My Escapade with Aisha

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 was just passing-by in a close-by cuisine on one unpredictable evening, I was bored all through the day- couldn’t think, couldn’t get excited and I won’t even laugh at what others finds funny.  Is not like I was hallucinating or suffering from asperger’s syndrome, everything I hurl at the wall comes back to me in bizarre. 

Feeding my eyes with flashes of people that flock into this cuisine and leaving after 30 minutes allotted to them for eating and that was how my eyes clamped on this Butter fly, a love at first sight, beautiful like she was made on Sunday.  Her laughs were so original to me, shiny white teeth that can easily blind the eyes, it can also show a blind man the right route to take when the sun shines on it, Butterfly was wearing nice cologne that almost made me to jump on her, I restrained because I will crease and stain her nice ashoke.  Her braided her was perfection for her beauty.

My intentions wasn’t to shag her, like most of the guys she told me about wanted to, “I am a virgin” I sheepishly said to her just to sound comical and make her feel safe.   Then she told me her name, after almost taking forever begging her to tell me, Aisha was her name, “what if I call you Butterfly?” I asked

“O that is a code name for gays,” she said

“Ahn ahn, must everything be link to gays,” I retorted

“Am just saying, I have lesbian friends and am fine with that anyway”

“Yeah, Butterfly, what if I tell you my best friend is gay? I asked hoping to see some changes in her face but she still remain calm “and I will like to meet him, we’re in for equality” she said grinning and sipping from her bottle of maltina.  We got to know the basic information of the both of us, from name to school we attend and from there we delve into family details and that’s where I got to know about her family, her dad is an Alhaji (a rich man but etymologically, it means a visitor in Mecca for hajj. Al hajj) that is happily married to a Syrian, an interracial marriage.  I upgraded my family profile by telling her my parents are into oil and gas, is selling palm oil and vegetable oil not the same as Oil and Gas?  Maybe she’s lying to me too.  We later exchange phone numbers and I promise to humour her with a call tomorrow, I paid her bus fare and watched the bus as it grew tiny and tinier until I can’t even here the noisy sound of it engine ringing in my ears.

I was waiting for her in that same cuisine, the next weekend, she had already told me she only have two weeks to spend before she could return to Glasgow where she’s is schooling, I and my best friend, Ola was chatting over a cup of strawberry ice cream that is not even ice enough to be called ‘ice’ when Aisha walked towards our table with her friend who was wearing a flashy pink Ankara with a pink lipstick.  Aisha gave me a half hug as introduce her to my friend, Ola, “you’re looking so gorgeous, especially on that glasses,’ she smiled admirably, “am falling head over heels, my friend here has got a good sight,” Ola teased back.  She introduced her butterfly friend to us, Osas-angelic and garrulous.  We chatted mostly about life in Nigeria and compared it to what Aisha told us about Glasgow, we drifted to politics- how it has divided the nation, plummet the modus Vivendi of the ragtag and bobtail, and how our hospitals has become a dump site of both the aged and sick ones waiting for medical attention of which is not forthcoming as a result of the strike action embarked by the NMA, Ola who is never interested in politics moved his attention to some Almajiris wandering hither thither waiting for leftovers and begging for money from those that came to patronize the cuisine, “men, I was thinking if these boys are products of unwanted pregnancies, because if they aren’t then I wonder how someone will push his kid into this horrible life of begging. Urchin,” he said with his face reddened with fury, we all shook our heads in unison to suggest that we all feel the same way.  When our one hour allotted to us for eating expired, Aisha brought out her purse and foot the bill while Ola dole out 200 Naira to the Almajiri children as they are already blocking our bath with their melodious tone of ‘Oga help me with food’ chants.  Aisha offered to drop my friend, so we sped in her father’s jeep with Owl City’s Fireflies playing over our heads, Osas took position in her stealing shows by keeping us alive with her talks, when Ola climb out of the car and bade us goodnight, Aisha gazing at me through the mirror told me that Ola is really cool and brave and sweet, ‘hope you are not having a crush on him because he doesn’t belong to the league,” Osas bellowed, “no, am crushing my crush,” she retorted immediately, we all laughed it away like we don’t really care.   

Isa Muazu Deported from U.K on a Private Jet

                                            


A man who spent nearly 100 days on hunger strike in immigration detention has been deported back to Nigeria after failed Court of Appeal attempts to remain in the UK.

Lawyers for Isa Muazu, 45, said they worked through the night to try to prevent his deportation, but an appeal judge rejected an injunction request in the early hours of this morning.

They said they would now consider an out-of-country appeal of behalf of Mr Muazu, whose weight has dropped to just 53 kilos, despite his 5ft 11in height, prompting fears that he will not survive the flight.

The Home Office confirmed Mr Muazu left the UK in a private jet this morning, but his lawyers said the department did not comment on his wellbeing.

Lord Roberts of Llandudno, who intends to raise the case in the House of Lords next week, said Mr Muazu's life was now in danger.

"Isa Muazu's removal from the UK and potential death on a flight or upon arrival in Nigeria is not only a tragedy but an end to the UK's reputation as a country with humane, civilised, just policies and government," the Liberal Democrat said.

"(Home Secretary) Theresa May must consider her position and her immigration control policies.

"Looking 'tough' on immigration simply must not descend to the low of allowing people to die to score a political point. We urgently need to review the systems of immigration detention, 'fast track' and enforced removal."

More than 120 people attended a vigil for Mr Muazu outside the Home Office last night.

Organiser Nancy Maller reacted to the news of his deportation by saying it would be the UK immigration system's fault if Mr Muazu died.

"This is a precedent setting moment in which the Home Office have failed to listen to pleas of mercy, justice, independent medical experts and legal arguments in order to show that they are tough on immigrants," she said.

"In flexing their muscles, they have shown how truly cruel and inhumane this government is."

Toufique Hussain, the solicitor from Duncan Lewis who put in the last minute injunctions overnight said Ms May went to "great lengths" to remove Mr Muazu from the UK, by not allowing him an in-country right of appeal against his asylum refusal and instead hiring a private charter plane to remove Mr Muazu at taxpayers' expense.

"We do not know how Mr Muazu is as we lost contact with him late last night," Mr Hussain said.

"We fear for his safety now on return but we will be looking at pursuing further appeals if we do make contact with him in Nigeria. He should not have been removed from the UK."

Mr Muazu told a Court of Appeal earlier this week that he would “rather die” than be deported. He first arrived in the UK on a visitor's visa in 2007 but overstayed, saying he faced persecution at the hands of Boko Haram, a hardline Islamist group. His application to remain was refused, and he was detained by the immigration authorities for removal on July 25 this year.

Mr Muazu was challenging a ruling by High Court judge Mr Justice Ouseley last week that Ms May was not holding him unlawfully as it was his own decision to refuse food and fluids.

However, the judge did say that Mr Muazu should be kept under review after it was argued that his death would defeat the purpose of his detention, which was to hold him pending deportation as an overstayer in the UK.

Mr Muazu's appeal against the judge's ruling was dismissed by Lord Justice Lewison, Lord Justice Lloyd Jones and Sir Stanley Burnton.

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?