Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Photo: Bomb Blast in Jos again?....how long will this continue for God's sake!







A bomb blast this afternoon that occurred at a densely populated area in Ahmadu Bello way in Jos, Plateau State has left over 200 souls dead! Heavy explosion was heard around 2:55pm  today which,according to jos dwellers,the bombs were
The bomb was planted in two cars, a Peugeot J5 van and a Toyota Sienna SUV with a Gombe state license plate number. Eye-witnesses said the car had been parked near the busy market since early this morning and had even drawn the curiosity of people in the area who allegedly alerted the police. It exploded many hours later   People in the know say causalities was very high because it happened at the GSM market in the state where there are lots of people. this is too bad.
as a matter of fact,this has to stop,we need to do something very very fast,this is beyond sitting and watching the nation turned into a total chaos.....

BLOOMING with glamour , the essence of being a lady!

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 Hints of glamour angel Queen Alicia dressed with Overcoat of the moment ready to go wild!  According the  capital "A" fondly called,.. " she's been rocking this woolhair coat since it became warm enough to do so. I love the color said Alicia, the movement and the coverage,because it makes each outfit that much more chic, and polished." having said this,she promise' that
"Your seeing much more of it on the blog before summer, unless it gets super hot very quick. in the mean time,we just decided to leave you with some images below to see what glooming life's all about.....

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[EXCLUSIVE]COVENANT UNIVERSITY BEGINS 2013/2014 SWE-Program

  

In  order to acquaint the student  in Hebron with the global trend in the use of intellectual property related to engineering, Covenant University has brought together Kings and queens  in Hebron for  training/workshop  known as "students work experience program [SWEP] which is in line with the university motto to; empower youths with a life of significance! this  because In Covenant University,there's this  believe that learning  is not limited to theory or what's been tought in the class alone,that is to say,there is need for practical demonstration of what's been taught in the classroom for better understanding and for future purpose.
management of covenant university believe that this  methods of learning  helps to expand and change  the students as they move throughout their careers. It is on this premise that the  University is widening access to learning, professional skills development and empowerment in its institutional strategies by addition SWEP to its program so as to equip the young vibrant looking engineers with standard practical scheme against tomorrow when they will  be face to face with realities in the society!
This year's SWEP according to the cordinator, provides a platform for mounting high quality, flexible laboratory based and field practical program for all the 300 level students in the following department:MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGCIVIL ENGINEERINGCHEMICAL ENGINEERING,BUILDING TECHNOLOGYINFORMATION AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERINGCOMPUTER ENGINEERINGPETROLEUM ENGINEERING
 The workshop which essentially a national university commission program for all the universities in Nigeria was coordinated by Dr Matthews who is also the SIWE coordinator in covenant university. this involves all the school of engineering put together alongside  the institution's technologists and representatives from other departments.The program which commenced yesterday May 19,2014 is expected to last for about 4 weeks

Hike in school Fees saga,student union government prepares for war with management!

 Concerning One of the Nigerian premier instutution,OAU, the news reaching us reveals that the school is in total chaos as  Hike in school fees is about to lead to a total closure of the University, even if it will take five years!
 According to the  university Vice Chancellor, Prof. Tale Omole he revealed that, some weeks ago, the OAU management announced her intention to increase d school fees between 70,000 to 80,000 depending on faculty.
After a meeting between the management and the Union, the school finalised to agree  17,000+ to the students which the union leaders rejected immediately. The management however threatens to shut-down the school even if it will take as long as 5 yrs if they  will not settle for that.
The union leaders however replied that the students will not pay the hike fees, neither will they go home. Now the battle line is drawn between the management and the students with the students planning on a protest..i think both parties should do something in resolving this issues to avoid another up rising in the west so that the boko haram sect will not see another look hole to now capitalize on that by throwing the whole nation into total darkness
source:omg

[chibok saga] How long did it take the abductors to assemble the girls and board, before departing?..the big question before Nigerians!



Following the piece 'North: The Two Missing Freedoms', which appeared in this column two weeks ago, there have been reactions and also revelations suggesting very disturbing thoughts and possibilities. If the truth must be told, the issue before us is not just a matter of lapses in security. Within the intervening period, the office of the first lady convened a stakeholder's meeting that threw up very alarming signs of negligence (and possibly complicity) on the part of those who have responsibility for managing the school and taking care of the children. At the said meeting in Abuja, the chairman of the area's local government explained that two out of the three routes into (and out of) Chibok were manned and blocked by the police. The other route was also manned and blocked, this time by the military.

 The one zillion question now is, which route did the abductors take to get out of Chibok, when all the routes allegedly were blocked? That was one of Mrs Patience Jonathan's recurring questions at the meeting. How long did it take the abductors to assemble the girls and board, before departing? How can anyone explain the fact that the children actually trekked for nearly two kilometres to where the vehicles of their abductors were packed, before boarding and leaving? Were there no villagers, officials or security men who saw all of this?
The talk today is how to rescue the abducted Chibok girls, and rightly so. But in the heat of it all, and especially following the media mauling of the federal government, many fundamental questions are not only in danger of not being asked at all, but of actually being dismissed as unnecessary.
In the aforementioned article, this column held: 'There used to be one northern Nigeria, with one voice. It had the profile of an impregnable monolith, with leaders who enjoyed untrammelled freedom 'from' fear and the freedom 'to' act and determine means and ends in the Nigerian state. The leaders, elders and titled men were all nearly deified. But the story is different today. As we're reading this piece, emirs, prominent persons and other leaders are in the line of fire from an amorphous invasion with unclear intentions. There are some as yet unverified allegations to the effect that some prominent northerners are aiding the mayhem. If this is true, then the persons concerned obviously do not see their political and economic graves down the road they are treading at the moment. Freedom is on the run and they cannot see it.'
Is it not curious, as was revealed at the first lady's meeting, that the 'abducted' students not only trekked for long minutes through the land before being finally taken away, but were taken away in such a well-choreographed manner as to suggest that there was more to the entire saga than exists in the public domain? There was no coherent response at the said meeting, when questions were raised regarding why the Borno State Government ignored the letters of the Minister of Education and WAEC calling for postponement of the examinations, the need to relocate the students to the state capital and/or provide serious security. Why was it only after the kidnapping of the students that the remaining students were moved to a safer place for their examinations?
Why, for instance, did the Borno State Ministry of Education and the school authorities provide only day security in a school that has arranged for the girls to sleep in the premises after the examinations? To recall the SS3 students to write their WAEC exams against extant warnings and directives and without providing security seems to be more than a mere administrative slip, if you ask me.
Why was it only the female students who were in the boarding facility without security, while their male counterparts could come and go during the day? Why were there no security/gate man, no house parents, and no light on the night of the incident? What provided the ambience for the students to believe that uniformed men who suddenly appeared in their school were there to protect and rescue them? What were they told that they were being rescued form, anyway? How come the local government chairman could not relay an early warning signal sent to him by an informant? How come he also did nothing after receiving information from the Director  of SSS on the same matter?
And now, the clincher: no security operative or apparatus could reach the location of the broken down vehicles carrying the abducted girls. So their abductors made a leisurely exit with their 'booty' unchallenged; out of a town with three well-guarded (and even blocked) exits. This entire saga, and especially with the details that came from the first lady's meeting, sounds very much like fiction masquerading as an account of actual happenings. It is a beautifully scripted piece of insanity that will put the writers of Disneyland to shame.
But the public reaction to that meeting in Aso Rock has created what can best be described as an atmosphere of melodrama on a matter that does not call for frivolity. The good intentions behind the meeting, as well as the frightening revelations that emerged from it, may seem to be now overshadowed by the distortion of its actual intent. While everyone is griping about what the federal government is doing or not doing, the primary focal persons in Borno State to whom the nation actually handed over those children have maintained a degree of nonchalance that can best be described as incomprehensible. Before the meeting, neither the principal nor the governor's wife had visited the school after the incident. The principal and state officials could also not explain why, knowing that Boko Haram killed some WAEC invigilators in Borno State last year, decided to go along with an examination they had been told to put off; and without making any security arrangements whatsoever?
The principal admitted that the SS3 students were asked to return to their hostel to write WAEC exams without power supply, house parents nor any security arrangement in spite of threats in the area. Then it also came out that the women that demonstrated in Abuja, were not parents of the children and mostly did not come from Chibok but reside in Abuja. A special case was made of Naomi Murlah, a Deputy Director in the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), in this regard.
There are simply too many other baffling twists, conflicting revelations and distortions of statements and other details. The principal, who claimed to be residing in the staff quarters, only going to Maiduguri fortnightly for diabetic treatment, was found not to be riding in the school premises. Stakeholders were aghast that her school could go ahead and register males and over aged candidates (60 years and above) as internal students for WAEC at GGSS in Chibok, despite the security threats. To register overaged males who are actually not known and regular students of the school as day students, and then have the bona fide females enrolled as borders without any form a security is quite incredible.
Those who attended the meeting in question included the wife of the deputy senate president, wives of governors and their representatives, female legislators at the federal and state levels, the minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, special advisers, leaders of women organisations, focal persons in the Chibok abduction saga, women opinion leaders and other stakeholders. What have they done after that?
Besides the Borno State commissioners for health and education, the state's commissioner of police, director of SSS, the principal of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, divisional police officer in charge of Chibok, the army commandant in charge of Chibok, the chairman of Chibok Local Government, the head of WAEC National Office and the WAEC zonal co-ordinators for North-east and North-central were also present at the meeting. Do any of these people have any public position in what is going on today?
Many are celebrating the advertised challenges the federal government seems to be facing at the moment. We forget that peace is disappearing everywhere. As was said here two weeks ago: 'The north is disappearing as I write. The leadership can still wake up to a reality it seems to be reading wrongly. The problem is not the bombs, or the mutual recriminations among politicians. It is not the pretended indignation of an elite that does not see how it can claim the moral high ground by being seen to distance itself from partisanship in this moment of national crisis'.
Some may celebrate the negative global media focus on Nigeria, believing that they are 'dealing with Jonathan and his peoiple'. Meanwhile it is all of 'us', as a people. Chibok is only symptomatic of a dimension of the malaise. Beneath it lies several brands of folly, all of which are predicated on the wrong assumption that somebody who perpetrates evil in order to make another look bad is thereby doing something good. Far from it!
culled from the Nigerian voice
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