University Lecturer and Four Others Paraded as Boko haram Suspects

The State Security Service (SSS) today in Abuja paraded five suspected Boko Haram members alleged to hav planned deadly attacks on Igala, Kogi State.

Among the suspects were Dr.
Mohammad Nazeef Yunus, an
Assistant Lecturer in Arabic and
Islamic Studies at Kogi State
University. He was said to be the
Spiritual Leader and Coordinator for Boko Haram in the State, and the leader of the gang.
Nazeef, who was born in Idah, Kogi
State, attended the Arabic Central
Primary School in that town, and El-Kanemi College, Maiduguri.  He also studied at the Islamic School,
University of Medina, in Saudi Arabia and served in the National Youth Service Corp in 1995 at Al-Iman Secondary School, Dogon Dutse, in Jos.
Nazeef earned a Masters Degree in Arabic from the University of Jos.  Just last year, he earned a Ph.D in Islamic Studies from Kogi State University.
Also arrested by the SSS were Umar Musa (Instructor), Mustapha Yusuf, Ismaila Yunusa, Mohammed Nasir, and Ibrahim Isa.
SSS spokesperson Marilyn Ogar said the suspects were planning to carry out an attack on Igala Land but were arrested at Zuba white mosque near Abuja on their way to Zambisa in Maiduguri for training. They were also going to install Sharia in Kogi State.
Umar Musa (Head of Operations/
Instructor) confessed publicly that he was employed by Boko Haram as Instructor after he lost his job with the state teaching hospital, and was taken to the Sambisa camp of the sect for a week’s training on handling weapons. He said he was deployed to the education unit of the camp as
Munzi (instructor) and placed on a
monthly salary of N50,000. He further stated that he and Yusuf later returned from Sambisa and re-united with Nazeef in Kogi State where they plotted to carry out violent attacks in Igala land.  He maintained that Nazeef
appointed him the Head of
Operations and munzir.
Mustapha Yusuf (Armourer/Chief
Courier) and Ismaila Abdulazeez (Foot soldier) confessed that that Nazeef was their teacher who teaches them Jihad and Islamic Sharia.
Ogar told newsmen that the suspects will soon be charged to court.

Racism Still exist, Detroit man Charged for Murder

Theodore Wafer charged in
Detroit death of Renisha
McBride

McBride was interred in Detroit,
Michigan, on 8 November
A Detroit homeowner has been
charged with murder in the
shooting death of a black teenager
on his front porch.
Theodore Wafer, 54, shot Renisha
McBride, 19, in the face on 2
November.
Ms McBride's family says she was
disoriented and seeking help after a car crash. She was drunk at the time of her death, a post-mortem showed.
Mr Wafer has said he feared she was breaking into his home, but that he shot her by accident. The case has sparked racial tension.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym
Worthy said on Friday she would
charge him with second-degree
murder and manslaughter, as well as with possession of a firearm during the attempted commission of a felony.
Ms Worthy said Ms McBride was shot in the face after she approached Mr Wafer's home for help.
Evidence shows the teen knocked on the locked screen door and there was no indication of forced entry, she said.
"These are the appropriate chargesand he did not act in lawful self-defence,'' Ms Worthy said.
Mr Wafer is not currently in custody, but prosecutors will ask him to turn himself in, Ms Worthy added. An arraignment date has yet to be set.

A toxicology report on Ms McBride
released on Thursday indicated she had a blood alcohol level of 0.218%, well above the state's drink-driving limit.
She was also found to have
marijuana in her body, although it
was not clear she had used the drug the day of her death.
A lawyer for Mr Wafer has said his
client was "torn up" by Ms McBride's death, but that he had feared for his life at the time.
Michigan is one of several US states with a so-called stand your ground law, which allows the use of deadly force if a person feels his or her life is in danger, though it is unclear whether that will be argued in this case.
She was shot as she stood on the
porch in the predominantly white
Dearborn Heights area shortly before 04:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Saturday 2 November.
The Detroit Free Press reported
that a car registered to Ms McBride's family had crashed into a parked vehicle about two hours before the shooting, a few streets away.
It is unclear what happened in the
intervening time.
The case has attracted the attention of civil rights leader the Reverend Al Sharpton, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) and Michigan
congressman John Conyers.

Thisday Newspaper bomber Jailed for Life

Mustapha Umar, a self confessed
Boko Haram member arrested
and tried before a Federal High
Court siting in Abuja in connection
with the 26th April, 2012 bombing
of SOJ Plaza in Kaduna state
occupied by ThisDay, The Moment
and The Sun Newspapers, was on
Friday found guilty of the one
count charge of terrorism and
sentenced for life.
The convicted terrorist was alleged
to have driven a white Honda
Academy car with registration
number AL 306 MKA with
improvised explosives devices into
the premises of SOJ plaza with the
intention to detonate improvised
explosive devices within the
premises.
The incident claimed the lives of
three persons and caused several
degrees of injuries on others.
The convict had pleaded not guilty
during his trial but the court
placed heavy reliance on his
recorded interview which he
granted to investigators during
interrogations where he claimed
to be a member of the deadly
Islamic fundamentalist group,
Boko Haram, as well as the
testimonies of ten witnesses
comprising of police officers who
participated in the investigation
and were led in evidence during
the trial.
The prosecution drew the court’s
attention to section 4 (2) of the
Terrorism Act and asked the court
to consider the deaths recorded at
the incident and to pronounce a
death sentence on the accused
but the court declined that
invitation and pointed out that the
convict was charged against
section One of the Terrorism
Prevention Act which provides for
a life sentence upon conviction.
The court also found that the
convict demonstrated no remorse
for his actions throughout the trial
and observed that the souls of
those whose deaths were caused
by his actions are crying out for
substantial justice noting that no
one’s life is more important than
that of others.
Furthermore, the court held that
the convict’s reason for attacking
ThisDay newspapers which he said
was because the newspaper was
denigrating Prophet Mohammed
was unattainable and noted that
as members of the fourth realm,
nobody should be allowed to
muzzle the press, an objective
which the terrorist act was
calculated to achieve .
Pleadings by the defence lawyer
for the court to temper justice
with mercy as the convict is a
youth whose family and aged
parents depend on for their
livelihood fell on deaf ears as the
court slammed a life sentence on
the convict with a fine of One
Hundred and Fifty Million Naira.
His sentence is to be served with
hard labour.
The court further noted that the
state of mind of the convict with
which the terrorism attack was
planned, coordinated and
orchestrated reinforced its
determination to remove him
from the public for life.
To the families of the victims of
the terror act, the court awarded
the sum of One Hundred and Fifty
Million Naira, noting that their
deaths should not just go like that.
This will be forwarded to the
Committee set up by the President
on the resolution of the Boko
Haram insurgents actions for
payment.

The court presided by Justice
Ademola Adeniyi also praised the
Nigeria Police Force for the
expertise and professionalism
demonstrated in the trial which
led to the quality prosecution of
the matter by the team of lawyers
led by Mr. Shuaibu Labaran, a
senior state counsel from Nigeria’s
Ministry of Justice.

The case is the first conviction
recorded under the amended
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2011.

Obama's Havard Professor on his Failures as President

Brazilian Roberto Unger is a
leading political philosopher and
an advocate of progressive politics.
He has taught at Harvard Law
School for about 40 years and US
President Barack Obama was one
of his students in the 1980s.
Asked why he moved from
welcoming Obama's election in
2008 to calling him a "disaster" for
the Democratic party, Mr Unger
told HARDtalk the president had
failed to "come up with a sequel to
Roosevelt's New Deal" of the
1930s.
"There is no project in the United
States responsive to the needs and
aspirations of the broad working
class majority of the country," said
Mr Unger.
"Obama and his collaborators have
mistaken conformism for realism,"
he added.

Rich dad; bullied son

Udo is a middle age man in his mid twenties, brown in complexion and slim, always longing for things that always elude him: being free from oppression, to love and being loved, material ideolology.

Udo was the only son in the family of five, "when will I av a brother," Udo would ask his mum when he was 9-11year old but his mum, a fair and sanctimonous woman, brought up in catholic teachings will pat his shoulder telling him those words she always respond with "don't worry God's time is the best."  Udo would cry all night,praying and asking God for a brother but time wound up and Udo realised that that's God wish- to be the only son.  Udo grew up amongst his younger sisters, they showed him love but sometimes the love has limitations, sometimes they wont share their things with him, "who want," Ada would ask but when he raised his finger up she would snub him and instead give it to the other girls who still have theirs with them.  When Udo turned 12 he started asking for a bicylcle so he could ride around the house just like how his age mates does, 'mama buy me bicyco' he would ask his mum in a broken english but mum will instead scold him to go tell his dad, knowing that he couldn't because he was brought up to fear instead of respect his elders.  Udo throughout his teenage years never get the bike because his nefarous and avaricious dad had never added that to his would-do list. Udo lost almost everything about teenage life- the wholeness of being a teenager: folklores, bicycle riding,playing with other kids of his age.  Mum always tell him that the patient dog eats the fattest bone,but how come I haven't seen even the thinnest bone, he would ask himself.

Life never smiled at him and he never smiled at life, the struggle of adjusting into a normal adolsecent life troubled him when he clocked 19.  He couldn't communicate without fear, as if the other recipient will smack him down with a wood.  It took time for him to kind of readjust but life at home keep getting worst, his dad always look at him as a bad boy just because he hangs around and play football with friends in the evening, his dad never think positively about him- he takes hard drugs, his friends are cultist, all this he will pour out when he came back from his beer parlor. 
Udo started thinking about what the future holds for him growing up being hated by his father and living a quasi house arrest life, he was never allowed to go look for a vocational job or even a paying work where he could earn but always forced to stick around the family business when the university is on holiday or forced to go on holiday by industrial action of the universities, albeit going to his father workshop is not the problem, the problem is that he was never payed or given some kind of allowance to take care of himself, the only option he has was to buy a bread and mineral in the afternoon and save the remaining 165 Naira for himself whilst his father eat good foods and live a good life. 

Udo is now 24, denied the liberty and freedom to move around-he don't dare come bak home by 8:30pm else he will go look for an uncompleted building to go sleep in as he has done in the past, he was never given the opportunity to own or learn how to ride a bicycle, can't ride a motorcyle even when his father has two Jincheng motorcyle he abandoned in his lot, he don't know his medical state as he consume sugary drinks all day long, Udo has been mentally traumatise anytime he thinks about his ugly past and his yet to come future encounters.

Wat advice do you have for Udo?

Solar eclipse to occur on 3rd November

THE Director-General of National Biotechnical Development Agency (NASRDA), Dr Saidu Mohammed, has said the solar eclipse, which will occur on November 3, will come with mild darkness across the 36 states of the federation.

The Director-General, who made this known during a press briefing, last Thursday in Abuja, also advised Nigerians to remain calm, as the eclipse would not affect satellite communications or air services.

The eclipse, however, will be characterised by a flush of sunlight and mild darkness during its peak. The agency has, therefore, made available at its headquarters, sunglasses, which will serve as filters for the effect of the sun.

Dr Mohammed added that: “It will be like any other day, but its effect will be felt at its peak. It is recommended you wear sunglasses. There is no need to panic,” he concluded.

Earlier in his presentation, the Director of Centre for Astronomy, University of Nsukka, Professor Felix Okpara, who outlined the various times of the eclipse across the nation said, in Abuja, the eclipse will begin by 1:03 p.m. It will be at its maximum by 2.40 p.m and it will end by 4.03 p m in the evening. In Lagos, it will begin by 12.50 p.m, its maximum level will take place by 2.40 p.m and end by 4.01p.m.

In Ibadan, the eclipse will start by 12.52 p.m, the maximum level will be witnessed by 2.32 p.m and it will end 4.01 p.m. In Port Harcourt, the eclipse will begin by 1.03 p.m, its maximum will be experienced by 2.43 p.m and by 4.09 p.m, it will end. In Uyo, the eclipse will begin by 1.06 p.m, its maximum will be experienced by 2.45 p.m and by 4.10 p.m, it will end.

In Enugu, the eclipse will begin by 1.04 p.m, its maximum will be experienced by 2.43 p.m and by 4.07 p.m, it will end and in Kano, the eclipse will begin by 1.07 p.m, its maximum will be experienced by 2.40 p.m and by 4.01 p.m, it will end.

An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object/objects is temporarily obscured, either by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer as seen from the earth.

Solar eclipse was previously recorded in Nigeria concurrently in 1945, 1959, 2001 and 2006.
http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/item/25104-solar-eclipse-occurs-on-sunday.html

Chewing stick is better than toothbrush- Dentist

The Head of Dental Department at the State Specialist Hospital, Okitipupa in Ondo State, Dr Segun Adegoke, has said that chewing sticks are better for cleaning the teeth than tooth brush.

Adegoke said that chewing sticks contained anti-microbacterial substance called ‘tannin’ which was the same as fluoride in toothpastes.

He said the natural ‘tannin’ helped to fight bacteria in the mouth, maintained the gums, made the teeth stronger and improved the oral hygiene more than tooth brushes.

“Our aged parents use chewing sticks and even at 60 years of age, their teeth are stronger than that of the youth of today,” he said. “Why many people choose tooth brush is because it is faster to use and they also hold the belief that chewing stick is outdated.

I think chewing sticks are better than tooth brushes because the tannin in it helps in various ways to keep the teeth cleaner, fresher and stronger.”

He, however, said that the only advantage tooth brush had over chewing stick was its ability to get to the corners of the mouth


.http://telegraphng.com/2013/10/dentist-says-chewing-stick-better-toothbrush/