Audu’s inconclusive death, Mugabe’s wheelchair by Reuben Abati

Very interesting article by former presidential spokesperson, Reuben Abati...read below...

“You look sleepy”

“My brother, let’s just say I slept at a fuel station, looking for fuel.”

“For which of the women in your life, because I hear these days, to please a woman in Nigeria, you must be ready to supply the three major things lacking in the land: money, fuel, and happiness.”

“Leave that matter, please. My condolences on the death of your man, Governor Abubakar Audu”

“We thank God for his life. He played his part.”

Super Ministers and Other Stories by Reuben Abati

"Have you congratulated our new Ministers?”

“I am still thinking about it, actually. I don’t know whether to congratulate them or to commiserate or to pity some of them. They have merged Ministries that need not be merged. Some Perm Secs are now floating. Six months and this is it?”

“What kind of talk is that? You have come again oh”. 

Lord Lugard’s Magic and Flora Shaw’s Spell - by FFK

In an article titled ‘Lord Lugard’s Magic and Flora Shaw’s Spell', former PDP Presidential spokesperson, Olufemi Olu-Kayode said Nigeria needs a lot of prayers. He said the name Nigeria has some satanic premonition which only prayer can solve. According to him, Lord Luggard and his wife Flora Shaw, who gave Nigeria her name, were occultic worshipers. He said the literal meaning of Nigeria is “the area of darkness”.

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Consider this case: A woman sent her teenage daughter to buy something accross the road. Suddenly she heard a shout and people running in a direction. A vehicle has just knocked down the girl crushing her badly. The mother agitated by that unusual noise hastened towards the door. A male neighbour who knew what just happened to her daughter accosted her at the door. She asked anxiously what the noise was about. He calmed her down saying: "Its an okada that fell down. Its not about you." But just before he finished a woman rushed in and shouted : "It concerns you o.. the head of your daughter had just been smashed to pieces by a car ..."

Obviously, the mother of the ill-fated girl fell flat, fainted and later found to have suffered brain injury. She was paralysed, never the same again.
The husband sued the woman for breaking such bad news carelessly. The family was awarded damages.
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Nigerian student Victor Olalusi, scores 5.0 GPA in Russia, first in the world

 

The Federal Ministry of Education on Wednesday in Abuja honoured Dr Victor Olalusi who scored 5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) in the Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow (RNRMU) in 2013, arguably the first in the world.
Olalusi, who was the best graduating student in the whole Russian Federation in 2013, studied in RNRMU under the Russia-Nigeria Bilateral Education Agreement.
Olalusi previously had the best WAEC result in 2004, First Class  Architecture (FUTA) -2005. JAMB Best Science Student (JAMB score 322) – 2006. Cowbell Prize Award – 2006. Medicine First Merit list (OAU) – 2006. Highest OAU Post UME (score – 325)  – 2006.
Speaking at the event, Dr MacJohn Nwaobiala, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry said a lot of Nigerian students were brilliant but Olalusi was a genius.
He said Olalusi had become an ambassador not only to the ministry but to Nigeria and Russia.

Exclusive Interview: Emmanuel Adegboye – Founder of Bus Stop

 
The 2015 MITx Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp is set to be held between 23 & 28 August 2015. The bootcamp will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and will host 5 startups hailing from Nigeria.
According to MITx, 50 candidates were selected from 24 countries at an acceptance rate of 0.08 per cent. Amongst the 5 is Emmanuel Adegboye’s startup, Bus Stop.

1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your background?
I have a background in Engineering Physics. From there I went on to get postgraduate degrees in Remote Sensing/GIS, and later Environmental Control and Management. I also hold a degree in Customer Relationship Management and a Project Management Certification.
My interests however span from computing to management and even to the social sciences. I am especially passionate about technology, how it can be deployed to solve problems on the African continent, and the policies that help create an enabling environment. I play an active role in the African geospatial industry and I currently serve in the capacity of Secretary for the Education, Technology Development and Outreach technical committee of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment. I am also an active member of the Space Generation Advisory Council, the youth forum of the African Leadership Conference on Space Science and Technology, and the ISPRS students’ consortium.
I manage to combine all this with undergoing management training at Venture Garden Group. It is an intensive leadership succession programme intended to groom the next set of leaders for the group’s various entities. Considering the entrepreneurial nature of the organisation, my daily routine cuts across everything from business development and project management to systems development and learning about investor relations.
I am also part of several efforts at promoting entrepreneurship and social innovation in Nigeria including being Project Manager for TEDxIfe (a community of innovators and arguably the best-run independently organised TED event in Nigeria), Events Manager for Lagos Startup Week, Co-Director for the Lagos Chapter of Startup Grind (a community of entrepreneurs actively educating, inspiring, and connecting startup founders to partners) amongst others.

A mother's love

 
This is a true story of Mother’ s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake. After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head. With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure. He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “ The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’ s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up. The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said ,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’ s love for her child!! Dont forget to click the share button..

TRUE HEROES OF NIGERIA ARE IN THE GRAVE!

Trailers have killed so many. I wonder who killed more people Boko haram or evitable road accidents especially by trailers and fallen containers.
Worse axis of evil prevails as surremptous murderers. Do we raise army to stop these?
1. Cults: 10 undergraduates die daily unnecessarily through cults in our Schools and universities. = 3,600 per year.
2. Roads: 2 persons die each day in each state & Abuja from Road accidents especially caused by trailers. i.e. 2 x 37 x 365 per yr = 27,010 per yr.
3. Fake drugs & Health: 5 persons die each day in each state and abuja from fake drugs and inefficient, inadequate health facilities. 67,525 per year.
4. Women in birth: average of 2 deaths per day in each state and Abuja reported of women in child birth. No one is speaking for underaged girls who suffer Vistula debilities as they try to give birth in rural areas.2x37x365 = 27,010 per year.
5. Death from avoidable poverty:
At least 5retirees and their children die daily from poverty , sickness, malnutrition etc. as various governments steal also their pension money to pay thugs for election etc. 5x37x365 = 67,525 per year.
6. Death of New born babies.
Average of 5new babies die at birth plus 5abortions daily in each state and Abuja. 135,050 per year.
(A grievous sign that womanhood is feeling the pangs of oppression in this land in silence.)
7. Malaria deaths.
At least 5 killed per day by malaria. And the cost of tratment is above the minimum wage which many states havent paid. i.e. 67,525 per year.
8. Robbery, kidnapping, rape, prejudicial killing and police accidential discharge.
3persons die daily from these in each state and Abuja i.e. 40,515 per year.
9. Pollution.
2 deaths at least in each day in each state and abuja. i.e. 27,010 per year.
With least statistics we have a total of 462,770 or approximately 500,000 (half a million) persons going into early grave unnoticed and not an issue in our State or Federal parliarment or Senate.
Lets make half a million coffins and arrange them at Eagle square so that our blind political leaders will hear. They are too numb to reality by virtue of greed and corruption.
I foresee a generation of youths who shall someday forsake this insanity. I see a younger generation that shall CHOOSE to make positive impact on everyone they meet and everywhere they go. youths who will be a solution provider and not a part of the problem to be solved. i see a new generation of youth who would be a role model worthy of emulation, who will do the right thing at all times regardless of who is doing the wrong thing. I see a generation of youth who will consciously build a great legacy starting now, today and everyday.

By Israel Aanu

Meet Bayo Omoboriowo; President Buhari Official Photographer who grew up from Mushin Lagos

 
Bayo Omoboriowo is from Ekiti State.
He was born without silver spoon, he tasted poverty, experienced the low esteem
Poverty inflicts on its victims but never allowed his past to define him,  he decided to change his story and that he has successfully been able to do looking at what he has done for himself within a space of 6 years
He took his destiny by his hand, discovered his passion which was photography, refined and turned it to a business and income making project One thing you have to give to this young man is this, he never allowed the distraction that being a youth bring to distract him from his focus
he graduated from University Of Lagos in 2009 and since then he has only been doing one thing,
Photography and today, he is the official photographer of our dear President
Bayo is one of the 20 man delegation that followed Buhari to Germany this morning,
seeing his name on that list brought smile to my face, this shows how far he has gone and where God has taken him to.
I could not have been prouder of my generation and the envelop we are pushing, the stories we are changing and the boundaries we are taking in spite of the difficulties of being a Young Nigerian.
Bayos’ life is teaching young people what is possible and doable; a man born in poverty at Mushin Lagos 28 years ago is flying with the President all over the world today because of his
passion and determination to give meaning to his life, what then is your excuse?
Life is too short to just waste on unnecessary gallivanting. Discover your passion, key into it
and start now. You don’t need capital to start, you just need few people who believe in your passion and would do anything to see it come to fruition. Your network determines your net worth; those friends around you have a lot to do with your tomorrow, more than you know.
Bayo's of this world are passing a compelling message to young people to leave every other thing that is distracting them and run with their dreams.  Lives and destinies are tied to that dream and that is the more reason you need to take that bold step and believe in your ability to do it
Again let me emphasize, Bayo started from the bottom, he started with zero capital.  He had nothing except his incredible belief in God and the dream he has and nothing more .I wish you all the best in this journey and hope to celebrate your journey tomorrow
2015 ...increase your value!
credit: Chukwudi Iwuchukwu