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September 28, 2018
A serving member of the House of Representatives from Kwara state, Hon. Funke Adedoyin, has reportedly died
Late Hon. Funke Adedoyin
 Hon. Funke Adedoyin, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Irepodun/Isin Ekiti/Oke Ero constituency of Kwara state, has been reported dead.
According to a Daily Trust report, it was gathered that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker died while treating an ailment suspected to be cancer.
The death, which reportedly occurred on Friday, was not yet announced by the family as it was being kept away from her aged father.


A source close to the family said that the deceased had a cancer operation about two years ago, while she had been in and out of the country for medical attention since then.

The source, who said a call was put across to the deceased last week, added that he suspected something was missing when she did not pick or return the call.

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September 28, 2018
Mr Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress has been declared by INEC as the Governor-elect of Osun State.
Gbenga Oyetola
The Independent National Electoral Commission declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gboyega Oyetola, as the Governor-elect of Osun State, Punch Metro reports.
The rerun of the Osun State governorship election was held in seven polling units across four council areas on Thursday with the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gboyega Oyetola, beating the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Ademola Adeleke.
The returning officer, Prof. Joseph Fuwape, declared that the APC candidate, Oyetola, won the governorship election by scoring a total number of 255,505 votes while Adeleke of the PDP polled 255,023 votes.
This was, however, met with protests by Adeleke, the PDP, and the Coalition of United Political Parties, among others.
Adeleke had won the main election on Saturday with 353 votes after polling 254,698 against Oyetola’s 254,345. On Thursday, both candidates relied on 2,637 votes in the seven units where the Independent National Electoral Commission had declared rerun to win the final contest.
The rerun was held in one polling unit in Oyere in Ife-North, one polling unit in Olode in Ife-South, another polling unit in Osi, Ife-South, three polling units in Orolu, Kajola Local Government Area of the state and one polling unit in Osogbo.
In Oyere, APC had 126 votes while PDP had two votes. In Olode, APC scored 283 votes with the PDP scoring 15 votes. In Osi, APC had 172 votes while the PDP had 21 votes. In Ifon, Orolu, APC had 111 votes against PDP’s three votes. In Gbogbo, Orolu, APC had 41 while PDP scored 64 votes. Also in Idiya, Orolu, the APC scored 128 votes against the PDP’s 55 votes.
In Osogbo, the APC scored 299 votes while the PDP scored 165 votes. In all, APC scored 1,160 to beat the PDP which scored 325 in the rerun. When added to the result of the main election on Saturday, APC had a total of 255, 505 votes against PDP’s 255,023.
In the run-up to the rerun of the election, the PDP alleged that INEC shortchanged its candidate in some of the council areas by announcing figures that were lower than what Adeleke actually scored.
It claimed that the actual margin of the win against Oyetola in the first election was 4,740 and not 353. The party said that INEC added 2,000 votes to what the APC polled in Osogbo and 1,387 to what it scored in Olorunda. The party also alleged that 1,000 votes were deducted from what Adeleke scored in the Ayedaade council area.
The candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Iyiola Omisore, who came a distant third in the Saturday’s election, however, became an important element in the Thursday’s rerun because some of the polling units fell under the area of his strength. He was visited by a high powered Federal Government delegation which included the APC chairman, Adams Oshiomhole; Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun; his Oyo State counterpart, Abiola Ajimobi;  Ekiti State Governor-elect, Kayode Fayemi;  and Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed.
Although he also met some leaders of the PDP, which included the party’s presidential aspirants, Bukola Saraki,  and Atiku Abubakar, Omisore caved in under the FG pressure as he announced that he would support the APC in the rerun.
In areas where the rerun was held in Ife-South and Ife-North, PDP supporters alleged that they were barred by thugs from reaching the polling units to cast their votes for Adeleke. They also alleged that police watched as they were beaten by the thugs, adding that the result of the election did not reflect the wish of the electorate.
In Olode, the PDP agent was absent at the polling unit. One of our correspondents who were at the polling unit witnessed the beating of two people who claimed that they had come to vote. Although there was a heavy presence of armed security men at the unit, the hoodlums acted without hurdle. It was also observed that voters were hugely induced to vote at the polling unit.
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September 27, 2018
His presidential ambition has taken him away from his family as his 15 year old son who has missed his father tries to reach him on WhatsApp chat application.
 
Fela Durotoye
Fela Durotoye has shared an emotional chat he had with his son who is praying he wins the next presidential election in Nigeria.
The businessman and motivational speaker has been touring the nooks and crannies of this country creating awareness about his political ambition.
Fela Durotoye is contesting for the presidential seat under the platform of the Alliance For A New Nigeria, ANN.
Read his recent note below about his son, Demilade:
"Just got this message from Demilade, my 15 year old son & it reminded me of not only my sacrifice to put myself on the line to deliver a #NewNigeria but the sacrifice YOU make everyday, to give your children the best. 

For the Moms & Dads who leave home before their kids wake up & return after they’ve gone to bed. 

The entrepreneur who has no days off because they can’t afford to. 

The woman who sits in traffic, hoping to sell enough plantain to have enough to restock & a little left to give her children something to eat. .

The Dads who work 9 to 5 and have to use their cars as cabs so they can feed their families. 

To every single mom who has to be both Mom & Dad. 

To the parents who starve & deprive themselves so your kids don’t go to bed hungry. 

Your sacrifice won’t be in vain and someday soon, your kids will thank you for putting them first and tell you how proud they are of you.. .

You are the real heroes. 
Tag someone whose sacrifice is inspiring & worth celebrating."
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September 27, 2018
A hawker who went viral after he gave out all of his Gala to prisoners for free in the city of Lagos, has shared his touching story.
Ibere Ugochukwu
 
A roadside hawker in Lagos stunned the world some time ago when he was seen giving out all of his Gala to prisoners for free.
 
In fact, he ran after the van that carried the prisoners and kept pushing his merchandise right into the eager hands of the prisoners through tiny holes.
 
Now, the man has been identified as Ibere Ugochukwu. He was also made to tell his touching story about why he did what he did. 
 
Ugochukwu was traced by the handlers of "Humans of New York", a popular page on Instagram dedicated to telling the touching stories of people around the world.
 
Below is what "Humans of New York" shared on Instagram about told Ugochukwu:
 
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Shortly after arriving in Lagos, my guide showed me a story that was being passed around Nigerian social media. There was a woman who’d been stopped in traffic behind a crowded prison truck, and she witnessed a food vendor running alongside, shoving his food between the bars of the window-- into the hands of the prisoners inside. By the time he was finished, he’d given away all his food. The man was himself in desperate circumstances. He was sleeping outdoors. But despite having hardly anything to give, he gave away all his merchandise. Amazingly, my guide Kola was able to locate the man. His name is Ibere Ugochukwu.
 
And this is his story below:
 
“A few years ago I worked as an apprentice in a cosmetics shop. I was supposed to receive a payment at the end of my term. But I was warned by the other employees that the owner would find a reason not to pay me. He’d always invent reasons to fire his boys right before their payment. So I made the decision to quit.
 
"But when I told him, he dragged me to the police. He told them lies about me. He told them I’d stolen so much money. And they tortured me.
 
"They tied my hands and legs and they hung me from the ceiling. They beat me. I went deaf from all the slaps. For ten days I was given no food. My fellow prisoners would share little bits of their meals when they were finished.
 
"But some days I saw nothing. Honestly I was about to die. And I started to pray to God. And on the tenth day, the guards decided that it would cause too much trouble to let me die.
 
"They told my employer: ‘After what we did to him, he must be innocent. Because he’d have confessed if he was guilty.'
 
"They released me into the world like a madman. And I’ve carried the memory ever since. I promised myself that if I ever found someone in a similar situation, I would help.
 
"So when I learned that prisoners pass down this road, I chose to hawk in this location. I waited until I finally saw the truck, and I pushed all my food through the bars.
 
"My fellow vendors couldn’t believe it. They asked me who would pay me for the food. I told them: ‘I didn’t do it for any man. I did it because of what God did for me.’”
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September 27, 2018
There are rumours that Governor Ambode is ready to play dirty with his former principal, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his bid to get the party's ticket.
 
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode
 
Concerned members from All Progressives Congress (APC), particularly those from former Commissioner for Establishment, Babajide Sanwo-olu, camp, Babajide Olusola Sanwon-olu Campaign Organisation (BOSCO), have began expressing worries over how an alleged power house was planning to cause violence in the state through the governorship primary election of the party, expected to hold in the state on Saturday.
 
They claimed that there is need for authorities to tighten up on security and that the state Governor, Akinwumi Ambode, and Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, must be cautioned against encouraging violence ahead of the primary election in which the governor is a contender, alongside others.
 
However, the worries, which were not made public, came after Ambode was said to have allegedly began the disbursement of N5.5 billion for securing of the APC’s governorship ticket.
 
Although, hours before the alleged N5.5 billion secret disbursement, Ambode expressed his readiness to participate in the primary election of the party despite pressure from some quarters that the governors should back-down on his second term ambition.
 
Sources from the BOSCO who spoke to The Guild on the development said that their concerns were on safety of people in the state as attention of the party had been brought to desperation on side of contenders.
 
One of the sources explained that the readiness of Ambode to go though the primary was commendable but that such acceptance should not happen with intimidation.
 
He claimed that Ambode and Lagos CP were associates and that the governor may want to capitalize on the opportunity to get the governorship ticket through the back doors.
 
He raised that there was need for the commissioner of police immediate transfer since his ally of Ambode and that he cannot be trusted.
Meanwhile, a source from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), who confided in The Guild on Wednesday afternoon, disclosed that Ambode is nursing a sinister plot, with plan to get the ticket through inappropriate means.
 
“Remember I told you thar Ambode and his people want to get the ticket through back doors and they plan to scatter the primary election.

“His hope is that Abuja will now give him ticket. That is what the governor is working on. Enough is said, kindly pass the message to people and let them be vigilant”.
 
Besides, from Sanwo-olu’s camp, another close associate accused the governor of not been with party from the onset and that a passage from his statement issued earlier, which only recognized 20 local government areas and 245 wards, was an indication that Ambode has ulterior motives.
 
He raised alarm that trouble was brewing ahead the primary election since the governor has both CP and power on his side and that calling Ambode to order would safe the state from unforeseen chaos.
 
However, in preparation for the primary election, the State Chairman, APC, Tunde Balogun, invited chairmen of local government areas and that of councils’ chairmen to a crucial working meeting which would be holding at the party’s secretariat in Lagos.
 
In a statement released on Wednesday by the state secretary, Dr Wale Ahmed, the chairman said that it was important the party get the primaries venues for each L.G.A on the basis of 20 Local Government and for each ward on the basis of 245 wards.
 
According to him, all concerned should please meet later today to harmonize and agree on the said venues and submit them tomorrow morning.
 
“I implore you to consider as urgent and please comply”.
 
In the face of tough period for the governorship primary contenders, another revelation reaching The Guild from various sources was that one of believed political daughter, Kemi Nelson, and another political son, James Falake, of National Leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, were working for Ambode and that they were also against their god father.
 
They alleged that the duo were working together to have Ambode return to office and that both Nelson and Falake move were general knowledge.
 
Meanwhile, it was gathered that Ambode, during a meeting of his inner clique yesterday night in Lagos, approved a budget of N5.5 billion to be spent in ensuring that he secures the APC ticket come Saturday when the primaries would be held.
 
As learnt, the money, which was claimed to had been released in trenches of N250 million, would be shared to voters in the local governments and other target voters.
 
Speaking on the disbursement of the fund, a source close to the government disclosed that the sharing of the money had commenced discreetly and that one Segun Solanke was among critical links in the execution of the sharing plan of money for votes.
 
She revealed that those at the meeting asked Ambode to call Tinubu’s bluff and go for broke and that the argument was canvassed that having shut down the money pipes to the party’s national leader, he was in a stronger position to buy his way through the primaries.
 
“Ambode was also told that if money could buy votes and near victory for the uneducated Senator Adeleke in Osun state then definitely money will work for Ambode in Lagos as a sitting governor.
 
“Ambode bought into this arguments and worked out a budget buoyed on by the 2 hawks in his kitchen cabinet who reminded him that “We have the money. Lets spend it.
 
“Only one person at the meeting cautioned against the use of such a huge amount of money because Lagosians will perceive it as wasting tax payers money. The same voice also said the comparison of Osun and the situation in Lagos was different.
 
Source: The Guild
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September 27, 2018
Policemen in Texas have apprehended a heartless man who sealed his baby's eyes and mouth with glue for crying too much.
Johnnie Lee Carter
 
A Texas man Johnnie Lee Carter has been arrested for reportedly gluing an infant’s mouth and eyes shut at a motel.
 
The 29-year-old Carter, allegedly choked a 14-month-old baby and punched her in the head and rib cage, before using a Crazy Glue stick to cover the child’s mouth and eyes, the Dallas News reported.
 
By the time Carter’s wife reported his alleged actions to police, he fled the scene.
 
Police reportedly found a glue stick on the motel room’s desk, and also found a 2-month-old child buried in the bed under pillows and blankets, the news outlet reported, citing an affidavit.
 
Carter allegedly put the 2-month-old underneath bedding, before allegedly gluing the toddler, because the infant was crying, his wife said.
 
The Odessa Police Department asked for the public’s help in finding Carter in a news release on Sept. 18.
 
An updated news release indicates Carter was arrested Sept. 24 in El Paso, roughly 230 miles west of Odessa.
 
Carter was wanted for injury to a child causing serious bodily injury, which police said is a first-degree felony.
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September 27, 2018
A referee got the beating of his life during a game after giving a controversial penalty decision during a game.
The referee was beaten mercilessly by the players
 
A referee was brutally attacked and chased off a pitch after an Indonesian league game descended into chaos. The startling scenes took place during Peregres Gresik United’s game against Persiwa Wamena in Liga 2.
 
Violence erupted when the referee, named as Abdul Razak in local media, awarded a penalty for an innocuous challenge.
 
Persiwa’s players were enraged by the decision and began to chase Razak.
 
One removed his shirt as he pursued the match official.
 
Players started shoving the referee and then began throwing punches and kicks at him, according to local media.
 
Razak is knocked to the ground by a flying kick and is kicked while lying on the turf.
 
He eventually escapes and runs off the pitch – but, incredibly, he returns to resume the game.
 
Two Persiwa players were sent off and the awarded-penalty was eventually taken and converted.
 
The goal puts Persegres  into the lead and they manage to hold on.
 
Abuse of Razak continued off the pitch in a verbal way as Persiwa coach Suimin Diharja said the referee had “stolen” a point from them.
 
No sanctions have been placed on either club yet.
 
See more photos below:
 
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September 27, 2018
The 27-year-old could be in line to leave the Gunners for free in the summer as talks of a new contract breaks down.
Aaron Ramsey 
 
Aaron Ramsey is set to leave Arsenal for free in the summer after talks over a new contract broke down, according to the Mirror. 
 
The 27-year-old's deal expires at the end of the season, and the Gunners rejected a £50 million ($66m) bid for his services this summer as they appeared confident of keeping the Welshman. 
 
But there has been a sudden breakdown in talks and with no offer currently on the table, Ramsey could be on his way out in the summer as a free agent. 
 
Paul Pogba's wages and possible transfer fee could make him too expensive for Juventus, according to Marca. 
 
The midfielder's future at Manchester United is unclear after yet another bust-up with manager Jose Mourinho. 
 
A return to his old side has been mooted, but after Juve invested heavily in Cristiano Ronaldo this summer, fitting the France star in may be impossible under Financial Fair Play regulations.
 
Everton have not offered teen sensation Ryan Astley a professional contract and may now have to fend off interest from Arsenal, according to the Mirror. 
 
Astley turns 17 next month has been hailed as one of Everton's best-ever prospects by the club's U-23 boss David Unsworth. 
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September 27, 2018
The story has been told of the Abuja residents who drink from the same stream with their cows and live without basic amenities.
The community Photo: Olaleye Aluko
 
According to a report by Punch Metro, some residents of Rugan Hardo community, in the Idu area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, are living in danger of infections over lack of potable water.
 
The residents lamented that they usually drink from the same stream with their cows.
 
The residents, who are largely cattle rearers, told Punch Metro that they drank from the stream with their cattle, especially during the dry season when the only well in the area dried up.
 
A visit to the community on Wednesday also revealed that children in the area had no schools to attend and a few of them trekked to the nearest school in the Gwarimpa area, which is about 45 minutes’ drive.
 
The Chairman of Rugan Hardo, Muhammed Jibril, told Punch Metro that the people needed government’s assistance in the provision of health care and other social amenities.
 
He said, “The well we use dries up and that makes us to depend on the stream water which our cattle also drink from. We must go to the stream as early as 5am so that we will be able to access the water. Most of our residents have suffered from sicknesses arising from the use of the water; but we do not have any option. We all know that it is not hygienic that our cattle drink from the same stream we drink from.

“We call on the government to come to our rescue. We also need a good health care system and schools. Children in this community have to trek to a faraway school in Gwarimpa because we cannot afford to give them transport fares on a daily basis.”
 
Another resident, Maryam Audu, begged the government to come to the aid of the community, noting that their living conditions were pathetic.
 
She said, “There are many children in this community who need to go to school, but we do not have schools here. We cannot even afford to pay teachers to have them come over to teach our children. You know that it is inappropriate for children to be wandering around because we all know that education is important. So, if government can come to our aid, we will appreciate it.”
 
It was learnt that a non-governmental organisation, Centre for Communication and Social Impact in the Utako area, visited the community and planned to donate a borehole.
 
The CCSI Chairman, Mr Ike Osakwe, who brought up the plight of the community to Punch Metro, said the intervention was to supply potable pipe-borne water to the area.
 
He said, “We have been touched by the lack of basic amenities in this cattle rearing and farming community. We are partnering the community to initiate a water, sanitation and hygiene programme. The programme will include sinking a borehole to provide potable water for the community and we will work with them to also build toilets and other conveniences.”
 
Also, the CCSI Executive Director, Mrs Babafunke Fagbemi, said the intervention in Rugan Hardo was part of the organisation’s corporate social responsibility to mark its 10 years’anniversary.
 
The Director, Family Health, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Adebimpe Adebiyi, while speaking on the CCSI’s intervention, noted that the Federal Government would continue to collaborate with organisations to tackle the challenges in urban and rural communities.
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September 27, 2018
The leadership of the SDP has opposed the alliance struck with the ruling APC by Omisore as the gubernatorial election in Osun progresses.
 
Olu Falae
 
One of the national leaders of the Social Democratic Party, Chief Olu Falae, has pledged the support of the party to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke, in the governorship rerun election holding on Thursday.
 
Falae, reportedly called Adeleke on the telephone on Wednesday to disown Senator Iyiola Omisore who had also promised to work for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, to win the election.
 
The spokesperson of Adeleke Campaign Organisation, Mr Olawale Rasheed, confirmed to a correspondent that Falae called Adeleke on the telephone and expressed displeasure about the step taken by Omisore, who is the candidate of the SDP in the election.
 
He said, “Senator Ademola Adeleke won the last Saturday election without the support of Omisore and he is going to win again tomorrow. Our strength is not with any leader but in the people. We believe the people will reaffirm the mandate they already gave to Senator Adeleke.

“The spirit of national coalition remains and the spirit is that the SDP, PDP and others will unite to fight for the 2019 elections. Chief Falae called and talked to Senator Adeleke that the party did not authorise Omisore to support the APC. They said Omisore is on his own.”
 
Also, the National Publicity Secretary of the SDP, Alhaji Alfa Mohammed, in a statement sent to THE PUNCH via email, said, “The SDP will like to make it categorically clear that the national leadership of the party was not part of the recent developments involving our party’s gubernatorial candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore of Osun State, and the conclusions arrived at.

“We remain irrevocably committed to serving the Nigerian people on the basis of the vision, principles and goals of social democracy which underlie the philosophy of our great party, the SDP.”

September 27, 2018
A nationwide strike has been declared in Nigeria to mount pressure on the Federal Government to comply with the demands of the Labour Union.
 
File Photo
 
The Nigeria Labour Congress has directed all its members and affiliate unions to commence a nationwide strike on Thursday (today).
 
The organised labour had held a meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, in Abuja on Wednesday, which did not produce the expected outcome.
 
The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, said the industrial action would commence due to the refusal of the Federal Government to reconvene the meeting of the tripartite national minimum wage committee to enable it to conclude its work.
 
He said, “In compliance with this mandate, all workers and private sector at all levels across the country have been directed to comply.

 “All public and private institutions, offices, banks, schools, public and private business premises, including filling station, are to remain shut till further notice,” Wabba said at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday.
 
The workers are demanding a new minimum wage of about N50,000 from the current national minimum wage of N18,000.
 
Tripartite committee resumes October 4
 
However, Ngige told journalists after a meeting with labour leaders that the tripartite committee on national minimum wage would resume negotiations on October 4.
 
“We are resuming precisely on Thursday, October 4, and the meeting can spill over to October 5. All the processes have been put in place and labour leaders know; they are now expected to communicate such to their organs; so we don’t have any need for a strike,”he said.
 
Asked if the government team had concluded its consultation on the minimum wage with governors, Ngige said it would be done when the tripartite committee resumed, adding that the government was still consulting with other stakeholders.
 
He said, “Part of our consultation means the economic management team would have something to work on. Already, they are working on it, the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission is working on it and it is expected that before the October meeting, they would have been through with work.”
 
Ngige said a bill would still have to go through the National Assembly after approval by the Federal Executive Council.
 
But Wabba said the unions had to brief their organs before calling off the strike.
 
He said, “Our demand is that the tripartite negotiating council should be brought back to complete its assignment. He has given us an update and we are taking back the discussion we had with him.”
 
But the NLC Secretary-General, Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, told one of our correspondents that the strike would proceed as planned,
 
He asked, “Have we said anything to the contrary?”
 
 NUPENG, COEASU, JUSUN workers to join strike
 
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria said it would join the strike as long as its labour centre – the Trade Union Congress – was involved.
 
The spokesman for the organisation, Mr Babatunde Oke, said, “We are going to be part of it. As long as our labour centre is involved, we are also involved. We are going to take part in the strike if TUC so directs us.”
 
Also, the national leadership of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria directed its members to join the warning strike.
 
The President of JUSUN, Mr Marwan Adamu, said in a statement on Wednesday that “effective from midnight on Wednesday” all courts in the country must remain closed pending a counter instruction from the national secretariat of the union.”
 
On its part, the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union said that it would embark on the warning strike in solidarity with the NLC.
 
The COEASU National President, Nuhu Ogirima, said, “The academic union will join the strike because it has become evident that dialogue and diplomacy would not make the government change its stance.
 
He said, “It is also expedient to take this action against the crass insensitivity of governments at both state and federal levels to the plight of the colleges of education.”
 
ASUU to consult with leadership
 
But the Academic Staff Union of Universities said it would consult with its leadership and trustees before joining the strike.
 
The ASUU National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, told one of our correspondents on the telephone on Wednesday that he could not decide without an approval from the ASUU executives and trustees.
 
Ogunyemi said, “We are part of the NLC. We are an affiliate of the NLC. But we are waiting for the final decision and we are consulting. I am also consulting with the ASUU leadership.”
 
But the Owerri Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Prof Uzo Onyebinama, during a  press conference at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra  State, on Wednesday said the union might join the strike.
 
‘Abia workers to comply’
 
In Abia State, the Chairman of the NLC, Chief Uchenna Obigwe directed federal and state government workers in the state to comply with the directive to embark on the strike.
 
Obigwe, while briefing journalists in Umuahia, said the NLC viewed the silence of the Federal Government to its demand for a new minimum wage as sabotage.
 
FG, NLC must consider national interests – SERAP
 
Meanwhile, a civil society organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has warned that the nation’s economy would be negatively affected by the strike, urging the NLC and the Federal Government to consider the national interests.
 
The SERAP Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, said, “In Nigeria, strikes are not an option; a strike will stop the economy and further impoverish Nigerians. What I seek is that the government should settle the minimum wage issue so that our economy can continue to operate at a full speed.

“The NLC should also consider  the interests of the workers and of the nation and resolve this issue quickly.”
 
Source: Punch
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September 26, 2018
In what will come across as a really shocking development, a motorcycle has been found out to be worshiped in an Indian town.
The motorcycle and its deceased owner are worshipped
 
In the Indian state of Rajasthan, some 50 km from the city of Jodhpur, along National Highway 65, there is a temple. That, in itself, is not unusual, as temples are virtually everywhere in India, but what is strange is that the deities worshiped here are an old Royal Enfield 350cc motorcycle and its deceased owner.
 
The story of “Om Bana” or “Bullet Baba”temple dates back to an accident that occurred almost three decades ago.  
 
On December 23rd, 1988, Om Singh Rathore, the 23-year-old son of a village elder in Chotila, Pali district, was riding home on his motorcycle when he lost control, hit a tree and was catapulted into a 20-foot, where he died on the spot. His body was discovered the next day, and the broken “Bullet” motorcycle was taken to the police station. And that’s where things start to get weird.
 
 
Legend has it that the police soon discovered that the recovered motorcycle was missing. It was later discovered at the scene of the accident, and brought back to the station. Suspecting that it had been taken by relatives of the deceased, they emptied the tank of petrol and removed the chain, but once again the vehicle disappeared and showed up at the accident spot.
 
Fearing occult forces, the police returned the bike to Om Singh’s family, who allegedly sold it to a man in Gujarat, but it soon reappeared at the site of the accident, 400 km away. The new owner apparently didn’t want it back after that.
 
Stories of the disappearing motorcycle spread like wildfire, and many people became convinced that both the Royal Enfield and its deceased rider were deities to be worshiped. They soon built a small temple at the site of the accident, with a shrine for Om Singh Rathore and a protective glass case for the bike. Nowadays, thousands of people from all over Rajasthan come to the Bullet Baba Temple to worship the unusual deities and ask for various favors.
 
Local taxi and bus drivers, tourists driving on National Highway 65, and relatives of lorry drivers, often stop at the temple to pray for a safe journey. They believe that Om Singh and his Royal Enfield motorcycle will protect them on the road and bring them back home safely, and many swear that since the temple was erected, road accidents on the highway decreased dramatically.
 
 
The most popular offering at the Bullet Baba temple is alcohol, preferably hard liquor, like whiskey. That’s pretty strange, considering people come hear to ask for road safety, but I guess if it’s not the driver doing the drinking, it’s ok.
 
The motorcycle temple of Rajasthan has become so popular that it now has its own full-time priest in charge of upkeep, performing daily rituals and collecting donations. Across the road, vendors have set up a commercial complex, where visitors can buy all kinds of things, from alcohol offerings, flowers and sacred threads to tie on the wheels of the Royal Enfield, to key-chains and postcards.
 
“Business here is very good,” one shopkeeper told Boda Hub. “I operate this shop in shifts and we are open 24 hours a day. There are many babas nowadays, but there will only be one Motorcycle Baba.”
 
Legend has it that sometimes, on the date of Om Singh Rathore’s fatal accident, his beloved Royal Enfield motorcycle starts all by itself. It may be just a made-up story, but to the devotees at Bullet Baba temple, it doesn’t matter one bit.
 
“For us, Om Banna is beyond such doubts. Faith has immense power and I believe that he protects all those who drive on this road,” one woman told Live Mint.
 
 
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September 26, 2018
A beautiful single mother who dates different men for money, has given an explanation to why she engages in the act.
Kelly Popilek, 37, from California, has told how she earns over $13,000 (£10,000) by dating strangers in a bid to give her only daughter a better life
 
A single mother has admitted she has earned $13,000 (£10,000) dating strangers in a bid to give her only child a better life.
 
Over the last two years Kelly Popilek, 37, from California, has been on countless dates with men who pay for her company at the dinner table - so she can ensure she's able to buy the best for her daughter, Ariana, 10.
 
Kelly, who also runs a property business, uses the extra money to pay for Ariana's school supplies, clothes, and household bills, and is hoping to inspire other mothers to do the same.
 
The mother-of-one, who says she is not a gold digger, has used dating website WhatsYourPrice - a dating auction price - since 2016 and has no intention of stopping anytime soon.
 
The site allows members to offer a fee to go on a first date with someone - while singles can state an amount they would be willing to accept.
 
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September 26, 2018
The Red Devils have reportedly named the price of World Cup winner, Paul Pogba over his frosty relationship with Jose Mourinho.
Paul Pogba
 
Manchester United will demand £200 million ($263m) for midfielder Paul Pogba, the Sun reports.
 
His clash with manager Jose Mourinho appears to have come to a head, with the Portuguese stripping him of the captaincy.
 
Pogba wants to go, and with Barcelona and Juventus among the clubs lining him up, the Red Devils have put a world-record price tag on the player.
 
Paul Pogba is looking to leave Manchester United after being stripped of the vice captaincy by Jose Mourinho, according to the Daily Mail.
 
The Frenchman's desire to leave the club is said to be the reason for the punishment.
 
Pogba captained the club three times this season.
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September 26, 2018
Senator Iyiola Omisore has chosen to support the All Progressives Congress in the upcoming rerun election as he gets set to form an alliance.
Iyiola Omisore
 
The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Senator Iyiola Omisore, has said he is set to form an alliance with the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Osun rerun election.
 
According to a report by Channels Television, Omisore said hs decision comes after the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, led a delegation comprised of governors and top chieftains of the party, to visit him.
 
He said this while addressing journalists at his residence in Ile Ife on Wednesday.
 
He said, “We have accepted to support the APC for victory in the rerun election tomorrow and thereafter form a coalition government.”
 
Omisore told journalists in Ile Ife that the decision to work with the APC was based on the condition he gave earlier for his support.
 
The SDP candidate had said he would only support any party (between PDP and APC) that is ready to uphold SDP’s core values.
 
He said informed both the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of his conditions.
 
The conditions include a pledge to ensure motivation of workers in the state, payment of salary arrears in the first three months in office, equity in infrastructure provision across the state, the adoption of a local content policy for all projects in the state.
 
He also wants traditional rulers to be made more relevant.
 
According to the SDP candidate, only the APC has accepted his conditions and that is why the SDP is going to form an alliance with the APC.
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September 26, 2018
UEFA has outlined as many as nine historic records that Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have not broken yet.
Messi and Ronaldo
 
The Union of European Football Associations, UEFA, has revealed nine records Barcelona ace, Lionel Messi and Juventus star, Cristiano Ronaldo have not yet broken in the history of Europe’s topflight competitions, (Champions League and Europe League).
 
UEFA took to their official website on Wednesday to release the records, indicating that Messi and Ronaldo are yet to break the following feats in the Europe topflight leagues:
 
1. Most appearances – Messi has 126, while Ronaldo has 158, but the record is being held by Porto goalkeeper, Iker Casillas (179).
 
2. Most final goals – Messi has scored only two final goals (in 2009 and 2011), while Ronaldo has four (one apiece in 2008 and 2014, and two in 2017) but is still three shy of the record shared by two Real Madrid legends, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ferenc Puskás, who have both scored seven.
 
3. Oldest goalscorer – AC Milan legend, Paolo Maldini scored for his side’s defeat to Liverpool at the age of 36 in the 2005 Champions League final and also Roma legend, Francesco Totti scored at the age of 38 in his side’s Champions League group stage clash against CSKA Moskva in 2014.
 
4. Player with most success with different clubs – Clarence Seedorf (Ajax 1995, Real Madrid 1998, Milan 2003, 2007) and Zlatan Ibrahimović (Ajax, Juventus, Internazionale, Barcelona, Milan, Paris Saint-Germain) are both ahead of Messi and Ronaldo.
 
5. Fastest goal – Roy Makaay scored in 10.12 seconds for Bayern München against Real Madrid in 2007. Ronaldo’s earliest Champions League goal came in the fourth minute for Real Madrid against Juventus in 2013, while Messi’s fastest goal came in three minutes into Barcelona’s 7-0 win against Celtic in 2016.
 
6. Long-distance goal – Manchester United legend, Ryan Giggs has sixteen long-distance goals in the Champions League. Ronaldo has 13, while Messi has 14.
 
7. Goalscoring consistency – Bayern Munich forward, Gerd Müller has 0.97 goals per game ratio. Ronaldo has 0.76, while Messi has 0.82.
 
8. Fastest hat-tricks – Bafétimbi Gomis got his fastest hat-trick for Olympique Lyonnais against Dinamo Zagreb in 2011. Ronaldo scored his fastest hat-trick in 12 minutes for Real Madrid against Malmö in 2012, while Messi scored his fastest hat-trick in 22 minutes for Barcelona against Arsenal in 2010.
 
9. Most goals in a single European season – Colombia striker, Radamel Falcao scored 18 goals for Porto during the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League. Messi’s best year came in 2011/12 when he ended the European season with 14 goals, while Ronaldo set a European Cup/UEFA Champions League record with 17 in 2013/14.
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September 26, 2018
A young woman who was really addicted to her phone, has been buried under an iPhone-shaped tombstone after her death.
The gravestone towers above the other tombstones in the cemetery
 
A 25-year-old Russian woman has been buried below a gravestone depicting her favourite iPhone, it emerged today.
 
Mourners in the oil-rich city of Ufa were amazed to see the huge tombstone erected over Rita Shameeva’s burial plot.
 
It is made from black basalt and bears the Apple symbol on the reverse, and a picture of Shameeva on the front.
 
It was erected by her grieving dad Rais Shameev two years after her death in January 2016 from an unknown cause, say reports.
 
He has not commented on the unusual memorial.
 
The grave even bares the Apple symbol
 
The five-foot high monument towers above other gravestones in the Yuzhnoye cemetery, and also has a QR code on the base.
 
Local headstone maker Ilgam Galliulin denied he was responsible for its design.
 
He said: “My father and I make monuments to order.

“But I saw this unusual one for the first time last week.”
 
Rita Shameeva was a lover of travel
 
Mourner Nikolay Yevdokimov told to newspaper ProUral: “I thought I was having hallucinations.
 
“How could an American smartphone suddenly appear at our cemetery?

“And such a huge one.

“I came closer and was surprised.

“I've seen many gravestones, but to make one in the form of [an] iPhone - this is the first time, to be honest."
 
The grave sits in the oil-rich city of Ufa in Russia
 
Little is known of Rita except that she was a keen traveller and had friends in Germany.
 
She also loved her smartphone.
 
The grave is believed to have been commissioned from a Siberian company which offers “death accessories”.
 
Designer Pavel Kalyuk built a similar headstone as an advertising gimmick.
 
He said: "We began to make monuments just to attract attention."
 
But after exhibiting his work at a funeral exhibition in Novosibirsk, orders came in for the bizarre tombstones.
 
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Source: The Sun UK
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September 26, 2018
Rumours have it that the police operatives maintaining peace and security in Osun ahead of elections have been replaced with military men.
 
File Photo
 
There is palpable tension in Osun ahead of the rerun election slated for Thursday, as hundreds of military personnel replace police to provide security during the exercise.
 
A reporter on Wednesday morning observed heavy deployment of military men in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, and Ifon, in Orolu local government, while several other military vehicles were moving towards Ile-Ife.
 
A reliable security source told a reporter that the decision to change the security architecture of the state against the Thursday’s rerun election was mandated from the “top” to give some level of leverage to the ruling party.
 
DAILY POST reports that the rerun which was necessitated by the inconclusive gubernatorial election of Saturday was billed to take place in seven polling units at Osogbo, Orolu, Ife South, and Ife North local governments.
 
Meanwhile, there have been accusations and counter-accusations between the two leading parties in the contest, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
 
While the APC accused PDP of embarking on voters’ inducement by buying PVCs, the latter alleged that the ruling party was not only buying PVCs but criminally cloning it to manipulate electoral process to its advantage.
 
PDP also accused the APC government of victimising and threatening lives of some of its leaders, including a former ally of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, who recently defected to PDP, Alhaji Fatai Diekola.
 
However, a reporter has also gathered that both APC and PDP are in desperate scramble to lure over three thousand voters in the seven polling units with money, ranging from N50,000 to N100,000.
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September 26, 2018
The drone allegedly used by some persons to monitor the house of a former governor has been confiscated by security operatives.
The drone used in allegedly monitoring premises of a former governor, Osoba
 
Two persons, a lady and a young man (names unknown), have been arrested over alleged monitoring of the premises of former governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, situated within the Ibara GRA with a drone.
 
This was contained in a statement issued by a former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Adekunle Adeyemi, on behalf of Chief Osoba, on Tuesday, in Abeokuta, that those arrested had been handed over to security operatives for investigation.
 
This development according to Adeyemi was one out of many alleged series of security breach and threat on the person of the ex-governor of the state.
 
The statement had it that a security staff working with Osoba noticed the flying drone, brought it done and got those behind it arrested.
 
It was gathered that Osoba, a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), just returned back to the country early on Tuesday, to prepare for a private meeting with members of the party, over a peaceful conduct of the Presidential party primary scheduled for Friday.
 
Adeyemi in the statement said the premises, some years back, was invaded by unknown people who dug out buried armoured cable in a “professional manner”.
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September 26, 2018
A woman has found out that her daughter was still alive six years after being told the girl had died in a fire.
Luz Cuevas has been reunited with daughter Delimar, who she was told had died in a house fire
 
A stunned mum discovered her baby was alive when she recognised her dimples - six years after being told she died in a house fire.
 
Luz Cuevas was so convinced the young girl was her daughter Delimar Vera she called her over claiming she had bubblegum in her hair so she could take a strand for DNA testing.
 
The mum had never believed her ten-day-old baby was killed in the blaze at her home in Philadelphia in 1997.
 
The baby had been sleeping in Luz's Philadelphia home when a blaze broke out
 
The tot had been sleeping in the upstairs front bedroom when a fire broke out but the cot was empty when Luz ran into the room.
 
Luz suffered burns on her face before becoming overcome by smoke and screamed at firefighters that her baby was stolen.
 
But her fears were dismissed as "nerves" - with cops concluding the baby's remains had been incinterated in the flames.
 
Luz never believed her daughter was killed in the fire
 
Six years later, Luz was at a party when she saw a dark-haired girl called Aaliyah with unmistakable dimples.
 
Luz used a cop trick she learnt on TV and offered to fix the girl's hair for her - quickly pulling out several strands to send for testing.
 
Tests proved her mother's instinct was right and the girl was the baby she was told had perished in the house fire.
 
Chillingly, Delimar Vera had been kidnapped by Luz's cousin by marriage, Carolyn Correa, who set the fire to cover her tracks.
 
She recognised Delimar's dimples six years later
 
Correa is understood to have taken the child to live with her in New Jersey - raising her as her own.
 
She was charged with kidnapping, arson, assault, concealing the whereabouts of a child and interfering with the custody of a child and has now been jailed for between nine and 30 years.
 
Delimar said she is "happy" to be back at her "real home" with Luz.
 
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Source: The Sun UK
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September 26, 2018


Destiny Etiko had a rough time on the set of a new movie where she played a challenging role that required her to get rid of her hair, mourn and carry a coffin. 
 
Destiny Etiko on set
 
Curvaceous actress, Destiny Etiko has shown her versatility as she plays the role of a mourning woman on a movie set.
 
She wore a black gown and carried a coffin on her head as she was humiliated by the public. It appears she was accused of killing her husband by her in-laws which a typical Nollywood script entails.
 
The actress, from the quality of the pictures performed well and her followers on Instagram are excited about watching the movie.
 
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September 26, 2018
Policemen in Niger state have arrested a 20-year-old housewife who reportedly poisoned her 8-month-old stepdaughter to teach the mother a lesson.
20-year-old woman, Zulac Kabiru
 
A 20-year-old woman, Zulac Kabiru, has confessed to killing her eight-month-old stepdaughter, Rukaiya Kabiru, to teach her co-wife how to respect ‘her superior’ by giving her local insecticide, known as ‘otapiapia’, to drink.
 
Zulac who was arrested by the police in Niger State for allegedly killing her stepdaughter at Danauta village in the Mariga Local Government Area of the state, said the second wife had the habit of insulting and assaulting her, so she decided to poison her daughter.
 
The suspect was said to have secretly given the baby the locally-made insecticide to drink, which resulted in her death. It was gathered that the suspect and her co-wife had not been on good terms for a long time. Facts gathered also revealed that the first wife resented the marriage to the second wife.
 
 
Speaking to newsmen when she was paraded, she said: “I warned my husband to desist from getting another wife in the family but he would not listen. The second wife was in the habit of insulting and assaulting me at all times and one day I decided to poison her eight-month-old daughter to death to increase her sorrow.”so that she will learn how to respect her superior in the family.
 
"Before my husband married her, we have been living in peace but when she came she divided the family. My husband gave her more attention than myself and since then our family had been in shambles.” 
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September 26, 2018
Nigerian youth have been obsessed with the peripherals - social media, fashion, embracing the West while other key sectors of the country have been suffering.
 
 
Auditions may soon begin for the next season of BBNaija, that brilliant shindig of unhinged fandom. But for a name that connotes mentorship, BBNaija fails the office: big brothers do not reward play while serious work awaits.
 
Entertainment is best as celebration of grit and achievement, which is why, in timing and ethic, pleasure businesses contemplate relaxation after work. And why Western societies can overhype show-business: their ancestors have fixed their poo. A poor child idling around with playmates who inherited enormous wealth is clearly not getting it. Nigeria is doing that — running entertainment as its most viable youth enterprise — emulating those who can afford to play, even as we use phone torchlight to find our feet at the dance floor.
 
Three months after we rested BBNaija 2018, Ghana had its own moment in a nationally televised science and maths quiz where secondary schools competed for glory. Marked by nationwide euphoria, it was captured even by the BBC, which documented the journey of Kissi Kweku, the lad that led his school to this year’s trophy. The show has been on air for 25 years, proving a sense of priority that steers youth energy in the right direction. The gains will come.
 
“Nigerian youth have been obsessed with the peripherals — social media, fashion, embracing the West. No one is asking the right questions: what will it take to have light for a full day? How can we, together, solve the power problem in our area?” said CNN’s Richard Quest. To question our technological slumber is to invite a punditry that, besides making a roll call of black innovators, blames Western conspiracy. Ironically, listing African technological inventors is proving the point of their minority: no one does same for the Chinese, the Europeans, or recently, the Indians. For decades, we have been “writing back to the West to correct false narratives about Africa”, rather than doing the work, which is more eloquent. Rejoinder literature cannot defeat the fact that we don’t have a bicycle brand wholly produced by ourselves.
 
The alternative to rejoinder nationalism is for rich black people to flaunt their wealth, showing the white man they too can afford the good life. Ironically also, the jets and Lamborghinis are produced by the people you want to spite, who look at you the same way educated Nigerians look at the money-miss-road that thinks money can compensate for illiteracy.
 
Often rightly blamed is the government, but little is said of other agencies of cultural development, like corporate Nigeria. Glo Naija Sings, Maltina Dance All, Gulder Ultimate Search, MTN Project Fame, Next Movie Start, etc. — can corporate Nigeria ever engage the young mind in relevant productivity, like incentivizing technological and scientific thought? Is there an imperial conspiracy in foreign multinationals promoting leisure, as opposed to what they did decades ago to help their nations to rise?
 
At the bottom of global racism is the black man. Asians have since risen in world reckoning by technological exuberance. Arabs have gone far, with Iran unveiling its first indigenous turbo jet engine this August. Anti-racism laws and debates may protect the black man but never elevate him; only indigenous technology and problem-solving can. A risen Black Africa will fulfill the Wakanda longings of the African-American whose racial pride, like ours, is daily wounded in Africans living in televised agony and drowning en mass at the Mediterranean, pleading western succour.
 
Our obsession with entertainment is consolation as celebration, in a sense understandable. The point is not that we should quit playing, but that we should refocus on things that really matter, on failings that have stripped us of dignity among decent humanity. Without electricity, we snuck to the Chinese for generators and, as we struggled to fuel them from high fuel prices, we ran back to them for power banks. Our major bold footprints are in movies and music, where heavy makeup, Ankara, and colour now perform exotic breeding in British accent.
 
We must quit fisting bitter truths away in fruitless rationalizations. The world is witnessing a rise in antiglobalization and we are being chased back from all over the world, as statistics of downcast humanity in Libyan slavery and Western asylum. Yet in Big Brother, we are cultivating a lucrative idolatry of leisure. Nothing is physiologically wrong with the black man, only a complex crisis of civilization solvable through a radical shift in education and culture.
 
And Big Brother Naija, for corporate Nigeria and in spite of government, can truly be a big brother and mentor our youth by creatively leveraging true enterprise and leisure. It can, in a fun way, incorporate technological innovative ethic into the system of auditions, giving back to a society that made its sponsors rich, instead of perennially mindsturbating the youth for big money. For a true big brother is actually a family statesman, one that, over subsidizing their vanities, guides the youth to find the actualization they need.

Written by Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu
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September 26, 2018
Some unlucky police officers who were on an assignment in Saturday's election in Osun state have been involved in a fatal road accident.
The affected police officers
 
At least, one police officer died and many others sustained serious injuries after their vehicle was involved in a fatal road accident.
 
It was gathered that the accident involved some of the mobile police officers sent on official duty to Osun State, for the Saturday governorship election who were returning to their base when the accident happened.
 
Five of the officers attached to Division 62 kafanchan, Kaduna State, sustained varying degrees of injuries after the accident, yesterday, while one reportedly died.
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