Football: League Management Company Boss Arrested

The Nigeria Football Federation has frowned on the arrest of chairman of the League Management Company Shehu Dikko by the Nigerian Police.
Four persons who introduced themselves as detectives from the FCT Police Command went to the office of the League Management Company (LMC) on Wednesday ostensibly to arrest its Chairman, Mallam Shehu Dikko (also NFF 2nd Vice President) and its COO, Alhaji Salihu Abubakar, allegedly pursuant to a Jos High Court order.
The court had ruled that the Nigeria Professional Football League be suspended indefinitely pending when the case concerning the ban on Giwa FC from the league, will be concluded.
But the NFF, in a statement on Thursday, said it will take drastic measures to put a final stop to the endless drama.
“The time has come for all peace loving and law abiding Nigerians to stand up against the continued intimidation of private citizens and institutions using both fabricated and/or void court orders as well as people whose status as police officers raises doubt.
“The entire football family has raised its voice time and again against those plotting to derail our football by using unwarranted and dubious litigation. We at the NFF as custodians of Nigerian Football and Licensors of the Nigeria Professional Football League reiterate the condemnation of the actions of these charlatans whose interest is contrary to the interest of Nigerian Football and indeed Nigeria. We remain steadfast in our support of the LMC and its officials and we will continue our quest for justice and ensure that Football is the winner at the end of this ugly incident.
“We ask that all clubs, club officials, league officials, football business entrepreneurs and indeed the millions of Nigerian Football Fans whose interests are affected by this brigandage should remain calm and rest assured that both the NFF and the LMC are taking all necessary steps not only to expose and end this continued fraud on our football but to once and for all expose the mafia behind the attempted rape of our collective will.
“As a Federation, we fully understand the dynamics and intrigues of Football Laws and Civil Laws and how we relate with both.”
Giwa FC were banished from the Nigeria Premier League for the 2015/16 football season after failing to honour three league games.

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We Will Bomb NNPC Towers In Abuja - NDPPVF

A group known as The Niger Delta Peoples Professional Volunteer Force (NDPPVF), have released a statement vowing to bomb the four wings of the NNPC towers in Abuja if former first lady, Patience Jonathan, is arrested over the $15 million found in her account.
Spokesman of the group, Parkinson George-Amabo, in the statement released today, said it is not in support of corruption, but against the manner in which the anti-graft agency has carried out its investigation into the foreign currency linked to Mrs Jonathan. ‎The statement in part reads; “As a matter of fact, the EFCC has launched a criminal investigation of Mrs. Jonathan and in the process, frozen her bank accounts domiciled with a Nigerian commercial bank without affording her opportunity to state her own side of the matter. Nobody is above the law. The NDPPVF does not support or condone corruption. If Mrs. Jonathan was found to be corrupt, we shall not hesitate to call for her prosecution. We, however, have a grouse with the modus operandi of Mrs. Jonathan’s investigation, given her status as the wife of a former deputy governor, former governor, former vice-president, former acting president and finally, former president. She is perhaps, the only Nigerian woman – dead or alive – with such an impressive and fortuitous pedigree; which accounts for why the EFCC needs to thread with caution. Recently, there have been calls on the attorney-general of the federation as well as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest and prosecute ‎former First Lady for alleged money laundering. We shall simultaneously bomb the 4 wings of the NNPC Towers the day it is announced that MRS. PATIENCE GOODLUCK JONATHAN has been arrested by the EFCC.”

The country's situation is really so terrifying, for us to move to greater heights all must be treated with equity and justice with no sense of favors.

The sword of the government must swing evenly through all the geographical locations else it will be chaotic.

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Militants blow up NPDC facility in Delta

Delta - Suspected Niger Delta militants have attacked oil delivery line belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company crossing Afiesere-Iwhrenene communities in Delta State.
The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, one of the groups operating in the area, took responsibility for the incident, which happened at about 1:00 am on Tuesday.
The group through a statement by its spokesperson, Aldo Agbalaja confirmed its involvement in the attack.
The group threatened to carry out more attacks, stating that the recent one was part of its ‘Operation Crocodile Smile’ exercise.
It said, “As a mark of our faith to totally grounding the Nigerian oil economy, the gallant “Opudo” strike forces brought down the Afiesere- Iwhrenene major delivery line in Ughelli North, leading to the UPS/UQCC operated by NPDC/SHORELINES at about 1am today 13th September 2016.
“The Niger Delta is not a conquered territory and our people have never succumbed to intimidation before, rather we match force with the oppressor’s brutality.
“The Nigerian government should already know that the people of this part are not fools, who will not be able to see when they are being treated with disdain.”
It also reiterated its warning that Nigerians living close to oil pipelines leave immediately to avoid being injured.
“For the last time, leave these areas if you live around them and if you love your lives,” it said.
Now my questions are:
* Is this actually the way forward?
* Don't you think they are only increasing the stinky smell of poverty within these regions?
* Will the polluted lands ever go back to their original forms?
* What about the water bodies?
* Health implications of those that lives within the riverine arears most especially?
* Can't they think of a better way to fight this war?
* Doesn't this economic recession affect their people?
Loads of questions keeps popping up in my mind each time I hear these kinds of news.
I have an advice for the Niger Delta people, shun violence, shun the destruction of your country's future, get involved in active politics, set out a political agenda, follow it up for years, get to the apex of politics, seize power, install your people in prominent positions, take over the leadership of the nation, be smart like your counterparts.
The destruction of public facilities is not the way forward.
When you're done blowing everything up what else will you blow?
Think twice, look before you leap.
The journey towards the prosperity of the Niger Delta and other regions that are sidelined can actually start from today.
Dialogue...Peace and political strategy is the only way forward.

Much love from Jeff ... 😘 ♥ ♥

TAKE YOUR TIME

From all indications it is obvious that life is in phases, stages and in a systematically well arranged sequence for every individual. This means that life is in varieties.
Each and everyone of us was programmed to follow a definite path, we all have our unique path and routes naturally. But as humans most times we tend to be competitive and comparative, seeing others around our neighborhood excel more than we do, not knowing the fact that we all have different timelines, different destined locations, different natural occupational places and lots more.

The most important thing is for us to find the right tracks, get set for the collision of the season and time, we must be prepared to take our lives to the next phase, but all these comes with the price of waiting, studying, experimenting, gathering of the required experiences, information, knowledge and right application of both which is wisdom.
The get rich quick syndrome must be abolished for our society through the renewal of our minds knowing that success is tied to work. Even the Scriptures says "I will bless the works of your hands" in other words, to achieve long lasting success /wealth you must be engaged in constructive works. The law of use must be put into practice.
Having discovered the fact that all humans are programmed with different timelines, you must patiently wait for your time to come while you put in place the necessary ingredients required to sustain the success you'll be exposed to. Such as a loving heart, charitable characters, a bridled tongue, neatness, genuine love for God, taking responsibilities and making amends where faulty, a peaceful lifestyle, etc.
Just be a role model to others. Live a life that others can lookup to and someday nature is going to smile at you, everything will respond to you because God will find you worthy of His blessings.
Take this from me:
When it seems the road is so narrow, like there's not gonna be light at the end of the tunnel, just lift your head high and say help will come when the time is right. Trust me, your time could be now or just at the corner. Do not give up and don't give-in to evil thoughts because the darkest part of the night marks the dawn of a new day.

Much love from Jeff... ♥ ♥ 😘

Nigeria urgent polio vaccination drive tragets 25 million

Maiduguri - An emergency polio vaccination campaign aimed at reaching 25 million children this year has begun in parts of Nigeria newly freed from Boko Haram Islamic extremists, with fears that many more cases of the crippling disease will likely be found.
Two toddlers discovered last month were Nigeria's first reported polio cases in more than two years, putting the world on alert just months after the African continent was declared free of the disease.
One member of the Rotary Club's "End Polio Now" drive said he almost cried when he got the news. It was a major blow to global efforts to stamp out polio, which persists in only two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Associated Press joined the vaccination drive in northeastern Nigeria, a campaign going to extraordinary lengths to fight the disease in areas still threatened by Boko Haram extremists who violently oppose Western medicine.
Health workers using military helicopters, all-terrain vehicles and even tricycle taxis vaccinated about 1.5 million children in the past week alone, starting in the refugee camps where the new cases surfaced.
The World Health Organization has said the two new cases indicate the wild polio virus has been circulating for five years in northeastern Borno state, where Boko Haram began its uprising in 2009.
More cases are expected to surface as Nigeria's military forces Boko Haram out of more towns and villages, said Dr. Tunji Funsho, head of Rotary's polio eradication drive.
Just 20 years ago, this West African nation was considered the world's epicenter of polio, recording 1 000 cases a year. Men and women with twisted limbs crawling along the roadside to beg are still a common sight. A global drive to end polio began in 1988, when the highly contagious disease was endemic in 125 countries.
Though progress has been made, wiping out polio probably will not be possible without ending the unrest tied to Islamic extremism that prevents vaccination in the three countries where the virus still is endemic, according to a new report from U.S.-based risk analysis group Stratfor.
"Boko Haram is largely responsible for the insecurity that has hamstrung vaccination efforts in Nigeria," the report said. "Though the group has weakened since the start of 2015, as long as this security risk remains, so, too, will the risk that Nigeria's latest run-in with polio will not be its last."
Boko Haram is in retreat but remains deadly. In July, militants attacked a humanitarian convoy near Maiduguri, the region's largest city, leading the United Nations to suspend aid to newly liberated areas where it says half a million people are starving.
Boko Haram's opposition to all things Western reached new heights in 2013 when militants shot and killed nine women vaccinating children against polio in northern Kano, Nigeria's second largest city.
Over the years, the vaccination campaign has had to fight rumors that the vaccine was a plot to sterilize Muslims, which it overcame by winning over religious and traditional leaders and grassroots women's groups.
"Yes, it's a major setback, but we are not defeatist," Funsho declared of the latest cases. He looked over a map of Borno state that showed only a small southern section as "accessible," most of the sprawling state "partially accessible" and a band in the north bordering Niger, Cameroon and Chad as "inaccessible" because of Boko Haram fighters.
Over the past week, hundreds of health workers from the government, the United Nations and aid organizations spread out across Borno state, delivering the vaccinations through drops on the tongue.
Military armored cars and truckloads of soldiers guarded trips into precarious areas. They included the town of Chibok, where nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in April 2014, shocking the world. More than 200 remain missing. Boko Haram extremists attacked a village near Chibok last week, killing 11 people.
For areas too dangerous to reach by road, helicopters delivered vaccines to already trained people on the ground, to avoid suspicion of strangers, said Rotary field coordinator Aminu Muhammad.
"We've even been able to reach a couple of areas that we had been told by the military were inaccessible, after community leaders informed us we could get through," Muhammad said proudly.
"Still, there were some major communities outside the metropolitan areas that we were unable to reach," Muhammad said.
He could not estimate costs for the massive campaign because organizations like the US Centres for Disease Control, the UN children's agency and London-based Save the Children all are participating with their own budgets.
Most vaccinators are women because men traditionally are not allowed into the home of a Muslim woman if her husband is absent.
One campaign member, Maryam Kawule of the Core Group, led green-veiled young women ticking off family names handwritten in an exercise book. "We do the preliminary work of counting the children, and we're here now to ensure every kid under 5 gets his or her vaccination," she said.
It doesn't end there. The polio vaccine has to be administered at least three times to each child, and up to five times in endemic areas, so more rounds are planned next year.

THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL PARTIES

For any country to have a strong DEMOCRACY there must be a strong political party in power with the strong will of encouraging the rule of law, enhancing economic growth, stabilizing the county's economy with the strong will of pulling the masses along.
On the other hand, there must be a strong political party for OPPOSITION.
Considering the nature of the Nigerian political parties, it is obvious that both the party in power (APC) and the supposed opposition party (PDP) are both shying away from their responsibilities.
For the #PDP it's more like a deliberate act knowing that the #APC is clueless for now on how to run the affairs of this country and they'll be glad to see the APC fail so as to reclaim their position in the next GENERAL ELECTIONS.
But is this how it's supposed to be done? How long will the masses suffer hoping to see the #CHANGE they were promised? The destiny of this NATION must not be toyed with. The #PDP must come out strong with constructive criticism on how they managed to take the country's economy to the forefront in AFRICA. How they handled health issues like the #POLIO for years and when Nigeria was on the verge of being declared polio free, the whole thing came down crumbling. The #PDP must prove to Nigerians that they have the interest of this country at heart. The #APC must step up their game and be ready to take constructive criticism from both the opposing party and the masses at large.
We as a nation must wake up to the fact that NIGERIA is our own to build. We must all criticise constructively instead of fighting ourselves, showing disrespectful acts and speaking guile words always about those in power.
If Nigerians finds any of them wanting, they should recall and impeach them. We must grow up.
#BETHECHANGEYOUWANTTOSEE #BEAPATROIT #WEARENIGERIA
GOD BLESS NIGERIA

BILL GATES MESSAGE TO THE NEW GENERATION OF AFRICA.

"I was 9 years old when Nelson Mandela was sent to prison on Robben Island. As a boy, I learned about him in school, and I remember seeing reports about the anti-Apartheid movement on the evening news. Decades later, I got to meet him and work with him. In person he was even more inspiring than I had imagined. His humility and courage left an impression that I will never forget.

So it was a special honor to be invited to give the Nelson Mandela Lecture in Pretoria, South Africa. I eagerly accepted the invitation and quickly began working on my remarks.

I decided to share my optimism about Africa’s future—to explain why I think the continent has the potential to change faster in the next generation than any continent ever has.

It’s because Africa is the world’s youngest continent, and youth can go hand in hand with a special dynamism. I was 20 years old when Paul Allen and I started Microsoft. The entrepreneurs driving startup booms in Johannesburg, Lagos, and Nairobi are just as young, and the thousands of businesses they’re creating are already changing lives across the continent. The potential will only grow as the digital revolution brings more advances in artificial intelligence and robotics.

But positive change across Africa won’t happen automatically. The real returns will come only if Africans can unleash this talent for innovation in all of the continent’s growing population. That depends on whether all of its young people are given the opportunity to thrive.

It is still an open question, and it is the crux of my speech, which I gave today at the University of Pretoria. It was an honor to give this lecture, and I’m grateful to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the university for inviting me.

The first time I spoke with Nelson Mandela was in 1994, when he called to ask me to help fund South Africa’s first multi-racial election. It’s not every day that Nelson Mandela calls, so I remember it well. I was running Microsoft at the time and thinking about software most of my waking hours. But I admired Nelson Mandela, I knew the election was historic, and I did what I could to help.

I had been to Africa for the first time just the year before, when my wife, Melinda, and I travelled in East Africa on vacation. Obviously, we knew parts of Africa were very poor, but being on the continent turned what had been an abstraction into an injustice we could not ignore.

Faced with such glaring inequity, we started thinking about how we could use our resources to make a difference. Within a few years, we established our foundation. It was when I started coming to Africa regularly for the foundation that I came to know Nelson Mandela personally. He was both an advisor and an inspiration.

One topic that Nelson Mandela came back to over and over again in his lifetime was the power of youth. I agree with Mandela about young people, and that is one reason I’m optimistic about the future of Africa. Demographically, Africa is the world’s youngest continent, and its youth can be the source of a special dynamism.

Economists talk about the demographic dividend and the potential for Africa’s burgeoning youth population to accelerate economic growth. But for me, the most important thing about young people is the way their minds work. Young people are better than old people at driving innovation, because they are not locked in by the limits of the past. I was 19 when I founded Microsoft. Steve Jobs was 21 when he started Apple. Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he created Facebook.

So I’m inspired by the young African entrepreneurs driving startup booms in the Silicon Savannahs from Johannesburg and Cape Town to Lagos and Nairobi.

The real returns, though, will come if we can multiply this talent for innovation by the whole of Africa’s growing youth population. To make that a reality, all of Africa’s young people must have the opportunity to thrive.

If we invest in the right things—if we make sure the basic needs of Africa’s young people are taken care of—then they can change the future and life on this continent will improve faster than it ever has.

In my view, there are four things that will determine Africa’s future: health and nutrition, education, economic opportunity, and good governance.

When people aren’t healthy, they can’t turn their attention to things like education, working and raising a family. Conversely, when health improves, life improves by every measure.

I’m especially concerned about HIV. Africa’s youngest generation are entering the age when they are most at risk of HIV. We need to get more out of the HIV prevention methods we have now –while developing better solutions like an effective vaccine and easier-to-use medicines that people are more likely to use consistently.

Nutrition is another critical area of focus for Africa. Malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies rob millions of the continent’s children of their physical and cognitive potential. Fortunately, there are cost-effective solutions like making sure mothers breastfeed their infants, enriching cooking oil, sugar, and flour with important vitamins and minerals, and breeding staple crops to maximize their nutritional content. We need to make sure the people most at risk know about and have access to these solutions.

Second, we need new thinking and new tools to make sure a high-quality education is available to every child. Educational technology using mobile phones has the potential to help students build foundational skills while giving teachers better feedback and support at the touch of a button. Governments also need to invest in high-quality public universities for the largest number of qualified students to launch the next generation of scientists, entrepreneurs, educators, and government leaders.

Third, we need to create economic opportunities to channel the energy and ideas of Africa’s youth. Through the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program, countries have a framework for transforming agriculture from a struggle for survival into a thriving business opportunity. But the investment needs to follow, so that young Africans have the means to create the thriving agriculture they envision.

Africa also needs more electrical power to increase productivity. In East Africa especially, governments should invest in hydro and geothermal sources of energy, which are both reliable and renewable, as soon as possible. The immediate priority is for governments to get tougher about managing their electrical grids so they’re producing as much power as possible.

Fourth, countries can benefit from enhancing fiscal governance. Advances in digital technology is one way that governments can deliver services more efficiently.

It’s clear to everyone how big and complicated the challenges are. But Africa has proven its resilience and ingenuity time and again, and there are millions of people, especially young people, who are eager to get to work.

The future depends on the people of Africa working together to lay a foundation so that Africa’s young people have the opportunities they deserve. This is the future that Nelson Mandela dreamed of and it’s the future that the youth of Africa deserve".

The African youth must wake up and bridge the gap. In our own different and unique ways, we should contribute as much as we can to the growth and development of Africa.

It doesn't matter where you are or what you do, just be the best you can be and do the right thing at the right time. The African youths must rebuild their minds to know that success is a product of hard work, there is no shortcut to achieving genuine breakthroughs.

We must all put our minds and bodies to genuine works Because only innovative and creative ideas will redeem our image as a continent and better us as a people.

Thanks for reading.

Much love from Jeff...

THE MIND

WHAT'S THE MIND?
THE MIND IS THE SUB AND SUPER CONSCIOUS PART OF EVERY HUMAN BEING THAT HAS THE FUNCTION OF ATTRACTING/REPELLING, CONTROLING, VISUALIZING AND PROCESSING IMAGINARY DATA WHICH CAN IN NO DISTANT TIME BE TURNED TO MATERIALIZATION THROUGH THE LAW OF WORK.
THE MIND DETERMINES YOUR SPIROPHYSICAL WELL BEING, THE THOUGHTS AND PICTURES CONSTANTLY NURSED AND PAINTED IN THE MIND DETERMINES THE FORCES THAT ARE ATTRACTED TO AN INDIVIDUAL, AND THE RESULTANT CONSEQUENCE COULD EITHER BE DESTRUCTIVE OR CONSTRUCTIVE.
I RECOMMEND A JEALOUS GUIDING OF YOUR MIND AS REGARDING WHAT KIND OF THOUGHTS & INFORMATION THAT STAYS AND PASSES THROUGH IT.
BE A POSITIVE THINKER, IN NO DISTANT TIME, YOU WILL BECOME POSITIVELY CHARGED WITH POSITIVITY AND POSSIBILITIES.
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Moses Jeff's Blog, Welcome.: WHAT IS EDUCATION?

Moses Jeff's Blog, Welcome.: WHAT IS EDUCATION?

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WHAT IS EDUCATION?

THE MEANING OF EDUCATION:
THERE HAS LONG BEEN A GENERAL MISCONCEPTION OF THE MEANING OF THE WORD "EDUCATE". THE DICTIONARY HAVE NOT AIDED IN THE ELIMINATION OF THIS MISUNDERSTANDING, BECAUSE IT HAD DEFINED IT AS AN ACT OF IMPARTING KNOWLEDGE.
THE WORD "EDUCATE" HAS ITS ROOTS IN THE LATIN WORD "educo"  WHICH MEANS TO DEVELOP FROM WITHIN; TO EDUCE; TO DRAW OUT; TO GROW THROUGH THE LAW OF USE.
POWER GROWS OUT OF ORGANISED KNOWLEDGE, (that's why they say knowledge is power) BUT, MIND YOU IT GROWS OUT OF IT THROUGH APPLICATION AND USE.
A MAN MAY BECOME A WALKING ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT POSSESSING  ANY POWER OF VALUE.
THIS KNOWLEDGE BECOMES POWER ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS ORGANISED, CLASSIFIED AND PUT INTO ACTION.
EDUCATION IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE MEDIUM THROUGH WHICH THE RESIDUAL QUALITIES, THE INNER ABILITIES AND POTENTIALS IN A PERSON ARE EXPLOITED, EXPLORED AND ACTIVATED TO BETTER THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE SOCIETY AT LARGE.
IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AN AVENUE OF IMPLANTS OF IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHICAL VIEMS OF OTHERS AS IT COULD DETERIORATE THE VERY INNATE IDEOLOGICAL PROSPECT OF THAT INDIVIDUAL.
Hmm!!