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  • Family of abducted ex-Mobil employee petitions IGP

    For more than two months after her abduction, the whereabouts of Ms. Eunice Udo have remained a mystery, causing anxiety that she may have been killed.

    Ms. Udoh, a former contract employee with Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN), hails from Atibe community, Afaha Eket in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

    The victim, 34, according to the family, was allegedly seized and taken to an unknown destination on February 4 by a business associate.

    The suspect, who has since been arrested, it was gathered, is undergoing interrogation at the Zone 6 Headquarters in Calabar, Cross River State, where the case had been transferred.

    Worried by the slow pace of the investigation, the family has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase.

    The two-paragraph petition entitled: “Re-Case of Abduction of Eunice Eno Udo”, stated that the suspect abducted her in the process of transacting a business.

    The elder brother to the victim, Akpan Udo, said her sister may have been killed. He urged the IGP to use his good offices to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the woman, whom he said “was our bread winner”.

    He recalled that when her sister was dropped as a contract staff of Mobil, she took some of her vehicles, including a bus to the car stands in Uyo, for sale, but ran into the suspect, who offered to buy the vehicle.

    The suspect, who hails from Omuogba in Onyigbo Local Government Area of River State, was said to have been connected to the business by another suspect who is still at large.

    According to Udo, the suspect was taken to Ikot Ekpene Road to see the vehicle before the transaction.

    The sister was said to have driven to the place with her car from her residence at Nnung Obio Enang on IdoroRoad, Uyo, for negotiation.

    “After the agreement to sell the bus had been reached by both parties, my sister parked her car at the stand and was driven in the bus by the suspect to pick the vehicle documents in her house. After fetching the particulars, the suspect drove my sister with the bus to an unknown destination,” he said.

    The following day, the suspect, according to him, disguised in Navy kits, went to the stand, picked his sister’s car and drove to the house, where he ransacked and carted away other vital documents of lands and vehicles.

    The Hausa man at the gate to the victim’s house, it was gathered, had revealed that the suspect  made phone call in Hausa language to alert some people that he was bringing the person.

    “When he (the suspect) made the conversation on phone to intimate his accomplice that he was bringing somebody to them, he did not know the gateman was a Hausa man, who also understood the language. This revelation forced us to report the matter at Itam Police Station.

    “The case was later moved to the State Headquarters before we made effort for the matter to be transferred to Zone 6, Calabar, because of shoddy handling of the case”, Mr. Udo explained.

    Her father, Chief EnoUdo Unanaowo, lamented that her daughter was the major bread winner in the family and urged the Police to expedite action in the matter.

    “Her seven-year-old daughter has been in tears since her mother was abducted,” he said, adding that only her rescue would safe the child from the trauma.”

    Part of the petition reads: “Due to the shoddy investigation process at the Akwa Ibom State Police Command, IkotAkpanabia, Uyo, we wrote a petition for the case to be transferred to Zone 6, Calabar, for proper investigation and prosecution of the culprit.

    “We therefore appeal to you sir, to use your good offices and prevail on the AIG Zone 6, to carry out a thorough investigation that can lead to discovering the whereabouts Ms Eunice Udo, as the whole family is in turmoil since her abduction. We sincerely believe that with your zero tolerance for criminals of this kind, justice will surely prevail.”

     

  • RRS men’s vigilance saves six-member family

    RRS men’s vigilance saves six-member family

    Were it not for their vigilance, some Rapid Response Squad (RRS) operatives would have mistaken six persons, including two children, for robbers and opened fire on them last Friday at Ogudu, Lagos.

    A woman, Lauretta Ehon, had run to the RRS operatives patrolling the axis around 5:30pm, telling them that some armed robbers just snatched her 2012 Toyota Camry marked EP 932 KRD. The RRS men swung into action, chasing the suspected robbers.

    During the chase, there was traffic and in order to catch up with the suspects, an officer, Christian Onawona, alighted from the RRS van and mounted a motor bike to continue the chase.

    When he caught up with the vehicle, he found that it was carrying six persons – three women, one man and two children – who were coming from a function.

    Their names were given as Sekinat Sanni, Wasiu Balogun, Bisola Balogun and Rukayat Joseph. The children were Sameer Balogun, one, and Motunrayo Joseph, two.

    Ehon was later arrested for raising the false alarm that endangered the lives of six persons.

    Police spokesperson Dolapo Badmos, a Superintendent (SP), said yesterday that the family were driving in their car when the woman alerted the RRS that they had snatched her vehicle.

    According to Badmos, the policemen chased the family to Ogudu Ori-Oke, where they stopped the vehicle.

    “There was a hectic traffic in the area but in order to catch up with the supposed thieves, the officer alighted from their official vehicle and mounted motor bike to chase the said robbers.

    “However, the family, which never knew they were being chased by the police, pulled up when they heard a gunshot fired into the air.

    “Then, the police cautiously approached the supposedly stolen vehicle only to discover that the occupants were three female, one male and two children, who were coming from a function,” Badmus said.

    She said the report turned out to be false.

    The police spokesperson said the officers found that the woman and the car owner transacted a business that failed.

    “What really transpired between the woman and the owner of the Camry car was a business transaction which occurred about six years ago.

    “The husband to the woman (Mr Ehon) who raised the false alarm and the owner of the car (Balogun) transacted a business which had to do with clearing of a second-hand car, which incurred demurrage at Apapa.

    “Unfortunately for the woman, the man who transacted the business with her husband was not in the car when she raised the false alarm, but his family members were,” she said.

    Badmus said the RRS men’s experience prevented what might have been unsavoury.

    The woman, she said, has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos Mainland.

    One of the occupants of the car, Bisola Balogun, was full of praises for the officer, who pursued them for not misusing his firearm.

    “In fact, I am still in shock. If it were to be another police officer, it is possible that he might shoot our car and anything could have happened. We thank God and appreciate the officer for applying uncommon wisdom in handling the matter”, she said.

  • Family stops Obi from suing Ubah

    Family stops Obi from suing Ubah

    HEARTLAND goalkeeper, Ebele Obi, older brother of Chelsea’s Mikel, has told AfricanFootball.com he will no longer drag FC Ifeanyi Ubah billionaire owner to court after he assaulted him at the end of a league game.
    Ubah punched Ebele after a league game involving IfeanyiUbah and Heartland which led to sanctions from LMC on both parties.
    The former Rangers captain told AfricanFootball.com that some lawyers had started the process to sue Ifeanyi Ubah, but he has now stopped them following a decision at the family meeting in Anambra State.
    “I am not going to press charges against Ifeanyi Ubah again. Lawyers have started the procedure, but I will have to tell them to withdraw,” he informed AfricanFootball.com
    “This decision was taken after a long family meeting in our village in Anambra with my father, mum, wife, brother and sisters in attendance.
    “My dad said I should withdraw the case in the name of almighty God who we serve and that I should let God handle the case.”

  • About his lifestyle and family

    About his lifestyle and family

    I drink, I smoke, I do everything.

    For once, have you thought of quitting the habits?

    The Bible says that in everything, moderation should be applied. I don’t have any qualms about doing anything; my qualms is, don’t do it to kill yourself.

    How challenging has marriage been?

    It’s very challenging. We just made up our minds early to do things differently. She has her own radio show and she has her own TV thing she’s trying to do. I just let her be her own person like she’s my girlfriend. She has her own life. If she needs my advice on certain things, I give her and vice versa.

    How are the kids?

    Those ones; they already know that both of us are ‘not well’ (laughs). They are nice kids. They are bookworms.

    Do you believe in the maxim ‘Happily ever after’?

    Na lie. I don’t believe in it. Tongue and teeth, they fight. Where is the happily ever after in that one? There will always be quarrels. Only just learn to bend over for each other. You can argue, you can quarrel, but learn to say sorry. You see that word ‘I’m sorry’; it’s not far from my mouth. I like to see my wife as my girlfriend. My wife and I go to night clubs. We drink together. She does skimpy. You no go fit tell say she don born and men they toast am 24-7. We don’t touch each other’s phones. Not that we can’t touch it, but it’s a case of ‘anything your eye see there, don’t get angry’. We don’t lock our phones, but we have an understanding. And I think that’s the most important thing.

  • Family claims man missing for 13 years

    Family claims man missing for 13 years

    Where is John Ailoje Omokhaye; who was last seen by his family in 2003?

    Thirteen years after his disappearance, his whereabouts remain unknown, his family said yesterday, while appealing for help to locate him.

    He was said to have disappeared shortly after he was allegedly attacked by members of an ethnic militia in Agunlejika in Itire-Ikate Local Council Development Area of Lagos State.

    The matter was said to have been resolved, with the group promising not to attack him again.

    “When the matter was thought to have been completely resolved, his assailants continued to threaten him. They trailed him everywhere he went, vowing to deal mercilessly with him. They, however, made good their threat about six months after he was cleared by the police when they stormed his house and unleashed terror on him. He was in a pool of his own blood after the attack. Looking at the degree of injury inflicted on him, it was evident that their aim was to kill him. How he managed to escape alive remain a miracle.

    “Shortly after the dastardly attack, they made fresh attempt to kill him. It was at this point that his whereabouts became unknown. We are seriously worried about his predicament and earnestly pray that he is alive and healthy,” Osas George , a family member said.

  • Sex problems within the family

    I love reading the Bible and there was a time I used to devour it but these days, I just read it daily as my roadmap.  Recently, I was looking through Genesis again.  Now, the story of the creation is the mother of all stories, the Story of stories.  If I may base my judgment solely on it, I see that the record says that the first instruction God gave mankind is to go have sex.

    At the risk of being persecuted for the rest of my life by some savage religious extremists, I better rephrase to the verbatim:  “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion….upon the earth”.  So be it. But mankind came to know both good and evil and this now, undeniably, reflects in every aspect of our lives, including in sexual matters.

    It has been so since ancient times and God intervened by spelling out Ten Commandments to guide our behavior so that we know that some things that humans do are displeasing and punishable by Divine act: for example, adultery is a sin.  Yes, we do live within blessings and curses, we manifest blessings and curses, and we continue to gain and lose blessings and curses.

    Within families, there are sexual-relationship issues that various persons live with, for example: the incest between a woman and her son; the orgies of a polygamous home; the continuous rape of a financial dependent; a son or daughter expressing himself as gay or lesbian.  The Pope might say: “Lord, have mercy”, the Rabbi rend his garment, and the Jihadist brandish the punishing sword.

    How does the family or the society deal with culpable and blameless abominations.  From the “born that way”, “made that way”, “ended that way” to the asexual that has no sexual appetite, no sexual feelings, no sexual attractions, no sexual capacity  how do we live in peace and harmony, how do we tolerate or endure, how do we understand and live and let live, how do we prevent hurt and damages, how do we support and heal and help to change the aberrant?  All these, and more, are 21C questions.

    You cannot afford to be judgmental in sexual matters. In fact, I can bet anyone a pound to a penny that soon after you punish somebody for a sexual matter, you will find yourself wanting in some greater sexual matter, faulty is some graver sexual matter, or guilty of a more shameful sexual matter. It is like “sexual sinfulness” is our common lot  from the extremes of indifference and negligence to the extremes of waywardness and excess.

    This “sexual sinfulness” can be enhanced or remedied.  The most powerful influences are probably within the home and family, especially parental example and parental training.    There are powerful influences from outside the home and the most powerful of these is probably the media, particularly television and the Internet. Cultural and religious training within the home and beyond the home are also powerful interventions and influences.

    Sexual problems have various origins. Genetic problems are those that a person is born with and are inherited through one’s genes. They include physical abnormalities, functional abnormalities, and mental abnormalities.  Spiritual sexual problems are not essentially genetic problems but may be inherited problems, through a curse. They may manifest as genetic problems or may be independent of genetic transmission. Sexual problems may arise from accidents; environmental influences; drugs and poisons; foods and consumables; social interactions; and cultural, religious, or ideological training and all these problems may manifest as physical, functional, or mental sexual abnormalities.

    Sexual problems may have a ripple effect in our work and social life. This is one reason why we should seek intervention to remedy our problems. Problems may be one-time or recurrent, for a short time or for a long time, phasic or steady, temporary or permanent, mild or severe, personally or socially impacting, etc.   What can be ignored, tolerated, or endured?  What needs intervention and what intervention and by who and in what manner?   These are matters of justice and peace, usually difficult to resolve and often, at best, resulting in wrong reactions.  To be continued.

     

    Dr. ‘Bola John is a biomedical scientist based in Nigeria and in the USA.   For any comments or questions on this column, please email bolajohnwritings@yahoo.com or call 08160944635

  • Sex and the family

    If you watch nature, or videos on nature you would see how important sex is to life.  In some respect, it is a central aspect of male-female relationship.  Second to water and food, all animals seek it, from tiny insects to huge elephants and they all have their ways when it comes to sexual behavior, be it inside water, on the ground, under the ground or in the air. If you send animals to outer space, be sure they would try it out their too.

    Humans too have characteristic human sexual behavior and a wide spectrum of tendencies and actualizations beyond the characteristics.

    Human households normally have more than one person residing and many households have more than one sexes residing.  How many sexes are there?  It is a twenty first century question.  Biblically, there are two sexes, male and female.  The Bible deals with norms.  With the advent of the Internet, the world observes extraordinary sexual characteristics amongst humans which in centuries past, were simply to be hidden and kept from public knowledge.  Be it blessing, be it curse, be it acceptable, be it abominable, there are notable deviations from characteristic human sexual presentations or behavior. Born that way, how does one live within a society that is comfortable with its norms.

    For example, “a hermaphrodite is a person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition.” (https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=rape&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4NDKB_enNG561NG563&q=rape+definition&gs_l=hp..1.0l5.0.0.0.189163………..0.RR7nYCH3t6I#q=hermaphrodite+definition).

    “The first hermaphrodite human pictures were created in 1860, when French photographer Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, otherwise known as Nadar, took nine photographs of a young person with a male build and stature, but who might have identified as female. These are considered the first hermaphrodite human pictures in the world, and were reserved only for medical uses. These photographs were never published in mainstream media.” (http://www.newhealthadvisor.com/Hermaphrodite-Human-Pictures.html)

    “A person who is a hermaphrodite has both female and male genital characteristics and can also be called intersex people. This typically means that the organs on the inside are of one sex, while the organs on the outside are of another sex; for example, a hermaphrodite might have a penis and testicles, but inside, there are ovaries and possibly a uterus. In more rare cases, the chromosomes say a person is male or female, but the genitals say otherwise.  It is currently estimated that about one in every 2,000 babies born have “confusing” or ambiguous genitalia. In cases like this, the parents might make the decision to put their child through surgery to determine a physical gender, or they might opt to wait until the child is older and can decide for themselves which gender is dominant in their body and mind.” (http://www.newhealthadvisor.com/Hermaphrodite-Human-Pictures.html)

    Against African culture, a child born with sexual abnormality might be described as a witch or something to disown.  These days, with the pictures on the Internet, we know there are many people in this world with strange sexual characteristics.

    Just as there are physical deviations from normal human characteristics, there are mental and spiritual deviations from characteristic humanity. From molestation and rape to sexual sadism, there is a lot that might be dwelling with today’s humanity and from family to family, what are our challenges and how do we cope?  To be continued.

    Dr. ‘Bola John is a biomedical scientist based in Nigeria and in the USA.   For any comments or questions on this column, please email bolajohnwritings@yahoo.com or call 08160944635

  • Sex and the family

    Sex and the family

    SEX AND THE FAMILY

    If you watch nature, or videos on nature you would see how important sex is to life.  In some respect, it is a central aspect of male-female relationship.  Second to water and food, all animals seek it, from tiny insects to huge elephants and they all have their ways when it comes to sexual behavior, be it inside water, on the ground, under the ground or in the air. If you send animals to outer space, be sure they would try it out their too.

    Humans too have characteristic human sexual behavior and a wide spectrum of tendencies and actualizations beyond the characteristics.

    Human households normally have more than one person residing and many households have more than one sexes residing.  How many sexes are there?  It is a twenty first century question.  Biblically, there are two sexes, male and female.  The Bible deals with norms.  With the advent of the Internet, the world observes extraordinary sexual characteristics amongst humans which in centuries past, were simply to be hidden and kept from public knowledge.  Be it blessing, be it curse, be it acceptable, be it abominable, there are notable deviations from characteristic human sexual presentations or behavior. Born that way, how does one live within a society that is comfortable with its norms.

    For example, “a hermaphrodite is a person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition.” (https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=rape&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4NDKB_enNG561NG563&q=rape+definition&gs_l=hp..1.0l5.0.0.0.189163………..0.RR7nYCH3t6I#q=hermaphrodite+definition).

    “The first hermaphrodite human pictures were created in 1860, when French photographer Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, otherwise known as Nadar, took nine photographs of a young person with a male build and stature, but who might have identified as female. These are considered the first hermaphrodite human pictures in the world, and were reserved only for medical uses. These photographs were never published in mainstream media.” (Http://www.newhealthadvisor.com/Hermaphrodite-Human-Pictures.html)

    “A person who is a hermaphrodite has both female and male genital characteristics and can also be called intersex people. This typically means that the organs on the inside are of one sex, while the organs on the outside are of another sex; for example, a hermaphrodite might have a penis and testicles, but inside, there are ovaries and possibly a uterus. In more rare cases, the chromosomes say a person is male or female, but the genitals say otherwise.It is currently estimated that about one in every 2,000 babies born have “confusing” or ambiguous genitalia. In cases like this, the parents might make the decision to put their child through surgery to determine a physical gender, or they might opt to wait until the child is older and can decide for themselves which gender is dominant in their body and mind.” (http://www.newhealthadvisor.com/Hermaphrodite-Human-Pictures.html)

    Against African culture, a child born with sexual abnormality might be described as a witch or something to disown.  These days, with the pictures on the Internet, we know there are many people in this world with strange sexual characteristics.

    Just as there are physical deviations from normal human characteristics, there are mental and spiritual deviations from characteristic humanity. From molestation and rape to sexual sadism, there is a lot that might be dwelling with today’s humanity and from family to family, what are our challenges and how do we cope?  To be continued.

     

    Dr. ‘Bola John is a biomedical scientist based in Nigeria and in the USA.   For any comments or questions on this column, please email bolajohnwritings@yahoo.com or call 08160944635

  • Family demands justice over artiste’s ‘illegal’ arrest

    Family demands justice over artiste’s ‘illegal’ arrest

    •Police: we acted on petition

    Were the police used to intimidate an artiste, Adekunle Balogun, aka Dragnet, and his family at Oke-Afa in Isolo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State last Friday?

    Residents of Low Cost Housing Estate at Oke-Afa are accusing the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) operatives of inhuman treatment of Dragnet while arresting him last Friday.

    The two men in FSARS outfit reportedly stormed the Baloguns’ Block 435 Flat 5 home, to arrest Dragnet based on a petition by a neighbour, Adeyemi Bello.

    The FSARS men allegedly pounced on Dragnet, who was washing his brother’s car,  before confirming his identity.

    “After attacking me from behind, I asked ‘what happened? What did I do? They said ‘are you Adekunle Balogun? I replied ‘yes.’ The next thing was they handcuffed my legs and started dragging me on the floor as if I am a hardened criminal,” Dragnet told The Nation.

    The Nation learnt that the police action infuriated his neighbours, who wondered why he was being “maltreated”.

    The residents were seen in a video footage, asking: “What has he done?”; “Where is the arrest warrant?”; “You will kill somebody here;” “You are on inhuman errand;” “You can’t take him away;” “Whoever sent you to do this should fear God;” “God will punish you for this maltreatment;” “He is not going anywhere;” “You are going to kill everybody here;”

    Dragnet’s mother, Mrs Balogun, who strapped a baby on her back, was also seen in the video crying and beckoning on people to help save her son. “My son is not a robber. He has not stolen anybody’s thing. How come he is being treated in this manner? Help me! He didn’t do anything. Don’t let these people kill my son.”

    Dragnet was taken to Ejigbo Police Station and transferred to SARS Headquarters in Ikeja.

    According to his elder brother, Tajudeen Balogun, whose car he was washing, all efforts to get him released on Friday failed.

    He said Dragnet was released on Saturday after the police found out that Bello’s petition was false.

    “He petitioned the police that my brother broke his car side glass and stole N500,000 inside his car. Can you imagine that? When we got to the station on Saturday, they didn’t mention the false allegation again only for the officers to say that the matter be settled and everybody left Ikeja after my brother was released. Does that mean my brother will just suffer for nothing? What about the stress Bello put other family members and neighbours into since Friday? This is a big slap on our face and it is injustice,” he said.

    Dragnet told The Nation that the officers came to do a hatchet job, describing their action as unprofessional.

    The artiste said: “On Friday morning, I was upstairs, washing the plates before my brother asked me to go and clean his car. When I got downstairs around 7:30 am, I was pouring water on the car when I just felt someone clearing me off my feet from behind and asking me who I am. I was explaining myself to him and before I could say anything again, he had put an handcuff on my legs without him mentioning the offence I committed. I saw another man who was dressed in a police uniform instructing the other officer to handcuff me.

    “I said to him, what is the meaning of all this that I am not that kind of person,  that I am an artiste and that even if he wants to do anything,  he should take it easy with me and that he should look at how he is molesting me.

    “At this time, they have already handcuffed my legs; the thing was tight and it was paining me. People rushed to call my family members and people came out with their cameras and were asking what is happening? Who are they?

    “They asked them to lose the handcuff on my legs but they didn’t. The officers told them that if they want to confirm anything they should follow them to Ejigbo Police Station. As we were on our way to the station, they did not say anything to us neither did we say anything to them.  On getting to the police station, they went through a register to confirm the names on the register and as they were going through it, one of the policemen just shouted ‘arrest this man’. From there, I was taken to Ikeja.”

    Police spokesperson Dolapo Badmos, a Superintendent of Police (SP), told The Nation that there was a petition against Dragnet.

    Badmos accused Dragnet of resisting arrest, asking: “Is that proper? It is high time that our people recognised that police is police and have the right to arrest anyone deemed fit. Let’s start respecting our own police but I am glad that when they got there (headquarters) the Officer-in-Charge looked into the matter and found out that it was a neighbourhood issue and urged them to resolve it amicably.”

    She urged the Baloguns to petition the Commissioner of Police if they believed that their rights have been trampled upon.

    Some of their neighbours told The Nation that Bello “is fond of using policemen from Ejigbo Police Station to harass us. We need Commissioner of Police to look into the activities of his men at Ejigbo.”

    Contacted, Bello yelled at our reporter, saying: “Why are you disturbing me? Don’t call my number again. Are you mad? What is your business with me? You must be mad.”

    He later called the reporter with another line, raining abuses on him.

    Bello also threatened the reporter, saying: “I am going to make an official report on you for your jungle journalism.”

  • Airtel Red Hot: Winners for Dubai with friends, family

    Airtel Red Hot: Winners for Dubai with friends, family

    The winners of an all-expense paid trip to Dubai for four in the Airtel Red Hot Promo Season 3 have departed Nigeria for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) along with their excited family and friends.

    Mrs. Victoria Obi, a business woman in Lagos, who emerged winner in the promo, selected her three kids, Mariam, Michael and Raphael to travel with her on the Dubai trip, while Mr. Nnamdi Oji, a web developer/entrepreneur, chose his friends Henry White, Joy Njoku and Cynthia Edokwe to join him.

    A brief departure party was held for them at Ikeja, Lagos on Saturday, December 26, last year where the winners along with their family and friends were treated to some light refreshment shortly before they left Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

    All the winners admitted that the all-expense paid trip to Dubai was their first trip ever to the UAE.

    Speaking during the party, Mrs. Victoria commended Airtel Nigeria for giving her and the children the opportunity to enjoy the Christmas holiday in a special way. She said: “The Airtel Red Hot Promo 3 came at the right time; my children are so excited to be going on this wonderful trip to Dubai.”

    She also said: “It was not an easy decision for me to pick just three family members for the trip, but my husband willingly suggested that our three children should go. We really appreciate the Dubai trip courtesy of Airtel. We thank the network for rewarding their customers with this programme.”

    Her daughter, Mariam, also praised Airtel for making her holiday unique. “This is going to be one of my best holidays so far because I am spending it with my brothers and mum in Dubai. I appreciate Airtel for this,” she said.