Tag: visits

  • Sam Sodje visits Delta State Governor, Okowa

    Sam Sodje visits Delta State Governor, Okowa

    Former Nigeria international Sam Sodje paid a courtesy call on the Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Wednesday.

    During the meeting, the ex Reading and West Brom central defender focused his discussion on the development of sports, football in particular, in the state.

    Sammy, an important member of the Sodje dynasty, is dismayed at reports of Nigeria’s great footballing heroes and upcoming stars suffering and struggling after the sport and wants his project to correct that.

    “The key subject of the meeting was about adding value to the new government and state, and I’m very involved,” said Sam Sodje to allnigeriasoccer.com.

    “The welfare of footballers and sports people is very important to me and having a program of life after football and sport.”

    Hon. Ovie Festus Agas, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Victor Onogagamue, Director-General of the DSSC and Mr Stephen Cole were also involved in the meeting between Sam Sodje and the Governor.

    Sam Sodje has a Gas Engineering diploma from the University of Watford and will soon complete a Bachelor’s degree in the same discipline.

  • As Buhari visits US

    As Buhari visits US

    It is an open fact that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will be an invited guest of President Barrack Obama of the United States on the 20th of this month. Such is nothing strange especially whenever the honeymoon remains fresh for any newly elected President of an African country. Virtually all the former Presidents of Nigeria also enjoyed that privilege in Washington. The difference this time however, is that President Buhari’s visit is coming up at a time when sodomy has become America’s new civilisation. And President Buhari’s host has described that ‘new civilisation’ which was authoritatively proclaimed by America’s Supreme Court last Friday as a joyous victory for his regime which he may want to share with anybody that falls into that country’s web of sacrilege. The Almighty Allah said much about this in Qur’an 11: verses 76, 77, 81 & 82 as follows:

    “And when our messengers came to Lut (Lot), he was grieved for them because he could not protect them against the sacrilegious acts of his townsmen (who were neck deep in homosexuality). Lut concluded: ‘this is a day of woe.’ And as the evil doers came rushing towards him he said: ‘’my people, here are my daughters; they are (sexually) rather lawful to you than your fellowmen. Have fear of Allah and do not humiliate me (with your sacrilege) before my guests. Is there no single good man amongst you?

    “Then, the Angels said: ‘Lut! We are the messengers of your Lord; they shall not touch you. Depart with your kinsfolk in some part of the night and let none of you look back, except your wife. She shall suffer the fate of the others. Their appointed time is the morning. And, is the morning not near? And when our judgement came to pass, we laid them (and their towns) upside down and let loose upon them a shower of burnt stones bearing the tokens of your Lord. Such is not far off from all evil doers”.

     

    Exposition

    The above Qur’anic quotations are in reference to the people of Prophet Lut (Lot) and the consequences of their evil deeds. But as the last quoted verse indicates, the story of such evil machination did not end with them and its consequences will not end with them. Now, the imperial West seems to have found a new civilisation in sodomy. It probably believes that the men of Sodom and Gomorrah were afflicted by the mentioned calamity either because they were not clever enough or they had no nuclear power with which to fight God.

     

    Words of advice

    Sodomy has long been a global phenomenon from which no part of the world is excluded. But with its current institutionalisation backed up by governmental authority, especially in Europe and America the leaders of sane countries from the rest of the world must be on their guard. It is characteristic of the West to want to impose any newly invented idea by them, and considered as civilisation, on others. This is where President Muhammadu Buhari has to be very careful when he travels to the United States.

    The Western imperialists have a way of luring others to their traps with open carrots while hiding the stick. With them, there is no free lunch. Every gift that comes from them is a Greek one. As of now, President Barrack Obama seems to be very desperate in helping Nigeria to get rid of Boko Haram menace. And he has noticed desperation on the part of President Buhari in solving the same problem.

    When two Presidents meet with such desperation on the same issue one is likely to bow for the other depending on whose will is stronger. But in a situation where one of them is the giver and the other is the recipient, the elasticity of will may be limited.

    Whoever pays the piper surely dictates the tune. The imperialists do not traditionally live in a house with only one door. They are invariably known for keeping the front door wide open to all visitors while a back door, which is an alternative, remains hidden. No Nigerian interest can ever be a priority for an American President.

     

    The evil axis

    America is currently the champion of modern civilisation. Whatever emerges from America is perceived as a trend of civilisation with which the rest of the world must keep pace. Last Friday (June 27, 2015), America’s Supreme Court gave a split judgment (of 5 to 4) that shocked the sane world to the marrow.

    The judgment officially granted the citizens of that devil’s own country the legal right to practise sodomy throughout the country in what is now seen as a token of civilisation at higher pedestal.

    The implications of that evil judgment are innumerable. Some of them are as follows:

    1.Marriage between male and female has been consigned to the uncivilised basket of the primordial time.

    2.The legal natural and conventional means of procreation of children has been rubbished and rendered irrelevant.

    3.Adoption of other people’s children has become a new artificial means of increasing human demography.

    4.Through a devilish connivance with Europe, America has challenged the authority of the Almighty God to make law for mankind.

    Human history is generally dotted with waves of civilisations from era to era. The fall of one civilisation has always signaled the beginning of another. Where are the civilisations of the yore today?

    Haven’t such ancient civilisations, such as Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Mesopotamian, Carthaginian, Greek and Roman each of which lasted far more than a thousand years now become sheer rubbles on the pages of history? From the experience of history, we have come to learn that when a civilisation wants fall, its conductors will begin to see themselves as super human beings and clad in the garb of arrogance. That is now the lot of America which amounts to challenging the authority of God.

     

    Audacious chief gay

    A few years back, the world’s chief gay crusader was no less a personality than the Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron whose campaign for free homosexuality and same sex marriage is going international.

    At the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting in Australia in 2011, Cameron’s preoccupation was to sell the constitutional entrenchment of free homosexuality to other heads of governments, particularly those from Africa. He threatened to withdraw his government’s aid to any country that refused to allow gay freedom in its constitution.

     

    Reactions

    The first reaction to that threat came from the then Ghanaian President, John Atta Mills, who publicly and eloquently told his fellow countrymen that his government would not tolerate the linkage of foreign aid to promotion of gay rights.

    President Mills’ open denunciation came after David Cameron boasted in the British Parliament that he had sold the concept of gay rights to the Commonwealth countries.

    “If the aid is going to be tied to things that will destroy the moral fibre of our society, do you really want that?” John Mills concluded.

    Ghana was not alone in such denunciation. Uganda also asserted that she would rather suffer any economic backlash from anywhere over her opposition to gay rights. Meanwhile, the Presidents of both countries had separately proscribed homosexuality and condemned Cameron’s threat.

    However, about a year thereafter, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda went back to his vomit and announced to the world that Uganda was ready for institutionalisation of homosexuality in line with the new trend in the West. The presidential afterthought was to enable Uganda gain access to the satanic dollars that were to be granted to her in the name of economic aid.

     

    Analysis

    Out of the 54 members of the Commonwealth of Nations, 41 maintained their enacted laws banning homosexuality with many of those laws dating back to the British colonial rule. During the early days of resistance to that evil proposal, Uganda had described Cameron’s threat to cut bilateral aid as “bullying tactics”. And Ghana, which enjoyed some 36 million British pounds aid in 2010, said she would not compromise on the matter. It will be recalled that Cameron had been harping on gay rights since early 2010. He had apparently promised his party to take the campaign for gay rights to the outside world, convinced that the British point of view was more salutary than Africa’s.

    When Malawi, another African Country, sentenced two homosexuals to 14 years imprisonment with hard labour shortly after the 2011 Commonwealth conference, David Cameron responded by slashing $30 million from that country’s aid.

     

    Nigerian experience

    Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan led a Nigerian delegation to the referred Commonwealth meeting in Australia. But no one in that delegation gave any report of that devilish mission after the delegation arrived home.

    What we rather saw was a shameless sponsor of a bill in the Senate calling for the inclusion of gay freedom in Nigerian constitution. Incidentally, a public controversy had ensued on an allegation that the then Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu was working on such a bill, an allegation which he promptly denied.

    Although the allegation could not be proved, people felt it was be too much of a coincidence for a bill of that nature to suddenly surface in our Senate subsequent to the Commonwealth meeting at which Cameron’s gay crusade was intense. The coincidence became more suspicious when a termagant Nigerian woman of South-Eastern extraction suddenly appeared on the Senate floor to defend the sacrilegious bill.

    However, we thank God that the then Senate President, Senator David Mark, maintained his dignity and upheld the cultural honour of Nigerians by not allowing any debate at all on such an obnoxious bill. In his remark over the bill, David Mark told his colleagues that such a bill was not only incompatible with African culture but also antithetical to religious beliefs in Nigeria.

    Though it could be assumed that for David Cameron to have championed such a desecration, he must have also been a gay but what could be  strange in having a gay as the Prime Minister of Britain when publicly known gays were being consecrated as Bishops in the Church of England which was and is still headed by the Queen. And despite the hue and cry over Cameron’s heretic action in that instance the Queen as Head of State remained silent an action which some people considered as a sign of approval.

     

    Irony

    The irony of Cameron’s crusade in 2011 was that he had, in the past opposed any inclusion of gay rights in the British constitution. Even as recently as 2003 he voted for the retention of section 28 of the British acts which prohibited gay rights in Britain.

    But in a sharp departure from his Tory past, Cameron later came out shamelessly to apologise for supporting that section of that constitution and turned round to say that teaching sexual equality in the British society was an important way of combating homophobic bullying.

    Britain’s changing attitude towards homosexuality was highlighted last in a study in 2011by the National Centre for Social Research which found that 36% of respondents thought sexual relations between two adults of the same sex were “always or mostly” wrong. This was down from 63% in 1983. Today, the figure in favour of sodomy in Europe and America has gone up so tremendously that it has boosted the audacity of some evil agents to turn the evil act into an open market trade.

     

    Nigeria’s cultural bereavement

    Now, with the rapid rate of moral degeneration and deification of capitalism in the West, major vices like homosexuality, lesbianism and bisexualism have become so contagious that those opposed to them are in the minority. This cannot be strange in any European country. What became strange is the official exportation of such vices to Africa with such cheap blackmail. The concern here is not much for Africa as a continent as it is for Nigeria as a country.

    Here is a country of multi-cultural, multi-religious adherents who had once held on tenaciously to their cultural identity and religious affinity for centuries. But with the arrival of European colonialists over a century ago, foreign vices began to overwhelm Nigerian cultural lifestyle as blind imitation became the tradition of Nigerian youths. Thus, today most Nigerians, especially those of the south, only see with European eyes, speak with European tongues and reason with European minds as they have totally lost their cultural origin to the imitated evil lifestyle of the Europeans. In this case and many other vices that are yet to surface, only genuine prayer can bail out Nigeria.

     

    Admonition and supplication

    “Allah does not impose upon a soul a duty that it cannot bear; for each soul is the benefit of what it has earned; and upon it is the evil of what it has wrought. Our Lord! Do not punish us if we forget or make a mistake; Do not lay on us a burden that you did not lay on those before us; Our Lord! Do not impose upon us what we have no strength to bear; Pardon us, grant us protection and have mercy on us; You are the Patron (of the universe) so help us to overcome the machinations of the infidels”. Amen.

  • Obiano visits Buhari, solicits appointments for Ndigbo

    •Anambra gov pledges support for president-elect

    Anambra State governor, Willy Obiano, yesterday solicited appointments for Ndigbo in the government of the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari.

    The governor, who made the request when he visited General Buhari at his residence in Abuja, promised to support General Buhari’s administration, just as he denied reports that he was planning to dump his party, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA).

    Speaking with newsmen shortly after the meeting with General Buhari, Governor Obiano said he has already adopted the spirit of change in the governance of his state and will work in collaboration with the president-elect to ensure that the welfare of Nigerians is protected.

    Obiano’s All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) was one of the political parties that publicly endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term bid.

    Speaking on his meeting with the president-elect, Obiano said that he discussed the appointment of citizens of Anambra State in particular, and the South East in general into the new government.

    He said: “I came to congratulate His Excellency, the President-elect on his victory. I am also here to reassure him that Anambra and the South East will support him. I also pleaded with him on some pressing projects that are of major importance to the people of the South East, like the second Niger bridge and some of the federal roads.

    “I also did mention the area of appointments for Anambra people in particular and the people of the south-east in general, be it ambassadorial, ministerial and others. Basically, it is to congratulate the President-elect on his well deserve victory.”

    Asked if the visit was in line with the change that is going round the land at the moment, he said, “I am a focused governor. Under my tenure, I brought change to security in Anambra State and I am always going to support things that bring about change and to improve the well-being of the people of Anambra and Nigerians.”

    When reminded that the APC has leaders in the South East who should be speaking for them in terms of appointment, he said, “Most of the APC leaders in the south-east have actually visited me and we are talking. I suspect that the President-elect is not going to offer appointment only to people from his party. Everybody supported him, and therefore, I am pleading that he considers people from the other parties so that we can all embrace the change.”

    While denying any plan to join the APC, the governor said, “It is not correct to say I might join the APC. I will remain with APGA and work very closely with the president. I will give him 100 percent support.”

  • NUC team visits

    Back at EKSU, the NUC accreditation panel assessed the facilities of the medical college.

    It was the second team in two weeks to access the college.  The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria had visited earlier to check the infrastructural facilities as well as human resources required for the accreditation.

    The NUC Team was received by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Patrick Aina and his principal officers at the Council Chamber.

    Prof Aina informed the team that the people of Ekiti State were anxious to have their own College of Medicine.

    The Provost, Prof Araoye, said the college was prepared for the accreditation exercise.

    The leader of the NUC team, Prof. James Odia, promised to carry out the assignment in the best interest of all, without bias.

     

  • Jaiz Bank Board visits Emir of Kano

    Jaiz Bank Board visits Emir of Kano

    The Board of Directors and Management of Jaiz Bank Plc have visited the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, to congratulate him on his assumption of the throne and  extend their condolences to him over the death of  Emir Ado Bayero.

    The team was led by the lender’s  Chairman, Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab, who expressed the bank’s confidence in the ability of the new Emir to help bring about needed peace and development of Kano.

    A statement from the bank quoted Mutallab as saying: “We are at the Emir’s palace to pay our homage, first to condole his royal highness over the demise of the late Emir, Alhaji Ado Bayero and to very importantly congratulate you on your new position.

    Mutallab said the team is “extremely grateful to his Royal Highness during his tenure as governor of Central Bank of Nigeria. You are instrumental in the establishment of Jaiz Bank Plc. Today, Jaiz Bank is in existence and we would continue to work stronger to deliver our unique services to all our customers irrespective of their regional or religious background.”

    He said the lender is currently witnessing acceptance, particularly from potential customers who are showing willingness to explore the services of the bank.

    Its Managing Director,   Muhammad Nurul Islam, said:  “The bank has concluded plans to advance its operational licence, spreading the banking services across the 36 states of the federation, before the end of 2014.”

    He said the bank has submitted application to the Central Bank of Nigeria for a National License and is waiting for the finally approval.

    In his words, “we have submitted our application in December 2013, it has to follow the rudiment and the normal regulations. Hopefully, we would secure the national operation license very soon.”

  • Chika Ike visits alma mater in style

    Chika Ike visits alma mater in style

    Popular Nollywood actress Chika Ike has visited her alma mater, St. Francis Catholic Secondary School in Idimu, Lagos.

    The actress, who was the Head Girl at the school, talked to the students on the importance of staying in school.

    The visit also served as an opportunity to bring the students and teachers together to pray for the school girls abducted by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, in Chibok, Bornu State.

    The students, while expressing their fears and concerns, said their happiest moment would be when the missing girls are returned to their respective homes.

    Ike, 29, is a graduate of Human Kinetics and Health Education from the University of Lagos, Akoka.

    The CEO of Fancy Nancy Collections landed her first roles in Sweet love and Bless the Child directed by TChidi Chikere.

  • Facebook team visits Konga headquarters

    There is an increasing interest in the Nigerian start-up ecosystem by Social Media giant, Facebook.com.

    Recently, a 12-man Facebook team led by Nichola Mendelsohn; Head of Facebook, Europe, Middle East and African visited the Konga office and had a lot of good things to say about Konga and Nigeria as a whole.

    Leading the delegation of social media gurus, Nichola Mendelsohn; Head of Facebook, Europe, Middle East and Africa, met and addressed the Konga leadership and Marketing team, where she highlighted the role and importance of Konga as a success story with a reputation that has gone beyond local shores but quickly gaining traction around Africa despite having only being in existence for less than two years.

    The team was really interested in how Konga has been able to stamp its footprint in Nigeria in such a short time with plenty of positive feedback coming from users on Facebook

    Speaking further, she emphasised the team’s admiration and satisfaction for the successful execution of Konga’s Black Friday/Cyber Friday-Fall Yakata and Konga’s Christmas Campaigns while expressing their desire to further strengthen Facebook’s relationship with the Konga brand with mutually beneficial partnerships that would help the brand and over 12 million active people using Facebook in Nigeria as a whole.

    COO of Konga.com, Alex Kamara on behalf of the Konga team thanked the Facebook team for taking out time to visit and talk about how Konga always goes where its users love to go. He also spoke about some of the initiatives that Konga has planned for its users in the new year.

    Also, this past weekend, Konga was honored by the Creative Entrepreneurs of Nigeria with an award for excellence at a Gala night that was held at the British council gardens. The event had Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for Economy, Dr Okonjo Iweala and Dr Andrew Pocock, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria in attendance.

  • Abdulsalami visits Nwodo over wife’s death

    Former Head of State Gen Abdusalami Abubakar yesterday visited Ukehe, the home of John Nwodo Jnr to commiserate with him on the death of his wife, Justice Obiageli Nwodo.

    She died recently in a London hospital.

    Nwodo was the Minister for Information during the Abubakar military regime.

    Gen. Abubakar described Nwodo as his younger brother, noting that death is a destiny that everybody bears and prayed God to grant the family fortitude to bear the loss.

    The former Head of State said ever since Nwodo served in his cabinet, their relationship has become stronger.

    He described Nwodo as the bridge between him and the rest of the world.

    “He is an astute and focused young man who produced results. I came to know his wife who was in the same profession with my wife.

    “She bore her sickness with dignity and courage. I pray she rests in peace,” Abubakar said.

    He told Nwodo that though it’s painful to lose one’s partner, death should not deter people from moving on.

    Nwodo said Gen Abubakar has been a close friend of his family, noting that the former head of state visited his late wife in the hospital before she died.

    The ex-minister recalled the humility of Abubakar, and how he ran the country with free hand.

  • Danjuma visits Suntai in Jalingo

    Danjuma visits Suntai in Jalingo

    Former Defence Minister, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, yesterday visited ailing Taraba State Governor Danbaba Suntai at the Government House in Jalingo, the state capital.

    Danjuma is an illustrious son of the state, which is locked in a bitter struggle for power between Suntai and his deputy Garba Umar, who has been given the nod to continue as acting governor.

    Suntai spent 10 months in Germany and the United States, treating the injuries he sustained after the plane he piloted crashed in Yola, Adamawa State, on October 25, last year.

    Danjuma is the third caller since Suntai’s return on August 25.

    Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako visited Suntai on August 27.

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Fact-Finding Committee, headed by Senator Hope Uzodima, met with Suntai on September 3.

    Danjuma landed at the Jalingo Airport at 10:40a.m in an aircraft marked M-SAPL.

    He was driven to the Government House in a convoy.

    The former Defence minister spent about 30 minutes with the governor in his inner sitting room. He prayed for Suntai to get well soon.

    He did not speak to reporters before leaving the Government House.

    A family source quoted him as telling the governor’s wife, Hauwa, to “feel free, your husband will soon be strong”.

    Suntai reportedly thanked Dunjama for visiting him.

    He was said to have recalled how Danjuma visited him at the Hannover Hospital in Germany and at the Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Centre and Home in New York, the United States.

  • PDP panel visits Suntai in New York

    Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Fact-Finding Committee on the Taraba State Political Situation yesterday visited ailing Governor Danbaba Suntai in New York, the United States, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

    The committee, led by its Chairman, Sen. Hope Uzodinma, visited the governor at a rehabilitation centre, where he is receiving treatment.

    Suntai has been receiving treatment abroad – first in Gemany and now in the US – following the injury he sustained when the aircraft he piloted crashed in Yola, Adamawa State, in October, last year.

    Uzodinma was accompanied by the Special Adviser to the PDP National Chairman on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Inter-Party Affairs, Alhaji Shitu Mohammed; the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak; Sen. Abubakar Gada and the Consul-General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Habib Habu.

    “We are impressed with what we have seen and we thank God for that. We will take back home what we have seen and we will inform the leadership of the party.

    “We are impressed; we are also happy that the governor is recovering. We will still go back home and relate what we have seen.

    “We will also visit Taraba State. We will meet all stakeholders in Taraba State; we will also inform them of what we have seen and our party, as a family, will make sure that the party continues to grow from strength to strength,” he told NAN.

    The panel chairman hailed President Goodluck Jonathan and the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, for setting up the committee.

    The Consul-general also said the governor was recovering fast.

    He said: “I was really amazed about his quick recovery and we must all thank God for the favour done to Suntai. This is because for anybody to come back from where he had been is not an easy task.

    “I know when he was brought here, I met him and continued to visit. Now, he can take care of himself without any support. His progress is most impressive.”