Wetin this one dey talk? Come to OAU ile ife, you would see students on their 8th year for a 4-year course.. Students that have even forgotten the year they matriculated.

The past two years have seen unprecedented political
upheaval in Nigeria. As the country readies for elections
Saturday, the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is
facing its first real challenge since coming to power at
the end of military rule in 1999 in the form of Nigeria’s
lead opposition party, the All Progressive’s Congress
(APC).
At least three regional Nigerian parties came together
to form the mega-opposition party, the APC, in
February 2013. It was a first for Nigeria, and naysayers
said the new party would implode.
But then prominent PDP members started jumping ship
for the APC.
Five governors came on board at once, then 37
representatives, then 11 senators. And the defections
continued.
But the momentum stalled in 2014 as the PDP
rebounded - with a new party leader and efforts to
reconcile.
The defections started going both ways.
This back and forth continues even now with just days
to go before presidential and parliamentary elections.
The APC and the PDP keep gaining and losing
members.
Analysts say the results of the March 28 vote could kick
off another wave of party-swapping ahead of governor
and state assembly races April 11.
“You find people jumping ship quite unashamedly to the
party of the president-elect,” said Dawn Dimowo, a
political analyst at the strategy firm Africa Practice in
Abuja.
She said the ground the APC broke in Nigerian party
politics had a lot to do with good timing.
“They were able to capitalize on the fact that there was
disenchantment within the PDP. There were people who
were ready to quit the party and move to the APC. So
it got a big boost from that,” said Dimowo.
One of the main points of contention: whether President
Goodluck Jonathan had broken the PDP agreement to
rotate the presidency between north and south. Some
within the PDP believed the north was owed another
term when Jonathan, a southerner, ran and won in
2011.
But Nigerian political scientist Kabir Mato said the APC
is riding a sea change.
“Citizens are gradually inching away from the
traditional politics of ethnicity, religion and regionalism
to a politics of dividends of democracy… So I think it’s
simply the desire that there should exist an alternative
that could give a platform for people in the event that
we are dissatisfied with what’s happening here,” said
Mato.
Jonathan has brushed off the defections. Such is
politics, he told reporters in a televised media chat in
February.
“There [are] no permanent friends. There [are] no
permanent enemies. There are permanent interests,”
said Jonathan.
The APC has a majority in the House. It counts 14 out
of Nigeria’s 36 governors.
But Jonathan has the incumbent advantage. The ruling
party is also seen as having benefited from the six-
week election postponement over security issues in the
north. But the vote still looks too close to call.
APC presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari
dominated the mostly Muslim north in the 2011 vote
but did poorly in the south. The APC has campaigned
hard there this time, with Buhari swinging through the
region again this week.
Political analyst Dimowo said the southwest tops her
watch list.
“He’s going to pick up a lot more votes in the south
this time around than he did in 2011 and that’s eroding
the PDP’s base. So it’s quite exciting to see what is
going to happen,” said Dimowo.
The APC has cast this election as a referendum on 16
years of PDP rule. The party symbol is a broom and it
is pledging a clean sweep. But some wonder how much
of an alternative the APC really is. There’s a fair bit of
the PDP old guard in this new party, and probably more
will join if Buhari wins.


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pls kindly send to ennypaulovals02@yahoo.com

@OP, I can live with all these. What I hate most is nagging. It kills me and I can't live one day with a nagging woman

silent treatment doesn't work for ondo and ekiti people. dem get strong head no be small..

Nigeria's Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister for
the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been named
African Finance Minister of the year 2014 by leading
investment & international group, African Investor. Dr
Okonjo Iweala is pictured above with her husband Dr.
Ikemba Iweala.
Okonjo-Iweala was announced winner today October
10th from a shortlist which included Finance Ministers
of Kenya, Angola, Rwanda, Liberia, Seychelles, Zambia
and Kingdom of Morocco.
In her acceptance speech, Dr Okonjo-Iweala said;
"I am delighted and honored to have been picked
as African Finance Minister of the Year 2014.
Africa has come a long way from decades of
economic stagnation to steady growth that has
seen the continent make a huge leap for the
better. In Nigeria, we are marching on. The
building blocks for a greater future are being laid. I
want to thank you for this recognition and I want
to thank my President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan for his constant support and my team at
home, without which the job would have been
impossible. Finally, I encourage every one of us to
participate in the growth and development of our
countries and our continent. Together, we will
make it."

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The lawyer of a pregnant woman who
appears to be slammed into the ground by
NYPD officers in a recently released video
now says officers also beat the woman's
belly with a baton.
Sandra Amezquita, 44, allegedly tried to
intervene in the arrest of her teenaged son,
who police say had an illegal knife clipped
to his belt, according to the Wall Street
Journal. Video of the incident was posted to
Facebook by social justice group El Grito De
Sunset Park earlier this week.
At a Wednesday press conference,
Amezquita and her lawyer released images
of injuries to the woman’s abdomen that
they say came from an officer’s baton, CBS
New York reports.
“She was doing nothing wrong, an innocent
victim,” her attorney, Sanford Rubenstein,
said at the press conference. “And certainly
a pregnant woman—any woman—should
not be treated the way she was."
Amezquita also claimed that police burned
her belly with a Taser, but Rubenstein said
it’s unclear whether that occurred.
After the incident, Rubenstein says his
client suffered womanly bleeding, according
to the New York Times. She was treated at a
hospital, he said, but it’s unclear if the
officers’ actions affected the fetus.
NYPD officers say they approached the teen
at about 2 a.m. Saturday in Brooklyn, and
he fled about a block before they caught
him to him. Then, cops say, his father, Ronel
Lemos, and another man allegedly began
punching an officer.
Though Amezquita was charged with
disorderly conduct, she is not accused of
assaulting any officers. Nevertheless, after
the video of her arrest, released Tuesday,
appears to show officers shoving the 5-
months-pregnant woman to the ground
belly-first.
When a female bystander tries to get
between Amezquita and the officers, she too
appears to be slammed to the pavement.
At the press conference, Amezquita said she
only approached her son to “console” him
before police officers began brutalizing her.
The NYPD has launched an internal
investigation into the officers' treatment of
Amezquita.
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5884104

The lawyer of a pregnant woman who
appears to be slammed into the ground by
NYPD officers in a recently released video
now says officers also beat the woman's
belly with a baton.
Sandra Amezquita, 44, allegedly tried to
intervene in the arrest of her teenaged son,
who police say had an illegal knife clipped
to his belt, according to the Wall Street
Journal. Video of the incident was posted to
Facebook by social justice group El Grito De
Sunset Park earlier this week.
At a Wednesday press conference,
Amezquita and her lawyer released images
of injuries to the woman’s abdomen that
they say came from an officer’s baton, CBS
New York reports.
“She was doing nothing wrong, an innocent
victim,” her attorney, Sanford Rubenstein,
said at the press conference. “And certainly
a pregnant woman—any woman—should
not be treated the way she was."
Amezquita also claimed that police burned
her belly with a Taser, but Rubenstein said
it’s unclear whether that occurred.
After the incident, Rubenstein says his
client suffered vaginal bleeding, according
to the New York Times. She was treated at a
hospital, he said, but it’s unclear if the
officers’ actions affected the fetus.
NYPD officers say they approached the teen
at about 2 a.m. Saturday in Brooklyn, and
he fled about a block before they caught
him to him. Then, cops say, his father, Ronel
Lemos, and another man allegedly began
punching an officer.
Though Amezquita was charged with
disorderly conduct, she is not accused of
assaulting any officers. Nevertheless, after
the video of her arrest, released Tuesday,
appears to show officers shoving the 5-
months-pregnant woman to the ground
belly-first.
When a female bystander tries to get
between Amezquita and the officers, she too
appears to be slammed to the pavement.
At the press conference, Amezquita said she
only approached her son to “console” him
before police officers began brutalizing her.
The NYPD has launched an internal
investigation into the officers' treatment of
Amezquita.
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5884104

Guy, you must be crazy. the girl is just managing you and she'll not make a good wife even if she marries you eventually. I wonder why some guys are not sharp. When you are not crippled, why would u be forcing yourself on such an idiot.

front page pls

Mrs. Bisola Ayeni, a businesswoman in her early
40s confidently left her house at Egbeda (Lagos)
with an almost empty tank heading for Ikeja. The
red light of the fuel indicator was blinking nonstop
but Ayeni knew the quantity of fuel in her tank
would take her to the next available filling station
where she had hoped to fill up her tank. Indeed,
as she got to the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway,
Ayeni drove into the filling station and told the
attendant to fill her car with N5,000 worth of fuel
while she rummaged her handbag to bring out
the money as well as pick a call. That was her
undoing.
Ayeni would tell PUNCH that she didn’t bother to
look at the pump while the sale was on because
she didn’t envisage any foul act, besides she
knew the level a N5,000 worth of fuel would rise
to on her fuel gauge. Ayeni only managed a quick
glance at the meter and when she saw that it
was reading, she relaxed and enjoyed her
discussion on the phone.She said:
"When I finished, I looked at the pump and I
saw N5,000 on the price column, I paid him
and drove away. I expected the light
indicating low fuel to go off and the indicator
to rise, but it didn’t happen. Even if the rise
in the fuel indicator would be gradual, I
expected a major shift. Lo and behold, the
light never went off and the indicator never
rose. Oh my God, I was confused and very
angry, so I turned back, while praying that
the car wouldn’t run out of fuel. By the time
I got to the petrol station, I was fuming.”
Ayeni said she had almost slapped the attendant
who attended to her having shouted on him when
the station manager came out.
“On hearing what happened, the manager
gave the sales boy a resounding slap,
apologized to me and ordered him to sell the
fuel again, and I heard him saying the
N5,000 would be deducted from his salary.
We both stood by him while he sold the fuel,
the gauge rose even before I left the station,
which means he cheated me earlier. I still
wouldn’t know how he did it,” she said.
Ayeni’s experience is common among vehicle
owners , who had at one time or the other thought
they had bought fuel but later found out they
either bought nothing or were short-changed in
terms of the quantity. A cross section of vehicle
owners who spoke to our correspondent alleged
that they had noticed same at one time or the
other but said that there was nothing they could
do since they really could not establish any foul
play.
In case you once bought fuel from a filling station
and it seemed like nothing was added to your fuel
tank after you have left, or you felt what was sold
to you wasn’t commensurate with what you paid
for or expected, you may have been cheated under
your close watch even with your eyes wide open.
Saturday PUNCH had a revealing chat with fuel
attendants of some popular filling stations in
Lagos and they explained how they make quick
but huge cash from unsuspecting customers.
One of them who identified himself simply as
Owolabi John , while devouring a massive plate of
hot and spicy pepper soup and a bottle of chilled
beer Punch correspondent, Tunde Ajaja, bought for
him, said he earns N10,000 as a fuel attendant.
He wants to pursue a university education. There
is no other help from anywhere else, as such
John admitted leaving no stone unturned to take
advantage of gullible customers to make some
money from what he described as “the
customers’ carelessness.”
“Ideally, when we resume, we take the
reading on the meter on the fuel dispenser,
which we call the opening meter, and when
we close, we take the reading, which we also
call the closing meter. Then, we multiply the
difference in the readings by the cost per
litre, which is the amount we deliver to the
manager. If there is any surplus, it belongs
to the attendant, and if there is loss, the
attendant will look for money to make it up.
If the shortage is a lot of money, the
manager may allow that the money be
deducted from the person’s salary if the
person is not sacked,” he explained.
However, that surplus money may not have been
a miracle or manna from heaven ; it could simply
be a product of manipulation by the
attendants. According to John, there are different
types of fuel dispensers, such as Marathon, Sanki,
Eagle Star, etc, and each machine has its peculiar
way of being adjusted.
“On the keyboard of some of them, where we
enter the number of litres or amount, which
is either in front or on the side, there is
usually a button labelled ‘Recall, TIM/CAL’
or any other label, depending on the
machine. The essence of the button is to
enable the attendant to see the past sales. If
you want to see your last ten sales, you just
press Recall, then the number you want to
see etc, depending on the number you want,
and it shows you the amount. Beyond seeing
our past sales, we use it to make money.
If I sell N2,000 worth of fuel to a customer,
and the next customer also wants to buy
N2,000. If I observe that the second
customer Isn’t paying attention, I will sell
some quantity, maybe N1,500 and press
Stop or Cancel, depending on the machine
press Recall, 1, then press Ok. With that,
N2,000 will appear on the screen and that is
what the customer will see on the meter,
believing the sale is complete. This can be
done in less than one second. That is one of
the ways, and at the close of business I
remove mine which is the excess of the
actual litre sales.
Imagine if I do that for about ten customers
in a day, with varying gain from each case,
which depends largely on the amount of fuel
the customer is buying and how sensitive
the person is. I could make up to N10, 000
in one day,” he explained.
According to him, attendants could go to the
extent of writing out some past sales on a paper
where they can easily have a glance to know
which number to recall when a customer is
distracted or looks away, since many people
prefer to buy based on price and not litre.
“When customers come, we observe them
and see if they are tired or we try to distract
them, sometimes with the help of our
colleagues by engaging them in a chat or
doing things that could easily distract them.
As soon as they look away, if the seller has
made an appreciable sale, he/she would
have mastered or checked his paper to see
the last time he sold that particular amount,
as soon as it is possible, he will press it,
and press OK. Before the customer looks
back, the sale will appear complete,” John
explained.
John’s revelation explained one of the ways Ayeni
might have been cheated. Another fuel attendant,
who simply identified himself as Owode
Kabir, told PUNCH that the use of Recall or TIM
button is the easiest way to make quick money
because the customers would think the machine
was fast, so they wouldn’t always suspect
anything, even though some come back to
complain.
However, Kabir stressed that not all attendants
are involved in the act, but that many of them do
it as long as there is opportunity and that in
some cases, they settle the station manager at
the close of work if they are able to make some
money, which they do everyday anyway. Kabir
also revealed the second method:
Even though many people know that when
the nozzle is hanged on the pump, the
readings revert to zero, fuel attendants have
also found a way to manoeuvre it to make
some money.
What we do is to gently place the nozzle,
such that it won’t click to rub off the old
sales and revert to zero, so, we fake it,
which means the dispenser is still running,
so if anyone comes, we simply continue from
where we stop and that is why sometimes it
seems like we are rushing the customers. It
is easier when the last sale is a small
quantity. Even though the use of the Recall
or TIM/CAL’ button on some of these
machines is the easiest method, faking the
nozzle is another viable way to make
money.
If the previous sale is about N200 maybe by
a Keke NAPEP and Okada rider, or even
commercial buses (danfo) drivers, because
they are the ones who buy fuel in bits, we
will gently place the nozzle, and naturally,
when you see that we remove the nozzle
from the hanger, that is, from the engine,
you believe that it started from zero.
However, it is not always the case,” he said.
Kabir was quick to add that some station
managers or managements know about their
tricks but that once they are caught or reported
by a customer, such person could be sacked. He
added that attendants usually sell in all cases but
such sales might not start from zero or could be
recalled to a previous sale that had the same
amount, which would be an incomplete sale for
the customer.
“Sometimes we could gain up to N1,000
from one sale, it depends on the quantity
that the consumer wants, and those that are
caught are usually the greedy ones,” he
noted.
He added that in filling stations where their
dispensers do not have Recall or TIM/CAL only
the last sale could be recalled, hence, once the
last sale is not the same with the current sale,
faking the hanging of the nozzle might be the only
way to make money through such pump.
Station owners and managers also dupe
customers
A female attendant with a major oil marketer
company in Lagos Island, Seun Jegede, told
PUNCH how station managers and filling station
owners also cheat their customers.
She alleged that most filling stations alter their
meters to under-dispense fuel at the detriment of
customers, which is a known phenomenon among
consumers. Even though this could be a product
of greed and inadequate regulation, she said they
also do that to make up for some loss they might
have incurred during sales.
“Based on experience, I can tell you that
almost all filling stations, including the ones
being run by government, adjust their meters
and what they do is to settle the officials
from the Department of Petroleum Resources
if or when they come for inspection.
No attendant can alter the meter on his own,
except the manager sanctions it because it
involves the engineer changing the panel and
doing some mechanical readjustment. That
is why many filling stations that alter their
meters have to bribe their way through
because the engineers are not always there,
except the manager recommends a trusted
attendant to be trained so as to put the
pumps back to normal if DPR comes.
The adjustment is easier with the marathon
machine because it has a key in front of the
meter. This allows for quick readjustment of
the meter so as to scale through the due
diligence check by the DPR, which could be
once in six months,” Jegede explained.
She added that the decision to alter the meter
could either come from the owner of the station or
the station manager in connivance with the
engineer, adding that whoever orders the
adjustment takes the money made from the
unsold quantity.
Station attendants also cheat their employers
According to John, not only customers are open
to this fraud, even the management that the
attendants work for are not immune to their
fraudulent acts, through what he called ‘no
reading’. In this case only the price meter reads
while the litre reading does not move. He said
this could be a product of frequent repairs of the
pump or any other mechanical fault, which could
make it malfunction.
"When there is ‘no reading’ on the litre
menu, and the management is not aware,
there is no way the management will know
the actual number of litres that have been
sold. What we do in such cases is to sell on
the basis of amount only and we sometimes
negotiate with the customer for settlement
because we can sell more to make money. I
can even call someone from home to come
and buy and keep for me, before the
management finds out that the litre is not
reading.
Even though the ‘no reading’ issue rarely
happens, it becomes a free for all if it
happens to the diesel or kerosene pump that
usually has no attendant attached to it. With
that, tracing who sells what quantity may be
difficult, even though an attendant must be
smart to avoid being penalized.
Another form of ‘no reading’ is when some
attendants, especially those attached to
diesel or kerosene that have lesser
patronage compared to petrol, gently press
the nozzle (just like a one-touch press) that
may not read on the meter whereas some
fuel will still come out. It can also happen
when they finish selling and instead of
hanging the nozzle, they place it inside the
keg for the little quantity to drip into their
kegs. It may appear little, but over a long
time, the gentle one-touch press and the
leftovers become a large quantity. That is
why you see some attendants having kegs
beside them,” John explained.
The attendants further explained that they make
more money when there is epileptic power supply
which force people to buy fuel in kegs.
“When there is no power supply and people
struggle or force your nozzle in their kegs,
many of them don’t care about starting from
zero, which is a plus for us,” he said.
They however said station attendants find it
difficult to cheat if the customer comes out of the
vehicle to stay with them, adding that those who
sit in their vehicles can easily be distracted or
shortchanged.
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petrol-stations.html?m=1

How did this airline get Star Alliance membership?

Egyptians are racists. They just don't understand that they are not real whites!

Moderators, front page pls!

A Nigerian medical student returning to school in Ukraine tells the story of how he nearly died at the hands of Egypt Air officials who wrongly routed him to Moldova, never gave him food for days and called him bloody Nigerian before deporting him back to Lagos

We serve you the story as written by JOSHUA KUNLE ABDUL-AZEEZ, the student who is lucky to be alive and whose ordeal should interest Nigerians.

On Friday, August 15, 2014 my mother and I went to Egypt Air head office at 22B Idowu Taylor Street, Victoria Island, Lagos to book a return ticket for me to go back to school to continue my studies at Dnepropetrovsk Medical Academy, Dnepropetrovsk Ukraine. This was about 11:15 am.

On entering the Egypt air office we met Mr. Tony Nzan on counter 1 to attend to us and we asked to book a ticket to Kiev, Ukraine. Mr. Tony Nzan explained to us the itinerary for the flight going to Ukraine after which we went to the bank to withdraw money and returned to pay for the ticket and obtained two printouts, so that my mother could have my return itinerary from Kiev next year.

We reviewed the ticket itinerary before leaving Egypt air’s office and immediately observed that the airport code indicated on it was different from what we were familiar with, having traveled to Kiev before. The ticket indicated an unfamiliar airport code.

We immediately brought this discovery to another ticketing officer’s attention who was seated at Counter 2, as we were informed that his colleague, Mr. Nzan, had stepped out of the office. This ticketing officer restated that the ticket was full economy and for Kiev, Ukraine with all the segments confirmed. However, we remained unconvinced, given that our prior experience indicated that the airport code for Kiev, Ukraine would usually read “KBP”.

On my scheduled date of departure (18th August, 2014) my mother and I arrived for check-in at 10.30am. Given our apprehension, we once again mentioned our concern to the agent at the check-in counter and requested that she reconfirm the final travel destination indicated on my ticket. She confirmed that the ticket indicated “KIV” and was bound for Kiev, Ukraine. My mother then told her it should read Borispol International Airport KBP not KIV or Chisinahu as was indicated on the ticket.

Given our insistence over this and the fact that there was now a queue building up behind us she called her supervisor, one Mr Lucas to check the ticket. He asked us what the matter was and we explained to him that we believed the routing on my ticket was wrong. We also told him we had complained about this, the day the ticket was purchased but that we were repeatedly told that the routing was to Kiev.

We also mentioned to him that we went back to Egypt Air’s Victoria Island office on Saturday morning (16th August ) still very concerned about the ticket. The place was closed for business. My mum then asked that I show Mr. Lucas and his colleague my residence and study permits for Ukraine and reaffirm my intended destination to be Kiev in Ukraine and not the place indicated on the ticket, which appeared to be “Chisinahu.”

Mr. Lucas proceeded to telephone Mr. Tony who issued the ticket to reconfirm routing but Mr. Tony insisted that the code (KIV) was Egypt air’s code for Ukraine.

Mr. Tony also became nonchalant and abusive and said that my mother “was just being troublesome”. My mother then directed that I get the boarding passes which had earlier been printed for me since they were insisting it was Egypt Air’s code for Ukraine and that they were representatives of the airline. She warned Mr. Lucas that for the airline’s sake, she hoped that they were right and we were wrong. I checked in my two suit cases with a total weight of 47.5kg and went to the departure gate and boarded the flight.

I arrived Cairo shortly after 10pm same day and was compelled to remain in the transit area for 14 hours, without feeding. No accommodation was provided by the airline. I presented myself for boarding at the boarding gate at 9am the following morning (August 19th) and was the third passenger on queue for boarding to Istanbul. When it was my turn, the Egypt air boarding staff insisted that I present my Ukrainian visa before processing my boarding pass. She did not ask same of the passengers ahead of me. I explained that I had a permit because I school there and presented the permit stamp on my passport, whilst explaining that the document was in my hand luggage. Still, she insisted that I moved aside and present the original document. I then retrieved it from the luggage.

Having seen my permit, the staff still refused to allow me through and insisted I remain at the corner I was in. I complied and watched closely to see if she would follow the same procedure for all other passengers boarding, but to my surprise, not once did she do so. I remained there until everyone else had boarded before she came round to scrutinise the original permit and eventually allowed me to board the flight. We departed Cairo for Istanbul at 10.50am.

We arrived at Istanbul at 2pm on 19th August and I was again compelled to remain in transit for another 17 hours, without accommodation, food or water. At 7am on 20th August, I boarded the flight in Istanbul, expecting to arrive Ukraine at 6am local time. Once onboard the flight, I slept off due to fatigue and hunger – having been deprived of good sleep and food for 2 days at the time. When I woke up, the flight hostesses had already served refreshment and passed me by. I then requested for my meal but was told it was too late to be served.

Once we landed, believing I was in Ukraine, I proceeded to immigration and presented my travel documents. The immigration officer asked that I wait at his desk, left and then returned with a local police officer. Both officers then explained to me in Russian language that I was not in Ukraine but in Moldova (a distinct country) and that the best they could do was to send me back to Istanbul, where I could then buy a new ticket to Kiev.

My passport was then handed over to the pilot of the next flight to Istanbul and I was given my baggage tags for my two suit cases that had by now been placed in the main cabin of the plane.

When I boarded the plane and sat on seat (23E) assigned to me, a male member of the cabin crew ordered me to stand up, sent me to the back of the plane and told me not to move. Another member of the cabin crew sat with me for the entire duration of the flight. I felt so degraded at being treated like a criminal. I was given neither food nor drink throughout the flight back to Istanbul. This was now my third day without food or water. I had now developed a cough and my gums were all swollen.

We arrived at Istanbul and I was immediately taken to the deportation office, where my passport was handed to the officer on duty. The officer interrogated me on what happened and I explained to him how the airline had ticketed me to a wrong destination. I asked if I could be allowed to buy a ticket to Ukraine from there (with my school fees in my possession), which was my intended destination all along.

The officer agreed to my purchasing a new ticket to Kiev and I was placed in a room for over four hours. After two hours of not knowing what was going on or what was being done with my documents, I requested to use the toilet, in the hope that I would find a cell phone to borrow and call my family to inform them of what was happening, but the officer posted outside the room refused and ordered me to sit down.

I continued asking to use the toilet for over 10 minutes until she finally allowed me to go and answer the call of nature. I eventually found a telephone and then called my elder sister in Nigeria, explained the situation to her and asked her to inform my mother. Once my mother was informed, she contacted my university and her Ukrainian liaison agent in Kiev and requested that they assist by purchasing a ticket on my behalf for Kiev, which would enable me to leave for Ukraine from Istanbul.

The ticket was swiftly purchased and I was forwarded the “PNR number” by phone. I then proceeded to Egypt air’s transit desk and explained what had happened. I gave the lady on duty the PNR number for new ticket and requested her to assist me check-in for the flight to Ukraine. She refused to entertain my explanation and told me they would send me back to Nigeria, no matter what I did.

Another Egypt airline official joined us and to my utter shock and dismay, picked up my passport and tore it, saying “these bloody Nigerians”. I looked at the man expecting an apology, but got none. He ordered me to stand up, saying that I was getting on a flight to Cairo.

At about 6pm I was taken to the boarding gate for the flight to Cairo and my documents were handed over to the cabin crew. I was once again treated like a criminal and taken to the back of the plane. A cabin crew member gave me some water and handed me only one baggage tag and informed me that one had gotten missing.

I arrived Cairo at 8pm on 20thAugust 2014. My documents were again passed from the cabin crew of the Egypt Air flight I arrived with to another Egypt air ground official. Yet again, I tried to explain the situation and my grueling ordeal over the past last three days to her.

I went as far as showing her my school papers and residence permit for Ukraine expecting some understanding and empathy, whilst hoping against hope that she may be different from the others and finally listen and hopefully help me get on a flight to school. Instead, she handed me over to Egyptian police officers, who locked me up in a deportation cell without explanation. I waited in there for about one hour and then knocked on the door to inquire why I was locked-up in the cell like a common criminal.

However, I was kept there for over 12 hours, till the following morning (21st August), degraded, dehumanised and with no food or water for three full days. At this point I was very weak physically, developed sores all over my mouth, my gum was painfully swollen all round, and I had begun coughing terribly, with thick yellow discharges.

When I felt like using the toilet I knocked on the cell door and an Egyptian policeman came to open the cell from outside. I told the Egyptian policeman that I needed to use the toilet but he declined and forcefully shoved me back into the cell and locked the door again. After few minutes, I, again, repeated the plea to be allowed to use the toilet, and the same officer came to the door. I explained that I was severely pressed and needed to use the toilet. Yet again, he pushed me back into the cell before I could finish pleading and locked the door.

Here I was, 17 years of age, so far away from home with no family communication, hungry, weak, very tired and being treated like a common criminal without any human consideration whatsoever; I became desperately terrified and wondered if I would live through this ordeal or die hopelessly and forgotten in a strange land.

I was eventually deported from Cairo and arrived back in Lagos, after four traumatic days, on 21st August 2014. My luggage which contained all my books, newly acquired clothes, birthday gifts (including a brand new PS4 game console), money to last me through the new semester, and other valuables, remains missing till date – with no explanation whatsoever from the airline, regarding its whereabouts. The luggage that did arrive with me was visibly damaged, and I later discovered when I checked through, that it had been vandalized as several items packed into it before I left home were discovered missing.

On arrival in Lagos, I was straightway rushed off to Rivet Specialist Hospital at Ajao Estate, Lagos, for medical attention as my health had visibly deteriorated substantially and, as the hospital would later confirm my body had become critically emaciated. I was immediately placed on critical watch, administered intravenous fluids, antibiotics and other prescriptive drugs.

A man who was later identified as Khaled El Rafie (General Manager Lagos, Egypt Air), came along with my mother to meet me at the airport on arrival. He showed little sympathy for what his staff and organization had put a 17-year old passenger through. He displayed extreme arrogance and perfunctory remorse about my plight and, to my total dismay, added more insult to injury by saying that his own boss in Egypt commented that “I may have been locked up in a cell in Cairo because of Ebola virus”. When my mum got very angry at his general approach and utterances, he told her “why are you shouting…..?” He wasn’t going to assist on the matter anymore, and then he walked away”. This was all before I was taken to the hospital for medical attention.

Joshua has since returned to school in Ukraine. He flew on KLM flight.

The immigration helped in procuring him with another passport in one day.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/horror-egypt-air-wrongly-flew-another-country-tore-passport-locked/#sthash.mPqe3wAO.XXquTHq0.dpuf

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wip7:

Going to Hong Kong possibly in Nov....maybe i will change my nokia sef..depends on if money dey!

How AKOL wares business. I go try gather money buy the franchise from you so we go dey do d business when I go back to naija. No money abroad walahi! na naija sure pass!

wip7:

Going to Hong Kong possibly in Nov....maybe i will change my nokia sef..depends on if money dey!

I know money go dey. I believe you die! I'm looking forward to my iPhone pls ..I go pay any amount. exactly like your type of iPhone. d tin original pass all these ones wey this turkai dey sell here.

wip7:

hmmmm, world cup was great..i was tied up, i booked hotel for days to enjoyyyyyyyyy some zumba, have some great friends there that visited TRNC last year, they are professional dancers from Sao Paulo.. wanted to see them dance again....anyway i spent just 3days against my 30days.

I knew you would be busy. samba things are awesome. pls I need iPhone when next you go to Hong Kong ooo.

wip7:

EMU-Warwick will admit you directly for master program under Engineering business management at a paid cost mentioned earlier and you have the opportunity to take Info-Tech Master (Free of cost) after the Warwick program due to the collaboration. Both are Master programs but Warwick can admit your CGPA directly and the degree is solely awarded from WARWICK UK while EMU cant... If you are less than 25yrs you may be exempted for courses at undergrad level of EMU and possibly spend 3 semesters, which i may not suggest as time means alot.

As far as i know and my exposure counts, no course/program is useless....the limit to everything or success depends on your imagination...I studied many strange programs and i must tell you am doing too well....and am enjoying it with gangnam style!.. Always travel through less-taken paths...u will reap untouched gems there.....am sure u wont want to hear my story!! Dont commit suicide due to your father/course but be positivist!!

Finally, CIU can admit you into master or even PhD with that CGPA but should be consider as the [b]last option [/b]due to lack of standard and inconsistencies for now.

@Whip, gud advice there! You'll make a good motivational speaker! How was d world cup in Brazil? did emu allow u to go at all? I hail o. miss u like Mo fe daku...lol

Wow! The best I've read in recent times. God bless you

He said the institution had received recognitions nationally and
internationally.
Eighty two students of the Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, on
Friday bagged first class degrees at its 2013/12014 convocation.
The Chancellor of the University, David Oyedepo, disclosed this
at the 9th convocation and the conferment of honorary
doctorate degrees and presentation of prizes to deserving
students and eminent citizens.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 1,429 students
comprising 1,334 undergraduates and 95 post graduates
received various degrees during the convocation.
In addition to the 82 students that bagged first class honours,
594 bagged second class upper division honours, 531 bagged
second class lower division honours while 127 bagged third
class honours.
Mr. Oyedepo said that the institution in its 12 years of
existence had maintained a culture of excellence in education
and this had produced significant results.
He said the institution had received recognitions nationally and
internationally.
He said that for two years running, first class graduates of the
institution emerged tops in the Presidential Special Scholarship
Scheme for Innovation and Development (PRESSID) in Nigeria
(2013 and 2014).
“Our graduates are recognised all over the world while most of
them have gained postgraduate admissions to world-class
universities where they stamped their indelible footprints in the
academia and the world,” Mr. Oyedepo said.
He urged the Federal Government to partner with the nation’s
universities to provide solution to the security challenges in
the country.
He said that the only way the Nigerian universities could be
relevant in solving societal problems was to continue to carry
out researches that would resolve political and cultural
challenges.
Chance Ayo, the Vice Chancellor of the institution, said that the
university was committed to producing quality graduates for
accelerated national development.

m.premiumtimesng.com/news/163989-82-students-bag-1st-class-degree-at-covenant-university.html

Thank God Nairaland is back!

Trojan or is it Trojanni, sounds like you are bereft of reason. Was I making mouth about EMU? Speaking from experience, all the other schools asides EMU and METU are just after an International Student's money and nothing to offer "added-advantage" wise. You really don't want to know my experience! Go and learn how to talk Mr Young vermin.

If it is not EMU, it can never be like EMU.

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