Why Most Nigerian Students Including Those From Wealthy Homes Have A Sugar Daddy

This question is as old and worn out as time itself. Yet still, nobody seems to be able to come up with a definite answer for it.
Really,Why do most Nigerian students (including those from wealthy homes) either have sugar daddies OR engage in prostitution? I took time out to ask some people around me this question and here are some of their responses.
“its greed of course! Greed, laziness, peer pressure, no ambition! Mutsheeeeew!!!”LOL sounds like he has been a victim of these girls.
“Because their parents don’t give them all the cash they need”
“Money, peer pressure” hmmmm yet again
Yet another person “MONEY! Peer pressure too.” I then replied “if that’s the main reason, why can’t they ask their parents, guidance e.t.c or get a decent job?” His response; “ooh! You’ll tell your parents you want bold5 today, they would drop the money. Less than two months after that, you want an iphone then later you want S3…you want to go for this show or that trip, you want to buy vuitton this Gucci that…and you expect them to give you the money every time. Naaaaa! Those girls do it for more money.” *phew* that was a long speech but he really did break it down don’t you think.
Do you think that explanation justifies the act? What about their reputation? Keeping themselves for their future husbands or wives, the marriages they are ruining due to the so-called greediness? What happened to being patient and contended with what you have? The questions are endless.
If you think you know the answer to this myth of a question, I really would like to hear from you because I must say ‘I’m baffled’.
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Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent: Why Honourable Patrick Obahiagbon should be stoned by all of us

By Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent

Language should be understood. When you are an elected officer, representing a people, as a politician, every word you speak in the English Language should be able to travel into the understanding of the populace so they can assess whether you are speaking for them or against them. But in Nigeria this is utter gibberish. It is legitimate to be incomprehensible.
I have no doubt that the so-called Honourable Patrick Obahiagbon is a fool who plays around jargon with platitudes too confusing, even to himself to comprehend. When language fails to be understood as expressed in the media or by the politicians who hold our trust then we are in trouble.
I love words. I love simple and easy going words. Maybe I should blame my poor parents who never had enough resources to send me to the high-sounding names – those schools that enable you speak things that could be disastrous to human ears. I attended a community school. I had stayed in the village more than anyone of my age because my father could not afford to leave us in the hands of strangers as tender as my younger brother and I were. He was a carpenter. He cared little about language in course of his job but it gave him pleasure when what we spoke sounded pleasant and simple.
When we returned to the city the only school that could be trusted because of distance and fees was a community school around the place where we lived. The teachers barely spoke correctly. The language we heard there was same with what we heard on our streets, by the same people we had escaped from, the hoodlums.
Language is life to those who treasure it. And it sickens to know that the custodians of the rules of grammar are so inadequate and incompetent in our schools. One day my younger brother who is about five years old brought home an invitation letter from his school to my parents. It was supposed to be a PTA meeting. No sentence in that letter was correct. Even popular words were mixed up. The pathetic side is that it took them three years to spell his name: Fortune, correctly.

It is difficult to correct an old man. And when it is easier to deceive the younger ones we should be careful who speaks to our children and who they listen to. A bad grammar is painful to the ears, when I listen to a speaker of such tears voluntarily run down my cheek. One dies quickly if sentenced to solitary with series of bad language blasting through the speakers. A bad language hunts your soul.
Mr. Patrick is a murderer. He has killed many through those same words he claims to express for the people. The most amazing truth is that the people his statements are directed at do not understand a hint of what he is expressing. What sort of a speaker would he be, then? He makes us laugh and he makes us sad, and so he makes us stupid. I knock off the television set whenever he appeared; speaking those retarded language of his.
Speaking and writing, reading and listening – conversation, generally should bring pleasure. The honourable Patrick has gone a step further to open a Twitter account where he dishes out his missiles to eliminate more Nigerians. This is genocide and he should be charged for that. The honourable Patrick, in the words of a popular comedian, needs some Jesus.
There is almost no difference between a teenager who takes a loaded riffle to a theatre to shoot at innocent people and a politician who is paid through tax payers’ money to murder same tax payers with bad, gigantic language which serves no purpose but is dismally flat and uncomfortable. This kind of thing, to me, is rubbish.
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FIFA Queries Nigeria’s Lesbian Ban

Football’s world governing body FIFA has written to the Nigerian Football Association over claims that lesbians are now banned from playing football there.

Dilichukwu Onyedinma, chair of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL), was quoted as making the statement.
“Any player associated with it willbe disqualified,” she is quoted as saying.

While contravening Fifa’s anti-discrimination policies, the situation is made more complicated because homosexuality is illegal in Nigeria.
Currently, a Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill that specifically outlaws same-sex unions is awaiting a signature from president Goodluck Jonathan to go in to law.

If that occurs, gatherings of homosexuals or any other support for gay clubs, organisations, unions – whether in secret or in public -will be banned, with same-sex couples facing up to 14 years in prison.

In a speech at the NWFL’s recent annual general assembly, Onyedinma is reported to have said that lesbian players would no longer be eligible for the Nigeria women’s national team and would “be sacked” from their club sides.

The Super Falcons have won the Africa Women’s Championship eight times, but exited the 2011 Women’s World Cup at the group stage and did not qualify for London 2012.
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Let Me Choose, Sunday Mba Pleads With Clubs

Embattled Super Eagles’ midfield player, Sunday Mba has begged the two clubs fighting over him to let him pick the club he wants to play for and continue enjoying his best football form since helping the Super Eagles to win the last Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.
Mba who scored the winner against Cote d’ Ivoire in the quarter-finals of the 2013 Afcon as well as the lone goal that fetched Nigeria her third Afcon in South Africa on Sunday, February 10th, 2013, has been involved in a controversial transfer and ownership tussle between the last club he played for which is the Warri Wolves and his former club Rangers International which the Nigeria Federation has set up a 4-Man Committee to look into.
Nationsport spoke to him at the NFF Secretariat and the player confessed that the transfer saga has really affected him and he wished the whole issue is quickly resolved so that he can concentrate on his football.
“I am not happy that this is happening to me at the time I’m supposed to make the maximum use of the Afcon feat and glory in South Africa. By now I’m supposed to be looking forward to a fulfilling career and a fruitful stay in the Super Eagles not this kind of wahala (trouble) my brother”, Mba said with regrets.
His case may take longer than it is expected to be resolved as feelers from both Warri Wolves and Rangers International indicate a fight to the end to get the rights of ownership of the player.
Mba, Nationsport scooped has numerous juicy offers from Europe since his scintillating performances in the colours of Super Eagles in South Africa. So it is understandable that both Warri Wolves and Rangers won’t like to miss the cash his transfer to European clubs would fetch the right club that owns the player.
As at yesterday, the final decision on the matter had not been made by the Dr. Sanusi Mohammed led 4-Man Committee but the NFF top official disclosed that they would present their verdict on the matter to the NFF Executive Board that has the right to make the verdict public.
Naij.com

Mikel, Moses World Class – Ex International, Lawal

Hardworking midfielder, Garba Lawal has said the best is yet to come from Chelsea duo of Mikel Obi and Victor Moses.
The former Nigerian international, who hailed the winning performances of the players at the South Africa 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, believes they can get on to a higher standing at future competitions.
“Mikel and Moses were outstanding at the Africa Cup of Nations and deserve credit for their contribution to Nigeria’s victory at the tournament,” the Atlanta ’96 gold medallist said.
“Stephen Keshi and the players should be commended for helping the country win the competition for the third time.

“However, we should be patient with the coach and avoid putting the players under pressure.
“Players like Mikel and Moses are world-class, who should be respected in their country as they are  respected abroad.
“If we encourage them, they’ll give their best to the country. We should not dictate to the coach on how to use them in the team.”
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AMNESTY! – IN SUPPORT OF THE SULTAN

 by Bala Muhammad

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As late as twenty or so years ago, many of us privileged to be among the so-called Nigerian Muslim Intelligentsia (the lump sum of Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, MSSN-nurtured students, academics, journalists and other professionals), had no confidence in the foremost traditional Muslim organisation in Nigeria – the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI.

Time and again at meetings of the MSSN or its offshoots such as the Muslim Corpers’ Association of Nigeria (MCAN) and the National Council of Muslim Youth Organisations of Nigeria (NACOMYO), we wasted no time in deriding the JNI as “that bunch of self-serving traditional rulers”. The other senior Islamic grouping, the Nigerian Supreme Council on Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) got worse shrift – “supreme Ramadan crescent watchers”, we called them. “Away with them!” That was then.
All of a sudden, someone from our immediate older generation, someone who may likely think a bit like us, became Sultan of Sokoto and leader of both the JNI and NSCIA.  Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar could understand us and empathise with our feelings and frustrations. He started to speak in our ‘language’, or at least made us understand some of the goings-on at the top level of Nigerian Islamia. And so we made a U-turn of sorts (though, admittedly, for some it is still not a full ‘U’, it’s rather an L-turn). Many among us have started to ‘understand’ them, as someone from there on top of them had started to understand us.
Is it only the ‘Sultan effect’? Or is it that we are getting older? Or is it the reality of the times? Whatever it is that made many of us come down from our self-created revolutionary level to even listen and discuss with these two groups – and even meet them to search for ways forward – gives lots of meaning to the Hausa adage abin da ya koro bera ya fada wuta a hakika ya fi wutar zafi (literally whatever it is that chased a mouse into the fire must be more fiery than the fire itself).
So here we are, again, supporting the call this week by the Sultan of Sokoto calling on the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to grant amnesty to members of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lid Da’awati Wal Jihad (also known as Boko Haram) in order to restore peace in the North. The Sultan was speaking in Kaduna at the Annual Central Council Meeting of the JNI, attended by senior traditional rulers and Muslim leaders from across the country. News reports say this is the first time the Sultan would publicly canvass amnesty for members of the Jama’a, though he had previously urged for dialogue between government and the sect.
The Sultan said President Jonathan should use the few members of the sect who denounced militancy to reach out to others who have yet to do that, apparently referring to a Boko Haram faction which announced a ceasefire recently but was later disowned by sect leader Abubakar Shekau.
The Sultan said, among other things: “I want to use this opportunity to advise the President…to see how he can declare total amnesty to all combatants without thinking twice. This will make any other person who picks up arms to be termed as a criminal. If the amnesty is declared, it will make all those who have been tired of running and hiding to come out and embrace the amnesty. Some of them have already come out…Even if it is one person that denounces terrorism, it is the duty of the government to accept that person because he can be used to reach others;…the government should accept that person first and then interrogate him to see if he really belongs or not.”
Referring to the bold step taken by late President Umaru Yar’Adua, who granted amnesty to the Niger Delta militants, the Sultan said: “The type of amnesty that ended militants’ unrest in the Niger Delta will be suitable for the North. Initiating a restoration and rehabilitation programme that would integrate them into the larger society will pave way for dialogue rather than engaging them in an endless war.” In other words, Yar’adua did well by Jonathan’s people; it is Jonathan’s turn to so treat Yar’adua’s people.
The Sultan added: “Some people think we are not doing anything as leaders in the North. No, we have done enough and I want to commend all of you in what you have been doing. We will continue to do so despite criticisms because we know what we are doing. In sha Allah we will continue to talk with the government to be just in whatever they do…We want to tell our political leaders and religious leaders the truth on the way forward for this country. We will continue to advise the government at all levels. If they do what they ought to do, alhamdulillah. If they don’t, we will continue to tell them to do the right thing because it is our duty to tell them.”
The Sultan was right about ‘not doing anything as leaders in the North’. Many Nigerian Muslims are still very sceptical about the JNI, the NSCIA, the Sultanate (and its counterpart the Shehurate of Borno) and the entire leadership of the Muslim community. These people – the sceptics- need to be convinced and re-convinced. We (us, the new ‘believers’ in the JNI et al enterprise) may be privileged because of reasons of proximity, contact or relationship with some among the leadership, but the millions of others have no such access – and no such conviction.
Later, in a communique issued by the JNI Secretary General Khalid Aliyu (our contemporary and peer and colleague in the MSSN, etc.), the JNI Central Council meeting observed, among other issues, that cases of violent conflicts have unfortunately not only continued to recur unabatedly but have also monumentally grown in terms of magnitude and proportion across the country; that in spite of the serious security and existential challenges facing the Muslim Ummah, the problem of disunity among the Ummah has continued to not only persist but is also taking dangerous dimensions, further wreaking havoc on the Ummah; that the enemies of peace have continued to vilify Islam and Muslims through various campaigns of calumny; and that Muslims are still being denied their constitutional rights to practice their religion unhindered and are even being persecuted in some instances.
Top among the JNI resolutions, in the light of the observations made, was the resolve not to relent in efforts at advising leaders at all levels to be more sincere, proactive and responsive in handling cases of conflicts. Government should be seen to be fair, just and impartial in dealing with such conflicts; and that, as a way of curtailing religious insurgency, the Federal Government should, as a matter of urgency treat the case of insurgents with all sense of magnanimity by declaring amnesty to all of them, especially combatants that have expressed readiness to tread the path of peace.
Further, the JNI called on Islamic scholars to foster the spirit and mechanisms for cooperating mutually and working together in the interest of Islam, in spite of their differences of opinions, rather than further dividing and weakening the Ummah; and that, in the spirit of mutual respect, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, a section of the press and preachers that propagate hate and blasphemy should desist from such unwholesome attitudes and tendencies.
And finally, the JNI called on the nation’s leaders to be upright and more responsible in leadership and to dispense justice and fairness to all.
On Amnesty we all stand! In this, we support the Sultan and the JNI!

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Police To Guard Kano NYSC Lodges

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From henceforth, Kano State Police Command will deploy its officers to man corps members’ lodges in the state, the state police commissioner, Alhaji Musa Abdussalam Daura has said.

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