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Check out Olamide and Don Jazzy in new video: SKELEMBA

Olamide is the most hard-working artiste in Nigeria and the guy is still striving on. He drops a brand new video - Skelemba - this week with Don Jazzy. Their dancing is lovely. …

13 Nov 2014

Buhari defeats Jonathan, Others in another 2015 Opinion Poll

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It appears a lot of Nigerians are tired of President Goodluck Jonathan; 
lack of jobs, corruption, killings by Boko Haram are some of the 
challenges his government has consistently fail to tackle.<br />
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Though he declared his intent to re-contest in Abuja on Tuesday, 
President Jonathan would lose the 2015 poll to General Muhammadu Buhari 
if the Presidential election were held today.<br />
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The results from a fresh online poll, which ran for 24 hours through the
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Nigerians were asked, "If the 2015 Nigerian presidential election were 
held today, which of these candidates do you think would emerge 
President of Nigeria?" See the result below:<br />
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The five candidates were President Jonathan (PDP), Gen. Muhammad Buhari 
(APC), Speaker of the House of Reps Aminu Tambuwal (APC), Abubakar 
Atiku, former Vice President (APC), and Kano State governor Rabiu 
Kwankwaso. <br />
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During the 24 hours, 13,700 people voted. 10,280 of those surveyed 
overwhelmingly voted for Buhari, giving him a 75% lead. This data 
mirrors a previous poll in which President Jonathan and Buhari were 
matched head-to-head, a pairing that suggested a win for Buhari with 78%
 of the vote cast.<br />
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As in the previous poll, respondents came from all over the world.<br />
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The previous poll prompted President Jonathan's aide on social media, 
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It appears a lot of Nigerians are tired of President Goodluck Jonathan; lack of jobs, corruption, killings by Boko Haram are some of the challenges his government has consistently fail to tackl…

13 Nov 2014

UPDATE: Vigilantes recapture Mubi Town, chase Boko Haram

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When the people of Mubi discovered that Nigerian Military with all their
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Reports coming from the troubled North East Nigeria is that local 
militia in Adamawa State have driven the dreaded Boko Haram militants 
out of Mubi, a key town in the northeast state, nearly two weeks after 
the town fell to the terrorists.<br />
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The Adamawa State governor and residents on Thursday confirmed this latest development.<br />
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“Some of them (Boko Haram) ran away through Askira Uba and others 
through Mubi South and the situation in Mubi now is quite different from
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A spokesperson to Governor Bala Ngilari told Premium Times that Mubi is 
now quite different from what it used to be. He said local vigilante, 
popularly called Civilian JTF, launched a daring night time attack on 
Boko Haram terrorist in Mubi and drove them out.<br />
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The government added that the operation by the vigilante received some support from the military.<br />
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While a military source has said that the operation was not as 
“conclusive as claimed”, the Adamawa State government said the operation
 was successful and that Mubi is now free of Boko Haram.<br />
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“His Excellency, Governor Bala Ngilari, has confirmed that the combined 
efforts of the Civilian Vigilante and the Sarkin Bakan Gombi as well as 
the military has successfully chased away Boko Haram from Mubi town,” 
Phineas Elisha, the director, press, to Governor Ngilari, told PT.<br />
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It would be recalled that Boko Haram captured Mubi Town on October 30 in
 a daytime raid after attacking the military installation there, chasing
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UPDATE: Vigilantes recapture Mubi Town, chase Boko Haram

When the people of Mubi discovered that Nigerian Military with all their weapons can't help them, they had to take the laws into their hands in a bid to liberate themselves from Boko Haram slav…

13 Nov 2014

2face Idibia is so Romatic! throws private birthday celebration for his wife Annie(See photos)

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2face surprise His Beautiful Wife Annie at home late last night.<br />
According to Annie Idibia, she arrived home late to the romantic gesture.<br />
We hear a big party themed 'dirty flirty thirty' hold tonight at rumours club in Festac, y'all invited<br />
Happy Birthday To Her!!!</div>
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2face Idibia is so Romatic! throws private birthday celebration for his wife Annie(See photos)

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13 Nov 2014

Is This Right? See How Babcock University ‘Punishes’ Graduands For Not Staying Till The End Of Convocation

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letter was written by a grauduand of Babcock University who says himself
 and his colleagues have been made to pay a sum of N25,000 for 
collecting their certificate which naturally should come free. He says a
 lot of them have been paying because they have no choice, but some are 
yet to pay due to lack of money and things shouldn’t be done this way, 
especially in a Christian school.  The major reason they gave according 
to him was that they didn't wait till the end of convocation and had to 
be punished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 
convocation ceremony of the Amethyst Graduating Class 2014 of Babcock 
University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria was held on June 1st, 2014
 at the school's stadium. It was 3 convocation ceremonies in one - first
 degree, masters and PhD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A number of 
dignitaries were present and some of them were presented with honorary 
doctorate degrees. The program lingered on for over 5 hours during which
 many parents for whom inadequate provision had been made, had to stand 
through the program even while it rained, to watch their children 
convocate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, 
certificates were only handed to first-class graduates (first degree) 
and the rest were to return to the school later on to get theirs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Due to the 
impatience of the parents who were drenched, agitated and tired of all 
the unnecessary speeches and protocol, a somewhat disorderly exit of the
 parents ensued. Who could blame them? Many of them had far distances to
 travel back. Of course, they started to call their children, who found 
ways to exit since in fact, their own ceremony was over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Weeks later 
when the rest of the certificates were ready for collection, students 
were mandated to pay N25,000, an order said to have been from the 
Vice-Chancellor (supposedly because the procession that was to be done 
at the end of the ceremony was ruined causing some form of embarrassment
 to the school). The Registry used lists said to have been signed by the
 graduands that waited till the end of the program, to issue out the 
certificates. If your name wasn't on that list, you had to pay N25,000 
before getting your certificate. This is unfair on too many levels. The 
roll call should have been done at the beginning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Normally, 
certificates are to be issued out to all the graduands during the 
convocation ceremony, as a matter of right actually, talk less of after 
paying such exorbitant rates as fees for quality education. There were 
over 1,500 students that convocated that day (excluding the first-class 
graduands). Do the math.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They need to
 stop abusing Christianity and using the name of Jesus in vain. This 
isn't what Christianity or discipline is about. It is theft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The letter ended.</span><br />
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13 Nov 2014

Beautiful Woman! Actress Mercy Johnson Shows Off Post Baby Look

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She know how to keep fit! After two kids, she still looks amazing.</span></div>
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13 Nov 2014

So Cute! John Mikel Obi' And His beautiful Russian girlfriend Loving Up In New Photo

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">John Mikel Obi and his new girlfriend, a beautiful Russian lady named Olga</span></div>
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13 Nov 2014

LMAO! Chinese woman married to a yoruba man tells her exciting story "Day I pounded yam"

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Malaysian-Chinese, Mrs Odediran, an optometrist, is married to a retired
 Nigerian United Nations Children’s Fund United Nations Children’s Fund 
(UNICEF) staff member.  </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read  her interesting interview with <span style="color: red;">Tribune</span>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Can  you let us into your background?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m  a 
Chinese  but grew up in Malaysia.  I’m from a non-Christian home but 
there was a small population of Christians   there. Most were   
Buddhists, so there were  many temples where idols were worshipped. 
Buddhism is an ancient religion while Christianity was  regarded as 
Western religion. I lost my mother as a teenager, my father therefore 
took another wife. My father is a businessman  and   also runs  a big 
farm, so we were quite comfortable. He  spent his money mainly on 
educating us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When did you get married?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That was  January 16,  1988.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How did you meet your spouse?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I became a 
Christian when I went to  Australia   in 1981 for my A’Level studies. 
 In 1982,  I was in Brisbane, where I studied Optometry  while he 
studied  Public Health Engineering. We both belonged to Overseas 
Christian Fellowship (OCF) and  he was  the president. The fellowship 
held its convention at the time we were rounding  off our courses. We   
were in the dining room and I wasn’t feeling fine, I therefore asked him
 for a pain reliever which he gave me. That was the first time we  held a
 close gaze. I felt a  strange feeling within me and his  thought didn’t
 leave me.  It was same with   him. He later  told me his mind but what  
 got him confused was the fact that  he was coming back to Nigeria  a 
week after. Since I have learnt to hear from God, I prayed and He gave 
me Psalm 112 as a confirmation and then I knew there was no going back. 
My profession was then  in great demand in  Brisbane. I therefore  got 
employed  immediately after graduating. We thus  got in touch  through 
mails and phone calls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Didn’t you entertain any fear marrying someone outside your country and continent?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">God gave me  
 a word in Psalms 45 and   I held on to  this.  It was a lot of stress 
because I didn’t have the support  of  my family. My maternal 
grandmother on her part was concerned about the distance. The Bible was 
what gave me comfort.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How did your family   receive the news?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wrote my 
dad and asked, ‘Is it okay or alright if I marry a non-Chinese and non-  
 white?’  I intentionally didn’t say African or Nigerian. He replied 
‘Please consider very well.’  He later  sent my aunties to me in 
Brisbane to discourage me. My father was very authoritative. He later 
came, asked me to resign and   come back to our town,   Penang in 
Malaysia.  Back home, my   family members and relatives kept on  trying 
to persuade me to let go of  the relationship. They   made jest of   
African   black skin and   said their lips were thick and they were 
hungry.   They referred to my white skin as milk and my husband as 
coffee. They also taunted me that no children of mine would look like 
me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What effect did this have on your relationship?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were 
still getting in touch and my dad knew this. I sometimes spoke with him 
on the phone. My dad never stopped or scolded me. My father didn’t 
actually understand   English Language   and so didn’t understand what I
 was saying.  I came to Nigeria in 1987 to   pay him a visit.  I told 
everyone else  except my dad and stepmother. My husband was then staying
 at   1004 in   Lagos.  It was  during this  visit that  he has  got a 
job with the United Nations Children’s Fund United Nations Children’s 
Fund (UNICEF), after working for  some  few years   with the Lagos State
 government. We decided to get married, and  so we  prayed   about it 
and  God gave us middle of January, precisely January 16  the following 
year, as our wedding date.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What was your husband’s family reaction to his choice of you?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His father 
asked him if there was no other person  in Nigeria he could marry.  I 
met   some of his siblings  and we were cautious in  the way we related.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How did the wedding go?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had it in
 our home  church in Penang. None of my family members attended. My 
father bribed my  two sisters in New Zealand  with money so as not to 
attend. Only my aunty and her four children attended and she came  back 
the next day to the hotel where we stayed weeping that she was scolded 
by other family members.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How long did it take your dad in particular to come to terms with your choice of husband?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was 
writing him to give him update about us though he never replied. Even 
while in Australia, he never replied my letters aside the one I wrote on
 the choice of my husband. I actually never   experienced  the love of a
 father.  Two years after our wedding, I  travelled  home and stayed in 
my uncle’s hotel. I   had our first child with me. My dad also came in 
to see my uncle. On sighting me, he  avoided me. Again, while on a visit
 to my sister in  Singapore, I tried to speak with him on phone but he 
hung up. In  December 1993  which was  our  daughter’s fifth  birthday, 
 the ice was finally broken.  He held a reception for us and invited 
relatives.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How did your spouse and father relate?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They  shook 
hands  but couldn’t communicate because  as I said, my  father  didn’t  
 understand  English Language, but I remember that  my  husband helped 
 iron my father’s  shirts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What were the things you found strange on getting   to Nigeria?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were then
 living in Ketu in Lagos  and the way people run after molue,  sell by 
the roadside,  irregular  power supply and having to carry buckets to 
fetch water  due to  lack of  water supply, the sandy paths and untarred
  roads were somehow strange to me. But then, with the kind of 
upbringing I had, I  could adapt to any situation. Another is the family
 member issue. Being the first child, he had to bear the  responsibility
 of training his siblings and attend to some other needs or demands of 
his family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where is your spouse from?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Odeyinka in Osun State.  His mother is from Apomu also in Osun State.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have you ever been to these places?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes. We pay them visits and even take the children along. We also go to Gbongan, Ipetumodu and Ikire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How easy was it learning Yoruba language?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I picked quite a bit like greetings especially. My husband taught me how to greet.  I did my shopping at Mile 2 market.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How did you  interact with the traders?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They call me
 their  husband (oko mi).  Some would help   bring the stuffs   to me so
 that I could  make my choice.  I remember a female trader got so 
 excited   during one of my shoppings  that she carried me and  swung 
 me around.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What things  did you find interesting?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Partying and
 blocking of roads. Nigerians do a lot of dancing. In Malaysia you don’t
 block the roads unless when  rituals are being carried out   during a 
 burial ceremony.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> What were the things you learnt to do?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I learnt to prepare amala, eba, egusi and okro soups, among others.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What about backing of babies?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I didn’t do that because I’m not tall. Our help did that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What is your favourite  Nigerian dish?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Moin moin and pap for breakfast and pounded yam with egusi soup for the other meals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Can you pound yam?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I did it once but it was actually a little quantity. My husband later bought the pounding machine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How will you describe a Nigerian man?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I won’t say a
 Nigerian man but a Christian man. Even though born again, some   men 
have not removed their Nigerian mentality of dealing with women. You 
shouldn’t treat your wife as a slave. It amazes me when  a man  or his 
wife  says ’my children’ or ‘my car’  and the like. In marriage, you  no
 longer say  ‘yours’ or  ‘mine’ but ‘ours’.  A man who has the 
understanding of what marriage entails runs his home in line with the 
Bible culture and I thank God that through the different   Christian 
trainings we have had, my husband understands this.  He protects me in 
many ways. For example,  If we are going to give his parents money, I 
sometimes  sign the  cheque.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What thrills you about your spouse?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He’s   very caring and he displays   this nature   not only to his family members, but whoever comes his way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What  other things did you discover about him?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He can also be angry and when he is, he looks stern and   wears that cold face.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where do both of  you  differ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He loves visiting  but   my life is a close-circuit one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you consider your husband romantic?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are very free with each other; free to express ourselves   and make each other to laugh. We  are friends to each other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What has made your marriage work till date?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Openness, 
commitment, trust, humility, joint decision—even if you don’t agree on 
an issue, you should exercise patience. But some husbands will say, ‘how
 can I listen to my wife?’ We pray together   on issues and  hear from 
God what steps to take.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yours was a long distance relationship. Will you encourage your children to do same?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It wasn’t 
that easy, but then our case is different. We knew each other physically
 before he came back to Nigeria. But I object to internet friendship 
because it can be deceitful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To what  extent are your children exposed to the Nigerian lifestyle?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They   know 
how to greet  in Yoruba language. When they were  young, they sometimes 
attended occasions in Yoruba traditional outfits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you also attend socials in the traditional wears?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don’t like iro and buba because you have to  tie  the wrapper round you. I like it free like the Kaftan or boubou.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This letter was written by a grauduand of Babcock University who says himself and his colleagues have been made to pay a sum of N25,000 for collecting their certificate which naturally should come free. He says a lot of them have been paying because they have no choice, but some are yet to pay due to lack of money and things shouldn’t be done this way, especially in a Christian school.  The major reason they gave according to him was that they didn't wait till the end of convocation and had to be punished. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The convocation ceremony of the Amethyst Graduating Class 2014 of Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria was held on June 1st, 2014 at the school's stadium. It was 3 convocation ceremonies in one - first degree, masters and PhD.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A number of dignitaries were present and some of them were presented with honorary doctorate degrees. The program lingered on for over 5 hours during which many parents for whom inadequate provision had been made, had to stand through the program even while it rained, to watch their children convocate.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, certificates were only handed to first-class graduates (first degree) and the rest were to return to the school later on to get theirs.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Due to the impatience of the parents who were drenched, agitated and tired of all the unnecessary speeches and protocol, a somewhat disorderly exit of the parents ensued. Who could blame them? Many of them had far distances to travel back. Of course, they started to call their children, who found ways to exit since in fact, their own ceremony was over.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Weeks later when the rest of the certificates were ready for collection, students were mandated to pay N25,000, an order said to have been from the Vice-Chancellor (supposedly because the procession that was to be done at the end of the ceremony was ruined causing some form of embarrassment to the school). The Registry used lists said to have been signed by the graduands that waited till the end of the program, to issue out the certificates. If your name wasn't on that list, you had to pay N25,000 before getting your certificate. This is unfair on too many levels. The roll call should have been done at the beginning.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Normally, certificates are to be issued out to all the graduands during the convocation ceremony, as a matter of right actually, talk less of after paying such exorbitant rates as fees for quality education. There were over 1,500 students that convocated that day (excluding the first-class graduands). Do the math.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They need to stop abusing Christianity and using the name of Jesus in vain. This isn't what Christianity or discipline is about. It is theft.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The letter ended.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>

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