Send d girl no to me. let see if i can help in doing the thing. No be abortion ooo

U need to buy my advice. is just $10,000

The boy take brain resemble me

I pass mine when i was 5.

Don Jazzy, Chief Executive Officer of Mo’ Hits Records, speaks with ADEMOLA OLONILUA about his life and career.

A fulfilled dream

I knew I would be relevant in the music industry, but I did not know I was going to end up at the top. I considered the fact that it would take us quite some time to study the market. I was still studying the market at the time. I did not imagine that I was going to study it faster than expected and get to the top. I would say that I feel honoured to be regarded as one of the biggest music producers in Africa. I thank God for that. At the same time, I think it is very difficult to keep up with the name. They say great power comes with great responsibilities. It is hard to keep up with the standard that we have tried to build for ourselves. We pray that God will give us the grace to sustain what we have achieved so far. There is no day that I do not reflect on my life and thank God for everything he has done.

Scandals

I did not get this far without being well informed. I have made it a point of duty to know what is happening in the entertainment industry, especially things that concern the Mo’ Hits family and I. I pay a lot of people to get informed so they wouldn’t leave my side of the story when any issue comes up. I heard about it. I do not think it is wise to respond to what he said. I have said that I would prefer if someone arranges a meeting for both of us. We should have a debate. Let him state his point and we shall debate it. At the end of the day he will still get the publicity that he wants. God sees my heart. I am not vindictive and I have never repaid other people’s kindness to me with evil. I am loyal to a fault and it gets me into trouble sometimes. Sometimes I am loyal to those who don’t even deserve loyalty just because of the good things they have done in the past. I wouldn’t agree if he says I did any bad thing to him. It would be better if we had a public debate. For now, I will take the blame till we have our little ‘get together’. Let me tell you all the things I have heard about myself that is false. I would start from the small ones before the big ones. I have heard that many people think I am over 30 years-old. It is ridiculous. I keep telling them I was born November 26, 1982. I am going to be 29 years old in November. I keep telling them, but they do not believe me. They say that I lied about my age. Maybe it is because my face looks hard. It is that way because I have experienced many things in this life. Also they think I am old because of the name, Don Jazzy. Some people have said I am the son of Enebeli Elebuwa .My name is Michael Collins Enebeli Ajereh. It so happen I have Enebeli in my name. It is a family name. Enebeli Elebuwa, Elebuwa is my father’s friend. My parents re-married when I was about 16 years old and I was the best man. The late Sam Loco was the master of ceremony at the main event, while Mr. Enebeli Elebuwa was the MC at the party because we were not allowed to enter the club at the time. He was my father’s colleague in the movie industry back in those days. Another rumor I heard was the one they said I owe Wande Coal. I do not know how that is possible. I read an article in a newspaper, which said Mo’ Hits record could be seen as a happy record label. We are happy people and we make good music. We move together and we do not respond to negative comments or music intended to insult or taint our image. We don’t want to be a party of that and people take that for granted. Anytime we sit at home, we read all the craps some people are publishing about us. Wande Coal was worried about the matter concerning borrowed money. He came to me and said, ‘Baba look at what they are saying again. They said you owe me money.’ But I told him not to worry about it and if he needed extra money I would give to him. I learned about the illuminati story. Our affiliation with Kanye West, Jay- Z, G.O.O.D music, to me is a good thing. It is a giant step for contemporary African music, especially Nigerian music. It is a big deal for Mo’ Hits record. I have heard they are affiliated with some people. But you do not expect Nigerians and other Africans to simply go there. It is not something we should discuss. I have not heard them discuss it. So it would be awkward to just start asking questions. Maybe when we get closer, we could discuss it. I am not illuminati and D’banj told me he is not too. We are Christians and God has brought us this far. We did not join Ogboni or any other cult group in Nigeria. The latest gossip in town is that D’banj and I were arrested for being in possession of hard drugs. There was a crazy buzz on twitter, blackberry and facebook that we were caught with 100 kilos of cocaine at J.F Kennedy International Airport in New York, USA. I don’t do drugs, I have never done it. I do not know why people actually do that. Any money I have I got through entertainment.

Passion for trendy clothes

At first, I used to dress like 50 cents, with a base ball cap, big t-shirt, and baggy jeans trousers. At some point, I felt that the fez cap was in vogue . Then I moved to something I never saw anybody do before. I like to stand out in a crowd. I decided to wear Indian robes. It is actually the kind of clothes that grooms wear to their wedding ceremonies in India. When I travel to London and Dubai, people greet me and ask if the ‘wedding’ went well. I decided to quit that dress style for a reason. It was because somebody told me on twitter that there was bad news. I asked him what it was about and he said there was somebody else in Enugu nicknamed Don Jazzy because he dressed like me. He said the fellow was caught stealing somewhere and he was set on fire. I was shocked. He said that from what they gathered he was trying to ‘live the life,’ but that the lacked the means to sustain it. It made me realize that we had reached the stage where some Nigerians wanted to be like us. I decided to tone down my dressing in such a way that anybody can afford to look like us. I decided to put on comfortable pants. People call it Pyjamas, but I think it is very comfortable. I can wear it anywhere and it is quite cheap. I bought it for $10. I don’t advise any one to wear it to work. You can wear it when you want to hang out with your friends. I don’t like to mingle in a crowd. So I tend to do things my way. Think differently.

D’banj and the Mo’Hits as spokesmen

I have stopped that now. At first, I was too shy to speak in front of a large crowd because I did not like the sound of my voice. I preferred to sing instead. I used to whisper to D’banj. We tried it once and people liked it. It worked out and we stuck to it. It was a fluke. It’s not as if we planned it. We did it once and Soundcity got it on tape. We saw the result and decided to continue with it. I didn’t have much to say then. Anything I wanted to say D’banj, Wande Coal, Dr. Sid, one of the Mo’ Hits would have said it in an interview. So I decided to shut up. I did not see the need for me to come out and take the shine off an artiste that needs publicity.

How Mo’ Hits made G.O.O.D music happen

D’banj ran into Kanye West in Dubai when he went for a birthday performance. On his way back to Nigeria, he met Kanye West. He asked to be introduced to the American rap star. The latter learnt that D’banj, one of the biggest singers in Africa at present, had collaborated with Snoop Dogg and was poised to break into the international market. He said no problem. We gave him some songs to listen to on an Ipod. He was impressed and when he asked who produced it, he was told that I did. He said he would love to work with us. When to visit New York? We told him we were going to Los Angeles to shoot the video of Mr. Endowed remix. He told us to pass through New York so that we could talk more on the possibility of a joint project. We thought it was a joke or he was one of those celebrities that played people off. We called him up and he said he was serious. Before we knew it, he was introducing us as his new sign-on. He made his intention clear and we told him we appreciated it. We got our lawyers and that was it.

Working with Kanye West

I would say he became my boss when he signed me on to his record label as one of his producers. He said he had many projects in view and he would not be able to handle them all on his own. Also he said he liked the quality of my sound and would love to use it in his work. Already we are working on D’Banj’s next album. Considering the fact that we were already big in Africa, we could not come in as regular artistes. We are more like partners. We have an agreement to release D’banj’s album. They would help us handle the distribution in the rest of the world, while we handle Africa.

About D Prince and his rap style

There is something about talent. Talents were not meant to be shared equally among men, in the first place. D Prince is my brother, I can’t deny that. Although he has a passion for entertainment, he doesn’t have a great voice or the skill to deliver lyrically. Yet, whatever he delivers gets accepted. He has his own audience. It is not every song that would appeal to everyone. The sky is very big for every bird to fly. Those who would listen to him will always do so. He has own followership. Apart from D Prince, everybody in Mo’ Hits does not brag to be the best. We just want to make money and feed our families. It is good enough that people appreciate what we do. We do not want medals for being the greatest lyricists. D’banj is not a great singer, but he is the most successful. Anybody that is complaining now is actually very late because if he is as bad as people say he wouldn’t become as big as he is. There are people out there that like him. We know this. Even within, we make jest of ourselves before other people hear it outside. We know we can not rap, we know we can not sing; but we know we can entertain you in our own way.

Biyi Afonja, a retired professor of statistics, shares his experiences with ADEOLA BALOGUN and BOSEDE OLUSOLA-OBASA

How are you spending your retirement?

I retired fully in January 1993. I said fully because my appointment with the United Nations Development Programme ended in September 1992, but I had a three-month contract and I retired effectively in January 1993. Since then, I’ve tried to do a lot of writing. Of course, I wrote my autobiography, a lot of consultancy work with UN organisations notably the Food and Agricultural Organisation, the World Bank through the Nigerian office, and the UNDP. I do write a lot of articles: I do some humanitarian work through our foundation, which awards scholarships and for the rest of the time, I try to enjoy myself. Again, at a time, I got the assignment as the pro-chancellor and chairman of council, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye and I was there for about eight years on a part-time basis. So, that’s all that has kept me busy.

In the front page of The Punch today, there is this picture of pensioners struggling in the sun to get their papers for verification in order to get their entitlement. Could that be the reason some people help themselves to public fund?

That is one of the reasons. First, it’s most unfortunate for a man who has put in 30, 35 years serving his country only to be suffering just to get his entitlement. In a well organised country, your entitlement is automatically sent to you month in month out. But if by the time you are at work, you feel that at the end of the day, getting your pension would be difficult, there are two possible things you will do, which are going on in this country: steal, steal plenty, so whether they give you pension or they don’t, you are in a good shape. Or you just want to sit tight there, falsifying your age to make sure you are earning money. Of course, there are some who want to stay there neither for the money nor whatever, but for the power because power is sweet.

As a statistician, have you and your colleagues done enough to address the pension problem, which has become a permanent feature in the Civil Service?

I’m worried myself because I can’t understand why it should be so. I heard on the radio this morning how a man complained of how he was being asked the same questions he was asked a year ago when he went for his entitlement. He was miffed that records were not kept in the system. I get mad like that when I go to the University of Ibadan and they ask me what they asked me last year. I’m a statistician quite alright, but if you give the information to the people, they don’t store it the way they should, that is what they are going to have. Storing information properly and making use of it is something that is crucial. The only thing that will be left is to update it from time to time; the age won’t change, terminal salary won’t change. The only thing you want to know is whether I’m really alive or not. That doesn’t mean you must see me every year and ask me the same set of questions. In a country where deaths are registered, we won’t have such a problem. Let me give one example of the madness and I’m so happy you raised this issue. I had a late uncle called Justice Owolabi Kolawole; can you believe it, two years after he was dead, they were paying his pension. The Supreme Court knew he was dead; the president of the Court of Appeal knew he was dead, he even chaired the valedictory service held in his honour in Ibadan; the National Judicial Council knew he was dead. Everybody, except the government, knew he was dead and they were paying his pension. We drew their attention to it, yet they kept paying until we wrote virtually everybody and they started pushing it to each other. Eventually, it reached the Head Of Service office, then somebody from one of the agencies came to me and I told her, ‘Madam, you don’t have to come to me, you have your record.’ Eventually, we wrote a long letter and we refunded exactly what they had wrongly paid. The late Justice Olajide Olatawura, who was a good friend of my late uncle, because I copied him, he started showing the letter everywhere, that if only all Nigerians could be like this because we could have pocketed the N2m plus without anybody knowing. What is wrong with us? Honestly, I don’t know. Those who are alive, you don’t pay them, yet you are paying a man who had died for two years. And you can imagine how much that has gone down the drain.

Still on the issue of statistics, there was a time we needed a backlog of data of budgets since 1960 to date. We reached the Bureau of National Statistics but to our surprise, they could only give us the records for particular years. From your experience, what is the way out? Who should take charge of this?

I’ve been very much in the system for many years. The year 1960 is a long time, but that should not mean there is no record, maybe the records are kept where they are not supposed to be kept. Not that they don’t exist, but they just didn’t perfect them. I got involved as far back as the 70s when I was in one of the committees tasked with reforming the system. There was a time the government said that a data bank could be an answer where all ministries and agencies feed a national data bank. Thanks to technology, though we saw there was no point having a Federal Office of Statistics as it was then called having a different data base from the national data base. So, I recommended that the two data banks be merged because the UNDP was funding both data banks and the FOS and the next stage was the emergence of the National Bureau of Statistics. Again, one or two of my reports were used by the World Bank consultants to prepare the country’s master plan. I believe things would be much better now and if you go to them, they may not be able to give you records up to 1960, but they will give you bits of them. And you can really sit down on your desk, as I do, press your button and go to the website and download some records.

Your first degree was mathematics; why not law, medicine or engineering at that time?

The only professionals we knew in our village in those days were teachers, reverends and doctors. By the time I got to Government College and saw life, the only thing that I wanted to do was medicine. Then my principal called me and said you are not reading medicine, you must do engineering or mathematics. If you don’t pass the entrance to the University College, I will send you to Kings College to do HSC. I was not in a position to argue because I believed he knew me more than I knew myself. That was how I got into mathematics and I imagine that your next question would be how I got into statistics from mathematics. By the time we graduated in 1960, I had four offers because the government ministries and agencies were going round the universities to look for those to recruit. I had offers from the Central Bank, which was just about to be founded, office of statistics, education and survey. Out of the four, I chose survey because I heard that they said surveyors made money. Then, the Federal School of Survey then was at Okene, now in Kogi State. So after we graduated, we moved to Okene and our camp was somewhere between Okene and Lokoja. But because of the nature of life at the camp and the routine of job of going out everyday in the field, I began to see that it was not my job, no matter how much money was paid. The plan was that we would be trainees for a few months and be sent to Newbery in England, which was an attraction then. So by October, we were back in Lagos to be getting ready to travel to England. Our assignment then was surveying the Lagos-Ikorodu Road; then, we were being taken to Ikorodu every morning and back in an old army lorry by our white boss. Again, I was always being reminded that Biyi Afonja was not made for such a job. The end of it all for me was when we asked for cars. They said why? This is September/October, in March, you are going to Newbery, what do you want to do with cars? We insisted that whatever we wanted to do with cars was our business but they refused to give us. Then came October, our colleagues like Ambassador Adeniji, late Sam Agbam, about four of them were sent to the Foreign Service and they were given cars and they were cruising round. And you know when a young man has a car, no other person can compete with him when it comes to the issue of girls. That was when I made up my mind to end my job at survey and I just absconded even without any job on my mind until Abeokuta Grammar School snatched me to come and be a teacher in mathematics. I taught there for a few months and because I knew that I wouldn’t stay for long because I knew they would not send me anywhere, I started looking for something else I wanted to do. So, I found myself at the Federal Civil Service Commission to go and ask for a release (because our bond then was that we must serve the government for a time before going elsewhere). When the secretary of the place saw me, he said, ‘Oh, this is the man we have been looking for, you absconded. We won’t punish you, you don’t want to be a surveyor? There are many jobs we can give you.’ And he started mentioning them. He said, ‘There is a place in Ibadan called the Federal Department of Agricultural Research, they are looking for a biometrician and if there is none, a trainee with the right background. The plan is that you get there, you work with them for a few months and they send you abroad.’ I was happy to hear that and he gave me a note and the following Monday, January 1961, I reported there and when I entered the office of the boss, Dr. J. M. Waterson, I was so impressed. The place was like a palace to me and the gentleman was well suited. That building is still there till today. I immediately started thinking, ‘If I stay here, I can be like this man; I’ll be called Dr. Biyi Afonja. I’ll go to England and be whatever I want’ That just settled in my mind. Then I was attached to a gentleman, JH Breman, a statistician attached to the Cocoa Research Institute, he was my mentor for the first nine months before I was sent to Aberdeen to do my diploma in statistics.

What do you mean by destined to be a teacher?

I took to teaching during vacations starting from 1957 and throughout, there was no vacation that I didn’t teach and surprisingly, I got to enjoy it. By the time I graduated, I got to like teaching even though I didn’t pick a teaching offer. But while in Federal Agric and during my diploma course, I saw the beauty of teaching from those who really knew what they were talking about. I had encounters with a set of natural teachers in the course of my training. I was teaching part time to agric students in Ibadan and while I was doing this, Ife was noticing me (because then the University of Ife was based in Ibadan). So, the late Prof. Anthony Adegbola came to me one afternoon and asked me to come and join them in Ife, which I eventually did. I joined the Agric Faculty and from there, I was sent to the Madison College of Agric, but when I got there and they looked at my CV, I was told that I should do statistics. That was how I ended up doing my master’s and doctorate in statistics.

At a time, you were in politics when you were the commissioner for education in the Western Region. What was the attraction?

It was my good friend, Col. Oluwole Rotimi, who invited me from Ife to be part of his government when he became the governor of the Western Region. He made me the commissioner for education, but I was not a politician. But after two years, I came to realise that it was not the right place for me. Then, people had started to be sick of the military and I saw the handwriting on the wall and I told the governor that I wanted to go. Before I told him, I had got offer of a readership at Ibadan, which I saw as a chance of achieving my goal of becoming a professor. When I eventually told him that I had made up my mind to go because I had been told that the post would not be there for me after April 1975, he said he would talk to the Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, and they would leave the post for me. I pleaded with him, ‘Sir, you became governor as a colonel. Today, you are a brigadier-general; while you are getting promotion, I’m earning demotion, please let me go.’ That was how I left because the longer you stay in government, the more rotten you become. In 1989 also, I was asked to come and take up a job at the Federal Office of Statistics, which was in a mess but I asked to be excused because I had a job with the UNDP then. The like of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo pleaded with me to come and contest the governorship of Ogun State when I was in the UNDP, but I wasn’t convinced. His last word to me was that he hoped I would not regret it. Even Chief Obafemi Awolowo too tried to talk to me in 1979, but because of what I saw, I refused because to be a politician, you must be a good liar. Awolowo asked me to come and see him in Ikenne but people said you could hardly refuse anything he wanted you to do; I didn’t go to see him and I was told he was very disappointed. (Sani) Abacha sent for me whether I would be interested; people from my place pleaded with me to take the slot for the Yewa division. Up till tomorrow, my people still blame me for the marginalisation of Yewa division in terms of the governorship slot in Ogun State. They say nobody would have been talking about the Yewa being denied their slot if I had heeded calls to vie for the post then.

Why did you leave the government despite all the perks of office?

When I decided to leave in March 1975, I had a cousin then who said, ‘I hope our egbon (brother), is okay, gbogbo awon eeyan nsowo ni commissionership, ohun nsesiro, o de wa so pe ohun o se mo? To ba tie jepe isiro nikan ni, aa sa ma ri kobokobo, se kii se pe nkankan ndamu won nitori won so pe awon onisiro wonyen, nkan maa nro si opolo won (I hope our brother is okay; while everybody is making money as a commissioner, our brother is busy with calculation, yet he is saying he wants to leave. Even if he is doing the calculation, something would still be coming in; I hope he hasn’t been afflicted with madness said to afflict mathematicians.) That was not my nature; I didn’t see office that way, at least by that time, it was purely for service.

Was it in the course of your teaching that you met madam because they said teachers were easily attracted to girls in those days or you went to school together?

When I was a teacher, experience taught me that people would sleep off when you went into class and teach statistics in the afternoon. But if you threw in a joke intermittently, people would laugh and be willing to learn. That was my trick then. Then sometimes, some girls would wait while the class was in full steam and choose that time to stroll into class, just to catch the attention of the teacher but I would say professors don’t wait for students; students wait for professors, so you go back.’ The girls didn’t like such treatment and they soon found out that such trick didn’t work on me. I first met my wife during my first summer I spent in Dundee in Scotland with a colleague who is now late, Dr. Olufemi Ogunsan, in 1961. In the course of driving me round that Christmas, I met the young lady just casually like that and I came back in 1963. Then one day, a good friend of mine, Mr. Olowu, phoned me and said he went somewhere that day and saw one picture of a lady and I asked her what the name of the lady was and he said, ‘Sosanya.’ I said, ‘There are many Sosanyas, go back and find out which one.’ Later, he came back to say Yewande Sosanya and I said could it be Yewande I met in Aberdeen? I said he should go and find out more about her, where she was working and so on. He told me she was working at the Ministry of Economics Development then at the tallest building in Nigeria at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos. The second day, I was there and that was how I came about my darling Yewande Ayoola Olusola omo Sosanya.

Going through your profile, you had so many scholarships. Supposing you didn’t have the scholarships, how far would you have gone in terms of education?

I wouldn’t go any far, that is the truth. My father died in 1940 when I was only five. By the grace of God, one teacher saw my record and in 1946 began to take interest in my progress and guided me through. I got a double promotion from standard three to standard five. He also encouraged me to take the entrance examination to the Government College, Ibadan at the second attempt in 1949. I remember how he coached me for the oral interview when he said I should adopt short answers in order not to expose my ignorance, having schooled in a rural area. As luck would have it, I passed and was given a scholarship. From there, it was all scholarship throughout; I got to UI, I won two to start with and after two years based on my performance at intermediate exam, I was given college scholarship and that was the first time I had a cry of joy because it was an ambition borne of my first matriculation day in UI in 1965 when I saw young undergraduates in procession with dons. When I asked why they were in procession with great professors who were mainly whites, they said they were college scholars and I then said that if all it takes to process with great men is to be a college scholar, God help me, I must be a college scholar and two years after, I won it and I had allowances that made me very comfortable. The same thing when I went to Aberdeen, apart from earning my full salary, I had British Council fellowship £41, which was a lot of money. Then I inherited one old car from my uncle and all I did with it was to run around with girls and all I spent my money on was petrol. When I was going, I gave my cheque to my uncle, asking him to do something with it for me till when I came back and he bought two plots of land for me. When I came back, instead of thinking of getting married, I bought a brand new Peugeot 404. I wasn’t thinking of settling down with a woman until my uncle began to reprimand me to get married.

So, if not for that, you were not thinking of getting married, why?

I was enjoying my life, all bachelors around were usually in my house. It can be fun to be a bachelor and there were so many girls to pick from. Actually, I didn’t see the hurry. I graduated at the age of 24 and had my doctorate at 28 and I was not in any hurry. My policy was to ‘work, property and marriage’ and I followed that sequence faithfully. Just before I got married, I was putting up a building and I called my fiancée that we should decide on what to do first, either to finish the house or go ahead with our wedding and she said I should finish the building. And as God would have it, I completed the house just before we married and that house became the Alafia Guest House later on, one of the best air-conditioned guest houses in Abeokuta. In fact, I was among the first graduates that built a house at that time.

Why did you go into the hospitality business?

I had a very good friend, the Lisa of Ondo, Chief Bayo Akinola. In fact, he proposed our toast. He was the one who encouraged me to turn the house into a guest house to yield some income to supplement my earning as a lecturer. He said I should turn it to a bed and breakfast and put an Igboman there to make more money. That was 1972, and at that time, I had a visiting position in University College, London, which was rare. When I came back, I decided to upgrade the bungalow and got a loan facility from the bank to turn the place around and fortunately, the creation of states came much later and the place served as avenue for civil servants to stay and money started rolling in. I started the guest house about July 1973 and just before the governor was going to appoint me as commissioner in September that year, I informed him about the project. A few months later, trust Nigerians, the story was all over the place in December that Biyi Afonja had started building houses only three months in office. Meanwhile, the house was in place in 1966 till 1973, nobody noticed the house until the commissionership thing came.

Is there any of your children that has taken after you in academics?

No, maybe because of money. Our first born read electrical electronic engineering but she ventured into computer engineering with a master’s. She is in California. Taiwo read law, Kehinde read agric engineering and working with Lagos State. Funlayo first read economics, then accountancy and eventually went to do management and today she is doing well in New York. Their brother is neck deep in computer software now. I’m sorry to say this, two of them are not married and I feel sad about it; that is Taiwo and Funlayo, whereas Kehinde got married in 1999, 12 years ago.

You said Obasanjo predicted that he hoped you wouldn’t regret your decision not to vie for governorship of Ogun State. Do you regret that?

I’ve not regretted it but if at all I regret it, it’s the marginalisation of the Yewa people. Some people are still blaming me till date that I started it all. But that is just by the way, I have not regretted my action because I was not cut out to be a politician.

There is this rumour making the rounds that you are dating Don Jazzy. How true?

No, he is just a colleague. I am not his kind of girl. Don Jazzy’s kind of girls are very beautiful, very endowed. Tell them that I am lepa and tiny; Don Jazzy likes endowed girls. He can’t possibly want to date me.


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Dr Nwolise, who has taught management of terrorism at the National Defence College for five years and also researched and published extensively on the subject since 1982, admitted that thin line separated terrorism and liberation struggle, adding that “it is not everybody that uses terrorist tactics that is a terrorist.”

AN estimated 1.5 billion people over the age of 25 years will be affected by high blood pressure, the biggest single risk factor for heart disease and stroke, the world number one killer, by the year 2025.

The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, gave the staggering figure on the occasion to mark the World Heart Day in Abuja, while also declaring that Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are killing more than 17.1 million every year.

Professor Chukwu, who spoke on the need to prevent and control Cardiovascular diseases, said CVD caused as many deaths as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and diabetes plus all forms of cancer and chronic respiratory diseases put together.

The health minister said: “It is estimated that more than 1.5 billion people, or nearly one in three adults over the age of 25 will have high blood pressure by the year 2025. This is one of the biggest single risk factors for heart disease and stroke, the world’s number one killer.

“The number of those affected by high blood pressure is predicted to increase by 50 per cent over the coming years. The national prevalence of hypertension is estimated to be 20 per cent.

“As you are aware, economic transition, urbanisation, industrialisation and globalisation bring about lifestyle changes and risk factors that promote heart diseases.”

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where is the name originated and who is the person bearing that name?


I have even cheked google but am not getting very good answer. please enlight me on the name YAHOO

N.B (Too Know NL people) Please no insult as there is no harm in asking a quetion one dont understand.

Thanks

Goodluck for Jonathan, Badluck for Nigeria

Residents of Ikorodu, Lagos State, on Tuesday called on the state government to stop the Oro festival in the area.

The residents, who spoke to News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, said the celebration hinders their movement and affects the economy of the area.

NAN reported that the residents were reacting to the restriction of movement because of Oro celebration on Monday at Igbogbo, a suburb of Ikorodu.

A businesswoman, Mrs. Olayemi Bamgbade, told NAN that she had experienced the restrictions for 15 years.

She said, “We urge the government to put a stop to this Oro tradition. If government does not cancel it, they should restrict the event to midnight.

“We residents are at the receiving end of this saga.”

She said the tradition was a violation of the fundamental human rights of the residents.

An accountant, Mr. Tony Iruah, said the tradition was frustrating to his family.

Mrs. Iyabo Olofin, a hair dresser in Ikorodu, said the tradition had become a source of worry for the residents, adding that it was unfair for the government to allow it to go on.

She noted that the continued observance of the tradition by its adherents gives the impression that the country was tilting towards barbarism.

“It is so sad that in spite of the level of civilisation globally, we still condone some archaic and barbaric traditions that ought to be extinct,” she said.

A clergyman, Mr. Emmanuel Obasa, said any religious or traditional festival that infringed on people’s freedom of movement was bad and unlawful.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20110928461654

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RECENTLY at a workshop for markers of answer scripts, the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the National examination Council (NECO), Professor Promise Okpalla, admitted that there were noticeable lapses in the marking and scoring of students in its last examination. In his words, “We have had cases of candidates who lodged complaints on their results only for us to discover after remarking that there were sharp differences in the scoring between the two gradings.”

THIS can only happen where due diligence was not carried out at the marking venue. The workshop which was held in Minna, Niger State, was organised for markers of answer scripts as a part of the review process of the June/July Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE).

WE thank NECO for admitting that there were problems with its organisation of the SSSCE. This admission of responsibility is significant because for many years, students have had issues with the results that were released for them by the examination bodies, including those by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). As a result of the waning confidence in the assessments offered by these bodies, universities have introduced post-UTME screening and examinations to determine prospective candidates’ eligibility for admission to university programmes. NECO has blamed the mistakes on those that were engaged to mark and score students that sat for the examination. This is not good enough. There are more fundamental issues involved in the situation that NECO must attend to.

NECO must realise that there are likely to be many more students who were affected by the poor scoring than the few who were confident enough to formally protest the results they received as not reflecting their performance. The open admission of responsibility and willingness to redress these grievances by NECO will encourage more candidates who think they are inappropriately scored to seek redress in future. This means that NECO may be inundated with several complaints if it does not take fundamental and effective measures to address the issues associated with poor grading of scripts in future examinations. Naturally, those with genuine grievances but who were not confident enough to complain have lost time, effort and money because of the irresponsible conduct or incompetence of those employed by NECO to grade the scripts. Besides, it is improper that students would have to protest after taking the pain to work hard, before they can achieve a fair grading of their script.

TO address the problem of poor scoring by those who mark scripts, NECO should review the process of recruitment and remuneration of the markers.

NECO relies on teachers in secondary schools across the country to grade scripts. They are usually organised and coordinated in a decentralised arrangement. These process, though reasonable, is fraught with a lot of challenges. The first challenge is to ensure that only competent teachers are allowed to participate in the grading of scripts. Given the level of degeneracy in the education system, it cannot be taken for granted that every secondary school teacher with graduate qualification can grade scripts meaningfully. NECO must review its recruitment process. These pose both administrative and financial challenges.

IN the first place, NECO is reputed for paying its markers very poorly. For instance, teachers marking scripts in Mathematics for the ongoing NECO May/June SSSCE are paid N7, 112.5 for 250 scripts. This is broken down as follow: N8.25 per script marked, coordination allowance, N1,900, transportation N900 and a “lump sum” of N9.00 per script. This is not realistic given the cost of transportation as the teachers are expected to report several times at the marking centres for vetting by their team leaders. The teachers are expected to complete the marking in two weeks. Even this paltry sum is not paid promptly. There are several cases where after grading the scripts, the teachers had to wait for over a year before they were paid. Because of these, some competent and diligent teachers shy away from participating in the grading of NECO scripts. Some who take the job are not committed. Indeed, some even give the marking to their supposedly “smart” students or relatives.

ALTHOUGH NECO has promised not to relent in its responsibilities to render quality service to the general public through assessment, it must realise that it is under scrutiny because it has not met public expectation. We recommend that it completely reviews the marking of the June/July examination to ensure that candidates get fair scores for their effort. Apart from screening prospective markers (examiners) to ensure that only competent and experienced teachers are engaged, NECO must ensure that examiners are adequately remunerated and promptly paid. Those who prove unreliable or incompetent should be blacklisted from participating in the grading of scripts in future.


http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/editorial/28501-neco-and-poor-scoring-of-candidates

for some unserious guy out there. LOVE is eat and run.

For serious guys. LOVE is abeg a dey come first make i think am wel

please can someone enlight me on this general saying of Nigerian.

Suppose u fix a metting for about 4pm and people we started coming by 5pm and they would say is African time.

What exactly is African time? is it constitutional?

Till Death do us Apart. r much did u respect that word. did u just say it as a general and common word in the church doing wedding ceremony.

Because i can see many couple saying this doing wedding, but at last the wedding we not even not up to 2 or 3month and they would have separated.

Let be faithfull here. u know girls are time misbehave to the extent of beaten.

But some guys out there can tolerate anything from their girl.

Tell us your experience and let us know to what extent can your woman frustrate you b/4 u descend on her

LOS ANGELES — Andy Whitfield, who played the title role in the hit cable series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” has died at age 39, according to representatives and family.

Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, Australia, 18 months after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, manager Sam Maydew told the Associated Press.

“On a beautiful sunny Sydney spring morning, surrounded by his family, in the arms of his loving wife, our beautiful young warrior Andy Whitfield lost his 18 month battle with lymphoma cancer,” Whitfield’s wife Vashti said in a statement. “He passed peacefully surrounded by love. Thank you to all his fans whose love and support have help carry him to this point. He will be remembered as the inspiring, courageous and gentle man, father and husband he was.”

Andy Whitfield — who was born in Wales and moved to Australia in 1999 — was a virtual unknown when he was cast as the legendary Thracian slave in “Spartacus,” a role made famous by Kirk Douglas in the 1960 Stanley Kubrick film.

The series proved a breakout hit for the Starz network and made waves with its graphic violence and sexuality.

Whitfield appeared in all 13 episodes of the first season that aired in 2010, and was preparing to shoot the second when he was diagnosed with cancer.

While waiting for Whitfield’s treatment and expected recovery, the network produced a six-part prequel, “Spartacus: Gods of the Arena,” that aired earlier this year with only a brief voiceover from the actor.

But in January after Whitfield’s condition grew worse, the network announced that another Australian actor, Liam McIntyre, would take over the role.

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of our dear friend and colleague, Andy Whitfield,” Starz President and CEO Chris Albrecht said in a statement Sunday night. “We were fortunate to have worked with Andy in ‘Spartacus’ and came to know that the man who played a champion on-screen was also a champion in his own life.”

Whitfield’s previous credits included appearances on the Australian TV shows “Packed to the Rafters” and “McLeod’s Daughters.”

The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, has denied reports that she steered contracts worth $50m to her brother in 2004.

An online news portal had published a Wikileaks report that ‘Okonjo-Iweala ferried $50m jobs to brother.’

Okonjo-Iweala has however, described the story as a “tales by moonlight” account.

A Senior Special Assistant to the minister, Paul Nwabuikwu, said the report was baseless fiction totally devoid of any semblance of truth.

He said, “The story lacks substance and credibility. First, the minister has no brother called Jon-Jon, as the alleged “brother” is identified in the story. Second, no brother of the minister was awarded any such “consulting” contract as alleged.

“It is shocking that something that was discredited so long ago is being rehashed. It is clear that this is another ploy by vested interests that are desperate to stop her from contributing to the realisation of an improved Nigeria. They will fail again.”

Good for her anyway

Tonto Dikeh confided in a close friend, who happens to be one of my industry moles about her dislike for wearing loose skirts or pants, she revealed that she always love to wear tight trousers because she is easily aroused when any think comes close to her waist or private area, of which pants and loose skirts are a major culprit.

Nigeria First Lady Clear: As EFCC Denial Allegation.

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, on Wednesday, debunked claims that the First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, was under any form of investigation by the anti-graft agency.

Waziri made this clarification while receiving representatives of the Women Empowering and Enriching Lives (WEEL), an Abuja-based Non-Governmental Organisation, who paid her a courtesy visit at the EFCC’s corporate headquarters in Abuja.

The clarification is coming on the heels of renewed media reports that the anti-graft agency had, on September 11, 2006, seized $13.5 million from Mrs Jonathan, when her husband, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, was then the governor of Bayelsa State.

According to Waziri, the visit of the NGO provided her the opportunity to respond to the many enquiries she had been getting on the alleged pending case against Mrs Jonathan.

“Let me state clearly that the commission will not allow itself to be used to drag innocent people’s names into crimes, cases or allegations they know nothing about. In this particular case, I have read my predecessor who said in media interviews in September 2010 that Mrs Jonathan was not in any way involved in any case of money laundering investigated by the EFCC under him. I have thereafter checked our records and cannot find any case of money laundering against Mrs Jonathan or the president himself. So, each time I get an enquiry or read about this, I often wonder where this is coming from,”the EFCC boss declared.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/27915-we-have-no-case-against-patience-jonathan-efcc

This might be road to hell.

My friend girlfriend travel and my friend started crying and singing this song that "how can he live without his girlfriend.

Guys, can u cry if Ur babe is traveling 4 a long Journey? because i see my friend behaviour. as crazy what type of love is that. or girls can u do this 4 Ur man if he is traveling 4 long.

A guy wallet was stole in a public Bus. and the guy raise alarm that if the wallet is not return what happen in 1958 century we re-happen.

And the GUY that stole the wallet Quickly release it. because he dont want bad thing to happen to him.

After drooping from the bus and the guy that stole the wallet now ask the owner of the wallet that WHAT HAPPEN IN 1958.

The owner of the wallet replied and said that, My wallet was stolen in 1958 and i go home with leg.

Drop Your Advice/Suggestion Here for President GEJ on how to tackle the BOKO HARRAM issue.



My own advice for him is that, he should settle this people and allow peace to continue to rain in Nigeria.

Thanks.