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Thursday 23 July 2015
Plateau State Lawmakers Disrupt Session In A Show of Shame
Plateau State Lawmakers Disrupt Session In A Show of Shame
The sitting of the Plateau state House of Assembly was on Thursday
disrupted as lawmakers physically attacked each other before the
commencement of the session.
Journalists covering the assembly, as well as staff of the assembly, were sent out of the chambers before the fight started.
A source said most members argued over the content of the day’s “order paper”.
According to the source, the Speaker, Peter Azi, who represents Jos north west, had insisted that the first item on the “order paper” should be the reading of a letter from the governor, Simon Lalong, nominating transition committee chairmen for local government councils.
The argument that followed soon resulted in physical clashes that lasted for about 15 minutes before security personnel intervened. Chairs of the chambers were destroyed by the irate lawmakers.
No member of the assembly spoke with journalists on the matter, therefore, the main reason for the fight could not be ascertained.
Another source said members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had walked out when the speaker, Mr. Azi, attempted to read the letter from the governor.
The governor, Mr. Lalong, recently sacked the chairpersons of the 17 local government areas of the state ahead of the expiration of their terms in February 2017.
Councillors from the 17 council areas who were also sacked alongside their chairmen were beaten at the assembly complex on Wednesday, when PDP and APC supporters clashed over the dissolution.
Read How Gunmen Kidnaped 92-year-old Monarch In Bayelsa State
Read How Gunmen Kidnaped 92-year-old Monarch In Bayelsa State
Otobotekere, father of a former Commissioner for Science and Technology and former Chief of Staff, Bayelsa Government House, was abducted in Tombia community in Gbarain area of Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.
It was learnt that the monarch was seized by heavily armed men, numbering five, who stormed the community on Thursday morning.
The gunmen were said to have come to the area in a Toyota Camry car and shot sporadically into the air to scare away the residents.
The gun-totting kidnappers were said to have marched to the residence of the monarch where he was abducted at gunpoint.
An eyewitness, who craved anonymity, said the nonagenarian was dragged into his captors’ car and driven to the Amassoma-Tombia bridge where he was later transferred to a waiting speedboat with which they escaped into the creek.
He said the abductors in a bid not to leave any trace, set the car they came in with ablaze and went away with the speedboat.
Dame Patience Jonathan Humiliated At Port Harcourt Airport. Denied Access To VIP Lounge
Dame Patience Jonathan Humiliated At Port Harcourt Airport. Denied Access To VIP Lounge
Barely two months after the exit of her husband from office, former
First Lady and wife of immediate past president, Dame Patience Jonathan
has allegedly suffered ignominy and molestation at the hands of
security operatives and aviation officials at the Port Harcourt
International airport.
Dame Jonathan, who was on her way to the burial of her late Chief Security Officer (CSO), Tamuno Jacob Igbomie, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, was on Wednesday prevented from entering the VIP Lounge of the airport, a privilege she had enjoyed in the last 16 years.
The former First Lady arrived Port Harcourt International Airport and made for the VIP lounge as had been the norm and should still be accorded her given her status in the society. However, she was practically locked out and prevented from accessing the lounge.
An eye witness, who narrated the incident, said that efforts by the former president’s wife and her personal aides to pacify the security agents at the airport to allow the long known protocol etiquette stand were rebuffed as they stood their ground, insisting that they were acting on orders from Abuja,
New Telegraph further learnt that on her return from the burial, the same drama played out, prompting observers to ask if the presidency could give such a directive against the personality and family of the immediate past president.
The deceased former CSO to Patience Jonathan was allegedly shot dead by unknown assailants about three weeks ago.
Igbomie’s corpse was found in his Honda Accord car along Airport Road, Abuja with all his phones, wallet and other personal effects in the car untouched.
Diesel tanker collides with car on Shagamu-Benin express road this evening (see photos)
An accident occurred this evening at Delabo Junctiono, Shagamu-Benin express road between a diesel-laden tanker and a Nissan Pathfinder jeep. The tanker crossed to the other side of the road and ran into the Pathfinder jeep.
Reports say that car was coming from Babcock University High School graduation that was held today.
Inspite of the accident, people still risked their lives by scooping diesel from the tanker.
NYSC: Pregnant Women, Nursing Mothers, Post-Graduate Students Barred From National Service
NYSC: Pregnant Women, Nursing Mothers, Post-Graduate Students Barred From National Service
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has barred pregnant women,
nursing mothers and students engaged in postgraduate studies from
enlisting in the national service across the country, until they are
free to participate effectively.
Rising from a two-day pre-mobilisation workshop for the 2015 Batch “B” NYSC programme, held in Kaduna, Director-General of the NYSC, Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawunmi, stated that the exemption of pregnant women and nursing mothers, as well as post-graduate students from national service was because they would not be able to undergo the four cardinal programmes of the NYSC.
The four cardinal programmes include mobilisation, orientation, primary assignment and winding-up passing out parade.
In a communique, the NYSC also resolved that henceforth, pregnant women and children would no longer be allowed into orientation camps across the country for service under the scheme established by the Gen. Yakubu Gowon administration in 1973.
Arguing that prospective corps members must go through the four stages of national service to qualify to receive certificate of national service, Olawumi faulted a situation whereby prospective corps members, especially pregnant women and nursing mothers, would be absent from the stages of the national service, only to resurface for posting to their various places of primary assignments.
Meanwhile, the resolution workshop tagged: “ICT and NYSC Mobilization Process: Towards Eliminating Identified Challenges,” added that henceforth, documents for concessional posting request on marital or health grounds would be forwarded on-line as against the old practice of “bringing such to the NYSC headquarters in Abuja.”It noted that prospective corps members would henceforth be given the opportunity to choose their choice outside their socio-cultural and linguistic areas, using ICT solution.
This, according to the NYSC, is in a bid to tackle the problems of deluge of concessional request with which the scheme is inundated with regularly.
Read What Majek Fashek Says About The Effect Of Marijuana On His 'Joystick'
Read What Majek Fashek Says About The Effect Of Marijuana On His 'Joystick'
Nigerian Music Legend Majek Fashek in a recent chat with Encomium Weekly
addressed all the controversies trailing him,Read below.
It was in the news recently that Pastor Wole Oladiyun’s CLAM invited you for deliverance. Have you visited the church?
Yes, I went there yesterday (Wednesday, July 8). They said they want to help me out. That I should go to rehab, but I told them I don’t want to get depressed. Jesus is my Hero, my Lord and Saviour. He is the one that has seen me through up to this level. I told them to wait until I have released my record. I no wan enter hospital now, before somebody go inject me with bad injection.
How about the campaign to raise money for you that Monica Omorodion was doing?
Monica is my girl. I took her to United States, where she was my dancer and singer. She’s helping out, she’s trying to raise some money for me…she’s still raising the money. She’s still on it.
Tell us more about your Ogba, Lagos bungalow?
I have the bungalow already. It’s just for me to furnish it. It’s a three bedroom. There, I will be rehearsing with my musicians. If these young musicians like 2Face, Wizkid, P-Square can have mansions and their own houses, what about Majek? Am I their mates? I’m their father! I decided to get myself a bungalow. Wisdom teaches that we should cut our coats according to our fabric. So, I’m starting with a bungalow; from there, by God’s grace, I will buy a bigger house.
Is there any hope of you and your wife getting back together?
It’s up to my wife, if she loves me. She’s a woman, she won’t live forever. Nobody can, except God. If she loves her children, she will reunite with me so I can help them. It was the celestial church that confused her. They gave her wrong vision about me. The celestial church can’t try me any day, any time. I will attack them. I’m Laura, not celestial. I will burn them. I am equipped spiritually, you no see wetin I put there (points to a praying mat with a huge Bible and an Islamic talisman on it). If she’s smart, she will apologize. And when she does, I will take her back.
So, who’s taking care of your children now that she moved on?
My first son.
Shouldn’t they come to Nigeria and be with you?
Yeah, but before then I must be organized. They are now Americanized. I must have a generator in my house because they will need light. It’s what they are used to. Also, I must have cars for them to drive. They love cars. Bringing them here now is not good. But I will bring them here so they can feel the African sunshine and energy.
Do they really want to come to Nigeria?
They want to come to Nigeria very desperately.
They grew up in America?
Yes, they grew there. I baby-sitted them. My wife was working then and would come back at around six or seven in the evening. I would babysit them till she got back, after which I would go to the club. My third son really likes pizza, and I would go to the store to buy it with Coke. I took care of them, I’m a very responsible human being.
In our last interview, you said you went for rehab in America. How did that go?
Yeah, America helped me. Most American superstars go to rehab because they take cocaine, heroin and the likes which make them ‘too high’. So, they have to go to rehab. Rehab helps calm their brains, after which they go back to their business.
In your case, was it helpful?
Yes, it was helpful. I was ‘high’, but after rehab, I got my contract with Top Gun International Records, that’s Bob Marley’s label. I got it through Rita Marley (his wife) and an American woman, Cassandra. Rehab calms the brain so it won’t explode. It calmed me.
In rehab, they are normally warned not to go back to drugs, right?
Yes.
What did they say would be the repercussion?
Your brain go high again, and them go carry you go back there.
In your case, did you really quit after rehab?
I’m scared of rehab. Let me tell you what I did to escape the rehab. God gave me different knowledge of orisha, babalawo knowledge. My ancestral knowledge, which is what I’m using right now. I now drink akpeteshie. It’s the orisha idea I got.
What do native doctors use?
Akpeteshie! You don’t understand? I changed the programme of rehab to akpeteshie. That is what I drink, so, I don’t have to use foreign medication. It weakens the brain and the body. It’s medicine, but babalawos use akpeteshie.
So, you prefer akpeteshie to rehab?
I prefer akpeteshie in the sense that the white man’s drugs weakens your mind, you might not even be able to have sex.
(Cuts in) you mean during the period of the rehab?
Yes. I remember my manhood no dey raise. That’s why I went for akpeteshie. Let me tell you one truth, if you are married, you must have sex with your wife. If you cannot, she would divorce you or take her body elsewhere. So, I follow babalawo medicine.
You are saying it is better than foreign medication?
E better pass white man own. That one dey kill penis.
What do you take now?
I use African roots, ogogoro and igbo.
They help?
Yeah, they help my penis raise.
But does it calm you down like rehab would?
It calms down. It’s better than rehab. See, the white men are very dangerous. They degrade the babalawos. They claim their medicines are very good, that’s a big lie! If you have a headache now, and you take their medicine, the symptoms will still come back, am I right? But in the case of roots and herbs used by babalawos, you excrete everything. The sickness won’t come back
It was in the news recently that Pastor Wole Oladiyun’s CLAM invited you for deliverance. Have you visited the church?
Yes, I went there yesterday (Wednesday, July 8). They said they want to help me out. That I should go to rehab, but I told them I don’t want to get depressed. Jesus is my Hero, my Lord and Saviour. He is the one that has seen me through up to this level. I told them to wait until I have released my record. I no wan enter hospital now, before somebody go inject me with bad injection.
How about the campaign to raise money for you that Monica Omorodion was doing?
Monica is my girl. I took her to United States, where she was my dancer and singer. She’s helping out, she’s trying to raise some money for me…she’s still raising the money. She’s still on it.
Tell us more about your Ogba, Lagos bungalow?
I have the bungalow already. It’s just for me to furnish it. It’s a three bedroom. There, I will be rehearsing with my musicians. If these young musicians like 2Face, Wizkid, P-Square can have mansions and their own houses, what about Majek? Am I their mates? I’m their father! I decided to get myself a bungalow. Wisdom teaches that we should cut our coats according to our fabric. So, I’m starting with a bungalow; from there, by God’s grace, I will buy a bigger house.
Is there any hope of you and your wife getting back together?
It’s up to my wife, if she loves me. She’s a woman, she won’t live forever. Nobody can, except God. If she loves her children, she will reunite with me so I can help them. It was the celestial church that confused her. They gave her wrong vision about me. The celestial church can’t try me any day, any time. I will attack them. I’m Laura, not celestial. I will burn them. I am equipped spiritually, you no see wetin I put there (points to a praying mat with a huge Bible and an Islamic talisman on it). If she’s smart, she will apologize. And when she does, I will take her back.
So, who’s taking care of your children now that she moved on?
My first son.
Shouldn’t they come to Nigeria and be with you?
Yeah, but before then I must be organized. They are now Americanized. I must have a generator in my house because they will need light. It’s what they are used to. Also, I must have cars for them to drive. They love cars. Bringing them here now is not good. But I will bring them here so they can feel the African sunshine and energy.
Do they really want to come to Nigeria?
They want to come to Nigeria very desperately.
They grew up in America?
Yes, they grew there. I baby-sitted them. My wife was working then and would come back at around six or seven in the evening. I would babysit them till she got back, after which I would go to the club. My third son really likes pizza, and I would go to the store to buy it with Coke. I took care of them, I’m a very responsible human being.
In our last interview, you said you went for rehab in America. How did that go?
Yeah, America helped me. Most American superstars go to rehab because they take cocaine, heroin and the likes which make them ‘too high’. So, they have to go to rehab. Rehab helps calm their brains, after which they go back to their business.
In your case, was it helpful?
Yes, it was helpful. I was ‘high’, but after rehab, I got my contract with Top Gun International Records, that’s Bob Marley’s label. I got it through Rita Marley (his wife) and an American woman, Cassandra. Rehab calms the brain so it won’t explode. It calmed me.
In rehab, they are normally warned not to go back to drugs, right?
Yes.
What did they say would be the repercussion?
Your brain go high again, and them go carry you go back there.
In your case, did you really quit after rehab?
I’m scared of rehab. Let me tell you what I did to escape the rehab. God gave me different knowledge of orisha, babalawo knowledge. My ancestral knowledge, which is what I’m using right now. I now drink akpeteshie. It’s the orisha idea I got.
What do native doctors use?
Akpeteshie! You don’t understand? I changed the programme of rehab to akpeteshie. That is what I drink, so, I don’t have to use foreign medication. It weakens the brain and the body. It’s medicine, but babalawos use akpeteshie.
So, you prefer akpeteshie to rehab?
I prefer akpeteshie in the sense that the white man’s drugs weakens your mind, you might not even be able to have sex.
(Cuts in) you mean during the period of the rehab?
Yes. I remember my manhood no dey raise. That’s why I went for akpeteshie. Let me tell you one truth, if you are married, you must have sex with your wife. If you cannot, she would divorce you or take her body elsewhere. So, I follow babalawo medicine.
You are saying it is better than foreign medication?
E better pass white man own. That one dey kill penis.
What do you take now?
I use African roots, ogogoro and igbo.
They help?
Yeah, they help my penis raise.
But does it calm you down like rehab would?
It calms down. It’s better than rehab. See, the white men are very dangerous. They degrade the babalawos. They claim their medicines are very good, that’s a big lie! If you have a headache now, and you take their medicine, the symptoms will still come back, am I right? But in the case of roots and herbs used by babalawos, you excrete everything. The sickness won’t come back
Is this your advice to Nigerians?
Yes. What I want to tell Africans, not just Nigerians, is that they should believe in babalawo medicine. The white men’s medicine have side effects. When I was young, we used chloroquine. If you take it, your body would be itching you. All those drugs have effects. But don’t go to babalawo to kill your brother, use them for medication. They have the right medication.
What drugs were you taking?
I don’t have to tell you. That’s my personal secret.
Who’s a prisoner of conscience?
That’s the title of my first album. A prisoner of conscience is a man that has conscience and would not destroy his brother. Usman Dan Fodio once said, ‘Conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it’.
Master Jesus also said that only truth can set you free. Why would someone want to kill his brother? Or sister, or neighbours? Is it jealousy? Why not use well the talent that God gave you!
What’s the idea behind the album, Gangster Rasta?
Gangster Rasta is the album title. When I was in America, I was jailed for six months because I was hanging out with gangster Rastas. That’s why I called it gangster Rasta.
You were jailed for just hanging out with these gangster Rastas?
Gangster Rastas are hoodlums. They fight government like late Fela Anikulapo, they don’t follow the system. America has system, unlike here in Nigeria. America has law and order. But Nigeria has law, but no order. Gangster Rastas don’t follow order, they take their order from God, Eledumare.
How did you come out of that?
I was in jail for six months. I want people to know this because that corrected me. That’s why I got my ticket and left America about four years ago.
You’d be going back?
Yes, I will be going back next year to see my children. But I will be back, I won’t be staying there because they betrayed me. Instead of putting my energy into America, I will put my energy into Nigeria.
You mentioned during our last chat that you have $100,000 in an American bank, that’s a lot of money…
Yes, the money is even still multiplying. Let me tell you the story of that money. In Nigeria, it’s only COSON that’s helping artistes. In America, when they play your music on radio or TV, you’re paid royalty. So, whenever they play my music, they send it to my record company. My manager, who is a white man, keeps the cheque for me until I go to America. Unlike in Nigeria where you have to bribe your way to get your song played on radio. That’s why we have COSON. Tony Okoroji is working for us. Since I came back, he has given me more than N200,000 for my songs played on air. He’s fighting for artistes.
Why can’t the money be transferred to you here in Nigeria?
See, I’m a gambler. My manager said he won’t transfer it to me because he knows I’m a gambler. I dey dash money, I dey spend money anyhow. When I get to America, I’ll have access to the money.
Finally, what do you think of Buhari and his government?
I’m a Muslim, Christian and Buddhist and I pray for Buhari every day. He is our last hope. All these politicians are thieves, Buhari is not. I can say that after my investigation. I hated Buhari before because he arrested Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, my oga, but I investigated and found that he is righteous. I am praying for him, so that he can help us.
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