82 Students bagged First Class and 127 Students bagged Third Class at Covenant University at 2013/2014 Convocation.

Eighty two students of the Covenant University, Ota,
Ogun, on Friday bagged first class degrees at its
2013/12014 convocation.
The Chancellor of the University, David Oyedepo,
disclosed this at the 9th convocation and the
conferment of honorary doctorate degrees and
presentation of prizes to deserving students and
eminent citizens.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 1,429
students comprising 1,334 undergraduates and 95 post
graduates received various degrees during the
convocation.
In addition to the 82 students that bagged first class
honours, 594 bagged second class upper division
honours, 531 bagged second class lower division
honours while 127 bagged third class honours.
Mr. Oyedepo said that the institution in its 12 years
of existence had maintained a culture of excellence in
education and this had produced significant results.
He said the institution had received recognitions
nationally and internationally.
He said that for two years running, first class
graduates of the institution emerged tops in the
Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for
Innovation and Development (PRESSID) in Nigeria
(2013 and 2014).
“Our graduates are recognised all over the world
while most of them have gained postgraduate
admissions to world-class universities where they
stamped their indelible footprints in the academia and
the world,” Mr. Oyedepo said.
He urged the Federal Government to partner with the
nation’s universities to provide solution to the security
challenges in the country.
He said that the only way the Nigerian universities
could be relevant in solving societal problems was to
continue to carry out researches that would resolve
political and cultural challenges.
Chance Ayo, the Vice Chancellor of the institution,
said that the university was committed to producing
quality graduates for accelerated national
development.

Carlos Queiroz likely to Coach Super Eagles

Carlos Queiroz is no more a stranger in Coaching on
a world stage, having stood by Alex Ferguson at
Manchester United for many seasons before going on
to become Portugese coach for couple of years.
The recent showing at the World Cup with his latest
team Iran, has attracted the football governing body
in Nigeria football federation, NFF, as they plan for
the future.
According to hints from Nigeria camp at the World
Cup, NFF big wigs were said to be very impressed
by the quality of Queiroz coaching credentials and
they had showed interest in the Portuguese coach.
Speaking the mind of the football house, was one of
the board member, Sulaiman Kwande revealed that
they were really impressed with the manner he had
structured a team that does not boast of any world
class player.
The man who is also a member of the House of
Representatives expressed disgust with the way the
Super Eagles have played at the World Cup so far,
declaring that despite the victory over Bosnia, he’s
not impressed with their performance.
“Yes, we beat Bosnia and we are the African
Champions, and they have lifted the hope of Nigerians
so high in the past two years and only for them to
come and put us under serious pressure. You could
see that there was something wrong with the team.
“ Our first two games were not like World Cup
games. I am not saying we must win but look at the
way Ghana played, they were down against a big side
like Germany and they came up. Look at Iran for
God sake, they took Argentina to the last minute, I
mean what does that say?
“You have to see your player s with that kind of
commitment. See the way your players were falling
down in their match against Bosnia. I did not
understand what was going on, I was sitting down and
I had to go to the bathroom about ten times. I mean
there must be some kind of seriousness and pride
playing for your country. I do not know what is wrong
with the players, but I think it‘s time they know that
a lot is on their shoulders.
“Nigeria is going through difficult times believe it or
not ,and I can tell you that this is the one time that
Nigerians are united because of football. At least let
them make this period good period for us. Kwande
said.

Female Suicide Bomber in Lagos.

Fresh reports indicate that the Wednesday car
explosion in Apapa, Lagos was a car bombing not a
gasoline tanker explosion as earlier claimed by Lagos
State officials.
It was also learnt that explosion was carried out by
by a female suicide bomber who aimed at igniting
several gasoline depots in the area.
The explosion occurred on Creek Road near the
Burma Road junction.
A security source revealed to Sahara Reporters that
the explosion could have triggered a massive inferno
and inflicted a horrifying scale of casualties as well
as damage to properties in the Apapa area, which is
both a residential area as well as the hub of economic
activities, including shipping, manufacturing, and
storage of petrochemical products.
Our source said the suicide
bomber apparently sought to ignite
a series of gas distribution plants
and gasoline depots owned by
Folawiyo Energy some 150 meters
away from the site of the
explosion.
Some four persons were killed by
the explosion, among them the
female suicide bomber who drove
a Mercedes Benz car that caused
the explosion.Eyewitnesses said
the head of the female driver lay
on the ground next to the
Mercedes Benz used in the
bombing.
The Public Relations Officer of the
Lagos State Emergency
Management Agency (LASEMA),
Mr. Kehinde Adebayo, had told
reporters that the explosion was
from a gasoline tanker. On their
part, officials of the National
Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA) told SaharaReporters that
there was a major fire outbreak on
Commercial Road in Apapa on
Tuesday morning. One official said
the fire raged between 4 a.m. and
8 a.m. before it was contained by
firefighters, adding that one federal
firefighter was injured as he fought
the fire.
The Federal emergency officials
said they were denied entry to the
scene of the car bomb and were
excluded by Lagos officials from
participating in the rescue and
recovery process, in an apparent
move to hush up the news of the
bombing.
Even though LASEMA claimed that
the explosion was a gas cylinder
explosion at a facility owned by
Folawiyo Energy Limited (FEL), the
management of the company
issued a statement dissociating
itself from the claim. A statement
signed by the company’s media
consultant, Muyiwa Adekeye, said
the explosion did not happen on its
premises.
An account by Vanguard
newspaper that first pointed to
evidence of a car bombing
suggested that Boko Haram
militants might have targeted the
farm tank with highly inflammable
material packed in a Mercedes
Benz car in order to avoid
detection and cause grave
damage.
Although the car exploded beside
a loaded gasoline tanker, the
tanker did not catch fire.
The apparent car bomb will be the
first in Lagos since the Boko
Haram insurgency entered its
most violent stage in 2009.

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Insurgents FLEE Sambisa Forest

Two members of the Islamic militants arrested on
Wednesday at Miri ward, behind University of
Maiduguri, by members of the vigilance group, Civilian
Joint Task Force (JTF), confessed that most of
them are fleeing the Sambisa forest, owing to a new
development in the forest, which they believe is a
spiritual attack.
According to Kolo Mustapha, one of the suspected
members of the sect, snakes are now attacking them
in the Sambisa forest.
“Most of us are fleeing because there are
too many snakes in the forest now. Once
they bite, they disappear and the victims
do not last for 24 hours. We were told that
the people of Chibok Local Government
Area are the ones turning into snake and
attacking us in the forest,” he said.
According to reports, the
suspect revealed further that some of their leaders
had escaped to Cameroon, because “they are known to
the Nigerian authorities and can be easily identified.”
According to him, some of them who had lived in
Maiduguri all their lives had nowhere to go, other than
to return and sneak into town.
“We came in last night and were trying to
hide in some uncompleted buildings when
some members of the Civilian JTF saw us.
After we were arrested, some of the group
members were able to identify us.
“We are pleading with them to spare our
lives. We were forced to join the sect, but
we know that it is not the right way. I have
never killed anyone, but my friend here has
killed many people,” he said.
Umar Abor, the other suspect, said Mustapha was
saying half truth, adding that they all participated in
all heinous acts of the sect in the past.
“We have fought together since 2010. We
fought in Marte, Bama, Buni Yadima and
Gwoza. We were not in Chibok, we have
not seen the girls, but we heard about it.
Our leaders have been talking about it and
we have been following news from the
radio.
“We decided to flee when almost all our
comrades were leaving the Sambisa
because of constant attacks by snakes,
which we were told was as a result of
abducted Chibok girls.
“They (our leaders) told us that it was the
people of Chibok that are hunting us
through diabolical means in the form of
snakes. We were in the forest in 2010 and
2011 and we left and came back last
year.”
They promised that if they were spared, they would
help the community in fishing out some of their
leaders and would lead authorities to places some
other sect members had fled to for safety.
Ali Musa, leader of the Civilian JTF at Bama Road
said many of the sect members had been fleeing the
Sambisa forest since the last two weeks, adding that
those arrested were being handed over to authorities,
except some of them who proved stubborn and were
killed.

FIFA BITES SUAREZ

Following the alleged bite on Italian defender, Giorgor
Chiellini made by Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez,
the Football governing body FIFA has come to a
disciplinary action for the Liverpool striker.
This is the press statement from FIFA:
Luis Suárez suspended for nine matches and banned
for four months from any football-related activity
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has reached a
decision in the case related to Luis Suárez of
Uruguay following an incident that occurred during
the FIFA worldcup match between Italy and
Uruguay.

AMAZING WEDNESDAY.

Stay strong, make them wonder how you're
still smiling.

Trust takes years to build, seconds to break,
and forever to repair.

If you live your life with the regrets of
yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you
will have no today to be thankful for!

A word of encouragement after failure is
worth more than an hour of praise after
success.

Don't compare your Chapter 1 to someone
else's Chapter 20.

  

Have a fulfiled week and happy new month in advance!!!

Kenyan President signs polygamy into law.

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed
into law a controversial marriage bill legalising
polygamy.
It brings civil law, where a man was only
allowed one wife, into line with customary law,
where some cultures allow multiple partners.
Controversy surrounded an amendment to the bill,
supported by many male MPs, allowing men to
take more wives without consulting existing
spouses.
Traditionally, first wives are supposed to give
prior approval.
‘Demeaning’
Last month, female MPs walked out of
parliament in disgust after their male counterparts
voted through the amendment.
They argued that a decision to take on another
wife would affect the whole family, including the
financial position of other spouses.
The bill was also opposed by Christian leaders
who urged the president not to sign it into law,
saying it undermined Christian principles of
marriage and family.
“The tone of that bill, if it becomes law, would
be demeaning to women since it does not respect
the principle of equality of spouses in the
institution of marriage,” Archbishop Timothy
Ndambuki, from the National Council of Churches
of Kenya (NCCK), was quoted by Kenya’s
Standard newspaper as saying.
The marriage legislation has been under discussion
for several years and some initial proposals were
scrapped at committee stages.
It has abolished the practice of unofficial
traditional marriages which were never registered
and could be ended without any legal divorce
proceedings.
But plans to ban the payment of bride prices
were dropped – although a person must be 18
to marry and this now applies to all cultures.
Inheritance chaos?
MPs did reject the committee amendment which
said a woman should only be entitled to 30% of
matrimonial property after death or divorce.
The law now allows for equal property and
inheritance rights – previously a woman had to
prove her contribution to the couple’s wealth.
However, the BBC’s Frenny Jowi in the capital,
Nairobi, says this aspect of the legislation could
create chaos in polygamous marriages.
The law stipulates that a wife is entitled to an
equal share of whatever the couple acquired
during their marriage but in the case of multiple
partners it is going to be difficult to determine
what each spouse is entitled to if one of them
divorces or their husband dies, she says.
There had also been a proposal to recognise co-
habiting couples, known in Kenya as “come-we-
stay” relationships, after six months, but this too
was dropped.

The Fate of the Abducted girls,so sad.

A community leader in Chibok, claimed the girls
abducted by suspected members of the Boko
Haram sect had been sold as wives abroad.
According to Pogo Bitrus, leader of a Chibok
elders group, the captured girls are being offered
to Boko Haram fighters at $12 each.
Bitrus said that locals had been tracking the
movements of the hostages with the help of
“various sources” across the northeast.
“From the information we received yesterday from
Cameroonian border towns our abducted girls
were taken into Chad and Cameroon,” he said.
The girls were then sold as brides to Islamist
fighters for 2,000 naira ($12) each, Bitrus
added.
Meanwhile, parents of the abducted girls slammed
the government on Tuesday over failure to rescue
scores of schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks ago by
Boko Haram Islamists.
“May God curse every one of those who have
failed to free our girls,” said Enoch Mark,
whose daughter and two nieces were among the
more than 234 students abducted from the
Government Girls Secondary School in the
Chibok area of northeastern Borno state.
The attack was one of the most shocking in
Boko Haram’s five-year uprising, which has
claimed thousands of lives across northern and
central Nigeria.

Here are Photos of Mr President on his daughter's wedding.

A presidential wedding indeed present at the wedding include great personalities from far and near....

Here are photos from Faith Sakwe's Wedding
To Godswill Edward. The reception is presently
on at the International Conference Centre,
Herbert Macaulay Way, Abuja.

Making your weekend count.

We have to get our weekend straight and fixed so that we don't have a stressful weekend after having a stressful day. Here are some ways you can make it worthwhile with your family.
"The best things in life are free," goes the old
saying--but what can you do for free that's
actually...well...fun? Here's some pointers to
explore the cheap fun things to do with your
family.

Check your local newspaper for
Community Events. Towns, cities,
libraries, schools, recreation centers
and the like often have free events.
Check your local museums, parks,
and the like for special Open House
days or other events that offer free
admission.
Explore the Great Outdoors. Outside
parks, forests, state land, and the
like are often free and offer a lot of
fun activities like swimming, nature
hikes, camping, kite-flying, and the
like. Be sure to check out special
events like free workshops, guided
hikes, stargazing parties, and more.

Cook Together.
You have to cook
dinner; why not do it together? A
family cooking project: chocolate
chip cookies, barbecuing, making
smoothies, making applesauce, is
low cost and is fun. For the kids,
there are some great "food craft"
projects that they'll probably enjoy,
like creating brightly colored rice or
pasta to eat or making fruit sushi.

Play together.
When was the last
time you played catch with your
Dad? Played chess with your
stepmom? What about something
simple like rocks, paper, scissors or
tic tac toe ?

Create together.
Get your family
involved in a project, such as
building a tree house out of scrap
lumber, painting the living room,
creating a family scrapbook, and
more

Did She really forgive those who raped her?

Being raped is an incident that cannot been forgotten in a life time. I guess it now on the increasing side these days whose fault we may ask ? But the fact still remains there is no excuse for doing what is wrong.. Here is a true life story from Vanguard ...



A Lagos based female evangelist (names
witheheld), recently kidnapped and gang raped
by her abductors around Ogijo area of Ikorodu
Lagos, left everyone speechless when she told
two of her abductors arrested by the Lagos
State Police command that she had forgiven
them for their sins.
The traumatized evangelist who is still trying to
come to terms with her nine days despicable
experience in the hands of nine kidnappers,
even went further to lay her hands on the
arrested suspects, advising them to turn new
leaves in order to make heaven at the end of
their sojourn on earth.
The woman, as gathered, was abducted early
this month and kept in the kidnaper’s den; an
uncompleted building in Ogijo, Ikorodu,
alongside other kidnapped victims, among
whom was a Briton. It was gathered that her
abductors tore her clothes into shreds and left
her in her nude throughout her nine days
stay,where they had her in turns and at any
given time.
While the dehumanizing act was on, one of the
kidnappers reportedly put a call through to the
evangelist’s husband, demanding for N20
million ransom.  But her husband reportedly
dropped the sum of N2 million in an
undisclosed location the fourth day but did not
have his wife released to him as expected.
Escape at last
On the ninth day, Crime Guard was informed
that eight members of the kidnap gang drove
out in two vehicles to collect a ransom of N25
million, for the release of the Briton , at
Caterpillar bus-stop, Ojota, leaving one of them,
(Emeka) behind, to guard their victims.
Moments later, the armed kidnapper was said
to had gone to the exhausted evangelist to
ease his sexual urge.  But he got more than
what he bargained for as the exhausted
woman, in what could be described as a
miracle, flung him away,and he hit his head on
the brick wall.
According to the woman evangelist who initially
bluntly refused to speak to anyone , other than
the arrested kidnappers and Police, “ I do not
know where the strength came from. But as he
was about penetrating… I pushed him and he
hit his head on the wall and passed out.
Without caring whether I was naked or not, or
whether I would be shot in the process, I rushed
out of the uncompleted building shouting for
help. To my surprise, I discovered that the
building was even located among residential
buildings.”
It was learnt that one of the curious
sympathizers who gathered round her, gave her
a wrapper to cover her nakedness.
Back inside the uncompleted building, the
kidnapper,on regaining consciousness,
reportedly scaled the fence and fled,abandoning
his AK 47 riffle, apparently afraid that his
escapee could have blown the lid. An irate mob
stormed the building later, where the Briton was
rescued and the duo taken to the Area N
Command,Ijede.
Meanwhile, the rest members of the gang who
had earlier gone to collect the ransom for the
release of the Briton at Ojota, met their waterloo
at the designated point of receipt.
Unknown to them, operatives of the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, who got wind of
their escapades, intercepted them, resulting in
a gun duel which forced the kidnappers to
abandon their loot and escaped.
One of them identified as Emeka was, however,
arrested and he took the operatives to their
hideout from where their victims were
discovered to have been taken to Area N
Command, Ijede. Police sources told Crime
Guard that Emeka’s confessional statement led
to the arrest of another suspected member of
the gang known as Ikechukwu Ibe.
In his confessional statement, Emeka
exonerated him self from the gang rape,saying:
“ I could not do it because she kept shouting
the name Jesus! Besides, when I discovered
she was married, I refused to take part. I even
told my colleagues to let her be, since her
husband had already paid N2 Million. It was
Sam, Innocent, Ikechukwu,Ugo and the rest
that raped her . She was kept permanently
naked to allow them easy access.
Sam is our leader while Ikechukwu is his
deputy. Ugo is the messenger and ‘pointer’.
What he does is to identify our victim after
which we would intercept the vehicle. My job is
to alight from our operational vehicle, get the
victim inside before zooming off. At times, we
kidnap our victims through information from
their drivers,” he said.
One AK 47 and one pump action rifle were
reportedly recovered by the policemen at the
kidnappers den.

AMAZING WEDNESDAY.

" Don't let someone dim your light simply because it is shining in their eyes"

"Stop cursing the darkness light some candles"

"The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of hurting them back"

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts,for you never go higher than what you think".

"Don't worry if you are single ,God is looking at you right now,saying I'm saving this one for someone special".

"Be positive"...........

BE STILL.

Most times we all try to achieve things especially when we start looking at our mates ,it comes in two ways firstly when we see those who are above us we tend to be under pressure because we often think we haven't done enough. Secondly when we look at those who we have passed we tend to be relaxed not knowing that we could do more.
Now success should not be measured with people or time but rather it should be measured with YOU;from your personal goal and target not from people's achievements ...So be still and look closely you will find out that you never lost in the long run and more so you could have done better if only you bordered to try..