Edo youths, students, traders, landlords, and tenants plan mega rally in Edo

 


Edo youths, students, traders, landlords and tenants under the auspices of Edo Political Forum and Edo Youth Congress have concluded arrangement to host a historic protest in Benin City from Monday December 10, 2012 till further notice. The rally is tagged OCCUPY EDHA RALLY 2012 scheduled to hold at the premises of Edo State House of Assembly from Monday 10th of December, 2012 between 8.00am to 4.00pm every working day till whenever their four-point demands are met.
According to a notice available from Edo Political Forum website, and signed by the Director of Research and Strategy, Saintmoses Eromosele, the four-point demands are as follows:
1. The resignation of the Speaker
2. The resignation of the House Leader
3. A resolution of the House recalling and annulling the allegedly passed bil.
4. Apology by the house to the Edo people
The protest is expected to also visit the Oba Palace, Government House and other stake holders in the policy of Edo State. The groups are also working out legal channels to defeat the bill should the governor assent to it. According to the release, the protest shall be non-violent, peaceful and effectively coordinated. Information from Edo Political Forum is that application for police permit is being sent as well as notifications to all concerned. According to the leader of the protest, Barrister Jefferson Woghiren, he said that ‘’there is no going back on the protest’’
This protest is being sponsored by the members of Edo Political Forum as many of them have volunteered their cars, water, talents and other materials to ensure that this noble intention is not hijacked by politicians.
The group has called for a Press Conference on Monday 10, December 2012 at 7am in Benin City where the details of their demands shall be made available to the press. We shall keep you posted on development as they unfold.''
NigeriaPolitico

Identical Twins Reunited 24 Years After Being Separated at Birth

By Melissa Knowles

A woman continually mistaken for someone else has finally met her doppelganger – and discovered she is her separated at birth twin sister. For three years Bao Lulin, 24, found herself continually mistaken for someone else. Since 2009 Lulin has been approached by a number of people who spoke to her as if they knew her. “Have you come back from working in Fujian Province?” “You’re the daughter-in-law of Tian Laosan.” “Yanfei, you don’t know me?” However, Lulin didn’t know any of them. It was only recently that Lulin tracked down the mysterious Yanfei she was always mistaken for. And to their shock they discovered they are almost identical physically and share a number other similarities, including identical scars on their fingers.

Yahoo! It happens to all of us. You’re out somewhere, and someone says you look just like someone else. Most of us just smile politely and continue on with our day. But what if it happens so often that you really begin to wonder. Would your curiosity get the best of you, and would you just have to find out who that person is?
Bao Lulin works as a waitress in Jiuyang, China. Over a period of three years, she found she was constantly being told that she looked just like a woman named Yang Yanfei. Lulin’s first encounter with being mistaken for this mystery woman was in 2009, when she was asked by a stranger, “You have come back from Fujian Province? Why didn’t you inform us?” When people continued to call her “Yanfei,” Lulin finally decided to search for her doppelganger.
In October, after Lulin was once again mistaken for the other woman, she asked the person to give her Yanfei’s address so that she could meet her. She never imagined that this encounter would change her life.
When Lulin showed up at Yanfei’s house, she was shocked. The resemblance wasn’t slight; the two women actually looked exactly alike. They stood face to face, examining each other’s features and similarities. Yanfei said, “I felt I was looking into the mirror.” Now reunited, the sisters say they feel as if they’d known each other for years and years.
Lulin and Yanfei discovered they had been separated at birth. The two were put up for adoption as infants because of China’s one-child policy. The girls share a number of things in common: They were both married in 2007, their husbands have the same name (Bin), they share some of the same hobbies and favorite foods, and their sons could pass for twins. Here’s something that’s really uncanny — they each have a scar on their fingers resulting from similar accidents that happened when they were 6 years old.

LibertyReport

50 Nigerian Girls Used as S*x Slaves Rescued from Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire

In a rather disturbing development, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) has rescued 50 Nigerian girls, mostly underaged, working as sex slaves in neighboring Ghana and Cote d’ Ivoire.
The girls, apparently victims of human trafficking, are between the ages of 16 and 25. Executive Secretary of NAPTIP, Mrs. Beatrice Jedy-Agba, who made this known at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, said three suspects, acting as their slave masters, were also arrested. She said the suspects, who admitted to the crime, would be prosecuted to serve as deterrent to others engaged in the activities.
Jedy-Agba, who was represented by NAPTIP’s Director of Counselling and Rehabilitation in the agency, Mrs Lily Oguejiofor, said the rescue operation was the second of its kind this year, having rescued 10 girls in July, 2012 from Ivory Coast, bringing the total number of girls rescued this year from West African countries to 60.
She said the operation was necessitated by disturbing reports from a variety of sources, including the Nigerian mission in those countries, the media, Nigerians in diaspora, and civil society organisations in the countries. She then noted that the reports were all authenticated by an intelligence report from the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA) and corroborated by a civil society organisation working on anti-trafficking issues in Ghana known as “Operation Mobilisation in Kumasi.”
InformationNigeria.org

JTF Kills Four Boko Haram Sub-commanders, Recovers ‘Black Xmas’ Weaponry

Weapons recovered from Boko Haram sub-commanders

By SaharaReporters, New York

The Joint Task Force (JTF) has announced the killing of four more Boko Haram sub commanders in Maiduguri.
In a statement today, spokesman Lt. Col Sagir Musa, JTF said two of the dead men were experts in the manufacturing of Improvised Explosive Devices.
The men were killed in a shoot-out at Sabon Gere, Sabon Layin Gwange, Dala Sajeri, Biafra and Suleimanti areas of the metropolis between the 3rd – 5th of December.
This week’s battle followed another killing, on 2nd of December, of Abdulkareem Ibrahim, identified as a high profile Boko Haram commander, on Damboa- Biu Road.
During the battle, Lt. Col. Musa said two soldiers were wounded.   JTF also recovered a variety of items.
Thanking members of the public for their assistance, JTF said, “All the recovered items [were] planned to be used by the terrorists for operation “Black Christmas” – aimed to disrupt peaceful conduct of the impending Christmas celebration in Borno State.”
The items are:
a. 5 AK 47 Rifles
b. 1 Pistol
c. 11 AK 47 Rifles’ empty magazines
d. 1 G3 Rifle
e. 176 rounds of assorted ammunition
f.  24 assorted primed IED Gas Cylinders
g. 12 pieces of IED remote control switches
h. 6 assorted IEDs and incendiary materials / chemicals.
i. 15 small primed IED Cans

Jonathan’s Facebook Page Attacked For Not Fulfilling Promise

Hundreds of facebook users have besieged President Goodluck Jonathan’s facebook page asking him the reason he broke his promise to release funds to clean up poisonous Lead in Zamfara State.

On Thursday, two rights groups, Human Rights Watch and the Nigerian Youth Climate Action Network, NYCAN, called on the public to prevail on Mr. Jonathan to release the said funds.
“Unless the promised funds are released immediately, cleanup of the contaminated areas won’t be able to start until after next year’s rainy season, leaving thousands more children at risk of death and permanent disability,” said Babatunde Olugboji of Human Rights Watch.
Over 400 children have died from the lead poisoning, according to Mr. Olugboji, and thousands more are in dire need of medical attention.
The rights groups said that government’s failure to release the promised funds has left thousands of children with lifelong disability in the worst lead poisoning outbreak in recent history.
After the groups’ request on Thursday, hundreds of comments telling Mr. Jonathan that ” Children are dying and your government’s failure to act is putting more children at risk” surfaced on his page.
In his last facebook post, Mr. Jonathan’s had pleaded with Nigerians to be patient with his “transformation agenda.”
“Last year, you entrusted me with your mandate by voting for me to emerge as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I continue to hold that mandate in trust for you and future generations of Nigeria.
“Over the past year, this administration has been working on fulfilling the promises I made to you during the campaigns. Many of those promises will take time to come to fruition…,” Mr. Jonathan wrote on his November 1 post.
The comments on the Zamfara lead poisoning were put under Mr. Jonathan’s last post.
“I know you’ve got a lot of difficult tasks to tackle in the next year, but the Zamfara cleanup is one that has a proven solution and you have the funds to solve it. Respect your citizens by cleaning up toxins,” read one comment on his post by Elyse Leonard.
Another post by M Ahmet Nermin read “#Lead poisoning in Zamfara State, Nigeria, killed 400+ children and left thousands more with permanent life-long disability. In May, President Goodluck Jonathan pledged $4,000,000 to clean up the lead contamination. Today, that money is nowhere to be found, and thousands of children remain at risk of death and disability. #childrights.”
InformationNigeria.org

Uba, Maduka N20 billion Probe Stalled by Okonjo-Iwe​ala’s Absence

Uba at National Assembly, yesterday

Investigations into the N20 billion fuel subsidy dispute between the Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Mr. Ifeanyi Uba, Mr. Cosmas Maduka failed to hold yesterday following unforeseen circumstances.
The investigation been carried out by the house of representative was stalled for two reasons, according to the House Committee on Public Petitions, Mr. Uzo Azubuike, one,  the absence of the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
The absence of the Chairman, Presidential Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was the second reason coupled with pending law suits in court over the matter.
At the onset of the proceeding, the counsel representing Coscharis Motors, owned by Maduka, Mr. Osita Mbamalu informed the committee that the matter was already in court.
It however took the committee about 10 minutes to settle on the submission of Mbamalu, after which the postponement of the hearing was announced by Azubuike.
He said, “We are standing down the hearing for today; we are adjourning the hearing to Thursday next week.
“We want Coscharis and Access Bank to furnish us with court processes on the matter on or before Tuesday next week.”
Nevertheless, Uba who walk out on the session, told journalists that he would make sure that he was paid his money.
He said, “I will not contest the resolution of the House that we should come back next week Thursday; I have to comply with that. However, it is important to let Nigerians know that at this moment, our workforce is outside.
“We believe there is a grand conspiracy to strangle us, which started over 10 months ago. Since December last year, our payments have been stalled.
“With regards to verifications and unending investigations by the House Committee, we have been cleared by the House of Representatives; we were also cleared by the CBN.
“We were also cleared by the same Aig-Imokhuede on July 21; when they published 21 companies, our name was not there.
“Surprisingly, three weeks after July 21, our names came out with about 16 infractions.”
BusinessNews

BREAKING NEWS:Kidnaped Edo Businessman (Uyi Technical) is dead?

UNCONFIRMED -----News  just REACHED us  that Edo businessman a generator merchant and hotelier, Uyi Oloton (popularly called Uyi Technical)Who was abducted last week friday has been found dead. 

 

We cant really give you details about how he was killed for now .. but trust us when we gather more information be sure to hear it from us first.

OtedoNews