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3 steps to improve bladder health

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(NC) Many women experience bladder leaks, which can lead to missed social opportunities because of anxiety and embarrass-ment.

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comfortable with your knees bent. Tighten your pelvic floor muscles, hold for at least four seconds, and then relax. Repeat this four or five times. Work to-ward keeping the muscles contracted for 10 seconds at a time, relaxing for 10 sec-onds between contractions. Make sure you control your abs and glutes to minimize movement.

STEP THREE: Repeat. Aim to do at

least three sets of 10 repeti-tions a day. This exercise is discreet, so you can make it a part of your daily routine. Next time you are sitting at a computer, enjoying a

mani/pedi or just waiting in line, practice, practice, prac-tice.

Firm glutes also help to strengthen your pelvic floor. Exercises like squats and hip thrusts are easy to add into your existing workout routine and can re-ally make a difference.

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NC) Gastrointestinal issues are experienced at least once monthly by 56 per cent of Canadians, and can manifest as inflam-matory diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, bloat-ing and cramps, diarrhea, eczema, dermatitis, obe-sity, and allergies. These all-too-familiar conditions can have a significan t im-pact on our daily routines and lifestyles. Fortunately, there are several simple solutions to overcoming the bad bacteria that is so detrimental to our gut.

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By Godwin Ihesie

We welcome all our readers to 2014. No earthly words can indeed convey our deepest inner gratitude and heartfelt thanks to the Most High – The Creator of All Worlds, Who in His Great Love and Mercy per-mitted us all to see yet an-other year. May we all make a very strong resolution not to allow anger to hiss up in any of us this year - as a mark of honor and worthy of the inexpressible Grace which The Lord has always showered on us.

Let us remember, those who become angry easily and project this an-ger towards other human beings, no matter how they want to justify their reasons - only exposes their inner weaknesses and spiritual immaturity for others to see. Furthermore, such peo-ple are easily “succumb to attacks of the Darkness or serve it as a tool”.

Therefore, it becomes an imperative necessity for all those who are ear-nestly striving to recognize and do the Will of God to direct all their attention to-wards overcoming anger, bitterness and all forms of negative thoughts and emotions - which are the most powerful enemies of man’s spiritual, psychic and physical health. Ignorance is chaotic in matters of total health. For it is an unfailing Law that: “whatever a man sows, that must he reap” many times over be it good or evil – weather it is direct-ed towards oneself, towards others or towards the world is of no effect, the law must surely be fulfilled and no one can escape this fact.

In no particular order, here are some techniques which have been found to be helpful in overcoming anger:

Firstly, we must bear in mind that we live in a world where some people (who may appear ignorant, rude, immature and selfish) are definitely going to make us angry; however, it is an

individual’s responsibil-ity to cultivate self-control when overwhelmed with anger. Self-control is the main key in overcoming anger. We have been told that: a person without self-control is as defenseless as a city with broken down walls and such a person will automatically be driv-en by negative emotions. It is on record that many are known to be in jail, in very difficult situations or are even dead today, because they of lack the necessary self-control over their an-ger, bitterness, and “evil speaking”. Anger has never been known to solve any human problem; rather it usually makes things worse if it is not controlled.

CONTROLLING STRESS:Controlling stress re-

duces the vulnerability to anger and this can be achieved through:

Healthy eating: A good mental health, posi-tive emotion, a clear and peaceful mind are depen-dent on a good blood com-position which comes only from eating live and vital foods that are rich and bal-anced in natural vitamins, minerals, high in fiber, and low in fats. Historians over the ages have concluded that those cultures that eat mainly grains, fruits, vege-table, nuts, seeds, legumes, with moderate white meat, tend to be more developed in arts, science, and are more spiritually inclined. Also, they tend to be less aggressive in nature. This is because wholesome foods give favorable blood chem-istry which affects the so-called body - mind complex positively. Those cultures that eat more meat and oth-er foods that simulate the brain and nervous system tend to be more aggressive and highly susceptible to anger and passion.

Those who become angry easily should there-fore, avoid red meat, hot and spicy foods, cool drinks, etc. The unhealthy habits of trying to suppress-

ing anger and chronic stress with drinking alcoholic beverages, smoking ciga-rettes, using drugs, drink-ing caffeine-contain drinks or overeating make the pa-tients become very irritable and aggressive.

HYDROTHERAPY OR WATER THERAPY:

This is the art of using water in to treat-ing both physical and mental ailment. It is one of the anger and chronic stress treat-ment options.

In some system of natural medicine practice, anger is associated with “heat”. Therefore, when one finds himself or herself raging with fury, taking a shower or bath or sipping a glass of water helps to hy-drate the body and draw off “heat” and help to diminish the tendency towards anger other negative emotions. The technique of hosing angry crowed with water cannons are based on this principle.

Also, sipping a tea made from any of the herbs such as chamomile, passion flower, Blue Vervain, Vale-rian root St. John’s Wort, etc.

Healthy Physical Ac-tivities:

Anger, bitterness and other negative emo-tions are also forms of en-ergy and science has told us that energy can never be destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another.

The enormous energy of anger and bitterness can be transmuted and redirect-ed through useful physical exertion or activities, such as: gardening, weeding, cleaning, laundry and iron-ing, painting, helping oth-ers, engaging in activities that give others happiness or joining a support group or engaging in favorite sports e.g. jogging, brisk walking, swimming, riding bicycles, etc.

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By Solomon Kobina Aremu

It looks like every couple of years the world is hit by some new form of global health epidemic. Some call it a pandemic. Over the centuries we have had the bubonic plague, the small pox, yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, measles, influenza, dengue fever, ty-phus, HIV AIDS, meningi-tis, swine flu, SARS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, the Ebola disease, and now we are at the threshold of something called the ZIKA

VIRUS DISEASE.According to WHO the

Zika virus ailment which

is often symptomless but can lead to birth defects

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There seems to be no let up to the dwindling eco-nomic fortunes of Nigeria. From the unprecedented looting of the country’s treasury in the last admin-istration to the costly perse-cution of the war on Boko Haram insurgents coupled with the crash in global crude oil price - all of which have adversely taken a toll on the country’s economy - Nigeria appears to be on the economic precipice, unless something drastic happens. President Muhammadu Bu-hari’s response to the eco-nomic challenges has so far come in three different steps.

The first was through the N6.08 trillion 2016 fiscal budget. The budget which is benchmarked on $38 per barrel of crude oil aims to spend N1.8trn (30 percent of the entire pack-age) on capital projects, the bulk of which is voted for social infrastructure such as works, power and housing.

The budget has how-ever been marred in contro-versy following discovery that it was overly padded by a secret gang known as the “budget mafia” in govern-ment. A furious President Buhari earlier this month sacked the entire budget office and ordered a probe into the circumstances sur-rounding how the budget he actually presented to the joint session of the National

Assembly on 22nd Decem-ber 2015 disappeared and later re-emerged with differ-ent figures, thus causing his government an embarrass-ment and a delay in passing the budget.

President’s Buhari’s second response has been to embark on shuttle diplo-macy to source funds for the implementation of the 2016 budget following the current persisting global oil glut which has resulted in the crash of international crude oil price. Nigeria’s Bonny Light crude cur-rently sells at below $30 per barrel.

Buhari’s shuttle di-plomacy has also seen him make recent trips to Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to confer with the authorities with a view to cutting down on crude oil output so as to stabi-lize global crude oil price. Nigeria, Russia and Saudi Arabia had agreed to freeze their oil output in a bid to shore up global crude oil price.

President Buhari next response to the economic challenges facing Nigeria is to set up an economic think tank. The economic man-agement team is headed by Vice President Yemi Osin-bajo. Other members are the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sena-tor Udoma Udo Udoma; the Minister of Finance,

Kemi Adeosun; the Minis-ter of Trade, Industry and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah; the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele; Dr Abraham Nwankwo, the Director-General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Agriculture Minister Audu Ogbe, Information Minister Lai Mohammed as well as relevant permanent secre-taries.

In a similar develop-ment, the President also ap-pointed Dr. Oluyemi Dipeo-lu, a former director in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA), as his Special Adviser on Economic Matters.

However, while the appointment of Dr. Dipeolu has been hailed by many, the composition of the eco-nomic management team has been roundly con-demned for its total exclu-sion of the private sector. It is also noteworthy that even the president’s adviser on economic matters is not a member of the economic management team. The opposition People’s Demo-cratic Party (PDP) has lam-pooned the team as a vi-sionless one and called on President Buhari to consult Dr. (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to advise him on how to manage an econo-my as volatile as Nigeria’s. Okonjo-Iweala was the Finance Minister and Co-

ordinator of the Economy in the immediate past PDP government of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Meanwhile, the op-position PDP has elected two-time governor of Bor-nu State and former Sena-tor, Ali Modu Sheriff, as its National Chairman. Modu Sheriff’s election was con-troversial insofar as he is widely regarded as the cre-ator and main financier of Boko Haram Islamic terror-ist sect. Australian hostage negotiator Steven Davies had also at different times accused Modu Sheriff of be-ing Boko Haram sponsor. It is noteworthy that while he was in APC, Ali Modu Sheriff was equally accused by PDP as the sponsor of Boko Haram. It is therefore surprising to many that the same PDP not only wel-comed Modu Sheriff when he decamped from APC, but also has now gone ahead to make him its national chairman. His election has further deepened the cri-sis in the PDP as those against his chairmanship are threatening to pull out of the party.

And in Canada Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party is moving to introduce chang-es to Canada’s Citizenship Act by urging a repeal of some of Stephen Harper government’s controversial changes to how people get or lose Canadian citizen-

ship.Indication to this

emerged when Immigration Minister John McCallum recently introduced a new bill that, if passed, would declassify terrorism or other crimes against the national interest as grounds for re-voking citizenship from dual nationals. The legisla-tion would also restore citi-zenship to anyone who has been affected by those pro-visions as well as shorten the length of time someone must be physically present in Canada before qualifying for citizenship.

The last Conservatives government of Stephen Harper had among other things expanded the re-quirements for those seek-ing Canadian citizenship to include language pass and knowledge tests before qualifying for citizenship, but all that may be reversed soon as the Liberals are seeking to return to the pre-vious age requirement of 18 to 54. These changes how-ever would not take effect until the bill becomes law.

Finally, we wish to felicitate and celebrate with the publisher and CEO of Nigerian-Canadan News, Gertrude Ngozi Ugoh, as she adds another year on 28th February 2016. We wish her a happy birthday, Divine blessings and many more years of good health and fulfillment.

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Ontario grocery stores are now going to sell beer

and cider wine in near fu-ture. Wine is appearing to some Ontario grocery stores with the prescribed set of rules set by the government. Initially, 60 grocery stores are authorized to sell beer. In the coming years, up to 450 grocery stores will be li-censed and authorized to sell beer, up to 300 of which will also sell wine and cider in the next decade announced by Kathleen Wynne as the government is planning to modernize alcohol distribu-tion and sales. Authoriza-tions will be awarded the goal of ensuring equitable and just competition and distribution to large grocery stores over the province. Later on, additional 70 gro-cery stores will be warranted to sell wine beside beer and cider from summer 2016.

An initial block of 70 grocers will be issued uni-versal licenses for grocery stores to sell wine and beer this summer while 150 new authorizations will permit vendors of grocery stores to market domestic and in-ternational wine beside beer and cider. Moreover, wine distributors located near to grocery stores will be al-lowed to shift inside grocery

stores. This decision is in-

tended to give domestic Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) wines a huge inertia to restart the foreign compe-tition during the three-year duration. Consequently, all international wines would be sold in these supermar-kets. Retail stores would re-main owned and managed by the WRS owner as pro-posed by the council. Coun-cil elaborated that imported and domestic wine produc-ers would have access to a retail outer channel of the LCBO. In the case of beer, these changes would be car-ried out in a socially respon-sible way maintaining the previous standards.

The LCBO will run a combative allocation proce-dure for next 70 authoriza-tions in fall 2016. Retailers will compete to sell wine, beer, cider and fruit wine. Grocers and dealers could bid on new licenses at the next proposed auction of beer licenses. Winning bid-ders will have to apply for authorization from the Al-cohol and Gaming Commis-sion of Ontario (AGCO) to make sure that social obli-gations and other standards are met. Wine bottles are expected to be on supermar-ket shelves later this year. A similar auction process

concluded in the authoriza-tion of sixty grocery stores to sell beer.

The government has set an initial minimum price of $10.95 of a wine bottle for grocers. Out of 70 li-censes, only half will be al-lowed to sell Ontario VQA wine while remaining half will be unrestricted so they’ll be able to sell wine from all over. In addition, 150 gro-cery stores will start to sell wine by 2022 and 300 stores by 2025.

The price of the beer and wine product will be the same across all the re-tail outlets and stores. Prices will be controlled below the Canadian average for pro-viding relief, increasing op-tions for customers, letting cider to be sold as well as beer in grocery stores in-cluding fruit wines and cider under a program that allows Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) Ontario wines to be traded at farmers’ markets, eliminating and discourag-ing unnecessary rules and regulations to increase op-portunities for grocers, pro-viding cost savings for pro-ducers as well as sellers and, eventually their customers, including new avenues for craft distillers.

Certain minor issues need to be addressed by the government. For example, the ability of producers to respond to new retail oppor-tunities is only decided by the producers. It is also nec-essary to examine the im-pact of these modifications and transformations for the WRS network as well as the LCBO and to make the ap-propriate accommodations, for example - relevant taxa-tion policies. It is a radical step for flourishing the do-mestic wine industry de-spite the fact that long-term investments are needed to make this step successful.

By Sandra Beagan

Operatives of the Eco-nomic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have raided the Abuja office of former vice president Nama-di Sambo on Saturday, Janu-ary 31, and remained there from noon until 6pm as part of an ongoing investigation into the arms procurement scandal of the previous ad-ministration. The office is said to be near the National Defence College and the Ni-gerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Documents relating to properties owned by Sambo and to bank transactions were seized. These docu-

ments allegedly link the former vice president to the $2.1bn arms deal which is believed to have been or-chestrated in furtherance of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s failed re-election bid.

EFCC sources hinted that some of these funds were disbursed by the office of Former National Security Adviser, retired Col Sambo Dasuki, and routed through the office of the former Vice President.

The EFCC has in-tensified its probe into the financial activities of the former vice president over allegations of using state funds to finance the politi-

cal campaigns. Their inves-tigators have apparently also searched his homes in Kaduna and Zaria. It is not known if Mr. Sambo is currently in the country. Reporters from the Daily Trust who approached his home in Zaria were met by a handful of policemen who declined to answer ques-tions.

Sambo’s Senor Spe-cial Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Umar Sani, was unwilling to comment to the Daily Trust other than to say, “No comment because your paper has already done the story without contacting us for our reaction. I will not say anything.”

By Sandra Beagan

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, just returned from vacation, seems to have decided to add some fresh blood to his cabinet.

Various news organi-zations have reported that President Buhari has ap-pointed 24 year-old Bashir Ahmad to the position of Personal Assistant on New Media, effective January 22, 2016. Ahmad con-firmed his appointment via his Twitter handle @Bashi-rAhmaad, "I am pleased to announce that I have been appointed by Presi-dent Muhammadu Buhari @MBuhari as his Personal Assistant on New Media."

Ahmad, formerly on-line editor of Leadership Newspapers, also served as the Personal Assistant on New Media to Sam Nda-Isaiah, the publisher of that publication. During Buhari’s presidential cam-paign he handled Buhari’s Facebook and Twitter mes-

saging as a member of the Buhari Support Organiza-tion (BSO) and will con-tinue to handle all of the President’s social media interaction in his new po-sition. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mass Com-munication and, despite his young age, already has a great deal of work expe-rience in multimedia jour-nalism and social media.

This move will give the President a more vis-ible presence online, and enhance his interface with youth, who make up the

vast majority of the popu-lation of the country.

Meanwhile, the Akwa Ibom State Gov-ernor, Udom Emmanuel has thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for respecting the rule of Separation of Powers and allowing the judiciary to function without interfer-ence.

President Muhamma-du Buhari, also received the President of Germany, Joachim Gauck today, February 11, 2016, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Bashir Ahmad as his Personal Assistant on New Media.

By Sandra Beagan

Two undergraduates of the Ebonyi State Uni-

versity, Nigeria, are being held and interrogated by the Anti-Kidnapping Squad (AKS) after their arrest by the Enugu State Police Com-mand. They are 26-year-old James Okoh and 27-year-old Victor Uchenna Okefie.

Okoh and Okefie are alleged to have conspired to murder Mrs Stella Ohuo, who was on vacation from the US, visiting home.

Mrs Ohuo had been a benefactor to Okoh. He is from Amata in Afikpo North Local Government Area, Ebonyi State, and was in his final year of Sociology at the university. She had asked members of her fam-ily to receive her at the air-port.

It has been said that Mrs Ohuo had intimated Okoh about her planned visit and requested that he come to the airport so that he could take her to Abaka-liki to deliver luggage she was bringing from the Unit-ed States to the families of friends.

According to a Sunday Sun reporter, the Commis-sioner of Police, Mr Nwod-ibo Nwodibo Ekechuk¬wu, said that, on November 14, 2015, the family of Mrs Ohuo turned out to receive her at the airport. Among the greeters were Okoh and his friend, Okefie, in a Volvo.

Mrs Ohuo’s personal

luggage was put into a car belonging to one of her fam-ily members. The luggage that she wanted to send to Abakaliki was loaded into the Volvo which had a reg-istry of Lagos EKY 855 CY.

Around 10:00am the Mrs Ohuo’s family left in one car and she left in an-other car with Okoh and Okefie, headed to Abaka-liki.

Ohuo was in the pas-senger seat while Okoh drove. Okefie was in the back. Off the busy Enugu-Abakaliki road, Okoh di-verted the car to a side road. Then Okefie, from the back, lunged forward and grabbed Mrs Ohuo by the neck with a choking hold while Okoh hit her on the head and then Okefie strangled her.

Apparently, they then calmly searched her person and possessions and re-moved all her money and her iPad.

This is the descrip-tion of what happened after Mrs Ohuo died, according to a reporter from Sun-day Sun who apparently spoke with the suspects in custody: Okoh said, “We dumped her corpse along Enugu/Abakaliki express road, on the Enugu State side. We took her dollars and luggage including ipad and broke the SIM cards of her phones. We ran to my hostel at Ebonyi State Uni-versity and later went to Sabongari in Abakaliki to change the dollars to Naira and got over N850,000. We

burnt the clothes of the de-ceased, and shared all the male clothes we saw in the luggage.”

The next day, Mrs Ohuo’s brother filed a miss-ing persons report as he had not received a call from his sister. The police commis-sioner at the time was Mr. Mohammed Adamu. He handed the case over to Ekechuk¬wu.

Soon after he received the case file, Ekechukwu di-rected the Anti-kidnapping Squad to investigate. They arrested Okoh, on January 29, 2016, at his hostel at the Ebonyi State University. Okefie was tracked down at his parent’s house at Ajao-kuta in Kogi State on Janu-ary 31, 2016. Both con-fessed to the crime under interrogation and in graphic detail.

Once they heard of the arrest, Mrs Ohuo’s fam-ily members arrived at AKS headquarters and identified the two men as the two people who were last seen with their sister before her death. That Okoh, who had been helped so much by their sister, could do this to her was so shocking to them. Their grief took over and they wailed in sorrow.

The corpse of Mrs Ohuo has been in the mor-tuary since November 14, when it was picked up from the roadside, and Ekechuk-wu assured that the sus-pects will be charged soon after the conclusion of in-vestigation.

By Wale Smith

BELOW ARE SHOCK-ING AND VERIFIABLE FACTS:

Internally Generated Revenues and Monthly Allocation from the FG amounts to N1.3trillion for the past 8 years.

Edo states currently has over N250 billion in Lo-cal debt and $168million in Foreign debt (Source; Debt

Management Office) with1) No Functional Hos-

pital built in 8 years and

existing hospitals weren't upgraded.

2) No Functional Ter-tiary institution built in 8 years and existing ones not improved.

3) No state owned in-dustry built in 8 years.He claimed he didn't promise to build any.

4) No Teacher em-ployed in 8years. Those employed in 2012

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By Sandra Beagan

A 40 foot container imported into the country from the US was intercepted by the Tin-Can Island Com-mand of the Nigeria Cus-toms Service (NCS). It con-tained 980 rounds of 99mm live ammunition and a pis-tol, according a statement issued by Chris Osunkwo, Public Relations Officer for

the Command. According to the state-

ment, Comptroller Bashar Yusuf, who is the Area Controller of the Command, said that the items were concealed in two vehicles along with a camouflage belt, a military camouflage face cap, a pair of gloves, a pair of shoes, and other

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By A. Ihionu

A Vancouver-based asbestos removal firm has been arraigned in court. The firm is facing allega-tions that its workers were repeatedly exposed to the harmful construction ma-terial on several occasions. Because of the allegations, the British Columbia labor group has advocated for a jail term for the director of Seattle Environmen-tal Consulting Ltd, Mike Singh, and his son, Shawn Singh.

A joint statement re-leased by the BC Federa-tion of Labor and the BC Insulators Union, alleges that the two men sever-ally breached court orders

instructing them to com-ply with workplace regula-tions. A court suit filed by WorkSafeBC said that the violations were in breach of a 2013 BC Supreme Court ruling, in which the firm and the Singhs were fined a total of $15,000.

Speaking about the suit, Lee Loftus, spokes-man for the BC Insulators Union, posited that jail time is appropriate when work safety rules are vio-lated repeatedly. In his words, “It is intolerable that with asbestos being the leading cause of work-place deaths in BC, that any contractor can violate worker health and safety regulations repeatedly and not face serious conse-

quences.”According to Mr.

Loftus, the union has wit-nessed the death of hun-dreds of their members due to mesothelioma and other strains of cancer that are contracted through ex-posure to asbestos. Speak-ing further, he said, “We want to see the BC Su-preme Court set a strong example that workplace health and safety laws and regulations must not be violated.”

Asbestos is popu-larly used as an insulator in buildings in Canada. But, the rate of workplace deaths that are linked to it is becoming very wor-risome to labor unions in the country

PC’s Lorne Coe wins in Whitby-Oshawa by-election

By S.Ratko

Voters in an Ontario by-election have allotted an unforgiving blow to Premier Kathleen Wynne's Liberals, giving a 25-point triumph to the Progressive Conserva-tives in Whitby-Oshawa.

Ms. Wynne put a lot of effort in wresting the seat from Patrick Brown's Tories – bringing a flood of nega-tive publicizing and call-ing in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to campaign in the riding – but lost in a rout.

Tory applicant Lorne Coe destroyed Liberal Eliza-beth Roy, 53 percent to 28 percent with about all polls reporting. NDP candidate Niki Lundquist followed with 16 percent. The win was a colossal change for the To-ries over the past general election, when they won in the riding by nine points.

The Premier was shockingly upbeat as she made that big appearance at Ms. Roy's election night party in an Italian restaurant in a Whitby strip plaza.

“Obviously, we would all have wanted a different outcome tonight, that’s a given,” she told about 200 supporters.

Ms. Wynne said she was unbowed and would push forward with her mo-tivation of building transit, getting a top trade frame-work for carbon emissions and another common pen-sion plan. Furthermore, she promised to win the riding in the following general elec-tion in 2018.

“As I was coming in, people were saying, ‘In two years, in two years we can do this’ As we build the in-frastructure that we’re build-ing … as we work to tackle climate change, as we work to make sure people have secure retirements – those are all the things that we are

working on right now, and that’s not going to stop,” the Premier said, flashing a vic-tory sign.

The vote came as the Liberals are amidst an un-popular privatization of Hydro One and reeling from criminal allegations against three party members in two separate scandals in the course of recent months.

In any case, the Lib-erals appeared to genuinely trust they had a shot at tak-ing the riding and invested heavily in their by-election effort.

Ms. Wynne meant to exploit the afterglow of Mr. Trudeau's triumph in the fall, in which he took what might as well be called the seat far from the Conservatives, and conveyed him to Whitby for a rally.

The Liberals likewise trusted that local dramati-zation in the riding would work further to their ad-vantage: The seat before-hand belonged to former PC representative leader Christine Elliott, defeated by Mr. Chestnut in a last year's leadership race. Ms. Elliott never returned to the gov-erning body thereafter and surrendered her seat three months after. The Liberals named her the province's patient advocate, abridging the measure of campaign-ing she could do in the by-election.

Ms. Wynne likewise attempted to turn the tables on the Hydro One issue in an assault advertisement that

kept running on local radio. At the point when the op-position parties claimed that sale of Hydro One would bring higher electricity rates, the Premier blamed them for wishing to bring back coal-fired power plants, which were shut two years prior.

“When anyone prom-ises you cheaper electricity, they’re really promising to burn coal again,” Ms. Wyn-ne said in the advertisement. Neither the PCs nor the NDP has guaranteed to bring back coal plants.

The win is a triumph for Mr. Cocoa in the genuine test of his leadership, putting a credit to him in front of a party meeting scheduled for March 2016.

The seat is crucial to the Tories: It is one of just two they hold in the endless breadth of rural areas around Toronto, a vote-rich territory that usually decides provin-cial elections.

In his triumph speech at an army hall in down-town Whitby, Mr. Cocoa jabbed fun at Mr. Trudeau's mediation in the riding.

“It’s nice to see that sunny ways have come with blue skies here in Whitby-Oshawa,” he said before in-troducing Mr. Coe, a former civil servant and Durham regional councilor.

The NDP, as far as it matters, went into the by-election with high hopes yet left disappointed.

The party had a solid candidate in Ms. Lundquist, a well-spoken work legal counselor with a string of big triumphs at the Ontario Hu-man Rights Tribunal, and a base of industrial voters in the Oshawa segment of the riding. The party likewise invested vigorously in radio promotions that attempted to offer itself as a more suc-cessful opposition than the PCs.

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The Federal Government of Nigeria has fired

the Vice Chancellors of 12 Federal Universities that were established by former President Goodluck Jona-than. One of the fired Vice Chancellors is Prof. Bolaji Aluko [pictured] of the Fed-eral University in Otuoke, Bayelsa State. Prof. Vincent Tenebe, Vice Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) was also fired.

The firings were an-nounced in a statement issued by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu and are effective February 12. The state-ment said that President Muahammadu Buhari has approved the appointments of new Vice Chancellors and gave no reason for the fir-ings.

Prof. Kayode Sore-mekun, is the new Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State. He was said to be on sabbatical from NOUN and had previously been Head of the Department of Inter-national Relations at Oba-femi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Prof. Auwal Yadu-du of the Faculty of Law, Bayero University, Kano is the new VC of the Federal

University, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State.

The new VC of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State is Prof. Fatima Batoul Muktar of the Department of Biology, North West Uni-versity, Kano.

Named to the posi-tion for Federal University, Dutsin Ma, Katsina State is Prof. Haruna Abdu Kaita, a lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Another lecturer in the Department of Pharma-cy, ABU, Zaria, Prof. Magaji Garba, will hold the position of VC at Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State,

Prof. Andrew Haruna of the Department of Lin-guistics, University of Jos was appointed VC of Feder-al University, Gashua, Yobe State.

Prof. Alhassan Mo-hammed Gani of the Insti-tute of Maritime Studies, Federal University, Kash-ere, Gombe State, has been given the VC position in the same University.

The VC of Federal Uni-versity, Lafia will be Prof. Muhammad Sanusi Liman, a lecturer in the Department of Physics at the same in-stitution.

Appointed to the posi-tion at Federal University, Lokoja, is Prof. Angela Free-man Miri of the Linguistics Department, UNIJOS.

Prof. Chinedum Nwa-jiuba of the Post-Graduate School, Imo State Univer-sity, Owerri is now VC of Federal University, Ndifu-Alike, Ebonyi State.

Prof. Seth Accra Jaja of the Department of Man-agement, University of Port Harcourt is the new VC at Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State.

Prof. Mohammed Kundiri, who was the VC at Federal University, Du-tse, Jigawa State, was transferred to the Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State.

The firings are al-ready generating contro-

versy with some members of the academic community claiming that only the Gov-erning Council of NOUN has the power to remove Tenebe.

The Coalition of Civil Society Groups, a human right organization, has sent a letter to Buhari demand-ing that the appointment of Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu of the Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano, in Tene-be’s place be reversed.

The protest letter from the CCSG, which was signed by its President, Etuk Bassey Williams and its Secretary-General, Ibra-him Abubakar, stated that the action contravenes the provisions of the Universi-ties (Miscellaneous Provi-sions) Act No.11 and other agreements contained in the 2009 FGN staff union agreement. The letter also pointed out that four of the new appointees are from Kano University which, ac-

cording to their complaint, is a clear violation of the federal character principle.

"While this does not come as a surprise owing to the influence of one of the Special Advisers to the Minister of Education in orchestrating the appoint-ments of his friends and cronies without following due process, we are how-ever concerned about the constitutional breach and the resultant litigation bat-tle this action may cause, which in turn may generate unnecessary distractions to your focused administra-tion," the coalition stated.

The petition further states, "We are compelled to call your attention ow-ing to the illegality in the removal of Vice Chancellors of 13 Federal Universities including the National Open University of Nigeria and the hasty appointment of friends and cronies in place of those illegally removed from office.

"While we are not unmindful of the fact that you would have acted on the recommendation of the Minister of Education in approving their removal, it is pertinent to know that in the pursuit of ambition driven by unguided passion and greed, impunity be-comes inevitable as the end irrespective of the means is all that matters and in this case, the removal of these Vice Chancellors is the out-come of an unguided pas-sion and greed by the Min-ister of Education and his Special Adviser.

"The constitution is quite clear on the proce-dures to be followed in the appointment and disen-

gagement of Vice Chancel-lors and none of these pro-cedures were followed in the above case.

"The appointment of Vice Chancellors is a ten-ured appointment, which presupposes that every ap-pointee is expected to serve the prescribed number of years as stipulated by the Acts governing the institu-tions.

The CCSG pointed out that none of the Vice Chan-cellors had been allowed to complete their tenures and had all been removed from their positions without fol-lowing due process.

The organization further said that only the Board of the Governing Council has the power to recommend or remove a Vice Chancellor from his of-fice before the completion of his term. "In the above case, the Minister already dissolved the Board of the Governing Council with the statutory powers to recom-mend or effect the removal of a Vice Chancellor from office thereby making the removal of these Vice Chan-cellors illegal, null and void.

"In appointing new Vice Chancellors or any public officer for that matter, it is an offence and a breach of the Federal Character principle for one third of the total appointees to come from a particular State.

"The action of the Min-ister is greeted with sadness as it is considered a breach of the provisions of the Univer-sity Amendment Act or legis-lation and to a large extent a gross violation of the laws of the Federal Republic of Nige-ria which guarantees univer-sities autonomy in Nigeria."

Prof. Bolaji Aluko

By Sandra Beagan

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate re-moval of 26 chief executives and heads of parastatals, agencies and commissions of the Federal Government, according to a statement is-sued by Babahir Lawal, Sec-retary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), on February 15. He added that the most senior officers in each of the affected orga-nizations will oversee their activities until replacements can be appointed.

Those affected include the heads of media organi-zations Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nige-ria (FRCN), Voice of Nigeria (VON), News Agency of Ni-geria (NAN), and National

Broadcasting Commission (NBC).

There are financial, educational, resource, de-velopment, and information technology agencies on the list, including Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), New Part-nership for Africa’s Devel-opment (NEPAD), Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Nigerian Content Development and Monitor-ing Board (NCDMB), Feder-al Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Na-tional Information Technol-ogy Development Agency (NITDA), Petroleum Equal-ization Fund (PEF), Petro-leum Products Pricing Reg-ulatory Agency (PPPRA), Bank of Industry (BoI), and Nigerian Export-Import Bank.

Also affected are Ni-geria Railways Corporation (NRC), Bureau of Public Procurements (BPP), Bu-reau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Standard Organiza-tion of Nigeria (SON) and National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Ni-geria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC), National Centre for Women Devel-opment (NCWD), National Orientation Agency (NOA), Industrial Training Fund (ITF), and National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP).

In the statement the executives were thanked by President Buhari for their invaluable services to the Nation and he wished them well in their future endeav-ours.

Edgar Latulip – The mystery solved after three decades

By Alveena Aziz

The Missing Chil-dren’s Network got incred-ible news this February. An unsolved mystery of a lost man is cracked by the man himself named Edgar Latu-lip, who was a congeni-tally delayed and mentally challenged child of Syliva Wilson. Edgar Latulip has made a suicide attempt at the age of 21 when he vanished from a hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, in Sep-tember 1986.

Her mother had last seen her son in a hospital in Kitchener city, where he was recovering from a

failed suicide attempt. She talked about the entire in-cidence two years ago in an interview and how her son’s disappearance made her sick. “This is always at the back of my mind,”

Wilson desperately told the newspaper in 2014.

Edgar Latulip was be-lieved to have been killed or to have committed sui-cide by his family and the

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The following day in the office, Misan sat in front of the computer again, cer-tain that there would be a reply from Antonio waiting for her, and with her heart beating fast, she anxiously clicked on her e-mail box.

There was none. He hadn’t replied. She frowned. From the little she knew about him, he was the type who would reply immedi-ately, and he had seemed interested in being in touch with her because of Weyin. So, why hadn’t he replied? She asked herself. Or was he going to phone?

She got up and went back to the salon. She heard a woman asking her styl-ists. “My hairline is reced-ing, what can I do?”

“That’s most likely be-cause of the braids you al-ways do.” Misan answered.

Pat chipped in. “I told her not to braid the last time she came but she refused to listen to me.”

“You should avoid tight hairstyles for now.” Misan said nicely. “It’s the reason for your hairline that is receding.” “And don’t weave your hair for now.” Ike said Misan agreed. “Yes, don’t weave for some time. Allow your hair to breathe a little. Such styles will pull on your hairline and cause it to fall out.”

Misan’s cell phone began to ring. She quickly picked it, checking the caller ID first to see if it was Anto-nio, but it wasn’t.

Antonio thought of changing his mind about his resolve. He felt like get-ting in touch with Misan. He read her e-mail again for probably the tenth time. Not yet, he told himself. He had not sorted out his feelings for her.

The following day, there still wasn’t any e-mail from Antonio. Misan sat down to think. Why? Did he travel? Even if he did, he was always with his laptop, so that was not an issue. Was he annoyed with her? Was something wrong with him?

The following day,

there was still no reply and Misan was now convinced that something was wrong. Fearful thoughts filled her mind. What if he was ill? Could he have changed his mind about Weyin?

She became dis-tressed. He had always been pleasant. If he had not replied, it must be because he couldn’t. She would try to get in touch with him again.

The following Mon-day, she sent another e-mail. She was doing this as a good Christian – she told herself.

Antonio checked his e-mail box and found an-other message from Misan. He was surprised. The sec-ond e-mail from her? What changed her?

He quickly clicked on it and read. She was sure he received her first e-mail, Weyin had asked where her Daddy was and she wanted to know if he was fine. He had to reply her now.

Misan checked her e-mail box in the office the following morning and - there it was, an e-mail from Antonio. That meant he was still alive. She hurried-lyclicked on it. She read it over and over again, feeling relieved. He wasn’t angry with her. He even apolo-gized for the way he spoke to her that day and he asked after Weyin and her.

She typed her reply immediately but saved it in draft. She would send it to him the following day. She should not give him the im-pression that she had been waiting to hear from him. He had not replied her first e-mail and he did not give any reason for that. He ob-

viously did not think much of her – she thought again.

The following after-noon, she sent the saved reply to him. She was only trying to be at peace with everyone as she had read in the book on how to deal with people.

The next day, she got his reply. She was excited. On Saturday afternoon, she replied his e-mail, answer-ing questions about Weyin. On Monday, she received another e-mail from him which she replied promptly.

On Wednesday, she closed from work at 7PM and went home with Wey-in. She heard her cell phone ring from inside her bag as she unlocked the door of her apartment. She quickly entered and closed the door, rummaging in her bag for the phone. The number on the screen was foreign. It must be an international call - most likely Antonio.

“Hello, Misan here.” She said breathlessly.

“Hi,” It was his voice. Her heart skipped a beat.

“This is Antonio.” He said.

Of course she knew that. “Hi,” she said as her heart raced with excite-ment. She sat down. They talked about how the day had been, the weather and the family.

As they talked, An-tonio thought she seemed to have changed, she was very pleasant and he liked that.

He had told her that he was willing to give financial support, so he asked, “How much is Weyin’s school fees in dollars?

She told him.He also asked how

much would be needed for her monthly upkeep and she told him.

That’s not much - he thought. “I’d like to send some money every month for her upkeep beginning from now. Would you mind giving me your bank ac-count details?” He asked. Then he said, “Hold on a moment.”

Misan could hear him talking to someone.

He came back on, “It’s Jen who just came in. Jen?

To be continued.

This story is from the novel, This Time Around

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Dear Agatha, I have been married

for more than 20 years to a man I thought I knew and trusted with my entire heart until the day I found out that he has been cheat-ing on me for a decade. The affair with the other woman has even produced two children; a set of twins. To make matters worse, the woman in question turned out to be my best friend I shared everything with, including the challenges in my home.

As gullible as I have been, I was privy to her pregnancy and encouraged her in the relationship she said she was in. She told me he was married and that they didn’t plan for children in their relation-ship and that since she was getting old, she decided to get pregnant not with-standing his objections.

During the time she was pregnant with the twins; she would come to my house and sleep be-cause it was a very trying period for her. I stood by her throughout and even agreed to her suggestions that the naming ceremony for the twins be done in our house to cover her shame as she put it. My husband it was that gave the chil-dren the names they an-swer to till date.

Looking back, I feel like the worst fool on earth. I also recall that my moth-er-in-law was very angry with me for allowing such an event in my home and practically ordered my friend out of the house a day after the ceremony, with a warning never to come to my house again. I was angry with my mother-in-law for her actions but she told me that I would understand one day.

Until she died, she refused to talk to my hus-band and begged me on her death bed never to pack out of my home, no matter what.

My sisters-in-law too for reasons I didn’t know then, refused to have any-thing to do with my hus-band and kept warning me against the betrayal of friends.

As a matter of fact, it was even the youngest one of them that told me about my husband’s betrayal.

I had gone to cel-ebrate the 10th birthday of the twins with my friend when she called me to know where I was. When I told her, she couldn’t stop her burst of anger at my re-fusal to terminate the rela-tionship with my so called friend. It was then she told me that the twins were my

husband’s children and that my friend has been sleeping with my husband all these years.

It was as if I was in a dream when I confronted my friend and she con-firmed it, saying it was the reason she insisted on the naming ceremony tak-ing place in my home and why she allows the children come as frequently as pos-sible so as to be with their father.

She warned me in my interest not to attempt anything or else I won’t live to tell the story.

Only God can tell how I drove myself home that day. My husband too didn’t bother to deny it, but kept begging me to forgive him that he didn’t know how the relationship started and that he has been try-ing to get out of it but to no avail. Knowing how vast my friend is when it comes to visiting native doc-tors and spiritual homes, I knew my husband could be under a spell.

It was after this my in-laws explained their at-titude to me and why they kept warning me to termi-nate my relationship with her.

When my husband went to her to end the re-lationship, she came to my house to threaten him that since he has decided to stay with me, both of us will never enjoy the marriage again.

That very night, my husband started bedwet-ting. First it was just in the night but it has graduated to day time. I don’t know what to do anymore as we have tried all the hospitals. The more medications he takes, the worse he gets.

The real problem now is that following the sug-gestions of my eldest sister-in-law we took him to one of the prayer mountains, where it was revealed that my friend was behind the problem. But the solution

they proffered is the reason I’m writing you.

According to them, she and my husband dur-ing sex took an oath never to leave each other and that bedwetting would be the lot of the one who walks away. According to the prophet, I should go and beg her to forgive my husband and pretend to permit them to continue with the relationship to enable my husband use the same means break the curse with the anointing oil they would prepare for him and return her curse back to her.

Two other pastors have told me the same thing and I have also seen it in my dreams.

After seeing it in my dream, I went to her to beg her to forgive me, she beat me and drove me out of her house with a stern warning never to attempt coming to her place again.

This is why I need your help. How do I get her to even listen to me?

Deola. Dear Deola,You shouldn’t have

gone on your own. This is a very delicate matter, one that requires the wisdom of elders to navigate. Going there on your own will only complicate issues between the two of you.

Do not forget that even before you approached her, she knew your reasons for wanting to make peace with her. This is not some-thing you do with the flesh. This is one battle you have to entrust to God through prayers and fasting to ac-complish. In his letter to the Ephesians 6:12, Apostle Paul wrote: “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against powers and wicked-ness in high places.”

Therefore you need to entrench yourself in the words and presence of God to defeat this problem in your marriage. This is be-cause you have given her, through your friendship all the weapons to attack you. She has more knowledge of you, more than, you do of her. This is a battle that has taken her years to plan and execute. As such, it would be very naïve on your part to think mere telling her you are sorry would end it.

Though your husband has done the unpardonable, your complete forgiveness is required at this point for God to step in. You cannot enlist the help of God with grudges in your heart due to your husband’s betrayal. Painful as it is, it is a pre-condition for God to be in-volved in your battles.

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You’re driving down the road when you hear the

unpleasant sound of a siren. You see the flash of red lights in your rear-view mirror. A police car is behind you and you’re being pulled over.

It’s natural to feel ner-vous. But there are some common mistakes drivers make during roadside stops that can cause difficulties, even when they are in-nocent. “Do not apologize when stopped,” says crimi-nal lawyer J.S. Vijaya. “Later on, a prosecutor . . . will use that apology as a conscious-ness of guilt. You knew you did a bad thing, therefore you were sorry. Why else would you be sorry if you didn’t do anything wrong?”

Many people believe when the police pull them over, they have to answer all questions the police ask. But Vijaya says apart from acknowledging your insur-ance, licence, and registra-tion and providing your name, address, and date of birth, “you are under no obli-gation whatsoever to answer

any questions as posed by the police” unless you want to.

“The whole issue is how pleasant or unpleasant do you want the interaction to be,” says criminal lawyer Patrice Band. “If you’ve got nothing to hide, you may as well listen to the ques-tion and answer it if you are absolutely innocent and law-abiding.”

And even though the police may not be polite to you, you can still be polite to the officer, says Danielle Robitaille, a criminal lawyer. “But it also doesn’t help to be unnecessarily overly effu-sive or to try and bargain. It’s also not helpful to engage in the ‘do you know who I am’ type of conduct or offering any sort of favours.”

When the police talk to the driver, officers can look in the car and observe what is in plain view, including things people may not want them to see. “My advice gen-erally is [to] take your pri-vate items out of plain view because the police officers

can look legally in your rear seat,” says Vijaya. “If you don’t want the state look-ing in your private business, don’t leave it in plain view.”

Officers may ask you if they can look into areas of your vehicle that are not in plain view, such as your glove compartment or trunk. “If you’re simply stopped on the side of the road for speed-ing, there’s no reason for an officer to be searching your glove compartment,” says Robitaille. “That would likely be found to be an unreason-able search.”

Vijaya points out that

if you agree to let police of-ficers search your vehicle at a roadside stop and they find something, at trial, you will be deemed to have consent-ed to the search.

Vijaya describes police questioning to try to get con-sent to a search as “a very elongated cat-and-mouse game in most cases. If you do not assert your rights, you will be willingly or duped into abrogating them.”

If the driver does not consent to the search, Vijaya says unless the officer has a verifiable, objective reason to look into the glove compart-

ment or trunk, he or she will need to get a warrant.

Many routine road-side stops involve the police checking to see if the driver has been drinking.

Vijaya says the police will usually first ask if the driver has consumed alco-hol and, depending on the response, the police have to determine whether they have a reasonable suspicion the driver has been drinking. He notes courts have found a reasonable suspicion based on several indicators, includ-ing “glassy eyes, slurred speech, driving erratically, [and the] smell of alcohol obviously coming from the person’s mouth or in the car.”

Vijaya adds that if the police have a reasonable sus-picion, they can demand you do a roadside breath test. If you fail that test, police can then make a second demand for you to attend at a police station to blow into an intox-ilizer.

“Once the officer de-mands that you provide a

sample into the roadside screening device, you’re le-gally obligated to do that,” says Band, “and if you don’t, if you refuse, the officer will undoubtedly charge you with refusing to do so. I think what a lot of people don’t know in the community is that being found guilty of refusing to provide a breath sample carries with it the same penalties as a drunk driving conviction.”

If you’re being arrest-ed, how you deal with your arrest could also affect your case at trial.

Robitaille warns that most police cars have camer-as and people are videotaped when they are in the back of the police car. “If you’re be-ing a jackass, it will certainly colour the way the Crown looks at the case [and] the way a court looks at it.” She says that “fighting with the police at the outset of an in-vestigation and during your arrest is fairly futile and it’s not going to help things.”

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Ever wonder if it is possible to deduct legal fees at tax time?

Well, wonder no more. It isn’t.

The Supreme Court of Canada has just rejected an appeal for a case that dealt with just this issue.

Deschênes v. Canada is a 2015 Federal Court of Appeal case that looked at whether a person could deduct legal fees in a case where he was trying to pre-serve his income-producing property interests.

In the original decision by the Tax Court of Canada, Michel Deschenes was ap-pealing a decision from the Minister of National Rev-

enue, which denied him tax deductions for legal fees in the amount of $21,609.00 for the 2011 tax year.

He claimed that he incurred legal fees due to a court matter in which he was trying to protect his property interests. The court disagreed, because a) he never owned the proper-ty in question, and b) inher-iting money is not income from property.

The court added that even if it was an expense for the purpose of making income from a property, it wouldn’t matter, because it would be a capital expense. Capital expenses are not deductible according to the

Income Tax Act of Canada.The act was used by

the court to explain that de-ductions were only possible if they were from business or property that were actu-ally income producing.

The court ruled that the legal fee in the case was neither a business expense nor an expense for the purpose of earning income from a property and didn’t qualify as being a tax de-ductible expense.

The court of appeal upheld the tax court’s deci-sion, as it also failed to see how the deduction could be claimed to be income for the purposes of the act.

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local police. Guelph Mercury, a policeman, has reported that they are confident about the fact that Edgar has gone and has killed himself be-cause he was mentally and emotionally disturbed.

Edgar Latulip has slow-ly regained his memory few months back and has finally found himself after 30 years on the missing person list.

For three decades, he was completely unaware of his true identity without knowing that he was living just 80 miles away from his real home. No one had ever seen him since September 1986 when Latulip unex-pectedly vanished from a Ca-nadian hospital. Then he had jumped on a bus bound for the south side of Lake On-tario, had got a head injury and had failed to remember almost everything. He ac-quired a new identity, adopt-ed a new lifestyle and settled in a new city.

But a recent recollec-tion has led Latulip back to the world he left behind. Po-lice announced this February

that Latulip had been found in St. Catharines, Ontario, not far from where he had van-ished decades earlier. That’s how he appeared to slip out of his family’s life forever.

Recently, Latulip con-tacted with a social worker and told her he thought his real name was Edgar Latulip. She investigated and found his names under missing person’s case on the Water-loo police website.

It was only in Janu-ary, constable Gavin clari-fied, that the riddle began to be solved. Local police were interviewed Latulip, Gavin said. And “he was able to talk about more pieces” of memory that had recently come back to him.

Later on, DNA test-ing was carried out and the sample was compared with against that of a family member on file in Waterloo, and it was confirmed that the person is none other than Edgar Latulip.

Duane Gingerich, a Waterloo Regional Police detective on the case, said

he was elated. Then, police phoned Latulip’s mother, who now lives in Ottawa. He is still “trying to grasp that after 30 years you real-ize you’re somebody else,” said Gavin. Police are going to arrange a family reunion for him.

Waterloo Regional Po-lice detective, Duane Ging-erich, who has worked on this case, was delighted to know about the unveiling of the true facts. Then, po-lice phoned Latulip’s mother, who now lives in Ottawa. Alana Holtom, speaking for Waterloo Regional Police, said she spoke to Latulip’s mother after a detective had given her the news.

There are so many questions in everyone’s mind about what happened to Latulip after he went miss-ing many years ago.

Syliva Wilson spoke to CTV News that she was overwhelmed after hearing this news. After all, she has grieved for almost 30 years for his son and has waited hopelessly for his return.

You must also find it in your heart to let go of whatever hatred you have for this friend. Since you cannot fight her on your own, why not free yourself of whatev-er hatred you have in your heart by handing her com-pletely to God who has the powers to do and undo in the affairs of men?

Before you go to her the next time, fast and pray first. After that, enlist the help of your pastors and some elders in the family,

including your eldest sister-in-law to accompany you to her house. Since you both have been friends for a while, you must know the things she cannot resist; buy her those things as presents to soften her mind. Ensure you also get things for her children.

You have to possess the wisdom of a serpent to defeat someone like her, so massage her ego by going on your knees to beg her in the presence of your entou-

rage for her forgiveness. The important thing is her agree-ing to do what you came for.

Once she agrees, on the day your husband is go-ing to her, ensure you are also in the spirit to ensure success. Once done, you can get angry with him as much as possible, but not before you accomplish victory for him through your prayers of intercession.

God will give you the strength to succeed.

Good luck.

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(NC) Music can have a profound impact on the development of today’s youth. Beyond being a rec-reational activity, it creates opportunities for leader-ship, engagement, and cre-ativity. Here are three ways music programs enhance education for children and teens.

• MUSIC BUILDS LEADERSHIP:

Many music pro-grams involve bands, choirs and orchestras, all of which involve working and communicating with others to achieve a common goal. This develops leadership and teamwork skills that can be applied to other ar-eas of life.

• MUSIC DRIVES ENGAGEMENT:

When students learn in a fun and exciting en-vironment, they are more likely to stay interested and engaged in their overall studies. Not only that, but music provides a means of self-expression, giving young people a venue to take risks, conquer fears and build self-esteem.

• MUSIC GENERATES CREATIVITY:

Music stimulates imagination that helps children think outside the box. This creative think-ing builds the ability to problem solve and imagine various solutions to come up with the best option.

An Instrument for Ev-ery Child (AIFEC), a Musi-Counts TD Community Music Program beneficiary, builds on this momentum

by instilling a love of music in the next generation by giving instruments to kids in inner city schools.

“AIFEC helps the chil-dren develop important leadership and teamwork skills,” says Paul Lloyd, founding sponsor of the program. “It gives students from all backgrounds the opportunity to participate in an ensemble, which is an integral part of the pro-gram.”

A music education can provide the values for students to thrive in all ar-eas of life from academics, to relationships, to careers. Having the understanding that practice makes perfect and sustained effort will achieve positive results is sure to take any music stu-dent far.

By NCNC staff and A. Ihionu

When a gambler is still in full control of his spending, there is no problem about that. At this time, there may not be pronounced problems in the family, even when the family members are aware of the act. Gam-bling becomes a problem only when the gambler is no longer in control of the actions he takes as it concerns gambling. This has huge negative ef-fects on the family. Now, the major signs of addic-tion to gambling include committing crimes just to raise the money for gam-bling. When a person has become very willing to tell lies about gambling or when one has actually started to use gambling as a means of escaping some form of stress or obligation, then it has de-generated to an impulse control issue and will be very difficult to stop. This is when we can say that it has become pathologi-cal and therefore problem gambling. This can have as big a negative effect on the family as drugs and alcohol.

EFFECTS ON FAMILY FINANCES

The major strain caused by gambling on the family, whether it is being done by the father, mother, or the children, is the financial aspect. At first, many people believe that they can actually gamble with only their extra funds. However, the nature of gambling is one that, whenever it becomes problematic, people even gamble with the most important funds. This is because of the be-lief that you are gambling to gain more, and so it will be easy to replace the funds used for the gam-bling. We have witnessed family members who gambled with money that was meant for important family necessities. Some even use family funds to pay off some debt they in-curred through gambling, to avoid having problems with their creditor. This is because they don’t want their family members to find out about the debt or what they did with the money. In some cases, gamblers will at this point resort to crime in order to repay this money. This may cause more prob-lems for the family such

as losing the home due to inability to repay the mortgage, or applying for loans they cannot repay. This will eventually dam-age their credit record.

EFFECTS ON MARRIAGE

There are cases where the gambler’s loved ones lend them money to settle these debts and pay their bills, and they still find ways of stashing these monies away for gambling. So, when fam-ily financial statements go missing and creditors are calling, you have to check your family mem-bers again. It may get to the extent of family assets disappearing. In some cases, mutual accounts are drained, monies for bills are misused, new loans are acquired, and eventually breakdown of family relationships oc-curs. It can get so bad that the children, siblings, or the partner can no lon-ger trust the gambler. In some cases, the feeling of insecurity and lack of confidence in the gambler make things worse. When threats, manipulation, keeping of late nights, and domestic abuse come into the picture, the fam-ily may be destroyed.

SOCIAL EFFECTSAnother negative as-

pect of gambling on fami-lies hinges on its trickle-down effects. It is well known that most gam-blers tend to be drawn to other acts of dependency such as substance abuse and “gangsterism”. This often leads to depres-sion and anxiety disor-ders. When this is the case with a member of the family, moments of excessive disagreements and arguments with oth-er family members, and general bad feelings, may arise. This is why the rates of abuse and divorce amongst gambling addicts are high.

EFFECTS ON PARENTING

One of the major negative effects of gam-bling on families is ad-verse parenting. When you focus on gambling, you will not have the time to perform your real tasks as a parent. Gambling will cause you to ignore your children and become un-available in the home. Sometimes, it gets to the point where your children suffer depression because of this. This will lead them to develop some behavioral problems or take to substance abuse. On another note, children of parents with gambling problems tend to take to gambling too. This may spark off an unhealthy cycle within the family. This is because, while the parent is doing this as an adult and can control some aspects, the child may start prematurely. This may ruin his or her entire life.

EFFECTS ON SEX LIFEAnother area that

is seriously affected by gambling among couples is the sex life. It is natu-ral for a partner to with-draw from sex when they realize that they cannot trust their partner or be-lieve what they say due to their gambling. The partner may harbor such intense negative feelings, blame, and anger, that she may not be disposed to show feelings of love. This will cause low mo-rale, low self-esteem, and lack of confidence in the gambling partner. Again, the gambler will definitely lose the desire for sexual intimacy when the con-sequences of gambling erupt.

CAVEATThese problems,

however, can be solved by first of all avoiding gambling or by seeking help when you feel you can’t control your gam-bling life.



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5 ways to get your garden ready for spring dur-ing the winter months

TORONTO, Ont. —

With temperatures below freezing, the ground covered in snow and the sight of plant life scarce, your green thumb may be feeling a bit frostbitten. With spring slow-ly coming into view, Canada Blooms would like to suggest five ways to start preparing your garden for the warmer days ahead.

1. PRUNING:

Winter is the prime time to prune your summer-blooming trees and shrubs to make room for new growth. Take advantage of this time while your plants are dor-mant and bugs are at a minimum to cut back your wisteria vines, rose bushes, ornamental grasses, and any other summer-blooming foli-age growing in your garden.

2 WINTER-SOWING:

While it may be too cold to sprinkle seeds in the garden, you can get a head start on growing your pe-rennials and hardy annuals by making some DIY min-iature greenhouses out of recycled clear plastic mate-rials. These containers can be placed outside during the cold winter months allowing hard-shelled seeds to natu-rally germinate, and plants to grow much stronger and sturdier as they withstand the elements.

3. SOW SEEDS IN A

HEATED PROPAGATOR:While the perennials

and hardy annuals can with-stand the cold, some weak annuals require a warmer environment to get started. To get a head start on those plants that require a longer growing season such as ge-raniums, begonias and pep-pers, sow these seeds within a heated propagator. To mitigate costs, a similar min-iature greenhouse as men-tioned previously could be created and placed in direct sunlight indoors to garnish a similar effect.

4. SAVE UP EGG SHELLS AND COFFEE GROUNDS:

Both eggshells and cof-fee grounds act as natural fertilizers for your garden, shells providing calcium while the grounds provide nitrogen. Eggshells have also been known to deter pests such as slugs, snails, and even deer. On the other hand, coffee grounds work quite the opposite, attract-ing earthworms and helping beneficial microorganisms thrive in addition to improv-ing drainage, water retention and soil aeration.

5. FEED THE BIRDS:

During the cold months, insects are scare, water is frozen, and most of the natural food supply is covered by snow making Canadian winters a stressful time for birds. By providing high calorie food options such as sunflower seeds, suet, or peanut butter, you will be helping your feath-ered backyard residents stay warm and cozy throughout the winter. In return, birds will provide natural pollina-tion among your garden, while also minimizing the amount of weeds and pests.

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On February 25, Ontario’s Finance Min-ister Charles Sousa re-leased Ontario’s 2016 provincial budget en-titled Jobs for Today and Tomorrow.

The statement said that, since the low of June 2009 caused by the global recession, more than 600,000 jobs have been created in Ontario and it is pro-jected that more than 300,000 more jobs will have been created by the end of 2019.

According to the Ministry of Finance, On-tario’s economic growth is currently outpacing national growth. This strong growth is expect-ed to continue over the next two years; growth in real GDP is expected to be 2.2 per cent in 2016.

Ontario families and businesses are con-cerned about the state of the economy, said the statement, and this early presentation of the budget is intended to give them a picture of how the government is planning to grow the economy and create jobs, so that people will have more opportunities and security.

The government said that its plan is to create good jobs by in-vesting in infrastructure and in a low-carbon economy based on busi-nesses that are export-oriented, high-growth, and innovative. Invest-ing in the talents and skills of Ontarians, and expanding access to high quality second-ary education are part of the plan as well. The statement also men-tioned helping people to achieve more security in their retirement.

The government plans to balance the budget in 2017-18.

In his statement, Charles Sousa, the Min-ister of Finance said, “The Province’s eco-nomic plan supports good jobs today in com-munities across Ontario by investing in infra-structure and in a low-carbon economy driven by innovative, high-

growth, export-oriented businesses. The plan invests in people’s tal-ents and skills and their ability‎ to get and create the jobs of the future, by expanding access to high-quality college and university educa-tion. The plan also helps all Ontarians achieve a more secure retire-ment.”

KEY POINTS AS ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE:

Education: An overhaul of all financial assistance programs for students of all ages and all income levels.

I n f r a s t r u c t u r e : Over $137 billion in the next 10 years for roads, bridges, public transit, hospitals and schools which is expect-ed to support more than 110,000 jobs each year, on average.

Business Environ-ment: Reduce business costs, leverage invest-ment through strate-gic partnerships, help businesses go global, strengthen the financial services sector, devel-op a sharing economy strategy. A cap-and-trade program to meet the province’s green-house gas reduction tar-gets. Other initiatives to help companies and households thrive dur-ing the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Retirement Secu-rity: Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP), intended to help work-ing Ontarians save for their retirement, to be launched in 2017-2018. Ontario is also commit-ted to finding solutions that will allow the needs of all Canadian employ-ees to be met under a national framework, in-cluding enhancing the CPP.

A Fair Society: Ini-tiatives and services intended to enhance the independence and potential of individuals who live with physical, mental, developmental, social, economic, and other challenges and disabilities. Improving social conditions and

economic opportunities for Indigenous peoples. More money for health care; better health care, and lower wait times.

Everyday Life: Lowering fees, more assistance with energy costs, better use of tech-nology to deliver public services. Expanding the sales of beer, wine, and cider to grocery stores.

Fiscal Manage-ment: Invest in the economy, the people, and a low-carbon future while meeting fiscal tar-gets. Generate a grow-ing economy, good jobs, and long-term prosper-ity.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU?

Students: Free tu-ition to anyone whose family makes less than $50,000 a year.

Beer: More beer in more grocery stores. Grocery stores will open up shelf space for craft brewers.

Wine: Wine will be in 70 grocery stores by the fall and wine will soon be allowed to move into the main aisles.

Industry: Get ready for new technology, like it or not. The province promises to develop a strategy to both en-courage and regulate the “sharing economy,” which is projected to be worth $335 billion (U.S.) by 2025.

Higher Drug Prices For Seniors: In August 2016, the government will raise the minimum income required for low-income seniors to re-ceive drug benefits.

Gas Prices: The new cap-and-trade sys-tem will put a price on carbon emissions. Gas prices will probably go up by 4.3 cents a litre for vehicles, and monthly natural gas heating bills should increase by $5.

ORPP: Employers won’t have to start con-tributing to the ORPP until at least 2018, and they will have until 2021 before they have to pay up the maximum contribution.

Online Services: More government ser-vices will go online.

The $11 Million Donation From Slaight Family Foundation

By A. Ihionu

The Slaight Family Foundation has announced $11 million in donations to charities in support of the well-being of children in Canada. According to the foundation, the $11 mil-lion will go to 11 national charity organizations that serve the interest of youth and children. This is to be split in equal measure between the groups. Ac-cording to the foundation, this strategic approach to philanthropy aims to aid and support the healthy development of the most vulnerable children and youth in Canada. The fund is meant to help the chari-ties initiate new programs and also to expand the scopes of their services in order to improve the social, mental, physical, and inte-gral well-being of children in the country.

In a statement an-nouncing the donation, Gary Slaight, president and CEO of the founda-tion, posited that, “Each of the organizations and their programs are en-suring that children and youth are supported in all areas of their lives. By focusing on younger Ca-nadians, they are shaping the future of our coun-try.” He added, “We hope

these gifts provide them with the resources to help children lead healthy, suc-cessful, and positive lives. We would also encourage others to support these national initiatives for the betterment of Canadian children and youth.”

The donation was an-nounced during an event attended by the CEOs of all 11 recipient organi-zations, and each of the officers spoke about the projects they intend to run with the fund. The fund-ing will sponsor 11 proj-ects in total, and each of these projects will take care of a different aspect of children’s development. Notable among these pro-grams are school feeding, shelter, AIDS awareness and prevention, literacy programs, anti-violence, and post-secondary educa-tion programs.

The donation will help the Rick Hansen Founda-tion expand their youth ambassador program, which will raise awareness for disabled people. Kids Help Phone will use their fund to expand their pro-fessional online live chat counseling services. Chil-dren’s Wish Foundation will take care of the wishes of children with severe neurological diseases. Ca-nadian Feed the Children

will focus on food secu-rity for First Nations, with a program called Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds. According to Children’s Aid Foundation, they will focus on housing assisting for youths who are exiting the child welfare system.

CANFAR will focus on youth HIV/AIDS aware-ness and prevention, while the Canadian Red Cross will launch programs to encourage healthy rela-tionships and prevention of violence in schools. The Breakfast Club of Canada said that it would add at least 20 more breakfast programs for schools in remote and rural areas of Canada. Pathways to Edu-cation Canada will focus on increasing the avail-ability of post-secondary education for vulnerable youths, while Frontier Col-lege will do more volunteer training to increase youth literacy. Special Olympics Canada will introduce new programs to help intellec-tually disabled children.

A statement made by the Rick Hansen foun-dation, in appreciation of the donation, says, “The $1 million gift to the Rick Hansen Foundation will help us expand the Youth Ambassador program to raise awareness of people with disabilities.”



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MYTH: ASPARTAME IS NOT SAFE.

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MYTH: ASPARTAME CAN LEAD TO DIABETES.

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ciations encour-age its use to manage diabetes while still enjoy-ing sweet foods or beverages.

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We occasionally come across the word ‘Kosher’ when going to the grocery store, the wine shop and other places. While some of us already know the meaning, many of us have no idea. In line with our philosophy to educate and inform, The Nigerian Ca-nadian News brings you a basic overview.

An Overview Kosher is a process of food production that adheres to dietary guidelines set forth in the Bible and clarified over the centuries by rabbinic authorities in Jewish law.

Kosher observance is a historical, communal, and personal commitment, and a connection to the will of the Creator. To those who observe kosher, its concepts also offer reminders of les-sons in kindness and sensi-tivity to animals, attention to detail in everyday mat-ters, self-control, and think-ing before acting.

The eternal principles of kosher are applicable to even the most modern food production methods. They guide how foods are chosen and processed, the quality and integrity of the ingre-dients, and the security of food prep areas, to ensure that the status of the food and equipment is never compromised.

Kosher means “fit” or “proper”– a concept associ-ated with cleanliness, purity and extra supervision.

Kosher food is by na-ture more controlled than many other means of food production.

While kosher is pri-marily an ethical or faith-based observance, there are some potential benefits to eating kosher.

For instance, kosher menus separate dairy from meat products. It is inter-esting to observe that it is recognized that iron and calcium are not absorbed well when ingested togeth-er (“Does Calcium Interfere with Iron Absorption?” Leif Hallberg, American Soci-ety for Clinical Nutrition,

1998).Another kosher pro-

cedure, the mandatory salt-ing and rinsing of meat and poultry, has been studied for its ability to reduce the incidence of bacteria under certain conditions. (“Persis-tence of Salmonella Sero-types on Chicken Skin after Exposure To Kosher Salt And Rinsing”, Oscar, Thom-as P., Journal of Food Safety 07/2008; 28(3):389 – 399. DOI:10.1111/j.1745-4565.2008.00107.x )

The meticulous nature of kosher menu planning can help consumers under-stand what is in their food. People with food preferenc-es or sensitivities, includ-ing vegans, vegetarians, and those wishing to avoid dairy ingredients, could use kosher status infor-mation to make decisions about what they choose to eat. Kosher food standards are more demanding than those of the FDA, which al-low ingredients of less than 2% to be omitted on food labels, yet kosher certifying agencies find these to be of significance down to 0% in some special cases. For in-stance, food production on “dairy” equipment without the actual presence of dairy ingredients is noted on the kosher label.

WHAT MAKES FOOD KOSHER?

While many people may think that a blessing by a rabbi changes food into kosher, this is not the case.

It is also not true that any “kosher” meat listed in the Torah, such as beef or lamb, is automatically ko-sher. There are many steps that have to be completed before a piece of steak is considered kosher.

The kosher process is a detailed, technical proce-dure of following rules and guidelines. This process has several parts, and they are all necessary for the fi-nal result. It’s important to realize that the kosher pro-cess is not a magical, or a purely spiritual event (even though kosher is a way to connect physical food with

spirituality and holiness).Imagine a crab or a

lobster. The Torah says it is a non-kosher animal. This cannot change. No bless-ing, no matter by how great a rabbi, or by how many rabbis gathered together, can change an essentially non-kosher creature into kosher. Other types of foods, such as beef and chicken, milk and spices, oils and juices and many more — that COULD be ko-sher according to the Bible and Jewish Law, will only be considered kosher once the Torah guidelines are met. The lack of blessing will not prevent the product from being kosher.

WHY THE RABBI IS NEEDED

If the rabbi doesn’t make a blessing to make the food kosher, what does he do in the kosher certifi-cation process? To under-stand the role of the rabbi in the process, it helps to know that “rabbi” does not mean “priest” or “minis-ter” in Hebrew – instead, it means “G-d-fearing per-son of great learning and knowledge”.

And the word “ko-sher” does not mean “holy”, but rather “proper and fit”.

The laws of kosher, while complex and spiri-tually-based, are also very technical. So a well-trained and knowledgeable person of integrity, a rabbi, and sometimes more than one, must be involved in kosher food production.

PATHWAY TO KOSHERThe Bible tells us what

types of animals, fish, and fowl are permitted — so it seems that all we have to do is buy a chicken or a side of beef, and it will be kosher. However, there is a bit more to it. We have to make sure that ALL the requirements of the Torah are met before we can call a food kosher. These requirements are dif-ferent, depending on the food product involved.

Let’s take meat for an example. First, meat

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4 Oz carrots4 oz potatoes3-4 Ibs chicken2 oz chopped onion2 oz chopped escallion2 oz chopped thyme¼ tb curry powder2 oz cooking oil2 tsps flour2 tbsps black peppers2 ½ oz chicken seasoning1 tsp. buttersalt to taste

METHOD

Clean and cut into small piecesSeasoned pieces of chicken with ¾ of curry powder, salt, onion, escallion, thyme, chicken seasoning and black pepper.Saute the rest of the curry powder in the 2oz of cooking oil until curry is lightly browned.Take off thyme, onion, escallion from chicken.Put pieces of chicken in hot curried oil to cook in a

covered pot until chicken is near cooked. Add water, diced carrots, iris potatoes, sweet peppers, thyme, escallion and onions, butter in pot to simmer on low heat, until chicken is 5 minutes from cooking, liquid, pour and stir, cover pot and simmer for 2 minutes.Serve with rice or your favourite mealSource: The Jamaican chef



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EFCC Seizes Properties Of Adesola Amosu, Others, Worth N5 Billion

Premier’s aide broke rule in giving health details

Scandal of ex-principal who is accused of offering $500 to

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By Sandra Beagan

In connection with the ongoing arms deal fraud probe, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commis-sion (EFCC) has seized N5 billion worth of properties in Lagos State. The proper-ties are reportedly located in the Ikoyi, Ikeja Government Reserved Area, and Badagry regions of the state.

According to Punch, the properties belong to former Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu and other senior military officers in-cluding former NAF Chief of Accounts and Budgeting, Air Vice Marshal JB Adigun, and former NAF Director of Finance and Budget, Air Commodore O Gbadebo.

According to Punch, an EFCC source told them, “We have sealed a block of 12 luxury flats, located on Agodogba Street, Park View Estate, Ikoyi, belonging to Adigun. It is worth over N1.7bn. The same Adigun also owns another block of luxury flats on Sinari Dara-

nijo Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. It is worth N1.8bn.

“A parcel of land, lo-cated on Bourdillon Drive, Ikoyi, worth N908m, be-longing to Adigun has also been seized by the EFCC op-eratives.

“Amosu confessed to owning an ultra-modern hospital on Adeniyi Jones Avenue in Ikeja. The hos-pital, St Solomon Health Care Limited, which is worth about N85m, has been sealed off.

“A house located on Adeyemo Alakija Street, GRA Ikeja, near the Gha-naian High Commission,

which belongs to Amosu has also been sealed. It is worth over N200m. Amosu, who is from Badagry, also built a house in the area. That house has also been sealed off. I cannot state the worth of the house for now.

“We have also seized a bulletproof Toyota Sports Utility Vehicle and a Toyota Avalon, belonging to Amo-su. He is cooperating with us,” the source added.

The EFCC had already seized properties belong-ing to former Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika, and former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh.

By S.Ratko

The office of Nova Scotia Premier Stephen Mc-Neil infringed upon privacy laws when the head of staff Kirby McVicar publicly re-leased delicate therapeutic data about a former cabinet minister, the province’s se-curity commissioner says.

McVicar resigned in the wake of saying in a few press releases that Andrew Younger had a brain tumor and had been diagnosed to have post-traumatic stress disorder.

In a report released recently, security chief Catherine Tully concluded that McVicar violated rules of the Freedom of Informa-tion and Protection of Pri-vacy Act.

“The report finds that the disclosure is a breach of the privacy rules,” Cath-erine Tully says, however, there is no notice of pun-ishments or further exami-nation.

McNeil, talking after a cabinet meeting, chal-lenged Tully’s principle decision, saying his of-fice was not guilty on the grounds that McVicar as-sumed sole responsibility for his actions.

“If you go back, Kirby has said this was a decision that he made on his own,” the premier said.

However, Tully said the territory’s privacy laws make it clear that the pre-mier’s office must be con-

sidered liable. “The public body

lives through the actions of its employees. When an employee makes an error in judgment and does so with the information they gathered by virtue of their employment, that’s the re-sponsibility of the public body,” she said in an inter-view.

Tully’s report puts a significant part of the fault for what happened on the absence of security train-ing for the highest ranking staff in the province’s top political office.

Tory Leader Jamie Baillie said McNeil owes the province a statement of regret for violating the law.

“Under pressure, the premier’s office gave out private information about a person who they were in a public dispute with. It’s wrong and it broke the law ... The premier is account-able. You have to be able to trust the premier to keep the laws of the province,” Baillie said.

The sections of the act that deal with this sort of privacy breach do exclude any mention of punish-

ments unless the break is seen as an act of malice. That word never shows up in Tully’s report.

According to her of-fice - the case is closed.

Younger said in an interview that a police ex-amination is still an option, however, he has yet to choose whether to pursue it or not.

Tully’s report pre-scribes the creation of a chief privacy officer to manage enhanced strate-gies and training in the chief’s office and elsewhere in the government, includ-ing essential privacy train-ing for all government rep-resentatives.

Younger said he trust-ed the proposed changes could counteract all the more harming revelations, saying he has suffered an enduring shame from McVicar’s remarks.

The Independent member from the council was ejected from the Liber-al cabinet and assembly in November in the midst of a progression of legitimate disasters in his private life.

He said he’s had PTSD for two decades, however, it wasn’t an issue until McVicar uncovered his di-agnosis to the media.

“That disclosure raised questions in people who said, ‘Well, can you do the job,’ and I found that very frustrating. To some people, I’m identified as the guy with PTSD,” he said.

Kirby McVicar

By N.Ugoh

President Muhamma-du Buhari appointed Abike Dabiri-Erewa as his Senior Special Assistant on For-eign and Diaspora Affairs on February 15, 2016, ef-fective immediately.

Mrs. Dabiri-Erewa represented the Ikorodu Constituency of Lagos State in the House of Representa-tives from 2003 to 2015. During that time she served

as Chair of the House Com-mittee on Diaspora Affairs and as Chair of the House Committee on Media and Publicity

She holds diplomas and degrees in English and Mass Communication and has studied at the John F. Kennedy School of Govern-ment at Harvard University. She was a news anchor at Nigeria Television Author-ity where she worked for 15 years. Abike Dabiri-Erewa

Younger addition-ally said he doesn’t have a brain tumor.

The privacy commis-sioner says McVicar af-firmed he has “failed to un-derstand the situation.” The report additionally says he didn’t get privacy training before he was contracted as the’s head of staff.

“While he was certain that the (premier’s) office had a privacy policy and that he had likely received a copy, he had not read it,” the report says.

The report says the chief’s executive of com-munications, Stephen Moore, had not got any pri-vacy training, didn’t read the privacy manuals and wasn’t acquainted with the workplace’s privacy ar-rangements.

“These factors signifi-cantly contributed to the unauthorized disclosure of personal information,” the

report says. At the point when

McNeil dropped Younger from the council last fall, the chief blamed him for neglecting to give a precise account of why he neglect-ed to appear for a sched-uled court appearance.

At the time, a for-mer Liberal staff member was blamed for assault-ing Younger. The case was dismissed when Younger didn’t show up. He later referred to parliamentary privilege as his explanation for not showing up in the court.

Later that same month, Younger again crossed paths with the head’s office when he re-leased a secret recording of a discussion he had with McVicar about the effect his legal troubles were having on his political career and personal life.

The recording proved

humiliating for the govern-ment in light of the fact that McVicar hinted at of-fering Younger’s wife a personal services contract to help with their financial problems.

Tully’s report per-ceives that McNeil’s gov-ernment was under public pressure to clarify what was going on when McVic-ar spoke with journalists on Nov. 23.

“McVicar explained that he was trying to put into context Younger’s situ-ation, in an effort to put the allegations to rest,” the report says, noting that McVicar later apologized to Younger for the privacy breach.

With respect to Younger, Tully said he trusts the data was revealed as a “character death” planned to undermine his credibility by making him appear to be unstable.

By Alveena Aziz

The former head principal of Wolseley High School, Kimberley Sautner, was recently accused of of-fering cash to two teachers to help increase her daugh-ter’s English grades. Kim-berley Sautner was the prin-cipal of the high school in Wolseley, Sask., from 2008 to 2014 before she moved to Alberta. One teacher she contacted was retired while other is on maternity leave.

The Ex-principal at Wolseley High School de-fended her actions at a dis-ciplinary hearing in Saska-toon. “I have no idea how those marks changed,” Sautner told the commit-tee. “I know I didn’t change them.”

An IT specialist from the school board clarified the committee that he’d checked into the marking system, and several num-bers did not add up in three students’ final grade calcu-

lations.Sautner confessed

that she has texted her daughter’s former teach-ers, after realizing that her daughter was on the edge of failing her first universi-ty-level English class. Her daughter is studying at the University of Lethbridge. She needed the course to move into the university’s teaching program. The girl has sought the advice of an academic coach for help who guided her as she tried to re-take the university English course.

Her daughter was told that she could have by-passed the course altogeth-er, through a clause called as “the fine print”, Sautner argued that she has offered both teachers $500 as a compensation for the time it would take to help and to guide her daughter in that subject. “I was trying to be a good person,” Kim Saut-ner told to a Saskatchewan Teachers Federation ethics hearing in Saskatoon.

Sautner elabo-rated that students are

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Kimberley Sautner

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By Pastor Taiwo Odubiyi

Godly wisdom! Hmm. What can we do without it?

As I’ve said before, people need to ask God for wisdom before they ask for money, marriage, fame, talents, or anything else. As you read this, please take a moment to pray for wisdom. It is what you need concerning the situation you’re in. It is what will put you over.

Pray, “Dear Lord, give me wisdom to handle affairs of life well.” Amen.

Those who possess wisdom are spared from hurtful relationships, mis-takes and painful experi-ences because the spirit of God directs them. If you’ve been having bad relationships and get-ting into trouble, wisdom is what you need. It will bring God’s power into your situation as I pointed out in my novel ‘IS IT ME YOU’RE LOOKING FOR?’

In the novel, men de-ceived, used, and dumped Jite. Angry, she called the men names and abused them.

In bed, as she re-played the outing in her mind, she abused Wale, calling him names. She still found it difficult to believe he had lied and deceived her. Wale was married with two chil-

dren? Not once did it cross her mind that he could be married. What did he take her for? The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. How terrible could people be?

She later realised that something was wrong and it didn’t have much to do with the men. She must be missing it somewhere and she needed help. Turning to God, she cried for help, went for counselling, and God answered her prayer, giving her a wonderful man to marry.

The best was God’s plan for her all along but she did not realise it on time.

Tonye was the man her soul had been looking for. She was grateful to God that she did not miss him.

Relationships col-lapse and marriages fail because godly wisdom is lacking. God’s people per-ish for lack of knowledge. (Hosea 4:6)

Ask God for wisdom, it will deliver you and

make your life and rela-tionship better.

People who have wisdom stand strong where many people are falling. They don’t make wrong decisions.

Let’s see what the Bible says about the im-portance and benefits of wisdom.

“Listen and treasure these instructions. Tune your ears to wisdom and

concentrate on un-derstanding. Search for it as you would for lost money orhidden treasure. Wisdom will make you know what is right, and you will know how to find the right course of ac-tion every time. (Proverbs 2:1,2,4,9)

This Scripture is awesome!And in 1Kings 3,

when God appeared to Solomon and asked, “What do you want? Ask, and I will give it to you.” Solomon said, “Give me an understanding heart … so that I can know the dif-ference between right and wrong.”

Solomon could have asked for something else such as long life, protec-tion, and

riches. He had just been crowned king and there were several things he could

have asked for and God would have given it

to him. But he asked for wisdom because he knew it was a necessity. He realised that if he didn’t have wisdom, he didn’t have anything. It was the key to success, and the Bible reveals that God was very pleased with his reply, glad that he had asked for wisdom.

So God replied, “Be-cause you have asked for wisdom … and have not asked

for a long life or wealth for yourself or the death of your enemies - I will give you what you asked for. I will give you a wise and understanding heart such as no one else has had or ever will have! And I will also give you what you did not ask for – riches and fame!”

Wow! We must yearn for

the wisdom of God like Solomon did. Never let go of God until He im-parts you with wisdom. Wisdom is a shield, it will guide and preserve you, you will not stumble. It will bring you honour and grace, according to Prov-erbs 4.

5 Get wisdom; devel-op good judgment. Don’t forget my words or turn away from them.

6 Don’t turn your back on wisdom, for she will protect you. Love her, and she will guard you.

7 Getting wisdom is

By NCNC Staff

A lot of people have tried online dating and found it to be a waste of time because they either didn’t end up meeting any-one or they had a bad first date. The problem isn’t with online dating services though, it’s with the people using them. There’s

more to online dat-ing then joining a site and making a profile, but unfor-tunately most people don’t make a real effort at finding someone.

The most important thing is to use a high qual-ity site instead of a site like Craigslist. Some of the high-er quality sites require a membership fee, but that is one thing that stops scam-mers from joining so you’ll find more serious people on such a site.

Read reviews of on-line dating sites to find one that has a good reputation, and then check it out for yourself. If you like the look of it then join and make a profile. How you portray

yourself is important be-cause this is the first im-pression people will have of you. Come across as the kind of person people want to meet which is a nice, normal person.

People are used to see-ing naked pictures on pro-files and will usually scroll past them. Keep the naked pictures for when things get serious between you and another person and only post profile pictures of your-self where you’re appropri-ately dressed and which have been taken recently. Add a few social pictures of yourself with friends to show people that you’re not just after sex and enjoy go-ing out.

Be clear about what you’re looking for, whether it’s just sex or an actual relationship, so that only those who have the same interests will get in touch. If you find someone that you’re interested in getting to know, then take the time to carefully read their pro-file and mention something

from it in your message. This will show them that you’re genuinely interested in them and they’ll feel like they need to get to know you.

Take things slow and don’t bring up sex unless they bring it up first because you don’t want to pressure them or make them think that you’re only interested in that. Treat them the same way you would treat a per-son you met in real life and were interested in dating. Be polite and respectful; social norms don’t change just because you’re meeting online.

Keep the conversation light and avoid subjects like your ex, past experiences with online dating, and anything else that could be seen as being negative. You want to come across as a happy person who just needs some company rath-er than as someone who is alone because they’re mis-erable.

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the wisest thing you can do! And whatever else you do, develop good judgment.

8 If you prize wis-dom, she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will honor you.

9 She will place a lovely wreath on your head; she will present you with a beautiful crown.”

10 My child, listen to me and do as I say, and you will have a long, good life.

11 I will teach you wisdom’s ways and lead you in straight paths.

12 When you walk, you won’t be held back; when you run, you won’t stumble.

13 Take hold of my instructions; don’t let them go. Guard them, for they are the key to life.

WISDOM FOR YOUR MARRIAGE – 5 TIPS

1) Give your life to Christ and follow His instruc-tions in the Bible. This is because without God we can do nothing. You can’t make it without Him. 2) Be willing and ready to forgive.3) Don’t keep records of wrongs or offenses.4) Be committed to your spouse. 5) Spend time together.

For men and women in business - don’t invest more than you are willing to lose. This is wisdom. When you have wisdom, you are able to sleep and your sleep will be sweet. Nothing will shake or move you.

Again, take a mo-ment now to pray for wisdom for every area of your life.

By Aroh Cynthia Adaeze

HiI am here again to

continue this edifying epistle on relationships. We have discussed the principles and importance of knowledge. We are go-ing to take a look into the purpose of relationships.

Relationship have several meanings but for the purpose of this article, we will define relationship as an emotional and sex-ual association between two people. There are var-ious types of relationship; friendship, work, dating and marriage. I want us to look at relationship from the angle of dating and marriage.

There are various reasons people go into relationships but most of them are wrong. The ideal reasons anyone should go

into one are:Companionship -

Your lover shouldn’t just be someone you are in-timate sexually with but should also be your best friend. If not best, then at least a very close friend. They should also be for fellowship and compan-ionship.

Meeting Needs - It’s for mutual edification and assistance. Both parties

should be able to comple-ment each other. Helping and building each other to become the best they can be.

Partnership - The mutual edification in a re-lationship creates partner-ship and team work that results in higher produc-tivity.

The first key to ful-fillment in your relation-ship is to understand and make commitments to ful-filling the male and female needs. Not knowing the purpose of relationship or marriage is the chief cause of dysfunctional marriage and families. Whenever purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.

Please send your comments and contribu-tions to [email protected].

Take care!

Aroh Cynthia Adaeze



FROM THE DOCTOR’S DESKBLOOD MONEY

Wal-Mart Saying Bye To Its Smallest Store Format

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Uber Partners with Kia to Expand Fivefold in Africa’s

Biggest City

Bombardier Will Cut Workforce By 7000

By Pamela Caki

The decision has been made, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc will pull the plug on 269 locations that have been set up with the small store format. This means that the move will affect 154 stores in the United States and another 115 stores in Latin America. The retailer said that 10,000 work-ers in the U.S. and 6,000 outside of the border will be relocated to other stores within the area.

After higher costs in the home market within the States and very disappoint-ing numbers overseas, there is no reason to keep the doors open any longer. Wal-Mart’s earnings have been really under pressure since last year due to rais-ing entry-level wages as well as increasing invest-ments that were thought to close the gap with online competitors like Amazon.com. Chief Executive Of-fice, Dough McMillon dis-closed the plans to review global operations and shut stores which were not prof-

itable. It seems that the

small Express store format, of about 12,000-15,000 square feet, is just not per-forming as well as initially planned. A typical Wal-Mart Center is ten times the size of these stores, which have been up and run-ning since 2011. Although many don’t know why it took so long to make this step, it is something that has to be done in order to re-evaluate strategies in the market.

It is said that the closure would reduce earn-ings of 20 cents to 22 cents a diluted share. The forecasted full year profit of $4.50 is to move to $4.65. Aside from these numbers, the company’s shares fell 2.6% to $61.39.

Wal-mart seems to be facing challenges within its home market, as well as over seas. There are not many growth opportuni-ties and the 4,500 local stores as well as the 6,000 branches outside the bor-der are not generating enough return on invest-

ment to stay afloat. The positive part is

that 95 percent of the lo-cations that are getting shut are within a 10 mile radius of another, and some workers will be able to continue their jobs quite quickly. The company also said that 60 days of pay would be provided for all who are affected and sev-erance will be made for eli-gible workers who are not relocated.

United Food & Com-mercial Workers Inter-national Union actually criticized the move, and has been working on cam-paigns for years to better the wages and benefits of Wal-Mart employees. One of the members of their sub-groups, Making Change at Walmart, Jess Levin said „sadly, these latest store closings cold very well be just the begin-ning.” He later added that there is a chilling message behind the closing stores, and all of the hard-working employees should be aware that they could be the ones getting pulled next.

By N. Ugoh

Canadian airplane and train maker, Bombardier, has decided to cut its global workforce by close to 10% within the next two years. The decision has been made due to disappointing num-bers financially, however it was offset with the news on long-awaited order of Cseries aircraft.

Approximately 75 commercial aircraft are in-tended to be sold to Air Canada, the biggest air carrier in Canada. Initially a firm order of 45 planes, valued at $3.8 billion will be delivered, and another 30 jets could be added if the carrier choses to invest another $2.6 billion. Bom-bardier added that the ac-tual value will be somewhat less, since customers typi-cally secure discounts with large orders.

The company belives that this could turn things around, however the agreement doesn’t ensure the Cseries’ success, since it

still needs to invest $2 bil-lion to improve production. The decision to pull 7000 jobs therefore is a must.

The most significant effect will take place in Belfast as well as Norther Ireland where the com-pany relies on 10% of its manufacturing. Plans are to cut 580 jobs in Belfast this year, as well as another 500 in the future. There are also plans to decrease the workforce by 200 jobs in Northern Ireland where the company has their largest manufacturing employer with over 6,000 employees.

A Bombardier spokes-

man stated, “We deeply regret the impact this will have on our workforce and their families, but it is cru-cial that we right-size our business in line with market realities.” Due to lower rev-enues, cuts in management as well as contractor jobs in its trains will also be made. The UK rail business will downsize 44 permanent po-sitions, and 270 managers and contractors.

The 7,000 positions that the company men-tioned will be mainly in the transportation and aero structure parts of the busi-ness.

By S.Ratko

Uber Technologies Inc. is making cheaper ar-

rangements for new vehi-cles with Kia Motors Corp. to support its number of drivers fivefold in the Nige-rian city of Lagos, Africa's greatest, to 3,000 by the end of 2016.

The U.S. taxi com-pany has signed deals with the Lagos-based Access Bank Plc and South Ko-rean carmaker to decrease the upfront installments re-quired for new vehicles to 95,000 nairas ($477) from nearly 200,000 nairas, with the sum payable over next four years, Alon Lits, Uber's general director for sub-Saharan Africa, said in a meeting in Lagos recently.

“Since we launched in Lagos just over a year ago, more than 600 job opportu-nities have been created us-ing the application. That’s really just the beginning. We feel that the number can be well over 3,000 by the end of 2016,” Lits said.

Uber, which creates a connection between drivers and travelers by its smart-phone application in more than 300 urban communi-ties, is looking for compa-nies that will reduce costs for new drivers as the San Francisco-based organiza-tion grows in Africa. Es-

tablished in 2009, Uber doesn't own vehicles or employ drivers, and exist-ing taxi organizations in urban areas including Paris, Moscow and Johannesburg have protested at what they consider to be unfair com-petition.

Poor Mapping Challenges confront-

ing Uber in Lagos, the prin-cipal sub-Saharan African city to have the service outside South Africa, in-corporate congested traffic and poor mapping quality. Another problem is that a moderately small part of Nigerian population knows how to use a smartphone well enough to deal with the trips, Ebi Atawodi, gen-eral director for Uber Lagos, said in the same meeting.

“The smartphone module is usually what trumps people,” Atawodi said. While Nigerian active mobile phone subscriptions increased by 14 percent to 148.5 million in the last year, as indicated by the Nigerian Communications Communication, out of all Internet-connected devices, less than 10 percent are for smartphones. Nigeria is Africa's biggest nation with more than 170 million people, of which around 21 million live in Lagos.

To address the issue of mapping, Uber is work-

ing with other high-tech companies on approaches to direct drivers without ac-cess to conventional direc-tions. In the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, Uber is making tests with a local organiza-tion that is creating ways to send pictures of areas, as opposed to simply ad-dresses.

“Unlike in more de-veloped markets, you of-ten don’t have an address where the driver will be able to get turn-by-turn di-rections,” Lits said.

'Gigantic Opportunity' Uber's development

in Lagos can coordinate the speed of take-up in South Africa. The company's driv-ers in Africa's most industri-alized economy have taken passengers on more than 2 million trips in 2015, com-pared to around 1 million in 2014, the company said recently.

Other than Johan-nesburg, the organization likewise works in Durban and Cape Town. Lits sees the quantity of South Af-rican drivers developing to around 15,000 by the start of 2017 from 3,000 at this point.

“Lagos is three times the size of greater Johan-nesburg. It’s a huge oppor-tunity here,” he said, refer-ring to its population. “

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Burger King has dis-carded its 40-year-old “Have It Your Way” motto in favor of the more exclu-sive “Be Your Way” two ap-proximately two years ago.

But this year, “King of burgers” is going to bring innovative changes in the menu by introducing grilled hot dogs for the first time ever in its history. Burger wars are now converting to hot dog wars. Report-edly, the U.S. hot dog and sausage industry has flour-ished to $16.5 billion in 2014 as consumer demand became stable from year to year while the summer months are commonly con-sidered as hot dog season (IBIS). Americans consume up to seven billion hot dogs during the peak of the sea-son according to the NHDSC (National Hot Dog and Sau-sage Council).

The fast-food chain has recently revealed that its menu will contain a new category from the last week

of February. Burger King has revealed two types of the commodity: Classic and Chili-cheese dog at the reasonable price of $1.99 and $2.29 respectively, on an occasion this month. The Hot dog is the biggest launch since the 1970s, when the company intro-duced its chicken sandwich.

Hot dogs represent a new enchanting weapon in Burger King’s value stock, with a Classic Grilled Hot Dog combination encom-passing a small fountain drink and a few fries.

The “Grilled Hot Dog”

will be available at Burger King Outlets all over the U.S. All hot dogs are en-tirely made up of the beef served on baked buns. Se-lection of standard toppings for the classic dog was a challenge for the company because of diverse local and regional preferences. Final-ly, Burger King has opted chopped onions with mus-tard and some ketchup.

Burger King has 7100 restaurants (more than any other fast food chain) all over U.S and has the plan to offer hot dogs at all of

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Periodically, some in-teresting words get into our lexicon and we start won-dering about its entomol-ogy. Kleptocracy is simply government of thieves or essentially a nation being ruled by thieves. Official-ly, it is a derivative “from Greek: κλέπτης – kleptēs, “thief” and “is a term ap-plied to a government seen as having a particularly se-vere and systemic problem with officials or a ruling class (collectively, klepto-crats) taking advantage of corruption to extend their personal wealth and politi-cal power.

The history of Nigeria is chockfull with corruption and counter-allegations of corruption before and af-ter independence. It is the height of hypocrisy for any Nigerian to be sanctimo-nious about their crusade against corruption. Mar-cus Tullius Cicero believed the greatest incitement to crime is the hope of escap-ing punishment. Corrup-tion as an institution and a hydra- headed vampiric monster glories in the gory of its recidivistic propensi-ties. Whosoever declares war against this metastatic malady must be prepared for death, martyrdom or outright consignment to the dunghill of history, be-cause corruption will fight back with tyrannosaurus viciousness.

It beggars belief that corruption and its psychotic practitioners are now hid-ing under the umbrella of the rule of law, democracy, human rights and freedom to avoid authentic justice, thereby strangulating and asphyxiating the jugular of the fight against corrup-tion. According to Augustus Caesar “In times of war the laws are silent” (inter arma silent leges). We cannot fight corruption and deraci-nate it hook, line and sinker from Nigeria with all these legal acrobatics and Machi-avellian manipulations.

Frankly democracy thrives under the rule of law, freedom, rights, liberty and constitutional niceties. But, the Doctrine of Neces-sity must be discretionarily invoked to enable us move forward in this sanguinary woeful fight against corrup-tion. In his prediction before the French revolution Yves S.T Joust posited that “soon, enlightened nations will put on trial those who had hith-erto ruled over them, kings shall flee into the

deserts, into the com-pany of the wild beasts whom they resemble and nature shall resume her rights” some Nigerians have counselled President Mohamadu Buhari to adopt the Parento’s Principles in governance, which stipu-lates that (20%) of gover-nance time be dedicated to

the past.Those who fail to

learn from history are bound to repeat the same mistakes. We remember the admonitions of late Chuk-wuma Kaduna Nzogwu in his speech during the 1966 coup, he said “our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10%; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as Min-isters or VIP’s at least, the tribalist, nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before inter-national circles, those that have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian politi-cal calendar back by their words and deeds”. We must make sacrifices by joining the bandwagon against cor-ruption in Nigeria.

Those who fight cor-ruption also have to fight the aggressiveness and the im-punity of the corrupt. Their weapons include manipula-tion of the judicial system, shameless deployment of primordial regional, ethnic and religious sentiments, as well as trying to reduce the issue of corruption and economic sabotage through splendiferous political dra-maturge to a superfluity of political nothingness. Ac-cording to the essayist Herbert Spencer, every un-punished delinquency has a family of delinquencies, furtherreinforced by Publil-lus Syrus that “you yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime” and substantiated by Na-poleon Bonaparte that “the contagion of crime is like that of the plague”

Quoting the former American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy “let ev-ery nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet ev-ery hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to ensure the survival and the success of liberty” . We must note the words of John Adams (1735-1826) that “the die was now cast, I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination

Furthermore, it is fre-quently said that one who pursues equity and justice must approach it with clean hands. Of all the stories of the treasury looting in Ni-geria, one of the most strik-ing and really disturbing is the open revelation by suspects of their roles in re-looting the loot of Late Gen-eral Sani Abacha. Given the way and manner the past governments went after the Late General Sani Abacha loot since 1999, Nigerians were almost left with the

impression that it was the Abachas that were the only treasury looters in Nigeria.

The late Mr. Diepri-eye Alamieseigha (former governor of Bayelsa state) jumped bail in the United Kingdom for currency traf-ficking. He dressed like a woman, arrived in Nigeria but was not only pardoned for treasury looting, but was given national hon-ours by the government of former president Dr. Good-luck Jonathan. But former Delta State Governor, James Onanefe Ibori was not as lucky as his compatriots. He was trailed from Oghara in Delta state his birth place, through Lagos, Cotonou, Dubai and finally London where he is currently serv-ing his jail sentence from a five count charges. The Jon-athan administration sup-plied all information needed for his trial in London. Like the Abachas, Ibori’s loot were traced, tracked and re-patriated.

The former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), and the Emeritus Chair-man of Daar Communica-tion, Chief Raymond Dok-pesi, claimed that they got approvals for all their loot related projects. But the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) was said to have stumbled on fresh clues that some re-covered funds from the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha’s family members might have been illegally diverted for the purported “arms purchase” with just verbal approvals.

A former Director of Finance in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Mr. Shuaibu Sal-isu, admitted that $47mil-lion was withdrawn from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in eleven (11) suit cases. He equally confessed he suspected that the cash might have been diverted into the People’s Democrat-ic Party (PDP) campaign.The prying eyes of the EFCC also discovered that N10bil-lion was withdrawn from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly elections. The payment of the N10billion was said to have been authenticated by former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who has said she transferred $322 million from the Aba-cha loot to Dasuki, follow-ing instruction from former president Dr. Goodluck Jon-athan.

The arrest and grill-ing of former National Security Adviser to Presi-dent Goodluck Jonathan, General Sambo Dasuki by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Com-mission (EFCC) and other security operatives have opened can of worms in

the Jonathan government as the new administration continue to probe the over $2bn arms fund allegedly looted by henchmen and acolytes of the immediate past government of Presi-dent Goodluck Jonathan.With the melodrama around the embattled former NSA and the daily revelation of how money meant for the combating of terrorism in North Eastern Nigeria was mindlessly looted by people who were saddled with the responsibility of combat-ing terror, many Nigerians remain stupefied as to how wicked, satanic and inhu-man the perpetrators of this financial crimes could be.

It is extremely dis-heartening that a govern-ment that claimed it had no money to prosecute war on terror all through their six years hold on power, which compelled the nation via an approval by the National Assembly to borrow $1bn could share among them-selves most of the borrowed money. With the arrest of a former Director of Finance in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Shaibu Salisu who was said to have spilled the beans following weeks and months of Dasuki’s refusal to open up made the coast clear for heart rending rev-elations of the looting of Nigerians’ fortunes by the cabal. Mr. Salisu was said to have made some im-plicating statements that

compelled Dasuki to eat the humble pie and face the reality before him and stop the court rigmarole and feigning of ill health.

But more worrisome is the activities of the Public-ity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chef Olisa Metuh who was quick at casting aspersions on the Federal Government using all sorts of trench language. Olisa Metuh shamelessly sees every-thing through prism of politics. When Dasuki and Salisu were arrested, Olisa Metuh said it was a witch-hunt of PDP elements in the country. After their merry go round with security op-eratives and then came the arrest of Former Minister of State for Finance, Am-bassador Bashir Yuguda, Chairman Emeritus of Daar Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi and for-mer governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa including Chef Olisa Metuh by operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Com-mission , EFCC for massive looting of the national trea-sury.

Their arrest followed an interim panel report sub-mitted to President Muham-madu Buhari on probe of arms purchase during the last administration. The re-port indicated that over $2 billion might have been si-phoned. When some Nige-rian soldiers ran away from the battle front because the

government at that time did not provide the needed military equipment, arms and ammunition for them to prosecute the war against insurgency in the north, the same Dasuki and his lieu-tenants in the military de-cided to arrest and detain several military officers for “dereliction” and disserta-tions. They were sentenced to death through the mili-tary kangaroo court to di-vert attention from their heinous crime of corrupt political elites. This is the saddest angle to their evil-mindedness.

According to a state-ment by the management of DAAR Communications Plc, Dokpesi said the funds he received from Dasuki was meant for the “pub-licity and media political campaigns during the 2015 General Elections.” Since when has the office of the National Security Adviser be the office that disburses the campaign funds for a political parties? How can the money meant to fight terrorism in North East Ni-geria and combat other se-curity issues find its way into the hands of these greedy political looters.

Former Sokoto state governor, Attahiru Ba-farawa while admitting that he received N4.6 bil-lion from embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki claimed the money he collected was for

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By Frank Ofili

I have just heard with one ear (sorry Prof Adesan-mi, I need to borrow that phrase again) that James Onanefe Ibori, former gov-ernor of my beloved Delta State and the Ogidigbodigbo of Oghara community, has just completed his jail term in the UK and has been re-leased.

No wonder, I have been reading all sorts of congratulatory messages to the burly fellow for mak-ing it out of the UK prison. You would think serving a jail term in UK prison was an achievement worth commending someone on. Honestly speaking, some people have lost it in this country of ours. What ordi-narily should elicit a feeling of shame and remorse has now become something to be proud of and celebrated. It says something about the moral health of some of us Nigerians.

Anyway, back to the reason for this piece. Just as Ibori was walking out of the comfort of his prison cell, he was re-arrested on a dif-ferent charge. Re-arrested? How?

And that is the point. Yes, he was re-arrested but those who have been cel-ebrating what ought to be their shame did not men-tion that he was re-arrest-ed. They remained silent on that score.

But why re-arrest Ibo-ri? And why are the Heav-ens not falling over the UK for his re-arrest? Where are the UK lawyers and hu-man rights activists? Why are they not bombarding us with the charge of im-punity? Which kind law en-forcement agencies dem get for UK sef? How could they not know what is law and human rights? They should take a trip down to good old Naija for lectures on human rights, rule of law, impu-nity, and illegal arrest and detention.

If Ibori was detained in Nigeria, released and later re-arrested on a dif-ferent charge, a storm of sorts would have fallen over the country by now. That is how we roll on this side of the globe. We know so much about law and hu-man rights but we are often the first to trample on them once we assume one small office with some measure of authority.

Now check these out. Nigeria’s modern day Santa Claus, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), the de facto immedi-ate past president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, was arrested over illegal possession of arms. He was granted bail; he met his bail conditions and was accord-ingly released. On the day

he set his foot out of deten-tion however, he was re-ar-rested on a different charge entirely, this time for laun-dering $2.1 billion meant for procurement of arms and munitions to prosecute the war against Boko Ha-ram. And Heaven started falling over Naija.

Emergency lawyers and human rights activ-ists started lecturing us about rule of law and all that. Sponsored journal-ists started reminding us of Buhari’s first sojourn as military head of state and how Dasuki led a band of coupists to arrest him in a palace coup. These brown-envelop men of pen insinu-ated (they actually still do) that the President was on a revenge and witch-hunt mission. But they forgot that there has to be a witch first before it can be hunted. If Dasuki did not have skel-eton in his cupboard there wouldn’t have been need for anybody to look in his closet. Dasuki has since named names, and those named have not exactly denied it. Some have even returned some of the sto-len money. Yet the wailing wailers and their cohorts insist the government is on a witch-hunt.

As days and weeks got by, these enemies of the people, especially those of them from the South-south and South-east who con-trol a large segment of the media, changed the slant, craftily manipulating atten-tion from the offenses for which Dasuki was arrested, detained and now being tried, to what they called the persecution of PDP and President Jonathan’s men.

A South-south sena-tor and owner of a large media conglomerate has practically appropriated the Twitter airspace in Nigeria with his less than common sense tweets. Olisa Metuh, the Josef Goebbels of PDP, added verve to the me-dia manipulation when he sought to procure from the public, an equivalent of a Stockholm Syndrome with his melodramatic public dis-play of handcuffs placed on him by the EFCC.

Before the drama of the handcuffs was another drama involving an attempt to turn his otherwise fine set of teeth to paper shread-er. But that is story for an-other day.

Next, Nnamdi Kanu, the neo-Biafra warlord and leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra who had been threatening the cor-porate existence of Nigeria via his pirate Radio Biafra. Kanu landed the shores of Nigeria in November 2015 and was promptly arrested. A high court judge granted him unconditional bail fol-lowing the application for withdrawal of the charges against him (then) by the Department of State Secu-rity (DSS). However, just as Kanu was walking away a free man, he was re-arrest-ed on fresh count charge of treasonable felony amongst others. Again, Heaven started falling over Nigeria.

Charge of impunity, human rights abuse and disregard for court order have been renting the air against President Buhari. Those who claim to be Bi-afrans, and not the “zoo” Nnamdi Kanu told them was Nigeria, have been shouting about their right to secede and determine their political future. They shout right to self-determi-nation but curiously they see nothing wrong in their virtual forceful annexation (in a manner of speaking) of non-Biafra territories into their fantasy.

Urhobo, Itsekiri, Iso-ko, Anioma, Bini and other indigenous nations histori-cally never known to be part of Biafra, suddenly found themselves in the map of the new Biafra. Never mind that the original author of Biafra, Chief Chukwue-meka Odimegwu Ojukwu, the Ikemba Nnewi and Eze Igbo worldwide, had him-self renounced Biafra long before he passed on to the great beyond. Ojukwu him-self severally declared that he would wage war against anyone who attempted to divide Nigeria.

But these neo-Biaf-rans probably had other plans. They did not just stop at shouting self-deter-mination. They also took to the streets in protest against the detention of Kanu. In the process, some people lost their lives when security forces attempted to disperse them. They say the DSS must obey the court order releasing Kanu from detention. It never occurred to them that that court or-der has been obeyed but the young man was re-arrested on another charge entirely - this time treasonable felony among other offenses. Nor did they care to know that a man who threatened to levy war against his coun-try should not be left to walk free. If Kanu were in the United States of Amer-ica, he would have been in solitary confinement

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James Onanefe Ibori

By Femi Fani Kayode

If there was one man that had a profound effect on our history, perhaps more than any other, it was Gen. Murtala Ramat Mo-hammed. Sadly he was as-sassinated 40 years ago, on February 13th 1976. In a clime and a nation in which there are few true heroes, he was certainly one of them.

I could write a whole book on this man. It is a pity that the younger generation of Nigerians don’t know much about him or about what he did and achieved for our nation both before and after he became Head of State in 1975. Forty years after his murder his name still brings joy and admiration to his associ-ates, friends and loved ones and terror and trepidation to his detractors and foes.

Of all the former Heads of State and leaders in our country I admire him the most. His courage, fo-cus, brazenness, righteous anger, strength of character, bellicose nature, passion and ability to take the bull by the horns and do what needed to be done, no mat-ter whose ox was gored and no matter what the conse-quences were, was exem-plary and outstanding.

In these days of cow-ardice, guile, deceit, dou-blespeak, subterfuge and political correctness, Mo-hammed would not have found much pleasure or joy and neither would he have been fully appreciated. He was blunt, fearless and ir-repressible and, as they say, he was ‘’as tough as nails’’. He was all that a real war-rior ought to be. Most im-portant of all he was inspi-rational: he scorned death and he had no fear of it.

What a man this was: truly the first among equals. He was a living example of the veracity of the adage that says “who dares wins”. His life was a manifestation of the fact that truly “for-tune favors the bold”. Our domestic policy under his watch brought positive and monumental changes to the fortunes of our country and to the character of our peo-ple. Under him the concepts and art of ‘’self-discipline’’, ‘’self-denial’’, ‘’immediate dispatch’’ and ‘’low profile’’ for public office holders was introduced and firmly en-trenched. His purging of corrupt elements in the civil service were far-reaching and had enormous conse-quences though many be-lieve that in this regard he went too far. Whatever the case he put to an end the perfidious era of ‘’super per-manent secretaries’’ which

had plagued and almost destroyed the government of his predecessor in office, General Yakubu Gowon. Mohammed approved and established the idea of Abu-ja as our new Federal Capi-tal Territory and he set the date for the military to hand over power to a democrati-cally elected government in 1979. That date was hon-ored and kept by his succes-sor in office General Oluse-gun Obasanjo. Our foreign policy under Mohammed, throughout the six months that he was Head of State, was a sight to be seen. It was Nigeria at her proudest and her best.

In those days we were rich, loud and boisterous. We could boast of having Africa’s strongest army and her most outstanding and best- educated middle class. We were big, strong and powerful and when Nigeria spoke the world listened. When we sneezed Africa lit-erally caught a cold. When we roared, the world shook. We wielded this great power and influence on the world stage with immense dazzle and razzmatazz. Yet we were also cautious, re-strained and deemed as be-ing highly responsible. That is when Nigeria was regard-ed as the Giant of Africa and rightly so.

Without General Mur-tala Mohammed the even-tual liberation of Angola, Zimbabwe and South Af-rica would not have been achieved when it was. Though he did not live to see it, he set the ball roll-ing and he threw down the gauntlet to the western powers and all those that supported racial tyranny and apartheid in the nations of southern Africa.

Some historians have even argued that that is precisely why he was even-tually murdered. Yet if that was the motivation for or-ganizing his assassination it did not stop anything be-cause the cat was already out of the bag and his leg-acy had already been estab-lished and taken root.

This is confirmed by the fact that his extraordi-nary and dynamic foreign

policy vis a vis the total liberation of our brother African nations and his unrelenting opposition and resistance to white minor-ity rule in South Africa and Rhodesia (as it then was) continued under the able leadership of his second in command, General Oluse-gun Obasanjo, after he took over as Head of State on Feb. 14th 1976. The rest is history.

Permit me to end this contribution with an aside. I am mindful of the fact that many people do not share my views about Moham-med and some regard him as a complete villain. The truth of the matter is that he was not perfect and nei-ther did I attempt to confer sainthood on him in this piece. He was no angel and neither was any other per-son that has ever ruled this country or indeed any other country.

His detractors often cite his leadership of and role in the northern revenge coup of July 29th 1966, during which hundreds of Igbo army officers were killed, as his greatest sin, whilst others cite his bru-tality during the course of the civil war. The irony is that those that share that view often eulogise people like Major Kaduna Nzeo-gwu and Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna, the leaders of the January 15th 1966 coup, for killing innocent and unarmed civilians in their homes (and in some cases with their family members) in the middle of the night whilst they denigrate Ma-jor Murtala Mohammed (as he then was), Major T.Y. Danjuma (as he then was), Major Martins Adamu and others for their reaction to such barbarity. I do not seek to justify the events of July 29th or to endorse the mur-der of those that were killed but we must put and see these things in their proper context.

In any case my take is that you cannot judge a man by one or even two events in his life. You have to look at the whole gam-ut of activities throughout his sojourn on earth and weigh the good against the bad, In the case of Murtala Mohammed it is my view, and that view is unapolo-getically subjective, that the good certainly outweighs the bad.

Finally it is pertinent to note that many have at-tributed to him a tendency and trait that he certainly did not harbor. The first is that he was a tribalist and a religious bigot. This is

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Late General Murtala Mohammed

By K. Bazuaye

The land and area now known as Edo state, has a long history of civi-lization. Being one of the most powerful and famous imperials, Benin kingdom was one of the most pow-erful Africa Empires during 15th and 16th century. WE are not Yoruba nor in Yo-ruba land, because many of the Yoruba’s are not willing to admit the truth, the word Oba is alien to Yoruba mon-archy, it is not part of their title from time immemorial. For instance, the one they call the Oba of Lagos, that’s a recent adaptation. In the 50s, there was no Oba of Lagos, what we had been the Eleko of Eko. That is the title of the King there.

In Ibadan, you have the Olu of Ibadan. You come to Abeokuta, you have the Alake of Egba land. You come to Oyo, you have the Alaafin of Oyo. In Ilesha, you have the Owa-Obokun of IIesha. So no Yoruba

monarchy had as part of his titles the word Oba except the Oba of Benin.

“That word Oba is in-digenous to Benin. Only in recent times, you find ev-erybody bearing Oba. Go and check the attendance in the Western Regional conference of traditional rulers which took place in Benin City in 1942. There was no other monarchy in the whole of the Western Region that bore the title of Oba, except the Oba of Benin.” This is an unneces-sary excursion, an unneces-sary attempt to turn history upside down by the Alake by classifying the Oba of Benin as third in the hier-archy of kings. “Our own traditional history says that the Ooni of Ife was a Benin Prince who wandered from here to Ife, settled there and became the ruler.

That is the truth, if they don’t know, they should send people to the Benin Kingdom, and we will teach them. We will

show them landmarks. This is an unnecessary misrepre-sentation of history. Maybe the Alake wanted to men-tion a different place and not Benin. The monarchical rulership in this part of the world started from Benin during the era of the Ogisos. It was the son of the last Ogiso, Owodo, that wan-dered from here to Ife and he became a ruler, convey-ing everything about the Benin monarchical system to that place. There is no basis for such classification. The Ooni of Ife by histori-cal facts is a son of the Oba of Benin, so they are not in the same class with the Oba of Benin.

We must return back to our Benin roots and unite ourselves as one, our an-cestors were united and they built the Benin Empire.

K. Bazuaye for GBKM FM(ARROGANTLY EDO MAN) OBA GHATUKPERE ISE

By Sandra Beagan

Of the 26 Chief Ex-ecutives, Director Gener-als, and other Heads of Parastatals, Agencies, and Commissions of the Federal Government who were fired on February 15, at least 10 of them may be handed over to the Economic and Finan-cial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Indepen-dent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for in-vestigation.

President Muham-madu Buhari is said to have removed them from their positions due to the discovery of massive frauds perpetrated by their organizations.

The organizations whose activities are be-ing investigated by the EFCC or the ICPC include National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Na-tional Broadcasting Com-mission (NBC), Federal Radio Corporation of Ni-geria (FRCN), Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), National Women Devel-opment Centre (NWDC); Industrial Training Fund (ITF); Nigerian Invest-ment Promotion Council; Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), and Nige-ria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSIT), among oth-ers.

Speaking confiden-tially, a source reported that, “At least 10 of those sacked chief executives will be handed over to the EFCC and the ICPC. The re-port on their misconduct is ready for these anti-graft agencies to act upon. All

security agencies received the list of those affected about 24 hours before the formal announcement. They will all be placed on surveillance until cleared.

“Some of them have actually appeared before EFCC and ICPC in the last eight months. Their cases are under various stages of investigation. The reve-lations are mind-boggling and it is sad that some of these chief executives continued with the impu-nity even after a new gov-ernment had taken over.”

In response to a question, the source add-ed, “The President bid time to get intelligence report on the atrocities, recklessness and outright graft by some of these for-mer CEOs before sending them packing.”

The source outlined some of the alleged infrac-tions:

• One of the for-mer executives allegedly used N200b to help fund the 2015 campaign of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)

• One Director was implicated in a N68b fraud, and other illegal expenditures and loans that were secured without proper approval

• Another former executive is alleged to have donated N700m to the PDP’s presiden-tial campaign in January 2015, furnishing an of-fice at N800m when do-nor agencies could have supplied it at no cost, and the construction of a store at N240m which should have cost N40m

• The head of a media agency couldn’t ac-count for the advertising revenue taken in during the 2015 campaign; this DG apparently diverted expensive items of equip-ment to a private outfit after using public funds to procure them

• A Director of a sensitive agency is said to have hidden over N15b in a secret account thus vio-lating the regulations of Nigeria’s Treasury Single Account(TSA)

• One agency was generating about N9b monthly but had more than N6b in debts when its Director was sacked

• Another DG stayed in her position until the firing despite the fact that her Personal Assis-tant had been remanded into prison over alleged bribery amounting to N17m

By Sandra Beagan

David Venn, Manag-ing Director of Spectranet Ltd, an internet service pro-vider based in India, has stated that before the end of 2019 Nigerians will no longer be paying for voice calls and Short Messaging Service (SMS) on cellular phone networks. Mr. Venn made this prediction in La-gos at an interactive session with reporters on February 10.

He explained that, with the fast growth in use of social media apps such as Facebook Messen-

ger, BlackBerry Messenger, Whatsapp, imo, and Skype, telecommunications com-panies have been allowing their subscribers to make calls and send SMS messag-es using their data services.

Subscribers spend a

lot of money purchasing credits to send SMS mes-sages and make voice calls and but also subscribe to data services on networks, he explained. Mr. Venn said that even though subscrib-ers still patronize voice and SMS service from their mo-bile providers, data service is faster and more cost-ef-fective. He added that data service providers have cur-rently been improving the broadband infrastructure due to the increased usage of data services.

He also noted that, in many advanced

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Bahrain Introduces eVisas for Eleven African Countries

- Third phase of the new visa policy facilitates access for businesses and tourists - Builds on policy developments announced in 2014 and 2015

By Pamela Caki

A deal was signed by United States and Cuba to restore commercial air traf-fic for the first time in five decades. The new plans will allow hundreds of thousands of Americans to travel to the island by early this fall. It is estimated that there will be dozens of daily flights be-tween the two countries, which is about five times the number that is currently in traffic.

Just after the deal was signed, the U.S. Department of Transportation opened bidding for the 110 U.S.-Cuba daily flights for the American air carriers. U.S. Transportation Secretary, Anthony Foxx said, “Today is a historic day in the rela-tionship between Cuba and the U.S.” after signing the contract with Transportation Minister Adel Yzquierdo Ro-driquez at the ceremony in Havana’s Hotel National. He added, “It represents a criti-cally important milestone in the U.S. effort to engage with Cuba.”

The agreement includes 20 regular daily flights to the capital city of Havana, as well as 10-15 charter flights. All the other routes would be

directed to other Cuban cities. Cuban officials know that they have to improve their transportation infrastructure before the flights start go-ing, and have been working on improving these since the declaration of the U.S.-Cuba détente was made in 2014.

“Obviously with the demand spiking as a result of this there’ll be capacity is-sues that they’ll have to ad-dress on this end,”Foxx said. “They recognize that they need to grow their capabili-ties here and I get the sense that they’re really serious about doing it.”

Several Airlines are already very keen about bidding on the routes from different hubs in the U.S.. Spokesman Matt Miller from American Airlines disclosed their plans to bid on routes from Miami and other un-

specified “American hubs,” Luke Punzenberger from United Airlines included their plans for Chicago, Houston, Washington and Newark, adding that they did not currently fly any charters to Cuba. After the winning air-lines get their routes by the summer, they must negoti-ate their own deals with the island.

Currently there are nearly 160,000 U.S. leisure travelers travelling to Cuba yearly. This number includes Cuban-Americans visiting families on expensive char-ter flights out of Florida. The new commercial flight plan will make travel much easier for U.S. travelers, and they will be able to use a 24-hour customer service with their online booking that has been missing from the charter flights.

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MANAMA, Bah-rain, 16 February 2016,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Bahrain has in-troduced eVisas to visitors from eleven African coun-tries, marking the third phase of the Kingdom’s new visa policy.

The new phase al-lows nationals from Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Cameroon, Gabon, Senegal, Mauritius and Seychelles to obtain their visas online ahead of travel, via the government’s eVisa web-site (www.evisa.gov.bh).

The new visa policy was introduced in October 2014 and allowed nation-als from over 100 coun-tries to obtain a visa either online ahead of travel, via Bahrain’s government eVi-sa website, or upon arrival.

In April 2015, a sec-ond phase was introduced enabling both business vis-itors and tourists to spend longer periods of time in the Kingdom. The new policy dictates that business visas are multi-entry and valid for up to a month, whilst visitor visas are valid for three months and are also multi-entry.

GCC residents of any nationality are eligible to receive multi-entry visas on arrival or online making it easier for expatriates liv-ing in the region to travel to Bahrain. Furthermore, nationals from countries that are not included in the countries eligible for eVi-sas or visas on arrival can still apply for eVisas if they have a visit visa for any other GCC country.

Commenting on the new phase, Shaikh Ahmed bin Isa Al Khalifa, Assis-tant Undersecretary for the General Directorate of Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs at Bah-rain’s Ministry of Interior, said:

“The addition of the African countries to Bah-rain’s progressive visa policy is a significant step

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“Bahrain is home to several expatriate Afri-can communities and we look forward to welcoming the friends and families of those living in the King-dom and to showcasing Bahrain’s successful busi-ness environment and rich cultural heritage.”

Mr. Khalid Al Ru-maihi, Chief Executive of the Economic Development Board (EDB), added:

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continued from p(25)false. As a matter of fact nothing could be further from the truth. If he was either of the two I would be the first to say so and I would not only expose him but I would also vent my spleen on him and his leg-acy. Many can testify to the fact that if there is anything or anyone that I despise more than anything else it is those individuals that suffer from the delusion of tribal and racial superior-ity and religious bigotry. Thankfully Mohammed was not afflicted with that particular malaise.

How anyone can de-scribe him as a tribalist when he married a Yoruba woman as his first and only wife amazes me. How any-one can call him a hater of southerners when the great-est beneficiary of his tenure of office was a southerner by the name of Chief MKO Abiola? It was when Murta-la Mohammed was Head of State that Abiola managed to secure the numerous ITT communication contracts in Nigeria that made him one of the richest men in the world.

If Mohammed had been a tribalist he would have found a fellow north-erner and Hausa Fulani to give contracts to and he would not have given them to a Yoruba man. His nu-merous friends in the south, which included people like my late fathers law part-ner, the late elder statesman Chief Sobo Sowemimo SAN, together with many others puts a lie to the sugges-tion that Mohammed was a northern supremacist. He was far from that.

Again in 1975 he ap-pointed Lt.Com. Ndubuisi Kanu as a member of the Supreme Military Council and Military Governor of Imo state in 1976.

This was a progressive step and welcome develop-ment because from July 29 1966 up until July 29 1975 no Igbo had been appointed into the SMC or as a Gover-nor of any of the states.

Yet Mohammed did not stop there. He also ap-pointed Dan Ibekwe and William Osisiogu as Fed-eral Ministers. Under Go-won only one Igbo, Dr. J.O.J Okezie, had been appointed as a Minister but Moham-

med changed all that. This was hardly the work and achievement of someone who hated southerners or who had anything against the Igbo.

The second allegation which is often made against him is that he was responsi-ble for the infamous Asaba massacre which took place in 1968 during the Nigerian civil war and in which over 1000 innocent elderly Igbo men and young boys were slaughtered.

I have written about the Asaba massacre prob-ably more than anyone else over the years and the sheer horror of that event is mind-boggling and chill-ing. It has always been my view that all those that were involved in it ought to be made to face justice. This is because, apart from the starving to death of over one million Igbo children, the Asaba massacre was probably the greatest war crime and crime against hu-manity that took place dur-ing our civil war.

It is true that Murtala Mohammed was the Com-mander of the Second Di-vision in the Mid-West but

he was not in Asaba when the massacre took place. He was not involved in the killings and neither did he order for them to be carried out. Whilst the killings were taking place he was at the Divisional Headquarters of his Command in Umunede and he was nowhere near Asaba.

Some notable histori-ans such as the British au-thor John De St. Jorre in his book titled ‘’The Nigerian Civil War’’ have asserted

that the Asaba killings were ordered and personally ex-ecuted by an individual whom he described as ‘’a young igbo-hating Major from Benin’’ who was out-raged at the fact that many of his soldiers were killed during the course of the siege.

He claims that Mo-hammed knew nothing about the massacre until well after the evil act was concluded. I accept this nar-rative because De St. Jorre’s

book is probably the most profound and objective his-torical account of the Ni-gerian civil war. He was a highly respected historian of international repute.

The second reason that I accept his account is because Murtala Mo-hammed himself often told those that cared to listen that he knew nothing about the murders in Asaba and that once he found out about them he went to great

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(NC) At the end of last year, the new Liberal gov-ernment started implement-ing tax changes, and it's im-portant to understand what they will mean for you. H&R Block has decoded a few of the most important updates for this year – from tax cuts on middle-class incomes to an expanded Home Buyers' Plan to accommodate sud-den life changes:

• Effective January 1, 2016, the marginal tax rate on middle-class incomes decreases to 20.5 per cent from 22 per cent, while a new tax bracket of 33 per cent comes into effect for Ca-nadians earning more than $200,000 per year. This will result in tax savings for anyone making more than $45,282, to a maximum of $679 for people mak-ing $90,563 or more. But anyone making in excess of $216,975 will be paying more. These changes will not impact 2015 returns.

• The Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) contribu-tion limits will be rolled back from $10,000 to $5,500 for 2016. The $10,000 limit for 2015 will not be changed and taxpayers who contrib-uted less than this will be

able to carry forward the balance. TFSAs are a great vehicle for saving and a critical part of long-term tax planning, regardless of your income, but it's important to be aware of the contribution limit as it could impact your tax and savings planning.

• Legislation is being introduced that would elimi-nate the Family Tax Cut, first introduced in 2014. This income splitting allowed parents with children ages 18 or under to attribute up to $50,000 of the higher earner's income to the lower earner, saving eligible fami-lies up to $2,000 on their taxes.

• The Liberals prom-ised to introduce a 15 per cent refundable tax credit for teachers who spend up to

$1,000 of their own mon-ey on school supplies. This means that qualifying teach-ers would get $150 whether they owe any taxes or not.

• They also propose to expand the RRSP Home Buyers' Plan to allow Ca-nadians hit by sudden life changes — divorce, moves, job loss — to use RRSP funds more than once to buy a house without a tax pen-alty.

• The new Canada Child Benefit is expected to begin in July 2016, replac-ing the Universal Child Care Benefit and Child Tax Ben-efit to provide more benefits to families with annual in-comes under $150,000.

For more tax filing in-formation, visit hrblock.ca or stop in to a retail location.

The attention of the leadership of the NBM of AFRICA Worldwide (a/k/a NEO-BLACK MOVEMENT OF AFRICA) has been drawn to Toronto Police Press Conference of October 22, 2015, where the Police characterized the NBM as a “criminal organization”.

We wish to categori-cally state that the entire press conference with par-ticular emphasis on Detec-tive Trotters comments re-lating to NBM of AFRICA are nothing but baseless, without any proof or merit and we reject them outright. At best, the comments are clearly the result of igno-rance or very poor and shoddy police investigation.

In the above-refer-enced Press Conference, the Toronto Police had wrong-fully or erroneously charac-terized NBM of AFRICA as a “criminal organization”. It is obvious, from the Press Conference that Toronto Police relied so heavily on clearly inaccurate and misconceived information about NBM of AFRICA and its activities with the result that it has falsely accused and/or labelled NBM of AF-RICA as engaging in nefari-ous and illegal activities.

Quite incredulously, throughout the Press Con-ference, the Police could not cite or reference a single criminal activity that the organization has been in-volved other than the fact that an individual who is a member of the organization acting in his personal ca-pacity without the knowl-edge, collusion, direction, complicity or connivance of the organization was ar-rested and charged for fraud and money laundering.

For clarity and avoid-ance of doubt, the NEO-BLACK Movement is an international Non-gov-ernmental, not-for profit, non-partisan, non-religious and non-tribal Pan African socio-cultural organization whose objectives and mode of operation are based on the principles of democracy, equality and social justice. The principal objectives of the organization in Canada are to advance the inter-ests, welfare and general well-being of the people of African background and heritage. The organization works in partnership or in conjunction with other cor-porate and non-corporate organizations that share its vision of helping to reduce poverty, illiteracy and dis-ease around the world and

most particularly among people of African back-ground or descent.

The organization has been carrying out these objectives through vari-ous charitable means such as providing counseling, providing job-searching assistance to job seekers (including resume writing) and seeking out available job opportunities for new immigrants from Africa particularly those from Ni-geria. The organization has provided scholarships and funding from Second-ary school to the University level to the children of some of its deceased members and/or indigent members. As well, NBM has, in col-laboration with other well-meaning organizations, sponsored and still spon-sor less privileged children from Asia and other coun-tries and has made vari-ous donations to the Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto amongst others.

Regrettably, in the Press Conference referenced above, the two officers con-flated NBM and the Black Axe Confraternity. For the avoidance of doubt and for the record, the Neo Black Movement of Africa IS NOT the BLACK AXE CONFRA-TERNITY. Similarly, unlike the BLACK AXE CONFRA-TERNITY, the NBM is not a secret cult.

NBM has been in ex-istence in Ontario since 2003 and was registered as a Not-for Profit Chari-table Organization on Au-gust 20, 2012. Its members come from diverse pro-fessional and educational backgrounds. All of the or-ganizations activities take place in the open either in a hotel or other public rented places. The organization is non-violent, non-criminal and non-clandestine in its activities. It is therefore un-fortunate and highly regret-table that the organization has been portrayed as a criminal organization by no other than the Police Force- the Toronto Police without verifying the accuracy of its information and clarifi-cation from the leadership of the organization or other appropriate authorities par-ticularly situated to better inform the Police.

The Toronto Police’s arrest of an individual, who coincidentally is a member of NBM, for allegedly com-mitting a crime, does not make the NBM a criminal organization. Clearly, there is no question that some

criminals who have been arrested, charged and con-victed of one crime or the other by the Toronto Police may very well belong to one organization or another and the mere fact that a criminal belongs to one organization or the other does not in it-self make their various or-ganizations responsible for such individual’s criminal actions. It is therefore unfair and discriminatory to apply a different standard to NBM by labelling it a criminal or-ganization because of the alleged criminal involve-ment of one of its mem-ber. NBM is not a criminal organization and does not condone, encourage or en-gage in criminal activities. As a matter of fact, any member of the organization who engages in any crimi-nal activities is sanctioned with expulsion. While the organization does not have the necessary information to confirm or deny that the member arrested by the To-ronto Police for allegedly committing fraud and mon-ey laundering was definite-ly engaged in the alleged activities (albeit criminal), the organization is emphat-ic that to the extent that the arrested member may have committed the alleged of-fences, he acted in his per-sonal capacity and not un-der the mandate, approval or aegis of NBM of AFRICA and accordingly, he must, like every other suspected criminal, be held personally accountable for his actions and if found culpable, made to face the full wrath of the law on his own.

To further buttress and underscore the fal-lacy underlying the Toronto Police Press Release, The Police even stated that in Nigeria where the organiza-tion began, the NBM is an unlawful organization. It is perhaps very instructive and interesting to know as recently as November 16, 2015, a court of compe-tent jurisdiction in Nigeria – the Federal High Court of Nigeria, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria issued a judgment declaring that the NBM is in fact a lawful human rights and chari-table organization whose members are free to go about their lawful activities. For the avoidance of any doubt, certified copy of the said judgment is attached to this press release. Based on the recent decision by the Federal High Court of Nigeria, it is obvious to

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Marc Wabafiyebazu, a Canadian diplomat’s son, pleads no contest to decreased Florida murder charges

Snoop And Tweed Inc. Marijuana Firm Sign A Business Deal Cousin of Nigeria’s Senate President Arraigned By EFCC

Baltimore County police name couple in Middle River murder-suicide

By S.Ratko

The teenaged child of a Canadian diplomat plead-ed no contest to reduced charges of third-degree crime murder identified with a double killing in Miami — despite the fact that he had no part in the gunplay that left his older brother dead.

In return for his plea, 15-year-old Marc Wabafi-yebazu of Ottawa will need to serve six months in a boot camp beginning in March, and then spend 10 months in altered house ar-rest and will get a maximum eight years’ probation.

In the case that he fin-ishes the sentence without any incidents, the young-ster will have no crimi-nal conviction registered against him.

“Marc has his future. He’s going to be saved,” his mother Roxanne Dubé, Canada’s former consul general in Miami, told the press.

Wabafiyebazu has been in arrest since March 30.2015 when he was cap-tured outside a Miami con-do in which his 18-year-old brother, Jean Wabafiyeba-zu, and another teen were shot dead.

Prosecutors did not affirm the younger kid had any immediate part in the slaughter, clearly the after-effect of his brother’s en-deavor to ransack a street drug dealer of 800 grams of marijuana. However, they claim Wabafiyebazu had known of the plan when they drove in their mother’s car to what police called the “drug den.”

Subsequently, under Florida’s lawful offense law, they charged the high schooler as a grown-up with various offenses, in-cluding crime first-degree murder, which conveys a minimum of 40 years in jail.

‘PAYING THE COST’ Under the bargain ap-

proved by the state lawyer, however, the prosecution made an uncommon admis-sion to reduce the two pri-mary charges he confronted to third-degree murder. Wabafiyebazu additionally pleaded no contest to a re-duced charge of aggravat-ed battery and attempted armed robbery.

“Essentially, he is paying the price for Jean. He is also pleading to the murder of his own brother,” Dubé said.

While a “no contest” plea has the same essential impact as a guilty plea, the accused person doesn’t re-ally admit being guilty.

Wabafiyebazu’s two co-accused, including the drug dealer who fled the scene with his drugs and a handgun, were granted bail not long after being accused of lesser crime murder.

The previous fall, both co-blamed pleaded guilty to minor drug charges and were sentenced to boot camp, house arrest and pro-bation which, if effectively finished, would likewise mean no conviction.

A great part of the prosecution’s body of evi-dence against Wabafiyeba-

zu laid on an unconstrained confession a rookie cop said the adolescent had made from the back seat of a cruiser as he was taken to a confinement facility. Police had denied his solicitations to call his mom and did not warn him that anything he said could be utilized against him.

NO PAST ISSUES WITH LAW

“This is one of the most serious cases I’ve had in this division in a long time,” Circuit Court Judge Teresa Pooler said in ap-proving the plea deal.

Dubé stepped down in August 2015 as diplo-mat general, a post she had taken up under two months before the deadly experi-ence.

In a late meeting with The Canadian Press, she talked widely of the battle to cope with the death of her older son while at-tempting to bolster his crushed younger brother, who wound up in a correc-tional facility and confront-ing the possibility of a long jail term.

The high schooler, whom she depicted as the child each mother would want, had never been in trouble with the law.

Marc Wabafiyebazu

By Sandra Beagan

On February 19, 2016, Ope Saraki, a cous-in of Senate President Bu-kola Saraki, was arraigned by the Economic and Fi-nancial Crime Commission for an alleged contract scam worth N371m. Ope Saraki was a former Spe-cial Adviser on Millenni-um Development Goals to the Kwara State Governor.

Wilson Uwujaren, spokesperson for the EFCC, said in a statement that Saraki, along with Olatunji Moronfoye, a for-mer Commissioner for In-formation, was arraigned in Ilorin before Justice Ol-uremi Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court for of-fences bordering on abuse of office, diversion of pub-lic funds and money laun-dering.

Moronfoye had served as a commissioner under Bukola Saraki when he was the governor of Kwara State, and Ope Saraki had served under the current Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed.

Saraki and Moron-foye had originally been arraigned on May 13, 2015. They had to be re-arraigned in February 2016 due to the transfer

of the former trial judge, Justice AO Faji.

According to the anti-graft agency, Mo-ronfoye, while being the Special Adviser to former Governor Saraki (now Senate President) alleg-edly used his position to enrich himself.

The EFCC alleges that Moronfoye, during his tenure as Special Ad-viser to former Governor Bukola Saraki, used that position for his own en-richment. According to the anti-graft agency, Mo-ronfoye awarded contracts amounting to N200m for renovations to hospitals in the state to a company of which he was the sole sig-natory to its accounts.

It also said that Ope Saraki had abused his of-fice for his personal benefit by laundering state funds through awarding inflated contracts to companies owned by his friends.

The commission de-scribed one of Ope Sara-

ki’s transactions involving the purchase of ambu-lance buses for hospitals in the state. He procured 13 Hiace buses from a lo-cal car dealer and convert-ed them to ambulances in place of the factory-built ambulances for which a contract of N171,990,000 had been awarded to Chemiroy Nigeria Limited.

One of the charges read in part, “That you, Ope Saraki, being the Spe-cial Adviser on Millenni-um Development Goals to Governor of Kwara State sometime in 2012 at Ilo-rin within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did by undue interest con-ducted procurement fraud in the procurement of 13 units of ambulance for 13 General Specialists Hospi-tals in Kwara State at the sum of N171,990,000, a contract awarded to Chemiroy Nigeria Lim-ited and thereby commit-ted an offence contrary to Section 58 (4) (b) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 and punishable un-der Section 58 (5) 0f the same Act.”

Both men have pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them: five counts for Sara-ki and three counts for Moronfoye.

Bukola Saraki

By N.Ugoh

Baltimore County po-lice recently named a man and woman who died in a homicide-suicide in Middle River.

Muhammadu S. Igom-igoh, 49, a security guard, shot his estranged sweet-heart, Nnenna L. Ogbonna, 44, and after that turned

the weapon on himself, po-lice said.

Igomigoh and Ogbon-na had two children togeth-er yet didn’t live together anymore, police said. Igom-igoh lived in the 300 block of Shagbark Road; Ogbon-na lived in the 700 block of Northrup Lane, where the shooting happened.

Analysts found that

he had gone to her home, and the two had argued over funds.

The firearm was law-fully registered to Igomigo, who had a grant permitting him to carry the weapon for his occupation, police said.

Telephone num-bers listed for both of their homes were disconnected.

lengths to discipline and sanction the officers that were involved. He went further by urging the then Head of State, Lt. Col. Yaku-bu Gowon, to apologise for the killings on behalf of the Nigerian Army and this was done.

One thing is clear: if Mohammed had indeed or-dered the Asaba killings he is the type of man that would

have said so openly and he would not hide behind a lie. That is the type of leader and officer that he was: he was prepared to take responsibil-ity for his actions, whether good or bad. Given this I think that it is historically inaccurate and most unfair to blame him for the atroci-ties that were committed in Asaba even though he was indeed the Commanding Of-

ficer of the Second Division in the Mid-Western Region.

The truth is that in military conflicts all sorts of terrible things happen and we must never forget what those that suffered, that were starved to death and that were butchered in their millions were subjected to during our civil war. By the same token we must not forget the hundreds of

thousands of officers, sol-diers and innocent civilians that sacrificed their lives and put everything on the line to keep Nigeria one. There were angels and demons on both sides of the conflict and our prayer must be that Ni-geria never experiences such a civil war again.

We must also ac-knowledge the fact that it would be a great sin for us

to judge any man solely on what we perceive to be his negatives whilst at the same time attempting to disregard or play down his positives. There were many sides to the enigma called General Murtala Ramat Mohammed: some good and others bad. That is what made him hu-man. That is what made him special and unique. I have done the research and

I have weighed the man. To me, regardless of conflicting views which are more often than not held and voiced passionately, he remains a hero even though he was cut short in his prime.

May his courageous soul continue to rest in peace and may those that are in power today resurrect his spirit and build on his great legacy.


continued from p(24)countries around the world, cell subscribers no longer pay to make voice calls and send SMS messages on their cellular networks. In the UK, he said, people use Skype applications to make calls. All that is required is

for both parties to be con-nected to their cell phone’s data service. Because of the wide use of these social media apps, telecom opera-tors are losing a lot of rev-enue, especially from their SMS services, he said.

Venn added that, in order to accommodate the growing use of their net-works to navigate the in-ternet, the mobile service providers will be forced to expand their data net-works.

He urged the compa-nies to act now to improve their broadband services to the unserved and un-derserved regions of the country. His company is planning to improve its broadband connectivity in

underserved areas by con-structing more base sta-tions across its coverage area before the end of the year.

He stressed that the Federal Government should make the business

environment more friendly for the operations of data service providers and add-ed that many of these com-panies have closed their operations because of the high costs of doing busi-ness in the country.

By A. Ihionu

Now, it’s not like this headline is com-ing to us as a surprise, but no one expected it to happen so soon. It is not a surprise because of the fact that Snoop Dogg does not hide any aspect of his love for weed, gin, and juice.

The deal between Snoop Dogg, the Ameri-can rapper, and Tweed Incorporated (the larg-est cannabis producer in Canada), will see the rapper hand the Ontario-based company the rights to use most of the brands and content belonging to LBC Holdings, which is the rapper’s firm, in ex-change for an amount of

cash and stocks that has not been revealed to the public. The information available to us says that negotiations for this deal had been ongoing for more than two years.

Many people are thinking that this is the first time the rapper has ventured into the can-nabis industry as a busi-ness, but this not true. Apart from being an ar-

dent promoter of weed in most of his songs, Snoop Dogg has a lot of experience with the can-nabis plant itself. This has been recently dem-onstrated by launching a line of cannabis prod-ucts, which he named “Leafs by Snoop.” He followed this up with a cannabis website named MerryJane.com. The hip hop superstar’s busi-ness interests in the weed industry do not end there. Before strik-ing this deal with Tweed, he had already created a venture capital fund for marijuana startups called Casa Verde Capital. After signing the new contract with Tweed, a visibly ex-cited Snoop had this to

say, “Canada has been at the forefront of the busi-ness model, and I look forward to being a part of the road ahead.”

The excitement was obvious on the faces and in the voices of the people at Tweed Incorpo-rated also. After the deal was sealed, the president of the firm said, “Our team is proud to bring Snoop into the fold.” Bruce Linton, co-founder of Tweed, is convinced that the contract will enhance the appeal of his brand. In his words, “How do we take these products which are me-dicinal and think about how to package them as recreational?” Speaking further to reporters, he

added, “When we get to recreational access you don’t want to just have a name or a single product, you want to have a port-folio and I think he’ll be very helpful with that.”

This partnership between Tweed Incorpo-rated and Snoop is the first major sign of the feasibility of a transition from medical marijuana to the recreational use of marijuana in Canada. This anticipated switch has kept many mari-juana producers on their toes. The statistics on the ground indicate that about 30,000 people in Canada are using mari-juana for medical pur-poses. But it is expected that the number of rec-reational users, once it is approved, will sky-rocket to about 8 million. So, everybody is getting ready for this boost in business.

It is important to note that the path to-ward legalizing, distrib-uting, and monitoring the use of cannabis for recreational purposes in Canada is still in a state of uncertainty. Nothing is crystal clear about the distribution plans yet. But many people are al-ready hinting that the plan on the table is not favorable to the average Canadian cannabis user. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is working on it, but there has been no timeline announced yet. So, no one can say when they will be able to walk down to the shop near-by and buy some weed without any qualms.

On the issue of dis-tribution, Kathleen Wyn-ne, Premier of Ontario, has suggested that this should be done through the liquor stores over-seen by the provincial authorities. For her, the liquor stores are “very well suited to putting in place the social-responsi-bility aspects.” However, while this may appeal to those in government, because the liquor stores already run age checks and refuse sale to in-toxicated people, the end users may not like this idea.

Many fear that if provincial governments are allowed to control the sale of marijuana, there will be an increase in price and the selection of strains will be poor, al-lowing the black market to continue to thrive.

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It is either I do not un-derstand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices.

Just this morning I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD. That view pretty much echoes the sen-timents expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the Naira strong in the near term. If my econom-ics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth as Jesus Christ is black.

The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really don’t have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Elec-trics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Mor-gans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc? Let me bring that closer home.

There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a truly strong economy and the naira

was one to the dollar – even exchanged for higher than the USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly that Nigeria was laid by the Brit-ish, and this Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsen-sical imperialist conspiracies like me) – fueled by the DAM-AGING Indigenisation Decree, has been the creation of us Nigerians. Back then we had a booming economy.

We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timbre, cocoa, ground-nuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ik-ogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted international tour-ists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nige-rian schools were foreign ex-change earners because they attracted foreign students. We had different car assembly plants – Peugeot, Volkswa-gen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry.

We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had compa-nies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world. In those days if you were

brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today. Most of the Aje But-ters I knew had fathers who were university dons. Back then it meant something to ‘know book’. Our textile in-dustry was alive and well.

Just recently I watched a news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Tex-tile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on.

Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remem-bered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything. Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we collectively burn billions of Naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ – simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children. Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc.

We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the nec-essary accents to come back

home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contempo-raries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria any-more, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Super-man or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them.

We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch… zero. A country of 170m fashion-conscious peo-ple has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in-Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to ev-eryone else’s. When we help our musicians grow and pay them millions, they repay us by immediately shipping the monies overseas to produce their “i-don-dey-different-level”music videos. It makes no difference that distinctly Zulu dancers are dancing to a Nigerian highlife song. As stars concerned they also wed and holiday overseas to impress us all. All the musi-cians who acknowledge their Ajegunle roots now speak in a cocktail of strange accents to symbolise how much they have blown their monies overseas.

Were we a more seri-ous people, the highly popu-lar Kingsway Stores of the

past would probably have a thousand outlets pan Nigeria today supporting a massive agriculture industry among others, but today we have the likes of SPAR, Shoprite, dominating the retail industry while Kingsway is dead. And we Nigerians make it a special point to shop from the Oyin-bos who have ‘cleaner shops’, ‘better this and better that’. For our personal pleasure we don’t mind them dominating us in our own backyard and shipping proceeds overseas.

I could go on and on, but I don tire. Even as you are reading this, stop for a mo-ment and look around you. What you see will probably explain why we are lucky it is not N1000 to the USD yet. And don’t think for a mo-ment that it cannot get there. Just continue to wear your Armani gear and Swiss-made lace, continue to spend your money on Man United, Ar-senal, Chelsea and Barca and encourage your children to do same. (My article tomor-row in my Saturday column in This Day is on the Nige-rian champions Enyimba FC – Nigeria’s most successful club – not having a sponsor, yet Nigerian brands pay over N600m to Man United and Arsenal for sponsorship to impress us.) Ehhh, no prob-lem, continue to tell me the NPFL is rubbish or the clubs should clean up their act if they want sponsorship, mo gbo. Don’t curtail your inter-est in choice wines ( we were the number one champagne consumers in the world in 2015), continue to love your American specs, cheer the

education ministry for letting schools sink to pitiable levels, don’t fight them to improve our schools, don’t chide them for letting schools drop Ni-gerian history and embrace British, America and what-ever else curricula.

Carry on with your love of French wines and Chinese silk, don’t bother about Jamiu Alli when there is Roger Fe-derer. Stock up on your Ital-ian, American, British prod-ucts which you cannot live without, including the ‘baby soft’ toilet rolls produced only in that small unique village in England – the days are long gone since you were a broke student who used wet newspapers to wipe your butt. Don’t even consider holidaying in Nigeria, it’s too dangerous – you have to ful-fill your dream of being Nige-ria’s Henry Ford. Don’t listen to people like me who have a wardrobe full of only cheap adire that is actually cheaper than just one of your Tom Ford blazers. Please keep dressing in fine silk made in some exotic place so you can be addressed accordingly.

Finally keep letting corrupt leaders who have looted your commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyinbo. But don’t forget that there is payback time and Emefiele is not your problem. Time for us all to look in the mirror and take responsibility.

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INSPIRATIONDON’T LET ANYTHING GET IN YOUR WAY

Willie O’Ree was born in 1935, youngest of thir-teen children. Despite com-ing from one of only two Black families in Frederic-ton, O’Ree never thought twice about competing with his white peers. Starting at age 5 with organized hock-ey, he developed a love for hockey. Obsessed with de-veloping himself, both in-tellectually and physically, O’Ree worked with incred-ible focus to improve his hockey skill. As O’Ree put it, “that was the thing to do in winter. Everything freez-es over, the ponds, rivers, creeks. Every chance I had, I was on the ice. I even skated to school. My Dad squirted the garden hose on the back yard, and we had an instant rink.” As his skill began to surpass that of his his peers, he began to dream of playing on a professional level.

Ever the athlete, O’Ree was invited by the Milwaukee Braves to train at one of their facilities in Waycross, Georgia in the United States. In 1949, the Jim Crow laws, local laws enforcing racial segrega-tion in the Southern United

States, were in full swing. “I flew into Atlanta and when I get off the plane, the first thing I see is rest-rooms marked ‘white only’ and ‘colored only,” said O’Ree. His coach, Phil Wat-son recognized that O’Ree had the ability to break ra-

cial barriers in a sport that was dominated by white players. Coach Watson told him, “Willie, you know, there are no black players in the NHL... You could be the first. All you have to do is work hard.”

Willie played for sev-eral Canadian teams, lead-ing the Fredericton Capitals to the 1954 Allan Cup, and taking the Quebec Fronte-nacs to the 1955 Memorial Cup, scoring 27 goals in 43 games.

In 1956, O’Ree faced an obstacle that almost de-stroyed his dream of play-ing professional hockey. One afternoon, while being cross-checked, a stray puck collided with his right eye. His retina shattered, and in a fraction of a second O’Ree became blind in one eye. The opposition flared up once again. Now, in addi-tion to being reminded that

there were no black players in the NHL, he was being told to give up because of the injury. If it had been known that he was blind in one eye then he would not have been permitted to play.

O’Ree, a natural left handed shooter, learned to adapt. He taught himself to take passes on his back-hand, and despite playing left wing, learned to track the puck by turning his head completely toward his right shoulder. “I never took an eye exam in all the 21 years I played. I never sat in front of an eye ma-chine. I don’t know why back then they didn’t make me... I just played and eventually forgot about it.”

In 1956 O’Ree signed on with the Quebec Aces, and two years later, the Boston Bruins invited O’Ree to replace an in-

jured player. This marked the first time that a black player had ever played in the NHL. He expected the press to be all over the ac-complishment, but at the time it was barely treated as news. About being the first black player in the NHL, O’Ree said, “I was expecting a little more pub-licity. The press handled it like it was just another piece of everyday news. I didn’t care that much... but it could have been impor-tant for other blacks with ambitions in hockey. It would have shown that a black could make it.”

Willie O’Ree went on to live his dream as a pro-fessional NHL hockey play-er, scoring a 79 goals in a single season at the height of his career. He over-came diversity at a time when racial hatred was the

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A young man drinks from a segregated water fountain, common throughout the Southern United States in the

1950’s. Willie O’Ree

Less than 24 hours after his inauguration as governor for a second term, Seriake Dickson, governor of Bayelsa state has sacked all his political appointees.

A state government press statement by Dan-iel Iwarso-Markson, Chief Press Secretary to Dickson stated that “the governor wishes to thank all politi-cal appointees, who served

in the first tenure for their commitment and dedicated services to the government and people of the state.

“Governor Dickson wishes them well in all their future endeavours.

The statement point-ed out that “those whose services may be needed will be reappointed to serve the state in the fu-ture.”

Dickson has since

made his first official ap-pointment. The new ap-pointee is Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, who has been re-appointed as the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor.

The appointment is with immediate effect.

I w o r i s o - M a r k s o n also served in the same capacity from 2012 to the end of the Governor’s first tenure in office.

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anyone who has made even a cursory investigation into the activities of the NBM that contrary to Detective’s Trot-ters claims, even in Nigeria, NBM is a very lawful and law abiding group.

NBM of AFRICA is mindful of its responsibility as a responsible Corporate Chari-table organization as well as the reasonable expectations of

its members and public alike. NBM of AFRICA has nothing but the utmost admiration and respect for the laws of this land and any other land for that matter. NBM of AFRI-CA does not encourage any of its members to break the laws of this land or the laws of any other land. To be very clear, if any of our members is found to have committed any crime

or crimes against the laws of any land, it is in fact to the organization’s best interests that such member or mem-bers be made to face the full wrath of the law. Simply put, NBM of AFRICA would prefer that such member or mem-bers be made to face the con-sequences of their individual actions without any need to attribute the criminal activity

of such member or members to the entire group especially considering that most of the organization’s members are law abiding citizens/residents with lawful and gainful em-ployments.

In essence therefore, NBM of AFRICA only de-mand is that it be allowed, like other legally incorporated not-for profit organizations to work or operate in an envi-ronment devoid of wrongful or erroneous characterization, false accusations, innuendos and intimidation.

Finally, NBM of AF-RICA finds it extremely out-rageous and offensive that it has been defamed by the Toronto Police Department in this reckless and disrespectful manner and we have advised the Police Department ac-cordingly. However, while we sympathize with the Toronto Police for its ignorance, we consider it necessary to also make this public statement to set the records straight and publicly put the Toronto Police Department on notice that unless they immediately

cease and desist from mak-ing further defamatory and offensive statements about NBM of AFRICA, the Organi-zation will be left with no op-tion but to pursue all relief, in law and equity, to which the organization is justly entitled. Hopefully all of this will not become necessary.

Thank you for you for your time and attention.

Signed: Prince Noel Eweka

President, NBM Canada Zone




SPORTS Kanu Academy impress on UK tour

Nigeria soccer Ambas-sador, Nwankwo Kanu, has given the thumps up to his Under-14 fledglings after an impressive showing on a three-match tour of the United Kingdom.

The academy based in Toronto, Canada, played a pulsating 1-1 draw with Ar-senal Academy on Thurs-day, February 18th but suffered a 5-1 loss to their counterparts from Crystal Palace on Friday.

Against Arsenal, the opening goal came mid-way through the first half through Tyler Cleghorn, who hit his shot across the goalkeeper into the bottom left corner of the goal, while Arsenal equalised in the 15th minute of the second half.

Their second game on Friday, February 19th in the afternoon was an eye opener for the boys of Kanu SA.

The boys were treated to a warm welcome from the Crystal Palace boys, who shot into the lead bare-ly a minute into the match.

Moments later, Ty-ler’s shot was blocked by the ‘keeper but Aidan Gar-forth was on hand to smash home rebound. Thereafter, Crystal Palace dominated the game and completes the rout with four more goals in the second half.

The defeat notwith-standing, Kanu said his wards’ tour of UK would prepare for the upcoming big task.

“On the whole, the game was a really a great experience for the boys and we at Kanu SA would like to thank Crystal Palace for the respect and profession-alism showed to our play-ers, “ he said.

In their final game of the tour Kanu SA just fell short by the odd goal in a seven goal thriller.

The game started quite even with Aldershot having the benefit of the

wind behind their backs. Aldershot took an

early lead when the ball was worked down the left where the ball was crossed in, and with a slight assis-tance from the wind looped into the net of the far post.

Kanu SA eventually took hold of the midfield and started to create chanc-es which they failed to convert. Eventually Kanu SA levelled the score when Tyler Cleghorn was put through on goal, the keeper saved Tyler’s effort but the ball fell nicely to Roshawn Juhmi on the edge of the box who swept it into the net. Kanu SA had several more chances before half time to take the lead but failed to put them away.

Half time Aldershot 1. Kanu SA 1.

The second half start-ed much the same way both team battling hard and try-ing to work the ball.

Kanu SA took the lead when Tyler Cleghorn beat his man for pace before tucking the ball into the net through the keepers legs.

Aldershot were soon level after some good work down the right, where the ball was pulled back to the six yard box and finished tidely.

Kanu SA were soon ahead again when Ty-ler Cleghorn was played through, the keeper saved his first shot but Tyler fol-

lowed up to put the ball into the empty net.

Aldershot equalised on the half of the second half, after a miss hit shot found its way through to a suspiciously looking offside player who tucked the ball into the net.

The rest of the half continued in the same fash-ion with both teams hav-ing their chances to nick a winner. But unfortunately Aldershot nicked it with 5 mins to spare after some good work down the left a pin point cross was deliv-ered where it was met by a great headed goal into the top corner.

Kanu SA had a couple more chances to level up the game.

Both teams played the game in great spirit and in difficult windy conditions kept trying to work the ball on the ground.

Full time Aldershot 4 Kanu SA 3.

Abi Goodman, who doubles as Tour & Event Coordinator at Kanu Soccer Academy, said the three-match tour of UK was part of the academy’s forth-coming Presidential Soccer Camp to be hosted by the Arsenal legend for boys and girls within 11 and 18 years age bracket in August in Toronto.

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Mikel Obi: I want Hiddink to stay

Djokovic wishes Federer sonnest recovery

Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid Sanctioned By FIFA For International Transfers Of Minors

Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri Wins ITFF Africa Top 16 Title

Oliseh, others get Buhari’s intervention over unpaid salaries

Adam Johnson snapped his penis to show to a doctor

By NCNC Staff

Nigeria midfield-er, Mikel Obi who was a bench warmer during Jose Mourinho’s second stint at Chelsea Football Club of Eng-land has disclosed that the London club’s dressing room is a lot more relaxed due to the fact that the caretaker manager, Guus Hiddink minds his own business.

Mikel has got more playing time at Chelsea and he even scored a very crucial away goal for his club dur-ing the first leg of the UEFA Champions League second round first leg with Laurent Blanc’s PSG.

While reacting to Hid-dink’s methods, he said, “From day one, since Guus has come in, the atmosphere has changed. The players

feel more relaxed, people know what their jobs are and people are getting on with their jobs in a more relaxed way. And a way they can perform very well.

“He has given respon-sibility to people and expects them to thrive on it and make sure they do it in a way where they feel comfortable. I think that is what the play-ers are showing now.

“When you come into the training ground, the players are more relaxed, he doesn’t get into people’s business, he gets on with his own thing and players feel very comfortable and know exactly what to do so when he gets on the training pitch, he doesn’t need to speak. We all know what he wants and it is the same when we go into a game.

There is a solution to the problem of arrears of money the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and other sports federations are yet to pay their coaches and play-ers, as Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, has recently approved funds to offset the backlog of debts.

This development was disclosed by Minister of Sports and Youth Devel-opment, Solomon Dalung. While making the disclo-sure, Dalung blamed the delay to the transition in government and pleaded that it was not deliberate.

While answering questions from journalists in Abuja as to what ar-

rangements he is putting in place to fight the financial crisis, Dalung said: “The financial crisis that has affected the football fed-eration has to do with the transition in government the country went through.

“You will agree with me that we could not even proceed with the orga-nization of the National Sports Festival, the Na-tional Youth Games which could not hold last year because of the transition. The transition also affected the funding of other fed-erations which went a long way in affecting prepara-tions for tournaments and qualifiers.

“The good news is that we have been able to secure the approval of Mr President for the release of funds to be able to pay some of those bonuses, salaries and other arrears owed the players and offi-cials by the NFF and other sports federations.

“I can assure you that in no little time, we shall be able to overcome such kind of problems in almost all the federations. We have athletes currently camp-ing in Port Harcourt facing the same challenge but as I said, it will soon be an is-sue of history. I appeal to them that it was not delib-erate.

Former Sunderland Football Club’s versatile winger Adam Johnson recently told a court that a picture taken of his penis which is on his phone was for medi-cal purposes.

The 28-year-old is currently facing trial at Bradford Crown Court over two counts of sex-ual activity with a girl under the age of 16.

Johnson has de-

nied the charges but he is alleged to have par-taken in a sex act with a 15-year-old girl while the pair were in his parked car last January.

During his ques-tioning by Johnson’s QC Orlando Pownall, a picture of the Johnson’s exposed penis was shown to the jury.

The picture was taken on his phone in August 2013.

Adam Johnson

Undisputed Tennis number one, Novak Djokov-ic has expressed his sadness over the recent knee injury sustained by Roger Federer and has stated that he wish-es he recovers fast.

While expressing his sadness over his rival’s in-jury, Djokovic said, “I am not pleased to hear what happened to him, I hope he recovers fast, because we are not used to seeing him injured. He’s very fit, and he plays very well throughout the entire year. He’s very important for our sport. He’s most successful player of this tournament. So for sure the tournament will miss him.

“Again, that doesn’t change much in the way I approach this tournament. I will try to go as far as I can, you know, even with him not playing here.”

Djokovic defeated Tommy Robredo 6-1, 6-2 in his first match since win-ning the Australian Open and while reacting after the match, he said, “obviously playing first match in three weeks, different conditions. But everything went well. You know, very few things went wrong. I was putting constant pressure on his serve. I returned very, very well. Served solid and was aggressive from back of the court. I cannot be happier

with this performance. “Every milestone is

very special, of course. I wish that I make the 700th win in this tournament, ob-viously, but it’s not going to affect too much my prepa-ration for the next match. It’s not going to change too much the way I approach the next match or this tour-nament.

Novak Djokovic

By Sandra Beagan

Spanish football clubs Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid were sanctioned in January 2016 by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee for breaches relating to the international transfer and registration of players un-der the age of 18.

According to a FIFA media release on January 14, “The two clubs were found to have violated sev-eral provisions concerning the international transfer and first registration of minor players. They also violated other relevant pro-visions with regard to the registration and participa-tion of certain players in competitions.”

A transfer ban was imposed on both clubs. It will prevent them from “registering any players at national and interna-tional level for the next two complete and consecu-tive registration periods for breaching articles 5, 9, 19 and 19bis as well as an-nexes 2 and 3 of the Regu-lations on the Status and Transfer of Players.”

The current registra-tion period is not affected as it opened before the imposition of the ban. It applies to each club as a whole, with the exception of their women’s football teams, futsal teams, and beach soccer teams, and does not prevent the re-lease of players.

The FIFA statement added that “Atlético de Ma-drid and Real Madrid have been fined CHF 900,000 and CHF 360,000 respec-tively, while both clubs have been issued with a reprimand and given 90 days in which to regularise the situation of all minor players concerned.”

The ball clubs were notified on January 14 of the decisions which were made based on the specific elements of each case. In-vestigations that were con-ducted by the FIFA Trans-fer Matching System (FIFA TMS) and by the FIFA Dis-ciplinary Committee led to the decisions.

The focus of the in-vestigations was on minor

players who had partici-pated in competitions for Atlético Madrid in certain periods between 2007 and 2014 and for Real Madrid at various periods between 2005 and 2014.

FIFA’s statement as-sured that they work hard to protect the rights of all players under the age of 18, male, female, amateur, or professional.

“This is done through the enforcement of regula-tions prohibiting the inter-national transfer of minors, or the first registration of minors in a country other than their own, except in specific circumstances which must be approved by the sub-committee

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Aruna Quadri of Ni-geria defeated Omar Assar of Egypt 4-1 to emerge as the male singles champion at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Africa Top 16 competi-tion which concluded on February 14 in Khartoum, Sudan.

Quadri told News Agency of Nigeria that this was one victory he had been looking forward to. “I give God all the glory for this victory. It is not my victory alone, but victory for all Nigerians. I feel so great and happy for this feat. Everyone knows it’s always a tough match when I and Assar meet in finals of competitions. He is a very good player, but we are always wary of one another. My determina-tion and preparation for this competition indeed worked in my favour,” he said.

Quadri said that he put his best into this com-petition and is thrilled with the win. “I made sure that

all through the competi-tion I was calm. I didn’t put myself in any form of unnecessary stress or anxiety. I played with rapt attention and open mind. My joy knows no bounds and this is a call for me to do better and remem-ber that so many other athletes are looking up to me,’’ he said.

In 2014, Quadri won the same competition in Lagos, Nigeria. He also ranked in the top 30 play-ers of the ITTF that year.

Quadri promised to intensify his efforts to become one of the top 20 players in the world. “Well, my target is making the list of the best 20 play-ers monthly in the table tennis ranking. When I am in that list, then I know I am gradually getting there. So, for now I am aiming at that, as well as participating in as many tournaments as possible to help me garner more points which will take me to my target,” he said.

regards the rites carried out before the installa-tion of the new king, he said there was nothing much to it. In his own words, “By our tradition, you can wake up in the

morning and see the heir apparent sitting on the throne and issue orders which will be obeyed. That will show that something happened in the night and something

has happened now. He concluded by saying, “So this young man has taken over the stool of his father, and now he can begin to direct the town.”

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continued from p(23)“spiritual purposes,” probably he wanted to cleanse these political greedy prostitutes from their crimes against hu-manity.

Other revelation from the Economic and Financial Crimes Com-mission, EFCC revealed former Rivers State Gov-ernor, Peter Odili and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, received the sum of N100m each from the former National Secu-rity Adviser, Colonel Sam-bo Dasuki, rtd. A source from the anti-graft agency revealed that the N200m given to the two politi-cians was from the fund meant to procure arms that will better reposition the military in its fight against he Boko Haram insurgency.

The Boko Haram (Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyyah) insurgence has displaced about 2.3 million people since May 2013, at least 250,000 have left Nigeria and fled into Cameroon, Chad or Niger. The group according to official fig-ures killed over 6,600 in 2014 including mass ab-

ductions and kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno state. The Federal Government of Nigeria obtained a $2.1 billion credit from the World Bank to rebuild the North-East zone devas-tated by the jihadist group which has claimed over 20,000 souls.

The N200m pock-eted by the two politicians was for the re-election bid of former President Good-luck Jonathan, who lost the presidential election held on March 28, 2015. More revelations thumbed in, exposed how more po-litical stalwarts shared the $2billion and we also ex-pect them to tell Nigerians why they collected such huge sums of money. It is, however, gratifying to note that the EFCC and all security agencies are on top of the scandal, they should be very profes-sional and thorough in the discharge of their du-ties. They should ensure that all monies looted by the suspects are traced, tracked and retrieved for development of the coun-try.

The setting up of a

National Truth Commis-sion as a more holistic way to tackle the mind-boggling corruption that has destroyed Nigeria is of paramount importance at this phase in our na-tional history. The Na-tional Truth Commission if constituted would set a timeframe for all those who looted the nation’s treasury to return all what they looted. All those who comply within the time-line would be pardoned and advised to go and sin no more.

At the expiration of the deadline (four months timeframe) all those who fail to return their loot should then be traced, tracked and made to face the full weight of the law irrespective of their posi-tion, status, political or ethnic affiliation. They should be made on final conviction to forfeit all their loot and proceeds of their criminal acts to de-ter future political leaders from corruption.

Dr. Ignatius Okosun is a researcher, prolific writer on various nation-al/global issues and social

commentator.

appointed by the Players’ Status Commit-tee.“As such, the provisions relating to the protec-tion of minors need to be strictly applied. This has been confirmed on various occasions by the Court of

Arbitration for Sport.“Opening up the

door to exceptions beyond those carefully drafted and included in the Regu-lations would unavoidably lead to cases of circum-vention of the rationale for these provisions.”

FIFA’s web-based Transfer Matching System (TMS) is a crucial platform through which the inter-national transfer market is monitored to ensure com-pliance with the rules and to promote best practice and transparency.

The Super Eagles play-er revealed further that most of the Chelsea players want Dutchman Hiddink to stay beyond this season.

He said, “I want him to stay. It is the choice of the owner, the club and the board. They will have to de-cide. But if you speak to the players, 98 or 99 per cent of them want him to stay so I mean, we are very happy, we are performing well and let’s hope this continues.

“It depends on the board and it depends on Guus if he wants to con-tinue. He has said that he is here until the end of the season but you never know, he might change his mind. If the club want to appoint him fair enough. His record speaks for itself.

In his reaction, Mr Pownall QC remarked, “It is not being sug-gested that this picture was taken for fun or that you were going to send it to someone,” to which Johnson an-swered “No.”

Johnson’s Lawyer continued by asking: “Did you take photos at different times of what I am going to describe as your nether regions? Why?”

Johnson’s response was “To show the doc-tor.”

After Johnson’s re-sponse, Mr Pownall QC said “We’ll leave it at that.”

Mikel Obi

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REQUEST TO STOP MASS DEPORTATION OF NIGERIAN CITIZENS

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It has been observed by many people in Canada and outside the Country

that Nigerian Citizens have been singled out for mass deportation since November 2015. It should be taken in to cognizance of the fact that International Law Re-searchers and Refugee Advocates are trying to blame the Liberal Govern-ment of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for such evil Act, but I will disagree with that theory.

The Federal Liberal Party in Canada was voted to power in October, 2015, for a change against Steve Harper Quasi- dictatorial Government of Conservative Party. It was easy for Canadians to ac-cept Prime Minister's Political Campaign because of his late father's excellent re-cord as Prime Minister of Canada.

No doubt, the Prime Minister, Right Honorable Justine Trudeau has a well calculated plan which outpaced Conser-vative Party's Plan. It is a statement of fact that Refugee determinative system in Canada has been very fast and same applies in the remover of failed refugees. However, the enforcement and removal of failed refugees have become discrimi-natory and sectional. Canadian author-ity has fully engaged Ethiopian (African Airline) to be flying Nigerians to Lagos without waiting for the decisions of the Judicial review from the Federal Court, negating the process of Law.

No doubt, Canadian Government has recently deported Mr. Olagbade, a failed Nigerian refugee with children in Canada and was deported to Lagos on 30th January 2016 through the same Ethiopian Airline. This week alone, more than twenty five Nigerians have been is-sued with Ethiopian deportation tickets in Toronto and some of these people have children who have adjusted to their envi-ronment in Canada yet, Ethiopian Airline has agreed to do the dirty job keeping in mind that BOKOHARAM, MASSOB, IPOB. have been watching their air craft.

It would be recalled that the for-mer Prime Minister Jean Chretien refused to be co-opted into International War that was not sanctioned by United Na-

tions Security Council popularly known as desert storm, or Gulf war (Iraq War), instead, the Government of Canada en-gaged into reconstruction and rebuilding of war destroyed nations.

Take notice that The Ex-Prime Minister Jean Chretien was a respected Member of Elliot Trudeau who built and maintained Refugees on the basis of hu-manitarian and Compassionate grounds in Canada. If the Government of Liberal Party is deporting those with criminal records to their countries, this nation would welcome it with fortitude. How-ever, the few administrative staff sup-porting conservative party is doing this in order to create bad impression against Liberal Government in Canada.

The Prime Minister Right Honorable Justin Trudeau is a pragmatic leader who believes in achieving highest good "sum-mon-bonum" and will never support de-porting pregnant women and children in schools because of failed refugee claims.

In conclusion to my assertion, I am calling Canadian Government to immedi-ately intervene in the deportation of Ni-gerian failed refugees because; there is a breach of fairness in the exercise.

Dr. Julius Ehikwe

Note; Dr. Julius Ehikwe is a World Court Advocate, a Member of Interna-tional Bar,

A United Nations Mandated Uni-versity Trained International law schol-ar, An

International law Researcher Am-brose Ali State University Ekpoma Edo State

Nigeria, On the Roster of Interna-tional Experts with United Nations High

Commissi6n for Human Settlement. International Expert /Agent Thompson Rivers

University Kamloops BC. Canada.

By Pastor Dele DadaContinued from last issue

Ibadan 1981One of the brothers shouted three halleluiah and every one repeated it after him. Then Prof said “Shake at least three people look at him or her eyeball-to-eyeball and say ‘go and pray for the govern-ment’”. Whaoo!!! that is the opportunity Kola was waiting for. He quickly abandoned all the people around him and dashed across the room to where Tosin was trying to catch her hand, before any-body got it, according to what he has planned in his heart. Unfortunately other people were there and Tosin was not looking in his direction. Tried as he could he could not get her hand to hold or as other three female brethren had taken her attention. Kola is a fast person, but the math-ematics going on in his head tonight cannot be translated fast to actions. Then, Tope his course mate and friend tapped him on the back. “How now, Kola?” he asked. “Have you completed your Sociology as-signment?” Kola, jolted from his thought said half hearted-ly. “Which one?” He did not want anybody to engage him now it is a crucial moment for him as he is planning on how to get Tosin’s attention and engage her in a discussion—any discussion. Looking on his left shoulder he saw Tosin talking with Prof. So, since he cannot interrupt them he de-cided to talk to Tope. “Tope I said which one, I have about four assignments in Sociology alone.” Kola said with anxi-

ety written over him “Why? I guess these lecturers will kill someone with assignments in this university. Four assign-ments in one course? Does he think that is the only course you are studying?” Tope re-acted sharply. “When are they due for submission, do not tell me it is tomorrow?” Tope wanted a way out. “It is, and sincerely it is not bother-ing me or taking my atten-tion.” Replied Kola. “Are they those assignments of long es-say with corresponding five percent mark?” Tope asked further.

“They are, but that is not why I am not bothered”. Speaking in a low voice close to Tope’s ear with his hand covering Tope’s ear, “I saw something in this bible study tonight that interests me.”

Lifting up his finger he pointed in the direction of where Tosin was and said “do you know that sister? But to his amazement by the time he looked in the direction where Prof and Tosin were discussing, neither Prof nor Tosin were there anymore. As if jolted to real life, in a Holly-wood movie style he pushed Tope away and was running in the direction to the hos-tel, brushing people aside as he was half-walking, talking to himself and half-running on the long pavement that joined the cricket pavilion to the Student Union building before getting to the main road. Throwing his hand in the air in disbelief he was surprised how Prof and Tosin could have disappeared into thin air.

To be continued.

There is an impor-tant reason for the hole at the top a most pen lids and it is not about pre-venting the ink drying on the nib.

The reason is to re-duce the risk of people choking to death.

The hole is designed to allow the passage of air if someone acciden-

tally swallows it and it blocks their windpipe.

In addition to help prevent the pen from leaking, caps must com-ply with international safety standards that at-tempt to minimize the risk of children acciden-tally inhaling pen caps.

That explains the little hole in the top to

comply with the existing safety standards.

Reported cases from around the world show that thousands of people, especially children died every year from choking to death on these pen lids in the past.

A reduction in this figure has been attributed to the hole in the lid.

OLOGIESMomilogy is the study of mummiesGelotology is the study of the laughter

Traveling allows us to live an adventurous life. However, this does not mean you go on a trip every day. You can have a great adventure from reading awesome books that take you to places

where you can see char-acters face-to-face with their worst enemies or in a space and time that no longer exist in this life-time, like the history. By reading you learn about compassion and culture,

as well as life you haven’t lived because to belong to someone else or they be-long to the history. Pick these books now and open yourself to great adven-tures without leaving your favorite seat.

By Becca Fitzpatrick

Forced to start life anew, a teen chooses to live in the town of Thunder Ba-sin, Nebraska to get away from the consequences of a violent crime she wit-nessed.

In this novel, New York best-selling author Becca Fitzpatrick writes about how Stella Gordon

struggles between keeping herself alive and revealing her true self to one, special boy.

The Witness Protec-tion Program has secured Stella in a safe haven that keeps her away from a drug dealer suspected in a mur-der she witnessed. But not for long, with one mistake, Stella allowed danger to simply find her.

By Susan Wise Bauer

Shi Huangdi’s tomb keeps a disturbing secret. Is it the lizard stew that no-mads crave for or the truth behind the last emperor who ruled Rome at age 6?

Kids, brace your-selves with this read-aloud book series written by Susan Wise Bauer that straightforwardly narrates The Story of World from the beginning of nomadic

men and women towards the last days of ruling Ro-mans. It also recounts the age-old events that oc-curred in Africa, Europe, America and China. Bauer includes descriptive illus-trations and maps and a timeline in the book which parents could share to their elementary-school kids in introducing the adventur-ous stories of the different civilizations all over the world.



Dr. Julius E hi kw e (Member of International Bar)B.A (Hons), M.A, LLB (Hon), ADR, Windsor, PhD PWU, M.A/LLM UNITED NATIONSMandated University For Peace, PhD Law Schl. AAU.No; 46, Panorama Court Apt; 1705, Toronto OntarioM9V 4A4, Tel.647-4685016

Nigeria contact;Faculty of Post GraduateInternational Law DepartmentAmbrose Ali State UniversityEkpoma, Edo State NigeriaTel 0813-6623Q25

05 February 2016

To,The Right Ho~ourable Justin TrudeauPrime Minister of CanadaNo; 24 Sussex Dr.Ottawa, Ontario KlA OA3, Canada

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Peter Mukerjea, An Indian Media Tycoon, Arrested Over

Step Daughter’s MurderNollywood actress, Monalisa Chinda sets

to marry again at 41

South Africa: Fake PhD Scandal Hits Net1 CEO Serge Belamant

By Naomi Lazarus

In a case which has left a lot of questions on the lips of many Indians and the world at large, Peter Mukerjea, an Indian media tycoon, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy in the mur-der of his stepdaughter, Sheena Bora. Miss Bora’s body was found in a for-est located in the state of Maharashtra, where it was dumped after being burnt. Other charges lev-eled against the media tycoon include abduction, provision of false informa-tion and destruction of evi-dence.

Before now, the ty-coon’s wife, Indrani Muke-rjea, was the main suspect, according to the police. Her driver and ex-husband were also named accom-plice and co-conspirator respectively. From police findings, Miss Bora was

strangled before her body was burnt and dumped in the forest where it was found. Unbelievably, the late Bora was the biologi-cal daughter of Indrani and a product of a previous marriage.

The abominable act was said to have been carried out in April, 2012 while her decapitated body was only found one month after the devious act. Be-fore her gruesome murder, there are beliefs that Miss Bora was involved in an affair with the business ty-coon’s son, Rahul Muker-jea. This son was allegedly

from Mukerjea’s previous marriage. This has raised speculations that her mur-der would not be unrelated to conflicts caused by dis-agreements over Miss Bo-ra’s foreign bank account and property dealings but most of all, the fact that she is having an affair with the business tycoon’s son.

The fact that Muke-rjea, the media business tycoon, was not in the country at the time of the murder does not exonerate him. There is the belief that he actively took part in the conspiracy to murder Miss Bora. Even more puzzling is the business man’s rev-elation that he has always thought the late Bora to be his wife, Indrani’s sis-ter who came to live with them for a while before re-locating to the US. Accord-ing to his statement, he is finding it difficult to believe that she was actually mur-dered by his wife, Indrani.

Peter Mukerjea

The electronic dis-tributor of South Africa’s social grant payments, Net1 UEPS Technologies [JSE:NT1], says its chief executive officer Serge Be-lamant is a “victim” of a fake PhD scandal.

Net1 division Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) won a R10bn grants tender from the South African So-cial Security Agency (Sas-sa) in 2012. CPS currently helps Sassa electronically distribute grant payments to over 10 million recipi-ents in South Africa.

For years, Serge Be-lamant - who has been Net1’s CEO since 2000 and the chairperson of the company’s board since 2003 - has referred to him-self as Dr Belamant.

But Net1 said two board members conducted a review into Belamant’s qualifications amid allega-tions on social media over the validity of the CEO’s “honorary PhD in Infor-mation Technology and Management conferred by Burkes University”.

“In light of the re-view, Belamant and the board have come to the conclusion that it is likely that Belamant was the un-fortunate victim of a scam and that the honorary de-gree was not legitimate,” said the company in its statement.

Net1 said based on its review, “it appears that in early May 2003, Belamant

received an email from a person who appeared to be associated with ‘Burkes University’ stating that he had been ‘short-listed by the Honorary Doctorates Committee’ for the confer-ment of an honorary doc-torate degree”.

The company said that after receiving this correspondence, Belamant responded by “asking for details about the selection criteria and process” and he received a response that discussed the criteria, which “appeared to him to be relevant to the awarding of an honorary degree”.

“Belamant provided the information that he was asked to submit, in-cluding proof of his mem-berships of professional societies, his academic re-cords, patents he filed, his nomination for the South African chapter of the World Entrepreneur of the Year award and his work published in information security textbooks,” said the company.

Net1 said the CEO then said he made a dona-tion to “what he believed was a foundation associ-ated with Burkes Univer-sity” and that on May 23 2003, the honorary degree was awarded to Belamant.

But the company said that “attempts to obtain information about Burkes University revealed that, according to the ‘Higher Education Degree Data-

check’ website, Burkes University is currently re-ferred to as ‘not a valid UK degree awarding body’.”

Burkes University also doesn’t have a web-site.

Despite the scandal, the Net1 board said it “be-lieves Belamant followed the honorary degree award process in good faith and that at the time, Belamant did not doubt the integrity of the process or the valid-ity of the degree”.

LATEST CONTROVERSY

The fake PhD scandal is the latest controversy to rock Net1, which is listed on the JSE and New York’s Nasdaq.

In 2014 the Constitu-tional Court ordered Sassa to reissue the tender amid the agency’s “irregular” conduct in awarding the contract to CPS.

Net1 has also come under fire for selling mobile airtime and loans to social grant recipients.

Amid controversies dogging Net1, the com-pany announced last year that it doesn’t plan to reap-ply for the Sassa tender.

CPS is subsequently expected to hang on to the contract until its expiry in 2017, as Sassa told Fin24 last year that it plans to take over the social grants distribution thereafter.

Source: Fin24


In the early hours of the 6th of February I re-ceived this WhatsApp mes-sage from a friend called Thomas Ojo in London, UK containing a news report that boxing legend Mike Tyson had died. Here is the unedited message:

“Breaking News! Box-ing Legend, Mike Tyson Has Passed Away

Sad News! Boxing legend, Mike Tyson has passed away after suffer-ing a massive heart attack. According to report, the son of Tyson ‘Amir Tyson’ came home and find his dad laying on the ground with blood coming out of his mouth, he quickly called 911, EMT rushed to the scene and took Tyson to West Chester Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The Boxing legend will be missed by many, Tyson was a former undis-puted heavyweight cham-pion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20yrs, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the 2nd round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to

simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to successively unify them. According to Wikipedia.

Mike Tyson was also going to play a major role in the upcoming hong kong film called Ip man, accord-ing to the Hollywood Re-porter..”

I changed channels from CNN, BBC, Al, Jazeera and other news outlets, did quick checks on main stream media websites but did not find any news about Tysons death. I thought it a bit strange that the death of a person of Tyson’s cali-ber was not yet out there yet. I concluded that it was indeed a breaking news scoop, just minutes fresh which had not spread yet.

Despite all his issues and tribulations Tyson is very popular around the world and still loved and idolised by hundreds of millions of fans. Of course, this piece of news was a shocker. But of course, ev-

ery person will have their appointment with death one day. I felt sad though, and I prayed his soul to rest in peace. I could not stop thinking of Mike’s life.

Barely 15 minutes later, the same friend What’sApped me again. This time he sent the cover of “STAR MAG”, a popular tabloid carrying the banner headline “Internet Rumor, Victim of DEATH HOAX “ imposed on the tattooed face of ‘Iron Mike’.

What! This was just a hoax. Why is this phenom-ena of celebrity death hoax-es becoming so much com-mon these days. Any way I felt some relief. But the journalist in me surfaced. I decided to do a little finding out of my own, using Ty-son death hoax to conduct a social media experiment. To find out how gullible us-ers of social media are, and their reaction in real time.

I sent the false story to 50 of my What’sApp contacts, waited five min-utes before sending them the cover of the “Star Mag” cover which exposed the story as a hoax.

The results were as-tonishing.

A staggering 37 of them informed me later that they immediately also circulated the hoax on What’sApp, Facebook and other social media plat-forms within the five min-utes before I revealed it was a hoax with the ‘Star Mag’ cover. They said they did this without trying to check

from any credible main-stream media platforms. That is whooping 74 per-cent!

Social media is a great piece of invention for many uses. But it cannot replace mainstream credible media as a news provider. It is incredible that 74 percent of users will swallow “line, hook and sinker” what cir-culates on social media as news content without cross checking.

This has serious im-plications for the world at large. One person in any corner of the globe with any agenda can start anything!

Ken Addy is media personality and one of the subjects of this experiment who is skeptical of news emanating from social me-dia platforms and did not spread the hoax. He wrote this from Accra, Ghana, “Yeah it’s a shame about such pranks”.

Nana ‘Sotello’ Nyame my Bishop Herman class-mate who lives in London, UK captured it best when he wrote back, “Bad news travels fast. Good news travels slow, abi”.

That is taught in jour-nalism course 101.

In a way it is just like what feeds mainstream me-dia philosophy, especially when it comes to the bot-tom line of boosting circula-tion or ratings. “Bad news is good news, and good news is no news”.

Well, the good news is Tyson is still alive and kick-ing, or is it boxing?

Mike Tyson’s death hoax; A case study in

Social Media

Nollywood actress, Monalisa Chinda is set to walk down the aisle again after her marriage to her ex-husband, Segun Dejo-Richard crashed over 7 years ago.

According to informa-tion making the rounds, it was gathered that the ac-tress vowed to keep her we dding from the ears of the public, especially the media.

The 41 year old ac-

tress who is presently en-gaged to her hearthrob, Victor Ola-Coker from Ni-ger Delta region has picked 20th, Feb. For her tradi-tional marriage at her home town in Ikwere, River State and May, 2016 for her white wedding scheduled to take place in Greece.

It can be recalled that the actress separated from her husband after alleged wife battery case and how he rely heavily on her in-come.

In an interview with Punch, she opened up on the challenges she faced as a single mother raising a 7 year old girl without a father.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Mike Tyson’s death hoax; A case study in Social Media


continued from p(20)offered the option to change their grades even after they have finished a class while former stu-dents often return to high school to complete ad-ditional course work to boost their grades. There is also a choice of credit recovery to the students who passed a course with low marks.

Sautner testified she has contacted Ben Gre-binski, director of educa-tion for the school divi-sion, about improving the 72 grade of one of her daughters. She said Gre-binski showed willing-ness to “make it work.” But Grebinski denied ever speaking to Sautner in his own testimonial state-ment about that plan.

However, Saskatch-ewan Teachers Fed-eration pleader Dennis

Fisher called the offer as an easy way to fix her daughter’s troubles.

Sautner also rejected the accusation of chang-ing the grades of three other students at the end of the 2014 school year. Her daughter’s English grade were raised to 80 from 60. A spokeperson for STF says it will be at least a month before the outcome. At the time, her daughter had only a 72 per cent average.

Both Grebinski and Hrbachek showed their involment at altering the grade of a graduated stu-dent who was living in Lethbridge, Alta and was enrolled at a university there.

Hrbachek found discrepancies between English, Social Studies and Theatre Arts grades

on the final transcript of Sautner’s daughter while she was checking the verification reports for all of the students of the class.

No statement was given about how the grades were changed during the hearing of the case. Watson said that a computer error was the culprit. “We don’t know what happened,” he said.

The committee will now submit a written report to official mem-bers of the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation. STF members will decide what punishment she deserves if they find her guilty, ei-ther a written reprimand or a request the Ministry of Education to cancel her teaching certificate. The ethics committee will make its decision soon.

Stella Damasus, Ademinokan launch ‘Mon Afrik TV’

5 ways to let music into your life

Canada’s rising stars in the spotlight

Multi-talented enter-tainer, Stella Damasus, has partnered with award-win-ning movie producer/director to launch the test transmis-sion phase for their online television station, ‘Mon Af-rik TV.’

Mon Afrik TV has been described as a blend of BET, MTV, E-ONLINE, NBC and CW Network all rolled into one but with 100% African content. “That is what we have created and we want Africans all over the world to see this as their own me-dium of expression, not just another TV station,” Stella hinted.

Also speaking on the new initiative, which is free to subscribers, Ademinokan explained that Mon Afrik TV is set to fill a big vacuum and also serve as respite for less content providers who can’t afford the fee of other televi-

sion stations.“We see no reason

why a struggling producer who can barely afford to raise the capital to make his/her TV show should also look for money to pay the TV stations for airtime be-fore the world can see his/her content. After that, they have to convince brands to place adverts on the show before he/she can start mak-

ing any money. That is ex-tremely discouraging for in-dependent producers.

“MON AFRIK TV is creating a platform where producers can showcase their works to the world and make good money for themselves without having to deal with the run-around from TV stations. This is not a Video-on-Demand plat-form for movies and is not

trying to pry into an already saturated market,” Ademi-nokan gushed.

He added that “MON AFRIK TV is here to deliver world-class, premium enter-tainment content from and about Africa to the world. Africa has often been rep-resented as a dark, isolated continent. Yes, Africa has issues, just like every other continent but there is more to us than starving children, gun wielding terrorists, arid lands and dilapidated build-ings in remote villages. We have beautiful cultures, a vi-brant entertainment industry and entertainers who have conquered the world on many levels and we want to showcase that to the world.”

MON AFRIK TV will be officially launched in Janu-ary 2016, but the test trans-mission phase is currently running on

Daniel Ademinokan and Stella Damasus

(NC) Music is the world's most popular lan-guage. Integrating it into your everyday life is a great way to connect with fam-ily and friends, and make some new ones. Here are five fun and exciting ways to let music into your life:

1. Get up close at an outdoor venue – General admission venues are the best way to get up close and personal with your fa-vourite bands, artists and entertainers.

2. Attend a jazz fes-tival – Swing into exciting and unique festivals across the country. A wide-range of world-class musicians touch down across Canada each summer at some of the largest urban centres.

3. Support a rising star – Canada's music scene has some of the best up-and- coming talent. Take some time to visit a local commu-nity show and give a rising star the chance to shine.

4. Sponsor a commu-nity program - Help keep the music alive. Programs like the MusiCounts TD Community Music Program provide musical instru-ments and equipment to community centres and af-ter school programs to kids of all backgrounds.

5. Rock out at a con-cert – Major entertainment companies produce thou-sands of shows on a global scale. Find out where your favourite artists are playing at TDMusic.com.

(NC) Talented young musicians from across Canada take a chance on nation-wide artist searches for the opportunity to shine and perform at live music events. Up-and-coming art-ists get the opportunity to see their names in lights as they bring their music to communities across the country.Connor Ross, a 16 year-old singer-songwriter, composes and records his own music and fronts the band North of Nowhere. Ross was the winner of the first-ever Music Monday Anthem Search, hosted by the Coalition of Music Edu-cation. His unifying anthem “We Are One” was selected

out of 200 submissions to help inspire Canadians to come together in song. Ross performed at the TD Music Green Room during JUNO Week in 2015.

Like Ross, many up-and-coming artists garner the support of Canadian organizations and commu-nity partners. Through their music programs, TD sup-ports emerging artists and has worked with the likes of Scott Helman since he first appeared at the TD Music Café in 2014.

TD also premiered Meaghan Smith's “Mirror” video for her single from her fourth studio album

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has to come from a kosher animal source. It’s pretty well known that beef is a kosher animal source, and pigs are not. But after the cow is selected, it needs to be checked for overall health. Then it must be slaughtered according to the Torah guidelines by a shochet, a rabbi expert in this area.

THE TORAH’S EXTRA HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

But this meat is still not yet considered kosher. It needs to be checked by a specialized rabbi for inter-nal signs of ill health. For example, if he finds cer-tain lung “adhesions” — growths that show there was once disease in that location, it is a problem. Such a cow, or a cow with any other Torah “health” issue, will be sent to a dif-ferent line to be processed as non-kosher. Its area and equipment must be cleaned well so that the next cow does not come into contact with any resi-due from the non-kosher beef.

NO BLOODIf the animal passes

the test, then the blood must be removed from the meat, since the Torah does not allow the blood to be eaten. This has to be done within a certain time limit. Once the meat is cut into pieces, it will be rinsed, salted, and rinsed again.

Only after all of these steps are taken properly, can the meat from this cow be called “kosher”.

EQUIPMENT HAS KOSHER STATUS, TOO

But we have to be careful. The kosher sta-tus of the meat could still change, for instance, if it comes into contact with non-kosher foods or equipment that has previ-

ously used for non-kosher. In fact, one of the rabbi’s most important jobs is to “re-kosher” those utensils and machinery, to avoid any contact with previ-ous traces of non-kosher residue.

A HELPFUL COMPARISON

It might help to com-pare the kosher process to the USDA (United States Department of Agricul-ture) approval process. To be approved, all the food components must pass a quality inspection. But that is not enough to gain the USDA seal. Certain products must be washed in water. But water may also not be enough. Per-haps there is a certain ad-ditive that must be in the water. Maybe the water has to be kept at a cer-tain temperature. It also has to be kept separate from contaminants. All of these steps are absolutely required in order for the food to gain the USDA seal of approval. Similarly, so many steps, and so many specialized people are in-volved in the production of kosher meat — and all of the steps must be fol-lowed, or else that meat is not kosher at all.

KOSHER + KOSHER = NOT KOSHER?

The above process produces kosher meat. Cheese products follow another process. So let’s say we now have two ko-sher products in front of us: kosher meat and ko-sher cheese. You might think they should com-bine together for a lovely kosher sandwich. But according to the Torah, these two items, meat and dairy, though kosher on their own, may not ever be mixed together. Just as in chemistry, the com-bination of two different elements may result in a

new compound with a dif-ferent status and different characteristics from the original two substances. So too, combining kosher meat with kosher cheese creates a completely new, non-kosher item.

Meat and fish com-binations, and sometimes fish and milk, are restrict-ed as well.

Another way to think about all of this is to com-pare it to human nutrition. A food may be healthy in and of itself, but eating too much of it or combin-ing it with another food could be unhealthy.

DOES KOSHER APPLY TO ANYTHING OTHER THAN FOOD?

The word “kosher” is associated mainly with food, but since it means “proper and fit”, or “ac-ceptable according to Torah Law,” it is some-times used in other con-texts. For instance, there is a Biblical prohibition of mixing wool and linen. Some clothing manufac-turers have their garments tested and certified to be free of this mixture, and their garments are “ko-sher” for use — complete with a certification label sewn inside the jacket.

ANYONE CAN KEEP KOSHER

Anyone who takes upon him or herself to ob-serve the guidelines and Torah laws of kashrus will be keeping kosher.

With all of these de-tails and many steps, each of them with spiritual sig-nificance, and requiring knowledge, honesty and discipline, you can see the depth of the trust the consumer invests in the producer and the kosher supervisor for something very meaningful to them.

(Source - The Seal of The Kosher Trust)


This is an amazing cold case that happened in the USA.

A 14-year-old black boy sent to the electric chair for the killing of two white girls has been exon-erated – 70 years after his death.

George Stinney Jr was arrested, convicted of the South Carolina murders in a one-day trial and ex-ecuted in 1944 — all in the span of about three months and without an appeal.

Circuit Judge Car-men Mullen threw out the conviction this February, “ saying the state had com-mitted a great injustice”.

At the age of 14, George Stinney Jr was the youngest person to be ex-ecuted in the USA in the 20th century.

The judge described the speed at which Stinney’s sentence was carried out as “shocking and unfair. I can think of no greater injustice,” Mul-len wrote.

The fact of the case is the girls, ages 7 and 11, were beaten badly around the head with an iron rail-road spike in the town of Alcolu in Clarendon County, about 45 miles southeast of Columbia, authorities said. A search by dozens of people found their bodies several hours later.

Meanwhile Investi-gators arrested Stinney, saying witnesses saw him with the girls as they picked flowers. He was

kept away from his par-ents, and authorities later said he confessed.

His supporters said he was a small, frail boy so scared that he said whatev-er he thought would make the authorities happy.

It was reported that there was no physical evi-dence linking him to the deaths and that his execu-tioners noted the electric chair straps didn’t fit him, and an electrode was too big for his leg.

During a two-day hearing in January, Mullen heard from Stinney’s sur-viving brother and sisters, someone involved in the search and experts who questioned the autopsy findings and Stinney’s confession. Most of the ev-idence from the original tri-al was gone and almost all the witnesses were dead.

Astonishingly it took a Judge Mullen nearly four times as long to issue her ruling as it took in 1944 to go from arrest to execu-tion.

Stinney’s case has

long been whispered in civil rights circles in South Carolina as an example of how a black person could be railroaded by a jus-tice system during the Jim Crow era where the inves-tigators, prosecutors and juries were all white.

The case received re-newed attention because of a crusade by textile inspec-tor and school board mem-ber George Frierson.

Frierson had a binder full of newspaper articles and other evidence. He and a law firm believed the teen represented every-thing that was wrong with South Carolina during the era of segregation.

Attorneys argued that Stinney should get a new trial, but Mullen went a step further by throw-ing out Stinney’s convic-tion. Her 29-page order included references to the 1931 Scottsboro Boys case in Alabama, where nine black teens were convicted of raping two white wom-en. Eight of them were sentenced to death. The convictions were eventu-ally overturned before the teens went to the death chamber and the charges were dropped. The judge noted Stinney did not even get the consideration of an appeal and was careful to say her ruling doesn’t ap-ply to other families who felt their relatives were dis-criminated against.

“The extraordinary circumstances discussed herein simply do not ap-ply in most cases,” Mullen wrote.

By Pamela Caki

The Mayor of The Uthukela district munici-pality in South Africa, Dudu Mazibuko, has de-cided to grant a group of young women scholar-ships in order to contin-ue their studies.

The „Maiden’s Bur-sary Award” is given to a female student who has saved her purity and will remain a virgin throughout her studies in collage or university. The government scholar-ship has been offered to the Uthukela municipal-ity in order to persuade young women to keep studying, and cut back the amount of teenagers getting pregnant in the area.

Mayor Dudu said that the aim of the bur-sary was to „reduce HIV, Aids and unwanted preg-nancy” among the young girls in the District of KwaZulu-Natal province. It is said that this area is one of the provinces which is mostly effected in the country, in terms of the highest number of people living with HIV in the world. One in every 10 people are contract-ing the virus within the country, and the number of teenage pregnancies is also on the high.The mayor herself defends the scholarship from any critics since she herself fell pregnant in high-school and doesn’t want any girl to go through the same thing.

In order to be al-legeable for the grant, the girls must undergo a virginity test, and peri-odically have to redo the test in order to insure that they remain untouched. Neither the district nor the university authori-ties would be the ones carrying out the virginity tests, this would be the task of a third party. The tests, however, are caus-ing quite a stir among human rights groups like People Opposing Wom-en Abuse(POWA), who claim that the conditions of the scholarship are a „violation of the rights and dignity of the girl child”. A spokesperson from the group, Idume-leng Muloko said that „virginity testing will never stop the spread of HIV and Aids” in an in-terview for the radio.

Others like the chairman of Commis-sion for Gender Equal-ity, Mfanozelwe Shozi told AP news agency „I think the intentions of the mayor are great but what we don’t agree with is giving bursaries for virginity.” he later added „ There is an issue around discrimination on the basis of pregnan-cy, virginity and even against boys. This is go-ing too far.”

Although there are many negative re-marks about the deci-sion to grant money for virginity, the mayor is not picking up on it. She says that there have

been countless ways to try and stop young girls from getting pregnant and preventing sexu-ally transmitted diseases from occurring in the area but have failed. This for some is not only an initiative to start think-ing about themselves, it is also a one and only way to continue their education.

A young girl like Thubelihle, who was granted the award, is very thankful for being a part of the 16 girls cho-sen. The 18-year-old girl plans to go to the uni-versity in Pretoria,after receiving the price she never dreamed of earlier. Her parents wouldn’t have been able to pay for her studies, and she is very happy to under-go any type of virginity testing after each vaca-tion if that means she gets to fulfill her dreams of studying in a differ-ent city. Thubelihe add-ed that „we are keeping away from boys because we want to achieve our goals,” and later, „I don’t have children. I am 18 years old, I must study hard to change and con-quer the world.”

Similar scholarships have been attempted elsewhere like in the province of Sierra Leone, back in 2009. However the virginity tests have proven to be problematic in numerous countries in the past, and most of the time the scholarships were pulled back.

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MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT STABBED TO DEATH IN GHANA

George Stinney Jr

By Sandra Beagan

Ehud Olmert, 70, who was Prime Minister of Israel from April 2006 to March 2009, began serving his 19-month prison sentence for brib-ery and obstruction of justice on February 16 at the minimum-secu-rity Maasiyahu Prison at Ramle near Tel Aviv. This makes him the first Israeli government head to serve prison time.

In a video released hours before, Olmert stated that he “rejects outright” the bribery charges. “When I was prime minister, I was

given the highest re-sponsibility of safe-guarding the security of the citizens of Israel

and today it is I who am about to be locked up behind bars,” Olmert said in the video mes-

sage and described the experience as “painful and strange.”

Denying that he had taken bribes, he ad-mitted to having “made mistakes,” but that these were “not crimi-nal.” He added, “Life is offering me today no simple test. I go towards it with great sadness.”

Olmert was con-victed in March 2014 on charges that he had accepted bribes in ex-change for promoting controversial real estate development projects in Jerusalem while he was Mayor of Jerusalem and then Trade Minister,

years before he becom-ing Prime Minister.

According to the Is-raeli newspaper Haaretz, the Israel Prison Service will house him in Wing 10, a special wing that has been set up to as-sure his security and that of other prisoners who cannot be held with the general population. As a former Prime Min-ister, his is considered a “protected person.” The self-contained wing ca-ters to all the “prisoner’s needs, including visits, medical care, education, and therapy,“ and their environment and con-tacts will be monitored.

Israel Prison Ser-vice says that the wing has six cells, each with three beds, toilet, show-er, cupboard, table, chairs, and TV. There are public phones, ex-ercise equipment, a li-brary, a dining room, and a yard.

His eight-month sentence in the Talan-sky Affair is still under appeal. In this case he allegedly received cash bribes from a New York businessman between 1993 and 2002.

Other cases in which Olmert was ac-quitted are still being appealed by the state.

Ehud Olmert

By Pamela Caki

British Prime Minis-ter, James Cameron is get-ting tough on the spousal visas that are given out to Muslim women to join their husbands in Eng-land. Each five-year-visa is given to re-unite fami-lies, however, if the wom-en don’t seem to improve their English skills while living in England, they can actually get sent back to their mother land.

The expectations are for all women to speak at least Basic English two and a half years after they have arrived in the coun-try. The Prime Minister believes that this form of integration will strengthen the multi-ethnic commu-nities, as well as prevent misinterpreted messages about the Islamic group. Testing will be done at the half-way mark, and peri-odically after, in order to prove that each person’s English skills are actually proving. If they fail to take this seriously, they may face deportation, and can even leave their children and husbands in England

if they go. The Centre-right

Conservative party has launched a 20 million pound language fund for women living in isolated communities. They be-lieve this way the Islamic women will be able to leave their homes, and feel less isolated. The gov-ernment estimates that there are around 190 000 Muslim women in Eng-land, and about 22 per-cent of them speak little or no English. The party believes this will not only improve the numbers, it will also cut back on the thoughts of these people being “extremists.”

Cameron told BBC radio that lack of Eng-lish knowledge can make Muslims in England more vulnerable to sending the message of extrem-ist groups. He said: „I am not saying there is some sort of casual connection between not speaking English and becoming an extremist, of course not. But if you are not able to speak English, not able to integrate, you may find therefore you have

challenges understand-ing what your identity is and therefore you could be more susceptible to the extremist message.”

Muslim groups and opposition parties criti-cized these comments and accused the PM of „dis-graceful stereotyping.” Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadhan Foundation said, “David Cameron and his Conservative govern-ment are once again using British Muslims as a politi-cal football to score cheap points, to appear tough.”

The Prime Minister

doesn’t believe he is doing any type of discrimina-tion, but simply makes it clear that there are rules that have to be followed in the new country where these people are living. He added, “this will help make it clear to those men who stop their partners from integrating that there are consequences.”

There are English knowledge tests for people coming to live and work in England, however these are mostly submitted by the male population of the


Recent spate of mur-ders of politicians in Gha-na has claimed the life of Abuakwa North Member of Parliament, Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu. He was stabbed to death at his resi-dence at Shiashie in Accra, the national capital in the early hours of February 9th.

So far it is not clear whether the New Patriotic Party (NPP) legislator was killed by armed robbers or a hitman.

Greater Accra Region Police Commander COP George Dampare confirmed the killing of the MP. He said The police have been collecting evidence and examining the MP’s body. The late J. B. M Dankwa Adu was born on July 2, 1965 and was married with two children.

In 2010, he was dep-uty Minister for Women and Children’s Affairs un-der the erstwhile Kufuor administration, and won Abuakwa North seat in the Eastern Region in the De-cember 2012 elections.

According to reports the police have picked up five persons to assist in investigations. Those ar-

rested included two women and three men.

Accra regional Police Command PRO, Assistant Superintendent of police, Mrs Afia Tenge who briefed the media did not disclose the identities of those ar-rested but it is believed that those arrested included a security guard at the house, and others who were said to have been in the house when the incident occurred.

Reports say the as-sailant used a ladder to climb through into the MP’s bedroom, struggled with him for a while, overpow-ered and stabbed him.

This latest murder of the MP is causing great fear among members of parlia-ment in the country. They are demanding that gov-

ernment provide police pro-tection for them.

Meanwhile, it has been revealed that in 2010, the murdered MP’s then estranged girlfriend, Nar-teley Nettey Yirenkyiwaa, a-24-year-old allegedly conspired with two men, Charles Antwi and Nana Yaw Ampong, to rob the MP at the lady’s East Legon apartment, also in Accra.

According to the po-lice, on the morning of Au-gust 26, 2010 Ms Yirenky-iwaa called JB, as he was popularly known to meet her at a hotel in Accra.

When they met, she asked for financial help from him and they agreed to meet later at her house.

When JB got to her house, he met Yirenkyiwaa outside. She took him into the house and they entered her bedroom and she un-dressed him. State Prosecu-tors said after this, Antwi and Ampong came out of the bathroom where they were hiding and started taking photographs. They then attacked JB with a knife and took away his pair of trousers which con-tained GH¢1000. 00.

The three had pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu

By Pamela Caki

President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, declared he would build a special prison that would segre-gate all violent extremists from the regular prison population. The plan is to stop jihadists from spread-ing their extremist ideolo-gies to the rest of the soci-ety, and thus cut back on terrorist attacks within the country.

Kenya has been bat-tling with a Somali terror-ist group al-Shabab since 2011. Not only is the group linked to al-Qaida, it is also responsible for numerous terror attacks within Kenya, which claimed the lives of over 200 people within the last few years. Attacks includ-ed the 2013 assault on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, and the manslaughter at Garissa University Collage last year.

Recently several Ke-nyan soldiers lost their lives following attacks in the southern Somalia bases. Troops were with-drawn from the area and

the president reassured that al-Shabab would pay a “heavy price” for its ac-tions. Kenyatta added: “our soldiers did not die in vain,” and that he would enforce the anti-terror laws within the country with the proper establish-ment.

Although it is not known where the prison will be set up, plans are to separate people who are associated with any ter-

rorist activities from the rest of the inmates. Cur-rently only death row in-mates are kept in separate prison blocks and Em-manuel Igunza from BBC reports the correctional facilities to be inhumane and overpopulated.

Kenyatta confirmed that additional money will be provided to meet operational and logistical requirements of the prison service.

Uhuru Kenyatta

By S.Ratko

MADRID (AP) - The case began with confusion over where a civil worker in southern Spain worked. Presently, a court has ruled he should pay back almost 27,000 euros ($30,500) in wages because for years he really didn’t work at all.

The worker of a wa-ter utility owned by the Spanish city of Cadiz didn’t show up at its office for up to six years and “did no work” for a long time preceding his retirement in 2011, said the ruling issued a month ago and gave to the press recently.

It didn’t clarify why the worker, who can’t be named under Spanish law, went undetected until his case was found in 2010, shortly before he was to receive a plaque for 20 years of service.

Previous Cadiz Dep-uty Mayor Jose Blas Fer-nandez said in a phone interview he started the examination after look-ing into faculty records and realising nobody had seen the worker for a long

time after his exchange to the utility from a city hall work.

The Aguas de Cadiz utility told Blas Fernandez it had thought the worker had exchanged back to the city hall, yet that wasn’t the case, Blas Fernandez said.

He got the worker on the telephone, requested him to report to city hall and said he was hesitant when asked what sort of errands he had been doing lately.

Cadiz city authorities looked for the punishment representing one year of the worker’s net pay, the maximum permitted. In any case, the worker ap-pealed, beginning a battle in court that kept going years until the court ruled against him.

The case went viral all over Spain recently, and current Cadiz Deputy Mayor Martin Vila told journalists he was shocked that “a person could be hired for years and collect-ing (pay) without doing anything whatsoever.”

It has likewise tack-

led political connotations, with Vila referring to al-legations the worker had been a victim of workplace “bullying” by members of the conservative Popular Party. It ruled Cadiz from 1995 until its ouster last year by a far left coali-tion drove by the Podemos party.

Vila didn’t give more details, however, he did say the charges “would be despicable if confirmed.”

Blas Fernandez said the laborer never men-tioned any harassing claims before.

The worker sent city hall a letter denying he deserted his employment and asking authorities not to make him pay back the money.

Vila didn’t say whether authorities have reacted however vowed that the city organization would quickly concentrate on “the improvement of HR” to diminish the risk of similar cases.

The specialist’s at-torney, Fernando Lepiani, didn’t had any comments for the press.

Islamic states. In order to help the Muslim culture understand that they are

in a place that promotes gender equality, this new program gives the spous-

es an opportunity to inte-grate in the same manner as their husbands.



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Dark secrets, horrible past, and bar-riers of happiness can cause someone to be vengeful, secretive, or unfaithful. Some

people who choose to move on choose not to deal with their past mistakes and forget about it but the truth is they can’t escape

the past unless they do something to put it to rest. This new set of religious books will allow you to see life on the shoe of

the person who struggles to handle a hor-rible past or a barrier that stops him to find bliss.

By Caroline Pignat

Caroline Pignat is an award-winning author recognized of her novels that relate to outstanding events in the past. She is a 2015 Governor Gen-eral’s Literary Award win-ner who lately published a verse novel about the life of slaves, their masters and a bird-watcher visitor in a Virginia tobacco plantation. Set way back in 1858, the story tells about Phoebe, a slave working in the kitch-en of the plantation where she saw the way masters treat other slaves through whippings and beatings. Some of them even dis-appeared without a trace. For ten years, Phoebe was separated from her mother since Master Duncan sold her. But she tried to edu-cate herself until she had a chance of meeting Doctor Bergman. The doctor is the master’s Canadian visitor who is looking for warblers and chickadees. Task to show the visitor where to

find the local birds, Phoebe starts to open herself into a new perspective, mean-while Doctor Bergman has other plans apart from bird-watching.

Also, the story nar-rates about Shad, Phoebe’s friend who also work in the plantation. Shad is worried about his brother, his only family, who is planning to escape from the plantation despite being caught and beaten many times. How true are the stories about life in Canada? Can a man live without a master?

By J.P. Hansen

Know the things that stop you to achieve happiness through this

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By Jimmy Evans

There is a 100% pos-sibility that marriage may last a lifetime.

Marriage is the most rewarding and sacred hu-man covenant God has ever created. A successful mar-riage is passionate and ful-filling which allow a couple to grow and achieve their needs and desires.

It is also designed to become a lifelong bond. In this book, couples will identify important points on how to make marriage a lifelong partnership that is passionate and deeply fulfilling.

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gether with Frank Martin writes Lifelong Love Affair to show spouses how they can fill their marriage with passion, purpose, excite-ment, fun and romance.

By Willard Harley and Jennifer Chalmers

How can couples cope with infidelity?

One of the most painful ex-periences that could happen to marriage is infidelity. It does not only hurt the betrayed spouse, the lover or the un-faithful spouse, it also breaks

the trust of the children and the extended family members. Reconciliation is a crucial stage for a couple who wanted to restore their marriage.

Surviving an Affair helps couples understand infidelity from the beginning towards its end, how to end the extra-marital relationship, how spouses should reconcile and

By T.D. Jakes

An unforgettable story of a loving couple based on the film Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the Seventh Day.

T.D. Jakes writes a story of a devoted couple surviving an ultimate test to their re-lationship after their young daughter was kidnapped.

This compelling story of love, faith and suspense will

leave you on the edge of your seat as you follow the lives of David and Kari in their quest to find their child abducted in a secured community in New Orleans.

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By Vanessa Davis Griggs

Author Vanessa Da-vis Griggs pens a compel-ling story of Pastor George Landris who is caught in a tough situation that threat-ens the faithful and upsets a troubled woman as they uncover some secrets in the past.

For years, Memory Patterson keeps running away from her family un-til she met Pastor Landris and his wife, Johnnie Mae. Memory’s chance meet-

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the disappearance of the child, using the same pattern of killing abducted kids after seven days. Since no time should be wasted in rescuing the child of the high-profile couples, the authorities

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Treating those under us the Prophet’s way

The Effects of Prayer in Healing the Sick

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By Abdullah Musa Abdul (Penabdul)

“Every person starts his day as a vendor of his soul, either freeing it or causing its ruin.” Muslim

“If someone has his brother under his author-ity, he should feed him from what he eats and clothe him from what he wears and not burden him with anything that will be too much for him. If you burden him with what may be too much form him, then help him” Al-Adab Al-Mufrad

Man finds himself in either of the two situ-ations, with authority or under authority and in any of these he’s expected to have certain excellent behavioral qualities and good mannerism.

This pertinent re-quirement was aptly em-phasised by the Prophet of Islam (pbuh) 1400 years ago when he was molding the best of gener-ations, and if that was the case with those of high spiritual awareness then this generation is most deserving to inculcate this excellent virtue of kind-ness and humility.

In the second had-ith referenced above, the Prophet (pbuh) was ad-monishing a renowned Companion, Abu Dharr Al-Ghifari (RA), on how to treat those under our authority (servants, maids, guards etc).

That we treat them (those under us) as our brothers, our equals, not to insult them, not to overburden them, not to make them inferior.

That we have oth-ers under our authority as guards, gardeners, house-maids, drivers does not make us any better. It’s a

test from Allah (SWT). There are two cat-

egories of people either pious or wretched. These could be found among those with authority and those under authority. Hence, the need to be kind and nice to those un-der our authority.

Ibn Hajar (RA) said all the Prophets of Allah (AS) have the salient fea-ture of humbleness, they were never arrogant nor proud.

In another hadith the Prophet (Pbuh) said, “Help the worker in his work. He that works for Allah (i.e. the servant) will not be disappointed.”

What an excellent Prophet we have, teach-ing the Muslims to help those under their author-ity when executing tasks given to them.

Agreed, you are pay-ing the housemaid, gar-dener to trim the flowers, mason and the labourer, but the Prophet of Islam (pbuh) said it’s good to help them out sometimes in carrying out their work.

Shamusu bint Nu’man al-Ansariya (RA) said the Prophet (Pbuh) carried stones that were used to build the first masjid at Quba by him-self. Reference to Hadith by at-Tabarani.

Undoubtedly, Proph-et Muhammad (pbuh) is the most honourable of all Allah’s creatures, yet he didn’t find it below his dignity to carry blocks or to help out in the con-struction of masjidul Quba.

The Companions (RA) would see the Proph-et (pbuh) lifting stone for building Masjid Quba and they will come to help and instead he will ask them to go and carry a similar

stone and that was how the masjid was built.

Helping the servants under our authority will not only make us beloved to Allah but will also in-troduce unequalled humil-ity in us.

The beauty of it is that if those under your authority see you doing their work they will be more diligent and more compassionate towards you thus eliminating be-trayal.

Aswad bin Yazid once asked the Mother of Believers Aisha (RA) about the activities of the Prophet (Pbuh) whenever he was at home and she said, he will busy himself with household chores.

The Prophet (pbuh) that journeyed beyond Ji-bril (AS) in al-miraj never came home with a chip on his shoulder, he was ac-cessible, he was humble, he was kind, caring and loving.

The Prophet (pbuh) had thousands of Com-panions (RA) and ser-vants that were ever ready to respond to his demands 24/7 yet he would mend his own clothes.

What an excellent virtue, if sometimes the emir or the leader and the ruler sweeps his own liv-ing room, waters his own garden, sits with the ser-vants. It is not impossible, the Prophet (pbuh) did more than that.

The lesson is: No matter how blessed ma-terially we are, we should always be humble and treat people with kindness no matter what.

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By Godwin Ihesie

In today’s modern world, we are witnessing astronomical increase in the incidence of all forms of tragedy,adversity, trou-ble, psychic shock, serious illness, etc. It is very ob-vious that science cannot provide all the solutions to human problems; there-fore, most people seem to resort to prayer in times of difficulties.

Every religion: Chris-tianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, etc, believes in the healing power of prayer as a means of solv-ing extreme life challenges and in achieving healing for oneself and for others.

In James 5: 13-18, it was recorded that, God says: If any one of you is in trouble, you should pray. If you are happy, pray. If you are sick, pray! Confess your sins and pray so you may be healed. Basically, pray at all times about all things! Also, it is written that: Is any sick among you? Let him call the elders of the church; and let them pray over him… The prayer of a righ-teous man is powerful and effective.

Most people have experienced that praying, or being prayed for works - can slow down the heart rate, lower blood pressure, reduce stress hormones, promotes inner calmness, enhances the functions of the brain, etc.

Prayer is known to influence health generally and brings solution to oth-er human problems; these are the main reasons why many people these days pray regularly for their own health or have others pray for them.

The observed ef-fects of prayers on human health has prompted some open-minded researchers to take a take a look at prayer and healing. Ac-cording to scientists in the US, November 1, 2001 - BBC, if someone prays for them, patients admitted to hospital with heart prob-lems suffer fewer com-plications and generally, heart patients benefits im-mensely from “intercesso-ry prayer or group prayer”.

However, some skep-tics believed that such re-search works are deeply flawed, since there are no scientific bases in the phys-ical universe that could ex-plain how “intercessory” or “distant” prayers, could influence the health of a group of patients.

Science as it is con-stituted today - which uses

only the intellect with its limitations as the tool for all its investigations can-not totally explain the ef-fects of prayer on human beings, because, praying in the true sense of it is an activity of the human spirit, which is far beyond the analytical comprehen-sion of most of the present day scientists.

Until recently, we all know that the word prayer, simply means pleading (or petitioning) fervently to God, that is begging God for something with utter fervor. However, we are privileged to know today “that a prayer is not synonymous with a re-quest! Otherwise there would be no prayer of thanksgiving, which contains no request! To pray does not mean to beg!”

God is the Creator of all; He is the Eternal Source of all Goodness and the Dispenser of all Mercies. He is the giver of life. No creature can actu-ally give anything back to the Owner and Giver of all good things, except in true worship and prayer, a hu-man being opens wide his spirit at the” feet of God in veneration, praise and gratitude for everything He grants you out of His great Love!”

Most of us these days, so long as we are in good health and healthy socially and materially, we hardly remember or de-vote time to really utter an earnest prayer of thanks-giving to God the Eternal Source of all Goodness. We sormon the inner strength to do so only when we are suddenly rescued from a great danger or when un-expected challenges in life compels us to do so.

Having noted all the above mentioned facts, let us return back to the ben-efit of healing the sick with prayer.

In His infinite Wis-dom, the Most High, the Creator of all the worlds, has woven love and grace into His self-acting Laws. In His Justice and Love He grants the fallen human spirit the possibility of cor-

recting his or her errors again through experiences and redemption. Also, in His great Goodness and Mercy, healing light and strengthening radiations are woven into the Uni-verse, waiting for those human beings who open themselves in humility to use them.

Serious illnesses cause great pain, suffer-ing and deep inner ex-periencing - which are indelibly imprinted in the soul. Such experiences, for instance, give the pa-tient time for true and deep inner reflections; and at such moments, all mate-rial considerations and earthly attachments are dispensed with and all in-ternalized (or retained) negative emotions of re-venge, and unforgive-ness are discharged. The strong vibration caused by such emotions of deep sorrow can for a short time touches the inner core of man (spirit) and awaken a deep-inner feeling (in-tuitive perception) or result in an inner opening that will form the bridge to the higher realms where pure spiritual powers, radia-tions of the strengthening and thus healing light are anchored.

A human being or a creature that opens himself up spiritually and in hu-mility either through the strong vibration caused by emotions of deep sorrow or great joy or through deep and earnest prayer to God Who is the Dispenser of all mercies may be granted the grace of absorbing or receiving homogeneous spiritual currents and pow-er that can transform, burn off or neutralize all kinds of afflictions on the physi-cal body miraculously. In this way, many have been granted the grace of expe-riencing miraculous heal-ing.

A seriously sick per-son is usually inwardly and psychically weak and therefore, completely neu-tral and non - resistant. This neutral state of his spirit allows the healing light and strengthening radiations from originat-ing from God -which can be channeled by genuine prayer intercession, to en-velop and enter into him. Just like in a like manner, a cellular phone caller can invisibly linked another person, a sick person can equally be invisibly linked through intercession with the spiritual realms and spiritual currents and pow-er that can transform, burn off or neutralize all kinds of afflictions on the physi-cal body.

EPIPHANYEpiphany (Janu-

ary 6) is the celebration of the wise men (magi) who visited Jesus and brought him gifts of gold,

frankincense, and myrrh. In the Orthodox Catholic Church, the other recorded events of Jesus’s life and minis-try also are celebrated, including his baptism and the miracle at Cana (changinh water into wine at a wedding). Epiphany signified the end of the Christian sea-son in many church tra-ditions.

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new president of FIFA after securing 115 votes in the second round of Friday’s election in Zurich.

Infantino sprung a surprise by outstripping fa-vourite Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa in the first round by 88 votes to 85.

In round two, candi-dates required a simple ma-jority of 104 and Infantino comfortably broke through this barrier to become the successor to Sepp Blatter.

Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman took 88 votes sec-ond time around, with Prince Ali bin al-Hussein and Jerome Champagne taking four and zero respec-tively.

“Dear friends, I cannot express my feelings in this moment. I told you I went through a journey, an ex-ceptional journey, a journey which made me meet many fantastic people, many peo-ple who love, live, breathe football every day,” Infan-

tino said in his acceptance speech.

“We will restore the image and respect of FIFA. People will applaud us, ap-plaud you for what we will do.

“Everyone has to be proud of what we will do at FIFA. I want to thank you all, all 209 and the other candidates. Tokyo [Sex-wale] decided four can win, one cannot win. We had a

great competition, [a] great sign of democracy in FIFA.

“I want to be president of all 209 [member federa-tions]. I have travelled the globe and I will continue to do this. I want to work with all of you together in or-der to restore and rebuild a new FIFA where we can put again football at the centre of the stage.”

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are known to draw poison out of the body and in-crease the release of endor-phins and other hormones that can change an angry mood to a happy one can also increase mental health.

Deep breathing exer-cises, slows heart rate and blood pressure, helps to maintain a balanced mental health calm down the mind.

LAUGHTER: Smiles in situation

that causes anger lighten up the heart, and it is one of the greatest antidotes to the darkness and the most effective natural remedy against anger and the prob-lems associated with it.

A hearty laughter re-leases natural pain killers known as endorphins and serotonins which elevate the moods.

Listening to Good Soul-Uplifting Classical Mu-sic:

A good classical music induces an emotional feel-ing that provokes the body to release endorphins and serotonins which help the body to deal with anger and other negative emotions.

Also, soul-lifting mu-sic is known to help de-crease the production of all the stress hormones like adrenaline and enhances the abilities to deal with the external threats that can cause anger.

HAVING ABSOLUTE FAITH AND TRUST IN THE LORD ALMIGHTY:

The greatest protec-tion against all the ill-ef-fects of anger on physical and spiritual health is trust and living faith in the Lord Almighty.

It is recommended that one should set aside at least 15-30 minutes a day to sit quietly in silence and to reflect and give thoughts and thanks to the miracles that happen in one’s life, which call for perpetual thankfulness and praises to the Lord Almighty, the Eter-nal Source of all Goodness.

PRAYER: At the moment of in-

ner agitation, irritation and anger, it is advised that one should close the eyes in silence for a brief moment and ask for inner strength

and guidance to be able to control the situation with wisdom.

LEARNING TO FORGIVE: The root cause of our

anger sometimes lies in our inability to forgive and understand our neighbor’s weakness and mistakes. But studies have shown that forgiveness, genuine love, showing compassion and understanding towards our neighbor or those who make us angry, protect us against the negative conse-quences of anger.

An inwardly matured person may even give gen-uine thanks for the source of his anger because what makes him angry may be a mirror that reflects back to him - the weakness he bears within himself and are crying for redemption. In most cases, we too are extensively guilty of those things which others do to make us angry. Therefore, do not hold your anger for too long, forgive and love those who cause your an-ger, you may make spiritual progress, become lighter and be happy.

when it infects pregnant women is “spreading ex-plosively”. When WHO says this is is quite scary. 2016 is just beginning and already we have a worldwide health panic.

In the past The Zika virus has been mostly re-stricted to warmer parts of Africa and Asia and is transmitted by the ever dangerous ubiquitous mosquito, but it now moving all over the world. It is spreading in Brazil and other parts of South America and indications are that it is here in North America.

Already two women in the United States have reportedly miscarried, and pregnant Canadian wom-en who visited affected countries have been ad-vised to see their doctors according to the nation’s Chief Public Health Offi-cer, Dr Gregory Taylor.

He even advised pregnant pregnant wom-en to be evaluated and monitored by their doc-tors. The concern is a problem called microce-phalic – where babies are born with a small head and brains. Canada has stared administering the serology test which can detect presence of the disease and the National Microbiology Laboratory

in Winnipeg is the only place offering the test in Canada.

A recent WHO re-ports indicates that “dur-ing the year 2015, 9.9 million travellers left 146 Brazilian airports near areas known to be conducive to Zika virus transmission for destina-tions around the world. North and South Ameri-can countries being the most-popular destinations (representing 65 percent of travellers) followed by those in Europe (27 per-cent) and Asia (5 per-cent). The most-popular travel spot was the United States, with more than 2.7 million people making the trip.”

WHO expert met ear-lier in the year to decide if this constitutes a public health emergency. The resounding answer was “yes,” so we have the first such emergency since the Ebola virus outbreak just a couple of years ago. Dr. Margaret Chan, the director of WHO, told the media that ZIKA had gone from a mild threat to a global scare with grave potential damage.

The disease was first discovered in 1947, but is new to the Western Hemi-sphere. In one northeast-ern state in Brazil, there

are typically nine infants born with it per year, but by November, 2015 re-ports indicate there were 646. Officials in Brazil, Jamaica, Colombia, and El Salvador have urged women to put off preg-nancy until the crisis has abated.

The age old ques-tion arises, if Zika has been around for decades in Africa and Asia, why is it now getting atten-tion only because it is becoming a threat to the affluent western nations. Also why are scientists just now noticing that it’s linked to birth defects?. Some scientists think maybe its just a better health care system and in the places where Zika is endemic, the people get-ting infected are children, so it wouldn’t really over-lap with pregnancy.

For non-pregnant people, Zika is often as-ymptomatic, but can re-sult in rashes, or joint paint, or fever.

Political leaders are urging scientists to come up a vaccine for the vi-rus due to its “imminent threat” but it is unlikely that one would be avail-able for a few years just like in the case of the Eb-ola virus disease. Looks like a case of de ja vu.

were sacked a week after.5) Pensioners being

owed for up to 9 months.6) No Market built.7) 85% Youth Unem-

ployment. Highest in South-ern Nigeria.

8) 0% investment in Sports.

9) No Loans or Grants Given to Farmers.

10) No Bursary for Students in Tertiary institu-tions.

11) No Mass Housing Project.

12) No bridges built.13) 80% of Schools

without furniture.What has Oshiomhole

done with N1.5 trillion total so far received on behalf of the Edo people.

When asked last year, the Edo State Governor, Ad-ams Oshiomhole, said that his government was forced to take another $75 million development loan from the World Bank, because the Federal Government led by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 16 years had looted the nation’s treasury and pauperized the states.

The World Bank had approved a $225 million loan for Edo State Govern-ment in 2012, to be imple-mented in three tranches of

$75 million per annum.The first tranche of

the loan was approved by the National Assembly in the 2012-2014 Federal Government External Roll-ing Borrowing Plan, while the second tranche was ap-proved by the National As-sembly, in August 2015.

Addressing reporters at the Government House, Mr. Oshiomhole said “If the PDP did not steal the mon-ey, we would not need to borrow. What we lost from the NLNG under the PDP Federal Government was about $11.6 billion. Edo State’s share of that money was more than N30 billion. If you realise that from ev-ery one billion dollars, we get more than N2.7 billion. So if PDP did not steal and bleed the economy dry, our legitimate revenue stolen by the past PDP government and its men is more than that.

“In the South-South zone, look at the debt pro-file, Edo is the least bor-rowed. The only major loan we have taken since I assumed office was a N25 billion bond out of which we have paid over N20 bil-lion because we are paying N530 million every month.

“As we speak, we have only about N5 billion left of that loan which will be liqui-dated before the end of this tenure. You heard of bailout, find out what PDP states are borrowing under the bailout plan, not for development but to pay salaries. But Edo State Government is up-to-date with salaries without bail out. You need to inter-rogate facts and not report these people as if they are responsible people because when you do that, people don’t know the difference between mischief makers and responsible people.

“You hear PDP say nothing has happened in Edo State. Even the Hos-pital we are building, the Benin City Water Storm project, just one project is more than the entire loan we have taken. So as we speak, Edo is the least bor-rowed. Every state now is borrowing money for salaries. You are not just to parrot the views of armed robbers. When you report, you say however, it will be recalled that, that way, the reader understands who is saying the truth,” Mr. Osh-iomhole said.

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personal effects. Mr. Yusuf added that

the arms and ammunition had been handed over to the State Security Service (SSS) for further investiga-tion, along with a suspect who was arrested in con-nection with the seizure.

“A 40 ft container with number CLHU452754/2 with these items has been seized and it is with us and we are transferring them as appropriate to the relevant agency. The items were concealed because no-

body can just import these things without full au-thorization to do that. No unauthorized passenger or trader should trade in arms and ammunition all over the world. It is not allowed. You have to go through due process; authorization with permit, before you move even one piece across the border of another country. The suspect is with the Di-rectorate of State Security Service for further investi-gation so that we will get the full details of how he

came about these items as well as if there are col-laborators within Nigeria or outside Nigeria. It is within their purview to do that,” the Controller said.

James Udo, Director of SSS at Tin-Can Island Port, explained how the importation of such items could have endangered the public if it had not been discovered by Customs. Mr. Udo added that secu-rity is a collective respon-sibility.

The SSS is still inves-

tigating to find out who else is behind the importa-tion.

The Command says that it generated N24.8 bil-

lion in revenue in January 2016. This is up from the N20.9 billion it collected in January 2015. The Con-troller attributed the in-

crease to a boost in compli-ance from clearing agents, improved transparency, and a robust new electronic system.




found someone that you click with then it’s time to meet. Arrange a time and place and make it some-where public so it’s safe for both of you. During your date make an effort to get to know them by talking with them over dinner, or finding out what kinds of things they like to watch by taking them to a movie.

After the date think about how you feel and decide if you want to see them again. If you do, then send them a quick message

telling them that you en-joyed yourself and would love to see them again. If they feel the same way then they’ll let you know.

Online dating can be a great experience if you just put a bit of time and effort into it. Join a reputa-ble site, make a profile that will grab people’s attention and show them that you’re worth dating. People on these sites will love find-ing someone who is taking things seriously and is a great catch.

its U.S outlets after the launching. Dairy Queen and Sonic Drive-In are the smaller chains that offer hot dogs.

“We’ve worked to bring guests a hot dog that tastes like a backyard bar-beque,” said Alex Macedo who leads the company’s unit in North America.

Burger King’s presi-dent of North American op-erations, Alex Macedo, has given few exclamatory re-marks as he introduced the food chain’s newest product (Grilled Dogs). He won-dered, “I don’t know why we didn’t do this before.” Macedo further explained that Burger King is adher-ing to its roots as a fast-food restaurant and isn’t trying to imitate casual fast food restaurants to get too fancy. Burger King started testing and experimenting with hot grilled dogs in five cities last year, and then decided to go countrywide when those sales exceeded expectations. Macedo also

mentioned a Burger King failure from the past when they tried to introduce pop-corns.

The company has worked on this project for a year and a half, all in or-der to make a product as similar to an outdoor bar-becue. Burger King started testing and experimenting with hot grilled dogs in five cities last year, and then decided to go countrywide when those sales exceeded targets. Macedo, however, didn’t anticipate the prog-ress rate of the new product and denied to talk about the details.

Burger King is now planning of a huge ad-vertising campaign using social media, television & other networks to launch the new menu item. But it isn’t in favor of organizing hotdog eating contests like other food chains do. Of-ficials are looking forward to receiving reviews on its newly launched product.

norm, and proved to thousands that through hard work and determina-tion no obstacle was too great. After retiring from the NHL, O’Ree went on to become the director of youth development for the NHL’s diversity pro-gram. In addition to being the first black player in the NHL, perhaps his greatest accomplishment has been

the thousands of children he has inspired to develop their own resolve and in-ner strength. He is a man that believes anything is possible, and now, at age 80, continues to share the message of his life. Don’t let anything get in your way.

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in Guantanamo Bay.And that is the es-

sential difference between us and the civilized world. While the civilized world is rational, not easily swayed and would only act based on facts, we act out of emotions. And these emo-tions are always either eth-nic, religious, political or self-interest based. We put our hearts over our heads. We are hardly rational; we hardly ever make any ef-fort to get facts before we hit the streets, or the air-waves.

We do not ask ques-tions; we do not question motives as long as our ethnic, religious and self-ish interests are served. We act with our heart instead of our head. We judge someone based on an “offense” he has not committed. We have so much distrust and lack of confidence in ourselves. We believe that anyone leading us who is not of our tribe or religion must

have a hidden agenda to either Islamize us, north-ernize us or marginalize us. And this mind-set de-fines our relationship and how we see things.

That is why any time those who actually com-mitted offence while in office are being brought to account, we often ask “are they the first? What of A, Y and Z who were there before? Why not start with them? Indeed, why not start the probe from Lord Luggard? We often ask these questions when those of our own are involved. This is how we roll in this country. So much ignorance, even among the educated. Little wonder we often fall easy prey to the likes of Nmadi Kanu, some category of pastors, imams and any-one and everyone who has a very smooth tongue.

But I digress. Ibori was acquitted of corrup-tion by our court. But the UK justice system thought

otherwise. They arrested him, tried him and jailed him, thus making a non-sense of our justice sys-tem. Ibori has now served out his jail term and has been released. But he has equally been arrested on another charge, and I have not heard that anybody in the UK is making needless noise about his release and re-arrest. Nor is anybody protesting. This is because they know as a people what corruption can do to a nation. So they go to great length to eschew it like cancer. In our case, we actually extol corrup-tion. That is why someone would be so shameless as to celebrate Ibori’s release from a UK prison and even question if the UK had been fair to him. This is the same thing they did when D.S.P Alamieseigha jumped bail in the UK and landed the creeks of Delta with funfair.

It is only in Nigeria, a lawyer who has not won

a single case in court since he left law school would busy himself wailing about human right abuse even when the facts are clear to him. He didn’t wail when the looting brigade were busy looting and deny-ing the rest of us our own rights through corruption.

These pathetic wail-ers seem to have now tak-en their wailing to a new level. They now do ev-erything to make the gov-ernment fall. They now cook up stories, engage in misinformation and dis-information. They do not care about Nigeria and her people; they only care about what they get out of her. This is perhaps what my friend Lawrence Ibeh meant when he wrote that “…...they are busy now supporting, sympathizing and entering into an un-holy alliance with corrupt people in order to under-mine the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s drive to curb corruption”.

Have a Heart. The deeply personal song has a strong message for Canadian youth, reminding them to stay true to themselves.

“We're committed to creating opportunities for young people to discover a love of music. Music moves us, teaches us, and adds

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Subject: Press / Community Release

Topic: Oakville Mi-nority Group Lauds On-tario on Black History Month

Release Date: Mon-day February 22, 2016

A minority commu-nity development group has congratulated Pre-mier Kathleen Wynne and the government and parliament of Ontario for passing a new legislation to recognize February as Black History Month, making it just the third province in Canada to give Royal Assent to the increasingly popular tra-dition after British Colum-bia and Quebec.

In a Press and Com-munity Release circu-lated by Kay Alabi, the Executive Director at the Oakville-based communi-ty development and me-dia outfit, Visible Minor-ity Radio & TV Network (VMRTN), Ontario au-thorities need to be com-mended for doing what he calls “walking the walk” rather than merely “talk-ing the talk” of giving the teeming minorities of the most populous province

in Canada a sense of be-longing. .

The statement es-pecially congratulated Mr. Michael Coteau, the current Minister of Tour-ism, Culture and Sport for following up on such a history-making accom-plishment and having his name recorded for poster-ity.

According to Mr. Alabi, the current reality of Canada being a fast-developing multicultural nation cannot be swept under the carpet, espe-cially with the reality of Toronto being the 2nd most culturally diverse city in the world, (af-ter Miami in the United States of America), and other Canadian cities swarming with new im-migrants who have been hit by the “bug” of Can-ada’s attractiveness as their new home of choice.

Black History Month, also known as African-American His-tory Month in America, is an annual observance in Canada and other coun-tries like the USA , and the United Kingdom for remembrance of impor-tant people, accomplish-ments and events in the history of the African di-aspora Black community. I t is celebrated annual-ly in February in Canada and the USA, October in the UK.

The tradition to rec-ognize February as Black History Month and honor Black Canadians started In 1995 after the House of Commons passed a motion by prominent pol-itician and black activist, Ms. Jean Augustine, rep-resenting Ontario’s Etobi-coke—Lakeshore riding. The Senate followed suit in 2008 for Canada’s of-ficial recognition after it unanimously passed a motion moved by Senator Donald Oliver.

Visible Minority Radio and TV Network (VMRTN) is a not-for-profit Corporation regis-tered with Industry Can-ada with headquarters in the beautiful and fast-growing Town of Oakville and satellite locations and

partnerships in the Great-er Toronto Area (GTA).

Its mandate is to serve and help to build the capacity of the minor-ity population in the fol-lowing areas of life: : Se-nior and Elderly services; Environmental Aware-ness; Newcomer Referral and Information; Sup-portive and Peer Counsel-ing; Age/ Sex-appropriate social programs; Drugs/ HIV / AIDS programs; After-school program for kids; Crime Prevention; Single Mothers, etc.

Furthermore, the agency uses the tools of electronic media in ad-dition to social media and direct community engagement in a holistic manner to reach out to its targets in a language-

appropriate and ethni-cally conscious manner to accomplish its goals.On the aspect of partnership and affiliation, VMRTN belongs to the African Executive Directors Fo-rum under the auspices of Ontario Council of Agen-cies Serving Immigrants (OCASI), the Oakville’s CORE group as well as the Trillium Chapter of the Society of Association Executives (CSAE).

Talks are ongoing for more collaboration, including with the Alter-native Planning Group (APG), a City of Toronto

- sponsored and funded collective of the most populous minority groups in Toronto whose mem-bership comprise the Chi-nese Canadian National Council – Toronto Chapter (CCNC-TO), Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) and His-panic Development Coun-cil (HDC), African Cana-dian Social Development Council (ACSDC).

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DATE: JAN. 23, 2016 Five Things You Should Know About Your Underwear

How the winter season may affect your petBy Naomi Lazarus

Every day of our lives, we make one decision

or the other but there is one you make often than others – deciding what you should wear under your clothes. Most times, it is said that the type or quality of lin-gerie you use reveals the type of person you are. It is something that mostly only you see and if you really feel good about yourself, then you should not have any issues buying the best lingerie for yourself. There-

fore, if you don’t already know, here are five things you should know about your lingerie. They are as follows:

Wear It For Your-self: Some women make the mistake of ignoring the fact that it is more important to dress up for themselves than doing it for the sake of others. This simply means that if you are not com-fortable in it, don’t wear it. This applies to your lingerie. Only buy it if you are com-fortable in it. It is an added bonus if you look good in it

which of course, you would as long as you are comfort-able.

Bright Is Not Al-ways Beautiful: Unlike what you may think, going for brightly coloured lingerie is not always the best. You should mostly stick to the classics which are white, black, and nude. They are even more beautiful if they are a bit lacy at choice spots. If you need to add some co-lour to your collection, pas-tels or darker shades are better. So, instead of that hot pink, go for baby pink

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(NC) As a pet parent, you're most likely concerned about your animal's well-being. From slush and snow, to ice and frigid temperatures, harsh Canadian winters bring new challenges, especially for pets that are used to spending time outdoors. Pet parents must be respon-sible for continuing to provide an active lifestyle for their animals while protecting them from harm's way.

Nutram Pet Products shares seven things to consider during the winter sea-son to ensure your pet's wellness:

1. Fur alone cannot keep your pet warm. Animals suffer from weather ex-tremes the same as humans. Especially during blizzards and storms, keeping your pet inside a warm, dry home is the

best solution.2. Provide your pet with a year-

round diet that will improve their well-ness. Nutram recipes offer a holistic and nutrition-first approach to assisting with digestion, immunity boost, weight con-trol, mobility, and other special wellness needs for your pet at any life stage.

3. Don't stop exercising with your pet in the winter. Instead, take short, frequent walks in the daylight instead of extended excursions.

4. Do not leave your pet alone in the car. Just as a car acts as a microwave in the heat, it acts as a refrigerator in the winter, which could cause harm and even lead to death.

5. Outdoors, pets face dangers from

road salts, chemicals, antifreeze, and poi-sons. Be sure to wash your pet's paws with a warm cloth after being outside. Keep all toxic containers locked up and clean spills immediately.

6. Outdoor cats will naturally seek warmth, and most often this means near the warm engine of a car. Be sure to dou-ble check under the car before starting your engine.

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and instead of purple, go for pale lavender. This is be-cause they are softer.

Take Your Bra A Notch Further: When it comes to your lingerie, you can take it a notch further. This means that just as you buy multiple pairs of trou-sers, shirts, and tops in dif-ferent designs, you should also do same for your bra. There are lots of variations out there and includes the negligee, bustier, peignoir and others. Go ahead and

lavish yourself with these variations, you never know which of them would suit your figure more.

Maintain Proper Co-ordination: You might be surprised to hear this but women who wear under-wear in different colour as their dresses are considered to be lazy. If you don’t want to fall into this category, then you should take your time to ensure you main-tain proper coordination between your lingerie and

your clothes. For example, if you are putting on a grey dress, it is safer to wear grey underwear, the same goes for other colours.

It’s Okay To Show Off A Little: You remem-ber those times you put on tops that are a bit bogus? You don’t have to zip or button up all the day, you can leave a little opening at the top for a subtle reveal of your pretty underwear. Re-member, subtle and little are the words to watch.

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OgoanahMy name is Christiana Ogoanah and I am a Nigerian citizen. I live in Brampton Ontario with my family and I am a grade 10 student at Bramalea secondary school. I will be 16 in June, and I have a dream to achieve.

Miss Canada Globe Production has selected me as one of the delegates to participate in this year Miss Canada beauty contest, in Teen contestant category. I currently hold a couple of titles from Glass Slipper Princess Pageant, first place on Directors Choice and Divisional Supreme Royalty award. And if you help me, I know my dream will come true.

In order to participate the fee of 3,300 Canadian dollars has to be paid to Miss Canada Globe Production. I can’t gather that kind of money all by myself. That’s why I’m calling all of you, and especially my fellow Nigerians, to support me if you can. I would love to participate in this contest more than anything, but there’s little time left, and I can’t make it without your help.

For more information, you can contact me at 647-299-5721 or [email protected]. God bless you all, and thank you for helping me achieve my dream.

ChristianaI NEED YOUR SUPPORT

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