It is a known fact that Benue State is one of the most outstanding states in North-central Nigeria and has tremendously contributed towards the peace, progress, development and the unity of our beloved country Nigeria and is still contributing till date..
A FLIGHT VEHICLE COMING FROM GBOKO TO MAKURDI HAD ALREADY ARRIVED TOWN WHEN THE ENGINE OVER HEATED AND A LITTLE FIRE CAME UP,BUT THE DRIVERS CARELESSNESS NEVER PERMITTED HIM TO APPLY CAUTION IMMEDIATELY. THIS LED TO SUCH A DISTRUCTION.THIS TOOK PLACE AROUND SOME MINUTES PAST SIX ON SATURDAY 18 2017 OPPOSITE B.S.U.
Its all over the news that Ghanas Fastest Rapper confirmed dead in Johannesburg, South Africa following a shooting incident at the Movida Club in Sunninghill last night.Shot according to a fake website.Fans Sarkodie didn't take this viral news likely at all.
Loyal Fans of sarkodie have been been wondering whether theirrkodie favorite rapper is still alive or dead. Meaning the hash-tag ” sarkodie dead ” has been trending and news about sarkodie’s death have seen many interest. Many are still wondering if Sarkodie is really dead , many cant still believe sarkodie is dead.
In what turned out to be a hoax, the amorphous website (meganews360) either faked the news to attract readership to boost hits or was grossly misinformed by a source of which I doubt
In the Internet era, an arm of journalism that focuses on fake news is emerging. This trend of fake news is more prominent in the US, Europe and Asian countries. While some fake news is produced purposefully by bloggers seeking to make money from advertising, false information can also arise from misinformed social media posts by regular people that are seized on and spread through a hyper blogosphere.
lagos—The last has not been heard about the Queens College health saga as a more students of the school are being hospitalised even as parents have renewed calls for investigations into circumstances surrounding the deaths of two students, Vivian Osainiyi and Bithia Itulua.
Vanguard gathered that two of the sick students are currently on admission at the Child Emergency Unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, and another is under observation at the University of Lagos Medical Centre.
The first girl, an SS1 student named Joy, was in a critical condition when she was rushed to the Emergency Unit of the hospital by her parents Friday last week.
Her mother, who spoke to Vanguard, said she (Joy) was incoherent even after she was admitted.
“She was running temperature, vomiting and stooling. We had to rush her to LUTH. You can see my daughter, at a point here in the hospital, she was saying things that were not discernible. That scared me and I started calling on God for healing.”
Corroborating his wife’s claims, Joy’s father confirmed she was under close observation but responding to treatment.
“Due to my state of mind, I can’t say much. But it is a fact that my daughter had infection and diarrhoea,” he stated.
The second girl on admission, Muninat, a JSS 3 student was said to be responding to treatment, according to her father.
“Well, I can’t say much. But God bless the new principal who has been going from one hospital to the other to visit the students. For now, my daughter is in critical condition, but she is still breathing. Although, I can’t tell you what is wrong with her now as we are still running tests on her. The symptoms that made us rush her here were stooling and vomiting with severe headache and high body temperature,” the dad said.
One Mr. Ajumobi, also a parent said his daughters fell sick after they returned home for the mid-term break.
When contacted on phone, he said: “Yes, my two daughters at Queens College were both sick. But the older one in SS3 first started complaining of stomach pains and was treated after they came back for the break. What baffled me was that on Tuesday this week, the younger girl in JSS 3 started complaining of the same pain of the lower abdomen. Hence, we had to rush her to the hospital, where she is still receiving treatment now.’’
The order was given by the governor on Monday in Tombo-Mbalagh during a visit to ascertain the casualties and damage inflicted on the community by herdsmen.
Ortom’s visit is coming on the back of the recent attacks on the community by the cattle rustlers during the weekend.
Speaking on the attacks, the Sole Administrator for the council area, Mrs Justina Sorkaa, said eight bodies have been recovered, while three persons are missing.
Sorkaa’s account was contradicted by the state police commissioner, Bashir Makama, who insisted that six persons died in the attack.
Ortom said that he had directed security agencies as a matter of urgency to lead herdsmen out of the area for peace to reign.
He said the herdsmen must leave since they were not welcomed by the unarmed inhabitants of the area.
It is understood that majority of the resident in the state were disarmed through the amnesty programme executed by the Ortom administration in 2015.
”Some of the displaced persons have moved in with their relations in Buruku town and those who do not have anywhere to go are with us in an improvised IDP camp here at St Peter’s Anglican Primary School, Imenger,”the Sole Administrator, Mrs Justina Sorkaa said.
ULTIMATE STATE OF MIND ON XEONonair
A BIRD IN HAND
(for more stories, go to www.xeononair.blogspot.com)
And so goes the story-I was very depressed, I was sad, I felt betrayed, I felt used, i remember that evening so well. It’s very hard to forget. It was that night when I was on my knees begging and pleading for her to reconsider her decision, she wouldn’t just end the relationship like that; oh no she couldn’t.
I’ve invested so much in time, effort, love and resources for everything to just end the way she wants it. mind has been made up, from the very first day we met , my mind was made up to marry her.
I remember this meeting; three years ago, she was so outstanding at the house warming ceremony at high level that late afternoon. She was talking and laughing and dancing with her friends and i couldn’t resist having a word or two with her. Hence when the opportunity came, I walked up to her, introduced myself and we began to chat. Two hours later, we were still talking, the chemistry and interest was almost magical, we seem to have had everything in common, life philosophies, passion, entertainment, friendships, views about the future and even fashion. It was so overwhelming I was convinced i had at last found my better half, like they say.
She was warm and friendly; a good listener showing interest in everything I had to say . She also had this natural leadership trait that made all her friends look up to her, her parents were relatively wealthy hence she could afford to wear the best. She had it all; the content, the container.
I was done with school and was still waiting for my posting to NYSC, she was done with her diploma program at the college of advance and professional studies also known as CAPS Makurdi and was trying to secure a direct entry to study her preferred course.
After the house warming ceremony that day we wouldn’t stop talking, we chatted all day and night and shared details of everything we were doing at nearly every point in time.
What are you wearing/ what are you eating? Where are you now? Are you going out? When? Who are you with? What are you talking about? Take a picture and send, send me a voice note, send me the joke and all that goes with a fun and fantastic love affair. We missed each other greatly and we tried to be together at least every other day; so close and so intimate was the relationship. Everyone marvelled but were happy for us regarding this exciting new found love. My parents loved her and her parents believed I was the best choice of any form of choice ever made by their daughter, I was already more or less a son-in-law and our siblings were already friends and hanging out with each other. It was as good as that.
Six months later i was posted to the East for my NYSC and she secured a direct entry admission with UNAD in Ekiti state. The separation was a painful but necessary one. A night before my departure to serve, we were together at the park in warm embrace, she had tears in her eyes and so did I, we couldn’t believe we would be so far away from each other for so long, yes my service year was for a year but her program at UNAD was for another 3-4 years. It would take a long while for us to be together permanently in Makurdi again. The immediate future didn’t look very exciting but course was necessary.
We hugged, cried, kissed and wouldn’t let go of each other until finally it was time for me to leave; the flight luxurious bus began to move, I ran up, caught it and went in, I kept looking back and i saw her still standing on the same spot looking at the bus too sad and lonely to wave, it was a painful but necessary departure.
All through my service year i would save half of my income and allowances and travel all the way from Afikpo to Ado Ekiti to see her. It was a regular ritual. Every last weekend of the month I’m off to Ado Ekiti, the journey wasn’t a big deal, the sheer thought of seeing my woman again made the journey pretty short.
Hence this last month of my service year, I was in her room as usual but this time begging her to reconsider her position to end the relationship. She has no excuse, no reason and I had done nothing wrong; she’s just tired and wanted it to end. It wasn’t even about the investment in time, sweat, love, resources and passion.
It was facing the reality of the separation; a permanent separation, the dream of marrying her becoming a pipe dream, I couldn’t stand it, I couldn’t handle it, I knelt down begging , she wouldn’t listen, her mind was made up, she walked out of the room leaving me there still on my knees. What did I do wrong? What was my crime? How have I wronged her? I was perplexed, shocked and definitely heartbroken.
How I coped through that season of my return to Lagos I do not know, how I survived the loneliness and hurt of rejection I do not know but somehow I survived.
I came back to Makurdi, commenced my job hunt and tried to go over my hurt and heartbreak. Luckily within six months of my return to Makurdi i got a job with a leading multinational, i was with the sales team so i got a brand new official car for my sales activities and also relocated to Abuja where my company is base.
Almost a year afterwards, I visited my family in Makurdi and was about returning to Abuja; i was driving through North bank Makurdi heading for Abuja and my ex –girlfriend’s younger sister waved me down, I stopped i was glad to see her, and i parked my car at the eatery close by to have a chat with her.
The young lady was worried and a bit upset. She began to speak, it’s a long story ‘’Egbon’’, you see the reason why my sister broke up with you was because she met a man at an event in Akure, this man came from port Harcourt; he’s an oil company worker. He showed interest in my elder sister and immediately began to shower her with lots of cash and gifts. After this event at Akure the man kept coming back to see my sister at school and after about a month came t the house with a lot of money and gifts for my parents promising to marry my sister and make her happy.
My parents advised my sister to forget about you and marry this man from port Harcourt. The oil company guy from Port Harcourt was already made; he was very rich and you were just a struggling corp member. So my parents persuaded my sister to dump you for him.
Four months after my sister broke up with you, she decided to go visit this new boyfriend in Port Harcourt Uninvited; She wanted to surprise him and on reaching his house, she discovered he was already married with two children. My sister was devastated, heartbroken and is yet to recover till now. She doesn’t even know how to face you or apologize, Egbon, I’m here to plead on her behalf please forgive her, it is the devil’s handiwork.
Where is she now? Hmmm she’s at home o, that wicked man from Port Harcourt asked her to give up her admission at UNAD that he would secure admission for her at Uniport, as he wanted to marry her immediately and will want his wife to be in the same city and go to school from home, so my sister dropped out of school with the support of my parents and was waiting for the Port Harcourt oil company worker to complete her admission process at Uniport. In fact it was part of the reasons my sister travelled to surprise him in Port Harcourt before discovering he was already married with children.
Hmmm, i looked up and down, I was sad, I was angry, i was disappointed, so this girl dumped me for another man after all we shared and all I sacrificed for her.
Worse still her parents were in the know and supported her callous act.
I also felt sorry for her; I guess I still had the soft spot for her. But i concluded she is unworthy of me, if she did it once, she will do it again.
I stood up, I’m sorry I can’t help you guys; I dropped some money on the table at the eatery, into the bright sunlight with tears welling up in my eyes.
Ladies and Gentlemen what do you have, what do you want, what do you really need?
It is quite important for us as a people to think thoroughly before we act or move on anything in this life. Because nothing in this life is perfect and flawless, wisdom is to learn to accept the weakness and embrace the strength in anyone we have and love them like that. I assure you, married or single there is always someone out there who would appear, sound and behave better than your partner at different times. What you see clearly is what they have and your partner lacks, what you don’t see is what they lack but your partner has got and is so critical to your relationship.
Decide today to cherish and appreciate what you have, love them, celebrate them and appreciate them. Don’t let go of that bird in your hand for that one looking so good in the bush.
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ABEOKUTA-The President of Pentecostal Sanctuary Bible Ministries Worldwide, Prophet Sunday Iyunade has predicted a possible end to the reign of democracy in Nigeria after the administration of Muhammadu Buhari.The prophet who had predicted theemergence of Donald Trump as thePresident of the United States of America, the recession being experienced in Nigeria among other prophesied that hardship in the country may continue for the next four years.He said this in Ijebu-Ode while addressing newsmen at a press conference heralding the 21st anniversary and 15th convention ofthe Ministry , Prophet Iyunade called on Nigerians to pray against threats to democracy.He said ” I had prophesied before the 2015 elections, some doubted, but, it came to pass. I told you about the first three month of enjoyment after Buhari’s election and what will happen in the remainder of his tenure which we are experiencing now .“This government will work towards one party system. There isnot much hope for democracy in this regime as we will not operate democratic system. For now, election has been suspended in Nigeria as the choice of the people will not be reflected on the throne.“We need to pray for political stability and must pray against threat to political stability as there will be threats to democracy. We need to seriously pray for our governments and politics to survive as various new dimensions of crisis will emerge in this dispensation.“The government will disorganise all the democratic strictures they met on ground and will set up another structure. The government will pocket Nigeria and rule with a mighty, powerful, iron and steel hand and very soon, Nigerians will ask God questions and many will moan under this government. This is because there will be a repeat ofthe Roman Empire rule in Nigeria.“The government will depreciate the economy and power to rule.”Speaking further, the prophet who highlighted the shortcomings of the government lamented that the Treasury Single Account has killed the Nigerian economy.“The little Nigeria makes has been buried by putting all onto one account, TSA. The money that ought to be increasing has been decreasing in the account. The TSAhas killed the Nigerian economy. The government has borrowed almost 14 trillion naira ever since they came to office”.While rolling out prophesies, he said that the southern and southwestern Nigeria will experience marginalisation and plotical failure while the international bussiness profit will be trippled encouraging Nigerians to invest in foreign businesses.Meanwhile, he said that the church has been praying for the President’s survival and completion of tenure, noting that everyone is prone to sickness.He however, affirmed that no matter the efforts made by different regions, Nigeria will not break warning that any tribe that tries to break will go, into extinction.
(for more stories, go to
www.xeononair.blogspot.com)
And so goes the story-I was very depressed,
I was sad, I felt betrayed, I felt used, i remember that evening so well. It’s
very hard to forget. It was that night when I was on my knees begging and
pleading for her to reconsider her decision, she wouldn’t just end the
relationship like that; oh no she couldn’t.
I’ve invested so much in time, effort, love
and resources for everything to just end the way she wants it. mind has been made up, from the very first day
we met , my mind was made up to marry her.
I remember this meeting; three years ago,
she was so outstanding at the house warming ceremony at high level that late
afternoon. She was talking and laughing and dancing with her friends and i
couldn’t resist having a word or two with her. Hence when the opportunity came,
I walked up to her, introduced myself and we began to chat. Two hours later, we
were still talking, the chemistry and interest was almost magical, we seem to have
had everything in common, life philosophies, passion, entertainment,
friendships, views about the future and even fashion. It was so overwhelming I
was convinced i had at last found my better half, like they say.
She was warm and friendly; a good listener
showing interest in everything I had to say . She also had this natural
leadership trait that made all her friends look up to her, her parents were
relatively wealthy hence she could afford to wear the best. She had it all; the
content, the container.
I was done with school andwas still waiting for my posting to NYSC, she
was done with her diploma program at the college of advance and professional
studies also known as CAPS Makurdi and was trying to secure a direct entry to
study her preferred course.
After the house warming ceremony that day
we wouldn’t stop talking, we chatted all day and night and shared details of
everything we were doing at nearly every point in time.
What are you wearing/ what are you eating?
Where are you now? Are you going out? When? Who are you with? What are you
talking about? Take a picture and send, send me a voice note, send me the joke
and all that goes with a fun and fantastic love affair. We missed each other
greatly and we tried to be together at least every other day; so close and so
intimate was the relationship. Everyone marvelled but were happy for us
regarding this exciting new found love. My parents loved her and her parents
believed I was the best choice of any form of choice ever made by their
daughter, I was already more or less a son-in-law and our siblings were already
friends and hanging out with each other. It was as good as that.
Six months later i was posted to the East
for my NYSC and she secured a direct entry admission with UNAD in Ekiti state.
The separation was a painful but necessary one. A night before my departure to
serve, we were together at the park in warm embrace, she had tears in her eyes
and so did I, we couldn’t believe we would be so far away from each other for
so long, yes my service year was for a year but her program at UNAD was for
another 3-4 years. It would take a long while for us to be together permanently
in Makurdi again. The immediate future didn’t look very exciting but course was
necessary.
We hugged, cried, kissed and wouldn’t let
go of each other until finally it was time for me to leave; the flight
luxurious bus began to move, I ran up, caught it and went in, I kept looking
back and i saw her still standing on the same spot looking at the bus too sad
and lonely to wave, it was a painful but necessary departure.
All through my service year i would save
half of my income and allowances and travel all the way from Afikpo to Ado
Ekiti to see her. It was a regular ritual. Every last weekend of the month I’m
off to Ado Ekiti, the journey wasn’t a big deal, the sheer thought of seeing my
woman again made the journey pretty short.
Hence this last month of my service year, I
was in her room as usual but this time begging her to reconsider her position
to end the relationship. She has no excuse, no reason and I had done nothing
wrong; she’s just tired and wanted it to end. It wasn’t even about the
investment in time, sweat, love, resources and passion.
It was facing the reality of the
separation; a permanent separation, the dream of marrying her becoming a pipe
dream, I couldn’t stand it, I couldn’t handle it, I knelt down begging , she
wouldn’t listen, her mind was made up, she walked out of the room leaving me
there still on my knees. What did I do wrong? What was my crime? How have I
wronged her? I was perplexed, shocked and definitely heartbroken.
How I
coped through that season of my return to Lagos I do not know, how I survived
the loneliness and hurt of rejection I do not know but somehow I survived.
I came back to Makurdi, commenced my job
hunt and tried to go over my hurt and heartbreak. Luckily within six months of
my return to Makurdi i got a job with a leading multinational, i was with the
sales team so i got a brand new official car for my sales activities and also
relocated to Abuja where my company is base.
Almost a year afterwards, I visited my
family in Makurdi and was about returning to Abuja; i was driving through North
bank Makurdiheading for Abuja and my ex
–girlfriend’s younger sister waved me down, I stopped i was glad to see her,
and i parked my car at the eatery close by to havea chat with her.
The young lady was worried and a bit upset.
She began to speak, it’s a long story ‘’Egbon’’, you see the reason whymy sister broke up with you was because she
met a man at an event in Akure,this man
came from port Harcourt; he’s an oil company worker. He showed interest in my
elder sister and immediately began to shower her with lots of cash and gifts.
After this event at Akure the man kept coming back to see my sister at school
and after about a month came t the house with a lot of money and gifts for my
parents promising to marry my sister and make her happy.
My parents advised my sister to forget
about you and marry this man from port Harcourt. The oil company guy from Port
Harcourt was already made; he was very rich and you were just a struggling corp
member. So my parents persuaded my sister to dump you for him.
Four months after my sister broke up with
you, she decided to go visit this new boyfriend in Port Harcourt Uninvited; She
wanted to surprise him and on reaching his house, she discovered he was already
married with two children. My sister was devastated, heartbroken and is yet to
recover till now. She doesn’t even know how to face you or apologize, Egbon,
I’m here to plead on her behalf please forgive her, it is the devil’s
handiwork.
Where is she now? Hmmm she’s at home o,
that wicked man from Port Harcourt asked her to give up her admission at UNAD
that he would secure admission for her at Uniport, as he wanted to marry her
immediately and will want his wife to be in the same city and go to school from
home, so my sister dropped out of school with the support of my parents and was
waiting for the Port Harcourt oil company worker to complete her admission
process at Uniport. In fact it was part of the reasons my sister travelled to
surprise him in Port Harcourt before discovering he was already married with
children.
Hmmm, i looked up and down, I was sad, I
was angry, i was disappointed, so this girl dumped me for another man after all
we shared and all I sacrificed for her.
Worse still her parents were in the know
and supported her callous act.
I also felt sorry for her; I guess I still
had the soft spot for her. But i concluded she is unworthy of me, if she did it
once, she will do it again.
I stood up, I’m sorry I can’t help you guys;
I dropped some money on the table at the eatery, into the bright sunlight with
tears welling up in my eyes.
Ladies and Gentlemen what do you have, what
do you want, what do you really need?
It is quite important for us as a people to
think thoroughly before we act or move on anything in this life. Because
nothing in this life is perfect and flawless, wisdom is to learn to accept the
weakness and embrace the strength in anyone we have and love them like that. I
assure you, married or single there is always someone out there who would appear,
sound and behave better than your partner at different times. What you see
clearly is what they have and your partner lacks, what you don’t see is what
they lack but your partner has got and is so critical to your relationship.
Decide today to cherish and appreciate what
you have, love them, celebrate them and appreciate them. Don’t let go of that
bird in your hand for that one looking so good in the bush.
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