Ijaw youths react to intense search for crude oil in North

     
Ijaw Youth Council has lauded the accelerated search for oil in Northern Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari and northern governors but said the move is coming at the wrong time.

A statement signed by the council's spokesman, Eric Omare, said President Buhari-led government should focus on diversifying the nation’s ailing economy, especially areas where the different regions had comparative advantage over the other.

“Ordinary, the IYC would be excited by not just a Presidential directive to explore for oil in any part of the North but discovery of oil in the North. This is so because we strongly believe that the struggle of the people of the Niger Delta region for equitable distribution of oil money would become a reality once oil is found in the North as well.”

Long life depends on lifespan of parents – Study

      
A study, believed to be the largest of its kind ever conducted has shown that the longer parents live, the longer their offspring are likely to live.

The research, released on Wednesday by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in London, also indicated that children of long-lived parents are more likely to stay healthy in their 60s and 70s.

The eight-year study led by the University of Exeter also involved an international team of academics from the University of Cambridge.

Also involved in the research, are UConn Centre on Aging at UConn Health in Connecticut, U.S., the French National Institute of Health and the Indian Institute of Public Health.

The researchers noted that those with longer-lived parents had much lower rates of heart conditions and cancers.

They said that the study, funded by the MRC and involving almost 190,000 participants in the United Kingdom Biobank, was the largest of its kind.

“It found that chances of survival increased by 17 per cent for each decade that at least one parent lives beyond the age of 70.

“It found evidence showing for the first time that knowing the age at which parents died could help predict risk not only of heart disease, but many aspects of heart and circulatory health,’’ they said.

The researchers disclosed that they used data on the health of 186,000 middle-aged offspring, aged 55 years to 73 years, followed over a period of up to eight years.

The team found that those with longer lived-parents had lower incidence of multiple circulatory conditions, including heart disease, heart failure, stroke, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels.

It found that the risk of death from heart disease was 20 per cent lower for each decade that at least one parent lived beyond the age of 70 years.

In addition, those with longer lived-parents also had reduced risk of cancer; a seven-per cent reduced likelihood of cancer in the follow-up per longer-lived parent.

It, however, noted that although factors such as smoking, high alcohol consumption, low physical activity and obesity were important, the lifespan of parents was still predictive of disease onset after accounting for these risks.

Dr Janice Atkins, a Research Fellow in the Epidemiology and Public Health group at the University of Exeter Medical School and lead author on the paper, said that the research was intensive.

He said that the research showed that “the longer your parents live, the more likely you are to remain healthy in your sixties and seventies’’.

Atkins said that the study was built on previous findings published by the University of Exeter Medical School researchers earlier this year, which established a genetic link between parents’ longevity and heart disease risk.

Professor David Melzer, Leader of the Research Program, said that it had been unclear why some older people developed heart conditions in their 60s while others only developed these conditions much later in life or even avoid them completely.

He said that the research showed that, while avoiding the well-known risk factors such as smoking, it is very important that there are also other factors inherited from parents.

“As we understand these parental factors better, we should be able to help more people to age well,’’ Melzer said.

FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS: Saturday August 20th, 2016

    
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Tottenham v C. Palace          Home Win 2-0

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Angela Igoru: Queen Of Elegant Nigerian

   
Miss Elegant is a yearly pageantry organized by Kanys Multimedia to peace and unity and to showcase the beauty and brain of an average Nigeria girl.

It is my wish to share one of the contestants with you who will be slogging it out with other contestants, but she truly needs your votes to scale through. To vote for her click on the name below and like her pics Angela Igoru

Man kills his wife's lover after catching them in bed

   
Man allegedly kills wife’s lover after catching them on his matrimonial bed.

A 32-year-old man Ezekiel Igbokwe, has been accused of murdering his wife’s lover after catching both of them in a compromising position in his house.

The victim, 28-year-old Victor Olatundun, who was said to be secretly carrying out a romantic affair with Juliet Igbokwe, had been in bed with her when her husband suddenly returned from a business trip.

Husband and wife arrested after he killed his wife’s lover
An angry Ezekiel flew into a blind rage, picked up a cutlass and butchered his wife’s lover. The couple who have been married for 12 years, have three children together and lived in Ago-Iwoye, Ogun state.

Here’s what the accused said below:

“I travelled to Onitsha on July 25. When I came back on the 27th, I met a man inside my room and we started fighting. The man was stronger than I and I didn’t know what to do. Then I got a cutlass from my toilet and cut him in the hand. He died on the way, while policemen were taking him to the hospital, because their car ran out of fuel. I never suspected my wife of infidelity before the incident. It is not my intention to waste a soul like this. It is Satan’s work; if I really know it will be like this, I would have walked away.

My aim was to injure him, go to the police station and make a report. PWe did not quarrel before I went to Onitsha. She has three children for me. But I got to know my wife had one child before we met.”

Here’s what his wife Juliet said:

“I did not know what came over me to have allowed my lover access to my matrimonial home. When my husband and I quarrel, he would leave us and travel for months. I have known Olatundun for 6 months. My husband is not taking care of me. He always leaves me and the children to suffer at home.”

Hmmm…Na wa ooo!

I am sleeping with my blood sister out of no choice.Please I need help

      
I grew up in the village with my siblings- we are six in number, and I am the second child, my parents are poor, so it is not always easy for us to feed back in the village, so my father decided to send me to go and live with one of my uncles who stay in Calabar. Because of this, I dropped out from school just few months to write WAEC because there was no money to register me for WAEC, even though I was the most brilliant student in my class then, my academic dream died, but I never gave up, I continued to educate myself by reading every book I come across, but I couldn’t further and I didn’t learn any handwork or trade because my uncle I was living with turned me into his house boy- I cook, I clean, wash and do every household work even though he is married with grown up children who never helps with the household works.

After many years of living with my uncle, he refused to help me, and I was already 25 years, so my elder sister who struggled on her won to acquire university degree, and later got a job in Lagos, invited me to Lagos to learn trade in order for her to assist me startup a business that will help me become a man, so I packed my loads and travelled to Lagos to meet my elder sister.

I started living with my sister; she lives in one room self-content, so we share the same bedroom and bed, and it wasn’t a problem until one evening.

That evening, I returned from where I was learning how to sow clothe, and then I helped to boil rice for our dinner, we already have stew in the small fridge- she usually prepares stew in large quantity, which we do store in the fridge, to be used gradually. It wasn’t long, my sister returned from work too, it was around 7:30 pm when she returned, and I served her food, and also took my own, and we ate happily like before and I thanked her and then switched on the television to watch film, but it wasn’t long NEPA took light, so I went to bed to sleep, and by then, my sister was in the bathroom taking her bathe.

When she came out of the bathroom, she was tying only towel that covered only her breast, leaving her waist and all visible, I intentionally closed my eyes and tried to sleep before she then changed into her transparent night gown and then joined me on the bed.

Few minutes after she joined me on the bed, it started raining heavily with thunder strikes that even scared me, and unknowingly, my sister was also scared by the thunder storms, so she mistakenly out of fear held me so close from the back, and we stayed so close like that I began to feel her breast pressing on my back, and before I know it, my manhood began to stand.

I tried controlling myself by trying all my best to think of something to take my mind away from the sensation I was feeling deep in me, but it was as if she herself was also feeling the same sensation as she drew even closer and held me tight I froze with fear, and as time went on, I forgot she was my sister when she gradually slid her hands down my boxers (I don’t like sleeping with trouser) and held my already standing manhood, and that was how we started cuddling, kissing and caressing each other as the rain continued to fall heavily.

Within few minutes, I was on top of my elder sister, while she moaned and cried. We did it, and before morning, we had another sex as if we were lovers, and that was how it all began.

We couldn’t stop again, it was as if both of were helpless, so we continued even though we always regret after the act, but we can’t just stop. I have tried, but she will come begging, kneeling down and crying that I should not abandon her after all we have shared. Sometimes I feel like running away, but there is no place I can run to, and I am even afraid to tell anyone this because I am so ashamed of myself even as I write this.

To be honest with you, I have impregnated her thrice, and she aborted it to avoid our parents and people from knowing our secret. Now, my sister hates guys, even handsome rich guys keep asking her out, but she will never agree to date them, and same thing is happening to me- I can’t even admire any girl, I am just so used to her right now. Please is it not possible for us to marry? What would happen if we marry? She once told me that we can marry without any problem, and she almost convinced me when she asked me how the first human beings started producing children, that didn’t they married their blood relations?

Please someone should advice me, I am so confused right now, I need your helps.

Rio Olympics: Gay Olympics Worker Proposes To Her Brazilian Rugby Player Girlfriend On Pitch (Photos)

    
25-year-old Stadium manager Marjorie Enya, proposed to her Brazillian rugby sevens playing girlfriend Isadora Cerullo, 25 as the world watched on.

As the pair embraced in front of the cameras, local volunteers clapped, cheered and waved love heart balloons.

According to BBC Sport reporter Luke Denny, Ms Enya also made brief remarks about the power of love.

‘She is the love of my life,’ she said of her partner. ‘I wanted to show people that love wins’.

JAMB 2016 – ZONE-BY-ZONE RANKING

   
JAMB 2016 – Zone-by-Zone Ranking

According to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was conducted from Saturday, February 27 to Wednesday, March 23, 2016 with 1,592,305 registered candidates.

The examination was conducted throughout Nigeria and eight foreign centres, namely:

1. Benin Republic
2. Cameroon,
3. Côte d’Ivoire,
4. Ethiopia,
5. Ghana,
6. Saudi Arabia,
7. South Africa, and
8. United Kingdom

Plans for admission into tertiary institutions are ongoing.

However, nobody has ever published a report that shows how the six zones of Nigeria stand in this annual examination into Nigerian higher institutions. What the media usually publish are highlights of the top states and least states as regards number of candidates and similar information.

While filling the JAMB form, each candidate enters his or her state of origin, irrespective of state of residence. This helps JAMB to know how many people from each state registered for the exam, and which state is improving or decreasing or even stagnant in this annual examination that determines those who get admitted into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.

The zonal breakdown is as follows in alphabetical order:

Northcentral = 6 states plus Abuja FCT
S/n State No. of candidates

1. Benue 60,160
2. Kogi 57,694
3. Kwara 54,606
4. Nasarawa 18,231
5. Niger 18,231
6. Plateau 34,469
7. Abuja FCT 4,087

Total.     259,846

Northeast = 6 states
S/n State No. of candidates
1. Adamawa 15,615
2. Bauchi 19,462
3. Borno 15,697
4. Gombe 19,729
5. Taraba 15,672
6. Yobe 10,045

Total.   96,220

Northwest = 7 states
S/n State No. of candidates

1. Jigawa12,664
2. Kaduna 54,227
3. Kano 48,579
4. Katsina 23,522
5. Kebbi 8,947
6. Sokoto10,006
7. Zamfara 5,295

Total 163,240

Southeast = 5 states
S/nStatesNo of candidates

1. Abia 51,619
2. Anambra 77,694
3. Ebonyi 32,806
4. Enugu 69,381
5. Imo 104,383

Total335,883

Southsouth = 6 states
S/nStatesNo. of candidates

1. Akwa Ibom 62,369
2. Bayelsa 21,208
3. Cross River 29,763
4. Delta 78,854
5. Edo 66,107
6. Rivers 41,331

Total299,632

Southwest = 6 states
S/nStateNo. of candidates

1. Ekiti 34,398
2. Lagos 24,160
3. Ogun 62,973
4. Ondo 54,110
5. Osun 72,752
6. Oyo 72,298

Total320,691

2016 UTME – zone-by-zone ranking
Position Zone No. of states No. of candidates

6th Northeast  96,220
5th Northwest  163,240
4th Northcentral + FCT 255,759
3rd Southsouth  299,632
2nd Southwest  320,691
1st Southeast  335,883

2016 UTME – How the states stand on number of candidates

1. Imo – 104,383
2. Delta – 78,854
3. Anambra – 77,694
4. Osun – 72,752
5. Oyo – 72,298
6. Enugu – 69,381
7. Edo – 66,107
8. Ogun – 62,973
9. Akwa Ibom –  62,369
10. Benue – 60,160
11. Kogi – 57,694
12. Kwara – 54,606
13. Kaduna – 54,227
14. Ondo – 54,110
15. Abia – 51,619
16. Kano – 48,579
17. Rivers – 41,331
18. Plateau – 34,469
19. Ekiti – 34,398
20. Ebonyi – 32,806
21. Nasarawa – 30,599
22. Cross River – 29,763
23. Lagos – 24,160
24. Katsina – 23,522
25. Bayelsa – 21,208
26. Gombe – 19,729
27. Bauchi – 19,462
28. Niger – 18,231
29. Borno – 15,697
30. Taraba – 15,672
31. Adamawa – 15,615
32. Jigawa – 12,664
33. Yobe – 10,045
34. Sokoto – 10,006
35. Kebbi – 8,947
36. Zamfara – 5,295
37. FCT – 4,087 * (not a state)

Source of data used for the breakdown: JAMB

Valentine Strasser: Sad Story Of Ex-Sierra Leonean Head Of State Earning $46 As Pension

                       
He wears faded clothes, drinks palm wine and cheap gin, owns neither car nor house, lives with his mother and is widely feared to be losing his mind. He is Valentine Strasser, Sierra Leone’s head of state between 1992 and 1996. A washed up alcoholic and out-and-out shell of a man, Strasser, now 49, has the stoop of a much older man and earns $46 as pension.

Five days ago, an open letter to Mr. Ernest Bai Koromah, President of Sierra Leone, was published in Standard Press Times, one of the country’s major newspapers. Written by Donald Georgestone, the letter is the latest in a series of appeals to Koromah to intervene in Strasser’s desperate situation.

“The deteriorating condition of former Head of State of Sierra Leone and a former military officer, Valentine Strasser, who went to the battlefield to save the peaceful people of the Republic of Sierra Leone, is on the internet and it is seen all over the world. Mr. President, the whole world is waiting and watching to see if your government has respect for a former head of state of the country you are governing and a former military officer, who was shot in the line of duty,” the letter said.

Strasser, an army captain aged 25, became the world’s youngest head of state when he and six other soldiers led troops to overthrow President Joseph S. Momoh and established the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC). On seizing power, Strasser was hailed as a savior by many. He and his junta were known as the “boys” because they were mostly in their 20s. Strasser, however, was no saint.

            

He was widely criticized when his government executed 29 alleged coup plotters without trial. He promised to hand over to a democratically elected government in 1996, but was denied that opportunity by his second-in-command, Julius Maada Bio, who overthrew him in a bloodless coup in January of that year. Strasser was forced into exile and ended up in Britain, where the United Nations got him a scholarship to study Law at Warwick University. There were claims that the UN withdrew the scholarship after one year, but the university’s spokesperson at the time, Peter Dunn, said Strasser spent 18 months studying, after which he wrote to the institution that he had run out of money and was quitting school. He moved to London, where he worked as nightclub DJ, but soon found himself back in Sierra Leone. Unlike other former heads of state, he did not get a lavish reception of a mansion, generous pension and a retinue of bodyguards. A house he built for himself was burnt down by soldiers in 1999, forcing him to move to his mother’s house. The Sierra Leonean government has maintained that he is not entitled to any benefits beyond that which the army pays him because he took power by force.

Strasser was a colourful character. After taking over power, he declared St. Valentine’s Day an official holiday. At the 1993 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Limassol, Cyprus, Strasser arrived wearing a pair of sunglasses and a T-shirt with the words “Sunny Days in Cyprus”.

He currently spends most of his time, not in the company of former leaders, but with the common folk, with whom he plays draught and drinks palm wine.

Opinion: What if Kanu became President of Biafra Republic

    
Editor’s note: Following the successful outcome of the June 23 referendum which paved the way for Britain to withdraw its membership of the European Union the Indigenous People of Biafra at the launched a campaign on Biafra referendum tagged Biafrexit.

During referendums, a lot of lies are told, a lot of emotions are raised, and propaganda is spread like wide fire and expectations for those wanting out of a union is raised.

After the Brexit win in UK, many of the campaigners who convinced people to vote out have suddenly denied some promises and other issues they said would be solved if United Kingdom exited the European Union.

What if Biafra becomes a success by next week

Let Me Be The Bad Guy! Let us agree for a second that Biafra becomes a success by next week and Mr Nnamdi Kanu is released from jail.

Do you honestly think a small boy from United Kingdom will become the President of Biafra- either you are delusional or you do not know how politics works.

You think all the top shots (business tycoons, politicians et al) will allow him become the president? You think big politicians in so called independent Biafra that were part of the Nigerian system (senators, governors etc) will allow a small boy that came from London to head their new nation?

Another spoiler alert: Let us now agree that Mr Nnamdi decides not to become the leader of Biafra, do you think politicians in Biafra will simply hand over power to one person without a fierce fight among themselves and possibly causing chaos and mayhem in the process?

But since I am a very positive and optimistic human being, let us now believe for a second that when Biafra succeeds in exiting Nigeria-getting a new leader will go well and perhaps the big politicians and militants in the region will simply shake hands, hug, kiss and then hand over power to one person.

Let us accept it will happen that way. What happens afterwards?

Reality check! Igbo’s are one of the tribes in Nigeria that hardly stay in their region. They are either in south-west, north, south-south or elsewhere doing business than remaining in their region. Millions of Igbo’s are spread across Nigeria with some not returning for years while other’s have had kids in another region without their children ever setting foot in Igbo land even when they reach adulthood. So what plans are there in place for the millions of Igbo’s spread across Nigeria that will probably be deported immediately?

Here are few of the many problems an Independent Biafra will have:

1. Unemployment: What plans does Biafra have for millions of their people (probably half of their population) returning back to Biafra from other regions? And what plans is there for those with existing unemployment that have been in the region?

In the case of an independent Biafra, every Igbo staying in different region will lose their jobs, shops, houses etc. They might be able to reclaim it afterwards when the heat settles and immigration process is agreed between regions in Nigeria and Biafra but then again, that will take so many years.

2. Housing crisis: how does an independent Biafra propose to accommodate influx of Biafran refugees coming in from other regions? At this current state, not everyone in south-east owns a house, so how do they plan to house millions of refugees? Or compensate them? Igbo houses and properties across Nigeria are worth billions of naira and they will probably lose most of it. Don’t the agitators care about their brothers plight.

3. Militancy: It is no news that there is grave this unity between Igbo’s and other tribes and even among Igbo’s themselves. So if succession of Biafra becomes a success today; there will be fierce disagreement between Igbo’s and other tribes. The militant in the Niger Delta region will also want to keep their oil and that means living a Biafran state poor without money to run her affairs.

4. Food crisis: It is no secret that the North supplies most needed food to the south-east and other part of the country. This can further be proven to be true by analyzing how every time there is low cultivation in the North (rice, tomato, etc). Nigeria will experience high food price across the country or shortages in some case.

An independent Biafra will probably live on food aid from United Nations and other donor countries until they stand on their own and just like Somalia that depends on aid. Biafra will also face such food crisis because Biafra can never be given aid will ever be enough for millions of Biafra but let’s agree Biafra have money to buy food.

How fast can they resolve their Oil crisis with Niger Delta so that they can swap oil for food with countries willing to do so? The above listed are just the minor problems Biafra is likely to have but here are the worst case scenario that might happen:

-War due to disagreement among Biafrans

-Famine due to lack of food.

-Deaths from war and famine.

This isn’t scare mongering rather they are many points to consider before committing oneself into self-destruction or suicide.

Nigeria may not be perfect but it is our country

Many have sacrificed a lot for the nation and if you feel gaining independent will make you better, perhaps you need to re-think harder.

You complain of under development yet it is one of your own (governors etc) that run your states. If places like Lagos, Kano etc can be developed (to some extent) by their governors, then ask yours’ questions and stop exporting your anger to where it shouldn’t be and start channeling it to the right source. You complain of marginalization yet you have absolute equal rights like every other Nigerian to own properties, study, get jobs and free movement.

What marginalization do you talk about? Not having an Igbo president? I thought in a democracy you get a president by voting and not by demanding it.

I thought a democracy deals with voting in majority of people’s choice, do you then expect an Igbo man to be appointed president out of pity?

Perhaps you need to go back and learn what marginalization truly is. What would you do in Biafra when every tribe complains for not having a president from their tribe?

Even US only recently had one black president since the creation of United States. The truth is that the main reason why most of the agitators campaign for an independent state isn’t because they truly believe Biafra would be a success more than Nigeria but rather they want Biafra because they are simply haters and intolerant human being who want to stay on their own (interacting with the agitators will show you how much hate they have for other tribes).

However, I believe not all of the agitators have such hate-some agitators have certain interesting reasons for wanting out but most definitely don’t. They say: ‘a word is enough for the wise’ but in the world of today, thousands of words and warning means nothing to many because we live in a world where people enjoy believing lies and living in a fantasy they know is far from reality.

I do not support Biafra succession because I believe that millions of lives would be ruined and once this is done, there is no turning back. However, sometimes I wished Biafra became independent so that the agitators spreading hate can go and realize many tribes in Nigeria are not begging anyone to stay in the union.

Source: Naij.com