comrade Michael Imoudu, President of the Nigerian Union of Railwaymen was deported from Lagos and banished to his hometown, Auchi in the Benin Province as he was considered "a potential threat to public safety" . He only returned to Lagos in 1945 following the revocation of sections 57-63 of the General Defence Regulation, 1941 under which he had been detained. There were other nationalist agitators and labour leaders who were deported and banished to prevent them from taking part in the struggle against colonialism. The barbaric practice of deporting Nigerians was resuscitated by the defunct military dictatorship. In particular, the reactionary regimes of Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha resorted to the crude harassment of political opponents by deportation.

In 1992 the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi SAN, Dr Beko Ransome -Kuti and I were deported from Lagos and detained at Kuje prison for challenging the unending military rule of the Babangida junta. The retired General Zamani Lekwot was deported from Kaduna and detained with us in the prison. The following year we were also repatriated from Lagos and banished to the same prison for leading peaceful rallies in Lagos against the criminal annulment of the June 12 presidential election. In June 1994, the winner of the presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola was deported from Lagos and detained in military custody in Kano, Borno and Abuja.

In 1995, the chairman of the Campaign for Democracy (CD), Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti alerted the world that the secret trial of General Olusegun Obasanjo and others by a Special Military Tribunal had been concluded and that the convicts were being prepared for execution. For leaking such information to the media the human rights leader was tried in Lagos, jailed for life and deported to Katsina prison. The CD vice chairman, Shehu Sanni was arrested in Kaduna, jailed for life in Lagos and banished to Kirikiri maximum prison in Apapa. Four journalists viz: Chris Anyanwu, Kunle Ajibade, Charles Mbah and Charles Obi who were convicted for being accessories after the fact of treason i.e the 1995 phantom coup, were deported from Lagos and kept in separate prisons in the northern states.

In 1996, Chief Fawehinmi SAN was once again deported from Lagos and detained at the Bauchi prison while Femi Aborishade and I were deported from Lagos and held at the Gumel and Mawadashi prisons (in Jigawa State) respectively. Comrade Frank Kokori who was arrested in Lagos was banished to Bama prisons in Borno state for 4 years. General Obasanjo who was convicted in Lagos was deported to Yola prison. His ex-deputy, General Shehu Yaradua was deported from Kaduna, convicted in Lagos and held at various times in Kirikiri, Port Harcourt and Abakaliki prisons.

Like King Jaja both Chief Abiola and General Yaradua died in suspicious circumstances while they were in custody. But as deportation of colonial subject subjects could not be justified even under colonial rule it was carried out pursuant to special regulations. In the same vein, the military dictators engaged in deportation of citizens under the preventive detention decrees and the Prison Act.

Deportation of Poor People

It is common knowledge that the beautification project of the Babatunde Fashola Administration has led to the deportation of hundreds of the jetsam and the flotsam from Lagos state to their states of origin. The elite and the media have been celebrating the ban on "Okada" from the major roads and the removal of traders and area boys from the streets. For understandable reasons, most of the hundreds of thousands of poor people who have been displaced and dislodged in the operation "keep Lagos clean" are of the Yoruba extraction.

In fact, on April 9,2009, when the Lagos state government deported 129 beggars of Oyo state origin and dumped them at Molete in Ibadan the Alao Akala regime alleged that the action was aimed at sabotaging his government. Just last week, some beggars of osun state origin were also deported by the Lagos state government and dumped at Osogbo.

It is sad to note that most Nigerians never took cognisance of the war being waged by state governments against the poor and disadvantaged citizens in the urban renewal policy until the much-publicized case of the 14 beggars of Anambra state origin who were deported in Lagos and dumped in Onitsha about three weeks ago. In fact, it was the condemnation of the deportation by the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi that drew the attention of the elite to the unfortunate development. However, in defence of its action the Lagos State Government stated that it entered into an agreement with the Anambra State Government through its liaison office in Lagos on the controversial deportation.

Although the Anambra State government has not denied the allegation that it was privy to the deportation of the 14 beggars it is on record that in December 2011 Governor Peter Obi Administration had deported 29 beggars to their states of origin i.e Akwa Ibom and Ebonyi states. Apart from such official hypocrisy the Peter Obi regime did not deem it fit to protest when the Abia state government purged its civil service of "non-indigenes" in 2012. Many of the victims of the unjust policy who hail from Anambra state were left in the lurch.

In June 2011, the Federal Capital Territory government deported 129 beggars to their respective states of origin. In May 2013, hundreds of beggars were also removed from the streets and expelled from Abuja. Of course, it is common knowledge that the FCT authorities has continued to demolish residential houses without following due process in order to "restore the masterplan of Abuja" which was distorted through corruption and abuse of office. The majority of the victims of such illegal demolitions who are poor have been dislocated and forced out of FCT.

Last week, the Rivers State Government removed 113 Nigerians from the streets of Port Harcourt and deported them to their states of origin. The Akwa Ibom state government has just contacted its Lagos counterpart of the planned deportation of two "mad" Lagosians roaming the streets of Uyo. Many other state governments are busy deporting beggars, mad men and other destitute in the on-going beautification of state capitals. Those who are defending the Igbo beggars out of sheer ethnic irredentism should be advised to examine the socio-economic implications of the anti-people's urbanisation policy being implemented by the federal and state governments in the overall interests of the masses.

The Illegality of Internal Deportation

Since deportation has been resuscitated under the current political dispensation it has become pertinent to examine the legal implications of the forceful deportation of a group of citizens on account of their impecunious status. Although street trading and begging have been banned in some states It is submitted, without any fear of contradiction, that there is no existing law in Nigeria which has empowered the federal and state governments to deport any group of Nigerian citizens to their states of origin.

Accordingly, the forceful removal of beggars from their chosen abode and repatriation to their states of origin are illegal and unconstitutional as they violate the fundamental rights of such citizens enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended. In particular, deportation is an afront to the human rights of the beggars to dignity of their persons (Section 34), personal liberty (Section 35), freedom of movement (Section 41), and right of residence in any part of Nigeria (Section 43).

Furthermore, the deportation of beggars and other poor people by the Federal and State Governments is a repudiation of section 15 of the Constitution which has imposed a duty on the State to promote national integration. Since the polical objective of the State imposes a duty on the governments to "secure full residence rights for every citizen in all parts of the Federation" it is illegal to remove poor people from the streets of state capitals without providing them with alternative accommodation. By targetting beggars and the destitute and deporting them to their states of origin the state governments involved are violating Section 42 of the Constitution which has outlawed discrimination on the basis of place of birth or state of origin.

In so far as Article 2 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act (Cap A9) Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 has specifically banned discriminatory treatment on the ground of “social origin, fortune, birth or other status” it is indefensible to subject any group of citizens to harrassment on account of their economic status. An urban renewal policy that has provision for only the rich cannot be justified under Article 13 of the African Charter which provides that every citizen shall have equal access to the public services of the country.

In the celebrated case of the Minister of Internal Affairs v. Alhaji Shugaba Abdulraham Darma (1982) 3 N.C.L.R. 915 the Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the Borno State High Court which had held that the deportation of the Respondent (Alhaji Shugaba) from Nigeria to Chad by the Federal Government constituted “a violation of his fundamental rights to person liberty, privacy and freedom to move freely throughout Nigeria.” In the Director, State Security Service v. Olisa Agbakoba (1999) 3 NWLR (PT 595) 314 at 356 the Supreme Court reiterated that “It is not in dispute that the Constitution gives to the Nigerian citizen the right to move freely throughout Nigeria and to reside in any part thereof.”

Since deportation has denied the vicctims the fundamental right to move freely and reside in any state of their choice it is illegal and unconstitutional. It is indubitably clear that the fundamental human rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the African Charter Act are not for the exclusive preserve of the bourgeoisie but for the enjoyment of all Nigerian citizens including beggars and other economically marginalised people. To that extent no state governments has the power to deport or enter into agreements to repatriate any group of citizens to their states of origin.

The Socio-economic Challenge of Deportation

It ought to be made clear to the managers of the neo-colonial state that there is no country which promotes social inequality that has successfully outlawed the poor from existence. This explains why beggars are found in large numbers on the streets of major cities and in the ghettos of the United States of America – the bastion of capitalism. The situation is bound to be worse in the periphery of capitalism like Nigeria where the poverty rate has reached an alarming proportion due to the failure of the State to provide for the welfare and security of the people which is the primary purpose of government.

The Federal and State governments should also be made to realize at all times that beggars are Nigerian citizens who lack money, food and other basic facilities to live decent lives. The authorities should stop stigmatizing and harassing them and other citizens who have been pushed to a state of penury by the gross mismanagement of the economy by a selfish and short sighted ruling class. A nation that complaints of inadequate funds to establish a social security scheme for the majority of the people allowed a cartel of fuel importers to corner $16 billion while oil thieves stole crude oil worth $7 billion on the high seas in 2011 alone.

Yet the influential oil thieves and pirates are walking free on the streets of our state capitals without any official harassment. Others who engage in unprecedented corruption, fraud and other financial and economic crimes have never been deported to their states of origin. It is high time the government was restrained from holding the poor vicariously liable for the crisis of underdevelopment of the country. Therefore, part of the billions of naira being earmarked to build mega cities should be set aside for the rehabilitation of beggars and the destitute.

There is no doubt that Lagos state is put under severe pressure, from time to time, by millions of Nigerians who have been economically displaced in their own states of origin. But unlike its counterparts the Lagos state government has devised effective strategies to compel the rich to pay taxes through their noses. In addition the monthly statutory allocation of the state from the federation account is partly based on its population. In the circumstance, the Lagos state government should take from the rich to service the poor. As in the case of most of the "area boys" who have been productively engaged by the Fashola Administration the Lagos state government should formulate programmes for the rehabilitation and resettlement of beggars and other destitute to make them contribute to the economy of the state.

Conclusion

In his inaugural address on January 20, 1961 the United States President, Mr. J.F. Kennedy warned that “if a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich”. About 40 years later, those cautionary words resonated in the case of Hoffman v. South African Airways (2001) CHR 329 at 354 where Justice Ngcobo of the Constitutional Court of South Africa stated that “Our Constitution protects the weak, the marginalized, the socially outcast and the victims of prejudice and stereotyping. It is only when these groups are protected that we can be secure that our own rights are protected.”

With respect to the implementation of neo-liberal policies that have continued to pauperise our people i am compelled to remind the ruling class in Nigeria of the plea made by the Late Dr. Akinola Aguda in 1985 that “our new perspective in law and justice must be such as to guarantee to each of our people food, drink, lodging, clothing, education and employment in addition to the rights guaranteed to him so far by our Constitution and our laws, so that justice may mean the same thing to everyone.”

Finally, since the deporting state governments have no immigration officials to police their borders there is no assurance that the deportees will not find their way back to where they were deported . However in view of the illegality of the deportation of poor people the governments of the federal capital territory and the respective states are advised to stop it without any further delay. If the practice is not discontinued the deporting state governments should be prepared to defend their action in Court. Sooner than later.





FEMI FALANA, SAN

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Every second of every day, somewhere in the world the same scene unfolds.

A batch of several hundred eggs, precisely arranged in uniform rows, moves along a conveyor belt, coming to a halt beneath a machine linked to a jumble of tubes.

Once in position, the machine robotically lowers itself and then simultaneously punctures each egg with a rack of hypodermic needles.

Through these needles, a mix of vaccines and antibiotics is injected into the egg — and so into the unborn chick inside, which three days later will hatch out.
If the scene sounds like something from a science-fiction film, then that is hardly a surprise. Today, large-scale poultry production has precious little to do with green fields and ruddy-cheeked farmers.

Every year, more than 40 billion chickens are slaughtered worldwide for meat, the vast majority of them intensively factory-farmed.

The bottom line is profit. All that matters is the volume in which these animals, bred to hit their genetically-modified slaughter weights within 35 days of hatching, can be churned out.

Given the intensity of the production systems (raised in sheds of 50,000 birds, each will be lucky to have the space of a piece of A4 paper in which to live), the dangers of disease are massively magnified.

And so it is to prevent this that the chickens are vaccinated before birth against common diseases.

They are often also dosed up with antibiotics — a preventative measure that is easier and cheaper than dealing with individual illnesses at a later date.

In Britain, consumers can’t get enough of cheap chicken. On average, we eat 31 kilos per person per year — which is more than any other country in Europe.

With a budget supermarket chicken today available for less than £2.50 per bird, cost is one of the drivers behind its ever-growing popularity.

Not only that, but with the horsemeat scandal still fresh in consumers’ minds and the fact that chicken is lower in fat than red meat, it is also seen as a ‘healthy’ option.

How deeply ironic then that scientists now believe that the nation’s love affair with the fowl could be about to trigger a devastating health crisis of its own.

Forget the fact that last month it emerged that food poisoning cases linked to infected chicken — thanks to a bug called campylobacter — struck down 580,000 people last year, putting 18,000 in hospital and killing 140.

Now experts are warning that the overuse of antibiotics in poultry farms around the world is creating a generation of superbugs that are resistant to treatment by virtually every drug in the medical establishment’s armoury.

With up to 80 per cent of the raw chicken on sale in some countries carrying these resistant bacteria, they can be transferred to humans during the handling of infected meat or the eating of undercooked produce.

The bacteria will then survive in the gut before potentially triggering illnesses such as persistent urinary infections or, more seriously, blood poisoning, also known as sepsis.

A newly-published report claims that as a direct result of this, 1,500 lives are being lost in Europe each year — with 280 of them in this country alone.

But the fear is that, as the resistant bugs spread, the death toll will rise as more and more antibiotics become ineffective.

‘We have people dying who do not need to die, because you should not be using these drugs in food animals at all, particularly in poultry,’ says Peter Collignon, a world authority on the subject and professor of infectious diseases at the Australian National University.

‘It is a practice we must not allow to continue, because basically there are no more antibiotics in the pipeline coming along to rescue us. The farming industry’s argument is that if they don’t do this, then one or two per cent of their flocks might die after they hatch. My view of that is “bad luck”.

‘A one or two-day-old chick that dies is worth a fraction of a penny. A human being is worth a million times more than a chicken — so we just shouldn’t do it.’

Someone who knows first-hand the dangers posed by the infections that scientists are warning of is life coach Susie Wiggins. In March last year, the 53-year-old from Northwood, Middlesex, headed into Central London to meet a girlfriend for lunch at an upmarket restaurant.

‘We were going on to an exhibition afterwards and I was dressed up to the nines — four-inch heels, full make-up — and was feeling absolutely fine,’ she says.

‘But as we sat down for lunch I started to feel very ill, very quickly. I had unbelievable cramping in my stomach, went to the loo and when I came back I was rambling and talking nonsense.’

Realising something was seriously wrong, Miss Wiggins’ friend immediately took her to Guy’s Hospital. Within hours she was unconscious and in intensive care.

‘Basically, the pain I felt was my organs starting to shut down,’ she says. ‘I was in a coma for two weeks, during which time my hands and feet swelled up and turned black.

‘The doctors were so worried I would die that they arranged a room for my mother to stay in so she could be with me when it happened.’

That Miss Wiggins survived was down to the fact that the doctors had quickly spotted that she was suffering from sepsis. The condition strikes hard and fast and kills 37,000 people a year in the UK.

Treatment is with antibiotics, but one of the emerging problems today is finding the right one to use.

In Miss Wiggins’ case, it turned out that her illness was due to an E.coli infection, which could have been caused by chicken or another infected meal she had eaten at some point before that fateful lunch.

Doctors believe the bacteria may have passed through the wall of her colon into her bloodstream after she underwent colonic irrigation or as a result of infected kidney stones.

But it took them 48 hours and several antibiotics to identify the strain of the bug.

‘I was very lucky that my body held up that long,’ said Miss Wiggins. ‘In the past, it would have been much easier for the doctors, but nowadays they have to work out which antibiotic to use, which can cause delays. And with sepsis, you really don’t have much time.’

It is a point echoed by Dr Ron Daniels, chairman of the UK Sepsis Trust and a hospital critical care consultant.

He says that in some parts of the country, 30 per cent of E.coli bacteria encountered are what is known as Extended-Spectrum Beta-lactamase E.coli. In layman’s terms, this means that they are resistant to many antibiotics.

‘An ESBL E.coli is no more likely than other E.coli to cause illness but, when it does, unless we are aware that it is an ESBL E.coli there is a danger we might start treating with antibiotics to which the bacteria is resistant,’ he explains.

‘The problem is that if we do that, that would be as ineffective as not treating with antibiotics at all.’

At least today there are a handful of antibiotics out there that still work. The big concern is that if resistance continues to spread, there will simply be no antibiotics left that can be effectively deployed.

If that happens, then the 21st century could see the death toll from infections soar to 19th-century levels.

It is a point that was made earlier this year by Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer, who warned that antibiotic-resistant bacteria posed ‘a catastrophic threat’ to the population.

‘If we don’t act now, any one of us could go into hospital in 20 years for minor surgery and die because of an ordinary infection that can’t be treated by antibiotics,’ she said.

‘And routine operations like hip replacements or organ transplants could be deadly because of the risk of infection.’

In the past, the blame for the growth of drug-resistant superbugs was pinned on doctors who over- prescribed antibiotics to patients.

But there is a growing body of opinion that believes excessive use of the drugs within the agricultural world — especially cheap chicken — is equally to blame.

Scientists are particularly concerned about the over-use of a group of antibiotics called cephalosporins, which they believe are linked to the emergence of drug-resistant strains of E.Coli.

Cephalosporins are a class of antibiotics that the World Health Organisation has rated as ‘critically important to human medicine’.

‘For me the evidence is overwhelming,’ says Professor Collignon. ‘With certain bacteria, what we do with animals is making them resistant.’

He explains that of all the antibiotics used in the world, about 80  per cent are used on food animals, about 15 to 20 per cent on patients in the community, and just five per cent in hospitals.

‘What we know is that there is an epidemic of these resistant E.coli in Europe causing bloodstream infections,’ he says.

‘What is interesting is that these bacteria are resistant to antibiotics that we do not give widely in the community — only in hospitals.
‘So to me the available evidence suggests that a reasonable proportion of these are coming through food, with poultry a particular risk.’

In a study published last week in the Journal for Infectious Diseases, Professor Collignon and other scientists highlighted data from Holland which showed that 56 per cent of antibiotic-resistant E.coli genes in human blood-poisoning cases were identical to E.coli genes from retail chicken samples.

The transmission of one particularly resistant strain of EDSL E.coli tripled between people and animals from 2007 to 2012, the report claimed.

Extrapolating the Dutch data to other European countries, it estimated the number of deaths caused by antibiotic-resistant E.coli associated with chicken is 62 in France; 115 in Italy; 192 in Germany and 282 in Britain.

As well as 1,518 extra deaths Europe-wide, that also equated to an extra 67,236 days of hospital admissions.

‘The number of avoidable deaths and the costs of healthcare potentially caused by cephalosporin use in food animals is staggering,’ the scientists concluded.

‘Considering these factors, the ongoing use of these anti-microbial drugs . . . should be urgently examined and stopped, particularly in poultry, not only in Europe, but worldwide.’
Fear: Up to 80 per cent of the raw chicken on sale in some countries carries drug resistant bacteria, and they can be transferred to humans during the handling of infected meat or the eating of undercooked produce.

Interestingly, it appears that the less-intensively reared the chicken, the more reduced the likelihood of creating resistant bacteria.

Chickens that are organically raised are likely to come into far less contact with antibiotics. The use of the drugs in organic animals is restricted to when they are ill, and even then only when there are no alternative treatments available.

Research in 2006 compared E.coli samples taken from organic and non-organic farm animals, observing their resistance to ten different types of antibiotic.

On average, those from organic farms were resistant to one antibiotic, compared with five on non-organic farms.

But, of course, that comes at a price. An organic chicken on sale in a supermarket will cost at least two-and-a-half times more than the cheapest ‘budget’ chicken.

Unsurprisingly, poultry farmers have reacted angrily to being blamed for the crisis.

A spokeswoman for The British Poultry Council dismissed the study as ‘alarmist’ and said that it was based on out-of-date research.

She said: ‘Extrapolating the calculations of possible human deaths from the Netherlands to the UK was flawed from the outset, because antibiotics were used differently in UK poultry production . . . when compared to how they were used in the Netherlands.’

Cephalosporins, she explained, had never been administered in flocks used for meat production here.

And while they had been used in the breeding flocks, which produce the eggs that then hatch into meat chickens, the industry had voluntarily agreed to stop all use at the end of 2011.

‘British consumers can be assured that British chickens are reared according to the strict production standards of the Red Tractor assurance scheme,’ she said.

‘These standards include rigorous controls of the use of medicine under veterinary supervision. All medicines on farms should be used as little as possible and only as much as necessary.

‘We’re strongly committed to a prudent and responsible use of antibiotics in poultry and all other livestock and will continue to engage with the government, the livestock sector and other stakeholders on this matter.’

But critics are unconvinced and say that even the limited use in the breeding flocks could have been potentially problematic, with resistance being passed down through generations of chickens.

And they also point out that whatever native farmers are doing, Britain imports large quantities of chicken meat from abroad.

While 1.3   million tonnes of chicken meat is reared here (the equivalent of 900 million chickens a year), a further 700,000 tonnes is imported.

Worryingly, Holland is the biggest source of these imports, followed by Thailand — a country where concerns have been raised about the widespread use of antibiotics.

Given the growing taste for chicken in this country, it means that international action against antibiotic overuse is essential.

In the meantime, efforts are finally being taken to better understand what is behind the spread of these antibiotic-resistant E.coli.

Last month, the Government launched a three-year study into the problem. It will involve collecting ESBL E.coli samples from farm slurry and from raw meat on sale to the public.

This will then be compared with samples taken from human blood and faecal samples to see what genetic similarities there are between the two.

While scientists welcome the study, they warn that we cannot sit back and wait for the results before taking action.

Time, they say, is critical — something that Susie Wiggins knows to be the case from her own, terrifying, experience.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2388444/How-drugs-pumped-supermarket-chickens-pose-terrifying-threat-health.html

Nigeria's Debt Profile, We are $3.91 Billion Dollars In Red.
WHERE WE STAND AS A NATION FINANCIALLY

OUR CURRENT Financial Statement Under President Jonathan

*Current External Reserve: $47bn (Our savings)

*Total external and domestic debt: $50.91bn (What we owe as a nation)

Subtract our Total Savings of $47 Billion Dollars From $50.91 Billion Dollars Total Debts =$3.91Billion Dollars in Debit!
READ THIS NOTE AND SEE WHY WE ARE BROKE: NEITI'S Audit Report

1-Between 2009 to 2011 under President Jonathan ''Nigeria lost billions of dollars as a result of inefficiency and poor management in its oil sector':Neitti audit report

*''As a result of oil theft and pipeline vandalism, NEITI's audit showed Nigeria lost 136 million barrels of oil with an estimated value of $11 billion to oil theft and sabotage between 2009 and 2011''.

*10 million barrels valued at around $894 million was lost as a result of pipeline vandalism in downstream operations.


2-''Billions of dollars more were lost as a result of much more mundane commercial inefficiencies''.

*Nigeria lost as much as $1.8 billion in royalties and tax revenue between 2009 and 2011
because the government failed to agree on a pricing methodology with producing companies. As a result, many companies understated the value of the oil they produced. NEITI said the government is negotiating with oil companies to resolve this issue''.

3-Another''$866 million was lost because of the poor state of the country's refineries, the report said''.

4-''80% of the oil allocated for domestic refining is exported for offshore processing and exchanged for products or other types of oil imported from elsewhere in deals that are not economical, resulting in a financial loss to the country''.

5-''According to NEITI, fuel subsidy payments rose to NGN1.9 trillion ($11.82 billion) in 2011 from NGN406 billion in 2009 as the number of fuel marketers increased and product imports became "uncontrollable."

6-''According to NEITI's latest audit, the country is owed NGN3.7 billion by marketers who have failed to refund overpayments for the period between 2009 and 2011. A further NGN4.4 billion refunded to the country's Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency for overpayment s made in the period has not yet been deposited in the government's accounts''.

Nigerian Live Tv.

A joint effort by the Nigerian army and police earlier today prevented the attempted burning of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Nyanya area of the federal capital territory in Abuja.

Sources at the church told SaharaReporters that trouble started when a Hausa-speaking Muslim man in the area was prevented from parking his car too close to the church building. The measure was put in place as a way of preventing Islamist militants from attacking Christian places of worship on Sundays.

The man, however, resisted the police and soldiers guarding the church. An argument ensued leading to his arrest and humiliation by the security agents who told him to "frog-jump" in front of the church.

After his release by the police, the man reportedly went into the community to mobilize some people to attack the church and burn it down.

Panicked church members left the church leaving their cars behind.

However, a swift intervention by police and soldiers prevented the man and his mob from burning the church. The security agents then started shooting in the area leading more residents to flee the immediate vicinity of the crisis.

According to Saharareporters the man arrested and tortured by the soldiers died after he was tortured. The events following this was a protest by commercial bike riders in the area to protest his death at the hand of the soldiers guarding the church.

There is still no official confirmation at to what really transpired in Nyanya. All church members have been released from the church to go home as shooting the area has died down.
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Malawian President, Joyce Banda was named by Forbes as the 71st most powerful woman in the world in 2012 and named the 47th in 2013.

She was seen at a recent official function with Tanzanian President where she knelt down to greet him.

How would you describe this?

There is disparity of about N175.9 billion in the figure provided between the office of the Accountant General of the Federation and that of Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency on subsidy payments for 2009 to 2011, the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) said in a report released yesterday.

The report, which covers oil and gas industry for the period 2009-2011, says the country has recorded a total crude oil production of over 2.5billion barrels, and Federation earned a total revenue of $143.5 billion (about N21.5 trillion )from equity crude sales, royalty, signature bonuses and taxes, an increase of 4.8 percent over 2006 – 2008 period.
Presenting the report to stakeholders yesterday, the chairman of the NEITI Stakeholders Working Group, Mr. Ledum Mitee, said in 2009, the country produced 780.9 million barrels, the figure rose to 894.5 in 2010 and slightly declined to 866.2 million barrels in 2011.
The report said there was total subsidy payments of N3 trillion to importers of refined petroleum products. This is made up of N1.4 trillion fuel subsidy claims by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the period 2009-2011 and a total of N1.60 trillion paid to other marketers during the same period.
The report observed that the disparity between subsidy claims paid from the Federation Account and that made by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) was N175.9 billion during the same period.
For example, the Office of Accountant General of the Federation reported to NEITI auditors a total subsidy payment of N2.825 trillion while the PPPRA disbursed N3 trillion to marketers during the same period.
Other important highlights of the report, according to Mitee were the huge loss recorded due to crude oil theft, deliberate sabotage and vandalism. According to the report, over 136million barrels which are estimated at $10.9 billion (N1.6 trillion) were lost to crude oil theft and sabotage within the period under review.
In his reaction, the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Engineer Andrew Yakubu said now that the report is ready, they will study it and ensure that issues within the capacity of the company are addressed.
Yakubu said the current NNPC management is reviewing all its practices to ensure that they are in line with international best practices.
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If Farida Waziri (EFCC), Okonjo-Iweala (Finance Minister), Dora Akunyili (NAFDAC), Aloma Mariam Mukhtar (Chief Justice of The Federation), Prof Ruquayattu Rufai (Education Minister) had
married at age 14, would they have risen to the positions they held or holding in the society?

These are faces of the senators that clamour for Marriage to Nigerian Girl Child, irrespective of her age.
These the Senators that are giving license to Paedophile, Perverts and Sex Starved people to Destroy our Children In the name of Marriage.

As a father, I've never given out my daughters in marriage before university graduation. It's a personal decision. I had earlier stated my personal choices on the child marriage issue; I have always supported our women and children. For the avoidance of doubt, I do not support any constitutional provision which creates ambiguities about the age of consent for marriage. It's therefore very inspiring to see young Nigerians active and organized on ‪ChildNotBride‬. I'm proud to see an engaged generation at work.

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i AM HAPPY THERE IS STILL A REASONABLE ELDER IN NORTH

@BabaAlabi........that's if the Op supports the nonsense move made by the myopic senate.........i ve made my point that as a christian, i will never sport such a highly immoral and inhumane idea.

Its really absurdity of the highest order for someone to blatantly comment on a post without reading between the lines...
when i saw the above excerpt, i was wondering if it actually means that Nigerians don't understand what is going on considering the post here: https://www.nairaland.com/1365926/protest-against-child-marriage-hold
So i actually mean that again the truth has been found out, and someone is trying to cover it up with nonsense write ups such as the above.
we must say no to this
we must all fight to defend our young girls

It is not unusual for Nigeria’s media, which consists of many highly unprofessional scriptwriters, to present junk and trash for public consumption. NewsRescue was created among other things, for this very purpose. Cleaning a filthy and propagandist, dangerous media.

Here are the facts of the senate proceedings in question:

The topic voted on in the senate was not, “age of marriage,” as it has been made to appear.
The presentation by senator Yerima, was not, the age a woman should marry.
35 Nigerian senators who voted against the deletion of the segment, did not vote for age of marriage, rather they voted to uphold women’s unaleniable rights, even over men.
Senator Yerima did not introduce any thing new, rather he simply pointed out in upholding Nigeria’s constitution, that segments can not simply be deleted without proper vote and due process.
And finally, underlined: the segment to be deleted threatened to deprive women of their rights.

We proceed to review the section 29 of the constitution that was to be deleted without proper process:
rescuedCitizenship renunciation Rights

(1) Any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation.

(2) The President shall cause the declaration made under subsection (1) of this section to be registered and upon such registration, the person who made the declaration shall cease to be a citizen of Nigeria.

(3) The President may withhold the registration of any declaration made under subsection (1) of this section if-

(a) the declaration is made during any war in which Nigeria is physically involved; or

(b) in his opinion, it is otherwise contrary to public policy.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.

(a) “full age” means the age of eighteen years and above;

(b) any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.

It is immediately seen from the above, that the section deals with conditions under which a Nigerian citizen is considered eligible to make a declaration to revoke his citizenship. “full age” to denounce/revoke/renounce Nigerian citizenship is used in reference to being allowed to make decisions, including this revocation. For both sexes, “full age” is 18 and above, however according to this section of the constitution, a woman is given greater and exclusive rights and authority, being regarded of “full age” to make decisions as serious as the revocation of her citizenship, once she is married.

When we think of what the Nigerian feminist forum created a petition to contest, it is very scary. They acted “hormonally,” without even taking a read of the constitutional segment in discussion. This constitutional permission, actually safe-guards women’s rights by allowing for instance, a married woman or girl, who feels cheated or otherwise deprived by Nigeria, the right to denounce her citizenship. This section is not related to and does not address what age a woman can marry.

It simply addresses what age a woman is eligible to make full fledgeling decisions, which of course can include divorce. If this section was deleted, then if for instance a 16 year old is married, she will not be considered “of age,” to challenge the marriage in court, or to revoke her citizenship if she wishes to seek asylum via the United Nations, or to any single citizenship nation. Such married young woman will have to wait and bear the pain till she is 18.

Senator Yerima had pointed out, that in Islam, once a woman is married, she is automatically of age to make all adult life decisions, including the right to divorce, this is as obtains in Nigeria’s constitution. Only the 35 senators listed below, voted to uphold these fundamental women’s rights of age unlimited choice, including the choice to denounce citizenship:
List of senators who upheld a woman’s right of choice once married

1. Sen. Abdulmumin M. Hassan (Jigawa South West, PDP)
2. Sen. Abdullahi Danladi (Jigawa North West, PDP)
3. Sen. Adamu Abdullahi (Nasarawa West, PDP)
4. Sen. Ahmed Barata (Adamawa South, PDP)
5. Sen. Akinyelure Ayo (Ondo Central, Labour Party)
6. Sen. Alkali Saidu A. (Gombe North, PDP)
7. Sen. Bagudu Abubakar A. (Kebbi Central, PDP)
8. Sen. Dahiru Umaru (Sokoto South, PDP)
9. Sen. Galaudu Isa (Kebbi North, PDP)
10. Sen. Garba Gamawa (Bauchi North, PDP)
11. Sen. Danjuma Goje Mohammed (Gombe Central, PDP)

Sen. Ugbesia Odion (Edo Central, PDP) stands out among the wise senators who voted for women’s rights

12. Sen. Gobir Ibrahim (Sokoto East, PDP)
13. Sen. Gumba Adamu Ibrahim (Bauchi South, PDP)
14. Sen. Hadi Sirika (Katsina North, CPC)
15. Sen. Ibrahim Bukar Abba (Yobe East, ANPP)
16. Sen. Jajere Alkali (Yobe South, ANPP)
17. Sen. Jibrilla Mohammed (Adamawa North, PDP)
18. Sen. Kabiru Gaya (Kano South, ANPP)
19. Sen. Lafiagi Mohammed (Kwara North, PDP)
20. Sen. Lawan Ahmad (Yobe North, ANPP)
21. Sen. Maccido Mohammed (Sokoto North, PDP)
22. Sen. Musa Ibrahim (Niger North, CPC)
23. Sen. Ndume Mohammed Ali (Borno South, PDP)
24. Sen. Sadiq A. Yaradua (Katsina Central, CPC)
25. Sen. Saleh Mohammed (Kaduna Central, CPC)
26. Sen. Tukur Bello (Adamawa Central, PDP)
27. Sen. Ugbesia Odion (Edo Central, PDP)
28. Sen. Umar Abubakar (Taraba Central, PDP)
29. Sen. Usman Abdulaziz (Jigawa North East, PDP)
30. Sen. Ya’au Sahabi (Zamfara North, PDP)
31. Sen. Zannah Ahmed (Borno Central, PDP)
32. Sen. Ahmad Rufai Sani (Zamfara West, ANPP)
33. Sen. Ahmad Abdul Ningi (Bauchi Central, PDP)
34. Sen. Bello Hayatu Gwano (Kano North, PDP)
35. Sen. Ibrahim Abu (Katsina South, CPC)

Sadly, it is evident that many of Nigeria’s senators are slightly more than barely literate and the Nigerian press is no better.

Quoting other sources:

2. CITIZENSHIP
The Section 26 of the 1999 Constitution defines who is a Nigerian citizen and how same may be acquired by naturalization and by registration. The Constitution makes no provision for the process by which non-Nigerian men married to Nigerian women and who are so desirous, may become Nigerian citizens. The silence here has continued to wreck untold hardship on the stability of many marriages.

Furthermore, section 29(4) (b) of the constitution provides for the renunciation of citizenship and thus allows an under aged woman to revoke her citizenship even when she has not attained the age of majority or the constitutional voting age. http://gtdn..com/2010/01/gender-gaps-in-nigeria-constitution.html

Update: July 20, 2013; Ayo Turton, a US based lawyer explains the same:

The clause that is really causing this unnecessary hullabaloo is Section 29 (4) (b). That clause has always been part of our laws, but the Senate moved to remove it as infringing on child’s right by making every married woman an adult. At the taking of the vote for the first time, they got two-third to remove it from the Constitution. But Yerima stood up and whipped up religious sentiment by galvanizing his Muslim brothers who ignorantly believed him into action. When the peace was threatened, David Mark, the Senate President capitulates and asked that the vote be taken again, at this point they were no longer able to garner two-third votes to remove the provision from the Constitution, so it remains.

Now to the legal issue: Section 29 (4) CLEARLY states: “for the purposes of subsection 1″ Section 29 subsection (1) CLEARLY states: “Any citizen of Nigeria of full age WHO WISHES TO RENOUNCE HIS NIGERIAN CITIZENSHIP (emphasis mine) shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation”

This is called “narrow definition” Subsection (1) narrowly defined under what circumstances the definitions stated at clauses (a) and (b) would be applicable. Therefore clauses (a) and (b) of section 29 (4) are only relevant to “renunciation of citizenship” alone. What made this clearer and should leave no one in doubt is the fact that clause 29 (4) (a) re-emphasized that “full age” shall be 18, but if you are already married, for the purposes of renunciation of citizenship you shall be automatically qualified to do so even if you are not 18 yet. Because you are deemed of “full age” for renunciation reason based on the unambiguous definition given by subsection 29 (1) In any case S. 29 (4) (b) is referring to someone already married not about-to-marry.

As a matter of fact, if you ask me, the Constitution as it is, threatens Yerima status than support it.

Read more: http://newsrescue.com/how-nigerias-gutter-media-misconstrued-the-yerima-underage-marriage-senate-proceeding/#ixzz2ZaFn4PnV
In my opinion, I think someone is trying to manipulate the truth here as usual......... Unfortunately for this guys, Nigerians have known the truth already.

An analytical piece With Prof. Wole Soyinka He has obliged to sharing this with as many Nigerians as possible. Please share this with friends and the general public.

It’s No More about Subsidy Alone.

The American President has only TWO aircraft, our president has 9[Nine] in his fleet and was voted money recently to buy ONE more! Making it TEN!

The British prime Minister has only TWO official cars, our president has 23 in his pool and only recently voted 300Million Naira to buy TWO more bullet/bomb proof ones!

Senators in the US earn about $6,000 dollars monthly and that’s about what a university professor, or a director in a state department, or a doctor with 20years experience, or a teacher with 25years experience earn too, but Here in Nigeria a senator earns 245 million Naira per annum! That’s the salary of 25 vice chancellors, or 50 medical doctors, or 60 directors, or 500 school teachers!

The US, almost the size of Africa with about 500million people have 24 ministers, and 32 government parastatals and commisions, Nigeria has a whooping 42 cabinet ministers, and over 50[Fifty] government parastatals!

America with about 500million people and more mileage to drive consumes 39million litres of petrol daily, Nigeria with 150million people 60% out of which live in remote areas, yet our government tells us we consume about 35million litres of petrol daily!

2. Is Subsidy Really the Problem of Nigeria?

‘When you marry an illiterate woman as a wife, you will definitely make stupid decisions like jonathan’: wole soyinka spoke!
Our Dear President GoodLuck Jonathan has become a tyrant, a shandel, a shame, he has become the No.1 Enemy of Nigeria. Is this because we, Nigeria are yet to adopt to CHANGE? Change that only Jonathan can see? The End will justify everything. Pray for Nigeria! Pray for our Beloved Country!
We wonder if all this came from prof.

Did you watch the thugs in the Rivers State House of Assembly last Tuesday? I later learnt that they were, in fact, legislators. A group of five, led by Babakaya Bipialaka, had ridiculously tried to remove the Speaker, Otelemaba Amachree, with a fake mace. Bipialaka is an opponent of the state governor, Chibuike Amaechi, while Amachree is pro-Amaechi. Shortly after Bipialaka was “elected” Speaker, a group of 27 pro-Amaechi lawmakers entered the chamber. In the videoed fracas, Amaechi’s loyalist, Chidi Lloyd, grabbed the fake mace and began to use it as a weapon of mass destruction. He later narrated how he was eventually given the beating of his life. In the “movie”, Amaechi’s security aides also contributed some useful punches and whiplashes to the show of shame. And so on and so forth.

Well, fellow Nigerians, you don’t have to panic. Our salvation is nearer than we thought! If everything goes according to plan, crude oil could soon be selling for $10 per barrel and there would be little or nothing for the politicians to kill themselves over. These clowns have eaten too much and are belching recklessly into our faces. While the Rivers State branch of the thugs misruling Nigeria were busy with boxing, wrestling and judo, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was raising the alarm over the looming oil doom. The discovery and production of shale oil by the United States – and the United Kingdom – will begin to considerably hurt oil-exporting countries from next year.

Oil revenue accounts for roughly 80 per cent of what the three tiers of government spend in Nigeria. Of course, most of it ends up in the pockets of the politicians, their fronts, top civil servants and other high-profile bandits. All those private jets, all those mansions in Banana Island and Abuja, all the militancy and assassinations and political thuggery fuelled by oil boom… just wait and see what will happen when the price of crude oil mightily tumbles. I am hoping, against hope, that this looming scenario will bring these pot-bellied gangsters in power to their senses so that we can begin to tackle the real development issues facing Nigeria. The Nigerian condition is so critical that you would expect these trigger-happy politicians to spend their energies on something more productive.

Oil boom has pulled the wool over our eyes since 1973. But the threat to crude oil has always been there. More countries are discovering oil, which means our exports will begin to drop at some stage. In addition, all the talk about fossil fuels and climate change is leading to the development of alternative fuels – and that has always been bad news for crude oil producers. The Nigerian case is even worsening because of frequent production outages and unprecedented oil theft despite the billion-naira contracts awarded to militants to safeguard the pipelines. We are already in trouble. That is why we are taking loans every day. The debts are piling up again. And the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, keeps educating us that we have a robust debt-to-GDP ratio!

As if all these are not enough trouble, the world’s biggest consumer of crude, the US, has now found a formidable alternative in shale oil. I wouldn’t mind if the alternative would take 30 years to develop. We could brace up for it. But it is developed already! So, the demand for our oil has fallen and will only continue to fall. In two to four years, the picture will be very clear to us. The new reality is that crude oil is no longer a monopoly! We are losing our swagger. Demand is falling and will continue to fall. As demand falls, the price will fall. As the price falls, production will fall. Many oil fields will become unprofitable to operate. They are likely to close down. You see, we may soon start drinking our oil for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Yes, you heard me right.

In the event of an oil doom, expect these: One, the naira would crash. Oil brings in most of our forex. A fall in forex inflow will hurt us since we are rapaciously import-dependent. Two, we would deplete our external reserves trying in vain to protect the naira. Three, a falling naira would impact negatively on the general prices of goods and services. Four, there would be less money to build infrastructure. Five, there would be less money for government overheads, leading to retrenchment and salary cuts. Six, there would no more money to fund fuel subsidy and petrol price will be increased. If petrol price goes up, there would be mass unrest as cost of living rises. I can go on and on.

Indeed, if crude oil revenue were to dry up today (July 14, 2013), only Lagos State would be able to pay workers’ salaries from its internally generated revenue. The other 35 states do not generate enough non-oil revenue to pay wages, much less meet other basic obligations. Most states are in debt, in any case, as they have taken loans or bonds. They will begin to default on the repayment and penalties will set in. The immediate option for the government would be to take more foreign loans to meet mounting obligations. Our children would inherit such a debt burden that they will curse us for enslaving them. And Okonjo-Iweala would not be around to explain to them our fantastic debt-to-GDP ratio.

It is not all bad news, though. We have shale oil too, somewhere in Ebonyi State, and we should concentrate efforts on finding more wherever it is buried. We can also choose to develop alternative energy sources as a matter of urgency. The best bet, however, is to invest heavily in infrastructure to grow industry, spur real economic growth and get off the fake petrodollar life support. We urgently need roads, power and railways. States need to fast-track the development of solid minerals and agriculture. We have to industrialise. These are what we should be spending our energy and time on. That is what will promote us out of underdevelopment, create jobs and sustainable wealth.

I repeat: I am not interested in who is the chairman of governors’ forum or Speaker of Rivers House of Assembly. That will not reduce the price of garri. In my list of priorities, I am more worried about the looting and incompetence going on at all levels of government. I am worried about the future of my children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. Is this the country they are going to live in? None of these political thugs seems worried about that. They are just playing politics at our expense, manipulating the highly vulnerable media for their selfish agenda.

Nevertheless, let the thugs continue to break one another’s head. I’m sure they have stolen enough petrodollars to treat their wounds in Germany or Dubai. That, fortunately, is not my headache.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/…ur-oil/153228/

Read more: http://newsrescue.com/we-will-soon-be-drinking-our-oil-in-nigeria/#ixzz2ZOAexXQj

ABEOKUTA-Anti-christ Church Where Animals Are Killed For Sacrifice and Visitors Served With Alcohol Discovered In Ogun State, Nigeria

Welcome to a weird church where animals are freely slaughtered for sacrifice. As you step into this place of worship, you are confronted with the sight of a spot on the right that will make you conclude that you may have strayed into a slaughterhouse.

Even though insinuations of a slaughterhouse stick out starkly and grisly, this is by no means an abattoir. There is neither buying and selling of meat in this worship centre called As God Said, It Must Done, The Temple of The Most High God.

An evangelist at the church explained that the spot is called the ‘Earth Altar’ and that it’s where different types of sacrifices are offered unto God.

Located on a street named after it, Off Fakunle Street, Oke-Aro in Ogun State, a suburb near Lagos, the church is neither Pentecostal nor orthodox. All the same, both the shepherd and the sheep are strongly convinced that they are serving the living God the right way.

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This reporter gathered that the blood splattered all over the ‘Earth Altar’ is that of animals. Similarly, in sharp dissonance, the mode of worship verges on the oddity, just as members cling on to what many people will consider unusual beliefs and teachings of the church.

As your curiosity wanders untrammeled at the multihued sight of the church and the strangeness of its name, you meet Prophet Blessed Dike, the general overseer and self-styled seer.

He tells you with celestial audacity that God revealed the name of the church to him while in a trance. “While I was praying God gave me the name of this church from the Book of Isaiah 46 verse 11”, he said.

A probing by this reporter further revealed that besides the ‘Earth Altar’, the church also has a place called the ‘Holy of Holies.’ A worker in the church, Mr. Isaiah Anyaehie explains that the ‘Holy of Holies’ was put up as a replica of the ark of God built by Moses in the Old Testament.

Like the pool of Bethesda in the Bible, members believe that anytime you are sick and you climb into the ‘Holy of Holies’, you would instantly receive your healing.

Here, members show forth when they also want to receive forgiveness of sins and other requests from God. “We have access to the ‘Holy of Holies’ anytime there is a special programme in the church. When you ascend into the ‘Holy of Holies’, you would be healed of whatever ailment you have and whatever you ask God for, He would do it for you,” another member said.

While you are still wondering why the entire premises is painted in red and white, the self-styled seer tells you that white symbolizes peace while red is totemic as it blots out sins.

“God used the blood to wipe out the sins of Adam and Eve. We offer sacrifices because that is what God commands. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and other great men in the Bible offered sacrifices,” he said.

A female member of the church revealed to this reporter that members of this church are expected to wear red or white attires every first and last Sunday of the month. On the floor of the auditorium, there are straight red lines drawn across the floor. She explained that the red lines are Angels’ pathways. “God revealed to Daddy to make those pathways because angels usually visit the church,” she said.

There are two types of sacrifices that are offered in As God Said It Must Be Done, the Temple of The Most High God, this reporter gathers. There is the sacrifice of atonement, which is offered when seeking forgiveness of sins from God.

In carrying out the sacrifice, the prophet slaughters whatever animal the member provides at the ‘Earth Altar’ and ‘forgiveness’ is obtained from God after the prophet has prayed and blessed the person.

There is also the sacrifice of thanksgiving offered when a member wants to thank God for a favour granted him by God. The type of animal used for this type of sacrifice may vary based on individual needs. “You can bring a cow, a ram, a goat, a chicken or even a dove,” another female member of the church said.

Creepy and funny caveats are never in short supply at As God Said It Must Be Done, the Temple of The Most High God. For instance, a woman who is in her monthly cycle is not allowed to enter into the temple; else, she may be visited by God’s wrath.

Prophet Dike said “It’s a sin for a woman to come into the church while she is observing her menstrual flow. It is a very terrible thing. No woman has the right to come into the presence of God while she is menstruating.”

Despite his weird doctrines, Prophet Dike is very hospitable albeit in a way that one may describe as shocking. As soon as visitors to the church among whom was this reporter stepped into the auditorium, he instructs his workers to bring them refreshments.

This consists of two cartons of canned Guinness, popularly known as small stout. While you are yet to overcome the shock of seeing a prophet of God serve alcoholic drinks in the church, he further instructs that some bottles of whisky be brought to entertain his guests.

Seeing the surprise on the faces of his visitors, he immediately explained the reasons for his actions. “There is nothing like alcohol or strong drink in the bible, so where did you get that from? In Deuteronomy 14 verse 26, God says, “You shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires, for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires, you shall eat there before the Lord your God and you shall rejoice, you and your household.”

God told us to spend our income on what we want. If a man calls himself a man of God and he doesn’t have money, the anointing would turn to annoyance. It is better that you drink in the House of God than to go to a public place and misbehave” he said. Before the prophet was through with attending to his visitors, he had gulped two bottles of small stout.

“Are you not afraid of going to hell” this reporter queries the prophet? Then he laughs hysterically and said “It is unfortunate that you have been taught the wrong doctrine from the time you were little. Who told you that hell exists? Heaven and hell do not exist. Can a spirit judge a spirit? There is nothing like heaven or hell. They don’t exist. All the punishment is here on earth.

If a man cannot feed himself and his family, he is living in hell. If he cannot pay his house rent and cannot afford to buy a car for himself, he is living in hell. When your mates are enjoying life and you cannot enjoy it, you are living in hell.

“If you are suffering, it means that God is punishing you for something you have done, so there is no hell anywhere. When a man dies, that is the end. He does not go anywhere and God does not judge him. In Mark 12, verses 18 to 27, it is written there that “God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

“So what death are we talking about? If you are living well and you are enjoying your life, you are living in heaven. People like Aliko Dangote, Adenuga, Otedola, Obasanjo and other rich men are living in heaven already.

In the Bible, it is written that it’s God’s wish that we live in health and prosper even as our soul prospers.”

Led by God to steal?
Reflecting on how he came into the ministry as well as his early encounter with the “holy spirit”, Prophet Dike hinted “From my tender age, I used to steal a lot. Wherever any person kept money, I would steal it, even if I was not there when the money was being kept. You may have money in your pocket and you would not know when I would take it.

“I remember when my father used to hide his money in the spring bed in his room. Though I wasn’t around when he kept it, but the spirit of God would lead me to where the money was and I would just go straight to the room and to the exact spot where he kept the money and steal it. I did not know that it was the hand of God that was at work in me.

“This thing continued and because of that, my father sent me to Benin after my primary education. I went there but I continued having the same problems until I finally came to Lagos. It was while I was in Lagos that Jesus appeared to me and gave me the message from God.

“On April 14, 2001 by 7am, I was approaching Omole Phase 1 Estate when Jesus appeared to me in the form of a young man. I remember that I had a cigarette in my mouth and I thought that the odour of the smoke would offend him. He told me “Son, my father is calling you”.

“I had this encounter three times. In one of such encounters, Jesus came to my shop where I was a panel beater and told me, ‘Son, my father has need for you. The time for panel beating is up, now is the time to panel beat your children. Father said you are too stubborn, but if you think you are stubborn, He’s more stubborn than you.’

“After He said that, He disappeared and I didn’t see him again. I still did not obey. I went from one shop to the other but it was one misfortune after the other. At a time, my shop got burnt and that was when I decided to obey God’s instruction. That is why till date, no one can come out and say he shepherded me. I do not have any human mentor; it’s God that is my mentor. He speaks to me all the time and when I need anything, I go to Him for advice. No man can say he ordained me. It was God that ordained me.”

Man of God or Anti-Christ?
“People can call me names. Some may say I am an antichrist. Others may say I am Ogboni, but I do not care. My calling was foretold in the Bible. The book of Isaiah 42 verses 1-2, says “Keep silent before me, oh Islands and let the people renew their strength. Let them speak; let them come near and let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.

Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? He gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his blow.” The man from the East that God was referring to is me,” Prophet Dike boasted and added that “On October 28, 2012, I met with God in the Garden of Eden.

In that revelation, Oyedepo was there, Adeboye was there, Okonkwo was there, Pope John Paul was there and so many other pastors. While we were meeting, God was very angry and told me to drive them away , because they were not doing His will and they were encouraging people to worship Jesus instead of God. Four months after that, the Pope died. God raised me to test people to know whether they are obeying the law of God or the law of men. There is nothing like the trinity. What we have is God, the Word and the Spirit. And those are the three witnesses.”

God is angry with Nigeria
“One of the reasons why God is angry with Nigeria is because they have abandoned the day that God said the New Year should be celebrated. They are now celebrating January 1 as the New Year day.

It is totally wrong. New Year should be celebrated on July 10 each year and not on January 1. In the book of Leviticus 16 verse 29, God says: “This shall be a statute forever for you. In the seventh month on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work at all, whether a native of your own country or a stranger who dwells among you.”, he quipped.

On the New Testament
More curious to know why some of their doctrines negate what is written in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, Prophet Dike said “the New Testament is the mind of man but the Old Testament is the mind of God.

“In the Old Testament, God spoke directly to the prophets and they wrote down what He said, but in the New Testament, the disciples only wrote their minds. For instance, there is nothing like being born again because God can never be born again. The New Testament is not the mind of God. It is men speaking and not God. In the book of Matthew for instance, what is written there is the mind of Matthew and not the mind of God. But in the Old Testament, God spoke directly to his prophets. He spoke directly to people like Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Solomon and so on.”

One of the cardinal points of Christianity is the belief that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and that he died for the sins of the world and rose again. Prophet Dike is furious over these assertions. “Jesus was just a servant and not God. He has finished his duty on earth the same way other prophets finished their calling,he said adding “Any Christian that leaves God and starts giving glory to Jesus should be ashamed. Jesus can never be God.

He is not the savior and he did not die for anyone. Anyone that tells you that Jesus is the son of God is a fraud and is not of God. Do the Muslims worship Mohammed? No. They worship only God, but you see Christians worshiping Jesus and even equating him with God.

“In the book of Deuteronomy, God says he is the only one that should be worshiped and that we should not bow down to any image. So why do people worship Jesus when he is just a prophet? He did not die for anybody’s sins. He died just like any other human being. If he died for you, why are many people still afraid to go to their villages? If you say that Jesus is the only son of God, then what was Adam? Was he not also a son?
“When Adam who was made in the image of God could not save you, then who is Jesus to save you? I don’t want to hear the name of Jesus because he is not God and has never been God. God is very angry with Nigeria because they have taken His glory and given it to a mortal man. Why we have this high level insecurity is because of God’s wrath.”

This reporter sought to know from some members why they attend the church and if they are not skeptical of the doctrines propagated by the prophet. The leader of the men’s fellowship in the church, Mr. Richard Onyekachukwu said that he would continue attending the church because God used the prophet to raise him from the dead.

His wife, Esther confirmed his claim. According to her, “My husband was admitted at LASUTH (Lagos State University Teaching Hospital) for what started as fever. The situation gradually worsened and he eventually died.

Doctors had certified him dead and his brothers had started making plans to take him to the village for burial. But when I called the prophet, without seeing my husband, he prayed for him and he came back to life.”

Read more: http://newsrescue.com/antichrist-church-in-nigeria-animals-sacrificed-visitors-served-alcohol/#ixzz2ZNyKaa00

Africa Literacy Ranking 2013

1. Zimbabwe 90.70
2.Equatorial Guinea 87.00
3.South Africa 86.40
4.Kenya 85.10
5.Namibia 85.00
6.Sao Tome and Principe 84.90
7.Lesotho 84.80
8.Mauritius 84.40
9. Congo, Republic of the 83.80
10.Libya 82.60
11. Swaziland 81.60
12.Botswana 81.20
13.Zambia 80.60
14.Cape Verde 76.60
15.Tunisia 74.30
16.Egypt 71.40
17.Rwanda 70.40
18.Algeria 69.90
19.Tanzania 69.40
20.Madagascar 68.90
21.Nigeria 68.00
22.Cameroon 67.90
23.Djibouti 67.90
24.Angola 67.40
25. D.R.C 67.20
26.Uganda 66.80
27. Gabon 63.20
28.Malawi 62.70
29.Sudan 61.10
30.Togo 60.90
31.Burundi 59.30
32.Eritrea 58.60
33.Ghana 57.90
34.Liberia 57.50
35.Comoros 56.50
36.Morocco 52.30
37.Mauritania 51.20
38.Cote d’Ivoire 48.70
39.Central African Republic 48.60
40.Mozambique 47.80
41.Mali 46.40
42.Ethiopia 42.70
43.Guinea-Bissau 42.40
44.Gambia, The 40.10
45.Senegal 39.30
46.Somalia 37.80
47.Sierra Leone 35.10
48.Benin 34.70
49.Guinea 29.50
50.Niger 28.70
51.Chad 25.70
52.Burkina Faso 21.80

According to reports, below is an alleged breakdown of senators' salary and allowances in Nigeria.

Basic Salary (BS) = N2,484,245.50

Hardship Allowance: 50% of Basic Salary = N1,242,122.75.

Constituency allowance: 200% of BS = N4,968,509.00.

Furniture Allowance: 300% of BS = N7,452,736.50.

Newspaper allowance: 50% = N1,242,122.70.

Wardrobe allowance: 25% = N621,061.37.

Recess Allowance: 10% = N248,424.55.

Accommodation: 200% = N4,968,509.00.

Utilities: 30% = N828,081.83.

Domestic Staff: 35% = N863,184.12.

Entertainment: 30% = N828,081.83.

Personal Assistance: 25% = N621,061.37.

Vehicle Maintenance Allowance: 75% = N1,863,184.12.

Leave Allowance : 10% = N248,424.55

One off payments (Severance gratuity): 300% = N7,452,736.50. Motor Vehicle Allowance: 400% of BS = N9,936,982.00.

Total per month = N29,479, 749.00. [$190,192]



Hmmmmmmmmmmm.......What then shall we say?

Front Page abeg... this woman really needs help.

IS it a crime to be born in Nigeria? Is it unwise to expend one’s youthful energy and time for one’s country? Is it a crime to represent one’s country at international sporting events? Is it really more rewarding to change nationality when one becomes a sports celebrity?

These and many other questions must be running through the mind of former Nigerian international athlete, Miss Grace Ebukuyo, now Mrs Akindele, who, for over a decade, represented the country and won several laurels at many international games, including the Commonwealth Games, All Africa Games, First All West African Games, among others.

The 100meter, 400meter and 800meter sprinter has today become a ghost of her former ebullient, beautiful, charming and elegant self.

When The Guardian team visited this queen of the track recently, emotions and tears from members of the team nearly marred the mission as her sight and deplorable state of her health would certainly make a Shina Rambo for a moment, shed tears.

Assisted to sit on the chair by her husband, Grace was motionless, speechless, frail and seriously emaciated, while those legs and hands that did the track magic in the 1970s and early 1980s are almost lifeless.

Grace can no longer recognize anybody, except her husband. The once energetic athlete, now bed-ridden for the past decade, has been down with multiple ailments, which include cerebral meningitis, high blood pressure hypertension and diabetes. All these have resulted in her present disturbing state of health where she not only suffers from loss of memory, but is almost dumb and deaf now.

Grace began her athletic career as a teenager at the defunct St. James’ Anglican Modern School, Igbotako in the old Okitipupa Division, where she represented the school at many inter-school competitions at both the divisional and inter-divisional levels.

It was at the Manuwa Memorial Grammar School (MMGS), Iju-Odo, in the same Okitipupa Division that Grace was ushered into the national limelight, which in turn took her to the international scene where she won many laurels for Nigeria.

It remains on record that young Grace, at the tender age of 15, was in the Nigerian contingent to the 1973 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand.

The most agonizing part of the visit was her inability to talk or answer any question that was put to her with a view to getting some facts from her because of her near dumb and deaf situation. So it was her husband, Sunday Akindele, who answered all the questions, especially those relating to her ill-health.

According to Akindele, his wife was “first diagnosed for cerebral meningitis at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) but later doctors in the hospital discovered that she is also suffering from diabetes and hypertension.”

“Since then, I have been taking her from one hospital to another hoping that she would overcome the disease but unfortunately her condition continues to get worse.”

“Though, some doctors, after seeing our restless efforts, advised us to fly her abroad for treatment, but the source of funding the traveling expenses and the cost of treatment has been a constraint and the reason she has remained on sick bed at home all these years, because there has been no one to assist us,” he lamented.

Doctors have said we would need about N10million to fly her abroad for treatment and traveling expenses.

Akindele said the family’s little resources is being used to buy medication that could prolong her life until when “the heart of kind Nigerians would be touched and come to our rescue.”

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124910:dying-former-commonwealth-medalist-ebukuyo-seeks-help-for-treatment-abroad&catid=3:metro&Itemid=558

My name is Feminista Jones and I love watching porn.
Porn in this instance refers to sexually explicit videos featuring men and women engaging in various types of kinky, sexy activity. I’m not a fan of magazines and still images, but I absolutelylove watching people get it on.
I’ve opened up about my voyeurism, and definitely admit that I’m highly aroused by being able to get a sneak peek into the sex lives of others. For most people, watching pornis about indulging in a fantasy or a sexy illusion that arouses one’s senses. Others just want something fun to watch or seek to satisfy a lingering curiosity.
The longstanding stereotype that prn is just formen is simply untrue. Women absolutely do watch X-ráted movies, and not just the softcóre stuff either. According to a study conducted by Dr. Gomathi Sitharthan at the University of Sydney’s Graduate Program in Sexual Health, at least one in three women watches pórn. She cites Internet accessibility as one of the contributing factors to the increase in viewing in recent years. This is trueenough, as anyone can now access hundreds ofthousands of videos via snippet sites that allow users to upload video clips and share with others for free. And even despite the easewith which people can now access these videos, CNBC reports that the pórn industry is still estimated to take in over $14 billion a yearin revenue.
I became interested in the pórn-viewing habitsof women, especially women of color, because I often see women and men talk about it with hesitation. I did a quick survey of my Twitter followers and received 206 responses to six questions about viewing habits and preferences.
What Do Women Like to Watch and Why?
Think most heteroséxual women are checking out X-rated movies primarily to see fit, well-built, séxy men? Think again. Dr. MeredithChivers found that the gender of the participants in porn didn’t matter much to the women watching. Women respond to the levelof activity before they respond to the gender of the actors doing the activities, she found. This might explain why 53% of the women report enjoying lesbian scenes (at least two women, no men present) as one of their top three genres. I also found that 14.5% of the women enjoy wátching gáy scenes (at least two men, no women present), and 30% of the women enjoy watching group séx scenes (several men and women) or gangbangs (one woman, several men).
The longstanding stereotype that pórn is just for men is simply untrue. Women absolutely dowatch X-rated movies, and not just the softcóre stuff either.
Women also report enjoying “ethnic” scenes, or scenes focused heavily on African-Americans and Latino/a-Americans. This category had the biggest response, with 68% of the women indicating it is in their top three favorites. There’s a level of cultural affinity associated with the visual it seems, and if women are focusing on the fantasy aspect of pórn, it might be easier to connect to the actorswho are of the same race/ethnicity or women they’re used to seeing in their daily lives.
I also asked the women to choose their top two reasons for watching these movies. The large majority (82%) said they watch pórn to masturbaté, which speaks to the árousing stimulation watching people have séx provides. The survey revealed that 43.2% of women also thought of pórn as something simply fun to watch, while 38.3 % of women said they watch pórn to learn new tricks and techniques. I’d recommend any woman looking for something new and éxciting to try in the bédroom to check out some of those steamy clíps and see what you can reenact the next time.
What About the Stigma?
Many women feel that pórn degrades women, and struggle with reconciling the árousal they experience with the reality of the images depicted. About 32% of the women surveyed say they avoid pórn that degrades women, while 27% say they don’t feel bad watching pórn that features women being degraded because they choose to make the videos. Even more interesting is that 25% of women say they feel bad about the women being degraded but are still ároused, and 21% say they actually get off on the images of women being séxually degraded.
Approximately 13 million women check out at least one pórn site per month, according to Nielsen ratings. “Porn provides an alternative way for women to satisfy their curiosity, learn more about séxuality, and explore séxual desires and séxual positions in the privacy of their home alone or with a partner,” says TaMara Campbell. According to my own survey,50% of women prefer to watch pórn alone, most likely because they prefer to masturbaté while doing it.
Of those who do watch with someone else, 74% say they are comfortable with their preferences and don’t mind sharing with a partner. Further analysis shows that the remaining women who don’t
feel comfortable sharing their preferences witha partner tend to prefer scenes featuring BDSM/kínk, gay male séx and taboo situátions (incest, rapé fantasies, etc).
Women are increasingly taking ownership of their séxuality and pleasure. They’re no longer waiting for séx to be done to them; they are making it happen for them in ways that not only get them off but empower them. Like with anything in excess, some women can develop addictive habits around watching pórn, and I caution anyone experiencing this toreach out and get help. There are many resources available for people with séxual addictions, and pórn addiction is a very real issue in relationships.
That said, women shouldn’t feel like they’re alone in their pórn watching or in their preferences. No matter the scene or the kínk, there are other women out there enjoying the view just the same and getting off. Remember to be safe, be aware, and above all feel free to explore the various cinematic fantasies that might éxcite you.

I bet that this case will be fasten, and the lady sentenced for life, all becaus she is a petty thief.... I've always said it, that the very besw way to elude the present Nigeria law is to steal real big money. (like ibori, farouk, pension chief etc.) the worst that can happen is that you could be sentence 4 just two years with option of bail ...which u will only pay little from the much you stole.
All will need in this country is God's divine intervention

I dnt care what this is, it doern't solve any of Nigeria problem. Ther re a lot of things to channel those magical powers.

There re things we mustn't joke with, why would people carry such rumore of death? No wonder GEJ said that Nigeria problem is not corruption, but attitude, praise to God we didn't lose such a man.

Patience Jonathan Receives Doctorate Degree (In Absentia)

Nigeria’s first lady, Patience Jonathan was awarded another doctorate degree during the weekend by the Delta State University, Abraka.
The award was received on her behalf by the minister for WomenAffairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, who showedappreciation for the gesture by the university.
She dedicated the award to Nigerian women, and said the award would strengthen her commitment to Nigerian women through her non-governmental organisation and other services.
According to reports, the first lady pledged to support the statein the task of building the university.
She said, “Let me assure you that this award has further strengthened my commitment togive the Nigerian women and youthe basic knowledge through my NGO, the Women for Change and Development Initiative.
“Let me on behalf of my co-awardees thank the Governor and the university authorities for the award. I promise to be a good ambassador of the university,” the first lady said.
The co-ordinating minister for the Economy and the minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala wasalso awarded a doctorate degree alongside the first lady.
As honourary doctorate degrees pile up for the first lady, we can’t wait for her to return home fromher “moment’s rest” abroad.

If there‘s ever one great achievement I should praise myself after 68 years of existence on this turbulent planet called earth, then it was my ability to resist the temptation to reply you. Not only did you reduce my personality to that of a nonentitybut you also created the platformfor boys and girls young enough to bemy children to subject me to ridicule and contempt.
Like a refuse dump, I endured all the insults and your humiliation with peerless stoicism.But today,I’m unable to keep quiet and allow you to go on this way. I make this appeal not for my ownsake, but for the sake of Naadu and my family members, who arealready swaying wearily under heavy weight of-indescribable grief.
I heard you on the BBC the other day and I couldn’t help but shed tears. I was not surprised that such words could come from you, but I was sad that after all these years of serving you and doing everything humanly possible to please you, you still have not found a place inyour heart to recognise this.
Mr Rawlings, in that interview you said if I had done something wiser, I “could probably have survived another six or seven months.” This was after you said that the cancer affected my ear and eye and I could not concentrate for more than three hours a day.
I can’t tell if you were in the placeof God to determine how long I could have lived. But what I know for a fact that if you, your wife and those who like you had shown me a little love, I could have lived for a few more years.
The deterioration in my health, I think, had more to do with psychological torturethan a physiological breakdown.Any healthy person put in my shoes might not have survived aftera few months of going through the hell you created for my presidency. What made the vulture bald is enough to kill the crow. And I can say that the frustration and depression that conspired with ill health to put me here after many yearsof battle was enough to finish any healthy person in months.
Mr Rawlings, I didn’t die a happy man. This is not because I had not paid my dues to our dear nation. I have served this nation well as a public officer, a sports administrator, a teacher and a politician. But I spent sleepless nights during my presidency thinking why nothing I did seemed to please you and others around you.
I was aware, long before I became president, that anybody in that position must expect opposition. But in my case, I had to contend with both internal and external opposition and nothing I did seemed to please people.
Ever since you granted that BBC interview, the discussion about my death has shifted from sympathy to blame. As usual, you’ve provided my detractors with weapons to attack and they are firing from all angles. And I don’t understand why you and my haters now care so much about my life.
Indeed, you’re behaving like outsiders weeping more than thebereaved and now pretend you now wanted meto live. Are you offended you will not have the opportunityto torment me again?
I must, however, say I have no regret going at this stage.I believe the Lord I served knew it would happen. He also permittedit to happen. His ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not ours. I know everything happens for a reason, and Ghana has more to gain that lose in my demise.
In the first place, my death brought about unity and has poured cold water on the tensionthat was hitting its climax in the run up to the 2012 elections. It is also the best thing that has happenedto the NDC in recent times. Our party had too many factions with deeply entrenched positions. So dangerous was this that if I refused to contest the primaries, the party could have been torn into shreds.
But I think the party is now stronger than ever since we reclaimed power. This is not only good for the umbrella family, butalso for the health of our democracy.
Another gain my death has for Ghana is the enormous lessons you have to learn. The events leading to my death only confirms what theBible says in Proverbs 18:21: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Many people swore that Atta-Millswould become the first one-termpresident in the Fourth Republic. And theyhave got it. That’s the fruit oftheir tongue.
In recent past, we heard about the Rawlings government and the Kufuor government. However, when it was my turn, itbecame the “Mills/Mahama” government.
First I thought it was an attempt to destroy the political future of my hardworking vice president by soiling him with any dirt of myadministration. But it turned out to be what was uttered by the tongue of Ghanaians.
Perhaps, Ghanaians can learn to utter positive things abouttheir nations and it will surely come topass.
Another lesson from which Ghanaians stand to gain is the fact that life is meaningless and there’s no point hating, killing and trying to bring one another down because of power.
A few days ago, not many Ghanaians could come near the Osu Castle. I also had my private house cordoned off by security personnel and at any point in time someone had to be awake because of me.
From where I lie now, I see life asmeaningless.
Now I share the same building with ordinary people. I sleep heretogether with that mad woman who was knocked down by a vehicle the other day, and many other categories of persons no one would want to be associatedwith. That is the reality of life, which I think Ghanaians should learn.
Death is, indeed, a leveller.
I also see now that life is not about wealth. Real wealth is the impact you make in the lives of others when you’re alive. When I was being rushed to the 37 Military Hospital that Tuesday afternoon, I did not pick withmean office pin. And when I was been dumped here, no designer wear was used to cover me.Here I am, cold and Unclad.
When you told your “Atta Mortuary Man” joke at our Tamale Congress, people think it was too insulting for my personality. But All of a sudden, I’m in the hands of mortuary man who utters disdainful words. “His Excellency John EvansAtta-Mills” was my name a few days ago. But the mortuary attendant contemptuously refersto me as “the body.”
I don’t know how much my ex-gratia would be, but whatI know is that no pesewa would ever get to me. All is vanity, indeed.
Mr Rawlings, I see life differently and I think insteadof spending the rest of your life to vilify me, you can do yourself a favour by learning from my life and death. No one will ever become a stone.
Everyone is bound to go. Thatis the certainty. What is uncertain iswhere, when andhow we shall go. Yours may be better or worsethan mine so be moderate in your attacks of me. You don’t know your end.
When I got to the office that Tuesday, I didn’t know that before sunset, I would cease to be the President of Ghana. Whether I lived longer or not,it would have come one day.
But as I have stated, I have no regrets. I lived my life for humanity. I wanted to see othershappy and did the bestI could to bring myself to thelevel of the ordinary person. But the quest todemonise me clouded everythingI did. Itried to share the pain of others. But all I heard was that Atta-Mills is bad. I sometimes feltlike weeping because only the negative side was known.
And they still believed every lie and malicious rumour about me even when some journalists came out to confess that they had been publishing falsehood about me.
Until my death, no journalist ever mentioned that I called to sympathise with them andapologise to them in person when others mishandled them. I was a true believer inquiet diplomacy and did not want to practice my piety in public as the good book admonishes us against. I could have called invited Cyrus De-Graft Johnson of Joy FM to the castle in the presence of cameras in order to score a political point. Or better still, I could have publicly called on the AMA Mayor to apologise tohim after his guards manhandledthe journalist.
Mr Rawlings, I don’t think theAtta Mills debate will end soon. But I appeal to you in the name of the Lord to spare me any moredisgrace.
I have suffered a lot.
I know I was not an angel. I had my shortcoming. But is left with the Lord I served to judge me where I am now.
You too were not an angel either.Your administration fraught withproblems but we helped you to succeed. There was corruption in your presidency and some of your ministers and government officials under your watch were later tried and jailed forcorrupt practices. Even your wife was manipulated and tried.
Our elders say a drum may sound differently from what its maker intended. If you think you were infallible, I think otherwise and I pray Ghanaians to forgive me in whatever way I erred.
I wish you well and hope that you will help to conduct the 2012elections in a peaceful manner. We have nooption but to make this country better for the future generation. This is the only country we have and we must not send our people out to be refugees in other lands. From where I lie, cold and Unclad, I don’t think it is worth dying for someone to gain power. I realised that Tuesday afternoon that whenyour time is up, no amount of power, wealth or influencecan make any difference.
I greet all Ghanaians in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We shall all meet again when Christ appears, inall his glory and splendour, to welcome those who were never ashamed of Him into His eternal kingdom.
Until then I remain your humble servant,
John Evans FiifiAtta-Mills, or “the body” as the mortuary attendant here calls me.
,...No writing has ever driven me to tears like this letter did. May your humble soul rest in perfect peace John Evans FiifiAtta-Mills.

If there‘s ever one great achievement I should praise myself after 68 years of existence on this turbulent planet called earth, then it was my ability to resist the temptation to reply you. Not only did you reduce my personality to that of a nonentitybut you also created the platformfor boys and girls young enough to bemy children to subject me to ridicule and contempt.
Like a refuse dump, I endured all the insults and your humiliation with peerless stoicism.But today,I’m unable to keep quiet and allow you to go on this way. I make this appeal not for my ownsake, but for the sake of Naadu and my family members, who arealready swaying wearily under heavy weight of-indescribable grief.
I heard you on the BBC the other day and I couldn’t help but shed tears. I was not surprised that such words could come from you, but I was sad that after all these years of serving you and doing everything humanly possible to please you, you still have not found a place inyour heart to recognise this.
Mr Rawlings, in that interview you said if I had done something wiser, I “could probably have survived another six or seven months.” This was after you said that the cancer affected my ear and eye and I could not concentrate for more than three hours a day.
I can’t tell if you were in the placeof God to determine how long I could have lived. But what I know for a fact that if you, your wife and those who like you had shown me a little love, I could have lived for a few more years.
The deterioration in my health, I think, had more to do with psychological torturethan a physiological breakdown.Any healthy person put in my shoes might not have survived aftera few months of going through the hell you created for my presidency. What made the vulture bald is enough to kill the crow. And I can say that the frustration and depression that conspired with ill health to put me here after many yearsof battle was enough to finish any healthy person in months.
Mr Rawlings, I didn’t die a happy man. This is not because I had not paid my dues to our dear nation. I have served this nation well as a public officer, a sports administrator, a teacher and a politician. But I spent sleepless nights during my presidency thinking why nothing I did seemed to please you and others around you.
I was aware, long before I became president, that anybody in that position must expect opposition. But in my case, I had to contend with both internal and external opposition and nothing I did seemed to please people.
Ever since you granted that BBC interview, the discussion about my death has shifted from sympathy to blame. As usual, you’ve provided my detractors with weapons to attack and they are firing from all angles. And I don’t understand why you and my haters now care so much about my life.
Indeed, you’re behaving like outsiders weeping more than thebereaved and now pretend you now wanted meto live. Are you offended you will not have the opportunityto torment me again?
I must, however, say I have no regret going at this stage.I believe the Lord I served knew it would happen. He also permittedit to happen. His ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not ours. I know everything happens for a reason, and Ghana has more to gain that lose in my demise.
In the first place, my death brought about unity and has poured cold water on the tensionthat was hitting its climax in the run up to the 2012 elections. It is also the best thing that has happenedto the NDC in recent times. Our party had too many factions with deeply entrenched positions. So dangerous was this that if I refused to contest the primaries, the party could have been torn into shreds.
But I think the party is now stronger than ever since we reclaimed power. This is not only good for the umbrella family, butalso for the health of our democracy.
Another gain my death has for Ghana is the enormous lessons you have to learn. The events leading to my death only confirms what theBible says in Proverbs 18:21: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Many people swore that Atta-Millswould become the first one-termpresident in the Fourth Republic. And theyhave got it. That’s the fruit oftheir tongue.
In recent past, we heard about the Rawlings government and the Kufuor government. However, when it was my turn, itbecame the “Mills/Mahama” government.
First I thought it was an attempt to destroy the political future of my hardworking vice president by soiling him with any dirt of myadministration. But it turned out to be what was uttered by the tongue of Ghanaians.
Perhaps, Ghanaians can learn to utter positive things abouttheir nations and it will surely come topass.
Another lesson from which Ghanaians stand to gain is the fact that life is meaningless and there’s no point hating, killing and trying to bring one another down because of power.
A few days ago, not many Ghanaians could come near the Osu Castle. I also had my private house cordoned off by security personnel and at any point in time someone had to be awake because of me.
From where I lie now, I see life asmeaningless.
Now I share the same building with ordinary people. I sleep heretogether with that mad woman who was knocked down by a vehicle the other day, and many other categories of persons no one would want to be associatedwith. That is the reality of life, which I think Ghanaians should learn.
Death is, indeed, a leveller.
I also see now that life is not about wealth. Real wealth is the impact you make in the lives of others when you’re alive. When I was being rushed to the 37 Military Hospital that Tuesday afternoon, I did not pick withmean office pin. And when I was been dumped here, no designer wear was used to cover me.Here I am, cold and Unclad.
When you told your “Atta Mortuary Man” joke at our Tamale Congress, people think it was too insulting for my personality. But All of a sudden, I’m in the hands of mortuary man who utters disdainful words. “His Excellency John EvansAtta-Mills” was my name a few days ago. But the mortuary attendant contemptuously refersto me as “the body.”
I don’t know how much my ex-gratia would be, but whatI know is that no pesewa would ever get to me. All is vanity, indeed.
Mr Rawlings, I see life differently and I think insteadof spending the rest of your life to vilify me, you can do yourself a favour by learning from my life and death. No one will ever become a stone.
Everyone is bound to go. Thatis the certainty. What is uncertain iswhere, when andhow we shall go. Yours may be better or worsethan mine so be moderate in your attacks of me. You don’t know your end.
When I got to the office that Tuesday, I didn’t know that before sunset, I would cease to be the President of Ghana. Whether I lived longer or not,it would have come one day.
But as I have stated, I have no regrets. I lived my life for humanity. I wanted to see othershappy and did the bestI could to bring myself to thelevel of the ordinary person. But the quest todemonise me clouded everythingI did. Itried to share the pain of others. But all I heard was that Atta-Mills is bad. I sometimes feltlike weeping because only the negative side was known.
And they still believed every lie and malicious rumour about me even when some journalists came out to confess that they had been publishing falsehood about me.
Until my death, no journalist ever mentioned that I called to sympathise with them andapologise to them in person when others mishandled them. I was a true believer inquiet diplomacy and did not want to practice my piety in public as the good book admonishes us against. I could have called invited Cyrus De-Graft Johnson of Joy FM to the castle in the presence of cameras in order to score a political point. Or better still, I could have publicly called on the AMA Mayor to apologise tohim after his guards manhandledthe journalist.
Mr Rawlings, I don’t think theAtta Mills debate will end soon. But I appeal to you in the name of the Lord to spare me any moredisgrace.
I have suffered a lot.
I know I was not an angel. I had my shortcoming. But is left with the Lord I served to judge me where I am now.
You too were not an angel either.Your administration fraught withproblems but we helped you to succeed. There was corruption in your presidency and some of your ministers and government officials under your watch were later tried and jailed forcorrupt practices. Even your wife was manipulated and tried.
Our elders say a drum may sound differently from what its maker intended. If you think you were infallible, I think otherwise and I pray Ghanaians to forgive me in whatever way I erred.
I wish you well and hope that you will help to conduct the 2012elections in a peaceful manner. We have nooption but to make this country better for the future generation. This is the only country we have and we must not send our people out to be refugees in other lands. From where I lie, cold and Unclad, I don’t think it is worth dying for someone to gain power. I realised that Tuesday afternoon that whenyour time is up, no amount of power, wealth or influencecan make any difference.
I greet all Ghanaians in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We shall all meet again when Christ appears, inall his glory and splendour, to welcome those who were never ashamed of Him into His eternal kingdom.
Until then I remain your humble servant,
John Evans FiifiAtta-Mills, or “the body” as the mortuary attendant here calls me.
,...No writing has ever driven me to tears like this letter did. May your humble soul rest in perfect peace John Evans FiifiAtta-Mills.

If there‘s ever one great achievement I should praise myself after 68 years of existence on this turbulent planet called earth, then it was my ability to resist the temptation to reply you. Not only did you reduce my personality to that of a nonentitybut you also created the platformfor boys and girls young enough to bemy children to subject me to ridicule and contempt.
Like a refuse dump, I endured all the insults and your humiliation with peerless stoicism.But today,I’m unable to keep quiet and allow you to go on this way. I make this appeal not for my ownsake, but for the sake of Naadu and my family members, who arealready swaying wearily under heavy weight of-indescribable grief.
I heard you on the BBC the other day and I couldn’t help but shed tears. I was not surprised that such words could come from you, but I was sad that after all these years of serving you and doing everything humanly possible to please you, you still have not found a place inyour heart to recognise this.
Mr Rawlings, in that interview you said if I had done something wiser, I “could probably have survived another six or seven months.” This was after you said that the cancer affected my ear and eye and I could not concentrate for more than three hours a day.
I can’t tell if you were in the placeof God to determine how long I could have lived. But what I know for a fact that if you, your wife and those who like you had shown me a little love, I could have lived for a few more years.
The deterioration in my health, I think, had more to do with psychological torturethan a physiological breakdown.Any healthy person put in my shoes might not have survived aftera few months of going through the hell you created for my presidency. What made the vulture bald is enough to kill the crow. And I can say that the frustration and depression that conspired with ill health to put me here after many yearsof battle was enough to finish any healthy person in months.
Mr Rawlings, I didn’t die a happy man. This is not because I had not paid my dues to our dear nation. I have served this nation well as a public officer, a sports administrator, a teacher and a politician. But I spent sleepless nights during my presidency thinking why nothing I did seemed to please you and others around you.
I was aware, long before I became president, that anybody in that position must expect opposition. But in my case, I had to contend with both internal and external opposition and nothing I did seemed to please people.
Ever since you granted that BBC interview, the discussion about my death has shifted from sympathy to blame. As usual, you’ve provided my detractors with weapons to attack and they are firing from all angles. And I don’t understand why you and my haters now care so much about my life.
Indeed, you’re behaving like outsiders weeping more than thebereaved and now pretend you now wanted meto live. Are you offended you will not have the opportunityto torment me again?
I must, however, say I have no regret going at this stage.I believe the Lord I served knew it would happen. He also permittedit to happen. His ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not ours. I know everything happens for a reason, and Ghana has more to gain that lose in my demise.
In the first place, my death brought about unity and has poured cold water on the tensionthat was hitting its climax in the run up to the 2012 elections. It is also the best thing that has happenedto the NDC in recent times. Our party had too many factions with deeply entrenched positions. So dangerous was this that if I refused to contest the primaries, the party could have been torn into shreds.
But I think the party is now stronger than ever since we reclaimed power. This is not only good for the umbrella family, butalso for the health of our democracy.
Another gain my death has for Ghana is the enormous lessons you have to learn. The events leading to my death only confirms what theBible says in Proverbs 18:21: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Many people swore that Atta-Millswould become the first one-termpresident in the Fourth Republic. And theyhave got it. That’s the fruit oftheir tongue.
In recent past, we heard about the Rawlings government and the Kufuor government. However, when it was my turn, itbecame the “Mills/Mahama” government.
First I thought it was an attempt to destroy the political future of my hardworking vice president by soiling him with any dirt of myadministration. But it turned out to be what was uttered by the tongue of Ghanaians.
Perhaps, Ghanaians can learn to utter positive things abouttheir nations and it will surely come topass.
Another lesson from which Ghanaians stand to gain is the fact that life is meaningless and there’s no point hating, killing and trying to bring one another down because of power.
A few days ago, not many Ghanaians could come near the Osu Castle. I also had my private house cordoned off by security personnel and at any point in time someone had to be awake because of me.
From where I lie now, I see life asmeaningless.
Now I share the same building with ordinary people. I sleep heretogether with that mad woman who was knocked down by a vehicle the other day, and many other categories of persons no one would want to be associatedwith. That is the reality of life, which I think Ghanaians should learn.
Death is, indeed, a leveller.
I also see now that life is not about wealth. Real wealth is the impact you make in the lives of others when you’re alive. When I was being rushed to the 37 Military Hospital that Tuesday afternoon, I did not pick withmean office pin. And when I was been dumped here, no designer wear was used to cover me.Here I am, cold and Unclad.
When you told your “Atta Mortuary Man” joke at our Tamale Congress, people think it was too insulting for my personality. But All of a sudden, I’m in the hands of mortuary man who utters disdainful words. “His Excellency John EvansAtta-Mills” was my name a few days ago. But the mortuary attendant contemptuously refersto me as “the body.”
I don’t know how much my ex-gratia would be, but whatI know is that no pesewa would ever get to me. All is vanity, indeed.
Mr Rawlings, I see life differently and I think insteadof spending the rest of your life to vilify me, you can do yourself a favour by learning from my life and death. No one will ever become a stone.
Everyone is bound to go. Thatis the certainty. What is uncertain iswhere, when andhow we shall go. Yours may be better or worsethan mine so be moderate in your attacks of me. You don’t know your end.
When I got to the office that Tuesday, I didn’t know that before sunset, I would cease to be the President of Ghana. Whether I lived longer or not,it would have come one day.
But as I have stated, I have no regrets. I lived my life for humanity. I wanted to see othershappy and did the bestI could to bring myself to thelevel of the ordinary person. But the quest todemonise me clouded everythingI did. Itried to share the pain of others. But all I heard was that Atta-Mills is bad. I sometimes feltlike weeping because only the negative side was known.
And they still believed every lie and malicious rumour about me even when some journalists came out to confess that they had been publishing falsehood about me.
Until my death, no journalist ever mentioned that I called to sympathise with them andapologise to them in person when others mishandled them. I was a true believer inquiet diplomacy and did not want to practice my piety in public as the good book admonishes us against. I could have called invited Cyrus De-Graft Johnson of Joy FM to the castle in the presence of cameras in order to score a political point. Or better still, I could have publicly called on the AMA Mayor to apologise tohim after his guards manhandledthe journalist.
Mr Rawlings, I don’t think theAtta Mills debate will end soon. But I appeal to you in the name of the Lord to spare me any moredisgrace.
I have suffered a lot.
I know I was not an angel. I had my shortcoming. But is left with the Lord I served to judge me where I am now.
You too were not an angel either.Your administration fraught withproblems but we helped you to succeed. There was corruption in your presidency and some of your ministers and government officials under your watch were later tried and jailed forcorrupt practices. Even your wife was manipulated and tried.
Our elders say a drum may sound differently from what its maker intended. If you think you were infallible, I think otherwise and I pray Ghanaians to forgive me in whatever way I erred.
I wish you well and hope that you will help to conduct the 2012elections in a peaceful manner. We have nooption but to make this country better for the future generation. This is the only country we have and we must not send our people out to be refugees in other lands. From where I lie, cold and Unclad, I don’t think it is worth dying for someone to gain power. I realised that Tuesday afternoon that whenyour time is up, no amount of power, wealth or influencecan make any difference.
I greet all Ghanaians in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We shall all meet again when Christ appears, inall his glory and splendour, to welcome those who were never ashamed of Him into His eternal kingdom.
Until then I remain your humble servant,
John Evans FiifiAtta-Mills, or “the body” as the mortuary attendant here calls me.
,...No writing has ever driven me to tears like this letter did. May your humble soul rest in perfect peace John Evans FiifiAtta-Mills.

If there‘s ever one great achievement I should praise myself after 68 years of existence on this turbulent planet called earth, then it was my ability to resist the temptation to reply you. Not only did you reduce my personality to that of a nonentitybut you also created the platformfor boys and girls young enough to be my children to subject me to ridicule and contempt.
Like a refuse dump, I endured all the insults and your humiliation with peerless stoicism.But today,I’m unable to keep quiet and allow you to go on this way. I make this appeal not for my ownsake, but for the sake of Naadu and my family members, who arealready swaying wearily under heavy weight of-indescribable grief.
I heard you on the BBC the other day and I couldn’t help but shed tears. I was not surprised that such words could come from you, but I was sad that after all these years of serving you and doing everything humanly possible to please you, you still have not found a place in your heart to recognise this.
Mr Rawlings, in that interview you said if I had done something wiser, I “could probably have survived another six or seven months.” This was after you said that the cancer affected my ear and eye and I could not concentrate for more than three hours a day.
I can’t tell if you were in the placeof God to determine how long I could have lived. But what I know for a fact that if you, your wife and those who like you had shown me a little love, I could have lived for a few more years.
The deterioration in my health, I think, had more to do with psychological torture than a physiological breakdown.Any healthy person put in my shoes might not have survived after a few months of going through the hell you created for my presidency. What made the vulture bald is enough to kill the crow. And I can say that the frustration and depression that conspired with ill health to put me here after many years of battle was enough to finish any healthy person in months.
Mr Rawlings, I didn’t die a happy man. This is not because I had not paid my dues to our dear nation. I have served this nation well as a public officer, a sports administrator, a teacher and a politician. But I spent sleepless nights during my presidency thinking why nothing I did seemed to please you and others around you.
I was aware, long before I became president, that anybody in that position must expect opposition. But in my case, I had to contend with both internal and external opposition and nothing I did seemed to please people.
Ever since you granted that BBC interview, the discussion about my death has shifted from sympathy to blame. As usual, you’ve provided my detractors with weapons to attack and they are firing from all angles. And I don’t understand why you and my haters now care so much about my life.
Indeed, you’re behaving like outsiders weeping more than thebereaved and now pretend you now wanted me to live. Are you offended you will not have the opportunity to torment me again?
I must, however, say I have no regret going at this stage. I believe the Lord I served knew it would happen. He also permittedit to happen. His ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not ours. I know everything happens for a reason, and Ghana has more to gain that lose in my demise.
In the first place, my death brought about unity and has poured cold water on the tensionthat was hitting its climax in the run up to the 2012 elections. It is also the best thing that has happened to the NDC in recent times. Our party had too many factions with deeply entrenched positions. So dangerous was this that if I refused to contest the primaries, the party could have been torn into shreds.
But I think the party is now stronger than ever since we reclaimed power. This is not only good for the umbrella family, butalso for the health of our democracy.
Another gain my death has for Ghana is the enormous lessons you have to learn. The events leading to my death only confirms what the Bible says in Proverbs 18:21: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Many people swore that Atta-Millswould become the first one-termpresident in the Fourth Republic. And they have got it. That’s the fruit of their tongue.
In recent past, we heard about the Rawlings government and the Kufuor government. However, when it was my turn, itbecame the “Mills/Mahama” government.
First I thought it was an attempt to destroy the political future of my hardworking vice president by soiling him with any dirt of myadministration. But it turned out to be what was uttered by the tongue of Ghanaians.
Perhaps, Ghanaians can learn to utter positive things about their nations and it will surely come topass.
Another lesson from which Ghanaians stand to gain is the fact that life is meaningless and there’s no point hating, killing and trying to bring one another down because of power.
A few days ago, not many Ghanaians could come near the Osu Castle. I also had my private house cordoned off by security personnel and at any point in time someone had to be awake because of me.
From where I lie now, I see life asmeaningless.
Now I share the same building with ordinary people. I sleep heretogether with that mad woman who was knocked down by a vehicle the other day, and many other categories of persons no one would want to be associatedwith. That is the reality of life, which I think Ghanaians should learn.
Death is, indeed, a leveller.
I also see now that life is not about wealth. Real wealth is the impact you make in the lives of others when you’re alive. When I was being rushed to the 37 Military Hospital that Tuesday afternoon, I did not pick with mean office pin. And when I was been dumped here, no designer wear was used to cover me.Here I am, cold and naked.
When you told your “Atta Mortuary Man” joke at our Tamale Congress, people think it was too insulting for my personality. But All of a sudden, I’m in the hands of mortuary man who utters disdainful words. “His Excellency John EvansAtta-Mills” was my name a few days ago. But the mortuary attendant contemptuously refersto me as “the body.”
I don’t know how much my ex-gratia would be, but what I know is that no pesewa would ever get to me. All is vanity, indeed.
Mr Rawlings, I see life differently and I think instead of spending the rest of your life to vilify me, you can do yourself a favour by learning from my life and death. No one will ever become a stone.
Everyone is bound to go. That is the certainty. What is uncertain iswhere, when and how we shall go. Yours may be better or worsethan mine so be moderate in your attacks of me. You don’t know your end.
When I got to the office that Tuesday, I didn’t know that before sunset, I would cease to be the President of Ghana. Whether I lived longer or not, it would have come one day.
But as I have stated, I have no regrets. I lived my life for humanity. I wanted to see othershappy and did the best I could to bring myself to the level of the ordinary person. But the quest todemonise me clouded everythingI did. I tried to share the pain of others. But all I heard was that Atta-Mills is bad. I sometimes feltlike weeping because only the negative side was known.
And they still believed every lie and malicious rumour about me even when some journalists came out to confess that they had been publishing falsehood about me.
Until my death, no journalist ever mentioned that I called to sympathise with them and apologise to them in person when others mishandled them. I was a true believer in quiet diplomacy and did not want to practice my piety in public as the good book admonishes us against. I could have called invited Cyrus De-Graft Johnson of Joy FM to the castle in the presence of cameras in order to score a political point. Or better still, I could have publicly called on the AMA Mayor to apologise tohim after his guards manhandledthe journalist.
Mr Rawlings, I don’t think the Atta Mills debate will end soon. But I appeal to you in the name of the Lord to spare me any moredisgrace.
I have suffered a lot.
I know I was not an angel. I had my shortcoming. But is left with the Lord I served to judge me where I am now.
You too were not an angel either.Your administration fraught withproblems but we helped you to succeed. There was corruption in your presidency and some of your ministers and government officials under your watch were later tried and jailed for corrupt practices. Even your wife was fingered and tried.
Our elders say a drum may sound differently from what its maker intended. If you think you were infallible, I think otherwise and I pray Ghanaians to forgive me in whatever way I erred.
I wish you well and hope that you will help to conduct the 2012elections in a peaceful manner. We have no option but to make this country better for the future generation. This is the only country we have and we must not send our people out to be refugees in other lands. From where I lie, cold and naked, I don’t think it is worth dying for someone to gain power. I realised that Tuesday afternoon that when your time is up, no amount of power, wealth or influence can make any difference.
I greet all Ghanaians in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We shall all meet again when Christ appears, in all his glory and splendour, to welcome those who were never ashamed of Him into His eternal kingdom.
Until then I remain your humble servant,
John Evans FiifiAtta-Mills, or “the body” as the mortuary attendant here calls me.

,...No writing has ever driven me to tears like this letter did. May your humble soul rest in perfect peace John Evans FiifiAtta-Mills.

He that prays 4 another mans death must be a sadist! ... Al thiefin politician is sombody's mother or father, even smbody's sister or bro... Lets just pray 4 God not to alow such tragedy to happen like d man of God has instructd.

I respect this forum cause of caliber of people in it, bt sometimes, most serious issues are just taken lightly... The ABOMINATION that's going on in ths country now should not be taken for grantd. Some called it A mare DRAMA, while others calld it FOOTBALL GAME. But it's far more than that. Our future has been temperd with by this greedy men. Our children's future is at stake. What we need is action. How come ther is never a protest against corruption?....


I respect this forum cause of caliber of people in it, bt sometimes, most serious issues are just taken lightly... The ABOMINATION that's going on in ths country now should not be taken for grantd. Some called it A mare DRAMA, while others calld it FOOTBALL GAME. But it's far more than that. Our future has been temperd with by this greedy men. Our children's future is at stake. What we need is action. How come ther is never a protest against corruption?

I respect this forum cause of caliber of people in it, bt sometimes, most serious issues are just taken lightly... The ABOMINATION that's going on in ths country now should not be taken for grantd. Some called it A mare DRAMA, while others calld it FOOTBALL GAME. But it's far more than that. Our future has been temperd with by this greedy men. Our children's future is at stake. What we need is action. How come ther is never a protest against corruption?