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NIGERIANS PLAY TOO MUCH......Achraf Hakimi is our special Guest Speaker for tomorrow's service

Achraf Hakimi is our special Guest Speaker for tomorrow's service.. Make sure you attend and invite someone oo. Hahahaha

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As of today, I am the acting national chairman of Labour party and enjoy support of Obidients" - Lamidi Apapa

Lamidi Apapa insists he is the acting National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) and enjoys the support of the party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi’s followers better known as “Obidients”.

Apapa who is the deputy national chairman (south) of the party, had last week declared himself as the LP national chairman following a legal battle in the party.

In the wake of the development, Labour Party state chairmen in the 36 states of the federation disowned the factional leadership, throwing its weight behind Julius Abure as the party’s leader.

 

But Apapa maintains he is the acting national chairman of the party.

“As of today, I am the acting national chairman of the party,” he said when he appeared on Channels Televisions Sunday Politics.

While many accused him of being sponsored by opponents to destroy the party, the LP chieftain refuted the claims.

“That is not true. Nobody is sponsoring me,” Apapa maintained.

“For anybody to now say I want to run down the party, that is a lie,” the LP chieftain added.

He says since a court had ordered four national officers of the party including Abure to stop parading themselves as such, his move is in the right direction.

“Now, if that has happened, what else? The next person should take over,” he said, noting that seven members of the LP National Working Committee (NWC) voted for him as the acting chairman of the party.

Apapa says he enjoys the backing of Obi’s growing support base called “Obidients”.

“I think so,” he said when asked if Obi’s supporters are behind him. “When you say Obidients’ side, are they not Nigerians?”

 

He then claimed the “Obidient” movement is acting out of ignorance by criticizing him.

 

“Let me tell you if they know what transpired, they will know they are acting out of ignorance,” he said.

 

UK places health care workers from Nigeria on red list for recruitment

The United Kingdom has revised its policy on the recruitment of health workers from overseas.

 

The code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, recently updated, has Nigeria returned to the red list countries, which means, “no active recruitment is permitted”.

 

Apart from Nigeria, the UK also placed 53 other countries on the red list of countries that should not be actively targeted for recruitment by health and social care employers.

 

It is recommended that employers, recruitment organisations, agencies, collaborations, and contracting bodies check the red country list for updates before any recruitment drive.

 

It defined active international recruitment in the code as the process by which UK health and social care employers (including local authorities), contracting bodies, recruitment organisations, agencies, collaborations, and sub-contractors target individuals to market UK employment opportunities, with the intention of recruiting to a role in the UK health or social care sector. It includes both physical or virtual targeting, and whether or not these actions lead to substantive employment.

 

The code of practice applies to the appointment of all international health and social care personnel in the UK, including all permanent, temporary, and locum staff in clinical and non-clinical settings.

 

This includes but is not limited to allied health professionals, care workers, dentists, doctors, healthcare scientists, medical staff, midwives, nursing staff, residential and domiciliary care workers, social workers, and support staff.

 

Recall that in 2021, the UK suspended the recruitment of healthcare workers from Nigeria and 46 other countries, noting that the increasing scale of health and social care worker migration from low and lower-middle-income countries threatens the achievement of their nation’s health and social care goals.

 

The World Health Organisation on March 8, 2023, listed Nigeria and 54 other countries as facing the most pressing health workforce challenges related to universal health coverage. 

 

The countries placed on the UK’s red list of ‘No active recruitment’ are: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia.

 

Other countries are Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Federated States of Micronesia, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Republic of Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

 

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It has finally dawned on me that he can never be the man Chinua Achebe was - Charly Boy takes a swipe at Wole Soyinka

Veteran entertainer, Charles Oputa aka Charley Boy has taken a swipe at Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka. 

 

Soyinka has been in the news of late, making comments about National importance and has criticised followers of Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi popularly referred to as Obidients.

 

In a post shared on his Instagram page, CharleyBoy said the respect he had for Soyinka was almost the kind he had for his father, late Justice C.A Oputa, who was  known as the Socrates of the Supreme Court.

 

He said it has now dawn on him that Soyinka can never be the man late Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe, was. 

 

 Charley Boy added that the Nobel laureate who many Nigerians put on a high pedestal has ‘’reduced himself to a boyiboyi for criminal politicians''.

 

‘’The kin respect I had for dis man, was almost the kind of respect I had for the late Justice C.A.Oputa, The Socrates of the Supreme Court.

It has finally dawned on me that Soyinka can never be the man Chinua Achebe was.

The kogi is not ordinary, he should be very measured anytime he makes a public statement.

Look at a man many Nigerians put on such high pedestal reducing himself to a boyiboyi for criminal politicians.

What a f..king big shame''

Chimamanda’s piece is a sad reminder that the possession of brilliance and high intellect by an individual provides no immunity against prejudice, bias and bigotry - Tinubu's aide, Dele Alake, writes

Dele Alake who is the Special Adviser on Communications to President-elect Bola Tinubu, has reacted to the open letter Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie wrote to US President Joe Biden, questioning his congratulatory message to President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

 

Chimamanda had in the letter described Nigeria’s democracy as hollow, insisting the 2023 presidential election was flawed by a number of irregularities and wondered why the US President would congratulate the president-elect. Read here. 

 

Her letter has elicited reactions from all and sundry.

 

In his rebuttal to Chimamanda's letter, Alake insisted democracy in Nigeria is thriving, contrary to Chimamanda’s claims. He described the celebrated author as an “unrepentant Igbo jingoist,” who supported the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, just because he is Igbo. He also argued that Obi campaigned on the basis of religion and ethnicity and would never have won the elections.

 

 Alake stated that because Obi did not win the election does not make Nigeria’s democracy hollow.

His rebuttal reads

‘’The noted and internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist and essayist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, deserves a great deal of pity and sympathy for her so utterly biased piece titled ‘Nigeria’s hollow democracy’ published in the latest edition of ‘The Atlantic’ magazine.

 

It is a piece that does little credit to the image and reputation of a leading Nigerian thinker who ought to be a voice of truth and reason in a time when passions run high and truth is almost indistinguishable from falsehood, in a situation in which many people are heavily emotionally invested in an election which, unfortunately, has not gone the way they expected. But that is the often-difficult-to-anticipate way of elections in liberal democracies at varying levels of development.

 

Chimamanda’s piece is a sad reminder that the possession of brilliance and high intellect by an individual provides no immunity against prejudice, bias and bigotry albeit disguised in the deceptive garb of elevated and high-minded discourse.

 

 

Chimamanda at least makes one honest admission in a write-up made up largely of rumours, hearsay, presumptuous conjectures and outright falsehood. She supported Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Nigeria’s February 25, 2023, presidential election and hoped he would win “as many polls had predicted”. Peter Obi did not win. He came third in a closely fought election in which Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came first and Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), came second.

 

Chimamanda had pinned her hopes on a possible Obi victory partly on predictions of flawed opinion polls some of which were predicated on statistically negligible and thus unreliable sample sizes and others on no discernible empirical basis whatsoever. Opinion polls do not win elections. After all, most opinion polls had predicted a Hilary Clinton victory in the 2016 presidential election in America. Donald Trump won and that did not make America’s democracy hollow.

 

The writer can of course afford the luxury of pronouncing Nigeria’s democracy ‘hollow’ from the distance of her foreign abode all because her favoured candidate, Peter Obi, fell short in the election. She avers that Nigerians went out to vote on the morning of February 25 with high hopes mainly because of the promise by the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to upload results of the exercise online from polling units in real-time to enhance transparency. The INEC has admitted that its system suffered unanticipated glitches on that day which made it impossible for it to upload the polling units’ results of the presidential elections on its portal immediately as promised but it began to do so once the technical hitches had been resolved.

 

 

Chimamanda gives her readers the impression that the deployment of technology implies that some machine would magically conjure puritanical results online, portraying and guaranteeing the transparency and credibility of the exercise. No, it is the results as recorded physically on INEC forms provided for the purpose from the polling units, signed by polling agents of political parties, electoral officials and security agents that are uploaded and there is ample opportunity for parties contesting the outcome of the elections to prove if there are discrepancies between the figures on those physical result sheets and the electronic results uploaded on the INEC portal.

 

Without the slightest shred of evidence, Chimamanda avers that INEC’s inability to upload results of the presidential elections online as promised on February 25 was not due to technical hitches but rather deliberate human mischief and manipulation to rig the election. In her words, “If results were updated right after voting was concluded, then the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), which has been in power since 2015, would have no opportunity for manipulation. Technology would redeem democracy. Results would no longer feature more than voters. Nigerians would no longer have their leaders chosen for them”. This is a mischievous distortion of reality and utterly laughable.

 

The introduction of the bimodal voters accreditation system (BVAS) in the 2023 election for the first time ever indeed helped to ensure that only duly accredited voters could vote. It was now no longer possible for party agents in collusion with unscrupulous electoral officials and security agents to simply thumbprint ballot papers and stuff ballot boxes in favour of certain parties and candidates. This is one of the reasons for the significantly lower vote count in this election relative to previous elections where millions of votes, substantially imaginary, were allotted to parties in various state constituencies.

 

To demonstrate that the February 25 presidential election was discredited, Chimamanda writes that “there were reports of a shooting at a polling unit, and of political operatives stealing or destroying ballot boxes. In Lagos, a policeman stood idly by as an APC spokesperson threatened members of a particular ethnic group who he believed would vote for the opposition”. It is unfortunate that an intellectual of Chimamanda’s stature would rely on rumours and hearsay to pronounce authoritatively on an issue as important as the 2023 elections in her country. She quotes “cousins” and “relatives” in Lagos to back up grievous allegations of violence and massive vote rigging in the election. For crying out loud, there are over 176,000 polling units across Nigeria. From what percentage of these polling units did she get her reports and how credible were these sources? In Lagos state, there are approximately 13,500 polling units. The exaggerated reports of violence and malpractices in the state did not occur in up to 1% of these polling units in one or two local government areas. How reliable and accurate then is the information which the writer feeds her readers?

 

 

In any case, a careful scrutiny of the results of the elections shows that it was a close and tight contest which speaks to its credibility. The winner, Bola Tinubu, won in 12 states just like the second-placed Atiku Abubakar who also won in 12 states. Peter Obi who came third won in 11 states and the federal capital territory, Abuja, which for the purpose of the election counts as a state. Tinubu scored 8,794,726 votes, Atiku had 6,984,520 votes while Peter Obi won 6,202,533 votes. The candidate who came fourth, Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), recorded 1,496,687 votes, the majority of which he got from Kano state, his political stronghold in the north. It was however only Tinubu who met the constitutional requirement of scoring 25% of the votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of the states of the federation including the FCT, which translates to 24 states. Tinubu met the 25% requirement in 30 states, Atiku in 21 and Obi in 15. If the APC’s votes in the election, according to Chimamanda’s narrative, were rigged and fictitious, what does she say about the votes recorded by the other parties particularly her favourite candidate, Peter Obi?

 

It is instructive that Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso broke away from the PDP to contest the election on the platforms of the LP and NNPP respectively. Had the PDP contested the election as one with Obi and Kwankwaso in its fold, winning the election would have been an uphill, almost impossible, task for the APC. But contesting on three separate platforms against the ruling party as they did, the victory of the APC was logically and empirically inevitable.

 

Chimamanda betrays her ignorance of Nigerian politics and unwittingly misled her readers when she wrote that “Nigerian democracy had long been a two-party structure -power alternating between the APC and the PDP – until this year, when the Labour Party, led by Peter Obi, became a third force. Obi was different; he seemed honest and accessible, and his vision of anti-corruption and self-sufficiency gave rise to a movement of supporters who called themselves “Obi-dients”. Unusually large, enthusiastic crowds turned up for his rallies”.

 

First, politics in this dispensation in Nigeria since 1999 has not always alternated between the APC and PDP. In 1999, Nigeria had a three-party system with the PDP and All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) splitting the north, the PDP dominant in the south-east and south-south and the Alliance for Democracy controlling the south-west. After the 2003 elections, the polity became a one-party dominant system with the PDP in control of large swathes of the country, the ANPP with reduced influence in the north and the AD reduced to controlling only Lagos state in the south-west. In the 2007 and 2011 elections, the PDP remained nationally dominant although the AD had been rebranded into the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and regained control of the south-west while the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) had emerged as powerful regional political parties in the far north and south-east respectively. It was not until 2013 that the APC was created as a merger of the CPC, ACN, a faction of the PDP and a faction of the APGA, which then went on to win the 2015 elections and has since then been the ruling party at the centre.

 

 

 

Secondly, contrary to the romantic picture of Peter Obi painted by the writer, he has always been part and parcel of Nigeria’s political establishment. He was governor of Anambra state for eight years on the platform of the APGA, a period during which he recorded no remarkable accomplishments beyond claims that he saved humongous amounts for the state while leaving behind largely decrepit and dilapidated infrastructure. After his tenure as governor of Anambra state in 2006, Obi promptly dumped the APGA, decamped to the then-ruling PDP and became an appointee of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration. He was the vice-presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 election and had the party won, he would have been seeking reelection along with his principal, Atiku, in this year’s election. It was only in May last year that Obi quit the PDP and joined the LP when he saw that he could not win the PDP primaries.

 

There is absolutely nothing new or fresh about Obi except in the jaundiced eyes of the Chimamandas of this world. The novelist does not hesitate to regurgitate rumours and baseless innuendos about the president-elect but chose to be silent on widely publicised revelations in the Panama Papers of Peter Obi hiding humongous questionable wealth in notorious tax havens around the world.

 

 

 

Thirdly, Chimamanda writes most laughably about “unusually large, enthusiastic crowds” that turned up for Obi’s rallies. This is comic. Did larger crowds turn up for Obi’s rallies than for Tinubu or Atiku? How did Chimamanda measure the enthusiasm of one party’s campaign crowd relative to the other? Yes, Obi received excited and enthusiastic receptions in the various church assemblies that he concentrated his campaign on in the run-up to the election. Large and enthusiastic crowds received him in the various south-east states where his Igbo kith and kin are found as well as many of the south-south states with close ethnocultural and Christian religious affinity to the south-east. It is not surprising that those were the only two out of the country’s six geopolitical zones that he won despite his marginal victories in Lagos in the south-west as well as Nasarawa and Plateau states in the north-central. By the way, Chimamanda does not explain Obi’s victory in Lagos, Tinubu’s stronghold, in an election she says was badly rigged and lacking credibility. Nor does she throw logical light on Atiku’s victories in states like Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa, Yobe, Kebbi or Osun in the south-west in the presidential election.

 

Obi targeted Igbo and Christian votes in his campaigns and he got his victories in the south-east and south-south. He won two out of six states in the north-central and did not have up to 25% of the votes cast in either the north-west or north-east. He had no realistic electoral path to victory in the presidential election. Victory in two out of the six geopolitical zones cannot give any candidate victory in a presidential election in Nigeria. What is most tragic about Chimamanda’s letter to President Joe Biden is that she wrote as an unrepentant Igbo jingoist masquerading as an objective intellectual and patriotic Nigerian. The point is that she is Igbo like Peter Obi and wanted him to win for purely primordial reasons. Many allude to her novel on the Nigerian civil war, ‘ Half of a Yellow Sun’, as depicting her essentially ’Igbocentric’ perception of reality. This is understandable. After all, she is human.

 

 

 

That Obi did not win the election does not make Nigeria’s democracy hollow. Since 2011, there have been incremental and noticeable improvements in the country’s elections as witnessed in 2015, 2019 and now 2023. It can credibly be argued that Nigeria’s democracy is positively growing as we have had 24 years of civil rule uninterrupted by the military interventions that had hitherto been so detrimental to the country’s political development. The writer argues that the INEC chairman should have paused the collation of results process to investigate grievances by political party agents as she alleged was done in the governorship elections of March 18. Grievances raised at the national collation centre ought to have been addressed at the previous levels of the collation at local government and state levels. The governorship elections were declared inconclusive in Adamawa and Kebbi states and shifted to April 15 because the margin of victory was lower than the number of registered voters in areas where it was not possible to conduct elections on March 18, not because of grievances with the collation process. In any case, the Electoral Act provides for aggrieved parties in elections to seek redress through the judicial process and that is currently underway. So what exactly is the point of Chimamanda’s letter to President Biden? Is it to seek external intervention in the ongoing process?

 

Still stressing that the failure to upload the results of the presidential elections substantially marred the exercise and insinuating that this was deliberate, Chimamanda wrote, “Curiously, many polling units were able to upload the results of the house and senate elections, but not the presidential election…The senate and house results were easily uploaded. So why couldn’t the presidential results be uploaded on the same system?” We can thus presume that she finds the national assembly elections credible and acceptable because they were uploaded. But the senate and house of representatives elections results reflected the electoral supremacy of the APC in the elections. They were a validation of the outcome of the presidential election which incidentally took place on the same day and at the same time as the legislative elections. Ninety-eight of 109 senate seats have so far been declared. The APC won 57, PDP 28 and LP won 6. In the house of representatives, 325 out of 360 seats have been declared. The APC won 162, the PDP 102 and the LP 34. Truth is the APC’s victory in this election cannot be credibly denied.

 

 

 

Amazingly, throwing all caution to the winds, Chimamanda writes “many believe that the INEC chair has been “compromised” but there is no evidence of the astronomical US-dollar amounts he is rumored to have received from the president-elect”. This is incredible. Chimamanda will be lucky if she does not have to prove this weighty allegation in court.'' he said

Women are too difficult" Senator Shehu Sani discloses how his wife got angry when he told her he likes Chimamanda Adichie

Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has disclosed how saying he likes Chimamanda Adichie angered his wife.

 

He wrote: “My wife said she likes Soyinka and I was ok with it, and I said I like Chimamanda and suddenly she got angry; Women are too difficult to understand.They can like but you can’t equally like.”

 

A follower asked Sani: “My Senator, did you use like or love??”

 

He responded: “Only like I use my brother.”

 

Obidients’ is one of the most repulsive, off-putting concoctions I ever encountered in any political arena - Soyinka

Professor Wole Soyinka has said the inability of the supporters of the Labour Party, LP, otherwise known as Obidients, to accept criticism has now become their badge of honour.

 

The Nobel laureate shared this opinion in a statement released on Friday, April 7, titled “Fascism on Course,”. According to him, Obidients have worn their refusal to accept constructive criticism as a badge of honour.  

 

Recall that on Wednesday, April 5, Soyinka described as unbecoming and unacceptable, the remarks by the vice-presidential candidate of the LP, Datti Baba-Ahmed, saying they contained “fascistic language.” Baba-Ahmed had in an interview with Channels TV, called on President Buhari and the Chief Justice of Nigeria not to swear in Tinubu, who was declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as the winner of the March 18th presidential election. He opined that declaring Tinubu a winner and issuing him a certificate of return was against the Constitution.

 

While berating Datti, Soyinka said he warned the presidential candidate of the LP, Peter Obi that his supporters may cost him the election. His comments on Baba-Ahmed, however, attracted backlash from the supporters of the Labour Party as they dragged Soyinka on social media.

 

In an apparent response to the Obedients, Soynka in the statement released today, said the Labour Party was sowing seeds of fascism and generating a climate of fear. He asked Obidients to refrain from attacking and embrace fair hearing in situations of conflict. 

 

See Soyinka's post below…

 

“A climate of fear is being generated. The refusal to entertain corrective criticism, even differing perspectives of the same position has become a badge of honour and certificate of commitment. What is at stake, ultimately is – Truth, and at a most elementary level of social regulation: when you are party to a conflict, you do not attempt to intimidate the arbiter, attempt to dictate the outcome, or impugn, without credible cause, his or her neutrality even before hearing has commenced. That is a ground rule of just proceeding. Short of this, Truth remains permanently elusive.

 

“The ensuing cacophony has been truly bewildering. It strikes me as a possible ploy to smother recent provocations by other, far more trenchant issues, such as revelations of declarations of a religious war. If so, let it be known that I have long declared war against religious fundamentalism, the nature of which justifies the butchery, kidnapping and enslavement of students in the name of religion.

 

“That aspirant’s alleged gaffe cuts no ice with me. Far more alarming was the grotesque fantasy of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court disguised as a wheelchair, zooming off in space to a secret meeting with other parties of the conflict. On its own, that is sufficiently scary. Swiftly followed thereafter by a television tirade of intimidation, it strikes one as more than the mere antics by the mentally deranged. The tactics are familiar: ridicule, incriminate, then intimidate. Objective: undermine the structure of justice .Just as a reminder: this writer was not being rhetorical when he declared, on exiting prison detention: Justice is the first condition of humanity.

 

“The instigating contest – Nigerian Democracy 2023 – has witnessed much that is innovative – largely in the retrogressive vein. Violence and ethnic profiling. “Spiritual” warfare in the shape of sacrificial rams to keep “disloyal” communities under restraint – in short, intimidation yet again! Easily overlooked however are those missives of violence directed against dissenting voices, real or suspect. Such, for instance, were the virulent attacks and threats to the musician Seun Kuti, his family and iconic music Shrine. His crime consisted of nothing more than declaring the name “Obidient” derogatory to his sense of civic dignity and activist history. Such beginnings – and instances are numerous – have culminated in the open intimidation of the Court of Last Resort, even before proceedings have begun. By the way, I do agree with Seun Kuti; ‘Obidients’ is one of the most repulsive, off-putting concoctions I ever encountered in any political arena. Some love it however, and this is what freedom is about. Choice. Taste. Free emotions. By contrast, I have no quarrel with “Yes Daddy”. Roman Catholics are used to saying “Yes, Father”. Secularists say “Enh, Baba”.

 

Woman who apologised for threatening to accuse man of rape releases screenshots of their chat as she shares her side of the story

 

Nkechi Bella Nwoko, the young lady who was accused of threatening to falsely accuse a young man of rape, has spoken out with screenshots. 

Recall that Richard Ebuka Osita had said that Bella threatened to accuse him of rape because he refused her advances. 

He then released her phone number and address online as he slammed her, calling her a "b**ch" and “scum”

He also called for her to be arrested and jailed. 

 

His revelation has been trending on social media for days now, with many calling for Bella's arrest. 

Bella has now come out with her side of the story. 

She shared screenshots of their chats to show Richard asking her to visit him and revealing that he will pull her wig when she visits. 

She said that when he continued pressuring her to visit, she then told him that it's as if he wants to rape her. 

He took offense at this and started posting her online, accusing her of being a "thief," "serial debtor," "trained by her mother," "night walker" and more. 

 

She explained that he told her that he would pay blogs to tarnish her image and she released chats to show where he made the threat. 

She said she eventually did the apology video because Richard was posting her everywhere and told her that he would only stop posting her if she recorded a video apologising to him for falsely accusing him of rape. 

She did the first video and sent but he told her he wanted a video without filter, so she recorded another video and sent to him. 

However,  she said that rather than delete the posts he's been making about her being a thief, he kept them up then started sharing the video as proof that she threatened to accuse him of rape. 

She went on to deny his claims that she threatened him because he turned down her advances.  

She shared screenshots of their chat to show that he was allegedly putting pressure on her to visit him and she was the one avoiding the meeting.

 

See screenshots of their chats below.

 

 

Bella also sent messages to her supporter, actress Uche Ogbodo, to explain her side od the story.

 

See below.

 

ABU Zaria allegedly asked to pay debt of over N931 million to Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company or risk disconnection

 

The Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company has allegedly served Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, with a disconnection notice.

 

According to KEDC, ABU is owing an outstanding balance of N931,479, 317.84.

 

The power distribution company 'issued the notice' on April 4, 2023,  and threatened to disconnect the institution’s power lines. It added that the debt will have to be paid before reconnection takes place.

 

“Please settle your debt,” KEDC remarked in the notice addressed to the Vice Chancellor of ABU.

 

AAUA graduate stabbed to death over N1,000 debt

 

A recent graduate of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba, Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, has been fatally stabbed by an indigene over a 1,000 naira payment misunderstanding.

 

The deceased, simply identified as Temitayo, was stabbed with scissors in the early hours of Thursday, April 6, around Ebenco filling, opposite Akua junction, Akungba.

 

Temitayo was rushed to Aduloju Hospital along Iwaro road where he later succumbed to his injuries. 

 

He recently graduated from the department of Physics Electronics and was still in the school waiting to defend his undergraduate project.

 

The University’s Student Union source told Peoples Gazette that Temitayo had intervened in a naira payment dispute between an “Egbon Adugbo” and a third party, where he promised to settle the bill for the latter.

 

Temidayo was able to reimburse the perpetrators 3000 naira out of the 4000 naira but was unable to pay the remaining 1,000 naira outstanding which resulted into an argument causing the death of the fresh graduate.

 

“A guy (the third party) was owing them money,” the source said “and he told them (the perpetrators) that he will help the guy to pay the money to avoid drama. So he paid 3k out of the 4K and couldn’t raise the last 1k. So they started disturbing him and he said they should stop disturbing him that he did not owe them that he only rendered a help and this afternoon(today) a guy came into the villa.”

 

“As usual they acted as Egbon ADUGBO to collect money. So he said he can’t give them, which led into an argument as if they’d meant to deal with him … and they came from nowhere to stab him after a lot of arguments and they scattered the villa with bottles and spoiled our gate.”

 

Friends have taken to Facebook to mourn the deceased.